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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Commissioner Stone Is becoming very un.
easy because the frequent rains delay his FIX
ing up the street crossing. Mr.. Stone de-
serves great credit for the energy with which
he has pushed the repairs of the streets under
unfayorAble Circumstances
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Mr.. r. Barnes. one Of the substantial
farmers Of the county, was in the city YES
terday. He lives ten miles up the Arkan-
sas on the west side. He Saws that the
farmers are pretty well behind. but they
viii soon catch up and be as hopeful IS ever
when the clewis pass by. He has one hun
ir,.,i acres nlreaiv nlsniei IN corn.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Robert J. Burdette. OF the Burlingt on
Hawkeye SANS: Il consider Helen Potter
the grandest woman, in her readings and inn
presentations, on the platform to-day. If
you have ever seen Cough Miss Potter is
more like Cough than Cough Is. Her i'm
personations are portraits in appearance,
voice and action have never, in the four
years have been on the platform, heard
one adverse criticism upon her entertain
ments, and she deserves all the praise Law
ished upon her. Her entertainment is COM
ple.e'
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Col. Hartzell received the franchise for
building street railway at Ottawa
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Everybody smokes Husey & kroenert's
Mugwump cigar. d3o0tjl
Mrs. klentz. 1873 Main street. will continue
her clearance sale. Ladies will do well BY
calling at her millinery establishment.
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Two csrloads Of fast horses passed south
yesterday en- route from Parsons to be on
hand for the Winfield races. Among them
were the following fine animals: "Review,"
"Roan Frank Forest Pilot" and George
Elmo" belonging 10 Stewart tS Conklin, OF
Kansas City; @Cling," the celebrated stem
winder. the property of Mr.. Smith, Of Den
yer, and Edgar Adams daisy Wise" They
will all be on hand AT the Wichita meeting.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

B. b. Downing has the contract for en-
larging F. p. Ford's house on Waco street.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Some people complain that real estate is
too high in this city but as far as We can
learn it i not only relatively, but actually
and west Of u. NJ. Chas. Colco-d. Of Med
iciae Lodge. who i n the city. said that lie
saw lot sold in this city for $500 that, sim
iiarly situsted in Medicine Lodge. would
bring :. 900.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Louis last evening and spent the night in
the CITY.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Some very fine home-raised gooseberries
were in the l.rarket Yesterday
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

n. lchitz STICK Nxr,3 cccEFscy have regular
saIs esy. % sstrrisT q ssce sch. cex-ar "a
81 ooe clock p n EIxDibs shs.T .t0~s
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

II YOU want 10 buy chesp land or lots -
ZimInerly's addition fcr prices and iu:orrna-
tion call on South NArke; stree. 81 ZiTHrne--
ly's residence. or Fred Schaitne-. city cleTk-
tesS5,s
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Col. Murdoch returned last night. having
retired for few DAYS 10 the seclusion OF
Wellington. The colonel. being an old
frontiersman, i not able, and perhaps will
never be able 70 accommodate himself TO
the metropolitan life OF Wichita He signs
for elbow room, the odor Of the wild flowers
and the pungent scent Of burning buffalo
chips and buffalo steak Sizing thereon.
and every few DAYS he feels il necessary to
take trip to-Wellington. or 70 his dug out
near Touzalin.-Seacon
The editor of the EAGLE has only been
out of town twice, for day at each time, in
a year. But that's neither here nor there.
Wellington. with The most magnificent pub
lie building in the state, which her new
symmetrical and imposing court house real
ly is; her great three-story blocks Of bust
ness houses, one Of them beautiful white
marble; one finer public school building
than any Wichita boasts; her water system
and well drained streets: her pretty and nu-
merous churches: her fair women and elo-
quent preachers; her depots, mills and Gle
vators: and above all, the faith Of her en-
terprising people-six or seven thousand of
them-we viii wager something valuable
that the editor Of the Beacon cannot with
safety. retire to the same "seclusion" and
return able-boaied, or We have failed TO size
up that wide-awake people properly.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

While a theological discussion just at this
time in Wichita might attract more than
ordinary attention, experience has long since
convinced us that they are ill-advised in the
columns Of a secular paper. Within two
weeks time, if permitted, the EAGLE would
be all theology and no news. Therefore We
must decline several communications on
bap;isms and kindred subjects. And We do
this in the absence of anything like ill-will
or prejudice.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
ALDRIeu Il BRowS.

All orders promptly attended to. Wich
tia Steam Laundry Co. d3IO-3t
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

am now working at my trade, finishing
over and renovsting furniture, organs ard
pianos. Ny work needs no recommended
ton rs | made thorough canvass of Wich-
ita last spring, my work showing for itself
l3l,-lots TUou,s IFNT
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

The practical test of Prof. Horsford's bak-
ing powder will be given at Manuel & Dress
er's to-day. Every lady should be present.
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

r.. X. Tickets
Bought, sold and exchanged at Posts, the
pawnbroker
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

If you would like pure, unadulterated
sweet cider, 90 to the wholesale produce
store, sold in quantities to suit the customer.
ll9 Market street. d169-tf
The Mugwumn Is the best Sc cicar in the
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
Big Mistake,

Chocolate and cream at AldrichS Browns
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

1t WAS reported by Mr.. Walker in this
city yesterday that buggy with two horses
hitched to it, both drowned, had been
found washed up against the railway bridge
across Smocts creek IN the extreme western
part of the comfy. So far as heard from
the buggy could not be identified as the
property of any known person. 1t is not
improbable that the occupant or occupants
were drowned, though no one was found
drowned in the locality
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
WICHITA, MAY Is, lSS'

| To The ditor OF The Eagle
desire through your columns to make a
further statement in regard to the feeding
contest last summer. an account Of which
WAS published in thu EAGLE last fall. A,
the close of the trial Nr. Miller was away
from Wichita and told me previous to his
departure that he had or would arrange with
Mr.. Fox to settle with nia. Upon his re-
turn to this city he said that in his hurry of
getting ready to leave he neglected to speak
TO Mr.. Fox about the matter and of course
| felt very much chagrinei that the settle
| upon his present visit Mr.. Miller has settled
| satisfactorily with me and deem this state
nent necessary in view Of the statement
that was made in the previous article.
will state further that notwithstanding the
result of the experiment. Mr.. Miller is as
enthusiastic as ever for the Berkshire.
Yours, L. T. LAWRENCE
\ petition has been circulated the last few
days among the tax payers OF the east part
of town. south OF Central avenue and cas-. of
the Santa Fe, including the new additions
recently taken in, with view to petitioning
the council for new ward, the Sixth. They
say they deserve representation, as we'll as
any other part of town, and claim the First
ward is too large. They will hold meet
ing for the purpose of taking action in the
mater, in Pultz " Dester's carpenter shop,
on East Doug,as avenue, next Saturday
evening.
The following members of the locating
committee of the Methodist college, ac-
compan!ed by committee of our citizens
took ride over tne city in four hacks YES
terday afternoon: Rev. A. p. George.
Nickerson; Rev. y. :. Buckner, Arkansas
City: Rev W. II. Cline, Wellington: Rev.
ID. d. Akin. Hutchinson; Rev. Noah Asher,
Belle PLANE: Rev. II. Watt, Peabody All
the committee were present excep. Rev. T.
c. Miller, of Lyons.
\ reporter visited our weather prophet in
his observatory yesterday, and found him
gazing through something resembling a
tombstone. The scribe gazed at him in |
awe and admiration. as he stood there,
grand. gloomy and peculiar peerirg into |
the mysterious beyond. What is the out |
look, professor" said the reporter. as the as
tronomer looked up. He shook his head, |
while a look Of gloom mean6ered over his |
benign countenancc. and replied: Il; is not |
all over Vet and the Lord only knows when |
it viii be. We will have more rain to-day"
And sure enough We had.
Some elegant specimens of the Bandera /
F'ag-stone company's tagging is on exhi-
bition in this city by Hooker X jackson,
the agents. The now walk in front Of the
Biting Brothers shows what it i like. OF
its excellence there can be no doubt. Sun
nor frost, heat nor water affect it in the least;
1t Is hard and smooth and Of magnificent
surface proportions. Before putting down
i permaneu; walk examine this Baniers
tagging.
Some people complain that real estate is
too high in this city but as far as We can
learn it i not only relatively, but actually
cheaper than in any Of the towns southwest
and west Of Us. NJ. Chas Colco-d. Of Med
eine Lodge. who i IN the city. said that lie
saw a LOT sold in this city for $500 that, sim
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
sAscAI.s REAL ESTATE.

Fer SAFE
Choice piece. of Land adjoining TIE city
Most AZ size.hv Herrv schaei:e-- c-It-tl-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

In watches and diamonds at Posts, the
pawnbroker.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20
Sick Headache Cured

Headache is terrible thing to be subject
to, but Cobb's Little Pills will cure II or
money refunded. If the liver is torpid aad
the bowels constipated, you feel sick ''ai!
over" Your head will ache and be dizzy,
your appetite will be poor, etc. Cobb's Lit
tie Podophyllin Pills are the one genuine
remedy now before the public to start the
machine into proper action. Only 25 cents
per bottle. No cure no pay.
1926 ALpRIeu Il BRowS
Don't forget to have your washing ready
for Monday morning. Wichita Steam
Laundry Co.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Rheumatism has one invincible antagon-
ist, one never yielding enemy that viii con-
quer it every time the opportunity Is given,
and that is Chamberlasn's Pain Balm
Many cases Of rheumatism that had with
stood all other treatment for wears have
yielded to Chamberlain Pain Balm. 50
cent bottles sold by all druggists d251
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

\ SINGLE trial Of the Peerless Worm Spe-
ciic never vet failed TO relieve the baby,snd
overcome the prejudioes Of the mother. Il
not only frees the child from worms, but
regulates the stomach and bowels. cures
wind collie. corrects acidItv, and cures Dy--
EMERY and Diarrhoea. glves rest and health
to the child ard comforts the mother. Try
it No cure. no pay
so AIrRIcH 4 BRowS.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

Telephone your ORDER 70 Freeman <
Hibsrger hack or livery. .G-u
IL you want 20 buy cheap lot IL thinner
!y'- addition. cali on Fred -ehsthsT- At city
clerks office cS-r
Cider. Cider cIses.
II you want apple cider g % John
Shots. He sells il 5; wholesale and retail.
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Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-05-20

When YOU feel that you had been born
tired and never got fully rested take Il dose
Of St. Patrick's Pills. They will cleanse
your system and regulate your liver. Then
you will realize the vigor Of health aud en-
joy using your latent energy. Sold by ali
druggists. d257
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
S1,5O1, sO7, no ,14s, 64s

Thus we discover that in drink alone
there is an absolute destruction equal to
the entire earnings of over three mill
ions of people every year. The destruc-
ton is complete. The three millions
and at least as many more dependent
upon them to be fed and clothed at the
expense of others while they pour their
entire earnings into the bottomless pit
of drink. The gravity of the destruc-
ton is in no way diminished by dividing
it among greater number. If SIX mill
ions spend half their earnings for drink
there is the same loss of property but
more people share it. perhaps.
The first feeling upon being con-
fronted by statistics like the above is
that there must be fallacy concealed
in them. The evidence of our senses
assures us that wealth is steadily in
creasing and the standard of comfort
able and rational living steadily, though
perhaps slowly, advancing. at is i'm
possible" is the involuntary conclusion
1t is not impossible, we answer. On
the contrary there is every reason to
suppose it to be real. "But how can
the Nation stand it2" asks the incredul-
Gus economist. This point also is worth
looking into. The secret of the con-
tinual growth of wealth in spite of
this tremendous waste is found in the
profit which we derive from the use
of machinery. A machine is an appa-
ratus for enabling man to perform his
work by the aid of the energy of nature.
The farmer borrows from natures store
in the use of the soil and the sunlight,
and the power of his animals. The
manufacturer couples his machinery to
the waterfall or to the power lying idle
in the coal. Taking horsepower as
being equal to the work of three men,
purely arbitrary, but very low esti-
mate, machinery adds to the wealth
producing power of this country force
equal to the work of more than ten
millions of men. This is exclusive of
the enormous advantage which all share
in the much greater expenditure of
borrowed force in transportation of
material and merchandise upon the
railways.
Without this beneficent addition of
machinery to our resources the drink
waste would reduce this free land to
abject poverty within less than single
decade. This any one can see who win
observe that the total number engaged
in gainful occupations in 1880 was only
about eighteen millions. The annual
waste. therefore, is more than one-sixth
the human resources of the country.
The bearing of this fact upon hard
times is too large subject for present
undertaking.-Uniofa Signal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15

elements of like degradation and riia to
their posterity. In hundreds and thou
sands of instances, parents having had
children born to them while their hab-
its were temperate, have become after
wards Incorporate. and had other chill
dren subsequently born. In such cases
it is a matter of notoriety that the
younger children have become addicted
to the practice of intoxication much
more frequently than the elder, in the
proportion OF five to one
DR.. r. G. Dods says: 1.-The child of
drunken parents inherits pre-disposi-
ton to the use of spirituous liquors.
+. Parents suffering under disease Of
the liver, or any other organ. from the
excessive use of spirits, give rise to
children whose constitutions possess
strong tendencies to similar morbid ac-
tons; and these morbid actions not
only lead to habits of intemperanc&
with the vain hope of relief from uneasy
sensations, but are greatly increased by
such practices
DR.. John Reid says: IF the infant of
an Incorporate mother so far escape as
to be ushered alive into the world. little
physical vigor or intellectual health can
be expected from human being whose
constitution has been made to know the
influence of alcohol before it was ex-
posed even to that of air."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
DRINK DISEASE HEREDITARY.
The Awful Responsibility of Parents Ad
dicted to incompetence.

The Awful Responsibility of Parents Ad-
dicted to incompetence.
DR.. Howe in a report on Idiocy made
TO the Legislature of Massachusetts,,
states that: "The habits of the parents
of three hundred of the idiots were
learned; and one hundred and forty
five, or nearly one-hG!f, are reported as
known to be habitual drunkards. ;
Such parents, it is affirmed, give weak
and lax constitution to their children,
who are, consequently, deficient in
bodily and vital energy, and predis-
posed By their very organization to have
cravings for alcoholic stimulants; many
of these children are feeble, and live ir-
regularly. Having lower vitality,
they feel the want of some stimulation.
If they pursue the course of their faith
ers, which they have more temptation
to follow, and less power to avoid, than
the children of the temperate, they add
to their hereditary weakness, and in
crease the tendency to idiocy in their
constitution-and this they leave to their
children after them. The parents of
case No. 81 were drunkards, and had
seven idiotic children.
DR.. Howe concludes that three-fourths
of all idiots are born of Incorporate pa
rents. The following, among other
cases mentioned in his report, presents
a painful illustration of these facts:
'.No. IS. II. G. F., aged thirty three.
His mother was extremely Incorporate
Tor several years before his birth,
and died of delirium tremens.
Muscular vigor is impaired by singu-
lar affection of his nervous system,
which gives him the air, gait and ap-
pedrGnce of q drunken man. He seems
to have inherited from his mother a
strong resemblance to her acquired
habit of body. He trips and staggers
in his walk. The motions OF
his muscles are suddenly checked. his
jaw is arrested in the act of chewing,
his lips in the act of speaking, or, if
walking, and the stoppage is considera-
bic, he stumbles, and perhaps falls
down. Sometimes he remains inSensi-
bic for a minute or two, and is after
wards utterly unconscious of what
passed. More often the command of
one muscle, or of one side. is lost for an
instant, and he is obliged to hitch and
wriggle along with the others. Thus
the poor creature drags himself about,
a living monument of his mothers
shame.
DR.. Caldwell says: by habits of in
temperance parents not only degrade
and ruin themselves, but transmit the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mark Twain says he set tyne In tbs
Philadelphia Ledger Office more than
thirty years ago.
Henry Berg's three sons are all In
terested in the philanthropic projects OF
their father. ~ Y. SM.
An English newspaper sayg that
Parnel is soon to marry an American
girl, friend of his mother.
Governor Lloyd, of Maryland, is
the third member of his family to hold
that office, the first having attained it
in 1909 and the second in l809.-BaIti-
more Sun.
Twenty-Five daughters at present
live with their father, George Riddle,
in Carroll County, Mo. Also eight
widows of the nine deceased sons OF
the late Captain George Cook, of Hart
ford, Conn, still survive.
Rev. DR.. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, has
been busy man. In the last twenty
five years he has written three thou
sand articles for the newspapers, be-
sides writing g. cord of sermons, pub
fishing ten volumes, and doing a great
deal of other work. Brooklyn Eagle.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is living
quietly with her mother in BROOKLYN.
Bessie Turner is married to a Mr..
Schoonmaker. Since her marriage she
has lived very quietly, and is now a
middle-aged, fairly good-looking wom-
an. passed in the streets without recog-
milton as notable. IN. r Sun.
There are but few left of the Off
GERS most closely associated with Grant
during the war. All but three of the
ten officers composing General Grants
Mississippi Valley staff are dead. The
survivors are Colonel John Riggin, of
St. Louis, Colonel Webster and Gen
eral Ihrie, of San Francisco Chicago
Tribune.
Marguerite Cleveland's death re-
moved from the Greeley circle its most
gifted feminine member. Possessing
rare musical talent, her society was
everywhere welcome for this and other
entertaining qualities. She was niece
of the famous editor, and is buried near
him, in Greenwood Cemetery.-M. Y
Herald.
Elias Howe, the sewing machine
millionaire, was private soldier dur
ing the war; It is said that once when
his regiment was suffering on account
of a delay in paying them he gave his
personal check to the Quartermaster
and they were Immediately paid. The
Government subsequently paid him
back.-Bostop Journal.
In 1869, at the Theater de rOdean,
in Paris, Adelina Patti appeared at a
concert for the benefit of a young actress
who had lost all her possessions by q
fire. At the close Of the concert the
actress, wearing black wooden dress
without the slightest ornament, went
timidly to the diva, and, giving her a
bouquet worth two sous, kissed hel
hand. The actress was Sara Bernhard
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-15
TEMPERANCE.
WEALTH AND WASTE.

An Annual Destruction In Alcoholic Drinks
in the United States Equal to the Year
" Earnings of Over 1000, 900 of People.
The economic aspects of the drink
traffic afford more subjects of wonder
than any other branch of political econ
omy whatever. While it may not be
possible to state with any certainty the
actual sum annually expended by the
people of the United States for drink,
we at least know the number of gallons
of pure spirits which are consumed,
and are thus able to form an approx
mate idea of what it costs the con-
sumner. According to the report
of the Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue for 1884, the number of gallons
of distilled spirits withdrawn for con-
sumption in that fiscal year was 49,
1924 for which the consumer car
hardly have paid less than SO gallon,
or 1873, 424, 740. The beer amounted to
I,573,72 barrels, costing the con
sumner at least SIS barrel, or $685.
21l,088. Whatever discount from this
estimate we might be called upon to
make by reason of part of the whisky
being sold for less than $40 a gallon,
will be more than compensated for by
the addition of water and adulterated
liquors, as well as native and imported
wines, ali of which are ignored in the
reckoning.a
The wastefulness of this enormous
expenditure will appear more plainly il
we compare it with another important
loss, that of property by fire, which in
1884 reached S109, 800, 169. In order tc
come still nearer to an understanding
of the evil significance of these yasi
totals, let us measure them in units of 8
mans work for a year. Taking all
manufacturing establishments of the
country through, according to the cen
sus of 1880, and dividing the total sun
paid for wages by the average number
of hands employed, we get $345 as the
average earning of an operative by /.
years work. Taking this unit at 1885,
for the sake of rounder figures, we fine
that the chief wastes of this country
present the aspect shown in the follow
ing table: