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STAMPS. SEALS AND STENCILS
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THE J. c. DARLING CO. T3f Kan AVE.
Rubber stamps brass and ALUMINIUM traae
checks Pr4cea low. Catalogue frea- TEX ia
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FRENcB AND GERMAN.

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MISS ELEANOR DYER WHEELER
teacher of rench and German: pupil
diplomee of Prof. Chas. Marchand. Paris
Studio hours 1e-2s 2-4. So Kansas ave.
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Onion Pacific.
missouri Pacific

Nos. ar > daily. except Sunday.
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III jackson ct.
payments.
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FOR sALE-By N. Heery,
houses and lots en- time
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LOANS.

(S17---7(77-1-~-~-7-l-7--
MONEY loaned on rsanos sewing ma
chimes. diamonds. watches and any good
security N 3. Campbell. sos Kansas ave.
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JEWELLERS.
DRUGGISTS


TOPEKA DRUG CO.. 1872 Kansas ave. Tel
783. Prescriptions promptly and accurate
~ filed All kinds soda drinks a. fountain.
" r LAKE drugs, $50 Kansas ave.
Ind. phone III. Prescriptions carefully
compounded by registered pharmacist.
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MRS. NJ. E HoLCRAFT, s17 Kansas ave.
Cut flowers and floral designs. Phone 45a
4 CUT FLOWERS and ncral designs 81
Hayes. 107 W. sth St Phone SIS rinsn-
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PAsTRY ANp LuNCH.

Grows ladies ExcHANGE. 81 Kan-
sas ave. rs W 6th st. I05 Topeka ave.
Strictly first class home made cakes. pies,
bread, etc. Discounts on party orders
Phone 500 rings.
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no 3. r. EmPLoYEs.

RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
Why Will you pay s1-50 for main spring and
81 50 for cleaning when I will do either
for 50 cents and at the same time guaran-
tee it for one year?
/ NJ. BLITz. 429 Kansas Ave.
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TOPEKA BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
SEED HOUSE
TOPEKA TRUNK FACTORY.

TOPEKA TRUNK MANEFACTORT
manufacturers and 5obbcFs Of trunks,
travelling bags. telescope casee, leather
goods. etc. $40 Kansas ave Geol g "
Hoss1eld. proprietor. Tel 4ss
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PIANOS & SEWING MACHINES.
RABCOCE & FRosTs75s Kansas ave
PianosT organs. sewing machines and
trunks. Bargains in these at all timea.
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PHYSICIANS AND sURGEoN3

IDA c. BARNES. II. D.
Office ZIG Kansas ave. Residences ThIr-
tenth and Clay. Office hours. q. m. tc
II q. N. and 3 p. M to p. m. Telephone
5e5 residence and 16 Office
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ROYAE BILLIARD PARLGR.
20 KANSAS AVE
Best Billiard ana pool tables "a city
Cues always IN good repair. C.salz AM
tobacco
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10
Life
Renewed. Left Side
Badly Affected.
Liable to. Paralytic
Stroke.
DIR. Miles Nervine Gave
Me New Life.

This is to certify that / have used DR..
Miles Remedies quite extensively, especially
the Restorative Nervine, which has done
wonders TOR me. Six years ago had nerv-
Gus Prostration and again three years ago, at
which time began taking DR.. Miles Restor-
ativc. Nervine. kept taking it for six
months and have taken an occasional dose
during the last two years. l am practically
o new man and feel that have been given
new lease of life. used to have very bad
attacks of stomach trouble but since using
the Nervinc | can eat most anything want
with impunity. l was examined in Omaha
by noted German doctor three years ago.
He told me was liable to paralytic stroke
any moment; that my whole left side was
badly affected. That was just before began
taking DR. Miles Restorative Nervine.
My work for two years and j half has been
very trying on my nerves. am a presiding
elder, travelling my districts at the rate 81
ten thousand miles year, preaching on an
average of five times a week, besides many
business meetings, and the multitudinous
eaIes Of my work in general. Thanks to Dr.
Miles Restorative Nervine have been gain.
Ing In flesh despite this hard work untilV W
] weigh hundred and ninety-six pot>
nearly twenty pounds more than in all my
life. preach Nervine wherever / 90 to
those afflicted with nerve, heart or stomach
trouble. Rev. NJ. d. Myers, Presiding Elder.
Free Methodist Church, Corectionville, la.
All druggists sell and guarantee first bot
tie Or. Miles Remedies. Send for free book
on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address
DR.. Miles Medical CO.. Elkhart, Ind
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10

WHO, by g snasmodic action of ons
band, was just contriving to keep
his head above the surface. He waa
swallowing great gulps of water with
every movement, and was unques-
tionably on the verge Of sinking.
"Stick to It'll" yelled Rossiter, with
out slackening speed, "I'n be with
you in minute"
One spring took him down upon
the called mud below the overhanging
sod, and second carried him waist
deep into the river. Then he struck
ont with vigorous strokes. He ap-
preached the exhausted swimmer
cautiously, knowing if he would save
him he must not allow himself to be
caught in his drowning grip. When
just beyond the reach of his arm
he paused. The poor fellow made a
frantic effort to seize hold upon him,
but RossiteF was watchful and easily
eladed his grasp. 1t was like the last
flicker of dying flame. With a
gasp and gurgle the man gave over
the struggle. Here was Rossitelss op:
portunity, and he was alert to im-
Prove it. AS the sinking bather's
head was disappearing he gave u
powerful forward plunge. Out went
his hand, and his strong fingers were
fastened in mop Of soaking hair.
There was but spark of conscious
ness left in the body of the man
when Rossiter jerked his head above
fer xync x,,o11-rio,h I1aol
weight, and his rescuer had no diff
Guilty in whirling him about and
gripping him beneath the armpits.
In this wise he pushed him ashore.
He began to revive little as shall
low water was reached, and was able,
with Rossiter's arm encircling his
waist, to drag himself up to the grass
of the bank, where he sank i'll u
/ limp heap. Presently he began to
vonit violently, whereat the boy who
! had been standing by, mouth agape
! and speeches., commenced to moan
| aud whimper.
Sits the best thing that could hap
| pen," said Rossiter, reassuringly.
f, Hell come around all right short
| ~"
Indeed, it was not long before the
rescued man sat up, look of dis
gust and loathing upon his features.
Mother of Moses!" he exclaimed,
".but shouldn't want Aiohondaga
water for. steady diet!"
He caught Rossiter's eye and
smiled wanly.
:'You were just in time" he said.
"Jim, there, amt worth shucks. He
can't swim q stroke. Another min
ute, an I'd "a croaked."
! at was rather Il close shave" OBJ
served Rossiter.
/ Gee, yes." This was said with
considerable emphasis, and sus-
picion of color began to creep Into
the young mans pallid cheeks.
He was perhaps 20 or 81 years OF
age, and as Rossiter now glanced from
his face to that of the 10y, who had
edged close to him, he saw at once
from the strong resemblance between
them that they must be brothers
the younger hardly mere than IS
They were not lmattractive faces
either of them, aud in the elders
Rossitcr read lines Of DISCRIMINATION
and self RELIANCE that mace lin. fol
the instant enyioIs. Beth Mere
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10

emotions that he had fancred he
longed almost totally to different
environment, he was more strongly
moved than ever thus to challenge
fate.
But the old weakness, the hest
fancy, the dislike of responsibility.
fostered by his rowing life was not
lightly to be overcome; so he lay
and debated. Against his undoubted
desire to redeem himself, a desire
which was gradually strengthening,
rose the consciousness of former
failure, and also the undeniable fas-
cination his present existence had
come to have for him. Half an honr
slipped away, an hour, and it was
mid-morning. The heat increased.
and the reclining man grew drowsy.
Vaguely, as in dream, he marked
two figures cross his angle of vision
and follow the river bank to a point
not many rods from where he was
lying. He saw these persons begin
to divest themselves of their clothes.
commented to himself that they were
going for swim, and here his
scarcely aroused curiosity ceased.
He closed his eyes and presently lost
consciousness. Twenty minutes had
elapsed when a scream rent the quiet
air, sharp, boyish cry of terror.
at the second cutlery, louder and
enrliler than the first, Rossiter sat
Up. A naked form was leaping Willis
ly about upon the river bank, with
pne terrified Shrek after another. To
Rossiter's ears the shouts now re-
solved themselves into
Help! help!"
The awakened man was on his feet
In Oh instant. In such an emergency
as this his habitual indecision did
not show itself. Off went his cap,
coat and shoes, and away he sprang
over the sward towards the dis
traught figure. He was naturally
fleet of foot and his muscles were
hard from hundreds Of leagues of
tramping.
The youth, for such Rossiter saw
the shouter to be, grew more frantic
as ne reahzeq tnat AID was approach
ing, turning first towards the stream
and then in the direction from which
assistance was coming.
soh, quick! be auick!" he cried,
but now his voice seemed to fail
him, and he did little more than ut
ter series Of incoherent sounds.
Once within view of the river, Ros-
sitter was not slow to grasp the sit
uation. In mid-stream was bather,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10
The Easy Pill.

u Wits Little E,rly Ris,rs d. MT
.ure 'ilin,she>s, jiundice. cnlSlipa-
ion "A. inactive l,N,.,S, by arOuAing
!e,tlN ye, eifcc'uallt. AID givi' gsuch
tlne Al d strength Ia tn elarGS If u e
III men. liver and tu.wt \ that tile
ca,,>,. of tile tr'nih T. is removed ga
lire!v, These famous li'tl fi,lseN, RI
decide d t nirttf ctnr;m The rpaHS
In ,',ver, ard ii their use is U,nliuui d
for "a "A few DAYS there will b. M ~
lnrn I the ,ruI ele. 81 utt'e~olth
Drug co.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10

Information from representatives of til,
Great Northern Railway at
NEW YORK, 413 Broadway.
BOSTON, ell WASHINGTON st.
PHILADELPHIA, $3.50 Chestnut st.
BUFFALO. 4NS Prudential Building.
PITTSBURG, 9t2 Park Building, ste Ave
CHICAGO. 22O 8. Clark st.
MILWAUKEE, GO Wisconsin st.
DETROIT Nor. s. S. Co.'S Dock.
CINCINNATI, 5th and Walnut Streets
ST. LOUIS. 1903 Carleton Building.
ST. PAUL, 332 Robert Street.
MINNEAPOLIS, 800 Nicollet Avenue.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10
ITO be continued
Painin Head, Side and Back.

For years l suffered with pain in tho head,
pain in the side, and In the small Of the back.
was nervous and constipated and could not
only made q bad matter worse. Then tried
Celery King. One package cured me and
made new woman of me.-Mrs. TIL. klee-
hammer, Croton-on-Hudson,N N. Y.
siomaeh. Liver and Kidney Diseases. 3
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-02-10
A Knight Of the Highway
By CLINTON SCOLLARD,
Author OF ga Man Arms "The a Tory,' Etc.
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER Phillip Rossiter, a young
ceilege-bred man, through lack of deter
mination and will-power. had descended
to the level of a common tramp. He
has stolen ride on freight train and
by chance gets Off at Illica, town well
known to him in his college DAYS
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
AN HUMBLE HERoINE's DEED
A WOman's Quickness of Thought and
Action Saved = TrainIoad
of People.

A womAn's quickness OF thought and
promptness Of action stood between two
train loads Of passengers and a terrible
disaster on the New York q Harlem rail-
road on Tuesday last. The signals either
did not work or were disregarded, and. as
1t was, a flying express crashed into a
local train Just ahead Of II on the same
track, with possibly fatal results for one
person and serious wounds for a few
others.
The heroine Of this event is Mrs. Fred
eriok Emmett, a woman of 30, who is
employed In a New York rubber factory
at $40 a week and makes a home in the
suburbs for a husband and two children.
These particulars are stated because the
world knows too little OF the good people
In II, and Mrs. Emmett deserves vastly
more fame than half her contemporaries
whose names and portraits are published
widely in connection with the general
interests of the day.
She had been travelling on the local
train herself and, after alighting at a
stopping place beyond her dwelling. was
walking back over the track when she
saw the express come booming along.
Like a Hash the thought went through
her mind that the local could not yet
have got OF the track ahead. The air
was thick. and smoke and steam envel-
oped the approaching locomotive like a
cloud. but with her umbrella in one hand
her lunch basket in the other, and her
voice raised to its highest pitch, she con-
trived to alarm the engineer. In another
J moment his prov would have plowed the
train ahead into kindling wood and he
would probably have lost his life. By her
merciful warning he was enabled to put
on all brakes and reverse his engine. so
| VhaN INhaVVah AaWA - The dkRVV1
was wrecked. most Of the passengers suf-
fered no worse fate than a very disagree
able shaking up.
The natural impulse OF a normal woman,
II is said, when confronted with an awful
calamity actually impending, is to scream
or faint. Mrs. Emmett screamed, but not
namely. She screamed-or shouted-for a
definite purpose, and with great effect. Sc
far from falnting was she that she ran back
and busted herself caring for the injured
persons, not leaving the scene to go home
and see her family till the last practicable
attention had been paid them. Nay, more,
on her way back to the wreck, approaching
the possible seriousness Of the case, she
stopped at a store Just long enough to turn
in an emergency call to two physicians by
telephone.
II nature and the social organism ran
their course In parallel lines, the use
less men and women would be placed
where they could be drummed into earn
ing small wages and learning what life
really is, while those OF grander mold
would sit In the high places, where their
influence aud example would be wide
reaching. Mrs. Emmett is q striking IL
lustration OF the reversed pyramid ocea-
sionally encountered IN our cosmogony.
She has a 800 head overlooking a pair Of
$40 hands. II the management Of the
Harlem railroad are as appreeiative OF
such things As the management q some
others Ua could nsnti0n. the pei would
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
THE VALUE OF CHARCOAL

NV People Knew New UssEuI a. e IN
P~raSSVV1nG Health aaA Bsaaty.
NSaEIY everybody Knows hat charcoal is
GAs safest and most eneieat dtsinfectant
sd YartnsV In nature. but few realise its
Vatas vh6n taken into the human system
Or the AAmS cleansing purpose.
CAArOOAl Il = remedy that tho more you
0Eks q Il thS botteri II IL not q drug At ell,
but Simpiy AbSorbs the gases and impuri-
ties aiWaFS present In the stomach and In
tsst1nes and carries them out Of the system.
CAaFooai SWeetens the breath after smok.
tnG aaA drinking OF after eating onions and
stAsr odOrOus vegetables.
Charcoal o~6Octually clears and improves
ths complexion. II whitens the teeth and
further acts a. q natural aud smtnently
safe oaShArtie.
u abSorbs the injurious gases which coll
ioct II the stomach and bowels; It disin-
sOOts ths mouth and throat IRON the poison
q eaLarTh.
All druggists sell charcoal IN one form o.
smother. bat probably the best charcoal and
the most for the money IL stuArt's Alb
DoSbent LosoagOu; they are composed Of the
enest powdered willow charcoal and other
haralo@ Gntiseptics In tablet form. OF,
pNtAsr. IN the form Of large. pleasant tAst-
Ing ~lossngss. the charcoal being MIXED with
honey.
rhs daily use Of these losenses will Soon
tell IN = much improved condition OF the
general health. better complexion. sWseter
breath and purer blood. And the beauty OF Il
IL. that no possible harm can result from
their continued usA. but. on the contrary.
great bsneht.
A Buffalo physician, in speaking Of the
BENEFITS Of charcoal, says; II advise
stuArt's Absorbent Lozengea to all patients
suffering from gas In the stomach and bow.
Sls. and 70 clear the complexion and purify
the breath. mouth and throat; l also be-
lieVe the liver is greatly benefited by the
daily use OF them; they cost but twenty-five
cents q box At drug stores, and although II
some sense q patent preparation, yet ! BE-
lisvS ] set more and better eharcoal n
etaart'a Absorbent Lo1engea la N az z
CAAMkAaa RAAsoaA1 phle4AA -
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
soon be mounted on a better base In their
employ.-Washington Post.
AN EYE FOR FLAT WHEELS
And Now the Pledge optic f. Worn
by Another Man ms n
watch Charm.

Their right eyes. These are pledges that
people often tender for loans at pawnbrok-
ers'. But. Of course. it's only a joke"
says 3. Bank, a Minneapolis pawnbroker.
He knows the difference between a pledge
and a joke. That is. he generally knows.
Once l didn't" he related yesterday.
"Once an old fellow came up to my coun-
ter when I was located out In Trinidad.
Colo, and he said: 'what'll you let me
have on this. Bank?' ON what7' SAYS I.
Why. on my right eye, Of course!' The old
joke I thought, but l smiled Just the same.
The older a joke is the more you have to
smile In business circles. 1 smiled and
says: Two dollars for one eye. 50 for two
But It was up to the stranger to do the
smiling that time. He put up his right
hand and simply rubbed his eve out on his
palm. leaving a CORY. red hole clean into
his brain, 1 thought. I shivered and jumped
back. It didn't feaze him, though. He
chuckled and winked the other eye. Here
she is said he. and a mighty fine optic,
too. The man that made her for me down
In Frisco said that she'd be a regular mas
cot. He warranted that he'd give me some
thing to please the ladies. and he did. why.
l caught my wife with that eve! She
thought It was ever so much handsomer
than the other one long before she knew
that l was wearing glass;
I'd promised him 81, and 50 he got. I
thought was sold for once, but I wasn't
The customer never came back. lie fell
down a shaft, I heard. He'd probably have
broken his eye If he'd been wearing 1t. But
the eye was safe, and he wasn't. And then
n few months afterward I sold the old
mans eye to a tenderfoot that wanted n
unique watch charm They don't make
them no uniquer than this I told him. and
he paid me SIS.
That reminds me of Pedro Pete, the
gambler, and his 'hind leg Always called
1t his hind leg. He meant his wooden leg.
But 1t was more than that. II was wood
all right, but 1t was filled with springs and
hinges and everything that goes with n
high-priced artificial leg. And II was high
priced enough out there in Colorado them
days. He reckoned IL was worth $500. and
maybe 1t waste him.
But when Pete wanted to borrow money
on his limb l kicked. How was I to sell
II IL he never came back? But I'm sure 70
come back II I'm alive he said. Say. did
you ever try to spend forty-eight hours on
one leg?' I said I was no sandhill crane.
and let him have 80 on his patent pin.
He was back with the funds next morning.
A little while later he got 800 on the leg.
L couldn't put the leg in the safe and I
stuck 1t away in the corner with the mon
and brooms. Didn't think any stranger
was hankerin' for II.
And It's a fact I got 30 used to ioanin'
Pete money on his southeast corner that ]
sometimes advanced as much as SIS. When
ever I'd see Pedro a-trottln' down the street
inside a pair of crutches I knew he was
going to soak his leg. He had to have
the crutches to escape with. But he al
ways came back.-Minneapolis Journal
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
THE PASSING OF ECONOMY
Communal Society in Pennsylvania
Strives for the Ideal and
Goes so the Wall.

The sale Of the property of the Har-
mony Society, in the Sewickly Valley Of
pennsylvania, marks the end Of another
community established by men and women
who believed that in this way they could
enjoy life better than by mingling with tho
rest OF the world. Such communities have
not been uncommon in this country, and a
number of them still exist; but few of them
Gave been carried on with any great degree
OF success. All sorts of ideas have been
made excuses for banding men and women
together in this way, and frequently no
attention has been paid to the marriage
law OF the land. No marriage was allowed
among the Economists, and this was doubt
less one OF the causes of the failure of their
scheme. Til Mormons present the most
notable example Of a community that can.
not be counted among the failures. They
have grown rich, strong and influential iu
the affairs Of Utah. and though the law was
compelled to step in and put up a bar
against plural marriage among them, yet
that has not prevented a large increase in
their number. and new converts to their
religious teachings are being made all tho
time.
Communities like the one at Economy
are generally recruited from the ranks OF
country people, generally farmers. Very
few city residents are tempted by such
schemes, or are fitted to do the work that
falls to the lot of all such c~olonists. They
must all become tillers of the soil, and in
most Of the communities the women Join
with the men in the work In the fields.
Such a life may be a healthy one, but ID
leaves little opportunity for individual
advancement, no chance to build a home
which is personal and private property
The community's earnings. generally
receipts from the sales OF farm products
pass into a common fund, which is in charge
Of trustees. either s~elf-appointed at the
start, or elected from time to time by the
members.
1t is easy to see that frequent bicker-
tngs and quarrels must result from such
a system, and they generally originals
from strife over the money. That is tina
rock upon which nearly all OF them ara
wrecked. There are usually in every such
band shrewd individuals who see an
opportunity TO get rich from the work OF
others and who do not fail to take ad-
vantage of II. The failure Of one Of these
communities after another simply proves
that there can be no happiness, no peace
without good, responsible government, by
which the rights Of all are protected, and
under which law, order and decency arc
maintained.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-10
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

LOST-Triangle-shape pin, name H. c.
Watkins on back. Leave I1l2 Howard
reward. 73 -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-28
BEATING THE PAPER TRUST.
om tae Arkansas Democrat.

From the Arkansas Democrat.
 The Kansas City Star is beating the paper trust. In order to accomplish that feat 1t. erected a paper mill of it's own and is now turning out such paper as 1t needs in the publication of its various issues. If some half hundred other jour- nals with the means at hand to follow the inclination would adopt like course. we imagine that it would reduce the price of newspaper materially. This reminds us that some time ago an announcement was made to the effect that experiments had demonstrated that paper could be made from pine shavings. There was con siderable rejoicing in the south, where the pine forests are almost inexhaustible, and it was said that a mill was to be put in at once at convenient point in Texas. We regret that the enterprise has not materialized. It would be great ad- vantage to this section if we could bring such an industry into active existence.