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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
IMMIGRATION RECORDS.

From Scribner's for April.
The immigration business has come to
be so important feature in transatlantic
passenger traffice, that it may not be
uninteresting to give few figures that
show somewhat of its growth and pro-
portions, and also the method of hand
ling the immigrants. At least 50 per
cent of all the immigration to the United
States comes through the port of New
York. The board of immigration was
not esta blished until 1647, and previous
to that time records were rather loosely
kept. The official figures, however,
have been obtained, showing that be
tween 1888 and 1847, 1,063,5 67 imnli-
grants came to this country: between
1S47 and 1878 there Were 1888, 562; a
marked falling off in the annual average
occurring during the war of the rebel
lion; between 1878 and 1890, inclusive,
4,910, S64 immigration was heaviest In
the years 1881, 1882, and 1888, the fig
ures being Al ,064; 455, $50 and 36S, 1861,
respectively. The greatest arrival OF
immigrants in any one day was on May
II, 1887, when nearly 10000 were land
ed at this port. The greatest number
ever brought by single ship was 1887,
by the Egypt, National line, IN 1873.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

Mr.. John R. Mclean, of Cincinnati, is
a candidate for the Ohio senatorial term
which will begin with the completion of
Senator Sherman's term next March.
John r. Mclean is about the worst
choice that the Ohio legislature could
possibly make, and it is stated that to
get the coveted seat he will not hesitate
to knife Governor Campbell. John r.
Mclean, however, Yields tremendous
influence in Cincinnati, being the pro-
prietor of the Enquirer and having in
contemplation the purchase of con-
trolling interest in the Commercial Ga
zette. And this is not all; he will have
the backing and influence of the Stand
ard Oil company, and the country knows
what that has been worth heretofore. If
Mclean runs he will give his party
trouble-and almost certainly settle the
question of the governorship of Ohio in
favor of Major Mckinley.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

The grip is going to wind us up, de-
stroy us. wipe us out. So says DR.. w.
P. Phelon, physician and scientist of
Chicago. The doctor says that the grip
is caused by microbes of great power.
These microbes are increasing and will
return annually in swarms, finally re-
sulting in a scourge that will be more
extensive In its destructive operations
than any plague ever known in history.
The grip microbes cannot be killed by
heat or cold. They invade the blood and
tissues, and are in the air we breathe.
Last year they came in millions, this
year IN billions. and next year they will
return IN greater numbers. The disease
will every year become more dreaded,
until It will be feared more than small
pox or cholera. There is at present, SAYS
DIR. Phelon, no known preventive, and
the outlook is gloomy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

Reports from the western part of the
state indicate that Thursdays snowfall
was the heaviest for years in that Sec
ton. In some localities it fell to depth
of three feet on level, and in others it
drifted as high as eight and ten feet
Local travel was entirely cut off for a
day or two, but the warm sunshine of
Friday and yesterday has disSipated it
very rapidly. Contrary to first reports
sent out, there has not been much suffer
ing on account of the snow. The tenn
perature was not severe and stock being
in good condition generally, with as
much feed as it required, comes through
all right.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
SOPPIN' DE PAN.

/ mem bers mighty well de time,
Way back in ole Virginny,
When nanny war slave. an me
4 little pickaninny.
An den dsr was my brudder Pete,
De creates darkey TO Ter eat!
Den der was Abe, an dar was Lem,
nebber saw de beats Oh dem;
But best of all was sister Ann,
Who useter hep me sop de pan!
My many war a slave, yo' know.
An he ped de whfte-house misses;
She nus white chillun same as black,
An cove'd dem with KISSES.
She raise young massa, TO de wa;
/ wisht dey haddent freed us, TO-
We's had ha ID times sence dem OLD days
Leastway. OATS what my nanny says
] guess OATS so, fo' bless de LAM
'1aint no good now 10 sop de pan.
Dem gran ole times wen Use a chile.
Dey sets my eyes winkin.
Wen ! sets down befo' the fab,
An git ter thinkin', thinkin;
DE cabin walls light up agiu.
De darkeys come a troopin' IN:
De days wo'k done. an dey is glad.
Fo' hot hoe-cake am not so bad;
VILE nanny fried de bacon an
Die stan In by ter sop de pan.
Dem gran ole timesl de banjo SCUM,
De bones dey went a whackin';
De way dem darkeys danced aroun',
Jes' sot dem j'ice a-crackin'.
De darkeys made dem qua'tahs ring
Wild banjo. bones, an fiddle string;
Dey got enough ter eat an weah,
An TO de res dey diddeut ca'e,
An as to- me, yo' understsn',
Use happies' wen sop de pan.
/ dOan lib in a cabin now,
doau liu in Nirginny;
All how Lbs, les dunno
haiEt no pickaninnyl
Use les an ole white ushin' mig,
Oar hsint 10 one dat Minis fig
Ef I should lib. Of should die,
Wat am de re'son? doan know why;
I'd glib million aker o. lam
Ter be chile an sop de PAM
-T0UN w RFEy
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do hereby certify that the above an
& Funny APPOINTMENT

From TIE Addison Champion
The appointment of W. II. Mitchell OF
Newton as one Of the railroad commits
sioueTs Of tie state, vice Judge Hnmph-
rev, would seem, on its face, funny
appointment, as he Is and has been for &
number Of year. in the employ OF the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Re road.
The Champion, however. has NJ DISPOSE
ton 10 throw cold water on him before
he has been tried, but viii hope that he
may be the right man in the right place,
and that he viii work IN the interest OF
Justice. not only 10 the railroad conpa-
mics. but 10 the people Of the state, whose
zeryau1 he VIII p>
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

If an artist were asked to paint the
most beautiful picture he could imagine,
he would portray home in Kansas, sur
rounded by trees, at the close of warm
summer day when the occupants of the
home are returning from the labors of
the day And to complete the picture the
artist would place the housewife and little
ones sitting and reclining upon the green
sward meath the shade Of over hanging
boughs, watching and waiting for the
returning loved ones. Such a picture
would needs fill the soul with emotions
of gladness and goodness. Moral:-Go
and plant some trees about your home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
RESURRECTIoN-FoR A CHILD.
BIT NAN W. H.

Now the little violet.
Pushing back its hood,
Peeping at the sunlight,
Murmers, God is good"
See the tiny grasses
Bristling everywhere,
Eagerly they're drinking
Gods elixir air.
Tired they of summer,
So they went to sleep;
This a resurrection
From a dreamless sleep.
Soyou see, my darling,
''To be born again.
With the grass and flowers,
l can make more plain.
And his human flowers
Need that deep repose,
And tits sweet and welcome,
Death is kind-God knows.
Always, after labor,
There should be a rest,
When it comes, Obi fear not,
God always knows best.
And the rose will blossom,
The same, and not the same,
There's future life, dear,
The same, and not the same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

The Topeka Journal prints the Fort
Scott Monitors criticism of the
EAGLES criticism of the scheme
by which a congress of western
states is called to be held at Kansas City,
Mo-, but the Journal doesn't say word
about the EAGLES rejoinder to the Mon
itor. 1t daresn't publish it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

Here is a conflict between two editor
ial minds. Mr.. Halstead says that, in
the event of free coinage, "our gold will
be discarded" Mr.. Dana, on the other
hand, says that gold will command a
small premium. Was gold discarded or
at premium when the minis of this
country were open to the free coinage of
silver? If not, why not? And if not,
why should such things happen now?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

His holiness, the pope, having pro-
nounced the apostolical benediction upon
the worlds fair. the work Of construc-
ton and general preparation may now
proceed with a rush-and will have to
rush to be ready in time. The affair
cannot but be a success.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

There are five candidates for mayor OF
Chicago. The truth is Chicago will need
five mayors during the session of the
worlds fair, even if Carter Harrison,
"'the best moyor Chicago ever had, )"
were one of them,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
Poz. Onc;al Trihute-

The Lawrence Record is not satisfied
with the new member of the board OF
railroad commissioners. IL thinks: "Of
the members of the state board of rail-
road commissioners, Judge Humphrey
was the most thoroughly equipped, and
therefore, the most useful. a profes-
sional lawyer, deeply thoughtful and
most industrious man, he was an ideal
public servant"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

The auditor of state has commenced
issuing warrants for money appropriated
to provide seeds for western Kansas
farmers. The farmers seem bent on
making the most of the opportunities as
they present themselves to get on their
feet again
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

The Washington Post, in abiding to
the invitation to Governor Hill to de-
liver the Grafton at the unwilling of the
Grady monument, calls the Atlanta
Constitution "that indefatigable Hill
clacuuer." Shades of Grady, defend it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

An exchange, in speaking of a rail-
road collision in the western part of the
state day or two ago, gave an account
of the damage done to the railroad prop
ertv, but failed to learn whether any
person or how many were killed or
injured
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

Few clubs can boast of membership
representing total of wealth of one
thousand million dollars, and yet that is
what is claimed for the New York Driv-
inc club
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
HOW THE viOLETs COME.

know-blue, modest violets.
Cleaning with dew at morn
know the place you come from
And the way that you are born!
When God cuts holes in heaven,
The holes the stars look through, 3
He lets the scraps fall down to earth
The little scraps are you.
WILL S. FAIRS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
Not of the Old Crowd.

From the A;chtsoa Patriot.
The oldest Democrats are asking "Who
is Mitchell, the new Democratic member
of the board of railroad commissioners:
They never heard OF him in the counsels
Of the party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
And a Pretty Good Record.

From the Newton Republican.
The Rev. Mr.. Hall, of the Methodist
church of FL Dorado. last year perform
ed forty-fve marriages and forty-fve
baptisms. That was pretty close fgur
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

The question that is now Fostering the
patriotic Texans s,will the New England
governors likewise refuse to accept the
bounty on maple sugar? Guess not.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
Wj1}!ilsls Eagle
n. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.
II. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

An eastern exchange informs us that
Lieutenant Governor Jones Is not
a-freight Of Hill. Does this imply that
Hill. he don't pay?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29
INTERESTING TO ATTORNEYS.

The following act was passed by the
late legislature as house bill No. 12S, to
amend section 457, chapter so, of the
general statutes of 1868, in relation to
civil procedure, the effect of which is to
empower attorneys in cases of publica-
ton of sheriff's sale to designate the
paper in which it shall appear:
Be it enacted by the legislature Of the
state of Kansas:
Section I. That section 457. general
statutes of 1853, be and the same is here
| by amended SO as to read: Section 457.
Lands and tenements taken on execu-
ton shall not be sold until the officer
cause public notice of the time and place
of sale to be given, for at least thirty
days before the day of sale. by adver-
tisement in some newspaper regularly
printed and published and having a gen.
eral circulation in the county, to be des-
| ignated by the party ordering the sale,
or in case DO newspaper be printed In
! the county, to some newspaper
| in general circulation therein,
| and by putting up an advertisement on
the court house door and in five other
public places in the county, two OF which
| shall be in the township where such
without such advertiser MT shall be set
aside, on motion. By the court to which
the execu ion is returnable. And no
| greater sum shall be taxed as costs for
advertising in any case than the amount
received, or to be received, by the pub
| Usher, printer or editor Of the paper
doing the printing. and which shall not
exceed the amount prescribed by law
| for such publication.
Sec. 2. That section 457, chapter 50,
general statutes Of 1868, is hereby re
| pealed.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and
| be in force from and after Its publication
in the official state paper.
Approved March II, 1921.
/ do hereby certify that the above and
| foregoing is trre and correct copy OF
| the original enrolled bill now On file
in nv office.
| In testimony whereof / have bereunto
subscribed nv name and affixed
| seal my official seal. Done AZ To-
| peke, Kansas, this 18th day Of
March, 4. D. 1891.
WILLIAM d. HIGGINS.
! Secretary of State.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

For the Eagle
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-29

ing club.
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Swift Fiiian Sailing Craft.

We saw to windward a native boat
bearing down upon US under full stress
of sail. A Fijian boat is made of hol-
lowed cocoanut log, sharpened at both
ends. About ten feet on one side of il
is placed long and slender log of lighter
wood, both parts of the craft being at
once connected by and supporting a
raised platform of bamboo. Such a
boat floats on the water like a cork, and
offers no more resistance than racing
shell. A mast set in the center OF the
platform supports n triangular sail of
mating, with the base of the figure up
most. a very top heavy effect is thus
produced, but nothing can overturn the
light vessel owing to the breadth of its
base, and it flies through the water like
the wind.
The catamaran that pursued rs easily
kept up with the launch, although we
drove it at full speed to keep ahead, and
with the huge, Inisshapen mat sail flap
ping and rolling like great bats wing
as the boat thrashed through the pillows,
and sent showers of spray over the glis-
tening bodies of the dozen natives who
stood or squatted upon the deck, the pict-
ure was something fascinatingly strange
and barbaric and never to be forgotten.
When the boat was near us our launch
ran under a jutting point, where thickly
clustered palms cut of the wind, and the
catamaran becoming becalned got out
oars and Turned in for the shore. Cor
Boston Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-04
MAY GET THE SINGLE STAR.
Anticipated Promotion of Colonel For
syth to a Brigadier GeneraIship.

syth to a Brigadier GeneraIship.
Noted for long line of meritorious ser
vices in the field, commander of the largest
government post in the United States:
colonel of the Seventh cavalry, made IA
nous by Custer, and in command Of the
regulars at the battle of Wounded Knee,
the most severe engagement with Indians
in recent years, James William Forsyth
has been prominent figure in army cir
cles during the past few months. His be-
ing relieved of his command by General
Miles while in the field after the battle OF
Wounded Knee, Dec. 90 1890, for alleged
cruelty in ordering his soldiers to fire on
the women and children, was discussed the
nation over. The investigation of the war
department was followed by his reinstate-
ment and the finding that 1.-THE evidence
shows that great care was taken by the
officers and men to prevent unnecessary
killing of Indian women and children, and
that Colonel Forsyth's conduct was well
worthy of commentator" He at once re-
sumed his place in command of Fort Riley.
Kansas.
Colonel Forsyth was born at Maumee,
D. He was graduated from West Point in
1856. One year later he married the daugh-
ter of William Dennison, Ohio's war gov
srnor Mrs. Forsyth died at Fort Riley
three years ago.
At the breaking out of the war the
young West Pointer had already seen
something of military service. He was at
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-04
Simple Health Exercises.

At recent meeting of woman's club,
where paper on Exercise and Gymnas-
tics" had been read and discussed, one of
the members gave her fellow members the
benefit of an experience of her own 1t
was her habit, she said, when walking, to
take as few inhalations as possible and
hold them to the last second. 81 draw a
deep breath, walking very rapidly when /
have filled my lungs, and do not take an
other until l have reached a certain point
in the block. BY practice am able to get
on with perhaps three inhalations through
long block. The result is exactly as if l
had been running hard. My blood tingles
ell over me, and l seem to have brought
every nerve and muscle into active play.
In this way a short walk, if only to the
elevated station or to catch car a block
away, gives me a great deal of condensed
exercise"
A second member of the club supple
mented this with the case of a well known
physician, who told her that he made
practice invariably to hold his breath when
crossing street. He had become so ad-
dicted to the habit now that he did it in
stinctively, filling his lungs involuntarily as
he stepped on a crosswalk. Some months
of this practice had noticeably expanded
his chest measure.-Her Point of View in
New York Times
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The Inn in Literature.

The social importance OF the inn IN
days of old is proved by the conspicuous
position i. holds IN our fiction and poetry.
The Canterbury Tales" of Chaucer
start from an i'm. along with the motley
company Of pilgrims bound for ST.
Thomas shrine. 20 whom the genius OF
the poet has given an immortal life. rs
site and name, the Talbot or eta
bard, y still preserve the memory Of the
famous inn thus associated with our first
great English poem. liz was not, how
ever, until the reign of Elizabeth that
the tavern attained 10 s permanent place
in literature, Rejecting the important
place it held in lie daily life ~ the
people.-Al the Year Round.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-04
LIQUID Polish for Silver, Etc.

Four parts of washed pipe clay and one
of purified tartar, intimately mixed and
made into liquid by adding water, is a
formula Cor a polish for silverware and
plate glass given by the Neurological Re-
view which adds: The best agents for clean
ing silyerware are all substances which
come under the head of carbonates of lime,
such as precipitated, not prepared, chalk,
burned hartshorn, etc. Precipitated chalk
when in an inpalpable powded mixed with
water Will make a fluid which viii instantly
remove tarnish from silver or platedware
without scratching the most highly polish
Cd surfaces
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-04
Held by EtiQuett4,

When Dom Pedro, then emperor o.
Brazil, was entertained at the White
House he had been told by confused
senator that it would be expected that
he, the emperor, should be the last oil
the guests TO depart.
The presidents wife, however, inform.
ed her other guests that they would be
expected to follow, not precede, the
royal party in leaving the house
The result was that no one dared TO GO
for fear of breach Of etiquette. But al
o'clock in the morning a tired woman
pretended illDess and the deadlock was
broken.
Great is etiquette, but common sense
is sometime allowable. - Washington
Anthropologist.
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not without honor in the state where he
has been stationed for the past six years is
proved by the unanimous adoption by the
Kansas legislature of the following reso
lutions:
Resolved, That the president of the United
States be respectfully requested TO nominate
Colonel Forsyth for well merited promotion &c
the position Of ,brigadier general, 10 FL the va
cancy soon to occur.
Resolved further. That engrossed copies OF
these resolutions, duly signed by the officers OF
the senate. be forwarded TO the president, to
each of our senators and representatives in
congress, and to Colonel Forsyth.
CHARLES MoREAU HARGER-
Strangely ForxetruL.
A poor memory for names and faces is
a serious disadvantage to a clergyman.
Dr.. John Hall was leaving his house in
Fifth avenue not long ago, when he saw
young man looking at the numbers on
the doors. From something in his dress
and manner DR.. Hall concluded that he
must be recent immigrant from the
Emerald Isle, and therefore a fellow
countryman.
The stranger was evidently at loss.
and DR.. Hall asked him if he could be of
any assistance.
81 am looking for DR.. John Hall"
said the young man.
Il am he" modestly replied the cler.
gyman.
"Are you DR.. Hall!"
~ am"
Odd you come from IrelandT'
81 had the good fortune to be born
there"
The stranger looked at him for mo-
ment. Don't you know me, DR.. Hall?"
said he.
II regret TO say that l cannot place
you at this moment, though l may have
seen you before"
''Well, think you have. Why, you
baptized me twenty-five years ago in the
old country. and yet you have forgotten
me entirely"
sit was not time for levity," said
DR.. Hall afterward, in relating the incl
dent; otherwise / might have reminded
the young man how strange it was that
he should have forgotten the face of one
who had sustained such an important
relation to him in his infancy. New
York Tribune.
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~ W Lew. Pre- Aw silfr.r vt-. pr,
a Walker CrsAisr il ? ETs1.cT as. CAaAirr
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'MELOPE,

No Daniel sat in Judgment then,
No prisoners friend stood by;
The Lord. Who heard Spsannah's prayer.
Seemed sleeping In the sky;
And hatred had but one decree,
Relentless to condemn.
Alas. that day for Melope,
Tho maid Of Bethlehem
They piled the fagots high in sight
OF half the gaping town;
Her eyes but saw In silent fright
Her fierce accusers' frown.
Then. shrinking, from the earth she raised
Her face, unstained with shame.
The pte was Lit, the death fire bIazed.
And wrapped her form in fame.
In vain. Its rage could only flush
der check with holier charm;
Like angel in the burning bush.
She stood untouched and calm.
When. loi dor Heaven was not asleep)
The flames that flashed in air.
Blown out Is by whiriwind's sweep,
Had left but embers there.
Her false accusers fed amazed;
The thronging watchers call:
The maid is pure! The Lord be praisedi
She did no wrong at ALL
And awed by her divine defense
They hasted rev'rently
To bear the gentle martyr thence,
BY Gods own sign set free.
But where the fire had round her burned
They caught fragrance sweet,
For all the living Goals were turned
To roses at her feet.
Her innocence perfumed the place
Where SANDER sought her doom,
And over Hates malignant face
Smiled Virtues tender bloom.
o Meiopel thy trial. cast
In sterner times than ours,
Hath left unwithered from the past
Thy beauteous martyr flowers.
Still for thy wrong by Heaven redressed
In sweet red roses flame
The embers Of that fiery test
That saved thy sanity name
Rev. Theron Brown in Harper's Bazar.