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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

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leading feature this time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

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the travelling public. BY the middle of
October the hotel was enlarged to its pres
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04
HOTEL METR0P0LE.
ONE OF THE LEADING HOTELS OF
THE WEST
Perfect in It's Appointments and Man.
agement--A FaVorite With the Trav-
cling Men and Families---Its
Enviable Reputation---A
Brief Description.

OR MOST amongst
the questions that occur
to a visitor is what
hotel will furnish me
the best accommOda-
tions. In Wichita the
number of first-class
hotels makes this ques-
ton themore important
and interesting. The
division of the patron
age would seem to de-
terlnine this point and
does in many instances,
DuU JHe constant HOOD
of strangers to this city
comfortably fills all the
hotels at almost all
times. The Metropole
opened its doors to the
public on the first day
of January, 1889, and
before the first six
months of the year had
passedit was absolutely
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-04
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The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
THE INFlNlTESIMAL.
In Importance 1t Is Second Only to the
the Infinite.

If the revelations of the telescope in
the world-crowded realms of space fill
us with amazement and awe, the won
ders disclosed by the microscope in the
minutest atoms that float in the water
or the air, or go to make up the solid
aggregate of terra firma, no less compel
our admiration.
The waters and ice of almost the
whole Antarctic Ocean are literally en-
Drowned with tiny animalcules. To the
unscientific these little creatures are
merely specks of mud or DUST but when
magnified they are seen to be animals.
Very insignificant animals, you will say
But what are they doing? Simply
shoaling the Antarctic Ocean-laying
the foundations of a great island or per-
chance a continent. Recent explorations
in that region show that they have al
ready formed submarine bank four
hundred miles in length by one hundred
and twenty in breadth. Small as these
creatures are, they are engaged in a
vast business
A large portion of every soil is com
posed of particles which either are or
have been alive. Some years ago the
inhabitants of district in Sweden were
threatened with famine, and in the hope
of staving off the evil while the crops
were growing, they eked out their
scanty supply of grain with earth. They
found this mixed diet almost as nourish-
ing as the unmixed meal. Animal life,
it is we'll known, can not be sustained
by inorganic matter. How then could
mere dirt be nutritive? The microscope
solved the mystery. The dirt" was
found to consist of shells of infinitesimal
creatures, which under chemical analy-
sis proved to be formed of nutritious
elements.
The Arabs, we are told, sometimes re-
lieve the pangs of hunger during their
desert wanderings by eating clay.
Doubtless this clay contains animal
matter.
Verify, there is wisdo m in the precept,
"Despise not the day of small things. -
N. Y. Ledger.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
STANDARD OIL METHODS.
How the Millions of tke Great NIonopol,
Hny lnn rnl


Have Been acquired.
The Standard Oil Company is another
illustration showing the modern facil-
tiles of gigantic combinations. The
company began in partnership, during
the early days of the civil war, between
Samuel Andrews and John Rockefeller.
Andrews had invented new process by
which a greater percentage of kerosene
was extracted from petroleum than had
been possible under the old method, and
by virtue of this advantage the company
soon became prosperous. In time, as it
gained strength, it absorbed some rival
companies, crushed others, and finally
stood at the head of the business. Then
it extended its operations still further.
1t ran it's own acid-works and glue fac
tories, made its own barrels, and con-
trolled the disposition of kerosene
through the country. Not satisfied with
this, it began to exercise control over
the railroads, which finally enabled it
to crush out all effective opposition,
Vanderbilt once said that there was
but one man in the country who could
dictate to him, and that was Rockefeller
The Pennsylvania railroad entered irto
a written contract with the STANDARD
Oil Company, by which it agreed to
charge double rates for all oil hauled by
other shippers. When this contract was
exposed in the courts new agreement
was made by which the Standard Com
pany was allowed rebate not only on
the oil shipped by it, but on all oil car
-. -. 4,
bates to the amount of $1,000 $40 wore
paid to the company, and for the sevhn-
teen months ending March 81, 1879, The
rebates amounted to SO, 15l,21S Similar
secret agreements were entered Tito
with the New York Central, the Este
and the Atlantic and Great Western
roads. A barrel of oil weighing 800
pounds was carried 400 miles and the
empty cars returned for so cents, while
90-pound can of milk was car
ried 60 miles for 45 cents On enc
occasion an opposition oil company
had 10000 barrels of oil carried
by pipe line to the side of the Erie tra,k,
the company having agreed to ship the
oil, but an agent of the Standard Gem
pany appeared on the scene, stopped The
Shipment, ana inc OIL WIS SIlll WaluHB
to be shipped when the matter was in
vestigated in the New York courts some
months later. This was but another
illustration of another method by which
the Standard Oil Company used its In
fluence over the railroads to crush out
its rivals. 1t compelled the railroad
companies to refuse TO ship oil for other
producers, and when complaint vas
made to President Scott, of the Penn
sylvania railroad, he said that all he
could do was to ask the Standard Com
pany to allow him to carry the oil over
his own road. The passage of the inter
state commerce act has put an end to
this despotism over the railroad COM
panies, but the facts indicate the un-
limited power of this trust. BY the ex-
ercise Of this absolute despotism the
Standard Oil Company was enabled to
crush out all effective opposition. Now
its power is not less-it As merely turned
into other directions. Franoiso Ar
gonaut
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
NORTHERN LIGHTS.
How Nature Displays Herself in All Her
Grandeur in Arctic Lands.


Auroras are most frequently seen in
the cold and in the northern temperate
zone, rarely in the southern temperate
zone, and hardly ever in the tropics.
The places where they most frequently
appear lie between the sixtieth and
SEVENTEEN degrees of north latitude.
In the form of an oval, they include the
geographical as well as the magnetic
north pole, which is to be found on the
peninsula Boothia Felix, Iceland, the
Kara Sea, Northern Siberia Behring
Strait, Hudson Bay, Labrador and
Greenland. Northern lights have been
seen as far down as the twenty-tifth de-
gree of north latitude. In full splendor,
however, they may be seen only in the
northern polar region to the seventy-fifth
degree of latitude. Here Nature is
displayed in all her grandeur. When
the sun has set, and the gray veil of
twilight is cast over the earth,
the northern horizon grows darker
and darker. Soon there may be dis
tinguished a segment of the sky more
somber than its background; this is
hemmed in by white concentric arcs of
light Colored rays shoot forth there
from in all directions. They interlace
and intertwine until they seem to be
woven into one futtering band of color.
And anon it changes to sea of fire!
The rays leap upward far above the
zenith, form there flaming crown, and
then sink back, to begin anew the Won
drous play. The most beautiful de-
scriptions and trustworthy observations
we owe to Nordenskiold and Elama.
All explanations which have been at
tempted as to the origin and cause of
northern lights are based on analysis by
the spectroscope, on the determination
of the elevation, and on observations of
the peculiar behavior of the magnetic
needle. - Wilhelm Stosz, in Popular
Science Monthly.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
His MOTHERS PIES.


I've toilcd and tried and worried
rye gone the cook-books through,
Till my brain is tired and fiurried
And my hands and patience, too.
I've had the best instruction
From the ablcst cooks In town,
And my pies are crisp and dainty
And delicately brown.
But apple, mince or pumpkin,
or any form or shade,
Are nothing TO my husband
Like the pies his mother maGo
So I'll give the struggle over
And throw my pride away,
But as sure as I'm u mother
I'll be avenged some day.
My bonnie lads are growing,
And they'll not be afraid
To tell their future spouses
What pies their mother made.
-Cicily Corwin, in Good Housekeeping
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
DifYerence In Brain weights.

Sir j. Crichton Brown has been lectur-
ing at Birmingham on Brain Growth"
and giving figures as to the average
weight of brain enjoyed by different
races. Thus we have the following
figures: The Scotch, so ounces: the En-
glish, 40 ounces; the Germans, 4s.3
ounces; the. French, 47.9 ounces. 1t is
hard for the Englishman to find himself
thus beaten by less than head, but he
must console himself with the reflection
that, after all, it is quality as we'll as
weight Of brain which tells In the long
run. London Globs
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
Dissatisfied Any Way.

Jones has son who is badly stage
struck.
Unhappy boy!" exclaimed the irate
parent: "and you actually propose to
dishonor my name on the bpards of a
theatss ?"
"Why father. would take an as
sumed one."
swell, sir, how would that help 1t I?
Supposing you were to succeed, much
credit should get II no one knew th at
! was your fatt er Judge.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1890-04-19
She Knew the Name.

To show how history repeats herself,
let us repeat bit of history. John
Quincy Adams being President, George
NJ. Dallas (who used to tell the story
with great gusto) was one evening re-
lieving the boredom of ball by talking
over things with Charles j. Ingersoll.
"a political career" exclaimed Mr. In
gersoll, "why it's chasing the will o. the
wisp You wade the bogs and then, when
you succeed, what have you got? Moth
ing; absolutely nothing. And as for
fame, why look around you; in all this
brilliant assemblage, among all these
beautiful creatures, l dare wager what
you please that you can not find one
that knows who is President OF the
United States" No sooner said than
done" Next to agree upon the lady
oracle. She knew, o, dear yes; of course.
Adams Squinchy.-N. Y. Tribune.
Miss Highup-"It's perfectly scan.
dalous! Did you hear about Miss DE
Pink?" Miss Tiptop-"No. What has
she done?" Miss Highup-"o, the most
immodest thing imaginable. Sho's lei
all the world know she is orazy to gel
married by going and joining cookery
school!"--N. Y. Weekly,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
Lock Stealing,

In years gone by, before the beginning
of the present generation, "lock steal
ing" was very common; in fact al
most every dealer in human hair had
"stealer" as they were called, whose duty
it was to rob young and old women as
well of their hair"
In France, during the sixteenth, sew
enteenth and eighteenth centuries, as we'll
as in the early part of this century,
"lock stealing" was 80 common that
young woman used to go about with their
hair tied up in wire nets. Then hair
was worth from S75 to 800 a pound,
and it always found ready market.
Since the beginning of the present
century the hair dealers have procured
their stock in trade mostly from the nun
neries and monasteries of France, Ger
many and Austria, where BARRIERS are ap-
pointed who at certain intervals visit the
homes of these holy people and cut from
their heads such portions of hair as are
of marketable length.
"There is probably less false hair worn
in New York than in any other city In
the world" the lady said. "Neverthe-
less there are thousands of men and
women who do wear false hair, and who
keep several hundred hair establishments
running throughout Manhattan Island. "
-Nelo York Journal.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
A Willy Professor.

Two teachers of languages were dis
cussing matters and things relative to
their profession. "Do your pupils pay
up regularly on the first of each month";"
asked one of them. "No, they do not, 4"
was the replys ~ often have to wait for
weeks and weeks before get my pay,
and sometimes don't get itat all. You
can't well dun the parents for the money"
"Why don't you do as l do3 l always
get my money regularly" "How do you
manage it2" at is very simple. For
instance, am teaching a boy French,
and on the first day of the month his
folks don't pay the money for the lesson.
In that event give the boy the follow
ing sentence to translate and write out at
home: Il have no money. The month
is up. Hast thou got any money! Have
not thy parents got money! 1 need
money very much. Why hast thou not
brought the money this morningl Did
thy father not give thee any money! Has
he no money in the pocketbook of his
uncle's great-auntr That fetches them.
Next morning that boy brings the
money. ."-Nel0 York Star.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24

Although Africa is being partitioned
with fatal facility on the map, the Eu-
ropean nations who are so eager to estab-
lish colonial empires within its borders
will find their task slow and often dis
heartening one. The administrator of
the British colony of Gambia on the
west coast writes in an almost hopeless
way of the attempts to introduce higher
forms of agriculture and new industries.
While plows and other implements are
rusting in stores the natives have been
found turning over the soil with a
piece of hoop from an old cask. Nature
is to some extent on their side, as deep
digging is inimical to the proper devel-
opment of the ground nut, which is the
staple export, and abstract demonstra-
tions that other products and greater
effort will produce better results is of no
avail. 1t is suggested that the only
hope of inducing the aborigino to adopt
improved methods, is to introduce su-
perior race like the Chinese or Bengali
lajorer, who will lead the way. The
assurance that he will reap the reward
of his labor must also tell in the long
run. None the less, the task of civiliz-
ing Africa is certain to be slow and
onerous.-PdU Mall Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
Checkers Among the Fire Fighters.

About as hard customer as one may
wish to tackle in game of checkers is
the average fireman. The game is popu-
lar one in all the stations, and the long
hours of "waiting for something to turn
up give ample opportunities for indul-
gence in it. Some wonderfully scientific
games are played, and some of the fire
laddies have great records. The game of
checkers as played by tiremen has one
distinct drawback. A player may have
an elaborate plan of campaign worked
out. He is gradually working up to his
climax. His adversary is making Just
the moves he wishes him to. The final
moment arrives. The would-be victor is
lifting his finger to make the initial move
Of the series that will bring him his
triumph when bang goes the alarm, and
in a jifTy the board and the "men" upon
it are jerked seven ways for Sunday as
the players fly to their posts. The alarm
turns out to be from distant part Of the
city, however, and the destruction of the
game unnecessary. A new one must be
started, Of course, and thus another
triumph is nipped in the bud. The only
comfort the sufferer has is in knowing
that it's all the same for everybody and
that his adversary may be the victim and
himself the beneficiary of the interruption
next time.-Ne0 York Times.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
Americas Valuable Mineral Springs.

DR.. Frank Bosworth, the eminent
throat specialist of New York, who is
now in Paris, thus discourses on Ameri-
can springs: "No country in the world
has more valuable mineral springs than
America. Their lack of recognition l
believe to be due simply to the fact that
their waters have not been so thoroughly
tested as those of the European resorts;
still more, that medical men in charge
either have not or cannot enforce per-
feet system or regimen which regulates
cures well adapted to Americans. The
system of the foreign spas is largely
organized for well-fed, beef.eating Eng
lishmen or robust Germans. who, as a
result of sedentary habits or of overeat-
ing, have got their digestive apparatus
out of order, and for these three or
four weeks course of treatment at Carls.
bad, with its severe system, is of i'm
mense benefit. If, on the other hand,
you object to this course an American
whose disorders are the result of over
work, and whose nervous system has
been severely taxed, the result is liable
to be disastrous. At most well.known
European resorts the physicians in at
tendance recognize these facts and avoid
their dangers. These facts should be a
warning to the large number of travelling
Americans who are tempted TO make a
trial of foreign waters without profes
slonal advice. Times Democrat.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24

gagged in following the scripture leBsos
to look at any one.
"I'r bet she's mad, though" thought
Mrs. Wade. "One o. them jackets an
one o. them trowsis came from her.
dunno, though, s they look emmy worse
than that dress o. Almiry's does.
didn't s'pose they'd think Of riggin' the
children out in 'em to wear to church.
I'll bet Mis- spooner's done it q pur-
pose"
Mrs. Spooner had "done 1t purpose, +"
as she admitted to her husband, on their
way home.
az don't think you ought to have done
it, Susie" he said gravely, but there was
a laugh in his eye as he said it, as he
looked at the motley group ahead"
"Perhaps not" was his wife's reply,
"but wanAed them to see the striking
effect resulting from their generosity. or
course they can't get angry about it,
since they gave the clothes to be worn.
l do think it'll have one good effect, and
that is, that old clothes won't be one of
the important features of the next dona-
ton party here. b."
Mrs. spooner was right. When the
next donation party occurred not one old
garment was "donated." Mr.. Spooner
at last succeeded in disposing of his
beans, but he had to do so at a sacrifice,
on account of its having been such a
'great year for beans in Scragsby Cor
ners," that they overstocked the market.
- Yankee Blade.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
Gold Is Practically Indestruetible.

Gold may be said to be everlasting aud
indestructible. The pure acids have no
effect upon it. Air and water alike are
unable to work its destruction. While
to the baser metals they are decay, to
gold they are innocuous.
Bury it through the long ages, and
when the rude tool of the excayator
again brings it to light, while everything
around it or originally associated with it
is returned to dust and the delicate form
which it adorned has become a powder
so impalpable as to be inappreciable, the
delicate tracery of the finest gold thread
remains.
Days, years, century upon century may
roll by; mighty Empires rise aud fall /;
dynasties which deem their power ever
lasting and armies which have marched
and conquered may become neryeless I;
cities teeming with millions may become
the abode of the owl, yet the thin fila
ment OF gold remains to-day as it was
5000 years ago. Truly gold Is noble
metal. .-Jeloelers' Weekly,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24

The Boston CultiUator says: "The use
of air brakes on passenger trains is now
general, and it probably soon will be on
freight trains as we'll. 1t is much safer
and quicker than the old-fashioned hand
brake, and freight trains are now COM
monty run at such rates of speed as to
make them very unsafe without air
brakes. The process of slowing up
heavily loaded train by hand brakes was
always too long a job to keep it from
running over an obstruction not seen
some considerable distance ahead. BY
adapting air brakes for freight trains, the
engineers can do the work, relieving the
company of the necessity of employing
large force of brakemen, who as they
stood on the steps or platform were al
ways peculiarly exposed to danger. No
body need feel sorry to have the brake
men go. As many men will be needed
in railroad work as ever, and probably
more, but it will be in work much plea
santer and much safer TO life than that
Of the brakeman,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24
Living on an Unknown Island.

Captain Fairchild, Of an English YES
sci, recently landed on Sunday Island,
one Of the Karmadee group In the South
Sea, and popularity supposed to be unin-
habitable. lie was surprised 10 find a
countryman, William Bell, living there
with his three daughters, four sons and a
Scotch ex-schoolmaster. The daughters
were grown up women, but had not seen
an unfamiliar face since babyhood.
They wore male attire, but through the
efforts of the ScOtchman were highly ed
ucated and, says the Captain, very beau
tiful. 1t was some time before they
could be induced TO remain in the pres.
ence of the strangers, but in a day or two
their shyness disaPpeared.-Neu York
Pres,
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1890-09-24

During Senator Jones's recent exhaus-
tive speech on the silver question, says
the Pittsbmg Dispatch, he referred to
fact that in the ancient days of Massa-
chusetts oyster shells were used as
money. Mr.. Hoar nodded his venerable
head and whispered to Senator Gray +.
"Yes, and very good money it was. If
man in. these days wanted to order a
dozen on the half-shell, he could do 1t
with perfect safety, knowing that he
could pay for them with the Shells"