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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

| found that closer inspection OF tho
reptile added greatly 10 its hideous
| aspect The fangs were nearly two
| inches long. and. unlike those of other
venomous Serpents, were not intended
| to work in sockets and lie fat against
| the upper jaw when not in use, but
| were stationery in the jaw. | picked
up the snake to take il with me for
better Investigate ton al my quarters but
the native was SO Mortified nj the pros
pect of having il in the boat with him
that he absolutely and emphasically re-
fused 10 come ashore after me unless
left the bushmaster. which was reluct-
antly forced "a do. as | could get back
home in no other way than BY the
canoe.
Another venomous snake of South
America of which the natives live in
mortal terror is one called the manuta.
1t abounds in parts of Venezuela
There is an old Indian guide down
there who tells a most grewsome story
of how he started once 10 act AS guide
and canoeman for an English sports
man and his young son, and how he
returned with them both dead in his
canoe. The son, in stepping ashore
from The boat, was struck in the wrist
by manuta, and died IN few minutes
after he was got back into the boat.
the father, wild with grief over the
awful death of his boy, threw himself
on his sons body and kissed his lips
before the guide, knowing what the
result would be, could prevent him.
The father thus absorbed the deadly
.uanuta venom, which had perncated
every vein and every pore of the boys
body, and soon lay dead beside his son
in the boat.
Whether the old Indian guides
awful tale is true or not have no
means of knowing, but having seen "a
mule that died in two minutes after
being bitten by "a nnanuta, do not feel
like doubling IL. The snake that killed
the mule was killed Immediately after.
ward. and IL was the only specimen Of
the manuta ! ever saw. In general
physical formation IL resembled closely
oar rattlesnale. having but two fangS,
closing up in sockets like the RATHER s.
N Y SIN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

The telegraphic account Of the wed
ding in the royal family of England
Thursday stated that the popular dem
onstration was the greatest ever made in
London on a similar occasion. This is
understood to have been the prompIings
of the sympathy and admiration enter
tanned for the princess-bride by the Pao-
ole, which is the highest compliment
that could be paid her. Still, and never
theless, the gorgeousness of the affair
and the lavish bestowal of costly presents
by the nobility, while thousands in the
demonstratiye throng are on the verge
of starvation, presents something of q
travesty upon the equity of civil govern
ment, such as is maintained under mon
Rrchical form.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
MONETARY MIND CuRF.

a recent writer on financial topics in
treating Of panics remarks that, "mind
cure is in most cases the hest remedy.
The conceit is a happy one, taken in
connection with The present disposition
of bank dopositors 10 demand their
money. They have no immediate use
Tor if, ana it is safe where it Is. All
they need is such an application OF
mind cure" rs will restore their ordin-
Any mental balace and lead them to lake
a sensible view of matters Horace
Greedy said before the resumption of
specie payments, that 1.-THE best WAY 10
resume was To resume" In ike man.
ner the best way TO maintain financial
confidence is to corfle. Let hank de-
positors take it for granted that th.
country is all right. that their loans are
well protected. and go about their bust
ness as usual ana they VIII find as a rule
that the banks are all right and there is
~ occasion for being scared.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
KEEPING DOWN HIS coNcElT.
A Philosopher Who Finds 1T Necessary to
Go Away From Home Occasionally.

Go Away From Home Occasionally.
There is a man in Detroit whose
financial position is such that he can
live in comfort without doing other
work than clipping his coupons. He
is reflective man. unknown outside
the city of his residence, and every
once in awhile without any apparent
object he leaves home and stays away
for month or two. The other day he
returned from one of these trips, and
to a reporter for the Free Press con-
fded his reasons for going on these
periodical journeys. Said he:
Il have to take these trips. / get so
pulled up with my own conceit that it
is necessary go away once in awhile
to get the bubble punctured. Other
wise l would die from suffocation.
When you are al home every body
knows you, and. having money. every
body bows to you. You feel you are at
tracing attention and are being talked
about. It is one form of notoriety
or fame, some would call it, and to a
vain man-show me the man who isn't
vain-it is like cool water to a prespir
ing body. At home you exert an infiu
ence: people who realize the power of
money look up TO you. 1t is growing
city, and money is needed to help it
along. AS its growth increases the
value of everybody else's property, of
course everybody has an AK to grind,
and is ready to bend the knee to the
man who can set the grindstone in mo-
ton. He may be close as the bark on
tree, but he has the money and we
call him liberal. public-spirited, ETC.
We must pamper his vanity, you know.
Now, | am willing to acknowledge
/ absorbed all of this fattery, and not
being good discrimination put it all
in the same class and al low it to raise
me up, inch by inch-in my own esti-
mation-until l am. or think am, on
the top wave of popularity-a little god,
so to speak. This is a dangerous pima
Gle: fellow is likely to forget himself
and make a break that will cost him
dear in spite of his money. But
just get outside of the city limits and
the only persons who find out you have
money are hotel servants and railroad
poi tSi =, anu lHtE dCknOWlcuSt IL OILY
In their attempts to extort fees from
you. Nobody else pays the slightest
attention to you-you are to them
a mean atom in the panorama now
passing before their eyes-a feeting
shadow that vanishes from eye and
memory in the moment. You travel
on and on in this isolated condition I'M
til you finally fetch up in some big city.
where you lose what little is left of
your false personality in the portals of
big hotel. With each day of your
stay You drop one inch in your own es-
timation, and if you stay there long
enough you will become your natural
self again.
MY advice to overvain men-to all
men, in facts to leave home about
once in two years and take a trip north,
south, anywhere. SO long as the effect
upon the swelled head is beneficial.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Judge Bedford puts a strained con-
strGctiou upon public sentiment in this
country in regardto the presidents posi-
ton on the money question and his re-
sponsibili,y for existing conditions, rs
WAS evidenced in ms Denver speech the
other day. While Cleveland Is blame
able for present conditions to the extent
of the construction his administration
has put upon the laws, and for his re-
lusal TO convene congress for weeks and
months after the necessity IOr il became
apparent 10 all, vet nobody holds him
primarily responsible, nor 10 the extent
of visiting upon him peremptory writ
ot custer regardless Of means. The
doughty judge does the cause lac would
serve greater injury by such intern
perats declarations As are charged TO
him in his Denver silver haraugue
than 90 the cause he would oppose
lie lost sight o. the fact that the
people Of this country are law-abiding.
settling their difficulties by the peaceful
methods of the law rather than hy arbi-
trary violence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

The zeal of the single standard advo-
Gates of the east causes them to com
nit excuses in the expression of opin
ions and in formulating demands. The
declaration in the call for a special meet
ing for the chamber of commerce of
New York City, that "the present dis
turbed condition of the finances of the
country has been brought about by
primarily by the enforced purchase of
useless silver bullion, and the conse-
quent inability Of the government to
preserve a gold standard, no doubt ex-
presses the sentiments of those who
made and indoise it, but there are q
hundred people throughout the country
who do not believe ii to where there is
one that does. 1t was very frank OF
them to make the admission public, but
1t will do their cause no good-it will
not be accepted as basis of settlement
of the question al issue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
Printing ON Leather

Some beautiful artistic effects hare
been secured lately by printing on
leather. These are the results of a
carefully-perfected method Of treating
the leather after tanning. The skins
are kept free from grease, and. if they
have been prepared with tannin, must
first be stepped in preparation of GU
mae The application of the color can
be done in several ways, according to
the effect it IS desired TO produce. II
can be done by dyeing the skin and
afterward treating Il with acids in GER
tain parts, 50 that the natural color of
the leather appears, or printing with
preparation composed OF virgin wax.
four parts; castor oil. four parts; borax
and eopal resin, each one part. MIXED
together and warmed The castor oil
may be replaced by any vegetable or
mineral oil.-Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
The National Flower.

From the Kansas City star.
The candidates FOR the position OF
"Nauona! Flower" appear to have mar
rowed down TO the American laurel, the
suntiower and the Indian maize, COM
monty called corn. 1t is safe TO predict
tia, at the vote at the womans build
ing al the worlds fair the final contest
wI,l lie between corn and suniiower.
TIE laurel cannot succeed on a really
popular vote because II j. mountain
flower, practically confined 10 the
eastern mountain ranges and unknown
to the millions who dwell ia the prairies
and the plains.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
10 Kansa.

The Washington Posts puts a new in
depreciation upon the inscription on the
silver dollar The Post says it is now
understood 10 mean that we are to trust
in God for the other - cents. IL that
were the case the situation in this coun-
try would be different. Uncle Sam is
understood TO stand good for the differ
ence; but that was all right until he
commenced TO measure its value 10y the
English standard. Then the peoples
confidence begun TO wobble.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
A Taste for Arteur

Little Dick-I know how 20 tell how
deep a well is without going down
father-Ah. I'm glad TO see my son
has taste for science. You drop In a
stone and then count the mum Der Of
seconds required for the descent, ! pre-
sumo?
Little Dick-Oh. no tic the stone
10 string and then measure the string.
Good News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
IL 2 Very Fad WAY.

Mrs Mort-Gage-My dear. the girls
want you to go 20 Europe THIS summer.
Hushana-Impossible I eoaldn {
pay passage for one Of you-
Saratoga them
II too poor.
"Well, some quiet, retired conn
try
n TOO poor
eve must get out OF the city. II ISM.
respectable 70 stay in
Il IN very sorry. ! suppose ! might
on a pinch. get you and the girls ad-
rnittef fGr the sugpsuer 70 some rural
poor-housa, but the trouble i I'm TOO
poor 70 pay the czr-fare. N. Y.
Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
In 8 Temoerance Town


Stage Aanager-I don't sea how you
are gong 10 play your Ten Nights = :.
Bar Room in our thSater; We have ne
5sr room Sceue-
Company Manager-Tha,'s all right
ST up your caiciuas apparatus rs sod /.
fosntain, pgt a directory on little table.
get Il few coloFed glass bottles nad we'.l
play It IN : drug store,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Cast1ner-Asny Of my friends are
wearing scarf pms showing the bust
ness tisey are IN. ] am q carpenter;
have y0u anything suitable for that
tr..tis.9
.'evTeler showing masonic rinsl--
Certainly s5r. here Is large &ssori-
n1ent- 5nst in. Yea viii easily recog-
uize your isap!easents-tae square ard
cou pass
Customer Hnt shat i that -; for
3ewaeier-fsll-er-for .g.zaies. JOG
kacy.-P.e&
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

1t is not known that Governor Altgeld
has any other untitled pledges to crlmi-
nais, but yesterdays report from Peoria
and Cairo indicate that crime Is on the
increase. The people of Illinois have
our sympathy, and we extend to the
order-lovmg ones an invitation to come
10 Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
Theory Knocked out by Fact.

From the Kansas City Star.
When General James g. Weaver was
making calamity spevch il Jewell
county last week ne made the assertion
that farmers were compelled TO take so
a head for fat steers, buI he was knocked
out when an old farmer N the audience
rose up anu taking SO out OF his p cEet,
said that was the price received GA che
Steer he had sold that day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Cora flowers have been the fashion
able blossom in Paris this season. The
corn blossom, stock and ear, is all the
rage in Kansas this year. Kansas not
only keeps 'up with the fashion, but
goes them one better.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Cleveland clings to Jeffersonian sim
piicity in one respect to comnenda-
bic degree: he calls his affection of the
leg and foot plain every day rheuma-
tism and net the arstocratic name Of
govt. which it no doubt u.s.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
Satisfaction.

SMITH met man to-day who told
me looked Hike YOU
jones thercelyl was i? II
can Gnd bin IL knock him down
smith alEnlv}--Don't trouble your-
sels; ! knocked him down az once
Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Governor AltgeId of Illinois used sew
enteen thousand words in trying to ex-
plain why lie pardoned the three An
archists from states prison, and yet the
public are as far from satisfied as if he
aad not said word. The explanation
is, IL fact, as bad OF worse than the overt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
She (ouid Tru.f Him.

Mother wish yoG to go 10 the ,tors
and get me a bar 81 soap
Little Johnny-Ive got an awful
toothachc
Docs IL really ache mueh7~
Awful, I can't Let thing touch
Il ."
Then you may also bring me pound
of raisins food News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Since the wheat harvest it is found
that the yield is larger than was antlci-
pated. With the old wheat on hand and
the new crop combined, Kansas will be
able to furnish bread for several other
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

The drouth in France has been so ex-
tensi7e that all duties-On fodder have
been suppressed until the end OF the
year. What a great thing it would be
# few million tons Of Kansas hay that
annually goes. to waste, could be eX-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
EXCAANGE HPIrOMEs.
He Has Nos traight Cinch.

From the Topeka Capital
Governor Lewelling should make an
other trap to Wichita and repair the
fracture IN his fusion camp. A few days
ago the Democratic county central COM
nIittee OF Sedgwick county made a call
for straight Democratic county con-
vention to be held at Wichita, July 8.
This Will lie sad news to our governor,
who recently issued orders for u fusion
IN SedgwIck county. He should go
down 10 Wichita anu fix up this langie.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
An TscapedI.unatic.

A New York gentleman, visiting Chi
csgo. awol1e one night TO find q masked
burglar with loaded pistol standing
at MS bedside.
Il want money or your life.
Idiot, Don't you know I've been
here two DAYS Texas sifsiogs-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
JUST BEFORE FROST COMES.
The Beavers Home and Winter Supply of
Food.

Food.
Upon an elevation in pond Just COW
cred by the water the beavers build
their house, which. when newly built
and covered with fresh-cut limbs, re-
sembles much a heap of brushwood. A
family apartment, accomElodac ting five
or six. may be six or seven feet across
the floor, or ''shelf," while the walls
are built up to the height of foot.
Poles (some of which are as large as
ones wrist, laid slantingly upward
and covered with earth and other sticks
to a thickness of over a foot, compose
the roof of the chamber, which is three
or four feet from floor to ceiling. Be
tween the sticks at the peak is space
for ventilation. Each member of the
family owns a bed, which it lines warm
" with grass or shreds of poplar wood
split as fine as if for basket-work
There are several exits under water for
additional safety. In the middle OF
the pond is fan-shaped pile OF brush
all the butts pointing toward the en-
trance of the house. There is a wagon
load of 1.-THE store of winters food,
covered with water and ice before the
pond was drained. Every stick had
been cut in the surrounding woods and
dragged separately to that place.
Paths, little less than foot in width.
lead back a distance of quarter of
mile from the stream. These paths are
found in every beaver settlement. The
| birches and whitewoods are separated
from the resinous evergreens, and drag
ged along these little roads. Saplings
growing in the way are chopped off
close to the ground. In one place where
large pine log lay across their haul
ing road. section of solid wood foot
wide and six inches deep was cut out.
Indeed, when large logs fall across
their ponds, an entire section is some
times removed for the passage Of their
bodies.-St. Nicholas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Some of the press wags Of the state
are poking fun at Colonel Jim Hallowell
for declaring that he is out of politics.
Ii the p. VS.. would "mine" their own
business as assiduously as Prince Hal
does, they might feel more jockey, but
they would run something else in the
ground besides the joke on jim
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

Tie Kansas City Journal thinks it was
the Democratic cry Turn the rascals
out" that fooled Governor Altgeld into
opening the doors Of the penitentiary for
the Anarchists.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
@SsSSs .ssas,s q
NlgIY! SaIlsk
u --ssszzzsesssless :. g.
a. n. MURDOCH Editor.
NJ. n. MURDOCH Editor.

If yesterdays report of the wheat
crop Of Minnesota and the Dakotas be
true, the present low price OF wheat is
only question OF time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
Ventilation for Kerosene and Gasoline.

For convenience. some housekeepers
keep the kerosene and gasoline in some
not-much-used room in the house. Tn
less carried away by continuous venti-
lation, the gases from the oil stay in
the building, and form highly explo-
sive mixture. attended with considera-
BILE risk and danger. II kerosene be
spilled. it leaves lasting mark upon
the floor The better plan is to keep 4
supply in i've or ten gallon safety-can
on a shelf, in the woodhouse or other
outbuilding. Each can should be pro-
vided with a faucet. that the lamp may
be filed direct from the can without
lifting il. II any rags are kept near
the can, for Kidding the lamp Of the
overfowed oil. they should be placed in
a tin or iron vessel. Always insist
upon. and practice. filing the lamps by
DAYLIGHT Also insist upon having the
best oil. II Is really the cheapest. does
not foul or char the wick so rapidly,
and IS free from the disagreeable odor
noticed in burning cheap and danger
Gus il.-Americau Agriculturist-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
The ronx Word.

"Gusher is not very happy in his
choice ~ adjectises-
why so?''
Miss Quinn. Hshed for a compli-
nent by asking what he thought Of
her slippers
And what did he say2''
He said they were immense. Chi
cago Mail.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08

He-E lore yoR.
eae-How do VOC know ron doc
He-Why . brcaase feel 50
azsaz-a $780, sl.-E- - ---L---I-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-08
a aosev Maker.

Wright-Jepkins experts - make .
fortune In Chicago thisfuminer.
Svms-s}ow7
Wright-He has bought the bunce
privilege At the Worlds fsir.-Llfe'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-30
POLITICIANS AT ODDS.
Free Fight Between Cleveland and Hnl
 Men at Jamestown, N.

men Ut oohuesNoNna Ns He
 JAMESTOWN, N. Y., Sept. 30.-The Dem ocratic city caucus to elect delegates to the county convention was called to order by Frank F. Sherman, chairman of the Dem ocratic city and county committees, who announced that the city committee had se- lected Frank F.. Sherman, George c. Van dusen and Edward L. Derry as inspectors of the caucus The inspectors had or ganized by electing F. E. Sherman chairman and the other two tellers, and they were ready to receive ballots. They were all Cleveland men. Immediately the Hill men perfected another organization by electing Conrad A. Hull as chairman and John J. Mahoney, John Monyhan and s. B. Lewis as inspectors. By the time this was done the Cleveland officers had re- ceived about 25 ballots, when the Hill of ficers demanded control of the ballot box This was refused, wben a free fight occurred between the two factions to obtain control of it
 The hall was crowded, and the ballot box played the part ot a football in the heat of an exciting game. During the melee Sher nan declared the caucus adjourned because 1t was impossible to proceed with business Officers were called, and the quarrel was quelled, when the ballot box was found tc be in possession of the Hill men. The sec retary's tables had been overturned in the fight, and the records of the caucus so faI as it had proceeded were trampled under foot and soiled almost beyond recognition by the ink which had been spilled. The records, however, were kept in the posses sion of the Cleveland men, who went tc another hall, and both sides elected delega tions to the county convention, which will be held at Mayville today.
 Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Mahoney, Monyhan, NJ. C. Martin an6 Thomas Perrin, charging them with steal ing the ballot boxes.