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The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-02
Written for The ArkdnsaU Traveller.
AMONG HOME AUTHORS.
A Chaples of Criticism.
ny II. c. l.


In LippncotrS Magazine for last month Richard
Henry Stoddard poet and critic of whom shall
Gin the hereater) have something truthful to
say, devotes almost nine wide pages to tell general
readers what he really knew and what he never
could have personally known about Edgar Allen
Poe The much over rated, under sized author of
The Raven" is too frequent pen morsel of literary
disputants. There many better dead men
shamelessy neglected in our pretentious national
biographies
Forty years gone to mother earth and Judgment
Poe is yet and curiously SOY quite the fashion with
certain people, who during the degraded roysterer's
lifetime, would not have spoken to him or of him.
and disguised their aversion. Stoddard, however
was not one of these.
He refers in his latest printed "reminiscences to
visit which he paid, some moons "befo' de wah," to
lady in Brooklyn n. Y, who q quote the cap
tious Richard) "wrote what she considered poetry"
Mr.. Stoddard is cruelty brusque in describing
this interview with songstress "whose wrinkles
have been extinguished." He is vulgarly precise
in information as to her Glow necked dress of
flaming crimson tarlatan," but he most ungallantly
outrages feminine interrogation by Withholding
the lady's name
She was an admirer and friend of Poe If Stod-
dard Qike the bust of Pallas over Edgar Alan's
chamber door, isn't of his base, she moreover paid
hundred dollars to Poe to review one of her
books.
Perhaps my keen scented friend, the doctor, can
tell who this foolishly generous lady verse-writer
was, when in the flesh. / find among his letters
that suspciously close to Identification of the
Brooklyn patroness of dishonest" and "unscrup-
ulous" ever needy man. Again quote Stoddard's
opinions and rugged adjectives.
COSY Nook, December 20, 1879.
"Stela" has sent me one OF the recent editions OF
her much-praised "sappho," This drama, trans
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-02


drinks he had taken and was, practically, dssd
drunk; 90 the accommodating fellow pansenrer
quietly slipped the teeth into their owners coat
pocket and LETT him alone In HE glory
should like to know what the old fellow aid
when he came out Of his trance and missed his
worries and found them, instead of where they
ought to be, in his pocket.
Life in great city, and especially as IL IA seen
on Its leading thoroughtares Is interesting and
Instructive study. 1t is Kaleidoscope, always
changing and ever presenting new scenes to our
view. A mammoth stage whereon are Thousands
OF actors and passing swiftly before us are scenes
from all the walks and conditions of life. Here
people are playing their parts, be they romance
tragedy or comedy, in earnest
Outlines on the stage, the actress who enacts the
character of penniless frendless GIRL or deserted
and Borrowing wife, drives from the theatre In her
carriage, to warm and comfortable apartments In q
hotel leaving behind her in the stage dressing
rooms, her costumes of poverty and sorrow On
the streets 1t is different. The humble heroine
goes to home that is dark and cold and cherries,
and so on through a whole life that has In II very
little of sunshine and happiness.
The street stage presents all phases of human
life, from which taken not few of the pictures
of 1t at the theatres. And as they are faith
fully and truthfuly presented there, 90 do we rec
ognize in that their excellence, and thus applaud
the actors art. Dramas taken from life usually
end happily but the great drama of life, with ell
its changing scenes OF eve and romance, OF comedy
and melodrama, invariably ends with tragedy
the death OF all the characters in the cast The
stage in lfes theatre is large and the actors 90
many the play 80 absorbing and the curtain always
up, that we scarcely notice those who make their
final exits, SO their places taken by others
who are anxiousy waiting their "cue," and who
also go on, speak their lines go through their sew
eral parts and in their time pass from our sight
forever.
1.-THE Romantic Story of Wickly's Woods Is the
title of charming little tale of Hoosier life from
the pen of ii. w. Taylor, the we'll known Hoosier
dialect writer, and published by T. s. Denison,
Chicago. In this little volume Dr. Taylor has told
interesting story and told 1t well, too. He has
given US some liIe-like character drawing in
such persons as JshR and Lizzie WIckly, COonrod
Redden, Billy Dials and Bud EHet. Mason Hunt
ey the hero of the story, is interesting charac-
ter who proves himself to bea real hero In all that
is true and manly, but who is, after all, q very
practical and matter Of fact sort of pers>n The
story has an interesting plot, which is well ham
died, is well filed with incident and in addition
TO its quaint and amusing characters, abounds in
bits of description just short and bright enough to
add to the general interest of the and Incl
dents to which they relate.-Ed X. PTItchdrd.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-02
LONDON, November "A, 1880.
memory

Mrs. Lewis an American literary phenomenon,
known internationally by her de plume of
"Stella," was found dead in her bel this morning
at her house, Bedford Place
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-02-02

Cosy Nook, December 20, 1879.
"Stella" has sent one OF the recent editions Of
her much praised "Sappho," This drama, trans
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
UNPRECEDENTED IMMIGRATION.

Wonderful as has been the exodus of
European exiles seeking a refuge in this
country from hardship and Tyranny
the rush was never SO great as at pres
ent In single week recently over ten
thousand embarked from the ports of
Great Britain and as many more from
the German and Dutch ports.
This wonderful migration was stimu-
lated by several causes, among which
may be enumerated the cessation of en-
igration from the northern continental
ports TO South America-that, however
it may have suited Italians, was not
satisfactory to the more northern races:
the admission of four new states and
opening of Oklahoma, which, though
not understood by emigrants, excited
their imagination, and the recent en-
phatic determination, as shown by the
late election, of the American people to
protect their home labor.
To correctly appreciate the mighty vol
ume of this host of more than twenty
thousand arriving at the port of New
York in one week 1t is enough to say
that they largely outnumber the two
great British armies captured by US in
the revolutionary war. For the whole
number surrendered by the British gen.
eral, Burgoyne, October II, III, were
but 5,791. and those surrendered October
20, 17S1, by Lord CORVALLIS numbered
II 500, including two thousand sailors,
one thousand eight hundred negroes,
and one thousand FIVE hundred Tories
Deducting the two classes last named
the real imported army surrendered on
that occasion numbered only eight thou
sand five hundred, which, added 70 those
surrendered at Saratoga four years be-
fore, would aggregate only l4,29l for the
two armies, or less than one weeks ar
rival az New York.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
NO TRUTH IN ANY OF THEM.

Several papers have quoted the Tribune as calling
Marsh Murdoch the rum soaked apCloyizer for the
Wichita joints" Gov. Martin reads US severe lee
ture on our turpitude and disgraceful conduct. We
George Martin is the author of the base libel
said ii because some said Narsh's head was
redder than his. The Tribune only copied the Ga
zette's words-LawreDce Tribune
1t seems some newspaper took this re-
mark for dead earnest, and it has passed
around until some deem denial necessa-
ry. 1t is Imaginable to those who know
Mr.. Murdoch, and yet such foolishness is
likely to impress stranger for fact Of
course Murdoch is not rum soaked;" we
do not even know that he vets his lips
The nearest circumstance we have on him
is the capture of a lot Of fisherman's sup
plies by the Metropolitan police simulta-
neOuS with his going on a fishing expedi-
ton. But this point calls attention to the
general sobriety of the newspaper men of
Kansas. We venture to say that nine
tenths of them are total abstainers. while
we doubt if there is a hard drinker or even
an ordinary one among them.-kansas
City Gazette.
There is just as little foundation for
the ''tisherman's supplies" and their cap
ture as there is of the "rum- soaked
racket. That fishing party went to Mis-
souri, and it is hardly probable that any
body would buy beer in Kansas to take
to state where beer seems the principal
stock in trade.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05

From the action of the Kansas farmers
as given in the published proceedings of
meetings in many counties, the much
discussed binding Irvine trust will utter
ly fail of its calculations of reaping
rich harvest this season, as far as Kan
sas is concerned. In many counties the
farmers resolved to not use any Irvine at
any price and have made arrangements
to harvest and take care of the wheat
crop by other methods In some locali-
ties they fixed a maximum price at
which they would use the twine-at last
seasons figures-whiIe in many cases
the harvesters have been changed so as
to use wire instead of Irvine. This con-
cert of action, while it will not save the
farmers from much inconvenience and
possibly some slight losses, it will serve
them a good purpose in the future: it
will learn monopolists the important
lesson that there is a point beyond which
forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and
that the farmers know when they have
reached it. The convenience that at
tend the transacting of every line of bus
mess and every industry in this country
are unequaled by those enjoyed by any
other quarter of the globe orat any period
in the worlds history, but these all have
their foundation, their basis of prosperity,
grounded upon agriculture, and its in
terests and rights are entitled to and
should receive the first consideration.
When it suffers from any cause all else
must suffer with it,
In view of these facts, therefore, the
Kansas farmers are to be congratulated
upon the quiet, peaceful, yet firm stand
they have taken in defense of their and
the common interest by refusing per-
emptorily to submit to the unreasonable,
because unjust exactions attempted to
put upon them.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
READ THE FISHING Law.

As the fishing season is here
lit may be well to note the fol-
lowing new law passed by the
legislature.
SECTION 1. That section 2 of
chapter 20S is hereby amended
so as to read as follows: 1t
shall be unlawful to catch or
attempt to catch, or to kill any
of the fish in any Of the inland
waters of the state of Kansas
by poisoning the water with
lime or any deleterous sub
stance whatever, or by making
any obstruction to the natural
transit of fish for the purpose
Iof catching the same.
SEC. 2. 1t shall be unlawful
to catch or kill any black bass,
|croppies, perch or wall-eyed
pike by means of any drag net,
gill net, trammel net, drift net,
slide, fish pot, set net, wire,
pond, or any device whatever.
except by rod, line and hook.
SEC. 8. 1t shall be unlawful
to catch any fish not mentioned
in Section 2 of this act at any
time except the months Of May
and June of each year.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
OUR PROGRESS AND PROSPECTS.

1t is not too much to say, in summing
up the material progress of the century,
about which so much has been said and
written the past week, that in no portion
of our country has there been such a
marked and wonderful development Of
resources during the past twenty-five
years as in Kansas, the central state Of
the great confederation and nation.
Thirty years ago known only as the
great American desert and believed to
be uninhabitable for white people, ii
boldly entered the march of progress.
and the development of its matchless re
sources in agriculture and live stock has
been the wonder of the closing decade OF
the governments first century, and to-
day the states products place it well up
towards the head of the column.
Its focks and herds, its wool and beef
and pork are rated with the best of the
western productions, while its horses
are becoming famed for their superior
qualities.
For several years of its earlier history
Kansas was known only as a grazing
region. Now it is at the front as land
of matchlesS farms, orchards and past
ures; its broad valleys and undulating
prairie table-lands rejoice in waving
fields of grain, extended meadows and
gardens where wheat and oats and corn
of the heaviest weight per bushel, yield
per acre and grade in quality known to
the continent, furnish incontestible
proof that it occuple s an important and
conspicuous position in the great food
producing region of the country; where
the finest stock thrives and reaches the
nearest possible to perfection, and where
fruits and vegetables flourish III quality
and quantity unexcelled.
And in addition to the marvellous de-
velopments of agricultural resources
must be added those of the great and
equally important staples of life, salt and
sugar, the first already demonstrated to
be in absolutely inexhaustible supply
and perfection of quality, and the second
sufficiently developed to demonstrate its
entire practica5ility and the limitless
capacity of the state for its production.
Commensurate with these all but in
comparable features and placing the
state equally as prominent in its COM
mercial relation with the country at
large, its railroad mileage is surpassed
by but one state in the Union and Will
no doubt surpass that within the next
two or three years.
All these interests have practi-
cal concentration in Wichita, the
wonder city of the west, whose brief
history and magical growth in popula-
ton, wealth and influence has been even
more marvellous than that Of the won
derful STATE of which it is the acknowl
edged metropolis. Whatever may be
said of the state in its grand career of
development and expansion of power
and industrial and commercial influence
and these are hardly within the grasp
of the most vivid imagination-can be
said with even greater emphasis and
certainty of this city.
Taken altogether, the outlook for the
future of Kansas, more particularly the
southern and western portions of the
state, and especially OF Wichlta-'God's
country" of the Union and its CONNER
cial, industrial and railroad center
must henceforward be known among
the foremost in wealth, intelligence and
true Americanism.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
ENDORSES THE EAGLE.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
If the policy the EAGLE advocates
would overturn governments and social
order and cause revolution in Kansas.
the sooner it is brought about the better,
whether the Leavenworth Times likes it
or not. The straightforward denuncia-
tons of the last two legislatures by the
EAGLE will receive the approval of a
very large majority of the whole state
and no danger of revolution either If
the EAGLES policies could have been fol-
lowed by the last two or three legiSla-
lures Kansas today would have had
hundreds of thousands more population
and millions cf more property. The ed
itor of the EAGLE is working night and
day TO try to convince certain elements
of the facts. But the reaction will sure
~ come in time. There ought TO be
more Marsh Murdocks to edit EAGLES
for the benefit of the state of Kansas.
This talk about raising fifty thousand
dollars to start another morning paper
is cheap. II there is any spare money
better put it to better use than sink it
trying to injure the best paper in the
state. Yours respectfully,
J. B. BRISLEY.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
GEN. HARRISON KELLY.

Harrison Kelly, of Coffey county, is
liable to make good showing for Tom
Ryan's place. There are number of
mighty good, bright and smart bows who
will be in the race before the Republican
convention, but Kansas can show few
truer, better men than Gen. Harrison
Kelly of Coffev
The above editorial clipping, appear
ing in the EAGLE on the Gath ult.. tersely
contains our convictions of the charac-
ter of the man whom the Republicans Of
the Fourth congressional district nomi-
mated on Friday to succeed the Hon.
Thomas Ryan in the congress of the
United States. However much may be
said for the other candidates, and they
are all representative men, any one of
whom would honor the district on the
floor of congress, the truth is that Harri-
son Kelly is the peer Of any member from
this state. He is of the John Brown
days. a Kansan among kansans, who
has never been found wanting. His
private and public life alike have ALWAYS
been above reproach. He will probably
be denominated the farmer candidate"
as he is farmer. but be is no less man
of affairs, of political and business ex-
perience. of bread and comprehensive
views. For long time we hoped TO see
Harrison Kelly made the chief executive
OF the state. That seemed his ambition
and he seemed so we'll calculated 10
make strong governor, but that his
services and abilities have at last been
recognized in SO substantial and marked
q manner we are satisfied.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05

Prof. G. G. Blake, the Kansas weather
prophet, says that in the main the north
ern states will have a blighting drouth,
and no crops this year, but that Kansas
will have full crop, and her farmers
will get good prices. He advises: 1.-The
drouth this summer will be SO severe in
many states that we do not see how to
give any advice, as the crops will simply
dry up long before maturity. But in
Kansas, part of Missouri and the south
the greatest efforts should be made to
plant every available acre with corn as
soon as possible, and in those parts where
our table for 1889 show rain will be
sufficient during the summer and early
fall, the lister should follow the binder
in June and plant corn as fast as wheat
and oats are cut" The advice is good
whether the predictions prove correct or
not. Suffering and want never comes
TO community that has plenty of pro-
visions for man and beast, no difference
how low the price may be. The man or
community that has a surplus is the
prosperous and happy one, regardless of
prices,
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
Edison's Lates: Invention.

New york Press.
According to Paris paper Edison has
combined the photograph with the clock
in most ingenious manner.
Instead OF striking the hour the clock
calls out in well modulatad tones. dim
ner time" ''One o'clock, Two o'clock, >
etc.
Many variations 70 which this inven-
ton may be subjected at once suggest
themselves. An alarm clock will doubt
less be constructed which at the ap-
pointed hour will begin TO deliver gen.
tie exhortation 70 Get up-i,is six
o'clock"
If the sleeper does not rise and check
the clock, IL VIII continue with gradu-
ally increasing emphasis until it speaks
fl thoroughly unmistaEabls tones, spiced
if need be with appropriate quotations
from scripture.
Then the clock viii hare other coubi-
nations adapted for other purposes. TIE
fond parent whose daughter is being
sparksi viii hare clock wuich az about
10 p. IT. viii sing cut: Young man, u
is about time you decarnpeiH
4 lady who gives parties viii hare
clock that viii say, Good evening". Ia
dies and gentlemen; il is bed time. and
SO forth The monographs clock i
destined 10 I'll s long FELT want.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05

Thus adding grand total from nine
teen counties surrounding Wichita of
315, 1893 head of hogs, 436, PAT head of cat
tie, 4,S77.41 bushels of wheat, $780,
3S4 bushels of corn, IL, 382, $50 bushels of
oats.
Taking the year 1888 as basis, which
was considered poor year, it shows that
in the poorest of crop years that there is
stock enough raised in this section to
supply a number of packing houses and
over 90, 600, 900 bushels of grain which
should be handled through elevators at
this point
If any one doubts about the resources
to Wichita or what is building up great
city and great market center at this
point let them carefully consider these
facts as presented from the official re-
ports published by authority of this
state.
While we have given the figures for
poor year, il may be of interest TO know
what the Big Four counties have done
when they have good crops. In 1888
these four counties produced 4,103, 500
bushels of corn
In 1884 the same counties produced
5,134, 496 bushels of wheat In 1888 the
Big Four raised 1856, $50 bushels of oats.
Taking the grain raised in these four
counties in good years it would load a
train of over 100000 cars, or 1851 Sec
lions of thirty cars to the section, which
would make train over 600 miles long,
or nearly from Wichita to Chicago.
Wichita eagle., 1889-05-05
LOCAL BEEF INSPECTION UNCON.
STITUTIONAL.

From the Live Stock Indicator.
The Armour Packing company re-
ferred the question of the constitution
atty of the proposed local inspection
law to Judge George w. McCrary and
Wallace Pratt, two of the most eminent
members of the Kansas City bar, and on
Thursday their opinion was given to the
company. 1t covers a book of thirty
seven pages and in substance is that no
state can prohibit the importation of
wholesome meats. The opinion is of
much weight from the fact that Judge
McCrary was long of the United States
circuit bench and that Mr.. Pratt stands
at the head of his profession in Kansas
City.
The law passed by the New Mexico
legislature is taken as the text and the
opinion is based on two questions: Is
the act in violation of the sections Of
the constitution which says congress
shall have power to regulate commerce
between states and that the citizens of
each state shall be entitled to all privi-
leges and immunities of citizens in the
several states. The question is infinitely
discussed and many authorities are cited
and quoted in support OF the following
leading principles:
l. The right to bring into one state
from another state, or from a foreign
country, articles Of commerce is a vested
right. the exercise of which no state can
prohibit.
3 The state cannot, under police
power, establish non-intercourse between
her people and non-residents with
respect to any article of commerce.
8. The police power OF the territory
cannot be exercised with respect to a
subject matter beyond its control
1. The courts must judge as 10 the
purpose and effect of the act, and de-
termine whether il is reasonable and
proper exercise of the police power.
5. The legislature cannot establish
unnecessary or unreasonable police
regulations.
6. The act in question is not proper
exercise of the police power OF the ter
rltory, because il makes no distinction
between pure and healthful food and
that which is diseased or unsound.
In conclusion Messrs- hcCrary and
Pratt say: 1--WE feel entirely justified IN
saying that the claim on behalf OF the
legislature of the territory OF New Mex
leo that, in order TO exclude unsouni
dressed meats, ii may exclude ali meas
whether sound and wholesome or not,
cannot be supported as proper exercise
of the police power.
While the opinion appertains directly |
TO the New Mexico law, II applies as well |
TO other states In which laws OF this |
kind have already been passed or are /!
pending. The acts. although varying IN |
phraseoloyy, are The same II substance. !