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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-18
New Pres,aent Of Peru.

AS president OF Peru Eduardo Romano,
who was inaugursted yesterday. occn-
pies a position OF much greater relative
power than that Of the president OF the
United States. Peru is a republic. but in
reality. as in case OF most Of the South
American nations the power OF the state
is conferred in the hands OF the chief mag
istrate- Congress registers HIS DEGREES and
the army either enforces them or forces
him 20 fee The predecessor Of Romano
in his office. General Nicola Pierola, car
ried things with a high hand. after win
ming his Office by a good deal Of hard
lighting While IN office he never went
anywhere without at least q company OF
soldiers as a guard. and his palace vas
filed with soldiers ready AZ any time 20
prevent an assassination. There has been
no revolution IN Peru for several years.
and the country seems destined to become
as prosperous as Chile. While he was pres
ident. Pieroia Amassed = fortune from
his interest in concessions given for pub
lie and private works. and this was re-
garced as legitimate means Of enrich
ment for statesmen IN Peru.
Customer-Are these eggs strictly fresh:
Shopman-TeA. str. You haven't found
anything wrong with the eggs you Lave
been getting here for The lass nonth.
have you7
Cust0mer-.So.
sAopmEn-wsE. these are . part q ne
sane lot.
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1.,,fsn y,,a, a,,ache Under Fire.

II vas in this fight that shrapnei
shell struck the road Within ten inches
Of the foot of the British naval attache,
Captsip Paget, and lifted five Wiscon,
sin volunteers off their feet and
knocked them down. For a moment
Paeet was lost toyiew in a cloud OF
dust and smoke, from which no one
expected to see him reappear alive, but
he strobe out of it untouched, remark-
ing, ID q tone OF extreme annoyance,
t.There was shell in the Soudan once
did exactly that same thing to me-.
His tone seemed to suggest that there
was limit to any man's patience. a
few minutes latcr solitary tree be-
meath which he was sitting was struck
by another shell which killed two and
wounded three men. Pagst, who had
been in dozen campaigns, took ~ all
as matter of course aud assisted one
of the wounded men out OF the range
of the bullets from tt.c side of steep
and high hill. The sigIt did more t!
popularize the Anglo-American allianc.
with the soldiers than could the
weiglltiest argument of ambasssdor2
or statesmen. Richard Harding Davis
in Scribner's.
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|. CANEY,S ROMANCE.
BY FRANCIS Klr1BALL.


When the colonel. of the -th cavalry
summoned Captain Burden to regi
mental healc, uarters, some one at the
officers pess asked who he was, any.
way, that the ''old man" had picked
him from among dozen old campaign
err. for a consultation,
'.Nephew, or something, to a sena-
tor,nn growlel a grizzled lieutenant,
who had seen 90 years of service and
was Jealous of the -ths reputation.
Fresh from q desk in the war depart
ment, but alfred anxious to smell
Dago powder.
<'oaght to join the rough riders, %
added another; ''they'll be in the fight
tomorrow; tn this too full already,
and here's the old man asking him to
supper before he's seen a week of SER
gice."
''Tut!" interposed the regimeutal
surgeon; Burdens not a greenhorn,
an1 the colonel knows if, Reckon
sou don't know wha5 sent him out OF
Washington into. this fever-stricken
climate; do you think doughboy'd d
join the lighting -th?'
stCome," said the adjutant, locking
arms with the surgeon. for he saw the
Batter had something on his mind, and
BE-, too, was curious about Captain
Buaaen. "Let's so outside and leave
Ske fellows to their growling;;" then,
when they had passed beyond the
-,~6nes of the mess tent, ''What was
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captaiu sirsbee,s Belief.

Captain Sigsbee in his personal
Narrative of the Maine" which'is one
of the leading features in The Century,
says: Before reciting the details
Immediately connected with the de-
struction of the Maine, it may be said
That I did not expect she: would be
blown up, either from interior or e1;
terror causes, although precautions
were taken in both directions. Never
theless, 1 believed that she could be
blown up from the outside, provided
sufficient number of persons OF evil
disposition and with the conreniences
Mt hand, were free to conspire for the
purpose. 1t was necessary to trnss
the Spanish authorities in great de,
gree for protection from without. 1
believe that the primary cause OF the
destruction of the Maine, was au ex-
plosion under the bottom of the ship,
as reported by the court of. inquiry.
How it was produced, or whether II
was produced by anybody intentions,
ally, l do not know; therefore l rave
carefully avoided accusation. y
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Norway's banner shall float without a
,iack-the symbol of the union with
Sweden. Some say that should King
Oscar veto the resolution two more
diets must pass upon the matter be-
fore it can go into effect; others that
the fieH dag will dome into immedi-
ate use: Since 1874 the closest fel&:
tions have been maintained between
Norway and Sweden: At that time the
flag 81 EACH nation @as Changed SO that
tile jack in the upper left-hand Corner
combined the colors Of the other ma
tion, For several years past, how
ever, there has been q growing feel
ing Of discomfort in Norway CONCERN
ing the close relations of the two pow
ers. This dissatisfaction King Oscar
has Fstriven to assuage. The two
countries have entirely separate and
distinct governments, but are ruled by
the same king, Oscar of Sweden. Each
country has its own parliament, which
passes laws for its respective coun-
try All laws are subject to the ap-
proval OF disapproval of the king.
The flag of Norway, with the jack
left out, will be four red CORNERS, with
d Greek cross Of blue through the
center: The Swedish fass has four
blue cotners; With d jack Of red. Blue
anld yelloT-in the upper left. t.hand COR
ner and q Greek cross ofyellow IN the
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-.,1r the capture of small fort by
the Japanese and the retreat of such
81 their enemies as had not been taken
prisoners, healthy looking Chinese
baby was found By ths vietors lying
on the ground in their fine OF march.
The captain of division Pieked
him up and did his best to administer
consolation and presently called one
Of the prisoners, to whom he offered
his liberty on condition that he should
take the child to his parents.
The captire joyously assented, but
the baby raised a noisy. objection.
BE lifted lis voice On high and cried
so loudly when ths attempt was made
to take him from his japanese friend
that the latter saw no resource but to
submit.
So, holding the baby on his left arm,
while he grasped his sabre with the
right, Captain Higuchi marched on to
the capture of the next fort, receiving
meanwhile bullet through his cap.
The baby looked on wonderingly
While the fort was taken in gallant
style, and seemed 10 be quite tlnmoYed
BY the din and tproar of battle so
long as he could fest tpor his cap
taiE's shoulder.
When the fight was over the captain
gave the child to some of his troopers,
who bore the little creature to Chin
ese house near by.
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PEARLS IN MAINE WOODS.
Eoahd h Mhsseis-ana an Invalid Rhode
islander Makes Money Out of Them.

Foahd h Nihss:els-ana an Invalid Rhode
islander Makes Money Out of Them.
Henry Spears, an invalid from Paw
tucket, R. l., who passes most of his
time in the Maine forests, going from
place to place with guides and canoes,
las gathered and sold nearly $500
worth of pearls from fresh water
mussels during the past season: :. He
went to Grindstone; states the Sun,
iii May soon after the lakes opened:
When lie Had fshed for trout in Moose
head like for d time lie went across
the watershed and hoatea down the
Allegash toward New Brunswick.
When beyond Chamberlain lake, and
100 miles from the nearest settlement,
he had hemorrhage which compelled
the party to lay by for month.
One day when the food supply was
growing scarce Mr.. Spears's guides
went up stream to cut some hard wood
for fuel. Coming down in the c>noe
and towing the wood and limb be-
hind them, they passed through half
mile of quick water that flowed over
stony bed, and on arriving at camp
they found large number of mussels
were attached to the limbs which had
rubbed against the bed OF. the stream,
At the request Of Mr.. Spears, some
of these mollusks we're opened and
prepared for supper: Before the guides
had shucked pint they had discovered
three pearls, one OF which was as big
as seven shot. They found five
other pearls in the shells which had
come down attached to the brush.
From that time until Mr. Spears was
able TO travel the guides devoted their
energies to pearl hunting. When Alr.
Spears and his men arrived at Carl
bou the pearls were sent by express
to Boston, and ten days later a check
for $3.50 was received. They visited
the place again in September, and IN
five days had found quantity OF ofpearls
that sold for $430.
The mussels from which .he pearls
--c-c c',t"inal arc the long, dark
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The colonel wondered at the pale
ness upon the face Of the YOUNG Off
Ger us he passed from the tent into
the darkness beyond. Could he be
afraid? He dismissed the thought
with a laugh. Captain Burden had
come to the --th with the highest rec
concentrations from the secretary OF
war.
Out beyond the shelter of the. camp,
Burden led his men straight into the
thick, prickly brush. At times he
could almost feel Hardey's breath upon
his face and hear the voice whispering
in his ear: ''To the left, to the left!
He will reach the Spaniards sooner
there"
Ear up the height dozen tiny lights
glimmered in the darkness-the Span:
ish torches about the blockhouse Of
Ell Caney. 70 the left the faint ring
of steel told the three Americans that
the enemy's sentinels -vere wide
awake, ready to fire bllndly in the
darkness. Captain Burden paused.
ttPrivate Hardey," said he, so husk-
lily he scarce recognized his own voice,
''move cautiously to the left. keeping
well in the shadow of the bush; the
corporal and I will detour to the right,
approaching the slope further on"
Hardey's hands came to a quick
salute. every good, sir!' replied he,
steadily, though he must have known
he ran against the very muzzles of
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Passing of tho ncutawar."

The disappearance of the so-called
"cutaway," even from the ready-made
shops, relieves us of the painful duty
of condemning 1T rs an article unfit
for uny use. 1t was at its best COM
promise between the sack coat and the
flock coat, and as such it was an i'm
pe:tinence. Either one or the other
is proper, and halfway measures do
not ft the case. "Cutaways" were
neithar fish nor.hesh nor good herring.
We wish that the ."derby" hat would
follow hose obnoxious garments into
oblivion, but at present there is ap-
parsntly 10 escape from it. The derby
is less Objectionable with the sack
coat than with anything else, but that
is all we cansay for it.-Providence
Journal
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First Mention of Pins.

Pins were first mentioned in an act
of Edward ". which forbade their
importation with view to protecting
the home made article in 1863. John
Tilney Of Bristol first established
their manufacture in GloucesteE in
1926, and there it aourisled for two
centuries. These merry lines of Dib'
den tell US:
The ladies, Heaven bless them all,
As sure as I've nose on,
In former times had only thorns
And skewers to. stick their clothes on.
No damsel then was worth n pin,
Whate're it might have cost her,
Till gentle johnny Tilney
Invented pins in Gloucester.
1t is strange that pins have been made
for only 45O years, while needles have
been used for over forty centuries. =
New York World.
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BIS p1aIntive Plea Prevailed:

A Ahomesick japanese is as homesick
q mau as can be. One who acted as
cook on the Indiana last summer sent
in the following pathetic petition for
his release: "Excuse me. Honorable
Offers. I am always thanking for
your kindness, that could not forget
perpetuality. Last month l higned
for my work, therefore I have duty
to do make my responsible for year,
but for the sake of T could not UNDER
stand English language, I could not
give you even satisfaction and more-
over l would often trouble my friends,
by this I have many sorrow. If I
must bear with patience this work for
q year; I must take a sick surely. Z
have to do much thing for my native
country. Though you will refuse my
wish I will never free away because I
believe q God and have many honor.
But my Honorable Offers please ex-
cuse me ny work and give me free"
It is pleasant to be able to add that he
did not have to take sick, for he got
his free.-New York Commercial Ad.
Yertiser,
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The Guest and the 1co-Puddins.

A story reaches the Scots Pictorial
concerning an occasion on which Lord
Rosebery was entertaining large
party, among others a farmer who
tasted ice-pudding for the first time.
Thinking that something had gone
wrong in the kitchen, and desiring
to save his fellow-guests the pain OF
his own experience, he whispered to
his host that the pudding by some
mischance had got frozen. His Lord
ship listened gravely, without moving
muscle of his face, tasted the pud-
ding. thanked the farmer, and then
called a servant. After some little
conversation, he turned to the farmer
with relieved expression, and said:
'It's ell right, Mr.. They tell
me it's new kind of pudding, and is
frozen on purpose. Thereafter the
farmer partook OF his portion with
evident relish.
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The reason the Nicaragua route is
the best one is that water way has
been found that requires canal Dig
ging for the shortest distance. You
can leave the Caribbean Sea in o
steamer the size of one Of our small
coasters, and can go to point where
YOU can reach the Pacific Ocean by
walking three hours at moderate
gait. 1t is but twelve miles distant.
If your steamer has a mast fifty feet
high, by climbing to the top of this
mast you can see the blue line of the
Pacific in the distance.
The natural part of the canal is
formed by the San Juan River and
Lake Nicaragua, Of which it is an out
let. The lake is basin in the Cen.
trsl American Plain, filed with$fresh
water ranging from ten to $40 feet In
depth, aud is 10 miles In length, Ita
outlet is not loss tbsn 400 ftet Rids as
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race Ju Une waIi, .-..u asked him why
chose 80 strange an attitude. T
answer was, ITO look IN the glass
"Why; thereis ne glass there" so !,
the friend. ''Bless mel" exclaimed
Burrowes, "I did not notice that
before" Then, ringing the bell, he
called the servant and questioned him
respecting the looking-glass which
had been hanging on the wall. "Oh,
sir" shid tile servants set was broken
six weeks ago." a certain learned
professor at Cambridge is q very
absent-minded man. A friend ofhis
had been seriously i'll. When he was
convalescent the professor used to
send him iellies and other delicacies,
One day he took him q fine bunch of
hothouse grapes. The old friends
were very pleased to see each other,
and were soon deep in discussion.
The professor, becoming interested,
began absent-mindedly nicking the
grapes, taking one at time till they
were all gone. On going ont of the
door he called back to his friend,
NOW, mind you eat those grapes;
they will do you all the good in the
world"
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HORSES AND MULES.
Now Is the riftie for tho Breeder to Raise
Them PrefltnbIy.

Them Pr6fitnbIy.
Now that the bicycleis is undoubtedly
ON the wane, and the true standing
of the horse can be measured without
prejudice, tits quite evident to all that
there will be money in faising these
animals for the future, writes j.. Z.
Smith in the Michigan Farmer. TIE
aays of The horses usefulness have
not passed ftr good On the contrary
We will probably see a gradual revival
of the animals popularity; especially
for pleasure driving. A great many
disposed OF their horses to take to
wheeling because of the novelty OF the
fad, and they are BOW returning to
their first love again.
Ttere is a better demand now 1T
the cities fo5r' coed horses. Poor
horses will never mors bs needed.
Neither will small horses be needed.
Moderate or large-sized horses are
the; Best. end they should be raised
either for thsfr spsed or their strength.
Weight and strength eom blned with
slowness in draft horses VIII nst do.
Medium heavyweight draft hoyses
that have q brisk walk ano good
tret, sell in any market for sumsrang-
inc from &15O upward. This is an
age of speed sttd ths slow business
horse is ruled out: Well-matched
pairs of horses that are good drivers,
and crossed with French coach horses
treauently sell for $1,000 to $1,000 per
pair.' Gi H. Horses of this class are needed
for private Stables, apd they must
combine several go0d qHslities-me-
dunn weight, moderate speed, d6ctltty
of temper, aud good appearance IL
harness. Style and speed without too
much mettle are the chief require
mems.
Now horses can be raised from colts
To- three.year- r-olds for $50, and horses
sold at this age that have good blood
will frequently sell fer three to hve
times that amount. Colts have little
demamd, and it does not'pay to raise
them for the market. One must figure
Upon holding them data good 2 mar +.
kaatable age In New YorR 4 Morse is
not much good Before it is sixyears OF
age. But horses intended for that
market should be the cream of the
Herd, and they should be raised 50 "a, as,
to conc ap to the three or four hum
dred dollar Standard.
Besides horses, mufts are good AMI AM
mails to raise on the farm, and many
farmers prefer to breed them to horses;
finding, as they claim, more money in
the work. The recent demand for
mules by the United States govern
ment for the Spanish war showed how
few mules were really in existence in
the country. Now there will be an
increasing demand for Porto Rico and
Cuba in the ncSt few years, and there
w.. IDLY be more money Than
lis business. These GER
ht to he two = -ralest-77
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-rravel q waterway owe: 15C

rravel a waterway oye:: l5C
miles long, on which the fall is but
four feet Of the entire length. To
reach the summit level, as this is
termed, that is, the highest point of
the canal, involves another engineer
ing problem, on which many years OF
study have been spent by some of the
most noted experts in the world.
The decision reached by most Of the
engineers has been system Of locks.
Tho plans provide for three on one side
Of the summit level and three on the
other. The highest will raise vessel
forty-fye feet, and the lowest will raise
her between twenty and twenty-f We
feet. They are to be $50 feet long,
eighty feetwide and thirty feet deep.
The ST. Louis or st. Paul, for instance,
could easily be accommo dated in them.
The canal will be less than thirty
feet deep ard 100 feet wide on the bot
tom. The locks will be constructed
of the largest blocks of stone and con-
crete ever used for this purpose, and
will be closed by gates of steel, be-
side which the largest lock gates in
the world will seem as pigmies.
The greatest industry in Nicaragua
is coffee culture: The one drawback
to the business and to ell enterprises
in Nicaragua, is the want, not only of
labor, but of the proper kind of labor.
A gentleman who is engaged in the
coffee industry said recently that his
laborers would get drunk on Sunday.
take all day Mondayto soberup, come
to work on Tuesday and continue
working until Friday or Saturday,
when they would lay off again, so that
the mozo of the country labors about
one-half of the time. Counting Sun
days there, are l65 festas, or feast
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y minute P.~~---- 49,
secIed as many hours. The heat and
blacNness of. the brush stiaed the
Americans, the sharp thorns tore their
clothes and lacerated their bodies.
Corporal Joyce lamented the fate
which had sent him to Cuba. Captain
Burden moved forward as one bereft of
feeling. He had become machine, a
thing devoid of sense and feeling, a
human sounding board waiting to
catch rife crack from Ell Caney.
Suddenly the buzz of insects, the
crunching of the dry leaves and twigs
under the feet of the moving men,
the noise made by the passage of
their bodies through the brush were
drowned by the echoing report of a
Mauser rife; then another, third
and fourth and fifth. Corporal Joyce
unconsciously clutched his officers
arm. "God!" he whispered, they've
riddled him, an braver fellow never
wore sabre.
Captain Burden staggered as though
the bullets from the Mausers had
pierced his body. A cry sounded in
the stiffness following the echo of the
shots; an appeal for help, and the voice
was Hardey's.
For an instant Burden wavered,
then, before. the corporal could restrain
him, dashed through the matted chap
paral to the slope OF Ell Caney, upon
whose summit danced hundred
Spanish torches awakened into life by
the fire of the sentinels.
With Joyce painting at his heels, he
pushed forward, drawing his revolver
rs he ran and shouting aloud to Har-
dey to answer him, that he might
gain the priyate's side in the dark
ness.
Breaking through the bush, he came
upon an open space unsheltered from
the Spanish guns above, to stumble
over Hardey, who, resting on one ell
low, was keeping of five white-clothed
figures with his revolver.
Perhaps the Spaniards feared an
attack from the entire American army.
At sight of Burden and the corporal
they wavered, forgetting the Mausers
in their hands, that they were five to
three with one of the latter sorely
crippled.
Corporal, said Burden, sharply,
noting with quick perception the con-
fusion of the Spaniards, "to the rear
with Private Hardey. I will cover
you.
A flash of admiration filled the COR
porals eyes. God, sir!" he NUT
tered, they'll shoot You like dog;
"To the rear, sir!" shouted Captain
Burden; she's light and
Then, as the bulky corporal lifted
the wounded cavalryman, singing him
across his shoulder like bag of meal,
Burden faced the astonished Span
iards.
!"No," cried Hardey, struggling in
the arms which would bear him in
safety; "stop, for Gods sake, cor
poralr' Then, in an appeal of agony:
'Save yourself, Burden: she will not
marry me, it's you''
The sharp crack of the captains re-
volver cut short the sentence. "Run!"
he shouted; "I'll hold them off.
-Four times the revolver cracked ere
the Spaniards, realizing twas but one
man who confronted them, raised their
rifles.
Corporal Joyce, tearing through the
chapparal, heard tho whiplike crack
OF the dreaded Mausers, then ouce
more the sharp report Of the captains
revolver, Asterwapd came silence,
save for tho groaning Of rSiyate Her.
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miles of the Atlantic Ocean. The total
length of navigation is 169s n1ilesi
there will be three lift locks at each
end of the summit level.
For miles huge machines must dig
away loose rock, sand and mud and
force it through pipes some two or
three miles away. For many miles
machines must scrape out the bed of
the river and lakes along the line of
the canal. Some of these great dredges
would dig out from 6000 to S0OOcubic
yards of material every twenty-four
hours. Thousands Of men must work
with picks and shovels where the ma
chimes cannot stretch out their giant
arms apd.dig away at the canal bed. i