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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-12
q ar AT KirksviIIe. No

ST. Louis. No. May IA special to the
Post-Dispatch from Kirksville, No. says:
The eighteenth annual enoampment. de-
partment Of Missouri, G. A. R., IS in ses-
sion in this city with several hundred COM
rades present. The department OF Ms
souri,, Sons OF Veterans, are also in ses-
Sinn here
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Ripling Trust the Latest

london, May 12.-The Daily Man declares
this morning that q group o. American
and English literary agents has formed
syndicate for the purpose Of controlling
he future productions Of REdyaTs K. -
ffD-
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not begin % show the nnisplayes ~ tho
Orphans today. the game ofet INNINGS
going 70 the Colonies by the worst hnd
OF ratified pay and foolish base running.
Attendance, 2.619- Score; r y
CHICAGO ............1 IO11Oo000-4 s
Louisville .........2 ? 0 0 0 OIL 3
Battcries-Chscar0. Taylor and Nichols:
Louisville. PhiHippi ard klt,re1Ee. TIM
pres Burns and Smith.
CINCINNATI. I; PITTSBURG. o.
PittsbuFg Pa, May u.-Rests' TIRES
Dagger and Hshn's long ~ won the game.
C-arks three haREer IN the ninth and
williams long Hy failed 20 tis because
two were out-aud there you are A.
tendance. 100 score: RHE
Plttsburg ............0 0 0 1900 o. Q 3 /
Cincinnati ...........o 0 oo0o10e-1
cries 'ittaburV. IeeS~E and Bow
erman; Cincinnati. Hahn and Pcitz. TN
pircs Hunt ard Connolly.
New 0Yrk. May u.-Brookiyn-Wa
t0n game postponed. ra1n.
Philadelphia. Nay u.--No game: rain
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stock Exchange seats Come High

New York. May IA seat on ne SOCK
exchange was sold today for 5000, the
highest sum ever paid That sum 3 aow
bid for q seat.
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The very best 10 6e had in Chicago
Beauties, Bride, Bridesmaid. Meteor, al
CHAS. p. MUELLER,
none ~ 2el2 y. Market St
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interested spectators and friends of the
defendants and witnesses.
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BALL
ROsTON 4. RALTTMORE.

Boston. May 1.-THE game was called
at the end OF the seventh, on account OF
rain While II lasted the game was good,
for its fielding. Attendance. 200. Score,
RHE
Boston ...................0O11 2Oo-4 I
Baltimore ...............OO 900 01-1 o
Batteries-Boston. Nichols and Bergen.
Baltimore. McG4nnity and Robinson I'm
pires. Andrews and Gaffney.
ST. LOUIS. g: CLEVELAND 8.
Cleveland. o. May 11-W!th three men
or. bases IN the ninth and one man ont.
wallace retired the side with a double
NAV urassisted. score: RHE
Cleveland ...........o0 O-517 .
S.. Louis ............2 O0O31 O2'- Is
acknowledgements. SudhoH and Glen
ents: st. Louis, Powell and Criger Urn-
pres, O'Day and Brennan. Attendance,
$50.
LOUISVILLE. 8; CHICAGO. 4
Chicago, May 1.-THE error column does
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This large and cCmmodiOus structure
was formally opened to the public on the
10th of November. 1t is owned and con-
1rolled by two OF Wichitas well known
physicians, and it is well arranged and
furnished for the treatment of the s,vA
and afflicted. Medical and Surgical. Dis
eases Of Women. Diseases Of the Nervous
System, Diseases of the Brain. Eye, Ear,
Throat, Heart, Liver and Kidneys, De-
formities Of the Body. Morphine, Cocaine
and Choral Habits. and all diseases that
usually come to places of this character
A home for the poor and rich alike, as all
operations and medical treatment are alb
solutely free at this institution. and the
only charge that is made is a small hos
pitaI fee to pay the running expenses for
food and nursing. The proprietors win
furnish the very best of references to all
who may contemplate coming. Write
3hem for circular with photo of the build
Ing. and address all communications to
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Do you ike eabbage?'' well, I never eat
u, but l smoke It sorleiimes. CT lcago
Record
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
In the Acrop0lis and the Parthen0n- Temple of
Jupiter.

dred years after the beginning of our
era the Christians used it for a church.
There yet remain some of the paint
ings with which they coated the inte-
rior walls. The Turks in 1460 built
minaret on one corner and converted it
into a mosque. They in turn were
ousted in 1857 by bomb thrown from
a Venetian cannon. The shell fell into
the Parthenon. which was then used
for a powder magazine. The explosion
killed 800 Turks; it also made melan-
choly ruins of the magnificent temple.
Just now attempts are making to
partially restore the fallen columns.
The whole front is Obscured by scat
folding: only from the rear can you
get a satisfactory view, and l must
confess that when I peered through
these tapering Ionic columns, Redeemed
with the rust of twenty-three centuries
"a violet Grecian sky as a background
Il could not differ much from him
who said: "Peerless Parthenon!"
The views from the ParthenOn are
superb. From the east side. looking
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
MUSEUM OF LEGS.
That Forms the Den of One-Footed
Old Soldier


Old Soldier
San Francisco Bulletin: Henry Cur
tin, a veteran of the civil war, living
on the west side, has a room in his
residence that impresses all his visitors
as veritable chamber of horrors. This
is because it's most conspicuous decor
alton and ornament is a row of human
legs suspended on the walls and entire
ly circling the room. Mr.. Curtin al
ways laughs at the fright of strangers
at the first sight of this room, and
then explains that the legs are only
artificial ones, and there's nothing to
be afraid o, Then he tells them how
the legs cam. to be there. You see.
says Mr.. Curtin, ''in ga | was so foolish
as to try ano stop cannon ball with
my right leg. vi course, l wasn't one,
two, three, and thu next thing l knew
l was in camp hospital with only one
leg left. That enL3d my sOldisring.
The government had me measured for
an artificial leg as soon as 1 was able to
be about, and l came home to Chicago.
Well, | discovered that I couldn't wear
the kind of leg the government gives,
owing to some reasons connected with
the way my leg was amputated, and
the only leg I can wear is this wooden
stump that straps to the thigh. 1t
was in '65 that got my first leg. In '66
an express package brought me anoth-
er. l sat down and wrote the war de-
partment that the legs were of no use
to me, and, therefore, not to send them.
They didn't take bit of notice of my
letter, and in 81 another leg came.
wrote again to Washington; told them
| had three of their legs now that
couldn't use, and didn't want them to
GO on and bankrupt the government
buying me legs. They never noticed
me. In '6S l got another leg. They
began to get in the way around the
house, so then I started the labelling
and dating of each one, and hanging
them up on the walls of my den.
There's thirty-ive there now, and l
guess I'll last long enough to see fifty
or more.'
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17

by the Persians. Pericles was not
long, however. in erecting structures
on the Acropolis, which have since
been the architectural marvels of the
werld.
To reach the top of the AcrOpols
you must first make way through the
magnificent propylae or portals. In
ascending the stairway of the propylae
one, as he climbs each step, has re-
vealed unto him some new beauty.
Passing through the portals you see
scattered about over the native rock
hundreds of sad fragments of fallen
statues which formerly adorned this
sacred hill. A lover of art, when re-
gardng these broken images, cannot
but feel like a comlade cropping over
battlefield where his friends lay slain.
On the left, as you enter, is the Erec-
theion. the temple which formerly con-
tanned the ivory statue Of Athena
Polia, the guardian goddess of the city.
This temple is all proportional
symphony in stone--but the most eX-
Quisite portion of it is the "portico of
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Julian Ralph's Great Find.

Julian Ralph tells of his delight in
finding green corn in Europe. In the
course of many years of extensive
travel on the continent he had never
seen an ear. He recently stopped at a
hotel in Paris and met a porter in
the hall carrying a basket of genuine
American green corn. Green corn!"
he shouted rs it possible that this
is what | see?" "Yes, monsieur said
Nine. Brunei, the wife of the pro-
prietor. 1T is veritably the green corn
of America. We grow it upon our
farm. SO many of our guests are
Americans and so fond are they of
this peculiar food that We have seen
it to be to our advantage to make for
them this singular product in our fields
in the country" 81 took Nine. Brun-
els hand" said Mr.. Ralph, "and
pressed it. l raised my hand as one
does who bestows a benediction. God
bless you, madam, said l, with such
evident piety that she could not take
offense. You are the most magnificent
and the most wonderful woman in
France.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
ER1cHEIoN AcRoPo1s SHOWING

the maidens" (caryatides). These six
marble maids, their draperies so
clinging to them as to reveal the
chaste symmetry of their forms, bear
lightly upon their heads the architec-
ture of the portico. They are the most
graceful daughters of the chisel in all
the world. l say six marble maids,
but there are only five, for in 1901 that
prince OF pillagers, Lord Elgin Of Eng
land, carried one of them to the Brit
ish museum, where it yet remains. In
the place of this mute captive there
now stands a terra cotto substitute
which looks like the slave girl of the
five remaining sisters.
Many admire the dainty ErectheiOn,
but the stOlid Parthenon appeals the
more to those who, when upon the
ocean, love the storm more than a
peaceful sea. Pericles conceived it
when Greece was in her glory and
called upon the architects, lctinos and
Callicrates, to design, and upon Phid-
las to adorn it. 1t is 22S feet long and
nearly one-half as broad. Formerly it
contained the greatest work of the
greatest culptor-Phidias' chrysele-
phantine statue of the Virgin Athena.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
AN ABYeSlNIAN SHRINE.
One Dedicated to the Virgin Mary In
Menelek's Dominions,

DR.. koettlitz, who accompanied Mr..
Weld-Blumdell and Lord Lovat in
their recent expedition to Negus Men
elek's country, made a journey to Zu-
quala, the famous sacred mountain,
which, he believes, was never before
visisted by an Englishman. His de-
scrlption of the trip is reprinted from
the London Times. Mount Zuquala,
the mysterious sacred mountain of
Abyssinians, is forty miles from the
capital. 1t is 10000 feet high, and in
the form of a truncated cone. At it's
summit and in the crater is a remark
able lake 3-4 of a mile long, which is
veritable Abyssinian Lourdes or Pool
OF Sloan. 1t is the belief of the ma
tives that bathing in it's waters will
cure all diseases. Close by are some
springs dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
According to the popular idea, barren
women need only drink Of these fOun-
tains to lose their sterility. The wa
ters are regarded with the greatest
worship and must on no account be
employed for cooking or any other
useful purpose. l saw quite a number
of diseased creatures round the lake
shore crawling about or being carried
on litters. The whole mountain
both sides and the crater-is densely
wooded. The place is studded every
where with hermits' huts, each of
which is inhabited by holy men, who
live separate lives of extreme auster-
ity. Also, hidden away in the tor
ests, are large number of churches.
got into the good graces of the
hermits by somewhat curious means.
| was being shown over one of the
churches, which are plentifully adorn-
ed with cheap colored Biblical pic
lures, made in Germany, when a priest
with great awe, drew my attention to
gaudy representation of st. George
and the dragon. l endeavored to ex-
plain that St. George was the British
as we'll as the Abyssinian patron saint,
but the good men were very dubious
until l hit upon the idea of producing
sovereign. This at once convinced
him of the truth of my statement, and
proved to their complete satisfaction
that l was Christian of very high
order. The whole mountain is curl
GUS in the extreme. l was shown one
tree with three trunks, united at the
case, which is regarded as an emblem
of the Trinity and is hung with human
hair and all sorts of trinkets. There
are, too, curious crannies between the
perpendicular rocks, through which it
is an act of devotion to squeeze one
self. The sides of these apertures are
highly polished and covered with
grease by reason of the religious ae-
tivity of diseased pilgrims"
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Raised His Rank.

An engaging manner is useful every
where. This axiom is amusingly illus
trated by story which Justin McCar-
thy tells "Soon after the civil war;"
he says, II happened to be standing ON
bridge in New York, amusing my
self by studying the crowd, when a
shrill, youthful voice accosted me with
'Cap'n, shine yer boots?' The chance
distribution of military titles was
ready and liberal at the time, when so
many soldiers were returning to civil
ian life, and l paid no attention to the
invitation. Just then rival boot
black passed, and, imagining where the
cause of my Indifference lay, he ad-
vanced, and, pushing past the unsuc-
cessful claimant, he gave me military
salute and appealed to me with the
captivating words: 'Brigadier-general,
shine ye1 boots?' l had my boots
shined on the spot. youths Com
naniOn
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Killing OuaCls Grass.

In perusing some of c. l.. Gabril-
quack grass beat him, and he is d good
and practical farmer | have had eX-
perience with this grass since boy
hood; it is mode tender than most peo-
pie supposed, says contributor to
Farm, Stock and Home. 1t will not
ing on top of the ground. To ex-
terminate quack | first seed the field
infested down to blue grass, timothy,
Austrian bronze and white clover,
fence 1t and after the pasture IS
grown, put in some sheep or cattle
for four or five years, but sheep alone
the last two years If possible. Now
here is the secret: The harder the
soil is packed the shallower the quack
roots will grow, and the closer grass
is cropped the smaller the roots will
be. Finally remove the fence in July,
after the sheep have eaten the pasture
so short that the field looks bare The
deepest roots are not over two inches
below the surface so do not plow, but
get good sharp flexible disc, lap one
half back and FORTH don't make lands,
or go round, then over-cross it and
lap, don't let disc cut over 2R inches
deep. Then take a spring tooth har-
row, the finer the better, and drag,
and keep it up, don't let living leaf
show itself on that field the rest OF
the season. The first thing after get
ting grain in the next spring is to
double disc again. and harrow the same
way. Then plant corn and keep it
clean with sprng-tooth cultivator
After the corn is off disc thoroughly
and the next year SOW to grain ana
there will be no more quack, and you
can plOw and be safe and be we'll re-
warded for your trouble, and make
money on the sheep and other things
while destroying the quack.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Methods OF the Fake Tree Peddier.

Methods OF the FHke Tree Peduler
After seeing people swindled out OF
thousands OF dollars, l get little i'm
patient, but did not intend to make
any assertions to the injury of well
established nurserymen, writes c. s.
Christy in Nebraska Farmer. There
are hundreds of agents travelling over
the country selling nursery stock at
enormous prices on account Of their
patent process of grating or thelr
grapes on European roots, peaches
on hard maple" and many other abb
surdities to catch those not posted.
Near johnson a few years ago large
orchard planted Of summer, fall ana
winter apples bore Hyslop crabs. An
other near Adams, of 500 trees, pore
crabs only, and one at Beatrice treated
It's owner to full crop OF Gennets III
place of Red June, Early Harvest
Duchess and many fall and winter va
rletles as was expected. A nursery
company established near here rev
years ago had thirty travelling sales
men, but they did not own an acre Oh
Iahd or grow so much as currant
bush or Seeding peach, depending en-
tireiy upon the culls of other nurseries.
The model orchard" so successfully
worked On 'innuential' farmers, one
half payable in fruit, three years from
planting, is chief among swindles. One
that | visited cost the owner $50 in
cash. The payment in fruit has never
been called for But any reliable nur-
sery would have been glad to have fur
nished the entire stock bought for $50.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17

down, you see the city of Athens, the
temple of Jupiter and the Stadium in
the foreground, and back of these
Mount Pentellicon and Hymettos.
Standing near the temple of Nyke and
looking toward the west long, saw
like range of hills in the distance, the
island and bay of Salamis, the Piraeus,
and the spreading olive groves of At
tica are before you. The twilight
panorama from this point is enchant-
ing:
"Slow sinks, more lovely ere his race
be run,
Along Morea's hills the setting sun.
CHARLES N. CREWDSON.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
GREAT PRESENCE OF MIND,
1t Is "Psychologically Interesting" from
Another Point OF View.

IL ls PsycholOgicaliy Interesting" from
Another Point OF View.
Describing the accident to party Of
tourists while ascending the Schneeb-
leg in Austria when rope-railway
wagon ran off the line and fell, with
its occupants, about sixty feet, Herr
Won Ompteda, the German novelist,
who broke rib, wrote to a friend as
follows, says the London Daily News:
ut is psychologically interesting that
none of us screamed as we fell. | knew
exactly what to do. / waited until the
wagon was in the middle of it's fall and
then, crossing my arms over my head,
jumped off sideways, for my first
thought was-before all, don't get un-
der the wagon! The violinist (who
was killed. was standing near me,
clinging convulsively to the wagon and
I was just about to cry to him, Let
loose!' But it was too late. Singularly,
l felt sure that my wife was safe. I
somehow believed she had not fallen
and l wanted to stand up and give her
a sign. But could not move. All at
once she bent over me, with blood rum
ming out of her mouth, and cried: Mon
petit, es-tu mort? l said, No, can
move but l could not move. My
glorious wife thought only of me and
not for a moment of herself. Her left
side is frightfully torn and bruised.
but she is brave and keeps up. l am
obliged to lie still. So, enough" Is
this not 'psychologically interesting"
from another point of view?
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
(Athens Ietter.)

After leaving the Orient the Ameri-
reaches Athens. The carriage road
from Piraeus (where he lands) to
Athens is usually very dusty, and the
city itself is too densely modern. lie
sees most of the men wearing our sort
of shoes, conventional trousers and
coats and modern hats, and longs to
catch sight Of group of Arabs dressed
in red slippers, long. flowing, fancy
gowns and turbans. True, he sees the
pretty faces of the Greek women: yet
these do not have the same occult
charm for him as do the mysterious
creatures who wander through the
streets of Cairo all clothed in black,
showing him nothing but pretty pairs
of eyes, shining cOquettishly above rne
somber wells which hide their faces.
The shop windows are like, those he
sees at home, and ordinary street cars
jog along the avenues.
Many public buildings in Athens
have been erected at the personal eX-
pense of wealthy Greeks living in for
eign lands. A stranger can always find
the citizens of Athens roaming around
the old ruins, admiring them more
than tourists do, and he cannot con-
verse with them long before they speak
in praise of their ancient poets and
philosophers.
Americans will be most interested in
the Stadium, for here in 1895 our col
lege athletes carried away nearly all of
the laurels. The Stadium is vast,
uncovered amphitheater built in the
side of a hill, and was capable Of seat
ing 60 600 people. 1t would resemble
the three-ring part of Barnum's show
If it had no cover. Lycurgus 1880 B.
c. planned it, and Herodes Atticus, to
finish it, almost exhausted the quar-
ries Of Mount Pentellicon. In the Dark
Ages the barbarians, who overran
Greece, tore from the amphitheater the
marble seats which extended from the
track far up the hillside and burned
them into lime. Only few years ago
this classic course was little more than
a brush recovered ravine, but a patriotic
Greek banker of Alexandria, M. Ave-
rouf, gave 100000 fracs for its res
toration. 1t is now about one-half re-
built, but as this generous patriot died
recently, the work may never be COM
pleted
Although the Americans gained
nearly all of the contests, Greek won
the greatest event, the foot race from
Marathon. Who would have wished it
otherwise? Imagine 100000 descend
ants of the ancient Greeks filling every
seat in the vast Stadium and crowding
the surrounding hilltops looking for a
messenger to reannOunce victory
won on the old battlefield of Marathon,
where, 400 years before Christ, 10000
brave Greeks. contending against ten
times their number of Persians, de-
feated them and saved to the world the
civilization of which our own is but the
matured offspring.
Not every one agrees with me, now
ever, for the Acropolis is called the
"crowning glory of Athens" In ap-
preaching it one goes by the rock
hewn Theater of Dionysus (the cradle
of the Greek drama), the Odeon OF
Herodes Atticus, and the Acropolis
where Paul preached to the Athenians
| The Acropolis is nothing but a great
big limestone rock; its top is 500 feet
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Wild Deer DevOur Crops.

Middletown IN. W special New
York Journal: Lew Boyd, who lives
near the town of Deer Park, reported
here that one day last week when he
went to drive home his cows, he saw
no less than seven deer feeding on his
premises. Mr.. Boyd says that he suf-
fers considerable loss through the
depredations of deer, which have de-"
voured his apples and crops. He dares
not shoot them, because they are pro-
tected by law until 1901. He thinks
that II the state protects deer 1t ought
also to protect him against being eaten
out of his farm by them.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
Cost of Il Church Carpet.

lowing estimate of the direct and col
lateral cost of a church carpet. The
price was $500, but as the women of
the church raised the money by giving
entertainments the pastors estimate
was that, when all the items of cost
were figured in, the carpet had cost
fully $4,000. He reached this astonish-
ing total by estimating the work, wor-
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17
AMID RUINS OF ANCIENT ATHENS.

and the consequent Doctors bills; the
money spent in other churches, for if
they come to your entertainment you
must go to theirs; and. worst and most
costly of all, the decentralization Of the
church and the curtailment of the le-
gitimate giving which follow in the
train of such methods of raising
money. But they got their carpet.
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17

ry, nervous strain, bodily WEAKNESS
and heartaches OF one hundred women;
the heroic efforts of men, women and
children to eat the things which were
to be eaten, and hear, see or buy
things which had been provided to ex-
tract money from them; the colds,
fevers and other ailments contracted
while attending the entertainments,
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17

above sea level, and all of its sides ex-
cept the one where you enter the gates
of approach, are almost perpendicular.
A man, when on top, can stand at one
side and drive a golf ball beyond the
other. Pisistratus began to build tenn
pies on this rocky eminence also in the
sixth century B. c., but all of his
works were destroyed soon afterward
The Philipsburg mail., 1899-11-17

Thu Parthenon has had varied his
tory. When first built (42S B. c. the
pan-A,henian festival. during which
people assembled in Athens from all
quarters of Greece, was celebrated
within it every four years. The sculp-
tured frieze around the temple is the
carved representation of the sacred
procession of this festival. Five hun