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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

voluminous correspondence besides
many business and charitable affairs
in hand. Miss Marshall even has entire
charge of Mrs. Logan's bank books in
her employers absence from Washing
| ton.
Mrs. Potter Palmer's right hand dur
| ing the preparations for the fair was a
lovely young girl whose tact and efficien-
cy thousands of people all over the
world came to know.
Miss Sanger, whom President Harri-
son placed in the white house, never
showed anything but the closest fidel-
ity to the trust placed in her, and al
though cultivated assiduously by news
paper people not one of the entire
Washington force was ever able to Sc
cure any news through her.
1t is this sort of faithfulness that Is
likely to make an increasing demand
for discreet young women of good judg-
ment and business training in such po-
sitions.
Miss Kelly is the fourth woman TO
hold Il private secretaryship Of inn
portance In New York's city govern
ment. One is now in the position and
has proved to have an executive ability
that not one man in five hundred las.
Miss Kelly's is quite the most impor.
tant private secretaryship yet filed by
a woman. 1t is all the more important
because she is only nineteen years old,
the youngest woman by far who has
ever been given such responsibility.
Miss Kelly is New York girl, a
graduate of the public schools and not
the least bit of a new woman in any
way. She doesn't ride the bicycle nor
aspire to bloomers. She doesn't admire
the modern new woman style of novel.
She does like the water and rows when
she has the chance. She prefers to
stay at home and cultivate the &C
quaintance of her mother and sisters.
She doesn't belong to any so-called
woman's clubs and doesn't 20 in for
Summing work. although she is mem.
Der of all the church societies to which
Catholic girls always belong.
But she is great pedestrian and
likes to walk from the police head
quarters to her home in Harlem, just
for exercise.
Miss Kelly believes that women are
especially adapted TO fill private secre-
taryships, and when she studied stem
ography it was always with the ambi
ton and intention OF using il in some
thing beside routine dictetion as
typewriter or mere clerk The Kellys
had known Mr.. Roosevelt's family for
some years and the offer OF the position
was made by Mr.. Roosevelt without
solicitation from Miss KeIly's family.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
CHINESE TORTURE
a Terrible Record OF Decapitations In the
Human Province.

A Terrible Record OF Decnpltations In the
Human Province.
If CHASTITY tortures and severe pun
ishment would stop crime, China ought
10 be Utopia, with no breaches OF the
law; vet during the past few mon tbs.
mainly because of the presence OF
forced levies of troops in various prov
jnces. crime has been more conspicuous
and brigandage has increased alarm
ingly. The Pekin Gazettes report
from Human is appalling. Last
year eighty-one men were sum-
marily decapitated in this one prov
ince for robberies of the people. They
were executed under the new law,
which provides that Ia case of rob
berry with violence, If but one mem Der
of gang of robbers be armed with a
gun, all are to be executed at once
without regard to head or accomplice
or whether they have divided spoil In
all these cases the robbers had arms,
and many of them confessed that they
were disbanded soldiers
This list does not include over one
hundred executions made in connec-
tion with the suppression of revolt
OF the Kolas Hui, or secret society,
whose object is to depose the present
Manchu dynasty a nd put Chinese in
its stead.
In Winchow the mandarin has re-
Gently taken the torture and punish
ment of pirates into his own hands.
He actually had all the inquisitorial
apparatus removed from the magis-
trates court to his own official yamen
and there set up Every day two
prisoners charged with piracy are
brought before him, and he amuses
himself by torturing them in all the
approved ways. The poor wretches
are taken from the hideous Jail, where
vermin crawl over the floor and walls
and the stencil is uncomfortable to q
European. to the yamen yard. They
are so loaded with chains that they
have to be helped along by an official
on each side. Arrived at the Jamen,
they are made to kneel. without trous-
ers, on a great heap of chains. Then a
bar of wood is passed behind the
knees, the back is fixed against
an upright post by pulling
the victims queue through a
hole in it, the arms are stretched out
and fastened to crosspiece, and the
thumbs are securely tied with cords.
Then a crank is turned, and the devil
ish machine strains all the cords so
that the poor wretch's joints are near
~ pulled out of the sockets, and the
agony is SO great that the strongest
man loses consciousness. When the
sufferer has tainted servants rush for
ward. and while several throw water
IN his face, others beat him with lum-
Der switches When he is revived he
is taken out of the machine and re-
moved again to the prison. The proc
ess is carried on every morning until
the prisoner confesses or gives up the
ghost
1t is said that the Winchow man.
DARN enjoys this torturing with tho
keen zest of voluptuary, and that he
has devised several new and ingenius
variations in the process which are
warranted to produce acute agony
without seriously impairing the
streupth of the victim Y Sun
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

Nothing in the world so strengthens
the weak, so readily restores lost nerve
force. so surely makes the ailing and
peevish young woman or growing boy
well and cheerful
And for the aged and infirm the whole
world knows its wonderful curative
powers. Rev. EraStus R0wley. preSi-
dent Of the famous Kentucky Female
College. writing 10 the proprietors OF
Paine's celery compound. says:
Il was for several years a sick man.
My sickness was attended with consti-
patton. with nervousness and insomnia.
and the least excitement would cause
papitation OF the heart. / have In the
last three or four years used several
widely advertised preparations. Finally
/ took Paine's celery compound and (
regard il as superior TO all others. es-
pecially II used strictly as you direct
by using this / do not suffer from con-
stipation, inability 10 sleep. or from
palpitation OF the heart as formerly.
am still using Paine's celery compound
at times, and shall take pleasure in
recommending IL to others"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Trade and RELIGION NIxed.

Religion was strangely mixed with
trade at Fecamp, France, the other
day when the arch bishop OF Rouen
assisted by the bishop of Blois and
many priests, consecrated the new
buildings of the liqueur distilfery
where tho famous Benedictineis made.
The liquor was invented in 1910 by
one of the Benedictines, and was made
Dy them until they were dispersed by
the revolution Thirty years ago a de-
scendant of one OF the agents Of the
abbey found the recipe and manufsc-
tured the liquor as n commercial
speculation. The buildings were
burned down three years ago. and in
their place he has now put up on the
site of the former abbey as close a re-
production OF the old monastery a.
could be made.-Vanity.4
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

As the school year opens. attention is
directed TO the oft-repeated advice of
leading educators. warning teachers.
parents and scholars against the fearful
results of exhaustive brain work among
young people.
To thousands of girls and boys, I'M
nerved by the strain OF school life.
Paine's celery compound, (Which was
first prescribed by Americas greatest
teacher, Professor Edward f. Phelps,
NJ. D., LII. D., of Dartmouth College)
has been a blessing, making them well
and strong. feeding the brain and
nerves, and enriching and purifying the
blood.
The recent recommendation or
Paine's celery compound by Principal
Camp of New Haven and the equally
outspoken praise OF this greatest of
remedies by ex-President Cook of the
National Teachers association. are two
of the thousands of such testimonials
from parents and teachers throughout
the country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
rr-r n,.cnuuyms U..- rom r,rne to

UFvT n,-cnuuymg Ou.e from rirne to
time.
Several hoisted their hoofs on the
chair rung, which brought their knees
SO high their owners had to sit on the
bias to avoid raising the table from the
floor; few scattered their pedal be
longings under the entire width of the
mahogany, tangling them up with the
trotters of their vis-a-vis to such an or,
tent that she wondered it wasn't a
common to walk of with another man.
legs rs with his hat
In the whole cafe there were not
three men who placed their feet fiat
upon the floor and kept them there.
She couldn't help thanking fate for her
Ipetticoats, for who knows what antics
girls may go through while satisfying
their birdlike appetites?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Animal Having tho Most Teeth.

The animal having the most teeth Il
the great arrnadillo of south, central
and northern South America. II Is q
fact well known To most people that
the normal or average number Of teeth
In mammals is 90, rs above and the
same number below. The great
armadnlo, however, is an exception.
having from 92 to 100. he has from 20
to &c in each side of the upper jaw, and
from 20 10 "a IN each side OF the lower
jaw. Another peculiarly lies in the
fact that they are all moIars or grind
ers- They increase in size from front
to back, instead Of from the root, and
are wholly destitute of enamel
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Gold from crem.ted Rats.

il is said TO be common practice for
the boys in watch and jewelry factories
TO kill the rats that intest the buildings
and burn their bodies 10 obtain the
gold. Many oiled rags are used In
Furnishing watch cases. and IN time
they become irnpregnated with gold.
The rats eagerly devour these rags. and
a few months of this kind of diet fills
the interior mechanism OF the rat with
a gold plating. Twice a year the boys
have a grand cremation. The rats are
caught By the hundreds and burned in
n cr-,~;hls- The i.fense heat dri.es -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Mrs. E. E. Davis. of San Miguel. Cal.


says: Il am trying in measure TO re-
pay the manufacturers of Chamber
lain's Cough Remedy for the great good
their remedy has done me. For years
/ was constant sufferer from weak
lungs and bronchial asthma. My rest
at night was disturbed by a hacking
cough, so that felt miserable the great
er part Of the time. Many remedies
recommended by my friends were tried,
none of which proved suitable to my
case. I did not experience any benefic-
ial results until 1 began taking Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy. After two
bottles of the large size have been used
am pleased to state, my health is
better than it has been for years. The
soreness has left my lungs and chest
and 1 can breathe easily. 1t has done
me so much good that l want all who
are suffering from lung troubles, as
was, to give it a trial" For sale by
druggists or Chamberlain Medical Co.
direct.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
A CRUEL PRACTICE.
Saying and Doing Things to FriGhte
Timid Children.

Timid Children.
Happy those little ones who have
ever near them loving arms within
whose magic circle the oncoming of
the cruel fit of terror is instantly
checked. giving place to a delicious
calm.
How unhappy those children must be
who, timid aud fearsome by nature,
lack this refuge-who are left much
alone to wrestle with their horrors as
best they may, and are rudely re-
pulsed when they bear their heart
quakings to others-I would not VEN
ture to say Still less should I
care to suggest what is suffered
by those unfortunates who find in
those about them not comfort, assur-
ance, support in their fearsome mo-
ments, but the worst source Of terror.
To be brutal to these small, sensitive
organisms, to practice on their terrors,
to take delight in exciting the wild
stare and wilder shrek of terror. this
is perhaps one of the strange things
which makes one believe in the old
dogma that the devil can enter into
men and women. For here we seem to
have to do with form of cruelty so
exquisite. SO contrary to the oldest of
instincts, that it is dishonoring TO the
savage and to the lower animals TO at
tempt to refer it to heredity.
To dwell on such things, however,
would be to go back to pessimistic
view of childhood. II is undeniable
that children are exposed to indie
serbia BILE misery when they are deliv-
cred into the hands of a consummately
cruel mother or nurse. Yetone may hope
that this sort OF person is exceptional
sonnet ping of Which, We canRive no
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
PRETTY MINNIE KELLY.
The First Woman at New Yor&s
Police Headquarters.
commissioner Rooscvelt's Charming Pr
vate Secretary Created Sensation
When She First Appeared In
Mulberry street.

New honor was thrust on woman
! when Miss Minnie Gertrude Kelly was
Installed by the president of the board
of police commissioners, Theodore
Roosevelt, as his private secretary.
Miss Kelly is the first member of the
sex to hold any position at New York
police headquarters. The members OF
the former police board, ruled by Tam
many, would as soon have posted their
business on a bulletin board outside the
marble door of police headquarters
as have installed a woman in any posi-
ton, much less one of such confidence
rs a private secretaryship where their
secrets must have been known.
The looks of amazement on the faces
of some OF the former visitors to the
police commissioners Offices where a
sweet-faced young girl in black is now
found running the Office in Commits
eioner Roosevelt's absence are worth
seeing. Miss Kelly is pretty, with
sparkling black eyes, an especially ROSY
mouth, rather large and indicating
ability. but with corners well drawn
in denoting marked tendency to mind
ones own business and divulge nothing.
She has black hair, parted in Madonna
fashion. and waved down to the ears.
And she bushes. The rich blood
comes and goes in great waves Of
crimson whenever she is spoken to, in
spite of the fact that she is quite digni-
fed and self-centained and understands
her position fully. A wag said when
he saw this phenomenon that those
were the first bushes police headquar-
tiers had ever known.
Miss Kelly's selection bv Mr.. Roose-
welt draws attention to the fact that
women are especially fitted to hold po-
sitions as private secretary where dis
cretion, tact and an absolute fidelity
and secretiveness are imperative.
1t is within few years that this
idea has taken hold on both men and
women of prominence and the records
made by their women secretaries are
clean and unusually good without ex-
ception. Mrs. John Logan has had
girl secretary, Miss Edith Marshall,
since her mothers death, and Mrs.
Logan, as everyone knows, has q most
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

all animal substances and leaves ia
gold in the shape of button The
amount of Che precious metal obtained
In this way is not large, but il gives
the ingenious youngsters considerable
pocket money. In some factories young
Napoleons of finance buyup In advance
the shares Of their fellow workers in
the rat colony
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
To CHICAGO BY DAYLIGHT

The Santa Fe has put on a swift train
leaving Kansas City in the morning
and reaching Chicago the same evening.
II makes the run in about fifteen hours
eqGdling the East service OF the night
flyers.
Free chair cars and Pullman sleepers
vestibuled throughout. Dining cars
serve dinner and supper. guests only
paying for what is ordered. The chair
cars are easy to ride in. an important
consideration for a sunrise to sunset
journey.
Close connections AZ Kansas City wi n
morning trains Of all lines from tie
west.
IL YOU prefer to leave Kansas City
In the evening. the Santa Fe offers
choice Of two limited trains
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
WHAT VIZ DO WITH HUR FEET.
Feminine Critic Who Took Delight In
Cb&erEinY Nrp's HaAals

What % men do with their feet and
legs at dinner? Same thing they do at
breakfast and luncheon-wind them
about the limbs of their chair and hook
on by their toes
She sat in a well-known Broadway
restaurant the other evening. SAYS ,he
New York World. and amused herself,
after she had appeased her hunger, By
watching the mems pedal ext-emities
Some who had feet of generous length
caught the heels OF their boots on the
lower front rung of the chair. and hung
their feet up. as il were, while they
dined
Two men with short legs and feet &C
match actually kept on tiptoe through
the meal. 4 few wreethed their lers
around those of the table.
One laid his left foot hat OF the
For sideways and stoas-kc right one
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Small Courtesies.

want to tell you n secret. The way
to make yourself pleasant to others is
to show them attention. The whole
world Is like the miller at Mansfield,
who cared for nobody-no, not he, be-
cause nobody cared for him. And the
whole world would serve you so if you
gave them the same cause. Let every.
one, therefore, see that You do care for
them. by showing them the small cour-
tesies, in which there is no parade,
whose voice is still to please. and which
manifest themselves by tender and az
fectionate looks and little acts OF at
tention, giving others the preference
IN every little enjoyment at the table.
in the field, walking. sitting or stand.
ing. The Animals Friend.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
A Syndicate OF Monsters.

Here are the names of the abomina-
BILE trio that compose it, hated and
abhored by man and woman kink-
dyspepsia, billiousness and constipa-
ton. What is the most successful way
to attack and squelch these united
monsters? Take Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters, and they will pull uD stakes
and make tracks for parts unknown.
leaving no trace behind. The Bitters
also exterminates malaria, rheumatic
and kidney trouble and nervous all
meQt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

ar~~1p e.vo py saying rnaJ now and
again IN sport natue produces a
monster, as if to show what she could
do if she did not choose more wisely
and benignly to work within the limi-
tations of type.-Prof. James Sully, in
Popular Science Monthly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Ills BunpA.

Phrenologist-I see you have a good
many Jumps on your head. they all
mean something.
Charlie guess they DO. The larger
one ia where Fred Mason struck no
with bat; the one next 10 IL / go.
from falling down the stairs. liar.
per's Young People.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

Last August while working in the
harvest field l became overheated, was
suddenly attacked with cramps and
was nearly dead. Mr.. Cummings, the
druggist, gave me a dose of Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarhoea Rem
edy which completely relieved me.
now keep a bottle OF the remedy handy.
A. N. Bunnell, Centerville, Wash. For
sale by druggists or Chamberlain Med
ical Co. direct
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

-Friend-''Have you completed your
novel?" Author-"Not yet. am sor.
ry to say. have made six couples hap
py for life, but / have still an old gen.
eral and a shoemaker's widow on my
hands and somehow they won't match. I"
-Fliegende Batter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

Round trip Sa95. Tickets sold Sent.
sd ~ 2Sth, inclusive. Return limit
Sept 3oth. Special train viii he run
on Salina line Sept. Il. %. 26 and q.
Leave Wichita at 1915 midnight. Ar
rive at Salina at 9 O'clock same n6rn-
Ing. Leave Salina at ll:30 D. NJ. Ar
rive At Wichita at 4:SG a. m.
j. II. PHILLIPS.
Ticket Agent
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

Workhardd after the playp-f an
impractical dreamer. like Hamlet, had
had TO make mis- own living. wha,
would he have done?
Friend "a poe;l-Done "a the re,t Of
vs. do--borroved of ms uncle -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Advice 70 Mothar

Mrs. Winslows Soothing Sym,
SHOULD always be used for chilare5
re- n ng- II saothes the child. softe1e
tae gums. aIlays ali pain. cures wind
collie. and is the best remedy -
diarrhoea. Twenty-Five cents y bot-
tie. Used by millions OF mothers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
That Was What He Meant.

Mr.. Snaggs-Miss Vellevue is short
in her accounts, that is, short for a
woman.
Mrs. Snaggs-rd like to know why
a woman is less fitted than a man to
occupy position of trust, or why she
should be more likely than a man to
be short in her accountsP
Il didn't mean that there was any,
thing wrong with her bookkeeping.
but that she was not as verbose AS
most women in telling story or mar
rating an anecdone- "-Pittsb urgh
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS h
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

IF you wish choice. sweet, succulent
meats fresh or cured-boiled ham or
pressed corned beef. send your order to
Whitlock's market and you will get it
inst what Won want. i02 1t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
Hack Line

Exchange stables at Orlando and sim
wateC We make a specially Of carr.
ml pa5ssehseiS between these points.
SHIFELY. VANWYCK & SHITEI-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

wherl Bchy was sick, we gave her Castoria.
When she was a Child, she cried fer Cas.oria.
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria
When she had Chi.desa, she gave them Castoria
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

Fresh fish and select meats, all kinds
at Joe'S market, pa \. Main. 100-3t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14
National irrigation Congress.

The program for the National Irri-
cation congress, which meets in Albu-
querque in September. indicates an un-
usually able series of papers and ad-
dresses. The address of welcome to
the delegates will be made by Govern
or Thornton, who will be followed by
Judge J. S. Emery, of Kansas. Among
the other speakers will be Hon. Clark
f. Carr, of Illinois, eX-minister to Den
mark; Ex-Governor L. A. Sheldon or
Los Angeles; John E. Frost, land COM
missioner of the Santa Fe road; E. K.
Moses of Kansas; Thomas Knight, OF
Missouri; Ex-Governor Prince; Judge
F. T. Kinney, of Utah; and Colonel
r. J. Hinton. Captain w. A. Glassford
L. S. A, will present a paper on The
Climatology of the Arid Region"
The topics to be discussed are all
of practical interest to the people OF
the mountain region where irrigation
is necessary for the successful raising
of crops. Following the congress will
be two excursions, one through the
Rio Grande and Pecos valleys and one
to Phoenix and the Salt River valley.
These excursions have been previously
noticed at length in these columns.
All of New Mexico is taking an ac-
tive interest in the congress, Albu-
querque especially so. and the citizens
of the territory will extend a hOspita-
BILE greeting to the delegates and unite
in making their Sojourn pleasant one
to an extent never before surpassed in
the history of the congress. 1t need
hardly be added that Kansas should be
represented by a strong delegation.
For full particulars as to rates con-
suit local agent of the Santa Fe route.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

A fresh stock Of Plow's candies Just
arrived at Wallace'S drug store. 81 If
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-14

The ladies of Wichita wanting fine
cake would do well to try Angel Food
Flour" sold by Payne & Ferriter. I
have tried it and find it excellent
MRS. Z. X. SPANGLER,
eS-6t zoos n. Emporia ave-