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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPRESSION.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-The prevailing
depression in American agriculture is
treated by the statistician, j. r. Dodge, in
the March report of the department of ag-
riculture. The prevalence of lOw prices is
noted, and feeling Of encouragement in
rural circles throughout the world is indi-
Gated. 1t is and has been especially severe
in Great Britain, and isthe subject Of COM
plant, discussion and official investigation
in Germany, France. Italy and other cOun-
tries. 1t Is present in mOnarchial
and republican countries under diverse
circumstances and economic systems.
But it is less severe here than
in other countries. Though prices of inn
plements. utensils and fabrics are low, the
farmers interest account is unreduced and
his mort gage harder to lift. The main
cause of low prices is referred to in the mex
orable law of supply and demand. Corn
and wheat and other staples are cheap be-
cause of OverprOduction. immigration has
increased the population 100000 in ten
years Inter-cOntinental areas have been
converted into farms, free to natives and
foreigners, opening millions of acres to cul-
tivation. Railroad extension has stimu-
lated production and overwhelmed the east
with western products.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
DEMOCRATIC clTY TlcKsT-

kansas CITY, No March 2L-Tbe
Democratic ciry convention IN session
toosy made the following nominations.
For mayor, benjamin Holmes, Treasarer
VI lliam PEAK. auditor. " u. HeD>lop,
police judge. !. Wheeler city arto-DeT.
SarneS ". FRAZIER. president of the upper
house. N X Brown
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
GAMBLERS RESOLUTION FAVORED.

WASHINGTON, March 21.-The house com
mittee on rules today decided 10 report
favOrably to the house Mr.. Gamblers reso-
luton setting apart next Tuesday for the
consideration by the house of the worlds
fair bill and providing for final action upon
il at O'Clock that afternoon
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
Susie's HTisfortune,

''Mamma " said little Katie, as she ran into
the room, ''Suse Brown fell out Of her IA.
ghor's carriage and hurt herself awful"
''She didP'
Eyes; the doctor says she stained com
pound fraction in her arm. Fm."-Philadelphia
Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
A Gotham Dialogue.

She (reproachfuly)-You are always say
ing unkind things to me. Last week you
told me / reminded you of a Boston girl.
He remorsefully)-Wel, you may say
l am like Brooklyn man.
She tvery earnestly)-Jack, I have a quick
temper, but you know that I'm not vindic-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22

| put on board a special car rendered by the
! Pullman cunpany and will leave for Oak
| land, Md at 3 o'clock, over the baltimore
" Ohio road Adjutant General Williams
will, on behalf of the widow, ask number
| Of prominent citizens to act as pail bearers.
! In the mean time the body will lie in state
| in the parlors of the Grand Pacific hotel,
| with body guard of soldiers.
Major Ely f. McClellen. attending sur
geon. said today: General Crook under
mined his constitution in his Indian cam
paigns. As every one knows he was a
| wonderfully active man. He would stop
at nothing and denied himself every pleas
ure or comfort. He constantly refused to
| incumber himself. with things that might
! conduce to his comfort so that he
might move around more quickly. |
think the campaign OF 1919 was
the foundation for his troubles.
Then he started out with thirty days ra-
tions for his force and was gone nearly
year, spending a terribly severe winter in
the mountains and the western prairies,
far away from the forts and posts. This
hard service, together with the Irregular
ity of meals and the scarcity of food, re-
suited in his stomach troubles, which Inn
mediatelv affected his heart. | had
treated him every day since | have been
attached 10 headquarters in Chicago, and
a few weeks ago. | had about concluded
that his trouble had been overcome. Last
week however it returned suddenly. The
attack was quite severe, but as he came to
me the moment he felt i'll there was little
difficulty in getting him in good shape
again. If his death should have occurred
last week, l should not have been sur
prised. He pulled out Of the sickness
apparently better than before, and his sud
den death was wholly unexpected by me-"
GENERAL HAYES MUCH AFFECTED.
FREMONT, O., March 21-General Hayes
leaves for Chicago tomorrow morning to
attend the funeral of General Crook. He
was very much affected by the sudden
death of his companion and referred to his
distinguished service as a brigadier COM
mander under General McClelland in 1862,
as a favorite cavalry commander under
Shermad in 1863, and again in the Five
Forks campaign, as one of Sheridan's cav
airy commanders in 1866, and as the first
commander in the field in the army Of
West Virginia in the year 1864
Men are often hears saying that their as
piratiOns are high, but every time they
cough their noses go towards the earth,
with indications that they will follow them
soon. unless they yre wise enough to take
DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup in time.
adam, the goodliest man OF men since
born" still could not be called exactly en-
viable, for when he titled the ground in the
dewy twilight and caught a sharp touch of
he had no Salvation Oil for
his cure and no % centa to try it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
cApRrg cONsluTs BISMARCK

BEELIN. March @i--tseneraI Eon Ia
pFivi. the new chancellor. had a confer
eaCe today with Prince Bismarck
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
TO MAKE POLITICAL CAPITAL.

That sense of extreme WEAKNESS indi-
Gates disordered blood Ayers Sarsaparilla
Dflrifies it
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''In the spring take Hoods Sarsaparilla.
Do not put it off till too late. Sold by all
drI1poistS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
AN Al p Al REST

LONDON, March 21.-Edmund Sweten-
ham, member of parliament for the Car
narvon district, is dead. He was Con-
servative
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-22
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.

Ayers Sarsaparilla is just what you want
for spring medicine-superiort to all.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-07-10
EdiS0n's Ways.

Edison is count, millionaire, and
the most famous living inventor. His
present wealth, which amounts to many
millions, is as nothing compared to what
it will be in the next few years, but ne
still works away in his laboratory, and
comes forward to meet you in just such
a suit of clothes as he wore twenty years
ago. As compared with Edison's dingy
little shop of twenty years ago, out at
Menlo Park, in which he used to eat
his bread and cheese seated on an old
pocking-box, talking over the work IN
hand with his two or three workmen,
the present surroundings are fabulously
luxurious. Everything shows unbounded
means, which may be the case when We
remember that his famous laboratory
costs 5000, 900 year to maintain. But
the master mind is still the same. When,
he works it means work for his men. In
the cd days at Menlo Park it was no
uncommon thing for him to remain at.
the beach for forty-eight hours at a
stretch, sending one of the boys for
crackers and cheese when he felt hum
cry, aud not giving up until his assist
ants had actually fallen asleep standing
up. To-day he is just as Interested
PttsJury Dispatch.
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continues over two hours; the move
jments are made to the accompaniment of
music, and toward the close the strong
.!cst athletes stand on one leg and balance
the clubs at arms length for several Sec
onds. This species of exercise is of great
antiquity in Persia. The athlete who is
able to outlast all the others in the club
game is accounted the victor, and re-
;ceives substantial rewards from the spec
itators.
After this sport is over the wrcst!c:'
begin. When they are ready to grapp
each places his right hand on the head
of the other rs a salute. They then
grasp each other with deliberation, plac.
hing one arm over and the other under
the shoulder of the opponent. Then tho
struggle begins in earnest. With us tn?
chief object in wrestling is throw one;
Antagonist, and on the back, if possible.
ut is quite opposite in Persia. There the
wrestler docs his best to drop on his
hands and knees, and his opponent tries
to prevent him. The victor must NEE.
uC" COiIlClo ulllll luCClo OuC DOtI
stronger and fresher than himself. Cases
have occurred of Persian athletes who
have successfully overcome every an
tagonist who has presented himself at one
exhibition of strength, men having been
known to conquer from twenty to twenty
four contestants in one afternoon. Pres
cnts are showered upon each victor, the
one remaining last in the field sometimes
receiving hundreds and thousands of
dollars from the wealthy and enthusiastic
spectators.
This sport is highly esteemed in
Persia, and men of rank and physical
strength sometimes condescend TO enter
the arena and try bout with the pro-
fessional athletes. The latter are shrcwd
enough on such occasions to ccdc the
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-07-10
GallOway-Hide Robes.

The hide of a good Galloway steer vii
make finer robe than 6 buffalo, it being
Of better color. Buifaloes being thing
of the past, the supply of robes from thai
source is limited for all time to the supply
now on hand, but the demand for robes
will go Oh forever. Why, then, is there
not good money in raising the long
haired Galloway cattle and making the
hides of the steers into robes that are
worth $40 or more each, while the car
cass is Us fine beef and worth rs much rs
any your butcher ever put on his block.
-PicaYune.
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A STREET DANCER.

one respect. These women are invited
to dance in the harems before women
only, and if they do not dance before
men they are not molested. Their figures
are supple and their movements are not
without grace.
The male dancers shave their faces
smooth and the head from the forehead
to the nape of the neck, the latter q
custom of all Persians; but the side locks
they allow to grow down over the shoul-
ders to resemble women. They also
wear skirts, still further to carry out the
resemblance. Such is the absurd lncon-
sistency of the Orientals that they would
be shocked at the impropriety of any
one dancing for pleasure, much less IN
company with dancers of the other sex.
The Kara Enenz or Black Eyes offers
one of the most amusing sources of popu-
lar entertainment in Persia. 1t is an
itinerant puppet show analogous to
Punch and Judy. There is the same
little booth, the grotesque dolls moved
by human hands, and the comical con-
versation in squeaking falsetto. The
Kara Enenz is undoubtedly very funny,
and gives immense satisfaction to the
idlers in Persian market place. When
ever it appears crowd collects, listening
with rapt attention and greeting the
coarse sallies of wit and satire with peals
of laughter and earnest expressions Of
uBarikallahI" and "Bah, bah, bah y!
Next to the Tazieh, tie least objec.
!tionable and most popular sport in
Persia is that of athletic exhibitions. As
one strolls about the streets of Teheran,
me often sees crowd collected intensely
absorbed in some exciting scene. On
approaching and peering through q
ichink in this animated mass one finds
that they are gazing on wrestling
match. Such is the steadiness of the
climate that almost the whole yea,
around such exhibitions occur out OF
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beings; but the facile, pleasure. loving
Persians have found means 10 evade the
precepts of the Prophet on these points.
A Persian hand of cards is complete
with set of four, all face cards. Persian
cards are all painted by hand on little
tablets of papier mache, two inches long
and one inch and quarter wide. The
design is executed in water. colors, some
times on gold ground, and protected
by a glossy coat of thick varnish. The
back and edges are always black. Some
of these cards are very expensive, pack
costing as high as $40 to S45, although,
of course, such expensive sets are for the
wealthy. But whether for rich or poor,
Persian playing cards are made by hand.
When they first came into usesit is diff
cult to ascertain with precision. The
chief game played with these cards re-
sembles brag or poker. 1t is always
played for stakes, and the sums lost or
won in the houses of thesnobility are
sometimes large.
As for the Persian dancers, there is
little to be said about them that can lead
to an introduction of that form of the
enter tainment into the United States.
They are professionals brought up to tho
business from the cradle. The female
dancers are practically forbidden to exer-
else their vocation by the present law
OF Persia, but the law is dead letter In
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-07-10
HEARD IT BEFORE.

You tell him joke you relied on as new;
He smiles in a wearisome way.
From comedy new you recite him bit;
he says he saw that at the play.
You give him story that never yet failed
To set all who heard in a roar;
He mods half approval aud turns him away,
And murmurs, "rve heard it before.
The girl whom you WOO in your tenderest
tone,
Whose heart you are seeking to gain,
Listens coldly to all you may have to protest,
Seeming only to wish you'd refrain.
You seek for some phrase not totally trite;
And cen the. .thesaurus explore;
It's all Of no use, and you bid her good-by-
You see she has heard it before.
How sad it must be to so onward like this,
With nothing on earth to enjoy,
And never make anyone happy yourself,
AID only find things to annoy.
His life like an orange whose juices are gone,
IT'S dry, empty shell, and no more.
Alas he is much to bepitied, not blamed
The man who mas heard it before.
Washington Post.
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BIT the Persian professionals follow
quite another course. They avoid severe
cxertion and fatigue. They eat Eve or
six times a day, and are warmly clothed,
especially during the cold season. On
ordinary occasions they 60 abroad but
once daily and then toward evening, and
walk with great deliberation. When the
period for practicing or for exhibiting in
public approaches the Persian athlete lies
in bed for several days gathering force.
for the contest of strength.
The public exhibitions are held in
places especially constructed for the pur-
pose. The arena or pit is eXcavated at
least five or six feet below the surface,
and the earth is beaten hard and rolled
smooth. The spectators sit Persian
fashion on their knees and heels on the
floor of gallery built around the arena
md carefully protected by an awning or
roof from the elements. The arena,
whether oval or round, has an average
circumference of 140 feet.
When time is called the athlets run
forward and leap from the gallery into
the arena, sometimes ahght4y and bali
ancing themselves some moments on one.
leg, a remarkable feat. Their skin is.
oiled to enable them te elude the grasp of
their opponents. A number enter the
arena at once and begin with prolonged
exercises with heavy Indian clubs, which
they swing in every position, gradually
increasing the weight, until toward the
close of this practice clubs of oak ara
sometimes welded in each hand weigh
ing sixty pounds. This club exercise
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LOVE UNExPRESSED.

The sweetest notes among the human heart
strings
Are dull with RI /.
The sweetest chords adjusted by the angels,
Arc clogged with dust.
We pipe and pipe again for drea.y music,
Upon the self-same strains,
While sounds Of crime and fear and desola-
tioE
Come back again in sod refrain.
Or through the world We so, an army march
ing.
With listening cars.
Each longing, signing for tao heavenly
music
He never hears:
Each longing, sighing for word Of COM
fc.t,
a word of tender praise,
a word OF love to cheer tie endless Journey
OF earth's hard, busy days.
They love us and we know it; this sufficcs
For reasons share.
Why should they rause to give that love ex-
preston
With geatlo care?
Why should they pause? But still our hearts
are aching
With all the gnawing pain
OF hungry love that longs to hear the music
And longs and longs in vain.
We love them and we know it, if we falter,
With fingers numS,
Among the unused strings of loves express
sion,
The notes are dumb
We shrink within ourselves with voiceless
sorrow,
Leaving the words unsaid,
And, side by side with those we love the
dearest,
In silence on we tread,
Thus on we tread and thus each one in silence
His fate fulfilis,
Waiting and hoping for the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills;
The only difference of the love in heaven
From love on earth below
Is, here we love and know not how to tell
And there we all shall know.
Constance Feaimorc Wcolson.
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A Girls Big ShOeS.

A Kcokull Qowa) letter says: "There
is on exhibition in this city the pattern OF
the insolc of pair of snoes made at kak-
Okla for Il girl living at Rainbow, Mo.
The cir. for whom these shoes were made
is only seventeen years old, and is seven
feet seven inches in height and weighs
235 pounds. She has had many offers to
pose in IL muse cIin, all of which she h
rejected. The insolc referred to measure
fifteen and Il half inches in length and ST.
and half inches in width.'
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SIR PROVO WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS.
which ship, in 1904, under the command
Of Captain Robert Laurie, he first went
20 sea. This ship, few months later,
in the Atlantic Ocean, fought the French
Frigate Vile de Milan, was defeated and
captured, but was recovered week
afterward, by the British frigate Leander.
The young midshipman Wallis became
lieutenant, and served in several other
ships during the French war. In 1913,
when Britain was at war with the United
States, he was second lieutenant of the
irigate Shannon, under Captain Broke,
which fought the American frigate Chesa-
oeake off Boston Harbor. After that
famous battle, which was British
Tictory, when Captain Broke had been
wounded and his first lieutenant killed,
he command of the ship, with its prize,
levolved on Lieutenant Wallis. He was
promoted, and was afterward employed
N different naval services, on the coast
If Mexico, in the Mediterranean, and, in
1857, as admiral and commander-in-
chief on the southeast coast of America.
-Once-a- Week.
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doors under the clear sky. But these
arc the cheap shows, witnessed chiefly
by the lower classes, the performers be-
ing altogether second rate.
If one would see the athletes of Persia
at their best, he must see them in the COW
cred arenas where they perform to what
in Boston are called "cultured audi
ences." The professionals of Persia form
n class by themselves, as distinct from
other pursuits as our actors, IS carefully
trained, dietcd and disciplined as cham
pion oarsmen. The athletes of Greece
and Rome thought to maintain their pro-
digious strength by regular, frequent and
violent exercises in the gymnasium.
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international Boundary Line Monr-

The townsite of Blaine as plated
crosses the boundary line, a portion of
It lying within British Columbia. This
International line is not an indefinite,
tangible line as is generally supposed,
but is accurately and carefully located.
It is possible to lay penny-if you have
one-so that it will be half in the United
States and half in Canada. A number
Of years ago joint commission surveyed
line westward from the Lake of the
Woods and erected an iron monument
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SPORTS OF PERSIA.
ORIENTAL METHODS OF KILL
ING TIME.
The Koran Forbids Games of Chance
Male and Female Dancers
AtE,ates Who Eat Six
Meals Day.

Excepting this great religious drama
or passion play, called the Tazieh, the
Persians, says s. G. w. Benjamin In
the MnH and Eepress, have no dramatic
amusements. They partly make up for
this lack by listening to professional
story-tellcrs and strolling musicians; they
are also addicted to card playing, al
though with much less variety of games
than with European cards. Games of
chance are forbidden by the Koran so
also are pictures OF sculptures Of human
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THINK l could 60 near to be a perfect
Christian if 1 were always visitor, as
/ have sometimes been, at tho house Of
some fashionable friend. / can show a
great deal of self-denial where the best
pf everything is uged upon me with
Kindly importantly,
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every mile. Through the forest they
cleared q strip twenty feet wide, as straight
as string, and in the centre of that strip,
at intervals of mile, stand monuments
like the one shown in the ILLUSTRATION.
On the Canadian side is inscribed
"Treaty of Washington" and on the
United States side "June Is, 1885, the
date of the treaty. Every visitor at
Blaine becomes interested in this bound
ary line running through the town, and
especially in marking the course of tho
cleared strip as far as the eye can see.-
Seattle (Wash.) West Shore.
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A giant named Catoni, who was more
than seven feet high and proportionately
stout, has just died in Italy after having
collected two thousand dollars from
museum in Rome for the right to his
skeleton.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-07-10

City Visitor - "What makes little
Tommy cry so, Mr.. Leeks?'
Farmer Lceks-"Wall, the fact is, he
went out this morning to find hornets
nest for his natural history collection,
and -"
City Visitor-"And the poor boy
couldn't find one?"
Farmer Leeks-"Naw; the poor boy
found one. ."-LippincoH.
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The Father of the British Fleet.

On April 18th Sir Provo William Parry
Wallis, r. N. G. G. B., senior admiral
of the British feet, entered his hundredth
year. He may we'll be called 1.-THE
Father of the Royal Navy" having
actually entered the service before the
end of the last century. He was born
on April IL, 1871, at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, son of Mr.. Provo Featherstone
Wallis, chief clerk of the Naval Yard
there. IN 1895, a child of four years,
his name was entered on the books of
one of the Kings ships, and toward the
end of 1900 he joined the Cleopatra, with
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victory to their wealthy antagonists, who,
flushed by their success, present costly
gifts to their professional antagonist.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-06-11
ADJUSTMENTS.
THE Old Homestead

Denman Thompson's Old Homestead
Company comes to this city direct from
Chicago, where it has been playing to
crowded houses. 1t is said to be the
best presentation of the play since the
play has been outside of New York city
1t will receive a better production to-
morrow night than was given here at
the Grand opera house two years ago.
Wilson Barrett.
The sale of seats for the Wilson Bar
rett engagement at the Grand next week
will begin at the box office of the opera
house at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning.
The repertoire will be played as an
nounced. Mr.. Barrett's business agent,
Frank Murray, arrived in the city last
evening, and stated that arrangements
have been made with the Southern Pa
cific road to transport all the original
scenery for the plays to be presented
here. Mr.. Barrett's company, which is
headed by Miss Eastlake, and which in
cludes Mr.. George Barrett, numbers
about forty people.