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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-22

man Of the diocese became impoverished
so as to be unable 10 provide dowries for
his three beautiful daughters. The bish-
op at night threw three heavy purses Of
gold in to the open window OF the bed
f chamber occupied by the girls. He wish
/ ed the benefsction 70 be secret. but he
was discovered in the act So far as can
( be understood it was owing wholly 20 his
numerous good deeds that ST. Nicholas
! became the Christmas god IN some coun-
tries ana was eventually mixed up IN
identity with corresponding divinities else
/ where. such as Kriss Kringle and Santa
Claus.
IN Italy Christmas is celebrated with
wonderful pageants and at Naples there
( is one street in which nearly every shop
is devoted to the manufacture or sale OF
holy images. mostly for Christmas festlv-
tiles. The church during the middle ages
gave many dramatic representations OF
divine legends, and one Of the most pop
Ular was the Christmas story Illustrating
the birth Of Christ IN fact. this psrtic-
uiar mystery play is today given in no
man Catholic and Lutheran churches al
over Europe. though the conversations or
old times among the principal characters
are omitted. Movable figures are used
which nod and kneei. and the three wise
men offer their gifts in a lifeliSe manner
In Russia Christmas is celebrated hv
professions Of Children. with boz AZ the
head bearing sacred symbol represent
ing the star n the East. The symbol Is
paper lantern cut into star form and
mounted On the end ~ a stick Next
comes another boy with small painted
theater on his hack. At the same aeason
boys disguised a. animals and held On
leash bv their companions q from house
~ house. giving grotesgue eurertaia-
rnents. The stcrk and bear are the crea-
torres principally portrayed
IN accordance with another Russian
Christmas custom slgt tree fs ser ur
in the house er See atief ofe.al of
ueighborhood and ettrs ea6v 81 aFlie5.
Az si4nel AZ The Unmarried uosaea -
ald s.t lnon benches Us la .rrseeei nlaee.
their iaces AID SHOULDERS svsf,4ed in Ea-
go. ard aEler q time youas ne. are 3D.
Ia.tfcd ore hy ore E.ach yoeth Ia core
zifer=i % r. hethroined ~ fhe sara fge7n
whose tEeN - iifts tas Tel4 a-d 500
81 neut thas nsate cannot % broken
without naFmeat - g heasy aae a. tha
village f1ra x NAY be takaa for grant
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the gigs fnan4re to llaicate sts'r slert.fT
81 - 81 p-er.Hr ASK F1r1 rais-axs l1
such Faeagense1ts ere s-iar rrsea
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-22

fun face, her profile, her three-quarter
back of her head, and Jack, seeing it,
vas filed with foreboding.
In the event that she should choose
another hat after his admission TO the girl
that ne liked the one with the feather.
about how small we fael2 It was difficult
TO speculate. Strengthening himself UP
manfully, he braced himself for the cdeai,
bu. MS countenance reflected as many
times almost as that Of the woman, took
on an expression which bcrdered Upon
sadness.
after a long period Of cogitation the
woman spoke
with huge black feather sianting
like sail in a gale said she. I'll look
as if I was always blowing one way. Here
take I of Put on the velvet one with
the rosebuds. I ike that best I went
have any other. Here's the money. Put
my old hat in a nice big box and send it
I VIII wear this one home"
The girl took off the feathered hat. She
replaced it by the hat of the rosebuds.
She took tho name and address down IN a
little notebook. Then she went out into
the larger room for change. As she
passed him Jack thought he detected in
her eye look sonewhat akin to pity
The woman again minutely examining
her reflections in the mirrors. happened
to take q glance AZ few OF his races
pictured there.
What's the matter with you?' she
asked. startled What makes you look
so woe-begone2"
He thoughtfully and silently picked at
a stray travelling that had caught on the
lapel of his coat. He was upon the eve
Of saying: Since you selected your own
hat ard in all probability started out with
the full intention Of selecting It, why in
the name Of common sense did you bring
me with you at ALP" but coming to the
conclusion that a discussion OF any sort
was hardly worth entering into at 50
final a stage of the game he said in
stead:
Nothing is the matter with me. Moth
ing at all"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-12-22
LETTER LIST.

List of letters remaining in the post
office at Wichita Kansas, and advertised.
for the week ending December %. 1901, as
not called for:
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
FLoRIDA's ORANGE CROP.
Some Predict That the Total VIII BE
100000 Boxes.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. Oct. 2O.-Flor-
ida's orange yield this year will be about
10000 boxes. according to the best esti-
mates made now. The fruit is fine and
some say that the yield will be 1900 go
boxes. Many people have come into south
Florida since the freeze from :he north
eru part Of the State. and they have ac-
quired small groves. which have been en-
larged, so that the orange growing acre
age is increasing each year. What were
4 few years ago small and insignificant
groves are rapidly becoming large and
important. Said a prominent railroad
man yesterday after 4 trip through the
orange section:
In my Judgment. the orange crop Of
Hillsboro. Manatee and De Soto Counties
alone will amount to 100 go boxes. There
Is the good crop in Lee County. too. Many
groves that had from 80 to 70 per cent
Of russets last year will not have more
than IS or 20 per cent this year | saw
magnificent fruit in the country around
st. Petersburg, Wauchula and Arcadia
All the fruit seems wen matured. the
color is good and the number of brfghts
will be greater than ~ has been in years"
The first carload sent off this week was
for Burlington, Iowa. Two go to New
York next week. A larger number of
oranges Will be sold on the trees this
year than heretofore. The crop in the
Indian River region is also said to be
good.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
The Historical Novel.

1t is interesting TO note that the food
Of historical novels with which the long
suffering American public has been af-
aicted Of late appears TO be decreasing.
II is not yet known what will take the
place Of this form of fiction, but we
have at least the consolation of know
ing that whatever it is it cannot be
much worse.
Scott could blend fact with romance
In pleasing manner, and SO could some
novelists who came after him. The
practice Of making readable stories out
of history has nearly superseded the
much older art of writing history so
that the reader cannot distinguish the
truth from a lie. This art is. If not
obsolete, at least obsolescent sirce
court historians have become a thing
Of the past and libeled personages have
been privileged To contradict their
slanderers without danger of having
their heads sliced off. But the faculty
of lying is too interesting and useful
to the human race to be allowed 10 fall
into disuse. Debarred from writing his
tory as a lie, the Honorable Society of
the Sons and Daughters OF Hcrodotus
h.ls taken unto itself the privilege of
mi King truth and falsehood in the form
&C the historical novel.
4 part Of this development is due TO
The Washington times., 1901-10-21

At such times the very poor are most
likely to become discouraged. especially
if the disturbing cause is illness. 1t is
not comforting to realize that, while
struggling back to health, one must
save enough to pay the Doctors bill.
arrears of rent, and other expenses in
Cured during illness out of wages
which have never afforded any surplus
after things needful for comfort were
bought If there is n small sum in the
savings bank, accumulated during days
of comparative prosperity. as a matter
of pride. or If the money for current eN-
penses during the hard times has been
borrowed from some one who can ar
ford to wait. it goes far toward solV-
ing the problem.
Another matter in which organized
charity mas been especially useful Is in
preventing fraud. Many of those who
apply for aid to some rich person do
so in the comfortable security that the
philanthropIst has not time to invesu-
gate their stories and see that what
they say is false The present system.
however, provides an agent in each
district of the town. who makes busi-
ness of investigating cases of alleged
destitution, giving aid where il is neccs-
sary, and warning the generous against
the professional mendicant whose story
proves a cunningly devised falsehood.
1t is obvious that II all fraudulent
cases are absolutely cut OFF from re
ceiv.ng help through organized charity
or private aid there will be just SO
much more money for the deserving.
There viii also be many more contribu-
tions from well-to-do people who now
refuse to give because they are not sure
that the money will be well used.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
PERSONAL.

DR.. NJ Kuhara and DR.. II. Muraoka. of
Kioto, Japan. professors in the University
of Kioto, are in this country studying
educational conditions here. They are to
pursue like enquiries in Germany. Or.
kuhara is a graduate Of Johns Hopkins
University and DR.. Muraoka of the Uni
versity of Berlin.
The Carnegie Museum, Of Pittsburg, has
received from Andrew Carnegie a silver
model of Santa Maria, Columbus flag
ship. Mr. Carnegie saw the model in
Glasgow where it was on exhibition. 1t
cost $1,000.
The Rev. Mr. Sheldon. of Kansas. is
writing novels which he reads in manu-
script to mis- congrt cation.
Ex-Gov. Il. r. Sherman. Of Iowa,
says for his State that it has larger per-
centage of school teachers to scholars in
the public schools than any other Com
monweaIth in the Union. There are in
round numbers 5000 school teachers in
the State and $4,000 school children
The oldest drummer in the United
States is Col. h. Du Laurens. who travels
for an lux house. lie is seyenty-nine
years old, and for thirty-four years has
been known to printers all over the coun-
try. The colonel earned his title in the
French army, with which he fought In
the Crimea.
rhe ranks Of the Oldest family of five
brothers in Pennsylvania were broken last
Tuesday by the death of John F. Ingram.
eighty-one years old. at Elllview, Chester
County The combined ages of the five
brothers Feach.d 900 years, ranging from
seventy six TO eighty-four
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
Organized Charity.

The annual reports of the Citizens
Relief Association and the Associa ted
Charities afford some interesting in
formation on the chief needs of the poor
an this city and the way in which re-
lief has been given. 1t has been the OBJ
ject OF the workers To aid the poor to
support themselves SO far as possible.
In pursuance Of this plan, stamp say
ings books have been issued, and In
other cases applicants have been lent
money without interest, which they
have repaid.
This matter Of money TO tide over
extraordinary emergencies is one of the
most serious problems for the pcor and
the charitable alike. When a man has
a family to support out Of small wages
it is easy to see that every cent OF the
income may be used for things which
seem absolutely necessary. The family
must have shelter, food, clothing and
fuel, and it often seems impossible to
save anything without continually de-
priving all members of the family of
something necessary to health or self
respect Then some sudden emergency.
sickness. loss Of work, or other unfore-
seen calamity uses up the small savings
which have been laid aside and makes
II necessary to ask aid sooner or later.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
LoCUSTS DUE IN JERSEY.
Farmers Warned Against the Seven
teen-Yenr Variety

NEW BRUNSWICK, N. j.. Oct. %
Prof John b. Smith. State Entomologist.
has sent a warning out to different parts
of the State advising farmers to be on
their guard against the periodical cica-
da more commonly known as the seven
teen year locust. which is due to appear
hereabouts next summer. This brood is
numerous and destructive and was re-
corded as being injurious in 1855, the date
of its last appearance, in Middlesex, Mon
mouth. Mercer. Camden, Burlington. Pas
sale, Morris, Hunterdon. Warren, Somer-
set, and Sussex counties. The exact limits
cannot be defined and fruit growers in
these counties are cautioned to be on their
guard
To avoid injury farmers are advised not
to set out young orchards either this fall
or in the spring II they can avoid 1t. II
they do set out orchards they should
leave as many shoots and branches as
possible, on which the insects may lay
eggs without harm to the tree itself.
These branches may then be trimmed out
early in July, when all danger is passed.
Fruit trees or others. and shrubs, should
not absolutely required. should not be
trimmed at all. No budding or grating
should be done either in the fall of 1901
or next spring, as growing buds and
Where sparrows flock in great numbers
the danger Of injury is much reduced.
Those whose trees suffered last summer
from the plague of caterpillarS may
breath a sigh of relief. for State Ento-
mologist Smith assure. them that there Is
no danger of another invasion hereabouts
next summer. He has discovered that a
small parasite has been killing off all the
cocOOns in which the caterpillars wrap
themselves during the winter months.
This parasite strongly resembles a fly,
but has many features common to the
small spider.
Before the caterpillar ratires to its c.
coon. the fly lays one egg on it. In the
course of time this egg matches out the
grub of the fly, which feeds on the cater
pillar inside.
Prof. Smith has several bottles of these
cocons in his laboratory in which he has
raised some of these parasites. Many of
the cocoons with which he has been ex-
perimenting are now empty and the para
site has bored its way out of the ball.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21

that universal education which has al
lowed everybody chance to delve into
the records of by-gone days. 1t would
appear. from some specimens OF the his
torical fiction of the last two or three
years. that chronicles like old wine, are
apt to affect the brain disastruusly. The
theory that old wine shall not be put
into new bottles applies to the stutiing
of modern American brains with the
contents of musty and tradiuOn-laden
European libraries. 1t Is, broadly
speaking. impossible FOR the average
high school graduate to Know how a
cavalier or priest Of the time Of
Thothmcs IL conducted himself, and he
ought not TO try to tell other people.
The difficulty of such case Of
thought is increased Wien.
in addition to his ignorance of history
and poverty of imagination, the novel
list does not know how to use his own
language. Some of the writer's OF these
works Of fiction seem to have left off
splitting hndlinE wood In order 10 take
up the work of splitting inGnitives. and
they should have been taught in their
school days that while subdivision Of
woodpiles ia laudable. the divorce of
two words meant to stay together is
not. In the old days the student of
oxford or Cambridge was required to
write. speak. and possibly to think in
Latin, and considering the difficulties
which the Anglo Saxon mind enCuun-
ters In learning to use a tongue SO alien
to all the forms of English grammar.
II is perhaps not strange that the exi-
gencies of the case caused a sort OF
patois to grow up. known to the vulgar
as hog Latin. The author Of the Mid
die Ages, toiling over his chronicles,
which were written and copied all by
hand. might have been excused for hog
Latin If he ever used it, but there is
no excuse Tor hog English on the part
of ovelist. 1t is his mother tongue,
and he should learn to use it before
attempting anything as ambitious as
book.
These faults are to a certain extent
avoided or pailiated when the story
written deals with modern life and ev
eryday things. Every honest. earnest
attempt TO record life as it is may be
of value to the historian of the future.
But the attempt of a half-educated
to depict life in France
in the day Of Louis XIV or America
under King George is absolutely value
less
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
The Latest Fool Fad.
(From the New York sun.l

AEEtm Lit NGh loAh sun
Let me tell you" said a bright young
man at Delmoricos last night, that
there is new nobby among Americans
What is it? Well. Iat of Americans who
cannot go abroad and who like to visit
watering places and mountain resorts in
America borrow f=c:I their neighbors who
have visited Europe dress suit cases and
trunks on which are plastered all sorts
of labels from foreign hotels Don't
laugh at this statement of mine; it is
absolutely true There seems to be a
great admiration for dress suit cases and
trunks which are plastered all over with
these labels of foreign hotels. and our
American cousins who have not had the
time to so abroad within the last few
years borrow these suit cases and trunks
from their more fortunate neighbors,"
AS \ matter of fact. said a friend of
the Sun" who heard this conversation.
you may go to certain trunk places in
New York city and buy these cases and
trunks with the foreign hotel labels all
plastered on them.
1t was even said that manufacturers OF
dress suit cases and trunks make the for
eigu labels Il matter of incidental home
production.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
A CRADLE OF METHODiSM.
Dover, Del. Chapel 10 Celebrate Its
Its I.Ist Anniyersnry.

DOVER, Del, oct. 2).-Methodists all
over the country will watch with inter
est the celebration of the 121st anniver-
sary of Barratts Chapel, the cradle Of
Methodism' in this country, which vii!
be celebrated by great gathering of
Delawereans and others next Sunday, IN
this first church constructed by the Meth
cdists in this country. The orator for
the occasion will be Rev. b. FL Warren.
Of New York. pastor Of Union Methodist
Episcopal Church. who has the remarka-
BILE distinction of having preached his
first sermon in Barratts Chapel when he
was bnt sixteen years old. He is a native
of kert County.
The BarTatts Chapel anniversaries al
ways attract many hundred more than
can possibly expect to crowd into the
quaint little church. the others having to
content themselves with a revcrent in
spection of the historic and beautiful
have been made in the old building. the
antique bench upon which Coke and AS
bury. the two first Bishops. sat and EN-
braced each other like children. being still
a conspicuous piece Of the furniture. The
only really new furnishings are the fres-
coings and the organ. The appearance
of the latter was never dreamed of by the
Chapel's founders. and would have been
considered a blasphemy on the sanctity
Of the edifice.
At Barratt's Chapel in November. 1881.
Francis Asbury was elected the first
Methodist Bishop in America. and was
cOnsecrated by Bishop Thomas Coke. who
had been ordained bishop by John Wes-
ley himself
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
PROTECTING THE sEAGULLs.
Measures Taken to Stop the SInugh-
ter on the New England Coast.

! BANGOR. Ne. Oct. 20.-This month the
seagulls have come back to the coast of
Maine for their winter sojourn, but in
sadly reduced numbers Twenty years
ago great colonies of gulIs lived all along
the coast of Maine and Massachusetts
but the few colonies that now remain sur
vive only through special protection of the
law. Once there We're so many terms in
the neighbCrnood of Eastport that the
waters of Passamaquoddy Bay were white
with them. like the lily ponds in summer,
but they are few today. The great de-
struction of the gulls came few years
ago with the rage for their use on women's
hats. Indians and others along the east
ern coast of Maine shot. salted. and cured
the birds. and sold them in vast num-
bers to the agents of Boston and New
York millinery houses for 20 cents to 80
cents apiece. This was before there was
any general appreciation of the value of
the birds services as scavengers of the
sea.
Last winter James Russell Reed. Presi-
dent of the Massachusetts Fish and Game
Protective Association. assisted by the
various Audubon societies and other or
ganizations of bird lovers, secured the
passage by the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture of a bill prohibiting the killing of
pigeons, guIls, and terms at any season
of the year. and a similar bill was passed
by the Legislature of Maine whose sea-
coast is a favOrite haunt of the birds In
the Massachusetts law a provision was
inserted allowing the shooting Of Great
American herring gulls and the great
blackheaded gulls between November and
May. This was done at the request of
member of the legislative committee
that reported the bill. on the ground that
his constituents on Cape Cod kill the
gulls for food. These laws with the
Lacey bill passed by Congress prohibiting
interstate commerce in protected birds
have already had the effect of staying the
destruction of the birds, and in some sec
tons even a slight increase in their num-
bers Is reported.
ment was begun by means of a fund col
lected by Mr.. Thayer. OF the OrnithOlo-
gists' Union. Large tern and gull col
ones along the coast We're selected for
special protection, and residents of these
places were sworn in as wardens. cap
tains of lifesaving stations proving active
and interested workers The best results
were achieved in No Mans Land in
Maine, where the gull colony was per-
fectly protected. the birds returning and
breeding in greater numbers than ever be-
fore. The authorities in Washington in
structed lighthouse keepers to protect gull /
colonies on Government reservations and /
In these ways the destruction of the birds !
has been arrested.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
The Cabin John Arch E.ceIIed.

(FrOm the Baltimore SUM-
Hitherto the longest stone arch in the
world has been the Cabin John arch Of
z2O feet span and 57.25 feet rise on the
Washington aqueduct, but its pre-emi-
nence is about to be lost. A stone arch of
215.5 feet span is being built over the deep
valley of the Petrusse, in the Grand
puchy of Luxembourg, to connect the
city of that name With its railway sta
tion on the other side Of the valley.
This arch Will be built in two separate
parallel arches. 1868 feet apart in the
clear, with the intervening space spanned
by slabs of concrete-Steel material. The
roadway will be 524S feet wide between
parapets. and will be 144.4 feet above the
water line in the Petrusse River. The
foundations will be concrete. and the
stonework will be laid on falseworks
made of a very heavy wooden trussed
arch. other long arches are the Jare-
mecze arch. of 2l3 feet and 81 feet rise.
over the river Pruth. in eastern Austria;
the Layaur arch, of 20l7 feet, of France;
and the Grosvenor arch of POO feet span.
near Chester. England.
The Washington times., 1901-10-21
THE RYNDAM,s FIRST TRIP.
Maiden Voyage of Largest of the
Holland d-Americnn Line

NEW YORK, oct. 2O.-The Ryndam, the
newest and biggest of the twin screw
feet OF the Holland-American Line ar
rived today from Rotterdam and Bologne
She made the run from the latter port in
nine days and is expected. when she
finds herself to cover the course in
eight days The Ryndam measures L. .527
tons gross. is 5S5 feet long. of e. feet
beam and a feet depth Of hold. She has
accommodations for $50 first cabin. 200
second cabin, and 1900 steerage passen-
gers.
She is more elaborately decorated than
any other ship of the line and has com
partments in her steerage for families and
also steerage smoking rooms. Her en-
gines are, 800 horse power and drive her
at the rate of about sixteen knots. She
has biIge keels. a double bottom. running
the length of the ship. and is divided by
twelve bulkheads into thirteen water
tight compartments. She is commanded
by f. II. Bonjer who is a lieutenant in
the Dutch Royal Navy Reserve.