Wichita eagle., 1890-03-01
suNF1,owER sHADowINGs.
Seeds. Slips. seions. Sprouts. Shoots and sii'

Seeds, Slips. scions. Sprouts. Shoots and ss's's.
The press of the state is sponging jacob
Stotler down for his race for state printer
An exchange calls these two last days,
bleak and cold. the ''errata or winter.
And now the book is closed
..What on earth is more disgusting than
slaudering, unprincipled, lying tongue?
Cunningham Herald. The mind behind
it.
State Treasurer Hamilton's books have
been gone over and his accounts found 10
be correct. Major Sims took possession O.
the Office yesterday.
Candidates for Samuel Peters place are
still bobbing up with all the serenity ina
would foretell success. The latest Is LII.
McElwaln, OF Pratt.
Somebody started the story that Ade!-
bert Valentine WAS woman ha'er h1S
soft, euphonious name should alone prove
the falsity or such an accusation.
The commissioners gave Sl55 last Thurs
day for advertising Sumner county. Inc
investment was good one. lt Will come
back on the water in whole bakeries
We would suggest to the Lawrence
.IournaI that when 1t credits items TO the
EAGLE it will do itself justice AS well a.
the EAGLE by spelling proper names cor
rectly.
The gvpsum works at Medicine Lodge Is
banning out erythins-2ye, more tbah
was ever expected OF It, 1t VIII prove d
great aid to Medicine Lodges advertise
menG.
John P. St. John, whom George Martin
entities "a cold buckwheat CAKE, IS IN
ToneIa There are one or two people in
the state who even like a cold puck"he<'t
cake"
The CulIison Tomahawk ceased pubiica-
tion last week Ii was one OF the best pa
pers in western Kansas; always bright,
ALWAYS readable. IL will be missed greatly
in this office.
As spring approaches, western Kansas
and her enterprises are heard from. Ihe
Ness Sugar company has contracteu IoL
1000 acres of sugar cane and l.Oo0 acres OF
beets for this season.
There are more being converted ana
| "ioining the church, in southern Kansas
than there has been since the grasshopper
year. There is far more TO oe eApecIeu o.
divinity than OF congress
Wellington Press: There are no Gou6t
many instances where nall the land coulh
be sold, the debts paid and the other hail
saved. Eighty acres is about as much as
is needed by any one man. lt VIII not be
many wears till we will raise more on
an eighty than is now raised Oh l6O acres
Congressman Turner lives in greater
STYLE than any other Kansas man In w ash
inoton He pays $1,000 year rent. The
rest of his salary, $4,000, does not go very
far in the Washington swim, but turner
turns it loose for all it is worth, and IN
Kansas he is herd of less than any other
member Of the delegation in Washington.
The Fredonia Citizen says that in order
tRr.l nj Ii
auce YOU have TO be over Ii years old, d
resident of the state six months, have a
good moral character and be a believer in
a Supreme Being. Nobody is eligible,
after coming up TO these requirements,
unless he is farmer, farm laborer,
country merchant, country minister OF
the gospel, country school teacher or coun-
try physician.
There are many people, more than ma
jority suppose, who from studlous Thought
have decided that the old-fashioned way Is
the best way A few days since farmer
living on a small patch Of land gave his
experience He cultivated about twenty
acres and put i'll no crop That he could not
handle with cheap tools. He cut his grain
with a cradle and threshed it with n fiali,
an old fogy way to be sure, but was out no
cash and made more profit on has hve
acres of wheat than most farmers on a
w
and vegetables, canned what he needed,
put up his own pork, and in fact so far as
groceries were concerned, bought not
much besides tea. coffee, sugar and spices
He raised his cotton and his wife busy at
spinning wheel and loom, wove the gar
ments that he wore. He raised poultry, a
colt occasionally, calf or two every year,
and with the sale of these and the surplus
products of his land he claimed TO live like
u prince.
The following shows that Gueda Springs
has Just started a new society. The fol-
lowing page, taken from diary, was
picked up in one of our grocery stores a
day or two since, Upon one side OF the
page was:
GUEDA SPRINGS Feb. 10, 1890.
be it known that we here by sware off
all Bad habits, such as swearing, chewing
tobacco and smoking. Signed by two girls
and one boy. Names withheld.
Each member will have to pay cents
for every time they break over.
On the other side of the paper was list
of words the members were not to use, as
follows:
Derrn, dadburn, devil tan and walker,
CAD, by George, lor. gosh, by joe. god
dern, god dam. god almighty, j. Christ,
hades, HI aud damnation and the calves
got out.
The members of this triangular society
can have their charter by calling at this
otfice.-Gueda Springs Herald.