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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-03-07
cHAuTAUouA CIRCLE PROGRAM.
Announcement is Made for Regular
Meetlnas Of Week.

The Sunaower ChautanQua VIII meet
next Monday al ESQ D m. with hFs-
GILL 1S6 \. I-swrenoe. Program.
Human Nature Club. chapter l. 2 A.
Mss sara Ross.
Map Review European Claims IN Art
ca-Miss Ladd.
Rivalry Of Nations. chapters q ze-NfrA
Wright.
Character study-Alcxandsr Mackey os
Uganda-Mrs Battin-
Homer to Theocritus chapter Z. toon-
cluded).-Nfrs. GIL
Inenr LIE Of odysseus-Mrs Evans.
Mrs. Iadd, leader.
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WHOLESALE MILLINERY HOUSE.
An Oklahoma Man Here Looking Over
Field for Such an Enterprise.

A well-known business man Of OklahO-
ma City has been in the city several times
recently looking over the field here for
the opening Of a wholesale millinery
house He IS well satisfied with the out
look in this city and VIII make his decis-
ion in few days The Eagle is informed
that the new house viii be a large one
and viii be splendid addition 10 the
wholesale interests of the city. Mem bers
Of the Commercial cubl have been fgGr-
ing with the Oklahoma man and the rela-
lions have been pleasant and from the re-
ports It seems that he VIII come hare.
Mr. ]. " Patterson night police at
Nashua. Ia. says: In January I had
very bad cold on my lungs. and used
half a dozen different cough medicines
and prescriptions from two doctors. but
grew worse al the time. finally bought
a bottle Of FOLEY'S HONEY AND
TAR and after using two-th.rds Of it.
I was entirely cured G. Gehring. 800
z. Douglas. Geo Van Werden S2s y
Main: Wichita Drug CO. 40 Z. Doug
las; Gus Saur. 524 T. Douglas
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The Alma Chautsuqua Circle WIN meet
next Monday evening. March H. az tho
residence Of Mr.. and slrs G. r. Campbell.
rs St. Francis avenue. Members rleass
notice change Of evening. fFollowing IS
the program.
Rivalry Of Nations. chapter 2 and g.
Mrs. r. b. Scott
Homer to Theocritus. chapter g. lcon-
cludedl.-Nfrs. z. a Crsmer
Paper-Llvingstone-P G. F. Camp
bell.
Roll call-selections from Highways
and Byways
Paper-T,epoid Of Belgium Mrs. O q
Eckstein.
Dr. Dorsey VIII lead the meeting.
Peerless Circle program for March Il
Roll Call-Currsnt Events
Rivalry % Nations Mrs Jones.
Life Of Odaysseua-asis Moore.
study-Human Nature Clut,-e2aptev L
Miss wiHds. chapter p Miss Hsiness
chapter 3. Mrs. Burns
Prince Of India-Dr Jones'
Elizabeth stahl. leader
Epworth Circle win meet Monday even
ing March Il ProErams
Reading Journey 81 Orient-Afiss psush-
erty
The Inner I4fe q Odysseus-sfr. orr.
The Human Nature Club chapter -
ard l2-Alrs. Piatt
Roll Call-Current Events.
Readiur-ucscriptipn 4 the Hippodrons
Miss Williams
Paper-Chry sostrorn- I.ynch-
Quiz on article in ConHfananop,s-4
Fred Pierce
Darl Oiddeid leader
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FOR A PUBLIC ICE PLANT.

6edqwick County l'eoole Wonder
What VIII be Done With Law.
The bill presented in the Kansas Iegis-
lature by Representative Babb for a
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NOW RESIDES ~ WICHITA.

'crawford House. Boston. Mass"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

house, which Sir Thomas, taking leaf out
of the Swiss Family Robinson" book. has
established amid the branches Of a tree On
his place. 1t is reached by an improvised
staircase around the trunk. and seats half
dozen comfortably. Sir Thomas gives his
women callers tea there, and there it Is,
too, that he and his little coterie of init
mate friends smoke their after-dinner
cigars.
said of him the other day:
'One of his characteristics is that he
never uses the 1-began-without-a dollar
tone. He is entirely without ostentation.
The generally accepted idea that he began
life in the depths of poverty is, however,
incorrect. though of course his beginnings
were extremely small. A man in Glasgow
who believed in his ability lent him money
enough to open a little shop there. and his
great business has grown from it. He has
often told that his first and greatest
ambition was to be able to see his mother
riding III her own carriage. and he sue
ceeded in realizing it, and in building her a
fine house to live in besides" Over Sir
Thomas desk in his office hang pictures CT
both his parents, neither of whom is now
living.
Sir Thomas is interested in reading what
is written about him. and one of his en-
poyes has the task of putting newspaper
cuttings into an deliberately bound volume
which Is destined for place in the Upton
library.
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fused He has In reality more money than
he knows what to do with, and Is glad of a
good excuse for giving. His lack Of kith
or Kin makes IL unnecessary for him to
hoard up money, and one who knows
him we'll will admit that he thirsts for
more millions. Not long since Sir Thomas
said 10 the writer: i've got money
enough. The accent was on che last word
An cmploye at "Liptons" said: EVERY
body who works for Sir Thomas likes and
respects him. He is a plain man, and he
likes plain dealing He wants every man
TO speak his mind and he detests fiattery
Like all enormously successful men, he is
a disciplinarian but he has lot Of heart
and sympathy, and have known of many
cases in which he has given a man another
chance"
At Osidge Sir Thomas Embellishments
cally speaking-hardly at all. When he
entertains on anything like lavish scale
he prefers to do it at a London restaurant
or at his club, the Marlborough. To his
country house, however, he invites his pals
as he calls them-one Is a member of par
lament. another a retired British officer
OF high social connectfons-and as might be
imagined, the time is passed without much
Formally. Sir Thomas is not a great
reader. although he has a large and we'll
selected library, but he Is especially fond
of billiards. rides a bicycle. plays golf and
bowls. besides spending lot of time with
his horses-among them several notable
trotters-to say nothing Of having pretty
and luxuriant taste in orchids. in which he
resembles Joseph Chamberlain.
One of the features of Osidge is its golf
links, the other Is wonderful summer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
The Sultan's Palace.

From Everybodys Magazine.
The Yildiz Palace at Constantinople is a
monument to fear. 1t is assassin proof
bomb proof. earthquake proof, fire proof,
microbe proof. Architects and engineers
are building and rebuilding necessarily
Some new secret retreat is always under
way. The entire domain Is surrounded by
immense wall, thirty feet high, and the
choicest troops of the empire stand guard
around it. An inner wall twelve feet thick,
with gates of iron, incloses the private
residence itself. The walls Of the sultans
dwelling are filled with armor plate in case
OF projectileS. 1t IS said that a myst erious
passage connects with ten secret bed cham
bers. forming an intricate labyrinth No
one but his body attendant knows where
the SULTAN may sleep during any particular
night. He has electric lights and tele-
phones in his own apartments. but forbids
them in Constantin )ple. Telephones might
prove handy for .onspirators, and he be-
lieves that dynamite cartridge could be
sent over a wire into the palace. He fears
electric explosions, SO Constantinople still
gets along with saslight. He hates the
word dynamo, because it sounds like dyna-
mite Balloons are tabooed. lest one should
pause over him long enough to drop
chunk of explosive. AS to the regal luxury
of the Yildiz, that is a matter of course
The domain is a small world in itself Five
thousand people live within the outer wall,
not counting a small army of workmen and
the 1909 imperial guardsmen. There are
shops. factories. arsenals, stables. a library,
museum. picture gallery, theater and even
a menagerie. The monarch loves trees. but
he keeps their branches well Topped off. so
that he can see TO the furthermost corner
of his park
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

building IN City road-home OF the coster
ana the tram Car-Or at the wonderful
cheap food palace that his money gave
10 LondUu's poor. that phrase. He IS a
plain man" describes him better than any
other.
Although his reiterated intention OF
lifting the American trophy, his wealth
and his practical philanthropy nave
brought him so prominently into the pub
lie eye. he is retiring by disposition. and
although thousands of columns have been
filled with descriptions OF his deeds aud
his personal appearance, scarcely anything
Is known Of how the man OF many plans
works and amuses himself.
The building in City road is Sir Thomas
retail headquarters, and here ii is that he
spends the best part of his time. lis CT
flee is a big. luxurious room, finished in
various expensive woods, and what light
comes in from outside filters through tall
windows of stained glass. dozen electric
bulbs supplying the additional needed
light. The office furniture consists SIM
ply of few solid-looking chairs and the
large desk, studded with electric bells at
which Sir Thomas sits. If you mounte ed
one or the chairs you could survey the
immense room adjoining, where Sir Thorn
as city clerical forces-some hundreds OF
men and giris-are ranged in long rows,
posting books. checking accounts and
humping typewriters-
Upon this scene Sir Thomas arrives pune
tually at 10 every morning. having driven
In from "Osidge." as his country place Is
called, some twelve miles out of London.
He Is In his Office practically all day. lunch
Ing Ia toe building, and 1t Is said that If
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
How the P. O. Department Experts
Read Addresses.
TWO WOMEN HERE ARE BEST At IT
Small Percentage of Mail That
Fails to Reach Proper Owner.
THE MANY TESTS APPLIED

Written for The Evening Star.
The art of deciphering nlegible writing
has been brought to high degree of per-
lection by the Post Office Department II
many of the letters that reach their des-
tinatfons in safety every day could be in
spected by the average business man who
pr:des himself on being able to read in
distinct writing he would be as little able
to detect any intelligence in the scrawls
that the guide to the delivery of the
letters as he would If they were scratch
es actually made by restless hen crossing
the paper with feet besmeared with ink
Every year the Post Office Department de-
livers thousands of letters the addresses of
which are unintelligible to the people who
receive them.
In securing this favorable result the let
tiers are submitted to number of Experts.
In every large city there is an expert
whose business it is to decipher bad writ
ing, and every day letters with addresses
so illegibie that they defy the powers of
the clerks who handle them go to this
expert. He culls out of this daily batch
all the letters the addresses of which he
can guess with a reasonable degree of
certainty, and an attempt is made to de-
liver them
The hopeless cases he throws into a bas-
ket, satisfied that they should go to the
dead letter office. and. if possible be re-
turned to their senders. Every day such
bundle of unbelievable letters Is sent to
this city from each CT the large post offices,
and during the fiscal year just ended let
tiers of that class numbered 454.SS3.
To the Dead Letter Heap.
This is not the entire number of pieces
Of mail matter that find their way into
the dead letter Office. such missives num-
bering between six and seven millions an
nually. but it is the number of letters
with illegible addresses which battle the
powers of postmasters to handle them OF
this desperate lot of 454, SS3 illegible ad-
dresses two women in this city last year
were able to cause to be delivered to the
people for whom they were intended let
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deliver letter after IL has been sent TO
some address suggested by the experts of
the department In this city. More than one
trial may have been made before these let
tiers reach the headquarters of the depart
ment here, but when they go in the hands
OF the experts they are given but one moro
trial.
SYSTEM Works Quickly.
This system of delivering badly addressed
letters does not cause as great delay as
might be supposed Every day post offices
forward unbelievable letters to the de-
partment. and these letters are culled over
and either sent to some suggested address
or TO the dead letter office promptly the
work not being allowed To accumulate
One of the clever interpretations OF an in
sufficient address was lately made. A let
ter addressed only to New York. Chicago,
Boston st. Louis was received. and II was
sent TO n. K. Fairbanks Co. Chicago, H..
opened and found to be for that company.
All the advertisements Of this company
give its address New York, Chicago Bos-
ton. st. Louis and that combination %
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you dropped in any time before 10 most
evenings you would find him still there.
One would not relish the post Of Sir
Thomas excellent secretary. He Is with
the sportsman all day. and when business
is over they drive out to "OSidge again,
where a game of billiards is the rule, but
the talk of business is carried on up to the
time of going to bed. That is usually half
past II or 1 o clock. but the men are up for
breakfast at half-past and lose no time
in getting started for the city again.
short Hours of Sleep.
Four or five hours sleep are all that Sir
Thomas ever requires, and he is usually up
and out of doors at an unearthly hour. AL
though he works so hard, and his opera
tons are upon so great a scale, he is never
weighed down or apparently harassed by
them. his CHEEKY smile seldom leaves him.
and he is always ready either to hear or
tell joke. His devotion to business APP
parently impresseS TO one who knows him
as that of a money Srubber. but one who
plays business as scientific game. Il
don't believe he has anything else to do,
said this friend-"anything else he cares to
do He has no family. no relatives. He
goes to the opera; occasionally gives a din
ner party. but / think none of these things
appeals TO him like his business
He is hardly ever absent from London.
excepting on short trips to Glasgow. Sum-
mer is the only time that he takes a holt
day, and this he devotes to yachting.
Thomas recreation. don't imagine for a
moment that business Is lost sight of be-
cause Sir Thomas Is on board the Erin.
Every important document and the details
of every matter on which 1t is necessary
for Sir Thomas to pass are sent on To him
daily. his secretary is always with him,
and he spends several hours every morning
directing how every business matter and
letter shall be dealt with"
He is still the brains of his business OF
course. it has grown beyond all thought or
chance of personal attention to It's details,
and each of his great departments is in
charge of a man in whom SIR Thomas has
confidence, and he is constantly in COM
munication with each of them, reviewing
them. as it We're, continually, making them
describe their plans of operations, perfect
ing those plans by suggestions and some
times demolishing them altogether and
marking out new line Of policy. All his
big deals. however, he plans himself.
Worth Millions Surely.
When you ask STR Thomas friends what
he is worth they gasp and hold up their
hands Pinned down. they venture, Thirty
million dollars. anyway" Naturally he Is
beset with beggars and by people with
financial axes to grind. With the first he
makes short shrift, but il charitable re-
quest has reason behind it 1t Is seldom re-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17
OH T0UWHC LIT TUN
Home Life of the Yacht Cup Chal-
lenger,
PLAIN MAN, BEST FRIENDS CALL him
In His London Office Works Ten
Hours a Day.
A MILLIONAIRE BACHELOR
PLAIN MAN, BEST FRIENDS CALL Hi
A MILLIONAIRE BACHELOR
Copyright, 1907


Written for The Evening Star by Marshall Lord
Within a few days there will land on our
shores a tall gentleman. who in his own
country is 4 knight. and who on his last
visit here was presented with a loving
cup. because he showed how to accept de-
feat gracefully. A plain man is Sir Thomas
Upton, to whom loving cup is doubtless
as gratifying as title. He may be par
doned, therefore, for taking n fancy to
other cups and wishing to carry back with
him the trophy which bears with it the
title to the International yacht champion
ship.
1t has been rather persistently limited
III the direction of obtaining possession of
the Americas cup and of philanthropy
have not been undertaken without an eye
to a possible eventual reward In the way
of some higher distinction than that of
knighthoCd. This impression can be au-
thoritativeIy contradicted, and the state
ment added that within the past year Sir
Thomas has been offered higher titular
honors and has declined them. In CONVEX
sati0n with the writer recently the yachts
man Sd sd docsively that he had no desire
for higher rank than he now enjoys
This statement was also made by an III
innate friend of Sir Thomas in talk en-
the personal side OF the grocery knight as
it is known to him. In beginning which he
remarked: He's a plain man." And
wherever you see Sir Thomas Upton.
whether it is on the deck of his yacht, or
playing golf at his country place In South
port, or in his private office in the big
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From the Atlantic.


The deeper reasons Of the law OF the
survival of dramas may not be laid down
here and now. But a good negative work.
ing day rule Of prediction can be furnish
ed 1t Is simple enough: The play which
never passes into literature. the play which,
in the cold permanency Of print, cannot
endure reading and rereading, has the
sure seed of death within it. Out Of
hundred contemporary dramas ninety are
fiat and Improbable on first perusal.
and ninety-and-nine are warranted to cause
mental nausea at a second. Take Robert
sons School" for instance, which was
performed to delighted hundreds Of thou
sands in England and America in the early
seventies. Reading 1t deliberately today Is
like absorbing gallon of weak. warmish
eau sucree, favored with the juice Of half
lemon and a small pinch of ginger. Con-
trast with that work, and with the works
of it's quality, the half hundred tragedies
and comedies which remain to US from the
Greeks of the fifth and fourth centuries
before Christ The newest of these plays
are two thousand two hundred years old:
they are written in a dead language: they
have the atmosphere of a remote land and
an alien age and civilization; yet they still
receive the quick sympathy and command
the reverent admiration of the world.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-08-17

From the Monthly Review.


Although situate sixty miles from the
open sea. London has been from early ages
the principal seaport of the United King
dom. in late years becoming one OF the
greatest centers Of commerce the world has
ever known. The great river which serves
her. some $50 miles in length Is navigable
by barges for about 200 miles. and by an
elaborate system Of connecting canals main
tains free communication for waterborne
traffic with most Of the interior counties Of
Great Britain. OF late years, however,
many causes have operated to lower her
pride Of place The construction of the Suex
canal in 1866 struck a heavy blow at her
supremacy. Formerly the bulk of eastern
produce was carried in British ships to Lon
don by the old Cape route, but after the
construction Of that canal foreign ships be-
gan to compete seriously with British for
the carriage of eastern goods; and continent
tai nations saw and seized their opportunity.
The seaports Of Havre, Antwerp, Client and
Hamburg were developed and increased at
the expense Of London and became her most
active competitors. In Great Britain. Liver
pool. Southampton, Hull, Manchester and
other ports were developed and increased.
In the same year the successful Inaugural
ton of submarine teegraphy inflicted a
serious blow to the preponderance of Lon
don. Prior to its Introduction the merchant
princes Of London had practically the mo-
nopoly of direct knowledge as to crops in
India, China, Ceylon, &c, and by consign-
ing the produce to London had been enabled
to control the market supplies, and, indi-
rectly, market prices. Telegraphy, by dis
seminatng such information broadcast, put
an end to this monopoly. While all this
competition necessarily resulted in the low
ering of rates on shipping and on produce,
expenses in London were increasing by
leaps and bounds. Heavy taxation, the
high price of labor lowing to the dock
strike), all added their quota to the diff
culties under which London labored. For
eign bounty-fed warehouses brought about
further reductions in charges Moreover
the constantly increasing size of steamers
added fresh difficulties. The Thames, pc
culiarly liable to silt at her mouth. required
deep dredging. The river authorities being
too numerous and lacking in concentration
have barely kept up with the times, and
London is now face to face with the need
of heavy expenditure, estimated at two
millions sterling, for this item alone.
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Rousseau and the ImDOstOr.


The famous Jean jacques Rousseau,
though not strong moral character, pos
sessed IN an eminent degree the virtue of a
broad human sympathy. 1t was. indeed.
probably the consciousness of his own
weaknesses that made him so sympathetic
toward others. An anecdote Is related Of
MIN which places this virtue of his In q
strong light. On one occasion he had COM
posed an opera which was performed be-
fore the king, Louis XIV, and met with the
royal approval. The king sent for him.
ana II he had put in appearance he
would probably have obtained a pension
he was however, of retiring disposition,
and could not bring himself to face the
court. To his friends he gave as a reason
MS republican opinions, but his real rea-
son was his shyness. Accordingly he fled
from the court and sought the privacy of
country inn. While he was there a man
came in who began telling the company
that he was the celebrated Rousseau. and
proceeded to give an account of the opera.
which he said had been performed before
the king with great success. Most men in
Rousseau's position would have felt nothing
but contempt for the impostor but this ex-
traordinary man felt only pity and shame
Il trembled and blushed So" he tells us in
his Confessions" "for fear the man
should be found out that it might have
been thought that ! was the impostor" He
was afraid that somebody might come in
who knew him and expose the pretender
AT last he could bear 1t no longer and
Slipped out unobserved. Very few people
would treat an impostor like that.