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crustily. None of them thought it worth
time to write or inquire
patriot.
The stationmaster looked up quickly. a
oh! ia foFgot he aS s siSno M sars YOU
don't know you're dead"
Yes, and buried
may be dead said John, who was
I'm blessed if I'm buried. who buried
''Her."
The stationmaster jerked an indicatory
thumb across his shoulder, over hillwards
Tell me about it," cried John, impa-
And he told. all too slowly for the i'm
had come of Johns killing before Coien-
so, of how it had been verifieG by official
lists, of how the Rev. Gibson had preach
with John as his theme. OF how Mary
Farrell had fallen in the clutch OF brain
astray. She was not violent the Station
master said, nor mad. but only daft as
death and his promotion.
They let her alone" said I.awler, land
does pretty much as she likes and surely
hurts no one. That's where you're bur
The volunteer looked his amazement
Its this way" the stattonmaster went
made a little memorial mound for you.
sort o grave like, you know, up there in
the WOOD, ana she Keeps mowers ana
s'Well,' cried John, whose eyes We're
moistened, what has that to do with
me being a generaI?'
"Oh. well. She painted some headboards,
Sacred to the memory of-you know,
who fell at Colenso, and. each day she
puts up a new one. Sunday reads 'Pri-
vate John Jones' Tuesday it says Ser
geant' This is Saturday. Chances are she
is up there now. a-settin' up a board
which says General John Jones' and
waterin' your grave with her tears"
Even so it was.
John halted long with his fingers on the
gate of the churchyard.
Within the familiar enclosure sat upon
the ground amid the autumn leaves the
Mary he loved dearly. her hands within
her lap. steadfastly looking at mound
of earth at whose head shone a white
headboard amid whose profuse lettering
he could clearly read only one line, this
General John Jones. I. Y"
A twig cracked beneath his feet he
stepped within She turned about and
looked deep into his pale face.
Then, with swift sob. she rose like a
startled deer and met her waiting arms.
The promotion of Private Jones had
come.-IlluStrated Bits.
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are putting on more new subscribers
than any 1000 papers combined, and we
pay the U. S. 81 900 for postage where
any other publication pays Is cents.
We are the only editor, with one ex-
ception, who has his eye the presi-
dency, and while the bee in his bonnet
has cost him over a million dollars in
cash we have got along thus far with
two kegs of beer and have half the
country on our side.
Whenever you pick up a New York
daily and read about gains in circula-
ton, just remember that there is an
Arizona Kicker in the land. We all
lie like so many horsethieves, and we
know we lie, and the public knows we
lie, but the fun of the thing is that we
can beat all the other old liars at their
own game. Our circulation books are
open to all, which means that it is no
body's blamed business what the actual
our actual circulation was 1,125 copies
instead of 64.00O.0O0, we should consider
it a blamed insult.
While performing our duties as post
master the other day, Major White en-
tered the office and raped ON the shelf
of the general delivery window with the
butt of hfsSgun in that imperious way
of his AS mo immediate attention was
paid to him. everybody being busy, he
began to shoot into the mail bags At
his third shot we had him by the neck
and disarmed him, and while getting
NV Tic " liAC SIlCSl HIS right
was put out of joint. The
major and some of his friends feel sore
over the matter. but we are pursuing
the even tenor of our way. This is a
one-man postoffice. We are the one
man.. We run it and run it bang-up
and we don't allow shooting at the mail
bags, the clock. the chief clerk or any
thing else. We don't insist upon patrons
taking off their hats, but we do insist
that the institution be respected.
While we take our meals at a hotel |
our bedroom adjoins the editorial sane
tum of The Kicker. We planned it so |
because we are subject to fits of liter
airy inspiration between. midnight and |
o'clock in the morning. More than so |
attempts have been made to assassin
ate US in our room by firing through |
the walls, but all have been dismal |
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ARIZONA KICKLETS.
Some Hot Weather Figures and In
cidents.

1t is now four weeks since we have
lied about our circulation, and the New
York dailies have taken advantage of
our remissness to resume their brag-
gadocio. We wish to impress a few
facts on the minds of our readers. The
world cries for The Kicker. People
must have it in their business, even the
Iaplanders. No household can be with
out it. and the man who doesn't carry
a copy in his coattail pocket feels a
goneness.
The circulation of all the dailies and
weeklies in the United States is not
half that of The Kicker.
The circulation of all the newspapers
in the known and unknown world
would hardly equal our figures.
1t takes a freight train of 107 cars
to bring one issue of our white paper
from the mills. We own q paper mills.
which do nothing but make paper for
The Kicker.
of whom 1877 are savants, statesmen,
poets. and professors.
We employ six city editors and they
have at their call 210 reporters. each
of whom is the son of a millionaire
The woman's department of our
weekly is edited by 1S7 women, most
of whom are widows, and who are
working on salaries that enable them
to give away their old sealskin sacques
every year.
Our staff. taken altogether. numbers
over 1000 people. and our payroll every
Saturday comes close to 100000.
We have special correspondents in
every town of 5000 inhabitants on the
face of the earth, and let a Irritation
take place in Siberia or a bull get loose
in Thibet, and our special wires record
the fact within half an hour.
1t takes six factories to supply us
with printers ink. and when our 125 |
presses are all working at once the |
noise is like that of a cyclone.
Over 100 persons are employed ten |
hours per day in opening letters re- |
ceived from all over the world, and our /
money is taken to the bank 1
daily in two large moving vans. In /
fact, it takes three banks to hold it.
Our Persian subscription list alone l
numbers almost 1000, 900 copies and not /
)ne of the Persian subscribers has |
sought to work off a shawl on US.
The Caliph of Bagdad calls us "old
Boy when he writes, and the sultan of |
Morocco depends upon his weekly Kick
I'd to keep him in good spirits.
We publish more advertisements and |
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failures. We now announce to parties
boilerplated and the windows defended
by iron shutters, and nothing less than
so pounds of dynamite would turn us
over to our bed. Don't waste any more
cartridges. 1t can't be done. Call dur
ing business hours and blaze away and
take your chances.
For a couple of hours the other day
our heart was filled with remorse and
grief. Our esteemed contemporary, who
has shot at us at least 300 times on the
street and made a miss of it each time
tried it again, and by some singular ac-
getting for the moment that we had
granted him the privilege of shooting
at us when and where he would and as
often as he pleased, We turned and fred
in reply. He went down like a log. We
had the body taken to the coroner'S Of
flee, and after being exonerated by the
jury we went to the home of the widow
and made a statement of the case. She
was not greatly upset. She said she
had been expecting the old critter to
get his quietus these many years past
waite editorial graveyard and mark his
tombstone No. IS, and had the funeral
all planned out when we got word that
the dead was alive. Our bullet had
only raked his skull. The man not only
recovered consciousness, much to the
surprise and chagrin of the coroner and
but insisted on walking
home alone to have his head bound up.
We had begun to blame ourselves and
feel bad. and while We have no use for
q man who won't stay dead when he is
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dead, in this instance we were only toe
happy to hear of the resurrection.

We went over to Lone Jack the
other day in hopes to increase our
subscription list, but it seems that a
late editorial in which we spoke of
the Lone Jackers as wearing out their
elbows on the bars of saloons had
caused a disgruntled feeling. In the
course of half an hour the male popu-
lation began to call us liar and
scoundre and a little later guns were
drawn. From behind the corner of
grocery we stood the crowd off for
few minutes, and then becoming lone
some for our town we mounted our
mule and stole away How many
hundred bullets were fired after us
goodness knows. but after being chas-
ed for three miles the Jackers gave it
up as a bad job and returned home.
The only consolation we had out of
the affair was the fact that one of
out first bullets cut so close to the
ear of the editor of the Recorder that
he broke for the woods and hasn't got
back yet Copyright, 1904, by T. c.
MCCLURE
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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY.
The Worlds Fair Line.

Seven daily trains between Kansas
City and St. Louis which leave Kan
sas City 6:55, 500, 1910 a. M and
1910, 9:15, 1900 D. m. and 1905 mid
night.
Ask for your ticket via this line
from Kansas City. If you miss one
train. you will not have long to wa..
for another.
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OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.

AM A CANDIDATE FOR STATE
senator from the Seventeenth district.
Q1tnD, subject to the decision of the quail
vem@er. Q. p. SROLMAR.
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WANTED-A position by boy IS. Address
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED@Grading and construction
work. have 4 teams and Scrapers, can
furnish all help and Is teams and men if
needed. H. Wolfnbarger, Elmdale, Kan
WANTED-To buy good farm near Silver
Lake, with possession. E. A. M. Smith,
Topeka
WANTED@House of II to 20 rooms; must
be modern and convenient to street car
Address H. A J., care Journal
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FOR RENT-Modern cottage 4 rooms. ID
Tyler st.
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FOR RENT-Oct. l. modern room house
306 Tyler St, electric light, furnace, bath,
etc. j. NJ. Meade, Bell phone sos.
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FOR RENT-HoUsEs.

FOR RENT-New lower fiat 1872 Harrison
ST., entirely modern. Inquire on prem
Uses
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
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ANTED-Situation for aged gentleman
to work during winter for board, milk
COWS or tend horses. Cali at 1011 e. Sth.
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FOR RENT room house. Inquire at 4o(
Fillmore st.
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MATCHMAKER.

WATCHES cleaned. 75c; clocks, soc; main
springs, 75c; crystals, 10c. Cash paid for
old gold or silver. ALI work guaranteed
Old jewelry exchanged for new II hard
up. see Uncle Sam. 612 Kansas ave.
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BUSINESS CHANCES

WILL trace for team of horses, lots
rooms, cellar, ciStern, well, barn for
6 horses, fronting Washburn college.
Price $1,000. ], r. Lyle, 929 Kansas ave.
AM read to supply people with Winona
Mills hosiery and underwear. S. G.
PiarsoL Ella XHlAr Ak
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PLUMBING.

FRANK P EDISON, member American
society of heating and ventilating engi-
nsaEzA liz W- Gkh ~ Phone 814.
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w ANTED-Position as housekeeper by q
middle aged woman, references given
no trifiers need answer this. Address
Journal
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WANTED-2 gentlemen boarders, shop
men preferred. AS Cedar ST.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

WANTED-To buy dozen or two sprins
chickens; must be cheap. State breel
and price. Address J. d. s., care Journal
or call at 923 North Tyler st.
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FOR Rents room house on Topeka
ave. Thos. 8. Lyon Ind. phone 115S
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MUSICAL.

X. h EDDY, piano and organ repairfr
ref1nishing and polishing Ind. Tel. Is
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WANTED-250 stoves. We want stoves
and good second hand furniture. New
and second hand furniture bought and
sold Monarch Furniture and Stove Co,
300 Kansas ave-
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FREE DTsPENsARY.

TOPEKA FREE DISPENsARx. SouSn-
east corner 18th and Tyler sts. from 4
70 p. M. except Sundays. Conducted By
regular practicin2 physicians for the
dement, OF persons without means who
need medical attention and treatment. Pa-
tents are assured of careful and consid-
crate treatment Medicine furnished IN
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STAMPS, SEALS AND STENCILS
>c-~-~-~~~-~~~~--~S~-~-~---
THE J. c. DARLING CO., ia Kan. ave.
Rubber stamps, brass and aluminium trade
checks. Prices low. Catalog free. Tel 292 .
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WANTED-Situation in millinery store as
maker or saIeslady, experience and ref
erences given Address M L., Journal.
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WANTED-Relatives of Mrs. Hattie A.
Lumley, whose maiden name was Bla-
ker, deceased, late of Minneapolis, Mimi,
to communicate with administrator, w.
B. futile, New York Life bldg. Mime
apolis, MINI.
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FOR RENT-1o room modern house 81
W. Sth St, bath, gas, electric lights, els
tern and city water in kitchen, good barn
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HIDES.

JAS. c. SMITH. highest cash price for
hides. wool. taIlow, furs and peI.s. con-
signments solicited. Tel. 6s4 los G. % st.
Topeka and st. Joe, Mo.
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MONEY.

MONEY TO LOAN on live ztock, pianos.
personal security. L Biscoe. ga Kan av
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FOR RENTS room house, a nice home.
1902 N Monroe St Mrs. Henry Hull, 21f
w. Sth ST.
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LAUNDRIES.
LET union laundry do that work Te
546 and Wen call
CITY HAND LAUNDRY. s27 KAN. AVE
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WHEN you want to hire a man or boy.
call up Y. NJ. c. A. telephone 81. We
he We a list of men and confidential ref
erences concerning them. Y. NJ: Z. A.
Employment Bureau. III E. 9Th st.
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WANTED-AGENTS
agent to sell historical chart
and business apparatus to school dis
c. Briggs. Sd floor, SS1 Kansas ave.
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MORPHINE. opium, iaudanuIn, cocaine
habit; myself cured. Will inform you OF
harmless, permanent home cure. Mrs
Baldwin Sex liz Chicago.
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w. J. VCSS. upholsterinK, rurntture
packed. shipped; mattresses. couches etc
made over. 600 Jackson st. Ind. phone s1B.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Ushsrs Union Met.

The members Of the Ushers Union of
the Avenue M. E. Church met on
Friday evening last at the residence Of
John T. Holland and decided to give a
"Martha Washington Festivapo In
AmOry Hall on Friday, February ls.
AS to the particulars concerning ar
rangements, they will be announced in
a later issue The following ushers
were appointed for the present month
Morning Thos. Reynolds, Wilbur
Joseph, Edward Hurley, I. D. Short
James HeaveIOw, Augustus Holson.
Night-ShOwell Abbott, Ira Joseph
Chas Heusted, Clarence Stewart, Ar
thur Hudson, Edward Jones.
Ushers--B. F. Sturgls, Chas. r.
Abbott, D. Erbsmehl, J. c. Waters
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
WHERE YOUR
FRIENDS ARE.
PERSONAL NOTES OF INTEREST.
A Great Many Visitors in Milford This
Week. ana a Great Many Milford
People Have Gone Visiting.

Chester Marshall is visiting Herbert
Jones in Dover
John P. Holland spent Sunday last
in Dover the guest of friends.
Clayton Frame and family, of Phila-
phia, have been visiting lin town this
week.
Mrs. Lavina Bowers of Baltimore
visited her sister. Mrs. A. P. Smith. this
week.
Delaware c. .Vaulea. of Atlantic Citv
was the guest Of his father. VIM. T
Vaules, this week.
Mrs. John Welch. who has been the
guest of her parents in Philadelphia.
has returned home.
George B. Hynson, of the Evening
Journal, Wilmington, was in town on
Wednesday of this week.
Miss Hilda shurter, of fElsmere. Del
md Doctors Hall and Howard Rigein
II Baltimore, Md, have been guests of
Hiss Maybelle Lonand for the past
ew days.
Misses Eliza Short. Bessie ReyneId.
nd Na0 Wilson, also Messrs. Samuel
William and Chester Marshall, Harry
'ausey and John KramIieh, attended
ne dance given at the Richardson
louise last week.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
New Century Club.

Al the meeting of the New Century
Club January 4th, the president, Mrs,
CIV. Marshall, wasin the chair. The rolf
call of members was answered witb
suitable quotations pertaining to tbe
outgoing of the Old and the incoming
of the New Year.
"rhe Dead Yen, y by Jean IneeIow.
was effectively read by Miss Kate De-
putty. 1t being History Dav. Miss
Syrena J. Hall chairman. presided over
the program. A paper on .,France A
the Middle Ages, and under the Can.
tetains Kings" by Mrs. ]. P. Steward.
Following this was the second Of 4
series Of monthly papers on sFrench
History to be written during the eluh
year and Of the Third Dynasty. The
first on the "Origin Of the French Na.
tion," under the Merovineiap ana
Carlovingian Dynasties, was given b.
Miss s. ]. Hall in December last.
After the reading the second paper
appropriate remarks were made bv the
chairman on the subject thus fai studA
led; touching upon the struggles OF
France for her rights and power AZ
nation, from which as background Of
light and shadow have shown
out the figures Of great men who did
their part towards founding the nstion
Of to-day.
Monday next will be the regular
monthly business and social dav
rhe chairman, Mrs. Mary o Caulk.
will in her usual and CHEEKY manner
Welcome all who favor the social with
heir presence.
10 the many attractions Of the drawa
ng room Ehas been added a "gusst
sook, " and upon its fair pages from
lme to time visitors may leave q last
ng 'Pen and Ink" impression thaf
'iii be cherished by the members Of
ne Milford New Century Club.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Chapel Scholars food Attendance.


Last Sunday afternoon a most i'm
pressive sight was, witnessed at the
Chapel Sunday SCHOOL,, Sixteen Of the
scholars received rewards for punct
ualisy during the year-not having
missed a Sunday when in town and
not too sick to attend every session dur
ing the year. By the following record
several have not missed q Sunday for
two, three. four and ten years. The
following are the names and records of
the different scholars, and we do not
believe, lhsy can be excelled by any
shOol. in the State. Vernon Benson.
mpleted without missing a session
ten years; John May hew and Victor
HaI dy, four years; Sarah Banning.
Roy Pettijohn and Charley Banning
three years; Edgar Boyce, two years /;
The following scholars, one year, Caddie
Bennett, Bertha Handy, Stella Handy.
Laura Murphy, Olive Evans, AIonza
pruitt John Williams, Mary Banning.
Jennie 8lcNair.
We would like to know if any school
n the State has a record of any scholar
attending every session without missing
single session for the last ten years.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Century Club Tea.

The New Century Club Of Milford
VIII give musicale tea at the residence
OF Mrs. George w. Marshall on Tues
day evening, January 18th. The proa
gram will consist Of vocal and instrua
mental music by some Of our best local
talent. Other talented musicians frous
elsewhere will be present and partici.
pate. Cake and coffee will be served
to all later. Tickets can be procured
from members Of the club. Price az
teen cents.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Near Being Drowned.

While skating on the upper lake at
the Milford depot last Monday after.
noon. parl,s son of Dr.G.W w. Plsasanton.
broke through the ice and was resc,ad
by Burton Short after the boy had
gone down the second time. The
weather was bitter cold and the boys
about kept poung Pleasanton running
until p reached his home. Only for
the ,rpess Of the Short boy at the
time the accident, it would have been
anoti y drowning case, as they were
far ay from the great body ofskaters
and here the ice was known to be
iang IrOus by reason Of air holes.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
A Former DeIawarssn Dead.

Many Of the business people Of this
peninsula win remember w. Hodge
Bennett, who travelled over thfs section
for several years, and will be sorry to
hear Of his death, which took place last
Monday IN his office, and was ths, re.
suit Of appoplsxg He was mem Der
OF the firm Of Fisher, Bruce & Com
pany, Wholesale china dealers Of Phjla-
delphia. He was a native Of Delaware.
and was in his 5eth year. He leaves a
widow but no children.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Arm AanaIsd ia Corn Shredder.

An accident happened to Cornelius
V. Giant fast Thursday evening while
operating corn shredder in Milford
Neck. just how the accident ham. ned
no person knows; but in some wav The
left hand was caught by the machinery
and before it could be extricated. the
flesh nearly to the elbow was a mass Of
pulPy, bloody flesh, and bones oftne
hand and forearm shattered. He was
brought to Milford for surgical atten-
tion, and DR.. John Prettyman. assisted
by DR.. g. w Marshall, amputated the
arm between the wrist and elbow.
after that was done it was found that
the bone was so badly shattered and
the flesh 80 torn that another amputa-
tion higher up was necessary. Mr..
Grant is a highly respected young man.
bis grandfather being General Corne-
Iius Van Worst, and the people have
great sympathy for his afliction.
Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
Schools Rs-Opsnsd.

The Public Schools OF Milford, after
nearly two weeks Xmas vacation.
opened again Monday under the man.
agement OF Rev. H. L. Bunstein, the
recently elected principal. Those " no
attend the schools are very much
pleased with Rev. Bunstein's work 10
the schools, and the public can be sure
Of as good results for the remaining
part Of the year, as was evidenced in
the initiative.