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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
ABOUT WHEAT.
ABBOTT.

A Glance at the Growth of the West and
It's Tond rful Productiveness-Advanc
ment of INSTRUMENTATION Wheat
In Foreign Markets-Some Reasons why
India Wheat VIII Never Be a Danger
Gus Competitor of the American Cereal.
Within the memory Of men not yet at the
meridian Of life the farmer nearly every
where carried the wheat gathered from his
little patch of land to a mill, either run by
the tide water on the coast Of Virginia, by
wind in the hills of New York, by steam in
Western Pennsylvania, by mountain
stream,in Kentucky, or by horsepower in
the distant woods of Ohio, and after waiting
his turn paid good round toll for his grist
of few bushels, to get mixture of flour,
bran and middlings which the patient
housewife graded into use for biscuit and
chicken-feed by means Of a wire seive. As
time rolled on, and the wilderness and
prairie turned to wide fields. busy villages
and prosperous towns, the same old mill, or
its like, with pair of burrs, made the -four
for each neighborhood. Travellers and
writers had put the limit of Western settle
ment at the Mississippi, possibly fringe OF
country along the Missouri and tributaries
might come within the producing area, but
all beyond was the desert. On the records
of Massachusetts Bay Colony is the report
of an exploring party sent out by the gen.
eral court, In which it is declared that pop
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
THE TREASURY VAN.

The Odd-Lookins Vehicle Which Hauls
Uncle Sans Millions About Washing
ton.
Every morning a heavy, dismal-looking
vehicle that in Chicago or New York would
at once be supposed to be " Black Maria :"
with It's freight Of criminals going to or
from some Jail, may be seen standing at one
of the little Fifteenth street doors Of the
Treasury building in Washington Two
splendid large Percherons are hitched to it.
The vehicle is massively built on the pat
tern of the modern street herdic. The hind
wheels evidently bear the greater portion
Of its load Over the entire vehicle is
roof as well made as that OF palace car.
In the summer time second roof like the
fly of a tent is stretched over this to keep
off the hot rays Of the sun. The sides of
the big van are panelled In strong timbers
firmly ironed together. On the seat sits
smooth-faced old freshman. Jerry, who has
driven this van now for nearly fifteen years.
By his side sits we.l-dressed person who
seems to be detective. His little black
ewes are forever glancing about him as if
he suspected some danger. He keeps his
right hand under the skirt Of his coat. Pos
sibly there is revolver underneath it. The
only opening to this van IS at the rear,
where there are two doors locked by heavy
steel bars which are fastened in place by
large tumbler padlocks.
Around the rear Of the van are six we'll
dressed individuals who have apparently
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06

the line of the South Pacific Coast railway,
IN the Santa Cruz mountains / should adj
wise tourists who do not care 10 take the
fatuiging trip through the Yosemite. 10 stop
In Santa Cruz, and either by rail or carriage
visit these grand trees. The grove contains
several magnificent specimens. The Giant
the largest single tree, is sixty feet in cir
cumrerence and three hundred feet high as
Il now stands. Some years ago-nneteen
we were told-sixty-iive feet were broken
off. II is as straight as q steeple, with bark
pver foot thick and one hundred and nine
feet to the first branch, Another is called
General Fremont, from the fact that he and
his party csmped for six week while ex-
ploring the country, within the hollow space
pr room IN its base. II was also once the
home of trapper and his family. Holes
were cut for windows and a cool1in g-stove
Bet UP.
Another stately tree bears the name Of
BUR dead hero, General Grant, fitting
monument 70 one whose name is revered by
all. For about hundred feet not knot
or twig brealIs the perfectly-simmetrica
line: then an arm shoots out, apparently
holding another branch, which is itself as
large as q coed -sizc tree. On the ground
in this Same grove lies a tree that must
have been the giant sentinel IN its time. Il
is a great curiosity, and looks "a thought
It must haye tried hard 70 resist the nre
that At last mastered it. II Is twisted aud
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FLOWING: INDIA AND AMERICA.

ulation would never extend west more than
twenty miles from Boston, the country be-
yond that limit not being deSirable.
Crossing the Mississippi, the advance
guard of civilization found that the grassy
meadow lands" as marked on the early
maps, were wide fields, where nature, in
the remote past, had, with its massive har-
row of ice, pulverized the rock into beds
composed Of elements perfect in chemical
proportion for the growth Of cereals and
root crops. Everywhere the plowshare
moved through the soil like the keel
through the water, and countless acres were
added to the wheatproducing area already
In cultivation.
Under the grinding process winter wheat
was always considered the best, but since
the flour made of Dakota spring wheat has
become a favorite all over the land and in
far countries. there has been much specula-
ton why wheat, which is ready for the
thresher in four months after planting,
has its peculiar hard and fine quality and
makes flour of such strength and purity as
to give the baker $50 pounds Of nutritious
bread from 196-pound barrel of -four, or
twenty-five pounds more than he can get
from an equal quantity of winter wheat
product. The conclusion of scientific lnves-
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TRANSPORTATION: INDIA AND AMERICA.

TRANSPORTATION: INDIA AND AMERICA.
drills by pushing along a bamboo cane,
into the top of which he pours the grain by
the handful. Sometimes several of those
canes may be set in a machine drawn by
oxen.
Wheat usually natures il about five
months. When ready for harvest it is cut
with a sickle, and dozen men or women
can cut and bind an acre day. The Ryot,
while thus engaged, sits upon his heels,
and after cutting a handful of straw,
shuffles on without rising just far enough
to enable him to reach another handful.
The straw rarely exceeds thirty inches in
height, and the average yield is five hum
dred pounds to the acre.
The limit of the lands suitable for wheat
raising in India is placed at thirty million
acres, or one-third the area of Dakota.
Hundreds of years of cultivation has i'm
poverished much of it, and only by extreme
personal effort is the native able to exc out
an existence. Fuel is scarce, and the drop
pings from cattle are used to make fires,
and, of course, little of 1t goes TO manure
the land. When near the rivers the peasant
is able to irrigate his sun-baked fields, and
reaps better results than are possible in the
dry lands. The struggle for supremacy be-
tween the enfeebled Ryots of India with
minds superstitiously opposed to change at
work with primitive contrivances on i'm
poverished soil, and the brainy, hardy, per-
sistent and interchangeable genius of the
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TIE TREASURY yAE.

nothing to do but keep their eyes open and
their hands conveniently near certain inside
pockets of their coats. These, too, are I'M
doubtedly detectives. When the doors of
the van arg opened, four or five stout clerks
and colored men trundle oat from the cellar
of the Treasury small safe, push it up into
the van, lock the stout doors, old Jerry
whips up the Percherons, the six detectives
Jump on behind clinging by the steel bars,
and the van rolls of down Fifteenth street
and the avenue to the Pennsylvania depot.
This is Uncle Sans treasure van. 1t has
carried untold millions of gold, and silver
and notes back and forth from the Treasury
building. ''Sure, don't KNOW" says Uncle
Jerry, show many tons of silver and gold I've
hauled. Hardly day but there's million
or two and we have never lost dollar, no
nor nickel" This mass Of treasure going
back and forth Is for the various SUBJ
treasures.
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across piocK OF WOOD, puJ the usual metnoo
is to tread it out with oxen on pare place
in the field or on prepared floor. The grain
Is winnowed or cleaned by tossing 1t up and
allowing the wind to blow out the dust ana
ohaff, the wind sometimes being furnished
by waving blanket in the air. As soon as
the wheat is ready for market the local mer-
chant who has furnished the wretched Ryot
with seed and food while the grain was
growing comes in for the lions share. The
credit system not being unlike that pre-
vailng among the negroes of the Southern
States, most of whom, like their helpless
brethren of India, are lucky if they are not
deeper in debt at the end Of the year than
they were at the beginning
The usual price of wheat on the field in
India is little over fifty cents per bushel,
the average of fifteen years being fifty-four
cents, with wages averaging 2.15 per
month. After the grain hackeries or bull
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
SEEDING IN INDIA AND AMERICA.

| tigation is, that the long and continuous
sunlight in the dry, pure air OF the North
west is the important agent or factor In per-
| fecting our grain crops.
Ten wears ago it would have been bold
prediction that Dakota in 1887 would produce
more bushels of wheat-nearly 10000, 000,-
/ than any one of the other forty-elght States
and Territories of the Republic.
For several years dread feeling has ex-
! listed in the minds of American wheat
farmers that India, with labor at starva-
ton prices, was to become formidable
competitor III the production of wheat and
other grains. The National Agricultural.
! Department has diligently looked into the
matter, and puts this fear to rest. The
largest part of the wheat surplus Of the
world is absorbed by Great Britain. The
great grain-producing countries are the
United States, France, India and Russia
France imports more than she exports. An
analysis of the official statistics of Great
Britain shows where the needed wheat has
been obtained and the proportion from
each country. For fifteen years, 1872 to
1887 inclusive, the United States furnished
more than one-half of the grain and -four
sent TO England, the relative proportions
from the four countries furnishing the
main supplies being as follows:
Per Cent.
United States ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Russia 10y
In uIa 80
Australia ---' u"
These three competitors of the United
States have together furnished only 25.4
per cent. as averaged for decade and a
half, while for eleven months of 1887 there
was sharp decline from all three. the
United States advancing to the proportion
of sixty-four per cent. This Increase OF
exports to nation that is compelled TO pay
cash instead of goods in preference to
trade with part of her own empire is evil
dence of very direct and successful COM
petition of our wheat growers with that OF
India or any other country.
In India the Henry George land theory
prevails to the extent that the tenants can
not be dispossessed of their lands as long
as they pay the rent The land is not d.
vlded into farms as with US, but belong II
large tracts 10 the Government, or to
wealthy traders, Rajahs or rulers. The
Ryots or peasants are children Of the soil IN
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THREsHING: INDIA AND AMERICA.

lock carts, which ante-date by centuries
the vehicle of the Dominion half-breeds OF
the Red river, have hauled the crop over
the miserable roads from fifty to one hum
dred miles to the railway, and thence five
hundred miles TO the sea for longer trip,
with all the incidental expenses before 1t
reaches the English consumer, one can
imagine the cost and condition of the article.
Those rich enough own cows or goats. The
village may be fenced, in the yard of which
the children play and the old women grind
corn by hand as in the days before Christ
Their mode of cultivating the soil is that OF
a thousand years ago; religion and super
stition, Unborn through many generations,
will not allow change or innovation. The
plow of India is the rude implement Of
days ancient as the Bible, and crops now,
as then, are gathered and prepared for
market by hand. The pillow makes mere
scratch IN the ground, and the field is
plowed over ten to twelve times to get the
surface in proper condition, baking and
drying as it does in the blazing heat. Two
or three crops are usually sown Of such
kinds that no two mature at the same time.
Where mixed farming of this sort is not
followed the farmer sows his wheat IN
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
DON'T PROCRASTINAJE.

Some Mistakes of Young Peopie-They
! Arc Not Pleasant to Remember in After
Years.
One mistake made by young people is to
imagine they will have moro time to do
things as the years advance.
Alas for the books we put off reading I'M
til latter whiler' did not read Sanford
and Merton" or any of Richardson's books,
or CULVER, in due season, and now shall
never have time or patience to wade through
them. am going" to take a course of
Henry Thoreau yet; but blessed be that
good leap which brought Bunyan and
D'Aubigne, and Plutarch to my hands in
childhood. And "Swiss Family Robinson"
and the real Crusoe. and Cowper-who has
to be loved and studied daintily. The true
leisure period is that happy age before re-
sponsibility settles down upon you like hen
that has taken a large neSt-contract. Then
are summer landscapes or winter evenings
woven into tales, so that Hawthorne's
blouse of the Seven Gables will forever
more associate closely with rain, wet grass
and the scent OF many roses, while "kenil-
worth - seems to glisten with snow CRYSTALS.
And alas for the shorthand we were
going to learn; for the practical use we
meant TO make of botany for the free-hand
drawing not yet attained to- Alas for
many thingsi
And directly on the heels Of this mistake
follows that other one of imagining that
they can do every thing. They can not,
though il sometimes takes considerable
pressure 10 condense their steam to the
points where they VIII find their motive
power.
Another mistake of young peoples is 10
see the whole world in league against them,
or, on the opposite hand. the whole world
created solely for their benefit. Ii is hard
70 say which class Of youths is the most
harassing. Both tear your heart; the one
with useless repinings, the other with over
riding selfish demands. This one fact
ought TO be sufficient proof Of the life here
after-namely, that we grow TO middle age
before we get enough common sense 10
lubricate our passage through this world.
Our long beginning must mean eternity for
completion. Boys and girls never know
how can they know iti-that the world was
created neither for nor against them 1t IS
no more, nc less, than the good old hearty
world. kindly indifferent to them until they
make themselves of value 10 IL
And what a mistake il is for them to think
with resentment that their parents feel in
fallible! Their poor parents, who are but
older children harassed BY care and anxious
love,
Many are the blunders Of these expert
nentng newcomers; but their most Sc
rious mistake IS to think they can do fool
ish forbidden things without pairing the
penalty forever aftsrward-that they can
play with danger Ike children touching
the cars Of freight train with daring
Mger-tips as i rz-ties past the platform
David begged that the sins Of his youth
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bumped into every conceivable shape 1rum
end to end, which is two hundred and fifty
feet. The huge knots, which are three and
four feet across, are called bushes, and are
used for veneering purposes. Two men
from Boston, who had more time than we,
traced the line of this tree across the
grove. into the bed of the creek, and on the
other side, in all distance Of six hundred
feet.
These monster trees are surely the mon
uments of past ages. From the best au-
thority we have, some Of them must have
been in existence when, according to Heb
riac history, the globe was hardly more
than twenty-five centuries old.
There is tree in Asia, / believe, which
has record of two thousand years, and the
Oldest of these trees is supposedsto be SIX
hundred years older, about eight hundred
years old when Christ was born.
Nj. z. ABBOTT.
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HARVESTING: INDIA AND AMERICA.

every sense of the term, and the landlord
reckons his possessions by villages and not
by acres. Men and things change so little
in Oriental countries that clothing, manners.
houses, customs, implements and religions
are the same as they were two thousand
years ago. In India mans caste deter
mines his occupation; the son OF carpen-
ter, blacksmith or fisherman must follow
his fathers trade and days labor is valued
in pennies.
The struggle gees On from gear 10 year,
from childhood 20 old age among the swarm
ing millions. Intent upon supplying their
animal wants, the miserable peasants live
their hard, unlovely lives without aspira-
ton or hope, or even fear of the future
Their minds and bodies are too busy pro-
viding the rent and daily subsistence.
Their cabins Of bamboo are scattered with
out order in the little villages, around which
are grouped the parcels Of land upon which
the Ryots enjoy tenant rights.
Threshins is sometimes done in the fisld
hy knocking the grain end Of the sleaf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06

A tramp was dodging tie police and beg
ging aims. He approached cadaver0us
specimen Of humanity and said:
"Can't yer give poor, hangry mai .cr1e-
thing 70 help hin gsI "a ghi's lodg1ngP'
mo
''Say. hahn. yer IN 10 business"
Eyes, IN poet Of the spring, and sing
When the Ree!ns Nest Again
Here. take taiS dime fs's I'll Eve set
but yer aeed Is greater inss Nina
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-xsNNNlLaw
ga1ky Il Sa9Ac
YOSEMITE.
cial Correspondence.1

a Pen Picture of It's Wonderful Beauties
The Big Trees-Their Remarkable Size
and Age.
Especial Correspondence
Yosemite valley is four thousand feet
above sealevel. After repassing Inspira-
ton Point, we ascend for several miles at
an altitude of eight thousand feet, and fire.
quently the snow is twenty feet deep here,
and lntermingled with beautiful meadows
OF richest grass and brightest flowers. The
blue-tipped slvery fir abounds, often two
hundred and fifty feet high, with a gor-
geous coat of yellow and green moss. All
this profuse vegetation, with hundreds Of
delicate flowers, is at a height which would
freeze every thing in the East. The mount
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MILLING: INDIA AND AMERICA

HILLINH: INDIA AND AMERICA.
western world on virgin soil, will prove to
be question of deeper import to those who
study the laws of human progression in
which the survival Of the fittest plays a
Leading part, than to the producer of the
American West, who already sees the Re-
public in leadership among all countries of
the world MOSES Folsom.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06
The aahita Dau Eagle: Sunday z1ormne, glay s. 1855

should not be docketed against h1m in the
court of Heaven He felt that their mem
ory and the consequences OF them were as
much as he could bear-peaalties which
could never be taken away.
MARY II. CATHERWoOn
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-05-06

Wichita & Suburban.
FAIRMoUNT.
Cars leave Fourth and Williams, commencing f:l0
a. and every hour until 1910 crossing Doug
Las fifteen minutes after every hour,
DoLD'S PACKING HOUSE
From First and Nam, s. Is and IS minutes after
every hour comm encing at SOS and continuing
until 1905 D, Cars run on all line a1Ier all plays
at grand opera house Parties OF four Cr i've can
have special cars without special charge ter these
hours by telephOning No. 10 or calling at Office ISL
North Fourth avenue, LEE TAYLOR.
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St. Louis 4 San Francisco

The Frisco is the only line running two soG trains
daily to St Louis without change from Wichita
The only line having morntng and night Pullman
service from Wichita TO st. Louis Two trains daily
to Arkansas and Texas points. Free RECLINING chair
cars all night trains. City Union Ticket once
IL North Main street. and Union depot. Oak st.
w, ID. MURDoCK.
Freight and Pass Agent.
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FOR SALE.


Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street Car lines and in
outside additions Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sale
at special bargains. Several fine tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating.
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county; also ranches in this and
adjoining counties
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere.
w. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency In Wichita
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Kansas Midland Railway,

Kansas Midland Railway.
NORTH BOUND.
Passenger leaving Wichita daily at s.01 q. m
Passenger arrives at Ellsworth l255 p.
Freight leaves Wichita 100 4.
Freight arrives at Ellsworth .......... 40 p
ARRIVES FROM THE NORTH.
Passenger from Ellsworth ............... 200 D. N
Freight from Ellsworth s:GU p.
The Kansas Midland is the direct line to the north
west and is the best and shortest route to Oregon
and Washington Territory points.
City Union Ticket ONCE f22 North Main street.
Union Depot Oak street and Wabash ave--StAtion.
w. d. MURDOCH.
Freight and Pass. Agent
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Missouri Paeinc-F OFT Scot. Route.
ARRIVE DEPART
FROM FOE
Kansas City, st. Louis and Eastern
Express .... 8: sam n:So N
EYpress sppm .iop m
Conway Springs Anthony ana
hiowa Express Observation-Disclosures. op N ssN m
Conway Springs, Anthony and
Kiowa Express. Ill N al ? n
Wichita 4 Colorado Division.
Hutchinson, Sterling and Gsneseo
Express LIZ , N eSoa N
Hutchinson. Sterling and Geneseo
Antrains run daily.
The Missouri Pacific. Fl. Scott Route" run
through Pullman sleeping cars 10 Kansas City and
ST. Louis daily; also through free reciio-
ing chair both night and nornln
trains This is the shortest line ST. Louis by .
miles, and tie popular line to all points east north
and south. Connections made in Union depotS
In both Kansas City and St Louis with all lines
from these points. Ticket once l9 North Main ST.
y. c. KEERAN,
Pass. and Ticket Agent.
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Atch,son. Topeka & Santa Fe.

Atchison, Topeka + Santa Fe.
The following time table viii 'nto effect On tho
A r. & = + r r. A ri l. from Wichita Kansas
north ana eastward;
GOING NORTH AND EAST
Texas Express ........... ...........,. so m
Fxnress -...............,,,.... SO q m
Freight Accommodation Observation-Disclosures. 100 m
GOING SOUTH AND WESTWARD.
Texas Express Observation-Disclosures SIS m
Kiowa Express ......,.......... ...-..... 7:'5 N
Freight Accommodation Observation-Disclosures. 80
4 ue santa re Is tue only line running solid
trains daily from Wichita TO Kansas City, with
morning and night Pullman service. The short line
to Colorado points with daily trains II II from
"a TO Sc hours thu shortest line TO California with u
through service of Pullman and free tourist sleeping
cars. The shortest line 10 Texas points with 4
through daily service OF elegant day coaches and
Pullman cars City Union Ticket Office IL North
Main ST., and Union depot near Oak street.
w. d. MURDOCH
Freight and Pass. Agent