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- -. -. : - " 2- "" -7 i & . T vs ar1 "- T. ", v ' ' asCisa 'jSt' " v.- 2. & j's.-sisr-5- 2 ""IT' m' ?'... f jan ie H. X. MURDOCH, Kdltor. SUNDAY MORNING, SEPT. 12, 18S6. REPUBLICAN TICKET. STATE TICKET. Star Awoclate Justice D.M.VALENmfE, Franklin county. Fee Governor JOHN A. MARTIN, Atchison county. For lieutenant Governor A. P. KIDDLE, Ottawa county. For Secretary of State E. B. ALLEX, Sedgrrlck county For State Treasurer JAMES W. HAMILTON, Sunnier county. Jor Auditor of State TIMOTHY JIcCAP.THY. I'awnce county. For Attorney General C B. BRADFORD. Osage county. For Superintendent of Public Instruction J. H. LAWHEAD, Bourbon county. . FOR CONGRESSMEN. First District HON. E. N. MORRILL. Brown county. Second District HON. E. n. FUNSTON, Allen county. Third District- HON. B. W. PERKINS, Neosha county. FoBrtb District HON. THOMAS RYAN. Shawnee county. Fifth District- HON. A. S. WILSON, Washington county. Sixth District- HON.E. J. TURNER. Sheridan county. Serenth District , HON. S. R. PETERS, Hanrey county. JUDICIAL 18th DISTRICT. ForJudgo HON. T.B. WALL. Sodgwick County. COUNTY TICKET. For Ftobat Judge- E. B. JEWETT. For Clerk of District Courts r For County Attorney- Q w & JQVE3 For County,Snperlntendent- g pEXCR For ComniJFsIoner Third District . , , T. II. RANDALL. For Rcprtcntatlve 83H Drlct nATFIEU). For Representative &M District- .j. For Rcprcentathe 64th District- CARpENTER. Slate Senator Whilford died at his late home in Garnett on Wednesday last. lie was 64 years old and a good man. St. John did not leave the Republican party until after the Republican party of Kansas had repudiated him by thousands of votes, preferring to him a Bourbon Democrat. The Missouri Pacific now stands along side the New York Central as a dividend paying road, and Wichita not only has the general office of that road for Kansas, but Wichita is a favorite city of the owners and managers of that road. The Commonwealth seems inclined to jubilate, just a mite, over the distractions of the Democrats in that congressional dis trict. If the Democracy should act solidly and unitedly and to a man vote for John Martin, they would fail iu beating Tom Ryan by thousands of votes. T1IK CHICAGO A. ROCK ISLAND. The surveying corps of the Chicago & Rock Island are at work in Marion county putting in the permanent grade stakes, and will within a few days be at work between Pcabody and Wichita. A member of the corps told the editor of the Peabody Grapliic that lie thought dirt would be flying "v ithin forty days, as it seemed the policy of the company to push the Kansas extension as rapidly as possible, and as the line to Wich ita will be one of their best feeders in the state, it is reasonable to suppose that work to that point will progress as speedily as circumstances will permit. THE CITY OF nUTCIUNSON. To the Editor of the Eagle. In almost every instance a rich and cx stensivc territory will create a fine center of trade, and if the town so situated is a county scat, it will tdso become, with sufficient railroad facilities, a large city. Ilutchinson is the capital of Reno county, which is one of the largest and richest in the state, and has perhaps less waste land than any other county in Kansas. At present railroads is the principle topic of conversation in Ilutchinson, and even-one from the school children up, are calling for more roads. Last week the county voted $320,000 to two roads, the Rock Island and the Wellington & Ft. Smith. To both lhes.0 propositions there were but one dissenting vote cist in the city of Ilutchin son. Two or three other raids hae also been voted for this .reason, one of them the Wichita & Colorado is now completed aud trains -v ill be running next week in time to accomodate the Hutchinson people who w ih to isit the Arkansas Valley Fair at Wichita. Should all of the new lines now in contemplation, be built, this city ought to make the largest railroad centre west of Wichita in Kansas. Among the other ad vantages in her favor, is. the immense wa ter power lately developed, and which is large enough to turn the heels of a dozen mills or factories. It is alo quite well known that this is the location of the state reform f-chool. This colossal building, which it will be, is to cost when completed over two millions of dollars, and will be large enough to accommodate at least a thousand inmates. To a visitor Hutchinson presents a very bright and attractive appearance, with its broad streets, fine large business house, and well shaded dwellings and w:ilks. The citi7ens also are entitled to considerable praise for the pluck aud energy with which they have advanced every enterprise likely to benefit this town, and that they have been thus far very successful is shown by the present boom aud activity displayed in every line of bu&inos. The press is well represented by three good weeklies :uul one daily pajwr, of which the daily and weekly News, edited by Mr. Ralph Mr. Easley, takes the lead. Editor Easley makes a slashing paper and booms the town with a doubled barrelled boom of his own get up. The other pa pers arc the Interior-Herald, a good paper edited by Mr. Fletcher Merridith, and the Hutchinson Democrat, edited by X. J. Blackburn. Hutchinson is also secure against fires by a fine system of water -works, while street cars, electric lights, -sad other big things are being agaited for. T.,.mi 2?a viy s. TOK.E. LEASE. The summer hours have vanished, And the autumn time has come With ite leaves of gold and crimson, Gleaming in the narvest sun, And a blue haze crowns the upland "When the pleasant day is done. I've been roaming in the woodlands, Through each well remembered glad6, Through the gorgeous tinted forests In their autumn robes arrayed, In the old familiar by-paths Where our childish feet have strayed. I have climbed the sunny hillsides With bright lichens scattered o'er, I have stood beside the streamlet, Where wo played in days of yore In those happy days of childhood That shall visit us no more. And sad memories came thronging Over heart and bram today, And silent tears are falling That in vain I strive to stay; For I'm thinking of you darling, In your home so far away. Far from kindred ties that bound you, Far from childhood's happy home, And from old associations, Destined evermore to roam By the uplands where ve wandered, I am left to roam alone. J. P..CLYENS. CHARLESTON AND THE LOST ATLANTIS. To the Editor of the Eagle. Until the recent volcanic outbreaks in the Atlantic coast, very few people were aware that Charleston and its harbors, and sounds, were catacombed with fissures, caves, and rock that proved clearly the earth in that vicinity had been the scene of volcanic disturbance at some previous neriod; that in fact the city and its sur roundings slumbered as it were upon a bed of fire which was liable to break forth at any time. The assurance of scientific men that the Allantic may at any time sweep over the unfortunate city, brings vividly to mind the story, long regarded by many as a myth, of the lost Atlantis, but compara tive philology lends its aid to substantiate the fact that such an island really existed. The inhabitants of Venezuela and of Guinea retained traditions of a convulsion which swallowed up a vast country in the region now covered by the Atlantic ocean. Theolties, the ancient inhabitants of Cen tral America, have a tradition of the "cat aclysm of the Antilles." The Indians of Xorth America have a similar legend. The tribes located first iu southward have a cir cumstantial narrative to the effect that the w aves were seen rolling in like mountains from the east, and that of the millions of people who lied to the hills for ref uge, but one man (seven in other accounts) were saved, from whom descended the present Indian races, a religious festival was instituted t6 co mmenmorate the dread event, and to be seech the Almighty not to revisit the earth with such terrors. Xine thousand years before Plato lived and wrote, there existed, he tells us, in the ocean that separates the Old World from the New, an island larger than Asia Miner and Northern Africa combined; he locates it in what is now a watery waste, midway between the westward projection of the desert coast of Africa, and the correspond ing indentation by the Gulf of Mexico. On its western shores were other and smaller M ands, by way of which access might be had to a vast continent beyond. Its civili zation was as advanced as that of ancient Egypt. Its people were descended from Neptune and nioilal Avoinen, aud by force of arms their warriors penetrated into Africa as far eastward as Egypt, and into Europe as far as the shores of the Tyra henian sea, (the western coast of Italy.) Their conquests were checked by the Greeks after the Atlantian sea kings had at tempted to subjugate Europe, Africa and Asia, and the deed was accounted oue of the glories of Athens. At length, however, the people became so desperately wicked, that the island with all its inhabitants was swept away by a deluge. In a day and a night Atlantis disappeared beneath the waves. Another account, slightly varied, says that after the defeat of the islanders a terrific earthquake attended by inundations of the sea caused the island to sink, aud for a long time thereafter the ocean was impassible by reason of the muddy shoals. Such is the substance of a legend first communicated to Solon by an Egytian priest, and, no doubt, founded on facts that have existed from a very early date. On the old Venetian maps Atlantis was placed to the westward of Canaries and the Azores. The Greeks, the Egyptians, the Gauls and the Romans possessed traditions on this subject, aud all substantially agreed with each other. At the date of the exist ence of Atlantis, according to Humboldt, what is now the Strait of Gibraltar, was probably bridged by a solid isthmus at least as wide as that of Sue?, thus closing the Mediterranean and making of it an in land sea. The same convulsion of nature which engulfed the land established com munication between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Charles Frederic Martins, the great French botauist, says that "hy drogaphy, geology and botany agree iu teaching us that the Azores, the Canaries, the Maderas are the remains of a great con tinent which formerly united Europe to North America. For many centuries the Saragossa sea, that vast expanse of floating weed, has occupied the locality given to this Island. The ancients attributted the existence of this meadow sea to the sinking of Atlantis. For four hundred years, and probably a much longer period this great sea-meadow has not changed its posi tion. Aristotle tells us that some Phoeni cian vessels were driven by easterly gales to a part of the ocean that was covered with weeds and rushes. In 1493 the little fleet of Columbus passed through the mass of floating vegetation, much to the alarm of the crew, who found their presence de noted rocks and shoals. It has been found, however, from soundings in different parts of the Saragoass sea, that the water is of great depth. Recent explorations have given farts to the world that substantiate the Atlantis theory to a remarkable degree. 'Twcre hard to leave this fsiscinating subject with out dwelling upon the thought that the ex istence of tlits island of Atlantis once admitted the presence of the aborigines in this continent, the remains of a higher civ ilization in Central America, the remains of extensive relics that long antedate the Aztec rule, may be easily accounted for. But if, . i - , as Prof. Winchell believes, the ocean has always surged between Asia and America, our archaeological riddle is still unsolved. An imaginative person, however, in view of the late disturbances on the Atlantic coast, will not find it difficult to picture that the same convulsion of nature which would depress the eastern coast of this con tinent, burying its cities from sight by an ocean inudation, might possibly roll the waves of centuries from ocean-buried At lantis; but imagination and conjecture run rife at the bare possibility of such a scene. M. E. Lease. SATURDAY" NIGHT. To the Editor of the Eagle. "Close the shutters fast; let fall the curtains; whirl the sofa around, and while the bubbling and loud-hissing rain throws up a steamy column, and the cups that cheer, but not inebriate, wait on each. So let us welcome peaceful evening in," for once more the busy shuttle has paused in its rapid course and again Saturday night is here. Once more we lay away the bur densome cares of awork-a-day world and prepare for a brief respite from the battle ground whereon we fight for self and those near and dear to us. Another month has come upon us, September, the very crown of the year: the month for us to realize the wealth of the summer; the motherhood of the boun tiful earth. We crowd to our lips hands laden with fruit, luscious with juice fit for Hebe to pour out to the gods; dewy morn ings; the air filled with songs of birds; bril liant sunshiny noons; hours of heat and tranquility, when it seems that nature must be holding its breath to hear the magical word pronounced that declares her work is perfect; days after days of perfect calm, followed by all the storms of the equinox. And yet our hearts are filled with a sort of sadness that is a kin to sorrow, per haps as necessary to complete the charm as the misty bloom that completes the grape. The feeling is much the same that we have in crossing the rubicon of middle life where the pleasure of the past and the un certainty of the future mingle in strange and sweet uncertainty. And, all is beauty and delight; but presently will come tempests of tears over long partings, the grayness of ashes, the snows of eld. v e near a sweet voice sing ul Oli ver Threads Amongst the Gold," and in tit i ; : e:i fancy we can see a dear old head "whitened form the grave," reclining against a softly cushioned chair, a peaceful light in the dim old eyes, a placid smile around the lips that have crooned baby songs to us in childhood and our willing hands serve them, and the days go by all too fast, bringing nearer the day when a solemn stillness will prevade the house, the cush ioned chair will stand in the corner vacant, and the ripened sheaf will have gone to sing the Harvest Home in another world. Alas that there can be an old age un- cared for when the hoary head is bowed low, the heart heavy, the mind burdened with the thought of being no longer wel come to a place in this busy, shifting pano rama of life. Yesterday there came to my door a man bowed with age, too feeble to lift one foot before the other only in infan tile uncertainty, too shabby to be the envy of the present pauper, scarcely enough clothing to cover him, and with streaming eyes and -quivering lip told me his frightful tale of woe: Poor old man! heavy indeed must be the burden of life, weighted with the cares of over four score years, when the wife, who has been its companion for over half a cen tury, when the sons who sit at ease in com fortable offices, writing letter after their names, that give them place and distinc tion in the world, can let your declining days end in the pain sharper than the sting of a serpent's tooth. What matters it to the old man that mawmic honors have been showered upon him, that he has for an average life time been a member of a church; that men of distinction have been glad to call him friend? A lonely, impoverished old age! Could any fate be more pitiable? Is there no remedy? Do we need more refuges, more easy homes for the aged, more homes for the homeless? Mcthinks a school for instruction in the old honor thy father and thy mother, husband and wife by obligations, more vigorous churning of the milk of human kindness is needed. What a grand result has been the outcome from a small beginning, as set forth a few days since in the resume of the w-ork of the W. C. T. U. With a grow ing sense of remorse that I had been so skepti cal of their mission, and a deeper admira tion for the hand that had guided the helm, I hastened through the report. "A proph et is not w ithout honor, save, in his own country," I thought. We almost bow down in adoration to the man who proves to be the successful architect of his own fortune, and call him a self made man, when a selfish motive has been the great incentive in his work. Shall we be more niggardly in our praise of these women who have sacrificed self in their generous desire to benefit others alone? Did the man who said, "why don't you build fewer churches and help the home more. You've got too mam church es now," strike the keynote? Do we need more churches, or is it a case of Ma homet and the mountain? The people will not come so far to the churches, hence the churches must be taken to the people, aud we are growing to be such a critical, ajsthetical people we must have our choice from many. Blessed ministerial spirits. The skeptical infidel may sneer at your book, but where is the charitable institution built by one of them? "Little Sisters of the Poor," sisters of charity, builders ofhomes for the orphan, the helpless ones of earth, you build better than yon know. Some day the last stone shall be laid and amid a golden glory more brilliant than that of noonday sun your work shall be pro nounced well done, and in perfect rest and peace you sliall attain the blissful joy of seeing sunshine without shadow, joy un mixed with tears, welcomes without part ings. The weeks roll by, one month suc ceeds another and soon the problem will REAL ESTATE! G. W. BARTHOLOMEW, Wichita, all be solved; no more weary questionin why life to some is a picture with a silver ground studded with stars of jet, and to others a dark background with a few stars of silver. "Ah, how the years go rolling on, How short the step to manhood's prime; How soon the gold of life is gone Into the vaults of time."' Ruth Wishakd. THE WICfllTA AND WESTERN. IYom the Culllson Banner. 3Icssrs. Butler, Coe and Wenner, level ers, are working in this vicinity. In addi tion to other work, they have surveyed the ground for three switches. The graders under .Messrs. Moore, Gold smith and Cheney, who are working west of town to the county line, have finished their work and left. Mr. Shenfield's camp was moved to this point last Sunday. He expects to finish his contract in about three weeks, when he will leave for other fields. His men are now working within less than a mile east of town. Today, Friday, work was begun on the depot grounds at this place. Just south of the Kimball lumberyard there is a shallow cut and across Main street will be a fill of only thirteen inches. Shenfield's graders are as orderly a set of men jis it has"e er been ours to see. Last Wednesday we accompanied Sur veyor Coe over the grade from Cullison to the west line of the county. We found ev erthything in ship-shape order. The grad ing done by Contractors Cheney and Gold smith is the prettiest we ever saw, and a visit to it -will pay anyone. There is no question in our mind but that the road bed will be graded no farther west this fall, and that the terminus of the K., P. & W. will be at Cullison for at least six months. Everything in connection with the grading indicates that our opin ion on this point has been aud is correct. The contractors who have been working west of town finished their contracts and left for other fields of labor. Messrs. Shcn field and Butler will do the same as soon as they finish the contracts on which.they are now working. If grading were to be 'done any farther west than the county line this fall, the old, tried and competent contract ors would, in all probability, be retained and set immediately to work iu Kiowa county. Cullison being the terminus of the road this winter will, of course, necessitate its being the end of the division from Wichita west. The company is preparing to put in a house, turn-table, pump and other appli ances necessary at the ends of divisions, and we believe that even after the road leaves Cullison she will continue to be the end of the first division west from Wichita. The divisions are about ninety miles long, and Cullison is alxut ninety miles from Wichita. For over ten miles cast from Pratt coun ty V west live the road is :is straight as a string. The gong which calls Shenfield's men to their meals" and to work would make a good fire alarm, and our people should take steps to secure it for the use of Cullison when she becomes incorporated this fall. The depot at this place lias been located on the west side of Main street and on the north side of the main track. A freight switch will be built on the north side of the building and a platform will connect it wiih Main street. The latest report is to the effect that the K. P. & W. has laid track over two miles into Pratt county. THE D. M. i A. AND WICHITA. The Kingman Courier speaking of the completion of the D. JL fc A. to Kingman says: The first official time card for the arrival and departure of trains from Kingman has not yet reached us, but we are reliably in formed that a morninf train will De put on THE LATB3T IS CAPITAL -:- HILL -:- ADDITION, Situated between Second street and Central avenue. There are only eight lots, containing about two and a half acres each. This tract is as fine as any on the Hill just east of the city. For prices and terms call at my office. Vacant Lots in every part of the city, and dont forget we can give you some fine bargains. BUSINESS -:- PROPERTY. We have three lots on Water street. We have twenty-five lots on Main street. We have several on Market street. We have twelve lots on Lawrence avenue. We have six lots on Topeka avenua We have six lots on Emporia avenue and several on Fourth ave nue. These are all close to Douglas avenue, and if you want a bar gain in Business Lots do not fail to see me and get prices. We have twelve lots on Douglas avenua RESIDENCE -:- PROPERTY. In endless profusion in every part of the city. ACRE PROPERTY: We have a number of fine pieces of land in tracts of from five to forty acres. We have several of these tracts at such prices that a fine profit could be realized at once. FARMS AND STOCK RANCHES Of every description!! over Kansas. Ranches of from one thous and to three thousand acres fine land, and farms at from $10 per acre up. Come and see me and be convinced. STRANGERS .'. ALWAYS .'. WELCOME: Correspondence promptly attended to. Money invested for non L-residents when desired. Please remember that I have no other business but Real Estate. If you me or write. and will make as good time to Wichita as the W. & W. is making, and that the fare to all points east will be the same over the D. M. & A. as over that line The con tracts for grading between Kingman and Larned have all been let by the Fitzgerald & Mallory Construction company, to the following parties in order, beginning at Kingman: William Fossett 3 miles; Swee ney & Company 0 miles; John A. New comb 7 miles; J. B. Colt 25 miles; William O'Leary 12 miles; and Charles Collins 22 miles. Till: B003IER. From the Pcalxxlj Gazette. In Wichita, last Thursday, we had the pleasure of a drive through that flourishing metropolis with R. P. JIurdock, of the Eagle, and after passing through miles of thickly populated and well built up sub urbs of the city, we concluded that the Eagle is eminently correct in boasting of Wichita and her boom. We do not doubt that the aggregate value of the houses we saw in progress of erection at this time would be at least a quarter of a million of dollars. Randolph Kallock, a sou of Rev. Isaac Kallock, formerly of Kansas, and a brother of the Kallock boy who killed De Young, has been arrested for stabbing a citien of Fresno, in a row over a woman. W. H. STERNBERG, Contractor and Builder Office and Shop 349 Main St. J-IP.ST CLASS WOP.K at IXWEST PRICES. Estl mates furuNaetl on short notice. WICHITA. KAN'. ISRAEL BROS., Druggist and Groeers First Block vest of Tremont House j. P. ALLEN, mu:r4GiST Everything Kept in a First-Class Drugstore. Wichita, Kan. WICHITA Corntr cf KraiiorUi Avezrae an WHIUjm ftft south jf Dotutl&a ATe.ae. Director: CATHERINE RUSSELL. B. K. BROWN, Furniture s Jewelry. DOUGLAS AVENUE, WICHITA, KANS. DR. MORGAN, Gynaecologist and Obstetrician. fT-ii nt Faro! We Co. BslUisfJ , COE. DOUGLAS n4 TOPEKA AYE. WICHITA. KSL Retire time mad mtteatlon ctroa to VUtm-m of wo- Conservatory of Music REAL want Real Estate come and see P. W. SWAB, (SUCCELSOIt TO V. STACK3IAX) Merchant Tailor. Keeps on hand Fne Goods of the latest styles. The largest stock in the city. Satisfaction guaranteed. No trouble to show goods. Call and see mc F. W. SWAB, 1st door N of County Building. '. F. MKOKHLANDFR, President. W. W. KIRKWOOD, Land Exarofm r. M. W. I.KVV, Trriuwrrr A. W. OLIVEK, Vice-President. J. C. IIUTAN, h-crrlair lansas Loan and Investment k Capital, $100,000. Money Always on Hand to Loan on Farm and City Property Office in "Wichita National Bank Building, Wichita, Kan. S. D. PALLETT, -DEAIXU Northern I Southern Pine Lumber, LATH, SHINGLES, SASH, O FFICE and WHITE PINK YAKI WestBml of YELLOW I'IMr YAJUJ A N N E S S (A New Town), Located on the Leroy & "Western Railroad, an extension of the? Atchison, Topeka & Tanta Fe Railroad, In Erie township, Sedgwick county, Kansas, owned by the Ar kansas Valley Town Company. PRICES LOW AND TERMS EASY. TWELVE MILES FROM &ITT Railroad Town, in a well settled and improved farming community, insuring good support from the start. Call on or write me at once and secure choice o I lots. G. A. HATFIELD, General Agent, Wichita, Kan. HOTGHKINS & WHEELER, Real Estate & Exchange Brokers, SOLE AGENTS FOR ROSENTHAL'S ADDITION. This A-idition is located in the north part cf the city, btw7i FairvibW and Arkansas Aveauwe aad xa in tho hiraat part of city. Wo offer Special Iaducsmumta for the. ntz. 30 days. Ko. 201. S-E COP.NBR DOT7GLA9 AVENUE AND MABCTT ST. Comanche, Comanche County, Kansas. AnewcityontheCiminarron.at its junction with Big Bluff and Cavalry creeks, offers more inducements to the investor than any other new town platted in Kansas this year. Only three milesfrom the great natural salt deposit: a fine iwaier power at the foot of Cavalrv Vallev with its hundreds of fine farms, many under culti vation. A chance to aet in now on the ground floor. No Iota given Iway ManFbrtc and frame huildin going up. Wriw for full particulars to the oouAMcrsa town compajtt. ESTATE! Kansas. I.V- DOORS AND BLINDS. DourIm Arwnae WICHITA, KAN. ACTW WeSin-l. YwXJva