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PAVING CONTRACTS IET. FASHIONS FOR CHILDREN ffla Our Hew Room esque look to the plainest little dress; third, you show yourself up with the times by matching little IXlss Muffit, top and' bottom, stockings and hair. The budding little belles whose mammas belong to the Four Hundred wear black stockings this spring, you must understand, if they have black hair, brown stockings if the hair is brown. It is not the correct thing to put a child into an elaborate white wash dress after it has passed the age of three. White cashmere dresses with pretty little Empire bodices and dainty trimming of feather stitching in cream or colof ed silks are for dress occasions Tuloving to WE WILL MAKE SPECIAL 901-903 BED' ROOM SU TO AVOID MOVING THEM.

$75 Suits for 50.00 I $55 Suits for 40.00 $90 Parlor FOLDING BEDS AT COST bather than hove them. REMEMBER US ON WALL PAPER. ffl. 0. HOLBflAN, FRED.

RENKER, 524 KANSAS Has on hand a full line of SPRING goods which will be made up at reasonable prices, and First-Class Fit Guaranteed. ow little People Fare in Spring. Dressmaking fmfc Put Child Into Kanew Sfclcte Beapec tbe Divine dsn to Hub Pretty Outfits to tlx Country. COZTBXGHT, lSOOL When the first yellow butterfly hovers over the first dandelion bloom I cant ran and catch it because my skirts are too long. I am used to my skirts and I (shan't try, bat the toddler will try and she will tumble down and bump her pose.

Her skirts are about as long as iirrine and they are narrower. Hie jtoddter Uvea and moves and has her being running: I hare grown through jlapse of years quite accustomed to the dignified promenade. If any body tells the toddler in my hearing that she is seeing her happiest days, I shall say: Pudge! dear, don't believe it; you will fcave much nicer times by and by." It's an odd circumstance that the one French fashion we refuse to accept is the most sensible fashion that France offers. The Paris fashion plates without exception show us short, full, nod- fling and cupping RKirts lor runaoouts, Ibut we torn our backs on them. English fashion has pronounced distinctly jand decisively against the long, scant breadths of the Kate Greens way, which twist themselves about a child's legs as soon as ever it gets into full tilt of play, rrhe American child when fashionably dressed is a dainty picture of quaintly, pretty and aesthetic crippleness.

There 'used to be such a word, if there isn't now. The idea is all but universally accepted that children are sensibly and beautifully dressed nowadays. In point of fact, the overdressing of children is not decreasing, and this overdressing runs to one or two extremes. There are foolish mothers who caricature the Paris fashions by making ballet girls of their little ones, but these short-skirted, almost no-skirted, urohins are few. More jthan half the toddling mites one meets ten the streets or sees painfully endeay- 7SS2CCH DRESS FOB A CHILD, joring to play in the parks wear frocks jnd "coats," as they call their spring overcoats, quite down to their heels, and reach home after a walk of melan choly dignity with nurse-maids or gov-jemess with pettiooats splashed with mud quite as if they were thirty instead of three.

It is impossible to have much respect for civilization which pinions a baby's arms by so dressing it that it has to hold up its draperies. There is not a prettier sight under Heaven than a pretty child prettily ar-Tayed. The "living Jewels dropped unstained from Heaven" are so graceful in their mov omenta, so unconscious of themselves, so natural in all they da They made to be flower-decked and worshiped; but they are very human little idols, and a flush that means headache comes on the peachy cheeks and curly heads droop like over-weighted roses when they are tied into the immense flapping hats that Easter has provided for them, covered with flower gardens or loaded down with plumes. The little nymph who is going into the country and will clamor for a scamper over hill and dale will bo dressed in best taste as well as most sensibly if her outfit is the simplest possible. No dress is more practical for a little one at the sea shore than a loose, brown holland pinafore shape, only trimmed with colored bands and having a cap-like hat 'to match of the same material.

Sailor suits are just as pretty for little frlrls as for their brothers, and in wliite iArlll, or navy serge or in red Devon eerge they suit the runabout's If I had a girl of from ten to fourteen who was as enthusiastic as she ought to be over boating and fishing excursions I would tarn her out for the season in a striped woolen skirt and bodice with an over-dress of plain color, with shoulder' straps and bretelles and readily detachable, leaving the striped suit for a bathing gown as often as she chose to turn mermaid and add a swimming lesson to the day's programme. So should she turn her city bleached skin to a clear country olive and never mind her clothes. Hie tartan plaid ginghams soitchil dren. It were a pity otherwise, for they btu no one eise Boreiy. a.

very neces sary snmmer provision for a household of little people is a supply of the fine Dine pms, or terra corca or Swiss prints, with their bright, fast colors, made up in the simplest Empire styles, with fall sleeves gathered into bands of needle-work, full gathered skirts and ahorfc-waisted bodices. Such frocks should be short enough always to ahow some of the stocking, and a child may be made "smart" in the least trimmed apparel, provided, first, the material is good of its kind second, the pieareaar fcijfc, ivea Topeka Avenue to Be Paved With Vitrified Brick. Sixth Street Eut Also to Be Paved With the Same Material The Missouri Pacific Beady to Build Depot Various Matters of Interest Acted Upon by the Council. Last night's session ot the city council was both Interesting and important. There was a full attendance of members.

The most important step taksn in a year, the letting of the contracts for paving Tope- Ka avenue, bixtn street and an alley, was taken and Topeka's prosperity for the coming season will be thereby promoted. the awarding of the contract, ana a motion to postpone letting the contract until next Monday night, there was a general discussion regarding the wishes of tne people on Topeka avenue in respect to the kind of material to be used. It was a settled fact that brick was de sired by a majority of the property owners, but whether it should be laid upon sand or Concrete was not so certain. Councilmen Whaley, Elliott, Lull and Earnest favored sand foundation, but Colonel Burgess favored concrete, as his neighbors desired it. Messrs.

Blakeman, Douthitt and Howel Jones, property owners, spoke in favor of sand, which was cheaper and equally a3 good, in their opinion. Mr. Jones ex plained how the vote was taken at the meeting held Saturday evening and said that it was no indication of the sentiment of the property owners. He with others voted for the resolution demanding con crete foundation in order to feel the pulse of the asphalt men. He desired brick paving because the money would all remain at home, and he desired sand foundation for the same reason, other things being equal.

The bids were as follows: Topeka avenue paving. Henry Ben- net, vitrified brick, on sand, vitrified brick, on concrete, Capitol City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, paving on sand, paving on concrete, G. T. iNelles. Atchison, paving with Colorado sandstone, the Barber Asphalt Paving company, asphalt, $2.80.

Grading. Capitol City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, 2A cents per cubic yard; Geo. Bass Young, (bid incomplete) 24 cents; Pleasant Smith, 24 cents; Lewis S. Dolman, 28 cents; crozier cc uiiora, cents. uurD- mg.

JJluIvane 5c Kepley, Colorado sandstone, 75 cents per lineal foot; Has well Train Lemist. Atchison. artificial stone, 68 cents; Henry Bennett, artificial stone. 64 cents: Capitol City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, Colorado sandstone, 80 cents; G. T.

Nelles, Colorado sandstone, 75 cents, bixtn street paving The Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, vitrified brick, $1.69 and $1.87 as on Topeka avenue; Jno. H. Persson, Colorado sand stone, grading, Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, 29 cents; Pleasant Smith, 29 cents. The contracts were awarded as follows: For paving Topeka avenue between inira ana ourteentn ana lor pavins oixth avenue between Uuincy and Jel ferson streets, Capital City Vitrified T- 1 -IT" uncK ana raving company, per square yard. or paving the alley between Eighth and JNmth and Uumcv and Monroe.

Capital City Vitrified Brick and Paving company, i.7o per square yard. if or grading Topeka avenue, Crozier ulford, 24M cents per cubic yard. or grading the alley, the Vitrified Brick company, 31 cents per yard. or grading Sixth avenue. Pleasant Smith, 29 cents per cubic yard.

a or curbing Topeka avenue and for curbing Sixth avenue, Mulvane Kepley, 75 cents per lineal foot. PETITIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS. The city engineer presented his first and final estimate for the grading of Third street from Jackson to Topeka avenue, by Smith, in the amount of $470.25. Referred to the committee on finance. A.

K. Fulford Co. petitioned for per mission to erect the tents for giving their show in this city May 2d and 3d, on the lots between Eighth and Ninth streets, on Madison. Tayer granted. F.

M. Newland and seventy-five other property owners east of the railroad tracks, asking that the Topeka City street railroad be granted the right to construct and operate a double track line over the Sixth street viaduct, in consider ation of the sum of $2,500 paid by the street railway company to the city, was presented and referred to the committee on ways and means. The Side street railway company petitioned the council for permission to erect a waiting room on the northeast corner of Ninth and Quincy. Referred to the committee on streets and walks. A communication from J.

M. Meade, assistant engineer of the Santa Fe, asking a. i i terms upon waicn me city wouia sell tne rock deposited on the Haymarket square to the company for riprapping on its spur from the shops west along the bank of the Kaw river to Quincy street, was re erred to the mayor with power to act. A petition from Samuel Barnes, repre senting property owners on Dillon street asked thnt the sidewalks upon that street be made only four feet wide, on account of the narrowness of the street, and the encroachment upon the parking grounds. Referred to the committee on streets and walks.

Cuthbert Sargent, J. J. Haish and thirty-five other property owners, petitioned for fire hydrants at Eighteenth and Topeka avenue and Twentieth and Topeka avenue. Referred to the committee on fire department. Sam Harris, A.

Green, Richard Rideout. Edward Cook and A. Scales petitioned for a sidewalK at proper grade on the east side of Madison street, between Crane and First avenue. Referred to the com mittee on streets and walks. E.

B. M. u. Jones and ten others asked the council to appoint three disin terested parties as viewers of the pro- posea LiVLU roaa irom Euclid avenue to Topeka avenue, north of the fair erounds. Tne prayer was grantea ana the city at torney was directed to prepare the neces sary orainance.

COMMITTEE REPORTS. The committee on streets and walks recommended the passage of the ordi nance establishing the width of the road way and parking grounds of Seventh street from Jackson to Van Buren streets, 56 and 12 feet respectively. Ad opted. Alio cwmnunee on ways ana means recommended the approval of estimates oi sytw.vi, crozier Fuixord, $294. IJortii Topeka.

PRICES ON A FINE LINE OF $50 Suits for 37.50 $75 Parlor Suits 60.00 Suits 70.00. OOH'T FORGET US ON CARPETS. NORTH TOPEKA. AVE. 524.

Try Scotch Oats LOUIS LILIEtlTHAL, Teacher of Piano For advanced pupils and beginners. Special pains taicen with pnpila not. far advance Reference Pbof. Ii. Hbcx.

Address: 507 Tan Boren. or Abe Steinberg' Clothing House. USE! ONLY SCOTCH ROLLED OATS HADDOCK IN COURT. Wm. Haddock, the colored man who was shot in the left shoulder by Officer Wilson while resisting arrest April 7, is having his trial before Justice Chesney to-day.

Haddock had stolen some farm implements, including a plow, drill, mattock, hammer and a wheelbarrow in which he took the other implements home. Officers Wellman and Wilson went to his home on East Tenth street to arrest him, but he resisted and fired at the officers; they returned the fire, one ball striking his left shoulder, but he was not captured until they had chased him almost a mile. A charge of grand larceny had been entered against him, but it was dismissed and he is now being tried for petit larceny. The officers have not yet entered a complaint against him for resisting arrest, but that will be done when the present case is decided. The jury returned a verdict finding Haddock guilty and Justice Chesney sentenced him to pay a fine of $25 and costs of suit.

A Remarkable Case. When W. Edson of Topeka was sixteen years old he had the measles very badly, and they left him with the sight of his right eye so seriously affected that he has not been able to see out of that organ until about seven months ago, when Prof. Samuels, the noted optician, furnished him a pair of glasses that filled the bill completely and enabled him to see as well out of his heretofore blind eye as he can out of his good one. Mr.

Edson never thought such a thing could be done, because before meeting Prof. Samuels he had tried all of the different kind of glasses made, but could get nothing that gave him any sort of relief. Such a wonderful care as this is certainly something re-: markable, for Mr. Edson had but the use of one eye, and had the other been equally affected he would not have been able to see at all. Doubtless a great many people who are groping through life in our blind asylums are affected just as Mr.

Edson was, when, did they know it, they could be easily made to see, if Prof. Samuels could get hold of them. Topeka Capital. It was thought that Topeka was get-tins her brick naviner nrettv cheap last year whenVan Buren street was contracted at $L79 a square yard, but the same contractors go themselves ten cents better this year. Get your bedding plants -and cut flowers at the Potwin Greenhouses.

Electric cars run by the door every seven minutes. Telephone 458. "XJ3.1TY Junius VyJUiuiwk uuia veiling at the English Lutheran churchv Admission 15c Get your bedding plants and cut flowers at the Potwin Greenhouses. Electric cars run by the door every seven minutes. Telephone 458.

'Dairy Maids Cantata" this evenion at the English Lutheran church. Admission 15c. Th great Meniscus- Copyright, 1889. AN OLD IHAID'S SOLILOQUY. take or not to take it, Is the question Whether it is better to end this earthly career A spinster braving the smiles of those who would insist That lack of lorers caused my lonely state, Or take the remedies my sisters take, An ft my ye9 bright as tho' I bathed in the immortal fount De Leon sought In rain in Florida's peaceful shades.

loft hare heard my married sisters sav That good old Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription Would bring back color to a farted cheek Kestore the health of one who fain would die To rid herself of all the pain she feels." Thfl afnraeaiii antnofs ntlr and forthwith took a husband also, having1 regained her health and blooming- beauty. Ihousands of women owe their fresh, blooming countenances to the restorative effects of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. It is a positive cure for the most complicated and obstinate cases of leucorrhea, excessive flow- InST.

T) ft infill mpriRfninflnn iinnahiral cnnnwMi sions, prolapsus, or falling of the womb, weak back, "female weakness' anteversion, retro- v.iowu, uouiugiuwu eeiiBaiiuns, cnromo congestion. Inflammation and ulceration of the womb. Dr. PIERCE'S PELLETS regulate and cleanse the liver, stomach and uuweis. xney are purely vegetaoie and per- fectlv hnrmlpRR.

ftnA a hni. SrJrl druggists. 23 cents a vial. 06 Crozier Fulford, and the passage of an appropriation ordinance. Adopted.

lhe committee on sewers and water works reported back the petition of F. Jtt. (irover and other citizens and taxpayers for the extension of mains and the construction of fire hydrants on Gordon and other streets. A resolution passed at a prior meeting concerning the same. lhe committee on sewers and water works referred the petition of W.

E. Cowles and others, for a top sewer in the blocks between West and Home and Sixth and Eighth streets, to the commit tee on streets and walks. The same committee, to whom was re ferred the communication of the Topeka "Water company relative to the extension ot Monroe street, from airchild to Kist- ler, reported in favor of granting the re quest for the extension of mains and the location of a hydrant at the southeast corner of Monroe and Kistler streets. Adopted. The committee on wavs and means recommended granting of petition of the Missouri railway lor permission to extend roofs of their depot buildings over the street.

Adopted. ne committee on ways and means recommended that the poll tax collected in each ward be worked out in that ward, but that no ward foreman be created, as asked by Mr. Lull. Adopted. Councilman Ettlinger, the special com mittee of one appointed to investigate the condition of the work at the coal hole, re ported that the Uiamond Drill company was doing all that it could and recom mended that no action be taken for the present at least relating to terminating the contract with the company.

Adopted. The ways and means committee recom mended the rejection of the petition of the Boulevard syndicate, asking for per mission to make sewer connection in the alley on Tenth and east of Buchanan. Adopted. The committee on streets and walks recommended the rejection of the peti tion of F. Newby, for permission to erect a porch on a building on Jackson street near the Kapid Transit depot The same committee recommended that new walks be laid on the west side of Jackson street from Thirteenth south to lot 522, as prayed for; also for walk on south side of 1 fftn street between Folk and Taylor streets; also on east side of Locust street between Eighth and Twelfth.

Adopted. The committee on streets and walk3 recommended the extension of the water mains and the construction of hydrants on certain designated streets in North Topeka. Adopted. ORDINANCES ADOPTED. Appropriating certain funds out of the rebate street improvement fnnd to pay for estimate for grading and parking on west side of Van Buren street between Third and Fourth streets.

Establishing the width of the roadway and parking ground on Eighth street from west line of Harrison street to east line of Topeka avenue. Granting right of way to the C. K. N. on the alley running north and south through the block bounded on the north by Curtis, on the east by Quincy, on the west by Kansas avenue and the south by Kailroad street.

Establishing the width of the roadway and parks on Seventh street, between Jackson and Van Buren streets. Appropriating funds out of the alley paving fund for grading the alley be tween Tenth and Ninth avenues and Kansas avenue and Quincy 6treet MISCELLANEOUS. The specifications of the city engineer for side walks were on resolution adopted. By resolution of Councilman Ettlinger, the market house ordinance was referred to the committee on ways and means. A resolution ordering the filing of the report of the appraisers for Sixth avenue from the east line of the viaduct to Locust street and ordering the mayor to call a Bpecial meeting for May 5 to con eider complaints regarding the same was adopted.

The mpmhPN nf tho state board of rtar dons are at the state penitentiary, personally investigating the cases of several convicts now before them for pardon. "Dairy Maids Cantata" this evening at the English Lutheran church. Admission 15c F. J. Brown and J.

E. Pritchard, who were under indictment for using the mails to defraud, have been discharged, their case having been nolle prosequied. "Dairy Maids Cantata" this evening at the English Lutheran church. Admission 15c. A.

L. Silig, a prominent business man of Lawrence, is at the Throop. A BATHES ELABORATE GINGHAM. always suitable, but the favored materials for girls past babyhood are percales and washing silks and challies. Such frocks are over-trimmed very commonly by too zealous mothers who st em to think that a girl baby is born for no purpose but to be embroidered; but a child's dress is neither tasteful nor artrstio when its sleeves are tied tightly about the middle with ribbons iand when rosettes or little buttons are flung at it by the double-handful and "baby" ribbons are laced and interlaced (from one point of the harness to another un til it appears that the poor little queen has gotten herself hopelessly Itangled with the streamers of her May-pole.

Wise mothers choose a low blouse over a guimpe or yoke of Swiss embroidery, with shoulder-straps and sash in black velvet; or a full waist pointed 'back and front with leg o' mutton sleeves and graduated rows of velvet ribbon about the straight skirt with its simple four-inch hem; or a high round waist shirred at the neck and with the fullness at the waist held by a big buckle; or a blouse of surah or India silk with jacket front; or a pointed waist with bretelles, the velvet ribbons and rosettes whicn enter into this arrange ment not being too overpowering. Bailor suits will be the favorite cos tumes for little boys this summer. They are now much made with long trousers, wide at the bottom. The youthful wearers, when thus clad, look like droll little men, but the effect is more amusing than pleasing. The "fisherman" suit is prettier.

It calls for knickerbockers of blue serge, blue sorgo shirt and blue and white striped vest with blue and white sash and tasaeled cap. Some of the women who got up their boys last year as Fauntle- roys, are putting them this spring into "gardeners' eo stumes. One youngster whom I saw at a children's party re cently in a long ''gardener's with chemisette of white woolen stuff and trimmings of deep plaiting, looked, in his wide knickerbockers gathered into bands below the knees, quite picturesque but uncomfortably conscious of observation. A small girl who had an "at home" the other day in imitation of her mam ma's wore a Louis XVL blouse in wash ing-silk shot-pink and blue with pinked out trimmings about neck and hair. There was a sash in twilled silk knotted at the back, and for outdoor wear was provided a bonnet in white lace with satin ribbons.

One of her little guests wore flounced frock in olka-dotted silk with flat collar and CHIT.T) WRAP AKD FISHERMAN SUIT. euffa of plain material and a stringless bonnet run with ribbons. Another was arrayed in an Eton vest and skirt of gray cashmere with full sleeves, front and band about the hem in white cashmere. Peasant cloaks make pretty wraps for girls, and little tweed jackets smartly braided are much seen. The prettiest mantles have double fronts and are made of fine soft wools with tyings of broad ribbons.

The most barbarous feature of children's fashions is the mourning costume, which is now made with much punctiliousness for an infant of five or six years. To put a baby into oeaa Mack is heathenish, but the son oer uttle figures are seen every day. une dimpled face that I noticed this morning was encircled by a flaring wiarione voroay bonnet in black surah. The mite wore an Empire gown of black vauzng ana a black peasant cloak, In one hand she clutched a dolL and the aoUr-aave the markl was in mourning. I.

T1T1TST QS3CCS PAYING A DEBT LONG DUE. Uncle Sam Distributing: a Handsome Sam to Citizen Fottawatomies. Colonel Robert S. Gardner, of Wash ington, special Indian agent, began the payment of a large sum of money to the Pottawatomie Indians the Union acme notei. More than twenty years ago the government purchased of the tribe a tract of land in Cook county, 111., part of which is now covered by Chicago.

The Indians were to receive $185,000 for the land, but neither the principal nor the interest has ever been paid, and the interest at five per cent now amounts to $200,000, or $15,000 more than the principal. It is the interest which Col. Gardner is now paying, and each man, woman and child of the tribe is receiving $106.35 as their share. Each individual is expected to appear before the agent in Topeka, and only the aged and sick will be called upon at their homes. After paying those who reside in this vicinity Col.

Gardner will go to the Kaw Agency and Shaw-neetown in the Indian territory, as there are a good many Pottawatomies located at those places. Topeka is full of Pottawatomies, but any one who expects to see a savage on the streets of the capital of Kansas will be disappointed. The red blanket Indian of Kansas, is something of the past, and the absence of feathers, shawls, tin jewelry and paint is quite noticeable, although the reporter did see one extremely old man who, perhaps, is an aged chief of the tribe, wearing a pair of moccasins. The men and women are well dressed and look as respectable and intelligent as one can imagine. There are among them a good many squaw men or white men, who have married into the tribe and they are receiving their share with the rest.

CoL Gardner will be at the Union Pacific until Friday. THE U. MARSHAL RETURNS. United States Marshal Dick Walker has returned from Oklahoma, where he conducted a raid upon the jointists and looked after some claim jumpers. He says that the people, of Oklahoma are, in view of the absence of municipal law, the most orderly and well behaved people he ever saw.

He was in Oklahoma City just before Captain Couch died, and by his order, Adams, his slayer, was quietly placed upon the train by three or four of his deputies and taken to Wichita, where he is in jail. He says Adams would have been lynched within two hours after Couch's death if he had not been got out of the way. James Bradley was tried in the United States district court yesterday afternoon for assaulting a guard at the National Soldiers' home at Leavenworth. Bradley is an inmate of the home. He was convicted by the jury and Judge Foster gave him three months in the Leavenworth county jail The U.

S. grand jury filed five indictments to-day. In all the jury has found over forty indictments this term and will probably increase the number to over sixty before it adjourns. The jury will probably get through to-morrow evening or Thursday. J.

M. Barron, formerly manager of the Grand opera house in this city, will manage the well known trasredian, Louis James, next year. Mr. Barron was acting manager and treasurer for Mr James this season. Rev.

E. Powell returned from Salina last night and reports Unitarian missions and the wheat crop as flourishing and the people of the 6tate more hopeful of the future than heretofore. A series of concerts will he given at Vinewood park, at the eastern terminus of the East Side Street railway, this summer by Hendricks cornet band. Mr. and Mrs.

C. P. Baker wiil entertain the Unity club next Friday evening, at their home on West Sixth street "Dairy Maids Cantata" this at the English Lutheran church, sion 15c The great Meniscus. evening Admis- I Helnea WftgonerfdraggUtaa731.