The Waif from Topeka, Kansas • 4

flA WHAT IS BEAUTY. it OIF (iNCOBPOltATED.) A Keeley Institute for the cure of the Liquor, tyu, Morphias, Cocaine, Ciguilti ui Tobacco Eallts, HAS BEEN LOCATED AT THE HOUSE, NORTH TOPEKA, Nervous Prostration Saccessiully Treated. Db J. HibbeN. the physician in charge, renewed his instruction at Dwight, from Dr.

who looated this Institution and fumiBhea all medioine for the same direct from Dwight. Genuine Keeley Double Chloride of Cold Institutes, conducted by the same zu inRit-o ifancas tv. Leavenworth, and Marvs- Genulne Keeley DouDie tnionae or wuuuhwuuj wwi atWichita, Kansas City, Leavenworth, and Marys company also operates company. Instittttea practioe the same treatment as is received at Dr. Keeleys Home oth Inetltntae in KffnQflS.

All tnese ihbuhimjb ihhuuuo um Institutes in Kansas. they are the only genuine Keeley hissing hoards floated on the water. It was not long. The last spark was extinguished and the watcher was alone on the rock with the waves dashing against his waist. Cramped as he was, he knew he could not swim to land, even though he had dared face the wreckers, and turning his face toward the incoming ship he anxiously watched her rising and falling lanterns.

She was making port all right and when the waters came breast-high, he saw her ride past the island, and he knew she was safe. Then he waited for the time when his feet should lift and he would be carried from his perch. It did not come. To his joy the waters came no higher, and after awhile they began to recede. Anxiously gazing toward shore, he could see nothing of the wreckers, and he felt almost happy.

Down, down went the tide, more rapidly than it had risen, the falling wind letting the water off shore, and long before morning the Dry Dock was bare. The little watcher did not have the strength to leave it, but crouched upon its highest point as if nestling upon a protectors breast. The old Pietro and the revenue officer found him when the sun was in mid-heaven, half delirious with the effects of his perilous vigil. It was many days before he could relate the story of his adventure, but the Star of Texas had uot yet left the harbor. Its captain called on the little sufferer, and thanked him with words and gifts for guiding the struggling ship into the haven.

Sevares life was never so lonely afterward, for his deed gained him friends who added some of the citys bright life to his isolated home out at the Dry Rock watchhouse. Yankee Blade. Dr. N. M.

NYE, BBKt'ISWs I 607 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kas. ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL And Restaurant W. A. DeMOSS Props.

ETO PEI DflY. Street Cars pass the House for all parts the City. 426 Kansas Ave, Topeka, Kans. All Dental work of the beet and at reas- onable prices. Plates made by the TCELEBRATED MORRIS BeBt in the market; no thicker than Best in the market; no thicker than heavyl writing paper; flexible and will stay In months hard to fit with the old jn hard rubber plates.

Teeth Extracted Without Pain 1 Please mention The Wats- when you jd write to or call on Dr. Nye 7 J. B. LARIMER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Room 26, Knox Building. TOPEKA, KANSAS.

Beams to Depart on the Country Which tho Question Is Aiked It is remarkable to learn the ex traordinary ideas of female beauty which characterize different nations. The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers and toes red, their eyebrows black and their lips blue. In Persia they paint a black streak around their eyes and ornament; their faces with representations of various figures. The Japanese women adopt the singular method of gilding their teeth, and those of the Indians paint them red. In some parts of India the pearl of the teeth must be dyed black before a woman can be beautiful.

The Hottentot women paint the entire body in compartments of red and black. In Greenland the women color their faces with blue and yellow, and frequently tattoo their bodies by saturating threads in soot, inserting them beneath the skin, and then drawing them through. Hindoo families, when they wish to be particularly lovely, smear themselves with a mixture of saffron 'and grease, and in nearly all the islands of the Pacific and Indian oceans the women, as well as the men, tattoo great variety of figures on the face, the lips and the tongue. In New Holland the women cut themselves with shells, and, keeping the wounds open a Jong time, form aeep scars in the flesh which they deem highly ornamental. Another singular mutilation is made among them, for, when in infancy, they take off the little finger of the left hand at the second joint.

In ancient Persia an aquiline nose was often thought worthy of the crown, but the Sumatran mother carefully flattens tho nose of her daughter. Among some of the savage tribes of Oregon, also in Aracan, continual pressure is ap plied to the skull in order to ilatoen and thus give it a new beauty The modern Persians have a strong aversion to red hair; the Turks, on contrary, are warm admirers of In China small, round eyes are and the girls are continually plucking their eyebrows that they be thin and long. But the great beauty of a Chinese lady is in her which, in childhood, are so compressed by bandages as effectually to prevent any further increase in size. four smaller toes are bent under foot, to the sole of which they firmly adhere, and the poor girl not endures much pain, but becomes cripple for life, Another mark of beauty consists in having finger nails so long that casings of bamboo are necessary to preserve them from injury. An African beauty must have small eyes, thick a large, flat' nose and a skin beautifully black.

In New Guinea nose is perforated and a large piece of wood or bone inserted. On northwest coast of America an incision more than two inches long is made in the lower lip and then filled with a wooden plug. In Guinea the are pierced with thorns, the head the thorn being inside the mouth and the point resting on the chin. Yankee Blade. JAS.

F. GRIFFIN, no Eight East, Topeka. FIRE INSURANCE. None but the best companies represented. Losses promptly paid.

Insurance of furniture and household goods a specialty. Cyclone Insnrence at lowest rates. A SQUARE MEAL FOR 1 5 CENTS, ATT 400 12 KANSAS AVENUE, Opposite the Court House. This Will Tell Bow It 1 Obtained. The best false hair comes from France, where it is sold by the gramme at prices which vary according to quality and color, says the New York Herald.

The most expensive false hair is the silver-white variety, which is in great demand and very difficult to find. This is due to the fact that men grow bald in a majority of cases before their hair reaches the silver-white stage, and women, whether bald or not, are not disposed to sell their white hair at any price. They need it themselves. Still women growing bald must have white hair to match the scant allowance advancing age has left them. The chemists have taken the matter in hand and are able to produce by decoloration of hair of any color a tolerable grade of white hair, which, however, has a bluish tint not at all approaching in beauty the silvery softness of hair which has been bleached by nature.

False hair of the ordinary shades is obtained in two ways. The better and more expensive kind is cut directly from the heads of peasant women, who sell their silken tresses sometimes for a mere song and sometimes for a fair price, according as they have learned wisdom. Every year the whole territory of France is traveled over by men whose business it is to persuade village maidens, their mothers and their aunts to part with their hair for financial consideration. These men are known as cutters, and there are at least 500 of them in the country always going from house to house, from farm to farm, and through all the villages in all the departments, seeking subjects for their scissors. A good cutter averages from two to five heads of hair a day, and he pays from 2 francs to 10 francs for each.

It is estimated that a single head of luxuriant growth weighs about a pound. The false hair thus obtained at the cost of tears and regrets of many foolish maidens is the finest in the market, and sells for an exaggerated price, which puts it beyond the reach of the ordinary purchaser. Besides, it is evident that the supply of genuine cuttings must fall far short of the demand for false hair. So the majority of this wavy merchandise is obtained yes, ladies, I am exceedingly sorry, but it is the fact from the rag-pickers. These busy searchers of ash heaps and garbage barrels collect every day in the city of Paris alone at least 100 pounds of hair, which some hundreds of thousands of women have combed out of their heads during the preceding twenty-four hours.

This hair, all mixed together and soiled, one would think, beyond redemption, is sold to hair cleaners at 1 to $1.50 a pound, which shows simply that the fair sex in one city alone throws away annually about 300,000 francs worth of hair, for which they afterward pay and it is the same hair, mind considerably over 1,000,000 francs. The cleaning of this refuse hair is an operation which requires careful attention. After the hair has been freed from the dust and dirt and mud and other unpleasant things with which it has come in contact in gut ters and slop-buckets, it is rubbed in sawdust until it shines once more with its pristine gloss, and then the process of sorting is begun. In the first place skillful hands fix the individual hairs in frames with the roots all pointing the same way, and then they are arranged according to color. Finally, when a sufficient number of hairs of one color have been ob tained nor is this number so immense as is generally supposed they are made into the beautiful braids which are shown so seductively in the windows of fashionable coiffeurs.

If, as the Good Book says, wisdom goes with the hair, she who places on her head one of the conglomerate braids might be said to receive a portion of the wisdom of hundreds or thousands of other women who had worn those hairs before her. It is said that the cutters in Franco have plied their trade so industriously that at present it is hardly possible in the whole Republic to find a woman who will sell her hair. Tho business has been done to death, and now tho enterprising dealers in false jjair are sending their representatives through Switzerland, Belgium and Norway, canvassing for unsophisticated lasses who will allow themselves to be robbed of their hair, which is half their beauty, for a few pieces of silver. ville. and a S.

625 JACKSON ST. Will give you a Perfect Fit. F. A. RIPLEY Manager.

Mrs, L. GERMAN, Sup't. Write to them mentioning The Waif. in 1C1 tb ri in a wl Call and order one of our 15 cent meals and you will go away satisfied and come again. Readers of this paper in Meriden, Silver Lake, Ross ville, Wamego, Council Grove, Manhattan and surrounding towns, will find this a desirable place to procure their meals when in the city.

Remember the place, opposite the Court House. JV. HO LAI) A Prop. TO THE FARMER: Take your home paper first then subscribe for ihe Weekly Edition of THE KANSAS CITY Si W-M Fiiriilus. STAR" A PAPER FOR THE FARMER.

Cents a Year. THE KANSAS CITY STAR, DAILY: 1 YEAR, $4. 3 MONTHS, Stoves and Clothing, Cooking Stoves from $3. up. Heating Stoves from 82.

up. Rocking Chairs from 50 oents up. Common Chairs from 25 cents up. Extension and square Tables from 81. up.

Mattresses from $1. up. Clothing at nominal prices. In fact you will find almost any article that you can ask for, at prices that will surprise you. Mens, womens and childrens secondhand Clothing in good condition at very low prices.

People from the country and surrounding towns are invited to call and we will give them a fair bargain on any thing they wish to buy. Dont miss the plaoe, FRANK SPACHT, 408 Kansas Avenue, Topeka. Midnight Visitor. An anecdote told in the Life of Dean Burgon illustrates how a man every hour of whose daily life is occupied finds, like amomnibus, room for one more. The Dean, then abOxford, was leaving St.

Marys Church after morning service one Sunday, when a a gentleman walked up to him, and with a decided American accent said, Stranger have you got any leisure? Well, let me see, said the Dean It is now a quarter-past 1 oclock. I have to get my luncheon and be back at the university sermon at 2 oclocx. At 3 oclock I have a press ing apppointment. At 4 oclock I have an afternoon service. At 6, if I have time.

shal1 have some dinner. Anyhow, I must be at church again at 7 for evening service, which will last until half -past 8. Then on returning to my rooms I shall find twenty or thirty undergraduates waiting for me, and I shall be engaged with them until about 11. Oh, at 11 I shall have some leisure. Ah! Ill come to you at 11, said the stranger.

The usual routine of the days work went on, continued Dean Burgon in telling the story, and tired as a dog, you know I had just turned the men out of my rooms at 11 oclock, having quite forgotten the inquirer of the morning, when I beard steps on the stairs and a knock at my door. Come in, and in came the man, and again asked, Have you leisuc now? Tired as I was, I said, Oh yes! Come in. Now, my dear sir, will you kindly tell me what you want of me. Well, can you convince me of the truth of Christianity? What, sir! Do you really come to me at this time of night to as such a question as that? 1 Yes, stranger, thats what I came for. What do you mean, sir? Wha arc your doubts? Well the Gospels; they contra diet one another.

The Gospels contradict one an-otherl Now I pin you to that, sir! Where do they contradict one another? Oh, so, and so. My dear sir, that is too easy! Do think of something else! No, thats enough; explain that first. I explained it at once, of course; it was too ridiculous. He then men tioned something else; to be as easily made clear to him; and so wc went on, ding-dong, hammer and tongs until the college clock struck two, when he rose to go, saying, Well, I guess if any one has convinced me of the truth of Christianity, its you-you are so beastly positive. Good night! Before leaving he told me he was a clergyman of the American Church, 1 but from doubts that arose in nis mind he had thrown up his living and had traveled a great deal, lie never lost an opportunity to hear a preacher of whom he had heard favorable mention, and if he found him an earnest man, he always made a point of asking him if he vince him of the truth of it the it.

liked, may feet, The the only a lips, the the lips of of to A. O. SLOA.TT, -DENTI8T Millionaire Thief Not half a century ago a wealthy New Yorker, who div.d recently, missed from his pictuli gallery two small but very valuable canvases. He suspected eveiybody in the house. It was said at tho time that he accused one of his sons, who was a little wild, having stolen the pictures in order raise on them money which his father had refused him for his extravagances.

However, the facts remained a mystery for some years. Then an expressman delivered a package at the bankers door. In it were the missing pictures, intact, as they had been taken from their frames. There was no mark or sign upon them or the package to denote the source from which their restoration proceeded. The owner was as curious now as he had been furious before.

lie set a detective on the matter. The pictures were traced backward, through the express office, to the widow of one of the owners most intimate and trusted friends. This man, himself a millionaire, crazed by cupidity, for he was a collector of pictures himself, had stolen them one night after he had dined with their owner. No stairs to climb. Office on first floor.

S. W. Cor. Eighth and Quincy. Topeka, Kansas.

a Read the Article relative the first page, On to the Kansas State Prison, a- CD And then send in your scription for one secure the ten or nthe iron cecding articles of thserfe-" iThe visit: i i A Persistent Ghost. Huntington, Long Island, is in a ferment over the appeal ance of a ghost. Mrs. Truman Brown died some months ago from a cancer, and during the past few weeks she has been haunting her husband. She conics in the night and wakes him and gazes at him reproachfully, but will say nothing to him.

He tried to talk to her; then he tried to catch her; then he drew a revolver and shot her, but all to no purpose. She still conics to visit him and has taken to bringing another ghost along with her. He shot, them both, but they stood their ground until he tried to lay hands on them, when they vanished, only to return the next night. He is in despair and his neighbors are intensely excited. 5 Uhlll I First.

Of all the forty-six American stamps-issuing countries Chili is the only one up to this year, excepting one short-lived 15-ccnt, that has properly honored Columbus. He ap pears conspicuous on all their stamps. In 1869 the United States issued a 15-ccnt stamp showing a picture of his landing. Several of this issue were printed in two colors, and so happened that In this 15-ccnt the medallion containing the picture got into cir culation upside down, which was discovered, and is now known as the inverted medallion." One was sold recently for $05. Q.

CO CO If a man provided nothing but dry bread and water for his wife to eat, bread and water for his wire to eat. CO Jr Q. The Topeka Shirt whose advertisement appears in this paper, manufacture a first class shirt at reasonable prices. Write to them mentioning The Waif. We not ced th she would make a great roar, but she tml a woman ner that will go to a fashionable Mother looks pleased, and the and pay fifteen dollars a week to live eJeXks scared, on such diet and boast of 1.

"Il' If a man walks ten miles, he says he walked sixty. A Va AlA ill I i A 5 I hiajvwk.