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The record-union., 1896-07-19

down alone to locate it before we cut a
hole in the deck and slipped the hose in.
The old man did not come up again. Ye
mind him. Old Rutherford of Jarrow
And 1 went down and looked for him.
1t was a hell of smoke and fire, and
something in the cargo sinking like
like hell fire as it burnt. l got a hold of
the old man, and was fetching him out
on my hands and knees, when some
thing busts up and sends us all through
the deck. l had three months in Val
paraiso hospital, but l saved old Jack
Rutherford of Jarrow. And when | got
up and looked at my face l saw that it
was not in the nature of things that
could ever ask a lass to have me. So
just stayed away and made believe that
that I had changed my mind
The man pauses. He is not glib of
speech, though quick enough at sea. AS
he takes UP the little teapot and shakes
it roundwise after the manner of the
galley, his great brown hand shakes too.
II would not have come back here,
he goes on after silence; but the Nal
lard was ordered to the Tyne. And
chap must do his duty by his shipmates
and his owners. And I thought would
be safe-after eleven years. When
saw the old place and smelt the smell of
the old woman's frying-pan, could not
get past the door. But / hung around,
looking up to make sure there were no
BARNS playing on the floor. | have only
come in, lass, to pass the time of day
and to tell you ye're a free woman.
He is ont looking at her. He seems to
find that difficult. So he does not see
the queer little smile-rather sadder, in
itself than tears.
"And you stayed away eleven years
because O. that says the woman
slowly.
"Ay, you know lass, I'm no great hand
at the preaching and Bibles and the
like; but it seems pretty clear that them
who's working things did not think it
fit that we should marry. And so it was
sent. I got to think it so in time-least,
l think it's that sometimes. And no
woman would like to say. That's my
man-him with a half face So just
stayed away"
"All for that?" asks the woman, her
face, which is still pretty and round and
rosy, working convulsively.
"Ay, lass"
'"Then, honey" she cries softly 'you
dinna understand US women!"-Henry
Seton Merriman. in Cornhill Magazine.
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BABIES.
Some Definitions of Those AdjunCts
to MatrimOny.

A London paper has been fishing for
definitions as to what baby is. and re-
ceived a long list of definitions. That
which took the prize was "a tiny feather
from the wing of love, dropped into the
sacred lap of motherhood"
Among the definitions were the fol-
lowing:
A troublesome compendium of great
possibilities.
The only precious possession that
never excites envy.
A bold asserter of the rights of free
speech.
A thing everybody thinks there is a
great deal tQo much fuss about, unless
it is their own.
A thing we are expected to kiss and
look as if we enjoyed it.
The only thing needful to make a
home happy.
There is only one perfect specimen of
a baby in existence, and every mother
is the happy possessor of it.
The most extensive employer of fe-
male labor.
The pulp from which the leaves of
lifes book are made.
A paddock on the chain of love.
A soft bundle of love and trouble
which we cannot do without.
The morning caller, monday crawler
midnight bawler.
The magic spell by which the gods
transform a house into a home.
A diminutive specimen of perverse hu-
manity that could scarcely be endured
if he belonged to some one else, but
being our own, is a neverfailing treas
ure of delight.
A mite of humanity that win cry no
harder if a pin is stuck into him than he
will if the cat won't let him pull her
tail.
A crying evil you only aggravate by
putting down.
The latest addition of humanity of
which every couple think they possess
the finest copy.
A native of all countries, who speaks
the language of none.
The sweetest thing God ever made
and forgot to give wings to.
That which increases the mothers
toll, decreases the fathers cash, and
serves as an alarm clock to the neigh
bors.
A pleasure to two, nuisance to every
other body, and a necessity to the world.
An inhabitant of Lapland.
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Such is that well-known sanitariun
located permanently at T24l& X street
Sacramento, and the mecca for the af-
tlicted of both sexes and all ages
Time and time again-nay, in hund-
dreds and hundreds OF cases-haVe
these experienced physicians brought back
to life. hope and happiness those who in
the belief that their maladies We're hope
lessly incurab Bile, have given themselves up
to die The Endorsement of their claims
of superiority of skill over all other ply
sicians has been given by thousands of
cases that have never met the public eye
through the columns of newspapers. but
which are to be seen on file by any one in
terested in probing to the bottom the truth
of these assertions.
Among the many who have been treated
and cured at this Institute Is j. W. Warren
who resides at 1871 j st. lie says: Il have
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largest lock so far constructed This
lock will be kept closed whenever the
water in the Weser River is lower than
the depth of water to be maintained in
the harbor. When open, the lock has a
clear width of ninety-one feet, the gate
being thirty-eight feet high, the largest
in the world. The length of the lock
between the two gates is 700 feet, and
at ordinary high tide there is a depth
OF water of thirty-three feet. The
gates rest in two masonry structures
built on caissons of twenty feet in
hight and solidly cemented to the
ground. The building of these strue-
lures, which took place under very ia
vcrable conditions, has succeeded sur
prisingly well, considering that it is
one of the most difficult technical
pi oblems.
The entire construction rests upon
pile work, the length of the piles vary
ing from fifty to seventy feet. Most of
the construction work was carried on
during the ebb tide, recurring twice
every twenty-four hours, so that only
four hours a day could be employed at
that work and that only in favorable
weather. What an immense amount of
work was necessary to construct this
harbor is evident from the following
figures: Twenty thousand piles were
sunk for foundation, 45000,0O0 cubic
feet of soil had to be taken away on
dry ground, and as much more dredged
out by the immense dredgeS formerly
used in the construction of the North
Sea- Baltic Canal. At the entrance of
the harbOr 4 75O 600 cuhic feet of
masonry work were necessary to
strengthen the dikes and hold the
colossal locks. An immense drydock
has been built Immediately adjoining
the harbor, which will accommodate
the largest vessels of the world, it's di-
mensions being identical with that of
the lock at the entrance of the harbor.
st. Louis Globe-Democrat
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THE HIGHER LIFE.

To play through life a perfect part :,
Unnoticed and unknown,
To seek no rest in any heart,
Save only God alone;
In little things to own no will,
To have no share in great,
To find the labor ready still,
And for the crown to wait.
Upon the brow to bear no trace
OF more than common care,
To write no secret in the face
For men to read 1t there.
The daily cross to clasp and bless
With such familiar zeal,
AS hides from all that not the less
The daily weight you feel.
In tolls that praise will never pay,
To see your life go past,
To meet in every coming day
Twin sister of the last;
To hear of high heroic things,
And yield them reverence due,
But feel life's daily sufferings
Are far more fit for you.
To WOO no secret, soft disguise
To which self-love is prone,
Unnoticed by all other eyes,
Unworthy in your own;
To.yield with such happy art,
That no one thinks you care,
And say to your poor, bleeding heart,
How little you can bear.
On, It's a pathway hard to choose,
A struggle hard TO share,
For human pride would still refuse
The nameless trials there;
But since we know the gate Is low
That leads to heavenly bliss,
What higher grace could God bestow
Than such life as this,
Adelaide Proctor
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THE "ADv WHICH NEVER CAME.
Staked All Upon the Throw, and Luck
Was Against Him.

He was tall. gaunt and seedy, and he
had a sore eye, and carried his right
hand enveloped in a bandana which
had evidently Travelled afar. He walked
M to a man who was standing at one
of the windows in the Postoffice corrl-
dor. and. extending a piece of wrap
ring paper and the stub Of pencil, he
commanded:
Write me a personal to be inserted
in the papers. You see my right hand
is useless"
''Tll oblige you. certainly replied the
other. What will you have?''
Write it thusly: VIII the lady who
wore diamond earrings and whose
front teeth were filled with gold
i've got it.
and who is doubtless way up in
c.. and who stood for a moment on
the corner of Ervay and Main streets
two weeks ago last Monday
Il have it down.
and who was smiled at by gent,
evidently the victim of adverse cir
cumstances, and who seemed to re-
gard him with favorable consideration
I'm waiting"
please send her address 10
Crushed But Not Conquered, City
Postoffice" She can write in confidence.
Object: Mutual advancement and pos
s.bly matrimony.
Exactly. Here it is. Is that all?"
That's all, thanks"
And do you think it will work."
Its got to. I've staked my all on
the throw, and desperation always
brings success. If you could advance
me a dollar to buy a bouquet of roses
to hold in my left hand at our first
meeting / think
But the other had gone, and the soft
breezes crept in at the open door. and
gently climbed UP the long. thin body
of the unconquered until they reached
his ear and soothingly whispered
Next. Texas Siftings.
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GREAT FAVORITES.
No Songs Like the Old Songs for
Popularity.

Two old New Workers sat together in
one of the uptown music halls the other
night when an ample woman, with an
ample contralto voice, ambled out on
the stage and performed Just a Song
at Twilight" She kept it up for two
verses, and it wasn't so badly done, but
at the end there was hardly a hand
clap of applause.
Frost" said one of the old New York
ers, perhaps for want of anything better
to say.
Nevertheless" answered the other
that woman has got the glimmering
of an idea that might be made very
profitable by some music hall manager
IN this town, for one season, at least
The trouble with her song is that it
was never a great favorite, and what
popularity it did have was too recent.
But let some manager get a good singer
to do the real favorites among the Eng
iish ballads, and I'll bet he'd make a
hit 1t would be better if he had a
quartet of men. There is no such pop
ular music as the singing of men. Let
such a quartet come here and do the
old songs, and you'd give up your dol
lars to hear them, and I'd give up mine,
and so would all the rest of the boys;
and they'd keep it up long enough, too,
to make it a good investment. But the
singers must be good ones, with we'll
trained voices. There's a lot of the old
songs which are extremely popular, in
spite of the fun that's made of them.
There's Annie Laurie for instance.
Sung as a second bass solo, with the
rest of them doing the accompaniment,
it would go sure. And there's Sally in
Our Alley Why, there's man up at
the club who makes a speciality of ballad
singing, and he never gets away with
out doing that song. He has a high,
sweet tenor voice. and there isn't a
man who ever heard him who wouldn't
go miles in the rain to hear him repeat
it. 'Marsa's in the Cold, Cold Ground is
another. and there are those old Irish
ballads, Kathleen Mavourneen' and
Relieve Me- if All Those Endearing
Young Charms There was a quartet
in Boston several years ago that used
to go around the country giving con-
certs I've heard them several times,
and the time they made the biggest hit
was when a big part of their pro-
eramme was made up of the old songs
1t hasn't been done in a summer sea-
son in New York that / can remember.
and I'd like to see it tried. 1t would
get my money sure."-New York Sun
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SAYING GRACE.

"Come come, Mamma, to the Window!
Cried Freddie with eager face;
Just look at my little biddles-
They are drinking and saying grace"
| quickly came at his bidding,
And saw a pretty sight;
Six downy little chickens
Drinking with all their might.
And as they slipped the water
They craned their necks on high,
AS If their thanks were lifted
To the beautiful blue sky.
And so / could not wonder,
SO rapt was his eager face,
That to him the little chickens
Were drinking and saying grace"
.paaoarac-
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His InferiOrity.

Josh Grayneck-So you heard the cell
ebrated violinist play while you was up
to the city, Jay? Wal, how did you like
him?
Jay Green back from the metropolis)
-Shucks, He didn't amount to much.
I've seen more than forty fellers play
that sweat more than he did.-New York
World.
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For the Sake of Argument.

Now, supposing I borrowed So from
YOU that would represent capital,
wouldn't it?"
Yes"
But, supposing. after while, you
wanted to get it bach
THAT would represent labor. Bay
City Chat.
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The Crucial Test.

.I always feel so brave,' she said,
when l the cycle pedals tread
Like some world-conquering cavalier,
| ride unconscious all of fear!"
A field mouse crossed our winding way
A grasp, a scream, Swerve, a swayi
And roadside gully did reveal
A pot pourri of maid and wheel.
Richmond Dispatch.
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Very thin note paper has an essen
TALLY foreign look.
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A BIG SUCCESS.
Sacramento Has in Its Midst An
Institution of Which 1t May
Well Feel Proud.

An Enterprise That Has Fulfilled
Every Promise of Its Founders and
VIII Continue to Move Onward and
Upward to Greater Usefulness.
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l.
10 you with a face like this, and you the
Irettiest lass on the Tyneside?"
She is fumbling with her apron string.
There is half-coquettish bend of her
head-with the gray hairs already at
the temple-awakened perhaps by
$, me far-off echo in his passionate
voice. She looks up slowly, and does not
answer his question.
Tell u.s." she says slowly. Tell us
where you have been"
"Been.-oh, 1 don't know, lassi
don't rightly remember. Not that it
matters. Up the West Coast, trading
backwards and forwards. I've got my
masters certificate now. Serving first
mate on board the Mallard to Falmouth
for orders, and they ordered us to the
Tyne. l brought her round-I knew the
way ] thought you'd be married, lass
But maybe We are?"
Maybe I'm daft" puts in Annie cool
ly.
II greatly feared" the man goes on
with the slow consciousness of one
unaccustomed to talk Of himself. Il
greatly feared I'd meet with bairn of
yours playing in the doorway. Losh.
could not have stood that, But that's
why l stayed away, Annie, lass, So
that you might marry a man with a
face on him. l thought you would not
know me IL / held my handkerchief over
my other cheek.
There is a strange gleam in the wom-
ans eyes-a sleam that one or two of
the old masters have succeeded in
catching and imparting to the faces of
their AIadonnas, but only one or two.
How did you come by your hurt ?'
she asked in her low voice
Board the old Walleroo going out.
You mind the old ship. We had a fire in
the hold. and the skipper he would go
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-10
TOM JACKSON LOVES GROVER
He Declares He has Done More Good fof
the Republican Party Than Anybody.

Happy, jolly Tom Jackson, the veteran
Of Harvey county, could no more keep
away from Republican convention, or
a Republican Legislature than sparks
could cease to fly upwards. He tells the
bows he is built and constituted that
way and can't help ii. Of course Tom
had some ething to say when approached
by a reporter for this paper, and among
ten thousand other things said:
what Kansas and the United States
wants today is Bill Mckinley of Ohio
and plenty of him. Even a blind calf
has been given practical lessons enough
to know that and if the people would
throw away prejudice and allow reason
to have its full sway he would get every
vote in the United States outside of the
federal office holders.
'I am sorry to hear the boys jump
upon Grover Cleveland just because ne
is weak minded and has sold himself
to Wall street and Old England, and be-
cause he has made a big thing out OF the
bond issue, and soforth. They have no
right to abuse him. He is today the best
friend the Republican party has in the
world, and by his failures and imbecility
he has made more Republicans than any
speaker the party has.
"Why. I believe if 1 had Roetgen's Y
rays applied to his frame and could go
around and exhibit to the voters of the
United States his treachery and evil
heart. that l would be able to carry
every state south of the Dixie line. He
is a daisy, and has done lots of good
for the country and there has been no
hypocrisy about him. Say all you please
about him he is no hypocrite. His work
has been so coarse that even resident
of the Ozark mountains could see
through his acts. When he was first
nominated he was reported to be poor
man, but now he is worth his millions.
Il am in favor Of the free coinage OF
American silver only. We shall win with
Cleveland on the side of the Republican
party doing his work so coarse that
Democrats are being driven into the
Republican ranks"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-10
HE BELIEVES IN HONESTY
Senator Milton Brown Wants No Pooling
But Straight. Honest hnsiness-

One OF the prominent western Kan
sans at the convention is Senator Mil
ton Brown OF Garden City. who repre-
sents all the western counties so ably IN
the upper branch OF the state legisla-
ture. Senator Brown Is a gentleman OF
strong intellect and a thorough idea OF
the needs and desires not only Of the
people OF Kansas, but Of the aggregate
population OF the nation. When a re-
porter for the Eagle nailed" him at
the Carey last night and applied the re-
portorial pump he begged TO be excused.
but finally said:
II am here to attend the Federal
court, and incidentally 10 look at the
convention of this week 10 sympathize
with some Of my friends VINO may get
left and 10 congratulate the rising sons.
No, l am not a candidate for state
senatOr-not this year: am only an ar
mour-bearer. so to speak. For lieuten-
ant governor? Never said l was. The
Republican county convention Of my
home county placed me in nomination
and Instructed our delegates 10 the state
convention 70 do all in their power TO
secure my nomination; that is al! there
is 20 that.
What ought these conventions do?
My opinion is they should instruct for
Mckinley in unmistakable terms. de-
clare for protection and reciprocity.
come out straight up for an American
system OF finance and not straddle. the
Republican party always won when II
expressed without equivocation the
courage of its couvictions-to daily is
dastardly and 10 doubt is 10 condemn
itself. Combines and trust. and inter
ference by quasl-public corporations in
political matters should receive merited
condemnation.
mo man should be sent TO the Nation
al convention who will use his posi- ton
a delegate 10 trade on for his individual
purposes, but men Of character and un-
doubted ability as true and successful
politicians Kansas is overwhelming
ly for Governor Mckinley, and his
friends should see 10 II that every pre-
caution is taken TO prevent misrepresen-
tatfon al St Louis. With Mckinley and
the right kind Of a platform. backed up
by a strong state ticket and a circum-
spect legislative ticket We will carry the
state by $4,000, and elect a Republican
United States senator and eight con-
gressmen. Past elections show that the
percentage Of independent voters In all
uarties is enormous, and We VIII only
receive Il by showing that we desire tt.
our statesmen should continually keep
Lincoln's celebrated saying about FOOL
ing" in their minds and act accord
ingly.
TOO early 10 discuss state politics
The foundation will be selected here and
at St Louis. and the structure viii be
coupleted at the next state convention"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-10
HOW 1T AFFECTED PITTsBURG
State Oil Inspector Kelly Tells Something
About the Wilson Tariff Bill

NJ c. Kelley. state coal oil inspector.
of Crawford county. is one of the most
active Mckinley men in the city, and
a red hot protectionist and an advocate
of the free coinage of American silver.
In speaking to a reporter for the Eagle
of the situation in Kansas and why
every voter should be for Mckinley and
protection, he said:
Il live in county where the political
workings of the protection and free
trade system has been placed side by
side and the lesson taught is so plain
that man. though fool. need not err.
II settled in Crawford county eighteen
years ago. At that time there was one
railroad in the county, but today il Is
the second county in the state for the
number of miles 1t contains. There was
a time in the county when butter, eggs
and farm produce could not be sold.
Hogs had TO be driven 10 market and
the prices realized by the farmers were
so small that there was no profit in
raising them.
IN time coal was discovered and then
work was given TO 1000 MIXERS. OF
course this made a home market for
everything that was raised and on ac-
count of the cheapness Of fuel and the
Finding OF zinc great factories were
built up which gave work 10 10000 more
men. Under the Republican rule the
factories and smelters prospersd and
times were good. There were no trusts
and every furnace was ablaze.
"Pittsburg sprung into existence and
became a city OF 10. 600 inha with
all modern improvements. These in
terests were all fostered by Republican
rule and the people Of Crawford county.
including farmers. merchants. iaborers.
and all. were prosperous. There was
not a smelter that was shut down.
At this time the farmer found a
ready market for everything he could
raise and a PittsbuTg a large whole
sale produce house was established
which shipped in hundreds Of cars ot
produce 10 supply the home ccnsump-
ton. Hogs were higher al home than
they were in Kansas City. In fact We
enjoyed NcKiniey's and Blaine's idea
OF a home market. The shipping n O.
produce equal.zed the prices Of products -
and the county was prosperous. Money
was plenty end the lalbo-ers found 10
trouble in finding employment
But there has coma change. With
the advent Of the Wils0n-Go bill.
prices have all decreased. two-thi.is of
me mines have closed. the smel-ers have
leen forced to enter The great ;rus- ard
are now only run portion OF The tine
The great trouble i -1e -ack e ul1a-
-: the lack OF confidence n the admin
istrat!on. and consider tha- prosperity
will never be returned - ths west until
after a president is placed II The exc
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-03-10
The qQhita Dai1u Eau1e Tuesday 7orno zlare o. 1886

". L IS more homes: and patrio:ically
right for the de.udsd b1t sincere gold
ties. in the Republican party 20 change
their convictions Than - ask US faith-
ful and undertaking Americans who
favor the constitutional restoration OF
silver as standard redemption money.
20 change our Conscientious American
convictions. II IS a battle royal cor
American honor. honesty and prosper
iry, against English and European
greed. dishonesty and control OF cur az
fairs. Which shall we choose? 1 am an
American against The earthi
''FiSth-To declare for the restoration
C q protective tariff. that shall equiia-
bly, protect our American labor. indus
tries and producers. against foreign Ia
Dor. and 70 furnish sufficient revenue 10
maintain all governmental expenses
and obligations. without creating mon
opolies or trusts.
'.Sixth-TO favor the most liberal PEN
sioning OF all ex-Union soldiers. and
their dependents. without obstructive or
embarrassing evidence requirements or
restrictions. and denounce the pres
ent anti-pension. Union soldier hating
administration OF the pension bureau.
This done and Rspublican unity and
victory Is assured