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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-21
FINE WATER CRESS
william Greer Remembers His
Friends in the civ.

Mr. William Greer. the big farmer, hotel
and stockman. Of Cairo. was in the city
yesterday In the little lakes on his place,
which are fun of bass. and where much
duck shooting in season takes place. and
along the margins Of the Minnesota.
which runs through his lands water
oress grows in luxuriant abundance.
tender and pupgent He brought ia with
him yesterday several baskets of this de-
hcious cross to his friends and the editor
OF the Eagle was not forgotten.
Or Ada St John has returned from
NcGregor. Iowa, where she had been
called q week ago by the illness OF her
mother. who has since Improved.
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Card of Thanks.

The sincere thanks of the wife and
mother and other relatives Of the lately
deceased James r. Hayden are here by
rendered to the Knights OF Pythias. cleo
tric motormen and other friends who SO
nobly and sympatheucally contributed 10
&c comfort and material assistance OF
the family of the deceased during his
long spel Of sickness and Ak the funeral
arrangements. The mother q lIr Hay
den. as she returns 10 her home az War
rensuurg. No. looks back with mar<
franks to the good people of Wichita.
MRS HETTIE HAYDEN.
MRS. EMMA HAYDEN.
Daily Eagle. Delivered. ioc Per Week
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Mrs. Winslow's Soothlne syrup.

Has been used for over FIFTY YEARS
by MILLIONS OF MOTHERS for their
CHILDREN WHILE TEETHING, with
PERFECT SUCCESS. IT SOOTHEs the
CHILD. SOFTENS the GUMS. ALLAYs
sH PAIN. CURES WIND COLO and is
the best remedy for DIARRHOEA- Sold
by druggists IN every part of the world.
Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslows
Soothing Syrup and take no other kind.
Twenty-Five cents a bottle.
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FOUND NO FIRE.
Steam Mistaken for Smoke Was Cause
of Alarm

The fire department was called out yes
! terday afternoon about o'clock and
after making a long run, found no fire.
The building supposed to be on fire was
the residence Of Mr. Burke. 23l South
Fmporia. A steam pipe had sprung a
leak and steam was escaping through
the roof In the twilight the neishbors
mistook the steam for smoke and turned
in the alarm. None Of the family were
~ home
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-21

That white Kansas shale is a hum
bug We think the sands in the Arkan-
sas are the same. As to Kansas freaks
and humbugs. we have been opposed
all the time, and will say in conclusion
that the man who monkeys with either
OF them is a donkey. Haywood of To-
peka. please notice this. We showed
clearly that Closes gold was a fake and
70 our sorrow we are bound TO run again
the proposition again. Bashford the
chemist. Sioux City. Iowa 4-ltx
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-21

I would like a permanent position as
manager or salesman. References fur
nished. J. G. Barton. 2522 East First
street. 1-5tx
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Alfalfa HAY.

Sixty tons of good alfalfa hay. baled or
loose. Telephone f. Cox, No. 109. 1014
East Douglas lott
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anted.

Prepossessing young lady for the stage.
Experience unnecessary. can or write j.
Osborne. 141 North Topeka. 3-2tx
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Reward.

I viii pay ten dollars for information
leading to the recovery Of three white
faced calves, about eight months old, hole
in left ear; escaped near Wichita stock
yards. l. ?. CAMPBELL Wichita, Kan.
Wed-Fri- SuR-3t
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Fnrnrs AInenIrnnter- RIutheleber.

l viii continue the agency and serve
my patrons as before at my Office over
hardware store 22S East Douglas avenue.
Emil Werner. S-4tX
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Now Is the time to buy baled hay.
Prices reasonable and prompt delivery.
E Cox. Tel. lo9 1M4 E. Douglas. 7o-tf
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Go to Sturgeon Grocery company. 25S
North Main. Saturday. and get cup Of
Hanley & KinseIa's celebrated Coffee,
free. Served by the young ladies of the
Central Christian church. 3-StX
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Notice

Attend Wichita Business College. Wan
Building. 1l4-Il6 North Market St s1-tf
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RECITAL

HISS MABEL MILLISON, Reader
Assisted by Prof c. A. Ellenberger
Mrs. Henry Wilson, Mrs Fred Hammers.
Plymouth CONGREGATIONAL Church.
Tuesday, November 25th.
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These Special Offerings for Saturday

View show window display for repre-
sentative showing OF two hundred Untrim
med Hats, this seasons newest and bes
shapes Hats that sold earlier at 75c, 81
SI7s, $3.50, SI.75 and S2.oo. They all g
in this Saturday morning sale at Thirty
nine Cents
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-02

Morning and evening the prisoners
are marched along the road from
and to their temporary quarters,
which consist usually of either heavy,
large tents, portable houses on
wheels or structures of wood or cor
rugated iron, built in sections, so
they can be easily taken to pieces,
removed, and set up again. In or
der to facilitate their being safely
guarded during the night without
too great risk and expense, each
prisoner, when he goes to bed, has
either one foot or one hand fastened
loosely to chain or rod. from which
he can be easily released the follow
ing morning. The beds or hunks for
these prisoners are easily and cheap
ly made comfortable, and the COM
fort If their temporary quarters is
improved during the summer by
ample ventilation and during the
winter by the use of stoves.
The cost of convict labor in road
building, as might be expected, varies
greatly with the efficiency or inetfi-
cheney of the management and the
number of prisoners employed in any
squad The cost per convict per day
in this work, including the cost of
his food, tobacco, clothing, washing,
medical attendance and guarding, as
reported for the year 1900 from rep
resentative counties in each of the
several southern states is given:
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-02

A comparison of the figures given
with similar figures for hired labor
shows that the cost of convict labor
in several states ranges from one
third to one-half that of the hired
labor employed on the public roads
in those states. In the two Caro-
linas and Georgia, where the road
work is carried on with great eff
ticiency, the cost of maintaining and
guarding the convicts at work on
the public roads ralEes in many
counties from 20 to 80 cents per con-
Wet per day, and is even consider
ably less than the cost of feeding
them IN the county Jail. In explana-
ton of this fact, it may be said that
during the stay of convicts in the
county jail the jailor is paid so much
per day for feeding and caring for
each; but that while they are en-
ployed on the public roads provisions
are purchased at wholesale and COM
petitive rates: that the convicts do
their own cooking and washing; and
that, owing to the usually healthy
condition of the convict camps. the
cost of medical attendance is almost
nothing. j. A. HOLMES.
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Building Roads With Convict
Labor i'm the South ~ ~ ~ ~
Systerns That Have Worked Successfully in
Several Southern States.

found better to divide the force into
two squads or camps, each having its.
own local superintendent and guards,
and both squads managed under the
general supervision of the county SUI
perintendent of roads, he in turn
being responsible to the county court
or board of county commissioners.
1t is usually urged against this
system of road building that it offers
too many opportunities for the es-
cape of prisoners. Experience in
many counties, however, has shown
that the average annual escapes
amount to less than two per cent,
and the few who do escape are usu-
ally recaptured within day or two.
Often the prisoners assigned to the,
roads are men who live in the COM
munity and have families and some
property there, and consequently do
not care to leave permanently; hence
they rarely attempt to escape. Such
prisoners as show desire to escape,
or who, in the judgment of the SUI
perintendent, are men liable to make
an effort in that direction, are usu-
ally required to carry ball and
chain, which, while it makes it i'm
possible for prisoner to run rapid
ly, does not seriously hamper his
movements in the regular road work.
On the other hand, the convict who
does his work faithfully and shows.
himself worthy is often rewarded by
receiving generous treatment.
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ton and at cost actually less, in
.--.--.y cases, than that of his keep in
the county jail, he is benefiting his
community without imposing on it
an additional tax burden; he is not
in the ordinary sense competing with
hired labor, and he is doing work
which hired labor does not care to
do unless paid such wages as will
prove q too serious drain on the
public treasury.
This method of employing convict
labor in u majority of the southern
states may be fairly said to have
passed the experimental stage, and
to have become part of the ac-
cepted practice.
The use of convict labor in public
road building is most largely prac-
ticed in the states of Georgia, Ten
nessee, Texas, North Carolina, South
Carolina and Kentucky in the order
named In Virginia, where only %
convicts are reported as having been
used on the public roads Of the state,
and these confined to four counties,
anu III NllCIc OILY 81 COu-
victs are reported as being used on
the public roads in two coun-
ties, the system is still in its
infancy. In Arkansas, Florida,
Louisiana and Mississippi the sys-
tenn has been more largely adopted,
but in these states only sholt-term
convicts are used, and in most of
the counties the number so en-
ployed is small; consequently the per
capita expense is large, which is also
the case in Alabama. Hence, even in
these states, the custom has not vet
been established on a satisfactory
basis.
Laws of the different states on this
subject usually specify that only
able-bodied male convicts sentenced
for short terms are to be assigned
to work on the public roads In the
states of Virginia. West Virginia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi, Texas, Florida and Georgia
prisoners convicted of misdemeanors
only may be assigned to work on the
public roads, and for these the SEN
tence does not usually exceed one
year, which, when the costs are add
ed, may be thereby extended to near
ly two years in extreme cases. In
Alabama, in a few cases, all able
bodied male prisoners whose terms
of sentence do not exceed two years
may be assigned to work on the pub
lie roads. In South Carolina this
limit is extended to five years, and in
North Carolina to ten years
AS a rule, it has not Eeen found
economical to work convicts on the
public roads when the squad consist
ed of less than eight or ten men. 1t
is customary to have one guard for
each ten or Is men, and, of course,
this one guard would be necessary
even were there only one or Two men
in the squad. In addition to the
guards, there is usually Il superin-
tendent OF the work; consequently
this work is carried ON most eff
GENTLY when the road force or camp
contains from SC to so men. When
the number of convicts to be en-
ployed on the roads in any county IS
more than so or 60. it has been
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-02
Quite Unbiased.

A Texas judge was robbed of a
horse not long ago and the thief,
being apprehended, was brought be-
fore him for trial. The judge eyed
the prisoner with deep satisfaction
for minute or so and then delivered
himself thus:
Owing to a personal prejudice, the
court will not hear this case. 1T will
be tried by the bailiff, who will find
verdict in accordance with the
facts.
"In the meantime" added his
honor, impressiyely, "the court will
go outside and prepare rope and
pick out good tree."-Chicago Jour
nal,
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A Kentucky Conver.atiou.

"Mos' strange case, cunnel,' said
Maj. Giddley, looking up from his pa
per. "Hyuh's a story about q pusson
down east who was undeh watch fob
half an hou', an was finally resusci-
tated by the doctahs afteh fo' hou's
wo'k."
'suttenly strange" assented the
colonel, pausing in the preparation of
an appetizer, "but, sub, yo' mus &C.
knowledge that it would have been ut
tehly impossible to have saved that
pusson had he had the watch inside Of
him. 1t was only the fact, sub, that
the dange'ous element was on the ex.
terioh of his body that enabled the doc,
tohs to fetch him to life again, subj
Baltimore American.
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"And the brigands," said the man
who was telling the story, latter writ
ing me several letters demanding a
ransom for my wife, sent me lady
finger as proof that they really held
her captive"
Terrible! Terrible!" sighed his
hearers.
eyes, wasn't it?'' he blithely said.
''She got them to let her try several
other things, but they soon sent her
home and gave up all thought of ran
som, for they couldn't stand her cook
ing at all. But as soon as they sent
that lady finger I knew it was her
work. 1t was hard as rock, and had
brigand toothmarks all over it."-Bal-
timore American.
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A Decided Gump.

Dora-Mr. Nicefello seems to have
bad cold.
Clara-Well, it's his own fault.
When he called last evening he sat
down on a chair way off by himself,
although there was loads of room on
the sofa. Then, to give him an excuse
for moving, l complained Of the heat,
and opened the window behind him,
but there he stayed, like a gump, the
whole EVENING". Y. Weekly.
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1t Was Ever Thus.

Some time after ten had been
counted the defeated pugilist revived
sufficiently to be interviewed.
II shall never fight again. he said,
but the next time l get into the
ring with that slob I'll knock his
block Oft. l was fairly beaten, and
my opponent showed great skill and
tremendous hitting power, although
it was chance blow and l was
doped. Toledo Bee.
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Jewett-What was that?
Went n. He Had Come.

At the finish of football match re-
Gently youngster, in his hurry to get
out, scrambled over the paling that
surrounds the ground.
A burly policeman, standing by,
shouted to him as he was about to drop
outside: "You young rascal, why
don't you go out the way you came
in?"
$50 l am" sho lted the boy as he van
ished into the crowd.-Tit-B Bits.
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HE principle which obtains
in the punishment of the
criminal is the prevention
of crime, both by reform
inr or Dermanent1v con.

EfMfA IN Jne punishment OIL Une
criminal is the prevention
NWEX of crime, both by reform
sSa ing or permanently con-
filming him and by deter
ring others from following his bad
example. In the accomplishment of
this purpose it has come to be gen.
orally admitted that during the in
Fiction of punishment the physical
health of the prisoner should not be
impaired; and that everything pos
sible should be done looking to such
improvement of his character as
may fit him for better citizenship.
Another principle, in no sense out
of harmony with the first, and which,
in this connection, is worthy of more
general acceptance, is that the pris-
oner who has injured the community
through the commission of crime,
and whose capture, conviction and
punishment have added to its finan-
cial burden, should, if possible, in
connection with his punishment, do
something to benefit the community
which he has injured. The correct
ness If this principle is coming to
be widely accepted in the southern
states, where the belief prevails
that perhaps the best way in which
a criminal can benefit the community
he has injured is in helping to i'm
prove its public highways. And in
doing this work without compensa-
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-02
His Little Deal.

"Ha, hal" exclaimed the summer
boarder; "you actually bought q
gold brick?"
eyes," answered Farmer Corntos-
sci, as he took the specimen tender
ly and laid it on the mantel shelf.
"All the city folks that came here
expected to see one. 1t seemed like
they wouldn't believe I was regu-
lar farmer unless 1 could show gold
brick. So l went to town and this
500 in confederate money and a Can
ada quarter, which is cheaper than I
could have made one myself. Wash
ington Star.
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The Importance Of Numbers.

what do you regard as the most
important element of young mans
education?"
"Arithmetic," answered Senator
Sorghum. you can employ someb body
TO do your reading or your writing.
But when it comes to figuring out ex-
penses or profits, you want to give the
subject your close personal atten-
ton" -Washington Star.
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Two Mistnkes.

INSTEAD of being a millionaire"
confided the young man at the sea-
side hotel to the beautiful heiress, 81
believe it is only honest, now that
we are engaged, for me to tell you
that l am the floor walker at Catch
EN- & slinem's dry goods emporium
in New York;
81 thought there was something
familiar about you," answered the
beautiful heiress. 81 am in the rib
bon department there" -Baltimor
American
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Same Thing,

Bragg-Miss Pepprey acted as if she
thought l was conceited. Did she say
SO?
Miss Sharpe-No, she merely said
your greatest fault was your unlim-
fled credulity.
Bragg-1ndeed?
Miss sharpe-Yes, she said you be-
ieved in yourself without sufficient
reason.-PhiIadelp Press.
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A Waste of Breath,

Miss Kulcher-You can always tell a
woman who has enjoyed the benefits
of higher education.
Mr.. Crabbe-Not much! You can't
tell her anything; she thinks she
knows it ALL Catholic Standard and
Times.
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the period life the permanent pos
session of the world unless they through
hood The results OF child study have shown the
world that is at the Of from IS the opening period
adolescence that the individual
OF culture and refinement In lives this
OF the real educational and religious instincts 1t is the waking
OF lite in body mind and heart Now find that subtle
tons are settling dispositions and dispositions becoming
character The instincts of alum begin be felt
transform the SOUL and there the individual great
ceptlon that life after all be lived SELF Others
There comes to the soul the instinct of sbodnaon sacrifice
OF beng ready to die for that should live o 1t this
Rod that the principles of religious character surely a
propraed by the life OF the individual This the
ton the Creek Roman and Lutheran churches The
the leading Protestant churches show that this the age
occur the greatest number Of lasting conversions.
The GREAT NEED OF THE COMPLEX CIVILIZATION
OF The TWENTIETH CENTURY, with its diversity
zeal interests its conflict of principles and the struggle
is CHRISTIAN MANHOOD But the agencies develop
1nent OF this quality the of the people
The churches and the Sunday schools their many
aty doing much but they have week and
nearly hall the children brought influence
at all If the principles of Christian character predominant
IN the future civilization of America the schools
the responsibility, in least giving children
that come under their charge basis Of religious education
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-02

CocoanYt trees grow in large planta.
lions close to the shore all over the
Philippine islands. Within the last 10
years the trade has increased tremen-
dously The product is periodically af-
fected by heavy typhoons, but it re-
quires only a few years to pick up
AGAIN.
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The Gauge of Fun

did he have a good time on his
vacation?'
did he? Well, say! If you could
see the blisters on his hands and the
way his nose is peeling you wouldn't
ask any such foolish question:
Brooklyn Eagle.
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His Epitaph,

Here lies one who for fifty years,
Appreciated natures bounty;
For, though little man, he was
The biggest eater in the county.
Chicago Tribune.
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EvOlutiOn

Strike for your affairs and your fires"
They said in that historic day.
Time has remodeled mems desires,
And now they strike for better pay.
Washington Star.
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Their AdYautases

The clouds float aiNly all day;
The zephyrs sport upon the lea;
The ripples pass their time at play;
The brooks go singing to the sea,
While l work on-and that's the way
Those things are different from me-
Chicago Record Herald,
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George-Your father asked me if
thought l could support you in the
style to which you have been accus-
toned.
Mabel-What did you say?
George said l could, SO long as
my credit was good.-Chieago Amer
lean
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A Fortunate aIistake.

Hewitt-Gruet and his brother
were sick at the same time; they
had different diseases, but neither
was expected to live; in fact, the doc.
tor gave both up.
Jewett-And yet both recovered?
Hewitt-Yes, owing to an acci.
dent.
Jewett-What was that?
Hewitt-Their medicines got mixed,
and Gruet took his brothers and his
brother took his.-Brooklyn Life.
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putting and shores close
great ports direct touch with the markets
of the whole world
another ship canal connecting the great lakes with the At
1anc with landing the docks of Cleveland and Chi
and Milwaukee and Duluth and making the producing
section OF the whole world great ocean frontage.
another canal connecting the lakes with the Mississippi
and great of gdraft and barges carrying the
products of that great valley the steamship upon the lakes
American cable giving facilities for instant commune
with islands of the Pacific and the Orient those
supplying with hundreds of millions OF dollars worth OF their
products in exchange
the islands of the Gulf OF Mexico by knocking
doors and coming under the American flag and furnishing
through open doors their tropical products ngle with those Of
the islands Of the Pacific.
great railway line extending from Alaska the north
Argentina the SOUTH connecting the railway systems of the
continents and bringing the great that closer
relation with
steady growth of American influence and development
of closer commercial relations with neighbors the north and
the south.
magnificent fleet Of steamships controlled by American
capital and and Of them flying the American ag
..--o~cvery
Cline and sending them the interior of country
American engines American and upon American rails
the product of the American and factory every
throughout the civilized world and with this accomplishment
creased happiness all classes of American citizens.