People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-03-12

lFSU udyS WoGk lIOm your new eul-
pluyer, and have that amount doubled
every day two cents for the second
day, four for the third, etc.l you
would be receiving s5,OOO,OOO per day
at the end of the first month.
The hot, Castilian blood of the
Spanish senors may grow hotter and
hotter still, and yet nobody on this
side of the Atlantic will be at all
worried. If 100000 Spaniards can't
whip 1900 Cubans how would Spain
fare in war with the United States?
Uncle Sam seems to have few news
paper friends in Europe, save in
Russia. The newspapers reflect pub.
lie opinion fairly well, so it would
seem that if war did come with an
European power, Uncle Sam would
have to 60 it alone. But what's the
odds?
At Coolidge, Kans., says an ex.
change, a tall man has joined the
Baptist church and wants to be bap,
tized. There is no stream in the vi
Unity deep enough and it is proposed
that he lie down in an irrigation ditch
and let the minister turn on the
water.
A hotel keeper at Alvord, MINI, is
kicking against a local printer. The
landlord ordered a lot of note heads
The printer put on them the only or
nament he had in stOck-a pair OF
bedbugS, one on each upper corner.
You can imagine the language that
came floating over the tranSOm.
Our fine winter weather suspended
with the last Of February and the
first Of March came in with snow,
wind and wintry weather in general
The snow will greatly benefit the
wheat and will probably cause the
fruit to be sufficiently backward to
avoid it being frost bitten later.
Perhaps there is no habit that
causes so much misery as that of wOr-
rying and fretting. 1t is true that
We, enthusiastically speaking
have not given up worrying and fret
ting, but that is no reason why we
should not advise our patrons to be
calm and collected. Now is the time
to subscribe.
In a country where the people are
so proud that even the beggars ride
on horseback there is no telling what
they may do when it comes to fight
ing. The Spaniard is utterly ignor-
ant OF the resources of the United
States, holds all Yankees in contempt
as towards and fondly believes him
self inVincible.
Sam Jones, the widely known evan.
gelist, has recently completed a new
residence at Carterville, Ca, which
contains twenty-One rooms, and which
in its exterior, is said to embrace an
ecclesiastical effect" something, by
the way, which has never been OBJ
served in the makeup and architect
ure Of Mr.. Jones himself.
Mrs. Mary E.Lease In an open letter
says resubmissiOn Of the prohibitory
amendment and the restoration of
silver to the place it held in 1878
would be the dominant issues in the
Kansas campaign this year. As tC
Populist fusion with Democrats, she
quotes Lowell for her answer:
They enslave their chlldren's children
VINO make compromise with SIM"
n
II a mans bank account keeps
steadily diminishing with nothing
definite In prospect from which to re-
plenish it what does he do? II he is
man Of good common sense he de-
vises some plan Of increasing his in
come or failing in that cuts down his
expenses. II he is a fool or "Anan.
cier" he borrows money to meet the
deficit.
A Topeka man has patented a paper
brick which he says will work a revo.
luton In the pavement OF streets and
buildingof walls. 1t is made of straw
and wood pulp. 1t is made the same
as brick and at one-third the cost
The inventor says, with the straw
that annually goes to waste in Kan.
sas, he can pave the streets of every
town in New England.
An exchange has discovered a fellow
in Armstrong county, PENNSYLVANIA
so cranky on the silver question thai
he digs up all the golden rods ant
marigolds on his place, grows only
white corn, won't speak to his wifi
because she has golden hair, is forever
denOuncing the gold cure, won't keel
the golden rule and don't want t,
enter the golden gates.
A New York florist has paid $1,000
for the sole right to the famou
double carnatiOn known as tn,
"Murella. The flower has been RAISED
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