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Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
CIS-MISSOURI RATES.
They viii be Adjusted to Conform with
Reductions on the Other Side.

CHICAGO, H.. Feb. 1S.-At the meeting
of the Western Freight association today
a committee was appointed to confer with
the freight committee of the TRANSMITS
souri, association and decide upon a plan
of readjusting rates west of the Missouri
river to conform with the reduced rates to
Missouri river points. The committee is
instructed to report not later than Satur-
day. The reduction will affect through
rates as far west as Colorado and Utah
nOIutS
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
She Eryied IT.

He-I am THINKING OF embracing literary
life
She-I do not cioub. that the life viii be a
very happy one ii yoa-if you snouid treat it
tie way you spoke of.-Ezchange..
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

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i JId no: zseaa TO 40 L oez- 9e-7e
''TISe KISS night have FS,roses-0 Size replied.
'B1S never never yosr spaAc-x-
-Csrsyar Szi-z IN Hxzsser's Bsxxr.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
BISHOP O,CoNNOR,s CASE HOPELESS

PTTTSBURG, Pa. Feb. lS.-Rev. Father
John Ward, chaplain of Mercie hospital
administered the last rites OF the Catholic
church TO Bishop O'Connor, Of Omaha,
Nebraska. who lies i'll at that institution
All hope Of the bishops recovery has been
abandonea.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

shows itself occasionally s-Aa
is the many college athletes in its ranks, and
the chairman of the games committee. George
R. Morrison, is a Harvard graduate and once
was celebrated running high jumper, hold
ing a record of feet 7sz inches at that game,
which even in these days is considered capi-
tai jump
TIE programme for the games will be notice
able for its great variety of events. 1t will
include sprinting, middle distance running,
walking, hurdiing, running high jumping,
pole vauiting, weight throwing and tug of
war. Games held in doors are, as a rule,
limited in events, but the B. A. A. has made
arrangements for the successful holding Of
events which heretofore have been most un-
satisfactory when competed in on board
floor. Any kind of running, walking, hur-
ding and tug of war can be taken part IN on
a board floor almost as well as on turf or a
cindsr path, but jumping and weight throw
ing are different. The trouble with these
events is that the landing place for the athlete
in the jumps and the weights in weight throw
ing on board floor generally is mattress.
1t can readily be seen that to mark where a
weight lands on a mattress needs much ex-
perience, for no break in the ground, as it is
called out of doors, is made, and the weight
rolls away without leaving any perceptibls
trace where it struck the mat. Judges have
to be very quick in determining where the
missile lands and many disputes have arisen.
Athletes in jumping events also complain Of
lack of confidence in landing on a mattress
from great height in high jumping or pole
vaulting, although some say they can do as
well under those conditions as if they were
competing out of doors and landing on soft
dirt.
The games committee of the B. A. A. has
overcome the great obstacle in weight throw
ing on board floor, and in both putting the
16-pound shot and throwing the 56-pound
weight the missile will land in box is feet
square filled to a depth Of inches with
dirt. This will bring the competition down
to point as fine as when carried on out OF
doors. This will be the first time that the
plan has been tried on large scale, and the
place assigned for the weights to land in is
fully large enough to enable even inexpert
weight throwers to compete without running
the risk of damaging the floor by an mac
curate throw.
The programme for the games will be as
follows: so yards run, 300 yards run, 40
yards run, $50 yards run and l mile run,
mile walk, 900 yards hurdle race 2 feet 6
inches high, running high jump, pole vault.
putting 16-pound shot, throwing 56-pound
weight, tug of war-teams of four men.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
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Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
BADLY KNOCKED OUT.
AHARD BATTLE BETWEEN MIDDLE
WEIGHTS.
Jack Dempsey Furnishes Billy Nc
Carthy Until Compassion Moves
Him to Cease.
The Australian Champion Pluokily Re-
fuses to Acknowledge Defeat--Twenty-
eight Rounds Fought.

Dempsey's Lost Laurels Retrieved to the
Satisfaction Of All Interested-An
Important Cronin Conspirator Ar
rested at St. Louis, Identified
as Kelley-The Crimi-
nal Record.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

CoASTISG WITH SNOW SHOES.
fellows put ON fur coats wrong side out and
occasionally walk, grumblingly, on ell fours
personifying bears, while others again make
up as goats and spin round on stills. Par
ties of young village people parade the
streets in such disguises TO the accompali-
ment of harmonium or guitar and the wild
yells OF the delighted small boy.
How very Widespread are the modes OF cele-
brating carnival obtaining in Russia proper is
shown by the fact that even the Osetins, in
the faraway mountainous Caucasus eagerly
avail themselves of the least fall of snow in
order to organize kind of tobogganing in
their own fashion.
Many observances pertaining to the pagan
period of Russian history are revived in the
popular customs prevailing ct carnival, the
most curious among such being the Burn
ing of the Carnival in Efigy." This custom
is upheld mostly in the provincial places dis
tant from the capital, and quite curious
and significant custom it is-ef indisputably
pagan origin. A large efiigy Of the Carnival
or, more properly speaking, Of the Winter
is made out OF straw and rags tied with ropes.
This efigy is seated in sleigh, broom is
stuck in its hand and an old wheel set On q
pole at its back
The villagers, young and old, walk by the
sleigh, laughing, joking, dancing and sing
ing, while young fellow-the readiest wit
the community afforeis-is seated on the edge
of the sleigh and, holding a sheet of white
paper i'll his hand, is pretending to read from
it the decree of capital penalty against the
Carnival. The young fellows Improvisation
runs smoothly as he proceeds 20 tell why it i.
that Carnival has incurred condemnation,
who were the people it led into temptation,
and what are the means for them TO reform
foremost among which is to burn the naughty
Carnival. This last rite is performed amidst
much frohc and jollity in the first field outside
the village.
Serious investigators of Russian folk lore
and national customs are most positive IN
their assertions that the burning of the Car
nival Is but survival of the olden time
pagan burning of the Winter. With the car
nival the winter amusemeuts are at an end
as well as the winter frosts, and tie effigy ol
Winter is burned then by way cf emphasizing
the fact that it has to make way for spring
and warmth, which latter, in the burning
of the Carnival, is represented by the wheei
set on pole against the efhgy's back, a
wheel being the symbolic personifcation OF
the sun, and that not only among the Slys,
but likewise among the nations of Gernanic
origin. Mrs. B. MACGAKAa.
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

It it said that II ten American noveiists
whose books sell readily are selected and ten
mechanics, who earn 8. so day, at the end
of ten years the mechanics will have earned
the most money
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
,THE &. A. A. MEETING.

Largest Inaoor Athletic Games Ever Given
In This Country, with Two Exceptions.
The largest indoor athletic games held in
the United States since the two given in New
York city, January and March, 1889. by the
Amateur Athletic union and National Asso-
citation Of Amateur Athletes respectively,
will be those which the Boston Athletic esso-
citation has been making great preparations
for holding on Feb. Is at Mechanics hall,
Boston. The great feature of the Boston
games viii be the handsome prizes which are
offered to attract the best athletes in the
country to the occasion. The prizes consist
of solid silver cups about ten inches high to
first, second and third men, except in the tug
of war, when the prize to each member Of
the team taking third place will be a gold
die medal. The members OF the teams taking
first and second place win receive silver cups
of different design from those offered in the
other events
These games will be the first attempt on the
part Of the Boston Athletic association at
holding an open athletic meeting. The club
is a little over two years old and it has been
in its beautiful club
N'E '4RsAN house On Exeter
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Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

Experience proves that nothing else so
surely destroys scrofula, as Ayers Sarsap-
ariI1s
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

represented on the MEM
bership roll, and it is in
every way a representa-
tive organization. One
advantage it has which
c,o-c ifS,If oo~oo;o1oIly
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19

palace that Is said to be As beautiful In It's
outlines, of as large proportions and splendid
appointments as any tce palace ever built Ia
Canada for the frolic set up for carnival
week. This is seemingly new departure in
st. Petersburg, an imitation of the success
full feature Of the Canada carnival, yet in
fact it is only revival Of very old inven-
ton. As far back as in the winter of 1880
the Russian empress, Anna Ieannovna, had
a mansion Of solid bricks OF ice erected In
that mansion was celebrated the wedding of
two ugly dwarfs, holding at that time posi-
tions of court testers TO the empress, and the
highest and mightiest Russian magnates
danced then in the ice mansion at the ball
given by the empress in honor of the newly
welded pair.
OF course, in country places all such pop
ular amusements are carried on on q smaller
scale, there being no benevolent municipali-
ties there, and, In fact, no public funds avail
able to make any appropriations from. Yet
buckwheat cake eating and fast sleighiug are
indulged on every side-ths cheapest and
most popular mode of amusement among the
young people being masquerading. The
girls put on mems clothing, blackening their
eyebrows with burnt cork, pastirg boards of
tow on their fresh young faces, while the
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
He Ought tn II. Ashamed of Hi.n.eif.

He Ought To BE Ashamed of Himseif.
Mrs. Brimmer waking and hearing a n0is,
in the hailway1-Is that YOU, Brimmeri
Brinnmer-T esf'mi
Mrs. B.-Wmt time IS itf
Brimmer-Ha' pash tsol
Mrs. B.--Hah past twoi You ought TO h
ashamed of yourself, sir
Brimmer-QuP right, ma'aml qui right
when one boil mak'sh man drunk be orres
be shame shef.-Exchange
Wichita eagle., 1890-02-19
A RUSSIAN CARNIVAL.
A WEEK CONSECRATED TO WILD
HILARiTY.

The Tremendous Number of Buckwheat
Cakes Devoured on WaSers-Troika Driy-
ing and the Steep OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ing Of Young People-'sButter Week"
Carnival week is very peculiar time
throughout the empire of the tsars. People
high and low, rich and poor, without distinc-
ton Of age or sex, give themselves up en-
tirely 10 frolic and good cheer for the whole Of
the week preceding Lent. which is strictly
Observed by ct least 50 per cent. of the
tsars' subjects. Many are the queer obsery-
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
Rouufaff0u.

The reputation of man is made up Of
what people say of him. In like manner
the reputation of medicine depends on
what they who have used it say. No rem
edy in existence has so good reputation as
blood remedy as B. B. b Botanic Blood
Balm). 1t is a successful PHYSICIANS pre-
terrible cases Of bad blood.
DR.. L. A. Guild, Atlanta, Ga, writes:
"Wm. Sealock, living on my place, had an
ugly running ulcer on his arm which ordi-
nary remedies failed to control. As last
resort placed him on use of B. B. B. and
the ulcer began to heal at once, and effected
an entire cure. 1t is remedy well worthy
of confidence" sE
DR.. j. E. Hall, Druggist at Americas,
Ca, writes: "a planter near this place had
several of his best laborers affected with
Syphilis. He got them B. B. r. and pro-
nOunces them all well. A gang OF A. r. q
L. Railroad hands use B. B. B. with great
benefit to counterfeit the effects Of swamp
malarian
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
WIT AND WISDOM.

1t takes almost superhuman strength
to hang on when you begin at the top o,
the ladder.-MilwaukeeJ Journal.
The man who depends upon wages
will get rich sooner than the man who
depends upon wagers.-Boston Herald.
Many young man who sows his
wild oats trusts to the grasshopper OF
forgetfulness to destroy the crop
Texas Siftings.
1t is better to lose Jest than a
friend, to miss an opportunity of saying
good thing than to make an enemy.
N. Y. Ledger.
When a man admires woman who
can argue, you can depend upon it that
the woman is some other mans wife,.
Atchison Globe.
He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more excellent
who can suit his temper to any circum.
stances.-Hume.
If there is ever a time when it's a
blessing for a man to be blind, it is
when he is in love. He can't see what
a fool he makes of himself.-Bingham
ton Republican.
Have you learned the lesson of yes.
terday or the infinite meaning of to-day
1t has duties of its own; they can not be
left until tomorrow. Tomorrow will
bring it's own work.
I'm private conversation between
| friends the wisest men very often talk
| like the weakest; for. indeed, the talk.
ing of a friend is nothing else but think
ing aloud.
Men and women, to lead worthy
lives, must have just respect for them
| selves. Whatever tends to realize and
to strengthen these promotes human
welfare.-N. Y. Ledger.
"A sure cure of poverty, about which
we are hearing good deal, is primarily
cure of character. In free countries,
certainly, most of the poverty VIC find is
the near result of a weak intellectual,
or weak moral, character, or both.
If we live on the surface all the
| time, our experiences must all be super
fetal. 1t is only by going down among
the roots of things that we gain knowl
| edge and power such as we need.-Unit
ed Presbyterian.
Zone thing" says Lucy Larcom,
I'VE are at last beginning to understand,
which our ancestors evidently had not
| learned: that it is far more needful for
theologians to become as little children,
| than for little children to become theo-
| logians."
| There is no gain in finish or polish
in and of itself. Polish and finish pre-
suppose something that is worthy of be-
ing thus brought into prominence. He
who essays to write with finish, or to
| speak with polish, without having in
mind thought or a factwhich is worthy
of being brought out even in toughest
| gulse, and which possesses him because
of its intrinsic or its practical value, is
likely to fail of his purpose, and his pur-
pose is surely worthy of fxilure only
| 5. S. Times.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
BACHELORS IN WASHINGTON.
Unmarried Young Men Can Have a GooC
Time at the Capftal.

Unmarried Young Men Can Have a Good
Time at the Capital.
eff I were a young baehelor-more
particularly poor young bachelor
would certainly live nowhere else than
in Washington, said society matron
the other evening. ''In this town a
young man, unencumbered matrimonial
ly, occupies a singularly desirable posi-
ton. OF course, bachelors are in de-
mand, socially speaking, everywhere,
but nowhere so much so as at the Ma
tional capital. Thus it happens that
any passably agreeable youth is sure to
have life made very pleasant for him.
1t is not accustomed to be said here of a
poor young man that he is 'detri-
Notwithstanding that he is merely a
fellow without the money necessary to
render him an available parti, and at the
same time sufficiently attractive to keep
off practicable suitors. Indeed, as you
are very well aware, there are
scarcely any young men who go
out in Washington society that
are not poverty-stricken. There
fore discrimination on that score is out
of the question. One must have young
men at ones parties, you know, or else
the girls would not have any sort of a
time. The situation is an unfortunate
one from some points of view, but what
are you going to do about it?"
Nothing that / can see," said the
writer to whom the lady was speaking.
"But don't exactly see why the young
men should be poorer in Washington
than anywhere else"
Don't you? Why, it's very simple. In
the first place, this is not town in
which young men can make a living,
unless in the hopeless situation of de-
partment clerks, where they literally
dare not seek advancement beyond a
certain point lest their places should be
sufficiently desirable to make it worth
while for the first new Administration
to grab them. Most of the men one
meets here, more especially the unmar-
ried ones, are in Uncle Sans employ.
Then, again, the rich people who come
here, while they always bring their
daughters with them, very seldom fetch
their sons-partly because Washington
is generally imagined to be dissipated
city So, to sum up, few young
men come here, and those native to
tho plaCc WHO HOb 70 tlStWHeTe 10
seek their fortunes, usually remain
poor-too poor, indeed, to venture upon
matrimony. Thus you observe the
spectaele of society in which the
young women greatly outnumber the
young men, and the latter are, general
ly speaking, not available for marriage.
The anomaly of the situation is rather
aggravated than otherwise by the fact
that so many of the girls are rich,
either actually or in prospect, and,
though things might be fixed delight
fully by the rich girls marrying the
poor mon, things do not go that way.
have heard it said that $50, 600, 900 worth
Of prettiness in petticoats was some
times seen at once in a single Washing
ton ballroom, and / shouldn't wonder if
il were true. But the men, poor as they
are, are so few as to be priced as rari-
ties, and the result is that they are the
worst-spoiled lot of young fellows have
ever seen. They are apt to have an ex-
cessive notion of their Importance
Washington Star.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
PTTH AND POINT.

I'm selecting a wife choose woman
smaller than yourself, so that you may
be able to overlook her faults
when fellow gets -mashed'on him.
SELF" SAYS talented Roman, lit isn't
long before he cuts out every body else.
Rome Tribune.
termines its efficiency. A little is
enough, if used wisely, too much, If ex-
pended foolishly.-Bovee.
As in war steel is better than gold
for use, so wisdom is better than wealth.
The chief business of wise man is to
distinguish what is good and to shun
what is otberwise.-N. Y. Ledger.
"A good deal of the trouble Of this
life is due to the fact that people will
persist in working so hard to get things
that they do not need and never ought
to want-Somerville Journal
You must not only listen, but read.
You must not only read, but think.
Knowledge without common sense is
folly; without method it is waste; with
out charity it is fanaticism; without re-
ligion it is death.-Iowa State Register.
An accurate remembrance of names
and faces has been called gift of
Princes; another gift showing the mo-
bility of both heart and breeding, is
that of punctilious courtesy toward the
humble as we'll as toward the great.
Put away presumption and pride.
If they assail thy heart think of the be-
ginning and end of life. Narrow, in
deed, are the cradle and the coffin; in
hOfI oil. Hor altlrn hn1n1n<o Cd ~
terminating dust, tomorrow a crumbling
germ. -Wesselmann.
The moral sense ieadens more
rapidly in some men than others Some
times we see youth who, though their
experience has been brief, are lost TO all
sentiment of honor and integrity, while
long lifetime of perversions in others
fails to destroy their moral feelings
United Presbyterian.
The moment people are relieved of
their ignorance and bad morals, which
is the best prosperity, they begin TO
prosper in worldly way also. Nomat-
ter what social, financial, or govern
mental changes we make for the re-
moval of poverty-and these are posi-
bly, changes for good-let us get them;
none of them win have but a transient
success, if any, until character is reno
waited. Cure poverty? Cure character.
The Pacific.
The WEAKNESS of long-continued
study is proveribaL Its explanation is
not far to sock. One portion of our en-
tire being is almost exclusively occu.
| pied, and the monotony of the process
constitutes in large measure the cause
of exhaustion. Relief must accor 1ingly
be sought in rest, in the exercise OF
other functions, or in variation of the
form of mental exertion. Such timely
and refreshing change enters into all
well-ordered plans of education. There
is, however, in every study stage at
which persistent concentration is indis-
pensable to tigh development-Once a
| Week.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
Rich. Rcd Blood.

With rich, red blood coursing throug the
veins and the hearts action never obstruct-
ed by single particle of blood poison or
impurity, mankind ought to live out their
fun allotted time in ease, in comfort and in
nished herbs of healing and strengthening
virtue that wonderfully assist nature in
keeping the blood pure and clean Science
revealed these herbs to that eminent ply
stefan, DIR. John bull, of Louisville, KY,
and they are happily blended in his meri-
torious compound called DIR. John Bulls
Sarsaparilla. Syphilis and scrofula yield
readily 10 its magic influence, and other
symptoms of impure blood, such as pimples,
sores, aches, pains, indigestion, weak kid
neys, etc, vanish like snow before the noon
day sun. 1t is the only compound that is
absolutely safe to use in cases of bad blood.
1t never leaves any unpleasant after-effects,
and Ii stimulates the whole system begin
ming vita the very first dose taken.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
How They 10 It IN Russia.

An engine-driver on the Genital Asian
railway who sustained co-cussion of
the brain in serious accident on Gen
erai AnncnlSoff's line some time ago has
just sued the railway officials for
damages IN court at Samar-
eand, and obtained very satisfactory
and somewhat original compensation
The court decreed that he should
be paid 1900 rubles down at once, and
in addition should receive 80 rubles, or
*, month, with an extra 10 rublcs for
every child which might be born TO him.
London Times ST. Petersburg Corre-
spondence.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28
Beware of Olntments for Catarrh Thas
Contain Mercury,

as mercury win surely destroy the sense Of
smell and completely derange the whole sys-
tenn when entering it through the mucous
surfaces. Such articles should never be
used except on prescriptions from reputable
physicians, as the damage they viii do is ten
fold to the good you can derive from them
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j..
Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mer-
curry, and is taken internally and acts d.
of the system. In buying Halls Catarrh
Cure b. sure and get the genuine. 1t is taken
internally, and made in Toledo, Ohio, by T..
J. Cheney 81 Co.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle.
The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28

ToTHE EDITOR Please form your read
ers that / have positive remedy for the
above named disease. By its timely use
thousands of hopeless cases have been per-
manently cured. / shall be glad to send two
bottles of my remedy FREE to any of your
readers who have consumption If they will
send me their express and post-office ad-
lress. Respectfully, T. A. SLoCUM, NJ. c.,
1S1 Pearl street, New York.