State Ledger

We have no trouble in gettads. No tron- tle with subscribers We have the expre- nence, and you the money — pass the money this way. By F. L. JELTZ. FOR PRESIDENT. Wm. McKINLEY, OF OHIO. VICE PRESIDENT HEC. ROOSEVELT. OF NEW YORK. REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, Lieutenant Governor- H, E. RICH1ER. Morris County, Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. Treasurer- FRANK G.IMES. Wichita County Auditor GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. Attorney General— A. A.GCDDARD, Shawnee County. Superintendent of Public Instruction- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. Insurance Commissionel- W, V, CHURCH. Marion County. Bard District- G. W. WHEATLEY, Galena Earth District- J, M, MILLER, Council Grove, Earth District- W. A. CALDERHEAD, Marysville Earth District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, Earth District- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge, A CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST. HON. CHAS. CURTIS. R CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. ON.J.D.BOWERSOCK Down with Tyranny, Give us peace unit ally, People who talk Bryan and Tillman have night of their code of ethics, We always in favor of our readers pa- turing our advertisers at home and abroad man down at Gypsum city is wearing a of sleeve holder rather fancy but we they would look better on his wife: some people are in the judging busi- sence there is a reason for it they are so bad themselves they trust no one there are some people who will always op- something or anything that is good where they do and whatever time one apse. She Shaffer of the A, M. E, church has a good letter on the Republican par- terin he says some mighty good things there are not very many drawing cards the opposition at present for instance Re- cognition orators refuse to speak to crowds the opposition the benefit. of those ladies who talk the sweetest to the best and dresses the finest are the men to be crazy about for often time turn out to the lowest of human beings. Boe Hamenway at Hope Kans, is donging with the DISPATCH he is dovetail. On his business crd is a photo baby whose face is donned with specs for a person over one hun red sum-mum. some people who have cursed the wea-man all these late summer days and have begun to esplanate, "what have some wid our last Summer's wages, will soon be so cold till only the Drug crisis will be responsible for the amount o' the wild in Topeks there are some Drug-ing rich and they are laughing at our Drew, --- The State Ledger. HON. A. P. BENSON For County Commissioner, Ex-Councilman of the Second ward, A. P. Benson, is a candidate for the office of County Commissioner City District 2nd 3rd and 4th. wards. Mr. Benson is one among the first settlers of this city and is well known to everyone. he has had several terms in the City Council and made a good officer. He is now being urged by his many friends to make the race to represent the city where he has lived for many years. Mr. Benson is a business man of no small degree he pays a large amount of tax. He has extensive property in this city and he is known as the veteran ice dealer of Topeka. During the early days when Topeka was a small city Mr. Benson went for. ward as one of its most enterprising business men and he is still one of them to this day. He has a host of friends of all political faith. It he is elected this all he will make a first class officer and Shawnee county's interest will be looked after as he did when he was in the council. No one can say a word against Mr. Benson for he bears the name of an honest gentleman. In the community in the second ward where he has lived for many years. His neighbors all admire and respect him, they call him an honest man. He has an especial interest in the laboring man as he has been a hard worker all his life and to this day he does not find an idle moment. He has always advocated those issues that strikes favorable to the interest of the public and those who work and earn their living by the sweet of their brow. Mr. Benson, it's safe to say with the interest of his fellowmen in this city, he will do his duty tor the interest of Shawnee county if he is elected this fall, as he will only run in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th wards of this city at the Nov. election. It is understood that he will be strongly supported by all classes and parties. At last the dove of peace hovers around Oom Paul's palace on wheels in the Transvaal. Surely we will soon hear from China. This is an awful foolish world, in fact some people act more foolish each day. It is only a question of how long such people can live at that. People who read more will understand by good authority that all the leading bishops and colored newspaper men have not turned their backs on President McKinley after all there seems to be a disposition on the part of Democratic papers and sympathizers only to hope so but there is no truth in such nonsense. SYNDER BROS WAKARUSA, KANSAS. Few people don't realize what is taking place daily in the out side world. Down at Wakarasa the Snyder Bros. are the only busin as men in a town of several honoured. They operate the Post Office, the Cider mill and the elevator of the town. Mr. J. F. Snyder its popular manager of all these concerns is a strong Republican and serves all well. They are doing a good business and all of the Snyders are for the Republican ticket and Mr. Jonas Snyder's Postmaster under Mckinley now. When McKinley was in St. Paul, Minn., during the campaign of 1892, he spoke at the Auditorium there. There were many prominent Afro-Americans on the stage, which he noted. After the meeting a sort of reception was held at the residence of a leading citizen and several hundred white men were present, but no Afro-Americans. When the bulk of the crowd had gone a select few gathered around the dining table and had a general good time. Suddenly McKinley turned to his host and said: At the meeting tonight I noticed a number of bright intelligent Afro-Americans both on the stage and in the audience, why is it I do not see any of them here? The host and others offered some sort of flumsy excuse, but as a matter of course they were not invited. This story, which is told by agentleman who was present, shows that McKinley believed that the Afro-Americans who were prominent enough in politics to be given seats on the stage should have been invited to the reception which followed. The records show that more Afro-Americans have employment in the service of the government today than at any time since the Republican party has been in power. Afro-Americans in the service of the United States Government draw more than $5,000,000 in salaries every year. The majority of of these were appointed by McKinley. Pitchfork Tillman in a speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 24, 1900, said: "I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT OTHER STATES, BUT I ACKNOWLEDGE OPENLY AND BOLDLY IN THE SIGHT OF GOD THAT WE DID OUR LEVEL BEST TO KEEP EVERY NEGRO IN OUR STATE FROM VOTING." It is generally conceded that Tillman will be a member of Bryan's cabinet in case of Democratic success, Work, work, work night and day until election and McKinley will be re-elected. Remember that battles are won by massing forces and outnumbering the enemy. During the Spanish-American war Afro-Americans were called upon to assist in maintaining national honor and defending the country's flag. For the first time in the history of the country a regiment composed of Afro-Americans, and officered by men of the race from colonel down to corporal, was sent to Cuba. This event occurred under the McKinley administration. The charge has been made that the Republican party is trying to get rid of the Afro-American voter. This is refuted by the fact that the race has been given more recognition under the McKinley regime than at any time since the party has been in power. At every national convention the Republican party has pledged itself in favor of universal liberty. A curious and grotesque feature of this campaign is the fact that the whites of North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana and their sympathizers in the disfranchisement of the Afro Amerieans of the South are the defenders of the political rights of he Filipinos Think of the nerve of Tillman, who boasts that his partisans have killed Afro-Americans who dared to vote in South Carolina, advocating the Kansas City platform in favor of justice to Filipinos! If the brown people 8,000 miles away are entitled to just treatment, why should not colored American citizens be given their constitutional rights? Take off your coat and work for McKinley until the evening of November 6. Then we can shout and yell until we are hoarse. It was Barnum who said that the American people like to be humbugged. That is what inspires Bryan. There's about 18,267 Atro-Americans in the public service of the United State. Hurrahing for McKinley will not elect him. You must work and when election day comes get out the voters. Re-elect McKinley and the free silver craze will never be resurrected. Free silver, free trade and free whisky form the Democratic shibboleth. The Republican party does not have to assert its devotion to the Declaration of Independence. That immortal instrument of the fathers remained unexecuted until the people under the lead of the Republican party in the awful clash of battle turned its promises into fulfillment. It wrote into the constitution the amendments guaranteeing political equality to American citizenship, and it has never broken them nor counseled others in breaking them." President William McKinley in his letter accepting renomination. "Freedom is the rock upon which the Republican party was builted and now rests. Liberty is the great Republican doctrine for which the people went to war and for which a billion of dollars expended to make it a lawful legacy of all without the consent of master or slave."—President McKinley in his letter accepting renomination. The Afro-Americans of the country have shared in the prosperity with which we have been blessed under McKinley administration: As in 1896, the wage earners many of them, are advocating measures, which if carried out would inevitably bring upon themselves and families misery and want. The Crumpacker bill looking to the reducation of representation in congress of those Southern states which have passed discriminating laws against the Afro-American will be passed by the next Congress. It will gaurantee to the race political liberty. Srange, isn't it, that the Democratic party has instituted all the heresies andisms and political inconsistencies in the country: greenbackism, fiat moneyism, rag babyism, repudiationism, free tradeism and Bryan free silverism? In his inaugural address Preside I Kinley condemned lynch law. Under the law the President is powerless to send troops to quell riots until called upon by the governor of a state Bresci, the anarchist who assinated King Hubert, of Italy was convicted at Milan and sentenced to life imprisonment. The murderer declared that he acted without advice or accomplies and seemed utterly indifferent to his fate through the trial. EZ Through the kindness of Vincent Kaczywski, the 23rd Regiment Band has been supplied with sufficient fuel for the winter and Prof. Jackson is shouting and he aint "tryin' to fool'em. Wakaruse people and vicinity didn't seem so overly anxious to turn out the other dav, in tact it was not what was expected. The speaking was good the orators were T. A. McNeal, C. F. Scott and Chas. Curtis: The shooting in the afternoon was som what of a surprise, but no one was killed. E.P. MOWRER. FOR REPRESENTATIVE 59th DIST. The subject of this sketch is an old resident of Marion county, having been a business man in Lost S rings for over 13 years, he is engaged in the lumber and grain business which speaks for him as a typical business man and not the every day politician. Mr. Mowrer, if elected this fall will do all in his power to assist in the support of a United States Senator who will not make it a special issue in support of no special faction, and he says he is not in favor of railroad legislation especially, but will do all the good he can in assisting in the general law which will favor all citizen alike. Mr. Mowrer is a favorite in his district and he stands a good show. His standing at home and abroad is first class, and we predict for him a general endorsement at the polls in November from classes. LEROY KANS. The good citizens of Leroy are all enthsiastic and a merry class. Not long ago we visited their city and we were received very cordial, notwithstanding the rumor that no colored man was allowed to enter their secret precincts we want to say that we was never received anywhere in Kans with more hospitality than at Leroy among its popular business people in general. A candidate for office in Minnesota was killed in a saloon on which a cyclone dropped on a barn. The moral to this is that a candidate should keep out of a saloon if the saloon is located near a barn and it is cyclone weather. The illustrators for papers do some curious things. One illustrated paper has a locomotive dashing through the Galveston flood with the water up around the smoke stack. That engine must have a wonderful fire box. By the time the powers get ready to try Tuan for murder it will be discovered that the Chinese emperor has appointed Tuan judge of the court where the trial is to take place. Bryan talks about our army "walking about in idleness." The truth is that as colonel in the Spanish war, Bryan got a very poor idea of what a soldier really is. China has begun to play horse again. The easiest way out for the powers is to take permanent charge of China. Germany has cause over all nations for a summary justice from China. She should not consult She should act. another Life." VOL. 9, NO. 5. It Tuan has been appointed grand secretary to the emperor the emperor the trouble has just begun. There is a pressure on for small currency. The crops are moving. Ex. BRYAN'S DREAM S. B. Castle, formerly of this city, but now of Lincoln, in a letter to friend tells about a dream his neighbor, W. J. Bryan, had the other right. It is as follows; Bryan dreamed that McKinley died and went to heaven. St. Peter stopped him at the gate and asked who he was. "William McKinley, president of the United States." All right, Mr. McKinley, take that seat at the right hand of God Next Mark Hanna ascended to the pearly gates, and was also required to identify himself by the guardian angel. "I am Mark Hanna, senator from the great state of Ohio," he said. "Walk in," Mr. Hanna, and take that seat at the left head of Cock. Then the dreamer thought that he died and wended his way to to the realms of bliss. In reply to St. Peter's question concerning his identity, he proudly replied, "William Jennings Bryan, orator statesman and soldier from Nebraska." Come in, Mr. Bryan, come in, exclaimed St. Peter. "I'm glad to meet you. God, you get up and let Mr Bryan have your chair." Ex: McKINLEY ENDORSED. The undersigned members of the National Afro-American Press Association unreservedly endorse the foreign and domestic policy of the National Republican Administration and believe that the best interest of the country at large, and Afro-American people in particular, will be served by a consistent support of McKinley and Roosevelt in the coming election. Cyrus Field Adams, The Appeal, Chicago, Ills. T. Thomas Fortune, The Age, New York, City. Fred L. Jeltz, The State Ledger, Topeka, Kans. W. H. Steward, American Baptist, Louisville, Kv. George L. Knox, The Freeman, Indianapolis, Ind. John C. Dancy, A.-M. E. Z. Review, Charlotte, N. C. D. R. Wilkins, The Conservator, Chicago, Ill. J- W. Wheeler, The Palladium; St. Louis, Mo. I. B. Scott, S. W. Christian Advocate, New Orlea. is, La. W. A. Pledgar, Age, Atlanta, Ga. J. H. Deveaux, Tribnne, Savannah, Ga. T. T. Allen, The Forum, Houston, Tex L. T. Fox, Preacher-Safeguard, Kosciusko, Miss. J,R. Marshall, The Bee, Paducah, Ky. R. R. Wright, Collage Journal Savannah, Ga. H. T. Kealing, A. M. E. Church Review, Philadelphia, Pa. James Lewis, Republican Courier, New Orleans, La. J. Q. Adams, The Appeal, St. Paul Minn. J. P. Green, The Bee, Wash, D. C.. W. V. Penn, The Appeal, Louis ville Ky. Geo. H. White, The True Reformer, Littleton, N. C. A. T. WAGGONER. DRUGS AND MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave YOUR TRADE SOLICITED counties unite in a G. C. in at Peabody. Freshing engine exploded south of Sterling injuring two persons. Phillipsburg has struck a vein of water which seems to be inexhaustible. Ed O'Brien, of Florence, won the medal at the Peabody gun club shoot. Emancipation day, September 6, was quite generally celebrated by the colored people. The ninth annual convention of colored Baptist churches was held in Topeka last week. Congressman C. I. Long was called to Brownsville, Mo., to the funeral of his oldest brother. A company has been chartered for manufacturing gas and gasoline engines at Cherokee. The Kansas Society of the Army of the Philippines was organized at the Hutchinson reunion. Two Montgomery county boys, about 16 years old, have been arrested for robbing several farm houses. James Ritchie, of Augusta, has been appointed to a position in the treasury department at Washington. A strong artesian well has been struck near Muscotah in the swamp lands of the Delaware valley. Miss Laura Kimball, of Burlington, accidentally shot herself in her left breast with a rifle. She may live. Wm. Ehart, of Leavenworth county, was fatally injured by a young bull while he was walking through the pasture. Clay Center has a fair and coursing meet, which commenced on the 25th. There were 110 hounds to catch 150 rabbits. Portions of Fort Scott were under water on September 27. People in the north part of the city were compelled to move. Verdigris river was on a tear four or five days last week. It was out of its banks in many places, doing much damage. The first prize at the Woodmen's drill at Harper was taken by Wellington. $65; the second by the Kingman team. $35. The Glasco State bank, with a paid up capital of $6,000, has $96,000 on deposit, of which 84 per cent belongs to 197 farmers. The new Catholic church in Beloit is contracted at $26,000 to a Topeka firm. To finish and furnish the building will bring the cost to $35,000. Political and campaign matter crowds ordinary news and makes it scare. Kansas is now thinking and talking but little outside of politics, reunions, street fairs and the like. Parsons was deluged last week. The dam of the waterworks company, on Labette creek, broke and the lower portion of the city was flooded. Houses were emptied and there was damage to property and live stock. Near Tonganoxie a man prepared four blasts in a mineral prospect hole. As he was being hauled out in a tub, one of the blasts went off prematurely. In spite of the danger the man at the windlass hung on until he was at the top and saved. Tramps have a new shibboleth now; they have lost everything in Galveston; and there are plenty of them in Kansas. Ten Missouri Pacific freight cars went into the ditch, west of Sedan; six of them loaded with wheat. Eight cars were totally wrecked. An unknown tramp was killed. George A. August, a Topeka clothing merchant, committed suicide in New York a few days since. Six months ago his wife procured a divorce, since which his business has been bad. Miss Martha D. Kaufman, of Abbeyville, Kansas, has been appointed teacher at the Western Shoshone school Nevada, and Miss Frances E. Atner, of Effingham, Kansas, has been appointed teacher at Round Valley, Cal. A Galveston family came to a Kansas town with a common-looking dog which was much loved and cared for. During the great storm the baby of the family was swept off the porch and seemed hopelessly lost. But the dog plunged into the flood and rescued the child. P. C. Bonner, under arrest in Iowa for forging deeds and mortgages, is wanted in Wichita for a like crime. The convention of county clerks held in Emporia, named the following as a committee on legislation: S. W. Swinney, Cherokee, chairman; C. F. Hobbs, Osage; J. A. Davenport, Franklin, J. G. Ruddy, Johnson; W. E. Wood, Summer; John H. Cain, Sedgwick; A. D. Rummel, Sherman; John A. Carnell, Norton; H. E. Peach, Lyon; John M. Wright, Shawnee; S. S. King, Atchi- Five Larned boys were fined $5 each for train hopping. The appellate courts of Kansas all go out of business on January 1, 1901. The Coffey county fair was postponed until this week on account of the rains. A Marshall county farmer has just sold 1,000 bushels of old corn at 31½ cents. The Photographers of Kansas met in Representative hall in Topeka, September 26. Reno is credited with more bearing plum trees than any other county in the state. The enrollment at Baker University is nearly four hundred; nearly one-half are new students. Every room at Midland college is occupied and rooms about town are also used by students. Frank C. Goudy, nominee for governor of Colorado, formerly lived in Jefferson county, Kansas. The youngest freshmen ever enrolled in Kansas University is Chester E. Joss, of Brown county. The official count shows an attendance at Kansas Agricultural college of 810. Last year it was 630. There are 25 or 30 gasoline engines in use at Garden City and vicinity, pumping irrigation water. "A larger acreage of wheat than usual is being planted," is a common item in the Kansas weeklies. The Union Pacific hotel at Abilence is having a general overhauling for repairs; about $1,000 is to be expended. One hundred and fifty Reno county farmers propose to spend a day at Kansas Agricultural college on October 20. The Hutchinson reformatory is to have an extra electric dynamo. The contract for a new brick barn has been let. Co-operative mutual insurance was discussed by delegates attending a state meeting at Emporia on September 29. A farmer near Galva contracted hi. broom corn in the spring at $60 a ton and now his neighbors are refusing $80 and $90. R. M. White, of Pearl, Dickinson county, has lost 16 high grade calves by blackleg. He is trying the use of vaccine to save what are left. The state board of charities in their report to the governor, recommend the passage of a law placing the various charitable institutions under civil service rules. The oldest veteran present at the Hutchinson reunion was Wm. R. Haley, of Beaver county, Oklahoma, who is now 90 years old. He served in a Kentucky regiment. A Kansas merchant in a letter from Europe says that there is more up to date farm machinery in his township at home than he has seen in all his travels in Europe. An Inman man has just finished work on a fine dresser made for his daughter. It has 262 pieces of wood in it and is made of hedge, walnut, oak, red cedar, pine and gum. Morris county fair is postponed two weeks, until October 9-12. The rains caused this. The displays already brought in are said to excel anything exhibited there for years. The revenues from fines in the police court of Wichita for September were $492.95 and the forfeitures were $2,583.50, making a total of $3,076.45; about the usual monthly amount. Ensign Irwin S. Landis, U. S. N., who was recently captured by the Filipinos, is a Leavenworth man, son of Harry Landis. Ensign Landis is 25 years old and was appointed to the naval academy in 1894. The Santa Fe announced in advance that special trains would be run to the Wichita street fair from Kiowa and from Pratt. Orson Kent, of Burlington, has held commissions as notary public in Kansas since 1859, the first bearing the signature of Governor Medary, a territorial governor. J. R. Ralston, who formerly conducted the Detroit, Dickinson county, Press, was attacked by Eli Bushey and seriously injured. Ralston's horse got into Bushey's cornfield. Jack Gossage, of Baldwin, dreamed at the hour of the destruction of Galveston, about his son, who was there. He went to Galveston, but found that he had been crushed by a falling building while helping two comrades out of the hospital. Toronto and vicinity experienced destructive winds on the night of September 23. Richard Williams' house was torn to pieces and his mother was injured. Barns, fences, etc., were damaged. Thirty tombstones were wrecked in the cemetery. The freshman class at Washburn college is expending $300 to equip its foot ball team. Mrs. Mary Griffin, of Lawrence, visiting in Japan, received an invitation to a ball given by the Mikado. Henry Klebe, of Woodbine, drove a blind horse off a bridge in the night, and was killed by the fall upon the rocks below. Winfield received four inches of rain in four days last week. Seeding is not finished, but the wheat that is planted is getting a good start. OUR POLICY RIGHT. SENATOR NELSON LAYS BARE THE AGUINALDO PLOT. Protectorate Plan Advocated Would Violate Our Treaty Pledges and Turn the Islands Over to the Tagal Assassins. Senator Knute Nelson Opened the Republican campaign at Alexandria, Minn., September 1 with a masterly speech on the Philippine question, delivered in his usual concise and convincing manner. The town hall was packed to the doors. Senator Nelson held the attention of his audience and at times the applause was deafening. He was at his best. The speech was entitled "The Philippine Question in Its Various Aspects." Senator Nelson opened with this convincing statement: "That our country had good ground for declaring war against Spain and that the war was a just one, fairly and humanely carried on to a most successful, honorable and glorious issue, is conceded by all, and is not a matter of controversy. The American people, without regard to party, are responsible for the war. The bill appropriating $50,000,000 for war preparation and the resolution declaring war were passed by a unanimous vote of both houses." He then rapidly stated the events which led to Dewey's victory and to the advent of Aguinaldo on the islands by the courtesy of Dewey. Suspicion was first directed toward Aguinaldo by General Anderson when on July 18, 1898, he notified the war department: "I suspect also that Aguinaldo is secretly negotiating with the Spanish authorities as his confidential aide is in Manila." On the 24th of the same month Aguinaldo advised General Anderson of the "undesirability of disembarking North American troops in places conquered by the Eilipinos without previous notice to this government" (meaning to himself). Review of Events at Manila. Senator Nelson renewed the events of June and July in a rabid manner effectually disproving the time worn and long disproved argument that Dewey entered into an alliance with Aguinaldo. As early as June 9 Aguinaldo is known to have been in secret negotiation with Captain General Augustine, the Spanish commandant at Manila. His idea was an alliance to drive the Americans from the islands. LATER ON A GENERAL MASSACRE OF OUR FORCES AND OF ALL WHITE PEOPLE WITHIN THE CITY WAS CONTEMPLATED. On the 7th of January, 1899, Aguinaldo wrote from Malolos to a friend in Manila, among other things, as follows: "I beg you to leave with your family and to come here to Malolos, but not because I wish to frighten you. I merely wish to warn you for your satisfaction, although it is not yet the day or the week." The Uprising Against Our Flag. Senator Nelson gave full details of the barbarous orders from Theodore Sandico for an uprising in Mantla, to be accompanied by the burning and looting of the city and the murder of all foreigners including Chinese. Concluding Senator Nelson said: "I have thus almed, in this brief but authentic narrative of Aguinaldo and his insurrection, to show you the inception and nature of the Tagal rebellion in Luzon, and the character and purposes of Aguinaldo and his military chiefs. Aguina'do's Lust for Power. "It is evident that lust of power and self-aggrandizement, rather than the real freedom of the Filipinos, has been the aim and purpose of Aguinaldo and his chiefs from the beginning till the present time. "The insurrection which he and they started in 1896 they abandoned for a price in December, 1897. When war came on with Spain and Dewey was about to start for Manila, they saw an opening and easy way to start another insurrection. To Dewey they professed a desire to aid him in expelling the Spaniards—their hereditary tyrants and oppressors. "Among themselves they planned, through the aid of Dewey and his forces, to enter Luzon, procure arms and start an insurrection, ostensibly against Spain, but really in hostility to the United States. They came to Luzon under false pretenses and with base treachery in their hearts. "They had no sooner landed and gotten their insurrection affoat and armed their forces with weapons, furnished by Dewey, than they began to open negotiations with the Spanish commander, for the purpose of combining with him to expel our forces from Manila. Failing to get this cooperation, they laid siege to Manila for the purpose of capturing and looting it before the arrival of our forces. When our troops finally landed, they received them in an unfriendly and hostile spirit, and continued to harass and annoy them in various ways. And when Manila was captured by our forces, without their co-operation, and they were not permitted to enter and loot the city, they threw off the mask and assumed a belligerent attitude to our forces. They next opened negotiations with Gen. Rios at liliolo, for the purpose of making common cause, and combining him against our forces, and through his piancy they secured possession of the city before the arrival of our forces." Surrender of Manila. When Manila surrendered and there were no longer any Spaniards to fight, they renewed their siege against the city and our forces with increased vigor. They planned to burn, sack and loot the city, and to strike down and slaughter every living human being in it, except their own people; and two brutal, though abortive, attempts were made to carry out the barbarous and demoniac plan. If we study the records and proceedings of their so-called government, it is apparent that it is nothing but a pure dictatorship—a mere military oligarchy of Aguinaldo and his chiefs (all Chinese Mestizos)—with no basis of choice or consent among the masses. It exists and is tolerated, such as it is, through fear and ignorance. Ignorance of the Americans, their character and system of government; and fear of Aguinaldo, his junta and armed followers. Is it not plain to any unbiased mind, after studying the record of Aguinaldo and his junta ever since the insurrection of 1896, that it is as much our moral duty to relieve the Filipino people from the incubus and tyranny of this military oligarchy as of Spanish rule? It would be a greater misfortune and greater calamity to hand the Filipino people over to the mercies of such a government than to have left them in the hands of the Spaniards. Is it not our moral as well as our legal duty to suppress, first of all, this insurrection, started under such false pretenses, with such treachery and under such auspices and leadership as this Tagal rebellion in Luzon? Bryan Indorsed Administration. We acquired the islands fairly by conquest, ratified and confirmed by a treaty, which had the indorsement of Mr. Bryan. He was at Washington on the eve of its ratification and urged his party to join in ratifying the treaty. The insurrection of 1898 would never have had an inception nor flourished but for the fact that our flag was in the islands, and permitted Aguinaldo and his chiefs to land. Coming into the islands under our flag, our protection, and our assistance, as they did, Aguinaldo and his chiefs had no more legal or moral right to set up a claim or title hostile to the United States than a tenant, coming into possession by the permission of his landlord, has the right to question or set up a hostile title to the latter. We acquired, by conquest and treaty, as complete a title to the Philippine islands as to Porto Rico, and we have taken no more steps to obtain the consent of the Porto Ricans than of the Filipinos. The government we have established for the Porto Ricans is a government we have given them, and not a government they have given themselves. Merely a Tagal Affair. According to the most conservative data, the Philippine group embrace an area of about 120,000 square miles and a population of 7,000,000. Luzon has a little more than one-third of this area and a little less than one-half of this population. There are three different races and over eighty different tribes, of various degrees of civilization, in the group. Most of the people belong to the Malayan race; less than one-half million belong to the other two races. The principal tribe is the Visayas, occupying the Visaya group of islands, situate between Luzon on the north and Mindanao on the south. The Visayas occupy an area of 28,000 square miles, number about 2,600,000 and are as civilized and intelligent as the Tagals. The next tribe, in numbers, is the Tagals, who occupy Luzon, and number 1,664,000—about one-half of the population of this island. The insurrection is a Tagal insurrection, and the insurrectionary government is a Tagal government. The other tribes and the people of the other islands had no voice and were not represented in the formation or management of this government. The Tagal government of Aguinaldo in Luzon originated in and rests wholly upon military force, and has not, even in Luzon, to say nothing about the many other important islands, come into existence or continued by the free choice or voluntary consent of the people sought to be governed. Its scope and authority is limited to the territory occupied by its armed bands and detachments in Luzon. The consent of the governed is neither asked, sought nor expected. The great mass of the people are as helpless and where within reach of the Tagal government under as abject subjugation under Aguinaldo's military oligarchy as they ever were under the Spaniards in the years that are past. Bryan Would Haul Down Old Glory. Bryan Would Haul Down Old Glory. It is to such an insurrection and to such a government that our adversaries would have us lay down our arms and surrender our control and authority. It is this insurrection and this government that we should have encouraged and set up as a permanent establishment and have made ourselves the protectors of. It is to this government of Aiginaldo's that we should retroce the title and authority we acquired from Spain. When we ratified the treaty we should have given assurance of all this, and then all would have been well. It is because we have failed to do all this and because we are suppressing the insurrection, bringing order out of chaos and attempting to give the Filipinos a just, safe and liberal government—superior to any they have ever had or possibly could acquire through Aguinaldo and his chiefs—that we are guilty of imperialism and guilty of threatening the liberties of our own people by an increased standing army. Bryan's Imperialism. BUT IT IS ON HIS CRITICISMS THAT MR. BRYAN IS LOFTY AND SOARS TO IMPERIAL HEIGHTS. WHEN HE COMES TO LAY DOWN A PROGRAM OF HIS OWN HE IS LESS ELUSIVE, LESS STARTLING, AND APPROACHES REPUBLICAN GROUND NEARER THAN HE APPREHENDS. In his Philippine program he would, first, establish a stable form of government. That is exactly what the Republican party aims to do. But this implies that there is no such government there now, not even Aguinaldo's government. What Mr. Bryan admits by implication we assert as a positive fact, and we further assert that the first step in the establishment of a stable form of government is to suppress the existing insurrection and insurrectionary government, and that a stable form of government can not well be established before this is done. Different in Case of Cuba. Different in Case of Cuba. Even this Mr. Bryan admits by implication, for he says we should do as we have done in Cuba. And what have we done there? When our forces went to Cuba there was a Cuban republic and a Cuban army. There was no Filipino government nor Filipino army when Dewey entered Manila bay. In Cuba, through our efforts, and aided by the good sense of Gomez and his chiefs, the Cuban republic has been permitted to expire and the Cuban army has long ago been disbanded, and by the aid and co-operation of the Cubans we are engaged in the effort of establishing de novo a stable government there. Had Aguinaldo and his chiefs followed the example of Gomez and his chiefs we should before this have been long on the way towards establishing a stable government in the Philippines. Under the circumstances we have not, as Mr. Bryan contends, been dilatory in establishing such a government. In 1846 our armed forces took possession of California, and continued to hold it pending the Mexican war, the ratification of the treaty of peace, and until it became a state in 1850. California never had a territorial form of government, but remained under the control of the any from 1846 until it became a state. There was no insurrection in California, and yet, for upwards of two years after the treaty of peace, it was governed through the military department of the government, and this was held by our supreme court to be a valid and constitutional government, nor were we accused of being dilatory in giving California a state government. But it is asserted that the Filipinos are entitled to absolute independence, and that we have no right to govern them without their consent. Our Duty a Sacred One. If this is true, what right have we to impose any form of government upon them? They may insist that they have the right to establish just such a form of government as they see fit and that it is not our business to establish any form for them. What then? Are we to abandon the scheme or are we to watch, wait and pray for their consent, or are we to go on regardless of it. And in case we do go on to establish a stable government without their consent, and they see fit to resist and to go into an insurrection—as they are now doing—against our present efforts to establish a stable government, and we resort to arms to repress such resistance and insurrection—as they are now doing—against our present efforts to establish a stable government, and we resort to arms to repress such resistance and insurrection and insist upon establishing a stable government at the point of the bayonet, will not this bring us back into the slough of imperialism with the ghost of a standing army in the background? There is only one sure escape from such a gloomy outcome. It is to leave it to the Filipinos to say what constitutes a stable form of government. But if we do that there is really no occasion for our giving any consideration at all to their form of government. There is no need of giving them any form of government at all. That should be left wholly to themselves. As to a Protectorae. Having given the Filipinos a stable form of government, Mr. Bryan would give them their absolute independence and then protect them from the interference of other nations. If it is our duty to establish a stable form of government, it follows that it is our duty to see that such a form of government is maintained, for without it, we cannot afford them adequate protection against other nations. If we assume a protectorate over the islands, foreign governments would expect and require, and would have a right to expect and require that we maintain a stable government there. A government that would protect the life, property and commerce of foreigners to the same extent as amosg the civilized nations of the world. Without such a government we would, before the world, have no more right to say in foreign nations, you must keep out of the Philippines, than we have to say to foreign nations at this time, that you must keep out of China. The Protectorate Humbug. If we were to assume a protectorate over China it would be our duty to see that China accorded ample protection to the lives, property and business of foreigners. And recent events have demonstrated what a task this would be. And the Filipinos, in all their entirety, with their more than eighty different tribes and their varied and inferior degrees of civilization, are far less fitted for self-government than the Chinese, who have maintained an organized government for centuries. Mrs. G. W. Atkinson, widow of Governor Atkinson and a leader in the woman's movement, is a candidate for state librarian of Georgia. Mrs. Atkinson has for several months been engaged in the insurance business and has met with pronounced success. 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If Tuan has been upgraded, and if Russia contemplates blockade of the Chinese naval ports, the department does not know the it has let it be known to the Chinese government that Tuan's promotion could be unwelcome to this government, but it has not yet been informed the results of that representation. Respecting the statement that Ching has been discovered to be a contributor the Boxer cause, it is said that all the information that the department is been able to secure touching king's personality went to show his varying friendliness for the formers, and upon that record he was sent as a competent envoy. The officials declined to say whether or not the instructions to Minister Conger have gone forward but it is estimated that the minister is fully advised by this time as to a state department's policy. It is odd however, that the statement may be significant, that no developments in the Chinese situation of importance are expected within the next two weeks at the least. Christians Will Give Church to Strikers. Shamokin, Pa., Sept. 29.—Rev. John Wonstankvich, pastor of the Russian Greek church here and vicar general of the United States, announced that in the event of the strike continuum until suffering and destitution put an appearance he and his congregation had arranged to mortgage the whole of their church property, valued over $25,000, and divide the proceeds among the sufferers, and in the event of the strike being continued for a long period the entire congregation will leave the region. Boer Immigrants Coming St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 2.—Hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of Boers will migrate from South Africa to the United States and settle in the Northwest. Theodore Von Grecht, of Holland, who has of late years made his home in the South African republic, in St. Paul to arrange satisfactory airroad rates over the Western lines, Mr. Von Grecht will bring a large contingent of Boers to this country in the spring if conditions are favorable. Old Glory Torn Down. San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 2.—United States Consul W. W. Mills, at Chihuahua, Mexico, has sent a note to the federal authorities here and also to the state department at Washington, detailing an insult to the American flag over his consulate on September 16, the anniversary of Mexican independence, by a moo of Mexicans. He had insisted the United States and Mexican flags in honor of the day and the mob more down the United States colors. Official Peace October 11. London, Oct. 2.—A special dispatch from Cape Town says that United States Consul General Stowe, who goes to the United States shortly on leave of absence, has expressed the opinion that peace will be proclaimed on October 11; the anniversary of the commencement of hostilities. How to Get Good Roads. Topica, Sept. 29.—It was stated at the Good Roads congress here that there is a bill now pending in congress which will furnish a way to get around this difficulty. 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Washington, Oct. 2.—Lieutenant Hobson has applied to the navy department for six months' leave of absence because of trouble which has developed with his eyes. He has experienced considerable pain with his eyes of late, particularly when exposed to strong light, and it is understood that a specialist has recommended that the organs be given a complete rest for six months. Warning the Dutch. London, Oct. 2. Great Britain has sent a note to the Dutch government, according to a dispatch from Amsterdam to the Daily Mail, which contains a warning that if Mr. Kruger is allowed to carry bullion or state archives on board the Dutch warship which is to bring him to Europe it will be regarded as a breach of neutrality on the part of The Netherlands. Alaskan Cable Delayed. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 2. The steamship Ohio, arriving here brings news that the steamer Orizaba, engaged in laying government cable between Nome and St. Michaels, went aground on an uncharted reef near the latter place September 17. The vessel will be saved unless a sudden storm intervenes. The laying of the cable will be postponed until next season. A Kansas Anniversary. Courtland, Kas., Oct. 2.—The people of Republic county gathered on Sept. 29, on the site of the village of the Pawnee Republic in commemoration of the ninety-fourth anniversary of the raising of the American flag on Kansas soil. George Martin, of the State Historical society, made an address. Tornado in Iowa. Clarinda, Ia., Oct. 1.—A tornado nearly destroyed Sharps, a small town east of here. The depot, two churches and a half dozen dwellings were all blown down. The storm also struck Newmarket, a larger town, demolishing a few small houses. Ultimatum Story Denied. London, Sept. 29.—The British authorities discredit the report that Germany will present an ultimatum to China and intimate that it was probably concocted at Shanghai with the object of causing friction between Germany and Great Britain and thus delaying united action. The officials of the German embassy declare the "ultimatum story" to be absolutely groundless. Thousands of Native Catholics Killed. New York, Sept 28.—Among the missionaries killed by Chinese in the massacre in the Yun-Man province were Bishop Fantasalli and Father Quirine, of the Boman Catholic church. The bishop died after the most awful torture. No direct word in confirmation of this particular report has yet come to Catholic missionary authorities in this city. A telegram from the convent of the Holy Soul in Shanghai states that forty-five thousand native Catholics have been massacred in different parts of the empire. 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Owing to the fact that some skeptical people have from time to time questioned the genuineness of the testimonial letters of the national City Bank, of Lynn, Mass., $6,000,000 person who will show that the above one, or were published before obtaining the testimony, The real worth of our $8.00 and $8.50 shoes compared with conventional shoes for $5.00 to $5.60. We are the largest makers and retailers selling these shoes in the world. We make and sell more $8.00 and $8.50 shoes than any other, two manufacturers in the U. S. Established in 1876. A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU Why do you pay $4 to $5 for shoes when you can buy W.L.Douglas shoes for $3 and $8.50 which are just as good. exclusive sale in each town. Take no assignment. Izaskin on Wellington W. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. If your dealer will not get them for you, send direct to factory, customer purchase, size and width, or plate of carriage. Our shoes will reach you anywhere. Catalogue Free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHoe CO., Brooklyn, Mass. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY, gives quick relief and 10 DAYS' treatment FREE. DR. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Box E, Atlanta, Ga. W. N. U. WICHITA-NO.--40-1900 When Answering Advertisements Mindly Mention This Paper. State Ledger. THE OFFICIAL ORGAN SUBSCRIPTION six months 75c One Year 1.50 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN ADVANCE Entered at post office Topeka, Kansas, at see address-rates. Published every Saturday at 431 Kan. ave 1.00 in advance GIBRALTAR DRUG CO 823 KANSAS AVENUE. Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES. A&T MA TERIALS. MANNING & HALL Dealer*In Farm Implements, Harness. Stoves. TINWARK, VEHICLES. HARNESS. PUMPS. CLOCKS AND CUTLERY. Gypsum, Kaz. PHYSICIANS. I. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St all promptlyattended. DR.AGNES McKEE WAL- LACE. H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 330 Kans Ave. promptly attended. All calls Tel. 14. DR: C. A. TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a. m. From 2 to 5 p. m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. (Cver Kohl's Drug Store.) Wm. B. Swan, M. D 725 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. office hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm Residence 024 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 660 GEORGE DICK, M. D. HomoopathiSt Residence 626 Filimo St. Telephone 360. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. S. G. STEWART, M. D. L. OFICE 621 KANSAS AVE. TELEPHONE 541. RESIDNCE 511 W. 5TH ST TELEPHONE 442. a14 Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS; 9 TO 11 A. M. 3 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M OFFICE 117 WEST 5th st. DR.J.C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Disease Stomach and Lungs and Female Trou les. Office Hours: 9 to 12-2 to 5-7 to 9 Phone DR, R. O, RHODES, OFFICE 600 Kansas ave. Topeka, Kansas (Over Hub Clothing Co.) FFICE HOURS: 9 to 11 A. M. 2 to 5 P.M. Residence, 900 West Sixth street Phone 656. Dr, Dutton's Botanic Blood and St0mach Sures INDEGESTION, KIDNEY and LIVER trouble and RHEUMATISM. Sold by W. A. Travis, Shorey, P O., Adjoining Capital of Kansas. M r, z7, Miller's Pharma- cY. 6th & TOPEKA AV. Drug's Medicines, Prescriptions Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. C. F. MENNINGER, M, D. Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone 19. Office Hours: 11-12 A. M. 2-5 P. M. Residence 125 Topeka Ave. Telephone 85. J. M JAMISON, M. D., Office 506 East 4th Street. Office Hours: From 8 to 10 A. M. "12 M to 3 P. M. "7 P. M. to 9 P. Mf Special attention to dieases of woman and private diseases. FRED BURNISON. ...Dealer In.... Lumber- Lime- Cement- Coal- and Stone. MARQUETTE. KANS. J, E, PETERSON—ol Marquette, runs the best HOTEL and RESTAURANT in the city give him a call, F. M. Eletcher. CARPENTER & BUILDER FURNITUE AND JOB WORK SOLIC TED. 119 E, 7th, St. M. Hogan. Undertaker And Reliable in His Dealings--Open day and Night.--314 Kan. Avenue. Home Bakery L. C. BOYCE, Prop. 810 N Kas. Ave. (Successor to Geo. Mayer,) Wholesale and Retail Bakery goods; We Solicit Your Trade, We will Serve You Right. THE LANDIS HOME BAKERY, Many years experience. French home B ery 316 E. 4th St. Open day and night. Quick service Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot. C, A, RAHRER, Prop. CYCLE GO. NATIONAL N.27. 118 East 8th Street Difficult Bicycle Repairing a Specialty Clock and Key Work, Umbrellas Repaired Valcanizing. Good WHEELS to rent-and for Sale Second Hand, We Are Experts CALL AND SEE OUR '99 NEW, MODELS U. S. CYCLE CO, 118 East 8th Street. BOOK EXCHANGE Stationery and all kinds of writ ing material—832 Kansas avenue BELGIAN HARES. STOCK FOR SALE SIRED BY CHAMPION DASH. BANBURY STAR. BANBUKY RED, and others. Write for Prices. A. F. HAYNES. Pomona, Kansas. G, ELLINGER & Co. General Merchandise. Jobbers of Brooms. Shippers of Apples. Solicit orders from Jobbers and Retilers. Handling Brooms in quantities. We can save you 25 to 40 per cent. Send US Your ORDERS. G. ELLINGER & CO., Gurning Korea. WIND MILLS, PUMPS and Also Handle the JACK OF ALL TRADES ENGINE, Useful to All Farmers. LINN, KANS. JOHN MILLER, Dealer In Flour, Feed, Grah, Hay, And all kinds of Coal. 120 East Eighth St. J. W KELLEY, DEALER IN Staple and Fancy Groceries. Give Him a Call. 119 N. Main Street. Ottawa, Kas HAYS & SNYDER 921 Kas, Ave. DEALER IN Feed, Hay and Grain and all kind of Coal. A share of your patronage is desired. Tele, 349. HARRIS BROS DEALERS IN STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES Smoked Meats, A Specialty Cigars Tobacco, and confectionery, Give Them an order goods delivered. FOR SALE Will you buy Will you sell Will you rent Real Estate Try us. Barnes Real Estate Co. Tel 02. 113 West 5th st. Carter & Johnson RESTAURANT SHORT ORDER, When in Lawrence stop at their place, 611½ Mass, St, PALACE HOTEL E. C. THRALL PROP. Serves first class meals and Lodging Meals and Lodging open day and night 118 W. 9th St. Bowersock- Milling Co. Lawrence Kas. High Grade Flour, ROBT, R, s CLARK Mgr. R. E. KNOX. UNDERTAKER. FUNERAL CARS BUILT TO ORDER BALDWIN. KANS Iansas Packing House Market SCHMIDT PRO'S, PROP's., 706 E. E. STREET1 Dealers In FRESH AND CURED MEATS. Wholesale and Retail. Give Them Your Trade. LOUIS VANDOM FCR HARDWARE and STOVES Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. These are the things you need Give hima call. 828 Kansas ave BAUGHMAN BRO'S. THE LEADERSIN ICE CREAM. Their Flavors Are Delicious. GIVE THEM AN ORDER. State Ledger Office, 431 Kas Ave. (UP STAIRS.) PUBLICATION NOTICE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF SHAW- NEE COUNTY, KANS. William Reynolds, Plaintiff, vs. No. 20751 Edward O. Mathis and William H. Brooks Jr. Defendants. The defendants, Edward O. Mathis and William H. Brooks Jr., will take notice that a petition has been filed and suit commenced against them in the above entitled action, by William Reynolds Prantiff and that they must answer said petition, on or before the 14th day of November, 1900 or said petition will be taken as true and judgement rendered quieting the title of plaintiff as against said defendant to the following described real estate situated in Shawnee County Kans, to wit: Lots Nos. 266, 288, 270, 272, and 274 on Ella Street in William H. Brooks Jr. Addition to the city of Topeka is said county and state and adjacutage and determinum that plaintiff Pure Tea and Spices etc. TOPEKA SPICE MILLS 109 E. Sixth Street. Tel. 71 MRS. ANNIE DUKE, FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING, Cutting, Sewing—Give her a trial. 826 Com'l. street Emporia, Kas. WOOLEY S BAKEKY, The place to trade. The best Bakery goods kept on hand daily. 915 Kas. Ave.. W. T. WILEY. DEALER IN. Staple and Fancy Groceries. Fresh and Cured Meats. Fish, Poultry...and Country Produce. Give him a call. 931 Kas. Ave. Tele. 291. TURNER BROS., Fine Restaurant. Meals and Short Order. BURLINGAME KAS ansas Packing Hos SCHMIDT PROS. 706 E. 2ND S. Dealers In FRESH AND CURR Wholesale and Retail. Giver GO TO LOUIS VANDORP. Screen Doors, Ice Cream Freezers, Ha These are the things you need Give BAUGHMAN THE LEAD ICE CR Their Flavors A GIVE THEM A Tel, 253. 23rd WE ARE FISHING FOR A SHARE OF YOUR TRADE. State Ledger Office (CUP STAIR has the fee simple title to said real estate and that the claims of said defendants, now appearing of r cord are null and void, W.P,Pfalzgraf, Dealer in staple and fancy groceries, fresh and cared meats, plenty country produce all ways on hand. Give him a trial. E. H. PHILLIPS, JEWELER & OPTICIAN Tele. 602 Kas. Ave. All work promptly attended to and Guaranteed. We Solicit your Patronage. THE KANSAS CEMENT PLASTER CO. WALL and LAND PLASTER, STUCCO, PLASTER of PARIS Moulding, Dentel Plaster, Etc. D. Strauss. Mgr. Hope Kansas. E.H. UPSHAW. Peoples Feed, 537 Kansas Avenue, North Topeka. Full weights. Goods promptly delivered. ...SEE UNCLE SAM AT 512 KAS. AVE., For a new Clock or fine Watch eparing The best up-to-date and most polite jeweler in the city. See Uncle Sam, 512 Kas. ave The Diamond Drug Store, 6th and Buclanan Streets Give them a call. Remember that the Davis Mercantil Co. 601 Topeka Ave is the place to patronize. You will get your money's worth by trying the Davis Mercantile Go. G O T O ARMSTRONGSRESTAURANT When in Ottawa for anything you want Shot Orders and Meals—222 N, Main St Our House Market BRO'S, PROF's., OLD STREET2 Makers In FURED MEATS. Give Them Your Trade. i15 TO CR HARDWARE and STOVES ers, Hammocks and Garden-Tools. Give hima call. 828 Kansas Ave. AN BRO'S., ADERSIN REAM. Are Delicious. AN ORDER. Brd & Lirech St. 渔民 ec, 431 Kas Ave. AIRS. ) When you go to Florence, don't forget to stop at Will Frank's fine restaurant and Oyster Parlor. He handles nothing but the finest of fresh oysters. Give him a call COTTAGE HOTEL. ... MRS. J. L. JOY, Prop., ... The only first class Hotel in the city. Terms $1.00 per day. Little River, Kans W. H. WARD HARD-WARE, IMPLEMENTS AND STOVES. GYPSON CITY, KANS. --- LOOK AT THIS The Health food store at 198 East 5th street, has a good line of Sanitarium Health foods which are just what you need, if you are sick, and they will be a luxury for you if you are well. Go and get some of their Cereal Coffee. It is much more healthy drink than the coffee that you have used all your life. If you are in need of a good Bible or some religious books that will show you the truths of the Bible more plainly than you have known them before, call and examine the fine line at E KANS TRACT SOIETY 119 East 5th Street. T.P. Wheatly Dealer in all kinds of Coal. Gypsum City, Kans DR.WINSLOW 704 Mass., Lawrence, Kansas. Dr, W, H' Winslow, does a general practice. Special attention given the eye and ear. Spectacles fitted, urnished to patients at wholesale rates; Office 704 Mass., Street Tele. 260-.5, Residence, 1901 New Hshire street. Tele. 191-.2. A. P. RENIUS, Dealer In Lumber- Lath- Shingles- Doo.s- Blinds- Lime- Cement And Coal. Marguette- Kansas. HOLE IN WALL When in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER- MULLER'S RESTAURANT— HORT ORDER. Open Day and Night. 720 Mass., Stroet. G O T O E. W. Griggs for pnotos, fine pictures. Car-901 Kas. ave. W. D. Wooda.1 Mason and Cistern builder also wells. Parties needing service leave orders at LEDGER office. Go to J, P, Johnsons for anything you want in the line of fine cigar's tobacco and confectionery, 409 Kas. ave.