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The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02
1t Couldn't Vote.

A raw Irishman stood at the curb the
other day watching the ponderous
road roller at work. The native OF
Erin's isle stood moment meditating,
and then, pointing a scornful finger at
the snorting and putting machine said;
"Yez ken take the bread out nv poor
mons mouth; yez ken do more worruk
thin five hundred men, but dom it, ye2
can't vote!" And apparently satisfied
at his observation he walked away,
! casting whitening glance at the hate
full roller, which didn't seem to mind
it a bit.-Lonseaster lPG. } Ezamiaer,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

almost every particular. 1t was neith-
er so costly, SO tasty, nor so elegant.
But what is the use. Some people new
er can appreciate their own posses
sions."
And my friend again lapsed into a
profound melancholy. l sympathized
with him, but l could suggest no rem
edy, so thought would put his case
in print, and submit it to the ladies.
Can you not in some way drive this
skeleton out of the house?
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

A. j. Gill of Dade City, Fla. is the
owner of an orange tree hfty-three
years old, which is two and half feet
in diameter and thirty-five feet high.
This tree has yielded 10000 oranges
in a single season, and it is believed,
if NO mish&p intervenes, the product
will reach II, 600 the present year. 1t
is one of a group of eighteen, each
but little inferior in size.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

Some one has got up an alphabet of
precious stones as follows: Amethyst,
beryl. chrysoberyl, diamond, emerald,
feldspar, garnet, hyacynth, idoerase,
kyanite (more commonly cyanite, a
blue mineraD, lynx-sapphire, milk
opal, uatrolite. opal, pyrope, quartz.
ruby, sapphire, topaz, uranite, vesuTi-
ante Ga species of garnet, water sap
2hire, xanthite, zircon Ia Cingalsse
stone).
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

Miss Gladys-You appeared abruptly
with your errand while ago. You
must not come so suddenly into the
room when Mr.. Smithers is spending
the evening with me. Bridget-Sud-
denti And is it suddent ye call it, and
me at the kayhole full three-quarth-
ers of an hour!-Hdrper's BGzdr.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

A barber at Suez, ATiz., while shaw
ing a man was seized with an attack of
homicidal mania, and cut his custom
er's throat from ear to ear,
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1888-08-02

A straight fiush"-The maidep's
cheek that is not painted. ~
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
KANSAS KOLLARY.
GRAY has two sets of county officials

Gray has two sets of county officials.
1t costs only nine cents meal to feed
the city prisoners AT Atchlson.
The state art school at Topeka will
open on the tenth of September.
The Y n. c. A. has base ball teams at
Kansas City. Leavenworth also.
Kansas has voted fewer railroad bonds
in 1883 than IN any other of her history.
Kansas has 221, $50 acres more in corn
this wear than last, the total average be-
ing 6,,J0.S.2.
We are daily expecting an article on
the lawlessness of killing prairie chickens
before the first.
A man in Jewell county is getting a
great deal of gratuitous notoriety On his
name ''Hyena-
One hundred and seventy burial per-
nits have been issued in Lawrence dur
ing the past year.
A Labette county farmer has sold the
wheat he raised this season from eighty
acres Of land for 81 so.
In 1888 Harper county reported 49,
572 hogs. Barber $3.50. Pratt s, 65j,
Kingman l6. So and Sumner 1850.
Winfield is being subjected TO a news
paper quarrel between t"oschool narnas-
sympathy Is extended TO the citlzsns.
The Newton Republican sets on
Prof. Wiley because the latter reports
that sugar cannot be made from sorghum
cane.
A man BY the naue Of Carter, near
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
ADANGEROUS DEMAGOGUE.

Little Chris Hoffman, the big miller at
Enterprise, Dickerson county, was the
man who as member of the legislature
introduced the bill fixing railroad rates
and who showed himself generally as a
rampant enemy Of capital, corporate or
otherwise. He has a socialistic tongue
but the greed of a railroad wrecker. He
is worth $4,000 to 100000 which he
made in Kansas. In a recent speech he
said
{ l''If a man came to this country ten or
fifteen years ago with n thousand dollars
and since that time by engaging in the
that money. has grown to be worth $50, 600,
it must be apparent that his business is
not honest or far, and that the law should
prevent it.
To which correspondent of the Min
neapolis Messenger replies, by institute
ing a comparison, as follows:
''If man located on Smoky Hill ten or
fifteen years ago and began the milling
business with a capital of not over one
thousand dollars. and by buying wheat of
the surrounding farmers and selling the
-four had become one of the wealthiest
men in the state, owning the finest mill
west of Topeka, $4,000 worth of bank
stock and other valuable property it must
be apparent that he has not conducted his
business honestly or fairly, and that there
ought to be a law to compel him to pay
more for wheat or to sell his -four for less
money"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
THE TICKET.

The county, senatorial and district Re
publican tickets will be found at the
head of the EAGLE this morning, where
they properly belong.
The ticket no doubt will be a surprise
in some respects in that some of the
nominees were not as prominently before
the county as others, but it will, when
carefully weighed, and considered as to
local and other claims, round out most
satisfactorily.
There will be plenty of time to give
the strong points, personal and other
wise, of the ticket when disappointments
have dulled and dispassionate Judgment
shall have asserted its sway. 1t is suf-
ficient to say this morning that the
EAGLE is in line where it has always
been-for the whole ticket.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
MES & Ross.
116 TO 100 MAIN STREET.

received from one of the company's
travelling passenger agents, a large sized
photograph of an ear OF corn raised IN
Mcpherson county. The picture repre-
sents the ear, partly stripped of husEs
and standing beside a man. The ear OF
corn IS said 10 be seven feet IN length
and stands to all appearances foot over
the mans head. The ear IL certainly a
remarkable one. and il viii no doubt at
tract crowds at the state fair, where il
will be on exhibition. The following
affidavit. duly swon 10 accompanied the
photograph: I'VE, the Undersigned re-
putable citizens of Mcpherson. do
solemnly swear that we saw the ear of
corn shown ia this picture; that II WAS
grown on section g. township -, range
3. Mcpherson county. Kan; that II was
brought to tho city on cart drawn by
400 pound horse. on August 4, ISIS.
that the enclosedis an exact photograph
OF the came. and that none Of Us are real
estate agents. so help Us God. George A.
Sharp. John Folsom, Nate Lee, r. 4.
Cole, q. III. Glazier, I. A. Patterson.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
Crowdins ON. the Needy.

"Another girl / know Of, who grs.du-
ated at Vassar. iTnbihed there so much
energy and enthusiasm that she could
not settle down 10 the life Of "a common
place daughter Of the household. She
must work. she said. asd she would
teach. They live in ueiglsboring siibur-
ban city, where her father is prominently
concerned In public school Affairs, and IL
was, OF course, cs4sy for him 10 procure
her an agreeable place So she teaches,
driven 70 her classroom every morning
by Inverted goodman, while the white
hands which go daintily wieid the pointer
AZ the blackboard sparkle with rinss. any
one OF which exceeds In value the e1xa
she earns as q teacher IN q whole year-
.'Bu: think Of tie equally intelligent.
Efficient young woman she i putting
aside. Somebody wants THAI place, nor
TO occupy herself. but 20 make her daily
bread.
why, Only the ether day mamma
was called upon 10 ir1tarst beTBeaf IN BE-
hat Of young gerfieworlsn With az M
yabd father 10 support- She PAINTED ex.
quisiHly. but found il impossible % dis
pose Of her work One rycrairentde<4ler
In ar bric-a~brac told her when she
Elen,!o1<d price for the articles che Of
fered hin thai bat Little more tran Gov
cred the cost n the materials:
"Oh. Il could us pay 50 ranch -
that; they are worth II no doute, tut I
eaa ges them cheaper. Plenty q fab
ionale women do th:s sort a thing. you
know,' be wen: On, lot wi.hou. q certain
pride 10 his Voice. either, women who
drive up here Ia their cazriAge. who work
for The pleasure Of Il and who sg.snd tbs
raoney pay thezn righs herc inAny shop
for n1ors usaseTials.'
"Sow. does dha. SEN fart whkh "a
why I say." finished TIN far eixauusoo
Of justice, logically repeating her oo~n,
ing rcprsi.ion. '1hat tiere ought 70 BE-
. ecsTy fer the suppression O. r.s-sia.
ticn 4 amateur ird1rry.~-gew YuS
TICf1.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

If the remark of Mr.. Blaine in his
Portland speech, in referring incident
ally to the subject of trusts. that it was
a matter that Mr.. Cleveland nor any pri-
vata citizen had any business to NEEDLE
with, or words to that effect, was such a
terrible blunder for him as Republican
to make Implying that it is the province
Of the president to interfere in their
operations of oppression upon the people,
will the Democrats who hold up their
hands in amazement at the ''break' the
Maine statesmen made, explain or ac-
count for Mr.. Clevelands silence and
inaction in the matter? In other words,
if it is the presidents privilege, or pre-
rogative, or duty to take action, as by
their criticism of Mr.. Blaine they admit,
why hasn't their champion come to the
rescue of the suffering people? Don't all
answer at once.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
SENATOR PLUMB ON MONEY.
Mr.. Plumb in addressing the senate {

Mr.. Plumb in addressing the senate on
the currency question said:
We are dealing with question which
has more to do with the welfare of the
people of the United States, which is of
thing that Is pending In either house of
congress, or which can be pending-the
volume of the circulating medium Of the
country, value of its property. the Diff
ference between debt and bankruptcy.
on the one hand, and freedom from debt
and prosperity on the other.
1t Is estimated that there are In circu-
lation. including that which is locked up
In the treasury and held In banks
as reserve fund, about sixteen hundred
million dollars Of all kinds of
currency of the United States.
gold and silver, the overplus of gold
and silver certificates, greenback notes
and national bank notes, all told, and
there are more than $50, 000, DOC, 900 Of
property which must finally be measur-
ed by this volume of currency. 1t has
been contracted during the last year
more than D per cent, in addition to all
that has occurred by reason of abrasion
and loss. No man can tell the volume
Of greenbacks outstanding. Nonlinally
it Is S346, 600, 600 and fraction, but that
volume has been subject to all the acct
dents which have occurred during the
past twenty-five years, whereby money
has been consumed, worn out, and it is
doubtful if the amount is really over
$500, 900, 900 today.
But saying nothing about that, the
retirement of the national banking cir
culation during the past twelve months
has been per cent Of the total amount
OF currency outstanding. There
has been during that period
phenomenal depreciation of the
prices of property. There has been the
greatest depreciation of the price of ag-
ricultural products the country has ever
known. And yet the finance committee
has simply incubated something that
may ripen after time, and it may not.
do not speak of this for the purpose of
rejecting on the committee, but for the
purpose Of expressing in feeble way
my view of the gravity of the situation
which congress has yet done nothing to
meet.
The contraction of the currency by 5
per cent of its volume means the depre-
citation of the property of the country
50, 900, 100000. Debts have not only in
creased but the means to pay them have
diminished in proportion as the currency
has been contracted. Events based upon
non-legislation have proved to advantage
to lenders but disastrous to borrowers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

An exchange says that trusts are the
result of over production, and will van
ish as soon as the surplus products disap-
pear. AS general proposition that may
appear logical, but it will not hold good
as an infallible rule. Take, for instance,
the sugar trust, the most wide spread
and burdensome to the community at
large of any of the combine family, and
we have at least one glazing exception.
The duty on sugar imported into the
United States amounts to something like
thirty millions dollars, which fact alone
proves that there is no surplus Of that
commodity produced here. Its, however,
an article of prime necessity. entering
more uni versally into every day consump-
ton than any other article, save perhaps
bread. On this article of necessity the
Democrats would impose a tax OF sixty
odd per cent.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
PROSECUTING THE SUGAR TRUST.

1t will be remembered that some weeks
ago the attorney general of the state of
New York declared his intention to
bring suits to test the legality of the
sugar trust. The first step in this direc-
ton was taken on Tuesday last, when
the attorney general brought suits
against the individuals composing the
Sugar Retineries company, or Sugar
Trust" and against the North River Su-
gar Refining company. Bradstreet's
says the complaint in the suit against
the trust declares that that organization
dominates and regulates at will the pro-
duction and price of refined sugar in the
state of New York and in the United
States, and arbitrarily limits the pro-
duction and increases the price there
of. The main contention of the attor-
ney general win be that the combination
creates q monopoly and that its organiza-
ton constitutes an act injurious to trade
or commerce within the inhibitions of
the provisions relating 10 conspiracy in
the penal code of the state. Another
charge made against the Trust is that il
has usurped corporate franchises in
which it has no right. The complaint
against the North River Sugar Refining
company asks for the dissolution of that
corporation on the ground: among
others, that it has forfeited its charter by
a failure to exercise its franchises. The
trial of these cases will be watched with
great concern throughput the country.
The result will not only furnish test Of
the particular legislation of New York
state, but will supply legal interpreta-
ton of the facts brought out by the evil
dence, which viii be of interest in every
state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
A REFERENCE.

The Beacon, in agony, says certain poet
had been sought and found writing poems
for the EAGLE; that if continued, the peo
pie would inquire by whom had he been
hit.
Projections never hard to find,
With lariat in ready coil;
To swoop upon her seekers; bind,
Their feathers pluck and beauty spoil.
Protection strikes fatal blow.
But not because we have been hit,
But give the people facts to know
About their ancient hypocrite,
Our country first, from first to last,
Give helping hand is all we ask;
A hydra clan would family blast
The better effort of our task,
Could they but fill their empty flask.
Democracy doth now desire
Seven per cent of straws be filled;
To course the way the winds retire
Free trade strength to try-and have
told, w. II.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
A Nut for Free Traders.

Waterbury American.
We would like to ask the millionaire
hardware manufacturer of New Haven,
who does not hesitate to include Jimmy
Blaine" and the use of the pronoun in
the first person in the same paragraph,
what the tax on the raw materials which
enter into it has to do with the Water
bury watch! Ninety per cent of the
cost of making the Waterbury watch
consists of labor. The watch has fifty
eight parts and over four hundred and
seventy-five operations are required to
make it, But all the materials that enter
into the watch would not cost ten cents.
and of this the only part that is affected
by the tariff is the long spring, which is
imported under duty. Were the duty
removed from steel, so far as the Water
bury watch is concerned the effect
would not be perceptible, but if by the
removal of the duty on steel the steel
producing industries of this country
should De impaired or destroyed, the eff
feet in respect to all kinds of business
would be most disastrous and would ex-
tend to entire communities.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
THE MEN WHO DIDN'T RUN AWAY.

One short paragraph in Jacksonville
dispatch published in the New York
World Sunday will suggest reflections to
the reflective:
The newspaper men here have hard
work. The editors and reporters have set
type in some cases and every one has done
extra work. None left his post of duty,
and SO far not one has been Ill.
The staying of the doctors, in such a
case is taken as matter of course. That
is what they are there for; yellow fever
cholera, small pox-all that is in their
days work. Only in exceptional in
stances does their heroic, self-forgetting
devotion to duty get the recognition it
merits.
But what soldier ever showed a higher
quality of courage-'4 o'clock in the
morning courage'-than these Jackson
vile clergymen, newspaper men, police
men, firemen, milkmen and the rest
who, having the chance to escape from
the fever-stricken town, remained at
their posts?
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
Queer Sequel Of the.Anarchist Eangings
New York Herald.

Queer Sequel Of the-Anarchist Eangings
New York Herald.
1t is now more than nine months since
the four anarchists We're hanged. and
during that time Mrs. Judge Gary has
had on an average of three servant girls
a week. She is the wife OF the judge
who sentenced the '.martys, and
against her husband the full wrath of
the friends of the dead men has been di-
rected. When Mrs. Gary secures ser
want the wits of the latter are scared out
of her by the thrilling tales poured into
her ears by the domestics employed at
the neighboring houses OF dynamite plots
and the probabilities of being blown into
eternity at any moment. All the intelli-
gence offices en- the north side have
Judge Gary's name on their books. and
applicants for situations are sent there.
hough some of them DO not stay more
than q few hours Judge and Mrs. Gary
take the matter philosophicaliy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

The Democrats are getting FESTIVE
over the protracted reticence of the pres
ident about accepting his party's nomi-
nation for reelection. He doesn't re-
fer specifically to the letter of accept
ance, but there is no doubt that Mr..
Watterson had it in his mind when he
said: 81 believe firmly that the Dome
cratic party will win this election, but it
will never achieve victory by simply
talking about the personal popularity of
its chief candidate. There has been SO
much of that kind of talk that believe
Mr.. Cleveland thinks that if we were to
close the national headquarters tomor-
row the canvass would move along just
as well and he would be triumphantly
elected"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
G.. A. VANNESS.

If Sedgwick county places confidence
and trust in any of her past officials
more than another that man is G.. A.
VanNess. No man is more conversant
with the affairs of the county, no man
could be more conscientious and pains
taking as an official in every place he
has filled and he willGmplv, and with
out the least question, make one of the
safest and best county commissioners
that the county ever had.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

A little thing like twenty-five million
dollars. an error in the river and harbor
bill, may escape the presidents notice
and the bill be permitted to become a
law, but if there is the slightest preteXt
for vetoing a bill providing pittance Of
eight or ten dollars a month to some poor
veteran of the union army his beagle
heye will catch is instanJer. Millions to
influence districts and states in his inter
est, but not a dollar for the nation S
defenders if it can be avoided, is Cleve-
lands motto.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
Treasure TrOve.

Mr.. James r. Tucker, of Level Land,
S. c., travelling inspector for the South
ern Clock company, while travelling over
an old blind road on the plantation of
Judge Reeds, in Jefferson county, Ark. :,
lust above Pine Bluff, saw something
projecting out of an old rotten stump.
He rode out to see what it was and found
it to be small walnut box partially rot
ten, and to mis- establishment, containing
silver and gold coin. Counting it out he
made the sum nine thousand and five
hundred dollars. Some think it was hid
den there during the war;
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

In the opinion Of MIR. Dana's newspa-
per, the gentlemen at Democratic head
quarters should call the Hon. Frank
Hurd in at once-retire him from cam
paign circulation as it were. On his way
to advocate Cleveland and free trade on
the Minnesota stump, Mr.. Hurd has
been confding to Washington friend
his conviction that the Democrats don't
stand any show in New York this year.
If that is SO, exclaims Mr.. Dana's news
paper, ''the Democrats are defeated
three months before election day" That
would seem to be about the size of it,
certainly. But why be unkind to Frank
Hurd-Frank by name and also by
nature-for putting fact in plain Eng
lish? He isn't responsible for the fact.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

Touching that letter of acceptance
Cleveland has not yet said to Dan, ''let
her go, Gallagher" and it now looks as
if Cleveland had made up his mind to
stand by his first letter, in which he said
he would not accept a second term
simply because he sees he wonld not
have any chance.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
Carry the News to Sullivan.

Sluggar Jake Kilrain is out on the
ocean sailing, homeward bound. On
one piece of his luggage he describes
himself as champion of America" An
eyewitness of his departure reports that
congregated sluggers and wonld-be slug
gers cheered heartily as She Etruria
started, and Jem Smith shouted: If
you get whack at Sullivan, Jake. don t
leave enough of him for the mourners to
gather up. ''All right, retorted Jake,
IF get a chance at him you chaps over
here will hear something"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

Mr.. Cleveland's linguistic abilities is
one accomplishment that he has kept
hid under bushel, SO to speak, until
very recently. One of the latest achieve
ments entered to his credit is an address
in Spanish to naturalized citizens Of
Cuban birth or parentage, urging them
to rally under the bandana banner, be-
cause the Democratic party has always
felt so sorry for Cuba!
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Many Laymen Say so Too.

Archbishop Corrigan has issued a
stringent order that hereafter no MEM
Der of any religious order within the
archdiocese shall visit any race course
for the purpose of soliciting money for
for pious uses. He says that the pres
ence of nun at such wicked places, no
matter how good the motive is, is "a
scandal and shame"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-08-26

A Wichita preacher located ten joints in
Winfield last week. This only goes to
prove that there is no discounting Wich-
tia mans sense of smell when he feels
thirsty. Times.
Your statement of fact may stand, but
the inference of your conclusion that
Wichita ministers ever get thirsty for
whisky is a base slander-we wont even
make an exception of Botkin and Nun
roe, the only two Wichita preachers who
attended the Winfield meeting.