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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
SUGAR NOTES.

From the Medicine Lodge Index.
This seems to be a year Of record
breaking in everything pertaining to
sugar making in Kansas. The big mill
is making sugar faster than it ever did;
it is making more sugar To the ton OF
cane than it ever did; everything is
running smoother than it ever did. and
the cane is a better crop than ever grown
heretofore, and the percentage of sugar
is larger than it has ever been at this
season of the year.
Lee Bradley brought in a load of cane
Monday that tested II. 40 per cent. This
is not all: The cane is not fully ripe,
and it is predicted that when it is fully
ripe, it will test 20 per cent. sucrose.
This means 1851 pounds of sugar to
the ton of cane. This wonderful inn
provement in the cane crop is due to
the persistent efforts of the mill men
to select only good seed. Last year the
chemist selected stalks of cane which
showed the highest per cent. of sugar,
and saved the seed. These seed were
planted by Mr. Bradley, and the result
IS astonishing to everybody. These Sc
lections will continue to be made and
next year we expect the general average
to be considerably improved.
The sorghum that was raised on the
government farm has SO far averaged 10
per cent. and is improving every day.
The big mill cut 175 tons of cane Mon
day, and would have cut more if it had
been on hand. The mill cut about sixty
tons of cane Sunday morning at the rate
of 240 tons day.
The general average of sorghum cane
is above u per cent.
Yesterday morning there were $50 bags
of sugar branded and seventy-five bags
ready to be sacked. The centrifugals
were running at full speed. Each bag
contains 200 pounds. This makes 1885,
200 pounds of sugar on hand. Besides
there are 40 sirup wagons, each esti-
mated to contain 700 pounds of sugar,
OF 28, 900 more in sight.
All six of the furnaces are now in
steady use, and three men are kept busy
attending them. They eat up coal in a
manner that would paralyze any ordi-
nary industry.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

The decision of Judge Green of Okla
homa that Indian children cannot be
compelled to attend the schools provided
for Their education against the opposi-
ton Of the parents settles the question
of compulsory education, if the decision
shall be sustained by higher courts. If
there is any class of people in this coun-
try who should more than another be
made amenable TO law compelling the
education of their children it is the In
dian, and if they cannot be thus con-
trolled it were folly to attempt to enforce
such regulations upon any others.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

1t is something of compromise of the
intellectual status of the agricultural
community of Kansas that instructors
should need to be imported from distant
sections and states to teach the people
their duty to themselves and how TO
conserve the best interests of the coun-
try, but such is the case, according to
the views of certain element of the
said community. A similar condition
exists, as 10 the Democracy, in the new
states of the Northwest, and in order to
meet the exigencies of the situation as
far as possible a regularly organized
party of crusaders will make a tour of
that section of the country, as far as it
can be reached in palace cars, for the
purpose of ipstructing the weak and ig-
norant how to vote 1t is a great scheme.
and its results will depend upon the de-
gree Of stolidity among the class 20 be
thus evangelized-the more dense the
ignorance the greater the aggregate of
success in results.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
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Hyde & Humble Sta Go.
ia North Main.
The Introduction OF Potatoes Into France.

The Introduction OF Potatoes Into France.
There was nueh difficulty In introducing
the potato into France. II was only To-
ward the end Of the reign Of Louis XIV
that it began 20 be used The learned had
opposed its introduction systematically.
saying it produced leprosy. and the com
mon people refusing to test IL even on their
live stock.
A trick at last established # Fields
were planted all over France with potatoes
and carefully Ku,fded until the tubers
were ripe. 1t being given out that these
fields were growing a new thing specially
for the king. and that trespssSsrs would
be prosecuted. Now. the laws at that
time were severe. A man might be hanged
when he hunted in the wild forest, for the
game was the seigueur's. almost each one
OF whom kept his private gallowA Trespass
against the king implied. therefore. tsrribls
punishment.
The danger OF the punishment proved
itself an alluring bait. As the contriver,
wisein human. bad foreseen, the fields that
were purposely left unRuarded were pill
laged right and Jeff, the potatoes eaten,
some kept and planted and the tuber nc
last effcctuaIly introduced IN Francs.
York Evening Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

The fact that Z. S. Hall can, upon a
few weeks notice, secure the attendance
Of several thousand delegates, many of
them from remote parts of the country,
upon convention of the Farmers Alli-
sance to express opposition to the third
party craze proves conclusively that Mr..
President Polk was talking for effect
when he claimed few days ago to his
Kansas brethren that the Democratic
members of the organization in the
bouth were ripe for an abandonment of
former party allegiance. The Spring
field. No., Democrat vouchsafes TO the
ex-heutenant c. s. A., present head of
the Alliance and prospective president of
the United States, the kindly admoui-
ton that he "will best cultivate his
present remunerative salary by discour-
aging the bufonery of a presidential
ambition thar has taken possession of
him." 1t is hardly necessary TO add that
this is so much of loves labor lost.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

near Thurston, twenty miles from Okla
homa City, and is good prairie farm.
There was nothing unusual or crooked IN
the proceedings, but then the homesteader,
Mrs. Penry, is most remarkable woman.
She is 100 years old. lacking only few
days, and is as stout and vigorous as the
average person OF 40. She made the run
for the claim on horseback. and claims
that she is still able 10 ride fifty miles =
day without difficulty. MrS. Penny is q
native Of South Carolina, emigrated to
Texas flfty-six years ago. and lived in that
state until the opening Of Oklahoma, when
she came 10 the border and made the run
for claim with thousands OF other young
aud vigorous people. She was married
eighty-six years ago. and her husband has
been dead for sixteen years. When Mr.
Lindsey drove out 10 her claim TO get her
she lanented having TO ride in buggy 70
this city. she much preferring she said, to
come on horse back
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
T..ts Of CnItnrs.

The chemist Lisbig proposed % ussssurs
the standard % civilization By the ooo-
sumption % sosp-s sritsrion which would
put the inhabitants u North Holland a.
the head Of all civilized nstioBa- As mors
rslisbls test Edreand About suggested shs
sale Os E:ssl pens; the socialist Behsl. tbs
frequency Of reform nsstinRE DR.. B~r-
nArd. the use of undsrgarmssts q luzury
unknown % the semiciYilszsd tribes Of
Asia and South Ansriosl: Professor E5srs.
the sale % postage stAmps. The tuilszgs oi
railroads per hundred square miles q Ter.
ritory might do II comparing countries u
equal density q population. but otbsrEips
would p1t BsiRum TOO uufsirly ahsad q
California aad even Of Ess Eogiasd--
New YORK Telegram
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Rev. Arney, the Methodist minister
who was disciplined at the Chicago con-
ference on account of a penchant for
track horses, proves TO be combative
He SAYS he viii retire from the ministry
If pressed hard, as he has excellent offers
TO take charge of breeding stables, one
OF them with salary of 81. 600 a wear
and expenses, and which he considers
better than S400 as a parSon with wife
and three children to support. And vet,
Brother Arney came up 10 the annual
conference with the credit of 4 record as
n successful preacher with 200 converts
60 his credit on the ecclesiastical side. II
Is not pleasant to contemplate that the
jealous, wealthy and numerically strong
Methodist church should be outdone by
plant of breeding stables in generous
recognition of ability, but such seems 70
oe the case in this instance, when viewed
from the standpoint of pecuniary con-
sideration. But this is not the orthodox
basis for estimating such matters by the
church.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
THE GREAT ALLIANCE ORATORS.

We are in receipt of postal card re-
quest to publish the speeches of Peffer,
Polk and Simpson. PETER offered not a
single new thought, his effort being word
for word and figure for figure of those of
all his speeches made since he first posed
for Office at the hands of the Alliance;
one long unending series of discouraging
and misleading, but otherwise meaning
less figures. Polk in his great speech at
the opera house never once alluded di-
rectly to the sub-treasury, the land-loan
or the fat money schemes of the Ali
ance. His talk was largely of a
pleasing personal and reminiscent
character, enlivened by harmless
anecdotes, and was what might be very
properly characterized as a vote-catching
effort. As for Jerry Simpson we have
never heard of his being accused of
making anything like a logically con-
nected speech. His oratory is lighty,
his manner cratic and the matter of his
so-cailed addresses consists wholly of a
pyrotechnic display of eppigramatic
catches.
The EAGLE will not, therefore, impose
upon the patience of its readers by pub
fishing any of their speeches.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

From the sickness with which the
machine manipulators run the New
York Democratic convention, railroad
ing through the slate ticket previously
made up, it would seem that everything
in the camp and particularly in the
"Wigwam," is salubrious. But Just
wait until d. b. II. and the county con-
tingent of the city have time to stiletto
in proper condition and if you don't hear
wailing and gnashing of teeth it will be
g marvel,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
A Fun Loving Seal.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The mother seal at the zoo got rather
gay last Sunday afternoon while big
crowd Of ladies, gentlemen and children
was standing around eagrely watching
the baby seal. The mother would watch
and see where the crowd was thickest,
slide quietly under the water, come up
close as possible to where the crowd was
and then, with seemingly pure deviltry,
jump up and splash the water in such a
way as to cover and wet everyone with
in twenty feet. And it kept up this sort
of fun all the afternoon. No matter on
which side of the tank the crowd got,
the seal would make quiet sneak under
the water, and then, quick as lightning,
show up near the crowd and get in its
funny business.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
WHO WILL ESTIMATE TIP

The value of the cultivated crops in
Kansas is estimated at from one hundred
and seventy-five to two hundred million
of dollars. This enormous sum does not
include in its totals fruits, butter, chick.
ems, eggs and other minor products of
the farm, yet which aggregates enough
to discharge all debts, public and private,
which will fall due this year and leave a
vast amount of surplus in the pockets of
the people. But there is another ele-
ment of wealth in Kansas, alluded to in an
editorial in this paper a few weeks ago,
which allusion called forth some witty
criticisms from contemporaries. The
yield of the unplowed grass lands of
Kansas is of greater aggregate value IN
connection with the corn fields PROBABLY
than if all plowed and planted to corn,
yet no estimate is ever made of the COM
bined value of the grass and hay of Kan
sas. All Southern Kansas for hundreds
of miles is dotted with huge hay ricks
and stacks. In many townships each
thousands of tons of hay has been cut,
cured and stacked. We would like to
see a reported estimate of the number of
tons put up in the state this year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Russia may not regard her requests for
concessions, in the matter of navigating
the DardanelIes and the Danube with her
Armada or with other vessels in charge
of her naval officers, as impertinent, but
it can not be denied for it that it is self
Rssertveness. 1t is at Least something of
consideration on her part that she asks
for what she wants before proceeding to
Anl-, it
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
ALL READY.

A telegram received by the EAGLE last
evening from the Hon. John w. Noble,
secretary of the interior, indicates that
the proclamation containing descriptions
of all the lands in the Indian Territory
to be opened for settlement is ready for
publication.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Wichita has been the iivliest city in
the state this week, but if you want to
see a big crowd and lively times you
should be on hand two weeks hence,
at which time the great Southwestern
Kansas fair will be at its best. That fair.
as a show, will bsat an Alliance rally
and a circus combined.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
THEY TALK 10 SMALLER CROWDS.

Frou tAe EE:chizsea New&
Dispatches sent out from Wichita say
the crowd IN attendance at the Peoples
party pow-wow there IS Disappointing n
numbers For wesks past the Alliance
people have been advertising the meet
ing and shaking the bushes, IA order 70
make big show. Even with such at
fractions as Polk, PETER, Willis, SImp-
son and Mrs. Lease, less than 2,0OJ peo-
pie, it is said. turned out TO see the show.
The same kind Of reports come from
other places where Alliance psenics are
being held. and we predict similar fail
ure here next week
There Is some reason Ter this falling
OF IN the attendance &c there Ieopaes
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Thirteen years ago a student in Berlin
was Dlobbed in the streets for appearing
on a bicycle. Now the German Union Of
Bicyclists, which has Just held its eighth
annual conference at Breslau, has IA 900
members. Thirteen years hence it may
be possible to produce Lohengrin in
Paris without the aid of the French
army
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

The moccasins worn by many of the
western tribes of Indians are now made
in Maine. lt would be interesting to
know, says the New York SUI, what
percentage of profit the simple red man
makes in selling these relies" to tour.
ISIS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
!" ARCADE"
REMEMBER
When buying Your School Book,

When buying Your School Books
1st That we have the most
extensive line in the city.
I'd. We are the only house
who cover all books free Of charge
Sd. We have a large stock of
school books slightly damaged at
greatly reduced prices.
4th. We have the largest and
finest tablets and composition
books.
Lastly. We never advertise
what we cannot live up to. New
books are the same price all over
the city.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

B. F. Childs. president of the South
western Soldies' association, which will
hold Its next annual reunion Oct. a, Is,
and l6, at Arkansas City. is laborlng
night and day to make the reunion a
grand success.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
AbOu. the size o, 1t.

From the Topeka Democrat
Poor old Shawnee is the only Republi-
can convention tout OF about fifty that
have so far met that has declared for
prohibition. According 10 Troutman,
Shawnee county is Kansas, and Trout
man Is all there is good ia Shawnee
county Republicanism.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

The Denver Board of Trade has trans
mitted the Wichita Beard Of Trade a
record of Its action on the Torrey bank
rupt bill, which the former fully en-
dorses as being in the interest Of the west
and for many reasons set out in fun in
the report transmitted.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
A Logical Conclusion.

From the Lawrence Journal
Senator Peffer in each of his talks is
careful to state that he does not express
any political preference, and that the
Alliance is strictly non-partisan. 1t is
evident from this and from many other
remarks the senator makes that he
thinks the people of Kansas are fools, a
conclusion at which he could very logic
ally arrive when he remembers that
they elected him to the United States
senate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
ExCHANGE SHOTS.
Has a Bigger one on Hand.

HIS OlskCE Odo Oh manu.
From the Kansas City Star
An eagle big enough to handle a forty
pound sheep was brought to the Office of
the Mexico Ledger last week. The editor
of the Wichita EAGLE ought to secure
that bird, even though it might take a
Whole years subscription to the daily to
get ii,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

When Chairman Murphy congratu-
lated the Democracy on its freedom from
bosses at Saratoga, he was probably sur
prised that nobody laughed.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Jim Troutman really has enough
friendship for Bill Higgins left to keep
down resolution censuring any state
officer
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

A Topeka boy has written play and
it is being rehearsed by his sehoolmates.
Topeka may be short or Learses but it
can back on rehearsing.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

That proclamation, if it ever comes, is
going to "land" good many people IN
a new country.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
That's Right, but VIII They Do TIP
E,-o,., A. L.. -.

THU tIIBnUI Out W II 4u5y DO 4IF
From the St Joe News.
Since the calamity howlers of Kansas
have found that calamity bowling is pre-
judicial to that their interests, they have
begun to try to chant their melodies OF
hope, prosperity, big crops and good
prices. Let them keep up this new kind
of thing as long as possible and they will
find out there is money in it, that prop
erty rises under it and that even mort
cages disappear before it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Vera Ava is exhibiting herself at $500
a week. Most museum freaks, like Ava,
are made, not born.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
REPUBLICAN TICKET.

For Judge of the 18th Judicial District,
c. REED.
For Sheriff,
ISAAC 7. AULT.
For Treasurer.
JOHN A DORAN.
For County Clerk,
n. a. CARNIN.
For Register of Deeds,
S. L. BARRETT.
For Surveyor,
7. A. BAILEY.
For Coroner.
NJ. n. MCALISTER-
For Commissioner-Second District,
j. NJ. ALLEN.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

One thing that the calamity howlers
omit saying anything about is that we
need more side-tracks.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Kansas is in a much better shape than
Tennessee. Tennessee has an extra ses-
sion Of the legislature.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

Mss Emsrsouia Rasssii - Dos't yos
thirk Mr E0wlss' oountsnanos S0sh ar
rest TIE wo4kingz of the intsrlor nseha8-
isn % horOlogsf
Ms Calunne.1A pcrcfns-I Conf eBow.
Bal tklak IL Wo9id EtCD a eOcL<
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

First Priuter-What are you setting up
"A city diFectorv7
Second Printer-Sope-sum resort
letter.-Sew York Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18
AT THE

Special for this week
90 pieces All Wool Cheviot,
40 inches wide in all shades
80 cents.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

10 pieces Diagonal Wales
SO inch wide. % cents.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-18

These are two of the many
bargains the Arcade has to
offer you sor this week.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-20
Edison and Ink,

There is a matter worthy of the attention
of the greatest inventive genius of the age.
1t is the matter of writing ink
The common method of insc ribing words
upon paper for the transmission or preser-
walton of facts and ideas is a disgrace to
modern civilization. Century after cen
fury has passed away without any radical
Improvement in the clumsy, wasteful, IN
clearly and often exaspsrating process.
The mechanism and the medium are
practically the same as they have been from
the dim dawn Of history. The form of the
stylus or steel pen changes, and the pig
ment and its vehicle vary, but this other
wise enlightened and lucky generation is
ss much this slave and the victim of tho
inkpot, with its nasty contents, as was the
medieval monk, tho Roman or the Greek,
the Egyptian under the first dynasty or the
Chinaman of this time of lien wang, the
celestial.
Now. this ID ridiculous. The more closely
you consider the circumstance the more
Supplying 1t becomes. How many million
lifetime-units of muscular and nervous ell
ergy have been expended unnecessarily in
the mere act Of stretching the hand over to
the inkstand to dip the pen in this black
liquid relic Of primevai barbarism? How
many precious souls have been sent TO per-
dition in consequence of the emotional up
heaval over the besmeared fingers, the blot
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-20
on ths fair page o. parchment. the Ink bot
tie upset by tho oflcs catf ~

IrW ~ MHE AMENf
on tho fair page o. parchment. the Ink bot
tie upset by the ofics catf
We address these remArks directly " Tho
patient Investigator and profound philoao-
phey OF Lewellen Park. r. any man on
earth in the last years Of the nineteenth
century can froe tho human racs from ~
slavery to writing fluids Of every deacrip.
ton, IL 10 Thomas Alva Edison, OF Orange,
N. j.
Tho ideal substitute Tor writing ink and
the steel pen would be . pencil Of solid eub-
stance which should mark By abrasion, like
the ordinary graphite pencil. preserving !
point not in need Of frequent sharpening,
running smoothly over the surface OF paper,
and leaving a line chemically permanent
and Of satisfactory blacknsss. No fountain
pen need apply.
Tho inventor who produces such . sub
stitute as wo have described will confer
upon mankind. both contemporaneous and
to come, a benefit Of tho first order. Tho
abolition Of writing ink 10 an undertaking
OF Edison's genius.
No wonder Martin Luther hurled his ink
pot at the devil. That utensil fairly belongs
to sheol.-New York Sun.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-11-20
Arithmetic Losing Ground.

The reform in the public grammar school
course proposed by the Association of Col
leges in New England ia the most inspiring
and hopeful signal note of advance in pop
ular education in this country that has
been heard for many a day. The changes
recommended are as follows:
/. The introduction of elementary nat
arsl history into the earlier years of the
programme az a substantial subject, to be
taught by demonstrations and practical ex-
ercises rather than from books.
2. The Introduction of elementary phys.
les int the later years of the programme
as 4 substantial subject, to be taught by
the experimental or laboratory method. and
and to include exact weighing and measur-
ing by the pupils themselves.
3. The introduction of elementary alge-
bra at an age not later than - years.
4. The introduction of elementary plane
geometry at an age not later than - years.
S. The offerings of opportunity to study
French or German or Latin, or any two of
these languages, from and after the age of
10 years.
The main objective of this powerful and
promising movement, too Iona waited for,
ia the ~ethronemen of that cruel MOloch,
the clamoring false prophet of the old
fashioned common school education-arith-
metic. The substitution of algebra and
geometry will! give the principles of mathe-
matics much more directly. and save an
untold amount of useless labor and bewil-
derment to youthful minds. This saving
on SUNG will allow the documentary study
of languages in which the principles of
grammar are at the same time much more
advantageously studied than in our
tongue, and a dip according to judgment
into the general fund of common knowledge
established by science Of the foundations
Of the earth and the universe of forces.
We hail this new birth of common sense as
to our much-boasted but Disappointing pub
lie schools with full accord. But we have
no hope but that arithmetic and it's agonies
will be found to be throned in the same
sacred worship by the largest classes c. the
community that fio2ging was a generation
ago The ferule and the arithmetic should
have gone together.-Boston Evening Tran
script.