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INTER-STATE Journal Kans.. and Mis souri. Rv F. L. JELTZ My many friends of this county shawnee county will take nor that I am in the race for county treasures subject to the republican primaries Mcch. 10 W. F. Weber. J. K. McNary assistant County attorney is a candidate for County Attorney subject to republican primaries. March 10. B. F. Hayden is a candidate is a candidate for Probate Judge subject to republican primaries Mcch. 10. E. A. Ward announces himself a candidate for County Commissioner district subject to republican primaries March 10. J. C. Holland for representative 39 district subject to the republican primaries. M. A. Hutcheson is a candidate for Representative 37th Rep. Dist. subject to republican primaries March 10. W. Shaffer candidate to Regist- er of Deeds, subject to Republi- can primaries, March 10th. John L Howard is a candidate for Register of Deeds, subject to Republican primaries, March 10th he is an old soldier candidate. 4. M. Baird is a candidate for register of deeds subject to republi- can primaries Mch. 10th. I am a candidate for Register of Deeds subject to republican primaries, March 10. Moscoe Spuier is a candidate for register of deeds subject to republican primaries. This man Gillutty, let us see, he wants to be county attorney. He is the man that snubbed this editor and got smart and remarked that he was the "wholeshow." So when he gets elected we want him as his solema duty to send us to Lansing for opposing him. Vote, against this young "squirt" and do your duty no man in our minds are bigger than the stale of Kans This office is now located at 1027 Kans. Ave where we will remain in future to be against the social evil and the wrongs of our enemies. Parties desiring to see us meet us there. The State Ledger. Ross Gilluly who wants Judge McNary's place has refused: 'give this paper and consideration. The thinking Negro cannot afford to help this man but defeat is in his favor. Register Of Deeds To the Republican Voters of Shawnee County: I am a republican. I cast my first presidential vote for Hon. James A. Garfield and my a presidential vote for the matchless gentleman, statesman and patriot Theodore Rosevelt. I have been a resident of Kansas 41 years, and a resident of Topka 25 years. For the last 20 years I have been successfully engaged in the 'real' estate loan business and for the last seven years I have been a notary public. Now my friends I realize tha my twenty years experience in notary work and the execution, and handling of Deeds, mortgages, and other legal documents, favors me with the peculiar qualifications and knowledge of the duties of the otf, which will enable me to discharge and perform those duties with honor and credit to the citizens of Shawnee County. I have the honor of being a member of the Third Christain Church Also a member of Shawnee Camp No 2800 M. W. of A. and Camp No. 1874 E. N. ot A. Also a member of Shawnee Lodge No. 1, I. O. O. F. I have held many positions of honor and trust in the church, and in all the lodges of which I am a member. Some of the principles for which I stand and in which I believe. A square deal to all men. Every American citizen should have the same privileges, advantages and protection under our laws and receive the same punishment for the violation of law, regardless alike of poverty or wealth, race, color or position in life. I humbly bow my head in solitude reverence to the old soldiers to whose valor and patriotism I am greatly indebted for the blessings of liberty and protection I enjoy under the laws and flag of this grand, free and united government. As it is impossible for me to personally visit all my friends, I come to you with this letter. Re-member me at your primaries. Yours most respectfully, J.E. SHAFFER Harry Nichols is attor. Register of Deeds was reared in M. Topokai he is married and worn for Klasler Mer Co. He is regarded as an exemplary salesman and a competent scholar of nominated and elected he will serve the public well in that capacity J. C. Holland is out for representative subject to republican Primaries, he does not need to be introduced heels an architect, and will treat us all first class if he gets here, he is against Bob Stone the case insultent. --- Roscoe equiler candidate for register of deeds has been with the Edi- lon light Co for ten years during which time he has been a general collector for that company his induction to the office of register of deeds is the right man for the place. If nominated and elected he will treat all classes alike. The S THAT YOU ARE RIGHT: F TOPEKA. The Pastor of St. John's A, M. E. church is a graduate of Harvard University, and his cognomen doesn't hurt him either. S A. Ward is a candidate for county commissioner, 1st district subject to republijean primaries. Mr Ward wants to succeed S. H. Haynes present inumbent, if elected will give as good service as his predecessor. J. C. HOLLAND FOR REPRESENTATIVE 39th DISTRICT J C. Holland is a candidate for representative from the 30th Dist. Mr. Holland is a native of Ohio has been a resident of Topeka for twenty years during which time he has been actively engaged in the practice of Architecture, and by his honesty and ability has built up a reputation that places him at the head of his profession in this and other states of the west. He has never asked for or held an elective office and with the exception of two years which he served as state Architect has devoted himself exclusive to his business. He has been an active republican and was prominently identified with the party in his native state serving in county and state committees. Mr. Holland states that if he is nominated and elected representative, he will not be unmindful of the trust and confidence reposed in him by his constituents. HON.G.A.HURON For Probate tJudge. The Lodger desires its readers to know that Judge G. A. Huron is in the race for Probate. Judge to succeed R. F. Hayden, the praises incumbent of that offseason. The Judge is a veteran of the civil war and saw considerable service. He is an excellent Lawyer a sober and fair minded gentleman. If he is nominated and elected you can depend on the Judge doing the right thing by all classes alike. "Dad Stewart" they say is a little too old to represent the first commissioners district, we can get along without him: S. I. Haynes who wants a third term is against E. A. Ward of the first district, for recollection of course Mr. Haynes has done good work but the people are some what seperated on him and are favoring Ward. We don't care what you say a against us, you will find lies will not go in this fight, this paper has been published fifteen years, and during a few months another enemies have tailed to steal our thunder, but the scar still remains, it there is no business in you for yourself there is none in us for you; dont fool with us NOTICE Remember that Miss Thompson makes the best bread in Topke Give her a call 1027 Kau. Ave; Mrs L. H. Slaughter has a fine line of ladies and misses hats, gce and look them over, Mrs Slaughter the first coloured lady of Topke to engage in this line, give her call 431 Kau, Ave. over Weber store. She can suit you. C. E·QAKLEY eaming, grading cellar digging and sand hauling. Station "B Route 7 Phone 878 Ind. Popeka, Kansas. John Halterman & Co. sheet iron workers hot air furnaces 917 Kan Ave. See Z. T. Fisher real estate insurance and collectioe 423 Kans. Ave. Mr. W. R. Boudary of Kans City is in the mercantile business at 1725 Kans. Ave. Mr. Boudary, assisted by his wife, curates all kind groceries treas and not must give in local also is total for his annual night lunches on the streets brd hot. M. Gandy and son for b o o n Factory 1226 b. 6th 9. Manufactures and dealers. Col. Norton is out for sheriff, stuck to the "big show" the Col. is a good man for the place. Judge Huron should be considered in this fight for Probate judge. He is a competent gentleman a veteran of the civil war and his decision on all important subjects will reader friendly favorable to that office. His age and ability speaks well for him. Questions of importance may arise and Judge Huron is the man to give equal justice. W. F. Weber, Col. Veale and Medlicott must fight it out, ye tCol. Veale seems to be leading the ticket at this hour. Mort Hutcheson has lived here many years and is well known, a vote for "Hutch" means the right man in the right place for representative of the 37th legislature district For sale 3 lots east of shops for $1100: Call and see us Old Soldier Candidate for the Republican Nemination Announces. Johu'L; Howard, a member of Lincoln post, announces his candidacy for Register of Odea, subject to the Republican primaries Moh. 18. Mr. Howard is an old resident A. B. of this county, having lived here for over thirty years he has lived in Topeka and been actively engaged in the real estate business, and mercantile pursuits. He is looked upon as the old soldier's candidate and is highly respected by everyone. Mr Howard has never been a candidate for any office and while he has always been a staunch Republican, giving of matte and means liberal favor the good of the party. Mr. Howard is a firm believer in enforcement of all laws on the statute books. He is a member of Shawnee lodge No. 1, I. O., O. F. elected to the position to which he applies the affairs of the office will doubless be conducted with credit to himself and satisfaction to the citizens of Shawnee County. To Harness the Stars. A man who is fond of working out statistics and astronomical calculations, figures that the cotton factories of Lancashire, England, at present spin about 115,000,000 miles of thread a day, so that in six seconds they make enough to go around the earth. In one month they spin enough to reach from here to the moon. The product of eighteen days would reach from the sun to Neptune. Counting 110 working days in the year, it would take them, at this rate, 600 years to spin enough thread to reach the nearest star. Ventilation the Bedroom Ventilating the Bedroom. Keep your bed and bedroom warm and dry during the day. An open window and a cold room will make the bed damp and cold and will give its unfortunate occupant a severe cold at least. If not worse, says the Living Church. A damp bed is a veritable brooding place of bacteria. Many housekeepers, having heard of the necessity of fresh air, leave the bedroom window open during the day, filling it with cold air when none is needed, and then close the window for the night when the room is occupied and the fresh air is needed in abundance. Any one can see how contrary to common sense such procedure is. 106 Kansas Avenue W. H. Henderson, Propriator. We give first-class service, for we want your trade. Lunch Fish and everything good to eat, Ice cream Cigars. Bell Phone 183 Black. PARR BROS, & VANCIL Wall Paper and Paint —TOPEKA KANSAS— Phones Independent 557. Bell 3192 Block. 610 Jackson Street W. H. LUCAS First class Photographer and Artist 123 Kas. Ave. See him. ED GORDON staple And Fancy Groceries Fresh Aud Cured Meats 1601 West 6th ave - Telephone 642 KANSAS PANTATORIUM C: Clark res. Bell phone, 3472 Red Ladies Clothing Cleaned suits,sponged, Pressed and, repaired B sement of Savoy Hotel. 407 kas Avenue Clorbing called for and delied. HORSEHOER 42 years experience shoeing trotters and roadsters and all kinds lame eat and interfere. 111 Jackson St. Topokan, Kansas. NEW STORE FIRM 1635 Kans Ave Debow and Brintnall is the new firm that succeeds Osborn and son they will strive to please and want your trade call 1554 Ind. JAMES BRUMMLE Gas fitting; steam and hot / water heating; All repair work given personal attention 515 Palk Street 104 Phone 985-4 Topek Kawat For Sale—Job Printing Plant $300 building see A. Moore 1925 Kan avenue. Classified By His Oppone 2. The air brake was invented by West Inglishee in 1874; the toppeod, by Bushnell, 1777; watch, by Pete Hale, 1777; telescope, by Drebel, 1609; telescope, by Lappersheim, 1698; microscope, by Gansfisch, 1638; microscope, by Jansen, 1590; lithography, by Senehder, 1595; lighting rods, by Frank, 1520; gunpowder, by Schwarzer, 1520; balloon, by Montgolfier, 1783; someter, by Torrillou, 1642. Classified by His Opinion. H. John H. George, late of Ctord, N. H. was once trying a case before a referee, and opposed to him was the late N. B. Bryant, who was overnice in the matter of dress, including a buttonhole bouquet. George nerved him up to such an extent that finally Bryant asked him what he took him, for? George quickly replied, "What do I take you for? The best cross between a peacock and a blue heron (using the vulgar name), and preserve the qualities of both birds that I ever saw." Important Inventions. Twenty four Year Old Canar Twenty-four Year Old Canary. What should be almost a record canary is notified from West Kensington, England; its owner has had it just two months over twenty-four years! The only sign of age about the bird is that its wings and tail have dropped, and the bird is therefore unable to fly up to its perch. This long-lived bird still resides in the cage in which it was hatched, and only leaves it periodically when the cage has to be cleaned and whitewashed. SURE CURE FOR WORRY. Before Suicide, Try Digging a Ditch for Two Hours. A gentleman whose name is unfamiliar to me, but whose humorous instinct arouses my sincere admiration, writes as follows to a newspapers "Sir, Apropos of your article on 'Worry,' I have found digging for an hour or two in stiff soil has a wonderfully salutary effect." And the charm of the observation lies in the fact that it is perfectly true. I know something about digging. In earlier life, I was a member of a volunteer corps. For one week in each year I used to go into camp, and our adjutant would vary the monotony of drills and sham-fights by setting us to dig field-kitchens and rifle-trenches. "As far as I remember, we had to dig a thing called a 'half-hour trench.' From the name, I presume that experienced sappers would complete the job in half-an-hour, but my comrades and myself congratulated ourselves warmly if we managed to make any sort of a ditch in two hours. "Shirking, I am sorry to say, was out of the question, for some officious person measured off the whole trench into equal portions, and each man was compelled, therefore, to rely upon his own unaided spade. "Well, you never saw any men worry less than we did at the end of those two hours. A quart of shandy-gaff and six feet of cool turf constituted elysium, and nothing short of a severe thunderstorm would have persuaded us to move a finger. "Before suicide, therefore, try digging."—London Sketch. MARY OF THE BAR5 FEET. One Vital Point Had Been Overlooked In Instructions. Mary was a raw German girl, but seemed anxious to learn, so Mrs. Herbert undertook the task of instructing her as to her duties in answering the door. Mrs. Herbert's first "at home" day arrived, and as she was a stranger and very anxious to make a good impression on those friends to whom her letters of introduction had been sent, she gave Mary a special drill at the last moment. When the first callers arrived, the most exclusive and stylish ladies of the little town Mary ushered them in gracefully, and then presented herself to her mistress upstairs, cap, kerchief, white apron, silver tray, card, all in correct array and with bare feet. It had struck her that it would be cooler this warm day, and nothing had been said about feet.—Good Housekeeping. The Only Way to Safety. The Sydney Bulletin tells of a motorizing doctor who ran into and cap-sized a pedestrian. He looked behind him, and seeing the man still prone, made a circuit and ran back, intending to stop beside and help him. But the motor shot a yard or two beyond the mark and hit the man again just as he was getting up. The doctor turned his car over; more, and was cautiously stealing near to the prostrate sufferer, when an excited spectator rushed from the sidewalk, and shaking the victim, exclaimed: "Look out! He's coming at you again!" whereupon the man scrambled up and started to run. History of the Port. A discussion of certain postal grievances in the British house of commons has recalled the history of the post. Posts are mentioned in scripture. In Job 9:25 it is written: "My days are switer than a post," and again in the book of Esther, chapter 8, letters were sent "by posts on horseback." The word, of course, here means runner. To Cyrus has been ascribed the establishment of systematic couriers and post horses throughout Persia and Augustus is credited with introducing post chaises at Rome. It was in the reign of James I. that a postal system was introduced into England. Danger in "Spare Room." The custom of some housekeepers to keep the "spare room" closed at all times and then opening it only for warming just before putting a guest into it is, to put it mildly, very thoughtless, says an exchange. Cold objects, bedding included, when exposed to sudden heat, condense the moisture in the air and consequently such beds are always damp and cold and are the most unhealthy and should be avoided even by guests. Better go to an up-to-date hotel or walk home any number of miles than to sleep in a bed. Child's Inductive Reasoning. Here is a curious bit of reasoning; on the part of a little girl in a North country school. The examiner wished to get the children to express moral reprobation of lazy people, and he led up to it by asking who were the persons who got all they could and did nothing in return. For some time there was silence, but at last the little girl, who had obviously reasoned out the answer inductively from her own home experience, exclaimed, with a good deal of confidence, "Please, sir, it's the baby!"—London Tit-Bits. World's Debt to Richard Arkwright. Judged by his influence upon the modern world, no one of all the countless millions of masters of nourishing in the eighteenth century is to be compared with Richard Arkwright. It was he who founded the modern factory system, and in so doing changed the civilization of the world from an agricultural and merely mercantile interchange of products to the industrial era we are now enjoying. OLDEST And best thev ali sa Established 1892 VOL. 12 NO.2 All Work Guaranteed. Z. K. HEINZMAN BootAnd Shoe Repairing, Shoe Laces and Sundries. Ladies tail Soles 40 cts. up Bost Men's malt Soles boots up leather 910 Flortin kansas Avenue. W. H. WARNER Groceries And Meats. 1001 Kansas Avenue. Bell Phone 1152. Ind. Phone 1252 THE SHAWNEE GROCERY COMPANY, D. J. Lickinson, Mgr. Staple and Fancy Groceries 112 Erstoth St. BethPhones 425 If you want the best table delicacies use Raw Valley Mince Meat BANQUET HAMS, and PANQUEI ERFAKFAST BA CON'made by Chas, Wolff, Pack ng Co. TOpeka, D.R: VALIBY DEALER IN Furniture, McPherson Carpets, Kansas Picture Molding sed, Embalmer uncertain and embalming a specialty. MARTIN O'DONELI TOPEKA KANS If You Want To Buy— a property or business et any kind anywhere in the United States, write me a post car doctor or Free Catalog e If You Want To Buy— a property or business of any kind anywhere in the United States, write me a post, e-mail or e-mail my Free Catalog I have bargains every where and can save money. Don't wait write to day. A.P. TONE, VILLINN Real Estate Specialist. Topeka Kansas G. F. Worley. Hainers and saddlery, 518 Kansas Avenue harneas specialties and season good Phone 171. Topeka, Ks. LONGREN, KBI AD & CC Groceries, Meats, Feed 9 Sxt. St. TOPEKA IndgePhone 467-2 Take your Umbrella to A.J. Angatead, 308 Kans ave. for rev pairs Confectioneries all kinds of mild drinks sail kindof shells and souven light stationery. 214 E 5th street. WE BATTY Jeweler and Optician graduate Chicago ophthalmic college thirty years at water bench. college thirty years at watch bench. LADIES FURNISHINGS. All kinds or fancy art lessons given in embroidery, infants wardrobe specialty, Mrs. I E Connley 902 Mass. St. Lawrence Kasas Livery And Feed Stable Horses boarded by week or month Orders , illled promptly day or night c19 Quincy St Topeka kans Both phones 170. G. W. KENDAL L. HACK LINE meet all trains Osage City Kansas .THOMAS & Co. DEALERJIK Lumber, lime plaster Cement sand Brick and Drain Tile F.F. fatten local mgr. Me. M. kansas. EAGLE R ESTAURANT 012 E, 41n S James Finne, Prop. Short orders, baked beans, pie and all kinds sandwiches, give, him a call. EAGLE Cate THE ARNOLD DRUG COMPANY wholeStore 921k Telephone 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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The Winfield Free Press tells of a citizen who is "so crooked you couldn't feed him with a round steak." The official count for the winter term shows an attendance at the state agricultural college at Manhattan of 1,254. The Parsons Sun suggests that the governor might use in that investigation, the Search Light club of Coffeyville. A man in Neosho county is so mean that he embezzles eggs from the pantry and trades them at the store for cigars. The Kansas Security Oil and Gas Co. has shot its third well, which produced about 25 barrels of good oil the first two hours. The Reporter at Independence has figured it out that the profits to the state of a state oil refinery would be $28,579 a month. A large drilling outfit has arrived at La Cygne to be used in prospecting. The machinery is capable of drilling to a depth of 3,000 feet. Burlington has abandoned her efforts to find oil or gas, having gone down about 1,400 feet and then lost their machinery in the hole. Chautauqua county has furnished several hundreds of rabbits to the poor people of Kansas City, the distributing being done by the Salvation Army. The two easiest jobs in the state are those of jalder and superintendent of the poorhouse in Rush county. Both institutions have been empty for several weeks. An editor out hunting for coons in the woods of Michigan found a pocket book containing $97.40. All the editors in that part of the state have taken to the woods. The Lincoln Club of Pleasanton will give an entertainment on February 22 at the opera house, the proceeds of which will be applied in the starting of a new public library. Edward A. Goodnow of Worcester, Mass, has been good, not, and bequeathed $5,000 to Washburn college at Topeka, according to a report emanating from his home town. The last Kansas Day banquet held at Topeka recently was not so largely attended as usual, and only a very few guests were present. But the speeches and other entertainment features up to the usual high standard. Kansas has an editor governor, another editor his private secretary and editor auditor of state, an editor state supporters and actors in the senate, and three in the house, and another editor secretary of the senate. The sales of booze in Topeka as reported by the drug stores for the month of January were several hundred less than in December. Which proves that Topekans, like other people, turn over a new leaf at the beginning of the year. Miss Anna M. Odden of Leona and Moses Denton of Dentonville were married at Hiawatha recently. Miss Odden is the young woman who drew the first claim in the Rosebud agency drawing last August. They will go to her claim to reside. The sixteen public institutions of the state of Kansas have asked for appropriations, the total amount of which is $4,219,628.50. Of course they do not expect to get all they ask for; yet as a rule the state deals pretty liberally with its institutions. Colonel W. F. Sapp, chairman of the Democratic state committee, has received an acceptance from W. J. Bryan of the invitation to address the Democratic banquet in Topeka February 22. Mr. Bryan writes that his subject will be "Back to the People." The Atchison Globe refuses to become indignant because the death penalty is to be enforced in the case of a New England woman who murdered her husband. The Globe says she should be hanged so high that the sky-larks will build nests in her bustle. A cigar store, a restaurant, a music store, and a barber shop were destroyed by fire at Clay Center recently. The buildings and stocks were entirely destroyed and were protected by little or no insurance. Only the heroic work of volunteers prevented a very-much more serious fire. A new game law his been enacted by the Kansas legislature, prohibiting the killing of game by hunters except in the following numbers: Grouse, 15; prairie chickens, 5; plover, 20; wild ducks, 20; wild geese, 10; wild wren, 10. All of these may be logged by one hunter on any one day. A Kansas editor went to the World's fair in an $8,000 automobile, had a suit of five rooms on the first floor of the Inside Inn, purchased a $10,000 painting of "Ruth Gathering the Sheaves," and was about to start home again, when his wife awakened him for breakfast. Colonel Thomas Benton Murckoord editor of the El Dorado Dally Republican, who is one of the original squatter sovereigns of Kansas, or "Sovereign Squats," as he puts it, having done a good job in the work of "boss-busting" in Kansas, is now very much inclined to do a little "trust-busting," and favors starting in on the Stand and Oil company, win a new state refinery. A man called up Mayor James W Orr of Atchison over the telephone a few editions ago and asked: "Who is our congressman? I know but I can't think of his name." "Mount Cochran," replied the mayor, who is a good deal of a joker, and who wanted to ascertain if the fellow really did know. "Oh, yes," he replied, "how stupid of me to forget. Much obliged. Good night." Henry W. Young, the veteran Populist of Montgomery county, the editor of the Independence Times and ex-state senator, is the beneficiary of a pronounced change of sentiment in that section of the state. He used to be denounced as an "Anarchist" for advocating public ownership. Now the oil men who want a state refinery make it a point to drop in at his office and assure him that he's all right and pat him on the back. Major Franklin Osgood of Amarillo ridicules Judge Adna P. Gristlebone's boast that he introduced a bill for a state boarding house in Topeka in 1866. "In the first place," says Osgood, "there was no legislature in 1866. It must have been in '65 or '67. As I remember the incident, Gristlebone he]l been kicked out of his boarding house for failure to pay a just and due claim for $21.75 for meals, and he]nounced his state boarding house bill to 'get even.' The measure was the object of so much ridicule that even Gristlebone was ashamed to vote for it in committee of the whole." WAS CURED RAPIDLY RHEUMATISM IN TWO SEVERE CASES MASTERED IN FEW WEEKS. The Remedy Used by Mr. Schroppel and by Captain Lafour in Great Demand in Victimity of Their Homes. In the winter of 1902-3 Mr. Schroppel was confined to his bed by a severe attack of rheumatism. His doctor's treat- ment proved unsuccessful, but he subse- quently regained his health by meaus which he describes with great euthusiasm. "After five or six weeks of helpless- ness and pain," said he, "during which I was receiving regular visits from the doctor, I felt as bad as ever. Just then my mother, a woman eighty years of age, paid me a visit. She had received great benefit from Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and she was confident they would help me. At her solicitation I gave up the doctor's treatment and took the pills in its place." "And were you cured as the result of taking her advice?" "Yes, quickly and thoroughly. Before the second box was finished I felt very manifest improvement, and within two weeks I was able to leave my bed and take up my neglected farm work. I continued to use the pills, however, until eight boxes had been taken, although long before that I felt that every vestige of the disease had been eradicated. "Are there no traces left?" "Absolutely none. For a year and three months there has never been the slightest return of the old trouble. For this happy result I and my family freely praise Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." Within the bounds of China township, St. Chair county, Mich., there is no better known farmer than Mr. Henry Schropepall. His cure has therefore naturally attracted a great deal of attention. One of Mr. Schropepall's neighbors, Captain George Balfour, after hearing of the salary results to Dr. Schropepall's case, decided to work with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to break off rheumatism from which he was himself suffering. He took eight or ten boxes and now declares himself free from the painful ailment." It is little wonder that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are much in favor in the community where Mr. Schroppel and Captain Balfour have been successful. They are sold by all drugstores and are equally successful in curing neuralgia, sciatica and partial paralysis. LYNX-EYED SPIES OF RUSSIA. An Interesting Story of the Land of Dark Deeds. Russia is pre-eminently the land of spies. Democratic and socialistic France has raised the spy system to a state function, but in Russia it is the very soul of the state. In Moscow, in the streets, agents of the police are stationed every five hundred yards; in addition, secret agents watch the houses day and night—one being allotted to every four houses; and in every house is another spy, the porter. Go where you will, you are never out of the watchful eye of the police. You brush against spies in your hotel, as in the theatres in a restaurant, as in the drawing room of a friend. It is ridiculously easy to recognize those you meet in the fashionable resorts. They have evidently been instructed to disguise themselves as gentlemen, and for one of them the livery of a gentleman is a frock coat, a silk hat, and always—by rain or sunlight—an umbrella. The famous third police! A stranger might fancy that, in an open cabal—talking French or English to his friend—he would at least be safe from surveillance; but his friend will touch him significantly and speak of the weather. The fat cabby on the box, somnolent, with white hair and good, paternal eyes, may be a spy, more skilled in the languages than the traveling stranger; and, if the cabman has been found loitering near the great clubs, the hotels, or the embassies, the chances are strong that he is. A subtler police than that of the third section—the akrana, which has its ramifications in every capital in Europe and America—completes this great system of espionage. Its mesh is over every man in Russia; no one goes unwatched—save only old Count Tolstoi—Vance Thompson in "Success Magazine" for February. BAW ITCHING ECZEMA Blotches on Hands, Ears, and Ankles For Three Years—Instant Relief and Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "Thanks to Cuticura I am now rid of that fearful pest, weeping eczema, for the first time in three years. It first appeared on my hand, a little pimple, growing into several blotches, and then on my ears and ankles. They were exceedingly painful, itching, and always raw. After the first day's treatment with Cuticura Soap, Ointmert, and Pills, there was very little of the burning and itching, and the cure now seems to be complete. (signed) S. B. Hege, Passenger Agent B. & O. R. R. Washington, D. C." Hoch Has Preference "I would rather," said E. W. Hoeh, of Kansas, "lock the door of my little printing office at Marion at 9 o'clock, go to my humble office on the hill, and return to my office the next morning to look over the exchanges, chronicle the events of my town and go through the regular routine of business than to be governor of any state in the Union." Yet he was inaugurated governor of Kansas.—Gentry Sentinel. What She Considered Natural. Mr. Crimsonbeak—I like to see a man act natural. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—Well, I don't. I hate to see a man make a fool of himself.—Yonkers Statesman. Pays to Advertise. Mr. Snowball-Hi-yah! I see an "ad" in the Blackville Times di mawnin", "A strong, healthy gal wants permanent job—willing to work fourteen hours a day." Dat's de very gal I wants for a wife.-Puck. Essential. Ida—My father gave me an automobile. May—And does he still give you pin mouse? A SOLDIER'S LAUREL BROW OF WASHINGTON DECKED BY KING FREDERICK. Proof That Sword Was Sent America's Foremost Man with the Inscription Familiar to Us All from Earliest Childhood. The story that Frederick the Great sent George Washington a sword with the characteristic and epigrammatic message, "From the oldest general to the greatest general in the world," has been familiar from our earliest childhood. It is a plain narrative, as by members of the Washington family, who alone have any knowledge, real or traditional, of the fact. The appraisers' list of the personal effects of Washington, made at Mount Vernon, May, 1800, contains this item: "Swords and blades, $12,000." Among these, which were chief presents, was the one sent by the King of Prussia. The personal effects of Washington were divided among the heirs, but a large proportion were left at Mount Vernon for Mrs. Washington, who was still living. Upon her death Justice Bushrod Washington took possession of the mansion, for he was his uncle's chief heir and the one to whom he intrusted his papers. Bushrod Washington lived thirty years at Mount Vernon, and bequeathed the estate and personal property, save an occasional gift, to his nephew, Col. John Augustine Washington, who also lived there thirty years. There was an immense accumulation of papers and relics, and among other souvenirs of interest was the sword of Frederick. Major Lewis Washington, of Belle Air, Jefferson county, Va., visited his cousin at Mount Vernon in 1858. At this time he was the owner of two of the five swords willed by Gen. Washington to his nephews—one direct from his grandfather, William Augustine Washington; the other, that one which Justice Bushrod Washington received and had willed to his father, George Corbin Washington. Major Washington admired the elegant dress sword sent by the King, and offered in exchange for it, being perfectly satisfied as to its authenticity, the Bushrod Washington sword. During his life this beautiful rapier was seen by many neighbors and friends at his home. Some years after his death his widow, Mrs. Ella Bassett Washington, sold it, with other valuable Washington relics, to the State of New York. These are now deposited in the library at Albany. In the catalogue will be seen "No. 4, dress sword of Washington." The sword acquired by Col. Washington in this exchange was sold a few years since by his son, Lawrence Washington, of Alexandria, to John H. Havemeyer, of New York, who presented it to Mount Vernon, being thus happily returned to its original abode. When Col. John A. Washington disposed of the house of our first President to the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association of the Union, he gave possession early in the year 1860. He carefully packed his valuable papers in barrels, of which there were twelve. He left them in the care of his friend, Upton Herbert, first superintendent of Mount Vernon, thinking in the disturbed state of the country, they would be safer than at any other place. Col. Washington's sad death occurred in 1861, and these papers remained at Mount Vernon until Mr. Herbert left his office. In 1866 he removed them to Alexandra, and stored them in an old bank building; this building, in 1868, was burned and nearly all the papers and documents were destroyed. A few baskets full of the half charred debris were hawked about the old town by boys, for which they got 25 cents each. In some fine autographs were found, showing how great the loss; also some few letters, one of which brought a large price. It was from Mary Washington, in good condition. The surviving children of Col. Washington say documents referring to this sword were in these barrels. A daughter, Mrs. Chew, of West Virginia, writes: "My father always spoke of the sword he gave up as having been presented by Frederick the Great, and there was in his possession a letter from Frederick to Gen. Washington, which was placed in a bank in Alexandria and burned with the building. My impression has always been that the letter was sent with the sword." This is perhaps sufficient of family corroboration, though I have more at hand. Of documentary proof I have not found any, though the search is not yet complete. The archives of Germany may yield all we need. One interesting item of circumstantial evidence came to me a few months ago. A German artist, vigorous and full of reminiscence, at the ripe age of eighty-eight, resented a reflection on Washington as a general, and vaulted Frederick the Great. When told that old story was a myth, he replied with fine contempt: "Oh, yes, you say so in America, but I heard it at my mother's knee, and she at her mother's. If false, who gave it to the mothers of Germany."—Washington Star. Rumer of New Diamond Field Rumor of New Diamond Fields. For more than 100 years it has been thought that extensive diamond deposits are hidden in the island of Borneo and recent rumors have given the old suspicions new life. A diamond of 367 karats, found on the west coast in 1787 and named the Matan, was, after a brilliant but brief career, denounced as a mere block of rock crystal. Should it now prove that Borneo can yield diamonds in paying quantity the British empire will be in possession of practically every diamond field of any importance in the world —South Africa, Australia, India and Borneo. Test for Watches. It was mentioned in a London police court that Burglaris in a jewelry store tested watches, in order to tell good from cheap ones by throwing them on the floor. Valuable in Warfare An Austrian railway mechanic has discovered a process, says the Paris Rappel, by which the smoke of warships can be entirely concealed from view. Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. All products will send post paid at 10c a package. Write for free booklet: How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Colors. MONROE DRUG CO., Unionville, Missouri FRENCH POLITENESS. Builder of Submarines Tells of His Experiences. Simon Lake, the builder of sutmarines, returned recently from Paris, where he was much impressed with French politeness. "A delightful civility," he said, the other day, "marks the demeanor of the French people. A French nobleman is as polite to his servants as a poor American is to a millionaire. In the shops the salepeople receive you with an air that is neither servile nor impudent, an indescribable air of friendliness that is wholly charming. In the subway and on the electric tramways and omnibuses the conductors are as polite as though their cars were their parlers and you an nonored guest. "I congratulated a Frenchman one evening on the good manners of his nation, and he was very much pleased. He told me an anecdote illustrative of French politeness. "He said during the revolution a noble was on the way to the guillotine. As he rumbled in the cart along the boulevards howls and jeers from a half-drumken crowd were rained upon him, and finally a young woman, as she ran along beside the turmoil, cried: "You tall villain, you will soon be shorter by a head." "Does that please you, madam?" said the doomed noble civilly. said the doomed noble civility. "Yes, it does," she answered. "Then," said he, "I do not die in vain." He Was Meek. "Yes, I quite agree with you that Rogers is a meek little fellow, and would get out of the way of a fly, but yet he is not the kind of a man I should like to meet five miles from home on a dark night." "Oh, but why not?" "Simply because he would insist on accompanying me every step of the way in order to borrow a dollar at the end of it."—Chicago News. Following Advice. "Really, Mr. Hansom, said the fair girl, "I'm shocked to hear you confess such behavior in your business dealings. You should always 'do unto others as you would have others do unto you.'" "You wouldn't have me do that always." "Certainly," she replied, "always." "All right. Here goes!" he cried, and kissed her—Philadelphia Press. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds—N. W. SAMUEL Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. Lucky is the married woman who can tell a lie—when she hears it. Defiance Starch is put up 16 ounces in a package, 10 cents. One-third more starch for the same money. An office seeker always harps on the need of political reform. When You Buy Starch buy Defiance and get the best, 15 oz. for 10 cents. Once used, always used. The harder a man labors the less time he has to whine. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. For children beeching, softens the guns, reduces in- nammation, allays pain, curbs wistful colic. To a bottle. After a couple have been married two weeks the neighbors lose all interest in them. Sensible Housekeepers will have Defiance Starch, not alone because they get one-third more for the same money, but also because of superior quality. Many a misguided man who thinks he was born to rule has another think coming after an election. A GUARANTEED CURE FOR PILES. Iching, Blind, Bleeding or Pratidating Piles. Your druggie will refund money if PAZO GINTMENT fails to cure you in 5 to 12 days. See. People who are stuck up seldom stick up for each other. USE THE FAMOUS Red Cross Bail Blue. Large 3-oz. package 5 cents. The Russ Company, South Bend, Ind. The man with a scheme is not looking out for your interest. Talking machines—Victor and Edison are the best: cash or payments, $1 weekly. Write to day. JENKINS' MUSIC CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 30,000 records in stock. Mention this paper. Nearly every man has some fool hitched to him. Twice:Told Tales. Some tales never lose in the telling, and the tale of good that Dr. Caldwell's (laxative) Syrup Pepsin will, and does do, to all poor, dyspeptic, billious sufferers, is one of them. It positively relieves and cures all forms of indigestion, starts up the languid liver, regulates the constipated bowels, and provides the entire system a perfect condition of health. Try It. Sold by all drummers at 50c and $1.00. Money back if it falls. Don't expect people to be loyal to you. That's where we are all weak. Do Your Clothes Look Yellow? Then use DeNance Starch, it will keep them white—16 oz. for 10 cents. If you can't get along with people keep away from them. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will save not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz.—one full pound—while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in %-pound packages, and the price is the same, 10 cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chemicals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it is because he has a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has printed on every package in large letters and figures "16 oz." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. Because a man doesn't call you a liar, he doesn't believe all you are telling him. WINTER SCENE IN THE NORTH Severe Weather February is a month of severe storms and intense cold. Even in the South where the prevailing temperature is much above wintry latitudes, February brings sudden changes of temperature. Mercury sometimes drops 20 degrees in a single night. Therefore, the following health hints are applicable to the whole of North America. Ventilation. The sleeping rooms should be well ventilated, but so as to avoid direct currents of air. Bathing. Those in vigorous health should take a cold water towel bath every morning before breakfast. Those in feeble health should take a brisk dry-towel-cub every morning. Diet. The diet should be a generous one, including meat, and occasionally fresh vegetables. Sunshine. The nights being long and the days short, as much sunshine as possible should be let into the house during the day. The head should be kept cool at all times. The feet should be kept warm and dry, day and night. Pe-ru-na. When unavoidably exposed to cold or wet, a few doses of Peruna will avert bad consequences. Precaution. When immersed with a chill, or even slight chilliness, a dose of Peruna should be taken at once. IOWA GROWN FIRE DRIED SEED CO. Iowa Grown Seed Corn. Why don't you do the best varieties, with seed catalogue free. Don't make two dollars when you buy them online. J. B. ARMSTRONG & SONS, Seed Co. GOOD SEED CO. take your farm pay. Send free, by mentioning this paper. (The Largest Seed Corn House in the World.) The FreeBo will be sent free, postpaid, upon request, trated throughout and on all forms of payment. Special Deferred Fees. Infantile Parvailysis. Hippe. It tells of the only equipped Santarina crops conditions and how they may care for treatment. Seed or book, and if anything literature bearing on the sub-ject will be sent with the book. The L. C. McL. YOU'RE The section traversed by the Mission From St. Louis, Hammab or Kansas City on one thousand miles of territory sample of present. A thousand industries, soil of plants and crops, oil, gas and minerals are awake citizens who believe in the future of living enterprises or every description and ofunity is apparent. What is really is need of many you're needed. There are vast areas of which it is capable. The same thing in plants, small stores, banks, newspapers and Indian Territory and Oklahoma are practice development along commercial lines. IOWA GROWN FIRE DRIED SEED CORN Your neighbor has found that he can grow Iowa Grown Seed Corn. Why don't you do the same? You can use examples of best varieties, with seed catalogue free. Don't lay this paper down until you have sent for them. Make two dollars where you now make one. Address: FreeBook ON DEFORMITIES AND PARALYSIS will be sent free, postpaid, upon request. This book is of a hundred pages, handsomely illustrated throughout and tells of an experience of over thirty years in the treatment of *Crooket Feet*, *Crooket Feet*. It tells of the only thoroughly equipped Sanitarium in this country devoted exclusively to the treatment of these conditions and how they may be curbed without surgical operations, plaster parts or other severe treatment. Send for this book, and if directly interested, mention of the affliction and special literature bearing on the sub. *L. C. L. McLain Orthopedic Sanitarium*, *St. Louis*. YOU'RE NEEDED The section traversed by the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Ry. is very comprehensive. From St. Louis, Hannibal or Kansas City to Galveston or San Antonio is a stretch of over one thousand miles of territory, capable of sustaining a population many times that of the present. A thousand industries, soil of various degrees of fertility, a wonderful produce of plants and crops, oil, gas and minerals are to be found. Peopled by eager, pushing, wide-awake citizens who believe in the future of the Southwest and see the virtue of encouraging enterprises of every description and of getting more and better facilities, the opportunity is apparent. The Southwest is really in need of nothing save people. More men are needed—you're needed. There are vast areas of unimproved land—land not yielding the crops of which it is capable. The same thing in a different way is true of the towns. Few lines of business are adequately represented. There are openings of mills and manufacturing plants, small forests, banks, newspapers and lumber yards. The oil and gas fields of Kansas, Indian territory and Oklahoma are practically new and offer wonderful opportunities for development along commercial lines. THE OPPORTUNITY IS NOW. The M. K. & T. has no lands for sale, we are simply interested in the upbuilding of the country. We believe in the Southwest, and know that with its present needs and opportunities, the prospects are brighter and the future more hopeful than in the older and more densely populated States. We want you to investigate conditions and satisfy yourself of the truthfulness of this. On February 21st and March 7th and 21st, the M. K. & T. By, will sell excursion trips from St. Louis, Hammond, Kansas City to Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Central and Eastern Texas, at You should take advantage of this opportunity to see the Southwest for yourself. We are in possession of all sorts of information valuable alike to the investor and houseseer. If you are interested tell us what you want, how much you have to invest and we will gladly furnish the information. We to-day for a copy of our book "Business Chances." It is free. Address GEORGE MORTON, G. P. A. T. A., Box 912-X, St. Louis, MO. G. W. SMITH, N. P. A., 216 Marquee Buildings, Chicago, IL. H. P. POWDERMAN, N. P. A., 216 Marquee Buildings, Chicago, IL. T. R. COOKLEY, P. A., 218 Citizens' National Bank Ridge, Des Moines, IA. G. A. MUTT, D. P. A., 218 Citizens' National Bank Ridge, Des Moines, IA. Many who formerly smoked 10¢ Cigars now smokes LEWIS'SINGLE BINDER STRAIGHT 5¢ CIGAR Your jobber or direct from Factory, Factory, 114 Are made of heavy Kid, Box Calf or Mule Skin. Extra heavy unbleached drills are used for linings, and vamps are double lined. Counters, innersoles and outersoles are made of the best solid sole leather. Heavy eyelets are used and three rows of stitching on vamps. Bottoms are sewed with heavy Irish flax thread. This means that "Hoosier School Shoes" are made honestly. That they are made to look right, to feel right and to wear. The price is low. Ask your dealer to show them to you. He can if he will. These shoes have become so popular that they are now made in women's sizes. Tappan Shoe Mfg. Co. Coldwater, Michigan FADELE other dye. One 10c package colors silk, wool and cotton Write for free booklet—How to Dye, Bleach and Mix Co THE MK AND T MISSOUW KANSAS 73125 WV Sudden Changes Breed Catarrh. WINTER SCENE IN THE SOUTH Rest. As much sleep as possible should be obtained in the forepart of the night. *Catrarch of Head.* Mr. Frank, 175 Summit Street, Deering, M., writes: "I was troubled with catarrh in my head. I wrote to Dr. Hartman for advice and he prescribed Peruna. "I took it and am happy to say it helped me at once. I feel better than I have for years." *Bronchial Trouble.* Mr. J. Ed. Brien, Pres. American Press, Pensacola, Fla., writes: "I heartily give my endorsement to Peruna as an effective cure for catarrh and bronchial trouble." Throat and Lungs Frank Battle, Jr., 111 N. Market St. Nashville, Tenn., writes: "Peruna has cured me of chronic bronchitis. "It is the grandest discovery of the age for the throat and lungs." *Pneumonia.* Mr. A. C. 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About 10,000 sufficient seed to grow 10,000 plants, furrowing flowers and lots and lots of choice flowers and lots and lots of choice flowers, telling all about Flowers, Roses, Daffodils, Pruits, etc. The name is James Baldwin. Big 16c catalog alone. JOHN A. BALZER SEED CO. Dear Le Grose, Wife. 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