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Cleveland County herald., 1920-02-26
CHAPTER V.

Ii was ten days since the reward for Fitzhugh's capture had been of fered, and though detectives, city, amateur, and private, as well as the police. had kept hot an unremitting search, not trace of the fugitive could they find. "Clues," they had by scores, but they led nowhere. This tenth day fell on Thursday in April -a cold, dark day of incessant rain, Nikolay invariably called upon Esther every Friday, but on this particular Thursday night, happening to be in her neighborhood, he decided to take advantage of the opportunity and drop in on her for a pot of hot tea and a word of good cheer.
 He was about to pass under the wooden staircase, and so to her door, when suddenly, just opposite the win dow he stopped still and stood as though hewed from stone.
 What he saw was this: In the cen ter of the room, her back toward him. stood Esther; arms held out, her head back, she had the unmstakable pos ture of a woman waiting only for the One Man. The next instant very tall man, young-looking despite the short, untrimmed beard on his lean face, stepped from some point outside Niko- lays range of vision, and took her in his arms and kissed her.
 His pimply face livid with fury, vel lN4NF hOf tn Nikolay burst into the room.
 Fitzhugh sprang from his place and vaulted the table, bringing it between himself and the door. "Get out, Esther" he ordered quietly, rolling up his shirtsleeves. I'm going to slaugh- ter this beast"
 She made no move to go, however but drew to one side, and with hands pressed to her cheeks. watched tne
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From dishWasher to-
(ro BE CONTINUED
Bird Deadly Enemy of Files.

The Wilson warbler is the champion hy-catcher of the United States. His method of getting most of his food is to dash out from the limb of a tree and snatch passing insects on the wing. He catches other insects which are fitting about or sitting on the foliage or blossoms of the trees. You will often find these little birds in apple trees when in bloom. Their olive green and yellow plumage harmonizes with the green leaves of the trees. The male bird has black crown patch on the top of it's head, while on the female this cap is greenish like the back. This bird is found throughout the eastern United States, but win ters in Central America.
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"DEsTRoY THIS LETTER!"


 ynopsis.-Typieal tramp in ap- pearanee, Daniel Randolph Fitz- hugh, while crossing a Chicago street, causes the wreck of an auto, whose chauffeur disables it try ing to avoid running him down. In pity the occupant of the auto, a young girl. saves him from arrest and gives him a dollar, telling him to buy soap and wash His sense of shame is touched, and he i'm proves his appearance. That night, in a crowd of unemployed and an- archists, he meets Esther Strom and in a spirit of bravado makes a speech. Esther induces F'ftzhugh to address the radical meeting. He electrifies the crowd, and OF part ing the two agree to meet again. A few days later Fitzhugh visits Sy- mington Otis, prominent financier and displaying a package which he says contains dynamite, but which is merely a bundle of paper, de- mands S10,000. Otis gives him a check. At the house he meets the girl who had given him the dollar, and learns she is Kathleen Otis. She recognizes him. Ashamed, he tears up the check and escapes, but is arrested Esther visits Fftzhugh in jail, and makes arrangements for procuring legal advice. His trial is speedily completed and he. is found insane and committed to an asylum, from which he easily makes his escape. Fftzhugh takes refuge in Chicago with Esther, who has become infatuated with him, but with the thought of Kathleen in his mind he gives her no encouragement. His one idea is to become rich and powerful, and win Kathleen. While hiding in Esther's house he grows a beard. which effectually changes his ap- pearance. Nikolay, a big Russian, becomes jealous.
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Oh. Dear!

She was going down in the elevator. Her voice had a touch of sadness that almost. approached emotion.
 Hardly a bit of use for me to go out to lunch," she said to her girl friend. Everything like I can't eat-turnips or sauerllraut-well, K ain't so crazy about boiled cabbage, but it does taste kind O good. Oh, deari"
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two gladiators with mingled horror and fascination. Nikolay had the ad- vantage of some forty pounds in weight, but Fitzhugh was vastly his superior in stamina fistic skill and quickness of eye and movement. To win the fight>he judged he had to do but one thing: to keep free of the others clutches. Once the big Rus sian got those tremendous arms around him the combat would be un- equal
 Nikolay rushed upon his foe like an infuriated bull, and Fitzhugh tucked and sidestepped like lean panther, springing in quickly to deliver two
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Free Hot Water.

Free hot water for hot drinks at pie nics or for any other use is served to the public at recreation park in Toronto from q gas water heater placed on the grounds by the city au- thorities. wooden shed houses the heater and sign on the building calls attention to the fact that hot water is free.
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THREE YEARS WITHOUT HOPE. st f Sickness and Suffering with Final Return to Health
 It will do you good to read it

No matter how long nor how much you have suffered, do not give up hope. Do not decide there is no help for you. There is. Make up your mind to get well. You can. There IS remedy in which you may place full rellance as did Mrs Rozala Kania of 39 Silver street. New Britain. Conn., This is what she says: q had cramps for three years and thought would never be any better. I could not eat without distress. Slept with my mouth open and could hardly breathe. No medicine helped me. I had catarrh of the stomach Now l have no cramps and am feeling well and healthy. wish every suffering person would take PE-RU-NA."
 Catarrh effects the mucous membranes in
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for several weeks.
 At times 1 could not walk at all and l suffered with m Y back and limbs so l often had to stay in bed. l suffered off a n q on for eight y e ar s. Finally I heard that Lydia D.
 Pinkham's V e z e. table Compound was a good medicine and tried it with splen-
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You are invited to write for free advice

No other medicine has been so suc- cessful in relieving woman's suffering as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Women may receive free and helpful advice by writing the Lydia Such . letters letters aee are received I and am answered by women only and held in strict confidence.
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I'd effect. l can now do my house. work and my washing. 1 have recom- mended your Vegetable Compound and your Blood Medicine and three of my friends are taking them to advantage. You can use my name for a testimonial. !" Mrs. THERESA COVENTRY, 75 Burnett St., Newark, N. J.
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/ The City of | Purple Dreams

blows in rapid succession, the last of which brought blood. In the next rush, however, sledge hammer seemed to swing upon the point Of his chin, and he spun dizzily backward. unable to regain his balance, and fell heavily against a fender. But Nikolay was not quick enough to follow up his ad- vantage, and when next he charged, Fitzhugh had recovered, and was dancing around him as before his lip drawn back from his gleaming teeth in a taunting smile.
 The blood was streaming from dozen cuts on the Russians face, it's crimson blots in his eyes; and ever that smiling, white-and-black face swan before him like pirouetting phantom.
 Knowing his endurance to be his strongest, and the others weakest, point, Fitzhugh desired chiefly to wear his opponent down until such time as he could rush in and finish him.
 Niko1ay was fast becoming exhaust ed Ten minutes of this mad pace was more than he could stand His breath came shorter and shorter. At last he stopped and allowed his arms to dangle Imply at his sides.
 For a little while, coughing and spit ting blood and catching his breath in wheezy gasps, he stared drunkenly. Then, seizing a heavy water pitcher from beside an overturned chair, he hurled it, with q vile word. Fitzhugh lodged the missile and leapt for his foe He put every atom of his vigor 0us young strength into the blow he landed under Nikolay's jaw, and the man went down like q clubbed OK.
 The conqueror walked to a corner, picked up his coat, and slung it over his shoulder. He came back to Esther, crouching against the wall like one awakening from some horrible dream. He smiled, but in the neutral light the smile was ghastly.
 Pm sorry you had to see it. I told you I'd slaughter him.
 The next moment the woman was sobbing hysterically in his arms. q cant let you go. I ean't-I can'tY She clung to him as a drowning per son, clutching his hands, his arms, his neck.
 You must, Esther" He stroked her hair tenderly "The police may be here at any moment. Get away as quickly as possible. Never mind about him--he'll be all right presently. I'll write you care of the post office. You write me, too. Good-by, dear, good-by."
 With these words of parting he turned and left the house.
 Fitzhugh entered a saloon and laved his hurts and washed up, afterward surveying his face very critically in mirror He concluded he was eff fectually disguised against anybody who had not seen him during the past four weeks. He left the saloon and continued northward
 In State street he stopped before an alleged restaurant-one of those dis colored, unwashed places that can be scented a hundred yards off on warm day, and where a full meal" may be had for twenty cents-and read this sign hanging from a nail on the door post:
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the digestion elimination sends rh pure supply or oo infamed membranes and hean returns
 For coughs colds catarrhal conditions generay PERUA sick do not wait ana sqne. Hartmans Wel-knoWn Ff-o-N be we'll and strong and In tu the finest emergency reaa foake fourteen ounces or pe' venion and protection
 everywhere in tablet or liquid form,
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END OF EIGHT
 YEARS MISERY
Used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
 and Recovered.

Newark, N. J.-"The doctor said I had an organic trouble and treated me
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He burned the letter in the kitchen range and knuckled down to his op- probrious toll as on the previous day.
 Fitzhugh had clearly defined req son for doing scullery work in a res
 taurant It provided steady, if small income; it facilitated economy. and, above all it afforded him secure hiding place during the day. He in- tended to stay there six weeks. By that time his beard would be sufti-
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WOMAN SUSPECT GoNEl

The story so shriekingly heralded was told in few paragraphs, and Fitzhugh breathed easier as he read Substantially, it related that Nikolay had been found that afternoon by ES- thers landlady, who, thinking the man drunk, had called the police. An ex- animation showed that he was stabbed to the heart and had been dead for hours. Esther had disappeared, leav- ing no trace behind her.
 Fitzhugh dropped the paper to the
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The Way It Works.

"These are gloomy times"
 No wonder, with everybody out of spirits
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"DISHWASHER WANTED" !"

He removed the sign walked inside and handed it to the chemical-blonde cashier perched on a high stool be- tween a cash register and a pyramid of toothpicks.
 ''Tm it." said he, fayoring her with an engaging smile.
 It was a sweltering, filthy place, rocking with multitudinous odors and overrun with cockroaches. The soiled dishes came in a never-ending torrent, and all day, with three respites for food, he bent at the wash-bench, his arms immersed to the elbows in black, soapy water. At eight came the night man, and he drew a breath of relief and a dollar on his weekly wage, and started home. Or, rather, he started to look for a home He found one for two dollars a week-a depressing room, little larger than a coalbox, tucked away in the upper regions of a shoddy lodging house. He paid the grim-faced landlady half of his capi- tal bought a packet of tobacco and an evening newspaper, and went to his room.
 He disrobed to his underclothing, and with the newspaper and ciga- rette, stretched himself on the couch bed, allowing his feet to rest on chair. He inhaled a satisfying cloud of smoke and unfolded the news sheet and his fingers closed rigidly on the paper; his heart seemed to stand still What he read at a glance stretched across four columns of the front page: MURDER MYSTERY AMONG REDS OLAF NIKOLAY. RUSSIAN NIHII.-
 IST, FOUND DEAD IN SOUTH
 SIDE BASEMENT
 WOMAN SUSPECT GONEl
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floor and stared thoughttuIly at the ceiling, crushing his cigarette slowly between his fingers. Suddenly he jumped up and began pacing the floor restlessly.
 "Pshaw l-she1l get away all right. Yes, yes, she'll get away al! right"
 On his way to work next morning he called at the post office and found, as he expected, a letter from Esther. It was written on scrap of wrapping paper with lead pencil, and began without preface:
 If I've sinned it was because l loved you so. I did it for your sake. l am praying God that your desire for wealth may be granted you. Even though your ambition is sone of which l do not entire- ly approve, l would willingly die that you might achieve it. That is how l love you. It may be a long while before you hear from me again, because I am going far away Destroy this letter.
 Your adoring
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-29
HEAVY MEAT EATERS
have SLOW KIDNEYS
Eat less meat IL you feel Baclzachy or
have bladder troubIe-Take
glass of Salts.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally, says
a well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become over-worked from the
strain. get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood.
then we get sick. Nearly all rheu-
matism, headaches, liver trouble,
nervousness, dizziness, sleeplessne
and urinary disorders come from slug
gish kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or If
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at
tended by a sensation of scalding, stop
eating meat and get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from any pharmacy; take
tablespoonful in glass of water be-
fore breakfast and in a few days your
kidneys will act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes
and lemon Juice, combined with lithia,
and has been used for generations to
flush and stimulate the kidneys, also
to neutralize the acids in urine so it
no longer causes irritation. thus end
ing bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and cannot
injure; makes a delightful effervescent
drink which everyone
should take now and then to keep the
kidneys clean and active and the
blood pure, thereby avoiding serious
kidney complications. - Advertise
ment.
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Spanish in the Kansas City higl
school; Miss Cora Wade, teacher OF
domestic science, and Miss Deva Jones
musical director at Blue Rapids, are
guests at the E, B. Smith home, Ice
Woodlawn avenue.
Mrs. Frank c. Thompson and Mrs
Thomas +. Doran are the guests OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney L. Palmer al
Hutchinson.
Miss Esther Jensen of Cherryvale Is
visiting friends here while attending
the teachers convention.
Miss Margaret Suydam is a guest at
the Theta house while attending the
convention
Mr. and Mrs. John A. Morley and
John, jr., motored to Kansas City to
spend a few days.
Miss Ruth Gardner of Eureka, Kan,
and Miss Ethel Ireland of Emporia
are visiting Miss Ruth J. Wilson dur
ing the convention.
Mrs. Nellie Hardy of Kansas City,
Kan, is spending the weekend with
friends here.
Miss Edith Wakefield of Waldo and
Miss Earlanne Wilbur of Lindsborg
are guests of Miss Ruth Wilson during
the convention.
Miss Thelma Ellington of Lawrence
is visiting her aunt, Mrs. C. A. Scott,
and Mr.. Scott.
Miss Martha Webb of Peabody is the
guest of Miss Sarella Herrick. Miss
Webb and Miss Herrick will go to
Manhattan to spend the weekend and
to attend the X. U.-Aggie football
game.
Furs remodeled. Baer's Hat Shop,
819 Kansas Ave-Adv.
Mrs. A. L. Dunn of Clough, Kan. is
the guest of Mrs. J. T. Parsons of 601
Fillmore street.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bassett and
son Howard have been spending a few
days in Kansas City. the guests of Mr..
Bassett's brother. Mr.. H. c. Bassett,
and family.
Mr.. Vincent Lester Westrupp of
Chanute, Mr.. Kenneth Kerns of Alta
spending the weekend at the Alpha
Delta house.
Mr.. and Mrs Ed Morse of Kansas
City, Mo, are the guests of Mr.. Morse's
sister, Mrs. E. S. Shaler, and Mr..
Shaler, 1900 Lane street
Miss Violet Randolph of Sabetha is
the guest of Miss Helen Travis.
Miss Mary Biays and sister, Miss
Rose Bays of Bunker Hill, Kan. Miss
Marjorie Best and Miss Ruth Best of
Hays are visiting Mrs. Albert Shaffer.
Mrs. B. B. Smythe of Munden is the
guest of Mrs. F. w. G. Travis during
the convention.
Mrs. Harriet Stevens of Atchison has
been visiting Mrs. Anna B. Fisher at
her home, 701 Fillmore street.
Miss Helen Travis will spend the
weekend in Emporia as a guest at the
Sigma Alpha Sigma house.
Miss Ruth Graham has returned
from Minneapolis, Mimi, where she
has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Chas.
Stombaugh.
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BUSINESS CHANCES

FOR SALE+21s lots on California ave,
large 2-story frame house. ) rooms,
porch, pantry, hail. cellar, chicken house,
good barn, well, cistern, pump, old shade
3 blocks to street car, tract lays fine, price
So 500; terms half if wanted. A. L.
Furtnan. Real Estate, 106 West Sth.
FOR SALE+Up-t o-date meat market in
city, fully equipped doing nice business,
low rent general store in small town, 49,
500; 40 room modern hotel in county seat
town, low rent, large business, price IS, 500.
Furman's Real Estate, log West Sth.
AN ESTABLISHED paving confectionery
and lunch running II, years. Sickness
reason for selling. Apply SIG N. Kansas
ave, Topeka Kan.
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SOCIETY


Continued from preceding page.D
Miss Ruth Whitaker and sister, Miss
Helen Whitaker, entertained in
tormally>et their home in Taylor street.
The guests included a group of high
school teachers from Junction City
and of the Topeka high school.
A group of girls from the state
printing plant had a wienie roast at
Gage park, Wednesday evening. Those
present were: Miss Beatrice Ander-
son, Miss Irene Bunds, Miss Gladys
Cooley, Miss Edna Cox, Miss Bertha
Chiffon. Miss Sibyl Gardiner, Miss
Hughes, Miss Earla Lynch, Miss Aileen
Mongus. Miss Hazel Robbins, Miss
Tress iSchramni, Miss Anna Stellhorn
and Miss Rose Winfield.
y y y
The Ladies' Music club met on
Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Leslie
Guild. Dean Stearns, of Washburn, is
giving a series of talks to the club this
year on American Music" and
Wednesday afternoon he discussed
Early American Music and Indian
Music"
Miss Chandler gave a group Of
early American songs; Mrs. Joseph
Taggart sang two OF Cadman's Indian
songs, From the Land of the Sky Blue
Water" and THE Moon Drops Low"
and Mrs. Leslie Guild sang "Chatterlng
8quaw'' by LOOMS. Miss Maybelle
Wright played LISTS Rhapsody
No. g."
\ y =
Resident and visiting members of
the Delta Delta Delta sorority had
luncheon at Pelletier's tea room at
noon today.
= = =
Notes and Personal Mention.
Prof. and Mrs. z. Smith of Lawrence
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs c. A. Ken
dali Of Boswell avenue. Professor
Smith has the chair of education in
the State university.
Miss Violette Garrett, teacher of
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FOR sALE--REAi. ESTATE
BARGAINS

On Redden Ave- lots. Broom
cottage, garage. hen house, &c, i'm
provements, years old. Fine old
shade. $4,000.
On Guthrie-6 lots, Groom cottage,
barn, hen house. well, some fruit and
only $4,000.
In Highland Park on Virginia Ave.
IS deep lots and 7-roou all modern
house, good barn and hen house, well
and cistern. l. block from car line.
Price $500.
On Clay-G-room all modern house,
sleeping porch, double stairway, built
in features. plenty closets. cistern; z
tons coal. all goes for s4,350.
On Monroe-1 lot, 5-room cottage,
modern except furnace. barn, cistern,
old shade; S3.5G0-s50O will handle,
balance at re.
Near 9Th and Lake. u lots, s.
room cottage, electric light. gas, water,
dry basement, cistern, garage, re-
painted and rspapered. For a quick
turn over. only $4,000.
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FOR RENT-FURNIsHED ROOMS

FOR RENT@Large south room. strictly
modern, suitable for one or TWO gentle
men, two blocks from state house. Phone
1874 evenings.
keeping room, closet, bath, hot water
heat. Ladies preferred. Phone Red PIP.
THREE large front rooms and bath, fur
nished or unfinished, trent private en-
trance. Phone Blue 1860.
NICELY furnished steam heated rooms in
modern home. Permanent gentlemen de-
sired: Phone 3212. 723 West 9th.
FURNISHED, two light housekeeping
rooms, upstairs, gas. water, garage; no
children, s17.50 mo. EOS The Drive.
FOR RENT-Two sleeping rooms or for
housekeeping. 1709 Harrison
FURNISHED rooms. III w. 6th.
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$500 CASH

full lots on Fillmore, Groom cot
tage, all modern. newly painted and
roaecorated. Exclusive ne.ghborhood.
Buy it this week for $4.60U with $500
deed.
On Boswell. a modern up-to-date
bungalow, all in oak, has large fire.
place, built-iD features. Only $1,000.
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WANTED-Corn huskers: married farm
help, house, cow, fuel. garden place,
chicks; farm hands; bridge carpenters and
helpers; ship railroad work; 100 laborers,
SOC and Coo hr.; hospital help; machiDists;
bOllermakers; timers; backsmiths; pipe
filters, ship out; head cook $3.50 mo. B. &
r.; 2nd cooks; fry cooks; young men ship
out, hotel work; want cooks, walters,
kitchen help. open shop. Furman's Labor
Agency, los West sth.
WANTED-Experienced adver-
Using solicitor. Permanent
position. Good salary. A. B. @.
D., care Journal.
WANTED-Five neat young men TO ship
west; railroad eating house work, $50
mo-, board, room, free transportation, adj
vance of wages to live wires; corn huskers;
farm hands laborers, soc and Coo per hour
COOKS. Furman's Labor Agency, log W. sth
YOUNG MAN with Photographic exper-
fence for general office work. Answer
own hand writing. b, care Journal.
MESSENGER BOY WANTED-Must have
bicycle. The Hall LithographiHg Co.,
623 Kansas ave.
WANTED-A driver. Apply in person. To-
peka Laundry, End and Quincy.
WANTED-Mdh to cut wood. 5000 West
Tenth st.
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JUST LISTED

On Garfield, full lots. house of 7
rooms and den. first floor in rubbed
oak, second floor select pine. 3 bed
rooms and plenty closets. handsome
decorations. high basem mt, water coil
in furnace. hot water heater, coal bin
and fruit room, good garage, front
drive. For quick sale $500.
If you want to buy farm or small
tract or Il house in the city, consult
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wANTED-MALE HELP.

TAXICAB DRIvERS-Men Of good char
acter, who know the streets and can
drive a Ford. Do not confuse these Jobs
with the old time hack drivers. We are
in the transportation business Steady
employment. good wages. Payne's, 205
West Sixth street
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FOR sALE-KANsAs EARNS.

FOR SALE-S0 acres, improved farm, GO
mile NV. of Topeka, nehr towns and rail-
way, house barn, outbuildIngs, we1ls,
windmill. fences. old shade, farm lays fine.
price 5000; terms On part; possession now.
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MUSICAL. INSTR, MENTs

~O0N00~~N~-NO~~--@~~~0~
A. M. and T. c. Roe, 116 f. 9th street. Tel
$3.50. Pianos, Player Pianos and the Aeo
Han VACATION nhopograph