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x& WUcMx it gaily fptglc: Jfomffacg fftra-uhifl, SJtag 25, 1890. U Vl'y'gg g3S&Sftfl I OEDEB.fiAKDOLFSXEIM THE BEST SOCIETY WASHINGTON IS WRITER A MAN. IN He Entered tho Lists as a Reporter of Social News by tho 31ilitary "Way. "What He Offers Is Always Beliable. JUs Eventful Career. Special Correspondence. J Washington, Hay 13. One of the most Interesting men in "Washington is Mr. DeB. Randolph Keim. Mr. Kcim is the court chronicler of tho republic, the semi official, recognized and authoritativo pur veyor of tho news of society. Tlrra are other society reporters, plenty of them, and many who report more news and write moro gossip than ho, but whatever Keim writes goes unquestioned as to its ac curacy and undoubted as to the authority uj wmcu iis given publicity. Sometimes Mr. Keim is called the court Jenkins, but there is nothing of the prig or the dandy in his composition. He is bimply a polisli- DEB. RANDOLPH KEIM. ed, earnest gentleman, whose specialty in his chosen profession of journalism is the doings of society, and whose careful methods have commended him to the con fidence of the public. Mr. Keim's training has not been that of a carpet knight. He has been in more serious campaigns than those which begin New Year's day and como to an end with the advent of Lent. The reader may be surprised to learn that tho most successful society writer of Wash ington is a man, but I am told that a woman could never attain tho position which this gentleman occupies. A woman may be successful as a mere reporter of costumes and small events, but In the larger range of society's activities none but a man can win the confidence of the chief cctors and be able to write au thoritatively and semiofficially. A man was tho first society correspondent in Wash ington. About lb30 Washington society letters made their appearance in Tho New ork Mirror. They were tho first of their Lind, and created a mild sort of sensation, hoon there were many imitators, and the business of reporting the society of tho national capital had made its start. Thee letters to Tho Mirror were written by Na thaniel P. Willis, tho poet and hteratcur. Willis was at that time a foppish, slender young man, with a profusion of curly, light hair, and was always dressed in the height of fashion. Having traveled in Europe and there minted with the aristo cratic classes, he ;iffected to look down upon tho common people; but with all his snobbishness ho had a wonderful fac ulty for endowing trifling occurrences with interest, and his lotters have never been surpassed- It is recalled of Willis that ho first introduced steel pens to Washington, having brought over a quantity of those made by Joseph Gillott at Birmingham. Before this goose quills had been exclu sively used. Mr. Kenn, though the descendant of one of the best families in Pennsylvania, had no aristocratic training for his work. He approached the social lield by tho military road. During tho war of the rebellion ho was correspondent of The New York Her ald. While at the front for his paper ho formed friendships with such great generate as Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and McPherson, friendships which lasted as long as these men lived. It was to Mr. Keim that Gen. Grant said juot before they took him to Mount McGregor, I shall be dead in six weeks." Keim's first meeting with Grant was at tj10 J front, near Corinth, Miss. On his arrival nt headquarters the correspondent ap proached a plain, common looking man whom he saw standing outside the gener al's tent, wearing a cheap blouse and lounging about with a cigar in his mouth. "I am a uewspaper correspondent, havo just arrived in camp, and I want to seo Gen. Grant," said Mr. Keim. "This is tho general's headquarters," replied tho plain looking man, "and if you will come here to-morrow morning I am sure tho general will bo glad to bco you." Next morning Keim vns there, and ho found that tho mau -with whom he had talked the night before was Gen Grant himself. About this time Keim had his first meet ing with Gen. Sherman. Old Tecumseh liad become incensed at the' reports of some of tho war correspondents, and had issued orders just before starting on his Meridian N. P. WILLIS AS A SOCIETT REPORTER. campaign that if any newspaper man was found along with the army he should bo tried in a drumhead court martial as a spy and bo shot before breakfast. Keim went to his friend, Gen. McPherson, to see what could be dono about it. Ho wanted to go along on the Meridian campaign, but ha didn't care to be shot before breakfast, nor aftor it, for that matter. McPherson said he couldn't do anything, but suggested that Keim see Sherman himself. The gen eral had heard of Keim and knew the char acter of his work, and he received the correspondent kindly. "How shout this order of yours," asked Keim; "does ifleave me out? Can't I go?" "1 won't have a d d newspaper man on tho expedition," said Sherman, "not one, but that doesn't apply to you. You are not a newspaper man you are a volunteer aid on Gen. Mo Pherson's staff." "So I am," said Keim, "I had nearly forgotten that." And Keim went on tho Meridian raid and on tho Red river expedition, and wss in the thick of nvseh of the fighting and campaigning of t hit time. "An incident occurred down thorn which chowed me that thcro were somo dangers .a the work of a war correspondent," said "It. Keim, in talking of his career a few ays ago. "I camo near boing shot for a ' iy. One of Mr. Bennett's rules was that . -.ch of his war correspondents should once a week send him a private letter giving such information as the correspondent had been able to get concexniutb. progress Bel? ' ty 'Ism mm -VI '2M fJi! m- Che war and yet could not print. " "In oneo! my letters to Mr. Eennutt I stated that we had tho key to the enemy's signal code, and were thus able to know what was go ing on in the opposition lines. Secretary Stanton, who did not like the press very well, had made a rule that the name of every war correspondent should be printed at the top of his dispatches, and this made us careful, for we knew that every word was watched with the vigilance of a hawk by Stanton and his men. "Imagine my consternation when I was called to headquarters and shown a dis patch from Washington stating that I had printed over my signature in The New York Herald information about the key to the enemy's signal code, and that I should be arrested and punished therefor. I was arretted, but no one seemed to want mj. Sherman said he didn't know what to do with mo, and Mc Pherson didn't want to bo bothered with me, and so they let it drop. I believe if it had been some new man that had met with this ill luck they would have taken him out and shot him. An investigation showed thau Mr. Lark, the telegraph ed itor in charge of The Herald's dispatches, had by mistake opened the letter address ed to Mr. Bennett, and thinking the con tents worth printing, had published a part of tho letter along with my dispatches." Mr. Keim was at the front for Tho Her aid throughout the war, and in 1865 Mr. Bennett sent him to Europe, partly for a vacation, at the expense of the office, and partly to visit and write up the progress of work on the Suez canal. Mr. Keim went down to Egypt, hired some camels and traveled from the Mediterranean to the Hed sea in tho ditch where it was dug or along tho route. Most men would havo abandoned this enterprise at its very thresh old, for the first day Mr. Keim was in Alexandria COO people died of cholera, and his routo across the desert was like a path through a hospital and a charnel yard. M. De Lesseps gave Mr. Keim a sketch made by himself of the biblical points along the routo of the canal a sketch which Mr. Keim carefully preserves among a great collection of similar souvenirs of tho great men whom ho has known. After traveling in Africa as far south as Zanzibar, in India, Australia and the far east, Mr. Keim returned to Ceylon to awaic letters from New York. An incident oc curred here which greatly changed his ca reer. By the accidental delay of a letter KEIM AT THE WniTE HOUSE. Mr. Keim left Ceylon for homo before re ceiving certain instructions which had been sent him from the office. On his arrival at New York lie learned that Mr. Bennett had sent him orders to proceed to Zanzi bar, and there to fit out an expedition to go into the interior of Africa in search of Livingstone. The letter directing him to engage in this work was at that very mo ment lying in the Ceylon postoffice. Mr. T, . - -" , . .- ,. , , , Keim offered to return immediately to I Africa, but the fertile brain of Mr. Bennett now had other work for him, and for a time the African trip was abandoned. A year or two later it was taken up, and tho result was Stanley's finding of Living stone and discoveries in the interior of Africa. But for an accident Mr. Keim would have been the Stanley, and Stanley himself might never have been heard of. Mr. Keim's fir&lexperienco in society re porting was on tho occasion of a New Year's day reception at tho White House during the Johnson administration. On these eTents The Herald always made a "spread," and Keim'a work on this occa sion w.-is so good tnat he was often called upon to do similar service thereafter, and in tho course of time gradually drifted into the specialtv of society writing. Through out a half dozen administrations he has been intimate with the occupants of the White House, and somo of his warmest friends aro members of families which have lived in that historic edifice. Ho had such confidential relationship with An drew Johnson that he was often permitted to look o er tho minutes which Johnson himself kept of the proceedings of cabinet meetings. When Grant camo in Mr. Keim was about the only correspondent in Washington with whom the president would talk. Almost every Sunday Keim visited the White House for a talk with Grant, and the interviews which ho pub lished were rotable contributions to tho history of the times. It was in ono of Keim's interviews that Gen. Grant said ho would put the District of Columbia under martial law if Henry Watterson, Gen. Steedman and other Democratic leaders carried out their threat of bringing an army of 100,000 citizens to Washington to see Tilden inaugurated. "I well remember a talk I had with Gen. Grant about the proposition made to him by the Republican leaders to remain in of fice till his successor was elected, be that soon or late," said Mr. Keim. "Gen. Grant declared that any attempt on his part to seize the office of president, or hold it a sin gle minuto beyond the statutory time for hich ho had been elected, would bo revo lution, and ho was not a revolutionist. Gen. Grant very earnestly opposed any such policy ou the part of the Republican party, and it is likely that but for his opposition some such plan might havo been adopted by the Republican managers. Gen. Grant said that if there was no election of his suc cessor, and prominent citizens of the re public of both parties were to request him to hold the office till the successorship might be adjusted, ho would ba willing to do so in the interest of peace; but even in that event the interregnum which he was willing to bridge over should be made as short as possible, and that if such duty de volved upon him he would have an eye sin gle to the preservation of order and main tenance of justice." ROBERT GRAVES. A Short Cut. Tenant The windows in your house shut so badly that my hair blows all about my head. Yon must really have some thing dono to them. Landlord I don't see tho necessity for that. It would be much simpler for you to have your hair cut. Fliegende Blatter. A Good Idea. Mr. J. Tony Dresser (getting measured) Ha ha! I hoard of a funny firm out west. It's a partnorship of two men in the same building; one is a tailor and the other a lawyer. Mr. Casitncr Panco (getting tired) I B'pcse the tailor makes the clothes and the lawyer collects the bills. Puck. An Appropriate Name. "That's your new terrier, is it? She's a beauty!" "She ought to be at tho price. Come nere, UU" "Di? What do yon call her, Diana?" "No. Diamond; because, she's such dear little thing," Pfcijadaiphla Times. fw mm WHAI SHALL WE WEAK? NEW AND NOTABLE STYLES IN WORLD OF FASHION. THE A Elding: Habit Designed to Ins are Safety for Its Wearer In Case of Accident A Styllth Shoulder Cape for Slender Fig- One result of the current discussion as to whether ladies ought not for the sake of safety to adopt the cross seat in riding, es pecially In the hunting field, has been to stimulate the invention of habits which shall not prove death traps in case a fair wearer is unseated. A safety habit recent ly introduced is described by its English maker as in reality nothing more or less than a pair of trousers, differing very lit tle, if at all, from tsiose worn by men. The lady as she sits on her saddle is as abso lutely free from the embarrassment of a skirt as if she had merely borrowed her husband or her brother's garments. But there is this small but very neces sary addition to them; an apron of cloth is attached as far as the knee of the right leg, and is buttoned down on the left hip as far as the saddle; from thence it falls quite free and, in fact, as an apron would which was worn in the ordinary way. NEW SAFETY HIDING HABIT. There is a second apron to be worn be hind when the rider is dismounted, and which is suspended by buttons under the front apron for carriage when not in use. When worn this second apron hooks on to tho lower portion of the front of the habit so as to loop it up for walking in a not un graceful stylo. There are the usual straps for the heel of the stirrup foot and for the toe of the other, which suffice to keep the habit, or rather apron, in its place when the wearer is rid ing, and there Ls certainly this advantage about it, that tho dangerous gores and pockets are all done away with, and there would seem nothing that could very well catch on the pummel in case of an accident. Meanwhile, with one of the coat bodices now in fashionthere is nothing to show the uninitiated that this truly "combined" garment trenches very closely on the attire of the other sex. It, of course, belongs to that class of safety habit which contem plates tho rider taking her skirt if we may stretch a point to call it so with her, and not leaving it to the horse, in case of an ac cident. Mrs. Power O'Donoghuo, a horse woman familiar with the steeple chase courses of Ireland, pronounced distinctly against the proposed innovation of ladies riding astrido ijroioseu innuvjinoii ui iiuuuriumiTciai;riug and declares that n woman who knows how to ride, and who adopts a well made saddle, a short, properly cut skirt, without hem or footstraps, and a plain, light, racing stir rup, without an padding to catch the in step or imbed the foi.t. is quite .is safe, and even safer, in her side position, with the pommels to give her "purchase," than a man is with his leg pressure and even seat. Neck "Wear for 3Icn. Neck wear, we are assured on as high au thority as Clothier and Furnisher, has be come an item of expense scarcely second to none in the swell's wardrobe. Tho lower cut of the waistcoats and coats at the neck will bring tho Landsomo Ascots and Do Joinvilles into still greater favor. When the dark, solid color textures in clothing are the rule for spring and summer, the sale of tho delicate light shades in neck wear is greatly increased, and vice versa. The faith in Windsors, as shown by the multiplicity of the designs exhibited, pre sages an outing season that will afford tho summer young man a widely horizoned scope for tho exercise of his vagaries. In Windsors, therefore, tho impetus under which the great body of this style will be sold that is, to be worn with light outing suits the quieter patterns should enjoy a greater run than what appears to bo the more seasonable designs. The American makers of neck wear have generally adopt ed only the shades and patterns of tho im ported styles of last season. The slato shades of blue, elephant, heliotrope gray and skv smoke, all with well accentuated black iigurings, aro the choice of what may be bought. A Styllih Shoulder Cape. The shoulder cape shown in the cut is a pretty and stylish example of one of the popular features of out-of-door toilets at this season. These jaunty little capes are much affected by youthful wearers and aro very graceful and becoming to slender figures. A s tt rorXG LADT'S SHOCXUEK CAPE. The cape here illustrated is of dark brown vigosme, with velvet plastron and collar. The h.tt worn with it is of fancy straw Vi fawn color, with soft green ribbon bows. An Act of Coni-age. Romantic Person He is penniless and without prospects, and yet Ehe loves and will marry him. Practical Person Brave, brave girl! "But why so particularly brave?" "To trust herself to him." Chicago Times. Not Like Santa Clan. Bobby Don't be ecsred yet Johnnie. Perhaps your father didn't mean it when he said he would lick you. Little Johnnie Yes, he did. It wags': as if he hsti prem&ed to bring me boiae a new whistle. Enoch, - m8to Six JEtf SO! Yon Ma chirp about yer cities an' yer miles o broTraston fronts, An' yer Bwarries, -balls an cepshuns, an yer other plaisare hunte; FerTectic light an boss cars an' steam b'flers whlslln srill; But them's the things wot never suits yer homely Uccle BU1I Yer brown sttm fronts looks pert enuff an' solid like an1 clean, But ain't nothln to aifann house nes'nn' white amongst the green; An yer boasted ol serciety'a a pock o' lies, b'gosh! Worser'n patent med'eino clrlars er Doc "Wls- gins' -jrcather bosh ! An knovrin' at her time hes cum to help aH things rejoice, The ole cow in the clorer flel lifts up her good ole voice, An' inn'cent like the peaceful lambs begins to skip an' romp, Wlrilo the bullfrog gargles out his throat 'way back tber in the swamp. The time I alius feel the mileenyum's come to pas3 Is after supper's over aa' I'm settin on the grass A-lis"nin' to the cherrup o' the birds among the trees A-twitterin' sweeter music 'an iliss Patty to the breeze. Wot comes sobbin' through the branches fer to kiss the djin sun An' goes iiirnn' with the swallera 'fore the kiss is half begun. While the sun keeps peggin right along a-layia on bis paint, 'ilid the whis'lo o the chlc'dee and tho night hawk's s'rill complaint. An' so I set here, happy, 'ith tho children at my knees A-askm' lots o' fool queshuns about tho bazsia bees. An when the wind hes died away an' err7timn is still I stretch my legs along the grass an' say outwith a wilL "Sam folks hankers fer the city, but this sniU yer Uncle Bill I" K. C. Tapley in Judge. Another Sad Failure The other forenoon a man was learnna ' over tho railing of the "bridge at one of the piers and looking down tho bay, when an other man came along and accosted him with: "Excuse me, sir, "but can" "Never am without it," interrupted tho first, as he turned and presented a plug of tobacco. "Thanks, but I don't chew. I wanted to Rsk you" "Yes, Fvo got a match," he interrupted again, as ho pulled ono from his vest pocket. "I don't want a match. Iwanttoask" "Go and buy your own cigars," growled the first as he turned away. "Man who tries to accommodate is always sura to get left." New York Sun. Getting JEvcn. "Why, Tommy, you're not at the jam again, and only spanked for it an hour ago?" "Yes, mar; I heard you tell tumtio you thought you had whipped mo too hard, and I thought I'd even thing3 up." Tho Jester. Smart, if He "Was a Dado. "I am told that you are writing poetry again," said Miss Belle Pepperton to Willie Wishington. "No; I twied, you know, but I gave it up." "That is too bad, I'm sure. Why didn't you persevere?" "Well, I found, you know, that there was no way of making 'youth' and 'beauty' and 'gwace' and 'loveliness' whymo with Belle, so I gave it up." Washington Post. Biddy's Solo. "Since my visit to the country last sum mer," observed Jonesby, "I have always wondered why naturalists do not class tho hen among the highly musical birds." "Why should they?" asked Weeks won- deringly. "Because she always gets off her little lay in the presence of company." Amer ican Grocer. "Working Up a Sensation. Reporter I have a great scheme. City Editor (eagerly) What is it Reporter Let me have 525 and I'll write np a three column sensation on "How it feels to have a new suit." Clothier and Furnisher. Chango About Is Talr Play. "Have you got so you can ride your bi cycle?" "Yes, at last." "How was it at first?" "It rode me." Chicago Times. 2fo, Jnst Bight. Brown I saw a plate of boiler iron rolled out today until it was no thicker thau a sheet of tissue paper. Robinson (incredulous) Oh, that's too thin. Washington Star. rolishfd Off by tho Police. I see that a noted thief out west swal lowed a valuable shirt stud to escape de tection. Sort of diamond in the rough, eh? American Grocer. Waxlnp and Wanlnp. "Is this the chancellor's seal?" "Yes." "Bismarck is no longer on the war." "No, on tho -wane." New York Sun. Very Singular. '"Curious fact in scpentology.,, ""What's that?" "It is the snake that is rattled that gets in the best work." New York Sun. Ten, Indeed. First Goose You aro shedding yoeff leathers. Second Goose Yes; it is a great down fall, isn't it? Exchange. He Keeded the Money. "TVilliani Waldorf Astor haa just old S1.000.CO0 worth of real estate." "He wanted to buy a little ice, I suppose." Naw York Sun. The Reaon. "I wonder," said a department clert to Willie Wishingion, 'why so many of tha inscriptions on the tombstones are in Latin" "Perhaps," said Willis after &zl thought, "it's because Latin's a dead lan guage, you know." Washington Post. The Kiad of JotM He Liked. Contributor What kind of jokes do you prefer Editor Leap year jokes. Contributor Way? Editor Because it takes them focr years to get aroand again. Seystpne. THE ROSE OF FLAME." Sketch of Anne Beeve Aldrich, a Rising; literary Star. Specie Correspondence. Boston, May 12. Some time ago there flashed upon the reading world a volume of poems entitled ''The Ecse of Flame," by Anne Reeve Aldrich. Intense, tingling with life and magnetism, full of intuitive vision and imaginative grace that fasci nated and baffled readers by the very white heat of the feeling embodied. Now there comes a novel by the same author, "The Feet of Love," and the world is asking who is Anne Reeve Aldrich? Mis3 Aldrich is a native of New York, where she was born in 1S5C In her early girlhood her father removed to Long Island, but four years ago the family returned to New York, where they are now living. The young girl received most of her instruction under masters at home, although the most valuable part of her education, perhaps, was that which she absorbed, rather than consciously acquired, from browsing at will in a large and varied Kbrary. As a child she was especially fond of the old dramatists and of mediaeval literature. "I used to print little stories and plays as soon as I could form the letters," she said recently to a friend, "but when I was about 7 1 left off tliis primitive literature and became absorbed in instituting a kind of fairy worship among my little play mates: An entire new religion, with an in visible fairy god, to whom we made offer ings of fruit and poured out our oblations, and who was supposed to live in the trunk of a certain tree, before which we always prostrated ourselves in passing." AXXE REEVE ALDRICH. The comedy element in this is supplied by the fact that the children's parents be came frightened at this reconstruction of a modern Druidic religion, and the children were forbidden to join in this worship of unknown gods, leaving the imaginative little Anne a very forlorn priestess with no devotees. When about 15 her poetic gift began to as sert itself unmistakably. She sent a crudo little poem to Scribner's Monthly (now The Century magazine) and Mr. Gilder, who was then assistant editor, returned it as a mat ter of course, but sent with it so kind a letter that the young girl trod on air after reading it. Mr. Gilder has alwaj-s con tinued to be Miss Aldrich's friend, and his occasional criticism has been most valua ble to her. Sinco that first audacity of early youth, Miss Aldrich has had poems accepted by Tho Century. Miss Aldrich loves the city as Thoreau did the country. She wants people, always. It is life, not nature, that appeals to her. It is the intensest lifo with which she is in sympathy,. Her poems included in tho vol ume, "The Bose of Flame," do not, of course, appeal to thoso who only care for verso that celebrates nature. She is, in deed, the daughter of the intensest period of modern life, who "would be, see, taste, feel all." Personally Miss Aldrich is very lovely. A slight, graceful figure; a countenance exquisitely chiseled, with dark hair rip pling away fiom a broad, low brow, and eyes luminous in their starry depths. She is fond of writing in the silent, lonely hours of the night, when the world is still. There is about her a fascinating kind of Hellenic grace; and in the refinement, the choice diction, and the mingled intensity and passionate power of her romance there lies promise and prophecy of brilliant and lasting achievement. Lilian WnrnHa. Senator Earts and Sitting Hull. Albaxy, N. Y., May 12. Senator Evarts is the possessor of a rather striking picture of the late Indian chief Sitting Bull, given him during the visit of $ie Sioux delegates to Washington. The senator prizes it high ly, for he had something akin to admiration for tho copper colored savage who slew Gen. Custer's troop, never took govern ment rations, never traveled among tho i Writes to learn how to civilize his people, and cavo the United States army moro trouble than all the Indians of the plains put together. Never shall I forget tho circumstances under which I first saw this really brave and famous warrior sevwi years ago. It was at the laying of the corner stone of the capitol of Dakota at Bismarck, and there was there a unique and remarkable ex hibition of men and manners. I do not believe any city or state in tho Union has held at one time so historic, in teresting and remarkable a body of celebri ties as sat upon the rude little platform which covered the foundation stones of Dakota's territorial capitol. There were Gen. Grant and Sitting Bull (the latter ' ;3VY brought up from the Sioux reservation,1018 elaborated by tho reat J? near by), Hon. V.'. M. Evarts, the Earl of b,"oVslri.SHASKS-Dr. '1 Onslow, Baron Salvator, Carl Schurz and Henry Villard, the towering Governor Ord wiy, the English ambassador, the German minister, half a dozen French and British nobles and as many American governors. The new capitol is, or was then, a mile or two out on the prairie they expected Bis- marck togrowtonv-and the exercises took place during the early morning. Around tis platform was frinsi one of the strangest mixtures of the human family 1 1 have ever seen. There were cowboys and tenderfoots, Indians in the glory of wax paint, Chinamen redolont of opium, roach , 6hirtod pioneers, l&diett and gentlemen from the polite societv of two continents, j Bismarck maidens ont in the bravery of whited reuses and crimson ribbons, citizens of Mandan across the Missouri, with tb suggestion of a sneer in their adding to Btimarcks glory, the hard fisted herds men and farmers from miles away, and the shek keen eyed gambler, who area prom- i incnt part of All frontier town. Sontraage and mixed a congregation of men and wo- ( men probably iwver gathered together in one place and doubtless never will again. Into the corner stone box nearly all the celebrities placed their eards. Sitting Ball r.. .Tr!'A? nn t zLra.tr1 VAm tnCAryunk i H piClBUCti VU w , w m wjaa. f af w uaHiwi(i.1it, and as he laid it in the box Mr Evarts bundled up in a cost foor fxzfA to big for him, dropped his name into the receptacle aLo. The two cards Sastered down simol taueously. The great Indian's face dis played no sign of intelligence as the ex secretary gracefully lifting nia hat to tha Sioux ehM, neatly said: "Sitting Ball, posterity will know that we called toysher' I". W. W. On HI Dimity. Dick Strapt I can't see, Mose. why yon call this Uttle ptoee a "Toosorial Empo rium.'' Why. you have oeiy o&e eoair? ProfesjMjr Harecott Yoia, ah; bot doesn't dat rbe-w d& I do ar high toned V exchtsi" boaei All my patrons am shaved by the bo;. Pack. A Sascr.tIa-2 "Give me V7." shouted Cbsm lot the telephone. Be rftpeoied it six times aasooeesofelly, and tivea Faagie sgsad: TrTfisiWaiUBJ)rfcsc em& gradn alty WKi ?. Yet Sec THE WICHITA EAGLE JLT, .31. Murdoclc d? JBro., Proprietors. PRINTERS, BINDERS il BLANK BOOK MIS. AH kinds of county, towDship and school district records and blanks. Legal "blanks of every des cription. Complete stock of Justice's dockets and "blanks. Job printing of aH fcinds. 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Branch Ofrtre 133 North Main Street Yards connected with all railroads in tho oity DOCTOR PURDY, Surffcon, Oculist and Aurist 154 N MAIN ST., WICHITA, KAN. Tim rtoctor civos snori.il attention to the treatment of all diseases of the EYE, including the sciuutillc adjust ment of glassed to correct imperfect virion. CATARACT removed and sight re stored to many who have been totally blind. CROSS EYES straightened in ono minute. SORE EYES cured without the use of caustics or other harmful agents. ARTIFICIAL EYES carefully select ed and applied. DEAFNESS All curable cases of deafness promptly cured. (CLASSES Only those who have had a thorough training should attempt tolitirlass.es. lest they do the patient more harm than good. Many cases of nervousness, irritability, insomnia, headache, crtigo and seeming stu pidity in children aro due to defective a Wum and are removed at once by the application of proper glasses. Doctor J'nray has achieved a suc cess little less than phenominal an a general surgeon, treating Mithcrrcat success delormities. club foot, curva ture of the spine, hip joint disease, white swelling, diseases of the bone, cancer, ulcers, tumors, old sores, hair lip, facial blemishes, skin and blood diseases, etc. Syphiles absolutely cured. Doctor J'tirdy was late pro fessor of surgery in the Wichita .Medi cal College and Surgeon to St. Francis Hospital, having relinquished tho above positions in order to devote hia entire time to his specialties. N. U. Siipcriluoiies hair, racial blem ishes, moles, etc., removed by elec tricity. Correspondence solicited. Consultations free. Iv. J PURDY, M. I). DOCTOR TERRELL, 154 N MAIN ST., WrCINTA, KAN. CureM diseases of women heretofore. abandoned bv the profession. Such a.n fibroid tumors, displacements. n- ,. ,. ,' ' .., k , ....... larireinents, pralnpHiis. etc., by the mm of electricitv. according to the mctli- J- reuch rerrlU l wishes to call llic attention or llioe hutfcniifr from nervous dteeRMC. par- , wonderful curatie cllectft to b de rived from "electricity" wJien hcIpm tincally applied, and deirei to state that he make- the application of ew- ..., ..nnvo.au llU.iuii u n.uil fentuJ.e of hiH pracUce. The iWtor jllR3 the ,in(Ma fifty duwnond carlwa cell battery ever eea In the west and all the appliances especially adantocl to the treatment of lot in au hood or seminal weakness, which he quick ly and permanently cures by tho aid of electricity. CATAlum Krery cape of catarrh is curable if properly treated, resravrd esofwhat others have ajd. .Many cases cured by a sinjrfe treatment, J'JLKS. fistula and all rectal diseases cured: no knife, no pain; a care xar anteod. I'relbcral Strictures quickly and permanently cured; no cutumx or . n.nwv until piit.kI CHRONIC "DISBASBS KS R ronch f tia. asthma, hay fever, all throal and Innx troubles, skin eruptions, rheumatism, dropsy, Brisrht's disease, bladder, kidney and urinary difntnm, blood Pj fjjljjfj AiA dlae of iitVtiwt nB(,Wl. h nnnsnv t,r.ii ,- ttim .w tr.inniit. wUkmit the poisoiioiifc drniri of day -me by, Medicine sent to all part of the country. Send for question blaak. J. IL TKRRILL. 31. D READ THE WEEKLY if ICHITA .- EAGLE! Contain Mor State ami General News and K&a&era Dispatches tha any paper in Ue Soolkwewt. TER2IS Or SUBSCJtirTWX: O.VBYBA.E. ..... $10 j SIX MO"T!HS M Business Manager. W. T. BAECOCK. Yloo President. Secretary and Treasurer. I SPECIAL. Our Scale Books are Printed on Good Paper, JPRIC1Z I;IST: SinglCvBook.....,., Three Books..,-.. $75 .. -. . . 200 bix,Books v.... .. 3 75 Single Book by mall'prepald .... 85 Address, THE WICHITA EAGLE, Wicliitu, Kansas. R. P. 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