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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
For the Eagle.
THE LAWYER AND THE MILLER.

| LAWYER and a miller stood at the gates of he'll
| Disputing for the precedence, for each one knew
If the passport their conduct along their earthly
He should be the first to enter the Putonian abode
Both were stubborn and their pride was aroused to
And the lesser devils guarding the inner door which
Led to the highest seat beside their fathers throne
ere obliged to turn away with sad and bitter
For they felt their powered be when the guests
But they went their father and told him what
Transpring at the outer gate ever since the early
And new and sweet delight In the DEVILS breast
he hasted the entrance judge between the two.
Inward hopfng all the while he might hear some
The lawyer being greatest among the sons OF earth
May first recount unto my ears the deed OF greatest
Emitting him to precedence within the gates OF
The miller next review his life as he pressed toward
Il listened without linching to an Orphans prayer
full means
AS settled up a great estate. and when the thing
Every cent was in my pocket and every mothers
OF the other lawyers in the case were compelled to
leave tue town.
But my name was covered over with glory and re-
And the orphan7' asked the devil with a sat upon
Oh she committed suicide and was carted In q
hack
beloved friend,
IT'S pity for business your life earth should
end"
The miller looked respondent he listened to the
tale,
But proceeded with his story though his face was
sad and pale;
The lawyers story, truly. is wonderful TO hear.
And mine viii seem quite tame when tell 1t you,
fear.
One day a sickly widow with her children came to
me
With little sack of corn. and she wished, she said
see
If would grind Into meal, and I told her that l |
On the morrow without fail if 'twere possible |
could.
The morrow came, and with it the man the poor old |
soul
Sent for the grist but don't you see? it had taken
ell for toll"
Very good my faithful friend" said the devil with
glad tone
But the lawyers still ahead. very frankly must
own"
Something else ia like to mention eer take scat
that's back,
And that is this quite forgot to send her back the
sack"
The doors flew open and there came gust Of warm
ish weather,
AID the lawyer and the miller, they both went in
together.
Arthur Hodgson.
The W3lnuts Kansas
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
1T IS SIMPLY DAMNABLE.

Two hundred and seventy-four new
laws were made oy the last legislature
with which to render more honerous the
duty OF the citizen and the greater the
burthen OF his taxes and expenses, and
still that body asks the people to practi-
cally double the length of the session by
constitutional amendment which they
submitted. How the tax payers will
whack that proposed amendment over
the head when they get chance at it
next fall! The last session passed double
the number of local bills ever passed at
one session in the history of the state.
Now look at this additional burthen:
Senate bill No. 379 provides that any
city that is run by a police commission
shall also be saddled with a board
of supervisors of elections, the police
commission being a part Of the board
and the boss of the thing to have an
office and have charge of the election
precincts, designate them, etc, taking
the last vestige of power from the mayor
Wichita under that law must pay some
loafing. The law has twenty provisions
or sections and is cumbersome, expen-
sive and foolish. This outrageous board
is directed to hold high court on election
days and to employ messengers at the
expense Of the city to carry to them the
news how the thing is going. Why
couldn't they send some of their high
toned metropolitan policemen? Oh no,
that wouldn't add any burthens to the
tax payers! This miserable "old man of
the sea- only applies to cities having
police commission. But before this
outrageous act closes up it provides i'll
section II, that this supervisor Of eiec-
tons may appoint deputies and have an
eight hundred dollar clerk.
Its simply damnable.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
KANSAS KOLLARY.

An old saw runs like this: ''The good
] die Young" The Belle PLANE Independ-
ent is dead.
Miss Anna Campbell, an aged maiden
| lady living near Hiattyille. fell IN a well
last week and was drowned.
| Another county seat quarrel has broken
| out in Greeley county between the rival
towns of Horace and Tribune.
Topeka Will have new bridge over
the Kansas river and even the street
car drivers are putting on style because
of it.
Every other man in Topeka is a candi-
date for mayor, and every other man
has signed every other mans petition
asking every other man to run.-Local
Elk.
A young lady OF Atchison expressed
herself as very much disappointed with
Janauschek in Meg Merrilles'' because
she didn't cuddle up on sofa ike Min
ME Maddern.-X.
Osborn Hulan. of Wathena, who died
last week. says that now he has had the
pleasure of reading his own obituary, he
feels some better, and thinks he shall
stay here while longer.
''The righteous abuse hurled at the
senate was uncalled for and unjust" So
says a Kansas editor in defense of the
senate bill lowering the age of con-
sent. righteous abuse" is good, quite
good.
Phil Best, the Milwaukee brewer, was
in Emporia Wednesday, says a local
paper. Phil has keen eye for business,
and IS charitably supposed to be looking
up real estate in the city. 1t is quite
certain that he called to see how the land
lies
During the past twenty years .191 di-
vorces have been granted in Kansas.
That is not such bad record for a state
where such a large proportion of the
men belong to secret societies and SO
many of thewomen are equal suffrag-
ists.-X
There were about seventy Methodist
ministers present Yesterday at the church
during the opening exercises of exami-
nation OF candidates for the ministry.
The conference will convene today.
Bishop Ninde, the resident bishop, will
preside. The conference will continue
IN session about one week On Friday
Next there will be reunion of the
North and South Kansas conferences at
Baldwin City.-Lawrence journal.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

FROM SENATE TO BENCH.

From the state Journal
Senator Francis c. Price was appointed
Judge for the thirty-hrst judicial dis
triCt, which comprises Clark. Meade and
Comanche counties. by Governor Hum
phrey last evening. He received his
commission at 9 O'Clock, and left on the
late train for Coldwater, Comanche
county. where the first session of the
new court opens today. 1t is not often
that a Judge enters upon his duties on
such short notice, but Mr.. Price is rustler
and will not be at all inconvenience by
the sudden change In his life work
Judge Price was born twenty-nine
wears ago in Cuyahoga county. Ohio. a
few miles from Cleveland. While he
was yet young his parents re-
moved to Indiana, and there he
received his education and grew
to mans estate. He studied
law with G. o. and a o. Benin. Of La-
fayette. Indiana, and was admitted 10
the bar in 1884. In the fall OF that year
he came west and settled in Ashland,
Clark county. Kansas; since then he has
practiced law with Dawson Smith. He
was delegate to the special session of
the legislature in $3.50 and served as a
member of the house in 1887. He was
elected state senator last November and
during the session just closed he &C
Quilted himself with great credit. His
voluntary defense of the men brought
before the oar OF the senate last week
on the charge of contempt was earnest
and dignifed, and made him many
friends. The judge has fine legal at
tainmeuts. and these viii now be given
ample scope.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
Sol Miller on the Cabinet.

From the Troy Chief
To say that the cabinet gives satisfac-
ton would be un-George Washington.
although they are all good men. Win
dom is not satisfactory to Minnesota, tn
which he Is credited, or to New York,
where ne lives. New York is sore. While
Gen. Tracy is acceptable TO all, there is
a feeling that the state did not receive
the consideration she deserved, even if
there were factions. Miller is not salts
factory to the leading Republicans of
Indiana. 1t is thought that Indiana,
having the president, was not entitled
to cabinet position; and that instead of
appointing his own law partner, Harri-
son should have recognized the Pacific
coast. But perhaps it Will feel better
when 1t quits hurting. Harrison, in Sc
lecting his cabinet, is like the man who
married a woman who had snaggle-
teeth, a wart on her nose, and wen on
the top of her head. He was the one
that had to live with her, and it was no
other body's business. Let's wait, and
see how they fill their places.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
116 TO 100 MAIN STREET.

about the city ard serve "a a semi social
entertainment, 10 which school girls and
college students invite their friends, SAYS
the Chicago Iatsr Oc>at. The gum club is
exclusively feminine. Sessions are held
Saturday morning at the homes of the vari-
Gus members, who find seats IN the window
sill of sunny room. The door is locked by
the president az the hour appointed for the
meeting and u fine Of fivc cents is imposed
on each tardy arrival
This money and tho twenty-five cents dues
goes to purchase the supplies, in which the
taste Of each chewer IL consulted After
the roll-call the unctuous little sticks Of ker-
Osenc, the cubes OF brown spruce, the blocks
of burnt sugar, tulu taffy and the brittle OBJ
longs Of Yucatan are arranged on a small
oval platter aud passed % the empty
mouthed girls.
Each goes through a ceremony Of her
own arranging IN the removal Of the paper
and manner Of popping the elastic stuff into
her mouth. One fair maid nibbles iniini-
tesiplal sareds from ner wad; another
makes three bites OF IL, d third hangs the
stick On her pretty lips and chews II in By
degrees, while The more voracious dispose
Of It in a single mouthfuL
During the mesting the members gossip,
oa'e-tAf
stockings. trim hats, roll saehet pillows,
work algebra problems and actually writs
oTppositions-eacb member, IL called upsa,
adding paragraph 10 the topic When tho
Industries are exclusively hand work some
body reads aloud. Whether the subject 90
poetic, dramatic, narrative or ossayicai, the
reader clings 70 her gum. which Is visible
with the uttcrance Of every poysyIlzbio
word All manner OF chewing IL exhibited
BY the listeners, who Hasticate with
rotary, c6lque, vertical and almost inper.
cepti5is movement Of the jaws.
some chew with open lips to display their
pretty teeth; others adopt the slow grind,
ia which from fire 10 tea couats may 90
rccxoned between the tooth attacks, and
the girls with the short upper Lips AZ rus
keep tie little viscoUs mass Ia the front ef
their mouth and npnch L. Any zEd every
thing goes 81 The GIN clao, provided TIA
cheek i not distautet, bat let the tenacious
lump get between The cAee< aid the teeth
aad instantly ths pressssn. calls on; he
name of the 5slpr3t on rEbose head ars
Il imposed and collected on the spot
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
SOME OLD TIMES COMING AGAIN.

]
From the Boston Transcript.
Antiquity is the inspiring cause of the
newest theatrical project-the complete
reproduction of the stage of Shakespeare
day. The attempt is to be made under
the direction of the manager of the
Court Theater at Munich. 1t is the pur-
pose of the antiouarians who have un-
dertaken to bring back to life the Gus
| toms of theater folk three centuries ago
to present faithful copy of the play
house which stood on the Thames bank
in the parish of st. Saviour's, and was
known as the Globe. The dimensions,
| plan and general look of that wooden
Or will be reproduced, even to the slit
| tie cockpit" the thatch-covered CALLER
les and the open roof. The pit will be
| if the scheme of faithfulness is perfect
ed separated from the stage by picket
fence to prevent the groundlings from
climbing On the stage. There will be no
opportunity for the scene painter or the
property man to exercise his art,
but across the rush-strewn stage will be
stretched two curtains, the "arras"
adjusted so as to be drawn aside as occa-
sion shall demand. These curtains may
be tapestry, with figures or other devices
wrought upon them, but the designs will
have nothing to do with the play, the
only purpose of the drapery being to
screen the players. The dresses. presum
ably, may more nearly approach modern
ideas than would be possible with any
other accessory. That IS to say, they
may be like those worn in Snakspeare's
time Gf it be possible) and still come near
the truth. Caesar may wear his toga and
Richmond be clad as when he cracked
Richards royal crown, and neither wear
the dress of the actors period. as was the
wont of Garrick, whose cue bobbed and
whose silver buckles shone alike when
Macbeth clutched at the air-drawn dag
ger, and Romeo disputed the time O day
with Juliet.
This setting back of the clock will be
attended with one peculiar advantage.
The actors will have opportunities to
show their exact qualities, and there
Will be no chance for the criti-
cism that histrionic skill has
been sacrificed to the stage carpenter
and the ime-light man. With the
farthest listener not 40 feet away, the
actor can modulate his voice to every
key in the gamut Of passion, without
effort, while not play of the features,
a flash of the eye or turn of the head
should escape a spectators observation.
In these close quarters, the opera glass
would be as needless as it would be out
of date. Will the Munich antiquarians
assign Portia to a peach-skinned youth,
or let Ferdinand make love to a Miranda
whose beard is a-growing? Each must
they do or fail to bring back to us the
days when Elizabeth was queen. But it
is not unlikely that the patrons of this
revival will pardon the managers SO
much of failure completely to show
the Shakespeare of Shakespeare's time.
No lad, be he ever SO shapaly, can show
the grace of Mary Anderson's Perdita,
nor no youngster, however pert, can
match the wit of Ellen Terry's Beatrice. !
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
CATCHING THE INSPIRATION.
The East Coming West in Search
Light.
From the Peoria. III. Journal

From the Peoria. H.. Journal
Valentine Jobst, Esq, is one of our
| most active citizens, but he has hitherto
| held that it was foolish to attempt to
push the city forward and that the SEN
sible course was to take it slow and "to
| poke along" Some months ago he OBJ
tanned a government contract in Wichita
and he has been there for some time. A
careful study of the method pursued by
these progressive cities has opened his
ewes. He now says that Peoria does not
do talking and advertising enough; that
none of these western cities have facili-
ties superior to ours either in shipping or
for manufacturing and that their growth
is directly traceable to their persistent
efforts to talk up their places. Wichita
has been built up chiefly by these means
and that the sensible people have taken
advantage of it, while the fools are fools
always and every where and are not to
be taken into account.
This year Wichita spends s263,000 in
sewers alone, and as the city bonds were
not readily available, they issue interest
bearing scrip and the contractors take
that. By these means they have built
up large city under circumstances that
seemed most adverse, and where the Or
binary methods would not have sue
ceeded at all. Instead of sitting down
and contemplating what they have done,
each man is actively interested in doing
more and the result is that
the city in spite of the progress that it
has made in the past is ready to make
greater progress in the future. We are
glad to see that so shrewd a man as Mr..
Jobst has at last come to a realizing
sense of what these efforts are worth and
we only regret that we cannot ship some
fifty of our people out west to have them
inoculated with the spirit of the time
and then bring them back here and set
them to work.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
READABLE RHYMES.
The Popular Poplar Tree

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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
A LITTLE KANsAsGsroRY.

The failure of the grea A5ing iron
works in Pennsylvania bring emo
~ some early transactions of Il ners,
Seifert, McMannus & Co., in nsas.
During Lincoln's administration tM Sac
and Fox trust lands, reaching from near
Burlingame down into Lyon county.
were ordered sold under private or
secret bids. \ great amount Of Indian
scrip had been issued which had been
picked UP for from forty to sixty cents
on the dollar. The lands were bid off
all the way from so cents per acre up to
$1.25. The choisest timbered pieces
brought more, some of them as high as
1926. But the big jobbers paid for
theirs in the Indian scrip which made
the price of the land very low, say an
average of sixty cents an acre. Hugh
McCulloch, who was secretary of treasu-
~ under Lincoln, and Seifert, McMan-
nus & Co., of the Reading iron works.
and Bob Stevens bought immense
bodies of those trust lands. The iron
works people got considerable portion
of the lands through which the Santa Fe
was afterwards constructed and the
town of Reading. in Lyon county, was
laid out on the Reading iron works land.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

The four new states have an area equal
to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connect
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and In
diana combined. They are three times
larger than the British Isles, three times
larger than Italy and $50, 900 square miles
larger than Germany, With such an
area as this and the great wealth they
possess, developed and undeveloped, and
the more than requisite number of intel
hgent inhabitants to entitle them to
statehood. it has been a standing shame
that they were not admitted to the full
enjoyment of the privileges of sovereign
states several years ago, rs they would
have been but for the partisan bias of the
party that has arbitrarily controlled the
matter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

1t is given out that all the public
offices of the United States will be
closed on st. Patrick's day. Even the
postoffices will be shut. Business, will,
in fact, be almost entirely suspended.
This is putting it pretty strong. OF
course. we all appreciate the great ser
vice the patriot-saint performed for his
country, and al that, but in view of the
countless numbers and varieties of rep
tiles that have appeared to torment our
own people in tins country since their
Punishment from the Green Isle by him,
as tradition has it, we fail to see the fit
tingness of our celebrating that event to
the extent above indicated.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

Most of the tin used in this country
comes from Cornwall, in England One
of the possibilities of the new state of
North Dakota is that tin mines may be
found in it that will keep at home the
great and important industry of supply
ing the tin we need for ourselves. Those
who are competent to judge say that the
Blacl. Hills contain not only enough tin
for home consumption, but also a guam
tity sufficient to supply the world Six
years ago the first mine was discovered
in Dakota, but since that time a dozen
Others have been sunk, and now it is
fully certain that Dakota will, in the
near future, be the greatest tin-produc-
ing section of the entire world, Its ad-
mission to statehood naturally stimulat-
ing this and every other of its interests
and industries as it cannot fail to do.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

Gov. Humphrey has approved joint
resolution for submission to the voters
of Kansas in 1890 of proposition for an
amendment to the constitution extend
ing the sessions of the legislature to
ninety days, If a proposition of that
kind could be passed upon now it would
be defeated by at least 100, 900 votes,-K.
G. Star.
Let us see. The vote of Kansas at the
last election, aggregated a little over
100000 The Stars estimate is too low.
The majority against the proposition, if
it was voted upon just now, while the
scent of the legislature that has just adj
journed was still hanging over the state.
would be at least 100000. But the peo-
pie may forget, in two years, what a leg
islature is, and SO vote for the PROPOSE
tion.-Atchison Champion.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

The law providing for an enrolment
of soldiers, their widows and orphans,
by township assessors, was published IN
the Capital on Tuesday morning and Is
now in full force and effect. 1t requires
county clerks to furnish blanks for such
enrolment, and imposes a fine of not
less than S25 nor more than 800 on any
county clerk, township trustee, or other
officer, who fails to carry out any of the
requirements of the law.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08
What He Did saw.

The following dispatch from Governor
Fitzhugh Lee appears in the New York
Herald of Monday:
RICHMOND, Va, March 8, 1Ss9.-To
the editor of the Herald: l am not
quoted correctly in your editorial of to-
day: Republicans at the north told me
negroes should not be allowed to hold
Office. l did not say so. We object to
the negro holding any Office carrying
with It the government of whites. If
otherwise we do not object. | know
positions filled by negros whose duties
are most creditably discharged.
FITZHUGH LEE.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-08

Close upon the cheering news of the
past two or three days concerning the
early opening of the Oklahoma country
to settlement come fresh reports from
the recently discovered gold field of
Southern California, sent out as decoy
duck, SO to speak. But its no use. On
to Oklahoma is the universal acclaim,
and not until that FL Dorado is fully oc-
cupied will the attention Of the eager
seeker after a home and fortune be turn
ed in any other direction.