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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-01-16
Fall and Winter tor.

In order to supply he d.n'a- -
dry goods, II. C".u has coh-.i', ed
20 repIenisl. his stock, which wi. "
sold at still grea CT reductlpn
prices. o3Id
Prof. L. thinner will furnish
music for balls, parties, private and
public entertainments, and give in
structions on ten instruments; violin
and mandolin speciality. Apply at
ormsby House.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-01-16

e P. Fisher, newspapers adver-
sing agents, II Merchants Elk
~hange, San Francisco, is our author
lied agent. This paper is kept on
file in his ofiic.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Threshlng Navy Bea rs.

A correspondent who has had ex.
perience in that line, says he believes
it is impossible to thresh beans SO
that they would sell in the market.
Last season he ran some fifty bushels
of navies through a threshing ma.
chine and has resolved not to do SC
again. Fifty per cent OF his beans
were split, and the crop would not
sell for seyenty-fve cents per bushel
if placed on the open market. II
was long and laborious task to pre-.
pare those beans to a salable state,
but ne succeeded in selling them all
with the exception OF ten bushels OF
screenings. He says; These screen.
ings make excellent soup, but not
being partial to bean soup my supply
bids fair to be everlasting.
Even a small per cent of split
beans would materially depreciAte
the value of the beans, and in order
to obtain the top prices they would
have to be hand-picked, and to pick
out those broken beans is something
more than to pick out the black and
damaged beans as is otherwise done.
shall not attempt to thresh my
beans by threshing machine until
the industry in this locality has
grown to such proportions that II
would pay to invest in special bean
thresher. This season ] shall Use {
fail altogether If | cannot find bet
ter way.
estimate that the cost of failing
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05


Don't ask me to back 18th blinds
on. am afraid to.
Don't lend me to some olock-hesd
that has less sense than / have.
Don't think because I'm a horse
that iron weeds and br.ars won't
hurt my hay.
Don't be so careless Of my harness as
to find a great sore on me bsfore you
attend to it.
Don't run me down a steep hill, for
il anything should give way might
break your neck.
Don't put my blind bride so that it
lrritates my eye or so leave my fore.
lock that it will be in my eyes.
Don't think because 90 free under
the whip don't get tired. You
would move up if under the whip.
Don't whip me when get fright
ened along the road or will expect
1t next time and maybe make trouble.
Don't hitch me to an iron post or
railing when the mercury is below
freezing. | need the skin on nv
tongue.
Don't keep my stable very dark,
for when | 90 into the light my eyes
are injured, especially if snow is On
the ground.
Don't forget the old Book that is
friend of all the oppressed, that
says; The righteous man is merci-
full to his beast"
Don't make me drink ice cold
water or put frosty bit in my mouth.
Warm the bit by holding half min
ute against my body.
Don't compel me to eat more salt
than | want by mixing it with my
oats. know better than any other
animal how much | need.
Ion forget to tlle my teeth when
they are gagged and | cannot chew
my food. When get lean it is a
sign my teeth want filing.
Don't trot me up hill, for | have
to carry you and the buggy and my
self too, Try it yourself sometime.
Run up hill with a big load.
Don't leave me hitched in my stall
all night with big cob right where
| must lie down. | am tired and
cannot select smooth place
Don't say whoa unless you mean
it. Teach me to stop at the word.
1t may check me if the lines break,
and save runaway and smashup.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05

and running through a tanning mill
will be less than twenty-five cents per
bushels and it.wouid not be less by
using a threshing machine. 1t is a
curious fact that a good many men
here who have not grown twenty
five bushels OF beans in their lives.
stoutly assert that threshing beans
with an ordinary threshing machine
is a grand success, and Influenced by
their opinions l went at my beans
with great expectations. 1t did not
however, take me very long to find
out that an ordinary tnreshing ma.
chine is not the best tool to prepare
my fancy natives for an exacting
market
1t is to be hoped that some inven-
tor will furnish the ideas for CHEAP
and effective bean thresher that will
come within the reach of the indi-
vidual bean grower. Farm, Field and
Fircside.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Househo d Helps.

For an ingrowing toe or finger
nail cut Y or notch in the center of
the nail, and it will grow toward the
center and relieve the corner.
A goblet of hot water taken Just af-
ter rising, before breakfast, has cured
thousands of indigestion, and no
simple remedy is more widely rec
commended to dyspeptics.
No matter how large the spot of
oil, any carpet or woollen stuff can
be cleaned by applying bucl;wheat
plentifully and faithfully, brushing
it into dustpan after short time,
and putting on fresh until the oil has
disappeared.
Broken china may be mended BY
making light paste on the white OF
an egg, and flour. cleaning the broken
edges from dust, spreading them
with the paste and holding the parts
together while wet, wiping off all
that oozes out 1t must be Aeld or
fastened in position until dry.
For dark colored garments make
the starch Of coffee or make hay tea
to wash them in. When the color Of
red or pink garments is doubtful
soak them two hours in salt water
before washing, and blue ones in
water to which a tablespoonful Of
sugar OF lead has been added. Al
ways iron colored garments on the
wrong side as far as possible.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
That Fictitious Garret.

'If'-if we only had story book
garr.t! If we only had a garrett like
that which invariably tops the dwell
ing of that cork-like "a friend of
mine" in newspaper fiction!
Did you ever. have such a friend?
No? Nor l, and | should hate her,
I'm sure OF it
Think of it; you and l go down town
and pay 81 cash for a white enameled
tea table; the friend" merely buys a
pot of paint and paper of brass
tacks, the res: she gets out of her gar
ret-three broken handles ibid any,
one but friend ever store away
old lrooms?) a barrel top, a breadth
of brocade, yards of lovely lace, and
one and half of satin ribbon to match.
Small wonder if she turns out a
table that for daint; finish and effect
puts your poor little 81 affair into the
shadows.
Another thing, there's nothing said
about this, but this is the way it
would be in real life, she'd tell you all
about it, and she would expect you to
oh and ah from the first coat of paint to
the last tack. She'd tell your husband
all about it, and no mortal woman
could ever make hun understand it
wasn't she, it was her garnet that
saved the $2.7j.
Come, let's 60 up in the garnet!
What will we find? There's a ricketv
corner washStand with the hole for
the bowl, and the pitcher shelf below;
moth-eaten green rep sofa; chiDtz
covered box that by rights should con-
tain ancestral brocades, but doesn't: a
three-legged bureau and a rocker that
no longer rocks; rag bags?-yes,
plenty of them, but full of rags and
half lengths of materials; four silk
hats and box of shoes; tin bathtub
full of old Harper's, and baby's high
chair
Not much there for friend"
Yet stay, if were writing on the
other side of the question, I'd take
that washstand, I'd scrape, paint, gild
and rutfie that washttand, I'd set it in
my drawing room with my prettiest
white and gold pieces on top and my
prettiest white and gold books under
meath, but I'd never tell you how
long it took me or what it coSt-the
paint, the lace, the new brass handles
and the little brass rail for a finish.
1t would quite spoil NY story-for
| that side.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
To Make Chocolate.

Never crate or shave off chocolate
from the cake. Break off the amount
you need and put it in either an
earthen-lined or an agate kettle, pour
boiling hot water on it just enough
to dissolve it, then pour in the milk,
which should be warm, not hot, stir
ring all the while as you are pouring
it in. Stand the kettle where it will
boil quickly, being careful not to let
it burn, and when it has boiled three
minutes the chocolate is done. Pour
it into the chocolate pot and serve.
Do not sweeten it; let the guests
sweeten their own chocolate as they
prefer. Three ounces of chocolate is
good measure for a cup. 1t does
not hurt chocolate to stand after boil
ing for at least half hour where it
will keep hot, only do not let it boil.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Poultry Pick ings.

Save the best birds for breeding.
e.. In winter cover the windows of the
poultry house at night with batting
or shutters.
If a hen only. pays seventy-fve
cents profit annually, she is paying a
big PEI cent.
The temperature. OF the poultry
house in winter should never be be.
low 40 degrees.
Hens will not lay unless they have
"a full supply of water Water is as
necessary as food. co.,.
Whenever a farmer can get hold Of
oyster shells he should take them
home for the hens.
If you want to fatten, , feed corr
and other fat producers. If eggs are
wanted give egg producing feed.
1t is all right to have good breed,
but without good care in the way Of
feeding and warm quarters fowls will
bekept at loss. ri
Certain markings are necessary for
exhibition, but 70: practical purposes
good hen is good hen whatever
her markings are.
Remember that laying hens will b.
kept more profitably through the
winter if fed wheat and some meat.
Winter eggs are profitable.
French poultry raisers cook the
grain that is fed to fattening fowls,
but some poultrymen claim that
there is no advantage in doing it.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
A Girl and Her Gloves.

Just think of it little and it will
dawn upon you that a girls gloves
have considerable to do with her rep
utation. The average individual
sizes her up according to the prefer
ence she shows in color, the cleanli-
ness, and the fit of this garb for her
hands.
The girls skirt may hide tie fact
that her shoe lacks button, Jacket
may conceal a frayed sleeve, and a
bunch of roses or a big chrysanthe-
mum may lesson the conspicuousness
of a shabby bertha. But the gloves
always reveal their defects and like
wise their attractions, which are
somehow instinctiveIy accepted by
the observer as SO many signs Of their
owners characteristics.
There clings to gloves that girl
has worn sort of personality which
accounts for the tendency of lovers to
.apprQpriate these small pieces of his
adored one stoilet. Lsf-t.'
q. A man said:
T. ""lf lwere contemplating matrimony
kwOuld get several sharp 10 SKIS at the
gloves worn by the object of my affec.
tions. BY that means | should find
out Somewhat concerning her extrav
rgance or prudence. Then l would
observe how she puts her gloves on,
how she buttons them, how she wears
| them, how she takes them off, ant
how. she puts them away until the
next outing time. All these methods
are hints concerning individual
| habits"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Smothered Orators.

Put one tablespoonful of butter in a
covered saucepan with half salt.
spoonful of white pepper, one tea
spoonful Of salt and a few grains OF
cayenne. When hot, add one pint OF
oFstcrs, carefully prepared. Cover
closely and shake the pan to keep the
oysters from sticking; cook two o,
three minutes, or till plump. Serve
IN toasted crackers.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
AFTER

Herewith the story ends again,
And who is not contented:
The Ogres all are duly slim.
The dragons circumvented.
The princess wedS the hero bold
Who came her chains to sever.
And so the b.iNsful p IT we're told,
"Livel happily forever"
So-fini5, And the book We close.
Nootner lacts are granted.
Gut lovers thea We must SUPPOSE,
Were never disenchantel
For them was no domestic strife.
No troubles intervening,
But happiness and married" life
Were Synonym; in meaning
We, too perhaps, althourh We dwell
In different circumstances.
Perform the drama fairly well
Set forth in these rOmances.
Inc ogre's part parent plays,
The maid an heiress pretty.
Inc prince in these prosaic days
IS something in the city,"
but Will The parallel extend
Through after.life. wonder.
80 SAHNS BlAliu~OJlltLS pei ptIu
That maria is blunder?
Ah: chrOniclers d'screetly mute.
You were pcrchanCe, too clever
To hint at riffs within the Lutte
Or happiness forever,
And yet the view is out Of date.
BY rave statistics shaken,
But still 10 some at any rate,
1t does not cen mistaken
For thou h the cynic's bitter m;rth
No truth in it discovers,
Love new as then, can make OF earth
4 paradise for lovers.
hrS -Longmans Magazine
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05

coldly after a., first Of October is,
you may be sure, mistake:- N0mat:
ter how frugal a housewife you are,
it is "a mistake you can easily avoid
by placing your chairs and tables so
that they will look as If they felt at
home. Do this, and" as a clever
writer puts it, so long as woman
has a pair of hands, "a work basket
and hammer and taeks she need not
live in an urly room" ~.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
Queen victoria's Musical Taste.

The Baroness Bloomfield in her
"reminiscences" relates how on one
occasion Queen Victoria asked her to
sing, and she, with fear and trembling
sang one of Crisis famous airs, but
omitted the shake at the end. The
queens quick ear Immediately de-
tected the omission, and, smillngly,
her majesty said to Lady Normandy,
her sister Does not your sister
shake, Lady Normandy" To which
that lady promptly replied; "Oh, yes,
ma'am; she is shaking all over"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05
A House, Furnishing Hint.

Don't have ydr sitting room too
fusSy. The furniture should be sub
stantlal, not frivolous, and by all
means have one easy chair, at least,
which the man or woman who is
weighted with flesh may sit down in
without fear or trembling. Isaw the
funniest sight the other evening, that
OF big man, great, tall, elegant
looking fellow he was, vainly seeking
amidst number OF fairy-like pieces
of furniture for place to sit down.
lie vainly searched and at last in de.
spair, let himself down very carefully
upon a corner divan, almost backless
laughed and he looked miserable.
Finally he said, in a stage whisper
and with an imploring tone. please
don't stretch out this call, will you?"
Think how much my hostess missed
by not having comfortable outfit for
her sitting room. People, especially
men, are perfectly Indifferent to
beauty in furnishings What they
want, at least in the loung .ng room.
is solid comfort In winter it is "How
comfortable you look" and in sum.
mer How charmingly cool" Here is
a seasonable hint Every household
should have lis color schemes for each
season, and roor. that strikes one
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-01-05

Innocents Abroad,

Men have very annoying way of
ridiculing a woman's inability to find
her way about in unaccustomed places
and, indeed, you can hardly blame
them. A home. bred woman alone in
a strange locality wears an air of
hopeless helplessness that can only
be equaled by her feelings Watch
her as she makes timid entrance into
one OF the big business buildings She
whispers her quest alphabetically to
the janitor, who directs her: Third
corridor to the right, fifth door down"
and she dashes wildly down the
second corridor to the left and gazes
blanlily at the collection of unfamiliar
names on the third door until some
passer-by sets her right. And if you
have noticed women have a remark
able propensity for plying the passing
stranger with innumerable questions
in railway stations, for instance,
where all sorts of information is
posted up in unmistakable terms.
1t isn't really difficult thing to
pilot yourself about, though, you
know The city fathers and business
corporations post up Il variety of gen.
eral information for the benefit of an
inquiring public, and there isn't any
earthly reason, why a woman should
not steer herself through strange
streets and tortuods buildings as sue.
cessfully as man. A man always
stops for an instant and takes com
prehensive view of his situation. He
takes notes OF finger boards or con-
suits the directory by the door, and
if he has to ask information he doesn't
hail the first conner, who may be even
more ignorant of the ncighborhood
than himself, but he looks up soine-
body with uniform or an official air,
or something to distinguish him from
the uniformed masses, and asks all
necessary questions of that somebody
and follows his directions instead of
dashing off in blind haste, as nine out
of ten women would do
Street ears in strange city are
rather perplexiug and cause the ner
vous woman endless anxiety, but if
you have the faintest idea of where
you want to go there is usually print
ing enough on the cars to give you a
general notion of which line of cars
you ought to take, where several
companies use the same track, and
then if you are not quite sure it is
easy enough to ask the final question
of the conductor as you are getting on
the car
There is a great deal in looking
about you for a moment when you
find yourself IN the midst of strange
surroundings An intelligent glance
that takes in all pointers and general
directions gives you a certain conf
dence, and once you get your bearings
you can find your way without a bit
OF trouble, even if you are a woman.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27
THE STATE PRISON.
A Lecture on San Quentin by an
EX.Guard.

w. w. Cooley delivered a lecture on "The
Stale Prison at San Quentin" yesterday even
ing, at Stanford Hall on Valencia street. He
not only gave an interesting account of the
prison, where he was for six years guard, but
also made the entertainment more realistic by
illustrating his remarks with stereopticon
views and by wearing the convict dress himself
so that his hearers might have correct idea OF
fashions within the prison.
The lecture opened with general account OF
the buildings and history of the State prison
from The days when the first California convict
was placed in durance vile in brig off Angel
Island. All the precautions Of photOgraphing
and measurement taHen for the future denti-
fcaton OF cOnvlcts were infinitely described,
aud the hearers were given an insight into how
the convicts manage TO communicate with one
another without the guards being able to under
stand. THIS Is done by means of a system of
teegrapby known only 10 themselves, the mys-
teries OF which no free man has ever yet been
able to penetrate.
Opium was described as the curse OF tue In
stitutiOn. THE cOnvIcts addicted to this drug
viii resort TO any means TO secure il. Free
men will go into the grounds and secrele opium
and the cOnvicts will dig it up. Servants and
visitors succeed in smuggling 1t within The
walls. In fact no vigilance seems to be sue
cessful in excluding it, The lecturer con-
cluded with an account of some thrilling
escapes from the State prison.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27

now In process of erection, the report read that
The experts work was Endorsed aud the Board
OF Education commended for causing the build
Ing 10 De strengthened. The Board OF Puolic
Works was censured for not properly eXamln-
ing the plans of the building previous TO adVe +
Using for bids ana for Degectng 10 have the
de1ectS relnedled except under compuislon.
1he Cl:y Prison had been visited by The jury,
and they summed up their opinion OF that eS-
tablishment In the following language:
we consider the portion OF the prison de-
voted 10 prisoners to be disgrace 10 clVlllZa-
lion. 1t is at least 100 years behind the times.
walls Of stone, tlOOred with wood, below the
level or the street, lighted in many OF the cells
only by artificial light, poorly severed ana al
most without ventilation One cell, with large
grated window, opened directly on the open
air, protected from the wind only by blanket,
and contained beds for six occupants.
We found one prisoner under sentence OF one
year and several for somewhat shorter terms.
We consider the imprisonment OF human be-
ings in such place TO be almost equivalent 10
death sentence. We can hardly ilnd words 10
express our disapprOval OF the structure.
Tie annual report OF the City Auditor was
highly commended, and the jury thougnt the
same system could be used 10 advantage in The
County Auditors Office. IL was. therefore.
recommended that the Board of Supervisors,
previous TO the next meeting OF the Legislature,
have such amendment 10 the county govern
ment law prepared as Will authorize the APP
pOintment OF deputy County Auditor to make
ont an itemized annual report similar to the
City Auditors.
II was recommended that new building be
erected at the County InfTmary before the next
winter season.
The management OF tie County jail was COM
mended.
Renewed activity against the Chinese lot
teries was ordered.
The report condemned the practice of certain
Ccnstables in swearing TO their claims pre-
sented against the county without actual
knowledge of their being correct.
The Board OF Supervisors was called upon 10
annul The grant OF a franchise TO Herman
X rhIca on Nav 70 hniIH "a a
railroad on the shore of the tidal canal, on the
ground that the franchise was only obtained for
speculative purposes.
The jury has met twenty-nine times, each
member receiving So for meeting. The total
expense for salaries was therefore S1653, and
that IS considered small.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27
MARINE NOTES.
The City of Picking Not Damaged as
Reported.

Early advces from Yokohama yesterday re-
ported the steamer City Of Picking ashore In
Yeddo Bay. late dispatch to the Merchants
Exchange stated tnat the vessels cargo was
being removed in lighters and that she would
not suffer the slightest damage as a result Of
her grounding. She will be floated at the next
high water.
Six square-rIggers have arrived in the past
forty-eight hours. They are the British ships
Crown of EpglaDd and Castle Rock from Swan
sea, Marion Joseph from Hamburg, The Tray-
eer and bark CIOGcaird from Newcastle, Aus.
tralia.
Flags were at haf-mast along the front yes
terday out of respect for the memory of Mrs.
A. Z. Pryor, wife OF A. Z. Pryor of the firm of
Piper Alden & Co. Mrs. Pryor had been i'll for
several weeks. The funeral Will take place
Saturday at P. NJ. from the family residence
The intermenI will be In the Masonic Cemetery.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27
COGSWELL'S INSTITUTE.
The Doctors Reason for Wanting II
Back Impuo ned.

In the suit OF the people on the relation OF
Mayor Ebert against Henry ID. and Caroline
Cogswel and j. Fl. Culver, the plaintiffs yes
terday filed an answer TO the cross.complaiut OF
the defendants.
In this suit the question OF the ownership Of
the CogswelPs Polylecnnical School Is In dis
pute. The plaintiffs deny before the ex-
ecutlon of trust deed that Cogswell was ad-
vlsed by any party that polytechnical school
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-07-27

WEINSHEN UK-In this city. July %.
1894. BY the Rev. j. NietO, sydney Weinshenk
and johanna Kalmuk, both of San Francisco.
LLOYn-CAM ERUN-In this city. July rs, 1894,
by the Rev. John e. Adams, Robert Lloyd and
Ida Virg mia Cameron.
COX-SPAULDING-I this city July "a. 1894,
Dr. Norris Cox and Mrs Lena SpauldiDg, both of
Portland Or.
BRISA CHER-HFRRSCHER - In San Leandro.
July 25 1894, by kabhi Levy. Leo Brisacher or
San Francisco and Ottlllia Herrscher OF San
LeandrO.
DOLIVER-CONGER-I Chico. July II, 1894,
by the Rev. Z. Graham. John A Deliver OF Ala
media ana FIOy Z. Conger of Chico.