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STORIES OF JUSTICE HAWKINS,
1 nintel • or the 1'tunous English Judne
s 6
Who 11118 Jtlsl Retired.
per. J'a.stioe Ilawltins' retirement
from the bonoh will be much regretted
,by all whose businoes or pleasure took
1thbm into the law courts, for he is
the most witty man who has adorned
tee eeat of justice in recent yeare, says
the London Daily Mail.
He once had a most amusing dialogue
with a prisoner, after the latter had
been on his trial for horse stealing.
" Why did you steal thin horse?"
asked the judge.
To earn nay then'," replied the cum -
pant of Ilia dock, sullenly.
"Rather a bad way of earning your
livelihood, is it not 1"
" Must do something I" the prisoner
remarked, off -hand.
"So you must," said the judge, "Try
six -months' herd labour l"
A well known member of the bar was
one day prosecuting, before Mr. Jus-
tice Hawkins, a man for stealing,
among other articles, a halter. Tho
barrister in question seemed to behav-
ing a struggle with the letter "II,"
and on this occasion consistently kept
referring to the " alter."
The judge endured this for the bet-
ter part of an boor; at last, however,
be summoned the Clerk of Assize, and
seriously asked him-
" IS THIS THE CROWN COURT ?"
' Yes, my Lord; I believe so," re=
plied the astonished official.
" Thank you," responded the occu-
pant of the justice seal, "I thought I
bad found my way into an ecolesiastical
enquiry I"
The judge has often been heard to
say that there are too many law
books. Meeting a young law student
who had just offered himself for the
admission examination he aspect him
Young Folks, 1
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TILE QUEER LITTLEE HEN.
There wee once a little brown bon,
A' dear little, queer little ben,
Her work was to lay
Just Gael ogg every day,
And she did it, this good little hen.
She'd fly up In a tree, and right then,
Seated high on a branch, this queer
hen.,
Her egg she would lay,
Her ono ogg every day,
Tbie good little, queer little hen.
'Twos o strange thing to do, I must
say,
And what good was the egg? -
Just tell me that, I beg -
That fell from a tree in that way ?
13ut some people do things just as
(queer,;
I know It; I've seen it, my dear,
They have a good thought,
But it just comes to naught;
From the wrong place they drop It, my
dear,
There's a lesson for you and for me,
From the hen that laid eggs in a tree,
1E we do a right thing,
1f a good thought we bring,
Let's not choose a wrong place, you.
and me.
A LONELY LITTLE BOY,
Once upon a time there was a lone -
story in It oe a cave, and the little
thermals where the grainy earth ran
down he Dulled his mills, He played
yer 1
!
with his mills, grinding the flour over
and aver, until it began to grow
dark. Then be hurried book to the
Mw place where he had entered and
ran home, lite sisters were looking for
him and milling when be ounlo. He
told them that he had found a great
cave with mills In It for grinding
flour, Ile was almost Loo much excit-
ed to eat hie supper, but he was no
longer homesick, ; The next day be
ARCHAIC IIAIII TONIC.
Tha oldest medical roeipe is said by
a Fronolt medical journal to be that
forEgyptian en,
of a hair LonwauClue
i 1 t is dated 400 13 C., and directs that.
dogs' pews and asses' hoofs be boiled
with dates ea oil,
'Promotion of General Rapt/limes'
Is secured by Nerviline-the great
nerve -pain cure. The highly perm -
treeing properties irf Nerviline make
went there again and look sump of it never failing en all oases of rhea -
bis playthings with him! and every
day after that until the rains carne,
The old barna, with 11.s green yard
and big 'trees and out door swing, he
forgot., fn the heart of the lonely 111-
Ilo boy the washed out hollow by the
roadside had taken Their place.
A HOME IABE HAPPY,
MRS. TUCKER, OF NIAGARA FALLS,
TELLS WHAT DID IT.
Der Daughter Was A meted 10111i St, 1'It03
Bonet'. and flelpless as ea In mut- Dr.
it Illlnnis' Pinta rills Cared 1101• After
Specialists lied Faller!.
From the Review, Niagara Falls.
It is a horrible feeling to know that
you have lost all command or control
of your limbs, and must depend upon
your friends to welt upon and serve
you the same as an infant. This was
the condition of Aiss Myrtle 'Ducker
ly little boy. He lived on a farm, and for nearly a year, and the Review
what playmates be had rs'ere not very learning that she had. been wonder -
near, and did not play the kind of fully benefited. by the use of. Dr, \1ri1-
plays he thought about. The lonely
little boy had sisters, but they were
alt older than 'himself, and though the
younger one played with him some-
times, and the older ones tried to
amuse him, there were often days
anisPink Pills for .Pale People sent
a reporter to hear her story. We
called at the residence of Mr. Edwin
Tucker, of the village of Niagara Fella,
Ars. Tucker received us very cordially
on ascertaining the object of our visit.
As nearly as possible those are hor
exact words in speaking of her (laugh
when the little boy was quite alone ter's ease: -"My daughter Myrtle is in
to wander about and think of many hal' fifteenth year. About a your ago
curious things, alarming symptoms of St. Vitus' dance
made their appearance, but for porno
time The little boy was nearly five before me we did not know what was
what ho had read in preparation for he became lonely, Up to that tithe he ropily the matter. She lost the use
the ordeal. The youngster named was really not much more than a baby, ccfimh tete. res, her right arm was
y g and somebody mus with him from i Y Paralyzed. She had to
about all the elementary treatises from morning till night. Bat an 0 busy totally enbe c! l.enl helpd undressed,
being
Blackstone's Commentaries to date. In farm even the youngest cannot be u best: local
bah much after four, and the little physicians were called in
muchou, he had studied the codes, �'and pr•escrtbecl for ]tor, but they ap
boy quit being a buoy and pasts, much political science -in fool, he said lonely, all at, once, when his parents feared to be unable to afford relict.
he had pursued every likely book he moved away from one farm and went We made a trip to Buffalo last Janu-
ary lay his hands upon. to live ou another in a distant part
yhorecommoand a nded (alist Melita Uerrshut
My heavens, boy," exclaimed Lee of the e(hcountry. u in aleck room for tures months,
At first he rather liked this, for p
judge, " you've read enough to ruin there were new Clings to sea, and he
allowing no one to sea her or speak to
your chances as a lawyer for life." thought it fun for them all to sleep her but the nurse. In fact the doctor
Curiously enough, Mr. Justice Hawk- on the floor, as they did until the fur- instated upon her being sent to one of
ins is somethingof poet -about the niture came. the Oily hospitals. Arsenio was one
a p Then, it was pleasant and exciting of the specifics used; it helped to
last prominent personage nne would to be near when the big boxes were quiet for a time, but no permanent
have expected to be a wooer of the unpacked, and the tables and chairs relief was obtained. After our return
from Buffalo, my son urged me to
try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for
dogs Myrtle. He said be was sure it
Why pet when his parents were tugging
would do her good as it had cured
don't you publish them?" once hard to make it cover a larger room his boy of a similar complaint. I then
asked a friend. than it had covered in the old house.
Publish them!" replied Sir Henry, Perhaps that was how he began to
with horror depicted on his face. "I, be lonely. He went out into a great
' the hanging judge,' as they call me,
turned poets Oh, nu no."
Sir Henry Hawkins is fond of wear-
ing his hair very short, and this fact
0000 led to a droll episode. When on
circuit he and a brother judge went
for a walk. Becoming thirsty the
twain entered a wayside inn, in the
rear of which two labourers were play-
ing skittles.
THE LEGAL LIGHTS
joined in the game, each taking one
of the players as a partner. Get-
ting hot, Mr. Justice Hawkins took off
his coat. Soon, however, the heat
forced him to remove hie bat also, at
which his partner at once stopped all his playthings when the boxes were
playing. I unpacked. There was nothing in the
" Go on, my friend," said he of law ;1 big wood -house but a smelly chip pile
" why du you stop?"I and a piece of wood that had been
"I don't mind being neighbourly," nearly backed to pieces with an axe.
said the man, with his eyes fixed on The little boy began to cry again and
the judge's closely -cropped head, "bat ; was very homesick, though he had
I'm 'angod if 1 be again' to play . never heard the word in his life and
akitLlss with a tioket-of-leave man l" didn't know what it meant.
Sir Henry is well known as a keen I He cried again that night after he
sportsman, anent which two good had said his prayers, and when he
stories are told. He was some time went to sleep he dreamed of the white
back on circuit in a western town, house on the hill where he had lived,
accompanied, as usual, by his favourite and of swinging in his little swing tin-, nerves is the fruitful source of most
terrier. A large crowd had assembledIder the trees. The next day he was dile that affect mankind, and to any
at the railway station to witness hismore homesick than ever. He could thus affected Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.
arrival. hardly eat his dinner, and bis parents offer a speedy and certain cure. : No
The judge was once staying with a
magnate near Chester. It was the
opening day of the Assizes, and a large
party, including the bishop of the dio-
cese were there to meet him. It hap-
pened that Sir Henry arrived at the
house an hour late, and earlier in the
day one of the company had seen him
quit the London train at Chester.
Therefore it was generally agreed
that the Chester Cupeewhioh was being
run for that day -and made him late
At luncheon the host asked the judge,
"Do you know the Cup winner ?"
Sir Henry looked surprised, " Oh,
the Chester Cup. I saw a crowd. in a
field near the railway and heard
newsboys tailing, "Wilmer of the Cup,'
that's how I knew it was the Cup
day."
And didn't you buy a paper?" the
bishop maliciouely put in.
A look such as he assumes when sen-
tencing a man to death came on the
judge's face as he replied, " No ; I
thought it was unnecessary to buy
one, I knew 1 should have the privI-
lege of meeting your lordship to-
night I"
muse. Ile has, however, written two and carpets put in the different rooms.
little seams dedicated to his favourite He even got punished once for running
backward and forward across the car -
barn of a wood -house and cried and almost marvellous from the very
tbougbt how herd it was that he could
not play on the carpet when they were beginning; before the first box was
pulling it about, first one way and used an improvement was plain -
then the other, and sometimes lifting ly discernible. Five boxes in all
it right up in the air like a swing. have been used and Myrtle is now
It would only be that way for suoh a able to run and enjoy herself in
little while, and then it would be nail- a manner she could not do for
ed down tight to the floor and the fun months and months back. Two
would be all over. weeks ago she commenced to attend
Ther, as be sat there he got to think- school after an absence of nine months.
ing of the old home they had loft, 1 "I want it distinctly understood," said
with its big green yard, and its trees, kers. Tucker, "that the physicians all
and the nice swing he had had from agreed that my daughter was afflicted
ane of the limha. Thera was no swing with St. Vitus' Dance; that the trent-
here and he had not been able to find ment of the medical attendants did
not fit her and that no other
medicine was taken after commencing
Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, so that there
is no doubt her recovery must be
attributed to the use of these pills.
Her state of health is now most excel-
lent, her appetite is good and I and
only too pleased to be able to certify
to the above facts in order that others
similarly afflicted may be encouraged
to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills."
'An impoverished condition of the
blood, or a disordered state of the
determined to try them, as I was con-
scious the treatment she was getting
was doing her no good. I pu:robassd
a box and the effect of the pills was
DIET 03? A SICK ELEPHANT.
An elephant's sick diet is reoorcted
as the result of an illness at the Zoo-
logical gardens at Frankfort -on -the -
Main. A female elephant there sud-
denly refused food, groaned continual-
ly, "wept," it is said, and became
wee•Iker and weaker. She was given
draughts1
of brandy,pints,and lac aced
to a ict of gruel three times a day,
each bucket bontaining EortY quarts.
She soon recovered, but the dieting
still c
on6iu
nod, and the last bulletin
describes her present diet as thirty
buns, a hundredweight of hay and
suitable drinks,
s,
Dt
dou
Yenjoy i
th
b aims?
No. I forgot to got a bag of peanutr
Wove J; went in,
People who are intoxicated With mtts-
la must be ale -tight,
The good die yottng and the other
kind when they; eat'( kelp It.
thougbt he was really sick, and made
him lie doevn and take medicine. And
the little boy did not tell them that
be was only siak in his heart for the
old home they had left, for he never
told many of the things he thought of.
We suppose be was afraid they would
laugh at theta.
They knew at last that he was only
homeslok and tried to cheer him. They
put up a swing for him in the big
wood -house -a very fine swing, but it
was not a tree swing, though it was
pleasant enough when his sister push-
ed hi.m. Now and then he would use
it alone, but most of the time he moped
about the yard or the barnyard, won-
dering why they were not so nice as
those at his old home, and why the
barn \vas not so pleasant as the old
one had been,
AL' last one day the lonely little boy
ventured out through the gate that
led into the wide road in front of rho
house. It was in the fall of the year
and very dry. As he walked along he
kicked up the cl.ust', with his feet, and
this was rather nice and a new kind of
fun. By and by, when he had kicked
up a great deal of dust and walked
a great ways -as far as the lower end
of the big yard, perhaps -ho suddenly
sew by the roadside a very deep hol-
low. It had been washed out by the
summer rains, and when he found a
low place and climbed down into it
and walked back the walls rose higher
than his head,
This was new and exciting. There
had been nothing like it at ilio old
home, At the bottom, which was as
dry as the gond above, there were lit-
tlep
'
hoe sof grainy Garth that had run
clten
o emelt channels on eilUer side,
He gathered np ti heap in his hands
and poured it back into its little chan-
nel as high up as he could reach. It
ran down again in a quirk stream and
made imbiber grainy pile at the bot-
tom, e
grains on
of the
am thetop
t g
gathered it
i ]rea He 1 up
1 ant g
little p
pointy
and let it run down again and again.
The little boy forgot that he Was
lonely mill hoanesick, The gully bo -
side the road was a treasure house, 11
was so doop in one place that the pee -
pin passing 1n wagons could nit't see
him. Ile had a book at hotne with a
other remedy has ever meb with such
great and continued success, which is
one of the strongest proofs( that Dt'.
Williams' Pink Pills accomplish all
that is claimed for them, ' They' cure
locomtotor ataxia, partial paralpsis, St.
Vitus' dance, sciatica, neuralgia,
rheumatism, nervous headache, palpita-
tion of the heart, nervous prostration,
diseases depending upon vitiated blood,
such as scrofula chronic erysipelas,
etc, They are also a specific for
troubles peculiar to females, curing all
forms of weaknsss. In men they eE-
beet a radical cure in all eases arising
from mental worry, overwork, or ex-
cesses of any nature. Sold by, all
dealers or sent post paid, at 50 cents a
box or six boxes Inc $2.50, by address-
ing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co.,
Brockville, Ont.
A TONGUE TANGLER.
What was Mr. Stammerly trying to
tell you, Mamie?
Oh, he wanted to say that he heard
that eighty-eight ate at a late tete-e-
tas, and he couldn't. ,
A MYSTERY.
It is said that there are more than
5000 different kinds of flowers which
give forth no odor whatever.
Then, why the dickens dd people go
raising lilies el the valley?
malinni, neuralgia, erarnps, puns in
the buck and slde, lumbago, on, We
heartily commend it.
Good things go as easily as bad
things come.
Here's a Little Nut to Crack,
just a grain of corn! The principle
upon which t'utnam's Painless Corn
Extractor acts is entirely new. It
removes the corn layer •by layer, with-
out any pain whatever. It never
falls either. Try it.
Kind words never die -except when
killed by ingratitude.
O'K 'EFE'S 1rl?.T7vr, MALT
invigorates and Slrrn Ghon,,
W. LLOYD WOOD, Toronto, GENERAL AGENT.
Gossip is a cartridge fired from the
gun of idle curiosity.
it Pharaoh 1 0o,.If P•yno,of Gnloby,Que'
(�, fur hlanufuotttrer.
A warning piu'agrapb often saves a
chapter of explanation.
1��+rpp Y y Gives 417'41".P
ew lite li the
U B '5 RNir. I 00418, color.
L 66.➢D Y and, nw rho actor.
Sold by all druggists. 5oc. a bottle.
Love is blind; especially the kind
that attacks the egotist.
•
Per Over Fifty Years
eras. WINSLOW S SOOTHING 5Y11.17P bac boon
used by mathere for their chit ren teething, It soothes
the child, scalene the game. allays all pain, lures wind
collo, and to the boot remedy for dlarrhwa. 250, a hot.
de. Sold by all drutgiotu throughout the world. Bo
sure end ask for " Mra. whlr,ow':, Soothing Syrup."
Unpaid bills are sometimes the source
of a poet's best efforts,
La Toscana, 10o. Rp,LIANCE CIGAR
b'AO'fO12YMontreat
The punch bowl is more dangerous
than the pugilistic punch.
Hotel Carslake European P1en. liooma
9 ('tom $1 a lop ue, Opp.
G,T.n, 8tatlan, Montreal. Geo. Onrslnke 6 Oe,, Prop'n.
Tee wise man knows enough to eon-
oeal what he doesn't know.
W. P. C. 975
CALVERT'S
ERT'S
Carbolic Disinfectants, goatee, Dint.
riyent, Tooth Powders, etc., have been
awarded 100 modals and diplomas for superior
excellence, Their regular use prevent infooti.
one diseases, Ask your dealer to obtain a
Supply. Lists mailed free on applloatioa,
F. C. CALVERT & CO.,
MANCHESTEn, - - ENGLAND,
MONTREAL
The " Balmoral," Free Bus gi abslnp'
WHITE'S PHOSPHO SODA
An Effervescing Phosphate, esaullent atomiser for liver,
kidney and stomach, takes the place of anal tar prepare-
Lionsincase ofl,eadauhe, its ea0nt Is Immediate. Sold by
all druggists, In 100, 251.:,50a and 51.00 tankages.
queen Olty Drug 0o., 275 Wellingtan-st. 5., Toronto,
Neal Lather P hth
Will keep your shoes soft as velvet
MADE IN ALL COLORS.
SOLD EVERYWHERE.
Hobbs H ., rdw,. re Co.
LowEsr
PRICES.
LONDON.
HIGH
■� 1
ER GRADES.
G Es.
T INE.
Dealers, Ask Por Quotat,one_
We give this 4 -Blade Pearl
Handle KNIFE for selling
6 packages of our ELITE
PENS at so cents per pack-
age (o doz. pens in eac11
package.
Simply send your address and ire will
foyrg tltu Pans poeGpnid, when snip
sent! all 00 cants anal Iva ,0111 sand hallo
with all charges pal,, Address,
Gem Novelty Co„Toronto, Ont,
osvt tm0004 0 .aOn ..thuetasasLeta,,am,m c,
HEALTH H RESSTORL'D gr ospons t EHe
0,505 dlenrdered Steulmh, 0,0 5, Ne000s, Li000, 81000,
0 odder, lildufys, Battu and L t'Oetb by
Dvi ih3rI�sq �n pyo Revalonta
a,D, aw Arabica Food,
which Saves Invalids ao, Children, and also ROM Me.
easofullyInfants whose Ailments and Debility Imo re•
elated all other treatments. 11 rllt,Osts when all other
pool is releoted, WINOS 50 limns its asst in medlotno.
50 years' °s5 lArimanatbtleo9enon, s,C00
eluneue,
Indigestion, amtsum,edret0a Bltie,
050, amtg Asthma, Catarrh, eegin, Maritsa,
Silkworm Debility, Sleeplessness, Auspondenny,
DoD�Barrj {,_ Hon (71.3gp
Barry 77 Regent
Roo 150, a,
t all G w„
also in Poria, li iba everywhere,
Cnstere, In and
at all Graders, 5114,
1,, 1 n and Stores ge free. A Infirm,
YR, OStivryA, ed, alen1,o(.,lse Sent (1 ,186,1 n, Also Du
AgentoRr Co.00ta: The
In this Co., .I und,T
AyodtA 4er Canada: Tho T.iOnton oIdntltsd, Toronto
ptt, 4,1411 Ad/ it4d6
It
C16iGCay
COOKING IN CUBA,
Frying pan and coffee pot are the
on 1Ykitch n cooking
utons1!s knownown to
native Cuban housewives. 11058(8 are
twkuown; even etews are rare. Soup is
as uncommon as in a New England
farmhouse. 'I'bis is the inure strange,
as mast Southern 1Europeaes maks
great use of soups.
Cuba isahot place, which may ac -
fount for the feet that no native will
sat fat meet, though 11 is commonly
fried in lard.
The common vegetables are yams,
okra, rice and bananas.
CZAR AND TRAVELING.
The Czar is not less careful of his life
then his predecessors, bol be adopts dif-
ferent methods for safeguarding him-
self. lnsteaci of having three trains
ready when be is 'ming on a jnurnoy,
end leaving the Anarchists to guess
which is conveying him, as his father
slid, he simply allows no one to know
his pions. The route is published, but
he never keeps to it.
BETT
You have tried other teas --now TRY
Leas! Packages.
DELLA
CEYLON TEA. 25, 30, 40, 50 and hoe,
Rlleulnab0Slll-earn arowedIn14 hours,
bi mownunolan eeatbymaa
es receipt of 51 DR. 110VBY, P.O,' estbs, Ninelrest.
CUTTING SCHOOL aaals and Drew.
tars sontre.i. t•
alosua. C. & O. SCNOUL LU., Montrod.
RASS D
Instruments, Drums, Uniforms, sir..
Every town can have a band.
Lowest prices ever quoted. rine catalogue 000 illus.
trations walled few. Write un for anything In
1,fusia or M meicel Instrumento.
WHALEY ROYCE & CO., - Toronto, Can.
ONE NIGHTto0 Carp.
Ask your
d,oagi font, Moo 100
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f3anlzs Will Lend You Iloney Quicker on a First Mortgage Railway Bond Than
on a Real Estate Mortgage or Other Security.
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ISSUE OF S750,000 FIVE PER CENT. FIRST MORTGAGE ELECTRIC RAILWAY DEBENTURE
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Payable in the year 0929 at par, or redeemable upon previous notice from the Company in May or November in any year, at the
Price of $5e5 for each $soo bond in New York.
The North American Trust Company of New York, The Union Savings Bank and Trust Company
of Cincinnati, and The St. Louis Trust Company of St. Louis, have been authorized by The American
Equipment Company, the railway contractors, to receive subscriptions for (I,Soo) First Mortgage Gold
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Y�riaa.a cif X -nz® 81475 361uLo3a. $&Oa" oaefs
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Payable $25 on application, $,rho on allotment, and $400 one month after allotment, less 5 per cent. ; or payable $5 on ap-
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Kansas City, Bonner Springs Topeka Railway Co- ;1 pony,
Length of railway, 68 miles single
track under construction. The traffic:
from which it is estimated, when in
full work will yield as follows: -
Freight . . . . .$000,000 gross
Passenger . . .. 560,000 groes
Total . . .1 . .. $660,000 gross
Operating . . $333,389
Operating.
. . . 240,000
.
Total•, l l. .+ ti j $57M33
Net . .. $166,61.0
Net 120,000
.13. M. 716,®.1ST li. - FE5.
Fourtb. That the rate of freight Kansas City, Kan., April 1st,, 1899,
charged by the trunk lines now aper- John W. McDanield, Esq., President$.
ating between these points is almost as C. B. S. & T. Ry.
much as the rates charged by the same Dear sir: -At your request I submit,
lines from Kansas City to the Missis- in reduced form my estimate cost oi'
sippi River, or St. Louis, a distance of constructing the Kansas City, Bonner
900 miles, or five times the distance be- Springs & Topeka Railway, which ilk
tween the same point and Topeka, a most points agrees with the estimate
fact which is due to these cities not furni,•hocl you by Messrs. Tuttle & Pike,
being located on the Missouri River, the Kansas City engineers:
the bussing point designated by all Road -bed, bridges and sta. $1,050,00000
American railways Inc establishing tions
rates in this section of the country, Overhead electric construe_
Fifth. That for the foregoing rea- tion. . 185,59000
a t . sons we consider with the better facie.- Power plant, steam and 100;000 00
ties afforded by an electric line stop- water power.
Total $286 660 ping wherever required, the same Dist: ibutine power state- ns. 25,000 00
Almost eight times more than suf41- would command the major portion of ;Rolling stock and equip- 25000000
cleat to pay the annual interest upon the traffic mentioned. I meat. ---_
the first mortgage bonds now issued. Sixth. That conservatively figuring
on th0 basis of rotas now clear ed, the � Total. .$1,810,59000
Tho Ameriean Equipment Company estimated earnings from freight (raffia The above estimate is mads on a
has taken the contract from the Knn- can be softly put at $500,000 gross per standard gauge re for h, with light
sa8 City, Bonner Springs & Topeka canine, or alter allowing the usual 00 grades, and suitable for heavy freight
per Gent. for operating expenses, $186,- traffic as well. 'es fast passenger traf-
mice ay to build the railway from 00;1 nee
fie, also equipped to be operated hop,
Kansas Oily to Topeka Inc an average Seventh. That the necessity of such steam in the event of insufficient wee
price of $24;009 per mild, including a ling far passaFger trav'isle
l apparent ter power. Yours truly,
bridges, and has agreed to accept in froom iha following facts, 'whistch should W. H, STALNAKER, Chief Engineer.
payment therefor two thousand acres assure the earnings from that source, The attorneys of the Kansas City,
of laud, together with the stock of the viz., the cities to be connected have Bonner Springs & Topeka Railway re-
Kanasa City, Bonner Springs & Topeka a aembined population of 300,000 peo- port as follows on the issue of bonds
Railway Company, and its first most- le; Topeka, the capital of the State, now offered:
gage gold bonds issued not to exceed being at one end of the line; Lawrence, ' Kansas City, Kan., April 24th, 1899.
$10,000 per mile, and guaranteed to be the seat of the Kansas State Univsr- Isaac H. Orr, Esq., Trust Officer St.
a first mortgage on its completed rail- siC in the centre, and Kansas City, ! Louis Trust Company, St. Louis,
way not to exceed that amount, free the metropolis of the wast, at the other Moe
and clear at all liens and claims what- end; f::ets which cannot hale but create 1 Blear sir: -We hereby certify we
00011, by a certificate attached to each constant travel between those cities if
bond and signed by the National Sure- afforded the proper et betieb connected with of
tY Compahy of Naw Yolk, agreeing to nstanttrav t barest Lake, a distance the ansa,
indenmiiy the holder of such bond for of fifteen milds from Kansas City, and
an amount equal to the face value through which this road passes, is the
thereof in default of such being the largest and most convenient pleasure
case' t lake in the vicinity of these cities, and
In acce.pting the contract the Amore-' which, without doubt, would be of
can Equipment Company has bad axe-' great commercial value to this enter-
prise.
Ninth. That the picturesque and fer-
tile valley through which this line will
pass would soon develop into suburban
Ileums, a development which has been
neglected by these pities Inc want of
proper' transportation facilities.
Tenth. Tb it from the passenger traf-
fie now existing between these cities,
' we figure on a conservative basis the
, estimated earnings from passenger
traffic should be $000,000 gross, or,
allowing 80 per cent. for operating ex -
have carefully examined all particulars .
It the organization
K City,Bonner Springs &
Topeka Railway Company, and the
issue of bonds now made, and find
everything in order and strictly in
conformity with the laws of Kansas,'
under which this company is charter-
ed,. Yours truly,
HUTCHINGS & KEPLINGER,
SAM'L MAHER,
Attorneys.
The St, Louis Trust Company of
St. Louis, Mo., have accepted tee
trusteeship it behalf of the debenture
bond -holders. .By the deed of trust
the complete mortgage is not to ex-
ceed $2,0"0,000 wbic:h provides for a
double track, ala(, any exlen 1. las 00" 80-
sary, and the trustees will not allow
the said bonds to become negotiable -
in execs, of 515,000 per mile of rail-
road, nor deliver any part of said
bonds until each mile covered by ouch
amount is completed and turned over
to the company free and clear of lien
or any claim whatever.
Copy of the first mortgage bond is
printed on the prospectus, and oertf-
fied copies of the deed of trust and
letters shown in the prospectus coy -
i e of the trust
be seen at too ()Mies s
companies heretofore mentioned oe
authorized to Teeeive subscriptions:
The subscription list will open
Monday, June 5th, and close on or be-
fore Tuesday the following week at
twelve o'clock noon.
Application will be made in due
course to the New York Stook ]Ex-
change far an official quotation.
All allotment will be madeas early
as possible alter the close of the subs
bated an indemnity bund in favor of the
leanees City, J3,onner Springs & Tope-
ka Railway Company for $100,000, in de-
fault of its not being able to complete
the road between Kansas City vied To-
peka inside of six months from the 1st
day of May, A. D. 1899, according to
forms and specifications.
With reference to the great commer-
cial value of the Kansas City, Bonner
SPrtngs & Topeka Railway when in full
operation no bolter evi.d.enoe need be of-
fered thee the following leiter from
Messrs. Johu W. Moore, President Kan- penses, $120,000 est.
sas City Boardof Trade; L. M. hillier, In summing up all of the above
President Zenith Milling Company, facts, together with all other circum-
ense 0. L. Brinkman, President Kansas stances aonno010d with such an enter -
City Milling Company, a committee of prise, we feel justitted in recommend -
business men requested to .report on ing it to all who may' desire a profit -
the merits of the enterprise. able investment, provided the same is
Kansas City, NIG., April 1, 1899. not bonded and stocked to exceed $80,-
Jemes'L. Brown, Esq., President the (100 per anile.
American Equt'pmnnt Company ; i Yoars truly, JOHN 111. MOORE,
Dear Sir, -At the request: of various L. A, MILLER.
parties desiring to become interested in G. L. J31tINK5 AN.
aproff
tab!henterprise, sb, ve the under-
The following
letter from the
II
0n
signed, were chosen to investigate
the ;'lir. S. Cowherd, Congressman, and ox -
merits of a pa•:opasitton to build an Mayor of Kansas City, Mo., may be of
electric railway up the Kansas Valley interest:-
to the City of Topeka, by the weof House of Representatives, U.S., Wash -
Forest Lake, Banner Springs and L ttv- ington, D,C., May 8, 1899.
reins, reported as follows as the result James L. Brown, Esq., President Am-
af our investigation: Drican Equipment C
First, Tbat the line projected by the
Kansas City, Bonner Springs & Topeka
Railway, for which most of the right of
way has been secured, is t110 only prac-
tioai route b LD f01 an1
e metrei
rn Eva Ue-
Y
(weene cities.
th eo c L as
Second. That the territory through
whichbi line 1
t s ns wt i
most productive in the
isi ane t the
p United States,
yielding on at average per annum of
5,000 earlo 1
acs of potatoes, at
r t os 4,000 of fruit
p
2,000 of
stook a d nlmest as teeny a na asr-
lo d i
a r combined of dor and maturate
tured products, such as flour, paper,
merahendise, etc, cured by the Katsna City, Bonner
Third. That the X011848 City whole- Springs & Topeka hallway is given in torment of the deposit, be fol
sale hooses nl•rnost entirely supply the the following let lee from Mr. W, H. to the trust companies dr
pities of Lievronee and Topeka with Stalnnker, Chief Engineer of thoeom- who will also furnish veep
their provisions and merchandise. pony:-, forms of application of
Dear Sir, --1 have examined the state -
m Int signed by Mesons. Jolin W. Moore. scriplion, and in case of no allot went
the deposit will be returned, in full
i mediate! ,
m v
01 the resect
payment
f
fat It op
ludo t
ttv
a t their due. dates,
instalments almeui,, a
the aliotmenl anti any .previous pays '
mens; will bo liable to forfeiture,
men of tbo highest standing in this The gold bonds will be issued and
community, both for personal integrity exchanged for script norlifiaales Its
and
b
usiness judgment, Yours respect- soon as
p
laalir nbla alter the final
fully, W,
S. COWIliettee
luc; in
.est of (instructing
The estimatedc
g
the railroad over the right of way se -
L. M. Miller and G, L. Brinkman of
Kansas
City,
Mo. V
ido I
anal
not
suf-
ficiently posted to give an opinion' of
my own as to the. value of the
enter-
prise, r-
rse do know that the gentlemen
names are mentioned above are
payment is made.
a.
ten
• i m: Ecol be made on the
dk
ILo.at c s should
form accompanying the prospootu'
and together with a oheclt for '