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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08
A FRAGILE APPETITE.

"A young man 81 my acquaintance said
DR.. Cynicus. who IS very much In love.
wearies ne excessively by his rawlings
over his sweetheart. her angelic qualities
ct cetera. She is too fragile for this world
he thinks
..FragiIe?" says !. how fragile? Ever
test her fragiIity2 Iot me give you some
figures about her and womaukind in ger
erai. showing the extent of their fragiiity.
We will suppose this piece Of perfection
IS in moderately good health. She wil
live 10. say. sixty years ~ are. Women
90 not ike. any more than men Do. q die
not 50 much for women never grow Oh.
you know Listen 70, me- she win eat
one pound ~ beef Tittt1n or some othr-
meat every day That's - pounds ~ fesh
in year. II sixty Years i = = 90 pounds
Hov's that FOR fraEiity2
she VIII eat - much bread and PC
much v-getbles per diem ard here yea
have IN sixty years 500 pounds - Brad
ard ueat
-Ff she IS rot TOO angelic she VIII drink
dailr uo less than tao quarts ~ c7'f.e. sen
~ wire ard maybe Seer. And hF the time
she IS ready 20 have . -aouurre-t tbs wil
have consumed - hoesheads . iiesifr.
T'Fagle7
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08
SOCIALISM IS
On SANE ORDER
Continued From Eleventh Page.)

frequent application OF water. either TO
the person or to cooking utensils. Yet
every one, Americans and all. eats the
bread. 1t is good, and all refrain from
looking inside the home OF the baker
Another typical street scene in san
Juan is ''beggars' day" Before the occU-
patton every day used to be "beggars
day" The streets were fun of profess
sional beggars, many of them repulsive
with leprosy and elephantiasis, two of
the scourges of the island. The lepeTs.
who were living amicably along with the
rest of the population. have been seclud-
ed in a little island of their own but
other beggars are still allowed to ply
their trade upon the streets on a periodi-
cal "beggars day" There is a drug
store on the plaza where beggars are
allowed to go and get necessary medicine,
for which the government pays. Street
musicians are popular. and always have
a crowd about them.
Juanita and her kind live all around
the edge of the island where there is
black belt" a thick fringe made up of
100000 negroes. dashed with a strain of
nearly every blood in the world and
making up nearly half the population of
the island. Then there are 10000 Span
ish, the business and professional peo-
pie of the island And up in the noun
famous interior there are 10000 true
Puerto Ricans descendants of the orig
final Carib Indian stock. crossed with
Spanish. In the black belt" Of the coast
very few of the people are married, part
ly owing to the fact that the marriage
fee has hitherto been from $50 TO 800.
But the trouble is deeper At one of
our stations the missionary required
number of men and women converts who
were living together to be married. Five
women refused. When the missionary
wife asked them the reason they replied
with frankness: "Why. do you suppose
I am going to support a man and not
have the right to swap IL / want to-"
Their normal sense has simply never
been developed or even awakened. They
are a pleasant. kind-hearted. hospitable
people; music-loving pleasure loving and
showing a good deal Of desire for an edu-
cation
Through the mountainous interior fun
or wild and beautiful scenery where the
bride trail often winds at the base Of a
towering precipicA with another de-
descending sheer on the other side. the
Puerto Ricans are n much healthier peO-
pie both physically and morally than
the halfbreeds of thu. coast. Some Of
their homes are very comfortable. re-
garded from the tropical standpoint.
which wants a house 70 protect against
heat. not cold. They stand on skids. 20
allow a free circulation with mating and
mosquito netting The government
schools. which opened a Few months
ago. sat only 6o.opo out OF the $4,000
children OF the island
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08
HIS EAR HOODOOED.

do you know I believe one of my ears
is hoodooed,'' said the pale-faced man
as he settled down into a big-armed chair.
ard I know good many things which
tend to strengthen this belief. Impossible,
en-? Well, you are foolish. One of my
Old schoolmates had a hoodooed toe. Ev-
cry time anything happened to him it
happened to that toe. Now, he would
stump the nail off; again he would pick
it with a thorn. or a splinter; or he would
get the toe smashed-all these things ha1-
pened to the same toe. He grew up
W hat happened? Corn-worst corn / ever
saw-on the same old unlucky toe. l
k-ew another fellow. Fate seemed TO
have pick at his nose. Every time
any hing happened his nose was the thing
il happened to. One day a man tried e
cut him with a razor. He just clipped
the emo of his nose off, gracious biz oc
economy as you shall see. During an
election row several years later. he got
int a shooting scrape. \ man shot him
with a rife and clipped OF another piece
of his nose. Some time after this my
friend got into another row and his adj
versary threw him down and in the Skin
mish that followed, chewed another lit
tie piece Of his nose off. a policeman
struck him across the nose with club
at a still later time-broEe the bridge.
Same way with my right ear. It's hoo
dooed. When 4 mere boy l was thrown
from a horse Bruised the lobe OF my
right ear. Got hit in a bail game one
day Right ear. once after / grew UP
1 got into a fight. and the man hit me
three times and every time his big fist
landed suarely on the right ear. Take
the other day. as another example.
was sitting in a dining car going out
Of New Orleans. when the train suddenly
swung around a sharp curve With Ia
be chair. linen dishes. and all l was
thrown violently against the other side
OF the car See that eaT.-same old ear
same old result Don't you tell NETS
hoodooed. that's all But 7 am certain
Of one thing-TH never ct It in tic
neck. not as long as 7 have that ear
New orleans Time Democrat
Recently compiled statistics show that
the u-oportion OF twins bonn as compared
with other infants IS one in eighty births
OF trirlets there Is only one instance IN
: go and bankruptcies are as one . $500:
While the chances Of q Quiutette are even
move remote. the ratio beng one in 40
ssn eo births. 4 ease IS known ~ a WON
an who presented her husband with seven
successive tripiets.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

a stage-coach and rode a good deal of
the way on the knee of Justice David j.
Brewer of the supreme court of the
United States who was his fellow pas
senger. He has been here ever since
with the exception of something like two
years at Chicago. If he goes to Con-
gTess no man in the Seventh district will
ever feel that he is misrepTesented.
DAVID D. LEAHY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

Victor was born at Burlingause = years
ago When thu, town vs. IN what - noE
the SEVENTH district Before be VAS quite
q year old - Vas brought 70 Wichita =
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

Victor has mulutudinous relations other
than those with his men. His relations
with the public. as MANAGING editor II
The Eaeie necessarily sa5 unnecessarily
claim lsrge share of his time he has
u deal with the injured citizen. TIE com
planning merchant the man who wants
things kept out q the papers. the woman
sThe wants things in thu paper. the lnsn
who thought he would Just drop II to see
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

Victor has more characteristics and YER
satility Of mind than any man I have
ever known His observation is llke.Hsht-
s,ng. lie studies everything that claims
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

His friendships are peculiar Late at
night once the telephone bel rang and
! was called for. do not know whether
Victor had gore 70 bed or not. but il was
very late. Mentioning the name OF
certain man n ne Ne said, IL anything
should happen 10 me I Wart YOU 20 all
WAYS be his friend The man had done
him service and ne conceived the pos
sibilitv % sudden death before he could
reward him for IT. He was 50 sensible 70
,he instinct Of friendship that be would
not risk the possibilities q death I'll
next morning 10 ten me- ot~his wish he
win. in time. forgive ANYTHING but de-
ceit-that he never forEives- = few DAYS
$50 he received a letter from a politician
in a western Kansas county. frankly stat
ing that h, was opposed 20 him AFTER
Victor read 81 Ne sad, -if all the men
were Ike him politics would not b a
colossal lie" believe TIE most eloquent
letter he has written during his cam
raign was 70 this man thanking him To-
his fraakness- He fe,t that h had the
one hureredth and ninety-sTst part =
The PROTEIN - his cam].sisu solved When
he received this letter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

Mostly everybody believes that he is
a college-bred man. He isn't. All mis-
education was gotten in a ward school
in Wichita. He was a scholar at fourteen
and before he was ten years of age he
was juggling with the English language
and constructing paradoXes, epigrams and
things. His vocabulary is almost equal
to the dictionary. lie gets this by in
heritance. for probably no editor west
Of the Mississippi knows more words Of
the English language than his father
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

If owned the Seventh Congressional
district in fee simple, l would be willing
10 wager every quarter section IN 1t
against dime that If Victor goes 10 Con-
gress he Will make his mark and give his
district a national reputation within three
years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

I never saw him she'd tears hu, twice
once, when Mckinley was aSsassinated
ana once when he Thought his father was
cying- His affection for Mckinley was
based on The beautiful affection Mckinley
had for his invalid Wife lie visited At
the Mckinley home at Canton and ;he
love the future President bore Tor his
heipmate mace en- impression on the kan
sss youth thar he has never forgotten.
He has told me % il a hundred times +
he has told me once
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

Victor knows more today than ingalls,
knew at 81. If Kansas were born again
he could write for the new state as good
q motto as ad astra per aspera. To my
mind and in my belief he would direct its
course to stars as high as Ingalls, ever
dreamed Of.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

The only justification man can have
for writing an article. from an expert
standpoint, is that he knows his subject
I think / know mine. II is a living SUBJ
ject of flesh and blood and one that
have been studying day in and day out
from every viewpoint for thirteen years.
My subject is Victor Murdock-the next
Congressman from this district-I hope.
Idoubt II there is an adult person either
in Kansas or Oklahoma who does not
know hinl by reputation. y great many
only know that he has red hair and is
brilliant and versatile newspaper man.
Others only know him as a clever and
companionabIe young gentleman fun of
animation and somewhat hostile 10 dress
suits-and shams. / take pride in the
fancy that 1 know him better than any
other living man with the exception Of
his father and father-in-law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-08

have never known a harder worker
nor have I ever known a man who could
get work more cheerfully out OF others.
He has wonderful influence over en-
ployes, and 1 have never known him to
have an enemy in the office but the tele-
phone. He considers that piece Of mechan-
ism the continuance of an evil spirit. When
a man is planning out a nice sentence
and has it about coppered. the telephone
is sure TO ring and down comes the tiny
fabric of ones thought. It rings a little
oftener in the Eagle Office than in any
other newspaper Office in America.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
Baxter and Co.'s Cotton Letter.

New York, Aug. 22.-Cotton opened
a shade easier to-day. There was not
much of a market. The weekly Chron-
icle report was rather bearish. Gables
were l to points higher. Weather
conditions in the South were the most
favorable for some time. The rainfall
was quite unimportant, and the fore
cast was for very good weather until
Monday. Nevertheless we are passing
through the most critical stage for all
years, and more especially so this sea-
son, when the crop is so far behind.
The absence of new cotton still is felt,
and until it appears in liberal quanti-
ties there is reluctance to sell any
where. The slightest sign of crop de-
terioration would give rise to wild buy
ing and the fear of some setback makes
sellers very cautious. Liverpool stock
during the week lost $4,000 bales, and
the total is now 100000, against 49, 900
last year. The afloat stock is unchang-
ed. The worlds visible supply lost
during the week 10000 bales. The
market was unusually dull to-day, be-
cause of the regular half holiday and
the yacht race. Prices were kept with
in very narrow range, and there was
some disappointment because Liverpool
was not showing greater strength in
September. The receipts at ports were
again quite light, estimated at 200,
against 6,400 last year.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
TRADE AND FINANCE
TURPENTINE RISES TO $40 WITH
DEMAND GOOD.
OUTLOOK FOR PRICES BRIGHT
OPERATORS MAY SHARE WHAT
COTTON PLANTERS HAVE.

The Rosin Market Also Closes at
the Advnnce-spOt Cotton Quiet
and Unchanxed-I4OeaI and TeIe-
graphic Markets.
The Morning News Office,
Saturday, Aug. p.
More interest exists in the turpentine
market now that for long time, owing
TO its underlying strength and the ten
dency to higher prices. The statistical
nosition is strong, the demand good
and the prospects all that could be ex-
nected. Both sides appear to have
struck the happy medium, with factors
satisfied with prices, and exporters
equally so, if the way they have been
buying for some time may be taken as
an indication.
For the movement of the turpentine
market the past week many have con-
Guided that the products of the pine
are yet to keep pace with cotton
and other products, which have moved
I'D. and appear to have enough strength
to hold their gains. With the several
efforts made to depress turpentine, that
market has moved steadily upward,
and is holding it's gain, the price now
being sac. On the last squirt the price
Jumped to 53hc, then reacted, and on
its second jump it has made the new
high price level for the season. Resins
closed firm and higher, with the de-
mand good from all sources. The whole
sale markets closed steady. Spot cot
ton at Savannah, quiet and unchanged.
Details of the different markets as fol-
lows:
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23

Trains arrive Savannah as follows:
No. 20. daily from New York, Wash
ngton and Cincinnati. $40 a. m.
No. 80, daily. from New York ana
washington, $40 p. m.
No. So, daily, from all points West
via Jesup, 11:59 p. IN.
All trains arrive and depart from
the Union Depot.
Trains 20 and 80 THE WASHING
TON AND FLORIDA LIMITED.
EeStibuled limited trains, carrying
Pullman Drawing-room Sleeping Cars
between Savannah and New York.
Dining Cars serve all meals en- route.
Also Pullman DrawIng-room Sleeping
Cars between Savannah and Cincin-
rati, through Asheville and 1.-The Land
of the Sky"
For information as to rates. SEIZED
ules. etc, apply to
C. H. ACKERT. G. NJ, Washington.
D. c.
s; H HARow1cK. G. P. A.. Wash
". Il. TAY1oE. A. G. P. A.. Attain
ia, Ga.
r. c. BLATTNER, Depot Ticket
Agent, Union Depot, Savannah, Ga.
e. G. THOMSON. G. P. g. T. A.. Sa-
vannah. Ga, 141 Bull street. Phones
$50
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
MIscrLLANEors MARKErs.

Note--These quotations are revised
daily and are kept as near as possible
in accord with the prevailing whole
sale prices. Official quotations are not
used when they disagree with the
prices wholesalers ask.
POULTRY--Market well supplied;
springers, 40@50c per pair; three-quar-
ter grown, 406D50c pair; hens, T5QS5c:
EGGS-Tennessee, 10000.
BUTTER-The tone of the market IL
firm. Quotations: Extra creamery,
22023c; state dairy, 17G21c.
CHEESE--Market firm; fancy. fun
cream cheese. 13A G1S1sc for 20 and 22-
pound averages; % to S0-pound aver
ages. 13G1Shc.
WHITE PEA BEANS-$2.60 buBhez.
TATOES-$2. 50@2.75 barrel.
CABRA GE--7c head; $500 crate.
ONIONS-Native S2.5002.75
Breadstuns, Hay ana Grain.
FLOUR-Patent. $40; straights.
"a Is; fancy, $3.50; family, $365:
spring wheat, best patent. $3.50.
MEALs--Pearl, per barrel, $3.50; per
sack, $3.50; city meal, per sack, bolted.
81. AS; Pierce's water ground, s1.55; city
grits, sacks. si.55: Pearl grits. Hudnuts,
per barrel, $3.50: per sack SLIGO.
Gratn Markets.
QUANTITIES Jobs. Cars.
No. 2, white corn .,.... rs rs
ronffnusd an E3irhfaenth pooe
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
NAVAL STORES.

Saturday, Aug. %.
SPIRITS. The turpentine market
rose at to-day's opening, firm to SAC,
and unchanged without sales. The de-
mand was thoroughly satisfactory to
the trade, and the closing found the
offerings we'll taken. There was no ap-
pearance of signs of a cessation in the
demand which has continued liberal
during the latter days of the week. The
receipts to-day We're 69S casks, and the
exports 76S casks.
The competition shown daily in the
buying of turpentine in the Savannah
market is being commented upon as
favorable sign. There seems to be no
doubt about some of the big ones mis-
calculating as to the competition which
would exist here for spirits during this
| season, for conditions as they have de-
veloped have been an allaround sur
prise. OF the several houses now buy
ing spirits in the local market, there
Is the liveliest sort of competition, with
none willing to make concessions in
favor of the other. For some time ru-
mors were afloat that the exporters had
entered into a combine to defeat COM
petition, that stuff would be bought
quietly and pooled, and the different
ones supplies with spirits from the
"bung-hole" as they were needed. If
there is q combine 1t certainly does not
| include an element who have taken tur-
pentine recently upon a liberal scale.
| The trade look for higher prices next
week.
ROSINS. -Rosins closed higher, but
without any unusual feature. Water
white and window glass closed 10c up,
and H &c up, at the opening, when sales
were SS7 barrels. and the closing was
without sales. The demand was good.
The rise in pales was expected, for
| they have been in urgent demand for
some time past. and in most cases,
have commanded premiums. The days
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Liverpool, Aug. %, p. m.-Spot cot
ton, in light demand; prices points
higher; American middling fair, 7.24d;
low middling, 6.54d: good ordinary,
6.2sd; ordinary, 6.OSd. The sales of the
day were 5000 bales, of which 300 were
for speculation and export, and in
Guided 1900 American; receipts, 1000
bales, including 100, American.
Futures opened quiet and steady, and
closed steady; American middling, good
ordinary clause: August, 6.F@6. 4Sd;
August-September 6.4Od; September
6.40d; september October, 5.S9d; Octo-
ber-November, 5.51@5 SD; November
December, 5.40d; December-January
5.35d; January February, 5.34d; Feb
ruary- March. 5.33@5. BAD; March-April,
5.33d.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
W. 6. TYSON.
PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT,
Board of Trade Building, Savanna b, Ga

lures steady; August, 1295912.9 SIC:
September, 10.93Q10.95c; October, 9S5Q
s.S6c; November, 9.65Q967c; December,
S.64Q9.65c; January, 9.6699.67c; Febru-
airy. 9.67Q9.69c; March, 9.70@9.72c.
Spot cotton quiet; sales 1875 bales, in
Guiding 100 to arrive; delivered on con-
tracts, 500. Quotations unchanged.
Futures opened quiet, with prices 1@2
points lower than the close of yester-
day. Later the realizing aided by the
entire absence of public interest, sent
prices down a few points lower. At
the close August was even with yes
terday's closing, while all other posi-
tons had lost to 6 points on the day.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
nANK sTATEMENT.

New York. Aug. 22.-The statement
OF averages OF the clearing house banks
Of this city for the week shows;
Loans, $9l7, 944. 900, Increase, 80, sos, 300;
deposits, $9lS, 49,, 900, increase, Sl0.446,-
700: circulation $4S,96S, Oo0 increase. $751;
700; legal tenders. H5.s24.60O; decrease
81 al 800: specie, Sl74, ITS, 200; increase,
81. CAS-. 800: reserve, t249, 503. 800. increase,
81 JOG, 400: reserve required, $22s, 445.500,
Increase, s2,Gii .e75, surplus s2i ,Obs 800,
decrease, $685. 75. ex-United states de-
posts, $50, 376,0 900, decrease, ti96,4op
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
STOCKS AND BONDS.

New York, Aug. 22.-The stock mar
ket was practically idle to-day. a
large portion of the membership being
absent at the yacht races or for end
of the week holidays out of town. A
holiday on the London Stock Exchange
subtracted also from normal business.
The sluggish movements of prices un-
der these circumstances were of little
significance.
United States Realty preferred suf-
fered from the rumors prevalent that
the next dividend would be passed. Fa-
vorable weekly reviews Of trade by the
mercantile agencies were a reassuring
factor and the crop news had nothing
threatening in it.
Attention was attracted to the large
import or reimport movement of cot
ton thus far in August for delivery on
contracts owing to the existence of
the corner. This is an adverse factor
in the exchange market.
The Financial Chronicle points out
that the municipal bond market has
suffered in common with that for 9TH
er securities from the dearth of de-
mand and estimates that no less than
1856 offerings of municipal bonds
throughout the country have failed of
takers in the last three months. There
was a slight spilling out of stocks on
the publication Oh the Dank statement
as the large loan increase was dis
appointment, but the room shorts in
the narrow market covered again be-
fore the closing which was steady and
almost stagnant. Bankers are inclined
to attribute the loan expansion to
some corporate borrowings, but to a
larger extent to regular commercial
demands.
Prices of bonds advanced slightly in
sympathy with the rise in stocks and
have been correspondingly little affect
ed by the reaction in stocks. United
States bonds unchanged.
Total sales Of stocks to-day were
1872, 400 shares including Atchison, 49,
300; Erie, $500; Missouri Pacific, s.
400; Reading, 1880; Rock Island, s.
500; st. Paul 1900; Union Pacific, 49,
900; Amalgamated Copper, 9,4O0; Unit
ed States Steel $500; Steel preferred,
800.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-08-23
MONEY MARTxET.

New York, Aug. 22.-Money on call
nominal; time money, steady; sixty
days, per cent; ninety days, 5Q5h
six months, 5h66; prime mercantile
paper, 6@61s. Sterling exchange, firm
with actual business in bankers bills
at S75@4S6.125 for demand and
at 1888. 250D4.S3.3 75 for sixty days; post.
ed rates, s4.S4 and $4S61s: commercial
bills, $4S36AS3h. Bar silver, 55hc
Mexican dollars, 43hc.