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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
WAS TIRED OF LIFE
MRS. LUCY GOULD ATTEMPTS SUI
eide LAST NIGHT.

| Intentions-An Eagle Reported is Called
to the sad Scene and Witnesses the Ter
lures Administrative Woman Grew
Despondent Because She was Homeless
Yesterday many hearts were made
glad as they passed 10 and fro in the
beautiful sunshine and went home bear
ing Easter flowers. All nature seemed
70 inspire better feeling within the
breast and there was rejoicing in every
| household.
1t was one of the busiest days with
Wichita merchants and their stores
were crowded untila late hour last night
with customers buying for the Easter
services Of today. The sidewalks We're
filed all day with people carrying prec-
| ious bundles calculated to make glad the
hearts of those at home.
Spring had come and the coal man
| would be met and passed with impuni-
| ty, and for once the men could feel that
| they were free. American like when a
Wichita man takes his first breath of
freedom there springs up within his
breast desire 10 make others happy
and as consequence of these surround
ings the request of the wife or daugh-
| tiers was needed and of course they
wanted a new hat, and thus there was
joy in many households.
But there was one household in which
there was not happiness, but sadness.
On the bed, at 600 South Fourth avenue
there lay a woman who was near deaths
door. In the morning she had appear
ed with the promise of many years, but
at 10 o'clock last night she was near
l., -
ner, but as she sat by the window and
beheld the happiness about she was fill
ed with gloom. She looked back over
her life and remembered when she was
the queen Of certain household. She
had been a wife, but there had arisen
certain differences and Mrs. Lucy A.
Gould had decided that life had no
charms for her. She grew weary and
longed for rest in the grave. With this
notion she concluded to take the NOR
phine route to the great beyond.
The drug was taken and when dis
covered by her mother, Mrs. Tattering-
ton, she had well night said her final
farewell to the world, ard a message
was sent for for an Eagle reporter. OF
course, it would not be a legal death
unless a reporter was present TO witness
the horrible agonies of death. Such
about on Sabbath morning while the
rest Of humanity are vending their way
to church where his wife will have n
opportunity to see what kind of hats
other people have on. But the phone
rang for the thousandeth time, and the
reporter went.
Physicians, relatives, the late husband
and neighbors were all there shaking,
pounding, blistering, rubbing, poking
and stirring the poor woman who had
desired to quietly pass in her checks and
thus end her earthly career.
If mustard and torture are more pow
erful than the drug she may pull
through, but there was but little hope
of her recover at u O'Clock.
Her former husband is a grocery man
Of this city, and notwithstanding their
separation ne was there to do what he
could to bring back the poor woman to
life. It was a sad sight that one so
young, and who but a few short years
ago bloomed into womanhood with the
brightest of promise should be led to
commit such a rash act.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
WHAT MIGHT have BEEN
Moon was Twenty Two Minutes Slow
Have Easter Last Sunday.

Moon was Twenty-Five Minutes Slow to
Have Easter Last Sunday.
A very peculiar thing in connection
with Easter has occurred this year for
the first time. IL is said. since the birth
of Christ. II has not fallen on the
same Sunday in all parts OF the world.
Last Sunday was Easter in the Pacific
ocean and one week agN last Friday
was Good Friday. Easter has been
fixed by the early church on the first
Sunday after the full moon occurring on
or after March u, the vernal equinox.
The last fun moon lacked exactly %
minutes OF showing up in this country
early enough TO make Easter fall on
last Sunday but IN the Pacific ocean
not far from San Francisco the full
moon turned up before midnight on Sat-
urday March <, and consequently Eas-
ter was on last Sunday. The Easter
bonnets of the ladies OF the Sandwich
islands are out OF date this year before
those of the Kansas ladies come in.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
CAUSE FOR A LIBEL
Innocent Bound to Suffer for the Sins of
the Guilty.

the Guilty.
Some triple hardened faikr Of Okla
boma sent out a dispatch recently TO the
effect that a rich Frenchman was cap
tured by the colored men of Columbia
and held as a hostage until the French
government would do right by Waller.
The French government heard of it and
got so alarmed that they entered into
correspondence with the Washington
government. Now the Topeka Capital
never having any love for Wichita, says
that the dispatch was sent out by d
Wichita man and thus grinds truth and
innocence under its heel. 1t is all very
well to accuse Wichita of rebellion but
the Eagle objects TO the Capital or any
other paper intimating that one of the
staff is a fakir. The following is what
the Capital says and it will be presery-
ed for suitable legal proceedings:
Mr.. Richard Oleny, secretary of
State, es evidently unaware of the ex-
istence of the inimita BILE Dave Lea.hy Of
Wichita, whose imaginat tive powers are
greatly augmented by the assistance Of
an ever ready pen. Had Mr.. Olney
that honor, he would not have address
ed a letter to the governor of Kansas,
requesting an investigation of the fol-
lowing dispatch which appeared in the
Courier Des Etats-Unis, March IS:
1.-The negroes who have settled near
Columbia, in the region known as Black
Jack, in Oklahoma Territory, on learn
ing that Waller, ex-United States con-
sui at Tamatave, was still in prison,
and that the French government re-
fused to pay him the indemnity to which
he claims to be entitled, held an indigna-
ton meeting and decided to resort to
reprisals. They consequently seized a
French settler, Mr.. Pierre Roulet, who
has not been naturalized as an Ameri-
can citizen, and shut him up in an out
of the way cave, where they propose to
hold him as prisoner until France COM
plies with Walters demands. The deep
interest in Waller which has been mani
tested by the negroes of this settlement
is explained by the fact that among
them is one or two relatives of his wife
1.-The dispatch in the French journal
attracted the attention Of the French
government. The clipping from the
paper was referred to the ambassador
at Washington who placed the matter
before Mr.. Olney for inquiry. The let
ter containing the clipping with the
translation attached was received yes
terday. It was addressed to Il. D. Lew
cling, governor of Kansas"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
j, C. POLLOCK ON CoWLEY COUNTY
Says That That Vicinity Wants Major Nc
Kinley and Prosperity.

J. c. Pollock of Winfield was in the
city last night on his way home from
Winfield. Mr.. Pollock called on the Ea-
gle and said he had entered the race for
judge of the court of appeals for this
division and of course after he had en-
tered he wanted 10 win.
Mr.. Pollock is one Of the strongest
Republicans in Kansas. He is an Ohio
boy who came TO Kansas TO upbuild
a fortune and located in Cowley county
He has built up big law practice and
a host of friends in Southern Kansas.
He has friends in every township in
Cowley county, and Winfield will be in
Newton the day of the convention voic-
ing his good parts, and the delegation
viii be a large one as every man, wo-
man and child in the town is his per-
sonal friend.
Mr.. Pollock said last night that Cow
ley county was rampant for Mckinley
and prosperity. Being Ohio born him
self he of course is a fast and true ad-
vocate Of the Buckeye Major and Is
anxious TO see him president
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
HAPPY EASTER PARTY GIVEN
Miss Ida T.. Chain Entertains Her Xouns
Friends on Her Birthday.

Yesterday was the fourth birthday of
little Ida L. Chain, daughter Of Deputy
Clerk John Chain, and the little lady
was given a delightful Easter party
from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. One
of the happy features of the occasion
was the establishment of Easter nests
throughout the yard which were filled
with Faster eggs, and a happier band
of children 1t would be hard TO find al
any place. AT $50 a delightful luncheon
was served. The following were pres
ent: Cooper, Jim and Kettle Gallispie,
Elizabeth and Sophia Harmaning, Jean
and Charley Austin, Eddy and Ethel
Dickerson, Ray and Mary Lyddon,
Francis Keck, Frank Robertson, Frank
MoSbacher, Nora Cubbon, Hazel and
Lottie Chain, Flora and Howard Carvin,
Zula and leila Gilmore, Bernice Butler.
Bessie and Robert Webb, Mary and
Tom Churchward.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
BEN SrLAIN Is a TARGET
Outrageous Abuse hurled at Him by the
Opposition

The OPPOSITION has spent its time OUT
rageously abusing Ben McLain Of the
West Side OF all the councilman Wich-
TIA has ever had Ben McLain is one of
the brainiest, the most active, the most
obliging. No citizen Of the Fifth ward
has ever asked Ben McLain to do a
thing for him within the range of pos
sibilities that Ben has not done. He
Is quick in mind and body and if a friend
asks him to do a thing ne is sleepless
TIL he does Il. He Is a man Of the
masses, and awake 10 their every inter
est The opposition that is fighting
him only increase n bitterness on this
account. Ben is a valuable man 10 the
Republican party IN the council. A Re
publican councilman who IS attentive 10
the peoples interests, who : as tireiess
for the good Of the city as Ben McLain
has been, makes record that shows up
well for the Republican party and in
duces the people 10 vote for more Re-
publican cOuncilmen Ike him. And
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
The adliea 1ailu Eagle: Sunday 5urime, april 1895.

in 80, and eighths in Is. His trainer be-
lieves he is destined TO make very
low record.
The price Of trotting stock has adj
vanced very materially within the last
year. Peter B. Kellogg, the great New
York horse customer, thinks that the
best bred trotting horses will sell with
in the next ten years at as high prices
as they sold before the hard times come
on The grass, hay, grain, water and
air Of Sedgwick county is the best in
the world for raising very fast trot-
rarS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
TTG1z1Nmlzhh1mx

Yesterday chronicled on our books as the
greatest day in the history of the store All dav long
the busy crowds surged the ases compimentins upon
the elaborate decorations the beautiful and artistic
draplng and this more than mammoth stock of season
able goods piled ceiling high every hand Aud back
of 1t all were beautiful flowers and thrilling music TO
lend enchantment to it ALL But why talk of it here;
you in the crowd during the day and witnessed
another proof that this store is the public and
that the confidence we hold is confidence dear for
must buy our goods right to sell them so.
Tomorrow offer remainder of those SOC embroid-
cred and Irish point handkerchefs at 5c each-north
window And one lot fine embroderies at less than
half their value; the window display. lot of
figured and spangled nets opened-designed for
yokes. 10 pieces of patterns in figured Taetas
our usual low price These splendid for capes and
skirts
Late Saturday came in Moussene de Sole in all
shades Ready for sale tomorrow.
A special at the dress goods counters in roal 65c
cent all wool Serge As inches wide in all coors at S7Ac
All colOrS of Chiffon sale
Just opened lot of ladies Summer Vests at and
10c each.
Have you Capes and Skirts. Chicago
might show larger stock but not better variety of
styles, besides we guarantee lowest prices.
Our stock of Curtains Carpets and Mattings
perfection in qualities and asSortments yet moderation
in price Our time is yours; it to look at what
have.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
WICHITA COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
What the Students of This College ar,
Doing.

Doing.
Examinations in arithmetic were had
during the week and the students show
ed very high standing in all the classes
Prof. f. B. Staley, teacher from But
Ter county, enrolled during the week for
a special course in bookkeeping and
penmanship during the summer session.
Mr.. II. II. Brown Of the banking de-
partment was taken sick on Thursday
afternoon and went to his home at Rose
Hill for a short vacation.
Miss Margaret w. Dean, a teacher
from Harper county, enrolled for a
special commercial course on Saturday
of this week.
A full set of britannica Encyclopedia
is the latest addition to the college IL
brary. The new Standard dictionary
was also recently added TO the college
librabry for the benefit of the students.
Mrs. ". r. Peacock visited the col
lege on Monday.
Miss Ida kaufman, one OF Ssdgwick
county's most successful teachers and
her sister Miss Clara. enrolled fCr COM
mercial courses during the past week.
Mr. Robert Eaton enrolled for a COM
merciaI course, April l.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
Spring
ediCine

Your blood in Spring is almost certain to
be full of impurities the sccumuls-
tilstion of sleeping rooms, impure air
in dwellings, factories and shops, over
eating, heavy, improper foods, failure
of the Kidneys and liver properly to do
extra work thus thrust upon them, are
the prime causes OF this condition. It
is of the utmost Importance that you
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
Purify
YourBIood

Now, as when warmer weather comes and
the tonic effect of cold bracing air Is
gone. your weak, thin, impure blood
will not furnish necessary strength.
That tired feeling, loss of appetite, viii
open the way fo7 serious disease, ruined
health, or breaking cut OF humors and
impurities. To make pure, rich, red
blood Hoods Ssrsaps1illa stands IN
equalled. Thousands testify TO its
merits. Millions take il as their
Spring Medicine. Get Hoods. because
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05

Miss Julia Wood returned yesterday
from Chicago after an absence Of over
two years, having graduated with high
honOrs she IS now spending sometime
with her father much to the satisfaction
OF her many warm friends. Miss Julia
is an exceedingly bright young lady and
success will certainly come TO one gifted
with her many good qualities.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
ALL ARE FOR DIR. MINICK

that is why the opposition is making
such dirty, vicious attacks on Ben Nc
Lain,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05
I2S-I3O-I32 n. Main.
@EXPERIENCE-

Is dear teacher in most We willing to give
you the benefit of experience III buying hose We
know what good hose is, do customers We trust
you do and that you not of the many people
who got stuck by buying cheap hose of irresponsible
dealers last Our hose is sold merit We have
had splendid trade on hose this past week Custo-
mers who bought hose of last year are walking adj
vertisements and sending customers daily. We
have full stock of Poultry Netting, Hose Repairs
Lawn Fountains Refrgerators and Water Coolers at
wholesale prices Hose at D. 81, O. H. 13 and I5c per
foot, coupled complete Screen Wire and Doors. all sizes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-05

The Chantilly Four-in-Hand is
the latest and most popular shape.
We have added a complete line
of Collars and Cuffs for ladies'.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28
ELECTRIC LIGHTING.
Both Eds n and esla Are Trying
t. Revolutionize It.
Their object Is the Production of Light
by the Vibration of the Molecules
of Air In Exhausted Tubes
The idea Explained.

The announcement that Tesla and
Edison have each perfected glow lamp
that may reyolutionize electric lighting
is one of those announcements that
have been imminent for five years past.
Not only these wizards of electricity,
but Moore and other lesser experiment.
ers have long been working on the pro-
ducti6n Of light by the vibration of the
molecules of air in an exhausted tube.
AS light is nothing more than form of
vibration when the molecules of air in
so-called vacuum are oscillated by
means of, electricity at a sufficiently
high rate light results and this depends
OF course upon the frequency of the vi
bration and the complete tTansforma-
vibration. The whole trouble with all
our lighting is that of the total energy
represented by given mass of coal. for
instance, less than one per cent. OF
the total consumed results in light in
lighting by gas, and only about three
per cent in incandescent lighting. Now
Tesla claims TO obtain ten per cent. OF
illuminating power and Edison IL to IS
per cent. for the energy consumed, and
the former has in view the securing of
40 per cent. ultimately, which would
be a revolution indeed.
The problem that confronts electri-
clans can be made plain to the unini-
tiated if they will consider the differ
ence between the light from an mean
descent mass of iron in which the en-
ergy of illumination represented is a
mere fraction of the energy that has
been lost in heat and tfSe light from
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28
Ono Reason for War.

An ex-governor of Wisconsin tells
little joke npon himself. He was
in the union army during the civil war,
it appears, and leaves US to understand
that he is plain" in his personal APP
pearance.
Zone summer met an ex-confederate
down east, one of those lank southern
ers with face so long that he could eat
oats out of a churn. He looked me
over, up and down, two or three times
each way, and then said:
ass that the gov'nor of Wisconsin? y
eyes
eft in the war, EN-?
AYES
'We-el, if all the Yanks had been as
homely as he is, we'd be a-fghting 'em
yit!"-Chicago Record.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28
Never Diseovered Her mistake.

A well-kno8n New York lawyer tells
that on one occasion he had taken his
seat in the elevator of large building
down town, when lady stepped in.
Owing to the electric light being out of
order, the elevator was quite dark, and
the newcomer, supPosing she was the
sole occupant, calmly sat down-on the
lawyers lap. Of course he expected her
to get up immediately and murmur a
confused apology, but nothing of the
sort occurred. He was wearing a
heavy winter ulster, which made a
comfortable, soft seat, and the lady
rose up several stories and finally got
out without even discovering her mis-
take.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28
HELEN.

Do you know since first / met you.
Helen dear,
I've been powerless to forget you
Want you near?
That I cannot live without you?
There's a certain charm about you,
Causing me to never doubt you,
Which is queer,
Since so many girls have told me
They'd be true,
And as regularly sold me
Not like you,
Who've been faithful to me ever,
Never sought our love to sever
But with every fond endeavor,
Dearer grew.
Many times and oft, I've held you
On my knee,
Yet I never have compelled you
There to be:
Though 1 often used to kiss you,
And when far away would miss you;
I am certain that in this you
VIII agree
That you sanctioned such caresses
AS were those
Yet their naughtiness no less is,
I suppose. d. - - -- o
II Dame RumOr would but drep her
Sly remarks-but 1 can stop her,
You're my daughter; so it's proper
Now she knows.
Good Housekeeping.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28
STRANGE posi- OFFICES.
queer Arrangements Seen In Other Parts
of the World.

Voeer Arrangements Seen In Oeher PARTS
of the World.
Until quite recently the postal system
in Persia was very loosely conducted.
1t was under the superintendent of a
minister of posts, who, however, does
not work the system himself. Each
road is farmed to some merchant or
wealthy person, who pays a certain sum
to the minister for the privilege, and
makes as much money out of the bust
ness as he can.
On the south coast of Patagonia is the
most remarkable postal service m the
world. Close TO the post is a large sign
post with the inscription: Post Office"
Attached by chains to the foot of the
sign post is a strong chest, which has
served as a post office, master, clerk, all
in one, for many years. The ships pass
ing through the Magellan straits send
a boat to the shore to fetch any letters
that may be addressed to their places Of
call, and~at the same time to leave any
letters they may wish to have taken in
other directions.
In small group of islands off the
south coast of Iceland the islanders have
a bottle post, which depends mainly on
the wind. When the wind blows from
the south they nut their letters into q
wel1-corked bottle. To insure delivery,
a plug of tobacco or a cigar IS put in
side, and Peopl" on the mainland are
usually on the lockout for and ready to
deliver the letters so dispatched, in re-
turn for the inclosed remuneration.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-08-28

| q glow worm, or our friend of the sum-
mer evening, the lightning bug. The
| lightning bug of our CLINE and his much
more brilliant congeners of the tropics
represent the ideal light for which the
electricians are struggling. for in these
insects the energy that produces the
| light is not dissipated in heat. but IS
Immediately transformed into light vi
| brations without heat and without any
! dynamic effects that Eat all injurious
to the insect or its surroundings. In
the harmless glow of woody phosphor-
escence somewhat Of the same effects
are also seen.
NaturallF, says the Philadelphia
Press, the comparative mefficiency OF
the light has been a thorn IN the flesh
of the electricians of this generation,
Those Of tine earlier aga had other
things to think of, for from 1892 when
Faraday's discoveries of another meth
Cd of producing electricity made the
dynamo possible, until 1878. the arc
lamp, the only electric fight of the
time, was little more than a laboratory
curiosity. tire utility of which was ques-
toned by the learned numsl<ulls, who
are the d6mbters of every age. BUT
after 1875, when Brush discovered n
way of making the light commercially
practicable, the advance of electric
lighting in the United States has been
one of the marvels of the age and has
had at its beck and calllcaPitalists, in
Ventors, professors. mechanics and en-
iGdustriali army. With the intrcduc-
ton of incandescent lighting, in 1852,
the use cf the light made tremendous
strides, and small is tie town today
that does not use the current for lin
minating-fts streets.
Altogether nearly S3o0,OOO,OOO is in
vested ins the United States to draw the
sunbeams: out of coal ny means of eLee-
tricity, and if these millions can be util-
iZed at once in producing brighter light
at less expense, one can easily readithe
future Of the new glow. Electric light
ing is ripe for the change, since Ia all
these 20 years since 20 there has been
a vast improvement, all along the line
i'll fueG furnace, boiler, engine. and
dynamo, but at the lamp the energy
was wasted in its transformation. If
this Is now TO be conserved as the glow
worm conserves arGltransformSit, then
both the Roentgen ray and the glow
lamp will light up new marvefs in sci
ence and industry to glorify the coming
century, for we shall have harnessed Vi
brations