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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-30
Kansas and Oklahoma Live Stock
Commission Company.

Stock Exchange Bldg, Wichita Kan.
incorporated
We are prepared TO look after the in
terests Of our customers in the most care
ful manner. Our salesman. Mr. II. H
Cole, has had many years Of experience.
We make specially OF stockers and
feeders Market quotations furnished up
on request.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-30
POULTRY AND SWINE.

Barred Plymouth Rocks. Partridge
Cochins. Buzz Orhngtons. White Tur-
keys and Guineas. Rouen Ducks, regis
tered Poland-China swine Prize-win-
ners- All kiads of hog and poultry rem
edies. Send for ILLUSTRATED catalogue,
free. Otto Weiss. I03 S. Rock Island
Avenue. Wichita. kan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
Status Of
BOer War
British Troops Are in Splendid Condition. But More
Are Needed-Stran of Officers
Intense.

swer their letters, who VIII insist on
having his own habits and on living
according to his own light and not ac-
cording to the light of another.
We have recently had temperance
president who has been called a drunk
ard because some one said he saw him
drink glass of champagne at dinner.
DenialS of the truth of the statement
merely whetted the appetite for OBJ
jurgation. And now we have another
president very abStemious man, who
receives letters nearly every dag whose
writers express the regret that we
have a "winebibber'' in the White
House. These letters, we are told, are
not answered, but reply was sent to
the woman who reminded the presi-
dent of the commandment, "Six days
shalt thou labor" and then lectured
him for Sabbath breaking. The reply
was written by Secretary Cortelyou
and was this:
81 am directed by the president to
say that he goes to church on Sunday
morning and takes his wife and chill
dren into the country Sunday after
noon.
''To which of these occupations do
you object?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
The German Police.

& stranger in Germany soon makes
ene acquaintance of the police, little
as he may desire it. You have benn in
Germany week, more or less, when
the policeman calls. At first you can
not believe that he is really after you,
and then your mind runs back guilty
over your past. He takes out his little
book-one of a small library of little
books which he carries in his blouse
and inquiries your age, your nationality
and how long you intend to stay.
You learn subsequently that record
Of every person in the empire is care
fully kept, with full details as to his
occupation, material wealth and social
standing. If you move into n new
house, you must notify the police; If
you move out, you must notify the po-
lice; if you hire a servant girl, you
must purchase a yellow blank and re-
port the fact, the girl also making a
report. When she leaves, you must
send in a green blank stating why she
is dismissed, where she is going and
SO on.
If you fail in any of these multitu-
dinous requirements of the govern
ment-and 1 have mentioned only q
few of them-there is n fine to pay,
each fine graduated to the enOrmity
of the offense. There are offenses
graded as low as 2 cents.-Independe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
New Species of otter.

Way down in South America. from
Guiana to Argentina, there has been
discovered the ariranha, recognized as
the largest species of the otter. 1t
grows to a length of five feet. The
oldest thing about it is that it's skin
seems to be much too large for its
body, says the Philadelphia Times. In
Iiveliness it surpasses even the playful
seal. An ariranha has been tanned and
has hound for its playfellow. At a
certain hour the captive goes to the
door of its cage and there whines and
yells until turned loose in the garden.
where it rushes around, barking joy
ously. 1t deftly catches the fish thrown
to it and skillfully prevents the dog
from appropriating any of the food.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
Conscience Money.

Conscience money" in Great Britain
now amounts to thousands of pounds
annually. The first sum noticed was
on March 80, 1850, when EGO was car
ried to the public account in conse-
Quence of Il note received by the chan
cellor. The writer with troubled soul
implored him. '-as an honest man, to
consider the money the property of the
nation and to be so just as to apply
it to the use of the state in such n
manner that the nation may not suffer
by its having been detained and thus
to ease the conscience of an honest
man."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28

gators, whether they have taken de-
grees or not, to prosecute researches
in Washington and elsewhere. He ac-
cepts the idea that the scientific bu-
reaus of Washington will heartily CO.
operate in opening the facilities which
they possess to the qualified investi-
gator and student. am confident that
he does not contemplate the establish
ment of a university in the ordinary
acceptance of that term.
His plans are so broad and so wise
that when they are made known it will
be acknowledged at home and abroad
that in this latest act of munificence he
has surpassed himself. 1t is not the
amount of his gift, though that Is
princely, which will be most appre-
ciated, but the method and agencies
which he will set in motion for the adj
vancement of knowledge with a single
eye to the benefit of this country and
of mankind"
President Ira Remsen of Johns Hop
kins university said: The announce
ment of Mr.. Carnegie's generous gift
was by no means unknown to me, but
1 must confess 1 do not understand
the reference made to the future Sc
lection of a site at Washington and to
the magnificent buildings which are to
be erected. l was under the impress
sion that no university buildings were
to be erected, but that the fund was
to be used for promoting higher edu-
cation at various educational centers."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
NEW MEMCANs FOOLED.
Saw "GambIe" over the Senator'S
Door and Wanted n Game.


Down in the basement of the capitol
at Washington there is n row of COM
mittee rooms used by members of the
senate and house who cannot get bet
ter ones up stairs. Over the door of
each room is painted the name of the
occupant. Senator Gamble of North
Dakota, while waiting for the senate
painter to prepare him n sign, printed
the word Gamble" in sprawly capt.
tai letters on u large sheet of paper
and pasted it on the frosted glass door.
Three visitors from New Mexico
wandered past the other afternoon
reading the signs on the doors, says the
New York World. When they came TO
Senator CANDLES room, with its pa
per sign, one of them nudged another
and said. Lets go in and look her
over" They opened the door and
walked in, to the establishment of q
mild hammered young man at work at
a typewriter. The three New Mexi-
cans stood together near the door and
looked around. Finally one of them
said, where's it?'
where's what?" asked the young
man at the typewriter.
"Why, the layout or the wheel?
What's the game. and how much is n
stack?
Il don't understand you" said the
young man at the typewriter.
'Aw, that's all right" said one of the
party. Were all right too. Open up,
and Wen take chance"
By this time the young man was be-
ginning to think the visitors Were era
~. He protested that he did not know
what the New Mexicans meant, and
they, after whispered conversation,
stalked out into the hall.
"Guess our game amt good enough
for him." was the only comment made.
''But it says Gamble on the sign, sure
enough"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
when Time Hangs Heavily.

Time is never wasted until it hangs
heavily on our hands," when you are
neither working nor enjoying yourself.
There may be times when it suits
ones mood to loaf and invite ones
SOUL" but they are rare nowadays. If
you don't believe it, consider how the
average citizen spends his vacation.
Most people work harder and econO-
mize their vacation time more grudg-
ingly in getting the most out of it than
they do in any other part of the year.
They hate to lose n minute of enjoy
ment.
OF course there are times-every day
when time seems absolutely wasted,
and these are the times when mems
tempers are on edge and things go
crosswise. Chief among this list of
wasted and monotonous intervals IS
the time spent in waiting for a car, in
travelling on it after you get it, in wait
ing for meals. in Tuning over dilatory
appointments or by reaching there too
soon. Other instances are where the
bore buttonholes you and insists with
excessive eloquence I'm stringing n
three line item into n two column tale.
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
HALO OF HEvELIUs is RARE
st. Louis Astronomer Talks OF I'M
usual Phenomenon.

st. Louis Astronomer Talks OF I'm
usual Phenomenon.
'The great halo of Hevelius observed
recently at Cleveland, o." said the
Rev. NJ. s. Brennan, lecturer on astron-
omy at st. Louis university, to a re-
porter Of the st. Louis Republic, the
other day, sis phenomenon remarka-
bic only for its rarity. 1t is produced
by the same condition that gives US
rainbows, parhelia, paraselena, sun
dogs and q number of other haloS about
the sun and moon.
'All these are caused by light both
reflected and refracted by vesiculous
clouds - that is. clouds which carry
small particles of water. In these the
light is separated as in a prism, the
white rays of the sun or moon coming
forth in bars showing all the colors of
the spectrum That is refraction If
this is then reflected upon the earth, it
is visible to us. We then see the vari-
Gus phenomena / have mentioned.
''The common sun ring, or halo, is at
a distance of % degrees. There is an
other, less common, at distance of 46
degrees. The third, very rare indeed.
at a distance of 80 degrees, is that first
accurately described by Hevelius about
the time of Galilei. though observed
previously. This has been seen since
its description only seven times until
the recent observation of the Rev. Fred
ericl, Odenbach of st. Ignatius' college
in Cleveland.
Though this observation has not yet
been reported officially, have no doubt
it was substantially correct as related
in the press dispatches. The atmospher-
ic conditions over the country are now
in a state calculated to exhibit such
phenomena. This great halo may not
be seen again in hundreds of years, or
it might possibly appear every day for
8. week"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
MOVING SIDEWALK URGED.
Novel Underground System Suggest
ed to Relieve Paris Streets.

novel, OnhorSr0unn system suggest
ed to Relieve Paris Streets.
| A novel plan to relieve the congested
condition of Paris streets has just been
submitted at a meeting of prominent
engineers which was held to discuss
further improvements in public trans
Dortation. NJ. Cassalonga, well known
civil engineer, suggested that an under
ground moving sidewalk similar to that
ut the Paris exposition of 1900, but
much larger, be constructed. Accord
| ing to his plan. there would be four
platforms. each moving at a different
rate of speed from the others. the fast
est going at the rate of thirteen miles
an hour.
NJ. CaSsalonga convinced his hearers
that such a scheme would be cheaper
than an electric underground railway
and that it would multiply greatly the
accommodation of the public. He said
to the Paris correspondent OF the Chi
cago Daily News:
part of the platform might be given
up to the use of heavy teams, the city
thus gaining both from an aesthetic
and a pecuniary point of view, since
the paving department would save
hundreds of thousands of francs annu-
ally by the reduction of wear on the
street surfaces. / am sure also that the
public would prefer the rolling side
walk to stuffy cars, not to mention the
elimination of danger from collision"
Plans and estimates of the curious
undertaking were submitted recently
to the traction committee of the mU-
nicipal council. members of which re-
ported that they were vastly attracted
by the idea. provided electric power for
1t would not prove too costly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
A New English Author.

The traveller who happens to be
weather bound at Perugia may find
some amusement in the library of one
of the leading hotels. Among the con-
tents of the shelves there IS a consid-
cradle sprinkling Of English books;
but, to the visitors surprise, a large
proportion of these are by mysterious
author. Bart" of whose name he is
probably ignorant. But when he finds
that Bart has written "Ivanhoe" and
'The Last Days of Pompeii'' the key to
the mystery is discovered. The local
binder has taken the authors title for
his name. and Sir Walter Scott and
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton are credit
ed with but one personality between
them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
HUGE RAIL WAY COMBINE
Details of Plan Advanced by
Paul Morton.
NATIONAL OWNERSHIP SUGGESTED

Vice President of the Santa Fe Sys-
versity, Favored the Consolidation
of All Lines In the United States.
Plea For Pooling.
Consolidation of all the railway lines
of the country under the control Of a
| single corporation, either private or
public, was advanced by Vice Presi-
dent Paul Morton of the Santa Fee
System the other evening as the ultl-
mate solution of the weighty trans
portation problems that are at present
veXing the business world.
This, Mr.. Morton declared, is the re-
suit toward which the large railway
systems, driven by the legal restric-
tons on pooling, which work against
their business interests, are now rap
idly tending.
He impaired these views on the SUBJ
ject in n lecture on "Some Railway
Problems" delivered before the stu
dents and faculty of the University Of
Chicago in Cobb hall, Chicago, says
the New York Journal
Whether the ownership of the con-
solidated lines would remain in the
hands Of private individuals or be TAX
en- over by the national government
Mr.. Morton expressed himself as I'M
able to foretell, but that consolidation
itself was bound to come in the near
future he stated as certain from pres
ent conditions in the railway world
and the underlying tendencies of mod
ern Industrial progress.
'"The best minds of the business
world are engaged today" said Mr..
Morton, ''in working out plans for the
further consolidation of industrial op-
erations under great corporations. The
same tendency is at work in the rail
way world.
Under the present laws there is a
great deal of unlawful pooling done in
secret, and it is remarkable that there
is not more.
az see only three solutions to the
problems which are at present vexing
the railroad world. These are:
"First.-Legalizing of legitimate pool
ing.
Observation-Disclosures of ownership Of
all the railway systems.
"'Third.-Government ownership and
management.
81 have always been in favor of le-
Ultimate pooling Its absence, as say,
is at present Fastening the consolida-
ton of interests between the different
railroads. Personally 1 view the solu-
ton of unity of ownership as much bet
ter than legalized pooling. and l do not
see any harm that would ensue from
a consolidation of all the railway in
tereStS of the country under n single
private management.
"a vast amount of money could be
saved under such n system of control,
and the railroad management would
certainly give part of this gain to the
public in the shape of lower rates and
better service"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
BIG RAILWAY STATION HOTEL
There VIII he One In New YorlS's
New Pennsylvania Depot.

New Pennsylvania Depot.
In addition to being n novelty,
through it's possession of underground
trackage, the projected union station
of the Pennsylvania Railroad company
will be the first building OF it's kind in
or around New York to hold hotel,
says the New York Herald.
1t will be on the west or Eighth ave
nue. side OF the. big station. The great
structure will be five and one-half
stories above ground. There will be
two stories below ground, leading to
and providing for the tracks. y pas
senger entering the building on the east
side will walk down n long incline to
the first story, eighteen feet under
ground.
Ticket offices and waiting rooms will
probably be placed on the ground floor,
but some of the ticket offices are eX-
pected to be on the underground floor.
On that floor will be n wide gallery
overlooking the tracks. From it pas
sengers will descend sixteen feet by
stairways to the train platforms. Pro-
vision is to be made for carriage drives
down to the level of the long gallery
over the tracks.
The Long Island road will occupy the
north half of the station and the Penn
sylvania the south section. a simple
switching arrangement provides for the
receipt of trains on the outside
tunnels and their dispatch by the
Thirty-second street lines. The Thir-
ty-second and Thirty-first street tubes
can be used for direct traffic, such as
through trains to Long Island points
from Philadelphia or places farther
west and for through trains from cities
south of New York for New England
points.
Two express trains that are the pride
of the Pennsylvania road-the Federal
and the ColOnial-which run from Bos-
ton to Washington and vice versa with
out change. will undoubtedly go
through this tunnel when the new He'll
Gate bridge is completed and connec-
ton established by it between the Long
Island and the New York, New Haven
and Hartford roads. These trains are
now ferried around New York and
make no stop in that city.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
ANNOYING THE PRESIDENT,
Reply Sent to a Woman Who Lee
tured Him For Sabbath Breaking.

Among the annoyances of presi-
dents life are the intrusions of well
intentioned people upon his private
and personal affairs, says Harper's
Weekly. He is the common property
of the nation. He has no home, or as
little of one as the public is compelled
to leave him. He is worse off than any
private citizen in the country in this
respect, for when he and his wife ask
some friends to call on them on a GER
tain day of the week persons who are
not asked and who do not know them
accept the invitation which was not
given them and go also. Not so an
noying perhaps are the people who
open upon the president as teachers of
personal morality. They have no deli
icacy. They rush in where they are
not asked. and they insist that now the
president is in the White House he
shall conform his life to theirs, shall
live as they think is right and is a
monster of iniquity if he does not ac-
cept their tutelage. There is not a
president who has escaped them, and
there never will be until we have
score or so of presidents each of whom
will not heed them. who will not an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
HiDA DIAMONDIN HIS MOUTH
Convict Kept Stolen Treasure In n
Qufd of Tobacco.

Convict Kept Stolen Treasure In n
Quid of Tobacco.
Thomas Connors, burglar from In
ion county, who is TO serve seven years
in the state prison at Trenton, n. J.,
has just been forced to give up n miss
ing diamond which he kept for some
months concealed in n quid of tobacco
that he had constantly in his mouth.
When he was on trial in Elizabeth
the prosecutor located all the stolen
property but one diamond, which could
not be found, says the New York
Times. When he was transferred to
the state prison to serve his sentence,
Head Keeper Moore of the state prison
was informed about the missing dia-
mond.
ConnorS had his official bath the 9TH
er day, and the underkeeper was in
structed to be sufficiently active to
make him turn over the stone. While
in the bath stream of cold water was
played on his face, which forced him
to remove n quid of tobacco which he
held in his mouth. This was taken
away from him, and in it was found
the missing gem.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
SURPRISED BY BOLOMEN.
How Unnrmed American Soldiers
Defeated Number of FiIipInos.

How Unnrmed American Soldiers
Defeated n Number of FIIipInOs.
Interesting details are drifting in Of
the bravery of the soldiers surprised
and massacred at Balangiga. writes
the Manila correspondent of the New
York Evening Post. Prodigies of valor
were performed by some of the men,
armed with table knives, stones, clubs
or other rude weapons. y hospital
corps man is credited with killing elev~
en- natives with n shovel, while anoth-
er man beat out the brains of four
bolomen with baseball bat before he
went down. 4 sergeant of Company
@ and six men fought their way to the
headquarters building to rescue the
officers if possible. The officers were
all dead, but the little squad held its
ground until it had hauled down and
saved the flag, when it fought its way
back to the beach and sailed away.
One explanation of how so many
men with boloS could be so near the
quarters of the troops is that between
100 and 200 natives were employed
to clear the surrounding grounds.
These men were furnished by the pres
idente of the village, and they were
permitted to carry their bolos, as part
of their work was the cutting of I'M
derbrush. These were the men who,
on a preconcerted signal, threw them
selves on the unarmed soldiers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
cARNEeIE's BROAD PLAN.
DIR. Gilman and DIR. Remsen Talk of
the Proposed University Gift.


Andrew Carnegie's latest gift has
created widespread interest in Balti-
more. Some of ex-President Gilman's
friends advanced the theory that he
would be rendered the direction of the
new work.
DR.. Gilman said the other afternoon
of the proposed new work to re-
porter of the Philadelphia Press: Il
am quite unable to give any detailed
information respecting Mr.. Carnegie's
purposes, for all that have known of
them is quite confidential have rea-
son to believe that the principal facts
as stated are quite correct 1t is for
him and not for any of his friends to
tell the conditions under which he pro-
poses to make this gift
80 far as know his plans they are
likely to be of character which viii
benefit all the higher institutions OF
learning in this country and will en-
COURAGE advanced students and invest-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
AN ALBINO QUAIL.
Rare Bird Presented to New York
ZnnInrIcnI nnrI- H. IEnnsnn

Rare Bird Presented to New York
Geological Park by Kansan.
Charles Payne of Wichita, Kan, has
presented to the New York geological
park pure albino quail caught recent
ly in southern Oklahoma, says the New
York Times. Among quail albinism is
extremely rare.
Mr.. Payne. who has handled several
hundred thousand quail for restocking
game preserves, expresses the opinion
that of every 100000 quail not more
than one is an albino. The new bird
is kept in the aquatic birds house in
one of the western wall cages, where
it attracts much attention.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
CHURCH FUND STAMP ISSUE
Methodists Plan to Raise Money For
Twentieth Century Offering.

MethOdists Plan to Raise Money For
Twentieth Century Offering.
The Methodists of New York have is
sued 100000 in stamps, to be sold to
Sunday school scholars as souvenirs
in return for money collected for the
twentieth century million dollar thank
offering, says the New York Evening
Journal. The Rev. Ezra Triple devised
and issued the stamps in one, two, five,
ten and twenty cent denominations,
The government agreed to allow the is
sue in bronze, which color is not used
by Uncle Sam.
Vignettes of famous Methodists are
printed on the stamps, the denOmina-
lions being shown in large figures,
while at the top of each stamp is the
legend, Twentieth Century Thank Of
fering Fund" and The Methodist Epis-
copal Church, New York City," at the
bottom.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1901-12-28
Presidents Method of Entertnining

President Ko0seVeIts lavish enter
tanning at the White House is COM
mented on by many of the members
of congress, says the Washington cor
respondent of the New York World. A
man was in Washington recently who
had two luncheons and n dinner there
at the presidents earnest request.
LUCKY chapw said an envious repre-
sentative. "He came here ON n rail-
road pass, and he's got n meal ticket
at the White House."