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store these goods during these three
years the merchant would be under
the necessity Of paying the whole OF
the duties Immediately on their
arrival in this country and then store
them himself. Is there any class
Legislation about this1 Is there any
thing in this arrangement that looks
like loan TO the merchant OF the
amount due the government on du-
tiosf Where are all Of our defenders
OF the constitution that none Of them
are crying out against its UOlatiOni
But this is not the end OF the story
yet.
Among the imports from foreign
countries admitted 10 storage in our
customs houses upon the same terms
and conditions of other goods, are
large quantities OF wines and liquors.
This is not denied. IL has been and
still is denied, however, that any do
mestic liquors are,or have been stored
in any buildings owned by the gov
eminent Since the beginning OF the
discussion of the sub-treasury bill
this denial has been deemed neOes-
Bsry, and it has been persistently adj
hered 10. When Mrs. Diggs was
speaking in the Sixth Congressional
district in the campaign OF 1890, she
made Che statement, based upon in
formation obtained on the ground,
that the basement Of the postofhce
building at Kansas City was used for
this purpose, and this statement was
most vehemently denied. Certain
very enthusiastic Republican poll
tiCians wrote to General Duysl, col
leCtOr Of internal revenue, and asked
him If the statement was true, and
he answered most emphstiCally that
IL was not.
On the 26th day Of February we
wrote to the commissioner of internal
revenue in regard TO the matter, and
the following is his reply:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
superstitions About Eggs.

In olden times, in the French rural
districts, the parish priest would, very
early on the Easter morning. visit from
house to house, and bless each in turn.
n payment for his visit and blessing he
always received eggs, and sometimes ii
was serious question how to dispose Of
so large number. Among the French
royalty. in a similar period, baskets
trimmed with green leaves and filed
with golden eggs, after the celebration
Of high mass on Easter morning, were
brought into the kings cabinet and dis
tributed to the court by the chaplain
Indeed il was an article of faith In Nor
mandy that when the church bells ush-
cred in the Easter morn. angels descended
10 the homes where little children dwelt,
and left eggs as an assurance OF their
vlsit--EnmA GRAY IL Good House
keeping.
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CLIMBED THE HEIGHT.

Thames, and among the incidents Of that
voyage recall one at least that seems to
me even yet a littie extraordinary. Of the
Kodiak islands the mate. four other men
and myself put Off in a boat one day to
catch some halibut for a change of grub
aboard. The halibut up there are, to my
thinking, rather the best that swim, big
as barn door. pretty nearly, fat as butter,
fine favored and SO thick you can't help
believing, while catching them, that they
lie in layers down below. But if you don't
have half dozen men to tail onto the line
and haul them in you'll find that catching
such big fish in seYenty-fve fathoms of
water is far from being sport. And you've
got to get pretty close to shore for water
so shallow as that.
Well, we pulled into likely looking
place near the main island, and were just
ready to commence fishing when the mate
looked up and saw green bushes and flow
ers ashore. The sight of anything growing
in that land of ice interested us, for we had
been good year tum bling about on blue
water; so when he said to pull in and ex-
plore what sort Of place it was we gave
way with a will We ran the boat on the
beach, and leaving one man to watch her,
the rest of us climbed up the high bank to
the table land above. There we saw a
sight that fairly paralyzed those of US who
had never known before how growing
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Deaf fes.

F. G. Jefferson, of Toronto. Canada,
thus writes to The Mail of that city:
The following case has come under my
notice: A farmer married bis cousin, and
both possessed all their faculties, and
they have nine children of whom FIVE
daughters were born deaf mutes. Three
of these daughters married speaking and
hearing husbands. The first one has
three deaf mute children out Of FIVE, the
second one has two deaf mute children
ont of three and the third has one deaf
mute child out of two. This proves that
Professor Bell, of Washington, United
States, has made a mistake by publish
ing largely that the intermarrisges Of
deaf mutes bring deaf mute race, when
the fact Is that deaf mute children pro
ceed from married cousins possessing al
their faculties In the Beilevills deaf
mute school there are 30 pupils, and not
one Of them has deaf mute parents
There are many other similar cases IN
England and the States"
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SHOT BY A WATCHMAN.

ST. CHARLES, Mo-, March 1S.-Jas Hill,
day watchman of the Wabash bridge, shot
and killed tramp on that structure this
morning. The tramp was attempting to
cross the bridge from the St. Louis side
early this morning and was fired upon by
the night watchman, young Hills father
After quarrelling for some time young
Hill drew his pistol, intending to scare
the tramp, at which the latter drew
a knife when Hill fired. The ball entered
the tramp's neck on the left side
shattered the spinal column and killed
him instantly. Young Hill gave himself
up to the authorities of St. Charles county
The affair occurred in st. Louis county,
and Coroner Beber of that county held an
inquest under the bridge where the tramp
lay. The murderous looking knife was
found, and the jury brought in a verdict
exonerating Hill and holding that he acted
in self-defence. The tramp was buried in
the sand on the south bank of the river
He had nothing whatever on his person by
which he could be identified.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19

Skalful stone caryers-not sculptors,
but the men vino actually cnt the figures
and decorations On the facades or interi-
ors of buildings with mailes and chieei-
often receive from four TO SIX dollars
day in New York and Boston Aodelers
for jewelers. and makers of designs for
wall paper often receive more .aan that
In Boston ard New York good stone
carvers receive higher pay than report
er on newspapers. clerks IN business
houses or male school teachers OF the
lower grades
But who are these skilled stone carverz
and wood carvers. makers Of designs for
wall paper. modeSers in clay. bF>ss :an-
ishers and 30 on5 They are, with soEas
exceptions, Europeans They haye learn
ed how 70 do their work IN other eoua-
tries. and come here - exercise their
crafts
Formerly these more artistic trades
could not be learned IN the United
States. This il no longer the cAse- TIE
industries have been established Ia thas
country 20 such az extent tnat nearly
al Of them may be leaned hy s6e rgoceSA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
Improved Envelope Folding Machine.

Improved Envelope Folding Machine.
A new envelope folding machine pos
sesses several novel features, including
the use Of boxed or inside cams, which
obviate the necessity for springs in pro-
ducing the different movements of the
mechanicism, and thus increase the
smoothness of working and durability of
the apparatus. By means of an ingenious
adjustable appliance, the envelopes have
any desired amount of bulk or roundness
of the edges impaired to them. This
operation makes the envelope more con-
venient for use and also adds to its
strength by lessening the liability to split
at the edges.
After folding, the envelopes are trans
ferred to wired divisions on the periph-
cry of revolving wheel at the rear of
the machine, where they are dried by
currents of hot or cold air forced through
perforators in pipes coiled at the sides of
the wheel. The envelopes are afterward
dropped into race and gradually ad-
vanced to table where an attendant is
waiting to band them. All the opera
tions, from the placing Of the blanks to
the receipt of the finished envelope, are
entirely automatic, and single machine
is capable of making from 80, 900 to 40, 900
envelopes per day.-New York CONNER
cial Advertiser.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
Natural Gas in Iron Working.

among the more recent improvements
in the manufacture of iron and steel, the
use of gaseous fuel stands conspicuous
The idea of first converting the fuel into
a combustible gas, and conveying this to
the point where heat was required and
there igniting it, is a very old one, and
in one form or another, it has been EN-
ployed for over a thousand years. but it
is only within the present century that
the manifold advantages of gas as a
metallurgical fuel have become fully
recognized by the iron and steel workers
of the world. The early gas furnaces
used in Silesia, Sweden, and other Eu-
ropean countries were but enlarged
notifications of Geber's Tower of Atha-
nor, and, although they were great
improvement on the furnaces in which
solid fuel was burned on CRATE, yet
they were not able to produce tempera-
ture sufficiently high and controllable to
satisfy the demands of the rapidly de-
veloping iron and steel industries. Pop
ular Science Monthly.
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things in the arctic regions hustle them
selves in the short summer they have to
enjoy. There were ripe raspberriesl mill
ions of theml real "black eapsl'' en- every
side of us We shouted down to the man
at the boat to come up and have his share,
the which he did, and we all ate raspber-
ries until we could not hold any more.
And then, as we had nothing else to carry
them in, we pulled our shirts out loose
around us, frightened our belts and loaded
in hatfuls of berries to take aboard to our
shipmates.
When we couldn't eat Or stow away an
other berry we meandered back slowly
toward the boat, but at hundred yards
6f from her we stopped mighty suddenly.
Sitting up on his launches, on a fat rock,
right in our way and pretty near the boat,
was polar bear. Hedidn't seem, couple
of hours later, to be such very big bear,
but when we first saw him he looked
larger than house. One minute he
would stare at US as If we were remarka-
BILE curiosities to him, as he was to US, and
the next would raise his nose and sniff
in the direction of the boat as if some scent
from there interested him nightly. 1t was
nice fix for US. We had no other
weapons than our own case knives, which
of course amounted to nothing; no other
way of getting clear of the bear than
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PRrIN's DOWNFALL.

aboard the boat. which he was practically
in possession of. and he looked as if he had
stowage capacity in his hold for the whole
kit and tollick Of Us.
After while he seemed 20 make up his
mind to investigate the boat first, being
satisfied he knew all that was Immediately
necessary about Us and could scoop Us in
at his leisure. We had piled up on one OF
the seats lot of big hunks OF salt, fat pork
for bait, and when the bear struck them be
actually laughed, he was so pleased, and
smacked his lips over them ike girl eat
ing nice candy. But there were only
enough TO whet MS appetite, and when be
had finished them he went shifting and
whining about, looking for more. Pres
entity ne struck big chunk one OF the mer
had fixed OF q hook ready to heave over
board when the mate gave the order 20 pull
in. The taste the bear had got of the novel
delicacy had made him impatient for more,
and he gulped that piece, seemingly with
out noticing that il had stout chain and
a strong line attached, but his attention
WIS drawn TO its connections when ne
found the chain among his teeth and dis
covered that he couldn't bite il of
Backing suddenly out OF the boat he BE-
came aware Of the hook, that mad got Itself
mixed up among his inside works, and
uttered yen OF Surprise and rage. In,o
the boa. again he plunged. the hook PER
suading him in tha: direction. and the way
he tore her seats and gaawale with h;s
claws a2o teeth made every man Of Us won
DER bow fast ne could run il the hear saonld
start for rs. And that was lnst vs. bat the
bear did directly. That was Just W hat the
brute did. too. Is soon ss the notion catered
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BRIEFS,

1t is reported from Denver that the
Maxwell land grant, containing L, ,0OO,Oo0
acres, has been sold.
Gen. Peter A. Claasen, who wrecked the
Sixth National bank, of New York, has
been sentenced to the penitentiary for six
years
The ST. Petersburg correspondent of the
Berliner Tageblatt, the chief organ OF the
German jews, has been expelled from
Russia.
Gen Palmer was given a reception at
his old home (CarliHville. HID and
took occasion to deny that he was candi-
date for either the presidency or vice presi-
dency.
The Nebraska senate indefinitely post
poned the consideration of the 2-cent pas
senger rate bill. This kills the measure
The inmates of the Saginaw county
Mich. poor-house had narrow escape
from death yesterday during the burning
of the building
1t is said that syndicate of English and
eastern capitalists is investing in Kansas
salt mines and improved and unimproVed
lands.
The Canadian parliament has been sum-
moned to meet Wednesday, April 90
The residence of J. S. Lyon. Of Guthrie,
Ok, burned to the ground last night.
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his dun mind that we were In some way
responsible for his trouble. Twenty or
thirty feet Of the line bad been cast free by
his tearing round, and for that distance he
came toward us like . white squall, but
then he was suddenly brought up all stand
ing and tumbled over backward with .
yell that seemed As If it ought to shake
down some clouds. And such gymnastics
and ground and lofty tumbling as that bear
went through you never saw the like Of.
When We saw how short he was hove to
and made snug we began to take courags
and so nearer to pels him with the biggest
and sharpest stones we could chuck.
Honolulu Joe," big Kanaka we had
among Us, could throw a stone pretty near
ly as straight as a good marksman could
shoot with gun, and the necessity of the
occasion made Us all do pretty well. We
fairly rained stones on the head of that un-
lucky bear, until we finally knocked him
senseless, and could venture close enough
to crush his skull with rocks too big to
throw. 1t was fortunate we did not have
to depend on our knives for fight, as we
had not one that would cut through his
hide, as we found when we tried to get the
hook out of him. But his meat was tender
and sweet when we cooked it whaler fash
ion-i e., boiling it in whale oil in the try
ing out kettles. You may imagine the con-
dition of those berries around us, inside
our shirts, after we got through our stone
throwing. j. II. CoNNELLY.
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Whence came the Indian There il no
standard Of appeal and the question
could bot be decided; but there Is great
deal Of error in the orEhogrsphy and sig
MITIGATION as gwen II the Indian words.
Amicolola should be Awmiercolola.
AwIner means salt The two words wa
ter and sal. il Cnerokes are very ruuch
alike-awmier and awner. They seldom
name after person. Chatsaaoochee
means streaked rock. Al the head waters
there is variety Of white and black
rocks, stresked ruck.-Atlznta Coastitz,-
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Her Tyrant Master.

Her Tyrant Master.
With cheels aglow from kisses of the frost,
Blue laughing eyes and shining hair, wind
tossed,
She comes in breathless, bright, little late,
Fair as dream, but pitiless as Fate.
She struggles with her rubbers on the mat,
Lays by her jacket and hangs up her hat,
Pulls of her gloves, and sweetly thoughtful
stands
Beside the register, to warm her hands.
/ look up, at her soft good morning. then
/ humble morning." and lay down my pen.
And then her task begins and, like Turk,
keep her-how remorselessly-at work!
She's my typewriter yet, and I'm her ''boss,"
hear her tell the bookkeeper I'm cross"
And hard to please" Great Scott! that isn't it.
If she could only know how hard I'm hit!
Oh. yes. scold you, dear; nag and yell
Only because you please me far too well:
Also because I'd like to knock In two
The tall young fellow who walks home with
you.
Madeline S. Bridges in Puck
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of apprenticeship and in the technical
schools scattered through the country
almost every branch of industrial art is
taught.
But when one day asked large en-
ployer of skilled stone carvers how many
of his men were American born he an
swered, "Not one in ten is American
born."-J. e. Chamberlin in Youths
Companion.
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Hanna.


AIlus the way with the wimmin foxes
Prouder'n Lucifer;
Twas that way with my secont wife,
An it was the death of her.
She never gimme minnit's peace
She tuck it inter 'er head
She wanted to live in Tompkinsville~
An "be somebody" she said.
An so swapped tn OIL farm off
An went an moved to teown;
But we hadn't got RELY Strengthened up
Before the house burnt deown-
Yis-Yis-sir-ee, .ne house burnt up
Fore we'd get settled down.
Twas dredful sudden; fust knowed
In the middle of the night
The neighbors was hollerin' "Fire!"
An everything wus a-light;
An there before the lookin' glass
Wus Hammer, a-standin' still
Her mouth chuck full o. hairpins-
A prirnpin' fit tew kill.
Sez 7, 1.-The house is all afire-
They hain't no time tew spare
Gosh darn all fishhooks, Hammer,
What air you doin' there?"
Hold on" sez she. II CANT go out
Till I've did up my hair"
Sez /, ''Oh, Helen Blazes.
I'm gettin' toasted breownl
Comel git right eouten this winder
Before | sling ye deown!'
Seq she, How kin without my hoops
B'fore all the folks in teown."
WAL, there she stuck like pup 10 Eso ,
Or a coon in a holler tree.
Dancin' an yellin', Il CANT go deown
A-lookin' the way bei''
AM jumped eout, an the ruff fell in,
An that wus the last see
of Hammer.
Texas Siftings.
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
UNITED STATES SIGNAL OFFICE,
WICHITA, KAN, March Is, 1891

UNITED STATES SIGNAL OFFICE,
WICHITA, KAN, March Is, 1891
The highest temperature was 32', and
the lowest 29e, and the mean 300 with OIL
inches of rain and snow, and maximum
wind velocity of 40 miles per hour from
the north.
Local forecast for Wichita and vicinity
Clearing weather, with slowly rising
temperature; warmer Friday.
Last year on March is the maximum tenn
perature was zoe, minimum Il, mean 56a.
Two years ago the corresponding tenn
peratures were 52o, 400, 47o.
B. L. WALDRoN, Observer.
WAR DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, d. c.,
March IS, p. m.-Forecast until 8 p. m.
Thursday:
For Kansas-Fair Thursday; warmer,
easterly winds
For Missouri-Fair Thursday night,
colder, except stationary temperature In
northwest Missouri; winds becoming
souJherly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
THE WESTERN SETTLERS CHOSEN
SPECIFIC.

With every advance of emigration into
the far west a new demand is created for
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. Newly peo-
pied regions are frequently less salubrious
than older settled localities. on account of
the miasma which arises from recently
cleared land. particularly along the banks
of rivers that are subject to freshets. The
agricultural or mining emigrant soon
learns. when he does not already know.
that the Bitters afford the only sure pro-
lection against malaria, and those disor
deTs of the stomach, liver and bowels, to
which climatic changes, exposure and un-
accustomed or unhealthy water or diet
subject him. Consequently he places an
estimate upon this great household specific
and preventive commensurate with its in
trinsic merits, and is careful to keep on
hand restorative and promoter of health
SO implicitly to be relied upon in time of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
CAlJSFD BY A FANu V FetIo.

GAINESVILLE, Tex, March lS-Near
Aleck, Chickassw nation, yesterday, a
farmer named Davis was killed bv his
brother-in-law, Vaughn, also a farmer
The killing was the outgrowth of long
standing family feud. Late yesterday
evening Davis went 10 the house Of
Vaughn: The latter saw him as he ap-
preached, and divinlng that Davis meant
mischief, took refuge in the house and
fired through a window with double
barreled shotgun, killing Davis on the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
THE MISSOURI LEGISLATURE.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March 1S.-In the
house the following bills were passed:
Julian's bill in regard to the service of
writs and trial of cases; the bill to exempt
from taxation land in cities of more than
forty acres which is not plated; the bill
that girls employed in stores aud shops
shall be allowed to sit down; the bill to
protect the grangers from lightning rod
and Bohemian oats agents. The house
then went into committee of the whole on
the worlds fair appropriation bill.
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WaNIenTO APPEAR BRAVE

COLUMBUS, Ind, March IS-Sunday
night, February 10, Henry Poe when leay-
ing the residence of Asbury Richardson at
midnight, after spending the evening
with Richardson's daughter, near Edin-
burg, claimed to haue been shot through
his clothing and then cut into shreds by
by an unknown assassin, with whom he
subscribed to investigate the matter, Poe
contributing $50. Today. while the in
vestigation was progressing, Poe broke
down and admitted that he did il himself
TO appear brave in the eyes of Miss Rich
ardsoa
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BRUTAL ASSASSINATION.

PADUCAH, Ky, March 1S-lntelligence
was received here today that Peter Beggs,
former resident of Marshall county was
bTutally assassinatei near Marked Tree.
AIk-, last week. His boby was riddled with
bullets and beheaded by the asSassins- The
deed was committed while he WAS looking
after stray stock Beygs WAS known here
asa very inofiensiye man. He left d
family. His assailant escaped detection.
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The AMERICAN HOG.

BERLIN, March 18.-Owing to the untir-
ing efforts of the United States minister
here, the Hon. William Walter Phelps,
Chancellor Won Caprivi has removed the
embargo placed upon American cattle
landed at Hamburg, and it is likely that
Mr. Phelps will be able to obtain the re-
moval of the restrictions placed upon the
American hog The interview with Mr;
jeremiah NJ. Rusk, secretary of the United
States department of agriculture, in
which he is quoted AS saying that the
United States does not ask but demands
the repeal of the hog restrictions, is large
ly quoted by the hostile press, ana may
delay matters
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a RIVER TRA6EOV

MEMPHIS, Tenn, March ls-The BODY Of
Dick DUFF, fisherman. WAS found in the
river at Ashport, 100 miles above here. to-
day with the skull crushed in as if with a
hatchet. Duff's boat also floated down
and was caught, and there was blood on
the floor and signs of & struggle Charles
Mullins, Duff's partner, Is missing. and il
IS believed he murdered Daft TO get several
hundred dollars the latter had.
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THE GALLEY COURT-MARTIAL.

OMAHA, Neb, March 1s-In Capt.
Catley's court-martial case Surgeon Hart
ruff testified that Galley had asked his
opinion on his (Catley's) ability to march
with the company. He found Galley
suffering from varicose veins, but not bad
enough to prevent his going on an ordin-
ary march. Gen. Wheaton, the COM
mandant at Fort Omaha, testified that he
duty. The officers considered Catley's re-
fusal to accompany his company into the
field from Pine Ridge as a disgrace to the
regiment. The meeting adjourned till