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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
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| a Young Marsh Hawk in the First Stage.
of Life.
His legs developed nearly as slowly
as his wings He could not stand
| steadily upon them till about ten days
/ before he was ready to fy. The talons
were limp and feeble When we came
| with food he would hobble along
! toward US like the worst kind OF Grip
pie, dropping and moving his wings.
and treading upon his legs from the
! foot back to the elbow, the foot remain
! ing closed and useless Like baby
/ learning TO stand, he made many trials
before he succeeded. He would rise up
on his trembling legs only to fall back
| again.
! One day. in the summer-house. ! saw
| him for the first time stand for mo-
ment squarely upon his legs with the
feet fully spread beneath them He
looked about him as if the world sud-
denly wore new aspect
His plumage now grew quite rapidly
| One red squirrel per day. chopped fine
with an ak, was his ration. He began
to hold his game with his foot while he
tore it The study was full OF his shed
down. His dark-brown notified plum
age began to grow beautiful The
wings dropped a little, but gradually
he got control of them and held them
in place.
the hawk was now about FIVE weeks
old In day or two he was walking
or jumping about the ground He
chose position under the edge of a
Norway spruce, where he would sit for
hours doing, or looking out upon the
landscape. When we brought him
game he would advance to meet US
with wings slightly lifted, and uttering
a shrill cry. Toss him mouse or spar
row, and he would seize it with one
foot and hop off to his cover, where he
would bend above it, spread his plum
age, look this way and that, uttering
all the time the most exultant and
satisfied chuckle
About this time he began to practice
striking with his talons, as an Indian
boy might begin practicing with his
bow and arrow. He would strike at
dry leaf in the grass, or at fallen ap-
pie, or at some imaginary object He
was learning the use of his weapons.
His wings also-he seemed to feel
them sprouting from his shoulder. He
would lift them straight up and hold
them expanded, and they would seem
to culver with excitement. Every hour
in the day he would do this. The
pressure was beginning to center there
Then he would strike playfully at a
leaf or a bit of wood, and keep his
wings lifted.
The next step was to spring into the
air and beat his wings He seemed
now to be thinking entirely of his
wings. They itched to be put to
use
A day or two later he would leap and
fly several feet. A pile of brush ten or
twelve feet below the bank was easily
reached Here he would perch in hawk
fashion, to the bewilderment and
scandal of all the robins and cat-birds
in the vicinity. Here he would dart
his eye in all directions, turning his
head over and CHANGING it up into the
sky.-John Burroughs, in st. Nicholas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

have personal knowledge, that in the
same neighborhood. and under the same
weather and soil conditions, one farmer
has yield'of forty bushels per acre,
while his neighbor has less than fifteen
bushels-the difference in the result be-
ing wholly due 20 difference in farm
ing, There has not been a time in many
years when the diligent and industrious
farmer was so amply rewarded for extra
care and attention given to the cultiva-
ton of his crops as this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

With the departure of Sam Wood
Jim Brennan and one or two other
notables from Seward county it was
Hoped the contest rhat has so long dis
traced that community. and disturbed
the state, was at an end; but it seems
the hope was 4 vain one. Who the
leaders are in the late revival OF the
county seat strife is not stated, but for
the good of the county and The state
they should be transported. Whatever
of merit there may be in the contest pro
or con, there is a peaceable aud legal
way 10 settle it and TO resort 10 any
other method of adjustment cannot but
aGgra vate matters ana put the issue
farther from final settlement, to say
nothing OF the engendering of bad blood
that viii last for generations.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

International comfy may justly stick
Lnother feather In its cap by reason Of
the ratification by the senate of the Chill
can claims agreement, which was con-
Cluded four months ago at Santiago.
This is the sort of diplomacy that makes
for civilization and the higher interests
of humanity by broadening the sphere
of even-handed justice. Every such
convention between great nations affords
renewed assurance OF the speedy APP
proach of the mllenial day when the
nations shall learn war no more.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The net earnings of the railroads of the
United States for the past year were
$1,000, coo day. The capitalization Of
the roads is nearly $4,000 a mile. And
yet with such earnings on such capitali-
cation the roads insist that if they are
not permitted 10 continue their system
of discrimination in the matter of freight
charges they viii be bankrupted and
compe.led TO cease operating their lines.
Nobody believes any such stuff,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The November report of Secretary
Mohler of the state board of agriculture
is out. From 1t we learn that Sedg-
wick county produced the largest corn
crop of any county in the central belt of
the state this year, or $685. bushels.
Only four other counties, (Cowley 3, 5S2,-
$50, Nemeha $3.50, S4S bushels, Smith
3,956,C5o bushels and Washington 3, 557,.
S04 hushels) all in the eastern belt, sur
passed her.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

NO, said the young woman. 1T
can never he. I wish couId have
spared you tic pain Of this refusal. but
let me say
Don't SAY ron viii always be SIS
ter 10 me- Miss Ker3ciEh.7 BOWED the
disappointed E42n- Anything buf
that
No. Mr. WellaIonr.T she sid, geu-
tly- i an hardly Cd enough FOR that
8 But might be "a niece or something
e that lonG, you kaow. Chicago
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The southwest silver convention, in
session at Ell Paso, Tex, has resolved
upon the organization of a pan-Ameri-
can bimetallic association, with A. c.
Fisk of Colorado as president, and head
quarters at Denver. So tine meet was
not fiat failure after all, as far as Mr..
Fisk is concerned, at least.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
"a. .f.a-rn ,f.thod.

Brovn-And 30 that young WOMAN IL
going % br1ng an action for breach Of
promise against you? Did you ever
write any compromising letters 70 herr
Green-Sever wrote a letter 81 a1y
kind
BrOwn-Tben you're all right She
can't prove anything.
Grecn-Can't she? Whenever called
she got her brother % take snap shots
Of Us with bis kodak - Boston Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Mr. Crisp, it is said, feels hurt because
he was not called upon TO make speech
at the Reform club banquet in New York
Saturday night. The Chicago News
makes the point that Mr.. Crispevidently
fails to appreciate the unique promi-
nence which belongs TO any eminent
politician vino attends a dinner and re-
mains silent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

1t is suggested that a celebration in
memory of Izaak Walton, the gentle
angler, be held some time during the
worlds fair. 1t Will, of course, be pre-
pared for by long and arduous practice
in strengthening the Imagination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Why didn't Montana select Mrs. Lease
to be the model of that silver statue and
thus save all this bickerinS:s, But perhaps
they were afraid of the effect it might
have had upon the Kansas political Joan
maybe they think more of her as a
nonresident.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The Populists of Alabama asserted
that they would have the governorship
for their candidate, or blood, but Jones
went quietly ahead and was inaug-
urated: so the Pops have TO take their
kolb minus any grains of comfort.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The Washington Post is curious TO
know if Tolstoi. when he comes to study
the agricultural system in this country,
will devote much time 10 a considera-
ton of the crow and its digestion? Not
much, unless he decides to investigate
the obsolete and devote himself to lost
raWS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

First Boy-Crovn folks Is such fools-
Second Boy-iiow7
First BGy-Jus' hear EN- making al
that fuss cause the carbohydrates
smells bad since the rain They don,
seem 10 know 'nongh % hold theit
noses wen they drink--Good Newa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

For the benefit of these Americans
who don't understand the technique of
finance it can be stated that the silver
advocates at the Brussels conference are
getting the double-crossed razzle-dazzle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Every body calls goa 'colonei' Issf
that getting - be = good deal 81
chest1utT
\ earned the .itis, ar. b. fslthfui
servics IN the army. n SIS a chestnut.
ssr. it's one with a souId colonel -
Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
A Azsndne.E

Briggz--Thst girl you introduced me
% Is pretty slow.
Grigg%-Why, she said she thOughi
you so cleveri
BrigEs-Did she7 Yea. she's pretty
.low. but she gets there just the sane
Truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

1t appears that the English delegates
didn't forget their nerve when they
started for the monetary conference.
But there is no surprise in this-nor dis
appointment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

There will be exactly 142 new faces in
the next congress. OF this number the
Washington Post says seventy will he
Democrats, sixty-nine will be Repub-
licans, and three will be from the Third
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

w. J. Coleman of Minneapolis is the
inventor of railroad locomotive which
he claims will double the speed of the
old style engines, or run from 100 to 40
miles an hour.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The most recent political bulletin
names Isaac Pussy Gray as a probable
candidate for mayor of Indianapolis.
That is stand-of to our own Briden-
thai case here in Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The vastness Of the reorganization
plans of the Atchison, and the compare
tive newness of its managing officials,
have kept it in an experimental stage in
the mind of the public. Such impress
sion will be destroyed with the present
annual report. There is likewise no
question of change in the managing Off
cialS. They have set the seal of success
on their management, and proved them
selves amply able to look after the gigan-
tic interests in their charge,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

-Tsa2AE--''I am surprised that you
are no. t-~.Aer advanced Yen are ex-
tremely backward for you- age. Lit
lie Girl-'.Tes, "a Il Mamma wants %
NARY zlgstE~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The woman suffragists, whatever their
conceptions, have no Lease on the U. S.
senatorship. 1t is patent TO all that the
toga of that representive will have hip
r,nnlrnfs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Before extending unqualified sympa-
thy to Hippolyte it might be well to in
vestigate. Perhaps he was simply try
ing the Jerry Simpson plan of self-assas-
sination on the Haiwian voters.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
e'Ssysss ~ A>S~ k
WgtlIt!! saDle
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. EdIto,

From the squirt up of Western Union
stock it would seem that the Street
doesn't take George Gould for Jay.
But be NAV fool 'em.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The poetic season Of Christmas-gift
buying is at hand, when people try to
express varying degrees of affection in
graduated scale of presents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Physical training to reduce Mr.. Cleve-
lands weight may be all right, but the
ofice-seekers would like to know how
they are to reduce their wait.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

The orstor-This il a big hall n ell
with ono voice. HosT much could you
hear % nay spoccb7
The Citizsn-The frat eve minute. q
could hear frat rate. Then Loaf
coEsciousneza.- Chicaso Essss Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
JAMEs L.BRITToS Priest II. s CoBCnN. CASH
IsooPoRATED iss9.
Ark anSaS City Bank,
ARKANSAS CITY. KAN,
PAID UP CAPITAL - $4,000
$4,000
DIKE(TORS.

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ton. u = CouurB. ArEAasss CITY. E@a.. Gee D..
Erittgn. Essseas. =. s.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14
LITERARY NOTES

Madame Adelaide, tie famous tragedj-
enne. has written, for the Ladies Home
Journal, two important photographed
papers, in which she viii tell How
Became an Actress and describe The
.Ielhods Of Nv Art" Cardinal Gibbons
has completed what he considers one Of
the most important articles written by
him. II will tell tie complete story q
The Life Of Sister OF Charity. Tie
Countess of Aberdeen. who keeps eighty
servants ia her home IN Scotland. and J.
considered to lie the one woman IN
Great Britain who has come closest 20 a
solution Cf the servanI-glri problem.
wilI tell of her methods Of treating her
help. etc. in an article for the Ladies
Home Journal entitled How ! Keep
Nv Servants
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-14

Outing. tie worlds magazine OF anna
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tains al least one complete story and a
serial, together with articles on cycling,
bunting. fishing. riding. sailing, attn
le,ics and amateur photography *
celleni stories III every variety Of sport
and pasliine for men and wome8, girls
and boys, and an abundance O COCA
reading, give Outing 3 welcome 81 every
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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
THE HUMAN STILL.

One might wish at times to be a dis
ciple of Brudder JACKSON, the colored
scientist who holds that the sun takes a
diurnal trip about the earth, and who is
SD peculiar that he refuses to allow his
salary of $50 per month to he raised.
The modern notions and discoveries are
too often suggestive that Ignorance is
bliss" Here is an English physician,
one who knows all the new things, who
advances the theory that the human
stomach is nc better than small distill-
cry for the production of alcohol. The
fermentation when food is taken into
the system produces the intoxicating
element. This is essential to susie
nance. Life could not be support
ed without it. The idea that
alcohol is necessarily injurious to
health is ridiculed as the invention of
professional reformers and romantic
theorists. To be without alcohol in the
system would be starvation. This is a
shocking and discouraging view. While
one is foaming at the mouth over the
Ubiquitous nature of alcohol, it is pain
full conception that the fumes of the
dreadful stuff may be mixed with the
Mortified speech. If this scientist is
right, Nature has made great blunder
in its selection of an agent to perform
the digestive work. Perhaps, however,
Nature has made provision for all the
alcohol requisite in its operations, and
there will be no occasion to contribute
to the supply.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
AN ADDRESS ON FORESTRY.
What the Association Is Seeking
to Accomplish.

What the Association Is Seeking
to Accomplish.
AT the late meeting in Washington of
the American Forestry association
press committee was appointed to pre-
sent an address to the press of the coun-
try. giving summary of the forest re-
serve movement in the different sta ties.
The address follows:
The object of The proposed forest reserve
system set forth in a memorial recently pre-
sented to President Harrison by the Ameri-
can Forestry asso citation, is as follows:
1t is not the object to withdraw these lands
absolutely from occupation or use, but rather
to increase their usefulness and the sum total
of the productiveneSs of the territory, max
ing each-ac do its utmost for the benefit of
our people.
In the case of these reservations it is the
purpose:
To minimize the destruction of forest areas
by fires and the wasteful and erroneous
methods of forest use now prevalent.
To maintain and increase the lumber in
dustry by a permanent and continuous yield
of forest products on non-agricnltural lands
which under the present methods are laid
waste by fires and made less productive.
To promote railroading and wood manu-
featuring industries by providing constant
and increasing supplies of the raw material
from cultivated forests; creating a nome
market for labor aud supplies at these manu-
factories.
To cultivate and develop new growths of
valuable timber wherever the matured trees
are cut for the market.
To specially guard and protect the sources
of our main rivers aud lakes and thus con-
tinue their flow for the benefit OF the people
at large.
To prevent these lands from being taken
for timber only and abandoning them after
cutting the best also to secure bona tide set
Elements on the agricultural sections.
Nor is it the purpose to prevent prospect
ing for minerals opening for mines or other
legitimate and rational development of these
lands.
To attain these objects. the American
Forestry association urges not only the
reservation system. but at the same time the
enactment of administrative law which
will secure these objects and in a simple
manner to satisfy all local wants
B. E. FERNow,
j. o. BARRETT,
n. III. EGGLEsToN,
j. d. W. FRNcH,
E. A. Bowers,
Press Committee.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
He is No FIGHTER.
The Giraffe Would Never Win
HonOrs in a Prize Ring.

The flesh of young CRATES. and of fat
COWS especially, is excellent; there is
the least musky flavor, perhaps, but it is
not unpleasant. The tongue and mar
row bones are great delicacies, the
latter particularly furnishing the rareSt
and most delicious banquet of the
African hunter, according to writer in
Chambers Journal
Few beasts OF the chase are more
poorly endowed with means of defense;
but even the mild giraffe, when wounded
and brought to stand, will, if the
hunter approaches from the front, chop
at him with its fore feet, and a blow
from such limb is an exceedingly dan-
gerous one. | have questioned many
hunters on this point, and cannot learn
that the giraffe uses its legs in any other
system of defense.
At the present time the giraffe is
mainly sought after for the value of it's
hide, which, even so far up country as
Khama's Town (PalacheWe), now COM
mandS value of from e2 los to ga Us
skin. varying according to age and sex.
The hide of tough, thick-skinned old
bull. from an inch to an inch and
quarter in thickness, is of course,
the most sought after. When one
OF these great creatures lies
prone upon the VelQU, IL seems
as if enyeloped in a mantle of brass,
and the fingers can make no impression
whatever upon the carcass. Not many
years since the hides of the rhinoceros
and hippopotamus furnished ox-whips
and riding whips-colonially known as
sjamboks-all over South Africa. But
the rhinoceros is all but eXterminated
south of the ZambeSi; the hippopota-
mus becomes Scarcer year by year, and
the hide of the giraffe is consequently
in greatly increased demand.
A few years back there was a dearth
of sjambok hides, the price of whips
rose immensely, aid the giraffe skin
sold readily for e5 Or more. Forthwith
parties Of Dutch and native hunters
tlocked into the Kalahari, and scores
upon scores of giraffe were slaughtered.
On coming out with their loads their
hunters discovered that they had over
stocked the market and that prices had
rapidly fallen again. Most up-country
natives especially the Bechuanas, use the
hide of the giraffe for making the neat
sandals they habitually wear, preferring
IL for its strength and tOughneSs to any
other. 1t seems pity that for the sake
only of whips and sandals, and to fur
niSh the burter with meat and an ex-
citing form of sport. this stately Great
ure should he eXterminated from South
Central Africa, as it bids fair to soon be-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
THE DONNELLYS WILL DO
RE'CTER

In the earlier times the robbery of
stage coaches carrying treasures and the
mails was mainly confined to the over
land and mining regions. 1t has since be-
come an expanded and better organized
Industry. The postoffice reports show
that in the fiscal year ending with June
last forty-eight coaches have been held
up to rob the mails. OF these seventeen
were in the South. twenty-eight in the
West, and the other three in the Middle
and New England states. In no in
stance were the operators disturbed in
their enterprise; not driver or passen-
ger snapped even finger at the plum
derers. This is rather more favor
able for the operators than the efforts
directed at railroad trains and express
cars. Still, it is but the minor branch
of the industry. During the year there
have been S6S postoffices robbed. There
have also been 19l postoffice officials
charged with dishonesty. The latter
figures are not surprising or alarming.
They are not greater than in average
fiduciary agencies. But the robberies
of postoffices and mails in transit are
especially alarming in the comparative
safety Of the business. The postal de-
partment is properly exercised on the
subject, and it is hoped will be able to
devise some CONSTANTS OH this incon-
venient avocation. 1t is alleged that
investigations show that there are or
ganiZed gangs who work this field syS
tematically, with headquarters and local
inspectors to look up the most desir
able points to work. incidentally, it
may be noted that much labor and in
convenience is saved the gentlemen who
look for the valuables in the mails by
the thoughtful continuance of registra-
ton and a separate package. There is.
however, the satisfaction of being able
to follow such letters to the vicinity of
their loss. When the department is
asked to requite the loser, by virtue of
the extra fee charged, there is denial
of any responsibility. The government
is the only agency that undertakes the
role of the public carrier that can lose
things without having any settlement
to make with the confiding owner. Ex-
press companies are seldom robbed, and
then only under The incentive of great
booty supposed to be at the par
ticular point and time involved. Pre-
cautions are taken by the express COM
panieS that would have some imitation
in the mail service If there were re-
sponsibility. This difficulty will no
doubt be relieved when DoNNELLY
ana his political following come into
power and have the government take
control of railroads and most other con-
Germs that do business with the public.
They have devices for establishing ar.
tesian and high-fowing wells out of the
national treasury, and it would be wan
tonness not to repair the losses caused
by faulty service to the individual.
1t would be we'll to understand how far
the government will be responsible be-
fore the DONNELLY programme begins
to ODeraCe