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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-18
lePRosY IN INDIA.
Some Of the Sources to Which Its Ffevo'
lence Cannot be Ascri6ed.

00@0 VI JIG cOuHCcS ~ w uiCi -
lence Cannot be Ascri6ed.
1t has often been popularity said that
fish eating is main cause of leprosy,
and some scientific men hold the opsn-
ion that fish introduce the bacillus into
the stomach, or stimulate it to activity
when it already resides in the tissues
Against this theory. popular and scien-
tific, there are the facts that no bacllll
have been discovered in fish; that
castles which never touch fish furnish
their due cohtingents of lepers, and
that the disease is net more rife in dis
tricts bordered by the sea and large
rivers than anywhere else. On the
other hand. leprosy is common In hill
tracts, where fish is a very rare article
of food.
Mr.. c. Conybearc. who some time ago
was apprehensive that leprosy was due
to the high price of salt, will be much
relieved to hear that, by statistics to
which no exception can be taken on
the ground of inaccuracy, the con-
sumption of salt is shown to be twice
as great as the increase of the popula-
ton in twenty years; that Ryot SPENDS
on salt about one penny month 1or
each of his family; and that If there
has been any perceptible addition
to the number of lepers it has oc-
Cured in provinces where the price OF
salt has fallen. Other alleged causes
are mentioned to be summary and
coAtemptuously dismissed.
Water, opium and mosquitoes have
each in turn been made responsible.
Now, the bacillus has never been found
in water, though the commissioners IN
vain analysed the water OF a filthy
tank in which crowds of lepers bathed.
Premature marriages and the con-
sumption of opium are not to blame,
and if mosquitoes or flies could COM
municate the disease after they had
sucked the blood of any lepers, Cal
cutta, where these little pests abound
and murder sleep, should be perfect
leper asylum.
On the question of infection and con-
tagion the report on ''Leprosy in India
affirms that, though leprosy may be
considered an infective disease, caused
by specific bacillus, and also to some
extent contagious disease" it is not
actively or usually diffused in this
way. Again, one might imagine that
leprosy must be hereditary. This as
sertion, if not absolutely disproved, is
by no means certain.
Many lepers are sterile. There is nc
evidence that the marriage of lepers
with lepers or with non-lepreus women
always diffuses the disease. The chill
dren of lepers are often short-iived
and, as far as returns can be depended
on, there is never more on an average
than a couple of children to each mar
rage of lepers. saturday Review.
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Printing Material at a Bargain.

Printing Material At barsain'
List of material.
$50 lbs. BREWER.
100 lbs. Nonpariel (new).
% Fonts new job type,
4 Imposing stones, 72X36. 55x36, 72x24
7Ox21, 72x26.
Cabinet, IL cases.
Combination cabinet.
Double stands.
Il Pairs news cases
10 Job cases.
10 Triple cases.
High tables.
Proof press.
Mustang mailer.
Galley rack,
Brasslined double galleys,
Brass double galleys.
Galley table.
Desks.
/ Galley holder.
+ Fonts wood type.
Wood-type rack.
Half cases.
/ Pair 1-col. chases.
! " t5-col.
About 30 fonts of display type.
~ lbs. leads.
30 lbs. slugs.
20 lbs. Nonpareil.
Rules etc.
The above material will be sold at very
low figures as they are not in use aud
must be disposed of. Address, Printing
material, care Eagle office.
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Pct and Kettle.

isn't it horrible how the Chinese
women deform themselves by pinching
their feet?" asked Annie, just tying her
shoes preparatory to going down town.
Yes, indeed; perfectly awful" re-
piled Belle, who was not so near
dressed. BY the way. Annie. won't
you hand me down that strongest pair
OF corsets of mine? / see | am break
Ing these all out"-Toledo blade
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You 60 east take the Frisco line, for the
reason. that il is the only Wichita line
having two solid trains daily TO St Louis
without change. Chair cars, (seats freel,
and Pullman palace sleeping cars in both
morning and night traius-leaving Wichi-
Ia 1885 a. m, and loss p. m; arrive st.
Louis union depot $50 a. m, and ESQ p.
II. Reliable-always on time-insuring
certain connections with diverGing lines.
Call at Douglas avenue station or city
ickst Office, 15S North Main street.
25tf W. ID. MURDOCH. ID. Z. A
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Mrs slimson-My little boy has been
very wicked to-day He got il.to .
fight and go; . black eye
Rev. Dr. D7ows.e-eo / perceive
Willie. come into the csaer room and /
viii vsreStle IA prayer Eo- you-
WFliie-You'd better 60 homo and
wrestie in prayer :o- rogr ow-n litsse
boy. Hes got two black eyes-Lits-
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Old Friena-Your little wafe is very
highly educated. isn s'1e-
Happy husband Bless yon, no. sac
doesn't know enough 70 last her 0Fer
Sunday. Why. she even enjoys she
meetings Of the Ladies Literary c.uo-
NY Weakly
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A RiyfhRlArk-

Superintendent Byrnes Are there
hnv marks by which your daughter can
be distinguished?
Sorrowful Mother-Yes; she looks
three years older than she really Is
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Ieavenworih. kau.. and Return for ss.Is.
Ga account Of the Uniformed Rank
Knights of Pythias' conclave at Leaven-
worth, Kan, May II TO Is, 1924 the Mis-
souri Pacific Railway company will sell
round trip tickets for Sc 10. Tickets will
be on sale May Is 20 l6, inclusive. Good
to return until May 10, inclusive. For full
particulars reIat We 10 rou;e and time call
al City Ticket Office. IA North Main st
d I4S
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with . Marked Accent.

Frieud-Does the baron. your sou-ir-
law. speak with much OF an accent?
Richpurse-He did when he discov.
cred how had fixed his wife's dover.
Puck
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-18

Mr.. A. Viele-of1ice Biting block-is the
agent in charge of the business formerly
managed by G. V. Shepard and the late
Henry V Shepard. dloo At
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Advice 10 NoiHerS

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always lie used for children Ieething Ii
sootheS The child. softens the gums, allays
Mi pain, cures wind collie, and Is tie
cents bottle. Used oy millions OF
mothers G6itf wi6ts
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u ark Linz.

Perry, Wharton TO Saltwater Leaves
Saltwater a. m; Perry p. IN. Also Eek
change stables ri Orlando and saltwater
We make a speciality Of carrying passen.
gers between these points.
SHlyELY, NANwYCK * SEIyELY.
ToI II
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-. HANDSOME
BINDINGS -

No. Fl completed the famous edition OF
Grand Photographic Views of the World,
and the question now arises, How can
keep them in good condition
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-Amv-"Jack ] hear tha, Won are
out a great deal At nights now JACK
--oh. no I'm seldom out Io7e tAaa
ten dollars Pittsburgh Bulletin
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o2Itf.

Millinery taught without serving an
prenticeship. For terms cali ON Mrs
hoher, ~ y. Main. i52 Il
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Elegant reclining chair cars on all trains, and
Pullman sleepers from Wichita TO Kansas City and
Chicago without change night trains. Tickets
sold and baggage checked through to all points
north. south. east and west. ard steamship tickets
sold to all European points at lowest rates. City
Ticket Office 100 East Douglas avenue. corner Mall
street; passenger station corner Douglas and Mead
avenues. Telephone la2.
J. ii. PHILLIPS, Ticket A:.snt.
RIO. SFBA STAN. G. 4. & 4 A. Chicago, Hi.
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GONG Nc3rH AND EAST.
no. . Kansas City St. Loui.
and Chicago. limited. daily
No. = Colorado spring.
Denver and Pacific Coast
Express daily,
No. 4kansas City st Louis
and Chicago night ex.
daily, except Sunday 49,.
No. - Accommodation,
daily. except Sunday.
GOING SOUTH AND WEST
No. /. Oklahoma and Texas
express dally-...........-
No. |. Fit. Worth, New Or
leans and Pacific Coast ex
daily.-....-...-
No Oklahoma eK, daily
except Sunday ............
No. 81. Accom-. dailyeXcepi
sunday--.-.-- -..--
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TIME T4BLES
ATCHIsoN, TOPEKA & SANTA FE RR.
TRAINS ARtfltG 4
NARTE AND EAS

NOE1h AND ttSI.
rNo 4l4 Kansas City Eyp'ss
No. zoo Chicago Vestibule
Fast Express. ...--........
No. 40e Missouri River Ex-
mo AS Englewood EXpr'ss
No. as Local Freight......
No. 42S Pasng'r. go.
SOUTH AND WEST.
No. 81. Oklahoma City and
Fort WORTH Express.
No. AZ Caldwell and Pan
Handle Express. .....-...
No. i05 Fort Worth, Gal
weston and Texas thro'gh
Express ..............
.No As Wichita Express. 3D..
"No 49, Englewcod Accom-
No. AZ Local Freight $40.
No. 469 Freight. ............
Daily except sunday.
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Trains designated as oCal or mixed do not run on
Sunday, >,
Fol iull information call at city ticket Office. Ia
Main street.
Depot corner Second and Wichita streets.
l. r.. BLECEBEY, Il. and T. A.
INN TAEI ,HiCA GO. ROCK ISLAND fAtifi0
RAILWAY.
f"Great Rock Island Route-"i
nenect commencing April 3lth.
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Cholera An Persia.

It is easy enough to understand why
Persia is a hotbed for cholera The
only wonder is that it should ever be
free from that plague. Here is an ey-
tract from a recent report of the British
consul at Resht. a town af forty tho--
sand inhabitants: The cesspools that
exist in each house are mere wells.
more or less deep, which have no exit.
Drinking water is obtained from wells
sunk within ten to twenty yards of
these cesspoolS There are no sewers,
and though cutters exist in some
streets, they are worse than useless,
for they have no means of CARRYING
away the accumulated water. and con-
sequently they are oftener than not
full OF stagnant green liquid. The
rubbish out of kitchens is thrown out
in certain corners of streets and open
spaces. where it is allowed to accumu-
late. Ponds have been artificially made
where water out of the cutters accurnu-
lates. aud when in winter IL freezes
this filthy. muddy wHtar Is turned into
ice and collected in the icehouses fc
consumption the following summer
Chicago Herald.
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THE TAMAE

| gery DfR.rsRt, the Geau1ns Msxisna kfSA-
Gle, from the New York Variety. san
To one who has travelled m Mexico
| DIT the extreme southwestern corners
Of this country nothing is much more
Disappointing than the so-called tamale
which is DOW extensively peddled
throughout the city.
The tamale of New York Is not The
tamale OF chihuahua or Tucson, nor Of
Ell Paso or San Antonfa It has the
outward and visible form OF the senu-
| ulne article so dear to the palate OF the
Mexican or Texan or the visitor to
those parts, but the internal substance
is lacking.
Even were this not so the conditions
are SO vastly different In New York
that 1t is difficult to see how tamales
can be as popular here as they are In
the southwest There they are sold
not from copper cylinders on cold
street corners, but from booths bril-
liaatly illuminated by fambeaux
erected IN the open plazas Of the cities
Nothing can be much more pictnr-
esque than the scenes in these plazas
at nightfal An entire Mexican family
presides at each booth, and q Mexican
family comprises father, mother. from
one to ten dirty, dusIy children, and
about An equal number of mongre1
dogs
They arrive at dusk In a ramshackle
vehicle. drawn by an Anticipated nag,
loose iOinted and with ribs protruding
like the corrugations of a wash board.
The carts contain the boards from
which the booths are quickly extern
ported, fambeaux, fuel for cooking
and the necessary material for con-
structing tamales, chiliconcarnie and
Mexican coffee. This latter is some
thing fearful and wonderful
In jify the booth is erected, the
torches lit and the cooking OF the
highly seasoned food begins Scores
of other booths are likewise erected.
Some for the sale of tamales, chilicOn-
carnie and the like, and others by ped
dlers Of dry goods, kniclz-knacks, gew-
gaws-of everything in the line of
male or female wearing apparel or
gimcracks that may tempt the money
from the Mexicans' pockets.
The fiambeaux cast long fantastic,
ever changing shadows; dusky forms
glide from one booth to another, babies
cry, dogs howl and fight and the at
mosphere is filed with the odor of
strange cookery, which tempts the
northern visitor or hungry native to
try boiled tamale or redhot portion
of chiliconcarnie, the ingredients of
which are beef and red peppers and
other hot things stewed together, like
an Irish stew.
Such are the conditions which pre-
vail in the home of a genuine tamaie.
which tumbles forth from it's corn
husk jacket, a savory, tempting roll Of
boiled ground meal, enclosing an appe-
tizing csncoction OF meat and spices
very different from the cold and flabby
specimens which are hawked about
the streets in copper cylinders in New
York.-N. Y. Herald.
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aarbor island has Aaims to aristocracy.
A consul lives there. A doctor, an NJ D. of
the University of Pennsylvania, is located
In the town, and with him is his son, who
graduated with high honors from Prince
ton. When we saw the young man, he was
dressed in the most fastidious attire-cra-
Fat, patent feathers, white shirt and inn
maculate collar, etc He burst upon us like
an apparition from another world, so used
had we become to the sight of the shoeless
md almost shirtless Bahamans.
Sixteen miles up the coast is Spanish
Wells. 1t is only an ordinary settlement.
Il has not even lanes but the houses are
pumped down wherever the owner pleases.
Harbor island and Spanish Wells hate
zach other. The one speaks contemptuous-
~ of the poor white trash at Spanish
Wells, and the other sneers at the mig
gers at Harbor island. Once cholera in
Taded the latter place, and Spanish Wells
declared quarantine and established a line
IF sentries. It is said the Harbor island
RS were won't to sail around this Gordon
md shake infected blankets to the wind
ward of Spanish Wells. There has been
red, red war ever since But nodire calami-
y has ensued. Joe Pindar said TO me,
I'VE ave wanted to go hover hand lick
,Arbor hisland. but there hare too many
folks there" Some day the world will be
rent asunder by mighty conflict. but not
antil Spanish Wells has grown.
Spanish Wells had its heyday long, long
Ago. Through the narrow channel between
1 and Eleuthera used TO pass the Confed.
.rate blockade runners making for Mas
au. Once 6 Federal gunboat pressed
southern boat so closely here that she was
lorced to throw overheard $50 bales of cot
ION, and people reaped a fortune.
Fruit is cheap in this region. Pineapples
ana bananas have bought for a cent apiece.
cocoanuts grow for the picking. Sapodillas
are two for cent. Fish can be caught in
Any quantities. ! could purchase fish
Weighing five pounds for cents. Fish and
ruit is the diet OF the Bahamas, and they
Ire physiologically starved.
The inhabitants of these Twin Cities of
ihe Bahamas, as we termed them, have a
mrious form of speech. They end every
reference TO future act with the phrase
If l live" = man will bring you fish in
n hour If l live He will show YOU a
sertain tree IF live" They also repeat a
word for emphasis. They say ii is "'ot, 'ot,"
meaning 1t Is pretty - hot. Thisi is very
convenient custom. and / would recommend
Is adoption in other countries.
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RIBBON WORK.
Distinct Instructions for Two Kinds of
Art Needle Work.

Distinct Instructions for Two Kinds of
Art Needle Work.
This work is of two kinds, the one
being done in very fine. narrow rib
bon, combined with embroidery in
silk. and the other with wide ribbon
together with arrasene or crewel en-
broidery. This work can be done with
but little instruction other than that
required to do embroidery in the Ken
sington style. When the principle of
shading is once acquired the stitches
are easily learned: then taste. ingenui-
ity and practice will master that, as
well as all styles of art embroidery.
Ribbon work is rapidly executed and
much admired for home decoration.
The fine ribbon is used for the smaller
flowers, such as the wild aster. forget.
me-nots. pansies, violets, snowballs.
etc. the stems and foliage being done
in embroidery of silk or filoselle. The
centers of these flowers are worked in
one or more French knots. Then thread
worsted or other large-eyed needle
with the ribbon, and take one stitch
from the center to the edge of the
petal; smooth the ribbon out fat with
stiletto before il is pulled quite down.
and be careful not to draw it down too
tight or your work viii quicker. Work
the stems of the flowers. where they
show, in stem stitch with brown and
green silks. and foliage in kensington
or crewel embroidery. Continue work
ing the petal just as if the needle were
threaded with crewel or arrasene
The larger ribbon work is done BY
cutting pieces twice the size and in the
form of the petal you desire to make:
run a thread around the edge, draw
up, and as il gathers turn under so as
to form the exact shape of your petal
Stitch the gathers to keep it in form.
then blind stitch 30 your pattern.
Should your pattern be roses, select
two or three different shades of rib
bon, placing the deepest colors nearest
the center. which is to be filled with
French knots Of yellow silk En-
broidery buds, stems and green leaves
Buds should have tiny fold of ribbon
beneath the embroidery, allowing ii
10 peep through where the bud srst
begins 10 burst
The materials used in decorating in
this way are satin. felt, plush or vel
vet-PhiladelphiA Press
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A misery is not to De measured from
the nature of the evil. bu: from the
feupex Of tia So 6ersr. Addison.
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Customer-What does that picture
represent?
Artist-Two hundred dollars: but
you can have II for hundred and fifty
niunks. Snnt-Detroir Free Press
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THE PEERLESS STEAM LAUNDRY


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SALMON FLIES.
The Disastrous Results of Trusting to
Strange Hooks.

The Disastrous Results of Trusting to
Strange Hooks.
Sometimes your fisherman will look
through your box. and rejecting every
thing in it as unsuita BILE for his river.
produce his own flies, which he recon-
mends you to prefer. Now, if you were,
a believer in the power of discernment
with which salmon are credited, your
inclination would surely be to insist on
showing to the fish in this river flies as
unlike as possible to those most COM
monty used by local anglers; for the
unfamiliar patterns would be less likely
to arouse suspicion than those which
season after season and day after day
have been travelling over the pools.
But experience and common sense
have made You skeptical of the SUI
periority of one fly over another, and
rou would be as willing to use your
iishermen's flies as any others, but for
two considerations one practical, the
other sentimental The first is, that
you have no knowledge of the temper
of strange hooks, There are few mo-
ments, even in this woe-beset world. of
keener anguish than that when the
strain of heavy fish is suddenly re-
Taxed and you feel that something has
given way.
You wind your line in mournfully-
let your words be few, for they are sure
to be impious-the fly is still there. but
as soon as it is in your hand the truth
is apparent-the steel has snapped be-
hind the barb. Ahi that was fish;
thirty pound if he was a pennyweight,
for you caught sight of the CLEAN of
his broad flank just before the direful
moment
Sharp as is the tooth of ingratitude,
grievous as is the chill of shattered for
tune and the anguish of love betrayed,
these are pangs which time touches
mereifully into painless scars; but ever
as the years roll on viii you mourn
more deeply over that irreparable mo-
ment, ever will the potential weight of
that salmon mount up, and your grand
son will hearken with dilated eyes TO
the story of hos you lost the fifty
FOUNDER. True assteel" runs the say
ing, but nothing is more treacherous
than badly-tempered steeL-Blacs-
woods Magazine.
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Philosophical Filherts

Every bird pleases Us with its lay
specially the hen Grip
Fisitor-Is the editor in? Office Boy
Mop; he's out Feller just borrowed
81 of him Buffalo Courier.
Caler-Your Office is as hot as an
Dven- Nerchant-Well it might be!
make my daily bread here, you know
Raymond's Monthly.
This is the time Of year when the
man, forgetting how he had TO dig the
garden, beat carpets and rake the front
xard. wishes he We're boy again. in
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How Very UnpleAsAnt.

Mr.. Gusher Ia self-satisfied bore)-I
can tell just what people are thinking
OF me-
Miss Pert-Indeed. How very I'M
pleasant i, must be for you!-Srooklyn
Life. -------
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-04

CEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED UNTIL
y ose.ocx y r.. Thursday. November :, tsss.
~ the c-scs OF the ssste cspitos commission. a.
Olympia. VISA. Scr al isoor and materials re-
tasene1t, including excavations for t-snches,
concrete focs1EgS. briek and stone work OF the
ns~ state capitol building at Olympia, VASE.
accorclzg 70 the pss1s aGc specifications
ther~of prepared BY Erues; Fiaxg. srchiteef.
now On 6le in the ofsee OF the arcnitses in tas
Old esparol building n olyrnp2s. wash
Bidders are required 70 state the kind OF stone
proposed 10 be used.
Attention 10 called 20 section seven q chap
ter lis. page sc. Session Laws OF I,Ss. portion
OF which section is as follows; The psrfo-ul-
snee Of every contract shall b secured oy =
bond 10 the state OF Washington IN . sun aot
less than cne-qus-ter OF the contract price Sc
cured By two (2l securities qualifying n double
the amount of the bond. each of whom shall he
be conditioned for the faithful performance OF
said contract. Each bid shall be accompanied
b. similar bond conditioned for tie execution
and faithful performance OF q contract IN ac-
eorasnee wlta said bid II the same be accepted
By the board"
Blank forms OF TIE contract and bond which
the successful bidder viii be required 10 enter
into ase on fie with the plans and Specifications
II ne ONCE OF the architect, which contract
and bond the successful bidder win De rec Gired
10 execute ct once npon the acceptance of bis
BID oy the com mission.
The right is reserved to reject any or all bids
Bids should b. addressed 70: State Capitol
Commission, Olympus, WASH. and envelopes
be marked: "B2ds for foundation aud base
ment." Blank bends will be furnished 10 in
tending bidders on application 30 the secretary
OF the state capitol commission. Olympia.
waah. JH McGgAw,
L r GRIMES.
JoszPH : ALLEN.
CHARLKs +. MUSpAY.
EDMUND RICE,
Commissioners
October n Ysal