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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The measures of long distances have
varied widely at different times and with
different nations, to say nothing of the
comparisons used in different sections Of
our country. For instance:
THIS Jewr said from Dan to Becrsheba.r
The Persiaus ss< from Medina %
Mecca"
The English say, ''from Lands End TO
John O. Greats"
The Yankee says, from Maine 10
Texas"
The southerner says, from Florida 70
Alaska"
The Sucker and Hoosier says, from the
great lakes to the gulf"
The South American says, from the
Isthmus to the Horn"
In Louisiana they say, from New Or
leans TO Pittsburg"
In California the common expression il,
from Altavile TO Pilot Knob. Chicago
Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

In his lannon's speach before the Kan
sas City political pow-wow. protesting
against the adoption of the majority re-
port of the committee on resolutions.
Mr. Smalley said. among other things.
that ''all this sill er movement is for a
cheap currency born of hard times. If
God gives us the good crop that the pres
ent spring promises we shall not need To
resort to any Of these extreme measures. -
Whatever the cause Of the movement.
Mr.. Smalley's conclusions are erroneous.
If we shall have large crops, the demand
for larger volume of currenoe will be
all the more imperative. Big crops and
little money is as bad as the reverse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Beating the Egg Tariff.

Since the duty on eggs has been the rule
many devices have been thought OF for
manufacturing them. The idea of No
gales man is, however, the only feasible
scheme up to date. His proposition is to
feed hens on the cheap grain Of Mexico
and have them lay in the United States.
For this purpose a long building will be
placed on the line, half in Mexico and half
in the United States. They will feed and
water in the Mexican end. and when they
want to lay they go to the farther end Of
the building, and in that way escape pay
ing the duty. The protector Of this enter
prise came from Naturalization Pros
Doctor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Class of Men Who Went West in 40.

The widest excitement and activity inn
mediately prevailed throughout the United
States, and every city and village throbbed
with a feverish impulse TO rush TO the dig
gings. The difficulty and expense of reach
ing this terra incognita restrained thou
sands from the attempt, so that only those
who possessed natural'courage or advent
urous proclivities or whose local attach
ments were weak actually made the great
plunge into the unknown experience which
awaited the gold hunters OF 40.
The world has never witnessed so motley
and promiscuous throng in pursuit OF
common object as sprung into life stimuli
taneously in the winter of 1S4S-9 and turned
their course toward the gold fields Of Cali
fornia. Men of all ages, clergymen, pro-
fessors, doctors, lawyers, farmers, traders,
mechanics, laborers of every degree, adj
venturers, thieves, gamblers and murder
ers jostled one another in the struggle to
gain access to some OF the avenues which
were supposed to lead TO the desired goal.
Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

IF, in the recent interview on the silver
question, wherein he was asked to ex-
plain his former declarations on that
subject, Mr.. Cleveland had stopped with
the declaration that "With the rapid
strides the country is making it is i'm
possible to say what financial measures
we may be ready for in 1892" and that
"what might be bad for the country at
the present time might be necessity in
1884," the chasm his anti-silver letter
created might have been considered as
bridged, sufficiently at least to effect a
reunion of the divided forces of the
party; but like the cow that kicked over
the pail after yielding good quantity of
milk, the alleged statesman widens the
breach by reiterating and emphasizing
his former declarations deprecating free
coinage and inveighing against it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
A Cobra wars.ed.

The Ceylon papers described fight be-
tween cobra and two mongoosez, which
was witnessed By number OF residents OF
Colombo Il took place as an exhibition
st private house for some visitors 20, q
Little time the Hongoosex were avsrse to
attacking the cobra. though they ran
round and round II inaaizngly The
snake, which was a splendid specimen OF
the deadly cobra ard beautifully marked,
exhibited much alarm a soon "a X saw
them. and c1rled Itself up, ready 70 strike
After some time the nsongocses warmed
70 inelr work, and the Eight began In earn
est Again and again they dashed Ia and
seized TIE Snake by the tail or the lower
coils Of is body. jumping out of striking
distance before tic COBRA could touch them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
WOMAN'S GREATEST DANGER.

The great element of danger with
woman's progress before the public lies
in this fact: that it takes women away
from home who ought to be there and
nowhere else. The public platform is no
place for mother who has either sons
or daughters to educate. II woman's
progress is going to tend in that direc-
ton, then the sooner that advancement
stops the better. The first thought OF a
wife or mother should be her home; all
things, no matter how important, are
secondary to that. No matter how
rampant may become certain public
evils, let her see to it that she keeps the
evils out of her home, and she performs
her greatest duty to her God, her family,
and mankind. w. Box, in the
Ladies' Home Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
the Eagle.
PERSISTENCE.

OApril day Of warm sunshine.
I've crossed the year Of twenty-nine;
And may be am half way through,
OF travelling to uhe somewhere new;
Through centuries OF restlesSness,
Perhaps a million more or less
Since first was born this soul Of mine,
So old and sad At Twenty-Five.
Within my troubled heart hold.
The sins and tears of aeons old,
A heritage from out the tomb
Enfolds me; as within the bloom
The wild bee hides among the gold;
So among the hearts do hold;
Around me generations Irvine,
And make me old at twenty-nine.
feel their ghostly hearts beat fast,
And bind my present to the past,
AS on my weird way tread.
And bear the impress OF the dead.
something wild untamed and fierce.
Longs savagely to deeply pierce.
This civilized and fimsy show,
OF things not in the long ago.
And then feel the good. the true.
OF some one thrill my being through,
4 voice rings out all else above.
IN paans piercing sweet of love;
And if my blood beat quick along,
IT'S but the old ancestral song,
That throbs within as we'll as mine;
A million years-in twenry-nine!
The passing face sometimes see,
Gives all the dim past back TO me:
And strange eyes oft familiar gleam-
1t is no sleep begotten dream;
But friends I've had long, long before,
Upon some other far-star shore
Ere we have spoken we are friends,
And thus the past and present blends.
OF that old time hold the thread,
Back to the life one time led.
And broken melodies ring low,
OF songs knew-but do not know;
The dark is flooded with light.
And all the past grows strangely bright,
Unrolls before this soul of mine,
That is so old at Twenty-Five.
~ w
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The long ago and forgotten labors Of
Mason and Dixon are proving 700 much
for the Alliance and a sectional racket
seems inevitable. The southern Alliance
IS Democratic while the northern ALI
ance IS composed largely Of wild eyes,
whiskers and dissatisfied Republicans.
So far as the presidential campaign IS
concerned there will be no Alliance
south of the Mason and Dixon's line.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Cultivate Conservatism.

Noble L. Prentis. Kansas City Star.
Wealth and beauty and comfort are TO
come to the west, the newest west,
through the cultivation of a conserva-
tive spirit, and determination toward
permanence. The wandering buffalo.
the homeless coyote are no longer to be
taken as models. The restless Indian
whose tepee is by the stream today and
lover the range" tomorrow, is no longer
to be a guide to the white man. The
words '.home" and family" should have
a deeper significance. Trees should be
planted, not cottonwoods and soft NAPLES
to sell the claim, but oaks and elms to
shelter the head of him who planted
them, and of his children and his chill
dren's children. This if all in the line of
founding family"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
DISGUISED WITH SAM SMALL

Rev. DIR. Sam Small addressed large
audience at the Olive Street Presbyterian
church. Tweutv-Sscond and Mount Yer
non streets. Philadelphia, last Sunday
evening. The occasion was the fifty
fifth anniversary of the Home Mission
airy society. As the lecturer warmed to
his subject and drifted more and more
into the method for which he IS Noted.
the audience, or at least some Of the
more conservative members, began to
grow uneasy. One or more quietly left
the church. and the committee OF ar
engagements began TO grow restless DIR.
Small was not deferred. however. IN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Gen. Butler was bounced a second
time from the presence of U. S. Judge
Carpenter in Boston, Tuesday. In the
language of the parrot after the explo-
sion in the theater to which he had been
taken by his Irish owner and as it was
perched on pile of debris denuded of
its plumage: "What the ID are they
going to do next" Old Bens strongest
hold is his observation-disclosures.
1t is hard to effectually down such a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The mine operators in Pennsylvania
where the labor troubles exist, may have
the right on their side as to the origin of
the trouble, but they are making IA grave
mistake in importing large numbers, or
any number, of Italian laborers to take
the places of the strikers and employing
Pinkerton policemen to guard them.
Public sentiment will not endorse or
countenance such expedients, and public
sentiment has much to do with shaping
the termination of such issues.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

A better consumption cure than Koch's
lymph, a New York physician says, is for
consumptives not to marry. People might
believe this if they didn't see unmarried
consumptives dying off every year.-Ex.
Upon the commonly accepted idea of
heredity i'll the transmission of that dis
ease the physician is correct. Of course
the unmarried consumptives die, and
will continue to die of the affection as
long as there are any living; but if they
stop marrying the disease will soon run
out, that is. the hereditary sort. And all
this applies only to that character of the
dread malady.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The Alton road seems to be about the
only independent corporation in the
country. Notwithstanding sixty-seven
other roads east of the Mississippi have
combined against it in general traffic
boycott, the Alton managers declined to
enter business alliance with the roads
of its own territory and section. The
Alton has had heaps of trouble in the
past two or three years with competing
lines and systems, but it goes right on
paying dividends to its stockholders, just
the same.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

In New Zealand they have branch
banks on wheels. \ bank clerk goes out
into the country along the railroad routes
in special car. At each station he
cashes the checks of depositors and re-
ceives their deposits. thus saving them
the inconvenience of coming to the city
to draw or deposit. The custom will be
discontinued when the country becomes
AmeTicanized and the knights of the
road" get foot-hoId.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

According to Census Bulletin No. 40
the importations of precious stones into
this country during the decade of so
were valued at SS7, 1871 Isthere any
wonder that the country's circulating
medium-in this case gold-should be
contracted almost to the panic point
with such prohigacy on the part OF the
people who handle and possess large por-
tons of it? Practically the country is
impoverished to that extent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Cos. of the Garfield Monument.

Mr.. Aldrich, managing editor of the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, writes: 1.-The entire
amount expended on the Garfield monu-
ment, including grading. sodding, Tagging
and general improvements about the site,
was $l50,oo0. Subscriptions amounted TO
sl34, 755, but the interest swelled IL 70 the
required sum. Contract was let Oct 5,
1886; construction began spring OF 1886,
dedicated May 90, 1890"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
An Applied Lesson.

A little girl went shopping the other day
with her mother, who, making purchases
at various stores, gave as the parting word,
please charge them to my husband, 20
street" At night the little girl,
half sleeping and tired out, said in conclu-
sion, 81 pray God to bless my mother and
nv father and my little brother. and send
bill to papa, % - street. "-Springtield
Republican.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Readers of Outing may expect a
genuine treat in John Seymour Woods
fascinating new story entitled "Harrv's
Career at Yale" the opening chapters of
which will appear in the May number of
the magazine. 1t will carry every old
boy" back to the good old times under
Alma Matters wings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
a Dream.

Mrs. Bessie A. Ficklin "a daughter of
Gen. E. p. Alexander) tells the follow
ing story of ''dream-poenl" in an arti
Gle in the May Scribner.
at was dreamed by southern officer
in camp in in 1868, during hard winter
campaign on starvation rations.' He
dreamed that a lady asked him to write
in her album; that he tried to decline
writing any more than his name, declar-
ing that he had never been able to write
in albums: but she insisted until, in des-
pair, and by sudden inspiration dashed
off the following:
CONFEDERATE RATIONS.
For man. corn bread, $3.50,
Any bacon? No! no.
For horse
0!
SIN his dream the writing in the al
bum seemed to form a perfectly SYM
metrical pyramid; the o at the apex to
be read zero"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
An Exclusive Family.

Mrs. Forundred WHAT Invite the
Downton girls to our party Why, my
dear, their father is in trade. He keeps a
shop
Miss Forundred-I know. ma, but he is
awfully exclusive. He never advertises,
and doesn't have to serve customer oncs
. week-New York Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Queen Victoria does not ride on pass
when she travels. She pays her fare
Wichita EAGLE.
This explains the action of the ALI
ance legislators in accepting passes.
They scorned 10 ape the ways of royalty.
Capital.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The New Orleans Times-Democrat
reads the Kansas Alliance a lesson of
such unveiled severity, in its last Sunday
issue, as would lesd to a declaration of
war in less peaceful period. The Times
talks as if 1t did not know that a political
leadership of crankS and demagogues
was possible outside Of Louisiana.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

n young gentleman bad an engagement
WIRE tie daughter Of = prosperous e1f2zsn
20 attend the thea;er. The young LADY sug-
gr<ted that they use tie family carriage.
and tie gAllsnt w2s too polite 20 GecIa1e-
On the morning q the engagement the
young lzsfy askei her father 10 please step
IN Ax. Bouersox's oeies and inquire where
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The city papers are going wild. The
maximum number of pages in the Sun
day papers was first thirty-two. Then
it was made thirty-six, then forty and
finally, last Sunday the number Of pages
was stretched to forty-four.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
a NEW NATION.

There will be seven colonies or states
in the new Australian confederation or
United States, which is now being form
ed and SO quietly as to hardly attract
any attention from the world at large,
especially when it is considered that il
will be one of the great governments of
the world. This confederation will in
clude New South Wales, Queensland,
Victoria, West Australia, Tasmania and
New Zealand, all at present independent
English colonies and absolutely indie
pendent of each other. The question of
tariff seems the only one which brings
to the proposed alliance any trouble. a
majority of the undergraduates want a
high American protective tariff. The
convention has rejected the name
Omitted States" and adopted that of
Commonwealth" The convention
makes the mistake, we think, of conced-
ing the appointment of their chief execu-
tive to the crown of England. They
ought to elect their own president in
stead Of putting up with governor gen.
eral.
The Commonwealth of Australia will
in short time take its place among the
nations of the world under the most
favorable auspices. 1t starts with a far
larger population than the United States
did a century ago, and with territory
five times as great; it is one Of the rich
est countries on the globe, prosperous
and progressive, and it has achieved its
practical independence without the long
and exhausting struggle to which the
United States was subjected. 1t has our
of a century Of confedera-
ton, and, with all these advantages, it
has brilliant future ahead of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Their agility In THIS respect was amazing.
Tired out with watching them run first
one way round and then the other, making
an occasional dart in and jumping as rapid
ly back again, a time came when the cobra,
falling to turn with sufficient speed 10 face
the mongooses, the latter sprang in, seized
the snake by tbs back of the head and
killed it at once. A number OF instanta-
neous photographs of the fight were taken
while IL was in progress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Cleveland is trying to make it appear
that he has weakened in his fight against
silver. Its only in appearance. The gold
bugs who have him retained to live in
New York will take care of him just as
faithfully in the White House.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

A man bought farm out in western
Kansas last December for s., $780, and he
expects to pay for it this year with the
wheat he gets from it. That sort of a
thing has been done in Kansas again
and again.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The great dry goods firm of E. w. y.
Smith q Co. is pulling out of Kansas
City and going to Texas town. What
with the loss of her additions and the
collapse Of the commercial congress four
neighbor appears to be in the sweat-box.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
An Optimistic View.
From The Kansas Clsy Gazests-
N,boix IN E- Le- 1r-

From he kansAs Cliy Cagette
Nobody in Kansas has any RICH, TO
growl about the results Of the CONNER
cial congress. After a solid Republican
senate solidly voted to call Ii into exist
ence II was no longer Father Kelly g
show. They put club in the other fell
lows hands and neekly permitted them
to use IL. OF course il don't amount 70
much, ore way or the other, but no one
has right 10 growl. The thing 70 have
done was 10 have had ycur men there.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
4 Lamentable Warning.
From the Lawrence Journal.

Kansas City is getting to be as bad as
Topeka about passing around the hat
for subscriptioes for some kind OF blow
out. Our neighbor on the east should
take warning from the fate OF our neigh
Dor on the west il this particular. l. is
said that 10000 people have left Topeka
within two years IN order 10 escape the
subscription fiend.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

A great many southern Republicans
flock to Harrison, because they want to
see the man who appointed somebody
else to the place they expected to fill
themselves.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Some Musical Instruments.

Rob-The most wonderful organ ever
saw was the property of private gentle
man. 1t had nearly hundred stops.
Richard-The most wonderful organ /
ever saw was the property Of widow. IL
was her tongue, and it had no stops at all
Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Topeka N -hs Swim

I
Topeka is being visited by noted PEG
pie. jaw Gould and Sarah Bernhardt
have both been there in the past few
days. Jay stopped Just three minutes
and Sarah fifteen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

What is to be the Republican policy of
this state? VIII Brothers Hudson. Muir
dock, Chaliss, Eskridge and Anthony
please rise and explain:-Topeka Demo
crat
Just as well make answer yourself as
TO ask that crowd. no two of whom
agree
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Who Is Frank Leslie?

From the New York Post.
Like the original Mrs. Harris .sthere
weren't never no such person An
artist by the name of Harry Carter took
to himself the name of Frank Leslie
when he came from England to this
country. which act was legalized by the
legislature somewhere about 1868. ?.
T. Burnum furnished the capital for
Carter to start Frank Leslie's Illustrated
Paper. Extravagant living ran him
into bankruptcy. He paid his wife $685.,
600 for releasesfrom matrimonial obi
CATION and married the lady now known
as Mrs. Frank Leslie. who was original
ly Miss Miriam Follin. Mifs Follin was
at one time Mrs. Peacock, later Mrs.
E. G. Squires, and later the wife of
Frank aslia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Where Would They Go?

From TIE Topeka Jour0AI
In fighting free coinage, Harrison and
Grover Cleveland are reducing the price
of Kansas next wheat and corn crop
5 to 10 cents a bushei. They are both on
the same platform: why don't they so
into the same party:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
Perish TIE Though.

From TIE Newton Republican.
Is it true, as the Troy Chief says. that
the Republican white women OF Topeka
voted for the Democratic candidate for
mayor because the negro women voted
for the Republican candidate and they
felt above" voting as the negro women
voted
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23
IS Good az New.
the best

Sanso-Honesty should be the best
policy.
Rodd-Certainly; but why do you say soi
Sanso-Because It hasn't been used
enough to make IL the worse for wear
Weekly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

Jerry Simpson is probably on his
decline. The city papers have quit
booming him. He is out in New York
state lecturing to the farmers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

And now Ben Rich, clerk of the last
legislature, has issued manifesto, that is
sure to call for another from Speaker
Elder. On with the dance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

An enemy of P. P. Elders is preparing
bill for the next legislature to act upon
providing for the enforcement of the
penalty for profanity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The American lobbyist is getting in
his work on the English parliament.
Pounding the legislators, as it were.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-23

The English language is not good
enough for the Alliance Chairman
Dumbauld says: Forward en- masse."