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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

\ PREVENTIVE.
He is worrying himself to death
Whats the matter?''
He is past fifty, and fears that he
viii live to be a dependent old man
why doesn't he buy an auto?"
O-O-O-O
PROOF POSITIVE.
"Is his new newspaper taking?"
why. 1 should say so. II contains
such hot stuff that ne has to print the
whole paper on asbestos sheets.
O-O-O-O
HE thinks that you are a most en-
tertaining hostess. Now, what did you
say to him."
Nothing. 1 listened to what he had
to say
U..!-i..D
A crowd OF young people were visiting
an imbecile asylum. Several OF the young
ladies were asking questions of the pa
tients. one of whom was totally bald
and receiving answers which were absurd
as n usual thing. Bright Boy spoke up
addressing the bald-headed chap. who had
lost his hair through a disease of the
scalp.
And what made you bald?'
The fellow smiled foolishly, rubbed his
bald pate. twitched and looking up, said:
My hair came out
-. -
why. he was as proud as a peacock
Or
"Or a father who succeeds in putting
his first baby to sleep
-. 49,:
He (pointing to well dressed woman
coming out of restaurants She has
hard row to pick
She-"How do you figure that out;
she's very rich?'
Heller teeth are false
t?)-t?)-t?i
PARAGRAPHETTES
The marriage canoe is built for two;
taking on a third party is sure 10
swamp it.
Engineers appreciate good firemen, and
doctors. good nurses.
Cracked china may be mended, but bro
ken ideals are hopeless.
Sentimental folks to the contrary not
withstanding-a woman's crown of
glory is her hat.
The ''horSeless age" viii never come;
thousands of men will keep horses for
the sake of the pleasure no machine
can ever give.
CHAS. I. FORAN.
-,oI- .iol-
In his Chicago speech last Saturday
night Bryan referred to bimetallism.
What in the world is that?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
BEATS HIDEOUS HAYTL

The Philadelphia Press denounces the vile trade of
baby farming malpractice and city
shows that owing there being proper regulation of
midwves bad characters practice and escape
zion sometimes for years. The Press would have all
births registered within fortyeght hours failure
20 be made penal ofense. The Pennsylvania law re-
qures of midwife license nothing more there is no
examination and test Of character is imposed. The
horrible disclosures of baby cremation in Philadelphia
have shocked the country. 1t beats Darkest Africa
Hideous Hayti.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
KANSAS CUREEN IS

y horsethief is at work in Cowley
county. 1t seems there are yet a few
| people in southern Kansas who haven I
| an automobile.
Senator Fred Dumont protests against
the friends of Bristow denying the re-
port that he was the prosecutor of Bur
ton. Smith thinks it too much Of an
honor to deny ones self.
At this stage of the game prairie grass
! can make a bid with a fair show of Gov
ering few chips.
A Butler county lad in a recent school
| examination gave as characteristics Of
Roosevelt that the president is fat and
! has two pretty daughters.
According to the Review. every family
in Inman but one produced new mem
/ Der this past winter
/ 4 former Mcpherson man returned the
/ other day and welded his sister-in-law
/ And yet he would have 'roared' had X
! been suggested at his first marriage that
| he might be marrying the whole family
The Meade Globe began it's twentieth
| year with it's last issue. And the editor
| talks about running it twenty more.
The Meade Globe says: we would hate
| to be the weather in western Kansas
| just think how We would be talked
/ about" Thus can be seen the awful eff
fects Of the drouth in the short grass
country.
The Missouri Pacific has determined
not 70 pun the night plug out u
Wichita and salina. reports the Journal
Should the rain continue. Newtonians
VIII be padding around town in boats.
I complains the Kansan- Republican We
expected it.
The fever was at a high pitch" says
Kansas paper. But 1t doesn't say
whether the people were playing finch
or disslpaung in breakfast foods.
HaIsteed is advertising its school house
for sale. The new one viii he done about
November !.
a tramp working on the street az Nc
Pherson told his guard that re once went
70 school in the north part 81 the county
70 Bert Rowland. Il was mean 10 tell II.
but no doubt Rowland gave him ample
cause for revenge.
The Santa Fs trains are now running
over a new piece % track two miles
north u Arkansas CITY Th~ uew piece
was built - eliminate 2 dangerous cure.
Losing tfc dTiH has become a common
affair in oil well drilling. 80 AFkaEsas
CITY comes forward with the statsrness;
that the entire cable has been lost Not
IN the h1!e however. on q train during
transportation
Kansas City Is the idol q TIE Kansas
towns about x The Alchlsoa GIcbe. Tor
instance. said n recent issue ~E-a1sza
City's bail club managed % escape de-
fear yesterday u Tsined
4 Eiowa bank has installed hzz-z ;sF-
proof safe y this rszEs doesn't cause
@ ran the Democrats via haxe q &C.
know edge that Republican prosperity s.
OF a s0llt basis.
We Sc zhsre -ihe most eminent ply
stefan 81 the Critsd States" = G1inE 20
iSrazd or dsy z, Ef9za Thls s. tfse
tire TO take ;ast rs7sch-Eee1ot tr37 snto
TIRE country. ard so1t forget . tax
rozr appendix along
Mr. -uioes esczpe' stem r. Tevss cor I
-.zr1ndeace % TIE Esass-T MercErv
p : chalk Bad a -aTrow esczae fror
eettfu< hart Ore % h1s yszriizE calves
ssuxsss aEht ard Knocked hrs 65<n an4
trzrares al over z1r- hsf a1ziiy ~
chalk gat ~ cali an cane OF viz
tcrsoEx n.t59si = sc-1tch-'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

THE WORLDS FAIR
What good to me this gathered wealth
what good to me my seasons pass.
If forget the warning voice of friends
Please don't blow out the gas:
c. L. +.
()-(O)-O
There are few mines in the Orient
which the Russians haven't discoyeie -
yet. but give them time and they vii
md them.
C)-(O)-()
1t is rumored that Russia has bought
some American ships. II the car
doesn't want EN- blown up. he woCic
better hire some Americans TO navigate
them.
-I:,-.f:r-
There is talk of organizing a chess club
at Enid. That's a poor leap year method
of mating.
Tht weather so far this year has beer
extraordinary. But. then, it always Is.
:..:..:..:..:
Some one really should send Bryan a
maidstone. It's sixteen to one that it
sticks.
O.-i-l-.D
APPLY TO SUIT.
His microscopic talent when espied
Through lens of self-conceit. is magnified
To such extent. he sees but part of it.
And knowing this. believes il Infinite.
'Twould lose much of its VastneSs, IL he
knew
The power of the lens he sees it through.
C)-(O)-C)
There is n faint suspicion that Hearst
paid for Bryan's hall last Saturday night
at Chicago.
-(o). .(o)-
Ard the funny part of IL IS that Bryan :
bitter attack on Judge Parker will help 10
nominate the New Yorker. Such de-
nunciation reads like a political bill of
health.
(:)-(O)-()
The wheat may have been saved again.
but the cost of chicken feed doesn't prove
il.
:..:..:..:-.:
L am going to move
''Why?"
My neighbors have planted no gar
dens.
What has that TO do with it?''
Il have a flock of chickens, and they
can't pick up half a living in that neigh
borhood.H
J)-(O)-(:)
How can Diogenes Bryan hope to find
an honest man unless he buys himself a
lantern?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

William Jennings Bryan editor, states
man and orator hired hail. n(Chicago,
HALL.
Saturday night From Portland, Maine
to Portland Oregon, few Democrats at
tended church next day. The amount of gospel truth
they found perusng Bryans Saturday night sermon
in their Sunday morning papers, sufficient for the
ordinary Democratic stomach month The exhorter
in excoriaton offered opportunity for the repent
ant to come forward to the bench the
kingdom of heaven is at hand" kind OF sermon
the mount with promise of fat calf meat for
the prodigal Of New York whose political phyac
teries meaningless whose candidate is sphinx
The Nebraska man. author Kansas City platform,
16 to crank an economic visionary and all around
sorehead with it all he equal to pouring out scad
ing truths on occasion The artfu dodger Parker of
New York gagged and bound and decenty inferred,
while his platform which advocates nothing and
ignores every living ISSUE including money the income
tax corporation domination Bryan simply
tore to shreds and scattered to the winds.
In that hired Chicago hail. Saturday night Bryan
looked but few hundred the face but he talked to
hundreds Of thousands Of people, and in such way
fail of appreciation Bryan a Reform Demo
crat all his Pop leanngs and political iridescency
party living today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
TOO MUCH SUGAR FOR A CENT.

That $4,000 edition of Dickens works is no myth
is to appear in $50 volumes at 81 each Illustrated
by French and Italian artists the edition is limited
to ten sets furnished to subscribers is Mr.
J. Perpont Morgan and another the Duke of Westmfn
ster while the remaining subscribed This
is the elimination of the edition de luxe mania
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Each of the public school pupils in the United States
costs of $1733 year for his schooling
The foundngs, orphans and other children that are
charged the the country at large at the rate
of about $13S each per annum.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The Z. S. treasury collected beer and spirits duties
last year to the amount of s17SOOO0oO Thirst profit
able TO governments. The quenchng OF thirst may down
big number of fellows financially and physically but
the process seems to be healthy one for Uncle sam
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Folk will be nominated by the Democratic state con-
yenOn of Missouri and the old boodlemachine gang so
long in power in that state declaring that while they
can't defeat him in convention they will defeat him at
the polls
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

1t is pretty strongly ntimated that there demand
for Folk at Albany New York where it is said mem.
bers emuatng those of the Missouri legislature
in demanding bills 81 900 denomination for votes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The farmers should stand together Judge Parker is
real farmer with and blooded herds And Bryaas
oryacre patch is of the finest agricultural Iayous
in the west.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

OF the Fiftyeighth congress- just drawing to close
Senator Hanna and members of the lower house
died Washington will never be healthy city so long as
the Potomac continues to flow beside it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The Kaw valley for foods the only pebble on the
beach. Marmaton and Yellow Paint which figure in
Eugene Wares classics mile wide in the vicinity
of Fort Scott Sunday.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The Cincinnati Enquirer remarks: What rattle OF
eyeglasses there have been when the EARTHQUAKE
struck Boston," Yes and of beans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Grover Cleveland the Isaac Walton of Princeton
seems 20 care for his opinions of other people than
ne does for the opinions of other people OF himself
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The Philadelphia Record thinks that Mr.. Carnegie
may yet endow a library at oyster Bay where Mr..
Roosevelt protably the evenings after retire
ment from the White House
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Andrew Carnegie thinks that the press the country
should approve his latest gift for the pensonng of heroes
in civil life and help develop the spirit underlying it So
say al.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Why don't the doctors when they find that their pa
tents troubles largely due worry prescribe
soodly supply of ready cash?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Captain Hobson does find politics quite
girls least of his kissing campaigns landed him
in he'd
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Bryan's Chicago speech will have the effect possibly
York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Wonder what Wattersons estimate of Billy Bryani
speech is as an unanswerable affirmation
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

Then love belated came, and deep he drank
And asked not whence what the gobet's shape
TIL, draining lifes red wine content he sank
To sleep, and thought not once to sing the grape,
Arthur Stringer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

The boss busters. the wos Oils and Jimnezes are
known the Buttinsky contingent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

IN ToDAY-The MeNut and Winner
a TopeSa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
Y, Y, THE PIKERS LAMENT Y, M
THE WORLDS FAIR.

The eye OF The
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
THE LOST POET,

He watched in silence while the gray years passed.
And fashioned chains Of tender thought to hold
The guest that came not till on life at last
Each golden link was broken for its gold
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26
KANSAS HISTORY REVEALS THAT


in
Charles Phillips Chas
E.
Samuel Holland D. Greene Francis w
men in securing the ton wasEn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

YEARS ToDAYAt elections Greeley and Uni
railroad
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

and
applicants
dismissed boodIng being
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

\ 80 go damage salt has Seea hies 81
Norman. II grew CIT o: a shooting as
fay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

y horsethief is at work in Cowley
county 1t seems there are yet a few
people in southern Kansas who haven't
an automobile.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

This weather so far this year has been
extraordinary. But. then, it always Is.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

A Butler county lad in a recent school
examination gave as characteristics Of
Roosevelt that the president is fat and
has two pretty daughters.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

At this stage of the game prairie grass
can make a bid with a fair show of Gov
ering a few chips.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

According to the Review. every family
in Inman but one produced a new mem
Der this past winter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-26

THE WORLDS FAIR
What good to me this gathered wealth
what good TO me my seasons pass.
If I forget the warning voice of friends
Please don't blow out the gas"
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
senate or COngress2

Highockpo Bill, an Indian Ter
ritory outlaw for over thirty years,
is in jail at Muscogee, |. T., and
will no doubt be declared insane.
At the time he was arrested High
ockpo was in the act of blowing
ND the court house at Wewaka, be-
cause of the alleged wrongs of the
Federal officials in charge there.
Highockpo Bill has been a terror
TO the residents of the territory
for years, and has shot and killed
a number of persons but alwayI
managed to escape. He wal
handy with gun, and when ar
rested and tried for any shooting
offenses he always escaped on thu
ground of self defense. Whel
adjudged insane he will be sen
to Washington.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
Ctr Council Meets,

Viz
The.City Council met at @ call
ed meeting IN the Birst National
Bank rooms on Wednesday, Mch.
2nd, al 9i30i a. IN. The mayor,
marshal, secrets ~ and the eaUire
board of aldermen were present.
The returns Of the election for
school tax held on February 18th.
we're csnvassed by the council and
1T was found that 54B votes had,
been cast, BID for the tax and 1856,
againstg 1t was moved and ear
ried that the returns be- approved
and thst the tax be declared car
ried.
1t was. moved and CANNED that
the mayor be instructed to oyier
an election forcity officers for the
second Tuesday in April.
A discussion then ensued in re-
gard to'sn ordinance for the par
pose Of keeping stock off she
streets,
The mayor brought up the mat
ter upon q complaint which had
been made to him of u dead ami
NAL in the river which would poll
lutte the city's water supply
Although the animal 10 outside
the city limits the city will have
it removed at once. A complaint
had also been made about hole
in culvert which will also be
attended to.
The council decided to 60 to
work on the travelling of Chad
bourne street and discussion en-
sued as 10 the cheapest way to get
it done.
The council instructed the tax
collector to have a notice pub
lished that after the 18th day Of
March a ten per cent penalty will
be added to delinquent taxes.
The council also instructed the
tax collector and assessor to go to
work .ta|ling assessments for this
year immediately after the cleo
tion on,March 3rd.
1t was-deoidad that OF the next
meeting of the. council the mayor
and aldermen should be allowed
some sort of compensation for
I their services.
The,mayor brought up the mat
ter of poor woman with three
children who had been left 1esti-
tute here anGi whom the city had
cared tor. 'Ehe bills for this in
debtedness we're presented.
1t was decided that in view of
the election OH the corporation
question or, Thursday the city
would pay all its bills whiGh had
been presented up 60 date and the
secretary was instructed to draw
"A warrant IN favor of tbs Mayor
for the total amount of tbs
several bills, attaching the bills
to the warrant, in a7der that
everything SHOULD be in order in
case the corporation should be
dissolved.
The council decided TO have the
Marshal stop amy vagrant loaiins
on the streets. The council ther
adjourned
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
Fred Webb"s AnnOuncemeas.

For two weeks the announce =
meut Of Fred s. Webb has APP
peared in our announcement col
umn as a candidate for city Sec
Rotary. Mr.. Webb has fi4led the
office since the organization Of
the city and has displayed un-
usual ability in bis work. lie is
a good boy, Fred is,, and deserves
we'll. He. will appreciate your
support.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
y STOCK NEWS
Market Letter.

Special to The Press
Kansas City, Mo-, Feb. 25, 1904
Receipts of cattle for the past
six days we're B5, 700 against 81,
600 the previous SIX days, and
1890 a year ago. There has
been a large proportion of beet
steers but the quality for most
part has been common, there be-
ing few choice, toppy, heavy and
well-fnished steers included
Among the handy weight steers
have been q good many Westerns,
raised in Texas and Colorado and
fed in Kansas. These have
ranged in price from 81 to $3.50,
and have sold steady with the
natives. Prices today on choice
dressed beef and export steers are
practically steady with week
ago; such IA sell at 81 so to So 5.
On the medium TO good handy
weight steers 1900 to 400 pounds,
there has been decline of 10c
since last Thursday, and 10 to Is
cents on the common ones
Stockers and feeders are selling
today Mt practically the same
prices which they brought a week
ago. The supply has been light
the past week, but fully equal to
the demand. There has been n
good demand for light, high
grade Western stockers and large
boned, thin Western feeders. In
the Quarantine Division receipts
have been light, with the excep-
tion of Monday, when they
reached about 1000 head. The
quality throughout the week has
been common, the receipts run
ming largely to light, short fed
steers. The top price in the past
SIX days was $500. There was
decline on Tuesday of 10 to Is
cents. Since that time the
market has been steady, steers
selling today, 10 to Is cents lower
eiluil u mDch hBO' llCtb VII lIBub,
short fed steers ranged from
$3. 25 to $3.50. Supply of she
stuff has been very light, and
prices fully steady throughout
the week.
Receipts of hogs we're slightly
larger than the previous week.
Prices have advanced steadily,
and today are 30 cents higher
than u week ago The top today
was SIS SIS, and the bulk of sales
1925 to $4.45. Heavy hogs have
the preference, light ones not
having advanced quite as much
as the others.
Sheep receipts were 33 1-3 per
cent larger than the previous
week, but prices have remained
practically unchanged. Fed
lambs are selling from So 25 to
$3.50. Yearlings, IS to SIS. Is {;
wethers 81. 40 to $4.G0, and ewes
$8. IS to $3.50. Feeding lambs
are bringing 81 so to "a 80.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03

II. D. Leffel has unique little
machine in his show window
which is a great advertiser. 1t is
arranged with an electrical at
tachment and by pressing but
ton will knock on the window,
calling the attention of the pass
ers-by to a beautiful display of
iewelry and other novelties dis
PLAYED in the window.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
A REuaway.

The delivery horse of Chatham
& Aldridge became frightened
Tuesday morning while hitched
at the gate of ID. r. Cbeatham
and ran away, completely demol-
ishlng the delivery wagon.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
VI-PARTx TTCEETs.

1. Must be made by primary
election or convention
2. None but qualified voters
can participate in either primary
elections or conventions.
3. In primary elections voters
must exhibit their poll tax re-
ceipts or otlidavit of Loss, as in
final elections, and the same rules
govern, as to residence.
4. All elections shall be by Of
fetal ballot, printed under direc,,
ton of government. No ballots
or tickets are distributed among
the people, but each voter is CIV
en- u full assortment of official
tickets when he presents himself
to vote. lie is provided with a
place where he can make bis Sc
lection and alter the ticket to suit
Himself without dictatlon or al.
vice. If he requires assistance
in making out his ticket, two
Judges of the election, OF differ
emit political parties, may assist
him, but they are forbidden tt
make any suggestions as to how
he shall vote. Al! tickets moi
used 10y him must no returned Il
the election officers, folded eX
actly like the ticket he votes, |
is misdemeanoG for II voter It
show his ticket to anybody, un
less it be the judges who assis
him in making it out.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
Gardening Time.

We still handle the Plant Seed
Co.'S seeds as we have for the past
1S years. They are the best You
know if you have used them, and
if you haven't we want you to
give them trial. We also have
a full stock of field seed of all
kinds. j. B. TAYLOR.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
Notice TO Trespassers.

Notice Is hereby given that al tres
passers on the ranches and lands own
ed or controlled by the undersigned
in Tom Green county, for the purpose
OF hunting, fishing. cutting timber,
hauling wood, gathering pecans, cut
ting bee trees, working stock or hunt
ing hogs, or in any way molesting
any OF our stock or damaging the
premises, will he prosecuted to the
full extent of the law, unless bearing
written permit from the undersigned
Is. NJ. CoLLYNS,
BY G. Collyns, Manager.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03

Lee Bros. shipped one car of
tat COWS from Miles Monday to
TT. Worth.
Danny Sheen bought 30 head of
coming 2 and 3 year-old steers
from Albert Baze, both of Lrion
county.
Go see those Leedale bulls at
Nasworthy's stable.
The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-03-03
Stock Shippcrs Take Notice.

This is to advise that our Mon
day stock train will leave prompt
ly at 10 O'Clock IL. NJ. and any
stock not ready for shipment ut
this time will he left.
+, E SKINNER, AGENT.