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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
Dressmakers of the Future.

Dressmaking is noble art In the pur-
ity OF its ideas it Is type of the highest
culture. Ladies should go into il, for it
Gated taste, and these belong only TO the
higher and more refined temperament.
The most beautiful dress we have ever had
has been the Greek dress, and in some pc
RODS, the Roman; that is, according 10
real art But such dress is not available
for our climate with its abrupt transitions
from heat to cold, nor for our business vo-
cations and conventional usages. The art
list or dressmaker of the future must study
the laws governing dress as IL was in those
days, and at the same time take into con-
sideration adaptations 10 climatic and So
cial conditions.
Woman, particularly when she is beauti-
full, is the most attractive being in the
world, and more pains should be taken TO
drape and dress her than with almost any
other branch of art. do not think that
dressmaking has ever revealed the aesthetic
beauty that is possible. We have had
style and fashion, but we have never had
what | regard as the highest forms of art
in dress, and we never can have until such
a time as it is regarded as fine art, in
stead of now as trade and until the time
shall come when women or men who are
dressmakers shall be treated with the same
consideration, socially or otherwise, as we
today treat a painter or a sculptOr.-Mrs.
Anne Jenness-Miller in Ladies Home Jour
nal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
Basbful DrideCrooms.

Ministers declare that in nine cases out
of ten brides are much more self possessed
than are bridegrooms when the marriage
ceremony is being performed
a shy, modest looking little creature
robed in white will stand perfectly erect.
looking the minister calmly and squarely
in the eye, without for an instant losing
her self possession. while the big, blunt six
footer of bridegroom by her side is pale,
nervous and trembling.
One stalwart bridegroom was so dazed
and overcome that he held out one of his
own fingers for the ring when the minister
said, with this ring ] thee wed"
Another bridegroom lost his head 10 such
degree that when it came time for him 10
say, Il, Horace, take thee, Annie, TO be my
lawful welded wife, be said In an unnat-
urally loud tone, Il, Annie, take thee.
Horace, to be my lawful welded wife,
and when the time came for him 10 intro
duce his bride to some of his friends who
had not vet seen her ho did 1t by saying
awkwardly, "Ah, er-Miss Carter, this il
my wife, Miss Barton" calling her by her
maiden name.
Few men say my wife" easily and nat
urally the first time they use the words in
public.-London Tit-Bits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
Bnating by Drum Heat.

We passed heavily laden junks slowly
working their way upstream amid what
to any but the Chinese would have ap-
peared insurmountable difficulties. a hun
dred naked, shouting and arm swinging
crackers dragged each one slowly along,
now straining every muscle at the low
tow line, now Stacking up as a man seated
at the bow Of the boat directed them with
the beat of small drum held between his
knees. Below the rapids other junks were
preparing TO enter them with much burn
ing of JOSS paper and firing Of crackers,
and near by was a little liieboat station,
with two or three red boats" ready 70
pick up any one in case Of accident. Be
low all Of the rapids on the YaBg-tzu are
lifeboat stations, which, like many other
charities in China, are kept up solely by
private subscription and render the great
est service 70 the enormous population en-
ployed on the Tiver.-Lieut. Rockhiu in
Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
SENSIBLE AND PLAIN.

Everybody understands the value and
Importance of a variety of interests in
maintaining a community. And no one
better than Kansan can understand the
seriousness of depending alone upon
crops. The Albany Evening Journal
puts this idea thus:
''In other words, Kansas is an agri-
cultural community pure and simple and
depends absolutely upon the crops; and
when the crops fail, her people might
just as well be situated in the bad lands
of North Dakota or the desert of Sahara.
What Kansas needs most, therefore, is
the development of the factory alongside
of the farm in order that manufacture
may supplement agriculture and her
people may not be at the mercy of
drouth, frost and the chinch bug. The
best way to secure the establishment of
manufactures is to attract capital to the
state, just as the best way to repel capt.
tai is to indulg' in the hair-brained and
semi-socialistic attacks on eastern in
vestors in Kansas railroad securities and
farm mortgages in which the Farmers
Alliance has been engaged during the
past five months"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
THE RECORD OF THE ALLIANCE
HOIJSE

Billy Buchan, as chairman of the Re-
publican State Central committee, pub
fishes rejoinder to P. P. Elders mani
festo against or arraignment of the state
senate. Whatever of ignorance may
have attached to the membership of the
last legislature, whatever of party re-
missness, it is now well understood that
these belong to the house rather to the
senate. But Buchan's letter shows this
from the official records in a way that
leaves no room for cavil. The Alliance
house was, as a whole, not only deplo-
rably ignorant of the affairs and Of the
demands of the state, but extravagant
beyond any coordinate legislative body
that ever sat in the state, excessive not
only in general and special appropriations
but outrageously extravagant in its way
of conducting its own proceedings.
These facts cannot be smothered, and in
the end would have come to the knowl-
edge of the people of the state in the alb
sence of any formal showing of party
chairman, for they are writ down in the
official records and will touch in direct
and unmisuakable way the pockets of
business men and farmers alike
The reply to Elders manifesto by Sem
ator Murdoch in the Ell Dorado Republi-
can, while it did not deal in official fig
ures and parallel columns of statistics,
was equally voluminous, emphatic and
convincing with that of Senator Bu-
chan's. These replies taken together can
not be got around or over or under.
They must stand
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
TIE INDIAN QUESTION.

Father Craft, the brave missionary
whose life has been devoted to the In
| dians, and who narrowly escaped death
in the engagement at Wounded Knee,
has written very striking letter upon
the present condition Of affairs at the
Pine Ridge agency. Father Craft pre-
dicted the former outbreak, and he be-
lieves there will be more serious trouble
still if things be allowed to go on in the
old way. The same causes of trouble, he
says, still exist, and Indians and whites
are at the mercy Of any rascal who finds
it to his interest to annoy and endanger
them" Father Crafts gives it as his
conviction that the difficulty may be
easily remedied. He says:
The only thing that stands in the way
of a speedy and permanent settlement of
all difficulties by an immediate transfer
of the Indians to the war department is
the desire of politicians to retain plumbers
The army would maintain peace by justice
to the Indian because its spirit is honor
able and because its interests are for
peace; but if the American people prefer
to keep the politicians in charge, they
must expect the usual results. | am heart
lily sick and tired, exclaims the good mis-
sionary, of witnessing miseries tnat l can
not correct and sharing the sufferings of
the unfortunate Indians and brave soldiers
who are forced into conflict and then
slandered by the cowardly politicians who
slaughtered them.
These are strong words, but no strong
er than the occasion justifies And not
only so, but his suggestion of remedy
is practical and feasible solution of the
question, only in cannot be done now.
The question of transferring the care
and control of the Indians from the in
terror department to the army was be-
fore last congress, but for some reason
never explained to the public nothing
was done with it,and the management of
the Indians was permitted to drop back
into the old rut of mismanagement.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
WEB WILDER ARRESTED AND
FINED

For four years Kansas has had at least
one officer whose integrity has been of
cOncreteness of the granite of the New
England hills. In every position which
| he has filled, the honesty of his purpose
| the directness with which he hewed to
to the line, has had the effect of mark
ing with distinctness his official acts.
There is no compromise nor juggling
in Wilder. Heads of administrations .,
party ties nor courts have had the power
to SO much as make him hesitate where
he saw his duty plain. As the insurance
commissioner of Kansas he has proved
an insurmountable barrier to all kinds of
swindling and bogus insurance COM
panies who, combined, have found no
trouble, with their Doodle, in defeating
the passage of still other and more
wholesome laws, as was the case during
the last session. The people of
Kansas have not only endorsed
but applauded the way Wilder
brought confusion to outside wildcat
concerns, but week or two since he
found it necessary to lay his honest hand
on an insurance outfit at Topeka that
was striking too close home for Kansas
crookedness, and an injunction from
local court was secured. Courts do not
always rife superior to local pressure
Web Wilder, all the same went forward
in the discharge of his plain predeterm-
ined duty for which the court alluded to
arrested him as criminal and fined him
fifty dollars for contempt. The con-
tempt may have been very great, great
the insurance company which Wilder, in
the interest of honesty, decided to be no
good, but Wilder's contempt of that
court is but drop in the ocean which a
people of a state ought to feel for
court which uses its power to undo the
work of a conscientious officer following
it up with an attempted degradation
and punishment ID the way of such a
fine.
Topeka is thought, by many, to be,
politically, the rottenest place in
America. 1t swarms with boodlers, reg
ular and transient, local and foreign,
at every meeting of the Legislature, and
much of the feeling which led to the
late political revolution in the state is
traceable 70 distrust entertained of the
doings up there; but what will the peo-
pie now think when they see an officer
whose integrity is unquestioned. hauled
up and fined for a matter growing di-
rectly out of conscientious discharge of
duty which the law plainly prescribed
for him:
As we read the news, sent out in the
dispatches, the Topeka court reinstated
the insurance concern which had failed
10 comply with the law as determined
by the commissioner, and in pursuance of
which Wilder had suspended such con-
Germ.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
ITALY AS SHE IS.
From the Globe-Democrat.

From the Globe-Democrat
Italy's area is Ia, 410 square miles, and
its population about 100000 Its
standing army consists of about 262, 900
men, and on leave Of absence there are
2S7, 900 men who are technically con-
sidered to belong to the permanent army
Then there are militia of various orders
amounting to nearly 100000 more
men, who could be called into service in
case of invasion. Italy's king is Umberto
l. Its assumed superiority in navy
would hardly avail in conflict on this
side of the Atlantic, which is where the
war would be if any should occur with
us. The lack of coaling capacity and
seagoing qualities woulk keep moso of
Italys fighting ships at home in any such
war. There is no danger that Italy or
any other European nation could obtain
a lodgment in the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

they actually imagined that they had
the law with them. They were by no
means as greatly to blame as the dema-
gogists inside and outside of their ranks
who seized an opportunity to knead
them as dough.
After all, the courts and demagogues of
this country are to blame for butcheries
like that of the Pennsylvania miners and
of the prisoners in New Orleans. If all
the initiatory disorders and minor viola
tons of law were promptly and efficient
ly dealt with these would not lead SO
fatally to such human slaughter. The
official demagogues who passively or
actively encourage contempt for the
most wholesome functions of civil au-
thority are the most dangerous promoters
of mob eruptions and bloody riots. They
will sell the laws or the lives of men for
disreputable popularity, for votes and
for office
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
HOW RIOTS AND MODS ARE PRO.
NOTED.
From the Galveston News.

From the Galveston News
The dead Pennsylvania strikers are the
victims of the demagogues who hold the
offices of justice of the peace, constable,
etc. These officials winked at and en-
couraged the strikers in little misde-
meanors with which the trouble began
They wanted the votes of the discharged
laborers and, in order to get these, they
refused to arrest the men for petty as
saults and interference with the new
hands by whom they had been sup
planted. These weakened officials
went even further. They arrested and
fined every one of the new hands who
carried weapons TO and from his work
with which TO protect themselves.
Their e.ecuoneering encouraged the
strikers TO more desperate deeds.
They resorted TO dynamite and de-
stroyed thousand of dollars worth of
ovens and other property. They threat
ened the new workmen with bombs and
exploded enough of them near their res
licences to keep the inmates in constant
peril day and night. Still ths aged JUS
tice of the peace, who lived upon the
fees of his office, remained with the men
who had walked out IN q majority quite
large enough to re-elect him.
The constable stood in with them also.
and II is reasonable 70 guess these very
popular candidates dld not hesitate 10
abuse the heartless capitalists who own
ed the business and the miserable rats
who persisted in laboring for them. The
strikers reiished this taffy and Were
stimulated by it to disregard the law and
the rights CT others. Because they had
the justice Of the peace Oh their side,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
A Peculiar Freak of Nature.

The Ell Dorado Times tells of a remark
ably bovine freak given birth to by a
cow on the farm of Gen. Ellet near that
place. For size it Is about as usual but
has the head of dog, with ears in front
of small horns which are semipendant,
movable in any direction and attached
only to the skin. The head, neck should
ers and fore feet are clothed with dogs
hair which gradually merges into that of
a calf. The fore feet are those of dog
while the hind ones are like a calls ex-
cept that long while hair covers the hoofs
as it covers the toes of the front feet.
The tail is unmistably that of dog and
is carried gracefully curled above the
back. The general color of the animal
is reddish, like its mother, except on the
feet and portions of the legs where it Is
white. The eyes are large, pink IN color
and set well in front and the mouth is
armed with canine teeth. The animal Is
apparently thrifty, is active and its
mother manifeSt5 as much solIcItude for
it as if it had only the characteristics COM
mon to calfdOm
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
The advantage to an agricultural com

The advantage to an agricultural COM
munity of an intelligent system of diver
styling crops is clearly set forth in the
following brief recital of the effects of
the system in Butler county, taken from
the Leon Indicator: Butler county
raised 732 acres. 6,588 bushels of
fax in 1899; value, $685. In
1890 there were 1899 acres sown, pro-
ducing &c, 3S9 bushels, worth $50, 986, the
increase in value being S26. 1913. There
were 3,S0S acres tame grass sown in
1889. and 9,574 acres sown in 1890. But
the corn average fell off from 130, 479
acres in 1889 to 9S, 173 acres in 1890. the
product fell from 6,694,992 in 1889 to
LOSS, 203 bushels in 1890"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
he KNEW HON.
But When He Tried 1t On It Dfdat
worL

Work.
II was not kind thing 10 do. but he
was a young newspaper reporter, and
was, whether justly or unjustly, regard
ed as fresh" His city editor sent him
up 10 meeting, and he started out .
little too eagerly, for he got the address
wrong. He was not so familiar with
New York as reporters generally are,
and by the time ne got the address
Strengthened on. and found the correct
one the meeting was over and he looked
only upon closed doors.
On the elevated train he met three
other reporters going down to their
Offices, and he told them his dilemma
''Oh, it's lucky you got on this train"
said one brother news gatherer. The
very man you want To see IS on this
train. There he sits down there in the
cross seattle old man with the I'M
brella and the gray beard
and he's peculiar old chap" said
second man. You have TO know how
to treat him. He's the president Of the
society, you know"
Oi WANT W Oc NAHApAuhNAts put III
the third conspirator. You've got 70
let him see that YOU know him. You
want to come up behind him, clap him
on the back-a good. ronsing whack,
you know-and say, Hello. Jenkins, old
boy, how did the little shindy come off
to-nightP Then he'll think be knows
you and will tell you the whole story"
BE sure you crack him on the back"
was repeated.
''Oh, trust me" said the young report
er, with q confident smile. Down the
aisle he went. and reaching the ''presi-
dent" he gave him terrific thump on
the back. For one second there was an
awful calm. Then jenkins, old boy"
raised his umbrella and started for the
offender. II was chase for the door.
the young man yelling out his apologies,
the old man franticaly brandishing his
umbrella and making violent whacks II
the head of his assailant. The younger
man reached the door in advance, how
ever, and darling through IL slammed il
in the old mans face. As the wratkfuI
old gentleman was returning To his seat,
red and painting, three young men with
ont consciences We're letting out howh
of laughter York Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

It is now in order for Russia and
Austria to make demands upon the
United States on account of the ''massa-
ere" of Huns and Poles in the Penn
sylvanie coking region last week. But,
just the same and nevertheless, the
slaughtering will continue wheresoever
and SO long as the unassimilated aliens
provoke it by their devil-inspired out
lawry. And the sooner that contingent
learn this and conform their acts thereto
the more of them there will be to enjoy
the personal liberty they find over here,
and the sooner the ban they have called
upon themselves will be removed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
The Koch lymph is being dropped out

The Koch lymph is being dropped out
of most of the hospitals that have tried
it. Perhaps they do not get the hang of
the thing. 1t has never been claimed by
its discoverer to be perfect panacea,
but discriminating judgment has to be
exercised in the use Of all remedies.
What would be the proper thing to pre-
scribe for given ailment in one patient
might not be suited to another patient
similarly affected. Herein the science of
medicine finds its most useful play.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
Twenty-one Years Ago.

From The Leon INDICATOR.
The editor and wife were married at
Ell Dorado, March "a, 1870, twenty-one
years ago last Tuesday. There have
been some changes in southern Kansas
since that date Emporia was our near
est railroad station, and the Walnut
Valley Times was the only paper pub
lished south, or west of that point, and
it was but few weeks old. Our peo-
pie went to Cottonwood Falls to mill.
Wichita was a village with a dozen
shanties for houses. There were not
then living in the whole of the western
Kansas, i. e. west of a line passing
through Wichita from north to south,
as many people as are now living in But
Ter county
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

More mortgages and other evidences
of Indebtedness are being paid off at
maturity in Kansas than are being re-
newed and new ones made combined.
This, with good prices for all kinds Of
farm and range products, and a good
feeling in commercial and industrial en-
terprises of all kinds and general i'm
psovement in business, constitute most
encouraging augury for the immediate
future in Kansas, notwif hstandlng the
continued depression outside.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

ed and provided with machinery espec-
tally designed for handling sorghum,
and to handle beets to the best advant-
age the mills would require to be re-
nodded somewhat and provided with
machinery constructed for reducing the
beets. This does not imply that the beet
is to be discarded: it will not 1t is
reasonably certain that several mills
will be set up in the state this year
specially designed for handling that crop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

The London Standard has made and
published carefully prepared state
ment, based upon estimates, of the
worlds present and prospective supply
of wheat. 1t finds that the shortage viii
be so great. no difference what the
American crop amounts 10, that the
price of the cereal viii 60 higher than it
has been for years. The Standard makes
no allusion to the possible contingency
of disturbance of the peace of Europe.
which just now seems probable, and
which would augment the price of grain
to the extent and duration of such dis
turbance.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
The surprising statement is made that

The surprising statement Is made that
the $50, 900 asked for to erect the Sher-
man monument in New York has been
raised, with margin, in five weeks
This is not great sum to put up for a
statue to the grand old warrior, the
genial and courtly gentleman, who, in
his declining years, made that city his
home," but it brings out in vivid con-
trast the next to criminal procrastination
of the Gothamites in their treatment Of
the remains of the nations patriot-hero,
U, S. Grant,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

The State Dairy association of Mis-
souri, is demanding the establishment of
dairy department at the Missouri agri-
cultural college. A good, practical,
common sense move. In no department
of our system of domestic economy is
there apparent so much ignorance as in
the care and treatment of milk and but
ter, and no food articles are more whole
some and relishable when properly
handled
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07
Bright Prosp<rta-

Mr.. Bulliop-''I notice. sir, tbA: yo1 cal
10 ses my daughter quite frequently. and
as she-er-appears 70 n~ favorsbly iIo-
pressed By you. think / saFs a right 70
inquire concerning your prospects,
Young MSn-I shall De rich some day"
q an glad 70 hear that"
Yes. Your daughter and hare beea
secretly married, and she hzs promised ne
half y0u leave New YORK WeskIy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-07

Bismarck bucked up against the en-
peror and lost his official head. Now
Salisbury contests the authority of the
queen of England: we will see if he shares
a like Gate as Old Bizzy. The English
premier has heretofore informed the
queen that, though she is at the head of
the government, he is the government
The issue of supremacy seems to be
clearly drawn. Which will survive?
Why, the queen, of course, though Sails
bury may not quit his position.