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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
VOLUME XXXIX.-NUMBER 20.
THE MAN WITH THE HOE.

The following lines, originally ap-
pearing in the 5. F. Examiner, are just
now commanding attention of the lit
erary world. They were written by
Prof. Edwin Markham, whose contri-
buttons to Century and ScSibner, have
familiarized his name with the reading
public. The poem is an Interpretation
OF Millet's famous painting, "The Man
with the Hoe" engaging so much at
tention in California. Here are the
lines as they appeared in the San
Francisco paper:
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground.
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
who:made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes,
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the OK?
Who loosened and let down his brutal jaw?
Whose was the haEd that slsnted back his
brow:
Whose breath blew out the light within this
brain
Is this the thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for
power;
To feel the passion OF Eternity
Is this the dream lie dreamed who shaped the
suns
And pillared the blue armament with light:
Down all the stretch of He'll to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than ths-
More tongued with cersure cf the worlds blind
greed
More filled with signs and portenis for the
soul
More fraught with menace to the universe.
What CULTS between him and the seraphim!
Slave of the wheel of labor what TO him
Are Plato and the swing of the Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peals of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddenng of the rose
Through this dread shape the suffering ages
look;
Times tragedy is in that aching stoop;
Through the dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered. betrayed aud disinherited,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
protest that is also prophecy.
o master. lords and rulers in all lands,
Is this hsndiwOrk you give to God,
This mOnstrous thing distorted and soul
Quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape
Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the the music and the dream:
Touch 1t again with immOrtallty;
Make right the immemorial infamies.
PerfidiOus wrongs, immedicable woes?
o masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
How will the Future reckon with this Man!
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds Of rebellion shake the world.
How will 1t be with Kingdoms aud with kiugs-
With those who shaped him to the thing he
When this dumb terror shall reply to God
After the silence of the centuries:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
Rewarded for His Honesty.
New York Tribune.

An English farm laborer recently
went to small store kept by an old
woman and asked for "a pound o. ba-
con-"
She produced the bacon and cut q
piece off, but could not find the pound
weight.
"Oh, never mind Z paund weight" i"
said he. "Ma fist just weighs paund.
So put ther bacon i T. scales"
The woman confidently placed the
bacon into one side of the scales while
the man put his fist into the other
side, and, of course, took good care to
have good weight.
While the woman was wrapping the
bacon up the pound weight was found,
and, on seeing it, the man said
"Nah, you see if my fist don't just
weigh paund."
The pound weight was accordingly
put into one scale and the mans fist
into the other, this time only just to
balance.
The old woman, on seeing this, said
"Wha, niver seed aught so neal
afore! Here's a red herrin for thee
honesty, ma lad!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
A FIERCE BATTLE.
A GRAPHIC ACCOUNT by AN
OLYMPIA BOY.

Chauncey Rathbun Tells How Il Feels to Be
In Battle. and Gives A Graphic Account Of
How Our Troops Routed the Enemy
Near Manila. on the 5th inst
This week, J. C. Rathbun received
letter from his son Chauncey, who is a
member of Co. B OF the First WASH
ington regiment now at Manila. The
letter was written on February 14th,
more than week after the great bat
tie on the 5th. The letter says:
"You know by this time, of course,
how interesting things have been for
us during the last ten days and doubt
less are anxious to know how I came
out of the scrap. Well, l am alive,
and last Sunday had as much fun as
any OF them. But we did give those
fellows an awful licking! They had
been spelling for fight for some time
and now they have had it. And
good fight they put up, too.
"In the first place a battle was not
expected Immediately, although the
relations between the two armies had
been pretty we'll strained for some.
time. The various commands had
been called to take their stations at
the front several times, in response to
real or fancied hostile moves ON the
part of the insurgents. For sometime,
we had been getting up at 4 O'Clock,
having breakfast and then standing
under arms until six, the usual time
for reveille, in order to be prepared for
an attack at daylight. Two nights
before, we had been called out at IL
o'clock p. NJ, because of an unusual
amount of signalling by torches at
Concordia bridge, near Blockhouse IL.
mention this to show that we were
not entirely unprepared.
Saturday morning, the 4th, 1 was
one OF detail of thirty men for Block
house IL. Nothing out of the ordi.
nary happened during the day, until
just before dusk, when we saw two
companies of insurgents in skirmish
line, going out across the fields to the
right OF the blockhouse. Peculiar
movements of the insurgents had been
so numerous that this caused no spe-
cial note, although the fact was tele.
graphed to headquarters. For some
time, it had been the custom, when
any company had detail at the
blockhouse, to send the remainder of
the company out at dark to reinforce
it. congratulated myself that l had
no guard duty to do that night, so laid
my blankets in one corner and was
just doing to a sleep, when We were
orderered to keep awake and oe ready
to get to the loop holes at any mo-
ment. In a few minutes the order
came. There was shooting over at the
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
Geography for Women.

The introduction to Parkenton's
Modern Atlas" published in 1915,
has reference to "the sex" which
ought to be very interesting to our
modern college girl. The learned
author says:
Geography is study so universally
instructive and pleasing that it has
for nearly century been taught even
to females, whose pursuits are foreign
from serious researches. In the triv.
ial conversation of the social circle, in
the daily avidity of the occurrences OF
the times, pregnant indeed above all
others with rapid and important
changes that affect the very existence
of States and empires, geography has
become a habitual resource to the ele-
CANT female, as we'll rs the profound
philosopher.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07

it was over. Considering the close
range, it is a wonder that he missed
the first shot, and it was lucky for me
that he was longer getting his aim the
second time than was. | appropri.
ated his rifle.
"There were only few more
houses to search and the whole line
was then halted in the street for a
short rest when the blockhouse detail
was taken back to No. IL where We re-
manned until Monday"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07

A YOUNG man in one OF our electric
cars observing that handsome young
lady sitting opposite was looking at
him very intently, and thinking that
he might have impressed her favorably,
changed his seat to one by her side
and said, Haven't l seen you some-
where" Well" she replied, ~ am
not quite certain, but 1 think you are
the man that stole our spoons" He
left the car at once.-Portldnd Vel
come.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07

FREDDIE's Papa-What do you in
tend to do with the hole in that
doughnut when you get all the cake
eaten from around it?
Freddie (after serious thought)-l
guess I'll give it to little sister, to pay
her for the bite she gave me out of her
apple.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
A SIDE SUGGESTION OR TWO.
Some Of The Funny Phases Of Life in a
Small Way.

Small Way.
They never pardon who commit the
wrong.
The villain is always caught in the
act-usually the last.
When mans temper is ruffled, his
brows are usually knit.
A woman's tongue often spoils lot
OF nice, sweet silence.
When the ghost fails to walk the
actors are compelled to.
All men are not homeless, but some
men are home more than Others.
A wise man is always known by the
company he keeps-out Of.
All songs are beautiful-until some
amateur tries to Sing them.
1t is no credit for a man to own a
watch that fails to 60 ON tick.
A man full of himself is as disgrace
full as man full of whisky.
The woman with past is always
glad to see man with present.
Executive ability is the faculty of
getting some one to do your work.
The barber has scraping acquain.
tance with great many people.
A genius is a man who can do al
most anything except make a living.
The man who knows the least is al
ways in the biggest hurry to tell it.
Riches have wings, but a pile of
them 60 OIL skates" at the race track.
When life is not worth living, you
can nearly always blame it on the
liver.
Card playing can't be very wicked,
as there isn't black heart in the
deck.
Philosophers take things as they
come. Pickpockets take things as
they 60.
The best way to tell woman's age
is in gentle whisper through a tele-
phone.
Nine out of every ten men who be-
gin life poor manage to hold their own
to the end.
Hunger may be an evil, but it
causes nearly all the industry there is
in the world.
A great many people argue in a Cir
Gle; that's why there is no end to their
arguments.
Train up hired girl in the way she
should 60 and the first thing you
know she is gone.
No man was ever blamed for being
gentleman, but many have been
falsely accused.
Whiskey is drug on the market
when YOU have to get it on a drug
store prescription.
The people who have good opinions
of themselves are often poor judges of
human nature. 4
A mans domestic relations seldom
trouble him as much as the relations
OF his domestics.
The successful man always sticks to
one thing until he gets there. So
does the postage stamp.
Candor is o noun of two meanings:
for ourselves frankness, for our neigh
bors impudence.
People should always carry out their
plans-and it would be q good idea to
bury most of them.
When a man gets married, its about
the only time in his life that he has
on new clothes all through.
1t is said the ancient Romans
smoked something like the modern
cigarette-and now they are dead.
Flattery is the art of making others
think you are interested in them,
when in reality they make you weary.
1t is said one-half of the people
born die before the age of sixteen.
Some of the other half wouldn't be
missed very much.
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SHE-Oh, James, how grand the
sea is. How wonderful. l do so like
to hear the roar OF the ocean.
Ke-So do /, Elizabeth. Please
keep quiet.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
WiNST0Ck l. ISRAEL,
Attorneys at Law

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07

A PORTLAND woman hides her
money in the family Bible, and during
a married life of IA years her husband
has never found it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-04-07
E NELSON TUNIN, Proprietor.

A GIVE solicitors wanted everywhere
IA for The Story of the Philippines"
by Murat Halstead, commissioned by tho
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insurgent camps with Aguinaldo, on the
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Chicago
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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
KANSAS TUESDAY, JANUARY ~ 1Sg9-FRST SECTION

living near Bilaspur, India. Her
mother starved to death during the
famine, aud her father being unable
to pay the penny a day necessary to
sustain her, gave her to the Christian
mission at Bilaspur.
Tue C.W.B.M. Of the Christian
church clothes, feeds, and educates
the child for $50 per year. This sum
also includes medical supplies, pbysi-
cla1'S fees, etc. Mrs. T. j. Garland,
president of the c. W.B.M. was Iustru.
mental in having the society assume
the responsibility Of raising this
orphan, a heather in far away land.
Mrs. Garland has taken steps TO
secure photograph of the little one,
which will be Of very great interest
to those contributing to the child's
support.
1t would be romantic story il,
when the child grows up into woman
hood, she should take up religious
work for her litewCrk, as a result Of
the training she is now receiving, and
come to Wellington and lecture in the
church that proved such a factor in
shaping her life.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
Hackney for Governor.

Wichita Beacon.
II. B. Fleharty Of Topeka, who is in
the city Oh business, and who usually
has his weather eye on the political
situation, was asked by reporter for
the Beacon what effect the special
session would have on the situation In
1900.
"ln my Judgment" replied Mr..
Fleharty, "the most notable political
feature of the session was the passing
OF John Breidenthal. / think he will
not be the factor in the party in the
future that he has been. No one man
did so much toward the calling Of the
special session as he, and yet he failed
to secure the passage Of his pet meas .
ure by the body when called.
This session has been watched with
great interest by those who have the
party's welfare at heart and who
realize that some Den must be found
to act as party leaders, in order to
harmonlze all factions wto are able,
honest, aggressive, and who belong to
no clique and are controlled by DO
machine"
"HasyOur scrutiny Of the legislature
revealed any such men,"
We'll, yes; several who oil the bill
to my entire satisfaction, but none
mere so than Ed Hackney Of yelling
ton. believe he Is the best guberna
torlal timber, all things considered, ir
the fusion ranks. Ostensibly q
Democrat, Ed is one Of the most
broad gusged, radical reformers i1
the .ast legislature. Active and in
corrup,ible, good judge OF character
and he has backbone TO burn.'"
"Will there not be objection OF
account Of his age?"
"Yes, but the objection is overruled
Why, do yoI know he will be an Older
man in 1900 than Napoleon was wher
he wore the laurels Of Austerliz aDt
Jena? Older than Pitt was when b,
was the political genius Of Europei
No, Ed is old enough, and so far as
am concerned | am for him."
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
ASKS $4,000 DArlAGES.
Henry Shore Sues Link Barner for Caus.
ing His Arrest for Horse Stealing.

A damage suit, growing out of the
arrest of Henry Shore last December
on the charge Of horse stealing, has
been filed in the district court.
Henry Shore, the plaintiff, asks
damages from A. L. Barner, the de-
fendant, in the sum of s4,2OO.
Last August Link Barner, who lives
across the NinneScah river in Pales-
tine township lost a valuable horse
by theft. About the first of last
December, Barner recovered his horse
at Arkansas City from a liveryman.
He claims to have discovered evidence
duplicating Henry Shore in the theft
of the horse. On the strength Of
this evidence, Shore was arrested and
placed in jail, where he was confined
for fifteen days before he, was released,
the charge against him being dismis
sed.
Shore, in his petition, states that
the defendant, Barner, wrOngfully,
uulawfully and maliciously caused his
arrest, knowing well that he Was not
guilty. The plaintiff also charges
the defendant with circulating and
causing 10 be circulated reports detri-
mental to the plaintiffs character
and reputation. For such, he asks
judgment in the sum Of $1,000. For
damages TO his health caused by such
unlawful, malicious and wrongful con.
fnement 10 the county Jail, the plain.
tiff asks damages in the sum ols2, 900
Sl33. 33t a day. And the plaintiff
further asks judgment for 500 attor.
neY's fees expended in getting out of
Jail, and for 800 TO cover loss OF time
from work and business.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
THREE YEARS WORK.
Register Jackson Complies an INTEREST
ing Paper from His Office Records.

ius FapSi iIVm MS OiliSS NSSOTuS'
Register Of Deeds W. NJ. Jackson,
who takes great interestin the work
of bis office, has just completed the
compilation Of business done in
the three yelrS of his administra-
ton. II is an interesting paper, got
ten up for his own satisfaction.
Itshows the number of instruments
fled in 1896 to be 3,74S. There is an
increase in the number for each sue
cessive year. In 1897 there were
5,32j Instruments fled, and 10 1898,
5,656.,
In 1897 there was falling off in the
number OF chatlel mortgages filed,
compared with 1896. IL 1898 there is
an increase. By years: 1862, 227;
lS97-2,205; lS9S-2,7l4.
There were big yearly increases in
the number Of real estate transfers.
In 1896 there were only S9l; in 1897
there were 1853, and in 1898 there
were |, 434.
There was great falling off in the
number Of sheriffs' deeds last year,
and big increase in 1897 over the
preceding year: 1868; lS97-l5l;
1S9S-7S.
The number of tax deeds filed we're
as follows: 1865; 1872; 1893
l59.
There was a slight increase each
year in the number of real estate
mortgages filed in 1897, and a heavy
increase 10 1898: lS96-35S; 1S97-S6l;
lS98-5l3.
The total amount OF the real estate
mortgages filed show corresponding
increases:lS95- 1922, 952; 1897 7-s246, ,9O3;
lS9S-s377,67l.O
The amount of the mortgage re-
leases show something of the prosper
ity Of the county. In 1896, the
releases amounted to 1893, 1852; in 1897,
the releases nearly doubled, increas-
ing to s62S,O49; in 1898 the releases
reached the enormous sum Of 1851 ,O63.
For the three years, the mortgage
releases almost doubled the amount
fled. The total amount filed was
sS57,526. The amount of releases was
sl,702,S74.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
Ruth Marion WELLINGTON.

The Christian Woman's Board OF
Missions Of Wellington is caring for
and educating a five-year-Old heaihen
girl in iar away India. She, with
tweDty-tour other children were given
to one Of the Christian missions in
India during the famine last year,
their parents being unable 30 care for
them. The Indian mission wrote to
the headquarters Of the American
mission at Indianapolis, asking that
the children oe supported and
educated by churches or societies in
the United States. The C.W,B.M
of Wellington is one OF the twenty.
five societies 10 the United States
that are supporting and caring for the
abandoned children.
The child's name was Marion. The
society has named her Ruth Marion
Wellington" in honor OF this city.
She is the daughter Of peasants
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-01-17
Ghost Party.

The young people Of the Congrega-
tiOnal church gave unique party at
the home of Judge and Mrs. ]. T.
Herrick on North A street Friday eve-
ming. 1t was ghost party. Several
young ladies clothed themselves in
sheets and tread silently in and out of
the rooms cutting up ghost capers
aud amusing the aSsemblage. There
was place where fortunes we're told
by the ghosts for 5 cents, and another
place where sins were forgiven free.
The party was largely attended,
and the young people realized neat
sum. Coffee, cake and ices we're
served for refreshments. A delight.
ful feature Of the entertainment were
the solos by Miss Florence Penick,
daughter Of Rev. and Mrs. Thos.
PelIck.