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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

Tom Reed is not popular in Maine he usedto be-
And he popular the United States.
not culpabe the lower branch of congress-
mits his bossism
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16
Tn. Muscular Oyster

The oyster Is oueot the ssse7s7sA- "a
creatures. and the force -
!, i uore ;asu 80 t1nss "a e~z Ee-gHt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

Sagasta has thrown the cortes street and
shut the front door If he had done that
there would have been
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

There election in Cuba soon Gomez who die
lift his help Shafter VIII elected Cuba
I starting a bad way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

If General Gomez and his of politicians keep their
mouths shut the United will Cuba
should the people unanimously demand it,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

General Shafter reports battle of San
ago He did not know that he
fault-fnders, and carelessy whipped the enemy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

There is great deal that is lkeabe Shafer.
Miles Wheeler Lee and the others all private
Shafter travels with the public and cinders
with the rest of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

Ten princes after Wilhelmina's But Just one
common civilian with frontgate privileges, could
them all if given a chance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

The Sultan Of Turkey showing his teeth England
again. and they the envy Of the whole world OF
dentistry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

General Gomez is offended THE Americans and ha
resigned from the Cuban army probably resigned from
| it without taking the trouble to locate it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

The dancing masters have shut off huggng time 1t
will be possible for be kissed Rugged
taking old boat sinking somewhere the
enemy's fire.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

The instructions to the peace commission which will
visit Paris secret They should have but
do the thing"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

This government has about decided to keep and
let the of the Philippines They given
back Spain Aguinaldo soethin they
be his share.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

The Cuban insurgents have issued a telling
what people of United do with the
island The people of the United States don't
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

General Miles freeze Washington and he viii
have wait considerable thaw before he
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

General Miles when he reached Washington down
almost as suddenly as that Santiago war balloon
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

General Wheeler the Cubans viii listen to reason.
hoped Uncle Sam not going to talk to
them telephone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

Some Of the Rough Riders proceeded
to paint New York red They should be home They
fine body of for New York to debauch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

The Cubans say they expected whip Spain the
They did little else but retreat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

Aguinaldos whine against this country 5
bluff a telephone
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dispatch from LsavsnE0rth says.
Assistant Surgeon LOUIS &. Duncan.
TTeuty-secoEf Kansas. wss made happy
today By the receipt q on1csl Information
iaal the proceedings % TIE couTt-rnart.al
before which - was recently trfs5 IN
Virgin g. hsvebesn set aside ard maj Re
IS restored 20 duty. TIE cocfo- was trsse
OF two charges and four E7selacatlons hs
vas acquitted q the charge % essscrat-
sr< the graves q tAs dead 5gt fou1e
ralIty q neg.ect q day n not Stepping
the men from W0.x- Ge1sTai George =
Davis set aside tas proceed sasE The
captain alEzxx felt that the Proceedings
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satisfied that TIE charge = t-s Virginia
courts Ell 1ot resgt = AWNING else
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Along the Kansas Nile.

A volunteer in the Twenty-frst Kansas
writes that they serve the boys corn mule
and potted cat
The Rice County Eagle is making a SUI
per-heated fight on Stanley because he
is resubmissonist.
Attorney General Boyle has ruled that
a parsonage is exempt from taxation, to-
gether with half acre of ground.
The motto of Topeka joint is said to
be: Drunk for two bits; dead drunk for
six BITS; clean straw for nothing"
The campaign orators IN Kansas are not
cutting any ice this fall, but it IS not
because the audience doesn't furnish the
ice.
About every month Leedy ties up John
Briedenthal and Briedenthal immedia tely
chews the rope in two and kicks up the
lawn.
Nearly every Kansas writer is born with
the belief that judgment is spelled Judge
ment," and the extra "e" has 10 be taken
out Of him by experience.
If the oPpulist party in Kansas sur
wives the coming election 1t will become
the permanent anti-Republican party of
Kansas. Democracy will despair.
George Lopez of Mulvane is back from
that he brought back wealth, but he
doesn't show it to the anxious Missouri
residents.
This" said gunner under Dewey, as
he loaded a thOrteen-inch shell into the
cannon and closed the breach: This
will be worth fully three hundred votes
against Jerry Simpson next fall"
1t is told on Eugene Ware that one day
ha1-furr Inst thrca In ~
courts. ne was accosted by a man who
wanted legal advice: Consult my clerk, -
said Ware, Il don't know any law"
No man was ever so popular in Kan
sas as Mckinley. All men admire him.
But some of the Republican papers. by
making him a pack-horse to elect some
Republican coroner. Will soon ruin a beau
tful and unprecedented unanimlty Of pub
| lie opinion.
Brethren" said a Kansas minister
about a year ago to a small congrega-
ton, God creates some men lilies and
some men pig weeds. a single Lily among
pigweed will die for want Of nOurishment.
a single pigweed among lilies viii de Of
the same complaint. I don't know wheth-
er I'm lily or pig-weed. but N IN the
wrong crowd
The most savage attacks on Stanley
made in the state are by the Colored Cit-
izen at Topeka. l. IS paper published
by a colored man who spends all his time
abusing the Republican party. The Re
publican state central committee should
send him on a pleasure trip through Ms
sissippi and Alabama right after the cam
paigu. Il would DO him good.
Politics frequently merges into the RI
d'cu!ous. Popullsts used 20 hate John
Sherman Ike poison. Sherman attacked
AiseT. At once the PcpUlist papers began
70 make Sherman hero But walt! DIS
ter made q political speech; the Repu5A-
car papers had a hydraulic TT Il vas
awful for q judge 70 make a political
speech Then Doster came oUI and DE-
Tended Alger against Popuiist attacks
NOV Doster. in the eyes q the Republican
papers. is a hero.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-16

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The National tribune., 1898-05-12
PENSION DECISIONS.
Cases Disposed Of by Assistant
Secretary Davis.

A case which is of Importance on account
of the question involved is that OF the
claim of Elsie, widow of Frederick Hummel,
Co. | 202d Pa. In this case the Assistant
Secretary holds: THAT when soldier has
served d term of so days or more, IN the
military or naval service of the United
States during the late war Of the rebellion,
and has been honorably discharged there
from re-enlists, and dies during his subSe-
Guent term of service, his death not being
the result Of a violation of any law, rule or
regulation of the military or naval service,
the requirements of the act OF June p, 1870,
as to length of service and honorable dis
charge are fulfilled, and his widow IS en-
titled to pension on compliance win the
other conditions of the act Two other
cases in which the same question IL IN
volvcd. and in which the action OF the
Pension Department is also reversed, are
the claim Of the widow and minors OF
Stephen Kelly. 9TH and eth batteries, ND
-. A., and John Badenock, Co. 1, ID X. L.
Cav.
In the case of Ira W. Hayford, Biddeford,
Me. Go. G., ith Wis. Cav, the Assistant
Secretary Of the Interior, in reversing the
action OF the Bureau, holds That hen 1T
is established beyond any reasonable
doubt that, on account OF pcfSioneu cduSo
or causes, or any pathological sequence
thereof the penSioner is not only totally
incapacitated from performing manual
labor. but can neither dress nor undresS
himself without the aid and attendance OF
another person, as is shown by the evil
dence and certificate OF medical examI-
nation in this case. the Department Will
construe the said aid and attendance as
such frequent and periodical personal aid
and attendance of another person as is
contemplated by the provisions OF the act
of July IA, 1892, and as warranting the
allowance of the rate prescribed In the
said act"
Mr. Davis reversed the action of the Blu
reau of Pensions in the claim of Jacob
Rollson, 5tll Pa. III. A. In this case the
Assistant Secretary holds:
That inasmuch as the loss OF sight OF
one eye is now considered as constituting
a degree of disability warranting allowance
of the minimum rate under the act of June
27 1890, and as it is shown by the medical
evidence and allv-of the certificates OF
medical examination, on file in this case,
that all useful vision in the claimants
left eye has been wholly lost from period
antedating the filing of the original declara-
ton. under the said act, he is entitled to
restoration at the said minimum rate for
loss of sight of left eye from the date OF
dropping his name from the rolls"
The National tribune., 1898-05-12
DON'T DO IT-DGN'T.

Don't go to the same place or sort of place
for your summers outing, that you have
gone to for years past: Consult variety and.
curiosity this time. Yellowstone Park is the
place you ought to visit. Besides seeing
there the most startling and unique scenery
in the world-in the world mind yOu-you'
can walk, cycle, catch trout, ride hOrSebac k'
or IN stage coaches, live in hotels-good
OneS-Or camp out, climb mountains, watch
geysers play, see gorgeous canyons, or ride
on a large lake mile and half above the
ocean. Ii you cannot go to the Parl, this year
try Leach Lake in Minnesot a new and
healthful region where piney odOrS camp
life, muskallonge and black bass fishing.
new hotels, the Ojibway Indians in their.
bark houses on shore or bark canoes on the
water, ETC., all make life fascinating. Ii you
will only send Chas. S. Fee, of the Northern
Pacific Railway st. Paul, Mimi, six cents
for Wonderland 'SS, a new and finely illus
trated book, it viii convince you that you
ought to go to one of these places. Name
paper In which advertisement was seem
The National tribune., 1898-05-12
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS.

In this war-story, the hero. Walter Armi-
tage, is a youth who is employed in the com
posing room of an afternoon daily news
paper in Chicago. The country is on the
eve of civil war. News of the bombardme nj
of Fort Sumter creates much excitement.
A fight between David Bronson, a Unionist,
and Dick Morgan, a Secessionis both com
positors results in a victory for the former.
Walter, whose ideas of the situation are
yet uniformed has n discussion with Bron-
son. who sets forth Loyalty the conditions
that confront the Government. Walter
goes down town with Bronson to watch the
bulletins at the newspaper Offices.
Secessionists. denizcns of Chicago's
slums, air their opinions of loyal citi-
zens and express desires that some of
them would afford an opportunity for an
encounter. They are suddenly confronted
by one whose voice and manner he bids
them good evening " is disquieting. 10 say
the least His name is O'Neil, and he is
an ex-Sergeant of Regulars. His warlil<e
attitude and his evident desire for a fight
elfoctually quiets the boosters.
The kilograms announce the result OF
the attack on Fort Sumter.
Morgan and a fellow composition are
ousted from the composing loom for their
disloyal sentiments.
Walter and Bronson attend mass
meeting of UnioniSts, where the call for
troops is read and patriotic experimenting
arouSes the people.
After a long argument with himself, wal
ter decides to enlist in the Union army.
Karl Brentman and Bronson, fellow COM
POSTER have already announced their IN
tention to go TO the war.
The National tribune., 1898-05-12

the crowd, suppressed by savage frown
from Mr.. Neil eyes, blue; born in Balm
Colig, County Cork Province of Nuns
ter, Oireland. Profession, soldier"
"All right, Sergeant. Now, Squire,
if you will please swear these four last
corners. Hold up your right hands,
please"
Said the old Squire:
Repeat your names and the oath
after me, please. r.
al, David Bronson
al, Walter Armitage,"
81, Karl Brentman,"
al, Patherick O'Nale,"-
do solemnly swear that will bear true
faith and allegiance TO the United States
of America; that will serve them faith
fully against all their enemies whomso-
ever; and that | will obey the orders of
the President of the United States, and
the orders of the officers appointed over
me, according to the Rules and Articles
of War. So hel p me God"
And the fateful step was taken.
Taking the oath of enlistment pro-
duced deep impression upon Walter.
The National tribune., 1898-05-12

Naturally susceptible and prone to
romanticism, his industrious reading oil
fiction and history had heightened this
tendency, as it usually does in boys OF
his age and cast of mind. He accepted
the fervid rhetoric and strongly-drawn
pictures that lie found in books with the
literalness Of youthful added to it
the distortion of inexperience.
False impressions derived from books
are almost invariably the results of the
readers mental defciencies-not the
authors misstatements A large amount
of experience in life is necessary to ell
able us to read almost any book with
correctness, as we all know who have
taken the trouble to compare the ideas
received from reading the same book at
two intervals 10-or even fve-years
apart.
The oath seemed to at once cut
Walter off entirely from his previous
lie, aims and ambitions. Up to the
night before his hopes all conferred upon
becoming successful printer and news
paper mana follower at a distance Of
Horace Greeley or Benjamin Franklin.
No other career had any attractions for
him. Now he felt that he had sacrificed
all these upon his country's affairs, and
turning his back upon the tempting
goal that so long lured him on, bad re-
nounced all hopes for the future, and
taken up his cross, as he had heard
preachers describe those who had given
up the allurements of the world, and
consecrated themselves to the cause of
religion.
No glamor about his new profession
compensated him for the keen love he
felt for the one just abandoned. The
pOmp and circumstance Of glorious war
/ had'no attractions. Never had it seemed
good or pleasant to him to be soldier
now it was absolutely hateful, when he
WIS torn away from his chosen career to
follow the vocation of war; No dazzling
tinsel allured him; he saw nothing but
tile bleak and toilsome path of duty, and
he inwardly cursed the rebels who were
compelling him to tread it, instead Of the
pleasant ways of inclination. He could
hardly hope to survive the conflict; and
in his heart he hardly wished to, since
lie felt frustrated in every hope in life.
Soon this feeling of poignant regret
moderated, and he began consideration
of the probabilities. The most imminent
of these seemed to him to be an immedi-
ate order to the scene of conflict. The
war literature upon which he had fed
usually spoke of men leaving the pillow,
the loom and the anvil, and rushing to
the field" and he supposed that this
was what would be required of him and
those associated with him. He was as
tonished to see how Indifferent the ma
jority of those around him were to this
momentous contingency. They laughed
and talked and made merry, as if the
matter in hand was only the organization
of pleasant picnic party.
Walter had not yet learned to read
human nature very accurately, and so
he jumped at the humiliating conclusion
that he was the only cowardly one in
the party; that while he was brooding
mournfully over the future, these Drawer
men were going with light-hearted
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/ may amplify this by saying that he
was superb specimen of American
manhood-well stocked with brains,
vim, and heart-such a one as is
schooled in New England, and de-
veloped into princely manhood in the
stimulating air of the West. Bronson
said to him: n Q
81 am glad that you are to be our
Captain. Pve2Seeh you before. heard
YOU free yournmind the other night, in
regard to those ships-of-war off Charles
ton" r.
"Yes; -d'em;" said Capt. Moore,
warmly. "Pm thoroughly disguised
with 'em. | know something about the
navy. l ran away from school when a
boy, and was two years on the frigate
Niagara" before my folks found out
where | was, and had me discharged.
IF our old Captain d been there, he'd
We warmed the wax in somebody's ears,
! tell YOU. But:I know how it is. The
rebels have corrupted the navy just the
same as they did the army, by giving
all the responsible positions to men of
their own way Of thinking. But it's all
right. Well straighten these fellows
out in way that'll make the very
thought of Secession turn their stomachs
And I'm going to help do it, too. I've
gone in to stay till the jobs done.
That's my style. Always close up my
deals ship shape before I let go of 'em.
| said to my partner-splendid fellow,
but can't go: game leg and five
children Here, you just take this
business and run it till | come back.
But don't expect me till the flags fly
ing over Sumter again. No more "puts
and calls" and captions " for ne. Sell
all the Southern Confederacy stock
short that you can get good customers
for. I'll take all the chances as to the
future delivery"
His CHEEKY, sanguine spirit infused itself
into all who heard him. Bronson said:
"Of course, we are under your orders
now. What are they? When do we
leave? Where shall we report for duty?"
GAS to that" replied the Captain,
Pm hardly wiser than you are. I've
got permission from Gov. Yates to raise
company of infantry. Eve already
$50 men enlisted, where the maximum
is only 1903. suppose that the Surgeon
will throw out good many when he
come. to inspect them, but still I've more
than enough for a company, and have SO
telegraphed the Governor. I'm waiting
his orders what to do with them. In the
meanwhile you'd better get your matters
in shape for leaving, and come back here
as soon as possible.
They all acted on this suggestion i'm
mediately. Walter went to his boarding
house, sorted over rather mournfully the
scanty belongings accumulated since he
began his independent career, recalled
the difficulty and expense he had been
to to procure many of them; made up
compact bundle of some necessary arti-
Giles of Undertaking, and one small
book of selected poems, and locked the
rest in his trunk, to be presented to
Inky. That he should again want any
Of them was top remote a possibility to
be worth considering. He would make
no calculation on / return home.
TO be continued)
The National tribune., 1898-05-12
Education in Spain.

Education is at the lowest ebb in Spain
OF any country outside Of Turkey and
Russia. Italy was formerly on the same
low level, but of late years Italy has been
progressing. The last Spanish census
was in 1889. Then, out of a population OF
Ii, 552, BAG, only 5000, 4e0-or 2S.5 per cent.
could read and write, and II ,945, ST-or
6S.1 per cent.-could neither read nor
write. There have been various attempts
to better this wretched condition, but they
have come to little or naught. In 1887 the
was only 1853 $50 pesetas, or s375, 73o, or
about one-half what the little State of
Rhode Island expends on a population
only onefiftieth that of Spain.
The National tribune., 1898-05-12

A war poem by Rudyard Kipling, especi-
ally opposite to the present crisis, appears
in McClure's Magazine for May. 1t is de
scrbed as treating, with all of KipHng' 8
wonderful sweep and subtlety, of the tor
pedo, with it's Strength of twice three
hundred horse"
Prof. Louis Boutan, of the Sorbonne, has
written for the May Century an account of
his recent successful experiments in sub
marine photography. Prof. Boutan was
led TO undertake his experiments while
studying marine zoology with diving ap-
paratus on the Mediterranean coast. The
article is accompanied by number of
photographs taken under the sea.
The National tribune., 1898-05-12

contempt of fate to encounter great
danger.
He was reused from his reverie by
Bronson saying:
"Well, let's go and hunt up the Cap
tain, and see what's the next move.
His will must be ours now"
Walter WINGED little at this reminder
of departed liberty, but Karl said:
"Vell, / wish him much joy in de job
he will hat bossing dis crowd"
The appearance of the crowd GER
tainly did suggest many serious OBJ
stacles to be overcome before it was
reduced to the symmetrical unity of an
infantry company. The process to this
end must be through reversal of Her
bert Spencer's law of evolution, since it
would involve change from the
heterogeneous and complex to the
homogeneous and simple, through the
abolition of differentiation.
Had the whole city been searched for
the purpose, a greater variety of men
with more unlikeliness in physical form,
social condition, vocation, and mental
training. could not have been secured.
Every nationality was represented by
pronounced types, recognizable at a
glance. Clerks, mechanics, laborers,
hod-carriers, sailors, and loafers; tidily
dressed, dapper men; men with the
stains of toll upon coarse and we'll
patched clothes, and seedy, dissipated
har-room habitues, in the garb OF mil
dewed gentility-all were seen in the
throng that occupied that portion of the
room set apart for those who had been
sworn in.
Bronson and Walter found the "Cap-
tain in the center of little knot of
recruits, and were surprised to find him
to be the impetuous Board of Trade
man whose vivid remarks concerning
naval operations had attracted their at
tention. The muster-roll of the Cap
tain, still on file in the War Depart
ment, describes him in this concise man
Eer:
The National tribune., 1898-05-12

Let's try it. / suppose some of our brave
boys will be called upon to help free Cuba.
and | am sure those who stay at home win
wait many thought towards them and a
prayer for their welfare. For the benefit OF
some of my friends write to say am still
at the iowa Hospital. Emma X. Martin Is
here also. Hospital life would seem strange
without my dear friend; we have been to-
gether so long. Next to the brave boys in
blue and Our flag, we love our profession.
"Oid friends and new friends, tried friends,
and true friends, write. Loyalty and faith
fuliy,-Cad. NJ. Kepner, Iowa Hospital,
Clarinda, Iowa.