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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06

night on shore. Under thie Midgc sy,-
TEN, says the New Ysrk Pcst, as soon
- ship arrives in port. board 81
trade offcsr, specially appointed for,
tho purpsec, boards her, and, after as
pertaining how many hasds wish %.
proceed home without aelsy. obtains
from the master particulars a. To the
wages due and the deductions charge
able to the men. Each seaman, after.
vouching for the accuracy Of his eel
count by signing IL. receives ..
ticket for his destination with q snalp
advance 20 defray minsr travelling ex-
penses, and leaves for home - soon
"a bis services can be dispsnscA With
on board ship The balance Of wages
due TO him Is forwarded by the board
of trade officer. and thus his earnings
have a chance Of fesci.i.S his fssily
instead Of sllinS the pockets Of the
crimps- The superintendent Of nsr-
camille marine 81 Gravesend has been
sent TO Dunkirk 70 make tia necessary;
for tie Introduction %
the system, and If successful there.
II viii be ezte nded u, other pores- IL
is estimated that between tsz and
1928 British saiiors were robbed OF
two hundred thousand pounds In Dun
kirk alone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06

that royal pastime may be likened "a
the increase in speed and sccommo-
dation in ocean steamships, for while a
few yachtsnen still cling to old models
and primitive ideas the majority have
been marching on with the times, and
setting q pace for speed.
In the steam yachts that we have to-
day in this country may be found the
finest and speediest craft ever
Launched. It is few years ago that
twenty miles an hour was considered
exceedingly fast time for steam yacht
remember when my steam yacht Hen
rietta travelled from Catskill to Sandy
Hook 133x miles in six hours and
forty minutes, an average of 20I< miles
per hour. That was in September, 1856,
and this record was then believed to be
phenomenal. But the Norwood, nv
new steam yacht, has made a mile
over . rowing club course in one
minute and fifty-eight seconds She
has raced down New York bay against
the fast Sandy Hook steamer Mon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06

A scientific Journal tells this story a
frogs cunning. 4 brood o: chickens
was fed with fnoistensd meal in sss-
GERS. and when the dough sonred lit
tie il attracted a large number %
flies An observant tosd bad evld~ns-
IL noticed this and every csy toward
evening he sTould make his appearance
ia the yard. hop 70 a saucer. climb In
and roll over ard ox~r until he s~ns
covered with meal. hsving done which
be awaited Developments. The e.en.
epticsd by TIE smell. soon swsrDed
around the s<henisg bstrzehisn. ard
whenever one passed within t~~
inches Of his bose hts tongue d@r;ei
out and tie ey o'sspp~zrea. The plan
worked 20 well that the toad fsE1s .
Tex ul3r business OF ~
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yoRMAx l. MUSRo's NORWOOD.

mouth She beat the Monmouth very
easily, making the trip from the Mar
rows. to Sandy Hook, fourteen miles.
In thirty-two minutes, that is at the
rate OF nearly twenty-five miles per
hour
claim that the Norwood holds the
record. but there has recently come
forward another claimant. the Yankee
Doodle. owned BIZ Messrs- Mcbride. Of
Philadelphia These gentlemen have
from time 20 time in the daily press
made the sweeping offer 20 race their
steam yacht against anything that
floats; and for various amounts from
$500 TO $4,000 In their challenges
they insisted that the Feiseen. one Of
the fastest yachts afoat. should take
part in the race they proposed. which
vss 70 be distance OF fifty miles on
the Hudson river.
The Feiseen which the Mcbride
brofhers referred 20 recently made .
wonderful performance in New York
harbor. She IS a -s-foot steam Yacht,
designed and built By Charles d.
Mosher. who also designed the Nor
wood. One day las; August / sag
gested a trial OF the Feiseen in Se,s
York harbor- ! was one Of the time
keepers. The race was between the
Sandy HOOK steamer Monmouth. aud
the distance was =. miles, zgaius, a
food tide. The Monmoufh's time WAS
.ix minutes. the Feisecn's minutes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06
RUSSIA'S UNHAPPY STATE.
AfHaAests ~ to the Danger of LssAia,
Money to Her.

ArEsAests ~ to the Danger of Ls.Ai.e
Money to Her.
Summing up the facts, says Darkest
Russia, we find that Russian finances
are based exclusively upon the sol
vency Of the agricultural population
OF the country; that these unfortunate
people are hopelessly insolven. and
are kept in a state of chronic s.arva-
ton: that the corn indispensable 10
their existence is. exported abroad:
that they live for half the year in the
air, sleeping on the bare ground. and
for the other half in hideous novels;
that they arc obliged 20 sell their cat
tie and to burn the straw Of their roofs
In order TO prolong this horrible life.
and that they are physically degen-
Grating and becoming Unfit for man
uai labor; that the government. in
stead of attempting TO improve their
miserable lot, blitbely continues 20
augment its budget ia iaverse proper
ten 10 their insolvency, Jogging them
for arrears until they raise money at six
thousand per cent. interest; that even
under the most favorable circEu-
stances agriculture is absolutely uure-
munerative: that Russia does not pro-
duce q SINGLE grain Of superfgous corn.
and that Encouragement has broush.
about such ar abnormal state OF things
IN the empire that q good harvest IA
more ruin0us than q failure Of the
crops.
Lastly. that they who lend russia
money, IN the teeth Of these infubi.-
so4e facts are not only making q
unsound investment, hs1.
are rendering themselves morally re
spons:ble for the untold MISERY Of On.
hundred million of their selios zen.
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gan taking my vacation In Europe Il
used to take me about ten days to
cross, and that is not SO very many
years ago either. l picked up my
paper few weeks ago and saw that
the Campania, six hundred and twenty
feet long, thirty thousand horse power
and fourteen thousand tons burden,
crossed the Atlantic in five days and
sixteen hours against a record of five
days and eighteen hours. A little
later on found that the sister ship Of
this gigantic monster of speed smashed
all maiden records for the trans-Atlan-
tic trip by crossing in five days fifteen
hours and thirty-seven minutes, against
a record of FIVE days fourteen hours and
twenty-four minutes, and that the
Lueania's captain expects to lower
this record by several hours after his
ships machinery gets little smoother.
Now comes the news that the Cam
pania and Lucania are to have an
American floating palace for a rival
that will in 1898 lower the ocean record
to one hundred hours. This ship which
is said to be now building at Cramps
yard in Philadelphia will be, accord
ing to report, seven hundred feet in
length, sixty-eight feet beam and forty
five thousand horse power. This will
make her twenty feet longer than the
Great Eastern, and it is expected that
this gigantic ship will run at speed
of twenty-seven knots an hour, placing
the six day greyhounds in the class of
slow boats.
CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw.
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ming without special right of way, made
the run from New York to Buffalo, Al
miles, in 8 hours and So minutes,
40 miles per hour. In 1898 pas
senger train made the run to Chicago,
97s miles, in 20 hours, 4S $40
miles per hour. This has broken
all records of passenger carrying
trains. The remarkable speed of a
mile in thirty-three seconds was at
tanned by this Chicago flyer. This
wonderful feat is repeated almost
daily and seventy-five miles an hour
for the average speed of fast railroad
train is not such an improbable thing
in this great age of speed and record
smashing.
forward in the, development of speed
of our railroad trains until the one
hundred mile an hour average speed
limit has been reached. Early this
year the Empire state express ran ten
miles in six minutes from Crittenden to
Grimsville, N. Y. This is at the rate
one hundred miles an hour. The time
may come sooner than any of us ex-
pect when run of this kind will be an
ordinary and everyday occurrence.
Now as to speed on the water.
The great speed attained by the new
steamships brought out this year has
done much to confirm the belief held
by many that the four-day trip to Eu-
rope is near at hand. This is the first
time in fourteen years 1 have not
crossed the ocean and spent at least a
month of the summer in Eu-
rope. have watched with great
interest the advancement in the build
ing of ocean liners. When l first be-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-10-06
Fast Sprinting and Cycling.

This has been a great year for
cycling. TkSre have been many long
and short distance competition records
made, and it may be that some new
ones will be scored before the year
closes. The cycle record breaking this
year has been exclusively in COMPETE
ton. Zimmerman and johnson have
ridden against time in the west, scor-
ing 2:Os As and 2:O7 % respectively,
with paoemakers. In England the
new board track at Hcrne Hill has
been the scene of many attempts
against the records with much sue
cess, but in the shorter distances none
of the times have approached Americas
1899 figures.
Laurens 8. Meintjes. the South
African representative. has been an
important factor in creating new Eng
ish figures, as well as a new worlds
long distance record at Chicago. ]. S.
Johnson. the western flyer. was first
to break an 1893 competition track
record in this country, riding two
miles in 4 minutes A 2-5 seconds at
Keystone, Pa, Juno 81, supplanting
Zimmerman's 4 minutes 81 seconds
made at Springfield, Mass, September
Is, 1898. July 4 saw two competition
records broken. At the Passaic On.
j. meet, Zimmerman rode a quarter
of mile from standing start in so
seconds fat. supplanting 81 Is seconds
by G. Smith at Hartford September 6,
1892. The other Independence day
record was made at Hartford. Walter
C. Sanger, the Milwaukee crack, went
to England and won the one-mile
over there, after Tim
norman had been barred out, winning
the one-mile race in 2 minutes IA sec
onds, which was just little better
than minutes Is 2-5 seconds made by
G.. F. Taylor, at Springfield, Mass,
Is, 1892 Sanger cut this
record down considerably at Mil
waukee on June 90. when be
rode in minutes 2 As seconds
At Hartford. on Labor day. young
Tyler did some more record breaking,
he rode flying start one-quarter
mile competition in IS As seconds, sup
planting 81 seconds made BY thinner
man over the same track. September
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Those Selfish Chicaxoans.

Mr.. Musgins-How did you enjoy
your visit to the Worlds fairp
Mrs. Puggins-The fair was good
enough, but don't think they had any
business to charge extra for the gon-
dolas and side shows and things. Seems
to me the price of admission was
enough TO cover it all, and give free
lunch besides but it didn't l never
saw such selfish. money-saving crea-
lures as them Chicago people. The
worst of the troubles, though. came at
night That was awful! We were
sacked four in a room sometimes; and
ono night the children had to sleep on
the sofas / never felt SO annoyed in
my life.
"Were you at a hotel?"
''No, we was visitin' relatives, and
Dther relatives kept comin'."-N. Y.
Weekly
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one hour, ard created new records
from FIVE to eleven and from thirteen
to twenty-five miles
In running races this year Conner
great mile in minutes II 4-5 seconds
fastens the record to Americas credit
for the amateur run. W. G.. George,
the English runner, made pro-
fessional record of minutes 12S sec
onds. and in 1854 he created worlds
amateur record Of 4 minutes is IS sec
onds
Luther a. Carey. Wendell Baker and
Walter c. Dohm have made some new
records this year in sprinting and mid
die distance running.
C W Stage, of the Cleveland ath-
letie club. is said to have done some
wonderful sprinting this year. He
now claims championship honors for
a hundred yards with John Owen. Jr..
of As seconds
GEORGE Gc-DrE
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less or l3x minutes. This Is at the
rate of 81 Gle statute miles per hour.
This beats the worlds record which
was claimed to be held by the Russian
torpedo boat Adler. That boat, il is
said. made a mile in slack water at the
rate of g 40 knots or 81 5-l0 miles,
while the Feissen steamed against .
flood tide for Z IA miles. This makes
her performance, 81 o-l0 mile per hour.
ali the more remarkable. The Adler
is 152 feet long, almost twice the length
OF the Eeiscen- NORMAN l.. MUNRO
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Travelled YncoC.

First American-Have a good time
abroad?
Second American-Finc. I travelled
lncog. Went where pleased and es-
eaped the vulgar curiosity of the gap
ing crowd.
..Eh? How did you travel?"
"Incognito, said. 1 didn't let EN-
know l was a rich American. Just
pretended wasn't nybody but an or
binary English lord. IN. Y. Weekly.
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Cal, in 2:o7k. Kremlin trotted mile
at Nashville, Tenn, in 2:07H. While
Stamboufs performance was accepted
as making record by the National
Trotting association, of which the
Stockton track is a member, it was re-
jected on a technicality by the Amer
lean Register association. The claim
of either Kremlin or STEAMBOAT to tho
championship honors was thus
made doubtful and horsemen
differed on the point, which has
been widely discussed. Directum
has put an end to chickering's about
that matter. Ruptured friendships
can now be patched up, and old sores
healed, and charges of favoritisln be
swept away as an unpleasant cloud on
the horizon of the horseman's sky. 1t
was to settle this dispute by making
record that should beat all others that
Directum was started to beat the
worlds stations record.
Directum's performance was tho
browning triumph of a career that is
simply marvellous. The mile in 2:07
was Of itself measure of speed that
made the performance great. Back of
the individual record there was a record
of merit and gameness such as stands
to the credit of no other horse that was
ever shod. Combined they make
record of performances that will
probably never again be equaled.
During the grand circuit meeting
good many horses lowered their REQ
ords, but they are too numerous to
in this article. Ono interest
ing race that took place near the close
Of tho grand circuit was tho lowering
of tho fve-mile record for trotter by
Paschal. He undertook to beat the rec:
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When Baby vas sicS. re gave her castofia-
Who she wcs Child. size cried fo- Castoria-
When she became Miss. size clunS To Castor!a.
when sh. asd Children, she gavetacnr Css;oria
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6, 1892, and won the half mile in min
ute 90 seconds, which also knocks out
one of Zimmerman's records made at
Hartford, September 6. 1892. the cham
pion's figures having been minute
As seconds, which WAS only beat
ing of two-fifths of second.
The twenty-five-miler record has been
lowered by j. w. Stocks, the English
racer, who on August %, at the Herne
Hill track. rode twenty-five miles in
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TO PROTECT JACK Tae.

Europsas shipmassers q, Adous IA. ns-
System for fsyisx ssiisr.
he British board Of trade is tryiny
to extend VIVA; Is known "a the ns9v-
system to such Continental y.orts a.
hasre. Dunkirk. gouen. Antwerp. Rot.
;erzsa1n- Amsterdam aud Hamburg. In
order 10 prerent The systematic ROB
berry OF sailors. who often lose tic
Wages for Whole roysSrs u . a.axA
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In no branch of sport has there been
such progress made during the past ten
years As IN yaeaa::cG, The new era IN
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srd of thirteen minutes for the distance
made in 1874 by Lady Mac. He trot-
ted the miles'in 2:3511, 2:S2, 2:33. 2:3s1,<
and 2:31 respectively. making total
of l2:45, fifteen seconds better than
Lady Macs time. This performance
will be especially interesting to
breeders and admirers Of trotters on
the other side, who think more Of per-
formances at a distance than we do on
this side Of the ocean.
Trotting has received . boom this
year that will last for many years to
come, and l look for a still greater
smashing of records at next years
meetings. MONROE SALISBURY.
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On August 9. 1881, the first railroad
was opened in the United States. It
was the Mohawk & Hudson, which ran
a distance of seventeen miles from the
city of Albany, the capital of the En-
pire state, to the old Dutch city Of
schenectady. The first locomotive for
this road was the Dewitt Clinton,
which was about eleven feet six inches
in length, and was mounted on iron
wheels about four feet eight inches in
diameter. The power of this engine
was over ten horses. AS it stood on
the rails OF the first railroad it could
be easily moved By single hand.
Thurlow Weed was one of the pas
sengers to board the first train and he
gave me this account of his experience
some years ago: 1T was my fortune to
witness the advent of the two great
material forces which have contrib
uted SO largely to the development
and civilization of this continent. I
witnessed in 1907 from an island in the
Hudson river the passage Of the first
vessel ever propelled by steam, and
was passenger in 1881 in the first car
propelled by steam in the state of New
York"
In August. 1883. the quickest time
made up to that date was from Sara
toga to schenectady, % miles in 81 min
utes and SO seconds, - miles an hour.
In 1891 q train of passen0cr cars. rum
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1893-03-16
Frequent SCOOPS.

Editor G. S. Pease, Of the
Anoka U'aaoaa, was a guest at the
Windsor Yesterday. Mr.. Pease's
ideas Of the rural press Of Mime
sofa, in comparison with that of
other States, is not fattering, but
he is still Of the opinion that the
county weeklies have some re-
deeming features! He says the
editors are rather sleepy. He be-
lieves that weekly paper is en-
titled to work for a scoop, and de-
clares that he frequently expert:
ences them. He thinks that every
man, to be successful in the world,
should be appropriately independ-
ent, which condition, he says, has
been a great agency for his pros
perity Minneapolis Tribune.
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No Danger OF Injury.

The London Illustrated .Neaps.
declares that young Eng ishmen
read nothing but acco cunts Of prize
fights and sporting events; that is
humiliating in the extreme to con
trast them with young Americans,
who according to this authority,
are well up in modern literature
and familiar with the best Of cur
rent poetry and fiction. This is
gratifying to our national vanity.
Still in the interests Of strict truth,
it must be confessed that, so far as
familiarity with present day litera-
ture goes, even American youths
don't know enough to hurt them.
They read the sporting page Of
the newspaper with much more
interest than the literary page.
Aort115ezd Neavs.
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The Soil is Here.

Whatever happens OF does not
happen in regard to the currency
question in this country it will be
we'll to bear in mind a few facts.
The The soil is here just the same, and
it will raise as large crops: So Sc,
there will still be the same WorEK
for textile manufacturers. Human
needs will in all cases remain Just
what they were before, and they
are constantly charging besides.
AS long as these needs must be
supplied there will be work and
trade, consequently ways to get a
living. NoytzJeezd A7eaos.
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Farmers Benefit.

There has been in some quarters
a misapprehension regarding the
Mile Laos dam, the bill for which
passed the house. The bill SO far
from being a lumbermen's scheme
has been made necessary by the
acts Of the lumbermen themselves
in the past in having dredged the
lake outlet so as to lower the lake
several feet, to the damage Of the
farms on the shores and the beauty
Of the lake itself. The farmers in
terested, if the bill is not passed,
will be forced to fill the outlet with
rock and timber, which will cost
the State to remedy. The bill
calls for 81 900 State aid. Mime.
apolas Ia'i6a1aae.
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Sold Out.

Sold Out.
Dave Clough has disposed Of his
lumber yard sat + Fifteenth avenue
and Monroe street northeast, to
the W isconsin Lumber Company,
Of Faribault. 1ia,,aeQ,lo ozis Times.
Mr.. S. S. Peterson, cashier Of
First National Bank, Of Princeton
was il town last SATURDAY.
g-R0,a1,bec County Il 4 Ii ia,zaa.
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The Right Idea.

Owing to the change in the ad-
ministration, and the excitement
incident thereto we have temper
arily lost sight Of Hawai-. What
a lot Of foolery over a parcel OF
heathens and half breeds. Better
pension our deserving soldiers be
fore giving $4,000 q year to the
queen Of nothing and nobody.
Dakota County z3F'i6anee.
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Can't Fetch EN-.

Anoka has been blessed with a
revival the result of which has
increased the church membership
nearly two hundred. We fail to
find either the names Of Editor
Pease, Senator Guderian or Ole
Cutter in the list, and we trust the
good work has not been discon-
tinued. ST.. Cloud Journal Press.
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Isolated Cases.

Bob Dunn's bill defining news
paper in the legal sense IS meeting
with criticism in some isolated
cases. The bill is all right, how
ever. STAPLES IVorza.
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IA Careful Institution.

The card of the First National
Bank, Of Princeton, will be found
at the top Of this page. We take
pleasure in recommending this
bank as a safe and careful institu-
ton to do business with. lana
Dec sC0a1,atal Times.
St. Paul daily globe., 1893-01-19
. A STOLEN LETTER.
Private Communication of Arch
bishop Ireland Shown to
st. Louis Priests.
The Letter Stolen From Arch
bishop Riordan's Waste
Basket.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 1S.-The Catholic
clergy of st. Louis have been in a state
of intense excitement for the past few
days over the circulation of surrep-
tito usly obtained letter from Arch
bishop Ireland to Archbishop
Riordan concerning recent de-
velopmcnts in the school question
and the position of Mgr. Satolli.
The letter was of very private nature
and was stolen from the waste basket
of Archbishop Riordan. of San Fran
cisco, after it had been torn to small
bits. Subsequently it was pasted to
gether. According to tine report today,
which came from source that cannot
be doubted. the letter, pasted to-
gether. was brought to this city and
shown to number of priests supposed
to be friendly to Archbishop Ireland's
opponents ON the school question.
Several copies for future reference
were made by some of the clerks who
were shown the letter. These men all
keep perfect silence. but the letter was
finally taken to the pastor of one of the
largest parishes i'll the city, who is
we'll known priest of high stand
ing. But instead OF condemning
the letter, though he is known not
to be supporter of Ireland, he de-
nounced its procurer and the method
by which it WAS gotten and refused to
touch it. 1t was through this affair the
matter became DOlsed about among the
priests and they began to talk. 1t was
only few days ago that the pasted letter
was here, but since the matter leaked
out and the person circulating it has
disappeared. Speaking of tine matter
today, Well-knOwn priest said: "It is
well the letter was taken away before
Archbishop Riordan's friends learned
about it. They are now trying to find
out who have the copieS."