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THE STATE LEDGER By F. L. JELTZ. After all, royal scandals are rare enough to set everybody talking. The durbar shindy at Delhi is over. It is a great relief to the assembled elephants. At last accounts Mr. Rockefeller was worrying along with the same poor old stomach. "Bob" Burdette says humorists haven't degenerated. No, indeed; it is their output that has. If Mrs. Astor's figures are trustworthy New York's 400 has increased to 500. Natural increase? There appear to be still a few institutions in the country willing to take Mr. Rockefeller's dollars at par. Some parents who violently object to football-permit their boys to skate on thin ice and never worry a bit. The newspapers, the public and the stage folk are all waiting patiently to get a lick at Alfred Austin's new play. President Castro may not be a good fighter, but he has demonstrated to the powers that he is no slouch at waltzing. A New Jersey woman with a garden hose put her neighbors to rout. She is not the first woman to own flighty hose. A Kansas veteran wants his name taken off the pension rolls because he thinks they are overfull already. Good Lord! More men were killed by the explosion on the Massachusetts than the navy lost in action in the whole Spanish war. Crescuse will never be raced again for profit, says his owner. But then George Ketcham never claimed to be a prophet. Paris society has pronounced the cake walk shocking and immoral. The French always were finicky about these things. Apostle Smoot refuses to say whether he believes in polygamy or not. If he didn't he probably wouldn't be afraid to say so. The Sultan of Jolo is dead, but the Sultan of Bacolod is still looking through the knothole and daring Uncle Sam to "come on." Rudyard Kipling has gone to South Africa again, to see how the white man's burden is progressing under English domination. Mr. Jeffries' howl about being robbed in his bout with Prof. Jack Munroe is loud and prolonged. He must have had several bets on himself. The man whose wife takes him shopping can sympathize with the employee of a Chicago department store who was driven crazy by customer's questions. Word comes from France that Henri Fournier has broken the automobile record. Until the peasants are heard from it will not be known what else he broke. Our enterprising contemporary, the Manila Cabinenews, may wake up some fine morning to find that the wireless system has knocked its name out from under it. The college professor who has explained to a Boston audience why men with "jags" see double got his knowledge, of course, by observation, not by personal experience. As long as Speck von Sternberg has charge of Germany's interests at Washington peaceful relations with the United States may be expected, as his American wife will keep him in order. Having already seen her literary primacy pass to Indiana, Boston will be further chagrined to learn that it was a Chicago woman who patented the new army ration of condensed baked beans. The mayor of Worcester, Mass., has vetoed an ordinance increasing his salary from $2,500 to $4,000 a year. Politicians all over the country are wondering how a crazy man like that ever got into office. The army of the sultan of Morocco is armed with flintlocks and muzzle loaders, and his people believe that the devil invented the cannon. How can civilization be expected to flourish in such a pitiful country as that? The debate as to the meanest man is still on. Out in Kansas there are two real mean ones, one of whom said about the other: "I'll tell you how it is. Where he's well known, I am popular, and where I'm well known, he's popular." The Illinois State Journal notes the interesting discovery that "an Egyptian mummy 2,000 years old died of appendicitis." This disease, which spares neither youth nor extreme age, must have found that mummy, however, a pretty tough customer. No man bearing the name of Smith should ever desert a family. The Toledo Smith who ran away and got his name in the papers is now claimed in almost every state in the Union. Relic hunters have stolen the tombstone from the grave of Betsy Ross. She has one monument that cannot be purloined—the American flag. Japan is making rapid strides in civilization. A baby farm has been discovered at Osaka at which infanticide was practiced on a large scale. IN LINCOLN'S BIRTHPLACE. Woman Living in New England Whose Father Was Born in the Historic Log Cabin-Stories of the Early Days. Lincoln has been dead thirty-eight years. Most of those who personally knew him have also passed on into silence, and, like Washington, he has become in the popular mind a sort of mystical figure, associated with a bygone age of dramatic heroism—a patron saint. Although New England loved Lincoln as much as any other section of the country did, when it came to know him, yet he was always regarded as a characteristic product of the pioneer country, and, although efforts not altogether successful have been made to show that he was of Hingham ancestry, never till now has Massachusetts been conscious of the presence in this locality of any living connection between the immortal rail-splitter and our own soil. Nevertheless for seventeen years one of the environs of Boston has harbored a woman who makes the proud boast that her father and Abraham Lincoln were first cousins; that both WILLIAM J. BALL, PATRON OF PARS PIODRE were born in the same rude log cabin in Kentucky, but three months apart, in 1899, and that she herself is a grandniece of Lincoln's mother, the famous Nancy Hanks. She is Mrs. Nellie M. Moore, who was born not many years before the outbreak of the civil war, in the then exceedingly primitive town of Frankford, Mo., and has been for three months past a resident of East Pepperell, Mass., where her husband, Charles W. Moore, is engineer in a mill. When asked to define her relationship to the martyred President, Mrs. Moore said: "My father, William S. Hall, was a son of Martha Hanks, sister of Nancy Hanks, who married Thomas Lincoln and became the mother of Abraham Lincoln. So, you see, my father was first cousin and I was second cousin to the President. "My grandfather, who married Martha Hanks, was Levi Hall, and they and Thomas and Nancy Lincoln were living together in the little log cabin in La Rue county, Ky., in 1898, when Abraham Lincoln was born there. My father was born three months later in the same cabin." When questioned as to the antecedents of the Hanks, Lincoln and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says it is a tradition of all three families that they emigrated together from New England about 200 years ago to Pennsylvania, from there to Virginia and later to Kentucky, as they eventually did to Indiana and finally to Illinois and Missouri. She has been for some time engaged in investigating the possible early connection of the families with New England, and intends to prepare a genealogy embodying the results of her labor. Continuing her story of the vicissitudes of the Lincoln, Hanks and Hall families, Mrs. Moore says: "My aunt, Rosanne Hall, who rode from her home in Maryland to Kentucky behind her husband on his horse told me that there were Quakers among my ancestors, as there are said to have been in the Lincoln family. She also said that my great-grandfather was killed by the Indians at the same time that Abraham Lincoln's grandfather was, while they were clearing the ground to plant corn, on their arrival in Kentucky. It was she who told me my father was born in the Lincoln log cabin. "My grandparents, Levi Hall and Martha Hanks, both died of the milk-MONUMENT FOR LOG CABIN. Spot Where Lincoln First Lived in Illinois Will Be Marked. The Illinois State Historical Society is pushing a movement to erect a monument on the site of the log cabin in Harristown township, Macon county, which was the first home of Abraham Lincoln when he came to Illinois. Nobody knows what has become of the famous old structure. It was a hut of one room, about fourteen feet square, it had loose boards for a loft and a clapboard roof. The logs were chinked with mud. The old structure first attracted public attention when it was sent to the Centennial in Philadelphia in 1876. It was brought back from there, and a cabin, which was said to be the same one, was on exhibition at the World's Fair in Chicago, although its authenticity was disputed at the time. The exact size of the old cabin is in doubt and for some time efforts have been made by historians to determine the spot. It is now practically settled that the cabin stood on the spot now occupied by an old farm house on the Scroggin farm, near Harristown. Just sick, in Indiana, in 1818, about the same time that Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks, and her uncle and aunt Sparrow died. All were buried together in rude coffins constructed by Thomas Lincoln, who was now a widower with two small children. After Lincoln became President, someone erected a monument over his mother's grave in the wilderness, but Aunt Roseanne told me that the selection of the grave for the monument must have been mere guesswork, since none of the graves had ever been marked, and there was no means of identifying any one of them." Coming to the subject of the migration of the survivors of the three families from Indiana to Illinois Mrs. Moore says: "Joseph Hanks, who taught Thomas Lincoln, Abe's father, the carpenter's trade, just 100 years ago, was one of the first settlers in Illinois, having gone there from Kentucky to 1820. It was his son, the famous John "BOUND FOR ILLINOIS MRS. NELLIE M. MOORE COLSTON OR ABRAHAM LINCOLN Hanks, still living in Missouri, who in 1830 induced Thomas Lincoln, Dennis Hanks and my father to pull up stakes and also remove to Illinois, where Abe was destined to achieve that fame that gained for him the Presidency. "Having arrived in Macon county, Ill., the party, which numbered thirteen, settled for a while. My father and Abe Lincoln were in their 21st year, and they, with John Hanks, Abe's second cousin, built the log cabin which some say was exhibited on Boston Common thirty years or more ago. They also split the famous fence rails at that time, samples of which did much to arouse the enthusiasm in the Illinois convention in 1860, which secured the Presidential nomination for Lincoln. "After serving as major in the Black Hawk war, in which Abe Lincoln was captain, my father became one of the earliest settlers in Missouri, and during the greater part of his life kept a tavern, first at Hannibal and later at Frankford. "I often visited around among the Hankes in my childhood, too, and my especial favorite was Grandma Hanks, as we called John Hanks' mother, lived in what is now known as Quincy, Ill. I used to hold her skein of yarn for her when she wound it into a ball, and during the operation she would tell me stories of her early life in the pioneer days in Illinois. "One story was in regard to a freshet such as used to come almost yearly to those who lived along the river bottom eighty years or so ago. Grandma went several miles down the river on a raft, one day, to the mill, to have some corn ground, leaving the children in the log house. The river had been threatening to rise for several days, but the children well knew from former experiences, that if the river invaded the house they were to climb up on the roof for safety. where the ancient old structure is now no one seems to know. For many years after the Lincoln's vacated it the cabin was used as a schoolhouse. There are several of the old-timers of Macon county who attended school there. They say that an elderly lady named Macintosh was the teacher. Nobody has been found who knows what became of her. Harristown's first white settler was a relative of Abraham Lincoln. He was William Hanks, who located on section 23 in 1828. Three years later, according to a Macon county historian, "Mr. Lincoln, John Hanks, Mr. Lincoln's father, and John Johnson, Mr. Lincoln's step-brother, erected a log cabin on section 28 in the edge of the timber along the Sangamon river." It is hoped soon to agree upon a design for the monument designed to mark the spot where the cabin was constructed. His Solitary Childhood. Of all the years of Abraham Lincoln's early childhood we know almost nothing. He lived a solitary life in the woods, returning from his lonely little games to his cheerless "The river rose while grandma was away and she toiled laboriously to get home as soon as she could. When she got nearly home she found everything afloat, and as she passed a tree that was well submerged she thought she heard a cry from the branches. She paddled to the tree, and there found her baby, John Hanks, afloat in his cradle, which had been washed through the door of the cabin, and had drifted about till it found lodgment in the top of the tree, where his mother found it. "Another of her stories was about Guinea niggers. I suppose you don't know what Guinea niggers were, do you? Well, they were not uncommon in the days when slaves were brought from Africa. They were very small in stature and very unprepossessing in appearance and they were said to be cannibals. "Grandma said that in her youth she knew a young couple who bought a pair of Guinea niggers. One day their little child disappeared and it was PORTRAIT OF LINCOLN IN 1858 SPLITTING RAILS IN ILLINOIS never seen again. They afterward found that the cannibals had eaten the child, and they were hanged for it. "Grandma, like most of the Hankses and Lincolnes, was an ardent Methodist. In her old age she always knitted just so much on a stocking every week day. One morning she was industriously engaged in the performance of her allotted stint, when some of the younger folks came in with their best clothes on. "Why, grandma! What are you doing? somebody asked. 'Only knitting,' she replied, with some surprise. What, knitting on Sunday, grandma? 'Is this Sunday?' asked grandma, in amazement. When convinced that it was she unraveled every stitch she had done that morning, in order to atone as far as possible for her desecration of the day." Mrs. Moore describes having seen with some amusement Abraham Lincoln making a political speech in Missouri, arrayed in a long and exceedingly crumpled linen "duster," and a tail hat of ancient pattern. She says that when Lincoln was nominated for President his humble relatives among the Hankeses held up their hands with amazed incredulity and exclaimed with practical unanimity: "Abe Lincoln for President? I don't believe it!" "There was always something queer about the Hankeses," she says; "for although they were among the earliest settlers in Illinois and had their pick of the land, and plenty of it, and some of them had large, productive farms, yet every one of them turned out as poor as Job's cat. "My mother owned slaves before the war, but my father never did, nor did any of the Hankses, and for that reason they were called 'poor whites' by their neighbors who had slaves. All the Hankses were stanch supporters of the union during the civil war."—Boston Globe. home. He never talked of these days to his intimate friends. Once, when asked what he remembered about the war with Great Britain, he replied: "Nothing but this: I had been fishing one day, and caught a little fish which I was taking home. I met a soldier in the road, and having always been told at home that we must be good to the soldiers, I gave him my fish." This is the only faint glimpse, but what it shows is rather pleasant—the generous child and the patriotic household. But there is no question that these first years of his life had their lasting effect upon the temperament or this great mirtful and melancholy man. He had little schooling. He accompanied his sister, Sarah, to the only schools in their neighborhood, one kept by Zachariah Riney and another by Caleb Hazel, where he learned the alphabet and little more. But of all those advantages for the cultivation of a young mind and spirit which every home now offers to its children, the books, toys, ingenious games and daily devotion of parental love, he knew absolutely nothing. WINNING A LAWSUIT INCIDENT IN LEGAL CAREER OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. Simple Scheme Evolved in His Shrewd Brain by Which He Saved His Client, "Duff" Armstrong, from Death on the Gallows. There have been so many garbled versions of the famous incident in Abraham Lincoln's legal career in which he by an almanac saved the life of a man charged with murder that it is appropriate just now to narrate the correct one, as told by R. W. Armstrong, a barber of Mason City, who is the son of the man defended, and who was known as "Duff" Armstrong. He is very familiar with the case, as but a short time before his father, who, by the way, is still living, had related to him the exact facts in the affair. In all the histories of Lincoln and in most of the school books it is told how Lincoln defended Armstrong and cleared him by proving that the moon was not shining when the murder was committed "by the light of the moon." The father of Duff Armstrong was Jack Armstrong, who lived near New Salem, and who was the leader of the "Clary Grove" boys. He it was who had the celebrated wrestling match with Lincoln of the old store at New Salem. Afterward they became great friends. The home of Jack Armstrong and of his wife Hannah was always open to Lincoln, and he visited there many times. It was during the summer of 1857 that Duff Armstrong, with a number of other young fellows, attended a camp meeting twelve miles south of Mason City. The young fellows were drinking, as war the custom of those times. Duff became involved in a quarrel with a companion named Metzger one night a short distance from the camp meeting. Duff claimed that he struck Metzger with his fist just under the eye. The stories in so many books that he used a club or slingshot or other weapon, he insists are false. The next morning Metzger was out and around, but it is presumed that he caught cold in the injured eye. At any rate, the injury affected his brain in some manner, and he died. The elder Armstrong had just died and the mother of the prisoner was in great trouble. She, in her poverty and distress, thought of her old friend and occasional boarder, Abraham Lincoln, and asked him to defend her boy. Lincoln willingly agreed to do so. The evidence seemed all against him. One witness swore that he saw Armstrong strike Metzger with a slingshot and others corroborated the story. Lincoln asked each one how he saw the fight, and the invariable reply was, "By the light of the moon." Lincoln then produced an almanac of the current year and proved by it that at the time they swore they saw the assault in the moonlight the moon was invisible. Lincoln then addressed the jury, making, it is said, one of the strongest and most eloquent pleas ever made in that court. At the close he turned to the weeping mother and said: "Aunt Hannah, you can have your boy again before the sun goes down." And she did, for the jury brought in a verdict of not guilty. Lincoln received no fee and asked none. Afterward Armstrong enlisted in the army. He was the only support of his mother, the other children being small. When Lincoln became President Mrs. Armstrong wrote to him, asking him to release her son from the army that he might come home, as she needed his services. Neighbors told her that it was non-sense to write to the great Lincoln about such a small matter as the discharge of a soldier out of such a great army, and especially when Lincoln was so deeply immersed in the momentous affairs of state. She only replied: "Please God, Abe will give back my boy to me once more." As soon as Lincoln received the letter he ordered a discharge made out for William Armstrong, and within ten days he was at home with his mother. The President and His Boy It was a frequent custom of Lincoln's to carry his children on his shoulders, says the Literary Digest. He rarely went down street that he did not have one of his younger boys mounted on his shoulder, while another hung to the tail of his long coat. The antics of the boys with their father and the species of tyranny they excised over him are still the subjects of talk in Springfield. Roland Diller, who was a neighbor of Mr. Lincoln, tells one of the best of the stories. He was called to the door one day by hearing a great noise of children, and there was Mr. Lincoln striding by with the boys, both of whom were wailing aloud. "Why, Mr. Lincoln, what's the matter with the boys?" he asked. "Just what's the matter with the whole world," Lincoln replied. "Ive got three walnuts, and each wants two." Lincoln Letter Recovered Soiled and faded, torn and frayed, a letter written by Abranam Lincoln a few months before his assassination has been found in some rubbish and papers on Broadway, New York, near the postoffice. It reads as follows: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.—To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass.; I have been shown in the file of the war department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave only the cherished memory of loved and lost and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. "Yours very sincerely and respect fully, "A. LINCOLN." Tolstoy believes that the best time for literary work is between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m., and he seldom writes at other times. 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A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine, which cured Mrs. James Beck, will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists. Price, 50 cents per box. Deepening the Thames. The Thames, between London bridge and Milwall dock, is to be deepened to fourteen feet at low water, leaving but fifteen feet above the roof of the new East London railroad tunnel. THE K. C. S. ALMANAC FOR 1903 THE K. C. S. ALMANAC FOR 1903 The Kansas City Southern Railway Almanac for 1903 is now ready for distribution. Farmers, stock-raisers, bust-greater merchants, truckers and others seeking a new field of action or a new home at the very lowest prices, can obtain reliable information concerning Southwestern Missouri, the Cherokee and Choctaw Nations in the Indian Territory, the Louisiana and Texas, Northwestern Louisiana and the Coast country, and of the business opportunities offered therein. Write for a copy of the K. C. S. 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How the Trusts Grow Within three and one-half years 82 trusts have been formed, having an aggregate capital of $4,318,005,646. HIGH RAILROAD POSITION FOR JOHN SEBASTIAN. John Sebastian, one of the best known railroad men in the United States and who for a number of years has been connected with the Rock Island system's various roads, has just received an appointment which greatly enlarges his powers and places him practically at the head of one of the great railway systems of the country. He has been made passenger traffic manager of the entire hock Island system, comprising, in addition to those formerly under his management, the following roads: Choctaw, Gulf & Oklahoma Railroad and the St. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado Railroad. John Sebastian entered the railroad service thirty-four years ago as a ticket clerk on the Santa Fe.—Chicago Examiner The steam roller gathers no moss. Melancholia seldom comes to a busy man. Great Britain buys over 11,000 tons of German toys annually, while the United States ranks next, with an importation of about 6,000 tons. Thinks Filipinos Will Do Prof. H. G. Lamson, who spent a year in the Philippines, has hopes of their civilization because they like American schools, are industrious and have taken kindly to soap. Cof Higginsch Still Writing. Col. Thomas Wentworth Winghams has turned his eighty-first year and is still in fairly good health, passing siderable time at his writing table. Among New England men of letters only Dr. Edward Everett Hale is his senior. A Distinct Advance Now that a girl with a wounded heart has had the aperture sewn in, she will be in surgery, will implant breach-of-promise suits in broken broken hearts? Excludes Heat Rays Professor Wood of John Hopkins has made a screen which does not admit beat rays and bars all light rays except the ultraviolet. For thirty years scientists have sought such a screen. For Better Control of Guides. 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KOFFLER for all kinds of GROCER'S, Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish., Poultry and Game in Season 342 Minnesota avenue, (Late of Gnicago.) Physician and Surgeon. Specialties—Chronic Cases and Diseases. Ten years special study. Hospital experience. 1520 North 5th street. S. McCURDY..... Dealer in - Good Things to Eat. Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables, Also Flour and Seed. 1019 Massachusetts street. The AMER:CANWIND ENGINE Not how scheap, but how good. As America stands today towering above any and all the nations of the earth and as our wind when stands among wind wheels as America does among the nations. We therefore have named it — TheAmerican— Governs automatically. Patent Long Pump Stroke, and is The Greatest Pumping Wheel on Earth. We are also originators and manufacturers of Compressed Air Water Service for hotels and houses, giving Country Homes City Water Service. Contract Shop connected with Factory. Drawings, Patterns and Models Made Castings Furnished Machine Work of All Kinds Done MANUFACTURED BY THE AMERIGAN WIND ENGINE COMPANY 213--215 East First str., : TOPEKA B. F PEOPLES..... Confectionery, Cigars and Tobaccos- Home made candies a specialty- ESKRIDGE, Kansas. Sawin& Douglass UNDERTAKERS s And EMBALMERS Street, Atchison, Kansas TURGIS H D W C O. Hardware, Stoves and Tinwar Coles Hot Blast Heaters. Bystrom Gas Jamps. Mantles and Globe Akron Furnaces. 844 N Kas. avs L.R.SPETTER J. R. SPITTER Manufactur and Wholesale Retailer of Cream of Roses, M. W. A., 5ct FINE CIGARS 816% North Kansas Ave. 10R 60 days I will make $25 Suits for 18 dollars- $8.00 Trousers for $5.00. Call and make your selection. S. Gordon 100 W. 6th Street A. V. DIGNO Dealer In...all kinds of Second Han d Stovesindua Give him a call. 116-120 N Kas av Kuelers Commission House Gener retail. 811 Kansas ave. Go to Mrs. Keener Stewart, fo Millinery, 738 Kansas Avenue, Go to Topeka Drug Co., for your Confectionaries Cigars and Tobacco. 732 Kansas. Ave. J' C. HQLLAND & SQUIE Architects and Superintendents 734 Kas. Ave 'Phone 171 E M FLETCHER & SON. Carpenters & Builder Furniture and Job Work Solicited. 119E Seventh St. U. M. PETTIT—Dears in Grocerie Fresh and Salt Meats. Also a full line Caanned Goods and Articles Call and see his line 1310, 6th st Pele. 2585. J S MANANSUOUS. Dealer in Fruits: confectionaries Cigars and Tobaccos Give him a call for Xmar goods 831 Kas avs J.HFIRST Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meat Also Milk Depot. 1019-21 E 6th Telex 911 G. H. Lawlor.... General Baking. Home-made Goods a specialty----915 Kas. ave HOBARTS FRED STORE Everything In Feed Line 632 Quincy St. FITZSIMMONS HOUSE Boarding And Lodging Meals 15 ecnt Good Service 323 Kas. Ave. J. Kirk White PLUMBING and HEATING. Jobbing promptly attended to Estimates Furnished. Tele 867 124 west 8th Street. Wholesale Confectionery and Retail. T L WHITE, Manufacturer. Give him your trade. .51 str., Atchison, OTTAWA KANS To those desiring a strictly Custom Made Garment, Cut in Latest Styles. a most cordial invitation or an early call is herewith extended Price always the lowest, consisen T. P. Way Real Estate and Loan Aent Farm or city property For sale or Exchange. If you want a farm in DR. G. J. T. JOHNSON. General Practice—Chronic Diseases, Women and Children a Specialty General Practice-Surgery a Specialty Office Hours 8 a. m to 9 p. m. Telephone at Office and Residence 108 to 110 North 7th street. Who is Who?..... Why Its BARNES—'The CHILE KING Mexican'Chile per dish 10c Chile Soup '50 Vegetable Soup '50 Hot Coffee and Lunch day & night 121 S Main St, Ottawa, Kansas. HA KLAUER Carries ALL the LATEST brand of cigars and also FULL LINE of Tobacco and smoking articles. His cigars are made in- Topeka k2Kas. Ave. KING HOTEL MRS. L. T. WOODY, Prop 831 Vermont Street, Lawrence, Kansas Meals 15c, Lodging 25c, Newly fixed np in every particular 16 fine rooms, WM- KLINGER TAILOR. Tailoring at reasonable prices. & Workmanship guaran eed Cleaning and Repairing in 512½ Kansas Avenue. Topoka PINE BROS Dealers In Staple and Fancy Groceries 187 Bridge St, Tel No 29 LAWRENCE, KANS. KANE & CO The Family Drug Store Your Trad: Solicited. TopekaDrug Co, PRESCRIPTION DRUGGIST 732 Kansas Avenue, Do you read the State Judge r A dog running in a field. S. J. Brown, 217 east 5 Hides Furs Wool Etc Write for Prices. Reference First Nation We willmove to (128 N Kansas ave., after Dec. THE COUGHLIN HARD Finest lines Of stove PENINSULAR Topeka, Kansas 706 Kansas THE VAR Heating & Manuja : Manufacturers of Wrought Steel Warm Are Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and I 323 and 325 Cherokee Street P.L. RUS COAL, GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED Cut Flowers Funeral Designs Pa MRS M E HO FLOIST. Tel 176. 807 GEC. M. NOBLE REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURA erwilder Buipg Telephone 444, 5 R Prices. Reference First National Bank, Topeka Love to (128 N Kansas ave., after Dec 1st.) COUGHLIN HARDWARE Best lines Of stoves made. Topeka, Kansas. 706 Kansas Avenue THE VARNEY Hating&Manufacturing : Manufacturers of: Right Steel Warm Air FURNA vololting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke Stack 1325 Cherokee Street : EAVENWORTH- P.L. RUSH COAL, GROCERIES, FLOUR, FEED and MAY. 1405 K vers Funeral Designs Palms and Ferns MRS M E HOLLCRAFT FLOIST. 807 Kansas Ave GEC. M. NOBLE & CO. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE: MOKIGAG Ipping Telephone 444, 501 Jackson St Topeka, PENINSULAR PENINSULAR CITY OF LOS ANGELES PENINSULAR CITY OF LOS ANGELES Wrought Steel Warm Air FURNACES Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke Stacks. GEC. M. NOBLE & CO. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE MORTGAGES erwiedd Buipg Telephone 444. 501 Jackson St. Tepeka, Ks PAINE BROS Expert Watchmaker Dealers in all kinds of Merchandise, Oivers, Musical Instruments also Bicycles. Also Agents for the Best Remedies to take "Jo-He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 B. THE IMPERIAL BREWERY Hall and Pool ANDERSON Prop. Give him a call. 22 J. E. PE RESTAURANT and CONTAINER Cigars, Tobbacco and mild. Drinks. Call and see me and I will serve. Moon & Hemporia Marble & Co. Office a Works7ogComm. street. & Domestic M Cemetery Work executed in the Latest Styles. WEBER & Dealers In Highest grade Fruits Nuts, Raisins Apples and Oranges. Give them a call. Art Watchmaker and Jewelers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as Guns, Rare Musical Instruments also Bicycles and Bicycle Racks. Also Agents for the Best Remedy in existence. He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 Kansas avenue, Topeka THE PERIAL BILLAR Hall and Pool-room RSON Prop. Give him a call. Declers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as Guns, Revivers, Musical Instruments also Bicycles and Bicycle Reparing. Also Agents for the Best Remedy in existence. take "Jo-He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 Kansas avenue, TOPEKA, Kans THE IMPERIAL BILLARD Hall and Pool-room ANDERSON Prop. Give him a call. J. E. PEARS RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Jobbacces and mild. Drinks. Lunches and Call and see me and I will serve you right. Moon & Hagins Goria Marble & Granite Ware Since a Works7ogComm; street, EMPORIA, & Domestic Marble & Gran Cemetery Works. Work executed in the LatestStyles by Skilled Mechanics WEBER & CO. Dealers In Highest grade groceries Buts, Raisins Apples and Oranges for am a call, RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Cigars, Tobbacco and mild. Drinks. Lunches and Long n Call and see me and I will serve you right. Emporia Marble & Granite Works Office a Works7ogComm street. EMPORIA, Kas &Domestic Marble & Granite Cemetery Works. Work executed in the LatestStyles by Skilled Mechanics Highest grade groceries. Fruits Nuts, Raisins Apples and Oranges for! Give them a call, 431 Kansas ave.: JAMES C. SMITH JAMES C. SMITH DEALER IN Mides, Tallow, Fure 108 and11c East Third St 124 and8 2ndstre Oldes, Tallow, Fure and Poles. odllc East Third Street Topeka 24 and 8 2ndstre tt.Joseph Mo Mides, Yellow, Furs and Pelts. 108 and11c EastThird Street Topeka Ka 124 and8 2ndstre tt.Joseph Mo Palms and Ferns HOLLCRAFT, 07 Kansas Ave Topeka E & CO. INSURANCE: MOKTGAGES 44, 501 Jackson St Topeka, Kas and Jewelers dise, such as Guns, Rev. cycles and Bicycle Reparing. remedy in existence. 25 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kansas THE BILLARD pool- room 222 Kans. Ave. EARS CONFECTIONERY Lunches and Loafs serve you right. Magins Granite Works EMPORIA, Kas. Marble & Granite Works. uses by Skilled Mechanics. & CO. e groceries. ages for. SMITH 1405 KansAve DR O A TAYLOR PHI, SI CIAN and SURGKEON office Hours, g to 11 a.m. From 2 to 15 p.m. OFFICE 226% KAS, AVE. Over Kohl's Drug Store.) H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 833 Kans Ave All calls promptly attended Tel. 14 Tel. 895 I. A. SHIELDS M. D PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBuren St calls promptly attended S. G. STEWART, M. D. OFFICE 621 KANSAS AVK. Telephone 541. Residence 112 East 7th Street C. F. MENNINGER, M. D. Office 727 Kansas Ave. Telephone: Office Hours: 11-12 A. M. 2-5 P. M. Residence 125 Topeka Ave. Telephone 85. J. M JAMISON, M. D. Office 506 East 4th Street Office Hours: From 8 to 10 A. M. P. M. to 3 P. M. P. M. to 9 P. M. special attention diseases of women and private diseases. Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. OFFICE HOURS: 9 TO 11 A. M. 2 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P. M. Sunday Hours: 1 to 3 P. M. OFFICE 404 Kans Ave Tele. 6351 Over Wallace Drug Store. GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. 843 KANSAS AVENUE Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES MA TERIALS. Miller's Pharmac 6th & TOPEKA AVF Drug&Medicines, Pr script s Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. M. R. MITCHELL, M. D 931 North Van Buren St, Topeka Kansas Phone 246 LEUNBERGER . BRO GROCERIES MEATS, FISH AND POULTRY 933 Kansas Ave, Telephone 291 WHIT ELSEY MER CO. Cor 2nd & Madison Street Phone 732 City Give them a cal. H. GENTHE, 113 East Fourth St Bakery Goods. Cakes and Pies. Give them a call, S. W. CARPENTER Milk depot Home made bread, cakes and pies Give them a call. 200 Monroe St, MRS. F. J. BERT Bakery and canned goods. Cigars and Tobacco. 222 E 2nd St. THE FAMOUS H W SHAVOR, Proprietor All kinds of cold Drinks— Mess and Short order South of Square— HOLTON, Kas Live kidneys, rheumatism and ht les. Will er75 out o. every 100cases. com soltation free. Mc.FARLAND M, D, Physician and Surgeon For 50 years I have made chronic disease's special study. Call and see me, I Will give you satisfaction female diseases a special. 613 Branner St. Topeka Kansas, THEASTORIA L. E. BUMP, Proprietor. Lunches and Shor Order first class in every particular. Corner Dearware and Cherokee LEAVEN W ORTH Kasa. Try LEO'S Cafe and Lunch Room A Good Place to Eat. A nice too Lunch counter. Good Service, Board and Lodging Iems 1527 W. wth 19 West 9th str. trial solicited BATMAN & TAYLOR. 1331 West 9th street, You may find all the things in the pusse but youcan't find better — DRINK> than we have all the time. BIGGEST OFFER in the HISTORY I Gall 8 year old Rey Whiskey, I Gall Bi Brandy or Wine, Glass and Cork Screw — only $3.00. Send a Mo eyer or at- State Line Exchange, 1721 West 9th str. F. JOSEPHSON & CO gTHE L·B. PRICE MER. CO Imported Jobbers In HOUSE-HOLD SPECIALITIES! All goods sold on easy payments' Office 122 E.4th St. Topeka J, H. Ward Gibraltar Drug Co. Fred T. Walker Mgr. Camera and Photo supplies PERSONAL AND BUSINESS Brown Chapel C, H, Richardson Pastor 14th and Washington sts. Services at 11 a.m and 7:30 p. endeavor 630 p.m. Mrs. Filla Fitch meals and short order and chili call and see me. 116 Kans, Ave. confectioneries, Cigars and Tobacco. Headquarters for anything you want 817 Kans ave. The Home Bakery—Fresh rolls each day, Baked Beans a specialty. Call and try us 735 Topeka ave J. L. Miller Prop. The French Bakery—815 Kas avenue. Fine Bakery goods always fresh—Wedding Cakes a specialty. Mr Martin Prop. J. E. Nissley & co., WHOLE AND FETA Milk Cream and Butter, Red Cross Butter a specialty. Both Tel 537. J. L. Penny has a fine store now 1220 west 6th street, call and see him Tel 876. Remember the old reliable J. C Shimer one among the prominent deaiers of south Topeka, el 471 Cofectionary and fixtures and some nice furniture for sale. 109g E 6th.st. Buy your shots of Jno Nystrom the old reliable dealer for many vears 816 Kans.Ave. North Topeka. Smith and Anderson wholesale, merchants 917 Kas, Ave. use them when in need of "stuff" in their line B. F. GOODMAN. The "PENN" Sausage, lard Manufactory 910 N. Kansas Avenue West 8th Ave. FLOUR FEED&SUPPLY House Can save your money in bui ing Flour, Grain, Hay, Mill Feed Salt and Coal 108 west Eighth Bell Phone 159 P. I. SPRENG mgr DRRESBACH & WALLACE Grocers and Butchers, 933 Kansas avenue. Both P ones 291. J. S. F ITTN — Staple ar d Fancy Groceries. Buy of him and savemoney. 4th & Lake St. TELEI HONE 800 McENTIRE BROS., Manufacturers of A-Steel Springs, Woven wire Cots, cribs, Mattresses and Pillows 305 307 Kans Ave. J. S. GRICE Groceries, Flour and Feed, 903 W 6th Street. BLIAS WHITE Tailor for Suits Cleaned Repaired, Dived and pressed, Good Work Reasonable Prices. 11 80 W 5th Street J. H SCHEGEL 807 West 6th Street. Tel. 84, HINMAN & MILLER Dealers In New and Second Hand FURNITURE STOVES Buyers and Sellers of Everything also Storage Upholstering and repairing a spec 423 Kansas Ave. Phones 246 Flias White---- Cleaning repairing and Pressing----11 ow. 5th St., Sap and Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats Game in Season Flour 134 Kans. Ave. Phone 823 F.M.WARD. Real Estates Agen Insurance and Rental Agency, Personal Property Boug and Sold. Employment Agent R.R. Laborers'a Specialty, 1601.817 N.Kn.Ave Noth TOPEKA KANSAS. H. S. PRUESSM K & CO., Deals I n House Furnishing Goods Both ew and Old. xtra line'of Rugs, Carpets and Fur future on easy payments. Call and se Me 607 N. Kas, ave., NATIONAL NO. 27. Kansas City, Mo. Ads..... Mrs. A RUFF Groceries- Meats & Bak. Fresh Pies and Cakes daily. 1308 West Ninth str. Miller Bros, Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits, Country Produce, etc. 1301 Union Avenue. First Class Sam le Room, Tino LYNCH, Prop- Pine Line of Wines, Lipsours and Cly- Open Day, and Night! 1330 St LOUIS Avenue. Burnetts Restaurant' is the place take your meals when in Oakland. he carries a full stock of confects and also mild and delicious da Give him a call. DUROW & KIRKHAM Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish sters and Poultry. Canned meats pickles. Every thing kept in a class market. 531 Topelia Ave. Deshattio and Young Meals and short order Good cooking and ever the first class is our motto" give ca trai 116 Kans ave. W. B. TAY'.OR All kinds of stoves for all Gasoline stoves and cooks repaired Try me. ATCHISON, Kansas, ..... P. J. Moore..... General Shoe repairing Best work at low prices, ... 108 South 6th street. L BORSERINI Wholesale & Retail Mercant Co. 731-732 Commercial su Wholesale Dealer in Va. Bluet Minnesota Beer. mpor and Domestic Liquors A, W. TEACHOUT. Moulings, Pictures, Artists Musi Artistic Picture Framer. 620 Commercial street. O. A. LEE & CO. Dealers in HAY, GRAIN and FREE). 88 & Main str., ATCHINBURY, Office City scales. EMIL EBNER, Pealer in — Groveries Nations & H 603 North Tenth Street, · New Telephone 604. FRANK KOEBRICH— Deler. n — GRO ERIF & MEAN Corner 10th and Larameur str. — Tele 71 Jones Bros. 114 South 4th str., Atchison, K Handle a good line of Refreshing Courteous and polite, give them a call OSCAR M OLSON, —Notary Public Money safely sent to Sweden in exchange Power of Attorney to Sweden, at lowes 1604 North 5th street B. D. ZIMMERMAN. Direct Importer and Jobber of China. Glass and Queens Lamps and Burners. 614 Com l St Atchison, Kans J.E KETTERMAN THE STAR RESTAURANT Good Dinner, Lunch and Short ce Meals 25 cents First day Temperance Drinks Alma, K E. J. BLACK, Restaurant & Meals— Short Orders, Board and Lodging—day week 21 meals for weeks board. Call and try me. 30 Cherokee str., Leavenworth, K IOHN J. O'DONNELL— Funeral Director and Embroider, Corner Shawnee and Fifth street Open Day and Night. Office Telephone 221, Residence Phase Leavenworth, Kansas. C. BAUMAN NOTICE Dealer In Fresh and salt Meats, etc. Corner 5th and Senecur Street Lesvenworth Ka JULIUS OPTICIAN - TAILOR Suits made to order, Ladies Gowns Refitted, Cleanig. Ilycing and repairing 107 S Fittle Leavenworth, Ka MARPLE BR PROPRIETORS OF Capital Livery, Feed and Sale S bles. Boarding and Feeding H ses a Speciality. Nos. 110, 121, 12 West Norst St. Phone 22. N To ```markdown ```