People's voice., 1900-03-29

last week and 1ld a number of catarrh
and headache inhaleIs for 81 each.
Yesterdays papers advertised the
same thing for 81 each. The local
druggists sell the inhalers at the same
price. An agent cannot sell things as
low as you can buy them OF your home
merchant. He must pay his travelling
expenses, ana therefore cannot COM
pete with merchants. Agents depend
upon 6eir talk to sell their goods.
Remember that whenever you buy a
thing of an agent, you are not only
paying profit on what he sells, but
are paying the agents travelling ex
penseS as well. A good rule to follow
is to never buy anything of an agent.
II an agent shows you a thing you
want, or cOnvinceS you that you want
something you had not thought o.,
don't buy it of him but 20 TO your
home merchant and he will sell it TO
you for One-third or one-half of the
agents price.
A lone robber wearing a false face
with huge black mOustache painted
on the mask, held up the south bOund
Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council
Bluffs trains four miles south of Ham,
burg, IA, at 1:30 o'clock Friday
morning. Using the brakeman as a
shield, the rObber went through the
sleeper and chair car, getting 5000 in
cash and gold watch. He pulled
the bell cord and when the train
slowed down, jumped off and escaped
in the darkness. President Burt of
the Union Pacific, who was in the
sleeper of the Burlington train rob-
bed at Hamburg, Ia, was relieved of
$50 and a gold watch. H.J. Peterson,
travelling man OF New Britain, Conn,
was relieved of $3.50, and a travelling
man from Baltimore named |. Often
heimer refuses to say how much was
taken from him. f. B. Lee, a New
York commercial traveller, saved 800
by emptying his pOcketbOok on the
floor of the car and handing the rob-
Der the empty purse, which he placed
in his pocket without examination.
The rObber also secured all OF Presi-
dent Burt's passes, about fifty in num-
Der.
When the war began, the Beers did
not expect to keep the British from
the TTanSvaal as long as they have. |
They expected to do their hardest |
fighting il defending their own CAPT.
tai. To this end they have made the
defenseS of Pretoria probably stronger
than any heretofore erected In the
history OF human warfare. What |
human skill has failed 10 accomplish |
nature has completed, for Pretoria is
practically surrounded by hills, and |
between the hills and through them |
are narrow detiles, each of which is
defended by the most formidable |
modern guns that can be made by the !
best European gun makers. Those |
who have seen the Notifications !
around Pretoria declare that they are !
the most stupendOuS works Ct defense
ever erected by human hands. They |
have been in process of construction |
ever since the jameson raid of 1885, |
Those who are in a hurry for the BOer
funeral to be conSumm2ted will prOba- !
bly, have to wait until Pretoria is
taken in" Some good critics have
declared that these defenses could not
be shaken in two years by the COM
bined artillery Of Great Britain, and
Others believe that without the aid Of
siege that would compass absolute
starvation, the town could resist at
tack for lifetime.
Topeka Mail and Breeze: Within
the last few weeks the labor commits
siOner and his assistants have been
gathering up information 10 regard to
the chattel mortgages that are given
in various parts Of the state. The in
vestigation, while not entirely CON-
plete, has gone far enough to furnish |
material for some interesting and
pathetic stories: stories that show
cenclusively that Solomon was right
when he declared long ago that the
destruction of the poor was poverty. |
The chattel mortgage shark seems TO
belong to a class by himself. II be
ever had.a conscience, it has become
withered from lack OF use. He has no
more bowels OF compassion than a
craven image, no more mercy than a
hawk, aud by comparison with his
arterial flow, the blood Of snake
during the period Of Information
would seem like boiling oil or molten
lava. Out of fourteen cases specific
ally reported, the lowest rate charged
by these sharks was nine and five
tanthc nor raut NOR month or NJ Tho