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The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
A Wild Animal Farm

| There is to be a wild animal farm
| to be started on three of the islands
| among the Florida keys. The scheme
was devised by the Ringling Brothers,
who are preparing to stock herd for
| their circus.
Wild animals of every description
are to be brought from Asia, Africa,
and South America and turned loose
| in their new homes. Parts of the is
lands are wooded, and in some places
there are thick undergrowths like
jungles. The beasts will be divided
into three classes, according to their
ability to get along together, and each
class will have an island all to itself.
Expeditions are now being fitted out
to make extensive search in every part
of the world for geological specimens.
The hunters depart with the intention
of bringing back from Asia and Africa
great numbers of tigers, elephants.
lions, hippOpotami, rhinoceri. sacred
oxen, hyenas, giraffes, pOrcupines and
all the natives of the hot countries,
and from North and South America
black and cinnamon bears, mountain
lions and specimens of all the animals
inhabiting the western hemisphere.
vided for the transportation of the
animals to the islands. The compile
ton of work of such magnitude will
require some time, and it is expected
it will be at least five years before the
farm is in perfect working order.
When the animals are once landed OH
the islands their surroundings and
food will be as nearly as possible like
tn WI or oil i'm
their native haunts. The hot climate
animals will be allowed to construct
their own dens in the woods and
jungles, and calves. goats and sheep
will be driven out among them, so that
they can bring down their own pro-
visions. Small fresh water streams
run almost across all three islands and
empty into the sea, so that the animals
that are in constant need of fresh
water will be supplied.
Large and strongly built houses will
he erected for the Keepers. When ii is
desired to capture any of the animals
regular hunting expeditions will be
organized to take them just as they
are trapped on their native heathS.
But in this case the hunters will have
an immense advantage over the sys-
TEN used i'm the past. They will know
every foot of the islands, and will be
thus enabled to ny traps for the wild
beasts and capture them without the
least danger to life or limb. On ac-
count of the danger visitors never
will be allowed on the islands. and no
boats will be allowed to touch the
shores excepting those belonging to
the circus.
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
Xrrci<" ~ he Calves.

That results which seem incredible
can be- obtained in the development of
the muscles without reSOrting to gym
naSium practice or using expensive
apparatus and without the slightest in
reference with the subjects usual
mode of life has been learned with
pleasure by a young man in German
town. Pa. He bought a bicycle last
summer and purposed TO ride it. but
his legs were so small that in bike
pants he was jeered ut wherever he
went. and soon his wheel was rusty
from diSuse.
He determined then to enlarge his
calves. and i'm the fall he began the
simple exercise of standing with stiff
knees fiat-fOOted. then rising as high
as possible on his toes and repeating
this until thoroughly tired His calves
are now two inches bigger. Thirty
rises in succession was the limit of his
endurance the first day. but five hum
dred rises do not fatigue him now. He
has been averaging daily since that
time ten minutes on getting I'D. ten
minutes before luncheon and ten he.
fore retiring.
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
A RAILROAD FAMILY
The 0fRcsrs of an Entire Road Made Up
From One Family.

Inc Vmcerb OF an Ant1re hoeo mA0e Up
From One Family.
One Of the greaest railroad families
in the United States is the Parsons
family, as follows: President, Charles
Parsons; e-President, Charles Par
SONS, Jr.; assistant TO the President,
Edwin Parsons I'LL; Treasurer, Henry
Parsons. There may be others present
and yet to appear. They are the head
and front Of the South Carolina and
Georgia Railroad, 246 miles of track,
and Jones-W. S. Jones, Of Charleston
is their general superintendent
Their road and the Augusta Southern,
Jim Jackson's trunk line, are allied
A little time ago Jones made a clean
sweep of employees from the receiver
down, including an aged hayseed who
made extra dimes now and then haul
ing stray trunk to or from the depot.
All the old fellow had in the world
was his mule and wagon, and he was
not connected with the road in any ca
pacity. Yet he was discharged by
Jones,
Seated in his wretched wagon. wait
ing for the daily train to drop him a
trunk, this South Carolinian heard the
news. and on a piece of wrapping pa
per scrihbled the following letter:
Mr.. w S. Jones, Gen. Supt:
Dear Sir-Your letter OF information
at hand, and am happy TO inform you
that | don't represent the A. :. road,
the s. G.. d O., or any other road. |
was candidate for truck farmers
position and got elected. | am running
a hay-burner engine and one coach. |
am Engineer, Conductor, ROadmaster.
anu not only General superintendent,
but General Manager. also President,
and furthermore, | am happy TO say,
] am the only stockholder in the bust
ness. knock down every cent | col
lect; Detectives and Spoilers don't cut
any ice with your Uncle Dudley. l am
my own boss-something your en-
ployes can't say-and you and no other
one except our supreme Master can
discharge me. Hoping / am not mis-
understood. and in the future you may
know who. where and what | am. and
while have had only nineteen years
experience railroading, | am not work
ing for any now. | remain. as ever,
yours respectfully. G. H.LAYTON.
Truck Farmer, eX-Switchman and In
dependent
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
A Dissrac y" andering wiuia

Tramps throughout the United
States are spreading the information
among their elan that the city of Oas-
land, Me-, is a bad town for the hobopS
: to infest. For it is i'm Oakland that
MIR. Sanford j. Baker lives. And San
ford Baker Is the inventor of the
tramp chair" to be placed in whrh
Is like unto being confined in a rail
road wreck.
This device for suppresSing tramp
visitors is rapidly coming into favor in
Oakland. and certainly amounts D
something. for it's terrors have spread
among the dusty readers, and Baker is
being talked about. He describes BIS
cage as follows:
ut is simply a strongly built cage
in the form of a chair on wheels. II
is so constructed that the occupant
must remain re, fpctly qriet in q sitting
position. n shelf is placed near the
top for food. and the contrivance can
be pushed about from place to place at
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10

will. The chiet peculiarly OF u"
chair lies i'm its door. When uNr' ''
a method Of punishment the caipr.
obliged to enter il and sit down lD
door. which is so constructed JLa.
follows the lines of the chair. is D.'N
closed and locked and the F"n"
confined rs firmly aS though Do
glued to the seat Another N"r..
thing about the chair is thar N-rH .".
door is locked the occupant
draw his feet up or move anE Ha'. '
his body enough To obtain resi-.
THAT suggestion of doing H"tnH-
one of the strong points of J.a ."
chair idea, for the true hobo >l'
his life in studying new WaE-
means of accomplishing that -.e
desire of his lazy sOul-ab~a.n'' -.'. ..-
ton. To be wheeled about ih '... .t,
like a big baby seems 70 him 2" '.
acme of Slothful ease. He steps -'
his first ride i'm the chair Win ".'... ..r
finds il not unpleasant for me -
minutes. then begins 10 feel UI'oii- '.'
able, gets cramped and finds DIS ~
aching. and before the end Of ah -o.
ride he is yelling murder and oy
and promising all kinds OF rcioi me- :.
if liberated. When his pun'S lu.l -,
over and he is fully released Jne &c. O.,
makes a bee line for the open eoUL,.5 .a-
and thencefOrth comes noWheft is
the town that chairs its tramp GU
through the streets"
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
Inheal Inv tn Ear Alone.

The solitary eater is always tempted
to eat too large mOuthfulS and swal-
low them too quickly. and either to eat
too much or too little. Eating is only
one part of feeding and without di-
gestiOn is not only useless. but injuri-
OuS.
Those who eat in company have to
devote q certain amount of time to
talking and attending to each other :
wants. This makes the period between
the mOuthfuls longer and gives more
time for digestion.
Then, again. conversation ut meal
times usually takes a cheerful turn,
and the tone of both mind and body is
raised. the heart and nervous system
act better. the flow of digestive Juices
is stimulated. and Il larger amount of
actual nOuriShment is obtained from
a smaller quantity of food
In Il word. the man who eats i'm com
pany eats more like man and less
like an animal than he who feeds
alone: so his food does him more good
in every way.
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10
TO WAKE AT A FIXED TIME.
Processes BY which the Mind Takes the
Place of an Alarm Clock

Processes BY which the Mind Takes the
Place of an Alarm Clock
One Of the most interesting phases
connected with sleep is that in which
determination, formed over night,
that one should wake at a certain
hour, acts true to the appointed time.
In certain instances with which / am
acquainted the idea acts perfectly; in
others, 1t acts occasionally, and in 9TH
er cases again, it fails completely. The
explanation of this habit depends on
what one may term dominant idea, !"
or an idee fixe, as the French term it.
There is something akin in this walk
Ing notion to the dominant idea with
which a hypDoist may impress his
facile subject If we substitute for
the hypnotist the individual himself,
or, mayhap, the idea of the friend who
has been impressing upon him the nee
eSSity of sounding the reyeille at a
given hour in the morning, we can dis
Germ the rationale of the action with
a fair degree of clearness.
The dominant idea in the shape of
the necessity for awakening at a GER
tain time is impressed on the brain,
and is probably transmitted to those
automatic or lower centres which rule
our mechanical acts, which are re-
spOnsible for the visions of the night,
and which are capable of carrying out
either in the entire absence of con-
seriousness or in the exercise of a sub
conscious condition, many complex
actions. Through the hours of sleep
the dominant idea remains impressed
on these lower centres. The head of
the business sleeps on while the night
watchman is awake: and so, prompt
to the time, or shortly before or after
it, the slumbering brain is awakened
to the full measure of its activity
Harper's Magazine.
The Washington bee., 1899-06-10

The BEE editor is not looking
for an office and neither does he
want one.
Unhappy is the man who hangs
on officla! favors.
Abolish the Office of justice of
the peace.
1t is better that they are abolished
All offices in the District of Co.
Iumbia should be filled by election.
The negro vote will divide
IN 1910.
Our new leadership IS made out
of that which cannot he seen.
In union there is strength.
K. NJ. Hewlett is the most manly
negro attorney before the District
bar.
Be is lot the man to cater for
faVors.
If thqre was more manhood In
negro attorneys they would sue
ceed bet er.
Be truthful, it will pay always.
There is too much treachery
among certain negroes to succeed.
This world was not made for the
white man alone.
1t is not well to tell all you know.
Be careful Of what you say and
to whom you say it.
Don't be too hasty in coming to
conclusion.
The Maryland politicians have
not been cared for as yet.
Will the negro vote ever become
a factor in American body polite?
Be what you say you ar
nothing more.
Deception is sooner or later
detected.
An honest man is a truthful man.
You should do nothing that is
distasteful to good society.
1t is not the person who grins in
your face, that should be regarded
AS your friend.
Don't place too much confidence
in the person who pretends friend
ship.
Be honest with your fellow man.
The best policy is when you can
not do thing say so.
1t will never effect you to be
truthful.
ont be altrmed at e
noise.
The try daily has been struggling
hard since its publication.
1t came out one day and has been
trying hard ever since to make its
appearance daily.
Can any one tell the difference
between the old school and new
school of politicians?
Well out of the great number of
fficers appointed in the army not
one negro was appointed.
What has become of the repeal
the civil service law?
Don't forget how the negroes
fought on San Juan Hill.
General Miles thinks well of the
negro soldiers.
And vet not a negro officer has
been appointed in the regular army
The man who speaks the truth is
the man to trust.
Don't be too impetuous in yonr
deliberation.
The man who thinks he knows
it all is generally affected with the
big head.
There was tyranny in the schools
on the part of certain school officers.
There are some school officials
too much on the old woman order,
The day will soon cJme when all
will be placed on level.
1t is not the wise man who
makes a fool of himself.
Our head swells some times be-
onp the usual size.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31
Working for Ike Reeds Pardon.

Topeka, Aug. 29.-Charles Finch o1
the Lawrence Journal, Attorney Fitz
patrick Of Sedan, aid Judge Peckhan
of Blackwell, OF, appeared before
Governor Stanley todly and urged
that pardon be granted to Isaac G..
Reed, the Wellington attorney now
serving life sentence in prison for
the killing Of Isaac Hopper, in 1892.
Reed was tried three different times.
At the first trial, he was convicted OF
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced to twelve years in prison. The
supreme court reversed the case. Just
as the second trial was about to be
given to the jury one OF the jurors
took sick. At the third trial, Reed
was convicted OF murder in the first
degree aud sentenced to hang. His
attorney failed to appeal the case to
the supreme court, aud he is now in
prison awaiting the signature Of the
governor to the death warrant. Reed
is physical wreck. He is afflicted
with consumption, and the prison
physician says he cannot live 'long.
His friends want him pardoneo so
that he can die free man.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31
The Latest Swindling Game.

The wire fence sharks are now
"wOrFing" the farmers in central Kan.
sas. 1t is a good scheme, and it is re-
ported that many farmers are parting
with their money. The scheme is
worked this way: A smooth young
man strikes farmer and aszs TO ex.
hioit his fence machine. The farmer
consents. The machine is at the
depot, and the farmer goes there and
gets it. Before doing so, however, he
signs postal card which the shark is
to send 10 the factory, showing where
the machine is located. Then the
sharper makes few rods of fence and
departs, telling the farmer that he
will be back in a few days for the
machine. In due time another
sharper comes along with the postal
card, which the farmer signed. The
postal card is a written contract, in
which the farmer agrees to give $500
for the machine.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

A wreck occurred on the Santa Fe
at Dale, the flrst station Il u1rth Of Win
1eld, Sunday morning, 10 which six
freight cars loaded with wheat were
dltched, scattering wheat in every
direction. The southbound freight.
an extra, was going into Dale and II
is supposed one Of the cars jumped over
the frog at the switch. A wreckine
crew and train was dispatched from
Arkansas City, and large force Of
extra men were secured 10 Wichita
and sent to Dale. A track was built
around the wreck in time for the
regular trains aud there was no DELAY.
1t was exceptionally quick work on
tue part OF the wrecking crew. Con-
ductOr Shaffer, who was 10 charge Of
the wrecked train, says the cars are
torn up badly and are almost a total
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

some acquaintances asked him to have
a drink. He did not intend TO return
to the drink habit, b1t accepted the
invitation because be was asked, and
his grateful soul could not refuse
He was in the gutter for a week and
reached home without a cent and
mentally unbalanced. lie was tried
In the probate court at Winfield yes
terday and will be sent to an insane
asylum. Had Akin refused the first
drink after taking the Kelley cure.
he would not have had an appetite
for the second, and would now be well
and happy, The first drink of whisky
that passes down a mans throat j.
just as disastrous as the first drink
after taking the Kelley cure. The
only difference Is That tie lattersum
mons the jury quicker.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

SI'OO d iudllCl lOI uI6SSCQ De6I III lllS
country.
~
The power of the trust to prevent in
reference with its plans by the Govern
ment was amply illustrated at Washing
ton during the investigation of the beef
scandal which resulted in the suspending
of Commissary-General Eagan. 1t was
clearly proved that the trust furnished
bad (''embalmed") beef for the use of
troops during the Cuban campaign. A
former employee Of Armour & Co.,
Thomas Dolan, declared that the beef
furnished the troops was "tanked" and
subjected to chemical treatment. Yet
the combined wealth and influence of
the trust were strong enough to prevent
an injury to its business or the punish
ment of the individual members.
1t was only four months ago that its
act in selling TO the Government at the
highest possible price meat that was pro-
nounced unfit for human consumption
was exposed. Only few days ago the
World proved that it is selling its best
product in England cheaper than the
English dealers. Yet in the face of all
these facts this trust imposes an addition
al tax of 80 per cent upon the product in
which it ENJOYS monopoly apparently
to strong for the law to curb.-New York
World.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

This stupendous increase of sixty pc
cent in the price of beef to the consume,
has been accomplished in less than foul
years. The first increase of thirty pei
cent was never reduced a cent, although
in 1896 there was no shortage in the cat.
tie supply. On the contrary, cattle
ralsers reported an overproduction. But
the "evener" stood; there was no reduc.
ton in the price to consumers, at least in
this country.
English patrons of the trust were treat.
ed with greater consideration. The
dressed product of the trust was sold in
London and other cities in Great Britain
at lower prices than in the United States,
notwithstanding the increased cost. of
shipment and re-handling The trust ex-
planned this paradoxical condition of af-
fairs with an ease inspired by apparent
contempt for the rights OF its domestic
patrons to ask one. The explanation
was that the trust was trying to drive out
the Australian beef dealers who controll-
ed the English market, and had cut
prices in order to do so. The statement
that better beef was sold in England for
less money than was asked for an inferior
grade in Chicago and New York elected
no response from the beef trust.
Singularly, however, the trust agents
are advancing the same explanation three
years later for the recent reduction of
price of their product in England. They
offer no explanation for the increase of
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

Noah Akin OF Winfield, was a
drunkard and neglected his family fol
drink. He was sent TO a Kelley in
stitute and came home cured, and
looking like new NAN. A few weeks
ago he went to Oklahoma to work.
He saved up some money and started
home in anticipation Of the joy his
earnings would bring to bis careworn,
palefaced, faithful wife. At NewkirK
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31
Rules for Voting


are as follows:
Each soc purchase of shoes al g1l-
treys Shoe store entities you to one vote.
Each 81 purchase gives you two votes. ~
S purchase ten votes. and so on The.
ballot box will be placed at the door and
you VIII receive your ballot, write the
name OF the order you wish 10 vote for on
the ballot and drop it in the box. Or
Sept. 20 at g pm. the order receiving tbs.
most votes will be declared the winner
The flag is now on evh;h;,;o,, -
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31
Buttrey's Shoe Store

loss to the company. besides the large-
amount qI grain whica was wasted la
the wreck. A Agreat deaIof The 1llelt
u Is said can be saved II haElsd ouf.
right away. Had the train been run.-
ming at lull speed, such "a: accident.
would have resulted in great loss nF
property andlife. Asi vas, DO oDE.
was burt.
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
AGAIN In THE LEAD

The voting for the beautiful flag now
on exhibition at Buttrey's store # very
close. The voting up to Saturday night,
August 10th, stood as follows:
People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1899-08-31

raises cattle for the market must accept
the price the trust pays: the man who
eats meat must pay the price it demands
for the product.
An elevation in the price Of meat is
! professionally styled an "evener." The
term originated in 1895 when the trust
advanced prices on its product from six
to eight per cent. The storm of protest
from all over the country frightened the
trust spokesman into an apology. The
explanation was that there was a big
shortage in the visible supply of cattle.
This statement was repudiated by cattle
raisers, but the increase stood.
-
There was congressional investigation
which did not accomplish anything more
than an instructive expose of the methods
Of the trust and the confirmation of The
Worlds charges that the so-called Bureau
of Animal Industry of the Agricultural
Department at Washington was nothing
more or less than an adjunct to the beef
trust
The methods of the trusts were looked
into by the United States courts of Hi
nois, but nobody was indicted or punish
ed, and the contention of the highpriced
legal experts Of the trust that the law
was powerless to curb the operation was
evidently accepted by the courts. 1t was
proven beyond peradventure that bad
meat was sold by the trust for good meat
Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling
Morton admitted the fact, and his subor-
dinates furnished conclusive proof of it.
Yet the beef trust escaped and the only
recognition it accorded the efforts of the
law to reach it was to defer its annual
increase of prices a few months Mem
bers of the Senate Committee, which in
vestigated the trust frankly declared they
were unable to reach the promoters of
the trust or to provide a remedy.
~
Senator Vest, of Missouri, who was a
member of the investigating committee,
said:
"As long as combine in Chicago can
dominate the cattle interests of the coun-
try we shall be compelled to submit to its |
powers. 1t seems outrageous that while |
there is an advance of only per cent or
little more in prices paid by these firms
to cattle-raiserS, the prices to the con-
sumers have jumped from 10 to IS cents
a pound. Yet the Federal Government
appears powerless to change the condi-
tons"
The beef trust paid not the slightest
attention to either the court proceedings
or to the Senate investigation, except to
deny that there existed trust or agree
ment, to regulate the supply of beef or
prices, Wholesale butchers started in to
resist the increase in prices of dressed
meats. They were summarily punished
by threat to cut off their supply entirely.
That soon brought them to terms. They
the increase, and transferred
the obligation to pay for it to their pa
irons, who had no redress whatever.
Experts figured out that the shortage
of which the trust complained amounted
to 7 per cent and that the increase ex-
ceeded 80 per cent, the equivalent of the
present increase, only there is no short
age now.