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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-30

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-30

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-30

What's in nance" The word
''bitters" does not always indicate some
thing harsh and disagreeable. PRICKLY
ASH BITTERS is proof of this. It
cleanses, strengthens and regulates the
system thoroughly, Yet it is so pleasant
the most delicate stomach will not OBJ
iecf 70 II
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-05-30
NO SORE SPOTS
Charles H. Ridgway Discusses BaiIey's
Chances

Charles II. Ridgeway Of Kansas City.
Kan, in discussing the work of the Re-
publican convention, yesterday. said:
THE ticket is good one Bailey is
a strong candidate I think he will prob
ably carry Wyandotte county by 1000
majority. Stanley had 600 majority there
two years ago. Mr.. Bailey was the Iogi-
cal candidate. He is young man and is
a good campaigner There are no sore
spots as Z result of the convention
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
he WANTED TOO MUCH.
Refused to Buy n Watch That Hold
Lost Five Seconds in n Trial
of Seven Weeks.

"Sone folks want the earth, and
that's no lapse from the confines Of
veracity," remarked the head watch
maker connected with big downtown
iewelry establishment, relates the
Washington Star. "A couple of
months ago the boss handed me one
of the best watches we have in the
house. He said he wanted it regulated
and instructed me to give it my best
attention, explaining that if the time
piece proved satisfactory the store
could dispose of an even dozen like it to
the purchaser, who represented a cor
poration requiring correct time in the
conduct of its business.
"Well, I adjusted the delicate ma
chinery and asked the possible pur-
chaser to carry the watch in his pocket
for several weeks and then bring it in
for me to note how it was behaving.
He reappeared at the end of seven
weeks and, reporting that the time
piece during that period had lost five
seconds, announced that his require
ments had not been met and that the
sale was off. The boss CURLY re-
marked that he did not care for such
trade, adding that any closer running
than had been exhibited by the watch
was well-nigh impossible.
"No," concluded the watch maker,
sadly, "some folks wouldn't be salts
fed if they handled the switch that
controls the earth"
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
OPPORTUNITY.

Outside the castle walls one called for aid,
A page who daNied with Lutte inside
Peered from the close-barred easement,
half-afraid-
Fast by my lady's door must abide"
He said, while Ger the strings his fingers
strayed
And sweetly chimed his young voice with
the lutte,
THE windows here, you see, are strait and
high,
Yet fear not friend, boldly to give thy cry,
If guards are deaf 1 wot thou art not
mute"
And then again that shout rang through
the air
1t came to knight and squire who sat at
play.
And one cursed at the warders, wondering
where
They quaffed their wine and drowsed the
time away,
And then one of princess smile did swear,
One told of what he had endured in Siege,
Another boosted of his sword and shield,
One tossed his dice. and cried: ITO none
yield
In willingness to serve my king and liege."
And yet once more that cry Of bitter need
1t pierced the inner closet of the king,
Who at the sound of anguish ran with
speed.
Leaving his graybeards at their council
ing
OF war, and state, Of church, and priest
and creed,
And oped gate, and drew the man half
dead
Within the walls. Had we but known"
cried all
In sore dismay, ct was the princes call"
Eye knew it was a man's!" the old king
said.
Anime NJ. L. Halves, in Youths Compan-
ion.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
EXPENSIVE RABBITS.
The Costly Game Preserve of n Fa-
nous French Writer, and
Neighbours Trick,

An amusing story is told by the Cour-
rier des Etats-Unis concerning Guy de
Maupassant, who once maintained
near his home a rabbit-warren of
few acres in the midst of cultivated
fields. The enterprise was source
of plentiful income to the Normandy
peasants, who took the opportunity
to plant choice vegetables in the ad-
joining fields. Then they demanded
large compensation for the alleged
damage done by their neighbours rab-
bits. Every year De Maupassant had
to pay heavily, and the peasants be-
gan to feel that a rabbit-warren was
an excellent neighbor.
After few years, however, the own
er of the warren began to grow tired
of the arrangement. He reckoned
that under the existing state of things
the few rabbits he shot cost him about
$40 each, which was rather too much,
even for an enthusiastic sportsman.
So he determined to destroy the game
preserve.
1t was not much trouble. There
were only four or five burrows in the
enclosure, and a few ferrets soon
killed all the occupants.
One night, after all the rabbits had
been destroyed, the owner happened
to visit his former preserve, and de-
tected man skullling along under
the trees, with large bag on his back
De Maupassant at once jumped to the
conclusion that the man had come to
steal wood. When he challenged him,
the supposed thief took to his heels,
leaving the back behind him. 1t was
found to be filled with rabbits of both
sexes.
The man was no thief, but a neigh
Dor of the writer, who, shrewdly rea-
soning that there could be no moro
damages if there were no rabbits, had =
thought it advisable to restock the
warren. F.:
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
NORFOLK & WESTERN SCHEDULE.

Commencing May 25th additional pas.
senger train service will be operated over
Norfolk & Western Railway, as follows:
Leave Roanoke 700 a. H., Lynchburg
S45 a. m. arrive Petersburg 100 p. NJ,
arrive Richmond LOO p. IN. Leave Rich.
mond l:l5 p. NJ, Petersburg 200 p. M,
Lynchburg 6l5 p. NJ, arrive Roanoke
500 p. ID.
Leave Lynchburg 7:20 a. M, arrive
Roanoke 9:05 a. M, arrive East RadfUrd
1915 a. NJ, arrive Bristol $50 p. M.
Leave Bristol 2.05 p. M, arrive Fast
Radford Cos p. M, arrive Roanoke 755
p. NJ, arrive Lynchburg $50 p. III. Cose
connection at East Radford to and from
Bluefeld, Norton, WEIGH and intermeai.
ate points.
Leave Roanoke 500 p. m, arrive liza.
gerstown 4:l5 a. IN. Returning leave
Hagerstosn l:20 a. M, arrive Roanoke
905 a. NJ, connecting to and from Harris
burg, Philadelphia, New York and inter.
jor Pennsylvania points. Pullman slerp.
ing cars Philadelphia and WEIGH, w. Va.
Leave Roanoke 9:l5 a. ~, arrive Win.
slon-Salem 200 p. M, arrive Charlotte,
\. g. $50 p. m. Returning leave Char
lotte lilo a, No., leave WinstonSa!em
$50 p. m, arrive Roanoke $40 .. m.
Train runs solid between Roanoke and
Charlotte.
See regular schedule advertisement for
further information. Is It
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
ARE IMITATION PEOPLE.
OF Heroes and HerOines of
Modern Novels.

The author or authoress of to-day
does not seek to give his or her read
er a friend or an enemy in his or
her hero or heroine. AS rule, with n
very few notable exceptions, we do
not care bit what happens to them,
we only care to know how they are
made, says the London Spectator.
The authors of their being pick them
to pieces before our eyes, and we
watch to see how lifelike he has
made them and how naturally they
squeal Their mental anatomy is cop
led infinitely from many modern
women, and their makers have pushed
the study of mental anatomy further
than it ever was pushed before. Their
environment, too, often is extraor-
dinarily natural, and well depicted.
No god out of a machine interferes
in the misfortunes of modern hero
inc, and the old theory of po-
etc justice has been long thrown
aside as lumber, together with other
WORKOUT properties of passed-away
fiction. To ask at the present day
how a story ends, whether happily or
unhappily, is to give ones self away
for an old man, or one without feel
ing for literature. Novels are not
intended to supply US with agreeable
society-they are essays in art. Yet
these dreary stories, whose dramatis
personae agonize under a leaden sky,
can seldom be dignified with the
name of tragedy; they have nothing
of "the conservation and the poets
dream" Their sordidneSs is too often
wholly unrelieved by any touch Of
poetry.
What is the meaning of this change?
Have all our hearts become hard, so
that we cannot be moved by any tale
of suffering or feel any desire to see
the sunshine of success, so that our
romance writer's awake in us moth
ing but an intellectual sensation of
critical enjoyment? Are we so weary
and so blase that, having exhausted
all pleasant sensations, we must turn
to watch pain as something new? We
do not believe for an instant that this
is the true explanation of this curl
Gus phenomenon. We believe the
fault, or, rather, the failure, lies at
the door of the new writers of fic-
ton. Their characters do not live.
They are initiative people; the most
wonderful, the most perfect imita-
tions which have ever been produced
but they are not alive. They have
never passed that mysterious barrier
between consciousness and uncon
seriousness. Their very authors do
not believe they live-if they did they
would feel for them-and the read
ers do not believe thev live either
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
THE BONES AND THE GREASE
Perquisites of the Restaurant Cook
That Amount to n Consider
D able Figure.

When cook applies for a place in
a restaurant, says an exchange, he
says first:
What's the wages?"
And after he has learned about the
wages, he goes on:
"Includin' grease?"
Eyes" is,the answer, or else it is
"No," whereupon he resumes:
"Includin' bones?"
An inquisitive person the other day
heard cook asking these strange
questions of restauranteur, and the
inquisitive person inquired: what on
earth did that cook mean?"
''He meant that he wished to know IL
he would get the grease and bones as
perquisites," the restauranteur ex-
planned. 'The waste grease and bones
Of a big eating house amount, in the
coursepf month, to great deal, you
know. Here we get monthly 3,700
pounds Of bones, and they all go to the
cook. He sells them at a haIf,cent a
pound and they add $3.50 weskto bis
salary. But'the grease here is not q
perquisite. Ikeepitfor myself midi
get SO a month for it, sit Is i,cal IN
the manufactlre Ct snan.'
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
THE FLESH OF REINDEER.
Meat of the Young Animal IL Always
In Great Demand Among the
Russians.

Some IS years ago demand sprang
up in st. Petersburg for the flesh of
the reindeer. This demand, especially
for young deer flesh, has been on the
increase ever since, venison being
more and more in request at the tables
of the. well-to-do. Traders bought up
all the available "zadas," or hind quar-
ters-by far the best eating part of
the reindeer-from the owners; but,
partly to spare the young animals and
partly from insufficiency of stock, the
latter were unable to meet the demand,
so that prices rose considerably, for
the laws of supply and demand apply
upon the tundra just as well as in Wall
street or Mark Lane, says the Gentle
mans Magazine. The first autumn fall
of snow renders the search for white
moss difficult to the young animals,
born the previous spring, who daily
grow thinner and thinner. Stock has
thus to be killed off with the first sign
of winter frost, so as to enable the
zadas to be conveyed, on sledges, over
the first snow roads to MeZen, whence
the traders forward them to ST. Peters
burg. From the end of September the
Iimians wander about as near to
Mezen as moss grows, so that they may
kill their stock as soon as nature lays
the road and sends the frost, which
preserves the meat during its long
Journey southwark to civilization.
Long trains of sledges, or "obosi,"
loaded with deer meat, are to be met
with upon the winter road which leads
from Mezen through Archangel to st.
Petersburg, crossing the ice Of the
three great lakes-Wodlo, Omega and
Ladoga-as well as of the Rivers One
ga and Svir. The summer post road is
long and winding, the winter short and
straight, crossing the frozen waters,
which in summer must be rounded.
Four men working in a company, or
"artel," will manage a train of 30
sledges, the heads of the horses being
tied to the vehicle in front; often these
trains are from a quarter to a half
mile in length.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26

whales liked sugar. Next time you
meet one, you just offer him lump
and see what he does.
swell, as things went on the expert
ment seemed to be success. Little
Willie absorbed education as If his
father had been college president.
He would lie pointing at the target
with his fukes a-quiverin' like a cats
tail when she's watching for a mouse,
and then when Kearney would give the
signal by proddin' him with harpoon
he would shoot forward like bullet
and hit that hulk swipe that would
rattle it like dynamite blast. Then
he would swim back, happy and proud,
for his sugar, with smile on his face
that would take in four-horse truck.
Sometimes Kearney would rig him
up with spar torpedo, and he was
trained to stop at them times and back
away as soon as the spar touched the
target.
"Well, was worried all the time, for
1 didn't know where all this was goin'
to end. Little Willie kept CROWN big
ger and bigger, and we had to keep
fittin' him with new ram bows in place
of those he'd outgrown and gettin'
more hulks to take the places of those
he was smashing into kindlin'. It
looked to me as if there was trouble
ahead, and sure enough there was.
zone day Kearney was in "a bad hui
NOR and absent-minded. When he
started out for target practice he
iabbed Little Willie with the harpoon
before he got him headed in the right
direction. Off he shot, as he'd been
taught.
"Kearney tried to call him back, but
you know yourself it wasn't reason
able to expect he'd hear 1t. In another
minute Little Willie had smashed clean
through the side of the Lady Mine.
and then he came back, innocent and
self-satisfed, for his sugar
"Well, you never saw a man so crazy
with rage as what Kearney was. AL
though the thing was entirely his own
fault, he laid it all to that poor, in
offensive beast, and when Little Will
lie swum up, expectin' to be praised
and rewarded, as he had a perfect
right to, Kearney yelled: Get away,
you lubber!' and give him a kick.
"Well, you know Little Willie never
had such an insult before, and it
knocked him all in heap. He looked
at us reproachful for a minute, and
then he turned around on his tail. dig
nifed and deliberate, and put to sea.
We never seen him again.
"Now you see what happened to the
Kathleen, don't you? The whale was
layin' head on the ship when they
trun the harpoon into him. He took
that for the signal, and without stop
pin to think he carried out his train
in.
"And I'm bettin' that if those men
hadn't been too fiustered to look,
they'd have seen that there whale
had on ram Down. Y. Sun.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
THE NIMBLE RHINOCEROs.
Captivity, 1t Is Lively Enough
in the Bush,

DR.. E. G. Elliott, curator of zoology
of the Field Columbian museum, Chi
:ago, lately spent some days in Wash
ington reviewing and studying the
large and valuable mass of geological
material in the Smithsonian institu-
ton, National museum, department OF
agriculture and the National Zoo.
About a year agoDr. Elliot wrote and
published a work of great value on the
fauna Of North America north of the
Mexican boundary and the Gulf Of
Mexico, which proved great success,
reports the Washington Post.
"During my trip through Africa ex-
perienced many surprises, and hardly
day passed but whatsome of my pre-
conceived notions were dispelled. For
instance, a person contemplating
rhinoceros behind the bars of a stout
cage would very naturally suppose
that these animhls were the most I'M
wieldy. clumsy and awkward imagin-
able, yet nothing could be further
from the truth. On the high. rocky
and rolling grounf of East Africa they
are as spry and nitnble as goats, when
animals they verI much resemble in
their actions. Thdy jump about from
place to place with surprising agility
for an animal so b llky, and run with
a rapidity that is nj arvelous.
"In this they diff er from the ele-
plant, for the lattdr, when alarmed,
moves off in a longl swinging trot.
The country that l Explored, Somali-
land and the landA to the west,
abounds in the two-hbrned black rhi'
noceros. The very large, white rhinoc-
eros of South Africa Of the days OF
Roualleyn Gordon-Cunt ming, are al
most if not quite extinct, although the
natives told us that;u animals were
to be found to the W st Of the country
that we traversed. The rhinocercs
does not see we'll, but IS very keen OF
scent, and whenever he scents danger
he charges down the wind. They have
been known to charge ri ht through
a caravan, upsetting things on every
hand but continuing in a Straight line
until out of sight. -
"The hippopotamus was only found
in the Shebeyleh river, in the regions
that we visited, and was scarce there,
but wart hogs were everywhere in ev-
idence. They are plucly animals, and
one that I killed tried his best TO get
at me after I had wounded him so
badly that he could not use his hind
parts. He was a magnificent animal
as he came out of the bush, with head
and tail erect, and shifting the air to
locate the seat of danger. THE open
country of East Africa is the home OF
the large hamadryad baboon. Every
hill is full of them, and the way they
scold and chatter when traveller
passes their way would be amusing If
it were not for the fact that they are
at times dangerous, and believe they
would make things interesting for pc
luckIess hunter who should happer \
get caught among them withd q
proper means of defending himselfY
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
Strange Diseases.

Lombardy is the one place where
peiiagra is always prevalent-that
mysterious modern ailment, due to
eating damaged maize, which since
1883, when it was first noticed, is
computed to have been responsible
for the death of more than 100000
peasants. Mandalay ringworm,
again, is known and dreaded
throughout Burmah, but even the
most ignorant Burmese is aware that
it cannot be contracted outside the
ancient capital. Similarly, "rock"
fever is confined to Gibraltar, al
though 1T is probable that the all
ment known as Maltese fever, which
can be contracted only in Malta, and
there only in the spring and autumn,
is closely allied to it. Aleppo evil,
too, is unknown in any of the other
cities of Asia Minors; just as the
Delhi boil, so dreaded of our soldiery.
is confined to Delhi.-Chambers'
Journal.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
A FISHER LADS STORY.
Ills Hard Work and Dangerous Adj
ventures In Helping His Father
at the Nets.

Abram Fisher, of Grandville, Mich,
writes an interesting story of his
experiences in the American. Boy.
lie says: MANY boys think the life
of fisherman or sailor is pleas
ant. They would stop going to school
at any time to go to sea. am now
Is years old, and have done the work
of a fisherman for nine years, hav-
ing helped my father, who makes u
business of fishing. We once caught
sturgeon weighing zv5 pounds. his
head weighing IS pounds. 1t was hard
work for one 80 young, and ] have
had to row a boat eight miles at
times. Many times ] have been caught
in a storm. Once we went out to lift
our nets before dawn. There was
a dead swell CD the sea, and when
daylight came it was so foggy we
couldn't see ten yards. We had just
loaded our boat with fish when the
fog so settled upon us so that we
couldn't tell which way to go for
home. We had no compass, for we
usually could hear the fog horn, but
now we could not, for the wind had
risen and was blowing toward the
land. Dropping a measuring line, my
father said he found we had drifted
about four miles out, and no telling
how far along. the shore. We were
tumbling about and could not keep
at our oars. We threw everything
overheard and drifted, we did not
know where. The water came into
our boat fast. After awhile we got
our direction and started toward the
beach, but the breakers were so high
that the boat stood almost on end,
We turned the boat about, and went
into the beach stern first, and just
as we were about to land a large
breaker came in and | was thrown
overheard, and when came to | was
lying on the sand with oil coats over
me.
AT another time my father went
away on business and left me in
charge of the nets. / went out with
a boy of about my own age. There
was dead swell on the lake, but
we paid no attention to 1t, and with
in an hour and a quarter were work
ing at the nets with the sail up. We
didn't notice the heat nor the grow
ing darkness. az we we're working so
fast. Finally a fash Of lightning
came and we saw a squall coming.
jumped for the sail and got it down
just in time. My companion pulled at
the oars and it took us two hours to
reach the harbor. Men standing on
the hill said that they could not gee
us half the time, the breakers were
so high. We saved our nets, all right,
while the other fishermen lost theirs.
"The life of a sailor is all right in
nice weather.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
THE vILENESS OF PORT SAID.
Righteous Men, Says This
Authority.

There may be viler towns than Port
Said. We have never seen them.
Leadville, in its most fourishing and
fercest days, could not equal this city
at the mouth of the Suez canal, says
a correspondent of the Kansas City
Journal If ten righteous men were
needed to save this town of $4,000 peo-
pie it would 60 unsaved. The inquiry,
ado you want anything?" which, in
Egypt, covers a multitude of sins, is
met with from small boys upon the
main streets Vice which in Ameri-
can cities hides itself in the back al
legs here faunts itself in gay gauze
garb and brazen face upon the boule-
wards. 1t is made town, on made
earth and its manufacture is not NOR
ally success. The few decent people
condemned by business necessity to
dwell in Port Said console themselves
hy the assertion that all new towns
go-through this period of viciousness
and Port Said is not quarter Of
century old. After seeing Port Said,
we do not wonder that Moses fed into
the wilderness.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1902-06-26
PUBLIC UNTIDYNESS.
National slovenIiness of the United
States Is Something to Oc-
casiOn Wonder.

The discovery that there is more OF
filth, squalor and general sloveliness
in public places and works, in streets,
squares, riversides, docks, quays,
roads and bridges in the United
States than in any other country OF
the first, or even second, rank is
humbling but salutary experience. In
what may be called our public house
keeping, in the outward appearance
and maintenance of places and works
administered by public or semi-pub-
lie enterprise we rank with Turkey
rather than with England or Ger
many. Oriental Japan, tiny Switzer-
land and slOw-going Holland stand
far ahead of the United States in
this respect, says writer in the
Forum. Our national Sweetness is
seen IN dirty streets and unsightly
water fronts; in ill-kept squares,
ragged sidewalks, and abominable
payements; in shabby railway sta
tions and embankment walls built
up of rotting sleepers; and in
thousand shiftless substitutes for
solid permanent works. The unspeak-
able country roads which abound in
so many regions not only illustrate
the existence, but also demonstrate
the folly of this semi-barbarous
slackness of administration; for they
constitute the most costly means OF
transportation possible, impose a
heavy tax on every farmer and other
resident, and are clog upon the gen.
eral prosperity of the regions they
traverse. Tidiness and the efficient
maintenance of public works cost
more in the first outlay than negli-
gence; but they save this excess
many times over in the end.