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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
FLOWER MISSION DAY.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
mote in your paper of June 10 quite
lengthy article criticisIng the work OF
the W. c. T. y. committee ON Flower
Mission Day. Will you kindly allow a
word in behalf of the same?
We find in Matthew $40 that the
great God who rules the world maketh
his sun TO rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and
on the unjust.
Also in Matthew 1886, that Christ
was in prison and ministered unto, as
has representatives, and am at loss to
know how your correspondent knows
that flowers were not given Him or
them. In the fortieth verse of the same
chapter he says, '.inasmuch as ye have
done it to the least of these ye have done
it unto Me-" In Revelations we are told
that ''whosoever- will may come and
partake of the water Of life free
~" Now with this noble example
before us shall we His creatures refuse a
few flowers to those poor benighted I'M
fortunates; the beautiful in nature may
touch the heart or help them to reach
out to natures god. Jesus taught by
the lilies of the field, why not His fol-
lowers? fwould suggest kindly to o. |.
c., to be careful about his or her judge
ment for we shall all be judged and the
Bible tells us that with what judgement
we mete it shall be melted to us again.
| should be afraid to go into the presence
of my Savior if had withheld the cup of
cold water from the perishing. Let's do
all the good we can. as the days go by.
Flowers with the Gospel in them wont
harm anyone. This work is extended to
hospital, poor house, children's home,
and text ofscripture putin each boquet.
MRS. N. A. T.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
CUT OFF HIS WHISPERS.

There are many outward signs of re
finement. A man with brains is refined
and prove that a man without is not
A dude who is inoffensive, is not refined
but man who is subjectively, actively
and enforcibly superior is. There are
some exceptions-the eccentricities Of
genius. Beethoven threw the dishes al
the waiter; Carlyle tossed things hi
didn't like out the windows and DR.
Johnson was fussy and irritable.
But nothing is more enervating to the
world than the appearance of mediocrity
assuming the roles of genius and pass
ing off the effervescence of their own
twaddling humor as of natural concern.
Kansas has seen some of this in the last
year. In the weight of grievances and
purpose the new movement professed
where we should have expected the
solemnity and dignity of great protest,
its foremost leader appears with a card
subscribed, IN. B.--No Socks" per-
sonal recognition of his own qualities as
asuccessful "guy" and public invita-
ton for further jeers and derision.
Can you fancy Christ, whose follow
ing was much smaller than the Alliance,
at first, going into the temple and crying
out some rebald jest that he had caught
up from the vulgarities Kissed at him by
the rabble; could you fancy Him repeat
ing it and then laughing at himself?
Christ was serious and his purpose
weighty.
And now comes PETER, who, having
discovered that his long beard is of more
consequence to the public than his
views on national questions, instead of
minifying the public's estimation of
those views, he magnifies the interest
that he supposes is centered on his beard,
and announces officially that he will cut
his whiskers off. Along with the laby-
rinthine intricacies of the money ques-
ton and the wrangling tenets of
tariff, comes this benizen to the
down-trodden revolters, falling like a
gentle dew on the parched plant "Sen-
ator PETER announces that he will cut
his whiskers off," And this man is a
leader of men. What does he mean?
Does he expect that the strength that his
whisl1ers have absorbed will now go to
his brain, and that the Alliance should
accordingly rejoice? Or does he fancy
that his facial Importance as work of
art demands notice and that change in
it will set all ateliers agog? Neither,
probably. But. rather, he is just monkey
ing, as an ambitious monkey will per-
form any antic to gain notice. If Sam
Wood were more of a monkey, he would
announce that he was going to
take bath.
There is no doubt that Mr.. PETERS ton
serial achievement will be an improve
ment, as far as conformation to present
style is concerned, but the previous an
and that, too, in an official
light, makes it ridiculous.
Of course, it is no great matter; the |
planetary systems will go right ahead |
and the sun still shine and Kansas wheat |
fields yield thirty bushels to the acre, but |
it puts the state in ludicrous light.
The greatest thing PETER will do in his |
service in the United States senate, it
can not be denied, will be this rape of |
the beard.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
WHEN THE CAPTAIN IS ANXIOUS.
Modern Steamships Have No Fear of
Storms-It Is Fogs That Alarm.

/ Modern Steamships Have No Fear of
Storms-It Is Fogs That Alarm.
| 1t is not when the seas come pounding
over the bows that the captains face
/ lengthens. Even when is is necessary to
keep the passengers below, and the spray
is carried as high as the foretop, his conf
! dence in his ship is undated. His spirits
| DO not fnll with the barometer, and though
| the clouds hang low and the air is filed
with singing moisture flying like sleet
! from the kissing seat-even when boats
are torn out of the davits, and iron bits
and ventilators are snapped from their
| fastenings like pipe stems, he has no mis-
| giving as to the ability of the ship to
weather the gale or the fiercest hurricane
that can blow.
Give him an open sea, without haze or
fog or snow, and neither wind nor wave
can alarm him. He knows very well, as
all who are experienced in such matters do,
that the modern steamers of the great At
lantic lines are SO carefully constructed
and of such strength that the laundering
of one of them through stress of weather
alone is well nigh inconceivable.
But when fog descends, then it is that
his face and manner change, and he who
has been the most sociable and gayest of
men suddenly becomes the most anxious
and taciturn. His seat at the head of the
table is vacant; look for him and you will
not find him, as in fair weather, diverting
groups of girls tucked up in steamer
chairs on the promenade deck, but pacing
the bridge and putting cigar which APP
parently has not been allowed TO go out
since it was lighted as the big ship backed
from her wharf into the North river.
Wherever and whenever it occurs fog is
source of danger from which neither pru-
dence nor skill can guarantee immunity,
and whether the ship is slowed down or
going at full speed there is cause for fear
while this gray blindness battles the eyes.
With plenty of sea room the danger is
least, and it increases near land, especially
where the coast is wild and broken, like
that of Ireland and Wales, and where there
are many vessels as well as rocks 10 be
passed.-William II. Rideing in Scribner's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

At certain factory a number of young
women were working at small tables, each
table covered with little instruments and
odd things, which only those who knew
the business could possibly understand
At one table two girls were threading
needles with fine, silky hair, and sewing
them in little squares On thin, transpar-
ent gauZe.
''Those girls" said the overseer, "are
making some Of those beautiful arched
eyebrows you may sometimes see on the
stage. They are frequently worn by both
actors and actresses These sewed on the
net are the less expensive kind. and are
only used on special occasions. The real
brow is very expensive, aud can only be
made by person Of great skill.
"The patient sits here in his chair, which
very much resembles dentists operating
throne In this cushion to my left are
stuck a score or so of those needles you saw
being threaded Each stitch only leaving
two strands of hair, I facilitate the opera
ton a number of neeoies must be at hand
AS each thread of hair is drawn through
the skin over the eye. it is cut, so that when
the first stage Of the operation is over is
leaves the hairs bristling out an inch or so,
presenting ragged. porcupine appearance.
Now comes the artistic work. The brow
must be ached and cut down with the ut
most delicacy, and a number of hours is
required TO do it.
Small as the eyebrows are, they are
very important in the makeup Of the face.
You have no idea how odd one looks when
utterly denuded of hair over the eyes. The
process have described is painful, but it
makes good eyebrows and adds 100 per
cent. to the looks of person who was
without them 1t is, too much better than
the olackenlng and cosmetics so many peo-
pie use. especially people who have mere
pretense of brows, comprising only few
hairs. '-London Tit Bits
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
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SYMPATHY AND ART.
To the Editor of the Eagle.

10 inc EultoF OF tue Ea-te
l notice in this mornings EAGLE the
plant of some sympathetic soul who
thinks that out-of-doors statues ought TO
have hats on. This is eminently hui
name. But ThorswaIden and Powers, in
the throes of aesthetic rhapsody, may not
include the homely but humane head
gear, and the figures are left out in the
wind, the rain and the snow. There is
no doubt but that art needs this reform.
We suggest that our out-of-doors statues
have an adjustable umbrella. a pair of
overshoes. mittens and ear muffs. It
may not be best for art, but sympathetic
humanity demands it. In case Of storm
press button at the bottom OF the work
of art and widesp-eading umbrella
opens above our statues head. P. l. E.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

The salaries of second class postmasters
of Kansas for the next fiscal year have
been announced as follows: Arkansas
City, this year, S2,400, next s.. 200:
junction City, $1,000, next year, $4,000:
Kansas City, $1,000, next 50, 700; Law
renee, 50, zoo, next s., 600; Newton 81. 200.
next s., 100: Parsons $2,lO0, next s., 200
PittsbTg, $1,000, next S2,1OO; yelling
ton s., 100, next $1,000. 1t will be seen
that junction City and Pittsburg have
increased from the third to the second
class. The salaries of the postmasters at
Atchison and Leavenworth underwent
no change
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
4 Teleprnnhist,s Erenk.

In connection with the opening Of the
London and Paris telephone a good story
is told of the early days Of telegraphing.
when telephones We're not yet thought
OF, and when conversation had 10 be car
ried on, metaphorically speaking, with
the help of the Morse instrument. At
the time referred 10 there were two COM
peting companies working with the Con-
tinent. One was the Submarine, with
its Office in Threadneedle street; the
other the Electric and international,
with It's Offices in Telegraph street, not
many yards separating them. One
worked to France, the other to Holland.
Both used the Morse printing form Of
apparatus. The competition did not
prevent the respective stats from meet
ing in fraternal way, and on the occa-
sion in question il became evident that
two Of them had been hobnobbing Just
before each took up his duty at the diff
ferent offices at II p. IA.
At about ten minutes past Il the tele-
graphist who was in charge Of the relay
at Amsterdam was asked by Telegraph
street to Join him up 70 Brussels. This
was done, and Brussels was requested To
switch HIM on 10 Calais, and Calais was
desired TO join through 10 London. The
line thus formed was from London %
Orfordness, on the Norfolk coast; &cross
the North sea to Scheveningen, on the
Dutch coast; through Holland, through
Belgium, through France, across the
English channel and back by Dover TO
London. And al this trouble was taken
by the Telegraph street man 20 ask his
''chum" in Thrcadneedle street If he
had picked up his pipe when leaving tho
pubT-Lond0n Tit-Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

OVARIOUS OKLAHOMA,

Councilman Buckeridge, of this city,
has just been down to Oklahoma, and he
brings back a glowing picture of the
condition of things in that fair realm.
He says it is fairness till the eyes stick
out, and happiness and contentment on
every hand. Every homestead seemed
to have from five to forty acres of wheat
each, which had yielded satisfactorily
and been harvested safely. He saw
much corn in tassei, and new potatoes
by the wagon load being shipped to
Wichita, Kansas City and other points,
for which 60 cents bushel was paid.
He says he can see only prosperity for
the future of that country and its people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
SEDGWICK ALL RIGHT.
Correspondence OF Salina News

Correspondence OF salina News
A trip through this county shows me
that the crops are destined 10 be good.
Wheat is looking fine and will yield
about twenty-five bushels to the acre.
Corn is about twelve inches high and
looking nice The farmers are using
two headers to three binders, in harvest
ing their grain.
Wichita seems to be holding her own.
and the merchants tell me that their
trade is increasing and they think the
crisis is past for hard times.
Real estate is increasing in value
slowly and some predict steady in
crease on all business property. Their
electric cars are success and paying
good money TO its owners, Business IN
general seems to increase steadily, and
her future prospects are fiatteriDg.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

When Sir Charles Dixie was thrust ont
of public life few years ago. he had
imagination enough TO see that the
time must come when the British public
would forgive in him, commoner. =
lapse which it rather admired in noble.
SO, instead of putting violent end 10
his career, he has recourse to travel and
pleasing occupation, and now, we read.
has agreed TO stand for parliament at
the coming election. Half the folks who
commit suicide are dukes, each after his
KIND. But they lack the vigorous i'm
agraaton Of that public man to sweep
them onward to a time when they can
take up life again in the old, amusing
way. These poor suicides take them
selves 100 seriously. Sir Gordan Cum
mings IS another example of the same
hind Of phuosophisipg.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
An improbable Story.

From the Ate bison Champion.
A Chicago doctor the other day gave a
new illustration of how TO get even with
an impecunious patient By taking his
knife and deliberately ripping open a
wound in the mans head. after he, the
surgeon, had carefully sewed it up and
dressed it, upon being told by the poor
fellow that he had no money to pay him.
A brute like that ought 10 be forever de-
barred from the profession he disgraced.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

That is a sad case worth many tears of
vain regrets and sympathetic com
misseration, where an orator. one
Wagstaff of Salina, sues W. A. Phillips,
a man who didn't get elected to congress.
for campaign expenses. A politician
whose constituents prosecute him in
defeat, and ride rough-shod over the
promise of the clerkship of some COM
nittee, which was not fulfilled for the
lack of the self same constituents efforts,
ought to emigrate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

Geo. F. Sharrit, clerk of the United
States circuit court for Kansas. has re-
ceived letter from Judge Foster. who
Is now at Carlsbad, Germany. Judge
Fosters health had not preceptibly im-
proved when he wrote. but he had barely
got settled at Carlsbad. Mr.. Ssarritt is
authorized to deny the rumor that the
Judge contemplates resigning if his
health is not recovered. Judge Foster
VIII retain his position whether his
health is good OF bad. BY order of con-
gresS his salary is increased TO So. 900 a
year on July l, and he holds the position
for life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
TIE LAW OF LIBELS.

Judge McAdam. of New York, an
day in libel suit. The defendant news
| paper undertook to prove certain facts
which tended to show the plaintiffs bad
character. The latter's counsel objected
on the ground that the defendant had
no knowledge of these facts at the time
of the publication of the alleged libel.
In other words, it was contended that if
newspaper attacks mans reputation
it cannot excuse itself by proving subse-
quently ascertained facts which show a
character worthy of the bad reputation.
Judge McAdam does not accept this
narrow and unreasonable proposition.
He holds that in libel suit the plain
tiff's character is on trial, and that it is
always competent for the defendant to
show that the reputation growing out of
the libellous article is not undeserved.
Responsible newspapers do not attack
regulations carelessly nor maliciously,
and it is in conformity with common sense
as we'll as law that when one who is at
tackled seeks damages the publisher or
editor may be permitted to show that he
is absolutely uninjured; that while his
reputation might have been better than
he deserved, he is in law entitled only to
the reputation that his character will
sustain.
The same point was sustained by a
trial jury in Kansas City a short time
ago in the same sort of case. The plant
if asked for $4,000 damages; the jury
gave him 81, which was probably an
exaggerated estimate of the real injury
sustained.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

Frcn the Topeka DeuoCrA-
As the Democrat has stated the bac-
carat trial in England and the charge Of
cheating was al blind. There is some
thing else behind ali this and that sons
thing else Is coming 20 the front a. a
double quick pace Lord Brooke has
jus; instituted proceedings for divorce
and mentions the heir 10 the Eoglish
throne as correspondent Lady Brooke
Is very beautiful and fascinating wo-
man. bat bar attachment for tire Prince
Of Wales and her subsequent reported
attachment for Cummings. j. probably
whaf has shocked the nerve center Of
the tight little ISLAND
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18


The interest manifested by one of the
railroad systems that has an extensive
mileage, in the matter of irrigation in
the western part of the state, shows that
that corporation appreciates the situa-
ton as it affects its own welfare. Not
much is being said this season about
irrigation and less is being done, in con-
sequence of the unusually abundant
rainfall: but it is not too early to begin
active operations looking to the future.
The scope of country embraced in the
area known as the arid lands may be
and no doubt will be brought into profit
able cultivation ere long, and the sooner
the better for the railroads whose lines
extend into and through those sections.
In view of all the facts and conditions,
therefore. it is something of a surprise,
viewed from stan point of self-inter-
est to the railroads, that they have not
led off in irrigation enterprises hereto
fore
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
Now, Take That!

Prof. Garfield hopes that his successor
in the Kansas state university will be a
woman. That is to say, he desires that
the chair OF political science shall be oc-
cupied by tariff reformer. II would be
pretty hard 10 find a woman with any
education in Kansas who believes in pro-
lection. City Star.
The above paragraph IS reproduced for
the purpose of proving that all idictc
newspapers have not espoused the cause
Of the Peoples party. The Star is still
Democratic. -Lawrence Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
Her idea.

Freddie was walking with his auntis
one day IA the cemetery, where there IL
life sized statue over tho grave Of q
noted man.
Suddenly they came IN sight Of tho
statue. Awestruck and white. the httls
fellow stopped short and wfIispersd;
"Oh. auntie, lookl THERE'S ono Of them
come upT--Cincianati Commercial Ga
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

The statement was made in yesterday S
dispatches from Columbus, O., that the
platform committee of the state conven-
ton had not been able to agree upon the
form of declaration for the party on the
tariff question. With the amount of en-
thusiasm manifested by the convention
at the mention OF Major McKinley's
name and the apparent certainty of his
nomination to head the ticket. it would
seem to be a work of supererogation to
make any formal declaration on the tariff
question. The nomination of the author
and champion of the measure that bears
his name is all the declaration on that
subject that is needed, and that Will be
the Interpretation put upon it. no differ
ence what the platform may say.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

The Cunard-line steamer Etruria is
still absent and unaccounted for, being
overdue since last Saturday. If the
vessel shall have been lost it will break
the lines record, it never having lost a
human life in transit. The Etruria has
been one of the most popular of the
Atlantic's armada.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

state from which he halls and reports,
and that if ever there was a full crop of
wheat it is the present one. Shades of
Alfred Gray! if Kansas needs a secretary
of agriculture she needs one, and not the
tame stipendiary of private corporation
with the high sounding name of Estate
Beard of Agricullture.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

When in a hght-hearted mood the
other day the Lawrence Journal eiacu-
lated, "What fun there would be in this
world if all the people were fanatics, -
and the random shot hit so close to the
head of the Emporia Republican that he
promptly rejoined with 1.-The thing is
serious enough with only half the people
that way"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
Too Superstitious,

Foom the Oklahoma Gazette.
The Wichita EAGLE calls attention to
the fact that sugar and cotton have been
immensely increased in price by the Nc
Kinley bill. As Kansas raises neither
sugar nor cotton of course the EAGLE
can see an immense gain to the country
at large, forgetting that the great objec-
ton to the Mckinley bill was its
sectional character.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
a Leggy Lot.

From the Galveston News.
A lot of jack-legged lawyers and
bench-legged judges are now proceed
ing to point out to disguised world the
legal defects in the will of Samuel j.
Tilden, thus showing that the sage of
Gramercy did not know how to write
his own will. The world is rapidly
filling up with bow-legged blockheads.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

Slavin the pugilist will now go smell
ing after Sullivan. And in all probabil-
ity the champion slugger will have to
get down off the stage and give the i'm
ported fighter a selection from the
blacksmith scene"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18
Observation-Disclosures

From tie Kansas Cts Gzzs-e
The ERlpcria Republican says yoa NAV
crush, you may shatter resubmissiou IL
YOU viii, but the Democratic party viii
cling 70 1t still The organs are again
trying 10 work up the movement. and 10
make IL appear that even BY Its best
friends lTohibition has ceased 10 be es-
TENED.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

The editor of the Atchison Champion
wears two diamonds worth 81 900 in
his shirt front. The Kansas editors who
have ''stuck up" unrewarded for the Nc
Kinley bill and ''the ring" will regard
this as a cruel and unjust act of
providence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

An Illinois college has preferred the
title of doctor Of divinity on Bernard
Kelly. AS Kelly is a doctor of politics,
and politics and divinity are not syn
nomous, most of his acquaintance will
laugh at the announcement
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-18

The weather bureau goes into the
hands of the agricultural department
next Monday, and a great many I'M
knowing but jealous Alliance people
will credit Senator PETER and Jerry
Simpson with the change.