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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-28

A young man who courts young
lady in the west part of town is sorry
that it happened and the young lady
would probably give a great deal if
what has been done could be undone but
neither will make the first step towards
a reconciliation.
The trouble came about in this man
ner. The young man and the young
lady both take their meals at a fash
They work in the same Office building
and consequently they are quite, we'll
friendly it might be called. One day
the young man asked the young lady il
she would go with him to hear the opera
La Fiesta" She said that she had
made arrangements to attend the first
performance and did not care to see it
twice. The young man endeavored to
have her break her appointment but she
declined and that was the beginning.
Finally she said perhaps she might go
with him. A few days later he said,
Are you going to the opera?" she said
/ yes. He meant was she going with him
and she meant that she was going but
with some one else.
The young man thought everything
was all right and that she would &C
company him and accordingly present
ed himself at her house the night of the
! first performance. She was gone, left
/ for the theater several minutes before
| he was informed. He was mad. When
| the young lady returned she was told
| that he called for her. She felt sorry
and the next day wrote him a note. Il
| was returned to her unopened Their
she got mad" They eat at the same
table at the boarding house and at the
monday meal neither would speak tt
| the other.
At supper time it was the same way
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-28
DOROTHY'S ROMANCE.
[From the Bogton Pogt.l


"a handsome white yacht swings
gracefully at anchor on a warm June
morning after sunrise in a well-known
harbor on the North Shore. The peace
full calm Of the dawning day is rudely
broken by loud voices. An unusual thing
has happened. The captain and owner
Robert Ellsworth, has awakened to find
one of his hands (shipped the day pre-
vious) bending over his desk on the
other side of the cabin, in which his
money and valuables were kept. To
jump out of bed and seize the man by
the collar was the work of but an in
slant for the impulsive young man. A
scuffle ensued which ended by the man
being overpowered by the crew.
Take him ashore and set him adrift, .
said Ellsworth; and this was done, the
culprit muttering threats against the
captain.
The same morning Dorothy Ellsworth
is finishing her toilet at her home in
Broolxline, the happy possessor of youth.
beauty and wealth; her life has never
known a care or sorrow.
The mirror reflects a lovely face, wear
ing at that moment a little smile of self
(Which she has donned in preparation
for a days sail on her brothers new
boat, named in her honor fits her slen-
der figure to perfection.
On her way to the station her mind is
full of delightful anticipation of the
days pleasure, without any premon-
ition of what was to happen to make
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the water and is swimming rapidly to-
ward the scene. The man, taking I'D
his oars, rows swiftly away.
AS the swimmer reaches the SPOT Do
rothy's head rises above the surface
Grasping her dress, he swims ashore
with the unconscious girl and places her
upon heap of seaweed. Then he be-
gins chatting her hands and in spite of
his anxiety for her safety he can not
help noting the beauty of her face and
form.
Dorothy opens her eyes and asks in a
weak voice: Where am I, and what
has happened?"
Recollection then returns to her and
she hides her face in her hands and ex-
claims in a. trembling voice. You saw
ed me from that horrible man. How,
how can I thank you? o! if I could
only get to my brothers boat
Il have boat and Will row you
| there replies the young man.
He helps her in with careful gentle
ness, and Dorothy is again on her way
but this time with a feeling of trust and
/ confidence, which grows with every look
| she takes at the handsome oarsman.
Reaching the yacht, she at once seeks
| the shelter of the cabin for a change of
| clothing, leaving the stranger to explain
| to her astonished brother and account
| for their unexpected appearance.
/ Dorothy is made as comfortable as
/ possible under the circumstances, ana
before long she appears on deck and is
! introduced to her rescuer, Mr.. CORTLAND
Lee, who, in a flannel suit of Ellsworth's
looks none the worse for his exertions in
her behalf
The only conclusion to be drawn from
her story is that the man INST have been
crazy, when suddenly Ellsworth thinks
| of the sailor he had discharged that
morning, and her description of him
| oonvinces them of his identity
IF I had handed the man over to
! the authorities, as should have done,
said Ellsworth, finally, my sister would
have been spared her fearful exper-
fence"
Mr.. Lee takes his leave after accept.
ing their earnest invitation to visit then
in Brookline.
Late in the autumn CORTLAND Let
makes his promised call. He could moi
get the beautiful girl out of his mind
but the thought of the difference O
their position had always held him bacI
being only a poor, struggling artist.
His desire to see her again finally be
came too intense to be controlled
Dorothys greeting was such as Il
give him hope. Other calls were mad
until she surprised him one evening b.
asking him to paint her portrait
On the day of the last sitting a certain
constraint seemed to be in the air. Eacl
! seemed to avoid the eye of the other. A
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washington could not tell lie"
well, he had enough money to hire a
private secretary, didn't he?'-New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-28

on the streets here will be only NINA
lures of the ones which are nanufac-
tured for practical purposes.
There will probably be an automobile
exhibit also, consisting principally of
autos for delivery purposes. The
company is figuring on space but has
not closed the deal.
The baby shows will doubtless be ex-
citing affairs, as there will be babies
entered from all over the country. There
will be two different shows; one for
white babies, and another for little col
Ored pickininnieS.
There will be one exhibit which will be
of great interest to mothers. 1t will be
a nursery exhibit. It viii be made by
firm which makes a speciality of
nursery furniture and arrangements,
and the booths will be fitted up with
jumpers, cribs, children's beds, and fur
n1shed with a multitude of toys. But
this is not all. The practical workings
OF the different apparatus will be shown
with babies and small children. Babies
VIII be checked the same as grips and
packages are checked at check stands.
Experienced nurses will be in charge
of the exhibit to amuse and care for the
little ones, so that mothers will not need
to fear that their babies will not be
we'll cared for. This will afford mothers
! an opportunity to go to the street fair
with their babies, deposit the little ones
IN the nursery booth, and view the diff
| ferent exhibits without being compelled
to carry the baby about.
| A special feature of the various days
! which will be celebrated during the
fair, and one which will be of more than
usual Importance, viii be Railroad
| Mems Day. The details of the day
have not yet been worked out, but an
! effort Will be made to render it very
| attractive to the thousands of railroad
men who live in Topeka and the sur
rounding towns
A feature which win also be very at
traetive and amusing will be a cake
/ walk of nations. Those who walk" con
/ dress in the costume of any nation they
see fit, and prizes will be offered for the
most original costumes as well as for
| the most fancy walking"
Then there will be the Midway. A
| Midway is attracting to nearly every one
| IN one way or another. There will, of
! course, be the Streets of Cairo No
! Midway would ever be complete with
out that. There will be real Turks, and
! Arabs, and Bedouins of the desert; gun
| spinners and swordsmen. Then there
| viii be burros for the children and
probably camels for the older ones who
wish to ride across the burning sands "
The Streets Of India will be another
attraction, with real HindOo falkirs,
who are the greatest magicians on the
face of the earth. Curios from the
banks of the Ganges and other things
Of interest will be exhibited in the
Streets of India
But the most wonderful attraction to
nearly everyone viii be the wild animal
show. There win be lions and tigers
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How One of the FraternaI Booths win Look.

In a few moments she is seated in the
stern with the man bending to his oars.
For the first time Dorothy notices the
mans face. She finds his eyes fixed
intently upon her with an expression
she does not understand, but which
makes her uneasy. They are well out
into the harbor, not far from a small
island, and apparently not a person in
sight.
Suddenly the man drops his oars, and.
rising to his feet with an oath, he ap-
proaches her.
with a cry of terror the poor girl
throws herself over the stern of the boat
and disappears.
An artist is sketching a view of the
harbor from the island, when he hears
Dorothy's cry for help. He plunges into
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trained to all sorts of wonderful things,
as well as bears, leopards and other
trained wild animals
Then there viii be the Japanese the
alter, with troupes Of japanese acrobats
and equilibrists; a German village, with
the music Of the Fatherland; Oriental
and Porto Riean theaters, with dances
of various kinds
These are some of the features of
the Midway which has been planned,
but they may be varied somewhat and
added to, as all attractions of this char
acter will have to pass the scrutiny of
the committees before they win be al
lowed to exhibit.
The accompanying cuts were made
from photographs Of the Kansas City
street fair last fall. Quincy street viii
present much the same appearance that
Baltimore street did in its holiday at
tire.
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marched to the hotel. Larimer was
sitting in the lobby with his feet on
the stove telling his hearers about the
time he pulled an 18-pound catfish out
of the lake with bent pin on the end
of a. string with an oyster cracker for
bait. The crowd unceremOniously broke
in upon his tale. The ballots and books
he was guarding were lying on the floor
under a bench where he could keep his
eye on them.
I'VE demand those ballots said the
leader of the crowd.
What ballots" said Larimer.
mo need to try and get round it,
young man, we have you dead to right.
and if you think you can come here and
run this to suit yourself you're off,
why, man, I'm a member Of
the county central committee" said
Don't care what you are We have
it on good authority that you are try
ing to steal this precinct. Those ball
lcts-hand them over quick"
The people in the street who could
not crowd into the hotel were clafnor-
ing for the culprit to come out and ride
a rail.
you can keep those ballots till morn
| ing and then send some one with me to
| Topeka so that you can be certain they
are not tempered with said Larimer-
stNo, that won't do. You would Lave
| a confederate on the train who would
bind and gag our man.
Larimer argued. 1t was no use. He
4 finally went to bed and left the bal
| lots and the tally sheets on the floor
| in the office. The hotel was guarded
/ all night by an angry mob. The next
morning the rising young politician
| took his breakfast early and then met
a committee of citizens. 1t was agreed
| that the ballots and books should be
| wrapped up and securely sealed and
| sent by express to the chairman of the
| central committee. They were. L4ari-
mer and the ballots came back on the
! same train. Larimer in the smoker,
and the ballots in the express car.
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Furthermore it commenced to rain.
Last Christmas the young lady gave
the young man a handsome umbrella
and what did he do after supper but
calmly raise the umbrella and walk off
and leave her to get home as best she
could and she had brought no umbrel-
Ia That was too much. To "cut her
dead" and walk off with the umbrella
she gave him was more than she could
stand and she commenced to get mad
Now he has been feeling sorry but she
is still angry.
Railiff John Coyne of the district
court predicts a famine for the Sons of
Erin and that another''good ould saint"
must be found who will drive the potato
bugs out of Kansas.
gath, lad. and it's a fact" said the
baiIiff as he locked a dozen men, tried
and true, in the jury room and took the
bench, in the absence of the judge, and
lighted a Cuban stout. Sure now and
I've planted the foinest patch of perta-
tiers outside o. the County O. Cork. But
it's bad cess to 'eTn, they're having no
end O. trooble trying to grow Faith,
now, and the day before last was out
there in the patch and begorra saw
three bugs sittin' there on a clod. I
keeps me oye on 'em. Then the ground
feminist 'em commenced to move. The
bugs got ready to jump. The ground
moved a little more. / keeps me oye on
'enn. The bugs kept their eyes on the
ground. linen TOP a murphy vine
come up jest a little. 1t come up lit
tie more and the three bugs made q
jump and by the holy Saint Patrick
they had eat it all up and was wipin
their chops waiting for another to come
up. OF tell yer, lad, it's goin' ter be
hard times for the Irish when the bugs
can't wait till the pertaters gets out O.
the ground"
When Harry Larimer was a candi-
| date for county attorney he was beset
| by the usual crowd of street corner
| loafers who thrive only when candi-
dates are subject to the decision of the
people,
| They were all after Larimer. This
man needed so cents to use in repair
ing his well curb" another needed a
quarter to have "a pair of half soles put
on his shoes so he could keep on act
ing as walking delegate for Larimer
Finally an old colored man presented
himself to the candidate and said:
''Adistah Lar'mer de church am in
need o. some funds with which fer tC
keep up de institushoon. would like tc
have you contriboote.'
st1uW much % asked Larimer who had
discovered that it was best to accede t.
these little requests.
'sErbOut fouah bits
s'Well, here is the so cents" said tbs
donor as he handed over the money.
I'VE allus does this on the squar' 81
I'll ak you to sign de book and state d.
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amount after 70 name SAID the SoAc-
itor.
"Well," thought Larimer as he signed
his name, here is an honest man at
last"
but say, Mr.. Lar'mer." said the old
colored man as he laid a restraining
hand on the candidates arm as he was
about to write down the amount. "Ocly
write down hat de amount. We might
need de rest at some other time and
then I'd have it handy you know to
give to the treasurer as another contri-
bootion."
Pat Sherman, depot master of the
Santa Fe and an ex-Indian fighter, look
ed up and down the platform a few
mornings ago as the Kansas City plug
was about ready to pull out
No one was in sight. He glanced at
his watch. One minute of starting time
Just then a very fat colOred woman
hove in sight, putting and snorting. She
was out of breath and probably out of
spirits. 1t was evident that she wanted
to take the train. She started for the
| ticket office.
you'll not have time to buy ticket"
said the depot master.
The woman paid no heed to the warn
| ing but kept on
ticket before the train STARTS shouted
/ Sherman.
The woman glanced at him with a
] diSdainful air and kept on. While she
| was Duy1nS QeT TICKET the tram started.
By the time she returned from the tick
| ct window to the platform the last car
| was passing the waiting room. She
| made a run for it.
| Hi, therei StopY' yelled Pat and he
| dashed after her
She did not stop but kept up her mad
scramble for the fleeing train. There
| was nothing else to do. She would not
stop for commands She might be kill
| ed if she attempted to board the moving
| train. She weighed no less than 300
| pounds but that made no difference to
| Sherman. He made a dive tackled well
| and hung on The woman whirled round
several times and finally stopped. The
| train was rounding the curve and Pat
| was hugging the woman with both
arms. But he stopped her.
There are other members of the I.sri-
mer family who indulge in politics
THE same blood, as Harry Larimel
said at the meeting Of the county CEN
/ trail committee, runs in the veins OF
James Iarimer
After the late Republican primaries
the returns from Silver Lake were SLOW
in coming in to headquarters, and VI
to Sunday night the poll books had no
been returned. The chairman of ths
county central committee wanted ths
ballots and tally sheets and he dis
patched Jim" Larimer, a member o
the executive committee Of the centra
committee, to go to Silver Lake and
bring back the ballots and books. I.ari
mer arrived there about 8 o'clock tina
night, and found who had the ballot
and books. He went at once to tn
man who had them, explained that h
was going to take them to Topeka il
the morning and they were given t
him. He returned to the hotel wit
them. Soon the story was started tina
Jim Larimer is going to steal Silve
Lake" a political term meaning tina
} he would by slight of hand and feN
presto changes cause the ballots an
tally sheets to read in favor of hi
chosen candidates
In a few minutes the streets Of Silve
D Lake were filed with people all cryin
2 for revenge upon Larimer. The
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MILLIONS Given Away.

It is certainly gratifying to the public
to know of one concern which is not
afraid to be generous The proprietors of
ton, Coughs and Colds, have given away
over ten million trial bottles and have
the satisfaction of knowing it has cured
thousands. of hopeless cases. Asthma,
Bronchitis, La Grippe and all Throat,
Chest and Lung diseases are surely cured
by it Call on any druggist and get a
free trial bottle. Regular size soc and
$1.0O. Every bottle guaranteed
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w A Collins, Monroe La, writes: IT
was completely run down and suffering
from nervous trouble that made life q
misery; since using Beggs' Blood Purifier
I am a well man. For twenty years It
sick people well. r. W. Squires, Phar-
macist. 10 Kansas ave.
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length the artist dropped his brush with
a sigh, saying:
These have been the happiest days of
my life.''
Dorothy waited for him to say more,
she said, slowly:
These have been my happiest days,
also.'
Dorothy" he breathed; and, Selling
both her hands and gazing into her
eyes, do you mean it? VIII you?"
She stood with downcast eyes, then
whispered:
Il do, and will
Six months afterwards Dorothy be-
came the bride of the poor artist"
CORTLAND Lee.
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Stubbs-I've quit writing poetry.
Scribbs-Didn't it pay?
Stubbs--H mi I discovered that a lot
of fellows were earning big money max
ing fun of Indianapolis Journal.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-07-26
Gambling Houses in London.

There were in 1924 in London alone
35 well.known gambling houses. Near.
ly all our most respectable West End
clubs were originally gambling houses,
as the Cocoa Tree, which is still -four
ishing as a club at No. GA st. James
street. One night late in the last
century there was a cast at hazard,
the difference of which was G1S000O.
That present pink of perfection,
Whites" was perhaps the most APP
palling gambling hell in Europe. "The
young men of the age" says Walpole,
lose there 10000, &15,000, 100000
In an evening" The play at this club
Is only for rouleaux Of G so each, and
generally there was C 10000 in gold
on the table. The gamesters began
by pulling off their embroidered
clothes and put on frieze garments or
turned their clothes inside out for
luck. They put on pieces of leather
to save their lace ruffles, and to guard
their eyes from the light, and to pre-
vent tumbling their hair wore high
crowned straw hats with broad brims,
and sometimes masks to conceal their
emotions. Almack's afterward was
known as the Goose Tree Cuba
rather significant name-and Pitt was
one of it's most constant frequenters,
and there met his adherents. Gibbon
was also a member when the club was
still Almacks, which, indeed, was the
name of its founder and original pro.
prietor Saturday Review
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1900-07-26
UNDER A HOT FIRE.
British Officer Writes Of His Expert.
ences at Colenso.

A letter received from British Off
Ger who took part in the battle OF Co
lenso says:
at the start a shell from our own
artillery, with a fuse badly timed,
burst in the middle of my company,
wounding about five men. | was
knocked down by the explosion and
a portion of the shell struck the
ground at the side of my boot We
went on and got behind mound, with
bullets flying within a few inches
and shells bursting over US. \ bullet
from shrapnel hit my side without
hurting me, and I kept it as a me-
mento. We lay as fat as possible,
waiting to be killed as no ono thought
we Would Escape. We were under fire
from $50 a. N. until 2:30 p. m,
Soon the Red Cross people appear.
ed and we were relieved from an awk-
ward position. While lying on the
ground | felt bullet skim along my
back and found that it had made
hole in my jacket. Our men were
wonderfully plucky. One man near
me got bullet through him. and said,
'Ah, and If the baStes haven't hit me;
that's one fer them Immediately
the words were out of his mouth he
got another, and, cooler than ever,
said 'Bcjabers, if they haven't struck
me the second time Another bullet
struck him just after, and he said,
We'll, that's number three! do think
the blackguards might let a Teller
alone when they've hit him vance
Others were laughing and Joking con.
tinually.
81 actually slept as | lay on the
ground, and was awakened by the bull
lets going ping upon the ground at
the side of my head One Boer was
very kind. He galloped more than
once to the river with bottles of water
for our men, and seemed very dis
tressed. He said they were all tired
of the war and asked what we were
fighting about. He thought the Eng.
lish were jolly good fellows. Other
Beers loted the dead and wounded,
and one officer was found with a
finger cut off to get a gold ring"