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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
PEDIGREE CORN.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor of the Eagle
Corn is very variable in the time OF
ripening and in the yield. 1t will sur
prise you when show you the great i'm
provement that can be made by care
fully selecting the seed. and this is just
the time to attend to it, In the same
field some of the corn ripens ten to
fifteen days IN advance to the latest. By
selecting the earliest and planting it by
itself you can make it earlier and
planting the late by itself make it
later. With little care in
this respect you can make, in
a few years, different varieties, ripening a
month apart. In similar manner by
selecting the smallest corn you can de-
crease the yield. and in selecting the
largest increase it in the same proportion,
so that in a few years the largest will
yield double that Of the smallest. After
following it up number of years-and
inbreeding it-you will have produced a
pedigree corn that will reproduce itself
and become less variable and more re-
liable.
In selecting seed corn great care should
rows ard well flied at both ends. In
the reproduction of corn all parts,
Including every gain, has relative
bearing on all the other kernels,
so that by breaking off the tips before
development you can affect the remain
ing kernels SO that they will produce a
shorter ear of corn. This is a point in
corn culture never before brought out,
and in view of the increased injury be-
ing committed by the corn worm, unless
We take more pains in selecting our seed
it will gradually deteriorate by them
alone. have no doubt they have short
ened the crop this year 1000, 600 bushels.
BY carefully selecting seed corn this
year you can more than regain next
year what they have destroyed this.
Any man can make $40 for days work
saving good seed corn. by the increased
yield sure to come next year.
IL. L. BIDwELL,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
ghe aeha Badly gaoe: Sunday 8oruo September g. 1889.
PATRIOTS. NOT PIRATES.

The Topeka Capital, in the course of
an editorial on the rebellion, in which
the EAGLES casus beli is attempted to
be given, and which ends with strong
quotation from the Newton Republican,
Mayor Hudson takes occasion to declare
that Republicans are Republicans on
principle; that the Kansas Republican is
patriot, not pirate. The EAGLE most
heartily endorses the Capitals declara-
ton, and also the conclusion of the New
ton Republican that "Kansas Republi-
cans are generally Republicans because
they are patriots. and not because they
are hogs" but it is our
further idea that Kansas Republicans
being patriotic are necessarily self-re-
specting, Independent and outspoken,
the subject of no political boss nor the
tool of dominating ring which never
makes move or confers a favor except
in the interests of that ring.
The EAGLE in all it has said has not
criticized Republicans nor found fault
with Republican principles. We are of
the one and profoundly believe and glory
in the other.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
BLOW ABOUT IT.

Now that ali the Kansas towns have
been granted the Wichita rate, the ques-
ton naturally arises, what are they going
10 do with it?-kaussS City Times.
just what Kansas City did with her
bankers convention, blow about il. of
course. There is not town in the state
10 which the rate was granted. outside of
Wichita, that viii be benefited to the
amount of q thousand dollars. for the
simple reason that said towns are make
ing no shipments, worth naming, which
come under the rule.
Wichita from the first and all the way
through declared that she was only ask
ing that which she was perfectly willing
should be granted every town in the
state, especially 10 every town which
made any pretence that it did business
IN Jobbing way. The rate given
Wichita IS just as much IN the interest
OF the retailer who buys in unbroken
packages of the Kansas jobber as it was
in favor Of Wichita, therefore in the in
terest OF the consumer, and therefore. a
matter of state interest. The town or
CITY where capital IS not invested in
wholesale lines VIII neither be harmed
nor benefited by the ruling.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

food for stock and the majority Of the
farmers have something 10 sell. The abun-
dance that has been raised affords a cheap
market for those that have to buy
Benton County Banner.
Oklahoma is n natural tree country.
The renacity with which the oaks CHING 10
the edges of the creeks and seek 20 reach
out into the prairies in spite Of the annual
fires, the rapidty with which the cotton
wood ana other trees spring up as soon as
the sod is broken shows that this country
vii! soon be covered with timner If the
fires are kept out All one has tn do Is to
break the sod and a forest springs up with
out planting. Hundreds OF acres OF self
planted young forests can now be seen IN
observation-disclosures sun.
Says a citizen in an interview in the
Guthrie Herald: Noble Is bound to be "a
good town. Do you know that we have rs
large a depot there rs you have here. ami
that we have 1000 feet of side track2 And
that we have the largest stock yards III
Oklahoma? It's So and q means good
deal for us. We have also some good
stone and brick buildings and forty or fifty
good frame houses in course OF construC-
ton, good newspaper, postotIice. stores
and everything that goes To make up u
town. save a bank. We want bank and
will have one before long. The money is
about ali subscribed for the bridging o.
the river and the bridge Will be built very
soon"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
a Etlita MIX COY.

Deacon Blank, OF tie town Of Lee. owned
Erge farm and hired, among other hands,
IA man By tie name q Jacob The deacon
had baTgained that jacob should have bread
and milk for supper every night. but took
good care that tie milk was first carefully
s.iin1ed, the cream foT tbs cream pot aSd
tbs SKIN milk for Jake. Jacob ats his bread
and blue MIX thres evenings without a H1SIr-
muir. The nsxt morning tee deacon was
awakened By o. great c0znnotiea IN tbs barn
yard Looking out he saw Jacob hanging 70
his best Jerseys tai with one hand. while
with the osaer &c be.abored her with bean
pole as slss GsT sroslBd toe lncio.ugs. ''TE@rs.
gol dang yOu, sad JAKE. don't you ever
dare 70 give another drop II skin mix a.
long ~ you I've And toe SeAeoa toox good
c1rs that sns es.l't--I< Elsgcn Journal
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

The Kansas City (Kan.l Gazette, in the
following, puts the case concerning Kan
sas, her resources and possibilities, in
their true light:
The country seems to be swimming in
molasses. Uncle Jerry Rusk has got the
sorghum complaint worse than Norman
Coleman ever had it, and Secretary Rusk
is right Kansas makes the pancakes
for the world and Is bound to make the
syrup to put on them. The general
proposition has been that in case of a
war with foreign country the United
States could support herself and get
along without the abroad" We here
by simplify the proposition by declaring
that Kansas can, if compelled. get along
fairly well without calling on New Jersey
or California. She has corn, wine and
oil. which was thought in King Solo
mons time to be the very essence of life.
Kansas has beef, pork, wool, silk, corn,
wheat, coal, salt and sugar, besides
fruit, milk, butter, cheese and honey.
In another generation it is possible for
the men of Kansas 10 all weigh 200
pounds and the women 100. Think of
such a country and such conditions and
then pause and reflect on the way she
votes and her splendid majority.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
A STARTLING DISCOVERY.

Sheer at the beef inspection laws as it
may, and characterize them as unconsti-
tutionsl as much as it pleases. the Wichita
EAGLE will discover before many years,
that they are both beneficent and consti-
tutional Among the records of the SUI
preme court of the United States in the
celebrated slaughter house case in New
Orleans, passed upon years Ogo, princi-
pie was recoS niZed by that tribunal and a
precedent established which applies di-
reCtly and with great force to the right Of
a state to enact laws for the regulation of
the sale not only of meat, but of every
thing else bought and sold within its Dor
ders.-Atchison Champion.
The only point in the foregoing that
will attract any attention is the Cham
pion's discovery of decision of the U.
S. supreme court establishing the consti-
nationality of the principle involved in
the beef inspection legislation of recent
months. 1t is passing strange that not
one of the state courts nor the q. S. cir
cult court that have recently passed
upon such enactments, declaring them
in conformation of the federal constitu-
ton, was cognizant of the ruling of the
highest court of the land. What effect
this late discovery will haye upon future
legislation on the subject Of beef inspec-
ton and upon the rulings of the courts
thereon remains to be seen: but we do
not believe that on-hoof inspection laws
will be enforced for the sole benefit of
local butchers and against the interest of
the mass of consumers, ever.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
A CHEERING OUTLOOK.
Kansas City Star.

Kansas City Star.
The people who had left Kansas last
year belonged largely to that class
which do not become permanent settlers,
but which are always drifting about and
are ready to pull up and go elsewhere
when any apology for moving
presents itself. The Oklahoma boom
took many people of that kind out of
Kansas, but the loss. after all, was not
seriously appreciable, because the mi
gratory class is never Of any considerable
value to state or community. The
people who had vested interests in Kan
sas and were established in homes of
ly paid for resisting the temptation to
seek other fields. Altogether the out
look for Kansas is most cheering
ceedingly favorable to the preparation
of the ground for the wheat
crop next season, and the acreage
throughout the state will show an in
crease of nearly 80 per cent. over last
year. The harvest excursions from the
east are bringing large numbers of peo-
pie into the state who are prospecting
for homes, and the impression which the
country makes upon visitors this year
will induce many of them to return.
There is much inquiry for land, and a
lively and stronger tone in farming
property is reported from numerous Sec
tons of the state. A state which can
produce in one year enough to make up
for the failures of two is not going back
wards: Kansas will not retrograde. 1t
will continue to grow and expand, and
will triumph in the future over all dis
couragements, as it has in the past.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

Fx-Treasurer E. A. Burke, of Louisi-
ana, who is accused of completely In the
alleged bond frauds in that state, Will
return from London and assist In
Strengthening the matter up, at least to
the extent of proving his own innocence
of the charge against him. 1t will be
remembered that it was almost wholly
through his ceaseless energy and bust
ness tact that the Worlds Exposition at
New Orleans few years ago, Of which
he was the leading spirit both in its III
ception and management, that 1T was
saved from fiat failure as was freely pre-
dicted and for time seemed inevitable.
1t is hoped that he will be able to exon
crate himself from the accusations now
laid against him, and the promptness
with which he returns to meet them Is a
point in his favor.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
THE KANSAS CITY, LAWRENCE s
WICHITA.
From the Emporia Republican.

From the ETnporia Republican.
The surveying corps, numbering thir-
teen men, under Engineer Brown, ran
one line through the city on Wednesday
The line crosses the Neosho river Just
north of the Wells Ford bridge and en-
tiers the city on Twelfth avenue near the
head of Sylvan street, thence down
Sylvan TO First avenue: thence west on
First until Central avenue is reached,
when 1t continues on Central avenue TO
the city limits. The second line was fin
ished yesterday morning. II strikes the
city limits west of the Normal and con-
tinues south on Congress street TO Ninth
avenue. 1t then runs west on Ninth
avenue and the Ninth avenue road for
nearly two miles and turns south. cross
ing the Santa Fe track one mile west Of
the ronnd house.
The general direction through the
country is from the northeast to the
southwest. The line viii probably be
run near the Ashlar postoffice in Chase
county. Nothing definite can be reach
ed from the lines run and the exact To-
cation Of the road is still! a matter 10 be
determined. The surveyors camp viii
lie moved TO Phenis creek today. The
surveyors are at work south OF the Santa
Fe railroad this morning.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
FASHIONS FOR MEN.

The lates: fad in bicycle bre,ches is ia Jer.
sey made gooCs
La length the winter overcoat viii extend
to the top OF the knee cap.
Black hosiery is stiil fashionable. though
tan, blue ami gray socks are worn.
Blue coats aud brass buttons have been
worn by fashionable French bridegrooms tbis
summer.
For overcoats tho smooth surface goods o,
the kcrsey melton school Will lie the most
popular.
For full dress occasions patent leather Shoes
continue 10 be worn, and may be either laced
or buttoued.
The black, lusterless finish fabrics will r.
generally chosen for the full dress suits and
hne froc> coats.
Walking shoes for men come in form Of
buttoHel CATERS, and may be tipped with
patent leather or not, as best suits the wearer
The handkerchief preferred by good dress
ers Is Of fine, strong linen, with narrow hefn
aud monogram. or initial embroidered IN oue
corner.
Trousers viii be fashioned upon the same
roomsoEae straight cut Of last spring. with
perhaps a shade more OF inclination 70 tia
PEE top.
The uudrassed kids or suede gloves, which
had quite run during the latter part Of last
winter wiz find increased favor in the fnu
among the best dressers
To top vest button VAL be triG lower in
the fan styles. The vest viii be made with
notched lapel and the opening curved 10 just
perceptib-e degree, no more
Numbered with Injuries come silk sGspen.
ders with gold OF slveT buckles. necktie hold
ers Of gold set with gems, night shirts ~
China six with cnlored etnhroiacrIes, and
bedroom jackets Of foUlard silk, cut ia sacqus
shape.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

With anluntiring hand.
Time tolls the years of one by one.
IN rhythmic cadence sweet and low,
For me the silver bell with tender
Touch today he tells the number
Flfty-eight; the mellow echoings
OF the last firm stroke. falls on my ear
As sounds the farewell wo1 Dis of some
Loved friend, and as list ponder
Questioning: Can II be so.
Sped and more, since / bare foot boy
BY Chesters stream beneath the laurel
Shade dreamed many a drowsy summer
Day away. or with my sisters hand
Close elapsed in mine trudged through
The grassy meadows to the village school?
And when the evening shadows kissed
Mothers knee, who with her loving hand
Upon my head taught me to say.
NOW, Lord lay me down to sleeps"
And on the Sabbath sat upon the
Pulpit stair and trembling, listened
To the sombre tones of him who with
Artistic touch. depicted the sad fate
or those why did not, as he taught!
1t seems so strange, but nnst be
For as stop
And look around realize the
Topmost crest of life for me has
Been attained, a backward glance adown the
Morning slope reveals the fragrant
Flowers OF LIES sweet spring. The fruits
Abundant, rich and fair, that crown
Maturer age, stand out in sharp relief
All softly tinted with the golden rays
OF LIES autumnal sun.
And vet
I know life has not been ali bright,
/ o me, as 10 my fellows GRIEF mas come,
Tears of bereavement Oft have followed
Each the other down my cheek, and
Bitter signs have caused my breast, so
Calm today, 10 swell il agony.
But somehow
In this backward glance these shadows
Fade amid the halos Of the bow
OF nope, which spanned each day. and
Mingles with the sunlight OF my joys,
And all seems fair and good.
Now with trust
And calm begotten of the past peer
Into the dim beyond with confidence,
And into which thrust my arm
And grasp the hand that never, never fails.
e. p. FORD
Wichita, Kan, Seprem Der q, 1859.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

The worlds fair convention at st. Jo-
seph has been changed from October
to October 3, on account of the deep
harbor convention in Topeka on the LIST.
This convention is not called in the in
terest of any particular city, but for the
purpose of uniting the west in behalf of
some western city as against any eastern
or Atlantic seaboard point Most of the
cities Of the west and southwest have
already selected representatives to attend
the convention and all should do so. 1t
is a most important matter that the
worlds fair be held near the center of
the country. St. Louis comes nearer
filling all the requirements of suitable
than any other place; nevertheless, if
upon a comparing OF notes it is decided
shat another point in the great central
region is more preferable the west wants
10 be in position to act unitedly and in
telhgently in striving 70 secure the great
event
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
Trade With Mexico.

hansas City star.
About 5000 hogs have been shipped up
to date for the present month from Kan
sas City TO Mexico. None but the largest
animals are selected for this purpose and
the average weight will not fall much
below 800 pounds. This makes an AK
gregate shipment of hogs alone for less
than month Of 100000 pounds. This
is the trade of single city in a single
commodity with the Republic of Mexico,
and the way to protect 1t IS for the
United States to allow Mexico the privi-
leges which she is ready 10 extend TO
this country If she can count upon a
reciprocity of favors.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
suNFLowER sHADOwMGs.
Seeds, Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sHs

| SEEDS, Slips Scicrs Sprouts, Shoots and Siivers
This, remarks an exchange, has been {
hard week on cap C's.
Rice county is sending broom corn &c
jamestown, n. Y, for manufacture.
The Marion Record thinks Marion coun
| ty corn ought to be sold by the cord thi:
year.
| The creamery company of Cheney have
raised the price of milk from hfty-hve &C
seventy cents.
| The Leavenworth glucose works COM
menced fall operations yesterday with a
force of $50 men.
!. NJ. Yost, of Hays City, has bought
| 100000 bushels of wheat ut his two eleva-
| tors at Victoria and Hays.
| The man who don't know anything about
| horse won't know anything at all, to all
show is in progress.
Every male child born in America, ="
says writer, Stands a chance OF becon1-
ing president of the United States" speci-
ally hansans, says an exchange.
Haskell institute now has the largest
number of pupils in its history. Thirty
six Pottawatomie Indian children were
brought TO the institute this week.
X. c. Star; Atchison has had buck
wheat mill which may explain the COM
mon spectacle in that city OF men backing
up to lamp posts TO scratch their backs.
If man goes down the main street at
Caldwell with felon on his finger, care
fully wrapped up, every man. woman and
child he sees will insist on looking at it.
When you see an item beginning, 1.-TWO
pend upon it that it is something about
the Kansas crops, says the Topeka
journal.
According to the Atchison Globe there is
a man In that town with two girls watch
ing by his sick bedside. He is engaged to
both OF them. At this stage of the game
he is a raving maniac. on purpose, and is
afraid TO come TO.
Burglars loaded the safe in Fulkerson's
mill at Lowell. Cherokee county. Wednes-
day night and not only blew the safe all to
pieces but blew one end of the mill into
the river, destroying the purifiers and
other machinery. No money was obtained.
President Marvel, the successor of w.
Il Strong, calls ii the santa F'e." That
will 90 a great deal toward reconciling
Kansas toward the change in the manage
ment of the road. Mr.. Touzalin used TO
speak of it as the ''AJchison," and it re-
quired close vigilance TO Keep the people
from tearing up the track.
Looking Backward is percolatiDg
slowly through the rural press OF Kansas
and seems TO be producing undue excite
ment. One editor devotes IA column or
two to "refIiting" Mir, BeIlanys IDEAS;
just as if the 100000 cope of Kansas III
IA few days, were about to assemble them
selves together i'll TIE middle o. some big
Kansas prairie and remodel the entire
social system To accord with Mr.. Ballamy's
plan. There is as yet no cause TO get ex-
cited. W. must a. least hold things to
gether until corn planting time comes
again,-StaLe Journal.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

'The American people" remarks
George Martin the next day after the
bankers banquet, at which he held down
a prominent chair, pay too much for
their drinks" With the facility for OBJ
tanning the goods mentioned the observa-
ton, from its source, is not surprising.
1t must be trying to a fellow thus
situated, but we dare say our friend Will
be able to beer up under it.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

OF the fifteen contested election cases
that will come before the Fifty-first con-
gress all but one are from the southern
states. The testimony in each case has
been printed and is ready to be submit
ted as soon as the new congress is organ
lied: it covers IA, 554 printed pages. The
cases are as follows: Chalmers VS.. Nor
gan, Mississippi; Langton VS.. Venable,
Virginia: Posey VS.. Parrot, Indiana; Mil
Ter VS.. Elliott, South Carolina: Bowen VS..
Buchanan, Virginia; Kernaghan VS..
Hooker, Mississippi; Threet VS.. Clark,
Alabama; Atkinson VS.. Pendleton, West
Virginia: McDuffie VS.. Turbin, Alabama;
Hillvs. Catchings, mississippi; Colder
lex vs. Bullock, Florida; Eston VS.. Phe-
Ian. Tennessee; Mudd VS.. Compton,
Maryland; Featherston VS.. Cate, Arkan-
sas; McGinnis VS.. Anderson, West Nir-
ginia; Smith vs. jackson. West Virginia.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
kansas So secretaries

Kansas state SeCretaries
Atehison Champion.
The following is complete list of the
secretaries of state since Kansas became
a state: John W. Robinson, deceased
1861 to 1862; L. K. Shepherd, Ito fill va
cancy) Leavenworth, 1862 to 1853: W. II.
II. Lawrence, Santa Fe. \. NJ. 1863 to
1868; 4. T. Barker, Atchison, 1865 to 1869:
Thomas Moonlight, Leavenworth, 1863
to 1871; ". II. Smailwood, Duluth,
Mimi, 1871 to 1919: Thomas II. Cava-
naugh, Olympia. Wash. 1915 10 1879;
James Smith, Topeka, 1919 to 1885; f. b.
Allen, Wichita, 1885 to 1889; William
Higgins, Topeka, the present incum-
bent.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29

The scholarly editor of the Newton
Republican is inclined to be skeptical
concerning the science of meteorology.
He says ''there is now speculation as to
whether the storm along the Atlantic
seaboard was an "equinoctial." Giving
this thing three months vacation, as
believers in it do, some one of the many
storms we have has to be an equinoctial.
But the suns crossing the equator, or
the equator's crossing the sun, has about
as much to do with the storms as the
flowers that bloom in the spring have to
do with the case, or as much as the
moon has to do with the potato CROP
Yet the world abounds in treatsies on
the subject, and holy writ contains many
texts upon it, all tending to prove that it
belongs strictly to the fixed laws that
govern the universe in every department
and detail,
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-29
Survival OF the Eittesc

Prom the b c Star.
Miss Williams, of Topeka. defeated
Miss White, of St. Louis, IN the ten mile
eGuestrienne race 1T the Topeka fair
And thus the state of John Brown and
jim Lane once more asserts It's ancient
supremacy over the state OF Bob Younger
and Jesse James.