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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
THE NEGRO'S LITERARY TASTE.
Spivey, April Is, 1890.

| \ correspondent of the New York Ma
ton, writing from Washington. has
made an astonishing discovery regarding
the literary tastes of the negro This
writer says-speaking OF the negroes as
a race-that, bent ON the Improvement of
their minds, they eschew all the works
of fiction and light literature, combining
themselves to books that will impart use
full information: that everywhere the
negeOes buy the Library of Universal
knowledge" while those of higher
type are students of Plato. Aristotle and
Cicero. Fiction this writer SAYS, rs
under the ban of the churches, and they
would not be allowed to read it if. in
deed their tastes were in that direction. 3"
The LeavenwOrth Times. in comment
ing of the subject, remarks that This
is not only astonishing, but alarming,
coming as it does from such a high eth
biological journal as the Nation. Com
trastcd with the undeniable prediction
of the young Caucasian idea to devour
half-dime literature. base bail scores and
cigarettes, it indicates that the education
and intelligences of the coming man will
be found under the wolly scalp of the
African rather than in the more symmet-
ricalIy formed skull of the Caucasian"
The Atlanta Constitution. however,
has got onto" the Nation correspondent.
and observes THAT the young negroes
those who were born free, and who are
now growing up in the south-so far
from affecting the kind of literature
mentioned, can not and do not tolerate
it. reading rather the cheap and sensa-
tional stories with which the country Is
deluged. subscribing 10 detective libraries
of Universal Knowledge, and looking
more eagerly for the murder than the
moral in a story.
Whether the Nation. or the Constitu-
ton. Is correct in its statement. land it
Is likely both are. only representing eX-
IRENE caSes} the fact referred to by the
Times remains and Is undeniable. It Is
an alarming condition tina, should enlist
the most serious attention Of the wisest
in the Land. and q remedy for the grow
ing evil devised and put into operation
at the earliest possible moment. There
Is little doubt that the cheap trashy, de-
based and debasinc. Hcentious and de-
moralizing literature with which the
country Is flooded Is largely responsible
for the distressing condition Of the
morals Of a large per cent Of the com /
munity.
The home Is the place where the work
Of reform should begin first. but I'M
fortunately there Is where the evil first
terminates IN very many Instances and
where that i the case it l. useless to
look there for reform. Next to the home
comes Ike school and church. and never
IN the history of either was there more
urgent claims upon them for extra effort /
in the matter Of diver1ing the mind Of the I
young from tins downward course thar /
canno, bug lead to present misery aud !
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.

Southern Live Stock Journal
The chances of the Louisiana lottery
to get its charter renewed are good. it is
said. The majority of the population
are pronounced in favor of the PROPOSE
ton. They, however, think 81, 000,0 600
per annum should be exacted of the
company, instead of 100000 as now.
They claim that, if the money paid into
the state treasury yearly by the concern
was withdrawn, many charitable insti-
buttons would be without any support
whatever, as the state was almost bank
rupt. The bankers of New Orleans as
sert that money can often be borrowed
by farmers and others in that city at
per cent. They say that one-fourth the
banking capital Of that city is furnished
by the lottery company.
Those who oppose the lottery say that
it is running the morals Of the citizens of
the state, and that its vicious effects are
extremely disastrous to religious, social
political and financial growth and we'll
being of the state and its citizens. They
claim that it encourages gambling with
its concOmitant evils, and its influence
upon the rising generation Is such that
the state is breeding a lot of gamblers.
They regard the lottery as the most cor
rupt institution that. this country has
ever known and ever cOuntenanced by
law, and foul blot upon the escutcheon
Of the state that should by all means, at
any cost, be wiped out of existence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

! The Oklahoma journalistic rooster had
| an airing last week.
! The Kingfisher papers still call him
! Governor Admire.
Union City has had its first burglary
and the burglars escaped
Blue grass, it is said, grows almost as
fast in Oklahoma as in Kentucky.
Prairie schoouers are almost a. thick
about Hennessey as they were a year ago.
The Oklahoma family that does not have
plover on the table, lack either money or a
gun.
Guthrie is TO have a cunning club, but il
will have nothing to do with the governor
ship.
There are two OF three women in Okla
lahoma who have read the territorial bill
/ clear through.
The gamblers and fakire' days are mum
bered. Nebraska laws are very strict in
the matter Of games Of chance.
\ Guthrie young man has fallen heir TO
$50, 600 This is only one Of the fortunes
that has been made in Oklahoma
Kingfsher viii soon have another bank.
A man can't talk "kin2fisher' two min
utes now without mentioning boom"
There is only one paper ia Oklahoma
that has made pun Of Mr.. steele name,
and il had 10 20 out Of the way 10 do IL.
1t hasn't been decided yet just what
Guthrie man will ride in the same carriage
with him, when the new governor arrives.
Kingfsher is a mile and a half from the
Cheyenne line, and n thinks h. would i'll
ia the space If the reservation wcre
opened.
II is very hard TO persuade the swelter-
ing Oklahoma editor that 10 was only a
b b.
winter lingering in the lap of spring
Each member Of congress has at his dis
po,al 5.OpJ packages a. seed. annually
Oklahoma hasn't any Congressman, but
she gets "A great quantity Of these seeds.
Atchison Globe: The first shall De- last
Men are going into Oklahoma even set
and jumping claims occupied by men who
arrived there too -DuI- Make haste
slowly.
When Miit Reynolds heard that the col
ored gentlemen were before the president
advocating McCabe for secretary be- went
out iu the garden and put ia al extra row
Of potatoes.
Every time an Oklahoma editor visits a
ueigbboTinU town he gives D. . compliment
AIRY notice This has been aept rap until
now there - quite a fraternity among the
newspapers.
History repeats it-elf. IN I757 prarnia
ent church building iu Cbieago yas
bought BIZ she BruHswicks. sDd turned
into n billiard ha8. iu j-91 fHe Young
Mems Christian Association of Guthrie /
have sold IFS property Tor tAraatrieai pur- /
I1-es
4 bcri ~ several Thousand head a. cat 4
tie pa--ed tLro1Zl town las. Mauaav ca +
route 10 Fort Reno Trey eers the prop. I
erty n Coioue, ID K FAINT. who bas she I.
contract u supplying tbe Cheyenne and (.
Arrapahoe tribes with uezf. Gays TIE 4
Union City Clipper
Norman Trsnscrpt: Oar bg~iue-- men
recently contributed fhe f9n6s for the 4
erection q two Enod bTsd-1s a. rr5-- J4zou- /
creek, a short disfsuce south - fhe e4ty
TIE people o. tas- olrF az beur1 20 have
good roads ieadius MO Norman fr1u or
eTy direction even = Ff does taEe each zrd
labor 70 accomplish &c. Gacd rral- ere ar
yrecIBte1 and our bazIEfs- rea aud ghe !
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
THE COST OF FARM PRODUCTS.

In March the Secretary of the State
Board Of Agriculture sent out to CORES
pondentS throughout the state, blanks ac-
companying a request for the collection
of authentic data as to the cost of pro-
ducing the staple crops of wheat and
corn, and cattle up to three years old.
The result Of the inquiry has been sum
married by the secretary and embodied
IN his first quarterly report for 1890, Just
issued. The reports have been classified
by counties into three belts or divisions.
of the state, the eastern. middle and
western. The average cost as shown is.
for the eastern belt-wheat, per bushel.
SIC; corn, per bushel, 24c: 3-year-old
steer, $27. For the middle belt-wheat
SOC; corn, 9Oc; steer, S21.54. For the
western beIt-wheat, 42c: corn, 19c;
steer, 1919. The average for the state is
set down at-for wheat, 400: corn. 2lc:
3-year-old steeS S2f05. In an explana-
atory note the secretary SAYS the
chief reason why it costs more
to prOduce these crops in the
the eastern belt than in the central and
western belts is that the price and rent
ais of lands are proportionally higher.
This information viii be valuble to farm
ers as it will afford them a more intelli-
gent basis for future operations.
particularly as to the disposition of their
crops. Selling corn, that cost p cents to
produce, at 10 cents is a clear loss of 6
cents bushel, but sell it in cattle at
$50 and hogs at $3.50 pays a profit of
not less than 100 per cent. 1t may be
well to state, however. that the average
costeof wheat for the state of Kansas is
based on yield of 10 bushels per acre,
and Of corn at 30 bushels per acre. which
of course reduces the cost in some couu-
ties-in Sedgwick for instance. where
the yields last year were more than
double those tiguTes-to one-haH.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
LADEN WITH WEALTH.

On a trip to Winfield yesterday I
noticed a number of wheat fields already
headed out in Sedgwick and Cowlev
counties: Some wheat Is two feet high
and as thick as it can staud and bids fair
to be harvested the third week in Nav
Bugs or other insects that are looking
after a job are about two months too
late to get a hearing this year as far as
this section Is concerned. The thrift and
abundant sap in all the cereal plants
places them beyond the reach of these
creatures as they can only prey upon the
stem when weak from slow growth or
lack Of moisture.
Oats. rye and potatoes each nod their
heads at YOU when YOU recognize them
IN their new summer suit. Peaches are
as large as marbles and all the small
fruits are bursting their blossoms
Eastern people show their astonIshment
about the remarkable crops and congrat-
ulate Us in our good fortune. Kansas
people acknowledge the corn and admit
the multitude of other benediCtlOns I'm
parenthesisl. If a Kansas man could
ind pole high enough 10 climb UP and
look into some other states that the
writer has lately visited he would i've
paralyzed. let 20 the pole fall down IN
this he'd Of roses and dream Of a garden
of perpetual flowers, where restless crea-
lures worry for q patch of thOrns 10
scratch their itching sides.
4 gentleman from Indiana r.
marked on the train today that
he had ridden through the finest coun-
try since he left Kansas City and had
seen the best crops and stock that II
had ever been his good fortune 70 look
al. We noticed a bunch Of fifty or
sixty young calves trimming up the
Overgrowth % a wheat patch. There,
said he, If that was IN my country they
would name IL calf township. and. he
added. this l. the most wonderful com
try ever saw-every prudent man IN II
ought 10 BE- rich if they have lived here
long. When I told him how long I had
been here and what ! wasn't worth. BE-
looked on me with pity. But explained
thar had temporarily deserted the ship
twice and was now climbing the tow
line 10 find.the deck De said. young
man. Les me give T01 some advice
Don you ever leave her again for she
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
FAILURES OF PROHIBITION.

DR.. William ~ Hammond in the Popular Science
Monthly.
Nowhere has the inefficacy of sumptu-
airy laws been more thoroughly demon
strated than in Rome There the dress,
the food, the furniture of the houses,
were attempted to be regulated by law
after law, which were either openly or
secretly disobeyed, and which eventually
disappeared from the statute books. The
cost of entertainments was limited: the
number of guests a person might have at
his house was restricted. No woman was
allowed to have more than half an ounce
OF gold, or to wear dress of more than
one color, or to ride in a carriage. In
France, during the Celtic period, a law
was passed that women should drink
water only. In 1888 or thereabOut no
person was allowed to wear garments of
VAR, gray, zibeline. or scarlet color. No
laced or slashed garments were allowed.
and no one could have more than two
courses at meals Yin 1923 scarlet was
only permitted to be worn by princes.
knights and women of high rank. The
use of silver plate was prohibited ex-
cept to certain high dignitaries; and
women were frequently sent to prison in
fOrties, fifties and sixties at time for
wearing clothes above their rank. Even
as late as the seventeenth century gold,
as an ornament on carriages, buildings,
and gloves, was prohibited.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
PROSPERITY FOR THE FARMER.

The EAGLE this morning laws before
its numerous readers Mr.. c. Wood Davis
| paper, appearing in the current number
Of the Forum, under the title ''When the
Farmer VIII Be Prosperous" The arti-
Gle IS the second one written for that
magazine, the former one pointing out
the cause of the present depression in
agricultural interests. This second arti-
Gle does not pretend to suggest any
remedy, bat rather to demonstrate that
there IS relief close at hand, Just as inev-
liable and as logical as were the causes
which brought about the depression
which has existed so disastrously for
three or four years past. There is moth
ing Of the prophecy or of optimistical
promise in the article published this
morning. 1t deals with unreIenting. sta
tlstlcal data and the necessities of IOgi-
cal experiences as cold and unyielding as
the multiplication table. For the reader
who can mentally encompass his array
Of detailed and irrefutable facts. and
comprehend their application and bear
ing on the proposition with which he
deals. there viii be no escape from his
conclusion that in the very near future
there will not only be a great revival of
prosperity in the farming interests of this
country, but that all available lands will
make a rapid and permanent advance in
price
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

For live newspaper the Wichita EAGLE
sticks closer 70 a dead Observation-Disclosures
than any other journal Of equal rank on
earth-Atchison Champion.
The trouble with the Champion is that
it is terribly afflicted with strobismus:
else it is like the fellow who walked
down Commercial street in that town
under such a heavy load of booze that
he stopped at the corner of Fifth. sup
ported himself against the wall of the
building and soliloquizingly wondered
what was the matter that everybody
should be drunk just at that time. In
other words. none are SO blind as those
who viii not see.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
A SILVER POINTER.

The Chicago Tribune makes the follow
ing point bearing on the free coinage of
silver movement:
In seeking to convert the entire an
nual output of the American silver
mines into money the advocates of the
pending caucus bill must give full con-
sideration to several questions which do
not seem to have had any attention in
congress so far. The trainers of the sill
yer bill must see Maj. Mckinley and
have a definite understanding whether
tee tariff bill is to impose duties on sill
ver-lead ores so as to shut out the pro-
duct of the Mexican mines. If so the
silver in these mines will not only be lost
to this country, but number of AmerI-
can mines must shut down when Next
can ores can no longer be had for fiuXing.
Duties on the Mexican ores will operate
to give the carbonate mine owners of Col
orado a monopoly and compel a
suspension Of many mines which
cannot be worked at profit unless
they have the advantage of cheap tiuXing
material. The silver bill makes it oblig-
atOry on the secretary of the treasury to
buy annually an amount of silver equal
to all that is obtained from the mines of
this country and from the tluXing ores
imported from Mexico, but the McKin-
ley measure threatens to exclude the
latter and in consequence reduce the
American output. In this situation the
treasury would find itself compelled TO
purchase more silver than it could get in
the home market and must send gold
abroad in order to get the supply of the
less precious metal not needed but made
imperative by law. With balance of
trade against the country and a strong
necessity to retain as much gold as pos
sible. it would be a rather severe law
which would compel the treasury to ex-
change home gold for foreign silver. The
silver men must he sure to get the CO.
operation of the Mckinley committee.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

"Old Hutch is too sharp for the aver
age speculator. \ few days since the
cry was raised that he was buying every
bushel of wheat in sight, and so it
seemed. for his agents were loud and
persistent in their demonstrations on
this line. The unsuspecting rushed in to
buy with Old Hutch, and thought
that they would he on the winning side
but they suddenly awoke to the fact that
"Old Hutch" had been selling in a
whisper vastly more wheat than he had
bought on the yell. The result Is wheat
went down, old Hutch" will pocket
the profits, and the suckers" are left.
This is one of the ways which the rich
grow richer and the poor poorer. It Is
the outwitting process.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

From the Boston Herald.
Colonel Wright's report on the pay re-
celved by railroad men in this and other
countries Is interesting IS evidence thar
the rate OF wages Is by no means a con
trolling factor in the cost of business
operations. 1t Is we'll known that. al
though we pay very much more for our
rails and ordinary equipments that Is
paid by railroad companies in Europe
the cost OF transportation in this coJn-
Try, particularly the carving Of mer-
chandise. Is greatly below what i de-
manded for similar service on the other
side Of the Atlantic. This Is not due. rs
Colonel Wright'S report shows. 10 the
low wages paid the railroad Operatives. b.
cause the average wages received by en-
Eineers. conductors. hremen and other
employed by American railroad com
panieS Is more than twice that given 10
similar employees II England.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
Unity the yFess.

Egrrzt EEslsteast-
TIE secto14aii.ru ~ the vss-st. il nay
- remarked docs not iacIude besh Sd.
Louis and Chicago. Sf-nat,r Eeat h-.s
gwen fhwaEo slaughterIug thai has
Sled the heart n - fouis with n9tIa
JOY. Whore ~ what the line Be- that b,
drawn between - Louis and Chicago.
There IS q line. PERHAPS f. i an ssothef-
maj lima ilae - latitude or longitude
--fne oid hne bstseen the slaye and fire..
states ~ ihs line Il the Mlaslssipfs riysr
the Hfies ~ tfas changes u atmosphere
lTiiaenoes t--tsesu the great lakes and
re great rifeE. The wet D not a unit:
Il p TO t9g for unity. except ia the pr
f-st1lai union - the United ssiatss-tha
more perfect unf1nT q ''ys-e tire rssopls .
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

ant crop of peaches, as well as of all other
kinds of fruits, says the Arkansas City
Dispatch.
General John II. Rice. of the Fort Scott
Monitor, who is down in the lower Missis-
sippi country building a railroad, adj
dressed a magnificent letter TO Congress
man Grosvenor about the flood and il Is
published in the Congressional Record Of
April u He says he has ten miles of com
pleted road, and thirty miles of road bed
undpr water
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

1t is asserted by some who are pre-
sumed 10 know, that the unfavorable
condition and prospects for the winter
wheat crops in nearly all the wheat
growing states Is simply a scheme of the
spectators TO bull the market and pre-
vent a further decline in the price of that
cereal. That sounds possible enough if
the reports We're not substantiated by the
estimates made up by the government
based upon information furnished by its
agents in the states and localities men
toned. 1t has also been broadly limited
that the farmers in the sections referred
to are party TO the trick. their object
being to force present prices up in order
10 unload whatever of last years crop
they still have on hand AT good prices.
This would also sound reasonable if there
We're any of the old crop worth speaking
of in the hands of producers, but there Is
not. The general condition may be taken
TO be, at least approximately, as repre-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Coming OF Nav.

From the Ladies' Home Journal
Only bird-songs 20 enrapture-songs from
the elm and the pine
Only mes in "A field of dark green,
\ few eggs, and "a secret j. mine,
Only bending of daisies-uods from
the buttercups wise
To tell Of wee homes, the the twittor OF
birds
And that May, the birds month, hither
flies
Onlya tangle Of sunshine, fash of bright
butterfly wings.
Only cloud in the skv Of deep blue,
Edged with silver and tiny gold rings:
Only a wreath Of May roses, spray from
the apple-trce bOugh.
\ shower of pink and white petals.
And we know that sweet May cometh
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

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The ddita Daily 1aoIe Thursday aNor,iue afau L. 500

wretchedness, to say nothing of the
hereafter.
We take this occasion to say, by way
of parenthesis, that the cardinal princi-
pie. the orthodox doctrine of the elderly
OF the press" does not comprehend the
idea of unrestricted latitude in the en-
ployment of the printing machine and
movable type.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

An English literary statistician has
discovered that of the 562 heroines in last
years novels 362 were blondes and 100
brunettes. This is not important in that
it shows the popularity of one style of
womanhood over another, because it does
not. The real heroines are found out
side of novels
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

Prom fts washlHrtaa Poet.
4 little corn un a maiden grasv. listen
% ms wall 1T to-. caused by thc pinch
~ too tight shoe. instead ~ q three e
number two it grew D. grow. Listen
~ nay wall of toe- As time went on las
time viii dol listen 90 my vail - -,
thc corn waved rcd the maiden blue.
twas tan times v0rse than the grlu
ikegshewf. too true, too true Listen -
ms vail If toe Sha bad "a .s-at in tia
end ~ the pew listen o. mas wail ~ TIE.
and 81 man with his -eat IN view put his
cov.hide booA 1n her kangaroo. OH.
wbs1s. Oh. whew. Listen % my wall u
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

A Chicago boy has been put in jail
for thirty dyys for putting a live snake
in a mans boot and giving the gentle
mans wife a severe shock. By this it is
plainly demonstrated that suffrage has
not gained much Roadway among the
women of Chicago,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-01

May /, the long Iooked-for day and
date is here. What viii it reveal for the
veal or woe of the civilized race: Nav
the custom Of making it a day of mer-
rlment and innocent recreaute sport
that has long prevailed extant take pre-
cedence today and completely Danish all
Nengefulness and whatever spirit of dis
tralpt may exist in any erstwhile dis
contented and morbid individuals. and
instead of being the beginningof trouble.
may it be the accenWation Of renewed
concord and fraternal svmnathv.