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The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-27

the hereafter. Is noted for his kindness of
heart. Why said Mr.. Beecher. as I was
walking down town to day, l saw a poor,
lame man. with crutches, slowly and care
fully picking his way through cesspOOl of
mud. in the endeavOr to cross the street.
He had just reached the middle of the filth
when big. burly ruffian. himself all be
spattered. rushed up to him, and, jerking
the crutches from under the unfortunate
man, left HIM sprawling and helpless in the
pool of liquid dirt. which engulfed him.
What brute he vast they all echoed.
Yes. said Mr.. Beecher. rising from his
chair and brushing back his long white hair
while his eyes glittered with their old time
fire. as he bent them on Col. Ingersoll.
Yes. Col. Ingersoll, you are that man. The
human soul is lame. but Christianity gives
it crutches to enable it to cross the pathway
of life. 1t is your teachings that knock
these crutches from under it, and leave it
a helpless and rudderless wreck in the
Slough of Despond. If robbing the human
soul of it's only support on this earth-re-
llgiOn-be your profession. why. ply it to
your hearts content. 1t requires an archi-
tect to erect a building; any incendiary
may reduce it to ashes
The old man sat down, and silence
brOOded over the scene. Col. Ingersoll
found that he had met Master, and said
nothing. The company took their hats and
separated. Our Paper, Massachusetts Re-
fOrmatory.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-27
Mary Had a Little Lamb.

Mary Had a Little Lamb.
Here is verse from the Chinese version:
zone gal named Mol had lamb,
Fleece all samee white snow,
Evly place Moll gal walkee,
Baa-baa hoppee long too"
An Americanized German has tried his hand on
the poem as follows:
'Dat Mary hat got Elm leede schaf
Nit hair shust like ZONE WOOL,
Und all der blaze dat gal did vent
Dat schaf 60 like elm fool"
An lrishman stimulated no doubt by the Ger
man, and not to be outdone by him, puts the
rhyme in this way
MARY had little shape.
And the wool was white entoirely,
And whiniver Mary would shtur her shtumps
The young shape would follow her completely"
The Americanized French version has a ring to
it that is lacking in the others gwen. 1t is:
La petite Marie had lie jeune mouton.
Re wool was blanche re snow,
And everywhere la petite Marie went
LIE jeune mouton was sure to CO."
Selected.
The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1890-03-27

visiting him of an afternoon. to stay to supper.
II should like to do so, but have important
duty at home at this hour which must attend to-"
''What is it?'
why you see my wife expects me to empty her
foot tub for her."
''What!' exclaims the host; you man and al
low yourself to be commanded in such a service
by woman? Who ever heard of such a thing?
I'll tell you what l should do in such case:
should
well what would you do?' said his wife calmly
who had entered the room unobserved.
why, should run right off and empty her
foot-tub. oh yes yes,-I should start right OFF,
-Youth's Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
MADAME sIeHIpAs FLoeeINe.

LONDON, April 1.-THE well known
English medical journal, the Lancet, pre-
sents at some length such details of the
atrocities to which political prisoners at
Kara. in eastern Siberia were subjected
last November as of special interest to
their profession. Most space is devoted to
Madame Sighida who died from effects of
a fiogging. Dr. Guerrich, the prison ply
sician, was strongly opposed to the fog
ging He furnished the governor of
the prison with certificates setting
forth that Sighida was receiving
treatment at his hands for heart disease
1t had long been customary for prison
officials to accept such certificate as suffi-
cient warrant for suspending the inhictiOn
of corporal punishment. But under the
order of Baron KOrof, governor general Of
the prison rules should be rigidly enforced
in the case of political prisoners, the COVER
nor of the prison decided that the
fOgging should be administered in
spite Of the physicians certificate
DR.. Guerrich then demonstrated strong
ly and refused to be present
at the fiogging Despite these remon-
strances the lady was seized, her clothes
stripped from her in presence Of some
soldiers. and she was thrown upon bench
and held down while cruel blows fell upon
her bare back. The Lancet applauds DR..
GuerriCh for his refusal to be a party to
this frightful barbariUy. If he is perse-
cuted for the stand he took, the Lancet
thinks that the physicians of England
ought TO unite in some attempt to effect
his rescue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
The German woman's Modesty.

The Gsrman woman IS apt TO be modest in
regard 20 hsr own attainmeats, which are by
no means so small as is often represented. Be
tween the ages Of eight and eighteen stately
procession OF knowledge is marched before
her.
In fact, except for the dead languages and
higher mathematics, she has during this time
about the same mental food as her brothers,
and frequently the same masters and pro-
fessors. In history, art and modern Ian
guages she is beyond rather than behind the
American girl Of the same age.
After marriage the household drudge, so
often cited In sketches Of German life, exists,
of course lis size wholly unknown in Amer
leap, but the companienable, charming and
elegant woman also. She knows English and
French, not as we pretend to know foreign
languages, but speaks them huently; she is
musical, has always lived in an art atmos-
phere, dresses well, entertains satisfactorily,
and takes her part In discussions of questions
OF the day.
But she is not mentally ambitious, not con-
scious Of the slightest intellectual response
bilitY. She is passive, timid, conventional TO
the verge of cewardice-above all, overshad-
owed by the aPpallingly prodigious learning
of the German man.-Blanche Willis How
ards Letter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12

Miss Rosa Lee Tucker has been elected
librarian and keeper Of the capitol Of Nis-
sissippi
The Crown Princess Of Sweden Is IN such q
ielicats state Of health that her physicians
have decided that she must reside for ssversi
years In a southern climate.
Miss Charlotte II. Yonge, who is respon-
sible for the ''The Heir Of Redclyfe," and.
indirectly, for leng line Of heroes with no
constitutions, is writing her one hundred and
first book.
Several well known men, including some
diplomates, made speeches at the opening in
Paris Of q culinary exhibition, and were en-
tertained at table upon which were set 200
different dishes differently cooked
New York City has woman blacksmith,
who, with her little kit OF tools, goes about
doing odd jobs In fitting keys, putting new
locks on trunks, putting on fastsnings, and
attending 10 the other details of household
machinery out Of repair.
Mrs Maxwell. who IS best known as Miss
Braddon, is plump Of build, sandy Of hair,
ana ruddy of complexion. She writes stead
lily four days week, and devotes the other
two TO riding, and she collects newspaper
clippings on out-of-the-vay subjects. She is
a connoiSseur of brio-a-brec, and, while she
declines point blank to talk about her own
books, she can make lark pie, and her favor
ite author is Dickens. She mas written in all
some fifty-three novels.
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shot the officer through the body, near the
heart, and shot himself in the arm in his
struggles. Thousands OF people were now
after him, but he ran like deer, though
blood was streaming from his wound dis
tanced them al and hid in dark alley.
More officers arrived and he was soon a pris-
oner.
Then ensued struggle to get him 70 the
central station, the crowd pressing on and
yelling Hang him! Lynch himl" the off
GERS with great difficulty keeping them back
II was soon reported that Officer BriscOe's
wound was mortal, and nothing but thick
walls and strong police force saved the pris-
oner from lyaching. He did not seem to
know that he was wounded till fairly behind
the bars; he then screamed and cried that lie
was dying and begged for priest and doc
tor. lie raved about his wife and the at
tempt of his fatheT-iR-igw 70 Kill MIN til
midnight, and tnen fell into q stupor
The next day be declared that &c did not
remember anything s!uce 10 took the first
drink in Chicago. H. tAe examination the
police surgeon found cent" IL MS skull
about the size Of q finger end. which, his
friends say, was made by his fsther-in-law
hitting him with a skillet year ago. None
of me wounded were dangerously hurt except
Cf3cer Briscoe Information came n rapid. 3
from Iowa ard Nebraska that Grove had
been for years 8 rambling and so,newEai
reckless fellow. bu, 50 iar as known tl4s is
nls tTst criminal enterprise.
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WEATHER BIJLLETIN.

w - ' III ~ OL--- i'N'
SIGNAL OFFICE, WICHITA, Kan, Apri
1.-THE highest temperature was 81 q
the lowest $50, ana the NEAR
$50, with fresh southwest TO high south
winds and a dust storm during the after
noon. warmer weather with increasing
cIoudiness and falling barometer, 29.65S at
p m.
Maximum velocity Of the wind south &C
miles per hour at 3:1O p. m
Last year, on April 10, the highest tenn
perature was 709., the lowest 50 . , and the
mean 62o.
FRED L. JOHNSON. Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT. WASHINGTON, D. c.,
April II, 8p. m.-Forecast until 5. p. m.
Saturday:
For Kansas-Fair, followed by rain turn
ing into snow;decidedly colder, highnorth-
westerly winds, cold wave.
For Missouri-Fair, colder, southerly
winds. shifting to high westerly cold wave
N northwestern Missouri
SPECIAL BULLETIN.
The signal service furnishes the follow
ing special bulletin to the press:
\ storm Of considerable intensity is cen
trai tonight in South Dakota: unusually
high temperature prevail in the centre
valleys extending nOrthWard to south
Minnesota and South Dakota A decided
fall of temperature has. however set in
and the temperature gradient is 50 sharply
marked in Minnesota and South Dakota
that the thermometer records a range of 80
degrees between adjacent stations, with
corresponding barometic variations. Wind
vel0cities are reported in the eastern side
of the storm CT y miles per- hour South
westl at Chicago; on the southern, IS miles
southeast, at Elliott, Tex; on the western.
42 miles (west) at Rapid City, Oak, and an
the northern side 81 miles (north) at Moore
head, MINI. 1t is moving eastward and
will be accompanied by high winds in
Missouri, Indiana and illinois.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
Mamsn shonId Heed.

Here is something l got from my family
physician which l really think every woman
should know: Women who sit with their legs
crossed to sew or TO read or TO hold the baby
are not aware that they are inviting serious
physical ailments, but it is true, nevertheless.
When a man crosses his legs he places the
ankle of one limb across the knee of the
other, and rests it lightly there. A woman,
more modest and restricted in her move
ments, rests the entire weight of one limb on
the upper part of the other, and this pressure
upon the sensitive nerves and cords, if in
dulged in for continued lengths of time, as Is
often done by ladies who sew or embroider,
will produce disease. Sciatica, neuralgia and
other serious troubles frequently result from
this simple cause. The muscles and nerves in
the upper portion of a woman's leg are ex-
tremely sensitive, and much Of her whole
physical structure can become deranged if
they are overtaxsd IN the manner referred
to,-CoUrier Journal.
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Ambiguous.

''Now. gentlemen, said the auchoneer.
''these town lots are gsin' 70 sell ike hot
cakes. Here's good solid soil at rock
bottom prices Here's bGiIGin' lots dirt
cheap. Buy two OF 'em, 6fty By hun
dred feet each, and you gil q good square
bargain. Or you can sit single one at
the price o the lot.
Il tell you, gentlemen, these lots ain I
goin 10 stay as low as they are now a
great while. See EN- fillin' 'ena in over
there? Them lots they're tilliu' in sells
for hundred n ten TODAY, but they'll
be higher by te-morrer. There's some
lots over there that some men bought
last week, and now they've gone up.
''See what the companv's doin' here
to increase the value o this property
They've made a contract with a man TO
grade the street; and that's a grade deal
in itself. They're going TO have gas put
in, and you'll have the use Of IL at light
cost. Then they'll have water intro
duced, which may cost little more, but
it won't run up mnch. You can see for
yourself how things are here, gentle
men. The air itself won't be free here
long; the winds rlSin' now. How much
am l offered now for lot number six
teen?
Gentlemen, if you amt got sense
enough to bid few dollars on this lot,
perhaps you've got dollars enough to bid
a few cents Eo:"--t " in Puck.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
NEW YORK Wheat BOOMING

NEW YORK. April ll-There was great
excitement iu the wheat market today and
10y l q clock there was the extraordinary
business of -, O,O00, coo bushels in the opera
uouS. Traders were feverish All were
anxious 10 cover contracts while outside
>peculators We're attracted by the pCssihil-
IJles az Oig profits in the rapid changes in
prices. Wall street the west and foreign
houses were taking up Jorge lots OF May.
June and July options. which suffered a
radical advance IN prices while the De
cember option jumped up > &c a. covering
the new crop. The Rhole situation i
simply affected by the government crop
report Heavy margins are being called
for bur there Is no sign OF auv trouble in q
financial way
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THE BLESSING OF STRONG NERVES

IS recoverable, not by the use of mineral
sedatives, but by recourse to effectaul
tonic treatment. Opiates and the like
should only be used as auXlharies, and
then as sparingly as possible. Vigorous
nerves are quiet ones, and the most direct
way TO render them so is to reinforce the
vital energies. That sterling invigOrant,
HOstetter's Stomach Bitters, will be found
all-sutficient for this purpose, since it en-
tirely removes impediments to thorough
digestion and assimilation of the food, so
that the body is insured its due amount of
nOurishment, and consequently of stamina
Rheumatic tendencies and affections of the
kidneys and bladder are also counteracted
by the Bitters, which is besides pleasant
medicinal stimulant, infinitely purer than
the raw eXcitants of commerce, which re-
act iniuriOusly upOn the nervous system.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
SIX TENEMENT HOUSES BURNED

caused by the explosion of a gasoline stove
at noon today in one of a row of a dozen
small tenement houses on Twentieth
street, destroyed six of them. The wind
was blowing furiously at the time and the
flames spread with such rapidity that
many of the tenants barely escape with
their lives John Garvin jumped from the
second story window and sustained severe
injury He was removed to the CITY hos
pitaL Three small children of Mrs Han
non whom their mother locked in the
house while she went marketing were
rescued 10y the iremen from second
story window. Threre were many other
marrow escapes. The loss was slO.ONl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
ARGUMENT CLOSED.
The Case Against Express Robber Smith
Closed.

WAYNEsBoRO. Miss, April H. - The
trial of Rube Smith was resumed this
morning aud the examination of the wit
nesses on the train robbery case was COM
pleted at O'Clock this afternoon,
y. l.. Llndley, of Lamar county. was a
very unwilling witness. The following
answers were extracted from him: i
boarded the train at CruSO. on the Georgia
I&clhc, to accompany nay SiSter-iu-law to
IUpelC, Rube Smith was on the train: this
WAS October l. last: said that he had been
working above Birmingham and was
going to get off at Salingento. the nearest
station to his fathers. / told him he had
better not; that the sheriff Was looking for
him. SO he did not stop but paid his fare on
further He had several hundred dollars
which he exhibited to me. ~ After COnSid-
cradle protesting he admitted that Rube
said to him that he had recently been with
Burrows.
James Smith. Rube's father, testified
that Rube WAS at home and slept there the
night of the robbery.
Jim Barker, an uncle of Rube, testified
10 sleeping with Rube the night of the
robbery
Rube was the last witness to testify On
crosS-eNamination the attorney brought
uut these facts. Il am - years old: born
IN Lamar couuty farmed on my fathers
place lu the years of 1886 and lS>1. made
three bales OF cotton first and one bale the
second year; i'm 1855 bills were gotten
against me for robbery and grand
larceny, went 10 Texas February.
lSN9, worked one month and Went
into Indian territory. left there
July 10 and returned TO Lamar county.
Alabama He admitted having money
bat failed TO explain now he came bv ii.
His evidence was very conflicting
Argument in the case began at ( o'clock
tins afternoon and was concluded at u
o'clock tonight
" hen McClung finished his testimony
on RUhe Smiths trial this evening he was
re-arrested and taken back 10 jail on in
dicJmentS found in Lamar county
charging him with robbery and grand
larceny and one or two misdemeanOrs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12
RUNNING AMUck IN CHICAGO.
An Iowa Lad, Crazed by Drink, Turns Rob
ber and Would Be Assassin.

An Iowa Lad, Crszed by Drink, Turns Rob-
Der and Would Be Assassin.
Pa&riok Grove, a fair and fine looking lad
Of Davenport, Ia, of good family and pleas
ing address, visited his sister in Chicago some
days ago and ventured on a spree. Four
days later he was in Jail, wounded and half
crazy, charged with murder and robbery.
He had shot two policemen, printer and
the woman he had robbed and had only been
captured after long and exciting chase
through the most thronged section of Clark
and adjacent streets at o'clock p. M, when
the crowd is thickest. 1t looks like one of
those remarkable and unusual cases in which
the worst criminal propensities are suddenly
developed and to degree Of desperation that
is near akin to insanity.
He is not over % years of age and looks
much younger; was reared on a farm near
Davenport, Ia, where his brother still lived,
and where his father was known as a well to
do dealer in cattle His sister, Mrs. May
Vaughn, says he came to visit her, and on
the evening of the robbery returned to her
house drunk. She expostulated with him,
when he seemed to grow wild and left the
house. lie went TO the rooms of one annie
Hail. on Clark street, and took a diamond
btai "oTIA SI,O1V IRON ueT, one IIieu 70
prevent him, when he shot her through the
arm and she tainted. As he rushed out of
the house he shot at chambernaid, but
missed her. Next day he pawned the star,
and that evening, about O'Clock, Officer
Isaac Iinville attempted to arrest him in the
pawnshop. Then his extraordinary run
ming amuck" began.
The officer bad scarcely spoken when
Grove had a revolver at his face, and fred
twice. The officer fell, two balls having
passed through his mouth and cheeks. Re
volver in hand, Grove dashed up the street.
Once the crowd stopped him; he turned and
fred at random, hitting c. E. Cole, a printer,
in the arm. For several squares then the
crowd gave him all the room he wanted, but
Officer Emmett Briscos finally stopped him.
They struggled and fell to the pavement; be
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-12

The saddsst recent instance q shooting was
the Carruth- Laull,s affair. az Vinssaud, y J
Charles J lands nsd founded toe place cu
a new plzu. i5 was a Success, bat there VS.
81 opposition" and is editor organ We
aIr. Carru-h. Ee was very yoa1z for 81
editor, sad evidently as Judgment vas iez
mature taan his person he made 81 a.tack
ca Lands, wnlca Ezs alleged . be -aEUor-
ous, but read n TIE cool2ess Of after yea-
* appears chiefly aoussvs. In K there wa 2
re;egeace % 5lr LazdIs' domestic GHalrs-
which sarlgeI hin be saes Carruta - iDs
head. ana iC- a year OF more t-e Tead.1s
rsblic were occAs;oaallr interested a. ~
Ceuiisloa u ..t4s editor Sita t1s ozl.s- "a
lls brain Es uved - express reEr@- fo-
a-s utcera.ce. ard lonE e1clEA - relieve 2E
Len-.s, uu6e- see lzE. from tae et1srse -
Killing hIlz, b,.s 1.szl e --s voaad.- y Z B
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CAIGHT RY The Bill GE

KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 1.-THE bulge
in wheat is responsible for the failure to-
day of Myers & Co, grain and commission
men, with Offices in the Midland hotel.
Myers & Co, are regularly represented on
the Chicago board of trade, where they
were short" on May wheat by orders Of
several of their correspondents in Kansas
When the market closed last night, they
were called upon for $4,000 additional
margins They in turn called upon
their Kansas customers for margins but
the Kansas people failed to respond and
Myers & Co, were forced TO the wall.
They owe their creditors in this city about
$50, 900 and their total liabilities are about
$4,000. They expect to adjust their af-
fairs so as TO be able to resume business.
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A MINISTER coNFEssEs FORGERY.

CINCINNATI, o., April IA Dayton dis
patch says that letters have been received
from the Rev. Edward Mahon, resident of
that city and pastor of the Progressive
Brethren church at Miamisbqrg, confess
ing that he is a forger and that he is on
his way to Wales to reclaim an inheri-
tance. or failing in that to kill himself.
He leaves a wife in destitute circum-
stances. he having squandered small in
heritance of hers. He left home April 8,
saying he was going TO St. Louis to preach
a funeral. but instead he went to New
York from where he wrote to his wife and
others making the above statements. He
forged notes and borrowed money from a
number of banks The amount is not
known and it is a mystery what was done
with proceeds. Rev. Mahon had high
standing in religious circles and is an
author Of some repute. 1t is said he was
addicted 10 the use of Opiates.
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The Trouble with onr Life.

In this country the great cry seems con-
tiuuslly to be overwoTk, overwork; and no
class Of people utters the cry so much as the
brainworkers all over the land, although the
complaint is not confined 10 such persons
alone. 1t was only the other night in a
theatre, that l overheard a man sitting di-
rectly back of me bewailing the condition Of
one of his children. who was threatened with
some nervous malady. His friend observed
that one Of his own daughters had been suf-
fering for some time with nervous prostra-
ton. Nervous prostration in girl of III
What ironyl
And yet this casually overheard remark as
to the condition of that young girl is but an
instance of hundreds Of similar cases. Who're
does the fault hel Certainly this was not the
experience undergone by our mothers and
grsndmOthers.
Whore does the fault lie9" In the present
mode of existence. Max Eliot's Letter.
Across His Father,