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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
WICKED WICHITA.

Kansas City Star.
Wichita has a Boston bakery, at which
all Of the literary people in the city buy
their pies.
Progressive conversation parties will
prevail at Wichita during the winter. 1t
is safe to say that the men will gobble up
all the BOBBY prizes.
Marsh Murdoch pronounces Secretary
Whitney the ''synecdoche of all the po-
litical dudes in America Marsh is not
quite 50 skillful in the use of pyrotech-
MICS as ingalls,, but he is learning.
The organization of an embalming
company at Wichita just upon the eve
of the eleventh national census is re-
garded with very general suspicion,
A dynamite bomb exploded at Wichita
the other day, killing a COW. The fact
that no pOstoffice candidates were injured
may be regarded in the light of a special
providence.
\ farmer in the western part Of the
state raised crop Of sorghum cane in
ninety days without rain or irrigation.
The cane was tested by Mr.. Parkinson
and pronounced the best he had ever
found in the state. 1t appears that rab-
bits are not the only things that can be
raised in Kansas without moisture.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE LAW

From the Topeka Democrat.
Hon. James +. Legate, with mound
oath. declares that the metropolitan police
law, either shall be applied to all cities of
the first-claSs, or wiped from the statute
book. Ii Representative Legate is in
earnest in making this fight in the coming
legislature, the Democrat is with him
hand and glove, We spit on the odious
metropolitan police law, but if it is TO be
Inflicted upon Wichita, Leavenworth and
Wyandotte, let its peculiar benefits, also,
be shared by the citizens of Topeka,
Atchison and Fort Scott. Let every city
of the tirSt-class in Kansas taste the bless
ings of Rnpubiican legislation. Do not
make fish Of one and flesh Of the other.
Why every city of the first class
only: If there is any good in the infa-
nous and unAmerican enactment why
not apply it to all cities that maintain q
police force, whether first or second
class? Itmakes the average citizen of
Kansas feel SO comfortable to be crowded
off car steps, to be showed off the side
walk and TO have every woman who
passes along the streets leered at by a
bully vino is not ansWerable to any
power or influence that the average citi-
zen can reach. The elected authorities
of a city under the metropolitan police
law, including the mayor, city council,
city attorney, etc, have less influence
with the average so-called peace guar
dian than the bum who sets 'em up or
the loafer whose time has come after
honest people are in bed. Under that
law the mayor is as utterly powerless, as
far as the government of his city is con-
cerned as the bootblack on the corner.
unless such mayor can get in his work
through the commission appointed to run
his city i'll spite of him. 1t is a sweet
scented law which enables few Bnoozers
who never support the Republican party
or vote its ticket, who call themselves
Third Party Prohibitionists-L aw-and-Or-
der-Champions, to go to Topeka and
pull the wool over the eyes OF a lot of
fellows who know no more about the
affairs ,of the city for whom they are
empowered to appoint a governing COM
mission, than they do about the internal
affairs or demands of a city outside of
the state.
As long as the Republican leaders, So
called, of Kansas, are afraid to say that
their souls are their own, except when
permitted to do so by men who claim to
be too good to vote the Republican
ticket, and who must nominate a
preacher for governor, yet who continue
to dictate the platforms and legislation of
the Republican party, we do not expect
to see the metropolitan police law re-
pealed, but just so long as we live we
will hit the bastard whenever the oppor-
tunity offers.s
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

\ priest, whose name is withheld, IN
forms the New York Sun that Rome, in
conSenting to the federation" OF the
society of knights Of Labor by the HER
archy in this country for the present.
imposed certain conditions. One was, in
Cardinal Simeoni's language, that those
words OF preamble Of the constitution
for local assemblies which seem to SAVIOR
of socialism or communism be 50 cor
rected that they may signify that the
earth lsoib was SO given by God TO man.
or rather, to the human race, that every
one may enjoy the right 10 acquire some
part OF 1t, by the use, however. of lawful
means, and the right OF property being
preserved. After this condemnation Of
Henry Georges doctrine. the Suns cor
respondent thinks it a matter of little
Importance whether Henry Georges
books are put upon the index or not.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
The age OF Trees and Animals.


Western Scsoo! Journal
In looking through encyclopedias and
natural histories one is surprised to notice
that the longevity of trees and animals Is
very seldom given We hereto append
a scrap Of this kind Of information, dug
out Of a large library. II Is said the
Brazilian cocoanut palms 1--we 800 years.
and the date palms 800. There are oak
trees in Scotland that are believed 70 BE
over 80 gears old, and the olive trees on
the Mount OF Olives al Jerusalem have a
well authenticated age Of LOO years.
The yew lives over 500 years. and the
aga Of some Of the California red trees -
much greater; while the sweet CHESTNUT
trees Of Mount Etna, Sicily, are still
older. 1t is said that certain baooao
trees in Africa nre over 5.0Dj years Of
age, and the deciduous cypress ~ Cha
pultepec, Mexico. are still older.
The longevity Of animals IS not 50 great
as IN the vegetable kingdom The toad
lives about ! ) years, the tortoise 200. the
carp about the same: while the pike lives
800 years. Common river trout have
lived in wells over 50 years. The goose
lives 30 years, the swan l25, the paro-
quet 125, and the stork about the same.
The rabbit lives years, the sheep 9, ca.
70, dog - COW -. horse -. camel 20. the
elephant 30. tts whale 400. There are
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

BILE to manage their own affairs. The
voice of the states in the settlement of
all questions concerning the Union
should be as potent as the federal consti-
tuition will permit To depart from this
course is to disturb the equilibrium. To
elect presidents by the popular vote
would be to put the ballot box in the
possession of whatever party might have
control of the national government.
Power so vast, in the hands of either
party, would be a menace to the welfare
of the nation. 1t would offer tempta-
tons which it would be difficult to
resist.
There are other reasons of almost equal
gravity.
There is an element of positive danger
IN long-continued doubt as to the issue
of national elections such rs ours. The
strain is too intense to be borne for any
length of time. 1t is essential that the
result should be quickly ascertained.
That Cleveland had been defeated was
known on the night OF the 9th and gen
orally admitted in twenty-four hours. 1t
was not known for two weeks whether
Cleveland or Harrison had received a
majority of the public vote.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

a New Yorker, Mr.. VIM. NJ. WINS. in
a recent address on the purity of cleo
tions, makes the startling statement that
the brewers of that state as a mere bust
ness measure and without much regard
to their natural party affiliations. re-
solved to elect Mr.. Hill this year in that
state and did it by pooling their issues.
He says that the literary director of their
movement has admitted that the brew
ers, as q beginning of a campaign fund,
levied cent a keg on their yearly pro
duct, which yielded over $75. 600; and
that ''more than 1000 saloons We're made
hives of political agitation This is
given as one illustration of the power OF
the saloon in politics, a power that
sinks all sentiment out of sight and
makes even political parties instruments
Of vice.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
PORTIERS,

POrtiers, POrt1erS, TurcOmans.
Chenille and novelties IN POrtterS
TurcOman POrtierS Sale-425c
for $3.50, 5OOc for 42Oc, 600 for
SIS, 65Oc for $3.50, 5000 for 600,
9OOc for 1850, 10000 for $500
11OOc for 91Oc.
Chenille POrtierS Sale-16OOc
for 1850, 1000 for 1890, 1900
for 1890, 10000 for 1900. 25OOc
for &25Oc, These are all choice
new goods, purchased especially
for the Holiday sea On.
A very large line Of hassocks
and foot rests.
Our immense line Of lace cur
tains is without parallel. Mott
inghamS, antique Swiss, BRUSSELS
Nett. This sale will commence
Monday, Dec. II.
Just received-A fresh invoice
Of lace bed sets in antique Mott
ingnam and novelty patterns.
New curtain poles. New cur
tain poles. Brass, silver, gilt and
the different woods.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The Kansas City News calls out for all
Kansas editors who want postofiices to
hold up their hands. Where a Missouri
editor gets his authority for asking
Kansas aspirantS to hold up their hands
is not explained, unless one falls back on
the natural one that Missouri people are
given to calling on people to hold up
their hands, generally after dark. The
Missouri editor. however, is a smart-a
great-man, in his own estimation and
no doubt in the estimation of-his Mis-
souri, readers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The proposition submitted TO the mil
ier's meeting at Milwaukee to shut down
The mills and curtail the output of flour
as means of reducing the high price
put upon that essential staple of life i'm
mediately following the recent furry IN
the wheat market, is a novel one to say
the least. The common understanding
of such matters is that that is the meth
cd usually employed to keep prices up.
1t will be an agreeable surprise if this
shall prove an exception.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The Greensburg, Kiowa county, Sig
nal, in giving an account of the farmers
convention at Wichita. says: Interest
ing discussions on corn raising, sugar
industry, silk culture and diversified
farming occupied the time of the con-
vention. Space forbids a more extended
report this week. Next week we will
give Judge Parkinson's speech in full on
the sugar question An association
should he formed at once in Kiowa
county to carry out the ideas advanced
at the convention, and which will result
in material benefit 10 every farmer in
the county.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Nice sentiments these, uttered by Mrs.
Lucy Parsons to a New York audience
the other night: Anarchy is govern
ment at peace with all the world. 1t
will do away with poverty and make a
home possible. Not a home just big
enough to stick up on the walls that
much abused expression, God bless our
nome but one IN which we will find
happiness without the help of God We
will sell all our claims in the skies to
anybody who will give us the title to a
house and corner lot here"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The minister of customs at Ottawa is
reported as saying, that while indulgence
has been shown in particular case, the
Canadian government has not abandon
ed its general position as to the trane-
shipment home in bond of the Yankee
fishermen, or. for that matter, any 9th
er position. 1t stands where it stood, he
says. This will probably revive specu-
lation as to Mr.. Cleyelands intentions in
the matter of putting in use the retalia-
tory powers confided to him by con-
gresS.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The death by strangulation of Chief,
Adam Forepaugh's big and unruly ele-
plant, will cause disappointment to the
electrical scientists who had hoped to
experiment on HIM with the electrical
current in testing its power to produce
death. Nothing is lost t scientific re-
search. however, inasmuch as the power
of electricity has been demonstrated to
be next to unlimited for all purposes re-
uuiring force.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
PLEASE LET GO THE TEAT.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
As long as the cabinet bOOmS for Kan
sas men were limited to taffy, the Gazette
enthusiastically participated, but since
serious efforts are being made from the
must be exceedingly tired. we are in
clined to call halt. We agree with
the Usage Free Press and the Ell Dorado
Republican that the pressure in behalf Of
Ex-Governor Osborn Is trltle monotO-
nous. The governor has not only been
up to the feed trough, but has had all
four feet in the oats bin ever since Kan
sas saw daylight. and we never knew a
minute when he was of any special use
10 the party. lie begun as
state senator, then lieutenant gov
ernor, United States marshal. gov
ernor two terms and a candidate for
United States senator, IN lieu of which
he received the appointment of minister
TO Chill, followed by a transferto Brazil.
He is now in the state senate again from
Shawnee. what for we never could
imagine, unless it was to get a grip on
the two senators. Kansas has become a
big state, with lots of new fellows in it
who are entitled to something, but JUS
tice cannot be done if some few are to
hang on forever. We believe in the
principle of pulling together. but this
works only when there Is a fair deal
We are not exactly prepared to say that
the territorial gentleman must quit, but
those who have not let go the teat since
that ancient era certainly have no
claims
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
WICHITA BEATS KANSAS CITY.

Argonia Clipper.
The ground was broken Tuesday of
last week for the packing house of Fran
els Whitaker 81 Sons at Wichita. 1t IS
expected to be in operation by the first
of May. The building will cost quar-
ter II a million dollars and the engines,
machinery, watts. tanks, etc, VIII cost
half as much more. Mr.. Whitaker says
he viii surpass the bold plant, which Is
said TO be the best in the United States
Some of our stockmen and farmers
are now shipping to DoId at Wich-
ita and realize within ten or -hi-
teen cents per hundred pounds of Kan
sas City prices. Wichita Is going To be a
great pork packing point~and our farm
ers are going to have the advantage OF
a good home market. They should take
advantage of everything IN their favor.
and we hopeby next year 10 see the most
of our corn shipped 70 Wichita IN the
shape Of fat hogs and sold at very. near
Kansas City prices. There will be no
necessity for the farmers 70 complain
Of hard times. If they viii make use of
all the means that are beng provided
for them.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Kansas City is to have a nice new cock
Dit for the encouragement OF ornltnoiogl-
eal athletics. a little Growing VIII DC III
order Score another victory over pG !t
hid Topeka and Wichita.-Kansas City
Times. =,
Old Topeka, but young Wichita, II
you please, yet not SO young as to be I'M
able to distinguish the crow of a doughty
old rooster two hundred miles and more
away. But time is furnishing Us with
both lungs and spurs and we bide 1t.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Even the Topeka Democrat pitches in
to Galloway for his general worthlessness
as a political manager and his senseless
mortgage circulars This leads an ex-
change to put into cold type the report
we have heard from other sources,
namely that Judge Martin, the Demo
cratic candidate for governor, urgently
advised the publication of the calamity
circular against the protest Of Editor
Tomlinson. Is this the fact:-Leaven-
worth Times
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage declares that
Sunday newspapers are a great power
for good. The Brooklyn divine is GER
tainly in position to judge intelligently
of the matter; his sermons are more
widely published than those of any 9TH
er preacher in America if not in the
world. If, therefore, his sermons are
calculated TO accomplish good-and no
body denies 1.-THE Sunday newspapers,
that is those upon which the labor of
preparing them for publication is per-
formed on Sunday, though they are is
sued on Monday morning, he is right.
Mr.. Talmage is well informed man as
we'll as able minister.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The worthy mayor Of New York, Mr..
Abram S. Hewitt, is evidently out Of
humor with himself and everybody else
just now. He has told the representa-
tives Of the G. a. R., who wanted his
influence to secure an appropriation of
$250,000 for the erection of a monument,
that they could not get his influence,
and, if he could help it, could not get
the money. Also being invited by the
principal citizens of New York to accept
the compliment of public dinner as a
testimonial of his official administration
of the duties Of his Office, he CURLY
refused, but afterwards reconsidered his
refusal and decided to accept. When
asked about it by some newspaper men.
he fairly exploded and told them it was
none Of their business whether he ac-
cepted the invitation or whether he went
without anything to eat from that time
on. The only excuse for such testinesS
on the part of Hewitt, and on the whole
it is pretty good one, is that he admits
he is dispeptic if not crank, and that
but for his exhibitions of ill-temper he
might have been happier, more use
full and a more successful man.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

From the conflicting reports of the
terrible tragedy at Wahalak, Miss,
Monday, it is difficult to get at the true
condition of affairs or the facts of the
origin of the trouble In the absence of
authentic information it would be mere
guess work to form an opinion and the
EAGLE can only join all good people in
The hope that the details of the affair as
given in yesterday mornings dispatches
NAV have been greatly exaggerated.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

If the present spirit of enterprise and
goaheadativeness that pervades Kansas
Is maintained for another twelve-month
this will be land literally flowing with
milk and honey. Almost every town
that dots the prairie state either has or
is preparing to have in the near future a
creamery, while sugar mills will benum-
bered by the score and dispersed through
out the state, at least the southern half
Of it.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

The Agra white cap episode is now
said to be only another of the multitu-
dinous unreasonable and unreasonable
roohrback Special to Kansas Clty
paper. Our only establishment Is that IL
wasn't dated Wichita, that a certain
town might have been enabled to stand
on its hind legs and howl at US Tor the
delectation of its gulled sympathizers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
The Democrats in congress evidentl

The Democrats in congress evidently
do not desire to see an extra session, as
is shown by their change of tactics on
the question of the admission of terri
tories into the union as states. Before
the recent election their policy was to
deny any and all territories admission
that would come in as Republican states.
Now, however. that the aspect of affairs
for the future has changed; that they
have nothing to lose by admitting the
territories but may possibly gain some
thing by putting off the first session of
the F'ifty-irSt congress until December,
1899, the dems are manifesting much
more amiableness in many respects, the
one alluded to particularly. The neces-
sity for an extra session of congress will
not be determined by them, however.
There are other important matters besides
that of admitting territories that need to
be attended to and it is doubtful that the
present session viii properly dispose of
them.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Riddleberger, the disgruntled Virgin
ian in the senate, probably experiences a
sense of dissatisfaction since his late
exhibition of himself in that body. The
only request the country has to make of
him is that he will let this be his last
while he remains in the senate. If he
will do this the past will be forgot-wlped
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Long and the Short OF It.

Washington correspondent
Monday a broad-shouldered, smooth
faced giant of at least feet 4 strobe
along Pennsylvania avenue, Washing
ton. D. c. By his side trotted little,
long haired, white-mustached compan-
ion, the top OF whose hat didn't come up
to the giants ear. His look up TO his
friends face" writes Massey, was only
q few points off from the perpendicular.
He had an umbrella under his arm,
though the sun was shining with Wash
ingtonian brilliancy and a little rain
couldn't have lowered the tone Of his
tile very much. The oddly assorted paiI
attracted much attention, and people
nudged each other and smiled. The
big man was justice Harlan, and the
little man was the chief justice Of the
supreme court OF the United States
Let the Electoral Colleges Alone
Memphis Avalanche.
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
Daily = eagle
MARSHALL NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

The cattle syndicatss are making a
fearful struggle to stave off the opening
of the Indian Territory. 1t is openly
charged that the only interest arrayed
against the measure consists Of the Cat
tie Kings whose property escapes taxa
t;on by feeding on Uncle Sans lands.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Four years ago Barlow county, Geor-
gia, containing population of about
10000, passed under prohibition law
by majority of two votes. The last
grand jury failed to furnish a single
indictment for crime, and the county
Jail has been without an inmate for many
months: q condition of things in strong
contrast with that preceding the amend
ment: but it isn't recorded that they had
any Third party prohibition tomfoolery
down there in the late campaign. The
people tried prohibition for prohibitions
sake, it worked well and they We're sat
isfied to let it alone to do its perfect
work.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19
The Land Of Dreamers.

Scott Sentinel.
Oklahoma is just now the Mammon-
Mecca of the United States toward which
in eager expectancy a million eyes are
turned. Every city, village and secluded
hamlet in the land has its Oklahoma
dreamers-its builders of air-castles,
from whose dizzy domes they look afar
into fields elysian, into a land, in thought,
as glorious as was the guarded garden
of the tabled Hesperides. They can
see golden apples with eyes of dia-
monds. famed with leaves of
FURNISHED silver-can see and hear a
thousand royal rivers and ripping rivu-
lets as they sigh along through grassy
glades and fill the wooing woodland
with the melody Of their monotones.
They can see towering trees-majestic
oaks, oleanders green and princely
pines. about whose bending boughs fit
countless sweet-voiced nightingales in
nightly song. To them it is a veritable
Utopia. Hence. the sooner the Oklaho-
ma territory is opened TO settlement, the
sooner these enthusiasts viii awake
from their dreaming. and the sooner
grand old Kansas will receive her por-
ton OF the disappointed pilgrims and de-
luded seekers after happy homes in the
land Of Oklahoma.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

Alex Butts should live in Wichita.
The idea of a wide-awake progressive
man like Butts working in Missouri is
like throwing Turkey stuffed with oys-
ters over your shoulder for hunk Of
greasy bacon. -Greensburg Signal.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

AEilt Reynolds, of the Geuda Springs
Herald has begun 70 predict the fate OF
the peach crop in Kansas. He intlmates
that if freight rates sc any higher, the
peaches viii be nipE1d il the bud.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-12-19

well authenticated instances Of men lIv-
ing 125 wears, and it is claimed that there
are several recorded cases Of $50 years.