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THE HIGH SCHOOXi. Conntine Ttoom EdltcrU lloom TO rmrratf of advertlelns ehall be as Iott as tbnot ny other paper of oqua Ylua as an advertlsms AlUranslent advertlnements uinst be paid for In 6 The onrietors re-erve the rlcht to. reject and fllsronflnoe any advertisements either by themselves or their contracted for TwiAltA i second clamteVnd cAtered for transmission throus- Fartern office st Room 4S. Tribune nnJMIns. Vew YorkCm and "The BooVerv" Thlcarro.

Trhere all contract, for foreign i-lwttonB wJl Jta made. nd where files of the papor can be seen. fa.C. orChlcocanseeconlesof the paper at tho office ofonr aeent at tha address ciren above. All notices for entertainments of anv kind In Which an admittance fee Is required will be charged 7t thereof five cents per lino per day; and must beclassfflod I and will not be run as puro matter.

The EAr.T.K hssfm lreet circulation of any daily paper In Kansas and covers more territory ban anv two Kftns dailies combined: reachlnarlSJ towns on the day of publication In Kansas Indian Urrltory. Panhandle of Texas and eastern Colorado. 7ho columns of the EAflric have been tested and proved to be the best advertising medium In the southwest. The only dally that reaches all the territory above named on day of publication. Aa an advertising medium It Is unexcelled.

The DAH-r can befound onpalp In KanM nty. at the boo store of II. GlicV. 53j Mala St. Kelson Bulldlntr.

Mr. Paul Jones is now located at Kansas City." R. C. Rawlings, of St. Louis, is at the Carey.

R. Baldwin, of Omaha, is at the Manhattan. J. II. Prcscott, of Salina, was in the city yesterday.

R. S. Harn'gan, of Topeka, is in the city on business. F. J.

Andrews, of Pueblo, is registered attiio Occidental. V. P. Clement, of Sterling, was in on business yesterday. Steve Hubbard, of Fort Scott, is spending Sunday in the city.

M. Y. Campbell, of Chicago, is registered at the Metropole. B. E.

Johnson, of Kansas City, is spend-inc Sunday at the Carey. W. D. Cunningham, of Arkansas City, is In tho city for a few days. Chas.

Woolverton. of Kansas City, is at the Metropole over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C.

Brown, of Denver, are registered at the Occidental. Geo. W. Massey and John C. Blackburn, of Oklahoma City, are up on business.

O. James and wife and Mrs. H. C. Earl wero up from Wellington yesterday.

E. Tibbits. the Denver and Rio Grande traveling passenger agent, is in tho city. F. Hughes and E.

R. Ward, of Sterling, were in the city yesterday on business. M- M. Julian, W. W.

Bradley, and Miss Gertie Bradley, all of Kiowa, are registered at tho Manhattan. Arthur Faulkner went to Topeka yesterday to spend Sunday. The police commissioners organized by electing J. F. Sherman chairmau.

Prof. Hoss will spend Sunday in Xewton and then lecture at Sedgwick Monday evening. James Donnelly and familj. of Altoona, have moved to Wichita and will make this city their future home. Mrs.

Emfline Baker, of Salina. moved to Wichita, Friday with her family and will take permanent residence here. Mrs. A. S.

Marbel, of Cheney, who has been visiting friends in the citv tho past week returned home yesterday afternoon. Paul Hudson, special travelling correspondent of the Topr-kn Daily Capital, was in tho city yesterday looking up business. Mr. John Pfaff, of Edmmd, who is in tho city attending the United States court, favored the EAGLE with a call yesterday. Quite a number of our people aro attending the Methodist annual conference, which has been in session at Xewton for the past week.

Mrs. Toler wishes to see all the cast of "Handicapped," at the residence of Mrs. Bisantz, Monday evening, corner Second and Wichita. Mr. E.

C. Crary, of the ncrrington Times, Mr. Tom Thorp and Mr. John Nelson, of Herrington, called on the EAGLE yesterday. Major X.

F. Niederlander, who has been absent in Xew York and in the Xew England states for two or three weeks, is expected at home this morning. J. G. Faust, of Nepesta, has decided to locate in Wichita and will become a permanent resident as soon as he can transfer his family and effects hither.

Mrs. Isaac Stine, formerly of Augusta, died receutl in Oklahoma, the l.uiy was an earnest Christian worker. She leaves a large enele of friends who mourn htr demise. The wind of yesterday was a little raw, but the sunshine was very bright and there wero more people on the business streets of Wichita ban on the streets of any other city in the state. District Freight Agent Torrinton, of the Suit Fe.

went to Emporia to spend Sunday with hi tatnil Mr. Torrittgion expects to bring his familj' here as soon as he can perfect arrangements for so do ng. Mr. Patrick Galvm. of Sahna.

passed through the city yesterday en route home from a two weeks' visit to Oklahoma. He thinks Oklahoma a fine country, but Kansas a long ways better. Mrs. A. M- Ford leaves during the week for the east to spend Easter with relatives.

Before returning she will take in the eastern fashion depots for the latest things in the dressmaking line. P. T. Benbow, successor to Benbow received an order yesterday from Santa Rosa, for forty-six self-heating washers and one dozen wringers, besides numerous orders from Kansas and ad-ioininsr ctanvi. Probably no city of its age in the country has ever been as much misrepresented nnd in every conceivable direction.

The result is that every stranger who happens within her borders is surprised more than he can express. Her shortcomings and disadvantages, if indeed she has any, have been exaggerated, her excellencies distor-tioned out of all proportion. For instance it is often declared that Wichita has forty thousand people. That is not true as the late census returns of the United States gave her but twenty-three thousand and four hundred. We saw a printed state ment the other day that all the streets of Wichita were paved in asphalt, brick and jasper, when everybody ought to know that but three prin cipal business streets are so paved, not counting cros3 streets.

Au eastern speculator's circular announces that Wichita has three public buildings that cost a half million each, when the facts are that the county building cost but a bare quarter of a million, the government court house but little more than two hundred thousand and the new city hall just a round hundred thousand. We saw a map the other day that showed seventeen railroads running into and out of Wichita when there are but ten actually built and in operation. An imigration circular sets it down that Wichita has seventy-five miles of electric railway and one hundred and fifty miles of sewerage mams ana latterals, while the facts are all the electric, moter and horse lines of street railways combined measure less than seventy-five miles and the new sewer system just completed measures but a little more than sixty-four miles. It is generally understood by outsiders that Wichita has blocks upon blocks of five and six story buildings, when the bald truth is, but one six story and a half-dozen five story buildings and blocks in all the town, the majority of the business houses being two. three, and four stories high.

only. A pamphlet on ''Education in the West" credits Wichita with ten university, college and academy buildings, when there are but six of such buildings, not counting the parochial school building and the fourteen public school buildings. A table in the Topeka Capital the other day showed Wichita's bank clearings to be upwards of two millions, when tho official reports show them to be a little less than a million weekly. The Commercial Reporters Gazette in defining the jobbing fields of the southwest says Wichita has fifty or more exclusive wholesale houses, when, as our own advertising columns attest, there are but twenty-seven such concerns in the citv and their trade does not touch Colorado, Mexico and Arizona, as claimed, in but an intermittent and scattering manner, tho trade of these firms in the main being confined to south Kansas, to Oklahoma, tho Indian Territory, and the Pauhandle, with a few lines running into Arkansas and northern Texas. A packer's circular to foreign trade, during the winter, declared that upwards of a million hogs wero being packed per year at Wichita when in fact tho entire stock yard receipts have not reached that number for a single year, and, on an average of but 2,000 hogs or less per day are packed at this point.

Tho Boston Herald some time since announced that the Burton Car works at Wichita employed fifteen thousand hands, when our people know that less than threo hundred workmen can be found in all tho shops of that company. Only last week a visitor to this city said that he was reliably informed that the EAGLE employed upwards of two hundred people, and that the circulation of the paper was coextensive with trans-Missouri country, reaching into the hundreds of thousauds, when in truth this paper has not had as many as one hundred on it3 pay rolls for many mouths, and the circulation never reached, for any considerable length of time, but a little more than seventeen thousand four hundred, not counting the weekly edition. And so we might go on These inflated misrepresentations are morn harmful in the long run than those of a derogatory character. Tho truth is good enough and tho truth is what -will win in the end. The final estimato of the man who invests, approximates the existing fact, and if he has been misled in the directions Indicated his disappointment is fatal; while upon the other hand, if it is all better and brighter than he had anticipated or had reason to believe, he is more than content to cast his lot and fortunes with us.

While the EAGLE has been accused of blowing for and about Wichita, no one ever came forward with theaccusa- Hint. hml Htrotchcd the truth. The experience has been that tho responses of strangers were, "You haven't told us half of the real advantages, half of the solid facts boasted by the city." It makes no differenco how great may be the prejudices and how enormous the conceptions of the home seeker if ho but conies himself upon tno grounu, Lnero is not one place in a thousand that will so quickly captivato as Wichita. The makeup of the town, its situation, the unapproachable magnificence of its rich valley surroundings, its substantial metropolitan air, its business-street life, its resident-street adornments, all weigh in a way which all species of exaggeration fail. A DA3T IN IffO COUKTS! Tho exercises at High school chapel, Friday afternoon were conducted by the Crescent socieby.

There were some very good essays, namely, by Grace Young, Maud Dowd, Susie Anderson, John Gribe, The recitations by Birdie Wonderly, Clara Gehring, Virginia Harrell, Sadie Caldwell ware well delivered. Tho latter. "Katrina's Visit to New York," is a difficult piece to declaim, but Sadie "got there" as though she was a born "duchess." The piano solo by Lucy Guthrie was good, as were the duets by the Misses Leslie and Dunning. Allow me to suggest to the teachers that a little more care in instruction to the scholars as to poise, gesture aud voice, in reciting and reading would not be amiss. Of course many of the boys and girls are young and easily embarrassed and lack confidence in themselves, but to overcome this and teach them ease and grace is the province of the teacher.

The following is the program: Essay Through Difficulties to tho Stars Grace Young. Essay Per Bertie XulL Piano Solo Lucy Guthrie Reading Ralph Ingram Recitation Little Hatchet Story Birdie wonderly. Essav. Ballot Amos McClain. Instrumental Solo The Misses Leslie Recitation The TomDoy Clara Gehnng Reading First Half Ins Lillie Benn.

Essay A Journey Geo. Gehring. Essay Our First Governor Jonnurme. Essay Susie Anderson Recitation Portrait Eva Dunbar. Essay March Laura McXees.

Essay Importance of Little Things Maude Dowd. Recitation Tale of alsosc Theron Barrett. Reading Second Half Iris John Anderson. Essay Contentment Pearl McCormack. Recitation The Ride of Collin Graves Virginia Harrell.

Tntrmnpnr.ftl Duet. Misses Dunning Recitation Puzzle of Census Taker Louis Furtado. Visit to Xew lork Sadie Caldwell. Tno United Stales District Court acd Its Procedure WHAT IT MEAS FOK TIUS STATE. Yesterday afternoon was a gay afternoon for the city.

The commercial metropolis of Kansas is getting ready to hang her trarln hannfirs on the outer walls this spring and it will bo old business all along her lines before harvest time. Tho country is going to bloom and blossom as the rose in another month and the city assured and warmed by the premonitions begins to bestir herself. animation of tho reason for the hopo within the brains and breasts of her business men is seen upon all hands and reflected by the town's social stir and shopping life. The railroad men say that moro people, more families, are moving into the city than at any time for many months. Tho average pocket will be reinforced for the extra jingle of dollars that will be netted from the swelling volume of currency now lap ping westward.

The first intimation ot returning prosperity to tho stato of Kansas will bo seen and felt and her typical and representative city is conceded by all who appreciate in any degree the situation, and many eyes have been turned from nearly every community in tho state to Wichita, in anxious expectancy for months for signs of renewing and growing life. That they will not now have much longer to wait seems certain. rOUKTII WARD NOMINEES. Tho citizens meeting called in the Fourth ward was held last evening pursuant to call at tho corner of Oak and Lawrence. The meeting was called to order by Senator O.

H. Bentloy, and Joseph Coate3 was chosen as chairman. The nomination of candidates being in order, the name of Henry Scbad was presented to tho convention by Hon. Geo. L.

Douglass. O. H. Bentley presented as a candidate Mr. II.

F. Good. The choice was by ballot, aud forty-nine votes wero cast for Schad, against twenty-nine for Good. Mr. Schad was thereupon declared the unanimous choice of the convention for councilma'n.

Xominations wero in order for member of the school board, and tho names of Major Powell and John H. Fazel were presented. The ballot showed a majority for Major Powell, and ho was declared the choice of the convention. There was some dissatisfaction with the vote for member of the school board and a motion was made to reconsider it, but the chair ruled it out of order, and as no appeal was made to the boUy ot tno convennon a motion to adjourn prevailed. PKO-CATUEDRAli NOTES, There i3 nothing particularly thrilling or intensely interesting about the routine in a court, even when tho case is a criminal one and presents many tragic features and startling situations.

Each witness relates his view of the affair, and a majority of these statements are monotonously similar, while that testimony which differs is so dissipated in dramatic strength by a long string of pertinent and dull interro-crationa. Peonle who hunt out -a court room to have their eyes bulge out with astonishment or quicken the pace of their blood into a boil or tingk with emotion, are pretty sure to be disappointed. If there is any faculty of extracting pleasure from chaffering attorneys and technical quibblings, there is a seventh heaven for it in a court room. Irritibility in a judge is alwavs to be condoned with. The court now in session in Wichita, aside from the customary features of all tribunals of justice just mentioned, has its attractive and noteworthy side.

In tho first place, the judges presiding are new to the people and to this court and its following. Another is that it has been dealing and is still, with cases arising in the new territory to the south, UJclaboma, a country that the people are particularly interested in, and the criminal record of which is in many instances of historical value; and also furnishes the material by which a bevy of new legal talent is endeavoring to nnsh to the ton. This court will proba bly be the last district court here, at Wichita to deal with the criminal cases occurring in tho territories, as they now have court3 of their own. For many years this has been the point where crimes have been passed upon, that have afterwards become famous Books have been written on some, and on others the only legal hangings in tho state of Kansas in late 3'ears have been attendant. District court here has always been marked by the multitutinoii3 presence of the noble redmen, his scant raiment, the scent of killikinio permeating the atmosphere enveloping him, and the general slouchiness and uncivilized neglige of his whole appearance, and by the long-haired, buckskinned, high-heeled, cow-boy and tanned and pistoled army scout of the territorv.

Hitherto these have infected the townfloafed on the sunny sides of tho streets; pushed their noses against the plate-glass show windows; and smelt out the joints wita an aaurauy iuu n3 unfailing as culpable. The session of tho United States ditrict court here has always been a week of attractions to tne tenaer-footed easterner who had never beheld the American Indian in all his pristine ignorance, squalorandcussedness. Almost all those who were in attendance this term have rturned homo and after this will be accountable for their deviltry and vicious company and evil environments other than tne one uere ia her face show through. She, too, testi fied yesterday. Couch's father, brother and son also testified.

It is this little group that swallows up every word of the testimony. Ic is important to them and there is no lack of attention. If a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree is returned, the penalty is death; if in the second degree it means imprisonment and a convict's drudgery. A number of other witneisea were examined. Frequent attempts on the pare of the defense were made to bring out the mental idiosyn-rftciM nf the accused but were met with objections from tne prosecution.

An euorc was made to hold a night session, bucthe judge couldn't see it. Down on the second floor of the building the other court is held, with Judge Ryner presiding. He is a young man, having been on the bench sines last spring. He has a pleasant face, a full head of hair which ia inclined to be sbocky, and a short beard, which be fingers the livelong day. His court is marked by good order, and tho business of the court is acceleration itself.

The case up yesterday was the Hawley-Belden affair. ThoK testimony yesterday gave the story. of Grant was found buried in the ground under a pile of manure, on a claim near Guthrie. His clothes, hat and other chattels were found in the possession ot young Belden, who had gone to Illinois. This led to Belden's arrest.

In the testimony yesterday the de fense is mads for him that he bought the goods aforesaid. There seems to be a feel ing prevalent that the young man's chances are slim. That, however, the testimony itself will best show. If convicted, the nenalty is death. The court adjourned at 6 o'clock until 10 o'clock Monday morning.

After the court is closed the prisoners are put into an old 'bus which passes for a Black Maria and rattled off to the iail under the care of two deputy sheriffs. NEW y2EK 1 ftllvfc One year ago we commenced -selling goods for spot cash only. Our business has increased our' books are free from accounts and no sheriff has called to see us. We are positive it is the only way to do business. If Bellamy in his celebrated book, "Looking Backward," while telling us how to run our store had said, "buy and sell for spot cash only," he would have had the true and only theory.

Only one word more to this subject: We will sell you every line of goods carried by us for less money than houses that sell goods on time; we will possitively make this IN J1EMOUIAM. advertisement orood. large double store will be goods at prices that can This week our crowded with new not help but sell them. 130 132 jTORTH MAIN' H5NDSR32N A GOOD HOG AND CATTLE MARKET. The week just ended has been one of unusual activity at the stock yards.

The nf linr received during the week was S.S13. Of this number the local packing houses bought 4,316, or a little over half. But it must not be supposed from this'thattho local packers got all they wanted, and then left the balance for outside packer and speculators. Our packing houses needed a great many more hogs toupply their constantly growing trade, butthebuvers for outside Dacktrs were very active in supplying their houses, and they got their share of the hogs. And of course the price have advanced ap-ice with all the other leading marKet or tne cuuu-trv.

under this condition of affairs. The cattle market was also mucn better than has been for some time, the receipts being P34, the largest for mauy weeks. Buyers of cattle were numerous, and the competition was correspondingly lively, consequently the full worth of all cattle was paid The market i1- becoming widely known as a good one, where the shipper can dispone of his stock at once at a good fair price, as many new friends of the market will te-tify. and the men who make one shipment here as an experime find yard accommodations prices and everything t-Ue connected with the market so good fhat thev make this "their permanent stopping point. And thus the markers IniMiies grows and prospers, and thus it will continue to grow until it is the greatest market of the southwest- FIKT M.

E. CHCKCH. Rev H. A. Gobin, S.

T. Dean De Pmw School of Theology, will occupy the pulpit at the First E. church this morn ing at 10:30. Dr. Gobm nas oeen paatur ui several of the leading churches of the denomination and is a preacher of rare and popular gifts.

Rev. G. Lowther, a very able divine, will preach at night. The pastor, Rev. R.

T. Savin, will conduct the services. Palm Sunday There will bo low mass at a. at 10:30 the solemn blessing and distribution of the palms will take place, Rt. Rev.

Bishop Hennessey officiating; this ceremony will be followed by high mass, during which the account of tho passion of our Lord as given by St. Matthew will be read, this reading taking the place of the customary sermon. In the afternoon there will be tho usual catechetical instructions, in the evening Vespers, a sermon and benediction. The services of Holy week as proscribed bytheiitualof the Catholic church will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday mornings beginning at 9 o'clock. Tho right reverned bishop will officiate each day.

AU the priests oi tne cii-y aim mauy from outside of the city will be in attendance. The ceremonies of Holy week aro the most solemn and impressive of the entire ritual and invariably attract a large concourse of people. the a b. cnuu. This well known aud popular club of College Hill, will give a grand entertain-mentln their hall next Monday night, March 23, 1391, presenting the lollowing program: A comical sketch in one act entitled, A Manager in Distress," introducing songs and imitations of well known actors and actresses.

Following the sketch will come "The Dumb Orator." music, songs and comic reading (in dialect). The whole will conclude with ft new side-splitting farce entitled "Jerry Simpson's Reception," introducing the whole company in their spciatties consisting of songs, dance3 and funny sayings. The curtain rises at doc. sharp. -Vrrangements will be made with the car company to convey people home after the entertainment.

SOME CHANCE VET. Thomas J. Foster, a well-to-do fanner who resides near Freeport, in the eastern part of Harper couuty, was in the citv on business. Mr. roster said that the wheat and fruit crop outlook surpassed anything he had ever seen in this land where wonders are numerous and common.

In the course of a conversation Mr Foster told of a neighbor ot his who came to this state eight years ago, and his ole earthlv possessions consisted ia a silver watch and $11 in cash. This man has by hard work and careful economy become the owner of 33 acres of thelinest land in that portion of tne state, and his nesable value is now in the neighborhood of JGO.OX). This goes to prove that Kansas is worth living in, notwithstanding the croakers who would have people think otherwise. to court, Wichita, As is well known, tho court here asked for assistance that it might clear up the docket by going through with the cases. This reauest wa3 complied with and an extra judge sent on.

There are now two courts sitting, the work in each being carried on independent of the other. The first pnurt, nreided over by Judge Dundy, of Council Bluffs, the other by Judge Ryner, of Cheyenne, Wyo. One is an elderly man, the other a young one. They are both pushing the business through their respective courts, and inside of a couple of weeks will have disposed of tho cases on the docket. Yesterday in Judge Dundy's court, the Adams-Couch case, ono of widespread notoriety in the west, and of especial interest to Oklahoma, came up.

There was some difficulty in impaneling a jury, as a majority of the people had taken some notice of tho caso and were acquainted with its details. Finally, howovor, a jury was fourmed. It consists of A. J. divert.

J. H. Sewell, W. M. Congdon, Peter Durland, T.

R. Moody, Robert Mooney, George Phillip3, John Menden-hall, P. L. Sesson, Georgo Steenrod, Charles Duncan and J. P.

Boyd. Judge Dundy's court is on the third floor of tho federal building. There is little conventionality about it, tho only tinc ture of medieval solemnity and pomposity noticeable being the "Hear ye" of the marshal or the echoing summons of some witness along the corridors. Tho judge is seated before a small desk on a rostrum; to his left the jnry in two rows of six; directly in his front a tablo where tho members of the bar sit. There is no square witness box.

The witness sits in a chair facing the jury and in proximity to the attorneys. This is the paraphernalia of the court. Judge Dundy, who temporarily presides in Judge Foster's place, is an elderly man who has held down tho wool-sack for thirty-three years. Ho is bald, has a gray beard, a rather full face with a prominent nose, aud is inclined to bo heavy-set. His mind is very clear on legal points, one of his strong characteristics being bis concise, determined and emphatic decisions, which sometimes paralyze the lawyer at fault momemtarily, and amuse the auditorium.

All unnecessary wrangling is nipped, resolutely and unflaggingiy, by him. There is a great deal exemplary in Judge Dundy's expedition of justice. There is no superfluous tefctimony, or repetition, that escapes his sharp eye, and when ho decides a point, the offender has a desire to dodge. He is a little nervous at times, and toys with his pocket-knffe and lead pencils continually during tho testimony, putting on Ins eye-glasses and taking them off again repeatedly. OutMde of the court room Judge Dundy is said to be the jolliest judicial in the land.

Every summer he takes a trip to the mountains, where he hunts the fleet deer and the fierce grizzly, and has an interesting story to tell of his adventures. Yesterday the Adams case wa3 before the court." District Attorney Ady is assisted in the prosecution by Col. Johnson, of Oklahoma City. The defense comprises Judge Green, Judge Shield and Lewis and McMeechem. The case went along apace and will go to the inrv nrobablv by Tuesday night.

The story of the affair, succinctly is this: There is a beautiful claim near Oklahoma Citv. At the opening of tne territory four or five men settled on it, all determined to contest This gave rise to frequent contentions. Capt. Couch, who was known quite extensively for the part he had taken in the opening of Oklahoma, and Adams the man charged, were among the occupants. They quarrelled frequently Finally the bad feeling broke forth.

There was shooting. Cape Couch was shot. In the course of a week or two he died. The testimony showed that Adams is a man of ungovernable temper. The case as brought out yesterday, showed the bulk oi evidence, taken as a whole, against Adams.

The defense made for him is mental aberration, self-defense, and that the death of Couch was cot tne result of blood-poisoning from the gun-shot wound, but from an abbess on his arm resulting from hyperdertnic injection? of morphia. Mrs. Couch testified. She a slender haggard little woman dressed in biack. Her face is care-worn.

Adams, the prisoner, is a man of average build, a low forehead, and a large acqailine nose and a florid face. He sits in the rear of his lawyers, watching the case closely and. coolly. Beside him is his wife ia grey waist and black skirt, a neat black hat. She is veiled, but shs lines of worry and sorrow Mrs.

Henrietta Milton died at her residence, 817 East Oak, March 14, in the 7oth year of her age. She leaves two daughters and several brothers to mourn her loss, her husband and other children having preceded her to that better land. For several years previous to her death sho had poor health, and yet she never murmured, never complained; always saying by her actions, if not by words: "He doeth all things welL" We can never remember to have entered her door without being met by her happy, cheering smile and her warm and hearty hand clasp. Truly for her heaven began on earth, and we try in vain to picture what heaven must be to one, who, amidst the trials of a sorrowing world like this could be so abundantly happy. During tho latter years of her life she seemed quietly awaiting the Master's call: "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungered and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and yo gave me drink." We know that our lpss is her eternal gain, and yet wo fain would call her back.

Let her loving example teach us so to live that we may meet her in that land where all sorrows cl.ll pnd and where God fchall wipe all PHILADELPHIA STORE. Post Office Corner. Special Sale For Th is Week Only tears away. L. M.

y. 31. c. Dr. Gobin, of Do Paw university, will address tho young men of the city in the new Y.

M. C. A. auditorium at 4 o'clock this afternoon. No man in the city can afford to miss this meeting.

200 dozen Ladies Silk and Lisle Thread Vests, regular price $1.00 eacl, mil be sold this week only afe 21c. They will be withdrawn from sale at this price on Saturday. Also manufacturers sample line of Linen Napkins at $1.75 a dozen, worth in a regular way 3.50 per dozen. A. EATZ.

Tho 1-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Kaeiser, died at the family residence 1583 Maple street yesterday morning Tho funeral services will bo liem at tne nouse this afternoon at 3 o'clock John W. Wilkinson, sheriff of Shawnee county was in the city yesterday.

Mrs. D. Hays and IMiss LoraBell have opened a school of music in the Sedgwick block. Both these ladies are accomplished musicians; having assisted in the Garfield conservatory. M.

B. Cohn, of tho Globe, returned from the east where ho ha3 been purchasing a spring stock of goods. A grand millinery opening will bo given Thursday from 9 a. m. to 6:30 p.

under the management of Miss Greenland, of St. Louis: Rev. Brink, of Douglas, is conducting a series of revival services in tho M. E. church in Augusta, with marked success there being about twenty con- cprslnn and a general awaKenmg among tho old members.

Mr. E. J. Burton has just returned from an extended trip into southwestern Kansas, and ho reports that he never saw the wheat prospects equalled in any state. The people of that section are feeling nrosnects for an abundant harvest.

C. S. Otjen and wife, of Milwaukee, have been spending a few days with friends on TJniven.ity avenue. Mr. Otjen is superintendent of tho Illinois Steel company.

He is much pleased with our beautiful, thriving city, and predicts a great future for Wichita. J. Burton, who represents the Ran dolph Header company in southern Kansas, says that he never saw a city that eqa'lled Wichita for movement of psople on the streets. At no time, he says, can a person sit in one place five minutes without one or more persons passing in borne direction. Mr.

Jacob Scinveizer, of El Reno, came in to spend Sunday in the city. Air. s. will look into the ico business a little before returning. Mrs Schweizer who has been visiting her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. II. Joseph, for a week will return at the same time. There will be a meeting, of the citizens living east of the railroad tracks in tne Fourth ward on Monday evening, March 23d, at Miller Sheppard's building, No. 709 East Oak street, for the purpose of nominating candidates for the oices of councilman and school board.

Tf a-nnnrpriative and liberal audi ence that gathered at the Crawford Grand last night to see the second performance in the city of the Yankee ccmedT-dramji "fci Plunkard. If one were to judge from applause as to the merits of the play, a far as comedv is concerned, then the audience satisfied. The performance last night closed the engagement. Milton Cohen, representing S. Hern-heim, Ero3.

wholesale tobacconists, of 2ew Orleans, will spend a couple of days in the city investigating trade. Mr. Cohen speaks very nisbly of Wichita as a joboing town, and says his sales are larger here than at any other point of the same size vn tie wast. The woman who ws referred to in yesterday's local as having vistted a professional gentleman's office, or at lens oae who represented herself aa being the lady in called yesterday to protest against the impression conveyed by the item. She says that she sin: ply asked for what was bera and not for money and that it was in response to her quiet demand teat she knocked down and dragged out- She seemed nowise avere to ha-nng the names of all persons who vrere party ia the transaction pu Wished, bet as tius would serve no good end and a the case Trill probably get into ht occrts we for bear.

A ThelLLSHOBERCO. II IT I BOSHES Sill Ladies Dongala Kill Oxfords, regular prico S1.2 now Sac. Ladles Dongola Button regular -ice 52.00 now LM. Kid. liana wrnea uulluu suutw, Ltidies Frencii 84.50, now $3.00.

Mrtn 0 Ladies Dongola, flexible soles, regular pric $6.00 now Mens 82.00 Shoes, now $1.50. Mens $3.00 shoes, now $2.00. Mens $3.50 shoes, now 2.50. Mens $2.50 shoes, now $1.75. Mens $1.25 slippers, now 75o.

Mens SI. 50 slippers, now $1.00. Mens $3.00 slippers, now 1.60. Children-shoes, all kinds, have receivedthe kmfo sharply. Dont Delay, But Come at Onee.

The H. L. SH0BER CO. 312 EAST DOUGLAS AVE. A.

E. SMBER, Manager. Wm. R. Skillman died at St.

Francia hospital Saturday morning of blood-noisonine Ills relative cant have been ia 'to the dL-posltiou to be made of the body. Margaret Lydia, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. VT. M.

Kaeiser, died Marsh a-e 1 vear and nine daya. Funeral from residence, Sunday at 3 p. m. Another kd Is bc5coUe AotrcH JiKlren. AaA clows once mora with (lastlep Tts path yS reaches UeTea- A ttni t-34 tie 1-M.

Tfce story tUlor Cler. esddealr, 4 t'ML Ali ato or Fitters win, Ose tixrasM -th reccaefled: T-t vte 1o7 trcJtS OCT. HthuVea ho. fcUC4Kl. W.

7. V. Tht regular meeting will be held as usual on Tuesday afternoon promptly at 2 ftVirv oTmoiitc the cost office. "ParHamentarTTrainisE!" ia charge Mrs. Babb.

Every person cordially vited to be present. TIDi COURTS. xJSTUicT cocirr. The iuwe of Cooklia vs. A.

H. Wendio vras on trial by the court. In tho assignment ot the KsyIbx-bank an order vras raado for the receiver to pay the balance ot the claims oftbfcAVIcfeiU National and State National banks. COUilOS TIZAi. In the case of va.

the Atchfsoo, Topakn and Santa Fc railroad, the Motiou for a new trial was orsrmiod-raoa-TS COITET. A. Dotsey vras appointed admlal trator of the citato ot Arthur 3. Dflrscy, deccesad. jemc-t cocsrr.

TJis iU7 rrai qelei in jotleeA' court so busts ea ol importance, being XkUks either court. TQUCZ C5CKT-Ttto were huUd lato tb cooler b7 the police last nighs. The VT. T. U.

library coioUt are la- requested to cecV Hbrtrj rsu, Th- i day. March 21, at 2 o'clock p. m. Purify Your Blood Jtlt i-jeers-osy UtarB4'i Srwpa.1U Uft I TT jrtr -Trt. T7 l9rt 17 iU swdirfs.

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