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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30
$500 - Cincinnati and Return.

$500 - Cincinnati and Return.
Tickets on sale September 5. and 5
limited 10 October >. 1S9S. Agent Santa
Fe Route viii reserve berths in sleeper
and check baggage through.
MEETING INTERSTATE MER-
CHANTS ASSOCIATION.
Aug. 1875
Sept 5-12
For the above the Frisco VIII sell tickets
to St. Louis and return at rate of one and
one-hfth fare, certificate plan
For further information call on or ad-
dress, H. O. MORTIMORE.
City Ticket Agent, corner Main and Doug
las avenue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30
EXCURSIONS VIA THE SANTA FE
ROUTE

Cincinnati. Caso. September : % %. i11s
National eacarnpment Cra1d Array r.
pubic. Rate tls-sa f7r the Toa1a TIP
Da.es q sale September 2 ? and = x31a
20 return gatI Seo,eubsr = Extenzis-
ot crle may De had ulrl October Z uoe1
payment of = ceats 20 1a.at sEsEt ~ ca
c.1rzt-
= mr. av-z-v -.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30

c. W MCCOY. Chairman.
W. c. HOOVER. Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30

10 the C. A r. encampme1,. Cincinnati.
O. September $40? II 50 done fan 70 call
q the Frisco .cket Office. conner Main
ard Douglas and get particulars regard
!nz tine, accommodations. etc-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30
Lawn social, DR.. Oldham's, tonight.

Free grand band concert at court house
square this evening, beginning at S o'clock.
The Hon. J. H. Order of Fort Scott will
give a short address on Fraternity" I'M
der the auspices of the A. o. L. w.
Everybody invited. dS9-1t%
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30

Lawn social. Dr.. oldham's. tonight
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30
Tourist Sleeping Cars
THROUGH TO
Portland, Ore,
Via Missouri Pacific Railway
Through Salt Lake City.

Wichita passengers can take this
through sleeper at Geneseo every wednes-
day evening. $50. arriving 1t Portland
Sunday morning. 7:2o-
Rates for a double berth to Denver,
81 50: TO salt Lake City. 500: to Portland.
$500. One berth may be occupied by two
persons without extra charge
These Tourist cars are OF the very latest
design. with upholstered spring seats ana
backs: all bedding and equipment Is or
superior quality; all toilet eonveniences.
soap. towels. etc. are provided they are
as comfortable as first-clsss sleepers
City ticket orice. ia North Main street
EE BLECKLEY. P. s T. Agt-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30
Lawn social. Dr.. Oldham's, tonight.

Wanted-One hundred tons machine and
stove iron; highest market price paid
Wichita Stove and Iron Works. dS9-tf.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-08-30

/ 2 DELAEET. AEeat
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12

mortgage on about everything Jake
Openheimef's got left, aud the boy -
the gran'son, We know hes down be-
low in business for himself.
"That's. about the story old Mug
gets III tell we when We meet him.
Some Of it's true know myself for q
fact, and l reckon, mebbe, some of it.
well, ye know, Nuggets is Mis-
sourian aud purity good liar HIM
SELF" YIT
The stranger arose, stretched him
self and striding up the street en-
countered the one-leggedf druggist
standing in the doorway Of his store.
"Great story just heard" said the
stranger.
Been talking to the old pioneer9"
'Pioneer9 Why, he's not forty.
Miner"
"No, but he's forty-eightor."
"Who is he, anyhow"
slim? Oh, that's Nuggets. AR.
gonaut
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
Birds as Surgeons.

Some interesting observations made
by NJ. Faio on the surgical treatment
of wounds by birds were recently
brought before the Physical Society Of
Geneva. In these IL was established
that the snipe hadoften been observed
in repairing damages. With its beak
and feathers ii makes very creditable
dressing, and even has been known to
secure broken limb by means OF o
stout ligature. On one occasion NJ.
Fatio killed snipe which had on its
chest large dressing composed Of
down from other parts OF the body and
securely fixed to the body by coagu-
lated blood. Twice he had snipe with
interviewer feathers strapped on TO the
site Of fracture OF one or Other limb.
The most interesting example : us that
of q snipe both OF whose legs le had
unfortunately broken by q misdi.
rected shot. He only recovered II On
the following day, when lie found that
the wounded bird had contrived to
apply dressings and sort Of splint to
both limbs. In carrying out this OPP
Grafton some feathers had become en-
tangled round the beak, and not being
able to use its claws to get rid ofthem
the poor creature was almost dead
from hunger when found. Public
Opinion
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

The heat OF comets Is said to be
1000 times greater than red-hot iron.
According to o German authority
the human brain is composed Of 300,
900, 900 nerve cells. y
Pendulums are affected by varia-
tons of density Of the air, asNwe1l as
by changing temperature.
The average height of the human
race is, men, five feet six inches
women, five feet two inchesA
According to Professor Gallon,
few persons SEQ mentally IN print
every word they hear uttered.
The average duration OF human life
in European countries is greatest In
Sweden and Norway, and lowest in
Italy and Austria.
Diphtheua is said to be disease OF
recent years of civilization, whose
cause is to be found in defective
drainage, damp cellars and dark closets.
Two German professors at Bonn
have made series OF experiments
which negative the current notion that
cutting the hair stimulates its growth.
The primitive inhabitants OF Europe.
1t is now believed, were the ancestors
of the long.headed blonde Tentens Of
the north, and the long -headed bru-
nettes Of the Mediterranean.
According to NJ. de Morgan the
word Egyptian" signifies the man
who migrated from Asia to Egypt,
whose civilization was peculiar to him.
self, and whose ethnic history Ia still
unknown.
Professional singers consume more
than one-tifth more oxygen than aver
age people. This explains why they
can maintain their health while 80
often exposed to the deleterious in
fluence of respired air in crowded au-
ditoriums.,
The bacteria known now number
800 species, according to London In
stitution lecture by Professor w, Is.
Bottomley, and practically our entire
knowledge OF these has been worked
out since 1880 through the influence
Of Pasteur. OF the harmless species
there arc only abo1t forty.
Asteroid hunting is becoming more
agduous, aud only eight OF the little
planets were added to the list last
year, increasing the total to43a. The
asteroids are no longer named, but
are designated by REORGANIZATION,
the discoveries Of 1897 being known
as OH, ID, DJ, DIX, DL. DIN, DIN
and DO.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12

Fruits as foods. are, then, peaches,
spricots, nectarines; ripe, mellow ap.
pies; dates, figs, fresh and dried;
prunes without skins; persimmons,
papaws; very ripe or cooked bananas;
guavas without seeds fresh or canned
without sugar; pineapples, grated or
finely picked, never cut; mangoes,
grapes; sweet plums without skins,
sugar cherries, and an occasional
cooked pear. Bartletts are excellent
when canned without sugar. :
The fruits which must be used
sparingly are lemons, oranges, shad-
docks, currants, barberries, cranberYies
and strawberries. This applies most
emphatically to those persons who are
inclined to uric acid conditions. The
rheumatic and equity should also most
rigidly abstain. The tender lining
OF chiId's stomach cannot, certainly,
bear such fruits any length OF time;
serious results must follow. The ripe,
mellow peach is really the child's
fruit. Ladies' Home Journal.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
swiss Cblmney-swesps.

In Switzerland the chimney-sweep
Is On official parsonage. He is the
employe Of the commune, receiving u
fixed salary, his actions controlled by
the government, and he himself hold
ing on by the back straps to the ear Of
state. He Is also, rs many tourists
will have noticed, one OF the few sons
OF the Helyetian republic who on
Sundays and weekdays sports tall
silk hat. This he wears with dignity,
but it Is generally brushed the wrong
way. On his official tour he takes it
of blandly, and informs the house,
holder that he is empowered by the
state TO inspect his fues." In the
Canton of Grisons recently the post
and title OF ''ramoneur communal"
was opened to competition. The sal
airy was Sl60 a year, and the candi-
dates were numerous. But the strange
thing was that they we're mostly VII
lage schoolmasters from Italy. A
painful sign OF the times in that un.
restful land. Better" says L'Italia
del Popolo, 'be chimney.sweep in
Switzerland than schoolmaster in
Italy" But the Italia del Popolo
has recently been suppressed. Pail
Mall Gazette.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
PRAYER BROKE THE DROUGHT.

The Suppilcation Was for''a Gully Washer,
Trash Mover and Pine Knot Floatcr."
'Tt was awfu.ly dry in Georgia
once" remarked Mr., George Dallas.
''There had been no rain for weeks,
and the corn and the cotton were burn
ing up in the fields. The creeks had
begun to dry up and even springs that
had never been known to fail gave
signs that their supply Of the aqueous
fluid was running low. II began to
look as though relief could never come
from the heavens, Day after day o
blazing sun shone down from cloud
less sky, blistering and whitening all
vegetation and depressing the hard
working sons and daughters of the
land with fear that distress would
soon be their portion---distress that
might take on starvation's form.
about this time the religious PEG.
pie Of the county began to hold prayer
meetings to invoke assistance of the
Deity. In every community the good
old farmers and their families assem-
bled to pray for rain. This was at IN
epoch when the scientific ideas about
producing rain from explosives had
not gained foothold, and no fakirs
went about, as they lately have done
in Kansas and other parts of the west,
Offering to bring showers at 80 much
per shower.
"No, indeed; these were the times
of simple faith and belief in the efi-
cacy of supplication to the Omnipo-
tent. In one neighborhood in the
county of Coweta, where the drought
war particularly severe, a prayer meet
ing had been called for certain day,
and Mt the time appointed congrega-
ton Of several hundred sufferers met
to beg that the drought be broken.
1t Glanced that new preacher, who
had but lately come to that section,
and who was, as remember, an ex-
ponent of the 'hard-shell' Baptist
creed, was called upon to make the
principal petition. ~
"He prayed fervently and with all
the fervor of an agonized spirit. %
Lord, said he, Thou knowest our
distress. We beseech Thee, come to
our rescue. Lord, we don't want any
OF your drizzle-drozzles, but send US
instead gully washer, q trash mover
and pine knot foater. Amen.
81 hope may never gain pardon
for my faults in the next world If
there didn't come within the next
thirty-six hours after the delivery of
that prayer the biggest rain that had
ever descended on Coweta county.
The oldest inhabitant couldn't remem.
Der such another dcluge. II rained
about three days without stopping;
washed two.thirds OF the fences
through big region into the Chatta.
hoochie river; swept away every bridge
and played havoc generally. And the
worst Of II was that those miserable
countrymen, who had melted the
preacher to pray his best wanted to
drum him out Of the country because
of the emphatic response to his en-.
treaty for rain. Washington Post.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
Co,nnlexity Of nat,lsshlp..

A writer in Casters Magazine, de.
scribing the completely In modern
battleship, cites the Iowa, iu which II
may almost be said that nothing IL
done by hand except the opening and
closing of throttles and pressing oil
electric buttons. Her guns are loaded,
trained and fred, her ammunition
hoisted, her turyets tugnsd, her tor
bedoes: -mechanisihs Of themselves---
are tubed and elected, the ship steered.
her boats hoisted out aud in, the in
terror lighted and ventilated, the
great searchlights operated and even
orders transmitted from bridge or
coming tower to all parts by mechan.
ical appliances. Surely no more strik-
ing tiew than this OF the develop.
meat OF thirty-five years could DO af-
forded. = ~
This growth Of complexity and .elab.
grafton and this almost infinite multi.
plication OF parts aud devices have en-
tailed upon the naval architect aud
constructor demands and difficulties
never dreamed OF In earlier days.
The staff required TO design and con-
struct an Iowa Is multiplied In num-
Der, and the completely Of its organi-
cation is augmented as compared with
that required for the design and con-
struction of the New Ironsides almost
indefinitely.
Similar conditions apply to COM
mand and management, so that, while
the building Of modern battleship
entails enormous work and RESPONSE
bility on the naval architect, con-
structor and staff, the effective use Of
her as n tool In the trade OF war pre-
sents an equal variety and intricacy
OF problems to students Of the art OF
naval warfare.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
Street Hallway. in Germany.

On September /, 1891, there were
only three German cities having cleo
trio street railways. On September
], 1897, fifty-six cities we're already in
possession OF such railroads, while
thirty-four other cities had roads I'M
der construction or were taking steps
to build them. At the latter date
there were SIS miles--or, counting
double tracks twice, S27 miles-of
lines in operation. There were 1865
motor cars and 1901 other cars in use.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12
A LETTER FROM CAMP.

I've learned to read the bugle's rots
From morn to dewyeye;
30, home again. I'll teach each note
To you. Nell. by your leave.
And one command, especially,
Termed "taps"-so sweet and clear
II makes me think OF you and me =
II says, Lights outr my dear.
You see, a military vein
Runs through the lines above.
1t all refers to campaign
Whose countersign Is Love"
Heigh-ho!-slouch hat and service suit
Have little to enthuse.
This circle, dear, Is a salute.
Good night! Your boy In "blues."
Edwin l.. Sabin, In Puck.
Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1898-08-12

Dear girls We're waiting at the front
q much prefer your side),
Prepared TO bear the battles brunt
Whatever may betide.
No casualties to date, altho'
I've not recovered yet
From wounds received Mt home--you know
What mean. Don't forget!
While It Is true soldiers "iair"
Is 1T for any king.
The fare We have down here swear,
Ia quite another thing.
And many matters must annoy;
But. still, when wars alarms
Are over, may not enjoy,
At times, q call to arms2
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07
THE SCRAP BOOK.


Mineral Manures for Grape Vines: Grape
vines usually need very little manure 9TH
er than mineral, and that chiefly potash.
In European countries it is the habit of
vineyardists to burn the prunings each
year, and apply the ashes. No other fertil-
izer is used. In fact, stable manures are
objected to, as they make the vines grow
rank, and the fruit will lack the flavor that
belongs to fruits whose vines are only ma
nured with the ashes. Much of the excel
lence of French wines is possibly due to
this sparing use OF manure.
When whisky is used instead Of water in
making glue, the mixture will remain un-
altered for years, will remain perfectly IL
quid except in very cold weather, and is
ready for use without the application of
heat. Tight corkage 10 prevent the vola-
tilizauon of the solvent is the only Drecau-
ton necessary to keep the glue perfect All
that is necessary is to break the glue into
small fragments. place these in a glass
vessel and pour sufficient whisky over
them to thoroughly dissolve After being
tightly corked for three or four days. the
prepared glue is ready for use.
Warming Water for Cows: So long as
snow and ice remain, all the water for
cows should be warmed to something near
-.e animal temperature 1t win do no harm
IL the drink is made even warmer than
that Man is the only animal that prefers
to drink water when 1t is cold In severe
weather. especially, the amount of heat re-
quired to warm four to six gallons Of wa
ter TO the body's temperature uses up a
good deal of the carbon in the food, which
might otherwise go into the milk pail as
butter fats, or aid in maintaining the bodi-
ly temperature.
Eggs should be sold by weight. They
vary so much in size that this is the only
fair method for both producer end con-
sumer The fowls which produce The
largest eggs lay fewer than those which
produce eggs of normal size. A good
many Of these large eggs are double yolk-
ed. in which case the hen that lays such
a monstroslty Is thereby made Incapable
of producing an egg the following day. In
other words. two eggs, one completed and
with full yolk, Is entangled with another
less developed. and bothsare bound in the
same shell. It is very seldom that these
doubie-yolked eggs find their way to city
markets. Most farmers spot the large
eggs and save them for home CONSUMPTION.
They well may do this, for the small eggs
sell for as much per dozen as the large
ones.
New Varieties OF Potatoes.--In choosing
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07
No Need to Worry About the San
hose Scale.

Prof, Bailey, of Cornell Experiment Sta
ton; DR.. Smith, New Jersey State Ento-
mologist, and other authorities say that
fruitsgrowers already have to contend with
infinitely worse" enemies than the San
Jose or any other scale insect, and that in
sects and fungi are sometimes literal
bugbears.''
Practical, personal experience with the
San Jose scale will be of interest. The
following is from Mac. ]. Crow, for years
associated in the management of a lead
ing California nursery and orchard at
Napa, Cal, who has recently taken up his
residence in Pike county, Missouri. Mr..
Crow writes us:
1.-THE San Jose scale is evidently thor
oughly established In numerous localities
east of the Rocky mountains. Orchard
lists should accept the fact, quit talking
about legislation, and turn their attention
to prevention or cure, as the case may be
in their individual orchards
Some are making a mountain out of a
molehill,' and seem to overlook the fact
entirely that this scale problem was solv-
ed in California from six to eight years
ago, and Is to-day requiring much less at
tention than some fungus diseases which
are so numerous throughout the Eastern
anu Miuule states. 1t is far easier to
combat the San Jose scale than the codlin-
moth, scab, blight or borers; the former
can be kept thoroughly in check with less
work and expense than any one of the lat
ter This is an indisputable fact-a fact
thoroughly demonstrated in the California
orchards. 1t is unnecessary to dig up
and burn a badly infested tree as the
wise ones often say. Three thorough
sprayings with lime, sulphur and salt, or
the resin washes, properly applied at the
right time, will clean any tree, no matter
how many scales are on it; then one
spraying year is sufficient. OF course. if
the scale have sheen on SO long as to al
most kill the tree, then a new one had bet
ter be planted.
ut sounds rather ridiculous to hear such
an uproar about an insect that, as said be-
FORE is less dangerous or troublesome than
many of the insects which orchardists
are fighting and saying nothing about.
The numbers of curculio, codlin-moth and
several others, can only be diminished, In
a degree, and the damage resulting from
their depredations incorporation. But the
scale can easily be rendered perfectly
harmless"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-07
Raising Rabbits by Wholesale.

William Lamb of Winder Walton coun-
ty, is proftably engaged in raising hares
for market. To reporter of the Atlanta
Journal he described his work thus
Raising cotton does not begin to COM
pare with raising rabbits, as they are call
ed upon the old field lands of Georgia. 1
started with small beginning, having
caught my breeders in boxes, and on a
twelve-acre field 1 have bred between
$4,000 to 10000 during the past six months.
II went in the business with the idea
that 1t is easier and cheaper to raise hares
than chickens, and as they are so much
cheaper than poultry in the market, the
demand for them is correspondingly larger
in the big cities of the North, where they
are considered as a delcacy by those
whose earnings wifi not permit of their
paying fifty and sixty cents apiece for
chickens.
Il have enclosed twelve acres of land
The fence is built of woven wire, like a
tennis court and as the hare is not a
digger, like the English rabbit, there is
no trouble is keeping them within bounds.
The fence is about four feet high, and in
the middle of the field 1 planted a two
acre turnip patch.
This furnishes them ample food. with
the herbs and grasses upon which they
feed, and which grow naturally in the old
fields. I stocked the farm with a few
breeders, and, even as much 1 knew of
the habits and characteristics of the hare,
l was astonished at the results.
why, man can take a male and a
dozen well-grown females and stock a
good-sized farm in a very short time.
They multiply faster than any animal or
fowl that L know of, except the white
rat.
In many instances, have seen as
many as twenty young in one litter, and
they range all the way from ten to TWEEN
ty, and never stop breeding during the
entire year.
They are remarkably free from disease.
and soon become accustomed to the pres
ence of their keepers and learn to eat
from their hands. There is no estimating
how many may be bred on a small area
within a year.
1T is very pleasant business if a man
has the skill and patience to watch and
wait, while his income increases in a
sort of arithmetical progression. Atlanta
ships annually thousands and thousands
of hares from the valley of the Cunber-
land, in Tennessee, and there is no reason
why the old fields of Georgia should NOT
supply this as well as contributing to tbe
supply of other markets."