State Ledger

INTER-STATE Journal Kans., and Mts. souri. By F. L. JEUTZ. EDITORIAL We feel it our duty to say to you that we are for the most people for the most possible good. Cyrus Leland's visit to the nation's Capitol is marked with such significance that the state of Kansas will hereafter keep it's eyes on him. Now that the general election comes off April 7th, it is generally understood that "Uncle Mike Heery" by that time will show his full speed. We yet hope to get even with a few grand rascals who cause us trouble and five others pain. Remember every dog has his day. Some laugh at a man's misfortune but nevertheless there is none perfect, and still they laugh. It is not the man that goes "saintly on Sunday" who is the best, by and by all these geese's will get theirs just the same. There are a few devils down here at Kansas City who will smell particular hill before April 7th for the manner and way they lied to us about their candidacy. The editor of this "sheet" has been out of the city and has grabbed a severe cold, for that reason we will not be able to say many kind words this week. A vote for berry for marshall means a vote for the entire colored race. Mr. berry is worthy of all honors of this kind and it elected which he has a good show will mean representation all the line he is a man with good business of his own and has been quite successful in this city. Honest Mike Heery will be elected next Tuesday if the people get out and take an interest in the election. It is not a "wet fight," it is the administration of the city of Topeka is at stake for the next two years; It does not mean joints, its motto is business, and if Heery is elected it will mean business. Stand up for "honest Mike" next Tuesday. Letvenworth Notes City Treasurer Beeler is a candidate for re-election to the same office he now holds. It affords our readers great pleasure to say that Mr. Beeler is the right man for the place he has lived in Leavenworth so long and made such an excellent citizen that he does not doubt their confidence in asking for re-election. Mr. Beeler wants it understood that he has done his duty, he has a good record and is not ashamed of it. He is before you April 7th for the office of City Treasurer and we believe when the ladie and gentlemen go to the polls that they will not ask any questions but stand by the those friends who have always stood by you. Vote for O. C' Beeler for Treasurer. MR. B. F. ENDRES for Police Judge There need be no extensive mention of B.F. Endres for the office of Police Judge, having served in the county attorney's office two years as an efficient deputy, give color to the fact that the young man is all right for the place. There is no question as to the popularity and fitness of Mr. Endres. He is one of the most competent Hon B. F. ENDRES. young men in the city of Leavenworth and there is little question but that he will be elected. It is generally conceded that he has the best of his opponent, Chas. Biochberger, who has held the office two years and as Mr. Endres is a young uncompromising republican and with his popularity he will be easily elected. The State Ledger. DO RIGHT--KNOW THAT YOU ARE RIGHT;E AR NOMAN;BUT RENDER;JUSTICE TO ALL. MR, J P. BERRY of the First Ward for Marshal City Court At a recent meeting of the members of the convention of the opposition, Mr. J. P. Berry, a prominent First Ward man was nominated for marshal of the court of Topeka. Mr. Berry has lived in the First Ward so long till he need not be introduced. He is oefore the voters of his ward April 7th for the marshal's ip. The Ledger wants it understood that Mr. Berry is well qualified for the place he seeks and represents the colored. In view of the fact that the office will be minus a colored face unless he is elected, many of his friends are making an effort to land him for the place. If he receives the proper support at the polls in April next he will make the next marshal of the city court. There is no doubt as to his ability and fitness for the place, he has all the necessary qualifications of a college student, he has been one among the most successful merchants of his race in the city, he is a man who never waits for honors but goes ahead pushing his business and in so doing he is a successful man. M. GAMLOWSKI Wants to be First Ward Councilman The name of Matt Gamloski is not a new one, he has been a practicing shoe maker in North Topokia for ten years during which time he has always been a Democrat. If he is elected in April next Mr. Gamloski wants it understood that he will do all he can to remember all classes alike. He is well qualified for the place and wants to be elected. E. E. VENARD KANSAS CITY KANSAS Down here in the 3rd ward Mr. E, E Venard is running for the office of councilman against E, E Kampmier a well known Democrat. Mr Venard is a well known man to every one in the ward. It is generally expected that he will be successful on April 7th, Register and vote for him. The only trouble with the "colored man" he is too loyal and that causes him to be ill treated. What victory has the American white soldier won without the assistance of his colored brother(? A change will come sooner or later relative to the times. We see more hard up people this winter than we have seen in years. This is our prosperity we have been "longing for." Atchison Notes. Judge Casey of Atchison is aspiring for re-election to succeed himself as Judge of the city court. The Judge has made a good official and every one speaks in words of praise for him. If he is re-elected which he no doubt will be, no one need doubt his rulings in the future as in the past. Stand by him. Marshal Flynn, who has served the city courtless than two terms is out for re-election, he stands well with all classes and there is no doubt of his re-election as the Municipal Ticket will win in Atchison. Mr. James Orr, of course will be elected by a handsome majority, in fact he has but little or no opposition, he has given Atchison a fine Chief of Police, Mr. Sullivan and many colored people are employed in different ways in the city. Tim Donovan, the present chief of police has given Topeka a clean and fair administration and he has friends on all sides. Mr. Donovan is an honest, level headed sober minded gentleman and no better man than he could be retained as chief: he belongs to no clipue or ring, hes a gentleman J.E. DAVIS Dealer in all kinds of groceries and Meat Market802-804 Gordon REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE. Grain and Feed Store. 906 4th St.. Residence 506 LaFayette St. D. O. GOE, Whole sale and Retail Dealer In Flour, Feed, Hay, Grain, Garden and Field Seeds (At Alexander & GOODFEILLOW stand) Tele 339 119 East 6th St. GREEN FRONT G+O. 620 6th, DEALERS IN All kinds of Groceries Fruits Vegetables and meats Prices equal any grocery in town, Give us a trial, J, A. ANDERSON, FASHIONABLE Sailor All work guaranteed, Repairing and Cleaning a specialty, 402 east 4th St, R. H. MORHOUSE 510 East Fourth Street, MODEL OF 1886 Hochtord ADJUSTED Watch Makes & Adjustes High- Grade Watches and Jewelry C W. Mitchell DEALER IN Home made Bakery Goods Cigars Tobaccae, Full line of Confectionaries, Fancy Table Syrup. 624 W 6th St BUTLER'S BAKERY 416 E 4th St. Fresh Bread, Pies, and Cakes A full line of fine Confectionary. NORDQUIST GRO CO wholesale and retail Sap and Fancy Groceries Fresh Meats Game in Season Flour 134 Kans. Ave. Phone 823 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 ELIAS WHITE Tailor Suits Cleaned Repaired, Dyeed and pressed, Good Work Reasonable Prices. 110 W 5th Street J. H SCHEGEL — 807 West 6th Street. Tel. 84 McENTIRE BROS., Manufacturers of A-Steel Springs, Woven wire Cots, cribs, Mattresses and Pillows 305 307 Kans. Ave., J. S. G RICE Groceries, Flour and Feed, 903 W 6th Street. Let those monkies continue to give us a good time, we don't care for that, we guess we are as good as those monkies who have lied about us, don't see why we are not. Senator Fillman, like other deoitiful white people would like to see a race war. They had one in 1898 with Sainn, and the Negro gallantly stepped in and stood by the hateful white man. Now their bones lie bleaching on Sanjuan Hill and now there is peace and they, like Pitchfork Tillman have no use for the Negro. This is not the first time that the Negro has proved his loyalty to the flag that severally rebukes him. It make us tired when we read the deceitful lieing papers that despises a Negro unto death, Has he not the same right to live as you white "scape goats?" Well we should smile. Now justiceie is justice and if there is any man in Kansas that believes in Mr. Tillman's doctrine, he should imminciately emmigrate to South Carolina. Have a common horse se se, oh God thou fools, you despise a Negro or account of h is color, not that he is not as smart as you, but oh he is a "Nigger" a poor old sinner that alls a Nigger. Let race wars come and go, but we are here to stay woe be unto the scoundrel that starts it Mark these word E. C. SITT1. For Confectionery and Cigars. 4 o Locust St. F. A. MORAND Dealer in New and Second Hand goods bought sold and exchanged 404 E 4th Street. H. A. HEBB Fancy and staple groceries, 1023 to 6th street cor. of Clay. Bell phone 309. Geo. Young, Groceries, and Fresh and Salt Meats Poultry and County Produce 350 Saywell Street Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus Crocus, unsorted, direct rrom Hol and. Also Hardy roses and climbing vines for Fall planting, flower pots, jardiniers, hanging baskets H. GENTHE, 113 East Fourth St Bakery Goods. Cakes and Pies Give them a call, S. W. CARPENTER Home made bread, cakes and pies Give them a call. 200 Monroe,St. House Furnishing Goods Both New and Old Extra line of Rugs, Carpets and Furniture on easy payments. Call and se Me 607 N. Kas, ave., Smoke the GROWLER Hand made 5CT CICAR Frank Klingman Mgr., Topeka VALLEY FALLS KS. Hauck Bros. Elevator Co. DEALERS IN All kinds of Grain, seeds, and Hay Corn meal and all kinds of teed. THE CASH CLOTHIG CO. C. L. Overholser, Prop. Over-coats from $5.00 to $18 THE SUNFLOWER RESTAURANT. Meals and short order. The best place-jin the city to be served right. J: F. Newman Prop Valley Falls Kansas EAGLES SMOKER all dealers handle them. LAWRENCE, Kas.—Adv. Lawrence Pantatorium, ..... W. C. BROWN, Props. Phone 33944. 12 West Warren street We make clothes that fit. Pants making a specialty. We do all kinds of cleaning, Pressing and Repearing; Altering neatly and promptly done: We call for clothes and deli- iver them: Prompt service, Terms $15; per month- Agencies; Walton Tailoring co; E; E; Straus and co; Wc Brown, Manager "Gee Whiz" C U 'Augh' — 2 the Pargains I have in farms;— Ranches, city property etc—and B—4-U—Deal in such—let me send U a list. I am in the Land of "big knops, — Korn; Wheat— Klover—fat Kettle and Hogs MENGER & EDDY..... Real estate, Loans, Insurance and Collections. 712 Massachusetts street. F. A. EWIN'3 Manufacturer of the best Ice Cream. Candies and short orders. Oysters in any style. Mexican chili and Hetomales, 1027 Massachusetts street. PASSON'S..... DEPARTMENT STOR 739 Massachusetts street E VIC JOHNSON..... Dealer in- Fresh and Salt Meats taple and Fancy Groceries, Floor & Fell 633 Massachusetts street. Telephone 123. W. A GUENTHER..... Staple and Fancy Groceries 721 Mass. street. Phone 226. ANNIE J. PRENTISS..... Dealer in Home Bakery goods and Notions. 1100 Massachusetts street. JOHN H ELAN..... Restaurant, Confectionery and Cigars. 832 Massachusetts street. New, Misfit and Second Hand Cloth ing, Shoes and Gents' Furnishing Goods Bought and Sold. I pay Cash for Clothing, Shoes Jewelry, Revolvers, Etc. The Greatest Money Saving Store in Lawrence. ABE WOLFSON, 619 Massachusetts street. WM G PIERATT..... Blacksmith and Wagon Shop General Repairs--- South Massachusetts street W M LINDLEY.... ... Lumber, Building Material, Doors and Sash, A full line of coal South Massachusetts street Telephone No 271 SOUTH END GROCERY R HOLLOWAY, Prop. Drailer in——Greceries, Flour, Feed, etc South Massachusetts street Telephone 110 For.. Fall and Winter Overcoats see..... M J S KOFSTAD Cloth er and Mens Furnisher 824 Massachusetts street J WIND Dealer in Fresh and salt meat Prices are low as the lowest 830 Massachusetts street JERRY EWERS. Lunch and Confectionery Short Orders 1031 Massachusetts avenue M WELSH.... Watchmaker and Jsweler Watches cleaned $1 at the "fix it" shop. All Work guaranteed- 1011 Massachusetts street V. D. KEILER ...Confectioneries. 1345 Massachusetts street Telephone 262 W C. MALLARD Staple and Fancy Grocerie 1707 West 9th street, Kansas City, Mo MRS. M. F. WILLIAMS [816 Mass St. Lawrence Meals and short Order--Mexican Chili Aspecialty. For Muslin Underw e Notices, Queensware, Call on MRS/ L. K. BKOWN 603 Kansas Ave. TASCHETTA NOMINATED. Chas. Taschetta, the Democratic nominee for Mayor, is without exception the best politician in the city. In the past he has done more than any other man to keep the Democrats in power. Taschetta always keeps his promises, something very unusual with politicians. But it is this one thing more than any other that has given him much a strong hole on the ward workers. Taschetta has all the qualifications necessary for making a good mayor. He is not employed in any other business and can devote the whole of his time to the office. He is a good manager of men, a good judge of human nature and a good accountant and perfectly familiar with the workings of the city government. I elected mayor Taschetta will have more at stake than the City of Leavenworth. It he should cut down the expenses, give us cleaner streets and reduce our taxes then he could ask for anything in reason and the people will give it to him. If, however he should turn the Mayors office into headquarters for the Democratic machine and run the office for the benefit of himself and friends, then he would be a one term mayor and would end his life as a ward politician. W- have known Taschetta for a good many years and have admired him for the way he has stood by his brothers and his family, the efforts he has made to improve their standing financially and soo'ally, and we believe if elected he will be more than ambitious and that he will take pride in bettering the conditions of the city and by so doing better his own indications and that of his family. We consider Taschetta a very strong man, the Republicans will have to nominate one of their best men if they expect to defeat him at the polls.—Ex. The busy readers of this paper will please go to the Court house and inspect the records to see who is the largest tax paver, honest Mike Heery or Bergunthal. Don't forget to look, this is important. Matt Gamlowski candidate for Councillor from 1st ward and J. P, Berry are old prominent and reliable citizens MR. BERRY'S CANDIDACY. It will be remembered that J. P. Berry who is nominated for the office of Marshal of the City Court is one of Topeka most influential colored citizen, and it is not believed that he will be trued down at the day of the election, stand by him and do your duty. There is a meddlesome somebody going about telling me what things as usual. Christ said: 'That is without sin cast the first stone at her,' and so it is with a lot of grand rascals who are discussing the grand editor of this paper. A Lincoln Letter New Haven, Conn', John M. Crampton of this city has secured the original letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1864 to the free state Governor of Louisiana; it is as follows: "Lexecutive Mansion, Washington, D. C., March 13, 1864. (Private)—Thr Hon Michael Hahn-M. Dear Sir I congratulate you on having your name in history as the first free state governor of Louisiana. Now as you are about to have a convention, which among other things, probably will define the election franchise, I barely suggest for your private consideration whether some of the cojored people may be etions, for instance, those who are every intelligent and especially those who focfft bravely in our anks. They probably will help in some of the trying times to come to keep the jewel of liberty within the family of freedom. But this is only a "suggestion—not to the public, but to you alone." THEO. TAYLOR THEO, TAYLOR Dealers In Fresh and Salt Meats Fish., Poultry, Vegetables and Country Produce, came in season 212 E 5th St OLDEST And best they all say Established 1892. VOL. 10 NO. 30 Fitzgerald & Lanana..... STAPLE and FANC GROCERIES Prov ions, Fresh and eured Meats, Gyster and Game. 410 412 East 4th street. J. A. SWANSON'S' Novelty Works Bicycles, Door bells, Locks, Keys, and Guns repaired and fitted. All kinds of saw and edge tools filed and and ground, Lathc work done, gall, work guararranted Prices Low, Give me a call. 212 East 5th St. MUELLER BROS..... —Dealers in— Groceries, Dry Goods and Notions 134 Quincy street. Telephone 868. Topeka, Kas Mrs. S. MILLER Confectioneries, Cigars and Tobacco. First Class Restaurant. 401 East First street. Topeka, Kas WM. H. LUCAS Photographer 123 Kansas avenue, Topeka, Kas Dr. J. C. ISERMAN Physician and Surgeon 110 West 10th street, .. Topeka All calls attended. THE EXCHANGE GROCERY Company. Dealers in... Groceries, Meats and Tinware. 122 East 6th street - Phone 310 N. N. HARRIES Dealer in, Frutts, Confectionery Cigars, Tobacco & Oysters. Give him a call—He will serve you right. 427 Hans Compare With what you are paying to have your Laundry done—: Plain Shirts 8c Guffs (per pair) 4c Colars 2c Work guaranteed. CAPITAL HAND LAUNDRY 109—I11 East Third street. Tel. 790. G. D. OLDEN, Manager. SWIFT & HOLLIDAY Drug Company Have your prescriptions filled by us Anything you want. Chili Concarney, Chili Colorow, Vegetable Soupe, Hot Weiners Boiled eggs—Hamburg Sandey's. Stop in at ...Dad's... place 118 E st Fourth street Best Meal in the city—only 10c THE PEOPLES Market Horsfield & Stump, Props. Fresh and Salt Meats. Fish, Oysters and Poultry, Pickles, Jellies and Preserve: 203 Kansas Avenue Fresh Kaw River Catfish daily We close at 10 on Sunday Telephone 442. J. A. LORTIE, Horseshoer. All Ailments of the Feet an. Gait Skifftily Treated. Residence: 516 Chandler street. Shop: 223 Kansas avenu TOPEKA, Kansas. C. Vogelquist: Restaurant and Meas Short Order The Best 15c Meals in city, Rooms to let: ...Old Reliable.... (400% Kansas avenue) W D CARPENTER 320 East Fourth Street, Deaers in Staple and Fancy Gro- ceries. Fruits and Vegetables in Season. Goods Delivered promptly— Telephone 872 Go to — ULAMPRL'S D&P'T STORE...408-410 E. 4th Street Bell Phone 871 'CORBAN E, JUDD, M, D,' PHYSICIAN and SURGEON HOURS:'10 to 12; 2' to 6 P, X-Ray Work and Electricy Office, 618 Kan ave. Tele 650, Residence 07 Greecwood avenue Tele 650. Topeka Kau M.Henry the Old reliable" headquarters for fine Candies and cheap as the cheabest' 42 Kau Av A.T. WAGGONER. DR. GS AND MEDICINES Your trade solicite TO COUNT 2,500 TONS OF COIN. On account of the death of Assistant United States Treasurer Conrad N. Jordan there will soon be under way a recount of the 275 million dollars which was in the vaults of the suptreasury on the day he died. The magnitude of the task may be judged from the fact that when Mr. Jordan was reappointed in 1897, it took more than two months to finish the count. It is well for the business efficiency of the institution that this inventory of treasure is taken only at long intervals. It is undertaken only when a new assistant treasurer takes charge. The count is made by a committee consisting of a representative of the retiring officer and an expert who is present in the interests of the Secretary of the Treasury. White thousands of bags of coin are gone over, it seldom happens that a variation from the book figures is found. The assistant treasurer is under bond of $400,000. The committee has a working force of about ten skilled clerks and twelve or fourteen laborers. These men are selected with great care, as they are in daily contact with millions of dollars, and the stealing of the smallest coin would destroy the value of the count. The clerks do the figuring and the laborers do the manual labor, which is perhaps the hardest part of the task, since the moving of more than 2,500 tons of coin is involved. Each bag of coin, be it silver or gold, has to be handled three times; once in its removal from its compartment to the scales, then from the scales to the pilers, and from the pilers back to its compartment. The first step toward the count is the sealing of the vaults and the making of an inventory of the money exposed, or in the tellers' hands. In the present instance this was done on the day Assistant Treasurer Jordan's death was announced. United States Treasurer Roberts came from Washington to take charge of the work, and the interests of the Jordan estate were in the hands of Edward W. Hale, deputy assistant treasurer under appointment by Mr. Jordan. The count of the money in the sealed vaults will be made as soon as President Roosevelt appoints an assistant treasurer. The bills, of which there are some 10 million dollars are counted by hand. If it happens that the majority of these are of small denomination little time is consumed in going over them. This is usually the case, and the committee figures on finishing this part of the work in two days. The gold, silver and minor coins, nickels and coppers, are cast up differently. In counting the gold the committee selects a bag of coin which has been tested as to condition and amount and this is put against all others in the vaults. It is necessary that the condition of the coins in the test bag be examined carefully, and weighed on the most exact scales, and a small amount of abrasion orings a bag under weight. This test bag contains exactly $6,000 It is taken down to the vaults and put on one pan of an expansive pair of scales, and the real work then begins. MILK AS POISON. When Exposed to Impurities it Is as Deadly as Drugs. "I have sometimes wondered," said an analyst, with a touch of satire, "why some of the famous poisoners of the past took so much trouble over their deadly drugs when they might have chosen milk with the same results. "Milk when pure is harmless enough, but it is strange what pains people take to make it poisonous. They expose it to all manner of impurities until it is a perfect culture bed of bacteria. "As a promoter of indigestion, milk is almost without a rival. People take it with ice in summer, with the result of rendering certain elements in it more indigestible than leather. They take it with acid fruits, a combination that would try the digestion of a rhinoceros. Some have even been known to try pickles in milk, a simply fatal mixture to any but cast iron digestion, and one from the effects of which people have died. "Used as a beverage, milk should be taken by itself, and drunk slowly, without admixture with anything except perhaps water. Unless it is quite new it is safer to boil it."—Cassell's Journal. Picturesque Country Homes. If any one observes many suburban and country homes with an inquiring eye, he is bound to see one or more which make, with their accompaniment of turf and foliage, a picture more or less complete, harmonious and artistic; in which the house without its climbers and shrubbery would look forlorn and naked, as may be seen clearly enough in winter. These materials, the masses of foliage, and surfaces of turf are arranged with no symmetry, yet with on arder that approximates perfection; they disregard axes and formality, and, in fact, are inconsistent with them; yet they are in no way inconsistent with the axes and regularity of the building, but furnish a frame for them harmonious in its very contrast. If the scheme should be analyzed, the arrangement will be found about as definable as that of a group of Murillo or a landscape of Turner, from which it does not differ in kind, though it may in degree—Architectual Record. The highest mountains in the world, next to the Himalayas are the Andes of South America. In Bolivia twelve peaks of the Cordillera de la Paz rise to over 20,000 feet. The gold vaults are divided into compartments, each holding ten bags of coin, or 1/2 million dollars, whether these be double eagles, eagles, half eagles or the small $2.50 pieces. Each bag is sent to the scales and placed against the test bag. The standard weight, the weight of the test bag, is exactly 5,375 pennyweights. A bag is allowed to vary from this to 5,348 pennyweights, but no more. There are some 40,000 bags of gold, and each in turn is made to undergo comparison with the test bag. Although this unquestionably a quicker method than hand counting, it is still laborious. As there is about 200 million dollars in gold in the vaults there is entailed the handling of approximately 400 tons of gold, which must be done carefully or costly abrasion will result. The weighing too, must be done accurately. All in all, the committee is satisfied if it counts some 10 million dollars in gold each day. At this rate twenty days will be used to cover the present store of that metal. While the method of counting the silver coin is the same, the work is much more laborious. The silver compartments hold from $1\frac{1}{2}$ million to 9 million dollars each, depending on the size of the coin. The bags contain only $1,000 each. There is about 67 million dollars in silver in vaults just now, and since the experts figure 1 million dollars in silver to weigh thirty tons, something more than 2,000 tons of the metal must be handled. Each bag of silver is balanced against a standard test bag of the ed against a standard test bag of the same metal as in the case of the gold. The majority of silver coins are dollars. The minor coins, nickels and copper are put up in bags, holding of the former $200 and of the latter $50. The amount of minor money on hand noticeably with the time of year; it being greater in the summer season when the trolley lines to suburban resorts are busiest. At present there is on hand about $70,000. This is quickly counted by the same method. The greatest care is taken of the test bags while the count is under way. For two months they are guarded night and day, so scrupulously in fact that one would think the sub-treasury filled with gentlemen whose sole desire in life was to get all the bags. This and many other precautions are summed up thus by Mr. Hale: "The uninitiated might easily believe every one in the building to be at least under suspicion on account of the attention palo to details during the count. This is, of course, not the fact. We look on the proceedings as necessary, and therefore accept them at a matter of course. "The man who would gainsay them would lay himself open to suspicion, to say the least. As for those of who are responsible for the integrity of the 275 million dollars in these vaults, the count is a really acceptable occurrence since its result indoles the single mindedness with which we have watched over it."—Washington Post. MATTERS OF SCIENCE. Prof. Phelan Grope, of the Crustacean Institute, has published a valuable pamphlet on the cranial capacity of snails. Prof. Grope finds that the speed of a snail varies inversely as the square of his brain-surface. He shows further that a snail possesses three times as much gray matter in proportion as a man, from which we infer that if the brain of a hotel waiter were enlarged to three times its normal bulk, his average speed would be about one-ninth of a mile per hour. An unsinkable raft for corporation bonds is the invention of a New Jersey scientist. The apparatus is provided with an automatic bubble device by means of which the bottom of the raft rests on a constant stream of hot-air bubbles. It is claimed that by means of this invention bonds of great specific density may be floated in large numbers. A company has been organized at Battle Swamu, Mich., for the manufacture of a whiskey substitute from snap beans. The same concern will also put on the market a vegetable oyster cocktail. A kissing telephone, or telosculator, has been patented by two Kansas experimenters. It is said that a $30,000,000 syndicate will be formed to finance the improvement. An Austrian scientist has been experimenting with a cat-dynomox, which he claims is cheaper and more easily operated than the ordinary electric plant and furnishes a less dangerous current. He has established a cat farm, where the animals are reared in commercial quantities, being classified according to voltage and amperage. An Oklahoma inventor claims to have perfected an automatic independent voting dummy, which has exactly the appearance of a human being, and is provided with interchangeable masks, enabling each machine to cast from two to twenty-five votes per day. The improvement will be welcomed by all progressive candidates. Prof. Hohen Linden, of the University of Guttapercha, claims that the malady known as Love is caused by the sting of a microscopic insect which he calls "Carpax Amorosus." This insect, he says, allows the hypercardiac region and leaves its sting just over the heart. The sting contains an organic toxine which induces a mild form of temporary insanity; the effect usually passing off, however, in from three to five weeks. WHERE THE GIRL WAS BORN Who threw the snowball? In last week's puzzle, by using the right side of the picture as base, the doctor may be found in the upper right corner. A BAT WALLED UP 32 YEARS. Bats have figured in song and story since the Dark Ages, but the recent fire in the building occupied by Sadlers, Bryant & Stratton Business college, 10 and 12 North Charles street, has brought to light a fact which shows that truth is often stranger than fiction. Thirty-two years ago, when the building was erected, a pair of bats were entombed alive in the walls of the house. Recently, when workmen opened the wall to repair the damage done by the fire, they accidentally discovered the tomb of the bats, and, what is more interesting, found one of them still alive. It is being preserved in a box. light, flew up to the rafters and fell to the floor. Mr. Parks caught it and placed it in a box. A further examination of the hole revealed the body of the other bat. It had shrunken about one-third its usual size, and was hard and brittle, being in a perfect state of mummification. Mr. Parks then set about to make a careful examination of the hole. He found it to be formed in the outside tier of bricks or to be about three inches in each direction. The outside wall of the little tomb was solid brick, the roof, floor and side walls were of the same impregnable substance, while the inside wall had been plaster an inch thick. It was impossible for The other hat was dead, and its body was shrunken and dried up like leather, which suggests the question. Did the live bat subsist by sucking the blood of its mate? Was it a case of the survival of the fittest.? The fire which led to the discovery of the strange tomb, with its living occupant occurred on February 5 last. Several days after the fire a gang of workmen began to clear away the debris and repair the damaged room. A. L. Parks of Cockeyville, a carpenter, was tearing away the plastering from the west, or back, wall of the room. While thus engaged he heard a peculiar chirping noise. Supposing it to be made by a mouse, he paid no attention to the sound at first, but when it continued and he found that the creature making the noise did not move, he became interested. Working carefully, he tore away the plaster in small pieces until he disclosed a small hole, about three inches square, in the brick. as the light entered the hole the chirping was renewed. Thrusting his fingers into the hole, Mr. Parks felt a soft, furry object. Drawing it forth, what was his surprise to find a bat. As he opened his hand to examine the creature it suddenly took wings and flew away. All of the windows were open at the time, but the animal, blinded by the FEEDING A VOLCANO. Curious Superstition of Inhabitants of Small South American State. About thirty miles from the port of Acajutla, in Central America, there is generally in a state of eruption a huge volcano called Izalco. At night when lying in the harbor of Acajutla, you may see him every twenty or thirty minutes cover his summit with a mantle of glowing lava. So far, well. That is exactly what the people of the state keep a careful watch over, and they go to sleep with a sense of security as long as he is in eruption. But if he stops for a few hours then they are alarmed, as from centuries of traditional experience they look for a tremendous explosion soon, and they put it down to this reason: In the mountain, they say, lives one big devil with a very large family, for which he finds it difficult to provide, and over whom he has much trouble in exercising control. As a consequence there are times when the big devil's larder is empty, the kitchen fire goes out, or some one in the flery household has stomach disorder with no medicine to hand. So reasoning in this way they take food, chickens and bananas, some medicine, and cautiously approach as near the mountain as they dare venture. Then they light a fire, place the food beside it, and hasten away to a safe distance to watch and see what will happen. If izcalo again commences to eject lava they are relieved and cry: "Ah, ha! The devil is happy again. See, he is getting his supper." And then they go to a cock fight or start a revolution in perfect contentment. But if Izalco does not begin to smoke and get his supper, then they take flight away out of reach of his vengeance until his angry humor has passed over; and really their way of predicting a catastrophe seems to be as good as any other. The record aurora borealis lasted for a week in August, 1859. light, flew up to the rafters and fell to the floor. Mr. Parks caught it and placed it in a box. A further examination of the hole revealed the body of the other bat. It had shrunken about one-third its usual size, and was hard and brittle, being in a perfect state of mummification. Mr. Parks then set about to make a careful examination of the hole. He found it to be formed in the outside tier of bricks and to be about three inches in each direction. The outside wall of the little tomb was solid brick, the roof, floor and side walls were of the same impregnable substance, while the inside wall had been plaster an inch thick. It was impossible for the bats to have gotten into the hole after the building was erected. This seems indisputable. When Mr. Parks informed Mr. Sadler of his discovery that gentleman's astonishment was even greater than Mr. Parks's, because he knew the age of the building. He at first thought Mr. Parks was joking with him, but when the other dozen workmen, who were engaged in the same room, corroborated Mr. Parks's statement he was assured of its accuracy. According to Mr. Sadler, the building was erected in 1871-32 years ago. That the bat should have lied inclosed in that brick tomb, excluded from the air and without any food save the blood of its mate, seems incredible, yet there is no other possible explanation of the case. Exactly how the bats came to be entombed in the wall is not known. Possibly it was done intentionally by some workman, but the more plausible theory is that one night, after the brickwork was completed, the bats took refuge in the hole in the wall. In the morning came the plasterers with trowel and mortar board and sealed them up securely as Poe's unhappy Fortunado. Mr. Parks is going to preserve and feed his bat with great care.—Baltimore Sun. A salt footbath at night wonderfully rests and invigorates the whole system. Rub a silk handkerchief gently but steadily over the face after washing it. To remove dandruff use alcohol nad castor oil, one ounce oil to half pint alcohol. Rub in well with a nailbrush. In some cases gray hair is due to a lack of secretion of sulphur in the blood. The occasional use of sulphur soap is good. Do not steam or dry all the natural oil from the face, for the skin burns twice as quickly and the wrinkles prematurely appear. If we were a man we would refuse absolutely to love a woman who did not keep her hairbrushes clean. For if her hairbrushes are horrid you can be pretty sure that her topknot isn't any too cleany-nice. What man would wish to kiss a woman whose tresslocks are not nicely groomed. Care for detail is one of the fundamental—wonder what that word means?—points of beautifying. You can forgive a woman for the freckles on her nose, but you can never overlook an unbrushed skirt, a soiled collar or untidy fingernails. You can't look pretty without giving up a certain amount of your time. But it is a first-class investment, so what do you care? The teeth, the hair, the hands, the complexion will become faded and ugly and unclean if they do not have a certain amount of attention. Take care of them and they will wake up and smile and grow fine and lovely. If you can do these things with your complexion and and your hands and your teeth and your hair you can do a whole lot with your disposition. Stir up your conscience. Dig out those unselfish thoughts and make them get to work. Find out just how nice you are, and then be that way. Fish are sold alive in Japan, the peddlers conveying them through the streets in tanks. TOILET TIPS. KANSAS NEWS BRIEFS. Farm hands are scarce in Jewell county. Down in Southern Kansas illacs are in bloom. A party of twenty-five farmers with their families left Dickinson county the other day to seek locations in Washington or Oregon. A doctor out in Harper county has sued a man in Bluff City for slander. The man referred to him as a "whiskyite." The Santa Fe has ordered 3,000 cars for Kansas because of the shortage. Land around Atchison is selling at $80 per acre. One farm sold for $104 an acre. Rice county is still buying coyote scalps. The story comes from Salina of an egg over two inches in diameter and weighing six ounces. Much comes to him who waits. A horse stolen at Troy in '97 has returned to the home manger. An Abilene ball player had his nose broken Sunday. It was not a judgment but simply his awkwardness. A paper in Western Kansas points with pride to the increase of rheumatism in that section as proof that the rain belt is moving West. Henry P. Adams dead in Miami Kansas cattlemen fear an outbreak of Texas itch among cattle on account of the mild winter, and arrangements are made for a stringent campaign at the first outbreak. General Funston has been sent to Alaska to break up a commercial monopoly. The War department remembers that when Funston was in the Philippines he ate an octopus. Frank Thompson, the negro prisoner who led the partially successful mutiny at the federal penitentiary, Fort Leavenworth, two years ago, assaulted a guard last week in another effort to escape. Did you ever hear at this season of the year more favorable comment concerning the condition of the wheat? If conditions continue favorable up to harvest time Kansas will cut a crop this year to talk about. A. K. Rodgers has applied for a blanket franchise for a trolley line in Shawnee county. It is believed that this line will be the western terminal of one or more of the electric lines now building between Topeka and Kansas City. An Eldorad girl declared she would not marry until the young man to whom she was engaged had $3,000 in the bank. She met him a few weeks afterward and asked him how he was getting along. "Very well," he replied, "I have about $18 saved." "I guess," she answered faintly, "that is about near enough." The types of automobiles which are considered good enough for the Vanderbilt, the Fairs, and other millionaires do not suit the ideas of W. E. Treadwell, a mechanical sharp of Anthony who wishes to own one. He has drafted plans for a machine that measures up to his notions, and will have it built to order. Mr. Treadwell must be a wheat farmer. With the exception of last August, the fees received by the secretary of state for charters granted amounted to more in February than for any month since the Bush corporation law has been in effect. The rush of the corporations to get charters filed last month is accounted for by the fact that many of them expected the legislature to increase the fees for filing and they were in a rush to get into the state before that was done. George Abbott, a farmer, aged about 44 years was instantly killed by the Union Pacific flier at Salina last week. The man was crossing the track in a buggy and both Abbott and his horse were found dead a short distance from the crossing. Abbott had been to town and was intoxicated when he started for home. The man's dog stood guard over the dead horse for fourteen hours and it was necessary to rope the dog and take it away. --- The wife of a man confined in the Harper county jail called on the county attorney the other day and asked what was open to her to secure his release. He told her she could take her choice of two methods; either to pay the fine and costs imposed, or get an order for release from the county commissioners. Neither plan looked good to her, so she went to a hardware store, got some flies and saws, smuggled them into her husband, and with their assistance he succeeded in making his escape. The expenses of the last Kansas legislature were greater by nearly $15,000 than those of any other in the state. The entire amount appropriated for legislative expenses amounted to $110,000. There were a number of extra employees about both branches and the pay roll for the winter would have been but little larger than usual had it not been for these. Only about $1,000 of the entire amount appropriated for legoslative expenses will be turned back into the treasury. Philip Kelly, one of the directors of the Hutchinson reformatory, is in favor of the establishment of a state salt refinery there. He says that the Salt trust more than doubled the price of salt in the last two years and there is no reason why the state should not employ some of the inmates of the institution in turning out salt for the cattlemen and other large consumers in Kansas. He says the plant would not interfere with any Kansas industry. The story comes from Salina of an egg over two inches in diameter and weighing six ounces. Much comes to him who waits. A horse stolen at Troy in '97 has returned to the home manger. An Abilene ball player had his nose broken Sunday. It was not a judgment but simply his awkwardness. A paper in Western Kansas points with pride to the increase of rheumatism in that section as proof that the rain belt is moving West. Henry P. Adams, dead in Miami county at the age of 85, was a near kinsman of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States. Roosevelt will get a chance to see Kansas with her best clothes on; and his trip will take him through a mighty fine portion of the state, too. A rural free delivery route will be established May 1 at Circleville, Jackson county, with one carrier. The area covered is twenty-five square miles; population served, 462. Willis P. Dickerson, the absconding cashier of the Toronto State bank, was a leader of the choir, a pillar of the church and dabbed in politics—a combination to beware of. --- The sudden appearance of three women, all claiming to be the wives of a Marysville man, rather startled him, it appears. He is thought to have fled to Utah. A man claiming to be the Prophet Isaiah it flitting about the towns in the southwest corner of the state. From the manner in which the papers refer to him it appears that some do not believe that he is the old original prophet. 1 A few days ago a turkey weighing forty-one pounds, dressed, raised by Timothy DeBusk, who lives near Macksville, was shipped from that place to a Colorado point. It is claimed it is the largest turkey ever shipped from Kansas. John S. Sanders, a stranger who had been in Parsons two days, was found dead in the "Katy" railroad yards the other night with a bullet wound in his head. Receipts signed by O. W. Faulkner of Farden City, Kas., showed Sanders to be a Woodman in good standing. Several wealthy farmers of Lyon and Coffey counties intend to drain a big swamp near Hartford, and have taken the matter to the Coffey county district court. Some of the farmers want to use 8-inch tiling and the others have found that 24-inch tiling is necessary. The drain will benefit about seven hundred acres of bottom land. 一 Reports from the wheat belt all say that the growing wheat is in fine condition. It stood the winter well and the recent heavy snow and rain packed the earth and filled it with moisture so that the March winds cannot do much damage. The acreage this spring is about the same as last year and the prospects for a big wheat crop are exceedingly bright. The counties in the southwestern part of the state are authorized under an act passed by the legislature to issue bonds to build an intercounty telephone system. People are so few and far apart in that section of the state that a telephone system would not pay. The long distances between neighbors, however, made a system now build a system and place a 'phone in each house in the district. The cost will fall on the counties at large. Rev Philip Krohn, at one time a well known citizen of Kansas, who enjoyed a lucrative appointment under Governor Martin, and afterward left Kansas and went back to New York state, his former home, is seriously ill. He wrote to several of his former Kansas acquaintances here, among others to Senator Burton, relating his condition, and received some assistance. Recently he has been improving considerably. According to reports from county health offices which have been received and compiled by Dr. Charles Lawry, secretary of the state board of health, there has been less disease in Kansas during the last winter than in any preceding winter for years. For the first time in the last five years there have been fewer than thirty cases of smallpox reported during any one month. The largest number of cases of this disease was in January, when twenty-nine were reported. Otho Wheat of Lyon county is under peace bond for attempting violence to Herbert Clark, the school teacher in his district. The teacher whipped one of Wheat's children. Wheat made threats because of the whipping. He said that the teacher was over-severe. Wheat brought a state case against the teacher for whipping the child. The district school board investigated the case and sustained the teacher. The courts will now decide which is right. Of the 42,000 emigrants from Ireland last year a very large number spoke the ancient Irish language. Thirty tons of cauliflowers from Italy are now being landed daily at Foulkestone for the London market. Mothers will find Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup the best remedy for their children during the teething period. Military horses in England are now to have their tails and manes left long in order that they may drive away the mosquitoes. Elaborately painted and mounted with silver fittings, an Irish painting car is being made in Dublin for a Boston millionaire. Dr. Sacha, a Vienna oculist, has invented an apparatus by which the whole dark inner part of the eye can be illuminated. The invention marks a great advance in science. The Belgian Geographical Society proposes the appointment of a commission to study the correlation of the seismic, volcanic, meteorological, and magnetic phenomena and solar physics of last year. When Theodore Mommsen received his Nobel prize he gave 5,000 marks of it to the mayor of Charlottenburg, part to be divided among the poor and part to be used in the enlargement of the public and high school libraries. Practically all the caviare merchants of Astrakhan, Russia, have declared themselves bankrupt. Not a single tenant has come forward to rent the rich government fishing stands on the Volga. The disastrous effects of the drought in New South Wales may be judged from the fact that a meat-preserving company at Albury has purchased 120,000 sheep at from 6 pence to 1 shilling per head. A GREAT TRIBUNAL The Supreme Court the Distinctive Feature of Our Constitution. Thoughtful men the world over have not been lacking in praise of our constitution and system of government. As the years go by it becomes more apparent that the distinctive feature of the constitution is its judicial system, with the supreme court at its head. Not in the mere fact of a judicial system, for courts were a part of our Anglo-Saxon inheritance. Indeed, long before the settlement of this country executive, legislative and judicial departments and functions were in existence. But the significance is in the powers given to the supreme court, and given in a republic formed by a union of states which, though surrendering some of the absolute supremacy of a nation, were continued in possession of a large amount of independent authority. We call ours a federal system of government. It is federal because there is a nation and states within and a part of that nation—a nation supreme in national affairs and in foreign relations, and yet powerless to control the purely local interests of the separate states. We rightfully speak of the republic as a nation possessed in its relation to the nations of the world of all the essential attributes of nationality, yet we know that the nation, that congress as the legislative body of the nation, is impotent to regulate the police affairs of the smallest village in any state. Over local affairs the states are as supreme as though they were not integral parts of the republic. This creation of a new nation, with all the elements of nationality, with absolute control over national affairs and foreign relations, and yet composed of states having a like absolute control over the local affairs of the communities within their limits, would, in the nature of things, result in controversies between the nation and the states as to their relative control in many matters. That such disputes might be settled peacefully required an independent tribunal, and so the constitution provided the supreme court, and to that court were given vast powers—Scribners. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signatures New Food See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION Price 25 Cents GENUINE MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. Purify Vegetable. OURE SICK HEADACHE. Queer Letters Received From Many Parts of the Country. The President gets a large number of "fake," or "queer," letters every day from insane people all over the United States and Europe. The executive receives a great quantity of mail, but few people have an idea of the amount of this "fake" mail that it falls to the lot of the President's secretary to open. The mail for the President is handled in the official mail room at the city postoffice in Washington and is delivered at the White House by a special carrier detailed from the force of employees at the executive mansion. There are six letter cases in this room and each case contains one box for the mail of the President and his family. The number of letters for the President alone runs from 300 to 400 a day and from 10 to 15 of these are the "fake" letters. There is one man out in California who has been writing to the various Presidents for a number of years. He numbers each letter and the last received was No. 360. In the upper left hand corner is written the rather startling information, "From Jesus Christ." One of these missives was opened some time ago by permission of the President's secretary and found to contain only a number of unintelligible hieroglyphics something like shorthand. Of course they find their way ultimately into the waste paper basket at the White House, but they are not allowed to be destroyed at the restoffice. Another "freek" who has also been writing to the President for long years scorns envelopes and stamps and uses postal cards altogether. If he does not finish what he has to say in one he takes another, numbering them consecutively. Sometimes he uses as many as five or six. He signs himself "Michael, King of Heaven," and his communications are usually in the forms of commands to the President on the way in which the United States should be run. During the period of the Spanish war he wrote almost every day and gave orders as to the movements of the fleets in Asiatic waters. Not long ago a letter was received addressed to "George Washington, President of the United States." Letters come addressed to the President in all sorts of ways. His real title is "The President," but he gets them all, "His Majesty" and "His Excellency," down to simple "Teddy Roosevelt." Of course every Christmas scores of letters come for Santa Claus, care of the President, from children who imagine he is a sort of fair godfather—Pittsburg Gazette. Deafness Cannot be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only 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 this 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 to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, Send for circulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. The Largest Charcoal Iron Plant. Cordwood in excess of 100,000 cords is now piled up along the tracks of of the Marquette & Southeastern railroad, ready to be hauled to Marquette, Mich. for use in making charcoal for the Pioneer iron company's million dollar blast furnace soon to go into commission and for the company's Carp river furnace, also located in Marquette. It will require 6,400 cords of wood to charge the eighty kilns at the new furnace, each being of eighty cords capacity, and with the plant in operation 225 cords daily will be required, or the capacity of three kilns. This will be the largest charcoal iron plant in the world. Close to 2 million acres of hardwood lands, comprising the pick of the upper peninsula, are owned by the company, also three railroads with an aggregate mileage of 150, valuable mines and mineral lands in the Ishpeming-Negause district that assure an ore supply for a generation to come. Saccharine Proscribed in France. Highest North American Peak. New measurements confirm the re- port that Mount McKinley, in Alaska, is the highest peak in North America. Deadly Carbolic Acid Gas. One cannot survive in an atmos- phere containing more than one part of carbonic acid gas to 233 of air. A Big Business With Colonies. England does $1,971,377,000 worth of business with its colonies, which cost about $12,000,000 a year. Many Deaths from Tempests. The deaths from storms and floods in 1902 were 12,000. OKLAHOMA BRIEFS. The Oklahoma potato crop is now all planted. Potato ground in Oklahoma rests but sixty days and it makes two crops a year. A pious old lady wrote to Dennis Flynn and asked him if it was true that a painting in the nude was hung on the wall of the White House, and he wrote back, "It is the naked truth." Seven years ago Farmer White, president of the Pottawatomie Potato Growers' Association, quit politics and devoted his attention to growing potatoes. He is now worth $60,000 and every dollar is profit from his Oklahoma farm. An assay has been made of the ore from the molybdenum mine, near Lawton. It shows 57.15 per cent pure metal. Molybdenum is worth about $2,500 a ton. There is a large lead of this ore in the Wichita mountains and it means a fortune for the owners. Mrs. Alta M. Woods, wife of the late J. R. Woods, who drew the lucky number one in the great Ian lottery here, was married to Oliver Powers, a civil engineer of San Francisco, last week. The wedding took place in Lincoln, Neb. They will make their home in Lawton. Statistics compiled in the office of the territorial secretary show that the total amount of premiums collected by life insurance companies in Oklahoma in 1902 was $496,672.68, as against $280,657.52 in 1901. Fire insurance premiums in 1902 amounted to $716,054.72 and in 1901 to $558,251.34. Peaches begin to blossom in Oklahoma as early as March 10 and as late as March 20. Usually blossoms opening before March 20 are frozen, and those opening after March 20 escape the frost. This year the blossoms will hardly be out before the 20th. The buds are just beginning to swell and the ground is wet and cold. The Logan county grand jury has examined all local witnesses subphoennaed to testify as to boodling in the legislature, but has uncovered nothing that would warrant an indictment. Several council clerks and members of the lower house were subphoennaed. It is alleged that witnesses believed to be in possession of sensational evidence denied all knowledge of corruption. The general opinion is that the grand jury will fall to return a single indictment. The grand jury will be in session for eight or ten days before making its report. Forty acres of pure plaster of paris from ten to fifty feet thick, is the result of the effort of two boys to smoke a rabbit out of a hole under a ledge on Gloss mountain, Woods county. The gypsum ledge was formerly the homes of numberless wild creatures, which lived in the crevices of the rocks, using dry cow chips, sticks and other rubbish for their nests. The whole mountain side was a mass of flames almost immediately when the fire was applied, and it burned for days. Only 300 degrees is required to convert gypsum into plaster of paris, and the ledge is being transformed into white powder. INDIAN TERRITORY Thousands of ducks and geese are on their regular feeding ground at this season of the year, on the Otoe reservation north of Pawnee. Five boys ranging from 5 to 10 years were drowned in a mill pond at Chant, last week. The lads were playing on an old raft when it capsized. Sillas Waul, who has been jilted by two women in as many days, in Kansas City, is a blacksmith and lives at Checotah, I T So fa) as can be learned he has a wife and family and they are still living at Checotah By the supplementary treaty between the Choctaws and Chickasaws, ratified last summer, provision is made that coal lands to not exceed 500,000 acres shall be segregated and set aside as coal lands, and that these lands shall be offered for sale to the highest bidder within two years. There is no way of estimating how much the property will bring, but those who are best posted as to the value of the lands expect the sum will be received to exceed $50,000,000. Upon application of the Dawes commission, United States Marshall Hackett, of the Central district, has issued process on Daniel Bell and forty-five other Choctaw Snakes who oppose allotment of Indian lands, and who have refused to enroll, warning them to appear and file on their allotments April 1, failure to do which will place them in contempt of the federal court. The obstructionists are scattered over the territory and their leader is in Washington. Emperor Willian has determined to have a grouse moor of his own in the royal domain about Koenigsburg. The grouse does not exist in a wild state in Germany. CANCER CURED WITH SOOTHING, BALMY OILS. Cancer, Tumor, Osteoporosis. Cancer, Tumor, Osteoporosis. Write for Illustrated Book. Sent free Address DR. GYE, BV. Xunaa M. Mc. Oral Surgery. STRANGE FREAK OF NATURE. Thunder Mountain's Monument Rear-Edited Without Man's Aid. One of the most remarkable natural curiosities on the earth is to be seen in a rugged and almost inaccessible part of the newly opened but already famous Thunder Mountain gold region in Idaho. This strange freak of nature is called "Sheep-eater's Monument," and is said to have derived its name from a tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the district. The monument is 70 feet high and consists of a rough shaft, composed of boulders and gravel, tapering slightly upward, and capped by a huge irregular rock whose weight is estimated at not less than 50 tons. The cap resists an slender projections from the shaft that are gradually being worn away by the elements, threatening the eventual all of the great stone. The monument stands on the slope of a ridge which lies 1,000 feet and descends 500 feet from the site. It was undoubtedly formed by erosion. The surface of the felicity has been for centuries and is yet being washed away by water, the result of melting snows and rainfalls. Originally the cap-stone was stationed on the ground, but gradually the soil surrounding it was carried away a narrow vertical section just under it being left intact, owing probably to hard cementing substance in the conglomerate and possibly also to the direction in which the eroding torrents expended their force. How long a time was required to form the shaft may be only partly realized when it is stated that there are trees not far away taller than the monument. As the erosive process continues, the shaft is likely to increase in length unless a soft spot should be reached under the present surface, in which case the curious formation might topple over and break into pieces.—Lesite's Weekly. A Cure for Rheumatism. Alhambra, Ill., Mar. 23rd:—Physicians are much puzzled over the case of Mr. F. J. Oswald of this place. Mr. Oswald suffered much with Rheumatism and was treated by doctor after doctor with the result that he got no better whatever. They seemed unable to do anything for him and he continued to suffer till he heard of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Oswald began a treatment of this remedy which very soon did for him what the doctors had failed to do and they cannot understand it. This is the same remedy that cured Hon. Fred A. Busse, our State Treasurer, of a very severe case of Rheumatism some years ago and which has since had an unbroken record of success in curing all forms of Rheumatism and Kidney Trouble. There seems to be no case of these painful diseases that Dodd's Kidney Pills will not cure promptly and permanently. A Pension Widow's Record. Pension Commissioner Ware has just completed an investigation that revealed a strange case of a woman"s love for the army. The charge was recently made that Mrs. Ashton of New Albany, Ind., was drawing four pensions. A search of the records brought to light the fact that Mrs. Ashton has had four husbands, and that each one of them was either a soldier or an ex-soldier. It also shows that she drew two widow's pensions of $8 a month, although she did not draw them simultaneously. Her first husband died soon after the war, and in course of time she was given a pension. When she married again her pension stopped, but it was not long until she asked to be restored to the pay roll, owing to her second husband's death. Her claim was verified and she got the pension. Then she married again, and her third spouse went the way of the others, while she went back to the pension office. Before the necessary formalities could be gone through, however, she accompanied a fourth battle-scarred veteran to the altar, so she received no pension. Powerful Tone, Beautiful and Satisfy ing Story & Clark Piano Co. Gentlemen:—I cannot speak too highly of your planos, which I have listened to with much interest and pleasure. The tone throughout—from the rich and powerful bass to the top treble—is beautiful and most satisfying, and, both for solo work and for accompanying the voice, they seem to be unsurpassable. Faithfully yours, R, Watkin Mills. UNFAMILIAR FACTS. The United States has the highest murder rate of any country in the world. But one-fifth the population and one-eleventh of the area of Turkey is in Europe. Eleven per cent of the immigrants to the United States in the last four years have been Jews. A. C. Bird, the new traffic manager of the Gould railway lines, receives a salary of $50,000 a year. The numerical strength of the standing armies of the Danubian states are: Servia, 63,600; Roumania, 38,000, and Bulgaria, 33,400. The stars in the Milky Way are equally distributed in a uniform ring in the heavens, and are several times as bright as stars in other regions. NEWPORT'S MEDIAEVAL CASTLE. Palace Built to Look as If It Had Been Standing Hundreds of Years. Mr. and Mrs. J. Mitchell Clark of this city are building an Italian house at Newport. It lies three miles beyond the center of the city and at least two from the last row of five houses, those that border the Cliff Walk. A mile to the east of Eaton's Beach and back half a mile from the junction of Purgatory and Paradise roads, Mr. Clark's new house rises among rocky little hills, to look over a foreground of lake, promontory, sandy shore and unbroken ocean. In that part of the island where nature is wildest it sks already, before it is finished, as if it had been standing many hundreds of years. The stone is almost black, and the mortar used has been darkened to match it. The result is a building that already looks hoary with age, a castle taken bodily, settings and all, out of the traditional past and set down in the modern city of Newport. The estate upon which it is building is the former farm of O. H. P. Belmont, Gray Craig, and the pudding stone that everywhere crops out of the soil has been made use of in the construction. By this means the architect, Abner J. Haydel, the man who designed Castle Gould, on Long Island, has been able to make it appear almost as if the castle were a part of the land about it. Last April the work began, and some time this spring it will be completed. Mrs. Clark is herself an artist, and the results of her skill are shown in many ways about Gray Craig The Italian gardens back of the castle have been her special field. There early in the work she went out one day and with a sharp stick drew a maze of graceful curves—each detail a finished design—and had her gardner fill in her lines with box and a variety of trees and plants. In the center are Italian urns, and bordering the maze are rhododendrons and several kinds of spruce, juniper and yew trees. In their travels through Europe, and particularly through Italy, Mr. and Mrs. Clark collected many beautiful pieces of statuary and entablature, which they are now using to adorn the house and its surroundings. Bass reliefs and medallions taken from the catacombs of Rome have been cemented into the walls of the building here and there. The old keystones in the Gothic arches at the base of the 65-foot tower, under which the main entrance to the castle is gained, were also imported from Italy. Along at the other end of the front there is near the loggia and imbedded in the face of the wall a curious ornament, the device of the workmen themselves. It is made to represent a wreath of yellow flowers encircling a horseshoe, which is held in place by a nail driven beneath the middle of the curve. An old Delia Robbia "sopra porta" will surmount a door opening on the terrace. Nearby will be a beautiful old Italian fountain and four life-sized marble statues typifying the seasons. The countryside is rich in Indian legends and Mr. Clark has secured a piece of statuary, the work of a French sculptor, which represents a young Indian girl sitting down and shading her eyes with her hand as she scans the horizon for the sight of the return of her tribe. At the edge of the court yard and close to the foot of the tower there will be an orange house. Upon entering the castle one finds one's self in an immense hall, occupying the center of the building and thirty feet from floor to ceiling. Here is to be placed a pipe organ by W. B. Goodwin. It will rest on a platform, and upon either side is a high stained glass window, beneath which, extending the length of the platform on either side of the organ, a row of old choir seats from Spain will form the wainscot. In the center of the high ceiling will be placed a leaded glass skylight, and sixteen feet from the floor a balcony will extend round the entire hall, forming the corridor on the second floor which will lead to the boudier apartments. The mantelpiece for the hall is now being made in Rome. It is the design of Mrs. Clark, who also planned the front door, the locks and keys of the house and much else that is both original and artistic. Ancient as the castle will be in looks, some of the accessories will be most modern, both in appearance and in reality. They will be kept out of sight, however, as much as possible, for, while they may be convenient and comfortable, even indispensable, they belong to the Twentieth century, and so scarcely harmonize with a castle of the Middle Ages. There will be no stables. Only automobiles will be used, and the house for them in the courtyard is concealed behind a medieaval lookout.-New York Tribune. Windmills Again in Favor. Windmills are returning to use in England. To deliver one suitable for pumping purposes the Royal Agricultural Society offers prizes of $250 and $50. Woman's Strange Bequest. At Edinburgh, Scotland, a lady has been found insane who left $2,000 to provide a fund for the rescue of sane persons improperly placed in lunatic asylums. Temperament of Animals Temperament of Animals. Speaking generally, wild creatures inhabiting hot countries are more savage than those of cold or temperate countries. Result of Running. Running lessens the blood supply in the legs. Three Principal Exports. Bulgaria's chief exports are wheat, wine and otter of roses. BONFIRES OF BANKBILLS. Manner in Which Old Notes Are Destroyed by Great Foreign Banks. Few people are aware that a Bank of England note leaves the bank but once, and that the moment the "Old Lady of Threadneedle street" regains possession of the crisp sheet of paper its doom is sealed, even though it has been but five minutes in circulation. Like the Imperial Bank of Germany, our national banking institution destroys its old notes by fire; but the Bank of France and the United States treasury prefer to destroy their old paper currency by chemical processes, though the first named used also to infilge in banknote bonfires. Every year notes of the face value of £18,000,000 are consigned to the flames in the Bank of England furnace; not all at once, of course, for that would be an operation too lengthy and monotonous for the officials who must be present to witness it, to take at one sitting. Fifty thousand notes of various denominations are daily issued by the bank, and in packages of 50,000 they are destroyed. But ere it it is burned a returned note is kept in the banknote library for five years, in case it may be required for reference. It is one of 77,000,000 notes, the number usually in stock, but if it is required it can be turned up in five minutes, so perfect is the system of filing. This dead stock is kept in 13,400 boxes, each of which measures 18 inches in length by 10 inches in width and 9 inches in depth. Ere they are burned a hole in punched through the figure showing their value, and the chief cashier's signature is torn off. They are packed into the furnace while the officials look on, the fire is lighted and in a short while a little ash is all that remains of what once represented many thousands of British sovereigns. The Imperial Bank of Germany burns over 100,000,000 notes yearly. It seems a number that should represent a truly colossal sum; but then many of them are for small amounts and the majority for not more than 5 marks. Twelve million pounds is the amount representing the annual destruction of 600,000 notes of the Bank of France. They used to be burned in a cage rotating over a huge fire, but now they are reduced to a pulp in the presence of several directors, after being first punched and stamped "Cancelled." Such destructions take place every fortnight. Comparatively few pound notes are seen in Great Britain, but in the United States it is different; one sees more paper currency than coin. Indeed, in no country in the world are so many notes in circulation. Hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of bills, varying in value from $1 to $500, are issued by the treasury, while more are issued by the innumerable small banks all over America, secured on a cash deposit with the government. The treasury will redeem these in any quantities for gold or new bills at any time. Old notes are always being sorted and when their numbers have been verified and cancelled they are made up in packets of 100. Before they are ready for the destructor four holes are driven through each bundle by a great punch machine; next the packets are cut in halves, and one half goes to be again counted and checked. All being found correct, the mutilated bundles are passed on for further bad treatment, this time being placed in a huge machine, the interior of which is fitted with numberless sharp blades. When these revolve they cut the bills into minute fragments. Still they are not finished with From the macerating machine the fragments are sent to the vats and boiled in a chemical preparation. All that remains after the boiling is pulp, useless as currency, but useful for molding busts of the presidents and models of America's famous buildings, for which purpose it is readily bought by manufacturers of these and similar articles.-London Tit-Bits. Live on Mere Pittance. The cost of living in Porto Rico is perhaps less, gauged from the natives view of necessity, than in any other quarter of the globe where modern civilization has obtained a foothold. Dr. Ryder, secretary of the American Missionary Association, who has recently returned from an inspection of the island, tells the following story to illustrate the scale of wages and living in the island. "I was riding through the interior on horseback, on my way to Ponce," he said, "when I saw ahead of me in the road a native carrying a log on his head. It was a log twelve feet long, and must weighed 200 pounds. He seemed to trot along with it on his head without any trouble. I asked my companion to stop and ask him about it. He did so, and the man said he had cut and 'ripped' the log, that is, got it ready to split into timber, although it was not loosened enough to fall apart, the day before; he had brought it 15 miles on his head that morning, and had three miles farther to carry it into Ponce. "And how much will you get for it?" asked my companion. "I hope to get 15 cents,' replied the man, 'but I may get only 12.' "But that sum would buy as much as $1.50 would up here," continued the doctor, "so the man was really working for about 75 cents a day. It is estimated that a man can support a family by three days' work a month. Food is practically free. Fruit is to be had for the taking, and the poorer classes practically live upon fruit. And as for a house, a convert borrowed a dollar from one of our missionaries to put up a house when he wanted to get married, and it was plenty."—Chicago Chronicle. STORY & CLARK PIANOS for tone, touch and durability. They present the highest type of American plano manufacture, and are fully warranted for ten years by one of the oldest and most responsible industries in the land. When you buy a STORY & GET in any other plano. SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS. STORY & CLARK Factories—Grand Western Salesrooms, 914 Walnut Stre and Salesrooms, Chicago, Ill. 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It is being said in many Eastern journals and not a few Western ones that the day of the poor man in mining is gone by; that no one but a big corporation can succeed in mining any more; that it takes big capital to do anything; that most of the good mining propositions are controlled by trusts or millionaires and that there is no longer opportunity for a min with a little money. This is all a mistake. The day of the "poor" mining man was never brighter nor greater than right now. The assertion that most of the good mines are owned by trusts or millionaires is heard most often, but there is least in that of any of the pessimistic utterances. One hears of the big millionaire owners more than he does of the thousands of substantial companies that go right on with little notoriety, paying good wages and monthly yielding dividends. Finally, it may be justly said in answer to the assertion that opportunity no longer exists for the man with a little money, that never in the world's history were there fluer opportunities in mining for the man with a little money than in the west half of America today. Are you interested? Send for our Booklet, it will cost you nothing and will aid you in making money. Colorado Springs, Colorado. In Sweden the Riksdag has proposed a special tax on "punch," the national beverage. It will increase the retail price by 25 per cent. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of Chas H. Hutchins Rainford on Vermont's Action. The Rev. Dr W S. Raisford, of New York, when asked how he regarded the action of Vermont in repudiating prohibition, said: "I would rather see a man free than sober." An Ancient Chariot Found. Mr. Davis, the American who has expended considerable sums in exploring work near Thebes, Egypt, has found a splendid chariot in the tomb of King Thothmes. Wouldn't "Tell Tales." Senator Frye once refused to write his reminiscences for a magazine, declaring himself opposed to the telling by public men of "tales out of school." Dick Turpin's Pistol. Dick Turpin's pistol was sold in London recently for $26. From the West of Ireland. Oysters for King Edward are being obtained from the west of Ireland. H.E.P. Best clapping music building NOTHING PRUSS Makes He all Disease WOULD LOVE he wounded t PRODUCES that no wound 25 and 90c Pkg. Prussia Poultry The "Weber Junior" Pumper Can also be used for other purposes in the Pumper AS THE RY FOOD! Cholera. Roup and Helps Them Grow. Osmania. Wash, says Asian Poultry Food Co. St. Paul, Minn. Send for Our FREE CATALOGUE. The saddies for myself and brothel are giving me a free attendant. We would not sell them for small profit and would give them the latest catalogue on Harness and Bugles. Your truly, U W. EVANS, Gudjan, Louisiana. Dear, Sirs: I received the harness all O K. Am well pleased. I think it will be one harness for the price $31.00. CHARLESS S. UNKR, Foss, Oklahoma. Dear Sirs: Your $40.00 buggy knocks them all. I would not take it without business. You paid $60.00 for his. This job will bring you business. Your truly, W T. SISKEL, Kanaan, Louisiana. 190 The Genuine TOWER'S POMMEL SLICKER HAS BEEN ADVERTISED AND SOLD FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY LIKE ALL TOWER CANADIAN CO. Limited. A.J.TOWER CO. OBDON, CAN. BOSTON, MA 02210. VARICOCELE VARICOCELE A safe, painless permanent cure guaranteed, Twenty-five years' experience. No money accepted until patient is well. CONSULTATION AND VALUABLE BOOK FREE, by mail or at office. Write to DR. C. M. COE, 915 WALNUT ST. SAN FRANCISCO CITY, MON. 7 The Science of Cure a beautiful illustrated medical treatise, showing an x-ray examination with full explanation. It should be in every home. SENT FREE to any party addressing The German-American Doctors, 812 Walnut street, Kansas City, Mo CANCER A Core Guarantee. No money accepted. Patient to be sent 100 page book sent free. Address to A. O. Smith 10th Ave. A *Urea Guarantee* Nn money accepted in book is well. 100 page book is well. Free address. Japan Offers a Bonus. The government of Japan offers a subsidy of half a million yen for more than four years for the location there of a modern glass plant like those in America. A bill to carry out this plan will be submitted to a forthcoming session of the Diet. A plan to establish glass works on a large scale has been undertaken by Baron Shibusawa, who has just returned from a trip to Amerylica and Europe. The plant will be built in Osaka, with a capital of a million yen. The projectors do not expect the concern will pay dividends for four years. Japan has small glass works, but their products is coarse and unsatisfactory. Comparing countries visited on his recent trip, Baron Shibusawa expressed the opinion that industries in the United States are somewhat overcapitalized and inflated. He found England ultraconservative, with old-time methods prevailing which prevent that country from meeting aggressive competition. Germany he considers a golden mean, where conditions of industry are normal and on a stable basis—New York Times. OUT OF THE ORDINARY. One-twentieth of the wealth of the German nation is in 6,900 share companies. France has a standing offer of $12,500 for the invention of a satisfactory substitute for phosphorus. Of the twenty-five men who have been president of the United States ten have today no descendants. Charged with begging, a Halifax man advanced the excuse that he was "lame through vaccination." Using pepper to deaden the pain of toothache has caused the death of a man at Middleborough through blood poisoning. Personally fitting dog blankets of sealskull can now be had for $50 each in New York, if made without hand- kerchief pocket. State Ledger BY F. L. JELTZ. $2.00 per year 6 months $1.00 3 months 50c Easter is near at hand. The various churches are preparing extensive programs for the occasion. The Ladie's Sewing Circle of St John's A. M. E church met last Wednesday evening at the residence of Mrs. A. Williams 412 Buchanan street. Quite a number were present and an elaborate lunch was served. The Silver Medal Contest for Elocution was given on last Thursday day evening, March 26th at Brown Chapel. There were several contestants and the medal went to the one giving the best declamation. A little girl in town was told to change her stockings because one had a whole in it. Instead of doing so she got some shoe blacking and blacked her leg where the whole was. It is thought this method may become quite popular, but not before next summer A man died lately in Kansas who had so many relatives that when they had all signed the card thanking the friends who had "assisted in the death and burial" the paper looked like a delinquent tax list. J. L. Penny has a fine store now 220 west 6th street, call and see him Tele 876. J. R. SPETTER Manufactur and Wholesale Retailer of Cream of Roses, M. W. A., 5c FINE CIGARS 816½ North Kansas Ave STURGIS H'DW CO., Hardware, Stoves and Tinwara Coles Hot Blast Heaters. Bystrom Gas Jumps. Marties and Globe Ekron Furnaces. 944 N Kas. av Wyrick's Place when at Kansas City, Kansas Headquarter for anything you want in the refreshment ine. G. GUSTAFSON. A. ANDERSON. Cosmopolitan Refreshments of all kinds. Give them a call, 419 Minnesota ave. MIKE KURBY. CILLE HANNA THE ADMINISTRATION. First Class Liquors, Wines and Cig s. chlitz Beer on Draught Fine Bottled Beer for Family Use a Specialty 913 North, 6th street. THOS. HETHERINGTON Refreshments, 911 North 5th street. BLOMQUIST Tailoring Company Our fall styles are in now, Call and make your selections: 607 Minnesota avenue. FRED KAUFFMAN MEAT MARKET Deaters in High Grade Meats, Manufacturers of all kinds of Home Made and Foreign Sausages Kettle rendered, Lard a Specialty Phone 85 Grand- 434 Minnesota ave. E, DAVIS— Groceries — Fresh and Salt Meats, full line of everything kept in a first class store. 76 W. James str. B. A. JACKSON & CO. Dealers in—FRESH and CURED Meats POULTRY and GAME. 408 Minnesota avenue. LYNCH BROS, Dealers in Coal, Wood, Flour and Feed. 538 North 3th str., Kansas City, Kas Mrs. V. WILSON, 333 Minnesota avenue, Serves meals short order and Lunches. Meals 20 ceats. Give here a trial, Best Meals in the City. MARTIN'S Beehive Restaurant. 15 Central Avenue, Meals to and 15 cent. Meals at all hours. hort orders a Specialty. Go to W. M. KOFFLER for all kinds of GROCERIE'S, Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish, Poultry and Game in Season 342 Minnesota avenue, Will H SMITH. M. D. (Late of Chicago.) Physician and Surgeon. Specialties-Chronic Cases and Diseases. Ten years special study Hospital experience. 1520 North 5th street McCURDY Dealer in--Good Things to Eat Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables, Also Flour and Seed. JOR 60 days I will make $25 Suits for 18 dollars- $8.00 Trouser for $5.00. Call and make your selection. S. Gordon, 109 W. 6th Street A. V. DIGNO Dealer In...all kinds of Second Hand goods. Steves and tuxware Give him a call. 116-120 N Kas av Kuelers Commission House Gener retail. 811 Kansas ave. Go to Mrs. Keener Stewart, fo Millinery, 733 Kansas Avenue. Go to Tepeka Drug Co., for your Confectionaries Cigars and Tobacco. 732 Kansas Ave. J' C. HQLLAND & SQUIRF 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, Canned Goods and Articles Call and see his line 1319. 6th st Pele. 2585. J.S MANANSUOUS. Dealer in Fruits; confectionarie Cigars and Tobaccoos Give him a call for Xmar goods 831 Kas ave J. HFIRST Dealer in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fresh and Salt Meat Also Milk Depot 1019-21 E 6th Tele.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 cent 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. . 5t str., Atchisou. OTTAWA KANS To those desiring a strictly Custom Made Garment, Cut in Latest Styles. a most cordial invitation for an early call is herewith extended Prices always the lowest, consisen with good work T. P. Way Real Estate and Loan Agent Farm or city property For sale or exchange. If you want a farm in DR. G. I, 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 '5c Vegetable Soup "5c Hot Coffee and Lunch day & night 121 S Main St, Ottawa, Kansas. RA. KLAUER: Carries ALL the LATEST brand of cigars and alsoa FULL LINE of Tobacco and smoking articles. His cigars are made in* Topeka c2Kab. 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. and Workmanship guaran eed Cleaning and Repairing 512½ Kansas Avenue. Topeka 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 PRSCRIPTION DRUGGIST 732 Kansas Avenue. Do you read the State Idger A Hides Purs Write for Prices. Re We willmove to (128 N THE COUGH Finest lines PENINSULAR 706 THE Heating Wrought Steel Revolting Reel 323 and 25 Cherokee COAL, GROCK Cut Flowers MRS Tel 176. CEO. M REAL ESTATE wizard Buipg PENINSULAR PENINSULAR PENINSULAR Wrought Steel Warm Arr FURNAGES Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke Stacks 323 and 25 Cherokee Street EAVENWORTH- Kansas Cut Flowers Funeral Designs Palms and Ferns MRS M. E. HOLLCRAFT FLOIST. Tel 176. 807 Kansas Ave Topeka GEO. M. NOBLE & CO. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE MOKTGAGES wjord Buipg Telephone 444. 501 Jackson St. Topeka, Kas PAINE BROS Expert Watch Dealers in all kite oivers, Musical Instrum {Λ}so Λen take "Jo-He Magnetic K IMPER Watchmaker and Jewelers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as Guns, Rams, Musical Instruments also Bicycles and Bicycle Racks. Also Agents for the Best Remedy in existence. He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 Kansas avenue, Toppi. THE IMPERIAL BILLARDS Hall and Pool-room PERSON Prop. Give him a call. 222 Kans. J. E. PEARS RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Tobacco and mild Drinks. Lunches and Call and see me and I will serve you right. Moon & Hagins Voria Marble & Granite Works On a Works70gComm street, EMPORIA, & Domestic Marble & Granite 墓etry Works. Work executed in the Latest Styles by Skilled Mechanics. WEBER & CO. Dealers In Highest grade groceries nuts, Raisins Apples and Oranges for on a call. Dealers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as Guns, Revolivers, 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 IMPERIAL BILLARD Hall and Pool-room ANDERSON Prop. Give him a call. RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Cigars, Tobbacces and mild Drinks. Lunches and I n e g n Call and see me and I will serve you right. Emporia Marble & Granite Works Office a Works7ogComm street, EMPORIA, Kas. &Domestic Marble & Granite emetery Works. Work executed in the LatestStyles by Skilled Mechanics. Highest grade groceries. Fruits Nuts, Raisins Apples and Oranges for Give them a call. JAMES C. CUMMER Mides, Tallow, Furs and Poise. 108 and11c EastThird Street Topeka Ka 124 and8 2ndstre t Joseph Mo. 431 Kansas ave. THE 1405 KansAve Corns CAFT; Vee Topeka D. ARTGAGES Topeka, Kas jewelers BURNS, Rev. Cycle Reparing. ce. ToPEKA, Kans. ARD m no, Ave S ERY and Long n t. Us Works ORIA, Kas. Grunite Mechanics. eeries. TH PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS Calls preemptly answered, W H Harrison, M D 614 West 6th Street, nd, Phone 43, Bell Phone 150 HOURS: 8:30 to 9:30 11 to 12:30 A.M. G, H Lengigo, M D OFFICE: 422 KAS AVE PHONES 525 H. H. KIETH, PH, G. M. D., Surgery and Diseases of Women's Topeka, Kansa DR O A TAYLOR, PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a.m. From 2 to 5 p. m. OFFICE 226½ KAS, AVE. Over Kohl's Drug Store.) H. B. HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 833 Kans Ave All Calls p. empty attender Tel. 14 Tel. 895 I. A. SHIELDS M. D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office and Residence 1331 VanBeren St calls promptly attended. S. G. STEWART, M. D. OFFICE 621 KANSAS AVK. Telephone 54. Residence 112 East 7th Street C. F. MENNINGER, M. D. Office 227 Kansas Ave. Telephone: Office House 11-12 A. K. 2-5 P. K. 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 11 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 Kas Ave. Tele: (635) 100-0000 (Over Wallace Drug Store.) GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. 823 KANSAS AVENUE Topeka, Kansas HOMEPATHIC REMEDIES MA TERTIALS. Miller's Pharmac 6th & 10PEKA AVP Drugs, Medicines, Pr scripti s Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. M. R. MITCHELL, M. D 931 North Van Buren St, Topeka; Kansas Phone 246 DR,H, H, McLELLAN Who has practiced medicine for 19 years in St Mary's Kansas has opened an office, 503 Kans, Ave., residence 1261 Buchanan street. Office Hours: 9:30 to 11:30 A, m, 2 10 P m Bell Te!e 1001, - opela, Kan, M. FARLAND M, E, Physician and Surgeon For 30 years I have made chronic dis- ases a special study. Call and, see me, I Will give you satisfaction female diseases a specialy. 13 Branner St. Topeka Karaas, Gibraltar Drug Co. Fred T. Walker Mgr Camera and Photo supplies Sawin & Douglass UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS street, Atchison, Kansas BATMAN & TAYLOR. 1331 West 9th street, You may first all the things the puzzle but you can't find better DRINKS than we have all the time. BIGEST OFFER in the HISTORY I Gall 8 year old Rey Whiskey, I Gall Bl Brandy or Wine. Glass and Cork Screw — only $3.00. Send a Money order at- State Line Exchange, 1721 West 9th str. F. JOSEPHSON & CO. WHITTELSEY MER CO. Cor 2nd & Madison Street Phone 733 City Give them a cal. THE L: B. PRICE MER. CO. Imported Jobbers In HOUSE-HOLD SPECIALIT All goods sold on easy payments. Office 122 E.4th St. Topeka L. H. Wood Vertical Writing NG Boston, Mass., "Vertical writing is a failure," declared the superintendent of Peabody public schools He prefers the regular slant method. Among the masters of the Boston schools there is a variance of opinion No particular style is insisted upon and the matter is left to the judgment of the teachers. The vertical system is recognized and there are books in the schools with this style. Vertical writing is general in the grammar schools. In the high schools pupils are asked for good plain writing using any style they choose. Superintendent Edwin Pliny Seaver states that the vertical system of writing does not look like a failure in the Boston school. On the contrary, he believes it has been successful. Ex. A Philadelphia school teacher tells this story: Last week I was teaching a spelling lesson to a class of second graders. The word "each" occurred was written on the board, and from it I expected to derive "peach," "reach", etc. Pointing to the word on the board I said: "Can any child give a story using each? A hand was unhesitatingly thrust up and a little 'german girl' replied, "Does your back each?" Ex. Miller & Schmelzer, Refreshmets, Cigars and Tobacco 439 Minn ave., Kansas City, Kas Smith and Anderson wholesale merchants 917 Kas, Ave, see them when in need of "stuff" in their line Geo. A. Patterson... Furniture. Farm Implements Buggies and Wagons. Oskaloosa, Kans. KAS. CITY KAS. (Add.) May flower Headquarters J Kirkpatrick's place, 521 Minnesota ave. FIFTH STREET HOTEL 1015 & 1017 N. FIFTH STREET Fuwnished rooms Billiard and sample room in Connection. Geo. Gruble, sr. proprietor HEITMAN & CO.—Fresh an Meats, Groceries, Veget Country Produce, a so co produce wanted, 321 E. 1st St, F M.WARD. Real Estate Agen Insurance and Rental Agency, Personal Property Bougnt and Sold Employment Agent R, R. Laborers a Specialty Tele. 561,817 N. Kan.Ave. Nth TOPEKA KANSAS. Mrs. Goshorn UP- TO- DATE- MILLINERY Only millinery South of Corner DREISBACH & WALLACE Grocers and Butchers, 933 Kansas avenue. Both Pomes 291. 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