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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

EIHILISr METHOD OF DIGGING MINES.
away. The character of the soil in the
neighborhood is partly sandy and partly
miry, and rocks do not abound in it.
Considerable care would therefore have
to be exercised in the construction of
tunnel under such conditions TO prevent
it from cavdng in, and the probability is
that six or seven men were engaged on
it. Speed would be a prime necessity in
such case and the laborious process of
removing the earth in buckets full
would have to be expedited. In my next
letter l may be able to give you details,
should the present rumors be verified,
and doubtless they will be, for there are
several equally daring cases on record, and
we all remember the attempt to destroy
the late Gar by causing an explosion on
the railroad tracks over which the i'm
perial train was about to pass. We have
no cause to won der at anything that may
happen. Perhaps the most interesting
part of the Gatschina mine affair is the
statement have just heard in reliable
quarter that the police are on the track
of several female conspirators in ST.
Petersburgh, who are believed to know a
good deal about proposed attempt on
the Cars life; and in a conversation I
lad with a Colonel of police, that
official, though very careful not to com
NIT himself, admitted, practically, that
sensational arrests may be looked for in
connection with ga serious plot" !
strongly surmise that he was referring
to arrests of women, and probably ''the
plot' is either the Gatschina affair or
another in the same direction which is
now impending. Clearly, the optimists
who said year ago, in the st. Peters
burgh ''Nove Vremys," that Nihilism
was dead, were a little preciptate in
their conjectures. SERGE SUsBHENKo.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
Che aehita Daily Eaoe Wednesday orno gun e. 1892

tainable. Again, it seems, the NihiIists
have been perfecuing their plans to de-
stroy the Emperor, and the scene of
their operations is the Imperial Palace
at Gatschina- The telegraph has been
busy between the palace and the Bureau
of the Third Section in st. Petersburg,
and large bodies O. gendarmes have been
despatched TO the former place. It is
positively affirmed that a mine has been
made under the palace, extending into
the cellar under the Cars bedroom.
Meantime I will point out some things
which are being bruited and which seem
to me unlikely to be true. Rumor
says that the tunnel which has
been discovered has its opening
not more than 300 yards from
the palace, and that suspicion points to
two men who were four months ago in
Jail and were discharged for lack of
evidence. But there must have been
more than two men engaged in the work
Of construction, and for this reason
modern mining drills were necessarily
impracticable for use in such an under
taking. The work must have been done
by simple process of spade and bucket,
and as the tunnel grew in length the
men who were carrying the earth away
would have longer and longer distance
to walk. As there is a treble guard Of
sentries around the vicinity OF the
palace, it follows that il would not be
practicable to make the entrance of the
tunnel nearer than at least 6O0 yards
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

music Tor grand opera ON the subject
of Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter I"
George Parsons Lathrop, Hawthorne's
son-in-law and the well-known writer,
Is constructing the Gbretto.
Queen Natalie Of Servia has written
play based upon her own experiences
She calls it "a Mother" and among the
situations are those relating to the de-
NAL TO her of access to her son. Alex
snder, and her expulsion from Bel
grade.
Minnie Palmer Is IN . very bad condi-
ton financially. Her receipts Ia my
Sweetheart" have dwindled down TO
nothing and her management has been
particularly bad. Miss Palmer returns
to the states in July to live with her
mamma
Frank W. Sanger has just signed a
contract with Miss Minnie Seligman for
two years, with the privilege of three
more. Miss Selgman will mako her
first appearance under Mr.. Ssnger's
management in A. c. Gunter's drama
tization of Col Richard 81. Savage's
novel, my Official Wife"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
The Home of Minstrelsy.

Haverly's new Home Minstrels ut the
Casino Eden Museel, Chicago, have
made an immense success To the al
ready large company organized by Mr..
Haverly as SUCCESSORS to the original
mastodons now on their way to the
Pacific coast, has been added Mr.. Larry
Dooley, comedian of prominence, late
of Carncross' and Primrose d Vests
minstrels. With such artists rs Press
Eldredge, Frenk Dumont, James A.
Wall, W. II. Window, c. f. Shattuck,
Murphy and Turner, Swor and King,
song and dance artists, the French
Mimic Benedetts and Mr.. Dooley. an
unequaled performance is given, deserv-
ing the large patronage bestowed. The
gentlemen named comprise the cream
of the minstrel stage A change OF
programme is given each week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
BILLIARDS AND POOL.

De Orc and Manning won the Joint
pool tournament at New York. Score:
De Orc and Manning, 600; Powers and
Werner, 5S7.
George Slosson claims that in his
match with Ives he experienced the
hardest luck of his life At no period
of the game could he get the balls IN
der control
Senator Berry, of Arkansas, has only
one leg, but you wouldn't think IL il you
saw him playing billiards and making
the best men in Washington wink at
the brilliancy of some of his shots.
J. L. Malone, who Is regarded BY
many as the greatest pool player in the
world, has entered in tournament
with De ORC, Clearwater, Power, Man
ming and Werner. at Havana, Cuba,
next November. Twelve hundred dol
lars has been put up for cash prizes
and the Havana club will pay the ex-
penses of the players
George T. Slosson. who has rcache d
his home, has the following TO say of
Ives: HE plays a magnificent game Of
billiards He hasn't the Schaefer touch.
nor is he as graceful a player a. Jake,
but that he can play great billiards
cannot be denied Then again he IL
lucky fellow, and that helps bit, can
tell YOU"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
WHY a Boiled Lobster is Red.

In all crustaceans, as, indeed, in al
most everything in nature, there is q
certain per cent. of iron. Upon boiling,
the lobster is oxydized; the effect is
largely due also to the percentage of
muriatic acid which exists naturally ii
the shell. The chemical change which
takes place here is almost similar to
that which occurs in the burning of .
brick. In boiling a lobster its coat
ceases to be living substance, and to
certain extent it takes a new character
1t is as brick would be after burning.
This effect can also be produced by the
sun, but necessarily not SO rapidly, as
the heat of that luminary, although
more intense, is not concentrated suffi
GENTLY to produce the result. The sun
also exercises a bleaching influence,
which consumes the oxide almost as
fast as it is formed, leaving the shell
white, or nearly pure lime.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
FASHION NOTES.
woman.

Leather Iaces in women's shoes form
a breach of taste that is absolutely I'M
pardonable. Cloth laces, and cloth only,
should be worn, and these must match
the shoes.
Wide baby sashes Of MORE or fancy
ribbon will be very much worn with sum-
mer dresses
| Red is to be extensively used in mil
| linery, not only the deeper tints, but
! brilliant scarlet. Gilt wire bonnets are
! embellished with field peoples and trails
of trumpet creeper and loops of red rib
bon.
'The incest material,' said the
woman who has tried it, ''of which to
make bathing suit is alpaca. 1t sheds
the water and holds its own much bet
ter than flannel, which becomes water
! soaked and fioppy. For this summer 1
am having suit of dark gray alpaca,
Turkish drawers and Russian blouse,
Frightening it with quantities of red
braid. -
A dainty pincushion purchased for a
pink and green room was fluffy little
round ball of pink silk and lace, tinted
a delicate shade of green. The founda-
ton of the cushion was pink silk with
mousseline de sole drawn over the top
and decorated with a painted vine of
trailing arbutus.
White alpaca, as a material for dressy
gowns. has been brought to the fore by
no less an authority than Worth.
very stylish gown of this material is
made with q velvet Elton jacket, with
the full front of the corsage of white
mousseline de sole.
The white charaois gauntlets are
prettiest out of town, though so many
white and light gloves are being worn
that even these are liked with suitable
gowns A device of trimming that gives
the effect of'a gauntlet glove, though r
buttoned glove be worn, is to have a
deep gauntlet sleeve cuff to be matched
by the glove.
a woman with blue gown, whose
bodice was a long fitted coat, had revers
and gauntlet cuffs OF white She wore
white dressed kids, the buttoned wrists
slipped within the sleeves
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

Information had reached the Police Bu-
reau Of her connection with the Nihilists,
and it was believed that she, though not
herself as active in the cause as others,
could be forced to throw certain light
upon the movements of several women
who had formed themselves into special
conspiracy which was directed against
no less an object than the Gar himself.
Later on more extended reference is
made to this development of the Nihilist
plot. After her arrest, when all other
means to force her to incriminate her
friends had failed of their object, Olga
was subjected to indignities which from
their nature can only be limited at here.
Extraordinary was her devotion to what,
preservation of silence. Not even the
fanatical fortitude of such women as
Vera Sassulitch and Sophia Perovskaya,
who were executed for participation in
the successful plot to destroy the late
Gar, Alexander H., was more remark
able than that of Olga Beburoff. Gresser
and his satellites could obtain no infor-
nation from her.
When the illness of Project dresser
grew alarming and the symptom of
poisoning were unmistakable, feeling
of deep apprehension seized upon the
authorities But when the tyrant's
death followed, extraordinary efforts
were at once put forth to solve the mys-
terry. The servants of the dead Projects
household were rigidly examined and
the cook in particular came in for a
special share of attention. Suspicion
that he might have poisoned his masters
food was naturally enough raised against
him, and though the unlucky man suf-
fered some of the severest tests which
the ingenui ty of his interrogators could
suggest, nothing was elected from him.
At length settled conviction of his in
nocence caused his persecution to be
abandoned The police began to cast
Then it suddenly flashed upon them that
the solution might perhaps lie in the
medical treatment dresser had received
during his illness, and forthwith his
medical attendant, DR.. Gatchowsky, was
arrested as briefly mentioned above.
This man has recently been pursuing a
somewhat notable career in ST. Peters
burg.
Physically DR.. Gatchowsky is a Pole
of strongly marked Hebraic features.
He jumped into sudden notoriety as the
inventor of a medicine on behalf of
which claims vera mt forth very similar
to those supposed virtues which gained
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

for DR.. Brown-Sequard elixir of life
worldwide attention some few years
ago. He gave it the title of vitaline, and
invited the aged and decrepit who had
become so either in the course Of nature
or from premature causes, to visit his
laboratory in search of renewed youth
and vigor. Numerous were the instan-
ces daily reported of the extraordinary
cures that were being effected by the use
OF vitaline. In Russia, as also in Cath
Ole countries, the clergy have always
advocated the efficacy of miraculous
faith cures. The visiting of shriues
where sacred relics were exposed. and
the possibility Of supernatural vista
lions, such as the visions of the Virgin
at Knock, in Ireland. or the power of
the holy water at Lourdes, in France, are
allowed and accepted by the Greek
Church. The consequence was that crowds
of patients overran the reception rooms at
DR.. Gatchowsky's house, and there
might be seen persons of all classes
though the rich observation-disclosures
ing with hearts full of faith to put them
fame of the cures effected began to
spread and the clergy themselves were
filed with feelings of Jealous apprehen-
sion. 1t seemed 70 them that this ouack
physician was encroaching upon their
preserves The other doctors also TOOK
alarm AMI FASTENED to stigmatize this
new empiric as a fraud. They could
not, however, shut their eyes 70 the fact
that cures were effected, but they ex-
planned this upon the ground that mere
faith in anything goes q very long way
as therapeutic. A few weeks ago
Project Gresser was taken with an i'll
ness, and even he became q patient Of
DR.. Gatchowsky. The latter informed
the Project that his nslady was slight
one aud treated him with the vital
Inc" specific Soon after Gresser had
suecumbed under treatment and The
doctor was arrested, rumors were cir
culated n quarters where The inside
facts were frequently shrewdly OWNED /
that the police held information ensblin. /
them 10 establish his connection with I
the NihllIsts, and that they were weaving /
a chain OF evidence which wouId reveal I
the causes of Gresser's demise IN thu. 4
they also failed and the doctor WAS dis
missed from custody.
Amid sl these rumors there IS one
which easily dwArfs TIE others and hss
aroused tie community By its over
shadowing Importance Nothing IN the
way Of accurate details 10 as yes OBJ
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
THEATRICAL CHAT.


Stuart Robson viii devote next sea
son to the revival OF his former sue.
cesses-
A duel in the dark is one of the SEN
sational features of a new play, Night
and Morning"
land, Cal, will open in August The
cost Of it is $500. 900.
Nine Nevada, the American prima
donna has been singing with great Sue
cess at Gibraltar.
Lillian Russell denies the report that
she viii marry her manager, T. Henry
French She says she VIII be sister
70 him
Nat Goodwin is going to Europe this
summer TO take a rest His domestic
troubles have caused him much wo-ri-
ment.
A Chicago girl. beatrice vehon. has
achieved notable triumph as 3 singer
at the Royal Court theater a. Stock
holm.
Paul ". Potter's new play FOR Helen
Barry. which she agrees 20 produce be-
fore the holidays, Is TO be called The
Duchess"
An original play in which there is
not line Of dialogue viii be tired This
summer. /. = called An Original
Vengeance" rs author is Ernest 4.
Foster.
Mr.. ard Mrs Kendall VIII occupy their
ovH theat1- this fall with = rew pia-
hy Clyde Fitch. which should set q; res.
Tire rEarnors about another American
tour.
Water DAnro>ca h oo2Doas1g she
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

There are some who assert that a
woman who has become old ceases, ipso
fscGo, to belong tC our sex. They are
both right and wrong. Old age, it is
true, deprives woman of a portion of
her power over man. Her charms no
longer captivate his senses, capture his
intellect and subject his will to her
caprice She ceases to appeal to his
passions and has lost part of her mastery
over him. Thus far she may be said to
have ceased to belong to our sex. But,
on the other hand, the old woman, es-
peciaIly when she resembles the one L
have portrayed above, porsonifies in her
being the entiue history of the fair sex.
Men. ave, and women as we'll, feel for
her the same kind of tenderness and
veneration that we experience for some
dainty and beautiful antique The
friendship and love which she inspires
in men is no longer weighted and soiled
by thoughts and considerations that are
contrary to the doctrines of Plato. The
aureole of silver hair about her head i'm
parts delicacy and refinement, and, if
may use the word, p hysical disinterest-
edness to the sympathetic affection
which her old-time graces arouse.
In one word, whe reas, when young,
we are apt to call forth the worst quail
ties and the most evil characteristics of
the masculine sex, when old we repair
the wrong we have caused and originat-
ed by bringing out ali mans best points.
In one of my previous letters ! described
woman's predominance aud absolute
power over. man. We are responsible
for everything that he does, both good
and bad. Even the men themselves
acknowledge this. For they are won't
to declare that there is a woman at the
bottom of everything Inasmuch, there
fore, as the character of our influence
over him improves with our advance in
years, let US no longer endeavor TO
check the advance of age, but resign
ourselves to grow old gracefully, and
daintily spread around us broadcast the
happiness and good will that ordinarily
fills the heart of that much illuminated
and very lovable creature-the old
woman. CARRIE CARELESS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
For short.

In one Of the smaller towns Of Ken
lucky lives negro faniliarly known a.
Tim" White. On one occasion IL was
necessary 20 record his full name
The not unnatural supposition tha.
Tim" stood for Timothy was met with
a fat denial
NO. sab! Ny right name L. What
tinorous souls we poor rnortals be
White Dey jes' calls me Tim TO shot
ssh.'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
THE PERIL OF THE CAR.
Dressers Life Was Exposed to
Great Danger.
The Doctor Who Was Supposed to Have
Poisoned Him-His Terrible Persecu-
ton of Suspects-Is There Mine
Under the Royal Palace?

COPYRIGHT. 1892, BY BACHELLER JoHNsoND
When some time ago Gen. Gresser, the
noted chief of the Third Section of Police
of ST. Petersburg, Russia, died under
conditions which excited suspicious of
his having fallen a victim to the poison
er's art the people of ST. Petersburg were
thrown into state of feverish excite
ment which is not likely to subside for
many weeks to come, and the same query
was and is still heard Oh every side:
What does this mean-is it the vista
ton of God, or has there been foul play?'
Not since the time of Messentsoff, that
famous predecessor of dresser, who was
murdered early in the eighties at the
corner of the Michael square, has the
Gar had so able, so astute, so crafty, so
interruptions servitor as the man who
has just died. No other Project Of Police,
with the one exception of Messentsoff,
ever proved himself SO thoroughly
versed in the science of check mating the
best laid plans of Nihilism. His capacity
for successfully watching them and the
supposed completeness of his method
had led every one to believe that at
tempts upon his life were not likely to
prove successful even if it should be pos
sible to Initiate them. But the SEQUEL
has shown, apparently, that the official
who is capable of holding his own
against the Nihilists for an indefinite
period has not yet appeared. The situa-
ton was complicated by the arrest Of
DR.. Getchowsky, u Polish physician of
st. Petersburg, on suspicion Of being the
author of Gresser's death.
To convey an intelligent idea of this
strange drama it is necessary to go back
to the commencement From the time
when Gen. dresser first assumed control
of the Third Section of Police it became
evident that course of uncompromising
severity would be pursued toward the
element. Every traditi Oh
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

always remember with what amuse-
ment I on one occasion listened TO old
Lady Dorothy Neville discourSing to
number of statesmen and Cabinet Min
listers whe we're grouped around on the
subject of the various styles Of decolle-
rase OF dress. 1t was difficult subject
with which TO deal in talking to party
OF men, and younger woman could
scarcely have attempted the task with
out Gegeneratirg into vulgarity. From
talS reproach, however, the gray hair of
Lady Dorothy completely saved her and
sac was able to discuss the various ad-
80. --,.,-r-es aud merits Of the square cut
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
The fundamental Princin,.-

Have you learned anything about
the law asked the proud father OF his
son.
Yes, sir; l have grasped the funda-
mental principle Of successful practice "
''N nat is ity''
Make it fee simple in the deed and
fee complex il the bill"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

decolletage, the round cut, the angular
cut, the point cut, the triangular cut,
fastened at her throat and opening
across the bust, the called baillement
cut, and the tabatiere cut. Each of
these was explained and expounded,
Lady Dolly skimning deity and skill
fully over each difficult point without
altering one word that would offend the
ia ste or delicacy of any of her listeners.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
sSs tsss6
We(ll .s)E,.ti'1alIG
80
see's{zsg
Desires Perpetual Youth For All
Of Her Sex.
She Tells How 1t May BE Accomplished.
The Decollete Question Rather
Broadly Surveyed-Some Or
iEinaI Conclusions.

COPYRIGHT. 1892, BY JAMES W. JoHNsoN)
cat all costs keep young" Such was
the text Of very remarkable address
delivered the other day by the celebrated
French statesman, Jules Ferry, to the
Association of Paris Students. Strictly
speaking, his exhortation was meant for
the masculine sex. But of course we
have appropriated it to our own use. 1t
is far too delightful and acceptable
bit of advice to be wasted on men, who
nowadays never become really young IN
heart and spirit until they grow old in
years The true and only embodiment
of youth is TO be found in womanhood,
and NJ. Jules Ferry's recommendation
furnishes US with welcome excuse for
retaining our pretensions to personify
youth even after we have grown-well.
let US call it ripe"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

Before her marriage Mrs. French
Sheldon was DR.. May French. She was
always a very independent, self-reliant
girl, perfectly able to take care Of her
self, and bent on making career" IL
not in medicine, then in some other way
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22
Forecast the Weather at Breakfast.

FORECAST me eaLher at Brea t<faSt-
A cup of coffee and a lump or two of
sugar are said TO be very acceptable
substitute for the official and not wholly
accurate weather forecasts. Having
dropped the Jumps of sugar into the cup
Of coffee carefully. watch the sir-bubbles
that rise TO the surface. If they suddenly
rush from the center to the side of the
cup, be sure that it Is going to rain very
hard. II the air-bubbles assemble in the
center and then pass to the side of the
cup in a deliberate way you must still
be prepared for what the weather fore
casts would call "some showers" But
If the bubbles refuse to stir from the
center Of the cup you may so forth TO
your lsbors assured of a fine day
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-22

she DOESN'T AGREE WITH CARRIE CARELESS.
There are several ways of putting into
practice this advice of the French states
man. Some of them are to be encour-
aged, while others should be avoided.
There is nothing more Objectionable than
AN old woman who endeavors to conceal
by transparently artificial means the
ravages that time has wrought in
her beauty, and to retain, norwith-
standing her age, a fictitious sem
blance Of youth. There is nothing,
on the other hand, more delightful and
attractive than Ghe silver-haired old lady,
who bears her years bravely and frank
iy, without making effort to hide their
number, and whose compliance with NJ.
Ferry's admonition TO ''keep young is
to be found in her retention of youth
fully warm and generous heart, and of
certain innocent little coquetries of dress
snd manner that SAVIOR of the Eighteenth
century marquise.