The Topeka Daily Capital from Topeka, Kansas • Page 4

3 'r THE TOPEKA DAILY CAPITAL: H) AY FEBRUAET 9, 190(5. Sbe Gopefca Bails capital. BY ARTHUR CAPPER. ON SECOND THOUGHT JOINTS ARE PLENTIFUL BELOW FIFTH mm ligious organizations is towards i unity of action and organization as well as of creed, due the growing appreciation among all church bodies that the Christian church has much work to do here at home in alleviating social conditions and making itself useful to and respected by the masses of the people, especially in the great cities. In late years the churches have been "finding- themselves" in American cities.

They have reaching out and doing genuinely helpful work in the spirit, of their Master among the poor and have become a force making for righteousness in the cities. It Is the "institutional' churches that pioneered this service, but the tendency of all alike is towards practical socializing "service and this naturally brings them in closer touch jot only with the people but with one another. -OS mmm PURE -WHOLESOME RELIABLE MADE FROM CREAM OF TARTAR DERIVED SOLELY FROM GRAPES, IN WHICH DELICIOUS FRUIT IT IS FORMED BY NATURE IN THE PRECISE COMPOSITION IN WHICH IT IS USED IN DR. PRICE'S BAKING POWDER. MA Its stt peeioi'lty is it nqti estioned Its fame world-wide Its use a protection and a guarantee i i against afom food ll FURN THE CAN AROUND iyotij learn what is the "power behind the dough In $theV fickss i powders it is cream of tartar, extracted from cleany grapes, and that is healthful In the low-grade cdfit is 'phosphate alum' or "sodium aluminum sul- phate' which is also alum, a mineral acid, and that makes the ood unhealthf uL Of what use are twenty-five ounces for twentyf ive cents, if eight of these ounces are alum Food bated with alum baking powders is found to contain a portion of the alum unchanged! The continued use of alum made food impairs digestion, causing dyspepsia When buying baking powder, examine the label and take only a brand whose label shows it to be free from alum.

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Expr Building, 89 Waalilaarton St W. B. Ilobey, MinRger. JANUARY CIRCULATION. 21.200 IT.

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A. Lewis, Circulation Manager of the Topeka Daily Capital, does solemnly swear that the above figures represent the actual number of copies of the Daily and Sunday Capital printed and circulated, with all returns from newsdealers deducted, in the month of January. 1906. A. A.

LEWIS. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of February. 1906. (Seal.) W. S.

GALLOWAY. Notary Public. (My Commission expires Oct. 9, 1907.) THE STUBBS-ALLEN CONTROVERSY. The- controversy going on in the news, papers between- Henry Allen and W.

R. Stubbs over Allen's fitness to represent the Second district in Congress is eithe of Interest to the public or is of no in tic KtiiMru rittima that it is a vita V-JH v.vw matter: Allen claims mat it is vital only the mind of Mr. Stubbs and that Stubbs' attacks upon his political record are. Avt to personal nreiudice and malice. It is the rule in political controversies for the man who has a bad case to dodge the issues presented and "abuse the attorney" on the other side.

In the warfare between Stubbs and Allen if there is malice it appears to be on Allen's side, for it is Allen who avoids the direct question raised and attempts to waive the issues by ridicule of Stubbs. Mr. Stubbs continues to come buck at issues, ignoring the personal side issues raised by Allen. The points Mr. Stubbs raises and which he asserts are important are as follows: That Allen while drawing a large salary as chairman of the State Board of Charities transferred a lot of votes in the Legislature to George Clark for State Printer in consideration of Clark's private agreement with him to divide the State Printership graft.

That while holdirfg the office of Chair man of the State Board of Charities and Vnlno a. i-artnar tn th A St a to KELICUJ ucnig Printership, without the knowledge of the state, he organized a lobby in the last Legislature and buttonholed members to defeat a bill reducing Se excessive fees. for stitching and binding, which Stubbs claims amounted to $13,000 a year. Is there any point to Stubbs proposition that "an honest man can- not sell his time 'and energy to the state and then use, that time and energy against the Mr. Stubbs insists on this question and Mr.

Allen carefully dodges it. Another charge which Stubbs brings up is that Allen's relation to the "Winfield asylum graft unfits him to represent the Second district in Congress. The superintendent of the Winfield asylum was removed from hl9 position by the of Control because he issued false vouchers and had them cashed. The superintendent stated that he did this with the knowledge of the Allen board, and Allen publicly defended him in doing 6. If Allen's position is correct, then the Board of Control did the superintendent a gross injustice in removing him from office.

If public office is a "private snap and not a public trust, the Second district ought to put Henry Allen In Congress by all means. A man who holding one im-" portant state office succeeds in getting in as a secret partner in the rich State Printer, graft and then turns up ire the Legislature lobbying against economy in the State Printership, nobody in the Legislature suspecting that he is serving his private pocket, would make an ideal office-brokering Congressman. If that is the kind of Congressman the Second district wants Henry Allen fills the bill. A CONTEMPLATED CHURCH MERGER A proposed merger of interest, the over ture of which was made last year in a convention at Topeka, is that of the United Brethren and Congregational and Protestant Methodist churches. The fin oJ conference is now being held at Day ton Ohio, the headquarters of the first named denomination.

The three denom inations have common beliefs and sys tems of government to a very large ex tent, so that nothing would be sacrificed for a closer union, the question being one of convenience and economy of opera tion.1 Congregationalism, strong in New England, is weak in the locality, Ohio and south in Maryland West Vir glnla. where the other two denominations are strongest. About one-third of the Con- gregatlonalists In this country are In New England and another third east of the Mississippi but north of Ohio. Various merger movements are talked of sjnong the Protestant churches. The Presbyterians are getting together In this country, and in Canada the other day a union was formed between.

Methodists moA Presbyterians. The trend in re- An elderly woman looks upon a telegram as bad news. A girl regards one as a confirmation a Prince is coming to town on the next train to stay over Sunday. We have reached the point in life where we quit the theater at the end of the third act or lay down a novel before reading the last chapter without much regret. Personally, we should think more of advertising if it were not used, so largely to exploit five cent cigars.

"I wanted to keep the whole thing said Buck Kilby at the barber shop yesterday, "so I had them ut it in the -ii We have noticed that an ornery boy with a smudge -dirt-on -his face often looks better than a woman in a party rown. I 5 It appears that Nick Longworth's best man is not only thin and homely, but he is also married. OUR GUESSING CONTEST. In dulcet tones like the gurgling of a limpid brook for a moment, ana then rushing with all the fierce maelstrom of a Niagara, this line of song set the wild echoes flying about the Shawnee county court house at noon today. Again and again it pealed forth with reverberating strength.

The natives shocked, startled, paralyzed, hung breathlessly out of open windows, fearful that the end had come. Yesterday's Evening Journal. An Abilene man will send Alioe Roosevelt a miniature merry-go-round. Kansas is never able to stay out of the foolish column more than one day at a time. It is our experience that "woman" and "trouble" are synonymous terms.

After a' man -is eighty years old he is never averse to creating the impression that he is a good deal older. Count Boni is said to be facing the prospect of three duels. It must be a terrible strain to face the prospect of three of the sort of duels they have in France. It is announced that a Baltimore man looks so much like Nick Longworth that he is frequently mistaken for him. What we want to know is whether the story was sent out as a "knock" or a Tom Dixon has secured a permit to carry a gun.

A gun and Tom's mouth make an annoying combination. John D. Rockefeller, seems to be another edition of Gladstone Dowie done in a little more expensive binding. The present day drama suits us very well, but for the sake of variety we sometimes wish the villain might be something other than a Spaniard or an Italian. "I said Eph Wiley, after quarreling with his wife yesterday, "that I am of no more importance in my own home than a "Congressman at 'Washington." The fact that Dick Heitman has been selling beer also comes in the nature of a complete surprise.

"Vinewood park will be made more beautiful than says an evening paper. Impossible, There are exceptions to all rules save this one: when a country road isn't muddy it is dusty. Ed Howe complains because he is spending $10 a day In Ceylon. Ed ought to go to New York arid stay awhile. We have noticed that when there is a parade the horse is brought out, but when there is hard work to do it is the mule that is hitched up.

From what we have seen of the former. It is our notion that the palmists and manicurists should get together. WARN RURAL CARRIERS A letter was received by Posmaster Guthrie yesterday from the Fourth Assistant Postmaster General stating that there was a man who was going about the country working a scheme on the rural mail carriers. The scheme is that the rural carriers are approached by the man and he tells them that he is. soliciting money for the "Congressional-' Manual" which is represented to be a paper published by the government and that the money is to go to the National University fund.

There is no National University fund and there is no Congressional Manual, but the rural carriers do not seem to understand this and they are paying the $2.50 which the fakir asks for. The depart ment offers a reward of $250 for the arrest of the man who has been working the scheme. The postoffice inspectors have been looking for him but they have been unable to catch him. It may be that the rural carriers who have been fleeced are ashamed to tell about the matter. "I have heard nothing about the matter further than the letter which has been received from the department" said Judge Guthrie.

"It may be that the man has not operated in this state, but the publication of the fact that such men are operating will cause the rural mail carriers to be on their guard. There nave been no complaints in this office." a Old-Fashioned Teachers In Demand. From the Leavenworth Post. Iris generally unfof- high school of the new teachers being "thin In the school days of the present gener ation of business men, a committee rf scholars often soundly thrnshel ft' male teacher without the ooard of aducatiqn be ing officially notified. Sometimes the thrashing process was reversed the same results.

"Boys will be and when a pupil is brought to the notice of the even board of education, for some boyish or girlish trick. which a teacher might have, overlooked without causing any great calamity, it Is only natural that a demoralization of discipline will result. One teacher testified at the recent mock trial that she "had not been introduced to the and some of the teachers didn't--bow to her every time thiy met Tr-is is truly dreadful. A Leavenworth business man said yesterday: '-1 will nvor forget Miss King, who recently left the high She was teach'ig hi the grades and one day a boy emptied iipwr of cold water down my back. I Immediately ran and told her.

Guess what she; said. It was this: My boy, never be a tattle-ale. If the other boy Isn't too give him a thrashing when you get away from school. If he is too big. take the trashing yourself.

Some day you won't have -teacher to run to, and you might as well start in right today. I have personally superintended all suen matters since then." What the high school needs Is teachers, not monitors. It has both now. The members of the school board are to be pitied tor having waste time on such trivial matters they have beea deluged with of late. Lower Kansas Ave.

Now -v: the Wet District. Restaurants and Tobacco Stores in Front. SOME USE PEEP HOLES Patrons Inspected Before They Enter. Occasionally the Woodshed Scheme is Used. The joints on Kansas ayenue which were doing a woodshed business Tuesday were all in operation yesterday.

A "woodshed" business Is where the bartender takes the order and goes outside or down cellar or to some other hidden spot and brings in just what is ordered. In this way no. liquor would be found should the place be raided. Yesterday, however, no caution was used. Everything was as wide open as it has been at any time in recent years.

There are fifteen places where liquor is sold on Kansas avenue north of Fifth street. Of course there are other places farther up the street, but the chosen spot seems to be between Fifth street and the Rock Island depot. At one place there is a locked door. To reach this a long flight of stairs must be climbed and when the door is reached a bell is rung. The doorkeeper then looks through the "peep hole" and if the party looks all right and apparently only desires to quench his thirst the door opens.

Otherwise it remains closed. At another place, a drug store, by the way, the proprietor simply carries a pint bottle in his pocket and when the thirsty customer appears pours out the drink and and replaces the bottle. This takes place in the front of the store. This bottle is like the proverbial pitcher of milk in that it never is empty. These places are the only two where any attempt at concealment is made except for an occasional day or two.

Nearly every barkeeper in town acknowledged getting a that things should be out of sight Tuesday, but each said that some other bartender had called him up and that he did not know where the message originally came from. The majority of joints make a pretense at some other business. In very few places do they conduct a strictly drinking resort. Restaurants and tobacco stores seem to be the favorite blind, and in many instances a person who enters the tobacco store can not find anyone to wait on him. He.

can hear the sound of voices and the clink of glasses will tell him where to go if he desires attention. Pool halls also furnish a screen for these booze dispensers. In one place the entrance is into a cigar store. The second door opens into a pool hair and the third in the rear of the building leads to the barroom. Here is found a keg of beer packed In ice and a few small bottles of whisky.

The bar is of soft pine boards and is not covered nor is any. attempt made to beautify or decorate the' In a "corner is a picture -machme supposed Jrto show naughty pictures, from Sappho. The floor! is not carpeted nor is there any display of mirrors. In another plaW a restaurant faces the street and the bill of fare is set forth on the outside. On entering nothing is to be seen except a lunch counter such as would be seen In any sliort order house but upon going to a table in 'the rear a door leading into another room is seen.

This door leads to the bar and to describe this would be merely a repitition of the above paragraph. The restaurant portion of the establishment is usually deserted save the counter mam but in the back room there is always something doing. The joint which makes the most pretense of being a restaurant and still sells its goods openly is farther up the street, and upon entering nothing can be seen but the lunch counter paraphernalia and a show casecontaining cigars. A curtain covers the opening in the rear, and here is stationed the bar. Several pictures adorn the walls and the bar is covered with oilclouh.

Nothing but bottled goods are sold here. A few bottles are kept on ice in washtubs in the rear of the room. As fast as these are sold they aro replaced. In the" rear of the building is a fairly well furnished dining room and meals and drinks. are both served there.

The places are "comparatively quiet in the day time. At night time is when this part of town Is busy. Business picks up and in some places two bartenders are employed instead of one, as in the case during the day. In other places pianos and singing are heard. Women are seen entering and coming from some of them, and the sound of laughter can often be heard from the street.

Besides the joints there are said to be from five to seven disorderly houses in this district. Liquor is sold in all of these places. Taking everything into consideration, lower Kansas avenue is in about as bad a condition as it was during the Parker administration, when the- policy was to fine the jointists. Wearing Pajamas at Singapore. Ed Howe in Atchison Globe.

All the men in the Orient wear pajamas; I think I am the only man over here who wears a night gown. I dressed early this morning, and went on deck because of the land to be seen, and all the other men. were out, also, isut tncy were not dressed; they were generally wearing pajamas, although a few of them had on gaudily flowered kimonos. I suppose I will finally be compelled to adopt a kimono, as well as pajamas. Pajamas and kimonos are almost universally worn in the hot countries.

A lot of men on the deck of a steamship, wearing kimonos and. pajamas, and ail baref jot, is a sight to make even a fairly modest man scream. The End of "Frenzied Finance" The whole final chapter (in Everybody's for February) is as and dramatic a lact-story as any of the, series What could be bolder than Lawson's plain" exposure and ringing denunciation of the Bay State Gas tricksters? I What could be more dramatic or more exquisitely pathetic than his contrast of a miserable criminal court-scene with the gorgeous offices of lrenzied financiers, "paid for out of dollars blood-and-tear-soaked, wrung cent by cent from the honest toilers of the land." iybodyms THE CALLED MEETING OF THE COUNTY COMMITTEE. P. H.

Forbes, Charles Elliott, W. A. L. Thompson, W. S.

Eberle and W. A. Myers, five members of the county committee, having petitioned for a meeting of the committee, it will be possible to bring the issue squarely before the committee whether protection- is to be furnished for an honest county primary next month. -There are two things which would protect the primary against repeaters and the use of boodle. One is to require registration.

It is the important one of the two. The other is to instruct election officers to take down the name and residence of every person offering to vote. This latter has been done heretofore, but the election officers. have not obeyed instructions. There should be a good attendance of Republicans at the committee meeting to impress on the representatives of the party that party sentiment demands these safeguards against a repetition of the frauds that have been common in recent primaries.

have talked to a good many Republicans and do not find any support of the plea that the candidates are opposed to registration for the primary or that it would be unfair to But the committee, in any event, does not represent the candidates, but the' party. "-The interests of the, party and of an honest primary are superior to the wishes of the candidates. The other objection, that the time is too short for registration, is met by the well known fact that registration in many of the largest cities in the country is done in three days. We have 29 days between this date and the primary. And the fact is that a very large part of the vote is already registered.

The real objection to registration comes from persons who plan to corrupt the vote. We can as well have an honest primary as a corrupt and fraudulent one, and it Is up to the county committee to provide the. necessary rules to insure a Square Deal. COST OF A' STATE PRIMARY. The Kansas City Journal estimates that it will cost at least $30,000 to hold a Republican state primary.

It' figures $23,000 of this to pay judges and clerks and $7,000 for printing. This is an average of about $300 to a county. A primary has been called in the First district, consisting of eight counties, and the total, assessment is $500. We do not suppose that Congressman Curtis expects to pay. judges and clerks $10 to the 'precinct, nor that Congressman Scott and Henry Allen expect judges and clerks to stick the candidates $10 to a precinct for serving the party in these positions.

In the Second district the two candidates have been assessed $500 each to pay for the primary, cov ering nine populous counties. Apparently primaries in these. IT of the largest counties in the state can be held at a cost of $1,500. At that rate a state primary in 105 counties would cost about $9,000. The state committee will naturally consider these details before deciding on its call, but a state primary ought not -to cost any such sum as has been estimated, figuring $10 for every pre cinct to judges and clerks.

There are plenty of Republicans who will perform this party service and do it well with out charge, and it will be all the easier to secure such judges and clerks, in view of the popularity of the open primary plan. If possible, the state and county pri maries should be held on the same day, with one ticket, including Senator, state officers and local candidates, as suggested by the resolution of the Harvey county committee. That committee appealed to the state committee to call a state primary but it also fixed a date for its own county conven tion in case such a call was not made. If it is made Harvey county would have a county and a state primary in one. Other county committees can help push along the direct primary plan by recommending- it to the state committee and the same time holding themselves in readiness to co-operate by holding their own primary at the same time.

There is time for the question of a primary to be canvassed and its ad vantages considered before the objec tion of expense is allowed to defeat it. The state committee could not use cam-- paign contributions to better purpose. The direct nomination of a Senator is worth a good deal, and the direct nomination of the state ticket will do more than anything else to insure victory by a good majority in November. GLOBE SIGHTS. From the Atchison Globe.

Whpn wnmpn tn taibtnc, v.n.. v- neighbors who borrow, more remarkable nua si.ari.iins ssiunes are loia man. upon, any other occasion. It is every bride housekeeper's opinion that it tnks clothes torrihlv inm, to get old enough to be torn up for dish logs aua uusi ciuuis. It happens, tragically often that when a woman has saved up money for a rainy day, her son, or some other bi strong man in her family, gets caught out in the wet and she has to rut up every cent she has saved to get aim under cover.

We wonder that Edward Bok wh authority on all social matters, doesn't originate this sort of a motto for business offices: "Don't talk to the which interpreted, would nean: Tcnt visit with anybody where there is work to When a girl goes around to the neighbors to show her new -engagement rirg it is an incident similar to that follows a woman's return from a sptia sale when she carries jer package of dty-goods around to the neighbors. And in' both cases they tell her she got a bargain though they don't meaa It. occasion before, but has held the position at the request of the board of education for several months, and his absence will be felt by the school and by the board of education. Mr. J.

M. Brown of 824 Monroe, went to Kansas City yesterday for a few days' visit with his sons, D. A. and O. M.

Brown. COMING TO THE THEATER I It should be remembered that the cy I clone scene in The Wizard of Oz comes at the very beginning of the, play, and that the curtain is up and this particular scene over shortly after 8:15 o'clock Joseph West who plays the "Cowardly Lion" in The Wizard of Oz, has been an animal impersonator ever since he has been on the stage. He played a donkey in the Christmas pantomime, The Forty Thieves, at the Drury Lane theater in London, and afterwards the part of the monkey in another panto-, mime, various other animals -being impersonated by him at different times, i The Lion" in The Wizard is the first attempt at portraying the 'king of beasts on the stage. The Wizard comes tonight to the Grand. Denman Thompson's quaint chronicle of rusWc life in the New Hampshire vai- i leys.

The Old Homestead, is to appear s.t the Grand tomorrow, matinee and night. The twenty years of Hfe that this remarkable play has had is a striking tribute to its powers to please large class of theatergoers, who find in its homely sentiment, flashes of wit, lovable characters and meadow-tinted atmosphere a refreshing change from the glare and tinsel of the spectacular. The cast and From the daily Capital, February 9, 1882. John Troutman was drivnni? a rather fractious horse to a buckboard on Jackson street yesterday afternoon, when the animal getting one of the lines sub cauda, suddenly elevated his head's anti-pode. and getting one leg over the right shaft gave a circus exhibition for a few mlnnlM that intensptv rfpliehteri a crowd iT spectators.

ine coil eviurnwy 1 1 to rise to fame in this line of diversion. It was finally overpowered and unhar nessed. No or.e hurU- Rev. F. F.

Borchers of Winfield Kan sas has been compelled to decline to accept the call to the pastorate of the North Totka Eattist church on ac count of disability arising from eighteen months in southern prison pens. The first of a series of three pubHc re hearsals was. successfully jslverr by the Musical Union? last evening at. UBion hall. There was a good and appreciative scenic embelishment in the coming engagement are promised to be of the same high order of excellence which Mr.

Thompson has always provided. The special musical feature, the double quartette and the choir in the Grace church scene are said to be as effective as In previous years. A minstrel show, with its beautiful first part setting, ballad singers, comedians, coom shouters, dancers and olio of specialty artists, comes nearer satisfying theater-goers of the present day than any other effort on the part of theatrical caterers. There is a happy abandon about the whole affair that makes one forget his troubles and become without reluctance a part and parcel of the scene. Gus Sum and his burnt cork organization, which will appear Sunday night at the Grand, promises an unusual musical festival and minstrel Jubilee.

Tnmlnjr the Squirrel at Saiina. From the Saiina Union. There are four squirrels making their home In the court house trees and the employees are getting these little animals tame. This afternoon a a Union reporter, went to the court house to sea what news might be gathered there he came upon an unusual sight. On the stone steps sat County Clerk George Duncan, and eating from his hand, as nicely as you please, was a little squirrel.

Mr. Duncan calls him 'After 'h had eaten what supply Mr. Duncan had the I'ttle animal trotted over to Bam Seiver who sat In the doorwz.v of the treasurer's office and was fed from Siever's hand. Two of the squirrels are so tame that they will hop Into the court house when the window open and eat any food that. Is In sight What Tepekaas Wer.

Bnty Ajioal to EarU Bays of the Capital. audience and those participating in lie numbers were often applauded. The program as published was acceptably rendered. Messrs. Fox, Battey, Blakenley and Church were loudly applauded for their rendition of "In This Hour of which was one of the best things of the evening.

Miss Inez Sexton, who ang one number on the program, a cultured voic of much power and sweetness, that is destined to mako her quite popular in our musical circles. One by one the industries which are the surest founda'ion of a city's croser- ity are being established at Topeka. Th newest boom In this direction is the formation of a corporation for the enlargement of the starch works and the ad dition thereto of such buildings and ma chinery as will enable the company to largely engage In manufacturing and reflnicg syrups and stmar. Col. Jiom-day.

Judge Browr. Willis Norton and J. G. SlonTker are the principal stockholders In this new. enterprise, and they rx-pect to have the refinery In full operation within ninety days.

la to leve children, and CD home-can be completely happy without them, yet tho ordeal through which the ex CONDIT DID NOT DIE FROHSTARVATION Board of Directors of Provident Association Vindicates the Officials. At a meeting of the directors of the Topeka Provident association, the board took occasion to carefully Investigate and review the direction and management of the relief work of the association as conducted by the present general secretary and assistant, and expressed the fullest approval of what they had done, and appreciation of the wise, systematic relief which, through them, has been given to the worthy ones in the city who have been in need. Special attention was given to the case of the recent death of Frank Condit, whom Coroner Keith reported to have died from starvation, while the autopsy itself showed that death was caused from hemorrhage of the brain or apoplexy. Careful inquiry was made and abundant facts disclosed to prove that starvation could not have contributed in any way to the cause of his deatlv Three different grocers Cathers, Burgess and New-land, doing business in the city, with whom Condit traded, made affidavit that within three weeks of his death he had purchased from them groceries and provisions for which he paid cash, of the value of not less than $16.00. In addition to that, Mrs.

Willey, who kept house for Condit, makes affidavit that there were provisions in the house at the time of his death, refuting entirely the idea of serious want. 1 This and other matters were looked into, the more carefully, because friends of the association wished to know what, if any, ground there was for the spread of the story that a man had died of starvation on the streets of our city. The board deem it unfortunate that any physician holding the office of coroner should fail to make distinction between two such diseases as apoplexy and starvation and give publicity to statements so misleading and hurtful, as those given in the Condit case. The evidence regarding this case Is on file at the association office, open to public inspection. In justice to the Provident association and also to Dr.

and Mrs. Van Horn, who are doing a most excellent and praiseworthy work in the city, and in defense against inexcusable attack, the board makes this statement to the public. Signed: J. E. N1SSLEY.

President. THOMAS PAGE, Vice President, O. S. MORROW. Secretary, F.

E. MALLORY, MRS. G. A. HURON.

WILLIAM MACFERRAN, E. A. FREDENHAGEN. MRS. Li.

K. THORPE, JONATHAN THOMAS. WARREN M. CROSBY. J.

W. ROBINSON, T. F. GARVER. NEWS NOTES ABOUT NORTH SIDE PEOPLE The Young Men's league of the Baptist church- met Tuesday evening and had a debate on the subject: "Shall the state of Kansas incur the expense of the Semicentennial?" Thomas Shirley of Grantvflle, was in town yesterday.

Mr. G. J. BoUotte of 1505 North Qulncy, Is III at his borne. Captain Gillman of Fire Station No.

1. left for Hot Springs. yesterday, to take treatment for rheumatism. Edward Thompson of Fremont' Peak, was la town, yesterday. Mrs.

Mary Brown of G3 Jackson, died yesterday morning at, 3 o'clock, of consumption, after a long illness. The funeral services will be held today at St. Mark.s church at 2 o'clock. Interment In Rochester cemetery. The scholars of East Indlanola school will give an entertainmnt at the school house.

Friday evening, for the benefit of their parents and friends. EL A. Elmmerwelfc 'principal of the Grant school, has resigned on account tf his health. Mr; Simmerwell has been in poor health for some time, and has had to take wave of absence on different mm pectant mother must pass usually is so full of suffering, danger and fear that she looks forward to the critical hour with apprehension and dread. Mother's friend, by its penetrating and soothing properties, allays nausea, nervousness, and all unpleasant feelings, and so prepares the system tor the ordeal that she passes through the event safely and with but little suffering, as numbers have testified and said, "it is worth its weight in gold." $1.00 per bottle of druggists.

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