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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

l.. F. Clearinghouse and wife to A.
Mcdonald, lot 5SS n. " 80 Buchanan
St. Edwards tract -......-.-.-...--..$ 80
S. B. Stark and wife to I. A. Payton
and wife, lot 429 s1a 81 Brooks ave.,
d. NortonS add. ......---..-.---..-..-
1. A. Payton and wife to S. B. Stark,
lots 1881 Brooks ave-, J. Nortons
G. NJ. Keliam to s. MedMcott, lots
655-7-s Lincoln St, blk 10 NJ. & d.
B. F. Akers and wife to E E. Heidi,
lots 1869 Penn ave-, Highland
Dr. A Dawson to A M. Dawson. lots
1874 10th ave. west, Young's add.
F. Swaringen and wife to I. J. Gray,
lots 466 pit. GA Brooks ave, j. Nor
toms add. Z,UV
S. s. Shoemaker and wife to F. w.
Shriver and wife. lots 63-5 s13
c. E. wilson and husband to w n
Kelsey, PIT. sw. 25-n-l6. ....;.f.: I6O'
s19 10 Taylor st, N. Lakin tract
add. 4oN
F G. Thomas and husband to B. r.
Waite. lot 26S Arter ave, ]. w.
Morris add: -..-..:---:..-.:.-.:... 10
F. NJ Hopkins and wife to G. Han q
nah. lots T-9-S1-S Roosevelt ST., s.
W cr 81 c aGo and wife to n E. Warner.
lots 13S to 14S Twiss ave, J. Nor -.
toms End add. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1,4G'
The N Top Bid; CO; to F. E. Smith, on
H A Ingham and wife to ]. ].
Burge and wife, lot SO Monroe st.. 2,o0t
w. A. Neiswanger and wife to A.
Hatherley, lot rs s15 70 Scotland
ave. Gordon's add. Observation-Disclosures. 1,S0t
S. P. Wilcox and wife to G. Hannah,
add. :. ..................... ,6Ot
]. r. dulvane and wife to ]. D. Null
vane, lots 1885 6th ave, east. Ice
II. G. Carls to M F. Carls, lots 623-
Is blk. 4, M. & D. sub.
c. Pillow and others to c. Pillow,
lots 512-14 Quincy St, Ritchie'S add.
F. G.. Whitney to A. Mcclure, pit. ne.
4 35-12-l7 Observation-Disclosures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24

Opening of New and 10 Cent Store.
OF interest to the ladies is the open
ing to visitors of the new and 10 cent
store Friday at p m at S27 Kan
sas avenue, which is one of a string of
c. A. Kessler's stores.
Their opening sale begins Saturday
at 8 p. m. with some astounding bar
gains. They have a large assortm ent
and a fine quality of goods to offer
among many which are the following:
Ladies hats worth up to several dol
lars; great assortment of flowers
and ribbons; beautiful Japanned bread
boxes and flour cans usually sold for
more than dollar; besides a large as
sortment of imported china, including
salad bowls, cake plates chocolate pots
and many useful pieces; a quantity of
enamel ware, including double biolers,
dish pans, coffee pots, Berlin kettles
and sauce pans. None of these useful
and ornamental articles will be sold
for more than 10c. Watch their win
dows for both Saturday and Monday
when something different will be Of
fered
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Robbers secure So. 600.

Fort Smith, Ark, April 24.-After
two hours running fight with a posse
of citizens, four robbers who had
land, thirty miles south of Fort Smith,
escaped with their loot, about $4,000.
Citizens of Midland were awakened by
noise of the blasts. They organized
pursuit but the robbers had a good
start
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STRIKERS Frfght Soldiers.

Lisbon April 24.-Many soldiers and
civilians were killed today in an en-
counter between the striking textile
workers and troops at Villa Nova de
Gaia a suburb of Oporto. The strik-
ers threw bombs into the infantry
ranks who replied with rifles.
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FraternaI Men. Attention

Increased assessments have been de-
clared by many of the leading orders.
If yours han't it will be. Will you
stand for it? If interested in opposing
higher rates with no greater advanta-
ges, communicate at once with w. F.
A, care Journal office. city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24
1T BUILDS STATE
Agricultural Display at State
Fair Attracts Settlers.
Advertises Counties Represent
ed All Over Kansas.

Secretary H. L. Cook in talking
with State Journal reporter today
relative to the great advertising ad-
vantage of an agricultural exhibit at
the state fair. said:
THE Kansas county that believes
in itself, i. e., whose population is
composed of loyal men and women
who have faith in their particular slice
who, by their works are not averse to
letting it be known that their county
offers advantages to the farmer, will
be represented in the agricultural dis
play at the 1912 Kansas state fair at
Topeka. Composite county displays of
fer unlimited opportunities to get be-
fore the thousands Of fair Wis
itorS contemplating Kansas as a flu
ture home, the best of their resources,
and by artistic display winning a hand
some premium besides. No more con-
vincing arguments can be conceived
or advanced than the actual products
No better advertisement can be de-
V1sed than a well selected, well arrang-
ed exhibit.
This feature of the 1912 show is
promising big, already. The superin-
tendent of the agricultural department.
A T. Daniels, whose well known en-
thusiasm for Kansas, agriculturalIy,
especially fits him for this important
position is directing particular efforts
towards county exhibits, and the pros
pect is bright for securing displays
from many Kansas counties.
Besides the advertisement for the
counties the educational feature is i'm
portant. With a large number of
county exhibits, the student of the soil
may have opportunity to compare,
from actual results, the various coun-
ties and localities by the resources
shown and judge of the advantages of
each.
''The Kansan and the prospective
kansan may get much valuable infor-
nation from a collective county ex-
h1b1t that would not be brought to
their notice so forcibly through in
dfvidua1 displays. Many a farmer
from other states has been induced to
cast his lot on a Kansas eighty after
a visit to the county eXFS%litS at the
State Fair. The county that has the
stuff to show, and mighty few have
not if some one appointed to gather it
up, will look after it, should see to it
while, either as a county enterprise
or private venture, since the premiums
offered are liberal and the specimens
can be gathered at comparatively
small outlay. Then too, the premium
displays are sought by other fairs in
the circuit, and the oftener shown,
the more extensive the advertisement.
"Any Kansas county that can be in
terested, through it's county fair as
ISOLATION, CONNER club, grange or
other bodies, or by individual loyalty,
to make display will be sought out
by superintendent Daniels. He means
to build up this feature of the agri-
cultural department to the limit of
space allowed him, and has the hearty
support of the fair management"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24

had been falsified and as a matter of |
fact the girl was not nearly IS years |
of age, also that she was due for a |
good spanking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24

Guaranteed Kentucky blue grass
seed and whiteclover. New stock Just
in. Zimmerman Seed Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24

80 50 4z6 A
Sf1te OF kansas. County of ShaUnee -.
nsy,S geo. A. Guild, cashier of the aboyA-
ntaIneo pank, do solemnIy swear Tbst 49,
H aDo sIatemenI is true to the best or nv
knowledge and belief "S' u ny
s,,h, GEO. A. GUILD. Cashier
subscribed and sworn TO before 81 l,
24th day of April, 1872 me TINS
rSoa,7 H. f. GUTHRIE
1NTv oo,.... Notary Public
1916. eAPAIes January IA,
Correct-Attest:
A. ZAHNER
J. r. BURROW
E. E. AMES,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24
r4rst published In the Topexs So.
journal April "a, 1872

11lI ApIII q, I9I2.l
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
nrrrr,r- of the
GIANTS NATIONAL BANK oR
TOPEKA, O7
business April Is, 1912 at inc Close OF
NJ =
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WANTED SITUATIONS.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 0c cases a special
ty Bell 3721-Ring L
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FOR RENT-HGUSES.

305 East 3rd, rooms, $500.
Steam heated living rooms, offices and
store rooms.
BIZ Chandler ST., rooms, So
CYRUS GUTHRIE & CO.
LIZ E. 9Th St. Ind 1z20
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Announcements.

]. H. RINEHART. NJ. D.. candidate for
coroner. Shawnee CO.. subject to pri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-24
LOST and FOUND.

FOUND-Child gold rim spectacles- Call
at 1O4 w sth st. Ind COS.
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WANTED MISCELLANEOUS.

LEAK ROOFS satisfactorily repaired. We
repair leaks where other methods fail
Richardson Paint Co., 61S Kansas ave. Ind.
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En Bankruptcy.
In the District Court of the Uni
ted States for the Southwestern
Division of the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
In the matter of Booker & Britt
w. R. Booker and w. G..

In the matter of Booker & Britt
w. R. Booker and w. c..
Britt, Bankrupts.
To the creditors of above NAM
ed of Fitzgerald, in the county of
Ben Hill, said district, bankrupts:
Noti,e is hereby given that on
September q, 1912, the said
Booker & Britt was duly adjudg-
ed bankrupts; and that the first
meeting of their creditors will be
held at Valdosta, Georgia, on
October l. 1912, at nine O'Clock
in the forenoon, at which time
the said creditors may attend,
prove their clrims, appoint a
trustee, examine the bankrupts
and transact such other business
as may properly come before said
meeting.
The bankrupts are required to
be present.
At Valdosta, Georgia, this Sep
TENDER Il, 1912.
JAS. F. MCCRACKEN,
Referee in Bankruptcy.
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advertisement
Announcement
o THE VOTERS OF BEN hill COUNTY,

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FOUNTAIN THE NOMINEE
violated
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to
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of them arrested and convicted would be OF
value country hundred victims who scarcely
know right from wrong made known when asked for this
Office | would deal with all criminals alike.
And this I ar still daty bound to do if elected
influence and of all good citizens OF this County,
and when elected will perfectly fair and impartial in doing
49, w. H. FOUNTAIN
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PRESBYTERIAN Church
JOHN w. NORRIS

Regular preaching services
next Sabbath morning and night
at the usual hours observed by
all the churches in the city. You
are most cordially welcomed to
attend. S. G. HUTTON.
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At Goldenberg and Co.
Bankrupt Sale Saturday
Sent. 18th at 9 o'clock: Soc
sheets at 25c. At 10 o'clock.
ICc vd wide Bleaching d..
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Musical Program Al
Christian Church

The following program viii be
rendered at the Central Christian
Church Sunday at 7:45 p, NJ.
Voluntary.
Arthem-''Venlte In CT.
Edwin Solly.
Hymn.
Prayer.
Duett-SeIected- Misses Mary
Eva and Lola May Martin.
Scripture Reading.
Anthem-"Come Thou AImigh
ty King" Ashford.
Trombone SoIo-"The Way OF
Peace"-C. Francis Lloyd.
Announcements.
Piano Duett- Mrs. w. A. Green
and Miss Hazel Tisdel.
ertory-"Co Compassion
Flowers-T Trombone Solo.
Duett-''Le Kindly Light
Lanslng-Mrs. Goldie r. Lloyd
and DR.. L. A. Turner.
Sermon.
Anthem-''Hosanna, Thy King
dom Come"
Hymn.
Benediction.
Mrs. L. A. Turner-Director.
Mrs. w. A. Green-Pianist.
Children rain capes 81. so, S2.48
1888 special values at Empire
Store.
Mr.. Lamar Garbutt has return
ed from a visit with relatives IN
SandersvilIe
Mr.. w. A. Green has returned
from a business trip to Tampa,
Fla, his former home.
Mrs. .E. j. Walkers Fall Mil
linery opening is to-day and to-
morrow Sept. 81 and 28th.
At Goldenberg and Co.
Bankrupt Sale Saturday
Sept. 2Sth at II o'clock: va
wide sheeting 479c.
Mrs. E. J. Walker is showing
her line of Fall hats and novelty
millinery goods today. The open
ing lasts through tomorrow. BE
sure and visit it.
IS years experience in
taking measures for Mems
suits, I guarantee to tit you.
Roach's.
The many friends of Mr.. Henry
Owen will regret that he has been
confined to his home on 5. Main
street the past week by illness. He
is improving and hopes soon to be
out.
At GoIdenberg and Go.
Bankrupt Sale Saturday
Sept. 18th at 9 o'clock: SOc'
sheets at Csc. At 10 o'clock.
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The many friends of Mr.. Henry
Owen will regret that he has been
confined to his home on S. Main
street the past week by illness. He
is improving and hopes soon to be
out.
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Mrs. ,.E. j. Walkers Fall Mil
linery opening is to-day and to-
morrow Sept. 81 and 28th.
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Mr.. w. A. Green has returned
from a business trip to Tampa,
Fla, his former home.
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Mr.. Lamar Garbutt has return
ed from a visit with relatives in
SandersvilIe
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Children rain capes $3.50, $2.48
1888 special values at Empire
Store.
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IS years experience in
taking measures for Mems
suits, / guarantee to fit you.
ROach's.
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Mrs. E. ]. Walker is showing
her line of Fall hats and novelty
millinery goods today. The open
ing lasts through tomorrow. BE
sure and visit it.
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At Goldenberg and Co.
Bankrupt Sale Saturday
Sept. 2Sth at Il o'clock: yd
wide sheeting 49c.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-22
Tori at Miyajima, Japan.

The famous tori at Miyajima is al
ways interesting. but is seen at it's
best at high tide. when its clear re-
Election can be seen in the quiet wa
ters. This tori is favored subject
of the Japanese artist, and one sees
it not only in pictures. but as mo-
tive in various decorative schemes.
Miyajima is a sacred island and ac-
cording to the Japanese idea is one
of the San-kei or three chief sights"
of Japan. At the foot of the thickly
wooded hills are the temples dedicat-
ed to Shinto goddesses and in the
maple powered valleys are the inns
and tea houses which offer refresh
ment to the many pilgrims. At the
highest point on the island. almost
2000 feet, wonderful and impressive
view of the inland sea can be had.
No tourist fails to visit this lovely
spot-Christian Science Monitor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-22
utah,s Lofty Mountains.

The uinta range is one of the most
impressive in the United States.
King Kings peaks tower above great can
yons and capacious amphitheaters.
reaching height of 1896 and 13,4ss
feet Mount Emmons is but slightly
less elevated, with an altitude of l3.-
42S feet, while many other peaks rise
above 1900 feet. Considered in It's
past and present, the region OF the
Uinta mountains is a wonderful coun-
try, deeply interesting geologically, OF
great economic Importance, pictur-
esqtte. beautiful. Travelling westward
over the Union Pacific route, after
long miles of commonplace scenery.
the Uintas loom up grandiy- WhlIc
features of beauty are the innumerr
able lakes and meadows made posi-
BILE by the glacial securing -Lesiie's-
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-22

Mass, is passing few weeks with her
aunt Mrs. Aipheus Spear.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Towle and daughter,
Mildred, have gone to Waltham, Mass,
to visit relatives.
Miss Flora Wilson of Portland is visit.
ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Wilson.
Forest Hartman is visiting friends in
Portland.
Mrs. Greenwood Eaton and Mrs Ida
Hall of Brockton. Mass, and Mr.. Georgia
Clark of Panborton, N. H., are visiting
their sister, Mrs. A. W. Fuller
Roy DeFratus of Gardiner is home on a
two-weeks' vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Brainard Robinson passed
last week at their cottage at Fairs
Cove.
Mr. and Mrs. James Small were guests
last week, at Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin
Horns. Mr. Smalrs brother, Charles
and family, of Berlin, Mass, are also
guests at Mr.. Horns
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Coming Events

Aug. 20-2i-Old Home Week.
aug. 2i-Union Pomona. plymouth.
Avg. 2l-Pierce Family Reunion, Island
Aug. 21.-Annual reunion. Prescott
grove, Palermo, Me.
Aug. 2l-Litci1feld Academy Reunion.
Aug. 2i-zlst Maine Heavy Artillery
Reunion, Foxcroft.
Aug. ,2l-Annual Reunion of Litchtield
Academy Alumni Association, Litchfield.
Aug. 22-Shibles Family Annual Re-
union. Penobscot.
Aug. 22--Annual Starrett-spear Reunion
at Reunion Grove. Warren
Aug. 1.-THE 18th Maine Infantry at
Xng 2s-sept. LEAST Livermore Camp
Aug. 2s-rwenty-nfths and ThIrtieth
Maine Regiments, Long Island.
sfug aReunon of the 10th Me. Regt.
Hig. silseb i,; Centennial.
Aug. 24-Penobscot Pomona. Garland.
Aug Aus, S25-somsssst ,pono3na Starts
Aug. 27-2s- Meeting of Representatives
Of state Charitable and Penal Institu-
Aug. 2S-Bisbee Family Annual Re-
4 Aug. 2S.29-Free Baptist Cumberland
Conferences at Steep Falls.
Aug 20 Cumberland ana oxford Union,
Pomona, kezar Falls.
Aug. 29-Hancock Pomona. North
Aug. 29-Reunfon 9TH Maine Battery
Association, Augusta.
Aug sf--Gray Reunion. Oak Grove. w.
Sedgwick.
ton.
ssfsa Maine Fair Dates
Aug. 27-29-Houlton Agricultural So
ciety.
Aug. 7-29-Androscoggin County Fair.
Liyermore Falls.
Aug. 17-30--sastern Maine Fair. Bangor.
: Aug. 2s-31--Somerset Central Falr,
Skowhegan-
FAYETTE.
I'll Sevry is very sick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Happy Nelson of Portland
passed last week with friends in town.
e. II. Craig of Brooklyn. New York,
and friend, were callers here, last week.
Miss Jane Underwood has number OF
friends visiting her for few days. 4
AIRS. Nellie- Hsavy Is still dangerously
eivAs .-.-z---- -----.-s-.s -.--- - - s.l-sss
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-22
great red hats which suggest the

great red hats which suggest the
"Palmers'' of historic romances.
The hooters signs have been mod
evnized in some cases, also, and the
high old ia shioned boot replaced by a
great golden image of modern
American" shoe, of the 'brogan9
type.
AS a halter uses a hat and the
booter a boot. SO, in turn, the trade
sign of the jeweier is a watch or
clock which is seldom of the kind that
runs, for clocks and definite hours are
equally missing in Paris. The dealer
in gloves displays a wonderful, shape
~ hand, suspended in mid-air over his
door Billiard rooms are distinguish
ed by a pair of crossed cues and q
pyramid of the two white and one red
ball underneath, painted on the wall
of the windows, or by the pyramid OF
balls alone. Umbrella stores are
known by the tin models of the chief
stock fastened to the wall above the
door and you can find them both open
and shut. The artistic" it is certain
~ that inspires the keepers of the
paint stores to advertise themselves
through the thumb-hoie, and the same
sense is to blame for the metal out
lines of the bodies of violins and clas-
sic Tyres which are displayed by some
music stores. The horse meat shops,
however, are only complying with the
firm demands of the law when they
crown the little portieos over the
openings of their shops (meat shops
have no windows, only bars. summer
and winter1 with golden horseheads
The tin wreath of the florist is uni
versal, as are the long strips of red
cloth of the dyers and the golden keys
of the loclSsmiths. These last two,
with the barber signs, are found in
every quarter of the city, while many
of the others are used only in the old
Ell. simpler sections where the poor,
indeed. cannot read, and the dingy lit
tie shops have virtually no show win
dows at all. Always there are two OF
the strips of red cloth, one at each end
of the frontage of the dyer's shop, and
they flutter as picturesqueiy as ever
a lock of horsehair does from a bar
ber's sign.
Such are the street signs of Paris
But they are not all. You will see inn
mense carpenters planes of gilded
| wood, carved roosters, covered with
gold leaf teeth of the same great size
and style, scissors, pinchers, snails OF
gold crawling over the fronts of build
+! ings where that deiicacy is dispensed
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STREET SIGNS OF PARIS.
Modern and Ancient Tokens OF the
Business Done Within.

AS one comes to know the Parisians
letter one realizes that as people
either their minds arc beautifully
poised between utiiitarianfsm, q sense
OF artistic Gtness, and an 1nstinct for
the picturesque Whatever they do
has something OF each if you will
search Tor it. ara the searching is as
rood az reading the most historic of
ro:narees. Everything had it's utilita-
sIian beginning. has had its artistic inn
portance and continues. if both have
been eutgrewa, because it is pietur-
esoue
All this Is apropos of one of the most
characteristic features of the older
paris!an streets, the hanging shop
signs. Unitarian they once were, and
in a sense still are; artistic thsy are,
every ono; picturesque. too, for they
make the charm of miles of otherwise
stupid tforoughfares.
rhe shop-signs had their beginning
in the days when learning to read was
an unnecessary WASTE of energy and a
carved wooden boot was much more
valuable than written notice of the
location of a shoe shop
There are two distinct classes of old
signs in Paris, one illustrating the
name of the establishment, the other
guild or trade signs employed by all
engaged in the same business. OF the
first class there are very few left in
Paris that are worth mentioning, and
even the museums where they are be-
ing gathered now are but poorly sup
piled. Yet a hundred years ago all
Paris was covered with them. Every
tavern, and every cafe had its own
manysssf. them hundreds of years old
and manySvery beautiful in conception,
design and workmanship. But today
those that are left are here only be-
cause, their utility and art gone, their
picturesdueness still serves to lure
tourists into the places over which
they hang
One of these old signs crowns the
doorway of a third class cafe over in
the odd "Marais' quarter, once the
home of fashion and of the French
court 1t is 1.-THE Armed Man, ano
is of stout cast iron, crudely designed
and as crudely executed, the man
in question being CARRIED in armor and
seated upon an ancient cannon On
either side grow grape vines, and in
the right mailed fist is held up cup,
presumably of the very estiuable wine
to be had within. The whole side Of
the cafe is Of beautifully wrought iron,