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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-29

N the states OF Kansas. Nebraska ard
South Dakota I've United States seaa-
tors stood up in the recent senatorial con
ference and declared their uaendiaE ard
untiring opposition 70 reciprocity with
Cuba These senators were. Burton CT
kansas, Dietrich ard Afillard Of Nebraska.
ard Gamble and K1ttredgs ot south Da-
kota- And there Is something interesting
IN the looking back TOW ard seeing what
has happened il these very states
The Kansas state Republican conven-
ZION declared strongly and unequivocaiiy
fer Roosevelt and his Administrations his
policies and plans; and especially stated
II plain language SIS hearty accord with
him o. reciprocity with Cuba Net Only
that but Mr.. Lo1ss reciprocity utter
ances before that convention were loudly
and vociferousiy aYpIzuded- Sc much for
Blrtons state
IN Nebraska they Rad = Republican
state convention a week o. more a-o.
Senator's DIETRICH ard Nulzu5 sent long
statement % their attitude CT reciprocity
wiki Cuba 70 the conveat5oa- TITS state
uent vas received IN Silence ard lax
away without action 81; whsn the 1850
luuols cane not only vas Roosevelt In
5o-seS. but rs Cuaa reciprocity pols~y
was strongly commended 50 mach for
re state OF Dietrich arE NInara
II south Dzketa there vas a Rerus-
lican state cozvsEtioa 7ot loaE $50
Charles II. BErks. ore q re ss-o-r ns~
uea 81 the house and Es.n Martin sre
representatives from thst STATE L vas
al they could CO. s;auach frse-5s OF tie
ssz1irist-zttoa as they are. &C keep cur
szo1g endorsement % reciprocity; AID
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
During the D7r.

fsuns to tune OF Bonnie Dundec)
There's old Sionewall, the febei' WIG
leans on his sword.
And while we are watching prays low to
the Lord:
Now each cavalier who loves honor and
right
Let him follow the feather Of Stuart to-
night.
Chorus.
zncn tighten ycss sirth and slacken your
rein,
Come buckle your Blanket and holster
again:
Try the click OF your trigger and balance
your blade
FOR he must ride sure who goes riding a
raid.
Then sallop. then gallop, to swim or to
ford.
Old stonewall, stu watching. prays low
to the Lord:
Goodbye. dear old rebel, the rivers not
wide,
And Maryland's lights in her window to
p,,;dc. Chorus.
Then gallop, then gallon. through raVine
and rocks,
who would bar us our way takes his toll
in hard knocks;
For With these points of steel on the
lire OF Penn.
We have made some fine strokes and Will
make them again. Chofus-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
A WARTIME STORY
3oan River, The Scene of a Daring Epi-
sode Of the Civil War.
Especial Dispatch to The Tines

(special Dispatch to The Times.)
HEATHSvILLE, VA, Dec. 2o.-Coan
River, near this place, was the scene Of
one Of the most daring events during
the Civil War, Of Which no mention has
ever been made by any writer. During.
the fall of the year 1861 Mr.. Thomas, q
native of Baltimore City, crossed over in
70 the Confede. ate lines and made his
way to Richmond. where he saw Presi-
lent Davis and told him that II he would
furnish him with one or two companies
Of soldiers he would capture the war
ship Pawnee, which was then lying at
he mouth of the Potomac, and continu-
ally shelling the soldiers on shore. At
that time a steam passenger boat, the St
Nicholas, Which was then plying between
Baltimore and Washington, was accus-
toned to stopping somewhere between
these points and delivering mail to the
Pawnee.
h.r. Thomas disguised himself as a
French woman and with several picked
menboarded the st. Nicholas at the Bal
tiinoce dock; they had their trunks illled
with arms, and as soon as the BOAT &had
gotten well under way the captain was
taken prisoner and the pilot, 1.-THE point
Of the pistol; was. ordered to pilot tho
st. Nicholas in Coan River to- Coan
Wharf, where part Of the Second Ten
nessee Regiment came aboard lheE then
proceeded down the river 70 the mouth
Of the Potomac. where the ST. Nlcnolas
was to give the Pawnee ner+ mai ana
when Mr. Thomas expected 10 oeard ana
capture her. For some reason the raw raw
nee had been previously ordered to
Washington consequently Mr. Thomas
lid not capture her; had he met with the me
Pawnee he would have been undouptealy
successful. He captured seve.al scnoon.
ars loaded with provisions, which ne seh l'
% Fredericksburg; he also CAPTURED q
brig. which. owing to the shalloWness q
The water. had to be left at Iappa!1aih-
mock. The st, Nicholas was burned d 'A1o
evacuation of Fredericksburg
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
No One to Gove.

(Rv A II G. Richardson.)
no one to love. none to caress,
Roaming alone through this worlds Wll.
dcrnass:
Sad is my heart, Joy is unknown,
For in my sorrow am weeping alone;
w gentle voice. no tender smile.
Make me rejoice, or cares beguile.
CHORUS
No ono one to love. none to caress.
Koarnjns alone through this worlds will
derress:
Sad Is my heart joy is unknown,
20, in my. sorrow I'm weeping alone.
L; dreams alone, loved ones I see.
And well-linown voices then whisper to
me:
sighing wake waking 7 weep:
Soon with the loved and the lost I shall
sleep.
Oh. blissful rest! what heart would stay,
uploved. unbless'd, from heaven away?
Chorus.
No one to love. none to carcss,
None to respond to this hearts tender
ness!
Trusting I wait: God in his love
Promises rest in his mansions above:
Oh, bliss in store: on. JOY mine own.
There never more to weep alone!-Chorus.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
HOW COKE is MADE
Thousands of Ovens in Fla. Top Field.
Beautiful Scene at Night

BLUEFIELp, w, VA, Dec. i3.-Spe-
GALA trip through the Fiat Top coal
field at night reveals a scene. the beauty
OF which impresses every traveller.
There Is nothing prettler on a dark
night than tho long strings OF blazing
coke ovens to be seen from one end OF
rho field TO the other. There Is a GER
8, =, IA s.;na.ifJt, about them that attracts
one fror, the first and makes one almost
,Y,-b himself a resident OF the section,
Notwithstanding the generally accepted
oninion that the coal fields are populat-
"a rIth tho toughest element OF labor
to no found anywhere on earth.
Tn this connection a short sketch OF
rho nrocess by which coke is manufac-
t,,raa would not be anliss. The style OF
oI.er principally used is the beehive
tvne They are built in solid VOWS az
anv number consistent with the character
OF the surface OF the ground. They may
be bank ovens, a single row built
against a bill, or block ovens. q ,doubis
row on open ground: The coal IS csS.
risd to them in larries holding enough
coal to charge the oven and running on
a track built on top OF the row of
ovens. The coal is charged from the
larry into the ovens through hole in
the TOD. ne process Ct applying t!ie
neat Is where we find many people mys-
tiled or laborins under wrong irspre>
sion. When the oven IS new the hea. =
applied by burning wood unit. the hrtcEa
get thoroughly hot The oven is then
charged with coal ana ignites. The burn.
ing is from the top OF the oven to ths
base.
when the coke Is; ready to draw tbs
door in front Of the oven IS opened ana
the cooling process started This is done
By quench.ng with water through a hose
pipe manipulated by the drawer When
cool enough to handle the drawer pulls
the coke out on tho yard with a large
iron scraper, finishing the queneilins OUT.
side. as too much water permitted N she
cven would tend TO reduce the heat ~
soon as possible after the oven IS emps'esa
it is recharged from the larry. with ehs.
same quantity OF coal as before: anu
the burning process commences inssahsly
from the heat OF the oven. inns con-
tInues during the entire period the oven
is In operation.
There are several thousand ovens. m 'ne
Fiat Top feld and solid trains OF eohe
leave the Held daily. The output IS euo..
nous. and is continually increasing
| transrorta ton. facilities were such as 20
Justify Il the present output Weulu % @
doubled IN asyery short waaA S
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21

hauling the peanuts to the Sheffield
house, picking up the scattered peanuts.
Two or three OF them had gone that
morning and gathered some of the scat
tered peanuts, brought them to the house
ard ate them.
There it was that little Luna returned
alone for the same purpose and the last
trace Of her was the little bare foot
tack at the entrance Of the little foot
path, where It left the peanut field. 1t
was to this point that the famous blood
hound followed the trail. but no further.
A few hundred yards from this point
g. great body OF wild, tangled woods be-
gin, consisting of two or three thousand
acres and through which passes Hatch
ers Run Creek, famous for its war
history.
The saw mills have cut nearby all the
timber out Of the woods, and the thick
underground, the broom straw, the bam-
boo thiekets, the swamps along the
stream and the vast stretches of 1t all.
Herder it one of the most formidable
rEeces for any one lost and especially
child, that is known anywhere In this
country. And then when we recall that
1t was a dsnsely foggy morning when she
left the house, one Is almost driven to
the conclusion that the lost theory IS the
correct one.
!
large portion Of this country to-day along
an obscure road and came to the conclu-
sion that not only could child be easily
lost in It, but also that large searching
party might never ind It. And so vast
is this wilderness and so far IS mucn OF
It from any dwelling. that vultures fesa-
ing on dead body might never be seem
or course any theory of the chlid
disappearance has its difficulties AAu
tn. theory that the child was lost 10
this wilderness has its difficulties flfss,
Tho blood hound could not carry the tran
beyond the peanut lot. Then fifty peop.e
searched the woods as closely as posi-
BILE The child was five years oid .i.o
22d OF last March. and was spllsi.ei, =.
tending the public school, and II seems gen
that she would have found one, % , .ns
obscure roads in the welI-hlgh .rach.esS
woods ana followed 1t to some ope'''A'e.
KIDNAPPING THEORY.
Tha kidnapping theory is the only one
.,of, and that too. has its difficulties. ne
rad is not much freauenseo. ~ o' ps az,
1a IS that way. A Gypsy camp III u4a
+,nt I,.,It Of the state has bsen raioed III
.an -. 20 tn. Nan who was separated 5froEt
,,;a vita End was supposed to nave got
tan Tho child through mistake. mas writ
tar HIS wife that he has 1t not
c,sc,r Gardeu, OF Washington, D.
no. written the mother that on Sun.
da, following the disa ppearance OF the
child. he saw in Washington hotel
,,.aII- ressed couple with a little girl some
what answering the description OF the
lost child. and who was crying at ths
trn OF its voice: IT don't want to go with
ycu. won't be good But having not
heard atthe time OF any kidnappin case.
S lie did not make any investiga ton. He
wrote that he had reported the case to
police headquarters. and II they found
any clue. would report to her. The let.
for Is dated November 18th. and nothing
further mas been reported
The only thing left to- support the kid
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
Mother come back from the echoles

Mother come back from. the echoless
shore;
Take me again to your heart as of
sore.
Kiss from my forehead the burrows OF
care.
slnoot. the few silver threads out Of my
hair,
Over my slumbers your loving watch
keep.
Rock me to sleep, mother. Rock me to
to sleep
over my heart in the days that are flown.
No one like mothers love ever has -shone;
No other worship abides and endures.
Faithful. unselfsh and patient like yours.
None like a mother can charm away
pain
From the sick soul, and the world weary
brain.
s;umbers soft. calm DER my heavy Ids
creep,
Rock me to sleep mother, Rock me to
sleep.
Mother. dear mother, the years have been
long.
Since I last listend to your lullaby song
Sing. then. and unto my soul 1t shall
seem.
womanhoods tears have been only a
dream
Claspct, to you heart in loving embrace,
With Your light lashes just sweeping my
face
Never hereafter to wake or to Weep
Rock me TO sleep. mother. Rock me to
sleep.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
9 Mant a Boau.
Try w a,,,nn \

tBy w. J. Lemon.)
want a beau! I want a beau,
IT'S sweet-at least they tell me So
To waltz. or walk. or sail, or row.
With him YOU mean to marry;
And then-but, OH 1t must be sweet
To have one k1eeling at ones feet,
And hear him there his vows repeat.
ByJove but I will marry:
I want n beau! I want a beau!
IT'S sweet-at least they tell me So
To waltz, or walk. or sail, or row,
: With him YOU mean to marry.
!. I'm old enough to- have a beau!
And oft tell my mamma so!
She oft replies. con! no; OH no,
YOU are too young to marry
Odd looks its always this with those
Within whose bosom coldly flows =
The streams of love to bellies and beau,
Who have q mind to marry.
T want beau, etc. 80
know he loves :Tne--and he came
This very night to tell his tiame:
He called me every, pretty name.
And asked me if I'd marry.
7 blushed-as every modest maid
On such occasions willard said:
Dear sir, I feel somewhat afraid
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
A Times Correspondent Minutely
. Describes the Location.
MYSTERY IS STILL UNsoLvED
a Careful Study of the Local Conditions
Leads This Correspondent to Be-
i ,ieve That the Child Was Lost !.
in the Great Wilderness.
lsnecia1 Dispatch to The Times.1

MEDIRIAN, VA, Dec. 20.-Your cor
respondent has just returned from WIS.,
it to the home of the lost child. Luna
mot Bula) Virginia Joyner, situated
about two miles from Church Road depot
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad,
where I found her mother, Ida V. JOY
ccr and her grandmother, Mrs. Chandler
,spd several of the little children, still in
suspense and anxiety about the little girl
whose mysterious disappearance from
hcme several weeks ago has cast q.
shadow. not only over that humble home,
Tut also OVER the homes all over the ma.
ton where the sad story has been told.
The house in which the family live and
it's environments are very plain. Well
nigh rude The dwelling has one room
IN front with fire place and she'd
rCcm in the rear, and while 1t Is q frame
house, the undressed boards are upright
ard. the joints broken by battens. In the
rear Of the house and a few feet from
Il is a log cook room In which the mother
vas al work when the little one went
off on the fatefull stroll from which she
has never and probably will never re-
turn.
The house is situated about three quar-
tiers Of a mile from the public road, but
Immediately on a neighborhood py-road
rot much frequented. It is Abullt near
enc side Of the small farm and IN sight
of the home OF Mr.. Sheffield. a peanut
lot of some three or four acres, OF Mr.
Shehield's runs up within 100 YARDS Q.
the Ioyner house On the southside OF
the pea ute d IS ANAL body IT FOOD
on the north de OF it and lying between
1t and the neighberhood road is broom
straw field. About halt way between
the Joyner home and the Sheffield home
is we'll worn foot path, leading through
tie straw field from the peanut patch to
/ the road. Ssz
PICKING PEANUTS.
s5sss The Joyners children had followed where
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
am too young 10 rnarry!''
I want a beau, etc.

He pressed his suit-wl1at could do?
I answered take me- so would you,
And. truth to say, think there's few
Who can, but that will marry.
The Rubicon is passed-what then!
Why I must wed the best OF men;
| trust | shant regret the When
l first resolved to marry.
I've got d beau, etc.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
Popular Song and Poems
Dear to the Ola Joutho
djo The Times y
And the light Of the camp fires are
cleaning.

And the light Of the camp fires are
cleaning.
A tremulous sigh, as the gentle night
wind
Thro' the forest leaves slowly is creep
ing,
While me stars up above, with their
keep guard DER the army while sleep
There's only the sound Of the, lone
sentry's tread,
AS he tramps from the rock to the
foun tain,
And thinks OF the two in the low itrundle
Far away IN the cot OH the mountain
His musket falls slack-l1is face, dark.
and grim,
Grows gentle will, memories tender.
AS he mutters a prayer for the children
asleep
And their. mother-"n1ay Heaven de-
fend her
Then drawing his sleeve roughly over
his eyes,
He dashes off the tears that are WELL
ing:
And gathers his gun up close to his
AS il to Keep down the hearts swelling.
He passes the fountain. the blasted pine
tree.
And his footstep IS tagging and weary:
Yet onward he goes, thro' the broad belt
or light,
Toward the shades of the forest so
dreary.
Hank! was it the night wind that rustles
the leaves?
was 1t the moonlight SO wond'rously
flashing?
It looked like rife! .'Ha! Mary, good
bye!''
And his ufe-blood is ebbine and plash-
ing.
"All quiet along the Potomac tonight
No sound save the rush Of the river
While soft falls the dew on the face Of
the dead. SOL q. 1tss
.The Piclset's" off duty forever.
Tne moon seems to shine as brightly as
That night when the love yet INV
spoken,
Leaped up to his lips, and when low muir
mur'd VOWS
Were pledges, to he ever unbrcl1en.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
All Quiet IA!ong
j. Jh2 Potomac Tonight

{By Lamar Fontaine.l
All quiet along the Potomac tonight
Except here and there a stray picket
Is shot, as he walks on his beat to anu
fro
By riaeman hid in the thc5et.
It's nothing. q private Or two now and
then.
viii not count in the news Of the,
battle. asa
No an officer lost only one OF the men
Moaning out all alone the death rattle.
"A,l quiet along the Potomac to-niglt'
Where the soldiers lie peacefully
dreaming.
And their tents IN the rays of the clear
autumn moon.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21

raupIng theory is this: a near neighbor
Of shady reputation was told that the
child was lost and asked to joined in the
search He promised to do so but did not
a, d he never visited the family since tho
child disappeared. though there have
bten no strained relations between the
families.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
WHEN IN WANT

Il pure medicine go or send % Owens 6
dinor Drug Company, opposite postott1ce,
where You viii had everything usuals
Kept in first-class retail prescription
lrug store. "A fill line Clutches. Trusses.
sBraces. Rubber Goods. S fresh &c sIo :.
sLowney's candy received weekly. he he
member the place for med cine .
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
DEAR q of The Grecn.

ARRANGED lsby H. Werner.l
On. Paddy, dear. and did you hear the
news that's going round?
The shamrock is forbid by law 10 grow
on irish ground
Saint Patrick's Day no more we'll keep.
his color can't be seen.
Tor there's a bloody law agin' the wearlh
Of the green.
met with Nappers Tandy and he TUX me
by the hand,
Arc he said how's poor ould Ireland and
how does she stand?
She's the most distressfsil country that
ever you have seen,
They're hanging men and women there
for wearin of the green.
Then since the color VIC must wear is Eng
lands cruel red
Sure Ireland s sons VIII ne er forget the
blood that they have shed:
You may take the shamrock from your
hat and cast it on the sod.
But twill take root and flourish stu, tho
underfoot It's trod.
When The law can sto, the blades of
grass from growing as they grow,
Ard when the leaves in summer t'r1e
their verdure dare not show,
Then ! will change the color l wear IN
my corbeen,
But till that day, please God. I'll stick
to wearin' Of the green
J,ut if at last our color should be torn
from 1reland's heart.
Her sons with shame and sorrow from
the dear ould soil will part;
I've heard whisper OF a country that hes
far beyant the sac.
Where rich and poor stand equal IN Rhc
light of freedoms day.
oh! Erin, must we dave you. driven by
the tyrant's hand:
Must we ask mothers welcome from a
strange but happier land?
Where the. cruel cross Of Englands thrali-
dom never shall be seen.
And where thank God. We'll live and
die. still wearin' Of the green.
Rock ne 10 Ci~ep, Nothef.
Words by Florence Percy)
Backward. still backward, oh time in your
fight,
Make me child again just for tonight
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21

Al5t season But we believed in it, and We nade -
Lelie7e 1t is in its tenth edition. forced sucee-?
Perhaps; but the force in the book itself.
Emmy Lou as a Winner.
Very likely you've heard about EMMY LOU, dear
tle Emmy Lou Our friends the reviewers did her.
They ell in love with her ht and told everybody
approval land sometimes the other thing for
thusasm. And Emmy Lou herself? She is oong pretty
WE'LL thank you In her twentieth thousand and swiftly
growing up.
Ard Gahrie1 To1iver as Another.
When we got GABRIEL TOLLIVER we figured
that the reputation Of JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS
rive it big start and that the story itself would
do the rest tUr reason which we can't explain
there are quite things In the publishing hr-'-"ss
that get alone without adequate expnet NJ the
book didn't get under way promptly AS as 1t did
start however, it got warm ,elcome and the fourth
edition is now rapidly melting away in the warmth
A Word from the Man Who Knows 1t All
Saws the Man Who Knows 1t All, with warning
WAC of bis head 'Books OF short stories wont SELL We
dare say sone wont Others WILL We've got that has,
THE MADNESS OF PHILIP. It's in It's tenth thousand.
Like Emmy LOU it's about children but isn't juvenile
We've had luck with j.renes, too Twenty-Five thou
sand children enjoyed Christmas MOTHER GOOSE
(DENSLOW's variety last year Even more are crying
for it this season. Our luck with M'CLURE'S chill
DREN's ANNUAL is the luck Of the man who learns
something he didn't know before fes; we've got sew
eral things to learn yet; but we're young-and iing)
The Annual taught to print enough next time It's
ont Of print now, and can't get more in time for
Christmas.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21

PICKING aPEANUTS.
The Joyners children had followed where
The Wa8onshad gone several .dayS before
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-12-21
In Conclusion.

!, Many books of many kinds, we
publish. They vary in substance as
widely as the mind Of man. But
70 one virtue they may all lay
claim: they are beautiful inside and
outside; they will show, on shelf or
fable. like ornaments-thls, too, ls
element IN their success, 1t is
no,nt TO bear In mind on the day OF
Christmas shopping,