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Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
An Ab.ert-ainacd Man.

Cincinnati has the champion Sosen t-Elinc-
ed nau- a gentleman living n the suburbs
went d store On Want stree. 70 make a
few Srcaasss. The oaiy light IN the store
was candle standing On the oocnier nsa,
tie noney-drswer. Altar making bis pur-
chases he handed the proprietor bill, aid
after returning hin TIE change the prop-i.
etor walked &c the rear Of Tie store 10 ar
range something. when suddenly be was left
IL the dark Ee started toward the cDGnteE,
and groping aroend il found, rot the cacdle,
but the change. II struck hiza then that
probably the man il 81 Of ahsert-rzin1e5-
ness, had taken the candle Instead Of his
Change He started cut after hin. ard
catching Up With hiE saw fhst be lad tie
bundle IN ore hand ard the candle II TIE
other. After aDosegzzEng fer sae mistake
the stranger took his cl2age ana g1yr bscs
tie candle.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
ABOUT JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS

In our anxiety for the accomplishment
of given object we are often prompted
to jump to conclusions rather than ar
rive at them by the slower stages of COM
mon sense and sound judgment. Never
was this truth more forcibly demonstrate
ed than during the past few days touch
ing the Oklahoma bill pending before the
senate. Take for illustration the position
and course of the Kansas City Star on
that measure. In its Wednesdays issue
it made the bold assertion that Senator
Plumb is now openly charged with hav-
ing employed his influence to defeat the
Oklahoma bill, and his action in the SEN
ate yesterday in insisting upon taking up
bills on the calendar by unanimous con-
sent, thus interfering with the program
OF Senator Cullom who had given notice
of his intention to call up the Oklahoma
bill, will deepen the conviction that Sen
ator Plumb has been, from first to last,
inimical to the measure"
The same issue contained the follow
ing statement in its news columns, under
date of Washington the same day: 1.-The
friends of tie Oklahoma bill were very
much disguised this afternoon when
Senator Cullom, who has charge of the
bill, secured recognition by the presi-
dent and called up the interstate COM
merce bill instead of the Oklahoma bill.
1t has been well understood all along
that a recognition of Senator Cullom
meant the taking up of the Oklahoma
bill. With all the other senators press
ing for chance to get bills before the
senate, it is not fair to presume that
Oklahoma, with Mr.. Cullom for its
champion, will be given a chance"
Neither Senator Plumb nor Senator
Cullom needs to be championed by the
EAGLE. The long and conspicuous pub
lie service of each-conspicuous for the
honorable, raightforward, manly man
ner in which they have deported them
selves, and the faithful manner in which
they have served their constituencies
and their country-is sufficient to refute
the imputation of duplicity attempted to
be cast upon them. But it does seem to
us that all this indecent haste to place
responsibility for defeat without any rea-
son other than that supplied by a fertile
Imagination, and that. too, before there
is any certainty of defeat, is as unjust to
the accused as it is discreditable to the
sense Of common fairness and discern
ment of the accusers.
Our own Judgment is that the actions
of the two senators named, criticised as
above, were taken in the interest of the
Oklahoma bill, as any one at all familiar
with parliamentary practices will read
lily understand.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
To the Editor OF the Daily Eagle.


Should the present session of congress
adjourn without passing the Oklahoma
bill, what do you think will be its chances
by President Cleveland to convene on the
4th of March? READER
The ezra session mentioned is for the
senate only, and is called for the
purpose of confirming the cab
met and such other appoin t
ments as the incoming president
may make requiring such action.
This being the mission of that body it
will not be competent for it to pass upon
any measures of legislation. If the Ok
lahoma bill fails in the present congress
that will be the end of that measure.
though not necessarily an estoppel to the
opening of Oklahoma. The authority
given the president by the Forty-ninth
congress supplemented by the acts
of the present congress In
the matter of providing for
the purchase by the government of GER
tain Indian lands embraced in the terri
tory in question. and for their opening to
demonstrating. as we understand it war
rants the president in taking steps neces-
sary to opening the Oklahoma lands TO
settlement, and it is also understood that
President Harrison will take such steps
at the earliest practicable moment.-ED.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
"THE BISMARCK DYNASTY"

In the Globe-Democrat of February IL
the main portions of the remarkable ar
| ticle on the Bismarck dynasty which ap-
peared in the Contemporary Review for
this month were printed. The article in
its completeness has just come to hand.
We find that said extracts omitted moth.
ing of consequence; but the concluding
paragraph of the article is worth pro-
ducing, not having yet been printed in
this country. 1t is as follows:
The Bismarck dynasty will fall, having
done its work. She era of blood and
iron is not eternal. The generous and
beneficent influences which the empress
represents are stronger in the long run
than all the legions of the chancellor.
And in the near future her imperial
majesty may yet achieve a glorious
and bloodless revenge. She can no longer
fill the throne of Germany. But she
has within her grasp the leadership of a
cause far more important than that
which the valor and sagacity of the
HohenzOllerns crowned with victory be-
fore the gates of Paris. 1t is possible for
her imperial majesty to make her court
a place where the best men and women
of the world, all who are striving to
bring in the brighter and the nobler day,
would find welcome, encouragement
and inspiration. Art, science, letters,
philanthropy and all that ennobles life
and tends to lift man nearer to God
would find there natural home, stately
and yet simple, imperial and yet human,
the cosmopolitan capital of all that
ooly haffn ant Of ho
There, as in an ideal world. far removed
and the intrigues Of chancellors, the
Empress Victoria could re-establish
Arthur's Table Round,
And teach high thought and amiable
words,
And courtliness and the desire Of fame,
And love Of truth, and all that makes a
Seated in the center of the European
continent. its influence would be cock
tensive with the civilization of which it
would be the finest flower Whether
her imperial majesty will feel impelled
to ascend the loftier throne which now
stands empty before her, we do not
know. For the moment she is too
broken and bowed down with the bur-
den of her woe. But to her we may ad-
dress the familiar words which the poet
laureate addressed to the widowed
queen:
Break not, Q woman's heart. but still en-
dure-
Break not, for thou are royal, but endure.
Hers is the unique position, hers the
unrivalled opportunity. Others are
trammeled by routine and limited by
nationality, as indeed she herself would
have been had she continued to occupy
the throne of Germany. A wider EN-
pire awaits her if she but rises to the
height of her responsibilities, and acts
as the imperial head Of the womanhood
and of the culture of the world
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

GOSSIP ABOUT WRITER'S.

IT is said Mrs. Burnett took week to de-
eide upon the name "Fauntleroy" for her
beautiful child story.
THE latest gossip about poet Browning
says that he wrote "Eady Geraldine's
Courtship'' in two consecutive hours.
LUCY LARcoM says she never makes any
plans, but gets interested in what she IS
writing and waits TO see how it will come
out.
OLIVE SCHREINER Ralph from says she
began IAN African Farm " when almost a
child, and left it for some years before she
finished it.
BRET HARTE is fifty years old. He was
about thirty when he began writing, and
before that was a compositor working at
the case.
THE poet Whittier has acknowledged the
authorship of THE Song of the Vermont
ers," which has been once or twice OF late
years reprinted as his.
AMANDA NJ DOUGLASS. who for the last
fifteen years has been the chief support OF
her father, mother and sister, writes novels
at the rate of two year.
HARRIET BEEcHzR Stowe has never
earned more than $3.50 any year of her life,
and her yearly income from her books Is
now much less than e, COO
Mrs BURTON HARRISON, the wife OF Jef
ferson Davis former secretary, is Of Vir.
ginian birth. Few literary women 10 New
York are better known and liked than she.
Miss KATE UPsoy CLARK, whose name IL
now seen frequently in current literature,
is a witty little woman Of thirty i've or 50,
with husband, three boys and domestic
tastes.
SARAH WISSRsUCCA, the Indian Princess
who attended Wellesley College, and has
written stories under the nom de plume Of
bright Eyes," is now teaching an Indian
school
F. c. PHILLIPS, the author Of the novel
GAS In a Looking Glass" has been sol
der, a journalist and theatrical manager,
and he is now successful barrister. BE
has more than once been asked TO stand for
Parliament
TIE person known in literature as Miss
Braddon is described as a tall, active mind
ed woman of ffty-two, with gray hair aid
ruddy complexion She Is an expert horse
woman, writes three novels year, and Is
married TO Der Publisher.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Dehorning Not Tanning.



Whatever may be the gain in feeding
and shipping as result of dehorning, it
is the height of folly to claim that the
process will so change the nature of a
vicious bull as to render him meek and
docile. There is no sense in snch claim,
and the owner of such an animal should
be just as crreful in handling him after
he Is deprived of his horns as before. An
angry bull can batter the immortal spirit
out of man just about as quick as he
can perform like service by the goring
process, the only gain to the man being
that his body is left in better condition
for the undertaken A believer in this
angelic transformation as a result of de-
horning has recently paid the penalty of
his folly in Dakota, and will be cripple
for life for a single interview with his
dehOrued bull
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Objected to His Associates.

The Troy Chief tells of an old bachelor
who took up his residence, in the early
part of the winter, in an old cave near
Troy junction, which was very COM
Portable for winter burrow. He stored
his vegetables and other provisions in
there, put in stove, aa bed and other
furniture, and was getting along very
comfortably. But one morning, upon
awakening, he discovered a huge bull
snake stretched on the frame above the
door, and another contentedly coiled up
by the stove. They had gone in there
for winter quarters, and the warmth
from the stove had limbered them up.
The proprietor did not fancy this. He
was afraid he might wake up some
morning and find one of them wound
about his neck So he purchased him a
little house and small patch of ground
up in the daylight and took up his abode
there
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
AS SEEN "a SUCKER.

The following extracts are from de-
scriptive account of recent visit to this
city as published in his paper, the War
saw, H., Democrat, by Mr.. G. B. Klein
gebiel: SIN regard to the city itself, one
cannot but admire the enterprising spirit
manifested by its citizens. They have
faith in the city during the pending gen.
eral depression of business. This must
be encouraging to the investors. There
retail business is going on just the same.
and we understand they are holding
their own, while some are making net
profits to be stored s~away for future use,
when old age demands retirement
from business. The rents are much
lower than during the boom season, and
merchants who are compelled to lease
or rent now have it almost their own
way.
AS we stated in the beginning of this
article, the boom is like unto Chicago.
In other words we should judge that the
city will continue to grow steadily, en-
joy steady and healthy boom, and in
sas City. We see no reason why this
should not be fact, as the country will
prosper with years, see its faults and
profit by the same. The prominent citi-
zens of that city have the nerve, get up
and energy to push forward, and success
will ultimately crown their efforts.
Wichita is wonderful city and has a
bright future before her, notwithstand-
that the present real estate owners may
have suffered losses.
Some of the Wichita boomers are
cursing Editor Murdoch of the Wichita
EAGLE, denouncing him as liar, etc.
Wichita's best friend is Murdoch, and if
they had followed his advice, they
would be pound wise, instead of having
been penny wise and pound foolish
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
KANSAS KOLLARY.

At Eudora Tuesday night John Buck,
an old and respected citizen "a years old,
a member of the G. A. R., dropped dead
while engaged in household duties.
The state auditor refused to register
Haskell county bonds issued to pay for
blowing sod. he claimed that the bonds
or scrip SO issued are illegal and that
putseen ased to that project.
The county commissioners Of Stevens
county are trying to stir up a friendly
feeling by giving the farmer dollar
per acre for all the new ground they stir
up for the next sixty days.
The farmers are now making ready to
plant large acreage to crop this season.
The principal cereals that will be planted
will be corn, kaffir corn, cune, millet
and few will try fax and castor beons.
Springfield Republican.
The Mobiles Dramatic company dis
banded at Fredonia and the tragedy stars
and queens are counting ties. If the
manager had any hadregard for the fitness
of things he would have taken the COM
pany TO Kanwauka to turn 'em loose.
Over in Chautauqua county they are
trying to start variety of corn that will
all ''go to cob" The cause of this is
that load of cobs bring twice as much
at the pipe factory as load Of corn does
Observation-Disclosures City Dispatch.
If some good responsible party who
understands sinking a salt well, will
come to Harper and present contract
to the city council that is fair and just,
they can get all the help they need to go
to work at once.-Harper Republican.
II. w. Westmoreland, owner of a cat
tie ranch in the Neutral strip. has sold
four 2-year old buffaloes to T. w. Hard
wick, of Sioux Falls, Oak, for 81 200.
That's what Garden City Jones gets for
foolin' away his time at Topeka, mon
keying with law making.
The sum of two million one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars has been
placed to the credit Of Pension Agent
Click in the sub-treasury at St. Louis for
the payment of pensions at the Topeka
agency, for the quarter commencing
March 4.
By an act of the legislature the name
of Meade Center has been changed TO the
name of Meade 1t is the first instance
on record where the center has been
knocked out of Kansas town.-Spring
field Republican. Quite true, but county
seat contests have knocked several out
bodily.
Arkansas City has another damage
suit on hands. This time the plaintiff is
John Webb and claims through his at
torney, J. F. Randolph. that he has been
damaged to the extent of g., 600 by being
searched by the city marshal for evil
dence that he was a make-believe de
teCtive.
Something Of romance in real life is
reported from kearney county. \ little
girl, whose father failed to raise crop last
season and also failed to raise the mort
gage off his team, wrote to Armour
Bros, Kansas City. that she would be
eternally chawed up if 1t wasn't had liv
ing with nothing TO eat and wear. The
Armours agreed with her and sent
enough money TO pay oil the mortgage.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

After getting Consul General Waller
finely located in London as agent for
patent American brick, here comes the
correspondent of the New York World
cabling the news that he is coming home
Immediately to resume the practice of
law at the old stand. Mr.. Waller has
rendered his resignation, says the cor
respondent, TO take effect on the ap-
polntment of his successor, and has
made no foreign business arrangements.
although he has received several offers
TO represent American interests abroad.
Probably the new information is no
more trustworthy than the old. The
tender of a resignation at this date Will
not lessen the consul generals tenure of
Office, while it may add to his popularity
party wise. As to his future intentions.
he is hardly likely TO take the newspaper
correspondents into his confidence. Pos
sibly he sees the need the Democratic
party at home has at this juncture for
just such man as Tom" Waller.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

The American Banker, of New York.
dated February %, makes the following
handsome point:
1t is reported that bill has been in
troduced in the Kansas legislature APP
propriating money for drilling deep
holes in the ground "to see what can be
found. We don't happen to know ex-
actly what the gentleman who fathered
this bill expects TO find. He certainly
would not have to do more than scratch
the serface of Kansas soil 10 find lever
of mortgages. And what below that?
A synic suggests bankruptcy. but we
cannot agree with him. We rather
think that the soil below the mortgages
will be found rich loan of financial
eolvency and unlimited credit. Kansas
is greater state that the combined
greatness of all her mortgages.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

An exchange says that the importance
of publishing dissolution notice in the
event of change of a firm is shown by
a decision at Cleveland. A note for
So. 500 was given by former member of
,he firm and the firms name was signed
20 it. 1t was discounted at the bank and
She maker of the note appropriated the
proceeds to his own use. The bank
brought suit against the firm for the
amount. They showed that his connec-
ton with the firm had ceased before he
made the note, but as they had not pub
lished the dissolution notice previous to
that time, as required by law, Judgment
was rendered against the old firm.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

A reason given why Captain Thomas
should become secretary of the navy, IS
that he lives in Illinois and never saw
the ocean or ships or anything Of the
kind, and as SO many eastern men, born
near the ocean, who have filed that
office, have been conspicuous failures,
some new man who knows nothing about
such things, had better be put into the
office by way of change. This IS an
,lnkind, and in a measure unjust, whack
at Secretary Whitney, who. it is admit
ted on all hands, has done fairly well.
considering the backing he has had, the
past three years.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Summoned Aloft-

Il conpositor in the London establishment
of the Messrs- Cassen, publishers, commit
ted suicide recently. BE left the following
note, addressed 70 lis foreman: Dear NJ.
Simmer: Please excuse ny leaving without
she usual fortnight's notice. but have re-
ceiyed a peremptory summons 70 60 70
Heaven 70 &c: the sitle-page Of the Book Of
Life Yours, Il. 6. s. Agnew." The jury
rrrdered verdict Of temporary insanity.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
ADox That Was m Joker.

There Is dog in Orlando Fla, with
fine sense OF humor, If this story Is true
as told by a local newspaper: HIS owner
frequently gives b:n piece Of coin 10
carry along to market a day or two ago
he gave him a dollar. and the dog was tros-
ting along when he saw a coiored man sp-
preaching He stopped q little distance in
front Of the darkey, dropped the dollar
from his mouth 10 the Sidewalk, and then
walked 70 the edge Of the pavement, ap
parently as IL he cared nothing for tbs
money. Mr. Darkey walked briskiy up and
was in the act OF stoopsna % pick up TIN
money, when the dog fcWaa him ~ n 20
bite, quickly seized the money, and tro.ted
OF with a. air of NO, yoa dcn';." and over.
took his owner.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Growth of the Cabinet.

From the indianapolis News
1t has been forty years since cabinet
place was created, up to the time of the
new department of agriculture. The last
to be established was the interior depart
ment, March, 1919. A century ago the
state, treasury, war, postoffice and attor-
ney generals offices were created by an
act of congress, and these five positions
were filed that year by President Wash
ington. The navy department did not
begin until 1895. 1t is to be hoped that
the new department will justify the rea-
son of its being. 1t will, surely. if it
teaches the farmer how he has to sell his
wheat at free trade foreign price and
pay from 40 to so per cent tariff on all
the tool he uses and clothes he wears.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
It's True, It's Pity.

On Sunday the Wichita EAGLE eau
tiously remarked that the state was not
out of the woods yet, so far as the lesis
lature was concerned, and that body
might succeed in doing lots of harm In
four days. How well grounded were
the fears expressed, the state is discoy-
ering 10 her sorrow.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

w. Admire is receiving many COM
pliments upon the penitentiary lnvesti-
CATION report, which it is understood ne
wrote. AS Gov. Eskridge would re-
mark. Mr.. Admire hasn't been an edltor
all these years for nothing.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
The One Reckoning ACT.

Emporia News
The state senate did the handsome
thing by the farmes yesterday and voted
10 print for their use ~. 90 copies OF the
agricultural report for the year, ANY
farmer that viii now complain of the
legislature ought to be put on diet of
bread and water until purged OF his
r,,annrESS
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
OdLlS
April

The governor of Michigan receives
60 ~ a day for his services and the Janl-
tor of the house gallery receives $3.oo.
But, then, just think of the discrepancy
in the honor, and the elnoluments OF IN
describable sorts of the former over the
latter position.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

Turning the Sword Into Pruning Eook-
Atchison Patriot.
John Walruff's brewery at Lawrence
is in the hands of workmen, and viii
be remodled for a tannery and shoe fac
tory
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Better Say 90.

From the Emporla News
The legislature has done well for the
girls. Now let them extend the age of
consent for bachelors to 80 years.-kan-
sas City, Kansas, Gazette.
Better put il at 50 years if you want 10
catch the old ROSTERS of the senate.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
Making a Virtue o, Necessity.

Saii2a Gazette
Bv the admission of the two Dakotas,
Washington and Montana. FIVE new
members are added 10 the Republican
majority in the lower house OF congress
and thirteen to the Republican vote in
the next electoral college. The fact that
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01
tn. Mea.-u.ea Language.

Prof Kirchof, OF Bsiic, was recently re-
qnesied. in order 10 decide bet- 70 state
which language whs the one NEST IN use
HIS reply was 70 the effect that, without
doubt, the Chinese language stood first, II
being SPOKEN BY about soo.ocoeo Of pcopls.
Next comes the Hineoostaaee, spoken ey
more than 100, 900. 900. then English, by up
ward of 100, 10000, Russian, By upward OK
600 900; German. by about $500 900,
spanish, by about 4s. ooo. 900 aud Eth iE or
der French, by about 40 900 900.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

II, as has been held by the courts. mans
legal residence 10 where his washing h
coue, we can ace the lnssr;sountzble obstsr
eles In the var % Anarchists ssd trzDps
becoming eaisr gles H. tie posscssson CT cor
rer lo.A.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

S. II. II. Clark, general manager OF
the Missouri Pacific, has announced that
owing to other pressing duties and cares
he has decided to tender his resignation
TO the directors of that company. tne
same to become effective on the ISL OF
priI
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

The ProhibitioniSts are advised by
their leading organ, the New York
Voice, to sink their differences about
secondary issues-woman suffrage, etc.
by excluding all these issues from
future national platforms and becoming
q party of one idea. The Voice itself
believes in woman suffrage, but it does
not believe in trying to enforce that
dogma down the Threats of such mobile
prohibitionists as DR.. Herrick johnson
who don't