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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
CATECHISM FOR THE THIRTY-SEC-
OND DEGREE.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
If you can find room in your columns
please give place to the following colo
guy which, think, will be read with
interest if not profit:
QuestiOn-What is teacher?
Answer-A teacher is one who works
hard lii classroom instilling, or at
tempting to instill, knowledge into the
heads Of children.
Ques.-What is an educator?
Ans.-An educator is a man who talks
theory, but does no work.
Ques.-How then does he subsist?
Ans.-He is paid large salary for
criticising the work of the teacher when
it is defective, and for taking all the
credit when the work is excellent
Cues. some OF the varieties of
educators.
Ans.-City, county and state superin-
tendents, and in many cases presidents
of normal schools and supervisory prln-
cipals in large cities.
Ques.-Are not the positions which
educators may fill rather limited in
number?
Ans.-The number Of such positions
has greatly increased within twenty
tttI >. w . IIOpS, HONGfeI, W See LIE
day when our large cities shall have
superintendent of arithmetic, reading,
statistics, discipline, building, grounds,
heating, vetiIation and other specialties
all drawing large salaries.
Ques.-Will we not then need a super
intendent of superintendent?
Ans.-The position now exists in fact,
but not in name. These positions will
only be multiplied.
Ques-Describe the ways in which
the average educator puts in his time:
Ans.-IU is principally incumbent on
him to maintain the dignity of the pro-
fession by looking wise and insisting
that educators should be better paid. He
belongs to a State Teachers as
ISOLATION where he reads papers
and talks learnedly. He some
times writes books telling teachers how
to teach.
Ques.-Does he practice what he
writes:
Ans.-Oh, no; he doesn't have to teach.
He is the executive officer of the board
Ques.-What qualifications should an
educator possess:
Ans.-None are absolutely necessary.
Indeed many of the leading educators
owe their advancement wholly to an
ability to look wise and appear deep. An
educator, however, who is a good talker
and knows psychology and other large
words has success assured.
Ques.-What finally becomes of the
teacher?
Ans.-He gets into trouble with the
directors children. An educator is called
in who explains how easily progressive
teachers may avoid such difficulties. At
the suggestion of the director the teach
ers 60 somewhere.
Ques.-What becomes Of the educator?
Ans.-He is sought out by progressive
school boards and called to wider field
Of usefulness, with large increase Of
salary.
Ques-What should we aim TO be?
Ans.-Educators.
AN EDT-r. ATOP
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

ing down the river on raft. While
passing through the rapids below the
dam he was washed overheard and
drowned. And now the insurance com.
panies will be compelled to pay the So
600 policy after all.
The effort for big Fourth of July. IL
Is feared, has unsettled the nerves OF the
Emporlans. from this in the News,
Owing 10 the density OF the clouds or q
peculiar condition cf the atmosphere. a
very pretty sight was visible in the al,
from one Of the windows OF the public
library this forenoon. The Whitley
opera house and hotel could be plainly
seen outlined in the sky 10 the north
west. As an optical illusion It was per.
feet and attractive.
The state board Of health held a meet.
ing at the capital on Thursday. Reports
were to the effect that the general SAM.
tary condition Of the stale was good: and
that no epidenics, except "A mild type.
had prevailed. Smallpox had been re-
ported IN twenty-five counties during
the present year. There were 2S9 cases
OF all grades and classes. Of whom four
teen died-all from exposure in IN. in
ception Of the disease. OF from complica-
tons during its progress.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
OUR CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Law.

The Usage Free Press SAYS that "a
namby-pamby, maudlin. sentimental in
depreciation" has been put upon the state
law concerning capital punishment, by
governors of the state.
The Atchison Champion, Ex-Governor
Martins paper. declares that the asser-
ton of the Free Press is untrue. The
Champion asserts that 1.-The law referred
TO was intended to abolish capital pun
ment by the legislature that enacted if.
Every governor since that time has
called the attention of the legislature to
its provisions and asked its repeal.
Every legislature that has assembled
since its passage knew that it was in
tended to an did abolish capital punish
lshment and yet each succeeding leg
lS.ature had refused to repeal or change
It.
The governors since 1873 have had a
right, and 1t was their plain duty TO as
sumo that the law making power had
abolished capital punishment.
Moreover, no man will ever be elected
governor of Kansas who Will order the
hanging of a murderer under the provi-
slonS OF the present law. We make this
confident assertion because the people of
Kansas will never elect a cold-blooded.
ignorant, unfeeling brute as their gov
ernor. 1t would require an executive
possessed of these degrading qualities to
execute a man under the present law"
However this may be, according to the
statutes of Kansas, there is a way to
hang man without the governor taking
the responsibility 10 do so. We quote
from the compiled laws of 1881:
SEC go. Whenever, for any reason,
any convict sentenced 10 the punishment
OF death, shall not have been executed
pursuant to such sentence. and the same
shall stand IN full force. the supreme court,
or me district court of the county in
which the conviction was had. on the
application of the prosecuting attorney.
shall issue writ of habeas corpus to
bring such convict before the court; or.
II he be at large, a warrant for his ap-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
Dreams and frances.
Troy Time s.

Troy Times.
Various theories of dreams and frances
have been recalled by the Bishop case,
among which is the ancient story OF
William Tenant, who preached at Free
hold and lay In trance for three days.
DR.. George NJ. Gould, of London. has
written on this subject with much in
'terest, and James McCarroll, of this city,
has also presented some new and inn
pressive ideas in recent article in Bel
ford's Magazine. Artists and poets have
made dreams very available themes, and
the subject is not yet exhausted, as is
shown by Mr.. McCarrolIs new and in
teresting essay, which contains an in
genious explanation of the theory of
doubles. Dreams, as Mr. McCarroll OBJ
serves, often may be called species of
insanity, and their vagaries are fire.
quently more absurd and ridiculous than
the phantasies of the most diSordered in
tellect, as Ben Johnson says:
If dream should come III now to make
you afeard,
With a windmill on his head and bells
upon his beard,
Would you wear your spectacles here at
your toes.
And your boots on your brows and your
spurs on your nose?
To return to the Tenant trance, it still
holds its place in New Jersey history,
and visit to the church where Tenant
preached, is dearly cherished
memory
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
ATCHIsoN STOCK FORCES AHEAD.

a Boston dispatch of date of June Il
says that the Boston stock market has
been extremely dull during the past
week, but Atchison nevertheless, has
managed to forge its way upward The
stock closed at 45 70 tonight, a gain of
"a for the day. The Atchison officials
have succeeded in securing enough
money to meet all pressing demands I'M
til October. Some Of the money came
from the west, roughly Isl, 100000, and
the remainder was borrowed from banks
about here. The unused notes, or sec
ond mortgage bonds drawn last spring,
it is SAID, were used as collateral Cord
ley & Co., will say in their letter tomor-
row relative to the reduction in Kansas
as'rates and its effect on Atchison:
"Poor Atchison! Every time it gains
strength enough to lift its head some
body up and hits it again. This time it is
the Kansas railroad commissioners. They
have affirmed, or confirmed their 20 per
cent reduction of Wichita rates, and
now every city, town, and hamlet in the
state is holding meetings for the purpose
of petitioning the commissioners for
like reduction in their own favor. This
is pretty rough on the railroads that
have practically made the state all that
it is, but it must have been foreseen that
when other states and communities had
rates of transportation at cost
or less the citizens of the state of Kansas
would not be content to do business on
any less favorable basis. In fact, they
could not afford to. In other words. |
while the sentiments of the state of |
Kansas are favorable to many of the |
particularly to the Atchison, |
it has become with them a matter of |
with other states, and in a |
battle of this kind between sentiment |
and dollars the dollars are bound to come
out ahead"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

MISSOURI AND KANSAS.

To the Editor ofthe Eagle.
The zeal manifested by some OF the
Missourians in Kansas as to the outcome
of the freight question would suggest
''boodle" were it not known that rail
way pass is the end of some peoples
ambination.
That Kansas has $4,000 square miles.
GO 600 of which is tillable, and Missouri
$4,000 square miles, 10000 of which can
never be plowed, contains fact which,
to the east bound trayeler, needs no eX-
PLANTATION.
That of the 100000 people in Mis-
souri,, one-fourth are in st. Joseph, St.
Louis and Kansas City, and crediting
the growth of Kansas City to Kansas,
that of st. Louis to Illinois and the
as state since its settlement, compared
to Kansas?
There are those who affect to believe
that Kansas cannot successfully cope
with Kansas City in trade, but they
have judged Missouri by Kansas City.
They have overlooked the fact that
Missouri is no more responsible
for the growth of Kansas City than the
Sneep tndL grew Tue WOOL Can CidlLn tNal
he is a manufacturer of wooden fabrics.
If kansans will take care of their own
county and and city and look to the
general interests of the state, and extend
their own trade and sell the finished
product of our soil instead of the raw
product Kans as City viii tester and die
and rot in the gullies.
Missouri has not vitality enough to
build city. railroad or develop its re-
sources.
\ state with 10000 open saloons and
100, 900 pauper5 and $50, coo people over
ten years old who cannot read and write.
and of these 100000 three ourths of
them native Missourians; ought not to
brighten a people who are sober, edu-
Gated and industrious.
Kansas City depends on Kansas; when
Kansas looks after its own state Kansas
City will go to the wall.
From whence does X. c. get its sup
ply:
Let the "AIissourian" figure on profits
from "terbacker" in tn hand and hoop
poles from this date. O.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

While on the subject of sewers it is
worth noting that the city of Los An
geles is constructing a sewer to the Pa
cific ocean which viii cost not less than
100000 The City of Lost Angels is
much given to putting on airs-million
airs, if you pleaSe-of late. Only few
days ago an electric railway system,
costing 81, 100000 was put in operation,
and they claim to have some other
equally as big schemes on hand. The
first thing the city by the Golden Gate
knows it will have rival off the cost to
the south,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

A contract for paving street IN Kan
sas City, Kan, with cedar blocks, on a
six-inch concrete foundation, has been
let for $1.34 per yard. Last year the
same city paid $223 per yard for the
same pavement. Atchison, we think,
paid $l.9S per yard.
How very cool it keeps. But bear IN
mind that on the 18th day Of June, 1897,
q lively snow storm occurred IN the
northern part of Doniphan comfy
Troy Chief. But bear IN mind that
about half the population won't bear III
mind worth a cent.
Sedgwick Pantagraph: As a matter
of record we will state that our little res
idence was struck by lightning about
1:4j a. III. last Saturday. The chimney
was demolished, hole about two foot
square torn in the roof and one carpet
lust about ruined We don't want any
more such calls, thank you.
Fourteen district judges are to be
elected in November, viz, in the 10th,
18th, 18th. 10th, nth, 10Th. goth, Both,
31st, 32d, 34d, Gath and 35th districts.
OF these. the 10th, nth, 18th, 10th. 18th,
18th, Goth and 21st are old districts; the
others were all created at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature.
Some cold blooded wretch, who has
seen the straight the Lawrence reporters
are in, beng unable to find Hillman or
10 gain any information on the y. ..
trouble. has started a report that a great
quantity of conspirators Of the Cronin
murder are secreted in that city. The
gods have evidently got the destruction
of the newspaper fraternity Of Lawrence
in view.
ConcJrdia Empire: The fair-haired,
bulging-browed editor Of
the Scottsville News has been formally
rejected by the editress OF the Glasco
Sun, the denoomong occurring last week
accompanied by a significant reference
to the wrong end Of q broom, by the
latter. 1t is really no more than we had
expected, but it's better 10 have loved
and lost, than win her, if she'd want TO
boss.
They see all kinds Of strange things at
Lawrence. The Journal Of that place
says: A gentleman standing on the
bridge between showers yesterday after
noon reports tina: Hillman was seen go
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
SUNFLOWER SOUPCON.

Winfield is going to have new mill
Bismarck grove, at Lawrence, wa:
opened to the public Sunday.
Rev. Barnard Kelly has been D. DE-
by the Wesleyan university.
An Atchson man, after he has eater
frog legs, will inyolentarely say ''oui'
| for ives.
The people up at Lawrence are so an
glicized that they call dog checks
''brasses."
They say that the mum" socials al
Salina bid fair to rival the cleopatra
entertainment.
The amateurs at Olathe will either
the local gags. There is blood on the
moon.
If anything hurts Kansas editor it is
to have his FURNISHED wit or judgment
spirited away under the sweeping credit
exchange"
The state officials of Kansas have Sc
lected the First National bank of New
York as the state fiscal agent and deposi-
tory of state funds.
The rainfall in Kansas up to June l
was 1908 inches. In the last big crop
year, 81, the rainfall for the correspond
ing time was 1874 inches.
A new scheme for the adjustment of
Mormonism is heard of from Blue Rap
ids. A cigar factory there recently
shipped $4,000 cigars to Utah.
Since the report is out thct Mrs
Cleveland plays the fiddle, the people up
at Kansas City are getting so they can
distinguish violin from guitar every
time.
The Winfield Chautauqua has closed
and the people down there feel very
much like the small boy who views the
ground where the circus stood but yes
terday.
Two or three Of Leavenworth's colored
dudes have concluded TO start for NADIA
gascar since they heard that the maiden
queen of that Island has given $3.50 to-
ward prohibition.
Jewell Monitor: a trip over the coun-
try reveals the fact that nearly a thou
sand farmers have built ponds which are
now filed with water and in many in
stances stocked with carp.
1t is hoped that the statement in the
Sundays Lawrence Journal that the
six hundred and seventy-four years
ago today the Magma Charta was signed"
will not fatally effect the crops.
The case begun against the Singer
society, growing out Of the seizure OF a
quantity of beer in It's hall while the
knights Of Pythias grand lodge was il
session N Leavenworth was dismissed.
Clifton Review: Sir. Joseph Folsom
handed us limb of gooseberries Monday
from the bushes in his garden. Out Of
curiosity we counted the berries and
found the number 70 BE- 333, ell plump
and large.
Il is truly pitiful to see the citizens Of
Ernporia cit with cruel patience and
listen 70 ''The Hall Of PeUaburton Mil"
Erstwhile they were wont TO yank the
base Intruder down with lustg sinews
and fire him bodily.
The Salina Gazette now browns Blind
Boone, the pianist, in the Johnstowa
food. /. is mean trick. The papers
have been exsrting all their strength for
the past two weeks 20 rescue Blind Tom
from the same fate.
Washington county has 3.3l4 acres
planted II winter wheat; :, 235 IN rye:
l2s. e3l in corn; 42,245 IN oats: 9. 62S in |
potatoes; III II spring wheat; 2jl IL
buck wheat; 9i5 IN sorghum; 80 n fax |
o5 IN hemp; l35 II broom corn and |
1 sl2 IL millet-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

Perhaps the predisposition manifested
on all hands in the Democratic camp to
recognise Mr.. Cleveland as the party
leader, to the extent at least of being its
nominee for president in 1892, is account
ed for in the party's experience with
Samuel J. Tilden. Their conviction that
he was elected gave him prior right to a
denomination, il the estimation of thous-
ands if not, indeed, a majority of his
party, and the defeat of the party in the
next contest was and is insisted upon by
them attributable directly to the party's
desertion Of the first man who had led
them to victory since go. This circum-
stance and this conviction, we say, more
than anything else, perhaps, gives Mr.
Cleveland precedence in his party, and
it will likewise serve as a plausible pre-
text for him to accept.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

The wonders of modern energy and
the daring enterprise of the Anglo-Sax-
on never cease. The latest exhibition is
the projected Congo railroad to be built
in the heart Of the dark continent at an
estimated cost of $4,000, 900 for its length
Of 264 miles. The object is to 60 around
the Falls of the Congo river and open up
10 commerce the vast interior of the CON
hnent. Thus, commerce and mans love
Of gain pilot civilization with all its at
sendant good and evil into the dark plac-
rs of the earth. And, not only is the
railway the great civilizing and educat-
ing agency of modern tunes, but through
It wars, if not as yet absolutely prevent
I'd, are largely relieved of their derastat-
ing and impoverishing effects by being
more speedily terminated. A campaign
that required months to accomplish in
moving large armies on foot. before the
Introduction of steam as a means Of
transportation is now concluded in as
many days.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

The Typographical union is the oldest
and perhaps strongest and most infiuen-
tial of the great family of trades unions
of this country, and while it has been
abused many times and oft by some of
its indiscreet, not to say irresponsible
members by dragging it locally into con-
tests without warrant of strict justice, it
has, nevertheless, been a conservator
and benefactor in the main. In its in
ternational meeting at Denver last week,
however, it trenched upon the grounds
of right, we think, when it made by for
NAL resolution demand upon the gov
eminent what method it shall employ
in the execution of its work. Artisans
and laborers in every department of life
have just as much right to inveigh
against the employment of machinery in
their lines Of industry. The Typograph-
zeal union has resoluted against the print
ing of government bonds and currency
by machinery instead of by hand as
formerly, before this, but that has been
the end of it and will most likely continue
to be.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
Unmistakable Evidence.

chicago IIIUULt.
The members of the local scientific
association were opening an Indian
mound.in southeast Missouri. The hired
native who was digging had already
thrown out several pieces of curious pot
terry and a number of weapons of ancient
warfare. Oppressed by the heat and the
closeness of his quarters, he tossed up his
empty pocket flask for the purpose of
having it refilled. The st. Louis colonel
looked at it in utter establishment.
Heavens! he exclaimed in a hoarse,
awe-stricken whisper, what civilized
race of Iniuns them mound builders
was"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18


81 can give you gas II you are afraid
the pain viii 10 too great to endure"
said dentist 10 III elderly colorsd wo-
man who bad come TO have several teeth
extracted.
"No, sab, 10, sah!" she said, shaking
her head eu1phatically; you don't GLIB
me no gas en- hab mo git up out'n dai
cheer en- walk homo dead. no. sab. /
reads do newspapahs!"-Youth's Com
paxton.
fefTarg1t, the now German eIplosze 90
rived from Epolassoa 10 said 70 be three TINES
as powerful rs nitro-glyosrine. ADGteer
German device for helping folk cot q tie
worIA Is tae carbonc and shell, which is
glittaring and deadly success
French cheruis. has spun nitrated ceIla~
lo-s into ARTIFICIAL silk more ~oatsrful and
moro beautiful than toe vel known Fp1n
glasz ]; b ooGor,t a. pleasure ~hils In soiu-
ion and after drytng Is unaffected By scsis.
slI1A1isa. bot OF cold water. alcohol og etks~.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
For the Eagle
Eagle.
TO MY FRIEND.

God bless true friendship! What would life be with
out il!
Tho skepticS may laugh at, may Scot at, may
doubt il;
This truth still remains. that in life much depends
on the loyalty. love and respect OF our friends.
There are friends whom we never forget; have
such one,
All love thee dear friend, for the good thou hast
done;
And my lghtened heart grieves for the weary years
spent.
Fer thy friendship came to me and brought me
content.
And pray that my friendship may be unto thee,
What thine, pure and tender. has been ever to me;
md that when life If over and thou nearest the end,
Thou mayst say, as / now do, God bless my
friend"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

Some time ago the San Francisco Ex-
aminer offered the pupils of the public
schools of that city passing the best ex-
animation, a ticket to the Paris exposi-
ton and return and expenses there for
two months. The competition has taken
place and the lucky young miss is May
Ayres, who is 10 years of age. She
obtained Gel 1-2 credits out Of a possible
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

Oklahoma City, Ok, is planning to
celebrate independence day in elaborate
style, to such an extent, in fact, as that
they find it necessary to spread the pro-
gram over three days-July 4, and 6.
The editor acknowledges receipt of a
printed invitation to "be present and
deliver an address appropriate to the &C.
casion," which latter he can hardly get
his consent to comply with, as that
would cause him to trench upon the es-
pecial preserves of some ambitious rhet-
orician. The Bird of Liberty will be
present, nevertheless, and imbibe, if it
does not impart, the inspiration of the
occasion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

The Grant monument will be unveiled
at Fort Leavenworth, July fourth, with
appropriate ceremonies. This is the sec
ond monument erected to the memory of
Grant, the first one being at st. Louis.
Meanwhile the $3.50, 600 already collected
for a grand memorial at the grave of the
great captain in New York remains idle
and nothing done towards even begin
ming the work,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18

Now comes the periodic report Of COM
plications between the European powers
over the Servian question and fresh talk
of war. 1t is none of this governments
business to intermeddle, and it will not;
but if it could be made party in inter
est the points of contest could and would
be settled by arbitration in a short time
and on a basis of fairness and justice to
all concerned.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-18
NO LAW-ONLY CUSTOM.

Mt. HOPE, Kan, June 10. SO.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
VIII you please answer through the
columns of your paper the following: Is
there any set time by law for or on
which Thanksgiving day shall occur. ex-
cept that it is on Thursday in November,
and appointed by the president: and
oblige 4 READER.