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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
KANSAS WAGE FARMERS.

Labor Commissioner Betton has pre-
pared a table showing the average
wages paid in the principle industries of
Kansas, comparing the year 1880 with
the year 1889. As the labor bureau was
not established until 1885, the commits
sioner has carefully compiled the figures
given in the agricultural report of 1880,
using the figures collected for his last re-
port from both employers and employees,
for 1889. In explanation of the table the
commissioner says: In some instances
the rate of wages reported both by en-
ployers and employees varies considerably,
but the average of the aggregate sum is
reasonably correct SO far as the wages
earned by competent workmen are con-
cerned.
The table shows an advance in wages
in every occupation mentioned except in
the case of coal miners wherS a reduc-
ton of three-fourthS cents per bushel is
noted. Machinists also show little change.
In the other occupations the increase
ranges all the way from thirteen to
eighty per cent.
The table shows the average for the
state as follows:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
Sensible Hvgfenic SUGGESTIONS.

If you are something Of a crank.
writes Lulian Ralph in Chatter, listen to
this that the cranks say: Eat an apple
every night and you viii lengthen your
life ten years. You viii do half Is well
If you make it a rule to drink glass of
water every night. Never allow your
self 10 be awakened in the morning. 60
10 bed early enough 10 have your sleep
out. 1t Is very injurious 10 get up day
after day with your sleep unfinished.
Once day, whenever you ike, take the
juice of q lemon in water. That's an
other way 10 live forever, a German
professor declares that the DEMONSTRATING
principle Is lastic acid. It Is most CON
veniently found in buttermilk and
sauerkraut. Eat or drink either fire.
queutly and il Will take q cannon hall to
xiii you. / asked the great doctors
about ali these things, and they laughed
and said there was some sense and TO
harm IN all these rules.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Newspapers in Chicago, Philadelphia
and other cities, taking their cue from
contemporaries in New York and St.
Louis, have started voting competitions
for the most popular public school teach
ers in their several localities. The craze
for these competitions is evidently
spreading, and the evil has become
serious. Nothing is SO calculated to I'M
dermine the usefulness of our schools or
to vitiate the moral character of the pu-
pills The situation demands the imme-
diate attention of all who have the well
fare of our public schools at heart. Wig
oroUs protests should compel those in
authority to at once put stop to these
evil practices. The country cannot af-
ford to allow its educational institutions
to be dragged into the mud.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
ANOTHER JUDICIAL OPINION.

From the Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
'ApropOs to the discussion of the orig
inal package decision is the opinion of
Justice Williams, of the state supreme
court, defining the rights which a non
resident possesses in the sale of goods
brought into the state. The case went
up from Schuylkill county, and was that
of peddIer who had been fined for sell
ing, from house to house, without a
license. so useful and harmless a COM
modify as 'soapine.' He plead that he
was engaged in Interstate commerce,
the soap having been manufactured in
Rhode Island, and that he was not
obliged to take out peddler's license.
Justice Williams ruled that inter
state commerce had reference to the free
Interchange of commodities between
citizens Of the different states, but at the
same time it did not relieve any one
from the operations of state laws. The
citizens of another state may sell his
goods in Pennsylvania, when and where
he will. and enjoy the same measure of
freedom accorded a native citizen, but
when he comes here he is under the
protection of the state laws, and the cor
relative duty of obedience to these laws
rests upon him. He can not do what
citizen is forbidden to do. He has no
more right TO sell Intoxicating liquors
than a citizen has, or do any other act
forbidden by the law. To hold the con-
trary view says Justice Williams,
would be subversive Of law and order.
and would render the possession of the
police power useless to the state This
Is not in exact conformity with the de-
Cision of the higher court. but it is not so
far from it as might appear at first blush.
What Is needed Is more exact definition
of the term commerce among the states
In the meantime those who are contem-
plating setting at defiance The license
laws OF the state Of Pennsylvania under
the ruling of the supreme court of the
United States will dowell to make note
of what the highest state court has
said.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Governor Mckinney, of Virginia,
issued a proclamation urging a general
suspension Of business throughout the
state yesterday, when the statute of Gen
eral Lee was unveiled. No similar
action was taken by the governor Of
New York, or the mayor of the city of
New York in reference to the proper
observances of today in memory of
General Grant and his host of silent
comrades whose graves viii be decorated
by the willing hands of a greatful people
throughout this broad land.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

In the spring when the green gits back in
the trees,
And the sun comes out and STAYS
And yer boots pull on with a good tight
squeeze.
And you think Of your barefoo. day.;
When you Ort 20 Work ana you want %
not.
And YOU and your wife agrees
Is time 70 spade mp the garden lot
WEeu the green 1.f- back "a the trees
Well work is the isast "a my idees
When the green, sou know, g5ts back in
the trees.
When the green gits back in the trees, and
bees
L a-buzZiu' aTgan' ag1-
Ia that kind Of lazy go a. you pleas
Old gait they ham around IL.
When the ground al bad whore the hay
rick stood.
And the crlcSs III, and the breeze
CoaIeS the bloom lu the old c1z-~oOd.
And the green Elts hack 30 the trees
] like a. I SAY. ~ slch scenes ~ these
The time when the green giLs back IL
the tres.
When the whole tai feathers o winter
time
i all pulled ogf and gone.
And the sap IL t8asvs and Begins 20 climb
And rEe the sweat E starts g4t o..
4 fel.ar' forr-t- q g5rtl. d8rl
Al TIE Old spring GA bis knee
I KIND y like. je<t a IaaferIu rgurd
u ben the green ZiEs back il TIE tres
jest a-petteTiu round O. I lGrn please-
" hen The green yog Know, gils Usck ia
the tree
james Whfrecrub EElav
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The Duke of Connaught, who, with
his wife, has just landed at British
Columbia on the Pacific coast, is ex-
pected to visit the eastern cities before
he leaves the western continent, and the
local papers say society" is already be
coming decorously excited in anticipa-
ton. He was here once before, about
twenty years ago. just as he was becom-
ing Of age, and he always alludes 10 it as
a melancholy visit. He was young, and
naturally anxious TO meet with our
pretty girls, of whom, perhaps, he had
heard glowing accounts from his eldest
brother, the Prince of Wales. who
danced and fiirted with them to his
hearts content, when he was here in
1860. Poor Prince Arthur. as he was
then called. had no fun. He was taken
possession of by a lot of nice old gentle
men. and was entertained at a dinner to
which no woman was invited. as was
said ut the time, under fifty years Of
age. 1t is almost needless to say that
the prince did not give anxiety to his
royal mamma by losing his heart to any
Yankee belle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Just why Governor Humphrey should
appoint as chairman of Kansas world's
fair commission the editor of a paper like
the Topeka Democrat, which spends all its
time throwing mud at the state is not
clear. A calumniqtOr OF state is not a
good man to represent it.-Abilene Re
Hector
Granting the force of the point, which
is well taken, how much less subject to
the same criticism is the other commits
sioner, who is as blind and bitter in his
structures upon certain localities in the
state as the chairman could possibly be
against the state as a whole? A winning
pair for the dealer to hold where jacks
are high.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
suNFLowER SKINNER.

W. B. Strong, the ex-Atchison president,
is running far near Beloit, Wis.
The man who is running the. circus
through Kansas this year has missed his
calling. He admits children free OF
charge.
The mad dog is not the only thing with
froth on him that the Kansas policeman is
now wont to dispose of--there is the orig
inal package.
The epigrammatic instinct in some writ
ers is limited to the habit of supplement-
ing the account of fishing party with
''such is life"
a counterfeit silver dollar, dated 1886, is
floating quite numerously over the state.
1t is just as well, if you have any sc dol
lars, to bite them
In the course of events, peradventure,
Harrison Kelly has found an infinite deal
of comfort out of Judge BOtkin's affair.
1t was another case of a mere Botkin,"
1t is only about ten days now until the
Southwestern Fire association has its
tournament at Fort Scott and already
some of the peanuts have been in roasting
for week.
The editor of the Grenola Chief has
never practiced chow to cloak otfenses
with cunning brow" He recently sent
a doctor bill to a bride in return for piece
of her cake.
Congressman Peters has gone to Boston
for rest and recuperation. There is no ap-
prehension in Kansas that the wild waves
will say anything to Mr.. Peters about
another term in the house.
The rumor that J. r. BUrton's long
continued reticence is due to his efforts to
hold monocle in his eye, is, no doubt,
treacherous SANDER and should be disre-
garded by all sensible people.
There is an astonishing paucity of Kan
saus in Washington at present The aver
age Kansan is getting to feel more every
day like old people advise little children,
that is, that they should be seen, not
heard"
Corn and wheat are looking well in the
First district, and so is Mr.. Morrill, The
remainder, looking for early preferment in
this district, as to their relative positions
and conditions are indefinite and some
what mixed.
d. Krohn first belonged to the Methodist
church; then he joined the Atchison
Champion and now is ordained as a pastor
in the Congregational church. This is
probably the nearest the religious position
of the Champion ever came to be defined.
a Topeka man has discovered a new fish
in the Missouri river-one with 'a long
thread-like appendage to its tail" One
thing is certain, now since liquor is pro-
cured openly in Kansas, if the Missouri
river towns want to render themselves at
tractive, they must improve the quality of
their whisky.
The number of hogs in Kansas has
doubled since January 1, 1889. Since the
commencement of the congressional fights
in the several districts of this state it is
not easy to write an agricultural item and
not be mistaken. We will say that this is
an agricultural item.
Farmer Funston never paid dollar to-
wards his campaign expenses. AS Mr..
Funston is not drinking man, and as he
never encroached ON Dame Fashions do
minion, farther than the paper collar
limit, it would seem that his Cincinnatus-
ship is not going to follow Mr. Peters in
his declaration of the insufficiency of the
salary and resign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Nova Scotia had an election last week
that was significant The present minis
try and the late parliament have been in
favor Of closer relations with the United
States, and, despite the efforts of the Do
minion government in opposition, the
election Endorsed and emphasized this
policy. The movement in Nova Scotia
and in Newfoundland Is very strong. and
while now it Is reciprocity that Is most
conspicuously talked of. annexation is be-
lieved 10 be behind the agitation. 1t Is
quite within the range OF possibility that
that these two provinces may seek sep
aration from the WOther country, and il
is not at all certain that Great Britain
cares much to retain them. Whether the
United States wants them is another
question.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

There seems to be no doubt that the
price Of wheat will advance materially
within very few months, if not weeks.
From the most careful estimates made
of the supply on hand and of the yield
of the growing crop, there viii be COM
parativeiy little more than enough for
the home demand. This cannot fail to
stimulate the price, not only of wheat,
but of all other cereals, although the
other crops may be never so large.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

"The only way to stop small boys from
smoking cigarettes" remarked physi-
clan the other day, sis to have law
passed making it an offense for boys I'M
der 16 to smoke in the public streets, and
then, if parents do their duty at home,
and teachers in the schools, the evil viii
be abated to a wonderful extent. As it
IS, our boys are growing up to manhood
with weak hearts. disOrdered stomachs,
shattered nerves and weak lungs, be-
cause nothing is really done to stamp out
the vile cigarette habit. If you go down
to any United States training ship and
ask the commander to assign a cause for
the large percentage of boys rejected, he
will tell you readily enough that the
cigarette is at the bottom of it all. The
physical decay of the coming manhood
of the country has not, as far as can
see, received the consideration that its
vital Importance demands"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Irl Hicks seismic phenomena, prom
ised for last week, missed connection and
didn't quake on time; but they came
ambIing along up about Indianapolis a
few days later, but lost none of its ter
rorizing effects by means Of the delay.
Lesser disturbances occurred at other
points, but no actual damage has been
TeDorted from any Quarter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The Paris, or home branch, of the eos
mopolitan New York Herald draws
just conclusion from the good order that
obtained duringthe May Day labor dem
constructions, in saying that the quiet was
discouraging to Imperialists and Royal
its, as well As to Anarchists, for it proved
the power Of Republican government to
preserve peace and promote good will
under trying circumstances.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

President Clover, of the State Farmers
Alliance, makes a few remarks in this
mornings EAGLEOn matters and things in
a permiscuOus and general sort of way
that viii be read with a degree of in
terest by many, whether all fully agree
with him or not. Mr.. Clover has a very
clever way Of stating some of his points
and propositions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

1t is claimed that the richest tin mine
in the world has been discovered in
Cherokee county, Georgia, about forty
miles from Atlanta. The silver veins
running parallel to the tin veins are also
very rich. A double bonanza, that, to
the owners and operators; that is if the
tin part of it shall be macl1inleyed, to
Use the Philadelphia Press coinage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The official organ of the carpenters or
CARNATIONS states that in woodworkers
trades the eight-hour day has been firmly
established in seventy-two cities and
towns. In forty-two eight-hour strikes
twenty-seven have ended in victory for
the workmen, six cave been compro-
missed on a nine-hour basis. and nine are
still undecided. Moderation, good order
and resolution seem TO have brought TO
the men a gratifying measure of success.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The Troy Chief, Sol DIiller's inimit-
able paper, is twenty-three years old
this week, and yet it has not lost one
whit Of its wanted vivacity, verility,
versatility or vigor of its youthful self.
May the substance Of the Chief nor the
acumen of is editor never diminish until
he shall lose his identity in the glad
frution of the welcome plaudit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The first test of the original package
question IN Kansas City, Kan, has ended
disastrously TO the opponents Of the de
pots, Judge Miller, OF the Wyandotte
county district court deciding that the
original package depot could not be
classed as a tipping shop. John Nichols
was arrested in Armourdale few DAYS
ago and fined by Police Judge Leland on
the charge Of keeping tipping shop.
The case was appealed with the above
result.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

An authority says that German is still
the language spokenby the English royal
family in the privacy OF their homes.
The plan, while it sayor5 Of dislOyalty to
Britain, is good one tokeep the servants
from criticising the royal family's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The attorney general of the state de-
cides that inasmuch as there is no statute
covering such property specially for pur-
poses Of taxation, irrigating bitches,
dams and other appurtenances thereto
must be assessed and taxed as other
property. This ruling is in answer to a
question on that point sent up from one
of the counties in the western part of the
state
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Nothing startling has been heard from
Senator Blair the last week or two. In
light of Mr.. Bynum's recent experience,
however, it is not at all improbable that
our cranky senator is preparing a bill for
the modification of the censure Of the
house of representatives.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
Bofe Nv us, George.

From the &. c, Gazette.
Ben Butterworth, of Ohio. who is con-
sidered possible presidential timber. said
in his speech on the Mckinley bill that
he is opposed TO it because it was made
up in the interest of the classes instead of
the masses. Butterworth must have been
reading the EAGLE.-Wichita Eagle.
No, sir; he had been reading the Ga
zette's f1Ux ore controversy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The reputation of being one of the po-
litest and most courtly men in Washing
ton is enjoyed by General Nathaniel P.
Banks. who is one of the Oldest if not the
oldest member of congress at this time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

EE1-- i1e Hl-erl- De-zlzFat-
The Wichita EAGLE il low tariff
pTotectIonl-ts, an ana-pr1hibiti0uizt a
Eepuollean altl-moBgE-l-4.f and a D1u-
ocratlc alllsuisg. The ingredients gre .
rather complicated mixture. tut the
EAGLE .-saszrs j; SIX t5n.as q week. ard
don't make any faces about Il, either.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

indianapolis experienced a shock OF
the earth Wednesday. As our president
has not made any appointments lately
outside of the Hoosier state such action
might indicate divine protestatiOn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Ten members of the present congress
have died and but one Of these was from
the senate. This does not argue; how
ever, that a senatorial life is conducive
to longevity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

Next Tuesday the census enumerators
are let loose on the country. The
enumerator himself cares just two cents
whether he gets your name.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
A Pertinent Comparison.

From the Salina Republican.
With such a tariff bill as the one just
passed we do not see how the country
can well escape another season of Mills
and his gang. After all Is said and done
the Mckinley bill remains fraud and
an imposition on the people of the west.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30

The chair of journalism" in the Cor
nell university is empty. Journalists,
that is newspaper men, are at their best
in active service.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH. Editor.

Colonel Griffin, an American and an
army veteran. has been chosen president
of the Baptist Union of England.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
Barber Enrapporte in Sentiment
From The Medicine T-Ssr

Barber county was not represented at
the Topeka reSubmisSi0n convention; but
1t was not because there are no resIIb-
nISsionists here. When the papers were
circulated for names asking for a special
session Of the legislature some Of the
very best men in Barber county signed
the cal-and not only a few, but more
than a hundred leading Republicans,
farmers, stockmen. merchants, lawyers.
bankers and capitalists The lists are in
the hands OF the resubmiSziop state club
officers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
The Kansas Farmers Demagogy.
---r-7 tia A-alys-- rz-rre

The Kansas Farmer offers a very
fiimsey excuse for Its opposition to sen
ator Ingalls,. As a matter Of fact the
Farmer is not verv much in earnest In
It's fight, but it Is IN Cor II, and 1t jumps
the senator or trivial grounds, 30 as TO
be rble 10 square itself when he sets
himself right IN his forthcoming speech
in the senate. Within a month or SIX
weeks the Farmer viii be an ingalls,
paper. which VIII be right and proper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
THOMPSON'S SUMNER, VENTILATING
Glove Fitting COrSets!

Any lady who has worn these corsets once can not
be induced to buy any other be they ever cheap No
other corset will fit well or feel as comfortable We
have full line of sizes now.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

average wages in ISIS; No figures previous to
that year
-Per buShel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
When the green gits back in the trees, an
AL bat Democratic

ames WhitcomJ Riley
, 1890-04-29

Already the achievement of Phileas
Fogg-the prophetic vision of a French
sa~vant-becomes as u tale that is told, for
within n very short time, as has been
shown, we are to see the earth girdled
in fifty-eight days. But marvellous as all
this seems, the record is to be still further
reduced by nearly one-half, and there
will be nothing to prevent those who de.
sire it from making the trip from London
and back again in Il space of time that
will totally eclipse the record of Jules
verne's hero, who, by dint of great effort
and unfailing ingenuity, completed his
journey and doubled the fortune lie had
wagered on the result Of his attempt.
With the completion of the Russian
Transcontincntal railway, an enterprise
now well assured, the tourist may leave
London on a given day and in ten days
and nine hours arrive at Vancouver; he
can proceed thence to V~ladivostock In ten
days and eighteen hours; he can push on
to st. Petersburg in eleven days and
eleven hours Inc reach London again in
two days and twenty hours-a total of
thirty-five days and ten hours.-Walter
p. Phillips in The Journalist.