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Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

If Ii Will ease the Arkansas CITY Tray
eler we will say that neither Wichita nor
the EAGLE cares whether Arkansas CITY
has put up her assessed share for the
Oklahoma cause or not. 1t is a matter
of indifference to Us and one which the
Wichita board of trade has nothing TO
do. The board of trade was asked to paw
the expenses of the convention. includ-
ing the expenses of of such speakers as
the Oklahoma people might invite. This
the board of trade promptly did When
the convention, following the course of
the Kansas City convention a year ago.
proposed TO raise q fund to defrav the
expenses Of 4 delegation. Wichita
promptly subscribed $500. which was as
promptly paid. Caldwell as promptly
met her subscription and New
ton sent double the amount that
she promised the committee, which COM
mittee was raised by the convention.
Wichita therefore. nor the EAGLE. nor
the convention, nor its committee. are In
any way responsible for the after att
tude and course Of Arkansas CITY. and
the subsequent suggestions Of the Trav-
eler were both little and contemptible
Secretary Pierce nor the board of trade
OF Wichita ever sent out any colored
posters and false maps, but had they.
Arkansas City would not have been called
upon to pay for them. or any portion of
Ihem' Inc discredit which attaches
from bitterness cannot be obliterated by
biackga"rding somebody else whatever
the faults and shortcomings of the party
subjected TO the abuse.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

That is very bold scheme of Con-
gresham Oates of Alabama, wherein he
proposes TO disfranchise the colored vor-
ers of the south. 1t is evidently meant as
bluff. The disfranchisement he would
effect has practically been III effect in
that quarter for years and the purpose of
the propositfzn Is to hedge il some way
against ere cutting down Of the repre-
sentation from the southern states that
is likely 10 occur when the new appor-
tionment is made under the new census.
The scheme would prove boomerang if
it were attempted to be put in operation,
which it viii not be. It's only bluff.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
a Eea on tie Car Wheel.

Kansas City. kan, Gazette.
The Topeka Journal makes the follow
ing flea on a cart wheel statement:
The recent action Of the city Of To-
peka in compelling the inspection Of
meat on foot has dealt heavy blow 10
the dressed beef monopoly. The good
work should continue.
Must be mistake somewhere. For
the first nine months Of 1855, the output
Of the Kansas City, Kansas, packing
houses, equaled the entire output Of 1851,
making the aggregate sales OF lcS5 about
$40. Coz, 001. Deduct q carcass OF two
retailed in Topeka. and II il about Ike
putting your finger in the Atlantic ocean
and pulling il out.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
ROSTER OF THE LEGISLATURE.

State printer, G. G. Baker, has COM
piled and published IN convenient form
a complete list OF the members of the
state legislature, the senators in numeri-
cal order by districts, and representatives
by counties alphabetically, together with
fthe number of the legislative district;
also the postoffice address and politics Of
each. The publication is in handy form
to be carried in the pocket and is inval-
liable to all who may require such in
formation as it contains.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Law Gould's devoted attention to his
wife during her long illness is much
talked of by those who are aware of the
circumstances. He is ever by her bed
side. ever watchful of her symptoms,
ever anxious to do anything in his power
for her relief by night or day.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Senator Farwen very aptly character
ICES General Harrison as man with "a
big head and a close mouth" The gen
eral has never been accused OF having
..the" big head, however, which is more
than can be said of some who have occu-
MED the white house.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The New York journal Of Commerce,
a Democratic paper which supported
Cleveland and his idea of tariff reform, >
in response to the appeals to keep up the
tariff reform clubs and agitation of that
idea says; do nothing Of the kind Ad-
journ and go home. Dismiss tariff liter
allure and read novels or anything else. -
The Journal Of Commerce is among the
few papers which knows when it has got
enough.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

"Not at Home, a holiday book, is now
in press of the well known New York
publishing firm Of John B. Alden. The
author of this volume of rare literary
fragments and travels, all written in an
enticing vein, is Kansas lady, Miss
Hattie Horner, already well known to
the literary people of Kansas. The work
is singularly expressive and poignant
and will prove a delight, especially to
teachers and advanced students. 1t will
be for sale by Robinson & Champion, of
Wichita, and in all the leading cities of
Kansas and the west.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The absence OF any reference by Mr.
Cleveland in his last message to the sub
iect of civil service reform has occa-
stoned some criticism. 1t was hardly TO
be expected that matter that has proven
so vexatious and costly to him would
receive any special attention at his hands,
now that he is so soon to be relieved OF
n2-cial responsibility.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The statement of the president in his
message to congress that the number of
complaints of the postal service made to
postmasters and to the department are
far less than ever before may find an
explanation in the theory that complaint
had been so unavailing that they had
ceased IL despair. The service itself was
the subject Of just criticism and COM
plant, almost from the very outset of
the administration, and it has not i'm
proved one whit, but rather grown
NOrSa.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The physician at the penltentiary in his
annual report says there has been much
tvphoid fever in that institution. lie
cites the fact that the main sewer emptles
into the river just above the pumping
station. and he thinks it possible that
the water is thus contaminated. Good
heavpnS
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Senator Sherman's movement for the
union of the United States and Canada
has not met with any encouragement to
speak of in the states and is not likely to
prove popular among our neighbors.
Neither country is ready for such polit-
ical union just now, and it is debata-
bic question whether it ever will be a
profitable alliance to this country, with
The weight Of argument at the present
lime in favor of the negative.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
If Not, Why Not?

Hon. Ed Russell, of Lawrence, has
undertaken a scheme for supplying the
puipits of vacant churches The Chris
Iian Citizen OF Topeka says there are a
great many laymen in Kansas who can
preside over courts. manage business af-
fairs, make excellent political speeches,
and it thinks they could conduct with
great acceptance and profit, religious
meetings.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

1t is intimated that Colonel Murdoch
would not object to tirst-class foreign
appointment with semi-tropical climate
Star.
This is all tantalizing foolishness. The
seragllo attachment comes years and
years too late, and as for the rest of the
''tirst-class foreign nonsense. we are
not RESPONSIBLE.
T. 'One waters tree for the sake of love,
Another enjoys the fruit thereof.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

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Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The Capital Commonwealth IS the laS0
paper to take up and further spread the
lie that Wichita is responsible 1or the
gloomy stories started about Ness anu
other western counties.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
The Point " ell Taken.

Jake Admire advocates the appoint
ment of Mrs. James kibbie, mother Of
the Blaine and Logan and Harrison and
Morton twins, as postmistress Of Scran-
ton, Usage county. on the ground that
she has done more for the Republican
party than any man III the county, out
side of her family.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Tom Osborn is in Washington ana II
is said that he aspires to a cabinet posi-
ton. Tom has been the lucklest pollti-
clan that ever struck for offices IN Kan
Gas having never been short a good place
in TWENTY-FIVE years.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Prof. Garfield by this time has no
doubt learned that Kansas is not for that
pernicious doctrine which he has been
teaching and preaching. AS Gov. Mar
tins administration lacks the necessary
back bone to punish traitors within the
party, ought not the professors high
sense of moral obligation lead him to
make an offer of his resignation? In
free trade England where vote Of con-
fidence is wanting the officials step
down and out, The late vote in Kansas
showed sad lack Of confidence in Prof.
Canfield's free trade theories, therefore
well he being a professor ought to
be smart enough to see the therefore.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Indications that an extra session of
congress will be necessary for the trans
action of important public business are
daily increasing. If the Democrats
should persist in their arbitrary course
in relation to the tariff, the admission of
Territories and other important ques-
lions, as they have already SO strongly
indicated by acts as well as words, the
question of an extra session will be de-
termined in 4 very short time.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Only seven cities in the United states
showed an increase in bank clearhgS
last week over the same week ye"i
ago. all of which gives things a shaky
look
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Pennsylvania has a good law about
election bets. 1t provides that all wag-
Frs shall be forfeited to the support of
the poor in the counties where they are
made, and it is misdemeanor for coun-
ty officials to fail to prosecute those who
have bet. In Berks county the officials
have instituted suit against several per-
sons who won election bets and the
money will be recovered for the use Of
naupers.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The slight discrepancy of $25O,0OO, the
difference between the actual cost Of the
new court house to be built in Kansas
City, No, and the amount the tax-pay-
ers will have TO pay for same, is de-
nounced by the local press as a piece Of
jobbery on the part of corrupt judges OF
the county court. A very bad state Of
affairs for so ambitious a community.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

AT the very outset of the closing ses-
sion of the Fiftieth congress the Demo
cratic members resume their old tactics
Of obstructing legislation that does not
originate with that party. The very first
move made in the senate to take ND the
tariff bill is met with an objection from
q Democrat under which it had to 90
over. In the house the convenient ''un-
constitutional point was raised by a
Democratic champion from the south
against an act of simple justice, long de-
layed, TO the memory of a gallant federal
soldier. The measure was passed by the
house, but the temper and purpose of the
obstructionists towards all such matters
that may come before that body was
shown by their actions in this case. That
that policy will be pursued in both houses
during the present session there is little
doubt, but the fourth of March will soon
roll around and with it will come q
change of methods by which the coun-
try has been harried for months and
years.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

The entire vote cast at the recent eiec-
tlon is about ,250, 900 over the popular
vote of 1884.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
We will open Monday Great Bargain Sale in

We will open Monday Great Bargain Sale in Gentemens
Linen Handkerche hemsch fancy borered cord edge
1 Zoe, 15c 2Oc 25c Soc, 40c These all worth double
the money.
Wealso open line of novelties in Ladies'
keche immense selection of exquisite designs % Cents
all linen worth 90
An odd lot 35c worth 75c these unequalled bargains
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

There is good ground for believing
that least Of the mountains which is
an indefinite description, it must be con-
fessed. the climate has been changing
for the worse these last few years. No
such depth Of snow as reported in
New England was ever known before at
so early date. But it is not the depth
of snow, after all, that is most or princi-
pally to be dreaded. 1t is the fierce
wind, which seems to shake off its local
character and covorts over New Eng
land just as easily and airily as if it were
operating in the wild, free west. In
fact. there seems to be so much blizzard
in the west lately that it had TO get an
outlet at some points along the tide
water. In this connection perhaps we
ought to state that southern Kansas en-
joys practical immunity from the raw
ages of these dreaded winter vlsitants
Notwithstanding the contrary impression
that long prevailed in other sections.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

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Ia. IKE pretty g.-s7 q pas ssct.@xs eoc-
tina 20 A@sosd rsssr O~l TtA:s az rsx1.
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Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

A fable is going the rounds represent
ing Dakota as calling Oh President Har-
fison, and being invited to take seat,
she answers: "But, Mr.. President, am
Dakota" Whereupon Mr.. Harrison re-
turned: every well, take two seats,
then" The two seats will be provided,
If not by the present session of congress,
certainly by the first session Of the next.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

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Q xksv~ cEE EsDs - lad - ssrss osctA 49,
re- rs. l.Atncs 1884, 5sss<x
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Oklahoma is cutting a figure at the
canital.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
Tacky, /. e. Out Of style.

Floating Item.
The latest slang word it .'tacky"
Whence it comes and why it is here no
one knows, but ''tacky' has become pop
ular with the young slang singers" Of
the city. Young ladies speak of the
"tackiest young man, and Adolphus OF
his ''tackiest girl" 1t may mean sharp
est, most pointed, and consequently
brightest, but whatever it means it Is
epidemic.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Gentlemens Handkerchief MuHers and Ties An immense
line Of holiday gear.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06
Gives the Whole Thing Away.

Gives The Whole IhLIg AWAY.
Kansas City Gazette
We can now see why the editor of the
Wichita EAGLE is so mad at the women.
All married men down there are re-
quired to carry the following;
NIGHT CARD.
Mr. (the husbandl has, on a request
and as a reward of good behavior, per
mission 10 stay out after 10 O'Clock.
Mrs. -.
y. B.-Concealing the wedding ring
viii lead TO the immediate confscation
of this pass.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Symrna, Moquette, Persian Skin Goods all in imitation
of the Doystan Shvans Bokara Kvas Beautiful
designs latest patterns.
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

surprise in Black Dress Goods department; bargain week
in this department Black Henrietta Broadcloh silk warp 30
pieces of assorted styles in fancy checks stripes ombre
tw seges cords This department can't be surpassed
in quality or price
French Robes Regardless of Cost We have many of
these high novelties and they be sold Every
work of art.
New Dress Goods-Hortense Cloths Whip Cords, Broad
cloths Fannes and Paid These goods purchased at the
closing sale in New York and beat the world
prices and qualities.
line of Felts Table Scrs Table Covers very cheap
Every department contains its special bargains and op
porunleS TO
Wichita eagle., 1888-12-06

Furs, Mufs Boas. Capes Seal Caps, Fur Trimming
These the latest and most acceptable articles that be Of
fered TO lady for Christmas.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
why n Judge snaves Himself.

A Judge OF one OF the criminal courts 10
Pittsburgh, one day as he sat down III Tue
chair at the BARRIERS usually patronized oy
him. noticed that a new tonsorial artist was
making ready TO shave him, and upon the
strangers face he observed foroiddiug
scowl. The scowl stayed on the BARRIERS
face and the Judge felt very uncomfortable.
Every time the barber brought the razor
down his Honor's throat he (the BARBER
seemed to tremble, and such an evil Dgnt
grew in bis eyes That the Judge, was glad
when the bay rum had been applied IN the
aual stage. Before the judge LETT the shop
he asked the barber what these Irowns ana
nervous manifestations meant. Toe DaToer
replied: "Ten years ago you gave me =
long sentence, and lectured me ike - De-
side, and when was shaving you lust now
thought how easily | could have got even
with you. Just one slice OF the razor wouIu
have nut you beyond the Court OF Appeals"
And the Judge was so impressed with the ex'
convict's confession that he has never given
a barbera chance 10 cut his throat since that
day. He shayes himself.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
OYSTER INTEREST.
THE cArcHSRs AND PACKERS or NOR
FOLK AT WORK STILL.
ust +. Prosperous ssason-An Independent
Ticket to DO Put In tbs
Yield.

fcorrespondence Of the Richmond Dispstch.l
NORFOLK, May 5, 1888.
rrrder the new law the oyster-catchers and
r,cters here continue at work all this
month. and, strange 10 say, as the season
dra ws 10 a close the bivalves are latter and
In better condition than they have been all
The season. Tue weather Is nov 100 warm
IN Keep the packers busy, and orders from
tbe North and West come In slow; but tbey
keep az work trying TO make up for tne
losses OF the winter. IL next season should
be as bad as the present one the minority OF
The paesers bore will 20 out OF the business
The best and largest quantity Oh oysters
supplied 10 this market this season were
from the RIppahannock river.
However much to be regretted, II IS now
understood that an independent Democrltie
ticket Is to be placed In the ned oy tne
Committee OF Forty, and at private meet
ing last night it was determined TO publish
at length the m0duS cperondt OF tue aiiegeu
frauds and Irregularities OF the late primary
in the First and Second Wards.
There was considerable increase in coal
handling at the Lsmberts Point piers ihls
week. The total shipments ran up to 23,2IO
tons. Since the first OF the year over 2So,'
600 tons have been handled here.
An old colOred woman named sarah
Brown on Goodwin street, Portsmouth, was
badly burned by an exploding kerosene'can
while kIndling fire last evening. She VIII
die from her injuries.
Judge Z. B. Prentss, OF Nansemoad, who
has been very III, is now much better.
Rev, Sam Small Ia 10 lecture before the
Young Mems Christian Association here on
the 18th instant.
A branch OF the Prohibition party has been
started in Norfolk county, but as yet IL mas
not materialized in the two cities, although
the temperance element is quite strong ana
well organized here and in Portsmouth.
The attending physicians now think That
Thomas r. Tanner, who was so terribly shot
by Bob Tay Tor, will recover.
The advance OF wages OF the Carpenters
Brotherhood ordered for the lst OF May
from $3.50 to SO per day failed for some rea-
son to 90 into effect here.
The outgoing steamers to Boston and New
York 10. day are carrying immense quantities
Of early vegetables from the truck-farms Oh
the, county. The largest shipments oil the
season were made to-day.
Coplous rains fell here last night, but more
is wanted for the farmers. U.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
Mary d. Lowman. Mayor OF Oska.
IOosa. Kansas.

Kansas leads, OF all the States in the
Union, in the prominence it gives TO
woman in municipal affairs. The honors
given to Mayor Sater, the petticoated
Mayor Of Argonia, are shared by Mayor
Lowman, OF Oskaloosa, tho subject OF
this sketch, who possesses an advantage
over her sister mayor in being sup
ported by female Council chamber.
Mrs. Lowman was born in Pennsyl-
yania about forty-nine years ago. She
has lived in Kansas twenty years, and
at Oskaloosa eighteen. All her life she
has been very busy woman, and nobody
doubts that she will prove TO be first
class mayor. She began her active life
as a school-teacher, and continued to
teach long after her marriage. Mr..
Lowman, her husband, is now and has
been for many years register OF deeds.
During recent years Mrs. Lowman has
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
Politics In FarmyilIe.
(correspondenco of the Richmond Dispatch.I
E,n,,vurp Va May l. 1888

Correspondents Of the Richmond Dispatcn'I
FARgvILLE. VA, May 4, 1883.
The political cauldron boils never so Ter
yently. The congressional fRbt monopolizes
the time and energies Of our politicians so
that town offices to be filled now In rev
weeks are lost sight OF. The Langston iac-
ton, embracing nearly all influential ne
eroes, the clergy conspicuously, bave organ.
lied in this county, and in the frequent
meetings boldly antagonize white Repuou-
cans; while, on the other hand, ex-Con,
vressmau Hooper, who is very popular ana
influential in this county, has the larger ioi'
lowing. Congressman Games has not mucn
strength hereabouts. Who will get tue sup
mort OF the unit.rule man remains 10 ne seen;
A great deal OF building is going on ana
projected in our town, and the outlook ior
boom Is better than ever before. CEPHAs'
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-05-06
Judicious, Delightful, but No, So Un'
Mathew Arnold

lm1bucW
There are plenty OF cultivated, judicious,
delightful individuals there. They are
our hope and Americas hope; it is
through their means that improvement
must come. They know perfectly well
how false and hollow the boastful stuff
talked is; but they let the storm Of self
laudation rage, and say nothing. For
political opponents and their doings
there are in America hard words to
be heard in abundance for the real
faults in American civilization, and
for the foolish Boosting which pro
long them there is hardly o word
OF regret or blame, at least IN public.
Even in private many OF the most cult
waited Americans shrink from the sub
iect-are irritable and thin-skinned when
il is canvassed. Public treatment OF it.
in a cool and sane spirit Of criticism,
there is none. In vain L might plead
that had set good example of frank
ness in confessing over here that, so far
from solving our problems successfully,
we in England find ourselves with an up
per class materialized, middle class vul'
CARRIED, and a lower class brutalized.
But it seems that nothing will en-
holden an American critic to say
firmly and aloud to his country
men and to his newspapers that
in America they do not solve the human
problem successfully, and that with their
present methods they never can. Con-
seouently the masses of the American
people do really come to believe all they
hear about their finer nervous organiza-
ton, and the rightness Of the American
accent, and the importance OF American
literature that is to say. they see things
not as they are, but as they would like
them TO be; they deceive themselves
totally. And by such self-deception
they shut against themselves the
door to improvement, and do
their best to make the reign OF
dds Gemeine eternal. In what con-
Germs the solving of the political and so.
cial problem they see clear and think
straight: in what concerns the higher
civilization they live in FOOLS paradise.
This it is which makes famous French
critic speak of "the hard unintelligence
of the people of the United States Ia
dure uninteliigence des Anericains dn
Nord-of the very people who in gene
raj pass for being specially intelligent
and 90, within certain limits, they are.
But they have been so piled with non
sense aud Boosting that outside those
limits, and where it is cues
ton OF things in which theii
civilization is weak, they seem,
very many of them. as if in such
things they had no power OF perception
whatever, no idea OF proper scale, nc
sense OF the difference between good and
bad. And at this rate they can never,
after solving the political and social
problem with success, go on TO solve
happily the human problem too, and
thus at last to make their civilization full
and interesting. To sum up. then
What really dissatisfies in American
civilization is the want Of the interest
ing, a want due chiefly to the want o.
those two great elements OF the interest
ing, which are elevation and beauty.