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Telegram-herald., 1889-09-10

Mr.. Crosby, under date of sunday n.
M" wrote Mr.. Tibbets: Il know
what the conditions are at Grand Rapid
and ann lust as anxious TO get out oi
the unpleasant and dangerous situation
we are I'm as you are, ard ! know what
7 am about We VIII make sale OF
stock to Holmes and walk ont with
money in our pockets You can I
close a deal of this sort IN a minute, and
Won must keen quiet and give It a
n chance. Breed and ! have our eter-
nal existence at stake in this matter.
and when you think itquetly over you
viii see that it would not be right for
YOU to ieopardize our entire interests
/ bv ha-iv acton. They want
| a. hrv and We want 10 sell. II should
not fsil. and # we are sensible It VIII
not. Keep this matter Of sale 70 your
self"
Telegram-herald., 1889-09-10

Crosby wrote from Chicago. under
date of January % lsS9, a. follows.
ssDear Sam-The coupon matter ali
attended 70. ] thnk. BE careful ahoni
Blair. II he feels as he talks he don
need taking TO. and fhc don tieel that
wav h. saw anything ( dangerous. !
have arranged wth party here 20 mec'
John Bloigett when he comes. u..i
Iexpect viii be tomorrow. from ho"ae
letter. hardly L~eto SIT zap ihe nAi
TOP with the others until have na3 ah
otar- talk with H. IT, VIII return il'
week. raw u California. Hou 3 jos 4
1et co.d.'
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
SCIENCE AND MECHANICS.

GAS ENGINES are looked upon with dis
favor by many electrical engineers, but in
England there is great rivalry between
! electric motors and gas engines, where
small amounts of power are to be dis
tributed.
A WRITER in the American 4Ndchinist rec
ommends the use of castor oil in boilers
where alkaline water is used. He says
that from two ounces to pint of oil VIII
prevent foaming all day. The oil is put in
after the engine shall have started if foam
ing shall begin.
IT is said that dry-rot, the enemy Of
builders, is sort Of contagious disease.
Good authorities state that it can be car
ried by saws and other tools which have
been in contact with affected wood, and
that such contact and impregnation is often
the cause of the mysteriously rapid decay
of originally sound timbers.
GRAFTON drawings made upon unsized ma
Mia paper can be permanently fixed by
saturating them with a preparation COM
posed of one part Of Danar varnish and
twenty-five parts Of turpentine. After
treatment with the preparation they should
tie dried, and they are then ready for use.
THERE are several uses for the skins and
furs OF rabbits and hares, and the skins arc
always salable 10 the fur dealers. The
names of some of these are sent you by
postal card. These furs are used for max
ing felt, and the skins are dressed and the
fur dyed and sold under various names.
The skins Of the large white hare, which
turns white in the winter, are dyed and
sold as gray fox, chinchilla and other furs
for the cheap trade.
To DRAW or write On glass The Scientific
American advises the use Of varnish Of
sugar, This is made as follows Dissolve
equal parts Of white and brown sugar IN
water to q thin slrup, add alcohol, and apply
to bot glass plates. Tie film dries very
readily, and furnishes a surface on which II
is perfectly easy 20 write with pen or pencil
The best ink TO use Is India INK, with sugar
added. The drawing can be made pernan-
ent by vanishing with q lac or ulastlc var
nish-
a NEW machine for applying the rucllsge
10 envelopes has been invented by which il
is claimed that 10000 TO IL. 90 envelopes
can be gunmed Ia ten hours and less mpci-
lagc, space and fewer operators be needed
Its chief difference lies ia a peculiar prepare
ton Of the uucilage, which needs two
small fy-wheels 70 % the drying, discard
ing the large ventilator oornmoaly Used
4 PAPEg that resists the action Of both fire
and water has. IL IS SAID, been recently tn
vented in Germany. The manufacture Is
accomplished By mixing = parts q asbestos
fiber with = 70 30 paris CT aluminium sui
plate, and the fixture is u1oistoae1 with
chloride Of zinc and thoroughly washed IN
water Il Is then treated with a solution q
pure aluminium sulphzte. after which II IS
manufactured into paper Ike ordinary
rz!L
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09

Tug up at Acmetonia s,atlon, near Pitts
burgh, being found at depth Of tgeise feet
beneath the surface of tho earth and be-
meath an ancient forest OF locust trees. Tho
loaf is now in the possession OF Henry Arm
strong, who intends TO have it made into
paper weights.
OLD age IS often called second childhood,
and the resemblance Of the two periods is
very marked IN the case OF Abel Willard, OF
Wisconsin, who. at the age Of eighty-niEe
after having been toothless for long time.
is now cutting complete set
JUsT as Il train was leaving a country sta
ton in Southern Indiana, hen flew into
the baggage-car. She perched upon a trunk
and rode ten miles until the train stopped
at another station, where she was put Of
When a train from tho other direction came
along she quietly got into the express com
partment and rode back TO her home.
A MAN was recently buried at yan,ic,
Conn, who had no idea Of being buried
alive. He made provision In his will that
after his supposed death his body should 30
placed in a vault, the lad should DO taken
from the coffin, stimulcnts should be placed
beside il, hammer be placed there, and a
Light kept burning for three days. All this
was done; but the man was really dead, aud
the body was then buried.
QUEER requests are made at the Pension
Office in Washington. There are people who
seem 70 think that the Commissioner Ia gen
eral superintendent of things terrestrial
Tho other day Nobrsska woman wrote
letter asking General Black 70 have tho
school-house moved 20 the center OF tho
school district, and an Ohio woman re-
quested him TO send her golden crown 70
wear 10 glory
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
GOOERNMENT DEPOSITS.

From the Bank Reporter
The rumor has gone out that Secretary
WINDOWS policy will include the with
drawal of government deposits from the
national banks throughout the country.
Indeed the fear is SO strong among east
ern bankers that they are preparing for
such an emergency by whiting down
supplies of loanabe funds to the west.
Therefore until the secretary announces
his policy on this subject there will be all
over the country a tendency among
national banks to call in from active use
an amount of money equal to the
amount of government deposits held by
them. This in turn will cause slight
hardening of rates, and already rates are
held stiff both east and west.
Whatever policy the secretary may
adopt as government deposits the harm
done the business interests of the coun-
try by withdrawal, if the secretary de-
cides to do SO, is being discounted so
gradually that no serious or sudden dam
age will occur. Besides the secretary
will not, for political reasons, in any
event suddenly call in the government
deposits. If done at all it will be done
so gradually as not to harm the general
business interests of the country.
But we cannot refrain from adding
that the government should not increase
Its among the banks of the country-on
the other hand it should slowly with
draw them. As little as possible should
it ever be within the power of any secre-
tary of the treasury to suddenly call
from the business interests of the coun-
try millions of cash. AS much as posi-
BILE the government should keep out of
the banking business.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER

In 1866 the little Central American
states of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Hon
duras, Nicaragua and San Salvador had
a foreign trade of 7,000,0 900, only one
seventh of which went TO the United
States. There is ore mining company in
Honduras which produces and ships
over so, GOO of bullion every month.
Both Honduras and Nicaragua offer
exceptional inducements TO immigrants.
Honduras offers the settler free land to
till. the farming implements to use, and
exemption from military service.
Nicaragua does still better. Her con-
gress is now considering proposition to
supplp funds to pay the travelling ex-
penSes of hundred agricultural families
a year. The funds for this purpose
will be placed in the hands of Nicara-
CYAN consuls at various points. To each
family will be given outright the neces-
sary amount of land. Agricultural tools
worth $50 and 800 in money will be
loaned to him. He will be allowed five
years in which to repay the loan
Except along the coasts and IN few
low living interior lands. there is no more
healthful region anywhere than in these
two republics. The table lands will af-
ford pasturage for millions of cattle.
The soil is remarkably fertile, and the
gold and silver mines have lGver been
developed And there has not been a
revolution In either state for several
wears.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
An eastern paper, in attempting to d

An eastern paper, in attempting to de-
fend the much discussed, and more
cussed, Irvine combine in building COR
ner on binding Irvine and almost doub-
ling the price of that very necessary ar
ticle to the farmer. quotes leading
manufacturer of Pennsylvania as saying
that ''what he made on spinning would
not keep him in cigars The remark is
no doubt meant to be conclusive and
convincing to the farmers that they
ought to meekly submit to the exactions
placed upon them without murmur,
but the farmers will be incredulous
enough to tell that manufacturer, ct al,
to quit smoking; and there is infinitely
more business and argument in it than
there is in the assertion quoted. Nor
will it serve the purpose of the combine
or its apologists to assert that the opposi-
ton to the methods of this or any other
combine is Democratic buncombe, full
minated for political effect. The princi-
pie Of protection, which the Republican
party upholds and defends, has nothing
to do with and is not responsible for any
such methods, and that party will and
does condemn them as severely as any
language can express.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09

The condition of affairs in Iowa in
relation to the eviction of settlers from
lands on which they made their homes
and resided many of them for years pre-
sents worse spectacle if possible than the
state of affairs in Ireland in the same
connection. The Iowa settlers in the
man obtained their homesteads from
the then public lands and under the
terms of the land laws and it Is a re-
markable proceeding indeed that cor
poration should receive a grant, the
terms of which would legally authorize
the disposession of the first individual
occupants. The svmpathies of liberty
and justice loving Americans go out in
spontaneity TO the Irish in the unfortu-
nate condition, and we contribute gener-
ously of our means for their relief. but
here at our very doors are more aggra-
waited cases with the government,
national and state playing the same role
as that of the English crown, that is as
sisting the evictors in their outrages
upon the citizen, and hardly so much as
a word of protest from any quarter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09

The appearance of Edgar William Nye
and James Whitcomb Riley in this city
will be an event of more than ordinary
importance to the lovers of genuine
amusement and intelligent and refined
people. AT the authors convention held
in Washington a short time since to take
action as to an international copyright
law, Mr.. Riley attracted more attention
and received more honor than any OF the
rest, all Of the prominent authors in the
country being present. Edgar William
Nye is one of the cleanest, brightest and
purest humorists in the country. His
work on the New York World is copied
into all the papers in the country and
carefully read and enjoyed. Appearing
together on the same platform, alternat-
ing during the program, they make an
evening of general pleasure that is al
ways remembered.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
KANSAS KOLLARY.

A Riley county man has invented a
harvester and threSher which, it is
claimed, will do its work for sixty cents
an acre.
The Rock Island will shorten the run
of its trains between Topeka and Denver
100 miles by using the Union Pacific S
track from River Bend to the Colorado
capital.
The employees Of the Union Pacific
who have worked for the company for
fifteen years and over will be given a
pass to any part of the road that they
may want to go.
Mark j. Kelley, the editor eff the Ed
munds, Kansas, Times, appears to be
gone for good. Not lisp has been heard
of him since his mysterious disappear
ance about two months ago.
j. r. Burton announces that he wishes
to fill the Ingalls, senatorial shoes. j. r.
would look rather lonesome III the place
where the leather bulges to admit one of
Ingalls, bunions.-Patrlot.
There is a new scandal at Atchison.
Eleven white women voted for a colored
man for councilman in the Third ward
in that city.-Ex. Where does the scan
dial come in? Didn't the colored man
have the right to run and the white
women to vote for him:
Now we know what allied Thomas
Hayden, of Valley Falls. The Register
says he died Monday, and that Ibis
death was caused by peritonetis, due to
the pressure of large aneurism on the
diaphragm, causing adhesion of that
muscle to the liver This set upinflama-
ton of the peritoneum, resulting in
death"
The herd of twenty buffalos that has
been making a farewell tour through the
east with DIR. Carver, arrived here Thurs
day morning and have been placed in
the river bottom pasture east of town
with the rest of the "only herd of living
bison. Garden City Sentinel.
One of the old and curious land marks
of this part of the country is a white
house on the south side over tina door Of
which is painted in large letters the word
saloon" 1t is asserted on good author
ity that people just from the east make
daily pilgrimages to look upon this fa-
miliar sign. Garden Sentinel.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09

The readers of the daily papers the
past three or four days cannot have fail
ed to note the. prevalence of the fire
epidemic throughout the country. 1t
would seem that the fire fiends were
turned loose in almost every town and
city throughout the land, to say nothing
of the widespread devastation wrought
over large scope of country in the
northwest Ordinary precautions against
fires appear to be of little avail in pre-
venting the ravages Of the flames when
the periodic fatality breaks loose in that
direction and holds sway. Ample in
surance seems to be about the only safe
guard against losses, and this in large
majority of cases is only partial. But
upon the principle of a half loaf is better
than no bread it becomes matter nee
essary self defense.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
HOUSEHOlO EXCHANGE.

NODDED PoTAToEs-M2sh the requisite
number with little milk aid butter; press
into buttered mold, let il stand u the oven
few minutes and then turn out upon no.
platter.
FoR Drowned potatoes. boil large potatoes
IN their skins, peel them, and when the
roast Of beef is nearly done lay the potatoes
in the driPping-pan about the meat dredge
and haste them along With the beef, and lei.
them remain in the pan long enough 70 be
not only well cooked bat Drowned over
Serve on the same platter with the roast,
arranged nicely around it.
VERY useful and inexpensive brackets for
flower pots can be obtained By bending
comusn heavy wire IN q circle, the size Of
the flower poi 1t is to bold, and securely
soldering IL Bend the wire six or eight
inches from the circle formed, forming 3
right angie. Two little screw eyes placed
Il the window castings fer tie wire 70 rest
il complete the bracket or flower pot holder.
To KEEP fannels Is much as possible
from shrinking and fe.tilg, the following -
20 be recommended: Dissolve enc ounce Of
potash IN bucke. Of water, and leave ths
fabric IN It for twelve hours Next warn
tie water, with the fabric il IT, and wash
Wit1c1G T1GD-lEs also 1.aE l1rDls1 &c
peateGly. Next ilEerse tie flannel IL 81
other liquid containing enc spoonful Of
whea; -four. 70 one backet Of water, ard
WASH In q similar manner
TEE following Is good table OF weights
sod measures for the kitchen: Fozr tea
spooafuls Of liquid enc tablespoonful: three
tesspocafuls Of CRY material, o1e :abse-
spoonful; fozr tsblespooafzis Of liqzid, ems
wine glass; one-hz.f gEl CT oze-oszrser
euVtaI; two g1ls che cuPfui- or half PIT:
sixteen taslespooufuis Of liquid ore cuptsI;
four &C ptzls q hqsid- one quart: fozr cup
fzis q four, oas pound O. o3e quart, to
s1ntuls 81 sold bzt.Er. GIG aC~z5
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09

PERSONAL PARTICULARS.

TIE boy Charles Brewster Ross, son Of
hr. Christian X Ross. was abducted from
Philadelphia, July ], 1874, and the most tire
less search since has failed 70 she'd light
upon the chilG's fate.
Dn. TALNAGE says that twenty years ago he
prayed that God would open the way for
HIN % preach through tho secular press.
Now 100000 copies Of bis sermons are
distributed in this WY.
W a Rogers Of Hsrp<rss Bsekfy Fred
Opper, 81 Ptaek. A d. Frost. % Hsv5er's
Month 2; @ M Wcl6oa, Of the sane peri
odical; James a. Wales. tho founder. and
Grant f. Hamilton, ono - tie principal
artists u 1hs Jadgs. and r J. Sicho.I, ths
artist II the a y. Kellogg Publishing Cors-
pauy, Chicago. are a. natives OF Oh.o.
Mas FRAxK LEsI-E. of sew York, IL hay
ing 50 many oTers ~ marriage that she
has got Up printed firm Of refusal, which
reads 10 this wise; 81 shall never marry
unless q name b offered ne higher nlcasd
IN the temple q faEse tsaa that le.. re By
KY husband, q which sra .hogsaad
tines proud- 20, with Eany thAaks. eeg
70 subscribe myself yozrs very try. Ma
Fr1zk Leslie"
Ms. CLEvEIAxp, according q q WASH
ing:oa lctser-wr!tcr. last sarszser tipped ths
sca.ss a, oze hundred ard seTsa.J pos.sds,
and s.3oe that tine sic las b@ea growing
heavier every zozsh Her preGss
weight u serre, Eer reos1t wS-x-ns
tours have &C; scco.1 ?.3shed roEck u %
redGc-lSn Of her surpsss fssh Il fsss. {. 10
quietly whispered ;ass bsr exercsss h&s ksd
Just IL opposite eject. sza IA. ais 10 fast
approaching ,ke sso kz-1rea poscs record
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
a Clever Parody,


Nondescript-
| stood on the bridge at midnight, as
drunk as son-of-a-gun. Two moons
rose over the city, where there ought to
have been but one. / could see their
bright reflections, in the water under
me, and | experienced fealing of Won
der and great curiosity. If only one had
been there | would not have been in
doubt, but what two moons were doing.
l could not well make out. The tide
was slowly ebbing, l could hear the
water roll, as | stood in the waveriDg
shadows TO hide from the night patrol.
How often, oh, how often, in the days
of auld lang syne, have tried to cross
at midnight, AMI got left every time.
But tonight l was not and restless, and
my mind was full of care, and the walk
that was before me was more than
could bear. | had no latch key with me.
and locked would be the door, and |
would have L, sit in the doorway, in
agony and fear, till a voice from the
window shouts Ibid the lodge hold late,
my dear" So tonight | stood there
dreaming, sand watched the restless
tide, till a cop came along with
wagon, and invited me to ride.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
ODD AND INTERESTING

THERE Is fTe-yez--ol6 c0y= II Clay Co1n,7.
D. T, that stands sixteen ard cne~azli hands
high and weighs 1,s5s pounds.
FoCE fishermen a. KaoxviIle, Tern, re
por. that while crossing the Tennessee IN a
small boat fsh Ike serpent, s-c t2lly ten
feet long, czp=zed TIE 5os; aid broke II TITO
pieces, sr6 The nea barely getting ashore
with their lives.
An Albany horse-1sn was speeding his
t-otteT TIE csker 6zy Shc-. tie borse cast .
h!-.6 shoe, wa3ch few with szoa ysoseloe
fro-a :he hocf TIA, !. Esas high IL tts ass
AID caught On q telegraph w1re. WHARF !.
hung u1,ll so-se boys sd IL down
d c-aIoCs 1sh II bzYr2sA, cz1ed sy =
nzz 81 Pensacola ]; - entirely covered
NTH SHIRT q1i-is, and 5 ineacssd n sksi
a. hard as an oysser's Which ogeas E-ses.-
Eezsh IL . VERY curious r-Azcsr, aid /; 10
altogether ooe * TIE Eos. woszter.zI spec5-
z1eE.s q Submarine lie.
a ExzEuIKo lo4t e bTc@1 was roeesi.y
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-09
OVER PRODUCTION OF MEAT.

In the course of long statistical and
exhaustive article State Senator Kelly in
his paper, the Mcpherson Freeman,
says:
This dressed beef business against
which there is an outcry has opened I'D
to Europe the largest and cheapest sup
| ply of fresh meats that ever reached
that continent, as the Argentine repub-
| lie and Australia had more cattle and
sheep in 1880 than the total number in
the United States. This then being the
condition of American beef and mutton,
an increasing product, with market be-
coming yearly more clrcumscribed, how
could prices be otherwise than depressed?
In addition to this. during the past
winter the class and receipts of cattle at
the Kansas City stock yards for the
month OF January show sufficient cause
for low prices. January receipts were
$4,000 against AZ 900 for the same month
in 1888 and $4,000 for January, 1885. The
cattle, too. were of low grade and go
upon the market as the cheapest kind of
beef. An overstocked market makes the
buyer independent as he knows that if
he fails to buy today he will have an OPP
portunrty tomorrow; whereas a scant
market stimulates every buyer to bid on
everything that comes in sight. The cat
tie market, like the wheat, for several
years has been overstocked, while a
short corn crop and hard times in the
west is causing thousands OF head to be
marketed half grown and half fatted.
Pork, the increase of which has done
no more than keep pace with population,
is bringing fairly good prices, even with
grass beef low.
Fresh meat shipments, by a general
distribution of the product, has largely
increased the consumption of beef and
mutton.
Every burden placed upon the distrib-
utatioe Of food supplies fail upon the
producer. Inspection laws enacted by
the several states would result in a re-
turn to the old method of shipping wes-
tern beef on hoof, the increased cost of
such transportation over that of the net
product falling upon the cattle raiser
Check, as this would, the quick, safe and
cheap distribution of western beef and
with the rapidly increasing quantities
we have, prices to the produces would
drop to point which we havs not seen
for many years. Rapid, cheap and safe
distribution of food supplies, must be
hand in hand with the production in
order to insure best prices. The
west of all sections, cannot af-
ford to proclaim to the world
that her great beef product is SO
infected with disease that a public health
inspector of meats has become a neces-
sity to every community. The west can
not afford to set an example which if
followed by the east, would tend to the
destruction of this industry and very
matersal depreciation in the value of
every hoof of cattle in our western prai-
ries. We can not afford to turn back in
the march of progress, hu. should keep
abreast with the impro Vements in the
commercial world, correcting evils as
they appear upon the surface, with wise
legislation, without, however, through
hasty and i'll considered measures, over
turning great systems and lines of bust
ness that have grown up in obedience to
the demands of an improved civilization.