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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
An Inrrnious Tine signal.

The Fontaine automatic railroad time
signal and mile post is the name Of de-
vice which seems destined to exercise po-
ssnt influence in preventing railroad acct
dents. The apparatus consists OF mechan-
ism by means of which the engineer of one
train can tell just how far ahead Of him 4
preceding train Is, and thus enable him 70
keep a safe distance IN the rear. 4 lever
projecting To the rail Is acted upon by the
locomotive wheels in such way as 70 set
the mechanism connected with dial at
work. As soon SIS the train passes the dial
marks time up 10 twenty minutes, and the
engineer Of the next train knows Just how
10 REGULATE his speed.-Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

rev ships could hold all the corn that
was exported from our shores. Now
whole fleets sail with their holds full Of
the yellow grain and come back for more.
Corn has literally conquered the earth,
and yet we of the prairies burn it in our
stoves"
"WhyY'
''There is too much corn. Much as
love this royal grain, my eyes are not
blinded. Corn is king, but we do not
need to make it tyrant. We must de-
throne it. Thirty years ago the good
people of q section of our country thought
cotton was king. that it ruled the land.
One day 'n1udsilf rose in his place in
congress, armed with official documents,
and made the astounding statement that
the hay crop of the country quite doubled
the value of the crop of cotton. This
hitherto undiscovered fact disturbed the
stability of the Union. 1t recast thecon-
stitution, freed slaves, made a new ma
ton. We do not want kings on our
farms. Kings are un-American. We
must dethrcne corn, and IN his place
set a republic of diversified crops.
We need more wheat, oats, rye, barley,
sorghum, beans, peas, beets, COOLERS,
hemp and tobacco. Our bins and barns
are literally bursting with corn, for
which there is no market at a price that
will repay first cost. Corn absorbs too
much of our energies, exacts too much
of his subjects"
And when the shades of evening fell,
and the typewriter girls, and the seed
girls, and the clerks and every one was
gone, there sat short DIR. Wolfe and tall
Secretary Rusk, still talking corn.
WALTER WELLMAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

as the closing scene of the role of bally, plead
a contempt for the frequently contemplate
code of honor"
The difficulty between the two originated
some time ago. The congressman wrote a
history Of Tennessee; the editor criticised it;
personal letters were exchanged, cards ap-
peared in various southern papers, snd now
the quarrel has grown so bitter that at least
one Of the men thinks it calls for blood.
Phelan is serving his second term in con-
gress and is well liked by his associates.
Fleming is twenty years his senior and has
been prominent figure in Tennessee official
and political life
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
Or VANITY FAIR.
Sights to Be Seen in Central
Park, New York.
KATE KEARNEYs GOTHAM GOSSIP.
Pen Pictures of Those Who Ride in Car
riages Along the Great Pleasure Drives.
The Sin Stained Woman aud the limo
cent Child-Mistaken for Venus.
Copyright 1891

NEW YORK, April 17.-If you want to see
Vanity Fair at its best these spring days you
must drive out in the park. There the rich
and the poor are certainly met together, and
everybody seems TO be drinking in the good
fresh air of heaven, delighting in the sun
shine and wondering how it is the grass looks
SO fresh and green, nobody ever stopping to
remember that 1t has been a spring shade all
winter. The smart trap is the very high Vic
toria on spring with a wide dashboard,
all upholstered in leather, and with rumble
at tie back. The horses tails are properly
docked; the coachman and the fOotman have
Immediately smooth faces, and my lady's
lveries are just such as are seen III Rotten
Row, the famous London drive, or about the
lake where the Parisians love to 90. The re-
ceiyed livery is blue that is almost mazarine;
the boots have white tops, the breaches are
white, the weistcoat is striped blue and white,
and the coat is the plain blue cloth, that with
the rough surface being preferred, and there
should be upon it velvet collars and cuffs of
the same color and large brass buttons upon
which are engraved either the monogram or
the crest Of the family.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

right of self de-
Tense. Mr.. Phelan
responded with a
statement of the
causes of the diff
Guilty, which he
closes with these
words:
in making this
statement | have,
as far as possible,
avoided IN akin e
O m N e ntS. And
especially have l
tried to observe
chat tone of exact
courtesy which the
world accordS wo-
men and thoSs who.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
He Died q Ply Head.

The elder Dumas held that no one in the
world was his equal in literary point Of
view, AMI that no one else could write any
thing worth reading. When anything was
found he got over ii by declaring that it
was something stolen from himself He
died expecting civilization to so back
wards. Detroit Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
AN ANGRY CONGRESSMAN.
He Is Having Lively Controversy with
an Editor.

Some days ago Hon. James Phelan, mem
Der of congress from the Tenth district of Ten
nessee, sent a telegram to Col. John NJ Flem-
ing, editor Of The Knoxville Sentinel, which
the latter construed as a challenge to fight a
duel. Fleming made the telegram public,
and wrote an open letter to Phelan, in which
he said:
you hold a seat in congress from a dis
trict in Tennessee. You have assumed to be-
come a teacher of the children of the state, as
a historian in the public schools. You ought
to know, and are presumed TO know, the con-
stitutional and legal penalties against giving
and sending or accepting a challenge to fight
a duel You ought TO know that in almost
every possible aspect of the business it is
felony, punishable by Imprisonment in the
penitentiary."
The editor declined to fight, but intimated
that if assaulted he recognized perfectly the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

an elastic, curved strip Of thin metal, 81
either end Of which is secured al adjusta-
Die plate, faced on the inner side with sol.
cloth, in order that be machine may com
fortably clasp the ends of the mustaohe
The latter is carefully arranged a. night q
during periods Of seclusion and the trainer
fixed upon It,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

among kindly disposed people. There
are two middle aged gentlemen in New
York, however, who, If they see a man
zigzagging down the street under the
guidance of q quiet little woman, viii let
him zigzag, philanthropy being, in their
opinions, too expensive.
ALLAN FOR-IAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
THE KING CORN GROWER.
DR.. WOLFE, OF CINCINNATI, AND HIS
WONDERFUL GOLDEN EAR.

He Made Jerry Rusk, Secretary of ARri-
culture, Acknowledge His Sovereignty.
The Doctors Experiments on His Mann
moth Western Ranch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

MS. tEUh5E NUJLD AND CHILDREN.
head to show the short, full curls that make
a halo about her face. The woman Is her
mother. What Is that child going 10 be-
Two men have died mysterious deaths in that
woman's house. one young bov has been sent
TO the insane asvlum because Of MS infGtUa-
ton for her. and that child Is ners That
beautiful white blossom of baby belongs 10
that -icked woman, Snd you stand still AMI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10
special Correspondence

WASHINGTON, April 24.-One day last
week short, robust old man, who wore
a SLOUGH hat and carried large grip sack
in his hand, called at the department of
agriculture and sent his card to Secretary
Rusk. He was shown in.
You are Jerry Rusk?" he asked, put
ting down his grip sack.
Eyes; and your"
81 am the King Corn Grower of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-10

The editor declined to fight, but intimated
that if assaulted he recognized perfectly the
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28
The saloon Has Gone.

Says F. P. Baker, of Topeka, Kan, who
for a quarter of a century was editor of
the Topeka Commonwealth:
Prohibition? l fought Prohibition for
years. 1t was adopted in spite of my best
efforts, and | have now seen it work. Let
me tell you, Kansas will never go back to
the open saloon. 1.-THE question was re-
submitted to-day Prohibition would have a
majority of so, 600 votes. The eastern peo-
pie talk about Prohibition not prohibiting.
1t doesn't. If want a drink in Topeka l
can get it. But the saloon has gone. |
have a grandson growing up who has new
er seen a saloon. ISM that a good thing?
The saloon and its crowd of ward workers
are no longer a political power. That
alone is worth all Prohibition has cost.
Thousands of men who fought the meas
ure the hardest have been converted, as |
have been. There isn't the possibility of a
repeal of the law"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28
Miss willard Talks About Methods o
Work.

A largely attended conference of w. C..
I. I. members and friends, from Mont
gomery, Chester, Delaware, Bucks and
Philadelphia counties, was held on Friday
last, (Feb. 21,) in the Tabernacle Baptist
Church, Chestnut street, above Eighteenth,
Philadelphia.
The greater part of the session, and that
in which the greater interest was shown,
was taken mp by Miss Wizards answers
to the queries in the question box" The
questions covered a wide range of subjects,
and called for expressions of opinion as
well as for information as to W. c. 7. L.
methods, and included queries as to the
| propriety of the use of birds and plumage
for bonnet decorations, as to the wearing
of the white ribbon on all occasions, and
on outer wraps as well as on the dress, &c.
In reply to the question, as the W. G..
7. L. a partisan or political body?' Miss
Willard said ''You will nave to make up
your own minds about that. In my indi-
vidual opinion We have certain leanings
that way. So far as orr constitution and
oar departments of work are concerned we
are colorless, but in our nnual campfire
we are apt to express ourselves in favor of
that body of men who devote themselves
to the cause, and we believe they ought to
have our influence and encouragement. We
have never given them any money, SOM of
the papers to the contrary Notwithstanding,
| NOV ANY, I,allptr fhnnnl miel mo nod
some to give. When the Republicans will
stand by us we will hurrah for tl,em, too,
and for the Democrats and for the Labor
party under the same conditions. We are
not afraid to speak out on
all questions, for there are
none which are tabooed, and we should
fight fire with fire and fling over on the
liquor traffic whatever is a~ntagonistic to
it, and let it whack away Miss VIII
lard went on to say that the ''non-partis-
an" sisters would be obliged to take sides
by and by, the w. c. r. L. having merely
anticipated matters a little. Tie time
would come when the men would swarm
into a new party, call it Prohibition or
Home Protection, or what you will. and
she added: ave have got the party ready
for them. Ii that be treason make the
most of it. The regiment must be brought
to the colors, for the colors have no idea
of going back to the regiment"
Several Of the questions referred to the
"High License law and to the granting of
licenses by the Court. Miss Willard
thought the law had been chiefly useful to
Pennsy lvania as am '~'eye-opener,' and as
ga ma gnifcent object lesson Of the failure
of alfmeasnres." She called upon Lewis
d. Vail, Esq to answer the inquiry as to
'how one can best stop the granting ofliq-
uor licenses now before the Philadelphia
Judges Mr.. Vail said the liquor Traffic
could never be restricted or restrained, for
under the present stringent Law there are
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

\ brewery at Valley Forge. Shades Of
Washington deliver as. A Philadelphia
paper says:
An odor of steaming hops and malt
threatens to settle around the hallowed
headquarters of General Washington at
Valley Forge, and the ground once trod
By the bleeding, hungry and shoeless he
roes of the Revelation is menaced with the
Dissertation of brewery refuse and the tread
of toll.
A New York brewing concern has re-
Gently made an offer for the property to
the owner, j. Is. Carter, of this city, and
although their bid is more than the figure
at which he has offered it for sale 10 the
Government, Mr.. Carter will hold off to
learn the disposition of the bill now before
Congress providing for its purchase,
Mr.. Seton, a recent visitor 10 the
holy land, states that the Franciscan
monks paid 80, 600 pieces of gold 10. years
ago to save the holy Sepulchre at Jeru-
salem from 9esecration at the hands of the
intidel Turks, and certainly the inidel
Turk is no worse than the Yankee rum
manufacturers and Valley Forge is a
sacred, very sacred, shrine in the Ameri-
can heart. May we trust heaven that this
spot at least be spared the vandalism of
the rum manufacturers touch.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

In the perusal Of these lines some of our
readers will recall 10 memory Marshall p.
Wilder, the wonderful facial contcrtienist
and funny, excrutiatingly funny, stage de-
l~ineator. We have heard Wilder and Tho re
is something in the appearance of the great
humorst when on the stage that strikes
one as an invitation to laugh. Now let
go if you so wish, and all let 80 at once, "
is what you can almost read III his face,
and that, too, before u~tterirg a single
word. Wilder is a thin-visaged, hollow
checked, knee-knocked, diminutiye cripple,
who would seem the last man in the world
to laugh himself, much less to try and
make others laugh, but We have to declare
as our settled conviction that as a genus
of the laugh the buttons clear Oft your
coat order he has no equals in this coun-
try and possibly in no other.
A week or two since this same Marshall
p. Wilder contributed a newspaper article
of perhaps a column and a quarter length
to the New York MaA and Express, which
was copied one day Of last week (Thurs.
day into the Philadelphia PuGAc Le2ger,
in which he endeavors to prove that the
chief end of man is TO laugh. Man, he
implies. would be but little prohted
though he should gain the whole world
and lose his little laugh, and evidently
wonders what mankind would give in ex-
change for a laugh. He says:
Learn to laugh. A good laugh is better
than medicine. Learn how to tell a story.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

You can now furnish the
house from basement to garnet
without getting from under our
root. Carpets, Furniture, Up
holstery and Kitchen things you
know of. All on the broadcast
scale of quality and variety.
Wall Papers and Interior
Decorations have now been
added. The new department
has set the town talking-and
buying. The variety, the prices
mot what you we're used to.
By odds the largest and most
complete stock we know of.
Thousands of designs and col
orings of every quality it is
worth your while to put money
into.
Samples of wall papers to
any address. In asking say
what room or rooms you wish
to treat, and about what cost
paper you have in mind.
john WANAMAKER.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

~ brief discussion over tobacco enliy-
ened the annual p. +. Convocation of Bur
lington, in Mount Holly, on Thursday
night. About forty South Jersey clergy
men were present, ard Bishop Scarbo-
rough presided.
One of the delegates strongly opposed
the use of tobacco by members of the
clergy. Chewing and smoking were both
strongly condemned, as it was said that
many were kept away from the commun-
ion table in consequence of the strong odor
of tobacco impaired to the cup by those
who were given to the use Of tobacco. The
example was also said to be bad for the
young men of the Church. Several heated
arguments occured.-Phaadslpha Record.
We should think the figures on the dial
plate Of time too near the noon mark OF
civilization for airy such discussion as the
above. of course elergymen are no better
than the other class OF public Instructors,
editors, school teachers and the like, but
va think it late in the afternoon of the
Christian era 10 ask the question Shall
these be teachers of any vicious habit?"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

~sylvania avenue. They shoS business
houses flooded TO the middle Of the first
floor, water tapping the store floors as far
as the north side of the street and hotels
like the st. James with the lobbies flood
ed. And yet this is the sort of property
that sharks try to sell the government. |
believe that despite the amount Of money
the combined land owners can give to lob
by a bill, the scheme will fail. SO long as
there is dry land to be had Congress will
hardly be induced to buy a marsh.
Taking lunch amid the clinking glasses
in the restaurants on either the House or
Senate side of The Capitol, one would
hardly believe that for over fifty
years there has existed a quiet,
earnest temperance society composed
entirely of Representatives and Senators.
The society is little heard of and its quiet
February anniversaries pass by unnoticed
by the world. Some of the members
many of them are men who were once
excessive drinkers and their re reformation
has been to them the hardest battle of their
lives. That is why SO few of them strong
ly identify themselves with the big prohi-
bition movements. Their days of dissipa-
ton are sore places in their lives, which
they seek only to forget. On the old rolls
of the society appear the names of such
men as Edward Everett. Lewis Cass, Ru-
fus Choate, Joshua r. Giddings, Henry A.
Wise, Willard Fillmore and Franklin
Pierce. To-day the names Of Senators
Coiquitt, Blair, Hawley, Mitchell, Teller,
Mcmillan, Washburn, Wilson, Frye and
Dawes appear upon the books. One of
the most interesting facts is that Robert
Smalls and John r. Lynch have been
members of the society. These men who
have risen from the depths of poverty and
race prejudice have learned the advantage
ofSobriety. WESTON.
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Rum In Our Cities.

1t is in our cities where there is the most
discomfort; where socialism and anarchy
find congenial breeding-places. 1t is not
too strong language to say that these
things are produced by the rum traffic
that the poverty is largely due to the habit
of intemperance, and that the saloons are
responsible for this. The people of this
land will have a heavy account to settle
one that will have to be paid in both blood
and treasure-if they do not rouse them
selves to a realization of the terrible evils of
the rum traffic, and of the grave dangers to
| people and to the State to which its unres-
tricted sway leads. They must be reused
to see that rum will dominate the land un-
less they rise in their might and pulverize
the rum power.-Ioledo Blade.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

''The little boss" as once was, at least,
has brought upon his head land not his
head only, but that of Senator Quay also)
the displeasure of respectable Richmond,
Va, Republicans in the appointment OF
one Russell as postmaster Of that city.
1t appears that Russell vas nominated
and confirmed solely On Mahone's recon-
mendatiop, and in spite of the protest OF
the respectable Republicans OF
Richmond, who called the atten-
ton of the President TO the fact that Rus
sell was dismissed from Office under Arthur
for an $500 shortage in his accounts, and
only saved from criminal prosecution by
making the amount good. The President S
reply was in effect that Mahone's recon-
mendation could not be set aside to please
kickers who had displeased the Administra-
ton by defeating Mahone's election.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28
The school Law in the Legislature.

The following is a copy of a circular that
has been laid on the desk of every member
of the Senate and House of Assembly at
Trenton this week:
To THE HONORABLE SENATE AND GEN
ERAI. ASSEMBLY OF IL STATE OF New
JERSEY.
Gentlemen-The bill is now before you
(known as Senate bill No. 94) asking for a
law requiring school boards to place upon
the curriculum OF studies, to be taught in
our public schools, physiology and n.y.
giene, having special reference to the ef-
fects of alcohol and narcotics upon the
human system. This bill commends itself
to every one who has reflected upon its in
huence upon the future of the youth of
New Jersey now being educated in onr
public schools. To be forewarned is to be
forearmed, and knoein1 the nature of the
enemy confronting them, they may choose
the right and reject the wrong. Public
sentiment is greatly in favor of the bill,
and in order to present to you IN evidence
of this, we have secured the signatures OF
Is, 1873 of our citizens, among them the
names of physicians, clergymen, lawyers,
business men, members of school boards,
judges and women. We have the teach
ers and the textbooks ready. Five of the
largest book publishing firms in the L. s.
have had their books. revised so thai they
come up to the required standard, so moth
ing remains to complete the plan in view
but the sanction of the law.
Win you not, as the custodians of the
interests Of the youth of this great COM
monwealth of New Jersey, grant the
prayer of your petitioners and place New
Jersey alongside of twenty-six other States
which already have this law? ours being
the only Middle State without it.
In behalf of eight thousand members of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of New Jersey.
SARAH J.. G. Downs, President.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

Were halfthe power, that fills the world with
terror,
We're halt the wealth, bestowed ON camps
and courts.
Given II redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need ofarsenals or forts;
The warriors name would be a name abhorred!
And every nation, that should lift again
Its hand against a brother, on its forehead
Would wear foreyermore the curse of Cain!
Down the dark future, through long genera
lions,
The echoing sounds grow fainter and then
cease;
And like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations,
/ near once more the rojce 0J christ sag,
"Pedee,"
Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals
The blast OF Wars great organ shakes the
skies
But beautiful as songs Of The i1anaortais,
h hoiy melodies Of tore arise.
IL ". Lonl{eHolc.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-28

"Plainfield, " says an exchange, swings
from one extreme to the other on the
liquor question. Having tried one year of
prohibition the City Council o author
ICES the licensing of more saloons than
have ever heretofore been licensed"
So it is 18th poor, fallen humanity every
where, so it has always been and probably
will always so continue. Give a nation
peace and it wants nothing so much as
war; give it war, and Inundated and
crushed and beaten it cries for peace.
"Tllere first comes to a n%ation,' says an
cd writer, peace, then plenty, then lux
ury, then dissentions, then war, then aE-
Fiction, then want, then peace, and so the
circle is complete.
SO, too, is the Cog and Magog fight be-
ing constantly waged in this wicked world
Of ours. We don't expect this republic of
ours to continue forever, it is too good for
the people, just as prohibition is too good
for most folks. The more ~virtuous a ma
ton the more they attempt to restrain
evil; the more deviIish the individual the
more he chafes under restraint. There
are more Of the latter than of the former
class in Plainfeld, as elsewhere, and no
wonder she swings from prohibition to
license. Eternal vigilance and bushels of
il is needed at Plainfeld.