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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27
MUSIC AND DRAMA

The Paiges opened their weeks engage
ment at the Crawford Grand last night TO
a crowded house. Although the audience
was disappointed in the selection OF the
play, as they had been led 70 expect "a
repertoire OF new plays. and rot chestnut
Ike Forget Ne Not" which has been
played to death here BY every cheap priced
repertoire company on the road. yet the
Pages played II better than !. has ever
been played here. The acting was all good
and the audience was highly pleased and
satisfied The stage setting was brilliant,
and the costumes truly gorgeous The
gowns worn BY the ladies were something
striA4ngly beautiful. and TIE costuElag
and stage setting was fully up 10 the stan
oard OF a dollar show The sPec.sl-les ~
Arthur Jennings. IL buck and wing dznces
Ferdinand Asnoy. n Songs. Fe~e q high
e. order than IS usually presented oy
popular-priced shows. and the musical
team. Stanley and scan.oa. are artists
The waragra7a. giving new scenes IS Also
q feature The company give q e1lt-ossous
performance. Although TIE wees ogers1
with such a posr ss.ect1ou % play. ar
entirely new Il; % pays WI b presented
the balance q 7he week
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27
FRIENDS FOOTBALL TEAM
Elected a Captain and Business Man
ager Yesterday,

The young men Of the Friends National
University have formed foot ball asso-
citation and will this fall and winter COM
pete with the other college and school
teams of this city and surrounding towns.
The team gives promise OF being an UNI
usually strong one and while making the
running ''V'' and other flying swings TO
perfection. Yesterday they elected for
their captain Mr.. Everett Alexander. who
is well known in foot ball circles in this
city. Mr. Myron Boyle was chosen as bus
mess manager. Practice and training will
begin in earnest within very few days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27
NOW AT TIFFlN OHIO
Rev. Sims Accepts a Call at Tha t
Place.

C. H Sims. general evangelist OF the
American Christian Missionary society.
who has made Wichita his residence for
a number OF years. Sas accepted the pas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27

Morris of Marion. Brakeman OF Butler and
Dunkln of Sedgwick- The meeting was
quite advantageous and viii unquestion-
ably bear splendid results.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27
Peerless Princess

wheat griwn IN America. and miued by the
latest improved machinery. IA charge OF sx-
pert millers.
Demand and get ne best
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-27

Mrs. Barnes. VIE q F. C. Barns. dlst
at the hona o. her parents. Sir. and Nra
7. 3. Cartwright M5adsy morning ~ s-zl
y II. after lingering ilnsss- FuDerAl
services VII Re held ~ ths Cartwright
ehaPe. his Asts,aooa a. ,. II
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17

measure which, right or wrong, made
for him an international reputation.
Good politicians say his career is at
an end.
Perhaps no man whose name Is so
familiar to the American voter as is
that of Mr.. Mills is SO little known.
He came as a sort of free trade Nc
Kinley, and, as the present president
of the United States is known as the
apostle Of protection" so was Mr..
Mills known as the apostle of free
trade"-save in this: That whereas
the books of biography published in
European countries all contain the life
and work of William Mckinley, not
one contains the name and lifework
of Roger Q. Mills. Perhaps Mr.. Mills
is not to blame for this. He was con-
sistent and self-sacrihcing, but he had
not that singleness of purpose that
makes presidents. Mr.. Mills might have
been president had the people believed
him as they believed the Ohio man
who now sits in the White house. But
they did not. In these four words is
the whole story told.
Politically dead, Roger @. Mills may
be described in this wise: He was born
siXty-six years ago in Salem, Todd
county, Kentucky. president McKin-
ley is eleven years his junor.) At II
he removed to Palestine, Texas, and
studied law. In 1852 we find him at
Corsicana, which has since been his
home, where in that year he began the
practice of law. He was a Texan leg
islator in 1859. He was a confederate
soldier-a colonel in the Tenth Texas
infantry. When peace was declared
he returned to Corsicana and went
back to the law. In 1872 Mr.. Mills was
sent to congress, and he was sent back
every term succeeding until, in 1892,
Texas made him a United States SEN
ator. He was reelected, and next year
his term will be out. Mr.. Mills has
quit politics, will not try for r%e-elec-
ton, and indeed he could not win if
he desired to do SO, which no doubt
he does.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
JUST FOR FUN.

"Millie." said her siX-foot husband,
you are a jewel" Yes" said Mile
sweetly. "a jewel with a big j."
Nurse-Tommy, there's some jam on
your cheek. Tommy with INTEREST,"
There isn't any worth eating is there?
Wayworn Watson-I wonder II b a
old guy was right that said genius was
nothin' but a gift fer hard work. Perry
Patettic-I allow he was. All them
genuises is more or less nutty.
"Chollie says he is in favor Of ex-
pansion." How on earth did he ever
happen to have an idea on the sub
ject?" Il don't know, but l think it
struck him as something swell"
1.-THE minister and the policeman"
said the young and cynical boarder,
"are inseparable adjuncts of civiliza-
ton" "They are very much alike
said the Cheerful Idiot; lone is a pairei
and the other is a peeler."
A little boat is seen afloat
Upon the moonlit water.
In which a youth does sit, forsooth,
With his neighbours daughter.
He hugs the shore a mile Or more,
Along the laughing wafer;
Then lets the boat ~serenely float
And hugs the neighbours daughter.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
AITHDIXON'SLADDER

The weather was warm ever for the
first of May, and the snow on the
mountain-side was melting rapidly.
The canyons and gorges were wild,
rushing torrents, roaring and tumbling
down to the sunny plain below, where
they became tranquil rivers-but all
were rivers, even the little brooks,
rendered so by the recent rains n
thaws.
Far up the mountain-side nestled a
dot of a house, and in its doorway
this pleasant afternoon stood a young
woman with a baby in her arms.
She appeared to be anxiously look
ing for some one who came not, for,
presently, she disappeared in the
house, only to return to the door with
a bonnet On her head and a shawl
wrapped about the baby.
I'VE must go and see if we cannot
find papa, Ray, darling. He never
stays away from his dinner unless he
is detained by something unusual"
She vas a strong young lass, accus-
toned to the mountains all her life, to
their dangers and pitfalls as well as
their rugged sides, and her steps, ever
incumbered with the plump youngster,
were light and free.
Faith Dixon was a brave girl natur-
ally, but she had never supposed her
self to be a heroine, or was conscious
of all the strength she possessed when
confronted with great peril.
Eagerly she pressed forward around
the mountain-side, where she knew
her husband had been at work en-
deavoring to turn the course of a
reckless mountain stream a little away
from his few acres of tillable land.
When she reached the place where
her husband had been at work, she
found his tools, and even his old jean
coat lay near them, but no Perry him,
self was in sight.
beating heart, and lifted her strong
clear voice in a loud call:
Perry! Oh, Perry!'
No answer! What could it mean
What had become of her husband?
She turned her steps now further
up the mountain, where, near her, thu
gorge was deeper, and the watel
dashed along more fercely.
On, on she pressed, clinging tt
powders and vines for support; little
Ray in her arms enjoying it all il
baby delight, giving forth now ant
then a joyous little coo.
She had gone to where the mountain
stream swept in through the marrow
canyon walls, and it's roar was almos
deafening.
Here she paused and peered dow
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17

time were they of his own household,
for when the mahdi took Ell Obeid,
Slatin Pasha's men began to ascribe
his m~isfortunes to the fact that he was
a Christian. A nominal adoption Of
the Mohammedan religion was the re-
sult-a ruse of warfare. While Cor
don was besieged al Khartum, Slatin
Pasha had an interview with the NAH
di, to whom he made the oath of allie
glance. Moreover, he wrote to Cor
don asking him to surrender. These
things did not save him from being
thrown into prison and having Cor
don's head brought to him. After six
teen years of such adventure Slatin
Pasha (who is an English commander
OF the Bath and a colonel in the Egyp-
tan army escaped from his hut near
Omdurman and fed to Cairo, where
at last he found freedom and friends.
His return to Omdurman with Sir Her
bert Kitchener, a conqueror where he
had been virtually a captive, is the eli
max of a career of amazing vicissi-
tude. The portrait here given of the
pasta in his civilized garb shows a diff
ferent man from the one we have been
used to seeing in turban and gown.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
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nominated Grover Cleveland for the
presidency of the United States at the
st. Louis convention in 1888. Ten
years ago. At that time Mr.. Mills of
Iexas was perhaps the foremost man
In the Democratic party. Today Mr..
Mills Is "out of politics. Out of it by
MS own act. Out of it by the same
power that has crushed many a man
before him. Out of it, having been
run over, and ground up, and pulver-
lied, and triturated by the Jeffersonian
Juggernaut. Mills went back to Texas
and found the Clevelandite ideas
changed. OF course, Mills was a free
d Mr.. Mills, who had had Texas
in the hollow Of his hand, found, when
he returned, old Jacksonian fires burn
ing and new faces looking at him.
He found that in Texas things haG
changed. He found his friends his
enemies. What could he do but with
draw? He withdrew. And when he
withdrew he left behind him all his
political future.
Mr.. Mills found when he returned tc
Texas that Governor Culberson's fig
ure cast a great shadow across the
sunshine of his path. Already old, ex-
perienced in the ways of men, know
ing the ups and downs of politics, and
seeing with his keen eye nothing but
defeat before him, Mr.. Mills got out of
the race for the United States senator
ship. Many men in Texas still believe
that Mills could set the prairie ablaze
and win. But they, in numbers, are
not to be compared with the voters
who have redeemed the party. Roger
Q. Mills is no longer a political figure
In Texas or in the nation. His name
will ever be associated with a great
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
TUMBLED OVER.

It's sides, only to give forth a startled,
Mortified cry, for there, on a narrow
ledge many feet below her, lay her
husband!
Perry, Perry" she sobbed. ooh,
are you dead?"
But even as she spoke he moved,
turned his head and raised his face,
owe which the blood was flowing free
ly.
Faith" he called, Faith, love, is
that you? l thought you would come!
l missed my footing and fell over the
wall; fortunately l lodged here. I'm
only bruised and my head cut a little;
but the water is rising gradually, and
before many hours will sweep me
away-if you don't find a rope!"
ooh, Perry, what-tell me-"
60 home! There are ropes in the
stable-and-on the beds, bring any
thing you can find"
Eyes, I will; don't lose heart. I'll
be back in ten minutes"
But even as she spoke she thought
of her baby and how he would impede
her progress.
"Ill have to leave you, darling, and
I'm so afraid; but your fathers life
demands it,"
She carried Ray away some dis
lance, where a bush grew. Under
this she placed him, first tying his
chubby ankle with one apron-string,
while with the other she made it fast
to the bush.
God keep my baby boy!" she
breathed, as she dashed away.
The water was slowly but surely
nearing the poor, prisoned father. He
watched it as it crept up inch by inch.
1T will reach m in less than an
hour, and if Faith should % get back
or meet with an accident Well, life
is sweeter as danger approaches, and
she may be in time. / wonder if she
took baby with her. Poor Faith, my
dear little wife!"
In the meantime seven-months'-old
Ray had missed his mamma, had dis
covered that he was fast and set up
a lusty squall.
But as the squall did not appear to
mend matters, he began to tug at the
apron-string with all his sturdy might
until the many kicks and pulls broke
the frail strip of calico, and Ray was
free.
He proceeded to crawl slowly up the
mountain-side, highly delighted tc
and he was really master of himself
On he went, of a truth very slowly
and with no end of slips backward ant
sidewise, but upward and onward
nevertheless, until the infant noun
taineer found himself upon the very
extreme edge of that awful preclplc'
over which his father had fallen.
Dab! dahl chirruped Ray, n hi'
poor father. fancying he heard some
thing, glanced upward only to CIV
forth a low gasp of horror at sight o
that sweet, infantile face, well dauDef
with yellow clay, it is true-but yer!
sweet to the distracted father.
go back, baby" he shouted. ~e'
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a short tail. Asked how he could thus
infinitely describe a man whom he had
never seen, the Indian answered: THE
thief / know is a little man by his
having made a pile Of stones to stand
upon In order to reach the venison;
that he is an old man / know by his
short steps, which l have traced over
the leaves in the woods; and that he
is a white man l know by his turning
out his toes when he walks, which an
Indian does. His gun l know to
be short by the mark the muzzle made
in rubbing the bark off the tree on
which it leaned; that his dog Is small
l know by his tracks, and hat he has
a short tail l discovered by the mark
it made in the dust where he was sit
ting at the time his master was taking
down the meat"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
Old Medal Flowed Tin.

A Waterloo, Iowa, jeweler has an in
teresting relic in the form of a medal
cast in 1909 in commemoration of the
contamination of a treaty of peace be-
tween certain Indian tribes of the
Ohio valley and the United States.
On one side the medal bears a bas-re-
lief portrait of President Madison and
the words: James Madison, presi-
dent of the United States, 1909" On
the diverse there are symbolical de-
vices, one being a pipe and tomahawk
crossed. the pipe OVERLAPPING the weap-
on, indicative that peace is supreme
over war. A pair of clasped hands
are shown, the wrist of one hand be-
ing naked and the other showing the
embroidered cuff of a soldiers coat
sleeve. This particular medal was
plowed up in Nebraska, and was about
eight inches underneath the surface
of the ground. 1t is of silver.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Mrs. Vanderbilt rejoices in the pos
session of the most beautiful cat in
the world; it cost no less than $1,000.
London's latest beauty, Pamela Snow
den, never fails to wear a wreath Of
lilies about her small head, and never
does the smallest jewel sparkle about
her toilet.
In twenty-five years Sarah Bernhardt
has, it is announced, been paid nearly
81, 250, 600 for her exertions on the stage
and she is now fulfilling a compare
lively short engagement which will
add about another $3.50, 900 to that
large sum. In the last ten years her
average gains have been $50, 900 a year;
in the last five, 500, 900; yet in 1872, at
the Odeon theater, she earned only $40
a month.
A good story is told of the young
crown prince Of Germany. Soon after
Bismarck's retirement the emperor and
empress were at dinner with their ell
der children and some eminent states
men, when the young prince suddenly
broke out with: They say, father, that
now Prince Bismarck has gone, you
will be able to tell the people to dc
just what you like, all by yourself. You
will enjoy that. won't you?"
The duchess of Marlborough and the
duchess of Devonshire probably have
the finest pearls in England, the Man
chester necklace being very vel
known. Many smart ladies wear
their pearls constantly, although they
are not seen, as they are worn under
a high dress. as pearls are supposed
to keep their color better when worn
next to the skin. Pearls have, within
the last twenty-five years, increased il
value 1000 per cent.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17

back! Oh, my Godi Where Is Faith?
The water is almost at my feet-and
baby! oh, must his life be sacrificed
also?"
Dab dahl" repeated Ray, and just
then his mothee S voice, raised into a
terrified shrek as she discovered
where he was, fell upon his ear. He
turned his mud-daubed, rosy face to-
ward her, chirruped a gay cry of de-
Highland tumbled over the canyons
WALL
Faith never knew how she dragged
herself to the spot and looked down
upon that, which she felt must be
death, to her child at least.
At first she could see nothing. The
ledge wherein her husband had been
was almost covered with water.
Dead" she moaned-"both dead!
Oh, how can I bear it? Too late! too
late!"
Then she fancied she heard a voice,
a faint call, and looking closer in that
mad whirl of waters, she beheld Per-.
ry clinging to the lower end of the
ledge and-yes-with something in his
arms!
Make the ropes fast quickly,
wifey!" he called; 81 cannot cling here
very many minutes"
There was a bush, a hardy n and
strong, quite near. To this Faith tied
the ladder she had constructed on her
way up the mountain, and, with a
prayer to God, flung it over the a
and guided it with her own hands un-
til it swung near her fast weakening
and nearly fainting husband.
He looked up and saw-not a mere
dangling, frail rope as he had ex-
pected, that he would have had great
difficulty in climbing, and perhaps
could not have climbed at all incum-
bered as he now was with the baby,
but a real ladder, rudely constructed,
but with knots and straps here and
there!
Wondering how Faith could have
done it, he seized it and began slowly
to drag himself UP, up, feeling a
strange dizziness creeping over him,
but not only his life, but perhaps his
child's, depended upon his reaching
solid earth once more.
On, on, slowly, slowly, for poor, lit
tie, limp Ray hung like a lump of lead
on his arm; but at last he felt Faiths
strong, young arms seize him and pull
him over the dangerous edge of the
canyon-and he was saved!
my baby! oh, my baby! is he
dead?" moaned the poor mother.
"I don't know. / caught him as he
fell by his skirts, and it threw me Off
my balance and I tumbled into the
torrent, but managed to grasp the
rocks. All, he's all right, except the
shock and jar! There! he's coming
round, wifey-thank Cod"
The baby opened his sweet eyes, and
seeing his mother weeping, Joined in
with a lusty squall for company.
"But the rope said Perry, when he
could speak calmly; 81 don't see how
you managed"
ooh, I did it on my way back. It
detained me a little, but grandfather
was a sea captain, you know, and he
Used to teach us children all about
ropes and ladders, and-and I feared
you could not get up if I did not make
it easy"
"You saved my life and Rays, and
I guess my own little wife is a real
heroine, though neither she nor ]
knew it before"
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
Forests.

North British Agriculturist, in m
article on English and continental for
ests, says:
However much individual opinions
may differ as to the quality of the
timber grown in this country, or as to
the methods of management under
which 1t is produced, what the country
has got to face is the fact that, ex-
Guiding minor forest produce, its tim
Der bill mounts to something like
$4,000 900 per annum, $4,000, 900 or
so of which goes to the Baltic ports
for common spruce and Scots-fir, chief
ly for constructive purposes. OF the
remainder, about G5,000,000 finds its
way to the North American ports,
chiefly for pines, most of which an
not be grown here, and about G2,000,-
900 to Asia and Australia for tea and
Eucalypti. the latter principally for
s~treet-paving.
To a continental sylviculturist VINO
has not had an opportunity of seeing
VIA the resources of the country real
~ are in respect to timber-growing, it
might appear, from an examination of
al iSlul ilS, lIdl hllldlA
was very i'll adapted for the purpose.
When u woodland area of some
thing like 5000, coo acres is compared
with those Of some of the principal
timber-producing countries of Europe,
it becomes dwarfed almost into insig-
~nifcance; and when it is taken into
account that a very considerable pro-
portion of this area consists of land
occupied by ornamental and other
plantations of various kinds for amen
ity, which would not be classed as tim
Der land according to continental ideas,
and of large tracts which practically
carry no crop of any kind, as in some
parts of the New Forest in Hampshire,
the area actually under what might be
brought under the head of timber land
proper is a very small one indeed. The
whole woodland area amounts to less
than one-tWenty-fifth of that of the
whole country Cncluding land and
water), and of this little more thar one
thirtieth is owned by the state. When
We turn to some of the principal tim
ber-producing countries of the CONT
nent, We are confronted with a very
different state of affairs. Russia prop
er has over one-third of it's whole area
under timber, fully one-half of which
is owned by the state: Sweden has
about one-half, of which One-third Is
owned by the state; Norway about one
fourth, of which one-eighth is owned
by the state; Germany fully one
fourth, OF which one-third is owned
by the state, and a considerable por-
ton by communes; Austria about one
third, OF which one-tenth is owned by
the state; and France about one-ffth.
of which one-tenth is owned by the
State. Looking more particularly at
the German area, which is undoubtedly
the most skilfully managed of all, we
find that, from the "a million acres of
land under timber, there is an annual
out-turn OF timber amounting to the
value of from $50, 600, 900 to &22, 500,-
600, without in any way encroaching on
the capital or growing stock, while the
expenses of management amount to a
little over &4,000,000 But what is OF
as great Importance is the fact that
employment is afforded to nearly 600,
600 people, representing, it is estimat-
ed, something like 5000, 900 Of the pop.
ulation.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
An Indian sherlock Holmes.

The traveller Charlevoix, who died in
1851, tells a story Of an Indian who
rivaled Sherlock Holmes" One day
a piece of meat was stolen from his
wigwam, and he started in pursuit Of
the thief. He had not proceeded far
before he met with some persons, of
whom he inquired whether they had
seen a little old white man with a short
gun, accompanied by a small dog with
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17

governor of Dara when Gordon was in
Darfur suppressing the slave trade and
a little later, when Gordon was COVER
nor-general of the Soudan. He had
responsibilities and perils by night and
day and bore them sc bravely that he
was appointed encouragement OF
Darfur. The mahdi about this time
discovered his divine mission" and
thenceforth the life of Slatin Pasha
was one Of conflicts, imprisonments,
escapes, crowned by the final triumph
Of Kitchener's forces. His foes at one
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
Muscles of the Head.

The head has seventy-seven muscles
eight for the eyes and eyelids, n
for the nose, eight for the lips, eight
for the jaw, eleven for the tongue,
eleven for the larynX, eleven for the
ears, seventeen for motions of the
head and neck, one to move the hairy
scalp, one for the eyebrows.
The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-12-17
Fair Hair Growing Scarce.

Fair-haired people are said to be
becoming less numerous than former
ly. The ancient Jews were a fair
haired race; now they are, with few
exceptions, dark. So it is in a lesser
degree with the Irish, among whom
$50 years ago a dark-haired person
was almost unknown.