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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

County Treasurer George w. Walter
says Mrs. Walter writes him from salt
Lake that she is gradually improving in
health
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

The Stewart Bros. foundry building on
South Washington avenue will be COM
pleted in few days and in short time
the plant will be moved TO the new quart.
erS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

A scheme is on foot among the Republi-
can and Democratic leaders to cause the
Republican and Democratic conventions
TO meet in this city this year.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

A new team of horses, two handsome
blacks, has been purchased for the use of
No. , with the new hook and ladder wagon.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Yesterday afternoon quite runaway
occurred on East Douglas avenue. Fortu-
pateiy no one was injured, but buggy
was completely wrecked
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

The Sunsovsr ruehre cs.sb nis. with
Mss Matte Fabrigus No5tay evening and
were treated % good evenings amGse-
ment. also TO al elegant lunrh, which Mss
Fabriaue knoss well how 10 serve. TIE
whole membership we're IA attendance.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Workmen were yesterday arranging and
completing the interiors of the store rooms
OF the Sedgwick block. The boilers and
heating apparatus will soon be in position.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

The grocery clerks are making all effort
to have the groceries closed at o'clock
until the summer
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

The home of r. i. Green on North
Mead has been gladdened by the arrival of
bright baby girl.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08
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THEJsAUHI-. IA. IT = -
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GeEtsensas--xs have sssn one 81 y,sY
Mortgage Loan he3tssxss NJ sbe oh1s 81
tue phiisstsipsia AsrsSsss sad Trss. Co,
s~nd ss.is company ons sisna.As "a az -
sgerss 81 your sagssm6 can ssnseaee. ssss 30
raain kr-ct!sIiy your.
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Free reclining chair cars are Cow Yxnaias
on ali trains on tie C., X X ". railway
Rock Isiand kcuts." hS.vssn. Wtcbisl
Topeka. Kansas City. St Josspe. Ch,cs4p
St Louis. 81
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Councilman Burkridge will commence
work today on two residences On <her-
wood ayenue near Fifth street he re-
ports more calls for buildings than se ).
supply and :ais state Of SEAirs caused
him 20 decide 10 srse, two more.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

w. C.. Perry, u. S. district attorney,
was in the city yesterday attending to
matters before the u. $ commissioners.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Yesterday workmen were. engaged in
putting up the lower cornice on the opera
house.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08
c. j.. MARTIN, Recorder.

Regular monthly meeting OF the Wich-
tia Boad Club tonight at the county au-
ditor's office at 13G sharp.
MURRAY MYERS, Pres.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

This is the season for pruning the grape
vines. The prospect for an abundant crop
is said to be good
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

The Ladies Aid Society Of the Plymouth
Congregational will meet al the church,
corner of Second street and Lawrence ave
nue. today at p. m.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Mrs. j. r. Mead entertained few of her
friends at the family residence last eve-
ming
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Who will Be frst 70 engage IN poultry
raising in Sedgwsck coan.yf The s'ory
come. thst couple Of lsAses in barton
county are doing lucrative business u
ths. lire There's money in dr-.-~d
chickens al ,sirty-6Ve cents each" says =
chicken eater.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

X. " Black, Of Greescas.l-. Ind, j.
making a long eopssmplas~; ~is's 70
Wichita lie IL familiar wsfa me sscsy u
our busted boom but nys sSess are
many places east OF tho Mfs.ss~sppi river
which would Lac 10 re busted IN sifaaiaz
manner. He ihtnks Ne are dssssaed 10
kaye great city.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Prine ness nlaex~rel 81 Dorsey x Run.
sey's, rs North Main stree, Asrsn's cid
stand. 1s1-At
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

NJ. s. HOCGLAND, Soy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Mrs. A. McCLANE, ssc'y.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

o. 2. HOOP, Secretary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

Mr.. w. il. Wilson, of New York, an ex-
tensive property holder in this city and
county. arrived in Wichita Monday morn
ing and is the guest of DR.. Series, 230 North
Main
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-02-08

II. G. TICKER,
4. B. TlcsLEE, Committee.
j. +. LAW,
T. T. WATSON. A g.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

split into pieces about the size IT large
stove wood and then passed. down to
. lower floor, placed in boxes connect
ed with hollow cylinders revolving
with wonderful velocity, and by a me-
chanical process, not visible to the
eye, ground into impalpable wood-Aour
or dust. This falls into tanks of water
beneath the cylinders. when it is
pumped back to the upper floor and
into shallow watts, where, after being
strained and manipulated through a
series of rollers. it passes out and is
delivered in large sheets upon broad
incline shelf. where an operator stands
ready to receive it. The sheets are
about one-e;ghth of an inch thick, and
about as long and wide as large-sized
daily paper opened wide. This mate
rial, called pulp. is quite tough and of
a creamy color. The operator on re-
ceiving a sheet folds it up number of
times. These folds are then piled into
bales and corded tightly and are then
ready for shipment. to WasA-
tngton Star.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18

And this preponderance Of widows
| refutes the impression commonly he'd
and expressly suggested by the med
ical writer above quoted-that this sur
plus consists largely of those 'who are
in the industrial ranks because no man
hath married them" In the case OF
the widows, at least, they are in the In
dustrial ranks because some man ha1n
married them, but has not had the
strength or the continued life to support
them. Nay, farther, they are there De-
cause the fact of matrimony has encum-
bered them with others to be supported.
If every woman could go through lie
with only the responsibility OF support
ing herself, even with mother and
sister or two thrown in. she would be
guaranteed comparatively easy time
of it; but it is this necessity OF beng
both father and mother to group OF
small children that wears most upon
her. OF the surplus of widows over WI
bowers, as reported in Massachusetts,. 1t
is safe to say that more than third
twenty thousand at least-have offspring
dependent upon them. Their actual
position refutes utterly the theory whlcn
used to be so prevalent. that it Is not
needful to train woman for self-support,
but that we should train the men to take
care of the women. No doubt the hus-
bands OF this vast army of widows would
have done this had fate permitted but
the question is, who is to do it now
So long as these women do the duty
thus thrown upon them, they may be
''surplus women" but they are as far
as possible from useless. And indeed,
when we look at any community that is
close around us, it is hard to find really
superhuous women anywhere. How
ever it may be in other cOuntries-as in
England, where multitudes of families
live on some small investment. and
make us wonder how they employ them
selves-here everybody seems busy.
and there are barely enough unoccupied
women to fill the temporary vacancies
and act as a reserve force in case of
need. As we look around, it is difficult
to find any woman idle; the ranks are
full, aud no one is standing out. Even
those who are resolutely indolent, or
have thrown away their opportunities.
are oftener men than women, and for
those willing to work there are con-
stantly arising such new occasions as
to leave hardly any do-nothing class
Tested by what we see in any special
community where We make Observa-
ton, it can safely be said of the women
who seem to be in excess that they are
surplus only, not superfluous.-Harper's
RUznr
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
FACTS ABOUT EGGS.
Curious Information from Many Land
and Remote Ages.

Curious Information from Many Lands
and Remote Ages.
All the world and his cosmopolitan
wife and family like new-laid eggs.
Nor do we depreciate their taste; on
the contrary, we share it. The relish
of eggs is honorable, and to prefer
them fresh evirces a deep apprecia-
ton of the "fitness of things" Ira
dition rlnneth not back to the time
when eggs. in this condition. were of
evil repute, although the use of the
stale variety as a missile has never
been popular with the recipients.
Probably the antediluvians were fond
of eggs, for We are given to under
stand that they feasted high; and
what would banquet be without 1.-The
fruit of the HEMP"
That the Egyptians were fond Of
eggs is beyond peradventure. for one
of our psychologists brought home
with him from Egypt some dozens.
which had been at least three thou
sand years in the catacombs, having
been placed there for the accommodation
of the mummies in case they should
wake up and feel peckish. These
eggs, cackled over by the hens that
hourished in the time of the early
Pharaohs-laid, probably, before the
children of Israel made :heir exodus
by way of the Red Sea-we have seen.
and many of them are as perfect ex-
ternally as if they had been bought in
market yesterday; but although Egyp-
tan wheat of the same date is said to
have terminated and reproduced it.
self, we are not aware that any of the
eggs of that ilk have been set upon
and Matched.
The Chinese are the greatest egg
eaters in the world. They raise more
| poultry than all the other nations Of
the earth taken together. and have .
way of keeping eggs for forty years or
more in q sound condition. The
older the eggs the more valuable they
are; and it is a trick of the Chinese
grocer to ring in fresh eggs on his
customers whenever he can get q
chance to cheat them in that way
| N T. Ledger.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

I'm point Of population the sexes
are about equal in the United States,
but in church membership twO-thirds
are females. and of 60. 900 penitentiary
, inmates 5000 are men.
There is no higher work that q
Christian man or woman can do in this
world than to help to establish q
Christian school. Emphasis to be put
on the word Christian. DID,
! uocdte.
The United Presbyterian church
reports for 1888, 753 ministers. an in
crease of Z: 907 churches. a gain Of
p; and 9S.992 members. against 94.641
last year. The benevolent contrib,-
tons aggregate Sl.Ol9.937. showing q
handsome increase.
The Old South Church. of Boston,
has the following words over its porch:
Behold: | have set before you an
open door" The building. however,
has lately been used as post-otfice,
and on the door. just below the above
inscription. are the words: NO admit
lance"
The number of pupils enrolled in
the public schools of this country is
l1.456, 799. The average daily attend
ance is 7,2!9,29t. The salaries of the
teachers aggregate the sum of s67.-
5OS,O37 annually. Our public school
system costs the Nation Sill. 279.93O
annually.
The Christian Adrocatc says that
''when a camp-meeting association hy
vote deliberately holds over two Sab
baths for the sake of the Sunday rev.
enue derived from gate-iees and per-
centage on railway-passenger fares. it
performs an act which allies it with
misunderstanding elements now de-
stroying the American Sunday"
Rev. Antonio Alright says Of
the Italian immigrants now so numer-
Gus in our country: Take the crust
of superstition from the minds Of these
people, educate them. give them q
chance to develop their dormant fac
ulties, teach them the blessed truths
of the Bible, pray that they may be
brought to knowledge Of our holy
Christianity. and they will be an honor
to this or any nation"
! "A lesson-paper is poor substi-
tute for the Bible in Sunday-school
class; yet there are many Sunday
schools where the lesson for the day is
read by both teachers aud scholars
t from the lesson-paper. instead of from
the Bible. in the opening exercises Of
the school. Bibles were never used IN
the Sunday-school as generally as they
are to-day; but they ought to be used
even more generally than ut present
! IS. S. Times
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
FOR CONSERVATIVES.


Attitudes May Be Recommended.
Prof. knight, of the Harvard Medi-
cal School, read a paper, not long ago.
before the Boston Society for Medical
Observation, on the choice OF climate
for consumptive persons. Some OF
the ideas advanced may be of value in
families in which this paper is read.
Patients who have cavities in their
lungs, and those who have severe hec-
tic symptoms, especially if they are
DOOR, should not leave home; nor
should those who have any acute affec-
ton of the lungs do so. during the
acute stage of the disease. If, in the
early stages of consumption. complete
cure can be hoped for, a climate is to
be chosen in which the patient can re-
main throughout the year. If, on the
other hand, nothing more than tenn
porary relief, and some prolongation
Of life can be expected, a mild winter
climate is recommended. While con-
sumption presents variety of phases
and conditions, making it impossible
to lay down fixed and invariable rules,
it may be said that in general the first
object aimed at by change of climate
is to enable the patient to live an &C
tive out door life, for the purpose of
assisting nutrition of the lungs, and
this is best attained in situations at an
altitude of four thousand to eight
thousand feet above the sea level
Dry and pure air, a good proportion
of clear days, and rarefied atmos-
phere which compels greater activity
of the respiratory organs, make q
mountainous country the best for this
purpose. Those for whom high alti-
tudes may be recommended are:
a. Patients who show no more
alarming symptoms than a morning
cough and expectoration. For them
Colorado and New Mexico are suited;
(2.) Those who have some CONSOLE
dations of the lungs, but no cavity.
nor any more serious constitutional
disturbances. For persons who ex-
hibit such disturbances high pulse
and temperature "a lower altitude
should be tried first; say the pure
regions of Southern Georgia for the
cold months, and then if there is inn
provement, more elevated region;
(3.) Cases in which there is early
and frequent hemorrhage without
much other evidence of disease. The
mountains are peculiarly suited to per-
sons of this class; and,
a. Persons who are recovering
from acute diseases of the lungs. But
in these cases great care should be exc
ercised, lest the steps taken to ward
off permanent pulmonary disease have
an evil effect upon other organs weak
ened by sickness.
Patients in whom tubercular disease
has invaded the larynx should on no
account be sent to high attitudes. They
need mild and moist climate, like that
of Southern California. Moreover,
those who have tendency to irrita-
bility of the bronchial tubes, and
nervous persons, do not do well in
high attitudes. A very high altitude
should not, as rule, be recommended
for any patient over fifty years OF age.
YOUTHS Companion.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
How Wood-Pulp Is Produced.

The process Of producing wood-pulp
is simple and interesting. Logs, chiefly
Of poplar and fir, about six feet in
length and from twelve to fifteen
inches in diameter. are hoated from q
reservoir above the mill to self-feed-
ing endless chain, which catches up
and carries them to an upper Aoor.
where they are received by . gang Of
hands. subjected to . circular cav. and
cut into lengths Of eighteen inches.
Another gang then places them II .
barking machine. which deans the
bark OF thoroughly. They axo thsa
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
ADUlTERATED BREAD.
A Few Comments on the Use of Alum by
Professional Bakers.

A Few Comments on the Use Of Alum by
Professional Bakers.
Considerable eXaggeratiOn. has been
perpetrated in reference to the adulter-
alton of bread with alum. The guam
tity actually used is very small, and
the question whether the term adulter-
alton is fairly applicable to SUCH addi-
ton is a debatable one. From the
bakers point of view it is not an
adulteratiOn but an Improvement. He
is fairly justified in maintaining that
if the alum which he adds Is an
adulteratiOn, so also is the salt and the
baking powder which are added to
hOme-baked bread. According to Tom
linson the proportion of alum COM
monty used is but ounces to a sack of
flour, weighing $50 pounds. AS one
sack of flour is-with water-made
into 80 fOur-pound loaves, the guam
tity of alum to each pound Of bread is
but 1-16O of an ounce, or j.. $50 part.
Oddly enough in this case the baker
suppOses himself to be more guilty
than he really is. He purchases what
is called ''stuff." or rocky in
packets. supposing it to be ground
alum. Tomlinson finds that it con-
sists of three parts of common salt to
one Of alum. Half a pound of this is
added to sack of flour. The mode OF
action of this minute quantity of alum
is chemical cOnundrum not yet an
swered. but it actually does improve
the appearance of the bread. Batch
bread made of ordinary flour without
alum has lumpy fracture when the
leaves are pulled apart, or the bread
otherwise broken; the alum renders
the fracture more silky. l have re-
Gently observed that the batch, or
household. loaves commonly sold in
Edinburgh show a more silky and in
fat fracture than London loaves, and
attribute this to the use of more alum.
1t may be that the Scotch bakers pre-
pare their own rocky" emitting the
common salt. In Belgium and North
ern France sulphate of copper is
added to improve the appearance of
bread; 1-1.5OO to $4,000 part has
perceptible effect It is said that the
base of this and of alum combines
with the gluten and renders it in
soluble. but this theory does not exc
plain the mystery of the efficacy of so
small quantity. Pure flour contains
alumina. Mr.. A. H. Allen, comparing
the results of his own analysis with
those of other chemists, estimates the
average quantity of natural alumina to
correspond to about s grains of alum
in the four-pound loaf, which nearly
corresponds to Tomlins0n's allowance
for the baker.-W Mattieu Williams,
in Gentlenean's Magazine.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
AFRICAN TELEPHONES.

How the Natives of the CamerOons Dis.
trict Communicate with Each Other.
A part of Reclus' map showing the
tribes who live in the CAMERON dis
trict, West Africa, is shaded to show
exactly what portion of the country is
the home of the four or five little tribes
who have perfected an ingenious and
practical telephone system that dis
tinguishes them from all the other ma
tives of Africa. Everywhere among
the blacks of Africa the big drum or
tam-tam is used in war and on festive
occasions. but it is only these Came
room natives who have discovered how
useful the tam-tam may be made as q
rapid prOmulgator of news over noun
tian and plain.
OF course, the news is telephoned by
drumming on the tam-tam, but the
sounds produced are not signals. They
represent syllables and words, and so
grow into sentences like the ticks of a
telegraph instrument. 1t is very in
genious invention, and deserves to
rank with any of our own devices for
the rapid transmission of news that
were in vogue before the electric tele-
graph superseded them. The force
and rapidity with which the instru-
ment is beaten are elements in the in
depreciation of the idea to be ex-
pressed, and syllables and words are
also formed by combinations of strokes.
something like the Morse alphabet. 1t
is complicated system. and speaks
highly for the intelligence of the peO-
pie who devised it.
The system is secret that is con-
fided to only about two hundred of the
natives. Though five or six of the
white residents and explorers in that
region have told all they know about
the tam-tam telephone, its language is
as yet wholly unintelligible to them. az
the secret is carefully guarded. Only
a few women have been instructed in
the art, and no slave is permitted to
acquire it.
It is the duty of every operator to be
ready, if need be. when he hears the
tam-tam to repeat the message, which
is taken up in turn by operators fur
Their inland. In this way any news
may be communicated for distance of
forty Or fifty miles in few hours.
Thus the chiefs correspond with one
another, and no important news hap
pens that is not promptly telephoned
all over the district. When ship ar
rives at the mouth of the CAMERON
river the tam-tam may be heard beat
ing far up the side of the neighboring
mountains. and tho news is repeated
from drummer to drummer until it
reaches the furthest confines of the dis
trict. If white party proposes to
visit some chief in the interior the
tara-tam carries the news to him that
white visitors are coming almost be-
fore they have started on their jour-
ney. Thus our benighted African
brother has taught himself a way to
annihilate space and to transmit his
thoughts on the wings of the wind
N. y. Sun.
Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-10-18
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
A STRIKE.

Once upon An evening dreary,
AS I Wondered sad and weary,
Der the basket with the mending from tn
wash the day before;
As I thought OF countless stitches
To be placed in little breeches,
Rose my heart rebellious IN me. as II OIL nat
done before,
At the fate that did condemn me, wnen my
daily task was Ger,
To that basket eyermore.
John with not sign or motion,
Sat and read the Yankee Notion.
With no thought of the commotIon
Which within me ranked sore.
He" thought L when day is endeo'
Has no stockings to be mended,
Has no babies 10 be tended.
He can sit and read and snore.
He can sit and read and rest him;
Must ! work thus evermore:
And my heart rebelliOus answered.
'NeverMOre no. nevermore.
For though arr but woman,
Every nerve within is human,
Aching throbbing. overworked,
Mind and body sick and sore,
Twill strike. When day is ended,
Though the stockings are not nended,
Though my course can't be defended,
Safe behind the closet door
Goes the basket with the mending. and III
haunted be no more.
In the daylight shall be crowded all the Work
that will do;
When the evening lamps are lighted, WI
read the papers, too. ->esects".