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Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
THE HUMANITARIAN STANDPOINT.
The Rights of Children-Our Debts to the
Little Ones-A Needed Lesson.

The Rights of Children-Our Debts to the
Little ones-A Needed Lesson.
In undertaking this work, let US not feel
too complacent, too virtuous, too generous.
To pay our debts is not to be generous.
Children, all children, come into the world
our creditors, and they remain our creditors
as long as they remain children. The task of
living seventy years in this world of ours is
thrust upon them. That alone makes them
bur creditors. What we owe, what society
owes to the children, to all children, is gentle
ness, tenderness, compassion, protection, nur-
lure. Every child born in this world, in my
view of the matter, has right to food, cloth
Ing, shelter, education, kind words, gentle
courtesies, careful protection.
But what poor paymasterS we are. Instead
of what is due them, how often do they get
blows, cruel words and cruel neglect. have
seen in New York 400 children from to 10
years old crowded into an unwholesome gas
lighted, poor ventilated room, and kept at
work twelve hours day corking and labelling
bottles-twelve hours a day, six days
a week, and fifty-two weeks in
the year. But l believe the worlds
eyes are opening. We are coming TO see that
we owe more to the children than they to us.
oGI diiipilaoh W SSk SlOIg ana lOIOr from
our descendants rather than our ancestors. is
growing. We are appreciating our debts to
the children more clearly. II children are
i'll treated they become cruel And why
should we be SO shocked at this or that crime
committedl Is it not natural that they should
pay in kind; that they should say We owe
society nothing but just thisl
Ill treatment Of children is sdmething hid
eous. The brute world is not cruel in the
sense in which men are. We need another
word for many of these human passions corn-
monty called brutal When we designate
them as brutal we are unfair to TIE brute
world. Cruelty, like the other selfish pas
gions, is binding. The more We practice il
the less are aware of it; or if we are
dimly aware Of it, it no longer seems hid
eous. Cruelty is universal passion. We
are all subject to it at times, for we are aH
towards Ii is in the air of the world we
live in. The selfish struggles Of life blind our
eyes, deaden our sensibilities, benumb US A
stronger strikes US and we strike weaker.
Our hearts grow less easily touched. We
harden and petrify. The thin, dirty, de-
praved faces of ragged and neglected chill
dren, which we see to-day, do not startle ani
haunt us as they once did And may it not
be that we need a new lesson even more than
dumb brutesa-Wills Gleed in Topeka tkan)
Canita1
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
Daily . eagle
THE BRAVE Al HOME.

The maid who binds her warriors sash
With smile that well her pain dissembleS
While beneath the dropping lash
One starry teardrop hangs and trembles,
Though heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story
Her heart has shed drop as dear
Ase'er bedewed the field OF glory.
The wife who girds her husbands sword
Mid little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts of death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er
Was poured upon the field of battle.
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breatheS few brave words and brief,
kissing the patriot brow she bleSses,
With no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her,
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received on freedoms field Of honor
II. Buchanan Read.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03
THE ACTORS HARD LIFE.
Incidents in the Career of . "Barn
Stormer''-Some Bitter Experiences.

Incidents In the Career of "Barn
Stormer'-Some Bitter Experiences.
''It's a wonder that actors ive,n said
young player the other day. ~ don't know
how it comes about, but managers seem to
have no consideration for the climate in their
arrangement of pieces. When was travel
ing with the 49, company We always used
to do things Ike Siberia that required Us
to dress in furs in summer time, and we
sweat under them well, I can tell you Then
we invariably did Julius Cesar in the west
in the dead of winter. Good heavens! it
gives me a chill now when I think of the
nights have lain on the floor Of Nebraska
barns as the murdered Caesar, with my breast
and one arm bare and zero breezes creeping
up through cracks in the floor and stealing
in through doors and windows at the wings,
Ihad to lie there for ten solid minutes after
fell and didn't even have the liberty of shiv-
ering.
after awhile they gave me Mark Antony
to play, and don't know but suffered worse
in that, for after the address to the populace
left the stage in cast iron persplration and
dived into dressing room full of draughts
and temperature below freezing to make
my change have caught malaria in damp
UT6SsiuR IOOfY1S uuUcF tiiS SIOuiid heNS
shaken my internal appliances out OF place
by doing twenty foot fall eight times a
week for half season. l have been on deck
for nearly twenty-four hours at a stretch,
what with rehearsals, matinees and evening
performances 1 have gone to bed at l a. N
and got up at to catch trains. have played
hard parts when was sick enough to be IN
bed have travelled all night and all day,
unable to get sleeper, and struck q town
too late for supper, and have gone directly
to the theatre and howled and laughed IN an
empty stomach.
81 can't abide pork, yet I've been c. mpelled
to live on nothing else while playing the
southern circuit I've done museum work
where I've had to study six, eight and ten
parts in week, comedy one day, tragedy
that night, comic opera, pantomlme, burles-
que, spectacle, melodrama, farce, sensation
and society pieces all in bunch. I've car
ried the banner through the streets all night
when 1 hadn't money enough to pay for
lodging, and when the ghost has failed to
walk I've had to call on my uncle with my
clothes and books and props to adjust mat
ters amicably with my landlord. People
who have an idea that an actors trade is all
roses and sunshine and genteel leisure and
wealth haven't got the correct idea, that's
all n-Brooklyn Eagle.
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03

4 man who had beea arrested and ar
raigned at the police court, and required 70
give bonds for further hearing. brought in
q citizen who said he was perfectly willing 70
go on the bond.
''Own any real es.areF' asked his honor.
mo, SIR
''Got any money TO depositF7
'No, sir
Then how do you expec. TO 60 hail for
himP
why, he's my bro. .her-in-law and mighty
good fe,low."-DesToit Free Press
Wichita eagle., 1888-05-03

A. T. Stewart was deliberately, consist
entity and methodically keen. He would bur
as scarcely any other man could buy; he
would sell a. scarcely any other man could
sell
, 1888-02-11

United States vs.. the North Grow Land
and Cattle company has been continued
until the next term of court.
The 3-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. F.
w. LaPash died at the family residence
yesterday morning. Tho remains will be
inferred from the Presbyterian church
this morning.
There was q special meeting of j. f.
Reynolds post, G.. A. R., last evening.
Rev. Mr.. Self of Canon City, Col, de-
partment chaplain, addressed the vete-
ran Two recruits were mustered in.
A complimentary ball to the young
ladies who managed the recent leap year
party was rendered by the gratifed gal
lants at Library hall last evening. 1t was
quite a brilliant affair.
The case of the territory VS.. Thomas
Moore is docketed for trial in the district
court to-day. Moore is charged with
brutally assaulting a woman at his road
ranch near Fort Laramie some three
months since.
, 1888-02-11
TOW TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

There is talk of a legislative excursion
to Laramie City.
Lew Johnson's colored MINISTRIES will
appear at the opera house on the 18th
inst.
Local insurance agents are already ad-
iusting the losses sustained by the recent
fires.
The Dickens sociable, by the ladies of
the Presbyterian church, is the next home
event.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was 390; minimum $50. Snowfall 2.S
inches.
Tickets for the Alert Hose company's
masquerade ball, st. Valentines day, are
selling rapidly.
A party of Aspen, Col, gentlemen, en-
route to the Pacific coast, spent a few
hours in the city yesterday.
Two train loads of fruit, the first ship
ment Of the season, will pass through the
city. eastbound, this morning.
The county commissions were in session
again yesterday. No business out of the
routine came up for consideration.
In the Lloyd VS.. Baker & johnson at
tachment suit, defendant was yesterday
given leave TO file an amended answer.
The handsaw thief captured by Officer
Sullivan Thursday evening was yesterday
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment
and fined 800.
The lawmakers, in order TO avoid night
work toward the close of the session, have
concluded to dispense with the Saturday
holiday hereafter.
Trial of the illegal fence case of the
, 1888-02-11
A Varied Stock.

No one who has lived in one of the
small hamlets of the East will ever forget
the general or village store. AT these
emporiums everything from needles to
moving machines were listed in the in
ventory. There are a few of these stores
off the railway lines in Wyoming. Be-
low is a bona fide advertisement from a
territorial paper minus the name of the
merchant, who is also cashier of a bank:
Dealer in dry goods, notions, clothing,
boots, shoes, hats and caps. Hardware
and cutlery, platedware, etc. Wines. Ii
quors, cigars and tobacco; oils, paints and
putty; lime, hair and.cement. Furniture,
etc.
Were the house in question located in
a down East community, pianos, sew
ing machines and farmsimplements would
also be included in the selection.
, 1888-02-11
Real Estate.

The following instruments were filed fer
record in the county clerks office yester-
day:
United States patent to Samuel K. Ro-
per, so acres of land in Laramie county.
United States patent to Henry H.
Scoville, 40 acres of land in Laramie
county.
United States patent to Martin B.
HenGTy, 40 acres of land in Laramie
county.
Martin B. Hendry to Albert d. CHAM
berlin, 40 acres of land in Laramie county;
$50.
The Union Pacific railway com
pany to Alvin w. Ayres, lots l and 2,
block 300; 800.
Alvin w. Ayres to Jas. B. Walsh, lots
l and 2, block 300; $3.50.
Samuel 4. Roper to Albert D. Cham
berlin, 40 acres in Laramie county; 800.
Henry II. Scoville to Albert D. Cham
berlin, 40 acres in Laramie county, $50.
Location certificates, j. G. Thompson,
the Minnesota, Wolverine and Copper
Queen lodes in the Rawhide Butte min
ing district.
Location certificate, Jos. ii. Horner for
the Little Josie lode in the Rawhide
Butte mining district.
Location certificate, Samuel B. Hutton,
Gray Eagle lode, Rawhide Butte mining
district.
, 1888-02-11

The many remarkable cures Hoods
Sarsaparilla accomplishes are sufficient
proof that it does possess peculiar curative
powers.
, 1888-02-11

Chas. Moore arrived from the north
last evening having in custody John New
man, for many years proprietor of the
Bear Creek road ranch. The prisoner
who was placed in the county Jail, is
charged with stealing and butchering his
neighbors' cattle and marketing the car
cases in this city. Newman is well
known to all old timers. He is a German
and visits the city quite often. The pris-
oner will be given a hearing in a few
DAYS.
, 1888-02-11
Personal POINTS.

L. j. Barnes, is in the city.
Mrs. Harry Hynds is quite i'll.
A. Hardcastle, Chicago, is in town.
E. L. Abel is up from Fort Collins.
G.. Ii. Goble, Evanston, is visiting
Cheyenne.
E. I. Duffey, of the house, left for the
West last evening.
Chas. Fredricks, Dixon, ILL.,, arrived
from the East yesterday.
II. R. Dunning, Portland, Ore, is e
istered at the Inter Ocean.
Miss Abbott, sister of Mrs. j. D. Free
born, is seriously i'll with pneumonia.
A. H. Stewart, St. Joseph, Mo-, is
viewing the sights in Wyoming's capital.
A. NJ. Baird, Lincoln, Neb., came in
on the Burlington & Missouri yesterday.
Mrs. G. H. Spoor is lying very ill at
the Sixteenth street residence of the fam.
lily.
Whiting Allen, advance agent for the
Carleton Opera company, arrived from
the West yesterday.
Banker j. w. Collins, looking healthy
aud happy, arrived from San Diego, Cal,
on the belated westbound train last night.
, 1888-02-11

Lonsdale and Fruit of theLoom Muslin, per I'D 8 cents.
The very best apron check Gingham...... " "
The very best dress style Gingham.....- :" " 9 "
Very good Calicos {" " 8 "
The very best Indigo Calicos ....... &C " 6 /"
Very heavy Cotton Flame. ............. GIL &"
Very nice white wool Flannel......... " "10 "
Very good red Flame. " 1929
One yard wide Cashmere, in all colors,...
10 yards for $1.0O.
44-inch all wool black Cashmere for 65 cents, worth fully
S1.20.
All other dress goods at a proportionate reduction.
Turkey Red Table Linen, yer yard, 263 cents, would be
cheap at SO cents.
Unbleached Table Linen, per yard, 25 cents, for which
other stores will charge you so cents.
Very nice bleached Table Linen, per yard As cents, worth
85 cents.
Very best bleached Table Linen, per yard s1.9o, worth
1926.
Large Dinner Napkins, per dozen $1.4O, same will cost
you elsewhere $3.50.
Very large and extra quality Linen Towels at 25 cents,
former price 45 cents.
Childrens red wool underwear, good quality % cents.
All. ladies and childrens underwear in proportion.
Ladies' fine quality full regular
made Cotton Hose."..... 25 cts former price IS cts
Ladies' very good all wool Hose 25 g g " AS
Dhlldren's fine cashmere Hose 20 g =" 35
BalPs Corsets, per pair......... 70
, 1888-02-11

A LEADER reporter has learned that
Annie Hogarth, plaintiff in the Strom
breach of promise case, did not receive
the 81. 760 awarded by the jury. The de-
PENDANTS attorneys succeeded in compro-
missing the matter for a much smaller
sum.
, 1888-02-11
Attachment Suits.

Those odd fish who will for some mex
plicible reason loiter in court rooms for
hours during the technical arguments,
could have been more than satisfied in the
Laramie county temple Ofjustice yesterday.
There was really some extraordinarily fine
legal maneuvering. Five attachment cases
are pending against the Wyoming Here
ford Association, and the defendant has
moved to dissolve all. Arguments on
this motion were being heard yesterday.
Very little other business was transacted
during the three sessions of court and the
contests are not yet over. Several days
may elapse before a decision is rendered
in any of the cases.
, 1888-02-11

FERRIS MOVES Es
206 Fifteenth street
, 1888-02-11
They VIII Glide.

At a well attended meeting at the Y.
NJ. G. A. Senate's rooms last evening in
itial steps toward the organization of a
roller skating club were taken. 1t is pro-
posed to form a society with a maximum
membership of 100. Y. NJ. G. A. hall
has been engaged for one night each week
indefinitely. MI. Darling is president of
the club, Frank Roedel secretary and A.
D. Kelly chairman. Messrs. Frank Bon,
II. Clark and w. G. Glafcke were APP
pointed a committee to prepare a code of
bylaws, rules and regulations. A meet
ing to perfect organization and complete
arrangements for the opening night will
be held next Monday evening at 7:30
O'Clock.
, 1888-02-11

S. Kellner will positively sell out his
entire stock within sixty days and will,
therefore, offer goods at less than whole
sale cost.
, 1888-02-11

H"uIVs HHU quHIIly TUT TVSUIHT
made Cotton Hose..........
Ladies' very good all wool Hose
Dhildren's fine cashmere Hose
Balls Corsets, per pair. ........
, 1888-02-11
The Next Attraction.


Lew Johnson's Black BABY Boy Minis
trels closed a three nights engagement
at Turner Hal last night to a large and
highly delighted audience. The four end
men got off some very excellent jokes and
succeeded in keeping the audience in a
constant hilarious uproar. The specially
work of Burl Hawkins, Dick Cousby,
Sam Wade and Jake Carr was all very
good, they being a whole show in them
selves. The bass solo Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep" rendered by Mr.. j.
B. Manning received encore after encore.
Mr.. Manning surely has a wonderful
voice. The calliope quartette created roars
of laughter. The tightening drum major
drill, performed by J. c. Carr assisted by
the little piccaniny was the finest even
seen here. The finale Wen Paint De
House Red" wa a very laughable com
edy well performed, Mr.. johnson ex-
pressed himself very much pleased with
his success both here and in Minneapo-
lis.
, 1888-02-11
Lost.

A bunch of keys on a heart shaped ring.
Finder will please leave at this Office.
, 1888-02-11

Wanted Immediately
A first class wagonmaker. Apply to Hall
u Dulmaine, Laramie City, Wyo.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20
How the Southern Tortoise burrows

Here and there, but rarely perhaps
IN one amid hundred of these mounds.
we find the place where the reptile en-
tered the ground. This opening is at
once seen TO be quite separate in char
acter from the mounds which first at
tract the eye 1t consists of a clearly
defined tunnel, the sides commonly
somewhat smooth and compac.ed by
the energy with which the body of the
creature has been driven through il.
The passage inclines s.eeply down.
word, descending at an angle from
twenty to tn rty degrees, then turn
ing at the depth of two or three feet
to more horizontal position. On the
surface, little beyond this entrance.
Is heap of debris, which consists of
the sand taken from the passage. A
few feet in from The opening, the pas
sage appears to be closed by loose
material which was not ejecscd from
the mouth of the tunnel. Although 1
have been unable To catch these tor
toises a. work, / have succeeded by
tolerably safe inferonces in tracing
their method Of operation. When they
begin the burTow, they endeavor at
once to penetrate downward 10 the
level in which they obtain their food.
At the outset they manage, bv fire.
quentiy backing olt of the passage and
thrussiug the earth behind them in
their retreat, to clear a considerable
opening. When they have advanced
a few feet in the excavation, they
cease to discharge the material they
excayated in their advance, but thrl.t
1t behind them, and leave 1t lying in
the chamber, which it entirely closes.
With this storage-room provided, the
gophers are able to advance through
the earth fer the distance of some yards . ]
but as the earth compaeted by its own
weight, b. the pressure exercised I
through the expansion Of roots and
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20
CLEANING 4 nLAoK DRESS.

A black dress, whose owner had
worn it on fishing excursion in row.
bcat, and was caught in a severe thun-
der-shower while out on the water,
hung month after month an eyesore,
and, as she supposed, past cleaning
without ripping AS the time rolled
around that she might need it again
for another excursion, she tried an ex-
pertinent, and put the skirt and over
skirt, which was in one binding, into a
large tubful of clear, cold water. The
basque did not need it, After soaking
awhile it was brushed thoroughly, es-
pecially the plaitings, with cast-off
weavers' brushes, and hung out on the
picket fence by the binding, dripping,
not having been wrung or the water
even squeezed out. The folds and
plaits were brushed in place as well as
possible as it hung, and it being stiff
goods, and the day clear and warm, it
was soon dry, and ready to bring in.
1t needed no ironing except in a few
wrinkled spots, which she dampened
and pressed, and she felt so well salts
fed with it that it has been worn after
moons, sweet and clean.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20
Solved.


In the opera of the "Lady or the
Tiger?" the mystery is solved. 1t has
been pulling surprise, throughout the
English-speaking world, whether the
lady or the tiger would have come out,
but the question need no longer puzzle
any one. In the opera the lady comes
out, and with good reason, too, for the
tiger has been poisoned.
One night, some time before the
opera had solved the perplexing ques-
ton, Mr., Frank II. Stockton was re-
tnraing, in Washington, from late
dinner. He had been merry during the
evening, and, that he might enjoy the
fresh air, he refused TO take cab. The
streets were deserted Not even po-
liceman was to be seen under the flick
ering gas lamps. Suddenly Mr.. Stock
ton was seized from behind. A sack,
which was Immediately thrown over
his head. rendered his struggles use
less He was lifted into a hack and
rapidly driven away. He knew that
he was sitting between two persons.
Once he said
"Why am / treated ihus?"
A deep voice answered, "Hush."
The hack stopped Mr.. Stockton was
lifted out, carried up fight of stairs
and into room. He was placed in a
chair and the sack was removed. He
found himself confronted by two des-
perate-looking men. Both of them
were armed with pistols.
"Do not STIR said one of them.
"Are you going to murder me?" Mr..
Stockton gaspad.
I'VE hope not, but fear that we shall
be compelled to. You wrote the story
of The Lady or the Tiger?' did you
not?"
"Yes."
We'll, now, sir, tell us which came
out"
Mr.. Stockton groaned
Come, said the man, cooking his
pistol, "out with it."
"Can you not give me time to
think? ?"
mo. You have had too much time
for that purpose"
But think of my literary position.
If ] should give the snap away-excuse
the slang what would magazine read
ars think of me?"
We can't help that. Tell us, or Your
secret will die with you"
Now, gentlemen, turn your backs
while | make the solemn disclosure. l
nave sworn TO look no man in the face
md give away my secret. beg you to
respect my oath.
They turned their backs Mr.. Stock
on bolted down the stairway and es-
'aped; but, happily, the opera has an
Iwered the question. - Arkansaw
frdreler.
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20
HoUsEKEEpERs' HELPS.

Dry paths tend to comfort outside
the house and cleanliness within.
Bent whalebones can be restored and
used again by simply soaking in water
few hours, then driving them.
A wineglass of strong borax water
in pint of raw starch will make col
lars and cuffs stiff and glossy.
A faded carpet will get a somewhat
new luster by putting a half-tumblcr of
spirits of turpentine in basin of water
and keeping the broom wet with it
while sweeping.
Tough beef is made tender by Law
ing few minutes in vinegar water, or
put spoonful of vinegar into the water
in which fowls or meats are boiling.
and it will make them tender
To raise the pile of plush or velvet
dampen on the wrong side with clean
cold water, then hold tight across the
face of a hot iron and rub M the
crashed spot with clean, stiff brush.
To keep lamp chimneys from break
ing put cloth in the bottom of n largo
pan, fill the latter with cold water. and
place the new chimney in il; cover the
pan and let its contents boil one hour.
then take from fire and let the chimney
remain in the water until il is cold.
Sprains are among the most severe
accidents to which we are liable.
When a joint is sprained a swelling
comes on gradually. In dislocation
the swelling and loss OF motion Of the
joint happens Immediately after the
accident. A spra.ned limb should be
Kept perfectly quiet. To prevent in
tiammation use poultices OF worm
wood, hops or tansy.
The following often acts satisfac-
torily in removing old ink-stains from
polished mahogany and cherry. Add
a very few drops of inter to teaspoon
full of water, dip a feather into this
mixture and touch the ink spots with
it. When the stain disappear, rub the
spot at once with a rag wet with clear
water, then dry and polish. This is to
prevent white mark coming in lace
Of the stain
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1888-12-20
PES-wIPER.

Chamois leather pen-wipers are the
most serviceable of all, because they
wipe the pen thoroughly and leave no
lint or fiber as do these of other mate
rial The latest fancy is to adorn IL en-
with an artificial rose from which a
tiny face, made of chamois and painted.
peeps out. Others are made of chamois
with the edges cut in fine points. The
top leaf has an appropriate legend or
Merry Christmas, with tine initials
or monogram written in quaint charac-
ters in colored ink. A chamois-covered
button finishes the top, holding the
leaves in place. 1t should be run with
silk the color of the ink.