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Fort Vancouver. She built cabin and
lived there for part OF year as re-
ouired by the land laws. Now she is
the possessor Of comfortable fortune.
Many Of tho most successful cattle
raiserS of the West are women. Mrs.
Bishop Hiff Warren is credited with be-
ing the wealthiest woman 10 Colorado.
She is worth $40, 600, coo, and has made
It on Cattle with no other business ad-
vice than that furnished by her own
mother wit. Two rich widows who
have inherited ranches from their hGs-
bands are Mrs. Massey, of Colorado, and
Mrs. Mary Easterly, OF Nevada. Mrs.
Massey went 10 Colorado as agent for
a safe insurance company, married a
man with 10000 head OF cattle, and,
it is said. manages them quite as
we'll as he did. Mrs. Easterly has not q
large herd, but her stock is Of fine
grade and she gets good prices for IL.
She is worSh 5000, 900 maybe. Mrs.
Ilif, widow of John Tiff, the cattle
king, and Mrs. Meredith, OF Illinois,
are excellent business women and max
ing money on stock. OF unmarried wo-
men there is Clara Dempsey, Of Nevada,
as well as Ellen Callahan, OF recent
newspaper fame, who are worth, the
one $50, 600, and the other rather less.
which they have earned from the initial
dollar themselves, aud who are young
women 10 have made such fair start
in the world.
Miss Kate wilkins is equal partner
with her father and two brothers in the
big Wilkins horse and cattle ranch in
Southwestern Idaho. The father and
brothers devote themselves to the ranch
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-06

do Il. George, give as . service that Is
paid FOR. please, and then you can stand
up and sing In church without shame:
A week ago stood at the corner OF
the Grand Pacific hotel, Chicago, scruti-
nizIng the Board OF Trade building,
which is, according to the architects,
pesling of in places and falling on
psrdoned anarchist one In awhile.
Then q voice was seen approaching
from a distance. 1t said: "Oh, sir,
could you, for the love Of heaven, give
me 4 quarter? / am starving. 1t has
been over six weeks since food has pass
ed my lips"
looked up suddenly to see how man
looked after that kind of treatment. l
I never went that long without food
myself, but l kept Lent by boarding at
the Phoenix hotel in Hopkinsville, Ky.
was Titled startled, for l at once
recognized the man.
Il was a cab driver who used TO drive
from the Fort Wayne depot. With a
glad smile / seized his hand.
''Did you not at one time drive = cab
between the depots and hotels?" l
asked.
Yes, from the Fort Wayne depot, J"
he cried eagerly, licking his chops.
"Well, / thought l knew you!" l ex-
claimed. reaching for my pocketbook
and writing a line for him on blank
leaf. Here is a receipt in full for that
half dollar you chiseled out or me dur
ing the Worlds Fair! 1t is not much,
but it will help"
With these words I went on down
town, happy in the thought that l had
done q good act aud glad also that l
have a good memory for faces.
We got talking about mean men the
other evening as We ioregathered IN the
greenroom before the curtain rang mp
on our 'opry."
Hackett OF Auburn, Me-, was telling
OF man there, who hsd the same name
as his father, who was In the same bust
ness in another town. He had 70 use
weekly market report and used TO open
the envelope by stssming 1t. Then,
copying the report, be would put 1t
back in the envelope, stick it together,
strike out the old address excepting
the name and forward IL TO his father,
saving the sum OF . cents each week,
which was divided between LhS Two III
the end OF each month.
Then Mr.. Smith told Of neighb2
OF his whose son died, and the grief
stricken father went 20 town 10 dicker
for q misfit coffin. He got one at half
price that had been returned some years
ago to the undertaken. 1t was rather
short, but the Old man took it, hoping
that he could get his son into 1t before
the body became too rigid.
He was delayed, however, by muddy
roads, and when he got home he found
that il would BE- impossible TO put his
son IN the mark down cOfiin, so he
sharpened up his old bucksaw and act
uAlly sawed OF his sons feet 10 make
him fit his bargain counter casket.
This is q historical fact.
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Artemus Ward used TO tell OF two
brothers from his state who greeted
each other in the street one day after a
separation Of two years and asked each
other the news.
"Waal, don't know Of nawthln IN
partickler." said George. "onIy 1 sold
the old black boss"
MOP calculated Henry.
"YiSS," says George.
who did ye sell him tew?" said
Henry
"Waal, guess.
II never'd guess IN the world" says
Henry. "He wasn't Wuth a cuss, was
he?"
mo"
"Balky and blind and OF years old,
wasn't he?"
"Yiss."
"How much did ye git for him?"
Hundred and fifty dollahs."
"Waal you must have picked up a
suckah. Who did We sell him tew?"
"Wen, sir, by George Harry, 1 sold
him 10 mothah."
l lectured once under the manage
ment OF q man named Hampstead in
Indiana. He was too close TO get tick
cts printed, so be wrote them-ahout
500 Of them-ln longhand and shorthand
on same ticket, 50 that they could not
be counterisited. 1t took him three
days. Then he advertised with mark
ing pot and brush on the fences and had
il announced in the churches.
When 8 o'clock came, started out
for the opera house, out when within a
block OF the door ! ran up against a
procession of people which extended to
the box Office. l walked around the
crowd tlckled 10 death with the outlook
Of standing room only.
After waiting till 9 o'clock and get
ting no word 10 begin / inquired OF an
usher what we were waiting for. He
said that early in the evening some one
had ruug in plugged Quarter on
Hampstead, and he was holding back
the crowd till he could find who did 1t.
He FED a horse on the straw he got
from a crockery firm and that had beea
used for packing china and glassware
until last October, when the woods were
cav with happy nutters and the ripe
corn CLEANED like gold in the rustlins
sheath Of gray shuck-
When the frost was on the punktn
And the fodder in the shock.
Then be gave a gentle moan and passed
away. The horse, l meGn.)
Mr.. Hampstead bought o pound or
crackers once and allowed the bill to
run till the grocer asked him for the
price OF them. Mr.. II. said be would
settle the bill as soon as be could have
a settlement with his mother. 1t seems
that his mother had used part OF the
crackers, and he was waiting till she
settled for her share.
These are facts.
Last year he slipped on q bad side
walk and sprained his ankle and foot so
badly that he could not walk for some
days and appeared then with his foot
done up in bed quilt artistically las
tened with tarred rope.
As soon as he could get about he
brought suit for the value OF the loot on
the grounds OF negligence on the part OF
the town authorities.
Tue case hung fire, however, and was
thrown out OF court on the suggestion
Of the county surveyor.
"How can we make change, your
honor" asked Ne surveyor one day. ''in
case of a verdictHfo Hampstead, .soul,
body and bedqu ", is ou'v WORTH the
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NOTED WOMEN At Home
Mrs. Julia Ward Howein the Hon
ored Peace OF Old Age.

Adversely and hardship would seem
to be almost essential to the best devel-
opment OF human character. 4 girl or
boy whose childhood is surrounded with
all the advantages that love and afec-
ton can devise, may ultimately attain
to great things; but the inducements
to genuine effort, and the best incen-
tivss to ambition, are either weak ur
wanting In such lives. Some lives,
however, seem destined to rise ire
spective Of either poverty or wealth.
On the corner OF Bond street and
Broadway. in the early part of the cen
tury, lived q family named Ward, 70
whom was born little girl, who was
named Julia, after an aunt. When she
was six years old her mother died, and
with her brothers and sisters she was
placed Under the care Of relative,
who cane to make her home with them
aud tho widowed father. The relative,
who tad peculiar ways OF her own,
used u dress the children in strange
fashion, causing conment among
the neighbors at the ridiculous
sight; bat Julia did not care,
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side of the business, while into the Sis
ter's hands have been put for the last
six years the outside work. and she has
attended to the sales and shipment OF
both cattle and horses. She doesn't
care for cattle, and her work with them
is perfunctery. but all through the
West she is famous for her thorough
knowledge OF horses. her quick and e1-
celent judgment upon them and ner
skill in their management.
The first restaurant opened in Creede,
COL, was owned and conducted by Q
woman. She is . widow and her name
Is Mrs. Reid Miller. On April l, 1891.
she reached Creole, too poor to pay the
freighter who brought her here. In ex-
actly one year to day she was In re-
ceipt of an income Of $500 month and
had a snug sum in bank. She Is now
worth $4,000. Several other plucky
women also made fortunes in the early
days of Creole. One of them is Mrs.
Ella C. Love. ThsA latter was born in
Ohio, and when a girl taught school
there. Then she married and moved to
Kansas, where, with her husband, she
went through some OF the hansAs rear
estate booms. They invested in the
new cities and found, as all but the
sharks do on such occasions. the invest
meut permanent but improbable. Mrs.
Love has considerable money locked up
in Kansas prairies. Seven years ago
she was left with one child, a little lass
now twelve years old, to care for. some
thing that she was amply able to do.
For three years she called Pueblo her
home, during which time she was en-
ployed as a bookkeeper by firm OF
contractors ard builders. She had
for months been reading and near
ing about the new mining camp called
Creole, and had developed q
desire to see what a camp OF the kind
was like without forming any special
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with George Powell for $1,000 and the
feather-weight championship Of Aus
tralia- The battle was fought on March
12. 1891. Contrary to most Of the fights
that Critic has figured In the one un-
der notice was not by any means voted
q moral for him, and Powell's party
had supported him 10 win some CO 900.
Tho general public. too. seemed to
think that Powell should prove very
hard nut for the champion to crack,
and not few. IL may De added, invested
the sovereign OF civilization on ths
young man from the country. As
turned out the affair was no "gift" for
the local man, and be certainly had
more trouble In dishing up Powell than
he ever had with any other mau. In
the end. however, superb science and
q constitution that does not know the
meaning OF the word fatigue" enabled
him to come through trlrmpnantly. In
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copyrisAt. 1894. By Edgar ". Ma
IN KFNTUCKY. SprinR

IN KENTUCKY, Spring OF ga.
Paducah Is the second largest dark
tobacco market in the world, Louisville
beiag the largest But the fight Is mar
rowing down TO Clarkville, Tenn, and
PaducsA, for they are in the heart Of
the dark, heavy tobacco country. Most
OF this tobacco az present goes abroad
after being stemmed here. Large
stemmeries here reduce the weed TO its
minimum weight, aud it then goes 70
the factories and consumers OF the old
world. Quite quantity OF II comes
back In the shape OF mixtures. We buy
because it Is English, and many OF our
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THE story that Calve has been ieeus-
toned during her stay in the rnited
States 10 breathe vows OF love into q
pbonograph every day and then trans
nit the cylinder to her lover Ia Paris.
has excited as much incredibly az In
terest In the French capital. The Paris
correspondent OF the London Telegraph,
writes that he has been asked 70 contra.
dict the report. and 20 state In the most
positive manner that Miss Calve has no
idea OF entering the bonds Of natri-
.!bony.
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fraction OF cent? How can we make
change and pay him for his foot?"
The case was then abandoned.
Let me say in justice to Mr.. Hump
stead that one report regarding him is
false and wicked. do not wish TO see
him wronged by an unthinkIng public
or sensational press. He did not, as
reported, use his mothers coffin lid to
slide down hill on last winter.
There wasn't snow enough last win
ter for that purpose where he lived any
way, and his mother is still living.
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NYR IN PADTCAH.
Hs WRITES ABOUT THE FIRST HOTEL fHAT
WAS BUILT THBaR

And How Il Has Been Succeeded Later BY One
Mora S5lish-Hs Is Introduced Into Paducah
SOcisiy-Nssting an Old Frisnd-SOnS Mean
Men.
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WOMEN WHO
SUCCEEDED.
RoW PLUCK AND PUSH WIN IN THE
WESTERN STATES.

Som. NOtabls Examples Of Succsss-How Mrs.
Z. z. HoughtOn Has Made Fortune Of
Halt Million on an Investment Of Hun
drsd-A Woman Who Drives Bargains in
Horsss-Rich Cattle Queens.
The advocate., 1894-08-08
Why They Differ.

tinguish between republicans and their
more or less (alleged) democratic allies,
and the members Of the Peoples partyP
Differences must exist or neither
would be what they are or both would
be substantially the same. Differences
in mems speech and actions are the
results Of the mental and moral differ
ences which produce speech and ac-
tiOn, for all expression Of thought and
purpose is the result of a previous
mental or moral process which has
impelled the expressions. The most
highly cultivated and morally upright
persons of to-day differ in either
speech or action from the most savage
and degraded persons of the stone age
only as the mental and moral culture
of the ages impels them to differ.
Why, then, do republican editors and
speakers show in their speech and ac-
tions, as compared with those of the
POpulists, so little of true knowledge,
of humanity, of love, justice and
mercy; so little of the true spirit of
Christ, and so much of hatred, malig-
nifty, fslsehood, venom, pride, thirst
for power and vengeance, canting ny
pocrisy, soulleSs greed, and distrust of
GodT
There can be but one answer to this
question, and that is, that they belong
to lower order of civilization and are
living on a lower mental and moral
plane than do the representatives of
the Peoples party.
1t does not follow from this that the
text book education or other sdYan-
tages in life of republicans have been
inferior, but that they belong to the
naturally inert and non-progressive
class; the class that reasons weakly or
not at all; that take their thoughts at
second hand, and their moral standards
from the barbarous past, and have let
the rapid tide of modern thought and
progress drift by them. They belong
to a past age-to lower civilization
and are as much out of place in the
progressive world of to-day as South
sea savage in a modern drawing OF
scientific school.
That all republicans are intellectually
weak or morally depraVed / do not
claim, but that most of them belong in
one or the other category seems indis-
putable. That party is composed of
Immoral leaders, many of them also
notoriously ignorant of all history,
philosophy and ethics; and of mass of
dupes with just intelligence enough to
worship party name without knowing
or caring what the name implies.
No stronger proof can be given of
the truth of this than the fact that one
cannot commend any of the nobler
attributes of either God or man with
out incurring the hatred and Vituper-
alton of the republican press and
orators. To speak for freedom, justice
and equal rights OF to denOunce greed,
oppression, robbery or brutality, in
; ever so mild and non-partisan man.
ner, is to have the vials of republican
wrath and contumely emptied on your
} head.
Of course, there are Rip Van Wink
les among republicans, who wake up
after twenty-five years of mental sleep,
and after rubbing their eyes and find
The advocate., 1894-08-08

Hw-SPECIAL CLUB RATE OEEER. We
send both ne Kansas Farmer and THE ADKUe
CATE 10 January I, 1895, for only 90 eelltG Eysg
thousand Rel0 sabScribers acoAted, hence zoe @G6s
liberal reductions % club TGiseTa.
The advocate., 1894-08-08

L0dJ WllSr GQdJ i leu 9O-u@y od4u OloJ
the hard times were caused by the
scarcity of money in circulation, and
he made everything so plain that I
can't help thinking that he was right
about it"
"What could that fellow have known
about it? Some of those iramps would
try to make a person believe that they
were better posted than statesmen.
There never was time when there
were so many ignorant people dabbling
in politics; even the women are COM
mencing to argue with their husbands
and to contradict them concerning af-
fairs of state"
"I think it is about time the COM
mon people commenced to dabble in
politics. The statesmen need their
help to disentangle the snarl that af-
fairs have gotten into. Even the
women might help their husbands to
solve the great problems of the day. l
am afraid that if they don't lend their
aid, the clinging vine and the sturdy
oak will both go down together"
"See here, Sophia, this feeding of
tramps has got to stop. Things have
come to a pretty pass when loafers
come around to the back door begging
for something to eat and then give our
wives lessons in political economy in
pay for what they get
"Why, Cicero, 1 don't think that is a
bit worse than hiring a statesman out
of job to travel around on a pass
giving our husbands lessons on econ
omics. The loafer, as you call him,
and the statesman, as he calls himself,
are both out of a job; the statesman is
out because the people lack confidence
in him, but he tries to get even by
telling you that it is lack of confidence
that throws the 'loafer' out Of a job.
Now, if it wasn't for your lack of con-
fdence in my ability to comprehend, |
could get all of my lessons from you,
and there would be no need of going to
the tramps for information.
"Whst particular point is it that you
want information onP"
"On silver. We stopped at the point
last evening where you were going to
explain to me the danger of the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver at the
ratio of 16 to /. That tramp miner
from Colorado said"
81 don't want to hear any more about
what any tramp says. l don't propose
to be contradicted or dictated to by any
such fellows"
"But the man was only labOrer out
of work, and he is still voter. His
opinion will count this fall when ii
comes to electing congressman. But
don't want to say anything more about
that. I'll try to forget the hard times
that are prevailing now while you tel
me about the horrible times we would
have if we had free coinage of silver y
"Before l begin about silver, want
you to understand one thing, and thai
is that there never was a time when
there was such general prosperity. Peo
pie were never better housed, better
clothed, or better fed than they are al
the present time"
"I'll try to grasp that thought. But
excuse me few moments. / see some
ragged looking fellows coming to the
Ihaok door eunnOea thav want some
The advocate., 1894-08-08
w. Fl. 7. WAKEFIELD

Don't fail to look over our book list
under the head OF premiums. Our
books are few but they are the best
going, Cor educational purposes.
The advocate., 1894-08-08

laGlOu III lbVOI VI bH6 IdDOEluB nlbu
that it has spoiled them and made them
worthless? Does the party that you
vote with require you to take sides
against the laboring man every times
he strikes for better wages or is out Of
a jObH"'
"No, certainly not. 1t is the party
that always looks out for the interest
of the laboring man. Its platforms
show that"
"Why is it then that all the papers
you take try to make it appear as if a
labOring man ought to be arrested il
he tramps around looking for work
and if he is on strike for better wages
ne ought to be shotP"
"The papers don't say So"
"NO, not in so many words, they
don't, but they leave that impression
so much 80 that it almost makes me
feel as though / were committing ar
act Of treason every time feed maj
who comes to the back door and asks
for something to eat.
"Well, don't feed any more of them
You are only encouraging idleness anC
law breaking. l have had over 1O(
Of them to come to me begging in the
last six months"
"YOu always give them something
to help them along, don't you?"
every seldom. generally give then
some good advice and send them off. ,
81 wish you would send some of then
around to the house. They are not al
genuine tramps, / know. L have toe
good an opinion of the American people
to believe that they would be tramp
ing around by the thousands just from
choice. There must be some cause fol
it. What do you think is the cause Of
SO many people beggingp"
Zone of the principal causes is Low
prices, caused by oVerproduction."
~ think it is strange that all you
theories contradict themselves. Over
production and starvation don't go to
gether."
81 didn't expect that you would bt
able to understand that. All the best
authorities agree, however, that tht
country is now suffering from an over
production"
"Isn't it strange that the laborinl
men who helped to produce this over
production should be tramping arounC
the country begging for some Of it
Don't you think if they had the mean
of buying what they need that ther
wouldn't be any overproduction?"
"No. There is surplus of every
thing; for instance, there is more whea
raised than can find market"
"I have seen statement somewher
that the people who are confined il
charity institutions and state institu
tions, such as reform schools, soldiers
homes, asylums, and penitentiaries
consume seven and three-quarter
bushels of wheat per capita, while tn
average consumption for the people
the United States was, in 1891, onl
four bushels per capita, and that tn
consumption has been growing less TO
the past three years, till it has been re
duced to three and three-quarter
bushels. From those figures it wa
shown that if every one had all h
wanted to eat there would be a lsrg
al o.Aor.o a., Ahn r,rnAnl ntinn of Iuhaat In