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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
STATED OF STATESMEN.

NOTHING can indu ce Senator voorhees, &c
ride in street-car drawn by white horse
SENATOR CALL will bury or burn pair OF
socks. one Or both of which he has put on
wrong side out.
WHEN Senator Harris, of Tennessee, is in
doubt as to the course of action he decides
it by splitting at a mark.
SENATOR JOE BLACKBURN not only takes
the white horse, but also one having white
spot on it or one white foot.
REPRESENTATIVE KENNEDY. of Ohio, wears
a voodoo charm which he obtained from an
old negress in the swamPs Of Louisiana.
SENATOR SHERMAN viii not extend his
left hand in greeting or receive one extended
to hin-a familiar habit with politicians.
II Senator Vest, of Missouri, meets a
beggar in the streets before be has spent
any money he invariably gives 20 the men
licant.
SENATOR EDMUyDs regards IT as IN
lucky if the first person he meets on emery
ing from his house 10 women, and Will re-
turn for fresh start.
REPRESENTATIVE ALIEN, of Mississippi,
the funny man OF the House, is never with
out the traditional rabbits foot, which he
killed in the dark of the moon in a grave
yard
SENATOR EvARTs is a great admirer Of the
flaming beauties OF the circus posters and
theater announcements on the bill boards,
which taste he has In common with Hale, Of
Maine, Butler, Of South Carolina, and
Pascoe, Of Florida
II the first person Representative Breck-
inridge meets IN the morning is a colored
man or woman he crosses 70 the other side
of the street he claims that II he cont inues
on the same side be viii be hoodooed for
the entire GaY
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06

Usage City Wednesday, died from the
effects of her injuries. The remains
were taken to her home in Reno county
for interment.
F. N. Sweet, expert, who put down a
number of deep wells in Kansas and
Pennsylvania, commenced work at Rich
field, Morton county. Wednesday; to
drill 1900 feet if required, prospecting
for artesian water, salt and coal
Caldwell is presenting the appearance
of an Arabian merchant caravan. Gov
cree wagons and pitceed tents can be
seen north, east, south and west of the
city occupied by people who intend to
go down to Oklahoma. The kingfisher
land office is day and half from Cald-
well and the nearest road on the line. A
whole company of soldiers are there, but
boomers and others desiring to go
through the Cherokee outlet will not be
moleSted.
A vast prairie fire ragged Tuesday
night and yesterday several miles north
and northwest of the city. Reports from
it are meagre, but it is said that there
has been some loss of property as a re-
suit of it. Albert Greenbecker. of
Mcf neISOn township, met Will quite u
loss of property. His loss is about 500.
The people in that vicinity had to fight
the progress of the fire the greater part
of the night to prevent other Losses
Pratt Register.
A curious case occurred recently at
Leon. A lady was very sick with drop
sy, and niece was sent for to come and
be with her in her last hours. At the
bedside of the sick the niece was stricken
by cerebral attack and fell, cold and
stiff, as if dead Her funeral was ar
ranged. and in the excitement the sick
aunt arose and was about with the rest
As the priest was pronouncing the funer
al discourse the niece suddenly came to,
whereupon the amt Immediately took
to her bed, and in a couple of hours was
q corpse.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
HUNKS OF HUMOR.

A San FRANCISCO policeman purchased
and ate an apple while en- route home from
Port Costa. He was Immediately seized
with commissions and died soon after.
''WHAT is your patronymic, sira' asked
civi-service examiner. MY whatp asked
the applicant Your patronymic.n 'Oh,
yes; didn't catch your meaning at first;
am barber"
A ST.. LOUIS man detected the deceit of
an expounder of spirltualism and gave the
latter trouucing. He afterward remarked
that he did not think the punishment ex-
IRENE, as he simply struck the medium.
A LAWYER, in examining witness, asked
him the size of the hoof prints left by a
horse in sandy soil, and said "Were they as
large as my handa" holdingit up. Witness
-"Oh, no! it was just an ordinary hoof."
GIVE must have class of men between
the laity and the ministry" said Mr.. Moody
recently. 'Sure, and we have them al
ready" was the comment Of witty Irish
man. ''They are the women, God bless
them"
A WESTERN editor has patented an ad-
Unstable portrait cut which is very handy
not to say heady. He can make 1t into a
picture of man, with or without beard, a
mustache, hair or spectacles, quite readily,
and it will be about as true portrait as any
going the rounds
FIRST Southerner-"Are you going to
apologizea" Second Southerner-sNo
see here" First Southerner-''Arey you
going to apologize?" Second Southerner-
''No, SIR" First Southerner-''rm glad to
hear it. accept it in the same open-hearted
spirit in which it is rendered. Gentlemen,
there will be no duel"
A MAN who was being examined by the
commissioners of insanity II San Francisco
was asked among other questions: "What
is your occupation!" He replied: "a
phrenologist told me that was a thinker,
but think he was q har. / was IN the
army once. staid there until l began to
think. thought there was going to be
war, so quit
FIRST female juror (some years hence)-
s'That fool of woman who wants divorce
admits that her husband hung up lot of
pictures, and put up ten curtains and six
lengths Of stovepi2e without saying one bad
word or even losing his temper" Second
female ;uror-"Yes, the man must be an
angel Let's give her the divorce, and may
be one of US can get him.
A YoUNGsTER, while handling a big army
musket in the streets tho other day was
promptly arrested and taken before
magistrate. "Where did $ou buy this
gum" inquired his honor. Didn't buy
it, returned the youngster, rather sulkIly.
"Where did you get it, thena" "What,
the gum" "Yesi" "Why. that has been
in our family ever since it was little
pistol"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
KANSAS KOLLARY.

A trio of tramps saved passenger
train from dashing to pieces at Lac gne.
A farmers convention and horse show
constitute the leading attractions At
kingman today.
The governor has re-appointed the old
police commissioners at Kansas City
Gazette Kansas City No. /.
A Salina man was the first Of the
season 10 be sun struck. be and his
town are welcome to the distinction.
A Doniphan county couple who have
been counting for twenty years were
married last Sunday near White Cloud
Three thousand dollars worth Of barns
and sheds owned By the Topeka stock
yards burned Wednesday. No stock was
lost.
There are three white men In Salina
who are feeling blue over being defeated
for the city council by black man
named Green.
The HeSsian fly is destroying the wheat
crop in Central Illinois, but farmers say
they have no fear of the insect emigrat-
ing to this state
II Is said that the sunfower IS espec-
tally adapted TO the manufacture OF
binding twine. Add another commodity
tothe already excellent list of the Sun
flower state
Sarah Kelley, the Insane woman who
iuuped from the passcngr Csan near
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
BALLOT REFORM.

The Australian system of voting is
making progress among men of intelli-
gence in this country. Nearly every leg
islature in session the past winter has
had the question under consideration?
There are now four states in which bal
lot reform, with notifications of the
Australian system, is practically certain.
The legislature of Massachusetts passed
law last year, and the Rhode Island
| legislature has now adopted one whose
provisions are very similar to those OF
| the Massachusetts, law. Indiana, at the
recent session of its legislature, adopted
system which embraces many excel
lent features, but does not contain any
registration clause, defect which will
go far toward multiplying its excellent
provisions. The Tennessee legislature
has just changed the election methods OF
that state SO as to conform to the new
system, substantially.
These laws are all modelled after ''the
Australian SYSTEM" They differ from
that system only in notifications adapt
ing themselves to the localities to which
they apply. Similar laws, but only with
local application, have been enacted in
Kentucky and Wisconsin. The cleo
tons only III the cities of Milwaukee and
Louisville are embraced in the action,
but in these cities the innovation Is
deemed an excellent one. The DIassa-
chusetts law does not go into effect until
November and that of Rhode Island not
till next year. Bills emhodying the sys-
tenn have been before the legislatures of
Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Ohio Illinois, Minnesota, Colorado and
Nebraska. The bill passed the Ne
braska house, but failed in the senate.
In New York, Governor Hill last year
vetoed an excellent bill. While he de-
sired a loosely -worded law, the legisla-
ture preferred one very strict in its terms.
The result is that nothing has been &C
complished.
These facts show a wide and intelli-
gent interest in ballot platform. Public
attention is attracted to the subject and
will not be withdrawn until satisfac-
tory system shall be introduced. The
people of this country more and more
desire a pure ballot box, in which their
honest opinion of measures and their
real choice of men shall be recorded be- |
vond all possible controversy.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06

In December, 1857, the railroad COM
inissioners of Minnesota issued an order
requiring railroad companies TO close the
upper berth on sleeping cars when it is
not occupied. The company appealed
from this order, and the Judge has re-
scinded from 1t. In his decision he saws
that the railroad commissioners have no
authority by which they can compel
any road TO furnish sleeping cars. The
fact that passenger pays for one berth.
does not entitle him to the use of an en-
tire section, even though the other berth
may not be in use, for it is not within
the terms of the contract. The COM
mission can not interfere between
parties, and secure TO a person greater
rights than he has contracted for. The
Inconvenience of the passenger is no
greater when the berth above him is I'M
occupied than when it is occupied. The
power of the commission to make this
order, presumes their power to prohibit
the letting of upper berths, and TO re-
quire that they shall always be elevated
for the comfort and convenience of the
occupant Of the lower berth.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06

The London Lancet sounds a note of
alarm 10 the people of Great Britain. 1t
tells them that 800, 900 of the bone and
sinew of the United Kingdom are leaving
for happier chimes every year 1t al
leges that those that go are the strong
and the clear headed, while the weak in
body and mind are persistently staying
at home. 1t Says that the isles cannot
long stand this drain of their life blood.
1t will be interesting to note what steps
will be taken to put stop to the affiux
if the government should take a notion
to try it. 1t is difficult matter to pre-
vent immigration to a country. but it
will be next to impossible to prevent
emigration by constraint. The surest
way for Britain to keep her
people at home would be
to change her coercive policy
so rigidly enforced towards.a large por-
ton of her citizen-subjects. Perhaps
this may dawn upon other of her leaders
and statesmen as it did upon the lament
D1sraeli and Bright and the equally
grand Gladstone whose labors of later
years have done much in toning down
the asperities of the powerful toward the
weak because helpless.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
WHAT WIVES WILL BE.

II chosen in Septemo Der, discreet. sfabie
and much liked.
IL chosen in Nay. handsome, aniable, and
likely to be happy.
II chosen in July, passably handsome, bu.
with sulky temper.
Ir chosen in June, inpetuous; viii marry
early and befrivolo1s-
II chosen In November, liberal, kiad, and
Of wild disposition
II chosen Ia August. araiab1e and prac-
ticel. and likely 20 rarry rich
II chosen in October. pretty. coz9ae.tish,
aud likely 20 be unhappy
In chosen in February humane and a.
fectiorate wife, and tender mother.
II chosen IN March, afrivo!o1s chatterbox,
somewhat given 70 quarre!iag,
II chosen n April, inooastz1t, not very in
te.Cgeut, bet Exely 20 be good looking
II chosen In December, well proporiions5,
fond CT noveltS. sod extravagsns
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
Women'S Part in Life.

New York star.
The woman who is of the world today
must be prepared to be all things in sue
cession. She must be the careful house
wife, the social leader. the religeuse, the
scholar, the wit, the confidante-ali in
turn. She must compass at least show
of all learning; she must be in sympathy
with all branches of knowlege and feel
ing and thought; she must attend to
a hundred forms of life of the very ex-
istence of which her grandmothers were
ignorant. Whether she has been wise
in taking all this burden upon her it will
hardly fall within the province of the
present generation to decide.
Whether the children or grandchildren
of these wonderful women will be the
better or the worse for the extraordinary
strain which is put upon the mothers of
of the race, any man may speculate, but
no man can tell. Every woman might
be supposed to decide for herself now
far she will share this high-strung life,
but as matter of fact no human being
is able to escape the influence of his day
and generation. We are part of a whole,
and although a woman may to some ex-
tent Withdraw herself from the current
in the end she is forced to choose be-
tween being left stranded waite on the
shore or the stream and taking her part
OF whatever the life Of her time may be.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
NO LAW AUTHORIZING 1T.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Please answer through the EAGLE
whether or not open saloons can be run in
the territory opened to settlement Oklaho-
MAJ, and if so under what state or terri
tory, and oblige A CONSTANT READER.
There is no law authorizing the sale of
liquor in the territory. Under the Unit
ed States law in force prior to the open
ing of the territory to settlement it is a
penal offense to be found in the territory
with intoxicating liquor in possession.
and inasmuch as that law is not repealed
by any acts subsequently it is reasonable
to conclude that the U. S. prohibitory
law mentioned is still in force No state
laws have any force or effect in the ter
ritory.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
IDIOSNCRASIES OF ALCOHOL.

The avant couriers Of the great tenn
perance reform, those who really appre-
ciate the triumphs of the prohibitory
law and all it promises and understand
SO thoroughly the misery brought to the
human family by intoxicating drink,
cannot afford to miss the reading of an
article under the above heading in the
current number of the North American
Review by DIR. w. S. Searle.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
The Lesson it Teaches,

Fl Scott Monitor.
For some reason the munipal elections
throughout the country Tuesday seem to
have been largely in favor of the Demo
Gratis and Independents. In Chicago the
Republican candidate was showed under
by an estimated majority of $4,000. st.
Louis elects Democratic mayor. and in
most of the larger towns of Ohio the
Republicans were defeated. The Demo
Gratis also sweep Dubuque, Milwaukee,
Springfield, Illinois, and, what is more
surprising, number of towns in Kan
sas, including such important places as
Leavenworth, Atchison, Fort Scott,
Topeka and numerous other smaller
towns elected independent, citizens, and
Democratic tickets. The lesson to
municipal Office holders is. don't monkey
with the ''buzz saw"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06

The dressed beef, or local inspection
tom-foolery, was knocked silly by the
Wisconsin legislature Thursday. The
general and thorough discussion of the
proposition the past two or three months
has given the public pretty clear I'M
derstanding of its merits, which being
the case there is little danger of further
destructive legislation thereon in any
quarter. The eastern states where anv
action has been attempted in the direc-
ton of restrictive legislation have
uniformly declined to do SO. There was
the incentive of protection to their
home cattle raisers with legislatures of
eastern states, but they did not deem
this sufficient to offset the rights and in
terests of consumers. and if that is the
case in that quarter what sort of pretext
or excuse can be set for such restrictive.
or better say destructive legislation by
western states where the live stock con-
stitutes leading feature. The craze has
run its course.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
A Touching Incident.

From the Kansas City Gazette,
The new seal of Geary county should
have, instead of the eagle in the center
a picture of General Geary kissing his
dead boy at NVauhatchie. The history
of the war does not furnish a more
touching incident A boy at the age of
II enlists. and at 20 is first ieutanant
of the famous Knapp's battery. As the
father, a brigadier general com handing
a division, is about to lead what proved
to be one of the most desperate and he
roic charges of the whole war, the son
falls before his eyes from bail in the
forehead. He dismOunts, kisses the boy.
mounts again and leads on to duty with
wonderful fOrtitude, skill and bravery.
Father and son were of the same stock,
and the son contributed equally to the
glory of the name Geary. 1t will be
very funny day when Kansas goes back
on such name for the name of man
who sat on two chairs. Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage says there never was a more
wonderful instance of duty performed
under such awful circumstances as when
Geary left his dead boy on the field and
led his troops to victory.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
How the Judge powned Lincoln

NolceScr1pt-
When Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer
in Illinois he and a judge got to banter
ing one another about trading horses,
and it was agreed that the next morning
at 8 O'Clock they should make a trade,
the horses TO be unseen up to the hour
and no backing out under a forfeiture OF
S25. AT the hour appointed the judge
came up leading the sorriest specimen of
q horse ever seen in those parts. In a
few minutes Mr.. Lincoln was seen ap-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
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a square mele SIGH {:
as Your mother Used ::
to Kuk {:
for a quarter {:
UNIQUE, but Not New,

Sol Miller in Troy Chief.
1t would be good thing if, as fast as
male children are born they were mixed
up so that it could not be known who
any of them belonged to. 1t would play
out the grandson and the ''son of his
father" business. Men would then be
chosen for their merit and would have
no occasion to imagine that they were
specially deserving, because they hap
peaed to be some great mans son or
grandson.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
Jay Gould's Daughter Nellie.

New York Letter.
Miss Nellie Gould, the great fnancier's
eldest daughter, probably has more in
dependent property than any other I'M
married woman in America. She is her
fathers favorite, and every year he gives
her presents of stocks and bonds which
amount up into the hundred thousands.
He takes great pains with her invest
ments also, with the result that her for
tune grows apace every year: Added to
this, her mother, who had fortune of
several millions, left the greater share of
her property to Nellie; SO that she is
estimated to be worth over Sc, 900, 600.
Her life has been passed in the quietest
way, and though she is but 20 years of
age, her mode of existence is as quiet and
humdrum as though she were 40. The
big Gould mansion rarely sees any
festivity, and an awning up in front of
their door would throw the neighbor-
hood into a panic Of excitement. Her
mothers failing health has been partly
the cause of this, for Miss Gould was not
only her devoted attendant and compan-
ion, but was also the head of the house
hold and bore its whole responsibility.
They have box at the opera, but they
are not very regular attendants, and the
only place in which she is frequently
seen is the Presbyterian church, of
which she is a member. She interests
herself in charities also, and in half a
dozen homes for sick babies and poor
women.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06

Russia is again convulsed with rumors
of gigantic plots to assassinate the car.
1t is said that Alexander is agitated. OF
course that means wholesale arrests and
expatriation of thousands of suspected
reyolutionists to Siberia. The car can
still make things unpleasant for his sub
jects as they make them unpleasant for
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
For the EAGLE.
A THOUGHT.

oh! deplorable state.
Wren all available means
Oflivelihood to obtain
Are exhausted,
And the great world Of hate
Casts her shadows Of darkness
Over one striving 10 maintain
A meagre existence.
Oh, majestic being,
Without nisfortune's recompense;
Great shudders shake thy frame
And cold deaths sting
Would seem glory to thee.
Amid thy wants and suffertngs.
Borne In silent subltmity.
The world hath not room
For such as thee
In distressed poverty.
Bat better the fate of born monarchs
To Cypress the humble man.
Rob him of free-b born liberty;
Make his efforts his own state depraye.
Build up the pomp and sovereignty
OF one that makes you his slave.
)atyiile, Kan, April / 1883.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
Kansas Benefaction to Chicago

Kansas Benefaction to Chicago.
Atchison Champion.
In the mastery address on 1.-THE Gov
eminent of Cities" delivered by G. S.
Gleed, at the sixth annual meeting of
the State Bar Association, in Topeka, in
January last, the full text of which APP
pears in the recently published proceed
ings of the meeting, among number of
very interesting and valuable things ably
discussed; Mr.. Gleed makes a statement
which will, we are confident, excite the
pride of every true kansan. 1t is this:
kansas, has sent young man into the
world from her university, as chemist,
who has done more to give Chicago good
water and pure milk, and pure food gen.
orally. because of his work in the field of
chemistry, and in his exposure of the
various frauds in the food line, than any
other influence at work in the great city.
refer to John II. Long, formerly of
johnson county"
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-06
IN FAVOR OF WICHITA.

Fort Scott Monitor.
The interstate commission has decided
the case of Wichita against the Atchison
& Santa Fe and other lines centering in
that city in favor of the city. The COM
plant alleged that the roads We're dis
eliminating against Wichita and in favor
of the Missouri river points in rates on
merchandise from the east and on cattle
from all directions. The commission
found that The rates were discriminative
and recommended the roads to prepare
new schedules to take effect within
thirty days, making cattle and hog rates
to Wichita the same in proportion to the
distance of the haul as the rates to Mis-
souri, river points, and to give merchan-
disc rates to Wichita jobbers as good ac-
cording to the distance as to these points,
This decision is one of great importance
to interior western points away from the
river.