People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-02-20
People, S Voice.
Entered for transmission by mail at second
class rates.
Ads changed weekly should not be
weakly changed.

a new magazine is projected by
man named Blood. Its circulatiO
should be good.
Perhaps the dust that got in Pete
Makers eye is dust thrown in th
eyes Of the antagonizing authOritie:
One Of the important uses of tn
cathode ray will be to detect flaws il
metals. 1t has already been USE
successfully on the human body.
Edison now proposes to send tn
cathode ray ever telephone. Thi
is almost equal to seeing things will
the ears and speaking words with tn,
eyelids.
The Herald says that Gladstone i,
greatly inclined to stand again fo
parliament at the first available op.
pOrtUnity in order to support the Ar
menians.-Eagle.
Fashion has imposed new duty
upon every young man; he must be
able to poke yonng lady's sleeves
into the sleeves Of her jacket without
ripping any stitches.
A Beffel. Of Wichita, has invented
a leather tire for bicycles. 1t will be
a valuable invention if it will stand
the weather changes. The pneu-
matte tire is put inside the leather
"shoe."
We have had and are still having
che spectacle of an English editor for
an American newspaper. Now Mr..
AstOr is going to show US what an
American editor can do with Lon
don newspaper.
Science may have to take back
seat for religion, but it would be hard
to prove it TO the natural ice man in
Kansas who has prayed for cold
weather this year in order to give him
chance against the artificial dealer.
Kansas has the polar craze bad. A
Topeka woman woman will accom-
pany DyChe to the nOrthpOle. James
Davidson of Wichita was with Peary
on his last trip and Fred Funston is
writing up Alaska for the magazines.
It's not generally known that the
author of the stirring ballad, Yam
kee Doodle" was a young surgeon of
Albany, named Mr.. Richard Shuck-
burg. Yankee Doodle" has probably
had more influence upon the course OF
public affairs than many more ambi-
tiOQS pieces Of literature.
A florist is paid $1,000 a month to
keep the vault decorated in which lies
the body of the late J. W. Mackay,
Jr, son of the bonanza king. A hun
dred families might be maintained on
this sum that is worse than thrown
away, Such an OStentatiouS display
of grief ceases to be foolish. 1t is
selfish and cruel.
Prize fights are very exciting. The
troops move from every point of the
compass. Legislatures get together.
Governors counsel. Congress sits
late. If time and energy were de-
voted to some worthy cause, and
prize fights and kindred denominations
forever abolished from the face of the
earth, it would be a good thing for
the country.
Friday was the one day through
out the year when young women have
voice in matrimonial matters, and
may, without loss of maidenly mod
esty, express their preference for Ger.
tain young men. In Olden times no
festival throughout the year was
more highly hOnored, and scented
mlssiVeS containing impaled hearts,
cooling doves etc., constituted the
whole burden Of the mail on that day.
The printing press has made presi-
dents, killed poets, furnished bustles
for beauties and punished genius with
criticism. 1t has curtailed the power
OF kings, converted bankers into pau
perS and graced pantry shelves. 1t
has made paupers out of college pres
idents; it has educated the homeless.
and robbed the philosopher of his
reason; it smiles and cries and dies,
but it can't be run to suit everybody,
and the man will go crazy who tries"
Kansas to the front again. A
bright young dentist of Sedgwick
county, being Of an inventive turn of
mind, has been experimenting on
wOman'S tongue, Jas well as her teeth
and has about completed an arrange
ment whereby women can double
their velocity of speed in talking
The same arrangement makes a man
speeches. and he sits spellbound
while dOwntrOdden woman gets the
last word.
Every intelligent business man mus,
recognize the fact that advertising is
not a matter to be let out to the low.
est bidder. 1t might be so if all
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