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Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
A MISLEADING PROPOSITION.

At the Milwaukee G.. 4. r. Fencamp-
nlent Gen. w. T. Sherman made short
address to the old soldiers, at the con-
should be his last attempt at speech
making. but when he MET the survivors
of the Army of the Tennessee in their
annual reunion, the other day, he could
not resist the temptation to respond to
the call for a speech. In this last effort,
although not political one, he made
suggestion that is essentially political
and one that embodies a momentous
problem. He referred to the compact
entered into between the government
bellion. which was. in substance, that in
view of their readmission to all the
rights and immunitieS of citizenship,
and the states to their former status in
the union, the changed order of things
be accepted in good faith and the terms
of the amendments to the constitution
observed and lived up to in all respects.
After stating the terms of this agreement
the general called the attention of his
auditors TO the fact that the terms of the
compact had been violated by the south,
III that while it accepted the benefits
conferred in the matter of increased
representation in congress. in conse-
ouence Of the REIMBURSEMENT of the
negroes who had been liberated from
slavery and given citizenship by the
terms of the amendment to the constitu-
ton, it arbitrarily denied these new ci:i-
zens the full privileges that were accord
ed them. After noting these facts, the
general then made the declaration that
unless the terms of the original COM
pact shall be observed and lived up to,
or in other words, unless the negro shall
be permitted to enjoy the full benefits eff
his citizenship in the free exercise of the
elective franchise, that the representa-
ton from those states be curtailed in
proportion to rthe number of votes that
are deprived of civil rights.
The proposition sounds plausible and
Just, but a moments reflection Will dis
close the cruel injustice it will.
if adopted, work to the negroes of the
south. 1t will simply do by formal act
of the government what the whites OF
the south have been doing these years
without legal or moral right, i. e., dis
franchise them. General Sherman NAV
not have meant this, but if his PROPOSE
ton We're adopted and carried into effect.
we see no alternative for it. And if the
country is not ready for Just the consum-
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
An Interesting Group.

The fat stone stoop and numerous stsps
which lead to the rear entrance Of tho city
hall in the afternoon, when tie long, I'd
fingers Of the setting sun touch only that
portion Of the big baiIdiug in which the
mayors os.ioe,is, are crowded with sn azsort-
rnent Of children, ranging from tbs infant,
whose sol. duty il IL To retain By sacti0n tho
fexibls top Of a fat bottle ia its mouth, 20
the girl Of or 10. 7vhoae duty IL . 70 mind
tie infant. This Is the favOrits Iounglnz
spot Ct these poor, city bound children. and
while they play they can readily beliess
themselves in the country. for th.re are
plenty Of shady trees and vel kept lawns OF,
every hand. Toe csi.dren REPRESENT AL nar
tionaltles, from the btsls I,ahan with tbs
gaudy ksrcaief wrapped aboat Ter Decx. 10
the poor little native. dirty. iss1ber and pug
Izac50uS
The chIdrsn frequently bring sou1ething 70
eat with them, and fragments II bread and
cores and psts Of fruit are al.~sys a,ss be6iDd
Big politicians have n pies tasir Nay through
:ssse httss scrazobl.ng. ysilIzs yosnSsssr~,
AID t5ey always do L t~D3eTiy. Sometimes
tie nzot5srs 81 tee Ht.ls cse~ couss srousd
and-sis On The se@p@ and talk about their cxrss
and respcnsstsis ies. d5rsrtsng ttsrxz~.zs nov
and then By easzt2slng sonss 1ur&salsy rossy
or trusb sesoz.1s chsa No matter what u 90
iag on within ths great boiats-g. - whAs
day !; Il, 20 Tiers IA 10 rain, t11s iirtls zroap
is ou hand ready 20 b. sSzSAea hy sa-ss iossr
* human nature. Or % annoy sozoe man
whous prosrsS i1sy tsnpeds -sew YHa
Exzu
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
THEIR DISTINGUISHING MARKS,

The Wichita Eagle paid its respects yes
ferday, in no uncertain language to the
''hen convention" as it is called, now in
session there. The editor evidently lives
in bomb proof. If he does not, the Lord
pity him! Colonel Murdoch would have
it that there are, of right, three sexes,
male female and woman's sutfragists.
Would it not be well for the colonel to out
line the distinguishing marks and traits
of the new sex?-Emporia News.
We haven't corrugated them farther
than that we find them to be double
neuter gender, devoid of personality,
diminishing in number, and hopeless
cases generally, according to the rule
fundamental, laid down by the law, the
gospel, the prophets and by right-think-
ing people generally.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
WILL FEMALE POLITICIANS ALSO
PREVARICATEp

A falsehood always seems to come
with such harshness from woman.
Woman and falsehood are not compati-
bic, and ordinarily cannot be associated
together in the mind. Woman and truth
seem as congenial as the ideal angel and
heaven. But angels fell, fell from
heaven, too, fell to h. oh. we can't say
it. The angels fell through an inordi-
nate ambition. They wanted to take
hand in running paradise. AS angels
fell, so have women; ana, it seems, for
the self came cause, an ambition
10 run things. But because thew
have fallen from that pure pedestal
which rests on the home, and Its sacred
and heaven born loves, they need not go
out of the way TO make the thing worse
10y ignoring the truth or putting forth
falSehood in its stead. The officers, or
at least some of the highest dignitaries
of the kansas Branch of the Universal
Suffrage Association" otherwise the
state female fermentation society. now
declare that had they known that their
purported Divine importation of Boston
baked beans was really going to say
what he really did say about the people
who read and support the EAGLE, they
would have shut him off: that
they did not and do not sympathize with
him in his views. No one is so green as
not to know that whatever in the way of
weaknesses may be attributed TO these
women, lack of backbone is not one OF
them. If these women officials had
either discountenanced, or even failed to
synlpathize with their tool in his expires
sions, they would have said so in a way
and with dispatch that would have
lifted him out OF his seat, If it had not
busted his belt wide open.
We wouldn't. of course, remark "Oh,
Rats!' to ladies. but we think EN-.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
SPORTINGiNEWS.

One of the most successful features
ever introduced by the illustrated maya
zines, has been the 'In the Field" papers
of the Cosmopolitan, written by leading
sportsmen, treating Of the more popular
forms of outdoor recreation. Pelham
Clinton's "Fox Hunting around the Me-
tropolis''; the article on Tandem Driv-
ing" by the president of the New York
Driving club: Lawn Tennis" by the
editor of Harpers Young People," and
others of the series have attracted the
widest interest. That for the October
issue treats of base ball, by man who
is recognized the W rld over as knowing
more about base ball, and having had
more to do with base ball than any other
living-Mr. A. 6. Spalding, president of
the Chicago base ball club. This article
is elaborately illustrated from subjects
furnished by Mr. Spalding. Another
paper in the same issue that will be ap-
preciated by lovers of sport, is a descrip-
ton of the winter and summer recrea-
tons at Tuxedo, which will also be eIab-
orately illustrated.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
A PENSION REFORM NEEDED.

Omaha Republican.
The trouble with the pension system
has always been that those who were
best entitled to government aid have
found it almost impossible to obtain it,
while those who had no title whatever
seemed to have as little difficulty as they
had title. Rings have grown up in
Washington whose sole business is to
manufacture claimants. and they have
prospered and grown rich as the profess
sional friend of the soldier. When the
pension was procured they generally got
the most of it. One man who runs a
military weekly has made over half
million dollars AT the business.
This subject will receive considerable
attention at the coming session of con-
gress, and some reforms will undoubt
eddy be introduced. The first one should
be 10 bar these cOrmorants out of the
pension bureau altogether. Let the
government create system of pension
judges who are TO act for certain dis
tricts, and who are to be paid by the
government. Then If a veteran has
claim. lei him present it with his proofs,
to the judge III his district. If the claim
is good there is no question but that it
will be granted without a dollar Of cost
TO him. and the danger of collision be-
tween officers OF the pension bureau and
professional attorneys will be materially
modified.
There are too many coffee boilers who
never smelled powder getting govern
ment assistance, while brave and deserv-
ing men apply in vain for relief. We
would ike to hear from the veterans on
tbIS i5ao%
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

the value of the experiment. II cannot
be positively said that the appearance of
contagion in different fields In Kansas
was due to the introduction of the pre-
pared bugs, because the fungus in the
state, from which the first bugs were
got might explain by contagion, the
presence of the fungus in other adjacent
parts of the state: but even this expiana-
ton would prove the fact that the fun
gold disease is contagious and If natural
~ inclined to spread what is more prob
able than the power to artiflclaliy propa-
gate the disease? But sending the bugs
to different states where by careful OBJ
servers none of the fungus had been no.
ticed, and by this spreading disease
among bugs of distant states proves
the contagious effect of the prepared
bugs.
There is question, too. as to the
power Of the fungus to grow with any
strength in dry seasons, but as VIII be
noticed in the above reports. tins has
been spoken of and favorably to the dis
ease. The experiment of killing chinch-
bugs by contagious disease needs further
verification, aud 1t is the intention of
Prof Snow, with the cooperation of
various government agricultural stations
to thoroughly test this new and promis-
ing remedy for the benefit of the farmer.
Prof. Snow has now stock of fungus
spores keeping through the winter. that
he may be prepared to begin early next
spring.
An official report under the direction
of the Kansas State Board of Agricul-
ture will soon be issued and the farmers
and scientists Of the country will be
literally supplied in order that the car
rying on of the experiment next year
may be as widespread and thorough as
possible.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
CACKLING FOR OUR TROUSERS.

Colonel Murdoch is careful TO draw a
broad distinction between Wichita's fair
and woman suffragists. can EImpeel-
err" says the colonel, sis never fair. y
The suffragists should claim a foul
Emporia Republican.
They do lay claim to fowl, but the
foul part of it is it is featherless and no
one seems able to determine its sex. We
thought at first that it was possibly a
high cockalorum, but it's crow is execra-
bic and it roosts too low for rooster.
Whatever it is, it halls from Boosting, -
and consorts with the delectable flock
wEo are cackIing for our breeches.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

Derby The man asserts that he hasn't
touched drop of Intoxicating liquors for
five years The policemen at Leavenworth
are fast asserting their rights TO the title
of Officers"
A complimentary notice has been started
the rounds, which reads IS follows: In
Judge Perkins district thirty-three OF the
seventy postmasters that have been APP
pointed under the Harrison administra-
ton, were old soldiers. Since Judge Per-
kins' return from Washington, June l, he
has written 334 personal letters concerning
pensions for old soldiers. During the
same time he has received notice of the
allowance of lightweight pensions through
his efforts
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
FLINTY FONDLINGS, ADIEUl

Farewell, festive female fermentators,
farewell; farewell fair and feeble fell
lows, farewell; and, if forever, tidgety
fascinators, still forever flaming huctu-
ators, fare thee well. We embrace thee
in this our final benediction, which in
cludes the solemn prayer that your I'M
worthy servant may find himself safely
settled in that other and brighter coun-
try, whose streets are paved with gold,
ere you. my dears, have all been elected
road overseers in this.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
CHILDREN WILL CONTINUE TO RISE
UP TO SCOTCH ,EM.

But for our faith in the promise that
the seed of the woman should bruise the
serpent's head we would be inclined to
believe that the snakes were about to
have good time of it. But the Lord
said it to Eve, when He promised her
plenty of babies, and He must have
known that these suffragers wouldn't be
able to cut off the race; and SO, we are
still holding fast to the conviction that
the fact of the late assemblage of pan
tered frailties, in this city, will not
render life less uncertain for snakes.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
Horses Wearing Bustles.

odd you ever see horses that wore
bustles, just like woman" asked DR..
Henry Wilson, who Is just back from
Kentucky, says the Atlanta Constitu-
ton. John Hughes showed a pair Of
horses in a buggy that he had been
offered g, 500 for, and asked 5000
They took the blue ribbon, and knew
every gait that horse ever made. These
horses wore bustles all the time, except
when on the road. When put in their
stalls wire hustle, just such as lady
wears. only smaller, was put under the
tail and held there by a strap. This
made the horse throw the tail from the
body, and gave it style in action. Many
horses in Kentucky wear bustles. Ii is
a regular trade about Lexington TO buy
likely handsome horse from the coun-
try for $500 or 800 and educate him 20
all gaits. and give him style. speed him
up little and sell him fsr $1.0O0 or so. =
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
THERE ARE NO BETTER STORIES
THAN THOSE OF CAPT. KING.
OUT ON THE DEEP.
, deep, when the sun is low,

Out on the deep, when tbs sun is low,
And the sea with spleador burns.
With his scaly spoil, from hs evening toll.
The fisher hotaeward turns
And his oars fash bright. ~ the oces light
And he knows that eyes on shore
Look out on the deep for ais hrig'It sweep.
And he sings IS be aFceps b'sas
"a long sweep. lads and a strong sweep boys.
And a song asiai9nz we 20
For the hearts that yearu for orr hons return,
When the evening sun is low
Out on the deep, when The E'rn i dead.
And the first sweet star doth gi~su.
OF day that IL dead. and love that is fed,
The fisher off viii dream.
And he thinks tho asar Ike tie first bright star.
She Is sIln beside Of yorc.
And his oaTg gisauI bright. In Is sweet pale Light,
And he signs as he pises his
"a SLOW sweep, lads. ard =. low sweep, boys
And song as along 90
For the star OF ioye, that il bright above,
And It's gleaBi ia the wave beI0x
-Saua1.ei Cowsn IA Ssx York Sali and Eyprssa
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

F-onn the fesTlzsosn Journal.
Mr. Thomas Gooiali, Of LAnfoTd, Ne,
has an ingenious invention, made by
native Of Geneva Switzerland. II Is a
box about three inches long. two inches
wide and three fouriils Of an inch deep.
This box is full Of machinery. and X hen
a KEY Is applied 4 portion Of the top wilI
open and a ANAL bird come forth and
sing. clipper, futter It's wig. turn
about and retreat out OF sight. The
work beneath Is of soiid gold and VERY
finely wrought. This box cost $50 The
inventor died after making II. and, al
though he had the machinery Of several
others made, no one. as yet. las lsseu
able to put il together and make Il work
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

II .cs o!9en times Tia negroes II f-s sCzts-
en- plantation and cf tbs Lozzsshosd wers a.
proud Of tie soc2al po<4tson q thesr rsas.s-s
SIS goy q TIE ch4A2-En. ard as anxious for the
good nsrss Ct any ussxzber os TIE family.
TIE S0gss<~r bfvcs.c 0zse~ tod q Cd cd
Floei6a NANNY wbo showed b~~ pride II
caaict ard easraessrlsrs.yis-
Her yc1.g rz&s4eTx. Dcsa iads, were oonr
s-fp.ed sEd o-xisrs4 20 Psxsssecss- Tksy
w-s rskirgs tez~.zi lszvc e trsenes. wken
TIE Cd .'unanzsyS excissrysezl:
Vow, young rs<<.esz. sop DIS kTsr cry
In; so aod axhs Tex yo-r co<srsry Eks rss-a-
and ra4r6, dealt easgrscs The fszui.y. nx NJ
c-.terF
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
Who Can Teu2

Not long ago Mr. SIX was married
to a Miss Dunbar, and a genius asks this
question:
IL used to be when folks were wed
'4These two are one, the parson said.
But see how HymeD, fun II tricks.
Has made two one. yet heTn ak.
Nay. each Is six, and on ~ -eil
are both q DOZEN Who 4 telIs
How will we reckon by AMI by
When SIX by SIX ~p multiply
Howe'er IL he, grant. gracious heavens,
They ue'er may be at six and sevsns,
-Pittsburg BuIletin-
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

nation we have named, which is in fact
but an acknowledgment of the failure of
the war of the rebellion to accomplish.
in part, at least, what it was fought for,
the suggestion will be given cousidera-
tlon in another way, and that, to devise
some means by which he negro may be
secured the enjoyment of all that he is
now entitled to under the constitution as
it is and the laws enaded in conformity
Herewith,
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

The following from the Omaha Re-
publican is respectfully referred to the
papers of Kansas City, as being germane
to matter that has caused them much
solicitude of late: "The Missouri river
commission should use part of the ap-
preparation to sprinkle the bed of that
turbid stream. The dust is overpower-
ing. Oh. it might run pipe out and put
up drinking fountain SO that weary
pedestrians plodding across its sandy
wastes would have an opportunity to re-
fresh themselves.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

In Boz-aA. AsxEst, 1919, JOHN Bse, %
" iiiAsz1xtorD. Mas. 70 Eis Nary Ana
bszs. Of iss for-osr place. after . cozsr,x1i2
q CTS hear
Is tAAs n1e xEszax vel. a..
5s4cA Q tender ts<-E - s-kxs
Es cz1gss is oes .kors hoes . EaR
Tas E%~a. s>s1x& cxrxS. xAs EA1A
Married, ss ErstSs~s.<. Dee. IA, TIA.
Caps TocgnAs B&xa~, CO ozza~J. aerud &c.
20 Mis- Whitman. q. Tie fcrrsev phase. awud
81. After long ard t>xtsocz ce<rsxti, II kr-
ty->>gss yex-z, .whsck tAsy to:s sustained
with aocuzxz0n sorsa.xs1s
In BSs0u, April, ls2l. By tie Rev. VIII
Ian sabana. Josrpa wlzseut b N. srssa
ni.1sssza. &ssx . sAEs1ns cogrsznsp q shls-
teez Cars. ADD ssss s4a-r.y1ss asys after tie
d1xth os Esssorxe@r vita
IAs ez-s ~sy. q ssss-s. &seS ssrrsv . s-1<sas.
feT fas tcsa q xsss ts-so f-x.-1 srcsarr.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

1t has been decided by the federal
courts in Iowa that railroad company
cannot abandon lines that do not pay
operating expenses. Having obtained
the right Of way through private prop
erty on the representation that it would
furnish transportation to the public, it
cannot violate its agreement on the pre-
text of reverses, conditions which must
have been thought Of when the stipula-
tionS were made.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
TEEY MAKE POOR BED FELLOWS.

The Reverend O. Vibert now says that
the reason he stopped over was because
of our allusion to the unpleasant posi-
bilitv of having to sleep in the same
graveyard with the female suffragists.
There the vassal and the king,
There the lover and the maid,
Side by side lie whitening
Come to think of it, it is no light mat
ter, and one that may well be dreaded.
We hope by that time, however, that
these peripatetic female yawpers may
conclude to accept the thing gracefully,
and, if they can't lie still, that they may
at least hold their tongues and quit
kicking,
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
What Ais George. Anyhow

What Ais George, Anyhow
From the Kansas CHEZ.
1t has done George Martin good TO get
where he can look outside of Kansas
Up at Junction City he was rabid anti
prohibtionist, and the mention Of Sen
ator ingalls, name gave him the shootery-
nootootery. Now he is AIRED hot prohibit
zionist, aud thinks 1t nonsense to talk
about any man in Kansas except Ingalls,
having ability.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

The question of removing the remains
Of General Grant from New York city
to the National cemetery at Arlington is
still being discussed by the gossips.
Colonel Fred Grant is quoted with ex-
pressing the willingness of the Grant
family to the removal. OF course this
all comes of the failure on the part of
New York to fulfill it's promise to erect a
suitable monument to the great chief
tain in consideration of that city being
chosen as the final resting place of the
deceased, but even the discussion of
such proposition is not creditable to us
as nation: 1t is little better than child
play. The duplicity of New York in
that connection cannot be too severely
criticised. as it should be compelled to
perform its obligation if the Indignation
of the nation unqualifiedly expressed
could accomplish it; but the nation can
not afford to make an exhibition of itself
by permitting the sacred ashes to be en-
ployed as an egent of retaliation or pun
lShment for local derelictiOn.
Wichita eagle., 1889-10-04

The last weekly circular of one of the
ablest and shrewdest financial houses in
New York says: Everything points to
permanently higher rates for money for
a long time to come. The unusual de-
velopnent of our resources and conse-
quent expansion Of trade now in pro-
gress constitute the simple explanation
Of this" Speaking of the usual demands
at this season of the year by the south
and west upon New York for money, the
circular says: fortunately the west
lis growing less and less dependent in
this respect upon the east each year"
And yet our greenback friends who met
in Cincinnati the other day to resusci-
tate corpse. discovered from political
standpoint that we are on the eve of
the greatest financial panic on record.
They played at fnanciering, too, and
wanted $3,250, 100000 in grecnbacks to
be scattered broadcast
The Springdale news., 1889-08-30
c,a,s,ce nopot of soce.ss.

So confiae,ft are the manufacturers Of that world famed reniet7t Br. .Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, that 1t -Tih do all that they represent, in the cure of lIVeTj blood and lung diseases, that, after witnessing it5 thousahS6 If cures for many years past, they now feel Watrahted tH selling it Gas they are doing, through aftgristsi npder a positive guarantee of it's giving sdtisiaftioh in every case, or money paid for it will to refunded. No medicine of ordinary merit could be sold under such severe conditions with profit to It's preprietors, and no other medicine for the diseases for which it is recommended was ever before sold under 2 guarantee es cure or no pay In all blood taints and impurities of whatever name or nature, 1t is most positive Ill It's curative eff fects Pimples, blotches, eruptions ahG al' skin sna scalp diseases are radically cured by this wonderful medicine. Scrofulous diseases may affect the glants, causing swellings or tumors the iones, causing fever sores" /" ''White swellings' or chip. joint di3ease ;'' or the tissues of tha lungs, causing pulmohat7 consumption. No mat ter in which one of its myriad forms it crops out, or manlfests itself, 'Golden Medical Discovery wlll cureitit used perseveNhgly and ill time