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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
An English Woman Tells the Truth.

The whole world is not ready believe English
people aside from the governing classes the
being waged destruction
Republic. To keep the the people tight
little isle ignorance of will necessary
the Beers be crushed by Butler who commissioned
do he pleases without interference press
censorship has been instituted The press
strict that the people of England in the dark
that is transprng forward original scheme of
Rhodes and Jameson He tried to shut Olive
Schreiner the author Story African Farm
But not until she had Cape through by
wire these significant understand
that this is not between the Dutch English
1t is the endeavor on the part Of small but immensely
wealthy section of gain possession
vaal gold fields. BY of mendaeious shameful
lies against the republic people they have endeav-
ored to misead the English it to consent
to The English people to blame They are
misled Hundreds of English in Africa who like
myself, have drop blood and are bound
by the profoundest affection England feel deeply the
shame, and sorrow of situation because we are
English that we have sought to countrys
head the weight of the colossal crime which has
stained her annals"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
9al1y 49, EdgAG
NJ M. MURDOCH Editor.
Can't sedgwick County Pops See It2


The Eagle is not going names. 1t is unneces
ha besides personality politics apt to hold
seeming prejudice exists The Eagle
has no personal fight to make other
ing this maintained in the in
Heres of small band BOSSES consists OF
avowed PopuIists party county
is now, has BEEN and will be controlled
minority and its ringsers
The Pop party big of Fusion. and which
ds made up of oId-time Republicans mossback
Democrats is still manipulated Interest of
the Democratic party proper rather clique of Dem
ocrats The flag" platform adopted by the
Pop ring Of Fusion inspired by but by Dem
had been Missouri While majority of the
Pop party formerly Republicans, these Republicans
9ave nothing say any directing the af
fairs of Fusion The pilots Populst side of
run by the outand-out Democratic ring The Popu-
lists formerly Republicans and who at time
were prominent in Popus county and city,
have all reIegated The reader cannot of
these who any longer cuts any figure the councils and
jobs Of Fusion The Eagle half-dozen Popu
lists who were formerly recognized representative
who have been set aside ignored are longer
suited simply presumably because they old
time Republicans Pop side Fusion the cat whose
paw is being used by the Democratic monkey
TO pull political There Pop
usts in this county despise the flag"
sentiment that copperhead inspiration of 1851 yet
stand in of endorsing it, Democrat
ing Pop is none the a nuifer repudationst It
was him. fight Protection though it
cut the price a reduced
wages twenty per day, claiming justification
that even then a days would buy bushels
corn or wheat, living wages the
Iaborer So Pop who was once Democrat naturally
consorts Democrats and delights bidding,
hence combine in throwing overheard
every influential Populist Republican
injecting anarchstcal doctrines dsoyaI
platforms which the Pop party is made to
father willy Democrats the paying posi-
tions
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
Forty Miles an Hour Through Water.

The time is rapidly approaching when travellers VIII
cross the Atlantic ocean on liner time as
they now cross the continent express train Great
Britain oontemplates the of cruiser which
viii at the rate of forty miles hour The inventor
of the steam turbine has made this speed posi-
bic It is but question Of little time when the
fight OF ocean liners viii faster the speed Of
transcontnental trains. Developments in
marine engineering that impossible 70 set
limit to the speed which boats travel The per
formances OF the Turbnia the yacht which amazed
the whole marine world nautical experts that
1t is idle what Of the machinery Of
that remarkable boat may predict.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
There Is a Tit for Tat to 1t.

Booker Washington the recognized leader Of the col
ored men in America, makes very plain paper in
the current number of the injustice to the
negro Will harmful the in full proper
ton Restrictive and unequal will initiate as much
against the the already we
nave an instance Democrats of Mississippi reported
be somewhat disturbed by the discovery many their
candidates for minor offices ineligible being delinquent
in paying their poll The constitution says that no per
son is qualified eector who delinquent for any tax and
none but qualified electors Office in the state This
clause OF the constitution adopted by the people Of Mis-
sissippi order colored voters It is
working against the very people who endorsed it,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
1.-THE Absent Minded Becgar'

| The following is Rudyard Kippling's
new war poem. written for the London
Daily Mail, which gave him 81, $50 for it.
have gone to Africa to subdue the Beers.
IT was published by the Mail on the
morning Of the goth. and was cabled TO
| several American papers. and is entitled:
The Absent-Minded Beggar:"
When you've shouted Rule Britannia,
| When you've sung God Save the Queen, :"
When you've finished killing Kruger
with vour mouth,
VIII you kindly drop a shilling in my lit
tie tambourine,
For gentleman in khaki ordered
South.
He's an sbsent-minded beggar, and his
weaknesses are great,
But we and Paul must take him as we
find him;
He Is out on active service wiping some
thing on a slate.
And he's left a lot o. little things be-
hind him.
Dukes son. cooks son. son Of hundred
kings,
Fifty thousand horse and foot going
to Table Bay,
Each of EN- doing his country's work (and
NHO 10 look dILcT lHelT Things y
Pass the hat for your credits sake and
pay-pay-pay!
There are girls he married secret, asking
no permission to,
For he knew he wouldn't get 1t IL he
did:
There is gas and Goals and vittles, and the
house rent falling due,
And it's more than rather likely there's
a kid.
There are girls he walked with casual,
they'll be sorry now he's gone,
For an absent-minded beggar they will
find him;
But it amt the time for sermons with the
winter coming on,
We must help the girl that Tommy's
left behind him.
Cooks son, dukes son, son of a belted
earl,
Son of Lambeth publican, it's all the
same today;
Each of EN- doing his country's work land
who's to look after the girl?)
Pass the hat for your credits sake and
pay-pay-pay!
There are a-families by thousands far too
proud to beg or speak.
And they'll put their sticks and bedding
up the spout,
And they'll live on half o. nothing paid
EN- unpunctual once a week,
Cause the man that earned the wage Is
ordered out.
He's an absent-minded beggar, but he
heard his country's call,
And his regiment didn't need to send
to find him;
He chucked his job and joined it-so the
Job before us all
Is to help the home that Tommy's left
behind him.
Dukes job, cooks job, gardener, baro-
net, groom,
News or palace or paper shop-there's
some one gone away,
Each of 'em doing his country's work land
who's to look after the room0
Pass the hat for your credits sake and
pay-pay-pay!
Let us manage so as later we can look
him in the face
And tell him-what he'd very much pre-
fer
That while he saved the Empire his en-
ployer saved his place,
And his mates Chats you and mel, |
looked out for her.
He's an absent-minded beggar, and he |
may forget 1t all.
But we do not want his Riddles to re-
mind him
That we sent 'em to the workhouse while
their daddy hammered Paul.
So We'll help the home that Tommys
left behind him
Cooks son, dukes son, home of a mil
lionaire.
Forty thousand horse and foot going to
Table Bay,
Each Of 'em doing his country's work land
what have you got to spare?)
Pass the hat for your credits sake and
pay-pay-payi
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
NeMHnanerr.

Greenland has ore paper.
London has . daily papers: Paris. g:
Berlin, y
Paris Petit Journal clrculates 100. 600
coqie sdsily.
The ''teuilletons." or serial stories. are
3 feature very se.tom missing from con-
tiusntaI dailies
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
Then She Called the Deg.

tFr0m The Baltimore Arnerican)
Miss Sourface tto tramp}-Did you ever
have a romance IN your Iite7
Trama-Yes, mum: l had a sweetheart
onet dat looked ike you
Miss Sourfsce Setting out another piece
OF pie)--And did she die?
TrsmQ-No. mum. Ne ladder wanted
me to marry her. so ! run away from
home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
SOue Eaepou

CFrom the Chicago Times-H erald)
Il suppose" said the young man who
was being shown through the magazine
office, that everyone who sends you a
poem or story which you are com
PEELED TO decline stops talking your pub
lication as soon as his or her manuscript
is returned
"Oh. no, indeed" the editor replied ''Is
that were so We wouldn't have any sub
scritsers left ."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
Insniration ON Tan

(From the Detroit Free Press)
You are falling OF in your acting"
said the manager 70 the leading lady.
Purely a sympathetic going backward
Payment Of the three weeks salary due
me would restore my histrionic powers
with more than their pristine glory. There
= absolutely nothing SO depressing 20 art
as failure TO connect regularly with the
box office"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03
GigantIe RIrrrIr Rack.

A the Paris exhibition next year ac-
fornmodation vii be provided for 2 600
oleyeles- Ore penny VII be charged FOR
the care OF each machine. whilst for
I'D the attendant xiii convey IL 60 any
safe the rider may choose 20 depart frun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-03

A farmer in Matagorda County Texas. who had
suffered from indigestion for nearly FIVE years, had the
good fortune to have a wife who had tried Ripans
Tabues and who recommended them to her husband In
speaking of his former digestive troubles he says After
eating my stomach would become dstended and food
become sour. also troubled with papitaton of the
heart After had taken three abues that ulness
disappeared, and have since felt the least
symptoms Of papitaton of the heart My wife who
troubled with headache tired feeling and collie says she
felt better after taking the very first Tabule'
10 0srrus
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03
PUNISH THE GUILTY MEN.

Z AGAN'S vtuperative reply to General Miles has
| been met with a prompt court-martial and a
- speedy condemnation, that episode is sat-
isfactory closed. The greater issue of the con-
troversy, however, remains unsettled. There has
been yet move to bring to justice the men who
furnished the army with the supplies whose foulness
brought the heated discussion between the general
OF the army and the War Department.
If General Miles statement concerning the nature
of the beef supplied to the army needed any further
confirmation than given in his official report it
has been abundanty forthcoming Officers of all
grades have contributed their testimony to support
the charge, and even privates who served with the
volunteers have come forward to expose and
denounce the wrong
In a recent letter to the Philadelphia Record
George D. Wescott a member OF Battery c, Penn
sylvania Volunteers, during the war, says: GAS to
the canned beef which came under my personal OBJ
servation: l. 1t was rotten. 2. When a can was
opened the first hole made by the knife emitted such
odor of carrion that would turn the stomach of
vulture. g. 1t coarse and stringy, if all the
substance had been withdrawn, and just the hard and
tough tissues remained q. There was not can that
l saw (and l made it my business to open good
many cans with which command was supplied)
which did not contain green colored liqud-some-
thing horrible to shetland large pieces of cold
grease floating about in it."
Alter narrating how the pangs of hunger forced a
considerable number of men to eat some of the less
offensive portions of the meat Wescott goes on to
say: Il firmly believe that the canned and so-called
embalmed beef the cause of the sickness which
prevailed among the battery while in Porto Rico
and after its return home In regard to the so-called
fresh beef there has been enough said about that to
convince the most prejudiced that it not fit for
t0 eat dptiec cof1a I'D
of Ponce every day, and | saw the beef that came
off the transport Manitoba To describe its looks
adequately is impossible. 1t was dark in color; il
was covered with thick growth of mold and hair,
and when the cheesecoth with which it was covered
was removed great pieces of the meat would adhere
to it. The beef without doubt in a terrible
state of decomposition"
This testimony coming from a private soldier and
based upon his personal knowledge of the subject
is in exact accord with the reports made to the com
mandng general by the officers whose duty it was to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03

inspect the beef. In an interview published in The
Call on Wednesday General Miles said In add
ton to the report of the reginental commanders,
have great mass of evidence consisting OF commit
nications and afidavits from officers soldiers and
civilians. Every part of the country has contributed
to the mass OF correspondence which have received
in reference to the beef served to soldiers, and
the evidence is all corroborative of what have
said
With this of testimony made public it has be-
the imperative duty of the Government to take
steps for vigorous prosecution of the army con-
tractors and the officials of the comnssary depart
ment who permitted them to perpetrate such frauds
upon the soldiers at the front The ofense of Eagan
in denouncing the general of the army malicious
liar gross to the extent of downright backguard-
ism, but it not the main point at issue From the
evidence before the country it appears that our
troops were literally poisoned by scoundrels who had
contracts to furnish them with supplies, and it is the
duty of the President to follow the precept of Grant
and "let no guilty man escape"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03
FAIL TO REALIZE
THEIR WRONGD0lNG
JOSEPH GRACE AND WILLIE
PYNE SURRENDER.
The Only Reason They Give for De-
stroying the Stock of M. Marsh 2
& Co. Is Their Dismissal.

Joseph Grace and Willie Pyne, the boys
who maliciously destroyed about $25OO
worth of stock in the hat and cap fac
tory of NJ. Marsh e. Co., All Market street,
appeared at the City Hall yesterday
morning and asked to see Detectives Glib
son and Wren, as they believed the de-
tectives were looking for them. Gibson
was present and took them to the prison
where they were booked on the charge of
burglary.
The popularity about the boys is that
they do not seem to realize the fact that
they have done anything wrong. When
questioned as to why they cut up and de-
stroyed so much property Grace's surly
answer was, well, Marsh should not
have discharged u.s. and that was the
only reason he would give. Grace is a
bad boy and Willie Pyne seems to be a
tool in his hands. He is the junior of the
two by one year, but he has the appear
ance of being older Grace wrote the notes
to his shopmates
They admitted going to the factory
about half-past o'clock Monday night.
They at once started to destroy the stock
and finished about 10 o'clock. Then they
lay down among the debris and slept till
o'clock in the morning. They took the
early boat to go to San Rafael and walked
from there to Novato, about twelve
miles. They procured food at Dan Ryan's
farm and slept in his barn all night
Wednesday morning they did not like the
country and decided to return to the city.
That afternoon they went to the Orpheum
and slept in a clearinghouse on Powell
street that night.
Learning from the newspapers that they
were wanted by the detectives they decid-
started out Tuesday morning Grace had
SO and sPyne 81 %.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03
THE ELECTION OF SENATOR'S.

n EVER before in history has the demand for
V change in the method OF electing United
States Senators been so universal so ems
phatic as at this juncture The scandals of the con-
tests going on in all parts of the Union, from Della
ware and Pennsylvania to Montana and Nevada, have
aroused public sentiment throughout the country,
and newspapers representing all shades OF popular
opinion unite in urging the desired reform.
The New York Commercial Advertiser says:
These deadlocks productive of corruption and
scandal. They create opportunities for use of i'm
proper influences which would otherwise exist y
The Chicago Times Herald says: 1--WE cannot mis-
the honesty of the whole people are forced
to admit the corruption of Legislatures. 1t is i'm
possible to carry popular election by such open
and notorious bribery as is making the Senatorial
fights in Montana, Delaware and California stencil
in the nostrils of the republic"
The Philadelphia Record says: There is always
danger that Legislatures may be improperly con-
trolled. The Eruption in late years in the United
States Senate of many men fat in purse and lean
in intellect is not a result of mschance There
is a sinister and forbidding reason behind it. The
St Louis Republic says: AS the position OF United
States Senator shall become priced for its dignity by
men OF wealth. or by constituencies politicians for
the chances of traickng in legislation the evil is
bound to spread
Senators by the people the advantage would be in
bringing everybody out into the OPEN in having all
claims to distinction brought under the white light
Of public discussion Dark horses would be barred,
and the danger of dark lantern proceedings would be
minimized" The St Paul Pioneer-Press says:
Legislative elections of United States Senators
prolific OF legislative corruption. They have
done more to create factional animosities in the
jorty party than all other combined" The
Springfield (Mass.) Republican says: The legisla-
tive plan of election has become practically unwork-
able and should give way to election by the people
before it infcts serious damage upon fit and
orderly procedure"
Such few of the representative expressions OF
public sentiment on the issue 1t is clear the time
has for making earnest effort to bring about
the desired reform. The evil has become too great to
be any longer tolerated and steps should be taken
once to provide the remedy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-02-03
THE GASLIGHT BANKS.

THE bill introduced into the State Senate by
Senator Feeney OF San Francisco, which lnvali-
dates all contracts for the deposit OF money as
a condition precedent for setting up gas meters,
should commend itself to the legislative discretion.
The measure not only makes such contracts void,
but requires corporations exacting deposits to re-
turn them on demand and failure to comply I'M
mediately with demand renders the corporation
liable to Judgment OF $500 and costs when suit IS
commenced.
We do not know that the practice OF exacting de-
posts for setting up gas meters prevails IN any other
city of the State except San Francisco, but here 1t IS
an abuse which has long been recognized by the peo-
pie There is no authority OF law for requiring these
deposits. The gas corporations merely take adVan-
tage of the hepessness OF their patrons to force the
security from them
Any person may secure gas meter as the law
now exists by serving notice in writing upon the
company which he desires to supply his house. But
this is not generally known to patrons OF the gas
corporations Their rights therefore should be fixed
by law Every gas company which demands de-
post as condition precedent to setting up meter
should be thrown open a liquidated damage suit.
Experience has shown that this is the only way IN
which the unfair practice can be abolished.
The gas companies OF this city hold constantly
$4,000 or $4,000 belonging to their patrons de-
posts They not only obtain the OF this money,
but they absorb the interest OF it altogether, There
is no stronger reason why gas company
should obtain security for its salabe wares in this
way than that grocery man. saloon-keeper, water
corporation any other person dealing in merchant
able products should do So The butchers and grocers
OF San Francisco are now at Sacramento urging the
enactment of law which will enable them to collect
their bills. They desire the passage OF statute
which will authorize them to threaten their creditors
with Imprisonment. Yet everybody is opposing their
proposition with rdicule and abuse The gas cor
porations, however allowed to obtain perfect Sc
curity for their bills by demanding deposit in adj
vance
Senator Feeney's measure, which from its provi-
sions appears to have been framed with the single
design OF putting stop this practice, should
mend itself to the Legislature. The members do
nothing calculated to elevate them in the es-
OF the people of San Francisco than the enact
ment of this bill Certainly it is reasonable and just
and is demanded by the facts of the situation.