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DTHER sDGIETiES.

oTHER SOCIETIES.
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ROYAL ARcAxux-Second and Fourth Mondays
q A X wv. II Il. RICE FosT, No. 55-First and Third
Mondays month, except June, July and August
when il meets only on irst Monday
WM II II RicE. W. X C., No. lS-Ftrst and third
Fridays each month b O'Clock T standard
W. C. T. U.-Every Thursday afternoon at 20 o och
roop No. Masonic block. No. ~ state street
NEAL poS LopGs. No. 1875, oF coon TEEFLAss Every
SATURDAY evening in FREE Baptist Nesiry-
CorR1 rINF Tar, No 7t'o, A o. f.-T.s' and third
IAr--. I. 4 -aaAr ra--LLr
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Inc importance ot purifying the blood can.
hot De oNeFe>'lnated. for without pure
oi"od You cannot enjoy good health.
A. tins season nearly every one need. a
good medicine to purify. vitalize. and eurich
the blood and Hoods Sarsaparilla IS worthy
your confidence. Ii is peculiar in that il
strengthens and builds up the system. creates
an appetite, and tones the digestion. while
1t eradicates disease. Give it a trial.
Hood Sarsaparilla 'S sold YAH druggists
Prepared by c. l. Hood & Co, Lowell Mass.
100 Doses One Dollar
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papers protect the pages from soiled
hnger marks, nearly all have paper covers
for the books and the last day Of school
finds but few injuries save an occasional
accident Many a lesson of neatness and
care may be learned and habits of order
formed, which will last through life.
Let thosn who disapprove of the free
law" buy their own books if they wish to
and stop kicking against what they cannot
help, while we teachers vote a thousand
thanks to the praiseworthy individual who
originated the idea of free fert hooks.
ONE OF THE TEACHERS
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In character, in manner, in style, in all
things, the supreme excellence Is simple
ity.-Longfello,c.
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If we We're a Methodist we would give vigor.
Gus fmfn To the above. but a. we are not quite
eligible TO Meihodistic use OF the word, we will
come as near TO 1t as can and shout, SO MOTE
1T BE.-ED. ANTEICAN
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wlgrEsA E>eAxrAsST, No. 47.-second and fourth
Nantsss.
LkJok LopGE, No sO.-Every Friday.
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ACADIA < 4 CHArTEK, No 5l.-firs, Tuesday OF every
aaniA. eNceptJuly and August
LYs,NlA LopsE No 70 First Wednesday Of every
month, except July and August
E-orARIc LopGk. No. la9 -Firs; Thursday OF every
month. except JG!y and August.
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DIRECTORY.

Co EGATloSAL-i aching a; 10 SO n. sabbath
school at II - A, NJ. Evenns Service at % r
RArrtsr-SundAy school 1870 p. NJ Services al
2pp NJ and Al 'tQ M Prayer Meeting Tuesday
tns at 20.
FEtE EAFrisT-rresch'Dg service al the chapel att p
sunday school at the lose of service Praise and
PRAYER meeting at T. ". Weekly PRAYER meeting
Thursday Al u + Conference, second SATURDAY
of eaeh month at T. Nj
tNlrARiAs sunday school at ii = A Lay ices
atl0U Al NJ
CATHoLc.- Preaching al 10 80 sabbath schoolat
ar
ME7aop!sr. -Ires,hiRg ST lU-.si PRAYER Meeting
N SUNDAY School immediately toll' " .us
uartlin. service. PRAYER meeting, Tuesday evenings
al l.a,, Iu.t lu. + ridas evenings st :,
USlos TkNPERASCs NKkTISG--Every sunday ats 81
n. Al Room y =, Masonic Block
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School in this district commences to-
day, to be taught by Miss Addie Hodgdon
/ of Northeast Harbor
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
FIRST STORY

The framework should be hollow, with
tongued and grOoved sheathing nailed on
diagonally. In the cottage shown the
Eheathing was covered with waterproof
building paper and clapboarded with six
inch beveled siding. The roof is also
sheathed and covered with waterproof
paper and shingled. Shingle lath should
never be used in regions which are fire.
Quented by high winds, as the shingles
bend under the pressure of the wind be-
tween the laths, and the rain or snow is
driven into the building.
The building is one and One-half stories
in height The main roof over the second
story chamber extends down over the front
of the parlor, thus forming in most
economical manner a small veranda
which protects the front entrance. If de
sired, in the winter time this porch could
be inclosed with glazed window sash rs an
additional protection. The staircase hall
extends through the middle of the build
ing, with door at the rear leading to the
yard. Upon the right of the staircase
hall is a parlor 12xrG, lighted by a window
IN front and rear, and two windows in the
sides. 1t is heated by a CRATE designed for
burning soft coal-or it is so arranged that
a stove can be used if desired In the front
at the left side of the hall, is the dining
room, 13XI5, with windows in front and
on the side. 1t is also provided with an
open fireplace and CRATE for burning coal
The dining room communicates with the
kitchen through the pantry. The kitchen
Is connected with the main hall by door
conveniently near the back entrance, and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
An Amusing Yarn About Billiards.

The Paris Figaro is responsible for n
highly ingenious statement regarding the
origin of billiards. 1t announces that a
letter has been discovered in the British
museum which gives the origin of the
sport. 1t was invented by London pawn
broker, whose name was William Kew.
Kew not only lent money but he sold
cloth, and for the latter purpose had a
yard measure with which he used to com
pute the amounts. One day, TO distract
himself, he took the three round balls
which are the emblems of his trade-they
may still be seen in front of certain shops
in London-and placing them on his coun-
ter began to hit them about with the yard
measure. He found it made pretty game.
He got kind of skill in making one ball
glance off the other, and his friends who
saw him thus employed called the game
Bills Yard. It was soon shortened into
billiard. But the yard was the instrument
with which the balls were knocked about,
and the difficulty arose what to call it.
They called it after the name of the pawn
broker-a Kew.
Strange to say, the British museum su-
thorities have not yet seen the letter on
which The Figaro bases its article
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31

After several months OF most desperate
effort TO concentrate his talents upon his
work, Mir Howard gave it up and came to
the conclusion that if he was going 10
write an American play he needed 20 he in
the American atmosphere. His manager
became desperate, for the play was 10 be
finished and in rehearsal 50 that it could
be produced early in the coming fall He
cabled and wrote 70 Mr.. Howard. and at
last received word from the dramatist that
if he was going to write an American play
he had got TO come to America TO do IL.
So it happened that few weeks ago Mr.
Howard leased MS cottage ia the suburbs
OF London for two years, and has returned
to America that he may get local inspira-
ton and atmosphere for his new drama,
He does not like 70 compose amid the
whirl and excitement of New York city.
and he has therefore gone TO New Rochelle
which is a pretty suburb about half an
hours ride away. and one which IS fav-
orite resort FOR actors and actresses of re
pute. Here Mr. Howard expects 10 work,
permitting no distractions, for AZ least one
year, and be expects TO have his play COM
pleted in June OF ISF2
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
These steps indicate how thoroughly and

patiently Mr.. Howard approaches his work
as a dramatist. A few weeks ago Mr.. Ken
dial, the favorite English actor, in chatting
with the writer, said that he did not think
Americans appreciated as they should Mr..
Towards great gifts as dramatist. In
Mr.. Kendals opinion Towards work was
esteemed more highly in Great Britain
than it is in America, and his plays have
| received the highest praise from the great
est of French dramatists.
Mr.. Kendall said that Mr.. Towards great
est virtue was his conscientious and pa
tent devotion to detail and drudgery, an
while recognizing the temper of the pI
ent American playgoing generation he has
made some concessions which are depar-
lures from the highest art, yet he has made
| them regretfully and of necessity.
| Mr.. Howard does not call his work the
! writing of plays; he calls it construction.
According to his theory play is made just
as house is built. The general plan of
! the house corresponds to the general plan
of the story which is the foundation of the
| play. In each case these are subjected to
| frequent alterations. Then comes the max
! ing of the details, which in the play are
the situations, and in this process Mr..
Howard proceeds with the patience and
! nicely of one who experiments in chem
| ical laboratory. Having his story or plot
completed, his situations constructed, even
down to the second of time which each
character will occupy in speaking line
and the number of steps one would take in
crossing the stage, then, with this skele-
ton, Mr. Howard does the purely literary
part, which is the writing of the dialogue.
| That is the reason why IL takes him SO
| long 10 write his PLAYS.
! Successful plays have been written by
! inspiration almost. Bulwer wrote The
Lady of Lyons" at a squirt, being less than
! two weeks in its composition. Alexander
/ Dumas wro<e Henry III and His Court"
| in less than week, but Mr.. Howard be
| lieves that these are the exceptions which
! prove the general rule that play must be
constructed, not written.
If the Americans do not beStow upon
Mr. Howard the personal attention, as Mr..
/ Kendall suggested, they certainly do well
enough by him financially a glance at
! his managers books a week or two ago
showed that Mr.. Howard had been paid
! $50, GOO royalties on his play Shenandoah"
I in the past two years and half, while
| his royalties on THE Henrietta" in the
same time brought him nearly So, 600, and
upon MS other plays some $4,000. Mr..
/ Howard is now the richest American dra-
matist. and excepting Dion Boucicauit
/ no writer OF plays in the English language
! has ever received so much money as he
has l.. J. EDWARDS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
AN AMERICAN DRAMATIST.
Bronson Howard Back from Switzerland
His Work and His Future.

Especial Correspondence
NEW YORK, July Bon one of the Eu-
rOpean steamers which arrived few days
ago in New York there came gentleman
of short stature, well bronzed countenance
wearing eyeglasses and conveying the sug
gestion of a man whose lot has been cast
in fortunate places His wife was with
him, and he also brought four dogs of ex-
traordinary intelligence and a parrot whose
vocabulary is extensive and whose intellect
is quite acute. The gentleman was Mr..
Bronson Howard, who, with his wife and
his pets, has just returned from pro-
longed absence in Europe Two years ago
Mr. Howard sailed for Europe with two
purposes in mind. One was to visit Swift
zerland and explore it to its utmost nook
and corner, and The other was to return to
his London cottage and there settle him
self down in quiet to the preparation of a
new play which he was under contract to
write for an American manager.
The first of his purposes Mr.. Howard
carried out to his entire satisfaction. Swift
Zerland has never been done more thor
oughly than he and Mrs. Howard did it.
He had as companions a part of the time
his brother-in-law, Mr.. Charles Wyndham,
the English actor of light comedy parts,
and his family. When Mr.. Howard re-
turned to London and set to work to write
his play he found that there were some
things which his power of determination
was not equal TO. Plot after plot were sug-
gested TO him only to be discarded. He
thought of situation after situation only
TO throw them aside in disgust, and as for
characters they seemed the most misera-
bile puppets when he began to analyze
those which he thought he had created.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31

The best way is TO obtain suds by dissolv-
ing shavings of soap in a basin OF hot
water, then adding the solution to the
wash water This is especially TO be done
with black lawn, which should be quickly
washed out in hot suds and Immediately
rinsed in water made quite dark with blue
ing. 1t should be dried in the shade and
ironed while damp enough not 10 need
sprinkling. IF starch Is used IL should be
made very blue and diluted till quite thin
The dress should be dried in the shade,
then starched, and while still damp ironed
on the wrong side. 1t is often advisable TO
set the colors in other lawns by soaking in
a pail Of salt and water, or in a pail Of
water IN which little sugar Of lead has
been dissolved; this latter especially 10
preYenk blues from fading.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31

SUMNER SUGGESTIONS.
About Floor Coverings, Furniture, Screens,
Cushiau6 Etc.

It will mark another advance when we
all come to recognize more generally that
cool mating with rugs or an ingram
square is, for rich and not rich alike, the
second best summer floor covering, the
best being beyond aestion hard wood with
the same alleviations.
There are so many beautiful willow rock
ers, tete-a-tete chairs and other shapes
that one can easily select a varied and
satisfactory assortment. Bamboo is now
wrought into tables, desks, bookracks,
cabinets and screens. You can furnish 8
room beautifully with such belongings.
Among the novelties in screens are those
OF green glass for freplaees, painted with
yellow daffodils, chrysanthemums or mi
mosa. Other screens IN green velvet are
decorated with quaint Indian designs,
painted in yellow, with draperies OF soft
yellow silk as trimmings.
A word about the cushions. Let them
be of chintz, cretonne, grass cloth, or even
of butchers linen, but eschew velvet and
plush.
A new idea is TO brighten the green
stained furniture that has been creeping
into fashion with CLEANS OF yellow as dec
orationS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
4 Pretty Dish.

The following Is a very pretty dish for a
company teas First make good lemon Jelly
in the usual way. II you have no tried
recipe, the directions on the package Of
Relatine can be followed. Into some pretty
little teacups put a few fine large straw
berries. Turn the jelly over these Wills
it is still just warm enough 70 dose. When
you wish 10 serve the jelly, inyert each In
dividual mold into ssuceplate, and around
the base Of the Jelly pour a little rich strip
made with fresh strawberry juice and
sugar. Keep Is cold as posi- BE til served.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
PERSPECTIVE.


sometimes tOrnadoes, and the structure
must be constructed so rs TO withstand the
shocks which it is liable to receive A brisk
wind travels at the rate of about twenty
five miles an hour, strong wind at the
rate Of thirty miles an hour, high wind at
forty, storm at fifty, violent storm at sixty,
hurricane at eighty, violent hurricane at
a hundred miles an hour. From this it
will be seen that the wind pressure is an
important item which must be carefully
considered and calculated in designing any
important structure. In a prairie country
high building or roof should be avoided,
as it offers too large a surface for the press
ure of the wind, which in a storm is about
eighteen pounds to each square foot of sur
face, neither should the building have wide
projections of cornices for the same reason,
as it would be in danger of being unroofed
at any time during a storm unless extra
and expensive precautions have been taken
in construction, 1t follows, then, that
low building with bat slight projections of
cornices is best adapted to prairie coun-
try, as being most economical and safe.
The cottage shown in the illustrations
represents a sensible, conveniently ar
ranged and substantially constructed cot
tage or prairie farm house in the Queen
Anne style Of architecture. The founda-
ton walls are of brick laid in cement
mortar, plastered on the outside with
cement, and the cellar has concrete floor
three inches thick The sills are built of
two pieces of plank, one, 3x6, laid flat upon
the walls and securely anchored in place
by wrought iron bolts set in the brick
work, the other piece, 2xS, is set edgewise
upon the wall and securely spiked to the
plank beneath. The studding is notched
on the lower end to come flush with the
outside of the brick wall and sill and
spiked to both pieces, thus securing the
framework of the entire building from be-
ing torn from it's foundations by the most
violent storms.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
FRANKLIN RELICS

chiefly of various belongings Of the officers
and men-spoons, watches, pieces Of cloth
ing, various documents, etc, and sew
eral specimens Of Eskimo tools, knives,
hatchets and other implements made cut
of wreckage from the ships aud boats.
Part of a diary found stated that Sir John
Franklin had died early in the expedition,
so that be never knew Of its failure and
death of ali his comrades. Among relics
brought home By the Fox were the ohro-
nometer OF the Erebus, snow knife and
Eskimo arrows made from copper and
wood from the lost ships, pair of leather
snow goggles fitted with wire gaure to
keep the glare of the snow away from the
eyes, and a sailmaker's palm. with thumb
hole and roughened boss for the needle.
The last two are depicted in the cat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
DID BUSINESS WITH MONARCHS.
The Remarkable Social and Financial
Career of the Late James McHenry.


The announcement that Home Secretary
Matthews in London had ordered the body
of James McHenry to be exhumed on sus-
picion that he had died of arsenical poison
ing amazed all Philadelphia and aston
ished many others who once knew the aged
millionaire. At one time he was by all
odds the richest American living abroad,
but he dissipated much of his wealth in
extravaganza living and unfortunate specu-
lations. And now it is charged that he
poisoned himself or was poisoned to de-
fraud the insurance companies.
At his princely residence, known as Oak
Lodge, on the Addison road, London, he
once entertained eX-Queen Isabella of
Spain, and later he paid her 81, 100000 in
bonds of the Atlantic and Great Western
railway for her coal lands in Clinton and
Centre counties, Pa. He also enter
tanned Louis Napoleon while in exile,
and on some of these occasions the dinner
was prepared throughout in Paris and sent
over to London. Others who have dined
with him testify that he usually had a
gold and silver fountain playing cologne
in the center of the table; that his dinner
plate exceeded that of the queen in rich
ness, and that all parts of the earth, from
the mountain tops to the depths of the sea,
were laid under contribution for luxuries.
The McHenry family is one of the Oldest
and most noted in Philadelphia. DR.. Nc
Henry was in the early part of this century
an eccentric literary and professional man,
and his son, inheriting some of the same
qualities, went abroad at an early age. He
was wealthy citizen of Liverpool when
the American civil war broke out; he be-
came involved and lost much of his wealth,
but went TO London and made bigger for
tune. He had married Miss Gardner, of
Belfast, who was Of great assistance to him
In every way, but his many children all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
Snow Pudding.

Snow pudding may be made with one
third OF a package Of gelatins in a little
cold water, aud when softened stir 10 into
a pint Of boiling water; add one cupful Of
sugar. the juice OF two lemons or one-hslf
cupful Of wine, as preferred; when cold
and beginning TO thicken add the well
beaten whites Of three eggs. Beat ell
lightly and smoothly together, pour the
mixture into a mold and set il aside to
harden. Serve in the center Of a dish, with
a boiled custard poured around it. Make
the custard with the yolks Of three eggs,
enc pint Of milk and half q cupfuI Of
sugar, with favoring 20 taste.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31

died on or before reaching maturity, and
some years ago his wife died also. Since
then he has failed very fast, and his friends
scout the idea OF suicide. declaring thst he
died simply Of old age and general debility.
His success in getting royal AID titled
persons 10 invest in his various railroad
and mining schemes was simply wonder
full, and he was on fairly intimate terms
with Lord Bury. SIR Morton Peto and
many other distinguished capitalists. His
sister, Ms. J. Bellanger Cox. who reached
London in time 70 attend MS funeral, de-
clares with indignation that not a particle
of evidence OF poisoning has been found,
and that the home secretary acted entirely
upon the suggestion CT some anonymous
letters.
Mr. James A. Reilly, Of 10 Broadway.
New York. is made heir % oae-t0uEth O.
the estate lefr By Mr. McHenFy. TE.s WIS
at frs: reported 70 sum up many millions.
and Is rex ALLEGED To be ba. a small affair.
and as the insurance on Ar. MeHenry 5
life IS reported al the way from few
thousands I'D 70 S5.000ooo. A-. Reilly IS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31

We all know OF men marrying for lands
or money. Some one has said. too, that ha
met with women who would like TO DO
taken down by novel and married 60 a
poem" But we doubt IL anybody has
hitherto been known 70 seek marriage
with postage stamp. Such a being does
however exist. IL the following advertise
ment which Vanity Fair has unearthed
from Mauritius newspaper may be taken
as a genuine offeri
"A stamp collector. the possessor OF =
collection Of II. 544 stamps, wishes 70 marry
a lady who is an ardent collector and the
possessor Of the blue penny stamp OF Maui
ritius. issued in 1871"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
Cherry Batter Balls and Cherry Cake.

Steam the cherries partly soft in very
little water, with sugar snd stick of Gin
namon; then make batter. Take Ave
eggs, leaving out two whites, beat them up
with cream and -four and little white
wine; make it Of the consistency OF pam
cake batter. Stir the cherries into the bat
ter. Drop quickly from a tablespoon as
evenly as possible into boiling hot lard, so
as to make the batter balls into a round
smooth shape. Fry them of pale brown,
when take up and strew over powdered
sugar and cinnamon.
Soak one half pound of sliced bread in as
much cold milk as it will absorb; press it
out, and six eggs well beaten, two ounces
of almonds pounded, oue-quarter pound of
sugar, one-quarter pound Of butter cream
ed), and a small taAspoonful of powdered
cinnamon; when these are well mixed stir
in one and half pound of cherries. An
inch deep tin must be well buttered, filed
with the mixture, strewed with sugar and
cinnamon over the top, with a few sliced
almonds and baked slowly in a moderate
oven.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-31
Mormon Immigrants.

\ new way has been discovered of dis
couraging Mormon immigrants. BY the
arrangements Of the church they nearly
al have places ready for them 70 20 70
work on arrival in Utah, and the federal
officials st the port of New York have de-
cided that this brings them under the con-
tract labor law. Heretofore they have only
had to swear that they did NOS intend 20
80 into poiygamy;" now they Will have
10 swear that they are not under contract
To WORK.