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Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
National Habits Of Expectoration.

The streets of Paris are pure delight
to me for many reasons, but chiefly be-
cause they are so clean. Why cannot our
streets at home, the streets of Pittsburg,
New York, Philadelphia and Boston, be
clean, too! Certainly there is enough
money spent on them to insure It. But so
long as enc thing is permitted in ouI
American thoroughfarcs. which is punish
able with arrest and fine here, Just so long
will our avenues and cross streets, our
pavements. aye. even our train cars and
ferrybosts, be disgusting and dirty, un.
seeInly and constant reproach. l allude
TO the national habit of expecto7tion. the
national disgrace, for it Is to my mind
nothing less Were to see man, whom
l had previously adored, induiging in this
habit in my presence in street. piazza,
house or car. should-noe adore him any
longer, that is all; and here it is followed
promptly by arrest. so consequently the
streets are (other means being not only
paid for but used), the streets Of Paris are
what ours are motif 10 walk in.-"Nisa
Asri.old' in Pittsburg Bulletin.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
How Cards Arc Marked.

Glow do you mark a card?" said Q
Graphic man to Charley Mosster as he
stood on Fourteenth street and Sixth ave-
nue. last night watching the world as it
passed.
Easy enough" was his answer eve
do it in the same way that the blind man
reads-by the sense of feeling. Before
we can read these cards they must be put
in shape. This is done with ring which
IS worn on the most convenient finger.
On the inside Of the ring-I mean the
part under the finger-is a little steel
spur, not sharp enough to penetrate the
cards and make hole, whics. would be
detected. but slight indentation, re-
sembling q pimple, on the back of the
card, but so small that with close obser-
vation it would not be noticed.
''ThiS we cannot see, but we can feel
II, and the location is the cipher to the
have to see and handle the cards before we
they can be marked but as we can handle
from five to ten cards each deal, it does
not take long to have all the important
cards punctured. Reading cards marked
IN this way is easy to me. Ihave one sys-
TEN as to the location Of marks, and it Is
just as simple as telling the same by the
location of the hands of a clock in the
absence of the regular dial figures. Sharp
players make their punctures so slight
that they cannot be detected by the ordi-
nary sense of feeling.
The reading is then done with the ball
of the thumb from which the outer cuticie
has been removed by acid. The mother
SKIN is very tender. and readily responds
when it comes in contact with the mark
Greeks of this class can be detected by
watching the thumb of the right hand in
dealing. If it has sliding motion up and
down the cards then you can bet two to
one that the dealer has got book for the
blind TO read. New York Graphic.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
THE eEpoulN's PRAYER, :

Allah oeg not that thou slay
Ny foe: that thine eye shall keep
My sword untarnished while sleep
Allah! And WI find the way
To pierce such dog, such Christian slava
And send him to Mahomet's throne
Unframed; where dark eyed hours frown
On any but the warlike braveI
Allah ask not that thy power
Shall spare me from the doom Of death,
A thing light overnight ta'en b breath.
ask not one extended hour
To draw the vapor, such as steals,
And gives the palm mute cares;
But, Allah, out Of nothiugness :,
Lift thou noe when tho hot brain reels
TO meet my death as Bedouin should,
At point OF lance, meath starry skies
To meet the glance Of tender eyes,
Still mottled with tho battle blood
To make from out cold lethargy,
Thrilled to the soul by her soft kiss,
Whose liquid fire shall wake by bliss
Through all unspaced eternity!
Martini Eileen Holahan.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
-sss.SsNNlLlas
.aIl1y Eagle
THE WORLD.

A playground-oft with clouded skies
That DER the rosebuds weep.
Where little troubles take the weight
OF sorrowS far more deep;
Where loved toys break in tiny hands
Sad symbols of the time
When hope shall cheat and joys depart
In LIES swift passing prime.
4 battlefield where forces meet
And unseen hosts contepd,
With truces all SO short, they seem
With the wild strife to blend;
Strife that leaves none of us mscathed.
Where'er the mastery be;
But who. till the Great Day, can tell
With whom Is victory
A graveyard, where on every side
Pale monuments arise,
To show how brief is human life,
How vain is all we prize
a graveyard filed by memory,
Where pbantoms lightly tread,
But each one points with finger raised
To blue skies overhead
Camilla Cyosland in Chambers Journal.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10

A puppy bounding from lap 70 lap to caress
all the members Of household comes pretty
near being purppetryou-an motion.-Bing-
hamton Republican.
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
sunned BY che Rlizzara.

A singular effec. Of gale Of lee and
snow In the northwest during cold wave
las. winter was 70 freeze tie eyes SHIT
sid then form en- ice mask over the face.
The wind would drive The fine, hard SLOW
into the eyes, causing them to water.
The snow would mix with the water, be-
tween the eyelids, and the cold Wind
would q. once bind the lids together BY
an ice band The repeated removal Of
this would infane the eyeballs so sha. 0
film would form. obscuHng the sight.
After this filn formed. the presence Of
the ice was q relief to the Inflammation.
The eyes would sooa be frozen SO close
that nothing but steady artificial best
would relieve theu.-B9ston Buden
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
Queer Habits In tho E2St,

A man who has Travelled a good deal
said to reporter the other day:
con ordering cigars at the club last
evening a card was handed me for my
signature. My explanation that to pay
cash would be preferable was accepted.
My friend, after lighting his cigar, said:
You would never get on in the east if
you object to signing chits.' Inquiry led
me to know that the word chit was the
common-possibly the pigeon English
word for 'check'-L o. U. or promise 70
pay-generally. My friend added that no
one thing in the eastern civilization was
so much remarked by the griffin than this
same chit system. Seeing from my dazed
expression that the word griffin conveyed
no idea, my friend introduced his remarks
on chits by saying that griffin in tho
east was the 'tenderfoot' our western cow
boy so much delights in chatting.
The chit | was given to understand,
was the natural protest in countries
where no money save silver dollars ex-
listed. Ono naturally could not carry
many Of them with comfort, and hence
the habit Of signing ones name with
amount of bill whenever a purchase was
made. By custom this habit became so
extensively-so generally-used that to-
day you sign the chit for anything and
everything-for glass of beer. turnout
for the day or an extensive purchase Of
curios. By this time our cigars were fin.
ished and we had to separate, not, how
ever before was assured that my friend,
who had spent some time in the east, had
plenty of odd experiences to tell Of and
plenty of queer customs to describe. -
New York Telegram.
A puppy bounding from lap 70 lap to caress
Wichita eagle., 1888-08-10
LONDON I1mes' Proor Reading.

The art Of proof reading, which exists
In q very crude state IL this country, has
been brought to high degree of perfec-
ton BY The London Times Five years
ago Lord Winchelsea made bet that he
would find thirty misprints in six num-
bers OF The Times. The stakes were
$500 and $50 additional for every blunder
additional, more or less Six numbers
were taken at random, and three mis-
prints were discovered Lord Winchelsea
lost nearly $2,0o0.-New Orleans Times.
Democrat
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wkss ! ralssD m AN INSTANT.
The Terrible Blow that Fell Upon a Cincin
natl Boobkeeper.

AhO ASIr4OAS blow Inat 4 ell Upon n C1ncIn-
natl Bool1keeper.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
A catastrophe such as few men have the
stoicsm to bear aud few survive, has come like o
thunderclap upon Charles Cullman of 80 Browne
street. Last Saturday night, while auditing the
books OF the Bellevue Building association at their
rooms on McKtnen avenue, he turned suddenly to
one of the bystandels and angrily exclaimed:
"Why do you turn out the gas? Pm not through
yet"
Turn out the gas! What's the matter with you !?
The gas is burning"
'My God, then I'm blindw cried Cullman and
sinking back in his chair from which he had arisen
in his excitement he buried his face in his hands
and moaned and wept like child
DR.. Schwartmeyer, his regular physician, was
hastily sent for, and only arrived to confirm the
worst fears.
Cullman was indeed blind.
Without premonitory sign, without warning,
the blow had come and as he sat there bemeaning
his sad fate, eyes grew dim. Friends took him by
the hand and trembled with emotion as they tried
to speak words of hope and comfort. The stricken
man only moaned, 'My wife My little onesp"
diagnosis followed and it was discovered that
Cullman had for some time been sufferer from
Brights disease OF the kidneys. The exudations
of the albumen from these organs caused urfemic
blood poisoning. which gradually pervaded the
whole system of the sufferer Step by step the dis.
ease spread, and contraction of the kidneys fol
lowed, resulting in inflammation of the retna or
optic nerve hopelessy destroying the sight forever
rare death generally ensuing before such crisis
arrives.
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amen. Then came bountful multitudinous
repast, and after reasonable rest the after
noon was devoted to fun and frolic, and the
night to an open air platform dance, at which
the yankee girls paired with the Georgia boys
and the Georgia girls with the yankee boys,
and they are mixing up splendid, and befofe
anybody knows it will be mating and harmo-
nizing the sections.
TallapCosa is emphatically a yankee town.
and the New York Herald nor any other Her.
aid can't smother it nor stop its progress. The
people keep on coming and buying and build
ing. The air and the water and the climate
are delightful, and these are enough TO charm
the northern people who are blizzard sick and
long for more temperate region They are
not only content with their new home but are
delighted, and every man who comes and To-
Gates invites back and brings some of his more
timid nabors. Here is a thriving population
OF 5000 people living in brand new town that
year ago had only COO souls. These peonle
have come from the extreme north, from
Maine to Minnesota, and all of them have
some means, and are putting their money
in some enterprise. A large plant of glass
works is nearly completed and there are Vari-
Gus small industries established. An immense
wagon factory is projected Their iron fur
mace is on the way. They have market gar
denS that can't be surpassed. A down cast
Connecticut yankee came out the last of Feb
ruary and bought fifteen acres of the poorest
WhiteSt, gravlieSt land ever saw, and after
stumps, has madeit rich, and now sells every
DAY as line potatoes and onions and other veg
etables as ever grew. He wears a bell
crowned fur hat and is the very personiiication
of old Brother Jonathan as we see him
IN the pictures. He is as lively and as happG
as Jaybird. Three yankee girls are here
teaching school, and I'll bet that some OF our
widoWers will marry them before the year
closes. Away back before the war, when
yankee girls used to come south and teach
school, our widowers marred them as fast as
they came. They were smart self-reliant and
economical, and that is the kind of q wife a
widower wants.
There is law saw mill plant and a big
planning mill that were brought from Michigair
by Michiganders. They are grading street and
boulevards, just like they do in Atlanta or
any other pretentious town There is not
drone in that bee-gum. Everybody works
LII one Of our homemade mechanics goes
there to work he soon learns to take q liveier
lick for he has got to keep up with the yanks
or quit. These people have come to stay and
ourpeople are giving them warm welcome.
They will help us in many ways. If they
have not got the iron for their furnace they
just step over 10 Barlow and buy it and by and
by they will be selling to Barlow their wagons
and wheelbarrows and glass and all sorts of
contrlvances. wish that more of these yanks
would leave that blizzard country and come
down to this blessed land where they can
spend the rest of their days in comfort. If
they want to break up the solid south and have
national brotherhood that is the way to do it.
BILL, ARP
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Cleveland "a TeetotaIer.


A gentleman who is as intimate at the white
house, ana is frequent visitor at the presidents
country place as any member of the cabinet and
who is In the habit of dropping in at all times OF
day and night, tells that the bottle has been ban
ished. Said he:
DUE TO MRS, CLEyELAND'S INFLUENCE.
81 like a drink OF whisky as much as any man.
and am in the habit OF taking one whenever feel
like ii, although never drink at public bar A
year ago, when went over TO the white house, |
was always asked otake drink, and the president
usually joined me- but he doesn't any longer sent
hlm case Of the Lest rye whisky could buy, and
helped him consume it, The other day drove out
to Oakview, and being thirsty after dusty ride,
wanted some the worst way. After waiting a
while and not receiving an invitation to the side.
board, concluded TO drop hint and asked the
president if his whisky was all gone He apolo.
gized for his thoughtlessness and re-
marked that as he was not drinking anything nov
himself he did not think to ask his friends. He
rang bell, and when the servant appeared ordered
a drink for me, but only one glass was brought. |
felt little ashamed Of myself but oked the presi
dent about his abstinence. He said that his wife
was temperance woman, and while he did not see
any harm in moderate drinking himself he had de.
clded that 1t was the proper thing to respect her
wishes and had quit Mrs. lCleYeand was not in
the house at the time and there was no particular
reason why he should not have Joined me, but he
said that lie felt just well without it, and shonld
not drink any more. As l was coming away be
asked me to take another drink, which did but ne
did not join me, and since then hayenot depended
upon him for stimulans when have been driving
out that way. Tie Country club is a little further
on, and they have plenty Of good stuff in stock
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PRICE FIVE CENTS

This wretch suffered them day and night. In
her supreme hour OF agony no one knew where
she laid her weary head at night; no one knew
how she obtained food enough to keep body
and soul together And nobody cared. Even
the toughest soldier stepped aside to avoid this
hectic spectre i'll rags.
One cold night in November, week or two
before Sherman started on his march to the
sea, citizen stood on Decatur street watching
the crowds of soldiers who were passing.
A noise on the opposite side of the street.
and woman's cry startled him. He looked,
and saw woman falling on the sidewalk. She
had evidently been thrown by some brutal
hand down stairway.
The poor outcast quickly leaped to her feet,
and, with one hand pressed to her heart, stag
'gered on. Under the pickering street lamp
the looker-on recognized her. 1t was the belle
of the siege
Not one OF her old acquaintance would have
known her. There was a streak of blood
across her white brow, her tangled tresses fell
loosely down her back, and she was naked to
her waist, her battered garments showing that
she had just emerged from violent struggle
i'll which rude hands had beaten her and torn
her clothes from her body.
She rushed to passing soldier and clasping
her hands made some appeal but what it was
the citizen could not hear With an oath tho
soldier knocked her down, and walked off.
Was the woman dead? Before the citizen
was half way across the street a wagon stopped,
and two soldiers jumped out In a second they
picked up the limp figure, and throwing it into
the wagon they followed, and ratified down
tho street at the best speed their horses could
make.
A sad chapter, the reader will say, but war
has even saddef and madden episodes.
THE OLD COLONEL.
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From the Louisville COurierJuurual.
In the presidential election Of 1872 there
were eight states which voted the democratic
ticket; in 1876 there were seventeen democratic
states; in 1880 there were nineteen democratic
states and in 1881 there twenty. IN l.72 there
were thirty states voting the republican ticket or
rejected OF stolen; in 1876 there wero twentyone
thus categorical; in 1ss0thorg were nineteen, and IN
1854 eighteen. This Is the march Of destiny
The people have been gradually but rs steadily
as the hand Of fate regaining their grasp upon tho
government and striking on the shackles to the
party Of rings and aoaopol!es and conspiracies OF
all Imaginable, kinds against the peace, dignity and
welfare Of tho nation
No Dissipa;ed Aillgators Need Apply.
From Tie Chicago Herald
a Florida man advertises FOR couple Of
aIllgatofg Of mild dispoa..lon and good habil."
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Gratitude.
From the Chicago Tribune.

T IUIII tIIV IIICHED ITIDUTIt.
"That dog, sir" said the barkeeper, with
emotion, "saYed my life"
"HoWp'
"You remember when Grizzly Pete and Montana
Jim had that little scrap last SUMMER
eyes"
well, was standing right behind this counter
The dog bit me on the Leg stopped down 10 para
lyzo him. and bullet from Petes pistol broke the
mirror right behind where had stood. If | had
been standing up at the time 1t would have gone
through me-"
at was o lucky bite"
"Thats what II was. ] can feel It now, though
every time IT'S going TO rain aud rs gong 20 rain
IN less TING than twenty-iOur hours, darn HIM"
held the barkeepcr with sudden ind nation, as he
kckeQ VIC AnImAl cleaI up over TIC blr,
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NYhnt Mole CouId They Aah2

IIIIII III9 NV IVIN JUN
They were outside the garden wall. "Well, !"
CALCULATED Eve, who wOman-llke, gave her a.
legged husband the greater ahnre Of tie blame, 81
hope you are satisfied now" 1--WE ought % be-, my
dear" returned Adam, trying 10 be hilarious undel
QIareaslnK clIcum.lnmCcel We No rot Tho eArLh.I
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-01-11

Western Rural.
It is very hard work to get out of a rut. All
of us are in some sort of rut. We have be-
come accustomed to certain things and we dis
like to change. We have been breeding little
merno sheep for years when we might just as
well have bred larger and better one; and we
will get out of that rut anyhow, sooner or later.
There is no sort of sense in breeding a small
animal when we can breed a larger one of the
same breed, and have it just good. There is
a constantly increasing demand for larger rams.
Breeders want more square inches on which to
grow wool. and they want more mutton. There
is a growing disposition to recognize the fact
that good merino mutton il good enough The
contempt shown by some people for merino
mutton is sheer nonsense. 1t is an old rut that
we in.
A writer recently said that cannot reason
ably expect to combine in eminent degree
the two-feece and carcass wool and mutton.
We may as well look for profits, first from the
mutton and second from the fleece. We may
find it slow work to build up a Merino sheep
that shall shear 20 to % pounds with a carcass
weighing from 115 to 125 pounds in ewes, and
from 125 to 160 pounds in rams, after shearing,
but it is not beyond the line of possibility with
American skill and energy.
And now the question comes: Is it intended
TO disparage the mutton breeds and advise the
breeding of merinosl No., But some prefer the
merino, and it is simply intended to urge those
who do TO do the best they can with the breed
Some one has called the merino the poor mans
sheep meaning by that that they are numerous
and that changes on the mutton line be
more readily made in many instances, than
they can be through the adoption of the mutton
breeds.
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NEW YORK AND CHICAGO.

Yesterdays Quotations Produce mt the
Two Great Commercial Ceuters.
NEW YORK, Jan. 10-Flour-Recsipts,
40 479 packages; exports, 1895 brls and 20. 1888
sacks Less active but generally steady and
unchanged; sales. Is, 500 brls
Wheat-Receipts. $3.50 bu; exports. 1928
bu; sales, 1928 900 bu futures and 80, 900 bu
spot. Options opened a shade lower, but soon
strengthened and rallied &c, closing steady at
a trife under the best. Speculation very tame;
cash a lie higher, but very quiet. No. spring,
nominal, 92c; uugraded red. S9t a SO 3-5c: No.
2, 81 69i4c elevator, 92t a 92Sc delivered; No. 1
red, nominal, 944c; No. / white, nominal. 94!c;
No. red January. nominal. 9Osc; February.
81 TIC 19iic, closing 1T 9lac; March. 90 9l60
92Ec, closing at 92sc; April. 935 a 93sc, closing
ut 933c; May, "a 94sc, closing at 943c; June,
B4a 0945c, closing at Gage; December, 97t 97sc,
closing at 97sc.
Corn-Receipts 2s, 900 bu exports. $3.50 on;
sales, l,2I6 900 bu futures aud 80 900 bu spot;
options fairly active and 415c higher. closing
steady; cash firm and in moderate demand; I'M
graded. 81 a 63lc; No. 3, 59lc; steamer. 60c No.
2, col Ollie elevator 624 0624 c delivered; No. 2.
January, 611 06l4c, closing at 6lsc; February.
SOL 0614c. closing at 6lsc: March, 624c, closing
MT 62sc: May, Gil a 62tc closing at 624c.
Oats-Receipts. GA. 900 bu; sales, 225, 600 bu
futures and 600 bu spot a &c higher; mod
crate business; mixed Western, 80 84oc; white
Western, 40 a Ace
HAY unchanged
Hops IN light demand.
CoUec-Spot IAlr ttlo STEADY at lG4c. ODtions
opened weak. but closed strong; sales. g., $50
bags; January 10 25 10 30c; February. IA 80 %
III. Csc; March. IA 60 q Ii 75c April Ii 55 l460c:
May, IA 40 9l450e; June. ID 30 a IL 40c; July,
~ So di405c; August, - Csc; September Is . %
- 35c; November. ID 90 a b. 05c; December, II 80
1l3.O5. Sugar quiet but firm; fair refining
b Bloc; refined quiet; white extra G, l-l6D
6fc; of A, 6sa63c mold A, 73l aTsc; granu-
lated, 7ic. Molasses steady; new Orleans. 420
G4c Rice steady and quiet
Tallow stronger at 9-l614sc. Rosin steady
Eggs steady and demand fair; receipts, 2, pa
packages; Western, % U25c.
Pork fairly active and arm; sales. 500 brls
Cat meats firm; picked bellies, TIE; lard
Aull, heavy and lower; Western steam, spot, Sc
for ehoics contract grade quoted az z as al size;
January, 7.799zS3c; February 1921. SEC;