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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
A misunderstanding.
They halted in the street to shake hands,
and one OF them said:

They halted in the ,street-to shake hands,
| and one OF them said:
'FWeIl, the storm. seems'-
The other broke away and started OF at
o rapid gait, leaving No. looking after
him in blank asoonishncnt. Five or six
hours later they happened to meet again,
and No. said
Look here, want to know what allied
yen this morning"
You began about fhe storm"
''What Of it? Hadn'twe had q storm and
hasn't it cleared up!"
"Oh, you mean tho recent stormp
Certainly"
yesterdays storrn?"
"Of course"
''Then beg your pardon for my rude
ness. thought you were going to speak
about storm which occurred way back
forty or fifty years ago, whom you first
came into the state. Ali this is different,
and shall be delighted to bear you fElly
express yourself Let's go in somewhere
and you tell me all about it."-Detreit
Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
What F5cs Cents WIN Do in New Y

What Fire Cents VIII Do in New York.
In Washington market five cents will
purchase whole strawberry. or five re
specially iGrge oranges, or a tlnrd Of Gu
CumheT; cr q boy can purchase three or
angas, ard With tbs two cents balance sail
across thu Meth river on the BARCLAY stree
far-yboat clcse a. hand, and if 1t be his
good luck 70 take this sail on steamer day,
he may kGve the pleasure OF seeing some OF
the great ocaSu racers hkethe famous Ten
tonic CT Cry Ct Paris. IS they n2sjesCcaIly
come II tie bay. ! saw the City OF Paris
the last cine sha came into har6ov before
her c.16Lt, and she was a proud sight
for she moves 81 quietly IS rapidly, and her
lines are Sc graceful and her proportions
50 perfect c77eN IaEGlubber Eko myself
would ssLspscs iesr Of making Eszo time.
VIII Cye ceacs accomplish as much SIS
this anyTae-g e3so under the upE-SPrius
field RePu*ic~,.-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31

DOCTOR PURDY,
SURGEON, OcuIiSt and AuriSt
l54 MAIN ST, WICHITA. KAN.

The doctor gives special attention
10 the treatment OF all diseases Of the
EYE. including the scientific adjust
meut OF glasses to correct imperfect
vision.
CATARACT removed and sight re-
stored TO many Who have been totally
blind.
CROSS EYES Strengthened in one
SORE EYES cured without the use
Of CaUStics or other harmful agents.
ARTIFIClALE1ES carefully select
ed and applied.
DEAFNESS-An durable cases Of
deafness promptly cured.
LA~S8S-Ouly those who have had
a thorough training should attempt
10 fiji glasses. lest they 90 the patient
more harm than good. Many cases of
nervousness, iTTlta Dillty. insomnia,
headache. vertigo and seeming stu
pI-GIy ia children are due 10 defective
vision and are removed at once by the
application OF proper glasses.
Doctor Pnrty has achieved sue
cess little less than pheuOnlual a. q
general surgeon. treating with great
success dcfurmiTieS. club foot, curya-
tuTc az the spine. hip JOINT disease.
white swelling, diseases of the bone,
cancer. ulcers, LuI1Ors, old sores. hair
lip, facial blgmi-heS, skin and blood
t--~r s2~F~s &C. - tEL-st@ tAaf~'L u tF-l >
CARED. Doctor Purdy vas late pro
fes-or of surgery ia the Wichita Aedi-
caI College ana Surgeon 10 -. Francis
hospital. having rclIngul9he1 the
above positions in order to devote his
entire time Ia his STecISlt}ts-.
\. h. SUperruouS hair. facial biem-
l-G@-. 1glc-. etc. Ie1uoTeo by elec-
.Elrity. Correspondence solicited.
Cons u4EasIJLS 4rce.
l.. Z. PURDI, u. D.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
: CLASG g LITERATl.
a csa+n That 1t Is Impossible in America

Csa*n That 1t Is Impossible in America
Under Present Conditions.
Is there literary ordaT-or, better, q
literary class-among us9 In :he old days
e. "merrie England" the authors and re
viewers, even if they starved, had pride
n 5heir profession and jealous guardian
ship of its pale. The literary men of En-
gland today are better organized, more
alphabetically attached TO one another in
their literary work than are our own. The
general principle of independent fighting
for reputation among American literary
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
The wondrous Power of Song.

Congressman John Alien, of Mississippi
in addition to being one Of the wits of the
house, is also something OF ''plunger'' in
society. He was present at a musicale
given at the Shoreham by Mrs. jeanette
Thurber, and talked music with a fiuency
that astonished some Of those who heard
him. During the evening Mrs. Thurber
engaged the Mississippi congressman in
conversation for a few minutes, and Incl
IDENTIFY inquired if he was familiar with the
study of music.
'Oh, yes, replied Mr.. Allen, promptly,
81 am something of a musician myself In
fact ] am so fond of music that Introduce
it into my every day life with very bene-
fetal effect. control my wife and family,
and govern my entire household by the
power Of my music
Il don't quite comprehend you" an
swered Mrs Thurber smiling.
well" said Mr.. Allen, with a merry
twinkle IN his eye. 1T is just like this:
When I request my wife or any member OF
my family 70 do anything. and they refuse,
l threaten TO sing. They Immediately re-
lent aad do my bidding rather than hear
NE. ''-EatinoFe Sun
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
UNION PROGRAM.
Sixth Grade Park School May 29-Excelsior an
UtOpian Societies.

4 1910
UtOpian Societies.
Song. America ...................S School
Reading, A Flower ....... Bessie Bruner
Reading, Unknown" .......M Minnie Dibb
Recitation, independence HalP
Recitation, 'Barbary Frietchie''
Composition, steam Navigation"..
........-............Be BERTHE Lockyer
Composition, Maple Sugar. -.
Observation-Disclosures. Josie Clark
Song by the school
Reading, 'Reveries Of school Girl
...............-......Li Lille balance
Reading, The American Boy.
Recitation, 1.-The Old Man and Jim
.................Ma Matte Mcpherson
Recitation, The Volunteer Organ
ist' ........ ............ Clara Bowen
Recitation, How He Saved St.
Recitation, The Boy for Me-. -,
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. DOXIe BrOWeIl
Song by the school.
Paper, Excelsior News" Lille Lewis
Recitation, David Grey's Estate.
Observation-Disclosures Flo Carpenter
Recitation, United at Last"
Observation-Disclosures ennie Griffin
Composition, patents" ........ Geo. Major
Composition, Ann Hlgh Laura HauIey
Recitation. Last Prayer CT Mary,
Queen of Scots. Eva Griffith
.....,..................B Bessie Mccoy
Song by the school.
Paper, Ethiopian POST. Maybelle Israel
Recitation, "Pyramis and Thisby"..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Tweet Mason
Recitation, Some Old Friends"....
Observation-Disclosures. Laura Morris
T2ppirariDD an tHp ('qfgPDUD BS'f
Observation-Disclosures. Inez jackson
Recitation, ASLEEP at the Switch.
....................AIa Mccullough
Distribution Of grade cards.
Song by the school.
Dismissal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
Oklahoma Blanks.
Frisco Line" to st. Louis and the East.

! The best, quickest and most direct line
| from Wichita to St. LOnis and all prinCi-
| pal eastern, southeastern and northern
| cities.
! The Frisco line runs two daily express
| trains from Wichita to St. Louis without
| change. equipped with Pullman palace
| sleepers and free reclining chair cars. No
other line does it. Close connections in st.
! Louis union depot with solid vestibule ex-
| press trains, without change, to Chicago,
| Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pitts
| burg, Philadelphia New York and Boston.
| The popularity of this line being uni
versaiiy acknowledged by ali competitors,
| all passenger trains of other railway lines
entering Wichita from the north, south
| and west arrive in time to connect with
the Frisco line fast express trains to the
| east.
If you cannot purchase through tickets
reading via Frisco line from your starting
point, it viii pay You to purchase to Wich-
ta in order to secure the advantages and
comforts of this line.
For further information regarding rates,
time connections end through reservation
Of sleeping car accommodations call upon
or address W. d. Murdock. ticket agent,
I'D North Main street, orDOUglas avenue
| union depot. d. WIsHAET
Gen. Pass Agent,
d56-tf st. Louis, Mo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31

''That isn't very good picture of the
baby, is it, Lottie?"
"No, sir; but he isn't a very good baby. y
-Harper's Young People.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
free Reclining Chair Car Service 70 Denver

Free Reclining Chair Car Service 70 Denver
and Return va the SANTA Re Route
The Atchisau. Topeka & Santa Re are
now running daily free reclining chair CIR
ou their night train 10 Denver Pa--er5-
gers leaving Wichita * z.sJ .. IL. Mi.
arrive al Pueblo for breakfast the next
morning, Colorado Springs a. 1879 II
ara Denver for elmer. IN addition 20 free
reclining chair car service Pullman rr-er-
yztlou may be had upon application ~
union ticker Office and union dep1.
V D. NCEDOCE.
Gl0ltf Pass aud ticket agent
Old pa7ers for sale at this o1ioe-z cents
49,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
{ HE-ouS.

rR5.s as curious things
II have vol - know:
TSc more Lae.- re contracted
The lsTssr ua-y grow.
- oEs IS lsf E5zcSrtcn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
Puzzled The Doctors. .

MOST Of the cases cured by Ayers
iFl Sarsaparilla have been given up
BY the regular practice. Physicians are
recommending this medicine more than
ever. and with satisfactory results.
z. VI. Sargent. Lowell, Mass. SAYS =
Several years ago. my daughter broke
out with large sores on her hands.
face, and other parts Of her body. The
case puzzled the doctors My daughter
used Ayers Sarsaparilia, and u resulted
IN a complete cure Her blood seems 10
have been thoroughly purified. as she
has never had 50 much as pInple
since taking this medicine
This Is 10 certify that after having
been sick for twelve years with kidney
disease and general debility, and having
been treated nv several physicians with
Cuc relief. I am now better IN every Te-
spect, and think I am nearly well,
having taken seven bottles Of Aver
Sarsaparilla Maria wlsson,
Albert Lea, MINI.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS.

We carry g co-1pl~cs lie Of ell kinds o. Books
and Bank such - are esd hy Peal Estste goats
consisting q: DEEDS, A1T-ssS@- Z ascrzcss, E=csl
Books Note Book fssE. kEg-sfs-E, NGrz-y P.s
Records ard E!azks Contract bo6ka Esocf = Ers
Estase Books for FaTTn ard CITY Prope-1y. ETC Dr
1EEs - l-A1 Iror- ply a-;s1css- -. A64ge.s
THE WICHITA EAGLE
WICHITA KANSAS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31

Old ps7srs for sale st this Office cents
Per hundred. ~
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01

The offer of 100000 year which a
New York man has made to the Gov
ernment for the privilege of placing
advertisements upon the backs Of post
age stamps will hardly receive any
serious consideration from the authori-
ties at Washington. If it were ac-
cepted it would probably be followed
by applications for advertising space on
the walls Of the halls of Congress, for
the privilege of painting baking-pow-
der signs on the sides of the new steel
cruisers, or for permission to equip the
regular army with transparencies set
ting forth the merits of various brands
of securing soap. The postage stamp
advertising scheme won't go. It is not
new, an English advertiser having
vainly tried to arrange a similar con-
tract with the British Government
years ago; and it won't work in this
country
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
Why 1900 Is Not q Leap Year.

The following explanation will SHOW
you why the year 1900 will not be counted
among leap years. The year is 365 days
hours and 49 minutes long eleven min
utes are taken every year to make the
year 3654 days long, and every fourth
year we have an extra day. This was
julius Caesars arrangement. You may
ask: "Whcrc do these eleven minutes
come from?" They come from the fu-
ture, and arc paid by omitting leap year
every 100 years. But if leap year is
omitted regularly every 100 years, in the
course Of 400 years it is found that the
eleven minutes taken each year will not
only have been paid back, but that
whole day will have been given up. So
Pope Gregory XIII, who improved on
Cpsar's calendar in 1882, decreed that
every centurial year divisible by four
should be leap year after all. So VIC
borrow eleven minutes each year, more
than paying our borrowings back by
omitting three leap years in three cen
turia years, and square matters by hav-
lug a leap year in the fourth centurial
year. Pope Grcgorys arrangement is
50 exact and the borrowing and paying
back balanced so nicely, that we borrow
more than we pay back to the extent of
only one day in 1856 years.-&. Louis
ReDublic.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
COunterfeiters.

Counterfeiters, unlike most other classes
of "crooks," are drawn from all ranks
of society. Many persons of worthy
antecedents drift into crime almost by
accident. A fine engraver, for instance,
in moment of thoughtlessness, tries his
hand at an imitation of a Government
note as a mere test of skill. Success in
deceiving his friends, perhaps by way Of
jest, gives him dangerous impulse on
ward, and in an hour of weakness the
temptation to use his powers for bad,
and finds him ready victim. The same
moy be true of a die-cutter or metal
worker who makes matrix for coin
even for the adornment of q bit of
jewelry or as an advertising device. The
policy of the Secret Service has been
uniformly to discourage everything of
the sort The statutes of the United
States on the subject are very sweeping,
and their Interpretation by the courts
correspondingly broad. Where there is
plainly no fraudulent intent person dis
covered making anything which could
possibly be mistaken for Government
coin, or note, or bond, or stamp, or, in
deed, for any part of one, is quietly
warned from headquarters to cease. If
tue work is finished it is ordered de-
stroyed, and on noncompliance declared
contraband, and confscated. This often
seems like serious hardship to innocent
makers of fancy goods, but the majority
of them yield gracefully enough when
the principle underlying the rule is ex'
planned to them. m.-Pittsbury Dispatch.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
FIVE HUNDRED MILLION feet of logs

FIVE HUNDRED MILLION feet of logs
are cut in the State of Maine annually.
The name, Pine Tree State, was ac-
quired years ago, but Spruce Tres
State would now be more appropriate.
Although there are millions of pine
yet standing, the palmy days of that:
tree, in commercial sense, long since
departed, and the spruce, prolific and
hardy, is the mainstay of the lumber
trade. Whatever the case may be in
other States, Maine has nothing to fear
from the denudation of her uplands.
The spruce is prolific tree, renewing
its growth in few years, thus filling
up the gaps made by the lumberman's
ak, and soon producing a second growth
or aftermath. Many townships on the
Penobscot have been numbered over
twice and some three times, while IN
Hancock County there is more timber
standing to-day than there was twenty
years ago.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
Use Of Onions.

Botanically the onion belongs to the
lily family. The odor of the vegetable,
which is what makes it so unpleasant, is
due to volatile oil, which is the same as
that in garlic. though in the onion it is
mldcr and naturally does not last so
long. There are, besides, easy ways, if
one only knows them. of removing ut
once all unpleasantncss from the breath.
A little parsley or Il few grains OF co!lee,
or even Il swallow or two OF milk. II
taken after eating, proves IN effective
remedy. Boiled onions are tho Least OBJ
ic:tionablc in regard to odor, and arc as
easily ligested as any The oil i'll the
onion passes off in the water in which
the vegetables are boiled, and if the ket-
tie be kept closely covered and the water
changed after they have boiled five min
utcs, and then again ten minutes later,
there will be no odor through the house,
and the onions will be white instead of
gray, as they so often are. Besides be-
ing rich in fesh-forming elements, raw
onions are especially good in breaking
up heavy cold; they arc also stimulat-
ing to fatigucd persons and are otherwise
beneficial. York Telegram.
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salute the old fellow would surely fail in
recitation. Hence it is p > as every
class that tramps down ts ,+orick walk to
lessons passes the old wooden Indian
each cadet lifts his nat or touches his
visor.
The chapel stands next to the figure
head, modest building that looks like a
Greek temple. A stage of generous size
and gallery afford accommodation for
entertainments, and the opportunities thus
offered are seized by the officers and their
families, who find it rather difficult some
times to pass the winters in the academy
grounds without being triae bored. The
cadets used to give minstrel performances
and other entertainments, but now their
histrionic efforts are limited to one or two
events during the year. The walls are
lined with glass cases reaching to the roof,
containing the battle flags that have been
captured by the United States Navy from
foreign powers.
The academy building. as the main
structure is called, forms the western end
of the quadrangle, facing east. 1t is
facetiously termed by the cadets "the
watch factory" for some reason unintel-
ligible to the average visitor. The iron
porch extends the entire length of the
building which is devoted to the use of
the cadets for gastronomic and somnolent
purposes. The dining hall is on the first
floor, looking out over the river on the
end. Everything is neatuess and order:
A napkin ring of uniform style. marked
with the cadets name, is at each plate,
which is symmetrically arranged. The
walls contain trophies of achievements by
various classes in years gone by in boat
ing. foot ball and pistol practice.
The dormitories are on the upper floors,
where the same degree of tidiness pre-
walls. 1t would seem that nothing was
out of place. Each room is model and
contains an iron bedstead, a table, two
chairs, washstand, two wardrobcs and
two bookshelves. There is no adorn-
ment or notwithstanding is plain
and clean.
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The old fort has long since been dis
mantled and transfgured, and now, with
conical roof over its head, and broad,
easy entrance into its inner precincts, it
serves good purpose as the gymnasium
for the cadets, being fitted with an ex-
cellent set of apparatus for the physical
development of the cadet. It was here,
on the gymnasium floor, that the hops,
which have become so famous, were for
merly held. Of late years, however,
they have been given in the armory
building, at the western end OF the
grounds. The ''fort," as it is still
called by some, is in the northeast cor
ner of the inclosurc, nearly on point of
land which runs into the bay at the
mouth of the river. On the left of it,
looking at the cut, a neat brick walk leads
down to the academy wharf, where lie
the ships on which the cadets receive
their training in practical seamanship.
The inner basin of the wharf was oc-
cupied by the old frigate Santee, several
stories high, stripped of her yards, spars
and guns, and housed over with canvas
roof. There she lay, a relic of a dis
carded ideal of ship building, useless ex-
cept as a floating box in which boys can
learn the difference between port and
starboard and forward and aft. The
white house just beyond her is a store
house. and the masts and bowsprit that
are seen peeping up still further belong
to the memorable old ship Constellation,
which was recently stuck in the mud in
Chesapeake Bay in sight of land IN a
roaring gale. She has been repaired and
has crawled back to be part Of the prac-
tice feet. On the left, out of sight, lies
the Wyoming. A new practice vessel,
800 tons burden. is about to be built for
the training of cadets. It will be of the
modern type and in every way suitable to
the purpose.
Returning to the quadrangle again the
visitor cannot fail to note a handsome,
undetermined residence on the east end,
with its back to the bay, sort of inter-
loper among its more sedate neighbors
built before the war. This is the home
of Captain Sampson, the present Super
intendent, where his wife and his daugh-
tiers do valiant work in the good cause of
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IN THE INNER BASIN.

making every visitor believe that Annap-
oils is the most beautiful spot on earth.
The house fronts on the green plaza,
which is broken through the middle by
an irregular, wide line of huge elms and
oaks that have been standing for years
and years On the right hand side the
turf is clear of trees and brush and is
lined with row of brick buildings
painted an agreeable drab. Those on
the extreme right. down toward Fort
Severn, are recitation bindings, dor
mitorics, etc. A two-story structure,
with wings on either side, is called the
"seamanship buiiding,' wherein the
cadets receive their instruction in the art
making. manning and sailing ship Of
war. In one of the lower rooms is a
large model Of 4 ship, full rugged, every
stitch Of canvas spread to the still air,
every rope stretched, every pully creased
and ;,il ready ~ De set in motion ous for
,hc fact that it is only half 4 ship and
that it has no null and no keel. Never
thclcss it serves to show the boys what
stays, main stays, eye bolts and marlinc
spikes look like. Upstairs are various
models, showing the methods of con-
struction and one or two indicating the
development of ship building. To
accentuate this an old model stands in
one corner, the type of a Dutch frigate
of a century or so ago. 1t is black, hump
backed, shapeless, with its hull studded
with patterned projections for decorative
purposes, but sadly endangering the
speed of the awkward craft. She has
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01

THE phonograph has not yet been
reduced to that simplicity and perfec.
ton of operation necessary for its gen
eral sale and Introduction. It is true
several examples have been produced
which are in use, and many interesting
experiments have been made. At the
Paris exhibition the instruments were
shown in operation, and the perfection
of the results in recording and deliver
ing speech was marvellous. But in most
cases, in order to get really satistae-
tory results, experts are required to
watch, adjust and work the instru-
ment. When the phonograph becomes
entirely automatic it's future is assured