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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
A. IA. WeinsChenk
SPOT CASH FANCY GROCER.

duces and he will keep ths city laoorers
at work at good wages. Drop the prices
of what he produces and the city laboreT
will saan overstock every store house in
the country. put himself out of a job and
cut the value Of the merchants security
to hi. bank TO such a point as to bring
about a panic.
We will not be able to adjust ourselves
to such altered conditions We have
boosted ourselves to a high plane OF
economic life and ! truely believe II VIII
be dangerous to let ourselves down again.
A short crop year even with increased
prices may mean very much less money
10 the producer. but with faith IN his
land to produce another year, he does
not deny himself and our great country
does not notice the loss. But when a
se1timent is born that reduces the ox-
change value Of a bushel OF wheat corn.
oats or a Mound OF meat. IL Immediately
forces the original sDender TO an econo-
nv that drags the whole economic sys-
tenn down with him. I have heard great
preachers depIore the high priced grain
and wheat as a hardship 10 the laborer
II labor had forever received the same
wages. Of course high priced living would
be a hardship. but We know labor has
been steadily rising TO the higher plane
Of everything else and n a very short
time would have been on the same plane.
This meant q freedom from tina; sense u
serfdona that has threatened the safety
OF Institutions
.-Tbe boards of trade distribute tn
great grain crop q the country and thsy
make ,he prices At which these crops
arc distributed Beard Of trade rnethcds
have given birth 70 a great mary prae-
,iees thst are vsry hurtful Ia grain
yai,,s- OF these The most evfl are tae
bucket shop and the short seller. by ~
way practically ore and ths sane thing
r. do swev with the short seller would
- 10 put u within the poweg 81 the
rrosueer. - Husit the price o. wheat n
rro5uee-- OF orc thing 7 an Eafs. snd
that Is that grain values Mould sTe-ags
very much higher thar unsser ire pF1seni
conditions To % azsy entirely Nftn ths
-r~~art methods q trading wuuid Fsssks
&, ,-,-avsjlsla for a eaEhie- with T-se
r.of,al - Put ~ ~ rnsrkst mere grain
-. farmer zifh 80 ac-es q lars
afake ever seller deliver What ~ sells
ard he sNcrs seller VII - a help r2th-r
tsar . bur- - prices
~ PhIlirs VII F~rsfa ir Wlc1ita
unfr fhis aftef-o-a. vhez ~ iezvss -
Sewf9n.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
THERE IS no SUBSTITUTE
Absolutely Pure

The Chorus Choir is comprised of the
following:
Soprano-Mrs. Bruce Griffith. Mrs. c.
NJ Irwin, Mrs Paul Brown, Mrs. Geo.
w jackson. Mrs. NJ c. Bosworth. Mrs.
John Siebrandt, Miss Lena Richards,
Miss Edna King, Miss Minnie King, Miss
Gertrude P. Braitsch. Miss Anna Vie
gand, Mrs. Alice Kelley, Miss Edith
Bratsch.
Alto-Miss Effie PARROT. Miss Albertina
Bissantz. Miss Bertha Southwell, Miss
Maud Swain, Miss Hattie Meisner, Miss
Jessie SouthweI
Tenor-Mr. Wayiand Brown, Mr. Z. Y.
Jackson. Mr.. Scott Wilkie, Mr.. E. r.
Norcross, Mr. Edwin Wilcox.
Basso-Mr. Harry ". Stanley, Mr..
Frank. Bonney, Mr.. Carl Gehring. Mrs.
Theo Morgan, Mr.. Silas S. Brown. Mr..
Carl Gerteis, Mr.. Leo Morgan, Mr.. Geo.
W Jackson, MIR. Paul Brown.
The officers are: Mr.. j. r. Siebranct.
director; Mr.. II. A. Bliss, organist; Miss
Margaret Bliss pianist; Mr.. Carl Gehring.
president; Mrs. Bruce Griffith. vice-presi-
dent; Mr.. Frank Bonney, secretary; Mr..
Leo. Morgan, treasurer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
SANTA f APPOINTS
COMMERCIAL AGENT
@. A. Brown VIII Open Offices
Here Nov. |.
C. w. COOK IN THE CITY
Appointee Is Former Resident
of Wichita,

Al a social meeting Of members of the
Commercial club held last night at the
rooms on North Topeka avenue. in honor
Of c. W. Cook, assistant general freight
agent Of the Santa Fe; c. ". Cook, Jr.,
who is a travelling freight agent FOR that
company, and c. ". Mum. chief clerk to
MIR Cook, the later announced the ap-
pointment Of O. A Brown to the position
of commercial agent at this place. Mr..
Brown viii commence on his new duties
here November !.
Messrs. Cook. Cook. Jr, and Mum ar
rived in the city last evening at )
O'Clock from Topeka. where Mr.. Cook
has headquarters. They are registered at
the Holel Hamilton.
When seen last night after the meet
ing at the Commercial club by a reporter
Tor tire Eagle, Mr. Cook said: mr..
Brown. whose appointment I announced
this evening, is a former agent for the
company aL Wichita. He acted in that
capacity for the company here about
nine years ago. At present he is a trav-
cling freight agent for the company and
has headquarters at Chicago.'t
Mt Cook with his CHIEF clerk and his
son. viii stay in Wichita until tonight.
Other than announcing The appointment
of a commercial agent for the company
at this place ana meeting the various
merchants and members OF the CONNER
cial club, his visit is said to have no
special significance. Tonight he will
leave for Topeka.
o. A. Brown, the new commercial
agent, will have offices at the Santa Fe
freight depot in the rooms formerly oc-
cupied by the division freight agents
force of employees. Many of Mr. Browns
Old friends in this city will be pleasantly
surprised to hear OF his return to Wieh-
ita
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
OWNS VALUABLE LAND.
Wichita Man Is Interested in Mininu
Property

Judge f. f. Harvey recently returned
from trip to the Washita mountains,
where he went to investigate some min
ing property he is interested in. \ stock
company Of fifteen men mas been or
ganized and incorporated which now
owns 800 acres of land in the very heart
of the mining country and they are very
much elated over the prospects Of strik-
ing gold in paving quantities. strata
of rock was tested and found to contain
s. in gold to the ton. Mining Expert
Balm has been sent into this country
by the United States government and
the prOspectors are anxiously awaiting
his report
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
THREE LICENSES YESTERDAY.

There We're three marriage licenses is
sued yesterday by Judge Enoch to the
following persons: Arthur r. Olson. age
.. Of Kansas City and Pearl Virginia
Taylor, age y, Of Wichita; Carl Spencer.
age y. and Rosa Moore. age p. both OF
Wichita, Thomas D. Broughton. age a
Wichite and Cora Z. Ingold, age 20. Of
Mcpherson
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29

save some rE9zeY 20 yogr w'erias Par
TIA Il me prrpesgzi 2uEzsizx ara Lear
.sssesssioa. IL Ezss Fsrst street
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29

Mr. zra Mrs.. George Aoefxrfzssfy -
lG1skeeg51. Nseh. are tss Eafsts - Mr.
J. y Razrh - Sorth L>2EEe7re 8sss1e-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Bv MARY SCHENCK WOOLMAN,
Professor of Domestic Arts at Columbia University

and younger they evade the officer they
work in factory They work. for their parents
afford to have them nonpporng the problem of living
vital.
These girls skilled in andwork they usually able
select the work best suited their talents They take the first
position that Offers usually answering advertisement
As there regular apprenticeship SYSTEM they gain their expert
where has give attention, generally
ing years become work that might be learned months
instruction adequate and regular.
The work often uncongena, but there small
change for the old grind steady Having 1aboriou
learned of trade workwoen wearying
repetition Even bright girls become discouraged
work if it offered them deadenng the effect
monotony
This condition of things is weakness in preparation for
and European nations ahead
elaborate systems of municipal education provide al
profession years given this training
gain dextery artistic knowledge which with there
provision
In this country trade suffering from the lack Of skilled work
while there gu of unded labor In many trades reguir
patience and delicate handling employed almost
ouse and the factory the operating and the dress
making establishment asking for of Skill for
who think and who have Judgment who take the
sn the work
fill this obvious that technical instruction
be added the curriculum Of Of the girls high schools
York. Manhattan Trade School for Girls
pendent movement has been organized
To girls in skilled handicrat, Undue them with love
work. understanding of it's relation other
industry Of it's social and economic value well pos
bie for uplifting the individual fein word produce
the work. but the best Of workers. under
taking with promise and whose should be far-reacng
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
War an advertisement
BY HON. CHAS. EMORY SMITH,
Late Postmaster General of the United States.

May He published the Manila bulletins Of
and filled the whole front page Illuminated type
throughout the world with special
mouth mouth throughout all the
needed manager.
reached the Of national development where
needed position and capabilities all We had
achieved industrial We had become the foremost
had already the foremost
nation Our production had outrun consumption
surplus dispose of for which must seek the markets
1903, for the first history
exports exceeded manufactured imports That showed that
the turning that had gained full possession of
the
and we do put a limit production
those provdnces which illuminate American history
this turning the that witnessed
The which brought the necessity
the brilliant chapter OF history which
made the world understand
ability them The indeed the greatest Of
national advertisement
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Plenty Of Brave men
BY HON. ELIHU ROOT,
Secretary of War.

exorabe decree Of overwhelming that bring
the future they have brought lies
in the will Of rulers its lies not III the general impulses
heart but lies the working of the mankind
that people avoid
Controversies will they have when
itself right and weak and feeble will the wall
overbearing injustice walks the earth STILL people
unable unwilling strive for their rights
respect
There trouble and there will be trouble country
of brave fight Our difficulties
raising of soldiers they in the equppng the supplying
Transporting and the organizing Of soldiers And in order
may organization the regular army made ade-
the accomplishment of 1t
Congress- by legislation during present session. seeing that
another upon s-and it much
long for peacehe young of America shall
adequate organization disease of
march of food and Clothes fall under the hostile
med by incompetent officers but that the
the United Sta the shall have adequate
for its medical attendance its of clothing its supply rood
transportation, its organization, its command
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Education In tbe South
BY CHARLES w. DABNEY.
President University Of Tennessee.

service OF God and their fellow men?
In 1900 the states south of the Potomac chill
den of school 1881 100000 What are
we IN the south doing for these chdren
In 1900 only 90 cent of them enrolled in the Schools
the average daily attendance being only per cent One half the
negroes get schooling whatever child
left wholly terate In North average gets
only 20 South Carolina years. Alabama of
schooling In the whole south the average three
years Of schooling in his entire life And schooling
The value of school property $780,
in South Carolina $78 in Georgia S53 Alabama The
monthly salary of teacher North $780,
South Carolina The schools North Carolina
of 7o8 days year. South Carolina 1874 and in Alabama
783 days.
In other words in the typical southern states in choohouses
costing $40 each under teachers receiving the
salary of SIS month"; giving the children in actual attend
five cents worth of education for 81 days only in the
In Tennessee there lterae whites than
there when the public school system first
tabished There 100000 whites south who neither
read nor write.
marvellous but the people still poor For each child Of school
there Tennessee only 1927 Of taxable value
against $6oI in New York The people of the south doing
much for education taxable dollar those Of the north but the
taxable values low that last North Carolina expended for
each chlds education only $I53 while New York STOOL
The southern people poor but they heroic and
dict that within the decade they will be doing much for the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Place ofWonlefl iii China
BY FREDERICK HIRTH,
Professor of Chinese at Columbia University.

Chinese had for neigbo table
Chinese official educated aabe dinner making tour
the vessel saw this mandans the Storage From
such incident would be draw wrong
Chinese OF position travels
incredible number Of and preference
self in the first cabin she than lodge
the Storage with her attendants
A Chinese proverb says that duies-as
child obey her father,
her 1t usually the Of proverbs,
and perhaps this the wish may been thought
As to the first clause the ruling of the Chinese obedience
parents.
AS to the second clause foreigner little of Chinese domes
tic te but from what have observed and from what Chinese
friends have told judge that the proportion husbands ruled
by their China other have
seldom attended Chinese heater without seeing the henecked
husband introduced as stock subject for ridicule.
There bit of gossip about Chinese
nobeman of the circle whose wife forbade dinner party he
had planned In spite of her opposition he carried his project
and the festivities their height when there heard slight
cough Then the the wife The child coughing
The nobleman did STIR The voice repeated: The child is
Ill Won't you attend to him?'
Then the husband maintained his position wash basin
whzzed the table, deugng the guests who departed dis
comfort The less the the she
make of natures gifts conquer her natural position
AS the third clause of the proverb Chinese mother especially
elderly receives from her that other
hardly equaed the mother Of Of education strike
him, he would receive the blow without resentment
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Dew H$peets Of CHARITY
BY HOMER FOLKS,
Commissioner Of Charities for New York City.

The old charity postponed relief the last
consumpve struggle with his disease until he dropped
grave only his widow and his extend tardy
paupezng hand The charity takes hold of the still living
Before the conumplves is hopeless brings him scientific help
1t takes off his shoulders
famiys support 1t gives for limited time the good
that hope and life 1t the his puts
position his dependents That
omy well as charity. 1t does pauperze
So with other problems The old objection
child labor the claim that the child driven
least better off than starving The charity
learning that for children work
In many earnings that
works needed for it's but when d fra
found be the only buwak between family
the charity bids the community into the BREACH
of maintaining families children burdens
they should never carry.
In the long cheap be cruel It
drive hard bargain childhood Modern
childhood the for building body and BRAIN not for making
Child labor scheduled among the pauper
s but that schedule sickness and infty loom large. Trace
the history of the INDECENT SICK and and find weak
ened constitution due believe to hard work time when
wash building the child's frame.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

THE YEARS OF DISCRETION SEE
ING HER FATHER AND MOTH
OTHER
Her little heart is yearning for love.
She longs to embrace both parents, but
she finds that she cannot give her affection
to one without exciting the resentment or
displeasure of the other.
Oh, Thou who art, cast a ray of Thy
divine light upon our beloved country, that
the spiritual and moral growth of the ma
ton may keep pace with its material pros
perity. Teach us to realize the fact that
saving knowledge consists in knowing and
worshiping Thee, the only true Cod and
Jesus Christ, whom Thou has sent
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Oligareby vs.. Democracy
By DIR. FELIX ADLER,
President New York Society for Ethical Culture

people nation
try amend the by nkerng with the ballot This will
There spiritual change The general
conception democracy Of government
equal and that its object make all rich
NY that all equal and each person his
happiness social happiness will follow No will have
This condition Of equality
does exist to-day
Our country unless become
interested and for social equality In the political field
rulers and make laws has slipped
us. PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE CHANCE TO CHOOSE
THEIR OWN CANDIDATES, BUT MUST CHOOSE BE
TWEEN THE CANDIDATES OF CONTENDING POWERS
and the ogarchal in politics
and industrial monopolies, from the face of the earth.
marriages of wealthy American girls titled foreign
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
che evils Of Divorce
Bv CARDINAL GIBBONS.


vancing certain nes There barbarm dense than the
savage tribes of the
forest taught by the god adore the Great Spirit
speak barbarsm which eliminates God and overulng
Providence from the moral Of the world which takes
Of life of the responsibilities attached to it.
THERE is A SOCIAL SCOURGE MORE BLIGHTING
AND MORE DESTRUCTIVE OF FAMILY LIFE THAN NOR
MONISM. 1T is THE FEARFUL INCREASE IN THE NUM-
Der OF DIVORCE MILLS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED
STATES
These mills like the mills the gods, slowly but surely
grinding the domestic affairs the nation.
Husband and the nsy and
the different the sufficiently
dating this South has the envable distinction Of
granting divorce asking the sole condition Of
brief sojourn within her borders
CAN CONCEIVE NO SCENE MORE PATHETIC, NO APP
PEALS MORE TOUCHING TO OUR SYMPATTIES, THAN
THE CONTEMPLATION OF A CHILD EMERGING INTO
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

The new charity teaches that every dollar expend
ed in prevented child labor, supporting, when neces
sary, families thus deprived of the earnings OF young
children keeping children in school and promoting
their health will be than saved on the cost Of
almshouses and hospitals that now provide refuge
for physically broken at ages when they might
still be in their prime, incapactated because work
was demanded of them in the years when they
should have been preparing for manhood. The
new charity aims at truer economy.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

him, he would receive the blow Without resentment
Socially, there is paid to the mother Of a vice
coy, for example, almost Difference than
TO her son.
In the matter of education, believe that within
the next decade China will skip some centuries in
progress, and will do for her girls what Japan al
ready is doing Ten years ago such a prophecy
would have seemed incredible, but in the near future
I expect to see many Chinese girls studying in
English and American colleges.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

is increasing aarmngly and this the more clear
y bellies Our assumption Of democracy. After the
United States has been used ladder, or means
of getting rich it is cast aside, and the titles and
aristocracy Of Europe are sought after
A MAN BELONGS TO HIS COUNTRY.
He is like an eye, hand or foot; he has no right
to cut himself off from his country except for the
gravest of reasons yet those who are most in
debted to the country the first to turn their
backs on it and affiliate with the European nobility
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

A large proportion Of the
girls educated in our public
schools enter into business as
soon as the compulsory schoo.
wears are over. At I'd wears OF
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

education Of their children any other section It
must be borne in mind that the south has more
children in proportion to adults than the north In
South Carolina there are only 81 adult males to
every 100 children, while in New York there are Io2
to every 100. In the north each child is dependent
upon only one wage Garner in the south each wage
Garner must support two children. The people
poor because they ignorant and ignorant because
they are poor. Nothing but industrial education can
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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

George Dewey may not be
inappropriately described as the
advertising agent Of national ex-
pansion and influence. He issued
his card Of announcement on a
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Tbe Danger in Htbletlcs
By DIR. JAMES G. GILCHRIST,
Professor of Surgery in Homeopathic Medical
College, Iowa University

character we'll as that of his associates suffer
old his arteries Three months of college athletic
training gets of mans heart and than
as oil ordinary life would Is
IF A MAN INTENDS TO DEVOTE HIS LIFE TO ATI-
LETIC PURSUITS AND KEEPS UP HIS TRAINING HE
WILL DAMAGE HIMSELF BEYOND REPAIR. Sooner
esons conditions appear
death in all respects will be premature
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

This is the real southern
problem:
How Ghall we educate all the
people for intelligent citizenship,
for complete living and the true
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

DO not forget or be deaf to
the lesson learned in the war with
Spain. No sense of justice, no de-
sire for peace, no kindness Of
heart, could turn aside the in
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

Aristocratic and oligarchial
tendencies in the United States
are increasing at an alarming rate.
Sometimes for centuries appear
ances may be kept UP, and the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

Charity used to be regarded
as a necessary evil. Modern eco
Monies looks upon it as a posi-
tive good, an upbuilding force in
the community
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

If Christianity is the highest
type Of civilizatiOn-and who can
deny it then is it not true that
we are retrograding instead Of ad-
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21
Mh17 deh~e4 loeye>.<a<>

The college athlete of to-day
is doomed to a premature death
He must fall behind in his studies
or else work under such a strain
that mental as we'll as physical
ruin is imminent. HIS own moral
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-02-21

| believe that current state
ments as to the inferiority Of the
position held by women in China
are exaggerated.
On board a steamship in