The Leader from Wichita, Kansas • 7

UNACQUAINTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY WILL OBTAIN MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION IN REGARD TO RECENT EXTENSIONS, OF THE "GREAT ROOK ISLAND" SYSTEM, FROM A STUDY OF THIS MAP OF TOO STftONG FOR THE RUMMIES. A Temperance Poem Which Roused Brooklyn Saloon Keepers The following is the text of the temperance poem, the recitation of which during the last campaign by a child in one of the public schools of Brooklyn, brought down on the head of the Board of Education the maledictions of the four liquor dealers associations and the whole saloonkeeping fraternity of that city. UtXNBKD TO SELT. Im licensed to sell! Get out of my shop! the rumseller angrily cried, With a frown on his face and a curse on his lips to the woman who Btood by his side My moments are precious, IWe no time to waste; I have paid for my license, 1 say. Tis my business to sell, I shall sell when I choose, to those who will give me my pay.

Your moments are precious! ah! precious for what? To ruin some innocent ones? You shall listen a moment; His little ask, for wrong, that to me you have done. You have ruined my husband, both body and soul that you his scant money might gain; You were licensed to sell, you answered me then and all my pleadings were vain You lured him on with your honeyed words il your victory you made complete; Till his money was gone, then one cold night you turned him into the street. You were lioensod to Bell, and gave not a sigh for the miserable work you had done; And now, not convent, you are striving your best to likewise ruin my son. You are leading him on the downward path his meagre earnings you crave; For that you are williug to send him down to an early drunkards grave. To look at the miserable sots of our town, then back to ten years ago, And know it is you and your cursed work that have brought them down so low.

You are license! to 6ell, ah! yes, it is true that your license in money is paid; But think not thats all that would ever be asked for tho miserable wrecks you have made. When you stand at the judgment seat of God, for deeds done here on earth, Aud you stand in the presence of these poor souls that you have helped drag down to hell, Of little avail will it be to yon then to say, I am licensed to sell, THE CHICAGO, KANSAS NEBRASKA RY (ROCK mmv quickest, safest Bn all Important New MeXioo, This comprehfnsiv ALaibnie' most econom'cal and BEST tacilHios i localities in Kl Texas and the Indian Territory. It traverses the riqnes iwi lEwTfl agricultural sections of the famous Gold Belt Of the We3t, whose ceroal, vegetable and fruit products, aha horses, cattle, sheet and swine challenge the admiration of the world. Among the hundreds of flourishing ciUes and towns on its main and branch lines are: A number of topics of interest were discussed from the Question Drawer, opened by Mrs. G.

H. Laughlin, of West Side Wichna, Growth of a Big Book. When Websters Unabridged was first published in one volume, it was a comparatively small book. Some years after, an addition was made of 1,500 Pictorial Illustrations, A Table of Synonyms, and an Appendix of New Words that had come into use. A few years later came an entirely new revised edition of larger size, with 3000 Pictorial Illustrations; then, after an interval of a few years, a Biographical Dictionary of nearly 10,000 Names, and a Supplement of nearly 5,000 New Words were added; and now there has come another new and most valuable addition.

A Gazetteer of the World, of over 25,000 Titles. The work is now not only the best Dictionary of the words of the language, but is a Biographical Dictionary, a Gazetteer of the World, and a great many other good and useful things in its many valuable Tables. Under the auspices of the W. C. T.

U. of Coffey county there have been ten contests for the Demorest Silver Medal in the past six months and others are being arranged for, consequently several Gold Medal contests will be held in the near future. At their county convention, held June 6th and 7th, a medal contest was the future of the evening program. The county president, Mrs. S.

S. Weatherby, was presented with a beautiful copy of Miss Willards Glimpses of fifty years, as a birthday gift from the ladies of the W. C. T. U.

A further report of the convention will appear later. A little girl recently wrote te the Secretary of the Navy as follows: My cousin was on the war ship, and she said the sailors wasted potatoes, and I thought if they took thinner parings, you might build a ship to send where the others got lost. 1 am only 11 years old, but I can take thinner parings. That girl will be heard from again, when she becomes a woman, and is allowed to vote. And if she is refused this right, she will be heard from all the more! Thinner parings is a good motto for Government officials.

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Louis and all points East South and Southeast; with TVS ast Trains of the "GREAT ROCK ISLAND ROUTE for 1 5J Davenport. Rock Island, Dee Moines. Peoria. Cmcago, and ink a Ua EM a IS S3 all points East: with the ALBERT LEA ROUTE for Spirit Lake, Sioux Falls, Water town, Minneapolis, St. Paul and all points North and Northwest, and with continuous lines running South and Southwest to the Pacific Coast.

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Description of Mr MutiO, the Japanese Minister and His Wife The present Minister, Mr. Mutsu, Is a typical Japanese, lithe, slender, active, alert, a polished gentleman and a deep thinker. He is Bwarthy, and his eyes are as black as night. He learned to speak English in Japan, and while he doesn't speak it fluently, he expresses himself very well and understands readily. He is a devoted husband and very proud of his pretty wife, who has but to look as if she desired any thing to get it.

He is in favor of the highest position for women, and advocates their advancement and freedom. Mr. Mutsu was appointed by the Emperor Governor of Yokohama, and several years afterwards political complications arose and he was thrown into prison, where be was confined for four years and a half. After the political upheaval he was released, honors were conferred upon him, and on the recall of Minister Kuki the Emperor made him his Minister to the United States. During his incarceration the cholera broke out in the prison and his wife greatly feared that he would be a victim to it.

She then had to care for his two little boys by a former marriage and her own infant daughter. She was then quite young herself, and had little more experience of life than a child. For the distress she endured then he is trying to make up now by his tender care and his admiration for her courage and self-reliance is unbounded. Mme. Mutsu, although she is the mother of a daughter taller than her-Belf, and has not the slightest objection to telling her age up to the latest date, is very young and girlish looking; far more youthful, in fact, than many a belle who has been out a season or two.

She is by far the prettiest Japanese lady ever seen in Washington. She is p-tite, with a pretty, graceful figure, and the tiniest hands and feet imaginable. Her skin is of that smooth, satiny texture resulting from the hot baths so universal in Japan, and is a clear olive in hue; her cheeks are like the damask rose and ner eyes large and dark and sparkling with intelligence. Her eyebrows are straight and delicately penciled, and her abundant coal black hair is rolled back from her forehead and coiled on top of her head. Her teeth are whito and even and her lips are full and ripe-red.

Her expression is vory quiet, but wAien she smiles her whole face lights up and becomes radiant. Unlike most Japanese her face is a perfect oval, and in the American dress, which she has adopted, one has to look a second time to assure himself that she belongs to another race. As one of tho ladies in waiting to the Empress, she became accustomed to foreign dress and liked it. She is a fragile, delicate little creature, with scarcely muscle enough to lift an ordinary chair, and looks with wonder on the activity of American ladies. SL rarely walks except in the garden behind the house, and has walked on the street hut once in the day time (then just around the block with a lady), and twice at night for a ehort distance witli her husband.

She is fond of going out visiting, but doesnt take the mad delight in shopping for nothing that we do. She dosen't go shopping except when she really wants something, selects quickly what she wants, and that is the end of it. Washington Letter. ai I. One Hundred Years Ago.

There were no express companies then. In 1839 William F. llarndon, of Boston, at the suggestion of some friends, advertised that he would make regular trips as a messenger between Boston and New York and would take personal charge of such small packages and orders as were entrusted to him. He made his first trip March 4 of that year. As a matter of business and to secure the influence of the press in the two cities, Mr.

llarndon Drought news both ways in advance of the mails. In 1840 an express was put on the lino via Norwich and Worcester by P. B. Burke and Allen Adams, but the sole management of the business soon passed into the hands of Mr. Adams.

W. B. Dinsmore soon joined Mr. Adams and took charge of the New York end of tho line. In 1841 the llarndon company extended its line to Philadelphia and Albany.

The same year a new line was started by Henry Wells from Boston to the West under the name of Wells Co. In 1849 the Adams was extended to California, and in 1852 the Wells line, under the name of Wells, Fargo reached the Pacific coast. From this email beginning has grown up a system that has become as important and necessary as the postal system itself, and, in fact, should the latter be discontinued a large portion of the postal business could be done by these companies. Chicago News. WASH guarantee the LOVELL WASHES to do better work easier and in less time than any other machine in world.

Warranted five years, and if it dont wash the clean without rubbing, we will refund the money. NTS A NTE DiUcan show proof rents are making from $75 to $150 per month Farmers f200 to JfaOO during the winter. Ladies have great success this Washer. Retail price, only $5. Sample to those an agency Also the Celebrated REV8T0N at manufacturers' lowest prices.

We invite the investigation. Send your address on A postal card for particulars. LOVELL WASHER Erie, Pa. SAM INTEA ALLENS ADYICE. Josiah put your slippers on, And cease your needless clatter; I want to have a word with you About a little matter.

Chorus: Josiah, look me in the face; You know this worlds condition, Yet you have never cast a vote Right out for Prohibition. I heard you on your knees last night Ask help to keep from strayin, And now I want to know if you Will vote as youve been prayin? Youve prayed as loud as any man While with the tide a-floatin; Josiah, you must stop sich work, And do some better votin! We women pray for better times, And work right nard to make em; You men vote whisky with its crimes And we just have to take em. How long, Josiah, must this be? We vote and pray gainst evil; You pray all right for what 1 see, And vote plumb for the devil. There now; Ive said my say, and you Just save your ammunition, And vote the way youve always prayed, For total Prohibition. A.

M. Brunner. 709 Waco Wichita, May 24th, 1889. Dear Mrs. Weatherby: Weve had another convention.

If Sedgwick county does not have a plenty of anything else, it certainly does have an abundance of conventions. Personally I am of the opinion that we could spend our time and money to a better advantage, but the majority think otherwise. I have sent a report to Our Messenger which will probably appear soon, so I will not repeat any thing in that. Mrs. Gilloglys paper on the suppression of Impure Litertaure was excellent.

She touched upon the current fiction of the day against which there is no law, not being sufficiently vile, but which is calculated to undermine character. She thought we ought to use our influence against it. Mrs. Anna M. Taylor presented some good thoughts on Dress Reform.

She thought our bodies should be clothed as becomes a temple of the Holy Ghost. She recommended the Dress Magazine, edited by Mrs. Anna Jennessee Miller, as containing many useful hints. Miss Anna Mason, of the Ys, read a very pretty paper on Young Womans Work, representing opportunities of usefulness as plants growing in lifes garden which should be cultivated into blooming. HENRY W.

110BY, M.D., C. F. SURGEONS, 118 West Sixth 'Avenue, TOPEKA, KANSAS. J. S.

COLLINS REAL ESTATE AGENTS, Reference any Bank in the City. 115 Sixth Ave. West, Topeka, Ks. JOHN M. BAIRD, Manufacturer of all kinds ot TIN WOIllf, Jobbing, Tin Roofing, Furnace work, Estimates on Furnaces, New Buildings, etc.

506 Jackson Topeka, Kansas. W. J. LARIMEK, PURE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS, Prescriptions carefully compounded. ICE COLD SODA WATER NICE AND SWEET.

409 Kansas Avenue. DR. L. U. WASSON, DENTIST.

The Best THE LIGHT RUNNING SEWING MACHINE DME SEWIRG MACHINE UdUGEmSS, -28 UNION SQUARE.N.tt ATLANTA GA. TEX. 0UI9.M0. SANfftANClSCO CAL Waltzing Ostriches. Ostriches, like rattle, are liable to Stampede, said a Cape Town man at the Talaee Hotel, but the funniest thing they do is to waltz." How, pray, is that done? The leader of the herd, generally the old male ostrich, evidently thinks that his followers should have some diversion on a long march from one pasture to another, so lu begins by slowly turning round and round.

In five minutes the whole flock is doing the same, and it is quite a sight; their long plumes waving in the wind until they conclude to quit and go on their way. Musi, of course, has nothing to do with their dancing. San Francisco Call. We will and do it the clothes AC that a rnake Celling igdp'dnng WRINGERS strictest further Geo. Betcheis great brewery on Staten Island, New York has been purchased by English capitalists for the enormous sum of $1,750,000.

It turns out 100,000 barrels of beer each year. English capital will soon monopolize the brewing business of this country, and English money will fight prohibition. GREAT JUNE SALE OF DRY-GOODS AND CARPETS. During the month of JUNE we are goiug to close out a lot of goods at figures very much under value. commence with cutting prices on our entire stock of silks.

Nest we cut prices on our entire stock of summer dress goods. We are going to sell 10c white goods at 15c white goods at 10c. 20 25c white goods at 15 35c table linens at 25c. 50c table linens at 40c. 81.00 table linens at 88c.

10c towels at 7Jc. 15c cent towels at 10c. 35e towels at 25c. 45c sateens at 35c. 30 and 35c sateens at 20 and 25c.

A good line of Sateens at 8c. 10c, and 10c ginghams at 7c. 10c seersucker ginghams at 7c. 7c prints at 5c. 7c lawns at 5c.

5c lawns at 3c. 8Jo challies at 6Jc. A good line of dark challies at 10c Summer Corsets at 50o and 81.00. Silk Umbrellas at $1.00, 81.25, 81.75, $2.00, $2.50 and up. Ladies Silk Gloves at 25c, 35c, and 50c.

Ladies Silk Mitts at 25c, 35c, 50c, 75c, and $1.00 Ladies hose at 5c. 10c, 25c, 35c, and 50c. Childrens Hose at 8c, 10c, 15c and 25c. Ladies underwear, Swiss Ribbed, at 15c, 25c, and 50c. Rnchings at 5c, 10c, 15c, 25c a yard.

We are cutting prices very low on carpets, curtains, etc. If you want to save money come and see us when you are in Lawrence, or write. L. O. McINTIRE 919 St.

Lawrence. 725 Kansas Ave. Residence 1009 Buchanan St. TOPEKA KAJSTSAS. The Assembly is not proposed to be in any sense whatever denominational.

Its workers, lecturers and patrons have been drawn from all the denominations. Th field of its operations is that of Christian unity. Atteid the Assembly. For a rich treat visit Trumbnlls ine Art Store, 702 Kg. Ave..