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PWWBWW SPoJ1.- 7M'. 2.li& OFAFOHGEMACIIUiiCE. INTERESTING LETTER FROM DAVID KER, THE TRAVELER. Ho TYrit3 of St. BartUoIomew's, London, and tho BlackhinitU "Who Holds Forth Therein A Corner of the "World's Me tropolis Not Often Visited. Special Correspondence. "Cloth Workers' Rots-," Losdo, Jan. L. "What we have seen this moroias would Illustrate aptly a great Eucliih novelist's soniparism of tho old Loudon churches to "littk hollows of sacred silenco scooped out of tno eternal roar and bustle around them." Such spots aro abundant here, for this place where we stand was once the very heart of "London City" when London City was in its prime; and not only itself, but every avenue leading to it, is fatnous alike in history and in fiction. "What name is that on tho corner of yonder gloomy itreot of somber, antique looking houses, through which we passed just now? It is "Little Britain," that quaint, old fashioned district which (though sadly changed since then) was described by "Wash ington Irving with characteristic vividness and humor, in one of the best chapters of his inimitable "Sketch Boolc.V And only a few hundred j-ards from it, on tho other si do of the great market placo, stands a large build ing (left vacant by the transfer of tho re nowned "Charterhouso School" to another site), along the shndowy cloisters of which, two generations ago, wandered, deep in thought, a grave, studious, taciturn school boy, nicknamed by his comrades "Philoso pher Harry," but destined in after years to write his namo forever in history as Sir Hen ry naveloclc PiaOIt BOITOX'S WINDOW I ST. BARTHOLO MEW'S cnTJKcn. A little farther to tho right lies the noisy, muddy, crowded thoroughfare of Aldersgato street, from which tho last of its famous alders has long since vanished as utterly as that "commodious garden liouse" in which mjre than two centuries ago Worthy Master Jolin Milton enjoyed "that quiet t-eclusion wliich every studious man lovoth," but which tho great poet would now seek in vain on the ha.no spot, with the traffic of all London roar ing past his door and the rattling, shrieking trams of the Underground iletropolitau rail way shaking tho very earth beneath his feet every ten minutes. Beyond it winds a straggling street of dingy bouses, which, shabby and unattrac tive as it looks, is a household word through out the whole civilized world. This is no other than Goswell street, and that window may perhaps be the very wiudow from which Mr. Pickwick's spoctaclod face used to look out upa the world every morning, and this door tho very door at which Sam Weller knocked when ho carried the last installment of his inj irod master's rent to the ungrateful llrs. Ba:idolL From this point, ages ago, the old "norriiorn highway" zigzagged away over tho swampy flats of the great "Bone Hill Field," where tho Saxons of tho Seventh century buried their dead a name which still survives in that of the city burial ground of Bonhill Fields, where, amid a crowd of less2r English worthies, rests the honored dnsi of John Bunyan and of Daniel Defoe. "Wore wo to follow the dim, narrow tnunel like windings of Cloth Fair or Cloth Work ers' Row, and the cobweb of dark lanes be yond it, wo should come ere long to another spot mora famous than alL Half way down bustling Eastcheap, a gilded boar's head, pro jec Jug its huge tusks and bristly snout over the busy throng below, marks tho ancient site of tho immortal "Boaro's Hedde Taverno of Eastchope." Hero it was that red nosed Bai-dolph, and swaggering Pistol, and sen tentious Nym, aud sly, tricksy Poins, and the rccldcss Princo himself (with the grand quali ties of Henry V already she whig themselves through the nscumed wildness of "Madcap Ha? rallied nightly around the vast full fed bul i and jolly, roguish, laughter brimming vis.Tgo of "Honest Jack Falstaff." They we "0 no saints, as Judge Gascoigno could hae told us; but they will still be fresh and Iiviae in tho memory of all ninnkiud when un iv better men aro forgotten. A hoarse bolloiring and trampling of hoofs breaks our day dream, and wo turn just in t.ne to see a drovo of cittle vanish beneath the huge iron arches of the now Smithlleld me it market, which a newly arrived Arab cr Hindoo, watching its ec?aMie.N.s eddy of whkiug talcs aud tossmg bonis, would prob all f mistake for some great temple of the national deity, John Bull. But Smithfld has other and nobler memories than tho; of more buying and sailing memories that will cn ureas long as England itself. "Thisday," writes an honest London c;tizn in his diary for the year 1557, "thre were pubheh burned at Smithfield five jwrsons .'doomed to dec th by the queen's royal grace a heretic and blasphemers of the holy Catholic church), whereof three men. ono woman, and a youth of tender years, the which was dragged along by the doomsnian and his helpers, stxiing that by reason of the rack and other soro torments v.-l ich he had endured, he might not stand wi hont aid. Theo five were all Imrned to gether, praising God, and giving good words i:n o them that slew them, in so much that tho priests who stood by declared that of a truth these pestilent heretics must be hard o" d by the power of their master the devil. jut to me, noting their constancy and the ni jkuess of their behavior (the like whereof I had never seen before), it seemed rather as if they were upheld by tho hand of God."' Vlong one side of the great market place to vors up as if keeping wKtch over thut memorable spat a stately building of hewed ft ne, arounutuc door of which are crowding a throng of pab, sickly looking men aud wo men, many of them with bandaged heads n:.d limbs. On this spot, more than eight centuries ago, the court minister of King H-mry I of Eugland. worthy Master Rahere, founded with the wealth ani!ied in his gain ful calling "a house for the care of poore f olke tl at bene sicke or hurt in rut wyse, to the h nor and prayse of the hle.-sM Sauct Bar tf.olomow," and this house grew by degree into tha famous "St. Bartholeme vr's horutal," Vhen Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria, When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria, When she became Miss, she clun to Castoria, When sh had Children, she cato them Castoria, Vlrr "safer f iwa. familiarly known among tha medical studente as "Su Bart's." With a passing thought that a auuffciio was flayed olivi is, array approprlato pairon for a district w&era so many persons are daily skiunod b,' tho sharp practice of tha business men who inhabit it, I cross tho road way to exaiaino another relic of tho past, more curious stdL Squeeaod up 'between two huge, pretentious looking house?, of smoky brick (which elbow it so closely that a careless observer might easily pass it unnoticed) stands a splendid Norman arcfcwa-, the nobl3 outline of which, hemmed in by the gaunt, grimy, modern ugliness around it, might suggest the thought of some grand old French marquis amid the tatterjd, hfowling, filthy rabble of tlio Reign of Terror. Its sculptuied cornices have ut terly perished, and the fine antique pillars that once (supported it have long since mold ered awa;r, but the magnificent groined arch itself stijl stands forth defiantly between these dingy masses of brickwork, and just above it, in rheumatic-letters of twisted iron, is the io.scriptiou: ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE GREAT. "St. Bartholomowtthe Grate' would be nearer the mark," thought I, glancing at th rusty iron bars of tlto gate that now closes the narrow archway. I '.vas unconscious of having spoken my thou ght aloud, till a hoarse chuckle at my elbo w apprised me that some one else was reli,hing the joko more highly than it de serves, and, turning quickly, I find myself faca to faco with a stalwart policeman, over whoso hard, wooden, official visage flickers a gleam of very unwonted mirth. '"You're just about right there, sir," says he, "and as you seem to be on tho lookout for curios, would you just tell me did you ever happen to s:ee a smith's forge ut work in tho middle of a church?'' "2ot that I know of, my man. Out in the east I've seen cavalry horses stabled in a Tar tar tomb by the Cossacks, and a queer sight it was; but a blacksmith's forge in a church is something new to mo. Where is such a thing to bo seen''' "Well, all you've got to do is jnst to walk slap in through this hero gate and you'll sea it fast enough leastways you'll soo the church, for the forge has been took away. But it's a grim sort o' place in there, and if I was anyway narvous I shouldn't like to bo in it at night all alone, that's a fact, with all them doad men about. Folks do say," he adds, in a ghostly whisper, "that tho chap as built that church buried alive his only child under the pavement of tho chancel for a sort of a h'offering like, to bring good to the work; and, sure enough, when they begun restorin' tho old place t'other day and took up tiiat 'ere pavement, they did find some bones underneath, but whether 'twas the child or not nobody knows." My curiosity is aroused and in I go. So startling is tho sudden change from the broad daylight and deep unslackening roar outside to the tomb like silence and twilight within, that tho policeman's ghastly legend is hardly needed to heighten its chilling effect. Dickens himself, with all his terrible power of describing tho human dens of Lon don, woukl have failed to do justice to the horrible pit of Bartholomew court, damp and dark and foul as a disused well, and shut out fr-om the very daylight by tho gaunt blac): chimnoys and griiuy walls that almost ineef, overhead. Kiearly tho whole area of this evil place is fitly occupied by one of those frightful burial grounds familiar to all readers of "Bleak Ho use" and "A Christmas Carol," every foot of which, even to the rusty, tumblo down iron railings around it, and the narrow strip of broken, muddy pavement outside, is rank with foulness and decay. So high above the ground is this moss of putrefaction piled up that I actually look up to the graves instead of looking down upon chem, and tho green, slimy, moldering tombstones stare into tho lowest windows of the houses, so that the living seem to be eating and sleeping in tho actual presence of the dead. If ever any place on earth was haunted, this spot ccrtaiiily ought to bo so; and, in fruth, no risen corpse could look more hkloous and unearthly than these defoiined, diseased, skeleton monsters (with no sign of childhood save their diminutivo size) who start up at my approach, with an impish yell, from among the tombs, which are their only playground. Such children might well seem born of no earthly mother, but pro duced spontaneously, like poisonous fungi, from the festering mass of rottenness below. Far back in the innermost corner of this foul den, where the shadows fall deepest and darkest, the gr:md old Norman church of St. Bartholomew the Great rears its square, mas sive tower proudly against tho gray, sullen sky abovo all tho loathsomeness and horror around it, like a great soul bearing up against undeserved misfortunes. Though deformed alike by the ravages of time and by that wholesale defacement facetiously called "res toration," it still retains such traces of its an cient splendor as may havo lingered around sonu gallant English cavalier, who. even when beggared and banished and sunk into the com rade of pirates and bandits, still preserved the nameless impress of what he had once been. But its rich antiqne moldings havo long since crumbled to ruin, its heraldic escutcheons and Norman monuments are obliterated like the memory of thoso whose renown they were meant to preserve, and although the sacrilegious "blacksmith's forgo" is no longer there, it has left behind it many an unsightly token of its presence. I afterwards learned that the spot on which tho forge had stood in tho interior of tho church had been formally leased to the in genious smith, and that when the restoration of the building was set on foot, this "master of irony"' flatly refused to vocato the place till ho had received full compensation for being deprived of his consecrated workshop, on which occasion a small local wit spitefuHy observed that "it was not the first time that tho protecting shadow of the chnrch had been cost over a system of deliberate forgery." Altogether, it was certainly one of the strangest sights that I have over behekl, al though not a whit stranger than what I cx- L poet to see threo or four months hence among the ruins of tho ancient females that lie hid i in the depths of tho forests of Java. David Keb. Bookmakers and the rari-Mutuel la Pari. M. Daumas, municipal councillor of Paris, is about to bring before his colleagues, in the name of tho Asistance Tublique. a report on tho question of bookmakers and the pari mutuoL From this report it appears that by the suppression of tho bookmakers the poor of the Aty have been losers to tho ex tent of about .2S,0C0 per annum; that is to say, the commission payable by the book makers in the event of their being re-established is estimated to produce 50.000, whore as tho commissions paid by the pari-mutuel offices for tho two years past hare only amounted to JC1S.0O0 ajcac down Full or Pins. A man weighing 000 pounds aud as round as a football ran screaming from tbo dye bouse at 2,546 Cottage Grove avenue yester day morning. His form ciistened like steel as he rushed to the drug store a: Twenty sixth street and Cottage Grove avenue. His rotund form was completely covered with pins, which were sticking deep in every por tion of his anatomy. "Get a tnck hammer and pull these pins out quick r shouted tha fat man, who was Henry "VVimg. Theu he told how the boiler head in the dye house f which he is the proprietor had. blown out jind scattered a box of pins stand ing near mith such fore that he was literallv btuck full of thosx from head to foot, givkr him the appearance of an animated pincush ion. The-clerk went to work as if he were pulling tacks, and managed to extract sev eral papers of pins from the fat man's body. At each pull of the hammer Wing uttoreda green of anjuLA. Finally the last tormentor was extracted and the Kil&rer braathed eai r. Chieaffo Trifcun. ESTTER-AMERICM ROADS. A LINE TO CONNECT FIVE REPUB LICS WITH THE UNITED STATES. Extraordinary Difficulties in the Way &. Central Bonte Possibly Pnteticabio Vast Natural Wealth, of the Country to Bo Opened. That so intelligent and practical a people as tho Americans should build a railroad three-fourths of the way around a semicircl when they have water transportation straight across it was so unlikely that few people paid anv attention to the proposition for a trunk I lino connecting North and Sontfa America. But a modified form of the scheme has gained some favor, and the legislature of Virginia has granted a charter to a company which will make the preliminary surveys. This company's plan is to use water trans portation from the gulf ports of the United States to Cartagena in the northwest corner of South America, and thence build a rail road through Colombia, Ecuador and part of Peru to Cuzco, to connect there with other lines running to Buenos Ayres and other far southern ports. Thus, it is claimed, can New York be brought within eight days of Lima and twelve of Valparaiso. The difficulties are confessedly enormous, but they aro much less than thoso in tho way of an all rail route. Down the Pacific coast, as at first suggested, tho lino would cross tho deepest canyons and sharpest ridges projecting westward from tho main range. Its construction would bankrupt I a nation. Along the plateau of tho Andea, where the Incus had their wonderful high-wa-, the grades would often amount to 7,000 feet to the mile. East of tho Andes tho lino proposed from a port iu Venezuela southward would cross hundreds of miles of lands over flowed in the wet season and deadly with malaria for half the year, and if the line were located further west, it would have to cross all tho eastward spurs of tho Andes. All these are impracticable, and of the route last proposed the practicability is not yet proved. It is claimed, however, that a central lina can be found from Cartagena to Cuzco by which streams and canyons can bo followed, as on the Union Pacific, and the first work pro posed by the company is a thorough survey of this line. There is, strictly speaking, no system of South American railroads, nor is a system like that of the United States and Canada practicable. There are, however, soveral thousand mUes of railway built aud in pro cess of construction, stretching inland from various ports. The Arequipa and Puno road has crossed tho Andes, and the Lima road re quires only the completion of a tunnel, while Chili is building one lino from Valparaiso to a connection with Buenos Ayres aud another from the port of Antofagasta to Potosi in , Bolivia. A lino from Buenos Ayres is also beirg pushed towards Potosi, aud when com pleted these will form a continuous line across the southern part of South America, but in form about like a fish hook. If the proposed lino proves practicable, tho road will certainly be a profitable enterprise. With some connections it will make Cuzco the center of as complete a system as South America can have, and five great republics would bo brought into close commercial union. Of course branch lines would soon be constructed down the eastern slope of tho Andes into Brazil, connecting with the heads of navigation on her wonderful rivers; and it almost makes an enterpriser's mouth water to think that Brazil contains a million square miles of unbroken forest thick sot with the most valuable timber in the world a region where savages ccok their reptile meats at fires made of rosewood and mahogany. THE PP.OPOSED IXTKE-AMEIUCAJf ROADS. Through all this vast region only the rub ber tree is utilized, and that only on the river banks where it can be reached by canoes . Brazil claims to have 40,000 miles of navigable waters, all connecting with the Amnzon, which is nearly 100 miles wide whore it enters the ocean ; its basin embraces twenty-five degrees of latitude and thirty five of longitude; aud yet through all that vast region there are but a few posts for re ceiving and shipping rubber, and under present conditions tliat work can be carried on for no more than a third of the year. It is the Amazon alono, with its branches, that renders any government or civilization pos sible in the heart of South America. Be tween its diverging branches are dense for ests as yet unseen by white men, and some of them inhabited by cannibals. Verily, rail roads aro needed, and if white men can re tain their vigor there, even for a short term, tlie trade thus developed would be immensely profitable. Colombia, the first republic crossed by tho proposed line, covers 320,C85 square miles and contains about 4,000,000 people, of whom less than 100,000 aro wild Indians. Itspeopleare tolerably progressive, aud it is capable of an immense production of coffee, cotton, tobacco and cinchona baric Ecuador, the next re public to be crossed, covers 24S.312 square miles nnd contains only a million white peo ple and 200,000 IndUns. It is a vast moun tain plateau, with msaiy high and fertile val leys, and though its capital, Quito, is directly on tho equator, the climate is remarkably cool and bracing. Peru comes next, wfch 432.297 square miles and about 3,000,000 peopl just now recover ing from the complete prostration caused by the Chilian war. Its valleys are said to be tho most fertile iu the world, its guano and nitrate deposits inexhaustible, and its silver mines very rich. Bolivia has 586,200 square miles and about 2,500,000 people. Its farm lands lie in successive plateaus, thus produc ing every product from the most delicate fruits of the trop?c3 to the small grains and hard woods of th? cold temperate regions. It contains the highest mountains on the west ern hemisphere and the greatest silver mraes in the world the Potoji, which has yielded $1,600,000,000 since 1370. Such are the re publics which the Virginia company proposes to bring to our doors. Verity, the scheme is worth looking into. VALUE OF COINS. Ruble of Russia, from 54.4 to 55.S cents. Rupee of India, from S2.S to 33.22 cents. Florin of Atistrta, from 33.6 to S4.5 cents. Mahbubof Tripoli, from 6L4 to S2.9 centt Bolivia of Veneuela, from 13.6 to 14cent3. Dollar or peso of Mexico, from 73.9 to 73.8 cents. Silver yen or dollar of Japan, from 75.4 to 75.2 cents. Silver dollar cf Bolivia, Colombia, Ecca aor, Peru nnd the Ceatral America states, frcm S3 to .S CfaU. 3 WhC 8RA2IU J I f o - If USIE BARC1AY dWBMaMBBMHSMBH Is the heroine of the delight ful Novelette, 4 'f B Tom Tyler's Tombstone, From the pen of MART S. WALKER, winch will shortly he putv shed in this paper. CHEVALIER SCOVEL. Oelis line Singer as Veil Brave Man. Chevalier Scovelisoneof the best known of the many good tenors on tho American oper atic stage. His success during the past year, whilca member of tho Boston ,Ideal Opera :ompany, has proved bis right to bo consid sred of the foremost, vocally aud dramat ically, in the United States. Scovol first cams into celebrity as the lead ing tenor of the Into Carl Rasa's company in Great Britain, and as ich created the dif3 zulfc role of Lohengrin in English. Ho is a chevalier of the .Legion of Honor, not by favor, but because of gallantry and bravery. Ono clay while riding in the Eois de Boulogne, the fashionable and famous public drive ot the Parisians, lie res cued the wife of President iloc Mahou from a per ilous situation. The team attached to the landau in which the ladv was riding became nn- and thrown the :hman from his started hrougfa tho maze of vehicles at a break neck pace. CHEVALIE3 SCOVEL. Scovel, who happened to be in the park at the time mounted on horseback, galloped along beside them and at an opportune- ifio ment? threw himself from his saddle upon tho back of the nearest horse. After a hr.rd struggle with tho infuriated animal ho suc ceeded in stopping tho team and averting a serious disaster. Asarcsnlt of his bravery ho was made a chevalier. The chevalier is connected by marriage with ono of the most aristocratic families in New York, and is very jwpular on account of his personal qualities and brilliant ability in tellectually and 'artistically. In the roles of Edgardo in Donizetti's "Lucia di Laramer moor," and of Manrico in "II Trovatora," ho is exceptionally good. Scovel received his musical education from the groat Lamperti, in Italy, with whom ho studied for six years. W1LHELM SEDLMAYER. Xbe Well Known Tenor W1k Recently Died in Now York. When tbo "Barber of Bagdad" was first sung at tho Metropolitan Opera house in New York a few weeks ago tho audience was charmed by tho fine voice of the Cadi. Herr Wilbelm Sedlmayer sang th part, and sang it well, on that opening night; but it was the last part he ever sang. Death bad his hand on the cord that was to ring down the oar tain on his life at the moment when the stage manager touched tho signal for tho drop to fall on tho last scene of the "Barber of Bag dad." Herr Sedlmayer wns not feelfaijr well when he went on the stage that night, bnt, tree artist and faithful worker, he did the work of the night conscientiously aud well. He evea seemed to pus a touch of unusual rich ness and feeling into his tonee. The fact that his voico was never raided in songagain gives this fact a peculiar significance. His illness grow worso, became serious, aad in less than a week lie died. Herr Sedlmayer received his early training at tiro Conservatory of Music at Vienna, his native city. He played important lyric tenor parts at tho Vienna Opera boose, but won his first great success iu the comic opera of "Lortzeing." From Vienna he went to the Court theatre, at Munich, and had since sung at all the principal opera houses of the continent. His last European engagement was at Hamburg, where Mr. Stanton engaged him to go to New York expressly to take the parts of lEme m the "liibolungenring" and David in "Die iLeistersinger," roles in which his suc cess win be pleasantly remembered by lovers of the opera. In privato life Herr Sedlmayer was amia ble and unassuming. His wife, to whom he was devoted, survives him. Another Yacht Uiwler Yfay. Another English boat is to cross the At lantic during 1890 and try to win the cop from America's yachtsmen. She is at pres ent under coarse of caastructJon at Fay's yard, Southampton, and will be of the fol lowing dimenRoois: Length over all, 111 feet; length on water line, 84 feet; length on keeL 54 feet; draught, 13 feet 6 inches; lead ballast on keel, 72 tons; beam, 19 feet; structure, composite; sail area, 7,500 square feet. Tb craft wiH be a centerboard boat, and her centerboard will be 27 feet long, raearorfoff fore and aft, and will bani up just endor the cabin Doors. Mr. George L. Watson, the designer of t&e famous Thistle, is building her, and Jameson, of Dublin, the for mer owner of the Irex, is the owner. Mr. Watson was bom in Glasgow in 1851, and there served his appren ticcsblp tc-tbe ship building trade with the well known firm-of BobertNa- pr & oons. in 1S72 he started basinets for him self in Giafgow as a naval architect. and has bad a fair GS02GE l watbojt. amount -of success in his peculiar aod ardnoui professioc Competitjoe in ship building is keener and more harasrinj than ia many o&jer professions, and Eucceasrol men nxs for. 3r. Wateoa is a roan of about rS years, tail and somewaat sparely built. He is slightly stoop shooideree. Whether Designer, Waisoa'-s lat?rt. will win the-cup or fall ia boe wfA tbe GneRta. Salatoa and TktstJe. roaaot b determined as yet. but he claims tist his new Scotch racer will astonish tfc veteran ycatsmj with aa exhibition oL exoeileat qmalices. 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County. -:- ESTBLISHED IN 1370. A Complete Stock of Pine Lumber, Shin ties, Lath, Doors, Sash, etc., alwayt on band. Office and Tarda on Mosley street, between Dong las a. enua and First ttroet. Branch Yards at Union City and Oklahoma City Indian Territory. J. P. ALLEN, zzDRUGGISTzz Everything Kept in a First-Class Drug Store. 108 EAST DOUGLAS AVENUE "Wichita, Kansas Cfcartera, Blank charters and all kinds of leg blanks for salt by The Wichita Eagle, dTl tf Wichita, Kansas. F. S. DENNIS, The Old Reliable and Only CITY SCAVENGER. Choaper thaa the Cheapen. All Work Guaranteed to Give Satis faction. Persons wanting thin kind of work, can drop a card in Hcavenger Box, N. J. Cor. Fourth and Douglas area: y. K. cor Central ave. and Main st; S. it. cor Chicago and Sycamore aves; N. E. cor Douglas and Main or call at office. Res. 72S N . Waco ave. Telephone 335. Wichita, Kan. 6.rx SMITHS0N & CO.; Successors to Anglo-American Loan and Investment Company. NO. 117 EAST DOUGLAS AVE. Land, Loan and Insurance Agent. Money always on hand. Interest at low rates. 2o delay. Bfore mak'ng a loan on Farm, City Chattel or Personal security call and tee us. Come in or send fu.l description of your farm or city property. We handle large amounts of both eastern and foreign capital for in vestment in real e -tate, aad are thus enabled to make rapid sales. Correspondence rolicinsd. H L. S.MJTHS05, ilanager. KpTM ferratare Krereae. Tbe Fort Scott. Wichita & Western rail way ''.Missouri Pacific Rom" is the only line running solid train through from Wichita to Kansas City and St. Louis. Leaving Wichita at 9:15 p. m. yoa arrive at Kansas City next morning at 7 o'clock. Pullman palace sleepine and fre reclin inc chair cars through to Kansas City and St. Louis without change. Itemember if you go via the Fort Scott Route yon are not dependent on mala lina connec tions at Junction Point, but yoa go right tbrongh on solid trains. This Is the only route whose main line tutx through Wich ita. All trxin are made up here and ran through solid so Kansas City and Sc Loals It ia the shortest line to St. Louis by 46 miles and two hours the quickest. Two trains daily to St. Louis aada II points rase Ticket office 137 Korth Main street. Tepot corner Second and Wf eMta street. E. E. BJ.FXKLET, Pas.encr and Ticket agent, 127 X. 3Ula St., Wichita, Kan. H. C TonrNscra, G. P. & T. A., St. LoaU, ila. h fat THE WICHITA EAGLE (M. M MUBDOCK & BKO.. Props. Idthograpliers, Publishers, Printers, Stationers, Binders, and -BlanlE Book Makers. JOB PRINTING. One of the most complete Job Printing Offices in the State. Letter Heads. Bill Heads., Cards, Catalogues, Price Lists, Premium Lists, Stock Certificates, Checks, Trafts, Book Printing, etc. News and Job Printing of all kinds. LITHOGRAPHING. v , a All branches .of Lithographing, Bonds, Checks, Drafts, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Cards, etc. We have iirst-class designers and engravers. ENGRAVING. . Wedding Invitations and Announcement Cards, Luncheon Cards, Calling Cards, etc. BLANK BOOKS. Blank Books of all kinds made to order. Bank, City, County, and commercial work a specialty. Sole agents for Kansas, Oklahoma and the Indian Terri tory for Bronson's Patent Automatic Level Joint Binding. Endorsed by book-keepers, bankers and county officers. Nothing -made equal to it for strength and Hat opening. Will open at any pn.ee, and lie perfectly Hat when opened at any part of the book, permitting writing across both pages :is easily as one. It is the only book that Arill open out per fectly flat from the first page to the last, thus enabl ing one to write into the fold as easily as at any part of "the page. Send for circular. BINDING. Magazine, Law Book and Pamphlet binding of all kinds, reminding, e1c. Blank Department. i ' All kinds of Legal Blanks for city, county and township officers, Deeds. Mortgages, Abstracts, Receipt and Note Books, Real Estate and Rental Agency Books and Blanks, Attorney's Legal Blanks, etc. County Offieers' City Offieers' Books and Blanks. Township Office' Books and Blanks. Bank and Corporation Lithographing, printing and bookmaklng. Abstracts. . , , , t Complete outfit furnished for abstracters, abstract blanks, take-olf books, tracers, and all kinds of blanks used by abstracters. Legal Blanks Of every kind as used by lawyers, real estate agents, county city and township officers Justice of tha peace books and blanks. For Township Offieers. we have a complete line of blanks and books such as are used by township officers. Jl"jnA,-JW; 'n i iMrTi- Attorney's Poeket Doekets. ''The Lawyers' "Vade Mecum" can be used In any State and in any court. The most con: plete and conven ient pocket docket ever published, with two Indexes an alphabetical index ana a diary index; shows at a glance just what date a lawyer has a case in court; keeps a complete record of the case. Handsomely bound in flexible back, a convenient size to carry in the pocket. Endorsed by attorneys everywhere. Th fcllowlnc sU-onc endorsement from Captain i Johnn.Ah.er-Jortsef the SJth Judicial DUtrlct Btute ot Indiana. Ho writes a follow; October KlffiJi It Is tho mot complete and conclno work of tho lort I have oror met with. I cannot Bee horr the Ijttematlc. practicing lawyer can do rlthoutlt. IthhoulJ b entitled 'To Lawyer's Vade Hecum." Truly and 6lncerelr your. JOHN H. ASH. Attorney at Law, Wichita. K.ina Price of docket $1.00. By mail postpaid to any ad dress upon receipt or $1.07. Address. B. P. MURDOCH. THE WICHITA EAGLE, Business Manager. "Wichita, Kansas. MZSSfwm&Pto f83m2mM AUToewiteucM MSSZHEMnHm PATXJCIXD DT THOMAS A TOI50T. MISCELLANEOUS. t , f J ' We have a large number or approprlato cute for uso in Premium Lists can get them out on shorter notice than any other firm, for school catalogue we havo neat type faces ror that especial work. Constitutions and By-Laws for Lodges, BuUdins & Loan Associa tions, etc. School Records, Etc "We desire to call the attention of county superinton-tnriPnr-q-5f?hoo di.rtrtctofilcersand teachers to our line of school publications as given below, pur school records and books are now oein;? used exclusively in Quite a number of counties, and are superior to any in the market: Classification Term Record. Record of Apportionment of State and County School Funds, Superintendent's Record of School yinlte, CPqckt eiz-). Record of Teachers' Ability. (Pocket Size), Rec ord of Official Acts, Annual Financial Reports, Aa nul Statistical Reports. School District Ciork'a Record, School Di-tiict Treasurer's Record, School District Treasurer's Warrant Relstr, School District Clerk's Order Book, School Teacher's Daily Register, School District Boundaries, Re ord Teachers Employ ed, Receipts, Tuition Normal In tltute. Receipts, Teacher's Examination, Register Normal Institute, Orders on Treasurer, Order on 'orinai Institute Fud Orders for Apportionment State School rtiad, Ordera Dividend State and Countv School Fund, Ordera on Fund from Sale of School Land, Monthly Report School Distri, Promotion Cards District School, Diplomas District School, Pupils Monthly Report. Loan and Investment -Pva-a and blanks. by loan companies The Daily Eagle. -cMVif Tvarraje Prmtalna tno Arttr nnrl n1ffhta.wwr1a.tiv1 press dispatches in Sampse copy xree. The Weekly Eagle. "SM-rrir rwtfTPJ CVrra?rc mrri tztaTA ATld cr&TWral nra and eastern dispatches than amy yree'kiy papr in tho Southwest. The latest market reports up to the hour of going to press. Sample copy xrea. Estimates promptly urnished upon work of any kind. Address, R P. MUEDjCK, Business Manager. Ill EL Donghts A7a, Wichita, Taraa. beats lor JN otaries JPublic, corpora tions, stock companies, lodges, etc. Orders filled promptly. Also Btock certificates for corporations and stock companies, either printed or lithographed in elegant designs. Wichita. Kaa F.h. s, inh. I hT In o Twsr "AUnrnry'a Pockt Docket. ABd And It rrry convenient and well rrntd for Icmsptr.iracotnptet momonuidaotoaca a. Ill J tut what a lawyer needs In keantur a complet rcord oi his work. Yoar moil rMptfutIy, W. 8. MOK1U3. County Attorney. JIIMJiUU It A J-'JI. 3000 COPIES krom oxe ORtairtiu Wrlttnr. DntwlD Mtj,!c txa. Of Trt-WrttA , r--., i r.nn f'flPTVQ . . Crom GSE orJrfnl Iicoain)&U4 hj orr 30,000 USERS. The EAGLE U wt for tbe ai at tha abore machine, extra tuppliea, etc. A4dr IL P. UUKDOCK, Wichita. kTinxii Companies. Our Loan Rezister i3 now in urn generally. iulL and the latest market reporta. k - , j4-4 s. 'Vs - '?.-. yj.. V&'&S-s-h. && -