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"I'M so glad lost my legsr' said the vet eran, with a smile. II never have rheuma- tism in my wooden ones, and on cold winter nights l haven't anything to stick down un- der the arctic sheets. .n-Harpers Bazar.
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''SAY, pa," asked Freddy, ''why is it that when you or Uncle George tells story you always get laughed at, and when tell one I get a liclSin' !''-Buffalo Courier
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"Is HICKS wife a nice housekeeper?r MT. Hacks-"Well should say so. Why, half the time Hicks can't find anything that be- longs to him.n
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ACToRs, Vocalists, Public Speakers praise Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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SHE-"Would you go through fire for me Algernonl" He-"Ya-as, if was dwessed for it."-Harper's Bazar.
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THE widower about to marry is the mos: unselfish of mortals. He seldom thinks of Number One.-Life.
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A PATIENT should pay his doctor as soon as he gets we'll just to show there is no ill., feeling.-N. O. Picayune.
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"HALF the world doesn't know how the other half ives.n Neither does the other half-Life.
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SUFFERERS from Coughs, Sore Throat, etc, should try "BrODnrS Bronchial TrOchGsn
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MRS. UPTowN-"Did you post my letter this morning, Georgei" George (with much ..feeling,,l l-..Yes. dear. .n-Boston Courier
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WERE you bull or bearl" asked an ac- quaintance of a speculator. "Neither," he replied; T was an ass. n-Tid-Bits.
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PIN thy faith to no mans sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy owni-Carlyle.
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ODDLY enough the homeliest of old maids are generally girls who were matchless in their youth. Buffalo Courier.
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TIME is infinitely long, and each day is a vessel into which great deal may be poured, If we actually fill it up.-Goethe.
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AN UNBELIEvER.-He-"D you believe in hero worship" She-'No, not now; I'm married. "-Detroit Free Press.
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WHEN the boss of Russia orders thing to be done the slave says: "Yes, czar,n and goes and does it-Picayune.
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In clothes choose suitable and last ing stuff, and not tawdry fineries. To be warm is the main thing. If you give all to board and back there is nothing left for the savings bank. Fare hard and work hard while you are young, and you will have chance to rest when you are old.
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As LONG as a woman retains her maiden name it is her maiden aim to change it, Philadelphia Record.
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BENEvoLENCE without love has no more heart in it than grindstone.-Ram's Horn.
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LEARNING hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.-Thomas Fuller
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FOUR MORE LYNCHED.
Negro Murderers of Mississippi Strung Ul
 by Yigilantes.

Dy FIBIIHHIts'
 TALLULAH Miss, April 2s.-Four more of the Boyce assassins were capt tured last night About two miles from here 200 mounted men overpow- cred the officers took the four assas- sins to the place where Boyce was killed and hanged them.
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"I ALWAYS stand by the under dog in fght,' said Hawkins. "He is much less likely to bite. ."-Harper's Bazar.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-05-03
An Impossibility

Tom-Did you hear that Slim had a fit of apoplexy, this morning?
 Dick-No. Where?
 Tn Goose's tailor shop"
 "I don't believe it. A man couldn't have fit there, of any kind. ."-Detroit Free Press.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-20

! Capt Loo had peen dfsporting hlmssIr
in full feather. He was ready for the
enemy"
His was pleasing figure, and even
inspiring as a picturesque embodiment
of patriotic zeal, but when this after
noon the Riff Rats had planted their
artillery along the .levee front, while
the little captain rallied them to pre-
pare to die by their guns" il was a
different matter.
The company, loyal to a man, had
responded with a shout, the black
| smith, to whose deaf ears his anvil had
been silent for twenty years. throwing
up his hat with the rest, while the
epileptic who manned the papier ma
che gun was observed to scream the
loudest-
Suddenly a woman. catching the
peril of the situation, shrieked:
They are going to fire on the gun
boatsi We shall all be killed.
Another caught the cry and another.
a mad panic ensued, women with ba-
bies in their arms gathered about Capt,
Doc, entreating him, with tears and
cries, to deslSt.
But Cor once the little captain.
whose old boast had been that wom-
ans tears tore his heart open" was
deaf to all entreaty.
The Riff RATS represented an injured
faction who had not been asked to en-
list with the Coast Defenders'-since
gone into active service-and they
seemed intoxicated by the present OPP
portunity to show the stuff they were
made Of"
At nearly nightfall. the women. de-
kpairing and wailinC. had gone home.
Amid all the excitement only the lit
tie girl. ldyl hat stood apart. silent
No one had noticed her. nor that.
when all the others had gone home,
she still fingered
Even Mr. NiaCvire. the overSeer's
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interfere, but watched the ocrnhse-
meeting the dogs attack with vicious
thrusts OF It's head, and trying 20 gre.
IT'S body around the dog 70 squeeze II.
The terrier was too active for that, and
1t last caught the reptile back If the
head, breaking rs neck and killing IL
Harry Windisch- of Derby, has q enc
Aock Of chickens and one If them, .
youngster Of last springs birth. has
mania for snakes The other day Mr
Windiscb noticed this particular
chicken acting verypoculisrly. Itstood
on one leg and danced and swirled
itself around as II initiating a sl<ir.
dancer. Then she would lift her wings
and plrouette and swing her head from
side 20 side, al the time keeping mp
chirping sound "a IL furnishing music
FOR her own dance. Suddenly she
thrust her head down. and when 1.
came up she had gru.s snake half
way down her throat. She had hard
time Of t. When khe stopped TO s~al-
low the make wrizglst back . few
inches Then shs ciutched him With
her bill and swallowed another portion
Her actions had aroused the interest
Of all The other chickens Ia the gard.
and the old mother hen took q hand r =
She grabbed the tall q. The suAss and
pulled The chicken a, The other end
also pulled II really seemed ~ Il "a.
snake would br~.k IA two. but finally
a few waning cluclcs 'rusn the old hen
caused the chicken % open her naouts
o. ryu.onstrats. Then the ole hen ~,
back on her tai. The snake gays
witch and. ending himself a. liberty.
ooiled r~ady - Sight TIE surpr1s. e
the old hen .. her sft,4n7 down. and
the anger n TIE young hsn 81 losing
her prey gave re sr.ake tf-ns 70 eo4ess
itsslf AID ~iyyls away "a ths EraA
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the river Nor was this all. The only
| local defense here was volunteer
artillery company of "Exempts." Old
! Capt. Doc, their leader, also local
druggist and postmaster doctor and
minister only in emergency was a
unique and picturesque figure. Full
of bOmbast as of ultimate kindliness OF
feeling, he was equally happy in all of
his four offices.
Rev. Capt. Doe NJ. D." as he was
wont, on occasions, to call himself
why drag in a personal name among
titles in themselves sufficiently distin-
guishing?-was by common consent
the leading man with certain under
population along the coast. And when,
three months before, he had harangued
them as to the patriots duty Of home
defense, there was not worthy in
capable present but enthusiastically
enlisted.
The tension Of the times forbade per
ception of the ludicrous. For three
months the Riff Raffs"-so they
proudly called Observation-Disclosures
deaf. palsied. halt. lame and one or two
nearly blind, had represented ''the
cause, " the standing army" lie grand
militaire." TO the infiammable magma
tiOns of this handful of simple rural
people of the lower coast.
OF the nine odds and ends of old
cannon" which Capt. Doc had been
able to collect, it was said that but one
would carry a ball Certainly, of the
remaining seven. one was of wood, an
ancient gunsmith's sign. and another a
gilded papier mache affair of former
Mystick Krewe.
Still, these answered for drills, and
would be replaced by genuine guns
when possible. They were quite as
good for everything excepting a bat
tie, and in that case, of course, it would
be simple thing to seize the enemy's
guns and use them.
When the Riff Rats had paraded up
and down the river road, no one had
smiled, and if anybody realized that
their captain wore the gorgeous POM
pom of drum-ma1or general, its fit
ness was not questioned.
1t was becoming to him. 1t corre-
sponded to his iordly strut, and WIGS In
keeping with the stentorian tones that
shouted: Halt" or "Advanoe,7
Capt. Doe appealed to Americans
and Creoies alike, and the Riff Rats
marched quite as often to tho stirring
measures of la Marseillaise" as to
THE Bonny Blue Flag"
Ever since the first guns at the forts
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school 70 Train sur.. Girls.

A new school has been started In
England which VIII commend itself 20
every mother, and which, It Is hoped,
will End an imitator in this country. -
Is a school for the caretaker. 81 young
children whose early training Is 80 al
important. both mentally and physical
Is In this new training school for
domestic nurses young women are
taught primary dndergart-n training,
the care Of sick children, the proper
way 20 keep nursery, h07v % dress
cuts, burns, etc; in facf, al that sp-
pertains % the intelligent care 81 tie
young, and especially how - rnes, the
various emergencies Incidental % child
lie. The demand, Il = sd for nur>s
70 whom has been given ths diploma II
ne school a very great
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would hurt me. Tired horses would
be glad to see my light, and every body
would love me-"
so, hrst laughingly, and then as a
matter of habit, she had come to be
known as Saint Idyl."
As she stands quite still. with face
nplifted. out on the levee this evening,
pne is reminded, in looking at her. OF
the Maid of Domremy''-lis listening to
the voices
Idyl was instruth listening to voices
voices new, strange and solemn
voices of heavy distant cannon
It.was the 2Sdsof April. 1862. A few
miles below Hjou plantation Par
sagut's feet was storIning the block
Rde at Fort Jackson. All along the
lower Mississippi IT was a time of
dread and terror
The negroes. for the most part awed
end terror stricken, muttered PRAYERS
rs they went bout, and all night long
bang mournfnlly and shouted and
prayed in the churches or in groups in
their cabins. or even in the road.
The war had come st last. Its glare
cas upon the sky az night. and all day
long reiterated its persistent staccato
menace:
, ''Boom-m-m., Gloom-m-m! Tomb-b-b!
Goom-m-mi'
The air had never seemed to lose tho
ribratorv tremor. "N-m-ri," since the
Srst gun. nearly six days ago.
1t was as II the lips Of the land we're
trembling. And the lips % the black
mothers. as they pressed their babes
10 thor boSous, echoed the wordless
ploquence Of dread
Death was in the air. Had they
doubted 1t? In a field near by q shell
lad fallen. buryinC itself in the earth.
Ind, exploding. had sent two men into
he air, killing one and returning the
,ther unhurt.
Now the survivor. saved as bv
miracle, was preaching The Wrath 70
Come"
To quote from himself. he had been
Id to Heaven long enough 10 81,
iigion." He had gone up los, sin
ger and come down a saved soul. Bless
Cord.
Regarding his life q charmed. the
blacks followed him in crowds. while
he descanted upon the text: Then
two shall De in the field. One shall be
taken and the other left"
A great revival was IN progress
But this afternoon the levee ii Bijou
had been the scene OF i new panic.
Rumor said that the blockade chain
hRd been cut. Farracut's war monsters
might any moment COME snorting up
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QUEER TALES TOLD
Startling Freaks Of Nutmeg State
Cats and Dogs
The Long Dry Spell Has Stimulated TheD
to Play Tricks with Snskes-Quee,
ncounter Retwe~n . Chicken
and Reptile.

Connecticut beasts have been show,
ing their enterprise during the dry
spell. Mrs. J. Z Reemer. of West An
sonia, owns a cat. which Is the mother
Of two hopeful kittens Severa; DAYS
ago the old cat brought into the house
one Of those harmless little green rep
tiles known as grass snakes Dropping
II on the DarloE carpet she called her
two kittens 10 see il and taught them
how To play with H. The two Young.
sters, believing whatever their mother
cid must be about right. went out tho
next day TO emulate her. One Of them.
after hunting about The yard and gar,
den all the morning without finding a
snake, strolled into the parlor in tha
afternoon with an angle worm large
enough 20 tempt the biggest Catfish
that ever swan. The second kitten
couldn't find snake or worm. but out in
the garden came plump upon a sedate,
old toad. Catching the big fellow by
one ~ its legs il dragged IL into the
house and laid II by the side Of thu
worm, on the carpet Then both kit
tens played around their booty until
Mrs Reemer came in TO be Mortified 81
the exhibition OF saracitv
The old mother ca. saw with pride
how nicely her offspring were taking
hold, but she wasn't satisfied with a
little green snake. 50 she trotted on
20 swamp half WAY up 70 Seymour,
and late in the afternoon came in with
a fiathead adder, two feet long. which
she brought To her mistress 10 admire.
Mrs. Reemer screamed and Jumped
upon q chair. while the adder coiled ID
self and dRrted it's ugly head a. the old
cat. The latter stood aside, as IL won
dering why II wasn't potted- Mrs
Reemer's screams brought assistance
and the snake was killed.
Albert Stevens, who lives ON Silver
bill in Ansone, has . small terrier
which Is = noted snake hunter. Silver
hill Is out in the country, and addera
are numerous thereabou:S This dog
has killed six Of the fathead variety,
which are said TO be poisonous, with
out being bitten. Besides this he haa
brought in large number OF the ordi-
nary striped and green snakes. Last
week the dog went out into the lots
alone. and came back Just AZ night
with the biggest black snake ever seen
hereabouts- IL measured five and one
hall feet IN length and was rs bag
around as broom handle A hired
man saw the dog tackle the snake and
Knowing his ability in that line did noe
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his compliments ''H
20 the new heir 20 the throne ~ Eng
laDd-the son q the duke % York The
carriage, when completed, viii cost his
lordship a. least four thousand dollars,
and l. the most expensive thing N its
way that has ever been put together.
When IL viii be built j. a. undeter-
mined matter. but the designs sent -
Lord Churchill viii take time 70 real
ize IL fact One Il them much I'M
sisted q : canopy, not unlike the hang
inCs over ROYAL De3s- with high = heels.
and instead q handles for u 20 be
wheeled along. l. had clasps a. thc SIDE
The Furnishings - the vehicle ARE 70
DC q the mos elaborate description
and !. Is hardly likely nat the af.41
viii be completed Tor some tsFae %
CONF
Another design IS for wis: NAV -
termed q royal cradle. and u - poSsi-
BE- that that. too. NAV catch the fancy
o. the British a-istoc-zt- A. Sny rats.
i shows that be thinks New YORK can
DO something IN that Ike when re r.
quests 10 tr.deszn-n here - 80 VIA.
they can let him have.
u requires s1use peculiar procedur,
n hare these Cift- accepted II ths
name p royal infants Were Mt Mr..
CAu-clill : personal friend O. roTaliv
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For many years scientists were
puzzled az - curious mutilatiou Of
the skulls OF ancient PeTuvlans- II
was a. last discovered that the owners
of these were in their lifetime subject
10 conditions that were attributed 20
evil spirits. The skulls were regularly
and not unscieutifcaly trepanned n
order 10 let ont the devils that pos
sessed the sufferer Whether the VIC
tins survived the operation CT went
ont with the evil -piri,s probably mat
tered little 70 the surgeons or the
friends ". Y. Ledger.
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You would never have guessed that
her name was Ldyl-the slender, angu-
Jar little girl of thirteen years, who
homespun, on the brow of the Missis-
sfppi river. And fancy saint balanc-
Ing bucket of water upon her head.
Yet. as she puts the pail down beside
her, the evening sun cleaning through
her fair hair transforms it into a
halo, rs some one speaks her name:
saint Idyl.''
Her thin little ears. sun-filled as she
stands, are crimson disks, and the out
lines of her upper arms, dimly seen
through the fiimsy sleeves, are meager
as are the ankles above her bare, slim
feet.
The appellatson, Saint Idyl." given
first in playful derision, might have
been long forgotten but for the Incl
dent which this story records.
1t was three years ago, when the
plantation children, colored and white
together. had been saying, as is the
fashion with them, what they would
like to be.
One had chosen "blue-eyed lady
svid 1ounces and pink fam" another
a fine white oman, wid long. black
rurls an earrings" third would have
been "a hoop-skirted lady, wild a tall
hat"
1t was then that Idyl, the only white
child of the group-the adopted or
phan of the overseer's fsmny-had
said:
I'D choose to be saint, like the one
in the glass winder in the church. with
light shinin' from my head. I'd walk
all night up and down the bend road,
so travellers could see the way and
wagons wouldn't get stalled"
The children had shuddered and felt
half afraid at this.
But you'd git stalled yo'se'f in dat
black mud"
''An' de runaways IN de canebrake'd
ssetch yer"
can de patero!e'd shoot yer"-
AN sve'ybody'd think you was n
platty an run away fom yer"
So the protests had come in. though
the cleaning eyes Of the little negroes
had shown their delight in the fantas-
tic idea.
But Td walk on a cloud, like tho
saint in the picture" Idyl had in
sisted
And my feet wouldn't touch the
mud, and when the runaways looked
into my face, they'd try to be good and
80 back to their masters Nobody
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autumn and winter gayeties begin.
| Mrs. Paran Stevens, who has barely
reached the metropolis after a trip
| abroad has. indeed, lately remarked
| that social affairs are like campaigns.
! ina.much as they have 10 be planned
far ahead. The coming Aston ball, al
though far in the future. has been, so
! TO speak, scheduled this long while, in
so far as the guests. the interior dec
orations and the what not are con-
/ cerned.
| At the same time has proceeded a
movement among the workingmen
which received its inception some time
before the memorable strikes began.
Ward McAllister is responsible for the
| great interest taken by society" il the
industrial situation, and he recently
pointed out that the two diverse ele-
ments seem to be active together. At
any rate. the labor situation is intelli-
gently discussed ct the affairs of the
socially powerful, a fact which is
known to few. apparently, but which
indicates that the upper ten in New
York and elsewhere are more alive to
the signs of the times than some would
have it supposed.
1t is these facts which give color of
truth TO the assertions that Ward Nc
Allhter is preparing TO take an active
part in politics Whether he will run
for Office is not known yet. but Mr.. Nc
Allister is not unfavorably regarded
by the working classes since he has
said some things favorable to them Of
late. McAllister is writing treatise on
American politics now which is to be
brought out soon after his trip to Eu-
rope, assuming that the trip is taken.
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tributed 70 the excitement of a strike
on colossal scale. Now, however,
these utterances are characteristic Of
every man who leads wage earuers in
whatever capacity. Samuel Gompers,
long deemed the most conservative OF
the rulers of labor organizations has
joined the chorus
lie declared, at the Headquarters Of
the federation, that the prospects be-
fore the country during these closing
years of the century indicate a great
social upheaval. which may be violent
or which may be peaceful but which
at any rate will have beginning In
his opinion, there has developed .
strong class feeling rs result of the
tendencies of the industrial situation
He is strongly in favor of government
ownership OF railroads, and declared
that the worl1ingmen Of the country
are eager for such a contamination.
too. Moreover, he said that the owner
ship of the municipal railways and tel
ephOnes was a matter which would be
agitated by the organized workers of
the country inside of year or two.
Now, all these ideas are arousing
serious alarm on the part of capital
lists. Very few know that most Of the
corporations retain publicists 20 re-
flute these arguments, If arguments
they be. since the effect abroad is TO
depress the stocks Of those great com
panies which would be most affected
by any change of the kind Indeed.
III the opinion of the men whose bust
ness 1t is TO dispose of stocks and bonds
abroad, the socialistic trend of cur
rent thought proves quite embarrass-
Ing. II it keeps on American securi-
ties will ell feel the effects.
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it would not be received at all, but. as
it is, the little heir to great throne
will, no doubt. sleep peacefully in
time beneath the elaborate super
structure of the tapestry. For the
coach is not merely for the babe to
ride in, but 10 slumber in as well. and
he can be moved about even in the
arms of Morpheus. Lord Randolph is
still very indisposed.
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MILITIA.

less than a hot dispute among the
members of one OF the companies as to
the Justice of ordering out the militia
on all occasions in which troubles arise
| among producers. The difference orig
mated in the declaration of we'll
known capitalist in New York, di-
rected against his men, that If their
demands were not more temporarily
made, and if certain threats did not
cease, he would have the militia called
| out.
Now. It is this threat which has made
the militia complain They declare
| that it is pleasure to them to help put
down disorder when occa sion arises, al
though the occasion they deplore. but
it is not fair to the militia TO have them
men toned in the incipient stages of
labor dispute. Threats 10 call out ths
militia are superhuous. they declare,
and only serve to make them a factor
in the dispute, and thus To- embitter tho
toilers against them needlessly. 1t is
time enough to mention the militis
when they are actually in the field. and
no man has right TO use their intiu-
ence as threat.
Such was the discussion which
brought on an unpleassntness- Ons
militisman had his sympathies 50
aroused that he had q wordy altercs-
ton with his superior officer in his ar
mory, and the consequence was severe
repriluand from his superiors. The
other member took up the dispute, AMI
matters seemed on the verge Of open
rupture. With difficulty the quarreis
were snoothed over. and nothiSg
leaked out, but the incident is said TO
be typical of the feelings Of many -Ol-
diers in the militia. Their sympsthies
are often on the side of the men whose
side is the weakest
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the progress Of
the strike. some
thing in the ma
ture of a revela-
ton. The asser.
tons which they
so const a n I / V
make that n So
cial revolution Is
almost on Z h e
We Of c o n =
meucenent has
-a,,,fT-A.ax o.