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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29
NAPOLEON THE GREAT,
lord wolscley's Important Contribution 70
Napoieonic Literature.

ford wolscley's important Contribution 70
Napoieonic Literature.
Viscount Wolscley is writing q
series of interesting articles for the
Pail Mali Magazine on the "Dccline
and Fall Of Napoleon" SO much has
been said by writer's and orators
about the setting OF Napoleon's star
and about his downfall being a di.
vine retribution for the wrong he
had committed that 1t Is refreshing
to have the actual story of the over
throw of the great Emperor presented
by the most distinguished of British
living commanders. 1t is clear from
the vivid and impartial description
Of the scenes of 1894 by General
Wolseley that Napoleon's downfall
was primarily attributable to two
leading causes.
In the first place, when his affairs
were really In desperate situation,
after the ArmageddOn Of Leipsic, he
declined to accept at the hands OF the
allies France bounded by the Rhine
and the Pyrenese, and more extern
sive In territory than the France over
which the proudest Bourbons had
reigned. In the next place he fell
because his resources were exhausted,
France had no more millions. or even
thousands, to sacrifice 10 his ambi.
ton. The bones of her sons were
scattered from Moscow to Bavaria;
only womer and children we're left to
cultivate the soil, and as the remain
ing veterans fell In gallant conflict
against overwhelming odds, none
stepped forward to I'll the places of
the slain. The enemies o: Napoleon
did not at once become aware Of the
exhausted condition of France and VI
the inability of their dreaded antago-
mist to recruit his depleted armies.
They stood in fear In the very shadow
OF France.
1t was this fear that gave Napoleon
his opportunity. That opportunity
he rejected, and the allies then closed
In for the conclusive struggle. Gen.
eral WOlscley shows that Napoleon
exhibited splendid strategy, and self
control under circumstances we'll cal.
culatcd to break down even his pow.
crful mind, and that but for tho
treachery and incapacity OF subordi.
mates he might have given q stun
ming blow to the invaders But the
end was inevitable. Napoleon's foes
had discovered his weakness and had
broken the charm OF lis invincibility
A brilliant victory for the French
would only have deferred, but would
not have defeated their triumph.
The pitiful situation to which
France was reduced by Napo!eon's
wars suggests that the greatest con-
guer0rs have been, In one sense, the
greatest enemies OF their own coun-
tries, and that the exploits VIII CHI
read SO brilliantly have usually re.
suited In as great calamity for victors
as for vanquished. The most signal
proofs OF this historical fact are to he
found In the condition OF Sweden
after Charles MI, and of France
when Napoleon fell. sweden has
never recovered the pla G she held In
Europe before Charles sought to be.
come another Alexander, and France
Is paying the penalty to-day for the
achievements OF the man In whose
name and fame she takes the greatest
pride. as the Swedes admire and love
the memory of Charles MI. although
he found them In purple and left
them in ushps
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29
DIETING ACcltsn0tcd.

Jim Is o tcamster for o manufac-
turing establishment In Detroit, and
until week or ten days ago Jim was
u bachelor and happy. Then In q
moment Of recklcssness he got mar.
ricd, the lady In the case being about
ten years older than he aud with u
temper on her that was simply ter.
rifle. jim took her to q little house
ne had rented and settled down to
domestic bliss, but somehow 1t wasn't
q success. The other evening tho
policeman who Is on that beat and
has known Jim long time noticed
him come out and sit on the front
steps awhile, then 20 In and shortly
afterwards reappear for q few mo-
mcnts, then go In again. lie watched
this peculiar action for an hour, and
the next time Jim appeared he went
over to him.
whats the matter?" he asked.
Jim jerked his thumb over his
shoulder and smiled wan sort OF
smile.
The policeman didn't understand.
''GOt married, you know" said
Jim.
"Ycs," replied the officer.
"Only four days ago." said Jim.
The officer nodded.
"Well," said Jim, my wife's got
a mighty spicy temper and I'm trying
to get use to her on the installment
Dlan."
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29
Vertical Handwriting.

Those con servatives who oppose
the teaching of vertical handwriting
can have had no experience in the
office OF u newspaper or magazine. II
there is anything an editor detests
most heartily it is q manuscript writ.
ten in slOping hand. The diificu-
tics OF reading increase enormously,
and almost In geOmetrical ratio, with
the degree OF the slope. Slantiug
letters have a timorous lock, O. x
endeavoring to escape the avs Cps.
ton Herald.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29
West Baden and French Lick springs.

WcHt NRUth HhU TrtH'H IVK "Fr"E"
For the accommodation OF visitors
to West Baden and French Lick
Springs the Monon Route will run a
sleeping car to the springs every
Saturday night, beginning Saturday,
June 2, and returning every Sunday
night.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29

A GENTS furnishing goods depart.
1ent has been added 70 Shayns's
State street store.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29

THE new billiard hall Of Messrs.
eaPan q Barber, over the House Of
David, l82 Clark street, IL the finest
n the city. Visit II.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1894-09-29

NEARLY every one talks too much
In telling Others that they talk too
much.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
CATCHES THE LITTLE FISH.

Poor Men Have No Political Rights the
Rich Are Bound to Respect.
Hon. w. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, once
spoke of fish net that caught the lit
tie fish and let the big ones go. This
may appear ridiculous. 1t is on par
with the action of the man who, in
constructing a poultry house, left a
small, and large opening for the little
chickens and hens respectively.
The fish net suggested by Congress
man Bryan has recently been disclosed
in Nebraska. 1t is used by the Union
Pacific railroad. This road has recent
ly issued orders forbidding employees
from engaging in politics, and dis
charging them if they do. A Nebraska
paper says:
AT Columbus last week, an assist
ant yardmaster named Middagh, lost
his place because his name was brought
forward as a candidate for the legis-
lature in the populist county conven-
ton. He did not get the nomination.
but his job was taken from him just
the same. Meanwhile, John NJ. Thurs
ton, general attorney for the Union
Pacific, with salary of S12, 200 per
year, goes out on campaigning tour
over the state as the republican candi-
date for United States senator, and is
absent whole weeks from his legal du-
ties. Does anybody hear of Thurston
losing his job or being ordered to keep
out of politics, or even being locked
for lost time? When the great Union
Pacific railroad that was built with the
peoples money, that to-day owes
the common people of the United
States over hundred million dollars
which it cannot pay, sends out fish
net order to catch firemen and yard
men, but will let big catfish like John
NJ. Thurston flop through unchecked,
the handwriting on the wall has be-
come too plain to be misinterpreted."
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
THE PLACE TO STRIKE.

Labor Organizations Must Secure Their
Rights at the Ballot Box, and Not by the
Strike.
The great strike of the American
Railway union, being a cause of such
mammoth proportions, has had many
effects; but there are two which stand
out above all the others. And though
the strike was very costly one, both
to the men engaged and to the country
at large, the fact that these two points
have been made clear to the thinking
men of the land is we'll worth all it
cost. The first point which has been
made so plain is the necessity for the
government ownership of railroads.
The single-taxers have been advocat-
ing this for fifteen years. but the
weeks strike of the American Railway
union and the consequent tying up of
the railroads made more converts than
our whole fifteen years work. 1t was
then apparent to the most stupid citi-
zen that the railroad business was en-
tirely different from the grocery bust
ness or any form of manufacture
ing. The grocerymen might quit
work, or the manufacturers might
quit work, while the rest of the
country could go on with its duties.
But when the railroads quit there was
an end to all business. And when peo-
pie realized how dependent they were
upon the railroads it dawned upon
them that it was as easy for the own
ers or managers of railroads to regu-
late the charges for traffic when the
roads were running as to stop traffic
when they stopped. And many people
have been wondering since the strike
how they could have failed to see this
long ago.
The other point which has been
made clear by the American Railway
union strike is the fact that labor and
labor organizations must secure their
rights at the ballot box, and not by the
strike. Never did a strike take place
under such favorable circumstances as
this The leaders were unquestioned
in intelligence and integrity; all that
any men could do they did. And the
men were as staunch and true as any
patriots who ever fought for home
anc country. The mere fact that
so many men were ready to give
up their jobs at time when so
many idle men were ready to take their
places showed to what extent their de-
votion to the cause of justice went.
Men talk about the bravery of soldiers,
and poets sing of their heroic deeds,
but the man who leaves his means of
livelihood when times are hard and
work Is scarce. when idle men stand
ready to take their places and wife and
little ones are dependent upon him for
their daily dread, Is far more deserving
We had allthis in the strike. We had
the most heroic devotion to the cause,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

OF particular interest to persons who
have watched the movements toward
unions of the workingmen, Is a report
transmitted to the state department re-
specting the operations of the societies
in Germany whose purpose is the pro-
curement of employment for working
men. The statistics of the work of the
various organizations devoted to the
interests of unslilled labor is exhaust
lively treated and the paper Is espe-
cially timely in view of the proposition
being considered by officers of German
cities to take these societies under mu-
nicipal control.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

ADvICEs received from Colorado in
dictate that the women who will have
their first vote on a general state cleo
ton November are evincing an inter
est in politics which had not been sup
posed probable when the right of suf-
frage was conferred. All three parties,
the republican, democratic and popu-
list, have tickets in the field and there
are female candidates on each of them.
All accounts represent the women as
taking as much interest in the cam
paign as the men, and the indications
are believed to be that the total vote OF
the state will almost equal the state
adult population.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES.

THE Freemah's journal, OF Dublin,
announced that the sums of money sub
scribed for the Irish cause generally
known as the Paris fund, are now in
the hands of Justin Mccarthy, chair
man of the Irish parliamentary party.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock wds felt
in Los Angeles, Cal, on the 23d.
A BAND of brigands led by the no
torious outlaw, Julio Longorio, re-
Gently visited the ranch of Francisco
Perez, near the village of Jalostitlan,
Mex, and killed Mr.. Perez and four of
the employees of the ranch.
The pouch containing most of the
money stolen from the Adams Express
Co. at the Aqua creek robbery has
been recovered through the aid of
Searcey, one of the robbers. The pouch
was concealed in the woods of Virginia.
NEAR Williamsport, Pa, George Sam
derson recently struck a vein of cement
100 feet thick on his land. New York
assayers say it is the best in the world.
A company of eastern capitalists has
been organized and a plant will be
built to turn out 1000 barrels day.
ALBERT SPAULDINa and mother, liv.
ing in the timber ~ miles east of
Vinton, Ia, were bound and gagged
recently and then robbed of 81, 800. Old
Mrs. Spaulding had been boarding this
money for years.
SwITCHMEN representing almost
every state in the union organized the
Switchmen's Union of North America
at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 23d. The
new order will supplant the old switch
mems Mutual Aid society. Its head
quarters will be in Kansas City.
HELEN GRIER, an old woman convict
ed of poisoning her sixth husband, has
been sentenced to ten years in the pen.
itentiary at Spokane, Wash. She loud
ly protested her innocence and accused
her daughters of conspiring against
her.
Four men robbed every store and the
post Office in the village of Watova, a
station on the Kansas & Arkansas Val
ley railroad, lbs miles west of Fort
Smith, Ark, one night recently.
PITTSBURGH, Pa, has decided to with
draw from the new baseball associa
ton, as two teams in one city wouf'
probably not pay. This was consid
cred serious blow to the new associa
ton, as Pittsburgh was supposed to b
| its stronghold.
A DISPATCH from Tahlequah, L T.
of the Esd said that Chief Harris, of thu
Cherokees, had offered . reward of $50
| for the arrest of Bill Cook and his SAT-
delivery to the Cherokee authorities.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
MISCELLANEOUS.

THE Indian office at Washington has
been advised by telegraph of the laws
less condition of affairs in the Indian
territory and asked that some action
be taken by the United States author
tiles which will restore order and pro-
tect citizens in their rights. It has
been suggested that the territory could
be placed under martial law and troops
directed to clear the gangs out which
how infest it.
Ex-PoLIcE JUDGE CHARLES E. NOR
RIs, CT Springfield, O., has fed, after
fleeing people to the tune of $50, 900.
He was supposed to be in Canada. The
heaviest sufferer is the Citizens Build
ing and Loan association, of which he
had been the trusted attorney for eight
years.
A FARMER and his family were burned
to death on the Goth 10 miles from
Knoxville, Tenn.
THE mail from the Orient brings
news of disastrous fire at Chung
Kiang, near Hong Kong. Over thirty
people were burned to death, 1000
houses were destroyed, including two
temples, and the total loss of 10, OOO, 900
taels entailed.
FAILURES for the week ended Octo-
Der 10 CDun's reporH were 253 in the
United States, against BAL last year.
DISASTROUS floods are reported in
northeastern China. A rich agricul-
tural district, $50 miles long and 10 to
80 miles wide, was submerged. Many
women and children were drowned and
an enormous property loss suffered.
The Kansas City and Memphis express
was robbed on the night of the Goth at
Correta, near Wagner, 1. T., by the
Cook gang. One of the robbers threw a
switch and ran the train into a string of
cars. They robbed the express car and
got about $500. They then held up the
passengers. A fusilade was opened on
the train and every window was broken.
One passenger was fatally hurt.
The annual report of Brig. Gen.
Ruger, commanding the department of
California, is devoted largely to re-
cital of the events of the great strike
in that state.
DURING the reception by the Irish
National Federation to Edward Blake.
NJ. P, at the Lenox lyceum, New
York, a cry of fire was heard from
some women in box. A policeman
rushed into the box and picked up the
burning frame of an umbrella and saw
lying among the fragments a bomb
The fuse had half burned away. The
bomb was one of the typical nitro
glycerine variety.
OTTO WoNIGKEIT, aged 81, and Henry
Ermisch, aged 10. were hanged in the
jail inclosure at St Paul, Mimi, on the
10th for the murder of barkeeper,
whom they were attempting to rob May
2 last.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
GETTING TOGETHER.
The wage-Workers of New York Are Coins
to Cast q Solid Vote for the Peoples

The wage-Workers Of New York Are Going
to Cast q Solid Vote for the Peoples
Party.
Speaking of the action of the Central
Labor union, of New York city, indoors
ing the platform of the peoples party
and declaring their intention of taking
political action, President Gompers, of
the American Federation of Labor. said:
'sThe action of the Central Labor
union is the natural result of the last
two years agitation. If our men are
true to themselves, and l am confident
they will be, we can send several men
to the legislature and capture two or
three congressman. 1 believe we will
poll a better vote than we did in 1886.
The time is ripe for it. Recent judicial
decisions, the injunction against Debs
and the entire policy of perverting the
law to Cypress labor, have aroused the
people to the necessity of action"
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
THE twenty,sixth anniversary of the

The twenty>sixth anniversary of the
founding of the Ancient Order OF
United Workmen is to be celebrated
during the next four weeks in the
United States. The anniversary day is
October %, but as it is not practicable
for all lodges to celebrate on that day,
members will hold their anniversary
demonstrations within the two weeks
before or after the 2Tth. The order
was founded by John Jordan Upchurch
at Meadville, Pa, October 81, 1868. 1t
had on August last membership OF
3S2, 600 in the United States. The order
has q, 900 members in Kansas and is al
most as strong in Missouri.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

A coLoRED bicycle rider has crossed
the continent from New York to San
Francisco on his wheel and BACKED
several hundred pairs of boots on the
way. The wheelman who made the
long Journey is Boyd Gray,a bootblack,
whose home is in Yonkers, N. Y. He
set out five months ago and while rid
ing travelled sixty miles day. Where
ever he stopped he BACKED boots and
thus earned money enough to pay his
travelling expenses. He had few mis-.
haps on his way and will return as he
came
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

THE great amount of wheat that
may be used in feeding is sufficient to
materially reduce the quantity grown.
We have, according to the census re-
port, $4,000 900 horses and mules; A..
900, 600 hogs; 100000 cattle, and To-
500, 900 mich cows, not including sheep.
The amount consumed in a year, even
allowing for the use of corn also, would
create demand at home nearly equal
to that which we export.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

If the annexation of New York and
Brooklyn should carry at the coming
election the consolidated city will have
an area of s17 square miles, which is
more than eight times that of the pres
ent New York.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

BECAUSE a man married his first
cousin in Arkansas the other day the
authorities sent him to the peniten-
tlary. The governor pardoned him
and he went off on a honeymoon. In
sixteen states of the union, in which
Missouri and Kansas are included, the
marriage of first cousins is prohibited.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

THE commissioner of Indian affairs
has returned to Washington from a
tour of inspection in the northwest.
He concludes that the reservations are
in good condition and that stock rails
ing among the Indians should be en-
couraged by the government.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

A MEDAL of honor has been awarded
to Andrew w. Mccormack, late sergeant
of the One Hundredth End Twenty-Sev-
eth Illinois volunteers, now e resident
of Monticello, Mimi, for distinguished
gallantry as member of the storming
party at Vicksburg, May %, 1863.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

The ceremony of dedicating the 13e
flags destined for the recently organ
lied four battalions of German in.
fantry regiments, was performed in
the presence of Emperor William re.
Gently In front of Frederick the Greats
statue on Inter den Linden. His
majesty afterwards presented the flags
to the commanders of the respective
battalions. Addressing the officers
present, he alluded to the achievements
OF the German army in 1871, and called
on the commanders to remain loyal
until death and render unconditional
obedience to their war lord against his
external and internal enemies,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

THE first woman's golf tournament
ever held in this country was success
fully inaugurated on the grounds of
the Morris County Golf club, Norris
town, N. j., recently. The club is run
exclusively by women and men are
only let in by paying a big fee.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

HOMER BEST, a New York convict
claims to have the secret of perpetual
life and wants to have his formula
tested on the condition, if it is success.
full, he shall receive his freedom. Best
is an intelligent colored man who was
sentenced to serve twenty years for
burglary. His proposition is to meet
a committee of doctors and scientists
before judge, the latter to decide the
merits of his claim. He has offered
after the killing of a man by electricity
to restore the victim to life, but the
state authorities would not take the
chance of having to infiict capital pun
ishment twice on the same subject.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
Miners Wages.

The census statistics of 1890 give as
the average wages of the 1923 miners
in Illinois, s9.s7 week; of the 1851
of Ohio miners, 50. rs; of the SO. 7s0 btu
minous miners of Pennsylvania, S7.55,
and of the 70, 500 anthracite men, 1921.
The report for 1882 of the Ohio bureau
of labor statistics gives the average
weekly earnings in 1892 in that state,
sZ67 And these starvation wages
were reduced till they threw down their
tools and refused to dig any more coal
until the former wage rate was re-
stored. What is this but wage slavery
of the most malignant type?-Pitts
burg Kansan.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
CURRENT COMMENT.

A CHICAGO girl has started to ride
around the world on a bicycle and earn
S., 900 on the way.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

THE Nawab of Rampur, an Indian
potentate, has paid $3.50, 600 to an Eng
lish army surgeon who attended him
for three months
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

THREE hundred men were reported
as being at work on the Panama canal,
but a feeling of general depression pre-
vailed,
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

SYMPATHIzERs with the Brazilian
revolution were jubilant over recent
victories in Rio Grande do Sui.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26

A DISPATCH from Vienna says Johann
Strauss has received from ex-Khedive
Ismail two CRATES as a jubilee present.
The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-10-26
The Silver Lining.

Father (angrily)-What! Our Mary
has secretly married an English noble
man with four hundred thousand dol
lars worth of debts? Why did she not
wait until she got my consent?
Mother-She did it for economy
sake, dear. She married him as soon
as possible, as he was piling up debts
at the rate of ten thousand a month";
Puck.