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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
MYSTERIOUS HOUSE NEXT DOOR.

The Van Tassels had just moved in and
they were the least bit curious as TO their
neighbors.
Il am not so certain we shall like this
vicinity. after ALL remarked Mrs Van
TasseI at tea There is something
strange about the people next door. We
have seen no one as yet, and I'd just
like TO know why there is a fifteen-foot
board fence between the two yards Sup
pose il should be private asylum or
something of the kind. We should haye
investigated before we moved in"
Nonsense, dear responded her hus-
band carelessly. There is nothing unu-
sual about the house. Women are toe
suspicious. The high fence is probably
intended TO keep chickens from flying
over or something of the kind Don't
worry unless you have some ground for
it,
But Mrs Van Tassel was not alto
gether satisfied with the assurance of her
husband and determined TO investigate
at the first opportunity. The opportunity
came Unexpectedly. She was planting
some seed near the high fence when some
very mysterious sounds enanated from
the next yard 1t was the uninteliigible
cultural OF the infant learning to talk,
only harsher. Mrs. Van Tassel dropped
her package of seed and listened nerv-
ously "Oo-oo-gaza- hoo -be-oo.
came over the fanceseven louder than be-
fore. Mrs. Van Tassel gathered up her
skirts and ran into the kitchen and UP
stairs. where her husband was coating
his chin with lather preparatory TO a
shave.
Il knew itr' she cried, excitedly- They
can't fool me-.
What has happened" gasped Mr.. Van
Tassel, fitting the mug until the lather
streamed over the green mating.
why, the house next door Is an asy-
lum. You can hear the lunatics, Henry,
actually hear them. Oh. it is terrible!
Nonsense. dear; it is all imagination,
and
Imagination? Come with me and listen
for yourself. You must come
She fastened her fingers firmly in the
sleeve of her husbands blue madras and
led him down 10 the yard. the iather
still dripping from his chin.
Don't you hear those terrible sounds?
she whispered. Who would make them
but lunatic? We must move. Henry"
But although Henry was somewhat puz-
zled at the continual flow of incoherent
sounds from the next yard. he was not
going to jump at conclusions without in
vestigating. Rolling an empty barrel UP
to the fence he climbed UP and peered
through a knot-hole some distance above.
BE careful, Henry warned his ex-
cited better half. DO be careful. Crazy
people are dangerous, and
Kate" blurted Van Tassel, jumping
down from the barrel, you are fool!
why, Henry
Yes an idiot! There are no, iunatics
next door"
But those soundS?
at is the hired girl abusing the rag
peddler. She is hanging out clothes and
her mouth is full of clothes pins Why
couldn't you understand that at first?
Here this COMPOUNDED soap has dried on
my face, and I've lost ten minutes, all be-
cause of your foolishness. l wonder
where all the sensible women were when
] was single?"
But Mrs. Van Tassel had retreated into
the kitchen for a good cry.-Victor A.
Hermann, in n. Y. Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
laisnss9sEa als
THE GREAT DISASTER AND ITS sEouELs.
M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.

ANY estimate even approximately, of the losses sus
tanned by the people of the damage in dollars
entaied by the late floods would mpossiblity at
this time Two hundred miles of the Kaw valley two
hundred miles of fields orchards, and villages, in
being inundated have ravaged the relentless tide
born of the Clouds begrmed by adened with de-
bris that swept the In addition to that valley
there were the river valleys of the Blue the Smoky Hill
the Saline the Republican, the Neosho the Cottonwood
the Maras des Cygnes and erdigris all with stories
of wastes tragedies and devastation Crops live stock
homes and in some instances human life, were swept
out and away The Capital estimates the loss at Topeka
and immediate vicinity at s226Seoe Of course this is
but guess Proporonatey the destruction of property
In Lawrence, salna Abilene, Wamego Manhattan, Ellis
great and from present writing that at Kansas City, Ar
ourdaIe and the mouth of the Kaw still greater
For stretch of hundred and fifty miles along the valley
and in the towns of the the awful results seem
propoionaely the same These totals running into the
millions applicable only to the immediate destruction
of property and without reference the depreciation OF
values which must result of the sickness and distress
which must follow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
CORRUPT MONEY FOR THE CHURCH.

A. the late animal convention of the Protestant Eps
copa diocese Long Island Bishop Burgess In address
ing the delegates said that the church should refuse the
large gifts that come from whose moral lives have
been VIGOROUSLY corrupt or from by child
labor by grinding the faces OF the poor in the gloom
of the mines or amid the clatter of the mills"
This broad and unqualified declaration has set the
newspapers of the country talking OF course Carnegie
Rockefeller others, who have squeezed the peo-
pie and made gifts to them by have come in for
good deal of attention For we are not ready TO
join in the universal endorsement accorded the Long
Island bishop Lucre 'flthy it is trash, but our
observation is that churches and uptodate min
listers will permit no congregation to escape using
rounded up with plate or basket hat Whether it is
factory or school, gospel or printshop money has be
come the sine qua non Christs admonition to preach
without scrip" to the contrary Notwithstanding money
is the atter-day rod and staff of comfort Why not
hold that the gotten gains referred TO by the bishop
do not really belong facegnders and fortune win
ners auded to- that these but holding it in trust
or as retains his loot and not only accept but
demand dvy the interest and for the behoof OF hui
mainly from whom it was wrenched? These grab
bers have not won honestly they did legally They plum
dered advantages of their making They ground and
coerced with their monopolies and steel trusts and
with cool brows 1t should be made their turn to
sweat Whence also the millions often piled up in
6 single day by Wall street manpulstors? From the
sweat of brows course of the brows of the
winners. Bishop Burgess may be right as theoogan
but doubtful he right morally while certainly
he is wrong logically.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
LONGEVITY OF MILLIoNAIREs.

Not long since Dr. Alfred Russell Wallace remarked
upon the comparatively short lives of mionalres IN
England. everything that Genes from his pen com
attention this somewhat startling statement was
at once accepted based results of authentic sta
tistcs until few weeks ago. an English writer went
back the finds that the phrase is not justified
by recent statistics. During 1900 nine English million
aires died leaving in the aggregate S1O50OO0OO The
average age these nine testaors sevenour the
youngest ftynine and the Oldest nnetyone years
During 1901 the deaths of eight millionares were re-
corded whose joint estates valued at 100000 In
this the average seventytwo the youngest
ffty-three the oldest ninety. In 1902 hve million
aires died and their seventyeght Lon
gevty brevity striking fact in the lives OF
very rich There is good why this should
be The wealthy-by their wealth-can and do secure
the advantages of change and climate, and com
all the results of scientific progress including the
aid skill and advice of the greatest of doctors and
surgeons They, therefore, should live long, and as
matter of fact they do.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
Having a Felon.

To have felon is more than passing
subject and no doubt it is perfect out
rage to incorporate il in the humorous
sheet; but as some puns are painful as
well as amusing, 1 may take the liberty
to tell YOU what l know about felon.
One joyful friend said 1t was caused by
pressing the shears tightly with which
cut, cleaved and hacked the coupons from
an imaginary bond ] was supposed to
own But when / told him that a felon
was no laughing matter he grew chummy
and told me confidentially to put my
thumb in a lemon and forget all about
it, 1 did as he advised, and got up in
the morning with more felon than ever.
I've heard of the drawing quality Of lemon
peel added to a cocktail. but l never put
my thumb into a whisky sour before. The
lemon peel in a cocktail isn't IN IL. L
heard there would be a robbery next
door a fire across the street, or that
the sewer would explode, or any old
thing transpire while / was wearing out
the carpet; doing a four-doubie-quick-
step with my thumb inside that lemon.
Before | attached myself to the lemon 1t
looked innocent and gentle. but inside or
twenty minutes il drew. II drew me out
of bed and all over the house. And, as
] said before in the morning had more
felon than ever.
Next day a neighbor of mine-assessor
In our Ndru nelptu 10 elSCl, W
sorrow-told me how he suffered with
felon when he was studying economics and
one thing and another in a big city. He
said he didn't get two weeks sleep, the
pain of the felon was so great. He tried
all the cases he knew Of or heard OF and
as last resort his roommate went 10
a doctor and had his thumb cut or He
poked my ribs and kindly mentioned that
the felon was like the boil-better for the
other fellow to have. His roommate had
the felon.
While / had the felon l was called upon
to help put up a stovepipe and was called
various unseemly~ names because l broke
away and let the pipes fall several times.
4 one-handed man can't do the laborious
work OF the god Gyges. who had one hum
bred arms. ] only had one hand fit for
the emergency of stovepipes and / had
cold lunch for dinner.
Then an old lady called and said that
the thin. white skin on the inside OF an
egg-shell. wrapped about the thumb. was
a sure cure for feions The pain would
be great but the felon would be done
for / tried IT, Did you? l stood on my
head | crawled under the bed. [ tipped
over the couch and knocked down the
looking glass. while / studied spasms
Of pain on the human phiz-my phiz.
Never touched that felon.
A physician next day clipped of a cor
ner of my thumb nail, took a two spot.
and said:
You've only got an ingrowing toenaiI
on your thumb.
And that's what ] know about felons.-
Horace Seymour Keller.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
GENERAL JOHN c. BATES.

OF General John C. Bates, in command of the
Department of Missouri writer in the Burr Mcintosh
Magazine says Five this month while endeav-
orng TO do my humble duty war correspondent l
went Cuba the Matteawan.' General John C.
Bates board, in command of Independent bri-
gade composed the Twentieth and part of the Third
nfanries The general reading public knows little OF
General Bates The army does and those who were in
Cuba and the Philippines do He has ambition for
newspaper praise but his deeds in Cuba in the Philip
pines as the man who called upon Sultan of Sulu
and left him pacifed friend tell what manner of man
he is In this fifth anniversary month of Cuban in
vasion is fitting that memories be recalled Many
deserving than Major General John
c. Bates"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

fully or quickly the rich and powerful than Tor the
poor lowly. 1t does not discriminate on poca or
social grounds Always everywhere the principle Oh
equality and good work for all is made the rule Oh the
entire service. That is very high praise.
1.-The petty misconduct and small populations, IN form
fact which being exhibited before the country
specks upon the wonderfully good record
the great postal branch of the federal government
Viewed fairly broadly it is very notable achleve-
Of the American nation OF pride IN history
and promise of good for the future"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
WHEN AYoUNe MAN GRADUATES.

When young is graduated from college he reads
address, wherein he that people must do wonder
full things attain and climb high and rugged
mountains This is not the truth The fact is the road to
has been bazed clearly that one need go
asray Success is easier than failure. There thou
sands of people direct the young All the young
need to do to win is to follow few simple and
honest rules 1t is the loafer liar the dishonest
who travels rough road and is wretched.-Atchison
Globe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
The Nav He Came

Miss Peppery-She's quite superstitious-
She thinks il unlucky to come out Of
house By another door than the one she
entered.
Miss Nuritch-Paps the same way. He
always believes in going back the way he
came.
Miss Peppery-Indeed. Then. when he
went TO Europe last year he really went
in the steersge. en-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

The Ohio Prohibition platform declares local option
failure might have gone farther declared that
other legislation for the regulation of whisky selling
was success and with equal truthfuness Prohib
ited permitted regulated, all about the same
thing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
A Young Carnegie.


Pa. III tell you what I'll %. I'll put
up a lemonade stand out II the front yard
and cater TO the public needs Y you
agree 20 buy the lemons and sugar and
subscribe SO week for rnnuinE ex-
renses
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
Very Particular.

Dinah-Ny ge-arnan fren' done Ak re
70 70 40 wff BIN % De u,stinsy De 5eI
time has day OF
Mrs. HireS-To the nafsDee.
Dfaah-Yzs n. an ] wants 20 know f.
dat nice tezyte< 20 LADY % 20 ter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

Andrew Carnegie denies belongs to New Yorks
900. specifies them the Raw Pork set playing at
caste and apng European arstocracy being all around
ridiculous The Scotch severity of the Lord Skbo is
slow.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
PLACING the Blame.

Csuer-So. the doctor brought you a
little sister the other night. eh7
Tommy-Yep, I guess u was the doc
tor done Il ANYWAY ! heard him teilin'
pa some time ago 81 Il "a didn pay his
old bill ne make trouble fur him
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03
5Izcsraif.

cane--rve found that thsrs eorr that
yer wife Is advertiser ave dollars reward
fer
f-@ntlenau-Tou have. en-
.aas--Ye~ a. II - deaf give 1e
go snIssrs II TAXA II 20 -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

Jones of Arkansas decided that General Miles IS
not his first choice president, Miles left sup
porting himself alone.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

fFrom tne sy-acus- Herald

fFrOFn Tre S9'THclse HefaIl-I
little Reggie went way around the
world last year Sith ny fatoer-
Little Jimmie sssed ;xelvel-Thats
uothin I've been around The sun twelve
times nov. and I'm on ny thirteenth trip-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

There hundreds of thousands OF Of coal lands
between Pawhuska Tulsa along wichitas projected
southeast line OF railway.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

There is politics in the postofice department in
vestgaton August w Machen exsuperintendent Of the
free delivery system is Democrat Tyner Republican
Beaver simply industrial political CRATER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

They say hoopskirts coming into fashion again.
II So fellows will be found walking miles 10 watch hoop
skirted girls play golf.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

If Africa had been left institute republics might
have become second America Two Jesuite students
OF Buuwayo were the first win Cecil Rhodes Oxford
scholarships.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

A Kansas girl her hat-pin into old masher a
Fifth stage in the city of New York last Satur
day She abbed nearly through his yelled
for mercy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

As N educational center Leavenworth threatens to
lead of all the OF the state. One hundred and
foryour is the number OF her high graduates
this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-03

II the godhugs have really captured TIE Democratic
party, where is Mr. Bryan going TO hang QUIT
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09
Trained Nurses in the Public Schools
BY DIR. ERNEST j. LEDERLE..
Health Commissioner of New York.

@7INcE last September about $4,000 children have been ex
- clulcd from New Yorks public schools for diseases. ii
kIEasSJ many cases of the eyes. skin or hair. Early in the year the
C.Ay question arose OF what to 10 with these children. Without
treatment they might lose weeks Of instruction before they were well
enough to return, yet there was uo means OF informing their parents
often ignorant OF apparently indifferent, as to the care they needed.
There occurred to me a conversation once had with the head
worker Of the Nurses Settlement. who told me Of The work OF school
nurses in London, and decided to try here a similar experiment
Five schools on the denscly populated East side were put under the
supervision OF a nurse. whose work has been remarkably successful
Wherever she goes into the homes oi the poor she has been received
with open arms. In the first twenty days she treated S25 cases OF
children barred from school for scalp diseases. and insured the return
40 school of nearly all.
With the beginning OF December the number of nurse was in
creased to thirteen, all experienced in settlement work and accustomed
to dealing with the poor. They have to do many things that the
ordinary trained nurse cannot or will not do. 1t is no small par
OF their duty to show mothers how to keep the little ones clean.
WE WANT To HEAD OFF DISEASE, and believe that car
rying the work Of the school and OF the health department into the
homes is a direct way in which it can be done. WHY WAIT UN-
TIL a CHILD HAS A WEILDENElOpED CASE OF SCAR
LET FEVER OR OF CHlCKENPOX WHICH, ONCE INTRO.
DuCED INTO A SCHOOL. WILL. RUN LIKE WILD FIRE
THROUGH IT. WHEN A NURSE, IN COOPERATION WITH
A DOCTOR, CAN TELL. THE SYMPTOMS AND PREVENT
IT'S INTRODUCTION Such prevention is one OF the things we
hope to accomplish by making trained nurses a part OF the staH o
the public schools.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

Indigestion, conge.ted liver. impure blood,
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sands Of people who dopot know what Is the
matter with them. They drag along a mis-
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doctors occasionally, and sometimes Obtain
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comes back again worse than ever. until
IN time they become tired Of living. won
der why they were ever born, and why they
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ing DIR. August KoeuiR's Hamburg Drops
Get a bottle ut once. before Il Is too late.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

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isfaetory results from the use OF Pc
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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

N~cwed-Say. how long doe. a man have
20 be married to a woman before she agrees
with him IN everything!
Oldwcd-NOuW have To ask some one
else, my boy. I've been married only 81
ycars-Chiclgo Daily News.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09
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The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

One Of the most talented actors that this country ever PRODUCED
never got to the hearts of his public. lie was respected and admired
hut never loved.
DO good looks make an actor popular? They have more to dc
with his popularity than talent, but good looks alone never won him
popularity.
Gcnucmanly instinctSi Some OF the most ilcondtioncd actors
within and without. have been the most successful in foolng the pub.
lie into bestowing upon them its preferred favors. Genius covers. like
charity, a multitude OF sins, and wins what good breeding may strive
in vain To attain-populariy.
sympathy is onc OF the greatest factors in winning the rare jewel
popularity; but magnetism is the prime factor.
Give an actor that mysterious and iluscd something called mag
nctSm and he can dispense with genius. talent. temperament, sympa-
thy. character, breeding, distinction. fine figure, good looks, and ever
the critics favor.
II is the greatest thing in the world. With 1t the world can be
moved. II cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or cribbed. II is as
elusive and as hard to define as electricity. think it is electricity
At all events it is electric |@&
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

y VI w
| lumbia College
and who served
! three years at
! West Point, has
| the following to
, say of Peruna:
!, ALLOW me TO
express my rrati-
! tude to you for
! the benefit de-
rived from your
! wonderful rem
cdy. One short
| M o { h h n 3
, brought forth n
! vast change and
I now consider
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09
The Greatest Thing in the
Theatrical World - - -
BY NAT G. GOODWIN.

Popularity! OFT got without deserving. never
lost without cause. What makes an actor POPULAR
Good artl ! have known many actors who
were artists from their soles to the apex Of the
longest hair upon their heads, who never tasted
the honey OF popularity.
Temperament There are actors iul OF it, who
never head a company.
Talent? The talented actor may have only his
talent, and IL that is all he possesses he will never
be popular.
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1903-01-09

Mr.. Gu.her-'l consider, her pretty ,.'
all times. but in that cute bonnet her face
h doub,y sweet" Misc wryvell-"I can't
sgrec with you about the sweetness, but
she certainly Is a doubls-faeed thing
Philadelphia Press.