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INTER-STATE Journal Kans., and Missouri. By F. L. JELTZ. If there are no crimes there'll be no judges nor justice. Why is it that it takes a good grand rascal to catch another, but it is often the case. Strange for a man to expect you to do more than he is willing to do. Fate will make some men while chances and opportunities make the remainder. There is a good deal of truth in the rumor that truth crushed, to earth, will rise again. When we find a tool he is a fool Indeed. We have often asked ourselves the question, which was the biggest fool a poor white man or ignorant Negro. The side show or the Roosevelt administration is still on Senator Burton is after the scalp of Mr. "Long Breeches". "Bankers" are a funny class of gentlemen they are all on to the same story no matter where you go at the same time. Major Hudson is a brilliant writer and is very capable later on he should have any thing he wants. A man borrowed a shot gun the other day from a certain lawyers son in this city ostensibly to go gunning. The next morning the man and shot gun was found at the police station Van,B.Priestly,ex-state auditor for Kansas is first sargeant on the Kansas City Kansas police force Prather has grown to be a great big fellow and from all appearances his Pop ideas are gone, he is known down there as a Democrat and holds to the job for services rendered Mayor Craddock last spring. THINGS in BRIEF OF OVEMEYER David Overmeyer is not a candidate for Governor but if they will simply show their hand and place him there he will not hesitate to serve the people faithful. Mr. Overmeyer is of the old first Democracy and does not believe in negroes being mistreated but justice before the law is what he ask for all classes concerned. In a recent interview with Mr. Overmeyer regarding the Booker Washington dinner with the President he proved to be the nearest of men, he said it was a light if a man wanted to dine a Negro it was his right, the facts are he Washington, being a colored man was no reason why he should not be given a fair representation by reason of his class in the United States. More than once Mr. Overmeyer has stood square toed to the New groes. Several years ago when a man whose name we will not call was mayor of this city, he caused the colored women to be placed on the streets, the people met and protested against this barbaric cruelty, but no one out of at least 600 citizens would make a speech condemning it, but Overmeyer arose to the emergency and when he had finished his condemnation there was no more women in chains on the streets. Such a man is David Overmeyer, who may be governor. Kans. will do the right thing by appointing J. Hume Childers as consul to Santos Brazil. Mr. Childers was one of the first of the colored republicans to announce himself as a candidate and it is believe that he is entitled to proper and just recognition The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL. As we go to press the dispatches from Washington announced the appointment of General Metcalf, of Lawrence, as pension agent at Topeka agency, to succeed Leland. Under the circumstances the veterans or this district will not complain of this appointment going to a soldier of the late war instead of one of their number. Leland was appointed over their protest and he never has at any time been in sympathy with their interest, he does not associate with the old boys has not been inside a post room in Topeka where he has resided for four years. Their are several hundred competent deserving comrades in this district, any one of whom could have filled this office with credit, and we hoped that the appointment would have come to some of them, but the political situation was Leland or Metcalf, and we heartily indorse General Metcalf, whose service to his country entitles him to recognition, his ability and business qualifications fit him for the place. His heart and sympathy is in the right place he holds the old soldier of the great war in the highest esteem and we do not hesitate to assure our comrades of the Topea pension district that no better truer friend ever signed a pension check.—The Western Veteran. Whether the "Col" does every thing that may please every one is left for him to say. But the "Ledger" thinks any thing he does will receive the u endorsement of the Republicans of Kans. so long as he Jeopardized his life that thousands of "whites" and "blacks" alike might live and breathe the atmosphere of freedom. I. C. GREGQRY ARRESTED. J. R. Taylor, the constable of Justice Queen's court seems to have fallen out with Mr. J, C. Gregory some time ago and a liquor case was the result. Mr. Gregory operates a fine cider mill on his farm a few miles from the city and many of the friends of Mr. Taylor it is said thought that he was dealing in liquor, hence while he and Mr. Taylor had been fast friends and trusted each other they are now bitter enemies, Mr Gregory has carried his troubles to the District Court and it is there to be determined whether he ever sold a drop. Mr. Gregory, has lived in this county for many years and has borne a good reputation. In summer he manufactures ice cream and in the fall he makes cider for the neighbors. He makes a good neighbor they say and all this trouble arisen it is said from the fact that he further refused to be as sociable in the dispensing of his goods as he had formerly been. TUSKEGEE NOTES. The new hospital given us by a northern friend will soon be ready for occupancy. This building has ample room and facilities and will prove of great value to the hospital and nurse training division of the school. Work upon the John D. Rockefellow dormitory for boys is progressing rapidly. An increased supply of labor has been added and it is expected that this building will be occupied before the end of the term. The institution has been given 25 scholarships in one of the most famous and successful correspondence schools in our country. These scholarships are in the engineering courses and are to be given to those students and graduates as will be profited and helped by them. Geo. H. Mays, Jr., Dr. H. E. and J. W. Dyche are the leading physicians in the city they own a fine drug store and are full of business. With assistance from Dr. McClintock they performed a very critical operation a few days ago on a patient or appendicitis. Lebanon has two hotels, respectively $2 and $1 per day. Dad Goode operates the dollar a day house and he says a man who boards outside of his hotel, shall not be informed during the night to what time he should rise to catch the train. Dad is funny! He is 75 years of age. MANKATO NOTES. Gov. Chase, ex-Wardin of the State Penitentiary is prominently mentioned as a very strong man for the appointment of Minister to Old Mexico. Col. R. W. Turner is one of the wealthiest men in Jewell county and is in the race for congress on the Fusion ticket and is also being very strongly urged to allow his name to go on the ticket as successor to Judge Pickler. Mr. Turner's political standing is such that it needs only his nod of approval to get such position with the people as he wishes and the choice is with him. Mr. Turner came very near being a colonel in the Spanish American War. Mankato can boast of three colored residents in the whole county and their namen are Turners and Crisman. Two women and one man. A. B. Turner is the man and an old soldier he is well fixed and pictures and war scenes on the wall tell of the assination of our three martyred Presidents. D. H. Stafford is quietly mentioned as an aspirant for the position of Lieutenant Governor. Maj, T. S. Kirkpatrick is mentioned by his friends also as prominently candidate for the appointment as minister to France H. H. McConkle is prominently mentioned as a candidate for Sheriff on the Populist ticket this fall Nearly every one knows the Hon. Mr. Grimes, our model state treasurer, but few people here know his new business partner Mr. S. B. Kohner of Leroy Coffey county. They have started in business in rooms 5 & 6 Central Bank building, this city where they are prepared to talk Real-estate, Farm and city property to you. No politics. Hans B. White will lick the stuffing out of any man for the place he aspires. He was State Senator from Jewell county in the last Legislature. He is a capable man he wants old man Reeders place and 21 countries will vote with him for the same. BLOODLESS AROOSTOOK WAR. Innocent Cause of It Has Just Died in Massachusetts. John Johnson Emery, formerly a Maine farmer, politician, explorer and lumberman, and who became noted for bringing about the dispute between this country and England, which ended in the bloodless Aroostook war, died of old age at his home, 26 Bower street, Boxbury. He was born in Fairfield, Maine, on August 28, 1806. His father was Samuel Emery, the first white child born in the town. The mother's maiden name was Diadema Johnson, and John J. was one of the fifteen children of the family. As manhood came he grew into a life of local activity, and located most of the roads now existing in Fairfield and many of those in surrounding towns. He was a selectman for nine years, was county surveyor for a long time, and represented the town in the legislature of Maine. He was also an extensive farmer, and carried on a lumber business of considerable magnitude. During Mr. Emery's days as a lumberman, he and a companion made many explorations of the Maine woods They made a chart of the ground that they covered, and published several pamphlets describing these localities, which were then little known to the hunters and the public. In 1839 Mr. Emery was the innocent cause of a war, which is now known in history as the Aroostook war, and for a time came near being serious in many respects. It came about over a boundary dispute with Canada; neither this country nor the province of the queen could decide on the proper location of the line, and it was always coming up as a bone of contention. In 1839 he was sent there to look over the ground and make a report on it, and was to take along a surveyor with him, and determine about where the line lay. He went into the woods, and while carrying out his mission was captured by British soldiers and taken as a prisoner to Canada. When the people of Maine heard of it there was great excitement, and immediately talk of war. The state troops were ordered out under the direction of the president, and they were armed and sent to the boundary to secure his release. The Canadian government released him before they came, but at the same time they assembled several regiments of troops to meet the Maine boys. Upon his return to the lines he was placed in command of his own company of troops and remained in camp with them for more than a month. President Van Buren sent General Winfield Scott to take command, and he remained until the trouble was over. It was finally settled by Daniel Webster, who conferred with the British authorities and fixed the line.—Boston Globe. Change For a Quarter. "How much does it take to change a quarter?" asked the bartender. "Twenty-five cents, eh? Not on your life. It takes 70 cents to do the trick. How many ways do you suppose a quarter-dollar can be changed? Just exactly eleven. A fellow of limited means may like the lingerie of coin in his clothes. In that event you can give him 25 pennies or 20 pennies and one nickel, supposing he wants to get a beer. He may like to have a little sprinkling of silver in his clothes, and you can accommodate with fifteen pennies and a dime, or ten pennies, a dime and a nickel. If he prefers to have change handy for a beer and a car fare, why fifteen pennies and two nickels will fix him up, and if he wants a cigar in addition, besides having a little stock of cash in his jeans, give him ten pennies and three nickels. That makes six ways. Now then, a fellow with a quarter can trade it off for five pennies and four nickles, two dimes and one nickel, one dime and three nickels or five nickels, just as he prefers. And to accommodate him in any way that he might select, you have to possess twenty-five pennies, two dimes and five nickels—70 cents in all."—New York Times. Gravel with a History. On the occasion of the recent meeting of the American Association of Passenger and Ticket Agents, in Asheville, N.C., H. C. Townsend, president, was given an oak gavel, to which is attached an interesting history. The wood once formed a part of Nelson's flagship, "Foudroyant," and is a relic of a name and career well known to the American and British nations. The "Foudroyant" was captured from the French in 1558, being at that time one of the largest battleships afloat. Later she carried Nelson's flag in the Mediterranean and was finally broken up by a gale a. Blackpool, November 28, 1897. An American $5 gold piece of 1800 and a George III guinea are inlaid in the gavel. Thomas Cook & Son of New York were the donors. Mrs. Stanford has returned to San Francisco after a journey to Egypt, where she purchased for the Stanford Museum a remarkable private collection of Egyptian antiquities, treasured and supplemented during thirty-five years by a wealthy foreign resident of Cairo. LABOR EXCHANGE N. ROBBINS, Prop. WHOLE SALE RETAIL GROCERIES. FRUIT AND PRODUCTION Special Bargains in APPL ES POTATOES, CABBET etc always on hand. HIGH GRADE FLOUR is o Cheaper Than any House in the City Come and Be Convinced That We Can Save You 411 KAN, AVE, P. M. LIGHTNER New and Second-hand goods bought and sold. Abilene, Kan MISSCELLANEOUS ADS GOINGS & ALLYAN 1133 Kansas Ave, Feed and all kinds of flour and grain. Prises reasonable. Give them a call. G. I. BAUGHMAN M.D. Office 525 Kansas Ave, Hours 9 to 11:40 5 Diseases of Women a specialty. Residence 1332 Lincoln st W. N. BLAKENLY, Jeweler and Graduated Optician Jewelry, Inventory, Watches Checker, Repairing neatly det. 429 Kansas Ave. Topeka WHITE LELSEY MER CO. Corzand & Madison Street Phone 732 City Give them a call C. H. NEVINS Manufacturer of Harness and also dealer in saddlery goods. Sylvia, Kans. W. R. TEDRICK Whole sale dealer in 'Boss Patent' Flour' and mill lead. 320 N. Main street. Hutchinson K&. E. D. TAYLOR. Real Estate, L.s. and Fire Insurance. Farm loans made, Special attention given to leasing lands; Kinlev, Kansas. PARK HOTEL. South of City Hall, Jno, Madden J. P. op $1,00 per day, Beds only 25 & 50 Dodge City Kansas, MICKLE'S GROCERY 300 Kansas Ave Camics a full line of Staple and Fancy groceries and country produce GARDEN CITY KAS CARTER, STONE & CO. (Successors to Carter and Gause.) Dealers in HARDWARE & FARM MACHINERY, Goshaeue Engines, Pumps and Windmills. In fact every thing in a first class Hardware Store. GARDEN CITY, KANS. A. R. C. L A R K. Deslers In FURNITURE, CARPETS, UNDERTAK- ING. PIANOS and ORGANS. Garden City, Kansas. GEO, E. MACK RETAIL GROCERS, Flour, Feed, Queensware, Etc. Garden City, Kansas A. T. WAGGONER: DRUGS AND MEDICINES 731 Kanas Ave Your trade solic ed. Bell Phone 787 BARGAINS Closing out entire stock at lowest Prices. Don't go any place else. until You have priced our Goods. Clothing hats and shoes. Watches guns, jewelry and Bicycles. Money loaned on all articles of value, lowest rate of interest. 324 Kansas Ave. D. Capland, Prop. Independent, 116. HERE AND THERE COFFEVILLE NOTES Dr. Stansberry, one of the highly respected citizens of Coffeville was mayor when the Dalton's raided the town and can tell thrilling incidents of the affair. The readers of this paper at Coffeville should remember that they have secured a competent physician in the person of Dr. Whittaker to that city if they stand by him he will remain with them. Our Coffeville readers will find good bargains in groceries at M Moores 108 west 12th street. Coffeville Kans. When in Coffeville take your meals at Kelleys restaurant 1019 S. Walnut st. FRUIT & PRODUCTION COMMISSION MERCHANTS 118-120 Kansave Topeka, COPE & CO. OSWEGO NOTES The large colored populace of Oswego should not forget those kind merchants who have their interest at heart and stood by the editor of this paper when we visited their city. Marshall Ben Pruitt is holding down his position nicely as obef of the police force at Oswego, the home of L. S. Crum, Mr. Pruitt is a wide awake young man to his duties and has the respect of the enture community. Groceries and Meats The nearest grocery in the city is the one operated by Mr. J, H. Wernstrom at 213 and 15 west 4th street they carry a full line of groceries, meats, can goods especially flour and feed give them a call J. H. Wernstrom prop. Down at Sedan we saw some fine marble and granite works and fine lettering done by Garling house and Sons. They deserve to succeed. Judge N. A Brewster who has resided in Sedan the greater part of his life and is also prominent identified in the Real Estate business is being urged to accept the Republican Nomination for County Attorney next year to unanimous support of all classes is with him and it is believe d to be only a question of time till he will be landed. OLDEST And best they all say. Established 1892. VOL. 9 NO.42 HAWAIIAN FISHES. C. B. Hudson, the artist, here with the fish commission from Washington, is limning on academy board some most charming portraits. His models, like Trilby, pose for the allogather. He paints the nude and leaves out the drapery. His subjects are the many-hued specimens from the piscatorial world, captured by patient natives, whose knowledge of the haunts of the funny tribe has made their services indispensable to the success of the mission of the learned gentlemen from Washington and Stanford University. These specimens are not mackerel or mullet nor are they halibut or squid. They are bright butterfly colored, cute little fellows, picked up by experts in shady holes outside the reef. It would seem a simple matter to secure a basketful of brilliant colored fish at the market, pick out the best specimens and then fill in the colors upon the pencled design. But Hudson doesn't work that way. He says all dead fish are faded. He says furthermore that the color propositions in a tropical fish of paradise is a psychological, not a physical attribute. Hudson's studio is an interesting den. It is not in an attic nor under a eucalyptus tree. He is perched on a bench at the other end of the pier, seaward from the Moana hotel. He has before him a glass aquarium full of sea water. Here he poses his models. They are shy as the most innocent perfection that ever exposed her charms to the eye of master artist for the first time. They scintillate color from quivering fin; evanescent tints radiate from filmy tails. One of these piscatorial gems from the deeper waters of Hawaii looked like it might have been made by a jewelsmith in some dark, unfathomed cave, where jewels have eyes that see and hearts that beat and become afraid. This bright particular jewel had sides of shimmering gold dotted with tiny stars of deepest, purest blue. He would cavort about in his little glass jail, to the despair of the artist who watched for every changing gleam of color like a cat laying for a mouse. "You know, these tropical little peacocks of the ocean change color at will!" said Hudson, laying down his brush and turning naturalist. "I can produce a variation of colors in that restless scamp equal to that shown by the fire dancer at the circus. I will first show how a little 6-inch fish fights or attempts to scare away an enemy by a flashing of starling colors." So saying Hudson rubbed the corner of the glass tank with his hand, producing light variations. Seenting danger, Mr. Fish stiffened his fin, and, so far as color goes, altered his appearance to that of a hideous Chinese dragon. Dark purple spots altered with fiery yellow. Blood red flanks and gills made the effort of the fish to look bad quite as comical as a clever 4-year-old assuming the gall of a Bowery tough. "Now, see how he acts when afraid," said the artist, and he plunged a pine stick into the water, tapping the little beauty on the nose. "See, he has quit his bluff and is a turncoat." The purple changed to a hand hue. The red became mother of pearl, and the yellow dimmed into dirty silver. "Since he failed to bluff his enemy, he seeks to elude him by becoming invisible." And the lusterless fish, to bear out the veracity of his portrait painter, tried to bury himself in the two inches of sand upon the bottom of his prison. This explains the psychological side of the colored fish. But, after all, it is purely physiological. The color material is deposited in glands, which are contracted or expanded as the fish may choose. When he thinks he can bluff an enemy he squeezes the little sacks that hold his bluffing colors, sending the green, red and yellow spraying through his cuticle. When the bluff fails he withdraws the protechnic hues to his color bags, and, as near like a corpse as possible, he plunges to a temporary grave in the sand. Mr. Hudson finds it very difficult to keep a sensitive fish on one mood long enough to transfer its especial mood 'o the canvas. He finishes about one a week. He says there is no creature in nature that gives such astonishing combinations of color as the bottom fishes of the tropics. Nearly all bottom sea fishes have the power of changing color at will. They furnish colors which often tax an artist's color materials to reproduce. The pure blue, the perfect yellow and the vermillion shades are the most difficult to attain. The picture painted by Mr. Hudson will belong to the United States fish commission, and will be printed in colors in the published report of the Hawaiian expedition. A preliminary report of the expedition will be made to congress early in the coming session, with the hope of arousing interest to a degree that will secure a large appropriation for prosecuting the study of Hawaiian fishes on a much larger scale. The work of the expedition so far has resulted in the discovery of about thirty new varieties, many of which are good for food. To commend anarchist crime in a public place is a punishable offence according to French law. State Ledger. F. L. JELTZ. SUBSCRIPTION six months 75c One Year 1.50 ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS CASH IN AD- ANCE ereed at post office Topeka, Kansas, atce addclass-rates. Published every Saturday at 431 Kan. ave 1,000 in advance LOCAL And PERSONAL Justice Ellis of the Supreme Court is at his office again after a long illness, Justice Greene is at his desk again after the holidays. Justice W. R. Smith is at the desk also after spending the holidays at Kans. City Kans. his old home. Mr. Rodocker, the prominent photographer of Winfield has his branch gallery at Cedarvale Kansas and will guarantee all his work. Over thirty years experience as a capable artist. Give him a call, will be at Cedarvale Friday and Saturday of each week. Parties desiring to secure board for horses and cows this winter will do well to see Mr. Sin, clair the prior, of the West End Barn, Cedarvale Kansas. Go to H. L. Tromp for all kinds of fine cigars and tobacco. 804 Kansas avenue GOLD KING BAKING POWDER made by H. H. Parker the best in the market, 1001 Kas. ave TopechaDrug Co. PRSCRIPTION DRUGGIST. 732 Kansas Avenue. Proudlit and Perkins are among the leading caterers or the city they operate The Magnet a newly remodled concern, they handle nothing but the best line the market affords. Give them a call 41 Kans. Ave SUBSCRIBE FOR THE STATE LEADER Seven Column Paper filled with news from every where. $1.50 PER ANNUAL THOSE WHO OWE SHOULD HURRY TO 411 KANSAS AV. RIDGE, M. D. USAD CAN SURGEON LR, De Magnetic College and Institute. ASSE ANFPCALIVY. Rights Disase, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, T.C. both Physical and Drugs. J. A. DAVIS & CO WHOLE SALE & RETAIL FISH & MEAT MARKET Alway, open from 5 a.m.to 8 p.m. We supply all the city deal- er with fresh fish of all kinds. 123 W. 6th St. NEW IDEA BAKERY & CANDY FACTORY to sout Main Street, Ottawa, Kan. W-H. WORK Mgr. Phone 33 LANDISHOME BAKERY. Many years experience. French home Bakery 316 E. 4 n St. TOPEKA CREMATORY CO. J. Z, HOWE Manager. MRS. E. MOSTETLER, Gives meals for 10 and 15 cents 720 E. Douglas St. Wichita Ks. Also carries a tall tide of cigars, tobacco and temperance drinks. H. L. FROMP manufacturer of HIGH GRADE CIGARS 804 Kes. Av. Lodoka Kans. H.A.KLAUER Carries ALL the LATEST brands of cigars and alo a FULL LINE of Tobacco and smoking articles. His cigars are made in Topeka. 526 Kans ave I, E. RODMAN FLORIR/ST, Plants for windows and beding. Society embials in flowers a specialty. Green houses 12th and Monroe Sts. Store 501 W 8th S ZERCHER & POOL, POOKS, STATIONERY, OFFICE SUPPLIES. 527 Kansas Avenue. We solicit a share of your patronage TOPEKA, KANA Topeka Tent & Awning TENTS & AWNINGS. Flags, Tarpaulins: Wagon covers, Hors covers: Ets 304 Kansas Ave. Phone 612 JOSEPH ARTLEY boot and shoe manufacturer]does all kinds of repairing at reason able prices. Men's half poles 500 ladies 400t, children's 30 cents. Stand 400 Kans. Dodd Bros. DEALERS IN..... All of the leading GRANITES and MARBLE MONUMENTS. Our Designs are all modern and up-to-date. Cleaning up of monuments annotating inscriptio is a specialty. 112 South Lawrence St. Wichita Kans. S. BAU,M 1064 Union Ave. (opposite depot) Clothing Boots and Shoes, turing Goods, Jewelry of all kinds. Kansas C. I. F. Williams Pres. Win. L. D. Clark & Tressy THE TOPEKA ICE & COLD STORAGE CO. S. BAU;M Cold Storage for eggs, butter, apples, poultry and all perishable goods, Cor Curtis & Tyler st. Trackage to all Railroads. Correspondence solicited. N, Topeka. Phone 657 THE ... TOPEKA BUSINESS COLLEGE 523" Quincy Street.! thus far, the the member ship in this Institution increases every yr. If you want a good business edu call call or address L, H, Strickle Topeka, Kae W. H. Shrack and Son, Dealers in all kinds of fancy notions and general department store they will serve you right give them a HUSBANDS FORTRAYED BY WOMEN According to Women's Novels Only Good Husbands are Dead Husbands. Judging from the women's novels of the present day, the only good husband is a dead husband. I take up one of these books and find the story of a young governess who after her marriage with a Cuban relative of her employer, discovers that she has a jealous husband. Under the many indignities heaped upon her, the injured wife at length revolts. She then learns to love another man, who returns her affection. But the lovers agree to try to forget each other, and one succeeds. I open another. This also is the story of mismixed people—a somber picture of the misery following the union of two temperaments so wholly unsympathetic that there is no possibility of mutual comprehension. But why look further? I turn from these books with a groan. The day has suddenly darkened before me. I feel old and sad, and the world seems a dreary waste of woe and wickedness. For the time I have been breathing in the tainted air of a room where a night-lamp is burning and the atmosphere is heavy with the odor of disinfectants. Yet outside my window the young May sun is shining as it has done for 5,000 springs and I hear a robin chirping the same blithe song that stirred the primeval forests. A great wave of discontent, like a mighty ogre, has flooded the minds of a large class of women in all civilized countries, sweeping away former traditions. Even the German woman, who most intellects typifies the more housewife, is revolting under the tyranny of the kitchen pots and refuses to be confronted with her knitting. In an age which sees more women writing than ever before in the history of the world it is natural that this unrest should find its expression in many of their books. In the minds of the disaffected portion of the sex arise these questions: Why are these women discontented? What is it they protest against? What do they really want? Is it true, as one of their critics asserts, that they mistake curiosity about morbid social conditions for a desire for social reforms? But, at least, the novelist might teach the uses of a sorrowful marriage. She might teach that to bear is to conquer our fate. She might teach us that though happiness has not fallen to her heroine's lot, or ours, in this age of philanthropy and intellectual activity there is plenty of occupation for hear and head and hand. And we will rise up and call her bless ed if in future novels she will admonish the family skeletons to rattle their bone as faintly as possible, in case they can not be absolutely silent. Let her preach to us the gospel of hope, hope for des pair itself, as Dickens preached it. And may we yet meet a few good husbands in our pages, for if the husband in woman's fiction continues to go from bad to worse as rapidly as he has been doing of late years, he bids flair to soo occupy the place once held by the eighteen century villain—Nina R. Allen in Modern Culture. Imperor and Barber. Emperor William of Germany has taught his barber a lesson. Very punctual himself, the emperor insists that his servants shall also be punctual, and as he noticed some time ago that his barber was almost always a few minutes late when the time came for shaving him, he presented him with a gold chronometer and urged him to make good use of it. Much to his surprise, the barber continued to be a few minutes late almost every morning, and, after waiting in vain for some signs of improvement, the emperor said to him the other day: "Have you still the chronometer which I gave you?" "Yes, your majesty; here it is," replied the barber, taking it from his pocket. "Give it to me," said the emperor. "It is evidently of no use to you and you can have this one instead." With these words he placed the handsome gold chronometer on his dressing-table and handed to the amazed barber a nickel-plated watch worth about a dollar.—New York Herald. Among the peasants of Turkey almost all the doctoring is still done by women. In Constantinople there are laws against these healers, but they flourish of romance languages in Western Reserve University, and Professor Ladd, of Yale, will become the first incumbent of the Dr. Leonard Hanna chair in the medical school of Cleveland University. Prof. George F. Moore has resigned from the faculty of the Andover Theological Seminary. According to report he has accepted a chair at Harvard. He has been connected with the seminary for twenty years, and, for the last three years has been president of the faculty Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwegian poet, is idolized by all Norwegians, while Ibsen may rather be said only to be admired. The two men are opposites in personality, habits and tastes, and, in deed, have only one thing in common the unfriendliness with which they are regarded in Sweden. BLUE FRONT GROCERY. Saple and Fancy Groceries, fresh and Fa Meats Flour Feed and Provisions, Country Produce taken in Exchange, highest Market price paid in cash or trade, 1002 Kans Ave, North Tepela, Tel. 283 W, WILLIAMS, Restaurant and Short Order, 119 Kans. Ave. open day and night Everything first class convenient o'p't trains. C FRODIGER Dye and Cleaning Works. 820 Kans. Ave. Topeka Knsas. (Phone 957) If you are hard up see Uncle Sam at 512 Kansas ave. H. will fix you out. WE MAKE CLOTHES That it N. H Welle T r 429 Kansa; Ave. The East 40th Street. The Union Tailor will make you a suit of Clothes at reasonable prices. Pants from $4 50 and up. When you want something done in his line give him a call Repairing, and cleaning neatly done. WM. KLINGE TAILOR. Fine Talorng at reasonable prices. Fianc and Worl maillship guaranteed, Cleaning and Keeping neatly done. 512½ Kaisas Avenue. Topeka. MISS MARY E. KIETH. Hair dressing are all kinds of hair work done in the best styles and grades. Your trade is solicited. 147 Main S. Wichita, Kans. 60 TO JACOB HOUSE'S For Clothing. And Gents Furnishings Hats and Caps 927 Mars St., Lawrence Kans... LEWIS G. FERREFLI, ATTORNEY AT LAW. And Real Estate, special attention paid to nonresident claims. Olatte Kans. 1811, UTSHAW. People Feed, 537 acres Avenue, North Peoria. Full weights. Goods propf delivered. ?GILLETTE & NICHOLSON, Lumber Loth Sash CO L. Blind Moul Kans. 60 T6 806 Kans Avenue For Garden and flower seces, and lawn grass, and Hardy roses and plants. 3.6 Kansas avenue. HINKSTON BROS. Flour Feed and Grain. Reliable Dealers. Headquarters for any thing you want in their line Call and see them—517 N. Main St. GUS JOHNSON. DEALER IN OSAGE CITY SHAFT COAL and all other kinds? 608 East Second St. Tel. 557 Rahrer's Restaurant 615 East Fifth St. Opposite Santa Fe Depot. C, A, RAHRER Prop. All kinds of repairs for your wheel at Topeka Cycle Co. 112 W. 8th St. HOLE IN WALL Watch,Jure's Comic adds In this space Is just like the thing He gives to eat. ALWAYS FRESH and NEW, HULES are who has good things to eat. Whet in LAWRENCE stop at WEYER- MULLER'S RESTAURANT SHORT CREEF, Open Day and Night 720 Mass., Street Restaurant Jule's J. E. PETERSON on Marquet, Kansas the best HOTEL and RESTA KANT in the city give him a call. JONE S RESTAURANT 529 kans avenue, North Topeka SERVES MEALS and short order. Everything thing the market affords. Give him a call. E. . . PERRING Restaurant and Short Order Fruits and confectionery Abilene, Kans' See that our Lawrence readers assist our advertisers. ```markdown ``` PHYSICIANS. DR. W. H. H. SMITH, Special Attention given to Chronic Disease and all Diseases peculiar to Women. 15 years experience. Corner 4th and Kansas Avenue. Office, Over Hatch's Drug Store. DR F. H. SCHOLLE Physician and Surgeon 515 Kansas Avenue Topeka Kans Tel 502. DR. O. 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,) H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON, 833 Kans Ave All calls promptly attended. Tel 14: Tel. 895. i. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St calls promptly attended. S. A. BOAM M. D. Physician & Surgeon. 621 Kens. Ave. Tel. 573 Residence 1407 W. Tenth St. S. G. STEWART, M. D. OFFICE 621 KANSAS AVE. Telephone 544 Residence 112 East 7th Street P. K. J. C. ISERMAN, Office 112 East 6th street Calls Promptly Attended To. Special Attention Given to Disease Stonehead and Lungs and Female Trunk. (Free House) 12 2 6 0 5 7 10 9 GEORGE DICK, M, D : Homoeopathic M.D. Residence 626 FILMOR 187. Telephone 306. Office 807 Kansas Avenus. W m. B. Swan, M. D 725 Kansas Avenue, Topka, times hours, 11:00 to 12 m, 2:00 to 4:30 pm esidence 024 Buchanan St. Bell Telephone, 660 C. F. MENNINGER, M, D, Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone 19. J. M JAMISON, M. D., Office 506 East 4th Street. Office Hours: Fork. 8 to to A. M P. M. to 3 P. M. P. M. to 9 P. M. Special attention diseases; of women and private diseases. Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS; 9 TO II A. M. 2 TO 5, and 7 TO Q. P. M. Sunday Hours. 1 to 3 P. M. OFFICE 404 Kas, Ave. (Over Wallace Drug Store.) KEITH & HAZEL DRUGCISTS & DFALERS in all kind of Drugs and Patent medicines, Paints, Oils and Paints, Toilet articles and Perlumery. 422 Kans. Ave. Vourtrade is kindly solicited. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. 633 KANSAS AVENUE. Toppea, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEMBERS. PART MA TERIALS. DR. PAGES PHARMACY 111 East 5th Street Full line of Drugs and Toilet articles and Medicines. Give him a call. Willer's pharma 6th & 10P. KA AVE. Drugs Medicines, Pr script's Carefully Compounded, Give Us a Trust. C. W. WILITS. FRANK CONWELL WILLITS & CONWILL, UNDERTAKERS ...and Licensed Embalmers... A FULL LINE OF LOFFIN, CASKETS AND ROBES AT REASONABLE PRICES, 1066 N. Kansas Avenue, Tel. 850. North Topeka, THE BOOK EXCHANGE 832 Kas. Avenue. There will be a rush for school books soon at the book exchange Don't forget the place. You will be waited on by a courteous assistant. Give Mr. Protach a call 717 Mass. St. LOUISVANDORP. FCR the things you need Give him a call. 828 Kansas Ave. EBELING & LAVERNTZ SEVERANCE KANS Fine Flour and all kinds of mill stuff.—Shippers Manufacturer Carriages, Phaetons Business Wagon Special Attention Given to Order Work, Repairing, Painting, Lounge, Rafter Tins 424 and 426 Jackson Street Cut Flowers Funeral Designs. Palms and Ferns MRS, M. E HOLLCARFT. FLORIST. Tel. 176. 119 W. 6th Street. 109 E. Sixth Street. J. RAFFELOCH For Clothing, and Gents Farnishing Goods New and Up-To-Date Clothing. Gents' Furnishings, Shees, Hats, Etc. 30 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas. (Next door to Sunny Grocery Co.) (TO RIDE IN Wand comfort need one of 0 marriages. They have the perfect and the height of luxu- ance of safety. 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I underwent a treatment for cataract, for three months, without any success, consulted a doctor, a treatment for cataract, and even a treatment specialist of this city, who told me only an operation could help, and even a specialist would treat the head until then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. Then saw your advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered your phone number, only two days according to your directions, the包裹 to-day, after five weeks, my heart in the car has been entirely rested. I thank heartily and beg to remain Very truly yours F. W. ERMAN, 730 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. Our treatment does not interfere with your usual occupation Reservation and YOU CAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME advice free INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AVE., CHICAGO, IL. SHOES FOR EVERY BODY At very reasonable prices. Our small expens make it possible for us to sell goods surprisingly cheap. See our windows for bargains in wear. Not Cheap Shoes, But Good Shoes Cheap. BRANDL'S CASH SHOF STOR 128 South Main Street. Ottawa, Kansas (Fourth door North First National Bank.) LILLEY & CO. Dealer's Jn. lumber, coal baled h a sash doors, blinds, pain oils, lime sand & cement WILSEY, KANS. Granite and Marble Monumen Statuary Coping, Columns and Fancy Carved Column Caps Fine Cut stone Work done in Neat and Latest Style Abilene, Kane TO RIDE IN STYL and comfort too, you need one of Our car riages. They have the perfection of st and the height of luxury and ass ance of safety. We are showing latest styles. MARRIAGE CO. MANS, AVE. S. SMITH, SALEER IN W. Bure and Pelts, Third Street Topeka K aces for consignment trade. B. Topeka R. G. Dunn Com9 Agency Topeka CASES OF HARD HEARING CURABLE only those born deaf are incurable. LEASE IMMEDIATELY ANY HEAR NOISES