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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01
F0Od more delicious and wholesome
a superb shell fish and nowhere better
PURE
aovAl BAKING powpea CO., NEW voak

a superb shell fish and nowhere betser
than here.
Ihis morning they thought they
would take q rest. Missing them I
went down to the wharf and found them
just coming in in q row boat. They
had Tor supplies 300 oysters and q red
hsh that weighed on thescales Ct lbs.
lhls red fish was caught by Harry
Barker. assisted by AL Meiryman.
The tide was out and they found him
IN pool. They got him but they had
racing tussle and Harry got as wet
as rat. Stuffed and roasted for
dinner, it helped out a couple of GAL
Ions OF clam chOwder. They have
now all gone up the bay on Nj &C Lew
is sharpie, the ''Ah There" a merry
party on merry boat, clad in her
new coat OF white and green, deck
crowded with hats both white and
brown, and gay in her snow white
sails. She looked "a thing of beauty
and JOY forever" as she glided up
the Bay leaving your humble servant
TO lndlte this eplstle and "hold the
tort" The first part of this letter
give you second hand, after we leave
Tampa l vouch for it.
Yours, ]. M. LEWIS.
p. S. Mr.. Merryman, Mrs. Merry.
mar and little Dorothy, Mr.. Barker
and Mrs. Barker, Capt. Mac and wife
are we'll. 1t is well that a merciful
providence gives to you large crops
IN Edwards county and we are DOING
our best. with their assistance to pre-
vent their breeding afamine on their
return. I'M Il.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Ii you wish to keep informed of the
doings OF the Kansas Legislature,
subscribe for the Topeka Daily State
Journal. 1t will be mailed to any ad-
dress in Kansas, Or elsewhere, sixty
calendar days for TO cents, one hum
dred days for 81. 90.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Senator Allen says of the outlook
for the ship subsidy bill: II shall do
my besa to keep it from going through
Ii had my way | would talk on it so
long that its champions would be glad
to abandon it In order to make me
shut uun
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01
Should A Man be VainP

Certainly he should. He should
have ambition to look well and feel
good, which he cannot do unless he
digests his food. Dr.. Caldwell's Sy.
rup Pepsin aids digestion, clears the
head. keeps the bowels regular, and
makes man feel at peace with the
world. Try it. NJ. DeTar,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Cuba will send a representative del
egation to Washington to ask Con
gress fur II reduction in the duties ON
Cuban prod dncts, but they will prob
ably get nothing but thetrip for their
paths, rs the republica n leaders will
consent to no reductions
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

The latest thing pointing towards
centralizing government is the bill
taking away from the county commis-
sloners the power to name the official
paper of the county and placing it in
the hands of the State uuse crowd.
This is OF course done on the theory
that the people cannot transact their
own business
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Mrs. Nation had lively but uusat-
isfactOry interview with Governor
Stanley this week. He declined to IN
woke the majesty of the law to assist
her in closing the joints. He proposes
to stand by the people he represenLs.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

The brewers made the senate reduce
the tax on beer to $1.5O darrell. 1t
is now question as to what the house
will do about it.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Slowly but surely the railroads of
the country are travelling toward one
mammoth trust. Every big deal like
those recently put through by Pierpont
Morgan in the east and Hill in the
west, brings the big trust nearer.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Our experience with the Indians has
hot been calculated to arouse enthusi-
asm over a system of government edu-
cation in the Philippines.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Senator Smith 3 wide tire bill was
killed in the senate. This was really
a meritoriOus measure and If enacted
into a law would have been of great
value to the good roads movement.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Another good republican has gone
wrong in Havana. John Sherida an,
who was carried from Boston to take
charge OF the money order branch of
the Aavana postoffice has been caught
Neelyizing the cash.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

A Topeka man Claims to have in.
vented burner for kerosene lamps
that generates and burns gas from
the OIL IN the lamp. This will prove
good thing if practicable.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

More crookedness ia the Gu ban pos
tai service as we'll as the crooked ness
in the Dead Letter Office in Washing
ton, shows that the era of good steal
ing is not being overlooked by some
Office holders.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Teddy is one of those men who are
always having things happen to them;
and he's an exp rt in the selection Of
press agents VINO know how to make
the most of them.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

1t is dollars to soda-crackers that
Mr.. Mckinley will not keep his. prom
ise to give commissions in the reor-
ganized army only to men who have
served in The Philippines.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Senator Smith had a column write
up in the Kansas City Star last Sum
day. Many nice things were said of
his ability and standing in the senate.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Hello! Is Tom Reed meditating an
other dash into politics? In declining
to be interviewed the other day, he
said: II have retired from politics,
at least for the time being"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

He is Senator 10 Bailey now, if you
please; and he will do honor to Texas
in the senate as he has done in the
house. e.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Great Britain's new king dou btlesss
believes that seven is q luckier num-
Der than one, and chosetO be Edward
VII rather, than Albert I.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Superstiti Cubans are not blam-
able for considering the islvnd hoo
dOoed. In addition to the visitation
OF American thieves, they are suffer-
ing from h record breaking cold wave.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1901-02-01

Postmaster General Smith has be.
come, probably under orders, a writer
Tor the ship subsidy press bureau, at
Washington.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04

When the snip arrived at port, Hov- ever, he learned that 9 new tariff schedule had just been adopted, slap ping a 90 per cent. duty on 'medi- cines in bottles,' but only two per cent. on medicines in bulk, put up in kegs or barrels As bad luck would have it there was only one empty barrel on the whole vessel, while the consignment of regulator was of at least dozen different brands; but there was no time to deliberate over the matter, and Bill proceeded to dump it all in together. The stuff is made on exactly the same principles, anyhow he said, and little blend ing won't harm 1t a particIc.' So he loaded up the barrel, paid the light duty on bulk regulator and empty glassware and rebottled the mixture as soon as he got ashore, under the name of 'Webster's Eureka Tonic. Now comes the strange part of the affair. The regulators were all un- doubtedly about 95 per cent. whisky, but the other ingredients differed, and that blend must have produced some brand new chemical compound. Anyhow, Webster's tonic turned out to be the widest nose paint any hu man being ever Tut under his vest. One drink of it would make the quiet est citizen in town jump straight up in the air and howl like a catamount, and two drinks would make him fight a circular saw. After that he was liable 10 scalp his grandmother or do anything else eccentric that hap pened to come into his mind. As soon as the peculiar properties of the stuff became known it enjoyed an immense run, and for two or three weeks times were iivelier on the coast than they had been since the Mosquito rebellion. Then the supply ran out and Webster, who had been rapidly getting rich at ten dollars bottle, gold, made desperate effort to duplicate the mix ture. but he couldn't do it. He sent for all the different regulators on the market and experimental for months and months, but he could never exactly hit the right propor- tions, and at last the poor fellow died of q broken heart. He had only two bottles of the old original left in stock, and they opened those for the pall-bearers. The result was they had five funerals instead of one, and that's how the tonic got it's name of coffin varnish.' Since then plenty of others have tried to find the secret"
 added the little nan, getting up, s'but they never succeeded, and it's got to be a kind of a tradition. like the lost
 mine.' If anybody could strike the right combination he'd make an enor- nous fortune in less than six months | He'd need steam yacht to carry away his money"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
WAS A GREAT TONIC.
Its Introduction Increased Central
 America's Death Rate.
It Was Called ssWebster's Coffin Var uish''-A Curious Tale of One of the Lost Arts in Compound
 ing Medicine.

sYou never heard of Webster's cof- fin varnish!' exclaimed the little, swarthy man in the group of Sunday afternoon loungers in the St. Charles corridor to q New Orleans Times Democrat reporter. Well, it's plain, gentlemen, that you've never been in Central America; leastwise not in '95, when the varnish made it's reputa- tion. It's mighty scarce now, and l doubt whether you'd pick up a single bootle between Belize and Bocas--" But what was the stuff, anyhow?" interrupted one of the par ty, impatient!y. Ut was supposed to be a liver regulator" replied the lit tie man; "but the principal fact posi- lively known about it is that it in creased the mortality of the coast de- partment of Honduras 35 per cent. in two months. The story is this" he continued, lighting a fresh cigar. "'Bill' Webster was q trader in a small way, and used to take down merchandise on the coasters and swap it off for bananas or rubber or any thing else that offered. In the spring of '95 he got hold of big lot of liver regulator of various kinds, put up es- pecial3y for the Central American market. You see, there is big tar if on straight whisky down there, but as the climate is mighty hard on the liver, most of the little republics let in patent regulators free. The consequence is that a good many drug houses in the United States make special brands of liver medicine for that particular trade, and when a man down there wants to be friendly and sociable he asks you to take a swig of regulator with him. The for mulas of the popular brands vary somewhat, but the general effect is all about the same.
 ''Weu, as l was saying" the swarthy gentleman went on, "Web- ster got hold of a big assorted lot of Central American liver regulator and
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
STOCKS IN GRAVEYARD.
Dead of Long Ago Supposed to Lurk in Deserted Pcnnsylvania
 Cemetery.

Near Milton Grove, Lancaster county. Pa., is a deserted graveyard. overgrowr with rank weeds. The fence around it is falling rapidly into decay. The neighbors call the place haunted ano the children hesitate to go past it ir the day, while at night only the bray est will venture near the place. In the graveyard are five mounds marking the only graves left, the other bodies hay ing been disinterred and taken away In each one of these graves lies tine body of person who died a violent death.
 For over ITO years the crumbline gravestones have told the stories of how these persons died. In the first grave lies all that is mortal of the wife of one John Kinsly. In 1878, accordin 9 to the tombstones on which the inscrip' ton is still legible, Kinsley came hon, and found his wife hanging to tree The lonely forest home had driven her to suicide.
 Next is the grave of Flana Doty, an aged recluse, who was burned to death in her cabin.
 Jonathan Fissel, who was buried in the next grave, was said in his day tc
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
MCOY WILL MARRY.

Notwithstanding all the reports to the contrary, Charles Mccoy and his
 wife will be married iii Boston. prob-
 ably on Sunday next. The reason for the selection of Boston is that Mir Me Coy himself is not allowed under the law to marry again in New York state. He leaves on Saturday night, and she will leave later in the evening. Mrs Mccoy has already sent in her res lgnation to the Miss Prinnt' company and all arrangements have been made. It was reported last night that the marriage was to take place in Hoboken at midnight. but Mir Mccoy is himself authority for the statement that Bos- ton is the place and Sunday the time.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
ABOUT THp R1NGsIDE.

hoOO AAA ANAAN1OAoDs
 Kid McCoy sIgned arllcies last night to n.eeI "4AuslA a41an' Jllumy Ryan i'll Waterbury uurlng the urst week of teDruary.
 Tommy Hogan of Chicago has re- ceived an otier to fight Oscar Gardner at Memphis the latter part of the month. Hogan says that he Is ready to meet Gardner, but wants to wait un- til he hears from Terry McGovern, whom he challenged as soon as he reached home from his trip abroad
 Peter Maher is preparing for trip to San Francisco. but will not leave until after the Ruhlin-Jeffries fight, as it Is his intention of challenging the winner While in California Maher will see the matchmaker of the SNa- tional A. C., and induce the organiza- ton to offer a good sized purse for himself and Tom Sharkey.
 The police commissioners of Lowell, Mass. have decided not to grant any additional licenses \ " boxing bouts. No reason for the edict has been given as no complaints of the bouts which have already been decided have been made. Three clubs are affected by the decision. namely the Gladstone A. C.. Knickerbocker club and Physical Culture club. Martin Flaherty. the
 
 maker of the latter organization.
 The London Mirror of Life of De- cember 26 contains the following par agraph of interest: ''At sale of cur jos and relics at. Stevens's auction rooms in COvent Garden on WedneS- day, December ,, an interesting relic of Tom Savers came under the ham, mcr. This consisted of a richly col ored kerchief worn by the late cham pion in many of his principle battles The souvenir, however, only fetched 14 shillings. We remember the time when a good Yellowman, Kingsman Birdseye or Belcher would have fetched the above sum-
 Billy Brady left for Cincinnati yes ter6ay. When asked if there was any chance of the date of the Jeffries-Ruh- lin struggle being changed, he said: "No; the date will stand the way it is The fight will come off on Friday night, February 13. When 1 reach Cincinnati I will attend to several de tails of. the mill. The stories about Saengerfest hall not being q substan- tial structure are circulated to injure the contests. It is one of the strong est buildings in the country and has been so declared by civil engineers and other competent judges
 Australian" Jimmy Ryan says that the Adelphi A. c. of London will make Q big effort to secure the bout if lt is arranged between Terry McCoveIr and Ben Jordan. "Issy Abrahams. ' i Ryan says, told me that he would raise the purse from 5000 to $S.OOO in order to get the struggle. Of course Jordan has already signed with the National club, but when he realizes ! that he can get more money, no doubt 1 he will go over to the rival club. The Adelphi organization is not really a | fighting club. but it is an ideal place l in my estimation to hold fights"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04

Curtis of the Springfelds is agreed by all to be the greatest find" in the National league this year. Just think if it. Last year he was hardly con sidered good enough for Salem and Clinton We always admired and feared Curtis when pitted against .'our own.' Above all, he is perfect gentleman In the National league he has earned the sobriquet of ''Sull Bill" Lawrence News.
 Hartford will be here tonight and we will again have the pleasure of try ing to down Tom Cotter and his aggre. gation. The Flying Dutchman, Wodtke, will also be here, and Of course he will make every effort 10 stop the upward flight of the Water bury team. Hartford defeated New Haven two games the other day ana should make it interesting TOT tue local players. Tn fact, it should De game that will be well worth looking at.
 lust think of it. the great big fel- lows in the Waterbury team were too rough with the little chaps on the New Haven team, and for that reason they are called ruffians. Just look at the weights of the members OT each team. Compare Russell with Bone, Griffin with .Jasin, Jean with Canavan, HolGerness with Whipple and Lations with Fox, and where Go you think the heavy end would be? Waterbury would have to carry several pigs of lead to come anywhere near the weight of the New Haven team.
 Billy parsons's ruffians kept their promise of rubbing it ill to the New Havens last night at Waterbury. Jean and Russell being particularly rough, Holderness also using his usual pull haul-maul tactics. The Waterbury crowd went wild with delight over the thug actions Of their players, and promptly raised a horrible howl when q New Haven player bumped into a Waterbury man. There's only one way 10 even up for this sort of thing, and that is to give them as good as they sent when they come hcre.-New Haven Register. Cut it. cut it. old man. We did believe you reasonable but the loss of the lead seems to have Scurcd your usually even disposition The ruffians were found in your own ranks, and they began the work, too
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
FOOD NOTES.

Maine has 175 factories in which fish and vegetables arc canned.
 Italian macaroni is no longer made by hand, but by machinery.
 The United States produces 2.22o pounds of grain for each inha bitant; i; England, 36o pounds.
 An agricultural settlement near New York supplies the Chinese of the eastern states with their diet.
 Malaga grapes are the finest grapes in Spain and are almost unique in the fact that they maintain their fresh- ness, frmness and flavor for months after being cut from thA vinAl . --
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04

have been pirate and to have assisted in the burial of treasure and his death is said to have been caused by some ad. venturers who tried to torture from him his secret.
 Frederick Kissels bones lie under a fallen grayestone that relates the story of his murder by Indians.
 In the last grave is man who was killed in the early Indian wars. His name was faded from the gravestone and the manner of his death is only known by tradition.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
Ghosi Story from Utah.

An old mine at Moab. Utah, worked
 300 years ago by the SpaHiards until
 they were driven out by the Indians, has been undiscovered by Colorado man, who declares that he was led to the spot by the spirit guidance of his dead ten-year-old girl. The discoverer
 is A. J. Strause, formerly of Morrison and Dolores, Col. His story is vouched for by E. H. Ryan, of Moab. formerly county attorney, and John Peachman, prospector from Lcadville and later from Cripple Creek. The mine is de clared to be the famous Josephine mine. It is Located in the Blue noun tstna Of Utah, t5 miles south of Moab.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
NEW FIELD FOR FIGHTERS,

NEW FIELD FOR FIGHTERS.
 The unfortunate boxer should not despair in this hour of triumph for the fanatic and the buncO reformer. A new field of endeayor is open to him. Tommy Ryan and Jack Root have re- ceiyed an offer to box six rounds be- fore the camera of a moving picture company of Chicago, and it is more than likely that the pair will accept. If the articles are signed, the middle weights will come together in private with only a limited number of spec tators, and will fight for a purse of the pictures. The offer of q purse was made by representative Of the company, the same concern which pho- tographcd the Gans-McGovern fight. Ryan partially agreed to the terms. and it is expected that Root, too, will as sent after his engagement With George ByCrs in San Francisco January 1S The photographing concern offers the purse and interest in the product un- der the stipulation that the battle take place in q sixteen foot ring, this to insure rapid action. 'I will find the i place for the men to fight said the agent. All l ask is that the men l come together and have it out, ire i spective of gate receipts of specta- l tors. l can see enough profit in exhib- | iting the pictures throughout the coun- | try and am willing to offer $oO0O and 1 give them half of the picture profits 1 for the contest"
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-04
FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS.
McGovern Calls One Of The Many Buffers Who Cnal enge Him

The 'Tipton Slasher'' Will Now Have
 to Make Good or Flunk-Tommy
 Ryan and Jack Root to Box Six
 Rounds Before a Picture Machine
 Now Said That the McCoys Win
 Marry Sunday-PugiLst Welsh Is
 Not Recovering-kid Mccoy Report
 ed to Have Signed Articles to Fight
 In Waterbury.
 It cannot be denied that a champion boxer Is cULupeueu to toIerate SIeat ueal OT any perSiIIaSe IiCnl 1hAeiloi nSuIerS Who Seek 10 gam feHecteu Glury from the former $ acnleVeInents | ms is parucuiarly true or Ierence McGoyeru, the teaCherWelght cnam- pion. Any sort of q boxer rom LIS to 145 pounds feels called upon to ls- sue d challenge to the WnlrlWInu 1rOm across the bridge, With emphatic ln- SlStence on a Siue bet of So,UUO 10 SAo,- OU0. Of course, the challenger mas no intention of fighting, is thoroughly con vinced the proposal will not be accept ed, and knows full well he would make d lamentable showing against the champion. Yet he makes the Dluil with q great flourish, and feels amply repaid if he hears some one say:
 There's the duck that challenged McGovern.'
 1 It occasionally happens that the bluH of one of these brash challengers is called, and that is their cue to dlSap- pear from view. Such a case is now on the carpet at Chicago, where a featherweight named Benjamin Yang CT, who reioices in the i'll fitting Sobri- quet of 'The Tiptcn Siasher," recent ly shot a 'bluff'' challenge at McGov- ern. Yanger has been ''called,' and 1 there is much amused curiosity to see what he will do next The manager of | the 'Slasher'' issued a challenge on behalf of Yanger to fight McGoyern for | the featherWoight championship of the world at 122 pounds ringside. lie claimed to have deposited with George Siler the sum of S1 eco to bind the match This information was tele- graphed to Harris, manager of McGoV- ern. at the Crescent theater, New Or leans and in response the sporting ed itor of the Inter Ocean was authorized to cover the forfeit of Ranger. Tn accordance herewith the Chicago rep resentative of Harris and McGovern will cover the $1 eco forfeit held by George Siler. The proposition on the face of it is a ludicrous one. in view of the Showings made recently by Ganger against third and fourth rat CTS, and it is a question whether any club in the country would care to bic on the match. Be this as it may, ii no other inducements are held out 1 McGovern is satisfied to box Yangel for the $1OOO q side.
 Rangers claim to fame rests on { six round drawn battle with George Dixon, but it is hardly likely the Chi cagoan will risk his glorious reputG tion in a bout with ''Terrible Terry. '
 Other '"en have sought a little no toriety at the expense of McGoyern The proposal of Jordan, the English man, to fight McGovern in London foI about onC-half what he could get il this country is too patent ''blutf'' tC call for much comment. Dave Sulli van recently indulged in much lout talk of q bout with McGovern. bu when the Corkonian was pinned to question of finance the best he coult produce was an uncertified check Ina ended the proceedings, much to Sulli vans relief.