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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
NEXT SEASONS SHIRT WAISTS.
They VIII Come High, But the WomeR
WIZ Wear Them.

Women of luxurious taste, with
money to support it, will soon spend
SIS on a shirt waist that will be a fire.
guent candidate for the washtub.
Surely that's a pretty price for wash
garment, but experts say it will be
worth the money. 1t will be of silk, with
French collar and cuffs. For the in
formation of the unsophisticated it
may be stated that the French collar
and cuffs are Of the kind that turn
ever. 1t is of fine white linen, and ls
secured with a gold button.
Fifteen dollars will be the outside
price, the dealers say, and if a woman
wants anything more expensive she
viii be obliged to put on didoes of or
iginal design TO run up the cost On
the other extreme, she can go as low
rs $3.50 for a waist. purchased in
fashionable store. The $3.50 waist is
OF gingham, and is plain enough, too.
10 the ordinary beholder. 1t must
have good points. however, or it could
not cost so much. What these good
points are is not apparent at a glance.
delicate perception can tell them off TO
YOU without difficulty, and is perfectly
willing to pay $3.50 so long as she is
being served with the right kind of
Foods.
A dealer in women's furnishings
struck good thing last week, so he
Fays. lie procured the loudest colors
possible i'll a new cloth that is called
grass linen. 1t is 4 Partisan produc-
ton and comes in great bars and
stripes. in the deepest and most strik-
ing colorings. He tried dozen or so
OF them TO see how they would sell. 1t
need only be said, TO indicate what
the swell woman thought OF them, that
he has ordered hundreds of them. She
Is making her next summers shirt
waists already by wholesale. and if 4
hot spell were TO come next week she
would be ready with her Lew waist and
her sauar hat.
The highest price for grass linen
shirt waist is IS 20. A woman can buy
one made OF batiste linen for SIP These
batistes come in deep colorings also.
Soch as red and green and blue and vel
low. all mixed up in various combina-
tons OF stripes, broken bars and
plaiCis.
The increased popularity of shirt
wrists has sent them up in price even
now in the winter, when one can hard
~ think OF them without d SILVER
There have been attempts TO decorate
the shirt waist in some unusual way,
uut the shirt waist, like the mans
white shirJ. does not lend itself easily
10 decoration. and it viii be much as II
always was hen The season opens. y
tuck here, q plait there and rufl1e
somewhere else is about the extent OF
the possibility, even embroidery no;
leiaS easily applied. To the expen
sire shirt waists six plaits have been
RGded TO the back. which the deal--
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
THE CUSTOM HOUSE
| Two-Thirds Of the Country's Is ports Pass
Through New York.

The custom house OF New oTk. more
than any other institution, represents
the commercial supremacy OF the me
tropolis. and few figures OF iiS enor-
nous transactions viii make this very
clear.
Take. for instance, the imports OF
foreign merchandise for a single nscaI
year. that of 1894. Ia the - months
the imports into the whole nIled
States were $40. s3O.2s3, Of which Sis5,-
s35.595 were entered az New York. or
practically two-thirls OF the total
Following up the comparison u Is
found that the exports OF doH.esiit
merchandise, coin and bullion from the
port reached = total OF Ss52.5Si-s6>, out
% an aggregate OF Se52, .ol.57S Tor the
United States
The total foreign commerce OF iae
country was s.. 960. 3o0.I94, OF which
Ss5I.3ls,53l was done through the port
CT New NoTk
IL is certainly q remarkable show
ing. particularly when the fact : con
sidered that the country has seaSn<st
OF 3.D0g miles, y it'll many important eIt-
les and excellent harborS- ] lie com
neroe of no port IN any other country
hears such proportion 10 The tosa!
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
Aft.r-Fr,ct. Of Grinp..

No one has. up 70 date. ben able sa,-
isfactorily 10 diagnose The aftcr-c feet
of tbs r marksb bic epidemic Al emf
nent authority. IN commenting On IL
pecuIarities. SAYS that fresh air j. tie
best tonic and Testorcr. Apnng the
more zeTIOuS symptoms OF consa-
icsceBoe Is the extreme depression %
bhicl the latent is liable Ia tbs STATE
= suicidal tenoency Is often developed.
and hyStNria y not uneomEnou- This
Is specially noted IN cases y here there
has been great dza! % pain IN ths
Lead Pleasant and absorbing occupa-
lion IS ore % fhc hest helps 70 rre0v-rY
Nourishing food. not too concentrated
. reasonable amount Q. exe-clss. stoy
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
HIS HATES.
Varied with the Seasons, and the Goa
Mans Time Had Come.


81 see that you and Blank are on
friendly terms again." he said TO the
man at his elbow, as they walked up
Woodward avenue.
''Blank. Why Blank and I are the
best of friends" was the reply.
But he's in the ice business"
"Yes, of course"
and last summer, when was walk
ing down with you one morning, you
couldn't say enough bad things about
him."
why, don't remember"
you called him cheat and a swim
dler and robber and lots else, and you
swore you would lick him on sight.
Don't you recall it?"
1T does seem as if I dimly remem-
bered something of the sort, but it had
quite slipped my mind. My dear sir,
the seasons change and men change.
When it was hot weather and the ice
gave out, L have no doubt that / called
the ice man a swindler and robber.
It is now winter, however"
And you-you-?"
81 am down on the coal man, sir!
Yes, sir; he is a regular highway rob-
Der, and if I meet him between here
and my house 1 shall depend on you TO
hold my overcoat and cane while /
lick the shortage on six tons of coal
out of his hide!"-Detroit Fee Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
HOW THEY ARE MADE.
facts of Interest Concerning Strings 70.
Musical Instruments.

Facts Of Interest Concerning Strings 70,
Musical Instruments.
Although many people play stringed
iinstrumets, few know how the strings
for their favorite instruments are pro-
!duced- The Neapohtan provinces
maintain their superiority in the pro-
lduction of this article, which requires
the greatest care and dexterity on the
part of the workmen.
The treble strings are particularly
difficult to make, and are produced at
Naples, probably because the Neapol-
itan sheep, from their small size and
leanpess, afford the best raw material
They are formed from the small iateS-
tines, which must be very carefully
ecraped. The intestines are then
stepped in alkaline Ives, clarified with
q little alum for four or five days, until
well bleeched and swollen.
They are next drawn through an
open brass thimble, and pressed against
IL with the rail in order to smooth and
equal the surface, after which they are
washed, spun or twisted. and sulphured
during two hours. The strings are
finally polished by friction and dried.
Sometimes they are sulphured twice or
thrice before the finishing process.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
EEHIND THE BARS.
Few MopsA Was Cared For while II,
Owner Wss Away.

We kpDw what ~e ask our friends -
so for ,Ls, 5ut we seldom LnOx all the
ceviatiCn- which are made from the
original Instructions. In a fazhiona.
BE Chicago fat few months ago the
society dame who - gong 20 the sea-
shore left her beloved poodle. Mop<a-
In charge % her near~sf. dsareEt friend
81 the fiat who was not gong away.
Elaborate directions we're couEsvrd AZ
- what HoPsa was 20 o. fed and hos
oftsn-when she wsss ~ Be bath-d ard
eornbed-how ca-~fUlly she must ~
kept from roaming the STREETS. and -
on The faithful friend seemed o~.
voted 20 the charge. and Mopsa's ME
+ress vent away With a raind ~ 49,
On her return 1opsa was delivered *
f'ood health and spirit. butch
frghtfu{ls gone % ~ her looks. TOW
1iet and raEged-Dot - al The ar5sro-
cratic dog % former days. Oze cAT
her mistress said:
Maria. ] cant stand II any lorgrT-
Go tel me What Tou did 20 AoEs- y h.ls
va PUBeg She looks hOTr5d-
And Nara honestly r~pIies:
-J1isa. ere VIA snch > Euissnre. a..
~Eys Jznosn, OF: EAen tn doors were
open. 20 I keP< her ii my Cd bzre
cage
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
A STUDY IN ANCESTORS.
Result of Following Up. or Rather Dswn
the Family Line.

the Family Line.
A South side man tells good story on
himself. He comes of revolutionary
sock and his family for several genera
tons back has been prominent in New
York state, but he has never worried
riuch about his ancestry, having been
too busily engaged in trapping the un-
wary dollar. His wife comes of good
old Virginia stock and knows all about
her lineage. She has frequently in
sisted that her husband make some eff
fort to trace his family history, of which
hc could give no earlier account than
that one of his ancestors moved from
Massachusetts TO Connecticut about
1850. As the family name is thorough
~ English she believed it possible that
this ancestor came in direct line from
some old pilgrim settler. AT last the
husband yielded TO her persuasions and
wrote 10 specialist" in the east to
find out what he could about the family
in Massachusetts prior TO 176O. In the
course of few weeks be received let
ter reporting progre IS. The man who
digs up family histories said he had OBJ
tanned cIew. He had learned from
carly records that in -, Mass, in 1855,
one James - had been sentenced for
six hours in the stocks for public in
toxisAtiOn, and that in the same town
the following year this aforesaid James
- enjoyed the unique distinction of
being the first prisoner to occupy a
newly built Jail, the charge against
him being the theft of cask of rum.
My DEAR" said the husband, after he
had read the report to his Mortified
wife, eve haven't gotten far enough
along to prove that James was n rela-
tive of ours, but l thjnI, we can do 1t
with little more research" 'The in
vestigation has gone far enough" said
she. Now when she tells of her hus-
bsAd's family history she is content to
dwell on the revolutionary period
Chicago Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

One million two hundred and eighty
Elk thousand eight hundred and sixty
three persons visited the Atlanta expo
sition.
Indiana Baptists contributed las
year TO all UNCONVENTIONAL purposes, al
reported in the Annual, an average o.
four dollars per capita
Miss Gertrude Simmons. the Siou1
Indian girl who carried off the orator.
cal honors at the Earlham Und.) col
lege the other day. was educated at s
Quaker school in Wabash, Ind. She wa,
born on the Sioux reservation neal
Deadwood, s. D., % years ago.
DR.. William Awdry, bishop-suf
fragan of Southampton, England, has
accepted an appointment as Anglican
bishop of Japan, the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign
Parts having offered to provide the sup.
port.
The Greek government has issued
permits allowing the American school
of archaeology to conduct excavations
at Corinth for historical and scientifi,
purposes. W Orh Will commence as SOOI
as the weather permits.
Miss Helen Culver. who recently
gave 81, 100000 to the University of Chi.
cago, Inherited a property variously es.
timated at from 1000, 900 to SIC, o00, DOC
from her cousin, Charles j. Hull, foI
many years prominent in large real
estate transactions in the west, whose
confidential secretary she was. Miss
Culver possesses extraordinary bust.
ness ability and is greatly interested in
works of charity and education.
-Corea has only enjoyed one decade
of Protestant missionary work, and yet
there are AZ regular congregations. be-
sides some 20 places where services are
held, 52S communicates and SCI cate
chumens. There are nine Sabbath
schools with ass scholars, who con.
tribute above 81 900. Six churches have
native pastors, and POP coRznunicants
were received during the past year
Pagan persecution has broken down
and recently the hermit kingdom sent
Christian man as its minister TO Wash
ington.-United Presbyterian.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
A HesrtIe.s Experiment.

The Lancet tells this story 10 show
the trials Of Z country doctor in France.
y young physician settled in a cnn-
mune, whose paupers he attended for
ten dollars per annum One night,
soon after his arrival at this Eldorado,
he received an urgent summons 70 visit
a patient who lived at distance of six
kllometers from the village. On reach
ing the cottage-it was then Il p. m
he found the doors closed and lights ox-
tinguished. In repy to his knocks the
door was opened by sturdy peasant,
who iaughlngiy informed him that
there was no illness in the house. but
that his wife had wished TO seeif. when
anyone was Ill, he would come II sent
for. The unfortunate Iredico-s:nce
dead from overwosk. and probably IN
derfeeding -remarked Il could have
felled him 10 the ground =
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13

triment. There are thousands OF men
and women today who have been eaa-
bled 70 keep vigorously at work, who
must have given up but for Palne's
celery compound.
Nervous affections are a warning 10
busy people.
At the earliest sign Of reduced nerve
force. inability 20 sleep. ianEuor. or
gloomy habit OF mind. everyone should
look Immediately 70 the nutrition or
their nervous system and % the purity
of their blood. Paine's celery compound
viii attend 10 both OF these urgent
needs more thoroughly and more speed
lily than anything else Ia the world.
Paine's celery compound IS not to be
COMPOUNDED with the common prepare
tons. the arsaparillas and nervlnes.
Being the discovery Of man of science.
Prof. Edward r. Phelps. NJ. n. Ii. u.
OF Dartmouth College. u has the support
of the best physicians: they prescribe
it universally; and the many sick per
sons made Wen by its use proves that
that support is merite1.
To the great ma jority Of business men
p vacation. 10 say nothing OF three
months Of complete Inactivity. IS out Of
the question at this season. even when
their brains demand a. complete rest AMI
their nerves ache and threaten them
with prOstratioD. Now. there are hun
dreds Of business men and hard-worIxed
professional men in this city "a
just this condition. What are they 20
DO? Those who are tired out. run
down" and deblilated at this trying sea-
son viii do well % read some OF the
straightforward and convincing state
ments from the men and women who
have been cured by Paincs celery
compound
Nervous weakness vaUishes before
Paine's celery compound as mist before
the strong heaith-giviug rays % the
sun Convince yourself or the fact at
once, II your health IS at all impaired.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
Historical Records of MARYLAND.

In speaking of the records of the
provincial court of the province Of
Maryland, from 1857 to the revolution.
now preserved in Anne Arundel county.
the Baltimore Sun says: The historical
value of these old records is inestimable.
1t is believed that 10 other state in the
union has such records of family his
tory showing the manner Of living
among the people of the colony as far
back as $50 years ago In the wills,
families can be traced back from father
10 son for a century. The court record
books containing inventories of per
sonal estates make complete exhibit
Of the character of household furni-
ture. kitchen implements, farm uten-
sis. etc. used by the early settlers and
their descendants during the first cen
fury and half OF the colony. From
these things we can reed much of the
habits and customs OF the people"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
Do You hnou

That the Frisco Line (St. Louis and
San Francisco railway is positively
the only line running two daily through
passenger trains from Wichita 10 St.
Louis, without change. leaving Wich-
Eta at 1925 p. m, and 10:40 p. m, arriv-
ing in st. Louis a $50 p. M, and 7:15
a. m. The equipment of these trains
is first class in every particular, con-
Eisting Of elegant reclining chair cars
(seats free AID Pullman Palace Draw
ing Room SleeperS.
If you are going beyond st. Louis re-
member that connection with all lines
for the east, northeast and southeast
IS made in the magnificent new Grand
Union station, st. Louis, the largest
and handsomest passenger station in
abe world.
For sleeping car beTths and all infor-
NATION relative to rates, routes, etc,
call at Santa Fe Route ticket office
southwest corner Main and Douglas,
or Douglas avenue station.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13

will tell you, makes the waist worth a
dollar more than il was before. The
six plaits are entirely new, he says, but
really they are only revival of the
styles of ten years ago. as any woman
whose memory goes back for a decade
can testify.
1t has been found that for bicycle
and horseback riding nothing is more
convenient than the shirt waist, so it is
natural that there should be a great
deal Of attention bestowed on the gar
ment. Women will wear stocks of
washable material, and tie them in a
big knot, so that collars will not be
necessary, and she viii not be obliged
to tuck a handkerchief down her neck
to prevent her collar wilting.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13

Rev. Zephaniah, Meek, d. D., IS a
household name over the South. Since
1867 he has owned and edited the Cen
trail Methodist" the leading paper oc
the Methodist Episcopal church IN the
South. He represented his state at the
general conference.
He was one of the Kentucky commits
siOners at the Chicago Columbian eN-
position. During his ministry in the
South he has built and dedicated five
chapels He writes from Catlet;sburs,
Ky. where his home is, as follows:
II have used several bottles of Paine's
celery compound for nervous trouble, re-
sulting from overwork, and with imme-
date effect. as well as permanent bene-
fit. 1t is the best nerve tonic that I
have ever tried. 1t has also been used
in my family with great benefit"
Tired-out, half-sick men aud women
need something more than a mere rest.
They need positive, unmistakable
nerve food: they must have a reserve OF
nerve-force to draw from, before their
heads viii cease 20 ache and their
nerves cease to tremble with neuralgia.
II is estimated that there are over ten
million nerve fbres in the body.
So long as these minute tissues arc
kept fully nourished, one lives in bliss
full ignorance of any such thing as neu-
raIgia, headaches, or even nervous
system. but let one become rundown"
and the nutrition OF the body get low
and every one OF these myriad fibres be-
comes a live wire" within the flesh
Headaches, neuralgia, rheuma tism. and
other forms OF nervousness and debility
result directly from "A famjshed nervous
system. Paine's celery compound Is
able 10 correct this faulty condition. Il
builds up the nervous system and sBs-
tains it. The brain at once feels the
strengthening effects of the superb nu-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
lEFT-HANDEL PARROTS.
Curious Observation OF One Who Hal
Much to Do with Animals.

Curious Observation OF One Who Has
Much to Do with Animals.
Superintendent Sol Stephan, of the
Cincinnati Zoo, has made all sorts oil
curious discoveries in the habits and
characteristics of ANIMALS, the latest
Of which, rays the Enquirer, is that
wild creatures are mostly left-handed.
Mr.. Stephan has been endeavoring to
verify this observation on two parrots
lately brought from Mexico. He found
that in grasping a finger offered as a
perch, the parrots almost always put
the left foot forward
Usually the finger thus offered is that
of the right hand. But when the left
finger is offered to the parrots, thew
put forward the right foot. There is,
however, apparently small residuum
of preference for the left foot. This
seems to be due TO the fact that men
are usually right-handed and offer the
right hand to the parrot
The left foot is the one naturally put
forward by the parrot in this case, and
through repetition of this action a
species of left-footedness is induced.
MIR. Stephan's general conclusion il
that there is no evidence that the parrot
is naturally left-footed.
The appearance of that left-footed-
ness is due entirely to the fact that
those who offer the finger or food to
parrots do so. as a rule, with the night
hand. Repetition of this process make.
the parrot more or less left-handed in
time
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
A SPECTACULAR WIDOW.
Wanted Her Photograph Taken While
Weeping Over a Tombstone.

A young widow in London enga ged a
presumably also young photographer
to take her picture while she leaned
weeping over the tombstone of her
"dear departed" On the day appoint
ed the sentimental beauty in weeds
went TO the graveyard and at once
opened the sluices of her great sorrow.
She wept and wept for hours. but he
came not Finally she went dry and
home, and stIaightwsy sued the photog-
rapher for the return of the money
which she had paid IN advance.
The artist claimed that the appoint
Tnent had been vague; that he went 10
the cemetery and waited three hours
for her at the grave, also in vain. No.
they didn't compromise by marrying
each other. The judge rendered a
decision against the photographer, be
cause 1.-THE photograph, showing the
undying fidelity of the pretty widow,
might, If finished at the time agreed
upon, have been instrumental in pro-
curing her a second husband" At
least, so SAYS a Belgian paper
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13
THE VEGETABLE sAlAMAhoER.
Fire Cannot Iniure the Rhopaia, q Hard.
Tree of Colombia.

Fire Cannot Inture the RhopalA. Hardy
Tree of Colombia.
There Is a tree of Colombia, the
Rhopala odorata. of the order Protea-
ceae, which presents, says an article
quoted in Current Literature, a most
remarkable power of resistance to ire.
In the district of Rolima it is customary
every year, during the dry season, to
set fire to the plains in order to de
stroy all the dry weeds that, during
rains, might interfere with the growth
Of the young and tender vegetation.
This periodical confagration naturally
produces the most disastrous effects
upon the trees. which gradually disap-
pear without being replaced since il
is difficult for an old tree to resist,
and still more SO for a young shoot
Of one or two years. A single tree
forms an exception. and that Is the one
above mentioned-the Rhopala- Small.
distorted and soraggy, and having a
wild and desolate appearance. this tree
not only does not suffer from the fire.
but derives profit therefrom. 1t grad
ually establishes itself in localities
abandoned by other trees and installs
itself therein. We have here a very
typical case of a survival of the f3ttest.
1t, alone capable of resisting fire, wit
nesses the disappearance of its rivals,
ind is seen to gradually encroach upon
an always more extended domain. Its
resistance TO fire is due TO it's bark. The
external portion of the latter, more
than than half an inch thick and
formed of dead cells and fbers. acts
like protective jacket with respect
to the more central and living parts,
and this assures its triumph in its
Efr1lUplA for existence again II fire
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-13

A turkey who had just swallowed =
chestnut was attracted by the song Of
q grasshopper sitting on a sweet potato
vine Stealing upon the insect una
wares from behind, the bird plucked il
from its perch and lapsed INTO medita
ton. II rather think" he unused,
caTessiDg has craw. that ] have been
hasty. Had given him time 10 prepare
his last words the animal creation
might have benefited BY an appropriate
sentiment, OF which my precipitancy
has deprived Us. But" he added with
a wan smile, he was a stranger and
took him In"-snd instantly expired
The chestnut disagreed with him. ANY
formal expression Of the moral OF this
fable would be reflection upon the IN
tsllizsDn~ - the reader. ~. \. Sun.