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WHAT WASN'T WATER WAS WIND.
During tne late. liquidating, water-squeezing perform
ance, with Wall Street as the wringer, when the multis
were pressed until their ejes bulged out anu they felt like
collapsed balloons making for terra firma, it is said by
those on the inside that the Rockefeller family lost up
ward of $100,000,000. That is, they were worth that much
leas than they had been estimating. That is, they found
out that they couldn't hold on to the hundred million of
the filch that they had deemed as securely cinched.
Schwab, who got the bust-head over the biggest salary
ever paid a Napoleon of finance, and who believed he
could manipulate the earth, and break the bank at Monte
Carlo, in finding out that he wasn't much of a Napoleon
of finance after all, that he couldn't' beat the game, nor
even hold his own, is another of the'swell contingent who
Is creeping out of the little end of the horn. J. Pierpont
Morgan, who thought he had corralled all on the land
worth having, and who was proceeding to round up every
thing afloat, is another bubble who when pricked found
himself to be made up principally of wind and rainbow
colors. This man who in estimating that wealth is only
aggregated values, producible by a twist of the wrist,
who dined with kings and hobnobbed with royalty, is un
numbered millions short of estimated assets. And there
is the slick, aristocratic Whitney, the coarse-grained
Gates, the astute Keene, and a thousand more like them,
who are being dropped over the verge of the tub, flattened
out most beautifully and as dry as a sun-soaked brick,
consecutively squeezed out from the Wall Street wringer.
What wasn't water was wind. The wind blew away and
the water leaked out of their holdings and there is but
an inconsiderable grease spot left. For these unfortunate
schemers who sought to reap where they had not sown,
and to appropriate that which they did not own, a nation
of honest -wealth producers are weeping, but the tears
are for joy and lack brine. These shorts on conscience
expected a panic that would sweep the land from coast
to coast, during which they were to make a recuperative
grab. But the panic didn't sweep to any alarming extent
It just anchored in the Bwirl of Wall Street's vortex,
where, like the milk in a separator, it was kept whriling
for what butter there might be left in the watered stuff
they had been selling as pure cream. The worthless
sticks of the pj-rotechnic speculative jamboree are fairly
raining down. But it i3 a revivifying shower. There spec
tacular multi-millionaires sailed high for a season, but
they are diving in the depths now, and will soon be lost
to sight and to memory. And it is a good thing, for it is
those who claim to make a million dollars in a day that
are a menace to the industrial interests and commercial
welfare of this country.
ANOTHER KANSAS INTERURBAN LINE.'
Ittterurban railway lines wherever projected in the
more thickly settled eastern states: are proving both
profitable and popular. It is a fact that one can ride from
Boston to New York on interurban trolley cars, simply
by transferring from one line to another. Indiana and
Illinois have several of these lines interlinking towns and
communities. There is one interlinking the mining towns
of western Missouri and eastern Kansas, including Car
thage, Joplin, Galena and other municipalities. There is
a line of this character from Kansas City to Leavenworth.
And now it is said that the aforetime scheme of building
a trolley car line between Kansas City, Lawrence and
Top-eka has been arranged for. The Lawrence Journal
says that the "Topeka people have been congratulating
themselves on the transfer of the street car line there to
a syndicate that promised much in the way of improve
ment, and which has just opened an amusement park.
But alarm is now following this jubilation. Topeka has
just found out what has been a matter of common report
right along, that the amusement park extension was sim
ply a shrewd move to get an opening into the city for a
Kansas City suburban electric line. The agents of the
company have been securing right-of-way from the farm
ers, and have paid whatever price has been asked for
the privilege of running the line through their property
on the route between Kansas City and Topeka. It looks
much as though the people of Topeka have been outwitted
and that the Kansas City-Topeka company has net only
secured an entrance to the city but has- also secured con
trol of the city's own street railway business."
THE ALCHEMIST SECRET OUT AT LAST.
A Philadelphia Inventor, a scientist and an acknowl
edged electrical expen. !s out with ;hv claim that he has
discovered iW proca cf converting laser metals into
gold. The claimant can hardly be a humbug for he has
been granted upward of 300 patents. He declares, and he
has demonstrated to the satisfaction of a lot of capitalists,
that he can turn silver into gold. This is William Bryan's
opportunity. Silver was only knocked out as a precious
metal and gold made the monetary standard because the
goldbugs didn't want so much real or metallic money
afloat What will become of the price of gold, of its value
as a standard, if all the silver is to be turned into gold?
As silver in such an event will be practically as- valuable
as gold, ounce for ounce, the United States treasury and
the banks will have more gold than they can handle. A
Mexican silver dollar and a Philippine peso will be worth
their face in gold. But of these surmises and speculations
later.
In any event It is- announced that a company has been
formed and a plant is being built for the transmutation
of silver into gold, and right beneath the shadow of the
United States mint at Philadelphia, into gold of the re
quisite hardness and fineness, and nothing about it coun
terfeit But wait for the drop that in all probability will
come later.
THE BEGINNING OF A GREAT PUBLIC WORK.
The national law to reclaim arid lands in the west is
about to bo put into effect in five important irrigation
works, says the World's Work. This law, it will be re
called, creates an irrigation fund out of the proceeds of
the sale of public land in the arid states. The money,
therefore, does not come out of the general funds of the
treasury; and after it has been used to construct irriga
tion works, it is to be repaid into the treasury out of the
Income from tho irrigated lands and thus used to con
struct more works and to do continuous duty in extending
the area of fertility. Ten millions of dollars out of the
fund that ha3 now accumulated will be spent forthwith
in Montana, Colorado, Nevada and Arizona; and It is
expected that by these works a million acres will be
added to the tillable area of these states. A million acres
of land thus made habitable will maintain a larger popu
lation, as all well-irrigated lands do, than the same area
of other land, for there is less waste. This $10,000,000 is
a mere trifle in comparison with the sum that will be re
quired; but the well-drawn law makes it the beginning
of one of the most notable public works in the world.
It had long been obvious to the best students of the
subject that the national government would in some way
and at some time have to take up the problem of redeem
ing these arid spaces; for the conflict of jurisdiction and
of the ownership of water-ways and other difficulties
could never otherwise have been removed. It' is there
fore the beginning of a new era in the development of
these regions that the government now begins, and it is
an event of historic importance. For many rears we shall
add to our habitable area till the "desert" becomes a part
of the most fertile region of the continent.
FIGURES ON THE TWINE PLANT.
A Topeka dispatch says that E. B. Jewett, warden of
the penitentiary, has about completed his report on the
amount of binding twine used in Kansas this year. When
completed the report will show that the wheat growers
of the state used in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 pounds
of twine, or nearly twice as much as they purchased from
the state any preceding year. It is estimated that the
penitentiary plant supplied nearly one-half of the twine
used in the state this year. The price received for -the
twine this year was 10 cents per pound, or $200,000 for
the output of the plant This was a half cent lesB a pound
than the price last year.
"We could have sold more twine," said Mr. Jewett
"if we had had it We did not run the plant as steadily
as we could had we known hat there was going to be
such a demand for the twine. The plant has been started
again and will now be run almost continuously until next
harvest, when we hope to hare nearly three million
pounds of twine. The plant will be run almost to its full
capacity for a year."
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KANSAS' NEW PENAL LAW.
Warden Jewett says the Topeka Capital, believes that
the indeterminate sentence law, enacted by the last legis
lature, will prove satisfactory. He has just returned
from Illinois, where he went to study the workings of
the law. Illinois has a statute about similar to the one
enacted by the legislature last winter and it has been in
operation five years.
"The indeterminate sentence law has proved to work
all right in Illinois," said Warden Jewe' yesterday. "The
only complaint made against it is in Chicago. The state's
attorneys there object to it because it prevents them
from inducing a criminal to plead guilty upon promise
of a light sentence and thereby compels a larger nflmber
of court trials. I believe it will operate satisfactorily in
Kansas. The board of directors of the penitentiary will
be conservative In enforcing the law and paroles will be
issued only to the most deserving convicts. The law will
not affect the prisoners now in the penitentiary."
A COUNTESS AND HER COACHMAN.
An English countess married a bogus prince, who
turned out to be a commoner and a coachman at that
When the revelation came there was a scene and a sep
aration, but this is followed by a reconciliation. By her
willingness to be reconciled to the man, the wife makes it
apparent that, after all, it was the man and not the title
that caught her love.
As Bobbie Burns has said, "The rank is but the
guinea's stamp, a man's a man for a' that" It can not
bethought however, that in this case the deceiving hus
band was much of a man. On the face of it he was a
cheat and a fraud, but woman is proverbially a forgiving
creature and the sex likes men as mankind likes potatoes
served in all sorts of ways and will forgive and over
look almost anything, when once she is convinced that it
was all done for love of her.
AT NIGHTFALL.
(The Meditation of a Troubled Spirit.)
(The following poem was dictated by Pope Leo XIII
when he supposed he was on his deathbed. It was re
cently issued in Rome for the first time. The translation
that follows is by Professor Harry Thurston Peck.)
Leo, tire destined hour! Now must thou hence
And, as thy merits-, take the endless way.
What lot awaits thee? Heavenly joy, thy gifts
Which God hath freely given, bade thee hope -
But the great Keys! A trust of mighty weight
And bome so long thou groanest at the thought;
For he who leads in honor all the rest
Must, if he fail, the keener suffering bear.
Amid thy fears, there comes a gentle face,
A gentler voice speaks comfort to thy heart:
"Why does fear shake thee? Why, on gazing back
O'er thy long past, should sadness stir thy soul?
"The pitying Christ is here: He gives his grace
To those that seek. Have faith He beareth all." '
The Emporia row grows more serious. On Saturday
evening a citizen horsewhipped a minister, and early
Monday news was received from Kelley, the Missouri bak
ing powder agent, in Canada, that William Allen White
is an infamous liar whom he will sue for libel as soon as
he gets back to this country.
King Alexander was assassinated to give Peterkaro
vitch the crown. Now the latter wants to turn the thing
over to his 16-year-old son, the young galoot whom experts
have denounced as degenerate. The world has about con
cluded that Alexander and Draga were better than Servia
deserved.
Kansas City is rapidly getting into a hot row with, the
railroads, over grade crossings-, union depot, wheat em
bargo and the like. The railroads haven't been heard
from yet. but the other side hold that had there been no
Kansas City there would have been no railroads.
Some of the school boards of Kansas are inserting
clauses in their contracts forbidding school marms from
marrying or courting during the school year. No board
with a bachelor member has been guilty of this man-inhu-manitv
to woman.
The only accomplishment the white man ever received
from the Indian was smoking, for which we have taught
him in turn the how of everything from whisky to divorce.
Some Sioux Indians have applied- lor divorce ap In Dakota.
Some of the railway companies o$ the country are go
ing to abandon the "pay car" and pay their employes
by checks. That's business. There never was any sense
or economy in the "pay car."
But that they will be rescued by the contempted su
preme court five more Missouri boodlers would land in
the penitentiary.
Corn. Is going up in the market, and it is reported as
having already eae us In a numbsr of gar.saar counties.
QUIT LITERATURE.
The old man drew up to the lamp, put
on his glasses, but paused before he
undid the roll before him. Mandy watch
ed him as she clicked her needles, then
she "hemmed" a few times and sighed
deeply. Silas snipped the string and gave
a. whistle as the roll fell flat, revealing
a dozen or more almanacs of all sorts.
"Great readln this is, Mandy. Some
folks can And more brain power, infrest
an' human natur in story mag-zines,
newspapers, congressional dockyments or
sup-visors' reports. Them that wants
that sort of readin can stick to 'em. As
for me, give me these yearly little books,
full of meat an brains from start to
finish, at the quarter an' half-way post
an all "round the track."
But Mandy only sighed deeper as Silas
took up one little booklet after the other
and tenderly caressed each, as he turned
the talismanic pages.
"Here's the same old familiar jokes,
Mandy. It seems just like meetin old
friends to greet 'em again." And Silas
proceeded to lire a long list of ancient
chestnuts, riddles and verses at Mandy,
who had stood the fire of these same
things for forty years. Silas laughed just
as heartily at the cute and clever Joe
Millers as he did years ago, when they
were new, crisp, rib-tickling, fresh and
buoyant. But Mandy was tired of it all,
though she said nothing, only clicked her
needles and sighed now and then. How
ever, Silas began to read something, with
a chuckle, about the same old recipe
concerning angel cake. Then she broke
in so warmly that Silas almost jumped.
"There, that'll do, Silas," seh said, as
she lifted a gleaming needle and pointed
it directly at his left eye. He hitched
about in his chair, wiped his glasses and
drummed his feet upon the floor. Then he
recovered his nerve and gently said in a
hurt tone:
"Seems to me them things would infr
est any woman of common sense; receeps
'bout bakln' an' b'illn' an' an' "
"Stop right where you be, Silas Pem
brook. You know better' n I can tell you
that I never rise "bove ginger cake, cook
ies an' tarts. As for them rainbow angel
thingamajigs an- such they hain't in my
line, an' you know it. Also them poor
old jokes that need crutches to keep 'em
from fallin' down, 'cause of old age
don't fire any more at me. I might stand
the weak old creature but don't you dast
to throw any more almernack receeps
for angel cakes at me, Silas Pembrook
don't you dast!"
"Humph! don't see why receeps"
"on't you dast to read to me 'bout
dyin' pants or makin' soft soap or rag
carpets, nuther. You can read 'em to
yourself, if you want to; you can keep to
yourself ail 'bout them signs that tell
when It's proper to wean babies an so
on. Silas, you are a bound slave to
them almernacks. An' you are also a.
false weather prophet just 'cause you
'bide by 'em. I've wanted to free my
mind before. Now I have."
"I a false weather prophet? Why, I
said last fall that the breastbone of the
goose "
"Meant we'd have a soft winter. 'Taln't
been very soft so far," said Mandy, with
a sniff.
"I did git a little off the track, but "
"An' you consulted yer almanacks, an'
what did you do? You told Joe Slocumb
to cut his hay' cause the weather was
goln' to be fit for curin' It. Well, Joe
cut his hay an' it rained so the poor
jtutt rotted on the ground. You told
fvm Saulisbury not to cut his wheat
'cause it was bound to rain an' spile It.
e didn't cut his wheat an the weevils
got in an' fixed it. Since then I don't
get no invites to Slocumb's teas nor in
vites to Salisbury's quiltin's. Ter a false
prophet, Silas, an' folks are callin' you a
blamed old almernack idiot."
"Think so, Mandy?"
"I hear it every day, Silas. Quit lit
erature an' cut off the almernack habit."
"You mean It, Mandy?"
"Yes, yer the laughin' stock of the
community, 'cause you get up, go to bed,
eat an' sleep by tne signs in them books."
"Sure?"
"Yes."
"Then, here she goes." Tho stove door
was opened and as the famous old Joe
Miller's threadbare receipts and ancient
verses volleyed up the chimney Silas gavo
a sigh and settled back as though life
had lost all further charm. Horace Sey
mour Keller, In New York Herald.
Hard Lines.
Mrs. Deems I do think it too bad that
the police department keeps changing the
policemen around so much.
Mrs. FUlaon Yes; It does raise the
very old arry with one's kitchen. Every
time the green-eyed monster gets to work
I lose a cook.
He'd Drink It.
He was a man who had evidently had
more or less sorrow and had tried with
more or less success to drown it. He
struggled into an "L." car at a down
town station in tne rush hour, and had
the good luck to find an unclaimed strap
to hang to. Jammed in by the throng,
he had little trouble to keep on his feet
until the train w.s half way to Harlem.
Then, as the crowd thinned, ho swayed as
the car swayed, but he clung with more
or less success to his strap.
Sitting in front of the swaying man was
a sharp-featured woman of more or less
uncertain age, and evidently perfectly
able to take care of herself. As the train
stopped at a station with the usual jolt,
the man swung around on his strap
and came Into collision with the woman's
knees.
"You're a wretch!" she exclaimed, as
her eyes snapped.
"Yes-urn," gravely answered the sway,
Ing man.
The train started up. The swaying man
again bumped the woman's knees.
"You're a brute!" she ejaculated.
"Yes-um," was the grave response.
The motorman turned on full speed and
the swaying man swung against the
woman for the third time.
"You're drunk." the woman snapped
out, "and If I were your wife I'd put
poison In your coffee!"
The man who had tried to drown his
sorrow with more or less success steadied
himself with the strap. looked at the
woman's wrathful countenance and re
plied in sad tones:
"Yes-um and I'd drink it."
Case cf Green.
Just what mental and moral condition
the man was In at the time need not be
given in detail here. Suffice U that he
was not perfectly sat'sfled with some
one of the police functions of the town,
and -e approached a Broadway patrol
man on the subject and stated his griev
ance. As he was a stranger from over
the river, and was not to say disor
derly or a suspicious person, the guar
dian of the peace hedged.
"That's none of my business." he ex
plained: "you 11 have to see the poHce
commissioner about It."
"Who's her' inquired the stranger
critic
"General Greene."
"What's that his name is?" asked the
stranger, cocking his head over to one
side to improve his he&rfnr-
"General Green."
"Oh. General Grene. is hT" he growl
ed. "Well. I should say he was particu
larly green, or be wouldn't stand for
aaytning like that.'
It would have ben lze majesty for the
poHcmar. to laugh, so he merely grisaed
genttr and told the complainant he tad
better go somewhere and sleep It off.
Wanted Immediate Delivery.
"Aad is this to be the end of It all?"
gasped the youth with the &oLy t!-
"You have surntid it." aaawered the
fair party In a tone that was evidently
fresh from the refrigerator.
"True, my salary is not very obee."
he ventured, "but next year I ass to get
a raise and "
"Chop It oCT. Interrupted the haaaa
icicle. 'Ta not dealing la fnrurea."
The wana wind frci the south felt
these day are not hot wind, s car
atty supposed. Tfcr ar th renart
or the "hot blasts betsjr Sred by ttrs
Arkasau Qty pxpo at oasa oti.r.
OUTLINES OF OKLAHOMA.
The Dewey county fair will be held the
first four days of September, in Taloga.
Woodward has a dog poisoner and sev
eral otherwise law-abiding citizens are
looking for him with shot-guns.
The town of Cherokee is threatened
with the launching of a Democratic pa
per. Better make it a news paper.
The Rock Island officials have added
up a long column of figures and the sum
total is 45,000.000 bushels of wheat for
Oklahoma and the Indian territory.
While people are talking of rain to
make the com crop, the Cimarron Valley
Clipper takes the floor to remark that the
corn in that section Is already made.
The Oklahoma Construction and Pav
ing company can have the contract to
pave Main street in Shawnee when it
puts up a security bond for fifteen thou
sand dollars. ,
Oklahoma is quite a new country; but
it has 311 banks and the money on de
posit in them makes over thirty-four
dollars for every man, woman and child
in the territory.
Threats of Jack Meeks to kill Gladys
Moore if she told what she knew of the
murder of Leonard Lamb, at Clinton,
seemed to have worked very well until
Meeks got into jail.
Deer Creek is trying to find out whether
she needs a commercial club organiza
tion. Anything is good for a town that
will enable the people to center their ef
forts and all pull together.
Among the Oklahoma exhibits at the
world's fair will be some corn-stalks
twenty-two feet high and a sheaf of oats
six feet long from a field that yielded one
hundred bushels to the acre.
Oklahoma merchants are Interested In
the report that a rate war will b pre
cipitated among the railroads in the cot
ton belt. What Oklahoma and all the
southwest needs is just rates, Instead of
a rate war.
All over Oklahoma people are taking
interest in the election of competent
school officers. The pepple evidently real
ize that good schools will add very great
ly to Oklahoma as a desirable place in
which to live.
M. F. King, of Ottawa, Kan., tried to
convince the city council of Tecumseh
that the proper thing to do was to vote
bonds to enable him to build the city a
system of waterworks. The council
wanted time to reflect.
Bob Neff, of the Blackwell News, has
discovered a new comet. It Is twenty
eight miles away- and traveling at the
rate of twenty-five miles a second, which
boats Governor Ferguson s time In his
famous ride at the opening of the Strip.
. The Choctaw is going to give a 50-cent
rate for tho round trip from Shawnee
to Asher park for all the employes of
the shops and their relatives for a grv-
picnic, August 1st. Indications nov
that about all of the people of Sh
are related to the shop boys.
Down, at Lexington the people '
cows in all the streets except it.
business thoroughfare. The cow t
on the opposite side of the street . .
keeps the rope stretched tight, and the
Leader wants to know how a man in a
buggy is to get past without swearing.
A. J. Colley brought Miss Dixon into
Alva to take the train for Wichita. Ho
hitched his team to a telegraph pole by
the side of the railroad. He found the
buggy three miles out in the country and
the hprses are supposed to be running
yet.
Woods county will probably have a
new court house at Alva because the
editor of the Alva Review does not like
to live in a county that has no court
house. Every county in Oklahoma ought
to have a fire-proof court house for the
preservation of its county records.
After Felix I. Crow had hauled a big,
lazy huik of an Apache Indian to a point
twelve miles north of Lawton, and be
cause he refused to take him further In
the direction the Indian wished to go,
the latter shot him. General Custer's re
mark that the only good Indian is a
dead Indian, applies in this case.
Sidney Clark, of Oklahoma City, in in
terview: "There Is no good reason why
an enabling act will not be passed at the
ensuing session of congress granting
statehood to Oklahoma. While It Is true
that most of the New England sena
tors would like to see Oklahoma and the
Indian territory united In one state and
thus reduce the political and commercial
power of the west In the United States
senate as much as possible, a large ma
jority in congress will undoubtedly pro
test against the Injustice of the propo
sition. Oklahoma, in its present anatomy,
has carved for itself in the short space
of fourteen years a name and fame which
cannot be blotted out by local selfish
ness or by sectional interests represented
In congress."
ALONG THE. KANSAS NILE.
The worm has turned again; this time
onto the alfalfa.
An alleged jolntlst was arrested at Dex
ter last week. His name was Ammen.
One hundred and sixty-nine boys have
died since July 4, from toy pistol wounds.
Wichita furnished one.
Coffeyville is declared to be under a
reign of terror. Its automoblllsts are
learning to be chaffeurs.
It Is ciaimed that Kansas alfalfa is
as old as Babylon. It was probably a
part of Nebuchadnezzar's diet.
A former Arkansas Qty baseball player
has failed in the saloon business. Such
never happened at Arkansas City, how
ever. Tho Brown County World offers a re
ward of five dollars each for the convic
tion of a bird destroyer. Cats are not
included.
At Newton, the fines collected from crap
shooters go to the school fund. It Is not
enough yet. however, to establish sepa
rate schools.
Ford county Is paying two people's
board bills less this week. Two prison
bipeds last wek took passage on tha
Santos Dumant air lim
Eighteen cases of boer were destrojrwl
by the sheriff at Wellington. Saturday
evening A sheriff has some excruciating
duties to perform at times.
Newton is encouraging German immi
gration A dry poods store advrU.3
for two young ladles and a young man
who speak with the guttural tone.
Newton Is considering damming Sand
creek with stone. It has bn damned
with very strong -words, says th Kaa
ss.it. many time, but would aver bold.
Butler county wants Inter? t on th
M4. that tt pays into th stat treasury
la the way at a state job. It snould ap
peal to that accommodating iegti-istur".
Te report recently drealated to tb
detriment of Dxtr that sbe bad a dry
bolse was false. Last week a vry "wet
bole in Ue wal was found by th police.
A judtre In Brown county has gottea
off as original something about brave
ma that he has read and the isoal pa?r
publish It as a an aoectaen- There is
so sxorh of tats.
Complaint is made that tcrsJo doors are
being used for repairta? oar In ta
orf PadAe shops at Atcahmo. The leg-tsiarcv-
might b called to is rsUef of
tb MlsMari Paetflc
After walking all the way from Com
ing, low, a trm- and his 1fe broke into
a Wellington man a larder it H not tfee
ari time that as wagvrrmbtf spptit
has proved a maa aad ve-m'a dowa
rall "An old ma s pfccVd P on th
stwts of Arfeaatns City d K
rt upfcd he t ray. &ot tn p
lice. relates lb Travel rr. fovad taxt h
was not a resident of Kar.ui. and mS
him n&rth.
Aa Ariuscu City girt U trtecrajih op
erator at Hackney. Aeeenilar to tne eot
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"WICHITA'S LARGEST AND MOST POPULAR STORE."
Two Hundred Bed Spreads
Comment CdltS
In north window annex is displayed a new
lot of Large Size White Bed Spreads, hemmed
and ready for use. These were purchased -as a
very special value and are worth at regular sel
ling $1.25 each. Your choice oi twenty- QQo
if five late patterns in Marseilles, today
Autumn Hats
Are now shown in our window and we think
you will agree that the styles are very pleasing.
The brim is just the right width and the crown
the riht death, forming a verv handsome
contour. 2
The various shades of brown are to be very 1
popular and this present stock, while it represents i
the correct New York styles, is devoid of the 4
hideous shapes known as freaks. The quality of J?
these Hats truly excels and when you pay for one 4
of them you only pay for intrinsic value. J
It is our study to select Hats that suit the
face as well as fit the head.
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We invite you to see these Autumn styles.
Holmes & Jones j
AMERICAN CLOTLTIERS
211 East Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas f
THE COOK KNOWS
Ask any cook who has used a Gas Range
if meats, vegetables and pastries are not
better cooked by Gas, where absolute
heat regulation can be secured
Gas Ranges sold at cost
Connected Free
Wichita Gas, Electric Light & Power Co.
Phone 186
"WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RTLES."
GREAT SAVING KEST'LTS FROM
THE TSE OF
APOUO
THE GREAT WONDER SALE
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SOME MORE GOOD THINGS TODAY !
Come at 8:30 a. m. Today
Wonder Sale Lawns, fine figures, small dot3 and stripes.
Wc will sell you 12 yards, no more, Qln
Wonder Sale Price -20
Wonder Sale Batistes, 36 inches wide. As long as C
they last. Wonder Sale Price OC
Wonder Sale Bleached Muslin, in short lengths, PQn
mostly 6 to 10 yard lengths. Wonder Sale, 10 yds. forv)OC
Wonder Sale Turkey Red Table Damask. These -f p
goods are worth double the money. Wonder Sale iJC
Wonder Sale Furniture Covering Heavy rep velvet faced
Furniture Covering, worth $1.25 the yard. AQn
Wonder Sale TOC
Wonder Sale Belts Twenty-five Styles Ladies Belts on
sale today. Assorted lengths and colors. Not an old
style in the lot. They are worth up to 75c. 0l
Wonder Sale Price CO
Wonder Sale Ladies' Embroidered White Collars. They
are very stylish and hard to get. r
Wonder Sale Price DC
Wonder Sale Souvenir Cups. Wc have about one hundred
leit. Will sell them in the Wonder Sale this ffi
morning, 3 for lUC
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