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Hust Pay Up.

Commi ssioner McNa1l has written
to the Norwich Union, Phoenix of
Brookly, American Central and Aetna
of Hartford fire insurance companies
demanding that they pay the balance
on total loss at Neodesha, which was
compromised at a reduction of $500.
The loss was on the hotel building of
W. G. Houston which burned in Aug
ust 1897. The four companies had in
surance on the building aggregating
Sc, 500, and when the loss was paid a
compromise for 5000 was effected.
As the building and contents were en-
tirely destroyed, Commissioner Nc
Nail holds that the compromise was
fragrant violation of the valued policy
law and will compel the companies to
pay the $500 or quit the state.
w. ]. Lawrence, superintendent of
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific at
Trenton, Mo, was in Atchison the
other day, and stat. that the Rock
Island C mpany would resume putting
trains into Atchison April 1, or the
following Sunday, April 3. There
will be five trains in and out each day
as follows: A morning train t. Chica-
go, an evening train to Chicago, with
chair car and sleeper attached; two
trains daily to Edgerton Junction,
and freight train to st. Joseph.
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CO-OperatiYe Society.

Nine of the most staid and respect
able families in Burton, have thrown
away their stove lids and packed their
dishes on the useless stoves. Whether
they have imbibed somewhat of the
restless something new" spirit of
their maternal commonwealth or not,
of economic propriety, and have form
ed cooperative living association,
wherein the food question is settled
upon cooperative basis.
Burton is small village located in
the midst of farming community, it
has no opportunity for importing
choice land products. The size of the
town does not warrant the location of
bakery, and all the wheat stuff must
be bought from the neig hboring cities.
AS a consequence of the limited popu-
lation, there is very small supply of
hired help, even smaller than the
limited demand. The heavy burdens
of the household fall upon the house
wife alone, and very little social inter
course can be enjoyed. In such a con.
dition of affairs, the Cooperative Liv-
ing association was organized for the
economic and social benefit of its
members. In order to insure a re1ia-
BILE, orthodox reputation, the associ l.
ton has enrolled among its members
ha mixers f11RrNhl M drnnoiSfS I'D
representative preceptor and dominic.
The practical advantages of the
club may be noted as follows: First,
the saving of from fifteen to twenty
five hours of Kitchen worry" per
week.
Second, the providing of we'll cooked
and we'll served meals, ranging in cost
from ~ cents to 9 cents per meal.
1t may be we'll to note that the low
rents (SS per month for an eight room
house, and the comparatively low wa
GEES paid to the cook (S25 per mouth,
with use of house, and with board fer
herself and family of three chi1dren)
may not be duplicated in larger towns.
A purchasing committee of three
members buys the provisions: grocer
les at wholesale rates, meat by the
quarter and side, and all provisions in
correspondingly large quantities. Au-
other member acts as treasurer, and
all bills are paid promptly every Mon
day morning for the week ending the
Saturday previous.
The real disadvantages, and those
likely to be met, may be specified
careless cook, Dig rents, unsuitable
building, distance of home to club
house and monotony of living away
from the home board.
To sum up, for cents per meal, the
heat and worry of the kitchen are
avoided; hired help is largely dispens-
ed with; greater variety is provided
with smaller outlay of labor and
money, and apart from the ecoeomic |
value of months living being re-
duced to 81. 20, there is social feature |
that makes meal time a feast of fell |
1owship, as well as an a1leviator to |
the pangs of hunger.
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TO AROUSE THE STATE.
The Temperance Forces Calling i'm
Help From Other States.

The allied temperance forces have
inaugurated a campaign under the
leadership of Secretary Stephens of
the State Temperance Union, which
promises results that will awaken the
whole universe from a temperance
standpoint.
On April 3rd, band of we'll known
temperance workers headed by that
gallant temperance knight, DIR.
Howard H. Russell, of Ohio, assisted
by DIR. ]. c. Jackson and Rev. N. o.
Woodward, national organizers of the
AntiSaloon league will start the ball
rolling in Kansas City, Kans., after
which they will visit most of the
prominent cities of Kansas, including
in the list, Lawrence. Ottawa, EN-
poria, O1athe, Garrett, Mound City,
Fort Scott, lola, Pao1a, Erie, Girard,
Columbus, independence, Oswego,
Sedan, Fredonia, Burlington, Win
field, Wellington, Kingman, Wichita,
Hutchinson, Newton, Ell Dorado, Eu-
reka, Mcpherson, Salina, Manhattan,
Abilene, Junction City, Minneapolis,
Beloit, Washing ton, Ho1ton, Hiawatha
Oskaloosa, Lindon, Council Grove,
Marion, Alma, Concordia, Clay Cen
ter, and winding up at Topeka on the
oath with a grand rally of all temper
ance people of the state, to which
special rates on the railroads will prob
ably be secured.
This is one of the most able lot of
temperance speakers that has ever
visited Kansas and the temperance
workers say it is only the beginning
of an aggressive campaign that will
end after general cleaning up of the
state has been accomplished.
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multitude of people in London received
through the mails card having the
following inscription, with a seal
marked by an inverted sixpence at
one of the angles, thus having to sup
CRITICAL observation an official appear
ance: Flower of London.-Admit the
Bearer and Friend to view the Annual
Ceremony of Washing the White
Lions, on Sunday, April 1st, 1860. ADJ
n1itted only at the White Gate. 1t is
particularly requested that no yratui-
ties be given to the Wardens or their
Assistants" The trick is said to have
been highly successful. Cabs. were
rafting about Tower Hill all that
Sunday morning, vainly endeavoring
to discover the White Gate.
1t is the more remarkable that any
such trick should have, succeeded,
when we reflect how identified the 1st
of April has become with the idea of
imposture and unreality. So much is
this the case, that if one were about
| " OC HldlllCOJ VI " IduHCu SOlHC new
and speculative proposition or enter
prise, one would hesitate to select
April LIST for the purpose. On the
other hand, if one had to issue mock
document of any kind with the desire
of its being accepted in its proper
character, he could not better insure
the joke being seen than by dating it
| the 1st of April.
April fooling is very noted prac-
tice in France, and we get traces of
| its prevalence there at an earlier
period than is the case in England.
| For instance, it is related that Francis,
Duke of Lorraine, and his wife, being
in captivity at Nantes, effected their
escape in consequence of the attempt
being made on the 1st of April: dis
gusted as peasants, the one bearing a
hod on his shoulder, the other carry
ing a basket of rubbish at her back,
they both at an early hour of the day
passed through the gates of the city.
A woman, having a knowledge of their
persons, ran to the guard to give no.
tice to the sentry. April fool!' cried
the soldier; and all the guard, to a
ran, Shouted out April fool!' begin
ming with the sergeants in charge of
the post. The governor, to whom the
story was told as a jest, conceived
some suspicion, and ordered the fact
to be proved; bat it was too late, for in
the meantime the duke and his wife
were we'll on their way. The 1st of
April saved them"
1t is told that French woman hav-
ing stolen a watch from friends
house on the LIST of April, endeavored
after detection, to pass off the affair as
an April joke. On denying that the
watch was in her possession a mess
enger was sent to her apartments,
where it was found upon a chimney
piece. Yes said the adroit thief,
81 think have made the messenger a
fine April fool ~ Then the magis-
trate said she must be imprisoned till
the 1st of April in the ensuing year.
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CRUISERS AFLOAT.
The Kentucky and kearsarge
Ready for Sea.
Miss Christine Bradley Chrisiens the
Kentucky with Water Taken From
Abe LincOln's Spring.

New York News Special.
The United States cruisers, the
Kentucky and the Kearsage have both
been successfully launched.
Kentuckians, proud of the new bat
tleship bearing their states name,
were here by the hundred.
Governor Bradley, was next to the
central figure at the launching and
the luncheon given to five hundred by
the, ships builders after the ceremon-
les. The central fig ure was his daugh-
ter and only child, Miss Christine
Bradley, beautiful 18-year-o1d girl,
who came with her mother and friends
from Washington, where she attends
school, to christen the vessel. The
christening, which many officials
thought should be done with wine or
Kentucky's famous product, was done
with pure water, Miss Bradley dec1in-
ing to use anything else, and winning
her fight for it after a private but
hard fought battle with those who op-
posed her. Carrying out her senti-
ment in the matter, she had the water
brought in a plain, wire-covered glass
bottle from the famous crystal spring
on the spot where Abraham Lincoln
was born in Larue county, Kentucky.
Miss Bradley was an attractive figure
on the boats bow, with the emblem of
purity from its historic source in her
uplifted hand, surrounded by her six
pretty Kentucky maids of honor. She
herself is a striking blonde, and de-
spite her youth has already attained
unsought reputation in her native
state as literateur of great promise,
inheriting much of her fathers native
brilliancy of mind and other charac-
teristics.
Kentuckians, proud of her, cheered
her act, and the states general as
sembly recently adopted resolutions
commencing her for her stand in be-
half of pure water for the christening
and a more deserved name for her
state.
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n married into sech. 1 said as much
ter Joe before But, Lord! you know
him. AS we'll try to turn Cumberland
River up stream as him when he's got
his head set.
You ought TO of knowed batter. Why
he was crazy over her-he is even yet,
Mort n said, with significant pause
that the other understood. He twirled
his knife between thumb and finger,
and S aid, looking car fully away:
Joe amt got much room ter talk
remember that duel at college, an
then the Sally Sanders scrape. Still
think he'd try ter deserve er good
wife, eff he had got her.
You're wrong thar, Clark said, de-
cidedly. He wouldn't keer snap O.
the fingers fer this'n eff she hadn't
kept him under her thumb by shown
she wits the bigger devil O. the two.
AS it is, he'd die fer her easy-that's
whut puts me so Uneasy over this yere
affair. Archy Gordon, we all know,
WANT the first ter make Hawkins
talked erbout. He wont be the last
neither-not onless Joe Henry gifts the
notion ter shoot, an he shoots mighty
straight an quick. So fur, he don't
pear ter see nothin', but then you
can't count on him. He's one er the
astonishin' kim an Archy Gordon, you
know, is sorter kin to me.
Joe's good ter shoot eff it comes to
his hearin' that anybody chen thinks
scandal O. his wife, Morton said, re-
f1ective1y. He's away fer week now!
Hadn't you better caution Archy to
light out before Joe gifts back?
Oh, no. That would make the talk
bigger, an Joe'd shoot two er three
0 jest erbout anything he'd er mind
ter name-an' GO tradin' ergin, an eff
the Yankees didn't ketch him, put all
the money he made in more diamonds
fer his wife, Clark said, half fretfully
then, dropping his voice to almost a
whisper, Ye see, it's this way, Brother
Morton, when Archy goes, the last O
my fine old whisky goes with him
through the 1iues. En- big risk. I've
got ter furnish everything ms,
an load, too; but that boy, he's good
grit, an has got a mighty long head,
when it amt turned. hate like p'ison
ter see the Ticker go without my money
in hand fer it-hner was never stilled
in Tennessee; but you know how it is,
soon as the river rises, here come gum
boats an Yankees, an revenuers, er
else maybe it's ger1l1ers ter set fire ter
the storehouse, an then whar am 1?
It is er purity hard case, Morton said,
thoughtfu1ly. But say, when is Archy
startin'? I'd like the best in the world
ter have him take er letter an er pas
sci er money ter my son that's out
with Forrest
Hush!-do hush! Clark admonished.
No; he wont take no letters fer no
body-too much risk-though 1 don't
wanter hurt feelin's, he's goin' ter
start termorrer night, so have yer
money ready, il can't tell no tales,
which side hits on.
The two had insensibly halted just
outside a shed door which stood ajar.
They turned pale as it swung open,
and a thin eager-eyed man came
through it. With cat1ike, insinuat-
ing motion he came to C1ark's ear and
whispered:
Excuse me, but it may be 10 your in
terest as we'll as mine if we talk to-
gether further-and IN private.
TO be continued
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TN. U.-TOpEKA.-NO. as.-Isss.

When answering advertisements please
mention this paper.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-30

Nelson Bangs, owner of the Tonga
noxie mills, who has been i'll several
months with Bright's disease, died at
his home in Lawrence Thursday. Mr..
Bangs was one of the best known mill
lers in eastern Kansas, and before
operating mill at Tongancxie was
of the Pacific mills in Law
renee He leaves widow and three
children.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-30

1t does beat all how mony Kansas.
farmers, and their wives and idrugh-
tiers; are now writing the Topeka Cap
ital to know how to care for those seal
skins and silk hose which the Capital
has furnished them through its col
umus since prosperity struck us.
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Official Statutes Of Kansas.

The General Statutes Of Kans.s, 1897, in
two volumes. compiled and annotated by
Judge w. O. Webb. by authority of the
Legislatu e, are now ready for delivery.
Contain all the laws of general nature in
force, together with annotations of the
Kansas Supreme Court Reports and Court
of Appeals
On receipt of s. We will express one set
to your address.
KANSAS STATUTE Co.,
Topeka, Kansas.
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The Topeka Medical College turned
out.eighteen graduates" recently.
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American Wants an Agent
C4no in every town in
ObSAlI Kansas.
Laundry. Write for terms.
TOPEKA, KANSAS.

Send cents 10 stamps TO The Wrights,
Topeka, Kansas, and get copy Of the
"Free SILVER Address" to Republicans. The
most concise statement OF the Silver ques-
ton in existence. A complete history Of
Republican support of Silver-I9 pages.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

4 flying machine has Just been
tested near Berlin. and the observers.
including army officers, agree that l.
selves the problem Of aerial navigation.
u needs only a little tinkering with
the steering gear. 1t is a popularity
OF flying machines that each, at its
trial. Is success. ami needs only "A
slight change in the guiding apparatus
to III it for commercial uses. Yet with
the end of the century ia sight, the
century of science, man Is still tied 20
the earth. derided by the humbless
thing with wings. After sitting mp
nights with the problem and achieving
everything except the little change in
the steering apparatus, the man Of
science is not able 70 soar, except when
be happens TO be blown through the
roof by al explosion Of his chemicals.
Washington Post.
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

pandemonium. in which each individ-
ual il tho vast throng imagines be
must get his ticket first or be forever
debarred. 4 struggling. surging mass
OF humanity. with hands and arms
high in air. clutching tightly TO the
money which is 20 he invested IN the
magical passeboat rahat will admit
them 10 the wondeIa4& the big show.
The crowd carries itself along until
each OF its component parts has reached
the goal The money Il snatched from
the uplifted fingers aud tickets placed
in its stead. So quickly. yet SO accur-
ately. that tho bewil4ered, perspiring
purchaser scarcely knows how il was
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

Miss Quickstep-"Wh hat part OF town
are we driving through. Mr.. Fibbler'
Fweddy-"I haven't the least Idea"
Miss Quickstep-'I was aware OF that.
still. / thought II possible you might
know what part OF town we are driving
through. "-ChicagO Tribune.
Miss Ancient wantiman suddenly
awakeningl-"I see you have my pocK-
t-book: but there's very little money In
that compared with what l have in
bank" Burglar (grufiiy well. there
ain't no way to git THAR Miss Ancient
Wantiman-"H'mi Are you a single
man PUCK
~Borus. In your last novel you spoil
the story by raising an insurmOuntable
barrier between the hero and heroine.
who certainly ought 70 have married
each other" Il couldn't help 10. Nag
gus. My wife insisted that was The
hero Of the story myself. and she got
Jealous Of the heroine. Chicago Trio
une-
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

done. Yet, he has his tickets, and |
then begins battle for exit from the /
crowd. There is no relief however.
until the doorway 70 the menagerie Is
passed, and then the crowd spreads
out within its spacious arena and be-
gins the real enjoyment of tbs day.
A circus is a circus the world over,
aud TO describe the performance IN
this particular Western town would be
but 20 repeat an old story. And yet
there are some cid stories that are
always new. One is love, another IS
the circus. The 1.-THE limbed man, VINO
twists himself almost inside out; the
airily clothed women, who fly through
midair while you hold your breath;
the clowns. who make you laugh in the
same old way that they made you laugh
years agO-who can resist the glamour
of il all?
And the strange sights behind the
scenesl Lucky the man or boy IN that
town who reioices IN the acquaintance
of somebody connected with the show.
He is the hero of the year. Countless
times does he retell the stories of what
he saw in the dressing rooms.
Inc RtAAC~ --AA~" - Wv
repetition OF that of the afternoon.
Within all is scene OF gayety, with
myriad lights blazing. Outside diff
ferent scene presents itself. A few
minutes after the performance begins,
hundreds of hurrying men attack the
menagerie tent. It's side walls come
down with a rush, its poles are carried
out in steady line. its cages picked
up by waiting teams, who. at trot
start the procession of canvas covered
! dens toward the railroad yards. Tbs
| great top comes down with a run and
is unlaced into sections, rolled int
huge bundles and loaded into waiting
? wagons, almost before the last Gag
5 has disappeared in the gloom aroun'
Z an adjacent corner. The herd Of ele
. plants has stalked OF into the night
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out toward the horizon in every direc-
ton.
Two trains have been unlOaded and
the eyes of the multitudinous small
boy are fairly bullying from their sock
cts. Where will IL all end? A third
train comes putting in. and on this Is
the menagerie. The small boy is now
in a state bordering on nervous
frenzy. II is doubtful If he knows his
own name.
OF toward the show ground goes the
morning crowd Surely they will be
IN time to see all the tents put tp, for
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

has not the last train Just come IMP
To their surprise, however, the mem
ngerie tent, with its six great centre
poles. Is up and finished. The horse
tent is in position, the managers are
filled and the horses are munching
away NJ that breakfast which the
townspeoplc forgot TO get. The cook
tents. one large tent for the working
men and another OF similar size for the
performers. have been erected and the
choicest Of steaks are broiling on the
ranges. whilst the fumes of steaming
colee and hot biscuits. waited upon
tGe morning breeze, smells sweet and
savoyy 10 the hungry throng now hil-
ing the vacant spaces around the tents.
The camp cooks have already lighted
their fires and the great caldrons are
sizzling upon the cranes. This means
preparation for the midday meal,
which even now has all been arranged
and Is bound TO be ready for every one
shortly after return from parade.
That free glimpse of the enchanted
land behind the swelling canvas Is
given at about 10 o'clock Who that
+ has ever seen it on clear, Western
morning can forget the gorgeous bands
of music, the cavalcade of equestrians
the open cages of wild beasts, III,
funny band Of clown musicians, th'
general atmosphere of a voluntar,
holiday, when every boy has none.
in his pocket, when his whole obiec
IN life is TO spend it.
| But what OF the streets In town dur
Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1898-01-22

is seldom The one that dies
Unblddcn guests give pieasure-whea
they go.
when n sinner turns saint. he Is APT
90 ovcrlo ~.
a little mans happiness consists IN
magnifylng himself
IL takes both grace and grit 10 bear
disappointment well
To profess Christ Is a challenge 60
The world. nos a defense.
When n man begins 90 move others.
he t. generally called crank"
Your Ideal may easily become your
Idol. unless your ideal - Christ.
As a matter % fact. nobody believes
IN he'll except for has neikhbor.
Wben NAN makes n fooi o. hluk
sesf. be generally eoes -ehe JOB we'll
Vice either hides or draws lts sword
rs soon as virtue shows her face.
Whoever kicks over a lie win fnd a
big brood OF others hiding under Il.
We must have both wisdom and
knowledge % get much beneat out OF
+ either.
saint Andrew did rot wait 10 be or
daincd before he brought his brother
| % Christ.
The cOmmoncst kind OF cheerful
/ giver Is the one who gives nothing but
/ good advice.
When we cannot do as we would. II
VIII smooth the jolts 10 be willing 10 DO
IS we should.
Wherever you find the true Chris.
tan spirit, you VIII and IL trying 20 do
the work OF Christ.
one trouble with the world IL that
there are 50 many people In Il who arr
content 20 drift down stream.
Few OF Us gain by the mistakes OF
others. but be who fails 20 profit by hil
own mistakes. viii soon be bankrup'
IN knowledge.
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ing this interval? Excursion trains
have been coming in from every point
within fifty miles of the show town.
Every train has been crowded to the
very steps with eager, expectant peo-
pie. Their tickets are in their hat
bands, where they will remain until
the conductor demands then at night.
for who has time TO think Of tickets
when there is big show in town?
Thousands upon thousands of farmers
have come in from the surrounding
country. Their teams, unhitehed, line
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majest;caliy and silently. following .
man who carries q lantern half o square
ahead.
The cook house. stable. tents, black
smith shop. barber shop. band tent,
side show. together with the number
less other smaller tents. have been ex-
peditiousiy, yet sileDtly packed end
taken 10 the cars. In three-quarters
Of an hour the big top" stands alone.
its gaunt poles reaching far mp into
the darkness of the sky. At the rail-
read yards everything is hustle and
activity.
The night show is ont; the concert
is finished. and the last Of the per
formers skurries toward his trunk.
which has been left upon the open
space where the dressing tent once
stood: a quick change Of costume, a
banging trunk lid. and the last mem
Der Of the company takes his way %
the train. BY midnight the show Is
on its way 70 the next town