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Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
PALACE CARS FOR STOCK.

Massachusetts, Farmer.
The decisive action of one of the great
western cattle carving railroads in refer
ence to the Transportation of stock is
fully described in another column. 1t
created much excitement among the
roads OF that section. because it is shown
to bea profit to carry live stock to the
great markets by rail in the very best
condition, doing away with the dreadful
treatment to which live stock has been
subjected in transporting it by the ordi-
nary car and thus delivering it at its des-
tination without any hurt or deterioration
IN its value. Not only the railroads but
the packing houses are immensely in
| terested in this question of live stock
| transportation, and Chicago interests are
deeply Involved. But this is matter
| for the railroads and the packers to
( settle among themselves, and there need
be no fear that they will not adjust it to
! their mutual satisfaction. 1t is some
thing to know that at last more hu-
name method of transporting livestock
for long distances is to be regularly
adopted by a leading railroad, and the
consumers of beef will feel much re-
| lieved to think that the meat brought
d
eating.
Since the action of the railroad COM
pany referred to. by which the rates of
transportation in the Burton palace stock
cars are put on level with those of
carrying in the common cattle car,
another leading road has entered into
negotiations with the stock car company
on similar terms, and the discussion
among the railroad managers of the
west is growing lively. The contract
already concluded is for a term of ten
years. To carry out its part of the con-
tract, the Burton car works at Wichita,
Kan. are being put in readiness to begin
the manufacture of palace stock cars on
an extensive scale, the capacity of the
works being sixteen cars a day. This
favorable termination of long controv-
verSy benefits the consumer" most of
all, because it is for the good of the ami
NAL to be converted into beef. The Bur-
ton company has had almost insuperable
obstacles thrown in its way. especially
such as extra taxation is at all times able
to invent but it has emerged from the
ordeal triumDhantly, and the excitement
among the railroads now promises to
take new turn entirely.
Inc leadlnS Objection made to the I'M
proved stock car was that, because of its
greater accommodations, it would not
carry so many head of stock as the cars
owned and used by the railroads. But
the compensation for this was found
to be, that, in the improved car, cat.
tie reached their destination in
enough better condition to make up for
the fewer number carried to the car Be
ing delivered in better condition, they
would of course command a better price.
In addition to this. the time consumed in
transportation was considerably short
ened by doing away with the stops on
the road. This was an advantage not to
be overlooked. In the Burton stock car
cattle are fed and watered while they
travel. and their spacious compartments
are kept in healthy state by proper
ventilation and sufficient personal atten-
ton.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

The contests which are not classified
here bring this grand total of strikers up
to 10000 in 1887 as compared with
AS. 600 in 1866. This shows a falling off
in the aggregate of 10S,0G0. Contrary to
general expectation, the number of
strikers engaged in transportation was
much more than twice as great in 1887
as in 1886, although the big contest on
the Missouri Pacific system took place in
the last named year. There was an
equally great increase, or $50 per cent,
in the number of sugar workers out in
1887. as compared with 1856. together
with one OF 100 per cent i'll operatives
in iron and steel mills. % per cent
in building trades. 20 per cent in leather
and shoe employees, and 80 per cent in
coal miners and coke burners. In
1887, however. 10 meat packers or lalln-
dry employees struck, and there was
decrease in strikes among tobacco, cigar.
furniture, lumber and pattern and ma
chmerv workers and brewers, which
brought the 1887 total below that of 1886.
The same journal finds that the num-
Der of days lost in 1887 amounted to
5,0S1.3l5 in the unsuccessful strikes and
to l,1i4. 1914 in the successful ones. In
addition, there were 2,096, $50 days lost
in the strikes which had not ended on
the last day of the year. Allowing for
strikes which We're not included
in any of these lists, the grand
total of days time lost in the year
is put at 100000. Making what it con-
siders a fair estimate of the average earn
ings of the strikers while at work. Brad
streets assumes that the loss of wages
last year in these labor contests amount
ed to fully Sl3,500.000. As most of these
strikers were unsuccessful. and as the
money lost in many of the successful
one is irrecoverably gone 1t seems safe
enough To say that the strikers of the
country lost S10.00O.000 or S11 Goo 000
last year as completely and absolutely as
if they destroyed that much money in
the fire, or threw 1t in the middle of the
ocean.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
STATE NEWS.

| Complaint is made that the county
poor farm in Pawnee county is a failure
/ for lack of any paupers to keep.
A Seward county farmer while plow-
ing. on the 9Th of this month, saw large
blue racer snake out summing itself. Still
there is little or no complaint of the vio-
county.
Garden City Sentinel: Hon. john
Spear. of Sherlock township. has taken
advantage of the fine spring weather and
commenced blowing for the purpose OF
seeding. Dir. 5. is always on hand ard
the first in the field.
The habeas corpus proceeding in
Minnesota to prevent Hattie Bruner' y
being brought back to Kansas, have
been dismissed and the notorious woman
is to be brought back here for trial.
We learn that vein of coal four feet
thick has been discovered in Michigan
township by gentleman on sec
ton twelve, township sixteen. range
thirty. The coal. it is said. burns as
wells as the Canon City coal Mr. j.
W. Connell is our Informant
County Herald.
Will Seawick. for long time CON
nected with the Wichita and Western
railroad, died of lockjaw on SATURDAY..
Ii resulted from a. mashed hand. The
young gentleman was engaged to be
married to a beautiful young lady of
Sedgwick. they would have been mar
ried i'll short time.-kngman Courier
\ syndicate of Boston capitalists have
agreed to furnish $50, 600 Of the necessary
capital 10 put in sugar making plant in
Garden City. Colonel Parkinson OF Fort
Scott is interested in the enterprise.
Farmers in the locality have commence
eG blowing. and they say they will plant
u much larger acreage this year than last.
thereby showing their faith in the soil
Garden City Sentinel.
Many eastern farmers are offering their
land for trade for southwest Kansas
property but experience trouble in find
ing owners of farms in this country who
want TO trade for eastern property.-Gar-
den City Sentinel.
The name of the postoffice at Newark.
Ford county has been changed to Kings
down. and the site removed two miles
west
The Larned Chronoscope boasts of fine
biggest BABIES in that town of any place
in the state. We guarantee the boast IS
graruity ON the part of that paper. at
least so far Is the mothers are con-
cerned.
Notwithstanding the partial failure of
crops in Kansas during the past three
years. the state l. so much better off as
farming country than Indiana, Ohio and
Illinois that hundreds Of people are pre-
pairing to move out here. There win be
big boom in farm lands all over Kansas
this year and splendid class of people
will come IN to locate permanently.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

only the hope of this country is in the
tearing down of these sectional lines. but,
to our mind, the surest victory for the
Republican party and the succession. of
its benign and prosperous rule lies
through that same policy. And again,
and now, comes a grand oportunity 20
the Republican party to not only forever
allay all sectional animosities, but to
build up strong Republican party in the
southern states. Touching this para
mount and leading question of Protection
to American Labor and Industries, now
agitating the political parties of the
country, "a very large and intelligent por-
ton Of the south are in thorough
sympathy with the Republican par
ty. This portion or element
is composed of American born southern
els, who being honest, earnest men of
conviction, stood prominent and took
active parts as Confederate soldiers, Of
ficials and citizens in the war which in
volved their homes, property and polit-
ical convictions. IN fact, the great ma
.jority of the intelligent and enferprising
men of the south were either idenrif fed
or were in sympathy with the revolu
t;onary acts of their respective states,
They We're and are the very men WHO
would prove the most valuable 20 tie
,,,ln .,l
doctrines are now 50 conger ial toso large
an element Of producers and manu-
facturers Of the southern states. The
results of the war having long since
been acquiesced in and its bitterness and
calamities now only thought Of as
mistake and a misfortune, these pro-
ducers and manufacturers can only De
deferred from casting their political
fortunes with the Republican party by a
persistent waving of the bloody shirt.
That the sugar planter Of Louisiana, the
iron manufacturer OF Alabama, and the
hundreds of thousands Of the other in
dustrial projects of the south have any
futher Use for their old party now that
it is under the dominancy Of British in
terests so completely, need not even be
discussed. Under the new issues which
have arizen and which involve the idea
of America and her interests as against
all the rest of the world, these southern
men. eX-ConfederateS though they be, are
for Amortization themselves-as against
even the nation which furnished them
the sinews OF war only quarter of a
century since. They are occupying the
same platform and tenets held:to by the
party with which party they
will earnestly identify themselves in the
absence of bloody shirt campaign.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
WOMEN PREFER HOME LIFE.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Two women who are working outside
their homes for a livelihood told me re-
Gently with tears in their eyes. that they
would consider themselves the most blest
of mOrtalS to be shut within the walls Of
some humble cottage, where only faint
echoes from the world would reach
them. Both women We're driven from
their homes by the skeleton If poverty.
And vet | have heard one of these women
commented on severely. as "a bold seek
er after notoriety. She is simply doing
what she is compelled to do to keep the
wolf from the door.
There is occasionally born into the
world woman whose whole nature
rushes like the tide of a mighty ocean
toward the shore of some special career.
Rosa Bonheur was one of these. the first
Mrs. Siddons was another. Anna Dick
inson was another. In each of these
women the force of her peculiar genius
was SO great that no perfection Of home
life. no opulence of wealth could have
kept her from fulfilling her destiny. They
did not choose a career. a career chose
them. Many other names could be
added to the list. yet such richly and re-
markably lowered women are the excep-
ton.
The rule is. that the women who pur
sue the hard path of public career
which deprives them of quiet domestic
life, are women who have been driven
into it by stern necessity.
To be queen of happy home. loved
and appreciated by kind husband and
littIe children. TO live only for their APP
probation and respect. surely this Il the
grandest and truest sphere possible for
for woman. it Is the only genuine hap
piness which earth affords. and else Is
mere imitation. In no reform can
woman do work 80 beneficial to man
kind as increasing the number OF happy
homes III the land.
But this good work Is not given every
woman To do Good husbands. who
viii love, and respect and appreciate and
support their wives and daughters. DO
not stand on every threshold ready 10
lead all women into this earthly para
disc. And therefore 1t is every woman
duty to be prepared 10 meet the world
single handed.
II | Were blessed with daughter
should teach her some method of self
support as religiously as | should teach
her To hove God. But my daily PRAYER
would be that she might never go forth
from the shelter of the parental roof save
the queen OF good husbands home.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
RELOCATE THE BLOODY SHIRT.

While it is fact that the Democratic
party rules the roost." and while no
body disputes that the ex-Confederates.
our late willful and wayward brethren
of the south. dominate the present adj
mlnistration in marked manner. if not
wholly, yet it is equally apparent that
the latter element possess the requisite
brain, nerve and experience toNsuccess-
fully hold the reinS. and are therefore
politically entitled TO them. Following
these self evident truths there are others
equally as plain and striking. The policy
of the Republican party for years has
been such as 10 unity the Democratic
party north and south. if not to disinta
CRATE lis own. When at times questions
have arisen which tended 10 Wipe out
the bloody shirt was sure
to be Haunted in way which. while it
did not solidify and control the north.
had that direct effect upon the south. Not
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
ABOUT BROOM CORN.

The broom corn industry is growing.
There is a broom corn exchange in Chi
Cago, and it IS said that Chicago IS the
largest broom corn market in the world.
The American Elevator and Grain Trade.
reviewing the trade of 1897. said: The
states which are the principal producers
OF this crop are Illinois, which this wear
has produced 5000 tons: Kansas. 5000
tons: Nebraska. 1900 tons; Missouri.
1000 tons: Ohio, 300 tons: Iowa. 200
tons: Tennessee. $50 tons. and New York
$50 tons. The total crop for the year is
given at 1000 tons, as against 80
600 tons last year and $4,000 tons in
1880. In Kansas and Nebraska the
causes which operated so heavily
against other crops also affected this.
and the drouth and chinch bugs cut
down the yield fully - per cent and ren-
dered the quality grown very inferior
On the CONTRARY, that grown in Illinois
and Missouri is unusually fine. There is
now about p. 900 tons of broom corn used
annually, and there is a good profit III
raising it. This year the price i'll Illinois
is from $50 to So per ton. and about 100
dozen brooms can be made to the ton In
Kansas and Missouri it is selling from
$40 to $50 per ton. An exchange says
the largest factory in the world where
brooms are made is in st. Louis, and the
second and third largest are in Amster-
dam. The second largest factory III the
west is III Chicago. 1t is probable that
owing to the shortage this year. prices III
the bulk and in the manufactured arti-
Gle will advance.-EX.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
REPUBLICAN ORTHODOXY.

MAIZE. Kan, Jan. 30.
To the Editor of the Daily Eagle.
Your suggestion to the Republicans of
this county to organize Republican
club is good one and should receive
some attention | would further suggest
a reorganization of the party throughout
the county. We are dragging along a
lot of supposed Republican timber that
is doty and the sooner we get rid of it
the better. We have a few fellows who
generally turn up as delegates in a Re
publican county convention, and as soon
as the convention is over they are taken
with political colo, something of bill
ious nature, and it generally takes about
half if not all the Democratic ticket as
an antidote to bring them out. If we
have got to do without their votes, let
them keep their spoons out of our soup
dish altogether. l. for one. am about
tired of working with spies, hypocrites.
gutter snipes and political stump
suckers. No political organization
can exist long that keeps in
its ranks spies and traitors to the party,
men who feed upon the political garba &c
of both parties and who have no partic-
ular political affiliations anywhere
These are not only my sentiments, but |
find that they are the sentiments of all
Republicans with whom | have con-
versed on this subject. Mr.. Editor, Re
publicanism is my religious creed, and !
would like to see its ranks kept clear OF
spies and hypocrites. If any political
party is saved in the kingdom of Heaven
on its merits it will be the Republican
party. Yours Respectfully,
+. NJ. DOFFLEMYRE.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
ORIGIN OF GERRYMANDER.


This word originated, according to
good authority, under the following IN
teresting circumstances: In 1911 the
anti-Federalists. or Republicans. as they
were then called. of Massachusetts, after
bitter contest, succeeded In electlng
their candidate for governor, Eidrldge
Gerry, and majority in both houses OF
the legislature. In order to maintain
this majority in the future. they pro-
ceeded to reorganiZe the senatorial dis
tricts of the state, which had hitherto
been formed without any division OF
counties by dividing counties so as TO
secure Democratic majority, even
though the counties were in reality
strongly Federal in sentiment. The Fed
eralistS protested. but in vain: the divi-
sionS were made without even a consld-
Grafton of the propriety of the act: the
work was sanctioned by the governor and
became a law by his signature. where
fore his political opponents soundly cas-
tlgated him through the newspapers and
at public meetings. In Essex county the
arrangement of the districts in relation
10 the towns was singular and absurd.
RUSSELL the veteran editor of the Boston
Sentinel, who had strenously opposed
the scheme, took map OF that county
and coloring the selected towns hung 1t
on the wall of his editorial room. One
day Gilbert Stuart, the eminent painter.
was In the room, and looking at the map
remarked that the coloTed townships
resembled some mOnStrouS animal. He
took pencil. and with few touches
drew a head. wings. claws and tail.
..IhprP. said SIlIart '.Ilat Will do for a
salamander." Russell looking at the
hideous figure. eXcloimed: "Salaman
der. Call it gerrymander An engrav-
ed copy of this map was widely crculat-
ed by Russell and the word was immedi-
ately adopted into the national political
vocabulary as a term to reproach for
those who change boundaries Of districts
for partisan purpose.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
TWENTY-SEVEN AGO.
Le3venworth Times.


Iwenty-seyen years ago this week
Kansas was Just entering the sisterhood
of states after long struggle. 1t is.
therefore. a fitting time TO make few
comparisons. The population of Kansas
in June. 1860. six months earlier. was
1926. March 1, 1857. the population
was .5li. 54S-glin in twenty-siN years
of lao, 30, or of l.4lS 81 per cent
The value of assessed property when
Kansas became state was So. 30. 459.
In 1886. when the last assessment was
published. the value of assessed property
was S2s $40. 063-a gain OF S252, S333. 604.
or of 1.li9 per cent.
In 1860. the number of acres under cul-
tivation in the state was 3a2 So. In 1886.
the number was lj.4,3.495.
In 1860. the number of horses in the
state was Is. So; in 1886. J.S.059.
In 1850. the number of cows was %. 126
in 1886, the number was 621 .4sl.
In 1860, Kansas had, comparatively
speaking no railroads. Last year 900
miles were built and the total value of
railroad property in the state exceeds
$40. etn. 900.
Such growth is without parallel in the
history of a country full of miracles.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
large measure

Senator Stanford's gift Of 100000. 600
to establish the University of California
is one of the largest Of the kind known
to history. 1t is three times the size of
the fortune which Stephen Gmard left
Girard's fortune amouted to about 81
100000, and of this he left sc. 100000 to
his university. He gave nearly all of
his property to the public, his relatives
receiving out Of his whole fortune only
$4,000. The Stanford donation largely
exceeds in amount the munificcnt con-
tributions of Vanderbilt to the cause of
education, but it is doubtful that the
benefits will be as widespread, for the
reason that the latter philanthropist di-
vided his bequest placing it where the
greatest need of assistance existed to the
cause of education.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
4 dishonest Pretense.

VIEW ofk lrtD1Ie-
The PRESIDENT message has one ex-
cellent effect. IL has brought to an end
all the mugwump twaddle about his de-
votiOn to civil service reform II was a
dishonest pretense from the beginning
but the changes Were wrilDg upon il
month after month a. If il were a real
issue. All that nonsense has ceased.
The president IS now a tariff reforuer. If
yOu please. The civil service farce j.
played out and the free trade afterpiece
has been rung up.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

The report of the commissioner of
agriculture of Virginia to the legislature
of that state of the receipt of many let
terS OF inquiry concerning the aGricul-
tural, industrial and climatic conditions
and outlook in that state from settlers in
the northwest bears out the idea we ad-
vanced some days ago in regard to the
terrible experience of the people of that
section during the unusually severe and
lonS-continued cold weather that has
prevailed there this winter. Even people
mate have had their powers Of physical
endurance taxed to the utmost, and it
will not be surprising if there is gen
eral hegira from those regions. There is
no need. however. for them to go as far
as Virginia. Every advantage offered
by that state and many they know
nothing of may be found and enjoyed in
Southern Kansas. which is nearer the
quarter mentioned by less than half the
distance. The people of the northwest
are mainly a hardy. thrifty people, such
as would find not only a cordial welcome
into this portion of the state and coun-
try, but who would also find much more
congeniality in social and business
methods than they would in any portion
of the south. We do not say this to dis
parage our southern neighbors. but state
1t as a fact for the benefit of those who
under a misrepresentation may be inclin-
ed to change their place of residence and
so into that quarter with the hope be-
terin~ their condition in every way
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

The board of trade of Chicago has
sent a petition to congress asking re-
taliatory legislation against Germany
and France for excluding American
meats. This country should exclude
German beer and French wines on the
grounds of adulteration and impurity: II
would be as just as the discrimination
those countries make against American
meats.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

1t turns out that the Hatfield Mccoy
case in Kentucky, which has already cost
a number of people their lives, while
originally sort of family affair, is yet a
conflict between citizens of different
states, the Hatfields being residents of
West Virginia and the McCoys of Ken
lucky. Local officials of both states have
called for assistance from their re-
spective state authorities, and the report
of the officer sent to the scene of the
troubles by the governor of West Vir-
ginia seems tC favor interference i'm be-
half of the citizens of that state. The
governor Of Kentucky declined to send
the state militia to the point of the dis
turbance but it is understood that loca!
organizations of citizens have been BRO
vided with arms and ammunition by the
state, and ii is not improbable that the
two states will become seriously involved
before the affair is settled. The attempt
to maintain states rights may call for
federal interference. Still we hope for
the best.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02
A Pair o. Shaus.


II is said that McGlynn and Henry
George have quarreIed over free trade.
McGlynn believes that the issue i OF nc
Importance 10 the anti-r,Dverfy move
meDt and should he avoided, while
George Is IN favor Of pushing it 10 the
front George always has i--en a trim
mer and he Is still trimming 20 the var
ious political breezes He Is q reformer
as Il pays, but no farther.
Wichita eagle., 1888-02-02

Are women CompanionabIe to Mem
is the question that Junius Henri Browne
answers in the negative in the February
number of the Cosmopolitan. He gives
a great number of interesting facts to
sustain his startling position. We know.
nothing of Junius Henris antecedentS.
but venture the assertion that he is either
crusty old bachelor or has experienced
a mesaliance that ended in enforcement.