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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Speaking of Indians and hereditary in
fluence in general, a scientist has called
attention to the Flathead Indians, first
described by Lewis and Clark in their
expedition to Oregon in 1906. He went
on to say that with those Indians 1t
has now become a fixed popularity,
and the fat heads are now produced
without artificial means simply by the
laws of heredity. The small waists of
our American women is another illus
tration Of transmitted physiological
vice. Nature never made small waists
such as we see in modern fashionable
circles. They are a result Of an IN
wise interference Of her plans, and
many women today are paying heavy
penalty in weakness, invalidism and
shortened life for this one vice of their
ancestors. Intermarriage is an i'm
portant factor in this question. 1t is
continually and wisely adjusting hu-
manly and keeping things about right;
cutting down the tallness and stretch
ing the shortness; contracting large
ness and expanding leanness; here
dropping a chunk of ice into family
of radicals to cool them off, and then
dropping a fiery temper into a family
Of conservatives to stir them up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
ABOUT HEREDlTY

Major Powell Of geological and ar
theological fame, is out in q paper il
the current number Of the Forum in
which he proves that the American In
dian is an American. that he is not the
offspring Of any oriental civilization.
The Indian has been on this continea,
since the glacial period. if not before
The Indians appearance on this con
tinent was coincident with that az hu-
manity on other sections Of the globe
and he was probably OF like character.
Heredity. his languages. his worship.
are all Indian and nothing else.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
DREAM OF LIFE is DER.

The world of men and women are
prone to go wildly wrong for love. for
a love which in the greatest number
of instances proves a transient infatu-
alton, an infatuation whose iridescent
colOrs fade fiat in the briefest space of
experience or Of possession. The OBJ
ject secured, the fascinating dream is
resolved into nauseaus reality. The
fact, robbed of its romance. becomes
distasteful, revolving. The bright
cloud of rainbow tints. floating so
airily and high in the heavens, its
roseate fleeciness begotten of a sun
kiss, turns suddenly black, sinks to
earth and trails in the mud. This love-
fatality, anon, throws its glamor over
the senses of its victims, and whether
they be high or low, rich or poor. mar
ried or unmarried, the awakening is
alike rude for each, but for trusting
woman the most fatal and blighting.
Every community numbers its defeated
dupes, some by the score. In Webster
City, Iowa, there lived a few months
ago, a beautiful and accomplished girl
on whose musical education great sums
of money had been spent by doting pa
rents In the possession of talents that
were almost genius, commanding the
admiration of hosts of friends, with
lovers galore. she suddenly abandoned
her career of promise and quit her
home and friends without a word of ex
PLANTATION, and married a stranger
whom she had seen but a few times
only as he went marching by in the
Salvation Army. These things are in
comprehensive, or, If comprehensive.
are not rational. Yet rational people
are daily guilty. 1t is not a failure of
the head. but of the heart-ah. the
heart it is that makes a fool of the in
tellect and does it so joyfully. This
young woman, Miss Mildred Smith
married the man of her choice. nor
could she be persuaded to take anv
view of ii but the distorted and partial
one Of her impulsive heart The hus-
band took her 10 d couple of rear rooms
TO live in frame building occupied by
a drug store below. but she never com
planned Of her lot until last week. when
she made an excuse to go TO the home
Of her parents. and there she unfolded
a terrible tale OF abuse In the petit
ton filed she alleges that her husband
threatened her life with a revolver in
his hands, and had repeatedly threat
ened to kill her, and had utterly failed
to support her. she had made her liv-
ing by teaching music, and although
until the present time he has professed
religion, he has lived the life OF a Dr..
Jeckyl and Mr.. Hyde. So another TO-
nance has come to an end.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
THE KLONDIKE CRAZE.

| A gentleman but just returned from
an extensive western trip said to the
Eagle yesterday that all southern Cali
fornia seemed Klondike bent. There
was little else talked of and property
of every description was being sacri-
| feed by people whose spirit of venture
had carried them to California in the
first place. 1t looked to him as if the
craze would prove disastrous to the
present further progress Of that section
Of California, including all the towns
and country for which Los Angeles and
| San Diego stand as centers. 1t now
| looks like there would be not only thou
sands but hundreds of thousands found
moving on to those Arctic-fringed fields
| during the present spring and early
summer. The telegraph wires are be-
| ing worked, overworked, telling the
stories Of coming and going Klondike
fortune seekers. There are narrowing
recitals of cold, restitution and de-
spair, but ever mixed and frightened
with wondrous finds" of the glittering
metal One days tale is the outrush
of several hundred from Dawson City
who have fed before the awful pros
pect Of death by starvation. The next
days cheerful message is that thou
sands of men and a few women have
deserted their comfortable homes in
the west and middle west to go in quest
of fortune amid the hardships and pri-
vations of the barren north.
Kansas so far as we have observed,
or are able to judge, is affected less
than any western state. The grain fields
of Kansas will yield more money the
coming season than the wilds of Alaska
and of Klondike combined. Here the
prospect is for every man a fair share.
There it can only be much for the very
few, want for the very many. Still for
many nothing in the way of starvation,
scurvy and danger of death can dis
suade from the attempt, from starting
for the chance of being the one man
of luck in ten thousand. 1t would be
to brave the perils of the passes and
rivers to wait year or two when lines
of communication to the Klondike will
be opened and when the trip can be
made in comparative comfort. But it is
idle to urge those whose minds are
made up to go to wait a while. They
are afraid that to wait would be to for
felt a chance to locate on some of the
claims already staked out.
1t is morally certain that the Klon-
dixie gold bearing region has been pros
pected from end to end. The prospect
ors now going may find employment
digging in the frozen earth of the mines
already being worked, or they may
venture forth into unexplored regions
of ice and snow, where others equally
as courageous and adventurous have
made many cold and vain pilgrimages
to find the precious metal only to find |
death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

the Teller resolution. These political
incidents, occurring within few days,
indicate how inevitable and how vehe-
ment will be the battle over the money
question in the next campaign in the
absence Of some satisfactory action
upon the part of congress, or other far
reaching happening. The action of
these legislatures further show that the
fight has more of sectional than Of
strictly party or political tendency,
which would be unfortunate, especially
for the Republican party. which party
is strongest in the silver west and
weakest in the golden east. The Re-
publican party having in its national
conventions Of the near past endorsed
silver, should stand firm TO its latest
utterance favoring bimetallism. which
covers the whole ground, for interna-
tionaI bimetallism once secured the
parity of the metals would be fixed,
at a ratio which would make silver
worth something near its present coin
face rating. The congressional COM
mittees of both the great parties have
been organized and the great battle of
1898 will shortly be begun. There are,
however. no less than seventy-fve close
districts in the United
States, and upon these the Democrats,
Populists and Silverites will turn their
united forces in an attempt to elect any
silver man, no matter to which one of
the three organizations he may belong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
BOB ON VIVISECTION

The orthodox world has it in for Bob
| Ingersoll. but Bob is himself quite a
Christian in some directions. He is a
stickler for mercy. which is Christ
like grace, and abhors a lie to finish.
Fifteen dollar monographs all over the
homes, are clacking off repetitions of
Bobs sermon on lying. His latest COM
munication to the public is in the way
of letter written against vivisection.
Robert denuonces the men who practice
vivisection-and every medical college
in the land practices it-"scientif1c as
sassins.' Col. Ingersoll asserts that
nothing Of value has been discovered
by vivisectionists. They may have set
tied some disputes as to the action of
some organ, but little has been added
thereby to useful human knowledge.
He puts it in this way: II know that
good for the human race can never be
accomplished by torture. 1 also know
that all that has been ascertained by
the dissection of the dead. know that
all the torture has been useless. All
the agony inflicted has simply hardened
the hearts of the criminals, without
enlightening their minds.
ut may be that the human race might
be physically improved if all the sick
ly and deformed babies were killed,
and if all the paupers, liars, drunk
ards, thieves, Williams and vivisection-
lists were murdered. All this might. in
a few ages, result in the production of
a generation of physically perfect
men and women: but what would such
beings be worth-men and women
healthy and heartless, muscular and
crueI-that is to say, intelligent wild
beasts? When the angel of pity is
driven from the heart; when the foun-
tain of tears is dry, the soul becomes
a serpent crawling in the dust of a
desert"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
Tosti ard Cphoisterer.

Sigror Tosti. the famous composer. az
ter 3 hard days work. either teaching
his many royal pupils or IN composing
seeks recreation az his favori;s anus
raent OF upholsterfng. The greater part
OF the chairs and the whole o. IFS wife 8
boudo.r have thus been upholstered By
S!suor Tostf
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
DON'T SEE ALIKE

The legislature of Kentucky passed a
resolution asking its United States SEN
ator 10 resign because he voted for gold
as against the Teller resolution, while
the legislature OF New York passes a
resolution asking their senator TO re-
algn because he voted for silver and for
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

The largest carpet IN thu world is Il
Windsor Castle II Is forty fee, II
breadth and contains $500 30 stitches
The weaving % * oce-pied = nea a
months
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
The %. Before Irish Names.

The prefix 20" before so many OF the
names of Irish families is an abbrevia-
ton of the word "ogha," meaning grand
child.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
Rnhses vs.. Diamonds.

A fine ruby q more tha. three kzrsts
Is worth more than q diamond Q. ire same
size and weight
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Wichita always sets the pace. Wichita
gave a cake walk and several Kansas
towns have followed with ginger snap
promenadeS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
Try, Try Again.

For insomnia, Using hair pillow.
For sour stomach, as much soda as vsli
lie on nickel. II little water. twice
a week
For cough. one-ha!f cupful! q nnolas-
sez butter the size 81 a h3cko-y-nut. boil
&c together, and the Juice q one Ie-aoG-
Fort Scott Monitor: Sheriff Wheeler
and Deputy Dillon returned this morning
from Lansing. where they took Finch ard
C-irIey 70 the pez;teatiary- On the way
~ Pinch played OF TIE French harp. os
which he Is master. Thf'e CrfEiey sang IRE
following verses. composed eY TIE r.u--
derer:
wheeler took re 20 tAe station.
To sac TIE horrible train
That would carry ne % Lansing
TO wear ball ard chain
tCHORCsl
Sad. sad. I fss..
I, seems have net = friend
Way up n TIRE Kansas pen
The ether verses 20 the song srde1 -
With Way - 81 the Bourbon County
ian" Tbs Vas kept ~ during ne -hole
tip ard the passengers CT re trzl1 D.
came Interested Il FEnca- C2oa sr-sTfnz
- he prison. Crsg.sv was puf r. TIE
lzu1ts-g- %, Flarh has b~ez assignee 20
TO 12ty y@t.
II Billy Es=ar6s gsss zaSck a. ;as
state co1vezrsou s1.n 'nocks.1 r. zGe
Cradle OF ;hs Deep Il All ss ali day w.th
the other Es5er1ato-la3 cz1c8cztsz-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Answer to correspondent: Taken cum
grano sails" is Latin phrase meaning:
I'm from Missouri, and you'll have to
show me-"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13
Must Make $50 900 n Wear.

Every frst-class London theatre has to
take in Gin round fgures) 5000 a year
before ii pays.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Too much apple. it is discovered, is
harmful to the stomach. 1t will be we'll
for the San Jose worm to make note of
this.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Boiled down, the Luetgert verdict is sim
ply a statement from the jury that they
believe Mrs. Luetgert was.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

William Tiger. full-blooded Creek In
dian, has just been sentenced to be shot
Note, full-blooded Creek Indian not a
Wichita LAWYER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

To anxious inquirer: You lose the bet.
lola did not stab Dreyfus in a street
fight"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

While no one has starved to death, the
average man in Alaska just now probably
dwells on the first two syllables of the
name as he says it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Rev. Hugh Johnston. McKinley's pastor.
says . Christian who goes TO a theatre
should be drowned IN the Potomac. Mrs.
Mckinley is a regular theatre-goer- The
president, Of course. is offended a; John
ston. and he has our permission 70 sad
him OF TO Spain. too
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

A European astronomer predicts that
two moons will appear in the sky July 90
But why stop here? Why not expect also
two skies on the same date?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

The entertainments for 1897 exceeded
those of 1896 by more than 100000 Tn
der free coinage. this amount would have
been raised to $4,000 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

France has been against lola long
enough. II will now go out and take a
drink of abslnthe. clear its throat and
begin cheering for him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Young Edison's flying machine is a fail
ure. Perhaps the flying machine crank
who first feathers his machine will be the
first to feather his own nest
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Three Thousand Weddings a Day.
Three thousand marriages are perform
ed every day all over the world
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Mr.. Bubosc, who succeeds De Lone,
will not write any letters ard when he
is around Mckinley It viii be If you
please, Senior Mckinley. le PRESIDING
nagnihcong"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Perhaps Germany wouldn't have ex-
Guided our dried apples If 1t were not for
the fact that 1t is Emperor Bits head.
not his stomach. they have to keep swol-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

William Tiger, a full-blooded Creek In.
dian, has just been sentenced TO be shot
Note, a full-blooded Creek Indian not a
Wichita lawyer.
While no one has starved to death, the
average man in Alaska just now probably
dwells on the first two syllables of the
name as he says it.
The embezzlements for 1897 exceeded
those of 1895 by more than 100000. I'm
der free coinage. this amount would have
been raised to s4.0o0.0O
France has been against lola long
enough. It will now go out and take a
drink of absinthe. clear its throat and
begin cheering for him.
A European astronomer predicts that
two moons will appear in the sky July 80.
But why stop here? Why not expect also
two skies on the same date?
Young Edison's flying machine is a fail
ure. Perhaps the flying machine crank
who first feathers his machine will be the
first to feather his own nest
Perhaps Germany wouldn't have ex-
Guided our dried apples, if it were not for
the fact that II is Emperor Bits head.
not his stomach, they have 10 keep swol-
len.
The legislatures of Maryland and Vir-
ginia are trying 10 decide whether an oys-
ter is a fish. AS Z matter OF fact an oys-
ter is no more a fish than is q homeless
ham.
New York is hot. Here is Germany
kicking on a little San Jose worm. when
New York has been rapturously patron
izing wagner's big dragons all these
years
The whole world IS painting for war
that is. all the world except Thessaly,
where the Turks took the Greek peasants
and wiped up the pastoral landscape with
them.
Mckinley is rather hard on De LONE.
When ingalls, wrote iette- about Is
land. Leland simply crav;, -. OF the
alluviaI deposit OF adjectIves and called
him a liar.
Mr.. Bubosc, who succeeds De Lone.
will not write any letters ard when he
is around Mckinley Il viii be If you
please, Senior Mckinley. le PRESIDING
magnifcorg-"
Rev. Hugh Johnston. McKinley's pastor.
says q Christian who goes to theatre
should be drowned IN the Potomac Mrs.
Mckinley is a regular theatre-goer- The
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

Mckinley is rather hard on De LONE
When ingalls, wrote a iette- about L.
land. Leland simply crawl go OF The
alluvieI deposit OF adjectives and called
him a liar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

The legislatures of Maryland and Viz
ginia are trying 20 decide whether an oys-
ter is fish. AS Z matter OF fact an oys-
ter is no more fish than is a homeless
ham.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-02-13

The whole world IS painting for war
that is. all the world except Thessaly.
where the Turks took the Greek peasants
and wiped up the pastoral landscape with
them
Evening star., 1898-10-29
CAPS AND APRONS.
The HOusemaid Should Always Look
Trim When on Duty.

From the Philadelphia Press.
There is nothing more important so far
as the elegance of a house is concerned
than to have the maids neatly dressed.
1t is fatal to let domestics wash their
clothes. or part of them, at home. If this
is the case, there will be dreadful lack of
clean aprons and the cotton dresses will be
made to do duty for fortnight All laun-
dries will take servants washing at a GER
tain sum per week. In the country one can
often get this done cheaply, especially If
the maids will wash their own collars and
cuffs and caps. In a Town it costs more,
but it is money well spent.
Il is imperative that a maid should have
clean print dress every week, and that 1t
be well starChed or it will not keep clean
for any length of time. The cook, esDe-
cially in a town, should wear somewhat
dark print, deep blue galatea being the
best. This looks very nice with a large
holland a. on and white collar and cap.
For L. ling wear large holland aprons
are the It, with bibs and straps over the
shoulder. A black stuff gown should be
worn in the afternoon, with turnover COL
lar and cuffs and very large white apron.
If there is any demur about the caps, il
VIII be worth the mistress while to provide
them herself. The best caps are made CT
frills of embroidered cambria, which draw
up with a tape and can be pulled out fiat
to be washed and ironed. These are easily
made, and all fear of the maids appearing
with d dirty piece of lace gathered up on
their heads Is avoided. 1t must be under
stood that when the housemaid is out and
the cook has to answer the door she also
wears the same sort of costume.
Evening star., 1898-10-29
Dresses for At-Home Parties.

FROM lne Ladies Home Journal.
For at-home dancing parties young ladies
are expected to be suitably gowned, which
means In thin gowns of organdy, net. chif-
fon, etc, over silk Innings, or light silk
gowns with belts and sash ends of velvet
edged with tiny frills of black or white
nousseline. Silk at seventy-fve cents a
yard is pretty, and would BE- economical, As
: - answer another season for a lin
ing White, pink, turquoise, light yellow
ard lavender are the favorite evening col
ors In the order named. White forms a
convenient dress as different accessories
may be used with it and the skirt worn
with odd waists. If merely a looker-on, a
Ight dress or waist, made high in the neck
and long-sleeved. in silk or chiffon, or a
lightweight yelling trimmed with three
gcred ruffies to the knees, each edged with
velvet ribbon; blouse waist finished with
two rufi1es around the low neck and a re-
movable yoke of white lace over pink, or of
pin-tucked taffeta, with collar belt and
sash ends of the silk, would be appropriate.
Another suitable toilet is a black silk or
nice white wool skirt, with a full gathered
waist of Hght-c -colored chiffon having collar
and sash of silk or velvet. One more ad-
Vanced in years might wear a light waist
and black silk skirt or an entire black silk
costume with lace yoke or vest.
Evening star., 1898-10-29
RECEPTION GOWNS.
One Made of Silk and Velvet or All
Velvet a RARITY
From Harper's Bazar.

FROM harper's Bazaar.
Ihere are many reception gowns that are
made of cloth, others of cloth and velvat
combined: but as yet no silk and velvet or
all-velvet gowns have been exhibited. The
costumes of cloth and velvet are most at
tractlVe very graceful in design, and of
soft and harmonious coloring. One of the
new gowns is of black broadcloth so fine
that it looks like the cloth known as doe
skin. 1t is made with skirt that has a
shaped gore in front and a circular cut at
the back, and it is either buttoned from tho
hem to the belt down the seam in the mid
die OF the back, or is buttoned part way
and has absolutely no trimming of ary
Kind To wear with this skirt Is a velya t
coat made on the shape of a mans cut
away coat, and showing at the throat and
DeloW the lower part of the coat vest of
HoWered DrOcade- There is a high flaring
collar, and this collar is covered with a
pattern OF silk machine stitching. The
sleeves are almost tight-fittng cut faring
over the hands, and stitched to match the
collar The jacket is fastened with fancy
rhinestone buttons. Another style of velvet
ccat Is cut like cutaway, but the tails
instead of rounding, are absolutely square
and are trimmed across with a band Of fur
Inc collar is square made of fur and can
Ds worn either standing or turned down
1he coat opens over most elaborate
Walstcoat of brocade, with a lace tie at the
throat. This coat has also fancy buttons
Another style of cloth gowns suitable for
reception wear is made with a long coat
mat has very full side pieces. 1t is so long
mat 1t reaches below the knee, but instead
OF b4ing tsht-ftting in 'front.' the material
crosses over and Is fastened at the left side
uLder a wide revers of white astrakhan
trimmed with sable. There is a small vest
piece of pale blue satin on which there is
an elaborate hand embroidery. The skirt is
very odd. 1t is made of silk. with a heavy
nf U.lV hot
up in front and extends half way I'D the
skirt at the sides and back. This is a very
clever thing, for an ail-velvet skirt covered
with long cloth coat would be most un-
comfortable to wear. This model is yery
effective in pale gray or in brown with
bright cherry color.