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Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
KANSAS FARMERS DEMAND 1T.

The EAGLE hopes that the Kansas
delegation in congress will stand squarely
for the lard adulteration bill. Cotton
seed oil may not be injurious as an
article of food, and cotton-seed oil may
be an infant production, but let it stand
or fall on its merits. It's not hogs lard
and 1T should be labeled and branded as
to protect the purchaser who desires hog
lard and not cotton-seed oil. In the
failure to pass the bill, the entire corn
and hog product of the north will suffer
many millions OF dollars annually. The
interest of every corn planter and hog
raiser in Kansas demands the passage of
the bill which compels the adulterators
of lard to label their goods in such a way
that the purchaser will know what he is
buying. It's simply the olemargarine
fight over again and should be decided
the same way.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

A man giving his name as Eugene
SPOTS set sail from New York one day
last week for Australia for the purpose
of practically testing a newly discovered
method that he thinks can be used for
the determination of rabbits. The meth
cd is to inoculate a number of rabbits
with the germs of highly contagious
and fatal disease and then turn them
Loose, and by this means spread the con-
tagion to all the RABBIT inhabitants of the
country. If the scheme proves a sue
cess Spots expects to receive the S25, 900
reward offered by the government of the
country infested for the determination
of the pests.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
THE DIFFERENCE.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

10 the EGltor OF the Eagle
The Beacon, in an editorial on the
proposition to give ex-Confederate sol
diers the preference in the matter of ap,
pointments, and Senator Daniels re-
marks thereon, says that it is a striking
contrast with the statements of the Re-
publican press that it is necessary to
pension every Federal soldier to keep
him out of the poor house. All, that is,
indeed, striking contrast, and that Is
what hurts, awfully. All honor to the
Confederate, but damn the other fellow
who cares for him. The Confederate
soldier is fed. petted. cared for by his
numerous friends. The Federal soldier
has no friends. If the general govern
ment does not care for him. let him go
to the poor house. The Beacon is right
The contrast is great. There is no
palace open to the soldier who saved the
government. SOLDIER.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

left out of Sundays EAGLE in your
salt article. 1t would appear from that
we never had a salt discovery IN our
city when in fact we have the biggest
thing on earth in that line as you Will
see from the diagram of our salt mine
send you. Our company has just closed
a contract with Mr.. Johnston, of Salina.
for two more holes 1900 feet deep II
necessary to further develop the gas find
which also beats anything in the state
except Fort Scott. Our board of trade
called meeting one evening last week
and before they left the room raised
5000 and next day the committee
raised S. 900 more making $25, 900 which
we are now ready to donate to any COM
pany that will put in a salt plant to cost
not less $4,000. So you see we are
keeping well up to the head Of the pro-
cession and hope soon to rival the Peer
less Princess. We don't propose to let
the grass grow in our streets. We have
live people, always ready to take hold OF
any enterprise that is worth having.
Please don't do so again or the next time
we will kick hard. Respectfully,
P M B.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
The fair suffragists do not appear to be

The fair suffragists do not appear to be
overly anxious to exercise the recently
acquired prerogative as they did year
ago. the first time they had the oppor-
tunity under the act passed by the last
legislature. At no place, SO far as re-
ported, have as many registered by half
this spring as did last. AT Kingman,
according to the local papers, only one
hundred and fifty have registered this
year, and this is about a fair proportion
for the other cities and towns in the
state where they enjoy the privilege.
We are of the opinion that female bal
lots will never fall in Kansas as thick as
leaves in ValambroSa.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
KANSAS NOTES.

The first nominee for congress from
Kansas is Rev. Shumaker, of Holton
He was nominated from the first district
by the Prohibition party.
A flying prairie chicken struck the bel
cord of locomotive on the Missouri Pa
cific the other day, rang the bell ano
caused the engineer to stop his engine.
The Mulvane Record, remembering
the smallpox scare, facetiously asks
Udall, Great Bend and Marion Center to
quarantine against the few slices OF
Dakota weather they have had lately.
Lindsborg News: A stratum of vol,
canic dust was found by Prof. Udden In
Harper township last Saturday. lie says
it is two feet thick and Is locally known
! as 1.-The enemy bank"
1t is the opinion of all large stock deal
ers that every ton of alfalfa grown on
Kansas soil is worth so to the farmer
who produces it, if judiciously fed on
the premises. When drawn away to
market it will be worth but half that
amount.
The Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific,
Santa Fe and the Rock Island companies
have IsSueu JOINT cHCuldI duuouHShis?
that during March and April they will
transport free of charge a reasonable
amount of grain and seed to needy set
tiers in western Kansas, where the same
is consigned to an agent duly appointed
and certified to by boards of county COM
missioners. Individual applications will
not be considered by the roads.
Topeka Journal: A peculiar gasoline
explosion occurred at Lawrence, Kan
sas, Wednesday, at 10 o'clock in the
forenoon. Mrs. Rosenthal was en-
gagged in washing in tub some cloth
ing that had been saturated with gaso-
line for the purpose of cleaning them.
Without flame of any kind being applied
to the water or clothing an explosion
occurred with sufficient force to wreck
the tub, and the woman was thrown a
distance of twelve or fifteen feet and en-
veloped in flames. Her clothing caught
fire and she was badly burned about the
face and neck. She succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the flames and it is not
thought that her injuries will prove
serious. The cause of the peculiar acct
dent is what now troubles the minds of
the neighbOrhood in which it occurred
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Eastern people are prone to accuse
jewellers in the far west of tendency to
deviate in their habits of statement from
the strict line of accuracy. Strict adj
herence to categorical statement of
unvarnished fact is not according to
trans-Allegheny opinion a prevailing
trait of western character. This notion
on the part of our compatriots on the
other slope Of the continent is sometimes
expressed in language more terse than
appreciative. A writer in the New York
World, however, combines a power of
grasping subtle distinctions with a
happy facility of statement in manner
which constitutes real stroke of genius.
He says:
Even in Chicago you strike the foot
hills of the western mountains Of what
some people in the remote east might
call mendacity, but which I should
rather term certain degree Of buoyancy
of expression, especially when applied to
facts and figures. This buoyancy some
times almost verges on exaggeration, as,
for example, in the prompt and polite
reply that you get to your inquiry about
the population of a town; but between
Chicago and the Rocky mountains there
is yet room for almost any form of ex-
preston in this great and growing
country, and am not certain that the
western man is any more apt to exag-
gerate than any other.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Washington Not Democrat.

IIODe-DeInoCrdt-
Senator Teller, of Colorado, is good
naturally attempting to confer a dignity
upon the Democracy which that organi-
cation is not entitled to, and which its
members do not claim. 1t is scarcely
necessary to say that George Washing
ton, contrary to the intimation of Mr..
Teller, was not a Democrat He was a
Federalist, and whatever may have been
the weaknesses of that organization it
has never yet, so far as we are aware,
been seriously accused of friendship for
any of the distinctive principles or pur-
poses for which the Democratic party
stands. jefferson, the founder of the
party opposed to the Federalists, called
his organization by the name of the Re
publican party, and it was known by that
name for few years. But every student
of our political history knows that it was
the parent of the present Democratic
party, as the Federal and Wing organi-
cations were, successfully. the direct and
lineal predecessors of the Republican par
ty of today.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

A few years ago an extensive concern
in Cincinnati that employed large num-
Der of persons adopted the cooperative
system of carrying on its business, that
is, making the employees interested in
the profits of the business. We have
never seen statement of the success or
failure of the plan, but presume it prov
ed satisfactory to the parties interested.
Now comes the Edgar Thompson steel
works of Pittsburg, which employs five
thousand workmen and of which An
drew j. Carnegie is the head, and pro-
poses to adopt the same plan. The argu-
mentin favor of the plan is that it does
away with strikes, since a man would
not strike against himself.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
No Chinese Wall for Him,

GeGda Spring Herald.
''Kicking Bird" says he was the inventor
of the idea that the opening of Oklahoma
would fence the hot winds out of Kansas
We believe he also coined the Chinese wal
idea as applied to that country What
puzzles us, therefore, is how he is gong to
keep out the hot winds mentioned with
the aforesaid walls demolished. But be
ing prophet perhaps he can explain
Wichita Eagle.
No; the Chinese wall was invented by
Brother Easily of the Hutchinson News.
The bounding Joe Hudson of the Topeka
Capital thought it was good thing and
proposed TO Use it to fence in Topeka for
fear Kansas City would gobble up the
trade of all outlying territory. For the
same reason Brother Easily wanted to
fence in Hutchinson. for fear Arkansas
City would monopolize the trade of the
Indian Territory. But in this age Of
railroads, telephones and electric lights
the Chinese wall theory don't work well.
Kicking Bird" never had any use for it.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

A charter was filed with the secretary
of state Monday for the Wichita, Meade
Center & Western Railway Company"
Place of business, Meade Center. The
purpose of the road is to construct and
operate road and telegraph line through
Sedgwick, Kingman, Pratt, Barber, Kio-
wa, Comanche, Ford, Clark, Gray,
Meade, Haskell. Seward, Grant, Ste
phens, Morton, Stanton, Finney, Kear-
ney and Hamilton. The incorporates
are o. B. Hamilton, Coleman Rogers, NJ.
J. OMeara, w. G.. Emerson, VIM. X.
Palmer, Chas. E. Cones, James Wilson
and others. The capital stock of the
company is 81 100000.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
was an apprenticed "deviP' in German
printing Office.
Origin of o. X.
N0nde<rrint,

Sondescrpt.
More than century ago the best to-
bacco and the best rum came from Aux
Cayes pronounced q. K. }. and the best
of anything was designated as Aux
Caves. or o. X. This meaning of the
phrase is still retained. In the jackson
campaign every lie that conld be invent
ed was invented to blacken the general
character, and the endorsement that he
had made, 'this o. H." meaning the
BEST, was taken by Seba Smith, and
declared by him to be an Authorization
of the generals customary Endorsement
of papers as ''oll korrect.' The Demo
Gratis took up this statement and fast
ened the mystic letters upon their ban
ners. The meaning Of "all correct
stuck to the letters, and since then they
have been used in the two meanings of
1.-The best" and '.all right"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Mr.. Depew is still there, remarked the
New York Sun in its leading article Fri
day, and has steadily refrained from Civ
ing any sign of willingness to refuse the
responsibility. And a mighty hard can
didate to beat he would prove himself
here in the state of New York especially.
David Bennett Hill and Samuel j. Ran
dali would beat him, but Grover Cleve-
land would run fifty thousand behind.
with Depew for his antagonist. And the
politicians at Washington had better not
forget it"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The alleged expose of Mr.. Bartle of
st. Louis, of criminal practices on the
part of pork packers if it had not been
contradicted by him, would show him to
be thoroughly unscrupulous as it is pos
sible to imagine a human being to be-
A person who would knowingly and will
fully jeopardize the lives of thousands
of innocent, unsuspecting people by put
ting upon them diseased, and conse-
quently poisoned, food would commit
any act known to the catalogue of
crimes for the purpose of gain.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
'The Wife For he -

from PECK
"The wife for me-" he said, sis the
old-fashioned girl-the girl who makes a
good housewife-who has been brought
up to sew, and to cook, and TO wash,
md to ron-the kind of girls that they
used to have before girls went in for
fashionable hummery and accomplish
ments, and things. Eyes" said she,
Il understand, Well, my idea of a
husband is also of the old-fashioned
sort. want one who will shovel snow.
put in coal, split kindlings, put up
stoves, dig garden-beds, beat carpets
and do all the things that husbands used
TO do before they went In for silk hats,
and clubs, and our-in-hands. and
things There was thick, glutinous
silence, for few moments, while he
pondered deeply and broadly. Il
Wonder, he said at last. exactly how
much Of an ass | am" Il wonder she
echoed, with a speculative expression in
her eyes.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Claus Spreckles says his proposed
eastern sugar refinery will cost from So,
100000 to $6,000,000. He was offered
ten acres free in Philadelphia. He says
he can build in eleven months from the
time he starts. He is now erecting a
large beet root sugar factory in San
Francisco, and he predicts dozen will
be operating on the Pacific Coost in few
years. He has given no attention, SO
far as we know, to sorghum as a sugar
plant, but we predict he will yet adopt
it, even to the exclusion of the beet.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
ages:

Mr.. George w. Smalley, the London
correspondent of the New York Tribune,
is gentleman who enjoys Mr.. Blaine S
confidence as well as his friendship. He
is therefore likely one-much likelier
than housekeeping American journalists
at Augusta and elsewhere-to be we'll
informed as to Mr.. Blaine's present feel
ings, ideas, wishes and purposes. His
information Is that Mr.. Blaine is I'M
shaken in his determination not to again
be candidate for the presidency.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Ben Butler says that the hanging of
the Chicago anarchists was as wicked as
the ancient persecution of witches. This
comes with poor grace from a man who,
as one of the commissioners of the gov
eminent for the exchange of prisoners
during the war, was in part responsible
for the agonies and tortures suffered by
Union soldiers at Andersonvilie, Belle
Isle and Libby prisons, by refusing to
agree to cartel of exchange, upon the
specious plea that the prisoners so con-
fined would serve their country better by
remaining there and dying from hunger
and disease than by being exchanged for
like number Of rebels who would at
once resume active duty in the armies of
the enemy, thus absolutely cutting the
poor fellows off from an ever: chancellor
life. 1t strikes us that the proper thing
for the hero of Dutch Gap to do would
be to subside. The country has had more
of him already than is pleasant to re-
member.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
Fxei.atior orrhe CaruaL

DR.. Morgan Dix, Of New York, pastor
of the most fashionable congregation IN
America. takes the times very seriously.
not 10 say lugubriously. Men, be de-
clares, have become hardened now,
and have set up the lusts 81 the flesh rs
as special and worthy desire. Schools
OF philosophy teach this frightful doc
trine. poetry ideaiizes il, painters and
scuIp.ors delight 70 picture the nude in
lascivious forms; the carnal has been ex-
allied into a cultus called religion
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Judging from the following from the
Kansas City Star it seems that Boss Cor
rigan has not lost his grip entirely on his
party in that city: ''Mr. Lucas, the
Democratic candidate for mayor, is a
respectable man and has many friends.
He is in very bad company, however,
heading list of aldermanic candidates
who, with one or two exceptions, are
simply disreputable, and his chances
for election depend entirely upon the
action of the Republican convention this
afternoon"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
Goodwin Smith and the Treaty.

Hartford Coura5t.
In a recent talk with a New York re-
porter, Professor Goodwin Smith has
again avowed his belief that the fisheries
irritation will 90 on irritating until the
Canadian waters are thrown open 70
Yankee fishermen and the Yankee coast
ing trade is thrown open 10 Canadians.
The professor reports the feeling Of Can
ada distinctly more friendly 10 the
States than IL was when he first went
there to live, and he is still hopeful Of
commercial reciprocity presently.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The weather in the north and north
west has appeared to act upon the rules
of contrariness all winter and up to the
present time. Billiards. usually cause a
freeze-up of streams and consequently a
lessening of the volume of running
water if not to stop it altogether; but
the last one in that section had the re-
verse effect, causing destructive floods
in many streams.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Our neighboring city, Kingman, is not
deafening the earth with its blare of
trumpets, sounding the information of
her rich mineral deposits, but according
to our notion there is foundation for a
mighty solid growth in her rock salt
and mineral paint deposits that only
await development
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

1t is hoped that on sober second
thought Col. Fred Grant will forbaar re-
plying to Gen. Badeau's statements in
regard to Gen. Grant. No statement or
explanation in the grand old hero's be-
half is required by the public, who are
competent to decide the controverted
points between them, and, besides, as an
exchange remarks, any statement from
Col. Grant would mean more Badeau,
from which the universal prayer is,
"Good Lord, deliver us"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

In Kentucky 1T is said to be no uncom.
mon thing to see man with snakes in
his boots, but it was left for California to
eclipse the dark and bloody ground, in
the matter of snakes at least. In some
towns on the Pacific coast they pick up
dead men on the streets with their peck
cts full of snakes.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
MORE:MEDIoCRE.

Many papers in the state are mentioning
favorably the name of Colonel David
governor on the Republican ticket.-Em-
poris Republican.
Well, Governor, name some of the
manV
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Following up the action of the mayor
of Emporia in appointing female officers
of election in that city, the fair suffrag-
lists are now being called upon to run for
city offices. Well, as long as they enjoy
the privileges of citizenship it is but fair
that they should bear share of the re-
sponsibilities.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Who is to succeed Chief Justice
Waite is the question that is just now
uppermost in the minds and mouths of
the busy "book makers" Among the
names most prominently and frequently
mentioned are those of Judge Thurman,
Speaker Carlisle and Secretary Bayard
Whatever the chances may be for the
first and last named, circumstances are
against Mr.. Carlisle at this particular
juncture. With the party divided as it
is on the tariff issue and being on the
threshold of national campaign the
Democratic party cannot afford con-
test in its own ranks, such as the selec-
ton of successor to speaker would &C.
casion. In view of the situation, there
fore, Mr.. Carlisle's qualifications for the
position of chief justice will not be seri-
ously considered. In this connection we
venture the prediction that the appoint
ment will result in some New Yorker
getting an appointment.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The Chicago wheat market is recog-
nEed as the great crop barometer of the
country. This being the case the low
point to which the cereal fell last week
is taken as evidence Of unusually bright
prospects for this years crop.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

We think of Texas as only star of
considerable magnitude in the constella-
ton of the union, but Texas is larger
than France or the German empire, or
New England, and three times as large
as Kansas,
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

A delegate convention of the Republicans OF
vsnsas will be held in the city of Wichita on the 9Th
oay Of May 1883 at the hour of II o'clock NJ for the
election OF our delegates and four aternates TO the
National blfcan convention TO be held in Chi
cago. June - 1888. Also for the nomination OF two
presidential electors. ,,.
Also delegate convention Of the Republicans OF
Kansas will be held in the city OF topeka on the
25th day Of July, 1885, at the hour OF II O'CLOCK M
for the nomination of candidates for:
Associate Justice OF the Supreme Court.
Governor.
Lieutenant Governor.
Secretary of State.
Auditor Of State.
Treasurer of State.
Attorney General.
Superintendent of Public instruction.
Delegates to the conventions mentioned above
shall be elected by county conventions, duly called
by the several county Republican committees, un
der such rules and regulations as NAV be by them
prescribed. The county conventions to be held not
later than MAY 1855. The basis OF apportionment of
delegates to said state conventions viii be, one
delegate and alternate to each 400 votes cast for
Timothy Mccarthy for auditor Of state, November,
lRs6 or fraction of 20 or more votes. One delegate
and one alternate each will be allowed to all unor
ganized counties and counties organized since Nov;
2. 1886 Delegates apportioned to the several
counties as follows, to-wit:
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The National Womans Suffrage con-
vention is in session in Washington and
is SAID to be the largest and most thor
oughly representative gathering of the
kind that ever assembled on this CONT
nent if not in the world. The occasion
will furnish something of diversion in
the way of news, and if not additional
matter 10 congress for legislation every
body will be at least surprised.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Polk of Tennessee, Churchill of Ar
kansas, Vincent of Indiana, and Tate of
Kentucky, illustrate one of the Domo-
cratic methods of keeping the cash from
piling up in the treasury.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
The Fire OF Royalty.

Oliver wendell Holmes,
You talk of the fire Of genius
Many blessed woman who
dies unsung and unremem-
bered. has given out more of the real
vital heat that keeps the life In human
souls, without spark fitting through
her humble chimney TO tell the world
about it. than would set a dozen theories
smoking or hundred odes simmering
in the brains OF 50 many nicn of genius.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

For president in 1888, John ]. ingalls,,
of Kansas; for vice-president, Joseph
R. Hawley, Of CONGRATULATIONS
Democrat,
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28
Royaicy Learn g. Trade.

FrOIa a ELCtAngs-
Al the Hohenzollerns are put 70 learn
trade in their boyhood. The new
emperor of Germany learned 10 be a
cabinet maker, and the crown prince
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The following are the members of the
United States supreme court with the
year of their appointments and also their
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

The voters of Kansas who are in favor of free
and untramme led vote and a fair count. who favor
strict enforce ment of the law who cherish the de.
tenders of the country and favor liberal pension
to all who are disabled, who favor such laws Will
protect home productions, home manufactures and
home labor, who favor free schools and popular
education, and who are in favor of again placing
the government in the hands OF those who saved IT
instead OF those who sought its destruction are cor
daily invited to participate in the primaries county
and state conventions.
Pr BONEBRAKE,
HENRY BRANDLEY. Chairman.
prata
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-28

Winfield boasts of four Republican
clubs and claims to lead the state. Good
for Winfield.