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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
AFTER BEARS.
A Fierce Encounter with Three Enregeo
Brutes.

A Fierce Encounter with Three Enrsged
Brutes.
Bears rarely attack man unless
they are first molested. A wounded
bear will fight for its life, and SO will
John S. Springer gives an account OF
sanguinary encounter between men
and bears. in which three of the bears
were killed. A man named Jacob Har-
rison found a young bear fast in trap
and three others close at hand IN a
very angry mood. He was not after
bears, and was totally unarmed. He
hurried to the nearest farmhouse, gave
the alarm and. selling an old dragOcn-
saber, he ran to the scene of action
followed by James Burke, who was
armed with a gun.
They proceeded straight to the trap,
supplied with a rope, intending. If pos
sible, to take the young bear alive. 1t
was dusk in the woods and the men
were unable to see things very dis
tinctiy.
Harrison was ahead, and was ad-
vancing cautiously, when growl was
heard and the confined beast made a
furious leap toward him and caught
him by the leg. Jacob crew his der,
but not before the Infatuated animal
had inflicted bad wound on his knee.
His idea was to despatch the savage
little animal, but by the time it had
received several cuts from the saber it
began to cry in a peculiar manner, and
the next moment there was crash OF
bushes and twigs and the old She bear
rushed upon Harrison.
The man turned upon his new foe
and welded his trusty weapon with
such energy and success that in short
time he deprived her of one of her
forepaws by lucky stroke, and at last
completely disa bled her by a cut across
the neck, which divided the tendons
ana severed the spinal vertebr@. Then
he despatched the cub.
While this had been going on, Mr.
Burke had been having perilous en-
counter with the old male bear. He
discharged his gun, merely wounding
sprang at him. The beast was met
with blow from the butt-end of the
fowling piece. AT the first stroke the
stock flew in pieces, and the next mo-
ment a dexterous blow of the bears
paw sent the heavy barrel twenty feet
into the underbrush.
Mr.. Burke then retreated few feet
and placed his back against large
hemlock tree, followed closely by the
bear; but, being acquainted with the
nature of the animal and his mode of
attack, he drew large huntingknife
from his belt, and coolly awaited the
onset.
The maddened brute approached.
growing and crashing its teeth. and
with a sort of spring encircled both the
body Of the hunter and the trunk of
the tree in his grip. The next instant
the flashing knife-blade entered his
heart, and the combat was soon over.
Two old bears and cub-all ex-
tremely fat-were the result of this
dangerous adventure. The largest of
them weighed two hundred and fifty
pounds. Mr.. Burke was not injured,
but Mr.. Harrison was torn severely
and had three ribs broken.-Youth' s
Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
DISEASE GERMS.
The Development Of Micro Organisms II
the Human Body.

The Development Of 8Iicro-Organisms in
the Human Body.
Among the well-known diseases
whose bacterial origin is already
| placed beyond reasonable doubt are
erysipelas, tuberculosis, diphtheria,
tetanus, typhoid fever, croupcus pneu-
monia and influenza. The facts dis
covered regarding some of these dur
ing the past fifteen years are among
the strangest of the true fairy tales
of modern science. For example, the
micrococcus of cronpous pneumonia, as
discovered by DIR. Sternberg, turks in
the month, and is harmless there await
ing as it were an opportunity when
condition of lowered vitality of the
system, as from exposure to cold, shall
enable it to take up its active abode in
the lungs, and begin a development
whose results will be manifest in an
Inflammation of those organs Again,
it appears that the bacillus of te-
tanus, or lockiaw, is abundant every
where in the soil, and may rest on the
surface of the human body or be taken
into the stomach without producing
injury. Even on the surface of an
open wound it can not develop, it being
one of the bacteria that can not grow
in the presence of free oxygen. But if
introduced into deeper wound away
from the air it may develop rapidly,
and produce the painful and often
fatal disease tetanus. Thus is ex-
planned the fact, always before a mys-
terry, that even slight and seemingly
insignificant puncture wounds are
more likely to produce this disease
than are open LESSONS that otherwise
are far more serious.
1t is an interesting and highly sug-
gestive fact, as showing the power of
resistance of the human body under
normal conditions, that bacterium
this may be SO abundant all about US,
and yet SO infrequently find oppor-
tunity for malignant activity. But
the same thing appears to be true in
greater or less degree of all the other
bacteria that may develop in the
human body. Even when introduced
into the body they are harm
less, unless they find the conditions
there favorable to their development.
Thus there are proba bly, very few per-
sons who have not at one time or an
other inhaled the bacillus of tubercu-
losis or its spores, but the lungs of only
the relatively few furnish favora BILE
soil for its development These suscep-
tible persons develop the disease; the
others are said to be immune as regards
this particular bacillus But suscepti-
bility and immunity are relative terms,
and person whose tissues at one time
resist the microbe may at another time
succumb to it. The exact nature of
the inherent vitality which we are
accustomed to speak of as giving the
tissues power to resist the micro-organ-
isms we understand as little as our an
cestors understood the real cause of the
contagious diseases. Perhaps the
microscope will help to enlighten us in
this regard in the next half century,
Harper's Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
MAKING CRIMINALS.
The Moral Effect of Prison Life Upon Y
Inmates.

The Moral Effect of Prison Life Upon Yts
Inmates.
If the leading object of incarceration
were punishment-thati is, injury to
the individual-most of our prisons are
admirably adapted to their end. For
the worst punishment that can be in
fiicted upon person is to confirm him
in evil ways, and to make him worse
than he is. In doing this society takes
the place of the ingenious Satan Our
machinery which catches hold of an
offender and draws him into the cir
cult of its education is calcula ted to
confirm him in his tendencies. and
make him n professional criminal. 1t
is rare that the Jail and penitentiary
influences are such as to improve
him in any way. except occasion
ally in his physical condition.
The advantage to criminal
of confinement is that abstinence and
a regular life may improve his health:
but better moral habits will not be
formed in him unless the authority to
which he is subjected is concerned in
the effort to educate him into better
life. 1t does not need any argument
to show that if the men put in charge
o. him are selected not for their fitness
for their difficult duties, but are chosen
by the political machine on account of
their service to the machine, the pris-
ons will be run without intelligent
reference to the reformation of the
criminals. Sometimes our prisons are
honestly managed and sometimes
they are corruptly managed by the
politicians, but never when politics
interferes are they conducted either
with regard to economy for the tax-pay-
ers or in the moral interests of the con-
demned So that there has never been
the least hope for prison reform, nor
will there ever be until the prisons are
taken out of politics" Public opinion
has compelled the state to build better
iails, to pay more attention to sanitary
measures and TO conduct them more
humanely, but the manufacture. of con-
hrIned criminals goes on in the old
way, and only hare and there is any
effort made for the permanent change
of their habits. That change will not
come so long as the prisons are merely
places of confinement. and for giving
situations 20 political workers. -Charles
Dudley Warner, in Harpers Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

lSnHh, for heis neither too proud nor
too cynical to laugh at his own jokes,
nor at those of other people if they
are capable of connecting witticisms
sufficiently amdsing.
"Assbosroyslty being in danger" he
says, onsfhe subject being mooted, eft
la only ACQUISITION of pounds, shillings
and pence. i am one of the most loyal
subjects 10 ENGLAND, and l say this,
That. IL Tia s6gsI family were to put by
, mil lio0;or so1pot1Dds and live On the
interest, without drawing anything
from .the public. tho English crown
would be- secure forever. 1t is only
ME ocons}aiie question that the people
tonnern themselves about. The house
of lords WILL certainly have to go sooa-
er or later. The conservatives say that
local government IN Ireland and land
Purehassars insBparable; but we in
tend tossepz<ate them. If the house
of lords cont6nnes TO prevent US, they
WIFI dos SO &C their peril. The cry of
eepetatfDnfs nonsense. The Irish peo-
pile don e Want It."
Mr.. D6bouchere has always been a
RADICAL even. rs he says. from his
earliest infancy. He was born in 1881
and was educated at Eton. On leav-
ing college .he spent two years in trav-
cling abonS.Msxico and Central Amer
fcA BE rodet from place to place on
horseback, and had many interesting
Experiences during the time. His i'm
preston. of thesMexicaDs was not very
favorable, If one is to Judge from re-
mark that he once made to the effect
that: when Mexican is not playing
1t monte hesis asleep" His uncle,
Lord Eauton, who was colonial secre-
taxy at the time, obtained for Mr.. La
bouchere an appointment in the diplo-.
natic service as unpaid attache at
Washington. From there he went to
several European capitals. still in the
diplomatic service. the cities that he
visited including Frankfort, Munich,
Dresden. Stockholm, st. Petersburg
and Constantinople, where he became
Becretary to the embassy.
One of his first great parliamentary
sueeessss was the speech he delivered
In 1882 against Mr.. Forster's coercion
bill. he demolished the statistics on
which Mr.. Forster based his plea for
coercion, and proved the blue book re-
turns TO be inaccurate. The speech
was much discussed throughout the
country, and had the effect of bring
ing Mr.. Labouohere's name into very
prominent notice. Since then he has
gradually come to the front and is now
regarded as one of the leaders OF sd
sanceS radicalisTn. He was home
ruler long before Mr.. Gladstone pro-
posed his scheme. Indeed ever since
he entered parliament he has sys-
dramatically voted in favor OF home
rule and against coercion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
OF MIR. LABOUCHERE
a Unique Member Of the British
House OF Commons.
He Il . Good-Natured Cynic Whose Mos
Prominent Characteristic II . Strong
Antipsthy to Royalty and
ToYyism.

Henry Labouchere. the leader of the
British radicals. is one Of the most
balked of public men on two continents
1t present. His recent resolution.
which carried by a narrow margin in
the house of commons, to the effect
That the house of lords should be de-
priveA Of the veto power in legislation
h the immediate cause of this notO-
sie4y. OF, course none Of the heredi-
tary chambers privileges can be abol-
isked or curtailed'by mere vote of the
house ofscommons, but it was signii-
eent as,showing the trend of popular
opinion, something to which even =
British lord is not entirely oblivious.
Mr.. Labouchere has "a interesting,
not to say attractive, individuality. He
Is a brilliant conversationalist and his
presence is, therefore, always welcome
ht social gatherings Although keen
politician and an unsparing debater
svhen in the house of commons, he car
ries no political rancour into his daily
life. and, indeed. he numbers among
his friends as many conservatives as
liberals. Members of the Primrose
league are no less eager than support
ers of the advanced party to obtain in
ritasicns to his picturesque villa at
Twickenhezn and to take part IN the
garden, parties, pastoral plays and
rther functions that, under the aus
pbces of Mr. and Mrs. Laborchere, are
among the favorite features Of the Lon
don season.
Mr. Labouchere is good-humored
cylic- and he tells you that being past
City, he can never hope to be happy
any moro. The best he can strive for
Is to obtain mean between happiness
end misery, and SO long as he is not
subjected to discomfort or misery he is
satisfied.
With all his cynicism, however, there
Is undoubtedly a fascination about
him as he sits. attired in a comfortable
lounge Jacket, in his armchair, putting
away at his cigarettes. while some
hines twinkle lights up his eye, and
occasionally he bursts into q loud
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
For Tu,ure Communion.

Little Edith had the habit of eating
oct the soft part of her bread and tuck
Ing the crust under the edge OF her
plate. Her mother had frequently re-
proved her for this reprehensible prac-
tice, but it appeared to have 10 lasting
effect The other evening she was de-
tected at her old trick Her mother
said:
Edith. how often have ! told yo1
about leaving your crusts? There may
come day when you'll be glad 20 get
them"
Yes. mamma replied EdisA, with
demure. Whimsical eountenance,
that's what I'm saving EN- for
BROOKLYN LIE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
FIFTY YEARS WORK
Johann Strauss, the Famous Writer
of Waltzes.
de Became . Musician and Composer In
spite Of His Father, Who Had Marked
Out for Him . CONNER
eial Career.

All over the world men and women
dance and waltz, and in nine cases out
Of ten they trip to music written by
Johann Strauss. Most people think
Strauss is one person, though such
mistake is not likely to be made in
Chicago, which year or two ago was
visited by the Viennese orchestra so
ably conducted by the nervous and ex-
citable Edouard Strauss. The success
full concerts Of that organization re-
suited in general diffusion of the
knowledge that the conductor was one
of a family Of four famous writers of
dance music-a father and three sons.
The eldest of these sons, Johann, is
universally recognized as the king of
waltz music, and on October Is of this
year Vienna, his birthplace, will cele-
brate the fftieth anniversary of the
commencement of his musical career.
His father, the elder Johann Strauss,
died in 1s49, at the age of As, having in
that comparatively short life earned
worldwide celebrity as composer of
dance music. Johann, the son, was
born in 1925 and was intended by his
father for a commercial career. The
youth wished to study with view to
following in his fathers footsteps, but
this was denied him, and after finish
ing his education he became a clerk in
a savings bank. This was satisfactory
to his father, but young Johann's
artistic aspirations found supporter
in his mother, whose womanly percep-
ton enabled her to see that existence
in a bank would never do for her
music-loving son. BY her connivance
he had been taking violin lessons
since he was years old, and when but
little older he wrote his first waltz.
This effort was first brought to notice
on it's authors 50th birthday, appear
ing on a programme under the title Of
First Thoughts" At the age of 10 he
succeeded in overcoming his fathers
objections to his adoption of profess
sional career, and on October Is, 1874,
made his debut as conductor at con.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
Enin Pasha.s Daushser.

Emin Pasha's little daughter Ferida
has been allowed by the German au-
thorities TO assume "Emin" as her
family name. She is the offspring of
4 union between the welliznown ex-
plorer DIR. Emin Sehnitzer and an
Abyssinisn woman, Farfan. but in the
pompous phraseolagy dear to the law
yer of the Vaterland the recta nuptiae
could not be clearly demon STRAIT ted. and
the name of Schnitzer could not there
fore be assumed by the little lassie.
who is said to be thriving in Berlin
under kindly guardianship Emin
Pashs is understood to have left con-
siderable property. and on this ground,
as well as on others. it was thought
right to settle Ferries" legal status
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

A Detroit young man, who sang in .
concert recently, is feeling pretty sore
ever the arrangement OF the pro-
granuc.
What's the matter with you?" asked
one Of the organizers of the affair. on
hearing a few OF his remarks.
A good deal" growled the young
nan: you let that girl who followed
me sing After the Ball"
Well. whats wrong with THAR"
The young man chzmped his bits
DO you call my singing . bawi?" he
exclaimed, and almost began . wsrlias
dsnonstration. Detroit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY

ALL men were born free and equal;
ard the only titled nobility that emmy
man kan klain he hsz got % dsri.e
from biz Owe good deeds
EsSr one who viii allow himself -
run after vain yniSterys Will soon lozs
hiz konfdense In truth. and very
likely bc<un either a bswling fanst-
lex, or pitiable lunatik-
II il seIdurn. IL ever. tina. the wora
haz los. a genius for tie want ov al
opportunity % use him: but u has
often been the case tina, Al oppor.n-
mtg hax been Iost for tAs want ov .
genius
Az Antiquarian liz too often person
who spends hlz whole life stocking .
Junk shop. snd when be CUES 10 die
the sale o. as traps and kaiami.ys
wont npors shan hsa pay hin phzaersA
exr,czaea-S. T. HcsxEy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

Little Boy-What's the matter
Mr. Nicefellow-Oh-um nothing
nothing Jus.-er-thinkirg. that's
all
Has Sis told you that you mus.
speak 20 papa
Yes"
well you needn't get scared. Papa
wont be mad Hell look surprised.
and hem and hzv little. and then
jump Up and say: Bless you. ny chill
dren'"
Are you sareg"
That's the wsy he did 60 ell the
Others that SIS sen; 20 asR"-G0od
News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
Where He Missed IL.

Boarder-Well. young man. so you
have been discharged. You ought to
have obeyed orders
Bellooy-lf hadn't a good home TO
go to would not have been so indie
pendent"
Boarder-You ought to have kept on
for thirty days longer. By that time
You would have owned the hotel. and
the proprietorS would have been work
ing for you--Detroit Free Press
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

and station classes, e5 colleges and high
schools, SO boarding schools for girls.
t,0ls common schools, with total OF
s., Ss5 persons under instruction. Three
Thousand Eve hundred and seventy
N r bers were added % the mission
churches during the year; and the
whole amount of native contributions,
SO far as reported, was sll2, sol
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

-Austraha has given up altogether
the maintenance OF founding hospitals
and orphan asyluns and has snhstitut-
cd for this the system OF placing chill
dreu IN private homes until such time
rs they age able 70 s<e fc. themselves
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
Definite

Judge-What is your name?
Prisoner-Thomas James.
Judge-What is your father?
Prisoner-Dead
Judge mean, what was he before
he died?
-prisoner-Living. HALO.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

The musical note of the katydid is
something with which nearly every
body is familiar This is how the in
sect makes the music: At the base Of
each wing is thin mem branols plate.
He for it is only the male katydid
which is thus supplied raises the wing
covers, and rubs the two plates to
gether- II you could do that with
your shoulders blades you would imi-
tate the operation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

I'm :f55 the French government
made regulations for the inns Only
non-residents were allowed 70 be
lodged. ant 20 wine or beer was 20 be
sold after the Angelus. which thus &C
auired the odd cognonen OF the beer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

The use OF hops in brewing was
brought 10 England by the Flemings
in 1894. There was at first prejudice
against them and royal ediet. never
inforced- was promulgated. forbiddins
ali brewers 70 put them in beer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
Egg. pistrinnt.a hr the 1sins.

II is believed that just as the seeds of
plants are distributed by the winds, 50
the eggs OF snails are Scattered abroad
by the breezes, thus disseminating
THAR enaaiAa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
VARA, z. W:

a.l Name q good lotion for the complex
ions 80 Give q cure fer pinples and face
eruptions. -As<.-tz-g Do not endencer you:
complexion by any lotions. Most II those
upon the market do more harm than good.
Consult some leading dermzfd.ogisz who hiss
made study of skin diseases ard il WI. 10
cheaper. better and safer. tS)Use antssepsss
soapS.-.Scg l.-k .SzE.
John r. Woodbury.. - West sd Street.
New YORK. il the leading DermsfcloC.s. Of
the word. Consultation free he makes q
snftsepfic soap which besides being al ex-
= esllen. tciies soap has medicinal properties
which VIII cure face c-Epttoct- Send lee.
for sample cake snd get illustrated book
Upoa Skin diseases .ree.-Ee:.sv.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

All the members of Lord Dufferin's
family. and they are not few, are
most excellent and graceful skaters.
They acquired the accomplishment in
Canada
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05
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Artificial AeAfeS.

Artificial agates are now made by so
many different and effective processes
that the stone has lost much Of its
value as gem
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

Scandal breeds hatred: hatred be
gets division: division makes faction,
and faction brings ruin.-ouarlAa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

Yxhr 3atyIvsssick, We gsve hercAssoss>
When she was Child, che cried Tor Cassorn-
vhcn She became Miss, she chung TO CastoriA.
Vl.u she ha. Children, she gave :hem CzstC--hl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-05

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The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-06-21
A Problem In WiZartlrY.

We want to know why persons who
believe in wizards, Or at all events,
consult wizards, nearly always prefer to
believe in mon or women who arc of q
race inferior to their own or in circum-
stances which prove that their occult
powers arc Of no use to themselves. The
rulo is not invariablc, for thero have
been great wizards like Paracclsus, Rog-
CT Bacon, Michael Scott or Cagliostro,
who were acknowledged by those who
consulted or feared them to DO in all
ways their superiors, but it is seldom
broken. In all the letters on country SUI
pcrstitions which wo havo published,
and tho much greater number for which
wo could find no room, tho "wise" man
or woman has always gypsy blood or
some popularity Of appearance marking
out him Or her unfavorably from their
kind. Tho wizard of India is usually q
naked savage, while those who resort
to him are civilized beings clothed care
fully in muslin. The reverence Of tho
whites for tho black Ohcah man or
woman in tho West Indies is tho sub
ject of countless narratives, especially
in the French islands. -Londm Spccta-
tor