State Ledger

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. CONDENSED NEWS TELEGRAMS. The Theater Vendome, at Nashville, Penn., was gutted by fire Thursday afternoon. Loss, $50,000. Paul Blouet (Max O'Rell), the French author and lecturer, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis in New York recently. Mrs. James A. D. Earl, known in the dramatic world as Hope Bootn, filed a petition in bankruptcy in New York this week. She places her liabilities at $57,260 and her assets at nothing. It is announced that W. K. Vanderbilt expects his daughter, the Duchess of Marlborough, to pay a visit to Idle Hour, at Oakdale, L. I., shortly after the coronation of the King of England. Dr. Royal B. Prescott, who died at Nashua, N. H., always claimed that he was the first Union soldier to enter Richmond after its surrender. He was then a skirmisher in Company C, Thirteenth New Hampshire volunteers. Henry E. Payne denies the 1-cent postage story; the government ownership of telegraph lines; continental pneumatic tube system. Nor does he propose to transport mails in a balloon, even if he should continue as postmaster general for three years. Three hundred members of the electrical inside wireden's union of Newark, N. J., have gone on a strike. They have been receiving $3.00 a day and demand $3.50. They also refuse to handle material of any kind that has been made by other than union wamen. Wild horse meat is the principal article of food for the section men on the desert districts of the railroads in Southern Utah, according to reports which come from there. The section men say the meat is not bad, especially when it is the only fresh meat obtainable. The engagement of Miss Abbie Campbell, of San Jose, Cal., to Prince David Kanawakao, of Hawaii, has been formally announced. Miss Campbell is a native of the Hawaiian Islands, where her father, James mpbell, who died a few years ago, amassed a fortune. The glassblowers employe. at the Cumberland Window Glass works, Bridgeton, N. J., have gone on a strike. One hundred and fifty men are out. The strike is the result of the company's refusal to accede to the demands of the men for a guarantee minimum wage of $40 per week. It is understood that, much against his will, King Edward will be compelled to ask parliament for a grant towards the Queen Victoria memorial. The hope that enough money for this purpose would be raised by public subscription has not been realized. Only $27,000 has been thus subscribed and this sum will not nearly suffice. Senator Perkins, of California, introduced to the president Professor Campbell, superintendent and director of the Lick observatory, and Professor Simon Newcombe, the celebrated astronomer Professor Campbell invited the president to visit the Lick observatory. The president told him that it was his intention to make a trip to the Pacific coast next summer, and, if his plans were carried out, it would give him pleasure to visit the observatory. Dr. R. E. Haughton of Richmond, Ind., claims that he anticipated the discoveries of Professor Jacques Loeb, of Chicago university, wi. reed to the identity of electricity and nerve force, twenty years ago. The president of the Indiana State Medical Association, in 1879, he prepared a paper setting forth conclusions almost identical with Professor Loeb. The paper was published in the Medical Review, of Chicago, in 1884. He recently completed a new paper on the same subject. The Kirby Lumber Company, a concern with a capital of $10,000,000 has taken over the plants and timber holdings of the Reliance Lumber Company, the Texas Tram and Lumber Company, including the Village Mills Company, the Beaumont Lumber Company and the Adams mills at Call. During forty-eight hours the deposits of two of the Beaumont banks were swelled about $3,500,000. The newly received funds were transferred to the credit of the various concerns purchased by the Kirby Lumber Company. There is a chemist in the neighborhood of Piccadilly who does not believe in the decline of the British trade. All he has to complain of, he says, is the falling off in the demand for liver pills. "You want to know the reason, sir," he added, "just you take a 'bus' from the corner of Bond street to the circus, and see what that'll do for a torpid liver! It's that bit of road, sir, that's ruined my liver pill connection."—London Globe. "Don't you ever regret your past?" inquired the prison missionary. "No." replied the hardened convict, "it's my present that worries me most."—Philadelphia Press. Frank Price, of Chicago, has sixteen large scrap books of newspaper clippings that tell the most stirring history of Chicago, Ill., and surrounding states, from times as far back as the days of Fort Dearborn. Clayton, Lowemont and Warren have been made domestic money order offices. Coffeyville is talking of putting up a monument to commemorate the services of Company G, of the Twentieth Kansas, which was recruited in that town and vicinity. A man giving his name as Murphy attempted an assault on the 13-year-old niece of S. I. Cox at Empora. Cox runs a confectionery store near one of the principal corners. State Treasurer Frank Grimes has issued a call for all outstanding state warrants containing the "not paid" stamp. He will begin paying them on February 3. Interest on them ceases on that date. Mrs. Jesse Marshall of Atchison took an ounce of carbolic acid with suicidal intent. She took the acid in her coffee while eating dinner. She had been despondent. Mrs. Marshall was 30 years old, and had made two previous attempts at suicide. "The Eastern press is doing me a great injustice," said Carrie Nation the other day, "in printing a story that I am soon to marry an Iowa man. I am not going to get married. I want to remain single. I have had enough of this wife business. If I ever get married the people can take it as prima facie evidence that I am insane." The Frisco motive department is talking of equipping all engines with electric headlights and the subject is being agitated more or less in the switch shanties. The old Memphis passenger engines are the only ones equipped with electric headlights and some of the night switchmen are of the opinion that it is not as sure a light as the old fashioned oil lights. The largest abstract of title ever gotten up in Cowley county has been turned out by Stafford & Albright. It is prepared for Chas. L. Brown of Arkansas City and is an absract to the right of way of the Arkansas City Water Power company's canal. It is made up in three books of 600 typewritten pages each and contains 567 conveyances besides a pen executed map drawing of fourteen plates in water colors. The index alone has ten pages eight by twelve inches. The Santa Fe, under the direction of William Archer, its water service expert, is having a number of experimental wells bored along its right of way in Wellington for the purpose of finding a water bearing area large enough to justify putting in an auxiliary pumping plant to supply its shops and engines. The city is also exploring on its own account for water bearing sands and gravels along the bed of Slate creek, and plans to sink a number of large wells at favorable points, the pumps of which will be operated by electric motors. Warrants have been issued at Wichita for the local officers and linemen of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company. They are charged with violating city ordinances by improving their lines when the company has no right to do business in Wichita, its franchise having expired several months ago. The company claims the right to operate without a franchise. Another telephone company was recently granted a franchise there and the city officers are trying to oust the old company. General Superintendent Daniels, of the Missouri and Kansas Telephone Company, has arrived, and says he will fight the city. Complaint has been made to County Attorney Griffith that the Socialist or labor Exchange Colony of Freedom located sixteen miles northwest of Fort Scott, which was established several years ago by Carl Browne, son-in-law of General Coxey, has adopted and is practicing the free love theory of marriage and that some of the men and women of that colony are living promiscuously together. Specific charges have been made and after several weeks of quiet investigation County Attorney Griffith is inclined to believe that at length some of the members of the colony have attempted to adopt the theory. President Fitzgerald, of the colony, was summoned to appear before the county attorney during the investigation. No arrests have been made. Lady—Aren't you the man to whom I gave a piece of cake recently? Tramp—Yes, ma'am. Lady—Have you been working since? Tramp—No, ma'am; I have been in the hospital ever since.—Indianapolis Sun. The greyhound, which can cover a mile in a minute and (twenty-eight seconds, is the fastest of quarupeds. Nervous Passenger (on New Haven steamer)—There's a very peculiar noise in the water tonight. Do you notice it, captain? Captain—Yes, madame; that's the regular Long Island sound.—I am Life. The Yukatan mahogany and logwood forests are to be exploited by a company which will build 275 miles of railway. John W. Thornburg, of Lansing, has been appointed a guard at the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth. "The Orient road," explains the Emporia Republican, "is not dead; it is merely sleeping, hibernating, thus gaining strength for action." James Haynes of Powhatan scuffed with another small boy over a 22 caliber rifl. The gun went off and the bullet entered young Haynes' hip and passed through his bowels. He died shortly afterwards. Mrs. William Patterson, a negress, at Kilmer, gave her husband a New Year's gift in the shape of triplets—two boys and one girl. The combined weight of the three babies was s-venteen pounds. They are all doing well. Frank S. Thomas has filed suit against the Santa Fe to recover $48,000 damages for the breaking of a contract with the company whereby he was to sell all watches to its employees. He says the company canceled the contract some time ago and that he has been damaged in the sum of $42,000, which he wants judgment for. The suit was filed in Oskaloosa. At a special election held at Leavenworth the proposition for municipal ownership and to vote $400,000 in bonds to purchase the old or build a new water plant carried by 143 majority. A very light vote was polled, only 2,600, about half the registered vote turning out. A long legal contest is sure to follow the attempt of the city to take possession of the old water works plant. W. R. Spilman, of Manhattan, formerly private secretary to Mr. Bristow, the fourth assistant postmaster general, has been appointed chief of the appointment division of the latter's office. This division has charge of the appointments of all the postmasters in the United States. Carter B. Kenie, of Freedom, Me., formerly chief of the appointment division, has been appointed postoffice inspector. An involuntary bankruptcy case was filed in the Federal court at Fort Scott against D. C. Noonan & Co., one of the oldest hardware firms in the city. Noonan declares that he is not insolvent, and will resist application. The firm owns a large business block and a large stock of goods, and the assets exceed the liabilities, which will aggregate about $8,000. The purported failure is a sensation in business circles. Rural free delivery service will be established in Kansas on February 1, as follows: Burlington, Coffey county (additional service), with two carriers; length of routes, fifty and three-quarter miles; population served, 1,250; carriers, F. C. Jennings and J. M. Bryant. Postoffice at Patmos to be discontinued; Portis, Osborne county with two carriers; length of routes, fifty miles; population served, 1,005; carriers, I. T. Dutton and Warren Zimmerman; postoffice at Oasis, Smith county, to be discontinued. About 2 o'clock Tuesday morning the night operator at Offerle, eight miles west of Kinsley, was held up in the depot by a man who poked a gun through the ticket office window, breaking the glass, and demanded the cash. Three dollars and a quarter was turned over. The officers have arrested a young man about 22 years old who says his name is Frank Ray and that he is from Paducah, Ky. He claims he has been in the army and was mustered out at San Francisco last October. The night operator identified Ray's voice and pistol at his preliminary trial and Ray was held for trial in the district court. Assistant United States District Attorney Ed McKeever, who has assumed his office, succeeding Harry Bone, went to Fort Leavenworth and swore out warrants against five of the convicts who participated in the recent mutiny at the federal prison, charging them with murder in the first degree. The convicts for whom warrants were sworn out are Gilbert Mullins, Frank Thompson, Turner Barnes, Bob Clark and Fred Robinson, all of whom are now in the federal prison at Fort Leavenworth. The remaining twelve convicts who were in the mutiny and who are in the prison will probably be arrested on warrants charging them as accessories to the crime. Famous Scientist (excitedly)—Something must be done to stop the spread of the opium habit among women. Great Editor (calmly)—Very well, sir; I'll put in a paragraph saying that a hankering for opium is a sign of old age.—New York Weekly. There are 13,000 policemen in London, drawing salaries of $6,469,760, while there are 6,000 in New York, drawing salaries of $10,550,000. California has three Buddhist churches and San Francisco a Buddhist society, which, though only three years old, has a membership of more than 390. a tribe of peculiar people dwell on the banks of the Purus, in South America, Men, women and children are spotted, with brown spots on a white skin. Their chief article of diet is fish. He Defends the Navy Department Against Washington.—Secretary Long has addressed to Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota a long letter defending the navy department against what is declared to be unfriendly criticism in connection with the distribution of prize money and bounties. The letter is in reply to one from the Senator, asking for information for the use of a Western newspaper. The secretary declares that the charge that the department has discriminated in favor of Admiral Sampson, and against Admiral Schley, in the distribution of prize money and bounty is unjust, because the department has no control over this matter. The money, he says, is distributed from the treasury, and all questions of law and fact relative to prize and bounty have been determined by the courts. The secretary calls attention to the laws touching prize and bounty money, as they existed at the beginning of the Spanish war, and says that, although advised by the attorney general that it might make a distribution, the navy department preferred to place the matter in the court of claims, and, so far from displaying favorism, adopted, the most effective means in its power to secure a determination by courts of law of the rights of all concerned. In regard to the claims of Admiral Sampson for bounty at Santiago, the secretary says that the distribution was made under a decree of the court of claims, which he cites, and from which no appeal was taken. He further points out that, under the prize laws, the commander-in-chief of the fleet is entitled to his "one-tentwentieth" of bounty by virtue of his position as commander-in-chief, whether he is personally present during the engagement or not. Says the secretary: "As commander-in-chief, Admiral Sampson would, therefore, under the law, have been entitled to his share of the bounty for the destruction of the Spanish ships at Santiago if he had been on the north shore of Cuba at the time. This was the law, for which the navy department is in nowise responsible." On this point the secretary says that the department itself was the first to realize the inequalities of this law to make the recommendation which led to its repeal, so that "a rather amusing feature of the attacks made upon the navy department," as the secretary puts it, is that the administration is blamed more than two years after it had cured the evil. The secretary concludes his letter with an extract from the report of the auditor of the treasury for the navy department, showing the status of the prize money and bounty cases yet unsettled, owing to delays in the courts, and predicting a settlement within the year. BRYAN NONCOMMITTAL. Cleveland.—As the guest of Mayor Tom L. Johnson, Hon. William J. Bryan spent Sunday and will remain in the city until Monday morning, when he goes to Wooster, A., to speak at a Jackson day banquet Monday night. Then he goes to New Haven, Conn., where he will speak at a Jackson day banquet on Wednesday. Concerning the Democratic platform, Mr. Bryan said he thought it too early to forecast such a document, but believes the party would stand by what it has fought for in the past two campaigns and be included in the platform. Regarding his own candidacy for the presidency, Mr. Bryan said that he was not a candidate for anything. Asked if he considered Mayor Tom L. Johnson the logical candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1904, Mr. Bryan said: "There is nobody in the United States who is at present qualified to name the Democratic candidate. It would hardly be proper for me to assume the right to discuss any particular presidential candidate at present. This is because I am not prepared to discuss the relative merits of men who might be associated with the Democratic nomination. As far as Mr. Johnson is concerned, every well informed man in the country knows of Mr. Johnson and of his work; but when you come to discuss presidential possibilities, that is another question." MISSOURI SUPREME COURT. Jefferson City.—The Missouri supreme court met Monday morning for the January call of the docket. All the judges were present. The court met en banc for the filing of motions. The two divisions of the court afterwards began hearing arguments upon the cases, which will require until January 20 to complete. No opinions were rendered. WEALTH FOR A LABORER. Syracuse.—William Barrick, a dollar a day laborer, is now heir to property valued at $1/4 to 1-3 million dollars. Two months ago Barrick read in the newspapers of the death of his father's brother, Charles M. Barrick, in South Africa, and now he has been notified that he is one of the heirs to this uncle's estate, which is valued at 1 million dollars. William J. Bryan One of the Principal Speakers. Cleveland.—Four thousand people attended a pro-Boer meeting in Gray's armory Sunday afternoon. There was enthusiastic applause for every expression of sympathy and encouragement for the struggling Boers. An unexpected event in the meeting was the appearance of W. J. Bryan, who was in this city for the day as the guest of Mayor Johnson. When the committee in charge on the meeting learned that the Democratic leader was in the city an invitation was sent to him and the mayor to attend and address the gathering. Both gentlemen accepted, and when, toward the close of other speeches, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Johnson entered the hall, the whole audience rose en masse and repeatedly shouted the names of "Bryan" and "Johnson" and greeted them with hurrahs and handclappings. Upon the stage were seven native Boers, who had been in some of the early conflicts of their countrymen against the English forces. They were driven from the country and are now residents of this city. The meeting continued for four hours, the principal address being by John J. Lentz. When the formal speeches of the afternoon were concluded Messrs. Bryan and Johnson were called upon to address the vast audience. Mr. Bryan spoke for about five minutes, during which time he said: "Sad will be the day, fallen will be the star of our destiny if the time ever comes when struggling free men feel that they cannot look upon the people of these states for sympathy." Mr. Bryan said that he was in entire sympathy with the intent of the meeting, eulogized the fighting South African farmers and urged them to continue the struggle. He said he was glad the war had cost England so dearly and that the disastrous cost in money and life would be a much needed lesson for the English government because it would teach, and has already taught, a lesson that will not soon be forgotten. Mr. Bryan said that he considered it a compliment that the Boers looked to the United States for aid and sympathy in their struggle, and he considered it a disgrace that no official expression of sympathy had yet been made by this government. Mr. Bryan believed that the English people are opposed to the continuance of the war because they, too, are suffering because of the unhappy conflict and are the ones that must bear the burden of the cost. Mayor Johnson also spoke briefly and said that he was in toul sympathy with the intent of the meeting and expressed similar sentiments to those expressed by Mr. Bryan in that the English people generally are opposed to the war. A resolution of great length was passed and will be sent to the president of the United States. The resolution calls the attention of the president to the constitution of the war the past two years and states that it has been characterized on the part of the British as a conflict of savagery by the confiscation or destruction of property of inhabitants and non-combatants lying within the zone of war. Attention is called to the denunciation by President McKinley of the system of reconcentration camps. A quotation from the Manchester England, Guardian, of September 4, 1901, is made which states that a degree of suffering and death exists in these camps without a parallel in history. In conclusion the president is asked to enforce the treaty of Washington, May 8, 1871, denying to vessels operating under British authority opportunity of the augmentation of supplies of war from the United States. President Roosevelt is asked to continue the efforts of his predecessor to bring to an end the horrors of concentration camps and a warfare which by "its unexamined ferocity and enormous cost of life and treasure has astounded the civilized world." Members of German singing societies numbering 600 voices, sang patriotic songs. SHE DRANK CARBOLIC ACID Coffeyville, Kas.-Miss Mattie Anderson, 19 years old, committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Her death was the result of a love affair. She associated with a young man to whom her parents objected. She had left home twice over the affair, and last Monday went to his house to stay. Her sweetheart left her and she drank the poison. MRS. BOOTH-TUCKER ILL. Oakland, Cal.—Commander Booth-Tucker, of the Salvation Army, who was called here by the illness of his wife, Consul Emma Booth-Tucker, has announced that he will remain until his wife can be safely removed to New York. All plans with regard to the consul's part in the tour of the United States are abandoned. The party will fill the dates without her. HIS WIFE BETRAYED HIM. Winfield, Kas.—O. W. Coffelt, charged with the murder of George C. Montgomery, the Atchison, Topeka & Santo Fe detective, was brought here from Oklahoma, Monday. He was arrested in Del Rio, Tex., where he was working in the roundhouse. Mrs. Coffelt, who was with her husband, wrote to her mother and furnished the first slew to Coffelt's whereabouts. The Story of a Kidnapping. ```markdown ``` --- --- KIDNAPED when only 4 years old by an unscrupulous stepmother, who thought thus to revenge herself upon the child's father, Rachel Williams of Allegheny City, Pa., now Mrs. John Madden, but for a lifetime the plaything of fortune, spent thirty years in ignorance of her name and kindred. Nor until her grandmother, Mrs. Jane Williams, died not many days ago in this city, with her long-lost granddaughter at her bedside, had these two so long and cruelly parted looked into each other's faces. Compensations have come to the unfortunate girl. She has not only grown into radiant womanhood, but she is the happiest of wives and mothers. Yet the scar of her infant misfortune has never faded, and for the first time as her beloved grandmother lay dying she was able to relate the history of her strange and romantic life to those of her own blood. The Williamses are Welsh people who in 1868 settled in Harrisburg, Pa. William, the eldest son and father of little Rachel, took his family to Syracuse, N. Y., where they had barely become settled when Rachel's mother died. The little girl was then taken home to Harrisburg by her grandmother, and the father has been a rover ever since. Continued misfortune reduced the Williams family, which had been in moderate circumstances, to privation. The younger sons, who were its only support, lost their positions, and the family was compelled to move from place to place, finally settling in Chicago in 1870. In the meantime Rachel's father remarried, his wife being a German. They lived together but a short time, and separated after a number of bitter quarrels, the wife vowing vengeance. She had often heard her husband speak lovingly of his beautiful little Rachel. To carry out her scheme of revenge the woman went to Chicago, learned the residence of the Williams family, and lay in wait for her opportunity to kidnap the little girl. It came soon afterward, one day when Rachel went out alone, and in the evening the child was missed. When midnight came and the little girl did not return the grandmother became hysterical with grief. Sarching parties were sent out and every effort was made to find her, but without success. It was reported that the child had been kidnapped by a woman who was atking her to Europe, and with their scanty means Mrs. Williams employed detectives to go to New York and watch all the outgoing steamships. This brought no news of the missing child, and after several months Mrs. Williams gave up the search in despair. Reduced almost to poverty by the expense of the search Mrs. Williams and her family came eastward again, stopping wherever her sons could procure employment until they reached Allegheny in 1874. There the sons prospered and married, and in 1890 Aaron, the youngest son, moved to McKeesport, taking his mother with him. Mrs. Madden's story to her relatives reads like a novel. She says that on the day she was kidnapped she was approached by a strange looking woman, who asked her to go with her while she bought some candy. Unsuspectingly Rachel followed her until they reached the depot. The woman told the child she was going to give her a ride first, and they boarded a train. How long they rode Mrs. Madden says she does not know, as she fell asleep in the woman's arms shortly after the train started. LEFT ALONE IN THE DEPOT. She remembers alighting from the train with the woman at a strange place, and of going into the depot, where she was left alone, the woman telling her to wait until she returned. When she did not return after some time Mrs. Madden says she began to cry, and the attention of the station agent was attracted to her. The checks which pass through the London clearing house in six weeks are more than equal in amount to all the coin in the world. The Alps cover a space of 90,000 square miles. In them rivers have their source flowing into the North sea. Black sea and Mediterranean. French economists declare Europe can become independent of United States cotton if it will only encourage the natives in Persia and Africa to grow it. An anemometer or wind measure, consists of four cups at the end of arms. It is so constructed that it makes 500 revolutions while a mile of wind passes. The Mexican army in 1899 was composed of eight generals of divisions, fifty-three of brigades, 99 cheers, 2,51 subordinate officers and 27,247 soldiers. The Charlestonians are calling their exposition grounds and buildings the Ivory City on the banks of the Ashley. The work of preparation is rapidly nearing completion. An automobile is being built in New York that will make seventy miles an hour on a level road. The next and most difficult task will be to find a level road seventy miles in length. There will soon be no newspapers left in Finland if the Russian government continues its crassade. Two dailies have been suppressed and the publication of four other papers have been suspended for periods of from fifteen days to four months. The Smart Set: "Do you think you can make my daughter happy?" asked Miss Thirtyshime's father, gravely. "Why, I have already, haven't I?" replied Spooner. "I've asked her to marry me." The child managed through her step to tell him of her plight. The woman could not be found, and a Mr. Thompson, then connected with the Teen Haute (Ind.) railroad, took little Rachel to his home, where for some she remained. She was afterward taken charge of by a family named Litchfield, living in Elberfield, Ind. A short time later, the head of the family died, and she became an inmate of a charitable institution at that place. She remained there for a number of years, but in her teens left and earned her own living by working wherever she could find employment. This period in her life was terminated fourteen years ago, when she became the wife of John Madden and removed to Oakland City, Ind., where her husband is employed by the Plain Manufacturing company. Mrs. Madden is now the mother of three children, two boys and a little girl, who is said to resemble the mother closely at the time she was kidnapped. During all the thirty years separation Mrs. Williams never ceased to grieve for her grandchild, and it was her constant wish that Rachel might be restored to her. Her son Aaron had promised her that if the girl was alive he would find her some day, and he kept his word. His brother's letters, which were received occasionally, led him to believe that the girl's stepmother knew where Rachel was. The woman was located in Chicago by the father, the notified Aaron of her whereabouts. The latter wrote her, stating that if she knew anything about the girl and would confess she would not be prosecuted. In a short time the answer came containing in detail the story of the abduction up to the time he child was deserted in the Evansvill depot. The woman added that she has been conscience-stricken ever since and would have confessed many times it had not been for her fear of arrest. Aaron Williams then began a correspondence with the residents of Evansville, through which Rachel was finally discovered at El伯利兹. This occurred about the time Rache lwas preparing to be married, and although she entered it a lively correspondence with her uncle Aaron, she did not come to see her relatives. After her marriage she postponed coming from time to time, and the years slipped by while her attention was occupied with her own family. But when the last appeal for her to come contained the sad words that her aged grandmother was dying and longed for the sight of her she did not delay. As fast as express trims could bring her Mrs. Madden sped across the hundreds of miles intervening between her home in Oakland and her grandmother's bedside liegeing. She had her reward in the light of recognition shine in the aged woman's almost sightless eyes and hearing her trembling lips whisper "Rachel." Mrs. Williams appeared satisfied to simply hold Rochel's hands and feast her eyes on the face she remembered in its childhood, tracing each feature of her little girl in the face of the matured woman. At last she sank into eternal sleep, clasped in the arms of her grandchild. Aaron Williams says that the woman who abducted his niece is now a respected resident of Chicago and is the wife of a wealthy business man. He withholds her present name as part of his promise not to give the woman any trouble. "I can never be too thankful," says Mrs. Madden, "that fast trains and my own retentent determination brought me to my grandmother's bedside in time to see and talk with her once more. "Those few hours that I spent with her as she lay dying form one of the most beautiful, most sanctifying experiences I have ever had, as Mrs. Williams was so weak, but our unspoken lommunication was none the less perfect, and I am sure that she knew before she died all that I had so ardently longed to tell her." The baya bird of India spends his spare time catching mammoth fireflies which he fastens to the sides of his nest with moist clay. On a dark night a baya's nest looks like an electric street lamp. The candidates on the tickets in New York at the last election comprised 113 lawyers, 47 artisans and mechanics, 40 merchants and tradesmen, 17 clerks, 12 physicians, 32 liquor dealers, 7 professional politicians, 10 office holders, 25 real estate brokers and 8 undertakers. The extension of the use of electricity in British warships in place of steam for subsidiary purposes is to be made the subject of a series of experimental tests. At the present time the capstan, steering engines, ventilating fans and derrick hoists are worked by steam power. The Palestine exploration fund has been for the last two years carrying on *exvavations* in Western Judea. Remains extending in time over fifteen centuries have been unearthed, covering two well defined pre-Israelite periods, and also the Jewish Seleucidian and Roman periods. Detroit Free Press: Percy—I’ve made Pauline sorry that she threw me over. Guy—In what way? Percy—Why, I’m attentive now to a girl five years younger than she is. During the past summer Galveston has been disinfecting with a sprinkling cart. To the alleys, the low streets, the fronts of market houses and the refuse of fish and oyster shops the cart has paid almost daily visits, and it is generally admitted that the practice has done much to preserve health. Cleveland Plain Dealer: "Say, Helen, a disquieting thought has occurred to me." "What is it?" "How could a girl who received Wireless love letters use" them in a breach of promise case?" 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. 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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. 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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. We are latest styles. HEA RICK C 812 KA JAMES DE Hides, Tallon 108 and 110 East T Pays highest prt REFERENCE; Chas. Wolf Jacking Co Mides, Tallow, Eure and Polts, 108 and 110 East Third Street Topeka K. Pays highest prices for consignment trade. REFERENCE; Chas. Wolf Packing Co. 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