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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-08
Where Mr.. Carnegie Made His \

Where Mr. Carnegie Made His Money.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron king, made
his first money in the oil country as a pro-
ducer of oil He and some friends bought
the William Story farm on Oil creek in
1860 for $4,000 They organized the Co
lumbia Oil company in Mny of that year
and proceeded 10 develop the farm for pc
troleum. The farm consisted of 900 acres.
and was not far from where Goal Oil
Johnny" found his pot of gold. Every
acre Of the farm proved to be productive,
and il soon developed into one of the rich
est bonanza farms of the region.
Its first years output was 20, 800 barrels,
and the following year this was increased
to SO, 900 barrels. The company was organ
lied with 2 capital stock Of $3.50, 900, and in
two and one-half years dividends had been
declared amounting to 100 per cent. of the
capital In three years the production Of
the farm had increased to al GOO barrels,
and during this year the average price Of
oil was SJ,87J5 a barrel. During the first
six months Of this year four dividends
were declared amounting to lG0 per cent.
Of the capital stock, which was soon in
creased to s., 500, 600 In ten years the farm
produced ,715,9T2 barrels of oil and is still
producing a small amount. The total
value OF the output has been upward of
SIC, 900, 0o0.-New York World
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Wjfl!i1 sagle
THE THRUSH.

Where yonder nynph with zausic takes
Across the fields her silver vgay.
With mirUhful melody she wakes
The browsing minstrel of the day.
There from his ripple haunted dream
The meadows blithest chorister.
Enraptured by the singing stream,
Clears his brown throat and sings with her
The amber air with music fills;
Like seeds, the notes sewn IN the hush
Blossom in song between the hills
Whence eche answers to the thrush.
Dear bird, whose liquid carols come
To me across the valleys span,
dream you are descended from
That older minstrel, shaggy Pan.
For as the nymphs with dance and song
In oiden days his piping graced,
his sylvan maiden steals along
Beside you in melodious haste.
New York Ledger.
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ventursome sailor soldier might have lived
to round out his career by brilliant leader
ship during the countryAs perils.
The headquarters at Louisville were in
the Gait house, and there Davis and Mel
son would be certain to come into collision.
On the morning of Sept. 20 Nelson passed
from the breakfast room to the main hall
of the hotel, stepped to the clerks desk
and asked a question and turned about
and leaned upon the railing of the
counter to await the arrival of Gen. Buell..
In turning he faced an assembly of people,
military and civilians, among them Gov
ernor o. P. Morton, of Indiana, and Gen
Davis, who was in Morton's company.
Davis went toward Nelson and charged
him with having insulted him at their last
meeting Nelson told him to go away, but
instead, evidently counting upon the moral
support of his friend Morton, he pressed
up and renewed the demand for satisfac-
ton. Nelson, using an epithet Of contempt,
again ordered him away, adding, Il don't
want anything TO do with you" Durin
this excitement Davis had been nervousl
twisting and rolling one of the hotel cards
in his hand, and drawing near to Nelson he
shot it into his face with sharp snap of
the thumb. This was met by backhsnded
slap on the face by Nelson with the demand
addressed to Morton, Did you come here,
sir, to see me insulted?"
"No, SIR" replied Morton, and Nelson
walked away toward his room on the Office
floor.
Davis turned to one of his companions
and asked for pistol His friend had
none, but soon borrowed one and handed it
to Davis. Nelson, meanwhile had gone as
far as the door of his room, but failing to
euter hsd turned back along a corridor
running off from the main. hall, and was
distant few feet from the latter at the
loot of a staircase leading TO Gen. Buell's
room on the second floor. He did not live
to explain his motive, but itsis probable
that he had determined not to fight with
Davis and was on his way to report the
circumstance TO bis chief He reached the
staircase, approaching IL from the opposite
direction, and WAS about to turn and as
Cend when Davis came rushing into tho
corridor from the main hall, pistol in hand,
and stood face to face with Nelson at the
foot of the stairs. The latter made nc hos
tile movement, but Davis fired shot and
Nelson kept on upstairs. He reached the
second floor, and about half way between
the landing and Buells room he fell
Several spectators who saw the shooting
followed Nelson up stairs, and when he fell
they lifted him to the nearest room.
Among these was the we'll known Ken
tuckiaa, Gen. Thomas L. CFittenden, who
knelt over the stricken soldier and said;
Nelson, are you badly hurtS''
Tom, am murdered, " was the answer.
Subsequently he asked TO Be baptized, and
within An hour after the Shooting the lion
hearted soldier was dead. The ball had
pierced the heart, or very near it, and
though small had done a fatal work.
So passed away in his prime-he was 81
an American who might have fairly n
vailed his great Enghsh nATassake in win
ming the highest martial glory.
GEORGE l. KILMKR
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IT'S brightest. and he set TO work 20 organ
ize for local defense There was not mo-
ment TO lose and no time TO stand on cere-
mory, and Nelson was Just the man 10 do
all and to 6Rre all in sn hour so full Of
startling developments. One Of the officers
sent dowr. from WrighS's headquarters TO
serve under Nelson WAS the Indiana sol
der. Gen. JET c. Davis, who had some
time before len the field on SICK leave. he
volunteered for the emergency. reported 20
Nelson and WAS intrustsd with the sryaDi-
cation of volunteer soldiers 20 defend
Louisville. II was critical time BueIl's
army being still further away than the
Confedsrates. and Louisville At the mercy
Of invading hordes Some days after Davis
had been installed in his work Nelson said
10 him:
Well, Davis, how are you getting on
with your commando
Il don't knOw!o answered Davis
'How many regiments have you organ
izedY' continued Nelson not noticing ths
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SIr. Depew's only" Eox.

DR. Chauncey NJ. Depew told a little
story the other day about a young man
who started an "only" box, into which he
and his wife put all the small pieces of
money they would otherwise have spent for
things that were "only a dime" or "onIy
quarter" or ''only half dollar" And
the result was that in year, more or
less, they had 81, 900 to invest.
1t was-a very pretty little story, and very
likely it has caused the starting of dozen
or so "only' boxes.
But there is another side to the question,
side which deserves moro championing
than 1t has ever had Did that Young
couples thousand dollars repay them for
all they Lost by saving it? 1t is a very
grave question whether that habit of small
and scrapfng economy which the "only"
box Is expected to foster is a good thing to
have. Would the whole Thousand dollars
repay them for what they lost when, some
warm evening, John was on the point of
spending only ten cents' for a little
punch OF carnations or a single fragrant
pink rose to take to Mary, and then re-
membered the only box and didn't do itP
And when Mary didn't buy the twenty-five
cent toy for the little toddler at home, be-
cause of that ever present box, did she do
well?
And did it really pay them to deny them
selves all these little innocent enjoyments,
and surrender themselves to the miserIy
spirit which such plan presupposes and
makes necessary? The people who foster
the habit of the ''only' box viii inevitably
become as small in spirit as their econo-
mics are. Is not character OF as much i'm
portance as money, and is it not as well to
have a warm, sympathetic heart, a gener-
Gus disposition and a spirit full of the
milk of human kindness as to possess a
thousand dollars2 And is it not evident
that an ''only" box could be maintained
only at the expense of those three things,
and of many others as well?-New York
Evening Sun
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The present emperor of Germany perpe-
trHted kingly joke on his sister Sophia,
the crown princess Of Greece. He knew
she was studying Greek, so he ssnt her a
Greek letter. She wrote back that it was
moro than she could do 10 read it. Then
he wrote her that he had written German
words with ancient Greek letters
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HERE was no cpl
sode of the civil
war more st art
lingormere tragic
than the killing of
Gen William Mel
sen. Of the Union
army, by his fell
low soldier, Gen.
JEFF G. Davis, at
til e Gait house,
Louisville, 8 ept.
%, 1852. Gen. Mel
son was q soldier
of whom the coun-
try and the army
had great expecta-
tions. based upon
what he had al
ready achieved
He had made a
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The meek, quiet man when aroused Is
a lion. al which time he means business.
and no nonkeying Of clustering, and il
you survive II you are forever afts-ward
a battered, dilapldated, useless thing Do
not goad him too far. il IS better for. ones
general health 70 let him severely alone
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A SAILORSOLDIER.
THE ENERGY AND DARING OF VOL.
uNTEER GEN. WILLIAM NELSON.

A Naval O65cer, He Volunteers on Land
and Helps Hold Eentucky-His Work
at Shiloh and In Bragg's Invasion-A
Martyr to Discipline.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
vermontS New Agricultural College.
ESTABLISH 1T INTRODUCED IN THE LEGISLATURE THIS
wEEK-THE RHODE ISLAND EXAMPLE

ESTABLISH INTRODUCED LEGISLATURE THIS
WEEK-THE RHODE ISLAND EXAMPLE.
and
Handsome Bids to
CT
political league will be the most
by arm of
to invited Aside from completing the organa-
of
of farmers
institution wholly the
the federal amount to almost
in
its
din
mechanical college Kingston recently established written
The emohs
However thoroughly be posted the college
The a Then
effectively the grand
Legislature
the toes
of
and
bill evidence of the demand for the
Az
club
consider the A. M college At this meeting let the article below read and
sronge officially
forwarded Representative and Senator to
the
nghbos and them write
While the farmers political league
thush Legislature
ate
do promptly
t Spingfd Mass
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1890-11-12
A NOBLE EXAMPLE.

What Little Rhody has Done-An nlustra-
ted Description of her Agricultural and
Mechanical School.
This page is embellished with pictures of the
newly established agricultural school and ex-
pertinent station at Kingston. Little Rhody
paid some $1,000 for the site of this institution,
appropriated $4,000 for laboratory building
and $4,000 for the college hall, dormitory, vet
Urinary department and barns. The laborato-
ry cost twice much as it need to, being built
before the officers of the school were chosen
Otherwise great economy has been practiced.
The Rhode Island Legislature also directed
that the Sl5 OO0 a year coming to it from the
Hatch act should go to this school, also the
new grant of 1890. But in 1899, before this
last grant from the federal treasury, Rhode
Island passed a bill appropriatng SIC, 600 annu-
ally from the state treasury to support the
school, Vermont doesn't need to make any such
appropriation, as this new grant Of 1890 pro-
vdes sufficient funds for running the new
Vermont A. & NJ. college.
But still more significant is the action of
Brown university in Rhode Island. Like the
University of Vermont, Brown has received
the income under the agricultural college grant
! of 1862, while its agricultural and mechanical
department existed only in name. The new
president of Brown, Mr. Andrews, convinced
of the absolute injustice in having this money
kept by Brown university any longer, reported
to the university trustees that it should be Civ
en- back to the state, and by the state transfer
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much good can such an annex do when its in
mates are regarded, both socially and intel
lectually, as lower than the classical students?
Can the most good be got by spending this
money at university where classical training
will ever be made prominent, and agriculture
and mechanics subordinate to it, even though
there is more money behind the latter?
The magnitude of the error should these
funds go to the state university is also gravely
appreciated. Such errors in other states are
universally, recognized, and are being, correct
ed as rapidly AS possible. A remarkable series
OF legislation in this direction is cited under
another heading. 1t should be unnecessary to
emphasize this error. With the single excep-
ton of New York Whose fund from the grant
of 1862 runs up into the Millions, there is not a
genuinely successful A. & M. college except
such as are totally separate from the univer.
sites.
Alpha Wesser, master of the Vermont state
grange, writes: The university does not
f. EN- to have any regard for the farmers inter
ests in the matter. This is evident from the
recent statement of Prof Cooke that the farm
ers at Vermont never ought to have any con-
trolling voice in the management of the state
agricultural college. The professor who is the
director of the experiment station, acknowl-
edges that the station farm is a failure and
claims that it is useless appendage anyhow,
and that all that is needed in this line is bit of
land for plat experiments. Thus it will be
seen that if Vermont farmers ever expect to
get any practical benefit from their state appro-
priations and from the generous gifts of the
general government they must have a separate
and distinct college and under the management
of men who do not believe wholly in paper
farming"
is THE Nkw COLLEGE DEMANDED?
The university people say there il no de-
mand for the new A. & M. college except by a
few unimportant people in one or two towns
that want to secure the location of the new in
stitution. These autocrats of the university
claim that not prominent" man in the state
favors this movement, and that it is egged on
by THE HOMESTEAD to tickle the farmers and
worked for by a few n en- who want tn be trus-
tees of the new college. The university idea
seems to be that no one is prominent" except
the university ring. The members and officers of
the state board of agriculture Except Secretary
Cooke who is a beneficiary of the university,
the state grange, the state agricultural society,
the county societies, and the local oranges are
all a unit for the independent A. & NJ. college.
The Legislature will be thoroughly convinc-
ed of this IL it is not already. Above all, comes
the farmers league, a lnsty young giant max
ing this one Of its first demands.
None of these people may be prominent"
in the eyes of the university but they COM
piise large part of the population of the
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state and represent the common people in all
branches of farming and mechanics. 1t is the
plain people of the state who pay the taxes and
whose children need the new education. Shall
it be denied them at the dictates of those who
set themselves up as the classical superiors of
the public?
ARE THERE LEGAL OBJECTIONS IN THE wAYP
No. This point was thoroughly covered in
THE HoMEsTEADs of Oct. and IS. 1t is true
that the act of the Vermont Legislature
approved Nov. 8, 1865, constituted the
University of Vermont and state. agricull..
tural college "a body corporate forever"
But this does not interfere with the absolute
power of the Legislature in the premises.
The Legislature is the creator and is greater
than any creature. This axiom has been
abundantly sustained by the United
States supreme court. Not only that, but the
Revised Laws of Vermont Section $3.50,
passed in 1851, provides Acts creating,
continuing. altering or renewing corporation
or body polite hereafter passed by the Gener-
al Assembly, may b. altered. amended or re-
pealed when the public good requires the alter
alton, amendment repeal" It's evident
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or experiment station, In connection with any uni
versity, college or Institution not dlstlnctvely an
agricu ltura college school and such state shall
have established or shall hereafter establish Q Sepa
connected Herewith an experimental farm or station,
the Legislature of such state may apply In whole or
I'm part the appropriation by this act made, to such
separate agricultural college school and no Legis
SeU from so DOING
Thus it appears that the Hatch act specif-
cally supplemented the letter and intent of
the law of 1862 by giving the Legislature
practically complete control of the money.
Particular attention should be given to the
second clause Of Section and to its final pro-
viso that mo Legislature shall by contract ex-
pressed or implied disable itself from" COM
plying with that section.
THE BIGGEST GIFT OF ALL.
Now comes the law Of 1890, approved Aug.
81, which is designed to apply a portion of
the proceeds of the public lands to the more
complete endowment and support of the col
leges for the benefit of agriculture and the
mechanic arts, established under the provi-
sons of an act of Congress approved July 2,
1862" This act appropriates to each OF said
institutions,
The sum of Sl5OOO for the year ending June 80, 1880
and an annual increase OF the amount Of such appro
of $1,000 over the preceding year, ana the annua
amount to he paid thereafter 70 each state and terri
tory shall he S25O00 to be applied only to instructor
IN agriculture the mechanic arts, the English Ian
guage, aud the various branches OF mathematical
uhy Sira natural and economic science, with specia
reference 10 their application In the industries OF
life and to the facilities for such instruction.
The treasury department has since decided
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Fig. Z. Ease ment ran OF college, Hail.
that the public good requires the alteration of
the university charter. Hence the provisions
of that charter can be modified at the pleasure
of the Legislature without recourse to the SUI
preme court. Of the absolute power of the
Legislature over the grants coming to the
state from the federal government under the
acts of 1862, 1887 1890, there can be no
question Some instances in which Legisla-
lures have exercised full control over the
grant of 1862 follows:
ARKANsAs-The agricultural industrial university
was reorganized by the legislature In 1856 TO make
the agricultural and mechanical features OF the col
KEYTuCKY-The agricultural and mechanical col
colleges of the Kentucky university. In 1850 the col
lege was re organized on an independent basis,
mechanical college was organized in 1873 and in
lS,7 was united with the state ate university .,,.
college Of agriculture and mechanic arts was estab-
at thee umyf Of SoTh en-
OREGoN-The state agricultural college Of Oregon
soUTa CARoIISH"Wp to 1855 the college Of agrl
Carolina aud Cladin university received the benefit
OF the land grant. by recent act the Legislature has
taken the benefit of the land grant from these nsti
act is to take effect November !, 1890
TENNESSEE The land grant funds were given to
organized in 1873 as the University OF Tennessee,
which offers full courses In agriculture and mechanic
WEST YIRGINIA-In 1867 the West Virginia agrcul-
tnra college was established and the proceeds OF the
the Legislature changed the name of the college to
LEGAL DECIsIoNs-The only decision of the courts
In regard to the act Of 1862 are those In the case of
information in regard to this and in regard TO
the management and use of the land grant fund In
titled History Of the Agricultural College Land
Grant Of July q 1892 etc, prepared and printed by
Finch of % East State street, Ithaca, n. Y.
1.-THE HoMEsTEAD's thanks and the good will of
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red to the agricultural and mechanical college
at Kingston. The trustees unanimously in
dered back to the state. The governor of
Rhode Island is taking counsel from the state
supreme court as to whether he has power to
turn this money over to the farm school
or whether the matter must wait until the
Legislature can act upon it.
This honest purpose on the part of President
Andrews has attracted immense attention, the
alumni of Brown have rallied to its support,
gifts and endowments have poured in upon it,
so that it will receive from these sources an
income far greater than it got from the agri-
cultural college fund, the benefit of which it
had so long uniustly enjoyed. THE HOMESTEAD
is confident that the same will be true of the
University of Vermont, should President
Buckham initiate this example and recommend
the same honest policy toward the farmers of
Vermont that President Andrews urged
toward the farmers of Little Rhody.
Now if Rhode Island can afford SOS. 900 for
farm and buildings for its A. & NJ. college
and $4,000 year for operating expenses for
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partment OF agriculture for its prompt assistance in
collecting these factS.l
THE FEDERAL GRANTS.
The first of these generous endowments was
the Morrill, act of July 2, 1862, made certain
grants of lands to each state, the sale of which
should constitute fund whose income should
be devoted
"to the endowment support and maintenance Of at
least college where the leading object shall be-
wi bout excluding other scientific and classical
studies and including military tactics, to teach such
branches of learning as are related to agriculture
and the mechanic arts, in such as the LegiSa
lures Of the states may respecticeig prescribe I'm order
to promote the liberal and practical education of the
industrial classes in the several pursuits and prOfes
sions I'm life"
The law provided that no portion of the fund
or of its income should be applied in any way
to the purchase, erection or repair of buildings
but it did provide that 10 per cent of the grant
might be expended for sites and experimental
farms, according to the following paragraph of
Section B.:
Ifany portion Of the fund invested as provided by
the foregoing section any portion OF the interest
thereon, shall by any action or contingency, be d.
mnshed or lost II shall be replaced by the state to
which ii belongs that the capital Of the fund shall