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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-13

In fact more negotiation is required to get
look at the commons in session than to
see President Harrison. The important
distinction between the capitol buildings
of the two nations is this: In Washington
the halls of congress and their galleries
make up most of the interior; at West
minister palace the hall is but an insignifi-
cant room in the great building, while the
gallery is no larger in proportion than
that set apart for negroes In old southern
churches
Nor was it easy to fad Americans who
knew much about the commons, for it is
a singular fact that of the many thousand
Yankees in London during ''the season"
scarcely one in hundred gets peep at
the house To the question, however, as
to what struck them most, as different
from the congressional proceedings, all
who had looked at parliament answered:
'The habit of cross-examining the cab
met officials There would have to be
quite a revolution ut Washington before
our fellows would stand up and answer
any question any member Of the opposition
party chose to ask"
As a matter Of fact, the ministers do not
answer all the questions; they are at liber-
ty to reserve "A reply when important in
terests might be jeopardized by premature
publication" And when they do answer
their words are often so ordered that An
American has to study them with the aid
of a worlds atlas, political dictionary
and a set of the "blue books" to get at the
exact meaning. 1t is amusing to note,
however, that human nature breaks out in
much the same way at Westminster and
Washington. The members in the minor
ity usually ask in such & way as to imply
that the whole concern is going To the
"demnition bowwows," and the minister's
answer contains marked implication
that the British empire is now in the high
est state of prosperity, and would be in
much better case were it not for the pesky
The practice of the monarch's appearing
in person is gradually falling into disuse,
and SO the approaching session will doubt
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rather small, and he has a trick Of half
closing them when talking to YOU His
mustache is white, and there is not enough
of it to hide the expression of his mouth,
which looks as though he might be terri
bly, bitter in his speech on occasion. His
figure is compact, and he moves as only
those move who are physically powerful.
He is careless in his dress, as are most men
who have spent much time in the free life
of the wild; he wore his gloves unbut-
toned and one end of his coat collar turned
up. He is terribly earnest in manner: he
!mpresses you, moves you, by this earnest
hess. Generally he talks in rather low
tone of voice, but his sentences can ring
out as he becomes excited by the subject
matter of his speech. His voice is wonder
fully sympathetic in timbre; it recalls the
description of Cardinal Newman's voice:
There are tears i'm it!' AS he spoke of
the men who died at Yambuya, the Arabs
Ind Zanzibaris, wish you could have
heard the pathos, the exceeding mourning,
Of the words: "These men were my men,
my officers. They did not belong to the
committee; they were mine. Many of
them were old and tried friends whom |
had trusted only to find them true Ny
friends died there" His voice expressed
the sorrow as well as the rage which filled
his heart as he thought of that long
tragedy.
The man seems to be devoid of humot.
Jokes affect him not, nor does he approach
them in his talk. He is grim as well as
earnest. He repels and attracts at the
same time. He has an air of infinite pa
thence, and in his talk you are impressed
10y an evident thoroughness shown in small
things This explains TO you his success.
Nothing is so little as to be without a
claim on his attention. nothing so large
that he will not study it. But the suffer
ing he has gone through has left its mark,
for on his face there is look as of one who
has drawn the veil and gazed at death face
10 face, yet has not been afraid.
ALFRED BALCH
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didate majority OF all the votes cast, AZ
agreed to allow a plurality to elect, and
on Feb. 2 Nathaniel P. Banks became
speaker. It is an odd coincidence that
after having been a general and governor
of Massachusetts, he returned to congress
for time and at the late election was de
feated by Sherman Hoar.
The senate being in theory q continuing
body, and having the vice president for its
presiding officer, meets very much as if
it had adjourned but the previous day.
Nevertheless the opening of a new con-
gress excites general attention, and the
galleries are usually crowded. as they are
also at the opening Of the second session.
At this the speaker usually says few nice
things about his JOY at meeting the mem
bers again, and it is presumed that nothing
has lately happened to cause Mr.. Reed to
omit that cheerful courtesy this year.
AT the opening of the next congress,
however, there will be fun There always
is some fun over the proceedings of the
new members, and the house of the Fifty
second congress will certainly be new"
Entire state delegations viii consist of new
men, and there will be nearly 100 members
who have never served in any parliament
airy body, not even a state legislature. OF
those new TO congress 40 will be Demo
Gratis and 30 Republicans-as near as can
now be determined-with somewhat I'M
certain quantity of Farmers Alliance men.
That nearly all the prominent Republicans
OF preceding congresses were cleft" is of
common knowledge, but it is little sur
prising to observe that many prominent
Democrats are in the same fix.
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Keep Dat of Debt.

Every one who has a fixed income of any
kind can and ought 10 regulate his ex.
penditures 50 as to bring them within it.
This is habit which should be inculcated
in the very earliest years. The child with
an allowance for his pleasures, he it ever
so small should never be suffered 70 ex-
coed it or to draw upon the future. The
youth should be taught to undergo any
self denial rather than 10 borrow the
money 10 obtain a qualification. There Is
more true independence in this lesson than
in hundreds of shouts or boasts of liberty,
which too often only convey the idea Of
casting off duty and obligation.
Such instruction, however, will be useless
while example points the other way. The
father and mother who live beyond their
means, who incur debt for the pleasures of
the table or of dress, or for the vanity of
competing with neiehbors and keeping up
a certain style of living, or for private in.
diligence of any kind, need never expect to
cultivate in their child an honorable de
termination to owe no man anything
Philadelphia Ledger.
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less be opened as many preceding ones
have been, by the lords commissioner
that is, by the lord chancellor and five other
members of the privy council. Exactly at
2 o'clock on the day set Lord Chancellor
Halsbury takes his seat ION the woolsack,"
and the lords present also take seats and
remain silent for about one solemn min
ute. Then the lord chancellor walks into
a side room and soon reappears at the head
/ OF the commissioner the six in gorgeous
scarlet and eTmlne robes. They range
themselves on a bench in front of the
throne, and the chancellor commands the
gentleman usher of the black rod" (Hon.
Sir James X. Drummond, @. c. B., at pres
ent) TO announce TO her majesty's com
mons that the lords await.
The commons meanwhile are having a
good deal of fun. The speaker simply calls
them To order, and then they fall to talk
ing and laughing, iRquiring as To each
others health during the recess and chat
fug" the late corners. The door toward
the lords opens, the cry of BLACK Rod is
raised and there is silence. He bows three
times and delivers his message, then fol-
lows the speaker out, and all the members
march after to the hall of the lords OF
late years there has been much relaxation,
and few of the commoners listen TO the
proceedings The royal commission is read
by the clerks. each of the six commission
ers rising and bowling as his name Is men
toned. Then Lord Ialsbury reads the
queens speech, but no one hears it. The
members will soon have the papers con-
tanning it, and so they, especially the COM
moners, put In the time socially. They are
then dismissed, and so 10 their own hall
by route step and arms at will, some
times getting up pretty good imitation
of college rush"
Such in brief is the account given by all
Americans who have witnessed the cefNa-
mouy Of late years. Not Only is there a
natural tendency 70 relax the old strict
ness. but many Of the younger radicals
make it a point 10 be boisterous. The
United States parliament (Which was
named congress only by a sort % accidentj
never was very formal, and hence in Amer
lean histories one finds none Of those ford
AMI studied descriptions OF il beginnings
so common in English histories. With
but three exceptions palsy iaajoriJieS have
always been 50 large tlat speakers were
chosen with 40 SJrGl lie in the house,
though there is generally hot time in the
party caucus
The clerk Of the preceding house OF
representatives makes up the list OF the
new house, calls the same 20 order az noon
on the first Monday in Deem Der, Calls the
roll aud presides till the house chooses
speaker. and then retires without cere-
mony to private life Three times, how
ever, in American history the clerk has be
comes man OF great Importance, and once be
was bigger man than the president. This
was in December, 1855, and John W Forney
WAS the man. The house began bailoting on
the Sd Of December and kept IL mp tail Feb.
l. lS56s then desDSiring Of giving any can
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-13
A Primitive Town.

The picturesque inland town of South
port, which has attracted 50 many visit
ors by its pritnitiveness and refreshing sea
breezes, possesses no town hall, town
pump nor town crier; neither does il boast
any physician, undertaken, grave stone
dealer, lawyer or barber; nor on its streets
and highways can be found any black
smith shop, apothecary shop, milliner's
shop, shoe dealers establishment, jewel
er's store or fish market; nor is there any
settled pastor to dispense gospel truths 10
the people, but still the town gets on very
we'll The church puifit is occupied aboU-
every Sunday, and when the services of any
professional gentleman are needed he il
summoned from the next town. The PEG
pie live quietly but comfortably, and they
learn to do without many things that most
people count among the uecessaries Of life.
Lewiston Journal
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Motive Power of the World.

Four-ffths of the engines now working
In the world have been constructed during
the last twenty-five years. France owns
Al, $50 stationary engines, 200 locomotives
and ], $50 steamboat engines. Germany has
10000 locomotives of all kinds, 5000 sta
tionRry engines and boilers and Loo ship
and steamboat engines. Austria has H.
600 stationary engines and $500 locomo-
tives.
The force equivalent to the working
power steam engines represent: In the
United States, 100000 horse power; liz
England, 100000 horse power; in France,
100000 horse power; in Austria, 500 600
horse power, and in Germany, 400 600
horse power. In these figures the motive
power Of locomotive engines is not in
cluded, whose number in all the world at
the beginning of 1890 was 10000, repre-
senting a total of between 5000, 600 and
100000 horse power; for the sake Of con-
venience we will say {, 0O0,0 900 horse power,
which. added TO the other powers enumer-
ated above, gives us a total of 1900. 600
horse power for the world.-St. Louis Re
public
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Wood Ducks and Their Young

Oddly enough, when the wood birds 90
bathing, they prefer the dancing ripples 70
the still shining Of the pools Instinct
perhaps, tells them Of the greedy fish and
big hungry turtles that lie in wait in the
depths. See that pair OF wood ducks
wheeling and chattering about the halt
dead sycamore that bends over the stream
Mrs Duck made her nest in the soft rotten
wood at top of it. She has just hatched
out dozen balls of yellow down and Is
setting about getting them down to the
water.
Once there, they will swim like ducks
indeed. But fying is as yet beyond them
and the nest is twenty feet in air. Look
close and you will see the mother bird
poised with half spread wings just outside
the nest. Slowly, cautiously, with low,
cautious cries, her mate pushes one of the
ducklings quite upon the middle of her
back. gives sharp, satisfied Guack, and at
once she sails down, settles herself in mid
stream, dives gently and leaves her baby
sitting OH the water withOutein the leas
knowing how he got there.
With shake of the wings and quack
that says Take carer' she is off to the
nest, and keeps it up till all her little ones
are launched. As she brings the last a
cruel thing happens. Right below her
flock there is swift up swirling of water
Something brown and unwieldy comes al
most to the surface, then sinks like lead
aDSl takes with it the plumpest, downiest
of all the yellow darlings. Inside a minute
another is dragged down, and another, and
still anOther-the swapping turtle, which,
once he has taken hold, never lets GO"
Anyway he has a weakness for ducklings
He would eat the w hole dozen of them If
the distracted parents did not hurry them
ashore.
There they will not be in very much bet
ter care. Foxes live in the caves all along
the bluffs. Minks, too, and weasels and
coons. Any night you may hear them
splashing about in the waters for mussels,
crayfish and such small deer.-Forest and
Stream
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AFRlcANUs AND AFRIcANA.
Pen Picture of MI. and Mrs. Stanley by
Alfred Balch.

Pen Picture of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley by
Alfred Balch.
Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE lady is first,
as of right. Mrs. Henry NJ. Stanley, she
who was Miss Dorothy Tenant, is tall
and slight. She has a wealth of golden
brown hair, her eyes are large, soft and
brown. her complexion is like porcelain,
and she had when she arrived in New
York a great deal of color. She walks
gracefully, with lissome movement, and
her feet are as small as those of an Ameri-
can belle. She is slender and her figure is
good. When she arrived on the Teutonic
she wore a circular of blue cloth, trimmed
with gray fur, black hat and face veil.
She moves continually to position near
her husband, and she has habit of taking
refuge behind him when she is talking.
This, however, seems to be survival, for
she will retreat behind her mother, if Mrs.
Tenant is near, when questioned by any
one she does not know well. She has a
wonderfully spirituelle expression, the look
of q born artist, and the contrast between
herself and her husband recalls the old
proverb anent contraries in marriage.
1t may be the fame which Stanley Afri-
canus has won as traveller and explorer,
as man whom no difficulties rnay daunt
and no dangers detain, that produced in
my mind the impression he was physically
big man. What was my surprise at hav-
ing the smallest man in the group stand
ing near the Teutonic's rail pointed out to
me as the man from Africa Stanley is
about feet inches, should Judge. His
face is of a Deculiar color Thare saarns m
be an under color of tan, as though he
had been darkened by the sun and the
scarf skin had been put on afterward.
His hair is silver white, the tint being that
81 frosted metal His eyes are hazel and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-13
Southern Writers in New York.

NEW YORK, Nov. 17.-Mrs. Margaret Al
pleton Baker, of Baltimore, is a relative of
Mrs. Jerome Bonaparte. She is a versatile
writer and a prominent member of the
Womans Press club
Mrs. Beattie, another southern woman,
has been upon the editorial staff of The
Sun for twenty years. She has the society
and fashion department, and is assisted by
Rcorps of younger writers. Aunt Fanny
Barrow is a native of Charleston, s. c..
She lives in her own handsome house in
New York. She has written over seventy
books for children, among which are the
Nightcap series. Her sister married Rich
ard Grant White.
Miss Mary Tucker Magill writes for Har-
per's publications. y recent story is en-
titled Sis" She is a Nirginian, and has
written history Of her own state which
is in extensive use in its schools. She has
visited Alaska, and is preparing a book
upon that very interesting part of our
country. While travelling she carried her
own camera, and made photographs which
will be used ia illustrating the book.
The prettiest newspaper woman in New
York is Miss Elizabeth Bisland, of Georgia.
She was formerly engaged on The Times
Democrat, of New Orleans. Coming 10 New
York she became the society editress Of
The World. She is now upon the staff of
The Cosmopolitan Magazine. With her
sister, who has a still greater reputation
for beauty than herself, she occupies fiat
in Park avenue. Her rooms are elegant
and are handsomely furnished The din
ing room has dado and frieze Of water
lilies. The ceiling represents a silver
clouded sky, and the wood work and fur
niture are Of English oak. The library
walls are hidden by books, the top shelves
ornsmented by costly bric-a-brac, while
rich rugs cover the floor. She is said to be
a tireless student; certainly she is rapidly
winning her way upward.
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Overcome by . Woman.

There were four pretty tough looking
characters sitting ON q bench in Battery
park the other day relating their adventures
to each other One had been in a mutiny
at sea: a second had been terror to a whole
county, and third intimated that he had
once trained with band of pirates. The
fourth was lanky, long faced man With
q sfnken chest, and when the others had
finished he said:
Gentlemen. why was / run out of Chi
,asoi Because the papers called me a holy
!,Tror and put the police on to me. You
probably remember of the five policemen
who were found dead in bunch? ] had to
10 it."
"Of course you die !" they assented.
"Why did the governor of Kansas set a
price on my head-s10, 600. dead or alive,
You probably saw in the papers that only
one man out of the thirteen in the sheriff 5
posse returned alivef Didn't want to do
It. but had to"
Certainly; just our case" they replied.
I'D like to 20 10 81. Louis" he contin-
Led, "but it wouldn't be prudent You
probably saw the account of my stealing a
steamboat and running her Off"
"Of course we saw" replied the three.
The lanky man was ready to relate an
other chapter of his life when lame
conan with few pears in basket came
along and said:
Come, now, move along, and give me a
Dit of the bench"
No one moved. They hardly realized her
presence. They were busy thinking what
desperate men they were.
"And that's the kind of gentility We show
a poor, lame woman, is itP' exclaimed the
indignant female, and dropping her basket,
she seized them one after the other and
flung them into the middle of the path.
As the last one went she sat down in the
middle of the bench, got brace for her
feet and continued:
"And now let's see the whole four of yer
trot me out of thisr'
They didn't try. Humbly. meekly and
lamblike they sauntered away to find an
other bench, totally ignoring the fact that
they were desperate men of decided vii.
lainy.-New York Sun.
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Georgia, for instance returns but four
Obj members, while Kentucky sends nine;
Indiana returns some old Democrats, but
of Republicans not one, and so on "all
around the board" The hall of the house
will look queer to old visitors. Among
the most noted absentees will be Messrs.
Mckinley, Butterworth. Cannon. McAdoo,
Lawler, Grosvenor, Kennedy But the list
is too long. Some who had not had
time to acquire leadership will be greatly
missed, among them the gigantic Barnes,
of Georgia He is b., intellectually and
physically, but was turned down in the
general overturn He is the biggest man
in the present house and among the very
best lawyers
Mr.. Cheadle, of Indiana, has been con-
spicuous for several reasons, and stands as
a remarkable example of how much talent
lies concealed about the country till some
eXigency calls it oat. He ran the usual
course of the ambitious country boy, first
as teacher in a district school, then law
student and for some time editor of ram
shackle country newspaper, the financial
condition of which was matter for laugh
ter and tears. The coming of a circus
show, with its usual $50 bill for a IMAM
moth ad, was white day with him then.
speak feelingly on this subject, for Mr..
Cheadle sold the concern to me He went
to Frankfort, Clinton county, got better
show, and at the end of long party dis
sension was nominated as a compromise
candidate, thus becoming the member from
the Ninth Indiana district He served his
constituency admirably, and. having been
a private for three years in the Seventy
first Indiana, he naturally stood forth as a
soldier champion" According to north
ern Indiana custom land not very good
custom) he was given but two terms.
Gen. Charles Henry Grosvenor, of the
Fifteenth Ohio district, is also a soldiers
champion, and has had an extremely varied
experience as lawyer, soldier and speaker
of the Ohio house; nevertheless, at the end
Of his third congress he goes out. Texas
dispenses in the near future with Hon.
William Harrison Martin, of the First dis
trict, and they do say thKt but for the
lucky accident of a bell boy with a sharp
nose the world would have dispensed with
him, for Mr.. Martin is the man who "blew
out the gas" The facts are not fully
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-13

In my wanderings about the world,
writes a veteran traveller, being of the Esau
tyre, hunter and hairy man, have
tested the BARRIERS Of many nations, and
bought their facial implements, too. The
razor of India, though a clumsy looking
semi-disc of steel on straight handle, does
its work, in native hands, on scalps las a
religious ritcl and on rough faces, very
neatly and comfortably b. merely moist
eling the epidermIs with cold water, soap
being prohibited Many time has that
primitive instrument crossed my chin
without making a scratch. At the courts
Of oriental tyrants drawing a drop Of
blood during the operation OF shaving was
capital oTense-a precautionary edict,
40 doubt-Exchange
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For moths salt Is the best exterminator
The nuns in one Of the hospital converts
have 5ried everything else without success
and their experience j. valuable. as they
have so much clothing Of the sick who e
there. and strangers when dying often
cave there quantities Ct clothing. etc
They had room iJ. Of feathers which
were sent for pillow making, and they
were IN despair. a. they could not exter
inmate the moths until they were advised
20 try common salt. They sprinkled IL
around and 10 week or ten days they
were altogether nd Ct the moths Tbey
are never troubled uov.-Sew York Jour
uaL
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Fish Produce Many Eggs.

1t has been found by count and estimate
that a shrimp every year produces about
$500 eggs, prawn $500, lobster $1,000,
founder 1873, 4o7, a mackerel 454,65l,
a herring 81. $50, cod 1885. TeO, ling 49,
24S,625. The swarm Of enemies to which
the eggs of fish are exposed renders neces-
sary the production OF a much larger num-
beIsthan are Matched and come TO maturity,
otherwise any species mcst soon become
extinct.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.