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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
An Unkind Question.

''See that notch on my finger nail?' said
one gentleman Of leisure occupying a
seat in the City Hall park to another
equally tranquil person.
Yep"
well. 1 made that when I borrowed
the last V. It's the only way KIN re-
member. When l borrow Y cut a
notch close down at the bottom of my
finger nail, and when the notch grows
up to the top pay up"
Yep"
AN don't that allow me time 10 con-
slider? Don't it show me about when it's
a gon' TO come due: An amt always
got it before me? Its better'n any
memorandum book, amt TT"
Yep, only
Only WHAT
When Their notch gifts TO the top, does
yer allus pay up:
There was moments silence and
then, with a scathing look OF indgna-
ton, the first gentleman of leisure arose.
put his digital memorandum book in the
remnant of a pocket. and with cold con
tempt spread upon his countenance,
sroiled away.-New York Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
Chiners in Agrleu,tnre.

A ChinaInan in this city has garden
ten feet vide at one end, twenty at the
other and forty fee: long that has pro-
dpced more garden truck and viii pro
duce more than any white mans truck
patch of an acre OF ground White men
could got pointers on agriculture from
these same heather Chinese, as il has
been their study for centuries % know
how to utilize every square foot of land
they cultivate. -Rapid City Republican.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
The Industrial Organization Of the Fu.u-,.

The Industrial Organization of the Fatzre.
The wages system Is Of recent origin.
certainly modern, l b<heye transitional
A hunGaad years ago tAe.weaSeE owned
his loom, the tziiSr his bench, chs cob
bier his stall, tae-stase driver his coach,
the woman her spinning wneel Them
7entIon Of steam. thesrsnnrns jenny and
the power ioom crested q necessity for
organized labor. In4iTsiuskSIn gare
place to combination, and oSsnbink ton
created capitalism. ! bedsve sh2t as
slavery give pIace 70 segfdcHa> and se-f-
den 70 TIE wages syeem. SO IN time the
wages system will .gFse place % indus
thai deIaoc-scy.-Rey. III. Lyman 40
haz1 - Ec-ar.a-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

A Little tine seo / Rss zctDz from
Chicago 70 CAzsaz-z6- rarse or fozz Of
C U0ea sSr=e< Up 40 aeQnaEuExsOs -
t5sS1 duzs't- szaoEsJ Esgscz 40 hsSzs q
szeAnOszng ro0ra- E4Ch gave hrsls
biography ms reoeut kfe, Il hare
oen 20 cHnsyo.E ali ~. a q, ''to
oo1tesct ssDae eSns=ezo . nozeT. 4 GOD
May y>s-s 2se hosLie AZ i-Ssentsorl- 4
wa s.o.en f1ozn =. 5v SIN Chicago
psople. / Epe.4z nth rsoa@T AZ tying
70 get nBy rsEL-s. ard d. Lo- gsJ taszz.
Two yyssz@ az. ! se1ssF@d : bEste. .-pEa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

sJOou WIN uncovered neads Tor q mo-
ment, the gale ahrieking madly over that
waste of sand, the old.man said:
Man may never find the spot, but
God will know where the poor child lies
buried. New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
Whirh o
-WAsblngron Post

Miss Flutter twho has been admitted "a
Miss Hit1tity's dressing rconl-Oh, Besa,
I haven't seen you for so hong, and I've got
so many things 70 talk about NevPs Of
your engagement never reached ne, DO you
know, til got TO Berlin, and, oh-ohl
what 4 lovely switch that L, Bess-ard-
oh, by the way when Is 1t going To oou1sof.
Miss Hitittty CbevildeTedt-W the
wedding or the switchf-BuxHngton Frss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
Inre and Money.

verisoft-I love YOU, dear Alice, and l
ask you To be my wife.
Ahce-But you are too poor 70 buy the
engagement ring.
Verisoft-Yes, but you can loan ma
the mouey.-Jewelers' Circular.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
e. fhaze ETNoap-s,
" er Plight.

Cpen tbe steps see ssOod aLoos-
A vTsic3~oz1rozs FIR
jus, Who GAev1s cok.l4 ne'er D. Eo-n,
SO- uEst she vsrtsd fke--
4 6r-sr so-s 81. hz6-sucn 80
10 Eeo-s1 Uozse-s-S-5x
81 oSGgd uot rig TIE dooy aea 50
s5e Eso~o &Es u =4rz hs- eHxGL
-TasEzE.o= goE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

A handcar which moves along the
tracks and mows weeds fifteen feet
away is one OF tie innovations IN rail
road machinery it wln DO 10 so very
well with tla rotary snow pi0w as an
illustration 5l automatic intelligence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

Mr.. William Aston Of New York, en-
iovs an income II $23.5s5 g day; Mr.
John p Rcc.cfoller's s. slnounts 90 $ls,7l
Alr. Cornelius V2Iaf6ilt's 20 $4,000,
and Zfr. lay Cculis to $3.50.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

MARY, love you deeply. VII yo1 b
nv wife'"
Il doa I know, George Can yoa support
me-
Il think 50. You have g little souething.
haven't yo1f"
YES; I have s. 100 yesr.
why. tAsu, it's perfectly easy an
sure we oouid live CT s20oo yesr"--HAz-
rer's BazSr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
TREATED WITH REVERENCE.

A curious case Of mistaken pubic eX-
citelnent will be recalled, where a skeie-
ton imported to order for a secret society
of Wahham. Mass, was duly shipped to
its destination, but owing to some error
IN the directions-on the box was refused
by the person to whom the express com
pany delivered It, The box was there
upon opened at the express Office, and
the discovery of its contents created a
positive sensation until the shipper came
forward and explained.
While there is something CHASTITY at
first SIGHT in a mans bones thus being
withheld from the earth and travelling
about the globe, it is certain that, hav-
ing started on their travels, they could
not fall into better hands than those of a
secret order. Instead Of meeting with
levity or neglect, they are here treated
with all the reverence and care that
would be accorded the dead body in any
assemblage.
Their office, ,in conveying a sense of
the littleness Of human existence and
the awfuiness Of death, Is too serious to
admit Of any other treatment; and a
case is known TO the writer where,
some years ago. a member of a lodge
was suspended in disgrace for display
ing such skeleton to a party of friends
in the lodge room during facetious
mood.
If one must remain 4 skeleton. better
be reverently bestowedin a secret lodge
than on a SIl1oec0'S table
In soR2e cases, however, where a lodge
does not care,to import skeleton. do
mestic imitation. poorly and imperfectly
ariicuEated, can be obtained, and is east
" manufactured. Being symbolic it,
of course, serves the purpose in a meas
ure, but with a majority Of men can
scarcely be expected 10 CAR the same
impression as the genuine arjicle.-New
York News.
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nang the Den upon some convenient ree.
Two hundred years ago this rude con-
trivance might often have been seen
there .-Exchsnge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

Bones for Use in Secret Societies-Ske1-
etOns Are Strung Together Cheaper
Abroad.
Vervtfew men would, care to die IN the
knowledge that their skeletons, instead
of decentIy crumbling into dust, would
eventually be paBading about IN world
which tiksir owners had quilted forever.
Occasionally man gives up the ghost'
and at the same time gives up his bones,
for professional or commercial uses; but
such p man is invariably an abnormal
creature. whonsno one loved while liv-
ing or mourned when dead.
Through poverty and crime many
skeletons are avalable, but it Is seldom
that one is articulated in this country
except by Ia clever surgeon, and then
only for his.own use. It IS fact not
generally kaown that all skeietons+used
bvsecret societies and in other ways in
the United States are imported from
Europe
This uncannv traffic over the sea Is
not due 10 any scarcity Of skeletons here,
but to an.aDsence Of the peculiar skilled
labor necessary to the proper stringlng
Of the berses together. No doubt the in
dustry could be successfully introduced
here were Unprotected by the tariff, but
skeletons being on the free list there is
10 encourage zment TO enter into cOmpetl-
ton with the cheaper labor Of Europe.
A mistaken impression prevails IN the
popular mind that nearly all strictly
secret societies use human skeletons III
their ceremonies, the fact being that
only limited number among such or
CARNATIONS use them. For this reason
no stock of this45orC Is kept on hand, and
articulatcd skeletons are imported on the
receipt Of orders
COST OF A SKELETON.
The nunr0er OF firms who import hu-
man skeletons in New York IS small
probablv not more than three-and such
importation forms but an insignificant
branch Of aageneral business either in
surgical supplies or society parapher-
MALTA. It is seldom, too, that the mem
bers of a lodgeior council, aside from It's
officers, know by what firm its skeleton
is supplied.
This fact Isl 10 be accounted for by the
reluctance Of the importers to figure
openly in such transactions. They pre-
fer to conduct them quietly and unos-
tentatiously. A layman, unless an init
mate friend, can seldom get merchant
to acknowledge plainly that he deals in
skeletons. de will eyade the question,
and may compromise on the statement
that he once dealt in them, but no longer
does so.
The average cost Of the skeleton of
a foreigner, properly articulated and
mounted for use, is about $50, although
they may run as high as SO, where more
elaborate material is used. The same
work. if turned out on this side Of the
water, would probably cost double the
amount.
Imported skeletons are always good
specimens. and most of them come from
France and Germany, where skilled la
Dor of this sort is most readily found
and cultivated. They come as a rule in
ordinary black caskets, to one end of
which the skull is hung, SO that the
bones may swing freely, and they pass
the customs inspectors without exciting
comment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
LIGHT AND AIRY.
Then and Nov

Right oharmynge Us the maybe who vaIkea
Adovu the GLADE and glen;
And charmypge were the thynges she talked
Then
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
Few are Free

IRON Scrofula. which, being heredi-
/ tarv. is the latent cause of COnSump-
tion. Catarrh, Loss of Sight. Erupyions,
and numerous other maladieS. To ef-
feet a cure. purify the blood with
Ayers SarsapariIla. Begin early. and
persist till every trace OF the poison IS
eradicated.
Il can heartily recommend Ayers
Sarsaparilla for all those who are atfllct-
ed with ScrofulouS humors. / had
suffered for years. and tried various
remedies without effect Finally, Ayers
SarSaparilla gave relief and put me in
my present good healthy condition.
E NJ Howard. Newport, y. II.
my daughter was greatly troubled
with Scrofula, and. AZ one time, II was
feared she would lose her sight. Ayers
Sarsaparilla has completely restored
her health, and her ewes are as well
and strong a ever. with not a trace Of
scrofula in her system. - Geo. King,
hilliugiy, Conn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26

Alacki How changed that hayden derei
She says but Ouch - and ''WowT'
The fearful caterpillar here
S0E.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
SPRAY YEAST.

The quickest, strongest and purest
Dry Hop Yeast on the market, viii
keep a year in any climate.
Price, cents per package of z cakes
For sale by all wholesale and retail
grOCerS.
Manufactured by Corner & Farnum
factory corner kellogg and Mosley
Avenues.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-26
With slgle
UNCANNY IMMIGRANTS.
FoREleNERstwHo COME HEREgLo Ne
AFTER THEY ARE DEAD.

The CHASTITY Industry of Importing Mems
Bones for Use in Secret Societies-Ske1-
etOns Are Strung Together Cheaper
Abroad.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
MUST GIVE UP SOMETHING.

Col. W0odfOrd DiscOurses on the Subject
of Temperance.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the
weather quite good sized audience gath
cred to listen to the eloquent Col. Woodford
at St. Paurs ME-. church last evening. The
colonel took as basis of his remarks the
fifth chapter of the gospel by st. Mark,
reading and commenting on the different
passages. He laid great stress upon the
idea of every person giving US something
when they became christians or became
temperate. He said:
"The very moment person takes hold of
the temperance work he must expect to
give up something. l believe the first thing
is to turn the drink out" He severely
criticized the individual who is very loud in
his professions of piety and loyalty to tenn
perance and who at the same time is inn
billing of intoxicants on the sly, and said:
Il don't 60 much on the prayers of the
drinking man who still keeps up his drink
ing. All the prayers of all Gods people
will not save the man who is not willing to
have the devil come out of him.
One of the greatest mistakes of the man
who is attempting to reform is that he i'm
AGNES he has only one evil to eliminate.
viz, strong drink. While this may be said
to be one of the most potent initiative
evils, it is not the only one, but along with
it came all forms of sin, which contribute
to the individuals destruction
He closed with the admonition to young
men to take the side of the right, to turn
the legion out and upon SO doing they will
be perfectly free from all danger.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
ADJUSTMENTS.
Nadjy Sung by the Casino Company Last
Evening-Held by the Enemy.

Nadjy Sung by the Casino Company Last
Evening-Held ny the Enemy.
The opera of Nadjy in musical sense is
far inferior to either Erminie or the Black
Hussar. There are no solos worth men
tioning ana the choruses are lacking in
strength and melody. It is even difficult
matter to follow the plot. However, what
is lacking in the composition is partially
made up by the excellent work of the COM
pany. They made the most of few broad
situations and fewer pleasing musical parts.
The honors of the evening fell to Miss
Emma Hanley. With few sprightly steps
and brevity of skirts, to say nothing Of
her excellent singing, she quite succeeded
in capturing the audience. Miss Helen
Lamont as Etelka, presented charming
picture. In point of facial beauty she sur
passes her companions, though at times her
character lacked the life which it
deserved. MIR. De Lange appeared
to much better advantage than on the pre-
vious evenings. His acting was very clever,
particularly in the third act. Mi. Graham
won an abundance of applause for his ex-
cellent work. His topical song was re-
of applause. The ballet, though we'll
dressed, might have pleased the audience il
some terpsichorean effects had been added
When a ballet appears the audience very
properly expects something besides mere
exhibition of shapely forms. The costumes
were rich and appropriate, and the perform,
ance ran smoothly. The Casino company
will be gladly welcomed when they agar
appear in this city.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
JOTIINGS ABOUT TOW N

Street Commissioner Brady is doing good
work in the way of improving the streets.
Battery A, Troop A and Company G,
Montana National guard, return thanks
for the liberal patronage of the citizens
on the opening of the armory on Friday
night.
An effort was made to sprinkle Helena
avenue yesterday, but before the hydrants
we're made to work the foodgates of heaven
opened and poured down copious shower.
j. H. Taylor, of this city, has been APP
pointed census enumeratOr for the Fifty
ninth district of Montana.
petition is in circulation for raising
sufficient funds for the sprinkling of
Hauser boulevard during the summer.
The sum of $1,000 has already been sub
scribed. and in few days this driveway to
the Broadwater hotel will be made the
finest and best-kept in the city.
The overhead wire for the electric rail-
way was stretched to Main street yester-
day. The line will be in operation in a
very few days.
As G. 7. Stewart was going home yester-
day morning from the Armory hall, about
clock, he was attacked by three men.
Mr.. Stewart, though struck with q club
over the arm, succeeded in putting his un-
known assailants to flight.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
HORACE IN HOMESPUN.
oDEs 1. 5.
TO A FLIRT.

What glowing, perfum'd, comedy youth
Implores thee now to pledge thy truth
As thou reclin'st in shady grot
With roses powered? know the spot.
For whom dost Irvine thy yellow braids
That need no gauds, like other maids?
How oft, alas, will he bewail
Thy broken VOWS, his shattered hopes!
How oft, amazed, will face the gale
OF stormy brows and freezing looks!
Fond fool! he deems thee now pure gold
Nor ever dreams thou canst be cold.
Unhappy they who in thy smile
Sun hearts that wot not Of thy guile!
Not I. I've weathered safe the storm,
With battered hulk and sails all torn,
Have hung my dripping garments past;
Loves first shipwreck shall be my last.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11

THE silver men in the senate are max
ing a firm stand against the Window
bullion scheme. Meantime the effect of
WINDOWS proposition has been the Or
ganization Of great silver speculation
in Wall street. New York operators, it is
said, are holding some forty millions in
bullion and certificates, and the govern
ment has been compelled to buy silver
in the London market. The uncer-
tainity regarding the outcome Of legis-
lation at Washington is working great
injury to the silver interests, and the
question cannot be disposed Of one way
or the other too soon.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11

church at p m. on Monday to organize
a society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals. Such an institution has
been greatly needed here, and the soci-
ETY. should receive generous encourage
ment from our citizens. Cases of cruel
ty to dumb brutes are of daily occurrence
in our streets. Horses are overladen
and goaded up our hill sides, and other
forms Of cruelty inflicted on them. In
midwinter horses are left for hours un.
blanketed after being rapidly driven.
In majority of such cases the cruelty
is not premeditated, but is the result OF
unthinking carelessness or ignorance.
Such society as that proposed, clothed
with police power, could stop such prac-
tees. Let there be full attendance Of
our representative men and women at
Mondays meeting.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
THE ENrERPR1s1NG BURGLAR.

In the spring young mans fancy, if
we may trust the instincts Of our foremost
modern poet, lightly turns to thoughts
of love, and in this spring with equal
readiness, but much. more earnestness
the enterprislng burglar devotes his
time and labor to "cracking" safes and
other equally congenial pursuits. Hell
ena has no monopoly in the members OF
this insinuating craft The British
house of commons has just passed bill
legalizing the use of the lash as pun
ishment for burglars convicted of the
possession of deadly weapons while in the
pursuit of their nefarious means Of liveli-
hood. English public sentiment must
have been strongly wrought upon and
the necessity must have been great that
induced recurrence to this degrading
method of punishment. Years ago the
people of England demanded its aboli-
ton from the list Of punishments in
force in the army and navy and their
demand was met with prompt acquies-
cence. But the number of armed burg
lars has increased to such an extent of
recent years, especially in the outlying
suburbs of London and other large
cities, they have been SO prompt to re-
sist arrest by the use of the revolver and
the knife, and so many gallant police
men have in the discharge of their duty
been seriously and even fatally wounded
that the naturally slow-moving English
%~ %bo oil 81
unanimous conclusion that violent dis
eases require violent remedies, and that
terrorism must be met by terrorism.
Nor can the use of the lash for hardened
criminals of this class be looked upon in
the light of an experiment. Twenty
years ago when garotte robberies were
of nightly occurrence in the metropolis
the house Of commons introduced 8
similar bill and passed it with all posi-
BILE speed. The garotte received lts
death blow. There was, it must be con
fessed wonderful power of moral sua
sion in the Newgate "cat" with it's nin'
long cords each Of them garnshed will
nine hard knots. Twenty five lashes
we're given by two or three sturdy
wardens with all their might on the bare
back of the convict as he reclined on ths
triangle to which he was strapped. The
absolute terror which the punishment
inspired was scarcely credible, and the
suffering people of Helena will watch
with interest the result of this strong
measure in the interest of outraged Law
and order.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
MUTTON CHOPS AND ART.

The possession OF sldeWhlSkerS, NUT |
Jon chops, as they are popularity termed,
is, it has been discovered, indicative of
the progress Of community or nation
on the lines of literature, art and schol-
arship. At first sight it must be adj
mitted that there is something sufti-
GENTLY startling in the statement thus
made, and the average mind gropes
vaguely around in mental darkness as it
tries to discover what possible connec-
ton can exist between the widely differ
ent pursuits Of which we have spoken.
But it will be readily admitted by even
the most prejudiced that without the
possession by the individual, the COM
munity or the body polite of wealth
and leisure, bread and butter are GER
tain to be more important factors of
daily existence than any treasures of
the fine arts or of scholarship. The
man who tolls hard each day from sun
rise to sunset, earning his bread by the
sweat of his brow, has left but little en-
ergy or disposition to study art in the
few moments he can spare from arduous
labor, and the woman whose daily life is
one continuous round of cares cannot be
blamed if she fail to keep abreast with
the latest movement in literature. Here
lies the subtle connection. Without the
possession of wealth and leisure man
may not rightly indulge in side-whis-
kers. They are to be considered an ex-
pensive luxury, beyond the reach OF the
ordinary working citizen. The wonder
full dignity which, it would seem, these
hirsute ornaments lend to the appear
ance of the man, is attended by draw
backs that more than weigh down the
balance. With side whiskers it is de
rigueur that man should cultivate
slow, precise habits, or he will ineyita-
bly, compromise the dignity of his whis'
kers; his dress ought always to be Of the
latest style and glossiest appearance, OF
his whiskers will be dismal failure
Let no busy business man ever indulge
Business men have the painful habit o.
rising early and add to it a weakness To-
rushing round town in a bobtailed coat
How sadly compromised would be theil
whole appearances! With what look Of
panied curiosity people would turl
round to stare at them! No, we mus
live and hope. As time rolls on, wealth
continues to pour into the lap of tn
American people, and when we hav
learned, after many failures, the art Q
doing things leisurely, Of devoting
couple of hours to our dinner, of keep
ing valet and having something TO
him to do, joyous sun will one day loo
down with rapture on an America
school of art, Of literature, and on
nation OF men side-whiskered, ''like tn
pard."
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-11
Base Ball To-day.

The managers of the two base ball clubs,
the Printers club and picked nine of the
Helena's "best," met at the Office of The
INDEPENDENT last evening and arranged for
the match. The game will be played on
Helena avenue opposite the new armory,
and will be called at $3.50 o'clock p. M.
The players will be prompt in reporting to
their respective captains.