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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
"PRAIRIE FIRE"
For the Eagle:

(Virgie Z Roe)
The sun went in at dim. high portals of massed
cloud
And closed the doors,
The soft air
Breathed DER the prairies like soul, which loving
much
Has lost its love-
And seeks forever for it in vague despair
A waiting hush fell on the music of the grass
small wild bird
Fluttered uneasily around her browsing brood and
cried
feeling of vague awe presaged coming i'll,
A plansborn steed
Oh prophet true,
Raised high his head and heard the story from the
And with a call
Stretched out his matchless graceful strength to-
ward the north,
To south and west
Spread that strange silence of the plains. dull,
red glow
Began to blush against the gateway of the night
And sing.
The spirit of the winds, all mad with Joy came out
To welcome it
And scatter all.
The smell of smoke and fire and burning DER the land
And bid it fear.
Great clouds of flame fed TO the sky in short-liyed
While others still
Reached up their plumy palms in 'Benedicte"
- OF death
TIL sky the universe, was one vast flood Of fire,
A glory grand
OF mercy void,
Not sparing cen the small defenseess crying things
That hurried blind away before its awful might
Engulfng all
1t came and roared itself away across the land,
And quickly died,
And left STILL great darkness brooding: here and
A lingering spark or shadows which exhaled scent
OF flesh.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
Y Ii e ~n@ q a / | y
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TIE Ro7TENNEss OF KANSAS AsYLUMs.

A present national state and municipal fashion
Is investigation" Commissions, committees. grand
iuries and court marals are all busy Investigating.
investigating departments legislators city council
men investigating officials institutions. contractors.
employees and what not. suspicion Of rottenness
end of crookedness universally prevails, is endemic
and epidemic The attack of corruption on the body
polite is esteemed yirulent, and honesty in civic
life exceptional Investigations Of every character
for the most part are inspired by newspaper crti-
cism. which in nagging on overly sensitive and
suspicious public conscience, ends in an inyestiga
tion the results of which as rule, are nil Invest
gatlcn in being fad, investigators are becoming
a graft Perquisites and emoluments are cogna
ton Of and adhere to and inhere in nvestiga
ton. The investigators in making showing for
their stipulated remuneration necessarily COM
PEELED to discover something that is angular or fraud
ulent, to find some perfdy foul play. or that is
disputable fshy, slippery ignominous 1t is that
for which they were appointed, commissioned and
paid
Last winter some newspaper exploited the sus-
picion that the Kansas state insane asylums were
places OF torture, OF VI Vic
bauchery and illicit intriguing In following the
lead the newspapers developed the fact that both
al the Topeka and Osawatomie asylums a few
attendants had been guilty of occasional brutality
The heads of these institutions were found to be
capable and worthy, and the general administration
of the affairs of the institutions reputable and praise
worthy That which was found to be wrong could
have been righted without farther cost, trouble or
scandal But the spirit of investigation being abroad
the legislature commissioned a committee to put
in the summer stirring up stink. The said COM
nittee have just turned in their report which we
have read, as we have also been for week read
ing the editorial reviews of that report. There
absolutely no new facts embodied in the report nor
any new ideas or suggestions in the aforesaid edi
torial comments It was all great cry and little
wool But then there is the satisfaction of an in
investigation and the pride of paying for it. The
calcium light Of the resolve for probity upon the
part of public officials having been turned is now
turned of and the public conscience can take
restfu snooze until the next cry of corruption and
demand for investigation alarm the land.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
CYCLONES IN The EAsT.

The former popular be.e1 that the so-called icy
clones" peculiar to the tornado belt Of the
west win have TO be abandoned. for it appears 10
have been demonstrated that these destructive
storms occur almost anywhere.
Within recent years tornadoes have developed
in the eastern section of the United Statesin New
England and in Pennsylvania and only the other
day Of them swept through the city OF Paterson
N ]. There was no 'funnelshaped cloud" with this
tornado. but it cut swah through the city at least
four hundred feet wide demolished thirty houses
and damaged more than three hundred. Three per-
killed and scores badly hurt. Big trees
feed and others twisted off in such
manner as to indicate the real nature of the storm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
THE popE,s PET PIGEON.

The Rome correspondent of the Lokal. Anzeiger
says that the Pope had been in the habit for
long time of feeding pigeon which came to his
bedroom window every morning The bird is very
tame and evidently attached to- the pontf
few days before his demise the pigeon alighted
and finding the window closed. tapped upon it with
its beak. The Pope heard the sound and ordered
that the window be opened, whereupon the bird
entered the room and perched the bed.
The Pope sent his valet for crumbs and fed the
pigeon from his hand. meanwhile caressing its
feathers. He instructed the valet to that the
bird was fed after his death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
IT WILL BE A GREAT SHOW.

For year or two the majority of people were
inclined to conviction that the St Louis exposition
would prove more of a sectional than a national
show, that a Worlds Fair it would not be in the
same class as the Columbian exposition of '93 in
Chicago. But after postponement and time
goes on it is becoming evident that the Louisiana
Purchase exposition is going to be the greatest spec
tacular and educational exhibit ever witnessed in
any country. Good authorities not connected with
the big exposition say that it viii be the greatest
and best demonstration ever made OF the progress
OF the arts and sciences Of the world That is good
news and it is the wish of ali sections of the
try that the patronage received shall be equal the
merits Of the immense undertaking which has been
bravely carried by city very much smaller than
Paris or Chicago. the only places where an interna
tional exposition has been held on scale approach
irg the magnitude Of the newest enterprise of like
nature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
TIE CHURCHES COMING rocE1HER.

Nothing so gratifying and so promising for the
future has occurred in the realm Of church life and
work during the present year. says a writer in Les
Hes, as the various movements set on foot for
reunion among the separated branches Of several
denominations and also for larger degree of unity
and cooperation among the churches generally II
respective Of UNCONVENTIONAL lines. More and more
the feeling is growing among earnest aud thoughtful
churchmen OF all sects and creeds that the churches
are wasting valuable means and energies by keep
Ing up so many divisions among themselves. and
that while organic unity among all denominations
l. cbristendom must be regarded as impracticable
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02
TIE uNLucKY YEAR OF 1908.

The above digts foot up the fateful number OF
- Whether that number is unlucky o not or
whether the horoscopes of the representations are
but lot air or not this year of Ammo Domini 1903
seems bent on a record of calamity. We had April
weather in March, June weather in May spring
to speak Of floods for weeks and summer hot as
hades coming on in a single day, and finally
drouth vergiLg the proverbial hot wind The
bottom has meanwhile dropped out of the stock
market the Pope has died, assassination has been
rampant in Servia revolutions in South American
states in which two or three dozen people were
accidentally killed an average daily railway wreck,
mobs and lynchngs galore, prison extrcations sui
cdes. murders and three-taied comet to say moth
ing of the spots on the and death from mosquito
bites For the first seven months of this to be- mem
orable year the fight along every line has been TO
finish with the Missouri booding cases still hang
ing fire and the postofice scandal, involving more
and more unsupported patriots. growing more sean
dalous every day With campaign till next
year there seems nothing to do but to resignedly
wait until congress meets and adjourns for the holt
days thereby a1ordng the opportunity of ushering
in a new year whose digits will figure up more than
thirteen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

even If it were desirable there is no good reason
why for example the Baptists should be split up
among themselves into thirteen distinct and separ
ate bodies the Methodists into seventeen, or the
Presbyterians into twelve. and it is evident enough
that until something is done to bring the scattered
members Of these denominational families together
it is useless to expect that the greater and more
serious divisions between the church viii be brdged
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Missouri papers are advising Attorney Folk as to
what they esteem his plain duty. The indications
all are that he under stands his plain duty and is
dischargng it with such effect will make it con-
veneht for the legislature of that state TO hold its
next session in the pententiary, thereby saving
both mileage and per diem and where it would be
safe from outside boodlng influences.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Leung Kai Chen who desires TO down Isl An.
the usurping old Dowager who holds four hundred
millions beneath her impeTous thumb, is esteemed
by the Chinese to be the greatest allround scholar
of the past four thousand years. WI Ting Fang,
who was such fad oracle IN America years
empire.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

The mayor of Topeka facing a big deficiency. is
advocating the licensing of every character Of street
vehicle. including suppose the gOcart, buggy
auto wheelbarrow, carriage. hack dray and lumber
wagon No man could be elected mayor OF Wichita
advocating such policy where the average voter
boasts from one TO three vehicles.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

The heir apparent to the throne OF Persia the
Shah of the land Of Omar Kshyan is coming to
view the wheat fields OF Kansas via the St Louis
exposition next year. it is said. The magnifcence
of his encourage surpasses that Of any potentate
that potentates.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

The newspapers Of Colorado are whining because
of the falling on CT visiting tourists this summer
in number only one-third OF last summer and won
dering why. The esteemed for information urged
TO read the fool game law passed by the Colorado
legislature last winter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Death armed with that old blood-stained scythe,
and wearing his time-straned meagre, hungry smile
is after Carnegie who is trying 10 die poor. by
burthening other people with about ten per cent Of
his ever increasing income.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

1T is easier for camel to 90 through the eye
Of a needle than for a rich man 10 enter the King
dom az God" Hadn't Andrew Carnegie better stop
giving long enough to study up some new scheme
Of dying poor?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Il looks as though Kansas was sure Of the Vice
Presidency in any and ali events. The Republican
party is talking Bristow and the Democratic OF Mack
Love while the Pop party has consented 10 accept
Dr.. Pratt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

For every ten cents per ton conceded TO the
miner the coal consumer is mulcted for about -
cents advance; still the consumer is morally i'm
PEELED 10 stand by the miner IN his demands
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Grover Cleyelsnd's calculation CT the capital
labor question failed Of calculating Il lacked vine
gar ani tbs IsaelasseS OF Doo< quality.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Nations rise and fall while races survive. but
who wouldn't rather he a billyEoat than be China
man. or be q peacock that Frshchman2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

Kansas City Is Initiating her municipal revenues
by arresting returning harvest hands from kan
cas- and lining them for vagraney.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-02

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The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06
JEWISH Immigrants
SHOULD COME SOUTH
Mayor Herman Myers Can Conceive of No Hap
pier Change from Russian Rule

In the Jewish Daily News of June 3,
copies of which were received in Sa-
vannah yesterday, appears an interest
ing letter from Mayor Herman Myers.
Mayor Myers favors restristed I'M
migration, and suggests that hose who
do come to this country can find no
better place to build homes han in the
south. The letter follows:
Il beg to state that l am advised that
Savannah has, in all probability, a
larger population of jewish people of
Russian birth or immediate descent
than any other city south of Baltimore.
After the riots in Russia in 1SS0-81 the
Jewish people of Savannah raised sew
eraI thousand dollars. This fund was
used to assist a number of families
which fled from Russian persecution
and located here.
I'm more recent years, too, there have
been a number of such immigrants
arriving and locating here. In no in
stance has any of these immigrants
become a charity on the public. Their
co-religionists have assisted them I'M
til they were able to provide for them
selves, which has generally been within
a comparatively short time, and num-
Der of them are now prosperous.
"All of them, l feel free to say, have
become good American citizens, obey
ing the laws, thrifty, industrious, edu-
eating their children and preparing
them to take their proper positions as
citizens of this republic.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06

PERFECTION BLUE FLAME OIL
stoves at Miller's. Use one once and
you will never be without it. We
have a complete assortment of mosqui-
to nets, canopies, frames of all kinds.
Summer mattings and rugs. Lace cur
tains and portieres. 207 Broughton,
west
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06

While this is true, 1 am not, and 1
do not believe any of our Jewish peo-
pie are, in favor of a sudden and great
influx of Jews from Russia or from
any other country. The openings for
such arrivals are necessarily limited,
for some time they must be taken care
of by their co-religionists, and while
the latter are willing to do all in their
power to assist refugees from such
persecution as has marked the history
of Russia it is evident that they can
not undertake to provide for a vast
number of immigrants at one time.
In the interest of all concerned it
is better that such immigration should
be of restricted character, few COM
ing in at time until we can acquaint
them with the conditions of life here
and get them started in new lines of
activity. You must not assume from
this, though, that we do not deeply
sympathize here with those who are
suffering in Russia and elsewhere.
I'm this connection venture to
suggest that some decided efforts be
made, in the event of immigratio from
Russia assuming any large proper
tons as the result of recent events
there, to locate the arrivals in the
country. The South offers many adj
vantages for them. Lands are cheap,
the climate is favorable, the people
desire to see the country settled up,
and l can conceive of no happier
change than from Russia to our South
ern states, with all the possibilities
they offer to the man who is energetic,
ambitious. honest and only awaiting
an opportunity to built himself a home
in land where he and his children
can enjoy true freedom, religious and
otherwise"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06
RACES AT HAWTHORNE.

Chicago. June 5.-Results at Haw-
thorne
First Race-One mile Sherry, to
5, won, with Full Back, 5 to /, second
and Itacatiara, Is to 1. third. Time
1:56 3-5.
Second Race-Five furlongs. Peter
Paul, 8 to 2, won, with st. Pauls, 4 ia
l, second, and Milkirk, 10 to l, third
Time 1907 AS.
Third Race-Six furlongs. Serge, IL
to 1, won, with Glassful, 5 to l, sec
ond. and Hayden. to /, third Time
1928.
Fourth Race-Seven furlongs. Lola
L. Is to 1, won. with Modicum, to /,
second, and Jet, Is to 1, third. Time
1:40.
Fifth Race-One mile and a quarter.
Malay, 30 to l, won, with Prairie Dog.
80 TO 1, second, and Compass, to /,
third. Time 1924 3-5.
Sixth Race-One mile. Haywood
Hunter, 10 to 1, won, with Galba, 3
to l, second, and Caxton. to l, third.
Time 1855 3-5.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06
SHOWS CARNEGIE's MOTIVES.
Steel Stakeholder Says Philanthropy
Is Not Iron Masters Ruling Pas

From the Boston News Bureau.
A stakeholder of the United States
Steel Corporation says: Having fol-
lowed the steel industry many years
through good and bad times and hav-
ing passed a good portion of my life
in Pittsburg, where have been famil-
lar with the steel industry in all its
phases, 1 read Mr.. Carnegie's recent
speech before the British Iron and Steel
Institute with a good deal of interest.
Il was amused rather than instruct
ed, for Mr.. Carnegie's conduct of his
business has been along anything but
philanthropic lines. He didn't make
Frlek, Phipps and other men prominent
in the Carnegie company partners from
phlIanthrOplc motives, but because he
realizes that they knew more about the
steel business than he did and it was
to his own advantage to make them
partners, but when each man became
a partner he required him to sign an
1ronclad agreement to sell his stock
back to him upon request at the COM
panys hook value. 1t was his request
to Prick to resign and sell his stock
that resulted in the big fight between
these interests, Carnegies idea of book
Value not agEseing with tricks knowl-
edge, and, taking the matter into the
courts. Prick won out and as a result
was many million dollars richer than
Carnegie intended him to be. There
was no philanthropy about this.
Mr.. Carnegie says that speculation
is the parasite of business, feeding
upon values, creating none, vet Mr.
Carnegie's entire fortune has been pos
slble only through speculation. He en-
tered the iron and steel business
through a fortunate speculation in oil
which gave him several hundred thou
sand dollars and it is to speculation
that he owes the fact that he was able
10 capitalize his interest in the Carne-
gle Steel Company into $500, 1000, 900 of
lnterest-bearing securities.
Mr.. Carnegie appears very solicit
tous about the poor workingmen who
nave become stockholders in the Unit
ed states Steel Corporation. He takes
great pains to point out the failures
IN the past in the iron and steel trade
out he fails to show how, in a case of
grave disaster to the United States
steel Corporation, he has, up to with
IN very recent period, been in a DO
siloh where he alone would benefit
,tnIough such disaster by reason of
noldlng practically all the bonds UNION
the property
read his entire speech, but I fail
eo 10 md any mention by him of the
recent plan of the company whereby
$25O,OOO,O0O safeguard bonds are to he
issued to protect those very working
men stockholders from any possibilifv
OF Mr.. Carnegie ever being able in
years OF adversely to secure the Unit
ed States Steel property.
IL ne is so solicitous for their fiji
ture, why does he not make an agree
lnent mat in case of disaster to the
;n ne Will refrain from foreclos-
way secure the workingmen from anv
possible loss? Instead he danns tbe
Perkins Steel plan with faint nraise
ana runs the knife in to show how nm
sa1e 1t is for the workingmen to in
their living" Owes 'nsih
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06

1t is worse than useless to create ex-
pensive highways to have them cut to
pieces by the use of narrow tires now
used for the hauling of heavy loads
in this state. Wide tires are of the
greatest value in preserving ordinary
dirt roads, says an exchange.
In France every freight and market
wagon is a road maker. The tires are
from three to ten inches in width,
usually from four to six inches. Most
loads are carried on two-wheeled carts,
with a single horse, the loads weigh
ing over two tons. With the few four
wheeled vehicles used in France the
tires are rarely less than six inches in
width, and the rear axle about four
teen inches longer than the fore axle
so that the rear or hind wheels run
about one inch outside of the level
rolled by the front wheels.
In Germany the law prescribes that
all the wagons drawing heavy loads,
such as coal. brick earth and stone,
must have tires at least four inches
wide. European countries have long
discarded narrow tires in order to pre-
serve and build their highways. and
also because IL is an economy in the
use OF the vehicle and the weight that
a horse is able to draw.
Wide tires are not only lighter in
their draft than narrower ones, under
nearly all conditions. but they roll the
road smooth, instead Of cutting Il to
pieces. A four-inch tire on a wagon
carrying a heavy load is a road
builder.
A state wide-tire law should be pass
Cd simple In its requirements, POSI-
tive IN itE enforcement. and going into
eject two years after It's passage, IN
order 70 permit every wagon user 20
have ample time 20 adopt wagon tires
20 she new law IN the Interest of road
maintenance
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06

WILL RBNOVATE MOSS AND
cotton mattresses at $3.50 apiece; new
mattresses made to order at right
prices; immediate attention given to
all orders and work guaranteed. j. r.
Dooner, 331 Drayton. Bell phone 1136;
Georgia 'phone, 2S41.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-06-06
HOW THEY RAN AT LAT0NIA.

Cincinnati, June 5.-Results at La
tonia:
First Race-Six and a half furlongs.
Remark, 16 to 5, won, with King Ia
thus, 40 to 1, secondS and Honeybrool
so to 1, third. Time 1:2S.
Second Race-Five furlongs. Laura
Ireland, to 1, won, with Lyrist, 9 to
1, second, and Eva Claire, s to l, third
Time 106%.
Third Race-One mile. Fair Lady
Anne, Is to 1, won, with Baff1ed, to
1, second, and North Wind, to l, third
Time 153.
Fourth Race-Six furlongs. Lovable
to 5, won, with Jane Oaker 10 to 1,
second, and Walsh Girl, 6 to 1, third
Time 1:19%.
Fifth Race-Steeplechase short
course. Beana, to 5, won, with Mike
Rice, 9 to 5, second, and Faraday, Jr.,
20 to 1, third. Time 3:14%.
Sixth Race-Five furlongs. St.
Paris. to 2. won, with Henry Lyons,
10 to 1, third. Time 1869.