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self with his coat and vest off and his slippered
feet on the rail of the porch, he lay back in
rocking chair reading Science and a'th" and
wondering what Laura going to have for din.
ner.
suddenly, athwart his meditations came a
brisk young man, who mounted the steps two az
q time, drew up chair. and planted himself
within whispering proximity. Good afternoon,
sic. Delightful weather we're having; couldn't be
beat You're family man. / that. You'd
Q, hundred times rather buy something for your
az your chin. Greatest pleasure in the world is
getting something for wifey something novel;
something unexpected. Yes sir / know Just the
sort Of man you Don't say n word. Dollars
TO doughnuts you thinking about her only
minute ago; wishing you could surprise her
with something when she gets home And here's
your Johnny-onthe-spot with the very thing you're
looking for: the Peerless Needle-threader;' Just
out; the simplest neatest. cheapest, most useful
article on the market Talk about your tlme.sav-
ing inventions. This is the king pin of em ALL
a regular ila-polloosa You know what II Is 90
thread a needle. You've tried Il yourself mebbe
-and you amt found the eye yet, Well sir,
here's the goodby vary to all o. that! You slip
make any dHerence); press the spring, and the
needle drops down till IL gets In line with this
countersunk hole. Release the spring; Frestol
you've got your needle just where you want him
snug a bug; all hunkadory Take your thread
Ot don't make any difference how thick It is or
how frazzed the end isl; push it through this
countersunk hole and-there you arei Slick
q hair A blind do 1t. Press the spring
on the other side; the top opens; out comes your
needle threaded to the queens taste and it's all
over before the bell rings You've got a mechani
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you never made better investment In your life,
Wouldn't TO take another for your aunt or
your sister your mother or somebody like that2
No? Well sir thank you very much. Good day
Laura had not removed her hat when Henry
presented her with his little purchase. lie thrust
his hands into his pockets and llumined his coun-
tenance with complacent smile, she took IL in
her gloved hand.
"Why, Henry what Is this?" she asked
"Open Il and see" he told her TITS nothing
particularly ornamental, Its merely something
useful; something you need tell you Laura.
it takes a man to pick out a tme-saving device
for woman. The women folks would be drudg-
ing along yet with conee-grinders and wood stoves
and threading their needles IN the oldfashoned
way II II wasn't for the men,
lie smiled more broadly than ever as Laura
gazed I'm silence at the needle.threader We'll
what do you suppose 1t is? Can't guess, chr Well
don't blame you. It's just out Something
new under the sun for once and Il took your
Hennypenny to spy 1t for you. That's a needle
threader And I'll show you how IL works"
If Laura seemed Co hesitate In making response
Henry did not notice It. What she felt impelled
TO say was: 'Why Henry dear, whatever pos
sessed you 10 waste your money one OF these
ago. and it's dozen times bother than It's
worth" But what she did say, she noted his
innocent smile of superiority and satisfaction,
was THANK you much, Henry IL was very
sweet and thoughtful Of you. Here's spool OF
cotton right here. You can take a piece OF that
and show me how the threader works"
And FIVE minutes later, whistng "Ye Merry
Birds" Henry sauntered out to water the lawn
with the Acme Adjustable Sprinkler; while mis-
wife smiling contentedly to herself, placed the
Peerless Needle.threader among her relics.
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phantom ship. The appariton has been described
In these words: "On July 11th at four o'clock
In the morning. the Flying Dutchman crossed our
bows. strange, red light, as of phantom ship
all aglOw in the midst of which light the masts,
spars and sails of a brig two hundred yards dis
tant stood mp In strong relief. Thirteen persons
in all her, but whether il Van Dieman
the Flying Dutchman, or who else, must re-
main unknown. The Tourmaline and Cleopatra,
which sailing our starboard bow, flashed
to ask whether we had seen the strange red
light" 1t is curious fact that six hours later
the able seaman who was the first to sight this
terrifying apparitiOn fell from the foretopmast
crOsstrees and was killed.
There is another Flying Dutchman in the lati-
tude of Cape Agulhas. This is Bernard Fokke,
who lived i'm the latter half Of the seventeenth
century and who very different from the
ordinary type of Hollanders. Fokke was absolute
y fearless and reckless and boasted that his YES
sci could beat any other ahoat He cased her
masts in iron and crowded more sails upon her
than any other ship dared carry to make good his
boast. 1t is on record that he made the trip from
Rotterdam to the East Indies in ninety days,
feat which in those days seemed miraculous. In
his anxiety to beat his own record, the story
goes that he sold his soul to the Evil one, and
Fokke and his ship both disappeared at his life's
end With no other crew than his boatswain,
cook and pilot transported to the scent of his ex-
ploits he is condemned to strive endlessly against
heavy gales that ever sweep him back.
The fact remains that whether the phantom
ship be that of Vanderdecken or Fokke nine
tenths of all the reported appearances OF phantom
ships between the forteth and hftieth lati-
tudes. Rarely year passes without some vessel
sighting these ghostly wanderers of the sea.
While spectre ships usually hail any vessel which
they meet all sailors believe it the height of bad
luck to reply in any way.
The rocky coast of New England is haunted by
several ghost ships. The story of the Paatne
is a terrible one and her appearance flying down
Long Island sound is generally recognized by
coasters and fishermen as forewarning of
disastrous storm The Palatine Dutch
trader which went ashore Block Island in 1752
lured by false lights exhibited by wreckers Hav-
ing stripped her the wreckers fred her in order
TO conceal all traces of their crime. AS she
lifted by the tide and carried, wrapped in flames,
out to sea. shrieks of agony burst forth and a
woman, supposedly passenger who had hidden
from the wreckers appeared deck amid the
cracking blaze In instant the deck collapsed
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nous Phantoms Of the Sea

AILORS and fishermen are the
most superstitious of men, as


most supersttious of men. 4
they also the most sensi-
tive to ridcule On this account 1t is most
difficult to get the old salts to relate the yarns OF
the ocean. For this reason, also we on land hear
little about the phantom ships and the ghosts OF
the But on recent trip along the coast OF
the British Isles many legends were related to
the writer which also recalled other phantom
tales of the
On the various parts of the British coast phan-
toms OF the sea have frequently been seen. Corn
we'll In the olden days was notorious for wreck
ers, who worked their evil will along the iron
bound cliffs. Priest cove is still believed to be
haunted by of the gentry. who during his
lifetime preyed upon the spoils of ships lured
ashore by false light hung around the neck of
a hobbed horse On stormy nights the wrecker
is seen, but now no longer on shore. He clings
to a fragment of timber among the waves and
is finally dashed upon the rocks and disappears
in the raging breakers.
Among the fishermen of the rugged coast OF
Kerry the following legend. connected with the
fate Of the wreckers, is told. Early in the eigh-
teenth century cold winter morning, large
ship, mastless and deserted, was found wedged in
among the rocks of that deadly coast. The wreck
ers Immediately pushed OFF, and to their JOY found
that the galleon was laden with ingots OF silver
and other rich products Of Spanish America. They
filled their boats to the waters edge and
pulling back, when huge tidal wave came rush
ing up out of the west and instantly swallowed
them UP, When the wave broke not a sign re-
NAMED OF the boat, men or ship, to the horrhed
watchers the shore. The tragedy is said to be
re-enacted upon each anniversary OF the day.
OF all the ghostly wanderers the Flying Dutch
man" is probably the best known, and his story
fs the most familiar. The version usually accept
ed Is that Cornelius Vanderdecken, Dutch sea
captain was on his way home from Batavia when,
In trying to round the cape of Good Hope, he met
with battling head winds, against which he vain
ly struggled for nine long and weary weeks. At
the end of that time, finding that his ship was in
exactly the position at the beginning,
Vanderdecken burst into fit Of impious passion,
and falling upon his knees upon the deck, he
cursed the deity and swore by heaven and hell
that he would round the cape If it took him until
the day of judgment. Taken at his word he was
then and there doomed to beat 20 and fro for all
time and sailors superstition connects the ap
pearance of his phantom ship with certain and
swift disaster.
with his late lamented brother, the Bacchante,
in 1861, was a witness to the appearance OF
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H. M c L E A N
and she vanished.
Another phantom
an omen OF dis,

Another phantom ship which is
an omen OF disaster is the yes
sci built at New Haven. which sailed
her maiden voyage in January 1647. In the
following June, afternoon there came
a furious thunderstorm, and after it was over
about hour before dark, the we'll known ship
sighted sailing into the river mouth-but
straight into the eye of the wind. The shore
soon crowded with people watching her, but while
still mile or more away she slowly vanished
The apparition, t agreed, sgnifed that the
vessel herself had been lost and in fact she was
never again heard of. Longfellow's poem. en-
bodying the story. is well known, but verse
may be quoted:
And the masts with all their rigging
Fell slowly one by one
And the hull dlated and vanished
AS a sea-mist in the sun
The flagship Of the fleet sent by Queen Anne
against the French still haunts the stormy Gulr
of ST. Lawrence. Just the feet reached Gaspe
Bay fearful gale rose suddenly, and the ships
driven, after another the rocks and
dashed to pieces sunk. Under the cns OF the
Unnamed Cape d'Espoir the flagship came TO her
end, and upon each anniversary of the wreck she
appears. Her deck is covered with soldiers.
and from her wide od-fashioned ports, lights
shine brightly. Up in the bows stands scarlet
coated officer, who points to the land with one
hand, while the other arm is around the waist OF
handsome girl. Suddenly the ship lurches vio-
lently, the lights go out her stern heaves up
wards and screams ring out as she plunges into
the gloomy depths and yanishes.
Many of the phantoms of the sea are not easy
Of explanation and have remained a mystery,
while others have been elucdated for instance
the mystery of the we'll known phantom ship OF
Cape Horn. Vessels their way from Europe
to Western America via Cape Horn, have been
startled time and time again, by the sight OF a
large ship with decks awash drifting in an almost
impossible position beneath the giant cliffs of the
straits of Lemaire. At night or in storm this
barque with her towering white sails has indeed
strange appearance The Grown OF Italy, at
tempting to go TO the aid of the supposed dere-
lct, ran upon a reef and wrecked, and sew
eral other vessels met like fate, Az the re-
quest of the United States the Argentine govern
ment sent a steamer to investigate 1t was found
that the supposed phantom was nothing but
rock which by freak OF nature was white in
stead of black like those surrounding 1t, and bore
the most startling likeness to ship with sails
at deck lust level with the waves.
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cal head / can see that. SO it's o. me
wasting air arguing about the practical value or
this thing. I've got em In two styes-gun metal
and plain steel-both of 'em neat and handsome
you for yourself. But it's my guess
your wife would pick the gun metal. Same price
as the other-ony seyenty-hve cents-but to my
mind it's got little more style to It, IL comes
In this little case. you see; and there's no doubt
about IL, IL makes OF the sckest and pretti-
est gifts any man could give to his better half. l
don't who he is; and If your stock don't go
up ten points when you hand that to the madam
why miss my guess for the first time. Yes, sir;
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sealed proposals will be received by
the State Board of Control at their office
In the city of Topeka, until two O'Clock
p: M, Friday, January z, 1910, for the fur
nishing of a schedule of pipe and other
boller connection materials for the School
for the Deaf, at Olathe, Kansas.
All the foregoing to be figured upon a
cars, Olathe, Kansas and in strict ac-
cord with the schedule and specifications
submitted.
Copies of the schedules and specified
tons can be seen on file at the office of
the Board of Control, Topeka, Kansas,
at the office of the superintendent of the
institution and at the office of the State
Architect in the capitol building.
All bids or proposals shall be made to
the Board of Control and shall be accom-
panied by certified check on some re-
sponsible bank, for five per cent of the
amount bid. payable to the Board of Con-
troll. and the same shall be forfeited to
fails for ten days to enter into a contract
and furnish the required bonds, as pre-
contract
All bids or proposals shall be sealed, and
directed to the Secretary of the Board of
Control, Topeka. Kansas. and Endorsed,
Proposals for pipe and boiler connection
materials"
All contracts shall be awarded by the
Board of Control to the lowest responsible
bidder. but the Board reserves the right
to reject any and all bids or to reject
parts and accept parts, if deemed for the
best interest Of the State.
BY order of the Board of Control of
State Charitable Institutions.
H. c. BOWMAN. Chairman.
T. w. KNAPP, Secretary.
Topeka, Kansas, December II, 1909.
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no son to love or to love me. Will you
do a kindness for me?'
I've got to get some carpet binding
for mother was the reply.
Never you mind that. If you are 10
minutes late and you tell your mother
you were doing an errand for a poor
old woman she'll say it was all right.
Take this dime and run to the grocery
and get me bit of tea. Tell him you
want his best. Ten minutes will see
you back and my blessing you shall
have. All. would that 1 had a son like
your
Humpy seized the coin and made off
on the run. Three blocks away he found
a grocery and asked for the tea. When
it was done up he handed over the
dime, but the grocer had only got his
fingers on it when he called out:
Another of those counterfeit dimes
You rascal, but who sent you here?"
An old woman
Don't lie to me. You was in here
yesterday and passed a bad quarter on
me- I'll collar you and. send for the
police"
But before he could get out from be-
hind his counter EImpy was out doors
and flying for his life. He was pursued
for a half block, but he was too fleet
When he was safely away he sat down
and thought it over, and then headed
for the store where he had been told u
get the binding to match. He reached
lit without further adventure, but before
he could say what he wanted the wo-
man who owned the store called out:
Here, boy. run an errand for me.
Here is a package of laundry that the
driver of the wagon forgot. You will
find him somewhere along Jackson
street.
The bundle was thrust into the boys
arms and he was hurried out before he
could explain or object, He. ran to
Jackson street. but could see no wagon
After rnnninp for fhraa alrc q hot
told him that he had seen the vehicl.
turn into Clark street. He ran thai
way, but could not find it. He had
seated himself on the steps of a house
came along and stopped to say:
Got my new suit in that bundle
bubby?'
NO. sir; it's laundry
And my laundry, of course. 1 was
coming to meet you. You are a good
boy for bringing it thus far
But a woman gave it to me for the
wagon said Humpy.
of course That's what she tele-
phoned me. Wagon is gone and IN
good a boy as you when young.
might be governor now. Yes, you are
good and innocent and nice, and you
will be rewarded when you die. Wish
I had quarter for you, but I'm broke
Thanks"
The package was surrendered. and
Humpy went back to the store to be
told that he had been swindled and
ought to be arrested, and he was SO
scared that he took a skip for home.
Just as he entered the house he dfscov-
cred that he had lost the dime his
mother had given him for the binding.
Humpy,' said the mother as he
sneaked in, you have been gone three
hours. 1 suppose you stopped some
where to see a balloon go up. and I'm
not blaming you. Only, you must re-
member that balloons must come down
as well as go UP. Come out into the
Woodshed with me while 1 bring your
balloon down''-(Copyright 1909 by
Associated Literary Press.)
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STATE JOURNAL ON SALE.

The State journal is on sale each even
ng at the following places:
matt Weightman. drugs, $50 Kansas ave
Rosser Bros. drugs sos Kansas Ave.
J; M Brunt. drugs. 2e1 West 9th ST.
Price Drug Co.. 713 Kansas Ave.
Fred Snow. drugs, 1901 Topeka Ave;
Crank Hobart. drugs. 500 West 10th s..
TeLro Drug Co. S29 N. Kansas ave:
3. .. r. Pinney, drugs. 1875 Kansas ave
p ". Durant. drugs. 1907 w. latn St
Noefs Pharmacy, 935 Kansas Ave.
rlGDy s. sos Kansas Ave.
National Hotel
chesterfield Hotel,
Ihroop Hotel.
EHth Avenue Hotel.
santa Fe Depot >-ews stand
News stand. N. w. cor. 9Th Il Kan; ave.
y q; Walker. drugs. 433 Karsas Ave.
Hruitberg News Co.. 4n9 Kansas Ave:
gyosIin,s Pharmacy. 800 Yves: 18th ST..
E; r Kelly. drugs. N; E cor: 9Th & Lake
Martins Pharmacy, 451 Holiday.
henry Wilson. 419 Holiday.
hen Wohler. drugs. 10th and Morris.
" III. Wilson, drugs. 414 East Atn-
E a. Willis. drugs. 302 Fest 4th.
= P. Pharmacy 619 n. Kansas Ave.
Ola mond Drug Store. eth and Buchanan
". G. EdelbIute. drugs. 5J5 West st. :
J. W. Kramer. drugs. 400 East Locust.
Hancock Bros. n6 Stevens st.
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Horse Saved Wounded Man.

Flooding along at sober gait which
many seasons Of hard work as a col
lector'S horse have taught him best an
swered the purpose. Old Gray drew up
last night at Z o'clock in front of the
Atlantic and Pacific Tea company's
store, Ralph street and Woodward av-
enue. Brooklyn. and halted. The mana
ger gazed through the rain spattered
windows for some time before he said:
"Old Gray has been standing there
several minutes. Wonder where Meyer
has gone with the money!"
He referred to Geo. Meyer, who had
started in the afternoon on collecting
tour in the suburbs. A clerk went out
to investigate. Old Gray whinnied and,
turning his head. nodded toward the
empty seat, the clerk says. Anyway, on
the bottom of the wagon, partially con-
oealed by the seat. lay Meyer uncon-
scious and bleeding from wounds on the
face and head. His clothing was torn
and his collectors wallet lay on the
seat, ell1-fC.
Meyer was revived in the German
hospital. He said he was attacked and
robbed of more than 800 about night
fall by three men on lonely road
about three miles from the tea COM
pany's store. Old Gray had covered
those three miles unguided, bringing
about Meyers discovery in time to save
his life
Meyer said the robbery was done near
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Forest park. Three men sprang from
behind a clump of bushes. one. seized
Gray's bride, the second thrust pis-
toll in Meyers face, and a third struck
him repeatedly on the head with a
stone. He recalled nothing more.
When the highwaymen fed. Old Gray
set out for the store. He knew every
inch of the road, and darkness and rain
did not confuse him. Several persons
have been found who saw Old Gray on
the Forest Park road. the Fresh Pond
read, and other little used highways
which gave the shortest route to the
store. They did not see that there was
10 driver in the seat.-New York World
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LEGAL.
thirst published In The Topeka State
Journal December g. 1901


First published In The Topeka State
Journal, December 3, 1909.1
THIRTY DAY NOTICE OF APPLrcA-
TON OF BUSINESS COLLEGES FOR
A PERMIT TO CANVASS IN THE
STATE OF KANSAS.
Notice Is hereby given that the follow
ing business colleges Cor commercial de-
partments of other schools) have made
application to me for permit to canvass
IN the State of Kansas for the purpose
or selling tuition in advance and eontract-
ing or securing notes for tuition from stu
dents before their registration at the bus
mess colleges Qor commercial depart
ments) herein named:
Dougherty Business College, Topeka.
Kansas.
II satisfactory proof is furnished that
any OF the above named colleges or COM
merc1aI departments are incompetent to
furnish such course of instruction as
they advertise or that the moral Surround
lngs Of the Institution are not good. or
tnat the premises are kept in an I'M
nealthy condition, or that the agents of
SAID institutions use Misrepresentation or
Ifaudulent methods in securing contracts,
notes. or cash from prospective students,
IN such case permit will not be granted
70 such business colleges Cor commercial
Departmental
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
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GREAT BARGAIN.

Bran new, entirely modern house, IS IT.
corner front, blocks capitol, cement un-
DER all. furnace, first floor finished in
oak. combination light, complete bath,
large den and pantry in the rear, piazza
from Ind floor for open-air sleeping, grade
to attic, large front porch extending over
the side window of the parlor, 5 large
pillars, all for 50. $50, A real bargain price.
FOR SALE OR TRADE-Good 50 acres
Norton county, 70 acres in cultivation;
no other improvements, 2 miles to good
r. r. town. Price So, 200: Will trade for
horses or mules. Send offer to owner. H.
F, Weber. Burns. Kan.
We sell for less this week; how much
less? 10 Der cent.
G. H. BOWER & SON. 522 Kansas ave.
FOR SALE, EXCHANGE OR RENT-Ny
tko properties, 512 and SIG Harrison,
modern, six and twelve rooms. Apply to
owner, o. s. Morrow. Both phones.
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.
FOR SALE.

New 8 room modern house near WASH
burn college. 1880
For Sale between 18th and 18th, Kansas
ave, H lots, room house, gas and cleo
tT1c light cistern. good barn. Price $500.
Vacant lot on Kansas ave-, 81, 100.
lots, corner 18th and Lane sts., $1.3o0.
lots. 8 room house, on Quincy St, 81, 100
good dwellings on Kansas avenue pay
ing l., per cent on investment. $500 for
Gil Kansas Ave-
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FOR sALE-REAL ESTATE.

the two.
Ii acres near Washburn college, good
barn and young orchard. $500.
$40 acre farm In Oklahoma for sale or
trade for Topeka property. $500.
z acres. good cottage, orchard, barn and
other buildings. 5000.
Good farms in Shawnee, JEFFERSON and
Wabaunsee counties for sale.
WILEY.
Phones 2a
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BARGAINS.
$500, six T. cottage. full lots. easy
payments.
s., 800, seven room, story and half mod,
furnace, ~ lots, 5 blocks state house.
S. c. KERSEY, Real Estate and ms.
525 Kansas Ave. Room l. Ind. 613-3 rings
ROOM house, barn. lots between c3rd
and Path, on Adams st. Call 413 Kansas
ave. ". E. SeQuine.
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LOSE AND FOUND.

LOST-Between 9th and 18th on Quincy
street, fur coIlarefte. Finder return to
s16 Quincy street and get reward. Mrs. J.
d. Ella Mix.