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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-06
A Telegraph Operators Kindness.

at isn't often that telegraph operator
stops TO think of the message he receives
or sends" said an old operator. "They
are all OF size to him But / renem-
Der one night during the late war felt
my eyes moisten-yes, moisten-as !
read the following to Senator Fessenden:
My son is sentenced to be shot tomorrow
morning at 8 for sleeping at his post
VIII you kindly see President Lincoln
at once and intercede till / can reach
Washington TO present evidence which
will clearly prove my sons innocence?
/ knew that if the message was com
PEELED to wait It's turn il would not reach
Senator Fessenden till too late for any
hope Of reaching the president, TO say
nothing Of getting reprieye sent 70 the
line Of battle where the son was
Il said to myself: Here is human
life hanging by thread. Shall cut the
thread by letting the message take its
turn No, | couldn't. | violated the
rules and telegraphed the solemn mes
sage TO all the hotels IN Washington til
the senator was found and the message
safe in his hands. Word came back that
Senator Fessenden had obtained the re-
prieve, and ielegrsphed the glad news
TO the poor old man up IN Maine. Lew
iston Journal
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AMATEUR EXPRESS ROBBERS.
4 Slight Clew Leads to Their Arrest an
Recovery of the Booty.

a Slight Clew Leads to Their Arrest and
Recovery of the Booty.
That was beautiful piece of detectivt
work by which the three men who robbed
an express car on the Georgia Central rail
road recently were run down and run in
The amount taken was 81, ,474 Is and gold
watch. The watch and 81, 31s.37 were re
covered and the robbers were in Jail in five
days after the officials took the case.
And it ell came about because the rob
bers got in lime car to ride to the place
for the robbery, and thus got lime on THEN
clothes and lantern. Harve Bedford and
Billy Grim, Atlanta detectives, found the
lantern at Golfers station, where the rob.
berry was perpetrated, with lime on it
With this clew Detective Jackson, of the
Southern Express company, and Marshall
Harris, of Forsyth, and Wooster, of Macon
Boon spotted one man. This was "news
butcher" named Thornton, who had asked
a freight brakeman named Taylor for q
free ride to Atlanta, and when refused had
got into the lime car
Marshal Harris, of Forsyth, had mean
while found negro at Forsyth, who had
beat his way home from Macon that night
and he had seen the three men and taken
particular notice of the fact that as be
came near them in the night one of them
hastily concealed a lantern under his coat.
Now lantern is too much of an everyday
affair for negro to swear to when he saw
1t only in the night, but why should tn.
man conceal iti And why should Thorn
ton and his tramp companions have Ian
terni The three man hunters conferred
and their verdict was pinch Thornton"
1t was soon discovered that Thornton
had reached his home in Forsyth before
daylight after the robbery and had not left
his house next day. Also that his clothes
had lime on them. He was ''pinched" and
"squealed" at once-acknowledged every
thing and gave up all he had. The next
arrest was that of Horton Hiswife broke
down at once, and at his suggestion sh
took 81, 300 from the mattress and handed
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Nature HOodooed Him.

In the odorous "ofice" of one of the
east side "hotels," in the midst of an
interested group of co-lodgers, fellow
was airing his grievances against ma
ture recently. Talk of red hair or
freckles or cross eyes or bowlegs or
crooked noses," he said, s. they, one or
all, may be inconvenient, they may be
useless, but they are blessings, yes, sir,
blessings compared to my Adams ap-
ple.' An Adams APPLE sir, is natures
kick-her slap in the face-a camel's
back on small scale in a mans throat
Brains, sir, talent, genius-nothing will
atone for it. 1t is frost, and it never
thaws. | might have been anything l
desired but for my hunch throat, but
who could be persuaded that man with
an Adams apple attached to him for life
could be anything but freak?'-New
York World.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-06
How Plasterers Do without a Doctor.

Every trade has its special physic.
This is true. In conversation surgeon
remarked that few things gave more
pain, attended with so much danger, as
some particles of lime dust in the eye.
A gentleman standing by remarked:
"And yet such an accident is of daily oc-
currence, is attended with hardly any
danger, and is most easily treated. :"
"How so? came o chorus of voices.
"Well, will tell you. was brought
up to the trade of a plasterer, ceiling
plasterer. You may not know that the
final layer upon good ceiling is almost
pure lime. The plasterer stands upon a
platform and lays on the paste. It falls
upon him in every direction, and, espe-
cially if he is new hand, often splat-
ter falls right into his eye. When he
gets accustomed to the work the eyelid
seems to get used to it, too, and seems to
close automatically in self defense.
Directly such an accident occurs a
fellow workman takes a mouthful Of
water from the nearest pail-and there
is always pailful of water handy-opens
the eye as wide as possible and squirts
with all his force the contents of his
mouth against the eyeball. This i'm
mediately cools the lime and also drives
it out of the eye. Simple remedy, isn't
it, and eminently practical? But you
see mans eye would be burned out
long before he could reach the nearest
doctors. New York Recorder.
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THE MOUNTED POLICE.
A Talk with One of the Lads Who LO
Afrer EviIdoers in Canada's Northwes

| A Talk with One of the Lads who Look
After Evildoers in Canada's Northwest.
If a squad of the Canadian mounted
police were suddenly to appear on Broad
way in their gaudy uniforms they would
| make quite a sensation. These strap
ping fellows are scattered all over the
Canadian northwest in barracks at the
principal settlements. They number a
thousand, are splendidly mounted and
are quite a feature in the life of the
northwest territories. Half dozen of
them may always be seen at the more
important stations on the line of the
Canadian Pacific railroad, where they
form quite an attraction for tourists, un-
til they cease to be novelty.
Their uniform is one of the gaudiest
ever donned by police force. On their
heads they wear a black fat cap much
like a skull cap, with broad yellow
border, and leather strap fastened to
its sides and resting on their chins.
Their jackets are bright red, with a
profusion of gilt buttons, and their trou-
sers are black, with broad yellow side
stripes. They always wear spurs and
generally belt full Of cartridges, and
make quite a striking appearance.
"Our life is not such very easy one, y
said one of them the other day. "To be
sure we do not drill much, except in the
early part of our service, but we have a
good deal Of barrack work to perform,
and every little while we are sent on a
hunt after horse thieves or other crimi-
mails, or down south to the Indian reser-
vation TO settlesome little trouble among
the Indians"
''Do you wear this uniform when you
are chasing horse thievesf" the police
man was asked. Your red jackets
must advertise your presence on these
fat prairies as far as the eye can reach. !"
''Oh. no" he replied. When we are
of on hunt for criminals, we dress en-
tirely in black. Sometimes we are gone
for two or three weeks on this service.
Occasionally we take q weeks rations
with Us, but we DO not ike to burden
ourselves on a rapid march with heavy
haversacks, and when possible we rely
for food upon any settlements which lie
in the direction ws are taking. As a
rule. we are successful IN catching Grim
inals. even when they have some days
the start OF Us. On these great plains
they cannot conceal themselves as they
might in I'm mbered countries. and. more
over, they ind it necessary 20 visit some
settlement or ranch for food. and If they
appear at any town the telegraph IS quite
sure TO put Is on their track
The pay OF tie Canadian mounted po-
lice Is thirty dollars month ard found
They first enlist for period Of hve
years, and the government l. glad 10 -
enlist them for three years longer az adj
varced pay. Some Of re northwestern
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her profession and the confidence which
erring women would naturally place in a
woman physician too horrible to write of.
Her recent arrest is merely the culmina-
ton of an international career of crime.
She is said to have been mixed up in the
vile scandal involving the names of Lady
Colin Campbell and Sir Charles Dixie,
which startled London and was the sub
ject of world wide gossip, and to have been
the prime mover in many shady and noto-
rious transactions. Reports say that four
separate charges of murder will be brought
against her in Denver.
''Sister Beatrice May" is New York city's
contribution to the quintet She is now
serving a sentence for raising money by
fraud. She used the holy cloak of religion
to help her in her swindling. Dressed as a
nun she solicited money for "St. Stephens
Guild" a mythical mission by which she
alone benefited. Hundreds, and perhaps
thousands, of dollars were given TO her by
charitably disposed people who were de-
ceived by her religious garb. Her real
name is Mary Z. Oliver. She, too, has a
wide reputation. In 1879 she sued United
States senator, who was alleged to have
fallen into her tolls, for breach Of promise
of marriage. She was beaten.
Minnie May is the leader of Chicago's by
no means small band of female pickpock-
cts. To the police she is known as the
"queen of the dippers" She is only twenty
two years old. vet she has been arrested at
least seventy five times and has stolen many
6hOussn1S of dollarS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-06
Evidence Of the SIMS Variability.

We cannot rest with the assumption
that, since the sun is evidently no Mira
and no Sirius, therefore it is practically
an unchanging radiator which for an in
definite period will continue to cause
the earth to bloom In the benefcent eff
fulgence of its life inspiring rays. A sun
may affect the welfare Of its planets
either through the gradual mutations
which it undergoes in the course of its
evolution, or through the more rapid
and violent changes that characterize
the stars that are ranked as variable
We have seen that most of these latter
belong to the third and fourth classes,
but there is reason to suspect that the
majority of all the stars are variable to
slight degree. and evidence of varia-
bility in the case of the sun is furnished
by the phenomena of sun spots.--G. P.
Serviss in Popular Science Monthly.
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make herself criminal she puts a vim
and an enthusiasm into her work that Is
beyond the capability of most men. She
reaches the bottom of the moral hill sooner
and she gathers more mire in the descent
than the average man could, even II he
tried.
1t is comparatively easy for a human
being born with pretty face, soft voice
and the possession of those many outward
attractions which help to make the fair
sex the object of especial consideration and
alteration, to bamboozle and undo other
human beings. A woman has more op-
portunities to deceive than a man has.
Every man fairly begs her to fool him and
cheat him and send him to the dogs.
Moreover, wickedness is more profitable to
the woman who makes it her stock in
trade than it is to the man. She is subtle
and seductive. He is clumsya and suspicion
provoking. And when a woman closes
her heart to things that are good it be-
comes steel A mans, be he ever so wicked,
might soften. A woman's, never.
These facts have been brought before the
public attention recently with great force.
The newspapers have been full of reports
of the doings of wicked women. Five may
be selected as samples.
OF the five, a female doctor who calls
herself Mime. Astle and lives in Denver
affords the most vivid and appalling pic
ture Her real name is Georgia Short
house, and the crimes which have at last
landed her in prison consist of abuses of
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A Policeman and His Friend.

Octavia street, San Francisco, is partly
policed by cat-slightly so, that is. The
cat is spoken of as 'Fanning's partner" !"
John Tanning being the big Irish officer
who patrols Octavia street north of Bush
during the night hours.
Five years ago" says Officer Tanning.
"I found this cat. then a kitten, 'meouw-
ing with cold in doorway, and out of
pity helped it with a warming in my coat.
Every night since that time that kitten
(but it's now whalin big tomcat) has met
me there and staid with me for the night
When l was away two weeks Tom pretty
near went distracted, for he would not as
sOciate with the officer who took my place
He knows the duties of the place, too, /
tell You.n
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Til 1870 France held the suprems con
trol q the peace q the world 10 sword
could Is unsheathed IN Europe without
her consent. Napoleon III va the great
srbiser. A frown from him darxeusd
the horizon TIE day after hs erpfesssd
regret % Baron Hglner - lot beinz
IN acoord with Austria. ths stock sE-
changes were n panic. and Austria
and Prussia concluded . h1Efy peace -
fore ths master had time O. stoag dis-
safisfactioa- Hincs the war = 100 this
role has ceased % belsnz - Franos
Germany h2s uEaTpsd lf as4 her cizl@
. i IL what has rseo ne car. VIA
remains alone. EfriviaE ~ Eis ss.iberxts
isoiAtioa % neztTAllzs ths u1TsiooEss
supremacy q Germany, ailDElng FrEres
70 render hifa apparent hoEags n or3SF
% snph4sszs his attitude. bss really
knowing himself % - oa-oaed - irsro0-
Dshty a. long a. BE- rer1sfns outHies fhs
allied empires De BloEitz IN HzrperG
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A purou. HON. in the sou.hw...

Into the face Of one q tie low VERT
cal earth walls Of the broken land tie
homemaker cuts hole as a Yankee
farmer digs a cellar for hillside barn.
Though rarely larger than 10 0y II feet
on the bottom. these ceilsriiss holes ar.
sometiues y BY y. with the depia q
the hole a. nnch AZ OF feet. and some
times ls By / ) large. with the long Eay
q the mole lying along the troas - the
natural earth sal
The digging competed, trees are CIT
70 furnish logs for brsildsng - tie front
Il the home, aud foz uss - rafters
plzg i = foot or 80 spart oveT the sgI
The limbs q TIE trees. wilh some lOaZ
gZAss from = moist place, Z sLy car ~
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territories are very anxious to become
provinces, but even when this change in
their form of government takes place it
is probable that the system of mounted
police will be continued for many years
yet. The territory they police is enor-
nous, and so long as it is thinly settled
no other means of preserving the peace
and bringing criminals to justice is
likely to prove so economical and ef-
fective.
Many of them re-enlist at the end Of
their term of service. They are all tall,
well developed fellows and fine speci-
mems of manly health and vigor. Most
of them like their way of living and are
particularly proud Of their horsemanship
and of the fine animals provided for
them.-New York Sun.
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Natural Soda Water rounta,n..

N some parts of the Colorado desert
water boils up from springs, which are
surrounded by circular hillocks of car
Donate of lime from four to eight feet
n height. the material of which has
seen deposited from the flowing fluid
Che latter is so highly charged with gas
ast it is very difficult to keep corks in
titles filled with it. 1t seems queer to
find in such a desolate country real soda
water fountains supplied by nature
Sirups are not offered TO order. unfortu-
lately, The lime deposited on the rocky
shores was contributed by such springs
"a these, bubbling mp from what was
then the bottom of the lake.
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Fath.r nfIhirtr.nr. chnhr.n.

When pessimists descant on low birth
rates and unsatisfactory increase Of popu-
lation they should have their attention
called to Canadian instance. The Rev.
Abbs Plinguet, cure of Isle du Pads, ia
Lower Canada. who has just died, was the
son Of French Canadian farmer, who had
no less than thirty-fivs children. This
record it would be hard 70 beat outside of
polygamous countries. Mr. Plinguet's =
first wife brought him twenty seven and
his second brought him eight. one Of the
first family reached the age Of ninegY-four
and the able, who was the eldest of the
second family, was eigbty-ope. Only oDs
Of the whole number now survives, an Of
cial Of the Montreal co1rt house He il the
youngest Of all-No. 81-and has reached
the age OF seventy-tT0.
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A Remarkable Pig.

A newly married lady who recently grad
uated from Vassar college is not well
posted about household matters. She said
to her grocer not long since:
81 bought three or four hams here
couple of months ago, and they were very
fine. Have you any more like them"
Yes, ma'am." said the grocer, there ara
ten of those hams hanging up there"
Are you sure they are all of the sans
pig?"
"Yes, ma'am."
Then rn take three of them" ."-Texaa
SiftingS
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REVELATION.
Perehance insOme far after time.

Perchance in some far after time,
When we to nobler stature grown
Shall learn TO make our lives sublime,
For Gods and Truths dear sake alone
The solemn use of grief shall die.
And Joy regain her ancient grace,
And meath a nearer, ampler sky,
With ife's sad mysteries face to face
With passionless Wisdom we shall talk.
And learn of Sorrows darkest lore,
And in the light Of knowledge walk
Forever end forevermoreG
The sure result of time is change,
And Change her endless gamnt rings
Things that today ace new and strange
Tomorrow are forgotten things.
The slow mutations Of the years.
The growth Of peace, the lapse OF Strife
May solve the problem of our tears.
The dark and speechless Sphinx or Hfel
The grief that walls not on the lips.
The keen, slow pang Of spiritual pain,
Some angel of the Apocalypse
Shall make its solemn meaning plain.
Well, let it passl We live our lives,
We dream our dreams! then slip away.
A lustier race springs up and thrives,
Nearer to Truths immortal dayi
Circle on circle evermore
Our little waves Of being swell,
Gather and break against the door
OF Deaths eternal citadel
New York Ledger.
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rhey Wan. the White Mountains.

A very curious case is the claim made
by the heirs of one Gilman Hook to
the ownership of the White mountains
and tract known as Beams Purchase" T"
General Benjamin F. Butler is their Rttor-
ney, and their title is straight enough, but
lapse of time may prove fatal to their
claim. George III granted the tract to
James Wiley, and he conveyed it to
Charles w Bean, he to Alpheus Bean, he
TO William E. Evans, and he 10 Gilman
Hook, Dec. Il, 1885. The destruction OF
the court house in Coos, y. H., by fire
broke the chain of title aud the heirs have
been many years in getting il complete
But General Butler says it is good, and
present holders of the land are in guam
nary
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-06
A Timely Turtle Story.

At Berlin. Conn. the other dsY Erastus
North caught turtls which was first cap
tured By his father bali a century Azo
TIE following letters are carved on the
shell. IL J. Lamb. A. s. T. y. $50 +"
The Initials "a. 5" mean Alo>rs Sander
son. who IS stiil living in Durham. Ar.
Lsrab and TIE original Erzstus North are
dead Witness are LIVING who can To-
tify that the three Trea referred to marked
the turtle a. above 10 ls4o and then per-
mifted L 70 20 free
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Trials Of sudden Wealth

Mrs. Gaswell-It just makes me mad,
Here | go out shopping in my 5000
Worth dress. and Just loaded with diz-
monds, yet folks think I'm poor.
Mr.. Gaswell-They does:
Mrs. GaSwell-YeS. they do. wen:
into Antique, Design 6 Cos grand
store today 10 get some furniture for the
new house. and at first they didn't show
me anything but lot of old second
hand stuff that looked as if 1t had come
over in the ark.-New York Weekly. :.
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Josh RRASSNEII

it over The third man, Brasswell, played
innocent till confronted with his pals, then
all acknowledged their guilt and gave the
particulars
Ii was evidently their first crime and
they swear it shall be the last. They
dashed into the express car. grabbed what
they could. jumped out while the train was
running at pretty good speed. but escaped
with few bruises and divided the swag
in the woods Now they are booked for
some years in the coal mines or convict
camps, and the devil could not wish them
worse
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Sitting.

The late General B. F. Kelley received
the first wound of the war at the battle
of Philippi. His blood stained vest, with
the rent in it made by the bullet, is pre-
served by Washington officer.
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MINNIE MAY-MARY KEArrNe

Not far behind Minnie May in criminal
ability and number of arrests comes Mary
Kesting. another Chicago girl. She has
been behind the bars forty-four times, but
is now enjoying herself in parts unknown
on the proceeds Of the robbery of an un-
suspectiag Detroit man. She touched
him" for S2S5. Her sister Nora is almost
as great an expert as Mary is herself Nora
has been arrested about thirty times.
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found. are used to make a rude thatch

found, are used to make a rude thatch
over the rafters, and then the sods, cut
out and carefully saved when the hole
was dug, are placed on top of the
thatch, while the earth from the hole is
heaped on top of all into a grave shaped
mound. A blanket is hing in the door
way, or the cotton from the wagon
hoops viii serve. and there is the dug
out home as cozy as the home Of q
prairie dog or a woodchuck.-John r.
Spears in Scribner's.
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DR.. Charles Macrum, Of Portland. Ore,
Is authority for the statement that the
canvasback duck can fly two miles =
minute and continue this speed for
hours. The nallard duck travels a mile
a rairy5fa
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Grossly Exaggerated.

The Belfast medical inspector, DR.. Stat.
ford, asserts that the recent sensational
statements regarding the Irish practice OF
drinking ether is gross exaggeration."
For example, instead Of 5000 gallons
forming the annual consumption about
kilres and Loch Neagh. only about l%o
gallons were sold last wear.
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A book entitled History Of Wonders
Performed at Fairs" mentions an Eng
lishman who, at the fair of st. German,
in l724, leaped over the heads of forty
people without touching one OF them.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-06

Petroleum superseded vegetable oils
for lighting purposes in India, and is be-
ing gradually driven out itself by the
electric light, owing to the peculiar fit
ness of the latter for use in hot climates.
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Eastern spoTfaaan lVTita fan assoTs-
zsnt q dos. TuNs. sse.t ~ hsar thaa
over a fhsrszra slx sr- oilea ia this -
gion svery ysar Via: DO yoz d VA
ins zus.ersS
Western Hnn.sr-ssli then - eastern
hurf~r-srsr ft-4- -r.sT hrsres --fteei SszA
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FANNING's PARTNER

The cat usually rides on the policeman's
shoulder when he's on the move and scam
pers about when he stops. When drunk
en- man comes near, Tom curves his back
and spits vehemently, with an occasional
snarl When an arrest is made he patrols
the neighborhood till Officer Tanning re-
turns from the station house. and then
shows great delight.
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Or WICKED WOMEN
When They Are Bad They
Are Worse Than Men.
FRIGHTFUL SCANDAL AT DENVER

Charges of the Most Hideous Nature
Brought Against an EngIishwoman-A
Fraudulent Nun-Record Of Two Ex-
pert Chicago Pickpockets.
There are undoubtedly more wicked men
than wicked women so far as numbers are
concerned; but if the wickedness itself
could be measured, perhaps it would be
found that there is slight difference in
the amounts placed to the credit of the two
sexes. When a woman once starts out to