State Ledger

INTER-STATE Journal Kans., and Missouri. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE- FOR SHERIFF. ANNOUNCEMENT I am a candidate for Sheriff of Shaw- nee county on the Independent ticket for the fall election. I have lived in this county for many years and have a wide acquaintance. If I am elected I shall do all in my power to carry out the duties of the office. Lee Myers. The CAPITAL knew they were not telling the truth when they published that report about the suspension of our paper. If there is any "dirty sheet" in Kansas who wish us out of their way They ought to get a gun and do us up like men—not cowards. If any man named Gardner that has lied about this paper comes a monkeying around up here—he'll get thrown and kicked down stairs. The "STATE LEDGER" appreciates the kindness of our cotemporary, Mr. Nick Chiles of the "Plaindealer." Mr. Nick Chiles was in Emporia when he read of our alleged trouble and caught the first train for Topeka, and volunteered his services to aid us financially, but when he arrived he was told his kindness at present was not needed and he went on his way rejoicing. Such a man is Nick Chiles. Moral—"A friend in need is a true friend. We dont know why a few rascals are always glad to read or hear of ourailure or misfortune and still wehave never driven a tramp or a mendicant from our door or presencewithout assisting him. The kindness,of some men makes many a scoundrel despise you, thus it is shown in ourcase. then why should we care so longas we are right we are going ahead. It makes us tired. Some men will contribute a hundred dollars to hear some fool do nothing but they would not give five cents to some old broken down mother or father who really needs the favor. This is such a horrible deceitful cold world till it is not a wonder that many commit suicide. o rid themselves of this H—ll on earth. J. W; BLOSSOM FIGHTING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL FIRST WARD. Mr. J. W. Blossom is a candidate for Councilman from the first ward his many friends speaks high of him and that he was all right when he was there before. Mr. Blossom owns nice property in his ward and believes in making them comfortable for his neighbors. Mr. Blossom is a "Simon" pure gentleman and no one can say any thing ill of him. However many people speak of him being a democrat but however he has made a good citizen and no one is afraid of him. He has served one term in the City Council and he believes if he had another chance he could repair a good many things for his friends in that body. The election comes "off" on the first of April and we judge from general observation that he will be well supported and his interest greatly looked after. The "Honorable" S. G. Pottle of Eldorado is being boomed for Auditor of State while he is a little late in announcing himself yet it is believed that he is a strong candidate. He is a deputy United State's Internal Revenue under J. M. Simpson at Leavenworth but he h a s gone to his home county to get things in shape. Mr. Pottle was a candidate four years ago but agreed if Gov. Stantley was nominated he would step aside which he did "gracefully." McPHERSON NOTES Nearly every "fellow" whom the writer met over here belonged to church but the report about us being a fake, and paper sold out would not down. Even the best man in town would not believe that we were still on deck, but thought we had gone where the would bine twineth and the briar rose clust as shine there are lots of silly ones to believe an untruth before they can be persuaded to trust in us and do us right. The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT; FEAR NOMAN; BUT RENDER JUSTICE TO ALL. There seems to be a great deal of doubt as to the cause of young Devlin's death; and at last we believe that Roy Daniels is really innocent. Daniels is not a bad man. There are worst men in Topeka than he give the young man all the chance of doubt possible. No doubt that young Daniels did not strike young Devlin, but the blow was not intended to cause his death, probably at the same time using all means in self defense necessary to protect himself. Young Daniels is well known here his parents reside here. His father was formerly editor of his own paper here the "Budget," and later was employed under the Cleveland administration in the Topeka Post-office. At present he is traveling for a big Life Insurance concern. An agent for the Rockey Ford refinery has just completed contracts with Kearney county, farmer for 500 acres of sugar beets this season, these farmers tried their hands at beet culture last year, and were satisfied with the result still. Chemist Wiley declares Kansas cannot produce sugar beets. Ex There is an impression that buttao grass is found in only the extreme western portion of Kansas. According to one of Secretary Cobern's reports, buffalo grass grows in sixty-niae counties: reaching down as far in the southeast as Neosho county, it is in west, though that buffalo grass reaches out and covers the country, This extract from the preceeding of the assessor's meeting in Meade county, shows now alfalfa land is regarded in the territory where it is best known: "on motion it was decided to value laud at from $1. to $5. per acre. except alfalfa land, which shall be valued at from $5. to $10. per acre. "Isee." sollicquized the Kansas Helptn hen, as she made her way to her nest, "that a lot of dubs in New York say the price of eggs will fall no lower. I guess I Will have to 'show' them." Ex Governer Glick, on his way to Florida the other day, said to a reporter: "I'm having good health I haven't a care on earth, so I expect to pass the rest of my days in peace and happiness." and the Governer looks the Part. Ex Because the faculty of Ottawa university has barred football a number of the students intended to leave the institution, for what reason do these students attend the university? to play football? Ex Doubtless there are some old-fashioned parents in Kansas with children to educate who will send them to Ottawa university since the decision of the faculty against football. Ex Geo. Washington who works at the Skinner Nursery was decoyed and robbed of $21,40 cents all the funds he had by two men who claimed to be friends of h's they were Carl Burger, and one Tompson they were however captured by the police and $21,40 was found on the Bound for the "pen". Ex. MAN LIVED AS A WOMAN. A strange story came from Montague, Lewis county, of a man who has just died at the age of 40, having worn woman's clothes since he was 18 years old, he was supposed to have belonged to the gentlar sex. it is said his widowed mother having lost husband and brother at Anietetam, came from Michigan to her father's home in Montague and persuaded the boy to wear girl's clothes to avoid his ever being drafted. Delicate of physique he passed for a girl and for a long time taught school. After his mother's death he let his beard grow and entered a freak museum as a bearded wom Tiring of this show life he returned to the little Montague farm Mr. P. L. Rush, the prominent grocery keeper at 14th street and Kansas avenue will not accept the nomination to oppose Mr. S. T. Howe, hence he has informed his friends that he may be in the race later on. He leaves the race on account of health for the present Mr. Rush has been in business here nine years and with his estimable wife they have in operation a fine paying business. LEE JONES As a Successful Business Man 330 Kansas Avenue. Topeka can afford to feel proud of her hustling business men. For instance Mr. Lee Jones who began a prosperous drug business in this city many years, a go o is still at it, men come and go, but Mr. Jones, like the sturdy oak he stands for centuries in a prosperous business. It is because he treats his friends and customers like an honest gentleman should. Dr. James Brown, the well known registered pharmacist is with him still. We might a d d that Mr. Jones is certainly a promoter of all business or anything that will build up the city. He generally is liberal in order to show it he treats every one just as he wishes to be treated. He has an overly kind heart and will do a favor for any man who walks in shoe leather. Or course this is enough to make a good hearted man poor but to the reverse in Mr. Jones case it tends to keep him in a prosperous business. Lee Jones in politics is a Democrat but he makes a good citizen. PHYSICIAN ADMITS GUILT. Charles E. Hagner of Washington, 'D. C., for thirty years a well known physician of that city, and a member of one of the oldest families in this section was held for the action of the grand jury as the result of an inquest over the body of a prematurely born baby of Mrs. Peter Blair, found aliv and doubled up in a shoe box thrown into a garbbage can in the rear of the Blair house. At the inquest today a colored woman pointed to Dr. Hagner as the man whom she saw place the box in the can. The latter, admitting he was the man, said he fully believed the child was dead at the time. The physician at the hospital where the child was carried after being found testified that the baby was alive when recieved and the Negro woman testified that the child was crying when she found it. The coroner's jury in its verdict held that "the child, which was born alive and lived several hours, died from hemorrhage of the brain which might have been caused during the premature birth, and that Dr. Hagner, who attended at the birth, was guilty of inexcusable neglect." Ex. The following story was told by Dr. John Marshall, dean of the University of Pennsylvania, during a picture There lived in a small English village a curate whose custom it was to drive his horses tandem. his parishioners evidently thought such a style was unbecoming for a minister and spoke to him on the subject, their word had no effect and they complained to the bishop, the bishop sent for the curate and advised him to drive his horses side by side. "But said the curate, 'what difference does it make whether I d rive my horses side by side or tendem? the horse are the same, and there is only a difference of position.' 'That's just it, my good man,' said the bishop—'the position. Now, when I extend my hand this way,' and He stretched them over the curate's head, it is a sign of a blessing, but when I put them this way,' and the bishop placed one hand in front of the other before his nose, 'is sign of derision." Ex, James J. Powers, a native of Trinidad, Cuba, was sitting] with a party of friends in the parlor of an up-town residence, They were discussing the controversy of the European powers about their attitude towards the United States during the war with Spain. One of them said; "The powers are all against Spain now." "We ought to be." said Mr. Powers "they killed two of our uncles and burned down our house." Ex Women who hold post office positions today owe much, it is said, to the courage and perseverance of Mary Anne Paschall, postmistrerss at Treton, Ind, and known as the oldest woman officeholder in America. Her struggle to defend the mail in the early days of her appointment to office and her ultimate success forever opened the field to women. She tells the story of her adventures in a spiked manner. "When first I recieved my commission," said the postmistress, "I found immediately that my path would be very difficult. Not only was there the imperfect mail system to stumble over, but the will of the men of the country was against me because of the high feeling opposed to woman holding public office. Not infrequently I was compelled to remain awake all night watching the mail bags, and occasionally I had difficulty in securing the mail at all. For when the bag was thrown from the train upon the platform at the depot the men of the town would seize it before I could get within reach and assort the mail to suit themselves. Of course, the men had no right to disturb the mail, but they took the law in their own hands, believing a woman powerless. "I tolerated this behavior for a short time, and then purchased a gun. One day just before the mail train had arrived I went up on the platform and levelled my gun and declared I would shoot the first ruffian who touched the United States mail. I was a pretty good shoot, having often gone hunting with my brothers at the old farm in the wilds of West Va. and when a fellow seized the bag I put a bullet through his leg. That episode marked the last of the last of the the troubles at the the station, but hostilities did not cease at my home. At night attempts were male to rob the place, and this neccessited my sleeping under the counter. for three months. But I could not prevent broken windows. These cowardly acts were not done by reputable citizens, who nevertheless, tried more effective means of forcing me from my position. Several petitions against me were sent to Washington, but President Lincoln remained my staunch friend. "After a few months the chief annoyance ceased, and the only trouble I had was the imperfect mail syt-m, for which some people blamed me.' Although now nearly 90 years old, the aged postm stress still retains her position. Ex. Some months ago the head of the Department of Agriculture made an exhibition of his ignorance concerning the possibilities of Kansas soil and climate. Two or three weeks ago one of the experts of the Department did the same thing. Are these two breaks to be taken as a sample of what this bureau thinks it knows concerning Kansas? Ex: A boy gave a friend a severe lecturing for wanting to go to a Jim Darkum dance and then was caught as one himself. He went when everyone ought to be in bed and he thought no one would find it out. Ex. An Emporia girl thinks it is artis-tocratic to paste the postage stamp in the middle of the envelope, but she don't kni-cke the postal clerks thinks. a vesr. Everything was in readiness. The groom, best man, and the minister were gatered in the vestry. The organist began to play, and the minister started for the door. "Wait one moment. Doctor, called the nervous groom' 'Is it the right or left hand the ring goes on?" Booker T. Washington related this personal experience the other evening to the Contemporary club: "Not very long ago, when passing through a certain section of Alabama a friend and I stopped at a neighbors house for tea. Soon after we sat down to the table the house keeper looked toward us and asked us if we wanted long or short sweetening in our coffee. As she asked the question I looked at my friend and he looked at me. I nudged him in the side, meaning that I wanted him to speak. He said he would take long sweetening. With that she put her finger in a cup of mocasses, put the same finger in his cup of coffee and stirred. That was long sweetening. Then she asked me what I wanted and I immediately, 'Short.' So she put her finger in another cup took out something that resembled a maple sugar, put it between her teeth and bit it in two parts. One part went into my cup and the other went into hers. It seemed to be a case of no matter which sweetening you tried you'd wish you had taken the other." Ex. When the late President McKinley was a candidate for Congress in Ohio the Rev. Russeel H. Conwell heard him, in a campaign speech, uphold the merits of the Republican platform He reached the climax and was finishing the sentence. "The Republican platform is safe and secure and is bound to stand firm firm, upright and undamaged through the years," when the small platform on which he stood gave way and he was dropped three feet to the level of the audience. Many of his hearers accepted the accident prophetic and he lost votes in that town. The Rev. Dr. Henson, formerly a well-known Baptist clegman of Philadelphia, and now of Chicago, several years ago engaged a new. He told her the size of his family, and said also that he was a preacher. Several days after the cook arrived she noticed Dr. Henson amusing his children by turning somersaults on the lawn. Full of indignation, she hurried to Mrs. Henson. "I'll have to be a father lavin'," she said. I have always lived with t he foinest people, and that man told me lie. He said he was a minister and he is nothin' but one of them circus men." Mount Holly N. J., Thanks to the prevalence of smallpox in the county jail John young, convicted of the murder of Washington Hunter, was not hanger t today, the date set by the court for the execution. upon learning of the existence of smallpox among the inmate the Jurious appointed to witness the execution refused to enter the jail. This gives the condemned murder anew lease of life and it is not improbable that his counsel will take advantage of the peculiar facts in the case and endeavor to prevent the sentence being carried out now that the date fixed for the execution has passed. Ex. The holding up o iir Philip Burne- ne-Jones" picture of "The Vampire for under valuation is a good card for the artist. Whatever price he puts/ upon it our customs flicials make a larger one. Apparently, it is the custom house idea that a picture of a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, cele- brated by Rudyard Kipling, is worth more than so much paint and canvas with a little genius thrown in. well prehaps. Ex. GAVE THE POLICE A CHASE Two young colored women shop lifters were today arrested by the police after a two-mile chase in the country. They had stolen a number of dress skirts from several stores and when seen on the streets one of the merchants recognized two of his garments and notified the police. During the chase the girls took off the skirts and hid them near the river. The police had to make threats before they would confess that they had the garments and where they hid them. A farmer was sent after a rope and in the mean time the women became frightened and disgorged. They afterwaids made a confession that they shoplifted a several other stores in the city. They had been in frequent similar trouble before and at the time of their arrest out on parole. We are selling ag nts in Top ka for WOMAN'S SOROSIS SHOES, the shoe with world-wide reputation for worth, comfort beauty—a shoe that has no equal under $5, while Sorosis are always $3.50 Sorosis is just the the shoe for this time of year, and later—just the right weight and very dressy, as well as most comfort. Sorosis are are perfect leather—no weak spots. Elegance ot make-up and finish are characteristic of Sorosis They are just all right Anideal shoe for Women and Children They are sold by measurment only, GEC. M. NOBLE & CO. Financial Agents for Local and Eastern Investors REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE MORTAGES. Crawford Building. Telephone 444, 501 Jackson St. Topeka, Kans COAL, GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED and HAY. 1405 Kansas Avenue. Aberdeen, Miss. Unless he manages to make another of his celebrated escape in the meantime, or some of the higher power interceded in his behalf, will Lenier, the Monroe county outlaw and murderer, will be hanging here tomorrow. THREE MEM Mayor Parker in the vacancies neer's department of Col Hughes soon after Mr. Laniea was convict nearly two years ago of the murder of the Riddle brothers,(being assisted on the crime by two others members of his family who are now in the penitentiary serving sentences the crime was peculiar atrocious,just few days prior to the date set by the supreme court for the hanging Lanier escaped and remeined at large sevental months. He was captured in Georgia and returned to the county jail here. While awaiting re-sentence he again escaped and remained at large several days,oeing finally recaptured near his old home, Anotoer appeal was then taken to the supreme court, which tribunal reafinally the decision of the lower court and fixed tomorrow as the date of execution.] Ex. LOCAL And PERSONAL John W. Gardener is head man for Central Committeman from the city of Topeka. Fred Jewell is one of the best hustlers in Topeka in politics. For a good Dinner try 116 East 6th st. at Mrs. Seibers the best meals in the city 15 cents. Wanted Lady agent inpuire at 418 Kans. Ave. upstairs. Take Dr. Klemps Vitallizer at 418 Kans. Ave. Dealer in Candies, Fruits, Ice Cream, Cold drinks and all kinds of refreshments, Cigars and Toaccos. 102 East 6th Street. Floral designs and cut flowers a special y. Office: 119 W. 6th Street. Phone 64, Green House W. 10th. H. D. Monhy of Mississippi Being Made to See Under a New Treatment, United States Senator Hernando D. Money of Mississippi is having his sight restored by a new method of treatment discovered by Dr. Henry F. Garey of Baltimore. Among others treated by Dr. Garey was Mrs. Kirkpatrick, wife of Dr, Tollen E. Kirkpatrick, a prominent osteopath of Baltimore, her case was pronounced hopeless but sight has been completely restored. --- OLDEST And best thev all say. Estalished 1892. M. CROSBY CO., DRY GOODS. HOE DEPT. ngts in Top ka for IS SHOES, the shoe station for worth, com- e that has no equal under always $3.50 this time of year, and later—just as well as most comfort. Soro- lak spots. E'egance ot make-up prosis just all right, be for Women They are sold ment only, NEW TAILOR SUITS AND SKIRTS OBLE & CO. Local and Eastern Investors INSURANCE MORTAGES. Phone 444, 501 Jackson St. Topska, Kans RUSH Mayor Parker has finished filling the vacancies in the city engineer's department, The appointees of Col Hughes were discharged soon after Mr, Parker took the office in January. The men appointed are H, B, Miller, Ruben Spivey and John Branner. City Engineer McCabe has been confined to his home for several days with rheumatism, and as yet his department has not commenced the active work or the sping Ex, DISAPPEARS WITH SISTER Bretton Hodges a young farmer living near Grantville, has deserted his family and run away with his sister, Mr, L, Hendrickson. he left no trace or intimation as to his destination, but it is thought he has gone to join his brother, who disappeared in mnch the same way about five years ago. Hodges has been dissatisfied with the county for some time and wishes to sell his farm and leave but his wife objected as he would then have to leave her parents, which she did not want to do, the farm was sold, however, and it is thought Hodger carried with him in the neighborhood of $2,400, he mailed a letter from Kansas City to his wife inclosing $500, and also one to his fathe-in-law in which he inclosed $1,100, these two sums he had received to pay on his farm some years ago and had never repaid the debt before. Mrs, Hendrickson was engage to be married to man named Palmer, but she ran away without leaving him any word, it was known that she did not wish to marry Palmer and thus may have assisted her in making her mind to run away COLORED WOMEN At Paola, Kans, As the preache pronounced the benediction at the Colored Methodis church here last night a fight star ed between Fannie jackson and May Thomas in which the Thomas girl was severely cut with a tazor, the Jackson woman is married and claimed the Thomas girl was aliecinating the affection of her husband. Ex A. T. WAGGONER DRUGS AND MEDICINES 731 Kansas Ave Your trade solic e1. --- VOL. 9 NO. 48 F. L. JELTZ, EDITOR. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Even cross-questioning can be done In a pleasant manner. In New York City alone there are low about 400,000 Germans. Ninety-five tons of gold and 520 of silver are mined in a single year. It is proposed at Valencia, Spain, to ax all the church bells in the town. "Will you marry me?" is a question that is never settled out of court. Sal dthe old armchair: "I may seem to have it easy, but I feel rocky." Sometimes the leading lady can beat the scene painter making a scene. The dispenser of "smiles" is not always a man with a cheerful disposition. The wrestler isn't necessarily defeated by being thrown on his own resources. A woman who affects mannishness cannot expect to inspire affection in a man. "They took me for the real thing," thought the artificial rose. "Oh, I'm a gay deceler." The goats of Naples go upstairs into tenement houses to be milked, sometimes to the sixth or seventh stories. Automobiles across the Caucasus for carrying the Russian mail are to supplant the present transport post horses with changes every ten miles. American grocers ruin thousands of bottles of good olive oil by keeping it on shelves exposed to heat and light. It should always be kept in a cool, dark place. Divers are able to converse under water by placing their helmets, which are invariably made of copper, together and shouting to one another. The sound, they say, is swiftly and distinctly conveyed. Three daughters of Brigham Young attended the meetings of the National Council of Women in Washington—Mrs. Susa Young Gates, Mrs. M. Y. Dougall, and Mrs. P. Y. Beattle, all of Salt Lake City. Of the 110,000 American soldiers who participated in the Mexican war only about 5,000 are living. At a reunion held in Independence, Mo., recently, there were present forty-seven of these veterans, whose average ag was 79 years. Germany is undoubtedly the best educated nation of Europe, yet its teachers in many parts of the country are very poorly paid. Recently several men teachers in Frankfort applied for situations as policemen, owing to their remuneration being smaller than that of the average police officer. Housecleaning at the vatican is something of a task. The vatican has not been thoroughly cleaned for a century and so the authorities thought to do a good job. They accordingly kept 5,000 people and 700 overseers busy at it for six months. This force used 1,000 leaves of bread a day to clean wall paper. Flying is not a twentieth century idea. As far back as 1273 Friar Bacon predicted that flying would "shortly" become a general practice, and bishop Wilkins in 1652 said: "It will yet be as usual to hear a man call for his wings when he is going on a journey as it is now to hear him call for his boots." Brooklyn Eagle: The great passive public is not hostile to the churches. On the contrary, its belief in and its reverence for them and their mission is bred in blood and bone. But it would be glad to see them evince a more intelligent appreciation of the situation. A great part of the business and debates which engross the time of conventions and assemblies appears to the average man have very little to do with religion at best, and to be spectably fatuous at a time when the very existence of the churches themselves appears to be in danger. Nor can we believe that the revision of a confession here or the modification of a public there will have any appreciable effect upon the matter. It has got far beyond all that sort of thing. The people are waiting now, as we believe, not for the church to link into shape some final statement of theological doctrine or some doctrinaire ecclesiastical polity, but to show that it is efficient to do the business which its Founder meant it to do. This is the task to which its leaders should be urged and less than this will be almost betrayal. Women's union label leagues are being organized. They are for the wives of unionists. J. H. Tappan of San Antonio, Tex., breeder of polo ponies, has shipped George Gould eleven of the best ponies on his ranch, near San Antonio. It is supposed these will go to participate in the international polo tournament to be held at Hurlingham during the coronation of King Edward. Porto Rico cigarmakers have gained $1 more per 1,000 without strike. The bricklayers, carpenters and painters of the island have organized during the last month. Max O'Rell has so far recovered from his recent serious illness that he will sail for Europe next week to assume the position of leading editorial writer for the Figaro of Paris, and expects to settle down there. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who will celebrate his eighteenth birthday on April 3, persists in refusing to be called a clergyman. He wishes to be designated only as a "Christian minister." KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. The postoffice at Rural, Chase county, has been discontinued, mail going to Matfield. A postoffice has been established at Zenith, Stafford county, with James F. Ramsey as postmaster. F. S. Preston, of La Cygne, has been appointed sheriff of Linn county, to succeed C. M. Morrison, resigned. Mrs. Kate W. Hartell, of Little Rock, Ark., has been appointed as assistant teacher at Pottawatomie Indian school. Horticultural note in the Jewell City Republican: "The 1902 gardens look very thrifty and beautiful in the new seed books." The Holton Tribune says the way for a business man to get the advantage and keep it is found in the first three letters of the word advantage. Lee White was fined $100, with thirty days in jail additional, in Parker last week for selling what the witnesses testified was popularly known as "Knock-'m-Crazy-Tonic." The third annual convention of the Kansas Elecutionary Association will be called at Ottawa on April 18-19. Several elocutionists from Kansas and Kansas City are on the programme. General Funston was tendered a reception Wednesday night at the New Willard, in Washington, by the Kansas people in Washington. There was a large attendance, including the congressional delegation and department people. Fire at 4:30 o'clock Thursday morning destroyed the St. Joseph Catholic church, at Vermont street and Harrison avenue, Kansas City, Kas., the building and its contents being reduced to ashes. The loss is estimated at $12,000, and the insurance is $4,000. It is supposed that the fire was of incendiary origin. 一 H. L. Wilson, formerly a stenographer for A. L. Williams, Kansas attorney for the Union Pacific Railroad Company, is now literary editor of "Puck." Wilson left Topeka fifteen years ago and took a job on a Denver paper. When he left there, his Kansas friends lost track of him. They located him a few days ago when his picture appeared in "Puck." Methodist circles at McPherson are very much wrought up over the fact that charges have been preferred before the Southwestern Kansas conference, which convenes at Arkansas City March 25, against Rev. Brainline Louther, pastor of the church at McPherson, for heresy. Exceptions were taken to a paper read before the last district conference on atonement by some of the ministers present and these charges are the result. Henry Allen and Senator Hannon, chairman and member of the state board of charities, accompanied by Mr. Washburn, state architect, have been in Parsons laying out the ground for the new state hospital for the insane and also locating ground for a spur from the Missouri, Kansas & Texas to the site of the building. At present six brick buildings are to be contracted for after the style or the New York state colony of epileptics, which Mr. Allen visited last summer. About forty acres of the section owned by the state will be taken up by these first cottages of the colony. Typewritten copies of the information filed in the Booth murder case against Mary McCoy, Mary Stanley and Bessie Browning have been made in the office of the district clerk. The information covers a page and a half of typewritten matter and charges the three women jointly with having struck him with some blunt instrument, and with having thrown him in the well in such a manner that he was mortally wounded on the rocks. The charge is that the crime was committed "willfully and premeditated." There are seventy witnesses named on the information by the state. James Booth was murdered in North Ottawa the night of January 10 at the McCoy home and thrown in a well. The case will come up for trial next month. The three women charged with crime are in jail at Ottawa. General Exea Douniere, the oldest general on the active list in the French army, is dead at the age of 95 years. He was retained on the active list because he had been chief in command of an army in the presence of the enemy. The Oklahoma State Baptist college at Blackwell, Ok., expects to secure W. J. Bryan as commencement week orator. John D. Rockefeller has added $5,000 to the required fund of $100,000 for the endowment of the William L. Wilson chair or economics at Washington and Lee University, Virginia. The fund is now nearly made up. It is hoped other subscriptions will quickly fill it. Secretary of the Treasury Shaw never eats a meal away from home if he can help it. Forty-one banks were established in Kansas last year, bringing the total number up to 443. F. D. Sperry has been appointed postmaster at Victoria, Ellis county, vice J. Behan, resigned. Mrs. Emily McCurdy, of Lawrence, who was burned by her dress catching from a bonfire, died from the injuries. A rural free delivery route will be established May 1 next at Wilson, Ellsworth county, with William Sporter carrier. Dr. John R. Gamble, one of the leading dentists of Coffeyville, dropped dead with heart failure. He was about 55 years of age. The Minnesota avenue paving suit from Kansas City, Kas., has been appealed to the supreme court. It is a fight between paving companies. J. R. Mulvane, the Topeka banker, slipped and fell down stairs at his residence, sustaining several severe bruises which will keep him at home for awhile. No bones were broken. Because her parents objected to her having a lover, Edna Kinnison, aged 14, of Abilene, let herself from her bedroom with twisted bed clothes, and disappeared. Her lover claims to be ignorant of her whereabouts. George A. Geddes, of Pittsburg, Pa., has been appointed superintendent of the Kansas Long Distance Telephone Company, which is trying to absorb all the local and independent long distance systems in Kansas. His headquarters will be at Topeka. It is mighty poor business to be spending time killing off the wheat crop. We have entirely too many prophets of evil. What is wanted is more hopefulness. From now until harvest wheat will be slaughtered every week. The Kansas people play right into the hands of board of trade gamblers and do not know it—Lawrence World. Wakeeney suffered a property loss by fire Tuesday afternoon, estimated at $14,000. The fire, which is said to have been set by a passenger train, started in a lumber yard, destroying it, three dwellings houses, two blacksmith shops, a livery barn and damaging several other buildings. A strong wind was blowing, which spread the fire rapidly. An extra train was sent from Ellie with assistance. "It would be hard to make that young man believe that he's burning up the value of twenty square yards of ground at $12 an acre," remarked a large taxpayer as the boy paid five cents for a cigar and lighted it. Yet the taxpayer was right. A boy smoking twenty-five cents' worth of cigars a day from 18 to 22 years of age burns the value, counting interest at 7 percent, of thirty-five acres of land at $12 an acre. Every ten-cent cigar is one square rod of ground at $16 an acre."—Paola Spirit. Robert Banks, sent to the penitentiary four years ago from Reno county for a term of ten years for robbery, has been paroled by Governor Stanley. Banks formerly lived at Fort Scott. He went to Colorado, but didn't like the climate and started back home. He stopped off at Hutchinson and got into a crap game with several white men, and skinned them out of their money. Then they had him arrested for highway robbery and upon their testimony he was convicted and given ten years in prison. Dr. F. H. Snow, ex-chancellor of the University of Kansas, is superintending a general overhauling of the entomological specimens owned by the university. Dr. Snow is famous for his work in this line and it is largely through his efforts that the university now has the largest collection of insects owned by any educational institution in the United States. Frank Snow, son of Dr. Snow, lately returned from Africa with a collection of 10,000 insects, which he had gathered there. Young Snow was on his brother-in-law's ranch in South Central Africa for about two years, and hence had a first-class opportunity to get a collection of insects. He has given all these specimens to the university and many of them are of great value. The richest Chinaman in America Chin-Tan-Sun, came across the Pacino in the steerage as a boy. He married a white woman and started a lottery business in San Francisco. Now he is a multimillionaire. Why should it cost the state of New Jersey $10,000 to investigate the habits, origin and breeding places of mosquitoes? Any old resident would impart the desired information for nothing. The pope's income is £280,000, one-seventh of which is guaranteed by the emperor of Austria; another seventh comes from vested interests, and the remainder is derived from Peter's Pence. England should not become jealous. This country will be just as polite to any British prince who feels like running over here for a visit.—Washington Star. 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The 12-months-old child of Gustave Brown, a traveling salesman, was suffocated to death in Denver by a large cat which inhaled the infant's breath while it was lying in a carriage in the back yard of Mr. Brown's residence. Mr. Waxham, a reputable physician of Denver, who was called but arrived too late to save the child's life, is authority for the statement regarding the cause of death. Last Monday morning Mr. Scott of West Virginia was the only senator in the chamber at the hour for opening the session. Mr. Frye, president pro tem, rapped for order and said with utmost gravity: "The senator from West Virginia will please be in order." The blind chaplain then offered prayer, at the conclusion of which some half score other members were waiting to take their seats. "And yet," observed the information editor, "Stone can't be called a nard name—to remember." "Still," retorted the exchange editor, "those bandits seemed to think it necessary to keep a lot of rocks to remember her by when they let her go." "The band," said the other, sowling, "will now play a band ditty."—Chicago Tribune. He sticks to his caste from first to last. And for pants he makes his skindo. —Fayette Journal. DEAFNESS CANNOT BE CURED By local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is on one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian tube. When the tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored, the normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is noaling but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. 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The sum of $1,400 has already been subscribed by citizens and farmers living nearby, who have grown enthusiastic over the project. The boring is to be made at the old "Pawnee rock" from which the town derived its name. Some fifteen years ago a well was bored close by this site and the water boiled and steamed as long as the hole was open. Fearing something might happen, the hole was closed up. Sheriff Costigan, in company with John T. Baker, have gone to Stuart, Ia., to get one Jesse Hindbaugh and to recover a span of mules Hindbaugh is said to have stolen from Mr. Baker. Hindbaugh was in Mr. Baker's employ, but left about a week ago, he said, for Seattle. A span of mules were stolen from Mr. Baker about the same time. Hindbaugh was suspected, and traced to Iowa, where he was arrested by local authorities. A telegram from Stuart stated that Hindbaugh had canfessed the crime. "Eureka!" shouts the patient inventor. "Eureka!" he repeats, as the hearers come rushing to his laboratory. 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That famous Texan, Webster Flanagan, who in a national Republican convention asked the entirely pertinent, if somewhat embarrassing question: "What are we here for if not for the offices?" Mr. Flanagan sees another term as collector of internal revenue in his district and there is fair prospect that he will win against strong opposition. FREE HOMES... Send 25 Cents To D. W. Forbes, BONESTEEL, GREGORY CO. South Dakota, and he will mail you a booklet telling all about Boyd and Gregory counties and the 418,000 acres of choice home- stead land which will soon be opened for free settlement by the government. This booklet contains official maps of all this land. The F. E. & M. V. R. y. is building an eighty mile extension into this country. It is a fine farming country. George P. Welch, proprietor of the Taylor house at Pleasant Hill, was found dead in bed in a room at the Cosby hotel at Ninth and Baltimore, Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday morning. 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The ranchhouse was cut on the Calico trail, where the wheat land came to an abrupt enl and the grass land began. That is, if you looked cast heads of yellow grain saved and tossed before your eyes unlit the scene was a blurr of gold; if you burned west there was the rangle, the numbering cattle, the cowboy, forerunner of all farmers from Egyptian days to now. And on the dividing line of wheat and cattle stood the home of Rosa Deane, and there hung her guitar or ranger or farmer to twang. "Jerusalem," exclaimed Whaleen of the Buckle herd the first time he saw the instrument, "that is a roarer. Let the keerlessly draw a few lines from its ameness." Rosa Deane snapped her black eyes and handed him the guitar; it was old—very old. The inland mother of pearl, the ivory keys, the fantastically carved back, spoke of a day when the guitar was the sweet-voiced messenger of all young love and troubadors were lurking at every corner. But when the strings were cuched—then—then—Rosa Deane's guitar gave out its sound. Such sweetness, such softness, such depth of tone and feeling came forth that the rudesest player was moved to gentleness. "That insterment," remarked Whaleen, "is sure human. I've hearn 'en all the Rio to the Muddy, an' they don't in it with this one." ```markdown ``` "My grandfather gave it to my mother in '60," said Rosa Deane, and she gave it to my brother in '75, and when he died it went to another brother, and then he died, and it came to me. My grandfather was killed in the Sioux assault; my oldest brother was shot in the Little Missouri; the other one used with Custer. The gun and the other belonged to them. When my mother died my father put them up here, and I hung the guitar underneath." "Miss Rosy," said Whalen, respectfully doffing his hat, "I'm a plain critic and not easy with tongue slinging, but your famly sure hez hez truble, the insterment tells all about it." he slipped his fingers over the wings and played—Spanish things, marches, all the musical favorites of the men that live by the herds things that have not only the lullaby the wind in them, but its string and fish, when roused to fury; the songs the night, of the trampling cattle Save your Cremo 5 Cent Cigar Bands for Presents with TAGS from "STAR," "HORSE SHOE," "STANDARD NAVY," "SPEAR HEAD," "DRUMMOND" NATURAL LEAF," "GOOD LUCK," "BOOT JACK," "PIPER HEIDSIECK," "NOBBY SPUN ROLL," "J.T.," "OLD HONESTY," "MASTER WORKMAN," "JOLLY TAR," "SICKLE," "BRANDY WINE," "CROSS BOW," "OLD PEACH AND HONEY," "RAZOR," "E. 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Have you ever analyzed the laugh of a woman who has borne the cross? Whalen put the guitar back in its place and passed on his way. Atosa Deane took up her housework again, humming the tunes he had left in her memory. She had heard much of Whalen. Her father had said he was the wildest yet best cattleman in the country. There was a story that he had killed so many men in the southern country he had been forced to come north, and that he lived in constant apprehension of pursuit by avenging friends of his victims. "Still," said Deane, "I understand he never shot until he was attacked, and that the people he put out of the way ought to have died long before. He's mighty quick with a gun and good to everybody when the liquor's out of him. He has money, too—plenty of it." ```markdown ``` Whalen returned to the Deane home often after his first call. He never entered the ranch house that he did not take down the guitar and play. He would sit for an hour in the doorway, one eye on the instrument and one on Rosa Deane. One day after he had hung the instrument under the gun and saber and was about to leave, one of the strings gave forth a long-drawn rote, sad and sweet. Whalen started and involuntarily dropped a hand to the butt of his gun. "That oughtn't to frighten you, Mister Whalen," laughed Rosa Deane, "for the guitar does that often. Sometimes in the night it wakens me up. It's just the tightness of the strings makes it so and changes in the weather. Sometimes I like to think it's talking perhaps to my brothers and mother or perhaps without us seeing them they just passed their hands over the strings." "I don't like spooks, Miss Rosy, I rejoined Whalen, shifting uneasily on his feet. "I don't like things I can't see. Thet insterment is sure human. Hear it?" Again a note, weird, rising and falling. Rosa Deane could not reassure Whalen as to the cause for this. He rode away, shaking his head and much disturbed. She told her father of the incident that night and he said that Whalen had been in a nervous mood for a week or more. A rumor was about that a half-breed Mexican from Cremo Cigar BANDS and Old Virginia Cheroot WR APPERS may be assorted the Rio was on the range looking for him and trouble was expected. The half-breed's brother had been killed at Laredo by Whalen and the latter had been trailed to the north. "There'll be a killing, sure," said Deane, "when they come together, and I guess Whalen will have the best of it. He's out looking for the Mexican now; he won't rest until the matter is settled. I suppose Whalen thought the guitar was giving him a kind of warning. The cow men are superstitious." ***** A day or two later Whalen came back to the ranchhouse and took his old seat in the doorway, with the guitar. "Miss Rosy," said he, "I'm gettin' kind a tired movin' 'round without a rope on me. I'm jest hankerin' to be tied. I ain't done nothin' ever what I war 'shamed of, e'en ter killin' the greaser. I never hurt a woman, ner a kid, ner stole nothin', ner war arery with a hoss. I never hurt a man what war mindin' his own ranch. I hev money, an' I like yer gait. I'll be sure good to yer if you wants me, Rosy." And that settled it, for Rosa Deane had made up her own mind long before that she loved Whalen, loved his music, his daring on the range, his courage. She gave him a quick answer: "I'll take you if you cut out the liquor, except when you're with me. You can drink at home, not away." The cow man stayed to supper; he won the approval of Mr. Deane to the marriage; he sat out under the stars, and the guitar gave forth such music as had never come from its strings before. Rosa and Whalen walked down the trail, and he said to her: "Sure, Rosy, what holds a man level is a woman. If he won't lie and means to tote far it only needs a woman to do the rest. I love you, Rosy, same as I loves my boss." The girl of the prairies, the western girl, put both her arms about his neck and gave him a kiss and a hug for his words. She was satisfied The two were back to the door of the ranch house. Whalen's horse stood there saddled for the ride home, the guitar hung in its familiar place. The cow man's lank form was outlined against the night as the light from the house door shone on him. Over on the trail, crawling like an Indian, came the Mexican half-breed. He had journeyed far for such a moment as this. The call of the blood of his brother for vengeance tingled his ears. He raised himself ever so little, his gun covered Whalen. He fired once, twice. One bullet sped through the cow man's body. The other went wild, passed through the open door, and OUR NEW ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE of presents for 1902 includes many articles not shown above. It contains the most attractive list of presents ever offered for hands and wrappers, and will be sent by mail on receipt of postage—two cents. Our offer of presents for hands and wrappers will expire November 30th, 1902. American Cigar Company struck the old guitar. Again the long-drawn note of weariness and death, the minor of life. Then the cry of a woman. -Chicago Record-Herald. Tiring of Factory Life. To encourage factory girls to enter domestic employment a band of young society women, graduates of an up-town private school, have furnished a suite of rooms for model training and employed an instructor in the are of housework. The enterprise is the most recent addition to the work of the Brearley League Industrial Evening School, which has been conducted for several years in the Fogg Memorial! School of the Children's Aid Society at No. 552 West Fifty-third street, with the support of the organization whose name it bears. Two rooms, a bed room and dining room, have been fitted for the purpose, and two evenings a week the 15 young girls of the domestic training class, who are from 14 to 16 years of age, make a sorte on the place with pans and brushes, brooms, dustpans and cloths, and remove every vestige of dirt that has accumulated since the last lesson. Indeed, scrubbing goes on with as much zest and vigor as if it were the semi-annual housecleaning fray in family apartments. The pretty white iron bedstead, with its spick and span counterpane and shams, is stripped and aired; the crisp white muslin curtains are carefully pinned up safe from the dangers of water and dust, the rugs are swept until a looker-on-trembles for them, and they are at last rolled up and put away to allow the floor its share of cleaning. It is, indeed, the floor and the paint that suffer most, for every girl in the class loves to scrub, and into that work puts all her superabundant energy. When the windows and mirrors are cleaned, the last bit of dusting done, the bed remade in the primestm of styles and the nickel polished; the table it set, without a vestige of food, to be sure, but in a fashion most satisfactory to those who arrange it. Then comes an elaborately served dinner, with one of the girls as waitress, and all sorts of points of ettiquette suited not only to the maid but the diner, are discussed. By the time the table is cleared and the dishes put away the hour for closing has come. The girls of the class are mainly of Irish parentage, and work in carpet or hammock factories or flax mills, receiving from $2 to $2.50 a week.—New York Tribune. The Impresario The genesis of the impressario may be traced back logically enough to the inherent necessities of the operatic environment. Opera came to its birth in Italy, the land of song, of the "bel canto," where the ingrained tendency of the people is (or was) to prefer charm to character, beauty of sound to dramatic intensity of expression. This led inevitably to the song and tyrannous predominance of the solo singer, male and female, which lasted for the best part of two centuries, and from which we are only at last beginning to extricate ourselves; and this tyranny necessitated a class of strong yet supply personages capable of controlling, humoring and reconciling the lions of the musical menagerie. For it should not be forgotten that the qualities required in the old impresario included personal courage as well as diplomacy. He had not only to console the prima donna for the death of her pet monkey, but to defend himself against the heels of an agile and infuriated tenor. Apart from what may be called the physical necessity for the impresario, there was an economic necessity as well. Co-operation among singers themselves was impossible, their maxim inter se being homo homini lupus; business details were to them distasteful or repulsive; hence the paramount need for the practical outsider with a head for figures, a faculty for organization, and a love of adventure. For there were few more "switchbacked" careers than that of the impresario. Ultimate financial disaster seems, on the whole, to be the rule rather than the exception.—The Spectator. He Hada Bullet. At a gathering of medical men who had assembled at the College of Physicians a discussion arose as to the utility of the X-ray on the battlefield, and the surgeon, Dr. W. W. Keen, told this story: "After the battle of Gettysburg a corps under the command of a young physician, who had recently been appointed, was ordered to a man who had been shot through the leg. The young doctor proceeded to use his knife. After cutting for half an hour he was interrupted by the young soldier with: "Say, how much longer are you going to cut.' "Until I get the bullet,' replied the doctor. "Why, you fool, if that's what you want I've got it in my pocket.' "Sure enough, the bullet had lodged in the skin of the man's leg after passing through, and he had kept it as a souvenir."—Philadelphia Times. Got a Bank For Nothing. W. H. Cronshaw, a wealthy merchant of Council Bluffs, Ia., disappeared two weeks ago and the discovery has been made that he had obtained the entire Thompson at Crystal Lake, Ia. Gil- assets of the bank of Gilbertson & bertson is state treasurer, and, together with Thompson, owns a number of banks throughout the state. When Cronshaw made an offer for their Crystal Lake institution it was accepted and the stock was turned over to him, Cronshaw agreeing to make payment the following week. Going to Crystal Lake Cronshaw arranged with the official force of the bank to continue in their places and had the cashier issue to him certificates of deposit amounting to $20,000. He returned to Council Bluffs and disposed of his store, receiving $10,000 in cash. Crossing the river to Omaha he cashed one $5,000 certificate, after which he went to Sloux City, where he endeavored, without success, to cash another. Then Cronshaw disappeared and the police of Council Bluffs and Omaha have been unable to get a single clew as to his whereabouts. According to banking laws the certificates must be cashed by the bank whenever presented, although Gilbertson & Thompson did not receive a dollar in payment for the concern. State treasurer Gilbertson and C. J. Thompson have filed a petition of intervention in bankruptcy proceedings against Cronshaw, who was a grocer in Council Bluffs. They allege that he purchased the bank in Crystal Lake from them without paying a dollar, go possession, caused certificates of deposit to be issued to himself aggregating $20,000 and used these to get loans from other banks. They ask that they be permitted to rescind the contract and take possession of the bank and that a receiver be appointed pending decision of the case—New York Sun. The Country Newspaper. But few people have any idea how many things newspaper offices are asked to give information about. One of the most frequent questions is about the financial rating of men and their ability and willingness to pay their debts and obligations. Newspaper editors are considered more reliable than commercial agencies when it comes to a man's real honesty. Many a man has to all appearances had a good job in his grasp when it suddenly slipped from him. Others have gone away from home to settle in a new country. The next thing is a query fired into his home paper asking all about him, and often a man who has gone off cawing his home paper a big bill will wonder why it is that in his new home people seem afraid to trust him and regard him with suspicion. The answer is easy. Some one has written back to his home paper and the editor has promptly told the truth by replying that he is "no good." Old Folks Heard Lovemaking. George Parker, son of Charles Parker, a mine foreman of Ligo, Mo., has been sued for $5,000 for alleged breach of promise to marry by Miss Daisy Mocha of Lingo. In her bill the young kid asserts that only after long and urgent solicitation by Parker did she agree to marry him. Miss Daisy will go into court with unusually strong testimony, as her parents were in an adjoining room and will testify having heard all the lover-like pleas of the defendant, and their daughter's final acquiescence. Parker is just 21, about the same age as his fair legal antagonist. The plaintiff alleges that she had made all preparations necessary for the approaching nuptials, but that her lover commenced growing indifferent and at last ceased altogether coming to see her. Objects to War Tax. Papers were served in New York recently on H. C. H. Herrold, United States revenue collector at Newark, N. J., in a suit brought against him by the American Sugar Refining Company to recover $589,671.76, the amount of taxes paid prior to December 28, 1900, at the Newark office, under the war revenue act of June 13, 1898. The declaration in the proceedings attacks the entire constitutionality of the war revenue act. The action is really directed against the federal government. That famous Texar, Webster Flanagan, who in a national Republican convention asked the entirely pertinent, if somewhat embarrassing, question: "What are we here for if not for the offices?" Mr. Flanagan seeks another term as collector of internal revenue in his district and there is fair prospect that he will win against strong opposition. "Of course, when a farmer says his 'cribs are full' it means he's very prosperous." "Not necessarily. It may mean a plentitude of babies."—Philadelphia Press. Three daughters of Brigham Young have been attending the meetings of the National Council of Women in Washington—Mrs. Susa Young Gates, Mrs. M. Y. Dougall, and Mrs. P. Y. Beattie, all of Salt Lake City. Merman—Yes, we have the advantage of the folks who live on land. Mermaid—In what way. Merman—Why, they have to read the papers to hear the news, while we merely have to reline at case and place our ears to the cable.—Philadelphia Record.