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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-01
HOLIDAY GIFTS
Why do you look so downcast?
What do / hear you say?

Why do you look so downcast?
What do / hear you say?
Nothing 10 give to people
On Christmas or New Years DayT
You want TO be making presents:
Wei. now. just think while:
Suppose you look al the glass. dear,
And present yourself with smile.
Then make Up bundle OF troubles
And give them away TO the Past
He OWES such a croony junkshop.
Where WORKOUT worries are cast
Just bundle them onto the old year
And let him lug them away.
And next give a heart OF hope, dear,
To the new year blithe and gay.
And then give praise 10 the best things
In the people you meet this year:
You may be surprised al the goodness
You'll find IL you look. my dear
And when you are hurt by the folly
Or faults OF the folks you know.
Just toss them a BIT % your patience
And q word OF pity or so.
Ella Wheeler WILSON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-01
CoBURN's WORK FOR KANSAS.

| Inc IenIl biennial report Oh the
State Board of Agriculture, for the
years 1896 is out and ready for dis
tribution. There was no appropriation
made Of stamps for distributing the
volume, so those desiring a copy should
apply to their representative or state
senator. The work contains over eight
hundred pages and all in all Mr.. Co.
burn is to be credited with compiling
one of the most valuable, if not the
most valuable, agricultural report ever
issued by the state. All the round Of
farm products are given exhaustive at
tention, including live stock. So much
attention is given to the dairy interests
and its possible profits to the farmer
that the book might not be inappropri-
ately called 1.-The Cow Edition" 1t is
in no sense an immigration publication
but is devoted to the dominant interests
OF the state. This is well. Kansas
must be an agricultural state. 1t can be
nothing in the way of leading state
except in live stock, grains and fruits;
in all of the products of the farm, in
Guiding the COW and the fowl. These
mean a home commerce, but not COM
mercial supremacy. The total value of
all the products Of Kansas farms Of
every kind for the past two years footS
up $244, 1888 or an increase of
SIS, ,353.11. Still in face of such
showing made under ruinously low
prices there are TO be found tribe Of
graspers and over-reachers who by
turns wall and howl about the present
condition of the state and its dark fu-
ture. Another year or two averaging
up with the past two years and the
Kansas farmer with a mortgage or
debt of any character will be the ex-
ception. Two hundred and fifty mill
ions of dollars is big pile Of money,
equalling one-half of all the gold in the
country. Secretary Coburn in his in
troductory, among other things, says:
while Kansas, as always, offers a
hearty welcome and boundless POSSIBLE
tiles to those, either rich or poor, who
appreciate health-giving climate. genial
skies, soils of iimitleSs fertility, the
largest measure of school and church
advantages and liberty, and a citizen
ship which thinks for itself rather than
at secondhand her destiny is to be
wrought out in the main by her present
population and their descendants. 9th
ers equally worthy may come and go,
but the glory of Kansas will blossom
through and by the virtue of those who
undismayed in evil and good report,
have, with the courage of their convic-
tons. in strong manliness and noble
womanhood, been her loyal sons and
daughters in the forty eventful, epoch
making years of her beginning. A state
so favorably situated and Astounding in
a wealth OF varied resources. with one
and third millions of such sturdy,
intelligent, enterprising PEG
pie is not to be unmade or permanent
~ held back by absence of the very
acceptable early immigration of others
who at no remote time will be driven
by force of circumstances to avail
themselves of the advantages found
here in such great diversity"
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Rival for Bran Is Fonnd.
from the Atchison Glche

When Lawyer Atwood OF Leavenvor.h
gets UP 10 speak his hearers know ;ha,
they viii hear something about Sophocle.
Earipides. Demos,henes. and the rnurrnu,
OF the waves as they break upon the shore
This increases the Dksness between BRYAN
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Abdul Hamid. the Sultan. viii Tow be
given ten days 10 ipaugurate reforms. II
he does not DO SO al the end OF that limit.
the powers viii arise II their Nigh; and
give him twenty days more.
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SIX PIECES FOR IS CENTS.

This great sheet music offer e. with
out the least doubt, the greatest value
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right pieces. or most popular reprints. II
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ter b.tin' the Zig Of av the eu:cher-bye-'
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-01

This nice. sloshy weather We are having
was intended solely for the vanity OF those
Wichita people who are riding Christmas
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telegraph post and now has only four more
to pass 10 cease being m di steele.
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lie view again by hiring some good shot
to assassinate him
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him before.
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The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-24

work. She has be,n at lis head from
the beginning and has given her whole
energy to what. even as child, she had
planned az her life work.
Miss Addams is quiet rather pretty
woman. somewhat younger looking than
had expected. That she gives her
whole attention to helping others is evi
dent in her face. There is evidence
there, too, that che WORKS beyond her
strength.
The summer che Gays is almost her
bus iest time, even il the classes Mt Hull
house are discontinued through the
hot weather, for she is busy attending
cOavent ons and speaking in the inter
ests Of social settlements. There are
very few residents in the house now. All
classes arc discontinued except class
in carpentry for boys and sewing elias s
for girls.
So the hous, seems somewhat de-
serted. The open court around which
the house is built and through which one
goes To the front door ia empty. Its
brick pavement is perfectly clean
cleaner perhaps than it is in winter
when two or three hundred children
have the run OF 1t on their way from
club meetings and classes. The chill
dren's building with low window sills
and wide balconies opening on the court
faces south. The residence quarters
take up the other two sides Of the court,
the main entrance looking across the
court into the street At this entrance
/ stood for some time after ringing the
bell. So few residents were 10 the house
now, the brightfaced young woman said
apologetically, as she let me in.
wanted to look through the bu;ld-
ing. Would l like to take the keys and
look through the children's building.
Then she would be at liberty to show me
the Others. So took the keys with in
structions as to which was which and
went with something Of a burglars tim
idity, climbing deserted stairways. open
ing locked doors and starting back
shameiscedly when surprised a young
girl on her knees scrubbing one Of the
class rooms.
Invent the rounds of the building,
staring into glass doors where rested
little dried clay things with the print of
childish fingers dried hard and fast into
them. saw dirt filled boxes on the
window stills where three -leaveI tile
oaks grew tall and spindling. l even
stopped to read the quotations under
the poster pictures between the win
dows. stepped with unconscious care
over the bright painted ring where the
kindergarten children had marched; and
/ studied with real interest the many
pictures on the walls and along the
stairways, for they are pictures one
would hardly suppose adapted to the
class OF children that come there to
school. Many of them are classic copies
OF famous madonnas,S Csc.lias and Sir
Launfals. They are not for the children
to understand" one of the residents ex-
planned later. "but for them to wonder
at. They are all pictures that have stor
les. We give them the story and they
study the picture. Thee are some pic
lures among them that the children can
understand alone"
The only children in the building were
a few in the day nursery, children whose
mothers have to work and who are left
here for the day in the charge OF two Of
the residents.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-24

ing OF rough beams smoked aud stained
yellow walls and high wainsco,iug. At
one end was a broad old. fashioned fire
place with dark cruckery on the mantel.
The tables are OF dark wood without
covering.
Near the door is the lunch counter
where they sell bowls OF soup and tins OF
coffee to the poor who come for lunch
and can afford nothing better.
The main building. besides bein, the
home OF the residents. has the club
rooms. Miss Adams office, the library
ard the gymnasium. Here is whero the
main direct influence OF Hull house 10
extended. For it is through the clubs
and the gymnasium that men and women
IRE given new interests. Since a branch
Of the city library was placed near Hull
house the library has been ma ie simply
a reading room. In it. however, is a cir.
culsting library Of pictures. each picture
being let out for two weeks and re-
turned
The gymnasium is large room heav-
lily timbered, and fitted out with coed
but rather melgre apparatus. At one
end is stage with curtains Here are
given ali Of the exhibitions Of the gym
nasium and besides, any entertain ments
that the different clubs may give. They
say that the dramatic entertainments,
sjberiy acted bits OF Shakespeare among
them, rous, more interest in the neigh
borhood than almost any one other
thing.
That these people find the gymnasium
work iDtere. ting is shown by the recent
decision OF the director OF thu gymnss-
ium that next fall membership in the
gymnasi um will be made competitive
depending upon good practice, regular
work and practice, since the gymnasium
will not accommodate all who want to
work in il.
Clubs thrive here as everywhere else
in Chicago. Twenty five adult clubs
meet in Hull house for various purposes.
Eleven are for social meetings, ore Is
Mandolin cub, two are dramatic. The
Others have programs or discussions. OF
these the Mel's club and the Woman's
club do the most systema ic work in the
line OF study though the Mems club has
made provisions for a number OF games,
and lay m),e stress on the social side
than the Womans club, which gives but
one meeting out OF the four in the month
to social gatherings.
The clubs reflect of course the nature
OF the people OF whom they are for1 ed.
A club OF Italians gives a weekly re-
cept on with a reception clmmit,ee made
up OF Signora Mirabeila and Signor
Peluso. The reception committee OF the
Bohemians club has on it Mrs. Dvorak,
the unpronounc.ab'e.
The Eldorado club society OF young
Jewish men is devoted to Literary ard
interests
The three clubs Of boys meet for de-
bates and are perhaps the clubs where
most enthusiasm is shown. There are
seven children's Clubs, ore for reading,
the others for games and to give enter
tainments. But Of course tina clubs are
not SO vel suited u the children as
other things arranged by HUI House.
The thing most popular with tie
children, is of course the play ground.
This is 10 the rear OF the building ard is
open to all children from three to six in
the afternoon presided over by officer
Murray. Outside OF this play ground
hesa Children haya No rlaca To z lau
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-24

in the library her Art library of three
hundred volumes and large collection
OF photographs of foreign views and OF
the paintings and sculpture in foreign
galleries. This library is especially
opened to art clubs and the study de.
partments OF the various women's club
OF the city.
There is 10 le n novel club in Chicago
organized this summer. 1t has some
OF the features Of the girls rest clubs
but is more limited in its object. 1t is
to have 10 re forms, or 20 :ial NOV. msnts to
work for unless movement against the
restls ssnss Of Chicago streets is to be
called social movement. 1t is to be ir
fact club for the promotion Of rest.
As beginning "rest rooms are to be
established in various places Of the
down town districts, patterned some
what after the rooms already found so
successful in New York and other cities.
In New York rooms are p divided where
women. worn out by shopping or bust
ness may go and rest or sleep till they
throw off some of the nervousness that
is considered such menace TO modern
health. The rooms are partitioned off
by screens each department with it's
couch.
In Boston small rooms are furnished
each with couch and few books, the
index OF the Boston character of the
place.
The plan here is to commence in the
downtown districts, take suits OF rooms
and partition them into small apart
ments. Each will be furnished with q
couch or easy chair, a writing table and
a supply OF stationery. Any woman by
the payment OF a small fee will be al
lowed the use Of one OF these apart
ments while she rests, sleeps or writes.
The rooms will be made attractive and
room will be added where cup OF tea
and a sandwich may he bought.
Life memberships will be taken, year
ly leases of apartments given and every
possible disturbing influence kept out.
There will be few club meetings, little
organization, no programs or discussions,
no conversations even.
Every tbirg is to be focused to the
one point-quiet and rest.
After the many clubs whose organi-
zation was for the very bringing about
OF change and dissatisfaction with ex
listing circumstances this club comes az
complete change and yet not a sur
prising change. For as people learn in
clubs to work they learn the necessity
Of rest. After days hard work man
finds sleep good. Perhaps one Of the
best results of the club movement will
be to teach the need OF systematic,
thorough rest, to give habits Of quiet
together with habits OF energy. A
good engine needs two qualifications.
1t must move to the touch Of the en-
gineer but it must also stop at his will.
That this movement towards rest is an
outgrowth Of necessity need hardly be
eaid. IL historians and Psychologists
consider the general nervousness and
restless energy OF the Americans FORE
runner of social disaster it is in the cities
that the cure must be commenced. For
it is in the cities that the extremes will
be found. The great congreg ton Of all
classes is a sort Of stimulant. Keen
competition makes hurry a necessity
to life i'salf.
The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1897-07-24

From a woman who happened to know
l got the singers story. As a girl she
had sung in chorus, had sung with
light heart and danced with light feet.
She married, was deserted after a short
winter Of happiness. and went on with
her CT Orus singing. But the bitterness
crept somehow into her light songs and
she 70 longer pleased the public or her
manager. Now she sings in the streets.
And last week the Chicago papers told
OF an attempt at double suicide. Two
people were found in a boat with the
arteries in their wrists cut open. From
the water near them was taken the body
Of a little girl. When tbs man and
woman regained consciousness in hos
pital they begged to be allowed to die.
They had no work, they said, and could
not live.
Not day passes but the whole city
reads Of something like this. No wonder
that there is nervous expectancy in the
air ard that men become either hard
ened or superstitious, the one state as
abnormal as the other and perhaps even
harder to counterfeit.
1t follows almost as a corollary that
Chicago should try to neutralize the un.
rest as thsy deal with other things, by
organization and business methods, that
clubs should be formed, not only for
work and pleasure, but for systematic
rest.
There is in Chicago a Distinct settle
ment movement. There are at least five
settlements already firmly established.
Two Of these are college settlements
much like our own university settlement
in Lincoln. the Chicago university settle
ment and the Northwestern university
settlement. T,en there is the Graham
Taylor settlement. the Sixty ninth street
and Hull house.
OF these, Hull house was first estab-
lished. 1t is placed oddly enough at
about the middle OF the longest street in
the world, Halstei street, which runs
straight through Chicago from north to
south, twenty-four miles. 1t is in the
very midst Of the poorest part of Chi
cago, not the criminal pant but the part
where live the very POOR, most OF them
In the Office Of Miss Addams,
the head resident, is a wall map Of the
Hull house neighborhood with colors to
show where the different classes of for
eigners hu1dle together. Over two
thirds OF this map is colored. and as the
Americans do not live in such crowded
quarters az the foreigners, the proper
ton Of Americans is even less perhaps
than one third.
Among these foreigners and their
little bettsr-of American neighbors. the
resi- Tents OF Hull house work. The OBJ
jects OF Hull house as stated in its charter
are: TO provide center for a higher
civic and social life; to institute and
maintain educational and philanthropic
enterprises, and to investigate and i'm
prove the conditions in the industrial
districts Of Chicago There is here no
direct religious work. No religious
are held, and no direct relig-
ious instruction is given. II there is re-
ligious influence it is only such as would
come in any ordinary intercourse in
business or society.
The residents of the Hull house try
simply to help people as they seem to
need help. Some by giving them ma
lional aid, some by giving them good
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-23
sacrificed Their whIsker..

It will be remembered, says an ex-
change, how, on the birth of a son and
heir to Prince Max of Bavaria. the
grenadiers of his regiment cut off their
mustaches to stuff pillow for the
royal infants head. History has just
repeated itself at the modest little town
of Ribeauville, in France, where the
captain of the local fire brigade recent
ly became a happy father. With one
accord the iDrave tiremen sacrificed the
hirsute adornments which were their
glory to fill a velvet cushion, and this
unique gift was duly placed in the
baby's cradle, with diploma of hon
orary membership of the corps.
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A Fine School.

st. Mary's academy for ladies, located
in this city and under the direction of
the Sisters, is one of the best educational
institutions on the coast. The building
is of brick, large and well ventilated.
Besides the regular studies, especial eff
fort is made to instil into the minds of
the pupils desire to form their hearts
to virtue, and to fit them to be true and
noble women. Gratuitous lessons are
given in all kinds of plain and fancy
needle word, knitting, embroidery, etc.
Pupils will receive the same watChful
care that would be given them by con-
sclentious parents. 1t is in fact an ideal
shcool and pleasant home. Those who
have girls to send to school should write
to St. Mary's academy for terms. If.
The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1897-09-23
CONTINUOUS STREET RAILS.
The Contraction and Expansion of the
Metal Were Easily Overcome.

The Contraction and Expansion of tn G
Metal Were Easily Overcome.
Continuous rails, made up of ordinary
rails length welded together electrical
ly, are in use on many miles of electric
street railways in the United States,
says Cassier's Magazine, and with eX-
cellent results, too, having shown them
selves to constitute an ideal track
Whatever misgivings may have arisen at
one time as to the serious pranks which
expansion and contraction might play
with such continuous tracks have been
effectively allayed, as experience has
shown that the difficulties likely to
grow from these causes are not eXtraOr-
dinary. It is interesting, however, to
note that of the troubles from tempera-
ture variations in the track, that due
to temperature lower than the one at
which the rails were welded is the only
one requiring serious consideration. 1t
is found in the tendency of the rail to
shrink in a longitudinal direction, and
this must be counteracted by a pull on
the ends of the rail sufficient to produce
corresponding amount of stretch.
Temporal above that at which the
rails were welded cause compression
and this has never been found to make
trouble where the track was at all Sc
cured by the roadbed.
Experience, therefore, would seem tc
| point to the winter season as the time
| for welding continuous track, as theT
the rails are materially contracted, and
though exceptionally cold snaps may
be productive of slight state of tension
in the rails, yet the maximum stres:
would be nothing like that in rail.
welded in the summer, andprobably fa1
below the strength of. the YIELDS.