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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

Mrs. J. G. Woods has sold part of
her land just west Of the city, to the
Santa Fe railway company. The land
will be used in constructing an ap.
preach to the new iron bridge, which
is to be built over Slate creek south
of the poor farm. The land sold at
the rate Of Sll0 an acre.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

Capt. Duncan, Of the I'D Kansas
volunteers, who desecrate1 a confeder.
ale's grave, has been sentenced to two
months retention" in camp, instead
III I'VE years ID the peLltentiaTy, as
was FIRST reparted.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

Hon. W. P, Gill;" Hackney is be
coming prominent in Ohio Demo.
cratic politics. A recent issue Of the
Cleveland Recorder tells how Hack
ney captured the Ohio Democratic
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

G. ]. Stilwell and wife left Monday
night for Omaha to attend the expo
sitiOn. They will probably visit
Minnesota and other points in the
north and east before their return.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

Admiral Dewey has been advised
by tie navy department al w >hinv-
ton To hold himself IN readiness to
re'urn home by the quickest route,
for the purpose OF cunlrrr.ag with
President Mckinley on the Philippine
question,
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01
question.

The dispute regarding the appoint
ment Of officers in the Twentieth
Kansas regiment has been settled.
Colonel Funston has received a tele-
gram from Adjutant General Corbin
to the effect that Governor Leedy had
full power to appoint whomeyer he
pleased as officers Of his regiment.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

The Rock Island fast mail, east
bound, was running at a speed of sixty
miles all hour Sunday morning when,
on turning slight curve, six miles
west of Topeka, George Scott, the
engineer, saw a mar on the track just
In front. He whistled and reversed
his engine, but the engine struck the
man and threw him over the fence
clear of the fifty foot right of Way.
When the train stopped Scott tried to
back the engine down and pick up the
body, but his engine would not move.
The sudden shock had broken the pis.
ton heads. The victim proved to be
a stable boss for gang of graders in
the employ Of the railroad company.
He was known as "Happy Jackn
Stevens, and he was about 50 years
old. He had lived in Topeka twenty
years, but bad no family.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1898-09-01

lemons, but oranges and bananas are
scarce. The natives had nothing 10
eat but the fruit. The Spanish sol
dierS took nearly everything there
was eatable, This trip has been an
experience | shall never forget.
If everything turns cut as the re-
ports say, we will be back to the
United States in time for me to enter
school next winter.
With love to ali close. Your low
ing sou, GLEN.
The car If Russia has proposed a
peace conference looking to the dis
armament Of the nations Of Europe
Ayers friend. are blaming tie Red
Cross society for his Glundrrs. The
blame comes from Surgeon General
otern0erg, who is sad 10 be hostile
to The Red CrnSS Wnman
The sun., 1898-04-10
LOCAL DOTS.

Miss Georgetta Kline, of this city, has
returned from visit to friends in Phia-
delphia.
Mrs. Eugene W. Murphy and family,
of Fairville, Pa, are the guests of friends
in this city.
The Rev. n. +. Stahl, of Princeton,
will preach this morning and evening at
Hanover Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. =. G. Joyce and daughter, Of this
city, have returned from short visit to
relatives in New York city.
Mrs. S. A. Whiteman, who has been
visiting her daughter, Mrs. w. j. Bockus,
at Newark, returned home yesterday.
A special train laden with ammunition
for the squadron at Key West passed
through this city over the p, W. & B.
railroad Oh Friday.
What might have proved serious ac-
cident occurred at Fourth and Market
streets Yesterday, when a young lady
cyclist collided with small boy, as he
and lady alighted from trolley car.
The lad was thrown down, but was not
seriously injured.
The streets of Wilmington were crowd
ed yesterday with Easter shoppers. A lmost
everyone could be seen carrying some
favorite swest-scented flower for home
decoration.
The sun., 1898-04-10
RIVER FORTIFIED
The Government Has Had Men at
r.. Werk for Weeks.
SUBMARINE sMINEs HERE.
-
Major Charles W. Raymond Has an
Ffficent Force of Engineers
Placing the Mines s.-Cities
r. Amply Protected.
SUBMARINE eMINES HERE.

The Government plans for the Dela-
ware river and Bay Notifications, and
the emergency work on new submarine
mines for harbor defense, have been car
ried into effect with such expediency by
the United States Army corps of engi-
neers, under Major Charles w. Ray
mond, that the work may now be said
to be practically completed.
The finishing touches are being put on
at all the strategic points under Govern
ment control, and, though all detailed
information is scrupulously guarded by
those in charge, 1t is known, from trust
worthy sources, that the passage of the
Delaware by any hostile ship is now an
impossibility.
So carefully have the Government
plans been studied out and carried into
effect that, even allowing the possibility
OF flaws in material or construction in
any one part of the general plan, there
would be at least three and in some in
stances more than that number of other
combinations to meet such contingency.
The work of the engineering corps has
Eeen carried on with great deal of
secrecy, as, in the very nature of things,
the usefulness of the submarine mines
depends upon an enemy's lack of knowl-
edge as to their location. For this pur-
pose great part Of the work has been
done at night and in such manner as
to avoid notice.
Not only has the main channel of the
Delaware been supplied with the hidden
engines of destruction, but also some por-
tions of Delaware Bay.
1t has been learned that within the
past two weeks protection of this sort
has been afforded both Cape May and
Lewes. DEL, where mines have been
placed at various points to intercept an
enemy.
The Government searchlight at Fort
Delaware is also now being used at ir-
regular intervals during the night for the
purpose of experimenting.
In case of hostiities the Government
will provide special pilots, it is said, to
bring ships up the Delaware from the
bay, SO as not to risk exploding any SUBJ
marine mines.
The Government officials appear very
confident of being able to give a good
account of their preparations if necessity
occurs.
Major Raymond's staff of engineers
may now be said to be upon war foot
ing, with the arrival yesterday from Will
let's Point Of Corporal Boyle and
squad of six of the most efficient en-
gineers stationed at that point. The
men are all between 30 and 35 wears of
age and of splendid physique. They have
seen seven years of service in the corps
and have been trained especially in work
requiring skill and knowledge regarding
submarine work. The men were Pri-
Yates Efaw, Childers, Boohgher, TODD,
Sorenson and Tabor, and formed grim
looking, determined squad OF veterans,
Major Raymond reviewed them and
sent them to Fort Delaware to await
orders.
The sun., 1898-04-10
THE PASSION FLOWER.
Natures American Symbol of the
CrucifixiOn---Its Discovery, POpu.
larity and Symbolism,

larity and Symbolism.
Art thou type OF beauty or Of power,
OF sweet enjoyment or disastrous sin?
For earth thy name denoteth Passion Flower!
| 0 no thy pure Corolla's depth within
We trace a holy symbol; yea, assign
'Twixt God and man, record of that hour
When the expiatory act divine
Cancelled that curse which WAS our mortal
dover.
| 1t is the Cross AUBREY De WE'RE
Holy Week, of all weeks of the wear,
is most directly associated in our minds
as the season of reflection, of self-ex-
animation, of quiet, reverent peace OF
mind.
Yet, with sad satire, war and the hor-
rors of war, forced on us by the inku-
manties of the most professedly religious
country in Europe, overshadows us, dis
turbing our worship and unsettling our
calm. Spain brought Christianity to the
New World and back to the Old World;
her Jesuit missionaries sent the Passion
Flower as sure sign that the loving
Father had already planted in this New
World symbol OF faith--the miraculous
fower-whose every organ spoke of
Christ's sacrifice for man and death upon
the tree; the whole perfect union of
the emblems Of the crucifxion.
And the Latin Church received and
accepted it gladly, and joyously twined
the Passion Flower and the Easter offer
ings OF roses and lilies to the Blessed
Virgin; embroidered it OH altar cloth
and vestlnent; hammered it in bronze
and copper and iron on chair and chancel
screen, and carved it on wreathed pillar
and capital in cathedral and cloister.
The sun., 1898-04-10
CIVIL SERVICE
CANDIDATES
1emi-Annual Examinations to be Held
For Special and Professional
Grades of EmplOyment,

The United States Civil Service Com
mission calls attention to the fact Il It
it's usual semi-annual examinations FIR
special, technical and professional grade !
Of employment in the Government SER
vice will be held on April 25, at tt },
cities marked ID in its schedule of e.
aminations
Owing to the fact that there are /
enough eligibles for these higher "ra, =
places to meet the demands of I'll sc
vice, the Commission will waive t, this
examination its general requirement ia
applications must be filed in .uln ,ete
form ten days before the examinatio
Applications must be filed far ent gh
in advance, however, to allow time tt
ship examination papers to the cities
selected for examination.
The Commission is especially desirous
of securing additional eligibles for the
following registers, and it requires that
all suitable persons who desire such
places apply at once for examination:
Assistant surgeon, Marine Hospital Ser
vice; aid, Coast and GeOdetic Survey; as
sistant Department of Agriculture; as
sistant examiner, Patent Office; hospital
steward, Marine Hospital Service; in
spectors nd assistant inspectors of hulls
and boilers, Steamboat Inspection Ser
vice; marine engineer, Marine Hospital
Service; meat inspector Department OF
Agriculture; sanitary insp- -ctor, Marine
Hospital Service; weather observer, De-
partment of Agriculture.
These examinations are open to all re-
putable' citizens who may desire to enter
the service, and who comply with the
requirements without regard to race or
to political or religious affiliations, and
all such citizens are invited to apply.
Application blanks and manual of ex-
aminations may be obtained from the
United States Civil Service Commissioner
at Washington.
The sun., 1898-04-10
HISTORY.

Popular belief associates the
|"King's Evil' with blood pol
|soning and it is interesting 10
here review the history OF this
Impression. The Kings hv'l
First appears in History just prior
10 the Twelfth Century when
Edward the Conqueror imagined
be possessed the miraculous gilt
bf curing certain diseases by the
imple touch and by pronounclng
few sacred words. After the
Example of Edward, the King Of
France, became celebrated fo1
he skill with which they cured
crofula, goitre, etc., by his pro-
less. Scrofula then became unil
Eersally known as the King
Evil and is to-day sometimes as
uded to by that name. Such q
method of cure has been claimed
b be the peculiar attribute of the
overeigns of England and
france, but history does not SAN
on this, for it appears to have
zen not unfrequently employed
Scandinavia. and to have been
erived from the mystical prac-
ces Of the Divide in curing dis
lse. The exact words used for
le cure of Scrofula by the
Fench Kings were:-"Le roi te
uche, Dieu te guerisse."
I'm this enlightened age no.
dy would be silly enough to
list a case of Scrofula to King
his words unless it happened
at the King aforesaid, had a
ploma or two from medical
lleges of good repute. At this
Fiting none Of the Kings in our
Fcle Of acquaintance have taken
the study OF medicine and we
erefore suggest that every man,
s1an and child suffering from
dreadful disease send fifty
It's to DR.. Jonathan G. Tru-
], Lemon City, Fla, for a
lie of "Marvelo." There is
one cure for the Kings Evil
Scrofula-,..and that one
is Marvelo. This marvel
preparation can only be OBJ
ID of DR.. Jonathan G. Tru-
Lemon City, Fla.
E-The Historical information con.
in these advertisements will Ee
to be absolutely accurate and stu.
pf history will do we'll to preserve
or future use
The sun., 1898-04-10

William Vansant, of Union, DEL, was
in this city yesterday.
Miss Marie Taylor, OF Choate, Del,
visited in this city yesterday.
William Dean, Of Newark, DEL, was a
Wilmington visitor yesterday.
Miss Margaret Kane has returned
from visit to friends in Philadelphia.
Miss Fannie X. Armstrong, Of Chris
tiana, Del, visited relatives in this city
yesterday.
Mrs. William Armstrong, OF Pleasant
HILL, DEL, was the guest Of relatives in
this city yesterday.
The sun., 1898-04-10
BASE BALL ADVICE

To the Down State Towns, Also this
City, and if Needed Will Ger
tainly Room the Game.
It's to be hoped that the down State
towns are now thinking of the baseball
season, which is so close at hand, and
are organizing teams.
How about you, Dover? Is your team
ready?
Are you lovers of the national game
going to have a club in Smyrna this
year?
And Seaford, l suppose you're going to
gather nine together!
Townsend, you are certainly going to
have club, for you know you have a
crack pitcher whose name is the same as
your town.
Now, all you down State towns get to-
gether and form your baseball teams,
and Well try to get a good club up in
our town, and then will form league.
If that is done there'll De hot time in
Delaware, for baseball will boom and the
cranks vii! be happy.
So will the Wilmington City Railway
Company, when they SEE the crowds
going to the ball park at Front and
Union and the nickels comm rollin'.
The sun., 1898-04-10

NEWSP APER ADVERTISING IN THE
IN United States book of two hundred
pages, containing catalogue of about six thous
and newspapers being all that are credited by
the American Newspaper Directory December
edition for 1897 with having regular issues OF
Of each and every State of the American Union,
naming those towns only in which there are
issued newspapers having more than 1000 circu-
lstion This book ISSUED December l5 1897 will
I've sent, postage paid, to any address, on receipt
OF one dollar. Address The Geo p Rowell Ad-
yertising Co, 10 Spruce ST.. New York.
The sun., 1898-04-10
"TaE SONG OF THE SKIRT"

With accents heated and high,
With cheeks that were angr1ly red,
A woman stood, inunwomanly bags.
Scornfully tossing her head.
At a platforms front she stood
The claims Of her sex to assert:
And there, with voice Of indignant pitch,
She sang this "song of the Skirt"
"Work work work
Oh, woman, though men may scOh
Till you've thrown this incubus off
For the skirt is the badge of shame
That Men to our sex allots,:.
So work till you've changed that humbling bad'
For a pair of-you-know-whats.
"Work work work
However the cynics laugh;
Work work work
Though the comic papers chaff;
Enjoy neither ease nor rest
Till your end at last you gain,
And proudly stand as you see me now,
Arrayed in cylinders twain
1.-THE tyrants whom denounce
Have sisters, and mothers, and wives,
Yet they d make you wear the badge
Ofslavery all your lives.
New Women uprise, say
For unless you soon rebel,
This skirt which clings to your waist will be
The shroud of your hopes as well.
"The Spirit of the Age
You will all in vain invoke
For latchkey-Freedom's sign.
And the precious right to smoke.
You will still remain the slaves
OfmRns tyrannical whims,
Co long as the skirt is still begirt
Round your-well, your neither limbs.
AS long as that skirt you wear,
Your onward path twill block;
YnII must still Man 3 dinners cook
You must still his cradles rock;
Io., will still remain his toy,
You will never bestride the barb,
As E,nancpated Woman should,
Ina bifurcatcd garb!
80, work! work! work
For the cause you have at heart!
With pamphlet and with speech
Be ready to play your part
On the platform take your stand
And the downfall there proclaim
OF the hated skirt, and the advent hail
fthe things need not name.
Twin omens of victory.
These garments should lead you on
I've grasped and wear the prize,
And so may you all anon.
Already has trembling Man
Good reason to fear our raid,
For he knows that his citadel we shall storm
Through the breaches we have made!''
With accents heated and high,
With face that was angrily red,
A woman stood, in un womanly bags"
Scornfully tossing her head.
At the front of the platform stood,
The rights of her sex to assert;
And there, in voice of indignant pitch
And giving her "knicks" an occasional hitch
She sang this "song of the Skirt"
The sun., 1898-04-10
SECRET STRENGTH DEVELOPED

No medicine, no operation.
Rational and sure. Mode of
treatment sent anywhere for One
Dime. Shadow System, Box s,
Philadelphia, Pa.
The sun., 1898-04-10
Successful Test.

The members of the Phoenix Fire
Company yesterday afternoon success
fully tested a new spray nozzle. The
test was made in front of the hose
house and gave satisfaction in every
particular.
The sun., 1898-04-10
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In one Of the dozens of business that
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else. Genteel, for either sex. at home
or travelling. Particulars FREE
pH-We will insert your name ana
address in our SALAR1ED POSA-
TION Manual, for 10 cts. full year.
Nav be worth hundreds Of dollars to
YOU Write at once. Address
S. M. BOWZES,
Woodford City, Vermont.
The sun., 1898-04-10
THE SUN,
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Philadelphia, U. S. A.

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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-01-23
Alaska
lis Neglected Past. lis Brilliant Future
by BuzhrOi Washington James.

lis Neglected Past. Iis Brilliant Future
by BushrOd Washington James.
This n u ncg book Of the higher clasr
containing much 10 both Interest and
entertain the public. who are now at
trpctsd by everything pertaining 10 Alas
ka and the gold nelds of The Upper Yukon
rl,,r The authors observations in Alas-
ka are written In his usual sparkling vein
N ~ tru,hfulns1ss 10 nature making them
valuable FOR tho Information they con-
tan many OF the descriptions being writ
ten on the spot
The later ARTICLES. though composed In
decidedly earnest style are pleasantly
readable and instructive. The writer
for1saw the ia wnlng Of new era for the
territory 30 long underrated by people
who judged before investigating It's pos
sIb!e resources and became deeply inter
em,d In the district at the time Of its
purchase and resolved some tine 20 visit
q When the opportunity offered his
mind was prepared to Ake a comprehen-
slye and impartial view % Alaska. both
In It's natural and political possibilities
The variety and splendor OF rs scenery
fascinated him. whIle he was filled with
commlseration for It's neglected condition.
lie has used his pen In a sincere en-
deavor TO arouse political as well az So
cial thoughtfulne~s concerning II in all
It's pccuilar and valuable qualities. and
earnestly advocates prompt and careful
legislation for its government and pro-
tcction. Anyone who VIII read this book
will note how heartily and justly he has
studied every phase Of the advancement
OF the territory. The international law
concerning the Berlng sea and seal FISH
cry question. the boundary question and
other Items OF legislation are fully and
carefully treated In the work. Everyone
Interested In the sealing conference lately
held and the forthcoming congressional
debates will want TO read H. The work
is beautifully illustrated with recent maps
and plates OF this section OF the country.
and is the most elaborate work vet pub
lished on the subject.
Handsome l2mo.. 80 pages g engrav-
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-01-23
Our Company
Is Composed of Men of Tried
Business Regulations

Some OF whom are the following:
Hon. W. e. Mason, U. s. Senator from
Illinois
Albert c. Blatz, president Val Blatx
Brewing company. Milwaukee.
W. C. Rinearson, general passenger
agent C. N. o. & t. p. r. R. Cincinnati.
B W. Griffith. president First National
J. B. Legnard. capitalist, Legnard
Bank. vlcksburg. Miss.
building, Chicago.
Frank H. Hecht, of Charles Kaestner
& Co. Chicago.
D. G. Edwards, passenger traffic mana
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c. I. & L. p R. Cdonon Route,. Chicago.
t. Fl. Foster, Fostoria and vicksburg.
Miss
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Bank. Vicksburg, Miss.
For information address and make all
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eral agent, Haller building, Seattle.
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-01-23

A woman's hoadachcs may rome from
several oa,ncs. She may have a headache
arising from nervousness. or rrom a..
gcstivo disturbances, Nno cases IN ten
her headaches come from disorders pc-
culIRr to her sex. II may sa,ow i,Scif In
tho symptoms wq,ich arc characteristic OF
a dozen disordcp Thousands OF times
women have been treated for the wrong
disorders. Or Pi,vcc's Favorito Pre-
pcription was compounded for the sole
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rln ami pains Thousands of women hav,
testified that after taking treatment from
several physicians without bcncnt. the
"FavorIto rrUs'rip,lon" curci them com
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over thirty years. and has an unbroken
rccorl OF succaca,
The woman who hcaat,s Is invited TO
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only tho cost OF mailing a copy Of DR.
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which contains plain. clear information
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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-01-23
rlLor noAr QUESTION,
An llwaco Mans opinion of the Condition
81 Afan.

llWaco, Wash, January . -CGdltor A.
ttrlanl-l notlcr "A your paper " ycstor.
day ina, our Washington pilot commits.
soinrrs have revoked tho liccnsca held by
tho thrcc pilots Supposedly representing
Tho utntc Of Washington on the Columbia
rivvr bar II ac-ms to mc that II A. time
this action waH takcn. nA thc loose way
In which the pilot scryicc on the Columbia
past two years h nothing short ~ "A dis.
Ra0, Thc state of Washington IL Sun.
posed to have pilot schooner on the bar
with It's three pilots, Yet Il ls a wcll.
known fact that ever aimee the Jessie
commenced on the bar that the Washing
t,n and oregon pilols have combined and
they have usCd both the jessie and San
lose alternately untl the Washington
pilots discarded thu Jsvslo In November,
aud Wncc that time have tEa,d the oregon
schooner alone In conjunction with the Or
cgon pilots. Now IN my opinion. the
state of Washington. so long ~ II ssuea
branches to pilots is entitled to have n
pilot schooner representing II on the bar
and II has been matter of conjecture 20
many Of our citizens why our commits
uloncrs permitted our ptlota to retain
their branches without having n schooner,
Tho general impression was that they
asked for ANA obtained forty days time
To procure another schooner In place OF
tho ono they dscndcd, but the forty days
have run out some time ago and yet they
r,maln ON the Oregon schooner | ho-
love the state Of Oregon furnishes It's
pllota with the schooner san Jose free OF
cost and also contributes the sum OF
81 800 per Onnnm to maintain her, 10 the
Taxpayers Of oregon must know some
thing" or thcy would never permit mon
holding WASHINGTON branches to uet
their schooner on the same terms as theil
own pilots IL there are not sufficient pl
lots, then make more-but what we wan
is competition, with competition we cal
havo the finest bar pilot service in tn
world. These combinations are detrl