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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13

have to be taken for all Of the defenses,
though about completed, are not ready for
immediate work. But within twenty-four
or forty-eight hours the defenses as de-
scribed could be prepared and manned for
action. Should the government have to
act quickly. and could send only a few
men here al once there would undoubtedly
be quick response from Savfhnah's vol
unteers. Al any rate the Notifications
would hardly remain unnamed even a
few hours, In case Of necessity.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13

lingsworth, at Wilmington, Del, Her keel
was laid in 1874, and her machinery was In
her several years before she was compile
ted. She is a double turretted monitor
and formidable specimen of the modern
coast defense vessel. She has a displace-
ment of $3.50 tons, tonnage of 1876 tons
her length between perpendiculars, is 259
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13
SAVANNAH is WELL DEFENDED,
The Effectiveness and Power of Her New
FOrtifcatiOns

Tybee
Actual Work-fhe Mining Cnsema
Vessel Ihat Might slip by
Would Hep-Warsav Cham Could BE Quickly mocLed
Description of the Defensiv works and Sexr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
BLOOMER GIRLS COMING
They Will Play With the Eagle Team
GU nly IL

The players Of the new base ball club
are out morning and afternoon every day
under Manager Bevis and are fast round
ing into good condition. Manager Bevis
said last night that he thought he would
have one of the best teams in the state,
capable of meeting any of the cracks on
even terms. There are one or two Of the
players who Mr.. Bevis thinks are hardly
up TO the standard and il they don't show
better ball they will be released and fast
er men secured. The first game OF the
season will be played at Athletic park on
the Fourth. The Boston Bloomer Girls
will be here on Monday, July II.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
STUDY OF GEOGRAPHY
Eagles Standard War Atlas Is Almost
TndisnenSabIe

Geography is not only one of the most in
teresting studies, but one of the most i'm
portant as well. 1t is not of value to the
student alone, but to every man and
woman who wishes to keep in touch with
the happening of the great world about
them. The news from distant parts of the
earth, which is brought to the breakfast
table every morning. is much of it little
better than Greek to the person who is
unfamiliar with geography. In fact, the
stirring events of the world compel those
who desire to have a correct knowledge
of them 10 be daily students OF this i'm
portana branch of education
The truth is apparent to anyone who has
tried to follow the course of our war with
Spain. Before Admiral Dewey's glorious
victory, how many people knew the loca-
ton of Manila and the Philippine Islands?
The Cape Verde Islands. where the Span
ish fleet modified, and the Dry Tortugas,
where our own squadron collected, pre-
paratory TO the search for Ceryera and
the bombardment of Santiago de Cuba, are
now familiar names.
During the past year we have had in
teresting news from Alaska, Armenia.
Japan, China, India, Greece and Turkey.
In these troublous times, a knowledge Of
the geographical formation OF the coun-
tries of the globe, their colonies, and the
location OF the chief towns and rivers. IS
Indispensable TO one who would read his
daily paper intelligently.
Approaching the great usefulness Of ac-
cuTate and clear maps in studying the
various phases OF the war, the Eagle has
arranged with Rand. McNaily < Co.. Of
Chicago. for the publication of the new
Standard War Atlas. The Atlas contains
sixteen pages Of the latest and best maps
published. comprising four double page
maps (21x2S inches) Of che World. North
America, Europe and Oceania. and seven
fuIl-page maps (l4x2l incAesl Of Cuba, the
IVES; Indies. South America, China, Spain
and Portugal. Asia, Africa AID the Phil
ippine and Hawaiian Islands. Enlarged
sections show ports Maianzas. Santiago
de Cuba, San Juan and Cienfuegos; also
Cardenas and Santa Clara bays. They are
beautifully printed on heavy map paper.
and bound in an attractive paper cover.
This Atlas should not De COMPOUNDED
with the numerous cheap aliases sold a;
the stores. It is entirely new, and can be
obtained only from the Eag.e Or its reg
ular agents.
Every reader IS recommended % procure
one AZ once, and thuS be able 20 watch the
strategic movements OF our army and
navy from the vantage point Of knowi-
edge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
al. G. TOLER.


after Mr.. Jones had been sworn, Chief
walden presented him on behalf of the
citizens, with very handsome gold badge
Wlth<his name inscribed thereon. with his
new title. In the center of the badge was
a diamond setting. Mr.. Jones thanked his
friends in fitting words.
City Marshal Jones then assigned the
beats to the men. James Oliver was made
day clerk and turnkey, and C. I. Davis
was made night clerk and turnkey. Major
A. G. Burr and Captain P. V. Healev
were assigned to the sanitary department.
Harry Sutton and Jim Cairns were de-
signated as the roundsmen.
The new administration starts off with
saving Of 500 in salaries alone. Hereto
fore there has been an extra man both
day and night with the title of turnkey.
Both have been abolished Six policemen
have been dispensed with. The police
judge has had his salary cut in two, or
$50, and ne salary Of the chief of police
or city marshal as he is now called has
been cut from 800 to $75. There are many
other places where by economy without
in the least affecting the efficiency of the
department, money can be saved and 1t
will be done. 1t is expected that $1,000
per month will be saved besides securing
all Of the fines, etc, that have in the past
been collected. 1t was given out unoffi-
cially yesterday afternoon that the slot
machines woul5 have to go, otherwise the
policy of the city will continue as it al
ways has been.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
STAMP HUNTERS DAY
Wichita Out of the War
Stamps Before Noon.
COLLECTOR SUTTON WIRES
Has No Stamps But Business
Can Go On.

| Practically every revenue s:amp in the
| city was gone within q few hours yes
| terday after business began. Nobody
could get stamps at the banks or at the
postof1ce at noon. A great many people
put of business deals on account Of hav-
ing no stamps for papers and for fear
that such transactions might be in some
way tnvalidated If not subject to a fine.
Cashier Moore of the Fourth National
bank wired TO Collector Sutton for stamps
and for advice on the situation. He re-
ceiVed the following from Collector SUIT
ton:
Leavenworth, Kan, July /, 1888.
Fourth National Bank, Wichita
"Out of stamps. Expect more every
mail. Go ahead with business.
IN. w. SUTTON, Collector"
Fines can not be imposed for failure to
comply with the law when the government
can not get the stamps to the people and
Collector Sutton's telegram indicated that
there are to be no suspensions.
The Western Union Telegraph company
lars month to run the Wichita Office.
The postal will require one-third as much.
The banks of the city will use probably
500 per month of the stamps. The total
revenue from Wichita ought to be from
one to two thousand dollars a month
GRAIN CERTIFICATES MUST BE
STAMPED.
ing the liability to tax of some things
not mentioned in the revenue law. Grain
certificates were among these. That is
certificates OF grade and weight.
The assistant attorney general has rem
dered the opinion that a stamp must be
placed on each certificate under the war
revenue law. The law, after specifying
the stamp to be placed on several different
kinds Of certificates, provides for ten
cent stamp on "all certificates of any
description required by law, not other
wise specified in this act"
The grain inspector is allowed by law
to collect fee of twenty-five cents on
each certificate. The assistant attorney
general also gave the opinion that the IN
spector could add to this fee the price of
the stamp, and hereafter grain men will
pay thirty-five cents for their certificates.
Local Inspector VIM. Green says that it
will take $4,000 worth of stamps a year
in Kansas.
The local officials Of the different rail-
roads say the new law will cost their
companies approximately the following
amounts per month.
Santa Fe-S21.0o.
Rock Island-$23.oo.
Missouri Paciftc-$22.oo.
Wells Miller, the druggist, was about
the only man in the city who had stamps
at o'clock yesterday afternoon He stood
in behind the show case licking the
stamps and posting them to the proprie-
tory articles and the face he made would
mislead one into thinking he was tasting
medicine instead of tasting the sacchar-
Inc glue on the stamps.
Charley Mackay didn't get so largo a
supply and he went a stamp hunting be-
fore noon.
Yesterday was stamp hunters day all
over Kansas If those Spaniards fghting
at Santiago could have seen the avidty
OF the stamp hunter in Wichita they
would surrender Immediately.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
Red Front Racket !

Our many customers who called yester-
day and sampled Beardsley & Sons Shred
ded Goldfish and other specialties, spoke in
great praise of these superior articles of
food. Miss Susie B. Shaw will be at cur
store again today and will serve Boards
ley's specialties to all who visit our store.
Come and sample them and be scciable.
While here you may see something
in Groceries, Vegetables or Choice Fruits
that you want We always keep every
thing good to eat, and sell at prices that
can't be duplicated in the city-here's a
few:
10 bars CAirette or White Russian
Soap ................-....- ...-............Z9c
Is bars Standard or Rex Soap...........25c
Nudavene Oats. package. SC
lbs Mocha and Java Cofree...........5oc
Gallon Apricots ....,........... ......o...25c
Complete line of fresh country vege-
tables.
Best Country Butter. ros..............25c
Fine Red Salmon, regular size cans....1oc
Best Country Eggs. 3 dozeu,..,.......25c
All package Cofees. ..........10c
Fine line OF Teas; all best brands.
Eagle MIX, per can...-..................G
California Apricots. fb....................15c
We have our old neighbours. ". S. Cor
bets, celebrated Log Cabin Baking
Powder. and while Miss Shaw IS serving
free lunch we will be selling
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
6. j. Fletcher
SPOT CASH GROCER.

rs East Douglas Ave. Phone 81.
Lowest price grocery in the city Look
over these prices and see what the casa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
WILL BE OPENED MONDAY
Riverside and GreiTensteIns Parks
Completed

At o'clock this evening the new River
side and Greiffenstein parks will lbe COM
pleted and ell ready for the formal open
ing which will occur on Monday The
Ninth Street bridge will be inspected by
the mayor and council and II will be open
to the public on Sunday. The drives are
magnificent and the parks are more beau
tiful than one can imagine. It will be a
delightful place to while away several
hours during these hot afternoons.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
n, D.1 are the best after-dinnel
IIOOu FlIS pills, aid digestion. CSC

police. force. We are not Republicans, and
we want it strictly understood that we
are partisans and partial to our political
friends. And we challenge a comparison
of our administration with any other for
the same length of time
Respectfully yours.
IS Il, JOCELYN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
SMITH ESTATE REIMBURSED
Mrs. Hagney Gets $3.50 From the
Government

President Mckinley has signed a bill
introduced in the senate by Mr.. Harris
approprlating $3.50 to pay Mrs. Hagny
for expenses incurred in conducting the
Wichita pOstoffice during the boom here.
by Mrs. Hagny's former husband, Frank
Smith. The force of clerks in the post
office was inadequate for the rush of
business at that time and Mr.. Smith
hired additional clerks and paid them out
of his personal money. The appropriation
in the bill reimburses his estate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
COL. MURDOCH APPOINTED
Named as the New Postmaster For
Wichita.

The Associated Press dispatches yester-
day from Washington announced the fol-
lowing appointments:
Postmasters: Kansas-Marshal NJ. Muir
dock, Wichita
Alfred A. Winslow, of Indiana, to be
consul at Liege, Belgium.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02

Hon. Sam overstreet. United States
district attorney. Of Guthrie. passed
through the city yesterday enroute to In
diana where he intends spending the
Fourth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-02
Dyspepsia
Conquered
By Hoods sarsapariITa.


"I have been sufferer with dyspepsia.
could not eat anything without distress.
] began taking Hoods SarsapariIls and
after the use of few bottles of this med
icine am able to eat anything I wish and
my food does not distress me. Hoods
Sarsaparilla has purified my blood and
believe it to be the best of medicines.
have felt better in every way since taking
it." EVA CRAIG, Fort Scott, Kansas.
"After trying many prescriptions for
dyspepsia without benefit got bottle
OF Hoods Sarsaparilla and found 1t gave
me great relief. continued taking it
until was cured" MRS. SARAH CABLE,
Durachen, Kansas.
II you have decided to take Hoods Sar-
saparilla do not buy any other instead.
Hoods sp psriiia
Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists
Price, 81; six for S. Get only Hoods.
... are the hest after-dinneF
Evening star., 1898-11-05

the ground for his statement that there
was not level aoEe--of ground upon the
whole island. The plains are generally in
the interior. Running midway between the
Eortn ana south across tie country there
Is an elevated tableland and beyond this
10 the north a second plain. The grasses
OF the plains are rich but they are SO
largely eaten up by ground rats that 1t
taxes from three to five acres to support
one sheep. These rats burfow in the earth,
nlahs 1t with holes like a pratrie-dog town
lney make 1t impossible to drive over the
pains with a wagon and horseback riding
only thiEgs that will drive the rats away,
and they are often used : to tramp the
ground for this purpose. >
The Dense Veg citation.
1t seems queer to think of dense vegeta-
ton in T1erra del Fuego. One might almost
as soon believe that grass could be raised
on an iceberg. The truth is that the winter
climate of TERRA del 4Fuego is milder than
that of Canada. The 1owlands are seldom
covered with snow for mere than day or
SO at time, though you are in sight Of
snow and glaciers on the mountains all the
year around. The climate varies in differ
eht parts, but it is generally cool, cloudy
and windy. The worst feature is the wind,
which at times blows for days at a stretch
and sends the chilly air through your bones
IN corkscrew curves. TERRA del Fuego is in
the latitude of Labrador, but so is a large
part of England and Holland, and / i'm
aglne that barring these winds, Tierra
Del, as they have nicknamed the island,
has winters more like those of northern
Europe than Labrador. The vegetation is
Evening star., 1898-11-05

pointed with pieces Of glass made out of the
broken whisky and wine bottles thrown out
by the steamers passing through the Strait
of Magellan. The Ona women weave very
pretty rush baskets of q bowl shape. They
cure the skins which their husbands bring in
from the hunt and sew them together with
sinews into robes or rugs. These Onas, /
am told, have no Great Spirit or God like
our Indians Just what their religion is +
am unable to learn. They believe in polyp-
amy, one man having several wives, which
he buys of their fathers at as low price as
he can.
About the Yaghans.
Befors the whites came here there were
something like three thousand of the Yag-
han Indians. They were described by sea
captains as a healthy. hearty, naked, saw
age race. The English established a mis-
sion in south Tiara del Fuego and persuad-
ed them to put on clothes. 1t is claimed
that with the wearing of clothes came con-
sumption and pneumonia, and that this has
reduced their number to less than 500 The
head of the mission among these Indians
is the Rev. Thomas Bridges, who has a
big sheep farm in the south. He has an
Indian settlement where the people live in
houses and where they farm on a small
scale. The information / havs about these
Yaghans comes almost entirely from Mr.
Bridges. He says they live in groups OF
about thirty families. They are not can
nibals, as has been charged, and they do
not eat raw meat. Their principal food
consists of mollusks. fish, sea calves, birds,
strawberries and fungi Their women cook
these things in different ways. They cook
birds by placing them on the Goals and
putting red-hot stones inside of them They
bake eggs by breaking small hole in one
end and then standing them upright In
the embers before the fire, turning them
round and round to make them cook even
ly. They cook and eat the blood of animals.
but, as a rule, eat their vegetables raw
The women are the fishers and the men
do the hunting. The men make canoes, but
the women paddle them. They are good
boatmen and are better and more fearless
swimmers than the men.
One of the wonderful things about the
Yaghans is their language. With no means
of writing, they have a vocabulary of about
Evening star., 1898-11-05
MEERSCHAIAE PIPES.
CharIcteriatics of the styles Which
Some Smokers Prefer.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Most of the plain meerschaum pipes sold
nowadays are of practically the same
styles as briar pipes, and finished and
mounted in the same manner. OF the once
familiar meelschaum, that was substan-
TALLY a meerSchaum bowl with a short up
turned stem part, into which a wechseI
stemplece was inserted, comparatively few
are nov sold. Many of the meerschaum
pipes of today are of the bulldog pattern,
ana many are made likewise straight
stemmed, but with bowls in various round
ed forms; and there are briar-shaped pipes
with droop stems. The mountings are sill
yer or gold bands, ferrules, around the
stem part, Wncre the PIT mouthpiece is
attached, and, on some pipes a mounting
around the top of the bowl In these pipe
moGntngS those produced by Americans
excel all others in suitability and design
With their production in modern styles
and in forms adapting them to the most
convenient and advantageous use has come
an increased demand for pipes of meer-
schaum.
Such are the pipes usually bought by the
American or Engiishman. who. if he
smokes a meerschaum, wants stout
stocky, serviceable pipe. There are sold
however, some meersChaums that are mod
e:ed more on clay pipe lines, with the stem
part and mouthpiece little. if any longer
those parts of the pipes more commonly
sold. But while the American and the
EnSlishman prefer generally when they
buy meerschaum a good solid pipe the
Frenchman who smokes meerschaum
wants long and slender pipe, as also
does the Italian. The plain meerschaum
pipe made for the French or italian smoker
Is in design substantially like clay pipe,
with a bowl of the same general shape,
though of finer lines, and with the same
long, slender stem. But made of such a
material meerschaum and beautifully
finished and with a long, slender, delicate
mouthpiece of amber, there is no danger
of the pipe being mistaken for clay pipe.
Simple, and at the same time quaint as
such pipes may at first appear to one un-
accustomed to them, they may easily be
objects of Beauty, as was certainly in an
especial degree one seen in a shop where
many such pipes We're displayed. 1t was
finished in all but the polishing; was about
a foot in length, including the delicate
perhaps four inches, and the eerschaum
was of smooth and milky whiteness,
while the long, slender amber mouthpiece
was of light yellow, clouded with white.
Such pipes are made with the bowls
placed at different angles, as is the case
rather thin walled than otherwise, in keep
ing with the general character of the pipe.
These slender meerschaum pipes are made,
some of them, with the stem fashioned to
present a twist in appearance, but most
of them are made with the stem straight
and smooth. They are made, including the
amber-bit or mouthpiece, in various
the length, and as with other meerschaums
on the quality. Such pipes of from eight
to twelve inches in length are the pipes
of this kind most commonly sold.
Evening star., 1898-11-05

is today that Paris is in a real state of
siege.
This IS the other side of the excitement
All around the exposition grounds are con-
panies of soldiers The rifles of the infan-
try are stacked. The horses of the cavalry
are picketed 1t is like a camp Wherefore? ?
10 protect the workinEmen who wish to
work Meanwhile there is no work done
on the exposition. The immense space, all
ttrn up. is like a ruined city in the midst
of Paris. Here and there a solitary stone
mason or Z painter may be seen. They
nave two hundred beds for such TO sleen
in Outside the strikers swarm, from
street to wine shop. forming crowds that
are dispersed. Winter is coming on The
great digging contracts are already in ar
fears The exposition will be compromised
50 1t is everywhere in Paris where a
rouse is being built, where dirt is being
dug. So there are police and soldiers every
where Your work" the anti-Dreyfus
people say. Five thousand places where
bulidlng work is being done in Paris-chan-
tiers. our "shanties'-are now surrounded
by the military. why DO you strke3" the
Workingne are asked. 'Because our
brother worknen of the exposition ask US
to- Why do You strike?" the exposition
Workmen are asked. Because this is our
opportunity they answer. There are
10000 men already out. There are 10000
extra soldiers now encamped in Paris.
Difference in Cries.
Around these 5000 "shanties,' guarded by
the military gather all the day great
groups of tantalizing workingmen. When
they cry 'Hurrah for the striker they
are allowed to cry in peace. When they
yell Down with the army!" the police dis
peree them. When they will not disperse,
the soldiers make a military movement,
get in lne-and then there is dispersion.
Down with the army" 1t is the socialist
cry. the anarchist cry, the cry of the radi-
cal revo!utionists.
The Dreyfus agitation is also declared to
be against the army" 1t is in the name
of protecting the honor of the army that
anti-Dreyfus mobs break up The preyfus
meetings.
You see how Paris is patroiled by SOL
diers.' say the representatives of the gov
Evening star., 1898-11-05

should be a dark shade of brown. Alpine
and Fedora hats reverse this color rule
Black ones are distinctly not stylish. brown
is little seen and various shades of pearl
Fave the call. Tc have the refrain OF a
once popular comic song cried at HIM in de-
rision, man must wear a hat of at least
five seasons ago. or go in for what is posi-
lively grotesque. In clothing too the
marks of this winters garments are not
striking enough to make a man ashamed
of an old suit. They are just enough TO
distinguish the correct dresser to others
who are as particular as himself
Evening star., 1898-11-05

has four buttons, instead of three as last
year, and the cutaway coat-unchanged in
cut and buttoning-has a change" pocket
and flap added at the right side. Such are
the points that stand for new styles, and
SO far only do even tailors with most swag-
ger patrons dare to 60 In evening dress
there is no change, though this November
is marked an exception to several that
have gone before. That is, this year there
is no rumor that Lord Soandso on the other
side and his slavsh imitators in this coun-
Evening star., 1898-11-05
Needed Practice.

From the Chicago Post.
Il learn" she said reproachfully, that
you were devoted to no fewer than five girls
before you finally proposed to me. How do
know that you didn't make desperate love
to all of them?'
Il did, he replied promptly.
You did!' she exc aimed
Certainly" he returned. You don't SUD-
pose for minute / would be foolhardy
enough to try for such a prize as you are
without practicing a little at first, do your"