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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
CHURCH STATISTICS.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,

CENSUS OFFICE,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. l, 1889. J
| To the Editor of the Eagle
Dear Sir: Having determined to in
tclude church statistics in the special in
quiries to be made for the eleventh cen
| SuS. wish to announce to you and,
though you, to your readers, my desire
and purpose to obtain the fullest and
most accurate results possible in this
special department. [ need not enlarge
upon the value of such results to any
| who are in any wise interested in church
work and progress, and wish to know
the numerical strength of the various
religious denominations of the United
States
The inquiry will be broad enough in
scope to embrace every religious body,
of whatever name or creed, however
few or many its churches and members,
/ and it will be conducted with the ut
most fairness and impartiality. The in
formation sought will be arranged under
five heads: % Organizations or societies;
(2) Church edlfices; (3) Seating capacity;
(Q Value of church property; (O Com
municantS. This is as much, in my
Judgment, as it will be wise to under
take is this direction for the eleventh
census.
In order to prosecute this plan success
fully and to make the results so thorough
and accurate that they cannot be i'm
peached, the government will have to
count largely on the prompt and gener
Gus cooperation of those in each de-
nomination who are in a position to
furnish the information desired. This
information cannot be gathered by the
enumerators. They are already fully
burdened; and the appropriations avail
able for the census will not admit of the
appointment of special enumerators for
this work. 1t is necessary, therefore; to
make church statistics special inquiry,
and they must be gathered chiefly by
schedules placed in the hands of some
competent person in each of the minor
ecclesiastical subdivisions of the various
churches.
The conduct of this special inquiry
has been committed to a gentleman
whose qualifications for the work will, I
am sure, be instantly recognized. H. X.
Carroll, Ii. D., editor of The Inde-
pendent" of New York, has consented
to assume the duties. of the position. DIR.
Carroll is now engaged in preparing
plans for such division of the territory
of each denomination as will make it
comparatively easy for those to whom
his inquiries will be addressed to give
prompt and faithful response. | ask for
him, and | am sure you will heartily sec
ond me. such cheerful and generous
assistance as he may require from Off
GERS of the denomination you represent.
Very Respectfully.
ROBERT 2. PORTER,
Superintendent of Census.
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SEDGWICK COUNTY IN THE FARM
ERS' CONGRESS.

Hon. John Kelley will attend the
United States Farmers congress, that
meets at Montgomery. Ala, on the 18th,
14th and 10Th of November This con-
gress will be attended by the same num-
Der of delegates from each and every
state in the union. Mr.. Kelly would
like to take with him aud place in con-
spicuous position the best specimens of
our corn, put up as the notice to the
farmers to be found in another column
indicates, SO that at the conclusion Of
the congress he could give each deiega-
ton of the south and west a bundle of
Arkansas Valley corn to place on exhi-
bition in their several states. The Board
of Trade will no doubt pay the little in
cidental expenses of freight to Alabama,
etc. The state pays the personal ex-
penses of the delegates. The scheme
seems not only an entirely feasible one
but an inexpensive one. comparatively,
and we hope that the appeal Mr.. Kelly
makes will be generally noted by Sedg-
wick county farmers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
CONCERNING THE HAND.

The ideal palm is Of fair size--a little longer
than the fingers
Small hands show ore who aspires after
and recognizes the colossal.
The palm indexes the temperament, activ.
ity, endurance and physical strength.
Large hands are those that 90 or work
that naturally, patiently and easily put forth
manipulating activity.
The I hand is often the possession % one
who : born tired. and who Il hsncs cnron-
icGIly indisposed 20 heavy OF continuous labor.
Slim hands. warm and dry. will suggest
rapidly OF motion, but with little muscular
strength. and one of q warmly sympathetic
disposition.
Long hands indicate an application. love
and performance Of Details grea: care for
and ability IN tins minutie Of one's oT-pe~
tons or thoughts
The slim hand, Il lean, dry and cod, shows
low vitality, little strength, uncertain teza-
PER, little srrrpathy-sonetsu1es selsztnssA,
irritation and eowardice.
Tns plastic hand, which ss sof; and nnu-
elastic, announces lack q Muscular str>nzta
and Of mental vizor-oEs vosd Ct sndurkncs
ard usually Of lo~ vitality.
palm unusually broad Shows crest
strength, an abundance Of purely physaeaI
force, and sgggests ssolid and p@oddlng sx-
peaditurs Of simply iExsssctsvs eHsTgy
Tes h.r.d 80 al Index O. character IL raads
up Of tAres esentsal p&r-s-tas palm. toe
thumb and he fagerS-each II which IN
dexes esseEt.Al slssnsu-s ischsrscse< ard liz
NEVER rFCET.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
notion that a man should go into newspaper
Wnri, for rilara nel.uniary ADVANTAGE


work for mere pecuniary advantage.
One of the most popular and distinguished
of our scientific writers is Professor T. c.
Mendenhall the president of the American
Society for the Advancement of Science.
Professor Mason, who is so painstaking a
scholar that he is sometimes called THE
Drayhorse of Letters" talks of resigning the
chair of English at Edinburgh university.
Mr. ". E. Norris, the English author is
something of an invalid, and lives nearly ali
the year round at Torquay, going TO London
only for month or two during the season.
Samuel Washington, the poet, translator
and compiler of anthologies of English and
continental sonnets, belongs to family said
to be connected with the poet Longfellow's
f. L. Arnold, son of Sir Edwin Arnold. is
writing romance entitled The Wonderful
Adventures of Phra the Phenician,n which
promises to outrival Haggard's widest fights
Vicomte Eugene Melchior de Vogile. au-
thor of the recent Russian articles in Har-
pers and the youngest member of the French
academy, is 10 years old and an aristOcrat.
The eighth edition of Tolstoi's works, now
in press in Moscow, will include 5000 copies
VI Auiia hdIeIiidY Oo.VoU COpitS u W al
and Peace" aud 5000 copies OF each of sew
eral volumes OF short stories.
The late Wilkie Collins was short and deli
cate looking, with very small hands and feet
and cheerful face. His luxuriant hair and
beard were snowy white. He wore spectacles
habitualiy and smoked necessarily.
Ernest Renan, author Of 1.-The Life OF
Jesus" is small man, thick set and clumsy,
with the look of one who likes the good things
of earth His face is round and would be
coarse were it not for his noble brow and fine
eyes
Zola lives in fine chateau in q picturesque
spot in the forest near Medan, On the Seine
1t is handsome and spacious, with two wings,
towers, terraces long flights of marble steps.
balustrades, and surrounded by magnificent
park filed with flowers.
a. Conan Doyle, the author OF the success
ful historical novel, Micah Clarke" which
deals with the Monmouth rebellion. is an
English physician, about 90 years old, and q
Noted magazine contributor. lie is a nephew
of Doyle, the famous caricaturist of Punch.
Pierre Lofts drawing room at Rochefort /.
the exact reproduction Of his salon at Eyoub,
in Algeria, and IS adorned with Oriental dra-
peries and beautiful art knickknacks At
night tall wax candles burn in the brazeu
chandeliers, throwing a weird, mysterious
glow over this strange Oriental abode, while
the blue perfumed smoke Of Levantine in
cense coils upward from the nraseroS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
OUTRAGEOUS METHODS,

From the Topeka Capital
Several weeks since considerable in
terest was manifested bv Judge Price
friends in this city concerning his candi-
dacy for the judgeShip of the Thirty-tirst
judicial district because of the receipt of
copies of the Ashland Weekly Journal.
the leading Republican paper of Clark
county. carrying the name of an indie
pendent candidate for Judge on the Re-
publican ticket instead of that of Judge
Frank Price. the regular nominee.
No one suspected that the Democracy
of that district would resort 10 counter
feiting in order to create q false impres
sion. as 1t did in this case. An old news
paper outfit was brought into use and an
exact counterfeit of the Ashland Weekly
Journal was issued and scattered all over
the district with the object in view
of deceiying the voters and
to give the impression that
Judge Prices own paper was boiling his
nomination. The first number OF this
counterfeit Journal was issued on Sep
TENDER Is, and has been regularly pub
lished every week since, containing ma
hcious and shameless lies concerning
the contest in that district 1t is pub
lished by n. G. Stevenson, but Mr..
Thompson, the publisher of the genuine
Ashland Weekly Journal, has completely
exposed the nefarious scheme The
postofhce department has issued an order
TO the postmaster prohibiting the deliv-
ery OF any mail matter TO Stevenson ad-
dressed to the Journal.
Hon. 4. II. Heber. of Meade county,
who was in the city yesterday, stated TO
the Capital that Judge Price would re-
ceive the entire Republican vote of his
district and that he would be elected by
a handsome majority.
From Mr. Heber the facts above given
were obtained.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

There are ten state elections next
month, and the 9TH of November is
looked forward to with interest, if not
apprehension, as likely to furnish indi.
cations of what may occur three years
later. New York is less piyoted state
so many new states have been admitted.
The elections are for the following Off
GERS in the ten states named:
Pennsylvania will elect state treasurer.
Ohio will elect governor and slate
officers.
Virginia will elect governor and state
officers.
New Jersey will elect governor and
state officers.
Mississippi will elect governor and
state officers.
Maryland will elect comptroller and
attorney general.
Massachusetts will elect governor and
state officers.
Nebraska will elect a supreme court
judge and two regents.
Iowa will elect governor and ieuten-
ant governor and other officers
New York will elect state officers, ex-
cept governor and lieutenant governor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
Unreliable Crop Reports.


In the report of the 10Th inst, our
government crop statistician astonished
the country-or at least that portion of
it who are interested in his reports-by
estimating that, on the harvest condition
of $40, the average yield per acre of this
seasons wheat crop will approximate 1913
bushels. thus indicating total produc-
ton of $50 to 400 million bushels. The
statistician is on record explaining that
percentage of condition" in his reports
is proportioned to probable yield, and
everybody who pretends to understand
him CONSTITUTES his reports accordingly.
In this view OF the case we must confess
the arithmetic is too much for us that
reconciles, for instance, yield Of 13
bushels on condition OF SO in 1884 with
yield of 1873 bushels on condition of
$40 in 1889. We refer to the crop of
1886 now simply because that crop has
been compared with this all along, and
we give our friends the data, taken
from official reports, on which they may
do their own figuring, if they please.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
MISSOURI OR KANSAS?
Globe-Democrat.

Globe-Democrat
The report again is current that At
torney General Miller, of Indiana, is to
get the vacant place on the supreme
bench. This would be a departure from
the principle observed of selecting the
judge from the district to be presided
over. Stanley Matthews, who is to be
succeeded, was an Ohioan, and his judi
cial circuit, which is the Sixth, COM
prises Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and
Tennessee. But if district lines are to
be disregarded some other state should
have ''show" besides Indiana. The
latter commonwealth has had no reason
to complain of its treatment by the pres
ent administration. No state west of
the Mississippi has ever had one of its
Citizens on the supreme bench except
California. The appointee to that tribu-
nal should be taken from Missouri or
Kansas
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
THE TICKET.
John A Doran,
T. F. B R own,
H. H. II E ndershott,
Alexand E r Clark,
Sv L Dunkin,
Dan I ell Murphy,
Thoma s II. Randall.
A SCARED MUGWUMP.

The Mugwump Springfield Mass
Republican has discovered new peril
for its Democratic allies. That paper,
while asserting that ''leading Democrats
from Cleveland down have lately been
expressing very hopeful views of the
party situation in relation to tariff re-
FORM" appears to have a presentment
that they are laughing at the funeral of
their friends. 1t speaks of the opposi-
ton of the Republican masses to COM
mercial trusts and combines of all
sorts, Of the demand by few of the
party in New England for free raw
materials, and of the favor which the
party is showing to schemes Of recipro-
city with the Central and South Ameri-
can states, and mournfully asks its al
lies "what assurances have they that the
Republicans will not be driven, by the
stress of circumstances, to steal the
Democratic thunder
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
NEVER TEoET

That tie tsirest flowers fade ,bs soorest.
That knowssdgs lsaEes 10 room Ter ehanoea
Thai prs1s IA nsver 70 oTsssvs ~ vsea Ia
chslaz-
Tha; uhs1 rssz ara ion.iy hey ssoop to any
eoznra1iozssaiP.
Tazt TIE darkest esozsd oftea ecu.2Ers tEs
usoz. fruitful slower
Tia; tie pare worzsip O. pure hea<t 10 q.
szsg2-asaoa azS . sag
Tat there may be lorsi;y withoz: ioss.
be. rsyEz ssFs w.So1y- loyEs.y.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

Railroads, no less than cities, feel the
reaction which must ever follow an ex-
travagant boom. the Santa Fe, as a
railroad, is one of the biggest corpora
tons in the United States, with an I'M
doubted great future, if she can but hold
together until the reactionary effect of
her boom is over. The great west. in its
expansion, will abundantly take care of
the Santa Fe system in time, and in COM
paIatively short time. but in the mean
of herself.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

Republican meetings viii be held at the places anu
times following to-wit: - , r,
Clearwatsr. Tuesday. October 2. Speakers. Z.
F. Coffin and p a. Rohrbaugh. w.
Colwich. Wednesday, October 3D. Speakers w.
E. Stanley and c. H. Brooks
Peterson school house. Deano township, InnrS-
day October "A. Speakers, W. T. Walker ana w. L.
SturGevant. -.
Maize Wednesday. October %. Speakers, Moan
Alien John W. Davis and F. N. Doffiemyer. -
Viola Station, Viola township. FrlGay, OCTOBER 70.
Speakers Dean Gordon and T. ". Sargent.
Franklin school house, Gypsum township, FRIDAY
October % Speakers, Irwin stratton ana W. l..
Buckner. o, n.
Oatville. Waco township, Saturday, october 20
Speakers, s. J. Howe and Rudolph Hatfield
Burton Car Works, Saturday, October %. SPEAK
ers J. E. Henley. c. F. Colin and Emmett Callahan
All the ABOVE meetings will be at night ana the
committeeman from the several townships VIII
make nece-sar arrangements
J. Z. HENLEY, Chairman Rep. Gen. CON-
JOHN KELLY, Secy,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

O,s q ths Cos ssszczarx rhsn~s s,<-,. n.
drasoa parade ~Asch has nav 1880
thruegh So srrsssz q. csGa..owu n,
dsys IA tbs eozsrisse kslpssszss> Of ,hs ~
golAaa O. bsrssoaek Al TIE 49, :. -.
pro'oessSa -sss ed sy sssaal -tiss boys. who
s~-7fsea 70 and tsssr cH-ass very irx-o-ns. u.
1e1''', Ssss, AS aaa ssrssias Ct tan pagan -
es'1son sa'-ss sAss s'<a very trying ., -.
hsss TIE people who are Engaged ia Us
"'fk g ez-rssssAn.<.ax lie Casrsss. WAL. .ss
'@ak sars'srssrn u Il seovs1 IA, farry y.~rs
q Eis ca iAss ooass have aa6s no inapzssssosa
% 'se e<Ss<s.Al Re Is tas zane szp~rr: ,soss
o. aS=f--sAa VrsscissD chzoascs.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

our statesmen, to the exclusion of other
questions of broad national policy tor
twenty years before and ten years after
the death of the distinguished Kentuck-
ian, will never again be disturbing
factor in American politics. If the
countries represented in the present con-
ference manifest the right spirit and rise
to the requirements and opportunities of
the occasion, one of the most ccmpre-
hensive and magnificent conceptions in
the history of craftsmanship and di-
plomacy will become a fact.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

If the voters of Kansas are eyer afford
ed an opportunity TO again vote on the
prohibition law that opportunity will
only. can only. be afforded by the Re
publican party: and. that which would
defeat such an opportunity quicker than
anything else, would be ademand of the
Demobratic party If the leading cities
of this state go Democratic then good
bye all chances for it, until said cities
get again into Republican line and into
a position where they could demand ac-
ton of the Republican party.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
ITS THE WAY YOU LOOK AT 1T.

EmpOr1a Republican.
"What a humbug,' exclaims the
Wichita EAGLE; what an out and out
steal is the annual river and harbor ap-
preparation bill in many Of its items and
provisions and features. Let's see.
One of the items and provisions and
features is to make navigable the Arkan-
sas in Kansas, is it not? This item and
provision and feature is surely not a
humbug and steal. The work is very
simple. All that there is to do is: First,
make river; second, make it navigable.
Both these things are needed-at least
desirable. Hence the honesty and wis
dom of the appropriation. And the
more appropriation the better. There is
no danger of having too much.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

What's the matter with the old Arkan-
sas river as a basing line? 1t is not much
account for anything else.-Hutchinson
News.
As basing line it would be success.
1t also furnishes water for turning the
machinery in mills aud factories in this
city, which give employment to hun
dreds of men. The Arkansas river is a
daisy.-Arkansas City Traveller.
Only daisy after it has received the
waters of the Little Arkansas, which are
the waters that turn the machinery at
Arkansas City. But for the Little Ar
kansas river the Big Arkansas would
have been dry at Arkansas City dozen
times within the past three years. The
Little Arkansas river never fails.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
That golden key WIN often find the way

That golden key Win often find the way
to unlock many a secret drawer.
That death is a sleepless messenger, and life
a wakeful handmade OF creation.
That the finest feeling velvety paws Of .
kitten often cover the sharpest claws
That ''doing as well as you know how is
all right if you always know how 10 do well.
That it is often more difficult 70 obiiterats
traces of spilled ink than drops Of spilled
blood.
That those who are honest and earnest in
their honesty have no need 10 proclaim tho
fact
That it may bc well 10 test the condition oe
a cats claws before stroking its Sur the wrong
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

IL IL said TIA; Henry Irving paid ov~
sl,2D for an aatb~Dtic S>DTtrsls II Charles I.
t1A: &c :sisEs have IL asa ggi.- for his MAKE
up ~bsu be played tho part of tha; Jssustaoal
MONARCH Ia wills tragedy. And -,>.ktnz Of
portraits, wien CsSrss RgBoia -a< piayfax
'Hazry W IN s>w Yorx frieua .iss,~.s IN,
tn els dressing room and remarked a large
and hasdsoI5s Paragraph q William Cullen
Bryan; eAnxssz % tie vail Said Ice fr.sae,
SO yos are az sdsnirer u sry.n:-
sSs Brysn,T gs~rssd Tbs sr.ar.
WY, tSa's Ia pictafs. BrJau,, tics pos9s
taas cd fls po~ss I zos him Tor q
study CT vyicxssa s-Erssxlyn Eaxia.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

The Wichita EAGLE not only denies that
Senator Plumb built a log cabin on the
Saline in 1856, but contradicts the current
report that the senator is 56 years old. Col
onel Murdoch should write a volume on
What | Know About Plumb. "-Emporia
Republican.
We know little of the gentleman
mentioned having met him casually a
few times, and we have good reasons for
believing that he knows about as much
of us. 1t is said that he was in Wichita
the other day but we did not see him to
know him. AS for his age, he did not
arrive on this terrestrial ball until the
second day after our own advent, and
about that date we are posted even if
mistaken in the log cabin reminesence.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

The average editor is now compelled
TO hire an assistant, whose sole duty it is
10 help read up the voluminous docu-
mentS being sent out by the cities that
are candidates for the worlds fair of 90.
New York this week opened out on
skunkburg for her presumption and next
week Chicago will do up New Amster-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19

The Capital seems to think that Tope-
ka will be made headquarters for the
entire consolidated Santa Fe system,
which would be no bad thing for Tope
ka and the state.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
An OH riana

j. d stocker. Of Atlsnts, has piano that
was made in Bsitiinors 80 years ego II Is
cpbeid 81 only two isss, one 81 each end. but
these legs brsneh At ths roOr into cia~s,
which are 81 bras and handsomely beaten
out The wood work Of THE piano Is Ct rna~
hosany' trimmed With ebony. aud tie .uz!ss,
board a In front of the casn. Thsr- are four
Pedalz, which come from q small pipe organ
one soft, ou@ loud, oas thai rings sel
and beats a drum IN unison, and one Tia.
pisys banjo sooorE panlsaeat while The psr-
former plaza Il Is sig octaSss aud h Sill .
very va-uabls AID handsome pirce d fsrni-
tare VITA this relic Of tie p.est xrs 5so>ksr
has The aaSisie Played and sag by her snoss-
tors "a the long ago.-AtlnEta C1zssxz.gt.oz