State Ledger

We have no trouble to get ads. No tron- tible with subscribers We have the capr- nce, and you the money — pass the mash this way. By F. L. JELTZ. FOR PRESIDENT WILLIAM MCKINLEY FOR VICE-PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET. for Governor- W. E. STANLEY, Sedgwick County, for Lieutenant Governor- H, E. RICHTER. Morris County, for Associate Justice- W. A JOHNSON Ottawa County, for Secretary of State- GEO, A. CLARK, Geary County. for Treasurer- FRANK G TIMES. Wichita County GEO. E. COLE. Crawford County. or Attorney General— A. A.GCDDARD, Shawnee County. or Superintendent of Public Instruction- FRANK NELSON, McPherson County. or Insurance Commissionel- W, V, CHURCH. Marion County. For Congressmen. Third District- G. W. WHEATLEY. Galena Fourth District- J. M. MILLFR, Council Grove, Fifth District- W. A. CALDERHEAD, Marysville Sixth District- W. A. REEDER, Logan, Seventh District-- CHESTER I LONG, Medicine Lodge, Large--- CHAS. F. SCOTT, Iola OR CONGRESSMAN 1ST DIST: HON. CHAS. CURTIS. OR CONGRESSMAN 2ND DIST. ION. J. D. BOWERSOCK McKinley will continue to do business at good stand. We won't have a debased dollar any more, unwe will have a debased citizenship, Free silver majorities are always in an ratio to the illiteracy of the voters. A recent Democratic meeting one speak- declared. "The Negro has no more right the ballot than a two year old child has at a pistol." ^ The crowds that gather too see Bryan ar evidence of his popularity Jumbo the plant used to draw a bigger crowd of sight ers. Do not town and dream that McKin- y is sure of election. The enemy is wite like and hustling. The only way you defeat Bryan is by working for McKin- y. The Goebel election law of Kentucky is one of the most odious laws ever placed in the statute book. It was passed by the congress. none of the papers are putting forward the that Bryan, as President, would not go country much harm. Such a proposition not attract many voters; We want a president who can do some good, Michaël Tillmann has the gull to charge the Republican party intends to repeal the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth enlargements to the Constitution. The Afro- american voters are willing to take chances with the party, which has always stood for human liberty, The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL We have nothing startling to tell you this week as we have a good size headache. The TOFEKA CAPITAL with its last Sunday's large edition was well received in this city. It is sate to predict that such editions will be unto the CAPITAL like casting thy bread uyon the waters, it will be seen after many days. The Democrats do not want honest election laws. Those who want freedom from work may obtain it by voting for Bryan. Already under McKinley's first administration Afro-Americans have drawn from the Federal treasury, in salaries, the enormous sum of nearly $10,000,000. In Cuba the Afro-American soldiers astonished the world by their bravery and coolness under fire They were fighting to free the beautiful isle from the Spanish yoke It was President McKinley who commissioned 266 men of the race to lead their men to battle. The Democrats of the South are especially anxiously for the election of Bryan because they believe it will then be easier than it is even now, to deprive the Afro-American of his rights as a citizen. Bryan promise, if elected to do every thing in his power to destroy the gold standard. The people will not give him the chance. Bryans is the advance agent of misery, want an outgrown financial creed. Mr Bryan admits that the great newspapers are against him. He might also admit that the real y great men of his party are against him, that the great religious leaders are against him, that the great business men are against him. During the McKinley regime cotton mills employing Afro-American labor have been established in the South. The South be poor today without the black toilets, yet it is in the South that the Democrats have stolen black men's right. A vote for Bryan is a vote for a state crust of bread and a bowl of charity soup. The Bryan anarchistic wing of the Democratic party is in favor of all the world as against the United States and the Old Flag. "Rally around the Flag, Boys," we'll defend it with our lives against the attacks of Bryan. Altgeld, Tillman & Co. and all the anarchist they can marshal. The wage-earner is as much entitled to honest money for his toil as is the banker for his bonds. But freesilvercrats, led by Bryan, want to pay the toilet with 50-cent dollars. You cannot add value to anything by diminishing the measure of value with which the thing is sold or exchanged. The destiny of every Afro-American in the North is identified with that of his Southern brothee. If the Democrats succeed, in wring the franchise from the people of the race in the South, the same thing will be done in the North. The contest against Negro suffrage is not settled. It is still being fought with bitterness. The Republican party gave the ballot to the Negro; the Democratic party is endeavoring to wrest it from him. D. R. H. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea."— Frederick Douglass. "The Republican Party is the Ship, all else the Sea."— Frederick Douglass. We call your attentior to the past hero, and the dead statesman, Hon. Frederick Douglass, and those sayings of long ago. Be ye steadfast and in due time you will be rewarded. PROF. GEO. W, JACKSON. U.S. Prof. Jackson, who volunt ered his services and his famous 23rd Re-ime t Band, at his Country's call. He responded. Having reen born with a musical instrument in his hand he stands today at the head of the musical profession in the United States of his race. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Giuffo BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Some papers are claiming that Pooker T. Washington is a Democrat. This is not true. Mr. Washington, in a speech in Washington, D.C., said: "I at not a politician, but I am a Republican." President McKinley and Mr. Washington are close friends. A young man who has made life pl asant in the south, a hero for and to his race. In 1895, he was suggested for a seat in President McKinley's cabinet but for being enga- el at his life's work at Tuskegee he refused. He too is for the who'e Republican ticket. We have nothing to say of other folks but we are for the success of the Republican ticket and in the near future you may be somewhat suprised. Show you colors now-let Mort Albaugh use up the different candidates money with his pet news papers. Be true to your countrys honor for after this election no one will know that Mort Albaugh ever "liwed". MARTIN VS. HAZEN FOR JUDGE. The election for the various county offices comes up this fall, but at present there does not seem to be much interest taken only in the judicial fight between Judge Hazen and Martin. From all indications the e is going to be an interesting fight for this position. Judge Hazen is the present officer and has held the office for nearly two terms, and Judge Martin seems to think that is long enough, hence he is making a fight to succeed him. Just who will win out we are not able to say however as we have up to this writing taken no interest. He Shortened It. A pompous butler one day announced some callers as follows: Mr. Edwin Algernon Pembroke Penny, Mrs. Edwin Algernon Pembroke Penny, and Miss Maud Victoria Penny." Other arrivals were announced at equal solemnity. Before the next "at home" the master of the house suggested that so much repetition and elaboration was unneccessary: that he would prefer to have his guests announced more briefly. The magnificent being bowed grave assent and said nothing. But his feelings had been wounded and he was, unlike most of his kind as he was majes ic. As before, the first to arrive were Mr. and Mrs Penny and Miss Penny. When they had ascended the stars they paused an instant at drawing room door; the next they heard themselves briskly announced to their dismayed host in the comprehensive formula, Threepence." Ex. An Eastern paper calls Bryan's efforts in speech-making rag-time oratory. Rag-time has been declared bad form by a long suffering public. Frank Grimes, will no doubt by his ex-position of honesty receive a larger vote than any man on the state ticket. Grimes is a gentleman, and he is no circus man neither, while the Chairman of the State Committee has his pets and treats only one Negro paper any ways decent in this state Ex-Chief Justice David Martin is not saying a great deal but he is making a favorable impression among the lawvers of the state. His candidacy for Chief justice is looked upon as a man if elected will be able. The Topeka Business College conducted by L. H. Strickler has become the largest private school in Topeka outnumbering even Washburn College last year by nearly one hundred students. Graduates of the Topeka Business college are holding responsible positions all over the United States. The demand for competent bookkeepers and stenogrophers becomes greater each year and any young person who graduates at this school may feel certain of success. In the Southern states about a month before election the Democratic committee meets and decides what the majority is to be. In many of the states the Republicans cast a majority of the votes but they are not counted. We g.arrantee the people who adver tise, quick returns— most reliable newspaper a m o n g all classes. VOL. 9, NO. 7. 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 night. It is as follows; Bryan dreamed that McKinley died and went to heaven. St. P. ter 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. "the great state of Ohio," he said. "Walk in," Mr. Hauna, and take that seat at the left hand of God." 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, Citv. Fred L. Jeltz, The Sate Ledger, Topeka, Kans W. H. Steward, American Baptist, Louisville, Ky. 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 Grlea is, La. W. A. Pledgar, Age, Atlanta, Ga J H, Deveaux, Tribnne, Savannah, Ga. J Chavis, Express, Dallas, Tex. C. H. Handy, The Afro-American, St Louis, Mo. 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. It is a less than sacrilege for the anarchistic popocratic free silverites to try to create the impression that Bryan is cast in the same mold as was the patriotic able statesman, Lincoln. A. T. WAGGONER. MEDICINE 731 Kansas Ave YOUR TRADE SOLICITED THE STATE LEDGER KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Twenty-third Kansas organized at Hutchinson by electing officers. Good roads clubs are being organized in the townships of Labette county. Old students of Garfield university Wichita, held a reunion carnival week. The Northeast Kansas jubilee, at Nortonville opened with an attendance of 8,000. The Masons of Independence occupied their new temple for the first time on October 2. Six special trains ran out of Wichita on the Santa Fe during Friday night of the carnival week. James Eck, of Cawker City, was killed by his shot gun which fell through his hay rack. Wellington people raised $100 for a former resident of that town who lost everything at Galveston. The Leavenworth overall factory has 20-machines running and the payroll is more than $150 a week. One hundred men are wanted by the Rock Island to take places on the section work and other positions. The state board of education will receive applications for state and institution certificates on October 12. The water company at Cherryvale is seeking to enjoin the city to prevent putting in municipal waterworks. Miss Alice Spradlin, the Twentieth Kansas nurse, writes that she will remain in Galveston until November 1. The Rock Island handed 582 excursion passengers from points in Illinois to Kansas and Oklahoma on October 3. The Topeka city physician has caused the arrest of a prominent doctor there for failing to report a case of smallpox. The north central part of Neosho county had a total of $9\frac{1}{2}$ inches of rainfall in six days, ending September 28. Thousands of bushels of apples are reported to be going to wa te in Riley county from the lack of shipping buyers. The premium for the tallest stalk of corn at the Wilson county fair was won by a stalk which measured 17 feet, 8 inches. The 43rd annual encampment, with 1,500 delegates from the Odd Fellows lodges of Kansas, meet in Topeka on October 8. The Wellington gun club offers $125 reward for the arrest and conviction of any person buying, selling or shipping quail. Volney Hoover, of Independence, was leading a horse by a wire when the horse jerked and cut two of his fingers off. The pupils of the Burlington high schools have bought a piano and propose to pay for it with the proceeds on entertainments. A wreck occurred west of Strong City on the night of October 3, in which 8 cars of cattle, two of hogs and one of wheat were smashed. An 80 acre field of sorghum sown for forage in Saline county, measured six feet high just 60 days from the time the seed was put in to the soil. George Dorsey, a machine worker of Wichita, was found dead in one of the cars of wheat which were ditched on the Missouri Pacific line in Chautauqua county. The Hoover orchard, from which came the finest display of apples at the Wichita street fair, covers 110 acres northwest of the city. Four thousand feet of lumber which had been rented for the use of the Wellington jubilee disappeared and will now have to be paid for by the jubilee management. Miss Lilian Dyer, appointed by Governor Stanley as student in the New York art school last year, is married with Milton Butterfield, an attorney located on Wall Street, that city. Judge Hook issued a mandamus against the c commissioners, clerk and treasurer of Pratt county, that they levy and collect a tax immediately to pay judgment in his court. They all say that such action is impossible for them to perform. A Topeka firm is now employing 50 men, working 12 hours a day, to fill contracts for the new court houses at Beloit and Clay Center and for Haskell institute in Lawrence. The contracts are for doors, windows and inside finish. The Burton car works buildings in Wichita have been contracted for by Pawnee Bill's wild west show for winter quarters. Jones Bros.' store at Lebo, has been robbed by an employee named Miller. While being pursued, Miller plunged into the Marias des Cygnes river and was not seen again. Mr. and Mrs. Ferrell, of McPherson, who were in the Galveston flood, floated around on a board three feet long and one wide from 9 o'clock one night until 5 the next n'orning. Had He. Remained Away Peace Would Have Probably Been Effected—Some Quotations from the Speeches He Made There. (From the Louisville Evening Post, Sept. 1. 1900.) In 1899 the people of Kentucky fought a great fight for liberty with the combined foes of greed and lawlessness. It was a simple state issue. Kentuckians had lost the right to vote, and they were fighting to regain it. No national officer was to be elected, and no national issue was involved. The friends of Mr. Bryan were opposed to Mr. Goebel. Their candidate for governor in opposition to Mr. Goebel was John Young Brown, former governor of Kentucky. In 1896 he led the fight for free silver in the Louisville district against Henry Watterson and his allies, and polled 17,150 votes to 16,707 cast for Mr. Bryan. Major P. P. Johnson was the candidate for lieutenant governor on the ticket with Gov. Brown. In 1896 he was chairman of the Bryan campaign committee. To him was due the credit for the magnificent fight made for Bryan and free silver in the state in 1897, by which the Bradley majority of 9,000 in 1895 was reduced to 251, and one Bryan elector was secured. Gochel Spurned Bryan: Mr. Goebel was in 1896 in alliance with Mr. Carlisle, and by his assistance secured control of the delegation from Kenton to the state convention. It was claimed for Mr. Goebel that when he got to the convention he voted this delegation against Carlisle, but it is not plain how this gave him any claim to Mr. Bryan's consideration. With Mr. Goebel in 1899 was Henry Watterson. He made a tearful appeal to the railroads to help Goebel, and warned them that they had as well surrender in advance, as Mr. Goebel's election law had eliminated every element of chance from election in Kentucky. This was the same Watterson who in 1896 telegraphed to Mr. Haldeman, "No compromise with dishonor," meaning thereby that he would not support Mr. Bryan. In the course of the campaign it became evident that the battle was going against Mr. Goebel. Then he called on Mr. Bryan to come to Kentucky and help win in his state contest with the friends of Mr. Bryan and others who were contesting for a free ballot and a fair count. Bryan Aided Goebel. Mr. Bryan came. His first speech was made Monday, October 16, and was a plea to the people to accept the rule of Goebel as a substitute for Democracy. At Bardwell, Ky., Mr. Bryan, speaking of state issues, said: "What difference does it make whether the man nominated is your Democrat or mine? Is not any Democrat who stands for the Chicago platform better than any Republican? When we stand in the presence of an enemy, is it the time to air our personal opinions? I think not. Bryan Turns a Sumerset. "In this district we had a Democratic majority in 1896, and also in this county, but with all your majorities in this district and the county, you were not able to secure the electoral vote of the state. Shall we divide? The Republicans never divide. There is no principle involved with them, and they never endanger the spoils. You have it in your power to announce to the people and the friends of Kentucky that the state is now Democratic, and will be in 1900, and that it will elect a United States senator to champion Democratic principles in the senate of the United States." Mr. Bryan spoke at Fulton, Ky., and among other things said: "You can do some pretty good yelling here, but I want to tell you if you will elect Mr. Goebel governor, and Joe Blackburn senator, there will be more yelling in Nebraska than we have here. I want you to give Goebel a larger majority than you did me in 1896. "While I appreciate the splendid vote of 1896. I believe our party is stronger than it was then, and there are sixteen reasons to one why it should be." (Cheers.) Glad to Aid Goebel. At Mayfield great preparations had been made for Mr. Bryan and a great crowd was present. Mr. Bryan spoke exactly forty-five minutes and indorsed in strong terms the Goebel ticket, advising Democrats to give it their enthusiastic support. In the course of his remarks he said: "I believe this crowd came out to indicate what they will do for Goebel and the rest of the ticket. Today I shall accept it as evidence of a larger majority for Goebel than that of '96, and I shall rejoice if it is so. I am glad to come to Kentucky. It is the skirmish line of 1900. The bigger the majority this fall the better the chances in 1900. The skirmish of 1896 was our Burker Hill; that of 1900 will be another Yorktown. This Chicago platform of '96 was a new declaration. Like the declaration of Thomas Jefferson, it was not for a year, but for a generation." Appealing to the Democrats. He appealed to the Democrats to stand by the state platform and the candidates indorsed by the Louisville convention, and paid a passing compliment to the Brown state ticket and its supporters, holding that principles are everything and the man nothing. Gov. Brown, believing Mr. Bryan was acting upon misinformation, wrote to Mr. Bryan the following letter, which was delivered to Mr. Bryan by Mr. John Tevis in the presence of Mr. Weaver, Mr. Lyons, Dr. Allen and others: Bryan's Friend Protests. Gov. Brown to Mr. Bryan, greeting: "Louisville, Ky. Oct. 18, 1899. The Hon. Wm. J. Bryan, Louisville, Ky. Sir: I desire very respectfully to submit to you for answer in your speech today the following questions: "If it be true that a secret written bargain was made prior to the late Louisville Music Hall convention, between Messrs. Goebel and Stone, Democratic candidates for the nomination, which provided that the friends of Mr. Goebel and Mr. Stone should unite their votes upon the temporary chairman thus elected, in the appointment of committees at large, upon resolutions, permanent organization and credentials, should give equal recognition to Goebel and Stone by naming men selected by each of them on each committee; that in all contests as to delegates between Hardin and Goebel, Goebel's delegates should be seated, and in all contests between Hardin and Stone, Stone delegates should be seated, but in all contests between Goebel and Stone, the determination of the committee on credentials should control the combined vote of Stone and Goebel." "And, if it be true that this bargain was executed, thus placing in this convention over three hundred men selected by this conspiracy instead of the delegates selected by the 64,000 Democratic voters of the state, do you state that the action of such substituted delegates could give Goebel the nomination of the Democratic party? Fraud Made Plain. "Was not such a contract fraudulent? "Has the chairman of a sovereign body of Democrats met in state convention, the right to deny an appeal from his decision when demanded, and thereby take away from them, who are the people's representative, the right to govern themselves and the proceedings of the convention? "If such things were done by the aid of armed police, drawn around this sovereign body, was and is not this a menace to free government? "Do you indorse the Goebel election law, which deprives the people of Kentucky of the right to govern themselves? If so, please explain why you advocate free government for the people of the Phillipines and deny it to the people of Kentucky? "Have you any plea save that of political expediency to justify submission by American citizens to the outrages above indicated? As usual, Mr. Bryan dodged the questions so respectfully submitted to him by Governor Brown. He did not even read them to the audience, but after referring to them he said: "Let me say, in the first place, that I did not come to Kentucky to investigate the details of a state convention and sit in judgment upon the things done in that convention. I did come to this state to discuss the details of an election law. I came to this state to say, and I want to say it with emphasis, if there was in that convention anything done that a Democrat does not think ought to have been done, I want to ask what remedy that Democrat is going to offer to remedy the wrong that he thinks was done. Is it to elect a Republican governor and Republican officers in the state of Kentucky? (Cries of no, no.) If that is the remedy proposed I want the Democrat who applies the remedy to apply it with a full knowledge of the responsibility that he assumes. The man who attempts to correct a Democratic convention by electing a Republican governor assumes responsibility for all that governor does after he has elected him. (Aplause.) Bryan Winks at Fraud. "We are on the eve of another national campaign—a campaign that will determine whether this is to be a government of the people, by the people and for the people, or a government of monopolies, by monopolies and for monopolies. (Applause.) You met in convention at Louisville; you indorsed the Chicago platform. The platform adopted at Louisville contained not only an indorsement of the Chicago platform, but it announced the party's position on the new questions that have arisen since; and that platform, among other things, indorsed the Goebel election law. There was no minority report in that convention. There was no fight on that platform, and when that convention adjourned and the ticket was nominated that ticket stood before the country as representative of that platform. Some Democrats met and organized another convention. It was not a convention called in the regular way, nor a convention to which delegates were sent in the regular way. It was a convention formed of those men who were opposed to the other ticket that was nominated. It cannot be called a representative convention. It cannot be called a convention representing the Democratic voters of this state. Stealling an Election. Mr. Bryan was in Kentucky three days, and it is said that he addressed more than 100,000 voters. He inspired the followers of Mr. Goebel with confidence and enthusiasm. Immediately after the election, the Courier-Journal began to falsify the returns, and the county boards, and the schemers through the county boards, were planning to count out the duly elected officers. To furnish defense and concealment, the Courier-Journal and Mr. Goebel and their hirelings everywhere were claiming everything and threatening everybody. Mr. Goebel went to Frankfurt, declared he was elected and would be seated. In a speech from the Capitol hotel he said: "I believe that I have been elected; in fact I know I have. I see my friend, Gen. Taylor, says he will assume the office of governor, but I say to you that the people of Kentucky are doing the assuming. All I have to say is, if I have been elected, as I believe, I will be inaugurated in spite of the Louisville & Nashville railroad and Bradley bayonets." Bloody Revolution Threatened. Mr. Willard Mitchell was there, and the report of his remarks was this: "Before Bradley can name a governor in Kentucky, by the eternal gods, we will not leave a white Republican in Kentucky. Go home," he said in conclusion, "and prepare yourselves to assist in the inauguration of Bill Goebel." The report did not please Mr. Mitchell, so he asked the following correction: "Editor Evening Post: "The Louisville Dispatch of the 9th inst. published an alleged statement made by me in a speech of mine at Frankfort on Wednesday night, the 8th inst., which statement I did not make, as published. "The statement that I did make was: 'If Goebel was elected, and I believed he was, and William O. Brailey attempted to make a governor other than the man elected by the people, then he and every white Republican who assisted him in the attempt should be killed.'" "The above sentiment was uttered, and meant, and I think should be indorsed by every fair man in the state, whether he be a Democrat, a Republican, or an Honest Election Leaguer. "In this heated campaign I think a man should only be held accountable for the utterances he actually makes, and therefore, knowing that you will publish, when presented to you, a correction, even from an opponent, I ask you to publish this card in your paper. Respectfully, "J. Willard Mitchell. "Nicholasville, Ky., Nov. 11, 1899." Details of the Fraud. Details of the Faule. At that time there was not the ghost of a show for Goebel except for such gigantic frauds as that attempted in Nelson, and that attempted when a motion was made before the Jefferson county commissioners were asked to throw out the vote of Louisville. The lowest estimate for Taylor was this table: Goebel. Taylor. First district. 6,505 ... Second district. 1,333 ... Third district. 1,710 Fourth district. 196 Fifth district. 3,255 Sixth district. 5,806 Seventh district. 4,261 Eighth district. 65 Ninth district. 123 Tenth district. 412 Eleventh district. 16,573 Totals. 18,317 21,922 This was the condition. Mr. Goebel and his fellow conspirators were moving heaven and earth to create somewhere an opinion that Goebel was elected and thus justify the course necessary to seat him. At this critical moment came this dispatch from Bryan: "Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 9.—To the Hon. William Goebel, Frankfort, Ky.: I have just learned that the returns are near enough complete to insure your election. Accept hearty congratulations. I am sure your administration will strengthen the party. "W. J. BRYAN." Notwithstanding all these schemes for falsifying the vote and reversing the count, the state Returning Board certified to the election of Taylor, issued to him his certificate and he was by the chief justice sworn in as governor of Kentucky. The Goebel Tragedy Next. Then the fifth act of this political tragedy opened. Mr. Goebel determined to force the Democratic members of the legislature to depose Taylor, and to install him, the defeated candidate, in his stead. It was no light undertaking. Every citizen of Kentucky knew that in the face of desperate frauds and despicable crimes Taylor had been elected. His election was not open to question. The scheme could be carried through only by extraordinary measures, but it was determined on by Mr. Goebel and his associates that they would have Mr. Bryan come to Kentucky in person and throw his whole influence in behalf of this conspiracy. Nothing was to be left to chance, and Mr. Bryan came and spoke at Frankfort to a banquet, from which all anti-Goebel Democrats had been excluded. Mr. Bryan had a difficult role to play, and he played it to the satisfaction of his fellow conspirators against the ballot. Bryan Again in Kentucky. That the Evening Post may not be accused of misrepresentating the gentleman from Nebraska, it publishes the verbatim report of that portion of his address, admitting only his tribute to Mr. Blackburn. "When the campaign was on and the people were considering what they ought to do, I assumed it not only a duty but a privilege to come to the state of Kentucky and tell the Democrats of this state what I thought they ought to do in the gubernatorial contest. (Applause.) "There is now a contest before the legislature. I am going to do my duty now, as I did it in the campaign. (Great and continued applause.) I am afraid that you have applauded too soon. When it was persuading a citizen how to vote, I took my position and did what I conceived to be my duty. You are now engaged in a contest that is to decide not what ought to have been done, but what was done. Your legislature is the court. That legislature must decide upon the law and upon the evidence; and every member of that court will be better informed upon the law and the evidence than I am, and it is as much my duty now not to interfere as it was in the campaign to interfere, and I shall do my duty as I see it now, as I did then. Bryan to Goebelites. "I neither advised a contest, nor advised against it. I took no position on this subject. I would be ashamed if I were presumptious enough to attempt to interfere with the conscientious performance of a duty that devolves only upon the members of the legislature. I want to say this, however, that when men say you cannot expect a just decision from the legislature because it is Democratic, I want to say that every contest in regard to human government must be settled by human tribunals, and that whether a contest is presented to a court or to a legislature it must be decided by men, and that those men must have political opinions, and if this was a Republican legislature it would have the same power to decide that a Democratic legislature has. "I am glad it is a Democratic legislature. When questions have to go before a court, I am always glad when it is a Democratic court that they go before, and if the Republicans of this state feel that they are unfortunate in having to submit their questions to a Democratic court, they can come out to Nebraska and console with us Democrats, who for years have had to submit our differences to a Republican court." (Applause.) What Bryan Stands For. This closes the story. Mr. Bryan has not appeared in Kentucky since January. He will no doubt be brought here again before the campaign closes, but when the significance of these three invasions is borne in on the minds of thoughtful men nothing Mr. Bryan could say about duty, morality, loyalty to popular institutions and obedience to the will of the people can have the least consideration. Here in Kentucky Mr. Bryan stands for Crokerism, for Goebellism, for Haldemanism. French Naval School Studies. The commission appointed to consider the reforms in the French naval school has adopted a resolution to the effect that the programme of competitive examination for admission should be so arranged as to permit the candidates to present themselves without previous special preparation, the programme of the class in elementary mathematics to be the basis of the competitions. The Journal de la Marine points out that this resolution dodges, not decides the question, by forcing the candidates to turn toward mathematics instead of letting them pursue at will the normal course of their classical studies. If specialization no longer exists, it asks, why are 30 points accorded those who are provided with a classical or modern baccalaureate? This commission was appointed as a result of the bad condition of the naval school as shown by the poor recruiting for it. Among the causes to which is attributed the deterioration of the school two are conspicuous. One is the obligation on lads destined for the school to abandon their general studies and from the age of 13 or 14 years to make special preparation. The other is the attachment of these lads to the service at an age when it is practically impossible to know whether they have any natural aptitude or the character necessary to make good sailors. These two points do not appear to have been treated definitely, and conditions, it is predicted, will remain as before. Tea at $400 a Pound. At the exposition the other day I bought a pinch of the "emperor of China's tea," writes the Paris correspondent of Truth. "The cost of a pound would have been about $400. The price of the pinch was 40 cents. This will give you an idea how tiny it was. The emperor's tea, when dry, is of a pale color, and long and delicate in grain. It is composed of the top shoot of endless plants. Infused by itself it is flat, but as a blend gives delicate and delicious flavor. One should never drink it out of a deep cup—only out of porcelain or glass. I find, however, that if taken in the evening it causes a sleepless night." Forty-Five Days Passage. The New York harbor tug L. Luckenbach has started on a voyage to San Francisco, around the Horn. The tug, one of the fastest and staunches, is scheduled to make the passage in forty-five days, record time for a tug. Much difficulty was had in finding fifteen men who would make up the crew, as the dangers that the little vessel will encounter will be enormous, even for an ocean-going tug. Only three or four tugboats have made the trip around the Horn, the best record of sixty-three days, having been made by the G. W. Pride, which successfully navigated the southern seas eight years ago. Good manners will tend to make anyone attractive. Kansas City. CATTLE—Heavy. $ 50 @ 5 60 HOGS—Chose to heavy. 5 61 @ 5 120 WHEAT—No. 2 hard. 38 @ 5 140 CORN—No. 2 Mixed. 38 @ 5 140 OATS—No. 2 @ 5 140 HAY—Choice timothy. 8 @ 5 100 Choice prairie. 8 @ 5 100 Butter. 18 @ 5 100 EGGS. 14 @ 5 100 Chicago. WHEAT—No. 2 hard. 73% @ 73% CORN—No. 2. 22% @ 10% OATS—No. 2. 22% @ 10% St. Louis Live Stock. BEEVES. 3 59 @ 5 60 STOCKERS & FEERDEHS. 2 45 @ 4 80 SOUTHERN STEEERS. 3 15 @ 4 20 Cotton. Uplands, Gal. Liverpool. 6 15-161 New York. 11b. 114b Galveston. 10c Wichita Grain. Close. Close. WHEAT—Open. High. Low. Today Year. Nov. 78% 76%77 76% 76% 76% Dec. 77% 77% 76% 76% 76% CORN—Nov. 37% 37%88 37% 37% 37% Dec. 33% 38% 34%87 37% 38% OATS—Nov. 22% 22% 22% 22% 22% Dec. 22% 22% 22% 22% 22% Calls. Pins. Wheat: December 77% 77% 77% Corn: December 77% 77% 77% Wichita Live Stock. HOGS. 481 head gold. 4 73 @ 4 80 CATTLE. @ 4 80 Chicago Live Stock. BEEVES. $ 59 @ 5 60 COWS AND FEERDEHS. 4 10 @ 4 80 STOCKERS & FEERDEHS. 4 10 @ 4 80 TEXAS FED BEEVES. 505 @ 5 60 HOGS. 505 @ 5 60 Notes from the Paris Exposition. "The Singer Manufacturing Company, of 149 Broadway, New York, show their usual American enterprise by having a very creditable exhibit, located in Group XIII, Class 79, at the Paris International-Exposition, where they show to great advantage the celebrated Singer Sewing-Machine which is used in every country on the globe both for family use and for manufacturing purposes. The writer was highly pleased with this display and observed with much satisfaction that it was favorably commented upon by visitors generally. The Grand Prize was awarded by the International Jury to Singer Sewing-Machines for superior excellence in design, construction, efficiency and for remarkable development and adoption to every stitching process used in either the family or the factory. Only One Grand Prize for sewing machines was awarded at Paris, and this distinction of absolutely superior merit confirms the previous action of the International Jury at the World Columbian Exposition, in Chicago where Singer machines received 10 distinct awards, being more than were received by all other kinds of sewing machines combined. Should it be possible that any of our readers are unfamiliar with the celebrated Singer Machine, we would respectfully advise that they call at any of the Singer salesrooms which can be found in all cities and most towns in the United States." THE LATEST NEWS IN BRIEF The city council Santiago, Cuba, has donated $500 for Galveston sufferers. Telegraph communication between Seattle and Skagway is now complete. Four school rooms in Galveston have been repaired and four classes are now at work. Both of the assistant commissioners chosen by China are members of the progressive faction. The St. Paul Minn., Presbytery has voted for a revision of the Westminster confession of faith. The Chicago Laundry trust is no more. The independent laundries won the fight against the trust. At the close of business on September 29 the total circulation of national bank notes was $328,335,973. Benj. B. Campbell is dead at the age of 73. He sank the first oil well ever put down in the United States. All mail handled by rural delivery carriers is to be stamped by the carriers and again stamped at the sending office. September receipts of grain in Chic cago were 36,972 cars; of which the Santa Fe took in the largest number 1,160 cars. Melbourne is to be the capital of Confederated, Australia. Valparaiso, Chili, has suffered from a bad fire in its business center. An association of public school teachers in Missouri is being formed. They propose an assessment of 1 percent of their salaries to create a fund to pension teachers after serving 20 years. Crude oil continues to de-line in price. North Lima, Ohio, is quoted at 82c, South Lima and Indiana at 77c per barrel. The sugar market is demoralized. Prices are given 15 and 20 points under trust prices of a short time ago. The quotation for fine granulated is $3.50. The signal service squad accompanying General Chaffee to Pekin, kept up with the army with a telegraph wire and reached the American legation with it ahead of the signal corps of the other powers. Deliveries of livestock in Chicago for the nine months just closed were 290-493 carloads. The Santa Fe is compelled to rebuke 163 miles of telegraph lines in Texas as one result of the storm; of which 40 miles requires new poles, and nearly all requires new wires. A young Italian doctor has won the $100,000 offered by the Mexican government for a cure for yellow fever. He has been experimenting at Vera Cruz during the season and has been paid a part of the prize. No man is so illiterate that he cannot each others something. When it comes to breathing, every country has the same national air. As the salt savors the broth, so does the give relish to pleasure. HELP FOR WOMEN WHO ARE ALWAYS TIRED. "I do not feel very well, I am so tired all the time. I do not know what the matter with me." You hear these words every day; as often as you meet your friends just so often are these words repeated. More often likely you speak the same significant words yourself, and no doubt you feel far from well most of the time. Mrs. Ella Rice, of Chelsea, Wis., whose portrait we publish, writes that she suffered for two years with beard-down pains, headache, backache, and had all kinds of miserable feelings, all of which was caused by falling and dammation of the womb, and after doctoring with physicians and nummer medicines she was entirely cured by A. MRS. ELLA RICH Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If you are troubled with pains, clinking spells, depression of spirits, reluctance to go anywhere, headache, backache, and always tired, please remember that there is an absolute remedy which will relieve you of your suffering as it did Mrs. Rice. Proof is monumental that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is the greatest medicine for suffering women. Another medicine has made the cures that it has, and no other woman has helped so many women by direct advice as has Mrs. Pinkham; her experience is greater than that of any living person. If you are sick, write and get her advice; her address is Lynn, Mass. TOWER'S FISH BRAND POMMEL SLICKER The Best Saddle Cost. keeps both rider and saddle per- fectly dry in the hardest storms. Subsidies will disappoint. Ask for the Fish Equal Bower Sticker. It is entirely new. If not for sale in your town, write for catalogue to A.J.TOWER, Boston, Mass. GET ONE FREE. An Osborne Self-Binding Hawker, Reaper, Mower, Rake and Harrow will be given free to successful growers. Send to stamp for Political Chart and Guessing Card and particulars. Contact closes November 6th. Address Osborne Co. Auburn, N.Y. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest, Contains neither Opium, Morphein nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Dear of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alk. Seed Buckle Salts Alk. Seed Lassercruit Bicarbonate Salts Worm Seed Oilseed Seed Vanitygowns Parrot. Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fae Simile Signature of C. H. Fletcher. NEW YORK. ALL months old: 35 Dollars = 35 CENTS EXACT COPY OF WRAPPER. DE-GUM Cures Corns Ibe: all Druggists. (If it fails it is free.) ECTAL CONSTIPATION. cure of an old Dr. Leonhardt CASE in each town FREE 0.88 L. coin, New PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggista. CONSUMPTION Paper Sails for Ships. A process has been discovered by which sails of vessels of all kinds can be made out of paper pulp, and it is claimed that they serve quite as well as canvas and are very much cheaper. What Will Become of China? None can foresee the outcome of the quarrel between foreign powers over the division of China. It is interesting to watch the going to pieces of this race. Many people are also going to pieces because of dyspepsia, constipation and stomach diseases. Good health can be retained if we use Postetter's Stomach Bitters. A man is often able to do seemingly impossible things because he thinks he is able. Best for the Bowels No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. CASCARETS help nature, cure you without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health back. CASCARETS Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of limitations. One should learn to talk well—also when it is well not to talk. Every farmer should read the Osborne Co.'s small advertisement in this paper. Matrimonial bonds are not always a safe and profitable investment. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 250 a bottle. The rich man travels when he will; the poor man when can. Red Cross Ball Blue is better than bottle or box blue and also much cheaper. Large 2-oz. package & cents. Many a man loves his enemy because $ comes in a pocket flask. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catamaran that cannot be cured by Hall's Catamaran Cure. F. J. CHEENLY & CO. Props, Toledo, O. We undersigned, having served J. Cheney for the last 15 years and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truax Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. J. Truax Martin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Cetartur Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 750 per bottle. Sold by all druggists. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Washington Irving's Home Sold. The old home of Washington Irving, where he did most of his literary work at Irvington, N. Y., has been sold to a New Yorker as a country residence for $125,000. Annual Product of Honey The United States produces more honey than any other nation. As long as thirty years ago the product was 15,000,000 pounds annually. Twenty years ago it had risen to 25,000,000 pounds and ten years ago it was 65,000,000 pounds. At the present time Iowa produces 9,000,000 pounds of honey annually, and many states, including California, produce from 4,000,000 to 5,000,000 pounds a year. When a man falls out of a balloon he realizes what a hard world this is. Some articles must be described, White's Yucatan needs no description; it's the real thing. Your neighbor is any one for whom you can do a good turn. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chat. K. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. The oyster has no use for a folding bed. LOW RATE EXCURSIONS. Via Missouri Pacific Ry., And Iron Mountain Route. To point in the West, West south, and Southeast, at half-rates (plus $2.00) for the ride on 4th, 10th, 15th, and 20th birthe 4th and 18th, October 4th and 18th, November 4th and 20th, a d December 4th and 15th, 1900. For full information, and folders, etc., any agent of the issuer of H. G. Townsend, St Louis, Missouri. Plantation Chill Cure is Guaranteed To Cure, or Money Refunded by Your Merchant, so Why Not Try It? Price 50c IN WHICH MAN AND WOMAN PLAN TO DIE. The Hand of Fate Intervened and the Man Alone Succumbed—The Barbour- Southgate Affair—Survivor Tells the Story. (Special Letter.) The strange story of how Helen Southgate, the adopted daughter of Bishop Southgate, was lured by Henry Grosvenor Barbour to court death has been told in the girl's own words two days after the tragedy in the St. Charles hotel, Brooklyn. On Wednesday, Sept. 12, Henry Barbour's arguments in favor of suicide prevailed and Helen greeted to die with him. But the tragedy was postponed, only to take place on the following day. On Thursday the St. Charles hotel was selected for the murder and suicide. After Helen Southgate agreed to die with him. But the tragedy was postponed, only to take place on the following day. On Thursday the St. Charles hotel was selected for the murder and suicide. After pouring his snar Helen Southgate. cious arguments for death into the ears of his companion, Barbour fired one bullet into her breast and one into his head. The last bullet killed him, but the first only injured his companion. With Barbour dead by her side, Miss Southgate was at once relieved from the power of his influence, and wounded as she was she fled from the place. On Saturday she was discovered in Seney hospital, and told the story of the tragedy. In the rectory of the Church of the Beloved Disciple a heart-broken father, the Rev. Dr. Henry Barbour, stood above the body of his son, a suicide, and uttered this single cry: "If he had only been murdered! If he had only been murdered!" He had long feared, he had almost expected some such ending to the life of his prodigal son. Yet, with a faltering faith, he had prayed God for some miracle to happen; something which would save the young man from himself, from his weak nature, from his habits strongest than his impulses from the of his prodigal son. Yet, with a faltering faith, he had prayed God for some miracle to happen; something which would save the young man from himself, from his weak nature, from his habits strongest than his impulses, from the nature to do evil which seemed to be born in him, from the devils which possessed him, as they possessed men in the olden time; from the frightful devil of unbelief, the worst of all which haunted him. But all his prayers had gone for naught. The son—Henry Grosvenor Barbour—had killed himself in circumstances which have few parallels. He had fired a bullet into his brain through the mouth, after killing, as he supposed, the woman between whom and him existed one of those strange, inexplicable passions which seem more like madness than what they are called—love. "Find Helen Southgate," cried the afflicted father to the police. "Find Helen Packers Forbes, the beautiful adopted daughter of Bishop Southgate, whom I loved ocarer than a father, and you will find my son's evil genius. You will find the woman who can tell you the reason why he slew himself. You will find, I believe, the woman who accompanied him to that house of death." This clew led to the house of Miss Borbés' aunt, in Second place. There it was found that the girl had been a visitor, but had been taken away to the Seney hospital. She had toothed home after the shooting. Through her breast was the path of the bullet, the first one fired by Barbour in his mad wish that they should die together. By chance it was deflected, and instead of penetrating the lungs or reaching some vital organ, it had gone transversely, coming out at the right side and leaving a painful, but by no means deadly wound. Artificial Milk. "A stock company is forming," says a promoter, "for the manufacture and distribution of artificial milk on a vast scale. Our chemists tell us that the article is just as nutritious as the best cow's milk, and we are experimenting with it on babies and sickly persons, with most gratifying results in the way of increase of weight and so on. The water, fat, albumen, casein and sugar, which we use for basis, are all of the finest quality. Our gases—carbonic acid, oxygen, nitrogen and sulphureted hydrogen—are filtered three times in our patent gas filter before we use them. Our kreotin, pepton and tyrosin are soaked for 24 hours in pure spring water tanks. There are other constituents besides—I can't give their names away—and they, too, are washed with the utmost care. Artificial milk is, altogether, a much cleaner thing than the natural product. Philadelphia Record. A wall resembles a fish when it is scaled. No man talks so much about other people that he has no words left to sing his own praise. When You Take GROVE'S Tasteless Chill Tonic because the formula is plainly printed on each bottle, showing what it contains. Imitators do not advertise their formula, knowing that you would not buy their medicine if you knew its ingredients. Grove's contains Iron and Quinine put up in correct proportions, and is in a tasteless form. Grove's is the original Tasteless Chill Tonic and any druggist who is not pushing an imitation will tell you that all other so-called "tasteless" Tonics are imitations. Grove's is the only Chill cure sold by every druggist in the malarial sections of the United States and Cuba that is guaranteed to cure any case of malaria, chills and fever, or money refunded. Price 50 cents. on Chill Cure or Money Refunded by Your Merchant. Resignation is a good sauce for adversity. Some houses have wings but they don't fly. Faced hair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM. HINDERCOURNS, the best cure for corn. 15cts. Many a man secretly laughs at an other who would be afraid to do it openly. Try Red Cross Ball Blue. 5 cents. With the exception of a discolored eye, anything hand painted is fashionable. I am sure Piso's Curse for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. THOS. BREINBUS, Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y., Feb. 17, 1903. A man may be said to have reached a ripe age when he begins to fall off. It's strange that when a man is engaged in ticklish business he doesn't feel like laughing. Thirty minutes is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. Some men's prospects are so fine that they can't be seen. It must puzzle the golf ball to know what some people are driving at. The Best Prescription for Chills and Fever is a bottle of GREEN'S TASTYLESS CHILL TONIC. It is simply iron and quinine in a tasteless form. No cure—no pay. Price, 590. The way to rid a tree of its bark is to skin it. This is also applicable to dogs. He who takes a glass to much at night has time for sober reflection the next morning. NEW COLONY. A new colony to furnish homes to thousands of people, to locate in Oklahoma Territory, was organized by the summers of the George Colony, Mr. P. H. Fitzgerald of Indianapolis, Indiana, is backing it. Information sent free, showing how to get good homes, good farmers wanted. A dark cloud, financially speaking is one that has no silver lining. Tell your secret to your servant and you promote him to the position of master. RELIABLE SOLICITORS WANTED at once on Chautauqua Cards, Lincergarten Games, Standard and Holiday Books. Most liberal terms. Square treatment. So stumps bring Holiday outfit by return mail. Fort Dearborn Pub Co., 41b Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill. Men who have a lean and hungry look are usually the biggest eaters. Some picture frames are hung because of their gilt—and so are some men. It is the only cure for Swollen, Smarting, Burning, Sweating Feet, Corns and Bunions. Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to be shaken into the shoes. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. The actor who strikes you for a loan doesn't always make a hit. Industry, with some people, is a disease that they take every possible precaution against. Read the Advertisements. You will enjoy this publication much better if you will get in the habit of reading the advertisements; they will afford a most interesting study and some excellent bargains. Our advertisers are reliable and send what they advertise. Can you blame a young man for wearing corsets when his sister wears his collars and neckties. When a criminal loses his shadow the detective is apt to be puzzled. KIOWA-COMANCHE Country (3,000,000 acres) to settle. Subscribe for THE KIGWA CHIEF, devoted to information about these lands. One year, $1.00. Single room. Read and answer questions. Friend back east. Morgan's Manual (210 page Kettert) Guide with sectional map. $1.00. Map. 22c. All above. $1.75 Address Dick T. Morgan, Perry, O. T. Dancing masters are always taking steps to raise money. Crows are wise birds—they never do things without caws. Lots of men are honest only because it is the best policy. A girl never feels that she is a belle until she has several rings. Double Daily Service via Choctaw Route. On October 7th the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad inaugurates double daily service from Oklahoma and Indian Territory to Hot Springs, Ark., and Memphis, Tenn., where direct connections are made with lines diverging for all points in the east and south east. Poor singers and counterfeiters utter bad notes. Baggage smashers are to be found on ever trunk line. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease Free. Write today to Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y., for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder. It cures sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. Makes new or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bunions. All drugists and shoe stores sell it; 25c. From the point of view of the struggling young author the editorial position is on the decline. YOU NEED NOT SUFFER With Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia or Backache, "5 DROPS" will Relieve All Pain and Cure You. SWANSONS "5 DROPS" is quick and positive. It prevents and absolutely cures disease. It kills the germs. It acts with marvelous effect on the stomach, liver and kidneys; pyrifies the blood, strengthens the nerves, and places the entire system in a healthy condition. It is the cheapest and best medicine in the world, 300 doses for $1. It is for you who are crippled and helpless; bedridden and hopeless. It hopes; a positive cure. "5 DROPS" Hope; a positive cure. the best remedy on earth to have and child; the best remedy on earth to have the house, ready for every sudden sickness or pain. BUY A BOTTLE TODAY. It gives instantaneous relief and is absolutely the only certain cure for RHEUMATISM in all its forms. It is also used with unfailing effect in Sciatica, Backache, Neuralgia, Nervousness, Sleeplessness, Nervous and Neuralgic Headaches, Nervous Dyspepsia, and nervous affections of every description, Asthma, Fay Fever, Catarrah, Group, Bronchitis, Heart Weakness, Toothache, Earache, La Griffe, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, and kindred diseases. WOULD NOT BE WITHOUT IT. "I wish to lift my voice in behalf of your children, the only medicine that has given me any relief from the pain of MATISM. I have used one bottle, and have had but one attack since I commenced it. I have been a great sufferer from **HECUMATISM** and I have been a great spring I would think would be my last. Thanks to you and your "5 DROPS" for the good it has done me, would not be without it. You can use as you wish. I was suffering interest with NEURALGIA. I was suffering month that I would have to die. One day a called to see me and brought an advertisement of your Swanson's "5 DROPS". I resolved to attack of suffering since I took the first dose. I believe it has saved my life. This statement is recommended. I shall always take pleasure in the cure of NEURALG A. You's very truly. L. R. S. Smith, El Dorado Springs, Mo." **NSONS" 5 DROPS"** is sold by us and agents. In many places the dru- gists are our agents. If the remedy is not obtainable in your town, the company will send 300 dozes, $1 sent prepaid by ex press or mail. Trial bottle will be sent on receipt of $5. Agents wanted in new territory. Write New NSON RIHEUMATIC CURE CO.. 5 DROPS A Clean Shirt well laundered is a thing of beauty, but you cannot do good laundry work with inferior starches. MAGNETIC STARCH is prepared especially for use in the Home and to enable the housekeeper to get up the linen equally as well as the best steam laundries. Try a package. All grocers sell it at 10c. LANDMARK The greatest labor saver of the Nine- teenth century, clothes best can new agent in Southwest sold 24. World's Washers and 12 Lil- win Washers Another wrote he could not get them fast SAWYER'S EXCELSIOR Keep Out the Wet Sawyer's Slickers Sawyer's 'Excelsior Brass.' Suits and Slickers are the best waterproof garments in the world. Made from the best materials and warranted waterproof. Made to fit the highest work and weather. Look for the trade mark. If your dealer does not have them, write for catalogue. H. M. SAWYER & K. WELLE MIRR. East Cambridge, Mass. If afflicted with Thempson's Eye Water DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and to buy treatment FREE. DE. H. M. GREEN'S SOUS, Bot E Allants, Gs $3.00 W.L.DOUGLAS $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE M. B. B. The real worth of our $3.00 and $3.50 shoes compared with the larger models at $4.00 to $5.00. We are the largest manufacturer of men's $3.00 and $3.50 shoes in the world. We make and sell more than any other two manufacturers in the U.S. Established in 1875. 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 $3.50 which are just as good. exclusive sale in each town. Inside, you have bottom, *W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brooklyn, Mass.* Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Your dealer will not get them for you, send direct to factory, grooving price and size, gift for earring. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain face. Our shop will teach you anywhere. Catalogue Free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brooklyn, Mass. W. N. U. WICHITA-II-4-1900 When Answering Advertisements Kindly Mention This Paper. MAGNETIC LASTEST IMPROVED TRADE MARK STARCH REQUIRES NO COOKING MAKES COLLARS AND CUFFS STIFF AND NICE AS WHEN FIRST BOUGHT NEW ONE POUND OF THIS STARCH WILL GO AS FAR AS A POUND AND A HALF OF ANY OTHER PREPARED FOR LAUNDRY PURPOSES ONLY MANUFACTURED ONLY BY MAGNETIC STARCH MANUFACTURING CO. OMAHA, NEB.