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WE HAVE HUNDREDS OF LETTERS AS STRONG AS THIS. After 10 Days Return to JOHN LUND. Kinsley, Kansas. KINSLEY APRIL 1902 KANS The German-American Doctors, 912 Walnut Street, Kansas City, Mo. Kinsley, Kas. April 7,'02 My wife and I want you to know how grateful we are for the cure of her case, as we believe you have saved her life. She suffered from a complication of diseases of the heart and liver, with the worst dropsy ever saw, and I had her treated by some of the best doctors to be found anywhere in the West and they said she could not be cured and would not live very long, but you have cured her. She commenced getting better immediately after beginning your treatment, July 13, 1901, and has been entirely well for a long time. She looks better, feels better and weighs more than she ever did in her life. We have not the language to express our appreciation. We simply know that all the other doctors gave her up; there seemed to be no hope at all, but you have cured her. 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These notes will be issued only to new banks organized since January 1, 1902, and those extending or re-extending their charters. Only the denominations of $10 and $20 are ready for issue. Later fives, fifties and hundreds will be issued. These notes are a radical departure in design from bank notes herefore issued, and are considered a great improvement. The backs have only one plate printing, which is an artistic vignette printed in green. The faces all bear portraits of prominent deceased officials of the government—President Harrison for the $5 note, President McKinley for the $10, Secretary McCulloch for the $20, Senator Sherman for the $50 and Comptroller John J. Knox for the $100. To facilitate the assorting of currency in the redemption agency of the treasury department, the charter numbers, with a system of letters in broad faced type designating the geographical division in which the bank is located, will be placed hereafter on both ends of the face of all notes printed, including the new series, as follows: Letter "N," New England states; "E," Eastern states; "M,5 Middle states; "S," Southern states; "W" Western States, and "P," Pacific states. These are the geographical divisions heretofore used in the department under which statistical matter has been reported. The comproller desires to save banks, as well as the office, unnecessary correspondence by announcing that it will be impossible to change designs for banks which have already had their notes prepared, as this would disarrange the system of records kept in the division of issue.—New York Tribune. Shopper—But aren't these those rather loud?" Clerk—Yes, sir. They are intended only for persons whose feet are in the habit of going to sleep.—Exchange. Living Skeleton—The "bearded woman" won't be here today. Managar—Why not? Living Skeleton—His wife died this morning. Janitor—So I did, but he says dis is $10 bill ter bar a advertising poem. Ruyters Kramp—Tell him I've just been resuscitated. "I must say your appetite is greatly improved of late." "Yes," answered the hypochondriac. My doctor said he would have to buy my tobacco. He said I might moke a cigar after each meal. I am now eating six meals a day."—Washington Star. Jerry Simpson is now a resident of New Mexico and is ready to come into the union and another office as soon as the doors are opened.—Kansas City Journal. Very Respectfully, John Doctors, a reliable staff of Specialists. Cure under conditions, chapteau diseases, Numerous bowels, liver injuries, rupture, women a disease. ALL PRIVATE DISEASES Losses, debility. Blood Poison of every kind th. Write as. 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I can't work at my trade, and—" "Why," stormed the prosperous looking pedestrian. "I just gave you a dime at the other corner! What is your trade, anyhow?" "I know you gave me that dime, sir," said the beggar, "but you see I am a retoucher by profession."—Baltimore American. She—He told me he could live on bread and cheese and kisses. Friend—What then? "Doctor, a friend of mine has assured me that sucking lemons will prevent sickness. Is that true?" "O! yes, provided you sit in the shade of a tall tree while you do it"—Philadelphia Press. The Republican primaries held at Leavenworth, Kas., resulted in a complete victory for W. J. Bailey, candidate for governor. He will have an instructed delegation from Leavenworth county. Timmid—Do you really think this government is going to give the Philippines honest government? Uewitt—Certainly. Why? Timmid—What a temptation that would be for Philadelphiaans to embrace there!—Philadelphia Record. What Mr. Cleveland Said. When I met Lord Rosebery first he was prime minister. He was unwell and suffering much from sleeplessness. I think he frankly attributed his insomnia to the responsibilities of office, and, speaking of my own sleeplessness, he said: "If you have one sleepless night you can lie aside next day, but I must go to the office and there the worry and the anxiety come on top of the exhaustion, and as a consequence I have a sleepless night again." Some time afterwards I visited President Cleveland at his country home on Cape Cod; and when he spoke of Lord Rosebery I referred to the intense sense of responsibility in our prime minister, and quoted what he had said. "Well," said Mr. Cleveland, as near as I can remember his words, "I don't myself feel like that. When I am getting up in the morning I say to myself: 'Grover, you are googal down to the office today, and you'll see a great many people, and some of them will tell you a great many lies; but you've just got to do what is right,' and when I come home and I'm going to bed, I say to myself: 'Grover, you've been to the office today, and you've been a great many people, and some of them have told you a great many lies, but I think you've tried to do what was right.' And then I go right off to sleep." I trust it does no wrong to one of the strongest of the ex-presidents of the United States to recount this; in like manner I trust it does no wrong to our new Ulysses to say that Grover Cleveland's temperament, as illustrated by this incident, reveals a statesman in some respects better fitted to lead and to rule—Household World. "Rimer's having some success with his poems now, I believe." "Nonsense! What makes you think that?" "He told me he was holding his own." "Just so. He's just realizing that he might as well hold them as send them out anywhere."—Philadelphia Press. "Well, how are you feeling now?" asked the doctor. "I've had a stitch in my side all day" replied the purplist. "That's all right. It shows that the bones are knitting." —Chicago Tribune Daughter—Pa, dear, what is the dif ference, between accident, and fate? Pa—That buttons fly off a man's clothes is accident. That a man's wife never sews them on is fate.—New York Press. "Oh," remarked Amy, with a sigh "the men are not what they used to be." "Indeed!" said Douglas. "And why not? "Well, they used to be boys, you know." And then he left.—Tid-Bits. When a girl has successfully resisted a man's attempt to kiss her, somehow she doesn't have as good an opinion of the man as if he had succeeded.—Atchison Globe. ONCE FAMOUS DUELING GROUND; HOW LINCOLN WISHED TO FIGHT. SARTORIS NOW A LIEUTENANT. ALGERNON SARTORIS. Mr. Sartoris, after serving through the Spanish-American war as a volunteer captain under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, joined the industrial force of the Westinghouse Electrical company at Pittsburgh where he was working his way up when apprised of the president's action. WITHIN a few months the famous old dueling ground in St. Charles county, Mo. will have ceased to exist, says an Alton correspondent of the Chicago Inter Ocean. The shifting current of the Mississippi river has attacked the little plot of land and it is rapidly succumbing to the erosion of the waters. The St. Charles dueling ground has been the scene of more "affairs of honor" than any other one spot in the Western country. Its chief title to the land now lies in that that it was there that Abraham Lincoln James A. Shields, afterwards brigadier general and United States senator from the states of Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri successively, in the only duel to which he was ever provoked. The dueling ground is directly across the river from Alton. In the early days of the state it was much frequented by those who thought their honor required vindication with the pistol or sword, and the accessibility of the place soon gave it a wide reputation. The laws of Illinois did not look kindly on the practice of dueling and prescribed such penalties for the practice that even the most hot-headed fire-eater was glad to get outside the state before a hostile meeting with an adversary. The laws of Missouri took no cognizance of the SARTORIS NOW ALGERNON SARTORIS. Mr. Sartoris, after serving through volunteer captain under Gen. Fitzhuh the Westinghouse Electrical company, his way up when apprised of th dueling habit, and it was considered military duty to keep the district military disputes by the shedding of bolt Consecrated Ground. That was in the old days, however. A more enlightened spirit has since prevailed in reference to such customs and in consequence it has been many years since a duel has taken place on the St. Charles ground. Its fame has made it consecrated ground in the memory of many Illinoisans and Missourians, and a few years after the war steps were taken to preserve the spot in its original shape. The dueling ground was in a little ravine through which a creek at one time wound its its way across the land, and left nothing to show its former presence but its desolate bed and a number of huge boulders that the water had left sticking up from the ground. Enough money was raised by subscription to remove these boulders and to erect an iron fence around the grounds, and in that condition they have remained ever since. Rudiculed the Auditor Mr. Lincoln's meeting there with Shields has furnished one of the few ludicrous episodes with which the deuling field has ever been credited. Shields was then auditor of the state of Illinois. The finances of the state were in a deplorable condition; the treasury was empty; auditor's warrants were selling at half their nominal value; no more money was to be borrowed, and taxation was dreaded by both political parties more than disgrace. The currency of the state banks was virtually the only circulating medium in Illinois. In the month of August, 1842, the governor, auditor and treasurer issued a circular forbidding the payment of state taxes in this depreciated paper. This order was taken by the Whigs as indicating on the part of these officers a keener interest in the integrity of their salaries than in the public welfare, and it was therefore severely attacked in all the opposition papers of the state. The sharpest assault it had to endure, however, was in the communication printed in the Sangamon county, which not only disdose the administration circular with the most savage satire, but covered the auditor with merciless personal ridicule. It purported to come from a farmer's widow, who expressed in this fashion her discontent with*an evil course of affairs. Shields Was Furious. Shields was a man of inordinate vanity and a corresponding irresistible ability. He was for that reason an irresistible mark for satire. His fury against the unknown author of the satire was the subject of much merriment in Springfield, where he appeared from a different hand, in which the widow offered to make up the quarrel by marrying the auditor, and this in turn was followed by an epithalamium, in which this happy compromise was celebrated in very bad varse. In the change of hands all the humor of the thing had vanished, and nothing was left but feminine mischief on one hand and the generation of wounded vanity on the other. Shields had talked so much about the matter that he felt imperatively called upon to act. He therefore sent a messenger to the editor of the paper and demanded from him the name of the author of the articles. The editor was in a quandary, and he was asked by Mr. Lincoln, but the two following it had been written by two young women who took an active interest in politics, and could not let the chance slip to have a little fun with Sifela. The editor appealed to Mr. Lincoln in his dilemma, and the latter answered. "Oh, tell Shields that I wrote them. Don't let the names of the women appear in the matter." As soon as Shields had the name of Mr. Lincoln given to him, he began to be told of the vengeance he would take, and he was given a challenge couched in the most blustering terms. Mr. Lincoln was disposed to laugh at the matter, and his friends tried in every way to patch the thing up with Shields, but nothing would do the latter but a hostile meeting. Mr. Lincoln had to finally consent to this, but he never seemed to divest himself of the idea that the whole proceeding was a huge joke. They repaired to St. Charles, and Lincoln, being the chief party, had the choice of weapons. After the arrival of the grunt he wasaked what weapons he would select. With a quizical twinkle in his eye, he replied: An Original Duel "Lets have some originality about this duel. I prefer cannon at 50 paces." The absurdity of the proposition creates a general laugh, in which even Shields could laugh. But he was in this traceable frame of mind the seconds reasoned with him, with A LIEUTENANT. through the Spanish-American war as a high Lee, joined the industrial force of any at Pittsburg where he was work- the president's action. the result that he and Lincoln were soon talking as amably together as if nothing had happened, and the duel was off. The prominence of the men had attracted general attention to the duel, and when the boats carrying the principals and seconds were seen crossing the Mississippi back to Alton a large crowd stood on the shore awaiting news of the result of the supposed encounter. Again Mr. Lincoln's whimsical tendencies saw the chance for another Joke. Placing a log in his skiff he had it covered with clothes, and as the boat approached it he jumped up and it was the body of one of the principals. When they reached the shore Mr. Lincoln, coolly reached down, took the clothes off the log, and rolled the latter into the river. It took the spectators on the shore a moment to realize the situation, but when they did a roar of laughter went up that dispelled the general tension. The duellists remained in Alton all night and dined at a hotel with their friends, and although both men fought each other with intensity during political campaigns, they remained firm ever after. The old duelship brought Charles thus together two statesmen who would have probably remained bitter enemies throughout their life, and made bosom friends of them. A Deathbed Recognition. Lippincott's Magazine: "Ucle Jimmie" was the man who had a reputation for "tightness" in business affairs, which clung to him in the entire 80-odd years of his existence. When he was stricken with what he believed he had learnt, he came to see him who had heard he was near unto death. The family were gathered about the room in various stages of grief—he had not been an over kind husband and father—and the sick man lay on his bed with closed eyes and labored breathing. "He knows you," said his wife tearfully to the neighbor, who tipped to the side of the bed and leaned over the occupant. "Uncle Jimmie, do you know me?" asked the neighbor gently. A deep silence hung over the room. Finally, "Uncle Jimmie" slowly opened his eyes and fixed them intently on the questioner. "Who you?" he echoed feebly. "reckon I do! Where's that gallon of vinegar you owe me?" The neighbor had to acknowledge the recognition was complete. Possibly His Hat. Cincinnati Enquirer: J. A. Smith, Jr., is in the habit of dining at the Gibson House restaurant, and one day during the past week came out second best in a passage at repatriate with the boy who attends to the hatrack. Mr. Smith sallied forth from the restaurant after enjoying his meal, and as Claude handed him his top piece he thought he would quiz the lad. "Is this my hat?" he asked. "I don't know." was the answer. "I don't know," was the answer. "Well, then, why do you hand it to me if you don't know who whether it is my hat or not?" answered Mr. Smith sharply. "Because that is the hat you handed to me when you went into the restaurant." answered Claude. The boy's answer stunned Mr. Smith and he did some rapid-fire thinking as he left the hotel. Former Governor Francis of Missouri is regarded by admirers as strong enough foundation for a Democratic presidential candidate. KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. At the Mitchell county Republican convention five of the delegates were Methodist preachers. B. D. Gardner, a boy in Topeka, has been arrested for "embezzlement" in a transaction involving $1,40. W. A. Snook, of Kansas City, Kas., has been admitted to practice in the supreme court of the United States. Judge Charles E. Lobdell has been recommitted for judge of the Thirty-third judicial district by the Republican convention, which met in Larned. The Concordia Gold Storage and Ice Company, with a paid up capital of $20,000, has been organized by Messrs. C. A. Betournay, G. G. Hill and John Stewart. The Independent Long Distance Telephone Company has opened its distance line between Topeka and Emporia. Mort A. Rough, chairman of the Republican state committee, has come out in an interview advocating the reelection of President Roosevelt in 1904. Rural free delivery service will be established on July 1, at Waindon county, with two carrier, length of routes, forty-six and one-half miles; population served, 1,300. Alice Biery, of Abilene, 23 years old, has sued Robert Kenney, a wealthy young farmer, for $1,000 damages for breach of promise. Their wedding was set for March 19, but he refused to Miss Florence E. Culver, of Wichita, has been appointed a teacher at Ponce, O. T., Indian school, and Miss Carrie E. Scoon, of Highland, as assistant teacher at Leech Lake, Minn., Indian school. Mr. Curtis of Kansas has reported favorably to the house the senate bill joint resolution directing the secretary of the interior to restate the accounts of certain Kansas receivers of public land offices. The cornerstone of the new $30,900 First Methodist church was laid in Emporia with much ceremony. The pastor, Rev. Mr. Madison; Dr. H. J. Coker, presiding elder, and Judge E. W. Cunningham, of the state supreme court, were in charge, , Salina has accepted the $15,00 library offered by Andrew Carnegie, and the citizens by public subscription have raised $1,500 for the purchase of a site at the corner of Eighth street and iron avenue. The location is one of the best that could be secured. The city must pay out $1,500 a year toward the support of the library. "Silent" Moxey, the expert accountant of the treasury department, has notified District Attorney Dean that he will be unable to be in Topeka the last of the month to testify in the Martin-cale case and Dean will ask the court to continue the case for the term. Judge Hook doesn't want to try the case, anyway. He was attorney for some of the parties connected with the Cross bank. An outside federal judge will be called in. General Bates, commander of the department of Missouri, arrived at Fort Riley Friday afternoon from Omaha. He was accompanied by his wife and party of friends, including President Burt, of the Union Pacific. The party arrived on a special train. A salute was fired by the artillery upon the general's arrival. He was entertained at the post Friday night by Colonel Carr, and inspected the command at the post Saturday morning. Albert S. Mettae has filed a home-steed entry for an island in the Kansas river about three miles west of Lecompton. The island contains eighteen acres and has never had a legal owner. There has been a considerable dispute over the ownership for forty-five years, and recently Mr. McKae made application to the general land office at Washington for a survey. The survey was completed a short time ago and McKae filed his entry and went on his way rejoicing. The land is considered to be worth $50 an acre. J. F. Grote, special agent of the postoffice department, who is investigating rural routes in the Second district, has completed his work in Douglas county. Through the efforts of Congressman Bowetsock and Postmaster Caldwell the entire county has been lald out in rural routes. While there is nothing definite as to when the service will begin on these routes, it is believed that it will take effect June 1, 1902. Mr. Grote served as an inspector; prior to his promotion as special agent and is now considered one of the best men in the Western division. Arkansas City business men are preparing to make another attempt to get gas or oil. The work of raising the necessary money has already commenced and there is much interest in the plan. A committee of business men visited the site of the old well on the bank of the Wa'uh river and shot it. This well was down only 650 feet when it had to be abandoned. The gas which accumulated in the well blazed into the air for fifty feet and after burning a short time went out. Another location will be selected for the next well and it will be put down 2,000 feet if necessary. A number of Missourians will go to the Charleston, S. C. exposition to assist in the exercises of Missouri day, April 24. Lieutenant Governor John A. Lee will be at the head of the delegation representing the state administration. Governor Lee will officiate at the formal exercises. A special excursion has been arranged to take the Missourians to Charleston. The train will leave St. Louis at 3:10 p.m. April 22, over the Nashville, Chattanooga & Atlanta railroad, arriving at Charleston on the evening of the 23d. Governor Lee has sent out a number of invitations to Kansas Cityans to join the excursion. Figures given out by the New York state controller show that collections for the last fiscal year under the inheritance tax law were $4,085,000. Of this amount Greater New York furnished $3,394,000. Among the largest payments were those from the estates of William Marsh Rice and Jacob Rogers, the locomotive builder. "Jack has all the qualities that go to make an excellent husband but one." "What's that, sis?" "He won't propose."—Tid-Bits. President Draper, of the University of Illinois, at Champaign suffered amputation of his right leg above the knee Thursday night as the result of his runaway accident Saturday. His left leg, which was broken, is doing well. He is as comfortable as can be expected. The tramp—Could you tell me, sir, how I can find work? Bilyums—Sure; buy an automobile and try to keep it in running order.—Baltimore Herald The Independent Long Distance Telephone Company has opened its distance line between Topeka and Emporia. Mort A. rough, chairman of the Republican state committee, has come out in an interview advocating the re-election of President Roosevelt in 1904. Rural free delivery service will be established on July 1, at Wadhen, Doniphan county, with two carrier, length of routes, forty-six and one-half miles; population served, 1,300. Alice Biery, of Abilene, 23 years old, has sued Robert Kenney, a wealthy young farmer, for $10,000 damages for breach of promise. Their wedding was set for March 19, but he refused to marry her. Wild Tom, the famous Sunny Slope Hereford bull, died recently at Sunny Slope farm. The animal won first prize in cattle shows all over the United States and Canada. An offer of $25,000 was refused for him by the late C. S. Cross. At the Twenty-fourth judicial district convention held at Harper, Judge Preston B. Gillett was nominated by acclamation. No opposition has as yet developed and Judge Gillett's election promises to be as unanimous as his nomination. Last November a man near Wellington caught a bald eagle alive. He put a silver band bearing his name and date around the neck of the bird and then liberated it. On Thursday morning he received a letter from a man at Phillips, Wyo., informing him that the eagle had been killed at that place. Professor D. O. Jones, director of music in the public schools at Emporia, who has had charge of Emporia's chorus for several years, has accepted an invitation from the Centenary Methodist church of Chattanooga Tenn., to take charge of the choir or that church, at a salary of $1,200 a year. The bond of Jessie Morrison for $10,000 was filed Wednesday at Eldorado and she was released after an imprisonment of eight days. There were four signers to the bond, who qualified for $50,000. Miss Morrison spent most of her time doing tancy work. She is expert in her work, which brings big prices. Miss Morrison was convicted of killing Mrs. Olin Castle. There is every indication of a big fruit crop in Cherokee county this year. Peach, plum, cherry, apricot and apple trees are loaded with health and uninjured bloom and it is too late if the season to have any fears of injury by frost. Owing to the drought and last summer the strawberry crop will be short and of inferior quality, but the fruit crop will be immense. Representative Miller, of the committee on claims in the house, has reported favorably the Bowersock bib giving the State University of Kansas $200,000 on account of the destruction of the Free State hotel at Lawrence, in 1855. The claim has been before congress for a number of years. It was made over to the university by a number of those who owned the lot and building of the Free State hotel. A peculiar land case has been decided in the district court at Atchison. Some years ago the course of the river near Doniphan changed, leaving the old river bed dry and valuable as farm land Christian Steinweiden, who lives in Kansas, claimed the land under the law of accession, but F. J. McBride, who lives in Missouri, also claimed the land by the same law. The case was decided in favor of Steinweiden. The case will be appealed. Joseph P. Dean, an old man, apparently about 80 years of age, who had made Topica his home for about two years, has been taken in custody charged with insanity. When searched at the jail $600 in government bonds and $1,300 in gold were found in his clothes. He also had a notice in his pocket which showed that he had $6,000 on deposit in the Cross bank, a Emporia, when it suspended. The authorities are unable to locate any of his relatives. City Editor—Why do you insist that the colonel is a candidate? Didn't he tell all you fellows that he wasn't?" Political Reporter—Yes, but the very next minute he invited us to have a drink.—Philadelphia Press. A Laredo, Texas, firm has shipped to the sufferers of Zapata county by way of ox carts a donation of 2,060 pounds of flour, 764 pounds of beam and a quantity of sugar and coffee. I is expected that other shipments for the relief of the drouth stricken district will follow. Announcement has been made by the American Beet Sugar Company's representative that its factory at Grand Island, Neb., will be operated the coming season, after being closed for two years. The company has closed contracts for 5,000 acres of beets for the present year, and expects to increase its capacity. The factory will be equipped with new and modern machinery. Chile and Mexico are about concluding a treaty of commerce and friendship. This treaty has some novel features, aiming at neutralizing disadvantages of distance as far as possible through improvement of lines of communication and cheapening freights. A postal treaty has also been arranged. "You were born in Georgia?" "Yes, suh. Dat what dey tells me." "And raised there?" "Well, suh, dyed tried raise me once, but de rope broke!" Benevolent gentleman—My little boy, have you no better way to spend this beautiful Sabbath afternoon than by standing in front of the gate idling away your time? Boy—I ain't idling away my time. There's a feller inside with my sister who is paying me sixpence an hour to watch for pa.—Tit-Bits. "Now, my dear, marry him. He is old, it is true, but he has money." "But, mamma, the man may live for months."-Life.