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Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

OF February was selected. In the latter
year the day was changed to the I'D, TO
adapt it to the new style. During the first
term of the Presidency Of Washington his
birthday was celebrated by visits of con-
graduation, and by balls, parties and other
festivities, not only in Philadelphia, but in
many Of the principal cities and towns in
the Union, notwithstanding the fact that
quite a number Of carpers were alarmed by
what they considered ''step in the dlrec-
tion of rnonarcny
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
THE COTTONWOOD TREE.
Atchison Champion.

Atchison Champion.
Captain Dan Able, of st. Louis, comes
to the defence of the much abused cot
tonwood tree, He says it is crowdlng
white pine out of the market for certain
purposes, and is worth in New Orleans
$65 per thousand, while white pine is
worth only S35. Every cracker box
used in st. Louis is made of cottonwood,
and for fruit barrels it has proven supe-
rior. 1t holds nails better than most
woods and for many building purposes it
it better and far more durable than pine,
poplar, or many other woods. 1t is also
capable of a fine polish after certain
treatment, and so is coming to be much
priced for interior decorations. As re-
suit of these demands tracts of lands
covered with cottonwood are becoming
more valuable than they were a few
years ago.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
a Remarkable Experiment.

The Academic de Medicine in Paris
has received news of an extremely inter-
esting operation which lately took place
in Germany. A negro was treated at
Leipsic for some cutaneous trouble, and
it was found necessary to substitute the
flesh of several white people for some of
his own that had to be cut away. These
particles in short time grew darker,
and finally became the color of the rest
of his body. This strange result led the
physicians to reverse the operation, and
the flesh of negro having been ingraft-
ed on that of white man in short
time lost its color and became like the
rest
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The storm in Simmer county Tuesday
night was more widespread and destruc-
tive to property than was at first report
ed. Hunnewell, South Haven, Rome
and other points in the southern part of
the county suffered considerable in dam
age to buildings, trees, etc, and at Wei
hngton it was even more severa. No
other lives than that mentioned in yester-
days dispatches have been reported lost.
1t was q severe not to say significant ex-
perience TO the Oklahoma emigrants who
happened to be in its wake. If they es-
cape further storms of whatever kind
before becoming peaceably domiciled in
their Oklahoma homes they Will indeed
be lucky.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
Look Out for a Big Strike.

1t is rumored that all the railroads
west of the Missouri river will reduce
the wages of employees, the reduction to
take effect the Goth of the present
month. The order will apply not only
to one class of employees, but to ali Class
es from engineers and firemen down to
yard men. This rumored reduction is,
it is claimed, the result of the heavy fall
ing off of freight and passenger earnings
of the past year. The roads have not
notified their men that their wages are
to be reduced, and for this reason the
rumor is not generally believed. Never
theless, the employees are prepared to re-
ceive such notice, and some of them de-
clare that big strike will follow.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

1t must be kind o tiresome to the hab-
itues of the portions of Ohio, Pennsylva-
MIA and Maryland that experience stated
visitations from storms to be eternally
lodging hailstones Gas big as hens eggs
roofs, fences and other trifling debris as
they endeavor TO pursue their diurnal
vocations. They must be well fortified
with patience and fortitude or they would
dull up and come to Kansas and get rid
of such harrassments.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

All that is required 70 give the Wichita
EAGLE the appearance 1t hid in golden days
Is a two column list of real estate trans
fers. 1t has the old boom articles with all
their hopes and promises, but the sub
stance of things wished for is wanting
The paper could not be valiant in better
cause.-Newton Republican.
The substance of things wished for is
not lacking, however it may appear.
The absence of the long lists of days
sgone is more than made good in the
aggregate by the volume represented Ia
the fewer deals. What city in the west,
if on the continent, can show realty
deals aggregating half million dollars a
day? Wichita is all right. The EAGLE
is all right.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The Associated Press Agent who wrote
the realistic and thrilling account of the
hurricane at Samoa sent broadcast last
Sunday was John P. Dunning, for two
years in the San Francisco office of the
Associated Press. He had been sent to
Apia to report political matters. During
the storm he remained on the beach for
thirty-six hours, and most of the Incl
dents described IN his account came I'M
der his personal observation.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
Black Surah Six Sale.

Quality - at 50 cents Quality IS at 80 certs.
Quality "a at SIS cents.
Each one a gem bargain, worth 80, 95
and ll5 cents
Figured India Silks for children, q inches,
% and 81 cents.
Fancy sSura Silk for children 50 cents,
worth 81 cents.
dress patterns only, worth Is cents yard.
One case Sofia cloth, plain and fancy
cloth at Is cents yard, worth - cents.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The Wichita EAGLE is persuaded that
Topeka is full of joints and dives. The
editor of the EAGLE must have been read
ing Tomlinson's Massachusetts speeches.
Colodel Murdoch should understand that
those whisky harangues are not made for
home consumption.-Empo Republi-
can.
Beg pardon; our abundance of infor-
nation is gathered from the Topeka pa
pers, the word of whose editors is all ex-
pended in blowing the foam from their
beer
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

An army officer who has spent some
years in Oklahoma says there are mil
lions of skunks and billions OF bed bugs
in that country, and that more than half
of it is absolutely worthless for agricul-
tural purposes. All the same, the insane
cry is "on to Oklahoma"
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
Distances All Competitors.
.iiclne Lodge Index. tDeral.

-ae-llEAc tsvltt Lll-eK. IL1eL-l7-
1t may have been noticed by orr ciii-
zens that the Wichita EAGLE never
hesitates about saying a good word for
Medicine Lodge and Barter county
Our prosperity is chrouicled In its col
unlns; our plans are encouraged, and II
is never closed to us All Of this should
cause our people, in turn, 10 remember
the EAGLE when they are hunting a
daily paper. The EAGLE gets here with
the daily news twenty-four hours ahead
OF all competitors, and, barring lis
politics, Is good paper.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

Another of those periodical uprisings
Is predicted for Mexico. The average
Mexican is not happy unless engaged in
a revolution. Diaz has made the best
president Mexico ever had, but that peo-
pie even tire of good government, and
CRY for change.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The greatest salt mine in the known
world is that just opened at Kingman,
Kansas. The deposit or workable vein
is said to be more than one hundred feet
in thickness, of pure rock-crystal salt
which can be delivered at the surface at
the cost OF a few cents per hundred
mounds
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
emergency.

The legislature of Missouri is now
sweating over the dressed beef problem.
The American Butchers combine has
proved itself as great a power as Spreck-
les trust. If Missouri passes the local
inspection law beef eaters in st. Louis
and beef dressers in Kansas City will
sweat for it, and the beef raiser will not
get any better price for his cattle.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The insurance companies which opened
out on Gen. Web Wilder with the an
nouncement that he was corrupt, and SO
forth, have pulled in their horns, with
drawn their suits and come to the scratch
as marked out by him.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

A Wichita firm, which knows a fine
business opening when it sees it, has sent
three car loads of collins to Oklahoma
Emporia Republican.
Collins happen to be one Of Wichita's
lines, and as the coffin question must be
first settled in Oklahoma before the other
branches can have much of show
Wichita will be found equal to the
arnerrancV
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

One of the leading open questions in
Kansas now is: "Where is the cork
screw?"-Salina Gazette.
Can't say as to the balance of the
state, but in Leavenworth they do say
the president of the board of metropoli-
tan police commissioners has it.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The return of Henry Booth to Kansas is
striking contrast with the mad rawlings of
Bill Hackney. Booth says the Kansas del
egation has done more for the otficeseekers
than any other state delegation.-Salina
Republican.
Counting fourth-class postoficeseek-
ers, perhaps.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

Mrs. Jenness Miller asked her audience
the other day how many of them could
climb fences, shin up clothes line posts
or get on the roof to put out a chimney
on fire without exposing to mans rude
gaze their pretty, 1.-the limbs. A pretty
miss said that she for one didn't want to
do any of those things. And yet they
all expect to get married to brutes of
men some day.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
Equal to Christian Science.


An instance of what Oklahoma is do
ing for Barber county: Jacob Frazier,
who lived three miles south of Elm Mills;
had been confined to his bed for four
years, imrgining that he was about dead.
As soon as the Oklahoma proclamation
was issued he arose and declared his in
tention of going there; and he did go. he
and his family, this week.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

a counterfeit silver dollar is in circu
Iation. 1t is made of brass, with thin
coating of silver. 1t is said to have
blush look when compared with genu-
me coin
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
TheIFirst NouopoIist

Medicine Lodge Index.
Old Pharaoh was the first big monop-
olist He bought all the corn in Egypt,
and made himself rich, though il bank
rupted the nation, and reduced the Jews
to slavery. 1t works the same way now
that it did nearly six thousand years ago.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

From the latest commercial reports II
appears that steel rails are selling at
s27 ton, which is $1.00 per ton less
than the tariff duty on steel rails from
1872 to 1888.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The Nipsic, the war vessel that was
sunk in tbs harbor at Apia during the
cyclone, has been raised, but is in such
damaged condition as to be unfit for
future service.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

Soured in the Bud, AS it Were.
State Journal.
There is a growing disposition in To-
peka 10 give the Fourth district chance.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

The EAGLE has contained more relia-
BILE Oklahoma news and information
than any other paper published, east or
west
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

There Is much rejoicing at Topeka: the
bridge bonds proposition carried at Tues
days election.
Wichita eagle., 1889-04-19

20 pieces colored Surahs at IS cents. All
shades, splendid for sashes.
New Fabric. Ask for Poplines, plain and
fancy.
The new and correc. thing is India Chal-
lie in stripes and plaids, figures are way
off" Examine our line.
Ombre stripe Mohairs, also plain TO match.
very popular aud stylish
so pieces wool dress goods. plain, plaid
and stripe, 90 cents a yard. We will sell but
one pattern to each person.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04

well, but it always looked ten years older
than his face
Kit" said Dolph, as they stood in the
office at the mill, ''thls is the Fo'th er July
b'Ieve I'll take er walk ter town an have
er spin with the boys.n
IF you wanter take er spin, Mr.. Dolph- :"
said Elsie, coming in at the moment and
seating herself on his stool, ''sposen you
take a spin with met I'll teach you to spin
cotton yarn, an then knit you er pair Nv
socks outen it."
But that 'ud be work, Miss Elsie, an ter
days er holiday. You see, wanter go ter
town."
WAL, I'd jest like ter know what's
harder work than waikiki five miles, gittin
drunk an wanderin' back home erglnr'
"Elsier'
never min, parper; me an Mr.. Dolph
halnt er goin' to quar'l But it does seem
strange that men can't celebrate the Foth
er July 'thout gittin' drunk. Seems ter me
prayin' would be the bes' way, any how"
Dolph.
.::Yhen did they quit sellin' whisky at
GurdenF' was her answer.
Dolph walked to town and enjoyed the
oay AFTER the fashion of the country. He
went to the dirty bar-room where dirty
men ana flies swarmed and took drink,
treating the crowd. The crowd treate7
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
Fourth of July In History.

The Fourth of July occupies a conspicuous
place in American history for other reasons
than that it is the National birthday. In
celebrating it we naturally dwell exclu-
sively on the scenes in Independence Hall
at the adoption of the Declaration, but had
this illustrious event fallen upon any other
day, the Fourth should have still held
prominent place in tie peoples memory.
Yet, curiously enough, it is not at all nota-
BILE day in military history No doubt it is
well that we have neither to commemorate
q victory won, nor to lament battle lost
upon this day. Though the Nation was at
war during twenty of the first hundred
years of its existC ice, and has been engaged
in more than four hundred battles, yet, with
a single exception, there has been no blood
shed on the Fourth.
Several actions have taken place on the
ihird day of the mOnth-the most note
worthy being the eliminating struggle Of
the evil war AZ Hettysburs-and ON the
fifth, but had it not been for the unfortunate
assault of the COnfederates on Helena, Ark,
in 1863, the surrender of Vicksburg that
same year would have been the only I'M
portant military event connected with the
National anniversary.
Mention, however, might be made here Of
an incident in Washington's career, the
memory Of which doubtless threw an occa-
sional shade over his rejoicings at the re-
currence Of this day. Duringa campaign
against the French and Indians in 1874.
Washington, at the head of small force,
was compelled by a greatly superior bodyof
the enemy to retreat to some hastily con-
structed -entrenchments, which were char
acteristically called Fort Necessity.
o. the night Of July 9, aftera combat
which had lasted ten h0uts, tlE French
commander summoned the brave young
colonial officer to surrender. The parleying
continued till late at night, when Washing
ton agreed to the honorable terms offered
him, and on the morning of the Fourth
marched out Of the fort with all the honors
Of war
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
Special Features.

There is nothing That better lEdI-
Gates wsp,per'S enterprise than lis
ability 10 handle special events. tire
Cuirrs no skill to deal with the every
day happenings of il city, hut to make
Important occasions memorable Is a
task tia; requires true enterprise.
Tine REFLECTOR readers never gel
left on such matters. 1t Will be re-
membrred that last fall this paper had
the cumplrte vote of the county long
before The returning buaId itself knew
what il WAS; in the contest that fol-
lowed il gave The judges decision III
t,Ili within TOUR hours of the time 1t
WAS lead; il covered lile spri"g tic
tious, tie Oklahoma movement and III
auguraiIOu day more fully than any
paper in this vicinity. The Juhnstown
food, too, called for all extra edition ef
ten pages giving twelve full Columns
OF lie Latest topographic news regarC-
ing the disaster Nome of oar cUHtcm-
pprarIcs had more than three columns
of pnrticulaEs.
I'd ~ We give Our readers a Fourth
OF July number. Several Iirot class
stores, applicable to the day, will be
found, and AS they are fully illustrated
will he much enjoyed 10y pur Younger
readers. The trlegraphic news, up IL
the hour of publication, and the local
news is greater in quantity and more
in detail than amy of our contempt
rarics ever Ore .Iu of giving The RE-
FLECTuR leads the whole procession.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04
Harrison's Record.

The opponents of President Harri-
sons administration are not very con-
sistent in their attacks. In one column
they insist that changes are being
made in government appointments
with much undue haste and without
regard to civil service rules. In the
next they insist that the leading pOliti-
clans OF almost every state in the Union
are ready to cut Mr.. HarriSon'S throat
because he doesn't turn the rascals
out" 1t might be well enough to sug-
gest TO our democratic brethren that
Mr.. Harrison is making very excel
lent president; that he has already
succeeded in improving every branch
of the public service; thoroughly reno
waited mail service which Mr.. CleYe-
land had permitted to become thor
oughly rotten; that he has not yet
caused a blush of shame to come over
the face of any American citizen on &C
count of humiliating submission to
the dictates of any foreign power; that
he has not searched down among the
unpardoned rebels of the nation to find
a man to represent the American peo-
pie at a foreign court; that he has
never yet been heard to call a union
soldier applying for pension, Shire
ling" hummer" or a ''coffee
cooler."
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04

goto bed. "Licker'' got him down occasional
ly, but when he had slept it off lie felt like
"the same old Doiph." Ktwas knOck-kneed,
nervous, holow-eyed and salIOW. His face
was smooth as a child's, but a razor never
touched it. He took tobacco between his
drinks, to which Dolph attributed the cause
of his constant ''ailin'."
Big heaps Of sawdust dotted the ground
for half mile around the mill. 1t some
times happened that these would catch fire,
which would smolder for weeks before
breaking out Kit had a daughter, Elsie,
twenty years old, b!ack-eyed, black-haired
and pretty. One morning, when she was a
child, while standing at his desk estimating
a bill Of lumber, Dolph saw her walking the
foot-log that crossed the creek.
From it plank led TO a saw-dust pile,
from which was short jump to the ground.
When she reached the pile she disappeared,
and dark-blue smoke arose. Dolph knew
what that meant, and ran to the spot. He
pulled her cut. Her clothing was on fire,
and the wind famed it to fame. Taking
her in his arms, he jumped into the water.
She was unhurt, but his left hand was so
burned that the skin hung in long strips
from the ends of his fingers. The hand got
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-04

slumbered in harmless security. Not so
the lazy, family cat stretched on the clean,
sunshiny floor. Icy was looking fxedly at
her, and his staring orbs were those of
fate. He had an idea, a punster might say,
and this idea, it was plainly to be seen, was
of q sanguinary nature.
But this was the time for action. not SEN
timent. Ivy drew off his cowhide shoes
and softly stepped across the floor, took
down his fathers pOwder-hOrn from its &C
customed peg, and creeping back to Tabby,
he began solemn march around her,
pouring on the floor a stream of powder
as he went, until his victim lay hemmed in
by as many Internal circles as ever Dante
conceived of-still the cat slept on.
Icy went to the kitchen fireplace, took
out live coal and approached the feline
dreamer. His checks flushed with childish
Joy, his glad heart beat like the village
drum on training-day. He looked very ami
mated. The cat slept on-he applied the
coal to the granular rings.
The cat no Longer slept. She rose into the
air, nay, she shot heavenward amid a burst
of smoke and fame, resembling the apothe-
Osls Of Hercules, and with one ''yaoup
that rang out like the trump of doom, she
went crashing through the windowglass
with momentum that leads the writer Of
this simple tale to infer she is still madly
careening through space, and that, like
Tennyson's Brook" she will thus ego on
forever"
Israel Hackstaff, ketch me a-Ieavin' yo'
lone 'nuther time, yo' meddlin', goOd-fur-
nothin', sassy Teller, you'll Take off yer
cioze this minnit an git inter bed, an.
don'tcher dare to git up fore sundOwn,"
are tho magical words Of maternal affec-
ton, accompanied by the proper muscular
punctuation marks, that finally dispel the
apparitIon and restore t. = i.ormaI couai-
ton the v-ivrlI horror Of the scene.
JULIA II ,HgAYF1-
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know that ere long we were talking ABOUT
old books. She was to me the first woman
who held in true appreciation the matchless
humor of old Jack Falstaff. a mere glance
had established her Ioveliness; the fact that
she could estimate ponderous Jack proved
a liberal breadth of mind. We took down
Shakespeare and read parts Of Henry ".
over and over again. She called me
Hotspur and said that her brother was a
Prince Hal.
s.You would better call me a Douglass"
1 answered, ''for I shall run away when we
meet"
80" she replied, ''you will stay and-be
killed"
! She glanced roguishly at me. What,
were we actually joking about so grave e
+ matter! Had we forgotten the blood OF our
fathers9 l knew that our thoughts were
/ flowing IN the same channel, for a sudden
silence fell upon US.
! 81 must go,' she said, arising. She stood
with one hand resting On the mantelplece.
/ Her countenance had become solemn, and
] her eyes, upon glancing at me, glowed with
a melancholy, sort of regrettul warmth.
felt that she wished to say something
more, something IN extenuation of what she
REGARDED as her puseemly behavior
:
MANY .groans have been ready to drive away
laughter, which in our house has been a
shvIv-peeping visitor, that sometimes find
ing the band of restraint looseued, L bound
beyond the frontier line CT strict pro-
priety."
Was it to be expected that I could make
a sensible remark. 1 don't know what
might have been expected, but know that
must have acted the fool, for, yearning tc
make her feel that held her in high esteem,
Iexclaimed:
Hiss Hightower, when you cross the
! frontier line we know that sunbeam has
fallen athvart the border"
The next moment she was gone. That
night at supper Lizzie's quick eyes saw a
new expression on my face.
"Who is she, Howell3" the mischievouS
girl asked
ssWho is who?" l exclaimed, with start.
''The girl you have fallen in love withm
1.-THE only creature that is handsomeI
than you are" replied.
Come, Lizzie" said mother, "don't tor
ment the boy. don't think he has beer
quite well lately.'
was surely not well at that moment, fol
was in q feverish state of love-sickness.
How l longed to see Nettie Hightowel
again. called frequently at the house Of
my friend and even made bold to skirt
the Hightower farm, but caught no glimpse
of my divinity. One day / heard that she
had gone to Louisville to spend few days
"Why are you going to Louisville"
mother asked one morning when l had an
nounced my intention.
''To see some of mr. old college friend:
who have just arrived there" l answered
with, hope, pardonable lie.
Upon reaching the city perplexity con
fronted me, for did not know where Nettii
was staying, nor could with safety maxi