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The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29
KANSAS CURkEN s

And Eow comes the contamination Of
/ the nine months of hard work in the va
/ rious sChools-the track meet.
! The odd Fellows of the southern dis
| trict OF Kansas. in convention at Winfield
! Tuesday. chose Arkansas CITY FOR A place
/ of meeting in 1895.
| There are becoming so many. that sew
! eral Kansas papers Will soon be forced
! TO get out supplements. containing simply
/ the exposures of grafters within the pa
pers' said counties.
A society of the Southwest Kansas
I College is going to stage Charley 8
/ Aunt" before long. If this refers to Mr..
( Anderson. of Wellington, why not change
/ it TO "Charleys Mother-in-law, and as
sure a big attendance from Wellington
/ and Conway Springs?
WinfeId's telephone company was re-
organized Monday. with J. E. Jarvis
president of the Cowley County bank.
as president. The company was first
organized in 1901.
From the present Indications the wei
lington News Is Of tire opinion that the
queen Of the May. II she would escape
| the grip. would better wear her furs.
Eureka is dissipatins in the pleasures
OF such dramas as Camille and a
Wife's Honor" And later 4 Waiter
sonian editorial by thc Herald editor has
left the people in doubt as 20 whether
they are living at Newport or il Green
wood county.
In shipment from Texas 20 Greenwood
ard Butler counties last week one ship
Ter lost one hundred head o. cattle. The
change Of climate and the long distance
IS thought TO have been the cause q
death.
In Pratt county the trsmps are as in
dependent as in Coxey's time. one weaTy
man handed back hand-out last week
and ''sassed" his benefactr~ss-
The coyote season Is here And ,he
county clerk has increased his demands
on the county treasurer.
4 young man listing corn in Kio~a
county was killed last Saturday b. light
ming All eight % the horses he Vas
working were struck down dead
Hutchinson may claim as resident
the man who Eiii survey the rev infeTur-
ban. but the kansan-R publican asserts
that he got his early training. that
which counts IL q mans business. Il
Newton.
Work on Hg;chIrzon's pavement is 70
DC icgun Monday. and the people are Tn
patient. Or Do the papers Just need the
news,
= SHOW played AZ Hutchinson the ether
night whose actors coBicut Ternernber
their Ines any better thaa the neufers
% the rev machine cs1 az the Hlchitz
convention
4 comre-cia1 college is circiinS ab3ve
Anthony ard the town = hoping that Il
VII settle down
An Arthouy doctor built him frzid~
hole Iris seek lie having hss eTperi-
ence. 6o-srt care 20 - operated or sY
even a gentle Kanszs rzistsr-
u. Jacobs. ol Ezrporia. ls - loz ira;
hls lie czz - sustained only b. ~ snss
3f oxgEsn- Tfe whole toEa Il Ezc4eued
5y re news
The Topeka CAPITAL pays w5chgta =
co-pslment. Il sss 81 fhC n.at-ltsss
oTr- Wzshes1rn-s aes@st ~ FstruozaE
.-EsTenftz team - bot eae. TheF car
play the game zftsetsf half trying
The Srkz-xz< Esfseg Transit csrrrz-y
wtli be<i1 throwing dirt ~ t~o weeks !
Shortly after 1hA towns sto1E iax TezEe .
I'LL begin thrc<ias ErA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29
THE COST OF STRIKES.

In the last twenty according the figures
labor bureau at Washington there have more than
p 900 strikes involving employees and EMPLOYERS
s4O0O0OOO0 The loss to the workmen themselves
has been than twice that of their employers
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Denver the city where Iarty politics Ia e L=en pu-i
he" oy the PARTICIPATION If tlr pclls is The
crookedest and probably the most corrupt city il; size
in america as is the capital of the only state in the
Union that seems incapable Of self government
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

The way in which the Japs have been sinking the
mighty and costly battleshps Russia with their cheap
little diRky submarine machines and torpedo boats has
set the military and authorities the world to
specuiating and halt battleship construction is
threatened.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

The man Dckerson. whom the old machine had ap-
pointed judge OF the district TO paoate och whose
eroherin-law Hoch IS, is to be appointed TO federal
ludgeship in the Indian Territory
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Last month our total circulation of bank notes had
eacfed siS5 r"1 AMI The Circulation ba ed
on United States bonds s3950o0oo The amount of gov
s39S 900 GOO
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

There is talk OF building at least two electric
lines between Kansas City and Topeka II these lines
should prove competitive Topeka may not have to be
come suburb OF Kansas City in order force Missouri
river rates.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

DR. George " Gould, well known investigator. savs
that what IS erroneousy termed brain fag is but weak
symptom Of eye strain When your eyes weak from
is affected.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Mary VIDA Clark OF New York is reported as having
said, Every unmarried man and woman should adopt
baby. Better marry and have your own
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29
M Y, THE PIKERs' LAMENT Y, m

a
and thouw notbc s i'm
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29
A M EETiNG.

hear sound like piping and like sails
In siiken talk with wind, and like the speech
OF some one quiet in the blue of dawn,
Along the silent beach
see light when the last sad star
Flowers family in the ashen morning sky
And long white wings appear and disappear
And dip and circle by.
think of violet billows yelled with foam;
I think of all the red OF east and west:
l hear the secret stir of nameless dead
Conferring in my breast
You make me long for echoes and for flowers
And for strange words on lips do not know:
You make me dream of all learned to dream
How Ong-how long ago. -TZona Gale
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29
r KANSAS HISTORY REVEALS THAT

IN 1Sl6. EIGHTY EIGHT YEARS ToDAY-By act
council Missouri
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

IN 1926 sEvENTY-NINE YEARS ToDAY-A recer
| given "a
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Winfeld's telephone company was re-
organized Monday. with j. e. Jarvis,
president of the Cowley County bank.
as president The company was first
organized in 1901.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

From the present indications the Wei
lington News Is Of the opinion that the
queen Of the May. II she would escape
the grip. would better wear her furz.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

a society of the Southwest Kansas
College is going TO stage Charley 8
Aunt" before long. If this refers to Mr..
Anderson of Wellington, why not change
it to 'Charley's Mother-in-law, and as
sure a big attendance from Wellington
and Conway Springs?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Work on HgtchInzon's pavement is q
DC begun Monday. and the people are IN
patient. Or Do the papers Just need tb'
news
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

young man listing corn in kioSa
county was killed last Saturday b. light
ming All eight of the horses he Tas
working were struck doysH dead
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

= SHOW played ~ Hutchinson the ether
night whose actors Couldn't rez1ersher
their lines any better thaa The n1e-ufss-s
% the rev machine cs1 at tie N'lchitz
convention
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Hutchinson may claim as . resident
the man who wiii survey the Hew iafsTur-
ban but tho kansan- Re publican asserts
that he got his early training, that
which counts ia q mans business. Il.
Newton
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Eureka is dissipatins in the pleasures
Of such dramas as Camille and "A
Wife's Honor" and later 4 Waiter
sonian editorial by the Herald editor has
left the people in doubt as 20 whether
they are living at Newport or il Green
wood county.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

The Topeka Capital pays wBchlta =
sozpsl1ent. Il sss 81 fhC hsat-liass
avr- Wzshe1rn's = aeseat ~ FaiTuogsE.
-'EsSrNftz team - = bot nze TtaF can
play ths zane zftsc'st half t-T5zx
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

There are becoming so many, that sev-
eral Kansas papers viii soon be forced
To get out supplements. containing simply
the exposures of grafiers within the pa
pers said counties.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

I1r Jacobs % E<r9-oriz. = - loE ffa'
hzs lie car - Sustained ouIY b. - fzss
az oxgEsr. Tf& whole toEa L. Ez14@n
BY re news
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

And Eow comes the contamination oi
the nine months of hard work in the va
rious sChools-the track meet
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

In shipment from Texas 20 Greenwood
ard Butler counties last week. one ship
Ier lost one hundred head o. cattle The
change Of climate and the long distance
Is thought 10 have been the cause of
death
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

a commercial college - rirciinS ab3ve
Anthony ard the town : hoglng that II
VII settle down
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

The odd Fellows of the southern dis
trict of Kansas. in convention at Winfield
Tuesday. chose Arkansas City for place
of meeting in 1906.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

The SrEz-xz~ Esiseg Transit eosnrsz- ,
wtii be<i- ;hruxfzs dirt tn fxo weeks
Shortly after fh@ towns sto1s iAk TssI<
I'LL begin throwing nga-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

Al Arfhouy doctor hGiit him fraid
hole Iris veek tie having haa ezperi-
ence. 6CeEu't care 20 - operated or by
even a gentle Kaaszs rzlstsr-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-04-29

4 strong ..probah.Iity' Il wardei items
from Ksng-1sher Free PreSs; r v ia
csbs, - EluCnsS~r preached Il; Wan5eT
last Sunday az u o'cieek- bat FOR some
reason did sos stay 70 III his APPOINT
rsent at night Perhaps he heard %
that hasks, of rotten egss that awaited
lis evening APPEARANCE.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
NEGOTIATING THE GROUND.

Gilbert H. Grosvenor in the National
Geographic Magazine, Washington, D.
C.-To inoculate sterile ground and
make ii bring forth fruit in abundance
Is enc of the latest achievements Of
American science. Some of mans
most dread diseases-smallpox diph,
liberia, plague, rabies-have been van,
pushed by incubation, and now ino,
culation is to cure soil that has been
worn out and make 1t fertile and pro
ductive again.
The germs that bring fertility are
mailed by the department of agrlcul.
ture III a small package like a yeast
cake. The cake contains millions of
dried germs. The farmer who re.
ceives the cake drops it into a barrel of
clean water; the germs are revived
and soon turn the water to a milky
white. Seeds of clover, peas, alfalfa,
or other leguminous plants that are
then soaked IN this milky preparation
are endowed with marvellous strength.
Land on which, for instance, the farm,
er with constant toll had obtained
alfalfa only few inches high, when
planted with these inoculated seeds
will produce alfalfa several feet high
and so rich that the farmer does not
recognize his crop.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
MANcHURIAN MoHAMMEDANs.

Oscar T. Crosby in the National Geo
graphic Magazine, Washington, d. G.
Among the occasional travellers we
met on the route lin Chinese Turkes
tam were Chinese merchant and his
wife, both Mohammedans from Man.
churia, and then engaged in making
the holy pilgrimage to Mecca.
They were mounted on the little
mountain ponies, and had been already
more than three months on their way.
The end of their pilgrimage was 1T
least five months ahead, but they we.
not discouraged, and went confidently
and bravely in. the wife no less en-.
Unused than her husband, though she
perhaps thought she was barred from
the delights of paradise, an entrance
into which the man was to make Ger.
tain by his pious zeal. We furnished
them directions for their journey and
al the help we could give--and they
passed out OF our sight across the
SHOWS"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
A Really Unexpected Proposal.

When he proposed marriage she
asked him for time to think it over.
This is so unexpected she said.
He gave her the necessary time.
and she finally decided that he full
filled all the requirements of the stu.
alton. Then they reached a point
where they could discuss matters
calmly.
"Of course" he said jokingly, lit
wasn't unexpected at all"
"Oh, yes, it was" she replied
Absurd" he exclaimed. "A girl al
ways says that. She knows what's
coming and when it's coming, because
she is just naturally an expert in
such matters"
81 thought | was, burt you fooled
me" she insisted
"And it was complete surprse?"
ut was"
81 don't understand it," he com
mented
well" she explained ingenuously
you had overlooked so many splendid
chances that | gave you for proposal
that had begun to think nothing ever
would give you nerve enough to speak
out, SO it really was unexpected"
"Oh!" he said, and that was all
There didn't seem to be anything
more to say.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
OUR NOTE PAPER.

David G. Fairchild in the Nationai
Geographic Magazine, Washington,
ID. Cit is not pleasant thought that
the brilliant white note paper which
your hand rests upon may have in it
the fibers from the filthy garment or
some Egyptian fellah after it has
passed through all the stages Q decay
until it is saved by ragpicker from
the gutter of an Egyptian town; and
yet it is fact that hundreds of tons
of Egyptian rags are exported every
year into America to supply our paper
mills. At Mannheim on the Rhine the
American importers have their rag
picking houses, where the rags are col.
lected from all over Europe, the dis
ease-infected Levant not excepted,
and where women and children, too
poor TO earn better living, work day
after day, with wet sponges tied over
THEN mouths, sorting these filthy
scraps for shipment to New York. Our
best papers are made of these rags
and our common ones of wood pulp.
which is obtained by grinding and mac
Grating huge blocks from some of our
soft-wooded forest trees.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
Tabloid Philosophy.

The dyspeptic doesn't have to eat
pie in order to get crusty.
Every girl who wears corsets isn't
staid and straight-laced.
The corkscrew demonstrates that
one good turn deserves another.
When love flies out of the window
alimony steps in at the door.
Time is money, if 1t doesn't happen
to be the time of the losing horse in
race
The Lord will provide provided you
don't spend all your time praying for
provisions.
The average man Is quick enough to
grasp an opportunity to make fool of
himself.
A hoodoo is a fellow who hasn't
sense enough to keep his hard luck
stories to himself
ALAS! / know not which way to
turn" cried the maiden in distress.
And then, with the inconsistency of
her sex, she turned pale.
When the average small boy thinks
Of going to work he is undecided
whether he would prefer job In a
candy store. an ice cream saloon, or
a soda water establishment.-Phi
delphia Record.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19

the union might be said to have a per-
sonal interest in it,not only because
it is used daily by young men from
every state but because its volumes go
all over the country for the temporary
use of scholars living at distance.
How the library developed may be
judged by single statement. A list
of the donors of books, prints, por-
traits, etc, between 1880 and 1910 in
cludes something like 1000 names and
fills II pages in Josiah Quincy's His
tory of Harvard University. In 1875,
for example, James Walker, president
of Harvard college, bequeather his
own library of 2,400 books and 800
pamphlets in addition to many books
that he had given during his lifetime
In 1885 James Russell Lowell gave the
library 66S volumes and 113 pamphlets
collected during his residence abroad
as United States minister at Madrid
and London. In 1860 Charles Clayton
Pickman bequeathed the library some
5000 volumes, mostly standard works
in English literature. These, of course,
are gifts Of books, taken at random
from the long list whose aggregate
runs up into the hundreds of thou
sands; and beside these gifts of books
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19

Cambridge, Mass, May 15.-One of
the first buildings usually noticed by a
visitor TO Harvard university is the
college library, whose entrance faces
the main line of trolley cars from Bos-
ton to Cambridge and whose interior
IS yearly visited by thousands of tour
lists. Whether this library, the Oldest
and in many respects the most valu-
able collection of books in the United
States, will continue indefinitely in its
present position is question that has
Tor some years past been profoundly
agitating the Harvard authorities. The
Harvard library, for all its wealth of
tradition, has become too small for
the university; not in books to be sure.
but IN proper facilities for storing and
using them. And the time is believed
to be approaching when one tradition,
at least will be broken and it will no
longer have the distinction of being
almost the only important American
library that nobody has yet provided
with a sufficiently commodious build
ing and suitable endowment
The history of the Harvard univer.
sity library, of which the college Ii.
brary in Gore hall is simply the most
important part, reaches back practic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19

S14. Inasmuch as during the three
years the rush of immigrants was
enormous, reaching over 100000,
this estimate implies that our natural
increase by excess of births over
deaths has been only 100000. This
amounts to about .OO9 per cent natural
rate of increase for the decade 1890
1900 averaged nearly twice as much
.0157. If our natural increase has
continued at this same rate-and there
is little reason to believe it has appre.
ciably diminished during the three
years-we have had an excess of births
over deaths of $751; which would
make our total population on June /,
1903, 81, 472, 000
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19

are gifts of money to be spent in the
requirement of volumes devoted to
some specific subject or the rounding
out of some collection in which the Ii
brary was not at its strongest.
In this library, however was begun
the system Of card cata,oguing, now
so familiar to every American book
reader, and it was here also, when
Gore hall was enlarged in 1877, that
the first stack for holding library locks
was constructed. The library stack
and the card catalogue are now in
variable factors in ever library and it
might even be claimed that the Har-
neer both in the modern system of es-
tablishing department libraries and
thus distributing parts of the ccllec-
tons of large central library in
places where they will be of even
greater convenience to readers, and in
the opening of a certain number OF
shelves to unrestricted browsing" on
the part of visitors. Gore hall, crowd
ed as it is with the half million books
and pamphlets OF the college library
could no more than half contain the
present volumes that are under the
| library and its subdivisions include
some SO departmental and special ref
erence libraries. In the actual number
of volumes the library is surpassed
only by the national library at Wash
ington and the public libraries of New
York and Boston-but in the richness
of its collections, in its valuable old
books and priceless manuscripts it is
the most important of all American
libraries
Among these special treasures OF
the library are many gifts closely as
ISOLATED with the great names of Eng
Esh and American literature and his
tory These are the books that once
belonged to Charles Sumner, for ex
ample, something over $500 books and
| $4,000 pamphlets, among them a vol
ume once owned by Madam de Pompa
dour, the famous mistress of Louis
XIV: another containing the auto
graph of Lord Byron; another owned
by Milton, filled with his manuscript
notes and read by him in 1929 wher
the plague was devasting London; and
yet another, a 1887 Bible, owned, reat
and signed by the author of the Pill
grim's Progress. These are only some
CT the valuable books of this one col
lection. In another case are the books
used by Thomas Carlyle in writing hi!
Cromwell and Frederick the Great
nearly every one of the 400 odd vol
umes enriched with autographs OF
marginal notes written by the English
thinker. And here also are the books
once owned by James Russell Lowell
Henry w. Longfellow, Francis Park
man, Prescott, the historian, and otheI
famous American writers. One Of th'
more recent accessions to the librar!
was some 500 volumes Of theatr1ca
literature, collected by the late Rober
w. Lowe, of London, and presented Il
tire library by the American actor
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19

ally to the death of John Harvard in
1888 at which time he bequeathed all
his books to the college which he
had founded In this first American
library there were something over 800
books, most of them theological in
character but including also BacOn's
essays, which had been recently pub
lished, and copy of Homer. Only
one volume of the original collection
The Christian Warfare against the
Deuill, World and Flesh, printed in
London 270 years ago-now survives
to connect the million and more books
and pamphlets of its present collection
with this modest colonial beginning.
All the others were lost in Harvard S
greatest disaster, the fire that in jan
uary, 1864 destroyed the first Harvard
Hall in which the library had then al
ready grown to about 5000 volumes.
From this fire hardly more than a
hundred volumes were saved among
them only the single one of John Har-
wards original collection. The acct
dent as well as the later history of the
y
recover through the donations of many
friends both in England and America,
was an interesting illustration of the
close connection between early Har-
ward and early New England. Small
pox being then prevalent in Boston,
the general court was residing in Cam
bridge and holding its meetings in
Harvard Hall to escape the pestilence.
And a fire which had been kept burn
ing on the hearth to make the hall
more comfortable for these august
gentlemen started the blaze that de-
stroyed the oldest building" then at
Harvard In 1866 the new Harvard
hail. still standing, became the home
of the library. In 1775 the books were
removed to Andover, Burlington and
Concord for greater safety during the
early days of the American revolution
the Harvard buildings during part OF
this period being occupied as quarters
by the American forces. In the ''ac
count for damages done to the Col
leges by the Army after April 10
1775," one may still read the charge OF
pounds shillings due for damages
to the library stairs. The collection
however, lost nothing by this period
of hostilities for the general court do
mated to it over $50 volumes gathered
!, from the sequestrated libraries Of
kDTominent tory sympathisers.
Between the fire of 1854 and the
sc of the revolution the Harvard
cry had grown to some $4,000 vol
and the continuance of this
tn led to the erection of Gore hall
ID in 1S41 and then containing
q. 900 looks and pamphlets. II
Hiding. erected by the univer
(ugh the happy chance of hav
disposal certain unrestricted
at almost paid the expenses
modern library is now actu
lnped fer breathing space anC
|ly growing in the richness o
lctions and its importance t.
IAN scholarship. Every state II