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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-23

FOR SALE-At a bargain, 5 room house,
IL lots. F. \. White 1917 Van Buren, st.
FOR. SALE-By NJ. Heery, 32e Monroe St,
houses and lots on time payments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-23

WANTED Plain sewing to do. Call o
address Mrs. Jennings 81 Adams ST.
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FOR sALE-no so and s421s. $4,000. No.
SIS, S. 900: No 524. with 10 year lease 81
500. all on North Kansas ave. No. pa S.
Quincy, 81 2o8; 1-3 cash; balance at 6 per
cent contract. +. EENSkY,
San Pedro, Cal.
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BICYCLES AND REPAIRING.
PRINTERS AND PU Bills HERS
LEE INSURANCE

LIFE INSURANCE
THE UNION CENTRAL LIFE INSUR-
ance &c. Of Cincinnati. o. 9. W ~
Yates, state agent Room 20. Columbian
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STAMPS SEALS AND STENCILS

----~-~---~~~~-->~-~-~~~
THE J. c. DARLING CO.. 73f Kan Ave.
Rubber stamps, brass aud aluminium traaa
checzs- PTtces low. Catalogue free Tea ga
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
The Mosquito War.

Editor Advertiser: A few weeks ago
the tin cans were gathered by the
proper officers. Very soon the benefit
was seen, and mosquito nets remained
undrawn.
Refreshing slumber was possible
without the confinement of nets, so
often helping the unhealthy influences
of lack of ventilation.
Only few uneasy sexipeds sang their
piercing songs about couches. But
south winds again brought their sing
ing notes about our ears, and nets were
spread to keep them at bay.
Shall we not again gather up the
milk tins, oyster, beef or mutton cans
to be sent to their proper destination?
1t seems to me a continued and per-
sistent effort is due to our health and
comfort.
Up comrades and call the garbage
carts again to our aid.
Let us not nod our heads,
Or turn a deaf ear to
The singing songs of mosquitoes
That keep ours hot
And our cheeks SO spotted!
Happy he who hurries
The makika / ko
Lakou make ma Ike kali
Honolulu, 4th Dec, 1903.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
MR. STRUMPF's CURE
A PEORIA MERCHANT KNOWS A
SPECIFIC FOR RHEUMATISM.
he Speaks From Experiences for
He. Tried the Remedy Himself in
a.Case of Several Years Standing

In Peoria, ILL.,, everybody knows Mr..
A. Strun1pf, whose fur store is located
at No. 419 Main street. Mr.. Strumpf's
business takes him to New York city
frequently and on one of these trips he
learned of specific for the cure of
rheumatism which he tried with such
unexpectedly good results that he is
anxious that others should know of it.
He says:
Nearly everybody can tell you of
remedy for rheumatism, but during the
long years that suffered from this dis
ease 1 never heard of but one thing that
would cure it. I tried it myself and
haven't had touch of rheumatism
since. In my case the disease did not
trouble nae all the time, but at intervals
the pain was very severe and medicine
did not seem to have the least effect on
it. On one of my visits to New York
friend who had been cured of rheuma-
tism by DR.. Williams Pink Pills for
Pale People advised me to try them.
He was so enthusiastic that 1 did so
and the result surprised me, for L had
almost despaired of permanent cure.
The pains began to disappear before I
had finished the first box and three
boxes completely cured me. That was,
nearly two years ago, so you see my
cure was permanent. I recommend DR..
Williams Pink Pills every chance I
get and know of many people whom
the pills have benefited"
rheumatism is always painful, but
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it is on account of the liability that it
may attack the heart. DR.. Williams
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heart, anaemia, pale and sallow COM
plexions, and all forms of weakness.
At all druggists, or direct from DR..
Williams Medicine Co., Schenectady,
N. Y, fifty cents per box; six boxes for
two dollars and a half.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
AFTERNOON DISPATCHES
FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON, D.

WASHINGTON, Dec 4Former Congressman Springer died
here today
BERLIN, Dec 1.-The Rechstag organized today rejoicing
President Balesern its presiding officer.
DENVER Colo, Dec Peabody has declared the
Cripple Creek mining district be in of Instruction. This
is virtually declaration of martial law.
ST PAUL MINI, Dec 4The Supreme Court of the State
handed down decision today which declares the State
bounty law to be unconstitutional
NEW YORK. Dec 4Cotton continues to hold the center
attention financial and speculative The New York Cotton
Exchange the of from the
hour Cotton continues advance and the dealers
ferment of excitement
WASHINGTON Dec Consideable stir created at the
Capitol this morning when Speaker Cannon ordered labor leader
Schultes from the Speakers Schus sought interview
with Cannon which terminated with the labor mans expulsion from
the Speaker Cannon speaking OF the that
his action caused by insult offered by Schultes
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
WHAT IS A couGHa

A spasmodic effort to expel the mucus
from the bronchial tubes A cold causes
a more abundant secretion of mucus,
and when the lungs and bronchial tubes
are infiamed, they are extremely sensi-
tive to the irritation. Unless care is
taken, the, cold may result in pneu-
monia, which is swift and deadly. If
the cold is a lingering one, the more
leisurely but equally fatal consumption
may set in. Do not neglect a cold or
cough. Take Chamberlain's Cough
Remedy. 1t always cures and cures
quickly. Benson, Smith & Co., Ltd,
Wholesale Agents sell it.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
Lieut.. Leslie Married

Lieutenant Sam Leslie of the Mount
ed Patrol was married yesterday to
Miss Rosina Shaw, a teacher at the
hamehameha Girls School. The
couple departed for Kona on the Maui
ma Loa on their honeymoon tour.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05

Judge Gear yesterday morning, on
motion of Attorney General Andrews.
with the consent of Messrs. Robertson
and Dunno. continued the trial of E.
M. Jones for murder until Monday
morning, for reasons conveyed to the
court privately which We're considered
good and sufficient.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-12-05
PRICES THE LOWEST
IN THE CITY.
NOTICE.

ANY WOMAN OR GIRL NEEDING
heip or advice, is invited to commune
cate, either in person or by letter, with
Ensign Nora M. Underhill, matron of
the Salvation Army Woman's Indus
trial Home. Young street, between Ar
tesian and McCully streets, mauka
side, Honolulu,
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1870

Her first proposal: Madge-"was
she glad when he told her the old, old
story?" Marjorie-"You bet she was.
Why, that girl never heard it before"
Puck
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08

| with an oath and flung his pipe into the fire
Curse him." he cried. And he dared
| lay a foul tongue to her. you say? Tell me
| what he said! I have good right to
| known
/ shook my head Nay. Richard; I may
second. Truly there is more than this at
the back OF our quarrel; but OF itself It was
enough. and more than enough, inasmuch
as the lady had just done him the honor to
recognize him."
His words-his very words. Jack, IL you
love met
NO: the quarrel is mine''
d. Godl It is not yours!' ne stormed.
raging back and forth before the fire.
What is Margery Stair TO you, Jack Ire
| TONI"
I smiled. beginning now to see some peep
hole in this milestone Of mystery
"Margery Stair? She is no more than
| name to me. do assure you: the daughter
of the man who sits In my fathers seat at
| Appleby Hundred"
But you are going to fight for her!" he
| retorted.
Am I? I pledge you my word / did not
| know 1t. But in any case should fight
sir Francis Falconnet; aye. and do my best
to kill him. too. Sit you down and I'LL an
| other pipe. Whatever the quarrel, It is
| mine
"Mayhap: but It is mine. too" he broke
! In. angrily. "At all events I'll see this
| Kings volunteer well hanged before 1 sec
ond him in such a cause"
THAT as you choose. But YOU are bound
| in honor, are you not?'
As you have guessed, I was Coyerdale's
| next friend and second in this affair, and
but for the upsetting news OF the Tryon
tyranny In Carolina-news which reached
me on the very day Of the meeting-I should
there and then have called the slayer to his
account.
How my father. who, Presbyterian and
Ireton though he was, had always been of
the Kings side, came to espouse the cause
Of the Regulators" as they called them
selves. know not In my youthful memo
ries of him he figures as the feudal lord Of
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mine full charged. with slow-match well
alight for its firing.
Charleston had fallen. and Colonel Tarle-
toms outposts were already widespread On
the upper waters OF the Broad and the
Catawba Thus it was that the first sight
which greeted my eyes when I rode into
Queensborough was the familiar trappings
of my old service. and I was made TO know
that in spite of Mr.. Jefferson's boldly writ
ten Declaration OF Independence. and that
earlier casting OF the Kings yoke by the
patriotic Mecklenburgers themselves, my
boyhood home was for the moment by
swcrd-rtght a part Of his Majesty's
Province of North Carolina
You are not to suppose that these things
moved me greatly. As yet l was chiefly
concerned with my own affair and anxious
to learn at first hands the cost to me of
my fathers connection with the Regulators.
Touching this, 1 was not long kept in ig-
norance. OF all the vast demesne of Apple
by Hundred there was no roof to shelter
the son OF the outlawed Roger Ireton save
that of this poor hunting lodge in the
mighty forest Of the Catawba, overlooked,
with the few runaway blacks inhabiting 1t,
in the intaking of an estate so large that
think not even my father knew all the
metes and bounds Of It.
1 shall not soon forget the interview with
the lawyer, in which / was told the inhos-
pitable truth. Nor shall 1 forget his trucu-
lent leer when he limited that 1 had best
be gone out Of these parts. since it was not
yet too late to bring down the sentence OF
outlawry from the father to the son.
1t was well for him that 1 knew not at
the time that he was Gilbert Stairs factor
For / was mad enough to have throttled
him where he sat at his writing table,
matching his long fingers and smirking at
me with his evil smile. But OF this man
more in his time and place. His name was
Owen Pengarvin. l would have you renem-
Der it.
For a week and a day I fingered on at
Queensborough. for what knew not, save
that all the world seemed suddenly to have
grown stale and proftless and my life
thing of small account. One day would
be minded to go back to my old Field Mar
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08

shat and the keeping Of the Turkish Dor
der; the next would ride over some part Of
my stolen heritage and swear a great oath
to bide till I should come to my own again.
And on thees alternating days the storm
OF black rage filled my horizons and be-
came q derelict to drive on any rock or
ehoal In this uncharted sea OF wrath.
On one of these gallops farthest afleld I
CHANGED upon the bride path that led to our
old hunting lodge in the forest depths.
Tracing the path to its end among the ma
pies found the cabin, 20 lightly touched by
time that the mere sight Of It carried me
swiftly back to those happy days when my
father and I had stalked the white-tailed
deer In the hill glades beyond, with this log
built cabin for resi- camp. I spurred I'D
under the low-hanging trees. The door
stood wide. and thin wreath Of blue smoke
curled upward from the mouth of the
waited chimney.
Then and there I had my first welcome
home. Old black Darius-old when I had
last seen him at Appleby Hundred, and a
very grandsire of ancients now-was one
Of the runaways who made the for
NO" He filled a fresh pipe, lighted It
with coal from the hearth and puffed
away in silence for a time. When he spoke
again II was not as Falconnet's next friend
What you have told me puts a new face
on the matter. Jack. Sir Francis NAV find
him another second where he can. IL he
has aught to say. shall tell him plain he
lied to me about the quarrel. as he cid. Now
who Is there to see fair play on your side,
John Iretonr'
At the question overwhelming sense
OF my own sorry case grappled me. Fiji
teen years before. had left Appleby Hun
dred and my native province as well be-
friended as the son Of Roger Ireton was
sure to be. And now
Dick. my lad. I am like to fight alone"
said /.
He swore again at that; and here, lest
should draw my loyal Richard as he was
not, let me say. once for all. that his oaths
were but the o. ushings of warm and
impulsivs heart ely bitter. and never.
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08

this you may like to Know that what with
good fathers example, and some small
heritage Of Puritan decency come down to
me from the sound-hearted old Roundhead
stock, won out Of that DEVILS sponging-
house. An army in the time Of peace, with
somewhat less to my score than others
had to theirs.
1t was in this barrack life that came to
know Richard Coverdale and his evil gen.
ius, the man Francis Falconnet. Coverdale
was an ensign in my own regiment and
We were sworn friends from the first, His
was clean soul and q brave; and It was
to him that ] owed escape from many of
the grosser chargings on that score above
named.
AZ for Falconnet he was even then a
ruffier and a bully. though he was not Of
the army. He was q younger son. and at
that time there were two lives between him
and the baronetcy; but with a mothers
bequeathings to purchase idleness ard to
gid his tniquities. he was fair example
of the jeunesse doree of that England; a
hbertne- a gamester, rakehell; brave as
the tiger Is brave, and to the full as pitt
less. He was boon companion 4f the Of
ficers mess; and for a time-and purpose
posed as Coverdale's friend. and mine.
Since I would not tell my poor Dicks
story to Richard Jennifer, may not set
1t down In cold words here for you 1t was
the age-old tragic comedy Of a false friends
treachery and woman's weakness; duel,
and the wrong man slain. And you may
know this; that Falconnet's most merciful
role in it was the part he played on chill
November morning when he put Richard
Coverdale to the wall and ran him through
est lodge refuge He had been my fathers
body-servant, and. notwithstanding all the
wears that lay between. he knew me at once.
Thereupon, as you would guess. I came
Immediately into some small portion of nv
kingdom. Though Darius was the patriarch.
the other blacks were also fugitives from
Appleby Hundred; and for the son Of Roger
Ireton there was instant vassalage and loyal
service. But best Of all. on my first even
ing before the handful Of IRE In the great
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his own domain, more absolute than many
Of the petty kinsiings I came afterwards
to know in the German marches. But this,
too. remember; that while his rule at Ap-
pleby Hundred was stern and despotio
enough, he was every ready to lend q will
ing ear to any tale Of oppresnon. And II
what men say Of the tyrant Tryons tax
CATERERS and law-court robbers b no more
than half truth. there was need for any
honest gentleman to oppose them.
What that opposition came to in II Is now
a tale twice told. Taken in arms against
the Governors authority. and with an IS
tate well worth receiving my father had
little justice and less mercy accorded him.
With many others he wes outlawed: his es-
tates were declared forfeit: and few days
later he, with Benjamin Merrill and four
more captivated at the Aamance, was Civ
en- some farce OF trial and hanged.
When the news Of this came to me you
may well suppose that 1 had no heart to
continue in the service Of the King who
could sanction and reward such villain!es as
these Of the butcher William Tryon So I
threw up my Lieutenant's commission in
tho Biues, took ship for tho Continent. and.
after wearing some half dozen different uni
forms in Germany, was lucky enough to
come at length to serviceable blows under
my old Field Marshal on the Turkish
frontier
To you Of a younger generation, born in
the day Of swift mail coaches and well-kep.
post roads the slowness with which our
laggard news Travelled in the elder time
must needs seem past belief. It was early
in the year rs before began to hear more
than vague campfire tales OF the struggle
going on between the colonies ard the moth
er country; and from that to setting foot
once more upon the soil Of my native Caro-
lima was still another year.
What found upon landing at New Berne
and saw while riding jog trot thence to
the Catawba was Province rent and torn
by partisan warfare. Though came not
once upon the partisans themselves in all
that long faring. there were trampled fields
and pillaged houses enough to serve as mile
stones; and In my native MecklenburE .
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az I believe. backed by surely rancor or
conscious irreverence.
That you shall not, Jack he asserted,
stoutly. II must be a-gallop now to tell this
Kings Captain to look elsewhere for his
next friend: but tomorrow morning I'll
meet YOU in the road between this and the
Stair outlands and We'll fare on together"
After this he would brook no more delay.
and when Tomas had fetched his horse l
saw him mount and ride away under the
low-hanging maples-watched him fairly
out Of sight in the green and gold twilight
OF the great forest before turning back to
my lonely hearth and its somber reminders.
I stirred the diving embers. throwing on a
pine knot for better light Then l took
down my fathers sword from its deer-horn
brackets over the chimney-piece and set
myself to fine its edge and point with bit
of Scotch whinstone. 1t was a good blade.
a true old Andrea Ferara got in battle In
the Seventeenth Century by one of the
Nottingham Iretons.
1 whetted It well and carefully. 1t was not
that feared my enemy's strength of wrist
or tricks of fence. but fighting had been my
trade and he is but a poor craftsman who
looks not well to see that his tools are in
order against their time Of using.
CHAPTER II.
Which Knits Up Some Broken Ends.
1t was In the autumn of the year "a as
was coming Of age. that my father made
ready to send me to England. Himself a
conscience exile from Episcopal Virginia
and a descendant of those Nottingham Ire
tons whose best-known son fought stoutly
against church and King under Oliver
Cromwell. he was yet willing to humor my
bent and to use the interest of my mothers
family to enter me IL the Kings service
Accordingly, 1 took ship at Norfolk for
home" as We called it in those days;
and. after stormy passage and overmuch
waiting as my cousins guest In Lincoln
shire, had my pair of colors' in the Scots
Blues lately home from garrison duty in
the Canadas.
OF the life in barracks of a young ensign
with little wit and less wisdom, and with
more guineas in his purse than was good
for him. the less said the better But of
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-08
CHAPTER III.
In which My Enemy scores Ffrst.

True to his promise, Richard Jenntfer met
me in the cool gray birthiIght OF the new
day at a turn in the river road not above
mile or two from the rendezvous, and thence
We logged on together.
After the greetings. which. a. you may
like TO know. were grateful enough on my
part. L would fain inquire how the baronet
had taken his seconds Detection: but OF this
Jsnniter would say little. t1e had broken
with MS principal. whether IN anger or not
could only guess; ana one VI faiconnet's
brother oincers. tnat younger OF the twain
WHO had cried shame y, TIE baronet's vile
boast. was 10 serve IN mis- stead.
1t was such dayuawn as have some
times seen in the Carpdtn,ans: cool and
clear, but wlth InaI sweet aewy wetness
In the lower air which WASHES The over
nIgau couWeps from IIIe LlaIII. anu Is both
mSaI drink tV wnv ureatneS IL.
On ,iIe irtt lie ROAD Was ovsrnunS W the
bordering forest. and where the branches
dropped i0WesI We brushed the fragrance
from the wlio-graps bloom in passing. ON
the right the river, late In mood. eddisd
SOFTLY; and sounds other than the nurInur-
Ing Ok the waters, the mAtih songs OF the
bros. ana the aust-muuied hook peAts OF
our horses There were none. feace. deep
and abiding. Was the keynote OF natures
morning hymn; anu in al this sylvan by
way iuere was nauXnt remlndtul OF the
fierce Iuternecine warfare aflame IN all the
countryside. some rough Forging OF TINS
thought l hammered out FOR Jennnsr ~
we rode along, and mis- laugh WAS not de-
void OF bitterness.
"Old Motner Nature ruffles her feathers
little enough for any teapot tempest OF
ours" he said. But speaking OF the cruel
ties. We provincial savages, as my Lord
CORVALLIS calls US. have no monopoly. The
post-riders from the South bring blood
curdling stories of Colonel Tarletons do
ings. IT'S said he overlook some OF Mr..
re-enforcements came too late.
They gave battle but faintheartedly. being
ell unready for an enemy. and presently
threw down their arms and begged for
Quarter-begged and were cut down as they
stood
"Faughw said l. THAT is but hangman's
work. And yet in London heard that this
same Colonel Tarleton was with Lord Howe
In Philadelphia and was made much Of by
the ladies'"
Jennifers laugh was neither mirthful nor
pleasant.
"'Tis a weakness Of the SEX" he scoffed
THE women have a fondness for man
with a dash Of the brute In him."
laughed also. but without bitterness
'You say 1t feelingly. Do you speak by
the book?"
AYE. that / do. Now here is my lady
Madge preaching peace and all manner Of
patience to me in one breath. and unfolding
In the next this Baronet Captain. who.
though I would have seconded him at q
pinch, is but pattern Of his brutal
Colonel
mt $va opd f-o %o0ofhor
so Falconnet Is on terms at Appleby |
is her
"Oh. surely. Gilbert stair keeps open |
house for any and all Of the winning hand. |
rs told you"
The thought Of this unspoiled young
maiden having aught to do with such : !
despoiler Of women made