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to have voted for the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver. MIR. Stewart stated that
during the consideration Of tho Bland
Allison act Mckinley had voted At every
stage with the most radical silver men. ="
Even as late as 1890 Mr.. Mckinley had
made a speech a. Toledo dcnouncing Mr..
Cleveland for discriminating between tho
two metals.
MIR. stewart caused a laugh a. he closed
by saying very earnestly that 1T was no
use fu criticising Mir, Bryan. as he's going
TO be the nexa PRESIDENT
The vote was then taken on MIR. Quay's
motion to table the committees amend
incnt to paragraph aSi, Rejccted--19 to A.
The vote In detail is as follows:
Ayes1y.
Bacon. Chiffon,
Cockrcll, German,
Jones tArkl, Kenny,
Mallory. Mitchell,
Mills. Morgan.
Murphy. rascoe,
PenrCSe. pettus.
Quay. Smith.
Turpie. Vest,
Walthau
Nocs--4l.
Allen. Allison,
burrows. Butler
Carter, Chandler.
Clark. Davis
Dohoe, Fairbanks.
Foraker. Frye,
Gaiiingor, Gear,
Hale. Harsbrough,
hctfcld, noar.
Lodge. Mcbride.
McEncry, Mantle,
Perkins. platt tof ConnS
i'la't TOT N. W. Proctor.
hawuns, Roach,
Scwall Shoun
Spooner. stewart
Teller Thurston
Tillmap, Turner
Warren, Wellington.
Netmore, White.
Wilson
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Eternal Vigilance.

Eternal vigilance h the price Of liberty.
II IL the price Of everything worth havina.
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THE NEW
HUyCli1NS : !:
F: /: : HOUSE.

w. Il. and j. T.
Boyle. proprictors.
Rates. $50 and
SEQ per day.
Y. i. A head
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-06

HOW ABOUT
Your Letter Heads
And Envelopes?

When yor are cut, remember
tia, you can get s Ia White
En7eiop. printed al this Office,
in 5000 lots, 70. Sr.oo per thous-
and
This Is less than you can bay
the plain Envelope
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CONNECTIONS
D H. RHODES,
Superintendent.

No lOi Kansas Maif-Has reclining chair
cars (seats free) and Pullman drawing room,
Sieepers 10 Wichita and Burton, Kan. Con-
meets al wichita Kan. with A T & 8 =
Tor points n Cherokee Strip and Oklahoma
Connects at Burton, Kan. with A 7 a
: f for points in Kansas.
No Toe ST Louis Msl-Has reclining
hair cars (seats free) 10 ST Louis and
IoI,limsn drawiag-room sieepers 20 Nors-t
connects at Pierce City. Mo- with No qs5
for points in Indian Territory via Neosho-
a. Monet with No. 5. the Texas limited
1VestihtIieC) which has reclining chair csrx
tseats freel Pullman drav;ng-rooru sieep-
ers 10 Galveston via Paris aud Dallas. IA
dining cars Talirina 20 Dallas: connects a.
stoostt with No. 2 which connects A.
I MON station. 81. Louis. with ali ires for
the east. north ard southeast
No. w5 Colorado and Csliforri. limited
las reclining chair cars (seats fresl n
rurrton and Anthony. Kan. Pullman Ruf-
fsf drsvins-rocr, siespsTs to Burton. Kan
Through Pullman sieepers Burton. Ksr
- pueblo. Denver, e Paso. Los Angeles
SAN Deeso and San Francisco. Co-necfs
a. Hn-r.or Kan, with A T. & : F fo-
noint. in Colorado Wyoming, Utah. Nsva-
IA Idahc Montana Oregon. Washington.
New and Old Mexico, Arizona and Czllfo.-
No. los ST. Louis Lim.ted-Has reclining
chair ears iSeats fTee) and Pg.lrnals RufSe.
Jrawiug--ocr sleePcrs 10 St Lous Re-
clsniuc chair cars tsezts freeD and Pullman;
Palace Sleeper Noneit to Dallas Tex. Va
Paris Connects al Morstt with No ] Tor
points in Arkansas and Texas. Connects
- ,f---'' 18th Ma which ccHnac.x al II
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SITUATION WANTED-MALl

SITUATION WANTED-MALE.
statesmen WANTED.
WANTED-Salesmen to sell a very COM
plete line of Lubrcating oils and Greases,
etc. Liberal terms TO good men. Jewel
Refining Co., Cleveland, .. ~ OF.
statesmen Misunderstanding sales
men for cigars; old reliable house; exper.-
customers; SO to $50 per month and ex-
penses. c. c. Bishop & Co., st. Louis.
Feb 2l-l3t
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Globe Iron Works

Manufacture efEsne= so1 5osisrz. ard all
kinds OF tfon AID brass czs,i7gs- Dtziers
u boiler tEoss. steam ptSes. brass goo1z.
gun ard oealp packing. ETC.
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Ehe aaahita aiIy Eagle Saturday glorlne 9arch s. 1897

Louis Union Station with all lines for the
east, north and southeast.
Through tickets on sale to all points.
Fur further information call on or ad-
dress. E. c. HOAG,
City Ticket Agent.
Or W TORREY DEPOT Agent
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ton or for advertising should be addressed
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HELP WANTED-MALE.

HE'LL WAN ED-MALE.
-~NIO~oNONOOOOOo-~~-~~N
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S22,000 IN five years. You can do the
same by trying. Address, p. o. Box BUS,
Boston, Mass. Observation-Disclosures
WANTED-A good general workmen har-
ness maker at Palmer's Harness Store,
l52 y. Main ST. 1885,
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SITUATIONS WANTED-FEMAL
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nurse or housekeeper. 213 y. Market St.
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WANTED-A widower in the country, with
small family, wants to employ a lady
as working housekeeper. Address, John
Smith, care Eagle Office 9l-6tT
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Depart West.
No. kingman and Pratt passen-I
ger daily except Sunday. 5:
No. KingInan and Pratt accom-
mediation (Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday 9:
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FOR RENT
GOOD LAND AND BEST FRUIT,
POULTRY, HOG AND CAT
TIE FEEDING PLACE
IN SEDGWICK
COUNTY.
West so acres Of the Adam Clark
iard 5 miles northwest of Green
So-acre Cowshin bottom corn land
~ miles west of Oatvilie. .... so
20 acres, an cultivated, adjoining
Wichita on east................ 30
160-acre pasture 10 miles southeast
VI W -tii-id iVV
1o-acre fruit and feeding place on
Little River at 10Th ST. finely i'm
proved Observation-Disclosures. 200
L. w. CLAPP,
Wichita, Kan.
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:. =. PARSONS
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER.

Estimates furnished on all classes OF
buildings either in city or country. Job
work In city given careful attention. or
nee us South Lawrence avenue. Wichita.
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AGENTS WANTED.

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for sale or trade; owing to increased prac-
tee viii sell at bargain. Or. HaZelton,
81 w. Douglas Ave. Wichita, Kan.
... d4S-tf
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

life with ali its trappings torn asun-
der.
IF the wood grew together like a
banyan grove 1 would be buried under
the taproot of the whole; my parts
should circulate from oak to oak, and
my consciousness should be diffused
abroad in all the forest and give a COM
mon heart to that assembly of green
spires, so that it also might rejoice in
it's own loveliness and dignity. I think
1 feel a thousand squirrels leaping
from bough to bough in my vast mau-
soleum, and the birds and the winds
merrily coursing over its uneven, leafy
surface"
So he of the mountain top wrote in
early youth and with unconscious pro-
phecy. When he comes down from his
green spires to the duh plains of life
can he see likewise matter for rejoic-
ing in their "own loveliness and dig
nifty?
The last joke has reused a laugh, the
last farce has been chanted, the last
drone intoned. Doors are flung open,
color and excitement stream out, and
from the dim hall, semi by
evening shadow, from the garland
strewed floor and the Old World walls
and the dreamy memories we step into
the outer freshness of the veranda,
with its broadening View. The cere-
monies are not yet over. There is still
much sedate squatting to be per-
formed, much punctilious speechifying
with short sentence and punctuated
pause-items pertaining to superlative
eloquence. The Vailima household has
to be congratulated and thanked
afresh while tits and other discarded
adornments are piled at the feet of
its members. And the reasons for the
fervid thanks are self-evident in the
form of sundry large tins of papalangi
good-cheer, while a handsome black
pig, who furiously resents the indig-
nifty of capture, bears squealing testi-
mony to Vailima liberality.
But even in Samoa, where speeches
recall a Devonshire lane, talkee-talkee
must come to an end. They stream
away at last, the chiefs and chief
esses," the ribbons and relics and the
pig slung on his pole, the talking men
and kerosene tin and wooden drums
stream through the gates and past the
lines and down the historical Chiefs
Road of the Grateful Heart, away to
their own thatched roofs and circular
hearths, to wind up with more feast
ing and laughter and dance and song,
and so keep themselves in training for
life's-play.
For such is the salient characteristic
of this land where civilization meets
with existence a rebours, with play for
final cause and work as an entr' 'acte-a
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\ LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM.

of the hospital. Better disease and
death, perhaps, with human love than
the cool-handed, cold-hearted care of
those who minister to the sick poor for
public pay.
And as young Pelican followed the
gamins, chattering of their small
griefs, down into the alf-darkened
little street, there ran in his head the
cold words of a daintily perfumed note
that had come to him that morning in
a packet, with a ring and some few
other trifles in response to a note of
his own.
After the appearance of your most
peculiar messengers" it ran, "you
must pardon me for declining to con-
tinue an acquaintance which cannot
but prove mutually embarrassing.
''Ill be hanged Pelican remarked
to his bath in the morning, after sleep
ing on the note, "I'll be hanged if she
didn't think I was drunk
The tenement RED" called home
was not greatly unlike thousands of
others in the city. The poverty of it,
the misery of it, were the poverty and
misery thousands suffer, day by day,
year by year, making no outcry so
long as organized charity does not
find them out and make parade of
their sorrows to the great glory of
boards of directors and silken-gowned
matrons and SNUG superintendents.
Young Pelican, taken at once into
the room where the sick girl lay and
the mother sat moaning, rocking back
ward and forward, because it was the
only room, would have been absurdly
embarrassed had not a pair of soft
blue eyes met his from the other side
of the low bed and low voice said:
"Oh, you are the new doctor; I am
so glad.''
Slow of thought as he was, it oc-
CURED to young Pelican that he had
wasted his whole life in not having de-
voted himself from early youth to the
study of medicine. He was we'll bred,
If slow, and he disclaimed being the
doctor at once. 81 will go and fetch
one" he said, and the tenants on Jes-
sic street were astonished, half an
hour later, to see a hack turn into the
narrow lane, stopping at the door Of
the tenement where the sick girl lay.
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never knew he had one, but there was
in his abdominal region more often
than not sensation of emptiness sug-
gesting that some organ thereabouts
would perhaps be better for more
steady occupation. Chimmie did not
know, even then, that his liver was out
Of employment. He merely cried a lit
tie, took I'D a hole or two in his belt
and crawled away with his little dog
into a convenient dry-goods box in
some alley to take it out in sleep. 1t
was not a particularly healthy alterna-
tive, as his pinched little face showed,
but when a fellow slept, at least he
forgot to be hungry.
Shivering at the railing, inhaIing
the odors of the club dinner. the
waits caught the idle gaze of young
Pelican at last, and the hint of a
purpose came to the youth. 1t came
slowly. Young Pelican was rather
noted among the club fellows for slow
mental processes. Perhaps for that
reason, what the girl said struck
him with so much force. When a man
has followed a young woman for five
years it comes with something of a
shock to find out suddenly, at the end,
that pale young curate with about
as much virility as an adult clam has
put him altogether out of the running
The man of slow purpose has the
mental compensation of determination.
When young Pelican rose and called
the boy to bring his overcoat and hat
he had fully mapped out a course of
conduct designed, of set purpose, to
show the young woman of the
beautiful eyes her example and the
wider example of the season were
not thrown away upon him. Young
Pelican did not know, and never knew,
that young women put on charity and
all the lesser virtues as they put
feathers in their bonnets, for the
adOrnment of the moment.
He went out of the front door of the
clubhouse, turning even his warmly
clad back to the sweep of the fog
rushing down the hill like an icy river.
Then, facing about and catching the
keen glance of the urchins hanging
over the area railing, he beckoned
them to him. They were timid. The
young poor are timid, by instinct, of
the adult rich. 1t is the law of self
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There was no particular reason why
Pelican should come in with the doc
tor. The air of the room, close for
the living, was scarce sufficient for the
needs of the dying. But he did come
in. and he sat all night in dark cor
ner, while the physician and the young
woman with the soft blue eyes
watched, and the mother moaned,
and Chimmie and the dog and Red,
cuddIed upon a pile of rags under the
cooking stove, slept the sleep of
youth. Out in the street, the hack
waited until day grew red and gray
in the East, the hackman walking up
and down the narrow walk. and swear
ing to make the young swell pay for
his freak. Then, as the fog was INT
ing, Pelican and the doctor handed the
young woman into the vehicle, giving
the driver some directions, and while
it ratified away over the stones the
men turned to walk up town for
breakfast. The living could only
watch beside the dead now. The
time to help the dying had passed.
Over their chop at the club DIR.
Smithers told young Pelican of the un-
obtrusive work of the girl with the
blue eyes, a SOOQ woman WHO QlQ SOOO
work without ostentation, having
abundant means and leisure for the
pursuit of her hobby.
But said young Pelican, "her
family is we'll known. Why is it 1
have never happened to meet her?"
''She is not of your butterfly world,
my boy, though she might be if she
chose. She has thrown away her birth
right-in the earthly sense"
Young Pelican had right to call, in
virtue of a family friendship of the
last generation. which is as far back as
any one goes in California, and he call
ed. The rest of the story is tale that
is told. When young Pelican found oc-
casion, presently, to set up an estab-
lishment and take life seriously he
found also, with the help of the blue
eyes, a future off the street for Chin
mie and Red.
The little dog, more's the pity,
passed off the scene as is the manner
of dogs, before the finishing of the
human lives into which the Woof Of its
own had become knitted.
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Dat bloke in de green pants up at
de stone house asst US to go down to de
Kitchen and geta hand out, see," Chin
mie confided to his patron over a small
commercial transaction. Red told him
to go chuck it, We didn't want no
feed wild de chuck you set up"
Young Pelican strolIed up toward
the club. Women" he observed to
old Fflmer over a glass of absinthe
frappe before dinner, "are id queer
creatures"
Old F1lmer laughed. He was always
coarse brute. "The longer you live,
my boy" he said, "the more strongly
will that elemental fact become i'm
pressed upon you"
Young Pelican ate his dinner with
an unusual degree of solemnity, and
declined hand at poker afterward for
solitary stroll on the street He
found Chimmie, the dog and Red
at 10 o'clock, each boy with still
few papers to dispose of. He
had known he would, although he had
no set purpose at this time. The mis-
carriage of his last great project had
seemed to sweep away all his mental
moorings, as being a slow man unused
to shocks of that kind. Perhaps the
gamins would furnish him another
suggestion upon which to fix an
anchor. They were full of their small
sorrows, being human. and so gave
young Pelican a chance to forget his
own. There were tears in fact in the
bold brown eyes of Red, though, as
being the larger and stronger boy, he
held them back bravely, and the little
dog was whimpering.
He's ketched wild his poipers, >
Chimie half whispered to his friend
''an' his sisters a-dyin' wild de fever
down on Jessie street, an der amt nc
medicine an de ole woman don't want
her took to de 'orspital."
Here was sorrow, real human
sorrow, touching young Pelicans life
for the first time. AS a first impulse
he bought the unsold papers. Then
another purpose half forming in his
mind, he started with the boys to the
squalid tenement on Jessie street
where the sister lay dying of fever
without medicine, and where a mother
fought against shutting her suffering
child away from her in the cold wards
The San Francisco call., 1897-12-19

| tribute to human weakness. The race
has had its day Of virility; the traces
thereof remain in physique and bear
ing, in tradition and ceremonial, but
that day is long past counting. The
WEAKNESS and languor of Worn-out
blood are upon the people now, with
the garrulousnesS of old age, the
finesse of generations of worldly sa
Voir-faire, with the love of trifleS and
shams common to those who accept
life as a big but pleasant delusion
Stevenson, in his large-hearted hope
fulness, dreamed great dreams for the
future history of his Samoans. To
colder, more critical eyes that history
all lies in the hidden past, their charm
ing polished senility is the striking
feature of the present, the absurdity of
being in earnest is the most despairing
note in their life's melody.
Life seems melodious enough to
them. Joyous, reckless, happy with a
superficial happiness, they jaunt
down to their easy-going, careless lot,
prating of the glories of the day and
the delights of Vailima. But if the
soul of Vailima could breathe on their
sealed ears its whispers would be
meaningless, its aspirations and ideals
There is one printed utterance, wholly
characteristic of the writer, which
might well appeal to the Navigator
Islanders. Stevenson is describing,
with his own merry charm of diction,
a canoeing accident in which he we'll
nigh lost his life. When he found him
self, after a deadly struggle, safely
ensconsed on an overhanging tree, he
notes with pride that throughout the
peril had he kept a valiant hold on his
paddle. ION my tomb, if 1 ever have
one, 1 mean to get these words in
scribed: He clung to his paddle"
The 'Navigators," alas! belle their
name. They are about the worst sail
ors in the South Seas; but apart from
seamanship, the allegorical moral is be-
yond their ken. To them life's policy
means comfortable drifting. They
know naught of clinging to the paddle
with that masterful will which deter
minedly makes for righteousness.
But the words hold meaning for US,
who pique ourselves, with all the white
mans pride, on the necessity of being
in earnest. AS we think of that suf-
fering, unselfish heart for whom earth
always held an ideal, whose feverish
energy always had an altruistic goal,
the words acquire a subtle power,
rousing to persistent volition. From
the green spires" of the mountain-top
they float down to US in the evening
shadows, Christmas motto and a
New Year watchword for all-"He
clung to his paddle"
ROSE DE BOHEME.
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had sat little aloof, at first, but the
thorough f-possession of the gamins,
early taught by experience to recognize
a good thing, put him at his ease pres
emily and he presided at the feast.
1t is a different thing dealing with
the replete animal, and young Pelican
round the rest of his purpose easy of
accomplishment. Chimmie, the dog
and the mutual friend, Red, would
nave gone anywhere with, made any
sacrifice for, the patron whose gener-
osity had brought at least touch of
the realism of Christmas to their
small lives. The idealism was as much
beyond them, Chimmie, the dog and
Red, the mutual friend, as a turkey
dinner seemed before young Pelican
had been struck with his great idea
and proceeded to act upon it. 1t was
an easy matter enough to put the two
upon California-street cable-car and
send them with brief note to a Ger
tain smart house on the uppermost
top of Mob Hill. The note was taken
IN at the front door, after some sus-
picious scrutiny. 1t recommended two
deserving objects of charity to the
tender heart of the young woman with
sion the writer knew would be stirred
TO its depths by the apparent need OF
the specimens Herewith presented.
The bearers were offered the cold hos
pitality of the kitchen, which they
scornfully declined, filled with the
proud consciousness of turkey and
stutfing in posse. And the little dog
snarled and showed it's teeth to the
liveried menial, whose pampered
calves must have presented an ire
sistible temptation to even a full dog
of the street.
Young Pelican, presenting himself
at the door of the same smart resi-
dence at more fashionable hour, was
surprised and somewhat disheartened
at the chill Of his reception. He had
made the mistake of taking a young
woman's charitable impulses literally,
cutting out good work, in fact, for a
person satisfied with her own virtue,
a fatal error, but he did not find that
out until he chanced upon Chimmie,
the dog and Red crying papers at
Lotta's Fountain on the afternoon
following Christmas