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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
Popular Science

Electric welding has now become al
most universal in large establishments.
The use of a fux is unnecessary. EIec-
tricity is used for making forgings, aug.
ers, railroad spikes, ball bearings and
other articles hitherto made by hand.
Although Costa Rica is about half the
size of New York State, its list of birds
numbers $50 species. 1t is = country OF
forests and Of all sorts OF climates, from
the torrid sea coast to that found at an
elevation of II, 500 feet, the top of the
volcano Irazu, where ice forms.
The influence of forests in protecting
the water supply is we'll illustrated in the
case of Greece. In ancient days she pos
sessed 800. 900 acres OF forest. To-day
she has hardly 1900, 900 acres, and the
scarcity of water and other injurio as
climatic effects are trsceable to the de-
struction of the trees
4 German authotity says tina. almost a
third Of all humanity, that is, 400, 600. 00y
speak the Chinese language. Iheu the
Hindoo language is spoken oy more than
100, 0oo. 900 Fourth, the Russian, with
s9, 600, o0o Will. the German language is
spoken by 5000. 600 tongues and the
Spanish By A.. 900. 900 OF the European
languages the French is fifth in place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01

It was but a plain mineral spring. INT
the cups s. the patients drank from
were fastened by brass chain to an
iron bar which inclosed the mouth of
the bubbling spring. Yen were pre-
vented from coming TOO close by another
circular iron railing, about eight feet
across. The ground around the spring
WINS naturally moist, and il WA either
this ground or the iron railing which
was enc Of the ends of an open electrical
cirs~it TIE cup held by the chain was
the other end The person drin king
simply completed the circuit through
has body, sud when he had znishod the
attendant kindly and isamedjateiy re-
moved the cup from hs hand. The
drinksrs always felt that "delig hsful
tingliDg sensa ton" and rejoiced that
they had fcNnd the fountain Of youth
Some imagined they even felt the new
blood coursing through their veins A
small induction coil !nem:susly con-
cealed, and connected with the cop and
railing. was . sheAp method for pro-
ducing that ''imvfRssatsng feeiing"-
Electrioal Review.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
A YOUNG MANS CHANCE.
Business Men Never More willing TO Pa
Large Trusts Upon Their Shoulders.

Business Men Never More willing TO Put
Large Trusts Upon Thsir Shoulders
A mother who now sends ont q son
into the business world launches him
at time when the chances are all in
favor of a young man. Business men
were never more willing to put large
trusts upon the shoulders of young
men than they are to-day, says the La
dies Home Journal .Young blood. "
as it is called, is the life of the modern
business world, and is everywhere
sought. In New York the demand for
the right kind of young men in all ca
pacities is far greater than the supply.
and what is true of New York is true
OF all the large cities. Bear in mind.
however, say the right kind OF young
men, and by that classification I'mean
young men who are willing to work,
and work hard. The day of the young
man who works by the clock. eagerly
watching for the hour when the ofice
shall close, has gone by, even il it ever
existed. Hundreds of young men are
energetic in . new position until its
novelty wears off, and then become
mere machines whose places can DO
filed at days notice.
No mother need have undue anxiety
for the success of son who this autumn
or winter steps out into the business
world. so long as he bears in mind a few
essential points.
He must be honest above all things,
and allow nothing to convince him that
there is compromise between honesty
and dishonesty.
He must be an out and out believer in
the homely but forcible saying that
man cannot drink whisky and be in
business.
He must, too, decide between being
society man or business man; he can
not be both.
He must make his life outside the of
foe the same as in it, and not be pos
sessed with the prevalent idea that his
employer has no business to question
his movements outside of Office hours.
An employer has every right to expect
his employees to be respectable at all
times. in the Office or out of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
MATRlMONY IN CHINA.
Europeans Generally Fight shy of the
Madame

Europeans Generally Fight Shy of the
Mongcl Maidens-
Mixed marriages are not very COM
mon in China and no one who has any
knowledge of Chinese women is sur
prised that Englishmen fight shy of
them. The average Chinese girl is alb
solutely ignorant of everything but
embroidery; she may know how to read
and write few characters. but she
does not understand a word of any Eu-
ropean language: she looks on face
powder and rouge as of more conse-
quence than soap, and she cripples her
feet. Moreover, although if an En-
glishman marries Chinese woman he
cannot marry any one else in her life
time, it is doubtful whether the woman
might not in China marry Chinaman
also. The question of mixed marriages
is exciting good deal of attention in
the far east High Chinese authority.
being asked as to the binding force of
an English ceremony on che Chinese
wife, answers that as long as the par
ties We're agreed to live together they
might be regarded as usband and wife,
but that 1t was impossible to constrain
inclination. London Figaro
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
UNCLE SANS VOLCANOES.
If He Did But Know It He Owns the Vol
canic Region Of tho World.

If He Did But Know It He Owns the Vol :
canic Region Of tho World.
Prof George Davidson of the Coast a nd
Geodetic Survey, who was one of the
pioneer explorers of Alaska, takes deep
interest in the recent reports OF volcanic
disturbances in the far North.
''There is nothing really remark able
about the recent volcanic disturbances in
Alaska" said Mr. Davidson recently, cal
though the event is of interest. The
whole coast of Alaska, out to the east Of
the Aleutian Islands, is the volcanic and
glacial region of the world. 1t is quite
to be expected almost every week
that some of the numerous volca-
noes along that rugged coast will
ders, ashes and smoke, and cover the
glaciers with nasty black sand and SCOT.
Chignik Bay, from which this last erup-
ton was seen. is in latitude sod. 19m.
eos. north and longitude 15Sd. 24m. 25s.
west of Greenwich on the southeast coast
of the peninsula Of Alaska, opposite the
Semidi islands, and about 800 miles from
the end of the peninsula. The observer
could not have seen Black Peak RS reported,
for it isonly twentyfour miles wes.-north-
westfrom his position. He saw Mount
Pavlof on the west side of Pavlof Bay,
distant about 14S miles south, 42d. west,
from Chignik Bay. The man who was at
Wesnessenski Island, living off Pavlof
Bay, saw Pavlof volcano, distant from
him Twenty-Five miles north, esd. west.
''Pavlof is one of fifty volcanoes of the
peninsula of Alaska and the Aleutian
Islands, of which twenty five are in
state of activity, shown by smoking.
just west of Pavlof, about ten miles, lies
a cluster of peaks called Aghileen pima
cles, which are marked by craters. Paw
lof is in latitude sod 27s north, longitude
161d. AIS. west, and it has two craters. In
1894 and 1886, according to Russian au-
thorites, Pavlof was active, in 1888 it
was smoking, and in 1857 / saw it smok-
ing myself. Pavlof is visible from all Of
the Shumagin Islands, of which Megas is
the largest. The view is particularly
good from Sand Harbor or Megas Island.
/ shall not be surprised to learn of more
eruptions in that locality at any time, for,
as / said before, it is the volca mic region Of
the whole world"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
THIS is A RAPID AGE.

Quick-Traveling Americans Responsible
for the Passion for Speed.
This is an age of extreme rapidity,
and the passion for speed in every form
of movement appears to grow more in
tense with every year. The demand for
the saving of every minute that can
possibly be saved in crossing the ocean
is SO strong that the steamship lines
have felt compelled to build bigger and
swifter steamers one after another, al
though the outlay involved has been
something prodigious. So marked prog
ress has already been made in cutting
down the time required in crossing the
Atlantic, and so many vessels have al
few years the transatlantic feet, for
the number of huge ships employed, for
the marvellous CELEBRITY of their pas
sages, for the splendor Of their appoint
ments. for the luxury Of travel by
water, will exemplify the marvellous de-
velopment of the nineteenth century in
a way that must nightly impress the
whole civilized world. But, according
to the New York Tribune, it is not only
on the water that people wish to move
with the greatest rapidity that is con-
sistent with safety. The anxiety to
get from one place to another with the
least possible delay is characteristical-
ly American, and the American rail-
ways are constantly improving their
service. They did not advance with
much swiftness in that direction until
within the last scsre of years, but the
steps onward that have been taken by
the railroad corporations in that time
are notable indeed. The limited ex-
presses running between the principal
cities of the country have far surpassed
the most sanguine expectations of the
railroad managers and the railroad pas
sengers of a quarter Of q century ago.
America is now ahead Of the rest OF the
world in the swiftness Of her railroad
trains, and if it were not for the taste
which Americans are SO passionately
fond Of in travelling it is not at all like
ly that SO powerful and rapid vessels
would have been required on the trans
atlantic lines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
PARAoOxES OF THE DEEP.
Big Vessels Sometimes Focndered
Gales in Which Small heats Live.

Big Vessels Sometimes Foundered ~
Gales in Which Small Boats Live.
Many of you have stood on the beach
at the seaside and watched the seas
rolling in heavy breakers after storm,
curling and crushing into volumes of
foam and broken water with such
force as to send them sweeping up AL
most to your feet. 1t is through such
waves that men who follow the sea
must at times pass in reaching the
shore, but not,through one or two On
smooth, auick-shelving beach, but
through thirty or forty, perhaps, cover
ing mile of treacherous shoals, and at
places surging between jagged reefs
and huge powders. With intense in
terest we read of the dreadful ship
wrecks almost every week. Tho sur
vivors tell how the big ship laborcd
and struggled through monster pillows
and shrieking wind, under black flying
clouds and amid jagged streals OF
lightning until. mastless and helpless,
she lay exhausted in the trough OF the
sea and passively received the crashing
deluge of merciless waves until she
hAIk. 1ley tel now l4ieFs pSORs Poay
human beings, chung to helm and
pumps till the great ships struggles
were over and it became evident that
she could carry them no longer; then
how they hastily threw a cask OF water
and few provisions into some remain
ing boat and At . favorable moment
launched upon the angry wstars in
craft so frail that it seemed as If ali on
board were doomed TO instant destruc-
ton.
Here comes what 81. Nicholas calls
the strangest part OF their narrative
Read all such accounts carefully and
you will fnd that in nearly every case
where such a little boat h safely
launched from an abandoned ship il
floats and drifts for days and even
weeks upon the open ocean, living
ough tne dreadful tempest which
wrecked the big ship. sailing bueyant-
II through calner seas and finally
bringing the survivors within sight Of
other ships or lands
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
HALLOWEEN SUPERSTlTlONS.
Queer Customs of the Day In variou,
Countries.

Queer Customs of the Day In Various
Countries.
Halloween is the evening preceding
Hallew-day, or All Saints day, which
is celebrated November l, in honor of
the conversion, in the seventh century,
of the Pantheon at Rome into a Chris
tian place of worship. Pope Boniface
". dedicated this day to the Virgin
and all the martyrs.
Popular superstition has given the
S1st day of October peculiar character
of its own, no other day of the year
having so many and such strange Gus
toms attached to it. Witches, devils,
fairies and disembodied spirits walk
abroad on that night; charms and
divinations attain their highest success
with all and any who wish to try them
Although in some parts of the United
States and Canada the Halloween GUS
toms are sometimes observed by young
people, north England and Scotland
may be said to be the birthplace and
home of Halloween festivities. The
customs of this night are much alike
wherever they are practiced. Nuts and
apples are always in great demand, and
enormous quantities of them are con-
sumed. In the north Of England Hal
low-e'en is sometimes called ''nut-crack
night" Nuts are useful for another
purpose than the one they are usually
put to. The maiden who wishes to
know which of her lovers is faithful
puts two nuts on the bars of the CRATE,
naming them after her lovers. If either
aut cracks, or flies off the CRATE into
the fire. that lover will prove unfaith-
ful; but if either nut blazes or burns,
the lover is faithful, loving and true.
Another way is to place two nuts on
the CRATE. naming one for the lover, the
other for herself. If they burn to-
gether quietly. all will go smoothly and
well in the courtship and marriag e:
but if they start away from each other,
the hoped for happy ending Of the
courtship will never occur
Apples are used in several WAYS on
Halloween. the two most popular be-
ing, perhaps, the attempting to take a
bite out of an apple suspended by a
string from the ceiling without touch
ing it with the hands: aud ducking for
apples in a tub. This last feat is much
more difficult to perform than it at frs;
appears to be. The tub is full Of water,
the apples, with and without stems,
floating temptingly on the top Itdoes
not look as if il would be at all hard 20
pick one up with the teeth But at the
first attempt to seize it the tantalizing
apple ducks it's head under water. only
to show its blooming cheeks on the OF
posite side OF the tub a moment later.
In Scotland the first ceremony OF
Halloween Is the pulling. by each of
the Young people, of p stalk of kale
Each must pull the irst stalk no comes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
CURE FOR ALCOHOLISM.
Public Interest in tho Mysterious
Gold Remedy Increasing.
Fully $4,000 People Treated for Drunk
enness During the Past Ten YesrA
Whore the Gold Cure People
Have Made . Mistake.

Fully O.Oe0 People Treated for Drunk.
snness During the Past Ten Years.
Whore the Gold Cure People
Have Made Mistake.
The fact that leading newspaper has
just established in New York city six
gold cures for alcoholism increases pub
lie interest in the mysterious remedy.
The relapse and tragic death of its most
brilliant example, some two years ago,
together with the attacks Of several SEN
sational journals, were setback to the
new discovery which is has taken little
time to overcome.
During the past ten years fully eighty
Thousand people have been treated for
drunkenness by the gold method. OF
this number fully ninety per cent. lost
all craving for liquor, whi 10 the remainder
were only temporarily benefited. There
is an occasional case that cannot safely
submit to the treatment, as the organiza-
ton has become SO enfeebled by years of
drinking, and 30 dependent on daily
stimulant, that there is no longer any
foundation upon which to build the
structure of health
The gold cure people have made
serious mistake in claiming too much for
their remedies, and too little for the
doctors who administer them. The
medicines arc powerful, and should only
be used by people who understand them,
and can intelligently counteract any I'M
expected effects
Several So called branch insti tutes are
in charge of physicians VINO inject into
all sorts OF people, young and old. weak
and strong, medicines in large doses whic b
they know absolutely nothing about. If
the patients show unfavorable symptoms
the doctors do not know what to do, for
the reason that they do not know what
they have already dcue. 1t is fact, how
ever, that every one of tho principal Of
fees of the principal gold cures, where
common sense and ordinary medical
skill are shown, is brilliantly successful.
In proper hands the gold cure is q
blessing, but it is only a medicine and
not a miracle. Sometimes it gives only
temporary relief Occasionally it injuries.
l. lie BOou results, however, rs CoMpaTeU
with the neutral or bad, are as ten to one.
The gold cure is come to stay. It's
mystery will soon be cleared away, and
every physician in the country will use
it as freely and as confidently as he uses
mercury and morphine.
Drunkenness cannot be doctored out Of
the world In day, but the antidote is
known, and the plague must lose many
of its terrors
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01

! to in the garden. Its being big, or lit
tie, short or tall, straight or crooked,
will foretell the size, shape and height
of the future husband or wife. The
amount of earth that clings to the root
will indicate the fortune or dowry.
Another superstition tells US that II
one will take candle, go alone in a
dark room and eat an apple before the
looking glass, the face of the future
husband or wife will peep over the
shoulder. and we can plainly see the
reflection of it in the glass.
Still another superstition, which is
quite common in Scotland and Ireland,
and is mentioned by Burns in his Hal
low-e'en poem, was told to me years
ago by young Irish girl. who firmly
! believed in it. She said il was custom
airy in the part Of Ireland whore she
had lived for girl to go alone at mid
kiln, taking with her ball Of blue
yarn. Keeping hold of the end, she
throws the ball over into the kiln-pot.
then winds tho yarn into a new ball
As she nears the end some one will hold
the yarn and prevent her from winding
any more of it She then asks: "Who
holds?'' and in answer q voice will give
the Christian and surname of her future
husband. asked Katie, my inform
ant, if her lover held the end when she
tried winding the yarn, and she replied
in an awe-struck tone that he did; but
frankly admitted that it frightened her
50 that she dropped the ball and ran
home without waiting to ask: "Who
holds"
Burns tells Of a Halloween custom
Take three saucers; fill one with clean
water, one with inky or foul water and
leave one empty. Blindfold person
and lead him to the dishes, where he
dips his left hand into one of the three.
If BY chance he touches the clean water
he will marry maid; tho black water,
widow, and the empty dish signifies
that he will live and die bachelor.
Children born on Halloween are said
to be able to see and converse with fair.
les, witches and other supernatural be-
ings. which reminds me that I once
went to a delightful impromptu and
informal Halloween birthday party.
The invitations were sent by telephone
and messenger on the very morning of
Halloween. and all arrangements and
plans for the evenings enjoyment were
made on short notice. The rooms were
lighted by candles instead Of gas.
pumpkin jack-o-lanterns stood in un-
expected places about the halls and
rooms. The mantels were stacked with
brightly-polished apples, and faacy
dishes Of nuts and raisins, grapes,
oranges, figs, dates and home made
candies were set out everywhere about
the rooms, and every one was expected
to help himself to anything he wanted
at any time. Apples were suspended
from the gas fixtures, the ''luggies
three" were there, and quarts of chest
nuts with which to discover, at the
hard coal fires in the graz, whether
lovers were true or not. All the old
customs which were practicable in
modern parlors were tried. The festiv-
tiles ended with dance and at half
past eleven we turned our faces home
ward, to arrive in time to see, if posi-
bic, some Of the strange sights which
are supposed to appear on Halloween
at ''the very witching time of night -
Alice c. Willard, in Ladies' Home Jour-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
HOW TO LIVE IN HEALTH.

Practical surgrssiess Rsearafsg Physscal
uprighsness.
It goes without saying that the first
requisite for happiness and usefulness
is health. People adapt themselves to
their condition. - that certain degree
of happiness and usefulness ia attained
by many who are invalids or scrni-in-
valids, but il is to be doubted X ever
the highest degree of either is posi-
BILE without a sound physique So many
days are wasted and SO many powers lie
dormant because Of the weakness and
the disease Ia the subjects themselves.
and more than this. the time and
strength Of Others who mus. care for
the sick are turned into fields which
are not producsive-oftsn being posi-
lively diverted from nobler channels.
Christian graces may thrive and even
blossom int rare loneliness in the at
mcsphere Of the invalid's chamber, but
it must he n spite Of ll-health, not be-
cause Of IL. To be temperate
in eating and drinking. is to live in
health and to live web With long
esta blished social traditions to con-
tend with. IL requires ne small cour-
age to set before ones family and
guestA simple, nutritive food. whole
somsly prepared, and TO suffer being
called 'edd" or "a crank" because
one refuses late supperx, ice cream and
confecticHery. But in the long run,
your physical uprig Illness win be sn.-
ply rewarded. You viii be able 70
work clearly. continuously and we'll.
and barring accident. reach the highly
ripened old age which crowns n vir,u-
Gus life Let then your frst duty be the
upbuilaing of a sound physical frame
and it's maintenance in a healthy equi-
ibrium by strict ebeaiSucc to the laws
of hygiene.-Good Health.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-01
II WAS WEARING ON HIM.

what He Had to Undergo with Night
blooming Baby.
The lord Of the manor slept. although
the baby had the cholic and was in no
wise disposed to suffer in silence
''Wah-oop-oo-wa walled the
infant
Distracted 1t the childs distress the
mother rushed wildly to the cradle.
"Hush-a-by, hush-a-by," cooed she.
'Gr-a-r-siss-po snored the
lord of the manor.
The woman made ten quick laps
around the room, danced the suffering
baby vigorously and performed great
variety Of exhaustive antics. popularity
supposed to make young children for
get their troubles.
ssWhoopr' yelled the little one
"Hush-a-by. baby. on tho tree"
Gr-r-roo-siss-poo.
The lerd Of the manor slept.
One by one the sands of time flowed
through the hsur-glass- Minutes grow
into hours. Just rs the rising sun was
coloring the eastern horizon with =
delicate glow tho baby fell asleep
With q smile of tender radiance the
mother placed her darling in the cradle,
and. imprinting a soft kiss upon its
brow, turned to her couch.
The lord of the manor stirred and
opened his eyes
Can help you, Maria?" he fssbly
asked with . yawn.
The wife and mother sighed
'No, john" she YEARLY rsjeinsA
They slept
II shouldn't be surprised"
1t was the lord of the manor talking
to friend next day.
IF I looked mighty haggard. This
being up nights"
He gasped prodigiously.
with the baby is mighty wearing on
. man"
The lord Of the manor locked decided
~ dissatisfie with ife.-Dstroit Trib-
uue.