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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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direct from all the best
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Everything new but the salesmen:
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 '
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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
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