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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
ONLY A TRAMP.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press
He was veritable tramp His
trousers were spattered with mud, and
both they and his coat were that nom
descript color which only long expos
ure to the weather can give. The
spattered hat he wore, pulled well
down over his eyes, concealed the half
discouraged, half defiant expression of
his face. AS he slouched aling in aim
less fashion his clumsy, broken shoes
elattered on the pavement.
Years ago he had recklessly left
home and since then he had only heard
news from the old place once. That
was few days past, when he had read
Of his mothers death in the papers.
He was ashamed to go back then,
though he longed to see her face once
more.
He did not mean to be gone so long.
But he had started out to seek his for
tune. and he had found il. Only it
was not good fortune. All his worldly
possessions now consisted of a nickel.
lying in the pocket of his vest. Just
sufficient to buy a free lunch" aud
he was hungry enough to spend it. He
looked up as he neared the corner.
searching for favorable spot TO in
vest the coin.
Coming down the avenue toward him
was an old beggar woman She hob
bled along slowly, leaning on n cane
for the support which her trem bling
limbs could not give. Her weak eyes
peered anxiously into the faces O.
passersby in a vain appeal for help,
and her wrinkled hand shook as she
held it out for aims As she reached
the corner cold wind blowing through
the street made her shiver and pull her
thin shawl more closely about her
shoulders
This motion attracted the tramp's
attention, and as he glanced at her as
she passed. though she did not look at
him
Poor old soul, he mnt.ered: that's
hard lines. He paused in his walk,
looked al the slowly-retreating figure,
hesiiated- -2nd turned back The woman
started IN astonishn,en; as he touched
her on the shoulder. umbling in the
pocket OF his tattered vest be pulled
out coin This he placed in her hand
without word, and not even waiting
for the ferveut God bless you he
shuft'ed away and w>< la>s TO ries II
the crpv
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
MEN WHO WILL WORK

He is-a fortunate man who can turn
his hand TO some temporary employment
in times like the present, There is man
in Sedgwick county who buys and butch
ers two hogs a week, from which he
makes up choice lard. sausage, head
cheese, nicely trimmed joints, spare ribs.
hack-bones, pigs feet, etc. He brings hi
product 10 market in neat packages. and
has no trouble in diSposing of it at salts
factory prices. While he is thus provid-
ing for his family, there are men at every
street corner, complaining that there is
nothing TO do. OF course the unemrloy.
ed would soon overdo the sausage enter
prise if they would all take il up for \
business, but there are other lines eoual.
ly profitable where there is will
10 work. 1t would not be safe
10 assume that man is lazy
because he is out of work
but it is true that a lazy man
invariably tries 10 dictate the kind of
work he shall do. and the wages he shall
receive. Starving should be the last
resort, especially if there are dependent
ones 10 suffer. There is no darker pic
lure IN human experience than that of
hungry wife and children looking to an
indo!ent hus and and father for food
which he is too lazy to earn.
For every man, out of employment.
who could make sausage or do some
thing else to bridge over the present
stringency. there would lie one less idler
and one more head of family who was
doing his duty.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
TIE POP PARTY's RECORD.

From the Kansas Chief.
Let US see how the record stands. to
date. The secretary of state convicted
criminal. The assistant attorney general
fired for bribery. The labor commis-
sioner pleads guilty TO msrderous as
sauls upon citizen. The adjuiart gen.
eral suspended for ail-around rascality.
All the state institutions defiied and
looted. The stare printer charged by
his wife with offenses of the grossest
character. and he pays her large sum
of money 10 avoid "a trial, and canse-
quent exposure. A leading member of
the party under arrest for openly charg-
ing the governor and mernbers of his Of
fetal household with wholesale bribery
and boodhDg. A member of the board
of charities proclaiming through the
public prints that affidaviis are In ex-
istence charging her with adultery.
Every thing SO rotten that even Jim
Legate is disgusted.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

A cook IN cheap boarding house 81
New York played . little game on q
grumbliug boardsT. . nswspapsr hv
nsorist. By serving him With . piece a
sole leather instead Of bsefsteak
You've changed your butcher. Mr..
Hasche.' said the boarder. locking %
at the landlsdy, after saving two os
three minutes on the leather.
same butcher - usual. replied shs
boarding mistress with . pasronixins
smile. .@why1'
''oh, nothing mneh.s sssd the hu~
morist. trying 20 make IN irnpre<sson
on the steak With his knife. '-oniy ,his
piece % r.est Is the sendsres. ] hsvs
struck In fAss house for scuss ~eskAS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
THAT ORATORlCAL CONTEST.

A good per cent. of the papers of Kan
sas seem fearfully wrought up over a
charge of plagiarism lodged against
practically all of the participants in the
late state oratorical contest. The young
gentlemen of Winfield who won the
prize can hardly be an ordinary chap
There is great difference in merely re-
producing the thoughts of others, and in
making the thoughts of others your
own. There is little that's new under the
sun. Ninety-nine hundredths of all the
thoughts that are new and original, as
to the individual who expresses them,
will be found TO have been thought and
expressed before. Especially is this true
OF the idealistic subjects generally
chosen for orations aud compositions.
One of the phases of faith, we believe,
the subject matter of the
Winfield boys Grafton. 1t is a subject
as old as the human mind. His style
and delivery captured the crowd and the
prize. The most effective takers in the
world are actors. They may or may
not wholly employ their own minds as
to manner and intonation, but their
words are those of another, Mrs. Lease
is acknowledged to be one of the most
effective takers of Kansas, but Mrs.
Lease is reader rather than a thinker.
She absorbs or assimulates everything
on which her eyes fall and just as read
Iy reflects or utters it again, and not
always in her own language yet she is
fine or naturally born linguist. There
are not eight boys in Kansas, nor one, in
his or any other state who can deliver
paper or speech replete with entire orig
nallty of either thought or expression.
A single column of really original
hought and expression combined, or of
either thought or expression, would i'm
noralize its author. Even in this criti-
'ism of originality there is presumably
lothing original.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
PERSIAN CLIFF DwELI.ERs.
From Harper,s Magazine.


The approach to Shiraz is a success
sion of surprises. The town. a com
pact and yellow mass of crowded
dwellings, appears to rise abruptly and
close at hand above the level plair
which we are crossing. All at once a
profound ravine opens in front of us,
and perched high UP on the summit OF
the yellow cliffs on the other side are
the houses which we saw from the
plain. Descending steeply to the pei-
bly, floor of this ravine. which is an ars-
cient river-bed. we turn to The left ami
ride along under the perpendicular
ledge. There are filthy pools
along the bottom of it, and black
Shiny stains descend the rocky wa.:l
from the rickety wooden balconies
and projecting windows of the town
above us. If the people overhead are
dying of cholera they are surely very
quiet about it. and there is no sign of
life at any OF the windows. We come
to the chapar khaneh Gnn) on the
other side of the ravine 1t is locked
up, and little further on the ravine
opens OIA W u OIO1O WHICH We
cross by bridge, and enter an impos-
ing caravansary of the time of Shah
Abbas.
In this way we avoid entering the
town. The river is bordered on both
sides by vertical cliffs, and from the
gate of the caravansary, looking back
across the bridge, we get the most
striking view of Yezdil1hast The long
ledge on which it stands is pierced
by many caves and openings along
the top, and from distance it is
difficult to make out just where
the town begins, where the caves be-
come windows and doors. They are
accentrated in many places, by jutting
windows and crazy-looking balconies
p-opped by sticks, at great height
above the stream below. This long
rock ends in a thin wedge where the
ravine on the other side enters the
river-bed. Separated at the other end
from the main range of cliffs by spe-
cies of drawbridge, it can easily be
made as inaccessible as a vulture,s
nest perched on a crag. and the dark
streaks which stain the cliffs below
heighten the resemblance to a roost-
ing-place of those scavepgers of the
desert.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
.c.s or the DUKE ar wen1ngson. ana

ness or the duke af wellington. ana
has on that account been named
Arthur and His Nose" Among the
orchids the initiative form is entirely
different In character, being exhibited
in the shape Of the flower itself Some
are exact counterfeits of bees. butter.
flies. moths etc. while others take up
on themselves the form OF worms and
beetles Nz.uraiIsts believe that in
the frst instance IL Is nstnre's trap 70
lure other bees, moths and butterfies,
but in the case of the worm and beetle
orchids, or those that are exact couu.
:erparts OF tozds. lizards and huge
spiders they do no. attempt 20 explain.
-Chicsgo Herald
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

For once Grover Cleveland has rec
ognized the companionship of another
man. He has gone fishing with
Gresham. There is hope that he may
yet realize that he is a citizen of this
world, and that, at least, few are
worthy to he classed as his peers socially
If not politically.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
Grover Cleveland speaks of the Whit

Grover Cleveland speaks of the White
House as "our executive mansion" He
no donbts believes that the powers and
duties vested in the constitution would
be much better vested in him. Among
other things that he would proceed to do
would be to abolish that useless append
age to the executive, the United States
senate. Lii, oh my Lii, how are you
ANYWAY?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

Texas, Alabama and other southern
states have been having furious snow
storms and disastrous billiards during
the week, which have proven very dis
astrous to fruit buds.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

1t is hardly possible for the congress
to pass law and put it on the statutes
that some United States judge don't de-
clare it unconstitutional. The courts
rule the country after all.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

The Fnsion Democrats of Kansas had
almost despaired of their postoffices, but
the administration is getting in some
lively work. From three to half a dozen
presidential postmasters are named
every day. Iof many Of them the COM
missions had expired months ago.
Growers fight with Hill proved Cuckoo
Martins opportunity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

There is some talk again of Ed Hoch
of Marion becoming a candidate for
governor. He nominated Farmer Smith
last summer year, and Smith is out in
a card declining to try his chances
again.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

An eastern man who put his money in
some Kansas boom mortgages, was out
to see about it the other day. Starting
back on the first train he said: ssFor
sunfiowers, sunshine and sons-of-guns,
Kansas takes the cake.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

If the Pops can't win with Lewelling
they can't win with anybody. If they
turn him dowu and take up new man,
they are beaten before the campaign
opans
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

For twenty days in February the ex-
pense of the United States treasury ex-
ceeded its receipts by over 81, ,00O, 900.
At that rate another $4,000, 900 bond
will soon be needed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

March ! was lamb-like enough to
please the most persistent climate chosen
in the country. The roaring lion will
get i'll his work later.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

Amos Cummings taunted the members
OF his party in the house the other day
by reminding them that they didn't
call General Sickles 10 order at Gettys-
blirr
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03
For tho Eagle.
OVER THERE.

When we stand before the throne
Clad in bright array,
Well each forget the trials met
Along the stormy way.
Here our hearts are often tried
Rnd doubts obscure the way;
There, glory bright illumes tine night
And turns 1t into day.
Then let us bravely struggle on,
Submissive to our fate;
We'll leave all pain and earthly gain
Outside the golden gate.
MRS. NJ. Z. MAYHEM.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

OF the twenty-eight United States SEN
ators from the south, twenty-six of them
are eX-Confederate soldiers, and all of
them believe in a low wage scale.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

lt will not be five years before the peo-
pie will be clamoring for a minimum
instead of maximum rate railway
law
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-03

I.auentiue winds sweeping on from mountain to
Regretfully sigh for the straam's lost pageantry
Yc. anon in exuiting strai2s of ecstasy
For its ,netagenesis-
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26
FOREWARNEO.
He Was Fraud, For She Had Plenty of
stun In the House.

He Was Fraud, For She Had Plenty OF
stun In the House.
At o'clock the other evening bare.
beaded plainly dressed woman about -
years of age walked into a Grand River
avenue drug store and asked:
Has man been in here within an hour
and asked for poison?"
NO, maam,' was the reply.
Rather small man, with a goatee and
freckled facet"
81 don't remember any such man.
Got squeaky voice, and he'd tell you
that he was tired of life and longed for
rest?"
NO; no such man has been in here,
ma'am."
We'll. he may come It's my husband.
Every week or two he tries to bluff me, and
when he finds he can't do it he threatens to
poison himself. He went away this morn
ing saying would never see him again, and
that would read of his death III the even
ing papers"
"Nes'm."
You'll know him the minute he walks
in. He'll ask you for arsenic-l0 cents
worth of arsenic"
"Yes'm."
He'll begin to blow about me while you
are putting it up, saying as how make life
miserable and full of woe, and that he has
decided to die"
"Yes'm"
"Then he'll begin to shed tears and claw
off and say perhaps he'd better make one
more effort to live with me, and the result
will be that he'll walk out and leave you lC
cents out of pocket"
IL see. I'll be on the watch for him"
Yes, you'd better. He's played that
trick on every druggist within mile o.
here. keep laudanum, rough on rats anC
strychnine in the house all the time, besides
three or four ropes stout enough for him t.
hang himself, and there's no earthly neet
of his beating a drug store. He just does i
to get sympathy and have chance to sa!
that | bought four 10 cent novels in on
week"
81 see"
"If he comes, just grab him, turn hin
around and lift him outdoors, and I'll b.
very much obliged to you, and it may hell
to make better man Of him. Good even
ing. Detroit Free Press.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26

He trimmed his finger nails On the seat
in front of him sat a lantern jawed pas
senger trying to read a newspaper by the
dim light Of the smoky and archaic car
lamp overhead, and the pulseless atmos-
phere was vaguely conscious of reminis-
cences of orange peel and tobacco And he
sat with his knees against the back of the
seat in front and trimmed his finger nails.
He trimmed his finger nails. The rain
drops made slanting lines of moisture on
the windows. Across the aisle a sleeping
woman long past the meridian of life snored
dismally. He looked at the brakeman NOV
ing with slow, perfunctory step through
the car and yawned. He yawned and con-
tinued to trim his finger nails.
He trimmed his finger nails. All about
him were fellow beings, the orbits of whose
existence were for the time mysteriously
coincident with his own. Should he ever
meet them againS All, mel And he trim
med his finger nails, and from his pale,
trembling lips there came the murmur:
Darn such dull knifep'-Chicago Trib-
une
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26

Mr.. Seebohm has wildly pictured the on
rush of summer in the arctic, but how diff
ferent in the antarctic! There there is eter-
nal winter, and the snow never melts. As
far north as man has travelled he has found
reindeer and hare baskiug in the sun, the
country brilliant with rich flora Within
the antarctic circle no plant is to be found
Long shall | remember the beauties of
these icebound scenes, the grandeur and
the silence. Ones feelings cannot be ex-
pressed, ones thoughts cannot be fathom-
ed, as one stands alone during the night
watches on a deserted deck, while the sun
skirts the horizon and paints the world
with color, and the white ice floats in the
calm, black waters. Westminster Gazette
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26

Nay, you wrong her. my friend; she's not hckle
her love she has simply outgrown.
one can read the whole matter, translating her
heart by the light Of ones own.
Can you bear me TO talk with you frankly
There is much that my heart would say,
And you know we were children together, have
quarreed and made up" in play.
And so for the sake Of old friendship venture
TO tell YOU the truth
AS plainly perhaps and as bluntly as might in
our earlier youth
Five summers ago when you wooed her you
stood on the self same plane,
Face to face, heart to heart, never dreaming
your souls could be parted again
She loved you at that time entirely, in the
bloom OF her lifes early May,
And II is not her fault repeat it, that she does
not love you today
Nature never stands still, nor souls either. They
ever 20 up or go down,
/ And hers has been steadily soarng-but how
has it been with your OWN
/ She has struggled and yearned and nspired-
grown purer and wiser each year;
The stars are not farther above you in yon lumi-
nous atmosphere!
For she whom you crowned with fresh roses
down yondcr five summers ago
Has learned that the first of our duties to God
and ourselves is TO grow.
Her eyes they are sweeter and calmer, but their
vision is clearer as well;
Her voice has tenderer cadence, but is pure
as II silver bell
Her face has the look worn by those who with
God and his angels have talked;
The white robes She wears are less white than
the spirits with whom she has walked.
| And your Have You aimed at the highesi Have
you, too, aspircd and prayedf
Have you looked upon evil uusulled2 Have you
conquered it undismayedy
Have you, too. grown purcr and wiser the
months and the years have rolled on?
Did you meet her this morning rejoicing in the
triumph of victory wonr
Nay hear me! The truth cannot harm you
When today in her presence you stood,
Was the hand that you gave her as white and
clear as that of her womanhOody
Go measure yourself by her standard. Look
back on the years that have fed,
Then ask, if you need, why she tells you that
the love of her girlhood is dead
She cannot look down to her lover-her love
like her soul, asprcs;
He must stand by her side, or above her, whC
would kinde its holy fires.
Now, farewell! For the sake Of old friendship
. have ventured to tell you the truth
AS plainly perhaps and a. blunty as might II
our earlier youth.
Julia c. r. Dorr.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26

The word "jayhawker' became gener
ally known during the war of the rebel
lion from the application of it to himself
and his soldiers by Colonel Jamison of the
Seventh Kansas. The appellation passed
from this regiment to all Kansas soldiers
and was finally applied to the inhabitants
of Kansas themselves. The Kansas herd
book" gives the following story as the or
igin of the name:
Early one autumn morning in 1856 Pat
Devln, a noted character in Kansas in
those days, was seen entering the village
of Ossawatomie, riding n mule loaded
down with all sorts of articles. A neigh
Dor met him and said
Good morning, Pat. You look as if
you had been out on some kind of forag
ing expedition"
Yes I've been out jayhawking.
"What do you mean by jayhawking,
Pati | never heard of that word before. "
well, l've been out foraging, and while
riding home on my haste / bethought me
of the bird we have in Ireland we call the
jayhawk, which takes delight in worrying
its prey before devouring it, and thought
jayhawking a good name for the business
was in myself. kansas City Times.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-09-26
TWO MEMORABLE WRECKS.


The Horrors OF "a Northwest Gale on the
Atlantic Coast.
Woe to the sailing ship that encounters a .
December nor wester in the north Atlantic
near our coast Huh and rigging become
incased with ice: the crew work with ann T.
Guilty, for the prodigious seas coming on
board freeze where they strike make decks
and rigging slippery and freeze hands, lac's
and feet. Woe to the ship that is wrecked
on our coast in such terrible weather.
There is one specially memorable wreck
in which these horrors were awfullv eNcm-
plifed. It happened to an American prl-
vatcer brig in the war of the Revolution.
She sailed out from Plymouth with "A crew
of IA men, of whom many belonged to that
part Of Massachusetts. The wind was
southwest but when it got into the nay II
yeered TO the northeast, blowing so hard
she could not carry enough sail TO keep OH
n lee shore. They wore ship and tried to
run back but she struck on the bar and
could not be moved. a prodigious sea was
running. it was the month of December
and the vessel was loaded down with frozen
spray Then the wind shifted to northwest,
and what the northeaster began the north
wester completed.
After the wind went down, the people OF
/ Plymouth went off to the rescue. They
.
the slippery deck and entered the cabin and
the forecastle There was not a man left
alive on board. All were dead. One hun
dred and forty-four corpses were taken ON
shore and laid in the church. But when
the minister arose to preach the funeral
sermon and saw that array of dead men be
fore him his voice failed him, and he fell
back in the pulpit in fit.
Similar was the doom that befell the
noble ship New Era in 1851. She was strucl,
by the deadly Northwestern. Those were
the days when emigrants came to the
United States in sailing ships, and the New
Era had some 600 souls on board. 1t was
the middle of December, 1854. She was
nearing the Jersey shore-of all our coasts
one Of the most dangerous-and yet heI
captain instead of exercising proper vigi
lance with such a precious freight in his
charge, was engaged in making love to one
of his passengers and drinking himself
drunk.
On dark night in binding snowstorn
the ship struck on Deal beach. To max,
matters worse she settled on quicksaud
which sucked down the hull, and the break
ers roared over her decks and swept of hun
dreds. The survivors fled to the rigging
and then the wind shifted into the north
west. sharp as razor and fierce as he'll
One after another the survivors were frozel
to death. Some fell frozen into the surf
some chung with icy grip to the ropes ant
spars dead. Nearly 500 corpses lay the mex
day in rows in long barn, where the bowl
ing alley of the Hathaway House nov
stands. They were buried in one common
grave at Branchburg -Worthington's Mag
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