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INTER-STATE Journal Kans., and Missouri. Science has taught some men to become grand rascals. There are things that interest one more than politics just now. The state of Kansas must be redeemed from cranks. Local politics doesn't seem to be noticed when voting for state and national candidates. We have trusted now we are busted, who will send in a new coins to assist us from the mire. Albert Parker has been declared mayor of Topeka, and at this writing we presume everyone told you so. After all man has a great advantage. He doesn't have to use a gauzy handerchief four inches square. The women who wear the mother-"hubbards" will not have to hide the beer keg with that formidable skirt any longer. Working in politics is easy but recieving pay for same is the only essential point for discussion before the new mayor of Topeka. Think once and don't speak is about the easiest way to secure a position of any kind. The reverses in Topeka in the last twelve months have been remarkable, we have had to mayors. The people make the laws and the hard-hearted Iaw breakers goes on snapping his finger in the face of justice. Those women who have been hiding the beer keg with their formidable skirts are strictly in it now a day. When you find a pretty married lady she generally has a crank for a husband and he is jealous The devil has been at work in a few of our "colored, churches" here of late and in view of that tact dissension has reigned supreme. In the event of Albert Parkers suit against Mayor Hughes fills the recovery of that money. The 'Col' of course will be broke. There are persons flocking in here from Kansas City and you had better keep your hand on your pocket book. There will be a general turning around in business from now on. Down at the Plant nearly all the old helpers want their places again. There was a cutting, scrape on Kansas avenue Tuesday. The beligernents were a pair of white gentlemen who engaged in a brawl in a 4th street restaurant. One of the victims was taken in the ambulance, The Joints are wide awake to their business we have plenty of them in Tepeka. Strangers who come here now can get anything they want in the way of liquids Tepeka is no longer a dry town. It is not thought that Chief Stahl is a poor man because he traves his job, but it is said on good authority that Chief Stahl is one of the richest men in Shawnee county. Fred B. J. Washington made a book of the south recently he gives new thrilling incidents and springing that are taking place down here in the way of progress and improvement Mr Washington believes that the colored people are for better off dowe south than they are in the north and say the crimes and brutal punishment is done only in the remote district The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL Mr. Byron Jones, formerly of Lawrence has taken charge of Thudium Bros., at 706 Kansas ave where in future the public may call and see Mr. Jones in his new quarters. Mr. Jones is an experienced meat dealer and owned one of the finest markets in Lawrence If you need anything the season affords call and see Mr. Jones in his new quarters, 706 Kans ave. The Jewell County bank was organized by Mr J. C. Burkley who has been successful. He has been in the banking business for 17 years. He is a native of the Key-Stone state. Mr. Burkley is highly respected in his community and is one of Jewell county's leading citizens. He resides at Burr Oak which has a fine country around. Although the crops were scarce the last year however they are confidant of success this year. Noble and Washburn Real-Estate Mortages Bonds and Fire Insurance. One of the most prosperous firms in this city doing business in the line of real estate and etc are the above one which in the last few years have grown to be a formidable concern. These gentlemen possess all the requirements of First class business men and will take great pleasure in giving you all necessary information about farm and city property in and around Topeka. When you want good bargains in that one don't fail to write or address Geo. M. Noble & Co., Topeka, Kansas. Weak men swear off. Strong men quit. Every genius needs a manager and his wife is seldom fitted for the Job. Old ladies would consider this much more trying world than is if they couldn't sip at the gruel before giving it to the babies. The pretty woman who is unconscious of her beauty would have made her mark on the stage. A good story is told of a farmer living near Musco ah, who wore his old suit till everyone was tired of it, and his estimable wife was almost ashamed of the hustling farmer who had been inside it so long. But one day recently he went to Horton to sell his produce and while in town he determined to buy a new suit, and happy thought surprise Eliza. So he bundled a neat suit in the wagon and drove homeward. It was after night as he hurried home and at the bridge near George Talbert's he stood up on the wagon 'peeling', and threw the despised old suit in the river. Then he reached for his clothes. They were gone and jolted out of the wagon. The night was cold and his teeth chattered as he skurried home. He surprised Eliza even more than he anticipated. Ex Mr Wm Klinge the tailor is located at 512½ Kansas ave where he does cleaning pressing and repairing at reasonable price Mr Klinge is and old experienced tailor and can give perfect satisfaction if you have any work to be done in this line dont fail to call and see him at 512½ Kan ave. Little Mr Crum is a fine gentlemen and should be appointed to the marshal ship of this district in the event of Judge Crum appointment. He may recognize a "Colored" brother as bailiff of the United States court as a change is likely to occur and a 'darkey' appointed ```markdown ``` James Warner will be in the race a year from the ensuing spring. He will make a first class mayor. There'll be no contest after that election. Hon P. C. Postelthwaite and son Robert are in the law and real estate business at Jewell city and they have the finest quarters in the state and we must compliment the kindness of these good people and hope in the near future that such people will be generally remember by our people. We have made up our minds that politics are bad things for us we will assist in promotion of the interest of others but we ourselves are out of it and we expect to stay only a few men are successful in politics' thou'fool Nearley everybum,says,he voted for Parker in view of the is that Mayor Hughes only has 47 votes then "Lord Argus" thou hast led. THE MISSOURI AND KANSAS phone under the manager of Mr. G. J Bayless has been invocation for many ars reliable concern Mr. Bayless come charge of this Co in 1884 and has been in charge ever since. The people who appreciate a substantial company of this kind can receive all nessecary informa- tion by calling or addressing Mr. G. J Bayless manager 615 Kan Ave. THE WHITTLSEY BROS. Corner and Madiso. Some years ago there began a small firm in this city known as Whittleseer Bros. Today it is known as the Whittleseer Mercantile Co., where the store has been enlarged a and they carry a complete stock of groceries and motions. Their is filled to the brim and when you want good bargains live these young men a call, Corner 2nd and Madison Street Mrs. Nation denies that she will get married again. "If I should mary," she says, "the people can take it as primie facie evidence that I am insane." Howover, the people are to let the injury nave the case without that testimony. That of course, concluded the case. The teacher of an intermediate grade in the Third ward school in Milwaukee and "showing off" her pupils before a number of visitors. The spelling class was on the floor, and one small, red-headed boy was given the word "introduction." He paused, twisted his lips, stared and then in a faltering way spelled it correctly, and seemed rather surprised that he had it. "Well now I'll explain it. Do your mother ever have callers? "Yes in." "Well, now suppose that two ladies came to call on your mother. Your mother knows one of the ladies, but does not know the other. She has never seen the lady and does not even know her name. Now, how would she become acquainted with this lady and find out her name?" "She'd send me out for a can of beer." As that was the correct answer the teacher had nothing further to say. BUSINESS COLLEGE. Prot M A Pond has changed h Business College to 521 K is avenue. Parties desiring to take as business course should call or address him there. A. T. WAGGONER. DRUGS AND MEDICINES 721 Kansas Ave Your trade solic ed. --- 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 healed 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 misnamed 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 do most intellects typifies the merchant housewife, is revolting under the tyranny of the kitchen pots and refuses to be confronted with her knitting. In an art which sees more women writing this ever before in the history of the world it is natural that this unrest should distract its expression in many of their books. In the minds of the disaffected portions of the sex arise these questions: What 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 condition for a desire for social reforms? But, at least, the novelist might teach the ues of a sorrowful marriage. She might teach that to bear is to conquer our fate. She might teach us the 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 heart and head and hand. And we will rise up and call her blessed if in future novels she will admonish the family skeletons to rattle their bone as fainly as possible, in case they can not be absolutely silent. Let her preach to us the gospel of hope, hope for despair itself, as Dickens preached it. And may we yet meet a good good husband in our pages, for if the husband in man's fiction continues to go from bad to worse as rapidly as he has been doing of late years, he bids fair to so occupy the place once held by the eighteenth century villain—Nina R. Allen in Modern Culture. Imperor and Barber. Emperor William of Germany had taught his barber a lesson. Very punctual himself, the emperor insists that his servants shall also be punctual, as as he noticed some time ago that he 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 leave you?" With these words he placed the hands some 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 law against these healers, but they flourish of romance languages in Western Reserve University, and Professor Ladd, or 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, whileelsen 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. See that our Lawrence readers assist our advertisers, The veracious editor of th Benedict Courierdeclares th an indiana man visited that section last summer and ate the roasting ear crop off of forty acres of corn at a single meal, and he was not feeling real well either: Groerices and Meats. The neatest 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 prog. FURMANS THE PLACE TO BUY ! RELIABLE FOOT WEAR. AT LOW RICES. 628 Kansas Avenue. P. M. LIGHTNER New and Second-hand goods and sold. Abilen, Kan MISSCELLANLOUS ADS GOINGS & ALLYAN 1133 Kansas Ave. F. in all kinds of flour and grin. Price sonable. Give them a cell. G. L. BAUGHMAN M. F. Office 525 Kas. Ave. 11ours 9 to 11: 4to 5 Diseases of Women a specialty. Residence 1332 Lincoln st. W M. BLAKENEI, and Graduated Optician Jewelery, Silverware, Watches Clock Repairing neatly decks. 420 Kansas Ave. Topeka WHITTELSEY MER CO. Cor 2nd & Madison Street Phone 733 City Give then, a call. C. H. NEVINS Manufacturer of Harness and also dealer in saddlery goods. Sylvia, Kansas. W. R. TEDRICK Whole sale dealer in 'Boss Patent Flour' and mill feed. 320 N. Main street. Hutchinson, Kansas. E. D. TAYLOR: Keeley and Insurance arm loans made. Special attention given to leasing lands; Kinkley, Kansas. PARK HOTEL Out of City Hall, Jno. Madden $1.00 per day, Beds only 25 & 50 Dodge City MICKLE'S GROCERY 3 K S AVE Carries a full line of Staple and Fancy groceries and country pro- GARDEN CITY KAS CARTER, STONE & CO. (Successors to Carter and Gause.) Dealers in HARDWARE & FARM, MACHINERY, Gasoline Engines, Pumps and Windmills. In fact every thing in a first class Hardware Store. GARDEN CITY KANS. A. R. LARK Dealers in FURNITURE, CARPETS, UNDERT ING. PIANOS and ORGANS. Garden City., Kansas. GEOE. E. MACH RETAIL [CROCERS, elour, Feed, Queensware, [Elec. Garden city. Kansas Opeka Humber CO, Dealers In Lumb r. Lime. Plaster, Cement. Brick, Coal and Builder's Ware L. Cure your bill A. O. BEACH, Mgr. 710 E. 4th street. FRANK LOUD 906 E. 4th St. CO₂ Dealer in Fresh and Salt ? , Fis , Game and Poultry. The Man Who Has Played Havoc in the Copper Market. Here are the facts in one of the most extraordinary stories that ever came out of Wall street—the story of "Casey's Copper War." Because he lost his $3,000-a-year position in the United States Metals Selling company, Henry L. Casey began a war which has already cost the copper interests of this and other countries not far form $150,000,000. Counting single-handed, with neither capital nor influence to back him, Casey has succeeded in hammering the stock of the Amalgamated Copper company from 125 down to 88, involving a loss to the company of $57,197,190; in causing a decline of at least $50,000,000 in the shares' value of other copper mining companies; in stirring up turmoil in Wall street; in making the London market rumble ominously; in precipitating a panle on the Paris bourse; in wrecking a big France banking house, and in disturbing financial circles all over the world. To regain his $3,000-a-year position or have a truce of some kind declared, Casey will continue to wage his war relentlessly, even though it should result in a wider spread of financial havoc and entail the loss of another $150,000,000. It is the first time in the history of Wall street that a "nobody in the financial world," as Casey calls himself, has been known to throw down the gauntlet to corporations backed by millions, and there are those who fervently hope that no more Caseys will arise on the copper horizon. To look at Casey no one would take him for a fighter. Short and stout in build, with a round, jovial face and eyes that sparkle at the merest suggestion of humor, he looks like an easy-going, fun-loving salesman of 40 years, quite content with the world and himself. But once aroused he is an altogether different Casey. Down in the street they say he develops fighting qualities almost equivalent to genius. When he left the office of the company last August Casey told the officers frankly that there would be "something doing," and the events of the past month certainly stamp Casey as a man who keeps his word. The only weapon Casey has thus far employed is his war in a circular whica he sent to prospective customers when he opened a metal broker's office early in September. The circular ran something like this: "Having left the office of my former employers, I am now conducting a brokerage business at — street, and trust that you will honor me with your orders. The United States Metals Selling company, in severing my relations with them, informed me that my discharge was necessitated by economy, which you will doubtless appreciate when I tell you that the company has now on hand 36,000,000 pounds of copper." To the laymen the circular was an innocent enough looking document, but it turned the copper market toyp-survey. The information that the company had 38,000,000 pounds of copper in stock—a quarter of the yearly production—came like a thunderclap to the copper trade. Men interested in copper foresaw a possible panic resulting from so unprecedented a supply with a decreasing demand. Investors and speculators throw their copper securities on the market and the crash came. Even Casey himself was astonished at the effect of the first gun he discharged. He admitted this to a reporter who talked with him in his office and whom he unfolded the history of war. "When I left the United States Metals company last August," he said, "I told them there would be 'something doing.' They only laughed and said: 'You can't do any harm, Casey; you're easy.' Go down and ask them if they think Casey's easy now. "I am a peace-loving, law-abiding citizen. I dislike fighting, but when I fight I make the first blow so effective that my adversary can't come back. I knew every one would call me a sorehead, and I frankly asked that I never would have started this war if I had not been discharged from the company. I had worked there, or in an allied firm, for fourteen years, and I thought that to turn me out was hardly just. It was treading on Casey's toes, and anyone who treads on Casey's toes purposely must look out. 'After I left I told my friends that I was going to fight. 'Fight!' they exclaimed, 'Why, Casey, how can you fight? You've no money and the copper trust has millions.' But that didn't faze Casey. The trust, I knew, had millions, and I also knew that in fighting the Amalgamated Copper company, of which the United States Metals Selling company is a sort of sales agent, I had to fight also the Standard Oil company. But, as head salesman of the United States Metals Selling company, I possessed a little valuable information about the copper trade, and then, I figured that while the trust had their millions they didn't have all the brains in the world. So I said nothing, and bided my time. 'I knew that the company had $6,000,000 pounds of copper on hand. I also knew that large quantities of copper had been imported from Europe, some of OLDEST And best they all say. Estalished 1892. which had been sold, and which was brought over to create the impression that there was a great demand for it in this country. Instead, the demand was steadily decreasing. The installation of the trolley systems, which a year ago took all the copper wire that could be turned out, had about been completed. Factories which a year ago were working night and day had early in September scarcely enough business to keep them busy during the day, and the manufacturers of copper wire were buying from hand to mouth. "Upon such conditions, which were pretty generally known in copper circles, I was certain that if I could get before the public the fact that the Selling company had 36,000,000 pounds of the metal on its hands something would drop. I hit on the circular plan as a polite and effective medium of conveying the information. "I had several thousand circulars printed and distributed them all over the world. Moreover, I timed the mailing of them so that they would be received in London, Paris, Berlin, Russia Japan, Australia, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York and all the big cities of this country on the same morning. "There was no hitch in the execution of the plan. On the morning of September 6 the whole world knew that there were thirty-six million pounds of copper lying idle in the storage places of the United States, and what happened every one knows. I had no idea that the result would be so appalling as it was—but when Casey fights, he fights hard. "Only Casey the salesman could have done it. Casey the banker, Casey the merchant, Casey the doctor, Casey the lawyer might have issued millions of circulars only to have had them tossed into the trash basket. But Casey, formerly head salesman for the United States Metals Selling company, the copper world realized, knew what he was talking about, and it stood agasth. "Even at that time the market might have recovered had the issuance of my circular net been followed by the passing of the copper dividend. Whether or not Casey's circular had anything to do with that is immaterial; if it didn't, it shows that Casey spoke the truth. "What are my future plans? That's something I haven't decided on yet. I have to move very slowly and cautiously. It's no easy thing to buck the copper and Standard Oil trusts, and a single mistake on my part would finish me. "But of one thing that may be certain—the fight isn't over yet. I still have plenty of ammunition in stock, almost as much as the trust has idle copper, and it will be used whenever occasion presents. "I wish to show the public that it is possible for a single man, without money or influence, to stand up and fight the trusts successfully—to fight them so hard that they will acknowledge defeat. To accomplish this I am staking everything I have in the world." Mr. Casey is a New Orleans man, though he left there early in life to come to this city. He engaged first in the railroad business, after which he went into copper. He lives in a modest little home in Brooklyn with his wife and three children. He believes that the only way the copper market can be relieved of the overstocked condition which he asserts exists is to reduce the price of copper from between 16 and 17 cents a pound to 13 cents a pound. "If that is done," he said, "people qualify not otherwise afforded to do so. Reely, and thus the supply and demand will be equalized." "Did you make anything out of the copper crash?" asked the reporter, as he was leaving Mr. Casey's office. "Not a penny," was the prompt and firm reply.—New York World. "About once a month for the last ten years some original investigator makes the discovery that there is no monument in Trinity cemetery to mark the grave of Robert Fulton, the inventor of the steamboat, and promptly writes an indignant letter to his paper about it," says the New York Sun. "For more than eighty years the remains of Fulton have rested in the Livingston vault in Trinity cemetery. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has recently had plans drawn for Robert Fulton monument which will stand on the south side of Trinity church, near Recor street." This story is told of Mark Twain: When he lived in Buffalo he made the acquaintance of some neighbors under peculiar circumstances. Emerging from his house one morning, he saw something which made him run across the street and remark to the people who were gathered on the veranda: "My name is Clemens; my wife and I have been intending to call on you and make your acquaintance. We owe you an apology for not doing it before now. I beg your pardon for intruding on you in this informal manner, and at this time of day, but your house is on fire." I is the most common letter. In 1,000 letters E occur 137 times in English, 184 times in French, 145 in Spanish, 178 in German.