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FURNITURE.


T OUIS WISS. 1874 y. Quincy ST.. grocery aud
- meat market. Everything the best at low
est prices. Goods delivered to al parts of the
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VINEWooD * HIGHLAND PARK r. r.
Trains VIII leave Quincy Street Station week
days ior Vinewa0d a. follows: G:45; II 81. 5:41.
Trains vii! leave Vincwood for Quincy street
at 1867. 100, $3.50.
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TSRoWNE &. tfAKVIN. 1906 Topeka ave. Fresh
ana ne sag meats poatfy' gan lTva ana ns
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.
s-~J-~~-~~~-~~~~--~~N~~~
i ~ MANY r. ST. VAT, o34 Harrison
~ street. Consulting hours 10 q. m. to pm
TlR STELLA KIKBY, 800 Kansas ave. Once
~ hours 10 % II g. NJ 2 TO ?. m. i hone lz3
L. a. RYDER, Nj. ..
OFFICE and residence cor. q oTdon street and
~ Central avg, Nor.h Topeka. Phone "a.
Uses The Brin&eThof system of Rectal treat
Inent, a successful and painless treatment for
piles. fl lula nshure. liberation. etc.
& T. SHELDON, II. D..
Ne sURGKR AND DISEASES OF WOMEN, with
privats hospital. Office: No. TO Kansas Ave
R9ES. MARY L. MCEIN sTRY, MagneGic
W. Healing. Massage treatment. Res dence
and office 1883 Quincy street. North Topeka,
Kansas. Harrison telephone 4oS.
7 "a C. BARNES, NJ. d.
Once 73e Kan. Ave. esGence 18th and Clay.
Once hours s q, II. to II a. M. ant p H. TO
5p. m. harrison telephone 9s residence, and
81 ofice.
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WTANTkD-Situatlon by man steRographer.
w with large experience. Address Thomas,
care State journal.
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NTAN1l D-BoY, good reference. Union Pa
w citic Tea Co.. 90 Kansas Ave.
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MANTEp-HELP.

XNANTED-Ato once. a pace for q WaShburn
student to work for his board Address
NJ. II. Frank, Prin.
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TgA son SEUS.. 1921 West Sixth. Parior
h Aeat Market. Besides well stocked meat
market ne handle game fish andpouiLry Fresh
butter. Tel lS2.
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p /. JONES. 1l55 Kansas ave. groceries
A0s -four and feed; meat market in connec.ion
can save you money, close prices prevail in
STsry line. Also sell coal,
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~ n. KIETZMAN, 4l6 Kansas ave. boots
" and shoes. Also ladies' mems and
chi.dren's slippers and rubber goods. Best
bargains in the city by far.
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BOOTS AMn SHOES

g. NJ CHASE & CO., e2s kausas ave Cor
- Iecr styles in high grade shoes at popular
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EET STORE

w l. TRIUMPH Ill. TO Kansas ave-, fine
W art store, etcRfngs. watsr coiors, Berlin
photos, etc Dresden pastel coiorS- Latest
novelties Ia framing aad meuisingS.
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HAS DMARE

n q = > " = = :,
NJ NLF bAUo q COLI. (sLccessors 10 a. ".
w Knowles x Coz Hardware. stores and
tinware. Gasoline sioves Monarch and other
BICYCLES. Iii last 8 III ssreet.
w A. L. THOMPSON HARDWARE CO,
~ 5l7-5i9 kssr5RS ave. hardware, sporting
goods. etc. Agents for the Stearns bicycle. Full
line Of gas and summer stoves.
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hARNEsa ANn sAnnLERY.

ID q. DAVIS. T1S Kansas ave. manufacturer
Il . OF ard dealer In harness. saddles brides
whips, ese. Aiy aiiR Is TO make low prices, and
give good goods.
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MEAT MARKETS.

~~-~-~~~-~~@~~~-~~~~ -~~~~~->~~~~~-~-~-~-~-~
- y. MAYG sat hans@s I'VE dedier IL fresh
~ and sal. meats, podllry, fish. &C. Choice
country butter. AL orders promptly de.iv-
cred. Bell telephone 1876.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-06-23

ss-ru,-z -ily exhausted the patience Of my
Informant in obtaining the figures which
I give. SdIl. assuming tnat some allow
anre mus, Re made on this score. surely
a caunot .. that a difference Of more
thar. fsg per cent. can possibly Be attTi0u-
table 70 chance Suppose We cut II N
hslf ana make It 20 Per cent What a
vast advance Is that Tine improvements
which London has. As = city, male IN ner
slrun districts have cost soma rnillSons OF
pounds. Bur suppose that for every 49,"
she stops man from crime and turns
MS work into honest channels observe
her profit:
FSrst. she saves what she would nave
host through his evil doing. Second. she
caves what 1t would have cost 20 watch
him. aporehend him and convict him
Third. she saves what II would have cost
her 70 guard him, feed him and ciothe
hin, during the period OF his punishment
Fourth. she saves what his criminal in
4uence or his companions would nave
cost her Fifth. and this is by Tar
greater economy than ali 5ae Others puL
together. she saves the cost OF paying FOR
the shadow which his criminal tendencies
would have cast On mis- pOsterity for all
time 10 come.
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population. ard 90 nst change irs per
sonnet az ali. The old buildings which tae
new dwellings thus replaced had pee1 o.
9 character 10 encourage Eita and fnoroli
living and 50 develop crime The ne~
buildings we're OF a nature - encourage
cleanliness and normal home life, and 50
developed morality. Philadelphia vas
oyer-gn by thugs and highway roooers
and the general genus tough Her Dark
alleys narrow and gloomy, afIoFde1
countless opportunities for assaults and
hiding hooks for criminals By and ~
the city introduced the electric light into
them ali. and, presto! came change
Crime had dropped = per cent. ~ the
time the system was completed Even
the men who urged the Improvement we're
amazed. The blind can read the reason
for IL. After the searching rays of the
electric arc revealed every nook and
Granny. eu9 made every hitherto dark and
narrow alley light and open 20 the IN
oulrInes glance OF police and citizens. the
criminal no longer dared 70 operate there.
Thus. forced out OF living By sinful meth
DDS. he must either gain an honest liveli-
hood BY honest work or leave the city.
few may have gone away. but the vast
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Nasty Na>rilla, the Afghan Hog.

London Letter in New York Tribune.
The more that becomes. known OF the
manners and habits OF the Afghan prince.
Nasrulla Khan. the less he is liked. He
created had impression on Thursday at
ais reception by the lord mayor al the
Guiidhal. the city dignitaries becoming
thoroughly disgustei with him. When the
address of the corporation was read 10
him the oajeweled barbarian paid not he
slightest attention to its delivery, nor did
he make any reply 10 it. The speech
which was given TO the press supporting
to have come from him was really made
by Col. Talbot in his capacity as inter-
prefer. Following this piece of discour-
tesy the prince gave a fine exhibition of
Afghanese manners in his refusal TO ac
cept the extended hand of Lady Renals.
the wife of the lord mayor. His deport-
ment at the table was positively match
less as an example of swinish sluttony.
Though the luncheon table was spread
with the choicest vianis. he insisted on
eating only the food which had been pre-
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Is the
Carpet
Getting
Threadbare !?

They all wear out in time,
although those sold by rs
seem to have a longer lease
of life than many Others.
Perhaps it's due to the fact
that in all grades and makes
we aim TO have 1.-THE best
The best MOquette Carpet We
sell is 1.-The best we can bur
on the market. The same
holds good i'll everything We
sell. Certainly, then, THE
best" will give better salts.
faction.
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majority remained and mended their
ways. They were reformed by an electric
lighting system
And so London is being rapidly regener-
aied old London. as Dickens knew IL,
even as Jack the Ripper knew 1t. is dis
appearing and I'm it's place is springing up
p city of wide streets. well lighted. These
ara not lined by rambling rookeries. crime
and disease breeding. but are faced either
by business blocks or by plain, suhstan-
tial dwellings for the poor. with big win
dows. airy rooms, all sanitary improve
ments and Observation-Disclosures calcu-
lated 70 implant and develop selfrespect
and fellow-respect I'm the persons who live
therein. certain 10 encourage healthful-
ness Of body and healthfuness of mind.
Tho new streets are we'll paved and well
cleaned and arc well lighted and well po-
Heed. AS they extend the criminal fees
before them 10 concentrate in the few
dark and dingy districts still remaining,
hut after he has taken refuge there he
finds that the strong arm of the law has
gone before him and is ready 10 receive
him 4 hluecoat is on every corner. Not
In the darkest depths of what is left Of
old Whitechapel is there a single blind
alley which does not echo with the heavy
clatter of a constable's footStep every
thirty minutes. day and night. Nothing
could he more discouraging TO the enter
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prevalent than elsewhere. but IL ID
generally guessed thar her wtckedness
Is gay and frivolous New YORK ana
Chicago, OF course. have borne the
name Of being the towns in which the
boldest and most stupeGdous crimes arc
PLANNED and executed. Thus. in the
public mind. the four greatest cities Of the
world have been classified as to their
wfckedness. ! know that such has been
my personal idea. Whenever have
thought OF LONDON crime II has risen be-
fore me in a melodrama setting OF mar
row streets and dull old houses. Of dark
cellars and gloomy arches under bridges
and along the Thames embaDkment. !
have thought of London as a city so vast
that parts OF II must be given over 10 the
raunts of sordid vice and low-browed
fcoandrelism. ! have thought that even
as ahstocracy has its Beigrayia here, so
must Whitechapel be the abode OF eXclu-
sive and selected wickeduess. have
pictured slouchiug heavy-vIsaged villains
darling desperately out o. darkling door
WAYS 10 srnite and rob the wayfarer;
weil-practlced burglars roaming London
streets at night, housed reakins in scorn
OF the police. and gathering before dawn
in some East Side den 10 share the spells
and arrange new raids. shrcwd Fagins
IN their school Of crime, teaching tiny tots
the art OF picking pockets. depraved
women. whose Dnly fFANe - 10 CoafstiS
lure men into gloomy Easements. there 10
drug and rob them. ! have read Of the
vast number Of unemployed in London.
Of the starving hordes. and I have theor-
lied that where hunger IS. there also must
he violence. and that therefore. highway
robbery and window robbery. sneak
thieves and kindred offenders must he
plentiful in the queens metropolis. 1
have imagined that dark deeds of violence
must be- common in city which could
develop Jack the Ripper" aud / have
thought Of bloody murders and mutilated
corpaes thrown into the waters OF the
Thames.
have been all wrong. | do not now be
lfeye that anywhere else under the sun
there are 1000 go peopie-be they gathered
into one city or Scattered IN many-where
30 few crimes of the kinds which ! have
fusfanced are committed.
When the average American thinks az
London crimes he thinks OF the crimes OF
Dickens London. or else remembers what
he read OF Whitechapel at the time the
Ripper murders filled American news
papers and wcekles with graphic ac-
counts Of that extraordinary district
Neither applies now. Doubtless
Dickens pen-pictures OF Fagln and BIN
rykes and their homes and their com
panIons were faithful then. and IL IS
prohahie that the American journalists
who were sent here TO study Whitechapel
and it's people were as accurate in their
descriptions as The excitement Of the
time and the brevity of their hurried visits
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s,,,- .bsre AZ al. II was that small d We
Ms IN, Mai has the little door to do with
- -bsrL5n, n cats:" asked Ms flhh'
impafiently. ....A.,,l mar
rator. with gentle and maj IOFi'sa .'1 -,
.,5f veil let me finish the story Ee =
~ ar thinkin' comes in al the
end. and no TO &c o'i'''1'"N
wen az was tellin' We, when ne had
-. rs.tls door finished he took the "iS
ton,cat. Bolivar by the SLACK q - -
on the outside OF the barn anu ss,U Nv -
nose AGAINST the little door. 80 w. - -,
- outside the harm at night, whlh 90. III
sS,,e s,,g5 ha in he'd. Bolivar 'ud Know nov
- - r,a+,in' IN the harm widout Wdh,A
,,-.-,-,,.odx, m for $ mile arooh" 'ile
rsaca And after he showed Bolivar NJ"
=, 90, in from the outside. falth what
ala he do but take Bolivar inSloe tIle
harm and saoves him through the w..
from the inside. dye see anu las ana
are. as snug as whisky IN a sIass' '-Ns
the cats goin' in and out, at all hours o.
the nishr widout SO much as SaNih
BY your lave or AKIN yer ps'
don.' Well. Mr. Lindsey slept Wen attner
that. for Thin cats nd wander away ~
Hill and down dale coortin' tnafe sweet
hearts so they would stravaSin on oaSh
ere a wan O. thin only wan
What was that, Mickey asked ms
father. anxiously knocking the aSheS
from his pipe into the stove.
well We mustn't know. thin, resumed
thu bov. that wan O thin cats was
fine tenor singer. and he used TO coort
cat as belonged 10 Il man as was a q alsF
In eiectricitv He had been bothered so
long wild cats singin on the hack hnce
that he got tired. SO what does he DO hut
he put a round steel plate about the size
OF a stove plate on top o the nnce III the
Mace where the cat used 10 sit and sing
Thin ne runs a trolley wire out 10 the
Mate and whin the cat began 20 sing
Behave Me. If All Tsim Endearing Young
charms and whin he came to the high
note in the piece the man turned on the
steam. and there was the cat stuck TO the
plate. with his mouth open and he not able
TO move hand or foot. nor make noise
rim the man turned off the gas and let
him go"
His parents looked at the story-teller
suspiciously for "A minute, but seeing ms
face unmoved, swallowed the story relue-
family His mother. however. held him
relentlessly 10 the original subject. ana
brought the narrator back TO il with the
question:
Faith. Mickey. dear. shure that has
nothin' 10 do wild cats thinkin', asthore!
"Thrue for We, mother" replied the boy.
but I'm comm TO that now. For two
weeks thin cats whit back and forth. IN
and out. ali night. and Mr. Lindsey slept
like a top so he did, until one night about
12:30 o'clock the catastrophe happened
that nearly lost Bolivar his backbone. and
that will prove whin l tell tho you that
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time ne was warned and discharged The
second time he was fined five shiilinsS.
which he managed 70 pay with 6laic atty;
the third time he was nned ten saillings.
wnicn ne could not pay al all. so ne was
Imprisoned for one month thus forcing
him 70 suffer ken disgrace, and. besides,
depriylng his family FOR that period Of
the few shlAings which ne nigat other
wise have earned. This misfortune was.
uuquestiolably one Of the things which
drove aim 10 commit the terrible crime
with which he absolutely wiped out his
family and himself
Still. in the main. the school BOARD laws
|oTh good London's streets are never
cluttered with romping. cursing young
steers, as are those OF most American
cities Boys are not permitted 10 sell
newspapers during school hours. and
hooJbiacks must be licensed, and must
wear red jackets and big brass badges
before they can ply their trade. l have
not seen one Ilitle girl selling papers since
! have oee4 In London. although flower
girls-over Fare not infreQuent- The
CHILD NaSrant-the tot lying asleep IN
doorways and on the elevated railroad
stairways OF New York-is unknown here.
SIN, despite these vast advances, Lon
don is by no means without her crime.
The condition OF blank despair which
such abject poverty as is common here
brings about extends the suicide list 10
distressing length: If one wishes 10 class
prostitution as a crime then he must ad-
nit that London leads the world in II. be
cause, as | have said. there is absolutely
no legal restraint upon il here: a certain
kind OF business swindling is more com
mon here than elsewhere. and horrible
domestic tragedies. such as l have al
ready referred to-the septupie homicide
at Topping-are dis,ressingly common
London's pickpockets are most numerous
and expert. and plain thefts Of ali kinds
emitting those which require violence TO
person or building in their execution-out-
number similar crimes in the American
metropolitan district by Is 70 /.
EDWARD MARSHALL.
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Debauchery's Terrible Punishment.


In connection with the cock-sure state
ment OF Mr. Howells that the present
race was never so healthy and strong
as now, IL is interesting 10 read the fol-
lowing aragraph, written by DR.. T. :.
Clouston superintendent of the Morning
side asylum. Scotland. He says:
lone terrible form of brain disease.
with mental symptoms, is certainly in
creaslng. That malady may he
described as a breakdown of the great
center OF mind and motion in the brain:
il always goes on from bad TO worse TIL
II renders its victim utterly helpless In
mind and body. and kills him IN a few
years. No cure. and scarcely any miti-
CATION OF this larter-day curse has yet
been devised. II IS a disease of cities.
of restless lives. of active brains I'm their
prime: sometimes of dissipation and de-
bauchery, of life at high pressure COM
monty"
During the past year the asylums of
Scotland received 80 new cases: those
OF England l. 400. and those of Ireland,
-. The asylum statistics of this coun-
try show an even greater number.
In a single asylum of this state. for ex-
ample that at Ogdensburg. there were
among the 80 admissions thiTty-one cases
Of general paress This would make the
proportion OF general paresis over per
cent.
Among seven state asylums, 70 which
i9i2 patients were admitted in 1880, there
were sixty-six cases Of general paresls.
or a little over per cent. II per cert.
be ghe genera ratio for this disease in
the state Of Kew York. then the total
number OF p1retics among the 5000 in
sane would he about SO. As a matter of
fact. the number is much greater. because
the proportion Of this disease is larger
in New York and Kings county asylums
than In those OF the state at large. But
even f there were but 4.0co cases OF gen
eral paresis among the 10000 insane Of
this country. II would he an eNtraorfi
nary evidence Of the development Of
disease which IN the last century was
certainly not known. even II II did exist.
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prising and Industrious criminal: nothing
could be better calculated 10 encourage
him 10 change into an enterprising and
Industrious honest man.
Almost all Of this has been done within
tho last fifteen years Now 20 prove that
/ am not n theorist striving To carry his
point at any cost by twisting things, and.
perhaps, by hiding one side not favorable
TO him (and honest theorists have been
known 90 do such things unconsciously).
let me show what the condition was here
during a week of 1SS1. chosen at ran
dom. and tahulated. as nearly as pos
sihle. IN the same way that have tahu-
lated last weeks crimes. Perhaps il may
he as well 10 print the tables side by side
Here they arc
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cats can think. and that they do a hape o.
thinkin' whin thinkiu is required, and
Here Mr.. Finn interrupted the speaker
by bringing his calloused hand down on
his knee with bang which shook the stove
and exclaimed in a terrible voice:
bad scran to We, We little scut, II We
don't tell yer mother quick how cats can
think I'll take ye across me knee and
break We in two pieces. Shure don't We
see We have her crazy wild suspince, We
dwadlin blaggard?'
'Ye must know. thin, that Bolivar had
n little sweetheart named Cinderella. She
was white and had soft fur and winnin'
ways. and whin she'd purr twas like
music, so twas Yed think she wore vel
vet shoes so We would. mother, If We seen
her walkin across the kitchen floor"
"Oh. the dear" muttered Mrs. Finn.
sympathetically, melted by Mickey's de-
scription.
Yes continued the boy. but she had
wan fault She was a hirt. She made
eyes at all the cats. But she was fondcr
OF Bolivar than any of the others bekase
he was big and black and strong and fierce
like wildcat. And cats are like women.
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They like big strong lovers. tha,r
rag and bully thin But CSnder,n. 'aaps
10 tease Bolivar by flirting with ~ -
cats and Bolivar nd 80 or ara -, usss,
himself in the harm. Well. Wa y
Cinderella was firtin' wild wan !, nses
O'Grady's tomcats, and Roliva-.s an
was hTllk in two pieces. so whs+ Asafs
do but he goes in the little hala =
barn door and he Curls hinself :. ~
corner OF the barn and grosps ans -
till his face was wet with sal.v aS
Thin he gets up. lazy and sor~or,,,, ~
TO look al the moon. Wen. he w;-. se
of The door and sat down hls, go. y
LAWN his tail in the hole. and ~ 80
door fell hack on his tail and ea,-. ste
The door came down aisy like ars : I
var didn't notice il at first So NJ - sssr
~ pour out his grief in song TO the -
He heEan 70 sing the tune the hans.o~..s
play. We know. mother. All
Sighed 10 Rest Me- m'anin ne wsn,ss.
ba dead ard buried, whin he fell Ia i.
on his tail and stepped out a lttla !. -
IL out Of the crack in the door. IN, i
more he pulled the tighter his tail -
in the hole. Thin he began to ven 49, ss
murther. and everybody for near
around was awake in q minute -
hT>
yowlin' and scrougin was C,nss..ss
that was curlei up in her mistress, 49,,
war on pillow. And whin she hna-a.se
voice of her beloved Bolivar howlir.
the night she jumped up and ran "a -
him. And whin she came 10 whera D.
var wss she put her arrums sn,..s
Ro,ivar's neck and kissed him -.
whispered gentle words of love IN i.
ear and he became quiet like a ls.s
Thin Cinderella walked over 10 The l.,ss
door that held Bolivars tail. and sianA..
on her hind legs she took one of her vsl,,..
hands. and what does she do bur s.-ss
the little door two or three times -
make the door fly hack and there -
Bolivar free. and his backbone was ssS.s
and that's the rayson Fmafter sayin, ,s,.
cats can think"
Mr. and Mrs Finn Cazed thourhth.p.
into the fire for nearly a minute Mes.,
yawned and went TO bed.
"Biddy." said MIR. Finn. reaectya,,
that's a great hoy a yours. Faith :.
after thinkin' we'n have to he msk,a, !,
lyyer OF him." MICKEY FINN