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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-30
MAYFIELD, KAS.

Consisting of Dry Goods. Groceries. Hats and
Caps, Boots and Shoes, Ready.made Clothing.
Notions, Tinware, etc. My stock is now COM
plete In the various lines. Below quote
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-30
THE SHORTEST LINE
First publication in VOICE April 2, 1896
No. SO29.
Sheriff's Sale.

OllCllu OdlC.
In the District Court OF Sumner County. IN
the State Of Kansas.
The Elmira College.
formerly Elmira Fe-
male College,
Plaintiff,
ID: Q; Willard Frances
II. Millard, Geo. R.
Fultz, Jennie Rein
hart, and Frederick
Reinhart, her hus-
band, defendants.
QY VIRTUE Of an order OF sale issued 10 me
ID out OF said District Court in the aboye-en-
titled action, Twill, on
Monday, the 4th day Of May, A d. 1896.
between two and three o'clock D. m. of said
day, at the front door of the Court House IN
the City OF wellington, In the County of Sum-
ner and State OF Kansas. offer at public sale
and sell to the highest aud best bidder for
cash In hand, all the following described real
estate, to-wit:
Lots one Cd and two ~ and the east one-half
Va OF the northwest quarter 20 OF sec.
ton thirty-one Oh In township thirty-one
CSll. south OF range three(3 west OF the sixth
principal meridian, lying and situate In the
county OF Sumner and state Of Kansas.
The above-described real-estate is taken as
the property OF said defendants and Is d.
reeted by said order OF sale to be sold and
VIII De sold without appraisement to satisfy
said order of sale.
Witness my hand this 3lst day Of March
A. d. 1896. Jas r HEsKFTT
sherln OF Sumner County, Kansas.
IVAN D. ROGERS, Attorney for Plaintiff.
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DIMPLEs TO ORDER.
Women May Get the Most Fascinating of
Them for Price.

Women Nay Get the Nest Fascinating of
Them for a Price.
You can now get a coquettish dimple
on your face for $500. 1t is high price,
and lots of pain must be suffered; but
women will have them, no matter at
what cost. London surgeons manufac-
ture a fascinating dimpIe for the sum
named. But it is considered a good in
vestment by plain women who are get
ting fearful about their chances of mar
rying.
And the woman who desires to rid
herself of wrinkles, crows feet, and
generally to improve the condition Of
her facial cuticle, can retreat from the
world for a time, enter the abode where
beauty, skin deep, is manufactured, and
submit to a course of treatment, which,
as a mere cure for disease, would seem
appalling-fOr it literally means being
flayed alive by acids and electricity.
When she energies with a faultless skin
of babyish texture she will begin the
study of her features, and, if not found
satisfactory, they, too, in turn, must
he dOctored. The nose may be straight
ened by wearing a metal mask, the
mouth made the proper artistic size by
a surgical operation, and the eyebrows
arched to a symmetrical curve.
The two great difficulties encoun-
tered in renOdeling personal appear
ance are the reduction of surplus flesh
for fat women, and the creation of
adipose tissues for the lean woman.
The stout woman who wishes to become
graceful and sylphlike must practice
diet-sheet and undergo a series of daily
exercises that will prove a pain as
we'll as a WEAKNESS to the flesh. While
the substitution of Venus-lil1e proper
tions for an emaciated figure is even
more tedious and difficult task, invoIv-
ing the complete building up of the
nervous system and digestive organs.
Enamel is rarely used nowadays by
the most enthusiastic devotee of
beauty. Arsenic has also lost it's pres
tige, and the use of varnish as a COS
metic has vanished into limbo. The
woman who loves beauty, but has not
the courage of her convictions to the
extent of suffering for the cause, ''gOes
in for the best possible substitutes
plenty of outdoor exercise, the rule of
early to bed" and generally normal
existence that leaves her nerves unin-
jured and her disposition unrufded.-
Chicago Chronicle.
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MONEY 10 LOAN

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M ONEX to loan chattel MORTGAGES r.
W DIETRICH & StanhiIber. 80 Kansas ave
NJ ONEY LOANED on horses. pianos, house
~ hold goods and AL kinds of chatfel seeuri-
ties. /. Biseoe. 523 Kansas avenue, room 3
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underneath is used by the housekeeper
for her linen, which is laid away neatly
in little piles upon the white oilclOth-
covered shelves. The box is lined with
small brass-headed tacks. In front fall
the double curtains of muslin and cam
brio. Overhead an iron rod is bent into
a half circle, painted white, and then
attached to the headboard, and on this
is run the curtains that fall over the
front. The back of the dressing table,
which is also in blue and white, has
mirror in the center-''the only expen-
sive thing about it, ''confesses its owner,
''fOr it cost six dollars. But one might
use simply a piece of mirror plate, If
they wished, with the muslin drawn or
pulled around it. I bought this hand
some glass with its white and gold
frame because I felt that when I
wished I might use it anywhere.''-
Orange Judd Farmer.
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A curious apparatus for making soda
water at home is being shown by an
English concern. The method COM
prises the compression of the liquid
carbOnic acid at 60 atmOspheres into
small steel pear-shaPed cartridges
about fve-eighths of an inch in diam
eter at the largest part. Such car
fridge is placed in the mouthpiece at
tached to a soda water bottle, and Il
cap is closed over it. In completing the
closure a tiny ebonite plug in one end
of the cartridge or 'gas drop is pune
tured, and the gas escapes into the bot
tie, dissolving into the water. Twelve
of these drops weigh three ounces
New Ideas
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A Cheerful Liar piseomnted.

We have all met people whose pride in
their own possessions is SO great that they
can see no charms Ia those of others. A
young bOtanigt was showing a party of
ladies and gentlemen through a conserva-
tory, and explaining to them the proper
ties Of some of the choicest plants. Among
the visitors was a would be young looking,
middle aged lady who, at every descrip-
ton, volunteered the statement that the
plants and flowers she had at home were
quite equal to anything exhibited here or,
indeed, anywhere
Just IS they were passing a giant cactus
she was heard to exclaim:
''Well, this is nothing extraordinary. I
have a cactus at home that is still larger.
planted and reared it myself.
Reared it yourself, - the professor gen
thy observed. How remarkable This
specimen is 90 years old, and If yours is
still larger
The lady did not stay to hear any more
bat executed a strassgic movement to the
rear.-Tle- Bits.
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PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS,
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80 Topeka Kansas.
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9IoIIn0nI Hospltal Topeka. Kan. Both Phones
M mARI MCKINSTRY. magnetic healing
$50 jackson Harrison phone 4os
nR. EVA HARDING.
HOMEOPATHTST.
m, r~ Harrison phone S.
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IA ANTS, RENTS, SIT
UATIONS, REAL
ESTATE, AUG
TION SALES AND
OTHER CLASSIFIED AID
VERTISEMENTS
SITUATIONS wANrED-FREe.

Are YOU in need of work? If so, you
are at liberty to use these columns for
assistance in that direction While
this notice appears the State Journal
win publish free on Saturday, Monday
and Tuesday, for Topeka or Kansas
people. all notices of Situations
Wanted" not to exceed five lines, or
thirty-five words. in length, provided
that all advertisements Of that nature
are handed in previous to 10 O'Clock
Saturday morning; also on wednesday
Thursday and Friday, all advertising
of this class handed in by 10 O'Clock
Wednesday morning.
No advertisements of this nature TO
be started except on Saturdays and
Wednesdays. No obligation is incurred
on the part of the advertiser. No
worthy and needy man or woman need
hesitate to take advantage of this Of
fer No one in business or having en-
ployment is expected to take advantage
of it, but all others are invited to avail
themselves freely
The Topeka State Journal guarantees
every day it is printed, to give a local
circulation by far more than all other
DaiIfes combined. This makes this pa
per the cheapest. as well as the best,
daily medium in Topeka, the classified
advertisements below costing but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-17
After You Have Eaten Onions.

Take small cup of black coffee as
soon after eating onions as convenient,
and, if you are at home, use a mouth
wash and gargle Of a. glass of water
in which has been put few drops
each of eamphor and myrrh. If you are
away from home take the precaution
to slip into your pocket a bit of orris
root. A little of this will do something
towards destroying the offensive onion
fumes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-17

''They is such a thing as bein in the
hsl5it Of takin things too literal, - said the
cid settler, who had been in the country
for four years, land Walleyed Bowker is
bout @s good example of it as I know
Of -
whats he besn doin now2'' asked the
postmaster.
Yesterday the preacher he says it should
be the july of us all toe put sunshine in
the hearts Of our Teller men, and what does
Bowker do bat follow up the idee by lettin
daylight into q Chinaman. ''-Cincinnati
EzsNiRaa.
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NtsAN@EtfAG WELLS
7-7~-~-~---~--~-----~-~---
THE BOON MINERAL WATER cures
stomach, kidney and bladder troubles: pro-
cure analysis and consult your physicians; sold
ID D4 ~ Of ooLtleS; w. G, Boon, Sis Fillmore
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BICYCLES

BICYCLES.
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TFNOPEkA CYCLE CO, 1l2 W. Eighth St
Il Bicycles and sundries; bicycles and tan
demS for rent; repairing Of all kinds.
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NICE DRESSING TABLE.

Made by an Ingenious Woman at . Cost
OF Six Dollars.
This dressing-table call veritable
work of art, and yet the clever woman
who made it shows you little bill with
it which is astonishingly low, for it is
strictly homemade. I am not generally
enthusiastic over packing-box furni-
ture. and this belongs to that class of
goods, only you would never guess it.
1t is "uphOlstered'' with pale blue cam
brio under whote dotted muslin, to
which the tiny edge of lace adds a
dainty finish. Two boxes of generous
dimensions are the foundation. One
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-17

Miss Sharply-BIr Softly, do you happen
20 know what the difference is between
lemon and yellow dog?
Cholly SOftly-EO, Miss Sharply,
don't What is the difference?
Miss Sharply-You don't know, eh?
Then you'd be a wholly unfit person to
send to market for lemons. --Cb&usAuqUa
Assembly Herald
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Young Man-You are older than am,
and want to ask you a question. Does
a woman always mean what she says?
Old Neutrality-suspicious. is, if she's
uarried.-N. 7. Weekly.
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FuEL AID FEEn.

r FAVE YOUR ORDER for anything YOU
- want at Employment Office, III E. 9Th.
NITRIFIED Brick walks laid cheap. John
Richie. I1C6 Quincy st.
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MONEY

M ONEY to loan on real and personal prop
w erty. A Newman, 115 West 9TH st.
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MILK DEPOTs
REAL ESTATE LOANS

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IN f. BOWMAN & Co MORTGAGES of slzs
4 and kind to suit investors always on hand.
Prompt money, lowest rates to borrow on CEN
tral, city, or farm properties,
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29

The Maine Bible society has, during
the past year, found 955 towns in the
state without religious worship, and
half the families visited were found
to be without religious Influence
Manchester Press, Sept. II, 1896.
That is a bad showing for the state
of Maine and satisfactorily accounts
for the result of the recent election
there. We have not the political his
tory of that state at hand. but ever
since we can remember, if our mem
DRY is not at fault, it has been q re-
publican state and it will undoutted-
ly remain SO until it becomes chris
tianized and enlightened. mine
hundred and fifty-tive towns in the
state without religious worship and
half of the families in them without
religious influences!" That is a bad
showing for this free and enlightened
country of ours. The time is too short
before the next election to educate
that crowd on the silver question,
and Maine may be surely counted as
a gold standard state this year. Mis-
sionaries should be sent at once to
reclaim and educate the heathens in
Maine, and when that is done the
majority vote of its electors will have
some significance. but not until then.
Manchester Democrat
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
CONGRESSIONAL TICKET.
For Representative in Congress TIL
Districts
FRANK D. BAYLESS, of Clayton.

The democratic campaign in this
county has been characterized so far
this fall, as one of mastery inactivity.
Not meeting has been held nor any
provision or effort been made except
through the Bryan club to have any
held. A school house campaign
should have been organized and the
local talent we had in the county
should have been utilized as soon as
our congressional nominee was
named. A still hunt when the peo-
pie are seeking enlightenment and
education npon public questions will
be losing game. The Forthcoming
county convention has an important
duty to perform in providing an eff
ticient county committee, one which
will command the respect and conf
-dence of the party and will win that
of the public. This committee should
be OF five members instead of three,
as heretofore, giving two active,
working democrats of this place q
position thereon, and one each for
Lime Springs. Riceville and Elma. 1t
is not too late to retrieve the lost
ground, but work must be done and
done efficiently by those who have
some interest in the cause they es-
pouse beside the ready money there
is in its advocacy.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
WHEN SHERMAN WAS HONEST.


When John Sherman thought less Of
self and more of his country, and when
he was less ,ubservient to the money
power he WI, tie as follows in report
made to theUnited States senate June
8, 1868. All his sophistry of today can
not weaken the force or cloud the truth
Of what he then said:
The gold single standard is an Amer
lean idea, yielded so reluctantly by
France and other countries where gold
and silver are the standard of value.
The annual supply of the precious met
ais has little or nothing to do with their
value. What is it, then, that affects
their value chiefly? Is it the demand?
What is it that constitutes the demand
for gold? Is it for the use in the arts?
Very little of 1t can be used. There
fore. it is its use as money that creates
demand for 1t and gives it it's value
If all the European states and our
country were today to demonetize gold
and remonetize silver would not these
two metals Immediately change places?
Now, If this be true, what is it that
creates the value of the precious met
ais? 1t is legislation. Legislation gives
value to the precious metals and the
commercial value simply records the
condition Of legislation with reference
to the precious metals Now, If legis-
lation creates the chief demand for
money, If we legislate SO as to utilize
silver. we increase the demand and
thus Increase the value of silvor."
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
Un-American Gold Bugs.

The assumption of the Wall street
gold bug is monumental, his cheek is
tanned cowhide and his heart is ada
mant He talks about the honor Of
the government, yet he is every day
trying to plunge it into bankruptcy for
his own personal gain. When men were
sacrificing their lives to save the ma
Hon he refused to loan his money to it,
except at "a or more per cent, and in
stead of going to the front staid at
home to make shoddy. When the army
Of his country met with defeat in the
field he locked his wealth in his vaults
and when the government asked for
gold he put a big premium on it,
Though American by BIRTH he is for
eigner by instinct and profession, for
he would deny the American people the
right to issue money enough to do the
business of the country so that they
might become debtors to foreign ma
ton.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
800 Reward, 800.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages and
that is catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, re-
quires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly acting dire city upon the blood a, d
mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of
the disease, and giving the patient
strength by building up the consti-
tuition and assisting nature in doing
its work. The proprietors have SO
much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars
for any case that it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address,
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Eg-Sold by druggists, 75c.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
M,l7iA, G. E,is!, N. D.

proprietor OF the SANITARY Cottages
Of Bellville, Ohio, invites cores
pondence from those who are sick
and distressed in body OF mind and
specially asks those persons who
have in vain tried other physicians
and found no benefit, to write him
and obtain a knowledge of the laws
Of life and to become we'll and stay
we'll. There is no use of being
sick or crippled up by Rheuma-
tism, Nervous Troubles, Paralysis,
Cancer or any other chronic or So
called incurable disease. You can
be cured. DIR. Keith's methods are
entirely different in theory and in
fact from poison giving medical
men and he cures where all others
have failed. No poisonous drugs
are used. Every step is made
plain to you and you are educated
in the qoays and loqos OF life as you
go on to health.
Doctor Keith uses plants, Koav-
e7's and herbs which are not pois-
onous and this Doctor gives you
rules about diet and other habits
which are sure to cure every cur
able case where they desire to be
we'll.
Correspondence Immediately an
swered.
Valuable book sent free to your
address by return mail. Send
postal.
No charge for consultation thro'
the mail.
Address postal card and have
some of the laws come to you free.
Have your eyes opened to the
true laws Of life and do not take
any more poisons and physics that
do your oody harm rather than
good.
References from the Nations
choicest citizens.
Remember the man; remember
the address.-Melville G. Keith,
N. d., Bellville, Richland County,
Ohio, U. S. A.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
How Can Iowa Banks Loan Gold?

Let us not hesitate in this con-
vention to declare for an honest dol
lar, and for gold as the standard.
The majority of you, l take it,
INV demand of your borrowing Gus
r pay IN 'n eo ehey Rou de n ta
want your promises to pay redeem
ed in deprecated currencv."-Ad-
dress to Iowa State Bankers Assoca-
ton, by Simon Casady, President.
Great speech that, Mr.. Casady.
Run right over to the pie counter and
pick out postoffice. If the national
banks in your association redeem
their ''promlses to pay in gold, how
much will their depositors get in gold?
How much will they get in any sort
of currency? Let us see. In October
1894, their statements showed as fol-
lows: Amount due depositors, $27 ,O0O,-
600. Currency of all kinds in banks,
$780, 900. After paying each other
amount due, available balance 81, 75O-
900. Or $21,O00,0O short of paying
them in full. The deposits were then
worth less then % cents on the dol
lar, in any sort of currency the
bankers had. Are you going to pay
the other ~ cents in fruit and furni-
ture-in pumpkins and hoop-poles-
or what sort of payment will be
made? Your banks have already
loaned 1874, 100000. Did the borrowers
get gold? Do you loan gold nowi
Where did you get this $4,000, 900!
You are drawing interest on it, but
whose currency is it2
All the currency your banks now
have will pay only 90 per cent of the
deposits: how then is it possible for
you to loan more gold2 How can you
honestly loan currency of any kinds
Now isn't 1T fact that you have
been loaning Figures on the ledg rg'
Isn't it figures on the ledger
you want to loan now? Isn't ii
figures on the ledger you want re.
deemed in gold?
You state that you want only what
is fright and honest for both debtor
and creditor" If your gold standard
is fright and honest" then pay your
depositors in gold and furnish gold to
your borrowers. You know you can't
do it. Neither can the banks in any
other state. Your state is no worse
than the others In that respect. This
is not a personal attack upon you OF
your state, but upon system. You
defend that system, hence the oppo
sition addresses the reply to you.
When bankers go into the governing
business, its high time the govern.
ment went into the banking bust
mes. Benton County Times.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-09-29
INDUSTRIAL OBJECT LESSON.
How the Farmer Suffers Under the Cor
tracing Gold Standard.

How the Farmer Suffers Under the Con-
tracing Gold Standard.
w. S. Wilson, farmer of Sollitt,
Ills, tells the following tale of how the
producers have been gradually pauper-
lied"
Il will give few facts which are the
truth, as am farmer myself and
know what farmer has had to suffer
these late years. In the first place,
take the oats crop of 1896, which is
now being threshed, yielding from thir-
ty to fifty-five bushels an acre. All
we can get for them at the nearest ele-
vator is 10 cents bushel, less than S.
an acre. The seed and Irvine and
threshing bill AMOUNTS to $1.25 at
low estimate, leaving the independent
farmer less than $3.50 an acre to pay
rent on $3.50 and 81 land, and he gets
nothing for his work, teams, machinery
and living. The present outlook for
corn is very good, but as old corn is
only 22cents bushel new corn will sell
in the month of January for IL cents.
Take the dairy business. sold butter
in the month of January for IL cents
pound, good butter, as we have sup
Piled parties in Chicago that have
kept it for six months in good shape
Eggs we sold at 10 cents in January,
something we never did before, and
all farm produce is as low. Coffee, SUI
gar and several other articles of liv-
ing are as high as when grain was at
a good price. Shipping milk used to
be good business, paying in Chicago
from 81 to slips can of eight gallons
Now it is down to 65 and 10 cents can.
Horses we can't give away. So what
can farmer go at to make ends
meat