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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
ADVANCEMENT OF The COLORED
RACE

The colored man for a hundred years
has grown the cotton of the United
States, but he has done no more. TWAS
left for the white man to supply manu-
featured products of the raw material.
Now, however, there is the promise of a
new departure in this field, and the Chica-
go News says that city Is to be its scene. A
cotton mill organized, owned and ope-
rated by colored men is projected there.
1t is to have $4,000 spindles and employ
1000 operatives, the latter to belong as
far as possible to the black race.
The promise is brilliant What the
actual performance will be remains to
be seen. But, whether great or small,
the mere fact that such an enterprise,
less than thirty years after their liberia
ton from slavery. is even seriously con-
templated by colored men suggests pos
sibilitles of the future that must amaze
those who have regarded the colored
race as incapable of any large progress.
Not to question the feasibility of the
enterprise in Chicago, we yet cannot but
note the lack of shrewd business sagacity
on the part Of the projectors, Some
available point near the cotton fields
would afford greater profit because of
less expense, and at the same time have
a ready market at the factory door and
less competition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Atchison Champion: 1T Is complj-
ment to the enterprise and pluck OF
Cheyenne county that it now has the
best and most complete system Of irri-
eating bitches of any county in America.
Before another year rolls round the same
thing VIII probable be said of one or two
other northwestern Kansas counties, .
In truth, at the rate OF progress that has
been made in extending irrigation sys-
TENS in the western part of the state
during the past two or three years. 1t
Will be but comparative short time
until the principal portion Of the state
heretofore known as the arid region viii
be brought under irrigation, which viii
render il a veritabls garden for agrl-
cultural and horticultural purposes,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
Let EN- ROmp.

7. De Wit Talmage.
Be patient with childrens racket these
holidays. We feel sorry for boys, be-
cause they are not exempt from troubles,
and one of the worst Is suppressed
hiliarity. To want to laugh and still
maintain gravity; to see the minister's
wig getting twisted and yet look devo-
tional to discover a mouse in prayer
time and yet not litter; to see the young
bride and groom in church try to look
like old married people; to have the
deacon drop the contribution plate and
spill the pennies, and yet look sorry for
the misfortune; in word, to be boy
with fun from the top hair on the crown
of the head to the tip end of the great
toe, and yet make no demonstration. is a
trial with which we are deeply sympa-
thetiC,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

There Is still some talk about oustinr
David i. Hill from the senatorial seat to
which he was elected by the New York
state legislature upon the ground that
he has failed to qualify and assume the
duties Of the position. This is idle talk.
for, as much as Hills dupHcitv NAV be
criticised and condemned, there is moth
ing for the senate 10 do in the premises.
There Is no contest over the seat. and
being vacant there Is nobody 10 Gust
sromIt Being still governor there Is
no means of correcting the disgraceful
situation. The legislature cannot meet
10 take action If its members had a
mind to, unless called together bv the
governor. 80, while New York state IS
left with only one senator. it is alone the
sufferer and blamable for the folly Of
turning over the state government 70
the Democracy. It Is proving a costly
and Illuminating experiment, 10 be sure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

The state teachers meeting at Topeka
Dec. 20, 30 and 81 promises TO be a rich
treat Some Of the special features will
he an address by Professor Hughes, in
spector OF schools at Toronto, Canada,
the famous Clay Center ladies quar-
tette, Professor Comlock of the North
western university at Evanston, H., viii
give an entertainment consisting of
humorous, pathetic and historic read
ings. Trere will be two prizes, consist
ing Of flag and teachers library.
awarded to the county having the largest
attendance, the contest TO be based on
the number in attendance and mileage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

The sudden and unlooked-for death of
Chief Mayes and his first lieutenant, and
the prostration of the next officer in rote
in the nation, coming all together and at
critical time "a effecting the material
welfare and condition of the Cherokees,
it was feared might have serious conse-
ouences to the peace and well-being of
that people; but, fortunately, the council
of the nation was in session and that
body promptly filled the vacant chief
tiancy, thus avoiding any complications
in the nations midst or in regard TO any
of its corelations. Chief Buffingtion Is
represented as man of ability and Is
withal popular with his people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

It is instructive to note that some
Democrats who have been denouncing
The Mckinley law in detail are not will
ing TO amend it in detail with the aid of
Republicans for fear the Republican
party will get 4 portion of the credit for
amending it. They would prefer, it ap-
pears, to let people suffer under the evils
and wrongs of an excessive @ tariff tax
rather than to have it wiped out with
Republican assistance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
THE MEASURE OF THE MAN.

Governor Humphrey should endeavor
to appoint such a man for senator as
could, in some large measure, take up
the work of Senator Plumb where he
left off, and in addition. a man who
could not only sustain himself for the
coming year but who would stand a
good show of election in January, SO,
to fill the unexpired term and of election
again four years hence as Plumb'S sue
cessor in the regular full term.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Notwithstanding the statement that a
majority of the South Carolina senate
were in favor Of prohibition, that body
promptly defeated the bill passed by the
lower house Of the legislature for that
purpose. The experiences Of the many
states that have experimental with the
azpedient was enough for the senate
without trying it on that state
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

The enterprising newspaper people,
now that they have coerced Cleveland
into making denial of statements, will
keep him on the rack henceforth. His
three latest denials are that his wifeis not
broken and practically an invalid; that
little Ruth Is not small, delicate, weeze-
ned infant, and that he is not candidate
for the presidential nomination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

A practical Joke which the best MAI a.
an autumn welding perp@.yAtsd wa -
deliver T. tie porter q shs parior or "a
Which be sasv them a sealed ts.sgra5A
euvel9pe VITA Instructions u deliver -
- q oer-asn station. The earky daily did
% AID ths l-rDou4 broke TIE s.s&i - hAEs
q small avalanche % ne po1r taEDagh
his Enrsrs- -Eev York Tins
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

The state Of Kansas paid out $21. 605.77
10 run her charitable institutions during
The month of November. The bills of
The two insane asylums were the largest.
The Osawatomie asylum expenses were
S5,5SO32, and the Topeka insane asylum
ae GSr 50
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

The smoke nuisance is just now the
bane of life to the denizens of Chicago
The suggestion of Santa Claus and his
pending visit no doubt prompted the
crusade against the sun-enshrouding and
air-befouling volumes of smoke, but it
comes too late TO afford a clear track for
the Dear Old Soul with his sleigh load of
gifts, and after he has come and gone
the matter viii probably be dropped.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
EXCHANGE SHOTS,
A Compliment and Suggestion.

a JOmpIIIn5LO dHU OUs sC50IOII.
From the Northwestern Financier.
We rejoice to see evidences OF pros
perity in Kansas. We look for more to
follow. Debts are being paid, homes are
being freed from the mortgage. new
houses and barns are building, new
fences are surrounding new fields of
grain, farm lands are increasing IN
value. The sun of prosperity is rising
the clouds are disappearing.
It will be fortunate for the farmers if
this result should teach them the i'm
portance of combining the work of the
Alliance to the promotion of farming in
terest. This would be a good and great
work, and in this every good citizen
would unite in wishing the Alliance sue
cess
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Springer as chairman of the ways and
means committee is formal notice to the
country that tariff reform IS done for,
while the makeup Of the coinage COM
mittee signifies that free coinage is to be
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Chilis childishness bids fair to call
unon the little crank a severe chastise-
ment from Uncle Sam. If the latter
were half as upish and fractions as the
Dther there would have been a clash be-
tween them ere this.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Speaker Crisp announces the com
mittees Of the house ahead of the time
heretofore given out. The arrange
ment, as to the Democratic part of the
makeup, IS a happyfying Christmas
gift to Republicans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
Leg t,,a HAND tna. snl-a=

u U -e-ll- '-eI-.s--
The action OF the commercial Climb in
passing a Teso.pt ion fayoYinz Kansas
GIgv - tte proper place for the holding
of the nexF Democratic national couven-
ton N-2s emiuently proper. Il - b.
coming the people q Kansas irrespective
C Is4rty 10 Use every endeavoE 20 have
Kansas City chosen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

raj storehouse Of electricity. I5 Is gen
Grated in some way in that pocket where
the drills went, and there Is enough Of
il to execute whole county AZ once IN
der the New York law.-Philadslphia
Ledger.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24
49, -. slaHsaaIaE Erpsrlsses-

Albert Esward's sIasDainE Experiences
There are just now stones hyIng Gboot
OF tae Prince O! Nalrs visiting tie
'-slu11s under . rather cCEn4czl dlsg-z2se.
bu1 thoagh & j. known tEat lie prince.
ccomTszEisl ty I.aTd Darlington. LlAs1e
himself acquainted vita TIE '-sezzay'
SIDE q lie. very little Az vs< required
70 cuncezl "a iaen.z.x- Ia42ezd- y Ia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-24

Cleveland will run if the demand shall
be overwhelming. The encore IS in the
hands of the clacquers.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29

and $4,000 Ill subsidiary coin. i lie
secretary has ''eliminated' S66O,5a7 Of
interest due and unpaid and $a,367, 900
accrued interest from the statement of
liabilities. He has also eliminated"
the matured debt of sl,647, 0oo-not by
paying it, but by leaving it out. A
further elimination is a failure to in
clude as heretofore in the statement of
available cash the trust fund of S54, s00,
900, the use of which the Reed congress
authorized to cover the expected deficit.
The difference between the amount
of this fund and the cash available at
any time is the amount of the existing
deficit. Measured by this trust fund,
turned into available ''cash" and spent,
there is now deficit of about IS, OoO,-
900, which the gold reserve trust fund
of 800, 100000 is juggled to cover in the
statement.
The purpose of the statement is fraud
ulent 1t is not devised to show, but
to conceal the condition of the treasury.
But it is an idle device. AS soon as the
administration has the courage to call
in the money the pet banks are now
using without interest it will spend it.
Then it will have only the fractional
silver it cannot spend, which will soon
be exceeded in amount by the amount
of expenditures above income. The
treasury will not get through the year
without either defaulting on payment
of expenses, OF else filching from the
trust funds, as the secretary has already
proposed to do sat a pinch. st. Louis
RaDnhlic
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

Judge Gresham has pocket
boom for the presidency, but his pock-
ct will be picked within fifteen min
utes after be goes into the republican
convention. Louis Republic.
If the party has lost ground
under this administration it can never
be recovered. If different line of poll
icy is adopted, the party will cease to
be republican, and its career will end.
Cincinnati Times-Star (Rep.).
A republican cartoon represents
Maj. Mckinley in the act of touching
off the first gun-a big cannon, marked
.sProtection"-in Ohio. Isn't this the
same gun that kicked the maize so hard
in the stomach last autumn?-Louis-
vile Courier-J ournal.
-"Calico Charley" energies from
his little political dicker with the
Knights of Labor in much the same
spotted condition as that, after ex-
posure to the rain, of the famous fab
rio in which he made the money that
commends him to the good Offices Of
the republican party.-Chicago Times.
1t will be gladstone news for the
McKinleyites to learn that the grain
harvest in Russia threatens to be the
worst on record, and that India will be
in similar plight. The farmer will
be told that the demand for his grain is
the direct outcome of the blessed system
of hiph nrotection. He will not he 81
easily gulled this time.-Albany Argus.
A billion dollars are not too much
for one congress to spend on the coun.
try in the opinion CT Secretary of the
Treasury Foster. 1t is only seventy
five dollars for family on the average.
With an eight-thousand-dollar salary to
draw upon, Mr.. Foster looks at the
matter in different light from that OF
the man who is working for twenty
dollars or less week or who is trying
tolift farm mortgage. Albany Argus
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29

WELL STOP IN THE TOWN AHEAD"
tificate to tell him that life had gone
forever from her fragile body. He
knew that she had died of cold and ex-
haustion.
Gas he turned the base of the hill to
begin to ascend it, he saw in the cloud
ed moonlight deserted railroad tool
house by the track. In front of it lay
a broken, rusty spade. He shouldered
this and proceeded up the mountain.
cit was long walk and he had to
stop more than once to rest, but he got
to the top at last. There was little
clearing in the woods here, where
some one had camped. The ruins of a
shanty still remained.
My pal laid down the body Of her
who had been his wife, with the dead
face turned toward the sky, which was
beginning to be cleared of its clouds.
Then he began to dig.
ut was a longer job than he had ex-
pected it to lie, for my pal was tired and
numb. But the grave was made at
last, upon the very summit of the
mountain.
"He lifted the body of the brave
girl, he kissed the cold lips, and he
took off his coat and wrapped it care
fully about the head, SO that the face
would be protected from the earth. He
stopped and laid the body Ii: the shall
low grave, and he knelt down thrre and
prayed.
''He filled the grave up with earth
with the broken spade that he had used
in digging it. All these things required
long time. He didn't observe how
the night was passing, nor that the sky
became clear and the stars shone and
the moon crossed the zenith and began
to descend in the west. He didn't no.
tice that the stars began to pale. Iut
he worked on until he had finished.
And then he stopped and prayed again.
"lYhen he arose his face was toward
TIE east: and over the distant hill-tops
he saw the purple of the dawn"
The outsider ceased to speak
''What them"
'.That's all. My pal walked down
the mountain, jumped upon the G-st
freight train that passed, and has been
wanderer on the face of the earth
ever since"
There were various opinions eX-
pressed of this narrative. l quietly
asked the needy outsider, as we left
the club at sunrise:
"Will you tell me who your pal was
the man who buried his wife on the
mountain top?"
There was contemptuous pity in the
outsiders look as it dwelt for a moment
upon me before he replied: "The man
was myself"
And then he condescended to borrow
q quarter from me.-R. N. Steohens, in
Philadelphia Press
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29
THE CLERKS WERE AMUSED.
The Message of the Assistant BOok-Keeper
Was Funny but Disastrous.

The Message OF the Assistant bOOk.he9pef
Was Funny but Disastrous.
Of course it was good joke. Hadn't
,he boss said that he didn't want every
body in the Office running in to see him
on every little pretext? Hadn't he told
one of the clerks that if the latter
wanted anything brought to his atten-
ton he should speak to his immediate
superior and have the matter come to
him through the proper channels?
Naturally, in view of this, everyone
was tickled, when the assistant book
keeper said to the book-keeper.
''Mr. Smith, will you please ask Mr..
Brown to ask Mr.. Wilkins to ask MIR.
johnson to ask the boss if 1 can get off
Friday at four o'cloch?'
The book-keeper saw the humor of
the thing at once, and promptly deliv-
cred the message to Mr.. Brown, and so
it went up step by step to the boss who
smiled sickly sort of smile when the
request was repeated to him.
'Ah, yes" he said. ''the assistant
book-keeper seems to be great stick
Ter for Office etiquette"
eyes, SIR" returned Mr.. Johnson;
she was anxious that the request
should reach you through the proper
channels"
''Quite right" said the boss. "Now,
l might call him in and give him my an
swer in person, but that would hardly
be in conformity with his idea of pro-
priety, would it?"
"Well, sir, suppose it is only little
joke"
"Yes, yes, of course. Very amusing,
this step-ladder business. Now, Mr..
johnson, will you please tell Mr.. Will
kins to tell Mr.. Brown to tell Mr..
Smith to tell the assistant book-keeper
that his services are dispensed with.
And while you are passing the message
down you might add that if we have
any more of this step-ladder business
I'll kick the whole ladder over and
throw it out of the Office. - Chicago
Tribune.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29

tons. The CHEEKY and urbane African
naturally called Delmonico by the
habituc; of the Nocturnal club-fOund
his time crowded in serving bottled
beer, sandwiches or boiled eggs to the
groups around the tables.
To a large group in the back room
Peterson related how he had once
missed the last car at the distant eX-
tremity of West Philadelphia, and, fail
ing to find a cab west of Broad street,
had walked fifty blocks after midnight,
and had still succeeded in getting his
report in the second edition, and thus
making beat on the town."
Then spoke up needy outsider whom
Jefferson had broughtin at one o'clock.
neglected to mention Fetterson's
psnehant for queer company. 1t is
quite right that reporters know police
men, are on chatting terms with nights
cabmen, and have large acquaintance
with pugilists and even with crooks
But Peterson picks up the most re-
markable and out-of-the-way-not to
speak of Out-at-elbowS- specimens of
mankind, craft in distress on the sea of
humanity. The needy outsider was his
latest acquisition.
1t is enough to say of this destitute
acquaintance of Fettersons that he
was ragged man needing shave. In
daylight in the country, you would
have termed him a tramp. Hitherto he
had sat in our group in silence. When
he opened his mouth to discourse, it
was natural that he should have a
prompt and somewhat curious hearing.
speaking of walking" he said, Il
have walked bit in my time. Mostly,
though, I've rode-on freight cars. The
longest straight tramp ever made was
IRON Harrisburg to Philadelphia once
when the trains weren't running. The
cod weather made walking pleasant
But what do you think of a woman-no
tramp woman, either-starting from
Pittsburgh to walk to Philadelphia"
'Oh, there is a so-called actress who
recently walked from San Francisco to
New York" put in someone.
Yes, bat she took her time, and had
all the necessaries of life on the way.
one walked for an advertisement The
woman | spe ak of walked in order to
get there. She walked because she,
aaan ! the money to pay her fare. Her
husband was with her to be sure. He
was pal o. mine. You see it was a
nara winter, years ago, and work was
10 scarce in Pittsburgh that the hus-
Uana mad to remain idle until the two
"au oeSun to starve. He had some edu-
,a'.oh, and had been an office clerk.
a' 'nat time of his life he couldn't have
$1,000 manual labor. Still he tried to
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-29
RAUM's ECONOMY.
The Pension Office Run to Suit the Per-
picked Treasury.


picked Treasury.
Gen. Raum, commissioner of pen
sions, makes his boast that ''the pen
sion office has been run on such an
economical basis that of the $125, OOO,.
600 appropriated for the Office for the
fiscal year just closed, "only $116,OOO,.
600 has been expended"
No doubt if the whole had been ex-
pended and certificates for $40, 900, 600
more ground out, Gen. Raum would
have Dragged of the great things done
by him for the soldier, and complained
of the stinginess of congress. The
official who cannot find something to
brag about under any and all circum-
stances is not a good enough politician
to deserve an Office under the civil
service rules of a president who wants
to succeed himself.
The general now brags of the econo-
my which has resulted in the expendi-
ture of s9,OOO,Oo0 less than the appro.
.priation for the year. Wait a little I'M
til he appears before some soldiers
gathering and you wi h hear him bragg
cling about the strenuous efforts he
made to spend the last dollar The
Washington correspondent of the New
York World tells how the pension office
was run at terrific speed during the
last week of the year in oder to get
rid of all the money, if possible. He
tells how, with ingenious aid from the
war department, nearly $4,000 claims
were disposed of in that time against a
possible 1,05O under the less ingenious
and effective system under which the
bureau was formerly operated Here
is good matter of boasting when the
able commissioner Games to tell the old
soldiers face to face how good he has
been.
The truth seems to be that certain
kind of economy-the economy of de-
lay and postponement-was practiced
when there was an excellent prospect
that the treasury would be in tight
place before the end of the year, and
that when the bookkeeping device for
increasing the balance was perfected
the bureau force was set to work on
claims at breakneck speed to make
amends to the old soldier for the previ.
GUS dilatory policy. The result is that
She commissioner is able to brag of
economy when addressing the general
public and of prodigious diligence and
activity when addressing the old SOL
diers.
Thus the pension Office is not run on
business principles, but partly for the
accommodation of the perplexed treas
ury department and in still greater
part for political effect. The kind of
economy practiced is not for the gopd
of taxpayers. The money ultimately
! required to meet pension claims will
not be one dollar less on account of
delay in passing them, and it is like
ly to be considerably more on ac-
count of the tremendous rush at the
end of the year, which no doubt swept
on in the flood thousands of fraudulent
claims. Chicago Herald.