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4 want to offend, but the convictions of RISE OF A REPORTER other populous classes of the commu nity had to be considered. Ellis, hold KANSAS STATE HEWS 1 ing the office that President Hayes had once held in Cincinnati, dressed the code up in the most attractive WADE H. ELLIS, ATTORNEY GEN ERAL OF OHIO. verbiage, He was widely applauded by the Republicans. He left Cincinnati for a time, but returned and interested himself in Man Who Wrote Most of Republican politics.

At first he was very inde Platform May Be Made Head of Government Law Department If Taft Is Elected. pendent. He did not like George Cox, the Cincinnati boss, who, according to the orthodox Republican Idea in that town, can do no wrong. The while he dabbled in politics, however, Boy Killed by Lightning. During a furious thunder storm six boys living east of Glasco, who had been swimming and were driving home, were caught in the rain.

Fow of them drove the team under a tree for shelter, but the other refused to accompany them. While those in the wagon were jeering their companions for being afraid, and making light of their timidity, lightning struck the tree, killing both horses and one of the boys, named Hardy. The other three who were with him were rendered unconscious. Thinking companions dead, the two who had sscaped ran home and gave the alarm. Washington.

Faring forth from his old Kentucky home a youth of the What is Pe-ru-na. Are we claiming too much for Peruna when we claim it to be an effective remedy for chronic catarrh? Have wt abundant proof that Peruna is in reality such a catarrh remedy? Let us 6ee what the United States Dispensatory 6ays of the principal ingredients of Peruna. Take, for instance the Ingredient hydrastis canadensis, or golden seal. The United States Dispensatory saya of this herbal remedy, that it is largely employed in the treatment of depraved mucous membranes lining various organs of the human body. Another ingredient of Peruna, cory-dalis formosa, is classed in the United States Dispensatory as a tonic.

Cedron seeds is another ingredient of Peruna. The United States Dispensatory says of the action 6f cedron that it is used as a bitter tonic and in the treatment of dysentery, and in intermittent diseases as a substitute for quinine. Send to us for a free book of testimonials of what the people think of Peruna as a catarrh remedy. The best evidence is the testimony of those who have tried it. Ellis got back into newspaper work, name of Wade H.

Ellis appeared on the Cincinnati horizon in the early Clients were not coming to him in such numbers, bearing fat retainers, that he was unwilling to accept the eighties. He soon engaged himself in chasing the elusive local item for a newspaper there. In the little jour editorship of the Cincinnati Tribune, He filled the editorial chair for two nalistic world of that Ohio city they years till 1897 when he was elect ed corporation counsel. Then he be still tell what a hard time young Ellis had. He frequently found him gan to embark on a promising career, self in the awful presence of the local editor, trying to explain how the item He was so successful in drafting the Cincinnati municipal code that the Republicans made him attorney general of the state in 1904 and he Is had eluded him.

Time passed and a few months ago Ellis, still comparatively a young man, still holding that job. A CYCLONE FREAK. Surprising Trick Played by a Twister A Kansas Senator Dead. Dr. J.

M. Hamme, state senator from the Twenty-third district, was found dead in his bed at his home in Cottonwood Heart disease is supposed to have been the cause. He came to Kansas 15 years ago, settling first in Peabody and later in Cottonwood Falls. A part of one season he was coach for the University of Kansas football team. He was elected state senator in 1904 and was a member of the Kansas board of medical examination and registration.

His, only known relative is his mother, living at his former home in USED CHURCH AS SCHOOLROOM. in Nebraska. New York City. On June 4 last, the inhabitants of Buffalo county, Ne-braska, and particularly of the town ol Kearney, were besieged by no less than seven tornadoes. We are in debted to Edward C.

Bricker for the accompanying photograph of one ol the curious effects produced by one ol these, and for the following brief in formation, says Scientific American That a number of houses should have been wholly and in part destroyed is naturally to be expected of any cy clone that is at all violent. But thai it should pick up a caster from a table twist off the handle and drive the University Expects Good Year." Two thousand students are expected to enroll in the University of Kansas within two weeks after the opening of the fall term, in September. The enrollment, which becomes considerably larger as the year advances, was 1,700 when, the year opened last fall, and increased to nearly 2,100 before the year was over. This year the enrollment is expected to go to about 2,400, and some of the more optimistically inclined believe tt will go to the 2,500 Even the more conservative ones who are in position to know admit that it may do that well. spindle through the branch of a wal nut tree Is surely no common occur rence.

Mr. Bricker assures us that be fore the storm the caster found place on the table of Mr. G. F. Franks that it was intact with the bottles Ie Proceedings That Somewhat Aston-ishedUhe Sexton.

The sexton of one church that keeps open doors all day long didn't know whether to regard the matter in the light of a desecration or a devotional exercise. He paid no attention when the three women, watched by a man who stood at the lower end of the aisle, walked the length of the church and back again. Even when they made the trip a second time he scarcely gave them a thought, but when the trio started around the church a third time and the man called out, "Step a little more briskly, please," he began to wander, and presently made inquiry. "I hope you won't be offended," the man replied. "I am a physical culture Instructor.

I am teaching these young ladies to walk. I have already taught them to walk in the street, in the drawing room, in the theater and every place else they are likely to find themselves. I am now teaching them to walk in church. Very few women can walk there properly. Some lope, some swagger, some skip, others adopt a mincing gait.

All these styles are very inappropriate for church. A dignified, subdued gait alone is suitable for devotional purposes. Church is the best place for pupils in walking to receive practical instruction, therefore I have brought them here." "Great fathers!" gasped the sexton. "What next?" But he said no more till the walking exercise was ended. Then he followed the class to the door.

"1 hope," he said, "you will practice the lesson learned to-day by coming here to church once in a while." their intended positions; yet after the tornado the base was found in a wal nut tree limb, exactly as it. is shown in the accompanying photograph. The wind had unscrewed the top and taker To Utilize Straw Stacks. If the plans for a straw board factory, as presented at the Commercial club of Great Bend, go through, the farmers of Barton county instead ol burning their straw stacks will be in a position to realize some good returns from the straw. The proposition calls for capital stock, and the same will be raised mostly by home people.

The factory would be capable of manufacturing 25 tons of straw-board daily and would use 40 tons of straw each day, paying at least $4 a ton for the same. Salina Plans to Buy Water Works. While -it has not been given pub licity heretofore engineers are now at work preparing a report to be sub OCULIST A MAN OF RESOURCE. mitted to the city council concerning the matter of taking over the water Wads H. Ellis.

began to loom on the horizon of Wash-ington. If he had indifferent success in hunting news, he had done better in hunting the octopus. President Roosevelt wanted to know about him. Ellis came to Washington for a consultation at the White House about federal trust busting, and soon there- after President Roosevelt and Presidential Candidate Taft were in need of an apostle of terse and pleasing sentences. Such a one could be utilized in national platform building.

They sent for Ellis. They cae, joined in the consultations, and hiked away to the sad sea waves of Virginia Beach. There he composed the more important portion of the platform. During a lull in the stressful days of the Chicago convention he confided to a friend that he wrote his best after a plunge into old ocean. And now after his name has been much featured for a few weeks in the political headlines, the erstwhile Cincinnati reporter from Covington, is discussed as the attorney general for the next administration.

It is even whispered that he may come into his own in advance of numerous Ohio faithfuls and may not have to wait for the new president to review the inaugural parade on Pennsylvania avenue. That is probably untrue. No one in Washington is ready to believe that Attorney General Bonaparte will relinquish an office of which he is very much enamored. But Ellis may be, some say will be, Bonaparte's successor. In 1902, when he was near the end of six years' service as assistant corporation counsel of the Queen city, some one was wanted to draft the municipal code which the Buckeye legislature was to enact.

Ellis, with his reputation for balancing words splendidly, was chosen. He did the work admirably. There were many personal liberty advocates in Cincinnati whom the Republicans did not works system. H. K.

Doane, an engineer of Kansas City, and a corps of assistants, are now making a house-to-house canvass of the city securing Information concerning the cost of Caster Driven Through Tree Limb. off the turntable. One of the bottle was found with twigs densely packed into Its neck, without a leaf stripped The bottle, however, was broken. each individual consumer of water per month. World-Wide Fame.

The sun never sets on Kansas corn; Ministers and Their People. The old Idea that a minister should and that's a prouder boast than England's claim that Old Sol never ceases occupy a place apart from his charge has in large measure given wav to the to shine on her flag. A Kansas man Has a Blind Beggar Woman to Advertise His Business. Enterprise takes various forms, even in Warsaw. A young oculist, finding that, patients were few and far between, hit upon an original means of advertising.

He engaged a blind woman who sits and begs by the Church of the Kofry Cross to hold a light board whereon are written his name, address, professional qualifications and consultation hours. As the church is In the busiest thoroughfare of the town the notice attracts a good deal of attention. The beggar herself says she is quite satisfied with the results, as many people notice her who would otherwise pass by, and as the doctor has added his assurance that she Is hopelessly blind benevolent old ladies throw coppers into her tin mug, sure that their money is not wasted on an impostor. It is not yet known whether the number, of patients has Increase' sentiment of a "practical age" and the was in London recently and attended so-called institutional church of the cities is but one manifestation of this a commercial exposition. There he found 128 products made out of Kansas corn.

idea. In the city the method by which a minister may come most closelv tc his people is a complicated matter, foi the people under his spiritual euld- Rushville Postoffice Robbed. Robbers wrecked the safe in the ance are of many occupations and postoffice at Rushville, 15 miles south many activities. In the country the question is a more direct one. Here the congregation Is of one mind, ol of St.

Joseph on the Burlington railroad. The robbers took $100 In stamps and money, and $50 in mer one line of -thought Boston Ad chandise. vertiser..