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Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

Fluctuations In stocks were small and dealings OF
little interes, although there active trading in
ST. Paul. LackawGnha. Lake Shore and Canada
Sou;her, the latter being the strongest stock on the
general list. The opening comparatively quiet;
the afternoon market dull. There was more
strength, displayed In the last hour than any time
during the afternoon.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

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Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17
FINANCE AND COMMERCE,
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
New York Money Markets.

New York Money Markets.
NEW YORK. September IS.
Money-On call easier, ranging from to per ccit
Prime Mercantile Paper-4@5 per cent.
Sterling Exchange-Weak and unsettled; actual
rate 4Slsl for a. day bills and 4SIH for demand.
Government Bonds-Dull and steady.
State BOnds-Dull and heavy.
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17
CANCER CURED.

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Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17
For Trade !!

Horses. stock OF general merchandise. one
IL horse power engine and threshing macine,
two valuable patent rights shares in several good
growing town IN western Kansas, several good
prescriptions and timber culture claims in the Gar
den City land district, farms and town property in
all the eastern and southern states. also western
Kansas land and q great many vacant lots in west
Kansas towns all to trade for lots in Wichita
or improved farms In Sedgwick. Butler Cowley, Sum
ner and Reno counties Three good improved farms
to rent for 1887. We make speciality OF trading If
you have anything to trade sell bring the descrip
ton to Office; get you trade Town lots
for sale credit Office $40 East Douglas avenue up
stairs, front room.
REiMAN & SABlN
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

household goods and merchandise
- at 2s5 Main st. Cheap rates by COX ssAHicS.
di2Stf
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

VrOR RENT-Rooms nicely furnished with or with
II out board. in Roys building. ONCE 81 Douglas
avenue lb6ts
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

XXYANTED-A capable nurse can DE secured Tor
Fl" day service at reasonable rates. Can refer to
ply scians and others: Inquire at 6lS Topeka ave
or address Mrs b. lock box Il, Wichita, Kan dlul 6tf
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17
FOR RENT.

NOR RENT-For cash rent for the year 1881 or
r. longer n firSt-class bottom farm ON Hickory
creek in Butler county, Kan Address VIM. Morti.
Leon, Kan. ln 6t'
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

Notwithstanding. agocd barber (whiie),
w steady work. Sl2 per week Address Jonn
Doirer Medicine Lodge KAN 1C2 l2i|
Wichita eagle., 1886-09-17

VYYANTED-A graduate Of a New England College.
w A b. "a A. NJ. 81, and of Iowa State University
T. b. 81, wants to teach winter school las taught
2, terms and holds first grade certificate. Address
> A St.mZ-ood Garden CITY Kan l0i-Gls
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Hancock and the Militiamen.

An army officer told me an anecdote OF
General Hancock about his love of dig
nifty and discipline.
He was in command of the train which
brought General Grants remains from
Mount McGregor to New York. General
Hancock and his staff were in the coach
next to the last. In the rear car was q
party of Pennsylvania militia officers, who
were popping an occasional bottle OF
champagne and smoking quite socially.
General Hancock saw from bis car what
was going on in the rear. 1t did not
COMFORT with his ideas Of the proprieties
of so solemn an occasion, and, calling the
conductor, he said:
"Will you present my compliments to
those gentlemen, with the request that
they cease smoking"
In few moments the conductor re-
turned with the announcement that the
convival officers returned their compli-
mcnts with peremptory decllnatlon to
relln9uish their cigars.
"Where is the next switch?" asked
Hancock.
"About five miles below" replied ths
conductor.
"When you reach it, if the smoking in
that car has not ceased, switch it on a
side track and leave it. You may tell
the gentlemen what I have said"
In two minutes there was not cigar
to be see in the appending coach. Its
occupants knew that Hancock meant just
what he said.-Atbanta Constitution.
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England's Broad Arrow.

The property of the English crown has
been marked with the broad arrow from
times so early that no one now can tell
when it was first used for this purpose,
or what was its meaning. This usage
remind one of the practice at Athens
more than two thousand years ago to
brand the captives taken in war with the
figure of an owl as mark Of Athenlan
ownership. In the same manner Samos
branded her captives with the figure OF
ship.
A recent writer upon England speaks
of seeing the mark of the arrow upon the
backs Of convicts employed upon the
public works. He found this mark
stamped upon the queens property OF
every description, from castles, ships and
big guns, down to piece Of Liverpool
bagging; and there is a penalty Of two
hundred pounds for removing it.
The broad arrow has figured for long
time, and in many important matters.
There is small English property in this
country which was secured to the crown
by this mark before the Revolution, and
which is still subject to the order OF her
majesty. 49,,
Some time before the opening OF the
war in ITS, the surveyors OF the king
were sent through the woods of Maine
within ten miles or so of the coast, to Sc
lect such pines as were fit for masts to
ships-of- f-the-line in the British navy, and
upon these trees the broad arrow was
cut. In ITS or 1774, workmen were
sent to cut the masts and prepare them
for being hauled to the nearest port from
which they could be shipped to Eng
land.
On one lot about ten miles from Port
land two of these large trees were cut. 1t
was, however too late for the crown to
secure its property. The feeling on the
part of the colonists had become so hos
tile to the home government that none
could be found to haul the masts to a
landing, or to let their oxen for any such
service. The English government was
forced to abandon the trees where they
were lying.
In i7s1 this particular lot of land was
occupied for farm, and house was
built upon it in very substantial manner:
For shingles and clapboards for tho roof
and walls of the house, the two masts
were worked up by hand where they lay
in the wood.
Of course both kinds of lumber were
rived and shaved, for there were no mills
near the place then. The shingles upon
the roof have had to be replaced more
than once, but the clapboards on thewa!ls
remain sound to the present, and this,
too, without ever having been painted.
The writer admits that this lumber was
wrongfully appropriated, and he begs
that the queen will graciously regard the
house as her own whenever she may
honor him with visit. YOUTHS Com
nnni0n
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17
TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
The Two Nei1hbOrS.

The Two Neishbors.
There lived two neighbors in our little town,
Both, in their way, OF great and wide re-
nOwn;
One, fierce and warlike; peaceable the other,
Tried to make OF his dread foe brother,
One, king was called, and one the poor mans
friend,
Which led them, often, hotly to contend:
And long the war was waged, is raging still.
Which has the greater power, the stronger
will
At last the people met, and sought intent to
If these two foes could dwell in unity.
But, after earnest prayer and long debate
Which served still more to aggravate the
hate;
Have now decided, every one and all,
No more to tolerate King Alcohol,
But to accept, and greeting true extend,
To pure Cold Water, everybody's friend.
Martha j. Hadleg, in Boston Traveller.
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS4

The last slave was sold in Virginia I'M
the spring of 1865 for hundred head OF
cabbage plants.
1t is said that the fat from wild ducks
not only makes leather pliable but thor
oughly waterproof.
Mainsprings of watches break most
frequently in the fall of the year, and
watchmakers are said to put in more'new
springs in two fall months than in all the
rest Of the year.
The ancient Roman ladies held large
pear-shaped drop pearls in high esteem.
They were fond of wearing two or three
together as pendants for the ears, or
dangling from the rings of the fingers.
1t was customary among the Romans
to erect affairs, shrines and small temples
on the spots on which religious rites in
honor of the Lares Compitales, the deities
who presided over crossroads, were per-
formed by the country people.
An autograph letter by George Wash
ington, which reveals some interesting
facts in his domestic history, has just
BEEN published. He pathetically writes
of the running away of his colored cook
and the trouble experienced in getting
another.
The newest Paris sport is snail racing.
The race course is smooth board, at the
end of which is lighted candle, toward
which the snails begin to creep when the
room is darkened. There are miniature
hurdles on the course and river, and the
famous racing snails are handicapped
with pellets If clay.
When a European takes his dog out
for walk, according to the North China
Mail, a Chinaman carries cage, i'm
prisoned in which is bird, and when
he sits down to rest he hangs the cage
upon tree in order that he may enjoy
the flood of melody which is poured
forth from the birds throat.
Once o shepherd, caught out upon the
hills at night, built fire under the lee Of
a pile of stones that he had tossed to-
gether. The heat ,split some of the
stones, and in the morning the man saw
within one of the cracks piece of shin
ing silver ore. That happened in Peru
and thus was discovered the mines of the
Cerro de Pasco, which have yielded
$4OO, 900, 900.
An extraordinary aversion to horses
was a peculiar characteristic of a Hun
garlan magnate recently deceased. He
would not allow any animal Of the kind
to come upon his lands, so that visitors
who rode or drove to see him had always
to alight at his park gates. Trained deer
used to draw his own vehicle for many
years, but lately his carriage was drawn
by team of oxen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17
HThe Everlasting Arm"

Pilgrim on the road to glory,
Pressing toward the Heavenly prizs,
Mid the ills that now disturb thee,
Mid the dangers that arise;
When the way is dark and dreary,
Rugged, filled with vain alarms,
When perplexed, exhausted, weary,
Trust "the Everlasting Arms.
And when all below is closing,
When thou dread'st the briny food,
When thon "eel'st the waters rising
Thou shalt find the promise good.
TiInid Christian. venture on it;
Bid farewell to all alarms;
Tis enough that underneath thee
Are "the Everlasting Arms"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17
Some Definitions.

A great undertaking-Burying the fat
woman.
Changing the subject-Making an Eng
lishman q citizen.
A pretty plight-The maiden's yea.
A killing affair-An English joke.
Hanging fre-The chandelier.
A great head-The cabbage.
Beats the deck-The cabin.
Level-headed-The snake.
Very much cut up-Hash.
A cast-off-Tbe anchor.-PucE.
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0Thaf Rlrcien Tree"

Oh. woodman, spare thxt birchen tree,
In youthful days it tickled me;
And many a lick, and many a whack,
The teacher did lay on my back!
It taughtme what I ought to know,
And showed me where ought to 60;
And still do delight to see,
That good old fashioned birchen tree.
Wake HubbeU
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17

Baron Leon de Lenval, of Nice, has
offered prize for the best easily carried
instrument for the use of the d eaf. 1t
must be constructed on the principles of
the microphone, and must be sent in be-
fore the end Of 1887.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17

The Baptist Total Abstinence. associa-
tion of England numbers in its ranks
LII ministers, 2,6sS church officers,
and 212 students, making total of 4, OH,
having an increase of 355 over last year.
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Wealth of Principal Nations.

The subjoined is the estimate given in
Mulhill's "Dictionary of Statistics" 1t
is only an approximation, of course, but
probably it is as near the correct truth as
such approximations ever are:
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If you are fond of wine, you ought to
abstain for your own sake, and if you are
not fond of wine you ought to abstain
for the sake of others. Canon Fo7rar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17

The State, Boston paper, says: 'The
policy of science on the saloon issue is
the policy Of moral cowardice,"
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A lady who left her false teeth in a
glass of water one night during a cold
snap had them ruined by the freezing
they got.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17

The Christian Home, of New York,
says: "Of the sixty eight married men
received in this Home during the past
wear, two-thirds of that number have
been separated from their families on ac-
count of their drinking habits
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The Courage Of His Convictions

The Courage Of His Convictions.
In an address at Reading the other
evening Ex-Governor Curtin humorously
said: sWho ever knew an old soldier
to refuse commissary whisky" To
his surprise a tall, gray-bearded man
arose and answered: "Here's one" The
governor was not so much surprised but
that he could exclaim: ''Then you must
have been as dry as craven image.
The old soldier who was not afraid to
make known his temperance principles is
William II. K. Bush, of Reading. He
served as sergeant four years in the war
and was in twenty-five battles. He was
temperance man first, last and all the time.
He organized temperance society Of
twenty-eight members in his company,
but after he returned from two months
imprisonment at Belle Isle he found that
all but four had broken the pledge. He
at once reorganized the society and built
it up to sixty-eight members. Once
there came an order that every soldier
should have two doses of quinine in
whisky every day. Sergeant Bush
marched his company up to the surgeons
tent at 'sick call'' and the surgeon said:
''Pour out big one for the sergeant"
But the sergeant answered.: II swore
allegiance to Uncle Sam to fight, but not
to drink whisky"
The surgeon was inclined to make a
fuss, but the colonel backed up the ser.
geant and others of his company who re-
fused the whisky.
"When the governor asked that ques-
tion," said Mr.. Bush, II thought it my
duty to stand up, and up went. "-Nsw
York Sun.
"Repeaters."
It appears that the House of Industry
on Deer Island, near Boston, kept an ac-
curate record last year of 9,OS4 men and
women sentenced for drunkenness. This
number actually appeared upon the re-
cords Of the courts rs So, $50 different
persons. Each drunkard averaged over
six commitments. and many of them
were on record score of times. The
Tombs and other of our city prisons,
from which drunken prisoners are con-
tinually sent to Blackwell's Island, could
tell similar story OF drunken "rcpeat-
ers." Short time sentences for drunk
ards and thousands of licenses to liquor
sellers suffice to produce these disgrace
full and, to taxpayers, costly results
Temperance advocate.
Mrs. Susannah Evans Peck has been
appointed national lecturer and organizer
for the department of young women's
work of the National Womcn's Christian
Temperance union. She is warmly an6
deservedly commended for the service by
Miss Francis E. Willard and by Mrs. F.
J. Barnes, the national superintendent of
that department.
The Christian Home, of New York,
says: "Of the sixty eight married men
received in this Home during the past
wear, two-thirds of that number have
been separated from their families on ac-
count of their drinking habits
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spark from the altar of Cab to some other
circle, until from the coal HEAVIER in the cellar
to the maid in the top room OF the garret, all
are aware of the defamation, and that even
ing all who leave the house will bear it to
other houses until autumnal fires sweeping
across Illinois prarie are less raging and
swift than that flame Of consuming reputa-
tion blazing a,roSs the village or city. Those
of us who we're brought I'D in the country
know that the old-fashioned Matching OF eggs
in the hay NOW required four or
five weeks Of brooding, but there are new
modes now of Matching by machinery which
takes less time and docs the work in whole
sale. So, while the private home may brood
into life an occasional falsity and take a
long time to do it, many Of the boarding
houses and family hotels afford switter and
more multitudinous style Of moral incu:
baton, and one old gossip will
get Off the nest after one hours
brooding, clucking flock of thirty lies after
her, each one picking up its little worm OF
juicy regalelnent. 1t is no advantage to hear
too much about your neighbors, for your
time will be so much occupied in taking care
Of their faults that you will have no time to
look after your own. And while you are
pulling the chick-weed out Of their garden
yours will get all overgroWn with horse-soT-
rel and mullen stalks.
One of the worst damages that comes from
the herding of so many people into boarding
houses and family hotels is inflicted upon
children. 1t is only another way of bringing
them up on the commons. While you have
your own private house you can for the most
part control their companionship and their
whereabouts but by twelve years OF age in
these public resorts they will have picked up
all the bad things that can be furnished by
the prurlent minds of dozens of
poon1o Tbav will oyarhear hlashamies
and see qualrels and geS precocious in sin,
and what the bartender does not tell them
the porter or hostler or bell-boy will Beside
that, the children will go out into the world
without the restraining, anchoring, steady
ing and an-contro!ling memory Of a home.
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own. 1t is the deiusion as to what is neces-
sary for a home that hinders so many from
establishing one. Thirty rooms are not nec-
essary, nor twenty, nor fifteen, nor ten, nor
five, nor three. In the right way plant q
table and couch and knife and fork and q
cup and a chair and you can raise a young
naralise. Just start q home on however
Cyrus was invited to dine with an humble
friend the king made the one condition
of his coming that the only dish be one loaf
of bread, and the most imperial satisfactions
have sometimes banqueted on the plainest
fale.
Do not be caught in the delusion Of many
thousands in postponing home uutl they
can have an expensive one. That idea is the
DEVILS trap that catches men and women in
Vulnerable who will never have any home at
all. Capitalists Of America! Build plain
homes for the people. Let this tenement
house system in which hundreds of thousands
of the people of our cities are wallowing in
the mire be broken up by small homes where
people can have their own firesides and their
own altar. In this great continent there is
room enough for every man and woman to
have q home Morals and civilization and
religion demand it,
We want done all over this land what
George Peabody and Lady Burdette Coutts
did in England and some of the large manu-
facturers of this country have done for the
villages and cities in building small houses at
cheap rents, so that the middle classes can
have separate homes. They are the only
class not provided for. The rich have their
palaces and the paupers have their poor
houses and the criminals have their jsils,
but what about tho honest middle classes, who
are able and willing to work, and yet have
small income7 Let the capitalists, inspired
of God and pure patriotisms rise and build
whole streets Of small residences. The la
borer may have at the close Of the day to
walk or ride further than is desirable to
reach it, but when he gets to its destination
in the eventide. he will find something worthy
of being called by that glorious and impas-
stoned and heaven descended word ':homs.'
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-27

Certain garrulous people might prof
10 by the following lesaon in brevity.
Rore is the man or the woman who
says what hcor she has to shy, and
nothing moro. Farmer sam Dobbins
boastci that he was "a man of few
word, 'os indeed he was. lie was AL
ways roiliug against 'thcsc wind-bng
as he styled the cloes of men and wo.
men who talk more than is necessary.
And ho was always wishing he could
find % man or a woman who was rot
"all gob.' One day no met the object
of hi5 dosirc.
He was industriously hoeing corn in
his dcid when a arrange gentleman
jumped over the fence and came to-
ward him. Then ensuod tho following
conversation, which We give as a mod
ell Of elegant brevity;
"lIcllo'
Coco day!"
"loG'
! es'
"fou live heren
YES
wen qunlnted round heref"
/ es'
'Nnow Old Sam Dohbns7'
- os''
an. -. L.
I!' i've close aoontf
l'''
NV ha Eind o man Is hef'
"First'rato feller.n
owen orr
"Ruther,'
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1886-03-27
A Philosophical Answer.

The value of service rendered by
skilled workmen should not be calcu.
lated by the time it takes to perform
tho task. Allowance should be made
Tor the weeks and months spent by
thorough worlCmen In learning how to
do their work we'll. This knowledge
has i's money value.
While Judge Tracy was on the cir
cult going from court his trace broke.
The judge spent over half hour try
ing to mend it, but to no purpose His
patience was exhausted, and he OK
pressed his vexation in words. A ne.
gro came along, and the Judge told him
of his trouble, The negro let out the
trace, cut hole in it and the job was
dome
"Why," said the jude, could | not
have dono that.ln
"Well marsier,n said the negro,
don't you know some folks jest nat.
umlly smarter than tothers.n
"That is So" said the judge. "What
shall ! pay you for fixing my tracer
"Wcll, marster, fifty cents will do,
said tho negro.
"Finy ccnts.n said the Judge. "You
were not five minutes at it,
~ do not charge you fifty cents for
doing il, said the negro. 81 charge
you twenty cents for doing it and
twenty Eve cents for knowing how to
do itn-Savannah News,