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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
MORRIS TOWNSHIP.

Feb. 27.-Rev. Long filed his ap-
pOintment at Grey Saturday and Sun
day.
L. L. and Will Walker, who have
been here to visit their mother. re.
turned to their home at Great Bend
Sunday.
Miss Pearl Cox returned last week
from her visit to Iowa.
Vergil Megill returned from Osawa-
tonne Saturday and his father came
home with him.
H. G. CreekmOre closed his five
months term Of school at Excelsior
in Morris township last Friday and
followed with an exhibition at night.
which consisted Of dialogues and dec
lamatiOns and an Grafton by Mr..
Creekmore. The program was neatly
arranged and by dark the house was
crowded to its utmost capacity with
a gay and light-hearted people, who
were well entertained for about three
hours. Mr.. CreekmOre is one of Sum-
ner county's liyeliest and most ener-
getic young teachers and has made
wonderful progress in the pedagogical
line. He believes in being in the
front rank and wethink has been sue
cessful so far. He is a man OF good
moral character and habits and has
taught a school that Is hard to equal.
He has had a school of forty-four pu-
pills and we are glad to say has
taught it to the entire satisfaction
of all. He has not only won the love
and esteem of his pupils, but of the
entire district and at no place will he
find more hearty welcome than at
Excelsior. He will teach the spring
term, commencing March l3.
Mrs. Sears, wife of Gillis Sears. who
lives near ArgOnia died Saturday
morning and was buried at the Dos
ter cemetry Sunday, Rev. Brown, of
Freeport, preashing the funeral SER
mon. JUMBO.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
SLATE VALLEY.

March There is a great deal OF
sickness In this neighbOrhood. Mrs.
5. Frable is not expected to live. She
has the consumption.
Volney Virgins has a sick child.
c. E. Forbes and Geo. Camp both
have very sick child, at the present
writing.
Mrs. VIM. Daily is improving. Also
Mrs. TicknOr.
Miss Sina Broak, Geo. Camps house
keeper, has returned from her visit to
the north part of the state.
Miss Matte Lindsay's school closed
at Victor school house on the 24th OF
February. Everybody was well pleas
ed with her school.
James Rissell came near having a
serious fire last week. The children
took a lamp TO their room upstairs
when it exploded. Mrs. II. ran np.
threw the lamp out Of the window
and extinguished the flames before
much damage was done.
II. L. FLANDERS says they have a
young voter at his house and he is a
calamity bowler, too.
X. +. Plummer. accompanied By his
daughter, aunt and niece, visited Ar
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
WELLINGTON KANSAS, FRIDAY. MARCH 3, 1898

more than hewers Of wood and draw
ers Of water. Do you not see the un-
mistakable tendency of congress to
bind closer and make our burdens
more unbearable? Look at that arch
flend Of all unrighteousness, John
Sherman, trying to bind another s5O,-
100000 bond on our necks; look at his
ceaselesS efforts to loan the govern
ment'S credit to another 100000, 900
steal in the Nicaragua ditch?
John Sherman went into politics
poor and was called Honest" John,
now he is worth 81, 100000. How did
John get this large fortune at $1,000
per year?
Relative to our late troubles at To-
peka, we do not think the people have
been deceived. They will place the
responsibility where it belongs and
no amount Of explaining by the Re-
publicans will save them. They have
made some pages of Kansas history
that will be prominent long after the
party is dead and in its grave and the
acts Of Hon. ~ Geo. L. Douglass,
their champion, Col. Hughes and
WilkerSOn will punish them far more
than it ever has hurt their political
foes. The Eagle, Capital and Kansas
City Star will burn with shame when
referring to those infamable editor
ials in their papers; journals whose
teachings were calculated to incite
the people to mob law and were jour
mails who suffered their sense of de-
cency to be overcome by such undue
influences as corrupt politicians.
With all the hitherto cussedness
charged up TO Democracy, be 1t said
to their credit, their journals have
universally advised moderation in the
Topeka troubles.
In the pending decision of the Su-
preme court, it is said that should
the decision be adverse to the Popu-
lists, they will not bide it. Such talk
is folly. While it is reasonable to
suppose that the decision will be
warped politically, the Populists, who
are largely in the majority in Kansas,
will submit, as all law abiding citi-
zens should do, and at the ballot box
in the '9I contest, reverse any verdict
given through political bias.
EX-REPUBLICAN.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
Senator r1artin's View.

In an interview given to the aSsoci.
ated press in Washington senator.
elect Martin expressed himself as
follows in regard to the decision OF
the supreme court:
I'm not at all astonished," he
said, ''at the finding of the Kansas
supreme court. Not that | believe
the decision correct: for, on the con-
trary, | believe it to be radically
wrong. In my judgement the Opin-
ion delivered by Judge Allen is clear
ly the law of the case, and it is sub
stantially sustained by decisions of
the supreme courts in Indiana and
Ohio and in many similar cases.
But, unfortunately, the supreme
court judges are men with like in
flrmities with other people, and when
political questions are involved their
decisions in nine cases out of ten are
made to meet the demands of political
conditions instead of being a clean
cut and fair exposition of the law of
the case. remarked to friends sew
eral days ago that, the majority of
the court being republicans, it would
sustain the republican position, and
the minority, being populists, would
decide the other way. So the matter
has ended precisely as 1 anticipated.
The legal proposition that courts of
justice in cases involving political
questions should follow and harmon
ize with the political departments OF
the government and its coordinate
branches is a sound principle of law,
and is sustained by an almost unbrOk-
en- line of decisions.
THE DUTY OF THE COURT.
''The reason and the policy Of this
rule is too clear and apparent to re-
quire argument. So in this case, the
senate having recognized the Duns-
more house as its coordinate branch,
and the governor as plain duty and
matter Of necessity, having recognized
the action of the senate. should as a
matter of law, have ended the con-
troyersy. And it was the plain duty
of the court to have cOnfOrmed its
actions to these coordinate depart
ments of government. instead of as
suming to itself the perOgative of
oterturning the harmonious action of
these departments. However. | think
the better policy is for the Dunsmore
house, the governor and senate to
yield a respectful obedience to the
finding of the court and trust TO the
justice of their cause and appeal TO
the people to rectify the error at the
proper time. Public duty and good
citizenship require obedience to the
judgements of judicial tribunals. at
least for the time being. although we
may regard them as radically wrong.
That the court will be ultimately
compelled to recognize as a matter of
law the acts which have ALREADY been
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
Among Our Exchanges.

The swine Of Iowa are dying of
cholera and likewise the Republicans
of Kansas.-TOpeka POpulist.
Investigation always precedes pro-
.gressi0n. Pharisaism prevents it,
Western LabOrer, Omaha.
The closing Of the Worlds Fair on
Sunday was brought about by the
churches and breweries. Sad.-The
Road.
Be true TO your own convictions OF
right and honor and the world will be
better for your having liyed.-Wes-
tern Critic.
Not a single POpulist member of
the Nevada legislature voted against
Senator Stewart for reelection and
he will represent that state another
six years.-AcOrn.
The goldbug papers are making a
fearful fuss about ''cheap and nasty
silver dollars" but we notice that all
seem glad to accept them at par for
subscriptions.-Road.
Apropos of all this talk of electing
United States senators by the direct
vote of the people, why not abolish
that body? OF what earthly good is
the American house OF lords?-Holt
county, Neb., Independent.
While the Republicans are figuring
out the great problem Of where are
we at, and the Democrats are quar-
reling over the ''spoils Of office, it ia
our duty to begin the work for 1896
by sowing the seed and spreading
the light. Wyoming Populist.
Look out for the road improve
ment" schemes. 1t is only grand
conspiracy to force more gold interest
bearing loans upon the people. Keep
a sharp lookout for the big daily pa
pers engaged in booming the rObbing
enterprise.-ROad.
1t would have taken the entire
wheat crop OF Greene county in 1889
at the current price and more than
$40, 900 besides. to pay the interest on
the mortgage Indebtedness Of our
county. And yet we are told that a
mortgage is an evidence of prosper
ity-BlOOmfleld Banner.
Apathy is the bane OF the social re-
former. Some people are so slow that
you cannot incite them TO action any
more than you can hOl0thurias.
They do not care for the humanity
about them, much less pOsterity.
Only the heavy grind of harsh neces-
sity will awaken them to an apprecia-
ton OF their wrongs. Thus il comes
that the world moves slowly.-Prc-
greSsive Age.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
soeeIaI offer for February and March.

The National Watchman, Wash
ington, ID. c., will give during the
months of February and March TO
the person sending In each fifth club
Of ten subscribers, free one years sub
scription TO the Arena, published in
Boston, Mass, which is the only mag
azine that is interested in the reform
movement. This subscription price Is
s. per year. Or we will send them
any i've reform papers Of their own
selection. Every reader Of this no
tice can get up club Of ten snbscrib-
ers TO the Watchman II they will only
try. 1t is only 30 cents year. and In
reach OF all. 1t is publication that
all good reformers are interested in.
has the full proceedings Of congress
each week. and also has as cOntribu-
tors Senators Kyle, Stewart. Pcaer
and all of the Peoples Party congress
men now in congress, besides the best
outside talent in the country. Re
member this offer is good only during
February and March. We shall keep
a record of clubs as they are received.
and every dfth one Of ten We will
send the above TO. and we will besides
publish a complete list of the clubs as
received each week. Make all the
payable to the Nationais
Watchman Company. Washington,
ID G.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
From the Caldwell News.

Almost every day the Rock Island
takes several coach loads OF men
south TO work on the extension Of II c
line. The train has, for the past
week. consisted of six passenger
coaches.
The revival meeting which had
been in progress at the NJ. E. church
for nearly two months closed last Sun
day night. The services were con-
Quoted by the pastor, Rev. J. W.
Woods, assisted by Rev. Helmick, OF
Winfield. The number taken into
the church on probation and by letter
Is l05.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
Oxford Mocklng Bird.

The Oxford school board will give a
reward Of $40 to any person or persons
for information that will lead TO the
arrest and conviction Of the person or
persons who broke down the flag pole
on the school grounds, on or about
Sunday, Feb. 10, 1893.
We understand that Perry Blnkley.
who sold his farm west OF town
short time ago, has bought the Lane
farm northeast Of town consisting OF
two hundred acres Of fine bottom
land. Consideration. 5000.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
South Haven New Era.

Elder II. w. Robertson visited Ar
kansas City Tuesday. He says they
talk boldly over there Of invading the
Strip, whether they mean IL or not.
should congress fail to dc its duty in
a few days.
County Superintendent McLaugh-
lin advises all teachers to get author
ity from their school boards 10 use
the stick as a means Of punishment
at the time Of engaging to teach. or
otherwise not TO engage. There has
never been any distractions thrown
In the way Of free use Of the birch
in this community, when needed; and
but few question the fact that 1t is
needed much Oftener than used.
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Conway Springs Star.

And still they come. A Mr.. Beck
ner, Of Reuben county, Illinois, load
ed his goods a few days ago and is
now on his way to this place and will
occupy farm he owns, three miles
south of town. We will have lots OF
new settlers this spring.
We are reliably informed that Mr..
Mclaughlin, a man well known in
this part Of the county. has ordered
scales and will commence buying
grain here as soon as he can get ready
to handle it. Mr.. Mclaughlin is an
old grain and stock dealer.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
Mulyane Record.

The grain market is pretty well
supplied. Many farmers are closing
out their surplus grain before farm
ing begins.
= Farmers say the prospects for a
good wheat crop in this valley were
never better at this time of year.
The ground is In fine condition for
the wheat TO grow. The fruit pros
peel is as good as the outlook for
bread. 1t appears to be generally be-
lieved that this will be a great year
for Kansas.
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County Clippings.
From the Milan Press.

James NJ. Townsend, the gentle
man who was kicked by horse few
weeks ago, sustaining a fracture Of
the skull, has so far recovered as TO
be able TO come to tswn.
Vim. Morgan sold his farm this
week TO (. House for sl,60O. The
place is situated about six miles ssOuth-
east Of Milan and consists of eighty
acres, about half Of which is under
cultivation. Mr. Morgan has bought
a quarter section Of land in 0klahO-
ma and will move thereto as soon as
the weather settles.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03
Argonia Clipper.

Geo. S. Ewbank caught two wolves
last week In a steel trap. One was
caught by the toes and was hurt very
little by the trap. The last We heard
from them he was keeping them
alive.
J. D. Mitchell has sold his farm
three miles north Of this city to G.
W. Weller from Tuscola, ILL.,, who ar
rived here Wednesday with his fam
lily and took possession yesterday.
Mr.. Mitchell will 60 to Caldwell and
wait awhile for the opening Of the
Strip.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03

in in body covered by the stars and
stripes, IS men submitting to parti-
san decision of the supreme court. In
regard to the decision being partisan
we will let John j. Ingalls, tell what
kind of a man Judge Horton is.
INGALLS, ON HORTON.
On Tuesday, March I'd, 1880, Sena-
tor Ingalls, made speech in AtchisOn
at a reception held in his honor. At
ter alluding to certain parties who
had been party to the investigation
to the title of his seat in the senate,
he said:
"They selected as their facile in
strument the Chief Justice of the
state, man who began his career by
writing editorials in favor of secession
and drinking tOasts to the health of
Jefferson Davis. Persuaded to be-
come a Republican by the promise of
perferment, he has been continuously
In office, with an accidental hiatus of
one year, from 1860 till 1880. During
this long period he has habitually
trafficked in Justice, defrauded his
clients, baSely plundered his partner,
and insulted society by his degraded
and fragrant immortality. He has
never made a promise he did not
break, nor had a friend whom he
would not willingly betray. In this
political Judge these frenzied con-
spiratOrs found a willing acc0mplice.
Feebly protesting that he was not a
candidate though every one knew
that for five years he had trOdden
every devious path that led toward
the Capital that he took his seat on
the bench merely as a stepping stone
to the Senate, he has decended into
the mire of personal politics, accept
ing the nomination in a calumniOus
speech and then attempted to secure
success by the open purchase of votes.
Much has been said about the purity
of the Ermine. The traditional fur
was never dragged through a fOuler
puddle. The very seat on the bench
that was to be vacated was promised
to two anxious aspirants and the en-
tire political wardrobe of the state
was divided, in anticipation of my
defeat, like the apparel of Joseph
among his brethren.
No fOuler exhibition of cowardice
and mendacity ever diSgraced the
most degraded epoch Of English
Judiciary which witnessed the fall of
Bacon and the infamies of Jeffrys
and Scuggs. Instead of setting in
Judgment on the lives, the liberties
and the estates Of the people, this
culprit should be summoned to answer
for his crimes and be consigned to a
felons ell."-Atchison Daily Champ
ion, Rep March 3, 1880, page 4 col
umns 4 and 5, John A. Martin, editor.
To any fair minded person the
above certainly brands Judge Horton
as a political Judas. "The rope with
which Judas Iscariot hanged himself
is probably lost" but other means OF
procuring passes TO the abode Of the
Prince of Darkness yet remain and
traitors heretofore have used some of
them. Go thou and do likewise.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-03-03

kansas City last Friday.
A good crowd attends the literary
every Thursday evening at Valley.
OLD Socks.
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a BLACK Cat Farm.

II had heard of skunk farms, rattle
snake farms and other novelties in the
farming line" said Nick Hansen yester-
day to a party of friends who were con-
gregated about the stove in the court of
the Exchange building, but 1 never
heard of q black cat farm until l went
out to Washington. The year that l
went out there Jim Wardner, an old
timer who used to stage it with Fred
Evans in the early days, and who Is quite
well known to many Sioux Cityans, con-
ceived the idea of raising black cats for
their fur, and proceeded to organize
stock company to push the enterprise.
"a company was organized with cap
ital stock of 5000, 900. and an island of
about 1000 acres in extent located in
Bellingham bay in the upper part Of
Puget sound was obtained to carry on
the farming. Then a grand skirmish
was made to get black cats. The Pacific
coast states were ransacked, and nearly
every incoming train was loaded with
black cats, which were Immediately TAX
en- to the island or cat factory as we
called it. They were in charge of num-
Der of men, who furnished them with
food by seine fishing in the bay, and
certain number were killed during the
year to pay the current expenses. When
I left, good black cats pelt was worth
So, and the company was making a mint
of money Cats fur makes up elegantly
into muffs and capes. '-Sioux City Jour
nal
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RentinC Ball Dresses.

There are stores in the city where even
ing dresses are rented. They are made
up handsomely, with the skirt all fin
ished except the waistband, and with
tho waist itself basted together instead
of stitched The woman who desires to
rent the costume can have the wrist
fitted. 1t is fitted and prepared for her
in way that does not preclude the pos
sibilityof its becoming reftted for others
for other occasions. She rents it for the
evening, paying SO or SIS, returns it in
the morning with the consciousness that
she looked at the ball just as well as her
millionaire neighbor.
1t is rather n severe thing to assert,
but these trades people 90 not hesitate to
say that men are responsible for the
starting in of this custom of renting fin
cry. They say that wives caught the
idea from their husbands, who make a
practice of renting dress suits instead of
owning them. Everybody knows that it
is quite common thing for a man to hire
a dress suit for the one or two times a
year when some occasion demands of
him this respect to conventionality, yet l
suppose this Same man would be the first
to condemn this folly in his wife-T he
knew it.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
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=I5REN1zIII1EssI;
~@fa6N'
Cier.cri Pos;;iona.

Rightly or wrongly, it seems to be a.
su1ned that the Germans, partly because
Of their plodding habits, partly on &C
count of their linguistic accomplish
ments, are more fitted for clerical posi-
tons than the average Englishmen. Well,
why not accept that fact: If the Ger
mans want to be clerks then by all
means let them be clerks, and leave the
Englishman under the pressure of neces-
sity to carve out some nobler career for
himself. For what is clerkdom, what
are its prospects and its influences? /
speak from experience, and assert that
it is wretched leyeling down, ambition
crushing existence. Sooner than be
clerk would say to any young man be-
ginning life, be an artisan-whOse honest
toll offers a future of happiness wholly
denied to the down at heel clerk. Yet it
is not difficult to understand why young
men become clerks.
1t is supposed to be gentlemanly pro-
fession, but the black coat, the top hat
and the incipient mustache may all be
taken IS the signs of shabby gentilty.
The veneer of responsibility is very thin.
I remember once being sadly taken down
by vender of razors who stood with his
stock in trade outside the bankers clear
ing house in a passage off Lombard
street. 1 asked him for a strop. Said
he gruffiy: cit will cost you 2 shillings
A steak would do You more good" And
the man was right. did not forget the
lesson, and ceased to be clerk as soon
IS 1 could, but it was a trial to my feel
ings to be deprived of the genteel air of
the city and to earn my bread amid less
pretentious surroundings.-Cor. London
TELEGRAPH
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Lemon Juice For rheumatism.

A little girl up on the west side was
to give a splendid birthday party one
day last month, but the day and the
presents arrived and found her in bed,
paralyzed with rheumatism. She is on
" Z, and her parents and even the
family doctor thought it remarkable
and uncailed for malady. But the care
fully guarded only child suffered as ter
ribly as the most neglected little mortal
who had spent cold nights in the streets
and had invited the awful disease in
every way. Finally a doctor was called
in, who, among other things, knows a
thing or two about infiammatory rheu-
matism. He shifted at the array of lin
iments, pronounced them harmless"
and prescribed lemon juice-lemon juice,
pure and simple-a wineglassful every
morning. The little girl is now we'll.
Here is another bit of medical advice.
If you are subject to rheumatism, don't
eat eggs.-Washington News.
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RemeIlhers Byron.

Avenerable woman living up town re-
members Lord Byron very we'll, having
often seen him in an extended foreign
tour of her youth shortly before the
poets death. My father grew to know
him intimately" she says, and liked
him extremely. He always declared that
much which was laid to Byron's charge
was false, and much else the fault of the
times or of his peculiar life. He found
him what he afterward called him, in
speaking of the acquaintance, "a down
right good fellow, not at all the Byron
of history. New York Times.
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A Silver Lining.

Mrs. Kindlie-I presume you have
rather hard time of it.
Tramp-Yes, mum; but every cloud
has silver lining, mum. I'm not wor-
ried to death by autograph hunters,
mum.-New York Weekly.
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Or, to any foreign country for 20 Cent?