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Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
RAsCALLY APPROPRIATIONS.

In the river improvement estimates we
notice $3.50. 900 for continuing the improve
ment of the Arkansas river from Wichita
to its mouth. And yet tht EAGLE has the
gall to make light of attempts to improve
be Missouri river.-kansas City Gazette.
1t is quite common of late to mistake
brains for gall. There is just one way
that the Arkansas river could be rem
dered navigable, and that way would be
to line its bottom with copper and then
hunt up sufficient flow of water to
float tho boats. So also with the Mis-
souri, river. The administration that
would throw away such sum on such
scheme ought to be relegated. The
So, 700, 600 proposed for the Missouri river
comes under the same head. 1t is but a
scheme to support lot of worthless and
trifllng government engineer corps, and
leeches and barnacles attaching to that
department. Ii the government has any
money to throw away on the Arkansas
river let them expend it IN
demonstrating the feasibility of raising
or conducting water to the surface for
irrigating purposes in the country west
of the Tooth meridian. So far as the
Missouri is concerned there is no objec-
ton, here, to the expenditure of the
necessary sums for protecting property
along it's banks from the rayages OF its
floods; but, anybody that knows any
thing about the matter very well under
stands that if a uniform and sufficient
channel for navigating purposes could
be made, created or brought about in
any way, by any expenditure, however
great, from Omaha to its mouth, that it
wouldn't be twenty-four hours before
that river would again be the same old
miserable muddy Missouri, consisting OF
snags and swirls, sandbars and holes,
with a scattering uncertain fiuidity OF
clay soup, out of courtesy called water.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Quoits is the favorite game in Oklahoma
1t don't cost anything.
With all their nimrodic proclivities
there are more deer seen than shot
A citizen of Frisco gives it away in a
communication that the town is dead
broke.
Society dances at Frisco for the support
of the school. Very often the feet does a
good thing for the head.
Kingfsher has tri-weekly mail. Ont
week it goes to Guthrie and the next week
it tries to get back.
At Kingfsher it has been discovered that
the pay car and the railroad boys are
about as good aJ the Indian trade.
The large number of restaurants
throughout Oklahoma demonstrate that
most OF the pioneers are not going to at
tempt frontier life this winter on empty
stomachS.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
ATTENTION EVERYBODY.
'on the Anthony Republican.

From the Anthony Republican.
Kansas, this year, has raised one of
the largest crops in her history, and the
prospects for an immense yield next
year, all over the state, are all that
could be desired.
In view Of these facts it occurs to us
that an immediate movement should be
made to attract immigration in this
direction. 1t has been going around US
for the last three years, and there is no
reason why that state of affairs should
continue.
We are unquestionably on the broad
road to prosperity, and but for wild
speculation, would have hardly felt the
crop failure of 1887, or witnessed the de-
preston in prices of real estate which
now obtain.
1t is not very pleasant to contemplate
and admit that our landslide very best
there are in the world-are wretchedly
low in price at this time, yet if that fact
can be made known to eastern farmers
and investors, we would have such an
immigration into Kansas early next
spring as was never known before IN its
history. The tendency of immigration
is to go where land values are low, and
there Is certainly no state IN the union,
at this time, which offers such bargains
i'll real estate as Kansas.
What is now needed in southern Kan
sas is concert of action on the part of cit
les. towns and the RAILROADS. to acquaint
the people of the east as to the low prices
of our farm lands. We should get a
move on ourselves and make an effort TO
secure low railroad rates to land buyers,
and every newspaper throughout this
fair region should put Its shoulder to the
wheel and assist in spreading the good
news as to our matchless crops and low
land values.
Every city. town and village in south
ern Kansas should organize for the work.
and genaral meeting should be held at
Wichita to agree on some line of action,
so as to move in solid column, to the end
that eastern people may know the truth
in relation to this section. No doubt the
Missouri Pacific and Frisco railroad COM
panies would gladly JOIN IN the good
work.
And there is no time to lose-the mat
ter should be worked up at once. But if
the newspapers will take hold and work
to the end of having their cities and
towns represented in general meeting,
the time and place 10 be determined
hereafter, there is yet time, and grand
| results will surely follow.
We hope that these suggestions may
receive the earnest attention of every
| publisher in southern Kansas.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Our idea of polite man or woman: One
who does not turn around in IA public au-
dience to see who is coming in; Or a man
who, during a long and prosy discourse
say twenty minutes paper drawn out to
sixty minutes-can maintain "a show OF at
acknowledgements Journal
Measured by this test, the account
given by the Washington correspondent
of the Globe-Democrat to that paper of
and representatives during the reading
of the presidents message before their
respective bodies makes them the most
impolite congregations one could i'm
agine. But in these liberal times we
have to make liberal allowance for Gus
tom and occasion,
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

1t was not Corporal Tanners liberal
Ideas in pension rating and allowances
that made Vim unpopular with the ad-
ministration, and with the chief of his
department in particular: it could not
have been that, for the estimate for the
pension accounts for next year is a round
500, 000, 600, or $20,000,0 900 more than
for the current year. The trouble must
have been as alleged at the time of the
ruction and removal, that he en-jaw-
ed too much the prerogatives that belong
ed to his Noble chief.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Mr.. Stanley went to rescue Emin Bey,
and he did it. Two New York newspa-
pers detailed correspondents to rescue
Stanley. and they met him, on the same
day. coming out of the African jungles.
There is 10 reason, as far as we can see,
for either journal to indulge in Boosting.
Their correspondents found Stanley teo
late to make a sensation OF it, and after
he was perfectly safe. But that was not,
perhaps, the fault of the papers named.
At least they would have the public be-
lieya 81
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

There is at least one public man and
official in this country whose life's am
bition is satisfied. having reached the
goal for which he has aimed through
life. On the day Judge David Brewer
was apprised of his nomination to the
supreme bench he said:
When l was a lad it was said by those
who knew me best that | would become a
LAWYER. What caused them TO make the
prediction l do not know, but it came true
From the time | began 10 think seriously
of life inclined to the law. After | had
fairly embarked in my chosen profession ]
set my eye on the supreme bench, and
can truthfully say the hope OF attaining
the position to which / have this day been
nominated has been with me from that
time. 1t was my greatest ambition and
now that have attained it am satisfied
for certainly lawyer cannot aspire 10 any.
thing higher than this on earth.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Wichita, December Z. 1889.

In remarking this as year of great
calamlties the Salina Republican, day
or two ago, noted the Johnstown terror,
the burning of Boston and Lynn, the
Kansas City Times resubmission racket,
the breaking away of Leavenworth' s
pontoon bridge. go to make it a singu-
larly disastrous year, and added that ION
top of it all jeff Davis is living" A re-
markable coincident in this connection
is that within few hours of the time of
the remark quoted Mr.. Davis ceased to
live and something of calamity over
took the author Of the observation.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Der of the big shoe manufacturers and
dealers that were recently burned out in
Lynn and Boston propose to seek loca-
tons in the west, where they will be
more accessible to a large portion of the
trade and less hampered by competition.
We renew the invitation extended them
through these columns the next day
after their disasters to come to the trade
metropolis of the new southwest. Wich-
ita, where they will find just what they
want in the way of business.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

The leaders of the Farmers alliance
declare that as an organization they can
not actively engage in politics, as that is
specifically forbidden in their constitu.
ton; but while the alliance may not ACT
independently of existing party organi
cations. by placing separate tickets ii
the field. its members will doubtless give
their support to those principles the sue
cess of which will contribute TO theil
prosperity and correct the evils which
have drawn them together in defen
slve alliance. The objects of the asso
citation so far as they are understood by
the public, are 10 mitigate the burdens o.
taxation and to render agriculture more
profitable.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

| At 4O5 East Douglas avenue,
Wichita, without going TO see for
themselves. as words cannot ex-
press the Joy OF the hearts mace
happy by receiving such fine
presents as are daily being given
away.
Nine gold watches, thirteen afl-
yer watches, two diamond studA
seven walnut clocks, five silver
dinner casters, six silver berry
ten silver cups, five dozen gitvo4
plated knives, four dozen silver
plated forks eight dozen Glvo4
plated spoons, th1rty-three ladies'
gold lace pins, twenty-ninr ladies
gold earrings, and many Otdee
articles which there Is not space
to mention. have been drawn,
And the chances are just as good
now as when IL first started, for
when anything Is drawn another
is put on the number In ttS place
to be drawn again.
Those who have called TO see IL
nave pronounced II the moss
liberal and fairest give away
scheme they have ever seen
The goods are Actually Given
Away for goods are sold cheaper
than any other house In the state
are selling the same quality. And
every purchase OF 30 OF more
draws something right on tho
spot. We cannot give the names
or all the lucky ones, as some OBJ
ject TO Il, but the following names
are OF those who Fave drawn
gold watches and do not objoCa
J. z. Allison, carpenter ar Burton
car works; Mrs s. r. Lane, $50 j.
Market street: George P. LOc1A
boot and shoe merchant; W. u
Lawrence, salesman n XeYru'O
store. and others whose names
cannot Dc given.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Practical Theology.

From the Topeka Capital.
The students life-saving crew of the
Northwestern university at Evanston,
ILL.,, did noble work in saving the crew
of the steamer Calumet that went ashore
on Lake Michigan during the recent gale.
The station at Evanston is no different
from any other, save that member of the
crew are theological students. When
the station bell rings they leave their re-
citations or prayers AMI rush for the
boat, They are poor fellows working
for an education, and the government
pays them $50 month during the sea-
son Of navigation. They have had sew
eral chances 10 prove their bravery. and
have proved 1t ID way that deserves
mention
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
DO HOGS PAY?
From the Dies Moines Register.

From The Des Moines KeglsteE-
When the price of pork is as low as at
present, many farmers get the idea that
raising hogs does not pay. Let Us look
at this question and ascertain. if we can,
whether ANYTHING on the farm pays bet
ter. One acre of clover and one acre
of corn fifty bushels) will produce so
pounds of pork. This at s. per hun
dred. which is low enough, Is go. Sup
pose you say the pigs and the care OF
them for eight months, when they ought
to be ready for market. is worth s., ieav-
ing sic for the use OF two acres Of
ground. But you say there is danger OF
cholera and other diseases with hogs.
Tha, IS true. But the mortality among
hogs for the past twenty years does not
exceed 10 ner cent. But say it is double
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

The amount offered by the government
for the alleged Indian title to the Chero-
kee strip is S7,113,S $40, which would
Weld, at per cent interest, over $780,
900 a year. With such an offer as this,
and one that is absolutely safe and relia-
BILE. they would have been bigger fools
than Thompson's colt to entertain any
sort of proposition from cattle syndi-
cate for a lease or sale of their claims to
the lands
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Father OF all fain would see thy face
And form, and hear thy voice, and know
Yearning strong would cali thee friend,
And where thy footsteps tend, Iwouid
That might be.
IT'S true
look around and see where thou
Hast been. find thy footsteps warm with life
On dowery mead, in sunny nook and shaded
Dell, and mid the barren waste. recorded
IN the faithful rocks, also md where
Thou dtdst tread when earth was young.
The tracings Of thy fingers
Plainly read are seen not only in the
Snow capped range piled high where everlasting
Silence re1gns. and not alone where stands the fores
Grandy grown and clothed in dress OF everchanginG
Hues. nor yet alone within the coral caves
Deep meath the bosom Of the sea.
But everywhere.
Above, beneath, thy master hand hath wrought
In sun and shade, on leaf and bloom.
On lichened rock and moss grown stone
In every form Of life. and in the rill:
The river and the sea hear thy voice
In accents sweet and full CT melody.
Thy breathings como
To me borne on the fragrant breeze when
Nature smiles in living green and many
Coored flowers and in the storm
Recognize thy goings forth and wonder
At thy power.
In every holy thought
That prompts each kindly deed; in love OF life,
OF beauty. and or kind, there comes to me the
Consciousness of near relationship to
Thee, and with my hands outstretched
Willingly would tear the intervening veil
Away, and see my father face to face
But, then know it may not be.
Yet IN this earnest wish
l know feel the quickening of the germ
OF Immortality, planted within by thine
Rich reveslings Of thyseif, and for awhile
cease my questionings, and in assurance
Rest that in thine own good time,
The harvest shall be full.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

A physician may have graduated at a
medical school with distinguished hon
ors in this state. and though he can
write prescription he may not fill one
unless he has graduated at school of
pharmacy or passed an examination be-
fore the state board of pharmacy. The
Emporia News remarks this as one of
the queer laws of Kansas, and so it is;
but gives the pharmacist no advantage
over the physician, for he cannot pre-
scribe without first obtaining sheep
skin from a regular school Of medicine.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Gone 70 Join the Crusaders


Two men have been found equally as
savage as GoodIoe and Swope. United
States Deputy Marshal Willis and Mar
shall Morgan, Of Butler, No., were the
men. They are both dead now from
pistol wounds inflicted by each other IN
their deadly malice and animal ferocity.
The tragic end Of these four men Is
unparalleled since the days of the cru
saders, and proves that the beast pre-
dominates in men il this country Of en-.
lightenment.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
a Natural Suffrage Sequence.

From the ElpoVia News
Are women wise IN asking for the bal
lot and the offices: Only the cookbook
ing ones could be elected. 4 homely
woman would have no show whatever
for an Office. when the admirers Of some
charmer cond pa, their idol On the
track, and prove the depth and ardor 0.
their affection for her by the energy witt
which they skrrmissled around and pro
cured votes for her. In no time there
would be an uproar among old maids
and the hcIaely women 10 undo the
whole thing. and let men do the voting
and offce-holdinS.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

1t has taken the Pan-American con-
gress some weeks to decide upon rules to
govern their deliberations. How long
will it take them to do anything of inn
portance? They have occupied fort
night in their deliberations, and the
most important thing they have decided
upon is to not admit the press to their
meetings. which was both unnecessary
and unwise. At that rate matter of
real Importance will not be disposed of
in six months
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Mr.. Cleveland may be failure as
statesman and as lawyer, as has been
alleged but as much can not be said of him
as a realestater. He has just been Of
fered $3.50, 900 for the little bargain he
picked up in the capital city's suburbs
some three yearsago, known as Oakview.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

that or 20 per cent. This on $24 would
be s.. SO-leaving $500. Deduct from
this the eight for pigs and their care,
leaves 5000 for two acres or $40 per
acre rent. If man has fifty acres of
corn and hogs enough to eat it, and ten
of clover, making sixty acres. he will
will have a clear profit for the use Of his
land of 1857.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

About the severest criticism of the
presidents message we have seen is this,
innocently remarked by several Repub-
Ican exchanges: ga Weak Document
and ga Ringing Message" are the two
estimates of the presidents annual $4,000
words in the Democratic or Republican
paper6.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Don't Fail to Come
and see.


so<5es-
All outstanding accounts with the er,x
Of :. 6olcssstD a Co. Famous Closklrs
company. must bs settled witbous furskcs
delay All bills azssHsi ;ks Errn saoad
BE presented a. orcs. and al p~r.o1s
knowing themselves Indebted 20 IA zfs
requested 70 call and s>stls an1 ,bus ayo.a
ineonssnssDce or sdsi;soa.i exp~ns-
b 6oIpsTE1s a. Co.
c4S-os - Laat UouslAA
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

j. Bunkum Weaver got in his work in
great shape In the construction of the
Farmers platform. Pronouncing in
favor of greenbacks just now, when the
popular sentiment is overwhelmingly In
favor of retiring that currency in favor
of one based on tangible and substan-
tlal foundation, is simply the freak of a
crank on that subject, the initials of
whose name begins this paragraph.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

The City council of Leavenworth paid
Police Judge Pierce of that city very
handsome compliment by repeating the
meat inspection ordinances passed by
that body, in conformity with the
judges ruling thereon. There was
nothing else for the council TO do in the
premises, unless they had left the ordin-
ances as dead and imperative to cumber
the records, which would not have been
rxpedient. But the compliment to
Judge Pierce is found in the fact that
the council recognized his Judgment in
preference TO that of Judge Brewer of
the Z. S. circuit court rendered about
the same time and TO the same effect.
The incident was surely fortuitous for
the local judge.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Stanley stopped over one night at
Wichita. Now that he has thoroughly
looked up the sources Of the other Nile
he has standing invitation to return
and tell us all about it.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

This is government of lawyers says
the Emporia Republican. The president
of the United States is a lawyer. Most
of the senators and representatives in
congress are lawyers. The governors of
most of the states are lawyers. as are a
majority of the state officers. The new
governors elected this year in Ohio,
Iowa, Virginia, New Jersey and Massa-
chusetts are all lawyers. In nearly all
the state legislatures lawyers largely
predominant. Farmers complain that
their interests are not sufficiently looked
after and protected by officials and leg
lslators. Is it any wonder: The farm
ers should bestir themselves.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

If the political pronunciamento of the
Farmers Alliance as given in yesterday
dispatches were madein the midst of a
politicalcampaign and previous to an cleo
ton it might have some effect, but coming
in the absence of both it will receive little
consideration at this time and will be
forgotten in the main before another
election time comes around.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Senator ingalls, is chairman of the
committee on the District of Columbia
and as such has more to do with the gov
eminent of the city of Washington than
any other single man. 1t is suspicioned
that his worlds fair bill means Wash
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

As the governor will not call extra session what
will he the next step of the submissionists-Leay
enwOrth Times.
Proceed ia elect governor who will
Wichita Eagle
On what kind of platform?-El Do
RADIO Republican.
Resubmission and immigration: a
New Deal and Good Times.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Reminder Of Old Times.

From the Peabody Gazette
Last Sundays EAGLE was a Wichita
"boomer," and was filled with good
matter, not including line of resubmis-
sion wind. 1t was magnificent paper,
and reminds one of old times.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Shaping Character.

UaII idUIIlUl,
Writing book, painting picture or
bringing up child are only different
ways of doing the same thing, as in all
of them we are influencing mind and
shopping character.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

The farmers Of America are now
striking gait that means something Tor
them and death to trusts, combines and
legal plumber and lawful robbery. The
men who produce the wealth OF this
country can rule it if they but prove
true to themselves. 1t will be great
dav for America when that time comes.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Ee MITE. and Then Ee Note.

Ee Mlte, and Inen Ee Mote.
From the Enporia News
4 still small voice crying in the will
derness. The Salina Republican says
that the Republican party viii have to
reduce the tariff or go to the wall in
1892. At last, it seems, Brady has go,
the cordwood out Of his eyes.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Silcott, the absconding cashier of the
house sergeant-at-arms, was Democrat
and the appointee of Democratic Off
Gals
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Marsh Murdoch might do like Colonel
Learned did with the Lawrence Tribune
hire new editor to bring the Wichita
EAGLE back into the Republican line
Kansas City Star.
What! and leave ourself out in the cold
and out of Job?
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

The question of which Kansas states
man is entitled to the credit of securing
Judge Brewers appointment is being dis
cussed If the dispatches may be believed,
the credit is due Attorney General Miller.
-Emporia Republican.
What about the influence of his uncle,
Justice Fields, on the same bench with
Miller?
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Daily eagle
MARSHALL N. MURDOCH. Editor.

Fifteen thousand postoffices have been
established during the past Zine years,
making the total number at this time
$4,000.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
Special Low Prices

this week on Toys, Dolls. Plush
Goods. Bric-a-Brac, Albums,
Stamped Goods, Plush Orna-
ments, Materials for Fancy Work
Knit Goods, Hosiery and Under
wear.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08

Our Book Department has
grown wonderfully in the past
year and we underSell any house
10 the city.
Wichita eagle., 1889-12-08
For the Eagle.
THE SOULS DESIRE.

Father OF all fain would see thy face
And form, and hear thy voice, and know
Thy dwelling place; my inner self with
Yearning strong. would call thee friend,
And where thy footsteps tend, would
That might be.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-05

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