The Advocate and news., 1899-04-05
PUBLIC OPINION.



Wichita Beacon: If Dewey doesn't write
a book, his fame will be secure forever
Pratt Union: The Vice President Of the
United States has not been entirely forgot
ten. We saw his name in one paper this
week, but it looked strange and unfamiliar
to us
Pomona Enterprise: There is too much
partisanship and trouble produced among
neighbors in national politics already
without going to the extreme of forcing
partisan politics into city elections.
Lakin Investigator: "Go to the ant,
thou sluggard" learn to make soap.
j. ]. Burns, who few years ago was try
ing to publish little newspaper in Ford
County and make a living, is now mil
lionaire, as an inventor and manufacturer
of Buttermilk soap.
Social Democratic Herald: Some one has
estimated that % acres of land are needed
to sustain man on flesh, while that
amount of land sown with wheat will feed
Al persons; sown with oats, SS; with pOta-
toes, Indian corn or rice, l76 persons; and
planted with the bread fruit tree, over
5000 people could be fed.
DIR. Feeney, chief sanitary inspector OF
the New York City Board of Hea tn; Over
300 tenement house sweat-sh6ps have been
investigated ION the east side of New York;
and in twenty-nine places the sanitary con
ditions were very bad. In the italian quar-
ter were found several families where every
member worked from $3.50 in the morn ng
to 1880 at night. The highest wages that
any of these worlmen got was 45 cents a
day. In one case a child was found sick
with pneumonia on a bundle of clothing.
The workers were too busy to pay any at
tention to it.
Parsons Palladium: A Labette corre-
spondent gives the particulars of runa-
way at that place the other day: While
hauling wheat +. A. Stewards team got
frightened and became unmanageable. They
left the road and headed across a fed
straight for the creek. On reaching the
bank they ran one on either side of large
sycamore, the load coming on with such
force that the team was showed nearly to
the top of tree, where they hung by the
collars until Stewart climbed down, Sc
cured an ak and cut the tree, letting the
team and wagon safely down on the other
side of the creek.
Lakin Investigator: Lands in western
Kansas are getting back on the tax rolls
very rapidly, and in a few short years, o.!
less, every foot Of decided land in this p T.
tion of the State wi | aga IL be cOntr buting
TO the revenue of the counties and adding
additional surplus to meet indebtedness
and pay current expenses. The men who
predicted few years ago that such would
be the case were laughed at, and States
men" in the legislature were anxious to
roll us up like scroll and build three or
four counties from the whole. Fortunately,
the plan was hooted down. The loan com
panies have cleaned up their work on ficti-
tious values, the defaulted taX-title is
being sought after, and the country ma e
ready for inviting and permanent settle
ment on a solid basis. In the meantime
much government land remains to be taken
by homesteaders.
Appeal to Reason: Chicago March 10.
Gilbert ID. Shaw, treasurer OF the Tenn
pie fund of the Women's Christian T mDel-
ance Union, resigned his honorary Office,
after his purchase of a 100000 dstillery
in Kentucky became known. The w. G.
T. U. has been trying very hard to save the
Temple from foreclosure, but are discour-
aged to-day" VIII the temperance people
never open their eyes to the very plain fat
that profit lies at the bottom of iDtempsr-
ancel Not even their honored and trust d
officers can resist the temptation to make
money out of wheat. How, then, can they