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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
THE UNION ARMY.
A MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE.

A MEMORIAL DAY TRIBUTE
IOriginsl
Like some stupendous elm tree
The Union army stands;
It's branches wave DER many q grave
The graves that link two lands.
It spreadeth North, it spreadeth South,
II spreadeth East and West;
II hangs Ger the lannon's silent mouth
Where bird might build her nest.
But the old limbs of this monarch
Are dropping day by day;
By battles SCARED, and by Times scythe
married,
They are falling fast away.
The boughs that bore us the fruit of peace,
That sheltered us thro' wars night,
From the grand old tree are breaking free
And dying in our sight.
We know there are strong young branches,
All full of the sap of life,
But each old bough that is dropping now
Grew dear thro' nations strife.
We feel new pity, and love and pride
For the loyal boys in blue,
As the ranks close in and the lines grow thin
And graves crowd fast on our view.
Thrice beautiful and sacred
Be this Memorial Day,
When the warriors true, who wore tho blue
Are all of them wearing the gray.
Wearing the gray in their whitened locks,
As with steady, martial tread
They follow the ranks on mystic banks
And 90 marching down to the dead.
Scatter the floral tributes
Over the thickening graves.
On the sun kissed air, unstained AMI fair,
Our splendid banner waves.
Freedom grows well in our country's soil,
Behold how it blooms and thrives.
But we must not forget that its roots wer'
wet
With the blood of million lives.
ELLA WHEELER Wilcox
MERIDEN, CT, May q.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
THE REFORMATORY BOARD.
They Start Out on Their Tour of
Inspection

The State Rciormatory commission,
Messrs J E. B1nebrake, Johd Sever
ence aad Ed. Il. Smith, met in this
city Yesterday to commence their tour
of inspection of the various cities
which are aspirants for the location of
the reformatory.
Meeting Ed. Smith at the Gordon
house yesterday morning. a reporter
asked for some statement about the
action of the board since its last
meeting aud its plans for the location
of the institute.
Mr.. Smith said the board had Wis
tied the Brockway reformatory at e.
mira, n. Y, on May 9TH, and made a
close examination of it and lis work
ings. They found that the building
was such one as would meet the re-
quirements in this state very nearly,
and that it was great institution
educational in its character aud very
severe in its discipline. That il is
dreaded by all classes more than any
other penal institution. ain fact,
said Mr.. Smith, they hate il as the
devil hates holy wate..." The board
obtained good deal of valuable in.
formation about such institutions.
Mr.. Smith stopped at Detroit on the
way home and examin ed the plans of
the Ionia, Mich, institution, and also
inspected The House of Correction al
Detroit.
Mr.. Smith estimates that an institu-
ton for Kansas should accommodate
600 persons, and that it would cost
about $500, 900.
The board will proceed to-day TO
visit the various localities west of the
9th Principal meridian asking for the
location of the Reformatory, going
first TO Salina, then to Concordia, Be
lott, Minneapolis, Mcpherson, New.
ton, Halstead, Hutchinson, Nickerson
Great Bend, Wellington aud Wichita
and then return to Topeka and make
their selection. If there are any 9TH
err towns that want the Reformatory
or that the Board considers eligible,
they will be visited.-Comnonwealth.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
"RoMesPUNr FROM FLAX.
Bow Our Grandparents Made Cloth
Details of the Process of Manufacture,

How Our Grapduarents Made Cloth-
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.ne iaih,er pioceeuei 70 s'a"' ms
auues anu ueNea'e iau'e' Ait''e reaiz' '-.e
iacs 'nae their grahnpaIeh0' OF perhaps tneir
own paieneS were IN 'neif younger Gays
co'isiueiei hio,e in'eiiisen'' anu as 'iiucn a!-
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"oIH' anu cumming on 2 p',lio WINE 'ns
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"ions.
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eou'ae' o''. W. Ieroieueies 'en you as i'es,,
as can Won "hen Tue max was ripe, an
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siatS auOut al incu a,iu Hdtt dptTI lHe
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
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a LITTLE SARCASTIC.

Victor Hugo is dead. A cut of the
famous old mau and biography ap-
pear in our dispatches.-Harper
Sentinel.
II is astonishing how this world is
improving who would have thought
ten years ago that to-day the steel
plate portrait of Victor Hugo would
be flying all over the world in ''dis-
patches z" The next thing we know
of they will be sending horse rakes
and separators through without
change.-IIarper Graphic.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

ON DUTY.

iOriginal.
The campfire dinly burns
Thrsgh thu n.g1t an. the snow,
In osar a frozen eertl
The Nh winds blow
But tha sentinel stands at his post
As the heIrs creep by,
While clouds grow heavy and thick
in the sJilen sky.
His limbs drar hard, he longs
To rest awhile;
Yet over his white, cold lips
Comes never a smile
For his heart is soldiers heart,
An1 his blood runs warm
When he thinks Of his brother-men
Asleep in the storm.
Then he shoulders his gun and draws
A quick, deep breath;
What foe shall conquer him now
But the foeman Death.
A soul lad sorrowe1 much
And hal waited long
1t hal striven as heroes strive
Amid the throng.
Yet firm as an oak that sways
In the boreal breath,
1t saw men fail and die,
And smiled on Death.
GEORGE EDGAR MONTGOMERY.
NEW YORK. May %.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

Kansas people are generally well
pleased at the appointment of Ey-Sen-
ator Ed Ross as governor of New Mex
leo. BY common consent it has been
agreed that formerly of kansas man,
now resident of New Mexico, should
be governor of that territory. Had
Mr. Blaine been elected. he would
probably have appointed Gov. Slower.
or some other good Republican, sent
by Kansas to build up the good cause
in New Mexico. Under the circum-
stances, Major Ross is most acceptable.
All Kansas will wish him successful
administration
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
CrOp Matters.

CHICAGO, May 26.--The Farmers Re-
view will say: Our detailed reports last
week showed that seeding was nearly fin
ished in the spring wheat belt; that the
outlook for winter wheat is poor, and that
slow progress had been made with corn
planting The present week will see all the
crops for the growing season of 1886 in the
ground, As We approach the harvest of
winter wheat we can see nothing at all in
the general situation by which we desire to
change any Of the statements made in regard
to this important crop, and as we have said,
We now repeat, that the country does not
yet realize the widespread destruction of
this crop. That every bushel of spring
wheat now in the ground will be needed,
and that farmers will get good price fer it
we have not the slightest doubt.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

LEAvENwoRTH, KS, May ia very
heavy rain storm swept over the city this
afternoon and in less than half an hour one
inch and ffty-four-one hundredths fell, as
registered by the government guage. Many
done to Delaware street, where paving OPP
erations are in progress. Reports from the
interior OF the county say that the storm
was equally severe. A special to the Times
from COTS, in Nemaha county, says cy-
clone struck that village and demolished
three houses and that several people were
injured.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

The New York Times saws: here
are certainly enough law abiding and
respectable men in the Southern
states to fill the federal offices in that
part of the country. Why has Mr..
Villas named such rufiisn as & II.
Meade to be postmaster at HazeIhurst
Miss? Meade was a leader in the
Copiah county outrage and presided
over a meeting which passed resoiu-
lions approving the murder OF
Matthews. Does :he postmaster gen.
eral suppose that the De nocratic par
ty is stronger by the appointment OF
such men to office?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

The mayor of Louisville recently
began war upon the gamblers Of
that city, but he has been halted b,
the petition of number of the bust
ness men asking him to desist. He
states publicly that bank officials and
representatives of prominent business
houses on Fourth avenue and Main
street have called upon him aud asked
him, for the sake of the Commercial
interests OF the city, to allow the
gamblers to operate. II is a curious
civilization which fourishcs in Ken
tucky
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
Presbyterian Assembly

TOPEKA, KS, May 27.-The general as
sembly of the United Presbyterian churcf
met in Topeka tonight, with $50 delegate.
present. The opening sermon was deliy-
cred by w. II. Roche, of Cincinnati, taking
as his theme, "There is strength belong
ing to the church which it is her duty to put
on" Prayer was offered by Rev. DR.. Kerr
of Pittsburg, editor of the United Presbyte-
rian and professor of church history in the
Allegheny Theological seminary. The
committee on credentials was then appoint
ed, consisting of an equal number Of minis
tiers and elders, elected from each presbyty
in the ratio of one minister and one
elder for every seven ministers in the pres
byty.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
A Curious Fact.
lfhica,o r,-o~l

1t is curious fact that one of the most
famous poems in our language appeared
originally in magazine that seldom touches
poetry at all, and the same periodical, after
an interval of sixty years, now brings out
another poem very similar in theme. Bry-
ants ~Ihanatopsis1 was first printed in Tie
North American Review for September,
1871 The HAY number OF The Review,
Just out, has PEN by Robert Buchanan
on -fhe New E,d,,ha,n
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

The Democratic papers of Kansas
are speaking confidently of their cal
cuiations to elect Democrat to sue
coed Gov. Martin, and are canyassiug
names. The name of Judge Amos
Harris, of Wichita. is one among a
dozen others mentioned.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
Suicide at Topeka

TOPEKA, May 27.-Mrs. Lena Decker,
wife of wealthy citizen ofShawnee county,
committed suicide in the Topeka insane
asylum yesterday. She had been there two
or three months and was closely watched
usually to prevent self destruction. 1t APP
pears that she put on two pairs of stockings
when the keepers were not looking and she
cell door
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
Poor Advice for a Bootbiach.
Detroit Journal

aim, did yer git one o. them ere little
motter cards o. Bradford Smith'sf"
sYou betl'
@Wat'd yer think o wat it says onto emf
@Sorter so SO. knowed all o. them ere
things afore, though"
@Most o. them ere notices was all right,
but thar's ono on 'em as is bad-awful
bad!r
What's that"
BE trustin'.' That 'ere's a rotten sort
Ct advis:n' for bootblack to arm his grub
an chawin' terbacker on
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

The johnson family. nf Kentucky,
family. of PengSy lvania. Thee are
six johnson brothers, and four OF
them have thus far allied ten men.
They have now ,eiired To their
''mountain fastness."
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
Spring Styles in PantalOOnS


Al the best
u 50.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29

''and then l will tell you.
At breakfast she poured out his muddy
coffee of beans and chickory, and was SO very
amiablc that Bob, young rs he was could
not help thinking she was too confoundedly
more alert and suspicious
''Now I'll tell you, Lieutenant" she said on
the porch, 81 am ashamed to confess, it, but
have some poor relations in these noun.
tains almost starved by the war;
That is lie, thought Bob; bnt no said
nothing-only smiled sweetly.
Il wish to communicate with and heIp
them" she continued; 'nnd if you viii fur
nish me with an escort I will make the at.
Tempt
An ambush, thought Bob: hut he smiled
all the more and added:
'sWhy of course will I'll do better-I
will be your escort myself Shall we go i'm
mediately"
Sch, no, there is no need of such haste: to-
morrow will do,n and they dropped into con-
versation as natural as it they knew eael,
other for years. Bob was sirewd, but mex.
thread of the talk While dexterously avoid
ing all reference to herself she kept on that
most fascinating subject to all men, when
guided by pretty woman-himseif. 1t was
Othello and Desdemona over again. ONLY
Desdemoca led the conversation All. me,
il the beguiling sex only knew the full power
in their little ears, aided by deep, earnest
eyes, none of us would be safe Bob talked
well, at times eloquently, with a golden
thread of humor running through ell, and he
who set out to deceive through love making
went to his he'd deep in love with the fair
charmer.
The day after the expedition was attempted
Alasl it proved a miserable failure. The old
horse pulled them slowly to the summit of
the mountain, and then descending to the
valley beyond stumbled at every STEP and at
last fell down, breaking the shaft and throw
ing the fair enlissary on his chronological
rump.
When a horse falls down he takes a philo-
sophical view of the situation, and lies still
Old Smooth Tooth lay stretched upon the road,
with his shoeiess hoofs full extended and his
eyes half closed, as if to say, This is the end /:
farewell vain world; leave me to the buz-
Yards"
Ellersly lifted his fair companion from
the embrace of the moist anatomy. She
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-05-29
Boys and Children's Suits.

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We o
AN smith
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-14
A Now County Man.

The County Commissioners, at their
meeting yesterday, took steps to have
published reliable county map, in
which the public roads, bridges and
canals, the swamps and rivers, and the
private holdings will be shown by actual
surveys. The purpose of the map is to
enable the Commissioners to carry out
intelligently a system Of public improve
ments. The public highways will lie
kept open and maintained in good cOndi-
ton. New roads will be opened and old
ones, now closed, made available, so that
all parts of the county can be readily
reached.
Large areas of country are now almost
inaccessible because of the fencing up,
years ago, of public roads byparties own
ing adjacent lands. The map will also
make the important work of draining the
county much less difficult, as it will
clearly define the swamps and water
courses. The locating of private hold
ings will also be valuable for taxing pur-
poses. 1t is a we'll known fact that a
large area of the county has heretofore
escaped bearing its legitimate share Of
the county and State taxes because the
Receiver of Tax Returns has not been
able to locate all the property. The pro-
posed map, which will also include set
of books containing copies of plats Of all
private property outside Of the city Of
Savannah, and the digest of titles to
property now being made up from the
records of the Clerk of the Superior Court,
will pretty thoroughly settle the question
Of how to get at the taxable property Of
| the county.
As part of this plan of keeping a com
plete record of the lands in Chatham
county, it is proposed TO ask the Leslsla-
ture to pass a law similar to that in other
States, requiring all public and private
surveyors TO deposit with the county au
thorities a copy Of all surveys made by
/ them, showing divisions of property, il
!
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-14
PERSONAL.

SENATOR WADE HAMPTON IS the most en-
thusiastic and skillful angler in public life.
JUDO is to have new trial in the person of
one Alice Lavigne. The latter sings, plays
the piano and cornet, and is said TO be quite
pretty.
THE periodical announcement that Anna
Dickinson VIII soon reappear on the stage is
again going the rounds. Miss DlckinsOn's
friends pronounce the rumor false.
DIR. MORTIMER RICARDO, special commits
siOner for Venezuela to the New Orleans EN-
position, Is so much pleased with tn country
that he has decided 10 take up a permanent
residence in Washington.
SECRETARY WHITNEY left Washington
Monday evening for Cleveland, O.. TO attend
the funeral OF hie brother law, Mr.. Nathan
Payne, son of Senator Payne, and COmmO-
dore harmony will act as secretary during
his absence.
UNITED STATES MINISTER McLANE, who
has just reached Paris, will be one OF the
guests at the complimentary banquet ten
dered Hon Levi i, Morton by the American
colony in Paris. which lakes place al the Ho-
tel Continental this evening.
WALDTEUFEL. The famous composer OF
dance music. once lived i'm New York. But
the GOODNESS of G0tham's publishers finally
forced him to leave that city. Now thev zeal
his walizes, and are glad 70 publish no tier
productions than they once refused.
PROF. MoAMsEN, the historian OF Rome, is
QN0lfu rs inc most absent minded o. an on
record. lie remained seated IN the presence
% the Pope at the Vatican the other day.
But 10 eXtenuation u Is said that he often
fails to recognize his own children.
GrN BUTLER denies that he is to write his
llfe IA the ordinary biographical way. lie
says IL rs 10 be dore In the ieuilletOn style. q
sort Of photographic rominiscgnce. In which he
will touch on everybody aud everything from
Bermuda Hundred 20 Black FRIDAY. aud IRON
special Correspondents 60 spoons. II viii be a
very readable and snappy book
JUDAH WRIGHT. of BrookGcld, y. Y. has
just celebrated his Tooth birthday. He lives
with q grand daughter, who iencarly 40 yearr
OH. he was in the war Of 1872. and Is al en- b.
cyclOpedia Of events connected with that
struggle. He was guest no tho dinner ziven
Marquis de Lafayette whom he visited this
country in lS25. His health Is good, his mind
clear.
II Is eaid that Gen. Grant early IN life. was
failure 90 the work of getting living lie
could not make business 50 well. lie failed
on MS Missouri farm, ana, lLally, when the
war broke out he was clerkiug "a his father's
tanucry in GHlcna. having gone there lar4ely
from necessity. The war was HIS OccAsion
lie dli not rice RAPIDLY, but 7uroly. lie never
failed once. 10 had o clearer insight and
foresight than others. lie several times die
uheyci the orders of clumsy and narrower
superlorH and won one important battle while
really under arrest. Gen. Grant has never
been ID great success except as General His
rcsidehua' term Was rnu by Others and his
banking business was run by others also.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-05-14

/ A correspondent of the New York Sun
+ saws taat the reason the Democrats We're
beaien il the Thirty fourth senatorial dis
trict, Illinois. thus Swing the Republic
cans a majority in the Illinois Le-isla-
tIre, was that they We're dissatisfied with
tho Presidents policy with respect to tie
Offices.
The S1,8 takes occasion to say that it
docs not agree with its correspondent. 1t
thinks that the reason the Democrats Of
the district did not give their candidate
the usual Democratic majority was that
they do not admire the Hon. William r.
Morrison, the Democratic candidate for
United States Senator.
As is well known, the election in the
Thirty-iourth district to MI vacancy in
the state Senate, caused by death, was of
great importance, because the election Of
United States Senator to a certain eX-
tent depended upon if. Hon. William r.
Morrison and Senator John A. Logan are
the candidates Of their respective parties
for the Senatorship, and have been since
the beginning OF the Senatorial contest.
There is good reason for thinking that
neither the SIN nor its correspondent
gives the true reason Of the Democratic
defeat Mr.. Morrison is not unpopular in
the Thirty-fourth Senatorial district, or in
any other district in his State. Neither is
it true that the policy of the President,
with regard to the offices, does not meet
with the approval of the Democrats in
that district. The only ones who are find
ing fault with the President are those who
have not succeeded in bulldozing him into
distributing the offices in accordance with
their wishes.
The reason the Democrats were defeated
in the Ihirty-fourth district is that they
felt so certain that a district with so large
Democratic majority could not, by any
possibility, be carried by the Republicans
that they did not exert themselves to
bring out their vote. Hundreds and per-
haps thousands Of Democrats paid no at
tenti0n to the election because they did
not think it possible that they could lose
it, and because each one depended on his
neighbor to vote. The Republicans,
knowing that the Democrats in their fam
cied security would be careless and neg
lectful, organized quietly and got out
almost their entire vote.
The Democratic leaders of the district
are responsible for the defeat. They
neglected to discharge the duty which
clearly devOlved on them. Mr.. Morrison,
also, since he was so deeply interested in
the election, ought to have taken the
trouble to warn the local leaders of The
danger of being so confident OF victory as
not to make an effort to secure it.
When the reason of the defeat is so
plain there is no excuse for the San in
going out OF its way to hit, first, the
President, and, secondly, the Hon. Will
liam r. Morrison.