The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-20

team at $1,000 a year, and has accepted
! the pastorate of the Baptist church at
! Rockwell Ia, at an annual salary Of 5000
MIR. Marsh went west from Massachu-
! sets, where he was educated for the min
| istry.
| The most valuable book ever published
by a private citizen was probably the
catalogue of the Walters collection OF pic
lures and ceramics in Baltimore. Only
one hundred copies were published, which
were presented to the great libraries and
museums of the world. This small edi-
ton cost more than 100000.
The smallest pension extant is believed
to be that paid to an old sailor in the
Portsmouth, Eng, workhouse. 1t comes
| to eight cents year, paid quarterly.
Each quarter. therefore, he duly receives
q two-eent stamp, wherewith is enclosed
a stamped envelope for the receipt. He
is then granted leave of absence 10 con-
vert his little ElDorado into cash.
The funeral of Lord Salisbury was lin
tied by his will to cost of $780, and
actually cost only So. This is of i'm
portance as well as interest. Lord Sails
bury was one of the great figures, If not
one of the great men, of his generation,
and some ostentation at his funeral could
hardly have been censured. Yet many
q poor widow in New \ ork squanders
twice or thrice as much money upon the
burial of her husband. though she may
face want and hardship for sthe rest OF
her life.
The yearly expenses of the Sultan OF
sum than 900. OF this s7.5OO,0o0 alone
Is spent on the clothing of the women,
and $500 600 on the Sutans own ward
robe. Nearly another sI7,500.000 is swal-
lowed up by presents. s5,Oo0GO0 goes for
pocket money. and still another 100000
for the table. 1t seems incredible that
so much money can possibly be spent in
year by one man, but when 1t is re-
men1bered that some 1900 people reside
within the palace walls, and live luxuri-
ously and dress extensively at the cost
OF the civil list, it appears little more
comprehensive.
A cowboy for twelve years, head of a /
big rice plantation for three years and at
the age of thirty elected president Of a |
railway corporation representing a capital |
of IS, 100000 and 200 miles of track is the |
record of Ross L. Clark, recently elected /
president of the Rice Belt Railway Com
panx..,of Texas. giving him the distin- |
guished honor of being the youngest chief /
executive of a railway in the United /
States. Though but thirty years Of age,
and starting with but few advantage. /
Clark has forged to the front until he
now represents rice-growing company /
with 5000 acres under cultivation.
When Judge w. II. Taft assumes the
war department portfolio he will sit al
the same desg which his father, Alphonso
Taft. occupied while holding the same
office under President Grant. The elder
Taft occupied the post but a few months.
when he became attorney general and was
afterward sent TO Russia as minister.
Queen Wilhelmina and the Sultan Of
Turkey have the credit of being the only
reigning' monarchs at the present time
who are teetotalers. The Sultan. in spite
of all his faults. is a strict follower Of /
Mohammed and his religion forbids him
to partake of alcoholic drinks. Queen
on the other hand. lis a tee
totaler from conviction and with char
acterictic energy she tries to induce 9th
ers 10 follow her example. Her init
mate friend, Princess Pauline. Of Wuert-
is said TO have done so and il
others of eqpally exalted rank are not
persuaded by the Queen to become work
srs in the cause of temperance, it viii not
be her Majesty's fault.
Miss Alice Fletcher has for years been
associated with the Indian Bureau and
the Smithsonian Museum at Washington
and in the former capacity has done
work performed by no other woman She
surveyed government land among the
Jmaha's and had charge or the division
Il these lands She is best known per-
laps. to the popular mind. by her work
n making known the Omaha music. which
-or the first time was written under her
are. the words Of their songs being
translated by her Miss Fletcher founded
he Woman's AnthropcIcgical Society q
Washington. and was for some years its
president. She holds the Thaw fellowship
n the body Museum.
Rear Admiral Louis KempT has been
ordered 20 his home in BeIleville. III. pre-
,arssory TO his retirement from active
service next Sunday. when he VIII have
-sached the required age Admiral l.
xerupf has been in the nsovy forty-six
rears Of which twenty were spent at
.ea Among the most notable acts In
is career was one for which congress
banked him when commander % the
-nited States feet IN Chinese waters Il
So he refused 10 take part with the
flied fleets in bomhzrdiEg the forts al
he mouth OF the TsEu river. china He
"a not think the somhzniusent was jusu-
liable or expedient and congress took the
,aue view Admiral Eenp1 - perhaps
he only American officer 20 - offictsliy
hsaked for refusing 70 fight
Miss Caro- NJ Clark. q Boston. hss the
lisssuctioz Of being tie orig woman a.
ne bad Ct a book publishing concern in
America she believes thaTouEhiT r. ths
.mcieacy and ability of woman ard has
.roved her leysity 10 her sex ~ patarg
women in positions which generally are
.ned By men Her bookSeeVe- i :
roznE woman her advertising manager
nd literary adviser IS a woman ard even