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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
A VALUABLE COMMERCIAL ALLY.

That Mexico is a country which offers
exceptional advantages for the invest
ment of capital, says the Financier, is
shown by the enormous amount invested
there during the past year. 1t is a fact
worthy of notice, too, that the United
States furnished at least third of that
capital. This fact is deemed so remark
able abroad that a prominent English
financial journal devotes considerable
editorial space to the matter. 1--WE did
not believe that Americans had any
capital to invest" remarks our English
contemporary, and IN view of the ever
increasing British capital in our midst
such an opinion would seem not far out
Of the way. Mexico has in recent times
changed much for the better. As a
country she is politically as stable as
some European countries which might
be mentioned. Her present executive
believes in the fullest development of all
natural resources.
A recent article by one who had
travelled much over the world declared
Mexico to be naturally 1.-THE most magni-
ficent country on the globe" The same
writer adds: You have everything in
that country from the tropical REGION to
the coal region-cotton, corn, wine, oil,
petroleum, indigo, and everything, al
most, that is possible TO conceive"
Mexico has the enormous advantage of
two crops a year. 1t is true that the
Mexican citizen is painfully lacking in
all those qualities which makes the sue
cessful man. But for this very reason,
it is less difficult for foreign capital to
obtain foOthold and derive profit. We
believe that Mexico's resources and
American brains will make a wonderful
showing in the near future.
This was General Grants estimate of
the country and the possibilities of
developing profitable trade relations be-
tween it and our own country. This is
likewise Mr.. Blaines view of the matter,
and with all these things SO patent, it is
next to incomprehensible why any
citizen of this cOuntry-civilian or Off
cial- should tax his ingenuity to devise
some excuse to prevent the accomplish
ment of SO desirable an arrangement as
an equitable trade cartel between that
country and this. Yet there are some
such persons thus engaged.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
SO WERE THE PEoLE AMAZED

From the Kansas CITY Gazette.
Senator Plumb again voted with the
Democrats yesterday. and he was rein
forced by Senator ingalls,. II has been
understood for a couple of months that
both Plumb and ingalls, would do their
best 10 defeat the Mckinley bill About
two months ago we were shown private
letter from Plumb, received by q gentle
men IN the interior q the state We
memorized one sentence ana since be has
made the break then anticipated we give
the sentence: Il arm greatly distre-sel
about the Mckinley bii. ard am
amazed if not Disguised, al the kansas
men ia the house for voting for II.
Senators Manderson and Paddock Of
Nebraska. joined them on one or two
items Edmunds ana Teller alsb Joined
the kickers 10 resisting Biair's motion 20
shut of debate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
SIX THOUSAND INToXICANTs.

A New York Star reporter, who Of
course has no practical acquaintance
with the liquids he describes, tells us there
ane no less than 5000 intoxicants known
TO the custom house records and con-
stantlv brought. all or part of them, to
every port of entry in the Union. Nine
tv-five per cent OF the immigrants TO
America drink Alcoholic liquors IN one
form or another, and not more than five
per cent OF them ever heard OF total alb
stinence. Once here they both make
and import their favorite home land In
tixicants.
From Mexico come pulque and mescal,
made from the cactus. Central and
South America send white sugar cane
rum, along with mulutudlnOus other
yillainous drinks which the reporter
seems 10 understand slspiclously well
Spanish South America brews number
of drinks delicious TO the taste which are
on the whole mild. These drinks are
distilled from the lemon, orange,
banana guava. coCoanut, tamarlnd. fig
and chocolate and vanilla Orange peel
gin. however. is a connection which viii
make even the Anglo-Saxon stand on has
head.
The Russian imports his vodka, the
Norwegian his carawsy whisky. the
German his whisky made from potato
parings and other equally frugal bases
The vodka i about on a level with high
wines while OF the potato FsarIng whisky
the less said the better. The custom
house divides all these nondescTipt I'M
poTtatIons into four classes; wines,
strong hQuoTs, cordialS and medicines.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
STILL WANTS TO FIGHT.
To tho Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
Allow me to point to the the gentle
man" (subjlnus Americans occl-
dentalis) who has lost his temper, that
it is an axiom with newspaper contro-
versialists that when a man deScends TO
personal abuse of an opponent he has abad
case, not but what under the conditions,
ETC., the abuse was in truth
complimentary. Although my would
be annihilator denies III one
breath what | advanced, in the
next he admits that it was correct. So
much for his logic. Perhaps he is I'M
aware that this district is what is called
French colony and that the French &C
count of the revolutionary struggle is as
entitled to respect as the American,
maybe more so, being more impartial.
One of the colony observed to me: You
are quite right, the French king did send
an expedition to help in six ships of
war" can prove my case right up to
the hilt with regard to either the revolu-
tionary war or the war of 1912. The
first being justifable and attaining its
object; the second being without suffi-
cient cause las recorded, too, | under
stand by the legislature of Massachusetts,
and the objects attained nil. The VIC
tories and defeats OF 1912 need not be
recapitulated, they We're indecisive and
about equal on both sides-I NAV add
that l have lived here many years cOnse-
quently | am not to be ''blutfed' with
school boy tales or those of children of
larger growth even if they be westerns.
or by personal abuse. Does this intellectu-
al and refined person imagine he is the
oh Of hnr al
STYLES the partially civilized" portion of
subject? Not quite,
There are two points to which | would
draw this individuals especial attention.
The first, THAT nine-tenths of the heroes
of the Revolution were descendants of
CrOmwells 1rOnsideS and the cream of
the nOn-conformist British population
pure and unadulterated whilst many
were even born in the British isles. The
second, whenever you hear an ''Ameri-
can citizen boasting of having whip
ped" England with some few EXCEPTIONS
you will find that he is a descendant not
of the old revolutionary heroes, (of
whom all the Anglo-Saxon race are
PROUD but derives his origin in great
part from some of, the inferior and down
trodden populations of continental
Europe with at the best just enough
Anglo-Saxon blood to grade him up
little; being the descendant for the
major part of those races which have
gone down before the sturdy Britton. He
thinks he gives himself some present
glory, with revenge for the lickings of
the past by Dragging as an 'American(D'
inOrdinately, and partially falsely, of the
achievements won by one section of the
Anglo-Saxon race IN a combination
against its mother country, and in which
neither the bragger nor his progenitors
had either part or lot. As Captain
Cutie said ''make a note Of it." The
balance of the rubbish in his letter is
not worth notice.
As my middle names Sic appear to have
proverbial and reasonable effect of the
red rag to an equally judicious animal,
will sign my name, |. B. OLDREINE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

Preston B. Plumb" says the Wichita
EAGLE; SIS becoming the Samuel J.
Randall of the Republican party" Ran
dali was praised by the enemy and almost
~ universally condemned by his own party.
The EAGLES intended compliment is not a
natterlng one.-Emporia Republican.
Your characterization of Mr.. Randall
is too sweeping: he was only praised by
his enemies and condemned by his own
party" for his attitude on the tariff ques-
ton; on all others he was in perfect
harmony with his party. And as for
his attitude on the tariff question, he
simply reflected the sentiments and
wishes and Interests" of his con-
stituency and section. In these respects
and to that extent the similarity be-
tween the two men is to our mind very
striking, and the compliment is as flat
tering to one as to the other: both per-
formed their duty to those they were
commissioned to represent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
THE VALUE OF IRRIGATION.

On this important subject we get from
the San Diego Union the following
which is worthy of thoughtful perusal:
s.Judicious irrigation will always double
the yield of anything on land high enough
above winter floods 10 be of much value.
On lands still higher ii is quite certain to
treble the WELD and on lands high enough
to be free from killing frosts it is certain
TO quadruple it. There Will. of course, be
some years when the differences viii not
be so great, but in the average of ten
years it will be fully that. Lands where
this difference does not hold in ordinary
wears will be too wet IN about four years
out of ten. Suppose now, your gross re
ceipts without irrigation are SO an acre,
of which $50 or more are clear profit
over the interest on cost of land and eX-
penseS. gathering crop, etc. TOUR lrrl-
cation costs YOU say ten dollars an acre,
including interest on cost of water, Off
set by convenience for domestic use and
watering stock. These figures of expense
are much too high for most things, and
are given only in illustration. If your
crop is doubled you have made fifty dol
lars more on an extra investment of ten
dollars. as against fifty dollars on TWEEN
ty-five dollars: if trebled you make one
hundred dollars on ten dollars, and If
quadrupled you make still another fifty
dollars, or one hundred and fifty dollars
a wear upon ten dollars. But there is
this very important difference: Without
irrigation you could not have made the
one hundred and fifty dollars or the one
hundred dollars or the second fifty dol
lars at all; but on the other hand you
might have had your first fifty dollars
reduced to forty dollars by an unusually
dry season. If you attempt to dodge this
difficulty by windmills, you gain nothing
over the cost of water from a ditch. If
YOU try to avoid it by going on damp
lands. which in any quantity can be
found only in low valleys, then YOU run
the risk of not only heavy winter frosts,
which prevent the growing OF vegetables
in winter and check back alfalfa, etc,
but spring frosts, which may nip your
trees in bloom. You run the risk, too,
of having water stand upon the land in
unusually wet winters, and your trees
injured by change from year to year in
the level of the water about their roots.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
HOW "AssAYNG" Is DONE.

The process Of assaying gold and silver
Is Identical IN each case. saws the St
Louis Republic. The metal is first nut
through a highly heated furnace and
melted, the samples for ASSAY being
dipped out while the metal Is IN the LIQUID
state. Next, the same sample Il thrown
into vessel Of cold water. when grauu-
lation ensues. Taken from the cold hath
It IS bold IN sulphuric acid. the silver dis
solving while the gold l. precipitated 10
the bottom, where It Is caught IN proper
receptacles. The acid Is now drawn off
and the metal placed in another v.--e!
laid with sheet lead. the bot
tom being plates Of copper. Chem
ical action now sets IN. the acid.
copper and lead beng in A ferment.
While the gold Is being precipitated.
the silver, if there be auv in the sample
under test. Il being deposited in thin me-
talic sheets on what before the fermenta-
ton set N were the copper plates. but
which have now been transformed into
blue yItToi OF sElphate OF copper. After
the metals have ali been deposited ffley
are gathered up, and. with the impurl-
tle- stall remaining. preset into cake
by d hydrauac machine which has a
pressure Of 20 tons. Again Il = melted
the gold and silver each IN seperate yatz
Of course. the pure metals being again
deposited and the impurities. aided BIZ
chemical action. left floating on the top.
The next and last process runs the met
ais into lgots ready for the markets Of
the world.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

The extension of the reciprocity treaty
between the United States and Hawaii
has been productive of much good. The
interchange of agricultural products and
commercial relations generally have
been stimulated to unwonted activity.
More vessels are required for the in
creased carrying trade and such are at
present being constructed. The building
of a railroad through Hawaii has opened
up sugar cane land of the best quality,
and this has been secured by American
capitalists. $2,000,000 and more of
American capital is said to be at present
invested on the island. The United
States has imported the rolling stock,
animals and all necessary materials for
surface roads into Hawaii, and the sys-
tenn is working at present very profit
ably. During the year just past, the
total tonnage entered at Hawaiian ports
was 21S,000 tons, of which 1876, 900 tons
were American.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

Todd and Christian counties. Ken
lucky, which adioin each other, can Law
claim Of being the birthplace of more no.
table men than any other locality of SINH
lar area in the United States. The most
famous of their product are Abraham
Lincoln, jefferson Davis, Roger Q. Mills
and James McKinzie, known as .Quinine
jim" There are a number of other
celebrities. but of less renown. who
reckon their existence from the same
famous locality. The remarkable feature
of the coincidents is that there should
have been so wide a divergence in the
character of the TWO most famous. but it
may be attributed more to the force Of
circumstances than to nate differences.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

As evidence of the desperation of the
Alliance political situation it is only
necessary to call attention to the impor-
tation of Weather-cock Weaver into this
district TO help put the movement on its
feet and start it agoing. Weaver is a
slick one; so slick. in fact, that he has
succeeded in sliding all over and onto
every side of every political ism that has
sprung up in this country during the
past twenty years. On the stump he is
all things to all men, but when he is an
alyzed and sized up he amounts, prac-
tically, nothing to nobody.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
1.-THE BIvoUAC OF THE DEAD"

A KentuCkian writes in the Courier
Journal and interesting sketch of how
this famous poem was written. It's story
dates back to the battle of Buena Vista,
February %, 1S47, when the whole Mex
lean army. under Santa Anna, defiIed
around a mountain pass and summoned
5000 Americans under Taylor TO sur
render. The reply was, General Tay-
lor never surrenders," and at it the two
went to fight it out. In the terrible bat
tie that followed Taylor was victorious.
and thereby won the presidency for him
self. But many among the flower of his
officers were killed, among them Young
Harry Clay. eldest son of Henry CLAY.
Clay's death was mOurned as a calamity
by the whole state. In May his remains
were brought home from Mexico and
buried at Louisville. with grand cere-
monies. The feelings of the Kentuckians
were aroused as not often happens In
the midst of the popular grief, patriotic
feeling and state pride all mingled came
to that other Kentuckian, Colonel Theo-
dore F. OHara, his immortal poem,
The Bivouace of the Dead.
The body OF Col. O'Hara himself was
brought To Frankfort, XIV. in October,
4Cf4' dhu buTIeu- Ou Jillo occasion MS
own poem was recited above his remains
and those of two other officers who were
laid 10 their final rest at the same time
in the Frankfort cemetary. The poem
has been quoted at a hundred soldier fu-
nerals. The correct version OF the first
stanza the Kentuckian says Is this.
The muffied drums sad roll has beat
The soldiers last tattoo.
No more on life's parade shall meet
That brave and fallen few.
On flames eternal camping ground
Their silent tents are spread.
And glory guards with solemn round
The biycuac of the dead
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

The Charleston News and Courier,
after studing the congressional directory,
reports that there are six farmers IN the
senate and thirty in the house. The
senate lost a farmer when Palmer OF
Michigan retired. This hard working
agriculturalists once entertained party
of congressional notables at his farm
near Detroit. The table was loaded with
trimming pitchers of rich jersey milk
from his fancy diary, and tubs in which
bottles of champagne nestled lovingly IN
the cool but protecting embrace of heaps
of cracked ice. Help yourselves, gem
tlemen," said the host, Hospitality.
Take milk or champagne, whichever
you prefer. The milk costs me about
twice as much per quart as the wine,
but both are equally at your service.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
A CRIME AGINST THE PUBLIC.

That was horrible judicial murder
committed at Auburn, New York, yes
terday morning, accompanied by a dis
gushing parade and red tape otficiousness.
The attempted refined cruelty proved
butchery worthy the instincts of the saw
age, or the fiendishness Of the inquisition.
Instead of killing the man as "quick as
thought as they claimed they would, he
was left bound in rigid clasps of metal
while for a period, which must have
seemed hours to the agonizing victim,
his physical life was, second by second,
for more than two hundred seconds of
time, torn to shreds by piecemeal and
left quivering in disintergration 1t was
inhuman torture for which Justice did
not call. 1t would have been more Chris
tan to have. chopped his head off, to
have bowed him up with dynamite or
to have shot him bodily out of cannon.
Of course the attendant physicians and
officials will attempt to make people be-
leve that the wretChed victim was I'M
conscious from the time the first current
of the electric fluid was sent through
him, but they will fail. The Associated
Press agent told the truth, besides the
mans countenance when exposed verified
the agents account of the Sickening af-
fair
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

Assistant Postmaster General Clark
son will not re-enter the journalistic pro-
fession when he retires from his present
position next month, as has been repeat
eddy announced, but will go to Japan to
take charge of an extensive commercial
enterprise in behalf of a syndicate of
American capitalists of which he IS a
member, and Will probably remain there
permanently. Mr.. Clarkson has been a
valuable citizen and has performed in
valuable service to the Republican party,
and his loss TO the country and the party
will be felt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
"What a Splendid LIAR

Mr. Stanley relates that one day while
conversing with a friendly tribe, during
his recent travels. one of the chiefs pres
ent injured how many wives he pos
seesed. Upon Mr. Stanley innocently re-
plying that he had none at all, those
present stood up like one man and unani-
mousiy exclaimed: What a splendid
liar. They intensely admired the APP
parent calmness with which he had. "a
they thought. tried to pass of on them
wondrous travellers tale.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

II Is said that everything goes by con
trast in the material world If that Is
true it viii be well for everybody to
prepare for an unusually cold winter to
follow the uncommon hot summer from
which we are just emerging. This pre-
caution would seem all the more neces-
Sary inasmuch as the corn supply for
fuel Is going 10 he a little short this
season. There is no cause for alarm in
this, however. for the prices for what
we shall have 10 sell viii be so much
better that we can afford 10 burn coal.
What's the matter with Kansas, did you
ask: Oh, nothing; shes al right.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
What Did It7

From the Topeka Democrat
If the criminal classes and "despicabls
citizens emi0rate from Kansas 20 Ne
braska should not the penal institutions
of the two states show corresponding
gain and reductions. What are ths
facts; In 1850 the population Of Kansas
was 996, p97 and Nebraska 4j3 .404 Ia
1890 the estimate population 81 Kansas
and Nebraska II the same, t0-wit: 80
900. These figures Of course cannot hs
verified until the official count IL made
by the census officers. That possibly
may result In Nebraskas favor. a. she Z.
claiming a million and half The above
figures show gain for Nebraska 81 7g7 70
j9s. and for Kansas pa. OOf. or a differ
ence IN favor ~ Nebraska If 5i3. 59i.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07
THE WHITE SQUADRON.

The return home of the cruisers Chica-
go. Boston nd Atlanta brings to a close
a naval demonstration that has been
throughout a source of qualification to
patriotic citizens generally, as well as to
those actively interested in the navy of
our country. The squadron of evolution
left this country a little less than seven
months ago. The Yorktown returned
recently alone in advance of her sister
ships.
Peculiar interest attached to this
cruise, as these ships are types of the
highest attainments in modern naval
construction and are the splendid repre-
sentatives of the United States as a
predestined great naval power. The
record of the cruise was brilliant from
start to finish. In the European and
South American ports that We're visited
the cruisers We're regarded with admira-
ton, and the officers and the sailors re-
ceived benefitting attention. The moral
effect of this naval display upon other
nations can scarcely be overestimated.
1t has shown to the world the capacity
of the United States in naval matters.
The several vessels of the squadron
abundantIy demonstrated their sea-
worthiuess and their efficiency in the
maneuvers which constituted an i'm
portant feature of the cruise. 1t is evil
dent that we have in these ships
nucleus for one of the finest navies of
the world. 1t should not he forgotten
at this moment of general satisfaction
how much the country owes TO President
Cleveland's secretary of the navy, Whit
new. for the achievement Of these results.
Mr.. Whitney's intelligent, business like
efforts TO rehabilitate the navy that the
waste and laxity of his predecessors had
destroyed. were eminently successful.
The new cruisers constitute a fitting
memorial to his efficient and unselfish
labors.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

Miss Mollie f. Seawell, the author of
''Throckmorton," a southern novel just
published by the Appletons, is a niece of
Ex-President Tyler, and lives in Wash
ington. Miss Seawell's latest success is
taking the Observation-Disclosures prize Of
fered by the Youths Companion, with
her story, Little Jarvis She is an oc-
casional contributor to magazines of
short stories and articles Of sparkling
style and delicate humor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-07

In the chamber of deputies, Paris.
France, recently, NJ. Roche, minister of
commerce, asked a credit of 40O, 900
francs to lay cable between France and
England. He stated that IS, 93O. 600 words
had been telegraphed in 1899, as against
E,717, 600 in 1888. He also asked a credit
of 290, 600 francs for telephone lines be-
tween Paris and London. Thus the de
mand for increased facilities for more
prompt and reliable intercourse is but
the reflex of the increase of population
and growth of commercial and industrial
lnterchangeS co-eXtensive with the spread
and advancement of civilization and
human needs.