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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-18

nothing. but walked up and down the
veranda all the cold night, waiting for
the Memsahib to come up the hill and
stretching out his arms into the dark
| like mailman. But no Memsahib came.
and next day he went ON to Simla, cross
| questioning the bearer every hour.
Ram Dass could only say that he had
met Mrs. Dumoise, and that she had lifted
up her veil and given him the message
which he had faithfully repeated to Du-
noise. To this statement Ram Dass adj.
| lered. He did not know where Nuddea
was. had 10 friends at Nuddea, and
would most certainly never go to Mud
lea, even though his pay were more
| han doubled.
Nuddea is in Bengal, and has nothing
whatever TO do with doctor serving in
he Punjab. 1t must be more than
Twelve hundred miles from Meridki.
Dumoise went through Simla without
hating, and returned to Meridki, there
20 take over charge from the man who
nad been officiating for him during his
tour. There were some dispensary &C
counts TO be explained, and some recent
orders Of the surgeon general to be noted,
and, altogether, the taking over was a
full days work. In the evening
Dumoise told his locum tenens, who was
an old friend of his bachelor DAYS, what
had happened at Bagi; and the man said
that Ram Dass might as we'll have
chosen Tuticorin while he was about il.
At that moment telegraph peon
came in with a telegram from Simla or
dering Dumoise not to take over charge
at Meridki, but TO go at once to Nuddea
on special duty. There was a nasty out
break of cholera at Nuddea, and the
Bengal government being shorthanded as
usual, had borrowed surgeon from the
Punjab.
Dumoise threw the telegram across the
table and said, 'Well:''
The other doctor said nothing. Itwas
all that he could say.
Then he remembered that Dumoise
had passed through Simla on his way
from Bagi and thus might, possibly,
have heard first news of the impending
transfer.
He tried to put the question, and hs
implied suspicion into words, but Du-
noise stopped him with: IF had de-
sired that 1 should never have come
back from Chini. was shooting there.
wish to live, for have things to do
but | shall not be sOrry."
The other man bowed his head and
helped in the twilight TO pack up Du-
noises Just opened trunks. Ram Dass
entered with the lamps.
Where is the Sahib going?" he asked.
40 Nuddea,' said Dumoise softly.
Ram Dass clawed Dunoise's knees
and boots and begged him not to go.
Ram Dass wept and howled till he was
turned out OF the room. Then he wrap
ped mp all his belongings. and came back
to ask for character. He was not go
ing to Nuddea to see his Sahib die, and
perhaps TO die himself.
So Dumoise gave the man his wages
and went down to Nuddea alone, the
other doctor bidding him good-by as one
under sentence of death.
Eleven days later he had joined his
Memsahib, and the Bengal government
had to borrow q fresh doctor to cope
with that epidemic ct Nuddea. The
first importation ley dead in Chooadanga
Dak-BunGalow. -EuGyard Kipling.
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As Others See Us.

A lady who prided herself on being
animated" once asked her maid,
MARY, how do look when am talk
ingF
MOSTLY as if You was awful mad,
num-" was the honest reply.
Three gentlemen stood chatting to
getber in a railway station, and one
CHANGED to notice two-thirds of cigar
cite lying at their feet.
"Ah." said he, 1.-The lady with whom
he had an appointment came sooner than
he expected. He would never have
lighted it if he had known"
NO" said the second, ''that isn't it,
He was only beginner, and he couldn't
stand any more Of it."
II think you are both wrong" put in
the other. He dropped it by accident,
and was too proud to pick it up"
Each one of the three was sure that
his conjecture was correct, and they
urged their respective views with some
heat and animation. At short distance
from them stood two boys, one of whom
had been intently watching the group.
BILL" said he to his friend, ''look at
them three gents fghtin' over a bit of
cigarette. The big un found it fust, bu.
the others were on him afore he could
grab it."-Youth's Companion.
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Irreprcssible Statisticians.

France still remains the country most
prolific in energetic and irrepressible
statisticians. One OF the tribe has lately
been bUsily engaged i'll getting mp facts
and figures about persons Smitten with
the mania for collecting AL sorts of OBJ
jects. There are, he informs us, II, 900 col
lectOrs Of botanical specimens and 20, 900
antiquaries. The labors of these people,
however, are he thinks lofty and noble
compared to those OF the beings who
stick pins in beetles and love to exhibit
the impaled insects in glass cases, or of
the silly collectors of bus and train
tickets.
The statistician has also much to say
about the scrap book people and the
hunters after historical buttons. One of
these has a wonderful collection of civil
and military specimens, ranging from the
time of Louis XIV TO our own days, and
he spent large sums of money in looking
for articles of the kind on the battle
fields where soldiers of the first republic
and the first empire had fought
Another Partisan brought together
10000 different portraits OF the great
Napoleon, while dealer in curiosities
has on hand the palettes Of all the prin-
cipal French painters who have -four
ished in the second half of the present
century. The careful statistician has
omitted to add to his list the collectors
of such trifes as the slippers Of ''stars"
of the ballet. there having been once an
old Partisan who had an assortment of
these things iii his seum.-London
Telegraph.
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Esgle
A LITTre IsLAsb COLONY.
Fifty White Folks VITO Live on a Lofty
Rock just Big Enough for Them.

Fifty White Folks VITO Live on Lofty
Rock just Big Enough for Them.
A few months ago the handful of peo-
pie who live on Pitcairn island cele-
brated the hundredth anniversary of the
landing of their fathers on that little
rock. The world is always glad to hear
Of the prosperity of this people, and sew
eral other little communities inhabiting
the smallest specks of land in the ocean
also excite much interest.
There is one island, however, of which
we seldom hear. 1t is Lord Howe isl
and, the home of fifty or sixty white
people, about 600 miles northeast of New
South Wales. Years ago two or three
families from New Zealand thought they
would seek new home.
They had heard Of the profuse vegeta-
ton on this crescent shaped little island,
and decided that they would build new
homes there. So they went to Lord
Howe island, which is only six miles
long and about a mile wide, and rises
precipitously from the sea to height of
nearly 5000 feet at nearly every point.
They built their huts, titled the land,
and after a while two or three other
families joined them. Some of these
original settlers are still living, but most
of the residents are their descendants.
The island is under the government of
New Zealand. and once a year it is visit
ed by a magistrate, who settles AL little
disputes 1t is very easy task, for
there are seldom any differences among
the people. Like Pitcairn and other lit
tie island communities, they have never
found it necessary to build Jail.
There were none Of the higher man.
mails on the islands when they went
there, but now there are quite a num-
Der of goats, swine and cats, which, hav-
ing escaped from domesticity, have
lived in the woods so long that they
have become quite wild. While some
of the men engage in tilling their gar
dens others are out fishing. A great
many edible fish are caught there, and
the people find it very easy TO live in
comfort without large amount of labor.
They say they have not the slightest
desire to return to larger communities.
4HNg AO NV DC-
cause they think they and their children
will need all of the 3,220 acres of the ISL
and. Sometimes a sailor from passing
ship spends little while in the commu-
nifty, and has been known to carry away
one of the daughters as his wife, but
most Of the people are born, live and die
there.
They cannot travel more than few
hundred rods without seeing the sea, and
of course they come to know every inch
of their little world Once or twice
year a vessel comes to them with a large
variety of supplies, and they purchase
with their corpa and other products the
goods they need for the ensuing year.
AT the same time their libraries are re-
plenished with new books, large lot of
newspapers come to their homes, and it
takes them good while 10 read of all
thar has happened in the busy world
since they last heard of it.-New York
sun.
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Reducing His Family to Suit.

A certain man, not unknown in this
city. tells this story about himself: He
went to look at rooms, and after chat
with the landlady, i'll which he told her
he thought he would tike them, he asked
her if she objected to children. She said
no, not particularly, a Id wanted to know
how many he had.
"Oh, about seven," he replied in an
offhand way.
"Whatr' she cried, Goodness gra-
ciouS, | couldn't let those in"
Well he said effectively. 'Tll go
home and xiii four of them. like the
rooms very much" me lady was horri-
fed and begged him not TO 60 it, until
finally he consented aa1 gave up his
hope OF ever living in her pleasant rooms.
-Providenca TELEGRAM.
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Greek Meets Greek.

AS strolled on the beach with the fair Isabella
We were friends of long standing; Id known hel
a week
Was itIove or the shade of her gorgeous umbrella
That fiuttered in crimson across her soft CHEEK
Hope tugged at my hesrtstrings and made me
audacioGs.
For when coquetry blooms ike Provencal rosa
it is surely sign that she means 70 De gracious
And bless with sweet favor some one OF her
beaux-
So I set ne to wooing. both blithely and brsveIy
Caughs in mine g small hand in brown CANT
de Suede,
snztched kiss from her lips, ana was begging
suavely
To leave out ny heart from the liss OF betrayed
When size stopped. I'm sorry" she nnurmured
discreetly.
Blu, vou see-rm engaged:''-and pretended 70
sigh.
While a swift recollection upset nc completely
"Gre<s CBSar:" s2sped u fo-y0t. So am T.
Sf~.--- - II
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DEATH DpOSEp.

Death stately came 20 young man and sasd.
III thou vert dead
What matterr' The young man replied,
See my young bride
Those life were al one blackness II died
MY land requires me; and the worlds self too.
Methinks, would miss some things that can 10.
Then Death in scorn this only said
BE dead
And so he was. And soon anothers hand
Made rich his land.
The sun, too. of three summers had the might
To bleach the widows hue, light and moro light,
Again to bridal white
And nothing seem'd to miss beneath the sun
Ills work undone.
But Death soon met another man wtcse eye
Was Natures spy,
Who said: ''Torbear thy too triumphant scorn.
The weakest born
OF all the sons of men is by his birth
Heir of the Might Eternal, aud this Earth
Is subject to him in his place.
TDou lcav'st no trace.
Grim, fieshIess Fate;
Cold, dark and wormy thing of loss and tearsl
Not in the sepulchers
Thou dwellest but in my crimson'd heart,
Where while it beats We call thee Life. Depart!
A name, a shadow, into any gulf,
Out of this world, which is not thine,
But mine:
Or stayl-because thou art
Only NJ self
William Ahingham in New York Tribune.
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Why She Didn't Laugh.

1--WE had more fun at the party the other
night than ever saw in my life" said q
little St. Anthony Hill girl to her mother.
What was the cause of your hilarityP
inquired the interested parent.
Zone of the girls fell right through a
chair, and everybody laughed but me-"
why didn't you laugh"
I'LL was the little girl who fell
through the CHAIR Paul Pioneer
Press
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WAY WORN.
I ,ouetimes think that it would he best

sometimes think that it would he best
II the hands that labor were folded DER
The silent breast in the last sweet rest,
When think Of the friends who have gone be
fore;
Who have crossed DER the rivers rolling tide,
And reached the home on the other side.
It seems so far TO the wished for day,
And weary and lonely and lost roam;
feel like a child vino has lost his way
And is always longing for home. sweet home!
But say to my yearning heart, BE still;
Wen 20 home when it is Gods will
The night is long, but the day viii break
When the light Of eternity streaming down
On the cross We bear for the Masters sake
Will guide our steps to tie promised crown
A little while and the gate is passed
Home and heaven and rest at last.
#. L. Stanton.
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Coming Modification. in War Tactic.

coming hodincatious In war Tactics.
1t is pointed out as one of the conse-
quences of the universal introductions
Of smokeless powder which is now immi-
nent, that, as soldiers viii have TO seek
all possible cover, it Will be necessary
TO multiply the number Of orderlies and
messengers, and the commandments
will have to take his position in the cen
tire of action TO watch everything and
to be ready 70 modify the original plan
swiftly if needful. The change from
brilliant uniforms 70 those of sobercr
and safer hues viii involve such eIpense
that it is likely to be deferred for Il
while, but the glitter Of helmets and
bayonets is now so dangerously visible
that already the French minister of war
has given orders that in the army Of the
republic these shall be dulled with
bronze.-New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
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It's funny, isn't it" he said to his
companion, As they Were riding up town
on the elevated road
What's funny"
That there are two thousand seven
lm'ired anGiify languages in the world.
ana not one Of them is good enough foi
that brakeman Puck.
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A. iasesrs Of age = bovtLinks thar his
Farmer 6n"wS great deal; al - he klows
as much as hiSiather; Al - lac knows twloe
a. n-ach; at 70 ne Il willing to take his adj
ace; al :" ne begins 10 think his father
Knows something siter ail. at 20 he begins
10 serh ais advice, and at 62. after his
'atoer is dead, he thinks that he was tue
tlnaTtest man that ever lived.
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4 Slnple plan.

Nr. Younsmau after long thought
Is there any way 20. AID out what a vyo-
man thinks Of you without proposing:
ar. Benedick ,soSeatlyl-Tes; make
her u-sS.-1-ood Ee-S
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VIII Ian Them.

Maud-However can you get nd Of that
awful tan,
Minnie "a school teacher)-I shall trans
fer it to my pupils.-Lswrence American
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Wichita National Bank,

PAIn UP CAPITAL. $3.50. 600
cUhFLUS. $4,000
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BY WORD OF MOUTH.

THE author of this story, Rudyard Kipling is a
young Englishmsn who has lived most OF his life
In British India. His stories of that country,
written during personal contact with its people
and the British army, have recently attracted a
great deal Of attention both in England and
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
Editor Warner on the Slot Machine.


Charles Dudley Warner, while moral
izing upon well known tendency Of
modern times in Harper's, has some
thing to say regarding the possible
future development Of some recent fa-
miliar inventions. perhaps" says he,
1--WE may expect a further development
of the slot machine. By dropping a
cent in the slot one can get his weight.
his age, piece of chewing gum, bit of
candy or shock that will energize his
nervous system. Why not get from q
similar machine good business educa-
tion,' or an interpretation of Browning,
or new language, OF knowledge of
English literature? But even this would
be crude.
1--WE have hopes of something from
electricity. There ought to be some
where a reservoir of knowledge, con-
Meeting by wires with every house, and
u professional switch tender, who, upon
the pressure of button in any house,
could turn on the intellectual stream
desired. There must be discovered in
time a method by which not only infor-
nation, but intellectual life, can be in
fused into the system by an electric cur
rent. 1t would save world of trouble
and expense"
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19

AT the annual meeting Of the Board of Direc-
tors of the above institution it was resolved, in
order to increase the usefulness of the Bank,
and to encourage small deposits, that the sys
TEN of 3 cent deposit stamps be adopted after
January /, ] S91. This system has been in use
many years in Europe, and has recently been
adopted in the United States, and is regarded as
very beneficial, tending TO teach children and
young people the advantage of saving money.
Agents will be appointed in all parts of the
city and county for the sale of 5 cent deposit
stamps. Each purchaser of two deposit stamps
will be furnished with book of ten leaves, each
leaf ruled for twenty stamps. The agent will
send the name and number of each book pur-
chased to the Bank. Whenever any depositor
has filled leaf with twenty stamps, he can
bring this or send it by mail to the Bank You
will then receive regular deposit book, with
one dollar to your credit, and whenever another
leaf is filled and sent to the Bank another dollar
is entered on your book. Or, the entire stamp
book of ten leaves may be filed and sent to
the Bank at one time.
The Main-street Savings Bank and Trust Co.,
incorporated October %, 1889, has had 800 de-
positors during the year.
The Bank is already on paying basis, and its
growth has been very satisfactory to its depos-
itors and stockholders. Its Board of Directors is
composed of the following we'll known citizens:
CHAS. FORMAN, /. w. HELLMAN,
J. J. SCHALLERT, l. N. VAN NUYS,
j. H. JONES, G. j. GRIFFITH,
GEO. II. PIKE, A. HAAS,
J. B. LANKERSHIM.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19

most serious. 1t takes great deal OF
time to cultivate the rich successfully.
If they are working people their time
is SO much more valuable than yours
that when you visit with them it is apt
to be your time that is sacrificed If
they are not working people it is worse
yet. Their special outings, when they
want your company, always come when
you cannot get away from work, except
at some great sacrifice, which, under the
stress of temptation, you are too apt to
make. Their pleasuring is on so large
scale that you cannot make it fit your
times or necessities.
You can't go yachting for half day.
nor will $50 take you far ON the way to
shoot big game in Manitoba. You sim
ply cannot play with them when they
play, because you cannot reach; and
when they work you cannot play with
them, because their time then is worth
so much minute that you cannot bear
to waste it. And you cannot play with
them when you are working yourself
and they are inactively at leisure, be-
cause cheap as your time is you can't
spare it.-Scribner's.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
A Stimulant to the Gas Industry.

Many of those who were interested in
the manufacture and sale of gas in this
country have been much exercised by
the threatened supersession by the cleo
trio light of the older illuminant; but
there is now every reason to believe that
instead of injuring the gas industry, the
introduction of electricity for illuminat-
ing purposes will stimulate it to an I'M
limited extent.
Not only has the fact been established
that the superior brilliance of electric
light in streets aand stores where it is
used calls for more light in competitive
situations, where gas alone is employed
but it has been demonstrated that the
use of gas in engines as a motive power
to drive electric light machinery will
produce from five to six times the light
that could be obtained by burning the
same amount of gas in the ordinary way
through burner. A new field has thus
been opened up for gas companies to
work, in which the electric light will be
their ally instead of their competition
New York Commercial Advertiser.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
She Caught a Mouse.

Sunday evening gentleman and his
wife, who live on street pretty near
the tunnel, attended evening service at
the Fourth church and took seats in the
gallery. The service was about half
over when they were annoyed by con-
tinued tittering and scuffling back of
them, and looking around they saw sew
eral girls standing upon the seats, while
a number more were moving uneasily
about as if trying to avoid some danger.
Just then the word ''rats," uttered in a
stage whisper, partially solved the
trouble, and the man turned toward his
wife. His wife is mortally afraid Of
rats and mice, and the mention of the
word Gratis" set her to thinking.
Presently the people in the gallery be
gan to leave, but the scuffling continued
until the lady whispered to her husband
that they, too, had better go. So they
arose and left, and the lady breathed
freer when she reached the street. When
they arrived at home they were laugh
ing at the incident, when the lady
screamed and jumping into chair
grasped something in the folds of her
dress. "It's the mouse" she said to her
husband as she clung to her garment.
She was right, too, but it was dead,
probably from the clutch she gave in her
excitement. nt.-Hartford Courant.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
Six Things a Boy Ought to Know.

First-That a quietvoic courtesy and
kind acts are as essential to the part in
the world of gentleman as of gentle
woman.
Second-That roughness, clustering
and even foolhardiness are not manli-
ness. The most flN and courageous
men have usually been the most gentle.
Third-That muscular strength is not
health.
Fourth-That brain crammed only
with facts is not necessarily wise one.
p Fifth-That the labor impossible to the
boy of ii will be easy to the man of 90.
Sixth-That the best capital for boy
is not money, but u love OF work, simple
tastes and a heart loyal to his friends
and his God.-Youth's Companion.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
Quite a Traveller for a Turtle.

w. E. Hellenbrand, of Oldtown, came
into possession of turtle lately at
Pushaw, which bore upon it the evil
dence of having reached years of discre-
ton and of having been-for a turtle
quite traveller. 1t was marked ~. W.
Sewall, 1871" and Mr.. Sewall remem-
.bers that when camping in his boyhood
ON Pushaw lake he found the turtle near
jthe outlet and cut his name upon its
shell. The animal was found short
time ago in the "Thorofare," near Orson
island, some sixteen miles from its
former place of capture, showing that it
had travelled on the average about mile
each year. Mr.. Hellenbrands son Wal
ter marked it and released it for further
adventure. Bangor (Me.) Commercial.
Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
Long Prayers.

An Irish priest at Ammergau told the
following story of his bishop: His lord
ship and chaplain came to see the
Passion play. They would fain have
had room each, but this was not posi-
BILE. They knelt down separately to say
their prayers by their little cots, and
presently it crossed the mind of the
chaplain that it would not be well to
make his orisons shorter than the bish-
ops, and he glanced over his shoulder to
see if his lordship was about to make an
end.
The bishop, presumably anxious not
to scandalize his chaplain by the short
ness of his prayers, also glanced over his
shoulder and waited. The process was
repeated several timos. Both suppli-
cants were very tired, and in time both
fell asleep. They were found in the
morning on their knees still and sleep
ing.-Pall Mall Gazette.