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Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
BENT MURDOCH HOPEFUL

Ell Dorado Republican.
New YORK, Feb. 1S.-Many people
have called by attention TO the fact that
Milton was blind when he wrote Para
| disc Lost that the late postmaster gen.
eral OF Great Britain was without sight:
that many editors and business men are
! deprived of sight. and that all hope OF
success or happiness does not go out
with the loss OF ones eyesight. Perhaps
this is true, and vet it does not INSPIRE
me to the extent that ii Is possible Ior
me to resume the pleasurable duty OK
writing for newspaper.
Ii / knew that my sight had gone out
forever presume it would be an easy
task for me to go reSolutely
to work But it has not gone, neither
has it come back to be of any
practical service to me, so / am absolute
ly worthless. Ny thoughts can not be
drawn away from self. TO sit alone for
five or six hours with no one to speak to,
without the ability to read or write, is
depressing. To daily, hourly and mi
nutely ponder over the possible outcome,
to think of oneself, to watch and reflect
upon the slightest changes, to catch a
ray of light and have it fade away into
darkness, to dimly see an object and not
be able to define it, does not furnish
the inspiration required to write a let
Ter for publication. Living within the
four walls of hotel, knowing moth
ing of the outside world except as catch
it from the conversation of those around
me, what can | write about?
My room, ON the third floor of the
Sturtevant house, fronts ON Broadway,
has CRATE fire. and is no doubt nicely
furnished, take my prescriptions each
day, as ordered, expecting each time to
have poured down my throat a teaspoon
full of the kind that am required to take
ten drops of only. l rehgiously go to the
doctor and as religiously obey his inss
structions and that is about all there Is
to it and that is about all know.
1t is gratifying to know that my sight
is improving slowly but naturally. OBJ
iects are not distorted as they were
before, but then l will never regain my
eyesight, even to the extent that l had
it before, and will have recurring at
tacks which will in time make me
permanently sightless. Doctors say not,
but they don't know. Doctors can see
no further into a mill stone than other
people.
Will be home soon and will again try the
tread mill. Will commence where l left
off last Christmas night. Will COM
mence anew the battle of life-the battle
for bread and butter-under most favor
able conditions. But then it must be
fought to the bitter end in some way and
the sooner re-begun the better.
have run up against numerous blank
walls in my life time but l have always
found some way to get over them. The
one that cOnfronts me now seems very
long. very high and very thick. How to
get over or around it puzzles me. Peo-
pie tell me gap will be opened. that |
will pass through and go on my way re-
joicing. Possibly, but then l have not
yet been able to summon courage to beat
it down. That courage they tell me will
come to me in time if I will be patient
only wait. am waiting.
T. B. MURDOCH.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Atlanta Constitution takes the let
ter of MIR. Blaine declining the Republi,
can nomination TO he unfortunate so far
as the south is concerned. for the reason
that if he We're elected there Is no doubt
he would at least have been fair toward
the south. The admission embraced in
this assertion, coming as it does from the
leading Democratic paper Of the south.
is no less encouraging than gratifying.
But we beg 10 assure our esteemed south
ern contemporary that the interests of
the section it speaks for will receive the
same fair consideration accorded every
other section of our common country at
the hands of the candidate the Republi-
can party will select and elect, except it
places itself in sntagonism to the best in
terests of the whole country, which we
believe it will not do
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Iowa State Register thinks it a sig
nificant fact that the first move made by
the Prohibition or third party, or the as
sistant Democratic party, in this year of
national campaign is made in Iowa. A
prohibition convention has been called
to meet at Cedar Rapids March ID, to be
addressed by the president of the national
Prohibition committee, and to begin a
st. John party in that state. There is
no installing what this means. The St.
John party is in the service and under
the order and pay of the Democratic
party. 1t was used to help the Demo
Gratis carry New York in 1884. 1t will be
used this year to try to help the Demo-
Gratis carry that state again, and to try
and help them to the same end in Con-
necticut, New Jersey, Michigan and
Iowa. The Democrats believe that
owing to the losses of the Republican
party in Iowa, on account of the enact
ment and enforcement of prohibition in
that state, losses that have materially
reduced the majority, third party can
be organized and draw away enough
fanatical temperance votes to give the
Democracy a plurality at the election
next fall. So Mr.. Chairman Dicky, the
successor of Finch, who manipulated
the party in the interest of Democracy
in 1894, is sent to Iowa to inaugurate
this service for the Democrats. The
purposes and methods of this side-show
outfit have been SO thoroughly exposed
heretofore that there is, or ought to be.
little danger of harm to the Republican
party in anything it may undertake in
future i'll any quarter.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
That's the Doctrine,


No man is greater than the Republican
party. Mr.. Lincoln himself was no,
greater than the party that made him
and whose principles inspired him. The
next nominee OF the Republican marty
will not be a man OF whom it can be said
The nodded the conventions" he will be
the creation of the convention. and in
this is hope of victory. The nominee
will he a man whom the best thought of
the party has determined will be the
most acceptable and consistent represent
ative OF its policy. Whether Sheridan or
Sherman, Lincoln or Gresham. Allison
or Rusk. or Childs or Harrison. or some
other than any OF these be the nominee.
it will be the principles and policy of the
Republican party rather than the reputa-
ton of the candidate. howsoeyer honor
able that may be. that viii be submitted
10 the approval Of the country.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Fish Not Brain Food.
The Hospital.


Fish. says DR.. ". w. Godding. of
Washington, has for years enioyed the
reputation of being rich in phosphorus
and hence adapted to the growth of
brains. How such a notion originated |
do not know: perhaps because stale fish
shines with phosphorescent light in the
dark. As food. fish is richer in water
than IN phosphorus. and to feed it to
children expecting thereby to grow them
into philosophers. would be on par with
the scholar'who boiled his dictionary in
milk for supper. hoping thus to acquire
the language. As matter of fact.
physiological experiments, often repeated
on a large scale, rather negative the
popular idea of the value of fish as q
'.brain food"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Republican party in Florida is said
to be pulling itself together again. 1t went
out of business in 1876, and the visiting
statesmen who assisted in fastening the
dissolution should now help those surviv-
ing Republicans who are trying to find its
fragments.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The experience of the Republican
party in Florida then and now was and
is its experience in several other south
ern states. Thanks to returning reason
in that quarter and the wise conserv-
atism of the Republican party, it is rap
idly regalning the prestige it lost there
through the exegencies of times alluded
To
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
The severest criticism we have seen of

The severest criticism we have seen of
Boston as TO its moral and social status
is the announcement that the Sunday
Record, an excellent newspaper, has just
been discontinued for the reason that it
furnished better Sunday reading than
the Boston public could stand: We had
supposed that the good folk of the Hub
could readily assimilate anything good
in a literary way, including the new YER
sion of holy writ, hence the strain upon
our credulity to take the reason assigned
in the foregoing announcement for true.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The New York legislature has specia
committee engaged in investigating the
various trusts 1t can spend the win
ter very pleasantly in the metropolis at
the expense of the state. 1t will be
money well spent if it should result in
putting an end to the attempt of the pos
SCISSORS of vast capital to virtually gain
control of all the business interests OF
the country for purposes of personal ag-
prandiZement.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The anti-Cleveland feeling in the
Democratic ranks seems to be making
great Roadway since the national COM
mittee held its late seance in Washing
ton. Bringing the time of holding the
nominating convention to within three
months and Blaine's declination have
conspired TO infuse degree of activity
all along the Democratic line. Things
are going to get mighty interesting from
now on, and it must be allowed many
eyes are gravitating toward York state
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Little Rock Gazette has the fol
lowing on the new issue which knows
no party line 1.-THE solid south is work
ing to build up its country and make its
citizens comfortable, happy and pros
perous." A commendabie spirit as to
results, and is also pleasing to note that
the work being done in the south in the
direction indicated is rapidly working
out of the political solidarity that has
bonnd it for many years.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Hot Springs, Ark, is asking for seven
ty-five thousand dollars for govern
mems building. Such modesty will
down the aspirations of the best town.
1t ought to have asked for double the
amount SO as to give the ''Retrenchment
and Reform party that doles out the
money for public Improvements achance
to cut without defeating the practical
effects of the bill. We know other places
that have suffered disappointment from
this same cause.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, is liable to eclipse
Grand Master Workman Powderly in
public attention if the c. B. & Q. imbro-
Clio continues much longer. Their
positions are completely reversed from
those they occupied during the troubles
on the Missouri Pacific system year OF
more ago. Then Arthur held his men
back from interference; now Mr.. Pow
derby is doing the same thing.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

General Boulanger, the leading French
soldier, by his continued existence is
giving the representatives of that govern
ment unceasing perturberance. The old
hero ought to be more accommodating
and pass in his checks, so to speak, and
give the, uneasy heads little surcease
of anxious.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

1t is too early to say with positiveness
who will be the Republican nominee for
president, but it is getting to be tolerably
evident that he will be taken from the
west. Fittin' presidential timber abounds
i'm the west.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Paris, Texas, News says: "Peo-
pie who visit Paris get stuck" on the
town." They do say that the Texas
black waxy is the stickiest mud on earth.
Or does the News refer to the fellows
who put their money INTO Paris mud?
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
EXCERPTS FOR FARMERS.

Those persons who insist that nothing
made in the United States is as cheap as
like articles which are made in England
would be interested in reading advertise
ments in British newspapers advertising
British and American--plows, for exam
pie, at the same price for either, and at
less prices for the American make than
for the English make if heavy.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

As spring advances and the weather
grows timer the cows IN the breeding
herds are generally allowed more scope,
and sometimes less attention is paid to
them, especially if the spring work is
pressing. 1t is well to remember that
all our cold snaps are not yet over and
the farmer who thinks he cannot find
time TO give his cattle the usual atten-
ton or continues feeding corn up to the
time of calving. often finds much of his
time taken up afterwards in extra work
doctoring caked bags and garget, that
might have been prevented. 1t always
pays best to leave nothing to chance.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

If the new settlers in western Kansas
will act on our suggestion made some
time ago and .,plant seed OF the large
Russian sunfiower on small piece of
ground and cultivate the plants as if
they were so many good stalks of corn,
the result will be an enormous fuel crop
They grow very large and make good
fuel. Half an acre will produce enough
to supply a family a year.-kansas
Farmer,
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Now Claus Spreckles, the great Pacific
coast sugar man, proposes to smash the
eastern "sugar trust:' Good luck to
him.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The wind veered to southwest yester-
day and the usual crowd that ornaments
Kohn's corner moved over by the Citi-
zens bank, to the great delight of j. O.
Davidson.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Judge W. P. Campbell is going to or
ganize G. Washington club. The Judge
says mans political opinion don't
count, but the candidate will be ques-
toned closely in regard to his ability to
remember early "reminiscences.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
The Screamer's Sweet Scribbler Scratches
Short Scoops.

City Assessor Greene has been looking
over the city and thinks there are now
over 45, 900 people in Wichita
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01
BLACK eros : GRAINS!

Just two pieces black Regatta We will
than 15 We sell 10 merchant
warranted 1885 worth
225 This chance cheap
heavy, cheap Satin
sold
heavy regular price
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Who is running the Republican party OF
Kansas City this year-Kansas City Times.
Ugh! who amt running it?
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Street Commissioner Stone stand up.
When the grade stakes were first placed
on Williams street we thought it bad
arrangement, but since your force have
worked there couple of days we are
now prepared to say, that is the way we
always thought it ought to be done.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Conflicting dispatches have recently
been sent out from Albuquerque in re-
gard to loss of stock by the past severe
weather. Authentic reports from the
Navajo country place the loss of sheep
alone at 80, 900. besides other stock The
reservation lies partly in New Mexico
and partly in Arizona, and the SHOWS
have in point Of severity been unprece-
dented in that country. Reports state
that it has all disappeared and that stock
are now improving.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

A Chicago man was entertaining a
crowd Yesterday in front of the Carey
Grand hotel. He said it was six months
ago that he visited Wichita and he was
prepared to see great changes, for last
week in Chicago he heard one man ask
another when he was in Wichita: Last
month said the gentleman. Oh, get
out, said the..questioner, you just ought
to see it now.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

yards price all
have OF this grade bargain yards ustrous black
24s yards black Pelaisier at 6 cheap 200 It will
possible
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

eyes said a prominent member of
the street car company, ''we are going
to make a good many Improvements on
the street car lines this summer. We
will also build new line from Douglas
avenue south on Market street to How
ard street and thence over to the new
fair ground. We will also build on
Water street from Douglas avenue south
to intersect with the Main street line
where it intersects Market"
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Hereford cattle viii be interested to
learn that Mr.. 4. p. Turner. The Leen,
Pembridge, has just sold to Mr. d.
Maclennan, the well known exporter Of
pedigree cattle, the fine Hereford cow
Kathleen. She has been purchased for
DR.. L. 5. Zeballos and viii shortly be
exported to Buenos Ayres. Kathleen
has won many distinguished honots in
this country, including champion prizes.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The supreme court of Michigan lately
rendered decision of interest to farm
ers IN the case of Mcnamara ys Gaggett
1t appears that N 1885 Gaggett purchased
bohemian oats and gave his note 10 one
Griffen, who sold the note to McNanara.
Gaggets refused to pay the note. claim
ing that there was no adequate consider
atom. Judgment went against him IN
the trial court. but its decision WIS re-
yersed BY the supreme court. which
ruled that the contract for which the
note was given was fraudulent and there
fore not binding on the defendant. The
terms OF tine contract, the court said
were al war with public policy and were,
therefore, null and void. IL - said that
this decision will make void notes for
about 30. 900 given upon Bohemian oats
contracts IL the state.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Uncle John Carpenter was down from
Valley Center yesterday. Mr.. Carpenter
is Valley Center's heavy banker, and
thinks his town will eventually form one
ward of Wichita. Il can hear the sound
of the hammers now at the Burton car
works addition, and by another summer
they will gobble Valley Center" said the
banker. He was for Bob Lincoln for
president he said, and wanted to
go to the Republican convention at Chi
cago as delegate from Kansas to vote
for Lincoln.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

II want to buy an opera glass that
will enable me to look around the corner
of house or over a lady's high hat"
said NJ. w. Levy to friend yesterday.
II have been attending the Crawford
Grand opera, and every time woman
with one of those mountain peak hats
with forest filled with birds, gets right
square in front of me. Ican't see the
stage and that is the reason want an
opera glass with which l can direct my
vision on a curved line. as it were.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The Canton News. Democratic PAPER
published away down in Lewis county.
Missouri, was received at the EAGLE
Office yesterday with the following double
loaded EDITORIAL.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

Mr.. u. AMurdock, editor of the Wichita
KAN Eagle- siauch Democratic pa2EI.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

''Now look here, Scribbler, will just
give you pointer" said a farmer from
the West Side yesterday. Il will tell
you what is the reason there is so much
kicking about the mail service in this
state. Don't you know that President
Cleveland is opposed to the tariff: After
a little reflection Scribler did bremember
that something had been said about that
matter before the holidays. Well, now,
so is Henry Watterson opposed
to tariff and all the postmasters nearly
in Kansas are agents for Watterson to
secure subscribers for the Louisville
Courier-Journal and they are getting up
clubs all over this state; and the little
p. Ms. you see don't have much time TO
attend to anything else.
Wichita eagle., 1888-03-01

The attempt to inaugurate new strike
in the Pennsylvania mining regions is
apparently solely due to the determine
ton of the operators not to re-employ
men who while in the employ Of the
companies endeavored to damage their
property. The strike was settled. it will
be remembered. by the miners returning
TO work at the basis of wages they re-
ceived when they went out. new terms
TO be arranged and agreed upon after
ward. Now the Reading company has
manifested a disposition to do the fair
thing for its returning strikers by issuing
a general order reducing the price of
supplies which the miners secure from
the company. The effect OF the order
is of course equivalent to an advance OF
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12
BENwOOD.

The Wheeling Company's steel plant
resumed last night.
The BeIlaire brough some people down
the Riverside works Tuesday night.
A number who were going East this
week have postponed so doing until the
roads are in their usual condition.
Mai W. Barley, Of Moundsville, q
prominent candidate for Sheriff, was in
town yesterday.
A new set of flying horses have been
put up in Centre ward.
Ice-cream vendors are numerous.
Ex.Sheriff Hicks, w. Manning, j..
Simpson, B Hooten, and j. Roberts, Of
Moundsville, were mp from the county
seat yesterday.
NJ. Joice returned yesterday from a..trip
to Atlantic City.
To-day the Republicans whose names
are to be submitted at the primaries as
candidates for county officers each hand
over q specific sum to the committee &C
cording to the office TO which they aspire
Edward Detemple returned yesterday
from Atlantic City.
Miss Rosetta Lindsey is the guest Of
friends in PittsbuIg.
James Barritt aud James Nolan have
returned from Baltimore and Washington.
Miss Lolita Detemple and Miss Mary
Harvey are visiting friends in Braddock
John Robinson, OF Bellaire, has several
contracts for painting buildings here.
Mr.. Siebert, former manager of the Riv-
erside steel plant, who has Just returned
from tour of Europe, was in town yes
terdsy.
H. Bone, of Martins Ferry, was in
town yesterday.
The Owens transfers great number of
vehicles and foot passengers daily.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12
BRIDGEPORT.

There are two cases of cholera in the
city which have their origin in Ogleboy
avenue and its filth.
Miss Cora Watson is in Harrisville
visiting friends.
Harry Trueman is at st. Louis visiting
his sister, Mrs Sue Sihley.
A lawn fete will be given at the grounds
of George Medill and Mr.. w. T. Graham,
at Brookside, tonight for the benefit of the
Presbyterian Church.
Tuesday was pay day at Wheeling Creek.
The new gates at the c. l.. & w. crossing
of the bridge entrance were broken down
yesterday by careless handling, and parts
will have to be sent to Lorraine to be re-
paired.
John Very is on the sick list.
A party of rag pickers were arrested by
Officer John Stuff, yesterday, for stealing
junk at Rush Run. They were trying to
dispose of it at the Ktna mill.
Fred. Smith, 81. Clair Alexander, John
Kuhn, and Frank Hathaway, are in Gin
cinnati.
Hon. Ross J. Alexander and George C.
Mckee are members of fishing party 10
Gated near Moorefeld.
A party of fishermen who were located
at Tennent's Tunnel, on Saltwater, were
washed out by the flood, and are now at
home here.
Mrs. K. T. Howell and family are at the
home of her father, Rev. Worthington, at
McConnellsville.
Gabriel Nubia contemplates q visit to
his old home in Eastern Virginia.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-12
MR. sHERNIAN,s FLOP.

That queer man JOHN SHERMAN has
completely ''fiabergssted" the Republican
campaign, since the Republican Conyen-
ton. The HARRISON men don't know
what to make Of him. Our readers will
remember that in his address to the Gin
einnati Board of Trade on Friday, he said
Ibelieye that all parties admit that 1. is poor
policy TO have 30 much surplus in the treasury
and that what we need Is just enough funds o.
hand TO answer the purposes Of the government,
economically conducted. The only way to de-
crease this Is to reduce the revenue. I believe
you have frequently heard President CLEVELAND
say this, and thick you can find frequent refer
enee to IL in Mr.. sHERNAS'sspeeches. We agree
upon this one point, but there is an honest DIFF