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to spread his wings. After he has tried the
experiment many times, only to tumble
back with bumped head, he attempts to
crawl out. But this is impossible also: the
inside of the pulpit is as smooth and slip
perry as ice. On the most highly polished
window pane there are spots of dirt and
roughness invisible to our eyes; fly catches
hold of these with his clawed feet, and thus
he can crawl up the perpendicular glass.
But he can get no foothold on the shining
inner walls of the arum. His gymnastic
exercises and fruitless efforts are conf
cal to witness, and remind one of the old
English sport, where leg of mutton was
stuck up on top of a smooth pole, which
had been we'll CREASED, and the country
lads attempted, each i'll turn. to Chamber up
and secure it. The meat was sometimes
won, we hear, so the country lad must have
its difficulties. but an entrapped insect
never succeeds in clambering out of the
arr.n.
Among the stamers he can find little
honey--dainty fare for prisoner-and this
keeps him alive for many hours. Mean
imprisoned flies are thickly busted with
pollen. Now they have received what they
are to deliver, and they may go. They
suddenly find that there is a door in
their Jail, and it stands ajar 80 that they
can slip out. The edges of the en-
loAOiAS sepdIdecA A4A SullSu
| wards. leaving an opening at the base of
| the flower by which n small insect can
| easily escape, and he goes, carrying load
| of pollen with him.
| Before this is all rubbed off, the fly seems
to conclude that after all it is good thing
| to have roof overhead. and he again seeks
shelter in an arum. If this chances to be
one containing the undeveloped berries, he
| is indeed Il welcome guest, for he comes
bringing the very quickening powder which
they need.
But "Jack-in-the- pulpit is not only a
deceiver. but ar migrate. The flies have
served his turn, and now he has no further
| use for them and is Indifferent to their fate
| They get no honey here, and soon
begin to feel the pangs of hunger.
They strive to get out, in vain.
There is no doorway here opening out to
sunlight and liberty, but shining prison
walls shut the captive in on every side. If
he is very adroit and persevering, he may
manage to squeeze out between the over
Tapped edges of the Unfolding leaf. But it
! is evident that most of the prisoners die of
starvation, for among the ripening pistils l
generally find several bodies of insects that
have persisted, that a future generation of
arums might be born.
There is something terrible in this sacri-
fee of the sensate to the insensate, of the
higher to the lower being. 1t is consolins
to remember that floral traps such as this
are, after all, rare in nature. Most flowers
employ insect messengers to carry the life
giving pollen, but most flowers are Just and
generous i'll their dealings, and dismiss the
little employees III safety. well paid in
pretty shows, rich feasts and sweet doors.
Z. NJ. HARDINGE.
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OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
IN SUNDAY SCHOOL.

Some score so of little lads,
Whose ages range from four to seven,
(Here truth uncompromising, adds
That one. the BOBBY, is eleven.)
In suits of various shapes and size
The most of them are minus collars
With restless limbs and eager eyes;
You see my class of Sunday scholars
The very simplest lessons theirs
IA verse or two. text repeated;
Each brow an anxious quicker wears
Until the weghty tasks completed
Then teachers turn-and once again
She tells the ancient Bible story
OF Daniel in the lions den
Or solomon in all his glory.
Or how the kindly Shumanite.
Who built her guest the little study,
Was promised, to her heart S delight,
"A what?"-''A wee machine and cuddy."
But when read how Samson found
lion in the way and slew it,
A tender infants boasts resound,
"Gie me Il poker and III do it,
Then comes the parting hymn, which brings
An end to all my Sunday labor;
Each youngster finds the place and sings
A little louder than his neighbor;
But as they struggle out OF school.
One weeps because he's lost his bonnet
younger brother, as rule.
Is sitting all The time upon it.
Yet sometimes in these childish eyes
There comes a light. thought, and straiGhtwa
They seem to pierce earth's cloudy skies
And gaze beyond the Golden Gateway.
And surely to Il little child
The promise long ago was & ven:
"Of such"-the m; ster turned and smiled
THE kingdom is OF heaven"
M. {. +. in Longman's Magazine.
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JACk-IN-THE-PULPIT.

Every country child knows "Jack-in the
pulpit" and can tell jast where it will be
found amid the woods in spring. 1t grows
in moist shady ground, and is a POOR rela-
ton of the stately Gala. AS the heart of
the Gala is a tall golden column, and one
great orgam- hite leaf is wrapped about it.
"Jack- 1.-The. pulpit" also called wild
arum" and Indian tarnlp." is like the Gala
i'll form, though quite unlike 1t in coloring.
The central column in wild arum is green,
and the large enfolding leaf is also green,
sometimes decorated with dark-brown
Stripes. 1t is curiei into sort of cornu-
copia. and one corner droops over the
column, SO that Jack has a sounding
board over his head as we'll as pulpit to
stand in. But in spite Of his clerical atti-
tude and surroundings. he is by no means
above reproach, and the pulpit, however
ecclesiastical III outward seeming, is but a
trap for the detention and ultimate destruc-
tion OF guileless and hapiess flies.
Let us gather an arum and strip off the
enfolding leaf. take Jack out of his pulpit,
in fact. and see Just what he is like. He or
it is glossy column. supported by short
and slender stalk. Around the base of the
column in this flower there are number of
green pistils growing close together in a
DrO2Q cDUupdCt Ting. ne siditetlS Will De
found deep down inside another arum, grow
ing, perhaps. at some distance from ths
first. They are short shining white stalks,
each tipped with two round white heads
When the anthers ripen and open. the,
shed quantity of mealy pollen. which drop.
to the pulpit floor. But it is utterly useles.
here, while the green pistils shut up in tn,
other pulpit need it sorely and cannot ma
ture Mt ali without its aid. So the Jack tina
has the pollen sends some to the Jack tina
wants it. and gnat or marsh-ty is EN-
ployed as messenger.
III almost every young staminate arun
we find two or three small insects. The,
are destined to period of usefulness
though they have come in without the leas
idea of seeking employment. They hav
crawled in to look for honey, or becaus
the oyerarching leaf. like green tent, shel
tiers them from wind and rain, and, one
in, they cannot get out. There is no roor
in the narrow space between the centrs
column and the EMBEDDING leaf for the 4
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THAT KISS IN THE HALLWAY,

The kiss that stole in the hallway.
Its memory lingereth yet;
Turned low was the fame of the hall lamp,
Around US twas blacker than jet
By accident purely INST her.
l knew by her tremble my Pct.
The kiss that stole in the h llway,
Its memory linSereth yet.
The kiss that stole in the hallway
With rapture our lovers lip met,
turned up the fame of the hall lamp
1ogaze or tie face of my pet.
q. Iordi twas the young color>d housamaid's-
"A face that was blscker tia1 let;
The kiss that stole in the hallway,
Its memory ingercth yet.
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PRECIOUS BOYS.

Most Infant Phenomena Explode In Ma
ture Years.
It has been observed that most precocious
boys have from their infancy been asso-
ciated chiefly with persons Of mature
years. When such boys get into the COM
pany of other boys, they usually lose theil
remarkable talents, and in few years they
are not more advanced than other boys
Sho did not promise SO we'll in early youth,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-21
Frisco Lii me- to St. Louis and the Eas

Frisco Lii ne'' to St. Louis and the East.
The best, quickest and most direct line
from Wichita to St. Lonis and all princi-
pal eastern, southeastern and northern
cities
The Frisco line runs two daily express
trains from Wichita TO ST. Louis without
change, equipped with Pullman palace
sleepers and free reclining chair cars. No
other line does it. Close connections in 81.
Louis union depot with solid vestibule eX-
press trains, without change, TO Chicago,
Louisville, Cincinnati, Cleveland. Pitts
burg Philadelphia, New York and Boston.
The popularity of this line being uni
versally acknowledged by all competitors,
all passenger trains of other railway lines
entering Wichita from the north, sout h
and west arrive iii time TO connect wit
the Frisco line fast express trains TO the
east
If you cannot purchase through tickets
reading via Frisco line from your starting
point, it will pay you to purchase TO WITCH
tia in order to secure the advantages and
comforts of this line
For further information regarding rates.
time connections and through reservation
of sleeping car accommodations call upon
or address w. ID. Murdoch, ticket agent,
122 North Main street. or Oak street union
depot. D. WIsHART.
Gen. Pass. Agent,
d56-tt St Louis, No,
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The winter excursion" season is past
success in each of those excursions, again
ducement for people to travel via that pop
ular linef in the way of round-trip, excur-
sion tickets, at greatly reduced rates to
principal points in Old Mexico, New
Mexico and Texas; also Aiken. : c.. Au-
gusta, Ga, birmingham. Ala, Brunswick,
Ga. Callahan, Fla, Mobile, Ala, New Or
leans La, Savannah, Ga, ThOmaSville,
GA: limited to return not later than June
]. 1890 Transit limit 10 points in New
Mexico, Old Mexico and Texas will be four
days each way; to other points named
above, transit limit will be four days each
way
Tickets are also now on sale to principal
tourist points in California, also Phoenix
and Prescott, Ariz.: Portland. Ore; good
for six months. with going limit sixty days
Las Vegas. Hot Springs, \. NJ; Ogden and
Salt Lake City, Utah, Idaho and Montana
good for ninety days; transit limit four
days each way. Stop over privileges al
lowed on all tourist tickets within transit
limits
Full information cheerfully given rela-
tive to routes and rates. Side-trip rates
and other special rates TO points on the A,
Il. & :. +. r. K. quoted on application.
Sleeping car accommodations secured and
baggaged checked to destination. Call on
or address W. ID. Murdoch, agent, 122 y.
Main street and Union depot.
GEO. 7. NICHOLSON.
G. P. & I. A, a. I. q :. f. r. r.
25-tf Topeka, Kansas.
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How We Look at Things.

You and I see every thing TO some extent
differently. You see things from the stand
point Of your previously acquired groups OF
ideas; from mine. Strictly, no two persons
can see the same things in the same way, for
it car never happen that two persons have
precisely the same groups Of ideas relating TO
any subject These depend On oEr past expe-
rience, on our education, on the beliefs of our
times, on our various sects or parties, on our
pet theories, our interests and our desires.
Here IS a simple illustration: Suppose an art
ist and an engineer standing side by side
overlooking a tract Of country. What they
perceive is the same; what they apperceiveis
wholly different. To the engineer the coun-
try presents itself as a possible line for rail
road, with here advantageous grades and
there economic bridges. Before the artist is
spread out landscape, with light and shade
and harmony Of colors. Suppose, again, a
plot of level ground in the suburbs Of a city.
A college student riding by apperceiTes it as
a possible ball ground; young girl as ten
MS court; a Spectator, as an addition for
town lots; an undertaken, perhaps as posi-
bic site for a cemetery Professor G. 7. ".
Patrick in Popular Science Monthly.
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\ Birds Drinking Fountain.

In June Of 1885 l had occasion to be out q
mile or thereabout from the town of Kent
vile, and was for some time detained in q
strip of clearing about forty rods wide. While
there l noticed woodpeckers continually cross
ing this clearing from one block of woods to
the other. thought nothing of it at first, as
these birds are very common here, but after
a constant stream Of them had been going and
coming for some time 1 determined to 90
across a small field to point of hard woods,
where they all seemed to be going, and see il
could find the cause. l discovered that the
woodpeckers were flying to and from the top
of living white birch tree. About forty.
five feet up this tree the woodpeckers had
thickly perforated the bark space Of about
ten inches around the trunk, causing the saI
to flow freely. l soon discovered that this
was a drinking fountain, not only for the
birds that had so diligently worked to bore
these holes, but it seemed that all the small
birds in the neighborhood were coming here
to get a share Of the sweet sap that was con
tinually flowing from the wounded trea-
Forest and Stream.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-21
Government Property in New York.

The United States government has been
very fortunate IN its New York purchases.
Ii sold the old postoffice at auction for $500.
COO, which yielded & profit. of 100000. 1t
paid for the site of the sub-t$easury S225, COZ,
and could readily sell it for six times thai
sum, and then the assay Office, its most re-
cent purchase, which cost a half million,
would now be cheap at double that price.
Turning from New York to Brooklyn, the
navy yard. which contains forty acres, and
cost s., 600 an acre, Is now valued ct a nil
hon. Governors Island, which cost about
the Same amount. i now worth two millions.
New York, indeed. has always being lucky
spot Tor the nation, for the government was
founded here. and all national movements
in this city have been il tie highest degree
protitable.-New \ orh Letter IN Rochester
Democrat
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Keen This for Future Reference.

The Fort Scott, Wichita q Western rail
way Missouri Pacific Route j the only
line running solid trains through from
Wichita 10 Kansas City and ~ Louis.
Leaving Wichita All a:ljp p. n. you arrive az
, Kansas city next morning at clock.
Pullman palace sleeping and free reclin-
Ing chair cars through 10 Kansas City and
II. Louis without change. Remember i
Won 20 via the Fort Scott Route YOU arr
not dependent on main line connections Al
Junction Point, but y0u 20 right through
on solid trains. This j. the only route
whose main line runs through Wichita.
All trains are made up here and run
through solid to Kansas City 70 -. Louis.
II i the shortest line by forty eight miles
and two hours the quickest Two trains
daily 10 81 Louis aud all points east.
Ticket office 135 North Main street. Depot
corner Second and Wichita streets.
T. r BLECELET.
Passenger and Ticket Agent. 80 North
Main street Wichita. Kan.
II &. T0wSsENp.
G. =. & T 4. ~. LoEis. No.
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Fmipretion 1o &c Nc.

II Vou have friends in the east who con
template coming west or if you are going
east. remember YOU can save time and
money. likewise Your friends. by buying
tickets over the Missouri Pacific railway
the shortest line between - louis and
Wichita hv - miles and Orer- Two hour
the quickest time This J. the only line
giving ven CnOiCe of Two routes. either VIA
Kansas Cirv or Fort Scott. Elegant free
reclining chair car between Wichita and
- Louis. also bs-rueen Kansas City and
Wichita. without change OF car Pull-
nan ~lee per- on all trans. Re sure ihat
vuaI tsckelS read via the Missouri Pacific
railway and 7huS save anuoyanc,- ~
changing cars and UNNECESSARY deisrS-
Remember also hat nu charge are made
hy J.or1er> far riding IN chair cars The
porter, arz- paid by be company and sre
f,o, allowed fo cllsr4, any one- y they
llssd or through Tas>--Tl-srs. lrT ar
nirs-j 10 ssTsead tJ g-e wants Il The travel
fu- uaoilc.
ily ticket Gft5ye - \oz7a Main street.
y ichirI. Kan BlzfafE
I'a~~.-u ger ard Tickee -igffsf-
Il e. TovNsE>D,
t,eneJri Passenger AUd Iles1e. -AZfaf-
-. Leais. No. 4-i[
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Too Independent.

He was tall, unshaved and Independent,
and he came from Findlay. He had just
leased some oil land down in the field, and
was signing up" the lease in st. Clair street
real estate Office.
whats your wife's names" inquired the
clerk who was filling out the instrument.
Barbara" he replied.
Barbara what?'
Barbara NJ. :"
"What does the N stand forF'
"Well burned if l know"
''What! Don't know what the middle ini-
tial of your wife'S name stands for?"
Nope"
"Why, man, how long have you been mar.
ried?"
% Bout forty-four years"
Been married forty-four years and don't
know your wife's middle namean
Yep"
''Well, why didn't you ever ask herg"
'Ask her! Why, I'm too burned indie
pendent to ask her, that's why, young feller!"
Toledo Blade.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-21
Influenza in 412 Il. c.

Influenza can, it is said, be traced as far
back as the year 412 B. c. 1t appeared in
59l as an epidemic all over Europe, and af-
fected cattle as well as men, and when Pope
Gregory instituted a grand procession through
Rome eighty persons fell down dead Some
think that the old custom of saying to any
body who sneezo ''God help thee" or "God
bless thee, or ~ our health, :" may date from
the fatality at Rome. In the great outbreak,
in 1892, 10000 people were attacked in ST.
Petersburg. Montreal Star
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-21
A CoIored Prodigy,

A little colored girl was seen in a Memphis
book store. She came in while a good many
others were i'll the store, and for a time stood
back. Presently a clerk found time to wait
on her, and piloted her over to the school
books and asked her what she would have.
OF course, he imagined that she wanted a
second or third reader, or an arithmetic, per.
haps. Imagine his disnay when she asked
for copy of Xenophon. Yes, she wanted
Xenophon and no other. She had translated
Homer from lid TO lid; she had read Zeno,
and as mere pastime wanted to read Keno
phOn. That she spoke truly there is no rea-
son to doubt. She was a quadroon, and per-
haps eighteen years of age.-Atlanta Consti-
fT1tipn
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Who Would 30 Grnndmothere

The French actress does not seem to have
learned the art Of growing old. Thus there
came the time in the career of the great &C.
tress, Nile Mars, when i'll the opinion of her
manager land, for that matter, her public,
she ought to be cast for more elderly charac.
tiers than had been allotted her. NJ Scribe
wrote for her comedy entitled The Grand.
mother" and read it aloud to her on the day
it was completed. The title role was intended
for her.
''Capitall" exclaimed mademoiselle, clap
ping her hands in childish delight "Oi
course [ shall play the granddaughter; but
who is to play the grandmotherE'-Detr
Free Press
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Cut Rates Via the .,Grcat Rock island Route.

Cut Rates via the Great Rock Island Route. -
Commencing March the Rock Island
Route viii sell tickets from Wichita at the
following rates:
Chicago, first class, $1415; second class,
S1I15.
St Louis. first class. sl1.1J.
Commencing March 10: Denver. Pueblo
and Colorado Springs. Sl0.15-
Remember the Rock Island i the only
line running through vestibule reclining
chair ears free. Trains leave Wichita at
40 a. m and 9:55 D. III.
If you are going north, south, east or
west call at the city ticket office. 100 East
Douglas avenue, and get the lowest cut
rates. {. y. RI THERFoED.
81 II Ticket Agent
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CauVaSSinr for Votes.

A candidate for postmaster in Belleville.
y. j., originated novel method in canvass,
ing for political appointment He at first
started out 70 make house to house canvass,
but, finding that his two opponents were Ia-
bic to beat him, he hired an organ grinder
and his monkey. The wandering musician
passed from house to house, and at each the
monkey was handed an envelope with one Of
the candidates circulars in it, which he car
r1ed TO the window Of the house, and if the
window was not open he left it on the sill.
In this way tue candidate placed his claim
before the peoplc.-PhiIadelphie LaGger.
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How to Get Rid of Rats.

Rats will eat anything, from shortbread to
slippers, but so cunning are they that unless
aniseseed is sprinkled on the trap after setting
they smell the human hand and keep aloof.
The barrel remedy is worth trying Fill q
barrel with chatf, leaving at the top some
choice morsel to tempt the rats appetite, and
an inviting stick leaning against the side. Dc
this for three nights, and then on the fourth
night fill the barrel two-thirds with water
and one-third with chafR. The rats, thrown
off their guard by previous immunity, will
mount the ladder gayly and meet their fate
in the treacherous ocean below.-New York
Journal
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The flour Moth.

) -four moth, imported in grain from Italy.
=-tS known as tbs scUGTSv OF the AsdiJerra-
mean, has made its appearance in Ontario
mills. On TWO occasions . mill was cleanSei
thoroughly VITA chemicals, 10 10 purpose.
the elevators, walls, ceilings, craczS. crevices
and every machine being again in very
short time completely infested With moths.
rocooES and cateTplllarS, until there was no
use going CT, and work ceased. The insect. IL
once pyopagatei il the gses,. nigh: become a
national calamity verse than IKE Colorado
beetle - Philadelphia Record
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And knocked ONT on the Very Frs,

And knocked out ON the cry FIRST hound.
The Missouri Pacific railway Knocked
them all silly when it announced cut rates
10 st. Louis and Pueblo
Remember. commencing March eth,
cheap rates will go into effect to st. Louis
and points beyond. also to Pueblo. Denver
and other western points via the Missouri
Pacific railway.
Ii you are going east. west, north or
south. buy your ticks via the Missouri
Pacific railway
1t is the shortest line 10 1t. Louis by Is
miles and over two hours the quickest.
Elegant new reclining chair ears just re
ceived from the Pullman Co, on all trains.
These chairs are free to all patOrons of
the Missouri Pacific railway Come and
get our rates. We are here IN stay. City
ticket office 49, North Main street. Depot
corner Second and Wichita streets
f., r.. BLECKLEY.
Passenger and Ticket Agent, 49, North
Main street
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sandwich Men Ban.rse.ed.

\ unique sind Of q balrlue, NaS gwen by
Jitied LADY, ia England yo 50 .aoS, peculiar
class II suez-s. Lady NilbaGse inviteI
abogt - sasadvic-. msn to a lIes- ,-,. aud
1s2ia. greeting WrIIe they al ~ tre,- re
past ,4ey we're entertained ry solos an1
spaecaes AID AZ the close eaca nlsu vas I-s-
seated with . warm violent mufieE<
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Notice.

Those in correspondence with friends in
the east who contemplate visiting Wichita
on business or pleasure in the near future,
should be advised of the series of home
seekers excursions to be run by the popu-
lar Frisco line from St. Louis to Wichita
on April %. May 20. September 9, Septem-
Der % and October "A. 1890
These tickets are good to return thirty
days from date of sale and are sold at the
extremely low rate of one fare for the
round trip The Frisco line is the only
line running two daily express trains
between st. Louis and Wichita without
change. D. WIsHART.
General Passenger Agent, st. Louis, Mo.
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