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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
COMING LOCAL EVENTS.

The Wednesday Cooking club will be
postponed until further notice.
Mrs. Whitlock Will entertain the ladies
of the o. E S. at her home, 425 South
Topeka avenue, this afternoon, February
Il good attendance is desired.
Wichita Lodge No. 1Ss, K OF P, will
give a lunch and smoker Thursday even
ing. An K P.'s are invited TO attend and
have a general good time. The rank Of
knight will be conferred.
Miss Downing's Valentine Party at Car
field hall tonight will be the event of the
season. Prof Blume's orchestra will fur
nish the music. The hall will be decor
ated especially for the occasion.
The Young Peoples Chapter of ST
Johns Episcopal church will give their
sixth annual birthday party Monday.
February ls. at Sedgwick Music hall An
excellent program will be promised and
will be published
Regular communication OF Albert Pike
Lodge No. 30S A. F. & A. NJ, IN Scot
fish Rite cathedral. northwest corner
First street and Topeka avenue, at 80
O'Clock this evening. officers please be
prompt Visitors welcome.
There viii be no regular meeting OF
Wichita Lodge No. %. y. r. A, this
evening on account OF the masque bail 20
be given at the lodge room by No. % to-
night Members and their friends are
cordially invited to attend
The funeral OF W. II Reed. aged Sc
years, will take place from the undertake
ing rooms OF A G. Miller. % North
Main street. this afternoon a. 2 O'Clock
Burial IL the Wichita city cemetery
Friends OF deceased invited 20 attend.
The Ladies Aid society Of the First
Presbyterian church viii give a valentine
ard measuring social a. the residence Of
Mrs. W. p Duizasy. Is West Third. this
wednesday, evening. Everybody cor-
daily invited 70 attend Refreshments
VIII De served and the price vii Re &C
cording 70 your hs!ght- Three cents f5-
every foot aud a penny for each cd
inch I'll people especially urged 70 Be
sressaE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14

Layne. Henry Spark. chile and Florencs
Brawley, Bernice Mcpherson. Zetta Mont
gomery. eBrtha and Elsie Hayden. Not
absent. eBrt aud Irene Weliieger. Lillian.
Temple and Efiie Mounts. Anita Mathew
son Perfect IA department. Ivan, Don
and Mildred Schiller. James. George snd
Martha Butler Jessie Andrews. Henry.
William. Martin and Gerhard Spark.
Frank Heinrich. Ruth Iayne. Katie and
Bernice McPherson. Zetta Montgomery.
Bertha schmid. Birdie Morrison.
CORA =. ALEXANDER, teacher.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
NATIONAL. LIGHT OIL


An original parody by the author OF
"a Humming Frog" The Weeping
Reptile and similar works:
Clouded chimneys all remind Us
You may have a light 10 shine.
II for each few gallons you And Us
In your purse an extra dime.
Let us then. be UP and doing."
With our Judgment wide awake
All cheap low grade oil eschewing
For we find ali such a fake.
NATIONAL LIGHT OIL Is the cheap
est oil you can buy when light Is con-
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Not sold from peddling wagons. but by
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TAPP BROS. & HANSHAWs
COTTMAN & CHAMBERS.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
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use the delightful liquid laxative remedy,
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R1sMARcK,s IRON NERVE

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
BIG BANQUET AT PRATT
Abraham Lincoln Memorial Banquet
n brilliant Affair


The citizens of Pratt honored the MEM
ory of Lincoln in betting style Monday
evening. A memorial banquet was given
in the opera house at which a great
crowd gathered and a choice program
was rendered. Judge T. B. Wall and
wife of t2niss city attended, Judge Wall
being on the program for the leading
toast, his subject being Abraham Lin
coin" The program OF music consisted
of solo by Mrs. W. NJ. Connolly of
Pratt and a quartette rendered by the
Misses Munger and Horney and Messrs
Kridler and Lowery, with Miss Eggles-
ton as pianist.
The following menu was served BY II.
s.. Gregory, the caterer:
Oysters on Half Shell Raw Oysters.
Oyster Stew.
Sailed Waters. Pickles.
Celery. Olives.
Roast Beef
Cold Roast Turkey, Ham Sandwiches.
Lobster Salad. Dreamed Slaw.
Saratoga Chips. Cranberry Jelly.
Coffee. Tea. Milk. Lemonade.
Chocolate Cake. Banansa cake.
Angel Food Yankee Roll Ice Cream.
California Fruits Sailed Peanuts.
Connections.
There were $50 plates at the banquet
table The toasts were models of oratory
and bright thoughts all the way through.
Hon. ]. R. Burton's toast on Bryan is
said to have made indigestion an impos-
h. N
there The program was as follows:
POSTMASTER ...............J. Q. thompson
Abraham Lincoln Judge T. B. Wall
1.-THE Citizen" ..............-...J. 5. Barnes
1.-The President of the United States"
......................... II. Shrack
'"The Campaign of 1907
...............Ho Hon. W. NJ. Wallace
''The Republican Party" .........J. c. Ellis
'"Tha Administration and the Philip
pines Observation-Disclosures. Palmer Coe
kansas" ............Dr. r. c. Hutchinson
Organism Hon. ]. r. Burton
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14

Berlin. Feb IA series % football
matches has been arranged between fhe
Richmond association. cf England. and \
num5=t OF German clubs They wfl be
Elzssa during TIE Easter Aoli1zys
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14

Conductor Sullivan OF the Missouri Pa
Gins. went east yesterday. and It Is IN
derstood ne viii wish in Canada before
he returns.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14
SLATTERY-S SMITH NUPTIALS
Married sunday AfternOou--AtH HON,
SIS South EmRoria Avenue

NJ. Harold Slattery and Miss Louise
Smith. both Of Wichita, were married
Sunday afternoon. Al the home OF the
groom's uncle. Mr. J. y Howard. 1876
" Maple street 4 few Of the young
folks most intimate friends were present
They VIII be AT home 10 their friends
at SIS S. Enporia avenue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-02-14

has restored a million
women to health
Letters from grateful
women are constantly
being printed I'm this
paper
MH:ss Pinkk1a79 has fifty
thousand such letters
Her counsel is safe c0uRs-
sell If always helps WOO
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Mrs. PimkhaRss'S adj
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Lydia E. pinkham's Vegetable Compound
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

sides wishing him a merry Christmas,
she was doing all in her power tosmake it
so for him. When they were finally left
alone in the parlor after dinner, she said
she wanted to thank him again for his
Christmas present and birthday gift.
There is only one way for lovers to ex-
press such thanks, and after furtive
glance toward the doors and windows it
was so expressed. After the customary
pause of happy silence Jean whispered
as she hid her face on his bosom:
81 felt sure all along that you would
pass the test all right. You are so noble
and so generous. l loved you so much
that l wanted to tell you all about it, but
If did there would be no test. / know
it was silly, but I vowed once that
would test all my friends this way, as
well as any one who made love to me,
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

PHILIPPINE !
TROUBLE SOLYEl
By Frank Stockton.
When the sum Of $50, o0o. 900 was p
for the Philippine Islands the purchs
might have been considered an adva,
ageous one If the property had b
delivered, but this was not the ca
rEhns.. islar ,ds Nth THAR Lands tn
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

Guilty was greatly increased. In order 10
help him out the jeweler gave him an il
Illustrated catalogue and told him to select
the design he wanted and he would send
to the city for it. Harry acted on the
suggestion and worked over that cata-
logue for almost week. He marked at
least 20 designs of pins, brooches, brace
lets and such trinkets before he decided
on a brooch that took his fancy. He
then took rubber and erased the marks
he had made before designs he had re-
jected and then sent back the catalogue
by messenger with q note saying, "Get
me what l have marked"
On the day before Christmas the jew
eler sent him package and with it bill
for $50. Harry expected bill for only
$40, so he opened the parcel to find out If
possible what was the cause of the extra
charge. He then found that, besides the
brooch, the jeweler had sent him q brace
let he had admired very much and which
he at first thought of ordering. But he
didn't order it, and, besides, not being
able to afford it, he had no intention of
being imposed upon in this way. Taking
the jewels with him. he hurried to the
dealer and asked him to explain.
why, / sent you only what you order
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

A CHRISTMAS sroRY BY PETER NJ ARTHUR
rCopyright, 1899, by P. McArthur.1
l. EOAUSE Jean
! ] !
Nm was born on
~ & Christmas day no
MrM one was surprised
WYNN W at her many little
MI peculiarities. She
SM KIN M certainly was mot
T&kdu like other girls"
MA NJ and, although 1t
z%S may seem like
S3N6gNR@A making too great
%NSNk ~ concession to
S(zSN3SAE@U the superstitious,
It must be admit
ted that her most
striking peculiarities were due to this ac-
icident of birth. OF course It had nothing
to do with her unlikeness to other girls in
being more beautiful than any of them,
but it certainly was the cause Of a strange
moroseness that seemed to overwhelm
her every year. when her birthday came
around. 1t was first noticed whom eho
The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-03-17

BY GIFTS
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-22
CIRCUSES OF OLDEN DAYS
How a Flaring Poster Brings Forth
"reminiscences.
Rejoicings in the Village when the
|. Clowns and Elephants Come 10
Town-Ladies in Pink Tights and
the Man Who Is shot Out of Can
non.

(From the New York Commercial Adveuiser)
The stroller stopped in front of a gaudy
circus poster one of a series which ran
down a block of fence on the side street
and around the corner on the avenue.
There was something familiar about it,
and something, he could not say what,
which was not The balance was on the
side of the familiar. however, and mo-
ment later he was under spell. He was
a boy again-his long trousers somehow
had gotten short, and he was wearing
stockings. and he knew where to ind the
hole in them just below the knee cap, and
lust above there was a spot on his right
leg which felt comfortably sore from play
ing marbles His shoulders shrunk in a
trice. his chest grew boyishly fiat, and he
felt like humping ii 10 see if he were in
condition to swap punches with Jimmy
Brown. His height grew less, and his
face. a moment ago waiting for shave and
very bristly, was soft and hairless. Also
he was back in a little Southern village,
and over by the village store where he got
cinnamon and where his father bought the
thick shoes with the shiny brass tips
which he could not kick through. He
knew. because he had tried, without even
hurting his toes, which were uneasily
waiting barefoot time,
The sun grew warmer, too and the air
had the fiat sweet. earthly odor it gets
from the prairie land. He shifted the air
greedily. His heart leaped within him, his
breath was short, and there was something
too big for mis- front ribs inside. He was
a boy The circus was coming to town
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-22
AN EVIL EXPERIMENT.
The Signal OF n TeIeGrapher Upset
by Cow.
(From the indianapolis News

Twenty years ago, John E. Foley, chief
deputy United States marshal. was a tele-
graph operator at Denver, Ind, a small
town near Peru. The town was small. and
the telegraph operators duties kept him
at the keys until long after every other
person in the place had gone to bed. The
telegrapher went to his work at p. m,
and when the last train for the night had
gone by and the report of its movements
had been sent TO headquarters, the operator
put out the lights locked the station door
and went up the lonesome street to his
home When the Denver stores had closed,
at and o'clock, and the storekeepers had
gone home and TO bed it made the lights
in the railroad station the more cOnspicu-
Gus. The young telegrapher sat at his desk,
night after night shivering with anxiety
and expecting a band of tramps. or night
providers to pounce down upon him at any
time. The telegrapher enticed his COM
panions to his office, told them stories
true and untrue-but they usually became
sleepy, and O'Clock was as late as any OF
them could be induced TO remain. After
they had gone. the telegrapher went TO
sleep in his chair, and depended on pass
ing trains to awaken him. The clock and
the timecard would indicate the number of
the train. and reporting Il was then easy
enough.
One night the telegraph operator awak-
ened with a start. He was not certain,
but thought he had heard a train go by.
With his mind in a whirl from the sudden
rousing, he became confused and was not
certain whether he had heard train or
had dreamed. To report it as passing
when it had not would have been fatal
error; to fail TO report it when 1t had gone
by would have been as bad-the teleg-
rapher would next day be going up and
down the earth looking for work. \ little
later the sleepy Denver operator heard
another sleepy operator farther up the
road sending in a belated report of the
train, and John Foley set the key to click
ing off a similar message to the chief train
dispatcher.
But the time came when something had
to be done to awaken the Denver operator
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Everything in Notions.

at a more certain time. 1t would not do
to sleep and take chances on a train going
by. Across the tracks from the station
stood telegraph pole into which the wires
sang merry song at night and made the
telegraph office still more lonesome Half
way up this pole John Foley tied a string.
He extended the cord across the tracks,
through the window TO his office, and on
the end fastened half a dozen tin cans.
Then the operator went back to his chair
and was soon sound asleep, safe in the
thought that when the last train went by
at 1870 n. m. the engine would break the
string, the cans would fall with a crash,
and the operator would awaken. Then he
would report the train and go home. The
string broke, the cans fell. the telegrapher
awoke. seized the key of the instrument,
and sent to the dispatcher:
No. q on time
Then he looked at the clock. 1t was not
midnight. No. 81 must be an hour ahead
of time. The operator went out to the
station platform TO take the air. There
was no sight or sound of No. q. But
standing in the centre of the track was
brindle COW that blinked at the light
through the window. The cow had broken
the string. and it was not long before the
night operator at Noblesyille left the rail-
road to its fate and was out in the world
looking for something to do.
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and on Saturday. and there would be a
parade and-he reached his hand into a
pocket which somehow seemed very small
and pulled out his money-he had thirty
five cents a two-hits and two picayunes--
and his father had promised him two bits
if he would be good. and that was ten
cents over for lemonade. Which would
he take? Pink or the other kind? Maybe
both, or popcorn and the pink, which
looked and tasted both.
Now however he would look at all the
pictures on the side of the village store.
He would do it systematically and fairly,
which was the most gratifying. He would
walk down to the end with his eyes
straight ahead and deny himself a single
side glance at the lions and elephants III
pyramids, or the ladies in pink flying
about in air, or the man shot out Of the
cannon or the monkeys, No, he would go
slowly and hold his breath at length over
the lion tanning.
Yes, there they wereG The three rings
in tent a mile long, and high, and mil
lions of people on the benches packed
tight, and lady hopping through a hoop
onto a leaping white horse, and the clowns
and the acrobats and the ringmaster and
the japanese jugglers. He studied their
faces in detail to see If he could recognize
the roaring lions. Gee, but l hope it
don't rain" he said, thinking of the awful
task il would be to wait until circus time
if he didn't see the lions in the parade in
their gold cages. incidentally he got
ready his argument as TO whether the
lions could carry off Farmer Tate's old
black bull. which served better than a
watchdog in the orchard, and whether the
sherif's bloodhound, which caught the
man who shot Johnny's uncle, could kill
one of them. These arguments were to
be used on the Brown boy, no matter
which side he took
Then there were the ostriches and the
birds that were like ostriches, but didn't
have such long feathers, and a pink bird.
The elephants we're in the next picture,
and he wondered if the baby one was really
that little. and whether it ate only milk
or would take peanuts. He would shell the
peanuts arst if necessary. The Wild West
hunt spread away before him and the buff
faloes were fearfully combatiye. He
thought he would like TO hunt bunaloes
and could use the gun with little shot at
other times for squirrels. Robins, when
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were easy to hit he would not shoot with
real gun. They were good enough for
sling shots, but --. He wanted a gun.
Next there were all sorts of queer things,
cows with humps, grey little cows. and
wolves, and thing which rolled itself up
into bali. He didn't know what it was
1t was kinde" like a mud turtle in some
respects, but, as the postmaster said,
You couldn't never be sure" He would
investigate that, if the elephants and
monkeys didn't take too much time.
This brought him to the end OF the
fence. There was the pink paper with big
black letters. He thought il would have
no fears for him; he would have 60 cents
and could go in openly and didn't need to
carry water for the elephants. He stuck
his hands in his pockets and stepped back
to read the sign with comfortable arrog
ance. But what was that? Concert after
show. Clowns comic songs. Twenty
five cents admission" Jimminee! He had
forgotten that. He would have to give up
the pink lemonade. But. no. Then he would
save only 10 cents. He wanted to hear
those clowns, most almost as bad as TO see
the elephants. and he wanted the pink
lemonade. and the baby elephant had to
be fed Jim Jones would brag If he Gidn't
He might go into the tent after the show
and see the animals and go to the concert,
but most of the cages would be closed. He
stopped to think.
To think h: had to kick his toes into
the ground, and he looked to see what
sort of holes the brass tips were making.
He had on dapper patent
leather shoes and was old and
in the city, had a COLLEGE diplo-
ma. and a good position. He pulled
some money from his pocket. and studied
1t idly II was a so bill. He would
give it ali to be just a boy and would be
happy with the two bits and dime and
let the concert go, and father would be
Well. he'd go to the circus anyhow-tust
for old times-and borrow the landlady's
boy and take him, too.