People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-23

those away 10 some western TRENDS
who live on ranches, aud they, too,
are happy. DOyou not think my way
Of reading magazines an ideal one?"
A sound philosopher once said: He
thai thinks innocent pastime foolish
has either tn grow wiser, or is past the
ability TO do so, aud | have always
counted it an impudent fiction that
playfnlneSs is Inconsistent with
greatness. Many men and women
have died of dignity"
Presiding Elder Rose says 672 per.
sons joined the Methodist church in
the Garden City district last year.
Among the missing, however, are Bob
Hopkins, Mike Sutton, Milf Brown
aud Bob Wright. These four would
be worth all the rest.-Kansas City
Star.
Milt Brown is praying member in
the Christian church.
1t is announced that the gavel for
use of the president Of the st. Louis
convention is in process of construc-
tiUn. At one end OF the head the
surface will be covered by a gold
plate, the other end will be covered
by a silver plate. This is to illustrate
bimetalliSm. When the president
calls the gold men to order he will
use the silver plated head to pound
the desk, and cOntrarywise.
As the man Of pleasure, by vain
attempt to be more happy than any
man can be, is often mere miserable
than most men are, so the skeptic,
in a vain attempt to be wise beyond
what is permitted to man, plunges
into a darkness more deplOrable and
a blindless more incurable than that
OF the common herd, whom he de-
spiseS and would fain instruct.
Mrs. Victoria Kreater, aged S2,died
at lola last week. Granny" Cowden,
as she was Familiarity called, was a
historical character, and quite well
known in NeoshO county. She was
born In France, coming to America
when quite young. In 1889 she came
to trading post near Fort Scott and
was probably the first white woman
to enter Kansas.
The soul that is full of pure and
generous affections fashions the fea-
lures into its own angelic likeness. as
the rose which grows in grace and
blossoms into loneliness thatart cannot
equal. There is nothing on earth
which so quickly transagures a per
s9nality, retnes, exalts, iridiates with
heavens OVID impress Of lOvelineSS, as
a peryading kindness of the heart.
If Cuba is willing to pay 100000
OOO for her freedom, Spain would do
/
well to close with the offer. Spain
needs the money; the present war is
very expensive, and if Spain should
succeed, after the expenditure of
much treasure and many lives, it will
be a very long time before she can
make SlOO.OOO,OOO of her island colony.
Long before that time arrives it is
probable another and more costly in
surrectiOn would break out in Cuba.
Many child goes astray simply be-
cause home lacks sunshine. A child
needs sunshine as much as flowers
need sunshine. If home is the place
where faces are sour and words harsh.
and where fault-fnding is ever going
on, children spend as many hours as
possible elsewhere. Let every father
and mother, then, try to be happy;
let them look happy; let them talk to
their children, especially the little
ones, in such way as to make them
happy,
AT the Cheyenne and Arapahoe In
dian agency an experiment is being
tried to induce the Indians to work.
Agent A. E. WOodsOn, captain in the
United States cavalry, has issued
orders to the superintendent Of
farming districts to keep a record of
the names of all able bodied Indians
over the age Of thirteen years who do
uoG perform continuous manual labor,
and report such names to him. Gov.
eminent ratiOns will be refused those
who are fIund without a job. The
order will be, "no work, no grub.n
Some crank with extremely diseased
notions of proprlety has caused to be
published what is called "Peari Bryan's
Fate Waltz As an exchange re-
marks, just imagine a young lady
who could enjoy an evening while
whirling through the may evolutions
OF the dance to music named for the
victim # one Of the most revolving
and atrOciOus crimes Of the civilized
world, and you have the picture of
one who is morally dulled to all sense
OF respect for the dead and totally IN.
concerned regarding the opinions Of
tho 1ivfpO