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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
LANDHoLDERs AND LAW-ABIDERs

Ex-Governor Boutwell,, of Massachu-
sets, read paper on Tuesday evening
last before the historical society of New
York city on the progress of American
independence. The novel portion of the
address was that relating to the posi-
bilities of the future of the United States.
The United States now ranks as the
third nation in the world. In fifty
years it will stand second. The year
1000 will show population of 16O, 0O0,-
600, in a condition Of general comfort.
Mr. Boutwell, referred to the simplicity
of our conveyanclng laws and said that
future generations will be large investors
in land. 1t is wise public policy to en-
courage the possession of land. The
landless classes are the lawleSS classes.
Every title deed adds to our national Sc
curity.
The tendency among our people is I'M
favorable to large holdings of land by
individual possessors. The state of Hi
nois two years ago passed a law with a
view to breaking up the tendency which
had become manifest toward the posses
sion of large tracts of land by foreign
owners AS settlement passes west, the
large farmers of the west will be forced
to yield to the army of small and indus
trious producers.
In the Indian territory, the opening Of
Oklahoma marks the beginning of sim
liar transformation. In the ''Cherokee
strip" lying between Kansas and Okla
homa, the cattle men are making their
last stand. They are determined to pre-
serve that piece of territory from the in
vasion of the agriculturist and his fam
lily. They will not succeed. Within
two years from this time there will not
be an acre of unoccupied land in the ter
ritorv outside that reserved for the
Indian tribes.
There is no ''desert," nor is there any
foundation for the terms 'non-farming, =
''non-irrigable" and pasture lands. "
The farmer, constantly advancing west
ward, has with his plow torn sod and
theory asunder.
The poets desert pictured as dream
in Longfellow's Eyangeline, has proved
to be beautiful reality:
Numberless torrents. with ceaseless sound,
descend 10 the ocean,
Like the great chords of harp in loud
and solemn vibrations.
Spreading between these streams are the
wondrous, beautiful prairies,
Diliowy bays of grass ever rolling in
shadow and sunshine,
Lrigl.5 with luxurious clusters of roses and
purple amorphas.
And over all is the sky, the clear and crys-
taliine heaven,
Like the protecting hand Of God inverted
above them.
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in the warm current wnlcn 1ows over the

In the warm current wnlcn lows over the
banks of Newfoundland; but icebergs,
being so thick. float down as low as latitude
forty; that is, as far down as Philadelphia.
Now, in crossing from here to England,
the track of the ocean steamships carries
them diagonaily across the iceberg tracks,
and there is danger of collision during u
fog in daytime or the darkness of the night.
A steamer at full speed sighting an iceberg
dead ahead within half mile could not stop
or back in time TO avoid a crash. There
fore, nearly all steamers take the southerly
course from March 10 August, or until the
iceberg season is considered over.
This ought to be great iceberg season,
and may surpass that of 1872, when one
ship sighted two hundred bergs in a single
passage. The year 1853 was a great ice
berg season, and last year the Concordia re-
ported having seen more than fifty icebergs
aground in the straits of Belle Isle, one OF
the outlets of the Gulf of st. Lawrence.
Every thing considered, the loss of vessels
on account s ice is not nearly so great as
might be reasonably expected. Still there
have been many serious casualties and
some very queer cases.
In 1871 Big ice island was seen OF the
coast of st. Johns Island, y +. Very
near the center of the island, imbedded be-
tween two big hills Of ice, were two ships,
their masts gone and evidently destitute Of
ufe.
Another strange case was that Of a Ger
man ship, the Hausa, that went 10 pieces on
en- ice island IN the latitude Of hfty-two de-
grees. The crew took refuge on the ice,
built hut out Of wreckage, and spent
eight months drifting around, until they
were picked up in latitude forty-one de-
grees, about seven hundred and fifty miles
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
GIVE Us a REST.

There is still good deal said in the
eastern press in regard to the extra ses-
sion of congress. There are but two sub
iects of legislation upon which it would
in any event be desirable that legislation
should be attempted at date earlier
than at which congress will meet in reg
ular session. One relates TO the DISPOSE
ton of an anticipated large surplus of
money in the treasury. The other is the
perfection of tariff measure.
Upon the matter of the anticipated
treasury surplus, a statement made by
Senator Allison, supplemented by later
treasury statements, sets at rest any ap-
prehension that may have existed in re-
gard to its magnitude. The senator
shows that the appropriations made by
the recent congress are not very far
from the amount of the estimated re-
ceipts of the treasury. There certainly
is no occasion for alarm. There can be
no accumulation of money IN the treasury
far beyond the necessities Of govern
ment. The secretary of the treasury can
readily dispose of the amount which
will have accumulated by the first of
January next, by the purchase of bonds
of the government. The Democrats NAV
find ii desirable, in a party sense, toraise
a cry of danger to the interests Of trade
and business, from an undue accumula-
ton of money in the national treasury.
The people Wi! not forget, however, that
few months ago, when a similar
danger was predicted by them, the real
condition OF the treasury did not war
rant their apprehension. There is no
greater danger now than there was then.
Mr. Window viii be able. should the &C
cumulation promise TO become greater
than is now anticipated, to provide
for relief by calling in government
bonds.
As respects the extra session, we be
lieve it would be unwise TO call one
so far as the question OF the tariff
Is concerned. \ tariff measure can
not be put into shape and per
fected in day. 1t will require the eff
fort of a new congress, many of whose
members appear on the scene for tse
first time, for several monthe before &
measure safe, practicable and wise can
be perfected. Should the coming con-
gress unite in devising q fitting and
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LIARS OR DRINKERS, WHICH?

Is Topeka a rotten rum hole or not:
Who are we to believe? Is there neither
truth or soberness in the town? The
editor of the State Journal, a Republican
paper and personally one of the strong
est prohibitionists in the state, declares
that joints are thicker than blackberries
and names their location. The editor of
the Democrat, who never drank drop of
spurious liquor in his life, says that To-
peka is as full Of rum holes as a sieve is
of appearances. The Capital-Common-
wealth upon the other hand, one half of
which has been the prohibition organ
the other half quasiwhisky organ, but
both of which always held Wichita to
be little less than a brewery and distil-
lery combined, says that the other two
papers lie about Topeka. We have
about made up our mind that Topeka is
dreadfully full of drinks or of liars, one
or the other, probably full of both.
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BURTON'S POPULARITY.

Mr.. Burton and his friends may save
themselves general loss of time by letting
Mr. Ingalls, alone. They will be lucky II
they can lick fellows of their own size. He
roosts to high to be reached by political
pop-guns.-St. Joseph Gazette.
We quote the above from our esteem
ed contemporary. 1t is the last para
graph of we'll written and lively article
on the bullock aspirations of the frog
ton. The editor of the Gazette is a Dem
ocrat of the straightest sect, has lived in
the same town with Senator Ingalls, for
many years. and knows all about the sit
uation, especially as to j. Rats Burton.
A man would be considered fool of the
first water if, having a thoroughbred
ur-mile-and-repeat gelding he would
offer to swap him for a plug with the big
jaw. No. the people Of Kansas have
passed through that stage of crystallza-
ton which renders them tickle towards
their leaders and have entered that con-
sentative period that makes them hold
fast to the brilliant, strong and true.
Mr. Ingalls, can rest cray and can afford
to smile at the arrogance of some men.
Kansas City Gazette.
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A TROUT'S GRATITUDE:
Hicks Was Kind to the Fish and Nov
They Try to Nuke HIM Happy.


"a man named Hicks. who lives out in
the hills Of Arkansas, has on his farm q
beautiful stream says writer in the
Amateur Sportsman. HE attempted 20
stock II with trout, but soon discovered
that the water was too warm. Not dis
couraged. he proceeded 10 cool the water.
He started an ice factory. and every morn
ing now du ring the summer he deposits ice
IN the different pools Wei, sir. II would
tickle you 20 sec the FISH. When n wagon
draws up 20 a pool the driver yells 'Icep
and the Ssh come flying out from under the
rocks. They get up on the ice aud carry on
in perfect futter OF giee. Beats any
thing ever saw"
you know Hicks, do you, Daver'
Know hint Why. he doesn't live more
than two miles from my place"
'sDoes he a1ow anybody 70 catch the
troutr'
"Hc will give you all you can catch with
hook"
II believe will go out some time"
won't do you any good -
"Whyl"
'sThc Ssh won't bite far anybody but
Hicks"
"They won'ti"
''No, SIR; you couldn't get a nlbb.e."
''How do you account Tor itF'
'sCiratiiufe'
'sWhatFf
'aGratI;gde, tel you. They know Hicks.
They know how much be has done for
them Why. sir. be car pull them OUT a.
fast as be Gao throw ~. You oBgbt 70 sec
them look up ia his face ard susile, One
day was with him Two Of the biggest
trou: ! ever saw began 70 hght for The
hook Oae If them got IL. and the other
one. determined net 20 be oEtdozs, came out
on the bank AID lay down. never saw
such gratitude"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
ALL ABOUT ICEBERGS.
Something About Icebergs in Both North
ern and Southern Waters.

Something About Icebergs in Both North
and Southern Waters.
The iceberg season will soon begin in the
North Atlantic, says writer IN Golden
Days. II sounds queer to hear that more
icebergs are met with in summer than In
winter but it is not difficult TO comprehend
why it should be so.
An iceberg IS the sea-eEd Of a glacier or
frozen river The glacier is being con-
tiuually pushed into the sea from the
weight above, and finally great masses De-
come detached.
Sometimes these masses break up into
comparatively small pieces, and are called
drift ice; II they form flat surfaces, 1t IS
called fed or foe ice. and, when they are
piled up, they are called ICeDergs--tnat IS,
ice mountains.
Some of them well merit the name Many
of them are two hundred and fifty feet II
! height above the water, and YOU must re-
member that only one ninth Of an iceberg IS
visible; that is 10 say, for every cubic foot
above the water line, there must be eight
feet below 10 balance il.
Sailors tell astonishing yarns about ice
bergs thousand feet high, but their eyes
no doubt magnify the monsters. Icebergs
are sufficiently monstrous without exag-
The largest iceberg Of which there IS any
authentic record was sighted IL 1850, drift
ing around about tnirty-two degrees
south and twepty-four degrees west
II was said 20 have been three
hundred and fifty feet high, sixty
miles long and forty miles WIDE, aad was
curved almost ike a horseshoe. Il wSs
more Of an island than mountain, aod
doubtless caused the destruction Of May
vessels before il melted
Northern eergs are neither so large nor
so numerous as those seen IN southern wa
tiers. but they are usually ioft4er and more
beautiful, with spires and Goues, aad,
| when the sun shines o. then, they !ock
I Ike fairy city.
/ /. may be sad, however, that passengers
/ On beard ship appreciate the beauties Of
| icebergs much more than the otsoers AID
crew.
| And TIA. brings rs bzck 70 the eLpszna-
I tion about the Iceberg season IL tie WI
| ter The lower polar regaors are nsss OF
| ice. and i; Is 10. uzll Ire szn begins 70
| exert his influence that TIE southern E.cTc-
zcnt Of tire ice Begins.
| In March the -ai3-a.lzatic - war- ard
| the Polar sea cad; TIE w5n1s- n conss-
| s1snce, blow from The norzh 70 the scat5s
ard irnpel fsss acsE5ag zee ard bergs n ise
same dsrecsz0r- u.lt1 I'D Ens -ln s1-1z Ez--A
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
A PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY.

cit is not clear to anybody who I'M
derstands city life that a church body of
wide awake people, though there were
not more of them than there were OF
the twelve apostles, can meet as no
other body can the very worst difficult
ties of city life?" asks Rev. Edward
Everett Hale in the North American
Review. '.Take the deadly loneliness of
life in cities. If it were understood, as
a matter of course, that the parlors of a
church were always open, every even
ing, to anybody who wanted to have
some companionship, in the hours be-
tween o'clock and midnight, would
not that understanding alone relieve very
largely the loneliness? | should
like to see church which had
light in the window, such as
such an arrangement would offer, do
not mean that there should be commit
tee of people waiting to be 'sociable with
anybody that happened along. But
mean that all the neighborhood should
understand that there were wI1mth,
light and welcome. You might have
a class in political economy going on;
you might have class on botany; you
might have class on the second chap
ter of the Second Epistle to the Thessa-
lonians; you might have a sewing soci-
ETY. providing for the Micronesian islands;
you might be occupying yourself IN your
lighted parlor as you please; but there
the light and the company should be.
There should be outside sign offering
welcome, and any body who chose, though
he were the veriest walf or stray just
landed on the pier, might come in there.
l should say that such haven of rest as
this would, in the first place. solve a
good many of the difficulties of city life
much more simply than they are solved,
even by the best arrangement OF munlc-
ipal police But this is of comparatively
little importance. What should do 1t
for, if 1 had force enough would be TO
give the people that knew anything
about that church the feeling that the
church is home. Nobody can travel so
far as to be outside of itf arms. 1t rep
resents Together That is what it is
for
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construct the road on to Emporia and
Wichita. The Northwestern is owned
mostly by Kansas parties and
has about 40 miles Of its
line in operation. 1t is In
dependent of any other system in the
state, as shown by the map and report
of the board of Kansas railroad commits
sioners. For years the expectation has
been that the Carbonate road
would be pushed on southwest
to Wichita. This purchase seems
the first step in that direction.
However, either the Alton or the Mil
waukee systems would find this new
scheme an easy way out to the metropo-
lis of southwest Kansas. In fact it is
quite probable that one of these systems
are at the bottom of the purchase re-
ferred to
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The Offer is Still Open

Kingman Democrat.
The dissatisfied Republicans of Wich-
ita. who have it in for Marsh Murdoch
because he opposes woman suffrage,
and metropolitan police have been threat
ening to raise $50, 900 to establish an OPP
position paper. Whenever Wichita
allows the Eagle to be crippled from any
cause she will ''cut off her nose to spite
her face" 1t will not be Murdoch, but
the city which will suffer. The former
has a standing offer, backed by an ample
bond, of salary of $4,000 year for
not less than five years and for as much
longer as he wishes to contract, to edit a
paper in which he need not invest a
dollar. A railroad company IS behind
the offer and it is genuine. Ii we were
Murdoch we would hire 81 800 man to
run the Eagle, and accept the salary.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
DRINKING LEATHER.
A Physician Explains why He Does No
Take MIX with His Tea

Physician Explains why He Does Ho'
Take MIX with His Tea
The Boston correspondent Of the 81 Louis
Globe Democrat IS responsible for the FOL
lowing story:
Thank you, madam, but do not put any
milk in my tea" said weii-known Boston
physician the other night at supper party,
and then added Il was never partial 70
leather as an article of diet. From tho
Arctic explorers point Of NEW, it IS some
tines available for food As for myself, I
hone thatIshall not soon be reduced 70 the
necessity Of eating or drinking IL"
NV dear doctor res pended the hostess
of the occasion, sulillngIy, "you need not
have milk nor cream either in your tea IL
YOU DO not wish II, Nor, hope. arc Joa
likely 10 be com Delled 70 undertake diet Of
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A Powder Horn with a History.

New York sun.
Mr.. C. C. White, of Charleston, Ind,
has in his possession powder horn OF
unique workmanship, which was made
in 1903, by his father, John White. 1t Is
handsomely carved and shows but little
wear from its long usage. Captain
Charles Mathes carried it through the
Tippecanoe in 1911. Powder from this
horn saved the life of General William
Henry Harrison. An Indian was IN the
act of sneaking up behind the hero of
Tippecanoe to brain him with toma-
hawk, when Captain Mathes, who OBJ
served him, shot him dead just as he was
raising his weapon. Mr. White will
present the keepsake to the state library
at INDIANAPOLIS
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leather. Fray parton me, however, II / ash

leather. Pray parton me, however. II ! ash
what possible connection there can be be-
tween the twoi''
"a very intimate connection, 10. me ps-
sure you, dear madam" he replied. Milk,
as you are aware, is an animal secretion
Tea contains chemical principle called
tannn, which has q specific action upon tho
milk. The result Is a substance which, TO
the analysis Of the chemist resembles
leather Like leather, IL is difficult Of diges-
ton You will observe that the Chinese,
who first discovered the use Of tea. take 20
milk IL theirs. Perhaps il may be supposed
that they know a thing or two On heSub-
iecf ~
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
a Judges Ready Wit.

Omaha Repu blican,
One of the attorneys for the Beechler
woman, who murdered her paramour, or
husband, or whatever he was, after &C
cepting money to let him alone, seems to
be as historical as she and Rose Ander-
son have shown themselves. Take this
for an Illustration from the report IN
Friday evenings Bee; Before court
convened this afternoon. AIr. Baldwin
went back into the private room, met
Judge Croft, and extending his hand
heavenwafd, exclaimed: Remember,
Judge, that the eye of God is on you IN
this case!'
'.All right, replied his honor, but
don't you forget, Mr.. Baldwin, that the
eve of the court is on you.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

Ii 1t will ease the pain of the Medicine
Lodge Cresset and 4 few other papers
that seem to have championed the cause
of the United States senators who voted
against Mr. Halstead's appointment, we
will state that the criticism offered by
the EAGLE upon SAID rejection was
based upon the reasons assigned by the
said senators; for their opposition. that is
in a word, retaliation. We said and
still say that such motives were and are
unbecoming the members of the highest
and most dignifed political body on
earth. That the senate had q right 10
reject Mr.. Halstead if in its Judgment
he was an unfit person for the important
and responsible station he was named to
fill, nobody questions for a moment.
They not only had the right to do so, but
if they so believed it was their plain
duty to so act. If the rejection was
made for the last named reason, the hon
orable senators did themselves great in
Justice in giving it out that they voted
from other and entirely different mo,
tives, and consequently are themselves
to blame for the criticisms put upon
them. In this view of the case. and il
cannot be gainsaid, the EAGLE has moth
ing to apologize for or take back.
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CARBoNDALE TO WICHITA.

The Lawrence, Emporia & South
western railroad now in operation from
Lawrence TO Carbondale and for years a
poor paving concern. has been purchased
by the Kansas CITY, Wyandotte &c North
western railway company. BY putting
in fourteen mile link between Law
renee and Tonganoxie the road will be
let into Kansas City. 1t is proposed 70
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We understand that Messrs. A. c. and
w. w. Scott, of lola. expect to establish
Republican paper to be called the Okla
homa Times, at Oklahoma City, as soon
as the territory is opened for settlement.
There is going to be a fine field there for
a strong wide-awake paper, and nobody
who knows the Scott boys doubts their
ability to meet the requirements to the
full. They certainly have the very best
wishes of the EAGLE in their new
raDtIlra
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

The proposed Chattanooga convention
heretofore mentioned in these columns,
is a natural and proper political move
ment. A correspondent at that place
writing to the New York Herald says:
1.-The high tariff policy of the Republican
party is what is now wanted to build up
large section of the southern country,
and the southern people see this" If the
people in the thirty-tive southern dis
tricts, named by correspondent can be
made to see this, the southern question
will be in the way of permanent settle
ment and disappear from our politics.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

No Kansas Republican has received
recognition at the hands of the Kansas
delegation in congress under Harrisons
administration that did not give up some
position to accept the new outside
honor, Jake Admire gave up two. he
is member of the legislature and a
member of a state board.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14
Black Surah Six Sale.

Quality - at 90 cents Quality % at IS cents.
Quality "a st SIS cents.
Each one gem bargain, worth 50, a5
and ll5 cents.
Figured India Silks for children, "a inches,
40 and 81 cents
Fancy Surah silk for children 80 cents,
worth - cents.
dress patterns only, worth Is cents yard,
One case Sollah cloth, plain and fancy
cloth az Is cents yard, worth - cents.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

Louisville, KY, will probably share
the experience of New Orleans In Its
famous Myra Clark Gains suit. An
Oregon man and ten others have set up
a claim in real estate IN the Kentucky
metropolis estimated to be worth $780,
600 600.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

Governor Humphrey didn't appoint the
police commissions too soon. Nearly an
the cities of the first-class have elected
Democratic mayors.-Howard Courah1.
Did it never occur to you that maybe
the police commission usurpaIon had
something to do with bringing about the
results complained of:
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

The press is engaged in an elaborate
discussion of what methods can be used
to stop labor strikes. There is no reason
to waste SO many words over the matter.
The best way to stop strikes is to remove
the cause, which in a majority of cases
would be found to be inadequacy of
wages for the service required.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-14

That man Stockslager, United States
Land Commissioner. is afflicted with
running at the mouth. AS fast as the
newspapers ascertain the law and facts
touching Oklahoma this Stockslager be-
gins to drool. He wants to be wiped OFT
and out, about as unceremoniously as he
wiped out the Wichita land office.