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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-25
UNION CHAUTAUQUA MEETING
Assembly and Fast side Circles VIII
Hold Joint session


The Assembly and East Side Chautau-
qua Circles viii hold a union meeting on
Monday evening at O'Clock at Miss
Garver's. 1231 North Waco avenue. The
following IS the program:
Quiz on Expansion, chapter 2o-Aiss Ag-
mes Conway.
Vocal Solo-Prof f f. Marshall
Paper on Longfeliew-AIiss Kendrick.
"The Inner Life Of NIoody''-AIrs. Jennie
Hutchinson.
Piano Solo-NIiss Name Thompson
Male Quartette,
Roll Call. Quotations from Colonial
Wri,ers-Members in costume Of charac-
ter represented.
Tableaux-Scenes from Miles Stand
ish" arranged by Miss Allen.
Colonial Chara.ies.
Colonial Refreshments.
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ALMA CHAUTAUQUA CIRCLE
win Meet With Prof and Mrs. scott
Tomorrow

The Alma ChsutauQua Circle meets
With Pref and Ms. Scott, corner Third
and Market. Monday February -
Expansion Article-AIiss Olddeld
American L.etters-PnsE Ssec-
Foli CsH-QVotatioEs from Lorasfeilow.
Bryant or Hawthorne.
Inner Lie q D. Z Moody
SlutE.
Reading, Crossing the Bar CTenny-
son}-Afrs. Van Zandc.
Reading, At Last" CYhittie,)-sIlss
Nellie Cex-
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IN A SPECIAL CAR
4. O. u. w. Grand Lodge Delegates
VIII Go to Topeka.

The delegates to the grand lodge OF the
Il o. L. w, which meets in Topeka this
week, will leave this morning for Topeka
in a special car over the Rock Island. 1t
is expected that a large delegation viii at
tend The meeting will last from Feb
ruary % to March 3. 1t is thought it Will
be the largest grand lodge meeting ever
held by the A. o. Z. W.
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HIGH SALARlE0 ACTOR
Member .of stuart Robson Company
Sets 500 Per Week

Monday night with Stuart Robson, is one
of the highest salaried comedians and
actors in the United States. He receives
$500 a week above his travelling expenses.
He is said to be the most handsome man
in the profession and is called 'The
Adonis of the American Stage" The
show Monday night is the finest that has
ever come to Wichita All the members
are stars, and the expense Of carrying it
is several thousand dollars a week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-25
COL, BAIN'S LECTURE
Pleased a Big Crowd at the Audi
foFium

torium
Col II. W. Balm lectured at the Audit
orium in the Lyceum course last evening
Wichita has remembered Col. Balm ever
since his visit here eight years ago with
tie wish that he would soon come again.
Those who had never heard the eloquent
Kenuckian had heard so much Of him
that the expectation was great And in
listening 10 him last night, as he talked
of 1.-The Old Man and the New Woman
nobody was disappointed. It was q great
lecture and well received by a big audi
enCe
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Columbia Lodge. No 8. o. D. H. s., met
in regular session on Wednesday after
noon. After initiation a banquet was
served. Mrs. Ferris and Mrs. Braitsch
were the hostesses, while the invited
guests present were Mrs. Tatgenhorst.
Mrs. DR.. Neumann, Mrs Lidley, Mrs Ca
mien Mrs. LampIin. Mrs. Bennett. Mrs
Herberger, Mrs. Gerteis, Mrs. Kopplin
Mrs. Meisner, Mrs. Folt, Mrs. Kun1le
Mrs. Kucchenmeister, Mrs. Noltemeyer.
Miss Haupt and others. All had a very
pleasant afternoon. Refreshments, in
Guiding coffee, were served. Miss Haupt
was presented with a lovely bouquet Of
flowers by the ladies.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-25
Cures
itching Skin
Free
Eczema, Impure Blood.

Does your Ssin Itch and Burn2 Dis
tressi1g Eruptions on the skin 50 you feel
ashamed 70 be seen in company? DO
Scaas and Scales form On the Skin. Hair
or Scalp2 Have You Eczema. Skin Sore
and Cracked? Rash form on the skin?
Priekljng Pain in 5hs SkiE Belis2 PIN
pIes2 Bone Pains? Sweden joints? F4I-
ing HARP All Run Down skin Pale
Old Sores? Eating So-es2 T-lcers2 All
these are symptoms q Eczema and In
ruriyies and PolSons in the Blccd. Take
IS. B, r. Botanic Blood Balm which
makes the blood pure ard rsch. 3 3. 3.
viii cause the sores % heal ftcai1g az
eczema 20 stop forever. the skin 20 De-
come clear and rhe brea5h sweet. \ e. .
IS jsst The remedy you have been l5ck-
Ing tor. Thoroughly tested s1r - yeas
Give II . trial For sale by c. Z, Potss
Drug co. Wichita. ard uost druggists ~
s. per large bottle: SIX large bottles ttull
treaunenll s. Complete directions vi1E
each oottle. 80 sufferers may test 3. 3
b. 3 trial bottle given away. Write for
IL. Address BLOOD BALM co. : 8Iitch-
ell street. Atlanta, Ga Describe your
trouble and Free personal medical advice
given
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-25
TOPICS OF THE TOWN,

George K. Spencer has moved his real
estate and insurance office TO 2O9 East
! Douglas avenue, on the ground floor
| He is fitting up a fine Office and will have
much better location and, being on the
| ground floor" will doubtless get his
share of the prevailing prosperity.
| There was a circumstance ION the
| side at the Charity ball which afforded
| some of those present a great deal Of en-
| joyment. a certain young man was there
who had never before appeared in COM
pany with a young lady, and some Of the
fellows who were next had lots of fun
watching him. g.,
The Santa Fe officials say that Lee An
derson. the acting depot master here, is
the best train caller on the system. In
calling train he gives the local stations
and all the principal cities through which
the train will pass, and the best part of
it is that his words are distinct and
everybody can understand.
Many farmers have their eyes cast on
the large rails which the street car peo-
pie are laying along the streets and sew
eral have tried to buy a rail for use in
breaking cornstalks. They say they never
saw a better stalk cutter than one of
these rails would make. One drag across
the field would clear a row so feet wide
Fred Bissantz, proprietor of the Santa
Fe Bakery has just received a new soda
fountain, which was placed in his new
storeroom last week. 1t is the very latest
design canopy pattern top, the front is
made of Mexican onyx, has all the latest
improved syrup cans, ice storage and
modern Improvements. It's not the larg-
est but one of, if not the finest, fountain
in the city.
c. R. Fulton, the clothler, has finished
the new arrangements in his store, hav-
ing now completed the upper rooms, and
is fast opening up his new goods which
are arriving from the east. Mr.. Fulton
has one of the largest stocks of clothing,
in Kansas, and the successful manage
ment Of such a stock not only speaks
well for Mr. Fulton, but for Wichitas
capacity.
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DR.. Railway & Co.,
So ELM STREET, NEW YORK.

membership from out of town viii be in
attendance. A congratulatory resolution
was passed on the success of Congress
man Curtis in the First Kansas district.
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RAILWAYS
READY
RELIEF
Will Afford Instant Ease.
A CURE For ALL

Colds, Coughs, Sore Throat, Influenza,
Bronchitis, Pneumonia, Swelling of the
Joints, Lumbago, Inflammations, Rheu-
matism, Neuralgia Prostitutes. Chill
blaiEs, Headaches. Toothache, Asthma,
Difficult Breathing.
a half 10 teaspoonfu in half a tum-
bier of water viii in a few minutes cure
Cramps. Spasms, Sour Stomach, Heart
burn. Nervousness. Sleeplessness, Sick
Headache, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Collie,
Flatulency and all internal pains.
There is not remedial agent in the
world that will cure Fever and Ague and
all other Malarious, Bilious and other
fevers. aided by Railways Pills, so quick
~ as Railways Ready Relief.
so cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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PNEUMONIA AID GROUP.


take my pen in hand to inform you
OF the great cure effected bv vour noedi-
cines. Some time ago my husband was
taken down with lung fever 1t came
on MN with chill in the night It hap
Pehed ! had supply Of your medicine
IN the house at the time I rubbed his
Ghest and back with Railways Ready
Reneh l gave him q teaspoonfui in a
niue not water TO drink, to help warm
ana stimulate him, and in about half an
nolr three Of the Railways Pills. BY
the time the doctor came the next morn
ing ne was much better. The doctor
wanted TO know what I had been doing.
told him. He said that was good, that
they were good medicines. Another case
mad was with my little nephew who
was staying with me. He was taken with
group. l rubbed his chest, throat and
back with the Ready Relief, gave him
doses about an hour apart, followed It
by dose of pills. BY the next day ne
was about all right. / have been using
this medicine, with my family and my
peighbOrs, for about 80 years, and never
knew it to fail, when the directions were
carefully followed. I would feel greatly
obliged to YOU 10 please forward me
False and True one of your publica-
tons, for which / inclose stamp. for l
absolutely need it at once, if you please.
You are al liberty to make use Of this
testimony, as you may think proper.
Yours respectfully,
MRS. ELIZA DUNN,
Jacksonville, Morgan Co., Illinois.
November 2 1898
No matter how violent or excruciating
the pain, the Rheumatic Bed-ridden, In
firm, Crippled, Nervous, Neuralgia or
Frustrated with diseases may suffer,
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For Internal and External Use
NO NARCOTIC OR DELETERIOUS
DRUGS enter into the composition of
Railways Ready Relief.
or Internal and External Use
It It's Highly important that Every
Family Keep a Supply of
9ADWAY'S
3 q READY RELIEF

Always in the house. It's use will prove
beneficial on all occasiona Of pain or
sickness. There is nothing in tae world
tnat VIII stop pain or arrest the progress
OF. disease as quick as the Ready Relief
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lect, s1OG12; do, primes. $5gs; culls, s1.5C
q2.50; do, Anne Arundel, per leo select
SloQ12; do, primes, S59S; do. culls, s1.5C
q2.5O
Potatoes-The market was steady We
quote: New. York River primes, per bbi.
Sl5oG1.75; do culls and seconds, 75c@$1;
Eastern Shore. Virginia. per bbl No. /,
s1.50GL75; Eastern Shore Maryland, no.
l, S1.50@ LIS; Rappahannock. No. 1, $500
L75; do, culls, 6ocds1; native. per bus
box, 6oqG5e; sweets. new, per Dbl, North
Carolina Cye;;io~). $215@225: do. whites
(yams), do, red, per Dbl, s1.25@150.
Poultry-Market was firm. Old fowls,
10c per ID; springers. 12G12 lie per lb;
ROSTERS, 25GS0c apiece; ducks, SG9c per
lb.
Green coffee-Market is nominal We
quote: No. { (Rio grade), &c.
Roasted coffee-Market is steady. We
quote: Bulk roasted coffee-Pure Java,
S2c; Maracaibo. 23c; pure Laguayra, 23c;
pure Santos, 21c; African Java. 20 lie;
Rio blend, 20 lie; Peaberry mixture zoe;
pure Mocha, soc; Jaya-Mocha blend,
u l-2c. tThese coffees are in fancy bags
paper lined) II packed in cans or tubs,
1-2c higher.
Package brands-E. L. c.. f0o-lb cases,
13 lie: 60-lb cases. 50 6-10c; 36-lb cases,
10 7-1Oc. Lion coffee, in 1O0-lb lots, 1910;
in 60-lb lots, 1880.
Coson-Market quiet; middling. 10 Use;
strictly low middling, Toe; low middIing,
0 Use. Stock in Baltimore, 1862 bales.
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DISTRESS ROCKETS FOR TRAINS
4 Man with "a Plan to Discourage
Train Robbers

ttronl the han>4S Jlty start
Dent Yates is nothing if not original.
He has a plan for protection against train
robbers. Hear him:
II believe it would be an excellent
plan for all railroad trains to be provid-
ed with large signal rockets such as are
used at sea for the purpose of giving the
alarm to the surrounding country in case
OF train robberies Five or six of these
rockets could be placed on the roof Of
each ear and fired by means of a lanyard
like a field piece is fired. The fact of
rockets being carried on ali trains would
be published broadcast by the press and
every farmer would know a train robbery
was being committed when a number of
red rockets were being fired into the air.
1t would be feasible to have small bombs
which could go up with the rockets and
the noise of these together with the red
lights fired into the sky would make it
well-nigh impossible for the robbers TO
escape after a robbery was committed
The whole country would be aroused and
the citizens could come to the rescue of
the passengers and train crew The
rocket lanyards could be placed in a con-
spcuous place like the fire extinguishers
are. This would also discourage the train
robber to some extent
Mr.. Yates has not reckoned on the pos
sibility that in some communities whole
neighborhoods when apprised of the inn
pending robbery might turn out to help
the robbers. His suggestion is better,
however. than the one offered by a Mis-
souri, editor who thought it would be
good plan TO put asafoetida or the car
steps SO that bloodhounds could trail the
robbers.
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WHERE SLATE ooMLs FRoM.
Quantities of the Material in New
YORK and Vermont.


The nineteenth aIaual report of the
United States Geological Survey contains
an elaborate accouL'i Of the slate belt in
New York and Vermont, from which a
quarter Of the country's supply Of roof
ing is derived. This country exports a
little marble but roofing slate is the only
variety of stone that is sent abroad in
important quantities. IN the past two
years the country has exported over
$4,000 600 worth of roofing slate, and il is
very much liked in Great Britain. Belgium
and the other countries that buy it, II
ocean freights were not SO cheap 1t would
be impossible to send any stone, except
perhaps statuary marble and photographic
stone, for thousands of miles and sell it
at prices that would attract purchasers,
and it is particularly fortunate for eoun-
tries like the Netherlands, which have no
building stone OF their own. that the low
rates of ocean carriage enable them to
import large quantities of stone.
The New Yort-Vermont slate belt ex-
tends about fifty-fve miles north and
south in Washington County, New York.
and Rutland county, VT. The larger
part of the quarries, however, how being
worked. are in Vermont, which, therefore,
contributes the lions share of the product.
Directly east Of the quarries rise the pic
continuation Of the Green Mountains, and
just east of the Taconic range are the
marble quarries of Vermont, where Sena-
tor Proctor made a fortune in marble
quarrying. Thus these mountains are the
dividing line between two important stone
industries.
The states are OF various eolors-green,
purple, red, black, and variegated. The
value of the slate, as is well known, lies
in the fact that it has a more or less per-
feet cleavage, adapting it to various COM
mereial purposes. 1t will probably be
centuries before this source of wealth on
our eastern border is exhausted. The
states are bedded with Iimestones and
quartzite. and the slate of commercial
value is from 100 to 2G0 feet in thickness.
Slate pencils we're formerly made in the
green slate portion of the belt, but this
industry seems TO have been abandoned.
Pennsylvania Yields one-half of all the
slate product of the country, and thus
three-fourths of all this commodity quar-
ried in the United States comes from that
State and the New York-Vermont belt.
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NEW YORK, Aug. 1S.-Another week
fepiete with occurrences of more than
Ordinary interest to Wall Street has
passed without the stock market showing
any response to events that might reason
aoly be expected to stimulate activity and
AFFECT prices Stated chronologically, the
aIst development of importance was the
so1l p elton Of the immediate remittances
on account of the British exchequer loan.
The shipments OF specie we're the largest
ever made at one time from this country,
and make the aggregate for less than ten
days over Sl7.Oe0OOO. The only effe-t
these enormous transactions have hid
upon local markets is a decline in rates
for sterling exchange. caused by heavy
sales OF bills against the shipments OF
specie.
For the first time the shipments are re-
nected in the bank statement, today S
figures showing decrease in lawful money
of over $1,000, 600, nearly all of 1t in
specie. This decrease is about what was
expected. An increase Of nearly S1,OOO.0OO
in the loans can reasonably be attributed
to the foreign operators referred to above.
The change in the deposits is, as usual,
inconsistent with the TWO variations al
ready noted, tine decrease being about
twice as large as called for by those
changes. The net result leaves the sur
pics reserve still il excess Of 100000 600.
The indications are that next weeks
statement will show fully as radical
changes as are noted today, for beginning
today the United States Treasury will
disburse approximately S1S,000,000 for the
redemption of the old per cent bonds,
interest upon which ceases. Moreover.
the receipts of gold from the Klondike at
Seattle today reached the enormous aggre-
gate of 81, 500 coo and, according to Gus
tom the bulk of this will doubtless be
transferred during the coming week.
through the machinery of the Treasury,
to the bankers here to whom the gold has
been consigned.
Today's stock market was of the usual
midsummer half-holiday character. The
only active stock was Brooklyn Rapid
Transit which. on 5000 shares, sustained
a net loss of 5-s per cent. The selling
appeared to be chiefly by professional OPP
orators. who construed unfavorably the
synopsis of the company's annual report
published this morning. Peoples Gas was
also exceptionally heavy at a net decline
of Ia per cent These movements un-
Settled the remainder of the list, but, as
the transactions were light, the fiuetua-
lions were extremely small and at the
finish favored both accounts to the ex-
tent of less than half point.
Speculation has unquestionably been
held in check to an extent during the lat
ter part Of the week by authoritative
statements made BIZ prominent members
OF the party in power that the rank and
file of that party are indulging in a feel
ing OF overconfdence as to the outcome of
the election. 1t is useless any longer TO
ffee rr.4c he wi fnr,e bn
national committee are not being made
with the Willingness or to the extent that
they were four years ago.
As compared with the final prices of
last Saturday, the majority Of stocks are
higher
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OF satisfactory developments in the gen.
eral market situation there are an album
dance. OF promises of a fine advance in
security prices during the coming months
there are many. But OF real evidence OF
the beginning of a boom at the present
time there is none. During the first three
days OF tho past week there was a strength
and buoyancy in the market that filled
many market people with a false hope of
better things 10 come. There was some
buying by the public, a nibbling, as II
we're, al the bait The few orders exc
cuted by the prominent brokers were made
with as much the air OF importance as pos
sible. The talk in some usually conserva-
tive quarters was that an upward move
ment might be engineered this month. as
a forerunner of the coming big advance
During the latter half Of the week this
slight awakening has given place to COM
plete inactivity again. Business has de.
creased TO the minimum. and price fiuctua-
tions have been entirely Insignificant. II
should be pointed out that a little boom
at this time would be unfortunate. be-
cause il could hardly be sustained and
would therefore disgruntle the public and
prevent their participating in the real up
ward movement when il does come
The following table shows what has oc-
CURED in the market during tae week, and
also during the past three weeks:
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THE CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET.
Liquidation I'm Whent by Commits
sion Houses and Short Selling.

CHICAGO. Aug 1S.-There was further
liquidation in wheat, principally by the
smaller commission houses. There was
more or less short selling by local traders.
The market at one time showed a cent and
a quarter decline, but rallied half of it on
shorts covering Liverpool was 7-Sd lower,
Paris was unchanged to lie higher. Ant
werp SIS lower, and Berlin Ia lower.
Primary receipts were double last years
for the day and week. The same may be
said of the shipments. The cash demand
here was slack, 10000 bushels. The sea-
board reports % loads.
Corn showed a loss for the day of 1-S9
SAC, the nearby, futures suffering the
most. There were any number of sensa-
tional reports from Kansas. Kansas keeps
dry, with no Immediate rain in prospect.
Weather in the rest of the belt is favor
able. The shipping demand was SLOW. Corn
was influenced somewhat by the wheat
weakness.
Oats were relatively steady. Elevator
people were the sellers of the market to-
day.
Provisions closed higher than FridaJ.
The small stock of September ribs and
some apparent anxiety on the part of Sep
TENDER shorts turned the market into a
strong one after weak opening.
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cellent argument for the Spectator who
has never made s30000,000 on his own
Judgment. If there be any such.

The announcement that the Consolidated
Gas Company will pay per cent dividends
in the future was one Of the weeks most
satisfactory pieces of intelligence. The
short departure of the company from its
established rate of dividends, owing to
the gas war, is probably now over for
good and all. Under all ordinary circum
stances. the earnings of the company are
much in excess of per cent. It is ex-
tremely probable that they will be much
larger than ever now that the concern
has practically the monopoly of net only
the gas but the electric light business in
New York
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Leans Of $40 '. 2. i ssasi49 ~ :
PIANOS HORSES

Wagons. etc, at lowest rates and the day
YOU amply We are leaning on the Building and
Loan Association plan, which makes the cost OF
carving loans much less than you pay else
where, and allows you to pay it of in any sized
notes you desire, running from to twelve
the length Of time you carry it. II you have \
loan with some other company will pay it
of and advance you more money ii desired. Rates
cheerfully given, and cost TO you unless loan
is made Loans made anywhere in the District.
Cali and get rates Front room. Hrst floor. Sci
entifc American Building
National Mortgage Loan Co.
G25 F Street n. w.
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The Local Security Market.

The past week has been the dullest Of
the year in the local stock market. Trans
actions have been almost nothing and the
changes in price have bten Insignificant.
The hot weather is affecting Washington
brokers and spectators in the same way
as the New York contingent. A dearth Of
developments of any kind in the local bust
ness situation has helped to make the
week monotonous and tiresome to bust
ness men.
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WALL PAPER.

ROOMS PAPERED 50 up; work guaranteed sam
pies brought HUNT, SIG st. NV
aulS-t,em
THE ALLIES have reached Pekin in time to save
Minister Conger Ii Hung viii lose his head
headed people who come to TO have their
rooms papered, 3 up. F. NoLTE. $40 9th 81.
no branch aul7- Il, EN-
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Sugar has been rather dull during the
week. though it has held its own well and
at times has shown some tendency to i'm
prove in price. The talk of an increase in
the dividend rate or at least of an extra
dividend. has been heard with great fire.
quenoy in the street of late. 1t is i'm
possible to determine If it has any founda-
tion in fact Fia
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e 1t will be seen that there have been
mail advances in a few securities and
Enrall declines in others. the insigniacance
n the one probably about eluaIing the
inconseqnentiai character of the other.
The bank statement yesterday reflected
he financial conditions due to the out