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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

THE TEST OF THE GEARY LAW.
NEW YORK, May 6-Three Chinese
Wong Quan, Lee Goe and Fong Yue Sing
were arrested by United States Marshal
Jacobus this morning for violation of the
Chinese exclusion law requiring Chinese
to register. The Chinese surrendered vol
unfairly, in order to test the law. Wong
Quan and Lee Goe were taken to the
United States district court where Judge
Brown at once took up the cases. The
chief lawyers for the Chinese were Joseph
Choate and Thomas d. Rordan, counsel
for the powerful Chinese SixCompanies of
San Francisco, which is defraying ali the
expenses of the test cases. United District
Attorney Mitchell appeared to prosecute.
Wong Quan'S case was taken up hrst.
All were anxious for conviction, and Judge
Brown remanded him to the custody of
the United States marshal to be depor:ed
TO China. Lee Goes case was next heard.
In this case the prisoner attorneys stated
that he was without the necessary certIfl-
cate through unavoidable causes. He WAS
not able to prove SO by any white person,
nor WAS he able to show by any white per-
son that he was in the country on May D,
1892, as the law requires. Judge Brown
granted an order for the expulsion of the
prisoner. In the United States circuit
court the case of Fong Yue Sing was
heard by Judge Lacombe, who ordered the
prisoner deported to Chiua. In all three
cases counsel applied for writ of habeas
corpus, which being refused (by pre-
arran ged plan) the counsel gave notice of
an appeal to the United States supreme
court The three Chinese were admitted
to bail in the sum of $500 each. The cases
will be heard by the supreme court on
next Wednesday.
TACOMA, Wash, May 6.-An investiga-
ton made by the Ledger shows that
gigantic conspiracy exists TO flood the
country with Chinese. Every Canadian
Pacific steamer for months past has
brought horde of Chinese 1t is reported
that the Chinese pay $40 to be landed at IA
United States port. $50 of which goes to
somebody who keeps his eyes shut when
they are coming III. Many small craft
ply between British Columbia and the
United States. whose business is supposed
to be entirely the handling of Chinese.
Government officials are said to receive
a monthly salary. according to their sta.
ton, for their services.
WASHINGTON, May The government
is informed that the collector of the port
or Astoria has imposed fine of $50, coo
upon the master of the ship Danube for
bringing 3l2 Chiuese passengers in excess
of the ships capacity, and tor other in
fringements of the passenger law of 1852.
The Danube has been libeled.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
THE ROCK ISLAND EXTENSION.

CHICKAsHA, r. T., May 6-[Speciall !
The surveyors OF the southwestern branch
of the Rock Island started out from this
point on Monday. They are locating the
road and a prominent railroad man said
that he looked for construction to begin
by July l, and very probably sooner. This
VIII be only the beginning, as the CON-
pany has about decided. so our Informant
says, TO build the southeastern branch at
the same time. The southwestern branch,
now beiug surveyed. will touch at Ana
dsrko and 60 through the Wichita noun
rains at the pass of Rainy Mountain creek
some twenty-five miles north OF Fort Sill;
thence on through Greer county 20 some
point in Texas, probably Quanah or Yer
non. This line passes through the finest
portion of the kiowa and Conanche rese-v-
.tions, which Will be opened 10 white
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-08
MECHANISM OF AN OYSTER.
The Delicious BivaIve Is Got Up in
Shape Ply siologicaIly.


Every oyster has mouth, heart, a liver.
a stomach. besides many curiously devised
little intestines and other organs-neces-
sary organs such as would be handy to a
living, moving, intelligent creature. The
mouth is at the end of the shell near the
hinge and adjoining the tOothed portion of
the oysters pearly covering. This tiny
little apology Of mouth is oval in shape,
and, although hardly visible to one unused
to making such anatomical examinations,
can be easily discovered by gently pushing
a bodkin or a piece of blunt, smooth wire
along the surface or the locality entioned.
When the mouth is at last located you can
thrust your instrument through between
the delicate lips and considerable
distance toward the stomach without
whatever. From this mouth there is,
OF course, a miniature canal leading to the
stomach Food passes through this canal
to the stomach, and from the latter organ
into the intestines, just as readily as though
the little bivalve were as large as an ele-
plant or a rhinoceros. Remove the she'll
(thls operation is rather rough on the oyster.
but can be done in comparatively painless
manner by an expert), and You will see the
crescent, which lies right over the so-ealled
heart. This half-moon space Is the oysters
pericardium. Within Is the true heart. the
pulsations of which can be readily seen
without the aid OF glass. The heart is
very human like, made of two parts. one of
which receives the blood from the gills
through a network of real blood vessels,
the other portion contracts and drives the
blood out through the body. The other
organs of an oysters anatomy are all IN the
proper places and performing their several
functions. Ii you don't believe this story
examine one for yourself.
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ward had happened: they kept quiet out
side during the night, and in the mornin g
came close to examine into the affair.
As for myself, had brought with me a
stock of soiled kid gloves OF eight-button
length, and wore them during the night
and while dressing the wounded cat, then
rolled them off my hands and threw them
into the fire.
| feared the hanging eye would never be
of use again; but, TO my surprise, IT grad
ually replaced itself in the socket, and
though the iris was smaller than that OF the
right eye and the sight not equally as good,
she could see with il, and there was no
deformty.
After this accident she did not join with
the others in chasing after snakes to play
with their wriggliDg tails. Worse Still, the
sound of a rattle paralyZed her, and she
would stand riyeted TO the spor, bowling
with fear, until the snake. wherever 1t
might be, was hunted and killed. Finally
she was bitten away from home and died.
thus settling the question of the greater
power OF wildcat or rattlesnake.
Little Mothers next installment OF family
was the progeny OF a genuine wild Tom.
Fine gray fellows they were. with the ruff
encirclinR their neck from ear TO ear like an
owl. Shakespeare made two Dromi0s.
Little Mother went him one better, she pro-
duced three. The fourth member of the
batch, Lady Jane Gray. WAS bitten by a
tarantnla and within three minutes was
corpse. She caught the spider in her
mouth and 1t bit her tongue. After death
her tongue and throat were black as coal.
As for the Dromios, death claimed two.
Each day developed some new fine trait Of
character in the remaining one. When
there was fresh family to be fed he seemed
to realize that he should be depended upon
for its support, aud right manfully he made
ii. No difference how hungry he might be-
he never took bite from the game he
brought, but carried it direct to the children,
lying down at full length and pnrring away
while they fought among themselves for
exclusive possession.
After week Of this uDsslfish line OF ac-
fion / took ! nd myself. / would take
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the squirrel or rabbit-sometimes seven ana
eight in day-and divide equally between
the noble fellow and the children. Dr0mio
accepted his share as thankfully as IL l had
provided it myself.
The wildcat is ravenous eater. One
rabbit is no meal for fully grown animal.
only an appetizer. In lying down it never
curls into ball as the tame eat does.
Whether on the floor, in bed or on ones
lap, it stretches at full length, its forepaws
and arms extended. the same way as when
resting in the branches of the trees. No
amount of training or intimacy with human
beings alters it in this respect.
Before be was year old Dr0miO, too. was
bitten in the head by RATHER. His natu-
rally large head seemed to double its usual
size-truly capitas elephants. L treated
il with a generous supply Of turpen tine,
and within week he could open his eyes
and lap his milk. / restrict all bitten ami
mails to diet OF milk. and found turpen-
tine. il applied Immediately in liberal
quantities, an invariabie liie-sayer.
Like all my wildcats, Dromio was very
sensitive harsh tone of voice, cross
word, whether 10 him or to another animal
or to a human being, and he would stand
In nervous Quivering. One day j scOlded
my dog. and Dromio left me. A week after
/ found him in the woods and he was over
j0yed TO see me, but could not coax him to
follow me home. Heavy burden that he
was, picked him up and carried him in my
arms. lie made no resistance and purred
like q planing-miH, occasionally putting
one paw careSslngly on my face and the
other arm around my neck. After many
stops to rest my weary arms. got home at
last. He met the rest Of the family with
JOY and seemed perfectly content i had no
occasion to reprlmand anything or any,
body, but he looked at me nervOusly all the
while, and as soon as my back was turned
he disappeared never 10 return. Easy to
take offense, the wildcat never forgets nor
forgives. Dear old Drcmio-and all your
succeeding generations. Reauiescat in
pacei LOUISE A. LALETON.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-08
A PET WILDCAT.
"Little Mother" and Her
Young Kittens.
ONE wOMAN's COMPANIONS,
And How she Learned the Respective
Fighting Qualities of the Rattle
snake and Wildcat.
written for rHn Monslse GAIL

The sole Improvement of my first ranch
in the Fresno foothills was a mountain
cabin 10x12, without window. with liter
ally a ground floor. and with the warped
door opening outward. and padlocked like
an old barn.
] was told that the house was furnished
from Judge Lewis 30-year-Old kitchen,
new when he first came here as Indian
Agent" which legend ! am not inclined to
dispute. for it proved a hard task for the
carpenter to put in D1ard floor aud VIM
dows and change The working of the door
from outside to inside and fit the nortised
lock-the first one ever seen in this Isolated
country.
Aud when this work was done. very ir-
regularly to the mechanics grumbling dis
satisfaction, the establishment had to be
raised from the ground as the rolting IN
derpinnipg was breeding eentipedes and
scorpions. found ten of the latter in my
bed-cOveTs at one time.
A fragment of Judge Lewis kitchen,
deeaying from sge, 1t could be lifted but
two feet when it t0ttered forward as though
--weRk-kneed thing-it were liable TO drop
at any moment. When l added o wide
awning, boTdered with turkey red. and built
a great arbOT of thatched pines in front for
summer use, the picturesque effect was so
intensified that an outside barbarian Wonid
have thought bit of san Francisc0's China
town had been waited here, While the ln-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-08
WOODEN SHOES.
They Are Manufactured on a Small
Scale i'm New York.

New York Recorder
Did You know that a family OF French
people here IN New York live by making
wooden shoes-just such sabots as the
European peasants wear?
After going down a steep and narrow
fight OF stairs you almost stumble into a
dingy little room. The first thing you see
is stout Frenehman. bending over what
looks like CARPENTERS bench. Back Of you
is a huge old-fashioned French four poster
This, M. HouItoul will tell you If you speak
mis- native tongue. has accompanied him in
all his wanderings-to California. to Mex
leo, and finally TO New ork. Around the
room sit two boys and the wife at work.
On the bench are piled blocks of wood,
some of them partly covered with leather,
all bearing a gr0tesQfe resemblance to a
gigantic foot, while before all the windows,
serving as a sign but kee ping out the light,
are innumerable umbrellas and more car
features OF shoes.
NJ. Hourtonl is Maitre Jacques-Jack of
all trades. What Will you? he saws, " tn
a deprecating shrug. Genius must eat
Some day | viii make nothing but sabots.
You would know where / learned my art ?
Why, in the lair country of AuveTgne,
where my father and my family for many
generations have been shoemakers. We
left our country, my wife aud |, aud came
to America. Why did we not know the
Americans all wore the leather shoe? All,
one judges other countries by what one
sees at home.
"Well, the business has its ups and
downs. Once, when Mr. Kiralfy brought
out a French ballet there was money 90 be-
made. / would do it all again without pay
to measure once more those pretty feet, 10
look once more at those dainty ankles !
Tbat-ma f0i-that was as good as Au-
yergne.
But now such things happen rarely
Now and then an order for one pair Of
wooden shoes for completing some fancy
costume. That is all.
"No, had forgotten. Many French
people know me and they come and order
what we call souues-shoes with wooden
sole and leather top.
~ on see the pastry cooks and bakers
the walters and gassmakers would rather
wear the sabots; they last longer"
The old man picks up a tiny sample of
his handiwork and strokes it lovingly
That belonged 90 little Pierre. he says, his
eldest son, who died years ago in Mexico.
The twilight has fallen, and the old fellows
face is ia deep shadow. And we pick our
way out of the poor room up the rickety
steps. Through the hall float the sounds of
a harmonica. lie beau pays d'AuveTgne'
the fair country Of Auvergne-siags a
fresh young voice. In the front room all is
dark and still.
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too, and / had to give up gypsying. buy a
few pounds of sulphur and devote my en-
ergies to fumigating for the next fortnight.
My beautiful blue carpet was soon
stained with the gore of multtudes of iiv-
ing sacrifices; as for bones and tails and
hides-the place looked yeritable slaugh-
teT-house.
For many months l was uncertain whether
rattlesnake could kill q wildcat in fair
match. One hot July day, as lay stretched
on spring cot under my arbor, heard the
warning rattle OF snake about TO spring
Ny man was within ten feet Of me doing
the weeks washing. l cried to him to come
quickly and examine the cot, while lay
with closed eyes and baied breath Tor fear
of making the slightest motion. lie turned
the mattress up and the bed over. could see
nothing, and yet again and again
the enraged rattle echoed as though by my
side or under my feet. / insisted upon the
man searching further, but somewhat i'm
patiently he pointed to a cricket overhead
and 'tarantula hawk, saying they we're
making the noise.
Indeed the erckepS song when not pro-
longed nor in dying cadence is quite like
the rattlesnake's warning But the sound
did not come from overhead; ii was not an
Illusion Of the sense OF hearing that placed
1t at my side. As soon as l WAS convinced
that my couch was not invaded | sprang up
10 look for the maraudeT, and there, within
three feet OF me, in the tall grass, was q
monster making faces with his forked
tongue and shaking his tail at Little Mother,
who crOuched undaunted a few inches
away. never winkng. but seemingly con-
eentratiDg her will power upon hypnotlzing
the serpent.
think she was succeeding, as the Oft
repeated warnings and shrinking back of
the cooled reptile showed mis- lack of power
to strike. But the question remained I'M
settled. for as soon as nv man took in the
situation he decapitated the enemy with a
shovel. The meat of the old fellow-not SO
old either, as he had but nine rattles and a
button-was like sturgeon in appearance,
and lie WAS so fat that he would have made
solid steaks or rOasis. Old m0untaneers
proclaim the meat delicious in season. pro-
viding in his anger the snake does not bite
| himself, in which case the meat Is poisoned.
When brought TO bay he prefers biting
| himself to being killed, which shows an In
! telligent knowledge of his fatal power.
Speaking of rattleSnakes, there is wide
diversity Of opinion about their character,
some calling them towards. some courage
ous founded on personal encounters and
PERHAPS geographical locality.
My own experience proves them not
aggressive, but they act quickly on the de-
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-08
The hos on the Niger.
All the Year Round.

Ivory anklets, often very heavy, are only
worn by the women of wealth and i'm
portance, but the metal ankiets worn by
others may be many pounds IN weight. and
some of them wear huge brass plates, per-
haps foot in diameter, which, once fixed
on the ankles, are never removed. The men
wear single strip of cotton cloth, but those
who come much in contart with the Euro
peans are now learning to wear trousers.
Their wearons are fliDtiocks, bows and
spears. the latter both for hurting and
thrrsting.
The huts are built OF mud and mating,
and are quadranguiar In shape. The center
is an open courtyard, at one end of which
is the apartment of the head Of the house,
while the wives and family are accommo-
dated in other rooms ON the right and LIFT
OF the courtyard There is no furniture ori
ornament. and but a few household utensils
and weapons.
The hos have barbarous custom of dec
stroyiDg twins. A woman who gives birth
to twins is regarded as something accursed,
and the children are taken from her and
thrown into the bush to perish, while she
is proclaimed an outcast and driven from
the village. To hold Up two fingers to an
lbo woman is 10 offer her the greatest in
suit possible. They are very supersttious;
they worship idols OF wood. mud and iron.
which are regarded as protectors to be
prOpitiated at various periods, and slavery
exists among all the tribes,
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any OF my long walks / was obliged to lock
her within doors, and not always success
fully either, for once with such an outland-
ish yOwl and clatter Of broken glass as |
never heard in my life before, she dashed
through the window pane and bounded
after me purring-if a noise resembling a
planing-mill may be classed as purring-
with delight at the prospect OF mountain
stroll with her chum, and gamb0ling in a
clumsy way that was very diyerting.
The wildcat has the same playful instincts
as the tame cat, and Is 1.-THE and quick, but
is too heavy to be as graceful, and the most
OF its antics remind one of the circus clown.
Within six months my chum grew to
enormous size and became enamOred Of a
shOrt-tailed, yellOw-compleXioned lynx that
haunted my park OF oaks, and during the
summer she gave birth TO three little lynxes,
the image Of their dear papa. From that
date the psend0nym OF "kittie" was
dropped as inappropriate, and 'iittle
mother took its place, the diminutlve adj
jeetiye on account Of her youth.
Young. but not foolish. The first days Of
June were very warm. and my doors and
windows we're never closed. Little mother
took advantage Of this knowledge to carry
her precious offspring into the house, put
them sale In one corner Of the room. and
then come TO bed with me as usual. In all
the months she was with me she never
missed sharing my bed at night. She took
good care OF her babies, and such fine babies
as they werel but as soon as she had
nursed them to sleep she came to me for
caressing cOmpaniOnship.
One night ] awakened with afuffy feeling
all around me. The babies had grown
apaee ard clambe into bed too; one at
my feet, one at my side and one at my neck.
Soon after this feat Little Mother began
10 bring home fresh meat. Aud such meatl
All Of 1t alive too! Snakes, jackrabbiLs,
cotton-taiis, quail, and OH but to think of it
"A great skunk lay in bed and watched
her play with it and teach her children to
handle it and avoid its rabid bites, till sud-
denly she gave a great blow with her paw.
buried her fangs in The victims neck and
soon all was over. The smell was all over
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One Way of Drawing a Crowd.
London Telegraph


A well-dressed man, leaning against
lamp post and apparently sleeping the sleep
OF the just. created great deal Of interest
in busy London street the other day. He
sat on box which be seemed 10 have been
carrying. Evidently being suddenly over
come with drowsness, he had placed 1t on
the curbstone and sitting down upon it fell
asleep. To those who succeeded In getting
close enough to the man his gentle, restful
snore dispeled the fear that he might be
dead. The side of his face was exposed and
betrayed no sign of intoxicatioD. 1t was the
judgment Of every one that he was sober.
in good health aud simply taking a quiet
snoOze. When the crowd became so deep as
to threaten blockade the supposed sleeper
suddenly jumped to his feet mounted his
box. and. fiourishing couple of bottles over
his head, exclaimed: Now, gents, SEEM
that you are all here, rise to question of
privilege, and, after thankin' you for this
most cordial reception, which ] assure you
will long remain upon the tablets Of my
memory, / wish 10 call your attention to my
world-renowned corn and bunion eradica-
tor" and so on in the usual style.
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"ONE, TWO, THREE"


1t was an old. old. old, old lady.
Aud boy no was haf-past three,
And the way that they played together
was beautiful TO see.
She couldn't go running aud jumping.
And the boy, no more could he.
For he was a thin little fellow.
With thin. little, twisted knee.
They sat in the yellow sunlight,
Out under the maple tree.
and the game that they played Til tell you
just as 1t was told TO me.
- was hide-and-go-seek they were playing.
Though you'd never have known it TO be-
With al Old old, uld. old lady,
AND boy with a twisted knee.
The boy would beud his face down
On bis one little sound right khes
And he'd guess where she was hiding,
In guess S. One. Two. Three.
"You are in the china closet"
II" would cry and laugh with glee-
IL ISN'T the china closet.
but he still haa Two and Three
"You are up in papa's big bedroom,
In the chest with the queer Old key.'
And she said. "You are warm and warmer
But you're not quite right" said She.
"it can't DC the little cupboard.
Where mammals things used TO be-
so IL must be the clothes press, gran'fna,"
And he found her with the Three.
Then she covered her face with her fingers,
That were wrinkled aud white aud wee
AND she guessed where the boy was hiding
With one, and Z wo and Three.
And they never had stirred from their plac eS
Right under the maple tree
This old, old. Old, cid lady,
And the boy with the lame little knee
This dear, dear, dear old lady,
And the boy who was haif-past three.
ECGEN FIELD.