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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27

I determine which is fttest to survive.
| III any bimetallist is converted to
the gold standard he can Join their
organization; If any gold Democrat
repents he can return TO the fold.
However mucl we may differ from
MI. Cleveland, We must admit his
courage. A less reSOlute man would
hesitate to assume the leadership of
little band of 10000, many of whom
voted the Indianapolis ticket by mis-
take, and then accuse $500 900 voters
OF being either designing agitators or
the dupeS OF designing agitators.
"a man Of less SAlf-rehance would
re-examlne his own conduct. 10 see
whether it was his own fol!v or theirs
which separated them from 5.OOO,-
| 900 Democrats who once idolized
him, out in the lexicon of Mr.. Cleye-
lands maturer Years there is no such
word as mistake"
The gold democracy is impOtent
TO bring any real relief to the country:
it is long on platitudes and short on
performance; it reaches its maximum
at banquet and its minimum at the
polls; 1t is the toy of those fnanciers
who prate about national honor while
UheV fatten on the nations extremity.
and IS pOwerleSS to protect the people
from the extOrtion of trusts and the
greed Of uqrestrained corporations.
Those Democrats who believe in
equality before the law will naturally
grayltate toward the regular democ-
racy, and those Democrats who be-
lleye in government by syndicates
and for Syndicates will naturally drift
into the Republican party, because it
offers them the best of success"
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27

Spring humOrs, eruptiOns, hives.
bOils, pimples, sores, are perfectly and
permanently cured by Hoods Sarsapa.
rilla, the best spring medicine and
one true blood purifier.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27

The largest engine in use hy the
santa Fe system has just been built
at the company's shops at Topeka.
1t was built for mountain work and
weighs 81 tons without the tender.
When ready for use, it carries six
tons Of coal and 5000 gallons of water.
The total weight is then 1924 tons.
The cost of the engine is about $4,000.
One dozen more engines will be built
by the Santa Fe this year.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27

The Coffeyyille Vitrified Brick CON-
pany has just been awarded a contract
from Shreveport, Louisiana, for l.7OO.-
QUO brick 10 be used in paving Texas
street and Texas avenue of that town.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-05-27
Cancer
OF the Breast.

Mr.. A. h. Crausby, of I5S Kerr ST.,
Memphis, Tenn, says that his wife
paid no attention to small lump which
appeared in her breast, but it soon de-
veloped into cancer of the worst type,
and notwithstanding the treatment of
the best physicians, it continued to
spread and grow rapidly, eating two
holes in her breast. The doctors
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Partments, and enough steam, at working
pressure of 240 pounds, will be generated
TO induce an indicated horse power in the
engines of 200 when running at full
speed.
For the sake of protection against mod
crate sun-fire the coal is slowed abreast
the boilers.
A small steam windlass forward will
raise the anchors and handle such heavy
weights as the boats may be required to
carry.
As i torpedo boat destroyer, she will car
ry battery of seven 6-pouEder rapid-fire
guns. There will be one on top of each
coming tower. to be worked from the en-
clrciing bridge. one On each bow abreast
the forward tower. and three amidships
along the center-line. Each 6 pcunder will
be supplied with 19S rounds of ammunition
In her capacity as a torpedo boat. she will
carry TWO 1S-inch tubes for the discharge
OF Whitehead torpedoes. These tubes one
just abaft the other, placed on the
center-lire between the after smokestack
and the after coming tower. There will
be a supply of four torpedces the two
spare ones being carried in cases on deck.
The contract price, excluding armament,
is $23G.0OO.
The next boat. N point of size is that 10
be built by the Wolff and Zwicker people
She Is 1JI feet long over all, and has an
extreme beam of 20 feet inches, and upon
load displacement Of $50 tons will have
a maximum draft of 81. feet of water
she will be tried, however, upon a dis
placement of 247L2 tons.
AT the stem she Will be feet inches
out of water. while amidshps she will be
feet inches lower
She will be propelled by two triple ex.
pansion engines of the four-oylinder type.
These engines will be placed in a common
engine room abaft TIE boilers, and each
will have one cylinder of 1872 inches one
of 81 81 inches, and two of 35 inches in
diameter, with u common stroke of Is
inches. They do not state how many revo-
iutions the engines are TO make minute
nor do they give the estimated indicated
horsepower. but ii is quite certain the pro-
pelling machinery will make quite four
hundred turns a minute while the indi-
Gated horsepower will be fully 6,OOO.
In Water-TiEht Compartments.
Steam will be supplied, at working
pressure of 80 pounds, by three water
tube boilers, type yet to be determined.
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and courtship kept them company 1t was
their holiday time, when, free from care
and responsibility, they had nothing to do
all day long but enjoy the many pleasures
abundantly strewn upon their pathway
What bright and happy little things they
were! Darling about amid the fresh and
tender foliage; playing tag among the
tree-tops; sometimes flashing down almost
to the ground in the exhilaration of the
sport; throwing off. little bits of melody,
the overflow Of the full joyousness Of their
hearts; they set the whole forest a-quiver
with gladness. Can 1t be that these sober
little creatures silently stealing about I'M
der the leafy covers of the August woods
are members of that breezy company?
They are in truth our merry friends of the
spring; but how changed! Their gala cos
tunes have become soiled and faded by
the seasons wear or in some instances
have been replaced by travelling garb of
duller and more neutral hue. Their songs
are hushed, and they have neither time nor
disposition For the mad frolics that marked
their northward journey. The labors and
anxieties of house-building and brood-
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and wife and family here about July 10.
What very unpleasant hustler he must
be in his home relations! We can imagine
him building his nest. AS Mrs. Tree Swallow
meets him coming to the half finished struc-
ture with material and greets him, with
ing with a mouth full of feathers, Don't
interrupt me. my dear, don't you see I'm
busy?" But when he attends board meeting
ION the telegraph wire) he Is content to
swell out his unruff1ed shirt front IN one
spot for SO loIg a time that no one would
suspect how precious bis moments, are.
Perhaps he explains the apparent incon-
sstency to his wife by telling her that he
has to attend these meetings III order to
keep his standing in the community. And
perhaps she believes him, but stu wonders
IL that Is the case with all the others, and
what the effect would be IL none attended
One of the earliest arrivals In August
comes to US In a changed garb and char
acter and under a different name from
those OF spring. In May his rather hashy
sUit of black and white was conspicuous
in the meadows. while his rollicking song
scintillated among the clover tops. We
knew him then as the bobolink. But dur
ing the first part Of August II you would
meet him on his return you must 60 to
the marshes beside the river, and watch
for a very quietly dressed little bird who
will address you with no note save a pe-
culiar metallic ''chink;;' or ask some sports
man there wading about In the mud to
crafty the killing instinct he inherits from
remote ancestors. to point out to you the
our friend bobolink Is now known.
He is a bird of aliases, this little cousin
to the blackbirds and orioles. After he
leaves US he goes to the rice marshes of
South Carolina and Georgia, and visits
them awhile under the name Of rice bird be-
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OF these latest boats we shalt have nearly
half many destroyers as We have typi-
Cally modern torpedo boats. The reason
for this is twO-fold- First. because foe
can bring to bear upon our coast only the
largest of her torpedo boats, together with
her destroyers, and to meet them success
fully We must have the strongest means
of retaliation at hand: and. second be-
cause the torpedo boat destroyer has prac
tically proved itself the torpedo boats su-
periOr for hazardous work in heavy wealth
er In the minds of many thoughtful ma
val men. our own needs. at least will lead
to the building only of destroyers and of
small torpedo boats of perhaps not more
than - knots; and that because the de-
stroyer can do all the needful rougn sea
work. while the moderate cost and the lim-
ited target of the smaller boat make them
more desirable for the risky service for
which they are designed.
beginning, then. We have. We are but
following the experience of the British. to
whose costly experiments, involving mil
lions. is due the torpedo hoa- destroyer CT
today: aGd many of the torpedo boats.
pure and simple. that swell the lists of
European powers today are substantially
obsolete because of this newer order Of
craft. The French government has fourteen
destrcyets, but with the exception of two
.n-knOt boats, the rest range from % to %
knots. France pins her faith upon her flo
tilla OF one hundred and five first-class tor
pedo boats. varying i'll speed from ~ TO -
knots Great Britain. the hereditary foe
of France has ninsty-two destroyers, built
and building. OF these fOrty-nine have a
speed of 80 knots and over while the resi-
ranRC from - to - knots. OF 6rSt-claSS
torpedo boats she has sixty-nine. These
figures are singularly Instructive, i'll view
of the work of the destroyers in the Brit
~ish maneuvers of '6, when. in spite of a
gale. the destroyers .effectually blockaded
a fleet of torpedo boats. and held them in
check for several days.
The Largest.
OF the three new boats, that of the Har-
Ian and Hollingsworth Company is the
largest and most formidable. She may be
said to be an improved Thornycroft type,
ana the builders have declared it their in
tention to spare no pains or expense 10
make her an impressive success.
She has a long, finely modelled hull of 81
feet inches over all, with a maximum
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shine in its full force. yet IL the day be
warm enough to make this object ;onable
ne will find still greater discomfort in che
close atmosphere of the woodland shades,
where breeZeS do nor penetrate and where.
too, in addition to the spider web nuisance
he Will be apt to be tormented by gnats and
singing flies. But for another reason than
mere comfort he will be impelled meadow
ward. The floral attractions Offered by
the open country far surpass those of the
forest. The increasing wealth of the
former and the decreasing wealth of the
latter noted in July have become still more
marked as the summer has progressed.
Still the woods are not devoid of inter-
est so far as flowers are concerned. 1he
tick trefoils, whose pretty pink blossoms
OF the butterfly or pea type-papilionaceous
is the technical term-give distinctive
character to the underground. are ample
reward for an occasional stroll INTO the
leafy arbors. The pure waXy clum0s of
Indian pipe. often beautiful as they are
singular; the large and brilliant red bios
SONS of the snowy cardinal flower. which
grows in damp spots: the fragrant clusters
of wild clematis clambe ring over bushes
and small trees; the pungent. purple-fiower-
eG dittsny: the tall stalks and deep and
large yellow cups of the false foxglova: the
yellow-rayed ard dark k-centcred flowers of
the wild coreopsis - these are all well
worthy of the seeking, even at the expense
OF some personal comfort
Then, too there are some of the orchids
which the August woods offer as incentive
to the botanical explorer. the craHe-fy
orchis, whose tall stalk, surrounded by its
many blossoms, has a certain beauty of its
own. though the flowers are rather small
in size and of an inconspicuous greenish
color. Not SO much can he said for the
diminutive coral root (Which should he
sought toward the close of the month";. Stll
IL has an attraction to the botanist because
of its mem oership in distinguished family.
and may. perhaps, be allowed an individual
claim TO attention on account of the curious
root from which ii derives its name. The
rein orchis is also rather small and easily
overlooked, and must rest its principal
claim, like the coral root, upon its family
name.
When Meadows Are Gay.
In the meadows the floral display is over
whelming in its variety. Daisy fieabane,
yarrow, wild carrot Deptford pink, 81.
John s-wort, cone flower and hosts of other
blooms combine gracefully and in attractive
groups to fill the landscape with beauty and
brightness. The purple heads of tie self
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Giant of the Tar-Heel State,

From the Salisbury, y. c., World
William Austin, the tall man of Stanly
county, is now working at the old black
smith shop on Lee street. He was twenty
one years old on the 18th Of April. meas
ures feet 81 inches in his stocking feet
and is still growing. He weighs 225 pounds
and is apparently a skeleton now. but with
large bones and muscles. He lifted when
only nineteen years old a bale of cotton
weighing over 800 pounds and carried It
some twenty-five yards. Only recently
three northern gentlemen offered him 5000
to go in training for five years to fight the
champion of the world. He has never
smoked, chewed or drank any intoXicauts,
and looks the picture of health.
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heal are now abundant: the mullen is in its
glory; rosy clusters of ironweed and paler
and larger ones of Jae Pye weed are massed
in low places, watered by hidden stream
when, iii company with the frowsy whit
heads of the boneset, or thoroughwort, they
stand on each side TO protect the little mu-
sician at their feet. Various kinds of sun
flowers, ranging in size from the large
heads of the variety dear to the heart of
the "Afro-American'' dweller In rural pre-
cincts, to small heads no bigger than Il
silver dollar, turn their faces upward to
greet the god of day, whose namesakes they
are.
These are all weedy plants. But the Au-
gust meadows hold many of a manRer so
delicate and ornamental that even the
average rustic mind would concede 10 them
the title of flowers" The brilliant pink
clustered blossoms of the centaury would
lift it into that higher class, while its kim
ship to the noted and elegant gentians ac-
centuateS its claim to distinction. The odd
shaped blue blossoms of the monkey flower
supposed to suggest the facial peculiari-
ties of a monkey-would have no difficulty
in obtaining due recognition. And no one
would think of CHASING with weeds the
dainty blue (or sometimes pink little
flowers of the blue curis, which begin to
come into prominence near the close of the
month The ladies' treSses has, of course,
an indsputahle right to the title. as it is an
orchid, but it can afford to waive consfd-
Grafton of family distinction and rest its
case solely upon the small spiral columns
above the ground. The name of the meadow
beauty indicates the common opinion of
that rather showy deep pink flower, that
expands its petals in damp places as Its
contribution to the months bouquet. but
it is deserving of the name only in its
natural place for when transferred to
bunch of gathered flowers it has dis
agreeable habit OF losing its petals and
presenting a poor stump to the view.
Natures Face in August.
These are a few, a very few, of the choice
blossoms that greet one who seeks them in
the August wilds, a courageous venture,
perhaps, the hot sunny days that are
commonly remembered but very easy and
delightful Oh those charming days that are
commonly forgotten. If you will watch for
them and note them, you viii probably be
surprised to find how many days there are
during the month that are suggestive of
spring autumn. When the goldfinches,
inspired by the pure air and cool. refresh
ing breezes. burst into one Of those costa
tic little choruseS that were so frequent
during the days of courtship; when the
song sparrow I'm the th!cket beside the
bl ook sends spring carol across the field:
when from the grove of clustering oaks
nearby comes the vibratory pedal-note of
the flicker, it requires little imagination
for the listener to transport himself in
fancy to the days when the year was
young. And when, on the other hand, a
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raising have taught them that life is not
all one continual round of pleasure and
Jolilty; and sobered by the summers les
sons and reminded of their changed con il
tion by the young families that are taking
their first journey to the south with them.
they quietly make their way through the
land. giving SO little indication of their
presence that one who would greet them
as they pass must watch keenly and ,assid-
uously in order not to miss them. az
They do not appear in a compact body
and take full possession Of the land as they
did in the spring. Fortune has distributed
her favors unequally among them. Upon
some she has smiled and all their ventures
have been successful, enabling them to
promptly and speedily finish the summers
duties and make an early start on their
long trip to the southland. Others. how
ever, have had various mishaps and vcis-
STUDIES to contend with and have been de-
layed in consequence Perhaps several Hn-
successful suits were necessary before the
lover could find a lady of his choice (one
who would accept him). Perhaps one of
the parties to the union had heen destroy ed
and a second and more diffic llt quest for a
wife or husband rendered necessary. Per-
haps some destructive accident had hap
pened to nest or eggs or young, necessitat-
ing another commencement of the sum
mers notification. These and many other
valid excuses might be offered if any were
required to account for tardiness in set
ting out for the winters quarters In the
tropics. They certainly appear on the
scene in a fashion very different from the
comparative simultaneity of their spring
arrival. And it is not until late October
that the last belated straggler takes his de-
parture for the south.
Just Like Some Men.
All during August the arboreal hotels are
registering boreal guests. Indeed, some
very businessllke individuals who waste no
time on sentiment, but mate and build and
breed as un-omantically as royalty itself.
are enabled by their thrifty attention to
business to commence their southwark
journey in July. First among these is the
tree swallow, who usually registers himself
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A Wisconsin Blondfn.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Charles Helbach, a well-known slack and
tight wire walker of Neenah, has decided
to initiate Blondin and walk a cable
stretched across the Niagara Falls. Hel-
bach has not the money to carry out the
underta king. but Henry Fitzgibbon, prom
inent attorney of Neenah, has signified his
intention OF backing Helbach. The latter
will leave for the falls in few days. Hell
bach is a young man OF twenty-five years
and has frequently attracted attention in
this part of the state by performing dare
devil feats on a wire. Recently-he stretched
rope across two high buildings and
amused his friends by giving an exhibition.
He has travelled with several circuses and
has acquired quite reputation in his line.
He anticipates no trouble in crossing the
falls. Arrangements are now under way for
the act.
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beam of only % feet. Upon her trial dis
placement of $40 tons-about seventy tons
less thar her load displacement-she will
have a maximum draft of feet 3 inches
of water. Her bow is cut away. giving a
clean. easy entrance into the water. and
that. In conjunction with her goodly free
board forward Of eleven feet. promises to
II axe her an exceptionally dry craft for
her kind Her height above water. amid
ships. Will be feet inches. and her long.
fiat run aft will keep her from settling by
the stern when running at full speed. while
materially increasing her seaworthiness.
She will carry two coming towers. one
forward and one aft. and each will be sup
piled with both hand and steam steering
gears. while upon the bridge just abaft the
forward tower there will he a third steering
gear for navigation in fair weather. Each
OF these coming towers will have the
usual speaking tubes. telegraphs ard cleo
trical communications with all points of
Importance, besides means for spreading
out the charts for plotting the course.
= The decks will be covered with linoleum
and such wood as IL used will be fire.
proofed
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These boilers are placed in two water
tight compartments, the middle and after
boiler being worked from the same fire
room.
The coal bunker capacity will be 131 tons,
and that fuel will be slowed abreast the
engines and boilers for the sake Of pro-
lection against mild gun-fire.
The crew will be housed forwar and
the officers aft and everything will be
done to secure all possible comfort and
convenience within the allotted narrow
space.
There arc two coming towers, and each
has both hand and steam steering wheels,
together with the usual electrical, me-
cEanical and vocal means of communica-
tion.
The battery will consist Of four 6-pound-
ers and two 1S-inch torpedo tubes.
One OF the G-pounders- will be mounted on
the forward tower and worked from the
surrounding bridge. the rest will be dis
posed at points of vantage along the deck
The torpedo tubes are placed on the CEN
ter line. one forward and one aft Of the at
ter coming tower. and each will have q
wide arc Of fire. She will carry four tor
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partmentS. without any means of inter-
communication, passage up to the deck
and down again being required for travel
fIom one compartment to another. This
is done to give added security in case of
accident, and to obviate the danger of i'm
perfectly working water-tight doors.
Her Powerful Engines.
The boat will be driven by two sets of
triple-expansion engines. actuating twin
screws. These engines, in a common COM
partment. are of the four-cylinder type
and have each a high-pressure cylinder of
21l2 inches an intermediate pressure cylin-
der of 321a inches. and two low-pressure
cylinders of 81 inches in diameter. They
have common stroke of Is inches, and
will make 400 revolutions a minute when
running al full speed.
Steam will be supplied by four Thorny-
croft water-tube boilers placed in two COM