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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01

SPRING BED, MATTRESS AcT'N
NAM. SCHICK, prop. 127 Kansas ave. Ais
w maker of pillows. Upholster1ng and re
pairing a feature. Feathers renovated anC
mattresses made over. Tel. 4s6.
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NOTICE.
4~~~~~~~~~@~-~~1~~-~~~
RfOTICE-TO WHOM II MAY CONCERN
IN Be it known that my petition is on file in
the Office of the probate court of Shawnee coun-
ty. Kansas, asking for permit to sell intoX-
eating liquors at No. 124 East Fourth street. in
Second ward in the city of Topeka. Kansas and
the hearing of the set for Friday,
January 10th. 1896. at O'Clock a. m.
NJ. A. lunches.
TOPEKA Kan. Dec. 10. 1895.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
CLOTHING.


IN A. CLEMENTS. 631 Kansas avenue.
~. clOthierS, matters and furniSherS. High
grade goods in all departments Agents for the
Dunlap hat.
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" ANTED-Your order for COAL 900 lbs
W to every ton. Topeka Transfer Coal Co.
office 500 Kansas ave. Tel. 800; yard tel. 500.
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" d. GILES & CO., GA Kansas ave. Tea,
ILs Japanese goods, etc. Roasters of coffee
Makers of pure spiees. baking powder and
iavoring extracts. Telephone Al.
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UITRIFIED Brick walks laid cheap. job
Richie. 1106 Quincy ST.
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CHINA, GLASS g. 0UEENSWARE
THARNSWORTH & ASHBY, SOB Kansas ave.
Il Choice display of Libby cut glass, table cut
lery, lamps and lamp fittings. Our speciality is
low prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-01

UNDERTAKINGS G. EMBALMERS.
GEO. b. PALMER Funeral Supply Co. and
" funeral director. Office 500 Kansas ave-
Res 1921 Van Buren,. Office tel. 146, residence
tel. 81.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
SMYRNA, DEL.

The Constitutional Convention met
yesterday in the hall of the House of
Representatives. Should the conven-
lap over until the time of the meeting
of the Legislature the latter body will
have to get new quarters for the con-
vention.
The annual report of Supt. Harlan, of
the public schools of Wilmington,
shows 10, scholars in attendance.
There are % white schools, with 217
teachers, and four colored schools, with
2S colored teachers and 1881 pupils.
The salaries of teachers range from
$500 to $1,000 year. The total value
of school property is $657,s1
Milford is said TO have an aspirant
for Senatorial hOnors in the person Of
ex-Insurance Commissioner DR.. Nath.
an Pratt, DIR, Pratt's friends say that
he will have at least half of the Sus-
sex county members of the Legislature
and they are counting on the support
of William H. Boyce, who has however
been very friendly to Willard Sauls-
bury.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
WOMEN'S COATS

Something perfectly natural
is going to happen. Women's
Coats have come to us at ri
diculous prices recently -
eleven hundred garments since
Friday-simply because the
weather has been TOO warm to
make the producers trade
lively. Now, then, when real
coat-wearing weather comes it
is likely to find the markets
short OF stock, and then, in
the hurry and rush, prices will
naturally advance.
That hint is profitable to
you if you are guided by it.
The Coats we are selling
at IS, $3.50, $40, $I2 and SIS
are sold at a money-loss to
some one. The gain is yours
if you come while any of the
garments remain.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
AMBASSADOR BAYARp. --Itisnot often

AMBASSADOR BAYARD. Tits not often
that a foreign ambassador so COM
pletely wins the respect and, indeed,
the affection of the English people as
Mr.. Bayard has done. To have dined
with the Queen was a great honor, no
doubt, but even if our ambassador had
never been invited to Windsor Castle,
there were other evidences of the fond
ness with which he is regarded by our
English brethren that would have been
sufficient to show the place which he
holds in their esteem. The happy ter
mination of the Venezuelan boundary
dispute is by many of the English peo-
pie attributed largely to Mr.. Bayard,
and while the part he has played in
making arbitration possible may have
been exaggerated on the other side of
the water, it is very likely that the am
bassedor's personal influence has been
a valuable quantity in bringing abOutan
ageement.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
WANAMAKER,S.
PHILADELPHIA, Monday. Nov. 80, 1896
WOP 5 ON WO1EN'S SHOES


PHILADELPHIA, Monday. Nov. 30, 1895.
WOP ON WOrEN'S SHOES
Shoeman CLEANS knowledge
from all sources-he is a wiz
ard of feathers, in fact; saw
that bicycle seats had pliable-
mes went to work to get that
pliableness for shoe soles. He
succeeded. though feathers
had to be specially tanned to
give the result. Take the
heaviest-sole shoe we have
you can bend it anywhere.
It's right it's sensible. Same
result has been tried for by
many makers. They notch
the inner sole to produce the
give" make it bad for
wear ; they use cheap feathers
for inner soles. We use the
best we can have tanned.
SO much for the winter shoe
stock in general.
Here is special hint-a
Kee-sole shoe made better.
The Keeprocess gives spring"
and ease to the shoe by build
ing up an inner sole of layers
of felt. We have had that
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

Mr.. T. F. O'Donnell, well-known
druggist of Parsons, Pa, in speaking
of Chamberlain Colic, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy says: Several
times in the last few years wherl suf-
fering with cramp or diarrhoea ! have
made a eersonal test of the value OF
this remedy. The effect in each in
stance was almost immediate relief. "
For sale by Clifton & Raymond.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

where we are showing the large
est assortment of Dress Fabrics,
Silks, Notions, Blankets, &C., we
have ever shown, and at lower
prices. Novelties worth $1.00
per yard at S5c. Csc line at soc;
36 in. all-wool serge in all colors,
real value 35c, our price 25c.
12Ic Plaids at 10c. The 10c
Plaids at sc. All-wool, red twill
Flannel worth 20c at 124c; the
10c grade Canton Flannel, 80 in.
wide, at Sc. Full size double
I weight Blankets at SOC and
upwards.
We have arranged with a
Philadelphia manufacturer of
Misses high-grade Hose for the
control of their goods for this
vicinity and we believe TIE 124c
grade have more value than any
we ever sold at 15c. Ladies' 25c
regular-made hose at 15c.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
FOR RENT.

Two fve-room hopses on lower MAR
street. One eleven-room house 81
Delaware street.
For particulars, apply to
Mrs. JOHN M. vOSHELL,
111S4 Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

The San Jose scale which is dreaded
by every peach grower, has made its
way into Talbot county, and in a most
startling manner.
Alday Clements has sold his herd of
of so fine hogs at 81 cents pound;
and has dehorned his 40 Holstein
cattle. He lives near Sudlersville.
The town officers of Salisbury have
moved into the new City Hall, build
ing costing $4,000, which combines
quarters for the fire engines and other
apparatus with the offices for the Mayor
and Town Council.
The property of the Cecil Telephone
company, of Cecil county, of a pole line
wires and fixtures throughout the
county, was sold on Saturday by John
NJ Terrill, auctioner for W. T. War
burton, assignee, to Robert G. Lewis,
of Elkton, for 5000.
Cards are out announcing the mar
riage of Miss Mary Morling Sudler to
Mr.. Louis Lacy Beatty. The cere-
mony will take place at Calvary church
Sudlersvllle, Wednesday afternoon,
December 9th, ,proximO.
Rev. E. L. Hubbard, of Madison
Square M. E. Church, Baltimore Md,
formerly one of the best known preach
ers in the Wilmington Conference, has
received a call to the Foundry NJ. E.
Church, in Washington d. G.
The Talbot Grand Jury found TWEEN.
ty indictments against persons for VIC
lating the local option law in EastOn,
The number of cases in the county es-
timated that ought to have been
found is put 100! Judge Wicks il
sentencing one of the prisoners said
''The court is determined to breal
this thing up-if it can"
While digging large well at '.tFOul
Corners" Greensboro, the workme1
found layer of blue mari, from whicl
was lifted quantities of shells. A larg,
piece of jawbone and piece of back
bone of some species of animal wer,
found lower down, and clam shells
oyster shells and shells of unknown
fishes were discovered in abundance
} and seemed just as solid as if jus
grown.
The Chestertown Transcript, Mes
| srs. Collins & Hopper, have libel sui
on their hands for $40, 900 instituted b.
Mr.. John d. Uric, of ChestertOwn,
lawyer and the States Attorney 10
/ Kent county. The Transcript,
= seems, has accused Mr.. Uric of trans
5 fering stock in the National Bank
Ouannah to his infant daughter
avoid being assessed on it to max
good losses sustained by the banl
Mr.. Uric denies the allegation and sue
the paper for libel. Mr.. Uric says tha
eighteen months before the bank fai
i, ed he did transfer to Mrs Uric for I'll
benift of his daughter some ban
stock at Mrs. Urie's request, and
! the time he did so the bank was b.
= lieved to be solvent. To this it is sal
: that the receiver agrees. The cai
will come to trial at the April term.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

Rheumatism is Foe which gives no
quarter. 1t torments its victims day
and night, Hoods Sarsaparilla purifes
the blood and cures the aches and
pains of rheumatism.
Hoods Pills are the best family
cathartic and liver medicine. Gentle,
reliable, sure.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

patented process added to by
making the shoes with an ex-
ira sole of cork. Ideal winter
shoes, that make their wearer
fearless of dampness. The
nearest approach to them, that
we can find, sell at S. pair.
These are clearly better, the
soles flexible and right, and
the price is 81.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
Closing of Mails.

cioiug North. $50 9.25 a. m, 800, 4.55p.m.
Going south 900 a. m, and 500 D. m.
Mail for Delaware & Chesapeake road and
Baltimore & Delaware Bay will close at $40 a. m
nd SO p. m.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
Opening of Mails.

From North 40. $50 a. m. 800 and s25 p. m
Wilmington only.
From South, 7.4O. lO.I5 A. NJ. 4.2O Pm.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
BOOKS

BOOKS
The Home Library consists
of ten cloth-bound volumes,
I6mo., in a cloth case. Pub
lished to sell at $3.50. Too
high. Didn't sell. And now
we have it at $I.35. These are
:he titles of the books
Around the Tea Table BY 7. Dewitt
TAlmaRe.
A Book Of Golden Deeds. By G. M.
Yonge
A Budget Of Christmas Tales. BY
Charles Dickens,
Handbook for American Citizens ~
Henry Mann.
Golden Treasury. By G. H. Won Boz
gatzky.
Reading for Winter Evenings By
Fernie.
How TO Get On in the World, BY
Major Calhoun.
Parlor Amusements. BY Sandis0n.
Capital Stories. BY Hawthorne.
The Children's Portion. BY Shoppell.
John WANAMAKER.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
ITEMS CLOTHING

Mems Suits made from all
wool fancy Cheviots, $3.50.
No, we are not guessing-the
stufs are right, proven by cru
cial tests the making is good,
the cut artistic, the seams are
sewed with silk. There's real
tailoring put into them.
We have more hand-work
put into the higher priced
suits-fact is. at $I2, SIS or
$40 you step into suits made
tailor-fashion. Fit? Perfectly,
And the good shape stays, be-
cause the clothes are tailored.
By the way, we've just got
ready more of the all-wool
Black Cheviot Suits at IS.
But hurry, if you'd share in
the lot, for they come in all
too slow.
Overcoats are right-jusr
as right as the suits. Anc
enough styles to meet every
proper taste. $3.50 to $45.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

Our friends and patrons seem
to know where to find the new
est effects in footwear, as the
sales in our
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02
MORE
$12.OO
SUITS AND
OVERCOATS

DOOu oO popular Will Us
this season. In addition
to the duplicates of the
former lots we also Sc
cured some new styles in
Mixed Clay Worsted Suits
and Black and Blue
Smooth Kersey Overcoats.
Look carefully at the
clothes, makeup and fit,
and see if you see any
thing like them for the
money. A new Brown
Mixed Cheviot Suit and a
Black and Blue Fur Beaver
OvercOat at IS came in the
same lot. They would be
cheap at $40; but cash
buying and late selling
makes them at the present
price.
Open evenings.
Smyrna times., 1896-12-02

DAILY, $500 year. SUNDAY TRIBUNE.
500 SEMI-WEEKLY, $500. WEEKLY, $780,
TRIBUNE ALMANAC for 1897, with full election
returns, outin January, % cents a copy.
THE TRIBUNE. NEW YORK.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
MEET AFTER MANY YEARS.
Brother and Sister Reunited After Mys-
teri0us Separation.

Brother and Sister Reunited After . Mys-
terious Separation.
After mysterious separation of 81
years Mrs. Horace Allison. residing
near Jeffersonville, Fayette county, o.,
has at last net her brother, whom she
last saw at jacksonville, Neb., when she
was little girl two years old. Mrs.
Allison's maiden name was Miss Matte
Knight, and she wasthedaughter of Linn
Knight, who kept a grocery at Hud-
sonville. When Matte was two years
old her mother died, and she
and her brother and sister were
placed with family and their board
paid by Mr. Knight, who was
wealthy. One night the family
with whom the three children lived
suddenly took their departure, taking
Matte with them and leaving the other
two children behind. Mr.. Knight spent
large sum of money in vain endeavor
to ascertain the whereabouts Of his
daughter
The father and his two oldest children
lost all trace of little Matte. She grew
up to woIaanhood and finally married
Mr.. Allison. For some time past she
has been living in this cour.y. Recently
she heard of the whereabouts of her
brother, Fred Knight, of Lebanon, O..
He learned that his sister was living in
this county and came to see her. They
met after a separation of q years, and a
happy meeting it was.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
He WAS BURIED ALIVE.
Frishtful Fate Of Prospector Revealed
by ILLUMINATION.

Frishtful Fate OF Prospector Revealed
by Rxhu1nation.
George P. Writ, of San Francisco,
has received letter from Alaska which
says that Carlton r. Wells, who left
Oregon almost two years ago for the
Arctic gold felds-where it is said he
succeeded in ACCOMPLISHING $50, O00-
was buried alive after his apparent
death from heart disease, in Juneau,
last May. -
Just prior to Wells apparent death
he forwarded the greater portion of his
little fortune to hiswife, who is now liv-
ing at Trenton, N. j. A little more
than month ago the undertaken who
buried Wells received letter from his
widow asking that the body be ex-
humed and shipped east for.permanens
interment.
When the coffin was opened the body
was found in a strangely cramped po-
sition, the face turned toward the side.
A close examination showed beyond
doubt that Wells had awakened from
death-like trance after burial. The
skeleton of the right hand clutched a
gutta percha plate bearing three false
teeth, which, in his agony, Wells is be-
lieved to have torn from the roof of his
mouth.
Near tho place where his right Jaw
resetd in the coffin was also found
plain gold ring, which Wells had worn
on the fourth finger of his right hand
In view of this terrible discovery the
undertaken and the doctor who had at.
tended Wells decided not to send the
body east unless forced to do so by legal
process.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
NOT HER IDEAL, AFTER ALL.

Made No False Pretensions Until II Came
to French-Then Came His FALL
One of them had q real football head
of hair, and wore a sweater, while the
other wore a carnation in his button
hole and could with difficulty see over
his own collar. And the girl who sat
Immediately back Of them on the sup
heard what they were saying.
you didn't seem to get on very well
with that college girl at the dinner last
night" said the youth in the sweater;
did she,want somebodyelset to take her
imp
''She seemed well enough pleased at
FIRST" said he of the collar, gloomily.
a ''Then how did you happen to fall
down." -
"well, she Said She despised people
who pretended to be what they are
not" xs,
"And you agreed with her?' -. -
/. "Well, I saw no reason to disagree
with girlwhose father isworth 81. oo0,-
600 and who is good looking enough for
a girl without a cent to her name"
Good old boy. What did she say;
them"
"She said she was glad to meet one
person who was willing to pass for
what he really was and not affect to
know more than he did. After that we
got on like house afire."
''That must have been before !
caught sight of you"
Perhaps it was. Then we got to
talking about book we had both read,
and I made use of French phrase
which seemed to describe it better than
anything else"
'.And wasn't she pleased with that?"
81 guess so, but that was the end Of
IT,"
"Pshaw. you're off your base. How
could that end it?"
'She said: o, you speak French.
don't you? How nice!' and began to
rattle it.of like steam engine"
"Well, but you"
''I had said the only French phrase
knew."-Ch;cago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
.MoEC6 S1MuS..
6ene Remedies for the Bites OF Dcprs-
catory Pests.

dene Remedies for the Bites OF Deprs-
catory Pests.
The sting Of most small insects and
animals is dependent for it's poisonous
properties upon what is known as for
mic acid.
This acid derives it's name from hsv-
ing been obtained first from the ant,
and is remarkable for the frequency
with which It occurs in nature. 1t can
be produced from nearly every species
Of small insect, from the decomposition
Of some vegetable substances. and is
present in the Precipitation of human
beings.
Formic acid is never used in medicine
internally, although, when diluted with
an equal measure of water, it is some
times used as an external application
10 paralyzed limbs to excite the circula-
ton. When applied to the soft skin it
produces redness and a priclling SEN
satiou, followed by violent pain and
often by liberation.
The irritation caused by the formic
acid in-stings and bites of various kinds
may be neutralized and the attending
pain relieved by the use of any alkaline
substance, like ammonia or baking
soda. An immediate application Of
strong ammonia will often eradicate
the poison.
Antiseptics of various kinds, such as
carbolic acid. will allay the ensuing in
Hammation, and SO prevent spread Of
tho {rouhYa Groo@ onrx, sbo,,ld 10 neal
however, not to have The antiseptic too
concentrated, as the skin and flesh ara
very irritable under these circum-
stances.
A good way is to dissolve very small
amount of the antiseptic ingredient in
collodion and paint it over the affected
part This forms sort Of medicated
court-plaster, protecting the wound
from external infection. When the col
lodion dries 10 leaves a thin, flexible
costing.
Sometimes a rather strong solution
of carbolic acid sporged over the place
exposed to mosquito bites will not only
relieve the itching of bites which have
been already received. but Will ward OF
further attacks OF the insects.
In some cases stings arc relieved and
cooled by the use Of diluted or pure
vinegar. The sting itself should always
be removed, If it can be discovered Ne
naming in the wound. This can be
done very nicely by pressing on the
skin with the hollow end of a watch
key.
In case of snske-bites, which are at
tended often by severe shock, 1t Is
necessary to sustain the vitality at any
cost. Internal administration Of am
no2ia and ether stimulants is % be
relied On Externally the wound may
be burned with some caustic-always
by @ doctor.
The secret OF success in the treat
nent OF severe stings ard bites consists
in applying hgature just above the
wound and in cleaning the wound
itself as quickly ss po<sible.-Youth's
Corapzrion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
CRAFTSMEN WHO WANDER.

Xer1pAtetic Shoemakers, Thinkers and
Grinders Who Work Outlying Districts.
In the outlying portions Of Chicago,
and especially where its foreign ele-
mcnts abound, there are many features
even of street life that recall the older
cities Of Europe One Of these con-
sists in that class OF rowing tradeSmen
who carry their tools and workshops
along with them and ply their respcc-
tive callings wherever they can pick
up job. Various are their methods Of
advertising themselves and attracting
custom.
One aristocrat Of shoemaker drives
about in q closed vehicle as white and
garish as q circus wagon. Within it
are his work bench and stool. a cup
board full OF leather scraps and a
sr,nll heating stove. He has the kEnck
Of restoring 10 usefulness footwear
that seemed to be hopelessly disabled.
When he gets job at any house in a
block he draws up bis wagon to the
sidewalk and there "sticks to his last
as long as custom may come.
L uC dAeIAlt&s OE O0hS1, u usually
less imposing than tho cobbler. He
carries his tools and small stock Of
tin in o leatacrn budget hung over one
shoulder. He proclaims his coming in
the street by q musical cry of "Old
tins-tins to mend!" When employed
to repair a leaking wash boiler or a
spoutless teakettle, he sits down to
his task in some convenient porch or
entry. }
Another useful craftsman Is the one
who has an ambulant grindstone for
sharpening knives and scissors. AS lie
trundles it along byothe sidewalk it
clangs an iron bell that makes piteous
appeal to be silenced. The grinder gets
numerous jobs, too, for in many drudg-
ing households there would be no work
for the carving knife if the scissors
were long out of order. One knife
grinder was met lately who has no
but does bis work with a
set of very hard files. These he carries
in his hand rolled up in piece of can
vas, and as he makes no clang or cry,
but has all the modest seeming Of an
opulent plumber, he is enabled to call
at the better class of resi-
dences. All these worthy craftsmen
Ell useful role and form a link be-
tween American civilization and tho
lands in which it was cradled.-Chicago
Chronicle. r
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-11-18
City Ticket Agent,

The common purslane is one of the
wonders of botany, as far as seeds are
concerned. at least. A single seed of
this plant will produce about twenty
seed-pods in q season. The average
number of seeds in each of these. by ac-
tual count, is 1900, making Go,00O in all.
As far as we have been able TO learn,
there is no instance of similar fruitful
ness in any plant found growing in this
country. single plant of either the
jamestown weed (''iimson'), the but
terweed, the ragweed, and some of the
vervires produce an enormous number
Of seeds, but it is doubtful if any of
them produces one-fourth as many in a
year as the purslane does.-St- Louis
Republic.