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Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09
THE REPUBLICS RED HEAR.

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One man says that the heart OF tt.
nation Is at the great capitol buildin.
ut Washington. another that it is IL
Wall street, another that 1t lies in the
Mississippi valley, with its marvellous
agriculture; another that its pulsations
can be most clearly discerned on the
board Of trade in Chicago, another that
it is found in our great educational in
stitutions. Each opinion is in way
justified perhaps; but, gracefully con-
ceding the merit of each claim, we still
think that this most vital organ may
be best observed in night ride from
Connellsville to Pittsburg, where Is dis
closed a Dantean panorama the like Of
which can be seen nowhere else on
earth. What the stocking rooms are to
the ocean greyhound-the place where
all the power and force are generated
to carry forward the magnificent ship
to her destination, alike Indifferent to
wind or wave-is the weird and Titan
ic vision disclosed by the iron and coal
industries of Pittsburg and vicinity to
the country's splendid progress. The
miles of coke ovens aglow in the mid
night, fires which, like TIE altar fame
of heather sacrifice, IL o ou,; blast
furnaces by the SEQ. wing forth
their lurid flames L>,. .unwarO. the
blue and green suiphuruls fires iliumi-
mating the landscape in Il most un-
earthly manner; the great rolling mills
where human demons seize and
straighten the white hot rails. for
twenty miles roar, din and glaring
inferno where coal and coke and ore
and electricity work night and day
celebrating the power and facilities for
all the progress Of the republic-here is
great red heart of the nation. Mutiie
these coke ovens, shut down these blast
furnaces, close these rolling mills. let
a normal darkness once more brood
over Pittsburg, and it will signalize
the death Of America.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

A church which was insured was
struck by lightning. The loss was ad-
justed, and after repairs were made
there was enough Of the insurance
money left to place an electric lighting
outfit in the church in place of the old
lamps. Even in theological matters
there can be no loss save there be some
compensating gain.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09
INTENSIVE FARMING.

AS population increases in country
the farmer is compelled to adopt q
more intensive method Of cultivating
his land. High priced land means
fewer acres for each man, and fewer
acres mean better work on them and
more and better crops. In Belgium.
France. Germany and to still greater
degree in China and Japan the small
farm and intensive agriculture may be
seen at their best. Under this system
more. than one crop Is and must be
raised in crop season; there are no
four rod roads burdened with growth
Of wild hemp, sunfower, ragweed or
nettles running through or bounding
these farms; if trees are planted they
either bear fruit or nuts; no weeds
grow; fertilizati tion is liberal and culti-
walton perfect and as sequence fol-
low the best Of crops. s
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09
MANS BEST FRIEND.

We are asked how it is that bolt
of electricity will do such wonderful
and extraordinary things in such an
infinitesimal period Of time-tear a
tree to slivers, make wreck of a
building, melt iron and copper and all
the long list of seemingly impossible
things which we know that it does.
The wisest men are puzzled as to this
natural force. While in almost univer-
sal use as the Htractable servant Of
man, no man yet knows what it is. 1t
is said that the bolt which falls from
the summer cloud exercises for frac-
ton Of time so brief that ordinary fig
ures can give it no expression a power
equal to that of 100000 horses, which
will give some explanation of the re-
markable work which it does. This
subtle. unknown and unknowable ele-
ment which riffs the summer cloud
and illuminates a hemisphere with it's
wild, riotous, untamed manifestations
Is being surely conquered and made
the Obedient and useful servant Of
man. Already it is made to cook a
dainty meal. move mighty engine,
record messages by dive under great
oceans and over vast continents and
brings men face to face though thou
sand miles apart. 1t makes furnace
hotter than that through which the
Hebrews passed unscathed. reduces the
most obdurate and refractory elements
to gases; it illuminates a world with a
white light like the untamed lightning;
sweeps the seas and shores with a
search light like the eye of demon or
In lovely homes glOws soft, mellow and
radiant as a summer sunset or may be
sent on a wild. mad spree of color up
column and rafter and dome and foun-
tain jet. In a gentler way it comes as
cure for physical ills and brings life
to the dying-the greatest and best
gift of the Create to man.
THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG WAY.
There is rare secret connected with
the making of Work-commOn, every
day hard work-a pleasure instead of a
burden. So much of the work of life
Is done in the wrong way, in the hard
est way, and so becomes Of necessity
a burden. Indifference to or lack of
the knowledge of the right and best
way to do things is largely what fills
the earth with walls over the tyranny
Of labor. To illustrate, man under
takes to now grass with dull scythe;
he tries to plow his field with a plow
which will not scour; he tries to work
too many acres; he milks his cows in
filthy yard or barn; he neglects to oil
up and runs with hot boxes the year
round. There is no sort of sense in do
ing these things this way. 1t is the
wrong, the burdensome, way, and no
man living can take any pleasure in
his work so done. This is the reason
why some people can accomplish SO
much more and do so much better
work than others. They have found out
the difference between the right and
the wrong way of doing work.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

Not even tile drainage has been equal
to the task of Kidding the land Of enor-
nous floods of water which fell on
much Of the cultivated lands of the
west and southwest during last June.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

We are inclined to the opinion that
farmers work to their own hurt in the
matter Of Dragging about their big
crops, the men who manipulate the
prices Of produce and fix them using
these boasts to lower them.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

q "A wise writer on agricultural topics
says that good mixer needs to be
good Christian. Possibly this may be
80, but anyhow he needs to, get cor
verted before he goes into the dairy
business, for kicking heifer in ny
time and bunting calf which will not
learn to drink are trials from which
Moses and the apostles were fortunate
" exempt and are experiences not in
any way conducive to a normal devel-
opment of piety. S Il # ,55s
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

We note case where twenty horse
power trection engine has been set to
hauling gravel and broken stone for
the macadamizing Of the public high
ways, using small cars which will hold
about two yards Of gravel each. This
idea was suggested in this department
two years ago. and we have always
believed it to be not only practical in
operation. but marked advance in the
line of improved roadmaking.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

The proportion of we'll bred stock to
the whole amount of stock kept in this
country is lamentably small. Not one
farmer in hundred, taking the coun-
try through. seems alive to the impor-
tance Of the improvement Of the quail
ty of his domestic animals.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

There are scores of communities
whole towns as well as country homes
where Of late every cellar has had
more or less water in it. Water in the
cellar of the home should mean busi-
ness on hand for the man who lives
in the house, as it is not only a nui-
sance. but serious menace to the
health of all who live there. Pump,
siphon and drain should be used to get
rid of it. T..
1t is blessed thing that a good ex-
ample is often just as catching as a
bad one. Whenever one man does all
he can to make his home surroundings
pleasant and attractive just so soon all
his neighbors begin to talk about it
and from talking are led to follow his
example. for poorly and shiftlessly
kept home always looks more dilapi-
dated when a well kept one is placed
In contrast with it. H.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

The internal revenue authorities
have ruled that the use of palm oil as
a coloring material for oleomargarine
Is unlawful.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

1t is almost cruel to let colt go till
1t is four years old without breaking it
IN.
A white horse is good deal like my
hdy's white dress-takes lots of work
% keep it presentable.
Warren sheaf., 1903-07-09

Down in the Choctaw Nation recent
ly we noted the shanty home of an In
dian with no less than nine lightning
rod points ON it. and the funny thing
about it was that he had one on his
4 by smokehouse also. The red man
seems to be easy meat for the rod man.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17

of Pawnee county John Lane of Hamilton county
and R. NJ Hopkins of Finney county.
Clark county either Judge Frank Price Harry
Bone viii candidate. but which has not yet
been decided
The Kansas City Stars Topeka correspondent after
looking the ground and consulting his own wishes
adds follows:
when legislature finally adjourns it will turn the
Seventh district the kettle into the fire. for then
the fight for Congressman Longs be vacant
by his resignation and advancement to the senate will
begin He will out his present term. and the hour
before he becomes United senator March H. he
will resign the term for which he elected last No
vember. Then Governor Bailey will call special cleo
ton and the fight will be The politicians of the dis
ct have been looking forward this struggle for many
years-ever since Long got into his head for
United States senator-and the end Of it will be new
head to the famous Seventh district machine There
only fourteen candidates mentioned but only four
put in the front of the running They T. A Notz-
ger of Harper Frederick Dumont Smith of Edwards,
Sam Forsha of Reno and Victor Murdoch of Sedgwick.
OF the four Victor Murdoch the last in but
the first be given formal of his fellow
citizens The remaining OF the fourteen will have
only local folowing but there are many of them that
they organize the convention if they to- and
will be in position to perform other acts of power and
make it embarrassing for the other candidates The
convention will be sent large townprobably Hutch
inson Wichita. There the hotels are big enough
make the delegates visiting statesmen comfortable
in case of siege 1t will be held about April and the
election about May 10.
"The advent of Victor Murdoch is a surprise Nobody
is better known in Kansas and nobody better equipped
for the duties and burdens of a congressman but his
ambition has been expected by his friends to turn
that His first is that he to get out
and the big world He hold the suggestion
hesitangiy at first but he has received many tele
grams of encouragement and friendship from Wichita
since the action of the Wichita city convention today
that he has become enthusiastic Surely
place for himself in congress- character unto
himself in Kansas. He is to begin with, Kansan born
and bred and of family that goes back in Kansas
history to the territorial period forcefu intel
lectual the Murdocks, and it may be young
Vicors lot to distinguish the family in congress ne
has added to it's fame in Kansas journalism He 32
years old and is married father of one child-a
6-year-old girl"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
NEW TRUNK LINE FOR KANSAS.

The gigantic enterprise of putting transconti-
mental road the southwest from Kansas City
the Pacific of Old Mexico bids fair told
other page of the Capital, prove an accomplished
fact in the future This second railroad
leading out of Kansas City and scharging the
that Mr.. A. E. Stwell has conceived carried out
extraordinary financial and engineering achievement
man barely in his forties The Gulf road financed
and constructed by Mr. Swell very dead center
Of the hard times eight ago. when the wheels
industry stood still and of the stable financial
tsef-were in tottering condition. The financing
and building of the Gulf road such time by
man 80 old and almost unknown in the world of
finance great triumph that the consolidation Of
the steel industry by p Morgan in the OF pros
perity two years ago.
The Orient railroad will give Kansas another trunk
line to the Pacific and the dawning trade Of the far
fertile agricultural lands Kansas Oklahoma and Texas
timber lands of Mexico and rich country of the
southwest comprising gold silver copper coal
Orient line will be valuable agency peopling and
veopng territory capable of accommodating millions
of the crowded populations of the east.
The construction of this railroad should prove profit
able to Kansas well to the investors the COM
doubt tc its future is longer The compile
ton of the undertaking will be another feather in the
cap of A. E. Stilwe, establishing his rank among the
foremost railroad geniuses of the
Topeka Capital
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
1a1Iss Eagle
KANSAS HAS a SPELL OF WEATHER.
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.


Every dog has his day. The grounding has his day
also The grourdhogs day was a day OF sunshine from
Sitka Alaska to St Augustine, Florida The groundhog
having had his day. crawled back into his hole leaving
his shadow on the outside And that shadow has cost
the country a pile of coal The week following the
eroupdbogs day was one bright sunshine and soft
shadows for Kansas mild as the temper OF saint
The birds sanf the and geese flying north.
and everybody jeered the grounding with eers TIE VINO
laughs last laughs best To the grounding belongs the
last laugh Last Friday predictions and the high
and 1ow estimates of weather to the contrary
Notwithstanding the mercury in the thermometer com
menced Of sight along the borders
of the Arctic circle the Klondike regions. The wave
struck possessions at about Go below Zero
reaching the Rocky mountain regions Saturday with
record of from 50 to 45 below Sunny Southern Kan
sa where the buds had begun swell got zero weather
on Sunday night preceded by the heaviest fall OF snow
of the winter. Yesterday morning very bright sun
succeeded the cold wave which is hugging the orange
orchards of the this morning chilly not
disastrous embrace.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
CONGRESSMAN LONGS SUCCESSOR.

The Topeka Capital rounds up the situation the Big
Seventh follows
Victor Murdoch managing editor of the Wichita
Eagle has entered the scramble Republican
Chester l. Long.
Yesterday the Republicans of Wichita held city
convention for the purpose of nominating candidates for
city Offices resolution was adopted by a rising
endorsing Murdoch for and demanding that he
make the
Following this all the local candidates for the nomin-
alton withdrew in Murdocks favor In this list were
Judge T. B. Wall, Otto G. Eckstein and O. H. Bentley
Murdoch who is here reporting the legislature for his
received telegram notifying him of the
the convention just he going in lunch at the
Copeland hotel about He wired back that with
Sedgwck county behind him soldly he would go the
fight and do his best win the nomination.
Strange it may seem, Murdoch hasn't aspired to
be congressional candidate. There has been quite
little talk lately about Murdoch being candidate
has looked upon pleasant hotar on the part of his
friends When he received the telegram yesterday how
ever announcing that he had been endorsed by Sgwck
county for the place he tickled to death
= guess I'll just so in and have devil of time
said Murdoch yesterday afternoon I've watched
politicians work and I think show of them
come new kinks in this mixing proposition
Murdoch is one of the brightest young newspaper
men of Kansas He is managing editor of Wich-
ita Eagle of which his father Colonel Marsh NJ Murdoch
is editor In 1892 ard 1898 Murdoch in Chicago
the Inter Ocean While reported politics and
made quite reputation. After coming back to Kansas
he mixed in Sedgwck county politics and has been
factor there for the past years During the recent
senatorial campaign he up in the Long camp
and did lot of hard work help land Long in the
senate.
The friends of Murdoch are confident that he will
make good for the nomination He has marked in
dvidualy. is accomplished writer and born mixer
There are all kinds of candidates for the nomination
outside of Murdoch. The fight win be one Of the most
interesting in Kansas politics for years Among those
who have booms are
&c f Grattan. CT Mcpherson county; Senator C. E
Branine. Of Harvey county; A. A Richards Of Sumner
county; Sam Forsha, of Reno county; W NJ. Wallace
Kingman county: Senator T. a. Noftzger OF Harper
C. @ Chandler of Barber county D W. Blaine
of Pratt county: d. A. Banta Of Barton county Senator
Fred Dumont Smith. of Edwards county; James Halo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
COLORADO AFTER KANSAS.

The Eagle, many years ago, in suggesting that the
of the federal government to make of the
Arkansas river navigabe stream far north as Wich-
a neither logical encouraging in face of the
Colorado squatters had discovered that they
could proaby caneloupes by irrigation, predicted
trouble the governments force of engineers kept
year after year pulling out snags between Wichita
and Oxford while the Cooradoans but the indus
trously kept digging dtches until the navgability Of
the Great Arkansas river not only rendered an i'm
possibility but Kansas farmers, hundred miles
up and down the valley, Weakened up to the fact that
their old time river disappearing and in disappear
ing they were short on crops Later came a protest
against this appropriation of riparian rights and profit
able easements resulting finally in the institution of
by Kansas, the supreme of the
States against the companies Colorado
The state of Colorado later made the of the cante
loupe growers and ditch diggers her The United
States supreme the first hearing of the
far say that Kansas evidently had
but farther than this made decision We note
legislature Colorado Appropriated $4,000
to the farther gets rights
securing which belonged her. being deprived
the privilege buying Rocky melons fancy
figure her along this valley will have bigger
crops and money spend elsewhere. The original
expenses connected with organizing this fight for
rights by the Kansas interested living
In half dozen counties along the lower Arkansas river
in Kansas The suit at present is in the hands of
attorney of the state and three local
torneys 1t is up the legislature of the state of
Kansas call the bluff made by the Legislature Colo
RADIO otherwise Kansas will probably fail through de-
fault, negligence. The issue having been squarey
made the legislature of Kansas should fail of meet
ing it promptly Colorado is not estopped it will only
be question of short time when not drop
will be left in the river that in being the third length
the continent has been of incacuabe value to all
this section of the state
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
FRANCE HAS A FAT MANS CLUB

The days of the New York Fat Mans club which a
of years ago annually at Dorlons Point near
South Norwalk Conn., and there devoured tons clans
and other ingredients and trimmings in what were as fine
bakes built is recalled by an organization
known the Cent-Kilos de Marsee which has Just
been formed in Marseilies France The main condition
of membership in the latter is that the person proposed
shall weigh at least 100 klos which is equivalent
about $50 pounds The French club differs
New York astronomical coterie. however in the
that the sole order of weight whereas the Fat
Mems club paid attention ability its members to
get with clans at the annual feast 1t the
who could eat the most who made president In
Cent-kilos. however the heaviest mamie weighe 363
pounds-is the president. The secretary next in order
weights $40 pounds and the treasurer $40 Having
of the heavyweights treasurer the members in
avoirdupois say is advantage for he could hardly
hurry with the funds should he decide to decamp
So far the roll of membership runs TO about thirty
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17
MADAME HUMsERT's TRUMP CARD.

Paris is by no means so much excited the Hum
bert allegations might been anticipated Accord
ing 20 the London Times spondent the general
opinion in the French capital is that Madame Humberts
trump card will be the disclosure contributions made
by her TO the electoneerng expenses members of the
Republican party and revelations as TO the sharp prac-
tees of some Of her creditors Even opposition
the chamber-which has been somewhat disheartened
by the fasco Of its latest attempt to establish
ton between the Humberts and the Dreyfus Cascades
not seem to entertain much hope Of making political
tai out of the former category Of scandals If Madame
Humbert succeeds in plloryng of the
usurous parasites attracted by supposed wealth she
will simply enhance the sneakng sympathy FOR her
by large numbers Of honest people who confess mali
cious satisfaction at seeing the biters bit
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17

Law breakers can defy municipal and all such
laws with impuniy. but the that his
trap is in much better position than the man who
gets a hand into the United States mails
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17

Is there any nation but the United States which pos
private citizen who is willing TO take q little
on that eountrs shoulders BY giving $500 900
of his own pocket?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17

triding her cause must seem when Germany
reads that private citizen Of the United ready
tc pay her unjust claim just in order shut up
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-17

Italy is not slow after all II Bowen had let those
protocols alone she would have skinned her allies alive
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-08
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Four Courses of Instruction.
MECHANICAL.
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Tuition, books, heat, light, washing, board
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college. CatalOg giving full particulars sent
on application. Attention is called to short
course of ten weeks in Agriculture. Write
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day, September II.
Early application necessary for admittance.
Il. W. SYLVESTER, Pres.
College Park, Md.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-08

Says the uorgantown Post: Levi
Dalton. the noted snake catcher and
well known typical mountaineer, died
last evening al his home Oh the King
wood Pike, seven miles from Morgan
tow. aged eIghty-siX Years Death
was u to dropsy aud the diseases
incident 20 old age. 'Leve Dorton,
as he is Familiarity known to thous-
ands of people. will be kindly remem-
bered by one and all, and with his
demise passes the last and most noted
mountaineer of this section. The
remains will be inferred in Runners
graveyard at 3 p. IN, Friday. May
his soul rest in peace and his long
sleep be culled to sweet repose by the
rattle of his favoriUe pets
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1903-10-08
LAND FOR SALE!

lam now offering for sale in large or small
quantities, 800 acres of tract known as
"Swanton," and better known as the "An-
derson lands situated in Garrett County
Md. This land is well timbered and under
laid with May valuable veins of mineral;
also suitable for farming purposes and graz
ing,
All trespassing will be prosecuted to the
ullest extent Ofthe law.
Call on or address:
"A. WILT, Agent, Elk Lick, Pa.