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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
SILENT MEN.

Washington never made a speech
In the zenith Of his fame he once at
tempted it, failed, and gave it up con-
fused and abashed. In the framing of
the constitution of the United States.
the labor was almost wholly performed
in committee Of the whole, of which
George Washington was day after day
the chairman, but he made two speech
es during the convention. of a few
words each, something like one of
Grants speeches. The convention,
however, acknowledged the master
spirit, and historians affirm that had it
not been for his personal popularity
and the thirty words Of his first speech.
pronouncing it the best that could be
acted upon, the constitution would
have been rejected by the people.
Thomas jefferson never made a speech.
He couldn't do it. Napoleon, whose
executive ability is almost without a
parallel, said that his greatest difficulty
was in finding men of deeds rather
than words. When asked how he
maintained his influence over his supe-
riors in age and experience when COM
mander-in-chief Of the army of Italy.
he said by reserve. The greatness Of
q man lie not measured BY the length
Of his speeches or their number.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
ABUSE OF OLD HORSES.

/! feel deep sympathy for old horses
1t is common practice in this country
to make old horses break the colts
and too often work with them for
years. 1t is hard for an old horse to
work with colt or young, active
horse. Old horses, like old men, are
often capable performing more hard
work than some young ones who can
beat them for an hour or more. The
old man wants to take moderate Jog.
and can hold out all day; but little
lmmoderate exertion for a few min
utes unstrings him perhaps for all day.
An old horse driven at the top of his
speed few miles spoils the DAVIS Jour-
ney. When once made sore or strain
ed, the result is stiffness the next day,
The old horse should not haul his load
to town and then be forced to trot back.
1t does not injure him as much to do
the heavy work with slow motions as
to do the light jobs at the fast gait.
Again, the old horse requires more
time to eat his meals and rest his
nerves. OF all animals the old horse
is the worst abused. Although he
mas been our most faithful and profit
able servant, yet in his old age the lash
Is appled to force out his youthful
vlgor. The older he grows the more
he feels the lash. He is often turned
out OF doors to give place to the colts.
Too often the neglect and abuse he is
subjected to, because he is little old.
results in greater loss than is made
up in the care for the young horse.
The last part of horses life NAV be
more profitable if rightly used than the
first part. There is more comfort and
less danger in working old horses. We
understand them and they understand
us; and we should be as willing to con-
form to their nature as they are to
conform to our wishes. 1t would be |
more humane as well as more profita-
bic to use them as they should be as |
long as it would pay and then take |
them out and shoot them down. But |
the wicked practice is to knock them
about as much as they will bear and nav
well, and then trade them off to some
more lnhuman wretch than ourselves.
The old servent is going among stran-
gers, and he receives no symyathy in
his last extremity.
We do not blush to say that the man
who has enjoyed the profits and pleas
ures of a good horse as long as he was
and then shoves him off
among inhuman jockeys, is an inhu-
man, treacherOus, and suspicious
friend. The man who does so without
regard to how the horse may be cared
Tor is in my estimation Of suspicious
character and l never see horse
abused so as to excite pity, but my
are directed to the mans
wife and children also (if he has them).
am not alone in entertaining these
they are perhaps more
general than people are aware, but it
seems my lot to express them.-Ohio
Farmer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
WINDOW GARDENING.

The pot plants of our ladies, and
those in hanging baskets, will now be-
gin to make fresh growths. and should
get all the light possible, and as much
fresh air as can he given without chill
ing them. Everblcoming and sweet
scented leaved geraniums are the gen.
eral favorites i'm window gardening.
They are tenacious of life and thrive
with simple culture. Any that may
need larger pots can get them.
There are several species of dwarf
plants that bloom early, and are very
pretty. and succeed well i'm window
culture. The Chinses Primrose blooms
now and the varieties are of various
shades of white and red. Sweet Dou-
BILE violcts are also in bloom in pots, and
thrive in window culture. The IA
nous English Daisy, Primrose, and
Cowslip, are very pretty. There are
now many very highly improved vari-
cites Of these new Daisies, which are
thrice as large as the'old species. and
far more beautiful in their color and
variegations. The Primrose is also
much improved in new varieties-and
so Of the Cowslip; all very fragrant
Cinerarias, of various cOlors, are very
snowy and beautiful at this season
and SO are Calceolarias Pansies gem
eral favOritcs, of various colors and
variegations; they continue long time
i'm bloom, and are very beautiful Va
rigated Balms are much liked in win
dow gardening for their sweet-scented
leaves. Panicum Variegatum is pref
~ dwarf.
The Geraniums and other large
plants will be benefited by having the
surface soil taken out of the pots this
month, and replace it with leaf mold
from the woods. or the black mold be-
low the woOd-pile. All the plants
will need more frequent waterings,
and springing the leaves to wash of
dust.--PrGcfical Farmer.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
HISTORY OF UMBRELLAS.

At the annual gathering of members
OF the. Glasgow umbrella trade the
chairman gave the following bits of
history in regard to the subject.
''Dr. Morrison, the great missionary
to China, states that there is mention
made of umbrellas and parasols in
books printed i'm China more than fif-
teen hundred years ago, and the most
wonderful traveller, Layard, relates
what he discovered on the ruins of
Ninevah in bas relief, representation
of king in his chariot, with an attend
ant holding an umbrella over his
head. In India we also find the UNI
brella has been in use in remote ages,
and principally as an insignia of royal
ty, its shape differing very little from
those in modern use. In Burmah the
princes use very large umbrella, and
1t requires a separate attendant to car
ry it, and his position is recognized
one in the royal household. One of
the titles of the king is: "King of the
white elephant, and lord of the twenty
four umbrellas. THE Emperor of China,
who never does anything on a small
scale Gfhe can help it., has no less than
"a umbrellas carried before him when
he goes out hunting. 1t is used in that
country as a defense against rain as
well as sun, and is principally made of
glazed silk or paper beautifully paint
ed. We find umbrellas mentioned as
in use, or at least known, in England
one hundred and fifty years ago. In
Cambridge we read that early in the
last century umbrellas were let out on
hire for so much an hour, like Sedan
chairs. Jonas Hanway, the founder of
a hospital in London, has the credit of
being the first person that had the
courage of habitually carrying an UNI
berella. He died in 1856, and it is said
that he carried an umbrella for 80 years,
so the date of their introduction for
general use may be said to be from
1856"
- The following paragraph from the re-
port made at the meeting rather
of the trade:
"A good umbrella is sure test of a
mans responsibility. A man may 90
to kirk or to market with shocking
bad hat or pair of boots, but not with a
bad umbrella, and retain his status in
society.'
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
POTATOES MIXED IN THE HILL

In must not be supposed that because
some vegetables originate from what
is technically called ''sport," that
this method of creation is not as natur-
al and permanent as that of reproduc-
uon by seed. We are SO accustomed to
this latter mode of origination in new
varieties that we are liable to imagine
IT TO be natures only mode: but the
history of many things shows that
good permanent varieties originate in
this way sometimes. We have heard,
for instance, of potatoes mixing in the
hill. Some one plants piece Of white
potatoes. He knows they were all
white, without any admixture of any
other sort, yet on digging he finds a
tuber or set of tubers all red. There
fore he fancies that bees have brought
the pollen Of a red variety from some
distance to the white flower, and that
in this way the pollen of the red be-
came infused with the white. and that
this infusion Of pollen affected the sap
so as to infuse the whole plant, even
down to the tubers, and this is what is
called 'mixing In the hill"
1t is clear from one circumstance
that mixing cannot occur in that way,
for if our observations are correct, as
We believe they are, bees do not exhib-
it much Partially for the potato bios
som. The chance therefore that pol
len is carried backward and forward
and thus mixed by them is very small.
But there is no occasion for inventing
any such rOundabou explanation. The
sweet potato ''mixes" in just the same
way as the other potato. That is to
say, the plant will occasionally pro-
duce red tuber from white stock,
or white one from red stock, and
yet the sweet potato in this part Of the
world produces no flower at all. Ii is
believed that all the varieties of the
sweet potato under culture were rails
ed in this way, that is, that a tuber
was found varying from the rest, and
this one saved or selected" originated
a new variety or race.
The fact is there is an innate power
in plants to change sometimes, without
the Intervention Of seed or the seed
organs, and there would therefore seem
to be no reason why varieties may not |
sometimes originate this way, and be
as permanent as if raised by what |
seems to us to be the more natural |
mode of seed.
nregard to the sweet potato, which
never seems to flower with us, it takes
this privilege in the south and thus
produces seed. No attempt seems TO
have been made to raise these seeds I'M
til recently, when some one near New
Orleans has taken the matter in hand,
end report has it that he has raised
many new and improved sorts, which
are superior in some respects to the
old ones. Now that attempts are
found to succeed in this new line of
business, there will probably be no end
to new varieties Of sweet potatoes
Iekeqrdph.
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A MORAL INDICATOR.
BY BRET HARTE.

By BRET HARTE.
II Mr.. Jones, Lycurgus B.,
Had one peculiar quality,
Twas his severe advocacy
or conjugal fidelity.
His views Of heaven were very free;
His views Of life were painfully
Ridiculous-but fervently
He dwelt on marriage sanctity.
Hefrequently went on spree;
But in his widest revelry,
On this especial subject, he
Betrayed no ambiguity.
And though at times Lycurgus b.,
Did lay his hands not lovingly
Upon his wife, the sanctity
OF wedlock was his guaranty,
But Mrs. Jones declined to see
Affairs in the same light as be,
And quietly got decree
Divorcing her from Jones, L. B.
And what Jones, Lycurgus B.,
With his known idiosyncrasy?
He smiled-a bitter smile to see
And drew q weapon of Bowie.
He did what Sickles did to Key
What cole on Hiscock wrought did he;
IN fact, on persons, twenty-three,
He proved the marriage sanctity.
The counsellor who took the fee,
The witness and the referee.
The judge who granted the decree,
Died in that wholesale butchery.
And then when Jones, Lycurgus b.,
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10

An itemizer for the Chicago Post
thus. exultingly anticipates "The
CHEEKY buzz Of the buzz saw as it turns
out first class fatal accidents is waited
on every gale from Maine to Florida.
and rises above the crash of the nom
explosive coal oil lamp. Soon the::com-
bined reaper and mower will begin IN
reap a harvest offingers and toes. and
shooters of spring ducks will blow
down their guns to see if they are load
ed. For these and other mercies NAV
we paragraphists be made truly CRATE
full"
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
EAR ACHE.

Soak the feet in warm water: roast
an onion and put the heart in the ear as
warm AS can be borne. Heat brick.
wrap it up, and apply to the side Of
the head. When the feet are taken
from the water, bind on roasted onions.
Lard or cweet oil, dropped into the
ear, as warm as can be borne. is good
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10

WICHITA
s BED STORED
I'm the old Postonice Building
MAIN STREET, WICHITA. KANSAS,
Where you will find Rochester Flower Seed,
rom nve TO ten cents per paper; Vegetable Seeds
5y the paper or pound; Early Pess and Beans by
or bushel Also Implements Of all kinds.
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES,
SHRUBBERY, ROSES,
PLANTS. &C.
viii also furnish
APPLE, PEAR AND PLUMB TREES, GRAPE
VINES, GOOsEBERRY, CURRANr,
BLACKBERRY AND RAsPBER-
RY BUSHES, STRAW
BERRY PLANTS
-1sd Ssess Potato Piasts IN tier .sasos
SOD PLANTERS,
he most desirable cultivator ever brought before
the public
Lily A. ]. COOK. !
The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-05-10
GREEN FRONT.

s TO PI
GO TO THE GREEN FRONT
Wholesale and Retail
GROCERY HOUSE
w. A. THOMAS & CO..
No. l25 Main St., Wichita, Kan.,
FOR YOUR
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS!
stock of Groceries from the East, We are able to
sell you
COFFEE,
SUGAR,
MOLASSES,
SYRUP,
TEAS,
LARD,
BACON,
MACKEREL,
RICE,
HONEY,
BEANS,
CRACKERS,
SAUCES,
CANNED FRUITS,
CANDIES,
'UTs, TOBACCO, CIGARS, &c.,
And in fact everything to be found in
first class house.
TIME IS MONEY!
Lose no time in calling and examining our
Ock and prices.
Best grades Of Flour constantly on hand
w. A. THOMAS & CO.,
lily Wichita. Kansas.
OAK HALL CLOTHING.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
ON CARONDELET STREET.

The cotton market yesterday was some
what slim, owing to the oracles voice,
which had been interpreted as unfavorable.
Hence. prices are much lower. and among
buyers 1.-The goose hangs high" once more.
Factors. however, must make big de-
scent before they can gum on to the buyerS,
who see no force in the argument that
this is only a temporary embarrassment,
and that cotton will soon be higher than
ever before.
Yesterday $50 shares Louisiana State
Lottery stock were sold at SGT so, ON short
time, and 100 shares at SO cash, so we are
informed. Holders have often expressed
their astonishment that this stock should
be quoted at the figures which have been
named by the board of brokers and on the
street. A perceptible change took place
yesterday in accordance with their views,
but prices did not come up to their ideas of
the intrinsic value of the stock. The Lou
isiana State Lottery Company has been the
plaintiff or defendant in several suits which
have reached the Supreme Court for deci-
sion, and in each case the company has won.
There were no sales at the Board of
Brokers last evening. The offerings and
bids were as follows:
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
THE SUBSTANCE AND NOT TIE SHADOW.

Messrs. Mckay Dunn, Ed Williams, A.
Dumont, B. F. Joubert Benjamin Gaddis
and the other colered men named as vice
presidents at the Mayors amphitheatre re-
form meeting, have just undeceived the
leaders of that turnout in a rather forcible
manner. 1t was evidently supposed that
it was only necessary for such eminently
respectable citizens, men of long residence
in this community, as composed the Citi-
zens' Association, to place the names of
half dozen colored men on their list of
vice presidents and invite them to seats on
the platform to capture the whole negro
race, end secure their votes for any meas
IRE or candidates they might put up. But
we could have told them before they tried
the experiment that it would not succeed.
The colored people, no less than the white,
want the substance, not the shadow. OF
all the cOlored men who were invited on
the occasion referred to, to hobnOb with
with the deserters from the Democracy, j.
Henri Burch alone remains silently acqui-
| escent But he is a carpet-bagger, who
knows nothing of the relations between
master and slave, and has no conception
of the great truth, eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. He is black enough
to suit the purposes Of the Citizens Asso-
citation, but is sadly deficient in the quail
ties necessary to commend him to men of
his own race in Louisiana. Raised among
white men, in a free State, where he was
barely tolerated, he is as much a stranger
to the characteristics Of the African race as
though he had never been a colored man.
But the natives who sign the communi-
cation in the Times take the correct view.
They demand of the self-consitituted re-
formers the full enjoyment of citizenship.
They are not satisfied with any arrange
ment that contemplates making the col
| ored man the laborer all his life, with the
white man as the capitalist who is to en-
ploy him in the days of his strength and
manhood, and subsist him on a strained
charity in his decliue. This condition of
affairs would be but little if any better
than that from which the national arms
Just rescued him. It would be the shadow
of citizenship, not the substance. ''For
this reason, say they, 'and it is an abso-
lutte one, they decline the utilization.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27

were endeavoring to iasten upon the peo-
pie of this city heavy yearly increase to
their debt in the way of interest.
Mr.. Carr also spoke against this new
scheme of the model reformers. lie
thought it the most barefaced swindle
ever perpetrated upon the people of New
Orleans. Mr.. Cars remarks were some
what extended, and embraced an interest
ing history of the public debt Of the city.
Pending motion to postpone the further
consideration of the two funding bills last
night, the House adjourned until ten
o'clock this morning.
The Senate last evening made an addi-
tional appropriation Of $4,000 to take
up the outstanding warrants Of last ses-
sion. The general appropriation bill was
under consideration at half-past nine
o'clock, when Senator Butler called for
an executive session, and the lobbies were
cleared
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
RaiIrOad Committee ExcurslOn.

The Railroad Committee of the House of
Representatives, consisting of Messrs.
Hampstead, McCarty, Pond, Buckingham,
and Mcfarland, accompanied by Hon. c.
+. Huston, James Brewster, Captain Ward
Thomas Divine, G. j. Jones, James Sullivan
II. Won Creelin and the great Southern rail
road ne wsdealer and stationer, C. C. HALEY.
made an excursion yesterday over the New
Orleans, Mobile and Texas railroad, as far
as Pass Christian, leaving New Orleans by
the ii A. NJ. train.
AT Pass Christian they met the morning
train from Mobile, in waiting to bring the
party back. The inner man was duly pro-
vided for to the entire satisfaction of the
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.

Sir Henry DOgden, knight of the unde-
filed Democracy. and oracUlar orator OF
his order by virtue of his presidency OF It's
central committee, has published an ad-
dress to the faithful, which is to be read
throughout the State of Louisiana wherever
the Democracy has friend. We propose
to make Sir Henry admit that he COM
mitted several errors when he perpetrated
this address, for we accept Of him as a
capable gentleman, and to a capable gen.
tleman the Grafton of Sir Henry is not de-
feasible.
The address condemns itself, being
couched in language that conceals pur
pose which its author was afraid to declare.
That is, Mr. Ogden plainly indicates in
his communication to the Democracy that
in certain contingency the legally an
nounced results of the election must not
be treated as if they did not exist, which
is as much as to say, that Whenever the
returning officer certifies that Repub-
Ican has been elected to Office, the Democ-
racy will be justified, if they are not salts
fed with the action of the officer legally
performed, to rectify the act without ap-
pealing to the courts or to any other
proper corrective tribunal This invites,
in the plainest terms, the overthrow OF the
law itself. It advises the Democracy to do
what the election and registration laws
were specifically framed to prevent in 1870,
and furnishes just reason why these very
laws should be continued in force.
But this is beginning at the tail Of the
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27

argument instead Of its head The ad'
dress excuses itself for its early appear
| ance by assuming that the Democracy
needs to be more than ordinarily wide
awake this year, and that an early call to
the field Of politics was necessary in order
to allow Of plenty time for complete or
ganization of the party throughout the
State.
The main object to be attained is sue
cess. The methods to be used ID achlev-
ing their object are threefold: First, by
collision with the enemies of Governor
Warmoth; secondly, by collision with any
candidate for the Presidency, Republican
or otherwise, who will promise to help
overthrow the Republican administration
in louisiana; and, thirdly, bya revolu-
tionary attempt against all returning Of
fcers who will not elect Democrats,
whether the ballots have done it or no.
The address sets out with plain asser-
ton that the Democracy must organize
early if it would win in the next election.
This, We take it, establishes our first
charge. 1t alludes to the recent Legisla'
tive trouble as the beginning Of an effort
to divide the Republicans, by arraying the
enemies of Governor Warmoth against the
party. Itr ehearses the complaints Of GER
tain men against the Governor as an evil
dence that the Republican party is ready
to disband and it encourages the Demo
Gratis to foster these complaints, and to
take sides with the compliments, as the
surest way to win a victory for themselves.
1t declares that national politics are merely
Sc secondary, and that the Democracy can
afford to support any Republican for the
Presidency who can assist it sufficiently to
carry the local elections These sugges-
tons sustain our Interpretation Of the
address fully in these particulars.
First-That the Democrats intend tC
carry the State of Louisiana next fall il
they have to abandon the Presidency,
Second-That they intend to do it peace.
fully, by colluding with General Grant OF
anybody else who will promise to help
them.
Third That they expect to win a victory
over the Republican party by creating dis
sensions in its ranks.
Fourth-That they intend, as last re
sort TO RELY mon revolution
With the plan of the campaign designed
by the enemy in our hands, it will be sin
gular if We do not make them amend il
before the day of battle; and it will be still
more singular if we do not beat them
whether they reform their lines or go on a:
they have proposed.
New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-02-27
= ANOTHER GONE.

1t is our sad duty to announce the death
of George W. Ragan, of Baton Rouge,
who ended All honorable and useful career
yesterday afternoon. His disease was
pneumonia, from which he has suffered for
the past ten days, although fears Of fatal re-
suits were not entertained until Saturday
last.
Senator Raglan was elected in November,
1870, consequently this was his second
session in the Senate. His course, while
earnestly and Unwaveringly true to the
Republican party, has been characterized
by Jealous watchfulness for the welfare
of all his constituents that was winning
him respect despite original and bitter
prejudices on the part of his political OPP
ponents. His untimely taking off will be
generally and sincerely mourned.
This is the fourth vacancy, including
the late Lieutenant Governor, by death in
the Senate, III less than year-all Repub-
hcans, and the three Senators staunch sup
pOrters Of the administration.