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ANOTHER JOLT.

Its awful hawd to-aw-impwes a
new theowy on me bwain, doncher-
know
That's queer. Most soft things aTs
easily impressed"
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replied the other one. 1.-THE hostess is
a great friend Of my wife's. Is she a
friend Of yours 2" No; she's my wife"
Philadelphia Press.
1T strikes me that this is about the
slowest railroad IN the country" said
the impatient tourist. 4 knew you
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guests of my hotel used enough Of it
a proper bill to his executors. ''-Phila-
delphia Press.
IF it wasn't for my WIFE, grumbled
the first man at the reception. Il
wouldn't be here" Neither would II
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JEwELER AND oPrICIAN.

F. N. sWEARINGEN. jeweler and grad
uatc optician. We guarantee every pair
of glasses to fit and every wa-ch we re-
pair. We carry the largest line of
watches, clocks. diamonds, cut glass, etc.
in the city. Watch inspector [. p. r. T.
IA Kansas ave.
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observation-disclosures corner 5th and
Quincy st at 80 O. clock. horses. buggies.
wagons. furniture, iron beds. folding beds
and other furniture; also valises and
trunks. Ladies always invited. J. n. Ash
baugh, auctioneeT.
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AUCTION.

GREAT TOPEKA AUCTION SALE.
Every Saturday at 2 p m. sharp house
hold goods OF all kinds sold without
serve. Ladies invited List your goods
with us for future auctions. 423 Kansas
ave Either phone 95s.
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were going to kick replied the conduc-
tor. genially, as soon as you asked me
for a time table. You are one of those
people who believe everything they see
in print. w Washington Star.
Social Success.-''Who is this sum
plunks that's cutting such a wide swath
at GnupOrt2" Hes a young man OF
wonderful Versatility. You ought to see
him when he puts his thumb in his ears,
waves his fingers back and forth and
brays like a donkey. The imitation is
startling. Chicago Tribune.
How much do you think that story is
worth p he asked when his wife had
finished reading it. "Oh, l should think
you ought to have got $25 or $50 for it, -
she replied. Il got $780," he asserted
proudly. Dear mel she commented.
s-how reckless some people are with
their money.'-Chicago Evening Post.
Securing the Local Color.-The mag
NATIVE artist who pictures President
Roosevelt and Grover Cleveland at
St Louis breakfast in evening dress,
would probably have them eating pie
with knives in Chicago.
Plain Dealer.
1t was said of the late Dean Burgon
that once. in a sermon. he exclaimed
with a fervor which was all his own:
May I live the life of Taylor, and
die the death of a Bull
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FREE nIsPENsARY


TOPEKA FREE 9ISPENSARY, south
east corner 18th and Tyler SITS, from L
20 ? D. M. except Sundays. Conducted hy
regular pIacticing ply slcians Tor The
benefit OF persons without means who
need medical attention and treatment. Pa
tents are assured OF careful and consid-
crate treatment. Medicine furnished ia
most cases
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ingstone Reward So Monroe st.
LOST-Santa F'e tourist r r. ticket via
Los Angeles and Portland Return to ".
J. Black, general passenger agent. and get
reward.
LEFT in Auditorium Wednesday night
green silk umbrella Please notify 2l2
Fillmore st.
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Union Pacific
WESTROTND
Missouri Pacific.

Arrive Leave.
notation No. 2s5........- 500 pm 100 am
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name inside, Addie Iiv-
ingstone. Reward s12 Monroe st.
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE room cottage, 2 lots, east of
new shops cheap. Slater els Kansas av.
SPECIAIzFor sale or viii exchange equi-
ty for clear vacant lots in city: 2Iz acres
miles to capitol square, s room house
barn, cistern and well, all in small fruit
also mill room Is by So $500 Price 81 500
THOS. G. SHILBINGLAW,
1852 West Fifth ST.
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PRYsIorANs ANp suRaEoNs.

@0-~---~---7--~--@--O---
IDA c. BARNES. M. y.
Office 726 Kansas ave. Residence Thir-
tenth and Clay Office hours: a. III. to
II a. m. and p. m to . p Telephone
59S residence. and 16 office.
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DRUGGISTS.

-~~-~-7~-~~~--~>-~~~~-~~-~
TOPEKA DRUG Co, 732 Kansas ave. Tel.
743. Prescriptions promptly ana accurate
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STORAGE


PHONE 95S.
Store your goods with Miller, who packs
and ships; money loaned on goods Tel
ephone s5o 423 Kansas ave.
MERCHANTS TRANSFER & STORAGE
Co. packs ships and stores house hold
goods. Tel. 1S5. Clarence Skinner. IL L.
9th ST
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JEWELLERS

~-7-7-0-~-1-~-@-~-1~-~-7
JAMES b. HAYDEN. Jeweler and Opti-
cian- Complete stock Of watches. 0ls-
monds. silverware, etc. Eyes examined
and spectacles properly fitted.
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LOST AND FOUND.

LOST-Tuesday evening at Auditorium.
gold bowed rimless glasses. Return 1862
Polk st.
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WANTEp-FEMALE HFLP.

~~-~-~-~--~-~>~>~-~~-~-
WANTED Shirt waist ironers and starch
ers; also marker and sorter. Crysts
Laundry, 522 Van Buren, st.
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WANTED-E Inexperienced type setter girl.
Smith Truss Co, 6lS Quincy ST.
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RUG FACTORY.


WANTED-You to let US make your old
carpets into rugs Call phones 42l or
address Mccormick & Peake, 527 Jackson
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WANTED-At 100 Harrison, a competent
girl for general housework-
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HoRsEsHoEING.

FRED REINKE, scientific horse shoe:
gentlemen's roadsters and carriage horse
a speciality. Ind. phone 24S 1890 Kan ave
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WANTED-2 experienced dining room
girls at Chesterfield hotel: wages SO pei
month, with room.
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srRAYED OR STOLEN.

STRAYED-From my stable a white mare
years old, about Is hands high. Notify
r. F. Hodgins, Topeka club.
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BARBER SHOPS.
FINANCIAL AeENrs.

-----------1----
NJ sNATTINGER, financial agent, lI5 W.
9th ST., real estate. bonds ana stocks
bought and sold; loans negotiated notes
discounted
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WANTED-C omretent white girl. 2 il
faEily; no washing; good wages. Appil
315 Topeka ave.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

WANTED-Cheap room and board by pu-
pills. Address Standard Shorthand school,
$50 Kansas ave.
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HARDWARE.

N~@~-->-~~-~--7-1>@7-7N-
THE COUGHLIN HARDWARE &C
Hardware, stoves. fine tools. 70s Kansa
ave. Tel 606-
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED Position as first class cock.
Address No 1897 Pine ST. John Stamps.
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WANTED Experienced dining room help
fl9 W. 9Th st
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MONEY.

MONEY TO LOAN on live stock, pianos
organs, type writer's, household goods am
personal security l. Blscoe. 523 KAN ave
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
EXPRESS Delivery.

FOR BAGGAGE and moving call up
phone 99S. Anterior Bros. Office lG2
East 9Th ST.
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CARPENTERS AND BUILDERS.


NJ w. NULL. Carpenter and Builder
Shop 112I2 West Eighth ST. Phone l53.
lob work promptly done. Topeka. Kan.
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WANTED-Lady canvassers; salary or
commission. Sl1 Kansas ave. Capital
Employment office
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wANrED-sALEsMEN.

SALESMAN to sell first class nursery
stock; all goods guaranteed true to name
Good salaries paid Write for terms Il
Mount Hope nurseries. Lawrence. Kan.
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THE J. c. DARLING CO., 7s8 Kan Ave.
Rubber stamps brass and aluminium trada
checks. Prices low. Catalogue free. Tel. ~.
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Advertisements for full line Of
fruit and ornamental trees pay weekly,
outfit free; steady work. Lawrence Muir
sery Co. Lawrence, Kan.
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really happens' You mean Of course in
isolated casesP"
-There are hundreds Of such cases right
on my books at the present time. Hun
dreds Of women are making their plans for
a summer outing which will include more
than they bargainsd for. Hundreds OF
husbands add to the sum total Of summer
expenses the fees paid for private detec-
tive service.
Somebody said in popular story once that
married life Is like champagne with the
sparkle gone. Apparently the detective
agency has found a way TO restore the bub-
ble&
Imagine Ms. Johnson who. secure in
the belief that thousands of intervening
miles separate her from her husband, is
ignorant of the fact that the mild-eyed man
who reads a newspaper every day in the
corner of the hotel veranda and seems to
have no other object in life than the stock
market is in reality private detective
who Is sending diary of her incomings and
outgoings to the faithful John, who,
in the city, takes his private secretary or
some other charming solacer to dinner
every night and needs not the lurking
Sherlock at his heels. There is eXciteme mt
in the very thought.
And when they meet in the autumn or
on those rare occasions when John. amid
the crush of things, finds tins to spend
Sunday with his wife. imagine them talk
ing over the innocuousness Of their re-
spective lives, the wife who has sat every
day on the veranda talking with that tire
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sWhen the husband came to us We
promptly denied any knowledge OF the
affair told him that his wife had said 1t
probably to brighten him and when he got
she had said Notwithstanding to our in,
structions-and the man never knew until
the matter came into the courts the real
truth"
His condolences were by no means
concluded.
1T isn't the married pen and women
alone who hire detectives" he said. "You
would be surprised to find out how many
young men have Swallowed the girls TO
whom they are engaged to be married.
"A man isn't quite sure of girl and so
he comes and puts detective on her track:
Nice business, isn't it? Trusting and all
that: but it's all right" said the candid
detective, "you cant trust anybody in this
little old New York, not anybody
Does young man often find that his
suspicious are well founded?"
"Oh my, yes. Loads of times We have
Just finished case. Young man comes in,
tells his tale of woe and we tell him to take
a train to Boston. He goes and sees the
girl, recites some cock-and-bull story about
his having suddenly to leave town. and says
that he will be absent a week.
"The girl says good-by and that night
the young man finds her at roof garden
with young fellow whom she knew before
she was engaged and whom she had sworn
10 her fiancG she had broken of with entirely.
The engagement was over then and there"
And tie girls? Do they employ detec-
tves?"
"The girls don't 30 often" answered the
detective, "but the parents OF the girls
do. They are not quite sure about the
iran, although his stories, may sound
plausible and take in the girl all right. So
we shadow him and find out il he has been
telling the truth, if he has any bad habits
or if he is paying attention to anybody
else, you know"
So even courtship is honeycombed with
suspicion, according to the detective agent.
The man who holds his sweetheart in his
arms may, at that moment, in his have
breast pocket, a report from the detective
agency announcing that nothing of any
consequence has been discovered, but that
there are several clues
1t is all quite up to date and interesting
as a study Of human imagnings, but there
may be those old-fashioned enough to be-
lieve that it is better to have loved and been
deceived than to love according to the
detective agency's standpoint.
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Don't be a piker,' said the red-faced
man, grinning, and he tossed a two-dolar
bill on the counter and strolled out, humming
some some of n the middle bars rso from you Can't
Fellows like that are always grateful,
remarked the night clerk 'One of EN-
wanted to give me his diamond stud the
other morning as slight token OF his last
ing regard and esteem, but ducked.
Queen? Say, if the night clerk Of an all
night Tenderloin drugstore were to put
81 each on all Of the crabs that are passed
over to him in the course Of a month by
the hop-eaters and squirt. gunners and
he'd make Rockefeller's roll look like a
year-before- lasts hummingbird's nest"
(Note-Nevertheles Florham Queen, al
| odds Of so to !, did win her race and beat
Hermis that afternoon
A pellid man, with trembling hands. who
looked as il he had got his clothes on in a
big hurry, entered the all-night Tenderloir
! drugstore shortly after the big man with
/ the hiccoughs had departed. He caught
the eye Of the night clerk and elevated his
| eyebrows inquiringly..
sa the o might G %sn, in .r rspy
'Nope. Can't"
aAw, come on. chum," said the pallid
man, persuasively. "Im on the blut-al
= in--diszy night-got the Brooklyn boys
laCt, AW, como on-Just oiie' .
hea positively. mo use to ask me- They'll
be opening up down the line presently"
We'll, gimme calisaya, then said the
pallid man.
The clerk poured out powerful dose of
calisaya and half filled the glass with water
from the fountain, and the shaky man drank
It of eagerly and went out
-Thatnl hold him until the carly joints
begin to take down the shutteys.' said the
clerk Soothing substitute for the real
suds. calisaya-some people that think
they're being crafty and keeping their
drinking under cover tank up on 1t regu-
PLENTY OF confirmed calisaya DRINKS
in little old New York tn just about
chew up the nerves Of a rhinoceros if it 8
stuck to for year or so:
.That man with the chalky map, by the
way, has been In here about the same time
every morning for two weeks past begging
me to sell him booze. And he always looks
as II he'd ciapped his buds on in just eight
seconds.
.He always takes calisaya when give
then kicks his heels in front Of that five
o'clock opening place down the block
until he can line himself up for the real red
"How do they get away with it and stand
Il? You can pass me. But Seven-eighths
OF the people who fit In and out Of here,
or any all-night drug plant In the Tender
loin for that matter, are sitting on the lids
OF their own caskets. But they don't see
it-.don't see anything but the minute just
in front Of them"
bedragGled skirt, turnover low 4h2ey sRa
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who are trusted with other peoples financial
interests, dc.
"Do you find that the woman in business
Is more honest than the MANI
"sSix OF one and six Of the other. We have
Just finished the case of woman cashier.
leader in Sunday school, pious to the limit,
prayer meeting every Friday night, who
was finally caught with marked bills and
four years and had taken thousands of
dollars Everybody in the place had been
suspected but her. You see religion Is
come good
will she be prosecuted"
The detective looked panied.
mo, her employer forgave her. You
see, she worked on his svmpathies. felt
sorry for her" And after a moment y
Thought, -she was good locker. I'm
always sorry for women"
He did not add that they had to he good
loo kers," but as most of his cases seem to
have concerned that rare species, it is natural
to assume that sympathy is more easily
aroused by Grecian features than the re-
verse.
The next question was what does man
do when he suspects his wife OF infidelity
and wants to find out -er-if we'll if
The detective looked at his long tapering
hands and smiled.
-Tbey always take train to Boston.
That Is. they tell her that they are going to
Boston. It's funny a thing that man
always in those circumstances takes a train
to Boston. He never by any chance says
he is going to Baltimore or Washington or
Buffalo.
at e always Boston. There must be
some connection between the two ideas.
hut really if l were wife should be on
my guard when my husband said anything
about going to Boston.
Then, Of course, he does take the train.
We send out man with him and do the
roping.
-The--?"
-Yes-get the information he is after.
We have just finished case like that, A
man downtown met another man, frie nd
Of his. who said carelessy: Just saw your
wife at lunch, Jack. at the Imperial.
The deuce you did With whom was
she lunching?' Only guess he said who
instead of whom, they are usually I'M
grammatical at such times.
The man tells him "a stranger He
comes right to me.
What shall do? he asks
Go TO Boston tonight I say.
He tells WHEY that he is called away
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to govern your, j., - 1919 ,,,,,,
help feeling sorry for people when they
get caught Especially the women and
.When do men and women cease to be-
come suspicious of each other?"
Sherlock looked bland.
"There was a little girl who said once that
the marriageble age was from "A till death.
end / guess the age Of suspicion has about
the same elastic boundary. it is an abso-
lutte fact that l have had men and women
of over sixty come to me to have the part
of their joys and sorrows Swallowed. There
Is really no age limit.
slow does nan act when he comes
here to have his wife watched? Crazy!
He walks up and down, curses and gets
fairly violent. particularly if it is the first
wife and the first time"
That last remark opened new vistas Of
thought The first wife nd the first time
one might az well be in Chicago!
And the women? Oh, they cry. Nine
times out of ten they Just put their poor
little heads down on the desk nd have a
good cry. I'm awfully sorry for the women.
poor things.
do they often break down at the last
Oh, my. yes. l have all the evidence for a
divorce ready and the woman has thrown
the ca Sc over and her husband never knows
how ear he got to freedom
moment the woman concluded that she did
not want to be divorced. You krow there
are lots OF women right here in New York
who haven't sand enough to get divorce.
and simply won't give their husbands their
freedom, no matter if they beg for it on
their Bonded knees.
isn't there dancer that the suspected
party will in turn suspect? Doesn't the
correspondence, the daily reports or some
thing like that arouse questioning?'
,nti Flo in IN n n slfnI
his wife the other night il she was having
him Swallowed We had told her what TO
say III case the question was asked, She
promptly replied in an innocent way: Are
you doing nyt thing for which 1 should have
you watched?'
"Ee said no more.
ANOTHER man told his wife that he had
bought up her detective and she broke
down and confessed The next day she
teephoned to me to meet her at a certain
place and such a Iullyra gging as | got !,
I told her that he had simply played bluff
game and she had fallen into the trap.
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soms old Mrs. Page. and John who .has
moved with olook-like regularity from
room to Office and from office, to room
grudging the tins he has had TO spend go
while with the reports Of john misdoings'
and John with facsimile OF those cat
aloguing her firtations
II is very probable that the ambitious
maker Of summer l,otel prospect!ises WIZ.
In the near future. include, in tue many ~
the private detective who may be CON
suited daily from to4. This would greatly
reduce tie present expense, while 1t might
stir the lethargic to action.
4 woman who had never thought OF
suspeoting her husband might, hearing her
summer acouaintances describe their SEN
sations wien initiated into the mysteries
OF the consulting room, 20 and DO likewise.
Even golf, dancing, and orchestra every
day and other commonplace attractions
into competition with the hotel that fur
nisLes the private detet tive to its patrons.
Tie interview IL interrupted While
quietly dressed, soft-voiced, pleasant, man
nered young woman passes through the
office, stopping for word OF whispered
aThe best woman detective. on the staff"
saws the agent, looking after her retreating
figure. She can get anything out OF
anybody"
TELL mo how"
ooh, tia a different method with every
body. She's just been working on an
interesting case. There have been guam
tity Of valuable furs stolen from one of
the big fur houses here. Suspicion, pointed
to a salesman and a woman with whom
he has been very friendly.
This woman lived at a boarding house
in one Of the Thirties. We sent this woman
detective there with instructions to stay
until she ferreted the matter out.
"She took room. dressed the part, got
acquainted with tire other woman and in
course of time the latter offered to get her
some furs, telling her that she could buy
them in the summer season for less than
cost. She introduced her to the very man
we suspected and the rest was easy
as that the usual method of procedure?'
"As a general thing, yes to make tie
acquaintance of tie suspected party in an
apparently natural way and usually when
that is accomplished 1t is not hard to reach
the end.
"The one keynote of the detective bust
ness is tie knowledge that the crook in
whatever line he may be will confess as soon
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| Of Cochin China and Tonquin swarm with
| pirates, and in number of cases white
men have been captured among them.
such sue men are almost Invariably more cruel
and that is saying good dea for Chinese
pirate can give an Apache points on cruelty
and general deviltry.
"In the contest in which the French were
| Flags, it was found that many of the native
troops We're drilled and led by white men.
Most of them had joined the Black Flags,
not from desire for the wild, free life Of
the woods and jungle, but because they had
fled civilization to escape the penalty for
crimes of violence.
For the most part they never gave
or took quarter, and when one of them was
taken alive-which didn't often happen
there was no long-drawn-out trial to de-
eide his fate. 1t was case of his back
against. wall and a firing squad. And
while the French troops are not cruel or
brutal, there is no people in the world
prompter about little matter of that kind
when 1t is really needed.
in connection with Europeans who have
become leaders of semi-civilizsd forces,
there are about half a dozen men living
somewhere in the interior of the big African
ties would like to interview. And it
wouldn't be long interview either
AOne of these much wanted individuals
was formerly Colonel in the Russian Army,
cumstances. Another is Prussian eX-
sergeant, who lso got into trouble al home.
The res, were European soldiers Of various
nationalties.
80, AN q them , drifted into EsApt, where
@ nism and oned !he forces Of
the Mahdi when that strenuous party wss
nj the height Of his power. Their military
experience made them valuable, and as
the Arabs thought their converts were sin.
II haay Ia ~