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clasped her hands tightly, looking
eagerly in his face.
Perhaps it was the novelty of the
situation, or maybe the soft beauty of
the face lifted to his. at any rate.
some chord of chivalry above his pres
ent position lurked in his heart. and be
was touched by her words. for, lifting
his hat, the outlaw replied, courteous
ly: Certainly, madam, if you viii
honor me-"
They seated themselves in silence on
the ground, and the man quickly shut
fled and dealt the cards which he drew
from his pocket. Roses hand trembled
slightly. but with an iron will she
forced back her nervousness, discarded
and asked for three cards in steady
voice.
1t was strange scene, the plunging
horses, the Overturned coach, the
frightened passengers and the two
seated at that strange game. The
moon, bright and cold, lent her light,
shining on Roses uncovered head,
with its golden hair, and on the dark
tdSS VI hCA ORPchtht-
With look, half regret. the outlaw
laid down his cards. Three aces" he
said, slowly. and looking curiously at
the girl, half deciding TO divide with
her, she had borne herself so bravely.
But there was no need. With little
smile she, too, showed her cards.
"Aces are high" she said, but this
trip deuces win," and there on the
ground lay the four deuces.
at is yours" he said, calmly; then
spoke a few words TO his companions.
who grumbled somewhat, but submit
ted to his stronger will
The coach was righted and the lug
gage put back in place. Dandy Jim,
still unconscious, was laid inside on
the straw. The passengers, trembling
and pale, took their places, and the
outlaw turned once more 20 Rose.
''Dare you driver" he asked.
"Yes," she answered, bravely: 81
will"
Gravely and courteously be lifted
her to the seat and handed her the
reins; then. half-hesitatingly, held out
his hand. Rose instantly gave him
hers. Il win not betrsy you" she said.
softly, ''and the others dare not"
Fifty minutes later Rose drove her
foa ming horses mp the narrow street of
Angels Camp two minutes ahead OF
time.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
KEEN EYESIGHT OF INDIANS.

But Little Color Blindness ss-Inflamed Eye.
lids From Smoky Tepees.
DIR. Carlos Montezuma. the govern.
ment physician of the Indian school at
Carlisle, lately brought to this city
thirty Indian children of both sexes for
eye treatment at the Medico-Chirurgi-
cal hospital. The cases are of great in
terest in optical study, as they show
just what effect civilization has upon
the eyes of the red-skin, who is accus-
toned to prairie life with all its free
dom of action. The disease with
which the eyes of the little band is
afflicted is infamed eyelids. The
smoky tepees largely cause this trouble
and when brought east the contagion
spread throughout the school 1t often
runs into granular lids with tendency
to destroy the eyesight. Sometimes
ulcers of the cornea get SO bad that the
eye shrinks away and the eyeball has
to be removed. But the cases of the
children just brought on were not so
severe, with the exception of one boy,
who will possibly lose one of his eyes.
Upon examination it was found that
the Indian boy and girl have one-tenth
more vision than a white child They
are what might be called 'tfar-sighted.
Their eyes are adjusted to dis
cern objects at great distances. Conse-
quently when they are brought east
and placed in schools there is a COM
plete change in visual objects. What
they see is near at hand. They be-
come subject to headaches due to the
great strain caused, and disease fol-
lows. An interesting feature has been
brought out in the tests for color blind
ness. 1t has been found that the In
dian has an extremely low average of
color defects. Color blindness in an
Indian is very rare. About twenty of
the thirty children had their eyes test
ed for glasses, which they will only
use when reading or studying. Or.
Montezuma, who brought the children
here, is an Indian himself and has had
a romantic career. He is of the Apache
tribe, his father being one of the brav-
est of these fierce warriors. When five
years old he was carried away captive
by the Pruise Indians. who had made
war on the Apaches, and later was sold
to landscape photographer, who took
him to Illinois and sent him to the state
university and later to the Chicago
medical college. ge.-Philadelphia Press.
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MOST BEAUTIFUL MUMMY IN THE WORLn
enough to allow q man to crawl
through, but the investigation led to
no discovery.
The recent Investigations were more
thorough. Electric lights were intro
duced, and excavations were made
under the direction of noted archeolo.
gists. 1t was then that mummy,
more beautiful than any ROW in the
possession of the great museums and
collections. was discovered. 1t lay in
grave which had once been filed by
a wooden sarcophagus, and its outlines
had been perfectly preserved by coat.
ing Of lime.
This led to the belief that the corpse
was that of a woman who died duriua
the time of the black plague, for IL
was customary with the people of that
period to cover the bodies Of all vic-
Tins Of the terrible disease who in life
belonged to the nobility with oxide Of
calcium.
Only the forepart of the head and
breast OF the mummy could be re.
moved in their entirety; the rest broke
y
restored.
The face rs that of q woman Of about
thirty-fve years, beautiful and noble
in outline. The hair was coiled on thu
back Of the head. The corpse was
originally clothed, according To tho
revelations of the quieklime, in long
linen shirt of wonderfully fine texture.
knitted jacket, and over this linen
petticoats. Around her shoulders had
been q mantle drsped in heavy folds.
These who saw the form when it was
first brought to light said 1t looked Ike
an image from another world.
The body is thought to be that Of
Princess Hildegard. daughter Of Duch-
ess Adelhed of Schwsben. the great
grandmother Of Kaiser BarbaroHsa, Of
whom the legend reports that he u
asleep In the Kyffhauser mountain.
Hildegard died At Schlettstadt ia
the beginning Of the twelfth cen.
tury. after having nursed her mothes
through the plague.
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ner in misfortune, who from his
dress might be either a clergy
man or professional gambler. AS if
N answer to something he saw in her
face. he raised his hat and came for
ward.
Something is evidently wrong" he
said. letting his bold black eyes rest
On her face until her own fell and a
warm blush rose to shame his impu-
lence.
High water at the ford, dare
say"
She lifted her eyes anxiously. "But
they'll go through" she said almost
lmploringly. "Oh, must get to An
gels tonight"
''Oh, certainly" he answered, conf
1ently. They're sure to go through.
see, here it comes now" And he
turned and walked to the other end
Of the station.
The lady looked once more down the
road, but this time with sigh of re-
lief, and her hand went unconsciously
to the heavy leather belt which con-
fined her waist. Five thousand dollars
in gold were concealed in that belt,
and in the small grip she carried were
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scanr space TO conrlnue-siummlng
parties of serious and helpful intent to
seek out hands needing help-skating
parties, opera parties. The opera, in.
deed, is brilliant as never before.
There is brave gowning about the
cleaning curve of the great room
when Calve or Games appears There
may be seen Mrs. Yznaga in gown OF
black trimmed with yellow. suiting
admirably her yellow hair and fair
complexion; Mrs. Burke-Roche in bril-
liant black and red, admirably setting
off her rich, dark beauty. Mrs. Cooper
in pale tan AID brown, fitting her deli
cate beauty
The younger people. the pretty girls,
and dear! dear! the New York girls
grow prettier every year-the girls
make great use of silk theater waists,
which are pretty, perishable, fresh.
Two I have seen together, widely diff
ferent but each beautiful in its way.
Let me describe them:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
MoHAMMEDAN WOMEN.
They Laugh 1t the Idea OF Exclusion FroE
De-

They Laugh 1T the Idea Of Exclusion From
Paradise.
The ceremony of the prayer on this
occasion was singularly impressive. To
witness it we descended wide stair
case, at the foot of which was another
long. bare, spacious apartment, the low
ceiling Imported by pillars 1t was
dimly lighted from above by sparsely
hung lamps.
About thirty or forty women, in their
house attire, but wearing the long
white veil draped around the head, face
and shoulders, wives. daughters, sisters,
servants, slaves and children-white,
brown, bronzed and black = were
ranged in kneeling rows, their fore
heads touching the ground, their atti-
tude the embodiment of establishment.
in the presence of the one invisible Coz
they adore.
In the dim light these PROSTATE
heaps, shrouded in their white wells.
looked ghostly enough. The whole
scene was mute and silent as dream.
Only at intervals, from behind a
screen the voice of the priest broke
the stiffness and proclaimed in weird.
nasal monotonous chant that Allah
was the one and only God. Sometimes
the yelled figures rose to their feet with
one accord-Eastern women are very
supple if they are very fat-then, as
the name of Allah fell upon their ears,
they flung themselves down in the
same uniform manner, and rocking
themselves to and fro after the man.
ner Of worshipers in mosque, lay their
faces in the dust.
My friend, the pasha's daughter, was
good enough to sit upon the staircase
by my side and act as chorus. instead
of joining in the performance. After
she had explained that "Moise" and
"Jesu Christ" and 'Mohammed" were
all acknowledged by her faith to have
been divinely inspired, but not divine
ly born, she proceeded to expound the
Mohammedan theory of paradise.
But" l interrupted her, Il have
been told that there is no paradise for
the souls of Mohammedan women.
Your husbands are to have houris to
console them for your loss"
1t did one good to see the scorn of the
pasha's daughter at this suggestion.
She impaired it in Turkish to the
blandly-smiling Mrs Djevdet Pasha.
and the pair laughed until the blue
robe of the latter slipped off her broad
shoulders for the twentieth time.
When they had done laughing they
informed me that there was no greater
mistake than to suppose that Moham-
med excluded women from paradise.
That his own daughter, Falma, had
been the great expounder of the Koran,
which was written to guide women to
paradise by the same path as the one
the men were to follow
That her husband had better just go
in search of the houris! Only let them
try! Their wives would soon be even
with them, for were there not Gilmans
n-angels-beautiful as the arch
angels themselves, and was not (only
the pasha's daughter did not put it in
this form) sauce for the goose sauce for
the gander as well?-Temple Bar.
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down standard until there is another
to take its place well enough to mas
Querade for a night; but
Some of the best styles of ancient
garb for displaying womanly beauty
and that's what is wanted, isn't it?-
are these:
The Elizabethan or Shakespeare; all
men in doublet and hose and shoulder
cloak, all women in ruff and girdle
The Vatican: men in small clothes,
powdered wigs and wide-skirted, wide
cuffed coats of divers colors and
women in absurdly dly-named peasant
costume" of square cut, pointed cor
sage, short skirts and full paniers.
The Empire; most women have EN-
pire gowns, to which there added need
be but the powder and patches, little
round pieces of black court plaster
It's more trouble for the men: but
don't they make trouble enough in
their turn. the obstinate things Let
them suffer,
The Beckett; suggested, of course, by
lrving's play and revealing types of
nnprofessioral womauhood in rowus
as near like Terry's as they can get
them
The Japanese: mainly an affair of
slSillfully manipulated uncut silks
which can be made up later, OH my
thrifty sisters, and so not quite wasted.
The hair dressing is not difficult, the
fan cost ten cents. but the clo2-like
shoes are impossible.
The Veronese; the youth all Romeos
in velvet caps and swords and tights;
the women all Juliets. in flowing robes
and flleted hair. And this style of
costume lends itself to the most beau
tiful of ensembles, also the most expen-
sive.
Hence again-ve were talking of
zads, you remember, and have left
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him smile that made MS head spin.
she turned away.
Jim stood stock still and gazed after
her. ride with me-" he muttered.
well. you bet she kin. She's daisy,
and no mistake. Hope Jack won't be
jealous," and he broke into loud guf-
faw, which he as instantly checked,
ard hurried into the bar-oom.
Here he read the note Rose had given
him. then, lighting it at taper. he
watched it burn until it fell to the
ground.
Note from Jack Sterling" he said,
coolly- mo treasure going up tonight;
arm still bothers him. and. turning to
take up his glass of whisky straight, :"
he found himself face to face with the
man, who had accosted Rose in the
station
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
WAGES IN FOREIGN LANDS.

A PERSIAN cook can earn Ss.aa a
month.
BOSS mason in Ceylon can earn S. 20
per week.
A WEAVER in Germany receives 60
cents day.
A NATIVE painter in India earns 80
cents day.
FARM laborers in Belgium receive 46
cents day.
A RAILROAD conductor in Turkey gets
s21 month. SIS
a MULE driver in Morocco earns 10
cents day.
THRAsHER in Turkey can command
10 cents day.
MEXICAN mason earns from 75
cents to 81 day.
Music teachers in Hamburg are paid
81 cents an hour.
AN engraver in Rio de Jane:so can
make sl2 per week
BLACKSMITH in Jerusalem can make
Sl.92 per week.
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sweetheart, stood waiting for the stage
with twenty-five thousand dollars In
her keeping.
Wet with the water of the ford, with
horses dripping with foam. Dandy Jim
drove up to the station, and at last the
stage was in.
There were FIVE passengers-two
miners. a natty young man with
leathern case. evidently a drammer,
an Irish woman and Chinaman. Look
ing tired and cross they hurried to the
supper-roem. while Dandy Jim descend
ed slowly from MS lofty seat
POLE busted" he said. laconically to
the hostler. Right leader lost a
shoe then stroiled slowly 10 the car.
But before he reached il light
soach was laid on his arm, and he
turned quickly 20 look down into a
pair of soft brown eyes, and Rose
Maynard said. sweetly: May / riGe
with you. Jima-the box seat. you
know" and she smiled significantly as
she handed him BIT of yellow paper.
We'll. III be bIowesi." said Jim. .;ef
il amt Miss Rose. Ride with me?
Why, bless yer heart, of course you
kin"
Thank you." said Rose. and. giving
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isn't even a-rau. He S a freak, and my
lady of the shining shoulders, who now
permits one or two or three long green
lizards to wander about her shoulders
at their sweet wills, except as limited
by their golden chains, will not much
longer do so. The chained beetle was
bad enough. The chained chameleon
is worse, because it's bigger.
Hence the fancy ball; quite as often
rs not nearly impromptu- Big dress
balls at the garden we have always
had. The fad of this season is to
have coy little affairs at home, where
comfortable number may disport
themselves, or at studio. The cos
TUNES are equally elaborate, the num-
Der much smaller. There are Vatican
balls, Gypsy balls, Egyptian balls, Bull
garian balls, Dutch kirmesses-the
latter by no means new. Besides these
are the, mixed affairs,
when the amiable and exemplary
father of family poses as "Auld
Nickie Ben" and two-hundred-pound
fairies and slim-legged knights pro-
yoke derision. But these, naturally,
are not so pretty rs when the costumes
are Of one style. Women always like
to lure men into strange costumes.
Men-excepting the artists of the
palette or the buskin-do not take
kindly to it. They like better the
conventional dress suit. at whose un-
beautiful aspect women rage. The
men are right; not always right, but
right in this. The dress suit is a
standard, and it is well not to knock
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
A BEAUTIFUL MUMMY.
Features of Twelfth Ceu.ury Lady Pm
served In Lime.

Features of Twelfth Ceusury Lady PFo-f
served In Lime.
The most beautiful mummy IN tho.
world was recently unearshed in q sub
terranean crypt of St Fides' church in
Schlettstadt, Alsatia. which had been
closed up and, in fact. forgotten for
one hundred years or more. St Fides'i
church was built by members OF the
Hohenstsufen dynasty in the eleventh.
century. The crypt was originally in-
tended as burial place for the princes
of that house. At the beginning OF
the twelfth century the black plague
visited the town and the vaults wero
walled in, says the New York World
At the beginning Of this century tho
stone and mortar were partly removed
and q small opening made Just big
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
SHE PLAYED POKER
BY BEArRIcE DI LUNDA.

IcoPYRIGHT, ISo4.l
The stage was late The two passen-
gers waiting at the little station paced
up and down the wooden platform,
now and then stopping to gaze inn
patiently down the muddy road and
then at the sun. which was fast sink
ing in the west
One of the passengers was young
girl, pretty and self-possessed, al
though, perhaps, trifle nervous in her
manner. She shivered slightly as
the cool evening air blew in her
face, and turned towards her part
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01

checks and paper money amounting to
the sum of twenty thousand dollars
All Wells-Fargo treasure going to the
mines at Angels Camp.
Only the last week the stage had
been held up and the agent badly shot,
while the robbers escaped with the
booty. This had been the third serious
loss inside of two months and the COM
pany vowed to outwit the spoilers. So
they put their heads together and the
outcome of their scheming was that.
Rose Maynard, the injured agents
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
WEAR A CHAMELEON
The Pre-Lenten Season Of Freaks
and Fads and Fancies.
Masquerade Parties ana Skating PARTIES.
Frivolous Madame and Sensible Miss
-GowniuE ut the Opera-Tho
Chained Chameleon.
rcoPYRIGKT. Iss4.l

In this pre-Lenten time fads -four
ish. Women, who are faddists by vir-
tue of their sex, have become tagged
by society duties and welcome novel.
ty. 1t is like pinch of salt to jaded
palate.
Hence the chameleon. This little
green lizard has been taken seriously.
I'm not sure that cruelty-to-animals
sermons may not have been preached
upon him. But the chameleon is not
serious-at least his wearer isn't. He
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-01
against each other, and with sudden

against each other, and with sudden
jolt the coach fell on its side.
Snrieizs and means filed the air.
The Irish woman broke into lord
wailing, with cries of '.Murther.s in
terspersed here and there. The China
man lay unconscious. stunned by his
fall, the drummer, with revolver in
each hand, had covered the miners
and the guard was lying on his back
with all the tumbled luggage on. his
chest.
brush and fired the shots that struck
poor Jim. and they were now quieting
the hor ses- Rose. who had regained
her feet unhurt, felt some one grasp
her belt Turning. she faced the man
who had been her fellow-passenger at
the station.
With an unnatural strength born Of
despair she wrenched herself free. and
her assaulter was looking into the
cleaning barrels of Jim's Smith &
Wesson.
Let me alone!" she painted, her eyes
cleaning cruelty, ''or, by Heaven, I'll
shoot you for Jack!"
The robber laughed and made some
signal, and in another moment some
one had seized her from behind and
taken the weapon from her
Come" said the first man, 81 don't
want to hurt you. Hand over the cash.
III not touch you; but I've got to have
it,
Rose clutched her belt still tighter
Looking into his face she saw that,
although reckless and dissipated, he
was above his companions, and. with a
woman's instinct. she spoke:
Sir" she said, bravely, '.I'm in your
power, l know. Of course, you can
take the money if You wish. am de-
fenseless. But undertook to take that
money through. and viii not give it up
without struggle. Play game of
poker with me for the booty If you
lose, 1 am free: if lose, take the
money; give me this chance. If you
will not, shoot me as You did poor
jack; will not disgrace him." and she
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80
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-''Phipps really raved over the play
last night" II don't understand what
he could see about II to" That
was just its the hat that was In front
of him completely shut OF his view. -
Inter Ocean.
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Liver z. Stab,es-Sure
Wood r. Ryer-There must have
been some mistake mad. in the print
ing of the advertisement i. szid tbs
horse was FIVE years old and worth a
hundred dollars Didn't yoa mean 4
hundred years old and worth H-e dol
Iaye9-Iz.syA
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-25
THE COTTON MARKETS.

NEW YORK, Aug. 2L-Cotton quiet;
middling gulf. "a. milllng uplands, +.
Futures closed quiet ana steady. sales,
46 100 bales. August, G.,j0G.t5, Soptcm-
Der. G.GsH'j.Gs; october G.s34G.7f; No
vembcr. G.790GSo. December. GNG0GS 81;
January. GIHG3l. February. Ggg47. 90.
March. 100; April. 1llu7l3. gross re-
coipts. "a bales. exports 10 Great Bri-
lain. as bales, Continent. So bales.
forwarded 50 bales, sale. G9l9 bales.
spinncrs, Ills bales stock 81 30 bales.
Weckly-Nct receipts. 81 bales; gross
receipts. :, Nt1 baies exports To Great
britain. G.0b7 bales: Continent. Sol bales
forwarded, LII.
Total since september lst-Nct receipts.
5SSG.9os bales; exports TO Great. Britaln'
2S,4. IA bales, FRANCE, 152,2Jl bales on
tinent. l.7202,2 baics: channel. 9GSl bales.
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 24-Cotton III
lures steady. sales, $50 bales AuEust'
g. ~ September, 62G. October GlO; NO
Vcmber. ga. December. 800. January
GGl: February. GG7: March, 90: APRIL
60. May. g. -: June, cal July, q"
LIVERPOOL. Aug. IL ~ III
Cotton duil, free supply oneIl III ,, anu
prices unchanged: AfneII.'t oto t,,.''.
I 27-32: sales estimated at S'wm hales;
American. $500 bales; speculation and
e%port 40 bales: receipts. 200 bales. all
,,Anor,c,n ruhres steady aud demand
freelv sr,nnlied: August, , fs-Gi03 1861:
ncs,,;st opd Septeinber 3 1864; Septem-
tr and october 3 1864; October ana
Nnyennber 1861: November and De
cernber' 3 1876: December and January.
= itnoGi. January and February; 900;
february ana March, "- N
AZ 'MLCotfon futures closed steady; Au-
~, - lp-Gt values; August ana septem-
Ssr 4 ss-6iGi3 1864: September and Octo-
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-08-25
Lowell and Poe.

Towens friendship with Poe was not
destined % good fortune. There had been
mutual goodwill ana respect, with kindly
Offices. on JOtn -lI.s Iat connection of
Poe with Briggs. iu the editorial conduct
Of the Broadway journal, Was the Occa-
sion of an exchange of Views and facts
between Briggs and Lowell which LETT
P0e's reputation very much impaired IN
Lowells Judgment.
P0o's admiration for the author of "lio.
elliuo" on the other hand did not sur
yivc the lines i'm THE Fable for Critics
I'm which his own portrait was not in
aptlv drawn. After Briggs ceased 10 be
his cO-cditOr Poe attacked Lowell as a
plagiarist. and the latter expressed his
resentment ~ length I'm a passage 20 be
found in his published Letters" Lowell,
too. had lately met Poe just recovering
from spree, and the impression then
received was sufficient Of itself 10 ter
minte their relations.
a short time after. IN October lSb, oe-
ourrel the public scandal Of Poe visit
10 Boston 10 read a poem before tho
Boston Ivceum. which confirmed him IN
hts Hfe-long dislike OF the bostonians.
Later. I'm an unpublished letter 10 Mr..
D. W. Thomas early ia 1919. Poe denounced
Lowell. Nth some contempt, and made
a. publlc disclosure Of his changed atu-
tudo by an uafav0rable review OF the
Fable for Critics" IN the southern Lit
,rary " s~cuger, IN February OF that
yoar-Scribner's Magazine.