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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
us PASSING ALL ExrECTAr1oS
Harper County Wheat Measures Fift,
bushels Per Acre

Mr. Day Wheeler. who came In from
Bluff City with q car OF hogs yesterday,
says that the wheat Showing is passing
all expectations. He named Two marked
instances OF yield. one man JUS; over
the line in me territory th-eshed 500
measured bushels from ten acres. and
another on this side OF The line 1si0
from a forty acre patch. government
measure. Much Of the waea; area clear
ed from s. 70 SO per acre. Corn promises
fairly in that section OF Harper county.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
u STATE FAIR RACES CORRECTION
Purses for 2:40 Trot And Pacs $500 In
stead of $500.

In the list OF entries 20 the Wichita
state fair races. published in Sundays
Eagle, there were a few errors. The
2:4o trot and 2:35 pace should read for
purse of $500 instead of $500. In the
two-year-old trot Goldie Hazard. b. m,
by Ninnesah. owned by VI. E. Hazard,
Wichita. and Amber Wilkes. b. m, by
Ashland Wilkes, owned by B. E. Kies.
were left out. The official list has just
been published and can be had a, the
secretary's office.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
CHAMPIONSHIP BADGE
Prize for Five Mile A mateur Race 10 Gold
Sunhower.

The fine gold badge 10 De given as
prize for the five-mile amateur state
championship race here at the L. A. W.
race meet in August will be on exhibition
in Al Musselmans window today. I, is
a solid gold sunflower with the L. A ".
emblem for center and swung from ex-
tended gold scroll work. On the back
will be engraved the name OF the winner
date OF race etc. It's a beauty and worth
a good many rounds of pumping
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
WASH OF THE WAVE
Prosperity Tide Making Things Bright for
the Missouri Pacific

The Missouri Pacific people are put
ting on a new thing generally in the
yards on Water street. The freight de-
pot is being repain;ed and repairs Of the
tracks and shops are going on until it
looks as If wave Of prosperity had wash
ed the dull aWay
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
WILL MAZE A BIG CROP
Coiwich County has Prospects of Good
Corn Crop

Mr. Jim Boone. one OF the nl1st pros
porous farmers near Coiwich. sent in
some samples as a fair average 0: his
corn. and expects % make yet a good
crop u his oae hundred acre fs.3
The zain OF Sunday NIL improve i:
and re thinks he has no reason 70 CON-
plain. considering re 40; winds and ex-
,erx 4 ---S
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11

Chas. Smith, who was arrested last
week on suspicion of having burglarized
Dr.. S. S. Mobiles office and taken out
some $50 or $50 worth of gold and tools,
had mis- preliminary in Judge Enoch' 5
court yesterday, and in default OF $3.50
bond was committed TO jail.
The case was worked up by Gallant,
the jeweler, and the police department..
Smith brought some gold TO Gallant and
wanted ii melted or 10 sell 1t. In short
time Dr. Mobiles office was broken into
and some gold filings and tools were tax
en-. Smith then had some more gold 20
sell, and as it was about such stuff as
would be used 10y a dentist, Smith was
arrested. Some Of the material DR.. No
bic identified. His office. il seems, had
been systematically plundered and ne
was being worked 10 a very smooth fin
ish.
Smith yesterday entered no particular
defense. To Tom Voss he signified mis-
desire last week 10 plead guilty and get
done of the matter as quickly as posi-
bic
Il is thought that when Judge Dale re-
turns or at his earliest convenience the
colored fellow will plead guilty, ask the
leniency OF the court and take his SEN
tence
Judge Enoch put the bond high and
slapped on the screws for the reason
that this is a class of crimes mean and
hard 70 handle and at the same time
hard to detect and break up. Smith is
apparently % or % years Of age and does
not seem mucn after the fashion OF
criminal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
Constipation

Causes fully half the sickness in the world. Is
retains the digested food TOO long in the bowels
and produces billousness. torpid I've: indi-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
CHAS. SMITH HELD
IN DEFAULT OF $3.50 he Is COM
MITTED TO JAIL,

Arrested Last Week on Suspicion of Having
Broken Into DIR. S. s. Mobiles Dental
ONCE and Securing Lot of Gold FIJI
ings Besides Some Plates and Tools
Makes No Particular Defence and VIII
Probably Plead Guilty at the First Op'
porturity and Seek Judicial Ciemency
in Judge Dale's Court.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11
MORE NEW STATIONS
CALDWELL, GODDARD AND DERBY
TO HAVE sKIMMING STATIONS.

New Separators had to be Put In at Which,
ita, Peck and Furiey to Take Care Of the
Big MIX Business-Sam Nolan bays
Goddard Will be Ready to Begin Opera
tious lnmedis telv-Ch Here Now
Handles About 10000 Pounds Each
Day-win be The Largest Plant in the
State.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-08-11

c. F. Harmeniug and c. Dees have
formed a partnership and opened a
mercnan: tailoring establishment al 211
North Main street. NJ. Hsrnening was
formerly in business alone. vlile NJ.
Dees hss been employed as Goa; maker
by T. ". Swa6 for the past seven years.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
His Sacrifice.

Darling he said, looking down
tenderly into the eyes of his bride, II
have often heard you say that there is
no true love without self sacrifice. You
have taught me this great truth, and
now | am going to prove my love by
giving up something that has been very
dear to me for years. You know how
fond am of smoking Well, dearest,
am going to abandon the practice, even
though it be like tearing out my-my" -
At this point his emotion apparently
overcame him, and he looked down at
the sweet face, expecting to see there
appreciation of his noble resolve, but
he saw only look of blank disappoint-
ment
what is the matter? Are you not
glad that l am following your teach
ing?' he asked.
cts not that, I" she answered, almost
sobbing Never mind what it is. /" And
she rushed from the room.
The self sacrificing hero smiled. He
had learned from his wifes dearest
friend that she had set her heart on
buying him half dozen boxes of cigars
covered with lovely silver paper wrap
pers. with pictures in the middle.
And that is what gave birth to his
noble resolution. Pearson g Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
Electric Protection of Safes.

The latest idea for the protection of
money and valuables is to have the
safe which contains them secured in
side cabinet. Where the safe is kept
i'll vault the vault serves the purposes
of cabinet. In either case an electric
lining is used, consisting Of strips of
metal mounted in connection with thin
metal sheets SO arranged that even a
pin thrust through the cabinet and pen
etrating the lining will sound the alarm.
The door of the vault cannot be opened,
nor can the curtain of the cabinet be
raised, until time lock has disconnect-
ed it from the alarm system. In order
that the alarm box may be proof against
molestation it is made of steel and
placed within a hood lined in the same
way as the cabinet. Any attempt at
tampering will cause an alarm to be
sounded, as in the case of the cabinet.
The door is held closed by heavy lag
bolts, the partial removal Of any Of
which will give a warning signal.
There are several of these lag bolts, and
before the door can be opened they have
all to be removed, which requires con
siderable length of time.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13

Shakespeare, who rendered eloquent
tribute to the native authority of kings,
lords and military commanders, seldom
shows like respect in his treatment of
civic dignitaries. Justice Shallow and
Dogberry, for instance, are SO delicious
ly absurd that their sayings have often
been criticised as too good to be true
Perhaps, but they can occasionally be
pretty closely paralleled.
There is something quite in the
Shakespearean manner in the simplicity
of a former magistrate of Newburyport,
in the old day of cues and ruffled
shirt bosoms. A case was being tried
before him in which the accused, who
stoutly denied the charge, was asserted
to have stolen from gentleman new
set of shirts.
"A pretty story that should take his
shirtsl" exclaimed the irate culprit. But
when he was searched a moment later
it was revealed that he was at the mo-
ment arrayed in the whole six, one over
the other The good justice was shocked.
What vlllainl" he exclaimed. Then
he added reproachfully: why didn 3
you tell me you were villainP Why
didn't you save the time of the court,
the spectators and the witnesses by own
ing up you were villain in the first
placer
A few years later constable of the
same town made a remark worthy of
Dogberry himself. A knot of little boys
had been hanging about tbs entrance to
the town hall before public meeting.
AS the officer came in sight all ran away
but one, and to this lone youngster he
addressed his orders in tone of mingled
dignity and wrath.
"Disperge, he commanded, dis
perge, say We can't have no burlash
here.
The awed youth did not dispense, but
he moved on. Youths Companion.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
A Mothers Argument.

''The most to be regretted act of my
life, /" says lieutenant commander of
the navy, twas a letter wrote to my
mother when about II years Of age.
She always addressed her letters to me
as my dear boy felt at that time |
was man, or very near it, and wrote
saying that her constant addressing me
as a boy made me feel displeased. /
received in reply a letter full of re-
proaches and tears. Among other things
she said: You might grow to be as big
as Goliath, as strong as Samson, and
as wise as Solomon; you might become
ruler of nation, or emperor of many
nations, and the world might revere
you and fear you, but to your devoted
mother you would always appear, in
memory, in your innocent, unpreten-
tious, unself conceited, unpampered ba-
byhood. In those days when washed
and dressed and kissed and worshiped
you, you were my idol. Nowadays you
are becoming part Of a gross world by
contact with it, and I cannot bow down
to you and worship you, but if there are
manhood and maternal love transmitted
to you, you will understand that the
highest compliment that mother love
can pay you is to call you my dear
bow -
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
DUELlNG IN EUROPE.
One Thousand a Year In France aud z, 10,
Duels In Ten Years In ItaIv

One Thousand Year In France aud 2,750
Duels In Ten Years In Italy.
More duels are fought in Germany
than in any other country. Most Of
them, however, are student duels,
which eliminate in nothing more seri-
GUS than slashed cheeks or torn scalps.
OF all German university towns little
Jena and Gottingen are most devoted
to the code. In Gottingen the number
of duels averages one a day, year in
and year out. On one day several years
ago 10 duels were fought in Gottingen
in "a hours. In jena the record for one
day in recent times is 81. Fully 4, 600
student duels are fought every year in
the German empire. In addition to
these there are the more serious duels
between officers and civilians. Among
Germans of mature years the annual
number of duels is about 100.
Next to Germany, France is most
given to the dueling habit. She has ev-
cry year uncounted meetings, merely
to satisfy honor'-that is, merely to
give two men the opportunity to wipe
out insults by crossing swords or firing
pistols In such a way as to preclude the
slightest chance Of injury. In the duel
statistics these meetings are not reckon
ed, as they are far less perilous than
even the German student duels. Of the
serious duels, France can boast fully
1000 from New Years to New Years
The majority Of these are among army
officers. More than half of these result
in wounds, nearly 90 per cent in seri-
GUS wounds.
Italy has had 2,759 duels in the last
ten years and has lost 90 citizens by
death on the field of honor. Some 2, 400
of these meetings were contaminated
with sabers, l79 with pistols, 80 with
rapiers and l with revolyers. In 974
cases the insult was given in newspaper
articles or in public letters regarding
literary quarrels. More than 700 princi-
pals were insulted by word of mouth.
Political discussions led to 559, reli-
gious discussions to 80. Women were
the cause of 189. Quarrels at the gam
bling table were responsible for 1S9.
A summary shows that, as regards
numbers, the sequence Of dueling coun-
tries is: Germany, France, Italy, Aus
tria, Russia. As regards dead liners Of
duels Italy comes first. Then come Ger
many, France, Russia and Austria in
the order named For the most serious
duels the pistol is the favorite weapon
in all five countries. New York Sun.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
A Wasted Sermon.

A teacher in large public school at
Peckham has recently been much an
noyed by the persistency with which
one of her scholars plays truant She
was on the point of reporting his case,
when she spoke to one of the lady su-
pervisors This lady believes in kind
ness rather than harsher measures and
told the teacher to send the offender to
her house the next time he was trouble
some.
So one afternoon there appeared at the
lady's house boy. The supervisor was
all smiles and attention, and she treat
ed him to spread" the like of which
he probably had never enjoyed before.
He was soon made to feel perfectly at
home.
Now" thought the benefactress,
lis the time TO preach my little ser
mon. " So she put before him the evils
Of playing truant and besought him to
be model boy in the future.
Imagine her surprise when he said to
her:
II amt the boy that runs away,
ma'am. He gave me penny to come
here in his place Scottish Leader.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
OBJECTS OF WORSHIP.
1t Is In That Way That savages Usual,
Regard Meteorites.

1t Is In That Way That savages Usually
Regard Meteorites.
Savages, whenever they come across
meteorites of large size, are apt to re-
gard them as objects of worship. Such,
however, was not the dignifed fate Of
a very remarkable specimen that is now
in the National museum. This strange
aerolite is four feet in diameter, weigh
ing l,400 pounds approximately, and
has the shape of ring. It was found
in the Santa Catarina mountains and
for a long time was used as an anvil by
Mexioans at Tucson. In this employ
ment it was discovered by DR. Irwin Of
the United States army, who bought it
for small sum and gave it to the
Smithsonian institution. Doubtless the
substance of this meteorite originally
was largely stony, but the stony parts
became disintegrated and disappeared
after it fell, leaving the ring of iron.
OF 400 meteors that have been seen &C
tually to fall, only about dozen were
metallic, the rest being mainly of stony
material, though containing more or
less iron.
On the other hand, nearly all Of the
meteorites picked up in a casual way
are masses of metal. II is probably the
case that great majority of such bod
les are stony, but meteorites of that de-
scription do not attract notice when ly-
ing on the ground. All of these facts
are extremely interesting in view of the
belief now entertained by science that
the composition of meteorites throws
light upon the make up of the terrestrial
globe. In fact, according to this the
DRY, the make up of the earth is much
like that of the average meteorite. OBJ
viously the moment this assumption is
made the study of the structure of me-
teorites comes TO have extraordinary i'm
portance, for mans knowledge Of the
planet on which he lives is restricted
almost entirely to the surface of it. The
bowels of the earth remain almost un-
known. Washington Post
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13

The Etahs, a handful of Eskimos
numbering probably 100 persons, are
the most northern people of the world.
They have their abiding place on the
west coast of Greenland, between rs
and 70 degrees north latitude. For
many years after DR.. Kane came home
with his vivid and absorbing story of
these isolated natives they were sup
posed to have built their stone huts
nearer the pole than any other human
beings. 1t is known now, however,
thanks to Bass Is, Mares and Greedy,
that there are numerous traces of hu-
man occupancy as far north as the
eighty second parallel, and so long ago
was it that they built their huts and
sledges and hunted the bear and walrus
in the far north of Grant Land that the
Etah natives Of today have only the
dimmest and most uncertain traditions
of them. -Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
rveIess nn,naIa

Many of the lower animals are known
to see without eyes. the skin having a
high degree of sensitiveness to light.
Thus earthworms, the maggots of flies
and eyeless centipeds find their way
about nearly as readily as similar crea-
lures which have eyes In recent Ger
man work on the sensitiveness to light
Of eyeless animals, DR.. Nagel, who
made his observations chiefly on mol
lusks, found that the eyeless bivalyes
and snails he experimental with showed
high degree of constituencies to light.
He found that some species reacted es-
pecially to diminution, others to in
crease of light, and that this difference
was correlated with other characters. ~
Philadelphia Press.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
No Quail For Him.

"Quail, villainl" He pointed his
trusty shooting iron at the head of the
man who had been treating the beauti-
full maiden to job lot of general wick
edness ever since the curtain went up.
SAT last have thee Quailp'
But, contrary to the direction in act
8, scene 2, the villain stood his ground
"Quail, tell theel Why dost not
quail?"
Cant risk it on 30 bob week, y
quoth the villain, with defiant sheer
saved over from the first act, because,
forsooth, quail is legally out of season,
and see a gamekeeper in the audi
ence.
Then he kicked over an Alp, waded
through the bay of Naples, fell into the
thunder and only stopped i'll his mad
flight to remark to the manager that an
actor with reputation must decline to
play on that stage, as there were flies on
it.-Pearson' Weekly.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
BIRDS AND DISEASE.
An Authority Who Thinks Birds Incapa.
BILE of Carrying Contagion.

An Authority Who Thinks Birds Incapa-
BILE of Carrying Contagion.
Persons interested in birds have re-
Gently been debating the question
whether these creatures are capable of
contracting diseases from human beings
or of transmitting disease to human be-
ings. Expert opinion seems to be di-
vided. On the one hand DIR. K Ruff,
director of Gefierderte Welt, in a recent
letter to the president of the Acclima-
tion society, asserts that the transmits
sion of any disease from bird to a
man and vice versa is absolutely impos-
sible. Says DR.. Ruff:
"For more than 80 years have been
occupied in keeping, observing and
raising exotic birds of plumage; conse-
quently have had occasion to deal with
them when i'll. Every bird that has died
has been examined, and have thus dis
sected during about 80 years several
hundred parakeets. / have always kept
these birds during their illness, some
times for considerable period, in my
apartment, which is somewhat restrict
ed in size, being composed Of only six
rooms for four grown persons and four
children. During all this period have
not had single case of sickness in my
family, although the birds have had all
possible kinds of maladies. / am also
confirmed in my belief by the fact that
l have allowed no opportunity to pass
of asking for information on the subject
from the principal dealers in birds at
Hamburg, Cologne, London, Liverpool,
Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Mar
settles and Bordeaux whenever they had
sick birds in considerable numbers. In
no case was informed that any one,
either member of the family OF an en-
ployee, had been attacked in the house Of
one of these merchants, and l obtained
the same information from the directors
of the great geological gardens at Paris
and London. No contagion-and can
not insist too strongly on this point
could ever be established
These, however, are all negative facts
and would fail to stand against even
one authenticated case of the transmits
sion of disease to or from pet birds.
Such cases, it is believed, have been
proved to exist by Dr. Laboulbene, who
communicates an account of his investi-
cations to the bulletin of the Acclima-
ton society.
The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1897-07-13
ESTABLISHED 1879.
FRIENDS OF HIS.
Some Close Acquaintance of Whom He
Spoke In His Dreams.


Spoke In His Dreams.
john said Mrs. Eastlake to her
husband as she poured out his coffee at
the breakfast table, 81 think you have
never introduced your friend, Mr. High,
to me, have your
81 have no friend named High, " re-
piled Mr.. Eastlake as he devoured but
tered toast.
"Oh, but you must have, dear, " in
sisted Mrs Eastlake lyon are familiar
enough with him to call him Jack. ="
Jack Highl Don't know anybody of
that name. You never heard me men
ton his name, did you?''
Certainly. That is the reason ask
ed you about him.
"When did l speak of him?'
Il think you must have met him last
night" Mrs Eastlake went on,
Though Of course if you had met him
then you would have remembered it
without any trouble. l only know that
after you went to bed-you got homo
about 2 O'Clock, John-you fell into a
troubled sleep. You muttered a good
deal, but could not distinguish any
thing very clearly except the name Of
Mr.. High-Jaok High, you called him.
Once l thought heard you mention a
woman's name-Kitty = but I'm not
sure. =
Mrs. Eastlake looked narrowly at her
husband as she said this, and he looked
at her suspioiously and then said:
"Oh, yes, believe man named Jack
High did drop in to see the sick friend |
was sitting up with, but you could
scarcely call him a friend of mine on
such short acquaintance "
"Of course not. But who was Kitty?'
There was no one named Kitty. You
must have been mistaken. don't know
anybody of that name-absolutely no
body"
Then Mr.. Eastlake put his coat on
and left the house, after kissing his
thoughtful little wife goodby.-Louis-
vile Courier Journal.