The Olpe Optic du lieu suivant : Olpe, Kansas • 2

THIS AND THAT. OPTIC. also deputy clerk of the district court, in both of which offices his services crave the greatest satisfaction to every one. Mr- Russell has been a life-long supporter of the Republican party and R. TRASK, Editor and Prop.

OLPE, AS. SEP 16 99. J. M. YOCXti, JOUX DIEDOLT, RENOVATING A VESSEL.

The "Housecleaniag" That la Done at the End of Each When at last the big'ship reaches the other side of the ocean ferry and the passengers have hastened a way on business and pleasure a change takes place in the housekeeping. The family to be catered for suddenly shrinks to 500 a mere bagatelle relieved of the important work of pleas- an earnest worker in the ranks for its advancement. Last year he was the nominee of the party for his present office and his friends rallied to the YOUNG DIEOOLT, Application made for entry through the S. Hall as second-class matter. support irrespective of party, electing- Dealer in Si the British army in India there are about 1,500 cases of typhoid fever every year, 300 of them fatal.

Berlin boasts of seven coachmen who are retired army officers, three who are ex-pastors and 16 who are nobles. One event at an Australian poultrj show was a "15-minute crowing contest, for which five roosters were entered." An Ohio judge has decided that one cannot be prosecuted for giving a document unless a revenue stamp is affixed to it. The Connecticut experiment sta him in the lead of his ticket, and their confidence has not been misplaced. In 18C1 Mr. Russell enlisted with the Thirtv-third Indiana7 Volunteer the' chief steward mg passengers, Infantry and served three years.

Hi? plunges into a housceleaning more was the first regiment to enter Ken- exhaustive than is ever seen on land, Hardware and Farm Implements. Stoves Tinware Harness Saddlery Barb Wire a specialty. OLPE, KAXAn tucky ane he was in the principal battles down to Atlanta over a dozen in except perhaps in some Holland cot-tajre. Scarcely have the passenger SUBSCRIPTION RATES; ONE YEAR ONE DOLLAR MX MONTHS CENTS THREE MONTHS. CENTS.

STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. ADVERTISING 1 Col. inch'l week 12. 1 Column 1 week $2.50 No display ad will bd acceptea fo: less than $1 per single issue. Special discount on yearly contracts.

t35" All advertisements aiut locals will be run un-orlfrel cut unless otherwise suecinnd. all. Mr. Russell placed the first corporal guard in the city of Atlanta after its surrender. He is a member of the G.

A. R. and most hnrhlv es- tion found samples of cheap wheat bran whicli were adulterated with ground corn colis. Deposit and current accounts held in the joint stock banks of Great eemed. From the moment of his entering upon his official duties he has known no politics, but conducted his office on strictly business principles, hence bis A Chas Sch.

wind Bro, present popularity, for his friends believe that no man could enjoy a higher degree of confidence more 'justly earned. LUMBER, fEWlENT. gone when the ship is stripped cf adornments as a deck is cleared action. Every carpet is taken up in the public places and in each stale-! room, beds are stripped of all coverings, and mattresses stood on end to air. Then a process of scrubbing begins, and floors, walls and ceilings are washed, except where decorations prevent.

The steerage is emptied of everything except the wood of which it 'is built; the beds are sent to be burned and the blankets to be washed; and holystoning begins. The "glory hole" the crew's quarters is sometimes, but not always, treated to a sulphur candle, with the hatch battened down, lest dirt or disease get a foothold. The kitchens are more thoroughly treated than any other part of the ship, for they offer the greatest in Sand. VERDIGRIS ITEMS. No more dust, some nice Demoratlc and Populist Ticket.

For Treasurer, VV. J. BROGA, of Hartford-For Sheriff, C. E. LITTLE, of Empjria, For County Clerk, W.

A. LAWLER, of Emporia For Jle. of Deeds, W. A. NEIL, Neosho Rapids.

For Surveyor, J. W. McBRIDE, of Pike For Coroner, Dr. G. W.

MOORE, of Emporia. For Comissloner 1st Pist. ROBERT L. JONES. Emporia.

Republican Ticket-For Treasurer, C. A. JOHNSON, of Elmendaro. For Sheriff. Thos.

O'CONNOK, of Emporia. For County Clerk, H. E. PEACH, of Emporia-For Keg, of Deeds. O.

J. RUSSELL, of Emporia. For Surveyor, ALVA J. SMITH, of Emporia. For Coroner, W.

F. BOY LAN, of Emporia, For Com. 1st Dist.W. II. APES, of Empor'a.

Space will not permit of our Kivins the plat mud. Glad to see it too. Mr. J. E.

Bradtield and son Britain excluding the Bank of England increased from 570,000.000 in January of 18S0 January of 189i). A Berlin physician has written an artielc on the dangers resulting from what are considered insignificant For instance, of lo injuries to the thumb, permanent disability followed in CO per cent. According to the Ladies' Heme Journal, of the 12,000.000 families in the United States, more than one-third have an annual income of less than $400, while less than one-fifth have an income of more ihnn a year. The redwood forests of California are said to be the moKt dense of any known. The ret are of gign nt ie.

size Louis transacted business in Hart ford last week. We buv and ship Hay it Gri-aiii. Our line of PaifltS and Oil ls complete, and Quantity unsurpassed. Do not forget that we meet all competition on HAY GRAIN. COAL and BUILDING SUP- PLIES.

Call at our yard and iet us figure with you-We will you a long drive and some money. Chas. Schwindt Bro. Olpe, Kansas. Mr.

John Crowel was a caller in Madison last Friday. form in full of the various political parties of this ducements to dirt and water bugs, George Lamoureux Davidson visited the and Eddie watermelon county but the following are the fluaucial planks as adopted at their recent county conven ion? DEMOCItTIC. We, the Democrats of Lyon county in conven tion assembled, hereby reaffirm the primlples They are emptied of all utensils, thoroughly scrubbed, and then given into the hands of persons whose business it is to exterminate insects. The thing, about all this that most strikes a housekeeper is that housceleaning. promulgated in the Chicago platform, and espe and stature, and the sun can never cially declare for the free and unlim ited coinage shine in such a ffrove.

The trees are Of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. I'OPUIJST. of extreme age, being estimated to he, which is a sumiyearly affair on land, We again reiterate onr demands for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the occurs semimonthly on ship, and is in many cases, thousr mis of years old. patch last Sunday. Harvey Bradfield is a freqaent caller at Mr.

McCrays. 1 wonder why. We were sorry to hear of the death of Mr. Klinesorger's little baby lass Wednesday morning. Messrs.

Louis Bradfield and George Lamoureux attended the show at Emporia last Tuesday. Guess. more thorough each time than land THE FIRST IRONCLAD. legal rate of 1G to 1. We believe that money should te Issued by the national government' and that money thus issued is sound, honest and AND OLPE, Kansas.

All work done in either line in lirst shape. a specialty. YVaeons repaired on short notice. ive me a call. MADISON, KANSAS.

avuo niun iii a till is.avw cull .11 i i ii ing ail is put in oruer tor llic reccp- It Wa9 Deemed to Ee a Work of Super- as stable as the jjoveruraent back of It. REPUBLICAN. We are in favor of the present gold standard tion of passengers. In the staterooms human Origin. the standard whicli bas been in use in tliis the carpets are laid, the tanks of the Tne Coreans were the first to invent country for the past twenty-nine years, the stand, ard of all the, most enlightened and the great washstamls are filled, beds made up, the ir0n-clad warship.

In 1502 the and all dusted. In the public rooms hordes of Ilideyoshi landed on the commercial nations ot the world, and under which our nation has prospered as never before everything is replaced, then begins chores of southern Corea and swept and whicli prosperity has never been equaled by an extremely rigorous inspection by northward through the peninsula, any nation on earth. Santa Fe. Topeka, Kans. Re-union Kansas G.

A. R. and Spanish-American Veterans. Sept. 24 to 30.

One fare round trip. tnecniet steward of the interior ol the witll the av0wed purpose of crossing vessel. Jwery under steward is at his r-Mwc wW ami nvo We want to give a history of PinED Mil I ftyfH every da 'nir Mechanic uIULII HI ILL 2nd Emporia, Ivans. HENRY SENN. MANAGER.

Olpe and the surrounding country, post and must take blame and reproof tue empire. The Coreans could if any is deserved. offer no adeouate resistance, for, and want the help of the old citizen mi i i A lnis outline ol Housekeeping on a wuie Oorea had baen at peace for scv in compiling it. Can we get it? PAGE big steamship gives some slight idea erai centuries and the science of war of the labor of furnishing the com Do our citizens know what an in had received comparatively little attention, the islands of Japan had been calculable amount of good a little forts of home and the enjoyments of travel to them that "jto down to the Office days: Mondays, Fridays, one great battlefield, and the army of paint yvould do by way of preserv 100,000 men that landed on Qorean and Saturdays. Office upstairs in Patterson block sea in ships." Ladies' Home Journal.

HINDOOS DISLIKE LIQUOR. soil were all veterans. The Japanese ing theii houses? Not only that, but it would help the looks of our town. were provided with firearms, which had never been seen in Corea. THE PEOPLES A GOOD PIANO Is the only hind worth poyipg for at all.

A cheap piano is dear at any price. To get a good piano go to a reliable dealer who can be depended upon to tell you the truth1 for instance when we tell you the I 0-00 I MERRIFIELD is the best piano on the i I market sold at a medium price we I per lVlOntn. mean just what we say and furnish If Brahmin Indulges in Intoxicants When, therefore, the Japanese He Is Excommunicated. forces swept northward toward the capital, and tbe king iuo by ni-rbt STATE BANK, In a Hindoo club in the environs of Madura the conversation turned on the temperance question, says Rev. tne roau toiuc- uvi-vi, Corea came face to face with a hard, Dr.

Francis E. Clark's account ef of jVIadison, Kansas? uncompromising fact. She must Travels in India. There appears to be enough business houses now vacant for present demand, but there is not a residence to be had for love or money. Would it not be a paying investment for some of our capitalists to build a few neat little cottages to rent? We would guarantee their being soon occupied and at the same time create a demand for the vacant business buildings.

either find some new means for hold We are now open for busi "We Brahmans are teetotalers by ing the invaders in check, or she must religion, custom, birth and tradition," you a guarantee from the manufac ness, with a paid in capital cm fr i lin rll rTho stimnlnc wfi said one. sufficient, and in the person of Ad of $20,000, and solicit a "But what happened?" said turer. We sell these pianos on monthly installments if you desire. "when a Brahman drinks intoxicat miral Yi Sun-sin Corea found the solution of the problem. The Japanese had penetrated the country as far as ing liquor?" "He is excommunicated at once," Our stock of school supplies enables us to P'yeng-yang, and there were await- was the prompt reply, "if it is known.

mg an army ot reenlorcemcnt lrom share of the patronage of the people. We do a general banking business. Loan money at the usual rate. Accounts invited. Prompt and intelligent attention defy competition.

Come here to buy every Ko Brahman drinks intoxicants ex- Japan, consisting of 100,000 men, be cent in a secret and underhanded thing needed in school. fore advancing to the conquest of wav. China. Admiral Yi perceived that it "But do you mean to say that no was only by destroying this auxiliary liquors or wines arc sold or drunk in force that the Japanese could be We don't wraut to get too brash as a new comer, but there are a few things that a stranger would notice very quick in stepping off the cars, or driving into our thriving little in a wet time. The want of and cross-ways are badly needed.

Would it not be a good thing for our business men to get together and talk the matter over? We have no doubt some feasable plan could be fixed upon. given to all the interests of your club?" I inquired again. jl our.s lor ED. MICHELIN. "That is just what we mean," they replied.

"Xo drop of liquor ever has our customers. Reept THE PEOPLES STATE BANK, been sold, or ever shall be sold, so long as we are in control. In fact, the question that is agitating the club checked, and he realized, moreover, that, should it once set foot on Corean soil, all hope was gone. This grim necessity resulted in the invention of the. kwi-sun, or "tortoise-boat," so-called because of its resemblance to that animal.

In the illustration which had been preserved to us in the biography of Admiral Yi, we sec that the boat was covered with Madison, Kansas, CAN YOU FIND THE SHIP? IF SO, YOU WILL GET A SILK FLAG FREE! now is whether bottled lemonade and soda water shall be sold, and after a A. Wehrman, Pres. Wm. Focht, warm discussion it has been decided J. F.

Steintorf, Cashier. Direciors. A. Wehrman, Wm. Focht.

J. O.J. We take great pleasure in a short sketeh we find in the Em by a large majority in the negative. Steintorf, K. AV.

Cunningham, 1. 1). stoughton. "We do not wish to introduce foreign a curved deck of iron nlalp und wn J. W.

Hinshaw, Chas. Biaris, M. C. Hale, S. brumbaugli.

poria Republican's Agricultural and Industrial edition of that paper for i89s, of the above named gentleman: drinks of any kind Soda is associ- provided with a ram. These two ated with whisky and brandy, and.we thinfrs formed itR def nd of IPtfblic Sale- will not have the taint of a saloon These shipwrecked sailors are anxious to escape from the island upon which they have cast There is a ship concealed in the picture which will enable them to do this. Can you find the ship If so, cut out the picture, mark the outlines of the ship with pencil, and forward to Howard, Ainslee Si Fulton Strret. I will sell at my place 8 miles east about our club. Coffee and tea arc of Madison and one mile south of La fensive equipment.

With this boat, whose speed was exceptionally great, Admiral Yi, boldly attacked the Japanese fleet of 600 boats, ramming them right and left, and as he passed on he left the struggling Japanese in mont on FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1899, at 10 o'clock a. m. the following de scribed property to-wit. In all walks of life the "self-made man" deserves and generally receives, the plaudits of the world. The struggles of early life naturally constitute such men to grapple with the stern realities of every-day duties.

To such men obstacles are naught, and in the lexicon of their aims and endeavors there is no such word as faiL It is such men that maintain the commercial supremacy of America, and- when they enter official life their services are entered ia the same energetic and reliable manner. Iu the subject of 52 head of cattle consisting of 20 New York, and they will send you a SILK AMERICAN FLAG, 8 12 inches in size, postpaid and free of all expense, provided you the water, to be dispatched by his followers in the ordinary boats of the Corean fleet. The enemies deemed good milk cows, I two-year-old heif ers, 2 two-year-old steers, 5 1-year-old steers, 7 1-vear-old heifers, 5 steer the tortoise boat to be a work of super calves, lo heifer calves, 1 3 -year-old human origin, and their "bones melt- good enough for us." When I said. good-by to my hospitable temperance hosts, they asked me to write a sentiment in their club book. My sentiment was: "I rejoice that -there is one club on the face of the earth where liquor is not sold, one clubhouse that does not reek with the fumes of wine and tobacco." The "Funny Bone." That which is popularly known as the "funny bone," just at the point of the elbow, is, in reality not a bone at all, but a nerve that lies near the surface, and which, on getting a knock or blow, causes the well-known tingling sensation in the aans and fingers.

ed" rithin them. narpcr Maga zine. $5,000,000 Explosion. Fine Short Horn Bull all native stock. 40 head of Hogs, Brood Sows and Shoats.

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the greatest our sketch, Mr. O. J. Russell, register of deeds for Lyon county, we have a man representative of this class of There are 74 mining companies in the Transvaal republic. During 1898 these companies consumed goods and supplies valued at $23,000,000.

The expenditures for explosives alone was Personal Item. 1 McCormick Harvester, Sulky plow, Disc Harrow, Spring wagon, Farm wagon, etc. TERMS. All sums under $5 cash, all sums over 35 a credit of 10 months will be given on Bankable paper bearing interest at the rate of 8 per cent per annum. Three per cent off for cash payment on time sales.

FRED LEESER, SR. Barney Freeman, Auctioneer. $5,000,000. Clothing and Dirt citizens. A native of the "Hoosier Mr.

Russell took Horace Greely's advice in 1873, and 44came west" to Kansas, locating in Lyon county. He started in the real estate business in Emporia, and while thus engaged he secured the respect and esteem of all his fellow citizens, and also acquired a perfect knowledge of every foot of ground in the surrounding country. Later he was made deputy sheriff. writers of the If is a most remarkable magazine, and is worth many times the subscription pr'cc. Remember, the will be sent vou six months by mail, postpaid, for 50 CENTS.

The flag is given to you free of all additional expense; as a prize for solving the puzzle. HOWARD, AINSLEE COMPANY, a 1 Fulton Street, New York. Clothing may be as cheap as dirt, The following appeared lately in the agonj' column of a daily paper: "Dear Tom Come immediately, if you see this. If not, come on Sat' urday." London Tit-Bits. but that doesn't prevent some people from wearing the dirt.

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