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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
Female NoYelists-

Miss Braddon's first great success was
LADY Audley's Secret published a few
months after East Lynne" which was the
first great success OF Mrs. Henry Wood, says
The Spectator Roughly speaking, the books
were coDtemporaneous. People read them
together, and, perhaps not unnaturelly,
placed their authors IN one class the general
tendency being, il we remainder rightly, 20
put Mrs Henry Wood somewhat above Miss
Braddon. The subsequent achievements Of
the two writers failed TO justify this compar-
ative estimate. As novel after novel came
from Mrs. Henry Woods pen, IL cannot be
said that her popularity with the ordinary
novel devourer, who simply wants a few
hours of imaginative excitement, showed
any signs Of dirninutiOn, and 70 him II was
matter Of Indifference whether the excite
plent were provided by Miss Braddon or Mrs.
Wood More careful readers, however, no
ticed that while the novels Of the former
were characterized by sustained fec1lndity of
invention IN the matter, and increasing grace
and finish IN the manner, those Of the latter
displayed a mOnooony Of structure which
spoke Of narrowness of inventive resource,
and which threw into prominence q certain
couoquial commences Of style that had at
first escaped observation. Mrs. Wood put all
and during her latter years she was living
in public favor not by her work, but On
Ter reputation. That reputation could never
have been won By The Story of Charles
Strange" The tale Is made up Of mysteries
which have no vital connection with each
other, which are exceedingly clumsy in con-
struction, and which, when they cease 70 be
mysteries. reveal themselves es mares nests.
The attempt TO interest ourselves IN the plot
being hopeless failure, We direct attention
to the style, and auluse ourselves by cullIng
such flowers Of speech as ''blushlng furl-
ousiY" and "a spell OF kisses" An unedu-
Gated servant speaks of his fellow servants
as ''retainers.7 q young lady is described rs
being .'enshrined" in a rectory; and with
regard TO a certain mysterious crime, we are
told that ''soEne people said felony, others
whispered forgery Mrs. Wood having
been apparently under the delusion that
felony is some special offense like murder or
arson, instead Of being the legal name for a
class Of crimes IN which forgery Is included.
IL would have been quite as sensible to write,
s'Some people said dishonesty, others whis-
uered pocket picking The redeeIning point
in Mrs, Henry Woods poorer work-of
which The Story Of Charles Strange pro
vides an average specimens the vivacjty
which Is inspired by SELF confidence and sue
cess. Mrs Wood believed IN herself, in her
plots, in her characters, and in her style; and
it is wonderful 70 what extent such belief on
the part OF an author viii comuel the belief
OF other people.-BOston Herald
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
4 Hint to Parents.

An essential inequality of the sexes is based
on the tendency to lengthen girIhood and
shorten boyhood- The boy is pressed for
ward into business five years earlier than he
used TO be fifty years ago, while the girl of
20 does not know as much of housekeeping as
the grl OF ID Of as long ago. In other words,
girls are ported and babied, while boys are
SET 20 work. The effect is not at all favorable
TO the desirable end Of producing happy
homes. There is a good deal involved in the
equalization OF the sexes that is not takec
into account in the oratorical discussions OF
the question. 1t is argued BY Fiske that a
heightened infancy is the basis of finer char
ecter and home instincts. However, even
infancy may be overdone, as precociousness
certainly may be-Herald Of Health.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
1hs President. Mrs.sys

The inaugural address Of the Great Rock
Island Route, the Chicago, Kansas x Ne
bTaska railway, is 10 announce that On
November 18TH solid vestibule trains viii
be run between Chicago and Denver, Colo
RADIO Springs and Pueblo without change.
making close con Gection AZ the above
points with ali trains for Salt Lake. Los
Angelo. san Francisco. Portland Oregon
and all points west. aud at Kansas City
and 81 Joseph eastward for Chicago, 81
Louis and ali points east, Dorth and south
These royal trains. consisting % Pullman
sleeping cars, restfnl reclining chair cars
and u.agnIficegtiy furnished day coaches.
were built expressly FOR this service by the
Pullman company and are without quss-
ton the handsotn-st ever turned ou- by
that famous establishment ne reclining
chair cars spoken OF are f7ee 20 al holders
OF nrst~cizss tickets, and courteous
attendant VIII Dc found with every car 20
care for the wants Of our patrons Ask
vour nearest ticket agent for ticket ria
The 6rea- Rock Island Route. or write
TO JOIN SE5AsTLAS.
General Ticket and Pass Agent. Topeka.
kaz dIJoDr
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
The Bride Eorvnt.

A good story is gradually leaking out in
Bath society circles at the expense of well
known Bath lady, who was recently married.
The ceremony occurred in a church, and the
bride, that she might not soil her slippers
nor catch cold drew on pair Of her fathers
white hose before leaving the house. Ar
irving at the church, in the excitement pecu-
liar 20 novices on such occasions, the bride
forgot about the socks in which her feet and
slippers were incased, and walked to the
front Of the church entirely obEvious OF her
forSetfulness. However, all went well until
the pair knalt at the chanceL Here it was
that the keen eyes OF the audience got in
their work-Lewiston (fe.) Gazette
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
Advice for Wives

Never retort sharp or angry word L is
the second word that makes the quarrel
Remember that you are married 70 a man,
rot to god: be prepared for imperfectious
Once IN s. while let your husband have the
last word it VIII crafty him and be no par
ticular loss 70 you
Be a companion TO your husband, IL be be q
wise man, and If he is lot, try TO make hira
oeco-ne ycw companion. Raise his sts1daT
co not let him lower yours
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13

The Frisco line are now running in their
morning and night trains free reclining
palace chair cars and Pullman palace
sleeping cars from Wichita to st. Louis,
without change. The Frisco is the only
line running two solid trains between
these points without change Of any class.
Morning train now leaves Wichita at 1910
a. N. and evening train at 1890 p. N. w.
ID. Murdoch, passenger and ticket agent.
122 North Main street. Union depot and
Douglas avenue station. 3I-tt
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Washing r1anaels snd Prints

Clever hoasskeepe-s. accustomed 70 wash
inS, often speak strongly IN favor Of hannsls
and prints bang washed ST the commence
meu- q the washing days proceedings; and
they find the plan convenient, osc2nse t1ey
ssy that colored things can De waShed IN the
same water IS haraels. and tbs water used
Ter rlasinx Eaans.s viii sexve Tor ''trsssn<
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
Daily eagle
WOMAN AND HOME.
A MOTHERS DUTY IN SELECTING 4
COLLEGE FOR HER SON.
Hiss Braddon and Mrs Henry wood-Seen
at Woman's RefugeThe Title Marry
ing Craze-How to Make a Christmas
Tree-Some Useful Hints

ing Craze-How to Make a Christmas
Tree-Some Useful Hints
An unwlse woman is that mother then,
who, for the sake of the name CT any college
or supposed superior facilities Of learning,
VIII let her boy go TO one where the faculty
take their ease, and clear their consciences by
ealing the boys men, and making them re-
eponsibbe only to themselves at the very time
when they most need guidance and command,
where drinking and card playing are the
fellow accomplishments Of Greek and
mathematics, or where the dangerous
neighborhood Of great and fashionable
hotels renders those banGuetS possible in
which the college youths make night
hideous with their college yells, as
the wine they drink goes to their weak
young heads, and they fling about the dishes,
word havoc, conduct themselves more like
young brutes than young men, and get home
TO their chambers in a state TO wiring the
heart OF any mother who has heart IN her
body. Something more than great advan-
tages Of education or Of association are 70 On
looked for beFe by careful mothers In al
most every case the education OF almost any
college viii De ample for al the purposes of
life, and the boy must be known 70 be strong
who shall De trusted II the temptations OK
such colleges as those Of which We speak
temptations which, once yielded 20, not only
ruin the soul, but the body too.
Too many a son who hnds himself before
middle age with body good for Little more,
nerves and organs and strength broken up,
has TO thank for IL, not his own weak or IN
virtUous inclinaoions, but mother who
neglected to keep him narrowly n the way
OF taking care Of himself, TO iufcrm herself
es to mis- companions and pleasures, who was
perhaps IN herself neither a standard nor a
beacon light for him, and who suffered him
TO aruuse himself with what turned out to be
a very dance Of death. Let the mothers Of
the men about 70 come forward and take ths
conduct Of the world in their hands look to It
that those men, so far at their hearts and
hands could do il. are sound IN soul and
body and TT for their work-Earper's Bazar.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13

covered with crunpIed tinfol have a good
effect and resemble frosted silver, or they can
be made Of holly, ans have rich, cord like
appearance. The leaves are strung with a
needle upon Irvine OF the proper length, pass
ing the needle through the center of each
leaf-Cor. Detroit Free Press.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-13
Manila Wrappers

This office is prepared to furnish MANILA
wrappers in sizes and quantities TO suit
purchasers, just as cheap as any house Ia
the United States Orders by mail prompt
" attended 20. Address
TIE WICHITA EAGLE,
SStf Wichita Kan
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The popz,a- LIE for CAl..cr22a, O-sxon.
Ts.tsnzto, territory and a. Pass ooass
u.cg-,rs = Ia E.<sOzrs P41@1c ~ set.
S<ss<<1 49,
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Scale books. coal tickets etc-, for sass 3.
his ofscs Orders ~ u.s4l EtE rso>v -
prornps at<ntson address TIE Wichit-
AGLE Wichita ks5- III
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RlaukCiu Lease

Our form OF lease on city property is the
most complete and perfect one yet gotten
up. 1t was prepared By an attorney who
authority OF such business. SIT
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Iox R-r-.

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and Co.o-ado Ssr1ng., and ~ g rocz=1 r ,
20 salt LAKE sa1 DsE.eu. va TIC G1sso1rT
Pseise raSlwsv. th- n@x short LIZ. Fsaii
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Free reclining chair cars are now running
on all trains on the C., h & y. R'y, Rock
Island Route" between Wichita, Topeka,
Kansas City. ST. Joseph. Chicago, St
Louis 9Et
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Unable to Collect.

Magistrate 20 Chinamanl-W Ia. Is your
eomplains against this young mani
Chins1nan unable 20 collect laundry bib
he TOO muchee by -and-bT.-Harpers Bazaar.
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Orders by mall promptly attended TO. AID
dress the Wichita EAGLE, Wichita, Kan
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Special To ATTORNEYS.

Attorneys pocket dockets for sale at this
office. Orders by mail promptly filed
Address all orders 10 the Wichita EAGLE,
Wichita, Kan dS3tf
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Recairf RnnlE

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Blank charters and al kinds ot lesa
blanks for sale b.
The WEcETTA EAsIg
Diff Wichita kansAx
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nr6 Ash And De sure AID axe LAKE
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tsruss arrive. =: lcZcx2I<- b. SD - II
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The Eagle pocket real estate book has
become universal fAvorlte among dealers
generally n the west 1T
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Take the Few saors line. e h & y
Rock Island route, 70 Kansas City, ~
Joseph. Ck;caxo asa St LogiA uAst
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BENTON'S HAIR GROWER

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al who co not VAT g be BALD. ali who are
troubled with DA&DRUFf. or ITCHING CT the
scalp, should use Beuton's Hair Grower. Eighty
per cent o. those using Il nave erJwR hair It
never fails to stop The hair from failing. Thr0ssh
sickness and fevers the hair sometimes fails OF in
short time and although the person may nave
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Grover according 10 directions y-u are sure OF 4
growth OF hair. hundreds OF cases we have pro
duced a good growth o. hair on those " 10 have
been bald and glazed for years We have fully sub
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We grow hair in every case; no matter how long
bald.
Unlike other preparations. it contains no sugar
Of cad, or vegetable. or mineral poiso1s-
II is a specific for falling haIr. dandruf, AMI
itching OF the scalp.
The Har Grower Is a hair food and Its compost
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The hair with its vitality
II your druggists have not cot it. viii send il
PREPAID on receipt OF price. 3l.5l sold By
HETTINGER BROS and
Is ALDRICH s BROWN. Wichitz. Kan
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DlREroas.

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The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
Making Buttons out of Blood.

The country is learning to utilize
waste. Making buttons of blood is in
this direction. There is a largo fact
ory in Bridgeport, near Chicago, EN-
ploying about 100 men, boys and girls,
in which waste animal blood is coM-
verified into buttons. The same firm
has another large factory elsewhere.
A man named Hirsch was tho first to
introduce tho business in this country
some years ago. He lost $4,000 the
first six months, but stuck to it, and
now he is immensely wealthy. There
are n number of similar factories in
England. From 5000 to 10000 gal
Ions of blood are used in tho Bridge
port factory every day. Nothing but
fresh beef blood is used.
Considerable of the blood evaporates
during the process of drying, but what
remains is pure albumen. Some of it
is light in color and some dark, ac-
cording to tho chemical treatment
given it. These thin sheets of dried
blood L then broken up, and are
ready to be worked into various
shapes and sizes. Large quantities of
the blood sheets are. used by cloth
manufacturers for "setting' the color
i'm calico goods. Not only are buttons
made from blood in this way, but tons
of earrings, breastpins, belt clasps,
combs and trinkets are made annually
there from blood. 1t is a queer, odor-
ferrous business, but IL paying ONE
From tile JcWchry NcWs.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
swallowed Her teeth.

"Nrs- swallowed hst plate.
right swsye.
cry" was the answer DR.. Charles Bliss
gave tho servant who made this an
nounccment to him . few days ago.
tits a plate with her teeth ON 1t"
was the reply.
Tho doctor hurried to the address
given. near Central park, and found
tho family physician trying to dislodge
the obstruction. The plate was In the
shape Of q horseshoe. will one tooth
at each end and gold clasps beyond
them for surrounding the two adjoin-
ing natural teeth.
The patient, who was a lady weigh
ing over 300 pounds, was almost suffo-
catel-scarcely able to gasp fot' breath.
DIR. Bliss tried to pull the plate up.
but the clasps had caught in the tiss-
ues and he succeeded only in Pulling
off one of the teeth: In 4 few NOM
ents tho patient stopped breathing en-
tirely: Something had TO be done in-
stantly or she would die. They were
without surgical instruments.
DIR. Bliss pulled out apenknifc and cut
a slit in the lady's throat through which
he could feel the plate. She breathed
once. This was encouraging. He
dashed to tho corner of the room, tore
a rib from AN umbrella standing there,
wrapped his handkerchief around the
end, land by main force pushed the
plate down into the patients stomach.
Then lie scwcd up the cash in the
throat, and left strict orders to keep
her perfectly quiet all night, and for
babe her any food or drink Of pny
kind, vcn water. before he arrived
the next day. The patients throat
was, of course, inflamcd, but the
doctors orders were obeyed, although
her thirst was intense. Next morning
early she bribed one of the servants to
get her a quart of icc-crcam and ate
every bit Of it.
When the doctors called, soon after.
DR.. Bliss merely remarked that he
chopped she would keep cool. ordered
two OUNCES of castor oil and q bowl of
oatmeal Cruel. and left her chatting
mcrrily with her relatives, who would
have been preparing her for the grave
had it not been for tho common sense
and skill of DR.. Bliss.-New York
Herald, ..
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
him dead on the door with . bullet In hi,

him dead on the floor with . bullet In hts
brain.
Billings claimed that the dead man had
shot himself. A month presious,to this Bill.
lings had had the young man arrested, the
warrant charging him with seduction, It being
sworn to by a girl in poor circumstances. She
afterward confessed that the charge was not
true and that Billings had induced her to
swear to the warrant. From testimony adj
duccd at the inquest of Kingsley 1t developed
that Billings had set about effecting the ruin
OF Kingsley in the most systematic manner.
He had forged his own wifc's name to notes
directed to the lawyer, the contents of the
notes being full of loving terms and asking
Kingsley to meet her at her own house while
Billings was away. Kingsley replied In good
faith declining to make the assignatlon and
warning the supposed female writer to desist
from ler course. OF course the reply fell into
the hands OF Billings. Later, he even went
so far as 10 prepare notes of hand, 1t has been
found out, conveying oil OF Kingslcy's prop
crty TO himself. II Is believed that on the day
of the shooting Billings went to Kingsley's
office to try by blackmail to get him to put his
signature to the notes. The evidence as to
the blackmail and forgcries was direct, but
there was no witness to the shooting and that
part will have to be proven by circumstantlal
evidence.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
Baby Elcphants.

How the young elephants, in the large
herds, escape from being crushed, is
something of a mystery, rs they are
almost continually in motion; but when
a herd is alarmed, the young almost
Immediately disappear. A close OBJ
server would see that each baby was
trotting along directly beneath its
legs.
On the march, when a little eleph-
ant is born in u herd, they stop a day
or two to allow it time to exercise its
little limbs and gain strength, and
then they press on, the mothers and>
babies in front, the old tuskers follow
ing in the rear, but ready to rush for
ward at the first alarm. When rocky
or billy places are reached, tho little
ones arc helped up by the mothers,
push them from behind and in various
ways; but when a river has to be ford
cd or swum, q comical sight cnsues.
Tho stream may be very rapid and
rough, as the Indian rivers often ars
after a rain. and at such a place the
babies would hardly be able to keep
up with the rest; so tho mothers and
fathers help them. At first all plunge
boldly in-both young and oli-and
when the old elephants reach deep
water, where they have to swim. the
young scramble upon their backs and
sit astridc, sometimes two being seer
in this position. But the very young
elephants often require a little moro
care and attention, SO they are held
either upon tho tusks of tho father or
graspcd in the trunk of tho mother.
Such u sight is a curious one, to say
the least-the great elephants almost
hidden beneath tho water, here and
there q young n seemingly walking
on the water, resting upon q submerg-
ed back, or held aloft whilc the dark
waters roar below.-C r. Holder, in
st. Nicholas.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
BILLINGS is
30 Says the coroner's Jury in the
Kingsley Case.

WAvERI.Y. Ia. Jan. 2-Thc coroncr's jury
has brought in a verdict against Edward Bill
lings of murder in the first degree for shoot
ing w. S. Kingsley.
The case is one Of the most sensational and
has more peculiar features in it than any
which was ever developed before in the state
of Iowa. Billings is a man of forty-livc years
of age, was a respected lawyer of the own of
Wavcrly. His wife was a woman of fine fig
urc and with many charms Of feature and
manners, hut n good deal younger than her
husband. viii Kingsley was but twenty-five
years of age. but brilliant to II degree, a law
graduate and SO well read and popular that he
was easily successful in being elected county
attorney. Tho two men Mt one time had an
Office together and business relations. One
day, two weeks ago Billings called at Kings
ley's office. Suddenly passers by on the
street were startled by pistol shots and BIZ
iings came Running down the stairs crying out
that Kingsley had shot him. Citizens ran up
stairs and on entering Kingsley's Office found
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-01-13
wasllington's Bedchamber.

In q recent number of The Centuyu
there appeared two articles OH THE
Home and tho Haunts of Washing
tom and '.Mount Vernon As 1t Is"
From them VIC quote the following:
1.-The interest of the whole house cen
tors in the room where Washington
dicd,-.Thc gen'ars room the room /
likes dc bes' in de house, as the scrvi-
tor called it. in q tone of genuine and
rcvcrcnt affection. just where the
great man lay a-dying lightweight
years ago, the bed now stands, and
beside it the light stand on which are
the rings left by his medicine-glasscs,
unchanged since that day. The Sec
rotary at which he wrote, the hair.
covered trunk in which he carried his
possessions, the surveyors tripod he
had used, the cloak he threw about
his shoulders when he went over the
farm, tho leather chair in which lie
sat, the covering cut away by vandal
hands, Il all there. There was some-
thing, in spite of these. few discordant
notes, that seemed peculiar to that
room. l could not feel that thousands
of eyes had looked upon it with idle
SoAAOSAtys ouo 40 tAOusu ~ lluO UCCll
kept sacred all these years, and was
yet redolcnt of the memories which
have set it apart forever.
MANY wonders said our guide, .why
Mrs. Wash'n'ton died up in dc attic,
and not in de gcn'al's room. 1t was de
custom in tie family to shut up u room
for two years after q death had hap
pcncd in it, an dis room was shut up.
Mrs. Wash'n'ton went up in dc attic an
derc she staid for eighteen NUNS till
she died dcrc. She never had no fire
in de winter, an i'll dc summer it was
very hot,-but deere she staid wifi only
The cornef cut off from thslower
part of TIE door he showed us was for
the cas- egress and ingress of this ia
miliar friend. The attic room is pretty
and misunderstanding. but has in It
now only II piece Of furniture used
by Mrs Westinghouse little three
eornered wasl;stand."