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thrilling Leap for Life 40 feet in mid
air on the swaying trapeze.
200 ARENIC STARS.
q TIMES TIE GREATEST MENAGERIE
ever exhibited In America and only realistic
and reconstructed WILD WEST EXHIBI-
TION. 80 Scouts Savages and Soldiers. Cap
tain A. II. Bogardus and Sharpshooters Border
life in all its phases, including the wild and
weird Ghost Dance All the entire and superb
Paris llippodrome; Z mile track, every kind
OF races: French female charioteers; ADAM
F0REPAUGlI'S new and astounding trained,
animal exhibition, including 20 Wonderful and
Wise Elephants. S50,O0O Sind Trained Horses.
10O Acting Animals. Daily expenses, 5000.
Capital $3,000,0O0. 1900 Men and Horses 80
Cars. Trains. Admission, Soc. Children under
o years of age, 25o Reserved numbered seats
extra, Excursions on all railroads. Two eX-
hibitions daily. General admission and re-
served seat tickets can be secured at Droops,
advance on the days OF the exhibition only.
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Chiffon to be appointed TO the Senatorial
vacancy without word for himself. This
is conclusive evidence that Mr.. Mills has
decided to occupy the Speakers chair.
Net0 York RtcOjTIGr
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COMMENTING on THE postponement of
the lottery cases, the New York World
saws;
The Supreme Court has postponed the
hearing until autumn In order that the
case may be determined by u full Bench,
but the briefs are in, and o careful read
ing Of them is not very reassurng TO
those who desire to see some effective
restraint placed upon the evil influences
Of this legalzed gambling hell. The ar
gument of the Lottery lawyers upon the
constitutional questions involved is very
strong; that of Assistant Attorney Gen
eral MAURY for the Government seems
much weaker than really capable AttOr-
ney-General would have made 10. If the
l6w lies with the right in the case we
must depend upon the Court to discover
the fact without much help from the
Attorney office as at present
manned
This is scarcely just to the Attorney
Generals Office. Mr.. MAuRy has made
the best case that was possible for the
Government in this controversy, and has,
presumably, acted in fun harmony with
Attomoy-General MILLER. who has been
prevented by illness from preparing the
brief in person. The trouble is that the
Government has not much of a case on
the face of the papers. The measure
which the Louisiana Lottery Company
challenges before the Supreme Court can
I've defended only ON the ground of moral
eXpedency Undoubtedly it is, as an
abstract proposition, an invasion of the
liberty of the press and an infringement
of personal rights. Theoretically, il Con-
gress may deny the use of the mails to
newspapers containing lottery advertise
ments, it may with equal propriety take
similar action in the case of liquor ad-
Vertisements, playing-card advertisements,
bucket-shop advertisements or any other
which the party in the majority at the
moment may choose to regard as inn
moral and pernicious. There is, indeed,
no end to the mischief and oppression to
which such principle, once established
may not lead. 1t is but natural, there.
fore, that the Constitution should repu.
diate it in general way, and that il
should be destitute of support in prece
dent. We can readily see that the At
torney-General' Office may have found
IL impossible to defend the law on any
but moral, and, to n certain extent senti.
mental grounds. As we see it, the qucs
ton is not whether the Government can
find any defense in laws already existent,
but whether the Supreme Court will, in
view of the gravity of the case, originate
law TO fit this particular emergency
The structures on Mr.. MAuRY strike us as
unjust. He has no case and he virtually
confesses as much. What his brief means
is that the Supreme Court should make a
case for him.
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E'achdR0e.

SIS there man in all this audience"
fiercely exclaimed female lecturer,
who has ever done anything to tighten
the burden resting on his wife's shoulders?
What do you know of woman's work
Is there. a man here" she continued,
folding her arms and looking over her
audience with superb scorn, "who has
ever got up in the morning, leaving his
tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slum-
bers, gone quietly down stairs, made the
fire, cooked his own breakfast, sewed the
missing buttons on the children's clothes,
darned the family stockings, secured the
pots and kettles, cleaned and filled the
lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all
this, If necessary, day after day uncom-
plainingly? If there is such man in
this audience. let him rise up! / should
like TO see him p' And in the rear of the
hall a mild-looking man in spectaeles, in
obedience to the summons, timidly arose
He was the husband of the eloquent
speaker. 1t was the first time he had ever
had chance to assert himself.
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Bm Cmro WOULD modestly suggest that
the superintendents of asylums for the
care Of the insane might make their meet
ings a little more interesting to thegeneral
public ", instead OF discussing such sub
jects as "TTaumatic Hysteria from Rail-
read Injury" or Mental Alteration on
Account Of Hot Boxes, they take up and
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The Boston Transcript (Rep.) remarks;
to the Tariff bill in his well-conceiyed
Southern speeches, bur it would be hard
to detect the most distant allusion to Sem
ator Hoars Elections bill, which, it has
been understood, the President did what
he could to promote. This shows the
Presidents unerring judgment in regard
to Southern feeling And it is practical
confession that the measure is altogether
sectional in its tendency.n
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lr Is Not, PERHAPs singular that there
should be betting at Benning.
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Mn. BLAINE to the Republican party:
''Your candidate ! cannot ben
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Mrs. russell Hancock 10 wod.

Ffom He N6W York C0ntInent,
The engagement is announced of Mrs.
Russell Hancock, widow of General Han
Lieutenant Rathaday is stationed at Gov
ernor's Island at present.
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THE RErunILcAN party to Mr.. BLAINE:
''Do you mean it ?"
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severe on the Ladies.
from ne BQltlm0re Herald.

*Ex-Dividend
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
Prompt and Heroic.

All Australian boys are taught the ne
cessity of guarding against snake bites.
The treatment of such wounds is a pec-
essary part of their education. One day
two little fellows six and eight years
old went into the bush to play. The
smaller one, chasing a rabbit into hole,
pushed in his hand and brought it out
quickly, with the head of a venomous
snake attached to one of the fingers.
"Quick, Charley!" he cried, putting
his hand down on stump. "Chop off
my fngerl The snake has bitten it."
Charley, without pause, lifted his
ak and chopped. not only the damaged
finger, but two of the others as well.
Then the boys ran straight into town,
over a mile distant, and sought sur
geon, who dipped the injured members
in ammonia before dressing them. I'm
agine the pain of such burning bath!
A young Australian lady was one day
walking along the street, when she saw
a dirty and wretched looking tramp to
whose leg a venomous snake had affixed
itself.
After killing the reptile with her para
sol she borrowed his pocket knife, cut
the trousers away from the wound, and
then, cutting a cross upon the bite itself,
applied her lips to it and sucked the
poison away. The tramp's life was
saved at the sacrifice, perhaps, of some
dainty scruples.-Youth's Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
A Map Of Telegraph Poles.

Mr.. George Ryley, superintendent Of
construction in the Western Union Tele-
graph company, has a most peculiar and
valuable portfolio in his possession. 1t is
made up of fac similes of all the telegrs ph
poles in the sixth district, which comprises
the states of New Jersey, Maryland and
that portion of Pennsylvania east of the
Allegheny mountains. Each pole is per-
fectly reproduced in pen and ink, showing
the number of crossbars, together with the
different wires attached, each of which is
numbered.
The book is an invaluable assistant to
Mr.. Ryley from the fact that when there
is trouble with any of the wires in the dis
trict, 1t is an easy matter for him to direct
a lineman to the spot in need of repair in a
very short space of time. When the report
comes to the main Office that a wire is
down at some point between two telegraph
stations, the exact locality of which is un-
known, MIR. Ryley turns over the leaves Of
his book and locates the exact spot in a
minute.-Philadelph Record
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10

He also records the amount Of work done
by each picker, and so regulates the wages
paid. When a box or compartment is
filled the contents are sacked by the tender,
the picker holding the sack. Every hand
full is carefully inspected, and woe be to
the picker who has slighted his work and
dragged off leaves, stems and hops rsck-
lessly. Once sacked there is no more han
ding Of the product in the field, and wag-
ons haul the yield TO the great barns for
storage. The setting" consisting of three
rows on each side of the box and six poles
from the end, having been completed, the
box and attendant pickers are moved for
ward and another setting" IS begun. So
with merry Jest, good natured rivalriss
and sharp repartees. the work goes on, the
pickers locking forward eagerly TO the
MONDAY meal.
Ii is one of the gala hours OF the day,
the dinner time. The brscing air OF the
hills. the pleasant exercise, the laughter
and the high spirits of the company are all
conducive 10 apDetires well calculated 70
strike terror 20 he hearts Of the house
wives. Selecting some shady spot beneath
grand old tree. or in a cluster OF woods
near sparkling waters. the table is spread
on the sod and the pickers gather around,
chatting, gossipiug and laughing as they
literally devour the feast OF goodies pro
vidsd- IN some localities where towns or
settlements are Dear the hopyards the
pickers take their own dinner. IN which
event the MONDAY meal is likely to assume
the character Of a picnic feast % which
each convri outes his or her share In any
event II : feature Of the day and the
buxom, round checked boys and girls look
forward 20 1t with pleasure.
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Not so rapturousIy do they consider it,
however, as one other period of the day
the evening. When the nimble fingers
have completed their days task of strip
ping the hops from the fragrant vines, and
supper. made healthful and pleasing by
the abundance of great bowls of bread and
milk, has been eaten, the young people
prepare for the real enjoyment of the year
For weeks and months they have looked
forward to the picking season, and an elab-
crate programme of sport is prepared in
advance, to be partaken of alike by the
workers on two or three farms if near
enough for the purpose. Each night is a
festival by itself.
On many OF the hop farms are great
barns, with luxurious lofts and wide, far
reaching beams and bins. Lanterns are
hung here and there to the timbers, and
upon an inverted hop box fiddler takes
his seat. The boys and girls, young men
and women, in homely clothes, but with
light hearts and graceful, If robust, bodies,
troop into the building, prepared for the
dance. There are no fancy figures or elab-
crate marches. Such good old fashioned
melodies rs Money Musk, Jersey Boys"
and "Down the Middle" are the fddler's
delight. His resonant voice wakes the
echoes among the rafters and startles the
swallows from their perches in the gables
as he sings out, "For'ard four" Balance
to the right" or. most delightful Of all,
"Swing yer partners an promenade all. "
The society youths of the metropolis might
find much to criticise in bearing and ges-
ture, but no swell ball on the avenue ever
awakened happier hearts. As the hours
go by the older persons who have been sit
ting around the edges of the whirling cir
Gle commence onSby one to take hand in
the fun, and at last there is scarcely foot
that is not keeping step to the music nor
hand that is not bobbing rythmically In
time with the tune
But dancing is not the only method of
passing the hours. Sometimes there is no
fiddler obtainable and games are resorted
to. With innocent abandon the boys and
girls take naturally to the kissing games, !"
and never tire of their amusement. "Post
Office" Snap and catch 'em," "Forfeits'
who that was brought up in an eastern
country neighborhood can forget them?
The delicious feints of skill or the posi-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
Didn't "oueer" the Preacher.

A clergyman well known to Buffalo peo-
pie saws that when the Lord made him he
forgot to put any pegs in his mind on
which to hang the names of acquaintances
Ke can remember faces, but not names.
He became pastor of a large church a few
months ago, and aa5er discharging his
duties long enough TO know his sheep by
sight, he was visited one evening by lady
whom he knew well, but whose name he
could net, for the life ofshim, recall. Wish
ing to be reminded of it without exposing
his ignorance, he said:
LET me see, ah-how do you spell your
name?"
To which she replied, with reproachful
dignity:
Smith"
Fora moment the clergyman wasfoored,
but he rallied quickly and escaped rebuke
by rejoining:
''Oh; then you don't spell it with yf"-
Buffalo Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
Old English HoldinrS.

Among strange conditions connected
with the subject of holdings we learn
that the town of Yarmouth was bound
by charter to send TO the sheriffs of Nor
wich hundred herrings, (which are to
be baked in twenty-four pies or pasties,
and then delivered to the lord of the
manor of East Carlton, who was to con-
vey them to the king" We are also
told that three noblemen held thirty
acres of land in town in Norfolk by
the sergeanty of carrying to the king,
wherever he should be in England, two
dozen pasties of fresh herrings on their
first coming in.
In ike manner some lands at Bishop
Auckland, and also the manor of Lock
burn, are said to be held by the bishop
of Durham by the easy service of pre-
senting falchion to every bishop on his
first entrance into his diocese.-London
Tlt-BitS.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10

bilities of chance that brought the shy
lovers together was like a providence to
their innocent hearts, and they took it as
an interference with their rights that the
crowd should applaud the eagerness with
which the swain pressed his lips to his
sweetheart's cheek in full view of the audi
ence
Songs would follow, and gathered on the
moonlt side of the building, with bunches
of odorous hop vines for couches, the sweet
if not trained voices made as delightful
music as any prima donna ever gave to
crowded opera house. To those vino heard
it it was the acme of melody. Doubtless
it was really crude and i'll rendered, but it
came from the heart. The repertoire is
not usually large one. The favorite is
likely to be 'Nellie Gray" or "Juniata."
As some sweet girl voice leads the chorus
in the latter;
Juniata, Juniata, let me linger by thy side;
Nita, Juniata, be my own sweet bride,
many young lover is likely to look with
more fervor into his sweetheart's eyes and
half whisper the words after the singer.
Gospel hymns follow, and as the moon
sinks low in the west the tenderness and
even sadness of the selection deepens
But there is work to do on the morrow.
Clear brains and quick fingers are needed,
and by midnight the lanterns are extin-
guished and the pickers have retired to
slumber-some in the barn, others in spa
cious farmhouse bedrooms, while many
wish no better resting place than bed of
hop vines, with canvas on poles above for
protection from the dew.
Invalids who for weeks have sought in
vain the presence of natures sweet re-
storer, Sleep" are sometimes able to find
blessed Inconsistencies by resting their
heads on hop pillows. But what is that to
the experience of those whose beds are
made of the fragrant vine itself, whose
nostrils drink in the potent influence of
the plant, and upon whose tired forehes.ds
beats the soporifc power as a benediction
and gift? 1t is the essence of healthful-
ness personifed, and the happy workers
who enjoy it have for naught a delight
that many would give small fortunes to
attain.
There are nearly 100, 900 acres devoted to
hop culture in the United States, about
one-half being in New York, while the
Pacific slope comes second in acreage
The rapidly increasing market for the
product, not alone in the manufacture of
beer and ale, but in many articles of food
and for medicinal purposes, continues to
make the business profitable. Those who
deal heavily in hops say that at fifteen
cents pound there Is a good return to the
farmer. At that price he can pay the pick.
ers fifty cents a day and board them; in
some cases even more
CHARLES MoREAU HARGER
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
Auueducts, Ancient and Modern.

It is the modern fashion TO assume that
the difficulties which impede the march of
progress today were unknown to the an
clients, or, at least, not appreciated at their
true value by them. In New York, we
habituagly think of the aqueducts from the
Croton valley to the city as the only ones
worth mention, of our water supply as the
Best the world has ever seen, of the diff
culties of retaining pure supply as great
eT in our case than it ever has been.
Yet other civilizations have been as care
ful of their water supply, and have spent
as much money in proportion TO obtain it,
as any city in the United States. Imme
diatelT before and long after the beginning
of the Christian era Jerusalem was sup
piled with water from the pools of Solo
mon, six miles distant. Even to the pres
ent day, 10-inch pipe conveys the water
by which modern Jerusalem is saved from
pestilence from one of these very pools of
Solomon.
Egypt has had her systems of irrigation
since prehistoric times. For hundreds of
years the chief water supply for drinking
purposes of the Delta has been drawn from
the Sweetwater canaL-New York Even
ing Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
MARRYING LITERARY MEN.
A Woman Very Ably Answers Andrew
Lang, who Says Don't Do It."

1 a woman very AMY AHoWcEs AuOHeG
Lang, who Says "Don't Do It."
Your quotation from Andrew Lang's
essay in L4ongman's Magazine headed
Don't Marry Literary Men," draws
forth few remarks from me, as fear
there are many young women who will
look upon such penny scrap writings in a
serious light.
In the first place women should know
enough to attend and conduct their own
| business undirected and unmolested by
men. Secondly, love for man does not
| necessarily mean that each and every
minute of the husbands time should be
devoted in listening to what his wife has
to say.
There come moments when woman
wants solitude, time to think and delib-
crate. And every woman who is intel
Hgent enough to think and act independ-
emily knows very well that every man
must do the same thing.
Mr.. Lang is mistaken when he thinks
it only misery to live with a literary
man. Forsooth, even were it so, would
rather by far have an intelligent person
about me, moods and all mot meaning
that all htterateurs are intelligent), than
to have the constant company of per-
son who is led by the nose like blind
mule in salt mine.
Then, too, Mr.. Lang, if he is really
studious, must know that woman today
is also deeply interested and moved by
some Of the horrible and shocking doings
of society, which are apt to make the
most intelligent of them moody also.
The average young woman imagines "a
thought put forth in dime novels and
other such literature) that "his thoughts
must be her thoughts" This is grievous
mistake, if not a malicious lie on the
part of authors who so habitually use
the expression in one way or another.
The trouble is that young people jump
into matrimony without the slightest
knowledge of each others characters
tics and natures, blindly but firmly be-
lieving that marriage settles everything
mental differences and physical weak
nesses. In fact, the average young per-
son is so mentally weakened by indus
trial worriment that mental prepara-
tions to marriage are altogether strange
to them.
The real science of a married life is
the preparation for it. Mentally, there
is no such thing as ''woman's sphere"
or ''man's sphere in life." What is right
for man to know is equally right for
woman to know, and vice versa. And
venture to say that the average woman
will never be free, mentally and physi-
cally, before she discovers this unde-
niable fact.
Conditions of today, seriously consid-
cred, no man will ever iberate woman
nor can woman liberate man. Each per-
son, with kindly feeling and consid-
Grafton for the rights of all others, must
pursue a course of self thought and
study, individual culture and personal
purity. 1t will be only when the world
becomes, through this process of self ed
ucation and self refinement, more en-
hghtened, or at least civilized, that the
average marriage will be a thoroughly
happy one, intellectually honest and
physically pure, whether husbands are
bricklayers, doctors, clerks, barristers,
htterateurs or what not.-ElenOr Metz
in New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
TelepAthN Is Unirersal.

With me suspicion has gradually
strengthened until | have scarcely any
doubt that the agency-telepathy-is
truly universal. find it certainly at
work in the land of dreams, for one
may dream of That which another per-
son is doing, or has lately done or
thought of, and commonplace instances
of this are no more to be despised on
that account than are the electric move
ments of straw. Indeed, they are ali
the more valuable. as being further re-
moved from the apparently supernatural
-Blackwood's Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
A Strange Method Of s.la.a.ioa.

OF sll the strange modes OF salutstion,
the most extraordinary Is the dance OF
ceremony current in the West Africa n
kingdom OF Dahomev. Whenever any
Dahoman chief or Official Of RANK comes 70
paw you a visit he always opens the inter
view By dancing around you with various
queer contoFtions extremely suggestive Of
his having just upset a kettle OF boiling
water over has knees which you are bound
20 initiate a. closely As possible
Il : even reported-wIth whEt truth
cannot say-shst one Of the native minis
ters Of the terribis King Gezu owed his
rapid rise az the Dahoman court wholly %
his superior skin in cutting these strange
capers. ard that he thus literally as vel s.
fEuTztively jumped 10 prsfsTEsat--DsvSs
Kar IN Nav Tsrk Eao>h
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-10
Perfume in Planfa

A German botanist, Mr.. Regel. has
made public the result OF his researches
as to the causes Of the perfumes Of
plants. and the factors which diminish
or increase them Light and heat nat
urally play very important role. Dark
ness prevented the development of per-
tume IN flowers of which the buds were
only slightly advanced when submitted
to Its influence. and even the plants
whose flowers exhaled perfume only at
night, lost their odor if compelled TO live
IN continued darkness"