The Shawnee Independent from Topeka, Kansas • 3

City and County. Ring rule is broken. Thanksgiving next. Pass the turkey please. Whose ox is gored now? Sheriff Kepley if you please, Now for Eighteen ninety-six.

The INDEPENDENT feels 0. K. Oh golly, ain't that crow tougb? Gird on the armor now for 1896. If you cannot pay rent, move out. The outs are out and the ins are in.

The "I told you so" fellow is on hand. The INDEPENDENT wasn't started for fun. Scarecrows didn't count much this year. Chas. K.

Holliday can be proud of his vote. The sunny side of politics is to be elected. One of the boys on the Journal is cultivating bangs. The Swedes gave the administration a black eye. I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little INEEPENDENT.

There was more truth than poetry in the INDEPENDENT. Now the election is over let us turn our thoughts to business. Where is the boasted 3000 Republican majority in Shawnee county. The colored troops fought noblely. And the next day it snowed.

It is now in order for the weak. kneed fellows to drop out of politics. We got along very well without the help of the twice a week Advocate. Those elected should at least have a little pity for the poor fellows who got left. THE SHAWNEE INDEPENDENT elec- ted its candidate for sheriff.

A pointer for advertizers. The most encouraging signs of the times are, the fact that the people are thinking for themselves. The Legislative war had very little to do with the election. The people are tired of that racket. Will Major Hudson and the Republicans, continue to boom the move on foot to purchase Jackson's Band a new set of instruments? Don't feel bad if you didn't get your man in, the other fellow got his man in, the books are not closed, there is another election next year.

It would only take a hundred thousand tons of gold to pay the nation's debt, or a train load of five thousand cars, twenty three miles long. The Road Overseers over the state are about equally divided between the Populists and Republicans. That is as it should be, non-partisan as it were. We do not claim that all the good people in Shawnee county take the IN. DEPLNDENT, but all of them who do take it and pay their subscriptions are nice people.

Lost, somewhere on Kansas avenue, my basis of calculations on Shawnee county politics. Liberal reward will be paid for its return to the 'Capital' office. Joe Hudsor, The whiskey ites weren't in it this trip, Kepley had a straight walk away in this BANNER REPUBLICAN county, that fighting JOE was begging the boys to save. The Boys will have to make their old instruments do for another year. And next year get your instruments before election, past experience ought to convince you that, the G.

0. memory is very poor after election. Gee-whiz boys, said Apple Jack Cy the morning after election, them niggers are thinking and voting for themselves; something must be done But darn it I can't be every where at Sheriff epley will take the office January 1st. In the meantime he will drop around to the new Court House and suggest certain improvements for furnishing the Sheriff's office. John Wilkinson will now be releived from that duty.

The first Sheriff that will occupy the Sheriff's office in the new Court Honse, will be the Sheriff of the people, independent of politics. And to the voters of Shawnee county let us say always keep an independent Sheriff in the of. fice. Had Eugene War(e)'s speech been made by any one save a rock-ribbed. red mouthed republican, it would have been decried anarchism, socialism, vandalism, and the press in general would have squawked like so many chicks at a bolting carnival.

It makes some differance who the dog is that Garden City Sentinel. Luella R. Kraybill has been appointed state organizer for the Women's Progressive Political Leagues, and is now actively engaged in the work. She is one of the brightest, most earnest, talented and zealous women in our state, and is doing much to interest the women of Kansas in behalf of Populism. The Republican women of Kansas are well organized and their influence is everywhere felt.

We must meet this by organizing the Populist women and Populists everywhere should give their heartiest support and encouragement. Mr Greer belongs to that class of small bore political shysters who gain what little promises they ever have in poltics by doing the work for larger scoundrels. -Topeka Capital. Yes come to think of it, we do recollect that Greer did do a large part of the political work for the Republican State Central committee and Joe Hudson when the dynamite was sent to Winfield to destroy the Vincents, editors of the for political purposes, which diabolical plot miscarried because the bomb went off enroute at Coffey ville, destroying the home of the express agent and maiming for life his wife and daugh. Kansas Commoner.

MOORE-GOULD The wedding of Mrs. Lucinda J. Gould and Hon. W. H.

Moore was solemnized, Wednesday evening Nov. 6th. at the bride's home in Eskridge, where both the bride and groom have lived for years, and where both have many warm friends. The wedding was witnessed by only a few friends of the contracting parties. Mrs.

Moore 'has many relatives and a host of friends, in and around Topeka who wish her a long life of happiness; and we might add that both Mr. and Mrs. Moore, have scores of friends in both Shawnee and Wabaunsee counties, who bave nothing but the best of wishes for them both. Mr Moore is not only a very successful farmer but he is reognized as one of the most successful stock raisers in the west. Long may Mr.

and Mrs. Moore live is the wish of the INDEPENDENT. TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY. FOR ROOMS. Two unfurnished rooms for light housekeeping.

Enquire at 119 West Fifth Independent office. Furnished and unfurnished rooms at 607 West Sixth St. Enquire at 119 West Fifth St Also stable room for one horse. Nicely furnished room for one or two genstable room for one horse. tlemen, at 607 West Sixth St.

Can furnishing For Hard coal base-burner. Enquire at the Independent office. Psycometrist and Trance Medium. Gives Personal Readings every day from 9 A. M.

to 8 P. M. 916 Kansas Ave. Topeka Kansas, Electrical Apparatus That Determines Amount of Moisture in the Soil. WILL AID FARMERS.

The well-known fact that damp earth is a better conductor of electricity than dry earth is the basic idea of an apparatus invented by Prof. Milton Whitney, chief of the division of soils in the agricultural department, which he thinks will be a valuable aid in producing the best results from the cultivation of soil. Two plates constructed of the same material that forms the carbon points in are lights, are sunk in the ground at any desired depth. A current of electricity is then passed from one to the other and an instrument measures, in ohms, the resistance the soil between the plates makes to the passage of the current. A table prepared from the results of many experiments shows at a glance the percentage of moisture in the soil.

The apparatus will be espe.cially valuable in hothouse culture in Prof. Whitney's opinion, for in them the conditions are best for regulating the proportions of moisture, but the amount of moisture in the fields can be regulated to a great degree of cultivation. This is particularly in sections of the country where irrigation is practiced. By the use of this apparatus, which is quite simple and comparatively inexpensive, the farmer can accurately determine what crop is best adapted to the soil of each field and thus make his labor and investment count for the most in results. From a series of experiments conducted the past summer Prof.

Whitney has practically demonstrated that when a pasture land shows less than 13 per cent. of moisture, it has reached the danger line and a devastating drought is imminent. NEW MONITOR READY. Monadnock, Twenty Years a- Tried at San Francisco, Steam was raised in the monitor Monadnock last week and the vessel given a dock trial at Mare island to test her machinery. The warship will be entirely completed and ready to put into commission within a month.

All that is lacking now are some minor parts of the gun mounts, which are on the way from the east. The Monadnock has been building for twenty years and more, her keel having been laid in 1874. The old Monadnock had done good work during the rebellion and in 1866 she was sent to Valparaiso during the Spanish troubles in Chili. When things quiet ed in the latter country the monitor was ordered to the Mare Island navy yard, and she came to San Francisco in convoy of the Vanderbilt. The Monadnock is a double-turreted monitor and will carry two four guns in each turret.

Her secondary battery will consist of Hotchkiss and Gatling guns. She will carry from 180 to 200 men. The big rifles have been at Mare island for some months and are housed over with canvas. The trial trip of the monitor wil not be made until the vessel has been ordered into commission. When she goes to sea she will have on board all her men and stores.

No officer has yet been assigned to the command of the Monadnock. The old Monadnock was dismantled at Monadnock ways. Her turrets were removed and her timbers have been cut up into relics of former glory. ILLINOIS IN A PREDICAMENT. Sells the Model Brick Battleship Illinois" -Held Responsible by the Government.

The initial step in the proceedings which the navy department will probably institute with reference to the alleged sale of the model brick battleship "Illinois" by the Illinois state authorities after the vessel was turned over to them for the use of the Chicago naval militia has been taken by Acting Secretary MeAdoo in writing a letter to Gov. Altgeld asking him the simple question whether the report that the Illinois had been disposed of is true. It is claimed by officials of the navy department that the transfer of the battleship was made solely that it might be used as an armory or for other purposes by the naval militia of the state, and the abandonment of that organization causes the vessel to revert to the federal government. The Illinois was designed by Rear Admiral Richard W. Meade, U.

S. retired, and was used at the world's fair for the naval exhibit. To Cast a Mammoth Bell. Preparations for the casting of a mammoth church bell have been going on for some weeks at a bell foundry in Cincinnati, 0. The bell will be larger than the famous thirteen and a half ton bell at Montreal, which is now the greatest on the continent.

In ornamentation it will surpass all bells in existence and will be the largest swingbell in the world. It will supplement a chime of forty bells. The clapper weighs 640 pounds. It is to swing in St. Frances de Sales church.

New Astronomical Instruments. The Spanish government has appropriated 330,000 pesetas, about $60,000, for the purchase of astronomical instruments for the Madrid observatory, and the United States consul, Theodore Mertens, who reports the fact to the state department, undertakes to advance the interests of any American instrument maker who cares to try to secure the business. DIRECTORY Of the Leading Business Firms of Topeka. Patronize those who advertise in these Columns. FOR SALE---MISCELLANEOUS.

WE MOVE OR Goods. Household 123 East Fifth street. SAIN SKINNER. OLD office PAPERS Ten FOR cents per SALE at hundred. the Independent SUBSCRIBE for largest the Independent, circulation of $1.00 any a paper year.

in the county. MINERAL 316 WELLS, and 820 Phillip Harrison Picket, street. Proprie- Tarkish, Russian, Water Vapere, Steam Bathe and massage treatment. Boarding for invalide. TOB PRINTING at Independent office, 119 West Fifth street.

REAL ESTATE. IF you want to sell IF you want want to to rent buy REAL IF you want to trade IF you want a loan on ESTATE CALL ON T. G. Shillinglaw, OR WRITE 115 East 5th st. Topeka, Kansas.

ARCHITECTS. TOSEPH MARSHALL, Architect and 1004 Kansas Avenue. HOTELS. ST. NICHOLASHOTEL.

O. H. LIMPUS, Proprietor. Rooms 25 and 50 cents. Meals 15 cents.

Newly furnished, papered and painted. One north of the Postoffice. 426 Kansas Avenue. STATE FARMER'S ALLIANCE AND INDUSTRIAI UNION, EST J. F.

WILLITTS, President. EMMA TROUDNER, Vice-President. J. B. FRENCH, Secretary.

Office Real Estate Building, Jackson St. Topeka, Kansas. F. I U. The County Alliance meets every third Saturday at 2 p.

m. in K. of P. Hall, Corner Sixth and Quincy Sts. A.

B. SMITH, President MRS. W. COBETT, -President J. W.

HAMILTON, Secretar Central Iliance. Meets the fourth Monday of each month BINA A. OTIS, President MRS. L. M.

FURBECK, Vice-President. MRS. E. M. WARDALL, Secretary.

Woman's Progressive Political League' Meets first and third Wednesday, of each month, 2 p. m. at 118 East 8th street. C. K.

Holliday. Archie F. Williams Holliday Williams, LAWYERS, 609 Kansas The Sunflower Shoe Store. Can save you money. We are interested in your pocketbook and if you are also, it will be to your interest to buy your shoes of us.

We will save you dollars on the same class of goods. If we can suit you in our broken sises. We can and will certainly make it interesting for you. We are the money savers of Topepa. H.

A. Bush 522 Kansas Avenue. trade a good pay ing Hotel for a Farm. For full ticulars address Hotel, care of this office. BARBERSCAPITAL BARBER SHOP.

GRILEY STRITZINGER, Proprietors. 508 Kansas Avenue. Union Shop LA ADIES and children's hairdressing and man curing We make a specialty of a Scalp and skin disease, removing freckle Blotches and Pimples. We also carry a fo line of Toilet articles, Call and be convince JARBOE GRANT, 624 Kansas Avenue. RAILROADS.

Santa a Arnold Sixth Kan. Nort A Route. OHZEOP Topeka. Rowley Co Son, W. 0.

Garvey at the Depot. IF you want to go East M. P. take West. PACIFIC.

the North Tickets MISSOUR1 South for sale at depot, E. 5th St ATTORNEYS AT LAW. WATERS Room 39 WATERS, Building, W. C. WEBB, 825 Quniny Street.

J. G. WARD, 627 Lawyer, Kansas Avenue, Practices in all courts, state and Federa PRICES REDUCED, Dying and Pressing 83.0 Dying and Pressing Pants, 1.00 Cleaning Suit, 1.70 All kind of repairing neatly done. All Work Guaranteed First Class WES FIFTH STREET, RUBBER STAMPS, SEALS, STENCILS ETC. Largest and Best Equipped Stamp Works in the State.

Send for Circulars and Prices. J. C. DARLING. Topeka, Kansas.

colas J. M. KNIGHT, UNDERTAKER, 405 and 406 Kansas and 843 North Topeka, Phone 52. I belong to no Undertakers Combine. Manufacture my own coffins and caskets.

My prices are from 25 to per cent less than any undertaker in the city. ARTHUR MASSAY, Practical -Horse-Shoer. 213 WEST FIFTH SREET Telephone 433, Top Horses with diseased feet skillfully treat cd. Track and road-shoein a special? Horse GOM BAULT'8 Caustic Balsam A Safe Byoody and Positive Care ever used. place of all lini a Removes al and FIRING.

ALL OUTED bottle sold is to give 01.60 express per win bostie. Send for descriptive circular TEN LAW Cleveland SHORTHAND expert personally reporters. Worthy studwats assisted to positions. catalogue to The Capital City School of Short and. Dee Moises, Iowa.

J. M. Meben. Fret.