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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27

The Krause-Taylor company. support
ing the popular favorite, Jack c. Taylor.
in new repertoire OF comedies and
dramas, viii play weeks engagement
at the Crawford Grand. opening Monday
night. May q, with a Home Affair. %
finch IS one % the most successful coined
les Of the day. The initial production OF
this play scored run Of nearly 3J9 nights
~ the Garden thea,er IN New York City
The pathetic incident Of mythology.
Niobe. turned 20 stone from grief. Is made
4 foil Cor the Iudlcrous incidents az the
play. NioSe. supposed 20 have been ex-
tricsted from the ruins % Thc5eE. after
remaining there FOR three thousand years.
IS sold 10 an enthusiastic antiquarian a.
curio. he leaves his trophy with ar
insurance Company. the raaEsEer q
which removes il 70 his house for safe
keeping. Workr1en wbo are pgttug g.
electric wires. Ehea they finish thsir
days Work. 10 get the loose ends out %
the way. twist IAem about Stobe'x feet
When the lights are turned on Siobe re-
turns 70 lie. and then the I'm , gins
The company cary thefr can sS.cszl
scenery .or this pr06setl1n and ray
spscazI att~.siion % TIA stage se1tl1E
Popular prices. =. - and s. cents. SsI
prevail dsring IKE week. ard On Mou6ag
night any LADY MI he ADMITTED sssolgze-
II free = accsapaaled - an escort.
either lady - gentleman. ho563ng a I'D
D cent ;tcke-- znica gust se purchases
before : . H. = ;szf 6zy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27
FRIENDS UNIVERSITY.

Professor Fellow lectured at Viola,
Kan, Friday night
The catalogue is making material pro-
gress and will be ready for distribution
by commencement week
The advance guard of examinations has
made its appearance, and quiz books are
already in evidence.
President Stanley left Friday morning
for Tonganoxie, Kan, to attend Spring
dale quarterly meeting of Friends. He
will return by Lowell, Kan, where he is
to deliver the graduating address at the
commencement of Lowell Academy.
The kindergarten viii give an enter
tainment next Saturday evening. The
proceeds from this program by the chill
dren will go towards defraying the ex-
penses of the kindergarten department.
There have been large numbers of WISH
tors at the building this week. We are
always glad to show people through the
building
Two corrections are to be made on the
program for commencement week, as
published in the notes last Sunday Rev.
James A. Lawrence of the United Pres
byterian church Of this city, will deliver
the annual sermon to the Christian asso-
Citations next Sunday evening The Forum
debate on Saturday evening, June 2, will
not take place.
Mrs. r. A. Newly and children, and
Miss Ellen Hill. of Pasedina, Cal, ar
rived Saturday for a visit with their sis
ter Mrs. ]. C. Kirby
The Y. NJ. c. A is preparing to send
Mr.. Roy Scriven as delegate to the asso-
citation conference at Geneva, this sum
mer. The Y. NJ. c. A. viii probably not
send a delegate to Geneva this year, but
expects to send three or four to the OF
tawa assembly
Mr.. Bert Wells has been called to his
home in Indiana by the serious illness of
his brother.
One of the pleasant social events of the
year took place Thursday afternoon at
South hall, when the Ladies University
club held their closing meeting for the
year and gave their annual banquet.
The Athletic association are expecting
to give an entertainment next Thursday
evening. Further announcements will be
made. as plans are not yet fully COM
Dleted
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27

is not Of a very admirable order; but one
must admit that it IS far better for the
individual as well as for society. of which
the individual is part for a person to
,be good through compulsion than not be
good at all"
Not lower standard for woman. but
"a higher standard for men should be the
slogan in this modern crusade."
Whilst il is true that the woman
makes the happiness OF the home. she
cannot always prevent its unhappiness.
There are men in the world whom no
woman without a halo could ever hope to
please. and even q saint would ind her
task harder work than the winning of the
halo ."
The soul OF a child is like some won
derful alabaster clay. which can be mould
ed into shapes Of exquisite beauty or de-
formed and soiled."
Happy is that child who can accept
.as a reason satisfying beyond all doubt
the simple phrase Mamma says So Sc
cure in the conviction that mamma can
not lead him astray"
The curse Of the times IS the lack Of
quality in work
If history Is philosophy teaching by
example. II IS also something more. Il is
a magic mirror which shows two pictures
and says choose
AS il Is a poor rule that does not work
both ways. a fair test IS a reversal OF
positions Uu application Of the Golden
Rule Wish from another what You
would give were he in your place and you
in his"
Only the angels know the good that
each day brings forth
The mourning Of the poor seems pe-
culiariy pitiful; the silver coffin-handles
and the yards Of crepe are q tax 10 Gus
tom especially hard to be borne az the
very time when other expenses are piled
up at a fearful rate"
And in our cemeteries. filled With
costly monuments, one may be par5o,ei
FOR conjectur.ng just what proportion de-
notes grief for the dead. and what merely
the vanity ~ the living"
Leila Hardin Bugg has written previous
10 her present work The Correct Thing
for Catholics Orchids a novel -.T-ha
Prodigars Daughter" The book here r.
viewed. The People Of Our Parish Is
having = spiri;ed sale and IS giving tie
Wichita authoress further fame
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27
LEWIS ACADEMY.

LIZ w 10 AOADEM1.
Time, tide and the school bell wait for
no one. Rain or shine, school work
rushes forward. Glasses are reviewing
and each student is tightening the har-
ness preparatory for final examinations,
which will be held on June and ).
Thorough and painstaklng work has
been done during the year. Ninety pupils
have completed prescribed work in Latin.
l1O in higher English grammar. 20 in
rhetoric, SO the teachers training course
81 higher arithmetic, IS civics. IS complete
algebra 26 geometry, 3 physics, Is chem
istry, 80 American and English Litera-
ture, So German, q zoology, AZ English
composition. 20 English classics and 90
courses in Bible study.
The orators are rapidly getting into
shape for commencement. Three times
during the week, people passing the
church. where the students were drilling.
stepped in TO see what caused so much
noise
On Wednesday evening the pupils OF
Miss McElhaney's room gave her a sur
prise tea a. her residence. The lunch was
furnished by the pupils and the menu
was
Sandwiches and Pickles.
Assorted Cakes. Ice Cream.
Bananas. Oranges
Sailed Peanuts. Almonds.
Pop Corn. Lemonade
Assorted Nuts
Miss Bessie Stewart gave each ore
present a box OF candy as a souvenir
Miss Maud McCrac1en, Miss I. C. Bar
nett Mrs Stewart. Mr. H. Mccoy. Prof
Marshall and Mr.. Savior assisted in se-v-
ing. The young people present were e.
eanor Dixon. Eileen Houston. Cecil Glib
bors. Leona A6set. Charles Cuye-. Fred
Whine. Winifred Silsbee. Lille Schweste-.
Irene Pray. Bessie Stewart. Lulu Dulan-
-, Hazel AlcCoy. CrTrtkcs Sherman.
Ference Ga-sC. ORE Lee. Wilbur Smith.
Lulu Martin. Paul Dean. Earle Eizssesa
Ruth Lawrence, Ellen Smith. Leo Levi,
Elna DeHsven. Yea Miller. Charlie
Simmons. C7a-ence Collins. Pearl Reed.
Marcia EigEinson. Francis Houston and
Earl Frost- An enjoyable evening passed
quickly away and the pgpils were sspe-
ciaily pleased. in TIA, they had surprised
their teacher cnoe.
The sold r7s1al contest VII - held In
tire Frs Presbyterian church next Fri
day evening
Miss M2rga-e; L HIn. OF HurOa oo.-
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Leila Hardin Bugg's Book.

The People Of Our Parish. the chron-
icie and comment Of katherine Fitzger-
aid, y .w-h0lder III the church of ST. Paul
the Apostle. is the latest work from the
pen Of Leila Hardin Bugs of this city
The volume is very handsome one. pub
nshel by Marber. Callahan Il Co. of Bcs-
ton. The work deals with The thoughts
and aspirations. the foibles and joys and
sorrows Of the Catholic part of 4 large
community. The authoress, always
staunchly loyal to her church. takes up
Ia turn the questions which eugross the
members Of the parish. their manners.
dress and their processes of thought.
For instance, on the matter Of inatten-
ton in church, the authoress says:
Whilst on the subject of sermons, il
might be well to remember that psychOlo-
gists claim there is nothing 50 pernicious
10 the mind Is to hear without needing.
a sermon CT lecture. They declare that
the habit Of letting the mind wander
away from the discourse. coming back
titfuliy. taking in a word or sentence here
or there. Il persisted IN. viii IN time
weaken the intellect and impair the mem
ory. Far better. they declare, not 10 be
present at all. II one cannot compel the
mind 70 follow the chain Of argument
Hence. If regard FOR ones own soul Is
nor strong enough 10 secure close atten-
ton 10 the sermon. consideration for ones
own mind and memory may have more
weight"
Leila Hardin Bugg has 4 strong vein Of
satire. and as its natural concomijant. an
epigrammatc faculty Of remarkable
acuteness and force. On social lines she
IS particularly keen. As examples:
\ girl Of really me feeling win not
e a man come to the propos.ns point if
she does not mean 20 accept what he
Offers
When man comes wooing with moth
ing but his love 20 recommend him. =
maids only safeguard from q life Of IN.
happiness and neglect IS flight or strength
OF character 10 say no.
The rule might be aid down thar for
man who lacks stability AZ character an
cary marriage is best. for others Z, IS
good or bad. according TO circumstances.
1t is certain. as certain rs a-yth,az
human can be. that there are far more
good women in the world than there are
good men"
Virtue that Is a matter Of compuIsioa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-27
Wichita Colleges
Universities and
Academies

| PARAMOUNT COLLEGE NOTES.
President Morrison arrived Friday
evening. The students and faculty are
rejoiced in his return and greeted his
| appearance at chapel exercises Saturday
morning with enthusiastic cheers. DR..
Morrison's sojourn in New England in
| the interests Of the endowment of the
| college has met with good success.
| Regular recitation and class room work
was completed in all departments yester-
| day. Final examinations will occur on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The
| Seniors received their final examinations
| Friday and Saturday of the past week.
| The baccalaureate sermon will be
| preached by President Morrison this
| evening at the Plymouth church. Full
program of commencement events will
be found in another column.
Profs. Clark, Barlow and Gavett are
the members OF the entertainment com
mittee. Visitors attending the exercises
of the week will receive entertainment by
writing or calling on these gentlemen.
Prof B. F. Buck gave an educational
address to the people of Haven last Sat
urday evening and in the absence Of
County Superintendent Colville present
ed the diplomas to the county graduates
at that place. Next week he will address
the graduates at Maize On Decoration
Day he VOL deliver the annual address
to the old soldiers.
Among the visitors of the week were
the following: Miss Blanche Brown Of
City; Misses Maud and Mary Starr and
Lenora Lennon of Kecfi.
Miss Katie Lisle of Glen Elder is visit
ing with her friend Miss Josephine Rou-
let. She contemplates attending Fair
mount college next year.
Through the efforts Of Congressman
Chester L Long the college has received
from the Smithsonian Institution a fine
collection of marine invertebrates. This
collection contains seventy specimens,
and will be used for the purpose of Illus
trating courses in biology.
Attorney Herbert Simpson Of this city
has placed in the library the following
interesting volumes: 'Tramping With
Tramps," by Josiah Flynt; Suicide" by
Henry Morselle: mind and Body" by
Balm. Also a History of the Town Of
''Springfeld'' and Adna Browns &C
count From Vermont to Damascus"
Shipments aggregating between 1000
and 5000 pounds of books have been re-
ceived in the freight depots of the city.
These shipments are in part gifts from
New England friends and in part recent
purchases made for the library.
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Still Another Regulator.

chairs, put in a large pipe organ ano
pay for it by giving entertainments In
{ the way OF concerts, operas. messiahs.
) am told it will seat 5000 people when
finished.
I would buy the Burton car works
! plant and give it to the Mexican Central
railroad, provided they would make
Wichita the end Of the division and repair
Sshops for this end of the road. The brick
work alone cost $4,000.
Paramount has told me that they want
ed the street car line finished before the
fall term begins. College Hill people
s want it finished by the time they re-
turn from their summer outing.
{ 1 would see that the new parking that
! the people put in was uniform on the
same block by publishing officially the
proper width for each street.
Now, when it comes to cows, would
5 draw the line If people must keep
Z COW, I would see that they kept it off
s the street parkins and lawns, and not
! allow two or three little barefoot boys
undertake to collect and deliver thirty or
forty cows morning and evening. at the
cost of damaged lawns and discontinue
OF one-half the community.
I would buy the Houck property and
build a magnificent central high school
building. The most complete thing known
in ancient and modern architecture COM
bined, for the education of our children.
Wichita's homes contain the finest speci-
mems of budding and coming womanhood
and manhood that tho world has ever pro
duced, and they should be furnished
fo-
I would favor a union depot and before
the Mexican Central and Choctaw
reaches here. and the Missouri Pacific
commenced building its new depot, 1
would see if a conference of all interested
could not be had and a union depot
agreed upon.
attended commencement services at
First N. E. church. There were about
l, 200 people present. DR.. Parker Of ST,
PauFs NJ. E. church, preached the bacca-
laureate sermon. The sermon was we'll
timed. well-said and enthusiastically re-
4 eived. Brother Parker is all right, and
the High school girls. Well their hats
were beautiful, so were their gowns
many of them exquisite. The boys, well,
they are still boys.
went to church last Sunday, and the
gentlemanly usher saw from my awkward
actions that I was not in the habit Of
attending church, and gave me seat in
the rear, where I properly belonged
When services began 1 supposed that the
ladies would remove their hats; would
certainly be as consirerate of the people
behind them as the theater-goers-bu not
hat came down, so l sat behind
Banks of millinery, and heard the sermon
with an occasional glimpse of the speaker
as he moved about. Another thing
noticed when the preacher would be-
come a little, enthusiastic and raised his
voice to a high pitch, sister in the
pew would ring in sort of nazal
twang, amen, regardless of what the
preacher was saying, not seeming to
know or care whether it wasappropriate
or not.
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40 the Editoe of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
saw that the town regulator had re-
signed, and to avert calamity I thought
would try and help out until the mayor
appointed another man, for If 1 was
mayor would appoint one as compan-
ion piece to Jennings, the city poet
laureate
Now that the street car line will soon
be finished to the park, would enter into
{ combination with the street car COM
pany and fill the park with arc lights,
and thoroughly light up the river from
the north end to the south end during
the next four months, until 10 O'Clock
,. n.
1 would instruct the police to tell the
tramp bootblacks that come into the city
to move on.
Now that the rails on the street car
line are laid, would have the stone
between the tracks re-laid in a work
manlike manner, as they should be.
If 1 went TO a baseball game would
select the side to root for, and if got
beaten 1 don't think 1 would scrap
What's the difference which side beats.
so you have two or three hours Of
recreation?
I would put an arc ligh on thes corner
of Market and William streets.
I would stop this stereOtyped, syste-
matte, unvarying stufing process that is
going on in the public schools for the last
few years. Il puts me in mind Of
sausage suffer line, they up and attempt
10 force the same amount and kind OF
meat into each one, regardless of their
capacity, and If the delicate, sensitive
girl or boy is not able TO take regular
gorge. like some of the others in the line
that are more highly favored physically
and mentally, scratch their reports and
make life miserable for them.
1 would give some of the teachers in the
city schools an extended vacation. The
children's parents know who 1 mean II
the school board don't know, they can
coon find out, and would require the
board TO select and elect the teachers.
would order ten months of school
year-two months is long enough for quo
children to be turned loose on the city
without visible means of support
would take that illuminated carnival
sign that hardly anyone sees and put it
on Douglas avenue between the Santa
Fe and Rock Island depots.
1 would not allow the children of the
city to play in the alleys. They should be
made to play out on the broad, open
streets and commons-away from the foul
air and environments of the alley.
/ would go out on side streets for
few evenings and arrest 100 people day
Cor riding on the sidewalks.
1 would reverse the order for wheelmen,
by having them travel to the left instead
of the right. land have the path next to
the street car track, and forbid its being
sprinkled.
would have every house in town
numbered in plain figures, so that they
could be read from the street.
I would not allow any baseball playing
oIi~ the townsite on Sunday.
1 would finish that great Auditorium in
the Friends university, seat 1t with opera
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anybody could get a second breath Miss
Lansing was Mrs. Coutant, Jr.
mot a word!' cried the newiywedded
pair. The others promised, and, strange
to say, they kept their secret for two
consecutive weeks.
On Sunday morning the young man told
his father.
"Humphr said the father, shortly. "If
you are married you had better go and
live with your wife, She's got house big
enough for two"
The young man went. He was warmly
received by his bride and her mother.
They gave a supper party last night, and
at the proper moment Coutant arose and
introduced his bride, and then the Sc
cret was out
well, no, I haven't disowned the boy
exactly" said Mr.. Coutant last night,
but l am not in a frame of mind to-
night to answer the question whether I
will forgive him or not. Says he has
money, does he? I'm sure 1 don't know
where he got it The young lady has
plenty, that is fact. But 1 am very
much disappointed. He was doing well
in college and had bright career ahead
of him. Now, what can you eXpect?"
The young persons feel that Papa Cou-
tant will come around after the first ir-
ritation wears off.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Furnished by the Wichita Abstract
and Land company. H NJ Dubois. Alb
stractor. Court House. Phone ~
WARRANTY DEEDS.
Hartford Western Land Co. %
Chas. Emmons, Iots = and north
half e Ellis avenue, E2taeld-s a6-
c1tion -..-.-..-.-----....--..-.- 81
Hagerman & L.add. trustees % J "
Price, lots s. and s.. &illzood
avenue. University PIaec addition. SO
S. y. Broom6eid. 20 Zalsz Bu-cheli.
fourth % Northeast quarter. section
= - A~-----.~ -+-s-s.ss-. Aa+
John - Roth. 70 Sarah Brags. lots
II and iIs Mayket street. City,. -
John T Dsmett. TO Anna Dez1gst-
wet haE northwest cn2rfe-. "a
= IL .4-..--.s,--.--.. .--.-.------r------- ]
Water Thomas 10 Allen ". Gzeger.
loss even = 70 =. Fnsz ase1ue.
Oliver & Bgzckwei6eys sub. :
Ro1@rt Duncan. 20 Mary EllHAeetA
BixSF. ioS -. wichita stree. Dan
cans surplus. :
Francis ~ Moore 70 samuel Brsa-
son. lots :. and ons-tozrsA I. FIRST
street Atkins 211iton 10 Gear
water ~s-..s..+-3+--------. ~
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WICHITA COMMERCIAL COLLEGE
NOTES

The following old students of Professor
Robins visited at the college during the
week: Mr.. w. S. McGiffert, now a bank
er of Blackwell, o. T.; Mr.. ]. K. Sapping-
ton and wife, register of deeds OF King
man county; Mr.. Everett. a teacher in
Oklahoma.
Mr.. w. A Mitchell finished the COM
mercial course on Thursday and left Fri
day to accept fine position as book
keeper for Logan & Snow, wholesale and
retail dry goods merchants of Kingfsher.
o. T.
Miss Ida Benscheidt finished the COM
mercial course Friday and has accepted
a position as bookkeeper for the Wichita
Vinegar Works and will assume duties
June /
Miss Georgia Spare finished her short
hand course during the past week and
went to her home for a short vacation
commercial course.
Messrs- Vandervoort and Neiman, form
er students, made the college a pleasant
visit during the week. Mr.. Vandervoort
has a fine position as stenographer for
the Santa Fe railroad at Wellington. Mr..
Neiman will return this fall to complete
his course
The following students enrolled during
the past week: c. E. Rittenour. Blanche
Dyer, B. E johnson and w. c. Herman.
The w. c. c. baseball team defeated the
Valley Center team last Saturday by a
score Of s to 6.