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TATE JOURNAL, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 30, 1891. 1'LAVED TILLMIlNI(mT. 'ilie "Ioubl Hill" .t tli trrand Lasted Four Ifours- Peonle who paid a dollar to see "A Cold Day" and "Ch p o' the Old Block." Bt the Grand last evening, paid twenty five cents an hour for amusement. There were four houra of it, as the curtain went up at eight and staid up at inter vals till twelve. "A Cold Day" was put on first It abounds in musical specialties and fairly good low comedy. Perkins and Fisher Hi Able Effort and Jacob Blow were aa funny aa the average comedian of their class. The balcony was mildly pleased and the gallery more so. The lower part of the house was very light and correspondingly "chilly." The songs were pretty and Rett. Dickson succeeded in getting- aa encore on her rendition of 'The Alabama Coon." "Chip o' the Old Block" is not as gootl a piece aa the tirst one. It is full of a good deal that might as well have been licaiuated. For in stance, the scene urdor the table when Commodore loses his trousers. This shows what kind of a "farce comedy" it ,waa without any further explanation. la the first act C. Jt Boyd'a delineation of Zepn Spanker wai good. The eccen tric dancea of the piece were first rate, and several of them were encored. Ade laide Crawford as Piiey was bright and Very pretty. HOW THEY GOT TOGETHER. The Way In Whirh the LTnioa of Two Miown lane About. A year ago -A Coll Day" and "Chip o' the Old Block'' were separata shows, the first under the rianagement of Per kins D. Fishor and the other under the management of Robjrt L. Scott One night, through the addlepated ceaa of various managers, both of them were billed to play the Crawford house in Wichita. The ooatracts had been made and signed ly the house manage ment and with managerial obstinacy both show proprietors ubtolutely declined to waive their rights in favor of anybody. On the day preceding the momentous night both companie arrived in Wichita and a special detachment of police was held in readiness to put down a riot. All day there was a triangular discus sion between the two show managers and the opera houseman Fiats were shaken and suits were threatened, and there was altogether a strong tmell of sulphur ia the Wichita atmosphere. Suddenly the Wichita man, who was the meat in the sa:idwich, jumped up ami cracked his heeli together. He had an idea. "Why claimed. Happy cornered don't yoa both playJ" he ex- thought embrace. There was a three uni it is said some tears were shed. Then the showmen nipped nickels to tee which piece should be put on first. "A Cold Day" won and the arrangement was so satisfactory that it has been continued since, and both mauagera claim that they could Hip dol ara now. MEETINGS OF THE WEEK. Ariaiige.l or tlie Kepulilicnut ly Cliair uiau KUiott. Chairman Elliott, of the Republican county central committee, gives out a list oi' the Republican meetings for this week. If you are interested in these meetings, cut this cut, as this list will not appear again. On Saturday nigbt there will be no couutry meetings, as all the country lie publicans are expected to be in Topeka that night to attend the last big rally of the campaign. The other meetings for the week are aa follows: Tuesday, Oct 30 Williams school house, T. F. Ooran, A. XX Hubbard, A. J. McCabo: Pierce's Addition II. J. Lari mer, S. M. Garden hire, II. C. Bafford; -v. f. jeimore, r. 11. Bain; Kaw Valley School House, .J. II. Guy, Col. John M. Brown. Wednesday, Oct Shorey, A. 1. Hubbard. J. D. MeFarland; Berry Creek school house, 11. C. Safford, S. M. Gar ienhire; Pleasant Kidge school house, District Xa 19, .Mencken township, T. F. Doran, A. K. liodgere; E. 21. Cockrell. Thursday, Nov. 1. Dover, J. G. Wood, Otis llungate; Tice school house, Wil liamsport township, D. O. Tillotson, S. M. Gardeuhire; State an J Chase streets. Col. Geo. W". Veale, Geo. W. Smith, II. C. ! rauord. Blac ksmita school house, S. G. Watkins, J. II. Guy. Friday, Nov. 2. "West Sixth street echool house, A. D. Hubbard, H. C. Saf ford; Tecumseh, C. F. Spencer, S. G. Wat kins, A. P. Jetmore, 1L Chase. They never had better cooking in the "White House than ucw. That ia because they use Dr. Price's Baking Powder. A GRATE T"irrjROE31 ADE. Mrs. J. O. l'ayne Sue the Santa Ife for $10,000 X-aiuases. Mrs. Ermiua Paynj, widow of James 0. Payne, who was struck by a Santa Fe freight train near La vrence on Septem ber 19, has brought suit in the United States circuit court against the receivers of the road for $10, J JO damages. Mr. l'ayne was brought to Topeka, and three days after died from the ellect of the injuries. lie was an employe at the Saata Fe offices. Mrs. l'ayne states in her petition that her husbaud had aa annual pass, which he presented to the conductor, Charles Short, and that afterward Short forcibly threw Payne from tho train, while it was in motion, and he was severely injured and stunned by the fell. It is also stated that when the injured man had partially recovered from the ellects of the fall, though still in an injured condition, he started to walk up .he track, when he was struck by the freight train. Mrs. l'ayne charges taat her husband's death is attributable to the cruel action of the conductor ia ejecting him from tho train when he was provided with transportation and thinks that the re ceivers of the road are liable for dam ages. Joe Waters is her attorney. V Have IManned To hear our fellow townsman, C. C. Baker, lecture. Havim't you? Wednes day evening, Oct 31, at 8 p m. sharp, at the First Baptist church. Admission 35c. Loveland Lodge No. 33, D. of II.. will give a masquerade bull at Hudson's hall, 701 Kansas avenue, on Thursday even ing, November 1, lbi4. Admission 25c. H. F. Crura does not represent the Grani.3 State Provident association any lunger in this stits as agent, and has no 1. ilho;ty to solicit tusineia or collect rx iaey for them. O. B. Crum, western uiaiagfc. If the hair is falling o.utor turning grav, requiring a stimulant with nourishing and coloring food. Hail's Vegetable ticil.iu Hair lisuewei is just the specific. j jjjg 0pEXIXG NIGHT. JUMPIN JOE APPEARS WITH HIS MONSTER AGGREGATION. Seine M in First Appearance, He taJe Thins Keady to Skip, bat His Fearj Were In Vain Tremendous -Saccan 1 Walts on His Efforts. I take great pleasure in informin the in telligent and enthooeiastic public of the unqualified suc cess that attended the openin of my monster aggre gashun ia the town of Palestine o n Wednesday eavenin last. The applause begun an hour before my tent was erected, and the patriot ism cf the free born American A JUMP OF frx FEET, citizens was still bilin over when I packed up next day and headed far the town of Jerusalem Hill. This was my fust appearance afore a cultivated con gregas h u a with anything appealin directly to the soul, and half an hour previous to the cpenin of the show I got things ready fur a sudden skip in case the crowd met with a disappintment. Whar I made my fust plumb center shot at the liberty luvin inhabitants of Pales tine waa In my adverUoin, which reads aa toilers: FREE TO ALLI j OW WEDNESDAY KATEXIJC NEXT. ! JTTMPIST JOE S GRAND PAXCsEAJIT AAD MOSSTIB AGORECASIirs! 40 Paintin'sl 1 Five Lefe ged Wolf! 1 Grasshopper ! 1 Jumpin Froi?! 1 Eddi-cated Hog! Also interdticin fur the fust tinie in tiua lo cality liis worid renowned CHEROKEE 63AS.SYPAF.rLLY AN L MAGIC CE3JEXT1 After the performance is over the uudersiifned will marry all couples which may cum for'da free of oust, j JCAIPIN JOE. The Idea of a free show aroused the smothered flames of 1776, and they blazed forth till everything which could w:ilk piled into my tent an hour ahead of time and shouted fur the cenkerin hero to show hisself and begin biznets. The minit I appeared that vast and patriotic aujeence riz up as one purson and indulged in thunderiflck applause, doorin which time, overcum by the excitement of the occa shun, my jumpin frog escaped from his lair and mailo a, clean jump of ten feet eight inches and lighted on the back of my five legged wolf. When the tumulchus demonstrashun had died away, and tiie patriots and patriotes.sed had got settled down on the benches, 1 placed my har;d on my heart and stepped for'ds and inter duced myself and the aggregashun and called pertlckler attenshun to the fact that thar was nuthin to pay. afum yelled and sum wept, and it was easy to see that I had the populashun with me. The fust thing shown on the panorair.y was a pictur of Niagary falls. I had six taller candles back of it and six in front, and the pictur' was thrown out so vividly that my eddecated hog fetched :i grunt and started for'ds r-. to git a drink cf i l--f' the refreshin liq- I ' " v. , ; uid runnia to U1 ,f4Ax waste. As tho i small and humble minded boy whom I had hired for the occashun slowly turned the crank and Niagary falls glid insidiously across tho suite I explained its prin- "my KlUiECATFvD nOC cipal feachurs to FKT( HEi) A liI:UXT." the breathless aujeence, which ar': An abundance of water, a fust c la.s situa shun, an opportunity fur the roarin to roar withoutcon 3ictin with any city ordi nance, several Injun squaws with bead work to work off on tho public, Goat in land with nary a goat and an agHrcgashun of hackmen with unbounded ambishun to beat natur's own exhibit. Home of my listeners cheered, and some broke down and wept, 'eordin to the sort of bottle they had imbibed from jest afore cumin in. When the end of Niagary falls had bin reached, I signaled to the boy to put on the airbrakes and hold the mnel inery in statu quo, and I then purceeded to inter duce my Cherokee sassyparilly, which, as I hev several times explained, is com pounded from roots and yarbs of my own gatherin and is warranted to teeh the vital epot in case any vital spot ar' left in a hu man critter to be teched. Keep in a cool place if ye kin. If ye can't, then keep in a tub of hot water. She'll do her best in all climates and under all earcumsfances. In the space of ten minits I sold 15 bot tles of the great fam'ly remedy end gin eral elixir and pocketed the cash. The old and feeble and wayworn cum for'ds in a way that brung tears to my eyes, and the last bottle had skoercely bin sold afore the fust buyer, which was a woman seem ingly in ' the last stages of gall op in con Bumpshun, flung down her bonnet and yelled Jid then purceeded to kick most cf the feel in s outt r my eddec&ted hog. Another of the buyers was an ola man who was brung two miles on his sou's back in order that he might see a pano ramy once more afore he breathed his last. Arler the fust dose he get the um) of his limbs and canter ed about like a yearlin colt, and the second had skercely t in swal lowed w hen he proposed matri mony to a widdf r :"" with "levari chil- "PUT ON MY SWALLEK- dren and wa-3 held TAIL." on her lap dooria the rest of the performance fur tear he'd tit away. Tbe secood piotur' was a scent in the 1 Sl ? a; Alps. Not being re rr well posted, I an nounced l;er to the aujeence as " Washing ton Crossin the Delnwar'." It didn't make the slightest difference to any one thar, as no body had ever heard of either the Alps or the Father of His Kentry, ex cept in a roundabout way. 1 let on that Washington and the Delawar' war lookin fur the British behind the mountains, and the patriots howled fur liberty and the star spangled banner and let'e-n keep right on lookin. Arter showin this pi?tur' I keer lessly interdooced my Magic cement, which has bin prevusly referred to as the best thing ever put afore the public fur mendia the fam'ly crockery and furnichur. On this occashun, to prove that thar waa no decepshun, I removed my exhibi shun grasshopper from his bottie fur the fust time in six weeks and purceeded to break off his legs and cement them on again in sight of the aujeence. I hadn't but 24 boxes of the cement with me, and those didn't last ten minits. When that inseck rallied and begun friskin about, usin his legs as limberly a3 if nuthin had happened, the enthoosiastio populace knowed that I was no deceiver, and they blesed my name. The panoramy was then finished, and I gin the congregashun a free exhibishun of the intelligence of my eddecated hog and the wonderful jumpin powers of my jumpin frog. Nuthin like it had erer bin seen in Cherokee, and at several stages of the game I had to stop and feelin'ly re quest the overexcited nativea to stand back and gin me air. The performance wound up jest as I advertised it should. I tied my eddecated hog to a stake, put on my swallertailed coat and white gloves and desired all those who wished to be united in the bonds of wedlock to step for'ds. The hull populashun moved as one. Couples who had bin married fur 40 y'ars wanteel to be hitched up agin, andwidders and widowers and young men and wimiu eaw that it was tho opportunity of a life time and decided to delay no longer. The hour bein lato anel the children sleepy, I married the hull crowd to once and with out axin any embarrassin queshuns or oblc-egin 'em to hunt up weddin rings. Half an hour later I got the last patriot outer my tent, fastened the door and lay down in the midst of my monster aggre gashun to feel that I had contributed to the happiness of my feller men and to dream that I had not lived in vain. Austin Kkexk, As Good as New. "Where's tho head of this establish ment?" demanded a wrathy woman as she walked into the office of a down town trunk store. Here," piped a feeble voice, and a lit tle man retreated behind a desk and looked meekly over the top. 'T sent you a trunk, sir, to be repaired. " 'W-w-hat name, please?" inquired the trunk man. "Smith, sir, plain Smith, and I don't want it spelled with an 'e' or a y,' thank y oii . ' ' "Yes'm, and the item is here on the ledger: 'Trunk relined, outside varnished and repaired,' sent home good as new." "That's it, and I've a great mind to sue you for damages." "To the trunk?" -.Vii, sir, to my feelings. Here I've traveled over the whole globe and had la bels in 17 different languages, and as many more colors, all over that trunk, and you soaked them all off and replaced them with a coat of your miserable varnish. Oh, if I could jwst get my hands on you, I'd varnish" Put the trunk man shrieked, "Fire, murder, thieves!" and in the mult? the. wrathful woman decamped, but never again will a trunk be made over to lock ''as good as new" in that establishment. Detroit Free Press. Shocking. It is truly a-maizing thing, this Euro pean indifference to corn. The people eat some such queer things over there that one would think that e-orn would seem a mighty blessing. In the course of two long journeys over various parts of En rope wo have never but once found the cereal, and that was at a hotel almost en tirely patronized by Americans and kept by a man who had lived in America in Paris. We were talking of corn to an Eng lishman this summer. Said he, ''And do you really cat it in the States?" "Why, yes." "We only feed it to animals." "Well, then, you treat your animals better than yourselves." He paused fir a min ute. Then, "Tell me," said he, "in what way do you eat it?" "On the ear." "The ear! Oh, fancy! How strange!" And he looked quite shocked. Rochester Post Express. A Spanish Court -Rail. All the tailors in Madrid are just now busy making knee breeches for the forth coming ball at tho palace. Other cunning artificers arc constructing gentlemen s calves. A friend of ours who not loug since lost one of his legs Inquired: "Are black silk stockings de rigueur for people with wooden legs?" He was told, "You need not even wear a shoe, but you will have to bring an ebo ny le- " liremoii. A Strategist. Van Cortland Park I have just bought my wife a diamond ring for $250. Murray Hill I had no idea you were so extravagant. "Extravagant! My dear fellow, I will save lots of money. That's why I bought it." "I don't catch on." "Why, man alive, I'll save $500 on kid gloves." Texas Sif tings. A Pleasant Sanation. Young Husband (in a low tone to his wife, who mee ts him at the railroad eie pot with her mother) Didn't I telegraph you not to bring your mother to the sta tion? Young Wife That's just why mamma has come along. She wishes to speak to you about it. She opened the telegram. Truth. The Kind of Gun He Meant. Woodbe Buyer I thought you said these lots were within ;unshot of the de- pot. Real Estate Agent So they are. Those new dynamite guns, you know, can shoot a distance of 20 miles or more. New York Wori. fair Warning. After a row with his wife, who violent ly expressed a wish that she was dead, an Irishman said: "Oh, it's a widow you're wantin to be, is it? Bedad, I'll take good tarn you're no widow as long as I live. lit-Bits. Karly Irjniimiiuj In America, The manufacture of wrought iron and steel must have been entered upon con-temporaueor.slj- with that of cast iron, as John Endieott of Salem, the first gov ernor of Massachusetts Bay, wrote to Governor John Winthrop at Boston, Dec. 1, 1642, "I wish to hear mueb.of your son's iron anel steel," the son be ing John Winthrop, Jr., who was in terested in the Saugus Iron works at Lynn, Mass. The iron works also included a ma chine shop, from which the first fire en gines in America were built- for the town of Boston, in accordance with ; vote of the town meeting, March 1, 1654, that "the select (men) have power and liberty to agree with Joseph Jynks for ingins to convey water in case of fire, if they see cause so to do." Al though the works were in operation very soon after building was com menced, yet additions were made dur ing a number of years. In 1645 an order of the general court shows that the works had "some tons of sowe iron cast and some others in readiness for the forgo," and letters of Governor Win throp in August and September, 1G4S, state that the furnace producerl seven to eight tons per week. The principal prod uct was bar iron "as good as the Span ish," costing 20 per ton; also axes aud agricultural implements. Albert Spies in Cassier'a Magazine. The Power of Music. To force a crowd of people to move fast or siow at their will was a favorite joke with two young men who had a talent for music. When traveling to gether, they would seek a retired win dow, or 'even the roof of the hotel where they were stopping, and with a drum ami fife play a march for pedestrians below. It was their delight to see these people going faster or slower, as they chose. Sometimes a brisk measure was se lected, and then the stream of people flowed fast. Again, a slow tuno set their feet to crawling. It often happen ed that the attention of the musicians would be attracted to the peculiar walk of some person who, having no music in his soul, could not be brought into step. In that case they performed Mo hammed's miracle of the mountain, and accommodating fife and drum to his gait brought the rest of the street into the same pace. On warm days they did cruel execu tion. Often did it happen that some stout olel gentleman would bo precipi tated for some distance at a lively rate under the hot sun and would disappear from sight as a brisk and liery execution of "The Girl I Left Behind Me" carried him steaming round a corner. London Tit-Bits. The erlcieney In the Ruttonhole Situation. A long felt want has just been" filled by the invention of a migratory button hole. This is the way the priginator de scribes it: "A readily removable and transfer able attachment, adapted to be fitted to an article of personal wear, to tempo rarily repair a broken buttonhole, con sisting of a strip of uoncorrosive material folded upon itself, so that its bight may be fitteel over the edge of the garment and its folded members made to clasp both sides of the part of the garment through which the broken buttonhole is made;, tho members having openings formed in them near the centers, with the major axes extending transve rsely of the width of the folded members, tho openings adapted to coincide with each other anel with the broken buttonhole, and independent anel readily detachable fastenings for immovably securing the free ends of the members to the gar ment to a point beyond the broken but tonhole. " So there need be no more marrying for the sake of button sewing. Those that are married already shall keep so. Thej rest can use the patent portable buttonhole. Boston Transcript. Curious Kpitaplis. One of tho most remarkable and con fusing epitaphs ever written is to be seen on a weather beaten stone in the quiet churchyard of Culraore, a few miles from Londonderry, Ireland. "Hero lie the remains of Thomas Nicholls, who dieel in Philadelphia, March, 1783. Had he lived he would Lave been buried here." This is equaled perhaps by an epitaph from a tombstone in Ulster, recently copied by a traveler in that country: "To the memory of Thomas Kelly, who was accielentally shot by his brother as a mark of respect. " ''Another curious epitaph is legible on a tombstone in the churchyard of Wood bridge, Suffolk, England: Here lies the "body of Benjamin Brinkiey, Who though Lustie and Strong, was one That by misfortune Shot Himself With's Hun In the 23d year of his Age. He departed this Life To the Urief of his Parents Spectaters and Wife. Youth's Companion. Why Steam Casts a Shadow. "G. E. M. , ' Austin, writes as fol lows: Water which is perfectly visible will not cast a shadow, while steam, which is invisible, does. To explain, the water in the water gauge of my loco motive casts no shadow, while the steam Li the upper part of the gauge does. Why is this? Answer. Pure water in a state of rest is of uniform density, and the rays of light, although they may be refracted, pass through it almost unimpeded in parallel lines. On the other hand, steam is composed of vapor cf varying degrees of density anel always intermingled with more or less air. In the steam gauge these are constantly in a state cjf agitation, so that when the rays of light enter it they are not uniformly refract ed. This being the case, they interfere with and neutralize each other, the re sult, as far as the shadow is concerned, being as if the steam anel the intermin gling had really combined so as to for:u au opaque body. St. Louis Republic. J. M.' finish. Undertaker & Embaln I , z v.,. . . 1 .LUllltl.ti ' 'Li ' oi J. ' Anti-OOKlbiXlO I3eill9r in Heavy Weight Fifll Ornament ::talli5 C 1 ' -- - Drape Cloth -with Zink and Copper Lir.it rc. CliJ Whits Caskets, Pull Ornamsnt Metallic. A full line cf T:ci and Cl;th C ani Caskets. 404 on. mil-oil, wnii. V7ill yoa pay 6 ani 7 dollars for shoes when you can "buy them in the latest styles ani all the wiath from AA to ES. for 3, 4 ani 5 dollars at W. K. HZTJZ'Z, Exclusive- Dealer in" KSJT'S FINE SHOES, SLIITZr.3 and E'JEEEHS. No. WHEELS TO RENT BY HOUE AND DAY. IMPERIAL, ALUMINUM, WAVERLY, LOVELL DIAMOND. Bicycles, Sundries, All Repairs. batman ii mmmm,1: THE COURT DOCKET. Divorces in the litrict Court Docket AsKifjnetl for X-xt Week. Judge llazen has anueuuced that dur ing next week, ou account of the elec tion, the jury will be discharged and there will be none but court cases heard. The following' Hssignment of court cased is made fur next week: Wednesday, Xoveuiber 7. 15,131 Russell vs Norton et al. 1j,24.j Kiordan vs Kohrig et al. " l.").3Bo Eley et al vs Vaughn et aL 16,510 Gem City Stove Co. vs Henry. 15.738 Topeka Savings Bank vs Steele et al. 15,792 Martin vs Swift et a I. 15,8'2i Quinton, assignee, V9 Colum bian T. & 11. Co. 15,827 National Life Insurance Co. vs Walker et aL 15,847 Shawnee IX &. Ij. Asa. va Quinton et al. 15,800 Shawnee B. & L. Asa vs Quinton et al. 15,v85 Odborn va Sanderland. lo,077 Baker & Felt vs Denver II. Co et al. 1(5,107-Haphuin V3 Battey et al. 1(5,11:1 Cheshire Prov. lus. Co. va Wills et al. Thursday, November 10.1:51 llaynes va W ear. 1(5.179 ilulvane, et al. Y3 Millinger et al. 1(5,184 Leonard vs Daniels et al. 1(5.192 Hair vs Schlaudt et al. IG.iy-l -Iloge-boom vs Guthrie. 10,U0(5 Jewell vs JIaronv et al. 1U,':52 Webster ec al. v I'arsous ct al. 16,'T K. F. A. & I. U. W. li. of Inf. Ass. vs Robertson. 10,'(3 DeHuis vs Floreth et al. 1 (, Houghau vs Finch et al. I(5.o'(i Sweet, tr., vs Ger Ins. Co. lO.iiU'.i Horner vs Furbeck et al. 1G,:547 City Real Estate Trust Co. vs Arnold et al. l(i.o7-l Williams va Laugfeldt et aL iO,:57(5 Gclby vs Collins et al. J'liday. November SI. 10.400 Prescott, et al, vs Quinton. 1(1, 408 Greeuless vs Breydees., 1(5,414 Coe vs Troutman, et ul. 1 (5,421 Du Pont va Diilon. 1(5,450 ( hicago Lumber Cj. vs Dennis. I:i.4tj2 Lancaster Tr. Co. vs Lock wood, et aL J(j,40:5 Webster vs Top. Inv. & L. Co. l(i,472 Strickrot va Eusniinger, et al. l(j,5'.!4 Proctor vs. Deuuis et al. 1(5,561 Leswis va Lewis. Saturday, November ID. 15. 0f2 Williams vs. Williams. 15,72s Davis vs Davis. 1(5,140 Cowen vs Co wen. 1(5,19:5 North vs North. lli,2oa Worth vs Worth. 10,2ii; Busby vs Busby. 1(5,225 Carter vs Carter. 10,229 Carmeal vs Carmeal. 10.241 Oliver vs Oliver. 10,243 See vs See. 10,i:59 Harrison vs Harrison. A friend of every woman who would please her husband i3 Dr. Price's Baking Powder. For dainty baking there is no powdar like it. LOCAL MENTION. Will Merritt, who was tried in Justice Chesney's court Saturday for having stolen some clothea from N. Milliken, has been found guilty and fined $1 and costs, amounting in all to iflio which, aa Will is broke, mean that he will pound rock for thirty-three days. The old Cedar Bluffs mill property, lo cated several miles northeast of Robs .ille, which belonged to Thomas T. ?tiort, has been sold to Joseph Hladky. 1 here were twenty-two acres of lanei aud he price named is f 2,900. The mill is jue of the old land marks in the county. Santa Fe Deputy Wiley brought to the oiinty jail an old colored man named Figgers who said he was 80 years old, md he looked it. He hael been picking lp coal along the Santa Fe track, it was ;aid- He was taken before Ju.tice Fur .y, who let the old man go. , We Have Planned To hear our fellow townsman, C. C. liaker, lecture. Haven't you'r We ines ay evening, Oct. 81, at 8 p. m. sharp, at. jo First Baptist church. Admission S5c. The ladies' auxiliary of the B. of R T. ,.;tl ..Ia th'r tliir.-l unnlin hall WnilnPSl. i'av evening, October 31. at the city hall. oruer of seventh and Kansas avenue, icketd 00 eeaU i f " 1 ilul iVf. 5c 406 Kas. Ave. Phone MEr 527 Kansas five JA31ES COK JIETT'S IT. The PuK-ilistio It. :ti ;i i u Will i ii.iou!,. edly Hive H It:; .1 u -.i i -tu t-. On rl Inns. l.iy night tho Grand ; r;t house would be .. good place at whicn ' j compile the sporting uunals of Tm k.t. The world's otitutipion pugilist Jainr '. Corbott will be tUeie on that nig ht iu l.i play "Gentleman Jack." It is said th...t Ceirbe-it is very uuiike the other j u;il. -,s that have b.-coms actors in the particu lar that he can act some. Of cour--i ilh acting ia a secondary cousideitTTiui). Ptople will not go tben-e to see drama' io art -Jim will he the attraction 1 ut at the same lime it is pleasant not to ! in absolute pain. It is said that Corl-ett is really more than usually e!et-i' u.i the boards and that he has rea sonably fair uppert. During the action of the piece, Mr. Cort.-eit introduce hia favorite specialty, a sparring match. The championship belt, which he carrier with him, will be on exhibition Thursday afternoon in the window of a Kansas avenue jewelry Btore. This belt is valued at tf lu.ooo. Willie Collier will appear at the Grand on Saturdy night in the comedy-drama. "A Back NuinLer. Collier is a ytimg actor who is fast scorintr for himself a success as a rising coined id . 1 he teem of his present piece is laid in a euumrv town and the characters are ones that, everyone who has lived iu a count rv town is familiar with. There is nut , much of the ftrce comely with th piece, although nearly every cliar.n ttr in it is dependent upon its comedy liuf i for its success. He will be here only umi night. The chief chemist of the I'. S. de fit ment of agriculture, as head of tho World' fair jury, conferred the hii!h..4i award on Dr. Price' Baking l'ovrd'.-r. M It. f 'LARKS ON ENTERT A INS All ttie llittururiee len Have u I.um li ut Ilie National. Mr. 11. Clarkson entertained a hir ; party of his insurance friends at a lunch yesterday at the National hotel. It was iu compliment to the out-of-town insur ance men and to give them an oj j .,v timity of becoming bettor hcij uai n d with their fellow workers in tho city. Rev. Duncan McGregor and .-cvi-r,-.l other gentlemen wnoso connection with insurance companies is merely "policy." were present and entertained the gat it eriiii.' with bright impromptu Bjf- u.-. Mr. Clarkson's cueats were: Major .. L. McC hire. Platte City. .Mo.; v.j .ari Kansas City, Mo.; f. F. Woolard, Wich ita, Kas.; Robt. L. Raymond aid 1!. 1 '.. Lease, Omaha; W. A. Cormany, 1-ort Scott; V. W. Bowers. Kansas ( iiy. Mo.; C. D. Dunlap, Denver; II. M. Madi, Leavenworth; W. B. Humphrey, I.iro ui-., Neb.; H.C.Keller, Leavenworth; C. . Fort, Kansas City. Mo., J. W. 1 Jintj-r, Kansas City, Mo.; F. W. (ibon, iMiiv.-r. Theo Gardner, Lawrence; D. W . Wil ! r, W. C. Webb, Rev. F. S. MeCabe, .lu i .-.-S. A. Kingman, Dr. G. J. Mulvaoe, J.i.'m R. Mulvane. T. B. Sweet, Geo. M. -Nobie, Jonathan Thomas, W. M. McFerran, G. O. Wilrnarth, C. A. layior, It. Snider, Rev. E. C. Ray, Eugene Ware, J. G. Waters, A. B. Jeimore, liev. L. Blake,, lej-, Rev. A. S. Linbree, liev. .1. B. Thomas, H. J. Schaeffer, W. 1. Dru; i. Homer Caldwell, F. S. Crane, Chas. Hardy, M. W. and V. C. Van Ya! n b u r;-, M. C. Holman, A. Martin, J. V'. and G. A. Bailey, W. 11. Liniurrer, W. 1 1. (5rt ory, J. IXMcCuae, F.1I. Wolfe, J. W. Going, VV. J. Fetter.Kansas City; F. M. Benedict, Lawrence; E. T. Oriflith, Kansas (h'y, Mo., J. A. Laucaster, St, Joe, and 1". P. Edaua W. F. Ellison has been appointed nr-at for the Granite State Pi ovidmt ,i r. i i tion. Anr information wanted by part, s in Topeka will be freely given as to the workings of the above association. Wei Have Planned To hear our fellow towrihuian. Baker, lecture. Haven't you .t dav evening, Oct. al, at p the First Baptist church, A J lu ; o ; Headache is the direct result gestiou aud Stomach Disorders tnese by uiiu,; De VV iu's Lit t;uur 'mid vour He lache di of The favorite Littl6 Piil K. Jones. e very vv h.-. t . J. Read the "Wants." Ma ly of then, : as interesting as uea Lis dot sa