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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

"Thesmost reanarka bic experience with &
burglar that ever heard Of" said Colonel
Calliper, was that of Jason Frognip, q
friend of mine, who once lived in Stork-
vile Center, VT. Two Of Mr. Frognip's
children were quite sick with diphtheria,
and for a number of nights he and Mrs.
Frognip were up with them pretty much
all night. At about quarter past on one
of these nights Mr.. Frognip went down
into the kitchen for something. He car
rieG no light, for he was familiar with
every nook and corner'of his house. He
had on a pair of felt slippers, and as he
stepped neiselessly' across the kitchen floor
he heard burglar outside working at the
back door. Mr. Frognip felt very bad
about his children, but it almost made him
laugh TO think of how easily he could get
rid OF the burglar. He went up near the
door and said to him, in an ordinary tone
of voice:
"'My friend, we have two cases Of diph-
liberia in the house
"'Whatp said the burglar Then why
in thunder don't you hang out a yeller flag
owarn people?
How could know you were comingY
said Mr.. Frognip.
What do l care whether you knew
was coming or not" said the burglar.
Suppose I'd ha' got into your darned old
house and taken the diphtheria home to my
childrenp And he gathered up his tools
and went away apparently very indignant"
New York Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
Women at Balls.

what do ] think Of the position Of won
en- in society" said the debutante. Why
it is just perfectly horrid / should love u
go to balls and dances If it were not for thu
dreadful incubus Of finding partners for
the german, or for supper, and for the mis-
cradle fear of being left OUT As for the
men, they need not hatter themselves that
being IN a manner lords of the situation
adds to their attractions. IL makes tbs
girls Just look upon them as things =
dance with, and one IL As good a. another
And as for any natural conversation. j.
simply paralyzes it. How quite TOO ridicu
lous it is for girls of our age TO be SO al
jectly helpless Why, the other nigh,
Adele l. and / were taken down 20 sup
per at the Patriarchs' and were depositel
together az table.
After our escorts who were oldish soT
Of men. had seen that our plates were e HE'D
they disappeared and never came back a.
ali Every one left TO go up stairs and ws
were left IN the lureh. We were wretcbediy
uncomfortable. but we actually did not dare
to 20 up the short fight of steps and enEsf
the ballroom alone. Finally that dear
sweet Miss B saw cur embarrassment
and came over 70 as with her partner. anc
under the Bgis Of bis masculine vrosectlo-
we crept rather eonsciously up stzIrz- -
New York Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

PRISON STTDRC

The Bastile had eight towers, five
stories high, in which prisoners could be
confined and be entirely cut off from the
rest, and even the prison authorities did
not need to know they were there.
Here literary people who had written
pieces for the papers over the signature
of ~ eritas were incarcerated for weeks
and months and years, only to be at last
beheaded by the light running and noise
less guillotine. Those who sassed the
administration were gathered in by
means of the Letter de CGc7let. and that
was sufficient. We should be glad and
proud that we live in land where one
can have not one trial alone, but seven
or eight, together with an arrest Of Judg-
ment and executive clemency.
The Bastile was destroyed by the
French revolutionists July II, 1879, ami
now II Is the great national holiday.
July Il all the French yeomen and ALI
ance people throng the streets, bringing
their lunch with them, including a long,
black bottle Of sour wine, with which
they fill themselves in wild and inef-
fectual effort TO get intoxicated.
On this day also the beggars and Grip
pies Of France are permitted 10 invade
Paris, and one VIII see greater assort-
ment Of excrescences and deformities
than IN a New York hospital IN a life
time. Remunerative assesses and in
durable sores are brought out on the
beautiful boQlevards. and the Champs
ElyseeS swarms with begga-s whose
limbs are 50 crooked that they seem 10
be trying TO climb up their trunks. Odd
and whimsical wens start out from these
people on the slightest provocaaon. and
curious wounds are utilized TO rake II
the centImes. One man had a bullet
hole IN his trachea. or wIndpipe By
closing his mouth and nose and inserting
the nouthpiece of a bugle in tins hole
he was able 70 play a tune pretty well.
and he seemed TO have q crowd around
him most Of the une.
He told me that he was very thankful
because kind Providence had provided
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
The Emersonian Test.

81 shall not open the door, Harvard
son." said the Boston wife at O'Clock
u. ~, until have satisfactory evidence
that you have not been spending the
evening In riotous conviviahty."
"Your precauuon. my dear" replied
the Boston husband, who stood SILVER
ing ON the outside. lis natural but I'M
necessary. l have been IN attendance
at an unusually interesting session of
the Zoroaster club"
With clear, distinct enunciation he
then repeated rapidly this passage from
Emerson's essay on Plato, "Seashore.
sea seen from the shore, shore seen from
the sea"
And the door was thrown open at
once.-Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
A Priessly Carer of Ills.


Another miracle worker has recently
come into prominence IN this vicinity.
He is Catholic priest without a parish,
and the medical fraternity attribute his
alleged cures to imagination, which, as
all doctors know, is worth tons of medi-
cine III many cases. 1t seems an estab-
hshed fact, however, that q man who
for years has been tortured with respi-
ration several times as rapid as the
normal, and who had consulted many
eminent physicians without relief, got
rid of his trouble between dawn and
dark of a single day after an application
of prayer and holy relics, and that all of
his ailing acquaintance have ever since
kept the priests door ajar, some of them
going away in the belief that they have
been permanently benefited.
The worker of these alleged cures,
who attributes his success to divine aid,
is a stalwart man of fifty years-a man
of the kind whom the weak and credu-
lous would instinctively obey so far as
their nerves and muscles would allow
and if he has compelled lot of hypo-
chondriacs to once more come under
their own control he has done great
deal of good whatever may be his meth
cd, or lack of it. Such men are of IN
speakable service to physicians, all of
whom, in this vicinity, are haunted by a
lot of people who imagine themselves Ill
and who are sure they know what is the
matter with them.-New York Cor. Chi
cage Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
eS,s <~sk
Mjr2ll}gss sa5lf
Signs OF Spring.
- TN VI t3IA411sS'
The first sign of spring is the feeling tina


The first sign of spring is the feeling that
your hat is shabby.
The second is that your winter overcoat
is getting heavy. If your overcoat is a
particularly nice one, this sign viii not bt
apparent
The suburban begins to talk eloquently
of garden seeds and fertilizers.
He goes home loaded down with seeds
mems catalogues anS hoes and rakes and
agricultural Informs on.
His neighbors' hens are emancipated
from their Information and he thirsts fol
the blood of his neighbors.
The ash heap in his yard rises grimly
like remembrance of evil doings.
If you live la the country you begin to
talk of improvements, of cupola here and
there and piazza or bay window somewhere
else
If in the city, you commence your an
nual talk OF shaking of your feet the dust
of the city and moving into the country.
The dark shadow of the coming house
cleaning broods like bird Of evil omen
over your once happy home.
The wife of your bosom talks of new
carpets and new furniture
The plumber no longer robs you Of your
substance, the carpenter, and the painter,
and the plasberer, and the paperhanger
taking what is LETT.
AS you ride homeward in the cars you
hear stories Of early peas.
An English sparrow has set his alarm
clock an hour earlier, and now arouses you
from your early siuraher at a. m.
Your landlord has discovered that things
are going to boom, and booms your rent
straight away.
In spring a young mans fancy likely
turns to thoughts Of new clothes.
1t is in the sPringtime that the bilious
mans fancy turns to patent medicine.
The Boston POstsssys that ''ulsters may
now be put up" Ours was put up long
ago-shoved up, says a country editor
Some of the girls are thinking of green
grass and, warm sunshine to come. 1t is a
fore-lawn hope.
Spring may be little rigorous, but we
feel safe IN predicting an open summer.
In few shortweeks the papers viii be
printing spring poetry, and lots of men
wiIT.be growing because the discarding Of
their Overcoats,winl reveal a ragged suit
Texas Siftings-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
Expensive Oatmeal.

An elderly gentleman whose habit OF
overeating at unseasona BILE hours induced
frequent attacks of dyspepsia, went to a
large and fashionable southern hotel to
spend the month of March, by the advice
of the popular physician who ministered
TO his ailments.
The gentleman was not fond of spending
money lavishly under any circumstances,
and the expense of the trip weighed upon
his mind to such an extent before his de-
parture from home, that his friends were
by no means surprised to see him back
again at the end of ten days.
''Did you have a good time down theref'
asked an acquaintance who met him ON the
street a day or two after his return.
Seems to me you're looking rather
poorly"
"Poorlyl" groaned the dyspeptic. you'd
better say poorl Thirty dollars for oatmeal
gruell That is what Pye had to pay, sir.
where I've beenW
"What in the world do you mean" asked
the other, much mystifed.
"Why, mean just this" grumbled the
sufferer. ''The night got there i ate a
fairly good supper, and the next morning
came down with one of nay dyspepsia at
tacks, and ] never ate another thing but
oatmeal Cruel for the six days l WAS in
that place. And they wouldn't take a cent
off the bill-not a cent, sirl So l packed
my things and started for home. IL was
the most outrageous experience of my
lifeP' he concluded, turning pale at the
very recollection of his wrongs.
II wanted to ask him if it was good oat-
meal at that price" said the friend, telling
the story afterward to his wife. but ]
didn't quite darel"-Youth's Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
One of Surgeons Stories.

Rev. DR.. Charles Wood, of the First
Presbyterian church, Germantown, tells q
good story at his own expense about Spur.
geon. Dr. Wood while in London was tell.
ing Sturgeon that he was going to Ger
many to study.
Haven't yeu any theological seminaries
in American" asked Sturgeon.
Eyes" said Dr. Wood, but I don't think
know everything thought graduated at
Princeton, and l am going to Germany to
try and learn more"
"Well." said Sturgeon, II hope you will
not be like the calf | once heard Of The
milk of one COW wasn't enough for it, and
they gave issthe milk of two, and the more
milk it drank the more of a calf it be.
came. - Philadelphia Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
TIE JAPANESE HOT BOX.
A Valuable Method of Applying Dry
Heat for the Relief of Pain.

Hot cloths are so soothing in the relief Of
eye pains that Dr. J. +. Chisholm, Of Balti-
more. determined to experiment with the
hot box from Japan, concerning which
method of applying heat ne writes as fol-
lows in Tie Auuals Of Ophthalmology and
Otolocy:
Its size made il little awkward for eye
work, but ] found 1t, nevertheless. very
efficient. Il p now one OF my most trusted
agents for the relief Ct pain IN many eye
diseases. NJ method Of application Is as
follows: After Inserting the lighted fuse
and the box has become warm l envelop
the box IN the folds of a handkerchief, and
by the ends CT the handkerchief secure il
TO the head. 4 little loose cotton applied
over the closed eve fills up the socke. and
allows the heat TO he transmitted directly
TO the painful organ. The handkerchief
protects she face from the edges OF the hot
box Once applied It needs 10 renewal for
two CT three hours
In many cases the relief Of pain is mag
zeal. The japanese hvt boxes and cart
ridges can h. found q all japanese stores,
and are also kept by many druggists
They commend themselves for their con
veuience, simplicity. economy, cleanliness
and efficiency as az application for the Re
lief O. pain
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
Family Pride Is a Great Thing.

Boy-My fathers been laid up sick for a
week.
"That's nawthin; my dads been laid up
two weeks"
'My father has felon on his finger as
big as a thimble"
A pause.
That's nawthin; my father has n car
buncle on his neck bigger than a goose
egg"
lAnotber pausel
1.-The doctor says that my father won't
be able to work for month"
And the doctor Ctriumphautly) he says
my dad'u likely die. "-Texas Siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
Doing the Trick.

81 say, cid chappie, how is it you con-
trive to be invited out everywhere dur
ing the carniyal!'
This IS how the trick is worked. set
out q report that l intend going out of
town for that period. Folks then say to
themselves, we can invite him sure
enough, for he won't come in any case.
Of course L stay at home and accept all
the invitations. "-Kuche.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
How 1t Affected Him.

speaking Of marriage, Mr.. Larimer,"
remarked Miss Manchester, although
the conversation had not touched that
topic, Il read the other day Of civil
magistrate III New York city who mar
ried fourteen couples in twenty min
utes."
Indeed" replied Larimer; "that was
at the unprecedented rate Of forty-two
knots an hour. "-Pittsburg Chronicle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
SCALE BOOKS!
THREE FORMS
STANDARD,
HOWE AND
FAIRBANKS!
When ordering state WHAT form In
wanted.
SAIL.

SAIL.
The silver surf and yellow sand
Are bient and blurred in morning haze,
The low shore Is narrowing band
Twixt sly and water, as gaze.
The air Is loud in every sail,
The ship leans. ieapiug toward the sum-
Wind hE<n0ntes apd wave hymns hail
Our Hisst, aud disoords there are none.
Ny heart lie Alled With sunrise: all
The curIsd. cool corabers shiue and sing.
The slow strong rollers flow and fall
Is tuned tomelodies Of spring.
The land behind is sunk; and now
All round the seq the sky rim shines.
The spray spnrts sunward from the bow
And the Mssse shout like mountain pines
The long waves quicken: from the bowers
OF dazzling foam the spray Is blown
Like pollen down the SLOPES in showers
With sun huss blended with It's own.
The sky is cool, the breeze is bright,
The surges sway. the yards bow low.
The sea is vocal with the light.
From crest TO clsnbering crest we 60.
edward Lucas White in New York Sun.
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Hope Sprin rs Eternal.

The gladstone Spring is here at last,
And from the shelf on high,
We take last Summers suit and gaze
On it with longing eye.
Oh, jOyl II looks as good as new,
Each seam is perfect quite,
No rip or tear oT.lEtal spot.
Greets our enraptuTed sight.
We think of tailor's bills we've saved
In glee we dance the floor;
And then we put it OF. 70 find
It's shrunk foot or more.
-Clothier and Eurnisher.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
He Couldn't Survive 1t

"Another magazine suicide!'
ga rejected poet:'
"No; the editor himself. While he
was absent in Europe a genuine poem
got in the magazine and the blow killed
him. Atlanta Constitution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

When Baby was sick. we gave her Castoria-
Hhe1 sic WAS Guild. she cried for CastoriA
When she became Miss, she chung TO CaS;oria-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
ROWING BILL NYE.
HE TALKS ON PRISON LIFE FROM
A VARIED EXPERIENCE.
William Writes from Newark. O., Abou.

William Writes from Newark, o., About
Glassblcwcrs, Aztccs and dails-Open-
ing Jar of Strawberry jam Is Not
All Joy and Rapture
Copyright, 1892, by Edgar W. Nye.l
Newark, o., is not as large in point OF
population or manufacture as Newark,
N. j., but it is a very good looking city,
well paved, with wide. handsome streets,
a certain number of miles Of which are
paved each year in the most durable
style possible.
Newark has also a glass works. We
visited this institution. 1t is not devoted
to the manufacture of cut glass, but
mostly to the construction Of the prosaic
beer bottle Of the work-a-day world.
Can any little boy or girl who reads this
tell me how beer bottle is made?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17
DAVIDSON & CASE
Euocssszrsss
John Davidson. P0ineer Lumbermen
Of Sedgwiek County.
ESTABLISHED :: M: 1870
A complete Stock Of Pine Lumber
shlSg giles. LAih. Doors sash.
etc, AlvAJs CT hand.

o1ee and yards OF HosIey ave. be-
tween Douglas ave. and FIrst a. aEd
Branch yards At Union Cry. Okla
hoEsA CITY. NJ EsES and kiaco. okIA~
EoEA 7srFt.sxx.
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him with such a convenient slot. as it
were, for people to put their francs and
confines into.
Winter grain is looking especially
well in Ohio, and the green hillsides are
dotted with bright new lambs, The
coming summer bids fair to be the best
that the farmers have ever experienced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-19

government officials and Congress TO provide
90 that honorable service as a soldier or sailor
may constitute q qualification for appointment
to Office Another resolution protested against
the burying OF confederate dead in national
cemeteries. The second election of officers
resulted as follows: COMMANDMENT chief,
John A. Logan, Illinois; senior vice COM
mander, Joshua I. Owen, Pennsylvania; Junior
vice commander, Joseph r. Hawley, Connecti-
cut; adjutant general, N. P. Chapman,
Potomac.
GEN. LooAS's ADMINISTRATION.
The year following this encam ment was q
most important one for the Grand Army. Gen.
Logan proved an energetic and capable execu-
tive and the work progressed with rapidity.
Headquarters were established in this city,
which also greatly aided the organization in
the facilities which we're Afforded for inter-
course with the departmental
In all ways the most important event OF Gen
Logan's administration was the issue on MAY
5, 1858, of an order designating May 30 as a
day for ''strewing with flowers or otherwise
decorating the graves Of comrades who died in
defense Of their country" The order states
that it was the hope of the commander that the
observance Of the custom would be kept up
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mander Robinson appointed the following staff
Adjutant general. James L. Farley; quarter
master general. VIM. Ward; judge advocate,
VIM. Cogswell; inspector general, ". F. Rogers.
AT sPRISoFIEID, MASS.
The encampment of 1878 was held in Spring
field, Mass. on June l. Commander Robinson.
in his address. referred to the railroad strikes
which had taken place during the year and to
the good which the Grand Army by moral in
fuences and by tender of service had accom-
plished toward the preservation of law and
order As commander-in-chief he had tele-
graphed to tine President: '.The Grand Army
of the Republic. an organization composed ex-
clusively Of veteran soldiers and sailors can If
necessary, furnish thousands Of volunteers for
the restoration and preservation of order. Z"
Among the resolutions adopted was one calling
on comrades to discourage any dissertation of
Memorial day. The entire city of Springfield
Joined in extending Inequalities to the, en-
campment. an especial feature being the elab-
crate decoration of hundreds of houses Com
maader Robinson WAS reelected commander
in-chief and the only changes in the other
officers were the election of Paul Van Der
WORT of Nebraska, senior vice commander
and Herbert F. Hill Of Massachusetts, junior
vice commander.
AT ALBANY.
On June II. 1879, the thirteenth annual ses-
sion was held at Albany, N Y Previous to
the encsmpment large parade of the National
Guard and posts from New York was held In
his address Commander Robinson vigorously
disclalmed the charges CT partisanship which
had again been made against the order The
report from the adjutant general this year
showed a net gain in membership of over 1000
The rules relating to eligibility to membership
were amended by adding the words '.and of
such state regiments as were called into active
service and subject to order of U. S. general
officers, who served between April II, 1861,
and April ., 1865"
Rev. VIM. Earnshaw, Ohio. was elected
commander-in-chief; John Palmer New York,
senior vice commander; Harrison bingham.
Washington, D. c., junior vice commanders
Dr. W. B. Jones. Pennsylvania, surgeon gen.
eral. and Rev. Jos. T. lowering. chaplain.
Headquarters were now moved to the Ma
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a. the deserving and worthy

fit the deserving and worthy.
Sec. 2 The results which are designed TO be
accomplished by this organization are as fol-
lows:
L The preservation Of those kind and fra
ternal feelings which have bound together,
with the strong cords of love and affection, the
comrades In arms of many battles sieges and
marches
q To make these ties available in works and
results of kindness, of favor and material aid
to those in need Of assistance.
g. To make provision, where it is not already
done, for the support, care and education of
soldiers orphans, and for the maintenance of
widows Of deceased soldiers
T. For the protection and assistance Of dis
abled soldiers, whether disabled by wounds
sickness, old age or misfortune.
D. For the establishment and defense of the
late soldiery of the United States morally, So
cially and politically, with a view to lncuicate
proper appreciation Of their services to the
country, and to recognition Of such services
and claims by the American people.
1.-The encampment of 1868 added: "But this
association does not design to make norlina-
tions for Office or to use its influence as a Sc
eret organization for partisan purposes."l
The encampment of 1866 also adopted tho
following from tho constitution of the Loyal
Legion:
g. The maintenance of true allegiance to the
United States of America, based upon para
mount respect for, and fidelity to, the national
Constitution and laws, manifested by the dis
countenancing of whatever may tend to weaken
loyalty, incte to instruction, treason OF re-
bellion. or in any manner impairs the efficiency
and permanency of our free institutions to-
gether with defense of universal liberty,
equal rights and justice to all men.
THE SECOND POST.
There is some doubt as to the actual time of
the formation of Post No. Q at Springfield. At
any rate it was formed about this time with a
considerable membership, as might be ex-
pected in the city where birth had been given
to the mighty scheme of grand federation
Of the veterans. A pleasant incident in the
history of this post was the presentation in No.
vember, 1866, of a gold-headed cane to Dr.
Stephenson inscribed: From the Sons of the
q. A. r. 10 the Father"
A short time previous to the formation Of the