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Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

The cory wsterloo-st. thester VII!
pr~ssnt an entirely new program oi
erecialties thls week. In the lnffe-
sb~to-v heansifnI femaIe minstreis are
offered. "a we'll a. the iaushabie biir'
1esnaa sssgnhaS." which includes on :.
frgos. toIlv music and meehaeiea' =
fe-ts. In shr oilo the following efe
ps sn4ed. pffchie ard Han. IN Rfe
aue comedy 6no Hise ior3 fstsll
n frt y ehas ssger nal fnpe fona !" :
MeiJvws3I. e;eytas and Ksxie. ~
Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

The smhulsncs vas called to the cor
re- OF Straight and West Fulton-sts.
last night st 10 O'Clock, where Harry
May. aged p. had been taken suddenly
with commissions caused by dsesse Of
the brain. He was taken 10 his home
st 22T Jeferson-st-. where he was at
tended hy Or. Hoskins. The young
man va n a terrible condition when
found snd suffered Intensely.
Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

John Glbens vss arrested Yesterday
afternoon Tor stesllng q coat which Was
lying on the siiewsik on Pesrlst.. aea
where some rasu we're working John
"vs he vas drunk at the time or ne
would rot have taken The garment. He
= resting luletIy under the roof q the
county i>il snd ~ili have q hearing
Monday morning.
Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

Yesterday after noon William Ewing
fell from . scssoid used IN the con-
struetion Of the new Msdison-sve en-
eine house, sersously injor5Dr himself
sbout the head aud shoulders. The
sn1buisDoe conveyed him 20 Dr. Rests
where be bruises we're tended snd
from there TO biz home st 22 Perry st.
Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

comedy sketch entitled Two Pracu-
cal Sokers." Among the favorites who
have been retained are Mr.. and Mrs
Harry Wood and Lulu Thies, who
proved such a favorite In her eolored
sketch, ''Old Virginia" last week.
natlnees as usual.
Telegram-herald., 1891-08-30

TIE next reruisv meeting ard surfssl
eiertion II Psn.nxuier CHAPTER No -,
eFsfeY % tfe ks~tern star. vii Ne held
Iaestsy evening, septenlsef /.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

A very beautiful table decoration was
seen at dinner party given by hostess
noted for her taste and originality. The
cloth, which was of the finest damesk, dis.
playing design of ferns, the center figure
being an eXquisitely drawn wreath of the
fronds, while the border was formed of
sprays of the most delicate maidenhair
variety, had been ordered of great linen
house in Belfast, with special reference to
the decoration of living ferns, intended to
be used for ga summer dinner party"
The table was circular, and in the middle
stood one of the giant tulip vases now so
fashionable. This graceful receptacle was
filled with the loveliest and rarest speci-
mems of ferns, the spreading, feathery
fro1ds reaching far over the heads of the
assembled company, and forming, as it
were, verdant tent through whose inter-
stices shone the electric lights of the chan
delier. No candles, no flowers were used,
but each silver dish was surrounded by a
wreath of ferns, which kept perfectly fresh
during the service of the course.
All the crystal ware was exquisitely en-
graved with ferns, while the Dresden china
service gave the one touch of warmth and
color with its pure rose and gold tints. An
ideal dinner decoration was the universal
comment, and far more effective than the
elaborated floral banqUets which have pre-
vailed during the past season.-Boston
Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Tic Magazine, issued second series OF the
"Biglow Papers" as a commentary on the
civil war, poured forth his views and OBJ
servations in prose and rhyme, and during
the two decades ending with 1875 may be
said to have covered every field of compost
ton. Then, having achieved repute as
poet, satirist, essayist, critic and platform
orator, Mr. Lowell laid aside his pen for
season and turned his attention to another
phase of American activity. he went into
politics. made stump speeches, was chosen
q presidential elector from Massachusetts
and cast his vote for Rutherford B. Hayes.
Mr. Hayes on assuming Office was not
slow to reward. He sent Mr.. Lowell as
minister to Spain, and three years later
transferred him to the English mission.
It was particularly at London that the
poet diplomat showed his ability to do
other things besides make rhymes. Al
though he had no momentous or knotty
questions to handle, he distinguished him
self as high bred, courteous and COM
petent representative of the American re-
public. On previous visit he had been
made D. G. L. and LII. D. of Cambridge
During his term as United States minister,
the students Of the University of St. An
drews elected him lord rector. But parties
rise and parties fall, so when Mr.. Cleve-
land assumed the presidential chair Mr..
Lowell prepared to abandon politics as
cheerfully as he had taken them UP. He
went to Washington and introduced him
self as a man with his head under his
arm" who had come to save the services of
an executiOner.
The remainder of his years were spent
chiefly in well earned ease. He lectured
some, travelled and wrote, but not so eager
ly and voluminously as when life was at
its heyday. His first wife died nine years
after marriage, His second wife was his
companion for twenty-eight years. Then
she, too, died. and in his old age the man
who had made his mark in prose and poe
try, at the college professors desk, on the
lecture platform, in politics and diplomacy
saw with Indifference the lamp of ambition
flicker and die out. His first poem brought
him no compensation; for his last short
production, "My Brook" he received
81, 900. He had years and honors and fame,
yet be was glad to go. why can't you let
an old man die!" he asked his daughter.
Then he turned his face to the wall and
his soul went forth on the wings of sigh
of peace
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
What Is a Flirt 4?

Somebody wrote and asked me to define
a fiirt. Ii seems unnecessary when the
dictionary meaning is worded in such
terse Saxon terms There has been some
degree of fascination tossed about the word
by a perversi0n of its meaning but It is
quite time TO apply it only in its true sense
and the appellation is far from being com
plimentary one.
Do you want 10 act LIEF Then hirt
Do you care 10 lose the modest charm Of
manner which is woman's best heritage
and mans too infrequently found attribute'
Then play at love.
Do you want your future life embittered
by memories which will stab you when
your heart IS beating with happinessi Then
cheat some one into giving you true regard
for falseuess.
If you would be womsnly, my woman
reader, or manly, ny unknown Questioner,
give your esteem to all who deserve il,
your friendship TO those who are your true
friends, and your hearts warm, earnest
love 10 one man or 70 one woman, and let
it be unsulIied bv the firtations which
many count in triumph on the fngers Of
both their hands.-Toronto Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03


FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nav % last and
following. President Hippolyte is every
firm" says Minister Douglass, and will not
tolerate anarchy. To prevent it he had his
soldiers shoot down all men found in the
streets after the order had been given for
all TO retire TO their homes
In the meantime the exiles of the oppo-
=sition are organizing in Jamaica. For
eigners hvingin Port au Prince are furnish
ing money TO those insurgents, and the
chances are that in few months there will
be another civil war in Hayti and a fright
fully bloody one. The population is
slowly decreasing. A vast majority of the
people are in mourning and there are
nearly twice As many women as men.
Yellow fever is also prevalent. The United
States naval officers there confirm all this,
and add that the Mole St. Nicholas would
have been ceded to the United States pur-
suant to the promise made by Hippolyte
when he was fighting for the presidency,
If white man had been sent there as
minister.
Frederick Douglass was born in Febru-
airy, 1917. in Talbot county, Nd, his mother
being q negro slave and his father her
owner. He was taught to read and write
by another slave, worked in a shipyard in
Baltimore and suffered many privations
according to his own account in MY
Bondage and My Freedom" In 1898 he
escaped to Massachusetts,, where he mar
ried, and soon became prominent as a
speaker at antiSlaEery meetings. In 1916
he went to Europe and made brilliant
tour as lecturer against slavery. In 1S47
he located in Rochester, n. Y, and began
the publication of Fred Douglass Pa
per, afterward The North Star. His
friends had meanwhile paid his master the
sum demanded and seeared his freedom.
In 1870 he began to edit The New Ma
tional Era at Washington, and has since
held the Offices of United States marshal
and recorder Of deeds for the District of
Columbia, and various minor positions
Washington is now his home, and he lives
IN good style, having married a white
woman after the death of his first wife and
acquired competency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

zen Of it. AS long as her health and
strength permitted, it was a custom of the
Tennessee legislature 20 call on her in a
body and pay their respects once each year.
Her parents were Captain Joel and Eliza
beth Childress, and she was born at their
residence, near Aturfreesboro, on the 4th of
September, 1903. At an early age she was
sent to the Moravian institute, at Salem,
n. C., and obtained there very thorough
education. At the age of nineteen she was
married to James Knox Polk, then mem
Der of the Tennessee legislature. The next
year he was elected to congress, and con-
tinned to represent the same district
through fourteen consecutive sessions,
only retiring IN 1889 TO become governor of
Tennessee. Mrs. Polk was with him in
Washington every winter but one, and oc-
cupied q very honored position in the So
ciety of that city
As mistress of the White House she in
troduced a slightly stricter regime than
had previously prevailed, dancing being
discontinued and other changes made. but
the American people enthusiastically APP
proved OF her course. She united with the
Presbyterian church early in life and was
ever consistent observer of its rules.
June is, 1e49, the ex-president died and her
long widowhood began. She suffered great
losses during the war and was in such
straiteneo circumstances that the old
homestead was in danger of being sold
when Congress granted pension of IS 600
per year 20 each of the widows of presi-
dents
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
How I Woman should Exercise,

a womsn who has paid great attention
to this important subject says water and
air are the, best tonics aud beaUtitiers. For
bathing turposes she recommends long
mitteBs made from Turkish toweing AZ
night the inittens should De put IN a wash
bowl Of water il which a little fue sal. has
been disc we'd. On rising in the morning
wiring ont the mitteus. PIT them on and
rub the whole body hriskly Dry on a
towel. not,too coarse, AID dress quickly
Then g5 cut OF doors, # oaly for I'VE
minutes Walking Is she bess exercise. IL
you cannot walk half a mile IL first walk
quarter; seep On stretching the distance
until you, can walk t1see or four miles
without fttigue. Fresh air VIII put 8 good
color in TIE face, and when the health IS
COED ard fhs blood circ1lz-es fres,y the
nerves Will Be al right s. Paul Pioaeer
Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
To cure cosfiveness the medicine nuxt h.
more than a pu--gative; it must contain
tonic, alternative a.ad cathartic properties.
TUFTS Pills
possess these qualities, and speedily re-
store to the bowels their natural peristaltic
motion, so essential to regularity.
OPEN AIR BATHING.
Practical Rules for Escaping Chills %
Other Injurious Effects.

Practical Rules for Escaping Chills %
Other Injurious Effects.
The following instructions, accredited to
the Royal Humane society, of England. are
of especial interest at shis season, when sea
and river bathing are INDUCED In OF such
great numbers of people;
Avoid bathing within two hours after .
meal
Avoid bathing when exhausted by fatigue
or from any other cause.
Avoid bathing when the body Is cooling
after perspiration.
Avoid bathing altogether IN the open air
If, after having been short time In the
water, there is q sense OF chilliness, with
numbness OF the hands and feet, but bathe
when the body is warm. providing no time
is lost in getting into the water.
Avoid chilling the body by sitting or
standing undressed on the banks or in boats
after having been in the water.
Avoid remaining too long in the water,
but leave the water Immediately there Is
the slightest feeling Of chilliness. TIE
vigorous and strong may battle early In
the morning On an empty stomach. The
young and those who are weak had better
battle in two Or three hours after . meal,
the best time'for such from two to three
hours after breakfast. Those who are sub
ject to attacks of giddiness or faintness, and
those who suffer from palpitation or other
sense of discomfort at the heart, shonld not
battle without consulting their medical adj
wiser
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
a cHILp's LAUGHTER.

All tie bells of heaven may ring.
All the birds Of heaven may sing.
All the wells Of earth may spring,
All the winds on earth may bring
All sweet sounds together;
Sweeter far than all things heard,
Hand Of harper, tone of bird,
Sound of woods at sundawn stirred.
yelling waters winsome word.
Wind In warm wan weather.
One thing yet there is that none
Hearing ere its chime be done
Knows not well the sweetest one
Heard Of men beneath the sun,
Hoped in heaven hereafter;
Soft and strong and loud and light,
Very sound of very light
Heard from the mornings rosiest height
When the soul of all delight
Fills child's clear laughter.
Golden bells of welcome rolled
Never forth such notes, nor told
Hours so blithe in tones so bold
AS the radiant mouth of gold
Here that rings forth heaven;
If the golden crested wren
Were nightingale-why. then
Something seen and heard OF men
Might be half as sweet as when
Laughs child of seven.
|. q. Swinburne in Church Quarterly Rs
ieY
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03


were. The rain stratum lies above that,
perhaps a mile high, and observations
show that light rains often start from it
and are vaporiZed in the dry belt stratum
below and SO sent up again. Hence the
scheme to send up balloons and do the ex-
ploding in the moist stratum.
Senator Farwell, of Illinois, was the
first statesm to take any interest in the
theory, and secured a small appropriation
for experiments. Aside from the question
of rain, however, many valuable observa-
tons will be made by scientific men con-
nected with the expedition, testing the eff
fects of conclusion on the air. From time
immemorial sailors and farmers have in
sisted that the moon had some influence on
the weather, but scientists have never
been able to prove their theory false or
true. But as to the theory of conclusion
making rain, General Dyrenfurth intends
to have proof-certainty one way or the
other 1t may be, of course, that rain can
be artifciatly produced, but mot in pay
ing quantities" as miners say. We can
only wait
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
THE CRADLE BARS THE WAY.
A Woman Tells Why Wife and Moths
Cannot Enter the Domain of Politics.

A Woman Tells Why Wife and Mother
Cannot Enter the Domain of Politics.
Be it pleasant or unpleasant, it is none
the less an absolute truth-the raison d'etre
of a woman is maternity. For this and
this alone nature has differentiated her
from man, and built her up cell by cell and
organ by organ The continuance Of the
race in healthy reproduction, together with
the fit nourishment and the care of the
young after birth, is the ultimate end Of
woman as such, and whatever tells against
these functions and reduces either her
power or her perfectness is an offense
against nature and wrong done to So
ciety.
If she chooses to decline her natural Of
fee altogether, and TO dedicate to other
services a life which has no sympathy with
the sex of humanity, that comes into her
lawful list of preferences and discords.
But neither then nor while she is one with
the rest, wife and mother like others, is
she free to blaspheme her assigned func-
tions; nor to teach the young to blaspheme
them; nor yet to set afoot such undertake
ings as shall initiate against the healthy
performance Of her first great natural duty
and her first great social obligation.
The cradle lies across the door of the
polling booth and bars the way to the SEN
ate. We can conceive nothing more disas-
trouS to a woman in any stage of maternl-
ty, eXpectant or accomplished, than the
heated passions and turmoil of a political
contest; for we may put out of court three
fallacies-that the vote, If obtained at all,
is to be confined to widows and spiHsters
only; that enfranchised women will con-
tent themselves with the vote and not seek
after active Office, and that they will bring
into the world of politics the sweetness and
light claimed for them by their adherents,
and not, on the contrary, add their own
shriller excitement to the mems deeper
passions
Nor must we forget that the franchise
for women would not simply allow a few
well conducted well educated, self re-
speeding gentlewomen quietly to record
their prediction for liberalism or con-
servatism, but would let in the far wider
flood of the uneducated, the unrestrained,
the irrational and emotional-those who
know nothing and imagine all-those
whose presence and partisanship on all
public questions madden already excited
men.
We have no right to suppose that hui
man nature is to be changed for our bene-
fit, and that the influence of sex is to be-
come a dead letter because certain among
us wish it so. What has been will be
again. In the mirror of the prophet, which
hangs behind him, the Partisan woman of
the revolution will be repeated wherever
analogous conditions exist, and to admit
women into active participation in politics
will certainly be to increase disorder and
add fuel to the fire of strife.-Mrs. Lynn
Linton in Nineteenth Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Trying 10 MAKE Rain.
some Experiments That May Prove Sue
Of neaca

Some Experiments That May Prove Sue
cessful.
General Dyrenfurth has exploded his ex-
perimental bombs near Midland, Tex, and
rain has followed 1t was a fairly good
rain, too, and came but twelve hours after
the experiment. But of course one such
experiment proves nothing, especially at
season when rain is likely to come at any
time.
The general himself is not at all conf
dent, but thinks the trial will result in
great gain even if it proves the negative,
for there is q widespread belief that artifl-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Mrs. searle, and Great Barring ton.

MRS. Searies Auu OreAI DatFluS Nons
Old residents in Great harrington re
member when, nearly fifty years ago, Mrs
Searles was Mary Frances Sherwood
daughter of William Sherwood, principal
of boys school in New York. She was 8
pupil in the Kellogg Terrace school con
Quoted by her aunts, Sarah, Mary and
Nancy Kellogg, and belonged TO coterit
of pupils whom the young men regarded
with admiration and certain feelings Of
awe. In this company of schoolgirl friends
were three who still live in Great Barring
ton. OF the Hopkins family, 9. W. Hop
kins was living at Great harrington in re
tirement, and advanced the money that hii
nephew Mark needed 70 start for Califor
MIA when afflicted with the gold fever.
Marks brother Moses kept store where
ready made clothing was sold, novelty liz
those days.
After marrying Mark Hopkins and set
Ting in California, Miss Sherwood was
lost to Great harrington people for long
time. After the death Of Mr.. Hopkins, the
widow, who, with her sister, Mrs. Critten
den, had inherited the Kellogg Terracs
house, moved back 20 Great Darlington
and remodeled the mansion for a summer
residence.
The principal public gift Great Barring
ton received from Mrs. Searles was the fine
Congregational church. She first gave
largely TO secure repairs and Improvements
in the old building, and when that was
burned she practically built the new struo
ture, besides adding q parsonage and
elaborate barn. The church was provided
with SO, 900 organ. and the people found
It difficult 10 support player suitable u
handle it. Tbs parish expected Mrz Searlss
would do something, and a. a result there /
was friction, ending in Mrs. searles' with |
drawal from the organization entirely |
She was sfterward confirmed and attended /
the Episcopal church.-Springfeld ReDub /
hcau.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Ml(Illl Eagle
DONE WITH PUBLIC LIFE.

Frederick Douglass, the cOlored Orator
and Politician, Retires from Office.
The Hon. Frederick Douglass has re-
signed his place as minister to Hayti, and
announced that be is done with public life
forever. The president, he adds, has not
asked for his resignation or found any
fault with his action in Hayti, but he feels
that he is getting too old for active service
in any field, and wants to pess his few re-
manning years in quiet with mis- children
and grandchildren
In thus taking leave of official life he has
much to say of Hayti, and very naturally
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Production of Coal in the South.

According to recent census bulletin the
production, of coal in the states of West
Virginia. Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia,
Georgia and North Carolina is reported for
1889 at Il, 649, 266 short tons, valued at Sf0,-
ei3, 0S9 The production for the same states
ct the tenth census was 8, 469, 1856 short tons,
valued at 81, 10, 162. The increase of guam
tity and decrease in ton value are the two
facts worthy of notice
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
an Old Time Minstrel.

The Oldest negro minstrel in America
with one exception, is said to be Paul Der,
ger, the turnkey of a Philadelphia police
station. He is now sixty-five years, and is
still noted for melodious bass voice. In
his prime he sang before Presidents Van
Ruren and Polk at private audiences.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Her Attraction.

Clara-6harlie Jackson prefers blond
girls.
Laura-fndeed! I am quite brunette,
yoE know; and he is always very attentive
t. me.
Clara-Frobably because your income is
fair.-Mupsey's Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The fact that the poet Whittier has given
mp his favorite walks in the woods is re-
Rarded as new indication of bis physical
decline. He is overeighty. and his eyesight
and hearing are quite detective.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Echiuoeaceus, bred in man By the kiss Of
a dog, is the newest maIady, both human
aud canine. Love me, love my dog" is all
well enough, but If the discoverer Of echin-
ococcus is right this affection, TO be safe,
must be kept outside Of labiai limits