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The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
Missouri'. Crops.

Columbia, Mo-, Sept. A.-The Mis-
souri, weather crop bulletin says: The
hot sun and dry winds caused cor to
dry up very rapidly and much Of 1t is
now too dry for fodder. In some Of the
northern counties therA is complaint that
late corn has been dried out too rapidly
and will be loose on the cob.
Apples suffered considerably from the
winds and high temperature, and in
some of the southern and central coun-
ties there is complaint that they are
rottinG badly.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Denver, Sept. 10.-My journey from
Chicago was over the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy railroad, one of the
best managed systems in the country,
should say, judging by the civility of
the employees, the comfort l experienc-
ed, the excellence of it's roadbed, and
the punctuality of arrival. l actually
reached Denver ahead Of time. The
Burlington route is also the best to st
Paul, Minneapolis, St Paul and Kan
sas CITY.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
Keep Your Weather Eye Open

Fraud loves a shining mark. Occasionally
spurious limitations spring up of Hostetterr,'s ;
remedy for chills and fever, dyspepsia, CON
stipation blliousness, nervousness neuralgia.
rheumati tism and kidney disorder. These I'm.
high wines Look out for the firm signature
on the genuine label and vignette Of St.
George and the Dragon.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

with the exhiIarating sense of renewed
health and strength and internal clean
illness which follows the use of Syrup
Of Figs 10 unknown to the few who
have not progressed beyond the old time
medicines and tho cheap substitutes
sometimes offered but never accepted by
the well Informed
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
Bis Dsaiiu Bonds,

New York. Sept. pa syndicate
comprising a number Of the most influ-
entail banking houses of New York
and London have purchased from the
railroad SIS, 900, 600 of first consolidated
prior lien per cent. bonds.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
FARMING IN JAPAN.
kvsrything Done on Small scale-Home
Made Tools.

Made Tools
There can be no market for American
agricultural implements and machinery
In Japan for two very simple reasons.
First, the farms are not big enough, and
second, labor is too plenty. Ii Japan
ese farmer should introduce a modern
reaper and self-binder upon his farm he
would cut down everything in the way
of crops while he was turning it around,
and there wouldn't be anything left for
him and his family to do all the rest Of
the season.
on in q mannar similar to that I have
described, and the soil ls in constant
use. A couple of acres Is considered a
Large tract of land for farming pur-
poses. Most of the farms are of smaller
area, and the crops are greatly diversi.
fed. Upon such little spot of land
will be grown almost everything known
to the vegetable kingdom; few square
feet Of wheat, barley, corn and millet,
a plat of beans perhaps ten feet wide by
twenty feet long, an equal amount OF
potatoes and peas then patch of on
ions as big as grave, beets. lettuce, sal
sify, turnips, sweet potatoes. vegetable
oysters and other varieties of cereals
and roots occupy the rest of the area.
crop every morning, just as an engineer
will inspect the movements of his ma
chinery, and If anything is wrong re-
pairs 1t. If weed appears in the bean
patch he pulls it up; II n hill of potatoes
or anything else fails 1t is Immediately
replanted. And when he cuts down II
tree he always plants another TO take Its
place, The artificial forests of Japan
cover many hundreds of square miles.
and by this accuracy, economy and care
the prosperity of the country is perma-
nently assured. AS one crop is harvest
ed the soil is worked over, fertiliZed and
replanted with something else.
The largest area of agricultural lands
in Japan Is devoted to raising rice. per
haps as much as nine-tenths of the
whole, and, as that crop requires great
| deal OF water, the paddys are banked up
into terraces, one above the other, ana
divided off into little plats twenty-five
or thirty feet square, with ridges OF
earth between them to keep the water
from flowing away when they are
flooded. All farming land is irrigated
| nv a system that is thousand years
old. and some of the bitches are walled
nm with bamboo wicker work.
. The farmers live in villages and their
| farms are detached, sometimes mile or
two and three miles away from Their
homes. There are no fences or other
visible marks of division, but every man
knows his own land, for 1t has Deen III
his family for generations. Irrigatins
bitches and little paths are usually the
boundary lines.
Theoretically all the land belongs to
the emeperor, but the greater part OF
that under cultivation has been held In
the same families for generations and
always descends from the father to the
Oldest son.
The official statistics of Japan show
that there are II, ,4OO.0OS men and 1O,-
94s. .O53 women engaged in agriculture
which is more than half the total popu'
lation.-William E. Curtis.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
How's Th'si
re reward

We offer One Hundred Dollars reward
for any case Of Catarrh that cannot De
cured BY Halls Catarrh Cure
r.. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, y.
We, the undersigned, have known +.
! Cheney for the last is years. and be-
iieve him perfectly honorable In an
business transactions. and financially
able to carry out any obligations maze
by their firm. ,y,~
wALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN;
wholesale Druggists. Toledo. ONO.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken s in.srna, nas
,nncous surfaces of the system Testi-
moniaIs sent free. Price. 75c per oottie.
Sold by all druggists.
Halrs Family Pills. 25c.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

State. County. City and School District
BONDS and WARRANTS. Correspondence
solicited. MORRIS & WHITEHEAD.
Cooper Building. Denver, Colorado.
Branch: Chamber of Com. Bldg, Portland. Or
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Three OF Il kind would have taken the ark
during the flood. for It only held pairs.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

1t is said that "brains will tell" Some
times they will and sometimes they will not
Sometimes the more brains man has the
less he will tell. 1t doesn't always answer
for brains to tell.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

There Is Pleasure and Profit and
no small satisfaction in abatng Troublesome and
painful III by using Parkers Ginger Tonic.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

PlT8-AllFits stopped free by Dr. x lines Great
Nerve Iestorer No Fits after the tlrst days use
Marvellous cures Treatise and 81 trial bottle frect,
Fit cases. Send to DR.. klinc. .93l Arch ST. Phi, IA
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Bright's disease seems to have a prefer
ence for great statesmen. and others or the
same kidney.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

1t l. 80 EASY to Kempv- torns tn IIin-
dercorns that we wonder 20 many will endure
them Get Yin der corns and see how nicely 1t
takes them of.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
We Want to I,uy.

Japan Is a great country for poor people.
The most expensive form Of cremation only
costs seven dollars.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

We have several excellent newspapers for
sale at reasonable prices Western News
paper Union, Denver. Colorado.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Piso's Cure for Consumption has saved me
many Doctors bills. f. Hardy, Hop
kins Place, Baltimore, Nd, Dec. 2. 1894
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Dress like a tramp and your friends will
overlook you, but a policeman will look you
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

There wouldn't have been any milk In a
cocoanut II some dniryman had had the con-
struction OF 1t.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

Rome, In the days of her pride and power,
had a circus that would accommodate 49,
900 people. With such II multitude II boy
craWled under the canvas 1t wasn't noticed.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
Kate Field In Denver.

1t is curious how u woman who screams nt
a mouse Is not startled by millinery Dill
that makes a man tremble,
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

An able seaman do wonderful things
with rope-that is II It's properly taut.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

A Plttsburg girl whose lover Is a white
washer named Kelsey, always calls hil
"Kelsey mine"
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

The highwayman ought to be good boxer
for it's give and take with him.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

"This is no laughing matter" said the au-
thor as the editor handed him back his jokes.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

II the Baby Is Cutting Teeth.
Be sure and use that old and weiltried remedy, NRa
SNsLow's SOOTHING SSucr for Children Teethine-
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
MAY SPLIT THE EMPIRE.
WEAK GOVERNMENT or CHINA.

Eapsrss Has Iitts Control Over the
Proviness-Rssohtion Likely to Break
Out st Any Tim.-O Onsclals rersecu,,px
Horeagueqs.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

''Ranson's Magic Corn sslvs."
Warranted to cure money refunded Ask youI
druggist for it. Price Is cents-
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

II seems appropriate enough for WHISKY
arm 10 70 into liquidation.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05
EVERY GIRL WANTS A FELLo'

EVERY GIRL WANTS a FELLOW
to look nice and clean We use nothing but pure
soap and water; gives finer finish, more plia-
ble holds to shape better and Stays Clean
Much Longer when we wash them. What the
fellowf Oh! Mo- His shirts, CUTS and collars
Young Fellows, club together; send us $500
charges both ways, II within l,O09 miles, and
charge you only Denver prices. Agents wanted
particulars. Queen City Laundry. i248-5o Curtis ST.
The Meeker herald., 1895-10-05

"My baby was a living skeleton.
mus, Indigestion, etc. The various
did not strengthen or fatten him. !
what he did at hirth-.aven Mounds
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
THROUGH THE AIR SHAFT.
Sounds That Break In the Silly Night on
the Ears OF the Flat DweIler.

Sounds That Break In the Silly Night on
the Ears OF the Flat DweIler.
'In the hot nights, with the windows
into the air shafts all open" said New
York fat dweller, I'VE hear the voices
of old and young in all sorts of tones
and modulations, and speedily become
used to them and pay no attention to
them; they are part of the routine Of
life to which we become accustomed,
as we do TO the sounds Of the streets, to
the rustling of trees or the flow Of
waters. But suppose you wake up in
the night in intense quiet; your swn
air shaft windows wide open and all
the rest the same. The voices you
heard in the evening now are stilled;
there sno sound. Then you hear the
striking of a clock, and then you hear
more clocks; some close together, some
far apart, but no two striking together,
and they are as different ii manners of
stroke and sound rs they are in time;
there are no two alike. There are
clocks with q sharp, quick, shrill
strike, clocks with q slow cathedral
gong, colorless clocks, charming clocks,
medieval clocks Of the kind they made
forty or fifty years ago-you know
them by the strike, Gothic in pattern
and perhaps with a picture of Melrose
abbey or something Of that sort painted
on the door under the clock face. Iron
clocks, wooden clocks, marble clocks,
onyx clocks, nickel clocks, all sorts of
clocks, old and new, rise before the
minds eye as they tell each Its tale Of
the passing time, and when they are
all done there comes after an interval
one more, a deep, ponderous, distant
boom, and after that comes silence
Rgain."
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
Longevity in PHILADELPHIA

That quietude conduces to longevity
seems to be demonstrated by the record
OF longevity in Philadelphia, a matter
on which the city prides itself con-
siderably. During the first half of this
year the obituary columns of the
Ledger contained death notices Of 2S4
women and $50 men who had lived to
or beyond the age of so years. The
greater part of the deaths were of resi-
dents Of Philadelphia. Thirteen women
and twenty-six men lived to or beyond
the age Of 90 years. The extreme ages
reached were 80 years by one woman
and 96 by three men. One colored man
has a record all to himself. He was
John Gibson, well-known character
in Philadelphia, who died on February
2 at the home for aged and infrm col
ored people, He claimed to be $50
years old, but the most authentic infor-
nation made him out to be 1T, which
was accepted as being probably cor
rect.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
RELATIONS RECIPROCAL

God Loves and Attracts the Righteous and
In Turn IL Loved and Attracted by II.
God loves what Is like Himself he
can not help it God approves the
quality OF Righteousness when found
anywhere among His creatures, be-
cause He has it In His own nature.
That nature He can not deny. can not
assume or lay aside, as Q man might
adorn himself with . robe and divest
himself Of 1t as his pleasure. That
nature approves what Is right. Ged Is
drawn toward every bit Of godliness
He sees anywhere in His universe. II
He attracts 1t, II also attracts Him.
This comes about BY the operation Of .
kind of spiritual law Of graVation.
No only We know, do greater bodies
like the sun attract lesser bodies, such
as small satellites, but the insignif-
cant fractional parts" Of tho solar
universe exert an influence also on the
great bodies. Every bit Of matter
draws every other bit; even 4 pebble
pulls upon = sun. So morally like at
tracts like; and not only does the great
Being that Is Divine attract multitudes
OF the lesser beings which He has
created, SO that they swing in attached
revolution around the centers OF His
thought and interests, but these
smaller existences attract also
in turn the glorious Sun Of
Righteousness Goodness anywhere
draws the great God. This
is only expressed in another way when
it is said that God loveth the righteous,
since the affections Of q holy Lord
gravitate inevitably toward what Ii
good and true and sacred-in the direc-
ton Of that which possesses the COM
mon element with Himself not Of a
gross materiality, but of moral and
spiritual weight and worth. So tho
Deity delights in the virtues, beauties,
faiths and loves Of His children. What
is good in them reflects joy upon Him.
he takes positive pleasure in piety, His
heart goes out toward noble spirits.
The cody make God happier.-C. A. s.
Dwight, in n. Y. Observer
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
,ertain abandon and courage else i.

certain abandon and courage else It
will be found pinchbecS ami not golA
The Christian life is Ear from beftg
q ioint-stock company. with "limite3"
liabilities as TO the stockholders. 1t
must be all or nothing. Cirist's SOL
diers are not militia whose duties ars
bounded by state lines, but regulars
whose duty is wherever the flag is. 1t
Is this which makes the relationship
between the Redeemer and the re-
deemed SO sacred. Relationships are
tender in proportion to their infancy.
Monte Rosa and the Matterhorn stand
leagues apart, robed in snow and
jeweled with glaciers; but two hillocks
on the prairie are found to run down
to the same valley and into each others
embraces, garlanded with anemones in
May and wild roses in June and gold
en-rod in October. The Christian life
which consists in paying pew rent and
Q dollar . year to missions brings little
sweetness with 1t; but II ono would
know what that life really means let
him give his whole heart TO God, and
his soul will blossom into song.-In-
terror.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
ONES SELF NO STANDARD.
Would leu Grow In Grace Divine, FL
Your Eyer On Jesus.

Would leu Grow In Grace Divine, Fir
Your Eyes on Jesus.
Man needs a standard outside Of
himself No one is fit to be his own,
because no one is absolutely fixed, and
avscillating standard IL really no stand.
ard at all. The mariner can not de-
pend on The ships log. He must turn
his sase to the tiIity Of the heavens in
order to know just where he Is. Says
Prof. James: We walk . beam the
bettsr, the less we think Of the posi-
tien Of our feet upon it We pitch or
catch. We shoot or chop, the better,
the less taotile and muscular and the
more exclusively optical our conscious
meas Is Keep your eye on The place
aimed Ut, End yeur hand will fetch II,
think Of your hand. and you will very
likely miss your aim" Turning ones
vision inward to the self Is . very peer
way Of guiding ones moral course
Our only surety 10 In turning the razs
outward TO the Eternal Standard, in
whom there Is neither varia bleness
nor shadow that IL cast by turning
& 8. TimeL
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
Is -Cae -H0 DOCS KILLED

HIS +Cse -40 DOCS KILLED.
Carry g. gle. ... range PROVISIONS u ar
-1.a.. Loyers wiz.
At Bird urt, Conn, provision in
the will OF francis Ives was lately car
RED out, MS fue horses and well-Lred
dogs having been put to death,
says the New York World. Mr.
Ives was 4 q. .iuguished member -
the Fairfield county bar and a rich cd
bachelor. Rumor had it that when ne
was a young man he fell in love with
the beautiful Mss Julia Jones. Caugb-
ter of Rev. and Mrs. Henry Jones and
granddaughter of Noah Webster. Mr..
Ives proposed to Miss Jones and she re-
iected him. Afterwards she married
Rev. Thomas Beecher. brother of Hen
nv Ward Beecher. From the tine OF
her marriage Mr.. Ives separated him
self from the society of women. He
owned fine stable of thoroughbred
trotters. Two OF them, Prince and
Gypsy, were his greatest fayoritea and
as he speeded them he seemed to he
forgetful for the moment and happy.
He owned kennel of pedigreed point
ers and settlers and he was an enthusi-
astic hunter. Mr.. Ives died last winter,
leaving large estate. His will made
his lifelong friend, George Hayes, his
executor, and, outside Of a few small
requests, left his whole estate to his
sister, Mrs. Whiting, of New Haven.
But the eighteenth clause of his will
betrayed Mr.. Ives intense affection Tor
his horses and dogs-an affection
which, necessarily diverted from its
first object, had centered itself on
them. In this clause Mr.. Ives directed
his executor, Mr.. Hayes, to chloroform
to death all the animals that he might
own at the time of his death in the
month of June first following that
event. In explanation of this act Of
seeming cruelty Mr.. Ives wrote in his
will:
Il fear lest my dogs and horses will
fall into the hands of some one who
will not treat them kindly"
Mr.. Ives was well known to be hu-
name and kind-hearted man. His exec
utor considered his order binding upon
him.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
WANTED TO BORROW HIM.

Queer Request Tive Women Made of .
Philadelphia and the Reason Therefor.
A genial Philadelphisn, who for OBJ
vious reasons does not care to have his
name printed on this occasion, secured
q parlor car seat on an express train
for Reading few days ago, says the
Philadelphia Record, and as he was
about to pass through the gates was
surprised to hear himself accosted in
feminine tones with the somewhat
startling question; please, mister,
could l borrow you for awhilep"
Looking around he found two buxom
women, who hastily and hesitatingly
explained that they were riding on a
pass made out In the name Of gentle.
man and his wife, and, as the gentle
man was not present, they wanted the
genial-looking citizen to place his
bought ticket at the disposal Of one
lady and take the other one under his
wing, while he personated the absent
owner of the pass.
(Which is my wifeP" he inquired
with an inward qualm, lest his own alb.
sent better half should hear the story.
"You can take your choice, sir, $ said
the lady in search Of an escort, and he
promptly did so by tucking the arm of
the youngest fair one under his own
and leading her into the car. The
couple proved to be right jolly travel
ing companions, and the citizens only
regret in the transaction was due to a
fear that the story might leak out and
get home ahead Of him. But 1t didn't
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
RELIGIOUS MATTERS.
IN THE NIGHT WATCHES.

Sometimes when murn rous silence bushes all
the night,
Asleep lie, inward from far voice hear,
Calling my soul TO stand before One in the
light.
wake, and greet the Presence that do not
fear,
And walt eGpectant, awed. TO hear Alright
HIS message. The stroke Of passing hour
falls on nay ear:
BE also ready. Would my coming e'er thy
soul Alright
Do well thy work; the day Of God draws
near
FOR after countless ages take their flight
AS now thou art, SO then shalt thou sp-
pear"
Father, will be faithful IT'S sweet indeed
tobe
Withdrawn from earth, in peace, alone with
Thee;
Speak to my heart, o Holy Presence, stay
And guide me safely through tumultuous
day.
e Harriet Howe, in Union SirnaL
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
CHOICE EXTRACTS.

We can not pray as we ought I'm.
less We live as We ought
ALL that Is human must retrerrads
II 1t does not advance.
Those who borrow trouble never
get . chance to pay 1t back.-Ram'l
Horn.
No man ever worked honestly with.
out giving some help to his race. -Rus
kin.
There's only one person you need
to manage, and that Is yourself.-T.
Dewitt Talmage.
"A man can not be at peace with
himself while he lives in disobedience
TO known truth.
A worldly atmosphere tarnishe,
the soul rs sulpher furnishes silver
Young Mems Era
The way Of holiness is a safe vsy,
for II is the way in which God is. Nc
lion Is there, nG any ravenous beast
United Presbyterian.
True religion aud virtue give .
cheerful and happy turn to the mind;
admit Of all true pleasures, and even
procure for US the highest Addison.
If the Holy One can endure NJ
miserable sinners for q lifetime, we
ought to be able TO endure our fellow
sinners occasionally. - Young Mems
Era
Tell me with whom you associate,
and will tell you whe you are, II |
know what it is with which you occu.
py yourself, know what you may b.
come. -Goethe.
1T Is claimed that one reason why
there are SO many tired people In the
world Is because they insist-if an Irish
bull may be allowed-on climbing
hills before they get to them Stand.
ard
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17
Bargain in a Farm.

l have got a great bargain TO offer
in a choice half section of land near
Corbin. Remember the old axiom
that II you would make money buy
when other people are anxious TO sell.
There is big money in Kansas lands
at present prices Come in and talk
with me about this Bargain. A lot of
stock and implements 90 with it.
LYMAN NAUGLR,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-10-17

Joe Conner has in his store what is
called a "Fairest Wheel" 1t is not a
fake. The customer drops a nickel
in a slot and it turns the wheel.
Every point on the wheel is marked
with the figures l, or 5. II the
wheel stops with the indicator at 5,
the customer gets a quarters worth of
anything in the house; if at 2, a dimes
worth, and fiat l, a nickle's worth.
The purchaser cannot be the loser as
he must always get the worth of his
money and sometimes more. The
wheel is of no use to Mr.. Common ex.
Cept as an advertisement as the
losses are all against him. The idea
and design is new.