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Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
Money to Loan.
Chattei Mortgage Security.
+. +. Colvin, Third and Main,
Galena, Kansas.

The Rev. W. b. Costley, of Stock
bridge Ga, while attending to his
pastoral duties at Fleetwood, that
state, was attacked by cholera
morbus. He says: "By chance l
happened TO get hold of a bottle of
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Dfarrhoea Remedy, and think it
was the means of saving my life.
II relieved me at once" For sale by
Cooper Drug Go.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

About one month ago my child,
which is fifteen months old, had an
attack of diarrhoea accompanied by
vomiting. Igave II such remedies
as are usually give in such cases
but as nothing gives relief, we sent
for n physician and II was under
his care for a week. At this time
the child had been sick for about
ten days and was having about
twenty-five operations of the bowels
every twelve hours, and We were
convinced that unless il soon OBJ
tained relief Il would not live.
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera and
Diarrhoea Remedy was recon-
mended, and I decided TO try it.
I soon noticed q change for the
better; by its continued use q com.
plete cure was brought about and
II lie now perfectly healthy.-c. L.
Boggs, Sttnnptown, Gilmer Co., w.
Va. For sale by Cooper Drug Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
600 FEET OF SIDING.

Six hundred feet of siding will be
put in at Lowell Station before Au-
gust %. This extra track is being
put in 30 that trains can pass at
Lowell during the reunion.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

No one knows the unbearable tor.
ture, the peculiar and agonizing
pain, caused by piles, unless they
have suffered from them. Many be-
lieve them incurable. This is a
mistake. Proper treatment will cure
them. Tabler's Buckeye Pile Oint.
ment is an infallible cure. Price 80
cts in bottles, tubes 70 cts. Cooper
Drug Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
The Most FataI Disease.

More adults die of kidney trouble
than of any other disease. When
the first symptoms of this disease
appear, no time should be lost in
taking Foley's Kidney Cure, which
is guaranteed or money refunded.
Soc and 81. A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

A free and easy expectoration is
produced by a few doses of Bal
lards Horehound Syrup, in all cases
Of hoarseuess. sore throst. or diff
Guilty of Breathing. Price . and 50
cents. Cooper Drug Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
We want your Flax Seed and
will pay you the highest market
prices. Plenty of sacks.
FRIBLEY HARDWARE & imp. co.

Teter. eczema and skin diseases
yield quickly to the marvellous heal
ing qualities of Banner Salve made
from a prescription of skin spe-
cialist of world wide fame. &c.
A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

When the digestion 10 good. ana
the general powers of the system In
a healthy state. worms can find no
habitntion In the human body
Whites Cream hermitage not onI1
destroys every worm. but corIeclt
ali Heterogeneous Of The digestive
organa. Price &c. Cooper Drug Co
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

We now have an extra large stock
of stationery. and if you need any
thing In that line We can SAKE you.
money end do ron q first class job
Of printing.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Geo. ]. Smith. who has been quits
i'll for some time. is improving ia
health.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Dent, the cash grocer, is the first
man TO send nice blotters all over
town.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Mrs. George Sears went to Baxter
Springs last Saturday to attend the
golden wedding of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. L. McLemore, who are
among the most prominent colored
residents of that historic town.
There was a large attendance at the
celebration and everybody had a
good time.-Joplin News.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

The rain Monday morning mad
a million bushels of corn-more o
less.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

James Smith of Harrisville Ind,
arrived In Baxter Tuesday night to
visit his brother. Geo. ]. Smith.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
pilesi pilesi

Why be bothered with this annoy
ing complaint when Banner Salve
will cure you. 25c. A. r. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Mrs. J.P. Hartley has about re-
covered from her illness.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Harry March and Ed. Congdon
built a nice bath house on the river
at CampEogan this week.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Blotches. and excresences, which
80 often annoy people, are simply
efforts of nature to throw off imped-
iments to the proper performance
of her duties. Herbine will aid and
assist nature in her work, and en-
sure skin clear and beautiful, en-
tirely free from all imperfections.
Price 80 cents. Cooper Drug Co.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

List Of Letasrs
Remaining in the postoffice at
Baxter Springs. Kansas. for the
week ending with August 10, l609
which II not called for within two
weeks will be sent to the dead
letter Office at Washington. d. c.:
Calvin, Charles
Carson, c
Carson, Henry
Casweil, Mrs Arminta
EARNED, W
Frubmer, Mrs Esther
Harald, Mrs A
Kidd, Chas p
Kress, Tip
Oden, John T
Otto, Carl
Pigg, Mrs Ella
Snow, Hazel
Toler, Thomas
Yeorgler, Mrs Olillia
Persons calling for any of the ,
above letters will please say "Adver-
tised," giving date of list.
]. B. BOYER, p. n.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Joe McMurray of Bloomington,
ILL.,, is visiting his uncle, 7. B. Nc
Elhiney in this city.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
CHEAP TENTS.

Cheapest place on earth TO buy
tents-li2lz Main street, Joplin, No.
S.W. CAMPBELL.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

you ought to know that when
suffering from any kidney trouble
that a safe. sure remedy is Foley's
Kidney Cure. Guaranteed or mon
ey refunded. A. L. Kane.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

The election In the new Third
ward demonstrates the fact that one
section of the city at least favors
intelligence, competency aud prop
er educational qualifications ON the
school board aud In the schools.
Our new members can both read
and write the BngIlsh language asl
she is writ and spoke. -
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Charlie Haskett's new goods are
arriving every day.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Dents Wholesale and Re-
tail Grocery House will be
represented at Camp Logan
this year.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

The REUNION DAILY NEWS viii.
be published At Camp Lognn THE
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

DR.. A. J. Thompson. dentist.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

For Cyclone Insurance. see T. C
Weaver.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Heaton & Skidmore, attorneys at
law, Columbus, Kansas. All mat
ters entrusted to their care will be
properly looked after.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19
Home Money

to
Loan on Farms.
+. +. Colvin, Third and Main,
Galena, Kansas.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1899-08-19

Mr.. AND Mrs. RICHARD WILLIS.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
THIS IS STRANGE.
Pension Office Employees Quarrel
About Water.

A mutiny of several days standing in
the Topeka pension office has been
Quelled but the insurgents were victor
ious.
Strange to say the trouble was about
the water supply. Some of the clerks
in the office allowed the water to run
continually for the purpose, it is said,
of having a supply to cool their fevered
brows. The manager of the building
objected to this reckless waste of water
which all passes through a meter and
not content with an expression of dis
pleasure he sent for a plumber who
changed the faucet so that it closed
automatically.
By this time the employees in the office
began to be interested and one of them
devised a sheme for keeping the new
tangled faucet open. By means of his
invention the water was allowed to run
just the same before.
The next move of the assistant man
ager of the building, Mr.. T. D. Humph-
reys, was to have the water shut off.
The pension office employees counter
ed this blow by going over the building
and turning the water on wherever they
found an available place.
Things looked more and more warlike
until Pension Agent Cy Leland took a
hand in the proceedings. He said that
unless the water supply was turned on
in the office he would telegraph to
Washington to have the lease of the
rooms cancelled. Mr.. Leland has a way
of having things as he wants them and
the water was straightway turned on
and peace re1gnS once more.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
soUABBLE OVER CEMETERY.
Abilene Citizens Want to Take It Out
of the Hands of Politicians.

Abilene, March 20.-A largely attend
ed public meeting was held at the city
hall Friday night for the purpose OF
forming an organization to take the
control of the Abilene cemetery out of
the hands of the city. 1t has hereto
fore been managed. in a way, by a
committee of the city council and there
has been much dissatisfaction owing to
the neglect of the grounds.
The city has agreed to turn control
of the grounds over to a properly or
ganized association that will receive
and disburse all revenues and keep up
repairs, together with proper records.
D. r. GoTden presided at the meet
ing and a committee of nine was ap-
pointed to confer with the council.
complete arrangements for transfer of
control and perfect the organization of
a chartered association.
The only complete plat of the ceme
terry and list of lot owners is owned by
a local undertaken, who has refused to
give it up, and much difficulty will be
experienced in making correct dupN-
Gates of these.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
MRS. WALLACE'S MISTAKE.

(From the Cincinnati Enquirer.l
When that great masterpiece Ben Hur'
nearing completion General Wallace
told Mrs Wallace that he Intended to ded-
furnish the inscription. Mindful. doubtless.
of the happy period of their honeymoon.
Mrs: WALLACE wrote: TO the wife OF MY
Youth This inscription appeared in all
the earlier editions of the book.
The book was not at once a great sue
cess, its sales amounting to no more than
the usual sales for a new publication until
two years after it's issue Then the great
a masterpiece had been given into its
hands, and the sales increased enormously.
The book became famous. Not a public
library in the land, and very few private
on their shelves
Then the mails began to flood the author
with letters of coincidence on the untimely
death of his wife, the writers basing their
ferrfng to the lady as the wife of his
youth gave them the impression that she
must of necessity be dead. At last. after
enduring condolences and inquiries as long
as possible. the general appealed to his
wife for aid.
Mrs. Wallace looked at the inscription.
It pleased her as it was. but what could
one do when all these foolish people would
persist in misunderstanding its meaning?
So she added a few words which do not
materially change the thought she wished
to express, making the inscription as it
now stands in all the late editions of the
book: .,,
Abides With Me-
This explanation, which proved that Mrs.
Wallace was the wife of the general
more mature years well as of his youth.
and. what is more. intended to hold that
distinction. effectually stopped the letters,
and the author was left to enjoy the fruits
of his labor in peace.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
KANSAS NEWS.
A Young Soldier Tries to
Suicide at Hutchinson
BY Taking Morphine After He
Had Made an Attempt
TO KILL AYOUNG GIRL
With q Winchester Because She
Refused His Suit.
Sad Story of Cyrus Taylor Who
Wore the Blue.

Hutchinson, March 2O.-Because Hell
en- Dealy would not marry him, Cyrus
Taylor attempted her life Saturday, and
failing in that, took a large dose of
morphine. He was saved by prompt
medical aid. Taylor is 21 years old and
was member of company E, Twenty
first regiment Kansas volunteers.
Since being mustered out he has
worked on the ranch of William Foley,
near Hutchinson. He knew Miss Dealy
before going to war and claims she
had promised to marry him. She re
Gently broke the engagement. Saturday
morning Taylor took a Winchester and
went to her house, saying he would kill
her and himself. He was prevented
from doing this, and a short time after
ward swallowed IA grains of morphine.
He was tried for sanity but the jury
disagreed.
In explanation of his actions Taylor
said:
Il intended to kill her and then kill
myself, and I would have done itl' He
spoke very deliberately. Her brother
told me that she had fooled other fell
lows and 1 thought I ought to do it.
I expected to kill myself, because life
had never been pleasant to me. After
1 was prevented from killing her and
myself as 1 had planned I took NOR
phine with the deliberate purpose of
committing suicide
One of the Foley brothers testified in
the PROBATE court that Iaylor mad talk-
ed of committing suicide two or three
years ago, and that he had talked Of
wanting to kill different people. One
instance he remembered was that Tay-
lor had told him he planned to kill some
of the officers of the Twenty-frst Kan
sas regiment. Taylor was a member Of
the Hutchinson company under COM
mand of Captain Dorr Thomson. He
was put on the stand and questioned re-
garding this. Il didn't like Captain
Thomson" he said, land I intended If
our company ever got into an engage
ment to shoot him.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20

New Bedford Standard: Few people
care anything about the antitrust bills
which are being introduced into the leg
islatures of many of the states. It has
been pretty conclusively shown that re-
lance upon antitrust law making is
misplaced. Not a law that has yet been
made on the subject has been of any
use. and there is little probability that
any will be. The legislators who are
introducing and pressing these laws at
the present time may suppose that they
are making themselves noted as friends
OF the people, but the truth is that they
are rather the objects of scorn for their
futility. Meanwhile the mania for trust
organization Is certain to bring its own
punishment in the ruin that is over
shadowing so many of these schemes.
Laws more efficient than any legislature
can make, and which are not dependent
upon human administrators, will take
good care Of the matter.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
ONE MORE VICTIM.
Spinal Meningitis Quick and Deadly
in It's Action.

Trueman Crossley, a Western Union
messenger boy, was taken ill with GER
ebro-spinal meningitis Saturday night
after working Saturday afternoon. Yes
terday afternoon he died.
This is the last of a number of deaths
resulting from spinal meningitis in this
city within the past six weeks. There
seems to be an epidemic of the disease,
a number of cases being reported in diff
ferent portions of the city. The ma
Jority of the cases are among children.
The disease does not usually result
fatally as quickly as in the case of the
CrosSley boy. He had the cerebrO-
spinal form, the coverings of the brain
as well as the spinal cord becoming af-
fected.
Spinal meningitis is an Inflammation
of the coverings of the spinal cord. 1t
is due to a germ not unlike the germ
of pneumonia. Physicians say that the
present epidemic is the result of la
grippe germs. 1t is attended with high
fever and in the serious stages the head
is drawn back and the eyes protrude.
1t usually starts with chill.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
ELECTRICITY FOR INDIANA
Many Railroads Are Projected to
Connect Large Towns.

Auburn, Ind. March 20.-A well known
railway man of this city, who is in
terested in electric projects, has COM
piled a list of the roads in Indiana that
are either now being built or for which
plans have been made.
The list is as follows: An electric line
to connect Garrett. Auburn, Waterloo,
Ashley, Hudson, Pleasant Lake. Angola
and Fort Wayne, with the northern
terminus at Sturgis, Mich; an electric
line from Evansville, going through Tell
City and Cannellton to Rockport; cleo
trio road from Muncie to New Castle;
traction line from Middleton to Dale
Vile; electric traction line between An
derson and Muncie; electric traction
line from Muncie to Hartford City,
through Eaton and Sheidler; Albany,
Dunkirk and Camden electric railway,
to run between the towns named; elec-
trio line between Richmond and Eaton,
O.; electric line to run from Richmond
to Muncie, connecting intervening
towns; an electric traction line from
Columbus to Terre Haute; electric road
to run from Aurora to Rising Sun;
steam road from Ellwood through An
dersOn, Noblesvil1e, Lebanon and Brazil
to the Indiana coal fields; extension of
the Monon from Greencast1e to the In
diana coal fields.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
RICH NEGRO's REQUESTS.
He Leaves Thousands to Educational
Charitable, and Religious Objects.

Washington, March 20.-Frederick G.
Barbados, negro of large means,
came to this city from Boston several
years ago and died last month. His
Will, which has just been filed for pro-
bate. makes provision for a number of
religious, charitable and educational in
stttutions conducted for the benefit of
his race
To the Home for Aged Co1ored Wom-
en-, Boston; Home for Aged and Infirm
Colored Persons, Philadelphia; Home
for Aged Women and Orphans, colored,
Washington; ST. Luke's Episcopal
church, Washington; Lincoln Memorial
Congregational church, Washington,
$1,000 each, and $500 to each of the fol-
lowing: Fifteenth Street Presbyterian
church, Washington; Wilberforce uni
versity, Ohio; Metropolitan Wesley Zion
church, Washington; Livingstone A. NJ.
E. Zion college at Salisbury, N. c.; First
Independent cOlored Baptist church of
Boston and Hampton institute, Hamp-
ton, Va, and to the Metropolitan Bap-
tist church, Washington, $3.50. Between
thirty and forty personal bequests,
ranging from $25 to $4,000, are made to
relatives and friends, and the residue of
the estate is to be equally divided
among the Tuskogee university, Ala
bama; Lincoln university, Pennsyl-
Vania, and Massachusetts, institute, Vtr-
ginia.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
THE SIDEWALK CLEANING
PROBLEM

rFrom the Minneapolis Tribune.1
fund for cleaning the sidewalks as for
cleaning or sprinkling the streets. The
whole street belongs to the public. not
only from curb t. curb. but from the
inner edge of one sidewalk to the inner
edge of the other The fact that the
property owners pay for the sidewalk
is not material The property owners
also pay for the grading and the paw
ing, but they are not expected to turn
out with shovels and brooms and repair
the grade or sweep the pavement. Sucn
repairs and sweepings are done by the
city and paid for out of the ward funds
Why should not the street commis-
sioner be charged with the duty of
keeping the sidewalks passable as well
as Of the streets? If provision were
made for cleaning all the sidewalks at
the public expense. they would all be
cleaned The unenterprising or lazy
citizen who let's the snow accumulate in
front of his premises would then have
no advantage over his more enterpris-
ing and industrious neighbor who
sweats at his task or pays out good
money for the work The owners of va
cant lots would also be then compelled
to do their share of the sidewalk clean
ing. What comfort it would be to the
pedestrian public if all the sidewalks
In the city were cleaned in winter by
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
LITERARY MOMENINJAPAN
[From "a History of japanese Litera-
ture' by w. C. Aston.1

[From "a History of Japanese Litera-
ture," by w. G. Aston.1
A very large and important part of
the best literature which Japan has
produced was written by women. A
good share of the Nara poetry is of
feminine authorship. In the Heian per
iod the women took a still more con-
spicuous part in maintaining the honor
of the native literature. The two great
est works which have come down to US
from this time are both by women.
This was no doubt partly due to the
absorption of the masculine intellect in
Chinese studies and to the contempt of
the stronger sex for such frivolous pur-
suits as the writing of poetry and ro-
mances. But there was a still more
effective cause. The position of women
in ancient Japan was very different
from what it afterward became when
Chinese ideas were in the ascendant.
The japanese of this early period did
not share the feeling common to most
eastern countries that women should
be kept in subsection, and, far as
possible, in seclusion. Feminine chief
tains are frequently mentioned in the
old histories, and several even of the
Mikados were women. Many instances
might be quoted of Japanese women
exercising an influence and maintaining
an independence of conduct quite at
variance with our preconceived notions
of the position of women in the east.
The Topeka state journal., 1899-03-20
A HINDOO EDITOR.
(From Pearson's weeklvl

The Indian press is of ancient origin
ea3Tt 6a9 III the european an conquest every
daily; journal. which was sent out to the
mobiles. wealthy people and officials. These
journals contained proclamations and de-
the court and all things likely to be of
interest to the faithful subjects of the
Generally speaking, the native is very
anxious to acquire a knowledge of Eng
pointments in the government service. but
also makes him a person of great import
of the millions of natives read English or
ing knowledge of our tongue is indispens-
able to native editor, because all the i'm
Anglo-Indian newspapers.
The native writer is fond of extravagant
can, of quotation from Shakespeare or
Milton, and the religious phrases he has
of metap phors he often gets mixed up up 0
The editorial page of the Indian country
the reader is assured in an article on a
political crisis. that 'aH the crowned heads
Sometimes we read that 1.-The editor ex-
poets, with divine help, to have more read
ing suited to the intelligence of his sub
scribers. in the next issue
But the editor is seen at his best in his
readers. Sometimes the announcement
of the editor who innocentIy declared:
'"This is only the beginning our paper. We
quired to fill it up and, thinking we had
sufficient, we did not exert ourselves much
to get any more. We. therefore, beg that
our readers will excuse us this time for
the space left blank, and promise to do
better and get more in the future
Still more curious was the announcement
of a paper which came out for the first
time. with two columns blank, the, editor
making the bold announcement that "a
large quantity of exceedingly interesting
matter has been left out for want Of
space"
When the native editor wants a holiday
he suspends publication until it is conven-
!eHI 70 lesulue anu tdhIIls ms IedueIs m
why the paper was not issued on the ex-
pected dates with the consent of our
nual holiday. We are sure none of them
will begrudge US our relaxation