The Weekly Republican from Cherryvale, Kansas • Page 2

applause that had rewarded The state bank of Goff haii taken The Republican charter. f. HtfAlUtU During the time they were out, some Kingman county has had a twe Inch of the employes of the circus began Three aides of the monument wrf carved. On one I read: Sacred to the Memory of CHARLES GRAVISCOURT. Born, Feb.

18, 18, Died, June 10, 18. On another I read: ALICE, rain and everybody is happy. O. E. MOORE.

PnblUhar. working on a trapeze that hung high up above our heads. Ropes were pulled, bars were raised In position, Net Nacessary. A golfer who was loafing around clubhouse on the off chance of getting a game espied a man who seemed to be In a similar plight Ha sought out his caddie and took him Into a corner. "How does he play?" be asked the lad.

"Not worth a hang," was the prompt reply. "Then I'll have to give him something it I play him." "You'll not naed to do anything ot the kind," replied the caddie. Grading has commenced on a trolley By SEWARD W. HOPKINS, ml "Jack Rabbin at Amarlca," "la thf line from Olathe to Kansas City. KANSAS THERRYVALE, at Two Qantlenica China Baa and when the sustaining and guy ropes were made fast, there were two fixed horizontal bars, with a flying Hawaii." "Oa a Falsa Cfcarga," Etc tlHIll ITEMS IMTBRKIT.

trapeze between them. Suddenly a hush came over the audience as a girl appeared and Mrs. 8. O. Witmer, of Coffeyville, Is a grandmother at fhe age of 33 years.

Hutchinson is offered an automobile service to compete with Its street railway. For once in its history the flowers in the Kansas ca pi tol grounds are looking fine. Chetopa will hold its tenth annual reunion ef soldiers and sailors Septem Beloved Wife of Charles Graviscourt, Born, April 6, 18. Died, July 21, 18. "Blessed are the pure In heart, for they shall see God." She has Joined her Savior.

On the third: ALICE, Infant Daughter of Charles and Alice Graviscourt. Died, Oct. 4th, 18. Aged 2 years. "What a fool I am!" I muttered as walked to a spot directly under tho trapeze.

Mrs. George Knott, of Coffeyville, Is Buffering from red pepper thrown Into her eyes by a burglar. Major Hood, of Emporia, has won Nlta Barlotti was, without doubt. Oaarrlf UN, Biit Boun'i Ba. CHAPTER I.

"Hello, Dick, old Gloomy-face! I'll bet a cigarette you haven't laughed since breakfast." "What breakfast? I haven't seen a smile on his face in a week." the most beautiful girl who had ever bis suit, the one Martindule brought appeared before a New York public. Some men get up with the lark while others want a swallow tho first thing in the morning. 8lflht of the Caterpillar. A caterpillar cannot' see more than a centimeter ahead; that ia to say, Wat! than two-fifths of an Inch, The hairs on the body are said" to be of as much use as Its eyes In letting It kaow what Is going on around. Plao'i Oar for Conivunstloa la an Infallible Her features were matchless.

She against him charging fraud. had a wealth of dark-brown hair The new physical science building at the state agricultural college at Man The scene was the Lotus club, New York city, and I. Richard WllbertBon, which was tightly drawn Into a knot so that it would not Interfere with her in her performances on the Her I turned away. The air seemed to have grown chilly Blnce I had come there, and I drew my coat close around me and returned to my hattan Is completed. Its cost Is just entering, was the old Gloomy-face 000.

ber 14-20. Traveling men have started a fund to appeal the oWse of Jessie Morrison, of El Dorado. The 23nd regiment, Kansas volunteers, will hold a reunion at Hiawatha on August 27. The merchants of Junction City have alluded to. The facetious person wno so alluded to my impassive face was face was perfect In its contour, and every feature was a poem.

And yet There is a fierce scran between the u4lelm for coughs and colds. N. W. BAMCB Like all meddlers, having been dis it seemed to me that she looked sad Dllklns, the dude, and youthful mem Missouri and Kaasas telephone com Dunn Orave, N. Feb.

11, 160ft ber of our coterie. The second speak appointed, I was determined to try woefully sad not like one who en pany and an independent company at When a bachelor e'irl finally marries er was Major Simmons, who, besides again, and my next visit was to the Ottawa. being a first-rate companion, a man joyed the triumph of a successful appearance, but like one who was ashamed, or who loathed the part she she generally picks out an old maid man. all cut out the premium stamp from The first night that the new jail at of middle age or more, was Park Com their business. missioner of New York.

Hundreds of dealers saiy the extra Assessors' returns give Geary county played, or to whom some great sorrow or bitterness had come that had driven all the brightness from her There was, unknown to the major quantity and superior quality of Defi 10,025 people; over half of them living life. Junction City. and Dllklns, a good reason for the absence of smiles. I was desperately in love with Edith Broughton, and Edith ance Starch is fast takluglptnee CI ail other brands. Others say they cannot sell auy other starch.

The trapeze queen drew herself onto President narris has appointed Craig Bureau of Vital Statistics, at 301 Mott Street. Upon making my errand' known, some little wonder was apparent among the clerks, but I was readily accomodated, and was soon looking over the death records of sixteen years before, the year In which occurred, according to the marble shaft in Trinity, the death of Alice, daughter of Charles and Alice Graviscourt. At last I found what I was looking for. I held in my hand the certificate of death of the child whose untimely was in love with me. So far so good Harris, son of Senator Harris, as a one of the bars and hung lightly in mid-air, head downwards, with no support but her toes.

Then she swung to But in an evil hour a rival came upon cadet at West Point In Dresden, where they do some the scene, and though he did not suc things better than in some other A 6hirt factory in Wichita has built ceed in winning Edith's heart, he did a trade of between thirty and forty succeed In so far winning the father and fro, and letting go from the bar, she seemed to Boar through the air and clung to the flying or swinging trapeze. On this she gave a marvelous exhibition of her fearlessness and and the mother of Edith as to prevail thousand dollars a year. places, there is a tax of a mark on every cat. As a result of this imposition the homeless animals were gathered and extinguished. In the Emporia was occupied, the two prisoners In It broke out and left no address.

These two jail birds were small, weak women. The American Book Company has found it necessary to apply for a Kansas charter. The action of the supreme court settled the decision of the company to do so. Henry Bailey, 82 years old, not many years since a leading merchant of Fort Scott, recently died in a small house alone and penniless. He had been a city charge for some time.

Judge Hook, of Leavenworth, granted an injunction enjoining G. W. Crane and others from interfering with the American Book company. The case is to be heard in Wichita August 15. A Topelip man who has made an UDon them to espouse his cause; and And the Santa Fe has also done removal had made Ralph Graviscourt way with class rates between Wichita in the effort to compel Edith to ac cept him, they had absolutely forbid first year of the tax 10,000 cats were wonderful Bkill, In all of which her killed.

It would be of uso and inter and the Mississippi river. a millionaire. Nothing was wrong about the cer writhing white muscles shone and den me the entrance to their house, and had so restricted all the move est to learn If any corresponding In The Rock Island has followed the every beauty of her form seemed to tificate. Every form of law had been complied with. Tho cause of death Missouri Pacific in p-rantinir a reduc ment8 of Edith that all intercourse be crease of rats and mice occurred.

If so, It would be better to allow cats to display to advantage. The audience watched her in breath tion on packing house products. tween us was Impossible. was small-pox. The signature of the physician attached was Sigmotta, less silence, and when at last she had come in free of duty and license the mice.

The cause of this was plain enough C. Rohrer has been elected as trustee M. While I had a comfortable income, finished, there arose an uproar the like of which was never heard before of the Dillon schools in Dickinson Doctor Dinsmore, the Secretary of WHY IT IS THK BEST my rival, Ralph Graviscourt, was a county to serve the 31st year consecu. in Madison Square Garden. the New York Medical Society, was a because made by an entirely differ millionaire, lived In magnificent style tively.

fi of long standing. I felt I could drove splendid horses, spent money overland drive from Florence reports The school boards of Geary county ent process. Defiance Starch is unlike any other, better and one-third more reiy upon him, and was soon at his lavishly, and notwithstanding, his corn west of Strong City as badly in are contracting to pay teachers higher door. for 10 cents. forty odd years, was the greatest jured by the heat, but from that point wages this year than have been paid He greeted me cordially, and I had catch of the season in New York.

east the crop showed One prospects. since 1889. no Jity in telling mm wnat i There were two men In that audience who were evidently much interested in the queen of the flying trapeze. I had seen Maublkeck, the Lion Tamer, clad in ordinary evening dress, looking like a handsome powerful man of the world, standing near the ropes, watching the beautiful acrobat narrowly. There was a smile of encouragement on his face, and he The conversation turned on Gravis For the Elephant Hunt Two hundred native beaterB are be Thn managers of the state fair at The old settlers of Reno county held wanted know.

He smiled, and pro court, and the major became reminis ceeded look over some old folios he Hutchinson to be held Sept 15-19, are their annual picnic at Hutchinson on cent. ing brought from eastern Bengal to assist at the elephant hunt in Mysore, had taken from a recess In his book the 7th, upon the 30th anniversary of He was called the 'lucky which is being arranged for Lord Cur- case. said the major, whose years gave him providing shelter for swine, cattle and borses, to accommodate the largest number that can reasonably be expect the creation of Reno county. After a few minutes spent thus, he a deeo knowledge of the past. He zon, on the occasion of the Installation of the young maharajah in The Brown county fair, a G.

A. said: was among the first in the applause. Then, as Nita reached the ground, a ed. reunion of veterans of the first district "I find here the name of Charles Sigmotta as a member of our society had an elder brother, Charles Graviscourt, who was a successful stock-operator, and who amassed a fortune of over a million dollars. Charles had and a reunion of the 22nd Kansas vol tall, black-bearded, mean-looking Italian forced himself through the group James Lake, an old conductor on the Is.

K. Western railroad, whose home unteers are all to be held at Hiawatha Low Rates to the Red Riyer Valley. fourteen fifteen even twenty years ago. He does not seem to have been of attendants, and taking the girl Frnm 26th to AUSTUSt 20th tha on August 27-29. hand in his, led her away from our is at Garrison, was seriously injured at Valley Falls, while on duty, having a leo- broken and recclvine serious Great Northern Hallway will sell harvest excursion tickets at rate of $5.00 for each a wife and one child.

His wife died when the child was only six months old. One year afterward Charles A. G. Bennett, 05 years old, is sight person. In parties or live or more, irnn prominent, but little mention being made of him, except the fact that he attended meetings.

I barely recall the name, and do not recollect tho And I noticed that, although her blacksmith of Norton. The other day he won $500 by running six miles in an St. l'aii, Minneapolis, Duluth and vtesl Superior, and 113.00 from Chicago, to bruises. countenance was dead to us dead to )OlnlS On Urflll UI inn ll Jnnnaj died, leaving the child, a girl, sole heiress of his fortune, and Ralph Graviscourt, next of kin, his executor hour. The actual time he used to do man.

But there Is no doubt he was a linnesota. North and woutn uanoia. Alan nn KRTT1P flatCA tickets tO all POlntn The Modern Woodmen of Topeka and surrounding towns held their first the tremendous applause ar.d greeting she had won from the people when Bhe passed Maublkeck It was to him the stint was 56 minutes and 10 seconds. on their line In Minnesota west of Sauk physician in good standing. Hq is not annual logrolling at Topeka on Au a member now.

Wait. Ah, here it is! F. R. Zacharias, a banker at Harper, that her beautiful head was bowed, and guardian of the child. Six months after Charles died, his daughter died, and Graviscourt inherited the fortune.

That is why he was called the lucky gust 2. There were all sorts of prize Centre and Benson, ana norm uhho-ta cast of Mlnot, at following rates for each person In parties of live or more: From Sioux City. Ia. and Yankton, $8.00: from Sioux Fnlls. Ji.W.

He resigned thirteen years ago, has resigned as a member of the board drills and contests and a big street and one bright, fleeting smile showed Itself on her lips when her eyes looked Where he is now, I do not know." of managers of the Hutchinson reform icKem ano iniormawuu num mm tan- parade. atory. Governor Stanley appointed Into his. "It Is not important," I said. "What I want to know is this: Sixteen years way ticket acents, or upon application to St.

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Prof, and Mrs. D. A. Ellsworth of The next act fell flat, and as neither Charles Hull, of Kirwin, to fill the va 220 S. Clark Q.

I. A. or Max Basa, ago documents say death certificates uncle." When the major had finished, I sat moodily engaged with my thoughts, which were unpleasant enough. "Pshaw!" said he. "Don't get blue.

Chicago, ill. cancy. Maublkeck nor Barlotti was billed to appear a second time, we soon lost signed by him would be above sus the state normal at Emporia, are to make a 1,000 mile voyage along the coast of Labrador in the interest of the The first county auditor of hedgwick picion, would they not?" county turns down claims for rewards Why It Is Cool Near Trees. It is not shade alone that makes It Interest, and before the crowd began to get restleBS, we left the Garden and Let's go to the circus to-night. What department of geography of that "To tho best of my knowledgo and belief, they would," replied Doctor iiinsmore.

"I know of nothing that do you say?" cooler under a tree in summer. The went home. offered by the county commissioners for the capture of horsethieves on the school. Don't forget Gravlscourt's stag to After a little chaff about the program, we both accepted the major's coolness of the tree Itself helps, for-its temperature Is about 45 degrees Indicates to the contrary." ground that there is no law authorizin It is estimated that from five to six the commissioners to offer such re hundred dollars will bring the Repub morrow evening," Bald the major, as I was leaving him. "You will be there, I suppose." Having once more bad my laid to the ground, I thanked the invitation, and a few hours later we found ourselves at Madison Square Garden, elbowing our way with the wards.

Wm. R. Power, after working two Fahrenheit at all times, as tnat 01 the human body Is a fraction more than 98 degrees. So a clump of trees cools the air as a piece of Ice cools the water In a pitcher. 'Hang Graviscourt!" I replied.

"Yes, lican river back to its old channel at Concordia; meantime the flouring mill and electric light plant must wait or doctor and hurried home. (To be continued.) rest of the throng in through the en years for the Withita Railroad an I will be there, If for no other reason than to show the fellow I am still alive trance and into comfortable seats pro use steam. She Remembers Elia. vided by the major. Light company, has gone to Schenectady, N.

as general foreman of the and in the arena." The Jacob Dold Packing Company 'Good!" said the major. "And good As one circus is like another, so the gaudily uniformed band was like every Probably Mrs. Coe of London Is the only person living in England who Fame Spoiled His Practice. Thn famous surgeon, Sir Henry General Electric company. He has worked his way up through all of the night." Ihas received a full carload of scales for the Wichita nackinir house.

There are Gravlscourt's genius for entertain other circus band, and blared out circus music until the throng was Thompson, was called In early in his career to perform an operation on has personal recollections of Charles Lamb, says the New York Mail and Express. More than seventy years departments. .07 scales, all made on special order, ing is indisputable," said the major, on the following evening, as he, Dil seated. Engineer Charles Singleton, of th and their combined capacity is nearly the King of the Belgians. iniB Missouri Paoiflc, has disappeared.

He Then came the clown, and after him a herd of trained elephants. We ago she was a little girl living at the Wldford water mill, and because 'a million pounds. left the dinner table at his boarding kins and I Bat together, among a score of more kindred spirits, all forming an appreciative audience at Gravlscourt's watched them attentively, and were of her quickness in catching a mis Sam'l Oldham, a Miami county sent Secretary Cobnrn a bunch of rather sorry when the great, clumsy, chlevous idea she was a great favor stag" entertainment. house and went out and has not been seen since. This occurred sometime since.

Ho left all his personal effects sagacious brutes moved out of the "True," I replied, with a tinge of ite with the genial essayist. Some of ner recollections E. V. Lucas, the ring. timothy hay which measures five feet in length, the heads being from five to eieht Inches long.

The sheaf will go malice. "One almost forgets who his host is, with so much to amuse." 'St! Here's a sight!" said Dilkins, well-known Lamb scholar, has trans-scribed as the result of recent con at the boarding house. The King's Daughters have fitted up a room in the city building in Wichita The program was a sort of vaude digging me In the ribs. It was a sight. Indeed! ville.

There were songs, skirt dances, versations with her. She remembers Lamb's affected conviction that her to the St. Louis exposition. W. W.

a goat ranchman of Texas, was with a carload of goats The next occupant of the ring was comic sketches by more or less fa Maublkeck, the Lion-Tamer I hair curled only by artificial means, for the use of the working young women to spend their noon hour and bring their lunches. The roon is nicely and his repeated warnings at bed mous artists in their line, and the time was so well filled and passed so pleasantly that the hours gilded by almost brought him a title and fame, out, says he, "though it made my fortune, it spoiled my practice, for I was inundated with applications, for similar operations, and henceforth could do little else." Thirteen on a Quarter. The commonest of all our silver coins is the 26-cent piece. In the words "quarter dollar" aro thirteen letters. pluribus unum" contains thirteen letters.

In the tall ot the eagle are thirteen feathers and in the shield are thirteen lines. There are thirteen stars and thirteen arrowheads, and If you examine the bird through a mlscroscope you will find thirteen feathers in Its wing. What a Good Nam Does. A Chicago, 111., Aug. 11th.

Mr. Vahl- hart of 222 South Peoria St, this He was not particularly tall not more so than myBelf, but of such massive muscularity that I gazed at him time that she must not forget to put furnished with every convenience and the latest magazines are provided. imperceptibly. it in papers. To beggars, she saya, he always gave just what his hand Dllklns, with his usual curiosity and The Retail Clerks' union of Welling with undisguised admiration.

I had, in my college days, been sometKng of an athlete myself, and I bad an honest admiration for the strength and happened to draw from his pocket. He was fond ot treating the village push, was rummaging around In some cabinets he bad succeeded in opening, and he suddenly electrified us all by ton are boycotting certain merchants who refuse to close their stores early. children to candy, his favorite con iron-like limbs of the man before us, fection being "Gibraltar rock." Here exclaiming: He wag clad only In tights, and is a pen picture ot him as he appeared which were yarded at Arkansas City to be fed. In the yard a huge hornet's nest was disturbed and about 20 of the goats died from being stung. Almost every candidate for important offices this year have newspaper men for managers of their campaigns.

This la true of both political parties. F. B. Zacharias, of Harper, has resigned from the Hutchinson reforma-rory board and Charles Hull, of Kir-win, has been appointed to succeed bim. An addition is to be built to the Santa Fe round house at Emporia, and' the vards extended by building new "By Jove! Dick! Major! Look at They are under tho leadership of a walking delegate from Wichita.

The city authorities say the disturbance through them the swelling muscles of to the child: this!" His clothes were rusty and shabby, bis thighs seemed about to burst. The major, Graviscourt and I must stop. like a poor dissenting minister's. He reached him at the same moment. About his waist he wore a bejeweled girdle, the bangles of which seemed was very thin and looked- half- At Council Grove "Jack the Peeper" "By Heaven! That face!" he cried, to be gold and silver coin.

thrusting a photograph into the ma ha been around Robert Ashburn's house and Mrs. Ashburn heard a noise starved, partly the effect of high cheekbones. He wore knee breeches and gaiters and a high stock. He From his waist up he wore nothing. jor's hand.

"That Is a likeness of Alice uravis- His skin was white and through his Iron muscles rolled and swelled and got up while her husband was asleep, and while he was still half awake he shot her in the head, but the court, my brother's wife, taken some four years before she died," said our like those of some giant of the past, whose deeds, as written, now seem groundless legends. In which there tracks, for which the rails are on the carried a walking stick, with which he used to strike at pebbles. He smoked a black clay pipe. No one would have taken him for what ho was, but he was clearly a roan apart He took pleasure in looking host, calmly. wound is not dangerous.

ground. It?" almost shouted Dilkins. "If city, had for years been an Invalid with liver complaint and kidney trouble which was fast hastening him to-the grave. The Doctors gave bim up and his friends and neighbors all declared he could not live. His brother came from Minneapolis to see him before he died and inquired if had tried Dodd'a Kidney Pills.

On being told that this remedy bad: not been used he went out at once and bought a box, feeling satls3ed from what ha knew of Dodd's Kidney-Fills and the noble work they had, can be no probability of truth. Chas. Loyd Preston, two months old, JobnW. Kirby and his wife were fonnd dead in bed with bullet holes Upon a neck of massive beauty was It isn't the Queen of the Flying Trapeze, I'm a Dutchman!" has made a deposit ef (10 in a Wichita palsed a head over which a sculptor savings bank, with instructions for it What do you mean?" asked Gravis might rave. It was like the head of through their heads, and with a pistol with two chambers empty lying on to remain there until he is 21 years old- court a Greek god, so perfect was It In Its TTlrhv's beeast They were at their Two prisoners broke from the Leav And the major told him about Nlta outlines, its matchless poise.

Its per enworth county jail and secured a pis Why Russell Sage Works. Although Russell Sage, the famous financier, will be 86 years of age on August 4 next and has recently had a severe turn ot Illness, be has ex home north of Burden, Cowley county, fect skin and Us wealth of glossy and Maligni'B circus. tol from a farmer by telling him they black hair. Prof. Hawortji visited Sedgwick cAunlvto see if there is salt under- The lions were not the full-maneu "Probably more a fancied resemblance than a true one," he said calmly, as he took the photograph and replaced it in the cabinet from which were officers iu pursuit of escaped convicts.

They tried to get another pistol from Carl Dei tech and upon being re majestic African kings wa see In menageries and in Illustrations. They ueath. He reports that the salt beds come within 15 miles of Wichita era the Dllklns had removed It. fused threatened to rob the house. west and perhaps wlthm five tnUf S.

were a smaller variety, with a mottled brown coat, but with legs and neck that bespoke tremendous power, and Deltsch's 18-year-old son then shot one Nothing more was said that night shout the occurrence, but It had pro He also told the people there that there was no coal In that section except at a of them dead with a shotgun and the other got away. duced In my mind an impression that eyes that flashed ominously and voices that were from time to time lifted in very great depth. could not be shaken off. pressed his determination to continue at his business the same as before. It was some five years ago that Mr, Sage was asked why he did not retire and take a rest and enjoy what he had made.

His reply then was doubtless what It would be now It he were asked the same question: "I don't know that I could' stop If I would. I fear I should not live long It I did so. I believe I llko work better than I do play. My chief bap-plnesB today is in my work and I suppose my machinery will go on at this same rate as long as I live." The weather over the state remained angry growls. Grant county has a population of On the following day, when I awoke, around the 100 degree point, but hot When the keepers had freed tho lions from their chains, an act that about BOO.

There are many fine nnki well stocked. Several $10,000 been doing in Minnesota, that wey would save his brother's life. The first two days Mr. Vahlberg-seemed to grow worse, but after that he gradually improved under the-treatment and was soon restored to-complete good health. Old Frocks for New.

Dress designing is becoming quite an intellectual pursuit I heard the-other day that one ot the great Parisian dress designers had been traveling In the East to get fresh inspiration, while It Is well known that the picture galleries of Paris are haunted by tha model-making fraternity, and old books with prints and plates ofy the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century are quite at a premium in the old bookshops and the bookstalls of Paris. Gentlewoman. winds were not prevailing to the injury of the corn crop, up to August 4, seemed to fill the audience with fear, the first thoughts that came to me were of Gravlscourt's picture of the dead woman. With some wild fancy that I wag furthering my own affairs and helDtnsr myself by seeking to over sales have been made this season. Kansas has had fourteen United Maublkeck stepped from his chariot and went among them.

They crouched as he approached, and cringed at his The concentration camp for the fall States senators in the 41 years during maneuvers at Fort Riley will be on in which it has been a state. Lane and Pawnee flats, near the site of the first touch. It seemed to me as if they recognized and acknowledged the capital of Kansas. Orders nave oeeu power of the man over them. Pomeroy have been succeeded in the following line: Lane succession Lane, Ross, Caldwell, Crozler, Harvey, throw Graviscourt, I was lea oy me extravagant phantom of my brain to Trinity cemetery.

Having arrived there, I sought and found the family plot of the Graviscourts, in which a marble monument reared its head over three graves. issued for troops to come iroui harracks. Fort Leavenworth anc In order to forecast the weath with a reasonable degree of accuracy all you have to do is to predict anything you don't expect riumb, Perkins, Martin, Baker, Bur ta in Indian Territory and Okla Following Maublkeck came some acrobats and dancers, and while they pleased us, tbey failed to charm or to win from the audience the tremendous ton. Ten in all. Pomeroy succession homa: besides the Kansas National Pomerov.

Iniralls, Peffer, Harris. A Guard, and the militia aome other total of four. slates will be present..