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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
kne~ y-ry wen He Didn't Do 1t.

Matte is q devoted retainer and henchman
Of her hg brother Henry The latter is
frequently in trouble, brought about by his
carelessneS His father. going into the wine
cellar. found three bottles Of = choice wine
shattered on the noor, which was dyed in
their costly blood Meeting the aforesaid
Henry soon after. the irate parent acccss.s.
him with. That's some Of your work, Master
Henry: oh. You needn't look 80 innocens-you
know who did H.
Little Matte. standing by, turned On hsr
adorins papa u pair of bright eyes blazing
with wrath. and stamping her tiny feet. e1-
claimed, mo. he didn't do it neither; -
now,-
The amused parent, trying 10 preserve 4
proper severity, but visihiy sofsenins. turns.
on tins unexpected antagonist, with
~lndeed, yfS Mattel And bow do VOC
know he diinty-
Canse,s IiurnpAanfiy oird the foaz3e.-
little champion, @'canse M him didht.-
Gan Francisco fa~s
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION NEEDED

Tho Mistaken Principle Which Underlies
Our Present System of Charity.
All our public institutions, such as hospitals,
asylums. and even prisons are curative and
not preventive. Does not the proverb about
an ounce of prevention apply with as much
force to them as to individuals Let q
hunted, bounded, starving, debilitated man,
who needs rest and nourishment to build him
up, apply to any hospital for relief Will he
get its "Oh, no." will he the answer; ego and
get worse Go on till YOU break down, and
then when YOU have shattered your constitu-
ton and contracted lingering disease, then
cone to US and we will help you"
The poor fellow goes off and walks and
starves till he drops in fit. Then there is
the ambulance for him, nurses, doctors, soft
beds. chicken broth, port wine and everything
TO coidle and build him up.
The same is the case with the man who is
afflicted with mental trouble He may feel
that his overwrought brain is drifting into
insanity, but let him apply TO any asylum, or
even to friends. for the relief he needs
ooh, no. is the reply, you are not insane
yet, 90 and qualify yourself and he does,
becoming possibly life burden on the state
We have heard a story, which was no
doubt, true. of n vIrtuous girl who, finding
herself in sore straits, applied to a certain
Magiaien asylum for protection.
Have You sinned.' she was asked.
Never" was ner reply
~Ah, then, we can give you no assistance.
our institution is for the erring only. &c
and qualify yourself and we will receive you
with open arms
Can there be Inore hideous commentary
on fle tallacy OF the principle underlying our
whole present system OF charity-Texas
Siftiags
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
AssOLvEp.

| 1 who have worshiped beauty long
Beheld 3 upman's face to-night
That thriG6d my being INTO song
And tdathsd my sod with sudden light:
And yet, perchance, had you hsen there
You scarcely would have called il fair.
Gray eyes that held subtle shade
OF sadness that was half expressed,
Lips that for laughter were not made
Perhaps by Pains white finger pressed
To patient silence. All Of art
Sank down abashed within my heart
An, life has one high lesson yet
That have learned Of womanhood-
It's when we lose and we forget
The beautiful within the good;
IT'S when the senses swoon to see
The souls surprising mystery.
Like moonlight comes calm content
With larger hope and purer love,
A memory of the form that bent
Thro' nights Of fevered pain above
The cot of childhood. Better so
For this brief vision may go
Once more into the world like him
Who has been pardoned- 10! he kneels
And murmurs in the cloisfer dim,
MY father, have snnedIn He feels
The craving Of the spirits cease,
Soothed by the answer, GO in peace,7
Edward ]. McPhelin.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
s.mr,h,ur Else for the Public.

The delights of music. the enjoyment o.
,ainting and sculpture. the charms OF oratory
ire not within the power of the multitude
rhess, in their excellence furnish a neverfaii-
ing fund of enjoyment, and one which Gle
Yates and enlarge> II is a matter OF regret
that their influence can be felt by so few \
recent writer in urging their inportanc'
argues that public funds thus spent would b
wal, s,.ant We now sancticn state aud mum
icipai appropriations for public garaens
monuments. halls and libraries. Why no
include concerts and lectursi-Lewiston Me.
Journal
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
Trick Of Newspaper Correspondent.

The devices of newspaper correspondents at
Washington to obtain the news are often in
genious and sometimes dishonest. Back of
the house and senate galleries there are large
rooms with tables for writing and telegraphic
facilities for sending dispatches. The CORE
spondents do much of their writing at these
tables, and one of them, who had been teleg-
rapher, sat and listened to the news of his
competitors as it went clicking over the
wires. The striking similarity of his dis
patches to those of other correspondents soon
exposed the trick. and a change was made to
thwart him This lazy but smart correspond
ent, however, got the news, and his opponents
were at loss for a long time to find out how
he did SO. They finally set a watch upon him
and found that he was in the habit of going
up over the house where the telegraph wires
ran. He had a fine sense of touch, and was
50 good telegrapher that he could read what
was going over the wires by wetting his fin
gers and placing them upon them--w ash
inyton Letter
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
What Ten Years Have done.

A gentleman tells me that the average pub
lie life in New York is ten years. The re-
mark was called out by seeing Tom Murphy
pass along the street. Just think what q
power this man was only a few years ago in
the politics of New York and the nation.
He was the chum of nearly ever leading man
who has made the history Of this country for
the past quarter of a century. He was q
rich citizen when Gen. Grant took him up
and made him collector of the port In those
DAYS he was q welcome guest in the houses Of
the brayest and best in the country. He sat
as an honored guest at all the great feasts.
and he once told me that his political expert
ence cost him over 500 90. Be that as II
may, he was poor when he left public Office.
lie is much poorer now.
He is getting old and seems to be despond-
cnt. How or where he lives none OF his old
associates seem to know and most Of them
shun him. 1t looks little hard that man
who once held his place in life and who VA
always open-banded and freehearted to q
fault should spend the last days OF his life IN
poverty and sorrow But the world seems
TO get the drop ON q man here in New Nort
oftener than any place in the world, and wheI
it does they throw up their hands easily and
rarely ever get them down again--New fori
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
Civilization Of the Hawaiian Islands.

Those who still think Of the Hawaiian
islands as a land of half-civilized beings would
be surprised to see the items of the daily pa
per published there. The advertisements show
every variety of profession and business car
ried on by people whose names are unmistak-
ably English, while from the local column we
CLEAN that the city Of Honolulu has its base
ball clubs, its circuses, its roller coasters
contrivancc only recently seen in New Eng
land-its opera drought all the way from
San Francisco by a public subscription OF
1000, and last but not least in the evidence
Of civilization, a police court where the Gus
tommy ",lrtiaks" and assaults are recorded
each morning Even the Chinaman there IS
pelted aud Knocked by the boys in the streets
rs he is by their little Christiani1ed brothers
in America CHICAGO Times
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
Tie CONvivlAL HUSBANDS MISTAKE.

The Occasion was an Unusual One-Tak-
ing Home Something to Eat.
think he had had his wife's permission I
know that be very rarely gets into that con-
dition. In fact, 1 never reeollect seeing him
like that before And then the occasion was
an unusual one-quite unusual Besides, be
wasn't so very bad. No, no. He knew what
he was doing, and then, everybody else had
been drinking champagne. too. He wasn't
so very, very bad. He was not as full a. the
other fellow, who wanted to take him home
Come 20 think Of il, he must have been pretty
sober, for he began to tell me a story six
times during the evening, and it was always
the same story. But he knew that it was
very late, and his wife would be anxious, and
he could not think of going home to her with
out taking her some of me evenings pleasure
something to show he had been thinking OF
her.
IL is rather curious but when it gets very
late and the bold husband who has been dis
playing his Independence OF marital thrall-
dom all evening finds the moment coming
when he must face his sober half, he instinc-
lively feels like taking her home something
TO eat, to mollify her. Why an oys-
ter loaf at 8 O'Clock in the morning
should mollify a woman l don't know,
but / nave known men to try It. He
was wealthy, however, and despised such
things as oyster leaves. The clock was strik
ing 4 as the coupe drew up outside OF his
dwelling. He entered the house quite stead
ily So anxious was he to meet his wife that
be marched straight into the bed-chamber and
stood in the dim lamp-light by her side. She
woke up.
NY DEAR he said, Il am here. I've come
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
salt and AIk.lies Of the West.

A member of the geological survey says
that Salt lake viii be Of great value in the
near future. not only on account OF the
common s,;i it will produce, but also for the
sodium sulphafe it contains The latter Is
separated in hocculent precipitate by the
cold weather OF midwinter. and annually
thrown up on the shore in enormous quaint
tics. There are many other lakes in the far
west where an inexhaustible supply OF COM
mercial alkalies may be obtained at small
cost, Mono lake, California, alone being esti-
mated to hold over $500, 600 tons Of sodium
carbonate & Chicago Times
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
A Man Of Many Nickn.mes.

Mr.. Gladstone is a man Of many nick
names Here are few by which be is known
among his political friends and enemies, prin
cipally his enemies: -Grand Old Man, tn
Peoples William Tor Win. win o tn
Axe -oh Collars -Iago,' Wizard o
Willy Tongue Arch Intriguer,r -Babbler.
Devils Advocate ~Favorife Of Heaven,
Wretch -Posturer, .Vain Old Veteran.
Tree ChoppinS SHAM Mock Mahdi.
~Fend Of Disgrace and lately in the Sunda,
Times mot the Thundereri Dog and Damn
-Exchance
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

As soon as YOU have dash of Anglo Saxon
blood in the veins of Deople YOU have also
this hearty. Wholesome love of exciting, even
perilously exciting, outdoor sports. And
thank God for it. | only wish that every
young man in this country could have his
blood stream uuickened his muscles hard
ei,ed, his eye frightened, his brain cleared,
his imagination purified every day of his life
by game of foot ball, by apull on the river
OF a twenty mile ride in the saddle Not
only was Waterloo won at Elton, but England
owes her present prominence more 10 the out
door life of her people than 10 any other one
cause Do you know that London is the only
city in all history which has been a great city
for 900 years. That means something. II
means stamina, a yirility; it means bottom"
and this or these the English have.
Two hundred years from now these pale
faced, indoor keeping, Notwithstanding
morbid, sickly imaginative youths Of our
cities are to have stultifying and weaken
ing effect upon our population. Mark my
words the time will come before this ter
restrial ball disappears in flames, when a
man who does not take care of his health will
be treated as now insane people are treated.
These flabby, whitehead men who begin the
day with cocktail and end it with sixty
grains OF bromide and keep themselves in
form all day with whisky, will lie relegated
to asylums and made 10 play at tennis and
ride and eat oatmeal and bcnf, and get up at
O'Clock every morning and go TO he'd at TO-
and when they get 50 and SO much blood in
their cheeks and certain sparkle in then
eyes, they will be released Boston Cor.
Kansas City Times
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
A Ticket riny-Fo~r lncae. Long.

Ftchburg railruad the other day sold to a
Buffalo physician an unlimited frst-class
ticket for 8. 40, the highest price ever paid
for one ticket. il Is said The pasteboard was
one and oue-half yards long and consisted OF
thirty 1--WE coupons and the contract 1t *
good for special car by the Hcosac sunne,
route to San Antonio, Tex, and return by
way Of the Atlantic coast-Boston Tran
script
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

Blondin, the rope walker. wishes 10 return
TO America and do some high feats, but his
agent, now in this city, finds that the law
would prevent repetition Of the Niagara or
any lesser peril A net would have to be
spread underneath his rope, and that would
destroy the cash value of the performances.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

Charles Gibbon Is an author widely and
well known throughout England, in fact, a
successful novelist Several years ago, no
matter just how many, Black and Gibbon
were, it might be said, side by side in the
commencement of their literary careers, and
were then, as now, warm personal friends
Both had made n name, and Gibbon had
contracted with certain syndicate TO furnish
Z novel of some twenty or twenty five chap
ters. He needed the money, too, presume,
which the novel would net him, but I'M
fortunately he fell seriously i'll and was una
bic TO do any work at all. As soon as Black
heard of the misfortune of his friend Gibbon
he at once hurried to his bedside, and in spite
Of Gibbons vigorous protest Black insisted
that he should be furnished the scheme of the
novel, which it seems Gii,bon had already
outlined.
The generous Black would listen to no ar
gument or excuse, but marched off in tri-
umph with the skeleton novel, and although
he had on hand more work than he could
well attend TO, he went to work on that slel
cton and in a short time returned to Gibbon IA
complete novel, and 10 this day no one out
side of a small circle knows OF Blacks kind
hearted action Gibbon is a warm personal
friend of mine and has often told me the
story. Black is very happy in his domestic
life. | suppose, of course, you know that the
novel, The Strange Adventures of q
Phnton," is really an account of Blacks
honeymoon. San Francisco Alta.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
Decentralization of the French People.


The attention, curiosity, and. il may bo
added, the irritation of the French public
have been greatly excited within the last few
days by the appearance Of the volume jus;
published by certain DIR. Rommel. He
said: characterization has fastened upon
every class of French society. The peasant
r1Ishcs to the largest towns; the artisan
beaten by the foreign competitor, fiocls 10
political meetings and gets drunk on agita-
ton; the bourgeoisie crowds every public
office and yearns after seientary employment,
and all the while the foreigner migrates into
France. The exodus from the fields to tho
cities the wild rush after all easy and sedentary
occupations, the scourge of fonctionarism,
on the one hand and of proletarisme on ths
other. the absence Of self-reliance, tn
paralysis of anything of individual initiation
tine universal appeal to the state, are SO many
signs OF this moral laundering. Never ha
there been such display Of that religious
indifference that precedes the storm; never
has there been such utter contempt 70,
opponents opinions, OF such n deep hatred o,
all principles of authority, civil, military
and religious
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

The immense prehistoric shell heaps Of
Damariscotta, Ne. are being dug up and
shipped to Boston TO he ground into dust and
sold as poultry food. Thee deposits, which
are described in Ernest IngersollS census re-
port on American oyster industries, have
long been an object Of great interest to anti
quarians -Chicago Times
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

Professor Asa Gray, of Harvard, has sent
an autograph letter Of thanks to each of the
$50 botanists who contributed to the MEM
orial vase presented 10 him on his 18th birth
day.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
Cur,ou. Erect Of Cold weather.

A curious effect of the cold weather upor
railroad transportation was discovered II
North Carolina, where the movement o. tne
trains on one road was brought to an cns1rs
stop by the freezing Of the water in the tun
nels into formidable icicles. which the loco
motives could no. break
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
TRUTH ABOUT SHORTHAND
INFORMATION OFTEN ASKED FOR
CONCERNING sTENooaApHY.

Practically All Systems Make Use Of the
same Material = Learning Shorthand
without q Masser-Speed and Legfbility
For General Newspaper Work.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17
FOR GENERAL NEWSPAPER WORK.

A knowledge of shorthand is not necessary
% obtain situation ON newspaper, though,
other things being equal, reporter who car
write shorthand is better equipped for gen
eral newspaper work than a reporter who car
not. As matter of fact there are no: more
than dozen shorthand writers regularly EN-
pIoyed on all the great New York dailies to
gether. In England reporter must know
shorthand. Most of this work consists of yer
latin reporting Here strictly verbatim
work is not often required except for great
meetings. The most successful reporter is he
who can best present the interesting points OF
! scene or speech in a readable, attractive
shape. The American public doe not care
much for mere verbiage.
Expert stenographers who can take testi
nony in court often earn handsome sums.
But such expertness is attained only by yea rs
of practice and great natural aptitude for the
work HALFWAY" stenographcrs are abun-
Iant in New York who are glad to work for
SIS a week, often less. 1 stenographer who
is competent to attend - the correspondence
of a railroad official or some man of large af-
fairs usually gets from $50 to $50 a week.
OF course if the stenographer is something
more than u mere machine man and can do
other things well besides writing shorthand,
so much the better are his chances of making
good wages.
There is no mystery about shorthand 1,
does not require any unusual amount o.
brains or any extraordinary powers Of mem
DRY to acquire it. But it does require to b.
stuck to persistently. There is no recreation
in learning it. If only half known it i
treacherous and worse than useless. Nobody
should take it up unless prepared to mai,
great se"-ifioes of time and patiencr.
York Tribune
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

Sarah Bernhardt is reported to have taker
to fatty articles Of diet to increase hey
weight.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-17

Editors receive many inquiries like the fol-
lowing:
@Can you tell me what is the best system of
,horrhands Can it be mastered without a
teacher, and in what timer Some people ad-
vertise to teach it in three months; can it be
learned in that timef Is knowledge Of
shorthand necessary to obtain situation Is
\ reporter on a newspaper How are stem
ographers palds By answering these ques-
tons you will greatly oblige," etc.
These questions have been submitted to q
highly successful stenographer, who returns
shese answers to them:
The systems most widely practiced here are
Ben" Pitman's, Munson's, Isaac Pitman's
and Graliam's. They are all much alike:
Practically they all mike use Of the same ma
lsriaL There are not few people, bowever,
"ho seem to spend most Of their time in try
ins to demonstrate that any one Of the above
'ystenis is vastly superior to all the rest: but
dat sort Of talk is in the main nonsense and
lie student will do well to concern himself
h;tle about it. Each Of these systems has
turned out first-class stenographers, and there
are equally good stenographers who writs
other systems less generally known More
depends on the man than ON the system.
Generally the practiced stenographer does
not adhere closely to any one system, but ap-
propriaues suggestions from all
LEARNING SHORTHAND WITHOUT TEACHER.
Shorthand can be learned by the aid of
textbooks without q teacher, though, of
course, a pupil is likely to make better progress
with competent instruction. II this cannot
be obtained the student should endeavor to
make the acquaintance Of some practical
stenographer, who will give him occasional
ANTS and see that he keeps on the right track.
Most Of the textbooks abound in too many
rciinements and contractions. whereby few
scratches may be made to represent a whole
sentence, much to the delight of the novice
The only practical objection to this sort OF
shorthand is that such notes are found to
have dozen different meanings when cold"
and perhaps none of them the correct one
Shorthand is a compromise between speed
and legibility. The beginner is apt to pay
100 exclusive attention to the former and
should therefore be warned not to bother with
100 many contractions
The length of time it will take a lad to
leach himself shorthand depends, first, on tie
sort Of lad he is, and second, on the amount
II time ne can give to it. To master short
aand requires above all things patience and
iersey crane. \ lad stud, ing clone Will
generally have to stick to it hard for a couple
If years before he can make it pay. \ few
NY be able TO master it i'm half the time.
PEOPLE who advertise that they can teach
sEorthani thoroughly in three months should
not he believed.
The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-03-11
WIT AND WISDOM.

Memory of the past is the only
paradise out of which We can not be
driven.
Smiles are not only the most be-
coming of all adornments, but also the
least expensive.
All you can carry into the life here
after will be what you have given, not
what you have saved-Rh0de Island
Press.
-''Give an example of syllogism."
Local frcshman-All men are more or
less alike. am a man. therefore, am
more or less alike.-ChicagO Mail.
in my opinion" says citizen, ''t
the Government would stop running up
them there durned cold-wave flags, we d
soon have som" respectable winters. =
". I. Mail.
"A bright little girl of our acquaint-
ance asked us the following conundrum:
How many letters are there in post
mans bag?" We gave it up, and she
said there were three-b-a-g.-M l.
Telegram.
The most censorious are generally
the least judieiOus; who, having moth
ing to recommend themselves, will be
finding fault with others. No man
envics the merit of another who has
enough of his own.-Fule OF Life.
An Englishman in Madras has by
lucky accident made photograph of a
tiger i'll the act of Selling its prey. 1t
was only a partial success. however, as
he didn't have time to tell the beast to
"loCh pleasant. "-BoStOn Post.
Fate of the speller:-
If an and an and en- o and 8 u, with an Y ii
the end spell ''Su,'
And an and a y and an spell ST." pray what
is a speller to do?
Then if also an and IN and 2 and al d
spell eide"
There's nothing much left for speller TO do
but to 20 and commit SiouXeyesighed.
Chicago Ne'cS.
Even editors are sometimes I'M
reasonable. The editor of a Georgia
paper said in a recent issue of his paper:
..If the man who sold us five dozen
rotten eggs doesn't come in and make
them good we will teach him what the
penalty is for cheating and swindling."
Just as if any one could make that kind
of eggs good.-N Y. Tribane.
Young Van Tromplandt de Lafay-
cite Smith Jones, particularly Juvenile
dude, is a music-maniac, but tender
hearted and sOft-voiced little fellow.
'Wagnerr' he eXciaims: ''Divine Wag-
ner! What genius! His music makes
me weep" '.Boshr" says a bystarder.
"A kick well applied would have the
same effect on YOU