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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-19

This led him TO study the matter OF
longevity, and from various texts in the
Bible. especially the explicit promise OF
Christ that IF a man keep my word
he shall never see death" Methuselah
concluded that it was his privilege TO
live always, or at least SO long as ii
suited him.
He invented a method Of extracting
the gold from sea water and became Sc
rich that he could command all the re-
sources of science. Finally, on June %,
2S35. he collected his friends and rela-
tives. reviewed the changes he had seen
in his 969 years and suddenly, "nstu'
rallv as the morning mist is lifted from
the earth and dissolved in midheaven,
Methuselah Enoch passed from earth TO
the realms above"
The description was sovivid that some
of Mr. Helps hearers did not realize till
they got outdoors that it was all fancy.
Now his congregation wants to know if
that sermon expresses his own senti-
ments. and ecclesiastical authorities
want to know what he means by that
sort of preaching. He is a native of En-
ferprise. O., born June %, 1856, the as.
sumed advent of his Methuselah Enoch,
and his lectures on ''The Almighty Dol.
lar" "Kisses and Kissing" and Simon
Says Thumbs Up" have attracted much
attention.
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It was time for the kid Glove" slur to
retire. Four of Parsons Napoleon guns
were turned over to Maney's brigade and
the names of the dead Tennesseeans were
engraved upon them. Perryville nearly
used the regiment up, and as its recruiting
ground was walled in by Union bayonets it
went upon the field of Murfreesboro-or
stones Rivrr-Tenn.. three months later
with only handful. and was consolidated
with the Twenty-seventh Tennessee. retain
ing its own name Again it was in the sec
ond line a. attack. After the first line had
made some progress and started the bolts,
as il were, along Phil Sheridans front, and
got that impetuous warrior fighting mad.
Naney's brigade took issue with two of
Sheridan's bsxteries-Bush's Indiana and
HOughtaling's Illinois. Bush occupied
hlll ana his guns swept the open ground in
front HoughtsiinS was masked in tho
edge Of a wool between Nancy and Bush
The AiTSt and a couple Of other regi-
r2ents charged On Bush. leaving Houghts-
ling CT their flank for other hands 70 tackle.
Bush retired when he saw what WAS cora
ing and crossed 4 turnpike II his rear The
pike WAS inclosed by two high rail fences.
and while the Tennesseesns TEe-e
thinking how J.cklish * was gcinE 70 De
10 Climb them under FIRE. Roughtsliu,;
opened % fh- First WIKI canister and
shell 1t 60 yards His guns were 80
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SURGEONS TABERNACLE.

AS an educator and philanthropist
also his work has been great. and in the
private circle he was known as quiet hui
morist. Though "luridly orthodox" as
one critic says. there was nothing gloomy
in his nature. The Stockwell orphanage,
of which he was virtually the founder,
educates and cares for 500 boys and girls
at a cost of S50. eco per year. Many other
missionary and charitable institutions
have hourished by his support A rather
censorious critic once took him to task
for driving TO these various institutions
on Sunday. alleging the duty to let the
horses rest on that day.
"Ah," was the happy reply, Il am
under grace but my horses are under the
law, SO / give them their Sabbath on
Saturday" He often confessed his fond
ness for tobacco and maintained that q
good cigar rested and refreshed him
He recently presented an estimate OF his
work from which il appeared that he
had then delivered over 100 sermons
which had been printed, besides many
minor discourses. J. II. BE4DLE
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onds Shermans column became a mob,
some surging up hill, half dragged as pris-
oners, others sliding and tumbling down
hill to get away.
The Atlanta campaign found the regi-
ment still in fighting trim. At Kenesaw,
June q, $50 men were in the angle, since
known as the Dead Angle" when Gen.
Davis division of the Fourth Union corps
sprung an early morning assault upon it.
The point was mountain spur with steep
slopes, and no abatis, slashings, or other
distractions were prepared to aid in de-
Tense. Two brigades in columns of regi-
ments bounded over their own parapets
and rushed up the steep, not hating until
they met the unsparing fire of the Tennes-
seeans.
up, men! they are coming" was the
war cry within the angle, and men grasped
their rifles only to see the enemy closing in
at ten PAGES, the leader waving his sword
and saying to his men in tones plainly
heard in the angle: Come on. Well
take''- A bullet cut short the speech,
and the line dissolved under deadly vol
ley from "Tennessee's Own"
Another line followed, and another, and
another, until the riflemen in the angle
found their pieces too hot to hold. Two
brigade leaders and a score of colonies and
captains among the assailants, fell under
their craftsmanship. The Tennesseeans
had slight breastwork but no head logs,
and it wasn't the most comfortable feeling
in the world to see line after line of men
with determined faces pressing their bare
bayonets before them up the hill in a
steady, persistent stream. But there
seemed always little more left in the re-
sources of the Confederates, and at the
critical juncture, when the boys were
about overpowered and outdone, those ex-
United States Napoleons again poked out
their muzzles, growled and spit fire, and it
was all over with Shermap's grand assault
on kenesaw. The First lost - killed and
wounded and claims to have stretched out
ten times that many foemen in front of the
Dead Angle"
After kenesaw the Confederates changed
tactics and began to deal blows as well as
take. In the daring sorties led by Gen.
Hood in July, before the city fell, the First
paid its dole of blood for past omissions
When Hood turned on his hunters and
lodged bacF to the fair plains of central
Tennessee, the banner of the First tossed
proudly above the butternut ranks, and the
Maury Grays, the Guards and the Rifles of
Pulaski, Columbia and Franklin stopped
for a cheering word, kiss, handshake at
the old home, charged the guns at Frank
lin, and patted the Rock City boys on the
back as they stood in sight of their own
chimney fires along the trenches at Nash
vile, saying, Well help you get there
too" But fate decided no, and back they
went sadly and sullenly to Alabama and
across Georgia to the sea to head off Sher-
man before Richmond. In the great sur
render of April. 1865, 125 out of an original
roll of 1,l67 grounded arms TO the victors
they had buffeted so often and so valorous-
ly in days gone by.
GEoLGE L. kTLGER
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Not Old.

A ministers man" in Scotland was one
Sunday afternoon following MS master to
church, when the minister happening to
turn about detected an unwonted smile on
his face.
what makes yen laugh, James9 1t is
unseemly. What is there to amnse your"
"Oh, nothing particular" saTs James.
81 was only thinking OF something that
happened this forenoon"
"Wha5 was that2"
''Well, sir, don't be angry with me, but
you know the congregation are not pleased
to hear old sermons from you, and this
morning l got the better of them, any
way"
.And how was that, james," says the
minister.
well, sir, when we came out of the
church this forenoon L knew what they
were thinking; so says l, We'll, you cannot
call this mornings sermon an old one, for
it's not over six weeks since you Last heard
ft.'"-Youth's Companion.
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placed that Col. Field thought it must be
a Confederate battery firing by mistake.
His aids rode forward to see about it and
one was killed and a second fired upon By
HoughtaIing's supports. The men of the
First then lay down and piled their mus
kets into the wood. The ex-United States
Napoleon guns captured at Perryville
also took hand, having wheeled into bat
terry ON the ridge vacated by Bush. Bush
halted just across the pike, turned and
opened and in no time the rail fences be-
came a cloud of flying splinters. The First
made another squirt for Bush's guns, but
he was too quick for them, and they only
succeeded in heading off Houghtaling' s
remnant, minus % horses and 26 men shot
down. The First lost SO killed and wounded.
Chickamauga was the next fight of the
regiment and it was in the second line
again The last of its old enemies, Bush's
battery, had been captured by the first
line, and the Tennesseeans charged no guns
on that field They lost So killed and
wounded in general fighting against 1.-THE
Rock" Pap Thomas. At Missionary
Ridge, Nov. %, there were no guns to
charge, but work equally as exciting. Gen.
Sherman assaulted the Confederate works
on the mountain to turn them at the rail-
road tunnel. Maney's brigade was in re-
serve, and after the front line had taken
its share of hard knocks, the Tennesseeans
moved up to the barricade.
Shermans men were within fifteen PAGES
and had taken shelter there under crest.
The ex-United States Napoleons were ST.
fenced by the fire that literally rained On
that hillside. The spokes of cannon wheels
muslet stocks, swabstaffs, fagstaffs, any
thing large enough to catch bullet, was
splintered. The Napoleons were double
shotted with canister awaiting one more
chance. The men of both sides at the bar
ricades lay SO close that they couldn't aim
across the logs, and they pitched stones
back and forth through the air. Finally,
as often happens, the soldiers themselves
took it into their heads to end the dead
lock. Three companies of the First, acting
without orders, jumped over the breast
works on the flank of the assailing column
and started to roll up the Union line.
The artillersts on the crest swung their
Napoleons so as to sweep the ridge length
wise, depressed, and let go their grape
Then the whole brigade, soon followed by
another, leaped the works, and in two sec
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orator 1t is therefore IN the published
works of the great preacher that one
must look for the materials of his per-
manent fame.
He came suddenly before the world as
youthful prodigy At seventeen he
was a recognized preacher; at nineteen
he was settled pastor Of London con-
gre9ation; at twenty-one Exeter hall
was by far too small to hold the vast
crowds which focked to hear him, and
by the time his beard was fully grown
his name was known throughout the
English speaking world. Since the Ia
mented and eloquent John Summerfield
no preacher SO young has united suca
eloquence and logical power.
He was born June 10. 1894, at Kelve-
don, Essex, Of family Of preachers, so
to speak. His grandfather, Rev. James
Spurgeon, and his father, Rev. John
Sturgeon, were Congregational minis
tiers, and his own sons, Charles and
Thomas, twins. are also in the ministry,
the former already rivaling the fame Of
his father in pulpit power. Thomas is
an evangelist in New Zealand. Ths
family is of Huguenot French origin.
The great preacher was early spoken
of as IAN odd child" He learned rapid
ly, read great deal and resolutely
studied every problem he met with in
reading till he had arrived at some sort
of conclusion. He often puzzled his
father, grandfather and the members Of
their congregations by his searching
questions, and as too often happens was
so highly praised for his proficiency in
somewhat of youthful prig. On one
occasion he saw professed Christian Of
some prominence in rather doubtful
company and startled him with the
question, What doest thou here, Eli
jah?"
range. Besides an unusually good
knowledge of Latin, Greek and French,
he attended special schools in agricul-
ture and studied many such things as
pedagogy, oratory and the science Of
common life and machinery. The pop
ular religious works, such as pilgrim =
Progress" he almost memoriZed.
Except as an advocate of open COM
munion he seemed to grow stricter in
his views with Increasing popularity,
and his sermons on the future Judgment
are often quoted. as examples of the most
sublime orthodoxy. They were intensely
Calvinistic, intensely practical and fer
vent to degree that often melted his
hearers to tears. The actual member
ship Of his church was about 5000, and
in regular pastoral work he was assisted
by his brother. Rev. James Archer Spur
geon. His church has also forty five elders
and deacons, besides the secretaries and
other officers made necessary by the
democratic constitution of the Baptist
church. Since 1865 one sermon per week
by Mr.. Spurgeon has been published, the
total now amounting to thirty-six vol
unes. His Treasury of David" seven
volumes, is his next large work and next
in rank are The Interpreter" Morn
ing by Morning. ""Evening by Evening"
and many minor columns and pamphlets.
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A Remarkable Court record.

The jury on one case IN the Biddeford
supreme judicial court disagreed last
week. and Judge Virgin improved the
opportunity to give them his opinion Of
jury that could not agree in words
which hesaid he would utter slowly. as
he wished to measure them.
After scolding them a little the judge
said that in the eighteen years he had
held court in York county only four
disagreements had been reported out of
400 cases. This is not bad record. -
Lewiston Journal
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In an Almshouse Thirty Years.

A woman died recently in an aims
house in Maine at the age of one hundred
years. She had been an inmate of the
institution for thirty years. and during
that period she had been. it is said. laid
out as dead three times. but u each
occasion she came to life in time TO put
a stop to the funeral arrangements.
Only few days before her death an
undertaken was called to prepare her re-
mains for burial, but when he arrived
she was sitting up IN bed,
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ard Sarah EnOch
having an Old,
Testament sur
name, decided to
ample tie the
thing by giving
their son the cor
responding front
name, and so lit
tie Methuselah
became the butt
of all the witty
boys Of the place,
who called him
al iua Enravnr "
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Canada lacks only 237 GO squars
miles TO ee as large ss the whole CoE'i-
neus of Europe II Is nearly thirty TIMES
as large as Great Britain and Ireland.
and Is 5po.oss square miles larger than
the United State--
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In Case the House sAsGia Be on Fire
/ wet six handkerchief. ned w1I1o1;
folding over the face. Is complete secEEl-
~ against sa1ccstlSl from sEzoAs. u
permits free breathing and ~ tsas saEaa
tire excludes she smoke fro1a he lsaes-
New York Journal
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I'm y ESSEE valOr
away back in early
days would bear
exploiting among
"reminiscences Of
heroism, and SO,
although close TO
the border and di-
vided against it
self in sentiment,
that bre eding
ground of warlike
clans could not
have kept her sons
alOof from the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-19

Thousands Of men, women and chill
dren in the mountains Of Spain and Por-
tugai are busse1 il cutting cork Il Is a
domestic trade an@ it occupies whois
VILLAGES
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Wjflli zagle
A SERMON ON LONG LIFE.
II Was Preached by a Dakota Minister

IL Was Preached by n Dakota Minister
and Causes Talk.
The Rev. Philip E. Holp. eff Water
town, S. D., is a preacher of consider
able elcquence and an exuberant imagi-
nation. He can advance a supposition,
and the nearer being led on TO admit its
possibility, he can so on by perfectly
logical processes to deduce conclusions
which almost brighten one.
He recently preached sermon on the
life experience of Metauselah Enoch, OF
Georgetown, Brown county, @. Jacob
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Fair Weather Christians.

There are people who pr for showers Of
blessing who want them come without
sny ciouds-Ram's Horn
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john Cra.srord's Dog.

There once WAS a beautiful Newfound
land dog that was as honest and faithful
rs Tray in the old song. He wore coilal
and Oh it these words were cut, Il am
John Crawford dog; whose dog are youy
So everybody knew him. 1t WAS almost a
daily trick to lay penny on his nose ana
bid him, at a signal, tossjt up IN Tie alf
and catch it in his mouth. Then, coin
in mouth, he would trot OF TO the baker >
for q penny roll. One morning our hero
went to the shop but no baker was there
So he waited and waited and waited. Still
no baker came. By and by be lost his
patience, for dogs are mortal like the rest
of US. and resting his paws on the counter
he looked around. Then, spying a scone
which in his opinion was worth a penny,
he laid the piece of money on the counter,
took up the scone and walked out Of the
shop
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BRED IN THE BLOOD.
AN ELITE REGIMENT WHICH Be-
LIED ITS NICKNAME.
The Daring Work Of the First Tennessee
Confederate Regiment-ChafgingG Guns
and Taking Them Too-Hard Hits at
Rosecrans a=d Sherman.
Rosecrans azd Shermal

tCopyright. 1892. by American Press Associa-
ton. Book rights reserved.l
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Charles Haddon Surgeons fame is Sc
cure; but no other kind of fame is 50
evanescent as that OF the merely popular
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A NOTED PREACHER.
CHARLES HADpoN SURGEONS LIFE
WORK is DONE.

His Fame Is Secure, for Many Of His
Written and spoken Utterances Have
Been Erlbairned on tho Imperishable
Printed Page.
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orator. 1t is therefore in the published
works of the great preacher that one
must look for the materials of his per-
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a lock taxed As per cent. Then he
washed his hands in tin basin taxed
SO per cent, with soap taxed 20 per
cent, and wiped them on u brown linen
towel taxed 35 per cent. He went into
the dining room covered with an oil
cloth carpet taxed 40 per cent, and sat
down i'll chair taxed 35 per cent. His
wife pulled out II table taxed go per
cent. and spread upon it tablecloth
taxed 40 per cent. She put on it some
ealthenware taxed 40 per cent. and
white plates taxed 80 per cent. The
knives and forks We're also taxed 90 per
cent. The glass tumblers out OF which
they drank milk were taxed 1S0 per
cent, AMI the roof under which they
sat was taxed 90 per cent.
The good wife poured coffee out of a
cotfeepot taxed So per cent, and stirred
1t up with a spoon taxed 45 per cent.
The bill OF fare was not elaborate.
1t consisted of coffee taken out of can
taxed 55 per cent. bacon cured with
salt taxed "A per cent, bread made Of
flour taken from u bag taxed 35 per
cent, and the butter seasoned with taxed
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tered with q taxed lock, into Gods air,
not taxed yet. He then got some wire
nails taxed 100 per cent, and taking a
hammer taged 80 per cent. and a saw
and AK taxed 30 per cent. he repaired
n piSpen with lumber taxed 20 per
cent.
After he had finished that job he went
into the stable and put bride and har-
ness onto his horses, taxed 35 per cent,
led them out from the taxed stable to
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salt. After break
fast the farmer
put on a hat taxed
55 per c N t.,
walked over a
ta xe d carpe e t
which covered a
taxed floor, out
Of II taxed door
hung on taxed
hi ages and fas-
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never lets up on the taxing afterward
while there is cent in his pocket. Most
farmers and workingmen wear flannel
shirts for a large part of the year.
AT 8 o'clock he gets out of bed and
puts on flannel shirt that Is taxed 100
per cent This costly garment, for
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trousers. They are made of coarse,
heavy cloth, and the tax is made cor
respondingly heavy, SO they cost him
100 per cent. more than they otherwise
would. He straps them over his shoul-
ders with suspenders taxed GJ per cent.
and proceeds to put his feet into pair
of socks taxed 100 per cent.
He wears coarse, heavy socks, and he
must pay about four times the tax the
rich man does for elegant, thin light
ones. He then thrusts his feet into q
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which he paid
twice what it
could have been
sold for at a fair
profit. having
been buttoned up
with buttons tax
ed $50 per cent.
he proceeds to
put on a pair of
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ernment taxes, and if did would take
a receipt. But 1 SAINT remember any
thing about it."
A knock was heard at the door, and a
neighbor came in.
II am awful glad you came," said the
old man. Il want to ask you about the
government taxes. l can't remember
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price he pays is
the tax the gov
erninent has lev
led upon it. AS
soon as the farm
er is born the
government be-
gins to tax him.
If the baby has
the collie and his
mother gives him
n dose Of pare.
goric the govern
ment taxes it 40
per cent. and IL
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remember any
thing about it. I
suppose 1 must,
mother. Did you
ever see any gov
ernment tax re-
ceipts about the
house?"
What do they
look like:"
Il don't know,
but | must have
paid some gov
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where are the receipts for the gen.
eral government taxes" she asked.
Il never had to pay any government
taxes" he said. But q moment after
ward he dropped the receipts and sat
down in chair and thought for awhile
At last he said:
Il don't ever remember having paid
any government taxes. Imust have for
gotten it, but / can't for the life of me
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Cureu Wltn SdlC
taxed "A per
cent. (no rebate)
on a stove taxed
As per cent. The
old farmer came
to the house, and
taking a pail
taxed 20 per
cent. went to
fetch 9 pail OF
water mot taxed
yetb Wnlcn No
got from q pump
taxed 35 per
cent. He closed
the door taxed 90
per cent, which
was hung ON
hinges taxed 35
per cent. and
was held fast by
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They were his tax receipts. He hunted
up an old stump of pencil and called
his daughter Mary, who had been going
to the district school, and said to her:
Il want to call off these figures, and
You set 'em down and add EN- up. I
want to see what they all come to-"
He had his tax receipts for two years.
and when Mary had added them up and
"prcved" the sum, as she had been
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- -
a b o u t paying
them, but l must
have done so, l
know. When do
we pay them?"
Every day and
every hour from
the cradle to the
grave, and they
levy them on us
after we are dead,
my money behind
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taught in school, and she was sure she
was right, she said that the sum of all
the figures amounted to $l4057. But
the OLD man shook his head and said:
ut don't account for it all; it don't
account for it ALL"
Don't account for what, papa?" asked
Mary.
why, ali the cotton and wheat and
corn and pork and wool and beans and
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toll with renewed energy. They tried
the eight hour system-that is, eight
hours in the forenoon and eight hours
in the afternoon. But it was no good.
The profits grew still less and less.
Finally one old gray haired fellow sat
down and went to thinking, and this is
what he thought:
II have worked hard all my life.
have raised thousands of bushels of
wheat and corn, of oats and rye, of po-