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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

run the gantlet of prying eyes in the city
in case the fact of the daring escape
had been promptly discovered and wired
abroad. In truth, however, the Jail break
was not discovered until after daylight on
the 2Sth, for the cots of each missing man
had been planted with aserviceable dummy
to deceive the wardens on their rounds
Seen through the cell gratings the cots APP
peared to have the usual occupants. The
two chief fugitives crossed the Ohio at
Cincinnati in a skiff and were soon among
Kentucky friends, who furnished horses
and guides. They would need to traverse
the whole OF Kentucky and part of Ten
nessee before they would be clear Of the
Union lines, and of course the region was
alive with hostile soldiers. Friends of the
fugitives could only aid them in secret.
In few days they had good pistols, money.
fresh horses, and also cattle whips to dis
guise them as drovers.
After travelling nearly two weeks they
came upon party of forty Of Morgan's
command that had been cut off during the
raid north and had remained ia hiding.
Morgan decided to resume his true eharac-
ter, and with this reinforcement marched
to the Tennessee river below Kingston.
There was no boat at hand, but by borrow
ing an ak at the nearest house a raft was
improvised. 1t took so long to ferry over
the horses and men that the work was dis
covered by Union cavalry that was follow
ing not far behind Morgan, Hines and
thirty men had crossed, and the leader
proposed TO make fight, but was at length
dissuaded, and with Hines and four others
took to the mountains. After wandering
e. "a
panions beside bride path and went TO a
house for guide While absent on this
errand he saw a body of Union cavalry
moving in the direction Of the generals
hiding place. Dsshing up to the cavalry
leader he cried out, Hurry up, major, or
the rebels will escape" and led the scent
in an opposite direction.
Representing himself as home guard,
Hines kept up the byplay for some time,
but finally had to confess his identity. In
fact his effort at deception was uphill work,
for the Morgan party had been recognized
at the house where the ak had been Dor
rowed for the raft. The cavalry major was
so enraged with Hines for leading him away
from his prize that he prepared TO hang
him on the spot. II would not have missed
getting him Morgan for thousand dol
lars. 1t would have been a generals COM
mission for me-" he declared A halter was
placed around Hines neck and thrown over
the limb OF a tree, when the condemned
man coolly said, suppose that was Gen
Morgan and have led you astray; wouIdn't
/, being a mem Der of his command, deserve
TO be hanged if had not done what you
charge me withr'
The major thought a moment and then
exclaimed, Boys, let him aloneP' 1
Hines had an eventfui experience, but
escaped. When Morgan
heard the cavalry gzlloping away from his
vicinity he started soath with the four
men, and after several adventures and
b airbresdth escapes from death reached has
own E9es. GBoRSR L KUME2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

been Struggled into the Prison th-c1es
friendship and bribery. A southbound
train was known TO pass Columbus at Ills
a. m, and it was decided TO escape imfne-
diately after the midnight round of the
guard and reach that train On Nov. ~
Morgan learned that a prison inspection
would soon take place, and it was arranged
TO 90 out on the first dark night thereafter.
The night of the 9th was cloudy and was
chosen for the start. But here another nice
point had TO be gotten over. Gen. Morgan's
cell was in the second tier and had no pass
age to the air cham Der below, but the cell
of his brother, Col. Richard Morgan, had
been prepared for him for this special oc-
casion, and when the warden ordered the
prisoners to their cells on the evening OF
the 9th, the brothers, who were Of tho
same stature, exchanged places and walked
into the cells selected, with their backs 10
the doorway The warden turned the bolts
of the gratings without noticing the de-
ception.
A few minutes past IL o'clock the six
men assembled in the air chamber nerved
for the next encounter with whatever
should oppose their fight to Dixie The
only weapons they could command were
the case knives that had been used IN dig
ging, and which had become worn down
to the shape of dirks. a few inches OF
earth was all that lay between them and
the prison yard, and when that was reach
ed it was found TO be raining. The guards
had abandoned their exposed beats on the
prison wall and were hugging shelter In
out of the way hooks to escape the storm
The fugitives mounted the wall by the aid
Of their rope and graphing hook and en-
tered a convenient sentry box 10 exchanges
their telltale clothing for the new outfits
which were to furnish complete disguise.
From the wall they descended to the
ground by their rope and landed within
sight of party of prison guards, who stood
around a fire absorbed in conversation.
Gen. Morgan and Capt Hines then sep
arated from the others, went straight co
the railway depot, purchased tickets, and
entered the southbound train. Morgan
took his seat beside a Union major who
happened TO be On board, and Immediately
entered into conversation with him as tho
best means to ward suspicion from him
self. The train passed along under the
prison wall, and the laxative major ex-
claimed to his fellow passenger, There is
where the rebel Morgan is for safekeep-
ing"
YES" replied Morgan, "and hope they
will keep him as safe as he is now"
When the train neared Cincinnati Nor
gan and Hines jumped of, not wishing to
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
[snecial Corresnondence ]

WASHINGTON, Oct 27.-When the ladies
of the Chinese legation go out for an air
ing there is futter in the neiChborhood
Of Dupont circle Windows are thrown
up, blinds opened and heads and eyes
everywhere appear Children who have
been content TO play indoors, or at least in
side yards, now find it necessary TO go upon
the street. Eyez their elders suddenly re-
member that they have e!raads at the cor
ner drug store or the nearby grocery. The
ladies Of the Chinese legation out for a
stroll arc curiosites. American men and
women do not think it rude to stare at
these Monaghan ladies What the Mon
goiians think Of Il Is unknown, but they
do not appear TO mind il very much.
When these round faced, black hair Great
Srss first ventured on the street, they did
so with much shyness AID diGidence.
They wore wells over their faces, and
ventured but a few rods away from the
legation house Now they are holder.
They not only eschew wells, but laugh and
chatter in public like 50 many school girls,
and, like school girls again. feeling the
self confidence Of youth and liberty. they
stare at other people as much as other peo-
pie stare at them. o., they are rapidly
learning the ways Of the country, these
pink checked, club footed Celestial bellies!
A year hence we viii cy1ect to find them
riding bicycles aud flirting in the Circle.
Even now they Cos. ID .-i,t saucy glances at
the good looking young men who stare at
them, and toss their black heads and show
their white teeth at the slightest provoca-
ton. Moreover, they are evidently fond
Of ''guying" the Americans who stare at
them so much
Every day or so one may see some young
man or woman, or perhaps two or three
together, watch the Chinese ladies for a
lew minutes, and at closer range than
courtesy warrants, and then turn and walk
away, obviously crsstfallen. 1t is not so
easy to withstand the rilicule which these
high bred ladies from heathendom put
into their laughter, accompanied by sun
dry losses of the head and significant looks
IN the direction of the curious onlookers;
and though one cannot tell what all their
merry gibberish is aboIt, it is not difficult
TO imagine that they are cracking Jokes TO
one another about ths rudeness, the sim
phcity, the uncouthHess and the ungov-
ernable curiosity Of the Americans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

u T. propsT fos iriinG;s fr.e.Ss 20 ssk
for izr4tsfioss or Cher frfsotis 70 a hall
ssTs Ai-s Sherwood. particularly FER yoana
gs2tierlr- we1 are t11rane useu MoFs
prucsnee 6ECg4 b. e1rFciaeh Ia b<naf n
is4-ss. but fhs hsssssz Eas alNsJs tks priv
lsgs q SAYING th2s her hss y f1ii Il sks
dos ne ~lsh % invite ber fr1en1s frienda,
sad 70 osszss sho1lE - tzksa II tie ~
LlEzl ha po.ltxlT x4rea.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
eocnL ETlouFTTr.
A sarxsstioa 50 Prospective Est-rsal.sra
Pietarrsqas Mothsy Geese Party.

EuExeation 50 Prospesffvs E1t~rtalasra-
A Pietarrsqzs nothsy Geese Party.
Amssg picturrsqDs ard pretty szisrtzs-
nsats Of tia past EasnEnsg Tes Art Inter-
ebangs tslla Of . "Ao.hsS Gqoss p4rtys
which EsaY t1tsrsst prospective enter
tainsrz The costumes srpbraoed nnoas q
the eAaractsrz m HZthcr Cow" MELODIES.
from the king and queen Ia stag . goaz
Of Eixpercs" down 70 little Mas MuGes.
knova . fame fred hsr soeOunter vita
the spider. TAs hesGezs Hzs arssasd az
Mother SOose. vith her ta5fhfzl ND un1sr
Der arm Do Pep, Jack and SiIl, as
splsnaid group 81 be9Rzgs -iz rAZs and
taEs ard yeIys: RovEA" TIE king. a1een
sHd knAys 81 hearts wsrp sEnonx TIE rsst-
Ley thronz, and all The eoF.gznsa v-rs veil
chossn AID well sz,Tfsd out. The supper
was served On small tables sca.tsrsd abous
IN varsS5s 7rlaos~. TIE plAens wsss ersvn
- lo.z Ia the shzps q EIasii tsckssp. hsid
ia gildsd basksi IN tee hzoSs q Mo,h~r
Coose herzelf After EsypeS > ooslIlioa
Wa dsnoed, a. which many pretty faTozs
avyezrsd
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
In Barber Shsp.

Customer-When nay uncle dies I'll have
lots Of money.
Lady Barber-What are you going 70 DO
when you become full heir 20 his money!
Customer an going 10 hsve you shave
me fifteen 70 twenty times day.-TeXas
SiftinCs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

DR.. Koch was until ten year. ago an
obscure country physician lis practices
and his reputation did not extend be-
you'd tho limits Of TIA bttle tswn ~
Woa@stsin. place 20 email and unin.
poriant that Il is only with nu~h diGi.
Guilty ID can - foun1 ur~n ,-. .rsa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
Confederation.

The boys have bsen making a great deal
Of noise, and az last their father appears
with a strap, and seizirg Tommy begins Il
thrash hiE1.
Don't wear youzseH out. father" says
Tommy. Remember that Billy and John
ME have to get some too, Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
A DARING JAII.BREAK.
The ESCAPE OF MORGAN, THE RAID
ER, IN 1868.
A Passage Cut Through Twenty-three
Feet of Masonry by which Morgan and
Five of His ofcers Got Free and Scaled
the Prison Wall.
Icopyright by American Press Association

HE escape of Nor
gan, the raider,
from the Ohio
penite ntiary in
November, 1868,
was a bold break
for liberty. Til e
raid upon which
he was engaged
when captured
was the most dar-
in g undertaking
during the civil
war, and G en-.
NJ organ was a
noted fighter and
leader whom an
enamv w0uld
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
Couldn,t Have stood the Contrast

81 have thought Of one or two clever
things in my lifetime" said Willie Wish
ington, "but didn't say them"
"Why notF'
at would have been such deuced dis
appointment whenever opened my mouth
afterward. w sshington Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28

DOES Willie Pickens play the bsnto ~
ear'' asked one young woman - another.
No, don't believe be would dare 20 try
any fancy tricks ike thai with bis eAz.
be would drop ths banjo in aud lose IL %.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
Mjl}!la Esglr
THE CHINESE LADIES.
MEANING THOSE or THE LEGATION
AT WASH flGToN.

They Are PrePOssessi az in Appearance,
Robert Graves Says-How They Take
the Air-Little Feet ard Fat Hands.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
Aftrr rfaar YeAra.

Ms O'Flaherity-Your sister has an
other child Pat
Mr. o'Fisherity-Is it boy or girl,
a riri"
i-i- - - zs-- - ias, Life
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-28
The Xoioe of Exnerienea.

First Colesisn-This newspaper talk
about the brutality OF football is perfect
~ ridiculous.
Second Dirtc-Simply idiotie-hand
me the z-nicz- vii voz.--P7cz
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-26
YOUNG FOLKS, NUMBER.
THE GOBBLER'S Wall.

Here on one foot upon the gray rail-post
stand and look my old eyeglasses through,
Knowing full soon must give up the ghost
TO make holiday feast, without ado
And, oh, Bismilah, I am feeling blue,
For in a morning paper have found
That first-class turkeys now bring eighteen cents
per pound!
What though thelandscape bright aboutme lies
What though the sun it's gold nectar spoils?
What though the crow in sOmbre beauty flies
Into the purple glory of the hills?
My old anatomy has got the chills
/ know that soon I'll be stuffed full of sage,
And that is why my tears bedew the printed
page
My wattles soon will light the old sh-heap;
My pinions soon will make a kitchen brush.
subtle sadness sets me all a-creep.
Here in the bosom of the twilight hush
see the beauteous mind in crimson plush
Laugh at the feast in most exultant tone,
While with young Thingumbobs she snaps my
frail wish bone
TITS growing mirk and can read no more.
Goodbye. my wives and progeny, goodbye!
Soon shall lightly swing on yonder door,
Announcing that Thanksgiving Day is nigh
The cranberries are plucked, the pumpkin pie
Blooms like a full-blown tiger lily-bell;
Alas, alack, alas alack, alas, farewell!
B. X. MuDkittrick.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-26
John Bells Thanksgiving.

II was Thanksgiving eve, clear and
cold. The streets were crowded with peo-
pie hurrying along intent on doing their
holiday shopping.
The single market which the little
town afforded, looked as though it had
made ample provision for all the possible
wants OF the townspeople. Fat turkeys
hung in long rows, with ducks, geese and
chickens beside them; vegetables and
fruit we're piled up in tempting array,
and the smiling proprietor was doing a
fourishing business.
AS the schoOlchildren came to the mar
ket on their way home from school they
stopped with a noisy buzz OF admiration
to look at a pig that was in the window,
garlanded with wreaths and a lemon in
his mouth, keeping guard over heap OF
golden oranges.
Come, come, children, I can't have
you standing here. The people can't get
in or out. Here, take these and be off
with you" And the good natured mar
ketman tossed a double-handful of nuts
into the midst of the children, and laughed
at the scramble which ensued until his
double chin fairly quivered with merri-
ment.
The children shouted with delight as
they snatched at the nuts, and in few
minutes they were all gathered up, and
the merry troop went on their way again.
well, Tim, didn't you get any ?" asked
the man, as hesaw that one of theyoung-
est of the children, thinly clad little fell
low, had been unsuccessful in the scram-
BILE, and was walking slowly away with
an air of disappointment.
mo, sir" answered Tim, thrusting his
cold, blue hands into his pockets for
warmth.
Mr.. King looked at him compassion
at, ly for a moment. He was a kind
hearted man and had little son about
Tins age, a rosy, comfortably clad boy,
who had never known the want of any
thing that was necessary to his comfort
and happiness.
Perhaps it was the thought of his little
Willie that made him regard Tim more
kindly.
"Come here, and I'll make up to you
for not getting a nut. How would you
like this?'' and he put a big yellow Or
ange into Tins outstretched hands
ooh, thank your exclaimed the boy
his face growing bright with delight.
"Haveyou got your Thanksgiving tur-
key yet?" asked Mr.. King.
mo, sir, guess we aim going to have
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looking wistfully at the plump birds.
"I'lltell you where your turkey is, said
Mr.. King.
"Where?" asked Tim, eagerly.
"In the liquor store down at the corner.
Your Thanksgiving dinner, warm clothes
for you and your mother, and a good
many other things besides are in that
Place. You can tell your father said so,
if you like, and he knows it's true"
"I'll go and tell him right away, and
perhaps he will go and get them now" ex-
claimed Tim, and he started off on run
for home, clasping his orange with both
hands.
81 am afraid that orange is all the
Thanksgiving the poor chap is likely to
get" thought Mr. King to himself as he
looked after the Child then he turned
back to his customers again.
Tim burst into the rickety, tumble
down building he called home with face
radiant with delight. ooh, motherp' he
exclaimed, rushing over to the corner
where thin, pale-faced woman lay on a
pile of straw covered with an old blanket.
"Where's father?" he asked eagerly.
The mother made a gesture of silence
and pointed to a figure lying on the single
bed which the place afforded. The heavy
breathing showed that the man was
wrapped in drunken slumber.
ooh, must wake him." exclaimed the
boy.
''No, no, you mustn't disturb him."
cried the mother, laying a OBTAINING hand
on the boys arm.
"Why do you want to wake him, TIM"
she asked in surprise, for generally the
boy stood in such fear of his fathers
anger that he would hesitate to enter
the house till his father was either asleep
or away.
81 want him to go and get our Thanks
giving dinner" answered Tim. "Mr
King told me where it was, and Pm sure
father wouldn't be cross if asked him to
go and get it. There's a coatfor me and
clothes for you and lots of other things
in the same place, too," added the boy
gleefully.
"Where, Tim ?" asked the mother. won
dering what the child was thinking about.
"In the liquor store; Mr.. King told me
so. You needn't shake your head, moth
er, for it's true. Mr.. King told me to tell
father so, and he said he would know it
was true"
1t was so evident that the boy had lit
orally believed Mr. Kings words and
thought that the Thanksgiving dinner
depended only on the fathers willingness
to go and get it, that the mother found
| it hard to undeceive him and destroy his
happiness.
"Tim,' she said gently, stroking the
dark head that lay beside her own,
''don't you know what Mr.. King meant?
Here, let me put the covering over you,
SO that you wont be cold, and will tell
you all about it. Mr.. King didn't mean
that the dinner and all the other things
were really there; he meant that the
money which might have bought them
was there. He meant that the money
your father had spent for drink would
|
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-11-26

beauty" he said.
"We'll keep it for tomorrow and
have it for ouf Thanksgiving, won't we,
mother? [ will hide it here in the blanket
where father will not see it,"
"Now tell me what you learned at
school to-day said his mother, anxious
to keep his thoughts from dwelling on his
disappointment.
ooh, the teacher was talking to us
about Thanksgiving" answered Tim.
"She was telling us all about what we
had to be thankful for. She said even the
poorest of us had our homes and moth
ers ard fathers to be thankful for. am
thankful for you, mother, but do you
know, and Tim hesitated for moment,
II can't help feeling sometimes as if we
would be happier without father"
FLUSH, Tim, you must never say that,
nor even think it" answered his mother.
''Your father was one of the kindest and
best OF men beforehe began to drink, and
some day he may be so again. We must
love him" but she paused in dismay for
the man whom they had believed to be
lost in drunken stupor, rose from the
bed and rushed from the room.
John Bell went out into the gathering
darkness, slamming the door behind him
with such violence that the walls shook.
He had been Weakened by Tim when he
first entered the room, and although he
had feigned slumber, he had heard every
word that had been uttered. The child's
innocent words had awakened his long
slumbering conscience. Not only the
Thanksgiving dinner and the warm
clothes over which the boy grieved so
bitterly, but infinitely more beside, had
gone into that liquor saloon.
Only five years ago. he had neat,
comfortable home, wife and child for
whom his pride and love knew no bounds,
and the respect Of all who knew him.
How straight had been his downward
course ever since the day when he first
yielded to temptation! What was he
now? A miserable drunkard, whom every
one despised, with shelter that was IN
worthy of the name of home, and wife
whom he had placed on bed of suffering
by blow he had dealt her in his drunk
en- passion.
He had lost the love of his child even,
and small wonder! Conscience pointed
her accusing finger at him, and he stun
bled on through the darkness, trying to
escape from himself.
He did not turn his steps toward that
part OF the town where the streets were
brilliantly lighted andpeople were hurry
ing to and fro with light hearts and laden
baskets-he had no place there Hewent
to the rivers edge all unheeding the keen
wind which was unbroken here by any
obstruction, and threw himself PROSTATE
on the wet rocks. What could he do
better than to drown himself? He knew
in his inmOst heart that Tins words
were true, 1--WE would be happier without
father, and he resolved that they should
have the one cause for thanksgiving
which he could give them by freeing them
from a drunken father and husband, who
had dragged them down with him.
There was no chance now for him to free
himself from his enemy, He was bound
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20
GEORGE ALGEENON's MISTAKE.
Not a Sister, but a Mother, Would She Be to
Him.

Him.
George Algernon had loved her for many,
many moons, and at last he felt assured that
the burning intensity of his passion had made
some impression on her sympathetic heart.
Little THINGS had brought him to this belief.
Little things but then feather will tell the di-
rection Of the wind. She had asked him, with
touching interest whether he used cream in
his coffee and whether he and his father had
similar tastes. She had exhibited the kesnest
curiosity in knowing which of the two generally
stayed out latest at night.
After this last display of interest George
Algernon determined to put all on the venture
and declare his deep love and devotion. All
BODIED well at first and George Algernon poured
his tale Of consuming love into seemingly will
ing ears. The maiden blushed diyinely, and rs
she turned her crimsoned cheek away George
Mgernon's hopes assembled to the skies. All,
however. was changed when the maiden
whispered gently: mo, George, can never be
thine, but will be-
Don't shrieked the unhappy youth, don't
be the thirteenth sister to me, it's unlucky."
Il won't, George" continued the maiden, 81
was about to say l would be a loving mother to
you. have been engaged to your father for
some time and We are soon to be united, but
the cold night had swallowed up the broken
hearted George Algeraou.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-20

knife line starting at the bead and exsss6ine
down the boiy 90 within two inches OF she ~.
and then draw other lines, starting IRON -
Thus the slices can be extracted and hs>Pea
decently and uniformly. salmon 10 ssryed =
the same way. while blue fish should D a.
yided into two parts longitudinally, ne arg
bone removed and the body cut 20 - % I've
head Of pike should be offered 30 . lsdy-st y
the dsiutle-t part. Notwithstanding the evee
needful and piarant sauce il Is nice 70 servs
each plate with a slice u lemon and one ~
hard-boiled egg. the lemon being laid upon ne
hsh after the sauce and the egg upoa -
lemon.