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Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

To the Editor OF the Eagle:
Please announce 6. w. Steenrod asa can
didaie for Representative OF the S5rd District,
subject to the decision Of the people at the
nails
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Register or you cannot vote.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Second Grasd Annual Tourof
A. Il. WiLBUR'S
Celebrated
LYCEUM-THEATRE-
Under the Management OF
ga II. A. WiosEiAM-
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19
EH. Sawyer of Oswego was among -
terday'f arrivals.

E. Il. Sawyer of Oswego was among yes
terday'f arrivals.
J.R. Porter, of Ness City, was among yes
terday's arrivals.
DR.. j. L. Roberds of Hutchinson spent part
of yesterday in the city.
A. B. Mayhew, banker of Cimarron,
was in the city yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. c. G. Cohn left on visit to
st. Louis Sunday morning.
Mr.. j. c. Russell of Chicago, is in the city
| making his regular business calls.
The Young Mems Literary club will give a
social at the G. A. r. hall Thursday evening.
Tents upon the camp-meeting ground, have
with few exceptions, all been taken down.
W. P. Benton, a real estate and loan agent
of Sterling, was in the city yesterday On bus
| iness.
! Mr. J. Block. the popular and gentlemanly
ticket broker, has returned from visit to
| the west.
John ". Hirst and George D. Thomdson,
two young men of Harper, were IN the city
yesterday.
| Mr. H. Rennie has vamoosed the town and
repaired to the Wichita mountains, where he
will chase the wild game.
Garst Bros. yesterday put down in front
of their laundry brick pavement and claim
| it to be the only one in the city.
W. II. Irwin, the plaintiff i'll the case now
before the District Court, is stoppin. with
his wife at the fremont.
| The Fifth ward Hook and Ladder company
/ i l., al md for
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

DR.. j. L. Roberds of Hutchinson spent par
of yesterday in the city.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

A. B. Mayhew, banker of Cimarro'
was in the city yesterday.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

W. II. Irwin, the plaintiff in the case now
before the District Court, is stoppin. With
his wife at the fremont.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Mr. and Mrs. c. G. Cohn left on a visit
st. Louis Sunday morning.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Mr.. J. C. Russell of Chicago, is in the cit
making his regular business calls.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Garst Bros. yesterday put down in front
of their laundry brick pavement and claim
it to be the only one in the city.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

J.R. Porter, of Ness City, was among ye
terday's arrivals.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

The Young Mems Literary club will give
social at the G. A. r. hall Thursday eyenin!
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

Mr. H. Rennie has vaToosed the town and
repaired to the Wichita mountains, where he
will chase the wild game.
Wichita eagle., 1886-10-19

John W. Hirst and George D. Thomdson,
two young men of Harper, were in the city
Yesterday
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
A Good Doctor.

A good doctor is like general in the
face of an enemy; a want of watchful-
ness at one point of his operations may
ruin all. He has to have eyes every
where, and an unfailing attention. He
has to be prompt and swift, seeing in
moment every new advance, divining,
even the advances as yet only con-
ceived, the plans before they are laid.
All this activity of the brain, this look
ing before and after, this keen tension
of thought and observation counter
balance the impressions which per-
petual contact with suffering must make
upon every man of feeling. Those of
us who look on idly fall into despair.
We arraign God before our petty hui
man tribunals. We ask why this
should be, with groans and shrieks of
indignation, which perhaps show our
own esteem of ourselves more than our
pity for others. We ask whether the
life is worth living which involves so
much pain. But it is very rarely that
the physician has time for such in
quiries. He is too busy circumventing
disease, facing every new outbreak,
shifting his position as the enemy shifts
in his protean multiplicity of aspects.
The active philanthropist, too, the man
who is not simply spectator, but an
energetic agent in the great battle with
vice and spiritual evil-that evil before
which the idle moralist faints and can
do nothing but moan-is invariably a
cheerful man. This seems the happy
consequence of work, both in the physi-
cal and moral fields of labor The
leader of an army in active service has
no time to be discouraged. When the
ordinary spectator is disposed to be i'm
patient, to conclude that complaint is
of self-control might be exercised with
advantage, the doctor in most cases
shows a sympathy, an attention to the
wall of the feeble, liberation which is
scarcely conceivable. 1t is he who in
vents expedients for meeting an incon-
venience which even an anxious parent
is disposed to think might be endured
without complaint. The strength of
his position is that he is not called upon
to defend Providence for permitting
the evil he combats, nor to assume the
responsibility of it's moral effect upon
the patient. Pain is his antagonist,
which he fights without intermission,
whose origin he has no leisure to spec
ulate upon, whose energy takes him
every hour of his day to confront and
( encounter. 1t may be that he acquires
a sort of respect for it by dint of con-
tinual fighting, and gets to like a good
honest deadly disease, which calls forth
every faculty of his mind, and every
thing he knows or can learn; but, at all
events, it keeps him in constant exer-
else, and holds every faculty in full
strain. -BlackDood
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
The Soldiers Home.

A democratic editor in this state has
discovered that the entire board of
eighteen trustees of the Soldiers Home
in Vermont are republicans and charges
that the board was designedly thus con-
stituted. While we do not suppose that
the committee who reported the names
to the legislature considered the politi-
cal complexion of the members of the
board, we know of no sufficient reason
why the democratic party should not be
represented. Democrats, both in the
legislature and out of it., were earnest
supporters of the measure establishing
a Soldiers Home in Vermont. Demo-
cratic veterans and republican veterans
will alike be cared for at the home. We
understand that there are now one or
two vacancies in the board of trustees.
Why not give the democrats a place in
the board? They have efficient men,
no doubt, who would accept the office.
General Stannard and 90 Brad" Smalley
have already been provided for with
federal offices, and about every other
democrat in the state has got an office,
or expects one soon, except "Gov-
ernor" Bingham and Hiram Atkins.
With both or either of the last-named
gentlemen on the board, it would not
have taken fourteen months to have
completed its organization without hear
ing from the democratic minority.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
I" Nothing Sells.O

We asked farmer, recently, how
vegetables were selling this winter, and
he replied, "Nothing SELLS" and he then
went on to quote the very low prices at
which the farmers were obliged to sell
vegetables in Boston market. The prices
quoted by him were low, as compared
with those of some previous seasons,
but no lower in proportion than are the
prices for almost everything else. The
farmer should not feel that he is the
only one who is obliged to submit to
low prices. We have heard complaints
in almost every direction for few years
past, and have become accustomed to
them. What matters it if the farmer
has to sell barrel of beets for dollar
if that sum will buy him as much -four
or other necessaries for the family as a
dollar and a half would purchase in
years past? We are all very apt to
think our own case hard one, but we
do not know how much more trying
may be that of our neighbor in his bust
ness. We think that farmers, of all
others, have reason to be thankful, for
it is very seldom that they do not get
enough from their farms, however low
the prices, to give them comfortable
living We all need, more than any,
thing else, contented spirit, and with
that we shall be happy, even though we
fail to lay up wealth for our heirs to
quarrel over when we are gone
Exchange.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
What Is the Right Thing to Do

The idea of marriage as the object
of life-an end for which girls are to
be trained-appears often to be the
they are allowed to grow up thinking
of marriage only as possibility, as an
incident in their lives which may or
may not happen, will they not be bet
ter prepared for whatever fortune has
in store for them? Freed from that
anxiety about their future which char
acterizes many young women now I'M
consciously influenced by the popular
idea that marriage is the only suitable
destiny of woman, there would seem to
be chance that they might be trained
to be happy and to make others happy,
whether they were married or single.
While acknowledging that a well-as-
sorted marriage is, without doubt, the
truest and best life for both man and
woman, can it be denied that an I'M
happy union is the greatest of sorrows
in woman's life, to say nothing of the
train of evils which it brings upon
others? If this idea that marriage is the
great object-the necessity of woman's
life-could be removed, there would
certainly be more suitable and fortunate
unions and fewer of the hasty, ill-con-
sidered, unwise ones. So long as two
people who know little of each others
present character, tastes and habits,
and nothing of each others antece-
dents will rashly join themselves for
life after an acquaintance of few
weeks, so long must we look for the
horrors of the newspapers, the scandals
of the divorce courts and the lifelong
martyrdom of those who bear the ills
that they cannot fly from. If girls did
not learn from those about them, from
much of their reading, from the very
atmosphere of society that they were
expected to marry somebody, they
would hardly deem it possible to take
such risk as that of marriage without
due consideration. They would wait
for the certainty that it was the right
thing to do, and that the right persons
for them had appeared. Let them feel
that the end and aim of their lives is to
be fit to be ,comen and to fill their
places as such in the world, that so
much needs both good women and
good men, and there is no fear that
they will not be quite equal to the stu
alton if they find it best for their hap
piness to marry.-Henrietta Davis, IN
Good Housekeeping.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Hasty Marriages.

When young people go into an en-
gagement for life as carelessly as they
go to picnic, they must expect to pay
for their folly with their bitter expe-
rience. With thousands a marriage
engagement is matter of boyish or
girlish caprice. Sometimes wife is
sought for gross qualification of
sensual appetite; sometimes a shrewd
pecuniary speculation; sometimes to
secure support for shiftless laziness
from father-in-law. Such violations
of the sacred core idea of wedlock
often end in the divorce courts, or in
some other form of permanent separa-
ton. If wise marriages are "made in
heaven" then the hasty, loose, selfish,
or libidinous sort are the handiwork of
the devil 1 would like to whisper in
every young lady's ear-never be !" to
be had too cheaply; never say eyes"
too hastily; never accept any man who
cannot offer you love without rival
and character without stain. Com
mon sense, industrious habits, warm
heart and the Bible conscience are
first requisites. When young man can
lay these at your feet, be careful how
you say mo" to him; you may be
sorry for it, and by-and-by take up with
sorry stick from silly fear of being
laughed at as an old maid" But the
easier the divorce process is made, the
more numerous will be the hasty,
reckless and ill-assorted marriages.
DR.. T. L. Cuyler.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
A Mule Under Fire.

A writer in the Boston Commercial
Bulletin says: 8" / must not forget to
chronicle laughable incident that oc-
Cured on Morris Island, S. G. 1t was
in the early days of the siege. Some
ammunition was wanted in battery at
the front, and mule-driver volunteered
to deliver it. The only road lay along
the sandy beach for distance of mile
and half, most of the route being
within range of Forts Sumter and Wag-
ner. The mule team started, up the
beach. Sumter began Smelling furi-
ously. The driver laid on the lashes,
the mule, with ears laid back, piled his
legs, hundred revolutions to the min
ute. A shell would strike the beach
and explode; then another would whiz
by the team; then that mule would stop
and reflect moment or try to turn
back, when down would come the whip.
A fresh start for short distance and
then a halt, as another shell exploded.
Then the driver jumped from the seat,
caught the animal by the head and went
on dozen rods further. But still the
team gradually moved on, reaching the
battery finally unhurt. The ammuni-
ton was quickly delivered, and that
mule was headed for camp, and started
at its utmost speed. Down the sandy
road fled the animal, the driver rapidly
plying the whip, till at last they reached
the shelter of the sand-hills. Just then
a shell from Sumter came shrieking
through the air. Striking the beach al
the rear of the team, it bounded up,
wards and exploded, apparently right
above the mule. A cloud of smoke hid
the team for a moment, but when il
cleared away there stood the old mule
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Answers to Correspondents.

j. B. K, Newton, N. H.-If the SOL
|dier failed to apply for pension prior
| to his death, his widow cannot receive
pension for any period before the SOL
|dier's death. He being needy and his
|wife supporting him would not entitle
her to pension.
H. E. r., White River Junction.
|you make an application for pension
and congress afterwards passes an act
|giving arrears you will not be barred
from receiving the back pay. 1t will
be an advantage to you to have an APP
|plication in the pension Office before
the rush of claims that would be likely
Ito follow the passage of such law.
j. S. D., Hardwick. If there is de-
sire to locate the Soldiers Home in
Montpelier our people will welcome it
and, no doubt, aid it. That is matter
that has not been considered vet.
Montpelier has built a state-house or
two, paid $150,000 for a railroad, $780,
600 for hotel and many other large
sums for schools and churches. If the
old soldiers desire it Montpelier will
aid, ndperhaps build, Soldiers Home
for them.
M. A. NJ, Montpelier the bill
now pending in congress increasing
widows and dependent relatives pen
sion from IS to S12 a month finally
becomes law, it will not be necessary
for you to employ an attorney to make
an application for the increase of your
pension. The pension office will pro-
vide way to have the rate your pen
sion raised without expense to you, ex-
cept postage. Do not be in haste to en-
ploy Washington agent to make an
application for you. If you employ
him he will expect you to pay him for
his services.
G. w. n, Concord, N. H.-If you are
receiving pension under a special act
of congress you will not be allowed to
give up the pension you are now re-
ceiving and complete your original
claim in the pension office. The COM
missioner of pensions has recently de-
cided that where soldier accepts pen
sion under a special act he will not
afterward be permitted to prosecute his
claim in the pension office. We are
not aware of the approval of the secre.
tary of the interior of such decision
You would therefore have a right to APP.
peal to the secretary of the interior on
that question. The practice of the pen.
sion office has been recently changed
in this respect.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

His face generally pale, but sometimes
flushed; temperature, one hundred de-
grees; pulse, in recumbent position
eighty-nine, sitting, ninety-six, and
standing, one hundred eight; ankles
slightly swollen; left chest enlarged;
stomach and intestines much distended
extreme tenderness of the right side
over the liver; the tongue furred,
fabby and swollen; the bowels consti-
pated and digestion imperfect. The
heart is dilated, with an accompanying
hypertrophy of the walls; at the apex
there is heard distinct murmur, which
is coincident with the first sound of
the heart" After filing this affidavit
Mr.. Farnsworth was ordered to report
to the medical board at Wells River,
VT, for further examination. He
complied with the order several months
since and received a thorough exam
nation, with the above-named result.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

shoulders. They brandish their sticks
and emit various awful squalls, squeals,
whistles and gurgles to cheer the minds
carries pair of little leather saddle
bags stuffed full of salt or borax. The
caravan is generally led by number of
huge goats similarly laden. In this
country sheep are covered with wool,
and goats with hair. This may appear
to you matter of course, but in many
parts of Western Asia the sheep are
just as likely to have hair and the goats
wool. There / could only distinguish
the goats by their turned-up nose and
generally impudent bearing, and the
sheep by their mild, Roman-nosed Dig
nifty and their huge fat tails, which
sometimes weighed twenty pounds.
do not think myself much drawer than
other men, but hitherto 1 had never
been much afraid of sheep. 1 had
passed numbers of them with an I'M
moved countenance. 1t was the Mir
pania Dhura which first showed me
Bellyn as dangerous animal 1t re-
suits entirely from his lack of magma
ton. The path is too narrow for two;
the sheep looks at me and is abashed
He would turn back but is pushed on
by those behind. Having the choice
of jumping down the precipice or
charging the mysterious monster ahead,
he chooses the unknown danger rather
than the known, shuts his eyes and
dashes desperately forward. After col
liding with a hundred or so sheep, one
after another, and several times just
missing tumble into the Kali, four or
five thousand feet below, began to
look upon the meekest of meek animals
as something to be feared.-Correspon-
dence of Ty.ibune
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Small Matters.

There is cherry-stone of ordinary
size in the Salem museum which con-
tains one dozen silver spoons, whose
shape and finish can only be we'll dis
tinguished by the microscope. A
cherry-stone was bought in Russia for
81 800 on which were carved one hun
dred twenty-four heads so distinctly
that the naked eye could distinguish
those belonging to popes and kings by
their mitres and crowns. An old writer
says that Homer's Had, with its fifteen
thousand verses, was written in so small
a space as to be contained in nutshell.
A greater wonder was performed by
one Peter Bales, who wrote the Bible
in so small book that it could be in
closed within the shell of an English
walnut.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
abe Soldiers &noaet.
Pensions Granted.


To Alfred B. Smalley, Waterbury, "a
month and S135 arrears; Benjamin p
Wiley, Barre, SO a month and 5000 ar
|ears; William Yatter, Montpelier, SO q
Month and 1910 arrears; Francis L.
Knapp, Cabot, an additional pension OF
Bio a month and 1884 arrears; Thomas
Fl. Preston, Underhill Center, $4 a
month and S75 arrears; G. II. Jones,
Chittenden, an increase from $50 to $50
month; A. II. Dorman, Danville, an
Increase from "a to $8a month; George
5. Chaplin, Groton, an increase from IS
TO SIG month; Martin l.. Chandler
Middlesex, an increase from IS to S12
b month; John Morrissett, Gouldsville,
bn increase from "a to So a month ;
Alonzo II. Leonard, Middlesex, an in
crease from 81 to SO a month.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

with his head down and ears back,
kicking most viciously at the cart, which
had been smashed and broken up by a
fragment of the shell. The driver lay
on the sand, but jumped up; he limped
towards the mule, cut him loose from
the cart, mounted, and galloped away to
the camps. Thousands of men, Union
and confederate, watched this per-
Torrance. Our men on shore and the
sailors on the vessels all joined in
hearty cheers and waving of caps. The
rebels joined in the demonstration to
the pluck of the driver and the comical
courage of his long-eared charge"
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

AFTER Observation-Disclosures is
a terrible disease, requiring the great
est medical skill to effect complete
cure. Even when its power is broken,
it clings to the patient with great per-
sistency, and often leaves the system
poisoned and Frustrated. Just here
Hoods Sarsaparilla does vast amount
of good, expelling impurities from the
blood, giving it richness and vitality,
while it renovates and strengthens the
system.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

"THE OLD LIFE PREsERvER - is
what they call JohnSon'S Anodyne Lini-
ment way up in Maine, where it was in
vented in 1910. This name is well de-
served, for it is the best liniment in
the world. 1t will certainly prevent
diphtheria, and will relieve Group and
asthma NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Paper.
EXPOSE THE FRAUD.-Patent medi-
cine vendors are now putting up condi-
ton powders in packages as large as a
nigger's foot for twenty-five cents, but
they are utterly worthless. One small
package of Sheridan's Condition Po,c-
derS is worth dray-load of them.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
Dangerous Sheep in Tibet.

The most disagreeable feature of the
Nirpania Dhura is the sheep. They
come in strings mile or two long, in
charge of short, sturdy little Thibetans,
who appear at intervals in the process
sion, wrapped in dirty sheepskins and
carrying long rifle slung over their
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17

THE habit which many people have
of always mufiling up the throat during
the winter is mistake. 1t not unfre-
quently happens that those people COM
mence this practice early in the fall
and continue to do so until late in the
spring. The result is that if they
should happen to leave off their scarf
or muller for few hours they are
very likely to take cold.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1886-02-17
PENSION OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, ID. c., February 3, is

WASHINGTON, d. c., February 3, 1886.
Dear Sir The pension claim of Cyrus f.
Farnsworth has been allowed by certificate
No. 12,487 and will be forwarded to the Con-
cord agency, to be transmitted to the pen
sioner, with proper vouchers, on which pay
ment will be made. AS you have called up
this case by letters of inquiry, deem it but
courteous that l should advise you of the
final action taken, as above set FORTH Very
respectfully,
Hon. G.. f. Edmunds, U. S. Senate.
During the progress of his case Mr..
Farnsworth was examined by several
boards of surgeons, who reported that
they could discover no disability of the
claimant. In 1884 Mr.. Farnsworth
filed in his claim testimony of neigh
bors tending to show that he was dis
abled, Notwithstanding the report of
the surgeons the contrary who had eX-
amined him, and requested another eX-
animation, which was granted him, but
he was met by another rejection in
September, 1884, on the ground " that
the certificate of the board of surgeons
at Montpelier, who examined him in
August, under special instructions
show that no disability existed in a
pensionable degree by reason of al.
legged diseases" He was also informed
that the evidence on file could not be
accepted to overcome the report of the
board. Mr.. Farnsworth then called
together three skilled physicians tc
make an examination and state the re
suit in an affidavit. The examination
was made at Barre October n, 1884
The following is an extract from thu
affidavit of the physicians who partici
pated in the examination: " His gen
eral appearance is that of feebleness