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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-18

Mr. and Mrs. \. II. Rowe gave n pleas
ant surprise party Thursday evening in
honor of their son. John Rowe. who cele-
brated his 18th birthday. Those present
were the Misses Grace Priest, Martha
Blislley, Laura Lee, Clara Bartlett, Leila
Osburn, Cora Mackey. Emma Rowe Mrs
Priest and the Messrs. Harry Jones, Ell
mer Williams. Hayes Salisbury, jim Gull
lum. Sam Martin, VIII Bartlett, Ollie Car
ter, VIE Hendricks. Brightly Rowe and
John Rowe. &c..
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
The PoIt Facilities of Mobile.

The Southern Railway company, a new conner at Mobile has joined hands with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company, and the two have agreed to furnish the Horse- ly line of ocean steamers all the "business" they have in Mobile, or can attract to that port, and the Horsely people agree in re- turn to furnish all the steamers, in addition to those of the regular line plying between Mobile and European ports, that may be needed in order to carry the business col lected by the two great railroad companies. As the Horsely people are wholly equal to the task of furnishing steamers, and as the two railroad companies have access to an immense trade, this contract is right ly regarded a very suspicious event in Mobile-an event that will go a long ways toward restoring the commerce of Ala bamas port
 Colonel Russell, president of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad company, hopes the ef- feet of the new arrangement will be to increase imports as well as exports. The trade of the gulf ports is hampered by the lack of imports, but when the former trade of Mobile is restored to it, as it doubtless will be under the new contract gradual extension of imports will assuredly take place.
 Mobile has bright future. Besides the goods that the railroads collect. the War rior river will soon bring in world of heavy freights that will serve as ballast or otherwise in the ships gathered there. The railroads will haul corn, wheat, cotton and provisions, and the Warrior river barges will supplement such freights with iron, steel, coal and manufactured goods. What the cars and barges do not bring in will not be worth the efforts of collection, and while Mobile promotes the railroad trade it should never forget to promote the Warrior river improvement, which will in the long run be the more beneficial of the two.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
The Ores of Sweden.

The megnetite iron ores that lie between Gellivare, on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Norwegian port of Victoriahavn, are in lat itude 67 degrees and 57 minutes. They are described in the Engineering Magazine for July, by Mir David Louis. These ores arc found in two ranges of hills known as Kiir- unavaara and Luossavaara, cash about fifty miles north of Gellivare The shipping port is to be Victorahavn, 107 miles away single track railway, now in course of construction, forming the connecting link
 In the Kiirunavaara range there is an ore deposit of three miles in length, and it varies in width from Ill to 49S feet between walls The dip of the ore is from 50 to TO degrees to the eastward. and the amount in place is estimated a 215,OOO0OO tons In the Luossavaara range the ore extends for 4165 feet and varies in width between walls from 9S to 1S0 feet. The dip is about 75 de- grees to the eastward, and the amount of ore in place is estimated at 1S0 000 900 tons The Swedish government proposes to limit pIDuuCliol lO I,0UU,uUU lOllS d year.
 The metallic iron in the test pits varied from 45 to 70 per cent, but @ per cent is con- sidered a fair average of the district These ores show considerable phosphorus, some going as high as per cent and the belief is that they will find their chief use in the basic open earth process. Low phosphorus ores are becoming every year less desirable because the basic process is year by year supplanting the Bessemer process. Whether they be hematites, magnetites or limontes low phosphorus ores have lost the place they held ten years ago. Ores rich in iron are of course wanted, and the Swedish ores seem to be well up in this respect to the best Spanish ores. But the mining of 1,5e0 coo tons year will not fill the gap when the Spanish ores>are exhausted, as they plainly will be in the course of eight or ten years.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
DEWEY IN THE AUSTRIAN TYEoI

From the New York Journal
 Admiral Dewey has chosen his resting place wisely. We hope that he will select for his abode, while recuperating from the elimination of Spain the beautiful village of Gasten.
 This little hamlet, where cheerful men and women live quietly above the clouds, breathing pure air and drinking pure milk is the most perfect resting spot on all the earth.
 There Admiral Dewey may see the hotels where the old Emperor William and The emperor of Austria lived side by side, daily exchanging visits and funny royal kisses At the bottom of the hill is the little inn where Bismarck lived at the same time manipulating the two emperers, as the Punch and Judy man manipulates his little figures.
 The mineral bath made sacred by Bis marck is still pointed out-'here was his head at this end were his feet.''
 Gastein will do Dewey a lot of good. We hope he will stop off at the little station across the frontier and patronize the Tyrol- csc girl with yellow hair who sells bull pups in the daytime for a living and pre- sumably yodels at night for 0 pastme. If that girl is still there, with her basket of puppies covered with a neat white cloth, Admiral Dewey should not miss her.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
suRsCRIPrION RATES.
A Rear Attack Upon Gen. Wheeler.

The undue haste of the Montgomery Journal in demanding a special election for the filling Of an alleged vacancy in the Eighth congressional district is not seemly, who fought with rare~sHccess for the peo- pie of the south from the beginning 10 the ending of the civil war-who fought for 2 reunited country at Santiago with rare skill and tenacity-who has shed additional iustre upon his state-who is today a ma tional hero beloved and admired in every state, in every school district, for that matter; and yet in order to win the favor of a handful of politicians, the Journal does not hesitate to advocate an enforced retirement from 9 seat to which he was unanimously elected last fall.
 General Wheeler sails on July 20 to carry out q special piece of business. He expects to return to Washington by the time con- gross convenes. The department expects him to return by that time. Until this programme is changed, until, in other words. he is assigned by General Otis to a fighting command it would be unseemly and wholly irregular to declare his con- gressional seat vacant, and proceed to send up to Washington a man to fight him out,
 In such a contingency the voters of tie Eighth congressional district would be very apt to rise up and express their con- tempt for such politics by voting the illus trious hero of two wars back into his old seat by an overwhelming majority. No campaign will be needed in the Eighth district in order to bring out a great Wheeler vote under such circumstances
 The animus of the movement against General Wheeler is readily shown in this sentence from the esteemed Journal: "There arc many people who would heart fly approve the act, if the governor were to order an election in the Eighth district. and the governor will no doubt be urged to take some prompt action in the premises" This means, when read between the lines, that the state administration has determ- ined to order an election if decent SUD- port for such call can be had. A genuine popular support for an attack upon Gen. eral Wheeler as he is sailing away in de- fense of his country is incredible.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Undue Public Loquacity in Chicaqo.

The faculty of Chicago university have been warned against undue public loquaci- ty' over controverted questions. Private may all kinds of loquacity over uncontro- verted questions.
 It stands to reason that corporations and watered stocks and trusts are considered subjects that come under the forbidden head in the minds of the financial packer and mogul of Chicago university. When you come to think of it, all theories and propositions are controverted in some minds somewhere. Even aximotic truths are controverted, and dear old stories like the one concerning William Tell, and the atchet-and-cherry- story of the father of his country are also at times troverted. The Bible comes in, too, for share of the prevailing tide of controversy. What is really meant at Chicago is, 'all subjects that I, John Rockefeller, do not want discussed, shall not be publicly dis cussed by the faculty of the university that I built" This puts the matter in plain, in- telligible terms. Presidents may be elected by colossal campaign funds gathered from trusts and corporations, legislatures bought and courts corrupted. but still the subject must not be discussed in Chicago university. The operations of trusts upon labor the concentration of wealth, the crushing out of small dealers and small ranufacturers-all these are interesting questions, but they are not to be discussed in Chicago university.
 But why should private loquacty be per- mitteG to go on, when public loquacity is summarily shut off? If one be dangerous and wholly bad, the other must also be- the only difference being one of quantity and not one of quality. But the next Rockefeller ukase may reach private To- opacity. which is, it must be admitted fully as much of bore as public loquacity
 There are cases of loquacity that need suppression. This we frankly admit. There way, regulates the world by daily loquaclty And then there are John James Ingalls, ant Edward Atkinson and Charles Emory Smith and the Rev. Sam Jones, and Sena- tor Mason and a score more of great brain: world and all thereunto appertainng. Il
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
HOW .OUR JEs.n CAMPAIGNs

From the Selma Times.
 And now some "devilish" newspapers are spreading the report that "Jes," "Our Own Jessie Stallings, is campaigning with satchel filled with chewing gum. This must be a mistake, the last time we heard from him he was travelling through Coffee coun- ty loaded down with ''two-fer" cigars and plug tobacco, also several copies of the New York Journal containing his interview about the presidential possibilities of 'Jamesie' Richardson. It is rumored that Jess" gets real wild at the mere mention of Bryans name.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
EnciefYin Eufnuln

Eufaulians fair and Eufaulians gallant had a picnic the other day, and the remarks of the Times reminds one that it is a far cry from the Black Prince to Guiee's Pond, Eufaula
 MT. Ed Long, Jr.. slipped up and wet the seat of his pants but it did not dampen the ardor of his spirits, nor detract from his handsome face. Some of the ''horrid boys" caught some tiny frogs and put them on the young ladies, just to hear them scream.
 Several of the young ladies missed their elastic garters, and found some of the young men had appropriated them for shot slings.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
GONE TO MEET JESS sTAL,INGs

From the New Decatur Advertiser.
 J. J. Willett, of Anniston, was interviewed in New York by a Herald reporter, and to him he said "the south was tired of Bryan ard had no confidence in western demo- crats' This was foolish thing for him to do, as he thereby cut his own political throat in this state. Bryan is stronger in Ala abama and the south than he ever was, and those who plunge their verbal knives into him today will certainly swing for high treason when the nominations are made.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
THE ALABAMA ARMOR PLATE

Washington, July 10.-An unsuccessful test was made at Indian Head proving ground today of a 51a-inch armor plate rep resenting 700 tons of easement armor of the battleship Alabama.
 A six-inch projectile fired against the plate went clear through it. This is the first failure in three years. the last failure being in armor for the Kearsarge Another plate will now be chosen for the test
 The conditions of today's test, with q six-inch shot against a 51a-inch plate were unusually severe.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
THE POET
Edwin Markham in "Poems."

Edwin Markham in "Poems."
 His home is in the heights; to him Men wage a battle weird and dim, Life is a mission stern as fate, And Song a dread apostolate.
 The tolls of prophecy are his,
 To hail the coming centuries To ease the steps and lift the load Of souls that falter on the road The perilous music that he hears Falls from the vortice of the spheres. He presses on before the race, And sings out of a silent place, Like faint notes of forest bird On heights afar that voice is heard, And the dim path he breaks today Will some time be a trodden way, But when the race comes toling on That voice of wonder will be gone Be heard on higher peaks afar, Moved upward with the morning star. o men of earth, that wandering voice Still goes the upward way; rejoice!
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Little Demand for Chicken Pie

The Decatur News suggests a state of af- fairs that will cause a great falling off in the chicken pie crop, as there are few big meetin's for basket dinners:
 We don't hear of any protracted meetings of the old-time kind Perhaps the so-called professional evangelist with his movabl tabernacle has superseded the protracted services established by the fathers which resulted in much good. Then the chief object was to turn sinners to repentance and by the power of faith bring them to salvation.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
The Sunday Law

Something is wrong in Talladega, but just what it is specifically cannot be dis covered from this ominous language of the Reporter:
 There is a Sunday law in Alabama which should either be enforced or repealed. Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work but the seventh day is the Lords If it is wrong to rob men. what about robbinS God? Does any man think he can outwit, cheat defraud the Al-Wise, All-Power- full God? Let him remember that the King is greater in all things than the subject
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

the real power in Chicago university would close the mouths of these men. all would be forgiven at once. The trouble in Chicago joy of relieved people But there are no signs that an order will be issued restrain ing those who should be restrained. while those who should not be restrained are brought under the new iron rule.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
They Did a Plenty

An outrage upon good man is hnted at, and the Montgomery Advertiser demands to be informed positively in regard to so grave a matter. The Advertiser observes:
 The Greenville Living Truth wants some body to tell what was the actual reason of Dr. Eldridge's deposement." Did they do that to him, also?
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Marriage is a brand which most men wear on their foreheads.
 Probably it never occurred to the Lord that Eve might refuse to marry Adam. every time a man says "my wife," 1t seems like a caress.
 It's different from what 1t used to be in the Garden of Eden. Nowadays the wom- an lays it onto some man, and the man planes the devil.
 Every girl starts out with the idea that after she has once got man where she can tell him she loves him he has got to either propose to her or to 9mmit suicide.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
The Goyernnr,a May

Editor Young. of the Vernon Courier. has a well-defined idea that the governor is the governor. It says:
 The governors message Is printed in the new book of acts of the legislature. cor respondent wants to know if being so pro- mulgated it becomes the law of the state. We are not advised as to what effect such publication has on the message, and it is rather immaterial for in the affairs of this state things go pretty much as the governor says.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Look Out, swell Counties

The Ashland Advocate relates some pleas ing facts. and thus sounds warning that needs to be heeded:
 Our schools are of a high order as com pared with the state. Our two colleges at Linevlle and Ashland are doing a good work in the preparation of young men and women for the business of teaching. Look out, swell counties the pure ozone of the mountains has produced strong, vigorous bodies and our schools are doing the rest.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
EVENING BY THE SEA
s. Weir Mitchell.

With noble waste of lazy hours
 I loitered, till I saw the moon, A rosy pearl, hang vast and strange Above the long gray dunei And hither, thither, as I went,
 My ancient friend the sea beside, Whatever tune my spirit sang
 Uha Mar old comrade tried.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Lool,. Denr Iioader.Lnoki

Timely words are these, spoken by the Piedmont Enquirer:
 In looking over this paper, dear reader, stop moment and consider. Ask yourself the question, How long has it been since l paid my subscription?' Then remember that the editor is needing every cent due to defray the expenses of the office, and that, unless you 'pay up," he will be forced to the wall. Can you afford to do without your home paper?
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

marvellous running qualities. We have heard of bean vines running all over the neighborhood. but the Wheeler bean takes the 'blue ribbon," according to the report of Mayor Chaffen, who planted them in a field some distance from his house. and the vines grew across another field and into the barn, filling it with the finest bean vine hay.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Lighter on Saloon Men

The way the Birmingham city council deals with saloons calls forth these words from the Selma Journal:
 Up in Birmingham the city administration has gradually been drawing the lines tighter and tighter on the saloon men of that city.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Lincoln Neb., July 10.-W. J. Bryan de- nied today that the carload of melons sent him by J. D. McEachern & Co.,, of Morven, Ga was intended as a gift. He was mere- ly asked to place them on the market here. He turned the car over to a merchant. who sold the melons and paid the freight bill.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
ShpfiieId's Room

The bachelors of Sheffield are in grave danger, according to the Standard
 One of Sheff1elds handsome bachelors is preparing to build nice residence while another has ordered furniture for house. keeping, and still another is looking un- usually serious just now. Something is go- ing to happen.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
1Yhen aIr. Antrey Ie completcd

Thanks are due to the Sheffield Reaper for the following extraordinary informa- ton:
 The carpenters are progressing nicely on MT. Sawtelles residence on the pike. MT. Autrey, foreman. is doing some exceedingly good work on the building, and when com- pleted will be one of the finest residences in either town.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Much About Mr. Rhodes

The happy and gifted editor of the Bir- mingham News has ways that win every
 body. The Hanceville Hustler says of him:
 MT. Rufus N. Rhodes is president of the Alabama Press association~for the coming year, and the association is proud of the fact. There is so much about Mir Rhodes.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The Michigan courts are declaring Gov ernor Pingrees laws invalid as fast as they are brought before them. The cor porations and trusts do not care who make the laws, so long as they know the men who are to construe them.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
A Shelby Patriarch

The Montevallo News tells of family positively appalling in numbers:
 MT. G. W. Hughey celebrated the Fourth of July by a family reunion. There are seventy-one in his family and none of them live over five miles from each other
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
The Poet of Linden

There is a latter-day Campbell at our own Linden, Marengo county, Alabama, as these lines from the Democrat will show:
 We can't know and comprehend
 That life is hell without friend, That is short without sin,
 That love is false that has an end
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The Dadeville Herald, tired of "political trickery," places the name of Reuben A. Mitchell, highly respected merchant of Gadsden, before the people in the guber- material race.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Wheeling stogies made away from home cannot bear the word "Wheeling,'f but they may be of equal horse power to the most powerful of home manufacture, and still be within the law. So says a Boston court.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Without Salt or Temper

Melons are not doing the proper thing in Vernon, according to the Courier:
 Watermelons are beginning to be brought in, but they are too high to be eaten with relish.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The railroads take care of the industries of this district as far as rates are con- cerned. If the merchants will unitedly con- vince the railroads that they are pro- they are entitled to.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

New Orleans is finding plenty of rivalry on either hand-in Mobile and Pensacola on the one side, in Houston and Galveston on the other. It is the railroads against the river
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Jesse's Cat Crop

The Jasper Eagle is keeping its eye upon a possible governor, for the Eagle says:
 Hon. Jesse Stallings, having harvested his oat crop. is now out over the state shock ing the vote crop for use in his race for governor.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Senator Thurston of Nebraska Is trying to get out of politics, while John R. Mo- Lean of Ohio is trying to break into it. He obeys the customs of Ohio.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
UNFAIR CAMPAIGNING

From the Mobile News.
 A contemporary says that Speaker Wal Ter is making a campaign down below Montgomery" And is thus hitting MT. Stallipgs heloE the belt. .s,
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Whether gold be a-coming or a-going, Secretary Gage sees prosperity in the movement. The administration is easily convinced in this respect.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Senator Morgan is journeying homeward, and today or tomorrow he will be in Ala bama, ready to encounter the rep-pop- Johnston combine wherever he finds it.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
THE EDITORS
 AND THEIR TALK

Little Ethel" the sweet singer of the es- teemed Montgomery Journal, thus drops in- to poetry with the easy familiarity of the late MT. Silas Wegg:
 It shook us up from north to south,
 And made us feel most awful; When baby opened up his mouth,
 And tried to swallow the waffle. ' S-c-a-ti . The girl at the table eating jam. Said she loved a boy named sam. .
 Ott told Mott that it was hot.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

General Wheeler will not esteemed re- pealsts, pine away and die in the Philip pines. He does not know how.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Ex-Governor Hogg decided at the last moment Ito give it to them straight and he fairly stampeded the ancient society for Bryan and an unreconstructed Chicago platform.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The Montgomery Journal cannot force Senator Morgan to run against the son of his old friend, Allen G. Thurman.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
Beans That Bear a Proud Name

The proverbial kindness of General Wheeler, in the matter of sending seed to his constituents, is bearing vines in Nor gan county. The Falkville Chronicle tells this story: / .,-s--t'-
 The Wheeler butter bean excitement has created a great deal of talk throughout this community. and 1t continues to run, and many thrilling stories are, told of ita
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The man who has two or three votes in neighbors.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Georgia will remain true to Mir. Bryan in spite of the refusal to accept a car of watermelons well loaded up with freight charges.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

Ex-Governor Hogg seems to have struck in Tammany a responsive chord.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The Sheffield Standard, inspired, says: "Let the scramble for Wheelers seat in congress begin."
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

General Horace Porter is very popular both on his own account, and as relief from Robert P.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11
BRYAN ANp TIE WArEKMHIoNs

zola is again a candidate for a seat in the French academy.
The age-herald., 1899-07-11

The only thing that can be safely pre- dicted as to the next presidential race is that the winners first name will be Wil- liam.