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TOPEKA STATE JOUHXAL, SATURDAY EVElSTINCrV MAY 6, 1899.
MANY a dutiful daughter pays in pain for her mother's
ignorance or perhaps neglect.
The mother suffered and she thinks her daughter
must suffer also. This is true only to a limited extent. No
excessive pain is healthy. Every mother should inform her-
INDULGENT
t& OTHERS
Many a young girl's beauty is wasted by tmnecessary pain at
time of menstruation, and many indulgent mothers with
mistaken kindness permit their daughters to grow careless
about physical health.
Miss Carrie M. Lamb, Big Beaver, Mich., writes: "Dear
Mrs. Pinkham A year ago I suffered from profuse and
irregular menstruation
and leucorrhcea. My
appetite was variable,
stomach sour and bowels
were not regular, and
was subject to pains like
colic duringmenstruation.
I wrote you and began to
take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and
used two packages of
Sanative Wash. You can't
imagine my relief. My
courses are natural and
general health improved."
Mrs. Nannie Adkins,
La Due, Mo., writes: 1
"Dear Mrs. Pinkham
I feel it my duty to tell
you of the good your
Vegetable Compound has
done my daughter. She
suffered untold agony at
time of menstruation be
fore takingyourmedicine :
but the Compound has
relieved the pain, given her a better color, and she feels
stronger, and has improved every way. I am very grateful to
you for the benefit she has received. It is a great medicine
for young girls."
SUNDAY AT THE CHURCHES
First Christian church: Morning- sub
ject. "Tire Whitened Fields"; evening
subject, "EnvironrWent." Rev. M. E.
Harlan will preach at both services.
First I'nited Presbyterian, corner of
Eighth, and Topeka avenues. Rev. M. F.
McKirahan, pastor: Preaching: tomor
row at 11 o'clock on "Whole-hearted
Religion" and at 8 o'clock on "The Pot
ter's Wheel." Miss Blanche Lytle will
lead the C. K. at 7 o'clock.
First Church of Christ, Scientist. 210
West Sixth streets Services at 11 a.
tn. : subject. "Mortals and Immortals."
C. M. K. church, corner of Fourteenth
and Van Buren streets: 10 a. m., gen
eral class: 2 p. m.. Sunday school: 6:30
p. ni., Epwurth league; 8 p. m., preach
ing by the pastor. Rev. J. M. Brown;
subject, "Retributive Justice ofCxOd."
The Church of the CJood Spirit will
hold services under the auspices of the
Kansas State Spiritualist society at 722
Kansas avenue Sunday morning at
30::!0. Lecture and congregational sing
ing. Evening services at 8 o'clock.
Lecture and tests by Mrs. E. E. Ham
tnon. Grace Cathedral: TJIshr.p,- Right Rev.
F. R. Millspaugh. D. D. : dean. Very
Rev. John W. Sykes; canon. Rev. Mau
rice Bywater 7::i0 a. m., holy commun
ion: 9:30 a. in., Sunday school; 11 a. m.,
morning prayer and holy communion;
pei-mon by the Very Rev. Dean Sykes;
7:20 p. m.. evening prayer, sermon by
the Very Rev. Dean Sykes.
CJooJ Shepherd, corner of Laurent
and Quincy streets. North Topeka: 9:30
a. m.. holy communion; 10 a. m.. Sun
day school; 8 p. tn., evening prayer,
sermon by Rev. Canon Bywater.
St. Simon's, comer of Western avenue
and Seventh street: 7:30 a. m., holy
oommunion; 9:45 a. m., Sunday school;
4:30 p. m., evening prayer, sermon by
Rev. Canon Bywater.
Calvary chapel: 3 p. m., Sunday
school; 4 p. m., evening prayer, sermon
by the Rev. Joseph Wayne.
The dean of Grace cathedral will ad
dress the organization of the parish on
Sunday morning, referring particularly
to the Cathedral guild.
People's Church hall. North Kansas
avenue near Gordon street: Preaching
by the pastor, Dr. A. S. Palmer: ser
vices at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m.; Sunday
school at 2 p. m.; subject Sunday morn
ing, "Why, Who and Wherefrom." In
the evening an illustrated sermon will
be preached, with stereopticon views.
Westminster Presbyterian church.
Corner of Huntoon and College avenue:
Preaching morning and evening by the
pastor. Rev. A. M. Reynolds; morning
subject, 11 a. m., "The Larger Christian
A Tandem.
What woman in
an the wide world
would not be glad
to be a tandem for
two happy, healthy,
-prattling babies?
when rvature
.whispers the
sweet assurance
in a woman's
ear that soon a
l little 8tra;;irer
T will come to
Kcaress with
o a D y lingers
her cheek and neck, she makes the fondest
jn-iyaiAuuua lui I . -illlVai. I . V t T Y I Tl I H J
that a woman's dainty taste can imagine
is provided for the new-comer's wardrobe.
Nothing is overlooked save one thing, and
that one thing is the most important. -Too
many mothers forget that babv's strength
and health, its abilitv to withstand the
usual ailments of childhood, and its vigor
and welfare, as a man or woman, are de
pendent upon her own health and physical
condition during the period of prospective
maternity. If. during that critical time,
she is weak, sickly, nerv ous and despond
ent, because of troubles peculiar to her
aex. these conditions are bound to have
their inSuence upon her baby's health.
Neglect of these conditions invariable
means that baby will be weak, puny and
peevish Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription
is an unfailing cure for all troubles of this
nature, and it will reinforce a woman's
bodily and nerve strength ?o that she can
safely undergo the trials of maternity It
gives health, strength, vigor, elasticity and
endurance to the organs specially con
cerned m motherhood It gives bodily
and nervous hardihood to the child
"Atltr usmS fifteen bottles of vour ' Favorite
f X? 'am entirely cured of uterine trouble.
L B s"?"e1 Jor nearly three years." writes
? ..i.hSS ?f Highland Ave., Newark,
,hJt' x J. -5 ,fUf?, tem,bi bearinK down pains
LiSLl H ? Wa,k' -MV back andPhead
ached, had ternble cramps in mv legs was verv
, jC ld i ,bad '? chloroformed and the
child was delivered with instruments. I took
y.0' Prescription ' with mv second
child, and instead of suffering for two davs I
was in labor only an hour and a beautiful child
was born. I was able to leave mv bed tl'e fifth
day. I commenced your medicine about four
months before conhnement. Mv baby is th-ee
months old now. and is a fine, bie. fat babv I
am in very good health ; have no'more nains or
aches. I would be pleased to advise anv woman
Who suffer as I did to use your medicine." .
selt tor her own saice ana especially
for the sake of her daughter. Write
to Mrs. Pinkham, at Lynn, Mass.,
for her advice about all matters
concerning the ills of the feminine
organs.
Life"; evening subject, 8 p. m., "The
Excited Silversmith."
United Brethren church: Services
are held in the lecture room of the
church, on Twelfth and Quincy streets
11 a. m. and S p. m., preaching by the
pastor; 10 a. m., Sunday school; 3:30
p. m.. Junior TT. P. C. U. ; 7 p. m., Y.
P. C. U.
First Congregational church: Prof.
F. W. Ellis of Washburn college .will
preach morning and evening; Sunday
school at 9:45 a. m.
First Unitarian church: Services at
11 a. m., with preaching by the min
ister. Rev. Abrara Wyman; subject,
"Some Lessons from 'Helbeck of Ban
nisdale.' " Young People's society at 5
p. m.. Miss Dana, leader.
First State Spiritualist society: At
Lincoln Post hall on Sixth street Sun
day at 2:30 p. tn., conference and fact
meeting; at 8 p. m.. Cyrus Corning will
lecture. Good music and tests by Mrs.
Aber.
Preaching in the Oakland Presbyter
ian church Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8 p.
m. Morning subject, - "Presbyterian
ism"; evening, "Individual Accountabil
ity." L. R. Smith, pastor.
It. P. church, on Clay near Tenth
street Services at 11 a. m.; subject.
Psalm 78:52-55; Revelations 3:1-6. Ser
vices conducted by the pastor, H. P.
McClurkin.
First African Baptist church. Rev. G.
D. Olden, pastor: Baptizing and the
Lord's Supper, 10:30 a. m.; Y. P. S. C.
E. . 7:30 p. m.
Third Christian church, corner of
Third and Lake, streets, F. E. Mallory,
pastor: Preaching at 10:45 a. rn. and
8 p. m. Morning subject. "Lessons from
the Springtide"; evening subject, "The
Three Chapters of Christianity."
Walnut Grove M. E. church, corner
of Eighteenth and Harrison streets.
Rev. Joseph T. Coe, pastor: Sunday
services 10 a. m., class meeting; 11 a.
m., preaching by the pastor on "Com
panionship with Christ"; Sunday school
at 2:30 p. m.; Epworth and Junior
leagues, 7 p. in. ; preaching at 8 p. m.
St. John's A. M. E. church: Preach
ing by J. R. Ransom, pastor, at 10:45 a.
m. and 8 p. m. ; also the annual thanks
giving sermon of the Grand United Or
der of Odd Fellows at 3 p. m. by Rev.
Ransom; subject. "The Bonds of
Unity"; evening subject, "Future Habi
tation"; Sunday school at 2:30 p. m.;
young people's. meeting at 7 p. m.
Young Women's Christian associa
tion: The gospel service Sunday at
4:15 p. m. will be led by Miss Laura
Radford, former state secretary of the
association. Special music.
North Topeka Baptist church, corner
of Laurent and Harrison streets. Rev.
W.B. Hutchinson, pastor: Services at
11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Communion ser
vice in the morning, with sermon on
"Keeping God's Ordinance." In the
evening the pastor will begin a series
of sermons on "Striking Truths from
Strange Texts; the first subject is "A
Bible Conundrum."
English Lutheran: Preaching morn
ing and evening by the pastor. Rev. A.
E. Wagner; Sunday school at 9:45 a.
m. : Endeavor society at 7 p. m.
The Divine Scientists will hold ser
vices at their hall, 722 Kansas avenue,
at 3 o'clock Sunday. Lecture by A. B.
Smith. .
There will be a Spiritual meeting at
Lincoln Post hall Sunday morning at
10:30. 'Everyone invited who is inter
ested in the teachings of Christ.
First M. E. church, J. T. McFarland,
D. D.. pastor: Class meeting, 10 a. m. ;
baccalaureate sermon before the grad
uating class of the high school, by Bish
op John H. Vincent, at 11 a. m.: Sunday
school, 2:30 p. m.; Junior league, 4 p.
m.; Epworth league, 7 p. m.: preaching
by the pastor at S p. m., subject, "The
Hands of a Man Under the Wings of
an Angel."
First Presbyterian church: Preach
ing by the pastor. Dr. J. D. Counter
mine; morning, "Recounting God's Ben
efits" (second anniversary sermon):
evening, "A Special Plea on Gospel
Grounds for Over-worked Clerks, Sten
ographers and Others." Sunday school
at 9:45 a. m.; Endeavor meeting at 7
p. m.
"Western Electric Line.
Colorado Springs, May 6. Colorado
Springs will soon have an air line elec
tric road, twenty-nine miles in length,
to Cripple Creek. "W. S. Stratton. Irv
ing Howbert. James S. Burns, William
Lennox, W. S. Jackson and other capi
talists, who founded and made the great
camp, have bought the Cripple Creek
district road, twenty-five miles long,
reaching many of the principal mines,
and will extend it immediately to Colo
rado Springs over a route surveyed
down Bear Creek canon. The company
has been incorporated with $2,000,000
capitalization.
Comfortable and EconoimcaL
The tourist sleepers that leave Topeka
daily for California via Santa Fe.
GRAINOUTLET.
Export Statistics Show a Di
Tersion of Kansas Crops
From Atlantic Forts to 'the
Gulf of Late.
$40 A CAR IS SAVED.
By Sending to Galveston Rather
Than Gotham.
The Santa Fe a Great Factor
Sajs W. E. Curtis.
Under a Wichita date W. E. Curtis
continues his letters tothe Chicago Rec
ord on his impressions of Kansas. He
says:
There has been a notable diversion of
the grain trade from the Atlantic ports
to the gulf of late, and the results are
beginning to be apparent in the export
statistics. Much of it is carried to New
Orleans by the Missouri Pacific and the
Illinois Central, but more is going to
Galvestion by the new Santa Fe line,
which has its northern terminus here.
For years Galveston has been de
manding a deep-water harbor that
would accommodate ocean ships and a
northern line of railway that would
give it access to the wheat and corn
fields of the north. Congress made lib
eral appropriations for the one and the
enterprising people of the city subscrib
ed liberally for the other, but it cost
more than they thought, and they were
able to build their road no farther than
the center of Texas not quite to Fort
Worth when the hard times came on
and they had to suspend construction.
Then the Santa Fe company bought it
and continued it northward through
Indian Territory and Oklahoma, mak
ing an air line from WTiehita to Gal
veston and connecting here with the
vast railway system of Kansas, which
is surpassed by those of only two other
states. It is a little more than 700
miles long, and gives the farmers of the
west their shortest outlet to tide wa
ter. From Superior, Neb., the northern
most point on the Santa Fe system.Gal
veston is about the same distance as
Chicago, and thus a thousand miles of
transportation is saved to the corn and
wheat growers of that region in reach
ing the seaboard. The farther west,
the farther from tide water you go,
the lower is the price of wheat and all
exportable products, for their value is
usually fixed in London, the world's
greatest market. Therefore the Gal
veston line reaches the cheapest source
of the winter wheat and corn supply in
the country. About three years ago
grain began to go that way, when the
harbor of Galveston was ready to re
ceive big ships. Until then the move
ment of tonnage was east and west, on
latitudinal instead of longitudinal lines,
and the larger portion of money invest
ed in railroads was spent to build up
that trade. The Santa Fe company
spent $1,000,000 last year to reduce its
grades, build new bridges, lay heavier
rails and make other preparations for
what it believes will some day be a
large and profitable business.
The rates on grain from central Kan
sas to Galveston are about 5 cents a
hundred higher than to Chicago, which
is nearly the same distance, because
there is no return freight, but the ship
pers save 13 cents a hundred from Chi
cago to Baltimore and 15 cents a hun
dred to New York. This makes a dif
ference of about $2 a ton, or $40 a car,
in favor of the Galveston route, and the
steamship lines from Galveston give
rates to London not more than $1 a ton
higher than those charged from the At
lantic ports. The result has been an
enormous Increase in the grain sent
that way. The total exports from Gal
veston in 1888 were valued at only $15,
700.147; in 1898 they were $68,428,621, and
the promise for the future is a steady
growth in a similar ratio. The eastern
railways look with dismay upon this
diversion of their traffic, but there is no
way to prevent it. They cannot haut
cargoes any cheaper than they do at
present, and exportable products, par
ticularly low-priced freights, will seek
the seaboard by the shortest or cheap
est route just as naturally as water
runs down hill.
The terminal charges at New York
have a good deal to do with diverting
the trade. In Galveston the cars run
directly to the side of the steamer. In
New York everything has to be han
dled by awkward and expensive meth
ods. P. I. Bonebrake, president of the Cen
tral National bank, Topeka, is recog
nized as one of the leading financiers
of Kansas, and no one knows the con
ditions in the state any better than he.
"Ten years ago," he said, "investments
in Kansas were so popular that peo
ple's heads were turned. We built too
many railroads, school houses, water
works, court houses, electric plants,
business blocks, etc. Almost every city
and village had these. In all these
things we kept pace with states 100
years old. In a word, we lived too
fast, and as a result a reaction came
and we went to the low-water mark.
But for five years past we have been
on the up grade, paying our debts and
utilizing our resources. Financially we
are all right. Kansas has no state debt,
and in the period just named more than
half our municipal and mortgage debt
has been paid. Where the debt has
matured and has not been paid in many
instances the municipal debt has been
refunded at 4 or 5 per cent interest.
Last year we harvested an immense
wheat crop, and if we only had another
Joe Letter to corner the wheat our peo
ple would be out of debt in a year.
"Our banks," continued Mr. Bone
brake, "show an enormous reserve, and
in some localities it is difficult to dis
pose of the deposits. Unfortunately for
the banking interests, the rates of in
terest have decreased in proportion to
the prosperity of the state. Where we
used to get 8, 9 and 10 per cent we get
only 6 and 7 per cent now. The harvest
time for Kansas bankers is spring and
fall, when the live stock men have to
borrow to carry their cattle, sheep and
hogs. To those unfamiliar with our
affairs the extent and the value of this
market is always a surprise. The little
town of Kansas City. Kan., alone han
dles nearly 7.000.000 head of live stock
every year that is worth not less than
$115,000,000.
"In the early days, as you remember,
Kansas was pronounced an uninhabita
ble country. Lieut. Pike, wno was cur
first explorer, declared that the great
advantage of the Kansas plains would
be to restrict population to the eastern
states and leave the country west of
the Missouri, which was incapable of
cultivation, to the wandering aborig
ines. The North American Review de
clared that the Missouri was the ter
mination of an ocean desert 1.000 miles
In depth, which could be traversed only
by caravans of camels, and was the
final barrier to population, commerce
and agriculture. When we compare
these prophecies with the fact that in
1897 Kansas marketed $136,355,000 of
products from her farms, orchards and
hen-houses and produced $26,990,000 in
coal, lead, zinc and salt, making a total
of $163,345,000 for one year, we certainly
have good cause for congratulation.
But even that total was surpassed in
1898,. when the product of our farms
sold for the enormous sum of $151,923,
828, which is an average of $110 for
every man, woman and child in the
state. After selling all this, our farm
ers reserved, in the shape of live stock,
poultry and other farm products, $113,
227,933, which is a per capita of $70 and
makes a total of $265,000,000, or an aver
age per capita of $191 in farm products
alone. Then add to this $30,000,000 as
the output of the mines and you have
something like the value of our labors
last year. The total value of all the
precious metals produced in the United
States was considerably less than that
of the farm product of Kansas."
The rainfall In eastern Kansas Is suf
ficient for ordinary crops, but when
you pass the center of the state irriga
tion is absolutely necessary, and a
farmer who depends upon the clouds to
sprinkle his fields is not likely to have
anything to brag of. Scattered all over
the western section of Kansas are the
pitiful remains of a class of early set
tlers who are familiarly known as "dry
farmers." They came in early, "took
up" government homesteads or bought
railroads lands and endeavored to dig
fortunes' out of the prairie. Some of
them were lucky enough to get a good
rainfall the first year or two and that
only increased the evil, for it tempted
others to defy fate and made the grand
total of disasters the larger when the
verdict was finally rendered.
It is impossible to say what has be
come of these pioneers, but a few who
had money enough to maintain them
selves through the drouth and build ir
rigation ditches are now richly paid
for their confidence and patience.
Wherever the people can get water in
the western end of the state the land
produces crops that surpass all com
parison. ' Wherever a reckless farmer
attempts to grow anything without an
artificial supply of water he invariably
fails. The irrigation arrangements un
der the state law are admirable. An
irrigated farm costs considerably more
per acre, but the crops never fail, and
ten acres will produce as much as a
hundred where the natural rainfall is
relied upon. You can buy good irri
gated lands at all the way from $10 to
$50 an acre, according to location. This
price usually carries with it a perpetual
water right, but the farmer is required
to pay an assessment of from 25 to 50
cents an acre annually for maintenance.
Each farmer is .entitled to thirteen
inches of water per acre, to be used
whenever needed.
Irrigation has become an expert
science. It is very easy to spoil a crop
by irrigating too often, and this fact
must sometimes be learned at a large
cost by amateur farmers. Scientists
say-that an average of three inches of
water a year applied with good judg
ment at the proper time will produce a
better crop than twenty-one inches of
rainfall hit or miss. The rain falls on
the just and the unjust in the eastern
states and both can profit by it as they
please. But an irrigating ditch within
reach of a. fool is a dangerous thing.
One of the most attractive irrigation
schemes is just now being completed
in central Kansas, near the town of
Great Bend. From the looks of the
landscape people believe that there was
plenty of water all over this region at
one time, and that for some reason
or other it dried up and ran away. There
are frequent evidences of large lakes
tnai nave gone or in past centuries.
One of them, known as the Cheyenne
bottoms, is found near the town of
Hoisington, about fourteen miles long,
five miles wide and about forty feet be
low the level of the surrounding coun
try. The soil is too heavy for cultiva
tion, but by a curious incident the idea
was suggested of utilizing it as a reser
voir for irrigation purposes.
Some years ago the American Cours
ing association would hold yearly meet
ings at this place and chase hounds up
and down the bottom of this antedilu
vian lake. A handsome club house was
built on the edge and all the appurte
nances of pleasure and comfort were
introduced. One day dark masses of
clouds came rolling up from the north
west, and when they burst they left a
body of water several miles long and
five or six feet 'deep on the coursing
grounds. It remained for nearly three
years until it gradually evaporated. It
was perfectly apparent that the bottom
was water-tight, and that all the waste
would be in the sucking up of moisture
by the dry air. Then it was proposed
to make a permanent lake by digging
a canal and bringing water from the
Arkansas river, thirteen miles away.
The work has been so far completed
that the water will be turned in in a few
weeks and furnish a source of supply
for about 40.000 acres of adjoining land,
which is now practically worthless, but
will then have a value of $1,000,000 or
more.
The old club house is to be used as a
summer resort, and will be enlarged to
accommodate the pleasure seekers of
central and western Kansas, who have
now no body of water within two days'
travel. Bathing houses will be erected,
steam launches will be introduced and
other attractions will be contributed by
the projectors.
The ladies of Kansas wear sunbonnets
and calico dresses when they go out on
their wheels. They lock comical in that
sort of a costume, but it is the most
appropriate and comfortable that could
be devised for this kind of a country.
There is a bicycle in nearly every farm
house, and the women use them more
than the men. When they want to do
a little shopping in town or go to the
postoffice or attend a meeting of the
sewing circle, it is no longer necessary
to take a team out of the field. The
feminine portion of the population of
Kansas has thus been emancipated from
the shackles of farm life. Except for
a few weeks in the spring, when the
frost is coming out of the ground, the
roads are tolerable, and even when the
mud is deepest a Kansas girl can go to
town and back before her father can get
half way there with a team and wagon.
The calico costume and the sunbonnet
obviate the only other great difficulty,
which is dust.
A great poet was sacrificed when Paul
Morton went into the railroad business.
He inherents his talent from his father,
J. Sterling Alorton. formerly secretary
of agriculture and the owner of the
Overland opera house at Nebraska City,
which is pronounced by all the highest
critics to be the finest theater in exist
ence, and he admits the truth of the
statement. Sterling Morton is also
managing editor of the Conservative, a
weekly newspaper devoted to the ador
ation of Grover Cleveland and the prop
agation of gold bugs. All the poetry
that appears in its columns is popularly
supposed to be written by Mr. Morton
himself, although he does not care to
have that fact known and usually uses
a nom de plume. His son, Paul, there
fore, comes honestly by his poetic gen
ius and expects to devote himself en
tirely to literature when he completes
his service as second vice president of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail
road. Many of his poems are devoted
to the praises of agriculture. He in
tends to publish them in book form
within a few months under the title.
"The Idle Lays of a Farmer Boy," and
will dedicate the volume to the wives of
the farmers of Kansas. "
Mr. Morton's latest poem was suggest
ed by the lines I quoted the other day
"The Man Behind the Plow," which is
having such a run in Kansas and is in
tended to call public attention to the
obligations due from the people of that
and other western states to a humble,
but useful and, one may say, invaluable
barnyard fowl. The first stanza reads
as follows:
"The man behind the gun has had his
day ;
Been mustered out and spent his pay;
The man behind the plow is on his legs;
But the hero is the hen upon the eggs."
Any one who desires a full copy of
this touching tribute can address the of
fice of the Santa Fe Railway company
at Chicago.
WILLIAM E. CURTIS.
STORIES OF THE TOWN.
'A. policeman on lower Kansas ave
nue saw a suspicious looking character
and started for him to investigate.
The suspicious character saw the po
liceman coming and made tracks. He
started straight for a large square
building. The policeman stepped lively
and managed to keep just so far from
the fleeing man.
As the man ran he shed his raiment.
Off went his coat and on went the po
liceman. Next he threw his hat and
just as he ripped off his vest he dodged
around the corner of the house. The
policeman dodged after him just in time
to see him dodge around the next cor
ner and so on until the officer and the
man were running around the house
like footracers around a track.
On they went. The man gained and
passed the corners ahead of the officer
so that the blue coat could not see the
fleeing man but could hear him.
The officer was making the best time
he could when a cat ran between his
legs and tripped him. He fell sprawl
ing on the ground. He heard the man
coming and was certain the man would
strike or shoot him when he found him
on the ground. The officer drew his re
volver just as the man was coming
'around the house. ' But it wasn't the
man. It was a dog. The man had
skipped out and the dog had been chas
ing the officer around for several rounds.
The officer never likes to hear the story
told.
Capt. J. G. Waters once had a fine
large peach tree growing in the front
yard of his house.
The captain used to think a great deal
of that tree and many of his finest
poems and wittiest speeches were writ
ten under the branches of that wonder
ful fruit tree. Wonderful for the rea
son that it was unkempt and untrim
med. That tree grew all over the front yard
and took up more room than it should.
The neighbors' trees were trimmed but
that one never.
"Why don't you have that tree trim
med?" asked a neighbor of Capt. Waters
one day.
"That tree grows naturally and when
it needs trimming the Lord will trim
it," answered the captain.
Two davs after that a windstorm
broke the'tree off at the roots. . -
When anybody calls at police station
to see Chief Ramsey he is given a hear
ing. Somebody remarked that the chief
must be greatly annoyed and the august
keeper of the peace and dignity of the
city settled himself for a few moments,
between callers, to tell a story.
"When I was a member of the coun
cil years ago I was a member of the
committee on streets and walks," Isaid
the chief. "That was about the time
that a great many sidewalks were being
built and hundreds of people came to
me to ask questions about new side
walks and to make petty complaints.
"I was erecting a three story building
and there was a scarcity of bricklayers
so I took a hand myself as I was in a
hurry for the building to be completed.
One day I was working there with the
thermometer around 100 and not less
than 20 people had come to the build
ing and sent up word that they wished
to see me.
"I climbed down and up those flights
of ladders to see somebody who had a
loose board in his walk, or something
about like that, for the fortieth time, I
believe, and I determined I would not
go down again.
"Soon word was sent up that a man
wished to see me. I sent back word
that if he wished to see me any worse
than I wished to see him for him to
come up.
"I kept on working and forgot about
it. It was 20 minutes I guess when a
man called to me. I looked around and
there was the man. He was lame and
used a crutch. He owed me $30 and
had climbed those three flights of lad
ders to pay it. lame as he was. I was
sorry for that and ever since when any
one says he wants to see me I see him."
Justice Wright, who runs a little 12
by 14 court across from Garfield park
in North Topeka. suddenly came into
prominence from the fact that 616 suits
were filed in his court within six days.
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"I saw an item in your paper the oth
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20 feet deep without being much hurt,"
said the Old Settler today as he set
tled himself in a chair in a way that
indicated a story was coming.
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edge of the road. The road at this point
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mile in a straight line and was the fa
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well and then something happened that
sent a chill to the hearts of the specta
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well flew the track and made for the
rack where he had so often been tied.
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"The onlookers seemed dazed for a
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position of Sunday school teacher. The
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