The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-18
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Senator ingalls, has gone back TO Wash
ington. His house and fence is all right
Mr.. George R. Peck will deliver the an
nual address this year before the hterar.
societies of Washington college.
The Geuda Herald SAYS it would like Il
have whack at good times again, just Il
see how it goes, and it thinks II Will.
| The Kansas baby is still in power. 4
majority of the presbyteries of Kansas
| favor a revision of the confession OF faith
! General Alger calls him General ingalls,
| He probably thinks that if the senator wa
not military leader he should have been
Prof. E. Craig. of BurIingame, fel
| from his parachute Wednesday at Topeka
| This is one of the very rare cases wheT'
| Kansas talent takes drop.
The New York World interview with
| Ingalls, is receing a wide quotation. Iht
! World knew what it was doing when II
| selected John J. ingalls, for such an inter
view.
Only twenty-five dogs have been regis
| tered in EmpOria this spring. ms only
| corroborates that there are fewer pool
| families in Emporia this year than toi
| years back.
a Boston paper thinks that new bond OF
sympathy between Massachusetts has been
:
Howells and Ibsen. How many bonds
does this make?
There are 10 different varieties of straw
berries growing in the experimental gar
denS at the state agricultural college, and
somebody Is going TO get to taste them ali
to see which are the best.
The EmpOria Republican thinks if the
Alliance IS going TO stop fighting ingalls,
it might as well disband. If this keeps up,
it viii not be long until the Republican
Will be fighting the Alliance.
Several officers of the agricultural col
lege at Manhattan lost sums ranging from
3 to $50 by the failure of Z. b. Purcell.
This, however, will not be mentioned IN
the annual report OF the college.
A colored man at Ieavenworth yester-
day attempted to collect a bounty of s.
each on seven wolf scalps, when it was dis
covered that the wolves had been killed
in Missouri. Kansas doesn't pay for Mis-
souri, wolves.
The Lyon county commissioners con-
ClUded the investigation of the census re
turns. They order the arrest of Messrs.
Lakin, Harrison and Bancroft. All these
gave bond for their appearance at the
district court.
The Atchison Globe objects because the
new chancellor of the state university sign
ed his name i'll full when he accepted the
chancellOrship. So far this is the only OBJ
lection that has been made to Francis
Huntington Snow, says the Times.
The farmers of Kansas made three cents
on every bushel of wheat which they have
stored away in their granaries. Alex
Butts thinks Hold on" IS motto which
should be nailed up over the door of every
corn crib and wheat bin in Kansas.
''There was once a man named Drake,
who made fortune selling bitters labeled,
S. T.-1S60-X'., says Noble Prentis. The
popular Interpretation of this sign was,
Started in 1860 with So The state nor
nal school Of Kansas was started in 1866
with 81 ,00O."
Thomas Moonlight is mentioned as the
Democratic candidate for governor of Kan
sas. 1t is said that the little poem on per
severance in the old ''McGuffey's second, "
commencing, Try, try again" made
powerful impression on young Moonlights
mind.
a Kansas woman presents the strange
anomaly Of being the legal wife of two
husbands. Mrs. Allen, of OSawatOmie
was divorced from her husband and mar
ried Mr.. Ricketts,. Her first husband has
had the decree of divorce set aside, and
now the lawyers are trying to settle
which of her husbands shall buy her spring
bonnet.
Some Kansas woman, in speaking OF the
small vote cast by her sisters in the recent
elections in that state, remarks that the
women of Kansas are handful of salt
cast into the bitter pool for it cleansing
True enough. Kansas women do not diff
fer materially from their sex in other
states Whenever they exist they make
the brine IN which the men are picked
Chicago Times.
Senator Ingalls, interview: ''War? No
we shall have no wars. With whom should
we fight? And for whats We have 10
neighbors and no dependencies,
nor colonial possessions. We are too pow
erful and too necessary to the happiness
and sustenance Of mankind. We are at
once the most pacific and the most martial
Of the nations, but our relations with
France are those Of fraternity, with Ger
many and Austria of cordial amity We
have no enemy but England and she is too
Vulnerable III every quarter of the globe
and on every sea to go TO war with us We
have an unsettled score with Great Britain
for her malvOlent insOlence, but nothing Is
so improbable as war. Hence there Is no
need of costly ornaments. Our standing
army is only a national police force and
the demand for navy comes from con
tractors, from maritime cities whose pusil-
luminous population pretend To believe
rom foreign ironclads and from commuui-
les adjacent to ship and navy yards who
desire to profit by such enterprise
In ten years the ships we are building
viii be worthless, either for attack or de
ense. The millions we are spending
night p well be with the gentleman
whose name l have forgOtten--at the bot
ON of the sea With every industry de
PRESSED and general cutlery for economy
n administration, in a time of profound .
PEACE, we are dispatchine costly fleets, az
IN enormous daily expenditure, on luxu-
1Ous pleasure excursions, to play spectacu- /
ar parts in the pageantry Of the sea: ex-
hanging entertainments and Inequalities I
With other pOtentatcs, drinking and Z
arOusing in foreign ports, upon the pre- 4
ext that such performances are necessary /!
or the national honor and national de I.
ense. | believe q Democratic admInistra-
ion claims thedistinctiOu for inaugurating .
be policy of squandering our resources /
lnder the theory that we must be prepared /
o protect ourselves against some unknown
auger. i l. as absurd a. "a must ue for /
ecretary of the navy to start out on his .
morning walk down Jh. avenue with e .
Winchester over his shoulder. pair u re-
divers in his belt and a bowie knife IN I
aCh boot upon the idea that some rufilau
night attack hun before reaching the /
aPItOL"