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Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
PROHIBITION IN MASSACHUSETTS

Atlanta Constitution.
The people of Massachusetts, are to
vote on the prohibition question on the
22d of April, license or no license being
the issue.
Massachusetts has probably had more
experience with the prohibition question
than any other state in the union, hav-
ing tried the regulation of the liquor
traffic by nearly all of the plans which
have been devised. Under the present
temperance laws of the state, any town
can vote to prohibit the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors at any annual election. The
license fees are very high, and the re-
strictions are exceedingly rigid.
The state has already voted on the
question, and gave $4,000 majority in
favor of license. The Prohlbitionists
expected to overcome this at the next
election, but they have been disappoint-
ed in the loss of some of the strongest
inf1aences on which they counted. The
Boston Congregationalist, a religious pa
per of great influence among the people
of New England, announces against
the proposed amendment as follows:
''For many years we had great faith
that the most stringent possible prohlbl-
tory law would prove absolutely effective.
ana we sui DelleVe tHaU III homogeneous
populations, well leavened with morality,
and where decided majority heartily IA
vors it, such law would prove sufficient.
But experience has constrained US reluct-
antly to doubt whether in old established
communities, made up largely of persons
of foreign birth, training and taste, and
wherein great vested interests already
exist, to be disturbed and overthrow by
absolute prohibition, such policy can at
present make itself adequate and prove
itself triumphant"
Several ministers who have heretofore
been jealous advocates of prohibition
will not support the amendment this
time. being satisfied that the exercise of
such careful restriction as has been
thrown around the liquor traffic in Mas
sachusetts is better for the cause of tenn
perance than prohibition law which
does not prohibit. Conservative esti-
mates place the majority against the
at about 10000.
High license and restriction is the true
solution of the prohibition question, and
it looks as if the people of Massachusetts
are about to decide that way as the re-
suit Of their experience.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Probably no English platform speaker
can make more money than Stanley in the
American lecture field. II. II. Johnston,
the explorer OF Kilimanjaro and the Up
per Congo, has just been appointed, at
twenty eight years of age, British Consul
at Zanzibar, where he gets big salary.
Joseph Thomson has made a competency
out of his books, and has been handsome
ly paid besides to hunt for coal fields in
the Sultan Of Zanzibar's dominion. Bur-
ton, the discoverer Of Lake Tanganyika,
has made a comfortable fortune by the
sale Of his books. Among Prejevalsky's
brilliant honors is his promotion to Gen.
eralship in the Russian army, and Greedy
has been advanced from Lieutenant to
Brigadier-General,a and manages the Sig
al-Service Bureau
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
A WICHITA BENEFIT.

From the Fl. Scott Monitor.
The Wichita EAGLE gets up on its hind
legs and howls in this wise about a
measure passed by the legislature, senate
bill $40, providing for the election of
supervisor:
Now we fully agree with the EAGLE
about 379, but why does the EAGLE abuse
the legislature? If the EAGLE will ex-
anime the law as passed it will find that
instead of applying only to cities having
a police commission, it applies only to
cities having cast 5000 votes at the last
election. This provision was inserted at
the instance of the senators and repre-
sentatives from Atchison, Fort Scott and
Leavenworth, for the purpose of exempt
ing Atchison, Fort Scott and Leaven-
worth from its provisions. The bill was
passed under the impression that the
good citizens of Wichita. Topeka and
Kansas City desired such'a law. The most
of the time of the members from Bour-
bon, Atchison and Leavenworth was
spent, while at Topeka, getting amend
ments exempting the three best cities in
Kansas from the provisions of double
triggered legislation emanating from the
Peerless Princess of the Plains and the
delectable environments of the kaw's
mouth
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
KANSAS KCLLARY.

The Atchison street car strike has been
| declared off.
Cawker City has organized a fire de-
partment and is building cistern for its
engine.
Galena, Kansas, has been suffering
from an epidemic of cerebro spinal men
nights and thirteen deaths have been re-
ported.
A prospector near Parsons has been
offered one hundred dollars per ton for
ore taken from shaft. Ii is mixture
of silver and lead.
\ system of water works and fine
growth and progr ess of Tribune this
year-Enterprise-
The Atchison Champion says John y.
Reynolds has secured a glee clubof three
colored criminals, and will take the road
again in few days on lecture tour.
Wolf drives are still the rage in soma
portions of the state. The farmers In
the southern division are just now en-
gagged in hedging against the insatiate
beasts by industriously turning up the
sod.
President Stotler, of the Kansas state
board of charities, announces that the
appropriations for the state benevolent
intitutions made by the last legislature
are inadequate and that serious incon-
venience will result.
The Atchison Patriot says another sec
ton of the work done by the government
on the east bank OF the river opposite
that place has gone down stream At
Ibis rate the government will soon b.
table 10 indictments for obstructing run
ming water.
Salina girls are said 10 be the finest,
smoothest whisslers IN the state. When
they quicker for tune they are 90 dew
iIish winsoIne that the males, particu-
larly the newspaper fellows. are com
pletely demoralized. The giris take con-
siderable risk if they oaly knew it.
The colored citizens of Leavenworth
held meeting the other night and sol
EMMY resolved that the time has come
when their race should have representa-
ton IN the municipal government. They
propose TO name candidate for council
man in one ward and member Of the
school board.
One year ago John Brown. aged 81.
living at Ottawa, concluded not TO live
any longer with his S5-vezr-o.d wife
and secured divorce. He managed 20
live through the spgins. summer and
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

One of the dangerous curiosities of
electric appliances was noted in New
York recently. A small iron plate on
the surface of Beekham street became
charged with electricity Saturday owing
to a leak iii the Edison conduit and every
time horses foot struck it he received
shock. Beekham street being narrow.
the trucks took up the entire width and
horses in plenty came in contact with
the iron plate. The animals Were great
ly frightened and became almost I'M
manageable. 1t is little wonder that
brutes are frightened at the manifesto
tion of electricity. Man has not vet
dared TO grasp its ultimate possibilities.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
THE RETURN TO POWER.
New York Tribune.

New York Tribune.
1t is for the Republican party, which
| assumes power again, to show itself
worthy of public confidence. Its glori-
Gus past will not be recognized as en-
titling it to perpetual power if it falls
short in the present performance of duty.
Practical common sense Americans, who
look straight at parties and politicians
without any binding reverence or CLAM
our, have trusted the Republican party
to serve the public intrests with courage
and fidelity, and they will look to have
their expectations met. The man who
is afraid of Republican principles, if
there be such man left in the ranks
after the educating experiences of the
past. is not the mania for the work that
is to be done. The man who wants
chiefly to please Democrats and mug
wumps and the sitters-on-the-fence
whose political capital is their freedom
from political convictions, will find II
easier 10 please them out of place and
office for the present. For the country
has intrusted power to Republicans, be-
cause of their Republican principles. and
in the confidence that brave and manly
and faithful application of those princi-
pies to the problems of the day will
bring the country better government
and larger prosperity. The president
elect, unless the country is mistaken in
him, is the right man to lead in that
work, and upon the wisdom and earnest
purpose which Republicans bring to his
support therein viii depend the future of
the party.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

fall all right. but the winter brought
him to terms He came To himself, so
to speak, and he has remarked his old
wife.
a. 0. Craig, who lives ten miles north
west of Concordia, was fatally injured, d
few days ago. by a large Holstein bull
He had just led the animal into the pas
TUE and turned to close the gate, when
the bull dashed upon him, his right horn
striking him in the small of the back
two or three inches to the left of the
spine, and passing entirely through him,
making a terrible wound with an open
ing of three or four inches in front. Thus
impaled the bull tossed him up with
great force against the roef of a shed by
the gate. Just as he fell his dog, faith
full animal that had saved his life from
an infatuated bull once before. seized the
bull by the nose and held him until Mr..
Craig got into the shed. The Concordia
Empire says that the physicians enter
tain little hopes of his recovery. He is
one of the most enterprising farmers In
that section of the state.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Afraid Shed spou M. ro.m.

'No, sir, thank you. I never take q
gcntleman's seat In a street-car. II Is not
right
''Sit down, instantly, miss, or you'll spoil
my poem"
Certainly. sir, II you insist What poem
DO you refer tor
my lstes. 1t is about s:reet-c2rs, and
one verse, the best one, is this.
"Stand up II you're :sred. lei some lady sis
down;
She'll be seated, and then repay you with .
frown-
Oh, the horses are lazy. the driver is crazy.
Nov, sin'I !, daisy, the Arch street street
eaE.'
tsDon't you see, miss, that &, polite
isdy is ne; Oh the street-car she Ia liable %
spol that versel Excuse ny sbrIp,ness,
but any thing Ike politeness from a lady n
st-est-car is cut CT tae regular line OF ex-
perieuce. a miracle, Ia fact 1 couldn't
permit you 70 stand after yo1 were 30 lady
Ike"
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

In 1888. during . tour Ia Eurups. Don
Pedro II, The EmperW Of Bnasa, spert
some tine n Cannes. Il - sad shss The
editor Of French srzsuxzac naSax.rs
waited On ha ASjssy aus aDfnang sad
begged hfn 20 write . ssrss Of pa
pers on BrazJ for The perso6icsl Ths En-
peror was agi.e wiling 70 comply with tAs
request, bet a&xe6 VIVA: be vosd b pad
for the Articles. On tie exsitoy naming Is
price which be vss "a ne habit 81 psyfsg,
Don Pedro sxsd Ia: 10 wcsld Do vary Vel.
and H1so wen. on 70 tai why hs lad raised
the question OF payment 'FYOs see. hs
remarked, Il vosld giAdy write Tor rS;A-
Ing. bat an nos ~ he<rsy 20 DC %. - svsr
sines I begzs wnrsgf hsvs gtvca every
penny I hare ezrnsd BY ~ brz.1 &c a
orphan asyhza n ny espstar' fFSo Do
Janesro}. One nHs: hoSe Tia: liza Sr<.sy
scecztuSe = lrzA
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The formation of bureau of agricul-
ture and the appointment of an addition
al cabinet officer TO represent this impor-
tant feature in our national wealth is a
matter that should have the apprecia-
ton of the agriculturists and horticul-
turiSts of the country. The Importance
of this branch of the nations riches is
surely deserving of as much attention as
the war or the navy, in peaceful times
at least, and while it may not call for
the exercise Of as high degree of states
manship, yet it is of sufficient conse-
quence to get its just acknowledgment
by special representation. The wants OF
our farmers and fruit growers in the var.
ious sections of the country will hereaf-
ter be better looked after. and the unjust
discrimination from which they have
frequently suffered by railroad oppres.
sion and corners will be in better
hands for regulation.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Fl. E. BIDwELL.

The Atchison Champion is still tor
mented by that terrible nightmare, the
cattle combine C9. 1t says 1.-The dressed
beef monopolists are raising the howl of
oyer production as an explanation of
the widespread ruin and disaster they
have brought on the stockraisers of the
country. This is the excuse monopolists
always make, in explanation Of wreck
and ruin caused by their greed and ava
rice" OF course, in the Champions
opinion, the testimony of the legislative
committee that went TO Kansas City and
The City of Kansas in their report to
that body after investigating the subject,
either stultified themselves or did not
know what they were talking about.
But it were hopeless task to undertake
to convince our e. C. that the question of
supply and demand has anything to do
with the matter, and as it is obsolete now
as far as legislation is concerned
it is proftless to discuss it.
We will remark, however, that if the
Champion could divest itself of bias for
the moment it could discover within its
own bailiwick the real reason why the
retail price of green meats is not lowered
in conformity to the prices of live stock.
1t might find a combine, but 1t would be
of different sort to the one it inveighS
so bitterly against.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Monev Coouta.

add yo1 ever read 'An:ooy aad Geo
patra,' Mr. De G1lperi"
II have read o fev lines, here and there.
Bot don't 20 nEch On Spozeshake
DO you believe there is aay truth Ia thss
little sentence: There's begyary IN the
love that can be reekonedF"
Il DUE 10, Mss Wilmer. j rziy DIM 10
But there's 10 beggsry IN ny nasx 40
count Dye wzs: ter &c. wascx q Ey
pier
Il 90 70. urders;asc yoa. s.r.n
81 mean Jas. ihAs: I've get mere Eoc.y
Il al Antoay and bis gsri had between bosa
Of 'eza- YoG k4H kev h2lf i1seres. ito II
If ycu'l change yer nare % De Gr.per.
There hain'; n poetry TITO ne, bas Eve q:
spo. cash What sxyFp
'-Oa- Jon gallant Ean- you must asx ny
pa Ia wiling II b. IS: bit &c VIII nos
give no upr
"Baa. Hes already g1n 30 - pad
hsa so fo- ks pcrnlakss. to- sSArs ys." !.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
So, Probably.
Bluff City Herald.

The latest objection to opening the ter
ritory is that all along the border there
will be towns started TO sell whisky to
Kansans and Kansas towns and go to the
bow vows. That makes US think of the
old maid that was looking into a well
and suddenly began to weep bitterly.
Some friend kindly asked her what was
the trouble, when she sobbingly replied:
"How sad it would be if | should get
married and have baby and it should
fall into this well and be drowned"
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

a Washington correspondent of the
Globe-Democrat says that the Kansas
delegation have united on Congressman
Perkins for assistant secretary of the
interior, and on Congressman Ryan
for minister TO Chill. What Kansas
would like would be the commission OF
Indian affairs for Perkins, He voald
fill the bill in q splendid way. Ryan
would be all right for Chill and we are
for Tom.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The ages of President Harrison's cab
met are: Mr.. Blaine is SO years old, Mr..
Window 81, Mir. Proctor, 56, Mr.. Tracey
SO, Mr.. Noble IS, Mr.. Miller 81, Mr..
Wanamaker 80 and Mr.. Rusk 80. Aver
age nge 81 years, the acme of vigorous
manhood
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The death of Representative Town
shend of Illinois, is an event, like that OF
the late James N. Burnes of Missouri, in
the nature of public calamity. AL
though Democrat he was not parti-
san of the Mills or Breckenridge type
and his long public service gave him al
intimate knowledge of national affairs
which, coupled with his personal integ
rity, rendered his services to the country
next to invaluable. The nation mourns
his loss
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Equal suffrage does not appear a very
growing sentiment in any portion of the
country Just now. The Maine legisla-
ture last week defeated a proposition to
provide that privilege by a vote of 80 to
90. The experiment has not proven a
glowing success in all that has been
claimed for it anywhere it has been tried,
and this no doubt accounts, in part at
least, for the disposition manifested on
the part of lawmakers to make haste
slowly in extending the elective fran
chise.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Some of the old mossbackers and one
old Greenbacker at junction CITY are
getting their various backs up because
the last legislature changed the name of
their county from Davis to Geary-the
Davis being jeff, ard the Geary the third
governor of Kansas territory. Let EN-
howl. breckenridge county was changed
to Lyon and st. John was changed to
Garfield. The tendency seems to be. so
far as Kansas is concerned, traitors to
the rear, patriots to the front.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Geo. w. Crane has purchased the book
bindery and publishing house OF Ram
sew, Millet & Hudson and will take
charge of the same Immediately. The
losses by his late fire at Topeka have all
been adjusted, we understand, SO that
his new house in Kansas City will be as
strong as his old one at Topeka before it
b,1rpad ont
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The Kansas City Times is just now
trying to elect Freetrader Garfield chan
cellor of the state university, vice Lip
pencott resigned. If the Times succeeds,
and it is likely to, there will be nice
old family row in the Republican family
Of Kansas in which bigger men than
Garfield will stand a good chance of
losing their heads.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

General Harrison uttered one thought
of great force and beauty in his farewell
address at indianapolis, on his way to
Washington to take up the reins of the
national government.
There is great sense of loneliness in
the discharge of high public duties. The
moment of decision is one of isolation.
But there is One whose help comes even
into the quiet chamber of judgment, and
to His wise and unfailing guidance will /
look for direction and safety"
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Hon. John II. Edwards, formerly a
prominent Kansan, died at Hermosa,
Mexico, on the 2Sth of last month. He
laid out the town Of Ellsworth and built
the first house in that county. He had
gone to Mexico to retrieve losses sus-
tanned by fire. He died of heart disease.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The woman suffragists in Dakota are
rs persistent as the legislature Is de-
termined. Three times the former came
smiling with petitions for suffrage pro-
vision in the laws of the territory and
three times the legislature knocked them
out. Men who can withstand billiards.
of the Dakota sort and women Of the
suffrage mould are good ones.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The protracted and serious illness of
Justice Mathews, of the U. S. supreme
court has been seized upon by the pro-
fessional slate makers to name his sue
ressor. Judge Gresham is perhaps as
good man for the position as any that
could be named, but we are mistaken in
our estimate of the man if he does not
emphatically condemn the use of his
name III that connection SO inopportune-
~ as is being done by some. This haste
TO apportion mans official estate is one
of the scandals of the times.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Just think Of it. While we of sunny
southern Kansas have been luxuriating
the past week in the balmiest spring
weather imaginable bleak New England
has been suffering under the worst WIN
ter weather of the season. No wonder
the population of that region shows a
steady decrease while the scale slides up
ont barp
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Alaska cost this government s., 200, 900
twenty-one years ago. Since that time
this government has received over s., OOo,-
600 for the seal fishing privileges alone
No, thank you, Canada, Alaska is not
for sale Just now.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Friday morning at s O'Clock the
Female Orphan college. situated at Cam
den Point, Platte county, Mo-. burned TO
the ground. This institution was the
property Of the Christian church of the
state of Missouri, and was considered by
everyone TO be the foremost institution
of learning in the northwest. The build
ing cost over 500. 600.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

'<So Ezn evsr c.zse cut 81 Wan street.
without iost,g," cso.s bs.nrfH
"Yca're wrosg, es1e CIT w1teocs los-
i,y ocai." rsslsed wl.ssrn
WAY, y0z bo~s COO Estllson'
.EYcu are nass taken. str. Ny c1ufitsrp
la. Z "-uz-y<r's A<sx-.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The Lawrence Journal can't under
stand why the men who are abusing
Plumb '.for defeating Oklahoma. at the
same time praise Perkins for pushing
Piumb's substitute through the house.
lis kind o queer.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
The Most Honorable Occupation.

Saina Republican.
the age of Salinas fair sex that we look
ed at the registration books, but to see
what occupation the women claimed. 1t
was gratifying to see a goodly number
of plain housewives. If there is any oc-
cupation more honorable than another it
is that Of housewife.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

Mss Es.1s0o-psd ia ksocr .: tie door
wien yoz care 70 ssgai 0soyxsi
Mr.. Taass~sy-Ysz, Any. WY 90 pa
aakt
Mss Esschoo fssJiyl-I tacrSAt y<rhsss
yoa lad erze with rsrR-Pscx
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

The early morning train eastward,
leaving Wellington at 80 a. m. and re
turning at $40 r. N. on the Southern
Kansas has been discontinued.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

What's the Matter With Being Both.
St. John News.
The EAGLE claims that Wichita is the
center of population. This is a great
mistake. Wichita is not the center of
population, but the center of gravitation.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Our Silk Department.

Shows the greatest
AS speciality for this offer silks at 5c
and $2l yard Black Rean de Soir (
Black Rhadame extra heavy, 7S All popular goods
stock pick
Received another vast French Sanes
GOOdS French GnghamS fine
soonest patterns designed for this Never
OSeiect anything the
complete
Madame T1bbets having returned from
patrons
Our saeof Ladies Spring Wraps surpassed anything
pecd This week will be better those
Beaded Wraps Cloth popular
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

A pEonEsrcE Suggests tAAs fros>ws<k
nxxes an a2srepr.~ss fr.eze Jar - -
kcz1es
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
lnaugurations for this Week.
Another Great Variety of Atwood Sere

Whip cords Henrettas and all the weaves in dress
GOODS all spring shades
est grades t
We have added many stylish things novelty dress
patterns Othe
than to learn the latest spring styles.
BLACK DRESS GOODS.
No larger variety the especially
tractive. " 49,
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Too Much Conscience, Perhaps.

There is great deal of cowardice in
this world. Some are too cowardly to
be good and some are too cowardly to be
bad.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12
Ladies Muslin Underwear

We have marked lots at 15c 25 and
0 Some are slightly so1ed and othe extra large
but the price Is actually nothing such goods
Mems unlaundried Shirts 49 and oSc No
fered at the prices.
Wichita eagle., 1889-03-12

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