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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17
TOPEKA'S MANUFACTURES
Are Competing With Any Of the Factories in the United
States And Should Be Patronized By Not Only Topeka
Merchants But the Whole State of Kansas,
Thereby Keeping Kansas Money Within
the Borders of the State.

The. recent concession by the Santa
Fe railroad in granting stopovers for
emigrants in Topeka will tend to make
it a greater manufacturing city than
it is. 1t will increase the population.
make business brisker and will help
the city in many other respects.
Adams & Adams, manufacturers of
farm and yard gates, report a great
demand from farmers and stockmen
for good wire gates, gates that really
open and shut automatically. Most
gates are advertised so but few come
up to the standard of the Adams gate.
The Topeka Steam Boiler works are
now in shape to take care of all or
ders, having fully recovered from the
recent fire some time ago. They en-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17

ploy a great number of skilled ma
chinists and other high priced work
men. Their products of boilers, pipes
and valves are perfect and are su-
perior to those made in the east.
Few people realize that the Gavitt
medicines made by the Gavitt Medical
company are used all over the world
and are recognized as the best there is.
This is another Topeka concern whose
sole owners were raised and have
lived in Topeka all of thet- life.
Smith is now being used all over the
globe. The factory is being worked
to it's full capacity and yet are expert
encing trouble in keeping up with the
lastly increasing orders.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-16
Ladies' New Dress Suits

All our silk dresses, lawn dresses shirt waists spring
coats and jackets Twenty-Five Per Cent below the
regular prices Come and see what this means to
you. Clearing sales come but once in a season.
The St. Paul Store is the only place in Little Falls
where you trade with utmost satisfaction.
Days Only, commencing July II, Saturday.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-16
Shoes for Men, Women
and Children

We still have good of shoes choose from
and if you have any intention of buying do soon
possible the sizes will soon be broken up-every
shoe the store is included at the same discount,
Is per cent. We sell the best shoes in town and
when you get them at one-fourth off it means money
to you to get supplied. =:
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-16
This sale will be 8f1.fCfly
fo,. CASH
All Our Summer Wash
Dress Goods

Such lawns, swsses, mulls percaes hams, CALI
Goes, etc., at TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT below
the regular price. See what this means to your
pocket book. Days Only.
Sc goods will 60 at .3A 15c goods will 90 at. III
&c goods will go at ..5M zoe goods will go at: 15c
l0c goods will go at...7H Csc goods will 60 at. 1874
12Hc goods will 60 at 81 35c goods will go .26A
Don't fail to get what you want and in early.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-07-16
No goods charged Or sent
Of, approval

All Our Ladies' New Dress Skirts
Everyone this seasons STYLE at IS per cent below the
| guar prices. Alterations will be charged for at
actual cost. No goods will go out approval dur
! ing this sale. :~~
400 skirts go at 800 $50 skirts go at.... 4,88
10 40 :. =. ''''' go Q. $50 6.62
800 ....,45o $50 $" ...... 6.3s
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features. as if with an effort she gulped
silence her voice fell a gasp, breath
Fifty thousand
All sums had become the same to
Flora. even her years income. AS If
she were verify afraid Clara might take
1t back, she turned precipitately to a
writing table But Clara had risen.
and though still pale, in a measure she
seemed to have recovered herself.
Wait / can't give it to you now.
will meet you here in two hours and
bring the picture. You can let me have
1t them
'Oh, two hoursr Flora objected.
But Clara was firm. mo. can't bring
1t sooner. 1t will make no difference
In your affair." She was painting in
her excitement. I'm two hours you
shall have the picture here. 1 promise
YOU"
She could never seem to get to the bot
tom of this business. There was only
one thing she could count on, and that
was Clara's impeccable honor In living
up to bargain. Flora sealed that bar
gain now. She held out her huttering
slip of paper, still wet with ink.
Very we'll. in two hours-but take
this now. 1 would rather you did,
Clara reached the tips of her fingers.
touched the paper-and then it was no
longer in Flora's hand. and Clara was
walking from her across the room.
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garden? She peered out upon it. Only
tree shadows moved upon the lawn.
Nothing glimmered in the walks or
drives The solitude held her like an
enchantment. She listened for the small
sounds in the house to cease, for the
lights in the lower story to go out,
proclaiming all the servants were in
bed Even after the stiffness she wait
ed-to be sure 1t was the long Stiffness
Finally she crept to the door and
opened 1t boldly wide
She stood where she was upon the
threshold trembling in a cruel fright.
A gas jet burning far up at the end
of the hall threw dim light down the
pale, pinkish. naked vista, void of fur
niture, window or curtain; and leaning
against the blank wall almost opposite
her door. and directly facing her. was
Harry.
Without speaking they looked at
each other. He was fully dressed, but
lacking shoes, as she noted in the
acuteness of her startled. senses. The
furtive suggestion of those shoeless
unreasoning. 1t was like an evil dream
to find him there. stolen to her door
in the night. waiting outside 1t with
out a sound, looking her steadily, hard
lily In the eye without a word.
She tried to speak. but, with terror
sobbing IN her throat, the words failed.
She made a step forward with a crazy
impulse to rush past him.
He Strengthened. with a quick
movement toward her. She recoiled
before him, perceptibly retreated.
closed the door quickly. and shot
the bolt and leaned. for faintness
against the wall. She expected each mo-
ment to hear him tap. She neither heard
a knock nor the sound of soft, depart
ing feet He was still there! He was
on guard! He had had good reason for
his terrible certainty! He had foreseen
what her plans might be. and she knew
down the hall than the turnkey will let
the wretched prisoner escape.
The last flicker of her courage died
at that thought. Ali her fine exultation
was beaten out by the fact of the brute
force outside her door. She could not
get to Kerr now. Covering behind her
door, she could only fancy him waiting
for her in the rotunda while the mo-
ments heightened into hours, each mo-
ment distrusting her more.
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CHAPTER XIII
TOUCHE

EFT alone, Flora glanced rapidly
around her. Now for a sally. now
for a dash straight for Kerr. The
shortest way was what she want
ed. Opening doors lately had led
to too many surprises. She pushed
aside the long curtains and stepped out
through the French window upon the
veranda. Rapidly her eyes swept the
garden. Far down between the gray,
slim branches of willows at last she
made out the f1utter of skirt. She
sighed relief to think Mrs Herrick still
at her post, and began to hurry down
the broad unshaded drive. Her steps
sounded loud on the gravel, and pres
emily to her excited ears they sounded
double. Then she realized the truth
Some one else was walking behind her.
She thought by not looking over her
shoulder she could avoid stopping; but
in moment Harry's voice hailed her.
1t was still far enough behind for her
to hope she could ignore 1t. She swept
on as if she had not heard. Once around
ShS tuAA VI tH0 uilNCs SIG Wooiu Do III
sight of succor. She could trust to
Mrs. Herrick to manage Harry. She
made little rush around the loop and
looked down the long vista of the will
lows.
hundred yards distant she saw the
two standing. Kerr presented his
back, and with his head a little canted
forward seemed to listen, absorbed in
his companion. But that companion
was a smaller figure than Mrs. Her
rick, and her veil made an aura Of filmy
white around her face. The sight of
her was enough to stop Flora short.
and in that instant Harry. making
cut across the flower beds. caught up
with her. He stopped as abruptly as
passed her own. For an instant she
thought he was about to make dash
down the walk for them. Then he
caught Flora's hand and pulled her
thought. Her other hand crept down
ward stealthily and gathered up her
swinging pouch of gold. Trembling.
she let him drag her back, but when
they faced each other behind the
plumes and swords of great pampas
clump she was shocked at the emotion
in his face; and as If what he had just
seen had given the last touch. his
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ance. II 1t was, as Mrs Herrick said.
a factor for success. something must
be done for 1t, for it was dreadful.
The best she could do revived pale
replica of the vivid creature who had
been wont to regard her from her
glass. Yet her black gown, thin and
trailing far behind her. and her hair
contrasted color, gave her a real bril-
lance, as they gave her a seeming
height. But she descended to the
breakfast room with trepidation. and
stood a full minute before the door
gathering courage to go in.
When she did open it, 1t was go
suddenly that both occupants faced
her with a start They were standing
close together, and between them, on
the glare of the white tablecloth, lay
little heap of gold. AS they peered
at her she saw that both were highly
excited, but in Clara 1t showed like a
cold sparkle; in Harry 1T gloomed like
a menace. His hand hovered, clenched
above the money in a panic of irreso-
luton, then, as If with an involuntary
relax of nerves, opened and let fall
one last piece of gold. Like a flash
the whole disappeared in a sweep OF
Clara's hand. 1t passed before Flora's
eyes like a prestidigitator's trick, SO
rapid as to seem unreal, and left her
staring. Harry gave Clara look, half
suspicious, half entreating; and then.
to Flora's establishment, turned away
without a word to either of them
Clara stood still, even after the door
had closed upon Harry, and oddly, and
rather horribly, she wore the same
aspect she had worn the day when
she had looked intently and absorbed
ly upon the rifed contents of Flora's
room.
Good morning." she said. and, push
ing up her little misty veil, sat down
with her back to the deserted break
fast table and waited meekly. like
one who has been summoned.
II am very glad you've come" Flora
said. Her wits were still all a-fiutter
from the appearance Of that little heap
of gold. She came forward and stood
in Harry's place. She was face to face
with the person and the question. but
before the great import OF 1t, and be-.
fore the marble front of Clara's pa
thence, she felt helpless. There was
silence in the room, perfect silence in
the garden but moving along. the
hedged walk all at once she saw the
fiutter of Mrs. Herricks gown, and then
in profile Kerr beside her. The sight
of him gave her her proper inspiration.
She turned upon Clara.
What are you going to do with the
picture OF Farrell Wand?"
For the first time she saw Clara
startled Her lips parted. and the
breath that came and went between
them was audible. But she was herself
again before she spoke. do with It p
Why. don't know" Her fingers
drummed the table.
Whatever you do" Flora began,
please, oh. please don't do anything
Claras eyebrows rose like graceful
swallows. You seem to anticipate
pretty clearly what am going to do"
Il suppose you're going to do what
any one would who had clew. and
could bring person to Justice" Flora
responded. But If ever
have made anything easy for you.
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darkness. She could not lie down,
she could not close her eyes. Al
long intervals she heard the tread of
unshod feet along the wall, and then
she held her breath lest at her slightest
stir they approach her door. Why, since
he wanted the sapphire, hadn't he tried
to get IL from her when he had had her
unawares, upon her threshold with the
house asleep? 1t began to seem to her
as if he were waiting, as if he were
forced to wait, for some appointed mo-
ment- She knew If it were his moment
it would be hers, too, as long as she had
the sapphire upon her. She recalled fear
fully the moment when she had crouched
against the window with her hand pro-
tecting the jewel, and Harry's hand
grasping her wrist. He would know
well enough where to find 1t now. Oh,
the restless unconcealable thing! Where
could she hide 1t?
She took the pear shaped pouch
that swung always before her on her
long gold chain. She had repudiated
that hiding place before. but now the
more obvious the better-now that both
men supposed she carried the jewel
far hidden out of sight. Without NOV
ing from the bed where she was
crouched, cramped and cold, she made
the exchange. leaving the chain still
around her neck, dropping the jewel
into the pouch, where it would swing
free. so carelessly dangling as to be
beyond suspicion, but never beyond the
reach of her hand.
1t was a pale, splendid dawning full
Of clouds when she fell asleep.
Broad sunlight filled her room when
she was awakened by a knocking at her
door. She sprang from the bed and
went to it. She was not to be come
in upon by any unwelcome visitor. But
it was Mrs. Herrick; and Flora, with
a murmur Of relief. since this was the
one person she did want to see. drew
her inside.
why. my child, you haven't slept, at
least not properly" Mrs. Herrick her
self looked anxious and weary i've
come to tell you that Mrs. Britton is
here She came an hour ago."
Where is she?"
I'm the breakfast room with Mr.
cressy."
oh" Flora cried, you know didn't
expect them. / didn't want them. 1t
wasn't for them asked you to come"
But can't you tell me what 1t is
you're afraid Off" the other urged Be
tween US can't we prevent it? Is there
nothing 1 can do to help your
"Ah, If you knew how much you have
already helped me by just being here"
Her companion laughed little.
Cant do something more active than
that?s
Flora pondered. Where is Mr.. Kerr?'
I'm the garden, in the willow walk"
do you think you can manage that
the others don't get at him?"
II can; IL he doesn't want to get at
them. Mrs. Herrick replied. Against
a man like that my dear" she aimed it
gravely at Flora. "one can do nothing"
But Flora had no answer for the
warning. II must see Clara immedi-
ately." she said.
But not without breakfast Mrs.
Herrick protested. II will send you
up something. Remember that she
never abuses herself, SO she's always
fresh-and SO she's always equal to the
occasion"
Mrs Herrick went. Flora looked into
the mirror Almost for the first time
In 10 days she thought OF her appear
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CHAPTER XXI
CLARA's MARKET

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she could not close her eyes, At
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tTo Be Continued Next Week,
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EFT alone, Flora glanced rapidly
around her. Now for sally. now
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CHAPTER xxI-Continued

Myth his long coat open, hang
NJ ing from the armpits, with
wv ruf7ed hair. and lips apart,
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through the window into the garden.
She would not help Clara gloss over
this ugly fact.
:. A curious grimace distorted Clara's
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cause you wanted me. Now that I am
here. what is it you have to say to
me?"
"Oh, nothing more than I have said
before" she pleaded; 'only that-ten
times more earnestly"
You extraordinary childr At first
he was pure amazement. You've
brought; me so far, you've come so
far yourself-you've got US both here
in such danger, to tell me only this?
How could you be so mad-so cruel?"
She had locked her hands in front of
her until the nails showed white with
the pressure. 1T was more dangerous
there than here You don't. know what
has happened since saw you. And
thought ii you and 1 could only be
alone together. without the fear of
them always between US. could show
you. I could persuade you" Before
his look she broke down. "Well-you
see, they followed us-they're here"
Grant It,. they are" He seemed to
laugh at them. You have still your
chance. Give everything to me and 1
can save you STILL"
Save meT Oh, nothing could hap
pom to me so terrible a. having you
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03
MUNICIPALITIES.

Miss Ida Tarbell has written letter
protesting against the report that she
favors the suffrage for women. She
actually belongs to the hostile organ
ization of anti-woman sufraglsts.
Captain Watt, the commodore of the
Cunard fleet, retired into private life
a few days ago when he brought the
Lusitania into harbor at Liverpool.
Captain Watt S sea career extends over
half century, and his record covers
FIVE hundred and twenty eight voyages
across the Atlantic without an accident
to any of the vessels under his charge
Miss Marguerite Frey, winner of the
widely advertised newspaper American
beauty competition, has just been mar
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03

ried to Mr.. Wilkins McClair Armour,
of Dallas, Texas. Tired of being point
ed out as the most beautiful woman in
Amrca, Miss Frey wanted to avoid as
much publicity as possible, SO quiet
wedding was decided upon, and only
her parents knew of the date.
Walter Wellman, through his lawyer
Donald Harper, has filed a libel suit
for 100000 and rectifeation against
the sporting review, La Vie au Grand
Air, because of the publication of an
article characterizing Wellman S expe
dition to the North Pole as IAN Amer
lean bluff, designed for personal profit
and carried out under the cover of i'm
possible scientific conditions. The
article of which Mr.. WelIman complains
was printed last spring.
Ignacio Fragosa, who is in prison in
Mexico City under sentence of death
for homicide, has saved his life and may
lead to his receiving an unconditional
pardon and high honors. He has invent
| ed an aeroplane while in prison. He
drew such perfect plans of the machine,
which is projected upon new theory
| that promises to revolutionize all that
| has ever been done along this line,
| that the prison authorities called the
| attention of the minister of war to the
invention.
Professor Metchnikoff, the Russian
ub-director of the Pasteur Institute,
| who viii receive half the Nobel prize
this year for medico-physiologiea re
search, declares that he will devote the
sum to further study of means to pro-
mote longevity. He win continue his
efforts to discover how the body can
get its chance, so to speak, and how 1t
can be prevented from being needlessly
sacrificed in early youth-comparative-
ly, that is-at seventy or eighty years
of age, when it ought to hold out until
it is $50.
DR. Ferrero, the italian scholar and
historian, in a recent lecture before
the Lowell Institute in Boston, said
that Antony's love for Cleopatra IS
myth. Latronne, French investiga-
tor of about a century ago, found that
in So B. c. Antony married Cleopatra
and became King of Egypt, although
he did not dare so to proclaim himself.
He wanted not Cleopatra, but Egypt.
He desired to establish Roman pro-
teetorate in the Valley of the Nile, a
base within striking distance of Persia.
Caesar knew of the wealth of Egypt,
and the intrigue of Antony was polit-
zeal and was based on the plans Of
Caesar.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03

to the London Geological Garden at
great expense from it's native wilds IN
the Orient.
Dark, reddish brown glass furnishes
the most protection to beer, the taste
and odor of which are sensitive to III
rect sun rays and even to diffused sun
light
Imitation coral is made from rosin,
four parts; beeswax, three parts, and
yermillon, two parts. melted together
and thoroughly mixed, then applied to
wire or wooden forms.
Although 9,795, SOS. 900 common brick
were made in the United States in
1907, the production was 231 per cent
behind that of 1906. Illinois and New
York lead in the industry.
Leather may be waterproofed by
painting it with a combination of two
ounces each of Burgundy pitch, soft
wax and turpentine and one ounce of
raw linseed oil, applied warm.
A vacuum cylinder, for the preser-
walton of food, from which the air
may be exhausted by apparatus so
simple that any person can operate it,
| chinst.
By burning resinous materials to the
windward of their vineyards at night,
| the French winegrowers produce dense
clouds of smoke, which protects their
vines from frosts in spring and fall.
Many old workings in the Pennsyl-
Vania anthracite field, abandoned years
ago for lack of knowledge to work
! the deeper veins, are being reopened
and made productive by modern ma
| ehinery.
One of the largest sawmills in the
world has been erected in the Island
of Hawaii by a company which has
a contract to furnish 100000 ties a
year to an American railroad.
An alloy of nine parts of lead. two
of anthony and one of bismuth ex-
pands in cooling, therefore makes a
good combination for plugging holes in
metal, as the plug fits tightly when
cold
The increased demand for tungsten
ores and products in the United States
| short tons of concentrates, valued at
! 'F''"o.pT9, utdIiN three LILIES Tie output
of 1906.
4 Belgian inventor has secured a
I patent on a flying machine modelled on
the insects of the locust species. With
a 100-horsepower motor the machine
! weighs trihe less than $40 pounds.
That the magnetic influence of the
coast of Lapland drew his iron ship
ashore and wrecked it was the sworn
statement of the captain of the Brit
ish steamer Sandal to the British
| Board of Trade.
A substitute for marble, which an.
swers many of its purposes satisfae
torilT, is made of a mixture of waste
Stag from blast furnaces and lime. pull
verified. compressed and then treated
| with carbolic acid.
By the invention of machines to
bleach and spin it, the wild silk OF
| Mancnuria, great quantities of which
are exported each year, threatens tc
seriously compete with that grown IL
| more civilized lands
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03

Don't take chances with a cold.
With the first indication buy bottle
Of Anti-Grippe (Hobron 81 Tablets, at
Benson, Smith & Co, Ltd, Hotel and
Fort streets, and it viii be twenty
three for the sneezer.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-01-03

The director of the geological gardens
was on his vacation. He received a
note from his chief assistant, which
closed thus: "The chinfpanzee seems
to be pining for a companion. What
shall we do until your return!'
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Kne-Nhom baby mblei Boker yell takes after its
eoneg