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TOPEKA STATE JOTJIINAI, SATURDAY EVENTJSTG, DECEMBER 20. 1900.
TOPEKA STATE JCUItllL
B-V FRANK P. MAC LENNAN.
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The anarchists ilia not wait for New
S"ear's day to swear off killing kings.
The departure of Kruger and "Bobs"
reems to have turned -the tide of war In
South Africa.
The police of the country are still en
titled to a few more guesses regarding
the -whereabouts of one Crowe.
Senator Foraker appears to think that
the people of Porto Rico should feel
thankful that we treated them no worse.
The people who maintained that the
39th century terminated a year ago are
having llttle'to say on the subject now.
More money will be turned loose Jan
uary 1st, perhaps, than was ever known
to be released before at a similar date.
Lord Kitchener finds war in Southern
Africa somewhat different from the war
which he has been accustomed to in the
Soudan.
The January thaw may as -well turr
its attention to some other part of the
country. There is nothing for it to dj
liere.
The weather man at Medicine Hat ap
pears to be off his feed. He seems In
capable of sustaining any protracted ef
fort. Booker Washington has touched the
heart of Mr. Carnegie for the extent of
J20.000 In the interest of his industrial
school at Tuskogee.
Governor Pingree hag it last joined
the Democratic party. A man would
l-.ardly be expected to keep his fingers
on bis nose forever.
Any stranger seen on the streets of
an American city is now promptly iden
tified as Pat Crowe, who is suspected of
kidnaping young Cudahy.
Mr. Fat Crowe now has an opportuni
ty to show hi9 appreciation of past fa
vors at the hands of Mr. Edward Cu
dahy, by coming in and submitting to
arrest.
Mr. Cudahy should employ the Ken
tucky detectives. If they should succeed
as well as they did in the Goebel case
they would find at least a dozen Fat
Crowes.
Col. Bryan continues to stand by and
advocate the principles on which ho
made tha race for the presidency. The
belief that he would be true to the prin
ciples which he professed probably won
Jiim many votes; the same belief proba
bly caused him to lose many more votes
than it won for him.
A condition bordering upon a crisis is
paid to prevail in industrial circles of a
number of European countries, owing to
the competition, of American manufac
turers. Why 3on"t they oppose Ameri
can cheap labor with a tariff? That's tha
way we got our start.
A Stilwell deacon, old enough to know
better, pitted his game rooster against
that of a worldly degenerate in a. five
round match. But the sinner's bird
knocked the saintly fowl out in the sec
end round and the church collection of
a. previous Sunday changed hands then
and there.
Philadelphia Record: Although Amer
ican locomotives go screaming across
the steppes of Siberia and the plains cf
Brazil and Argentina, it is pretended
that American skill and enterprise are
not equal to the construction of mer
chant steamships In competition with
European builders.
In discussing the subject of capital
punishment the San Francisco Bulletin
refers to the Kansas law relating
thereto as follows: "There does not
eeem to be much to be said in favor of
the queer Kansas law. A man under
sentence of death may be held to have
some rights, one of which is that he
shall not be subjected to punishment in
excess of what the law provides. If
death is the penalty for murder, the
suspension of the enforcement of the sen
tence during a long period of years
might be considered a. kind of mental
torture."
Philadelphia., Bulletin: It is reported
that a lobby is actively at work in
Washington for the construction of a
Pacific cable by private enterprise, with
the help of a fat government subsidy.
This plan ought to be defeated. If any
corporations were willing to assume the
expense and risk of laying a cable as a
purely commercial undertaking without
asking for public assistance, this solu
tion of the problem would be welcomed.
But since it is admitted that the mercan
tile use of the cable would not meet
running expenses end interest on the
Investment for many years to come,
there seems to be no chance of this; and
if the government is to take a hand in
the matter it is far better than it should
lay the cable itself, under the supervis
ion of its own engineers, rather than
permit the payment of a subsidy to
other parties. Ample Justification, for
governmental construction can be found
in the fact that the cable Is primarily
military ami naval necessity.
' TOPEETA'S HEW BOOK.
A number of recent large realty deals
and awards of contracts for business
buildings in Topeka indicates that the
city is on the eve of a' boom.
The word "boom" is not used in this
case as indicating a hurricane growth
where financial wrecks are strewn by
scores in its wake, but rather a con
servative, upward tendency of real
estate prices and an expansion of city
limits. The visitation of a plague is
scarcely more injurious to a city than
the sudden flurry of excitement which
sends corner lot values up with a mush
room growth with no foundation for
such an expansion. There are hundreds
of western Kansas towns that can at
test sorrowfully to this fact. Their
bubble of a "boom" burst as quickly as
a floating soapsuds globule sent. from a
clay pipe. And for the simple reason
that such hopes were placed on sinking
sands without the shadow of a possi
bility of permanency. There was no
basis for such a state of .affairs, and in
the nature of , the case the "boom" could
not prove of duration or value.
A different state of affairs exists now
and all of the conditions are favorable
for a healthy increase in Topeka's
growth for years to come. A presiden
tial contest which always creates un
easiness in the money market has been
settled and several issues closely con
neeted therewith.
Bankers and capitalists seem satis
fied with the present policy of the gov
ernment along financial lines, and are
disposed to invest large sums in push
ing forward new enterprises which will
In the end inure to the benefit of the
city.
Business men and merchants of large
and small degree are feeling the wave
of prosperity and investing more money
in their stocks and improving their
property, both on business and residence
streets. For the ten years past To
peka's Industries have almost lain dor
mant. No better evidence of this need
be shown than a reference to the census
reports of 1S90 and 1900. While the city
has not gone backward it certainly has
developed in this tenth of a, century
very slowly.
Money, the charming magic which
causes the desert to blossom as a rose,
is undoubtedly more easily obtainable
now than for many years past, regard
less of the causes, and is being used for
the betterment of the city.
With the coming of spring many new
enterprises will be started and old or
unfinished ones moved forward to com
pletion. With the dawning of a new
century brighter and better days are
promised for the capital city of the
state which every loyal Kansan pro
nounces to be the best In the union.
MR. NELSON'S SCHEMES.
The legislature will, in a'.l probability,
serve some of State Superintendent Nel
son's pet schemes, just as the State
Teachers' association did yesterday re
fer them to a committee for the purpose
of killing them.
The administration does not look with
favor upon Mr. Nelson's plan to have
a 2 mill tax levy to be distributed by
the state superintendent and there is
not much sentiment in favor of the
truant officer arrangement by which it
is hoped to have a man to travel about
prodding those who do not obey the
school laws.
Mr. Nelson assisted the president of
the state association in selecting the
members of the committee on resolu
tions which refused to permit the as
sociation to endorse these schemes. The
most this committee did was to refer
the suggestions back to the legislative
committee of the association from whose
hands the death-blow is expected.
Legislative committees connected
with the various organizations of state
character are serving a good purpose,
in that, they are responsible for the
death of embryonic ideas which are rad
ically at variance with the existing or
der of things. There axe many things
in the present system of government
which might be improved by amend
ments, but the educational system can
not be made more thorough by compli
cations due to many laws. There are
now too many laws.
While the suggestion that the state
board of education be made an organiz
ation like the state board of agriculture,
the state society of labor and other
similar institutions is not opposed by
any one, yet there is much pronounced
opposition among the members of the
administration to the general plan to
have a lot of new laws which no other
state has tried and which are not re
garded as necessary to the successful
conduct of the schools of Kansas.
SHELDON ON THE SERVANT
PROBLEM.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.
While the woman's clubs are tackling
the problems of politics and good gov
ernment it follows as a natural sequence
that man through his instinct of social
reciprocity is going to give a good share
of his serious thought to a solution of
the greatest of all twentieth century
problems the "servant girl question."
It is a singular fact that nearly all the
papers relating to this problem of do
mestic service which are now appearing
in the magazines and weekly periodicals
are written by men. Whether this man
ifestation of interest in the servant girl
question is to be traced to man's stom
ach or to his keen perception of the un
businesslike and unscientific methods
that obtain in the management of the
average household is of little conse
quence compared to the question of the
value or practicability of the remedies
proposed. Is man, who stands aloof
from the turmoil of pots and kettles and
who surveys the unsatisfactory and
sometime disastrous results of incom
petent service in the kitchen, capable of
suggesting practical schemes for placing
this service upon a basis of efficiency
the only basis he would recognize in
the employment of help in his own. fac
tory or store or bank?
The difficulties that are presented by
the problem of domestic service are ably
and lucidly treated by Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon in the current number of the
Independent, but a careful review of the
article fails to disclose any practical
plan for removing any of these difficul
ties, except one, the beneficial results of
which would be so remote that the
housekeepers of 1900 could not hope to
realize them.
Dr. Sheldon gives a very accurate pic
ture of present unsatisfactory conditions
and the causes leading to them. He
shows that in England within the last
fifteen years 190,000 girls have left the
service of the family in that country to
enter service in shops and factories. The
American girl is no longer found in the
kitchens or homes of America. The
writer assigns as one of the vital causes
of this the "social ostracism" of those
who heretofore have offered their serv
ices as workers in the kitchen. Amer
ican girls are starving, in the stores,
unable to save a cent from their wages,
rather than wark in comfortable homes.
Bays' Mr. Sheldon.
But what remedy does Rev. Mr. Shel
don offer for these unsatisfactory condi
tions which vitally affect the home life
of so many people? He makes a plea
for the education of servants and for the
adjustment of the servant problem upon
a "Christian basis." But this offers no
immediate remedy. Most practical stu
dents of the servant question believe
that the only effective remedy lies in
the application to the domestic service
of the same principles and policies that
govern the employment of men and
women In all other departments of in
dustry. This may not suit the house
wife, but many believe we are coming
to it.
OLD FASHIONED MOLASSES.
It has not been long ago that New
Orleans molasses was considered to be
the finest article in the molasses line in
the country. About the same time
maple syrup was made in the New Eng
land states and was sent west pure and
undefiled. Now it is almost impossible
to obtain pure syrup or molasses.
This is recalled because this is the
time of year when both syrup and
molasses are in demand. This is hot
cake weather, and hot cakes must have
syrup. It is also molasses candy
weather, and if it is to be good, old
fashioned candy, it requires good mo
lasses to maJte It. Both these articles
are adulterated to such an extent that
it is necessary to look at the label in
order to know what one is supposed to
be eating. It is time that the govern
ment, or some other interested party,
tqok some action in the matter for the
sake of the children who are growing
up. It is a shame that they can never
know the delights of pure syrup and
pure molasses.
It should be the idea of the advanced
people to preserve the eweet tooth of
the children, and not deceive them
with combinations of glucose and adul
terated sugar. Incidentally the older
people would apreciate any effort made
to restore the old-time syrup and mo
lasses. BUILD THE CANAL.
According to the dispatches from
Washington the Nicaragua canal bill
is being fought harder than ever, be
cause the old enemies of the bill, the
trans-continental railroads and the
Panama lobby, have received reinforce
ments from England, Costa Rica and
Nicaragua. The first has always been
against the construction of the canal,
but has never before taken so open a
stand as at present. England has for
years controlled the eastern trade which
goes by way of the Suez and the Med
iterranean, and about all the trade goes
that way, and it does not want to give
up such a good thing.
The Costa Rica and Nicaragua lobbies
are simply trying to hold the United
States up for all the money- they can
get. i
It is doubtful, however, if all the
forces at work agaiist the bill will be
able to keep it out, for it will have the
united support of the southern states
and many of the northern states. The
south will reap the greatest benefit, and
it is but natural that they should be
the strongest supporters of the canal.
The friends of the canal have one
thing to be thankful for in the fight that
is being made, and that i3 that C. P.
Huntington i3 no longer present to or
ganize and manage the opposition.
Huntington was the strongest man
among the opponents of the canal, and
if he had charge of the opposition there
is little doubt that it would be defeated.
The Southern Pacific railroad will be
the heaviest loser if the canal is built,
and the Southern Pacific was Hunting
ton's idol.
KANSAS' NEW RAILROADS.
Of all the work in railroad building
that is laid out for jiext year in the Uni
ted States, the greater portion of new
mileage will be constructed in the west
and southwest. Of late years the south
west has been the most alluring field for
development and it is not surprising that
railroad activity should still be greatest
in this direction. There is a rich coun
try there to be opened up. The history
makers who have turned the eyes of the
nation to the commercial possibilities of
the Orient and the rich islands that dot
the broad Pacific have also given the
transportation problem a new interest
and impetus.
That a recognized authority, such as
the Railway Age, passes over without
mentioning A. E. Stilwell's projected air
line to the Orient, in its forecast for the
ensuing year, is a striking omission. In
its opinion the most important extension
booked for the next twelve months, is
that of the Rock Island from Liberal to
El Paso. It is true that the Rock Isl
and's stroke for more direct communi
cation with the Pacific coast is a big
enterprise and its surety doubtless gives
it title to the place of most importance,
because the work is already begun.
To Kansas, Mr. Stilwell's road is of r.o
less importance than the Rock Island
enterprise. Perhaps its success is more
to be desired.
The slight thrown upon his project,
hampered though it is by a severe and
early blow on its financiering, is signif
icant of the doubt with which it is en
compassed in financial circles. But the
people of southern Kansas have the
faith that is sublime. They are work
ing tooth and nail to have the bands of
steel put down and a division point or
two located in the state to give Kansans
work and distribute more good Ameri
can dollars for circulation within its
borders. They may fight among them
selves to get the line each past his owa
door, but all believe in it and will do ail
in their power to effect its realization.
Mr. Stilwell's project deserves success
for its brilliancy and daring alone, aside
from the fact that many hard-headed
men see abundant promise of large and
profitable returns in its commercial pos
sibilities. Topeka speaks up for another rail
road also and it is hoped that the new
year will see a realization of the project
to extend the Missouri Pacific line
northward from here. The Commercial
club Is prepared to use Its influence in
this direction.
Not a mile of new railroad was built
in JCansas this year. It was in the list
of five states in which no new road was
added to its complement of the previous
year. There is assurance of a large
mileage for next year, however, an in
dustrial fact that it is good to know.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. 1
Tou can't lose worn out gloves if you
try.
Some people help others; others help
themselves.
Good advice is like castor oil; easy to
give, but hard to take.
Every bald headed man thinks his
bald head i3 the ugliest in town.
When a man's tiair disappears from
his head, it usually appears in his
ears. '
It is surprising how many people like
cove oysters better than fresh oysters.
If we ran a grocery store, we wouldn't
display a turkey until at least ten days
after Christmas.
The third day after a man has put
an article on sale, he becomes something
or a cynic on friendship.
A man is never very busy around a
tiouse unless he is doing something
that requires five women to wait on
him.
"The holidays" ended with working
people on Christmas night. With the
loafers, they last until the 7th of
January.
There are too many cases of a wo
man taking a husband's grumbling over
a poor dinner to the Lord, Instead of to
a cook book.
An Atchison man feels that he is
doing his share in carrying the world's
burdens: -he is dressing seven women,
his wife, five daughters, and a niece.
It is said that the reason Santa Claus
didn't visit a certain Atchison woman
is that she would have grabbed him
and sent for the probate judge if he
had.
An Atchison man for years has put
off everything until Monday, instead of
until tomorrow. He has discovered a
still lazier plan: he puts off everything
until Isew Year s.
An Atchison physician, sent for yes
terday morning to attend a sick woman
reported that he would respond in a few
minutes, but at noon today, had not yet
arrived.
The young men who read this should
reahze that there is a good deal of
grumbling about them in every house.
with the mother and daughters on one
side, and the father on the other.
When a woman reaches the age when
she has wrinkles, and begins to care so
little for her appearance that she does
her hair in a tight little knot in the
back, it Is time to quit talking about a
promising ruture."
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
The marriage tie is a woman's bow
ideal.
The thermometer is a fair example of
a sliding scale.
A harness dealer calls his storeroom a
bridle chamber.
A railway collision is certainly a bump
of cestructiveness.
An egg is best when fresh, but it's dif
ferent witn an omce boy.
Admit one absurdity and a dozen oth
ers will demand an entrance.
Some people derive a lot of pleasure
from affecting affectation.
The more you crumple paper money
the more you will find it In-creases.
Accord is necessary to enable the hus
band and wite to pull together.
Many a man has ruined his eyes by
using glasses other than spectacles.
Adversity is apt to bring a man out
especially at the knees and elbows.
Love is blind. That is probably the
reason lovers never run up big gas bills.
' Many a fool gets through all right by
looking wise and keeping his mouth
shut.
The miser may carry his gold to the
edge of the grave, but he must leave
it there.
A man should never attempt to shoot
off his mouth unless his brain Is pro
perly loaded. ,
No man should object to thick soles
on his shoes, as the objections will soon
wear away.
It is said that a Texas murderer asked
that his execution be postponed because
of his poor health.
A fool forms an alliance with the
straw's driven by the wind; a wise man
forms an alliance with the wind.
When a girl tells a young man all the
things she loves him for he realizes that
he doesn't possess a single one of them.
If the poor people did but know how
little some millionaires enjoy their
we&lth there would be less envy in the
world.
If you are curious to know why Eve
ate the apple just pause and analyze
your feelings when you see a keep-off-the
grass sign.
GTJAKEX REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record. J
Be sure you are right, and then you
won't get left.
Sometimes before new shoes are bro
ken in they are broken out.
The preacher who lasts longest is us
ually the one who preaches shortest.
The man who is let in on the ground
floor of an investment sometimes crawls
out through the cellar.
Fools often make money. Some men's
mansions are built from the gold bricks
they have bought.
City Editor "This story of yours
about the mad dog is too verbose." Re
porter "Well, hand it back, and I'll put
some snap into it."
BOOK K0TES.
"Rival Boy Sportsman." the third and
concluding volume of "Deer Lodge Ser
ies," by W. Gordon Parker. Cloth, pro
fusely illustrated with pen-and-ink draw
ings by the author. Published by Lee &
Shepard, Boston. Mr. Parker's previous
books. "Six Young Hunters" and "Grant
Burton," have attracted attention from
their spirited treatment of outdoor life,
wholesome tone and fine illustrations. In
this story Grant Burton, hero of the pre
vious volume, returns to school vastly
improved by his experiences. Through
his leadership another club of enthusiastic
young sportsmen is formed, not hostile
to the first, but in friendly rivalry, in pur
suance of which they engage in a series
of contests, including a hunting match,
boat race, etc. An excellent idea of ama
teur sports is given in a way that could
be done only by one thoroughly convers
ant with them. The sixty-two pen-and-inks.
full page in part, scattered through
the book make it one of the most elabor
ately illustrated boys' books of the sea
son. (Price,
"In the Days of Alfred the Great," by
Eva March Tappan, Ph.D. Cloth, em
blematic cover. Fully illustrated. Pub
lished by Lee & Shepard, Boston. The
name of Alfred the Great, always one to
conjure with, will be more before the pub
lic than ever on account of the approach
ing one thousandth anniversary, and a
scholarly lady of literary power has here
presented the life of Alfred tha Great so
simply written as to be readily understood
by boys and girls, and yet so historically
accurate as to be very valuable on that
account. The old familiar stories of Al
fred are all here, together with very much
new material, translated from original
sources by the author. It is written in
perfect English, and effectively aided by
the spirited illustrations of Mr. Kennedy.
This book is bound to be a classic for the
young. (Price
"Between Boer and Briton," by Edward
Stratemeyer. Cloth, emblematic cover, il
lustrated by A. Burnham Shute. Publish
ed by Lee & Shepard, Boston. This ought
to be the juvenile of the year, although
it will, of course, be hard to come up to
the "Old Glory" books. It enters an en
tirely new held, and one on which the
eyes of the world are centered. It re
lates the experiences of two boys, cousins
to each other, one an American and tho
other English, whose fathers are engaged
in the Transvaal, one in farmine and the
other in mining operations. The scene
opens in Texas on a cattle ranch, from
whence it is transferred to South Africa,
where the cousins meet. While the two
boys are off on a hunting trip after big
game the war between the Boers and
Britons suddenly breaks out and while
endeavoring to rejoin their parents tho
boys find themselves placed between hos
tile armies, and their thrilling experiences
are brought out in Mr. Stratemever'e best
style. The operations of both armies are
given from the commencement of the war
to the fall Of Pretoria- fneludtnsr n ranlrl
sketch of the history of South Africa from
its settlement by the Dutch to the present
timall given in a manner to please bovs
without being tedious. Care has been
given to the geographical and historical
setting, and the book has every element
which should make it popular. (Price,
"Higher Algebra," by John F. Downer,
M. A.. C. E.. professor of mathematics in
the University of Minnesota, is out. It
is published in half leather. Price, $1.B0,
American Book company, New Tork.Cin
i cinnnti and Chicago.
"The Tale of a Field Hospital." bv Sir
Frederlck Treves, surgeon extraordinary
to H. M. the Queen. It Is printed In red
and black, bound in leather with gilt top.
Price, $2.50. Sir Frederick was sent to
the front In the African war bv the Eng.
lish government as consulting surgeon to
the forces, and the book is his account of
a field hospital which followed the Lady
smith relief column from the time that
column left Frere until it entered the
long-beleaguered town. This record is
based upon notes written dav bv dav upon
the spot. It may be that the'storv is a
little somber and possibly on occasions
gruesome, but war as viewed from the
standpoint of a field hospital presents lit
tle that is cheery. The publishers are
Cassell & Co., London and New York.
"Aguinaldo's Hostage: or. Dick Car
son's Captivity Among the Filipinos," is a
new book by H. Irving Hancock, war cor
respondent: cloth: illustrated. Published
by Lee & Shepard. Boston. Mr. Hancock,
well known as a writer for Frank Leslie s
Weekly and other leading publications,
has made use of his experiences in the
Philippine islands to write a most enter
taining story of the war with the Fili
pinos, viewed mainly from their own line,
thus differing from any other book that
has been written or will be written. Dick
Carson, a winsome hero, is "brought into
captivity by a villain as penalty for his
uprightness. He is saved from death by
Aguinaldo for possible use as a hostage,
and made useful as an attendant bv a
Filipino surgeon. The fortune of the Fili
pino army is told as no one could tell It
who had not been there, and the eventual
escape of Dick Carson forms a thrilling
story that conveys much general infor
mation with the intense interest it arouses.
(Price, J1.25.)
The December number of Current His
tory has an unusual abundance of timely
articles of Interest, among them reviews
of the most recent developments In China,
South Africa, Europe and the new Amer
ican possessions. The treatment of the
French Canadian ouestion is especially
able and worthy of attention.
"Overheard in the Whittington Fam
ily," just Issued by the Life Publishing
company of New York, is one of the rich
est illustrated books that has appeared
this year. Tt is composed of drawings hv
C. Allan Gilbert, part of them printed
in black and part In color, on very heavy
surfaced paper. The binding- is a uniooe
and artistic one. one side cloth and the
other paper, with a handsome drawing by
Mr. Gilbert. Among the vounger illus
trators. Mr. Gilbert, who works entirely
in wash, is noted for his richness of tone
his fine sentiment and dellcacv of treat
ment. His young women are distinguish
ed and beautiful and are types of real
life.
JATHAWKER JOTS.
The Almena Lantern has flickered out.
A calf-eating wolf is the bane of Ness
county farmers.
Two prize Lebanon porkers tipped the
scales at 1,200 pounds. ,
The farmers fail "to find bottom" in
the muddy roads around Pomona.
A Council Grove man boasts of the
possession of a gopher as large as a
rabbit.
Chanute's "Four Hundred" consists of
fifty and they givt sheet and pillowcase
masquerades.
The Rockefeller ranch is the sort of
an octopus that Kiowa county believes
in ana encourages.
It costs the "blood royal" of Axtell 15
and trimmings to be caught playing
poker by the marshal.
Great Bend small bovs meet all trains
and make faces at the passengers and
steal hundred yard rides.
Nature let the Hutchinson man off
lightly who only "sprained" his eye
winking at the "Little Egypt" girls.
Seneca is proud of the fact that it has
a hotel with a dining room that will seat
one hundred guests without crowding.
A Barton county man who has his
corn gathered in now whiles away his
idle moments digging a cyclone cellar.
Another man in Lawrence has blown
out the gas. Such ignorance is consid
ered beyond pardon in the Athens of
Kansas.
Salt has been pronounced the elixir
of life. Mr. Methuselah won't be even
in the primer class with Kingman peo
ple hereafter.
A Beverly man was saved from being
made mince meat of in a runaway by
his shoe opportunely slipipngits moorings
and releasing the lines.
Cleburn is puffed up because one of
its sailor boys on the warship Dixie re
cently placed his feet under the Turkish
sultan's table by invitation.
A Pittsburg party has returned from
a long hunting trip ia Arkansas thor
oughly disgusted having seen nothing
larger than a cottontail rabbit.
Fred Harvey's eating house system is
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NEW YEAR'S MATINEE AND NIGHT
Tuesday, January 1st.
MrRobert Downing,
Assisted by Alberta Converse
And a complete company, presenting two Historical Plays:
MATINEE :
NIGHT:
Richard, the
PRICES; Matinee 25c, 35c, 50c, and 75c
Night 25c, 50c, 75c, and $1.00
Reserved Beats for both performances now on sale at Flad fit Orubbi'
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styled a trust by the chicken sandwich
boys who have been compelled to aban
don business at Osage City trains.
Slias Edith Barnett, superintendent of
the Johnson county schools, was the
recipient of a handsome silver tea set
from the teachers at the last meeting of
the county teachers' association.
Moreland is to be the home of a
winter circus. The proprietor rejoices in
the possesion of guinea pigs, prairie
dogs, a bear, a wolf, a badger, a coon,
a fox, an opossum and an F.ngliah ferret.
He charges a nickel admission.
The local telephone" exchange at Cot
tonwood Falls and Strong City prom
ises to cause several tragedies in high
life. The wires frequently become cross
ed and already several innocent flirta
tions have been revealed by suspecting
wives antf husbands who quietly take
down the receiver and listen.
Herman Goughenbaugh has brought
the news to Manhattan of the death of
Alex. Irvine, caused by poisoning from
mussels he had picked up on the beach
at Seward, Alaska, and eaten. This hap
pened last June. He brought to the
parents all the personal effects of hi
dead comrade as well as $l,7i0 found
upon the body.
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A Welcome Gift
Tor New Year's
for smokers and that means nine out of
ten men Is a box of the cipars we have
on sale at most any price which auit the
intended recipient of your ffift and your
pocketbook. Lota of itolace in a box of
our FAVOklTtJ 6-cent cigars. More in
our AURORA 10-cts. For a lonp, sweet,
delicious smoke of the satisfying kind,
try our AUDITORIUM.
GEO. BURGIIART,
MANUFACTURER,
Telephone 12C. 801 Kansas Ave.
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