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Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-03
A HARVEST SCENE.
DR.. TaInage's Sunday Sermon
in G!enwood Springs, Col.
BEAUTIFUL STORY OF RUTH.
The Sermon Suggested by His Constant View
of Harvest Scenes on His Tour,
Which Has Been One Continued Ovation.
Travelling in Special Coach, Fitted
Up for Himself and Secre-
tary-The Sermon.
BEAUTIFUL STORY OF RUTH.
Special TO the Gazette.

Special TO the Gazette.
GLENwooD, SPRINGS, Col, Aug. DIR
Talmage preached here to-day to an iIi-
mense audienc. His Western tour has
been one continued ovation. Never before
has he been so enthusiastically received Or
have the people come to hear him in such
vast numbers. He arrived here from
Pueblo, which city he left on Wednesday
last in car provided BY the railroad COM
pany exclusively for the use of DIR. Tai
uage and his secretary. In this car he will
visit cities in Colorado, Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin, Kansas and Utah. IL is side-tracked at
places where DR.. Talmage has arranged TO
stay TO preach or lecture. His sermon re-
dolent with the breath Of the great harvest
fields of the West indicates that the popu-
lar preacher has read III his surroundings
- questions of gospel lessons. His text is
taken from Ruth, ii::}: And she went and
came and CLEANED in the field after the
reapers and her nap was 70 light on i part
of the field belonging unto Boa2 who was Of
the kindred Of Elimelech.''
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-03

otson is opening up rapidly in Kaufman
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-09

ICE CPEaM

on and after June list, ! viii bepre-
pared to furnish those desiring ice
cream either by the dish or quantity.
I also keep on hand lemonade, Eilk
shake and other soft drinks. Remem-
Der the place, Railroad street n'a,t
door 10 Chinese laundry.
PETER ST.. PETER.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-07-09

CATALOGUE E-s-1-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
Had Travelled with a Magician.

! Coming across on the Aurania with me
were number ofintensely convivial spirits.
among whom were several ladies. Accord
! ing to custom, as the steamer approached
Sandy Hook. the steward made up his bill
for sundries, and presented the several ac-
counts TO whom they belonged.
A genial old party from Chicago offered
to match pennies with man from PoUgh-
keepsie in order 10 see who should pay for
the cigars. The man from Poughkeepsie
won.
Then New Yorker became interested
and offered TO mach the victor for MS bill.
The man from Poughkeepsie again won.
Then all of us in turn matched him for
sundries, and the man from Poughkeepsie
still won. In fact, the man from Pough
keepsie won everything
The last to match him was "a somewhat
giddy specimen of young womanhood Of
the blonde persuasion who naileG from
Detroit She had a bill TO pay, and again
the pennies were tipped with the usual re-
suit For the fourteenth time the man
from Poughkeepsie was proclaimed the
victor.
"Oh, Mr.. s." petulantly exclaimed
the representative from Detroit, you
ought to give me another chance. I'm
sure you couldn't beat me again"
The mau from up the Hudson smiled
gravely.
Madam" hes said. 81 promised a dying
brother just before ! sailed never to beat
anybody at anything from seven up TO
matching pennies more than fourteen
times"
He then politely turned on his heel and
went on deck. Il didn't travel one season
with Hermann for nothing" he afterward
observed as he made his final adieu.-
New York Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

Puck could put glrdle round about the
world in forty minutes, but he was slow
compared with the most ordinary dream.
We survey mankind in China and Peru at
the same instant of time, and in the course
of one revolving moon we may walk with
Plato in the groves of Academe, applaud
Luther at the diet of Worms, set out for
holy Palestine with C9ur-de-Lion, assist
Noah in building the ark, and call on the
mountains To cover Us at the day OF ludg
ment.
Many stories are told showing the differ
ent count of time. Lord Brougham relates
that he dreamed dream of long continued
action during short doze while "A droning
counsel was pleading before him. Lord
Holland fell asleep while listening to some
one reading, dreamed a long dream, and
awoke in time TO hear the conclusion of
sentence the first words Of which were in
his ears when he became unconscious. DR..
Abercrombie relates that n gentleman
dreamed that he had enlisted for a soldier,
joined his regiment, deserted, had been ap-
pretended, carried back, tried, condemned
TO be shot, aud at last led out for eXecu-
ton. After all the usual preparations he
awoke with the report, and found that
noise in an adjoining room had both pro
duced the dream and awakened him
Another dreamed that he had crossed the
Atlantic and spent a fortnight IN America.
In embarking on his return, he fell into
the sea, and, having woke with the fright,
he found that be had not been asleep ten
minutes.-All the Year Round.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

with the men, too. without harm TO them
selves and with good influence upon their
masculine companions What is better.
these women are on the same level with
the men as regards pay and promotion.
They draw the same salaries for the same
work, are classified in the civil service
without distinction Of sex, and are protect
ed from political interference. Happily
the days in which politicians bartered ''in-
fiueuce" for feminine flesh and blood are
at an end, or nearly so. Occasionally one
comes upon an instance of barter and sale.
OF violation of the laws Of God and man
in the departments, but one may find
quite as many such cases in private life, IN
mercantile and professional circles. The
only discrimination made against women
in the departments Is in the matter of pro-
motion 70 the chiefships of divisions. Nat
urally these posts are filed by men. Eigh-
teen hundred dollars a year Is therefore
the highest price paid to women in govern
ment employ. Five or six women are re-
ceiving this salary. and earning it, too.
la the treasury two women, Miss Seavey,
Of Tennessee, and Miss Van Vranken, OF
New York. draw $50 month. They are
unmarried, aud have beer nearly a quarter
Of a century in the internal revenue divls-
ion. They are so expert in their fields that
they have been promoted over the heads OF
most Of the men in the bureau. Another
81 500 clerk is Miss Ada Tanner. daughter
of extension Commissioner Tanner, who
is a confidential clerk in the treasury. Five
women in the treasury get Sl.6o0 year. 81
s. 100. and nearly $50 draw s.. 30. A hun
dred are paid 81 .OO0 year, and nearly 400
500 a year. What Is true OF the treasury
Is true, generally speaking. Of other de-
partnents. though the number Of women
clerks Is greatest in the treasury. The
only places IN which women are not given
an equal chance with men are the bureau
Of engraving and printing and the govern
ment printing Office In the mechanical
work Of these concey ns the Eiei draw the
big pay, tie women the PiJJsnces- FOR
instance, in the bureau OF engraving and
printing the money printers earn s. or S5 a
day. while the women VINO serve as their
helpers. and many OF them competent 10
take charge Of presses, get but SIS. In
the government printing Office women ~
oeive $40 a week for doing the same work
tor which men are paid from SIS 70 So.
Hundreds Of Uncle Sans women en-
ployes are well 10 90. They have saved
their earnings. invested IN rea- estate OF
other property. AZ become independent
There are women il the treasury worth
from $1,000 TO $lOoO0 each who still 80
on a. their work There is no reason why
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
causs Of TaIIexrand,s Iam.r...

The cause of Talleyrand's lameness has
long been a matter of dispute. During the
fifty-two years which have elapsed since his
death his deformity has been accounted
for in all manner of ways.
Some stories have it that the defect was
congenital; others that it was cccasioned
by an accident which befell him in his in
fancy. The most curious explanation of
all is that offered by writer in The Quar-
terly Review ITO quote the very words
of our informant, an eminently distin-
guished diplomat" says the writer, Tai
leyrand's Vienna colleague, Baron WesSen-
berg, told me years ago that his lameness
was owing 10 carelessness of his nurse, who
laid him down IN a field while she lirted
with her sweetheart, and on coming back
TO her charge found some pigs dining on
the infants legs am sure that Wessen-
berg told me this as an established fact,
and ] am all but sure that his authority
was Talleyrand himself"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

Mrs. Rundelette has very high family
| .Onnections and a good social position,
ven if she is typewriter operator in a
government Office. She is a type of the
well born, well bred women whom widow
hood or other accident of life has brought
to daily labor in the departments, and a
pretty picture she made the other day as
she stood hand in hand with another type
of department girls-a silly and bewitch
ing coouette who needed a word of moth
erly advice,
These departments are full Of the wild
ows and daughters of senators, repre-
sentatives, governors, generals and other
public men. In the pension Office, for in
stance, is Mrs. Gen. Pickett, whose hus
band, the Confederate general, led at Get
tysburg one of the greatest infantry
charges known TO the history of wars. Mrs.
Pickett now drawsa salary of 81 400 year,
yet for a time this woman of refinement
and beauty was on the rolls of the interior
department as a charwoman. In the patent
Office works Miss Alice Meikleham, the
great-granddaughter of Thomas Jefferson.
In the bond room of the postOfIice depart
ment, handling the bonds of all the post
masters of money order offices in the coun-
try. is Hrs. Flora Fassett Hodge, win
some little widow, whose mother is Mrs.
Fassett, the artist, known to fame the
painter of the Electoral Commission
picture, which hangs in the senate gallery
Another department "girl" is Mrs. H. n
Ralston. the widow of q distinguished
western lawyer, a contemporary and friend
of Stephen A. Douglas.
Miss Mary Livingston. of the postoiFice
department, is granddaughter of Robert
Leroy Livingston, the last of that famous
family to sit in congress, and niece Of
John Livingston, founder of Rutgers col
lege. Miss Livingston gets 1900 year
Miss GARNER. of the postoffice department,
is a niece of Joaquin Miller. Miss Sewell.
of the international money order division,
speaks French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, and gets
81 200 year for translating letters. Miss
Walworth, of the census office, was daugh-
ter-in-law Of Chancellor Walworth, the
last of the chancellors.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
A silent Piano.

The piano has long been the means Of in.
hicting the most exquisite torture on thoss
who were unwiilingly compelled 30 listen
to its strains n evoked by the miscellanr
GUS performer. There has lately, however
appeared tendency ou the part Of invent
or5 TO attempt 10 T. 6. gate this form Of hu-
man mis-ry, and tie latest variation Oi
a recent idea Of covering the instrument
with plush is 70 bring out "A "library
piano covered with leather, material
which would AT the saune time lend itself
70 ornamental effects and considerably re-
duce the volume of sound.
Another device which will doubtIess II
hailed with gratitude by fathers Of fam
lilies. schOclmasters. schoolmistresses ana
their neighbors has just been patented.
This invention is called THE planophone. %
and Is designed 10 meet the wants Of stu
dents Of keyboard Instruments by allow
ing them 70 practice scales and exercises
without interfering with the convenience
Of involuntary listeners, while still able
themselves 20 hear the results q their per
fOrmance. il consists OF > 1-l2 octave
keyboard with KEYS Of the same size and
description a. she ordinary pianotorte, a
simple but effective striking action. and
the substitution Of metallic plates fer the
ordinary strings.
These being accurately tuned 20 The Or
tinary scale, yield sufficient sound % make
'ho playing on the instrument distinctly
audible % the player, and even lzs IN tie
case OF The silent viOliB'J source of
pleasure 20 him while it is inaudible a.
zny distance-such. for instance. zs sn al
joining room One great sdvantase il
that the instrument never Gets out q tune.
and i easily moved from one place 20 40
other.-SeE YORK Commercial Al verti.e-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
How snain Get, a Little Tobacco

: On our homeward way we encounter the
| nightly exodus of Spaniards, male ana fe-
male, young and old, who come into the
town on daily permits for trade or labor,
and have to return before the fortress gates
| are closed OF these there are between three
J and four thousand, and many of them make
a handsome income by daily smuggling
small quantities of tobacco, concealed by
| many devices in their clothing or their
! loads. Their numbers are so great that,
| even if the Spanish frontier guard does not
! afford some counivance, which is not very
| improbable. it must be impossible to search
them all effectually and the women especi-
ally are the greatest and most successful
defrauders Of the Spanish revenue.
ANY one who waits at the Landport gate
NAV see stockings, dress improvers, and
other recesses being stuffed, coram publico
with small packets, which, as the average
profit is 20 per cent, will well pay the
trouble and risk of carriage. was told of
one very successful method of smuggling
which is much practiced. Dogs are brought
to Gibraltar from their Spanish homes.
From six to eight poun!s' weight of tobacco
is tied round their necks, and with this
they run straight home, carefully avoiding
everybody in the shape of a custom house
officer. They are trained to crime by the
agency of men dressed in custom house
uniform, who thrash them numerically,
and thus instill a wholesale horror OF the
appearance Of government servant.
Nor are frauds committed upon the Span
ish excise alone. Often enough il is found
that the food supplies for the Gibraltar
market have been cunningly tampered
with, as when the vendors of live turkeys
increase their selling weight by cramming
sand down the throats of the poor birds be-
fore they cross the neutral ground.-Mur-
rays Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
IN THE AMERICAN UGocnl
Charles Dudley Warner Finds Queer
Houses in Southern Ca MA.

! Charles Dudley Warner Finds Queer
Houses in Southern Ca MA
! We stopped one day at l. hich is
+ on the Santa Fe line wes a, an
other Indian puebl. at tn &c and
Paciic junction, where the road crosse,
/ the Rio Grande del Norte west Of Albu-
querque. Near Laguna a little stream
I called the Rio Puerco flows southwark and
! joins the Rio Grande. There is verdure
along these streams, and gardens and fruit
orchards repay the rude irrigation. In
! spite of these watercourses the aspect Of
the landscape is wild and desert like
low barren hills and ragged ledges, wide
sweeps of sand and dry gray bushes, with
mountains and long lines of horizontal
lodges in the distance. Laguna is built
upon a rounded elevation of rock
It's appearance is exactly that of a Syrian
village; the same cluster of little, square
fiat rooted houses in terraces, the same
brown color, and under the same pale blue
sky. And the resemblance was completed
by the appearance of the women on the
roofs, or moving down the slope, erect and
supple, carrying on the head p water jar
and holding together by one hand the
village is irregularly built, without much
regard to streets or alleys, and it has no
special side of entrance or approach Every
side presents "a blank wall of adobe, and
the entrance seems quite by chance Yet
the way we went over the smooth slope
was worn here and there in channels three
or four inches deep, as if by the passing
feet of many generations.
Leo. IL. & 1.
lar " is in the plaza, not perfectly square.
upon which some of the houses look, and
where the annual dances take place The
houses have the effect of being built in ter
races rising one above the other, but it is
hard TO say exactly what a house is
whether it is anything more than one
room. You can reach some Of the houses
only by aid of a lad Ter. You enter other-
from the street. If you viii 20 further
you must climb ladder, which brings you
to the roof, that il used as the sitting room
or door yard Of the next room. From thfa
room you may still. ascend to other
you may pass through low and smr.I
ways 20 other apartments. Ii is all
hazard, but exceedingly picturesque
may find some of the family in ever room
or hey may be gathered. women and ba-
bies, on a roof which is protected by a
parapet
AT the time of our visit the men were ali
away at work in their fields NotwIth-
standing the houses are only sun driea
bricks, and the village is without water or
street commissioners, / was struck by the
universal cleanliness. There was no refuse
in the corners or alleys, no odors. and many
of the rooms were patterns of ueatness. To
be sure, an old woman here and there kept
her hens in an adjoining apartment above
her own, and there was the litter Of chill
dren and of rather careless housekeeping
But, taken altogether, the town is an ex-
ample for some more civilized, whose in
habitants wash oftener and dress better
than these Indians. Charles Dudley War
ner in Harper's.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
WEATHER BULLETIN.

SIGNAL SERVICE OFFICE, WICHITA, Kan.
Feb. 9.-The highest temperature was 25'
the lowest temperature TO-, and the
mean temperature 1S0, with rapidly in
creasing atmospheric pressure and north
erly winds, varying in velocity from 26 tc
miles per hour.
a trace of snow fell from 7:15 to a. m.
Local forecast for Wichita and vicinity
fair weather; warmer.
Last year, on Feb. Q. the highest tenn
perature was SO, the lowest 2ge. and the
mean, 40S, and two years ago the cores
ponding temperatures were 45o. 1So and
800. .J.B. BRowN Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASTINGToN, ID. c.,
Feb 9. s p. m.-Forecast until s p. IN.
Tu"Sdav:
For Kansas - Fair Tuesday; variable
wlnus; warmer in eastern, stationary tenn
perature in western portion.
For Missouri-Fair Tuesday; winds be-
coming variable; slightly warmer by
Wednesday morning.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

TREASURY GIRLS PICNIC TO GEN. SPINNER
woman can do as well as a man. The
women shall have a chance" Gen. Spin
ner opened the doors, and now see the re-
cult. Uncle Sam employs in Washington
about five thousand women, or one-third
of his entire force
The women make just as good clerks as
/ the men, and some observers say a little
better They waste less time talking poll
/ tics or reading newspapers, do not go out
/ in the corridor to smoke during business
hours, and in summer do not ask to get of
thirty minutes before time in order To at
tend the baseball games To this day Gen.
Spinner is the hero, the idol, the patron
saint of the department girls" While
he lived they helped to make life pleasant
for him. They loaded him with presents on
holidays and birthdays. They surrounded
him with their love and alteration. Every
summer they took him to a picnic, all in
his honor, and carried 10 him the best fish,
the choicest flowers, and wreathed gar
lands for his brow Those were happy
DAYS for Gen. Spinner, and it is not sur
prising that he said a short time before
his death that the act of his which he was
proudest of, which gave him most satisfac-
ton, was opening the doors of government
employment to women.
Probably Gen. Spinner himself never
foresaw the result of his innovation. When
he began placing women on the govern
ment payrolls he did not imagine that in
twenty years or so a thousand women
should be employed in the treasury alone,
nearly as many more in the pension Office,
and large numbers in the patent Office,
census Office, in fact in every department
OF the government, even in the war and
navy Offices, and the Capitol itself He
could not look ahead and see women draw
ing three or four millions of dollars a
month from the public Golfers for services
rendered
The women of the departments are Of all
ages and from all the walks Of life as well
as from every state and territory in the
Union. Old and young, beautiful and
homely, work side 10y side. and side by side
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
a DIVIDED HOUSE.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 9-The organ
ization here of an American Catholic Cler
ical union composed of the English-speall
ing priests of the Milwaukee province is
interpreted the first step in what may
be a bitter contest against German su-
premacy. For years the archbishop and
three bishops Of the province have been
Germans, and the German priests out
number The Englisb-speaking priests three
TO one, although numerically the English
speaking laity is fully as strong as the
German. The recen' appointment of
Bishop katzer as archbishop was great
disappointment to the English clergy, who
have now formed an organization with a
view to securing proper recognition, and
hey will appeal TO Rome for the appoint
nent OF an American to succeed Bishop
katZer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

they should not, for the toll Is not arduou,
and the hours are anything but onerous.
Light work from to 4, with half hour
for luncheon, frequent holidays and thirty
days leave of absence every year, Is not a
task calculated to undermine the strength
even of a delicate woman Some of the
women clerks in the treasury keep car
siages and are middle aged danes. An
smploye in the third auditors Office is as
isted by liveried foctman to alight every
morning at the treasury steps from costly
orougham drawn by a pair of stylish
,orses. Many of the department girls
xarry, but in few cases do they leave the
service.
Often the husband is also government
ilerk, and with two salaries they manage
70 buy a handsome home and employ
plenty of servants
There are plenty of marriageable girls in
The departments, pretty but practical
.reatures, capable of supporting them
relves and husbands, too, if necessary-iust
the girls to make good, sensible help
meets. At the luncheon hour, while the
men clerks are rushing out to the res
taurants or saloons, many pretty groups
are formed by the girls, who manage to
suDslst ON an apple and cracker, and VINO
bring forth novels or fancy work to mix
with the gossip of the moment.
There is plenty of romance in these de-
partments. For instance, in the depart
ment of justice works a beautiful old lady,
typewriter operator, who was once the
reigning belle of Washington society. Her
hair Is as white as snow, and her face full
Of the charm of refinement and matured
comeliness. Her eyes are still bright and
magnetic, and many maiden might envy
her her complexion. This lady, Mrs. Runde-
lette, was the daughter Of a commandant
of the Marine corps. Her husband was a
surgeon in the navy. AS maid and wife
before the war no woman was more courted
or admired than she. Her mother, Mrs.
Nicholson, was a reigning belle in New
York half = century ago.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10
Baby Eskimos.

The bed Of he baby Eskimo is not always
one Of eiaerdown. There ara times OF
tImlne, now and then, when the condition
Of the ice makes hunting impossible, and
old and young starve TO death. Cases have
been known on both shores OF Badin's Bay
where babies have been eaten by starving
adults, but infanticide in Greenland Is IN
Nnown. because OF belief that the spirit
OF a murdered infant turns into an evil
spirit called AnEiak, that forever haunts
the entire village and brings endless mis-
cry ana distress. d. Spears in New
York Evening sun