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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
EVERYDAY ATHENS.
Impressions Received on Entering by the
Eir:Rus ROad.

Impressions Received on Entering by the
PirRus Road.
The road from the Pirnus. which in
the height of summer is almost ankle
deep in white dust, passes on its way to
the capital through the Eleusian
groves, where glimpse is caught of the
course of the Ilissus, q narrow stream,
generally dry or semi-dry, unless in the
rainy season. The traffic along this
road is considerable; officers driving
out on business to and from the port in
their uniforms, much. like those of the
French strings OF mules and mule carts
carrying produce from the various
markets, and wayfarers in nondescript
dresses which it would require thor
ough knowledge of the Greek isles and
provinces for miles round to assign to
their proper localities, all come and GO
deliberately; no signs of the high pres
sure of modern life herea bout. unless
exception is taken to the presence of
the railway near at hand. which makes
its way through groves of olives. vine
yards, and aloe hedges to the station
of Phaleron, the great bathing resort
OF Athens in the summer time.
This absence of rush is most stril-
ingly manifest in even the principal
streets of Athens. In this respect it
resembles country town: and in much
the same way as waEfarer on enter
ing county town sreceives vivid i'm
presSions of all sorts of trivialities. so
would he, arriving by the Piraus road,
find himsalf engaged in some absurd
little speculation of which he is
ashamed when he realizes where he is
and what castle in the air it is that is
so intensely outlined against the sky.
On entering a London suburb the spirit
of LONDON meets You, takes possession
of you, and hurries you on in thought
to meet the millions in its bosom. On
entering the outsk irts of Athens it is
the Spirit of the Past which YOU en-.
counter and which carries you back SC
far that the wearied mind turns and
repoSes in the present, in keeping with
the things animate and inanimate in
its vicinity Magazine.
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little they have profted by the Chris
tian civilization of eighteen hundred
years. Give the negro time and oppor-
tunity for development as a man and
he may become indispensa BILE as citi-
zen to add strength and security to the
nation against foreign innovations.
AS for the exclusive lines of caste,
common to all countries. they belong
to the domestic and social relations of
life.
The solution of the negro problem in
America is. according to our honord BILE
friend. his Migration to Africa" He
adds: ''IIe might not want to go. He
is a native. He is citizen. He has
a right to stay. Soho has a right to
vote. He has 4 right to life, liberty
and the pursuit OF happiness. lie has
been deprived of them all, only the
right OF donicile remains"
l suggest that it may be well at this
point TO pause and inquire which side
the God of Providence is on, that OF
the oppressor. or of the oppressed?
That is the side that viii win in the
end
IF the negro wants to leave his
''dOnicile' in America and ernigrate to
Africa, there is no bar to his doing so.
If he chooses to remain in his '.domi-
cile'' in America there is no legal au-
thority Or force to compel him to go.
To compel one hundred thousand
Cinnamon to leave America, which is
not their home. to go back to China,
which is their home, is found to be
practically inpossible; then how could
eight million negroes be forced to
go to a country not their own:
Our honora BILE friend speaks of
their going back ito that fertile CONT
nent whence they came, they would re-
turn not aliens and strangers, but to
the manor born"
The fact is. the difficulty in getting
them into that country would be about
as great as getting them out of this
country. In the first place, that conn
try belongs to the resident native ma
tions, which hold it by the sword: in
the second place, nearly the whole of
that continent is geographically
divided up between England and the
leading nations OF Europe, whose
heavy expenses of occupation oblige
them to levy taxes in different forms,
to which the Americon negro would
not submit day longer than the day
of his possible escape.
WILLIAM TAYLOR,
Bishop of Africa.
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Samoan Marriages.

The marriage customs OF these peo-
pie are very peculiar. The actual cere-
mony is performed in church, but the
courtship is out of the common. When
4 Young man hears of Il young lady
who Is likely to come into a tract of
land or large and valuable stock of
mats he takes twenty or thirty of his
friends and goes to her village for a
visit. This, of course. sets all the girls
hearts in tiutter, for they are care
fully guarded by old women. After
spending few days in the village the
young man leaves. but orders two of
his friends foreman behind. This they
do, and hang around the girl and con-
stantly sing his praises. When they
think she has been won they send for
the young man, who arrives with lot
OF friends, bringing with them from
fifty to one hundred pigs. These are
killed and roasted. and everybody in
the village has feast. The young man
then proposes and is accepted. and the
girl and her family go 70 his home and
the ceremony takes plaee.-Chicag go
Record
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Family Ties.

A foreign exchange brings us the
story of rather vulgar parsonage, only
O few months marquis, who managed
to get himself invited to court ball.
The new-fledged marquis could not
contain himself for joy, and exhaled
proud satisfaction 1T every pore.
Casting an Olympian glance around
the room he Glanced to spy among the
ladies the tall, angular figure of an cl-
derby matron with pressed lips as
though afraid Of wasting her breath,
and as lean as lath.
"Who is that nanny-goat?" said the
noble lord to a gentleman standing be-
side him.
With a knowing smile came the re-
ply:
That nanny-goat is the ambassa-
dress of $, the mother of the kid
who is giving her his arm. and the wife
of the old buck who has the honor OF
speaking with your cxcellency."
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SIS. IS TO Chicago and Return.

The Great Rock Island route will run
excursion trains to the worlds fair and
return. leaving Wichita:
Monday, July Il; returning July q
and 2S
Monday, July "a; returning July 2S and
Aug 4.
Monday. July 81; returning Aug. and
Aug. Ii.
Monday, Aug, :; returning Aug II and
Aug. IS.
Parties desiring to take advantage Of
these cheap excursions will please call
at the Rock Island city ticket office corner
Of Main and Douglas, and register their
names, so that ample accommodation may
be provided for all
The Rock Island is the only line landing
passengers at Engiewood. within one mile
Ia ten-mlnute ride by electric cars-of
The main entrance of the fair grounds.
For any further information call on
j. ii. PHILLIPS,
IL City Ticket Agent.
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A Lessen IN Poverty and Luxury.

Little Girl Was your folks po0s
when you were a little girl?
Grandma-Wo thought we were. my
dear. We were pioneer farmers and
lived in log cabin; but it was largo
and comfortable; the floors we're warm
ly carpcted; we had plenty to eat and
plenty to wear. But we raised every
thing ourselves, and made our own
cloth. We had no money to go to
stores, even if we had been near any;
and SO we felt very, very poor. There
were two things we were all fond of,
and, Oh, how we longed for them, and
how we wished we could afford them
but we couldn't, and it made US feel
very miserable to be SO poor. Those
two things were salt mackerel and
store molasscs.
Little Girl-Ooo. Why, what did
you have to cat, then?
Grandma-Nothing but beef, mutton,
chickens, venison. quail, squirrels,
wild ducks, brook trout and such
things; and as for molasses we hadn't
anything but maple sirup.-Good News.
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Afro-American during his residence on
this continent, and they will continue
to exercise it, absorbing agents con-
stantly at work, until he will bear as
small resemblance to his African con-
European brother Other influences,
of course, than climate and culture
will contribute to the ultimate absorp-
ton of the Afro-American into the
warp and wool of American life.
If the accident of color had been
eliminated from the problem when the
African in the United States was eman-
cipated-as the badges of servility and
servitude hitched upon the Angles by
their Norman conquerors were laid
aside as fast as they absorbed the in
vaders into their national life-a half
century would have suficed to place
the Afro-American upon civil and in
dustrial equality in our population.
Prejudice against the Afro-American is
more the result of previous servitude
and present condition than inherent
race antipathv-
The Afro-American's mental apti-
tudes are similar to those Of the white
races. He is musical. poetical, elo-
quent and philosophical. He will toll
when necessity coIapels him, and rest
from labor when he can afford TO do so.
lie is accused of being an initiative
race: but what race IN history has with
stood the destructive and recreative
tendencies of civilization that did not
possess in high degree facility OF i'm
MISUNDERSTANDING to its environ
ments and recepIivity OF its influences,
of whatever sort? Because he is imi-
tative. because he absorbs 70 himself
the influences dominant in his sur
roundinrs. is ore of the strongest ar
guments that can be advanced IN sup
port CT the theory that the republic
will eventually absorb and aSsinilate
him. along with the other alien race
forces OF the population.
The Afro-AEcric2n is already a
mixed race-otherwise he woul.Iu not DO
Al Afro-As-lcrican but al African. Two
hundred and fifty years of isolation
irclE the parent stock. with century
Of absolute cessation OF reinforcement
from the fatherland. and with instant
contact with a I-lastcrfil race. could
not have resulted otherwise than IN
corruution OF blood Theory must hsrc
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Wants Their Necks Wrunc.

An Ohio genius has just applied for
a patent on n device which he is con-
fdent will soon supersede the electric
chair, the gallows and all other ma
chinery for the execution of criminals.
His invention is Q chair in which the
criminal to be executed is securely
fastened. It has kind of helmet at
tachment, which just as securely holds
the head When everything is ready "a
trigger releases strong spring, which
causes the helmet to rotate and wrings
the victims neck, much as one would
wiring the neck OF chicken. The in
ventor thinks that the death caused by
his device would bc certain, instan-
taneous and as painless as any that
could be devised. But what's the mat
ter with the guillotiDe? One would as
soon have his head chopped off as wrung
OF, and it could hardlyhurt SO muc h.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The Missouri Pacific Railway compnnv
has placed IN its train service the most ele-
CANT reclining chair cals that ever appear
s.i III The equipment OF any line west OF The
-ais>isslppl river These cars now RIM
daily between Wichita and II. Louis and
Wichita a0d Denver. TGey are models OF
beauty aud comfort. The chairs are spa-
cious-easliy adjusted aud comfortable and
OF the very latest design Every car Is
equipped with the celebrated pintSch Gas
light system whereby Passengers can read
a> we'll a. 10y daylight; also doing AVA
with the obnoxious odOr emanatjag from
OIL camps. Cars are heated by steam from
the engine thus aiio,dn. an even truDsr-
azure throughout he car as we'll as avoid
Ing he dangers experienced in the old car
stove system. II yoG contemplate going
eHst of west, try the Missouri Pacific rail-
way. ~. Louis last express leaves Wichita
daily NJ I'D y. IN. arrives IN 81 Louis nj
30 next morning. Denver express leaves
NJ nLlta at 6:o0 =. III. daily. .pSIf
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give way to demonstrated facts. The
extent to which this vitiation has OBJ
tanned, while moderated by superficial
! theoriZers, is not easily ascertainable
Mr.. Robert P. Porter. the superin-
tendent of the eleventh census,
| is reported to have declared it as his
belief, liz accounting for the apparent
decrease of the Afro-American popula-
ton as compared with the tenth CEN
sus. that quite half a million of mixed
blooded Afro-Americans had been
counted as white. because the census
enumerators could not determine that
they were black. Prof. ". S. Scar
borough. an accomplished Afro-Amer-
lean scholar, estimates that twenty
per cent of the Afro-Americaa popu-
lation is of mixed blood think that
| this estimate is entirely too conserva
tive; thirty per cent would be nearer
the truth.
If it be accepted that no more than
seventy per cent. Of the Afro-Ameican
population is OF unmixed blood is it
not logically deducible, without fur
Their adulteration the processes of alb
sorption have already gone SO far that
nothing short of wholesale expatria-
ton can avert the ultimate extinction
of the African as an integral race type
in the United States? This may be de-
layed but it can hardly be prevented.
If the Afro-American population were
reinforced every year by accessions
from Africa, such as we have from italy
or Germany and the other European
states, the problem would be further
complicated, but there is no such rein
forcement. Few emigrate and fewer
immigrate.
1t not only makes for race absorb
ton. because of reasons stated, but it
creates scarcity in the agricultural
labor supply, which must be made
good from some source. Recourse is
had to the foreign labor supply. re-
dundancy Of which flows into our At
lantic seaboard cities every year. Very
few of the enormous number of these
immigrants we have received in the
past half century have gone into the
southern states. They have taken
Horace Greeley's advice and gone west,
where Bishop Berkeley has located the
seat of future empire. The available
lands of the great west have been,
for the most part, preempted. OPP
portunities in that section are no
longer as tempting as they were in past
years.
When the relative smallness of the
Afro-American population to the whole
population is considered, the vitiation
of blood that has already taken place,
the scattering of the race throughout
the states of the republic, which will
become far more general in the future
than it has been in the past; and the
tendency of races of like social status
brought into close contact to contract
legal or sentimental relations, the
theory of ultimate absorption and
assimilation, and the consequent eX-
tinction of the African as race force
in the United States, viii appear to be
founded upon reasonable presumption.
j. THOMAS FORTUNE.
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tsr.ri.se 20 he words ; air.

The santa Re Route has lowered the
Worlds Fair rate It leads, while others
follow. being be first TO cut the price -
we'll ~ frs: 10 quick and eoDiortaLIs
service.
The present ticket rate from Wichita %
Chicago aud return Is 50 ~ or as low a.
the lowest.
The Columbian exposition rsySe-snis
ibe world IN suialatufe You get "a Euro
Isan trip without the Crssu voyage. To
Mrs This chance Tor seif education would
le a lilsfrks always regretted ADotsSr
u4i-fake would bs nat 10 gO over the 5@sts
Re Route which bas fhs best AID mot
direct lac 10 Chicago. Passenger lzadsd
within oae TO .our blocks Of rapid transit
litse o the far grounds. IEToaxh Pail
man daily from " Wichita Cali on The
local agent at * iC3.t4 zsd ssx for IRE
illustrate. folder dsseFlbsgg tie EarIi's
air bulldogs sfe e.st
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Sealed p cp sails.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,

WICHITA, July Is. 1892.
Sealed proposals for the construction of the
following sidewalk will be received al this
office until ) p. m, July a. 1892
A Aft VIE, cinder walk on the west side of
Charles street from Chicago avenue to Grand
avenue.
\ 515ft wide cinGer walk on tie south side
of Fifteenth street, from Fairview avenue to
Lawrence avenue.
A Aft wide cinder walk on west side of
Charles street from Maple street to Chicago
avenue.
A Aft wide cinder walk on south side of
Ninth street from Waco avenue, west, to city
limits.
Contractors must state price per ineal foot.
Plans ana specifications On file at city en-
gineers Office.
\ certified cheek for SO must accompany
each bid as Il guarantee of good faith.
The mayor and council reserve the right to
reject any or all bids. c. :. SMITH.
~ st City Clerk.
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Cornmsuesnx NsEa@y. Jas~ -. AMI
every NDssasy thereafter. the tsrsst Ro1x
Is!s1sd ssisnzy Nil ruH sl~egsiuZ ess "a
their morning rain i~assns NscS.sts us
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20 Per CRIT. CT-One-IaIf Care

This is the reduction you get TO the
worlds fair via the Santa Fe route. On
the following dates July IL, q, 81 and
Aug. T.
The Santa F'e made the first reduction
in worlds fair rates and first championed
this last one.
The Santa Fe is the only line having n
daily Pullman car to Chicago from WIch-
ita
trnins to Chicago from Wichita
Ii is 80 miles the shortest line and is the
''only" rock bailasted road from Wichita
to Chicago Don't fail to take this last
item into account. w. ID. MURDOCH
d49tf Dist Pass. Agt.
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His Wife's Letters Sacred.

a lawyer OF this city accidentally
opened one of his wife'S letters yester-
day. and as he exclaimed didn't mean
To co it. | asked him If it wouldn,
stand in law.
Il never want to open any OF my
wlle'S letters, he added with a severe
and stern expression of Righteousness
or his counlenanee. Then ne addec
with eomical twinkle of the eve:
They contain too many bills. New
Bedford Journal
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Ofall fashion S latest freaks. none can
exceed in absurdity the black glazed
leather sailor hat, decorated on either
side with tao long quill feathers. shad-
ing, as a rule from yellow TO brown,
the said feathers being laid back like
the ears Of a vicious horse. Nor does
ineongruity end here. The rest of the
decoration consists Of a white lace
veil. which is made with long ends
These are tied at the back. and IL is es-
senti2l that the veil shall fall ever the
vvearers lace 70 her chin Tarpaulin
hea1Gear and white lace veil. This is
the very latest % millinery atrocities.
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"TO THE WORLDS FAIR,
without Change of Cars

The Great Rock Island are selling tick
cts 10 the worlds fair AT reduced rates
Tickets are good for return passage unit
November 10 BY leaving Wichita ut 9 n
III. yon reach Chicago the following morn
ing at 9 O'clock. Free reclining chair cars
through without CHI snge of ears. Pullman
palace sleeping CIR accommodations can
lie secured upon application ut Rock
Island ticket Office, corner Main aud Doug
las j. II. PHILLIPS,
General Ticket and Passenger Agent o
Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific railway
Wichita tt
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Bonds.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE.

WICHITA. Kan, July 10. 1893.
Sealed bids Will be received AT this Office
until o'clock p. m. July oath. 1893 for the
following issue of bonds to-wit: A series
of bonds amounting TO about $4,000. iu-
ierest per cent. Said bonds are to be i.
sued TO pay for paving Douglas avenue
and will be payable in ten years, oue-tenth
annually. at the fiscal agency of the state
uf Kansas in the city Of New York, inter
est payable semi annually. \ certified
check tor 5000 must accompany each bid
us a guaranty of good faith The MAYOR
and council! reserve the right to reject any
or all bids {. :. SMITH, City Clerk.
8, lot
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A Small Doctor Bill.

Fifty cents is a small doctor bill but
that is all it will cost you 10 cure any
ordinary case of rheumatism if you use
Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Try it and
you will be surprised at the prompt relief
ii affords. The first application will quiet
Tie pain. 80 cent bottles for sale by Het-
finger Bros. and Van Werden's Pharmacy
.2S North Main
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A Traveller Taken with Cholera Morbus

IdiAcli Nith Nhoiefd nOrGuS.
While Mr. 4. j. Richev of Altoona, Mo-,
WAS travelling in Kansas he was taken
violently i'll with cholera morbus He
called at a drug store to get some meilicn
and the druggist recommpn ded Chamber
lain's Collie. Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy
so highly he concluded to try it. The re-
suit was Immediate relief. and few
doses cured him completely. 1t is made
for bowel complaint and nothing else. 1t
never fails. For sale by Hettinger Bros,
and Van Werden's Pharmacy, 32S North
Main
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A Cordial Invitation

Miss Elderly with 0irlish enthu-
siasm, joining group Of young people
who are discussing an expedition
through the mountainsl-May / go
with you? | should so love 70.
Young Spriggins with great cordial
ity)-Delignted to have you. We were
just wondering where we could get
chaperone.-Texas Siftings.
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v h y cs,.nr. Of CO.

TIE Great Eeek IaiAad Route trails
esFitz Is icls.ta - . u. lfs fsas Tee ss-tI-
bale reclaim chair szrs 80 Chicago
without chagss - csss arriving ia Ehsca2o
the following morning ia time n copEsct
y 18th ali tie pf!respsI lines FOR tEr e<st
and north. Sleeping esq ecomn1ossafloss
can DO secnrsd upon application - tbs
kock Island iickft nrTse<. eerBsE dain sud
Do@@gzS- For further information wits
or call &C = H. pufIxxFa.
g .. &c r 4. &. D.. sHa u Il r.
eleZ ~ " .eEas. Ean
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one Fare For The Round Trip.

We will sell tickets to Chicago at the
rate of one first-ciass fare for the round
"trip on the dates as follows: July II, a,
81, and August :, 1898. For full Informal
ton cali at ia \ Nam ST. or at depot cor
Eer Second and Wichita st.
E. E. BLECkLEY. 7, & T. A
d50 IF Missouri Pacific Railway.
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Propose $ for Dam.
CITY CLERKS OFFICE,
1910 1

W 1910.
| Sealed proposals will be received at this
! Office until > o'cOcb p. IN. July n. 1888. for
| the construction of brush dam at the mouth
Of the Little Arkansas river according TO
/ plans ard specifications on file in the office of
| the city engineer
| The mayor and council reserve the right to
| reject any or all bids. Bids must be marked
! Bids for brush DAM c. s. SMITH,
40 3t City Clerk.
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DR.. kessingsr. the oldest and only e~-
elusive specialist on chronic female a0J
nervous diseases in the state. is now per.
manentiy located In Wichita. 1t Packers
hotel Office days: Saturdays. SUNDAYS
aud Mondays. arr
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hereby announce myself candidate for
the Office OF county surveyor. subject to the
decision of the Republican cou,ity convention
10 he held August l.. 1881 And / further
pledge myself that if elected 10 said Office
none bat tried and tr::e te lo!aolicans VIII re
appointed a. deputies i'll my Office.
Respectfully. w. Ii. hEsLEH.