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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
HOW He Made Ii.

81 made five hundred dollars once" "
said the man in the macintosh, by
merely keeping ny mouth shut"
WAS it at an auction?' asked the
man in the slouch hat
No
High priced doctor asked you ia
show him your tongue and Won didn't
do it?" ventured the man who had his
feet on the ia BILE.
No. 1t was"
Found il on the street and didn't
say n word about it to anybody?" sug-
gested the man behind the green gog-
giles
DO it on bet?" inquired the man in
the shaggy ulster.
Burglar asked you where your
money was hid and you were struck
speechless and couldn't tell him?" hsz-
arded the man with the big spot OF
gray in his mustache.
''Iou think you're pretty smart" "
SAID the man in the macintosh. speak
ing to the crowd generally. but you re
not. None of you would ever guess it
/ made that FIVE hundred dollars in the
simplest way in the world A rich old
uncle who was visiting us told Ions
story we'd heard him tell a hundred
times before | was the only one in
.he family that didn't GAVIN, and he re-
oenbered me in his will Chicago
tribune
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

California possesses delightful winter
climate Almost every dsy II balmy and
full OF sunshine. To live in such air 4 fs2s
months may save you Big doctor bill IL
doesn't cost much to try. The Frisco iine
and santa Fe route Will carry you 90 I|os
Angeles. San Diego or san FraUc1sco aoy
day, on fat vestibUlsd express train, ~
Pullman or tourist sleeper. The journey
is through New Mexico and AEIzobs.
where heavy snovfalis seldom come. IL Is
short, quick aud comforts sbie-stfaight
scroS-- not round d-ab0nt- Once a week
personally -coaducted excursions are rrn
TO the Pacific cosst 10 tourist slsspsrs.
Competent poriers and agents ia charge.
Second class tickets hoBored. sDd good
care taken Of ladies and eESIdren wsfboDi
escort Very cheap rates for ous way OF
round rrip, now ia effect Write 70 ID.
Wishaft, O. T.. r.. Frisco line. ~. Louis,
no. for copy of California sxcu7si0n lssf
Jet aud handsomely illustrated book
entitled ITO California and Back" Near
est local agent Of Frisco lire or Santa re
route will be glad 10 name fscke: rates sad
furnish desired informsticD about TIE ts7p.
Do1't be afraid 10 2sk questions
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
THE BULLDOzING LAWYER.
X,rowbeating Witnesses Should No Longer
Re Permitted.

Browbeating witnesses Should No Longer
BE Permitted.
just by what process the custom OF
berating and brow beating witnesses
came to be established among lawyers
Is not known. Presumably it comes
from the hope that by working upon
the indignation of the witness he can
be- made to lose his head. contradict
himself and so lose the value of his tes-
timony. The lawyer who first con-
ceived this plan of cross-examination
was a great man and a grand origl-
nator. He doubtless won many cases
by its use. He deserves much credit
for his sharpness. But the thousands
Of cheap imitators he has bred up in
pur courts are enough to blot his mem
Dry forever. Every crack-voiced hedg-
ling of the law school that has his first
chance at cross-examination ably takes
pattern from the powerful lawyers
he has seen in the same british game
and soueaks his abuse at his betters in
the witness chair His chief desire
seems to be to make as thorough paced
an idiot of himself as possible. Judges
cnuCklc db Hlul, law .fCio oo
him, witnesses call HIM impertinent
when they leave the stand and every
pne who hears and sees him very prop
.rly despises him. Yet he grows up in
the business and expands, and his
abusive propensity increases with his
fees But bullying does not always
win. There are inner methods of dis
composing a witness than that. Dick
eus told of an old lawyer who never
failed to disconcert his victim by a
much simpler aid infinitely less often
sive method. The old lawyer took
snuff Just as he was about to ask a
vital question he would take pinch
very slowly and tremendously. Then
he would draw out an immense red
handkerchief and spread it upon his
hand. He would then put the question,
screw up his eyes as if the snuff irri-
tated him and deliberately wait in ap
expectant attitude, before blowing his
nose, until the witness could answer.
These tactics, SO the author said. never
failed to distract the victim and his
answer would invariably be hating,
compromising and of inestimable value
in ''impressing the jury" The bull
doing lawyer will probab bly, continue
to bulIdoze until the courts discourage
the custom generally and thus ELL a
long felt want.-Chicago Post
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
g, DATING VEGETABLE MATTER

N.turo'x Method of Distributing Seed
on Ocean Currents.
In some parts of the world. notably
IN the Malay archipelago, vast quaint.
ties of vegetable matter are always
floating about on the sea On the
Molucca islands the trees seem to dis
pute with the waves of the ocean for
the possession of the soil Not only
are their roots and often portions OF
their trunks immersed in water, but
their branching crowns incline in the
same direction and are bathed by the
tides. Thus the numerous currents OF
the Molucca sea are ch arged with sea-
weeds intermixed with flowers. fruits,
cocoanuts, nuts or other palms and
even whole trees. The amount OF
driftwood thrown upon adj shores is
enormous Eskimo along the Arctic
coast of Alaska depend upon it wholly
for wood supply. Natives OF the coral
islands of the Pacific get all their
stones for tools from the roots OF
drifted trees, in which the stones were
found imbedded
The carrying of seeds by ocean cur
rents is one of natures most interest
ing methods of distributing planta
through the world. Darwin. who de-
voted much attention to Investigating
the matter, proved that many
kinds of seeds will bear INNER.
sion in water for one hundred
days, or even more, and still retain
their vitality, so that when thrown
ashore they are ready to sprout. Not
few species, which will sink when
green. float if they have chanced to
dry before falling into the stream
which carries them to the ocean. toi
the very purpose of accomplishing this
distribution by water, nature has made
the husks of many seeds practically
waterproof Among the familiar OBJ
jects picked up on the ocean beach are
| the so-called sea-beans. 1t is popularity
supposed that the plants which bear
| these beans grow in the water. Ihe
beans are found in enormous quantities
on the Florida shore and in diminish
| ing numbers northward along the At.
iantic coast. They are the seeds OF
! various pod bearing vines-climbine
plants plentiful along the shores OF the
| Caribbean sea. Each pod, resembling
an exaggerated peapod. contains a
number of seeds The latter, falling
when ripe into the water, are carried
by the gulf stream around the south
end of Florida and up the Atlantic
coast. There are three important va
rieties. one reddish and fiat, another
more round and gray, and the third
much bigger and of mahogany color.
Washington Star.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

Yen 20 east take the Frisco line. for iss
reason. that il - the oalT Wicsits llss
having two solid trains daily 20 - !<2zts
without cbznze Cbsis cars. fssst- frssl
soG Pullman palace sleeping cars . S@<a
morning sad nlztt ,rssns-is2r3sz teas<
"a 1915 q ns-. aEd iss-zs , n sFfivs =.
Louis uafos t5sr0t s.59 a. IA. aa1 CD =.
IA ReIlsbls-siaAys On tst2s-iassf4eg
certain eoUn~rflsus with 6iTsTsirs AnsA
Gail az IboaglAs 8rsScs st&tse2 OF c-Er
;ss.Ss os<ez. - Safth Xsis ssse*s
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

Commencing March lat. the Great Rock
Island railway viii rnsks Sns-~ay nfst-
class rate 10 both northsfu and southern
Californss yotots for t5t. and . roaad trip
rst. ef a. 81. good FOR % days. Tbs Rock
I.land IL TIE only line runnsag . through
car from Wichita 70 Los Angeles AID Ss1
FsRpci-co without change 0s cara For
further information cali a; Rock is.aai
ticket cfscs, corner 1sia snd Douglas
! H. PHILLIPS.
ds3 - City Ticks. Ak
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

". H. and II. J. C3sggst,. adninss;rs-
tors OF tie estate Of :. Z CBeSget,- are IN
toe city With = car load q regy valuable
imported percheroa sIzlIsors. all yoEps
and gesosd caiors They nu1i sss sold 10
close rp BE estate. Th.F are "a xsssd .ns
and right fr1n &cLssE county. filiHoss.
Ese gsest~sz horse es1uEy - tie ieitest
State. wal De sosd fer cash. or % Ioas
sn. with sYprov-i sesarssy. os sIeAzo sz1
tor productive psep=Fty. Arysae Igtrs-
sslss. IL sGca sfocx invited 20 Gail ~ ~.
z Divers barn. Es7 Narta Wsco. % s-s4-
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

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tss ssr s~rslcs. fof fossher particulars
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
A Powerful Plea

Jphge-Prisorer, you have commit
ted fragrant bigamy. and l can see nc
extenuating circumstances in connee-
tion with your offensc.
Prisoner-Beg your pardon. l hope
your lor6ship won't forget that l had
10 endure two -nothers-in-law,-Fu
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
Long A, Please.

SIS that piece of bric-a-brac all your
rich relatives left you?" inquired the
visitor.
Yes, siri' sighed the poor relation.
'sMy vase is my fortune."@ Chicago
Tribune
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

The Sau,a Fe is Cutting Rates.
Don't purchase q California ticket be-
fore you learn what the Santa Fe are do.
ing. Call AT l5S North Main street OF
Douglas avenues station. d96 IT
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

For Colorado and California po3sts tax
the Missouri Pacific r23izzy. CaIifornia
.zs: express ieases Wichita a. sss ?. ua
a. IL. GxzAss
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

ChoIly-What did you do when May
accepted you?
Chappie-I blew a kiss at her.
Truth
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

For Sale
Eighty acres, ten miles northeast OF
Wichita. Fifty acres in cultivatiOn; all
fenced. Price 81, COO Easy terms.
One hundred and sixty acres, well i'm.
proved, one and one half miles from Derby.
Price s.. 200 Easy terms
One hundred feet on North Lawren ce;
east front. Price s.. 500. Easy terms.
Good property in all parts of the city,
cheap aud on easy terms
JOE Fl. LINDSEY.
l29 East Douglas. d93 Ct
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08

New Announcement.
The Santa Fe route are now selling
round trip tickets TO San Francisco and
intermediate California points-going
via southern California and returning via
Ogden, Salt Lake and Denver-atlowing
stop over privileges in California within
final limit go days. Price $3.50. Also
first class one way tickets continuous pas
sages SO.
Two through trains daily, without
change, equipped with clair cars (seats
free); also Tourist and Standard Pullman
sleepers. w D. MURDOCH, ID Z. A.
City Office 15S North Main street. Station
corner Douglas aad Fifth avenues. d96 IT
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-08
A Silver Dime

Never figured largely the affairs of men does when
the little piece being sought for by everybody irrespective of age
condition. because Possesses the Power Purchase
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26
PERSONAL AND PECULIAR.

1t is said that Mrs. Celia W. Wallace,
of Chicago, purchaser of the Tiffany
Chapel, will present the chapel to st.
Johns Cathedral OF New York, and give
with it n sum of money sufficient to
create fund for it's preservation. AL
though she spends the greater part of her
time in Chicago, Mrs Wallace was born
in New England. She is the only sur
viving daughter of DR.. Thomas Whipple
and Priscilla Pierce Whipple, late of
Wentworth, n. H., and traces her ances-
try through a distinguished Congress
ional line to William Whipple, one OF the
signers of the Declaration of lndepend-
ence.
Sharp witted boys in Brooklyn have
been making good deal of money out
Of an old billy-goat which has been sold
repeatedly for from fifteen to fifty cents.
The owner would send him to the
pound as stray, receive the So which
Brooklyn pays for the delivery there of
a stray goat, and go off to bear the news
that the goat was in custody. Then the
goat would be sold, as has heen men
TONED, and presently returned again as
stray. The business became SO lively
that the mayor has suspended the pay
ment of the bounty.
Professor Richards of Yale, known
authority in athletics, makes very
practical suggestion, to wit, that the
college require certificate of physical
soundness from every candidate for a
place on an athletic team and that the
supervision of athletics be placed in the
charge of a director who shall have a
seat in the undergraduate faculty and
who shall supervise practice in the field
or on the water.
A new chainless bicycle has been in
vented by E. P. Holly Of Providence. The
pedals work the piston of a pump which
forces water, or alcohol and glycerine,
to the point where it can ss.be applied to
best advantage in driving the machine.
Great economy of power is claimed for
this device, but it does not seem to have
had a practical test yet.
| Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, the
youngest son of Charles Dickens has
been living ipAustralia for more than
| twenty i've Years. and is mem Der Of
| Parliament from Wilcannia, New South
| Wales. Il I'd
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26

wholly by surprise. There was no room
for it to turn about in, as nose and ears
first, it came to the surface, shook its
head, snorted frantically and swan des-
perately ahead, sneezing and blinking
Its smarting eyes, to the further end OF
the vat
he channel yves as long as a rope
walk, there was no footing, and the New
Mexican sheep is not aquatic in state and
habits, but the vile liquid was highly
stimulating to exertion, and the long
procession padded onward without a
break, to emerge, one by one, at the
further end where an incline led up to
tightly laid floor.
Here the sheep were allowed to stand
while the liquid that dripped from their
bodies ran back into the vat. A shorn
sheep is grotesque looking animal at
best, and the discolored sloppy animals
that crowded the dripping floor were a
forlorn assem- blage indeed.
" AS soon as the sheep were quite dried
they were driven into the third corral,
where they were marked with the owners
marks, after which they were turned
out to the shepherds who drove them
upon the plain to Craze. Their recen
severe experience did not seem to dimiI-
ish their appetite for grass.
This heroic process kills the in
intestinal parasite that produces that
cutaneous disease of the sheep, the scab,
which causes the wool to fall out, often
leaving the animal bare in the dead OF
winter. Unpleasant as the mode of its
eradication is yearly it is an essential
proceeding for the common benefit OF
sheep and owners.
Talking afterward with some of the
New Mexico sheep men about this In
novation in the shearing and dipping
process, | found them enthusiastic on
the subject Before this year they have
had to dip and shear their sheep on
their ranches, where it has cost them
much more. and the dipping has been
the sheep carry their own wool. on their
backs, to the shearing station and rail-
road market, and as they Craze by the
way, it costs but little more to drive
them than to herd them ON the range.
| was told that 5000 sheep could be
dipped aud sheared in a day at these
works. Over 100000 sheep had been
sheared and dipped SO far during the
summer, and number of large hocks
were then on their way for that purpose
to Las Vegas
A further development of the New
Mexico sheep industry has been the
building in recent years of securing
plants in the territory where tie oil and
DUST that add $50 much undesirable
weight to the fleece of the merino and
graded sheep are removed. Formerly
all the New Mexico wool was shipped to
the east uncleansed, hereby the ranch
man had to pay for the transportation
of valueless material thou sands of miles
at high freight rates. On the railroad
sidings at Las Vegas there were some.
times standing several car loads OF clean,
snow white wool awaiting shipment by
the next freight train to the East.
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26
See that you get DANA's.
Administrators Sale of Real Es.
tate.

DURSUANT to a license from the Honorable
Il Judge of Probate for the County of Cum
berland, shall sell atpublic auction on SAT-
URDAY the twent y-seyenth day of October,
A. D., 1894, at two O'Clock IN the afternoon, on
the. premises, all :the right title ard interest
Which William A. Mitchell, late of Freeport. in
said County, deceased, had in ana to the fol-
lowing described real estate, viz:-Homestead
OF said deceased, situated at Freeport Corner,
on the Northeast corner of Main and School
streets so called, subject to two mortgages held
by William Gore of said Freeport, on which is
due about two thousand dollars, and also to
the right of dover therein of Rosilla e. Mitchell,
widow of said deceased
Also a lot of land situated IN said Free
port containing one acre and seventy-one
square rods. known as The Reed lot, ly-
ing at the junction of the Reed road,
so called and the road leading from Porter's
Landing to Haskell'S Mills, SO called. subject to
the right OF dover of said RoSllla q. Mitchell,
widow of said deceased.
Also fine lots of land situated on or near
School street at said Freeport Corner. being the
same described on MitchellS plan OF School
street lots as recorded in Cumberland County
Registry of Deed in Plan Book z. page ~. be-
ing lots numbered four, five, twelve. thirteen
and sixteen with the rear land belonging there
to, subject to the right of dover of said Rosilla
G. Mitchell widow of said deceased.
Dated at Freeport this 18th day OF Septem-
Der, A. D., 1894
EDWIN c. TOWNSEND, Administrator
OF estate of William A. Mitchell.
Sept1 8, 1aw3WW*
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26

Before undertaking to instruct the
public as to what the law is it is wise
precaution for the instructor to at least
read the law, otherwise the instruction
is not likely to be of great value. Yes
terday the Eastern Argus in feeling
article on coroners' inquests declared
that "the law regarding inquests is
plain in stating that the jury shall con-
sist of six citizens of the town in which
the death occurred" Now the law re-
garding inquests is found on page $50 of
the Revised Statutes and reads as fol-
lows:
Coroners shall hold inquests on dead
bodies of such persons only as appear OF
are supposed to have come to their death
by violence, and not when it is believed
that their death was caused by casualty
and as soon as a coroner is notified of any
such dead body in his county, he shall
make out his warrant in the following
form, directed to any of the consta bles
of the same or an adjoining town in said
county, requiring him forthwith to
summon jury of six good and lawful
men of THEN towns to appear before him
at the time and place fixed in the war;
rant.
"tiood ana lawful men Oh Jhelr towns. "
II Jurors could be summoned from only
one town the constables would not be
commanded to summon good and law
fui men of their towns" The Argus has
special reasons for knowing the law re-
latihg to inquests, but it obviously does
not know it, One of the first requisites
for administering the law is knowledge
OF it, The point of this remark lies in
it's application.
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26

The returns from all the congressional
districts are now complete. Mr.. Reeds
majority in the First district is $500;
Mr.. DingIey's in the Second is 10, 100; Mr..
Mlliken's in the Third is 10,227; and Mr..
Boutelle's in the Fourth is 10, 579 For
the past four years Mr.. Reeds average
majority in his district has been q 562
(this includes the year in which he re-
ceived his exceptional majority over Mr..
Frank; Mr.. Dingley's has been $3.50;
Mr.. Milliken's 4,273, and Mr.. Boutelle's
4,237. Mr.. Reeds per cent. of gain this
yearssover his average of the last foul
years is 225; Mr.. Dingley's 95; Mr.. Mill
ken's 1879; and Mr.. Boutelle's 149. On the
basis of the normal Republic majority
in this district which is about 1900, Mr..
Reeds gain is 420 per cent.
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26

Judge Gaynor's refusal to accept the
Democratic nomination for governor of
New York was dictated badly by
a sound discretion. The tide is rum ing
so strongly in favor of the Republicans
this year that no Democrat no matter
how superior he may be, has much
chance of being elected governor of a
State that has felt the effects of Demo-
cratic ineficiency SO much as New York
Furthermore Gaynor's support. or very
much of it, was open to the suspicion of
insincerity, and of being the result rath-
or of desire that he might be noml-
mated that his Dmocratic enemies might
wreak vengeance upon him, than of any
hope or wish for his election. If he was
defeated for governor he lost his present
position, for he could not hold on to that
and at the same time be candidate for
the executive Office.
The Portland daily press., 1894-09-26
HILL AND THE NEW YORK DEMO
Gratis.


There is more or less talk of stampe-
ding the New York Democratic con-
vention for Senator Hill. 1t may not
amount to anything, the chances are
that it will not because Hill would, in
all probability, refuse to accept. But it
is clear that the Hill influence domin-
ates the convention, and that it is ready
to do his bidding. If he should give the
word it would without doubt gladly
confer the nomination upon him. This
fact is full of Significance 1t shows
that the controlling forces of the New
York Democracy are still as they have
been for many years past antagonistic
to Cleveland. 1t shows that they APP
prove the conduct of Hill in the Senate
in opposing the confirmation of the two
New Workers whom the President NOM
mated for judge OF the Supreme Court
1t shows that they are opposed to the in
come tax. 1t shows that they approve
OF Hips course in voting against the
amended Wilson BILL II shows that
Fl ill's antagonism to Cleveland has not
hurt him with his constituents. Should
ne be nominated the only logical plat
form to place him on would be one con-
demning. almost everything the admins
tration has done, or tried to do, during
the past eighteen months. A campaign
under his leadership would be, to all
intents and purposes, campaign
against the Cleveland administration.
Cleveland could not claim that Hips
success was vindication for him.
There would be much more reason for
interpreting it as a condemnation.