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Stockholders of the National Bank OF
Virginia, forstne cleetion OF d Directors
for the q ensuing year. will be held at
81 their banking house. In the city Of Rich
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4 ATsTIIE GREAT Frs
sacrifice sale. now going on at GUAR
.ANTEE CLOTHING co, 1927 T.. Main
Street. opposite G.. & o.. Depot, Red
aA signs cover entre front. 5t EEIsy "a
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LEAkY ROOFS.

BEAUTIFUL PRESENTS IN JEWEI.RY
tlowest prices. JOHN SCIIEEH
Ninth Street, near Main.
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XMAS TREE ORNAMENTS. ]

NEW STOCK. gLOW PRICEs-FANCY
boxes, souvenirs, cornucopias. III z.
Main Street,sMOESTA'S ..lE
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WINES 5ANDfLlQUoRs..

LATEST NOVELTIES IN BON-BO]
Boxes at MOESTA'S. Y. q "A "a h5
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SHOE RElAIRINo SPECIAL.

&c. HALFsoLE, MEMS SHOES, 5OC.;
Every pair sV sewed no
Il nails no pegs. no squeaking; no red leath-
" or, best white oak leather, pllable and
= tough, best Rubber Heels, 35c. This week
Men's Sewed Working Shoe, our own
II make, ST. DREW'St E ELEC rRIC# SHOE
& FACTORY,{7l6 e. Main Street Phone
II 1867 Send anywhere. $35 5
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OWN YOUR HOMES; NO CASH
VI PAYMENT no interest: small monthly
95S4 .faB. n CAWTHOFaN a Agent Room 81. ,
S{5H Ebel Building. 44{- i{t ~ 53s3 n ~ r.
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GLOVES GALORE FOR ALL PERSONS
and occasions I; from 25c. to $500; SKIN
ana Fabric. B11RTON, PRICE &
co. iff3 y il 4 III ss's s i sSSs
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from Ito 4:3o mealsSa at all hours: the
Very best nt moderate Prices. HOTEL
LAWRENCE. stS% IN ls.28f BE 'st
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NOTICE.

THE SMOKERS OF THE WEST END
viii no longer have TO- 50 down town TO
get their flll ii r, 81 the saHne
FECTIONEHY,l s7o1 w. Il ain n Street.
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FOR sAI5I1--A PAIR OF u I1S S SKATES,
in good condition: will sell cheap. a pp.y
B. 49, care This office. III
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CASH tiIRL.S--NvANTEIs TEN CASH
LADIES al, ONCE. n IE COHEN co.
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sSALESNIAN--V * " II E D. SALESMAN,
81 already engaged lin travelling, to sell
4 Linseed OIL and Paints az side line in
sNirginies and Southern ties; no sam u
10 pies needed. Address Box 500. Rich
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SCHOOLS.

w, r. CUTslIANy. 4
City Engineer,
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lANTONI'S is THE PLACE y TO RlIY
s Pure Candles made fresh every; day,
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CIIAs. o. sAyILLE. Clerk.
aOverton Howard, Thomason e. Minor
| ~ d 81 5 aS$ Dec 10,law-4w
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SIGNS.

FOR AN 8UP-TO-DATE, TASTY \ AND
unique sign, finished in ;nrst-class man.
ner by expert workmen see HARRY
HUBER. sos Z. Franklin Street. Phone
1is. M 5 S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.]
When children have a nice mother,
they show it,
There is nothing that will kill the
odor of onions on ones breath save
time.
Suggested as the title of a new coon
song: Talk To Me, But Don't Talk
Sassy
The trouble with a good memory is
that you are unable to. forget your
fool breaks.
People are never overworlxed unless
they are too busy to stop to be com
plimented.
You can always make boy mad by
telling him he looks like a picture Of
some girl kin.
The doorknob style of doing the
hair is not expected in any woman
before she reaches sixty.
Here are two of the wisest things
you ever heard: Don't go to law;
keep out of the court room.
1t is the lover who tells the girl he
would die for her; it is the husband
with insurance who doesn't.
Somehow the bulletins from the
seat of war remind US of the exclama-
ton points in u 16-year-old girls talk.
A woman never does as well as she
might for company at dinner unless
she is sick in bed a week afterward.
1T must be terrible to be the oldest
man in community, and know that
by all laws of nature, it is his turn
next.
A mothers decision to let the chill
dren wear their best dresses is follow
ed by the appearance of a neigh Dor
with sticky candy.
Eat spring onions; they are good
for you. After eating them, stay at
] home. That is good for those you
might meet if you went out
We have never heard a banshee,
] but imagine it sounds a good deal like
the man who gives the signal to a
gang of workmen to all pull at once
| 1t is getting to be as hard to keep
track of all the towns in the Far East
war story. as to remember the person
ages in "Iohn Quincy SAWYER
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MEN HERE.
They Are Applying for Reduction in
Assessment.

Representatives from about twenty
telephone companies in Kansas are
appearing before the state board of
telegraph and telephone assessors to-
day to tell how poor their telephone
lines are and why they should not be
assessed as much as they are, or at
least no more. The only time that
teleph men will admit that their
lines are not much account and their
service wretched is when they go be-
fore the assessors.
There has been a disposition on the
part of the board to hike the tele-
phon0 assessments this year and that
is what the telephone men are object
ing to. They say that other property
is assessed at about one-thfrd of its
value, while telephone property is al
ready assessed more than that Incl
dentally the board is learning how
little it costs to build telephone lines.
The telephone owners want their lines
assessed at One-third of the cost of
construction.
Some of the members of the board
have an idea, however, that the prof
its from the telephone business are
something pretty good in the invest
ment line, and they have been dis
posed to fix the assessments accord
inglV.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago Daily News.l
The way of some transgressors seems to
he pretty smooth.
A beautiful girl is one who is pretty and
doesn't know It.
About nine-tenths of what people say
doesn amount to anything.
Every old woman likes to tell how beau
tlfu1 she was when she was a girl.
A folding bed is as sure to shut up IN
eXpectedly as a woman isn't.
An egotist is a man who expects a vo-
man to marry him for himself alone.
If married man admits he's a fool it
IS his Wife's duty to agree with him.
A girl who is kittenish during courts hip
may develop into a cat after marriage.
Some lawyers have business at the bar
thing.
When young man really enjoys hear
ing his best girl practice on the piano.
that is true love
A small boys idea of pleasure is to lie
IN bed for an hour in the morning after
his father calls him.
A woman never realizes that she has
done something wonderful after stepping
backward of a street car and escaping
with her life.
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one of nv cabinet out last night dis
guised as a robber. He believed in
your lies and passed you by. Firstly,
shell out all thou hast; secondly, III
take that goat skin for a library rug;
thirdly, I shall order you forty strokes
of the bamboo on the feet, and fourth
ly, remember that when 1t comes to
lying I'm right at the head Of the pro-
cession and don't want anybody kick
ing my heels
Moral: If one doesn't bank on the
Truth he should know at least to
whom he is lying
The Peasant and the Crows.
Having painted his corn, the Peasant
found that the Crows were scratching
it out of the earth and devouring II,
and being a kind-hearted man he cali
ed them about him and said:
I have here used a bushel OF SEED
corn to plant two acres IT left 70
grow it will yield sixty bushels, and
we shall have plenty and to spare, but
if eaten now we shall not see q single
kernel next fall. Think the matter over
and let me know this afternoon what
you have decided on"
When afternoon came the leader OF the
Crows appeared before the Peasant ana
I'VE certainly wish you no i'll. and we
desire to express our thanks for what
point is just here. AS things are now We
can feast your corn; as things may be
in six months from now somebody may
But you'd you despoil me of my crop?"
| asked the Peasant.
.'Oh, by no means You see, there is
always d way provided if you look far
enough. We will go ahead and finish the
rest of the seed. and then do you plant
the field to turnips. That let's us in and
you out, and all is serene and the goose
/ hangs high"
Moral: Did you ever notice how easy it
is for US to figure for the other Teller
| when come in somewhere
THE FARMER AND THE FROGS.
i A farmer who had cleaned out a spring
| on his farm and made the water fit to
CiT
would like to have one of his species take
up his residence in the water and keep it
| clear of bugs and flies. The Frog there
upon set out to oblige the Farmer by tell
/ ing everyone of his kind he met, and
next day when Uncle Reuben went over
to the spring he found it inhabited by
about two bushels of bull frogs and more
| coming every minute
Just to show our friendshipi'' they
chroused ne stood looking at them.
Yes, see, and durn my hide if I don t
| wish you all back in Green's goose pond ~
Moral: One may protect himself against
his enemies. but one never knows when
his friends are going to upset his apple
| copyright, 1903, by c. 3. Lewis.)
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JAYHAWKER JOTs.

Harrington is to have a free library.
Independence is to have $4,000
opera house.
Pineapple sodas will be the favorite
temperance drink at Ottawa this sum
mer.
A smallpox quarantine has delayed
the spring opening of the Sells 6,
Downs circus at Topeka.
Arkansas city youths complain of
too frequent visits to the town of Win
field ''girl smitten" boys.
The Messiah speciaP' out of Rush
Center for Lindsborg carried no one
but the conductor and trainmen.
Eureka hasn't struck oil yet. but a
train load shipment of hogs is expect
ed to bring in a pretty fair dividend.
The mention of a certain preachers
name at Clay Center sends the chill
dren scurrying under the bed like
rabbits.
Lightning seldom strikes thrice in
the same place, but a Salina man has
been three times the victim of
measles.
A thrifty Scottsville boy started for
Oregon with 81. His pocketbook con-
tanned so cents upon his arrival on
the coast.
A local minstrel show at Manhattan
had $500 gate receipts. Strange to
relate none of the jokes were of the
Noah's ark variety.
Oh, woe is me! The Wichita coun-
Gil has prohibited Sunday ball and
cycling on the walks. They have also
raised the dog taxes.
People who have ridden over the
Missouri Pacific in Kansas will hardly
credit the statement that train ran
down a dog at Ottawa.
Mayor Bergundthal still insists that
Mr.. McCollum is a big enough man
for the position of Topeka's chief of
police. Let's see, he must weigh close
to 800 pounds.
Enterprise pupils and parents plant
ed trees on the school grounds Arbor
day. How the storm king of that
night must have shrieked in glee at
their foolishness.
A Newton man stole u cents worth
of brass to enable him to get a hair
cut and a shave. Most thieves have
brass enough to stand the barber off
without theft of more.
A Wellington delegate was robbed
Of $50 and his gold watch at the
Wichita Democratic convention. Up
to date he has not charged Grover
Cleveland with the theft.
Several months ago a Greenwood
county farmer found 6 little pigs in
a pen where only the mother had
been the night before. One morning
this week he found IS little porkers in
the pen with the same mother.
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WILL NOT INSTRUCT.
New Jersey Democrats VIII Elect an
UnpIedged Delegation.

Trenton N. J.. April 14.-Delegates
to the Democratic state convention
who will elect the delegates to the ma
tional convention at St. Louis, began
arriving today. The Hearst men of
Camden. headed by a brass band, were
among the first to arrive and the air
was filled with rumOrs that they would
bolt the convention. Robert IT. Brem-
mer. the leader of the Hearst men
from Passaic, positively refused to
have any connection with the Holt and
he was sustained by the Hearst men
from his county and Sussex county
The talk Of boiling therefore practical
Iy ceased.
Former United States Senator Smith
had conference with Leader Davis, of
Sussex county, ON the question of in
structing the delegates for Judge Par
ker Of New York. The Hudson men
wanted such instructions given Mr..
Smith stood out for an uninstructed
delegation and said that if there was to
be any instructions at all he favored
fnstructing for Grover Cleveland. Mr.
Smith was sustained in this view by
the majority of the state committee
The convention will almost certainly
send an uninstructed delegation to ST.
Louis.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Looking glasses never lie.
April showers bring umbrellas
A poor excuse is better than none, if it
is believed.
When a girl is engaged she thinks a lot
about saving gas.
It's hard to win a mans friendship and
win his money, too.
Lots of men put more money on the
horses than on their wives.
It must be fine to be so rich that you
don't have to keep up appearances.
woman's idea. of a stingy man is one
who never pays her compliments.
The average woman's tongue can run
faster than her two ears can listen.
The man who takes a drop too much
doesn't always take a tumble to him
self.
To fatter a woman tell her she is beau
tiful; to flatter man tell him he is work
ing too hard.
Before starting to build castles in the
air a man should put his mundane cot
tage IN his Wife's name.
Mr.. Saphedde-''Why do you kiss your
dog when I'm around" Miss Pert
We'll. a dog can't talk about it after
Blobbs-"so that Boston girl said I
wasn't worth my salt, eh?" S1obbs-
wen, she did remark that you We're in
inverse ratio to your chloride of SODIUM. -
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UNCLE ELI'S FABLES.
Always Something Doing TO Point
Moral.


The Peasant and the Wolf.
One day. as the Peasant stood look
ing down upon the dead Lamb which
he was approached by the Wolf, who
said:
Friend, thee seems to have met
with a loss, and it is needless to say
that you have my sympathies."
Yes, the poor Lamb is gone" sighed
the Peasant.
''As we must all go sooner or later,
l suppose you wish to break the news
to your wife as soon as possible
Yes"
well. you can jog right along, and
as it is about monday you can get
your dinner while about it. I shall
only be too glad to sit by the remains
while you are gone
The Peasant expressed his thanks
and started for the house, but no
sooner had he broken the sad news
to his Wife than she cried out
What, dolt, you left the Wolf on
watch over the dead lamb"
Aye, truly I did,"
But even an idiot would have
known better than that
Yes, 1 presume so. but you haven't
heard all the story yet. That Lamb
died of eating Paris Green. and the
Wolf will die of eating the Lamb. A
dead Lamb is a loss of so cents, but
the skin of a dead wolf is good for 81.
with whatever extra the teeth and
claws will bring. I may never set a
river on fire with my smartness, but
prithee. old gal, I'm in the Lamb bust
ness to stay
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LOCAL MENTION.

At II o'clock this morning the fire
department was called to ass Locust
street where a small dwelling had
gone wrong through the assistance of
a small boy playing with matches. The
building was slightly damaged. 1t is
owned by Robert Lee and occupied by
John STAR.
At the meeting of the Republican
FIambeau club Wednesday night, nine
new members We're admitted, and a
proposition formulated for the pres 81
tatiOn Of a fireworks display at the
Semi Centennial The Topeka club
can give the display for considerably
less than the figures submitted by a
Denver concern.
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New York Evening Post: When ex
Gov. Stanley resigned his position as
member of the Dawes commission to
the Indian Territory a few days ago.
he issued a statement to the Chicka-
saw people, among whom he had been
working while in charge of the land
office at Tishomingo. Among other
things, the retiring commissioner urged
upon the Indians the Importance of
holding on to the land allotted to them
He spoke of the Chickasaw nation as
rich in resources, a prize toward
which the greedy eyes of the shrewd
speculator will turn. Plausible in
ducements'' will be offered, he said, to
get hold of the last estate that will
ever come to the tribe except through
its own efforts. Coming so soon after
the disclosures of the Bonaparte re-
port, and taken in connection with a
very late decision of Judge Raymond.
chief justice of the court of appeals
for the Indian Territory. Mr.. Stanley's
words are ominous. 1t was Judge
Raynond's decision that broke a con
tract between the Indian Land and
Trust company of Muskogee and the
ignorant parents of a Creek child, by
which 200 acres of rich improved land
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had been leased for five years at
yearly rental of fifteen cents per acre.
Judge Raymond stated indignantly
that various companies of land sharks
had succeeded in leasing. at absurdly
inadequate figures, great tracts of land
in the various tribal holdings ranging
in size from 5000 acres to $4,000 acres
in one case. The larger part of this
has been leased from the parents of
minor children to whom allotments
have been made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-14
TWENTY FIVE DOCTORS.
They VIII Get Diplomas at Washburn
Wednesday.

The invitations for the graduation and
commencement of the Kansas Medical
college a department of Washburn, are
out and the exercises announced for next
Wednesday evening, April 20, at Wash
burn chapel. The degree of Doctor OF
Medicine will be conferred upon Is, eight
of whom are women. The college final
exanin a tons We're held last week and
the state board examinations were com
Dleted on Wednesday.
Chancellor Frank Strong of the state
university will deliver the address to the
students. President Plass of the Wash
burn college will confer the degrees DR.
F. J. Ernst will deliver the Valedictory
address in behalf of the class
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react on the putter; and secondly, the
wife who has nothing to say has moth
ing to take back and chew the rag
over.
The Foxes and the Hares.
Having announced to the animals of
the forest that he would listen to any
and all complaints, the Lion held audi
ence one day to be approached by the
Foxes, who said:
20, King OF Beasts, it is of this that
we complain. We much desire to make
a closer study of the habits and char
acteristics of the Hares, but their
strange want of confidence in US pre-
vents. No sooner do they see one of
us approaching than they scurry away
under ground and leave US hurt and
chagrined. We pray thee that it should
become known through the forest that
no Hare shall run away from a Fox"
'Um,'' unused the Lion. but that
seems to be a good idea. Yes, I think
I'll issue a proclamation to that
effect"
Thanks, o King"
"Never mind the thanks. While I'm
about it I might as well proclaim that
all Hares must enlarge their burrows
so that the Foxes can visit them"
lis an idea so grand that only a
King could have conceived it," ex-
claimed the delighted Foxes.
And so long as 1 have got the old
machine oiled uD and working I may
as we'll grind the full grist. 1 make
a third proclamation, to the effect
that no Fox shall hereafter run away
from a Wolf. and
Alas! your Majesty, but that will
be our dOomi'
And a fourth. that should two or
three fine. fat Foxes happen around
here about my dinner hour. which is
just now, it would be my duty to
yuml yumi yum"
Moral: When you set out to down
the other fellow take heed wherein
you stand
The Robber and the Peasant.
One night as the Peasant was re-
crock of butter with a stone at the
bottom he was accosted by a Robber
who demanded his money or his life.
"Alasl but you will have to take
my life, then" replied the Peasant,
for have not a coin uDon me. In
deed, 1 am going home to dig bur
dock leaves for my starving wife.
don't like to be killed, of course. but
if you must do it then don't muss my
yaller vest and paper collar up any
more than you can help"
And thou hast no coin ?" asked the
Robber.
mot even the smallest"
And thou art a hard worker for thy
daily bread?'
i work from sun to sun, and even
cut wood and milk cows for recrea-
ton"
IF such be the case then far from
me to add to your troubles. Pass on,
thou horny handed respecter of the
Truth-pass on
The Peasant passed. and he reached
home to rejoice and be glad. The next
day he went to town with a goat skin
to sell, and first of all he must mar
rate his adventure of the night prev
iOus. It had only been told when he
was summoned into the presence of
the Cadi, who looked him over and
said:
Being hard up for plunks. I sent
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STRIKES BIG GAS FLOW
Well Near Garnett Shows 100000
Cubic Feet Pressure.

Carnett, Kan, April IA second
flow of gas was struck in the well one
mine southeast of town today. The
drillers estimate the pressure at two
million cubic feet. Another we'll viii
be commenced this afternoon.
Experts say this one is an average
of any of the wells around Humboldt.
1t demonstrates beyond the question
of a doubt that plenty of gas lies UH-
der the territory around Garnett.
Death OF Harry Hill.
Saratoga, N. ". April 14.-Harry Y.
Hill. a veteran theatrical manager, IS
dead at his home here as result of n
stroke of paralysis.
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To Pipe Gas to kansas City.

Kansas City, No. April 1.-THE
Star today viii say: r. NJ. Snyder. of
Kansas City. is at the head of a cor
poration which intends TO pipe nat
ural gas from the Bolton field south
and west Of Independence, Kas., to
Kansas CitzT- It is the intention to
supply both Kansas Citys as well as
the towns between Independence and
Kansas City Options have been Sc
cured quietly on sufficient wells. it il
said, to furnish gas for the concern
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The projected railroad from Topeka
to Frankfort having reached the stage
where aid is being voted for it's con-
struction, is in advance of any other
railroad proposition of interest to To-
peka, that has come up in some years.
The road will be good thing for the
city and the territory through which
it viii pass and should have been built
long ago