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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-18

Must YOU CO..
There was a tone of appeal in his
wlfe.s voice that made John Rusk stir
spueasily as liz gazed out of his study
window. a slight expression of pain
passed over his face followed by q steelS
glitter ii his eyes and hard severe lines
#abcllt Ills mouth that bespoke the man
%pf finance.
s2..i see no way out of it, my dear
lie replied. slowly and absently.
There was d pause. sweet childish
Voice broke the stiffness, and a plump
little figure topped by mass of golden
&curls burst into the room. She looked
III her mother for moment. then eS-
claimed Where's Daddy gone?H
$iti ] ohn Rusli turned quickly and held
cont his arms, His wife and his little
Doris wrre very dear to him.
DADDY, my got some gWeat. big
Tcwealns and some. ,gwent big dolls, and
So -- cake, and - toys. and my take
fem to houses and parties. cause
u Doris stopped, Evidently the cause
WAS indistinct in her mind.
IA John Rusk smiled. What Is the che
rub saying?" he quericd.
n. Governess has been telling her how
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Bv FLETCHER FIELDING.

4 =
we shall take Santa Claus gifts to the
poor children tomorrow, and have a 1T
tie party at each house" volunteered his
wife. 81
The smile died away as he kissed Doris
goodbye. His wife went up to him,
iSpluccd both hands Upon his shoulder.
and looked up into his face. = Ohm"
she said. seriously. Tomorrow Is Christ
mas Our own little darling will ask
for you in the morning to show you har
toys: and what shall tell her? This
horrid business! John, you do not know
how ] hate IL. 1t Is wearing you out;
it is depriving Doris and me Of our loved
one. And it isn't necessary. There
we're tears In Mrs. Rusk's eyes
John stood irresoute for a moment
Then that same glitter came to his
eyes and he said. brlskly, There, there,
Margaret II you feel so about 1t | shall
give up my seat on Change promise
you this shall be the last deal; but
must 60 l really must go to-day.
shall only be gone few days.
He kissed her gently, picked up his
valisc and was gone.
Mrs. Rusll sat for long time gazing
blankly into space. The last! How Of
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laughter. S5 * 81
"Ol,l Mnyver and Daddy, see dolls my
got. Here Muvver you hold dis on you
lap, Daddy, see candles, see gweati big
3cwenms my got"
h. Daddy had hidden behind the morning
paper. Mrs, Rusk wondered II his m
terest In file market had not yet SUBJ
s!detls But when John looked up his
face was serious.
st ut la not the market, ny dear he
said. "Read that
VI Mrs, Rusk read the appalling story Of
disaster TO Which John pointed, HE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-18

frightful plunge into the river Of the
Buffalo Express through an open 'lls y
ana finally the entire extermnation OF
the passengers in the sleeper "Endy-
mlon" I'll "a
& .IIe watched her expression as she read q
When Ishe raised her head she was pale
and breathless. ''lhe Endymion!" She
gasped, sand your berth was lower, No.
~ .s
apshdy. Daddy! What did Santa Claus
bring you"
John folded his wife and his liltle. girl
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Rusk turned and walked brlskly. firmly

Rusk turned and walked briskly, firmly
ihomeward, $s .s
Dawn came on Christmas NOR ,l'
clear. crisp arm beautiful. an emblem
OF the heralded peace and good will. And
1t came tcnfold 10 two souls which would
otherwise have been barren lsut tne1t
happiness was mild compared With that
which came later VIXEN Doris @gazed IN
rapture on the gifts Of Santa s1l'lus' sne
took up each doll III turn examined In
her omn quaint. serious way each toy,
and thc, dolls house beneath tho tree,
and expressed her delight in sirleks o.
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CRAFTSMANSHIP SENTIMENTS
THE. END or THE PLAY.

THE END OF THE PLAY.
b. WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACkERAK
. $ : s. S s ''i'i g: rs
r@19AzEsnnh He play is done-the curtain drops,
E)}W X96N1 falling prompter's bell;
ESS*1&Hf7 "A the
# lMaN EN around, farewell
81 IM IN AMl irksome word and task;
"a wv M;(8Mk And when he's laughed and said his
NJ Al s@lN1 the mask
. NJ k( A anything but #45s@Bs
Y ENNN>:kI One word, ere yet evening
AaadeStaA close 1t with q parting rhyme,
pledge a hand to all young friends,
the Christmas time;
If#sSs on lifes wide you,
That,fate ere long shall bid you play;
Good-night!-wth honest gentle hearts
"A kindly greeting go Away!
Goodnght!--rd say the grie the joys.
Just this mimic ss5S
The triumphs boys,
but repeated in our age: 5j #s84
S.s I'd say your not less keen,
83ss Your hopes than those of
pangs pleasures Of fifteen .4578a
#.#s Atforyfive played Ger again.
e,sufer and we strive
men than boys,
With grzzled boards forty-five,
AS in corduroys,
if, in time OF sacred youth,
We learned to love and
Pray heaven early love and truth
wholly away.
# And in the world school,
WI I'd say how fate may change and shift,
prize sometimes with the fool,
sss the swift;
a6 The strong may yield the good may fall.
&3.4itsssE5as!t great ma a clown
9sss knave lifted all,
The kind cast pitlessly down
@ a a aa9 III @f who knows nscrutable
ts @y,@s
4# ss ssIia mother. Charles not mine
t4 "a, ,y weeping
heaven that willed It 50,
#@ 9s @s That darkly rules the fate Of all,
sfa ata respite or the blow, ssH
Z ga ~ $50 EfaS1baf, ovotor tn roca1l
This crowns his feast With vine and Wit 0
him to that mirth and state?
. His betters,
hopeless at the gate.
Who the mud from Dives wheel
To spurn Lazarus?
II Come, brother, in
Contrasting heaven that ruled it thus
So each shall mourn, in lfe's advance
hopes untimely killed,
longing passion unfulfiled
Amen!--whateyer fate be sent, $s#5
God the heart may kindly glow,
Although be bent,
whiened with the winter
Il Come wealth or want, come good or Ill III # .s
young their part
And the awful will,
nd honest heart ls4s
who wins the prize
Co. lose or conquer
Buff you fail, or If rise $S5s
Be each, pray God, gentleman
A gentleman. old young!
kindly with ny humble ays;)
he first
Upon first Of Christmas days;
shepherds heard it overhead
The Joyful angels raised 1t then:
Glory on high, it said
And peace earth to gentle men!
MY song, this worth II
aside
And wish you health, and love- and mrth
AS s Christmas-de 8&N
AS Christmas birth, gS5#
this good friends, carol still; 5$S
Be peace earth, peace earth, 5sH5g @s5$5
of gentle will 6#sssS8s52s
EzzEFE8 IVtEaIN
7EzzzaSS S%ZSs
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Full day tamarisksthe sky is blue and staining
AS the cattle crawl beneath the yoke,
And they ali hope Of caring
Call on Rama going slowly brother owly--
Call on perhaps your voice!
psaers appeal to other affairs
And to-day good Christian rcjoice!'
High tanaslts--the sun is hot above us
AS at Home Chrstmas-day is breaking wan
dinnethose who tell US how they
love 35S#5 s.E#s
And forget us be gone!
Oh the breaking OH the Heimweh, cease
aching!
Oh, Sea and alien Plain! - 8#4
Youth vase heap--whereforeS we sold It,
Gold vas hold 1T,
And to-day the ulness of ourigan
Gray parrots fly
AS sinking slowly over Home:
mock shacSle IN liong tetn
howeer far we roamafqt 5a5
In ancient
sStepmother of our kind
Of temples shrine we enter
The is fshut--we not look behind .s
owls begin their
AS the conches and bray s am.f36 3
with the hopeless years
Let honor, brothers, ChTsmasday!
with friends and neighbo
And be merry s caste
IL fan and and II sadness follow after
I'VE are richer by one knocking Christmas past
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POEMS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW.

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CHRISTMAS IN INDIA.
BY RUDYARDl KIPLiNG.

portrait autograph and biographical sketch
alrcnd yhcenpr
rs fora mountain
finotan weh
musical wind maze
shall
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1 BY MISS MyLO DC 4 (.

uM8pn 'hnnun sunday
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15
A MAGNIFICENT PARADE
The Spectacular Street Display of
Waliace's Show Always Pieases.

From the reports received about the
great Wallace Show, it seems that the
thousands OF people who see its street
display are well repaid for the effort.
The street parade OF circus is the for
NAL Introduction of the show itself and
Wallace's introduction is always vel
coined. as his pageant is an unusually
creditable one. in many respects superior
to others
In order that the cleanliness and bril-
Mancy of the Wallace circus parade NAV
be appreciated, the circus lover should.
If possible, secure a good vantage point
from which to view it when il passes
over the principal streets of this city
on the morning Of Wednesday. Nav Is.
From a good view point the spectator can
see the parade as a whole. notice its
harmonious arrangement or its numerous
sections unite in the long chain of spec
tacular units. From the first appearance
Of the monster band wagon pulled by ten
Jet black horses. until the toot-toot Of
the new and modern calicpe a mile be-
hind is heard, the sight is good for any
one to look upon
Ben Wallace always manages to have
the finest horses on the road. He has q
Hationdi reputation Tor dong So-bUt his
good care of animals does not end with
horses. A view OF his magnificent parade
finds his 1S Shetland ponies. each as fat
as butter. and the numerous animals in
the score of dens which are open in
parade are in the same excellent condi-
ton This favorable and healthy and
bright condition of the animals causes
most of them 10 be far more beautiful
and attractive than animals usually arc
with n travelling show.
1t is but natural to expect that circus
proprietor who is not too stingy to feed
his stock and animals literally even when
all forage and feed is high priced VIII
not be slow 10 spend money for his shows
equipment Mr. Wallace is not diSap-
pointing in this regard. He sees to il
that there is nothing shoddy about his
parade or show. His fine harness. trap
pings. and wardrobe. the costly artistic
and rich finish 81 his cages dens. and
chariots ali testify II his eagerness 10
make his attraction the highest class in
every respect.
The Wallace circus pcrade must he seen
10 be appreciated and il is only the astuta
observers that will see Ill there is % Il /
in the way OF the beautiful and artistic
This parade. which is highly recon- /
rnended. will pass over the principal /.
streets Of Wichita on wednesday. May IS .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15
Hotel epworth. st. Louis.

Having Just returned from s. Louis
and being entertained at>Ho,el Epworth.
we heartily commend 81 TO the public
Rates. 81 per day up To june Thereafter
r-@ Certificates good from Nay 10 De-
cember !. Write or see Agent E. c. Pol
lard. se5 South ErporIa. Wichita. Kan.
Phone l7S5.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15
Only One f.cthcd.

There is oaly ore metiTod known of
procuring pure water; that is by proper
5stillstioR
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15

= Dfwden's Blue Ribbon BAKING Powder.
guaranteed as good as Prices or Royal
n half the price. Made in Wichita
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15
STILL MORE CONTRACTS
MUST Be SIGNED
[. w. Lamson Compliments
Wichita Very Highly.
PIX. TYING ARRIVES TODAY
Names of Some Who Have
\ Contracted for Gas.
PIX. TYING ARRIVES TODAY

The secretaries of the Chamber of
Commerce and the Commercial club have
put in a week of hard work, circulating
contracts from the people of Wichita 10
secure gas for the city, and have been
rewarded with good success. great
number of people have contracted to use
gas, but there is still more needed in
order to satisfy the gas company.
This company asks and requires that
sufficient contracts be signed by the peo-
pie of Wichita to insure them suff-
cient income to recompense them for the
capital required to install and maintain
the gas system. They ask for no money
u advance, but they do ask, which seems
TO be only a fair business proposition,
that the people use gas in sufficient guam
titles to justify them in investing their
money.
Mr.. L. ]. Lamson a stakeholder and
director of the company, has arrived
here. Mr.. Lamson is profuse in his
praise of Wichita. He said last night:
Il have never been in a city before
where the people pull together as they
do here. Take this gas proposition, for
instance why, every business man in
Wichita is working for it, regardless of
the nature of their business. Even the
coal dealers are getting out and circulat-
ing contracts, admitting at the same time
that the consequences will be detrimental
to the interests of their trade 1t is this
spirit Of working for the good Of the city
without regard TO private interests, which
is building up Wichita at such a rapid
rate"
Mr.. Tying arrives this morning from the /
east He reports conditions very favor |
able for securing the necessary pipe TO /
convey the gas from the fields to Wichita. |
Among the leading business men of the /
city who have signed contracts to use gas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-15

We announce for this week regular May
ducton all street hats Considering the style and
character of these fashionable creations it should be
announced as remarkable giving of values.
The last week here in which to make your hot
selection for graduation offers splendid chances of
choice Time yet to select order any special fancy
you may want.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30
THE MANASSAS WAR PLAY.

New York Mail. = One of the
elements Of value in the war
games which are to be PLAYED in
Virginia next month Is the fact that
they are to take place on ground
which has been saturated with the
blood of horses. From Fairfax Court
House to Thoroughfare Gap and Man.
assas Junction there is scarcely mile
OF ground that Is not historic.
Blue army is to defend the capital
from Brown army, in the solution Of
one problem, and In another a Brown
army Is to make determined stand
against Blue army advancing from
WASHINGTON. With Brown" turned in
10 Gray and times scroll rolled
back from forty to forty-four years.
the play" would be grim reality.
However, among the Americana
troops which next month defend the
capital there will be the sons and
grandsons of those who attacked II
then. Nor are these maneuvers in-i
TENDED. ten to rehearse or prefgure, the
suppression of another rebellion. They
are operations Of character which,
might take place anywhere, and which
have their chief use In the chanca
which they afford to militia to learn
how to come to the aid of regulars
already in the field.
The original "maneuvers" Of Ameri-I'
u,
the months of June and July, 1851,
We're much less carefully planned and
prepared than those which will take
place next month. Preparation and
Encouragement were not then regard-l
ed as at all necessary. General Mont u
gomery Blair had Boosted that he
could take 10000 men armed with laths
to Richmond, and there were fools who
believed him. That was a sample OF,
the free and easy ideas that then rre :,
vailed. Not on,-- the civil war, but
other wars since, have proved the me-
cessity of careful Encouragement, and
OF a great deal of war play IL there Is
to be successful war work That is
what the general staff Is to assemble
$4,000 men at Manassas for Every
step has reference to careful study OF
the situation.
The Virginia maneuvers are kinder
garten war play compared with what
might be, but they will be highly usa-
full.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30
SOLVING A PROBLEM.

Great truths are often found in the
smallest and shortest sayings. Thus
1t is that paragraph employed in
some advertising matter for an, east
ern advertising agency strikes a true
note. 1t is as follows:
When Elias Howe solved his mar.
plexities by putting the eye In the
point of the needle the sewing ma.
chine happened. When newspaper ad.
yertising is put in the front instead
OF the back end of business. great
results happen likewise"
This would be good motto for
many merchant. Advertising, in this
age OF advanced IDEAS is as necessary
to commercial progress as is loca.
ton on prominent thoroughfare. A
firm which locates in the outskirts of
tow.l, let it have all the bargains
imaginable, cannot expect to do the
business enjoyed by it's competitor on
the main street of the city, where
thousands of people pass every day.
Just SO merchant who hides his light
under bushel, neglecting to take ad.
vantage of the opportunities offered by
newspapers to let the public know he
is IN business, cannot expect to enjoy
the trade and the prosperity that fall
to the lot of his more progressive c. n
petitor, who proclaims In heavy ,ype
that he is in business to please the
people and that he has bargains every
day.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30
PARkER's VOTES FOR BRYAN.

The latest explanation of Judge
Parker's course in voting for Bryan
In 1896 and in 1900 is scarcely likely
to be pleasing to Mr.. Bryan's follow
ers. John E. Lamb, of Indianapolis.
who was chairman o. the Indianapolis
delegation to the st. Louis convention.
says that when he told Judge Parker
OF a Terra Haute banker who said
that the only thing he had against
Parker as candidate, was his vote
for Bryan, Judge Parker remarked:
Tell him if had not voted for Bryan
he would not be able to vote for me
for president"
What does that mean but that he
voted for Bryan, not because he be-
lieyed in the principles of the Chica-
go and Kansas City platforms, but be-
cause he wished to preserve his record
for party regularity, in order to get
the support of Mr.. Bryan's followers in
case he should need it in the future?
/ The explanation tallies with the one
made by his friends in 1897. In that
year Parker was Hills candidate for
chief judge of the court Uf appeals of
New York. The nomination was to be
made by the democratic state commit
tee as there was no convention that
year. Up to the day of the meeting,
Parker was supposed to be a gold
democrat. On the morning Of the
meeting letter from him to Elliot
Danforth, chairman of the committee
was published in which Parker said
he had voted for Bryan in 1896. This
revelation greatly enraged the gold
democrats Of the committee, but they
were uuieted with the explanation that
Parker had no more sympathy with
Mr.. Bryan's principles than they had !;
that he had been and still was gold
democrat as they were and that he had
voted for Bryan solely in order to main
tain his party regularity. All this was
set forth in the New York papers and
led to a furious denunciation of Parker
by the Evening Post as man untitled
for the bench because he believed one
way and voted another.
Parker got his nomination of chief
Judge, in fact, by trick very similar
to the one by which he got his nomina-
ton for the presidency.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30
A BILLION DOLLAR NEST EGG.

When Mckinley and Roosevelt were
inaugurated in 1897, 5,201 1872 deposit
ors had $1,937,376,035 in the savings
banks of the country. During the past
seven years, under republican admin.
istration and a protective tariff, the
number of depositors has increased by
over 100000 and the amount Of de-
posits by over $1,000,000,OO0 The in
crease has been steady and constant
year after year, the increase in New
York state alone during the past year
being over $50,0OO,0O0. This proves
that wages have increased much more
than cost Of living and that wage earn
ers have not only lived far better dur
ing the years under the Dingley law,
but have, after enjoying the necessa-
ries and luxuries of life, been able to
lay aside one billion dollars for the
proverbial rainy day But this billion
dollars by no means measures the
surplus earnings of the wage gamer.
There have been millions deposited
with building and loan associations;
other millions have been used in can
ceiling mortgages on the farm or the
house; other millions have been used
in insurance, in sending the boys and
girls to school and college and in ways
impossible under democracy and free
trade. During the last democratic ad-
ministration and under the operation
of the Wilson-Gorman law the savings
of the people had to be withdrawn and
used to buy the necessaries of life.
Those were the days of democratic
cheapness, and yet our people were
compelled to run behind Some were
able to go to the bank and withdraw
the savings of years. others had to 20
to the pawnshops. We have made M
the losses of those years and gained
much besides, and these 100000 saw
ings bank depositors will all vote for
Roosevelt aud Fairbanks, for protec-
ton and prosperity.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-08-30
GEoRGIA's SHAME.

Burlington Hawk Eye.--It develops
that the deputy sheriffs at Statesboro,
aided the lynchers in overpowing the
soldiers, who We're guarding the pris-
oners. One of them seized Captain
Hatch and hustled him down stairs
and out into the crowd, which quickly
massed about him, and took away his
arms. When he managed to fight his
way back to his post the prisoners
were gone. Those who had been charg-
ed with the keeping Of the peace had
aided In most emphatic manner in
breaking It, Probably there has never
been more fragrant disregard Of duty
than this action of the deputies. 1t
adds UNNECESSARILY to the disgrace
which the burning of the two con-
demned men has brought upon the
state of Georgia.
AT first 1t was supposed the work of
the mob was inspired by an unknown
and irresponsible man who inhamed
the crowd with bloodthirsty haran-
que; but the latter facts seem to in
dictate that there was a preconcert-
ed plot to burn the negroes in which
the officers of the law were implicated.
This ought to enable the state au-
thorities to place the responsibility of
the outrage. The deputy sheriffs who
aided In overpowering the guards
should be identified without trouble,
and there can be no excuse for fail
ure to bring them to justice.
The one great blunder on the part of
the officer in charge OF the military
guard at the Statesboro court, house,
was the permitting of his men to face
the mob with unloaded rifles. He
might as well have entrusted the lives
of the condemned men to the care of
infants, and the results which followed
his lack of judgement might have been
foreseen. Mex time, no doubt, he will
know better.