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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
LEFT FROM THE WARS.

THE oldest living graduate of West
Point academy is Gen. George S.
Greene, of New York city, who is nine
tythree years old.
THE silver poInmel from the saddle
used by Gen. Van Dorm in the Mexican
war has been forwarded as q contribu
ton to the liberty bell by Capt. Frank
A Lumsden, of Mobile, who is a SON
in-law of Gen. Van Dorm.
THOMAS ALLEN. Of Tyler county, W.
Va, who is in his one hundred and
third year, has seen great deal of
military service. He fought under
Wellington against Napoleon, and in
the Mexican war under Gen. Scott, and
also in the late civil war.
Col. T. r. DAWSON. of Grand Forks,
n. d.. owns the first military order is
sued by Gen. Grant It is a simple doe
ument, is No. /. dated July 2. 1861, ap-
pointing MIR. Dawson quartermaster
and commissary of the Twenty-frst
Illinois. tits sign ed Col. L. S Grant,
Springfield, III. Mr.. Dawson has re-
fused three thousand dollars for it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
CHURCH NEWS.

TIE Presbyterian board of home
missions has received deeds for four
hundred acres of land near Asheville,
n c., where the erection and estab-
lishment of an industrial school viii
be commenced Immediately.
A NEW JERSEY Methodist conference
has just rejected a class of applicants
for the ministry with the remark that
1t never met class so defective in ed
ucation ard with such large families.
Too many men who can't earn a living
at'anything else think they are able
enough to preach.
MosT societies in Japan are for one
sex only, and in many churches there
must be two sOcieies-one for the
women In other churches. however,
where it is possible to do so. pastors
find the society an admirable means of
breaking down the artificial distinc-
.ions between the sexes, which often
stands in the way Of the best church
work.
REV. EDWARD 4. LAURENCE, pastor
of the First Congregational church OF
Baltimore. one of the most wealthy
and aristocratic churches in the city,
has left his handsome house and made
his abode in the tenement house dis
trict. He has taken two rooms on the
third floor of a house in which live
four la boring families. 1t is his desire
to become better acquainted with the
poor people and help them if he can.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
HAPPENINGS OF THE DAY,

THE first paper published in the In
dian territory recently made its APP
pearance.
ONE steamship laden with gin, an
other with sugar and third with
lemons arrived at Montreal one dav
last week.
Mrs. JENNIE NORTHERN. Of Princeton.
Ky, died few DAYS ago from an at
tack of measles. She was one hundred
s>>d ten wears old, and leaves a daugh-
ter who Is ninety years old.
\ DEMERARA paper reports the death
in that colony Of Mr.. William Mavers
at the authenticated age Of one hun
.lred and twenty-six years. Six chill
dren, tifty-two grandchildren and III
teen great-grandchildren survive him.
4 SYNDICATE of English capitalists
are reported TO have secured a large
sract Of land near NanumuSkin. Gum
nerland county. \. J.. and Will start 4
fashionable winter resort, 10 be known
ps Ariel-in-thePines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
AFFAIRS OF FOREIGNERS.
EGYPT has over 1900 obelisks. .

EGYPT has over 8, 600 obelisks.
THE average wages of worlin gmen
IN Spain are 40 cents day.
EUROPEAN gof6smiths make ND s24,-
ooo. oe0 into gold plate and jewelry an
nuslly.
PoEPGY's pillar at Alexandria was
neither erected by Pompey nor to his
memory.
The Jamaica obeah practice, recent
ly the subject of legisia ton, is identi-
cal with the southern voodOo.
MosT of the transportation in Ha-
vsna, Cuba, is furnished by Little
horses hitched to a victoria There
are 5000 of those rigs in that city, and
but one horse carline.
UNDER a new electoral law which
has passed the lower house in Belgium
and is now before the senate. every
Belgian aged twenty-five is 20 be en-
titled to one vote irrespective of prop
erty qualification but if he be mar
ried he will have two votes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
SOON TO WE'D.
Royalty Set the Example and the
Aristocracy Follows It.
Who the Brides and GToorns Are-When
and Where the Great Names in Com
temporary History VIII Appear
on Parish Registers.

COPTRIGET, lsV3.l
The MANY weddings of worldwide
interest to take place before long in
this country and abroad are now CEN
tcring contemporary history largely
in the sacrament of marriage. Prin-
cesses, princes, naval officers. a Chi
nese belle, German and Portuguese Of
ficials, celebrated author, men of the
four hundred and American girls, fig
uring in HyInen's blue book for 4
single season, viii afford an cztraordi-
nary matrimonial confederation be-
ginning with the present month.
OF course, the union of Prince
George. Of Wales With Princess Vic
toria May of Teck. which occurs late
in this midsummer. is first in impor-
lance of these events. The bride
groom-elcct, God viking, as the arch
bishop of Canterbury's license puts it,
is to become king of England and en-
peror of India some day. In addition
he viii bear one hundred and ninety
six other titles appertaiDing to his
royal blood, and, once married, will
set up an establishment OF his own.
The size and state OF it will depend
upon what parliament does about the
grant already asked Of Mr.. Glad
stones government. 1t is expected
that the royal couple viii maintain
separate town and country houses,
with an equerry, q gentleman usher.
q groom of tho hounds and a master Of
the horse. The princess is to be al
lowed honorable ladies in waiting like
her future mother-in-law.
The wedding day depends entirely
upon Qucen Victoria. and it may not
be in July or August as announced,
after all Windsor viii be the scene,
the archbishop of Canterbury oficiat-
ing. That dignitary's formal assent
the union is signifed in a gold framed
parchment license with the royal seal
attached, setting forth that his dear
" beloved royal highness Prince
George Ere ldrick Ernest Albert of
Wales, x. c. s., X. C. O. IS. II. g.. IVA
rious other capital letters following)
born at Marlborough House June 3,
1865, may take to wife her serene high
ness Princess Victoria May Au
gusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine
Agnes alberta Endora, born at Tecl1,
May %, 1867, on any day during the
third week in July the present year
before or after as it may please her
majesty, or gracious sovereign and
lady Victoria, by tho grace of God,
etc, etc. The blessing of God is then
invoked and the signature Of the pri-
mate of England adorns the lower
right-hand corner. This license is kept
by her majesty and handed over in
the church as her final consent to the
marriage.
When the social ferncnt Of this
union has subsidized the British public
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-31
LOVES FIRST KISS.

Sweetheart twas but awhile ago-it scarce
seems yesterday,
Though now my locks are white IS snow and
all your curls are graz
When. walking il the twilight haze. ere stars
had smiled above,
whispered soft: Il love YOU and you kissed
re for that love.
The first kiss, dear! AID then your hand-your
little hand SO sweet,
And whittier than The white white sand that
twinkled meath your feet
Laid tenderly within my owni Rave queens
such lovely hands;
No wonder that the whip poor-wlls made sweet
the autumn lands!
Il seemed 70 me that my poor heart would beat
10 death and break,
While al the world, sweetheart! sweetheart
seemed singing for your sake;
AID every rose that barred the way IN glad and
dying grace
Forgot is faded surr2er day, and, leaning,
kissed your face!
envied all the roses then, and al the rosy
ways
That blossor2ed FOR your sake are still my ii.es
bright yest erdays;
But thinking Of that Grst sweet kiss aad that
first clasp Of hands,
Lies whtp-poo--wiIs sing sveeter now
through all the winter lands
Frank L Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution
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PEOPLE.

THE prince of Wales is always rloTea.
WHEN the wife and daughters Of the
Chinese minister to England were pre-
scented to Queen Victoria. they were
allowed to remain seated after their
presentation, as their small feet unfit
ted them for long standing.
Mrs. BLAINE win go to Bar Harbor
soon and some time later sail Tor En-
rope, with her youngest daughter she
VIII probably stay abroad year.
spending most OF the time il England.
where She will take house.
Nh. RUsHS has often visited Mr..
Gladstone at Hawarden. notwitbstarG-
ing their difference il politics. NJ.
Euskin used to say that he and CARLYLE
were the Only genuine tories left ;.
England. He has always been utterly
intoieraUt 10 the liberals apd radicals.
He Wanted % Know
"Now, remember" said the school
teacher, - contagious disease IS one
YOU can catch"
is a spanking 3 disease" asked
Benny Bloobu:nper.
NO: how ridiculous"
"Nen. l often catch one. Truth.
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nearly twenty and her race is de-
noted only by yellow complexion,
black hair and eyes. Besides her
native Chinese she is convcrsant
with French and English. Her father
did for years the largest trade in
Hawaii and the Sandwich islands as an
exporter and importer. After accumu-
lating fortune he went back to China
with his two sons, erecting there
magnificent palace in which he pro-
poses to spend his declining years. He
still kept up, however, an immense es-
tablishment at Honolulu for the sale
Of Chinese and japanese goods Many
Americans have been royalty enter
tanned by him in his Sandwich island
villa.
The mother Of Miss All Fong did not
return with her husband to China.
Miss Eta has eleven sisters who, with
her mother and herself, continued to
reside in Liliuokalani's capital Their
superb home became the scene of con-
slant entertainments extended to naval
officers, and there it was that Com
mander Whiting first met the young
lady and succumbed to her charms
Mrs. All Fong is part Kanaka and part
Haytian, being described as gracious,
n,otherly old soul, very proud of her
husband and children. The entire fam
lily rank among the aristocracy of the
Sandwich islands. All Fong's name
has long been synonym for probity
and his children are all worry good look
ing. The latter were educated partly
in England and the daughters are on
terms OF intimacy with Princess Kani-
lani.
Commander Whiting is now past fftv
and was appointed to the navy from
Wisconsin, entering the service in 1860.
He distinguished himself during the
war. Last December he sailed with
the Alliance to Samoa. lie is well
known in Brooklyn, having lived there
in Greene avenue with a married sis
ter. He has handsome villa on the
Hudson, where he spent his summers
when on shore duty.
When George Washin gton Wander
bilt leads Miss Minturn to the altar,
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pecTage has given him such recent
prominence, viii become the bride, it
is confidently predicted, of Prince
Francis, of Tecls, eldest brother of
Princess May. The young man was
born in 1870, and his acquaintance
with the young lady dates back some
years when he visited her fathers
castle in company with his brother
Prince Adolphus. Miss Nellie, now in
the early twenties, is a bright bI-u-
nette, with an aptitude for the stage.
She improvised theater for the enter
tainment of her fathers many guests
that summer Pygmalion and Galatea
was rendered. The daughter of the
house was the heroine. Prince
Adoiphus did the hero. The success
of the pair created furore. Then first
started the rumors connecting the
names of the two.
If it be thought that royalty would
detcst such q union, II should be borne
in mind that royalty nowadays is often
as hard pushed financially as anybody
else. The princes father is heavily in
debt. 1t was represented that the mar
rage would mean one million dollars
in money to himself. not to mention
the dot of seven million five hundred
thousand dollars and the douceurs.
Moreover, the queen can make the
brewer the nominal equal of England's
proudest peer with a stroke of her pen
The brewer is even now Lord Bur
ton" Therefore, in spite of many de-
malls and uncertainties, it is declared
that this oddly assorted couple will
some day be one.
Still another wedding with ROYALTY
in it Is to keep the social molecules in
agitation. Ut. Hon. Arthur Philip
Primrose, fifth earl of Roseberrv. L.
/. H., p. c., is before many months to
make Princess Maud Charlotte Marie
Victoria bride. according to the high
est authority. The young lady. need
less TO say, is The favorite daughter Of
the prince Of Wales and is twentv-four
years old, having been born November
%, 1869, at Marlborough house. The
earl is forty-six, but his smooth, clean
shaven face and Youthful air make him
seem but thirty-three or so. He IS
mainly eminent 1T present through his
connection with the London county
council, having presided over that BODY
more than once. lie IS highly educated
and was made president OF the Social
Science congress il 1874.
The wedding may not take place IN
til September. The earl viii become
duke and the ceremonies are to be on
scale Of uaCnifceuce as easy to in
agine IS to write. The pair viii make
London their home. 1t is admitted
that only the action Of her majesty
and decided action "a, that can prevent
the union.
King Alexander Of Servia. whose
prospective marriage 70 a Montene-
gran princess IS the national toD!c in
his country. viii meet his roval mother
IN Belgrade on june :. 70 make final
arrangements Ter the event. 1t occurs
next year. when the monarch becomes
of ace, and the oCly question i which
OF the two eldest daughters Of Bel
grades ruAer. Nicholas. VIII DC chosen.
lie may have which he likes bcst.
question the young king hopes short
y % determines.
The vva-.sii1.- .nf Miss Marian Phel..s
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GEO. ". VANDERBILT. VOETcS this en-
gagement, which is not yet formally
announced. The young man is the
youngest son of the gentleman whose
aspiration anent the public is nova
days SO often quoted. He inherited
10000. 000 from his fathers estate and
has added toit since. not to mention
S2,50o, 900 windfall few years ago.
Mr.. Vanderbilt has always been noted
for his studious and liberal tendencies
His library is the most judiciously
stocked and cared for one in the world
at least of private book collections
His love of books led him to establish
free circulating library in New York
five years ago. His efforts towards the
improvement Of manual training are
well known.
His bride to be is OF old Manhattan
stock, and has been 4 belle of New York
society ever since she came out The
Minturns date back to revolutionary
DAYS Robert Bonnie Ninturn, the
merchant, was born in that city in 1905,
ana died sixty-onc years later, after
having been a commissioner Of emf
grafton. patron OF CHARITIES anu one
Of the founders of ST. Lakes hospital.
The interests OF Miss MintUrn and her
betrothed in this great institution are
thus, TO an extent. hereditary. The
second Robert Bonnie Minturn was
born in 1856, graduated from Columbia
in 1875. and distinguished himself By
his book. New York to Delhi" That
the Ainturns have possessed great
wealth for generations Is due largely
70 the mercantile prociivities Of the
original Robert Bonnie.
Thomas Nelson Pages betrothal 10
the widow Of Henry Field IS occasion
ing surprise whenever Il is announced.
The author of ''Ma-se Chan" and In
the Nir-i2ias" has come to be re-
Cardod as by no means n marrying man.
Ir. Page, although il seems not gen
orally known. : not only an Ii d
but al IL Il. and practiced law in
Richmond once upon = time He )
forty years old and was born a. Oak
land, Va Washington and Lee uni
yc-sity was his alma mater and
Uncle Gabe's White Folks started
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him upon the flowery track of letters
in 1877. He has had no end of adven-
lures, which. like other literary chaps,
he works up into stuff The auto
graph hunter and the smell OF boiled
cabbage are his principal Affections
Miss Ada Bend and Mr.. Lanfear
Norrie are the couple who hold up the
-Four Hundred end Of the matrimonial
net Society considers this very
brilliant match-a happy combination
of great beauty and wealth" The lady
has long been one of the acknowledged
bellies OF New York. Her mother was
Townsend of the old Long Island
family of that name. Her father.
George II. Bend, has been prominent
in financial circles for years and has
shaken OF speculation tediun by reg
ularly leading the german.
The wedding VIII take place from
Grace church according to present
plans, with the breakfast from the
Bend home on Fifth avenue and Thir-
ty-fourth street. Mr.. Norrie now lives
a few doors away from his bride to be
and the two have been ~playmates.
The Astors. Marquands and other so
cial stars viii attend and send pres
ents. The bride has already received
jewelry and plate enough to stock q
goOd-siZed show-window.
The stages turn now. Miss Adelaide
Prince, whose work as leading mem
Der of Days company has made her
namo known all over the country, is to
wed George Merritt. the bankers son,
before many days. Miss Prince was
married q few years since, but The
union proved unhappy Mr.. Merritt
will take his bride abroad, it is under
stood, but whether or not she will re-
turn to the stage hereafter depends
upon circumstances.
Dir. Frederick Gcbhardt's announced
betrothal to Miss Lulu Morris, of Bal
ti1nore, has come as d surprise to the
many who watched his escapades dur
ing the Jersey Lily's meteoric passage
through the United States. Mr. Geb-
hardt, however, has been reforming
for long time, and his course of
treatment at the Kelley institute was
but manifestation of new tendency
in him. He has an income of eighty
thousand dollars a year and his future
wife IS a daughter of John B. Morris,
Baltimorc's old-time Beau Brummel,
rich and courtiy, who married late in
life and now has two daughters. Miss
Lulu has achieved fame as
jilter Of susceptible southerners
The date OF the wedding is not
fixed, but it will be the most i'm
portant American marriage of this
year, should it take place, there can be
no doubt. Next autumn, it is stated,
viii witness the orange blossom dis
play Of the couple.
The Tuxedo bachelor, George Loril-
lard Ronalds. noted as setter of the
fashion in necl1ties, much as George,
Prince Regent, was setter of the
fashion in waistcoats, is to wed this
summer Miss Jenkins. the Baltimore
heiress. The combined annual incomes
of these young people are fixed at one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, not
to mention expectations on both Sides
The bride to be is young and hand
some. with considerable local fame as d
critic of musical and other arts, and
her list of acquaintance includes the
aristocracies of London, Rome, Paris
and ViapOa
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CHEElA, THE AMAZON.
The Female Warrior Teakens at the
Point of lancet


Point of Lancet.
Cheela is one of the amazons from
Dahomey. She was once a sergeant in
the sultan's army, and as a special re-
ward of bravery was chosen a member
of the band of ebony warriors which
now is encamped on Midway Plaisance.
But Cheela has demonstrated that,
however barbar0Us her training has
been, she is not unlike her sex the
world over. She has been suffering
for some time from an abscess on her
arm, which has kept her awake night
and day for the past week. The native
doctor was poweriess to relieve her by
magic spells, SO the Emergency hos
pital was telephoned for aid. One of
the young doctors responded. bringing
with him his case of surgical instru-
ments Cheela suffered the arm to be
examined; but when the surgeon
brought forth his shining lance her sex,
long hidden under wartime excite
ment, asserted itself with full force,
and then broke ont into a storm OF OBJ
jections. Like her civilized sisters she
trembled and shook and squirmed. ex-
postulated and did her best to put off
the operation She had to be held BIZ
five men, and when she found herself
powerless she used the last weapon of
womankind and broke out in passion
of tears. It was over in n moment,
and after the wound was dressed she
wiped the tears from her Scared
checks and. smiled her thanks to the
doctor. 1t was an African case of sun
shine after cloudburst that went TO
show q universal l,inship after ali.
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suPERSTrTloUs ReMec::-..
Odd Notions Concerning the Cure of Warts.


Among the ancients and among saw
ages we expect 10 find superstitious
remedies in vogue. In Pliny's day it
does not seem unnatural that the ac-
cepted cure for certain naladies, DC,
heved in by the educated and ignorant
alike. should be paste made Of crushed
snails found IN the rutS OF the road and
gathered ST certain hour in the morn
ing; nor that other ills supposed 20 he
cured by touching an elephant, the cure
being the more swift and sure II at the
moment OF being touched the great
beast should chance 10 sneeze
Bat It Is quite another thing when
the children OF our own public schools
believe that 10 touch 4 toad will cause
warts. and that when such warts ap-
pear the proper way 10 cure them Is TO
tie bit OF toadstool with red thread
upon the afflicted hand fer three nights
IL succession.
Another wart cure commonly prac-
ticed among children is still more fan
taStic and absurd. II consists in prick
ing the wart until il bleeds. allowing
the blood 10 drop upon penny and
then throwing the penny away; who
ever picks up the penny viii get the
wart that Is. a wart viii appear on
the hand of that person. and at the
same time the original wart will diSap-
pear from the hand of the first sufferer.
Such belief as this seems To belong
naturally in the middle ages. Yet the
children who in the nineteenth century
and nited States try TO rid themselves
OF warts by charm for trauSfcrence
can be numbered by the thousands
But besides the supcrStitious long
current among ignorant Americans re-
garding cures, new ones are often inn
ported by immigrants from older lands
y little schoolgirl who had the iaun-
dice. and whose skin was consequently
very yellow, was recently advised hv
Norwegian acquaintance what % do.
1t is of no use To have doctor. she
was told. A doctor can not do any
.hing for the jaundice; but my mother
has told me how vou can he cured. You
must boil a yellow bird and eat his
meat and the soup made from his flesh:
that will cure you. II YOU can not get
a yellow bird. then take yellow Silk-it
is the yellow you must have-aud boil
that and drink the yellow water. and
you will get we'll
This advice was not taken. but never
t5eless the little girl speedily recovered
under the care of Il Skillful physician.
Youths Companion.