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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

overshadows all the city-you will see two
flags creeping up two stats. They run up
together as If they were moved by the same
hand, though one is on the house wing of
the Capitol and the other on the senate
wing. Ever since the organization of con-
gress It has been the custom to unfurl
flag over the building in which house or
senate meets, and TO lower it when the
body adjourns. This is not only prettily
patriotic custom, but one of convenience,
for in Washington one may see the flag
staffs from all parts of the city and sur
rounding hills and thus learn at a glance
whether or not congress is in session.
Looked at from distance or from the
noble avenue which trayerses the city and
runs directly to the center of the great ro-
tunda, the flags appear to be almost side
by side. This Is one of the optical illusions
of this city of magnificent distances and
enhancing views, for the distance between
the two fagstaffs is $50 feet, or exactly an
eighth of mile. The vastness of the Cap
itol is impressed upon US in another way
AS we look at the flags from Pennsylvania
avenue we wonder why they are so small,
why larger, more conspicuous flags are not
used; but if we take the trouble to climb
to the top of the house or senate wing we
shall find that the flags are of the largest
size manufactured. They measure more
than twenty feet in length. The flagstaff,
too, which from the avenue below appeared
so short and slender, we here discover to
be almost as large as the mast of schoon-
er. 1t is not surprising we were deceived,
however. The hill on which the Capitol
stands rises eighty feet above the general
level of the city, and the roof of the great
building is nearly hundred feet higher.
1t is IL o'clock, lacking few minutes.
In the hall of the house of representatives
200 members are gathered. The clerks are
at their posts, the sergeant-at-arms stands
at the right of the chair and near by waits
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

George Godfrey, the colored heavy weight
pugilist of Boston, and Ed Smith, Of Den
yer, will fight for purse of 1900 at the
Puritan club, Long Island City, Nov. g.
Smith is a protege Of Wrestler William
Muldoon. He has whipped Mike Cleary
and once staid with Peter Jackson five
rounds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
Chocolate Meringues.

Six ounces sugar. two and half ounces
chocolate powdered, three whites of eggs.
Whip the whites very stiff. then lightly
stir in the sugar and chocolate Bake
them on sheet of thin white paper in a
moderately heated oven
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
UP THE FLAGS.
SIGNAL THAT THE NATIONAL CON-
GRESS is IN SESSION.
Soon the Ceremony VIII BE Dispensed
with, for Soon the Present Session VIII
End-Pecullarities of Some Members.
Especial CORRESPONDENTS. ]

WASHINGTON. Sept. give are at the
end of long session of congress, and for
several months the jewellers in the Capital
city will miss pretty daily picture-tbe
unfurling of the flags over the two houses
Of congress. To my eyes the raising of the
flags upon the national state house is an
inspiring spectacle. At noon precisely if
YOU chance to be looking at the great
building ON the hill-the building which
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
Glass Jewel Case.

1t requires for this very pretty jewel case
six pieces of glass. The top and bottom
pieces should each be four and one half
inches square; the four sides each four
and one-half by two and one-half Bind
each piece separately with MORE ribbon,
short of one inch wide, and Join together in
the shape of box by neatly over handing
the corners. Cover piece of card board
with satin, plated, and slip in the bottom
of the box Finish the corners of the lid
with small hows-Cor Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
Graves Of Garfield. Grant and Arthur.

Graves OF GARFIELD. Grant and Arthur.
James a. Garfield was iusombed at
Cleveland, o. L. ;. Grants body was
placed in Riverside park with national
honors. His tomb oyerlooks the Hudson.
Chester A. Arthur's body lies beside that
OF lis wife in Rural cemetery. near Albany.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
Swift Splinter schifferstein.
Schifferstein is a long name, and, so far a

name, and, so tar as
pronunciation is
concerned, a slow
name, but there
is nothing slow
about its proprie-
tor, the famous
young Splinter
and jumper. V.
4. Schiferstein is
a phi no m e n al
grow b of the
glorious climate
OF Calitorny." he
lacks an inch and
a half of being six
feet in height, and
in running and
jumping trim he
weighs l45 pounds.
Schiferstein's de-
but was made at
Oakland, Cal, in
A st, 1887,
where he won the
900 yards dash
from the 10 yards
mark in % 3-5 sec
onds at the Pacific
Coast Harriers'
pnnes ErnIn that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

customer wants actaaiities anu personaII-
ties. The average stranger within the
gates will gaze for an hour upon Tom
Reed in the chair, and spare but sixty sec
onds for a survey of the statue of Wash
ington or Jefferson or Lincoln. The quaint
garb worn by the marble Roger Williams
is of small interest to him compared with
the coat worn by the Hon. Elijah Morse, of
Massachusetts,. Mr. Morse's coat is indeed
one of the marvels of the times. 1t is the
longest and heaviest coat in congress. 1t
is a coat with character in its cut, and the
character is an admirable one, with faith,
resignation and piety predominating in it,
All through the hot weather, while other
statesmen were sweltering in linens and
fannels and all sorts of negiige costumes,
Mr.. Morse adhered to his long. heavy coat
Mr. Morse's coat has become famous,
but not so famous as Mr.. Reeds sash. The
national bunting floating from the flag.
staff, the mantle which hangs so grace
fully upon the form of the Goddess Of Lib
erty, are objects of small contemporaneous
interest compared with the sash which
Mr.. Reed wore in the speakers chair.
That broad blue belt has been more talked
and written about throughout the length
and breadth of the land than any other
feature of the congressional session now
at an end. Could anything better illns-
trate the fondness Of the American people
for the practical things Of life, for the COM
monplace and the eomics
In Washington one may win more fame
with trousers than with eloquence. Mr..
Houk, of Tennes- -
see, is one of the R
most oratorical z
members of the M
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house His elo- THN
quence is rugged, hH n
bold, soaring, like HKT/I
the hills of his HNlf
native state, but HA IL Ill
1t Is as nothing EH%S.
compared to his AAT/
trousers. Mr.. ny
Houk is known HA
far and near as II \ uD
he man who II an II1
wears his trousers 7 IN
under the soles of ~ "
his feet 1t is hard n N Nm
ly necessary to add M M
that the portion NM. | "
of his trousers on TJtLyks A L,
which Mr. Houk "-"'S'tts&lN ~ CT
walks Is not pref 49,
ty. IL is frayed,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17

Children Cry for Pitchers CastOria.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-10-17
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Conscience Money.

A little time ago was going from
Chicago to Cleveland. Three or four of
us men struck up an acquaintance as
they q don't SMOKEY struck up light in
the smoking room. Each gave little
biography of his recent life. II have
been to Chicago" said Mr.. A. B., Ito
collect some conscience money. A good
many years ago made an invention. 1t
was stolen from me by some Chicago
people. I spent much money in trying
to get my rights. and did not get them.
Two weeks ago l received letter from
the house in Chicago which had been
manufacturing and selling my inven-
ton saying that if would come to Chi
cago l should hear of something to my
interest.
II went to the place appointed and
met a gentleman, who said: You are
Mr.. A. B.Y Yes Our house has for
years been making and selling an inven-
ton of yours. have recently become
Christian. l know l have done wrong,
and want now to do all can to right
that wrong. Will you please say how
much money we shall pay you for the
wrong we have done you? l thanked
him and said 1 wanted time to reflect.
l took the time and gave an answer.
Turning to the cashier the gentleman
said: Make out check for so much'-a
sum double the amount had named.
That check was certified and now have
it in my pocket. l am glad to tell this
incident for many reasons, one of which
is that it tends to answer the charge that
is frequently made that being Chris
tan makes no difference with ones bust
ness habits. Cor. Chicago Advance.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

When one speaks Of mo Mans Land"
we generally presume that he refers to
that little neck of land in the Indian
territory, lying between Colorado and
Kansas on the north and Texas on the
south. But such is not always the case.
The original mo Mans Land" is little
tongue of land extending few miles
south of the Mason and Dixon line, be-
tween the states of Maryland and Della
ware. Every now and then somebody
starts the story that this tract is, prop
erly speaking, part of no state, literally
out of the jurisdiction of the United
States: that it is one of the left over
pieces of the whole country, wherein no
one owns the ground upon which he
lives. On the maps the ground is cred
tied to Pennsylvania, but, according to
tAese same authorities, the claim is
shadowy one.
This triangular bit of territory was
marked off in curious way. The east
ern boundary of Maryland was early de-
termined, but the southern boundary Of
Pennsylvania was long matter of dis
pute. Finally Mason and Dixon began
their work at the eastern boundary Of
Maryland, and proceeded westward,
while the northern boundary of Delaware
was declared to be semi-circle, whose
center was New Castle. In surveying
the semi-circle it was found that the cir
conference did not touch the boundary
of Maryland at it's junction with the
Pennsylvania line, thus giving rise to
this triangular bit of land, which has
been discarded by, the three states and
only allowed to attach itself to Pennsyl-
vsnia for judicial purposes Louis
Republic.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
The Proper Weight.

Growth is very irregular in children
and young people generally. Perhaps
two inches may be gained in two
months, and for the next ten months
not another inch, even up to the age Of
10 or IL years.
While growth is thus rapid fatigue is
readily reduced. During the pause
weight is gained, and work or training
can go on again.
AS general rule child in the fourth
year should be feet high, and weigh
more than % pounds; in the sixth year,
81 feet high. and weigh AZ pounds; in
the eighth year, feet high and SO
pounds in weight; at 10 years old, 5 feet
in height and 20 pounds in weight is a
fair average.
At the term of adolescence 20 pounds
should be added for gain of 8 or a
inches in height; 112 pounds is about the
average weight for feets inches; 1875
pounds for feet 9; 140 pounds for 8 feet
10: 1854 pounds for feet II, and 1853
pounds for feet.-Hall's Journal of
Health.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Culture by Electric Light.

In the botanical department of Cornell
university there have recently been
made some very curious experiments in
the cultivation of plants under electric
light. A number of flowers and vege-
tables have been placed where the rays
of powerful electric lamps fall upon
them night and day, and their growth is
compared with that of others of their
own species planted at the same time
and under similar conditions except in
the matter Of light.
The first and most noticeable effect OF
this treatment is an enormously increased
rate of growth. The plants which are
lighted seem to work day and night, and
to become especially luxuriant in foliage.
The vegetables shoot forward with
great quickness, peas, for instance, which
become in q few weeks two or three
times as tall as. their brethren living by
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

Dyspeptics will do we'll to observe the
following general rules: Live on two
meals day if possible. Never eat to
excess. Estimate as nearly as you can
the actual needs of the system, and limit
the quantity of food to them, remember
ing that one grows weak if he eats too
much. Eat slowly and masticate all
food even longer and more thoroughly
than healthy person careful of his di-
gestion would do. Quite dry foods, as
rule, are best suited to dyspeptics, who
should drink sparingly with their meals.
Some can take ice water in very small
quantities without being disturbed by
it, but generally it retards digestion.
And the same is true of all cold drinks.
Warm ones suit most dyspeptics best,
and very little weak tea, if properly
made, is not at all likely to do any harm.
The food should be neither very hot nor
very cold. Properly, it should be about
"blood warm" Every one knows from
experience just what foods distress
them. and what are we'll borne; of course,
the former should be excluded from the
diet.-Boston Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Chinese in Agriculture.

A Chinaman in this city has garden
ten feet wide at one end, twenty at the
other and forty feet long that has pro-
duced more garden truck and will pro-
duce more than any white mans truck
patch of an acre of ground. White men
could get pointers on agriculture from
these same heather Chinese, as it has
been their study for centuries to know
how to utilize every square foot of land
they cultivate. Rapid City Republican
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
common daylight; and the same thing is

common daylight; and the same thing is
true of all the plants.
When it came to seeds or fruit of any
sort, the matter was entirely different.
Here the plants which had grown slowly
and by daylight were ahead. 1t is true
that the pea which grew by electric light
came to bearing much sooner than the
other, but it's hastily made pods had very
few peas, often only one, and those of an
inferior quality.
In every instance the reproductive
powers of the plant seemed to have been
most strongly affected, being sacrificed to
mere foliage and rapidity of increase in
general size. youths Companion.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

In a recent lecture on decoration Mr..
George Aitchison, A. R. A., stated that
certain colors and tones are prejudicial
to health. Very dark rooms are 80, and
red and yellow are also prejudicial in
the same way, if we have to remain in
rooms so colored all and every day. The
lecturer said that a manufacturer had q
woman's workshop painted yellow, and
found sickness increase in his hands.
His doctor recommended whitewash,
and normal health was restored
Chatter.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

The heroine of the hour just now in
Lisbon is a German girl, Fraulein
Johanna Maestrick. Fraulein Maestrick
was born near Berlin, but went with her
parents as a child to Portugal. When
she was II an impresario, struck with
her size and beauty, offered to train her
as female bull fighter. The agent
sent his pupil, who is not yet 20, to
compete at the show of female beauty
which took place at Lisbon, where she
carried off the first prize. The adver-
tisement proved an excellent one, for ever
since the impresario has been bombarded
with letters from persons of all classes,
wishing to know when the beautiful
"torera" is to make her debut.
She has not yet appeared in an arena,
but last week she came out in trial
fight at Oporto. A huge crowd collected
to zee the unusual sight. The young
lady quickly laid two bulls in the sand,
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

The Industrial Organization of the Future.
The wages system is of recent origin,
certainly modern, believe transitional.
A hundred years ago the weaver owned
his loom, the tailor his bench. the cob
bier his stall, the stage driver his coach,
the woman her spinning wheel. The in
vention of steam, the spinning jenny and
the power loom created a necessity for
organized labor. Individualism gave
place to combination, and combination
created capitalism. believe that as
slavery gave place to serfdom, and serf-
dom to the wages system, so in time the
wages system will give place to indus
trial democracy.-Rev. DIR. Lyman Alb
bolt in Forum
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Care in Drawing Drinking Water.

Care in Drawing Drinking Water.
From first to last the water supply
should be under the care of the head Of
the household, and not trusted to serv-
ants. They will not take the trouble to
draw off the water the first thing in the
mornings that has been standing in pipes
all night to corrode lead pipes or absorb
sewer gas from adjacent waste pipes
which have the usual pinholes eaten
through them. LEAD pipes will be eaten
away by water containing free oxygen
without carbonic acid; therefore pure
rsin water Injuries lead pipes" says Capt
0alton, and the infusion Of lead in the
water standing over night Is quite
enough to give the babies collie and re-
new the symptoms of the grip in the
elders of the family unless the stream is
allowed to run until it is cold and clear.
This water need not run to waste, but
may be saved in firkin for washing
uses. A supply of fresh drinking water
for the day should then be boiled in a
bright tin lined or enameled kettle, for
the copper lined teakettles are only an
other of the deadly devices which abound
in housekeeping. Tea made from water
boiled in a copper lined kettle is a cor
resive infusion equal to upsetting the
digestion in time, if it does not ruin the
vital economy altogether, like so much
arsenic. Shirley Dare in New York
Herald.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
A New Cure for Toothache.

A Russian practitioner recommends
the use of hyoscyamus seeds for tooth
ache. His plan is to burn the seeds, and
to convey the smoke through little pa
per tube to the hole in the tooth. He
declares that in nearly all cases one ap-
plication, or at most two, will suffice to
cure the toothache.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Sioux City Corn Palace-Opens o. closes Oct H. 1890

and rode off followed 10y band Of music,
amid thunders of applause. Crowds of
people collected before the windows Of
the hotel at which the "torera" was
staying, and far into the night she was
obliged to appear on the balcony in
response to their calls for her.-London
Globe.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25
Love and Money.

verisoft-I love you, dear Alice, and ]
ask you to be my wife.
Alice-But you are too poor to buy the
engagement ring.
Verisoft-Yes, but you can loan me
the money.-Jewelers Circular.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

A handcar which moves along the
tracks and mows weeds fifteen feet
away is one of the innovations in rail
road machinery. It will do to go very
well with the rotary snow plow as an
illustration of automatic intelligence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

Mr.. William Astor, of New York, en-
joys an income of ga, 595 q day; Mr..
John D. Rockefeller's amounts to e1S, 716;
Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt's to $4,000.
and Mr.. Jay Gould's to e7.450.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-08-25

FARMERS, you can help to make the
AGITATOR interesting. Send in short
letters or items.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-12
AS to Advertising.

It is not often that the Review stoops
to notice the boasting circulation ro-
mancesof neighborhood contemporaries,
that seek to blow forth and exaggerate
their own Importance, but there are
times when it is necessary to state Ger.
tain facts in order to correct statements
that tend to create among the public a
mistaken impression. Of late certain
journal in this city has been gloriouslv
covering itself with s'all at home" puffs,
which it hardly merits or deserves. For
instance, in it's last issue it goes so far
as to affirm that it possessed the largest
circulation and is therefore better ad-
vertislng medium than all the other pa
pers of the county combined. Now, this
is putting it pretty bold, and all that is
given as a reason is the fact that it's
name appears in list of twenty seven
Minnesota papers, recommended out of
the many by Geo. P. Rowell, of New
York, as a worthy medium through
which to advertise. To those who do
not understand what that means, it, of
course, sounds very nice, but perhaps
it would do no harm to explain that this
favor (?) from Rowell's Agency was
most likely bought with a five or ten
dollar ad in his directory. Any other
paper could secure the same delightful
consideration, providing it was willing
to pay for it, and we do not deem it nee
essary to say that it cannot therefore
be taken as fruitful statement of facts.
1t requires better proofs than that to
place paper where it would like to be,
and until they are produced the Review
feels Justified, as far as qualifications
for advertising are concerned, in con.
sidering itself the equal of any in the
vicinity. Its circulation, in the first
place. in and around New Ulm is as
large as any, and outside it extends as
far. 1t reaches most of the Germans,
that read newspapers at all, and in ad-
dition to this, is read, where the other
is not, among the Americans and Scan
dinavians. These are the facts and we
can back them up. They count for
what they are worth, , and, summing it all
up, they make of the Review as good an
organ in which to advertise as is found
in the city.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-12
Prohibition and Lotteries.

The spectacle and inconsistency of a
state legislature, that boasts of prohi-
bltion law and at the same time permits
of such damnabie outrage being per-
petrated upon its constituents as is
found in a lottery steal, is demoralizing
indeed. But however much this latest
step is to be regretted, it shows of what
material the lawmakers of North Da-
kota are made up. They are in the
business for money, and they are in it up
to their necks. What laws are passed
are passed because there is Doodle or
revenue in it for the lawmakers, and to
think OF the measures that may be sadd.
led onto helpless Dakota, gives one fears
for the betterment of the race. Licensed
houses of infamy and prostitution may
be expected to follow right along with
prohibition and lottery leeches, and if
our eyes can be believed the fate of the
new state is fixed for regular hell hole.
The Minneapolis Journal pictures the
outlook in the following: North Dako-
ia must, TO be consistent, welcome all
schemes, companies and fakirs that
choose TO protfer a suitable amount of
money in exchange for protection.
Thus, when the great counterfeiting
company (unlimited) shakes half a
million or SO of good money in the faces
of the Legislators, of course they will
hasten to invite it to make the state it's
home. The United States Burglary
company with agents in every city,
town and village in the country would
noaoubt cheerfully pay like sum for
the privilege of transacting legal bus
mess in the land of No. Hard. The
Garroters' Close Corporation murder
done with neatness and dispatch would
not be far behind in charitable profers
to help swell the states revenue in re-
turn for value received. Usurers are
about as well thought Of as rattlesnakes,
but should they contribute 100000 it
might be well to let them in on the
ground floor.