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, 1885-04-29
rHE LONE srAR STATE.
what the Georgia Philosopher Thinks of
the country-"A Great State"

What the Georgia Philosopher Thinks of
Tie country-'A Great State"
nh Arp in Atlanta constitutional
Well. Texas is a great state and u grea.
people occupy it. Everything here Is on a
big scale. There is more land to tue acre
and better land. The country ali along tse
railroads Is ono vast farm with hardly a d-
vision fence to mark the various boundariez
In fact, there are no forests to furnish tim
Der to make fences, and just now tic
farmers are beginning to use wire
barbed wire. The towns nro full OF it
and It Is stored in warehouses and you cen
see 1t pilsI up at every depot Iron Is 50
cheap that wire has come down 10 81 cents
a pound and will yet BE- lower. Every mile
or so you will zee n narrow glade Of low
forest growth Of pecans or Usage orange or
swamp bushes, but not enough for fuel and
not large enough for rails, and so the farm
ers have to preserve everything they can.
FOR coal Is very dear and brings IS n ton al
ali the derots, and very po or coal at that
Lumber Is in demand at $50 per 1000 feet,
but tho o people don't seem 10 think my
thing OF high prices.
The farmers don't get high price, for their
products but they make more and make it
easier than anywhere. and as for hogs and
cattle, the whole country is full Of them 1t
seems TO DO no trouble to raise them here.
Hogs grow larger and finer but l SEQ no fine
native horses or cows; everything is scrub.
Tho Texas pony Is a part OF Texas society.
The towns arc ms full Of them as the country
They are a small, tough. wiry animal. and
can gailop all day in Texas mud Tho dfumi-
mers tell me they nave driven them sixty
miles in a day and they are ready for a
frolic at the end Of the journey. l see no
Jerey cattle or other improved stock; they
will not live here. One noted breeder from
Kentucky brought out a herd and they all
died. Corn, cotton and small grain aro en-
phatically the cultivated products OF Texas
soil, and cattle and hogs are incidental to
these. There arc no manufactures worth
mentioning. Hardly any -four mills to grind
her wheat A few cotton seed oil mills that
pay only l2< cents n bushel for cotton seed
are making big money. This is the country
wanted for fertilizing the soil as they are in
Georgia.
Everything here is on a grand scale. So
ciety is yet in an unsettled state; there are
no sharp lines drawn; to use a Texas OK
preston, one man is as good as another il he
keeps his nose clean Everybody works and
nobody Is ashamed Of it Wealth makes no
invidious distinctions. A beautiful and
lovely girl where l am staying who Is OF ono
OF the best families of Kentucky, is in train
ing for bufiness at u commercial college.
She is learning bookkeeping and expects to
pursue il for a livelihood, and the college
has many others. You will see nice, we'll
raised ladies c~lerAiug in the stores, and
when thero Is u party or a wedding, are not
left out in the list Of invited guests. 1t Is "a
free and easy country; n sort OF go as you
please and do as you please people.
, 1885-04-29

"Oh, l can't sing, pleaded a young man,
who femininely wanted to DO coaxei before
gratifying his auditors.
"Yes, you can. I've heard two or three OF
your friends ray so" persisted a pretty girl
to whom he had been talking.
"No. | ant, " he repeated, getting up to
go 10 the piano.
~Yes you can. Go ON now and sing,
please" she urged.
He said he couldn't two or three times
more, but ho went ahead. AID for half an
hour his voice was the most prominent thing
in the room. Then he came back smiling to
the young la1y.
"Ah," she said YEARLY, thanks. You
were quite right about the singing
His face clouded, and he never, rok, again
to the girl who agreed with him
, 1885-04-29


The latest way of making money is that OF
a girl in London, whose method is to remain
perdue near any house she intends to operate
on until the mistress goes out. Quickly
noting the more striking details of thu lady's
costume, rural innocence waits a while, then
marches up to the house with her basket and
rings the bell. To the servant who attends
the summons she relates that a lady had
told her 10 leave the contents of her basket at
the house on receiving payment. What
ladyl Tho artless one does not know her
name, but she wore such and such raiment,
seemed SO many years old, etc.
The servant, recognizing the description
as that Of her mistress, takes in the country
produce, consisting Of fresh butter and
newly-laid egg, and pays a good price for
it, receiving a proper courtesy in return.
The denouement is, Of course, that the fresh
butter is discovered to be ~curiously rancid,
that the newly laid eggs appear to have
BEEN for some time in an incubator, and that
the mistress disclaims the honor of rural in
nocence's acquaintance.
, 1885-04-29

The Chinese know tho value of advertis-
ing. Here is the "adp of an ink manufact-
urer OF Canton, translated; AT the shop
Tae -shing prosperous in the oxtreme)-very
good ink; finel inel Ancient shop, great
grandfather, grandfather. father, and self
made this ink; fine and hard, very hard;
picked with care, selected with att ntion.
This ink Is heavy; so is gold. The eye OF
the dragon glitters and dazzles; so does this
ink. No one makes like 1t. Others who
make ink make 1t for the sake OF accumulat-
ing base coin and cheat, while l make it
only for a name. Plenty Of A-kwantsaes
tgentiemenl know my ink-my family never
cheated-they ave always borne IA COOL
name. make ink for the Sur Of Heaven
and all tho mandarins in the empire. As
tho roar OF the tiger extends to every place.
so does the lame OF the 'dragon's jewell"
, 1885-04-29
LgARn,Na HOW TO FIGHT.
The P~usltstir Craze Reache. Firsi-olasa
Society-In Training.

lChicago Trihune.l
A tall, thin-chested young man. with his
shirt-sleev YES rolled up displaying a pair Of
exceedingly scrawny arms, stood vigorously
punching a rubber bag suspended by n cord
from tho coiling Of a small, dingy room in
the top story Of a teeming business block.
Each blow sent the bag flying toward the
ceiling, from where it instantly returned
with considerable force. The persplring
young man raine1 blows at the bounding
bag, but often missed it,
keep it up; its the best work in the
world" said a br~oad-shouldered, under-sizsd,
elderly man ~encouragingly.
For ten minutes the young man continued
his exercise, and then sank into a heap In a
chair and painted.
Hes one Of my pupils said the prolesio r
Of sparring, @and he's getting on great, amt
her turning to the breathless youth. The
latter winked his eyes family to indicate
that he was and then numbered painfully
into an adjoining dressing-room.
That's one Of my latest pupils taking his
first lesson said the professor. SThe present
boom in pugilism brought him to me with a
lot Of Others. No, l can't say there's n boom
for sparring masters It might be bet
ter and It might be- worse. / know Idon't
have as many pupils as 1 did a few years ago
when everybody was scared over footpad
storieL Lots of men who were opposed to
carrying a pistol learned then how to dodge
a blow and knock out the giver. Some of
them made good ones. l just wish one man
whom taught would stand up before some
of these blowhard professionals He's a reg
ular dude, a society swell who couldn't lift
200 pounds, and who smokes cigarettes, but
he's a terror. Another la-la who has a re-
sponsibls financial position could knock out
twice his size. l suppose the dozen OF men
I've taught still box in private. l seldom
Pee them
who make the best fghtersl'
ats hard to say. A man we'll born and
bred, If he has the fighters hoart. docs He
has the most intelligence and pride, and the
lest endurance generally. II he's at all
fond Of the sport. that, taken with the eifoct
Of good food, clothing, and shelter he's had
all his life, Is liable to make him a first-class
man. Brute strength isn't necessary; in
fact. the strength essential to a boxer is
overestimatsd- You want to know where
to stTilss your opponent, and when you give
the blow you don't want to throw your body
at him, but simply hurl your fist"
, 1885-04-29

rheumatism has one inyincible antagon-
list. one never yielding enemy that will
conquer it every time the opportunity is
given, and that is Chamberlain's Pain
Balm. Many cases of rheumatism that
had withstood all other treatment for years,
have yielded to Chamberlain Pain Balm.
81 cent bottles sold by IVY. n. Hunt.
, 1885-04-29

Manufactured only by the California
Pig Syrup Co. San Francisco Cal, is
Natures Own lure Laxative, This plea
sent liquid fruit remedy may be had of
Hunt & Whipple druggists. Sample bot
ties free and large bottles at fifty cents or
one dollar. 1t is the most pleasant,
prompt and effective remedy known, to
cleanse the system, to act on the Liver,
Kidneys and Bowels gently yetthoroughly;
to dispel Headaches. Colds and Fevers; To
cure Constipation. Indigestion and kind
red ills.
, 1885-04-29

new orleans Iimes-Democrhtl
After much discussion it has been decided
that il there is any safest place on a railway
train, it is in the rear seat of the rear car.
One Of the greatest trials Of ~sleeping-car
conductors lives is to provide center lower
berths for everybody who comes. II the
center Of the car rides any easier than the
end, then the cars, built as solid and strong
as they are, spring up and down-in the mid
die precisely as does a blackboard. If they
do not, why should 1t ride any easierl As a
matter OF fact, the jar in an ordinary
sleeper viii be found, by close tests, to be
quite as noticeable in the center as in either
end Of the car.
, 1885-04-29

The aggregate number Of carloads OF
peaches shipped out OF Delaware from 1867
TO 1884 was S,063, the greatest year being
1875, with g,O72 carloads, and the smallest
1851, with only rs A carload IS $50 baskets.
The bulk Of the crop is shippci iy vessel to
Baltimore. During the past year evapora-
tors have been erected throughout Delaware
and Maryland, which are both profitable in
themselves and useful in preventing gluts In
the market The crop for 1885 promises in
both s.ates % bo large.
, 1885-04-29

There is a story Of three Yankees abroad
who compared notes One said: II was mis-
taken for the emperor of Russia" Quoth
the second: And am continually asked If
l am not Louis Napoleon" Up spoke the
third; II kin beat that Yesterday l was
goin' along the Champs Elysees and a fell
low slapped me on the back and hollered:
Satan. is that YOUR
, 1885-04-29

W. Elliot, the best horse sheer in the
city. is at the old stand on Eighteenth and
Thomes street. He employs only first
class workmen, oversees all work, and
guarantees satisfaction or no pay. He
makes n specially Of irst class horse shoe
ing in all its branches. .
, 1885-04-29

In this country the losses by the burning
OF buildings and their contained property
are about 800, 900, 900 per annum, and the
losses Of lumber by the burning OF forests
arc estimated at $500, 600, 900 yearly; in all,
$400, 000, 900. Could these enormous losses
be stopped, the country would soon grow
very rich
, 1885-04-29

And The efficacy Of ITS action
have rendered the famous fruit remedy
Syrup of Figs immensely popular. II
cleanses and tones up the clogged and le-
verish system, and dispels headaches, colds
and fevers. Sample bottles free and large
bottles for sale by W. N. Hunt.
, 1885-04-29

Prayer-books are now made with bouquet
holders on the outside. and it looks as If in a
short time n Bible will not be complete UNI
less it has a plate-glnss mirror. with little
compartments for hair-pins, face-powdsT,
and cologne on the back.
, 1885-04-29

The latest styles of summer shoes cal
b, had very low at Polack's,
, 1885-04-29

Persons desiring pure Lake Mshapaluta
ice should leave orders at Christ Manss',
bakei, 3lY Ferguson street, or with the
undersigned. SLOAN h Co.
, 1885-04-29

Five dozen ranch eggs for 500. -Four
pounds choice roll butter for $l.00. Best
ham and breakfast bacon in the market,
at Underwood Bros.
, 1885-04-29

Ladies who would retain freshness and
yivacity. Don't fail to try Wells Health
Remover
, 1885-04-29

st. Louis Book Beer at the Germania
Hall.
, 1885-04-29

Remember hat you Will save money by
buying your books and stationery At
Hollis.
, 1885-04-29
BEAR SPRINGS RANCH
JOHN NEWMAN, Prop.


This well known road ranch on the
Fort Laramie and Black Hills stage line,
has rect Ady beea re-pn ned, and the
proprietor is prepanl to furnish god
ACCOMMODATIONS for man and beast. 80
Meals so cents. Horses to hay IS cents
per span. Hay sold by the bale. Large
corals and barn for 40 horses. Broken
horses for sale.
, 1885-04-29
MIDDLE-AGED MEN

The finest tonic
for nervous people
Is HoStetfer's
stomach Bitters,
which insures per
feet digestion and
assimilation. and
the active perfor-
nance Of their fun
ctions by the liver
bowels As the
SYSTEM quires
through the
Of this
benign medicine,
nerves grow
stronger and more
Tranquil, headache
cease, and that
niiinclcSs anxiety
which Is aIeculin
lily Of the dyspep-
tie, gives way to
health on a sure
igoranf. For sale
, 1885-04-29

Mother Walton has prescribed this
valuable medicine for a great many years
in her private practice. 1t has proved
an unfailing specific in the treatment of
the many disorders to which the female
constitution is subject Ii is a sure cure
for the monthly troubles that so many
women suffer. Mailed on receipt of price
soc.
FRAZIER MEDICINE CO, Props.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Gray & Pearse, Sole Agents.
, 1885-04-29

For all kinds ofsehooI POOLS go 70 HoIta
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
BIG SWEET POTATOES.

Butter county proposes to contest for the
supremacy with Sedgwick in the matter OF
farm products. Mr.. w. II. Overman, whose
splendid farm is in Pleasant township, But
Ter county, lays upon our table sweet po-
tato of the Herman variety which he chal-
lenges any Sedgwick county farmer TO beat
1t measures two feet and four inches in
length and he slyly remarked that it would
have grown longer but the thing ran against
the potatoes IN adjoining hill and was forced
to stop. We acknowledge the corn and the
potato too, for We never saw such specl-
men in our lives. The only consolation is
that pleasant township adjoins Sedgwick
county and is only distant about fifteen
miles from Wichita.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
THE NEW TEN CENT KINK.

The Wichita postmaster was notified yes
terday with proper instructions to prepare
for tie special delivery system. The list OF
postoffices at which delivery will be made
was also sent ana shows only five other
towns in the state. The service will com
nence October first. A ten cent stamp
special will secure the prompt delivery OF
any letter at a special delivery office. A
record must be made of every letter thus
sen. and of every one delivered. Boys will
be hired by the postmaster for the work
who must know how to read and write
readily. The service is expected to pay for
itself. The messengers are to receive eighth
tenths of the stamped value of the letters de-
livcred providing the sum does not amount
to more than $50 per month. The system
will prove great nuisance to postofIices but
no doubt valuable, especially at times, to
the patrons of the system.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
THE BOGUS CATTLE KING.

The Wichita EAGLE tells of one Benja.
min Bradley, who came to that place few
weeks ago, representing himself to be big
cattle king Of the Chino Valley, Ariz., and
| the owner Of a big ranch with thousands of
cattle. He kept rather quiet few days,
taking in the lay of the land, and then
started out to buy all the fine teams and
vehicles in town. The EAGLE called him
honorable so and SO, bonanza capitalist
| who had determined to make Wichita his
home, etc. The other day he skipped, leav-
ing every body waiting for the cash on his
purchases and the return of the $500 or
81 900 cash he had borrowed. He was about
50 years old and of genuine oil finish. He
was the biggist bogus the EAGLE has yet
struck and 1t will hereafter be very careful
abont receiving foreign notables as residents
with their vast .'pile." Bradley represented
that his son had sold $4,000 worth of cat
tie and he was daily expecting the draft
Winfield Courier
The EAGLE was the first to expose him
and never mentioned his name before that
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
SOCIAL LAWN PARTY.

Thoro war very enjoyable social party
at the residence of Mr.. Arthur Sullivan
about four miles north of town, night before
last. The house and grounds were illumi
mated with japanese lanterns. Refreshments
were served and a very enjoyable evening
spent. Arnold's orchestra furnished music
Among those present, the following names
were learned, but they are not all:
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hartzell, Mr.. and
Mrs. Lee, Mr.. and Mrs. Cyrus Sullivan, Mrs
Dr. Mccoy, Misses Carrie Fisher. Mossie
Baldwin, Addie Gibbon, Matte Bradshaw,
Josie Stout, Miss Piper, Miss Hess, Miss
Magee, Miss Rice and Miss Washburn;
Messrs. O. b. Stocker, VIII Smith, Hoff-
master, Jr., w. p. Popenoe, Grant Hat
field, Hi Alden, Will Collins, John Gibbon.
George Bradshaw, John Reynolds, viii
Penn, John Stout and Mr.. Morgan.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
OUR STREET CAR LINE


Capt. Powell says the new street cars pur-
chased by him on his late trip are daisies,
| first-class in every particular. The Captain
says nothing but first-cass articles, vehicles,
machinery or men, have any business in
Wichita. Eight cars are now..on the line.
The teams are changed every two and
half hours, each team being of five hours
before going back. There are three teams
for every car, or, with the extras, sixty
head of mules and horses The line en-
ploys eight drivers, superintendent, two
| track repairers, stable boys and stable boss.
The main line is two miles, and car goes
by any gwen point every five minutes from
half past six in the morning till $50 at
night. On the south extension, north ex-
sion and East Douglas avenue they do not
run so often Wichita has more miles of
street railway than any city in the state, and
the best paying line, and there is no more
enterprising, energetic or more popular own
er and manager than Capt. Powell.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
7, the Editor of the Eagle


Now that our institute is over viii you
allow me a little space to express what 1
feel to be the sentiment of the teachers of
this county. While We acknowledge with
out question the thorough and scholarly
work Of the entire board of instructors in
the institute, the deep philosophic research
of that Webster among educators, ]. A..
Fitzpatrick, the genius of that inimitable
practical teacher, Mr.. Jay; that master in
school organization, management and con-
troll, MIR. Pence, and appreciate their kind
ness, earnestness and interest, We still feel
that to Superintendent Hammond-to his
earnestness, zeal, his indefatiguable energy
is largely due the success of the institute.
feel certain that not a teacher present but
will go out TO his work inspired not only
with renewed energy, but with firmer con-
fidence and regard for Superintendent Ham
mond, and have only this TO say TO the
good people of Sedgwick county, that if
they wish the prosperous era that has been
inaugurated almost solely by him to con-
tinue, if they desire to see the ultimate de-
velopment of system of schools unexcelled
by any county in our broad state, they
should see to it that his tenure of Office is
not affected by any aspiring typho that the
waves of popular within may chance to bear
on its bosom. ONE OF THE 249.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
HOTEL ARRIVALS.


Manha.tan-S. w. Sawyer, Lawrence;
james A. Piair, Medicine Lodge; JOSEPH
Mcknight and wife. Anthony; B. +. Short
Jacksonville, Ills; Miss NJ. Z. Castir, do
II. J. Looman, j. S. Zobzie, Castleton; W
6. Giffengin, Kansas City; j. c. Wales, Z
b. Couch, w. & w. railway; Ii. Corbet
New York city; A. +. Coswick, New York
city; c. n. Booth, Chicago; L. H. Wooten
Leon, Kas.; l. V. Wooten, Bowling Greer
KY; J. A. Speed, Hannibal, Mo-; T. Ban
man, st. Louis; /. II. Emmanuel, New York
city; Louis w. Bartlett, St. Louis; Mac
Eugel, New York; w. T. Griffith, Chicago;
J. Stevens, Kansas City.
Occidental-S. p. Cooper and wife. Sara
toga; Mrs. L. NJ. Coates, Miss Coates, Mr..
Coates, Master Coates, Augusta; Il. H.
Campbell and wife, Indian Territory; G. A.
Durham, Vernon Miller, F. A. Parsons
Wellington; s. II. Kannisen, Fl. Scott; F. Z.
Gillett, kingman; Samuel Price, Wellington;
J. d. Flintier, Topeka; F. Chambers, Stafford
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
THE PUBLIC HEALTH

To whatever benifcent agency it may be
attributed, the health of the city is much
better than at this season last year. Whether
the season is healthier or whether the city j:
in better sanitary condition, the writer i:
not prepared TO say, but it is plain TO every
one that there is fifty per cent less sicknes:
in town than there was year ago. Last
September news of malarisl fevers came in
from every quarter and the prevalence OF
this one disorder was quite alarming. This
year scarcely case of malsrial disorder is
recorded or reported, and in all respects no
city is freer from all sorts of disease than is
Wichita to-day. The board of health has
been active and no doubt are entitled TO a
due share of credit in this connection, but
the present healthy condition of the city
might be in some degree attributed TO the
severe cold of last winter.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE.

The Presbyterian College committee met
at the Presbyterian church last night to de-
termine on steps to be taken in furtherance
of the college scheme
Among other things they resolved to
abandon the College hill proposition from
the fact that the subscriptions necessary
have not been received, the property owners
there not offering inducements expected Of
them.
The committee resolved to 60 on with the
original proposition in the city and will
build on the Sluss property. An executive
committee was formed composed of Huett,
Lewis and Little to settle on plans and de-
signs. Huett and Hatfield will start sui.
scription towards carrying out this design.
The purpose being to put up wing of the
main building to start school in tempo
rarily before early winter. The amount re-
quired will be about $4,000 and no doubt
is feared of obtaining it.
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
MAGISTRATES COURT

Thomas Whitney was tried yesterday by
Justice Thomas and fined S. and costs. He
was charged with disturbing the peace and
quiet of one colored woman named Nora
English, woman he claimed as his afianced
wife. Whitney is colored gentleman, and
belongs to that persuasion of dudes CON-
monty called coons, in fact he is the beau
ideal of coon dude and when turned loose
by the magistrate had a wilted expression.
f. c. Nudd, charged with forging his
fathers name to draft for 500 and draw
ing that amount out of the Wichita National
bank, was released on $500 bond to stand
an examination for forgery next Wednes-
Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-08-29
10 The Iravelins Public

The St Louis. Fort Scott & Wichita rail
road does not need TO enumerste It's many
virtues in order to induce You TO travel over
it-a. they are known. We do not promise
you anything that we cannot give
The mos: elegant cars that ever came into
Wichita sre on this rosd-Pullmaa palace
sleeping and psrlor car combined. Our
cosches are IS fine IS any chair car, snd We
charge nothing extra 70 ride in them Rival
lines charge to ride in chair cars
Please bear in mind ths; our sleeping cars
are fresh and clean when you get into them
at this s:stion-no, having been used for
two or three days before reaching Wichita
Our ticket Office. Ice Main street, Is open
from = n. to 2 p H. where al travelling
will receive courteous treatment Ard viii
get wha: they ask !or. AD- y JOINS,
Ticket ASen.