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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-09-10
Mhx He was in Good Humor.

The other evening dropped into the
Office OF a weil-known physician on the
hill, to settle up. He showed me note,
containing a cleverly adapted passage Of
Scripture, which he had received from
mutual friend, and which had put him
in good humor, it being, as he expressed
ii, almost worth five dollars" 70 him.
Here it il:
DEAR DocToR have heard Of
the patience Of Job, and how he said
''All the days Of my appointed time win
wait until my change comes. won
der if any one owed him billg You
will find enclosed check fol- s., THO
amount Of your bill. Many thanks tor
your long suffering. Yours truly.
Albany Egpyess.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-09-10
FACTS FOB The CURIOUS.
ITO BE CONTINUED

Europeans find the heat Of Algeria
great obstacle to agricultural work, and,
to avoid much of it, they propose max
ing harvests at night by aid of electric
light.
The Roman doctors Of the early times
exercised both departments of the heal
ing art, but about the time Of Tiberius
surgery began to be practiced as dis
tinct profession.
Canes were regarded as necessary ac-
compartment by the young men Of an
cient Greece when they went out to walk.
They were often highly decorated, and
more elegantly made than the common
walking stick of to-day.
Japanese houses are made of such com
bustible material that confagrations are
constantly occurring. If mans house
is burned, it is expected that he will
send present of some kind a few days
later to all who have assisted him in try
ing to preserve the building or remove
his goods.
The buzzard which was bclled in
Jones county, Ca, before the war is still
flying around the State. Buzzards live
to an immense age, and in most Of the
Southern States it is misdcmeanor to
kill them. They are further preserved
by the superstition among the negroes
that it is bad luck to hurt them.
Pigs have been known to live to the
age Of twenty, and the rhinoceros to
twenty nine. A horse has been known
to live to the age Of sixty-two, but aver
age from twenty-five to thirty Camels
sometimes live to the age Of 100; stags
are very long-lived, sheep seldom exceed
the age Of ten; cows live about fifteen
years.
Pompey built the first stone theatre in
Rome, and, Notwithstanding his great
political power, he could succeed in
silencing the objections made by the
conservative party against this innova-
tion only by the pretence that the stone
seats were the steps of temple. This
first permanent structure was succeeded,
during the reign Of Augustus, by two
other theatres, those Of Marcellus and Of
Balbus; the first could seat but quarter
as many spectators as did the theatre oi
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1885-09-10

where Warren was, murmured IN an I'm.
pressive whisper:
The end is near, and ere another night
has passed, Edith Leslie's wrongs will be
righted, my fathers murder avenged"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
AS A COMMERCIAL CENTER

The commercial centers of Kansas, Xix,
! Wichita and Fort Scott, are becoming
I aroused to the importance of defensiv,
action in building transportation lines ant
developing the territory tributary to theil
local trade. The press of Kansas City urge.
in double-leaded editorials the importance
OF building all the necessary roads TO main.
tain commercial supremacy over all Kansas
territory.-Capital.
Kansas City may continue to maintain q
commercial supremacy over that small por-
ton of Kansas bordering on the Missouri
river, but SO far as the great bulk of the
trade Of the state is concerned it has become
to great for the limited capital of Kansas
City to handle.
Wichita is the larges. wholesaling or
jobbing point in the state of Kansas, by all
odds. Wichita's travelling men can be found
in every town OF the southwest. Wichita is
the only city in Kansas that pretends to
having exclusive wholesale houses dealing
solely in staple goods. Her two exclusive
dry goods jobbing establishments cannot be
eQualled in any city in the west outside of
Kansas City and Denver, while there are
several large dry goods firms whose whole
sale trade equals that of their retail. In the
line Of wholesale groceries Wichita has un-
doubleday one of the strongest institutions
of the kind in the west. The lines of drugs
hardware, ETC., and also those of vehicles
and implements. ETC., etc., of grain, of lum-
Der, etc, are all strongly represented. The
Standard Oil company will be ready for
operation in week or so.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
DEAD BROKE

Mechanics of ell trades in this city tel
some pitiful tales of the number of dead
broke mechanics who arrive in this city from
all quarters almost daily. They are willing
TO work at any price but there is already q
surplus Of mechanics of all trades here not
withstanding the great number of buildings
going up. Some of these dead broke me-
chanics bring tools with them but the ma
jority have neither tools nor money. Mr..
c. d. Bush. of the tanning mill factory, told
reporter yesterday that there is hardly q
day that some two or three don't come to
him looking for job. The other day a
msn came to his shop who excited his pity
He was an elderly man, gentlemanly in ap-
pearance and department, who had guam
tity Of tools worth about 81 which he offer
ed for 81, which amount he said would take
him 10 place where he had friends.
Mr.. Bush having confidence in the man,
loaned, or rather gave him, 81, and did not
take the tools. In a few days he saws the
man enclosed him SIS in a letter. Many
worthy men come here who have Travelled
weeks In search Of work, and then again
there are as many or probably twice as
many who are not particularly mashed on
work. A reporter met man about As
years old the other morning as he came
down town to breakfast, who was trying to
beg money TO take him TO Ohio.
This is great city for all manner of peo-
pie to congregate, and not day passes that
there is not from one TO half dozen beggars
in town, and not night that somebody's
house is not burglariously entered. 1t is the
general opinion that the police will be
called upon to exercise unusual vigilance the
coming winter. This city has no paupers of
her own; they all come here dead broke.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
HOW SHE Patterned.

Kansas City papers make an unreasonable
and foolish complaint against the Missouri
Pacific and Frisco lines because these lines
shipped last year thousand or so car loads
Of hogs and cattle direct to St Louis instead
of around by Kansas City. These papers
claim that the Paola link will take all the
cattle and hogs shipped by the Fort Scott &
Wichita, by way of or through Kansas
City's stock yards. The Paola link will not
help that matter one whit. The cattlemen
of southwest Kansas and the grain men Of
southwest Kansas have had all the cattle
yards and elevators Of Kansas City that
they want Leaving out the element of
time and shorter haul and cheaper rates,
they won't forget the swindling process Of
Kansas City grain elevators and their ruinous
classifcstions, their mixing up grades, their
short weights nor their "roughs," "piggy,"
''stockers," "Yorkers," ''skips," eight
weights" and other live stock discrimina-
+icps
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
SNI HILLS GALL.

We have always contended that the rail
roads need careful watching more than any
thing else. In Kansas the law allows the
commissioners 10 watch the roads, and in
case of necessity take them into the courts.
The remedy has been found exceedingly
valuable, and If the law is allowed a proper
test, it will be of great value to the people.
X. c. journal.
The interstate trunk lines reaching Kan
sas City from The east not being hampered by
the Kansas law can compete to Kansas City's
sole advantage, but for the roads reaching out
from her into Kansas the commissioners are
to watch these roads and take them into the
courts if they fail to charge full local rates
on through freights via Kansas City. The
gall embraced in such observa ions as the
above exceeds anything ever produced out
side OF the shadow of the Sni Hills.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
A SLIM CHANCE.

If the Paola branch is built Kansas Cit,
is likely to become, not only the bead of thu
Missouri Pacific roads in Kansas, but tn,
center of the entire Gould southwestern sys.
TEN. If allied to Kansas City with large in
terests here, there would be no calculating
the benefits which would accrue to the bust
ness men of the city.-Kansas City Times
There are too many strong railroad sys.
TENS allied to Kansas City already, leaving
no chance to Mr.. Gould to play anything
but second-fddle at that point, thing he
never does. that which has made Kansas
City lies beyond her and that source Mr..
Gould proposes to tap independently, with
out SO much as "by your leave" to Kan
sas City. While it is undoubtedly time
that Mr.. Gould's attempt to make st. Louis
'the" main point of his southwestern sys-
tenn, it is nevertheless main point, and a
much bigger point SO far as his roads are
concerned than ever Kansas City can be.
His next main point will be point situated
in the heart Of the country, which has so
largely supplied the traffic for the Kansas
City roads. If that main point amt Wich-
ita, the signs are very deceiving.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
THE OTHER SIDE.

Railroad legislation in Kansas has proved
conspicuous success, especially on account
Of the able, sensible manner in which il has
been administered by the commissioner
Kansas City Paper.
Attempted railroad legislation in Kansas
has at times threatened The dearest material
interests Of this state. Every winter there
are found willing demagogues advocating
measures which would not only put stop
to all railroad building but force every COM
munity in the state to go TO Kansas City for
everything and pay uniform local rate fer
every pound of their Missouri purchases. II
the legislature will but keep its hands of, all
trunk lines now terminating at the Missouri
river will, within five or eight years, be ex-
tended into the great grain fields and cattle
pastures of central and western Kansas.
Fixed freight rates in Kansas means maxi
mum fatness and supreme luxury for Kan
sss City and poverty for Kansas manufac-
turers, farmers and business men.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
HEAR EN- HOWL

Ry making through Missouri Pacific
line from southern Kansas TO Kansas City,
the Gould interest would be allied 10 that OF
this city, and the Missouri Pacific would
cease to make any invidious distinction be-
tween il and St. Louis When there il no
longer any occasion 10 make a through rate
via Kansas City less than the sum OF the locals,
the southwestern association would cease its
determinations. The Frisco would then be
the only line adverse to this city, and with
all other roads in southern Kansas opposed
to him Mr.. Gale would doubtless be whipped
into the traces, and II is even thought would
be forced to build line TO this point.-Ksn-
sss City Times.
Viii our Wichita merchants please mark
the expressions: "When there is no longer
any occasion to make through rates via
Kansas City LESS THAN THE sum OF THE To-
GALS" etc. As for the threat that the Frisco
shall be whipped into The traces, in other
words whipped into neglecting its own
towns aud interests only that Kansas City
may be benefited, we tell the Times that it
might rs sensibly attempt 10 stay the tides
of the ocean. In other words, we are for
ourselves down in this country, and the
Frisco is for US. too, therefore, for itself.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
HARP
HARPER, Kan, Sept. 4, 1SS

HARPER, Kan, Sept. 4, 1885.
To the Editor Of the Daily Eagle:
A soaking rain occurred Wednesday nigh
and Thursday morning.
Homegrown peaches are plentiful in mar
ket at fifty cents bushel and upward, which
speaks well for an eight-year-old county al
fruit section.
The Wellington Reds and Harper Graph.
les are to play match game of ball at the
fair grounds this afternoon.
The Harper fair promises to be gigantic
affair for SO new a county. 1t is being well
advertised and much interest is manifested.
The grounds and buildings have been i'm
proved until few counties in the state CAL
make better showing in fair accommoda-
tons.
1t was rather an imposition on the people
when the bells were rung the other
night to have search instituted for
two Of the worst eight or nine year old
kids in town who had got lost? They were
found the next morning some ten miles dis
tant Striking out Tor greener pastures,
though one Of the boys at least has as good
home, perhaps too indulgent, as a boy
ever had. The other boy is "a stranger to
the writer but was fleeing only from i'm
aginary wrongs. 1t is q pity, for their
sakes, that they were not permitted to share
the hospitality of the world-to which dis
lance lends so much enchantment.
The dozen new business houses hereto
fore described are progressing finely, five
rooms already occupied, three with good
stocks and two more are receiving the fin
ishing touches, while two of the finest blocks
have walls half way erected.
The three additional rooms to the school
buildings are baing plastered and nine
rooms will be ready 10 open school.
Rev. L. J. Van Landingham, pastor of
the NJ. E. church, has resigned on account
Of poor health. He owns property here and
We trust will continue to make this his
home. he will spend several mont hs in the
east, especially in Washington. He is uni
versslly well liked here and the church has
greatly in numbers under his
pastorate.
Last evening boy seven miles west of
Town shot at a skunk and accidently shot
his mother, but it is thought not fatally.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
oEUDA SPRINGS.

GEUDA SPRINGS, Sept. 4.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
There is perhaps greater possibilities il
store for this particular health resort thar
there is for any other place in Kansas Of Q
like nature. Abundantly supplied, as it is
with seven distinct kinds of pure mineral
water, containing medicinal properties Of
rare virtue, gushing plentifully from seven
different springs, all within circle of twen-
ty-6ve feet and so arranged that all can flow
into one stream, forming combination
perhaps excelled by no others in this coun-
try. The springs are well located, surround
ed by a rich and attractive country with fine
scenery and ample opportunities for livery
drives in all directions. There is such va
riety of waters here, nearly every ono who
comes suffering from any kind Of chronic
complaint is benefited. 1t is currently stat
ed here, although we have not investigated the
reliability of the report, that there is quite a
large collection of canes and clutches stored
away in the hotel which have been discard
ed by the many visitors who have been re-
lieved of the necessity of their use, after
drinking the healing waters.
The Springs can be reached most con-
veniently from Arkansas City, where there
is daily hack line, leaving there at in the
afternoon and arriving a. the Springs about
4:30. The distance from there to Geuda is
nearly eight miles, over very pleasant
road, passing through some of the finest
country and best improved farms in Cowley
and Summer counties. Hotels and boarding
houses are quite plentiful and visitors can find
almost any kind of accommodations they
may desire at rates to suit. The Grand
Central is the principle house and is very
comfortable place to stop at. The propri-
etor, Mr.. F. 7. Sallade, is gentleman who
understands his business thoroughly and
sees that his guests are made to feel at home
while stopping with him.
Wichita folks have not been slow in find
ing out the many advantages to be had, by
free use of these waters, and one can al
ways find good sprinkling here from the
metropolis Of the Arkansas valley.
The recent cool weather has sent a good
many visitors home; yet there are quite
number of Wichita people now
at the Grand Central, as the following list
will show: Mrs. A. Wiegand and family,
Mrs. Kendell and daughter, Mr.. J. R. Bras
feld and Mr. c. F. Smith and WIFE
Sunday is quite gala day here. There can
be seen in all their glory the lovely coun-
try girls with their farmer beaus, and the
pretty dudess and dudes from Arkansas
City and other points, who ride out here to
spend the afternoon and drink the waters.
S. w.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
kINGMAN.
KIYoMAN, Kas.. Sept. A. IS

KINoMAN, Kas., Sept. 4, 's5.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
Sad bat true. The nomination of dele
gates for the county convention TO be kel(
next Saturday, to-day has tangled the mind
and aspirations Of several candidates ever
unto those who said they were sure to gel
there. Their faces wore wasted, neglected
and unkempt fcrlorn look. Those who may
be looking for them must seek for them
among the nameless political graves. There
will be no stone or monument to their, vast.
cd forms. A candidate resembling a re-
strained appetite, it is said, stands good
chance for the nomination for sheriff. All
the others are still in doubt.
There has been an important business
change in the drug business here
DR.. c. w. Myers, the Oldest physician and
druggist in Kingman, sold out his drug bus
mess yesterday to Messers.Frederick & Saw
yer, from Sedalia, Mo. The doctor will, in
few days, 60 cas-. on visit for few
weeks and then return to Kingman
10 reside. DIR. Myers has enjoyed one of
the largest, If not the largest, drug business
in Southwest Kansas. While wishing his
SUCCESSORS the same success, everybody is
sorry TO loose the doctors familiar face at
the old stand and the prescription case.
Kingman county's first fair will take place
at the Driving Park and Fair associa-
ton grounds on September 10Th and Both
and October LIST and End The premium
list is very attractive and it is believed that
all of our farmers will lend helping hand
TO make the first fair of the county grand
success.
The latest rumor is that negotiations are
going on for the purchase Of the Pacific
hotel and to move that building to the COZ
ner of Main and Sherman streets on tine
Hinton and Cook lots, and that John Cur
ney' the present manager of the LAclede, is
10 be the landlord. The truth know not.
Section Boss VIM. Grant, of the w. & w.
sells snake story. That he and his men
killed . snake about three miles east of town
.o-day that was about five feet long of i'm
mense size and upon opening il found
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
RECOGNIZING The INEVITABLE


Kansas City has no interests that are NOT
identical with the interests of Kansas towns,
and Kansas people and the Frisco road will
soon be compelled to recognize the newt
able.-K. g. Journal.
Identical" SO long as Kansas City can
run Kansas and all her towns In what re-
spect pray, are the interests Of Wichita and
Kansas City identical Their drummers
stop at the same hotels but our commercial
men give quotations which down the wind
wonder agent every time. The Frisco and
Missouri Pacific say they can haul goods to
Wichita just as cheaply as they can to Kan
sas City and we don't doubt it in the least.
So far as recognizing the inevitable" is
concerned Capt. Rogers, the general mana
ger, and Mr.. Gale, the general freight agent,
long since recognized the inevitable" fact
that Wichita was 70 be as big town Is
Kansas City and that it was TO their interests
10 help her boom accordingly.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
COOL IMPupENcE OF KANSAS CITY.

The Kansas City Journal says ed;torially
that the Kansas Railroad commissioners ap-
preciate the fact that the Frisco road is dis
eliminating against Kansas City and that the
commissioners are equal 10 the occasion.
We suppose by that it is meant that the
Frisco will not be permitted to work for its
own interests by building up Wichita and
other towas along is line but tina. the COM
missioners will regulate said road in the in
terest Of Kansas City.
The EAGLE tskes pleasure in reminding
all hands that after the next apportionment
central and western Kansas will run this
state, that central and western Kansas want
railroads above all things-independent
trunk lines-and that any town or combine
ton Of men in Kansas or Missouri who OBJ
pose this laudsble desire will hear something
drop.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
YUM, YUM.

The San Francisco road has been a kind
of freebooter among the other roads in Kan
sas, and ii is simply just that it should be
called to account by the commissioner. c.
Journal.
The Frisco doa't happen to have any in
terests at Kansas City, and therefore must be
called to an account The Frisco is help
ing to build up the only town in the west
that ever worried Kansas City.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
TOO MUCH OLD MISSOURI,

The people themselves did not want t,
trade in St. Louis and to force the trade wa
too great task for Mr.. Gould. Now is til,
opportune time for Kansas City to perfec
her railroad system and secure a command
ing commercial position.-K. c. Times.
There is too much of old Missouri in the
spirit, makeup and business methods OF
Kansas Citv for that place ever to hope be-
ing the commercial center of Kansas. Kan
sas City papers are wont to poke fun at St.
Louis sleepy ways, but Kansas City is just
as much behind the progressive and enter
prising spirit which marks Wichita as st.
Louis is behind Kansas City. The kind Of
enterprise which inspired the James boys in
their robberies was that of masks reinforced
bv pistols. 1t did well enough for Missouri
and served for long term of years to keep
Kansas City before tine world, but the Palm
genesis which Wichita now promises is in
spired by the Star of Empire, is
OF proud life and more imposing victory;
Of peerless mart, and q grander destiny
For the Nile of America history
The hoped-for metathesis.
Earan.,cbss aIxarxi.,p<v care xuyora IL, ros-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
ANOTHER MOVE.

Kansas City has organized railroad CON-
pany TO build road from Kansas City up
into the Territory and partially on the line
of the Omaha, Abilene and Wichita route.
Mr.. Gould's attention is called to this
scheme and its results to his northwestern
interests out of Kansas City. They propose
10 parallel him for $50 miles. The Cnica-
60, Burlington and Quincy management is
also directed to the assertion of the Kansas
City papers that this line is to cut off trade
which now goes to Chicago direct.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-09-11
A CITIZENS OPINION OF WICHITA AND
HER wESTERN-TRADE.

Mr.. ID. 7. Dunbar, just returned from a
two or three weeks visit to Hodgeman and
other adjoining counties, says that the
country through which he passed is one OF
the richest and best agricultural land in the
state outside of the Arkansas river bottoms,
and that Hodgeman county has the choicest
rolling uplands in any of the counties west.
The sod corn is the best he ever saw. Large
portions of it will yield from fifty to sixty
bushels TO the acre; that the grain yield is
better this year than futher east. He says
that Wichita must scoop the trade of that
fine section, that is destined to be at an early
day the seat of dense population Of agri-
culturists. His description of the fine crops
raised there this year is enough to convince
one Of the Importance to this city of reach
ing that section Of country with a Wichita