davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
How to &c, Employment. on a Newspap.

How to Get I'm 81 oynent on q Newspaper.
1t is safe to say that half hundre d
men and women day make a tour Of
the New York newspaper offices trying
TO find employment. A good many Of
these are beginners, who have not the
slightest idea OF what newspaper work
is. They think il quite easy 20 write.
and are ready enough 70 do what they
are told If employed. Il is a weary
march up and down stairs, with always
the same answer, Nothing 70 do The
amateur becomes discouraged, and goes
away heartsick and weary Of the effort.
"But what shall | do once said a
young man 10 Joseph Pulitzer, after tell
ing the editor OF The World how well he
could write and how faithful be would
be.
Mr.. Puhtzer's answer always struck
me as good one.
81 do not need writer's" he said;
writers are plentiful enough They
can be found anywhere. What need
are young men of originality, and ideas
that VIII boom tae circulation Of ny
paper-young men of progress. who can
SEE ahead and VINO can make their oETn
positions by doing better work than any
one else IN their hns. 4 good idea il
better than letter cf Introduction Do
not go into Newspaper oE1tce empty
handed Unless ron nave something
good 70 sell keep away. Try 20 get Up
scuse Oyigsr-i. nnlqas ideas thas VIII
create a SIR IN Iae paper. That i the
eIny way TO Szcassi nowadays.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

Fifteen years ago the ''velocfpeds"
was the object of all sorts Of adverse
comment. Now, as the bicycle, it has
been thought worthy Of = place in the
details Of army organization, and, &C
cording 10 a London merchant, il has
moral merit as well. He says that the
clerk who comes and gees between his
home and bis Office On bicycle escapes
temptations encountered by travellers on
buses. and is better fitted for business.
He loses no time in waiting At stations.
The exeTtion Of getting home makes
him disinclined 70 90 out 70 clubs OF bill
lizard saloons. and for these reasons 10
thinks bicychsts TO bs morally superior.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

nounced, dozen persons should inn
mediateiy come forward with claims Of
priority. To a certain extent they are
usually entitled to some credit, but after
all it is not the idea, but its practical
application, which makes an invention
valuable.
This tendency has enormously come to
be considered as an evidence Of the de-
generacy of the present day, and this
very theory was advanced by some
writer not long ago, when Captain
Pierce, of New York city, laid claim to
the credit for the invention Of the whale
back steamer, the new style Of ocean
freight carrier This human frailty is
not, however, a plant of modern growth,
for almost all of the worlds important
inventions have been claimed by persons
other than those who promulgated them.
When Marco Polo brought the mari
ner's compass to Europe in 1870, hun
bred ship captains at once came forward
with the information that similar de-
vice had been used nearly seventy-fve
years earlier. The French also attempted
w R1OfO IlAcfS OOJOOy Va AOfOASC, a
poet, had referred to it repeatedly half
q century even before that. John Guten-
berg, who is recognized as the father Of
printing, had his claim disputed by Lau-
renee Roster, of HARLEM, who asserted
that he had invented movable types nine
years before-1430. When the Germans
1920 claimed the invention of gunpow-
der for one of their monks, Bartholdus
Schwartz, to whose memory a monu-
ment has been erected in his native town
of Frieburg, the English endeavored to
prove (and thought they succeeded) that
Roger Bacon had made it in 1870, al
though, for that matter, it is almost
certain that it was known to the Chinese
for blasting purposes at about the begin
ming of the Christian era.
In 1916 the young French phenomenon,
Pascal, illustrated at Rouen the theory
of the barometer. He was at once hailed
as an authority upon atmospheric pres
sure; he was believed to have proceeded
further in his researches and to have ac-
complished more than any one of the
brilliant men who had preceded him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

Every Newspaper reader remembers
how many persons were eager a few
years since to be considered as the origi-
majors of the lymph, which Koch stated
would cure consumption. AS soon, how
ever, as Koch's remedy was proven not
to be specific, nothing more was heard
of these people.
The invention of the electric light and
the telephone went through the same
routine, and the average man cannot
quickly recall the names Of the persons
10 whom the credit IS due for these two
great boons TO mankind.
OcrAvUs CoHEN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
docs LOVE FoRGETw

"Does love forget all it forgives?" once said
The fair young Greek, who sadly learned to
know,
Though much we love, we ne'er forget blow.
The scar itself remains, though pain is dead,
And was forgiven when the wound was red.
True love remembers, but forbears to show
The hand that only should caress bestow-
The hand that to sweet Waters should have led.
The perfume that in flower unconscious lives,
The light that paints to tints the dullest forms,
Are not more subtle than the love that warns
The human heart. From Him who much for
gives
It comes. A gift divine-a touch as yet
OF perfect love that needs not to forget.
-Woman's Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
A Remarkable Fig Tree

At the drug store of Mr.. J. N. Sprague
in St. Paul there is a thrifty fig tree four
years old and perhaps five feet high, which
came up spontaneously in tub which con.
tanned so oleander. The only way in which
its voluntary appearance is accounted for
is that it grew from seeds OF figs which
had been fed 70 a canary whose cage hung
ever the tub. But the most perplexiug
part of the problem rests on the fact that
the figs were preserved VIII seeds of pre-
served figs retain their terminating prop
erties' Sometimes, perhaps,-St Louis
Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
Hard on the JadSe.

Judge-Hsve you anything to say before
sentence is passed.
Prisoner-Nuthin, only / wouldn't be
here IL it wasn't fer ignorance of the law.
Judge-Your ignorance Of the law is DO
excuse.
Prisoner - 'Tain't my Ignorance I'm
talkin about. It's yours.-(iood News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

While cyclones and tornadoes are differ
ent phenomena, the former appear to give
rise 20 the latter Tornadoes almost al
ways break OFT, If at all, on the southeast
erly outskirts of cyclone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

Russian girls conceal their finger rings
amid the corn in the barn, and then bring
In a hen to peck the grain. She whose
property is first unearthed is supposed to
be the FIRST TO marry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
1t Was Heresy.

That's queer ground on which 70 put q
man out of the church" said Mrs Sprix-
gins.
what is."
"Hearsay. New YORK Truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

INVENTIONS
are cumulative.
This fact must be
apparent to any
one who has do
voted much CON-
sideration to the
subject. There
fore it is not sur
prising that, as
soon as any great
invention is an
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

More fruit Is probably imported into
London than any Sther city IN the world.
aad the trade "a. q course. oas % snor-
NOUS cineasio1A
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04
AN ARMY OF CLAIMANTS.
HOW INVENTORS ARE OFTEN DE-
PRIvED OF THEIR 1AURELS.

Whenever Some Great Discovery Is Made,
from One to Dozen People Allegs
Priority-some Historical Examples of
Great Interest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

PRINCE RUPERT IN his LABORATORY.
year before the "Starry Calico" OF
course Mr.. Lippershey did not make this
announcement until after Calico had
proved the practicability of his instru-
ment.
When Samuel Watt startled the world
by the invention of the steam engine, a
dozen persons at once claimed to have
previously conceived similar device,
while others endeavored to prove that
Watt had stolen the idea from Slavery.
Some went still farther, and traced the
invention back to Marquis of Worces-
ter.
Frederick Allen Winsor's inventions
of Illuminating coal gas and its purifca-
ton by lime were alleged by Mr.. Muir
dock, M. p, to have been made subse-
quent to that of some unknown person
who had submitted the plan to him.
Robert Cole, F. S. A., on behalf of Loui5
Paul, in 1873, disputed John Wyatts'
rights to the profits accruing from the
invention of spinning by means of roll
ers.
When Samuel Crompton's great in
vention, the spinning mule, was first
made public, numbers of persons called
attention to the fact that itwas a steal
from previous devices, and its name
"mule" was term of reproach by which
it was designed, to show that it was a
sort of hybrid cross between Ark
wright's spinning frame and Hargreave's
Jenny"
Robert Fulton's invention of the steam
boat was alleged to have been devised
by DR.. Cartwright, the designer of the
power loom, which has been truly called
the master Mechanic Of Cotton Ma
chinery." Symington, the Scotchman.
and others, are also claimed to have pre-
coded Fulton in steam navigation, the
only difference being that their expert
ments were failures, while Fulton's was
a success, which paved the way for some
of the most wonderful achievements of
modern times.
1t was alleged when George Stephen
sons first locomotive was built in 1914,
that Trevethick and Vivian had pre-
coded him, but the world justly recog-
nized Stephenson and will always do so,
because his locomotive, with the i'm
provements devised by his brilliant son
Robert, is practically the engine of to-
day. A dozen persons professed to have
successfully worked the electric tele-
graph before Professor Morse had made
it practicable, or, in other words, had
applied the idea properly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-04

Copyright, 1891. by American Press Associa-
toni
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
A GRAND ADMINISTRATION.
Department Routine Work on. Business
Principles by This Administration.

Department Routine Work on. Business
Principles by This Administration.
Special DiGpGtsh 10 he Intslt0eIeer.
WASHINGTON, March SIN the re-
view Of the work accomplished under
the two years of President Harrlson'l
administration, ended on the 4Eh Of
March, which was published last week,
attention was not sufficiently called to
the fact that more genius in routine
work has been applied under this ad-
ministration than any heretofore.
The accomplishments OF General Aims
worth, in clearing up something like
10000 pending claims and making II
usual and easy TO get response to re.
quest in twenty.four hours, whereas un'
der past administrations it required
three months or more, is but an example
OF what has been done in the way OF re.
form in a large number OF quarters.
When Commissioner Croft took the
Land Office it required from six montht
to three years TO have q contest passed
upon or determined. Settlers who were
E6Auy w plbNG uP Luo4A lGblupuGp buu
wanted title to their lands were sub
jected TO untold hardships by personE
who filed contests against their entries
Without any real equity in the claima
contestants in thousands OF cases KEPT
settlers from undisputed title for years,
often for blackmailing purposeg, and no
one can approximate the hardships suf.
fered by those who from one misfortune
or another wanted to borrow money
upon their lands, but could not do SO
because their title was contested and
they could not have the question de.
termined at the Land Office. This com
missioner Croft gave immediate atten
ton. Without any material assistance
from any direction he reduced the mum
Der OF standing cases one hall, and now
an honest settler can have justice with,
out any more delay than Is necessarily
occasioned by q case in county court.
One of the greatest benefits derived
now from the public service in the de
partments here comes by virtue Of there
being gentlemen instead Of Doors IL
office. One meets with prompt atten
ton and kind words when he has bust
ness in q department at this time.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
AGED lYOMANS SUICIDE.
Drives Her Granddaughter Into the Street
and Kills HorSeIf.

Drives Her Granddaughter Into the Street
and Kills Horself.
NEw YoRK, March S.-Mrs. Mary
Fleming, widow fiity.seven years old,
committed suicide at her residence in
Brooklyn by stransling herself. She
lived with her son Peter, aud her ten
year.old granddaughter, Mary Jane
Fleming, in a two.atory and basement
frame house, which she owned. Her
son went away 10 work this morning,
leaving her quite cheerful, he says. At
about ten o'clock in the forenoon she
told Mary Jane to go around the corner
to the grocer's 10 get some vegetables.
The girl performed her errand, but in
stead Of taking her own time as her
grandmother suggested, she hurried
home as fast as possible. She found her
grandmother standing in the doorway
which leads from the dining.Toom to the
kitchen. The woman had rope in her
hands and she was fastening it to two
hooks, which were secured in the casing
Of the door.
The child stood watching her grand.
mother, who seemed very much dis
concerted at her return. She tried to
send the child out again. This time she
gave her an errand to store several
blocks away to inquire the price OF some
potatoes. "You needn't hurry back, +"
she said, "but can stay out and play.
You may remain away IN hour il you
like" Mary Jane suspected something,
and she resolved to fad out what was
going on. So che positively refused to
leave the house again,
Her grandmother was exaspsrated,
and scouting whip beat the child and
drove her into the street. Mary Jane
then remained away until noon. She
then went home in fear and trembling.
When she entered the basement dining:
room she saw her grandmother kneel.
ing in the doorway, with a rope around
her neck. She ran out into the street
screaming. Several neighbors returned
to the house with her. Mrs. Fleming
had strangled hereeli, and was dead.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
THE AUTOPSY.
A Post nIortom Examination of the BODY
Made Saturday Night.

A Post Mort0m Examination of the BODY
Made Saturday Night.
Saturday night an autopsy was made
on the remains OF DR.. Baird at his resi-
dence. in charge OF County Physician
Wilson. in the presence of DR.. O. F,
stifsl, DR.. @. NJ. Frissell, DR.. Eugene A.
Hildreth, DR.. j. L. Dickey, DR.. E. O.
Myers. DR.. ]. P. Burnie, DR.. ]. A. Camp.
bell, DR.. Robert ]. Reed, DR.. II. P.
Baguley and DR.. Aschmanu.
The autopsy began at 5 O'Clock and
was not done until IL. Careful notes
were taken throughout theinvestigation,
and they will be preserved and made up
in an official statement Of the case. 1t
was found that the fy0t shot went
through the lapel OF his overcoat, passed
through his clothing and entered the
breast a little to the right ofthe medium
line, near the junction Of the Clavicle
with the sternum. Tho leaden missile
then pursued a slightly upward course
toward the right side, passing through q
portion Of the upper part OF the LETT
lung, severiDg In It's track the left COM
mon carotid artery, traveraing straight
course to the upper part OF the left
shoulder blade. This shot, ,seyerlpg the
carodid artery, meant certain death.
The ball was found embedded Just
under the skin near the left shoulder
blade.
In turning to go into the store DR..
Baird turned half way around and re-
ceived the second shot in the head.
Tho ball entered just under the right
ear, traversing almost a direct course
and coming out Of the left eye. 1t was
generally supposed that the ball entered
the left eye, but careful examination
sets this theory at naught. 1t was not
known uutilthe body was being dressed
for the caskeS that both shots did not
enter the head. The frat idea was that
the first shot struck the left eye and the
second made the wound under the right
ear, and the news that the fatal shot was
in the breast was surprise to every
body.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
CONDENSED TgLEGRAas.

Prince Jerome Napoleon is still very
III.
Firebags have made repeated efforts to
burn Leavenworth, Kan.
Fifteen hundred indianapolis carpen.
ters are idle because OF the strike.
Washington State has doubled its
Worlds Fair appropriation to 100000.
Many Canadian residents in Chicago
visited Canada and voted the Liberal
ticket.
Great raintalls are reported in the
South, and big foods are expected in the
Mississippi river.
"The Gondoliers" was played before
the royal family on stage in Windsor
Castle, Friday evening.
The Texas Parmers' Alliance is split
Into two warning factions on the Rail-
road Commissioner question.
Joseph Wilkinson, once a prominent
paper manufacturer, committed suicide
at New York by taking morphine.
]. Edward Simmons has been ap,
pointed receiver OF the American Loan
and Trust Company Of New York, with
a bond Of 100000.
The body OF Prof. Staten, Of Louis
vile, will be CrsmRtsd at Cincinnati and
his ashes scattered in the Ohio river, a
requested by the deceased.
William Il, Crawford, who Is to be
hanged at Decatur, ILL.,, for the murder
OF Matthias, has prepared confession fol
posthumous publication.
A colored bootblack at Boston, Texas
who had been put of q moving Texas
Pacific train, fell under the wheels ant
had bis legs cut of, has been awarded
$4,000 damages.
Frank Antsem, manager Of q Ohicag
livery stable, was arrested Friday night
charged with attempting to dispose o
5000 worth Of diamonds which he ha
found, He confessed,
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09

that could have died. Not that the
profession would loose more than by
the death Of some Of It's members, not
that the community could less afford 70
lose him than it could some other Of lis
citizens, but that DR.. Baird would be
here no more. DR.. Baird's personality
was q thing Of itself, q thing thst could
not be replaced. he was known every
where and almost to every one.
DR.. Meyers moved to attend the
funeral in a body and DR.. Stiiel an
nounced that Drs. Bates, Reed, Camp:
bell, Hildreth. Wilson, stiiel, Frissell
and Birney had been selected for pail
Dr.. FrisselI moved that committee
be appointed to prepare a floral tribute
for the members Of the profession. Dr..
Stifel appointed Drs. Frissell, Hildreth
and shearer to look after that matter
and to have the resolutions published in
the daily papers.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09
VOLUME XXXIX--NUMBER l69.

tanned at dinner the leaders Of the Cen.
| tire party, and the Emperor bestowed
personal courtesles upon several In.
auential members OF the ReichstaR. The
Governments demand was finally limit
cd to two gunboats. To.day'a division
In the Reichstag gave the Government
l2l against n.
The Constitution requires that To make
the decision Of the measure valid one
half OF the members must vote, and there
being one short OF that number voting
in the division to-day, the question will
be resumed Monday.
Since the Committee Of the House
heard OF Admiral Hollman's frank dit.
closure OF the admiralty project to raise
Germany to the rank OF agreat naval
power, the Reichstag has been thorough
ly alarmed, and it has been difficult 10
persuade that body to concede even
reasonable demands. It was painful 10
hear Chancellor Won Capriyi yesterday
evening plead the necessity for two more
sunboats to guard the approaches to the
Baltic canal.
DR.. Winthorst, the Centrist leader,
contended that the canal would not be
completed before 1898, and that the
building and equipping OF gunboats
could well wait. Chancellor Won Ca
privl asserted that the canal would be
opened in 1906, and held that Getmahy
ought to have vessels ready 10 protect
It, as It could not be protected by land
notifications alone. He would simrly
ask the members TO refer back the vote
to the committee.
AS a last resort the Government was
prepared 70 strike Of sufficient amount
from the installments allotted for the
construction OF four great ironclads TO
enable the naval authorities 10 build the
two gunboats.
On motion OF Baron Manteuffsl the
matter will again be referred to the com.
mittee Monday, the Government having
sustained decisive check TO Its am.
bilious scheme for a navy. The action
Of the House clearly declares that the
national opinion ia adverse to any at
tempt to make Germany great naval
power, aud that any contest with q for
aign power must be fought ont on land.
Emperor William 10 very much discon.
tented over the defeat of his cherished
dea OF q grand navy. His Majesty lays
he blame for the defeat upon he indis.
,retion OF Admiral HOLMAN in making
his disclosures and Chancellor Won Ga.
orivi'swant Of parliamentary tact. Ad-
niral HOLMAN has offered to resign the
Sscretaryship OF the Admiralty. The
position of General Won Caprivi is un.
lerstood to oe critical, although the
Emperor ought not to blame the Cham
.allor for following his orders with fair
display OF skill, or for the reverse in
2sichstag. succeeding the episode OF the
Empress Frederick's visit to Paris and
be msnacing labor conflicts. Imperial
sts consider the Chancellor as unable to
control the combination, and point to
lis early downfall.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-03-09

tence Judge Arnold directed the ladies
Of their families, who were present, To
withdraw. The men received their sen.
tence in painful manner, Pleitfer al.
most tainted as he turned toward his
counsel, who stood close behind him.
His face was ashen white. and his
parched lips moved convulsiyely for a
few moments, as he attempted to regain
composure. DUNCAN Is an aged man.
His face Is shrunken and his cheek
bones protrude as II he had barely es.
capped death by starving. frequently
during Judge Arnold's brief address, he
nodded his head In acqniescence to the
scathing denunciation Of the Judge, and
when the sentence was received he fell
back in his seat and buried his face in
hfa hoNI9