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The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-12-15
LYNCHBURG.

LyrcNburg. Dec. 10.--While trade
b no tetter than usual In this town.
tna"e big improvement In the
c"~ation this fall. We opine that
n n money that is undoubtedly
~ Z, especially by the colored
49, III burst forth Christmas
t. make the merchant smile
Nt exceeding happy after
So ing and patient wait. for they
h|l ',k OF resignation and hope
Prosperity is certainly
i. round. IL not In sight, for
rose who have done their
q MI. II not I'm part.
,sidences are all the time in
erection. but the most de-
g. s'idental portion Of the
to- Is seems To Se the eastern
a north eastern part. Mr..
L. thompson and DR.. Yellott
~ have their residences ready
fof upancy. Upon the whole.
the no better town. for it's pop
ulat In the state. Few people
soft here ever leave. There seems
to g some fascination about 1t
which cannot be explained. But
come here and find out for your
solves and be convinced. As to the
adaptibility and productiveness of
the soil, there is. everything consider
"a. no finer farming lands In the
State. We have three passenger
trains q day going each way. that Is.
s1x passenger trains In all. but we
can't count the freight trains by
trusting to memory.
Mr.. Edwin DuRant has just re-
turned from q several days visit
% Chester. which he certainly must
- have enjoyed to the fullest.
Mr.. Junius T. Mcneil 10 or on Q
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Max, Dec. 13.-Mr. Jessie Chand-
Ter, young man who was raised
near Bethel and was formerly q
member of that church, died at Bo-
mar, Orangeburg County, last Friday
Of typhoid fever. In accordance with
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-12-15

FOR SALE-One S5 H. p. Lddell
Boiler and one S5 H. p. Eagle En-
gine. Both in good condition. A
bargain for some one. p. M. Pitts.
12-15-2t.
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6MITHvIIILE.

Smithville, Dec. 1--we had rain
last night and this morning. Maybe
the oats will come UP now and those
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-12-15

(From the Richmond (Va.) Times
Despatch.)
Virginia's reverence for the past
has been at once her greatest bane
and greatest blessing. 1t has let the
State into more sound political posi-
tions and T. ' more absurd anomalies
than any otn-r single force. When
men have modelled their conduct
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-10
Foxy MT. Blake.

Copyright 1909, by American Press Asso-
 ciation.l
 1 was sitting on my porch one after noon when man came in at the gate with a lawn sprinkler A few mo- ments later he was trying to sell me one, declaring that it had a patent ball valve.
 Get out of these premises as quick ly as possible" I said, "or I'll help you"
 The man, abashed, turned to go. He had not got far before 1 called him back and apologized for my harshness, handed him a cigar, asked him to be seated and told him the following story
 "I am retired railroad detective Railroads are good pay and 1 was successful in hunting train robbers and other pilferers, thus regaining for them a number of considerable sums of money. My bonuses made me con- fortable, and part of them are fin this house and grounds.
 II am going to tell you about the last case I ever handled I was at work at the time for the " L. and K railroad. They wanted a man of the name of Charles Blake for getting away with $10O,O00. My reward was to be S10000 if I caught him and se- cured the return of the money. I tracked Blake into the Rocky noun tains and arrested him. He was sensi- ble and knew his own interests. He told me that he would willingly go with me and would return every cent he had stolen, relying on the company not to prosecute him.
 'I assured him that what the com pany wanted was the money and promised him immunity. He was an educated and refined man and insisted that he be not subjected to the igno- miny of riding handcuffed Since he was puny little fellow that I could swing around my head by one leg and I saw no reason why he should be overanxious to contend with me. I as sented. He sat by me apparently as my friend. and no one knew that he was my prisoner.
 Its a long journey from the Rock les to Chicago, where was taking him. and I was glad to have some one to talk to. Blake was very intelligent and entertaining. He was an engineer and had worked at his profession on many roads for which I had done de tective work. After the present dis agreeable matter was settled up he had scheme on hand by which he could make ten times the amount which he had stolen. He had invented railroad self acting switch which could never send a train awry. He ex- plained 1t to me, making drawings of 1t on the back of an old letter, and confess was delighted with the mans ingenuity.
 What puzzled me was why man with so much ability should have put
The Prescott daily news., 1909-04-10

himself in the way to spend most of his life in state prison. If he had only applied one-tenth of the ingenuity he had exerted in his scheme of robbery to any honest purpose he might have been eminently successful. I said as much to him. and he said he knew it."
 Before we reached the Mississippi river l was in complete sympathy with my prisoner and congratulating myself upon the approaching acquisition of $10,0OO. The afternoon before we were to reach Chicago he told me about an air pump he had invented, offering the whole thing to me if I would take out the patent and sell the rights After I had established 1t I could give him an interest or not, as liked. AS for him, he proposed to give all his attention to his railroad switch. Naturally I was interested and was quite absorbed in the principle of his pump, which he explained to me.
 "'There is a ball valve to it. he said, the ball lying in a socket and the greater the air pressure behind it the tighter it holds. It's like this
 Twisting the letter on which he had drawn his switch into a cornucopia. he dropped a paper wad into the large end, and 1t sank at once into the small end. When I blow,' he said, you'll see that the wad stays right where it is. He put the small end into his mouth and pointed the cornucopia at my eyes and within foot of my face Then he blew.
 'I was looking to see the working of the ball valve when I suddenly felt the flames of Tophet in my eyes, in my nose, in my mouth, in any crevice open to them. AS for seeing anything, I was blind as a bat and the pain in my eyes was excruciating. My nostrils and the roof of my mouth were on fire. The fellow had blown red pepper in my face.
 ''While I was gasping, sputtering, trying to wipe away the pepper, the rascal ran to the car door, shouting, My friend has got fit; I'm going for help The train was moving some twenty miles an hour, but he found grassy slope, on to which he jumped and made good his escape.
 'The episode marked my retirement from the detective service. I hadn't the face to report the matter to my employers, but instead sent in, my res ignation. You may imagine, my dear sir, what it cost me to have man come to me to sell me any contrivance whatever involving ball valve. Now that you understand the cause of my rudeness trust you will pardon me"
 The man arose and bid me good morning, saying as he departed: "Un- der the circumstances, sir, I consider you model of self control regret that haven't my card with me. but I will send you one. and I trust that some day you will call upon me-"
 AS he went to the gate there was something familiar in his figure and his walk. This was explained when I received his card. It bore the name of Charles Blake.
 ARTHUR A. KENNEDY.
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Mrs. Clarence S. Bowman has asked
guests for tomorrow afternoon in com
pliment to Mrs. F. B. Hamblin of
Kansas City, who is visiting her sister,
Mrs Charles J. Skinner.
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after several days illness with an at
tack of rheumatism.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. B. Leonard of Cha
mute have returned home after a three
days visit with relatives here
Ralph Sheetz of Kansas City spent
Tuesday here with relatives while on
his way to Colorado, where he will
make his future home.
Herbert Maxwell is improving after
being Ill for three weeks with an at
tack of rheumatism.
Miss Rachel Smith is able to be up
and around again after a two weeks
Illness
Miss Florence Carter returned to
school today after being off a few days
on account of sickness
DR.. r. B. Stewart of Manhattan is
spending a few days in Topeka on
business. and is the guest of relatives
on the East side.
Arthur Campbell and Ralph Brown
left today on an extended trip through
the west. They will go overland.
Henry Kettler is spending this week
in western Kansas on a business trip.
L.. A. Lewis of Harrington spent the
day here yesterday on a business trip
Mr.. Ralph Masters of Colorado and
Mr.. Ollie Drummond of Carbonate
visited their aunt, Mrs. E ]. Wilson
Of 420 Madison street, Wednesday while
on their way to Kansas City, where
they will spend several days visiting
friends.
Miss Mabel Drummer and Mr.. A. Lee
Wilkins, both of Topeka were married
February 10, at the Second United
Brethren church parsonage by the Rev.
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j W. Cleaver. Mr.. and Mrs Wilkins
Will live at 707 East Sixth avenue.
where they will be at home to their
friends.
Miss Maggie Moscow of Carbonate,
Kan, is spending a few days here with
her sister, Mrs. L. Luthey, of 234 Chan
dler street.
Cash Stitt of Lake street is suffering
with an injured hand, hurt from a fall.
Mrs. Ella Ella has returned to her
home in Burlington, Kan, after a few
days visit with Mrs. S. L. Wilson of
1926 Kline street
Miss Margaret Ward of Saline conn
ty came here today to spend a week
visiting friends and relatives while on
her way to Chicago, where she will re-
main.
Mrs. Lena Barbee entertained the
M1steltoe club at her home on Chandler
street this afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. F. Dawdy left yes
terday for Duquoin, Ill. where they
will assist Rev. W. E. Harlow in an
eVangelfstic campaign.
The Helping Hand society of Second
United Brethren church met with Mrs
]. W. Cleaver Wednesday afternoon
and decided to have an oyster supper
February % at the home of Mrs. NJ. c.
Broons, 433 Liberty street.
Miss Grace Williams of North To-
pekt visited friends on the East side
Wednesday.
Miss Bertha Murphy of Leaven-
the guest of her sister. Mrs. II. II.
Campbell for a few days.
Miss Nellie NJ. Kritson of Russell,
Kansas, who has been sick in the hos
pital here, is improving and was able to
be taken to the home of her aunt. Mrs
]. B. Collins, yesterday.
The boys and. their lady friends of
Geo. Laynes Sunday school class of the
Third Christian church were enter
tanned at an oyster supper at the
home of Mr.. James Wilson. 325 Kline
street, by the officers of the Sunday
school Those present WERE: Miss
Pearl Kennedy. Miss Josephine Jolley,
Miss Elsie Recob Miss Minnie Miller,
Miss Lula Powell. Mr.. Harry Horn, Mr..
Carl Williams, Mr. Fred Cramer Mr.
James Wilson, Mr.. Frank Hagenbuck.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Layne. Mr.. and Mrs
o. D. Johnson, and Mr.. and Mrs. Stock
we'll
The Ladies of the G. A. R. will hold
their regular meeting at the K. and l..
of S. hall Friday afternoon.
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IItems for the East Topeka column may
be teleDhoned to Ind phone 2S1 black
W. s. Hunter. physician and surgeon.
ONCE and res. 1119 East 9Th. Ind. 1858.
Rev. w. H. Scrivner of BeIoit is the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. NJ. C. Wright
while in Topeka
Ina, the little daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs Cooper of 333 Lake street is suf-
4ering with an attack of pneumonia
Miss Florence Anderson is able to be
at work again after several days illness
with an attack of tonsilitis.
Miss Bessie Beeler of Hays, Kan, is
spending a few days here, the guest of
Misses Ethel and Margaret Wilson.
Miss Mabel Drummer and Mr.. A. Lee
wilkins, both of Topeka, were married
Wednesday, Feb. 10, at the Second
United Brethren church parsonage by
the Rev. J. w. Cleaver. Mr.. and Mrs.
wilkins have gone to Housekeeping at
707 East Sixth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd Murphy left to-
day for a few weeks visit with rela-
tives and friends here.
Miss Bessie Radchke of Hot Springs,
ARK. arrived here today to spend two
weeks with relatives and friends.
A. A. Carter is able to be out again
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Mr. and Mrs. F. w. Watson are in
st. Joseph for the day.
Miss Helen Quigley of Sterling who
is in Chicago. will visit in Ann Arbor
and stop in Topeka on her way home
to visit her aunt, Mrs. George Guild
and Mrs. c. B. Reed.
Misses Dora and Anna Johnson
have gone to Chicago on business
trip.
Miss Eliza Figures of Helena, Ark.
will arrive tomorrow to visit Miss
Helen McGoH.
Mrs Henry Freeman Mason is Sc
riously i'll at her home, 138 Green
wood avenue, Potwin Place.
Miss Charlotte Day of milwaukee, is
expected next week to visit Miss Ethel
Estberg.
Mr. Adrian F. Sherman of Kansas
City was in town yesterday
Mrs Joab Mulvane, who has been
seriously i'll for a few days at her
house on Topeka avenue, is better to-
day.
Miss Mildred Guild will go to Law
renee today to spend the weekend at
the Kappa Kappa Gamma house and
to attend a Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Mrs. c. o. Smith and Miss Emma
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New York has never before witnessed
such a spectacle as may be seen every
day at Broadway and Ninth street. 1t
is here that l.. I. Cooper, the Western
stomachoiogist, who claims that stom-
ach trouble is at the bottom of all
chronic i'll health. is meeting the pub
lie.
1t would be difficult 10 estimate just
how many people call to talk with
Cooper during a single day. The store
where he is holding forth seems to
have become the Mecca for ailing peo-
pie in New York, and the amount of
medicine he is disposing is enormous.
In addition to what he sells hins If,
druggists generally throughout New
York are handling his preparations out
IN unlimited quantities.
A leading druggist said recently: THE
public seems to have lost its mind over
this man Cooper. Personally, I don't
know anything about his medicine. We
had nothing to do with his coming to
New York and he has until recently
sold his preparation entirely through
one company. I suppose he thought
New York was like one of his Western
towns and everybody could be supplied
from a corner drug store. He woke up
about a week ago and put 1t on sale
everywhere. Since then we have been
selling it. 1 don't know how long this
demand will last, but I have never be-
fore seen anything like it, :"
In an interview Monday afternoon
Cooper said: "I am not making any
wild claims for my medicine. All it does
is to stimulate the gastric juices and
regulate the digestive organs, but peo-
pie do not realize how splendid their
health would be If only their stomachs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12
10,
DRUGGIST SAYS COOPER
WOKE UP RECENTLY
Westerner Claims Everybody Will Have To Take
His Medicine Eventually

were not languid and enfeebled by years
of abuse.
Mine out of ten people who have call
ed today have been sent here by others.
Sooner or later every tired, haH-Sick
man and woman in New York is going
After I leave New York 1 shall take two
months rest and then go to London to
introduce Cooper's New Discovery in
England"
Among New Workers who have re-
Gently become enthusiasts on the sub
ject of Cooper's medicine is George J..
Scott, of No. 274 West Nineteenth
street, who said Monday afternoon: 1T
is hard to realize that any medicine will
do all that is claimed for it.
81 have taken all kinds of medicine
for ten years and this is the first I
have ever found that was worth two
cents. I have had. rheumatism constant
ly for ten years and have spent q quar-
ter of what I made for doctors and
rain water for all the good they did
me. Before I had taken this Cooper's
New Discovery a-week, realized 1t
was worth something. I have taken 1t
a month and l am as we'll as l ever
was in my life. have no rheumatism
and eat like horse. 1 feel like doing
something now, where a month ago 1
bought 1t thought it was another fake.
but now I know better. All the other
stuff 1 have taken was worth nothing;
this is worth ten, yes, twenty times
what they ask for it,
Coopers New Discovery is now on
sale at leading druggists the country
over. We will send a booklet in which
Mr.. Cooper tells the reason for most i'll
health, to anyone upon request. The
Cooper Medicine Co, Dayton. Ohio.
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. = e NATURES CURE
o.o.o.FeRRHEURMK1TIIs;M

cono4ns and causes which produce Rheumatism suggest
hathu vegetable
brought ABOUT by the of acid
on he becomes unht for noshng the body, while
trouble
other
weak diseased blood of remaining vitality perhaps
entirely hethu
OF forest and
suffering
Rheumatism and medical advice
SPECIFIC a.
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Smith are spending a few days in
Council Grove.
MIR. and Mrs. Harvey Bickell of
Pennsylvania, guests of their sister,
Mrs. J. w. Jones, left yesterday for
Ell Pasc, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Shaler of Louis
vile, Pottawatomie county, have come
to Topeka for a permanent residence
and are at home at 1885 Lane street.
The Auburndale Bible class will be
entertained at the home of Mrs. F. G.
w. Travis, 1885 Park avenue, Monday
afternoon. The regular lesson will be
followed by social hour.
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c)OcE'TY

Mrs. Charles j. Skinner gave an af-
ternoon bridge today for her sister,
MRS. f. b Hamblin of Kansas City
and for Miss Elizabeth Gordon of Sioux
City. Iowa, guest of Miss Permelia
Curtis. The others asked were Mrs.
Clarence s. Bowman. Mrs Katharine
crawford, Mrs. Dick Alden. Mrs Frank
Hobart, Mrs. Hal H. Hazlett, Mrs Geo.
Caldwell, Mrs. Harley Reisman of Chi
cago, Mrs. Ilif Felix. Mrs. Walter
Hayes, Miss Permelia Curtis, Miss Julia
Larimer, Miss Alice Lakin. Miss Floyd
Robenson, Miss Fay Quinton, Miss Mel
lie Millspaugh. Miss Grace Collins, Miss
Hazel Rfsteen, Miss Mary Meade and
Miss Alice Meade.
X
The discussion of the equal suffrage
bill in the house is set for next Tues
day evening at half after o'clock and
a large attendance of SuffragetteS and
others interested is expected. Some OF
the women who are lobbying for it
wanted the bill discussed yesterday in
the senate but they were put off on
the plea of lack of time. Afterwards
they learned that the upper house had
suspended operations to listen to
quartette and chorus from the Topeka
Industrial institute (colored) which Is
asking for an increased appropriation.
1T is easy enough to explain why they
had time for the Industrial school, said
a prominent suffragette this morning,
and no time for u.s. And that is just
why we are working for this bill; IN
order that women may have as much
consideration from future legislatures
as freedmen"
Captain Clad Hamilton is taking care
of the suffrage interests in the senate
and DR.. j. J. Buck of Emporia in the
house.
Surely this a season of richness in
materials and trimmings. Soft, clinging
fabrics in the richest finish and most
gorgeous shades seem to predominate,
and are not confined to the wealthy
but worn by those of limited income for
all formal and Semi-formal occasions.
The gown in the accompanying drawing
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Page-She isn't in. sir CaIler-Come, tell
me the truth and I'll give you dollar. Is
she in? Page-You should have spoken
before. sir. She gave me so cents to say
She was out, and I can't be a traitor
Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12

The City Man-So you think that conf
dence has been restored? The Farmer
half a dozen gold bricks to prove it,
Harper's Weekly.
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had for foundation smoke gray liberty
satin, over which VAS an oVerskirt of
open-mesh net inn sh-net weave. Dor
dered at front ara bottom with lace
dyed to match. Fhe-sleeve- cap was also
of the net sbordered with the lace and
fell over an undef-sleeve of tucked
white net of finer weave: this latter
also formed the yoke. The girdle and
folds over the shoulder were of the satin
Liberty.
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The February Assembly dance will
take place tonight at Steinberg'S.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12

J ldhC pave I'm . -
Mrs Clarence S. Bowman has asked
guests for tomorrow afternoon in COM
pnment to Mrs. F. B. Hamblin of
Kansas City, who is visiting her sister,
Mrs. Charles ]. Skinner.
Mrs. w. c. McDonough asked the fol-
lowing guests for five hundred this af-
drews of RossyiIle and Miss Mary
Quigley of Colorado Springs, Mrs. D. H.
Forbes, Mrs. Herbert L. Alkire, Mrs.
w. F. Bowen, Mrs, Bert Whelan, mrs
John Kelly, Mrs. Patrick Walsh, Mrs.
A X Wilson, Mrs. Charles Wolff, Mrs.
John Brunt, Mrs. w. P. Hemphill, Mrs
w H. Cushing, Mrs. H. A. Perry, Mrs
]. K. Bair, Mrs. Carl Trap, Miss Mel
Katherine Reilly, Miss Anna Purcell
Miss Florence WEIGH. Miss Kathryn
Nelson. Miss Mary Sutherland, Miss
Lugrace whitmer. Miss Helen Hoge-
boom, Miss Agnes Walsh. Miss Sue
Rodgers and Miss Sadie Baird.
Miss Hazel Grimes, Miss Eliza beth
Holiday Miss Marjorie Rodgers. Miss
Isabel Mills, Miss Marjorie Whitney,
Miss Marie Lagerstrom, Miss Clyde
Bonebrake, Miss Rachel Coston, Miss
Bertha Hull, Miss Esther Rodgers.
Miss Grace Koontz, Miss Dorothy Por-
ter Miss Henrietta Alexander, Miss
Marguerite Parkinson and Miss Mary
Alexander composed line party at
the Novelty Thursday afternoon.
X X
Miss Charlotte Jane Clydesdale and
Mr.. Richard H. Gedney were married
Thursday at the home of the brides
parents Mr. and Mrs. James Clydes
dale, 1417 Lincoln street. Mr.. Gedney
is a ranchman who lives in western
Kansas and they have gone to Port
land, Oregon, on their wedding trip.
The Sunday school teachers of the
First Baptist church will have a dinner
at the Mission Tea room tonight to
meet the Rev. J. M. Moore of Boston,
secretary of the Baptist Forward
Movement for Missionary Education
who will talk about his work after the
dinner.
The Sonora club was entertained
Thursday afternoon by Mrs. E. c.
Sinner at 1859 Quincy street. The
members present were Mrs. George
Hancock. Mrs. George H. Hoyes, Mrs.
w. J. Whitson, Mrs. ]. S. Kaho and
Mrs. Ernest Tucker. Mrs. Ernest
Hewitt of Amarillo, Texas, was a guest
of the club. The next meeting will be
held at the home of Mrs. George Han
cock.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Carroll B. Merriam, accom-
for short business trip to Montpe-
lier, VT
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Trump left
Tuesday for Washington, d. c.. to
Curtis on their way to New York on
Mr.. Trump's semi-annual business trip
for the Mills company. Mr.. w. w.
Mills and Mrs. Anna Fulton GLIB of
the Mills company left for New York
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs r. A. Wallace left
yesterday for San Antonio. Texas.
Mrs George Crossman left yester-
n f@&,- W ,sA aIaT7 n
O., to be gone a number of weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12

Mendels' new percale
one-piece House Dresses
are very pretty blues,
brown, black-and-white,
$1.25, $1.75, So, $2.25.
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An excellent corset which gives
ease and poiSe while it molds the
stout figure to the lines of fashion.
Low bust-1ong hips and back-an
excellent hip reducer. Being fill
ed with Walohn, which does not
set to the figure like whalebone
this corset always retains its good
lines. Price $500.
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LTtems for the East Topeka column may
be telephoned to Ind. phone 23S1 black.