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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

should be secured. This is essentially ,
law department. and has supervision
over vast amount of public business.
There is the general land office which
deals with every acre of the public do
main, che Office of Indian affairs which
has supervision of the wards of the ma
ton. the great patent Office, which it
self is large enough almost to be a sep
arate department of the government,
and the pension Office, which is certainly
the most complicated executive machine
the interior department and are under
the supervision of the secretary of the
interior.
You may well believe that it requires
man of great deal more than ordi-
nary ability and knowledge of affairs
to be at the head of this department,
and you may also understand without
further explanation that it is exception
ally important that he should have as
sistants of ability like unto his own.
The president was very fortunate in Sc
curing for the position of assistant sec
rotary of the interior Hon. George
Chandler, of Kansas. This gentleman
is a giant physically as well as intel
lectually, and capable of standing a
great deal of continuous hard work.
He has been on duty for over three
years, and never left his desk for sin
gle day until he went home recently to
vote. Assistant Secretary Chandler de-
votes most of his time and attention to
the supervision of the general land Of
fee and the Office of Indian affairs All
matters before both of those Offices
which are not satisfactory 10 litigants.
claimants and petitioners who are dis
gusted with the decisions of the com
missiopers. COME before Assistant Sec
rotary Chandler. who is a lnwyer OF ST.
perior ability and was formerly Judge
upon the bench Ia Kansas. lie has
been obliged TO work beth day and
night, considering and decking such
cases.
The government Of this country is
getting to be an unusually large affair.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

The slowness of the German savant
to comprehend the quips and turns OF
American humor are traditional, but
according TO Rev. DR.. Grif1s company
of them was actually pu: TO the test
BY an American consul stationed in a
German city The consul, 10 prove tho
truth Of the tradition, read 10 them
Mark Twain's declaration that lit is
not possible to raise watermeious in the
vicinity of theological seminary"
The Germans, pressed to explain the
meaning of that. were only able to re-
ply that they could not see why the
waternelous would not grow If the
seeds were healthy. the soil rich, and
the seminary buildings did not shads
the melon patch" There is the same
ponderos;ty about German humor that
characterizes their philosophy and lit
erature What the scalpel eanno. be
applied to is likely TO escape them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
A CALIFORNIA CURIO.
Chemical Properties Of a Spring
That Makes tho Hair Grow.
Tho Strange Discovery OF . Bsld-HeaAed
Old Man whose Scalp Was Made to
Produce . Generous
Growth.

The spring is about thirteen mikes
little valley branching from the Sweet
water. Standing on the little mound out
of which the waters gush you can see
Mount San Miguel to the east, to the
southwark Swestwater lake, and off in
the west a range of low hills which
just shuts off the view of the Pacific
ocean. And if you follow the road q
little farther north you will find your
self among the olive and lemon groves
of the Sweetwater and Spring valleys.
The tiny valley is part of the old Span
ish "Jamacha" grant, and had passed
through many and romantic episodes
before it made known the powers of its
little spring. Underlying its soil and
but few inches below the surface
there is an immense cement deposit,
highly impregnated with iron, arsenic,
sulphur and magnesia, and it is sup
posed that the waters get their chemical
qualities by percolating through this
cement bed and dissolying its ingredi-
ents-
The first person TO discover the virtue
OF these waters says the Chicago Inter
Ocean, was an old man named Jepsen,
who in 1855 lived on an adjoining claim
and carried water for domestic pur-
poses from this spring. He was then
seventy-three years old, his head was
perfectly bald on the crown. and what
hair he had was thin and scattering. In
few weeks a thick growth of hair
started up all over his head. and his
son, who is now a merchant on K street
in San Diego. says that he had to cut
his fathers hair many times during
their residence on the ranch. At the
time they regarded this growth of hair
as an unaccountable phenomenon. and
did not think of attributing it to the
waters of the spring until they learned
of its effects upon other people.
At about the same time Charles Fitz-
allen, another bald man. nearly sixty
years old. was living on the ranch and
regularly using the spring water. In
about two months time he found a new
growth of hair covering his head. which
ne says is as soft aud luxur,ant as it
was in his youthful days.
DIR. 2. c. Remondino. DR.. Thomas L.
Magee and DR.. T. A. Davis. all prom
inent San Diego physicians and
members Of the board OF health
OF that city. have investigat-
ed the spring and its cures and
have reported as follows to your cor
respondent: 'sThe water Is alkaline,
ferruginous. sulphurretted. and arsen-
zeal. and from the evidence brought be-
fore US we must acknowledge that It has
made hair grow on scalps where it had
been entirely lost OF this vFe have hac
several examples on persons whom we
have known for a number OF years and
who. until the use of said waters had
given up all hope of ever again having
a full head of hair
Most Of the people IN San Diego vino
known anything about this spzaSg viii
simply laugh and say. ''NozscEseT II
you ask them abou. itS hairsraissng
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
How Fresh should Fresh Egg. Be.

How comes it that English people,
who would not think of drinking milk
of the day before yesterday, will yet eat
eggs that are fortnight old or more?
The question is propourded by Edward
Brown of the Durham College of Sci
ence. Mr.. Brown declines to eat eggs
that are more than three days old and
he bids us observe that an egg to be
worth eating should be absolutely
fresh. The root of the evil. however. is
not the egg eaters Indifference to quail
ity, but simply the difficulty of getting
farm produce to market. Mr.. Brown
declares that while in continental coun-
tries there is a perfectly organized sys-
tenn of collecting eggs and sending them
away there is in this country no system
whatever for this purpose. 1t is easier
to bring eggs from Normandy into
Northumberland than to get them from
thirty miles away in the country.-Lon-
don News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
A GALLANT AMERICAN.

His Intrepidity Recognised and Praised
by Leading English Journal.
We recently published an account
medal to Lieut. Huddleston. of the In
dian marine. says tho London Globe,
for 1.-The braves deed of year." and
have since received particulars of an
equally gallant attempt to save life
made by the American champion long
distance swimmer. In the winter the
steamship Tangier, OF Philadelphia,
had an eventful voyage from Santiago de
Cuba, and sad accident occurred while
the vessel lay at Fort de France. Mar
Unique. The second engineer, J. Nc
Farland, well known in Philadelphia,
went into the water TO battle, and being
seized with cramps gave Shrek and
disappeared.
As there were several sharks in the
vicinity. every body hesitated before go
ing to his rescue, but j. B. Johnston,
the champion long-distance swimmer.
of Philadelphia, one of the crew Of tho
Tangier. jumped overheard, fully
dressed, and for an hour continued to
dive for the body. He finally rescued
it, after desperate conflict with two
of the man eaters, in which he had to
use his sheath knife to ward off their
ferocious attacks. Both Johnston and
the drowned man were bitten in sew
cal places Mcfarland was greatly re-
spected by his shipmates. and was
buried with full naval honors. tho
French authorities of Martinique send
ing forty officers and six sailors. in full
uniform, TO attend the funeral The
coffin was covered with wreaths from
the American and British residents
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
THE WOMAN WHO EATS.
She Outrivals tho Anaconda on His Bes
Days.

She Outrivals tho Anaconda on His Best
Days.
Have you ever seen her-the woman
who eats? unkindly asks the Philadel-
phia Times If not you should. for
outside of a museum nothing so remark
able ever was seen.
She generally lives at a hotel run on
the American plan. and evidently feels
IN duty bound to take everything on
the bill of fare in order to get her
moneys worth.
It never occurs to her to skip one sim
gle thing, yet every meal she studies
the menu with an interest as absorbing
as though she were only to be allowed
one portion, and that one she was de-
termined to have the best.
When this exhaustive survey is fin
ished, she leans back in her chair. looks
up at the waiter in attendance with a
coy, sweet smile, and says: 81 will COM
E1ence with oysters"
If there were anything ahead of
oysters for her to begin on she would
do so, for she is systematic feeder. and
will go on religiously through soup,
f5h, entrees, roasts. vegetables. salads
cnd desserts until the weary waiter con-
Edes to sympathetic confrere that it is
lis private opinion that she is the India
rubber girl.
When at last the finishing sip of coffee
las been swallowed she dips her fingers
Il the bowl of water near at hand.
gathers up what she has not eaten of the
fruit and passes ont LEAVING the wa tar
TO wonder at the appetite of creature
that looks above such mundane peculi-
arities, yet who leaves enough soiled
dishes and crumbs in her wake to es-
tablish forever her reputation as per-
former who would make her mark if an
eating contest were ever arranged.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

A scsooabog's composition os The
Editor ran A. follows:
The editor il one of the ksppses. IN
dividuals "a the world He e@n 20 %
snv circus IN the afternoon zsd even
ing without pairing penny. also 20 io~
quests and hanglngx Has free tickets
10 iheascrs. gets wedding esxs sent
him. snd some tinss gets licking. bus
ret often. for BE can iAxs thiszs harA
IN tsse next isssr. which ne generally
dos isaiIe os her folks have 20 20 IN
tsst early. r. ss5ssor can k.s sp ists
every night ard 80 al that - gssaz ca
When an. Hsan ! zDe@n - Dc az ell
isor. ~ that IA stsy vsss late A. nls~sI
Thzf v~igs ~ iasl. -ssrkre Bl-e=.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

in the actual responsibilities of the adj
ministration, but arc mere automatons
who are reliable more or less according
to their ancestry and training, but
have no knowledge of political orders
and affairs outside of the little circle in
which they live. The assistant secre-
taries and the assistant postmasters-
general are the men who really run the
business ends of the departments. The
cabinet officers are at the head Of their
institutions more nominally than really
so far as the actual workings of their
departments are concerned, because it is
absolutely impossible for them to learn
the details of the various bureaus Of
the great executive departments within
the brief space of four years. Their as
sistants attend to all matters of detail,
and often act as temporary heads Of the
departments. Only matters which
come to the secretaries on appeal. mat
tiers of appointment and matters con-
corning land and Indian affairs and
pensions which cannot be finally decid-
ed by the assistants are brought to tho
heads of the departments for adjudica-
ton. They act, in reality, in the exec
peal acts in the world of jurisprud-
ence.
President Harrison was unfortunate
in his selection of a commissioner Of
pensions in 1889; not that he selected
bad man, or a weak man, but that he
selected a man who was too aggressive
in his work to suit the secretary of the
interior. The result was that the de-
cisions of Corporal Tanner were over
ruled by the secretary and there was q
general rumpus and a row, which re-
suited in Tanners resignation. The
president was equally unfortunate in
the selection of a commissioner of In
dian affairs. He appointed to that i'm
portant Office man who believed in
giving the Indians liberal education
and sectarian religion, first and fore
most and above all other things. Sec
rotary Noble once said to me, very
plaintively: eff there were starving,
ignorant Indian before him, Commits
sioner Morgan would give him educa-
ton and teach him the Lords PRAYER
first, and give him breakfast after
wards" That reductio ad absurdum
fifty epitomizes the character and dis
position of the commissioner of Indian
affairs, man who is SO highly edu-
Gated that he has become narrow
man who cannot obliterate
from his ascetic brain the idea that j.
Fenimore Cooper's romantic Ind ians
were real specimens Of the American
aborigine.
President Harrison made very few
in selecting his assistants; but
the errors which he did make were con-
spicuous. SMITH d. FRY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
BOY AND LION.

Remarkable AdvestaSs Of . Ten-Yeop~
Old hey IN The CssossdS M~oss.ins-
1.-The most remarkable adventure I
know Of was that Of . teD-ysarold boy
in Colorado" said Rienxi EessehAmp 70
Globe-Dernocrat writer. "A party OF
as had gone from Pueblo for . weeks
hunting and Gshing along The ArkansaA
river.
Eve carried tents and eamped out
A man named Brittcs bad bis young
son with him, . manly little fellow.
who could lasd . trout and bring down
1T antelope with the bes, Of us Ops
day he got separated from The party.
Lost his way. and spsnt the night in ths
mountains
HE had with him . Ehirsy-ea9ht-cai,-
Der rife. . good weapon far smaL
game, but Ia the action whRre we
were eanped mountain lion. wuo
plentiful
His father was weii-nigh Distracted
and we searched All night ions fos the
adventurous yolngsser without swat
just 1T sanup we started 20 return "a
camp.
As We descended ravine We ttcov-
cred the object OF our search sesunf
asleep with his head pfilowes1 on IN
enormous mountain boa. which WA
curied up g. though enjoying . zap
''TaTee Of us approached esutsouzly 70
within Fifty yards. drew . bead ca The
animal. and a, gwen signal fred The
brute never stirred
he boz. whom we snpposed dead.
half rose. rubbed his eyes. and inquired
p>erishl-: What are ron fei,ers trim
t'do7 / Killed this yere Ion foax bou-s
ago"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
THE ROSES DID II.
Row . Bear Was Transformed Into &
Peaceable and Likeabie Man.

Row . Bear Was Transformed Into q
Peaceable and Likeabie Man.
It was quite early in the forenoon
but Twenty-third street was already
flled with the wise matrons and virgin.
who do their shopping before the
crowd gets out" says the New York
World. The flower boys were Offering
punches of roses and chrysanthemums
in manner suggestive of demanding
ones money or ones life, waving them
wildly IN tho faces of possible custom.
ers obstructing the way and yelling
prices in deafenin& tones
Through tho crowd he and she were
making their way, and they were not
having q pleasant time. He was an
noyed at being suddenly dragged off to
look at silk breakfast sacques in one
window and art linens in another. And
he was saying so after the unpleasantly
frank fashion OF gentlemen who have
been married since June.
you didn't talk like this last spring, +"
she reminded him, tactfully.
You didn't drag me about like this
last spring." he growled 81 tell you
don't care what you buy. won't go
with you"
"you promised to help me select my
winter cloak. You know / want it to
to please you"
20, hang it! Anything VIII please
me. You bought winter cloaks long
enough without my assistance. L"
Here one Of the flower boys thrust
bunch Of yellow roses in front of the
scowhng face and shouted: "Roses,
roses, thirty-fve cents bunch"
sect out. don't want any," growled
the gentleman
Maybe your young lady does" re-
marked the boy, impertinently.
And then a curious thing happened
For the gentleman suddenly looked at
his young lady" and discovered, appar-
emily, that she was stin that. And she
looked at him with glance that she
still wished to be. Whereupon roses
We're purchased from the impertinent
little boy, and the GROWER was led
meekly away to buy winter cloaks.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
Hard Pushed for d Nam.

The proprietors of the new town site
at the mouth OF the Columbia. on the
Oregon side. offered one hundred dollars
for the best name for the future great
city that is to eclipse Portland end all
other great cities of the coast, saws the
Seattle Times. Two or three hundred
names were suggested out of which the
owners finally adopted tina. Of Ter
mania" If the word has any meaning
ut all, it is that Of "Thrice-madness"
- "Three-t;mes-nad.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

The oldest herearinn in the world Is
in the Egvyselogist museum at Cairo.
and consists of an inconspicsions coilec-
ton OF dried portions of plants These
portions ri plants ard hov1ers we're
taken from the xreafEss ard garlands in
the eof1ns with E1unrnieS. where Their
were placed ~ the sneien. Egyptians
- death ofEesinRA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23
MISS LEADING.
A MisdeneAnor.

Dinkelspiel-Youkn know dot Hoffhein.
dot great talker? lie vos arrested yes
tereay.
Guggenheim-For vots
Dinkelspiel-He vcs maxim q sbeech
te crowd on de CORNER. undt bo-
hceman took him in for HAHN chin
mill ohen on Snndav-N v SaraiA
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and it produces vast amount OF pus1-
ness The minor machines. the clerks in
the various divisions of the different bu-
reaus of the great departments, are un-
der the direction Of chiefs of division
who are set over them TO carry out the
orders of the assistant secretaries, who
represent the secretaries themselves.
The men and women who handle pens,
and the chiefs of division who are over
them, do not amount to great deal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

properties. Their scepticism, however,
is based solely on broad, general prin-
ciples, and no case was found in which
it was duo to personal knowledge. But
San Francisco chemist who analysed
tho water made this report: IF there
is anything in that water to make HAIR
grow a,Nberal application Of apollinaris
to bald head ought to raise redwood
forest"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-23

Biggsby-Why did Teddy Chumley
leave your club?
Quirk-It came to his ears that coarse
salt was used in the cooking. and he
couldn't eat the food-Life
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-29
The CsS CT Orchids.

Mr.. J. Baterlan has noticed the romantic
use of orchids in those countries he is
writing upon. He says: In Mexico. where
the language of flowers is understood by
all, the orchidacese seem to compose nearly
the entire alphabet Not an infant is bap-
tized, not a marriage is celebrated, no
obsequies performed at which the aid
OF these flowers is not called in by the
sentimental natives to assist the expression
of their feelings. They are offered by the
devotee at the shrine of his favorite saint.
by the lover at the feet of his mistress and
by the sorrowing survivor at the grave Of
his friend; whether, in short, on fast days
or feast days, on occasions Of rejoicing or
in moments Of distress, these flowers are
sought for with an avidity which would
seem to say that there was no sympathy
like theirs; thus Flor de los Santos Flor
de Corpus Flor de los muertos,' Flor de
Maio,' No me divides (or forgetmenot)
are but few names out of the many that
might be cited to prove the high consid-
GRAFTON i'll which our favorites are held in
the New World"
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-29
The typical Society Girl.

One is often ignorant of the existence of
young girls in the houses Of ones friends
until by chance they are revealed at
matinee of the opera, sitting demurely in
the family box, or at their summer homes,
on horseback or playing at tennis on the
lawn. The dancing class, controlled by a
bevy of matrons who carefully select the
names sent out upon invitations to belong
to it, IS her training ground for polite So
ciety. AT these classes, meeting in the
afternoon or evening once a week, the
mothers SH around the halls while the bows
and girls go through the exact forms to be
observed in the ballroom of the future.
When the young person is ready to be in
troduced into society, the mother, as often
as not, issues cards for a general afternoon
reception of her friends. Gowned in sim
plest home dress, high at the throat and of
pure white, the debutante stands beyond
her mother at the chief entrance of the
drawing room. Behind her, piled upon
tables or the piano, is seen a veritable
hecatomb of flowers sent in by friends to
celebrate the hour. Each guest, after
speaking to the mother or chaperone, is
then mentioned by name to the debutante,
who bows or cUrtesies as she has been
taught to do.
Later IN the afternoon, when the crowd
Trims out, the girl. surrounded by her par
ticular set of friends, displays her flowers,
her gown, her new ring or the string of
pearls presented by a good papa. A din
ner follows, at which her mother presides
and around which the same young people
assemble. Here she is queen of the feast,
and amid flowers and lights and music and
kind words no wonder that the vista of So
ciety seems to her like fairyland From that
day on she is rarely seen in public without
her parents, or one of them, or a fitting
substitute.-Mrs. Burton Harrison in La
dies Home Journal
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-29
Marketing in Southern France.

Until you 60 to an open air market in
the south Of France you do not know what
genuine pleasure can be obtained from the
usual prosaic proceeding. just imagine
great, beautiful cherries at eight
cents pound, Strawberries about five
cents pound, grapes, plums, pears,
peaches, all in the perfection of beauty
and luscious flavor, sold on the same small
scale according to our American IDEAS
Green almonds and filberts, olives, mush-
rooms, fresh fish right from the waters
that almost Tapped the edges of the prim-
tive market for there We're but few
booths, almost everything being displayed
on cloths laid out on the ground that sloped
down to the smiling sea-, radishes and
lettuce Just picked in the quaint old time
gardens on the adjacent slopes, and above
all and dominating even the baskets of
snails with a breath of summer, were the
great panniers filed with blossoms whose
beauty and fragrance would bring ire
mendous prices in this land of ours, where
roses sometimes are worth their weight in
gold. For Il franc one can FIJI a carriage
with micronette, violets, carnations as
spicy as they are vivid; jasmine, mimosa,
heliotrope and great cream and pink roses
that hang their heads with the burden Of
their own fra gancc.-Cor. Philadelphia
Times
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-11-29
Not n Food for InyaIid..

Rice is such a harmless looking food.
with such reputation for wholesomeness.
so seemingly "childlike and bland, +" that
few people realize it is actually a food for
out of door workers and for people who
live active lives, not for sedentary folk,
and only rarely for an invalid. A mis-
guided creature who fed during an I'M
healthy summer on plain" boiled rice,
with plentiful butter, oiled by its heat. o
person who took almost no exercise and
who suffered severely from the heat, was
astonished to learn that his diet was az
gravating the liver trouble and stomachic
irritation, and that his Harmless" food
had been suitable only for railroad
navy" or a stevedore.
Rice with butter is undoubtedly a real
food and nourishing, since a whole people
live on it and work hard on it in the lands
where cholera flourishes. Rice, in time
of precaution when people are advised to
watch their diet and avoid indigestible
food, is not nearly so useful as boiled -four.
Philadelphia Ledger