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THE STATE LEDGER By F. L. JELTZ TOPEKA, KANSAS A new counterfeit $10 bill is in circulation. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Prof. Vincent of Chicago is instructing women how to talk. Some men would gild the lily. The czar is reported to be reasonably cheerful; but wait till he reads that Swinburne poem. Over in Hungary the battle of the ballots seems to involve about as many fatalities as the other kind. The man who rocked the boat last summer is now leading skating parties over the thin places in the ice. Mighty few men can get worried over their soul when their collar button is pinching the back of their neck. Dr. Newell Dwight Hills propounds the question, Is a second marriage wrong? Where it involves bigamy, yes. The mayor of Bridgeport, Conn., is trying to get his own salary reduced. "Nature hath made strange fellows in her time." A dainty little square of lace—That's all. We just wanted to start a paragraph that every woman reader would look at. New Jersey cares not what states may have the gold mines and furnish the nation's wheat if she can incorporate the trusts. Reading the headline of a New York paper, "Receiver Appointed for Elita Proctor Otis" who can help exclaiming, "Lucky fellow!". Somebody has written a book entitled "Practical Poker." The most practical kind of poker is the kind that is left practically alone. Unfortunately the Russian people always have to pay for the windows that the Russian people knock out of the palaces of their grand dukes. The English gentlewoman who keeps a few snakes with her all the time evidently takes after some English noblemen we have heard of. Mr. Rockefeller, continuing to serve the public in an expensive and congenial advisory capacity, urges us all to "drink plenty of water between meals." Senator Depew says that the foreign title chases the American girl. Possibly; but not until after it has looked up papa's rating in Bradstreet's. After a while the public may learn that gold letters on the window and a suitcase for the president to use in getting away do not constitute a safe and sane bank. Some of the kind Russian manufacturers have offered to advance their help's wages to $10 a month. Is it quite safe to enrich the uneducated classes so suddenly? The Savole sailed from New York with two bridal couples and $3,280,000 in gold. Presumably the bridal couples were almost as happy as if the gold belonged to them. As fourteen of the years in the present century will begin on Sunday, Russell Sage will doubtless save his 1905 calendar, to be used for the other years by simply changing the date. If whisky and quinine is a bad combination, as some doctors say, it must be on account of the quinine. In the words of the Kentucky colonel, there is no bad whisky—New York Press. The New York sociologist who advises all the good people to send all the bad ones to Coventry apparently doesn't appreciate the dangers incident to the overcrowding of communities. The reckless Chicago Record-Herald thinks that when those ten men own the United States it will be interesting to see which one of them will be the first to get frozen out by the other nine. Maxime Gorky was wise to adopt a pseudonym. His real name is Alexei Maximowitsch Pleschow, which obviously isn't adapted for a title page and subsequent discussion at the women's clubs. Concerning that story of the company that is preparing to manufacture gold in unlimited quantities from salt water, most persons will take it, for the present, with a few grains of chloride of sodium. New York's bank clearings are now considerably in excess of those of London. Isn't this rather disloyal on the part of New York? It has always been supposed that New York's principal business was to ape rather than to lead London. "A great many of you," says the Syracuse Post-Standard, "are giving way again to that tired feeling. Your sidewalks show it." Only an editor who dwells in a palatial apartment house and doesn't have to shovel snow would dare to write that. It is said that the increase in the number of women who are doing "men's work" has been 40 per cent in the last ten years. This will be quite encouraging to those men who are willing that the women folks should do the whole of it. A woman in Brooklyn sued for divorce on the ground that her husband kept snakes for pets. She properly lost her suit. She should have been sufficiently grateful that her husband simply looked on snakes as pets—he might have seen them otherwise. --- Like tattered tents the cornstalks idly flan As on the hills the golden legions blaze In the soft radiance of the autumn days; In a custom ditch each stalk enwrap As if with fire. The hights were crowded the wad'er r The bright battailons shine in sunset rays. The white one lists the coy woodpecker tap. O Goldenrod! with garden flowers you see. Although with rose nor lily you come pare; Your blossoms through the wildwood thickly lie. As you give forth your golden beauty where. No early sisterhood of flowers is nigh; You gild waste places and adorn the pastures bare! -Dexter Smith, in Boston Transcript. THE LOST OPPORT ```markdown ``` THE LOST OPPORTUNITY BY EDWIN LEFEVRE. Copyrighted 1903, by Edwin Lefevre. In Three Parts For many years Daniel Dittenhoeffer had desired the ruin of John F. Greener. Dutch Dan, as the Street called Dittenhoeffer, was a burly man with blond hair, a red nose and a loud voice. Greener was a sallow, swarthy bit of a man, with black hair and a squeaky voice. He had furtive brown eyes and a high forehead; while Dittenhoeffer had frank blue eyes and the pugnacious chin and thick neck of a prize fighter. Both were members of the New York Stock Exchange, but Greener never was seen on the "floor" after one of his victims lifted him bodily by the collar and dropped him fifteen feet into the coal cellar on Exchange place. He would plan the wrecks of railroad systems as a measure preliminary to their absorption, just as a boa constrictor crushes its victim into pulp the more easily to swallow it. But the practice, unchecked for years, had made him nervous and soul-fidgety. Dan spent his days from 10 to 3 on the Stock Exchange, and his nights from 10 to 3 at the roulette tables or before a faro layout. Restless as the quivering sea and suffering from chronic insomnia, he had perforce to satisfy his constitutional craving for Winston powerful stimulants; but as he hated delirium tremens he gave himself ceaselessly big doses of the wine of gambling—it does as much for the nerves as the best whisky. He would buy or sell 50,000 shares of a stock and he would bet $50,000 on the turn of a card. On one occasion he offered to wager a fortune that he could guess which of two flies that lit on a table would be the first to fly away. Greener found in the Stock Exchange the means to a desired end. Despite innumerable bits of stock jobbing, he had in no exalted opinion, in his heart of hearts, of stock operations, But Dittenhoeffer thought the stock market was the court of last resort, whither financiers should go, when they were in the right, to get their deserts; and when they were in the wrong to overcome their deserts by the brute force of dollars. It was natural that in their operations in the market the two men should be as dissimilar as they were in their physical and temperamental characteristics—Machiavelli and Richard Coeur de Lion. Nobody knew exactly how the entity between Greener and Dittenhoeffer began. The "Little Napoleon A of Railroading" had felt toward Dutch Dan a certain passive hostility for interference with sundry stock market deals. But Dan hated Greener madly, probably for the same reason that a hawk hates a snake—the instinctive antipathy of the utter dissimilar. Scores of men had tried to "bust" Greener, but Greener had grown richer by their efforts, the growth of his fortune being proportionate to the contraction of theirs. Sam Sharpe had come from Arizona with $12,000,000 avowedly to show the effete East how to crush "financial skunks of the Greener class." And the financial Dutch Dan. John Greener. ns shine in sunset's the coy woodpecker's garden flowers you nor lily you com- ough the wildwood your golden beauty of flowers is nigh- s and adorn the pas- Boston Transcript. PPORTUNITY skunk learned no new lesson, though the privilege of imagining he was giving one cost Sharpe a half million a month for nearly one year. Then, after Sharpe had learned more of the game—and of Greener—he joined hands with Dittenhoeffer and together they attacked Greener. They were skillful stock operators, rich and utterly without financial fear. And they loathed Greener. In a more gorgeous age they would have cut the Little Napoleon to pieces and passed his roasted heart on a platter around the festive board. In the colorless nineteenth century they were fain to content themselves with endeavoring to despoil him of his tear-stained millions; to do which they united their smile-wreathed millions—some seven or eight of them—and opened fire. Their combined fortune was divided into ten projectiles, and one after another hurled at the little man with the squeaky voice and the high forehead. The little man dodged the first and the second and the third, but the fourth broke his leg and the fifth knocked the wind out of him. The Street cheered and showed its confidence in the artillerists by going short of the Greener stocks. But just before the sixth shot Greener called to his assistance old Wilbur Wise, the man with the skin-flinty heart and thirty millions in cash. A projecting rampart, man-high, of government bonds was raised about the prostrate Napoleon, and the financial cannoneer ceased firing precious projectiles. The new fortifications were impregnable and they knew it; so they contented themselves with gathering up their own shot and a small railroad, or two dropped by Greener in his haste to seek shelter. Then Sharpe went to England to win the Derby and Attenloeffer went to Long Branch to a muse himself playing a no-limit faro game that cost him on an average $10,000 a night for a month. (To be continued.) PATE OF THE HUMBERTS. Law Journal Shows Their Punishment Is Severe The Law Times makes the following comment on the sentences passed on the Humbert, the notorious French swindlers: "Some of the comments in the press on the sentence passed on Mime. Humbert and her husband (the other pair of culprits came off more lightly) betray a very imperfect appreciation of its nature. Five years' reclusion, or solitary confinement as it is understood in France, is not only a rigorous but a terrible penalty. Our own code offers no parallel to it, and it is probable that a life sentence of penal servitude in this country would be far more easily endured. The solitude of the prisoner in reclusion is all but absolute. The strictest silence is enforced. Presumably the consolations of religion—whatever that may amount to in so dreadful a situation—are net entirely withheld; otherwise the prisoner is forbidden to speak, even to his guardian. Books are denied and (which must be almost the worst infliction of all) the most complete idleness is enforced; no employment of any description may mitigate the appalling vacancy of days, weeks and years. Half an hour's exercise is allowed daily in a hood which covers everything except the eyes. This horrible life in death may end in the tomb, but it is more likely to end in the padded cell of the maniac." Prerequisites to Success The various periodicals about the country are stocked full of hints as to how to attain fame and fortune. Courses in this, that and the otherology or business are offered and apparently the only thing requisite for one to succeed in life is to send for Jimchin's course of instructions, read them and presto! Dame Fortune stands waiting. All of which read very prettily. About the best incentive to become famous or wealthy—the two, however, are generally synonymous—is poverty. The man who has, in the words of an old philosopher, to "git up and git" is the one to accomplish great things. Give a young man health, grit, poverty and if he doesn't accomplish wonders it will be because he doesn't live long enough to carry out his plans.—Memphis Commercial-Anpeal. "Well, he has had one." "What?" "Trying to be 'a good fellow.'" "Did he succeed?" "As long as his money lasted, yes" Her Retort. "Fish," he said, "is brain food." "Better have some more," she urged solicitously ```markdown ``` Her Retort. PEACE INSIGHT? A PARIS REPORT THAT NICOLAS WILL ASK TERMS. CZAR MAY BE TIRED OF WAR Berlin Also Hears of the Cancellation of Large Orders of Supplies for the Third Baltic Fleet PARIS.—A dispatch to the Paris Petit Parisiense from St. Petersburg says that the czar has consulted competent persons upon the best way to conclude a preliminary armistice with the Japanese, and then to come to terms that would not be too humiliating or onerous for Russia to accept. BERLIN.—A dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt from Kiel says that the postponement of the sailing of the Russian squadron under Admiral Nebogatoff causes wonder, as contractors had placed large supplies of fresh and preserved provisions on the steamer Marc for transhipment to the Russian squadron. An order for 20,000 pounds of fresh meat has been countermanded. Other orders for war munitions have been countermanded in German factories. Several French firms also report that work on war material has been stopped by order from St. Petersburg. HOLDING A BRITISH STEAMER. One Contraband Vessel Lost Its Propeller and Drifted to Luzon. MANILA.—The acting Russian consul here has refused the request of Captain Simpson of the British steamer Carlisle to communicate with his government regarding the disposition of the vessel's cargo. Captain Simpson, therefore, has merely notified the owners of the Carlisle that the steamer, laden with supplies from Vladivostok for Port Arthur, has lost its propeller and is now in San Miguel bay, Island of Luzon. AT LEAST THREE KILLED One Train Crashed Into Another Near Sanillo, Mexico. LAREDO, TEX.—In a wreck on the National Railway of Mexico between Carleros and La Ventura, three persons were killed, and perhaps others were killed or injured. As a south bound train was making its way through the mountains beyond San tillo it crashed into a northbound freight train which had taken a side track. The second and third class passengers, was telescoped. Public Land Laws. WASHINGTON.—A second partial report of the public lands commission has been sent to congress by President Roosevelt, who, in his letter of transmittal, says the report seem "to require a radical revision of most of the laws affecting the public domain, if we are to secure the best possible use of the remaining public lands by actual home-makers." Lost His Life in a Fire. VINITA, I. T.—The power house and oil tanks of the Cherokee Oil and Gas company near Chelsea in the oil fields were totally destroyed by fire Tuesday night. The tanks contained oil, and when the alarm was sounded John Manifee, the engineer at the power house, responded to the call, but failed to leave the building and lost his life. For an Oklahoma Burglary. LAWTON, OK—Harry Smith was arrested at Hobart on the charge of having burglarized the Dixie store at that place. He has confessed to the crime and turned into the hands of the authorities about $600 worth of goods that were taken. Coal Found Near Anadarko, OK. ANADARKO, OK—A three-foot vein of coal of fine quality was discovered by the Anadarko Mining and Development company while prospecting for oil southeast of Anadarko. The drill was down to a depth of 200 feet. Ninety-Four Persons Drown LONDON.—A dispatch from Kobe, Japan, to the London Express reports that the small steamer Natorigaw collided with the harbor works at Oska Sunday and sank and that ninety-four persons were drowned. The Mobile Fire Loss $400,000. MOBILE, ALA.—The fire which destroyed the Battle house, Mobile's historic hotel, the Commercial hotel and several adjoining buildings, entailed a loss of about $400,000. There was no loss of life. The Third Fleet to Sail ST. PETERSBURG.—The Russian admiralty confirms the statement that Admiral Nebogatoff's division of the Russian Third Pacific squardon will sail from Libau at the end of the present week. Japan Buying Locomotives. LONDON.—Japan has placed an urgent order with a Glasgow manufacurer for fifty powerful locomotives. Grants Relief to Monkeys LINCOLN, NEB.—The senate passed the bill prohibiting cruelty to animals, including the section which prohibits the overworking of monkeys by hand organists. The section to prohibit the chasing of jack rabbits was stricken out. Afraid They Would Hang Attack They Would Hang Him. MUSKOGEE, T. — Deputy Marshal Hughes has arrived in Coweta with L. S. Brascom, who pleaded guilty to bootlegging. The officers found Brascom in a dugout in the country. Asks About Dominica WASHINGTON—Se?nator Bacon introduced a resolution reciting the agreement between the diplomatic representatives of the United States and the Dominican republic, January 31, 1905, and calling upon the president for information concerning it. Mrs. Chadwick's Trial March 6. CLEVELAND, O.—The trial of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick in the United State district court has been set for Monday, March 6. She will be tried before Judge R. W. Tayler. ACHED IN EVERY BONE. Chicago Society Woman, Who Was So Sick She Could Not Sleep or Eat Cured by Doan's Kidney Pills. Marion Knight, of 33 N. Ashland avenue, Chicago, orator of the West Side Wednesday Club, says: "This winter when I started to use Doan's Kidney Pills I ached in every bone and had intense pains in the kidneys and pelvic organs. The urine was thick and cloudy, and I could barely eat enough to winter when I started to use Doan's Kidney Pills. I ached in every bone and had in intense pains in the kidneys and pelvic organs. The urine was thick and cloudy, and I could barely eat enough to live. I felt a change for the better within a week. The second week I began eating heartily. I began to improve generally, and before seven weeks had passed I was well. I had spent hundreds of dollars for medicine that did not help me, but $6 worth of Doan's Kidney Pills restored me to perfect health." A TRIAL FREE.—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts. GHOSTS OF THE PAST. They Appear in United States Senate. Even in the United States Senate ghosts come up out of the past to vex. One day at the Smoot hearing, ex-Governor McConnell, of Idaho, was on the stand defending the Mormons and doing what he could to boster up the cause of Smoot. "I have hear," he said, "a newspaper article which tells of the Mormons. I will read it. It coincides with my views.' He then read a statement which told of the virtues of the Mormons. "From what do you read?" asked Senator Dubois of Idaho, the leader of the anti-Mormon crusade. "I read," said McConnell, looking at Dubois with a grin that was maddening, "from an interview given in 1898 with the Hon. Fred T. Dubois, now senator from Idaho." DON'T FORGET DON'T FORGET A large 20oz. package Red Cross Ball Blue only 5 cents. The Rass Company, South Bend, Ind. The burglar is apt to take things for granted. TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugstores refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 25c. Only a fool man will light a lantern and start out to look for trouble. Farmers wanted to erase or break good farms of 196 to 2000 acres in Oklahoma. Address: E. F. SPARROW, Pawhuska, Oklahoma. It's a stupid person who would stoop to folly. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it. 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Much valuable information free about band instruments; write for the new catalogue to day. JENKINS' MUSIC HOUSE KANSAS CITY, MO. Every solicitor is working for his own pocket. SPECIAL EXCURSIONS TO SOUTH WEST. February 7 and 21, March 7 and 21, 1905, Via Kansas City Southern Railway. TO PORT ARTHUR, BEAUMONT, TEX., LAKE CHARLES, GALVESTON, HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, TEX, and all other points on the K. C. S. Ry., for tickets with 21 days limit and privilege of stopping off enroute on both going and return trip. For literature describing "THE LAND OF FULFILLMENT" the country along the K. C. S. Ry., or for further information regarding these excursions write to S. G. WARNER, G. P. & T. A., K. C. S. Ry., Kansas City Mo Money Raised for New One Kansas. CHANUTE, KAN.—It is announced that money has been raised for an in dependent refinery at Chanute, the production has been contracted for and that ground will be broken just as soon as the oil bills pass the legislature and are signed by the governor. The refinery will cost $100,000 and have a daily capacity of 500 barrels crude oil Most of the stock was taken in Illinois. The telegrams sent to Thomas W Lawson and to leaders of the independents in Pennsylvania have not been answered yet. Copies of the resolutions adopted Saturday night were for warded Monday morning. BOSTON.—A report that Thomas W Lawson is to answer the Kansas of producers' appeal for aid by entering the fight against the Standard Oil company in Kansas was confirmed by Mr Lawson, who says he has certain evidence which will be of great value to the legislature of that state, and that he is about ready to tackle the Stand Oil west of Chicago. Lawson says he does no care at this time to specify his weapons. A friend of Mr. Lawson said that within a few days every important man in Kansas from the governor down would receive literature especially prepared by the Boston copper man showing how the Standard Oil people and certain railroads work together in Kansas and further west to California AS CHINA'S CHIEF ADVISER Tokio Dispatch Says Japan Expects to Establish Herself in Peking. LONDON.—The Daily Telegraph's correspondent at Tokio says there is good authority for the statement that Japan intends after the war to establish herself in Peking as China's principal adviser. The correspondent adds that the warship which Japan is reported to have purchased is said to be the Chilean battleship Capitan Pratt. The negotiations, it is added, were conducted through an American firm. Orders for four large battleships have been placed in England and also contracts for guns to the value of $2,500,000. The same correspondent asserts that the Japanese ambition now is undoubtedly to invade a small portion of actual Russian territory and an active siege of Vladivostok is, therefore, expected soon. MAY INVOLVE THE NATION Campbell Likely to Start Federal Fire Under Standard WASHINGTON.—The next development in the fight of the Kansas oil producers against the Standard Oil company is likely to be one of national scope. Congressman Phil Campbell, whose district comprises the Kansas oil field, is ready to take up the fight at this end of the line, and in preparation for it has had a conference with Commissioner Garfield of the bureau of corporations. Mr. Campbell has not yet announced what his plans are, and likely will not until he is ready to spring them. However, it can be as assumed that when he is ready to act, it will be along some line which will bring the Standard before the federal courts. A New Chief Justice in Panama. PANAMA.-Dr. Charles A. Cooke has succeeded Chief Justice Ponce who was appointed by the Panama government joint commissioner with Federick Boyd to act with the joint commissioners for the United States in condemnation suits for land required by the United States government in the building of the Panama canal. Will Sink Foreign Colliers TOKIO.—In discussing a report that colliers had refused to accompany the second Russian Pacific squadron on its way north, a member of the Japanese naval staff said: "Our commanders will fire on and sink any colliers found in company with the Russian warships, regardless of their nationality." Ordered Russians to Leave ZANZIBAR—Russian cruisers from Dares Salem anchored in German waters Saturday morning. Major Von Goetzen, governor of German East Africa, who was going to Zanzibar on board a yacht, discovered the Russian vessels and requested them to leave. A Montana Miner Frozen to Death. MISSOULA MONT.—The frozen body of William Saulsbury, a miner, was found about one mile from Borax. The man had wandered around during the blizzard and evidently became exhausted and had lain down to rest. Engine's Boiler Exploded in Illinois. BLOOMINGTON, ILL.—The boiler of a freight engine on the Big Four railroad exploded ten miles west of here Sunday. Fire Loss $250,000. CHICAGO.-Fire destroyed the six-story building of the Central Electric company with a loss of $250,000. Mauch, a Sculptor, Dead in Chicago CHICAGO. - Max Mauch, well known as a sculptor, died here. Mauch was a native of Austria and displayed some of his works at the Columbian exposition and at the recent exposition in St. Louis. Danger From Iron Exports BERLIN—Herr Stoecker, in the Reichstag, described American iron exports as the chief danger for Germany. Europe, he said, must strike a new pace in order to compete with America. Russians Still Shelling. TOKIO.—The Russians shelled and attacked Waitaio mountain twice Sunday, but were repulsed. Small forces of Russian infantry attacked Lapatai and Hanshantal Monday, February 13, but were repulsed. The Russians continued to construct intrenements in the neighborhood of Heikoutai. Togo Is at Sea Again KURE, JAPAN—Vice Admiral Toge departed from here Tuesday. His destination is secret. It is presumed, how ever, that he is leaving south. Recommended by Prominent Physicians and Chemists Calumet Baking Powder Perfect in Quality Economical in Use Moderate in Price STATEHOOD TALK. Senator Beveridge Lapsed Into Thought. Senator McCumber of South Dakota was talking on the statehood bill. The senator is a mild-mannered man who talks like a college professor. Senator Beveridge, who is in charge of the bill, did not like some of the things McCumber said and did a little nagging. He explained to his own insatisfaction what the attitude of Mr. McCumber was. The thread of his argument was that all senators stood to together on all matters of public concern, while McCumber said he thought senators legislated best about things with which they were familiar. "That is a very beautiful sentiment Mr. President," McCumber began after Senator Beveridge had finished. "And is it not true?" inquired Beveridge, with elaborate politeness. "But," continued McCumber smoothly, "we have not all that infinite knowledge of everything in the United States which qualifies every man to pass intelligently upon every subject that come before the Senate." And Mr. Beveridge lapsed into thought—Washington Post. His Mistake. "I don't think they'll dare me, reflected the new boy at me. 'I've got a bigger income than them' 'em put together." But he found out later that he was something more than that going to him—Chicago Tribune. IT'S THE TERROR OF ALL WOMEN Backache Quickly Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs. W. H. 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Begged to be Excused: Medium—"Now, ladies and gentlemen, if there is any spirit you wish to see let me know." Prof. Drlebones (noted Egyptologist)—"Can you show us Cheops, the builder of the great pyramid?" Medium—"Certainly." Prof. Drlebones—"Glorious! I will talk to him in his own language." Medium (hastily)—"Cheops says he has the grip and can't come." Salzer's Home Builder Corn. So named because 50 acres produced so heavily that its proceeds built a lovely home. See Salzer's catalog. Yielded in Ind, 157 bu., Ohio 130 bu., Tennessee, 198 bu., in Mich., 220 bu. per acre. You can beat this record in 1905. - rrich, juicy fodder, per A. Now such yields you can have in 1965 if you will plant my seeds. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 100 in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse Wis., and receive their great catalog and lots of farm seed samples. [W.N.U.] Where girls are concerned liquid glances will make a fellow solid. Every Day is Celebrated as Sunday. Few people know that other days of the week than the first are being observed as Sunday by some nation or other. The Greeks observe Monday; the Persians, Tuesday; the Assyrians, Wednesday; the Egyptians, Thursday; the Turks, Friday; the Jews, Saturday; and the Christians, Sunday. Thus a perpetual Sabbath is being celebrated on earth.—From "Success Magazine." One man passes the plate in church—and a good many other men let the plate pass them. --- F. L. JELTZ. $2.00 per year 6 months $1.00 3 months 50c Published every week at 1027 Kansas Ave. The Origin of "O. K." The Origin of "O. K." The Boston Herald thinks it has traced the origin of "O. K." and it does not spring from an easy spelling of "all correct." According to the Herald it is Choctaw. There is in that language a word, "Okeh," which means "it is correct," or "I agree or approve." It is often used alone to give assent or approval to a suggestion or proposal. "Okeh" was in common use among whites who had dealings with the Choctaws more than thirty years before the Van Buren campaign. It was a convenient expression where parties understood each other's language imperfectly, and was used to mean "I understand you and approve of what you say," or "I understand your statement and vouch for its correctness." Married All Suitors In Turn Married All Suitors in Turn. It is related of Lady Penelope Dacey that she was wooed by three suitors at the same time, who had determined to fight as to which should possess her hand. This fact coming to her knowledge, she positively forbade them to fight under pain of her great displeasure, and laughingly remarked that if they would have patience to wait she would marry them all. Strange to say, she fulfilled her promise, as she married, first, Sir George Trenchard of Wolverton; second, Sir John Gage of Fule, and third, Sir William Hervey of Ickworth—the very gentlemen who had determined to fight for her hand. Women and Warfare. While one great thinker tells us that women are the greatest power for peas on earth, another brings a stirring accusation against women who love war. It is in these vigorous words: "The spirit of natural ferocity is strong in us still. It makes our eyes flame at the sight of glittering arms and our nerves tingle at the sound of martial music and it stirs in the souls of women. As the peahen is captivated by the flaunting plumage of the peacock, as the squaw rejoices in the deeds of the warrior returning with the smoking scalp of the enemy, so the women of to-day are led captive by the uniform of the soldiers." There may be a fragment of truth in this, but only a fragment—Exchange. Botanist's Favorite Flower. Botanist a favorite Flower. The great botanist Linnaeus had for his favorite flower the fragrant rose-tinted little twin flower. Concerning it he is quoted to have answered, when asked by a friend if it grew by the shores of a Swedish lake. "Nay, she lives not here, but in the middle of our largest woods. She clings with her little arms to the moss and seems to resist very gently if you force her from it. She has a complexion like a milkmaid, and oh! she is very, very sweet and agreeable." The only pain-lag of Linnaeus which is in existence shows a small sprig of this flower in his buttonhole. Takes Ink Out of Fabric The quickest way to remove an ink spot from a white fabric is to cover the blemish with crushed crystals of oxalic acid, drop on water enough to moisten them, rub them well into the fabric, and then turn on boiling water and rub gently until the spot fades. Then wash out the acid with soap and water and the last trace of the ink will go with it. The knack of using oxalic acid in this way without weakening the textile lies solely in the quickness with which the work is done and its thorough removal immediately. POLITENESS OF THE IRISH. Mumor in Answers Always Meant to Be Agreeable. A friend sends me the following delightful bit, cut from some paper: "It is well known that the Irish peasant (no doubt from a sense of politeness) will seldom disagree with a tourist, but likes to give an answer which he thinks will be agreeable to the questioner. Last summer a gentleman from Liverpool while out for a sall on Carlingford Lough was caught in a gale. Knowing the danger, Pat made for the shore. 'Why are you going in?' said the visitor; 'there's not much wind.' 'No,' replied the boatman, 'but, sure, what there is av it is mighty powerful.' An angler tells how, when in quest of fish, he asked a small bare-legged boy if there were any fish in a certain river. 'There is, yer honor.' 'What sort of fish?' 'There do be trouts and eels, yer honor.' 'Any salmon?' 'There do be an odd one.' 'Any thermometers?' 'Them does be there, too, yer honor; but they come up lather in the season.'—"Fishing Gazette. J. M. Shellarger & Son Fine ambulance and TOTKA AVE Drug, a Medicines, Pro scriptis Carefully Compounded. Give Us a Trial. A curiosity brought from j. alies to the Maryland Academy of Sciences, is a huge white ant's nest. It is about three and a half feet in diameter, and is formed from the sap of a tree. The ants build at the base or in the branches of trees. They construct from the inside, much in the manner as bonnets do their nests. The ants neat has much of the appearance of a hornets home, except that the color is different, being dark THE UNIONPACIFIC TEACO Tea Coffe Baking powder And pices. Sugar a specialty every Saturday. George Gladfetter, mgr 513 Kans. Ave. WM. Elliott furnished room or lighthouse keeping. 500 Csage St, "Irworth," The Royal Bakery, Best Machine Made Bread, at ..... HENRY KRAUSHAARS. 833 kansas ave. Ind. Phone 282 M C McCORMICK, CARPENTER and BUILDER. Estimates Given # and Contracts Taken Job Work Given prompt Attention. FURNITURE REPAIRED. 114 E, 8th Street. Topeka TOPEKA PUMP SHOP, F. S. STANTON, Prop. Manufacturer of THE TOPEKA FORCE PUMP, and sells all kinds of Wood and Iron Pumps and Pump Goods Drive Wells and Repairing a specialty. 205 W 6th Street, Topeka THE CHIEF HOTEL AND RESTAURANT N, Hardan prop, termes with furn- shed rooms 533500 per week good lunch counter, 323 Kans Are. THE SANTA WATCH CO., 509 E. 4th St. Phone 138. (South side of Street) Diamonds, Watches, Phonograph High Grade Watch Supplies and Repairing a specialty. MISS HILLIAN F. ALLEN, TEACHER OF PIANO. Teams per lesson a week 500 (Paint or Music) Two lessons per week 400 each. 1143 Clay St. The U. S..... Agents for National and Iver Johnson Bicycles. Repairing neatly executed. 118 E. 8th Street, Topeka CHANDLER & CO SHOER 517 Quincy Street horses called for and delivere Independent Telephone 123 DEFORD S HAR O-LIA A highly pertumed pomade for dress the hair. Price 50 cents, sent by mail on receipt of price. Specially recommended, for COLORE D PEOPLE. Don't use it if you want curly hair. Put up by J. ROW Atchison Kans. H S. PRUESSNER & Co. — Dealers In 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., CAPITAL BROOM WORK Manufacturer of brooms and Jobbe of Brooms corn 1234 Kans Ae 701k R Ind. Employes a large num ber of Men several are married and recieving good wages. Mr Supple de serves great credit for this enterrion W. B.TUCKER PR. CTICAL HORSE SHQE Corne. winthrop and Verme LAWRENCE kAN. Phone 51 MISFIT CLOTHING New geuts furnishings and shoes cond hand shoes bought and sold Moneo loaned on valuables. Abe Wolton, 137 Mass. st. C. Mitchell DEALER IN Hem al BakeryGoods Ciga Pobaccos Fall line of Costectj ances ancy Table Sy 401 W $ ^{4} \mathrm {S t} $ MRS FANNY PETERSON Meals and Short Order refresh 903C herokee St, Lawnc: Collections made anywhere in the United states. 415 kansas avenue; Both phones 1577 Adams & Kerns Managers. Topeka kansas H. K. Stewart Telephone 1541 D. E. West The Independent Cleaners--Dyers Suits Steam or Dry--Cleaned and Pressed. $1 $1 Suits pressed ...50 Cents Trousers Pressed...15 Cents 735 Top ave Cave Coffee Formally of Kansas City has the S by J. A. Lortie at...223 kansas ave. Horses called ered S. J. Brown 128 Hides EuroWool Write for Prices. Reference First 126 N Kansas ave. THE VA Heating & Manu : Manufacture Wrought Steel Warm Revolting Reel Bake Ovens 323 and 25 Cherokee Street hot Kansas City has the Snoeing Shop for Lortie at...223 kansas avenue See there rses called fOr & J. Brown, 128 Ksaw Euros Wool Ete for Prices. Reference Firs: National Bank, Kansas ave., THE VARNEY Hating&Manufactur : Manufacturers of: Right Steel Warm Air FU Evvolting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke d 25 Cherokee Street LEAVNWORK Formally ot Kansas City has the Snoeing Shop formerly occupied by J'A. Lortie at...223 kansas avenue See them Horses called fOr & delivered Hides Purs Wool Ete Write for Prices. Reference First NationalBank, Topeka Benk 126 N Kansas ave., THEVARNEY Wrought Steel Warm Air FURNAOES Revolting Reel Bake Ovens and Iron Smoke Stacks. 323 and 25 Cherokee Street LEAVNWORTH DIXON BRQS TINNERS and Monuments, designs and Ceme e of Repairing Gasoline Stoves. B J E GILBER Dealer in Ladies and Gerts Furni Clothing Rossville, Kans. W. L CRIFE Whole sale and retail dealer Tele 943 Cut Flowers Funeral Design MRS, M E FLOJS Tel 176. CEO. M. NOB REAL ESTATE FIRE INS 435 KANS AVE Telep TINNERS and PLUMBERS ments, designs and Cemery work ing Gasoline Stoves. BONNER SPRING J E GILBERT & CO. in Ladies and Gerts Furnishings. Hats, Rossville, Kans. L CRIFFITH, Whole sale and retail dealer in Flour Feed B 203 west St.. vers Funeral Designs Palms and Fere MRS, M E HOLLCR FLOJST. 807 Kansas Ave CEO. M. NOBLE & CO. ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE: MOK S AVE Telephone 444. Monuments, designs and Ceme ery work make a specialty of Repairing Gasoline Stoves. BONNER SPRING KANS. Dealer in Ladies and Gerts Furnishings. Hats, CapsBoots and Clothing Rossville, Kans. W. L. CRIFFITH Whole sale and retail dealer in Flour Feed Hay and Gr Tele 943 203 west St. GEO. M. NOBLE & CO. REAL ESTATE FIRE INSURANCE: MORTGAGES 435 KANS AVE Telephone 444. Tepecka, Kas PAINE BROS Expert Watchmaker Dealers in all kinds of Merch olvers, Musical Instruments also B Also Agents for the Best take "Jo-He Magnetic Rock Oii. J.E.I RESTAURANT and Cigars, Tobbaccos and mild Drink Call'any see me and I wi Stop At..... Art Watchmaker and Palers in all kinds of Merchandise, such as G Musical Instruments also Bicycles and Bicyc Also Agents for the Best Remedy in existen He Magnetic Rock Oil. 325 Kansas avenue J. E. PEAR RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Tobbaccos and mild Drinks. Lunches Call'anu see me and I will serve you right 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 TOPKE KC RESTAURANT and CONFECTIONERY Cigars, Tobaccos and mild Drinks Lunches and I ougn Call'and see me and I will serve you right. hotel superor Meals 20 cents. Rooms 25 cents. Heim's Beer on tap. 214 elaware st. * Leavenworth BIRINGER & HEINZ BIRINGER & HEINZ. Successor to C. R. Harrison TAILORS and DRAPERS We hand e the finest line o Imported Wooleris. Call and ex amine them. 11r N 5th St J. A. ANDERSON, FASHIONABLE Sailor All work guaranteed, Repairing and Cleaning a specialty, 402 east 4th St, Willia kinds of Shoe work, 4 Snoeing Shop formerly occupied Avenue See them d fOr & deliv- awn, B Ksave Ete First NationalBank, Topeka Benk ARNEY Manufacturing Co. Facturers of: Frm Air FURNAGES Ins and Iron Smoke Stacks. LEAVNWORTH. PLUMBERS Every work we make a specialty BONNER SPRING KANS. RT & CO Mishings. Hats, CapsBoots and FITH, der in Flour Feed Hay and Gr 203 west St.. Ins Palms and Ferns HOLLCRAFT, JST. 807 Kansas Ave Topeka BLE & CO. INSURANCE: MORTGAGES Telephone 444. Topeka, Kas Echandise, such as Guns, Rev. Bicycles and Bicycle Reparing. Most Remedy in existence. 325 Kansas avenue, TOPEKA, Kans PEARS AND CONFECTIONERY Lunches and Iogn will serve you right. GREEN FRONT G+O, 620 W.6th, DEALERS IN All kinds of Groceries Fruits Vegetables and meats. Prices equal any grocery in town, Give us a trial, Whole sale and Retail Dealer In Flour, Feed, Hay, Grain, Garden and Field Seeds when! In Clay Center, stop at the Red Front Restaurant for a good square Meal, only 20 cents. J. C. REGISTER, PROP. HA. KLAUER, Carries the finest brand of cigars and also. ALL LINE of Tobacco and smoking articles. His cigars made in Topek Jewelers DR O A TAYLOR. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office Hours, 9 to 11 a.m. From 2 to 5 p. f. OFFICE 226½ KAS. AVE Over Kohl's Drug Store.) H. B HOGEBOOM PHYSICIAN and SURGEON 833 Kans Ave promptly attended Tel. 895 L. A. SH.ELDS M. D PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office an Residence 1331 VanBuren St call 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 1 Office Hours: 11-12 Z. C. 2 - 5 P.M. Residence 125; Topeka Ave. Telephone 85. J. M JAMISON, M. D. Office 500 East 4th Street Office Hours: From 8 to 10 A.M. P. M. to 3 P.M. P. M. to 9 P.M. pecial attention diseases of women and private diseases. Wm. E. JACKSON, M. D PHYSICIAN and SUKGEON. OFFICE HOURS: 2 TO 5, and 7 TO 9 P.M. Sunday Hours. 1 to 3 P.M. OFFICE 404 Kas Ave. Over Wallace (Drag Store.) General Practice, Chronicle Women and Children a specialty General Practice Surgery a Specialty Jachison Kansas Dr. C. R. H Johnson Dr. C. H Johnson Hrs 8 a.m. q.m Tele at Oti res. M. R. MITCHELL, M. D 931 North Van Buren St., Topeka] Kansas Phone 246 Live kidneys, rheumatism and ht h. V. e75 out of every toocases. cons sultation tree. M. FARLAND, M. D, Physician and Surgeon For 30 years I have made chronic diseases a special study. Call and see me, I Will give you satisfaction female diseases a special. BrannerSt. Topeka Kansas. Gibraltar Drug Co. Fred T. Walker, Mgr Camera and Photo supplies E. W. GORDON, M-D. PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Calls answered day or night. OFFICE MANN BLOCK Oak St. Office Phone 58, Resident, Tele 15. BONNER SPRGS, KAS. F.M DOWNS, M, D. Office in Mann' Building. Local Long Dist ance Phones, Office over Enterprise office. Office tele 34 Residance tele 99. Dr. G.K. BEVRL (General practice) Special attention given to diseases of the stomach, Bowels, diseases of women and children. Alma, Kans GIBRALTAR DRUG CO. F23 KANSAS AVENUE Topeka, Kansu HOMEPATHIC REMED IES TERIALS JOS CHRISMAN & CO., Up to date Horse Shoeing Shop 506 Quincy St., Tele 592 L. R. DISBROW REAL ESTATE EXCHANGE Grain and Feed Store. 906 E 4th St.. Residence 506 LaFavette St. WM- KLINGER TAILOR. Tanning at reasonable prices. and Workmanship guaranteed Cleaning and Repairing 512½ Kansas Avenue. Topeka PINE BROS Dealers In Staple and, Fancy Groceries 187 Bridge St. Tel No 291 LAWRENCE, KANS. Goto - ULAMPARL'S DEPT STORE... 408-400 E. 4th Street Bell Phone 87- STURGIS H'DW CO., Hardware, Stoves and Tinwara Coles Hot Blast Heaters. Bystrom Gas Jamps. Mantles and Globe. Ekron Furnaces. 844 N Kas. av J. R. SPETTER Manufactur and Wholesale Retailer of Cream of Roses, M. W. A., 5c FINE CIGARS 810½ North Kansas Ave THE A:M HESS CO. 820 Kansai, Ave. All Hair and Scalp diseases trea ed successfully, Superflous Hair moved by an entirely new and painless method Maggie White will give you good meal at 335 Minn. Ave Try "64" ABRAHAMS Drug Co 514 Minn. Ave K.C. Kane W. B. FINCHEK, JEWELER) Witchmaer, Clocks, and etc Givehima trialong C. W. Fincke,—Dealer in Wood Coal and FEED. 728 S. W. Boule- vard. Tele 2. J. T SUIT ```markdown ``` Funeral Supplies. First class line of goods to select from. ADVANCE A first class Laundry and an ex cellent organized company. See hem—take your bundles there. ind. Phone 1253 N. S. BLITZ WHOLESALE & RETAIL BAKERY. I015 W. 6th St. Tel. 1503 REAL ESTATE. RENTAL. Employment Agency. If you have Property for Rent Sale or Exchange list it with us. If you want work of any kind, or you want help of any kind, call on FRIZELL & CO., 520 Kans. Ave. Leave your or ers for m hand THE EWART LUMBER CO. Dealers In Lumber lime, cement plaster & brick Kansas ave . and 11th Street R. H. MORHOUSE 710 East Fourth Street, Watch Maker Adjuster KansasCity Mo ads. Mrs. A. RUFF oceries- Meats Fresh Mies and Cakes daily. 1308 est Ninth str Mitts Bros, Staple and Fancy Groceries Fruits, Country Produce, etc. 1301 Union Avenue. First Class Sample Room, Tino LYNCH, Prop- Fine Line of Wines, Lipuors and Cigars, Open Day and Night- 1330 St LOUIS' Avenue. Burnetts Restaurant' is the place to take your meals when in Oskaloosa, he carries a full stock of confections and also mild and delicious drinks Give him a call. DUROW & KIRKHAM Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish oysters and Poultry. Canned meats and pickles. Every thing kept in a first class market. 531 Topeka Ave. Deshattio and Young Meals and short orders Good cooking and ever thing first class is our 'motto' give us trail 116 Kans ave. All kinds of stoves for sale Gasoline stoves and cook stov repaired. Try me ATCHISON, Kansas, ..... Ads P. J. Moore..... General Shoe repairing! Best work at low prices..... 108 South 6th street. L BORSERINI Wholesale & Retail: Mercantile Co., 730-732 Commercial str. Wholesale Dealer in Van, Blatz Milwaukee Beer, impor nl Domestic Liquors— A, W. TEACHOUT. Moulhihis,gs, Pictures, Artists' Materials Artistic Picture Framer,; 5201Commercial street. O. A. LEE & CO. Dealers n HAY, GRAIN and FEED. 8th & Main str., ATCHISON, Ksau Office of City scales. EMIL EBNER Dealer in --- Groceries. Nations & Fe 603 North, Tenth Street, New Telephone 064. FRANK KOEBRICH Dorner --- KOEBRICH & MEAT Corner tooth and Larame str. Tele 71 114 South 4th str., Atchison, Ka- good line of Refreshing—drink Courteous and polite, give them a call. OSCAR M OLSON, —Notary Public Money Satisfy sent to Sweden in exchange Power of Attorney to Sweden, at low rates 1604 North 5th street. B. D. ZIMMERMAN. Direct Importer and Jobber of China, Glass and Queensware Lamps and Burners. 614 Coml St Atchison, Kans. J. E. KETTERMAN THE STAR RESTAURANT Good Dinner, Lunch and Short order Meals 25 cents First class Temperance Drinks Atehi, Kans E. J. BLACK, Restaurant & Meals— Short Orders, Board and Lodging -- day week, 21 meals for weeks board. Call and try me. 370 Cherokee st. Leavenworth, Kans. JOHN J. O'DONNELL Funeral Director and Embalmer, Corner Shawnee and Fifth street, Open Day and Night Office Telephone 221, Residence Phone 224 Leavenworth, Kansas. C BAUMAN NOTICE Dealer In Fresh and salt Meats, etc. Corner 5th and Street Street Leavenworth Kan Rented, Cleaning, Dd epairin 07 S Fulth Leavenworth, KA H W SHAVOR, Proprietor All kinds of mild Drinks— Meals and Short order South of Square— HOLTON. THE ASTORIA— L. E. BUMP Proprietor. Lunches and Short Order first class in every particular. Corner Deaware and Cherokee LEAVENWorth KAIR. Try LEO's Cafe and Lunch Room