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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
RAILROAD COUPLINGS,

Brakeman George Corners is over
from Arkansas City.
The Rock Island needs more side
tracks at this place.
Conductor Getter returned Tues
day from trip to Kansas City.
Engineer Lupher and Fireman
Blake are over from Arkansas City.
Two stock extras went north from
here Tuesday. The stock came from
surrounding towns
The Rock Island will put in $50
new bridges in Kansas and Oklahoma
the coming summer.
Conductor Kimball and BrakemeD
Fred Fisher and Middleton came over
from Arkansas City Tuesday night.
Rock Island Operator Stokes re-
turned from GOodlan1 last night and
resumed his place at the keys this
morning.
L. D. Baker and Geo. Hays, who
have been making repairs on the Rock
Island here, left this morning for
Ayba to join the bridge gang.
Charles Blythe accompanied his
mother to Topeka last night on her
way home to Iowa. Mrs. Blythe had
been visiting here some weeks.
Mike Burns is now a full fledged
Knight of PythiaS. lie was given
the rank of Knight tuesday night.
Charlie florence, brakeman on 2O3
showed US a novelty in the way Of a
Lead pencil this morning. 1t reSem.
Ibled cigar, and to all appearances
was a good ten-cent Havana. He pro.
cured several of them in Kansas City
yesterday, but all except one were
t9egged from him before he reached
here, They are the latest frost" on
The market.
The most COmmendable cOm6ina.
tiuD of sentiment and business that
has been noted In the railroad field
for some time is the scheme of prem
jumS to employees, announced by Re,
Geiver FELTON, of the Cincinnati, New
Orleans & Texas Pacific. Mr.. Brown
OF the Fall Brook, whose example in
sabohShing suspensions is now being
followed all over the country, has
paid $50 yearly to his freight c0nduc.
tors lthOSe showing a perfect record
for over ten years, but his example in
this respect has not been followed to
.any extent worth mentioning. Mr..
FELTON, pays third more money, and
ne makes it easier for the conductors
10Y recognizing half-year records. This
"a many cases proves an important
modification, for under the whole
year periods blot on the record in
June tends somewhat to discourage a
man for the next six months, where.
as under Nj. Felton's plan the man
can begin anew on the first OF July.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18

The senate has passed two bills in
PRODUCED by the committee of ways
and means, one to appriate 81, 800 for
freight and postage to send out TIL
current report of the state board of
agriculture and to appropriate $4,000
for the current expenses of the state
agricultural college for the balance of
the present fiscal year.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
Power Of the Banks.

When the people once understand
that the banks have it in their power to
precipitate panics and give the country
object lessons in the way of hard times,
they will soon curtail this power of the
banks. -Pleasanton Kan. J Herald
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18

Be they new or be they tough, all
bicyclists have broken skin enough to
warrant purchase of Beggs' German
Salye, and be is wise as Solomon who
trusts its healing power Kept by
b. F. Smith. At
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
Home Market.

This market report is corrected regularl
every Thursday morning and may be relic,
upon as being accurate.
Butter, good, II to 12ic.
Eggs 10c cash, lie trade.
Hens 3!c.
Broilers &c per ID. II lbs. up.
Turkeys to &c.
Ducks DC.
Geese sc.
Beef cattle 2 5O(d2 70.
HOgs2 10 to 2 80.
Corn l3tc ear; l5c shelled.
Wheat, hard 60 to 20.
Wheat, soft 81 to 70.
Hay % 3 80
Potatoes so to 70
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18

Representative Ravenscraft's bill,
compelling railroad companies to
carry shippers Of stock free when &C.
companying a shipment, has been
recommended for passage by the seG-
ate committee on railroads.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
Mark Is Boss.

Mr.. Mckinley will be saved the
trouble of considering the claims Of
Office hunters. Mark Hanna will take
the job off his hands. Silver Knight.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
'I'HE ATCHIsON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE
RAILWAY COMPANY.
ARRIVALS.

ARRIVALS.
From north and east
No ~, Accommodation. .3:35 m
No. f25, Accom-, daily ex. Sunday. ..7:20 p m
SO. Kansas division
No. 2l9, Accommodation 800 p N
From the west
NO. A4, Passenger. 100 N
No. ". Freight. daily ex. Monday. $50 IN
FIR N the south-HunneweIl branch.
No. 436 Accom-. daily ex. Sunday. 1850 m
Caldwell branch
No. AS, Accommodation ..........6:55p
DEPARTURES.
North and east
No s26. Accom-. daily ex. Sunday -. .S:35aD
NO. 40, Accommodation. .............7:20 D N
southern Kansas division
NO. 2O4. Eastern Express T.9Opm
No. 2lS. Accomm. Qeave fri depot $40 Am
Wesl-
No. 2@ Passenger. mona nc
mo. 4sl, Freight, daily ex. SUI lay. los N
.south-Caldwell branch
No. Az, Passenger. .s.a,nm
south.Hunnewell branch
=. 10. 700, Accom-: daily ex. Sunday. ....7 :55nlm
LEAVES freight depot. M
q All trains run through without. change
70 Kansas City, Atchison and st. Joseph
making all eastern connections.
heciinlng chair cars on all trains
f-sin No. 2lSleaves from the Freight depot
Me- l. 1896, We RAJsroN; Agent.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18

Blood is thicker chan water. Pure
blood is the secret of health. There
is no better preparation to improve the
blood and prolong life than Beggs'
blood purifier and blood maker. H.F
Smith, druggist. All
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
GOING EAST

GOING EAST
No. 2. Chicago Mail and Express. ..S:08 m
No.4. Chicago Fast Line .............9:43 p IN
No. %. Accommodation Freight. 1871 m
GOING WEST.
MOL. Chicago Mail and express. e. ..s:l5 D IN
No.3 Chicago Fast Line ......6:3S a m
No 81. Accommodation freight. .. .6:O3 I'm
Nos. and 3 run through to Fl. Worth with
out change.
All trains run daily.
Free reclining chair cars on all passengers
to Kansas City and St. Joe, where direct con-
nerti0n is made with all lines north. east
and south. No. 3 has through sleeper %
San Antonio. Tickets sold and baggay
checked TO all important points In the Uni
ted States and Canada.
EF. HIGGINS, Agent,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18
RAILROAD TIME CARD

CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND : PACIy.c
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1897-02-18

E.F. HIGGINS. Agent.
The sun., 1897-07-19
The French View Criticised.

To THE EprTcR OF TEE SuH-Sir: am not an EnR-
ishman. but like fair play. and it Ia with much
astonishment. well amusement. that read tho
editorial article in todAys Courier dss Etats Unls
the alleged Cecadence OF the English race
II hardly becomes Q FrenchmAn to talk of EnKiaud,s
decadence. for in England they have large families
and the Is increasing continually and rapidly
while the French is diminishing perceptby and
France is dependent German and Italian immi.
graft &c prevent the extinction OF her population
II Is true the French Government hastens to natu-
ral!Ee these imm grants and counts them as French
although they have not q drop OF French blood in
their veins. IL IL tho same IN Algiers. where the
Italian population greatly ounumbers French II
one locks ~ the names IN the French military and
civil service. ono will that Q very large pro
portion "a German and Italian. Gen. Galieni for ex
ample, would not think OF denying his ItAen ORIGIN
Sarah Bernhardt has uot drop OF French blood In
her veins but Is OF German-Jewish origin although
she calls herself Hol,andish.
The indications only too abundant ~ prove hi
Germans and italians being substituted ror the
expiring race OF France; and yet tho editor Of this
French paper talks OF the decsdcnca ~ tho English
rsre! Look at the physical difference between thu
big. strong English and the French Who are probably
the smallest race IL Europe
There exists q natural hatred on the part of the
French for the English because the the opposite
OF tho other. The French are mercurial, emotional
capricious, eIcitabe, ard OF feminine nature while
the English eminently masculine, strong calm
solid. The Englishman is profoundly Indifferent to
the Frenchman but the latter cordially detests the
former. II is the Jealousy OF the inferior for the
superior REGINALD H. WuIIAnS
NEw YORK. July IL.
The sun., 1897-07-19
Some Persons and Some Facts.

The father-in-law of the Hon. WHITELAw
REID, Special Jubilee Ambassador to the
Court of Queen VICTORIA, is Mr.. DARIUS o.
MILLS Of California and New York.
The son-in-law Of DARTS o. MILLS, Vice.
President Of the North American CONNER.
cial Company, is WHITELAw REID, honor
ary editor of the Ner York Tribune.
The North American Commercial Com
pany is deeply interested in the Alaska fur
seal question. That company is the lessee
of the Pribylov Islands, having replaced
another concern, the Alaska Commercial
Company, on May 1, 1890, as the Govern
ment's tenant. Now, the North American
Commercial Company has not been paying
into the United States Treasury rentals and
taxes according to the terms of its lease.
II has its reasons, doubtless, for refusing to
pay, but the United States Government has
been obliged to sue it for nearly million
dollars due and unpaid.
On Feb. 1, 1896, the Secretary of the
Treasury reported to Congress the amounts
due and unpaid for the several years dur
ing which the contract with Mr.. MrLLss
company had been In force. Here arc tho
figures up to that date:
The sun., 1897-07-19
wickedness Exponed.

Our esteemed contemporary, the NetD
York Times, has discovered new enormity
In the Hon. THOMAS COLLIER PLAT, long
known to be guilty Of being n Republican.
1t seems to the Times that Mr.. PLATT's
"hirelings and emlssaries are at work In
side the Tammany organization and outside
OF 1t to force free silver to the 'front.'" As
the Tammany organization Is notoriously
In favor OF free silver, and as free silver is
in the front Of the Chicago platform, upon
which Tammany and every other Demo-
cratic organization with my pretence to
regularity stands, and has to stand, Mr..
PLATTs hirelings and emissaries cannot be
earning their hire. 1t seems to the Times,
however, that, utterly reckless OF the
danger Of his procedures, Indifferent to the
public peril Of reviving in this great cam
paign tho dying issue of silver, he [Mr.
PLATT] maintains tireless propaganda for
Organism in the Tammany ranks"
So free silver and Organism are edying, and
Mr. PLArT Is wickedly striving to fill them
with the breath OF life and Tammany with
them7 These missionary efforts Of Mr.. PLATT
may be unknown to him and to Tammany,
but they cannot escape the sleepless eyes Of
the Mugwumps. Probably 1t will be dis
covered before August that Mr.. PLATT was
the real author of the Chicago platform,
and that he wrote it for the purpose of dis
tracting the mind of New York from the
local issues which secthe in the bosom Of
the Citizens Union. 1t was just as easy
for Mr.. PLATT to foresee the Citizens Union
In 1895 as it is now for the Netp York
Times to see through the ubiquitous "pro-
cedures" of Mr. PLATT in 1897.
The Citizens Union and the various Goo
Goo clubs ought to meet at once and de-
nounce Mr. PLArT for his attempts to
Bryanize Organism. Straw votes are i'm
portant and petitions are invaluable, but
the main thing is to keep an eye on this
man PLAT.
The sun., 1897-07-19
A Lucky Commissioner.

The Hon. EDWARD OLIVER WoLcorT Of
Colorado, the Bimetallic Commissioner,
was known to be a handsome, fortunate,
and clever man but only since he began his
silver voyages and travels with the Hon.
ADLAI EWING STEVENSON of Bloomington,
and Gen. CHARLES JACKSON PAINE, q ruler
of the sea, has his especial talent for good
fortune been exhibited at it's best. He has
lunched and dined with statesmen and econ
omists, the magnatss Of divers countries,
and chanted silver with a silver tongue.
He has been aware that there are a few
trifing difficulties in the way of interna-
tional bimetallism, but it is clear that
there are no difficulties In his own way. The
Denrer Times declares authoritatively that
the failure of WoLcoTr In his present
mission will make him the next Presi.
dent of the United States"
If Mr.. WoLCoTT brings back an agree
ment for international bimetallism, he can
not be any happier or better rewarded than
he will be II he fails to bring such an agree
ment. Surely, the Denrer Times has moth.
ing better than the Presidency to give him,
even IL he should succeed.
In the case Of his failure, "the only OBJ
stacle in the way of such a contamination"
as his election to the Presidency "will be
WoLcorT himself" It seems safe to say
that Mr.. WoLCoTr or anybody else would
be willing to console himself by such q
prize. At any rate, he must be esteemed
the luckiest negotiator that ever nego-
tiated. If he fails he succeeds.
The sun., 1897-07-19
Dictionary or Kansas Dialect.
Prom the Wichita Eagle.

Prom the Wichita Eagle.
Call Dotcn-To rebuff" Mrs, Lease recently called
down ou.en Victoria"
Close Ones Psepers-To 20 TO sleep-"It has been
so hot that few people have been able their
peepers."
Close Your Fuce-Shut your mouth-This b very
vulgar and Is not used In print
Crosr Hop-To crawnah-" Leedy has crow -hoppod
out OF the special session OF the Legislature"
DO TO a FraEtie-To annihilate-" As Milt Brown Is
waiting to do MI Leland to a fraEzle."
ErerBirh fehcdvln all directions" The little Fort
Scott boy rho hammered q dynamite candle departed
everywhIchway."
Flock bp Ones SeU-Act in a reserved manner 10
Brlstow nocks by himself when he iueetu a crowd o;
fourth'class Post ofioe aspirants on = Washington
street"
Going SOuth-To take q favorable turn-"The Kan.
SaS wheat crop 10 going South"
Haze Drfnks-To be Intoxicated" The fellow
who said that Topeka hnilstonss were the size of
ostrich eggs probably had twenty drinks"
Heart Burner-A drink OF liquor Let US drop
into Topeka drug store and take q heart burner"
He Mbs-A pretentious person" Has his nibs ar
rived this morning1" asked Gov Leedy referring to
his private secretary,
Observation-Disclosures" John J. Ingalls, regards
the swiAs mission as jerkwAter job and would mot
take it n It were offered TO him."
LdIa-A lulu" Eugene Ware. the poet, is lalA."
Lean Up Close to Luok-To turu on . close margin
"Tom Ryan in pulling for that job In Wellington
leaned close up to luck"
LoHsSome-As IAN by my Lonesome -" Mr. Lease
takes care OF his house all by his lonesome"
Rops-No-Purely RAnSAs-"The Legislature said
nope to Pener."
SooAsT-A mougrel cur-Afterward adopted BY
oklahomA TO designate people who made prior and
illegal SottlemsaI
The sun., 1897-07-19

The latest octopus sighted or reported is a
safe trust. The patience OF the most long-suffer-
Ing Populist may bc expected to break down
when he secs this monster advancing. All sorts
OF trusts must be accounted wicked, but safe
trust outdoes them all in enormity. What more
necessary necessity OF lifo tl.n safe is there ,
In what other receptacle can tho professional
Popniist deposit his treasures. his diamonds,
bonds. and speeches against trusts II there Is
a safe trust. and 1t makes ho price Of safes 80
up. there will be invincibls wrath among 'hc
trust hunters; and II 1t makes tho price of 81 es
go down, there will be equally invincible wrath.
Tor a trust that lowers prices is admitted by all
good judges to be tho most nefarious kind Of o
trust.
The sun., 1897-07-19
A Question OF Health.

The agitation which has been started by
the " inc and Liquor Dealers Association
against the class Of saloons known as
morgues," where ive-cent whiskey and no
liquor at higher price is sold, has been re-
ferred to in THE SUN; and some description
has been given Of the gruesome establish
ments upon which the name morgue or dead
house, has been bestowed. The objection
is that they interfere considerably with the
business of regular liquor dealers by under
selling the latter; and, moreover, that they
are controlled by what some of the Populist
orators would probably call "a distillery
syndicate" Spirits sold at these morgues
or deadhouses are the cheapest in the mar
ket, coming direct from the distillery. The
distillers get rid Of their less salable and
more noxiOus products in this way.
There are in New York several hundred
places Mt which alcohol diluted with water
and glycerine Is sold us "pure spirits"
These places are. for the most part, in very
poor rneighborhoods, near the large thorough
fares, and are patronized by dlssipated,
depraved, and needy adults of both sexes.
When such drinker, man or woman, has
started on the down grade of irrespon-
sitle indulgence In the use OF spirtuous
liquors, the morning cocktail or the tardy
nightcap no longer suffices, and money to
pay for drinks at steadily lessening inter
walls Is no longer available A short purse
admonishes the drinker that he must get
more for his money: and, moreover, get
decoction of II more fiery sort than the rosu-
lar saloons trade In, and at a smaller price.
An ordinary saloon usually is made as
inviting as possible, outwardly, at least.
The dendhouse, on the other hand, is as dis.
NAL az possible, for all notion of convivial-
ity is excluded from it's operations, and 1t is
not intended that patrons shall make it a
resting place. They get their drink, and
one drink usually sufilces, and then they 60
out not to return again until they have
acquired the requisite five cents.
These establishments, maintained In fact
by the distillers, gain in some neighbor-
Loods large profit, interfering with what
the liquor dealers consider as their regular
patronage. To this commercial rivalry Is
to be ascribed the determination of tho
Wine and Liquor Dealers Association to
10 away with the morgues If they can,
using for the purpose 30 much of the
machinery of the present excise law as
permits the revocation of tax certificates
under certain conditions.
With this commercial rivalry between
the regular saloons and the irregular or
morgue saloons, smaller in number and
not to be found in many parts of town,
the public has very little to do. The graver
menace Of the maintenance of morgues
arises from the injury which they do to the
health of their patrons, as such persons
would probably be called. and to the ex.
penses which they ultimately impose ON
the whole community on account of tho
acts OF disorder toward which they con.
tribute, and on account Of the support of
The sun., 1897-07-19
Cleveland Democrats.

Tho Iowa Democrats who call themselves
sound-money Democrats showed that they
were something else by sticking into their
platform p9an in celebration Of GROVER
CLEVELAND, the very man whose ambition
for n third term and whose bond sales made
under false pretences drove the great ma
jority Of the Democratic party into the free
silver mani. If the Iowa onnd-money
Democrats had sought to make their move
ment impotent, ridiculous, and useless,
they could have found no better means
than to put it under the patronage of GRO
YER CLEVELAND. They showed that they
were not really anxious for the preservation
Of genuine Democratic principles. but that
they were only a faction, animated by per
sonai and not by patriotic motives. The
spurious and discredited Mugwumpery Of
CLEVELAND is no more Democracy than is
the crude fanaticism OF BRYAN. II 1t was
necessary to maintain n separate organiza-
tion of soupi-mopey Democrats, such an
organization should have represented faith
fully pure Democratic belief and doctrine
and not MuSwump corruption of them.
The Iowa sound-moncy Democrats can hope
for no recruits. They have narrowed their
influence to the little coterie which wor-
ships GROVER CLEVELAND. They are
"Clevcland Democrats" a thing to laugh
at, and at which their opponents will laugh
heartily.
The Kentucky Democrats have followed,
although somewhat guardedly, the foolish
example set by their brethren in Iowa. 1t
was natural that the Hon. JOHN GRIFFIN
CARLISLE should wish TO have the Cleve-
land Administration approved. He ap-
proved 1t himself in the convention in a
speech of laudation, and the convention ap.
proved it In this remarkable resolution:
1.-THE Democrats of Kentucky renew their allegiance
TO the principles OF true Democracy, exemplied by
the Administration OF GROVER CLEVELAND, and as
illustrated by his eminent Secretary of tho Treasury,
3o:iS a. CtRtsLn. and pledge themselves 70 renewed
ami unceasng efforts to embody and substantate
thcm In the national policy"
So tho principles of "true" Democracy
are those excmplified by the Cleveland Ad-
mnistration. Sound financial principles
are those eNemplitled by that Administra-
ton. Thus the Kentucky souud-money
Democrats arc nothing but "Cleveland
Democrats" Their principles are GROVER
CLEVELAND.
Only failure, and deserved failure, can
come from these attempts to make an ex-
ploded humbug the exemplar of Democracy.
party which pretends to be the keeper of
the untainted Democratic faith and vet
takes as the apostle of that faith the man
most conspicuously and grossly untrue to
1t, must be regarded as a curiosity, not as a
political quantity.
The sun., 1897-07-19
The demon of discord may now be OBJ.

The demon of discord may now be OBJ
served in the act of cutting up his most demo-
Mac capers among the Cuyahoga county Den,oc-
racy and elsewhere among tho Buckeye Demo-
cratic brethren. Democrats continue to shriek
fercely against the cminont plutocratic pluto
phobist. tho Hon. JoHS r. MCLEAN OF the
District of Columbia. The friends OF the various
candidates for Governor whom he is said to have
betrayed" at the Columbus Convention arc
practising on him with their tomahawks Tho
voice OF the Hon. HORACE CHAPMAN, the pluto
cratic candidate for Governor. is still not "liftod
for tho poor man." In short, the demon "a en-
joying himself to the top OF his bent. and no
answer has been received to the numerous ad-
vertisements for Harmony.
The sun., 1897-07-19

p,neulsy e I1espisr rns- Tnsro.

-ses
To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sr: HeferrinR
to an article In THE BUN relating TO the en-
listed mon OF the navy and the determina-
ton OF the naval authorities TO eliminate. IL
possible the foreign clement therefrom, desire
10 furnish few points for your consideration,
,"a Nnivn WI WI siso VI, s.usV,on ,'u o ;,
point OF ono OF the class behind the gun.
L AM, thank God, an American, have served
many long years In the navy OF tno omVea
States as q chief petty oficer, and have had
many yearn, saryioe at n station whore many
.,a..,,s.. .O 49, ,s.s .s.nn ~.
.ppron'oos "ero hoAe. inVo ehepo =,
ing my eyes open, could not very well fall TO
a., a.. A.. ~. is,r.s ,,,,,,, -. .,..,nr,ort "a
hIo'n 'he oay NO !oheu until MS AttAnnon' "
manhood. think the navy had on Its rolls from
1875 until 1895 n period of twenty yenrs not
H.. ,h.n oo 600 ho,. a., o,I .,,.r, or. ~ ,,hor,
YES 'nsh zOVoo ,, poy' IN Sii o,eIs ono oi Nnoni
was physically perfect don't think there arc
to-day 1000 in the service whyl The navy
a. r,oa ,,.,o tor ,,oor ia ,,ho Ill, io,,, ,vith
soou piaoo luz u pooI ieu "ho "ii Jun WIN UIi
ones. In no service in tho world are men better
81, -. h-t,.- "a A,,.,a,-,-.,,..,, A it,.
paiu OF p0t.er iea. a mAno wa, s.hah hneS
are cast In pleasant places to-day, IL we compare
=, .n,shsI,,,,, -. - go, g. ,,,onSa, ,.h,,
VI Nn'o."o,"n u"9e' ehu mon o''o" "o""or "nS
the lads do not remain in the service. ], who
huve been there. wonder n little why moro of
th. o,n,,,,snt A., ~, 80, a., AZ. -
'no conhhkeht 10 NOT stay IN tno navy.
An American youngster with ambition. zeal,
and intc,lioonce will not nm N rpIe remain nor.
- y, .,. ,'. 80 - 80 =. p -.
mahohtiy IN inc navy. because NO can 90 oetber
outside 1t IL astonishing to most men not
posted to hear of tho multifarioua positiona
neM IN inc ynrlous Walks OF CIVIC lite ny eS-
tf a., apppi pp pien.Eos .a Mounosmen oi ponco, onI