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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

gale that YOU bear with fortitude the
motion of your end of the boat when
it's on the rise but listen for the angels
harps when it sinks. The elevator sick
ness is built on the same principle. 1t is
more frequent In New York and Chica-
go than anywhere else iii the world.
Here half the business is done in eleva-
tor buildings. The victims. mostly
women. often suffer frightful qualms
when the ear starts on its downward
plunge.
An elevator man in one of the big
Office buildings says that fully twenty
per cent. of the people who ride up in
the machines walk down By preference,
even when the height IS considerable.
Some of the less itnpressionab BILE vic
inns content themselves with Juggling
1T the rope boys bob-tailed coat and
begging him 70 go slower. please"
Then with muttered PRAYER or some
thing the boy. who has heard that plea
before. shakes out : reef or two more
and makes the trip in double quick.
and the victim shuts her eyes and Shud-
ders. Frequently she faints away com
pietely. Experience does not seem to
diminish the complaint
DAVID WECEsLER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
FOUND IN FOREIGN LANDS,

ELoNGATE ear lobes are considered a
mark of beauty III Bornco.
\ HUMAN skull as large as a bushel
basket has been found in Sicily.
IN Lamar beehives hang in the form
of oblong gourds from the branches Of
trees.
AGUATEMALAN mother gives her con-
sent 10 her daughters marriage by be-
laboring the young lady with heavy
stick
MANUFACrUEFR of glass in Dresden
produce some of their finest wares in
furnaces with chambers and compar;-
ments instead Of pots.
DUBrNG the reign of Elizabeth Eng
lish dudes wore shoes three feet in
length, the toe pointed and fastened up
TO the garter with golden chains, 10
which little bells were attached
SOME English religious and charitable
institutions have set = good example bv
turning over to the depoSitors in build
ing societies robbed by j. Spencer Bal
Tour the iatter's apparently generous
contributions To them. When his true
character became known it was evident
that they had received stolen goods
and they voluntarily made restitution
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

in the literary guild. AS politician
he showed that he understood running
ward primaries as well as the boys
He shows up well as cowboy and
grizzly hunter, has served as an anna
teur sheriff in running cattle thieves,
and can ride to hounds like an Irish
squireen.
The chances are that Mr.. Roosevelt
will be out of politics presently, like Il
good many other statesmen, and ! am
informed that he intends devoting more
attention to literature in the future.
The old knicl>erbocker stock in New
York is pretty well represented in the
profession of letters. Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer Cruger has cut off the disguise OF
a pseudonym and stands confessed as
julien Gordon Mrs. Schuyler Van
Rensselaer, and her gifted husband
stand well in magazine circles. 1t is in
historical lines that the descendants of
Van Twilier and Stuyvesant love most
to delve. Every member of the St
Nicholas society has his dates and pedi-
grees at his tongues end
Antiquarianism and genealogv are
landmarks of history Look for more
historical work from Theodore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Mortality Among Men and Women.

Life tables have been complied from
the mortality returns of various periods
Of time showing that AT birth the ex
pectatiou Of life covers more years IL
the case OF the female than in that OF
the male These tables also show that
at succeeding ages the female lead Is
maintained. But the London Morning
Post has made q tabulation that viii
interest others than scientists, statisti-
clans and life insurance agents, and
which, though the data are not very
extensive, goes 20 confirm the results
reached IN the so-ca!lei standard life
tables That journal has compiled all
the eases OF notable longevity recordes
IN It's own columns during the year 1892.
OF i,l5i octogenaTianS 90 are women
and only Jd5 are men Above 50 a.
nearly all ages the returns continue -
favor the women: and OF SIX centena-
rians al eut enc are women. This does
not prove that women are happier than
men, but il i good indication that, as
rule. they live longer And, though
the most re2sona bic presumption IS that
This i because they enjoy al easier life
than men. the average woman VIII
Doubtless continue - wish that she had
been bora man
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

answer business letters IN French and
German. No such 'plums" in the pro-
fession nowadays. 1t has been ruined,
not exactly by Chinese cheap labor, but
by the most extraordinary influx of
girls.
Great heavens. where do they all
come from?
Prices have fallen with dull thud.
You can get the French and German
writer, with shorthand thrown in. for
about twelve or fifteen dollars, and the
plain, ordinary typewriter. without the
frills. for five to seven dollars. | know
d man pretty expert willing to work his
machine for twelve dollars Il week He's
been out of work half the time for the
last two years.
Typesetting, boXmaking, almost any
thing is better trade for girls now.
The funny men in the newspapers
have spoiled typewriting. They've
pounded away as pcrsistently at the
idea that the pretty typewriter always
marries the boss and has carriage
and Newport cottage. that the busi-
ness has been advertised too much
And the memorable law of supply and
demand grinds away, even though its
victim be a sweet young thing with
fluffy bangs and an apron.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
THE MILITARY SERVICE.

IL 1865 the army in Flanders used
wine that was regularly cut from the
gudgeons with hatchets and distributed
in the shape of ice.
THE Indian government announces
that il estimates that $50 horses, suit
able for army purposes. will be required
during the season of lS93-94.
AN agricultural order of merit is TO
he given annually to officers and others
in the French army who possess knowl-
edge of technical works useful to agri-
culture.
THERE are now 1860 officers In the
French infantry. The military schools
graduate about go officers annually,
and about the same number are lost by
death. dismission and retirement.
HORSES suspected OF being affected
with CHAMBERS have been vaccinated in
Berlin with mailein. and the results
were So good that the inspectors of the
military veterinary service are being in
stTucted in its use.
IL addition to its supply of horses
from Australia the Indian government
now gets them from South America.
They must he not less than 15ls hands
high. and must not include piebaid or
cream-colored animals. Their average
cost. delivered at Calcutta, is nearly
Sl35 each.
THE little flag that Gen. Walker bore
at the head of his QuiNotic expedition
into Nicaragua is in the possession of
San Francisco official tits Of blue and
white silk and muslin. with red star
IN the center on which are embroidered
the initials 'W. T." siGnifying Walk
er's Battalion"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
REINDEER IN ALASKA.
An Attempt to supply BETTER Food For ths
Natives of That Territory.

An Attempt to supply BETTER Food For TIA .
Natives of That Territory.
The recent landing from the United
States revenue cutter Bear at Port
Clarence. A laska, of herd of one hun
dred and eighty domestica ted reindeer
purchased in Siberia, together with four
native Siberian herders, marks the es-
tablishment of the first herd of the kind
on the western continent
This is an event OF more than ordi-
nary Importance II it is successful it
will create throughout northern and
central Alaska a new food supply in
place Of the walrus. whale, fish and fur
bearing land animals, that are yearly
becoming scarcer and more difficult to
obtain.
Furnished a better and surer food
supply the native Eskimo population,
now decreasing in numbers, NAV reas-
onably be expected to increase, and
changing them from mere hunters TO
herdsmen may he the first upward step
toward their civilization.
With the increase and civilization of
the natives and the general introduce
throughout Alaska the vast unknown
interior of our northern province can
be thoroughly explored Lines of COM
munication between distant settle
ments can be kept open during the
long winter months, and the frigid,
bleak and now comparatively useless
plains of that little known region will
become a source Of wealth and pros
perity 20 the land
In the arctic and subarctic regions of
Lapland and Siberia the domesticated
reindeer is food, clothing, house furni-
ture and transportation 70 the people.
It's milk and flesh furnish food. its
marrow and tongue are considered
choice delicacies. and It's blood mixed
with the contents Of the stomach X
made into a fayoritc dish called j ST.
beria manyalla-
Its intestincs are cleaned. filed with
tallow and eaten as sausage. It. skin
is made into clothes. bedding tent coy
ers, harness, ropes, cords and fish lines,
and the hard skin of the forelegs makes
an excellent covering for snowshocs
It's sinews are dried and pounded into
strong and lasting thread Its bones
are soaked in sea oil and used a. fuel.
and its horns are made into various
kinds OF household implements and
weapons and used in the manufacture
of sle6s-
In central and northern Alaska are
vast rolling plains % moss and grass
covered land that are especially adapt
ed by nature for the grazing Of reindeer
and are practically useless for any other
purpose
In The corresponding regions 81 lap
land, Arctic Norway. Swefien and Rus
ia are twentv-seven tAos4sa Id people
about The same n NUN Der u the
Alaskan Eskimo supporting them
selves and procuring thei= food and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

realize to what an extent the trout Is
an artificial product in New York. \
few wild brook trout are caught
in Vermont, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island and reach the mar
ket. Half pound i good weight
for one of them. But besides the big
game preserves on Long Island and up
the state owned by ROD and gun clubs
thousands of nearby farmers are rails
ing trout for the market. The Caiifor-
MIA trout is 4 favorite variety. Some
times a fish of this species reaches two
pounds weight. l have seen a Rhode
Island brook trout caught in open
waters that weighed 4 ponnd and eight
ounces
Fish Commissioner Eugene g. Black
ford Is the great authority on trout He
has as many aS one hundred Califor-
mans in an aquarium At his fish store
in Fulton market. People who enjoy
fussing with aquariums may like to
know that they are very hardy and
happy in their glass case and are little
troubled with disease They are fed
with chopped liver But they require
running water. You couldn't keep them
in globe, goldfish style.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
HOUSEHOLD BREViTIES.


Apples with Duck, Goose or Pig
Pare and quarter sour apples, and stew
them in any SOUP stock or in dissolved
condensed beef that is as strong as
soup Flavor slightly with salt and
white pepper, paprika or Cayenne. but
do not add sugar; and serve hot
rDeiineator.
Curry Sauce.--Slice three onions
and one tart apple. Fry them soft
Strain and add one tablespoonful OF
curry, two teaspoonfuls of ground rice,
pinch of salt, one-half cup full of ex
tract of beef. and boil smooth. Add the
meat and simmer half an hour. Serve
with boiled rice. food Housekeeping.
Puff Pudding Nine eggs. beaten
separately, then mixed Four cupfuls
sweet milk. Nine tablespoonful sifted
-four To the beaten eggs add one cup
full of the milk, then stir the -four in
gently. Lastly the rest of the milk
Bake quickly in buttcrei pan. Serve
while fresh from the oven with hard
sauce. Detroit Free Press.
Chicken and Neat Pies. They may
he made the day before and warmed over,
by wetting the crust on top before put
ting in the oven. Any kind of pot pie,
l. e.. dunplings made in "A pot with
meat. we like better for warming over.
Indeed, ii seems as if there were no end
TO the palatable dishes that can be pre-
pared beforehand for use next day
Farm and Fireside.
Picked Nasturtiums.- the
seeds while they are young, and steep
them in salt and water for thirty min
altes: then place them in boiling salt
and water, and boil for couple of
minutes. Put them into jar and pour
over some good vinegar; flavor with
spice. and cover closely for seven days,
when they may be used as ii substitute
for capers. Liverpool Mercury.
-Raisin Loaf.-Take sufficient good,
light. yeast bread dough for a loaf;
l<Read into it one-third cup granUlated
sugar and two thirds cup of nice large
raisins stemnled and washed, and dried
by rolling in "A soft towel; place the
loaf in a buttered pan, let rise till very
light and bake This, cut in thin slices
and with or without butter, is very nice
for lunches, and every child will relish
them. Ohio Farmer
Beef Loaf Allow two pounds of
round steak, chop fine, beat three eggs
well and mix, add teaspoonful of
ground sage one of salt, two table
spoopfuls of butter two-thirds cupful
of rolled cracker crumbs, mix all to-
gether, put in a deep tin, creased well,
sprinkle cracker crumbs over top and
bake from one and a half to two hours;
this should be used cold; slice thin for
kupper.-N. y. Observer.
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says: sWho the h is Henry James?
was about to reply, when man No. 2
answered.: He was postmaster general
d While ago You're wrong there,
says No. 3, that was Thomas L. James,
Henry James is that converted anarch-
ist'
:''What converted anarchist l
gasped.
why. the fellow that ran for mayor
of New York once was the plying re-
ply.
Now continued Jenkins, 4 can
stand it when an intelligent half dozen
men show that they never heard of one
of the greatest living authors: but what
are You going 70 do with man who
calls Henry George converted anarch-
ist?''
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Two Smart Women.

Mother (anxiously)-I am told that
your husband plays poker every night
at the elub-plays for money, too,
Married Daugbter-That's ali right
He gives me all his winnings
What? Do you"
And he always plays with Mr. Mex
door"
What difference can that makc?"
Mrs Nexdoor makes her husband
give her his winnings, too. and then She
gives the money TO me, and ] hand her
what my husband won from hers, and
so we both have about twice as much
money as we could get ont Of them
otherwise N Y Weekly
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had noticed the fact. well. said he,
''our food. especially soups and stews,
we have to FL with pepper till it's
black If we don't do it the boys get
hold Of the pepper boxes and empty
them sixteen times a night. We
couldn't do anything but fill pep
per boxes. There's an oyster stew,
now. To healthy. natural appetite
it's just ruined with pepper. The boys
like it so. They'd kick if it wasn't as
hot as Pike county tanglefoot. I've
been with printers in seventeen cities
of this country and two on the other
side-I used to handle a stick myself
and it's the same everywhere. Now,
how 90 You account for that?'
| don't account for it. Perhaps late
hours and heated rooms have some
thing to do with it. That. and the
habit of smoking, just about universal.
No wonder newspapers are so hot in
campaign times They're run on pepper.
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clothing largely from their four hum
dred thousand domesticated reindeer,
besides paying to their respective gov
ernments the annual sum of four hun
dred thousand dollars, or one dollar per
head, as a tax on their herds.
Also in the corresponding region of
Siberia, with similar climate and soil,
and only forty miles distant from the
straits, there are thousands OF Tchuk-
ches, Koraks and other tribes Of deer
men fed, and clothed, and housed by
their herds of tens of thousands of do
mesticated reindeer. -Californian
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anger. innocent
or guilty, Harris belongs TO a type too
common, the fast young man under no
moral restraint. lecherouS and unprin-
cipled 1t is natural that his good
mother should move heaven and earth
to save her son from a disgraceful
death. but there is another mother con-
cerned in this caSe-the mother of Helen
Potts. whose character the Harrises
have traduced in every possible way in
order to make sympathy.
There's too much mushy sentimental
ity nowadays.
| say hang, electrocute or otherwise
dispose of everybody that there's the
slightest excuse for getting out of the
way. Treat them as you would any
other noxious and exterminable pest.
Let the law be executed firmly and
promptly. Emphasis on the promptly
please.
1t is disgrace to civilization that a
young tough who enters a peaceful
dwelling at night as a burglar, armed
for slaughter. and shoots down the own
er Of the place. should pollute the earth
ny HIS LllItt y teii . Eltti
his arrest redhanded from the crime
He should be eXtermipated within the
month.
What would you do If one of these
human prowling slsunks should irrep
arably wrong a sister or daughter and
Kill her in seeking to hide the conse-
quences of his guilt? Would you wait
for the slow processes of the law. with
the chance at last that big-feed law
yers might plead the brute out on tech
nicalites or fool women beset a weak
governor with obstreperous ''weeps'
until he pardoned him?
Or would you shoot him dead and
walk TO the nearest police station and
give yourself up?
If the latter, wouldn't it be because
you feared the laws meshes might not
hold him?
is not sentimentality about prisoners
A direct incentive 10 private vengeance
taking by those whose dear ones have
been wronged?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

gest newspaper
Offices i II New
York city. He
happens to be a
bit of a philoso-
pher, and asked
ine, apropos Of
nothing I re-
member, W h Y
printers are SO
fond of pepper.
| couldn't tell,
but added that I
..Nyall - said he
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Family Resemblance.

This is my youngest boy, Mr.. Cyni-
Gus" said the distinguished novelist.
They say he IS very like me-"
Does ne go TO SCHOOL,"
Yes. He can read quite well. but a.,
vet he can't write
He's very much ike you.' said Mr..
Cvnicus -Harper'S Bazaar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

of my acqualnt-
ance earned thir-
ty dollars a week
as a typewriter.
She left teach
ing for the new
coup a t ion in
high glee. She
could read and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

ana the writer s
wrist the "ele-
vator head. For
tunatel.y, it's not
serious.
T h e elevator
sickness is a SEN
sation analogous
TO seasi C k n q : :.
y on ow if
ou We crossed
Lake Michigan
in q ncrtharly
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08


t
m nala i
M
vihmo eHefn ntosENAG to f
Et Hl oman
ii In Ages h h
orPrcus ei e ca
ttot @nshent he
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Not In His Confidence.

Caller-Is Mr.. Bizzy in?
Office Boy-No. He's just gone ont
Caller-How soon viii he be back2
Office Boyle didn't happen 10 men
ton that You see am not ono Of the
firm yet.-Good News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

of activity. and
he's young yet.
He has greatly
improved as a
writer since his
first faulty mag
aZine article S
We're published,
and now holds
respectable rank
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
a Niirrr Lining.

Mrs. Kindlie-l presume you have
rather hard time OF IL.
Tramp-Yes. mum, but every cloud
has silver lining. mum. I'm not Worried
to death by autograph hunters. mum
y. I. Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
s-If-Confroi.

Te4cher-What IS the meaning q
self control?
Boy-it's wen . teacher gets mad,
and feels ike giving q boz . black
mark. and doesn't -tso-cd s,.ssz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08


in It's wisdom has
put off the open
ing of the trout
season to April
II. 1t used to be
April /, and this
Is the first year of
/ n e innovation.
e w peoplc
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
WHO WINS THE PRIZE?
BOYS, READ THIS, AND GIRLS, TOO.
EXCLAMATION OF OUR OFFER
The WICHITA EAGLE.

will seven n No.
AGED There u word
gl
adetohodU Tepn ze ing th
o OF a
bft h
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look admirably.
He has practiced
il a great deal
being a strug
Cling author.
II was IN what
you call n mixed
c ON p a ny I o
day. he said.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

and happened - mention Henry James
Know who he +, eh?"
Novelist Ct ceters
Glad YOU know. We'll. mau No
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
The Typewriter Girl.

| remember, not SO many years ago.
when finely educated, native woman
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Theodore Roosevelt,

Theodore Roosevelt is man who has
been heard from in many departmentS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
The Elevator Sickness.

Civilization cures old diseases and be-
gets new ones. Add to the tennis elbow
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
Nl.o Is Henrv IAmesr

Jenkins locked the picture of mute
despair Jenkins * able to wear this
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Printers and Pepper.

/ was talking with the man who runs
night lunch in one of the big
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
An Innovation.

"Speckled beauty talk is just two
weeks late this year. The legislature
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THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
A Word About Carlyle Harris and
His Sympathizers.
The Typewriter Giri-Trout Day Delayed
Who Is Henry James?-Printers and
Pepper-Theodore Roosevelt-The
Elevator sickness.
COPYRIGHT. 1891

IL row which Is
b ing m a d e
a b oct Carlyle
Harris is sicken-
ing. One would
think h e w a S
some sort of new
fashioned II in e.
teenth century
angel. Innocent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08

When Baby was sick. we gave her CaStorta.
Thcr size was Child, size cried u Castor.a-
When she became Miss she chung 70 Cas,oria.
WDen She hal Children, she gave them Ca>yo-is
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-08
SHAkESPEARE'S SEVEN AGES OF man.
"And then tie Justice,

"4nd then tie justice,
In fair ,ound 6cLlp. atfM coed cabon ind
MIN eyes Se9erc and beard Of formal CIT,
FnXof 7c1Se Saus and mode1n instances:
Ind 90 he bL0rS ks b1tI ''-.'4S IoH Liz Y
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-11-10
The Hard Times

Has played with the newspapers Over papers
pended Minnesota weekly st paying
today Throughout the nation calculated that
dred newspapers have had go
Many them And notice
Rurars published by the weknown and able president
tona o. Mr.. Loucks,
at Soc year
This splendid driven extremites haese paper
made contain thirds reading fusize
circulation wonderfully Take the GREAT VEST Donn
ys Courthouse Doodle
knock off and still useful There great
in large