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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
VOICES,

A man died yesternight. Today the town
Makes mention of his taking off and sums
His virtues and his failings On the street
Midst many barterings and lures of trade
In homes where he is known, in busy
martS,
Gathers the town-folk: up and down his
name
Is spoken Of in various ways OF speech
As are the voices various sounding it:
Gruff-throated bass, shrill treble of old
age,
Soft sibilancy of woman's tongue,
Or reed-like utterance of little child.
Thus one, his mate in business: "Ah a
shrewd
Dry head was that; much loss to US, much
And as for heart"-wise shrug of shoulders
now
"Well, tits but little quoted here on
Change"
Another, who had summered with him
once
In leisure-time: "a right good fellow gone!
IT'S true, he liked his ease; but who does
For me, give me the man that Horace
loved,
Who deemed it wise to fool when seasonal
ble"
A tiny one who oft had found great store
Va SheSVulcdOS III LIS uduO, anu pElZSO ldT
less,
Great store of tenderness within his heart:
''Oh, won't be come and see US any more?"
His supplied pastor, bound to save his
soul,
Balanced bit by inconsistencies
He thought he saw, in private to his wife:
alas, poor souii if only he had grasped
That matter Of the creed, and made US
surel
Butthen-his heart was right, and God is
good"
And one, woman, who had found his
arms
An all-protecting shelter through long
years,
Said naught, but kissed the token he had
left,
And dreamt of heaven for his sake alone.
Meanwhile. what was this man, and what
his place?
You ask, confused bv all this Babel talk
OF life and yonder, from his fellow men.
l am as ignorant as any one
Whose speech you heard, and yet 1 loved
him well.
Nay, ask me not: ask only God. He knows.
Richard E. Burton, in Harpers Mag
agine for August.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Wichita bank cIearings showed an in
crease last week Of 42.3 per cent. This
fattering exhibit gives us great pleasure
and we trust that it may be sustained
through the year. There is room for a
thriving town down ON the Arkansas river.
*. G. Times.
The foregoing statement is but the adj
mission of existing facts; nevertheless
the source from which it comes makes
it matter of no little surprise. The
truth seems to be breaking in upon our
e. C. despite its persistent perversity as
regards Kansas in general and Wichita
IN particular.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

By what show of authority an army
officer assumes control of civil affairs il
Oklahoma it is little difficult to deter.
mine. The military was stationed in the
new territory simply as auxiliary to the
civil authory in maintaining peace in
the country during the early days of its
settlement, and any exercise of original
authority in proclaiming what shall OF
shall not be done is an unwarranted as
sumption Of authority. That there is
abundant civil power and authority to
defend the interests and protect the
rights of the citizens of that country is
abundantly evident; any interference on
the part of the military is but an unwar-
ranted assumption and should not be
tolerated
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The new scheme for developing q sys-
tenn Of irrigation IN western Kansas. that
Is, by drawing water from the
sandy substrata a few feet below the
surface by means of lateral pipes,
bids fair to solve the question of the
water supply for irrigation purposes
throughout the western prairie country.
The principle is unquestionably correct
and only needs TO be practically applied.
Artesian wells have been successfully
developed and are now being utilized for
irrigating farm lands in Meade and
some other counties Of the southwestern
portion of the state, and where the
necessary water supply can be obtained
by this method it is the most economical,
next to detecting the current of q run
ming stream, but the Gregory system Is
entirely practicable and may be success
fully employed.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The inventive genius of man is truly
wonderful if not without limit within
the realm of the possible, and we are
prepared TO accept almost any statement
within that sphere and boundary, but
when we are asked to believe that an
image, such as the face of a person or
other object, may be transmitted by
electricity over a wire our credulity re-
bells. Prof. Edison will perfect his ap-
paratus for bringing persons at dis
lance face to face as it were and visible
to the natural eye in time to make the
first excursion on Keeley's motor, or
transported by perpetual motion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
IT CANNOT LAST FOREVER.

I've a word 81 comfort for you
Who on lfe's rugged road
Are tolling meath the burden
OF heavy, hopeless load
Il WIN make yosIr heart grow Lighter,
Whatever be your wrong,
Ana give you strsusth 10 bear IL
u you take these words along.
And say when ciosi6s Of darkness
Around Jour pathway hover.
''Tbe sun = shining just teyoud-
II cannot last forever"
Just Try them when you're weariod
BY each petty care and strife.
By each attls sygrayEtion
OF your Common daily life.
When aagry words are rising
That you ean scarcely smother,
And everything seems twisted up
And tied IN knotz 70 bother,
YouB hDd these voesz arc like q knife,
Zach twisted knnf % srver:
Then strzgtten cut each taagis With.
II cannot last furever~
Or II Some gree. disaster
Like cyclone sweep your sky.
AID stunned and hetplezs With the sbocf
BerestA ths wreck yoss Be
Psrnesyiber that DO storm ccuses
But has q clearing day:
The DARKEST aixs: . morning.
Al ead the i11gezf way.
Then take tssone words o. cheer yoa.
fosI'E End them .ks a iersr
To raase yOgr ss-kiaZ spirits gp
y canzo: last for~yer
Lila u Airrsnses
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

contact with the rest OF tho army ana
capable Of rapid moment to the front.
For tho rest artillery should be always
ready and equal to contend In the field
with infantry; it should consider itself q
more powerful arm in anything like On
equal struggle, and once it has been
placed in It's true position I. should. II
possible, never fall back. at the Same
time, in our judgment at least. artillery,
owing TO the vast spaces of battleAelds 10
modern war, may on many occasions be
greatly imperiltd. Academy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Department Commander Booth advises
the Kansas G.. A. R. S not to attend the
Milwaukee encampment unless the rail
roads shall finally grant the 1 cent rate
requested. Notwithstanding the appeal of
Grand Commander Warner to members
of the order extant to attend, regardless
of the rate. In this case we apprehend
that the department commanders sug-
gestion Will be accepted and acted upon
in preference to that Of the chief COM
mander, though such preference will not
mean the slightest disrespect or insubor-
dination on the part Of any towards the
chief.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

At Garden City the postmaster ekes out his salary
by keeping meat market in the pOStoiiice lobby,
and his mail is recognized by route agents hundreds
of miles away by The smell OF sausage upon it.
which serves as a kind Of postmark.-Wichita
EAGLE.
IL Marsh Murdoch had been at home
this squib would never have appeared III
the EAGLE. There are only two better
den City.-Garden City Herald.
We wrote it Gardner, and trembled on
seeing it as it was the next morning, for
we knew you would see it. Guess the
itinerant compositor who changed it to
Garden City must have something
against your boarding houses, or failed to
get his mail sometime.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
BEAUTY IN The FOOT.
Not an Unimportant Matter ia the Make
up of Perfect Woman.

Not an Unimportant Matter ia the Make
up of Perfect Woman.
''The girl Of the period" generously
says prominent chiropodist, lis devot-
ing herself more and more TO the study
Of her foot. She has found out that this
instrument is capable Of almost as much
development for strength and beauty
really synonymous terus) as her hand.
She knows that the splendid exercise OF
piano playing, in which each finger and
every muscle OF the hand, wrist and arm
is developed to the greatest state Of eias-
ITCHY and TO beauty's own holdings, con-
tains the very hint she wants 10 follow
il the development Of the foot. No, she
is not going to play the piano with her
feet, but she Is going through lot Of
gymnastsc exercises with them. She sits
On the bed every morning working her
toes, then she walks around the room On
her bare toes, and strengthening cut her
ankle, ike ballet girl, with every step.
She finds CT frst that she can hardly raise
herself on the balls Of her feet and walk
on them
Presently that becomes easy. In a
week or so the exercise VIII accomplish
that much Then she grows able 70 lift
herself of e~en the halls Of her Zee. on 20
the very toes alone for moments q. a
tine. Then she sits down On the bed
and gives them lighter exercises. just By
working them until they VIII move In
dependentiy Of each Other. 81 first she
has to yul them with her hands Is far
as possible in al different directions, JUS;
ike the pianist practices his hands On the
technicoa- They are very awkward az
first, Just Is the fingers sS0uld have tsssn
IL not practisei, and. indeed. as znaaT
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The reappearance of Edgar 7. Brown
at his home in this city, after mysteri-
Gus absence for six months, in the con-
dition and under the circumstances de-
tailed in full in the EAGLES account of
the incident, so far only mystlties the
mystery, and until Mr.. Brown shall be
restored to his right mind all that is said
upon the subject cannot but be mere
speculation. Every body is agreed in the
earnest wish that he may be able to dis
pei the mystery that still surrounds the
case.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Disastrous as some calamity is now
and then in this country, the worst
known is but bagatelle in the loss of
human life in comparison to some that
occur in the eastern hemisphere, especi-
ally in the pcpulous districts of the
orient. The last one reported, the great
fire at Foo Chow, is probably the most
extensive in the destruction of life, i'm
mediate and consequent, of any that has
occurred in modern times. Such events
are distressing to contemplate. though
there are those who hold 10 the belief
that such incidents are the overrulings
of Providence as a means Of relieving
the excess of people at such points.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
Oh. That Eeoellous Spirit

oai4nA q -b-3Cs4a-
There is spirit Of unrest IN political
circles that bodies no good for the
crowned heads of the party. As yet the
rumbling and grumbling Is in an under
tone, but i, is growing more audible
and will force itself before the people Is
a live issue. The question that viii have
to be settled is. who owns the Republican
party. the PEOPLE who compose II or the
politicians who run it: The question
must be settled and the Republican taxes
the side Of the PEOPLE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Eleven stateS-Iowa, Maryland, Ohio,
New York. Massachusetts,, Nebraska,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Kentucky and Mississippi-hold general
elections this year. Iowa, Massachu-
sets, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio and
Virginia will each elect a governor-the
others will choose minor state officers.
Kentucky votes August 5 for state treas
urer only; all the others on the 9Th OF
November.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

"Kansan," the Wichita EAGLE contribu
tor who believes in missouri for Missou-
riBns and Kansas for Kansans," writes
very well for person who is on the wrong
side of the question:. c. Star.
Which is very high compliment,
coming as it does from paper published
on the wrong side of the line, from
kanzan's standpoint.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Attorney General L. D. Kellogg is in re-
ceipt of many communications making in
quiry relative to the qualifications and
rights of foreign born women who vote at
school elections, in view OF the approach
iEg annual school meeting. He has an
swered all such at length, the substance of
his reply being that a foreign born woman
may vote at a school election without de-
cldring her intention of becoming citizen
of the United States, provided she is not
otherwise disqualified.-St Journal
What other disqualiications, pray,
could be alleged against woman voter?
The explanation needs explaining.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The alleged hotel trust is the joke of
the season. No class Of people in this
country would view such an undertak-
ing with greater serenity than the sue
cessful landlords wherever they are
found. First of all interests, in the
hotel business to trust is to bust.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The rains of the past week have ex-
tended all over the state and summer
crops of all kinds have been placed be-
yond peradventure. Kansas political
precedence is fully sustained by her
agricultural resources and productions
Ehis year.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

With all the abundance of field crops
in many of the states, the shortage in
others and almost total failure in still
others will bring the aggregate for the
country down to about an average yield.
This, taken in connection with the re-
ported short crops in the principal Eu-
ropean countries, make an encouraging
prospect for good prices for our farmers.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Little frankie was taken in TO SO
new sister who had arrived during til
night. He looked at her a moment and
exclaimed: "Yatsl You call that sis-
ter; it's nothing but yed baby. Troy
Telegram.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The nice little town of Djarking in
SemerichensEity county, Russia, has been
damaged by an earthquake Exchange.
The last part of the above item is
superfous. Anybody would know that
an earthquake is the only thing under
heaven that could produce such names.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The polls will be open from 1 too D. III. fnthe city
and from to D. III. in the country.
These will also be held in the city OF Cheenyon
Friday August l6, at y. M. delegate convention
for nom natinga candidate for the third commas
sioner district. The delegates TO be chosen at the
same time and the number to be as per the basis 10
the county convention. The members OF the county
central committee in the various wards ana pre-
cincts will organize the election board and no one
will be eligible 10 such position but known Republ,
cans who VIII agree to support the nominees OF SAID
convention. The several primary election boards
hereby instructed to permit no enc TO vote AT me
election under their charge unless the voter Is Re
publican known to some member OF the BOARD ?
who can establish the fact This being kepubhcan
BY creditable witness The members OF the prlfn-
airy election boards also requested 10 forward 70
the chsirman OF the central committee list OF the
delegates so selected at their earliest convenience
b. \. DOWNING, Chairman
S. u. JOHNS Secretary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Westward the Star Of Empire

Atchison Champion.
Five-sevenths of the area of the
United States, excluding Alaska, lies
west of the Mississippi river. The popu-
lation of this region is fully $4,000. 900.
Before the close of the century its popu-
lation will aggregate at least 35,00O,000,
and the day is not far distant when the
center of the population, as well as the
territorial area, of the United States,
will be in Kansas.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

If all trusts and combines were as
harmless as the proposed monster salt
trust promises to be TO Kansas salt in
dustry the country could view them with
competency. The effort TO corner the
great salt industry of this country,
viewed from a Kansas standpoint, is
something like the efforts of the old
lady at keeping the ocean tide out of her
door yard with a broom.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

The electric Light let down In the fab
nets used between the Isle OF Man and
Anglesey attracts the crustacea and
other creatures of the deep Ia large
number1
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

J. II. Franklin of Russell, Kansas,
who was appointed Saturday deputy
second auditor of the United States
treasury, is a regent of the state normal
ut Emporia. His appointment and ac-
ceptance viii make a vacancy on the
board of regents. Who's the next
lucky man? Why, Mr.. Barkis, of course;
he's always willin', and that's the sort
for l,lrl,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
a Linen eagle"

Mr.. j. J. Brennan, of the Times, has
received from Wichita, Kan, copy of
the July 4th issue of the daily EAGLE of
that town, printed on fine linen. 1t is
an eight page paper, and notwithstand-
ing the character OF the material upon
which the printing is done, the types
show up with remarkable clearnesS.
The linen issue was struck off for the
purpose of forming part of the decora-
lions of the office of the EAGLE on indie
pendence day.
The idea is unitarian as well as novel,
as a journal similar to the one received
by Mr.. Brennan might, as will be readily
perceived, become decidedly popular as
a family newscloth. Mr. NJ. NJ Murdoch,
the editor of the EAGLE, is, we are in
formed, an able journalist, but an invet-
crate ''boomer." He is also a sort OF
journalistic Arab, always having his
trenchant lance poised to send home to
any of the fraternity that may have the
temerity TO attack him, a little better
than they fiing.-Deseret News, Salt
Lake.
The Wichita EAGLE celebrated the
Fourth by printing its issue, eight pages,
on white linen. Judging from the ap-
pearance of the sheet, Wichita is yet
one of the livelieSt cOrpses kicking III
the west.-Salt Lake Herald.
The Decline of the Oberammergau Play.
Washington Star.
The history of the Oberammergau pas
sion play shows how easy it is to spoil a
good thing by trying to improve it.
Thirty years ago the great world knew of
the play only through occasional reports
from artists and men of letters who had
quit the beaten track of European travel
and hunted their way to the quaint old
village. The peasants who took part in
it were so thoroughly in earnest that
they seemed even to try to lead i'll their
every day occupations the lives of the
characters represented by them on the
stage, as sort OF preparation for the
great event Of each ten year period. But
the Franco-PrusSian war of 1870 broke in
upon the decennial rule, and in 1871 the
performance attracted such a crowd
of sightseers who f1ocked to the
continent when danger from the
international duel was over, that the inn
keepers and teamsters and other bene-
ticiaries through all the neighboring
country had their heads turned and saw
that there would be profit in making
that play fashionable feature. The
presentation Of 1880 strengthened this
idea and extended it to some managers
in Munich, who have now undertaken to
revise the text, supply new dresses,
elaborate scenery, and mechanical
devises, increase the orchestra, and en-
large the auditory so that 10000 or 49,
coo persons can see the stage. The rustic
flavor of the whole affair, which was one
of its chief charms, is gone, together
with the devout atmosphere which per-
vaded the performance in the old time.
The Oberammergau play is now an
ordinary spectacle, like any other in
profane theater.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Whatever may be said in criticism of
George Martins persistent pulling for
the aggregation at the Kawsmouth, it
cannot be denied that he is also persist
emily loyal to Kansas, the while. Addi-
tlonal evidence of this will be seen in
comments on 1.-The Wichita Cranks, :"
taken from his paper, the Kansas City
Gazette. which appears elsewhere in this
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
S. N. JOHNS, Secretary.

Wichita and its various additions con-
tain 81, 81 lots, of which 1l,2i6 are i'm
proved Numerous Exchanges.
And the others are all improving, daily,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

Item in the comissarist OF the celebra-
ton Of the emancipation Proclamation by
our colored brethren: IF. ". Hitchcock.
worth of Plymouth Rock ehi~kens'
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25

| The following report Of Kansas crops
is furnished by 7. 3. Jennings, assistan:
director of the signal corps, for the week
ending July 20:
! PRECIPITATION.
| The rainfall this week has been above
| the normal in the northern and southern
counties, but below in the central coun-
| ties west of Usage and Coffey, and in
| the southeastern counties. The heaviest
rainfall reported was five inches in Pot
| tawattomie, followed by two and one
| half in Summer, two and quarter in
Rawlins, two and upward in Grant,
Manhattan and Cowley. The deficiency
in the central counties of the western
division continues and has extended into
| the west central counties of the middle
division.
TEMPERATURE AND SUNSHINE.
The temperature has ranged about
| normal in the eastern counties to con-
siderable of an excess in the western,
reaching 104 degrees in Stanton, 10S in
Haskell, 101 in Cowley, 80 in Coffey, 103
in Edwards, 113 in Cove and ia in
Trego.
A deficiency in sunshine in Ford,
w
but over the state generally there has
been an excess.
RESULTS.
The effect or the weather conditions
has been to bring the corn, hay and
potato crops well forward this week in
the eastern and middle divisions, and the
northern counties of the western. The
hot winds of the 10Th, 18th and 18th in
jured the corn and cane crops in tho
southwestern and western counties, but
did not affect young millet, nor the
pumpkin, squash or melon vines. The
rain of the 18th will revive the cane, and
it is believed the corn also, but farther
north, in Scott, Lane, Ness, Trego, Cove
and Logan more rain is needed. Wheat
and oats threshing is in general progress
over the state. Army worms are bad in
Stanton and Grant, while chinch bugs
are at work in Coffey and Woodson.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
Money VIII Be Plenty

Now money is scarce and
dry goods plenty. We have
too many and will make
prices to get the money out
or them. No old stock for
fall. Summer goods must go
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
Corset Sale.
Ladies LiSle Thread Vests.
Only few-reduced 81 90 25 cents
Great Bargains in Hosiery.

misses regular SS c and @
Misese1
the best n they dior SCENTS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.

WICHITA, Kan. July IL. 1882.
A delegate convention of the Republicans OF Sedg.
wick county Is hereby called to meet at Garfield
Hall, In the city OF Wichita,
SATURDAY, AUGUST Il, 1889,
At 10 O'Clock a. m. to nominate a Republican ticket
10 be voted for at the ensuing election, follows
One County Treasurer,
One County Sheriff.
One County Register Of Deeds,
One County Clerk.
One County Coroner.
The basis of representation Will be as follows;
One delegate and one alternate from each ward
and precinct for every twenty-five votes cast, and
delegate for each major fraction. as cast Tor
Timothy Mccarthy for secretary OF state AT the gem
eral election In 1855 and one delegate at large Tor
each voting precinct. 80,
The various wards and precincts Will De entlted
90 the following delegates, viz:
Wichita
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
Dress Goods Sale.


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Tuesday afternoon
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Remember this Opening Of Fall Costumes
will be on Tuesday Afternoon Next.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-25
WEEKLY CROP REPORT.

The following report of Kansas crops
is furnished by T. B. Jennings, assistan.
director of the signal corps, for the week
ending july 90: