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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-18
MIND CURE IN WAR TIME.
A Soldier About to Die Changed His Mind
Before 1t Was Too Late.

81 tell you,n remarked one leggedevete-
ran YESTERDAY, as be leaned Esacrutches up
Against Capt Tip Harrisons desk and settled
himself for yarn, there's something in this
talk about mind cure. Heaps oS times it
does more good than pouring medicine intoNa
fellow.
Now, was about dead when they sawed
off that leg in Yankee hospital IwasIying
there waiting for the doctors to reach me,
and 1 lust didn't care whether / lived
that long or not. Every once in a whiae
I'd feel chilly, and blindness would com p
into my eyes, and I'd feel Ike I was bein'
lifted up out of my body. thought l was
goin' every minute. l was lying there that
way when a little round faced, red nosed
freshman in Yankee uniform came along.
"'HeIIo, Johnny said he, its mighty
sorry comp'ny you look to be. How's that
fer knife? Got one? Which pocket? Be
aisy now, an I'll git it out. How'll you
swap? Even? swindled you that time,
Johnny. I know what you're a wantin'.
Where do they livel How many you Goti
Ones Two? The -, two, ehl I've got
nine-Holy Motherl They was nine whin l
lef', Johnny. Ca'lina, amt you? Georgya
That's so--that's a mighty hard place, is
Georgy. l never was there-this Pennsyl-
vany beats that. Look here, how'll you
swap back knives9 Dye chew terbacco2 Iii
give you that if yen swap back knives. Ne
mother give me that knife wien 1 was bye
decd, but you needn' grin, Johnny, fer she
did
'It.was brand new knife, and the fellow
seemed in dead earnest trying to convince me
that his mother hal given him the knife
years before. He was the most comical look
ing man I ever saw in the world. He didn't
grin once, but it would have made an owl
laugh to hear him. 1 hadn't spoken q word,
and he just guessed yes or mo- by the way
looked.
Somehow or other I quit thinking about
dying and felt like laughing at him. 1t made
me feel good, too, to think that had made
him do all the talking and then beat him on
his own proposition. I hadn't had piece of
tobacco in three weeks and the odor was de-
hcious
''He was grumbling about getting the
worst Of tho bargain, and trying to swap
watch chains with me, when the surgeon
reached my bunk In two seconds was I'M
der the influence of ether, and in five minutes
nv leg was Off and the stump washed and
bandaged.
The doctors did things in a hurry in those
days and it was all done and over before
had time to be afraid of it.
Il honestly believe that if it hadn't been
for that freshman I'd a been dead before the
doctors got there, or else died while they was
at work. l couldn't tell you how much bet
ter he made me feel. I was as proud of that
piece Of tobacco as I would be now of thou
sand dollar bill believe was actually try
ing to laugh when the doctors got me.
They told me afterward that they Just
kept him there in the hospital for that pur-
pose-jIst to get fellow in good spirits
when it was a real desperate case. wish
could see him again, for l believe in my soul
he saved my life. Atlanta Constitution.
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How to Bring Down Rain.

Senator Farwell sat with several of his
friends in the Shoreham talking of the irri-
cation of the western lands
"A constituent Of mine," said he, "once
wrote me wanting congress to appropriate
$780, 900 and the use Of number of caEnOns.
He promised to go into any part Of what was
known as the Great American desert that
might be selected and bring down rain. He
presented an astonishing series Of facts show
ing that within twenty-four hours after all
the great battles in which cannon had been
used heavy rainfall had followed, the theory
being that the conclusion of the atmosphere
had created rain center Ny constituent
proposed by cannOnading TO create precisely
such center His statement of facts appears
to be incontestable. Now 1 have a scheme.
Take hundred ten pound dynamite car
tridges, attach them to small balloons with
lighted fuses and send them up into the air
at any point where you want rain The ter
rifle series of explosions VIII produce all the
effect Of cannon in battle and you'll have
your rain. Washington Post.
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4 Cemical AIishap.

The most comical mishap that ever be-
fell a fire engine occurred recently AT
Toledo. The noise OF an approaching
fire apparatus startled q 65-vear-old
countryman and his wife as they were
making their way along the sidewalk.
To grab his wife's green umbrella and
rush into the middle Of the street d.
rectly in the path of the oncoming steeds
was the work Of 8 moment for the ex-
cited farmer. His gyrations aud shout
ing brought the horses 70 q sudden stop.
The fire laddieS drove OF swearing. but
the crowd cheered the old fellow as he
returned 70 the sidewalk mutterinr:
"Tarnation fools. let EN- run away If
they want 10. III never risk my life to
save their necks again. Chicago Times.
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Fricassee OF Chicken.

Cut the chicken in pieces, and leave them
in cold water for two or three hours to
blanch, then strain off the water. Put in a
saucepan piece of butter and a spoonful OF
-four, SUR till the butter is melted, moisten
with glass Of water, add salt, white pepper,
pinch of grated nutmeg, bouquet of pars-
ley and soma chives. Add the pieces of chick
en- and cook three-quarters of an hour then
take them ont and thiclen the sauce with
three yelks Of eggs, and add some lemon juice
or vinegar. To keep the flesh of the chicken
white it must be rubbed with lemon Juice,
and during the cooking the pan should be
covered with a buttered paper placed on the
fricassee inside tho pan.
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To Protect the Wild Game.

Fannie P. Hardy, superintendent Of the
schools Of the new Maine city of Brewer, Is a
bright woman, who, strange TO say, is inter
ested in the matter Of preserving the wild
game Of Maine. Fight fire with fire" she
says-(the DEVILS mottoD "If the guides and
hunters kill game illegally, they do 1t because
1t Is profitable; make it more profitable to
protect the game and those who take such
service viii perform it faithfully. Ten good
hunters, placed in positions which command
the waterways of Maine, and set to patrol the
border and the region between Baker Lake
and Seven Islands to keep off Canadian en-
croachments, could completely crush the lie
gal killing of game throughout the state
What is more they would have tie good viii
Of the other guides and hunters. Lewiston
Journal
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NJ9IIll Eagle
SMITHS SURRENDER.
LAST FIGHT OF THE WAR, TWENTY
FIVE YEARS AGO.

At Palmetto Ranch, Te1as-CoIOred Troops
of the sixty-second United States Infant
Fights Alone Beyond tho Mississippi
On the 18th of May, 1865, twenty-five
years ago, the last gun Of the civil war was
fired. The first gun was fired at Sumter on
the Atlantic coast, the last one near the Boca
Chico strait, in the southwest corner Of
Texas.
There were four Confederate armies in the
field at the beginning Of April, 1865 besides
detached commands under Gems Sam Jones
and NJ JEFF Thompson. The four were those
of Lee, Johnston, Taylor and Kirby Smith.
April Lee surrendered TO Grant, April 26
Johnston surrendered to Sherman, in North
Carolina, ali the forces east of the Chatta-
hoochee; May 4, at Chronicle, Ala, Gen.
Richard Taylor surrendered TO Chrby all the
remaining forces east Of the Mississippi. The
Confederate command Of Sam Jones still
held together for time after Johnston's
army had laid down their arms. But Jones,
too, surrendered TO detachment Of Wilson's
cavalry at Tallahassee, Fla, on the 10th OF
May. Gen. Sam Jones died in 1897. At the
time Of his death be was a clerk in the war
department at Washington.
Little now remained Of the Confederate
armies anywhere nothing at all east of the
Mississippi. JEFF Thompsons independent
command surrendered to Gen. Dodge's force
May II at Chalk Bluff, Ark. There was left
only the Confederate army of Gen Edmund
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-18
LIGHT PuR Pastry

Take six ounces of fine sifted -four and four
ounces of fresh butter. Put the flour on to
the paste board, make a hole in the center,
into which put the yolll and white of one egg,
the juice of half lemon, and little salt, and
add sufficient water to make the paste q
proper consistence. Then roll out the paste
into square; break the butter (which should
be free from wafer and not scfO into sixteen
pieces and lay them on the paste, making
four rows, each row consisting Of four pieces
of butter; fold mp the paste into a small
square, and leave it for quarter of an hour;
roll it out again, fold it up as before, and
leave it for another fifteen minutes; rcd it
out once more, ard it viii be ready 10 be
baked. This pastry must be made in a very
cool place, and handled as lightly and as lit
tie as possible
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-18

Sleighing al San Luis Potosi, Mexico. was
INDUCED IN by the American inhabitants of
that city recently. y storm had been in
progress and snow began to fall Il Is re-
ported the heaviest snow storm which ever
fell there and the only one for more than
hity years past. The native inhabitants OF
that tropical cline for more than ten genera
tons have never before seen snow on the
streets Of their beautiful city. and such
thing as sleighing 70 them was not known
until its introduction by the American resi-
centS.-St. Louis GIobe-Deuocra-
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But even Kirby Smith had now given up
The confederate cause. his army broke and
scattered through Texas and Louisiana. plum
oerlnS as they went. One baud forciblv en-
tered the state buildings at Austin and seized
the contents OF the treasury On the Goth Of
May, az point few miles west Of Shreve-
port, La, Kirby Smith formally surrendered
what was ieftot his command to Gen. Canbv.
AFTER that, except scattered depredations bv
5ushwhackers, there WAS no more fighting.
The war was ended at last.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER
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Can YOU tell mer'-he queried as he en-.
tered the city hall-'can you inform meF'-
What Is itT'
u pom my soul but I have forgotten what
wanted t. inquire for! Wei, never mind. -
lie tolled slowly UP two pairs Of stairs and
was resting after his ascent, when he sudden
y slapped his leg and exclaimed:
I've got It! ! wanted 70 ask him where
the elevator wasr'-Detrcit Free Press
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a Co., rith the Gar.


Eow's Russia doing? Very well,
thank you-watch me dodge that shell
Ny subjects ell are happy and contented With
their lot
All. did you hear that flying lead,
It nearly grazed my royal head
send them 10 Siberia where'er think they're
not
l hGcg score or two each day,
Or send them where they'll likely stay
Wkew had that villains aim been good With
5uckshCt I'd De filed.
In peaceful measures delight;
OF blood quite s5hor the sight
These men there look suspicious Here, guard,
Sc that they re killed
Yes, things are very different here
Ths5 rife bal just missed E'y ear
From what they used 70 be before ! sootLed TIE
peoples hate
I've not been poisoned uore than euce
A weeE CT 50 for several months,
Nor wounded uo-e than twice day By SihixSss
q iatA
JUS feel thE- shook. The castles gone!
III, vel. I have auacLer ooe;
halt S-lsVsctei they had zdEsI beneath M cel-
ia- val
AcS-r-ay ezcuss nc, s., beg,
Some ore he's sao. re through the Ky
And don't forget - cu-ns sEzi1-7'-e n1ch er-
.oyed vour call
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The Difference.

At a City Northumberland this
wine Is execrabie; get me another bot
tie"
Certainly, m'sieu."
why, this wine is exactly the same
as the other"
Beg pardon, m'sieu, it has a blue
seal. and besides, it's franc dearer. -
La Famille.
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Mr.. cLEvELAND's OLD HOME.
Its Sale to Syndicate at Large Advances
Over Its Cost.

Ex-PreSident Cleveland, who recently dis
posed Of his country home near Washington.
on the Tenallytown road, has realized hand
some profit on what was thought at the time
Of the purchase to be an unwise investment
When the transfer was made to Mr.. CIeve-
land four years ago Oak View had little to
recommend it save the fact that the height OF
the land afforded splendid prospect OF the
surrounding country The soil was mixture
of terra Gotta clay and gravel, with no life
producing qualities; the outbuildings were
ancient and out of repair, and the residence
was simply an old fashioned stone farm house.
The judicious expenditure of $4,000 changed
all this, and when the president moved in he
was the posSessor of a beautiful country
home. Wide porches relieved the monotony
of the hitherto unattractive dwelling, and
landscape gardening did wonders for the sur
roundIngs. The house stands back from the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-18

Kirby Smith in
Louisiana and
Texas. Smith, in
1915, became pro-
fessCr of mathe-
mates in the Uni
versity Of the
South at SeWanee,
Tenn.
Smith wa S a
dauntless soldier.
z. native of ST.
Augustine, Fla, he
was graduated at
West Pointin 1915.
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Chocolate Icing.

Mix two ounces Of grated chocolate with a
quarter pint Of water, put the mixture into
q saucepan on the fire, and add four ounces
of icing sugar. Sir it well till it becomes of
the consistency OF cream, but do not allow it
to boil. The icing should be laid on the cake
as smoothly as possible, and it should then be
put in the oven for few minutes to harden.
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as AZ Is somct.rnr..

Faber-I hear that you've been engaged
TO write a serial for The Colossal Maya,
zine. What's the plot:
PENN don't know. The artist y he
Is TO illustrate the novel hasn't told me
yet.-Boston Times.
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" Rastus. where are those two chickens
had in the CELLAR
Dunno, sab. Perhaps IS { was very
cole night. san. they done 90: froze, an
then melted away-jus' melted away,
sab. Puck.
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A Hand Fashion.

Tsnos-Ths fashionable spring co2t, sir, hss
but three buttons
Old Cus-ou1er-Pes ca the usual number.
They VIII ges down % three soo1 CROUCH
New i rk IS essly
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highway some 500 feet. 1t has quite grove
of oak trees in front of it to the westward,
while to the south the Capitol, the treasury
building and the White House are visible, be-
yond which. in plain sight, the lazy Potomac
winds its way through the Iowlands in ser
pentine fashion, and the Virginia mountains
appear above the haze of the horizon.
The cost Of the property combined with the
outlay for improvements was So, 0oG Now
it passes from Mr. Cleveland's hands on the
consideration of $4,000, the ex-president
thus netting over $4,000 profit. The pur-
chaser is the representative of a wealthy
California syndicate which is making large
investments in both urban and suburban
realty at Washington. The Oak View estate
>ontt--ns twenty-iiine acres.
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With Our Army in Montana.

McCracken-Git anythin' in tn last
mail, jim?
Hawkins-Yes; me old uncle sent me a
bathin' suit
McCracken-I tell yer, them people
east knows what we felle~s needs. l got
q pair of piller shams from me mother
Judge
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''I never tod yoa that story 5eto-e. JLaa.H
Yes, y0a did. Bal: but Il bas Erosn .
good doal II the isss twenty yeas, and In
CAD % meet /; szaia. r-HzrEs-B Bzza-.
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OF Course.

Brown-Do you know that Fanny Jones
has married.
Robinson-No; whom has she married.
Brown-Why, her husband Judge
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MUNSoN & MCNAMARA.


N econd floor
Jacket news is eagerly read Another big lot came to-
day. several entirely new Styles prices $500 to 1880
DresGo suth roon
More black Henriettas more black Broadcloths more
black silks, the assembly of the best so cents to
We ask only from one-half to twothirds Kansas CITY
prices dress making and have better talent We turn
out in comparably better styles at less money
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When Baby was sick, We gave her Castoris,
When she was Child. she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
when she bad Children. she gave them Cestoria.
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Flavor of Bread.

There is no baking powder which produces such
sweet and tasteful food the Royal Baking Powder
One of the greatest of the claims of the manufacturers
of this powder is that it leavens without fermentation
or decomposition and that the exact equivalents Gifts
constituents used whereby perfectly neutral re-
suit is obtained which invariably guarantees that par
ticular and peculiar flavor in bread much desired
and appreciated by ALL In fact the oldest patrons of
this powder declare that they get not only super
ative lightness of the Bread but that the biscuit,
cakes, mullins &C., taste quite 80 sweet
good as when they are raised by the Royal Baking
Powder. This comes from it's perfectly uniform
binaon Of the best and purest materials, has been
shown to be true by the recent examinations made by
both the United States and the Canadian Governments
which reveal the fact beyond question that the Royal
Baking Powder is the most scientifically compounded
of any in the market. The Royal gives delicious
flavor to the bread
The Royal Baking Powder is the embodiment ofall
the excellence that it is possible to attain in abso
lutely pure powder. 1t is is not only economi-
cal because Of it's greater strength, but will retain it's
full leavening power until used, and make
wholesome food.
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| that there IL a larger number OF persons than
ho has ever before known who intend to take
their own horses with them to the country
Some OF these already own horses, and are
keeping them at some of the riding schools.
Many more are buying their horses now A
good many horses arc taken to one oil tho
schools for a short training before they go to
tho country. so that the business Mt the acade-
mics keeps up to the standard, and will for
few weeks yet. but 1t is OF II transient charac-
ter. and not like tho regular work OF the winter.
The lonR.anticpated and much talked OF
moonlight ride for tho gentlemen OF the Cen
trail Park Riding Academy took place last We'd
nesday evening Gorty.soyen wore in the ,o com
md then by elghts. un through the Iark ana
the avenue to Gabe Cases place at floetw9ood.
a trained battalion OF cavalry. At Cases ono
Of his old;iime snrenIS vas served Inc rue
At3., o'clock Tuesday AFTERNOON last Troop
Of Cavalry. Capt Charles I; to9. the only
This This STATE. icit DicEcls Riding Kcademy on
West Fifty-BiXth street Tor its annual rarade
mI IN Ss eH are Soe OF lie and
they all hnvo TO take care OF their own arms
and to leHTo gro%m and keer their bS
National Guard. EiEhty.slx men turned ont;
parade on Decoration Day wind up the seasons
work for them, as they do not 90 into camp
NJ Emile's Boulevard Riding Academy. Bou-
levard and Sixtieth street is about the only
ono OF tho academies to keep open evenings.
NJ Emile Is kept very busy giving lessons TO
beginners and taking classes out for road
work Ho has not yet determined what his
plans for the summer season will be- other
than following his usual custom o. taking
string to Long Branch. 1900
Messrs Antony 4 Runk OF tho Fifth Avenue
Academy. and their able corps of riding mas
tiers, aro employed NIL tha time with now pupils
and road lessons. They Will not remove their
stable for tho summer,
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mented, only with dainty stitchings aud hair
kerchief she wears on her hair will be black as
we'll. by the way. the cap too. has undergone
year as a Iaunty Tam o. Shanter with a fiuted
brim which protects the hair and picturesque-
y and becomingly shades the face: When the
with white embroidery or van dykes Of white
lace work, turning, up ut tho bottom. down at
the slender beauty with famous Muir.
ray IN eXtremities. stepping so POLITICALLY
from Iuil round calves TO delicate ankles that
position, a, glimpse OF daylight flashes botween.
above and below tho fulness. will emphanlle
tune when clothed about with shining, woven,
SETTLING damp China silk and dripping lowell
ness. How the dimpled curylnG arms will be
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THE RIDING ACADEMIES.

Odds and Ends OF Work Keep All the Mas
ters Busy.
The riding academies begin to show pretty
plainly the signs Of the approaching summer.
Glass work has been stopped In all OF them,
and the time OF the riding masters is taken up
in giving private instruction to beginners or In
road lessons in tho Park. All the academies.
however report very good business. Whether
tho Park is unusually enticinR this season, or
whether the people of New York are becoming
more enlightened on the healthy exercise Of
horseback riding Is difficult to determine.
III. DurlAnd. proprietor OF Durisnd's Riding
Academy. slItieth street and Boulevard, says
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athlete. Verify shall
they receive their rn-
ward when the season
opens. for the now
bathing dress is rs
swcetly clinging and
briefly delicious as n
shy maiden's first kiss
on the lius of her lover.
Such n Frenchy. ilut-
terinG. cI,ic, caressing
little costume 1t is be-
for9 it is wet; such q
demure, cOnfding. adj
hcsive little wiltcd dud
when once it comes
back from the EN- brace
OF old Neptune. A
naiad swathed in the
spray Of her fountain
or fair Venus wrapped
round with the foam OF
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tunately. since there's 30 little material, and
the nauGhtest, witcnest thing about 1t is its
color. which, 10 be swell, must be black as n
pail That's tho way the smart girl will be
dressed-llrst in silk tights like coryphee.
then short full trousers gathered on rubber
bands, with soft depending frills. and pulled
up Just AS far out OF sight as she dares; a full
little tunic, low at the neck. and cut out in an
operaV the fulness laid in multtudinoustucks
by dainty needlework, and confined with a Jo.
sephine girdle pointing upward to the neck,
brought down Just beneath tho bust and fas
tened at the back. Tho effect isn't quite as
to be worn, over n. tight lining and Gat6ine
GSorsets. which lond o modifying conventional
NY TO the wearor's figure. II tho girl
would be very smart, the dress Is orna