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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-03

Those days are gone. Today a well
equipped Journals, must BE able to man
age any sort o. reporting and to appear
in every sort az company. Many such
writers have had more OF less intimate
acquaintance with the lead rs OF man
kind-the Bisalarcks. the GiadstonCS, the
Gorioas and Grants, che Deweys and
Beresfo-3s. Journalism has put me on
the pleasures footing with more than
one president az the United States TIE
first president I came 10 know was Gen
e-aI Arthur -Four or FIVE q u CORE
spondeD,s were sent 20 the s. Lawrence
% report his experiences upon a dshlns
trip We lived in the same hotel with
him. and II 5he morning he used 20 share
with Us the uuSka4Onge or the bass ne
had caught OF the pCsvsg1s day. And
once il came about shat he waited u21n
me as II ne had been the hu-n5lest man
In the land
with smother correspondents had beea
KEEP. up late AZ night telegraphiag. ana
then had stayed ap stu faIer over = usd-
nig4t Supper. When are came 20 the hOtel
Il was past n&dnight and tie entire house
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-03

Some desperate and many inexcusabls
things are done in the name Of newso7per
enterprise. but others as wall a. rnysAl<
can tell AL who practice saca rnetao-ss
that they only succeed for the moment
and that peril 20 both reporter and nezs-
paper walk hand-ia-hani With All frard
There Is \ weli-k1OEa literary man in
Iso1don who. whsn he was a yo,,.a- -,
or with a mail bag which he knew cor
ta9ned document that he wanted ir-us-
dia-ely. 'blIC which would rot b. delivered
IN due course Until the next morning h
was chased and shoS a. BY ne mai
agents. but managed 10 escape both tu-
jury and capture. Net a partirSe r-rore
defensi5le than this SAs the trick Of ~.
reporter who eppeere-i in Rudyara Kip
hng's room dressed as = mechanic ard
taIksd with ne aove'tst fl thzt gree
Here. however. IS n Instance q Essceess-
tIA reporting over Ehlea mary men nav
take ssdeS ana argue warmly f5r and
against what ne reporter thought ct %
do.
When Il Hung Chang vas IN L,oo5on.
an American correspondent ahouR4se Ne
Continued o. E-evenfh p1ES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
OUAYIN CHARGE
Of His Campaign forsenator in Penn
syivania.

Harrisburg, Pa, Jan. 2.-Sehator
Quay has taken personal direction of
his campaign, fer reelection to the u. s.
senate. He reached Harrisburg last
night from Washington with his coll
league, Senator Penrose, and will stay
until after the senatorial caucus. Ex-
Senator Cameron came to Harrisburg
today from his country residence below
the city and was a visitor to the Quay
quarters. The former senator came all
the way from England to take hand in
the contest for his old colleague.
Ex-Postmaster General John Wanna
maker is on the ground working against
Senator Quay with hte assistance of ex-
Judge Games Gordon of Philadelphia
Chairman Garman of the state Demo-
rae committee is not saying or doing
mich either way. The aIii-Quay lead
1rs conceGe the IA tIre Of the fusion
scheme and are directing their energies
toward keeping enough Republicans out
of the senatorial caucus to present NOM
nations,
The business Mems league opened
quarters here today and members are
here from all over the state to help fight
Quay.
The anti-Quay leaders announced to-
day that by evening they would have
the written pledges of 81 Republicans
to stay out of caucus until after the
supreme court has disposed of the GRIM
inal charges against Senator Quay. The
case will be argued next Saturday and
the anIl-NRudylI0S are lighting Lit
postponement of the caucus until after
the court renders its decision, and it is
probable there may be postponement.
Secretary of the Commonwealth Mar
tin, who is the guest of Governor Hast
ings at the executive mansion, was at
the state department and gave no init
nation as to his action in the senatorial
contests.
Senators Martin, Magee and Flynn
will have conference early this even
ing with the ultra anti-Quay leaders to
discuss the question of insisting on a
postponement of the senatorial caucus.
The anti-Quay people believe if that can
be STAYED off the conference until after
the decision of the supreme court, they
can prevent Senator Quay's election.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
SCORCHING GIRLS FATE.
25 Days for Pretty Cyclist in Bling
hamton.

Binghamton, Jan. 2-TwentyHhve
days in prison for the offense of ''scorch-
ing on a bicycle without cIutching the
handle bars is the punishment inflicted
by the authorities of this tawn on a
respectable working girl. She is the
first woman in the state to be so de-
graded, and has just been released. Her
humiliation and distress are pitiable..
Belle Bra dley is the name of the VIC
tim of the rir-idity of Binghamton JUS
tice. She is a rather pretty blonde, and
has attracted considerable attention
when riding wheel by the nattlnesS ol
her costume.
Several months ago the board of po-
lice commissioners adopted several new
regulations to govern bicycle riders in
the public streets. One of these was a
prohibition against scorchlng Win
"hands off,
Chief of Police Meade believes that
a law is a law and should be enforced
regardless of whom it may affect. He is
jealous in the performance of his duty,
and when he saw Miss Bradley In her
rather conspicuous suit riding IN the
street and steering her bicycle with the
sway of her body, and with her arms
folded, he placed her under arrest
The custom heretofore has been for
offenders against this particular police
regulation to be summoned to appear
before the recorder on the morning fol-
lowing their arrest. A pleal of guilty
was usually followed by a fine of 50.
fore Recorder Olmstead and the evil
dence against her recited she was SEN
fenced to pay a fine of $25 or stand
committed to the county Jail for the
term of twenty-five days. She said she
was unable to pay such an amount and
as none of her friends came forward
to aid her she was sent to Jail and
placed in a cell in the wOman'S section,
and there she was kept for nearly a
month.
Occasionally she had girl visitors,
who had no more money than she had
herself but there wasn't a man in Bing-
hamton who knew her willing to come
forward and obtain her release by the
payment of the fine. The jailer treated
her with the greatest kindness and con-
sideration, but the girl felt her position
keenly. She has no relatives in this
part of the country, and, as events
proved, very few friends.
When her term was up, she hurried
from the Jail, almost broken hearted.
She complained that she had been un-
justly treated, and that many other
bicycle riders who had offended in pre-
cisely the same manner she did had
been let off with light fines.
The police say that the public safety
compelled them to make an example,
and that Miss Bradley was not singled
out for any especial reason, but simply
because she was violating a regulation,
and was therefore subject to arrest
and Imprisonment. There have been no
arrests since for scorching or riding
with hands off the bars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
PALACE NEEDS CLEANING.
Gen. Brooke Will Not Occupy It for a
Week or Two.

Havana, jan 2.-The customs receipts
here this week will probably be heavy, as
the merchants stocks are low and several
cargoes are due to arrive.
General Brooke will not govern from the
palace for week or two, as the build
ing reeds a thorough cleaning. After the
general takes up his headquarters in the
palace, Mrs Brooke will arrange a series
of social functions.
Generals Brooke and Ludlow see many of
the prominent CubanS- They easily
accessible and wish to make a wide per-
Sonal and official acquaintance.
As the civil police is slowly formed the
American troops will be sent into the
country Colonel Moulton. who is in COM
mand of the Havana police. had his
first official duty the investigation of a
case of cattle stealing.
General Ludlow visited MORO castle and
CabanaS fortress today. The batteries of
the Second artillery have been landed from
the United States transport Chester. One
battery was sent to MORO castle. another
is garrfsoned at Cabanas fortress, a third
is stationed near the palace and the other
three batteries are camped at Vedado.
Two Spaniards were stopped in the act
of taking the picture of the king and the
crown from the throne room of the pal
ace for the. Spanish club. They said for
mer Captain General CaStellanoS gave
them to the club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
Kansas City Opens Her I'M
mense Convention Hall
Today With Three Concerts and
a Drawing
OF OVER 1000 PRIZES.
The Highest Being a $4,000
House and Lot.
sally 16G,O36 Concert tickets
Were Sold.

Kansas City, Jan. 2.-Kansas City s
new great public building, the Conven-
ton hall, practically completed, wa;
dedicated to the public in a unique way.
today. The building, which will seat
$4,000 people and is one of the largest
in the country, was erected by popular
subscription and through other means
of raising money.
Business men had donated the greater
part of the money when it was found
that more funds were needed. First,
thousands of convention hall buttons at
81 apiece, each of which entitled the
holder to one share in the building COM
pany, were sold. Later, gIISs were do
mated by business men, until no less
than z 1000 presents, ranging from a sheet
of music to a $4,000 house and lot, and
including a lion Ill Cuba, a race horse
and three $1,000 thoroughbred heifers,
had been received by the building COM
rnittee. These present it was decided
should be drawn as prizes, and 100000
tickets at % cents each and emitting the
holder of each to grab" for the
prizes, were sold.
Today the Drawing was begun and
thousands of people of all degrees and
conditions hocked in and out of the
building to take their turn at chance.
a band diScoursed music, while the
judges with the aid of two blind boys
from the Kansas City, Kan, asylum
from L to $50, 900 and corresponding with
those sold being drawn from two glass
wheels presided over by the sightless
bows
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
HAVANA is HAPPY.
Everything is Quiet and Orderly in
the City.

Havana, Jan. 2-The people Of Ha-
vana are in joyful mood today in spite
of the disappointment experienced over
the fact that the projected festivities
have been postponed. The resentment
quickly subsidized and gave place to COM
poSure.
Capt. GrebIe. Ge4. Ludlows adjutant
general visited all the United States
posts during the night. The city was
found to be tranquil
Major General Brooke's impressions
of Cuba are pleasing. He regards the
people as being emotional mild and or
derby.
Americans are now conducting tele-
graphs. customs, postofffce, in fact ali
public business, with Spanish and Gu
ban employees.
Col. Bliss, the American collector of
customs has been instructed by the
authorities at Washington not 10 ap-
point Americans to subordinate places.
Only CubanS are to be appointed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
(First published in the Topeka State
Journal, January 2, 1892
HOUSE BILL NO ".

An Act making an appropriation for the
Legislative Department and general eX-
penses incident to the special session of
1898.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Kansas:
Section I. That the sum of twenty thous-
and dollars ($20.0O0), or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
ated out of any money in the state treas
ury not otherwise appropriated for the
payment of per diem. and mileage, of
members and delegates of the legislature.
acknowledgements and for per diem of
the officers, clerks and messengers and
other employees of each house, at the rate
provided by law
Sec. 2. The auditor of state is hereby
authorized to issue his warrant on the
treasurer of state for the amounts and
purposes specified in section one of this
act.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its publication in
the Topeka State Journal
j hereby certify that the above bill orig
mated in the house. and passed that body
December 18th, 1898.
WIN. d. STREET
Speaker of the House.
A. d. GILPIN,
Chief Clerk of the House.
Passed the Senate December 30th. 1898.
A. M HARVEY.
President of the Senate.
MARION WATSON.
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved January 2, 1899
Governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02


Not till we meet with Love in all his beauty,
In all his solemn majesty and worth,
Can we translate the meaning of life's duty,
Which God oft writes in cipher at birth.
Not till Love comes in all his strength and ter
Can we read others hearts, not till then
know
A wide compassion for all human error
Or sound the quivering depths OF mortal
Not till sail with him DER stormy oceans
Have we seen tempests. Hidden in his hand
He holds the keys to all the great emotions.
Till he unlocks them none can understand.
Not till walk with him on lofty mountains
Can we quite measure heights And, oh, sad
truth
When once we drink from his immortal foun-
tains
We bid farewell to the light heart of youth
Thereafter our most perfect day will borrow
A dimming shadow from some dreaded night.
So great grows joy it merges into sorrow,
And evermOre pain tinctures delight.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
yya,tinr For the BugIe.

We wait for the buale. The night dews ara
cold;
The limbs of the soldiers feel jaded and old;
The field of our biveuac is windy and bare;
There is lead in our joints; there is frost in
our hair;
The future is yelled and it's fortune unknown
As we lie with hushed breath till the bugle is
blown.
At the sound Of the busle each oomrade shall
spring
Like an arrow released from the strain Of the
string.
The courage, the impulse, OF youth shall come
back
To Danish the chill OF the drear bivouao,
And sorrows and losses and cares fade away
When that life giving signal proclaims the new
day.
Though the bivouac of age may put ice in our
veins,
And no fiber of steel in sinew remains;
Though the comrades of yesterdays march
are not here,
And the sunlight seems pale, and the branches
are scar;
Though the sound of our cheering dies down
to moan,
We shall find our lost youth when the bugle In
blown.
II. W. Higginson in Atlantic Monthly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

Improved methods of treating low
grade ores have made Cripple Creek
perhaps the greatest gold camp on the
continent The camp was exploited in
the Pixies Peak craze of 1859, and again
an 1874. Even at the latter date ore
assaying less than 800 a ton scarcely
paid freight and smelter charges. Now
free gold is extracted from the rock by
the cyanide process for $3.50 a ton, in
GLIDING freight.
With these modern improvements $50
ore is bonanza, while new term must
be coined for ore assaying $16,418, as in
the Copper King at the New Dawson
City camp Cripple Creek ore, however,
has assayed as high as 1888, 242 a ton
This was found in the Princess E1ulalia
mine four years ago. Ultra high grade
ore, found in opposite corners of the
twenty-five square miles composing the
ueaft of Cripple Creek, is a second rea-
con for the, camps prominence.
The camp is operated by electricity
"A mammoth plant was erected at Canon
power to drive all the drills light all the
mines and move all the ores.
The total dividends paid by the pub
lie mining companies are shown by the
following figures:
1881 ----.--.....- .-..-..... I26z,995
1881 ........-...... 2, 663, 125
During 1897 the stock companies paid
IN excess of 10 per cent of gross output
dE dividends. The record for 1898 far
eclipses this, with an excess of 16 per
cent Both records were broken by that
for the five years ending with 1896, when
the output was $25, 150, 900 and the total
dividends were Sc, 490 S44
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
MY Lost Old Age.

Try young invalid just before his DEATH
Tn only nine and twenty, yet,
Though young, experience makes me
sage,
So how on earth can 1 forget
The memory of my lost old agef
OF manhooG's prime let others boast.
1t comes toe late or goes too soon.
AT times the life envy most
Is that of slippered Pantaloon.
In days of old, twelvemonth back,
laughed and quaffed and chaffed my I'll,
And now, a broken winded hack,
I'm weak and worn and faint and i'll.
Lifes opening chapter pleased me well
Too hurriedly l turned the page.
spoiled the volume. Who can tell
What might have been my lost old agef
lived my life, I-had my day,
And now-I feel it more and more
The game / have no strength to play
Seems better than it seemed Of yoro.
watch the sport with earnest eyes
That CLEAN with joy before is ends,
For plainly 1 can hear the cries
That hail the triumph of my friends.
We work SO hard, we age so soon.
We live swiftly, one and all,
That ere day be fairly noon
The shadows eastward seem to fall.
Some tender light may gid them yet.
As yet it's not very GOLD,
And on the whole won't regret
lily slender chance Of growing old
w. J. Prowse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

"Mordaunt" she called him. In a novel book
His mother found the name she give to him.
didn't like it, fer I'd kinder took
A sort of notion favor BILE 20 Jim
But when she looked up at me from une bed
Half dead. bUS happy, an she said, 81 want
That you shall 1.ame him, after all, - said.
why, blame it all, of course it is Nor
dauntl"
She knew the way felt shout such names
An that this was sacrifice, jsz-ahe
Had often head me say that honest James
Had just about the proper ring fer me.
But, though twas djSapp 'intment, still ]
thought
She was the one that mad the right to choose,
An There wasn't any qaestion-ought
To reconcile my wishes to her views.
He was so delicate, teeny small,
But smarter than the cracker of whip.
don't believe he ever cried at all.
Sometimes he d quicker up his little lip
An look at you until you was ashamed
OF all the sins you knew he knew you d done.
I often thought he grieved because we d named
By such a name helpless little one.
An, thinkin that when we two was alone
1 called him by the name liked so WELL
His mother would "a grieved If she'd "a
known,
But neither Jim nor me would ever tell
We never told He'd laugh an crow to hear
Ne whisperin so happily to him,
Your names Mordaunt, old boy, when moth
er's near,
But VIXEN there's only me about it's jim"
We never told our little secret, an
We never will-we never, never will
Somewhere off yonder in Aow'ry land
A little baby's toddlin, toddlin still.
A-seekin in the sunshine all alone
The God that give an then that sent fer him.
Aordaunt's the name carved the httls
stone,
But in my heart the name is always Jim.
Chicago Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
New England.

wherever thought is deep and strong,
Wherever conscience fights with wrong.
Wherever manhood dareS to die
And womanhood is pure and high,
On mountain peak or plain or sea,
The souls one cry must ever be,
Thank God for old New England
The warriors sword and poets pen
Are thine to WELD, but only when
The cause of right demands the blow,
When thou wouldst lay proud error low.
Then only does thy face of love
Grow dark with sternness from above,
Oh, grandly great New England
For those enslaved in life, in thought,
Thy blood, thy tongue, hath freedom
bought.
The arm of justice in its might,
The thrilling voice of truth and right,
The patriot ardor, glowing warm
With courage calm in battle Storm
Are in thy name. New England
Il. ". Smith.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
GEMS IN VERSE.
The Parcbment Tearers.

Ours is the hardest task, yet not the less
Shall we receive the blessing for our toll
From the choice spirits of the aftertime.
My soul is not palace of the past
Where outworn creeds, like Rome's gray sem
ate, quake,
Hearing afar the vandal's trumpet hoarse
That shakes old systems with a thunder fit.
The time is ripe, and rotten ripe, for change.
Then let 1t come l have dread of what
Is called for by the instinct of mankind,
Nor think that Gods world will fall apart
Because we tear parchment more or less.
Lowell.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
HeIs a Luckx PRINCE.

Prince William of Wied, whom
Queen Wi1heimina of Holland has pick
ed out for husband, is a good looking
young man of %, an officer in the Prus-
sian army and the second son Of the
Prince of Wied ard Princess Marie of
Holland. Bc is cousin of Queen Will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

a century. His election as lord mayor Is
more an evidence of commercial success
than of political advancement. In 1870
Sir John settled in Candlewick ward and
first entered the common council as its
representative. After 10 years of services
he was elected an alderman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

Major NJ. B. ]. Marohand, the French
army officer whose reported presence at
Fashoda, on the White Nile, rudely
disturbed the British dream Of an i'm
perial African province stretching from
Alexandria to Cape Town, is a fiery,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

In Porto Rico they call her "The
Nightingale of the Hills" In prosaio
New York, where she is now living, shs
is known as Sonora Lola Rodriguez II
no less than three lines of thought and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

Sir John Voce Moore, the lord mayor
elect of London town, is. like previous
lord mayors, a rich merchant. He is at
the head of a large firm of tea import
ers. He is ~ years old and has been in
business in London for more than half
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
Judge Richardson Dead.

Sedalia, Jan. Judge Charles Rich
ardson died here today at the home OF
his daughter of heart disease. He was
born in Ohio in 1912. He has resided in
San Francisco for the past three years
and was here on a visit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

energy is Sonora Rodriguez distin-
euished. First of all, she is poetess
with reputation which extends far be-
yond Porto Rico Next, she ranks high
among the worlds conchologists.
Thirdly, she is leading spirit among
the autouomists of Porto Rico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

energetic soldier. Three years ago he
was merely captain of marines, but in
1896 he laid before the French war de-
partlnent his scheme for an African
campaign, and not only was it adopted.
but he was given a major commission
and put in charge of the enterprise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

Mrs. Nat Collins, who recently visit
ed Chicago to dispose of trainloao Of
cattle of 80 cars, is called the Cattle
Queen of Montana, a designation TO
which she is fully entitled. She owns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

Lieutenant Colonel John w. Clous,
who went to Havana as secretary and
recorder of the military commission
which is arranging the details of this
Spanish evacuation, is known through
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

helmina. The young people know each
other very we'll, for the prince has been
often at the court of The Hague. AS
children they played together, and since
they have grown up they have been in
innate friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02
A Prize Snap Shot.

Prize Snap Shot.
To the often reviled amateur photog-
rapher the future history maker will
look for illustrations to tighten the text
of his story of the Spanish American
war. Some of the most valuable pic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-02

We do mending and sew on buttons
free of charge. Peerless Steam Laun-
ary. 112 and Ia West Eighth street.