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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07

Rise. comradesl Let US explore our
new home
The other locusts. seeing him spread
his beautiful new wings. followed him
The air was darkened by their num-
Der. and when people in farmhouses
saw them coming they cried.
Here they are al last-the seventeen
year-old lccustst
They told The children how the locust
eggs were left underneath the skin Of
young twigs by careful mothers and
how in a few weeks. when the twigs
tell TO the ground six legged grub
emerged from each egg and turrying
under the ground. buried himself near
the roofs Of q tree. whose sap served
Tor food. Year by year the grub crept
Up through tne earth. and when ne was
seventeen years old came out or TIE
surface little brown insect Casting
the dark skin aside. he emerged during
the night a winged terror. oae-of the
famous seventeen year locusts.
As the locus1s passed over the field
the farmers and their boys ran out 10
frighten the swarm away should they
think OF descending
For three weeks the insects few
about. Disappointed and exhausted
the host descended on the banks of the
river Again the locust mothers hid
their eggs III the bark OF the young
twigs- Then life for them was over.
As he died the warrior chief turned
his eyes toward his dwarf friend
1t was al mistake. he said =
was not meant Tor 4 great general
The locusts' army y a harmless one
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- HE managing editor
gave me this photo
III graph and said TO me.
n Miss Daggetty, write
z---s-.r- something around that
- picture. Fake up some
kss4s-----4 thing. 7 don't much
care what"
NJ name is not Daggetty. though the
managing editor calls me that Il is
Emily Dalget5y, which is pretty
name. butt never hear it here. The Of
fee boy calls me Dag behind my
back I heard him one day. So does the
religious editor. a young snip who is
killing himself with cigarettes.
7 cant think Of anything 10 write
around that horrid old picture yet. 50
just let my typewriting machine rest
and take q pencil and scribbIe by hand
any nonsense that comes into my head
That Is good way TO TAP the flow and
get started. find. and that's why I let
myself write this foolishness. I wish
could get hold Of a beginning about
that photograph It's merely a snap
shot o. a gone to pieces old man with
long beard and a bald head. He leans.
with folded arms upon the window sill
of a log cabin which has the window
taken out. if there ever was any in His
chin rests upon his arms. His goatlile
beard is 50 long it comes out beyond his
arms and flows down over the log OF
the cabin. hate long goat boards.
They make me feel Gravity. And I can't
abide diIapidated old men won't sit
II q car next one If I can help l.. And
know this one was awfully dirty. Ugh,
Oh. you old image. Why can't I get
started on you? But no All I can
think Of this morning is Ned Ball. I've
not thought Of much else for ten years.
J believe, and I'm twenty-five now. I
cant remember when we were not
sweethearts. Ned and 7 I can hardly
remember when we we're not engaged.
III have time this afternoon TO finish
or that old ogre for the sunday paper. 7
/ can't nDish him at all. / can't begin
him. unless something comes into my
head about him shall just write one
of Ned and me till tap the supply. I
wonder where It IS anyhow that it
won't come when you call for it,
Ned, dear. think I VIII write this just
as though were going to send it to you
for q letter. though know your eyes
viii never see IL. I wouldn't dare let
you know how long for the sight Of
your face. even pale and withered with /
pain as it IS. for the touch of your
hand. even though you could not rise
from your couch TO meet me Forty
prying vulgar eyes would be upon Us. +
too. there in that ward Of the charity +
hospital where you have lain six years. +
despair eating your heart hollow. To +
this day I cannot make it seem real
$1,000 0-11S = - 3 a. : = 80 z
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Then you could be wheeled in rolling
chair into the air. the sunshine. could
have a home and me 70 take care CT
you But no. no again. That eternal
no. no is fate's most awful word L
rings in my ears day and night.
This demonish picture. Old man,
Why cant you start me yourself? Now
look al you I see you've only one eye.
and that gIares at ne as though il was
real live orb and not merely the Pho
tograph's dead dsh eye. Aha, Here's
something at The hack Of you What Is
it?
This IS a snapshot of old John Wat
kin. the hermit OF Smole's mountain
He lived thirty years in wre1ched
cabin in the edge Of the woods and n
all that time was never known 70 speak
TO a woman. II was supposed an IN
happy love affair soured him II his
youth. but nobody knows. Some said.
too. that he had money. but none was
found in the cabin or anywhere around
1t. though gold hunters dug into the
Garth all about his hut. He used often
to De seen leaning upon the window slll.
just as he IS in the photograph He &C
tuaIly died at last in that position, and
his body was found thus one morning.
with the dew wet upon his beard
So he's dead is he2 Rest his soul
That's the mana ging editors writing
wonder why he couldn't have told me
to look at the hack OF the photograph
and get my clew from what was writ
ten there Now, my cid Dick Deadeye'
my task viii be easier. Come 10 think
Of it. I know just where your ex-cab.n
IS. and I've seen yoE yourself leaning
upon your arms across the window SILL
Ike the photograph precisely So you re
gone. II that were not so. I should say
you ought TO have been gone long ago
because you were so dirty and horrld
looking with that scarecrow face. old
and pale and grim But since YOU real
y are dead 1 feel sorry for you Yet
why? You did nobody any good while
you We're alive. Why should you have
been let stay so long,
God forgive me. What good does Ned
Ball do anybody? Ned, il would Kill me
II you were to die. even though 1 know
you would be out Of pain. even though
can never hope 10 see you again It's
brute selfshness in me TO want TO hold
you here. I know: but, dear. I think it
would really kill me to have you die.
dream Of you still; last night again. Do
you know what they are. sweetheart
Dream kisses from lips of living loved
ones whose faces we may behold never
more on this earth. On, my love. my
own true love.
One thing more. particularly as you
viii never see this. and then I turn TO
my typewriter, for know what I'm go
ing to say about my old window man
now. Tim Greene got his revenge on
meteor not marrying him; at least his
wife did He married Milkman Boss
daughter. You never knew Katie Boss,
but It doesn't matter. After Tins ia
Their died it was found he was much
richer than was supposed. Tim was left
al least half a millionaire. His native
cunning did much for him. and luck did
more TO make him very rich. and now
his wife is on the ragged edge Of high
life She has to be very careful and ex-
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long. But father died In week after
you went, and had to work for my liv-
Ing. I did rot mind the work. though.
Ned was glad Of a way TO put in the
time and keep from grieving for father
and from wishing for you so constantly.
I knew it would only last till married
you. and then 1 should have plenty 10
do 70 put in the time I never told you,
Ned, but Tim Greene wanted me 70
marry him. You remember him-a
sawed of. chuffy little fellow, with bad
teeth. laughed in his face. I couldn' t
help it. Tim Greene 20 aspire TO Ned
Balls sweetheart!
And then-and then-Ned, only q few
months more, and you were struck
down in football game. IN half d
minute the athlete of the university be-
came a cripple for life. the lower part
Of his body paralyzed. II you had mon
ey-oh if I had money, I know you
would take il from me, dear. for it
would be like taking 1t from yourself
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OF the compartment. while Tire passen-
gers only laughed.
I tell you they are So made that
they Won't light unless you strike them
on the box"
4 bet you they viii"
! Il bet you \ dollar they won't-~
III net you SO they VIII
''I'H take H."
The wager was made The old man
took one CT tbs matches. stood up and.
hitching bis trousers up 50 as &c rake
q smooth surface over his broad thigh.
gave the match a deliberate scratch.
and Il biazed Up. Then he cooiiy light
ed his pipe and picked up the stakes.
The smart commercial traveller does
not know that the innocent old rascal
pays his expenses every trip on that
trick. for he has the side q matches
sewed in his trousers beneath the tail
OF his long shiny coat
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per people can know it. But what's the
goOde Ny heart is just broken. that's
all.
Now. my old Dick Deadeye. here's at
you one more seribble TO get a good
ready. then my type keys will begin to
click
En-. what's this2 The pencil in my
fingers wrote il its own self.
The window sill
never wrote this out of my head
swear I did not That's where old Wat
kin was found dead leaning over the
window sill It's queer. suppose that's
the unconscious cerebration they talk
OF. though I never knew it acted like
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07
AFFAIRS OF HE MOMENT

steel wall feet thick. p high and 100
miles long.
The number OF women students 81
the German universities IS increasing.
Al Berlin ss5 have inscribed their
names for this summer. as compared
with 5oS during the sane term Of last
year. The number OF male students IS
always higher during the winter IN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07
A TALE OF A GIRL REPORTER AND A MAGIC PENCIL

that Il reminds ne OF something more
viii write 10 Ned in this letter lie Is
never 70 see. can't do UP Dick Dead
eye TIL 7 record IL II is a thing never
told anybody Five years ago. five THIS
very month. I went 10 a fashionable
lady's house 10 report a lecture or oc-
cUltism- The speaker was a dark,
graceful oriental. ARA they called him.
and the women fell il love with him
and raved over him after their kind
have contempt for women who make
fools OF themselves over a man. partic-
ularly a dark man. ARA said we could
have anything we wanted. 10 matter
what, anything tf1inka bIe-that IS. II we
simply kept our minds and wills fixed
on i in steady demand. Re tod Us he
would stake his lie and hope CT the fu-
ture on the truth o: this statement
Because o. the truth Of It. he said. we
should BE- very careful NOT 10 set our
hearts en- anything thar was wrong
lest i come hack to US and bring disas-
ter instead Of good.
VIII and demand. viii and demand.
persistentIy. inteiiigently and earnestly
that IS all Take q certain hour OF the
day when you are least disturbed.
Make a mental picture Of the object
you desire. hold il in your mind steadily
Tor as many minutes as you can spare.
what is more. do not think Of il IS
coming 10 you; think OF il as already
yours That is like what the Bible
says. Whatsoever ye desire when We
pray believe it is yours. and ye shall
receive il" Don't plan and contrive
how your wish is 10 come. Leave that
70 the universal power. said ARA Just
see II in your mind always as yours and
never give up.
Ned. l wanted money. for money
would give ne everything else. It
would bring you TO me or me 10 you. Il
would cure you if there was any way 10
restore power to that crippled spine
Ned. I willed that I had $40 900. willed
it with all my might. ARA said if ne
wanted money 10 make a mental pic
ture OF the exact amount. like the
piles OF gold and paper in a bank win
dow. and hold fast 10 it. We should i'm
agine to see 1t in green light. That is
the light belonging TO money.
Ned. / made a picture OF a pile OF
gold. shining eagles and double eagles.
and I've held TO that as mine for FIVE
years ARA said paper money would do
as we'll as gold. Sc it would. Ned. Tor
all the result my occult practice ever
brought
I have kept at that practice. not let
ting go the thought day. What good2
What good is anything What good Is
life itself? How viii it ende win II
ever end2
throw away this page. Now I must
imagine a biography for old Dick Dead
eye.
What's this2 That strange writing
again, All it is not mine see my
hand write. but my brain has nothing
10 do with IL Oh. am crazy?
Under the window Sill Look under The
window sill, Emily palgetty i IS loose
Lift il up The log Underneath il IS hot
lowed out into a hole. A canvas bag IS
there with $4,000 In gold in 1t. The gold
is yours Your mother was the woman I
loved. and your father Archie DaIgetty.
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Berlin. and 50 Il : with the zomen
Last winter there were s.. q them the
highest figure as yer attained
The waF DEPARTMENT has given orders
70 Captain Morse. the chief s.gnsI on
Ger Of the 6erarsrlent % California 70
open ueE0tiauOns Ter the Installation II
4 system OF wireless telsgTaphv BE-
tween the army stations in Alaska
The present status Of the work q
medical missions Is such as 70 sacou--
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07
HOW The DRUMMER LOST
HIS BET WITH UNCLE

An uncoulh o.6 mar vas taking trip
recently through southern Euinois and
Glanced &c hs sitting with a commercial
Traveller Ia a smoking compartment
The old nan took our bex cf szfsty
matches and tried 20 strike ore aE1
then another on the wOcdvorS
You have 10 scratch thcn On tie
box uncis. remarked the salesman.
"uh. ! TANK 7 cen STRIKE a match. -
replied the Old man IS lie slipped enc
across a vanished panel ard broke %
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07

the Frearh ga .nsf king E.sNz-d III
canon L-aEe@rt q IuL Erk4rs- E1a
sCcfs1s.i-llT maze Ergseet zSalnef f1e
anthem n zEleh Gre verse Coats tztrg
RE lines -Cazfoard fEeir rals.i1s. srrs-
rrats tneir knzvssh tricxs~ rad heea
executed
Canada hss sent veterinary guaraa-
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l-c A<- u 4 LlC
traveller laugh
ed at his fail
uTe ard gave
him some mere
Information.
TIE only way
10 light those
matches Is 10
strike them Or
the box said
he.
IN. 1 can
scratch en- any
where !" Andthe
old man tried
one on the sole
OF his shoe. an
other OF the
arm Of the seat
and still anofh-
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II 81 the land planted this year in
corn in the United States were massed.
The area would exceed the British isles.
Holland and Belgium combined. or
four-ffths OF the AREA Of France Or
Germany
The worlds steel output for q year
would make q column 100 feet through
and a nile and a third high or build a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07

\ thought weighing machine has
been inverted by Professor Mosso. ara
italian physioiogisf. che rush ~ blood
n the head turning 'he sea TIE ma
chine : so delicate that IL can measure
The difference IN the exertlon needed 20
read Greek from that required far Lat
IN
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Upon the slope Of one Of the foothills

body you nave y or 1oW you got IT,
JOHN WATklN.
Upon the slope OF one OF the foothills
or the glorious western mountains
where the air Is high and dry and
charged with atoms Of the potable gold
Of the sunshine. DR.. Slicer has his sur
gicai sanitarium. IN its vicinity some
times. three miles away you may often
see a young man IN a rolling chair
wheeled aiIher and -hither BY a tall.
handsome young woman. and the
young woman IS his wife Wherever
the vista is The fairest. The hillside the
sunn.est. the waterfall song the sweet
est. there the invalid chair goes often
est and is left longest. The young NO
man viii let 10 one wheel il but herself
and from sky or waterfall or mountain
the mans eyes turn always 10 her face
win look Of love and devotion that Is
good 10 see
The young man has noble. fair head
and face. though pale. full OF the
beauty Of the soul He is a divinity stu
dent they say. and from his invalid
chair breaches sermons OF an eloquence
not born Of ordinary experience. There
is hope that he may enc day walk
again
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Won her away from ne while ? vas a
solder during the ciyil var / cursed
them uoth ara svent ~. aut i Is wrons
to Czrse anybody have found that cut
uoN. and an sorry Curses follow those
who Ettsr them I carnoS rest III even
z Up SOMEHOW.
Emily Dalgetly. this money Is yocrs.
and il Is honest money Co you out early
tomorrow morning and bring away al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-07
!, The Campaign
!. of the Seventeen
Year LoCuStS

This IS not day the dwarf shrilled.
''Yon great light which you see speed
ing through the sky IS the moon. not
the sun"
can it be possible anything more
bright exists?" the giant marveled.
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insect far below the average size OF his
race. These two singled out each other
for friendship
a wonderful day. is II not. BROTHER
the giant faltered. trying for The first
time his organ of speech. a drum set
into the under part % The body.
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dearest, you with your Shining yellow
hair and pink cheeks and broad shout
ders, the strongest. straightest. quick
est. handsomest fellow in the univer-
sity. the captain Of the football team.
the manifest, bravest, most generous
Oh, Ned. Ned. my heart would break II
it had not broken long agol
We thought We should meet in 4 year
when you went away. was going to
Prim college. 50 II would not seem SO
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= by one they assembled from
81 eheir holes in the ground-littIs
~ brown creatures that looked
not unlike beetles. They
made straight FOR the nearest tree and
climbed actively up the trunk Grasp
ing the brown bark each rent its dark
sl1in. and through the opening crawled
a beautiful insect white as driven snow
ana wlth eyes whose delicate rose tint
turned 20 orange red. Gossamer wings
shone Ike silver IN the moonlight. and
IS 81 night Ions they enoamped on The
dgsky trunks and branches they looked
like fairy army with banners IN
furled.
Now and then a night bird pounced
down upon the feeble host and dashed
OF with enc Of their number. The 9TH
ers only rolled their coral eyes az the
plunderer. not understanding the dan
ger ana TOO weak 70 resist had they re-
allied IL.
one o. the little white strangers
stared curiousiy about A giant Of his
kind. he lowered high above his fell
lows. He was more conspicuous be-
cause OF his dwarfike next neighbor. an
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solution of The Fiskhawk's Mis-
taken Charity
a new broom sweeps clean"


Sach wond zrfal shiass I saw IN the WOOL
q teH you about t1eu Il ! cogld.
But i secrets ike thsse yog foo. soula
know
You must 60 yourself where vRd things
grow.
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ic1sz ?
Nscnief RS crefsst
TcHrys hei
Just exactly where
Little Tonrry Tinkiepzte Cute
Ore Grea.-7rznoancE@
Ard "Tooas so-ty
Urce icstrss crwsr5 s5 Ycur SAL
White rs rctrer kr6y Wearise . to Cd
Torys i trey
Trait might To1y softfy sE1cs8
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. - --1rs G 8
Tnfnss Tcrny rsrr1;
Screaming 6srss. ssssnt (: tsy
Too-ss frcr trgir7
ra.1s1
sy
Tsnuy's 5srs7- - sr-z-
hessos
U-c- PAU Tgnssssts
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Cndsr the bushes deep and round
Once the squirrel : pantry deer 7 found
Oh. how / wanted 20 peep and see
Il little squirrels ate IAN Ike ne.
High IN the trest0p saw usst
IN as built. I know. b. Robin Red Breast
on. how 1 wanted e peep sn5 krcz
Just how the dear Ettse rot-ns groE
Wont some one who knoVs please tel M
Why
he brides huii5 50 ~srT high
While the squirrels taii5 50 very low
That no ere into their homes car go
Anna Plerpc1t Sixffer.
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you can carry Return again and again
secretly TIL you get IL al Never tell any
body you have Il or how you got t.
JOHN WArklN
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Under the window sill Look under The
window sill. Emily palgetty. i IS loose
Lift il up The los underneath il IS hoi-
lowed out into hole. A canvas has is
there with $4,000 In gold in It. TIE gold
is yours Your mother was the woman I
loved. and your father Archie DaIgetty.
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THE WINDOW PICTURE.
BY ELIZA ARcHARD CONNER.

Copyright 1902, by Eliza Archard cOnner.I
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NATURE
STORIES

: Copyright 1902 by
: Elizabeth Lsngsdort
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Z by one they ascended from
theLr holes in the ground-littls
brown creatures that looked
lot mike hae.las- They
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-03-08

Tn" venerable James Walsh, living
with his sun-in-law, Patrick MullOOly,
about IA mile worth of town was found
dead Sunday morning. He was i'll a
sitting posture on his bed with his arms
on a chair.
He was the wellknOwn and venerated
centenarian of this community. having
seen nearly three generations of Mt.
Savage and Frostburg rise and pass
away, while he was himself the con-
temporary of life i'll the latter part of
the 18th, all of the 18th, and year of
the 20yh century
According to the most authentic report,
Mr.. Walsh was born III 1902 on the
river shannon, county Roscommon,
Ireland He was, therefore, about no
years old. The report, widely publish
ed ON the other hand, that Rev. f. A.
Williams, of Mt Savage, had il record
showing Mr.. Walsh to be 1l2 years old
is erroneous.
The accompanying picture of Mr..
Walsh was made from Il photograph
taken in 1896. At that time Mr.. Walsh
was said to be los, but subsequent in
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-03-08
Acknowledgements.

The JOURNAL is indebted to Hon.
Hugh A. Mcmillan, of the House of
Delegates, for il copy of the Both Annual
Report of the State Board of Education. -
From Hon. David J. Lewis, of the
State Senate, it has a copy of his SEQ
Operative Insurance bill,
Ex-Mayor G. f. Nickel sent this week
ii unique toy mirror, and now when the
great paper wants 10 part its hair on the
median line. OF arrange its Whiskers for
the wind to blow through, it is remind
ed Of the donor by the inlaid inscriptions
C. f. Nickel, Frostburg, Md. Furni-
ture and Undertaking. 1t is an orna-
mental as well aS cute advertising
scheme.
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Mr.. Wittig also moved that Council
be requested to draft il bill giving the
town the right to issue bonds in sum of
SO, 900 to extend water works. Carried.
Frederick Mayer moved that the chair
man appoint Il committee to wait upon
the Mayor and Council and report to that
body the action taken at this meeting
and also to request them to ascertain
Just what the town : water rights are on
west side of mountain. Carried.
The chair appointed MessrS. Fred.
MAYER, d. f. McMullen, John Cham
beers. T. c. Dillon and Joseph Bear as
said committee.
Adjourned.
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Frostburs, lllcgany County. Maryland,
At 1880 O'CLOCK \. NJ"
Saturday, March %, 1902,

All that Valuable Real Estate situated,
living and being in GERMANTOWN and
Eros, burg. in Allcgany county. Mary
land. and described a. follows:
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1902-03-08
Frame Double Houses,

With modern cOnvenicnccS.
TERMS OF S>IE-One-thrd cash onc-third
in six months, and onc-thirl in twelve
months or all cash at the option of the pur-
chascr-thc credit payments to bear interest
from the day of sale and to he secured by
the notes or bonds of the purchaser or pur-
chaScrs. Endorsed, and approved by the un-
dcrSgncd Trustees.
BENZ. \. RICHMOND.
ARCH \. YOUNG.
March S-}t Trustees.