Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-17

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1ailay e Eagle
MARSHALL MURDOCH. Editor.
The .ssugar bowl of the nation" anG
'sthe salt bin of the west" is the latest
prophecy for Kansas.
The Wichita EAGLE of Sunday morning
last publishes a long description or the
'Kansas Pioneer" in rhyme.-Atchison
Champion.
Which is an amusing mistake for
poet to make. The description was not
In rhyme but in feet the measure being
that of Longfellow's Hiawatha.
We have faith that the single used to
perpetrate a whiticism by X. Z. MO-
paper Will yet perform the office in the
hand of Kansas in behalf of *. G., Mo-,
that the maternal slipper" hath often
performed on the youthfulibraggart IN
fantile bottom"
The topeka Democrat says the newly
installed state officials are all very wroth
at the gross misrepresentation put upon
them. physiognomatically, by the So
called likeness of them published IN a
local contemporary. If that be true,
and there is no reason to doubt 1T,
what must have been the feelings of
those who were similarly cartooned, only
incomparably worse, by the Times, Of
the City of Kansas.
Charles Dudley Warner thinks that
over-culture and pedantic learning is
doing much to take from woman the
charm that gives her empire. He sees
in the powerfully intellectual gaze
through double extra eyeglasses that
which BODIES i'll to the reign of feminine
fascination. A smattering Of the classics
and dip into philosophy he considers
of trivial importance in comparison to
the power of an interesting personality.
The Wichita EAGLE man has not had
row with woman for a month. But he
anticipates one soon, and he is determined
to have the first word if not the last
Kansas City Gazette.
The EAGLE man never had row with
a womanly woman in all his life, nor
never criticised any woman who was not
arrogating the duties Of man or making
some such spectacle Of herself. The
EAGLE has more lady readers and more
women friends than any daily newspa-
per in the west.
The Higgins family seems to be III
vein of good luck. The Delaware branch,
represented by the honorable Anthony
of Wilmington, takes its place promi-
nently in the national government the
senate) as the Kansas wing does in the
state administration. The Delaware
branch succeeds one of the Oldest and
most prominent Democratic families
salisbury of that state and the coun-
try; one that has occupied the station
mentioned for thirty years
The fact that ten Democratic senators
Bate of Tennessee, Brown Of Georgia,
Daniel of Virginia, Faulkner Of West
Virginia, Payne of Ohio, Pugh Of Ala
bama, and Turpie and Voorhees, Of Indi-
ana-voted with the Republicans against
Mr. Vests proposal to put bituminous
coal on the free list, and did SO after
scolding and bullying speech by Mr..
Vest himself on the duty of Democrats to
toe the party line on all such questions,
is both interesting and suggestive.
The first annual message of Governor
Humphrey to the state legislature, which
was delivered yesterday, will be found
entire in this issue of the EAGLE. 1t is a
lengthy document, but straightforward
and full of business suggestions and
recommendations of practical sort in
the main. The document as a whole
shows that the new governor has COM
prehensive grasp of matters affecting the
states interest. 1t will be read with
interest and satisfaction by all who feel
uoncern in public affairs.
The ordering of United States troopsto
The Oklahoma country, mentioned i'll
yesterdays dispatches, invests the pro-
posed onward movement set for
the first OF February with an interest to
those who contemplate joining the expe-
dition that they cannot well afford to
ignore. The formal opening of the ter
ritorv will not be delayed many months
and those who are anxious to so there
viii certainly not facilitate the matter
bv a manifestation of undue haste in
trying to force matters i'll that direction
The fellow out in California who
wrote the decoy letter to Lord Sackville,
representing himself to be what he was
not and rounding off his falsehoods with
n false signature, resembles some much
greater political personages, it seems, III
being afflicted with fool friends. Two
of them. 1t is asserted, have actually had
the impudence 10 write TO General Har-
rison letter setting forth his claims to
recognition because of that perform
ance. They will have their labor for
their pains. General Harrison is a gem
tleman.
A Democratic exchange in speaking of
the probability that an extra session of
congress will be called soon after the
inauguration of the incoming admins
tration mentions in sort of warning
tone the historical fact that one Of the
very few extra sessions of congress was
called by General Harrisons grand
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