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glxe WLitteta ailtj gaxjle: 'SSlctlttesilaij ItXot'ttiwrj, JJeptemu-jer 7, 1898 JpagSSP' . Kditor gagl 31. 31. lU'UOOCK. The Anglo-Saxon and the Slav. "The survival of the fittest," if but lately recognized as a universal law, is none "the less a fundamental fact, and is as applicable to. and as true of, races as of species. That the Anglo-Saxon Is the most superior type of manhood yet produced either by amalgamation or from original sources, there is no longer any doubt. The processes and triumphs of civilization have proved him such. The Slavonic race is going down before him as certainly as has the Latin. The Slav when the final (test came lacked the reproductive ele ments and the power of development to keep pace -with his more western brother. Russia's ruler has officially tappealed to the -world for a disarmament, for a period of universal peace. This appeal is but an indication of a higher and more self-reliant civilization, but it comes from an exhausted autocracy. It Is an admission of weakness. The Great Giant of the North in vulgar parlance has bitten off more than he can masticate. He has assumed burdens which have broken his back. His call for peace is a call for help. Gross outrages and an all-around maladministration of two hundred years are at the bottom of his troubles. He is bursted up in business, is falling to pieces over his own pond erousness. The United States in self-defense has been ward ing off the yellow parasites of the Giant of the Orient. Little Japan proved (to 'the world that China -was a nation of pigmies. The Czar has as certainly disclosed the fact tnat millions ofl immature men spread out over one-sixth of the earth's surface does not mean strength, or character and that the Russian's ambition to rule the world was an 5 file dream begotten of Impotency. The Gallic-Latin has been helping the Russian to gold since the Rothschilds nearly twenty years ago, foreseeing the inevitable, refused longer to loan the Bear on ihis doubtful securities. France stepped in with its treasury under "the promise that Alsace-Loraine bhould be returned to them. Now, having espoused Russia's anti-Semitic fight, the frog-eater finds he has been in turn bwaltowed and spewed out and that Russia as successfully double-dealth with Germany's Hohenzollern rooster. France no-longer. being able to put up .money to her neighbor on the north because dhe had exhausted herself in supporting Fpain on the south, wakens up -to the fact that in being duped by her supposed ally in Europe she has lost even the j respect of both America and England, the real representa tives of the all-conquering Anglo-Saxon. Russia's cry for peace is mode; with the hope that by reducing her expenses some three hundred millions of dollars annually she may go on "with .her great railway and other industrial under takings and at the some time save her immense territory. The fact Is the Slav's hour of settlement is at hand, nor his ' On the Brink of a Volcano. At the -bottom of all the intrigues of the military cabal in France is the desire of the Frentih officers to overthrow the republic and establish a monarchy. The French army is monarchial and aristocratic having no use for even the pluto-republic of France, which maintains so much of the spirit of the Bourbons. Militarism, delights in centralized power. In no other republic, under no other constitutional government, could Dreyfus have been condemned without a hearing. In the absence of a crown the French army is running the so-called republic of France. The suicide of Colonel Henry and the admission that the letter upon which Dreyfus was convicted and sentenced was a forgery instigated by prominent army officials has almost precipitated a revolution in that country. The rotten military establishment which cleared Esterhazy ,tfiie-real guilty party, is quaking with fear. The army is afraid to agree to a re-opening of the case, and the government is afraid to deny. France is on the brink of a volcano and the only thing left for the government to do is to annul the findings and Judgment of the court and let Dreyfus go free without further explanation- There Is Comfort in Good Clothes. Good clothes are not a drawback despite the jibes at ,the expense of the dude. Fine feathers and colors are not less admired in adorning the human form. A neatly dressed man is as pleasing as an attractively dressed woman. Many of our greatest statesmen as well as military heroes are scru pulously particular of their dress. It is related that Admiral Dewey is still as careful about 5iis clothes as when loafing about the Washington clubs. The admiral seems no less particular than Admiral VOervera, who has been patronizing the Annapolis tailors. Brave men ore often the most care ful of their personal appearance; many an English dandy has led his troops into the hottest of the battle. And the man who, under adverce circumstances, makes his toilet as carefully as when all the winds of fortune fill his sails, cap tures the sympathy of the world, which, if it loves a lover, likes also a clean man. During the disastrous retreat of 1813-14, in the heart bf winter, in the midst of confusion, a certain French general presented himself one morning to Napoleon, in full uniform, shaved and fresh. Seeing him in all the turmoil cared for as if he were going to dress I parade, the emperor said to him: "General, you are a hero." Webb McNall and the Insurance Trust. Colonel Anthony, editor of the Leavenorth Times, is one of (tlie best posted-men in the country on insurance, its principles, policies and methods. For years he gave much attention to it in a practical way, and .he is an acknowledged expert. In the last number of his paper he says of McNall Latin aJly or Turkish servant or Chinese slave can save j and th insurance trust that "Webb McNall's boast of having vim. It tos the Anglo-Saxon's cannon in America that awakened him to a realization of his situation, hence his fry for peace. 5- A Kansas Capitalist in Bankruptcy. Had the bankrupt act become a law say eight years ago it woukl have been a boon to .many Kansas people and a boom for the state. Thousands of enterprising men were c tught in the collapse and there being no way of extricating themselves, they for the most part subsided and submitted to the inevitable. A bankrupt law would have afforded them a. means of clearing the decks and starting again. No cred itor would have been (any worse off and Kansas debtors v ould have been encouraged to try again, which would have s.ned the state an immense shrinkage. We think, however, that there would have been possible exceptions. Rev. John I. Knox of Topeka, whose handle to his name seems to have 1 en largely his capital or stock in trade, is, after this long 1 ipso of time, going through the bankrupt court, he and his v.ife. American Investments says that his debts aggregate oer $500,000. His assets, -within reach of creditors, do not e-u-eed $50. The assets represent his equity in a couple of t n lots on the outskirts of Topeka, He is 70 years old. There are 575 separate claims against Rev. Mr. Knox. Ninety prr cent of them are held in the east. Ohio, New York, Mas t u husetts and New Hampshire are the states most men ti netl as the homes of oreditois. One creditor, W. P. Fngltoh. lives in Asiatic Turkey. Hir, claim is for $12,000. not9er creditor with a claim for $7,500 hails from Pueblo, Mexico. Several claimants were Englishmen. h American Freehold company for $31,349 is the largest .. heduled against Knox. Knox enjoyed a large acquaintance i.aong Methodist ministers in the east, and eighty-seven of liem are his creditors. The amounts, however, are small, ni-.giag from $100 to $500. The principal creditors are: G. E. I tit lpr, .administrator, Watertown, N. Y.; Mutual Benefit I. f. Insurance, Newark, N. J.; G. F. Oliver and L. H. Baker, shelter, Ohio; and Che Bank of Topeka. Knox's creditors in I-ipeloL, where tois business was located, number about 100. Most of them belonged to the Methodist church over which Knox had presided s pastor. o The Bravery of a Graveyard Whistle. Leedy's claim that he has added the negro vote of the Ft ate, solidly, to the Pop party, like Taylor Riddle's claim t .at there has been no disintegration of the Pop ranks, and P. pperel's assertion that the Democrats will stand by Pop Fusion to a man. is all graveyard whistling. Behind this br.ive front are quaking hearts. If that crowd are not seeing ghosts it is uimply because they have closed their eves to tl e sights in their owi graveyard. The Lawrence Journal - i enely summarizes the situation, and no less serenely than roundly, when it says that "tflie Journal desires to go on it1 ord now with the guess, not to call it a prophecy, that the Republican party will elect every state otilcer in .Kansas; will elect six out of Che eight congressmen; it will have majority of the members of the legislature; there will be 1 . avy gains in a majority of the counties, and light losses in a minority; the Republican majority in the state will not i - overwhelming, as it should be. but it will be enough to i ike the calling and election of the Republicans sure. There nould be a politiBil revolution, and by the logic of events fie Republican party ought to carry the state by 50,000 ma j ".ity, but they will not do it. The Populist idols will have ie otees too sincere, too blinded, too zealous to permit them t break away from that which they know to be false, but t which Bhey cling with the fondness of a heathen to his i n jcod. Kansas will be redeemed, but the redemption will t be overwhelming." broken up the Clarkson rate bureau is only a characteristic Populist attempt to fool the people. The Clarkson boook is published just the same as ever, all the insurance companies use it, and all make its ratings. There is no competition between the companies. And McNall knows this as well as anybody, but it, suits his purpose to pretend that he, the stalwart champion of the people, has overthrown the insur ance monopoly. The Clarkson rate system is an abomination and a method of robbing the people ,and McNall would have done a. commendable deed if he had suppressed it." He Fiddles on One String-, Stanley made a speech at Kansas City, Kansas, to a non-partisan labor picnic. He did not touch political sub jects or party interests, and his speech was respectfully and well received. He was followed by Jerry Simpson In a regu lar partisan harangue which in part was very bitter. The crowd said nothing nor made any demonstration. But when J. K. Cubbison, who followed, called Jerry down for such a speech on such an occasion, the crowd became enthusiastic in its demonstrations of approval of Cubbison's scoring. Jerry can fiddle on one string only. O A Broken Courtship. Out of the shadows of the garden two people came into the moonlight, and leaned over the little chain that encir cled the small fountain, into whose basin a marble Hebe continually emptied her ever brimming cup. They were not unlike, these two; bo h were spirituelle, both were dark; both were romantic. The tie of blood was between them, for they were cousins, though, as the Scotch say, "far away cousins. and bearing different names. They had been brought up under one roof, and Lena Michel's mother had been all the mother the little orphan, Henri Kleber, knew. "It is cruel of grandpapa,' she said, "it is very cruel, Henri. These old people think only of money. Why can they not let us have peace, when we could be so happy? It is such an absurd Idea. You and 1 to marry each other! We are like brother and lister. Nothing can change that." "But we are not brother and sister," said he, "and even first cousins marry. I have been thinking that " "Give me a kiss, brother Henri," said she, "and never, never, never speak of this absurdity again. As for marrying. I shall never marry anyone. Why should I, when I detest the thought?" Henri cave a little sigh. "I shall never marry, either, Cousin Lena,' said he, "but you see we are not brother and sister. You can't make it so by saying so." Then he kissed her and they walked back into the house, where Grandpapa Kleber and Granduncle Michel had just settled the matrimonial prospects of these two young cousins to their own satisfac tion. The result of the young people's rebellion was a quarrel. The end of all this was that one fine morning Henri Kleber found himself turn ed out into the world io seek his fortune and ere his cousin's black eyes were open ed upon the dawn he had left Munich and his furious relatives behind him. From that day nothing was heard of him by his friends la Munich for many a long year. The old people were unforgiving. Grand father Kleber died and left his money to Lena, who had already refused two ex cellent matches. She traveled two years and heard noth ing of her cousin Henri, and at last found herself in Paris. Lena Michel spent many hours with her eyes fixed on painted faces that she never saw, for the living face that haunt ed her; but one day she awoke to a won drous Interest in a small picture which hung In a small dealer's gallery in which she found herself. It was a simple scene. A moonlit gar den, the distance dying into undefined shadows, a fountain into which a Hebe emptied her cup, and by the fountain's brim a youth and a young girl. It was the garden of her grandfathers old house at Munich. And this was more than chance. For that was Henri, and surely that black-haired girl was not unlike her self. "Is this picture for sale?" she asked the dealer. He shrugged his shoulders. "I think the artist is mad," he said. "This is the first picture anyone has wanted to buy, and he refuses to sell It. Perhaps a price sufficient will tempt him; but if I give his address the lady will re member my commission?" The lady promised faithfully to do so. "It Is a wretched street ho is very poor," said the dealer, and gave her the number written on a card. "The fifth floor," he said, with a shrug of his shoul ders. Lena Michel stepped into her carriage and soon, followed by hir maid, climbed the stairs of a dingy dwe'ling and rap ped vyon tho dcor that bore the word, "Atelier" upon it. The partisan papers are now stating that "the time is now at hand when the voter must make up his mind." Having heard the same thing forty thousand times before, the voter simply yawns and lets his mind wander aimlessly in a wide, trackless desert of mental void. -O- In Gladstone's will is this: "On no account shall a lauda- The claim of ' tory inscription be placed over me." Bismarck directed that liis epitaph should read: "A faithful German servant of the emperor." How great men come to despise "blow." S i Chaplain Mclntyre, who said (that the Oregon at the battle of Santiago was the whole cheese, will be court martialed. Such a declaration tended to disorganize Ad miral Sampson's peace of mind. The eastern atihletes in the army are going down under the rigors of the campaign. The sun-dried, freckled, bleached and hardy cowboy of the plains has stood the heat, dirt and wounds. Dewey and Schley both cast a great big, black obscuring shadow on the page of American (history where is related the little scrap between the Monitor and the Merrimac Helen Gould has taken twenty sick soldiers into her pal ace on the Hudson. That woman is an angel. She must be. She is not a man and so can not "be aspiring to office. In Pennsylvania John Wanamaker has sailed over the mines to get at Matt Quay, and the way he is unloading shells at the boss is something wonderful. The Indians among the Rough Riders who fought at Santiago probably did not remember the Maine. They re membered Christopher Columbus. -- The Storm Is Ebbing. Like an unexpected tidal wave against & promontory of granite, the storm of criticism, so suddenly raised over the - il posed delinquencies of army authorities, has been dashed t pieces against the frowning front of America's calm Judg i nt, and there is only left the seething foam which pre . ies entire subsidence. In a short time people will be won u ring what all the ebullient revilement and threatened storm 1 1 .ndignation meant, Taera were ixorrors on the field and i Mr ess in detention camps and deaths in hospitals, but Santiago was captured and victory ws won and In the and 1: will be found that while all agencies were human that all v ur men proved to be men, acquitting themselves as credit ably as possible under all the stress and strain of very trying t rcumstances. Critics probably, and no doubt did over-reach themselves, and editors, worked up to a pitch of frenzy over the letters of their own reporters, said too much. But there was probably no disposition to distort or to falsify any-' where by any one. The suffering was undeniable, the com plaints natural and to be expected. In the clearer atmos phere of subsequent knowledge t will probably be seen that some writers and observers made fools of them elves, but that those really responsible did all the mere human was capable ot jivnes, General Miles is in America. His quarrel will burn down the fuse to the powder and 'then, while the public holds its for the explosion, will go out. Of course the nation will do nothing of the kind, but it would take us a hundred years to persuade Miss Schley that she didn't stop the war. -- In a moment a man with a long beard, who held a palette in his hand, opened the door for her and stood rtgarding the apparition of a closely veiled lady at tended by her maid with some surprise. "I speak to the painter of the picture at Moncieur 's." said Fraulien Mich el. "The warden and founta'n. I desire to buy it at any price." "Madame," said the artist, "1 regret to say that Dicture Is not to be riokl." "But I must have it,' said the lady. "I am rich anything any price." "lam pcor," said' the artist, 'but it his no price." "Listen, sir,' said the lady. "It Is more than a picture that I want it is a remi niscence. It's like a a place I know. I beg for it. I implore you to sell it to me." ' Madame," said the artist. "I see you have a heart. I will speak plainly. Long ago I stood with the only woman I ever loved beside that fountain a fountain In an old garden In Munich. I was a young idiot. I did not even know mv own heart, but I know it now. I have known it for years. One day the memory of the spot and of the hour returned to me as if by magic. I painted the picture in a few hours. I shall never seo her again. Long since she has become the wife of one sho loves well, no doubt, but I I shall never love any other. So I must keep her pic ture; 1 must. You see that, madame?" And as he spoke Lena Michel knew Henri Kleber knew him despite the flow ing beard and all the changes of twelve long years. And as he ceased sho flew back her veil and held both of her hands towards him. "Henri," she sighed. "Henri! Oh, Henri, do you know me?" And then he had clasped her in his arms and she lay robbing on his bosom. When they stood beside the fountain in the old garden at Mun'ch again they wore man and wife. Outlines of Oklahoma, The Talo?a papers say very little about the killing of McDonald. Flynn will open his campaign at Wa tonga on September 17, in the afternoon. The truth probably Is Barnes and Flynn are as good friends as Callahan and Kea ton. T. J. Palmer of Medford Is now in the thick of his forty-seventh newspaper quarrel. Will Little's grove of young elms In the square at Perry is said to be the finest in Oklafiorna. The Ponca City Democrat roasts the Populists for not turning out to Keaton's Kay Center meeting. The Woodward Bulletin says there are no flies on Western Oklahoma that even the buffalo gnats are gone. Jake Admire wants to sell the King fisher Frea Press. He ?o announces at the head of his editorial columns. Jake Admire says that Flynn and Fames at El Reno discovered that the party was bigger than both of them. Gec-onimo came into Sir William Walker the other day and kicked. He said he wasn't being fed as well as the Spanish prisoners. Shawnee will put in water works. They wi'l pay laborers $1.25 tier d.iy and no one will be allowed to work but citizens of Shawnee. W. Burke of Wiklta was bitten on the wrist by a, dog. He went to Attica, Kan sas, and had a mad-stone applied. It failed to adhere. A prisoner named Carriger has been taken 'from the federal jail at Guthrie to Perkins, where his daughter is dying. He is under guard. The Bachelor Girls' club of Ponca City sent a check to the Red Cross society and have received a letter thanking them from the hand of Mrs. J. Addison Porter. Dennis Flynn and Keaton should not get Into a fight on expansion. Flynn as an expansionist and Keaton as a contrac tionist will not have a vote on the Ques tion, whoever is elected. , A hungry man went into a Manchester restaurant and began eating chickens. The waiter lost track of the number eaten, and had to count the bones. He charged the man for three chickens. People who have had experience with It, warn farmers to let Johnson grass alone. They say it will run under a road and come up in. a field opposite and run liko a Spaniard before a Rough Rider. An Indian girl came into C cud Chief the other day dressed In while w.th a red sash around her waist whlcn could be seen for miles on a Clear day. She is said to be th prettiest Indian the men out there ever saw. William Humphrey says he knows twen ty homesteaders wlio had served notice of final proof on their claims who have withdrawn the notices on account of Flynn's nomination, as they think there is a chance again for free homes. A man in Woods county gave in his money in the bank as $1,000, and made oath that was all he had. The territorial equalization board raised the valuation S per cent, and now it is shown on the tax roll he had $1,SG0. This Is one wiy of raisins a man's bank account that he can't appreciate, as he can't persaiade the bankers to- honor his check for that amount. Arapahoe Bee: No sooner was the news received of Flynn's nomination than J. K. Little began to get up a crow I to egg him when he comes to Arapahoe to speak this fall. Two years ago this sume man, with more backers than he has now. had a wagon load of guns secretly col lected the morning Flynn spoke here o prevent his speaking to the peopl yet the meeting was called off on schedule time very peaceably. The people of Custer county will have peace if they have to fight for it. o o J "TffUl J niiiTiiiri- A Children's 5chool Jackets Children's 5chool Jackets We have about thirty light and medium weight Jackets suitable for school wear. Some of them were S4; others $5 and $5. We have divided them in two lots. Take your choice at $1-50 and $2.50. Special bargains in Mackintoshes. A rare chance to buy a rain coat cheap. The New Dress Stuffs for tailor suits, street costumes and calling gowns are here in grand array The colorings and combinations are perfect gems. Black Goods The largest showing in the state. Priestley's cele brated fabrics in all the new and most popular weaves, a including a grand assortment of beautiful Crepons 4 wmch jbashion has decreed the correct thing tor Fall 4 and Winter wear. We invite an early inspection of the new novelties in Black and Fancy Silks now on dis play. There is newness budding out in every department. I2ISK2KS12HillSI2iSlSIiScKi5:ii;i212HiISiSia3:iilS? ...New Clothing and Furnishing Qoods House .. .. 5 VERYTHING strictly up-to-date, direct from all the best factories and mills of the world. jt Open for business this morning, Sept. 7 jt & Everything new but the salesmen: S. M. STEVENS GUY V. STEVENS GEO. F. DeLONQ FRANK B. HARRIS s M 0 s 8 R w a w a 1 I 1 jaMMMvaHaiuiMifr I is: 118 NORTH MAIN STREET. B Along the Kansas Nile, -- No man hates red tape as the private American citizen. And no man is a greater red 'tape expert than the American citizen once in office himself. Sampson will receive $40,000 as -Ills share of the prize money; Dewey will set $10,000. Make Dewey admiral, above them nil. He has won it. The island of Cuba is really Cubancan, and that was derived from the name Columbus gave it, Kubla Khan, thinking it vos China. Before a charge of the Dervishes the English lancers t KhRrtoum retired in good Order. The American Rough Riders never retire. , The smart Kansan now goes to bed with a sheet and a blanket within reach and the ice-water pKcher and the base burner both loaded. Something should bo done in this country to protect the street cars from locomotives and the bicycles from farm wagons. Don Carlos is a hoodoo. If he lived in America he is the kind of a man you would wane to .support the other fellow, j o Our bis men and birr horses paralyze the Porto Ricans as much as Cortez and his gang: paralyzed the Aztecs. Ibsen's Mascots. A curious story fe told of Henrik Ibsen at his home In Norway. A lady who vi?ited there has Informed the world that he cannot write without a queer collection of copper animals ' on his desk, and he crowds thm so that there is hardly room. Anions tbera are grotesque cats and rabbits. Ke says he finds help and spurs from them, and, were he to jsa auk. he Bhould croduce no plays. A Kins Taken Kor a Gambler. In an Interesting article in the Ladles Home Journal. "Wilham Perrine describes the suspicion that increased in the mind of the captain of the vessel which was bringing to America, in the fall of 1755, a mysterious passenger who had come aboard at Hambur?. and goes on to tell what happened one day, when this pas senger said: "Sir. this is not the first occasion upon which I havo observed the attentive scrutiny you bestow upon me. May I inquire the reason?" "Sir," responded the captain, "you took passage on my ship as a Dane: I don't believe you're anything of the kind." Tho passenger smiled; the smile was full of perspicacity and confidence, and was followed with: "Pray tell me, then, what you -believe me to be?" At this question Captain Ewiag fid geted, hesitated and Anally blurted out: "Well, to be honest. I think you are a gambler. You've well-nigh reined your self xt home, and are now coming to fleece the fools you'll And on ?hore." The youne man's smfle broadened; the aaxt minute he turned crave again, low ered fcte voice and replied: "Captain Ewinc. as you have studied me during this voyage, so have I studied you. I have come' to the conclusion that you are a man to b trusted. I am Louis Philippe. Due rOrteans, eldest soa of that Louis PhUlippe cOrlans who was Uia by the guillotine oa tb Tta of November, almost three years ago." Lonzrt 1'Iant In the World. Tb longest plant ia the world is the seaweed. One trop'Cai and subtropical varloty Is kaows which, wfeea U rsacsss tts full devlopro5$:. is at least ft la length. Seaweed receives its aooritb zatax. from the air and mineral matter sw ia solution In the jea-water. Snails Et"ti in Paris Nsarly KOlCa pounds of snails art sokl daily in the Paris markets, to b eate by dwilrs ia Paris. They are carefully rear ed f the purpos ia x"":: v saall-gar-er.s r. h provinces and fed 01 aromatic fcerfea to oaks their Sarsr 2ssr, The memory will not thrive on one kind of fodder all the time. Forget the Maine and remember to register. Tho government did not muster out General Hudson and he has placed an other order with his tailor. Tho old soldiers of Topeka asked "W. t. P. Breckinridge to address them. The church people are howling. Governor Leedy was too 111 to appear at the Labor day celebration in Topeka, and Stanley would not talk, Mr. Leedy being absent. Farmer Jim Simpson whaled Farmer Smith in the McPherson county scram ble. What McPherson possibly needs is a third faction. There Is no north, no south, but after its experience with Duncan it will be a long day beforo Virginia invites Kan sas to visit her again. Tho police system of Kansas should be renovated. Kansas people should pay mora atentlon to their policemen and less to their governors. This Is from a Kansas "W. C. T. U. column: "There's not a rose on the bon net of a liquor seller's wife that did not cost the rose out of some other wife's check." "Let me introduce you," ladies and gen tlemen, to our next governor, Mr. " But the stage fell with a crash. Even Inanimate Nature had grown tired and revolted. The Republican central committee of the state has the names of 2,260 men who voted for Bryan and Leedy two years ago, who will this year vote the Republi can ticket As Topeka Is to have "W. C. P. Breck inridge to make a speech there, why coeen't the town get Miss Pollard for aueen of the carnival. There should be an equalization of morality. Jerry Simpson has now come out for expansion. Leedy will come next. The plain truth la that it is hard to find a man in Kansas who has not on the ex pansion question flopped around like a tumble weed. The Wichita Harold says: "Gouverneur Leedy's Aueezerung In rr Kampaga erede uber President McKlaiey. Saz dieeer ein guter aber st&wacber Miaa i. war die grozte Dumsahelt. U for Gouveraeur Jemals ausgesproeh en hat." A few years ago the luslonUU of Bour bon county nominated General Joan H Rice for representative and th Republi cans brought out his too BJll. who skunk ed the old general at eyery polling place. Ttols year two brothers. and Goodao, are candidate for representative Everybody coanetl with young Col lins' dffcB at Topka y so upremlr confident of his acquittal tht the tU attorneys are worried na thick coctr evtdence is to he sprung of a asational nature. It eriatly h asver be proTed f that young CoBlas kilted hi fathr. j The store men Kansas has like Chief Jos ) tiee Dostec the boUer for tb state. Dtr speaks hi mlad. He is protoabiy a fr queatiy mistaken as the acaa who 4oe aot speak his aund. ht be has the crt joy of knowing that h U saastar of h adnd aad IndjvidcaUy responsible for hi utterance. The loca' orator said: "My ttei if Hra- i;m1 l haT this only to say. Gororeor I LJy U the b governor Kams rw ! tauL" A geotiosaaa la the hick end of I thohaS arwe aad mM: "Just a satavta. j Thai's all rishL I think . fc. Bnt ay brother BH1 here at my side. wl. ' b' from Msort." i At Kansas C.ty, Lahor day Stanley j aroe ao4 saa4- a &w-political sprs- j Then Jerry SUapsoc got b? asd bsncle vicioofiy int" poiiue CwhnWa, wha "i prefRt. saw afcs efcasea and 4d Into 3pi fr hl trt Tlw rrvuni was W.'h f-fet " r. J alra-t :rulte4 Si- i ' ODt it u fca-dx by. tiir yei t ft' W I'wySfffiWi ft The Turning l ...of the dk Leaves SYSTEMATIC, Mother Nature A has bceun to turn another o page in her recording o the Seasons. Soon the hot days the days of recreation ; of out- M m ing trips ana picnic parties, will nave passca, oui to oc re- ytv membered as the days that are gone. Silvery dews have returned to their night task of painting tne leave ot the trees in those beautiful shades and glimmering tints peculiar to the transformation scene when Summer changes to Fall. The birds are leaving for their southern homes, and even the weeds in the fields in moulting shades proclaim in a silent surety that Fall is here. The Summer girl the pride of America is changing her light and airy frocks for those darker shades and warmer tints, and dreaming d rearm of her newer costumes that are soon to be. This Dress Goods stock of ours is up with the times. Its appearance of Summer has vanished, ami in its stead you'll see a grand array of those darker shades and warmer color ings for Fall. No forest, with its changing lefcvca, ever pre sented a more varied or more beautiful picture. Evidence here in an endless multitude of witnesses that even Na'crc can be improved upon. Scarcely room here to give you more than a bint. Come and see. fa W Black Goods 40-inch Jaequarda, in beasUfnl brocaded, flowored, military and scroll designs ; the proper fabric for a separat skirt for trt wear; sa7a more ex?sMfve dothinc Col ors are fat black, and style second to none. You'll wondor that It is not 19 cents, but tbe prlcf la ooly 29c Four and a half yards make a skirt; it's cotton wars. w Wl w w w w w w w 40-iach all wool Jaoq-Jard; cronas work in eorkerw twill, with a eat figures. In twelve tyl: beaTy, n 3 and arhl: really etc prveo'at !0c. bat tomorrow.... 3 9C fr-tnch all ooi Llrard eiotk; you'll recognize the fnbrie at a glanc. W cost. -acted for one hundred pteeos of this xood a yar aco tsm new wnoMnai price en tbese coon is iZa W'U not rais the ?rtc while this lot feu, Twenty ntyi to caoows Intsx at , 60c Bonr tbom in mind fend don't pay fk .' 3c thswsv ten tbe tun T0S. Black Crepon rViHhin hsis snVt "Crenoa..' sari Fashion is ntnuJly rint. A nho--tcg fcr that' oo4 to iooV at. an sroi to bay if you mini sarins; a' oUar nr on your ne-ar htnek orM. AasorlBv-nt rt JtWi per yard :s sLX -ot kfeouitJ ba' ttja-nna rw on t nyj ikraiir tfc itwl'.r Lem and ' r. r . . eans no -with a. eaoic (A tn , !sM3na ?Aem at ... Colored Dr&55 Goods la thntr rwneral aanoaraaot and make-no have tond tnn a kittl. The fancies are tn ansafler d'sfgnsj some almost slain. W iarlie you thin wosk to Inspect a Use of over one hundred ptes that wore mine right her in America. The siy!t were eented from the import! sntt patterns. In eolor?. appearance and wear ihoy answer every pew- pose, and lnetoad of oosttair yon from Si to II per yard, the price -will be ht 4-8c We have lots of the tl asd a kind if you want 'em. and waw you bay pattern of them. H itfll b the only o v: the kind in WJehtta. Wichita's Largest Sflk Stock V all the dxy-dreasa in dress fabric vere to com true. It wneid ho rswd lor thotr roltty tn snrpass this jrfTk etoek. Look if Art had it Uet roactMsi its xntk of fcean UfaJ creation. Might he somesfaenc out Onto tmmcm ituU w haewt't tm this fc vtnefc. If you sfeink of H. hM pfceaoe left a. We nonzntt osn of S we m. Want tn on yoor attention tMeeek tn ) pteee -41 different etylee tn fancy !& a prten that Is from the ta Mr ht-lo-" tho ot&amry nrtea Tort . yonB hard.? dart riei yanetnr them hr. Ute yon nan net your hoto now. They're worth te t Si Pc ysurd. Hunt tints eyes and ( Think of tn pnettkest silks yon Open yonr rs and 1 4S(cho; oniy 76c fa fa fa fa fa 8 fa fa fa ..Boston Store. Wi '?: ZnT ;., tit eirrr Zjc ;? sw. J-4 -. i tartJtr, Uct neck. X Vl