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, 1889-01-23

Richard Realf, who lived on trans
Mississippi prairies a quarter of century
ago, turned of many pieces of rare
beauty and delcacy, besides others ofhe-
roic quality, well deserving of preserva-
ton. He vas born In England, and
there used to be romantic stories about
his being n natural son of Lord Byron.
He Is said TO have borne o marked re-
s.mblance to Byron in face and figure,
n the last ten years of his life were
passed, as Byron's were, in warlike ad-
venture and poetic creation, which lasted
up TO the year of his death. Soon after
ne landed at the portof New York, In the
oos' he struck out for the plains Of Kan
sas, where he joined the Abolitionist cru
saders under old John Brown of Osa-
wattomie, and he was the hero of many
vicissitudcs from that period till the time
OF his death under ~tragical circum-
stances. The merit of Realf's poems will
be seen after their publication.-New
York Sun.
, 1889-01-23
Tho Burden of the Sucker.

The sticker Is, I believe, the appeIlation
by which the girl without a chaperon Is
known In the mystic circle OF the boys
about town, The sticker, In her highest
forms, Is something which freezes the
young blood OF youth, and makes the
neatly parted hair of middle age stand on
end She Is, of course, not charming.
She is apt to be old and gushing, and,
Xix the wicked, when she flies, no man
pursueth. II Is just the opposite way.
If she has firm hold Of a partner, he may
as well give up all hope and cease for
ever to yearn for liberty. When he has
danced with her six consecutive times
and Is arriving at tho stage when one
foams at the Mouth and dies, he says,
with icy quietude:
Miss Jones, can l take you to your
chaperony'
Il haven't got any, !" says the sprightly
creature.
They promenade round the room In
heavy silence. The men whom tho vic
tim knows avoid his wretched, beseech-
ing eyes, and when they see his melan-
choly approach they dispense hurriedly.
do wonders II he couldn't suddenly
throw her down and rush madly out, or
wouldn't 1t be feasible TO fall In n dead
faint, overcome by the heat when the
Thermometer is far below freezing. Una
BILE to bear it any longer. he stops short
and says, desperately;
Then where can | leave your"
She sees that she has reached the end
OF his patience and surrenders.
Anywhere will do" she saws, re-
s~ignedly, knowing that the happiness of
the evening is past-San Francisco Ar
gonaut
, 1889-01-23

An ofesS s750, 900 has been refused
for st. PSurs church, Boston, because
the owners hope to get 81 900, 900 for it.
This church Is the large granite one,
with a pillared portico, which stands on
fremont street, opposite the common,
almost ut the corner of Temple place.
1t has long divided down town church
honors with Kings chapel. Under its
great front steps lie the bones of 1000
former citizens Of Boston. Burial there
has been stopped only within q half
dozen years. The total area of the prop
erty is 10000 square feet, and its assessed
Valuation Is $500, OOO.lChicago Times.
, 1889-01-23

Mr.. Hughes relates that while acting
as assistant engineer on the Granton
railway he frequently returned on one of
the engines from Granton to Edinburgh.
On these occasions he observed that, al
though his undivided attention was di-
rected toward the signal lamps, the
lights OF which were visible to him a
long way off, no could not till he was
close upon them distinguish whether
they were rcd OF green. These are the
two colors most commonly confused,
but happily they are visible to the ma
jority Of color blind persons when
strongly Illuminated. Railway guards.
therefore, are less liable to mistakes by
night than by day. Inability to discern
any colors at all Is very rare, and. in
fact, has never been satisfactorily proved.
a color blind person may have as good q
sight In other ways as anybody else.
Tho defect Is not occasioned by any
disease in the eye, but seems to have its
sole origin in the brain. A red green
blind person sees only two colors on the
spectrum all h colors on the side of
the red (warm colors) arc confused to-
gether and all on the sido of the violet
cold c%olors), but the warm and tho cold
arc never confused. Yellow Is the one
color which Is always distinguishablo.
IL Is n curious fact that color blindness
Is often associated with n corresponding
Inability TO distinguish musical sounds.
Medical Register.
, 1889-01-23
THE SECOND HAND SILVER MAN.
A Quaint Down fastener Who Found His
BONANZA at Home.

A Quaint Down Fastener Who Found His
BONANZA at Home.
Down 10 Cape Cod a spry little man
jumped out of q dilapidated buggy and
ran into a country store.
Morn; ANY plugged or clipped silver
TO sell todayr' he asked Of the merchant.
Wal, I'd mo; hain't got time to look 1t
up. Next time you come along, mebbe."
"Ohl amt In no hurry; look round
some, will .ye, an I'll hang round q spell"
Wa, I'll see."
DO you find the old silver business
p~rohtabley' askeda young man who sat
on a soap box, smoking.
yes, yes, answered the spry man,
sitting down socially and picking his
teeth with a Taunton herring. my ole
man was a Calyforny forty-niner, but 1
n more of a bonanzy round these parts
than he ever fetched hum. This boss an
buggy o mine hez put up at every tavern
In eastern Massachusetts,, and / make a
pretty fair thing wi ont, year In an
year out. l buy this ere mutilated stuff
by Troy weight an sell 1t TO the bullion
brokers"
"How do you fix the price?'
"'Cordin' to market rates." said the
little man pompously. ''Then l get lots
of old teaspoons an things that's bent or
broke from some O. the farm houses.
Tother day a Teller thought he's goin' to
play smart on me. He'd a lot Of silver
odds and ends, and weighed EN- on
a~vverdepoy scales fore 1 cum along. I
weighed 'em on these Troy scales, an
told him the ounces. Hold, on SEE he,
there's moren't that, cause l weighed
it, an l couldn't make the critter believe
l warn't tryin' to stick him."
Ever get any antique silver that isn't
broken upT"
Sometimes, but folks gently hold
onter them old heirlooms. faint long,
though, sence 1 got a big, long, chased
spoon with n twisted handle that looked
as though 1t come over In the Mayhower,
and oncet l got n silver ~porrfnger or
christenin' cup, the Teller called it when
l sold it to him.
MY, biggest holt is out to them big
piggeries round Dcdham and HYDE
park. The hogs are fed on city swill.
and lots o forks an spoons gets chucked
IN by careless help. A good deal on't's
plated stuff, an that l don't have no call
to meddle with. / know an ole woman
that ownsa piggery that got a half a
barrel full o plated forks an poons
She can't sell 'em, an she's too mean to
give EN- away Sometimes rings an
things gets in. Then, again, l buy old
watch cases, pins al rings with stones
knocked out, or anything that's gold or
silver.
Say continued the spry man, in n
fit of confidence, I'll let We look into
my box If you want to-"
He had a curious collection-pieces of
little thin, old fashioned teaspoons,
quaint time blackened ~jewelry with
deep ~chasings, old Spanish milled dol
lars and pistareens; n Heterogeneous heap
of worn, battered, clipped and perforated
coins; the lid of n silver snuff box and
the handle of a gold headed cane.
SHOULD think you'd be afraid of get
ting robbed" suggested the admiring
young man.
Lord there hain't no highwaymen
about here" said the bonanza man, re-
sNprovingly. "A Teller stopped me oncet
blown in Plymouth woods, but / told the
durn fool ter git out, an he did. guess
he'd beer n drinkin' rum, an callated to
skeer me n ttle."-Boston Herald.
, 1889-01-23

I'm sorry, gentlemen, but them's my
borders. Cawn't admit nobody without
a card" The speaker was a smooth
shaven, short haired young man who
wore a red braided roundabout of blue
flannel and trousers Of the same material.
II was the turnkey at the Kansas City
club. A fire was raging within the
building, and q half dozen firemen and
as many policemen wero endeavoring to
gain IN entrance through its marble
doors. but we are officers and must
get in," clamored the angry b~luecoats.
II cawnt clip that, you know" said the
i~mperturbable Cerebus. This Is q pri-
,vate club and the gentlemen is very
hexclusive. II you 'aven't o card you
Will ave to go round to the back door"
And they did.-Kansas City Times.
, 1889-01-23

How can parents allow their children to
cough and strain and cough and calmly
say: "Ohl it is only a little cold." and
keep giving them cheap and dangerous
medicines, until they are down with lung
fever or consumption, when they can be
SO easily relieved by Beggs' Cherry
Cough Syrup 1t has no superior, and
few equals. For sale by w. N. Hunt,
druggist.
, 1889-01-23

aMary Fitzgerald, nov In prison In Phil
adelphia for picking the pocket of q well
to do gentleman, is said TO be the Oldest
sneak thief In the United States. She is
~ years old, and since she was 10 has
been q thief. She was n convict before
she WINS IL, and in recent years has not
at q time.-Chicapo Tribrna
, 1889-01-23

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put Ut in large two ounce
TIN boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns, wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. VIII positively cure all
kinds OF piles. Ask for the ORIGINAL
ABlETINE OINTMENT. Sold by DR..
W. \. Hunt, at % cents per box-by mail
80 cents.
, 1889-01-23
RncIkIena ArnIcn snIrn-

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, letter, chapped hands, chilblains,
eorns and all skin eruptions, and positively
cures piles or no pay required. 1t is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents per box.
For sale by DR.. w. N. Hunt.
, 1889-01-23
Blood VIII Tell.

Lady (as n blood curdling war whoop
Is heard from the kitcheneWhat Is
happening, Walters?
Maid-That is Dinah. She always yells
that way, ma'am, when she succeeds in
turning the omelette without letting II
drop on the floor. Shes the daughter of
n Zulu CHIEF. Time.
, 1889-01-23

kellner wishes to state that he is soon
to wind up his business here, and will
therefore close out his entire stock of dry
goods and millinery for less than they
cost at wholesale.
, 1889-01-23
Dr.. Wagaer&Ca.


We offer no apology for devoting so much time
and attention to this much neglected class OF
diseases, believing that no condition of human
best services of the profession TO which we be
long, as many are innocent sufferers, and that
the physician who deyotes himself
to relieving the afflicted and saving
them from worse than death, is no less a
philanthrophist and n beneiactor to his race
than the surgeon or physician wholly close APP
plication excels IN any other b anch of his pro-
fession. And, fortunately for humanity the day
is dawning when the false philanthrophy that
condemned the victims of folly or crime, like
the lepers under the Jewish law to die uncared
Tor, has passed away.
YOUNG MEN
Who may besufIering from the efiectso of youth
ful fOllies or indiscretions, will do well to avail
themselves of this the greatest boon ever laid
at the alter OF su :fering humanity. DR. WAC
NER will guaranteed to forfeit 1--WE hundred dol
lars for every case OF seminal weakness or pri-
vate disease of any kind or character which he
undertakes and falls to cure.
MIDDLE-A GEDMEN.
There are many men of the age OF 30 to 60 who
are troubled with too frequent excavations OF
the bladder often accompanied by n slight
smarting or burning sensation and II weaken
ing of the system in a manner the patient can
not account for. On examining the urinary de
posltsa ropy sedifnent VIII often be found, and
sometimes small particles OF albumen Will APP
pear, or the color will be of akin or milkish
hue, again changing to a dark and turbid ap-
pe.lrince- There are many men who die of
this difficulty ignorant of the cause, which Is
the second stage OF seminal Weakness. DIR.
Wagner viii guarantee n cure in all such
cases and a healthy restoration OF the genito-
urinary organ. Consultation free. Thorough
examination and advice. $500.
See the Doctors additional advertisement in
the Daily Denver News and Tribune-Republi-
can.
All communications should be addressed
DIR. WAGNER & co.
IIli Larimere street. Address, Box 27s9 Den.
yer, Colorado.
Cut this out and take along
, 1889-01-23
Tho Tortoise and the M...,nr,r.

A tortoise can walk a mile In four
hours This item has been the cause of
no less thar seven suicides among the
messenger boys of this country during
tho past three Notwithstanding.
, 1889-01-23
ADVICE 20

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup should
always be used for children te, thing. 1t
soothes the child. %softens the gums, allays
the pain, cures wind collie and is the best
remedy for diarrb@a. Twenty-Five cents
a bottle.
, 1889-01-23

Never write on a subject without
having first read yourself full on it, and
never c ON n subject till you have
thought yourself hungry ON it-Jean
Paul Richter.
, 1889-01-23

The church in Shaker village, Canter-
bury, N. H, although built in 1902, has
never been r~eshingled. The shingles are
of heart pine, and were fastened On with
wooden pegs.
, 1889-01-23

Wedding and visiting cards in great
variety at the Leader Office.
, 1889-01-23

By supper nor have been killed than
Gslen ever cured.
, 1889-01-23

Job printing at the Leader Office.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
GEN. HARRISON WITH THE RAGLE.

Colonel Marsh Murdoch and metropol-
itan police law is having another hand-to-
hand tussle. We sincerely trust the met
ropolitan police law will never strike an
editor when he is down.-Capital-Co
We don't mind beng struck when
down as much as being s5amped
when manacled and gagged. The Rus
sian serf who has been banisheI by adj
ministrative process is freeman so far
as being heard is concerned when COM
pared to the citizens Ci town in Kansas
under that bastard metropolitan police
law. He not only cannot be heard but
is so gagged that he cannot even make a
noise His only chance of voice in the
control of his own city is to forswear his
own party and join in with cranhs who
dictate the police commission. John
Martin in appointing the commissioners
for this city, never sought the will OF his
party here. The men who held his ear
with but one or two exceptions, did not
vote the Republican ticket in November
1t is all right for the alliterated
double-headed concern at Topeka
to taunt a PROSTATE people, but
Topeka may stand no closer to Governor
Humphreys administration than did
Wichita to Martins, in which event we
won't be withOuU company next sum-
mer. The Capital-Commonwealth is
won't to howl because a comparatively
few intelligent gentlemen control the
whole south, politically. in spite of the
voice of the great majority of the people
of those states, VINO are not permitted
voice, but that paper cannot see any
wrong in law whereby less than q
dozen men can dictate one Democrat one
Third Party man and one Mugwump or
Republican, as the case may be, to con-
troll Republican city like Wichita.
In dwelling upon this question the
other day General Harrison expressed
our idea exactly in the following words
addressed to the G.. \. R.:
The only menace today to our institu-
| tons and the perpetuity of our govern
lnent is the suppression of free and fair
ballot. would like to hear bugle call
throughout the land demanding a pure
ballot. \ free ballot, honestly expressed
and fairly counted, is the main safeguard
TO our institutions, and its suppression
under any circumstances, cannot be toll
Grated
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
SLICK WORK AT TOPEKA.

The Kansas City, Missouri, Times, ap-
pears with certain grave and startling
charges against prominent officials of
this state in which it is asserted also that
certain prominent politician and state
senator who, becoming advised of the
crookedness aforesaid, demanded and re-
ceived a sum of ''hush money" The
legislature of Kansas may be wise in
ordering the investigation, but the EAGLE
is unable to explain to its readers why
the senator who is charged with receiv-
ing ''hush money should be made chair
man of the committee of investigation.
Probably it was upon the theory that a
man knows so little Of himself that he
would fail in self investigation unless he
had some experienced help. As chair
man OF a committee he could worm
things out of himself, in which wOrming
he might ignobIy fail as an individual,
simply. Sell investigation is a serious
undertaking, no doubt. but this is the
first instance that has come under our
notice, wherein the defendant was forced
To lIial anu Hiaie 70 act as prosecuting
attorney and foreman of the trial jury.
But we are no lawyer and have seen but
little. However, it IS no guess business
to predict the verdict The esteemed
Democratic Missouri contemporary is to
be congratulated upon its slick work
which Will not only give it plenty of
readers but respectful hearing for all
the winter at Topeka.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
COLWICH NOTES.
70 the Editor OF the EAGLE.

To the Editor OF tl1e EAGLE,
The creamery stock, $4,000, has been
subscribed and the work on the building
will commence next Saturday.
The brickyard is shipping four cars Of
brick per day west. They had at the be-
ginning of the winter 100000 brick.
Colwich has a full-blooded English
man in its midst since yesterday. He is
the protege of B. P. McNair, who will
learn him practical flaming.
Mr.. Smith, of Wichita, has purchased
V. +. Breeses farm and Is building
thereon. preparatory of starting fancy
StocR farm, raising nothing but full
blooded animals
The Courier editor leaves Colwich at
the end of the fiscal year of that sheet.
He is singing, ''Papas hat will soon fit
Willie"
Wheat prospects were never brighter
Ed. Packard is putting up feed mill
near the depot.
\ supposed dynamite bomb found in
the rear of one of our joints was found
to be a piece OF gas pipe, loaded with
sand, stuffed with lead. ana the fuse was
ali that was dangerous. The significance
was obvious to all.
The council met Monday night and
allowed a number Of bills; that, and
nothing more.
An average of twelve per day of our
citizens find their way to Wichita. We
are truly suburban. QUIXoTTE
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
STILL A MYSTERY.
A TRAGEDY OF TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
AGO Is YET UNSOLVED.

A Beautiful Young Lady Hyste-sously
Murdered in Atlanta. Ga. During the
War-Found Dead on Fer Bed. Arrayed
in Gay attire.
During the Sherman siege Of Atlanta in
1854 a tragedy occurred which has ever since
been enveloped in mystery, and which at the
time almost caused the besieged people to
forget the great army which was pressing
into the city. The population Of the city
was reduced TO less than 1000 civilians who
lived in bomb proofs frequently aud who,
being cut of from the world, formed . com
munity of its own. This community for the
most part was formed % women and chill
dren, the men being absent in the army. Tho
officers and soldiers Of tie garrison, between
the general engagements, would enjoy social
reunion with the citizens, and many dances
were given by the young laaies for the
amusement of their military admirers.
Before the circle around the city was COM
plete there came into Atlanta by the West
Point road young lady giving her name as
Miss Jane Moorehead, from Mobile, Ala
Her arrival was somewhat mysterious, as
well as her stay in the city. see a. once
sought occupation in the hospitals, where she
came 70 be regarded as an angel Of mercy.
ANGEL OF The HOSPITAL
Her beauty is described as having been
great, and she had many accomplishments
and was evidently CT gentle breeding. she
would never refer to her past lifc, but i
came TO be believed that her love had died
or one Of tie battleAelds of Virginia, aad
that she had simply resolved 20 devote her
life to the alienation OF the sCferings Ct tbs
soldiers in the hospital&
Later on and nearing the end cf the siegss
bali was announced 70 take place IN one q
the houses on Walton street Miss Moore
head. who never went 20 place Of arnuse-
ucent, vas urged By captain whom SIZE had
net IL the hospital 10 80 10 the baIl. Ins
ladies OF her acquaintance also joined in AID
urged Der to take this recreation She fnaiiT
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
TOO THIN SKINNED.

As usual the Kansas City Missouri, pa
pers are on top with the Kansas legisla-
ture. The Times puts up a job and de
mands an investigation, and of course,
as has been the case dozen times in the
past. the committee is appointed and the
Times will be quoted and advertised IN
the official records at the expense Of the
state of Kansas to its hearts content.
AS for the other Missouri morning pa
per, the Journal. an old attache OF that
paper who still holds his place, was made
secretary of the Kansas senate and OF
course in this instance the Journal will
have the inside track over any Kansas
daily. 1t must make those Kansas City,
Missouri, papers awfully tired to RIM
both the Missouri and Kansas legisla-
lures; however, we have heard it limited
that they are not so successful in hand
ling the unkempt yahooS at Jefferson
City, as they are the thinner skinned fel-
lows at Topeka.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
WHOSE ORIFLANB?

The fiery top is an evidence of advanced
ideas and more modern civilization:
We allude, of course, to the statue OF
Liberty enlightening the world" and
Marsh Murdoch, Of the packing house
town of Wichita, Kansas. Marsh has
done himself proud in writing it Kansas
City, Missouri, in speaking of our twin
city. AS the pillar of fire in the olden
days was a light to follow, SO let the
editors throughout the state have an eye
on the orifame Of Wichita.-Kansas City
Gazette.
New corners to the state should not
get mixed and confused as to the cities
and their names located at the mouth of
the Kaw. One OF the cities was moor
porated by the state of Kansas and the
charter name OF which is ''Kansas
City," which city is on Kansas soil. The
other city was Incorporated by the laws
of Missouri under the name of THE
City of Kansas" which city is on Mis-
souri, soil. Therefore there is in fact
but one Kansas City" and that is in
Kansas. The other is The City Of
Kansas which is in Missouri.
The one Kansas City, proper, is where
the Daily Gazette is published, the head
of whose editor is SO fiery, indeed, that
he imagines that everybody else is red
headed, including the head of the bronze
goddess of liberty which stands i'll the
harbor of New York.
Wichita eagle., 1889-01-11
ONCE MORE TO THE BREACH.

When prejudice gets firm hold on
person it is next TO impossible to disa-
buse his mind Of any erroneous impress
sion that may be made upon it. This
observation is prompted by a labored
editorial, copied from the Garden City
Sentinel into the Atchison Champion
and given that papers sanction, in which
the writer revives the subject Of the
defamatory reports that have heretofore
been sent into the eastern states touch
ing the alleged distressed condition of
portions of western Kansas, the result of
short crops, etc. We suspects the Incl
dents alluded 10 are used simplv az a
pretext TO make hit at Wichita. and if