People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-30
People, S Voice.
BY LYHAN NAUGLE.

tioc. Who'll, be tue fir, - focus This
saop:-OSlord Regi>,er.
4 n4u who never taxes his home
paper recently sent ff,y cents in re.
Spouse to an adj in an eastern maya
zine for "a pocket freescape." and re-
ceiyel in few days a miniature copy
Of the New Testament. Caldwell
News.
United States Commissioner Webb
received notice this morning to re-
lease John W. Maddox, Geuia
Springs de1aulting postmaster, but
Mr.. Maddox was not ready to 60, and
will remain in custody day or Two
l0nger-COurier.
Six women Of courage have Just
started for the Alaska gold region.
Not that they expect t. get the prec-
i0uS metal by mining, out rather by
performing tasks appropriate to
women, and without the performance
# which man cannot be comfortable.
Three Uf them took sewing machines
with them, and all expect to make
high wages in country where white
women are scarce. - Kansas City
World.
Against SANDER there is no defense.
1t Starts with a WOrd-wllh ashrug-I
with nOd-and very often with
smile. 1t is pestllence walking in
the darkness, spreading cgntagion far
aud vide, which the most weary trdv-
eIer cannot avoid; it is the heart
searching dagger OF the assassin: it is
the poisoned arrow whose wounds are
incurable: the moral sting of the
deadly adder. SANDER originates
with 40 true gentleman nor lady
FIX.
4 tnal test has been made in the
ROentgen ray experiment in regard to
The killing of disease germs, and with /
very satisfactory results. The bacilli /
Of consumption, diptheria, typhoid, |
cholera pneumonia and other malig-
naut diseases were put under the test
and all attempts to revive them .
proved futile. These experiments are .
being watched in all parts of the .
world with deepest interest, as their
success means so much to the human
race.
A church in Suffern, New York, in
order to raise money to pay the
preacher gave an entertainment
which they called a foot social
There was a curtain across the stage
and the program consisted in raising
the curtain high enough to display
the foot and ankle of a girl who stood
otherwise out of view. Then a person
who OfiiCiated as an aucti0aeer. asked
for bids for the privilege of taking
the owner Of the foot to supper. The
bidding was lively.
One tobacco chewer in Arkansas
City knew enough to quit and stay
quit. 1t was Jim, one of the fire de
partment horses. He became a reg
ular tobacco tend, begging from every
man who came near his stall. A man
with a lighted cigar was visiting jim.
u was easy for jim to nip that cigar
and begin chewing it, but the lighted
end burned his tongue. Being wiser
than a man he then and there "swore
off, and no persuasion can induce
him to take chew. World.
Tom Richardson. secretary of the
Deep Water Utilization committee.
under date of the 2lst, writes Mr.. In
bOden; Twenty-Five and one half
feet of water on the bar This is a
gain Of half foot since March 2. One
OF the first subscribers was an eastern
Investment company Though local
agent in Wichita. The agent stated
1t was the most practical and clearest
business proposition for practical bus
mess results in better rates which had
ever been presented, and that his COM
pany was much interested 10 the far
merS realizing good prices for their
grain, as the farmers prosperity was
their prosperity. This company said
if necessary they would raise their
subScriptiOn.-Eagle.
The latest theory is that Holmes
had himself arrested. made a weak
defense and now has realized $4,000
from a confession the people read
morbidiy, but which is all fiction;
that he will make S200D0 more ont NJ
the same insatiate public greed for
sensation; that at the last moment
Pietzel aud Miss Williams, for whose
murder he was convicted, will show
up, Holmes will be liberated and the
three will divide up the cash results
from the plot. The hanging on
schedule time will very probably ex-
pl0de this and other like theories. |