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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
SALADS FOR SPRING.
Healthful Dishes For Persons Whose Ap
petite Require Tempting.

Hea1thful Dishes For Persons Whose APP
petite Require Tempting.
Many deiicacies and healthful salads
may be made from spring vegetables,
which are particularly appetizing and
acceptable at time of the year when
the appetite requires tempting.
Asparagus Salad.-Boil two large
punches of asparagus in hot water,
drain, cut off the tops, throw in cold
water, and stand half an hour. Then
dry carefully, put in a salad dish and
pour over dressing made of table,
spoonful of vinegar, and tablespoon
full of olive oil, a little pepper and salt.
Set on ice.
Lettuce Salad.-Wash crisp center
leaves of lettuce and dry. Break or
tear the leaves to pieces with a silver
fork. Make dressing of half pint of
milk, tablespoonful of butter. yelks Of
three eggs, two tablespoonful of corn
starch. two tablespoonful of vinegar,
with pepper and salt. Pour over the
lettuce and serve Immediately.
Celery Salad.-Cut the stalks of white
celery into pieces half an inch long.
To every pint allow half pint of may
onnaise dressing. Dust the celery
lightly with salt and pepper. mix with
the dressing and heap on a cold dish.
garnish with celery Hones.
Kale Salad.-Strip from the stalks
the inside leaves of tender kale, Law
on a dish; sprinkle with pepper and
salt and pour over a dressing of raw
egg, three tablespoonful of thick
sweet cream, two of lemon juice and
teaspoonful of mustard beat all to-
gether.
Onion Salad.-Cut up a dozen young
spring onions, season with salt and
pepper. Take tablespoonful of vine
gar and three of salad oil, mix and
pour over the onions, then place a
layer of hard-boiled eggs on the edge
of the dish.
Spinach Salad.-Take two dozen
heads of spinach. put on salad dish,
season with salt and pepper. Set on
ice. Take the yelks of three hard
boiled eggs, mash fine, add mustard.
salt pepper. with teaspoonful of
melted butter. mix them thoroughly
and then with vinegar pour over the
spinach. Garnish with hard-boiled
eggs sliced.
Dandelion, crosses, turnip tops and
mustard all make excellent salads
prepared as lettuce salad.-Louisville
Courier-Journal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
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9ai1Y eagle
INTELLECTUAL PERSUASION.
a Wldower's Alluring Promises Prove
Without the Least Effect.

a W1dower's Anuring Promises Prove
Without the Least Effect.
The observer was going from New
York to Hartford few days ago. In
front of him were seated very
stylish young woman and man, the
woman in a Connemara cloak and a
small French capote trimmed with
buttercups. The gentleman was
little, fierce, and dark and middle-aged,
and he, too. was in brave apparel.
About half an hour after leaving
Bridgeport the train slackened its
speed. It is remarkable how loudly
the voice rings out when the passenger
has been talking against the rattle of
the train. Only on this occasion the
Stacking up was slowly done, SO
slowly that our gentleman did not
realize that with the utmost distinct
ness the following sentences fell on
the ears Of all the passengers within
eight or ten seats:
Il may express myself awkwardly,
but | hope am understood"
A modest bow from the buttercup
capote.
Il have an excellent situation in the
shoe and leather business and my
habits are unexceptionable."
No response from the capote.
81 have house in Harlem and my
life is insured for eight thousand
dollars in the Travellers" No re-
spouse.
Both my children have had all the
infantile diseases" No response.
Il am an orphan" Still greater
silence.
'And member in good standing in
the Babtist church" No reply.
My first marriage was an uncon-
genial one" Silence.
my wife shall never trouble her
self with domestic cares; marry her,
rot to be a housekeeper, but a COM
panion." Stiffness.
My first wife's mother is no longer
living"
AS these sentences fell from his lips
the sutton continued to raise his voice,
We heard cry:
''Adaline, L may be precipitate in
saying so, but adore you"
An uncomfortable burst of laughter
from the innocent listeners awoke him
to the situation, and Alkaline the
silent, spoke. 1t was in a whisper,
but we saw that his alluring promises
were without effect. Alas. a freight
train had run of the track, and we were
compelled to wait for an hour and a
half AS usual. the car was crowded,
but we did not know at what moment
We should start for New York. 1t
was an express train, and it did not
stop till it reached the city. From
1880 till one o'clock these unhappy
persons sat side by side, speechless.
1t was a sight for men and angels
Hartford Courant.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
A DEAD CUSTOMER.
How IN Old Cynio Prepared Things {
His Funeral.


How IN Old Cynio Prepared Things for
His Funeral.
Ibid you ever have decidedly odd
customer?" asked reporter of an up
town florist.
"Yes," said the florist.
"Who was hep"
"a dead man. 1t was o post-mortem
order"
..And what did a dead man want of
howers2"
HE wanted them for his funeral. !"
well, I've heard a good deal of live
business men. but this is the first time
ever heard of dead customer"
II shall explain it to you. There
lived, three blocks from here, in a
tenement house district, cynical old
gentleman who spent his time with
his books and his thoughts, and was a
stranger to everybody. He was dis
ciple of Schopenhauer, and might have
been regarded as a harsh critic from
another planet who had been ship
wrecked On this little one-horse island
in space and was sorry for it. The
only CLEAN of sunshine in his life was
that he hadn't kinsman, friend, or
an acquaintance in the world.
Zone day, when he was very old, he
was sick unto death. To divert him
self during the tedium of dying he con-
trived a post-mortem joke. He had
$500 which he did not wish to leave to
anybody. Though he was stranger
in the world, the idea came to him
that he would spend the money in
having the same kind of funeral that
other people had He sent for bust
ness agent, unfolded his plans for the
funeral, and then died with half
cynical, half-amused smile on his face.
THE agent ordered the coffin, en-
gagged the carriages, hired pall-bear-
ers, gave the minister few points for
a short eulogy and then came to my
store and bought the flowers.
There wasn't mourner in the lit
tie church where the last services
were held. There wasn't person in
the church whom the dead man had
ever known. There wasn't a person
in the city who wasn't stranger to
him. But the coffin stood under the
pulpit covered with anchors, broken
columns, pillows, doves and broken
lutes bearing such notices as Good
by, Old Comrade. AT Rest Farewell,
Friend Still Remembered etc. They
were the flowers which the dead man
had bought. l imagine there must
have been a sheer under that coffin
lid. l believe there were six hired
pall-bearers.
They put the odd old gentleman and
his flowers into the hearse and carried
him to his resting place The car
riages afforded the tenement-house
neighborhood free ride to the come
terry. No tears were shed a. The
grave, the pall-bearers got their pay,
and it was very pleasant funeral. r~'
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
CARRY YOUR OWN SOAP.
And Thereby Nasty Skin Diseases May Be
Avoided In Travelling.

And Thereby Nasty Skin Diseases May Be
Avoided In Travelling.
Among travelling men," said a
physician, "at least one in fifty has a
skin disease of a more or less serious
nature, and its cause may almost in
variably be traced to hotel soap.
Every person who has had occasion to
be hotel guest, no matter where, is
familiar with the WORKOUT cake of
soap that lies in wait for him on the
washstand, sometimes in a not over
clean dish, and frequently glued to the
cover of the stand, according to the
within of the chambermaid. You
haven't the slightest idea in the world
who used the soap last, and very few
persons ever give the matter thought
1t would be an easy-going individual.
and one singularly Indifferent to con-
siderations of cleanliness, who would
for moment think of using towel
that might have been used by the
previous occupant OF room at hotel,
but the instances are rare where the
same guest will hesitate to use the
soap he finds in the room. although it
may scarcely be dry from the ablution
of the last person who used it. The
travelling man does not stop to think
that the hotel soap is unexcelled as a
distributor of cutaneous diseases, and
frequently those that are difficult Of
eradication. The man who stops
habitually at the hotels here, there
and everywhere about the country,
and does not carry and use his own
soap. deliberately courts the contract
ing of what may be most distressing
and offensive malady." - American
Analyst
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22
TIE RUSSIAN IN WAR.
A Prince a. q Private Soldier in the Fas
NOUS Pleyna Campaign.

n II
NOUS Plevna Campaign.
It may seem paradox. but the Rus.
SLAMS are the most democratic people
in Europe. Every officer was the CORE
spondent's comrade. Prince Shakos-
ky. the Unconditional General who
made such a mess Of the July Plevna.
was the only exception | ever knew.
II the samovar was In service the
officer shared his tea with the CORE
spondent; in the middle Of battle, if
the officer had a couple of sandwiches,
he would offer one of them to the cor
respondent From the highest to the
lowest, IN regard to military informa-
ton, the Russians were incredibly
frank; the correspondent never had to
ask questions as to situation, DISPOSE
tons or Observation-Disclosures in re-
gard to those matters was volunteered
TO him. The only secret they ever
had-and l must own they kept it we'll
was in regard to the point at which
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22

Wedding and Party Invitations, en-
graved or printed, at the Wichita EAGLE
Office. de- 4
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22

An Indiana girl flared up and fired
pistol at her young man because he
was half an hour late on Sunday even
ing, and he didn't want to explain
that he had been washing his feet.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-22

Slices of salt pork, freshened and
Toured as usual. and baked in spiders
in a hot oven will be nicely Drowned
and crisp, with very little fat left in it,
and the house will not DO filed with
smoke as in frying.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
The DOGS Of Turkey.

A principle of the Mohammedan
religion is to despise dogs, and the
Turks also have superstition about
getting the ill-will" of one of these
detected creatures, which is only
equaled in absurdity by another belief
which no Mohammedan is ashamed
toown-that "bad luck" will surely and
mysteriously follow any one who kills
dog, though good luck will not desert
one, in the Turks opinion, who makes
q dogs life miserable. A Turk, there
fore, who aims blow, a kick, or stone
at a dog will be careful not to hit a
vital part, and while the air is rent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

continually night and day in Constan-
tinople with their bowls of pain and
anger, and dogs are often manned and
bruised as we'll as half starved, they
are, as rule, long-lived and healthy.
How can it be possible for creatures
so abhorred and down-trodden to have
banded together, and to have formed,
as I have said, q union which claims
ana obtains respect even from the
Turks? Yet such is the simple fact
about the dogs of Constantinople.
Nameless, homeless and masterless,
they live, eat and sleep, in fair weather
or foul, in the crooked winding streets
of the beautiful city. They make their
homes in old boxes, behind walls or
under curbstones, or these failing,
stretch themselves shelterless along
the pavement, crowding the highways,
blocking the by-ways, threatening
every path.
But there is law and order In this
apparently heterogeneous mass OF ca
mines. They form strong and trust
worthy under-police guard, and are
organized in bands as scavengers and
grubbers. The people know the dogs
Of their neighborhood and trust SO en-
tirely to their sagacity and energy that
bolts and burglars are alike unknown
in Constantinople and garbage carts
and @soap-fat" are unhonored and I'M
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
KANSAS RAILROADS.

Caldwell News: The Telegraph poles
of the Rock Island are about set as far
as Reno. The road to that point will
be built Immediately. This comes
from official information.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad has abandoned its freight yards
at Argentine and consolidated the Kan
sas City & Argentine business at yards
near Twelfth street in Kansas City.
The yards at Argentine will be used for
storing cars. The change will relieve
one agent and number of switchmen
and effect saving Of about $4,000.
Railway officials in Topeka are des-
pondent over the outlook for summer
travel. The weather has been too cool.
Summer travel usually begins ths latter
part of May or the first of June. The
rush to the mountains in Colorado is
heaviest between June 10 and July 1,
All the mountain resort hotels which
depend entirely upon summer tourists
for their patronage are prepared to re-
ceive guests by June 1, and before June
Is are nearly full of permanent summer
boasders. This year they have none.
What few daring tourists have gone
were compelled to leave on account Of
the cold. The same thing is true OF
travel to the seashore. The rush for
the coast begins early in June and lasts
until July l. This year there is no
travel at all to the seaside.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
KANSAS CHURCHES.

Wellington Monitor: At the Con-
gregational church, in connection with
the observance of Childrens' day, the
ordinance of baptism was administered
to seventeen children of the families Of
members.
Kinsley Mercury: The beautiful and
impressive confirmation service of the
Catholic church was administered to
nearly forty children in this city, by
Bishop Hennessey of Wichita, assisted
by Rev. Father Comand, of Wichita,
and Rev. Father Careful of this charge.
Cheney Blade: There will be Cath
Ole church built in Cheney next fall.
In q conversation Rev. M. j. Welsh, Of
Kingman says there will be church
built here this fall. The size win be
governed by the crops, but they win
build even If it be only small building.
There was considerable money raised
here about one year ago for that pur-
pose, but owing to the shortness Of the
crops it fell through.
Osborne Journal: The Congrega-
tionalists Of Alton are preparing to
build church edifce. They have al.
ready secured valuable site and are
constantly adding to their building
fund. Nearly score Of applicants were
received into membership recently, in
GLIDING some Of the most prominenk
citizens. twenty dollars were raised
from ics cream festivals for the pur-
pose Of purchasing Rochester lampa
Rev. Palmer 10 pleasing The peopls.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

those of us who have passed our bios
som days and gone to harvesting fruit.
knowing that Irodigal fruit is not
harmless and innocent like prodipal
blossoms, but means q worm ct the
core, or rotten and worthless fiber
through and through, to chance some
day to encounter the echoes of the
VOWS we have spoken and broken. the
promises we have made and forgotten.
Such whispering gallery would reduce
the stoutest-hearted to shamefacedness
and confusion.
Is there anything SO out of date in
this age of mushroom faith as LOYALTY
either to ones beliefs or ones friends?
o, no, I am not cynic.- I grant you
there are hearts, and many of them,
thank God! as steadfast and constant
as the stars, but we are striking the
average in such chat as this, and they
all ring false. Where are the friends
who stand by you when the world has
turned the cold shoulder to you? The
friends who will rally and comfort and
uplift when, like the poor fellow in
Holy Writ, you have fallen among
thieves, and perhaps, unlike him, have
turned thief yourself, and deserve your
wounds! The friends who sing your
praise loudest when your name has be-
come a ieer and a reproach! The
friends who will take you by the hand
when the hand is grimy and toil-worn,
and walk beside you when the kid Of
your boots has turned purple and your
winter hat is summer structure! All,
I tell you, my dear, that such friend
ship as have described is rarer in this
world than robins in January. Friend
ship that serves you in the hour Of
misfortune, temptation or disgrace,
as Sisters of Charity serve sufferers in
railway wreck, binding up your
wounds without question, and holding
the cup of cold water to your lips with
out preaching homily upon your folly
in taking the especial train that has
proved your undoing. We are not to
form our friendships on the equivalent
basis-an equivalent interchange of
Inequalities, wedding gifts, and mutual
assistance to keep step in the shallow
dress-parade of life; but when it comes
to loving through light and dark, shine
and shade, warmth and frost, straight
into the convict's cell and the prison
stripes perhaps, just please to count
me out! Loyalty like that, you say, is
an encouragement to crime and dis
honor. So it is if your mind is not
large enough to separate the poor,
stumbling, baffled soul from its deeds.
And if anything is going to bring a
fallen man back from the prison stripes
and the cell, it is love-not patronage,
not charity, but love, such as one purer
than you or I gives freely to sin-bur-
dened humanity. Ny dear, Damon
and Pythias died long ago and left few
descendants. Judas and Iago. how.
ever, left heirs enough.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
A West virginia Diana.

Mrs. julie Eastman, of West Vir-
ginia, is one of the mightiest hunters
In all its mountains. She is q dead
shot with the rifle, and has killed bear
and deer by hundreds. She is big,
black-haired, and ugly, but so indus
trious and warm-hearted as to more
than make up for the lack of beauty.
Her carrying capacity must be some
thing enormous, as she has been known
to carry more than one hundred pounds
distance of seven miles without rest
ing. and is said to have 1ugged .
sewing machine all the sixty mountain
ous miles between her home and Graf
ton. In addition, she has seven chil-
dren and lots of well-bred 6nfolk who
DELIGHT to visit her and to talk Of her
exploits.-RittsbsIrgh Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

81, - thsse srs aeally thirty -four posts
delinquent Il i very NORTH ring to
note that tho Missouri department.
shows . total enrolment Of 1929 for
the last quarter, or 199 greater than.
Kansas. While Kansas lost Sc, poor, old
Missouri made net gain Of nearly 800
and has wrested, for the present,
at least, the proud title Of ''the banner
soldier state" from Kansas Missouri
has been gaining rapidly upon Kansas,
but such an unprecedented gain a. that
shown during the quarter was unexpect-
ed and has fairly taken tho breath
away nom the Kansas department OFF,
cera 1t II not out Of place to note, in
this connection, that it is surprising
that with an old soldier population APP
preaching loo, 600, but fraction over
1900 are members Of the G. A. r.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
1sssst ". Waternaa, Gsvernsr 4 Cali

ssoxs We Watot0on, 6ovef1ef q C1u'
fornia.
Robert Whitney Waterman, Govern
OF OF California, was born in Fairfield,
Aerhmer County, New York, on 18th
December, 1926. His father having
died while Robert was still young, the
boy went West and located ct Syca-
more, ILL.,, where he became q clerk IN
. country store. In 1916 he engaged
IN business for himself in Belvidere,
Ill, marrying in the following year
Miss Gardiner, of the same town, with
whom he has family of six children.
In lS49 President Taylor made him
POSTMASTER of Geneva, III. In 1850 ne
caught the gold fever and went to Cali
iornia to try his luck, engaging in min
ing on the Feather River. In 1852 ne
returned to Illinois, where he estab-
nshed an extensive mercantile business
IN Wilmington. A year later he started
the Wilmington Independent. In 1854
ne was delegate to the convention
held at Bloomington, ILL.,, that gave
name to the Republican party. Gov.
Waterman has always taken great IN
terest in political affairs, without being
known as politician, and has done eff
fectlve campaign work during many
Presidential campaigns. During the
war, notwithstanding numerous and i'm
portant duties at home, he enlisted more
than 1000 men and rendered good serv-
ice as bearer of dispatches to the front.
In 1873 he once more went to Califor-
MIA, settling at San Bernardino, where
he commenced prospecting, and was
successful in discovering number of
silver mines in locality now known as
the Calico Mining District. At the
Republican State Convention held at
Los Angeles in 1886 he was nominated
for Lieutenant Governor, and was elect
ed by plurality of $500 votes, the
Democratic State ticket being success
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

The Utica On, W Herald relates
how a wedding trip was interfered
with. A dapper young gentleman in o
skull cap jumped off drawing-room
car and went into the candy store at
the station and asked for two boxes OF
caramels. While they were being made
ready he noticed the new toy, Rats in
the Meal, " and picked one up. He be-
came very much interested in the game
and chased the rats" around and
around for nearly ten minutes. @There
I've got it, he exclaimed, but while he
had been absorbed the train had moved
off. He was in utter CONSERVATION.
1t transpired that he was recently mar.
x:ed and was on his wedding trip. The
groom was Mortified to find that his
bride was on her way to Albany with
his hat, overcoat, and belongings. Mat.
tiers were Strengthened out BY means
Of the telegraph.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

A. W. MILLER, of UniontowA, the
envied possessor of an object of con.
siderable curiosity and veneration,
VIZ: a Hebrew shekel, said to be be.
tween 1000 and s, 900 years old. 1t is
a rare thing to see one of these ancient
coins, or pieces of money, of the kind
for which Joseph was sold into Egypt.
This rare old coin, an heirloom, has
been in Mr.. Miller's family for several
generations. It was brought from
Jerusalem by one Herr Isaac Abrams,
away back in the distant past. Mr..
Miller values this little shekel ct $500,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

CYNTHIA DAILY and Patience Cloud,
both colored, of Henry County, Geor.
gia, have passed their Tooth year,
Cynthia Daily, who is as blind as bal
and as garrulous as a crow, is 1O7 years
old. and was brought to America from
Africa by SLAYER something over nine.
ty years ago. Patience Cloud is 1O5
years old and Virginian by birth, and
is one of the innumerable nurses Of
MARS" Washington, the last one oi
whom will "never, never de-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29

The whole of Africa will be inter.
ested in the defeat of the Massachu-
sets prohibition movement, as more
than one-third of the rum turned out
near Boston is sent to be consumed by
the savages of the dark continent.
New England rum is the favorite alco.
holic drink of Africa, and the African
is never SO delighted as when he can
obtain some of the smooth, fine old
rum which comes from Americas cen
ter of culture.