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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1891-11-21
21sl5 yard CLOTHS in extra qualities al
s8.75. IS and 81 each.

A great many persons have e1tra-wids
tables aud 20 accommodate them We carry a
line of TABLE CLOTHS 2js yards wide and
in all the lengths.
We mention few Of the longest cloths
2l5x3. yard IRISH DAMASK TABLE
CLOTHS
IS each.
2]{I4 yard IRISH DAMASK TABLE
CLOTHS
81 each
2iL1j yard extra fine quality, besuti.
ful DOUBLE SATIN DAIASk TABLE
CLOTH. This Cloth has beautiful floral
design. with double border
SIC for tho Cloth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
The Laborer Should Ee Honored.

The real dignity Of labor is well sym
bolized and set forth IN those single acts
at the beginning or end of great work
which represent to the imagination the
whole enterprise.
The corner stone of great building is
generally laid by some official digui-
tary who, in an unaccustomed apron
and with a trowel which he uses clum-
silly. makes a pretense of doing the actual
work Of putting the stone IN place.
Crowds stand about to witness the work,
and orations are made and hymns sung.
The knocking away OF the prop which
sends vessel of the ways and into the
water is an event Of equal consequence
and interest, because il represents the
noble task Of constructing a great ship
When one OF the greatest engineering
works Of all time was completed-tbe
construction OF the Pacific railroad-it
was regarded as a great honor to drive
the las. spike that b2und the last rail 70
the earth; and the spike which served at
least temporarily for the work was
made Of silver.
I-lu fSlbiSs hAI4-1 os4s- Afif72it-S24e - 30
with their OWL hands the machinery Q.
great industrial exhibitions, themselves
typical in high degree OF the import
ance Of manual labor.
In a certain sense it world be more
fitting that these ceremonies. which con
ceat-ats into a single Instant's act long
periods Of hard labor, should be per
formed By one Of the real worangnen
who are aged upon the enterprise. /:
is they who DO the WORK, ard they might
well claim that the honor CT the key
ceremony belongs 70 them
This was what was do1e. indeed. wnep
the first blow o. ehe PICK was struck n
the construction Of the buildings for tie
Worlds fair o. 1899 a. Chicago. youth 5
Companion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Rock Island railroad has an office
| in Oklahoma City.
There is a Bank of Edmond, now, with
capital stock of $4,000.
Indians will be taken from the terri
tory for exhibition at the Chicago far.
The Bank Of Edmond aud the Edmond
Cotton Gin company have filed their char
tiers.
The statutes of the territory of Okla
homa limit the pay OF city councilmen to
$50 per year.
There are some people in Oklahoma who
think that the territory VIII be called on
| TO aid Kansas, next winter.
a school journal will he started at
Guthrie soon. The superintendent Of
Logan county viii be editor.
The busiest things in Oklahoma at pres
ent are the fish examining everything they
eat TO see if there is hook in it.
The farmers of Oklahoma better go slow
en- nev-fangled machinery. The old way
Is better than the new with the mortgage.
Oklahoma is likely to be represented
at Denver with IA figure which bears
close resemblance to the first letter IN her
name.
It is good thing that oklahoma has
enough people 10 run after the Dalton
boys and keep track of the crops at the
same time.
The Guthrie News refers 10 the Indian
soldiers as Ped Men in Blue" When the
colonies licked England it was Blue
Men in Red"
The probabilities are that Secretary
Noble will visit Oklahoma. lie Is at
Joplin, No, inspecting some mining prop
erty, he owns there.
No man or woman who is the owner Of
more than l6o acres OF land can hereafter
file upon land in Oklahoma or the co0n-
tries soon 10 be opened.
Judge Clark thinks that the neglect OF
the legislature IN failing TO provide
means for properly indexinG the statutes
will cost the territory $4,000.
An Oklahoma City man is in love with
n girl who has comp eyion like the nush
on a sea shell. They must keep exceed
inGly good whisky on hand IN Oklahoma
City.
Mr. Burke, editor of the Oklahoma City
Journal, received a fine cake from mum
Der of his Lady admirers, yesterday ne
Oklahoma editors lot is comm serated
with great deal more than II merits
Sheriff Colcord. OF Oklahoma county, |
says he finds it quite = difficult matter TO |
find three disinterested freeholders 70 SCI /
as commissioners 10 condemn the Choctaw |
right Of way. Nobody owning property IN |
Okiohoma City Is eligible, and very fe'S OF /
the farmers have yet secured their patents /
Mr. Cole, OF Edmond. has been selected a. /
one, and the other Two viii proo2o-y oe /
secured soon.
John D. Miles. worlds fair ccnamis- /
siouer foT Oklahoma. was in the city yss.
terday afternoon He IS also mem Der OF /
the committee on class fic2tion and a-lot-
ment OF space and his HEADQUARTERS are e. i
Chicago. He SAYS that with the possible 4
exception OF Italy, all foreign countries
VIII be represented a. the fair Russia
viii put n 3 magnificent exai5it w.tA
other Of the larger countries Boe Tar Ok
hind OF his home Mr.. Miles sad that
Oklahoma had made 10 appropriation tos
any exhibit buI that when the tine came
there would be lsplay-Emporla Re-
publican
Oklahoma Journal. payasasts- Roche
Will begin the Journey 10 the sc AID 7 OK
agency TO-DAY under al esCo-. CO A9oz.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
Stealing q Court Secret.

Once when Judge W, Of the United
States supreme court, reached Pitts5grg
on circuit ii Nr Wright entertained him.
There was case pending then IN the srI-
preme court which involved the values Of
two stocks. The decision was certain to
make one Or the stocks yaluelezs and the
other valuable. Il was considered an even
chance which way the decision would 20
The lawyers in the case rad settled il in
their minds that If Justice b were 10
write the decision it would lie their favor
The justice vas noted for writing long de
cisions. The majority OF the men 90 the
bench at that time wrote briefly Justice
W was entertained at dinner 1t Mr
Wright S house. After the dinner Justice
W became companiouab.s and good
natured.
In the midst Of conversation about the
court and its work M Wright said 70
Justice W, mentioning the case IN
which be WIS Interested. Il suppose that
the decision 10 that case viii be long one.
there being 50 many points involved +" as
long a. the moral law, ny boy" said the
old justice. rs he smiled benevoienfly upon
MS host. That was all that be SAID upon
the subject. Mr. Wright, however. knew
from this remark that II Wa the particular
justice VINO wrote long decisions who was
preparing the one IL this c2se. THIS gave
bim the cue for he decision and lie bosgss
stock based upon his judgment. II proved
correct, and be gained exactly ssG OoG from
this Careless remark Of the TOO ani45.e us
tlce--San Francisco ArS0naut-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

OF all birds, from the farmers stand
point, owls are the most useful. They
hunt silently and in the night, and ara
nothing short OF lynx eyed cats with
wings. The benefit they confer upon
agriculturists is most incalculabie, and
is susceptible of proof. 1t is well known
that owls hunt by night; but it may be
less a matter of common knowledge that,
like other birds of prey, they return by
the mouth hard indigestible parts of tho
food in the form OF elongated pellets.
These are found in considerable quanti-
tits about the birds haunts. and an ex-
animation of them reveals the fact that
owls prey upon a number of predaceous
creatures, the destruction of which IS
directly beneficial to man.
OF course the evidence gained in this
way is infallible, and to show 10 what
extent owls assist in preserving the bal
ance of nature it may be mentioned that
200 pellets examined yielded the remains
of 6 bats, Is rats, 237 mice, 693 voles,
1880 shrews and % birds. These truly
remarkable results were obtained from
the common barn owl, and the remains
of the % birds were those of 10 sparrows,
greenfnch and swifts. The tawny
and long cared owls of our woodlands
are also mighty hunters, and an exam
ination of their pellets shows equally in
teresting evidence.-Cornhill Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
AN ENDORSEMENT.
SPIVEY, Kan, May 13, 1891

SPIvEY, Kan, May -, 1891.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
In looking over the EAGLE today ran
across the following gem in the editorial
columns:
IF you want to build factories and other
business houses in your cities go to work
Systematically and ill the state with
thrifty farmers, cattle and stock ralsers,
etc. This will make a demand for more
factory products and the larger cities"
And in my judgment a wiser saying
was never uttered
But, have we not been attempting to
build up cities and factories by work
ing Systematically to build up trusts in
everything the farmer buys and sells?
Also doubling his debts by contraction,
i. e. Have we not been attempting to
build up cities and factories, especially
the factories by improverish. the
farmers?
But you have struck the key note.
Here thrifty farmers, cattle and hogs"
and cities and factories, follow as a
natural sequence.
Tramps desert the roads for the harvest
fields.
Poorhouses spew out their idlers. The
goose that lays the golden egg is then
able to resume operations.
Respectfully,
SURE ENOUGH KANsAN.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
AERIAL NAVIGATION.

The inquiry, what has become of the
flying machine alleged to have been in
vented at Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, and trans
ported by rail to Chicago for practical
test? is suggested by the revival of the
subject of aerial navigation by the
French scientist, Prof. Langley, in a
paper read by him few days ago before
the National Academy Of Science at
Washington. Says the professor;
Long investigation of this matter
leads him to the conclusion that aerial
navigation is both possible and probable
when made subject of serious study by
men of learning. Let it but pass out Of
the hands of charlatans into those of en-
gineers, and it may at no distant day be-
come an accomplished fact. Able sci
entists have really gone to work upon
this problem, and people yet living may
see air ships like those which play such
a role in our Mr.. Donnelly's Caesars
Column" careering through the ether,
and so annihilating distance, as to make
practically one, all the nations Of the
earth"
The Mt. Carmel genius wants to exert
himself, else some Frenchman will quiet
ly step in and carry off the honor that
erstwhile has been mis-.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

On Thursday. March 10. 1919. there
appeared ut London. about s o'clock AZ
night, Sudden great hight moving az.
ter the manner but more slowly than 5
falling star. II started from point be-
low Orions belt, then lying in the south.
west, and went upward instead of down
ward like n falling star. Its size, &C
cording 10 the testimony Of numerous
observers in Spain, France, Ireland. Hol.
land and some parts Of Germany, As well
as those who saw 1t in London and ali
over England. was about that If the full
moon. ii was Of whitish color, with an
eye in the center As blue as tho most
azure portion Of a June sky after thun-
der storm. 1t went straight upward n
its course until out Of sight, leaving q
track Of fiery red sparks in lis wake. -
St. Louis Republic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

the machine and to keep it going, MIR.
Brushing says, is to run this tin pipe up
high enough and turn on the damper.
The wheels will then whirl and whlrl.
These wheels revolye in castings OF zlnc,
and being themselves of copper, Mr.:
Brushing thinks they create an electrical
air current" Just what an electrical air
current Is he is not sure, but he is sure
that the machines he has constructed
thus run more easily than those without
this peculiar combination.
50 The wheel | have at home, says Mr..
Brushing, is ten inches in diameter. 1t
has ten inch pipe. thirty feet high and
everybody in Frankfort will tell you it
has been running sewing machine and
has never stopped in three months. II
could combine three or four large size
machines on line shaft could develop
fifty horse power. / have been studying
this thing for forty years, and for long
time thought, just as you do. that per-
petual motion is impossible. 1t Is lmpos-
Sibie unless you convert the weight OF the
air and gravity, which have always him
dered such motion, into power to con-
tlnue it. That is what l have done. 1t
came on me like flash last February
and l took to experimenting. L noticed
that there is a perpetual draft through
tall chimneys. Take those high stacks
in the iron regions, the air will nearly
suck man up one of them. People
have always thought it was the fire that
creates the draft. They are in the
wrong; it is the draft that gives life to
the fire.
''Mr. Brushing himself built the model
he carries with him. 1t is a remarkably
neat piece of work The two wheels are
as delicately mounted as the balance
wheels of Swiss watch, and touch of
the finger will set them going for long
time. Just SO long as Mr.. Brushing can
persuade little wind to blow through
or over his tall tin pipe the wheel will
whirl increasingly. When the wind
stops
- But did you ever see a tall fiue
when there was not some current Of
air:' asks Mr.. Brushing.
And that is the question"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
Reason for Gratitude.

II even once read a grateful defence
Of Captain Kidd, the pirate
But you don't know the circuIn-
stances under which il was vritteuY"
NO"
''He boarded vessel where everybody
was seasick. He gave the usual order.
Your money or your life Everybody
felt 50 thankful at the prospect Of being
put out Of their misery that they one
and all refused the money. lie accord
ingIy hung them, and the captain. who
was spared. was 50 thankful - be spared
their complaints that whea he g0s Oh
shore be wrote the article. st. Paul
Cylgif,a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
Greek and Roman Stoves.

Warm as Greece and Rome and Egypt
are. stoves were made there IN the dim
and misty vistas of the past. 1t was not
just the pattern used in Chicago at pres
ent, but was a metal basin in which
charcoal was burned. 1t sat in the mid
die of the room, and as the resulting
smoke was of the slightest no opening in
the roof or elsewhere was necessary.
The same implement. still called by it's
old Greek name of brazier, is still en-
ployed in many portions of continental
Europe, where it is utilized for heating
as well as cooking.
But the progressive Romans improved
on that and made a hypocaust. Ii was
the germ Of the present furnace. II was
made under the house in a Ettle cellar
prepared for it, and the heat was con-
Quoted to the rooms and baths through
creyices left in the floor and lower por-
tons of the wall. Later fues were pro-
vided, conducting heat TO any portion Of
the house In some of the old Roman
villas in England the remains of these
old time furnaces are still found.-Chi-
cago Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
IS IT PERPETUAL MoTIoNp

The Kansas City Times prints the fol-
lowing remarkable intelligence:
Thomas Brisbing. of Frankfort. Kan.
thinks he has invented a perpetual mo-
ton machine. He has sold a half inter
est 10 j. + Campbell aud the two have
gone 10 Washington TO get a patent on
the invention. Mr.. Brushing either has
a wonderful piece of machinery or else
he Is working a very successful fake He
says that out in Frankfort he has q large
model OF his invention which has been
running a sewing machine for the last
three months and has never even stopped
tor grease. Brisbing Is an old man and
mas stndied perpetual motion for forty
years, he SAYS
Inc model he carries with him is a
curious affair. In the top of red
painted box there is a copper wheel,
oulit on the model Of an ordinary wind
mid wheel 1t revolves on q vertical
axis Above it is a similar wheel.
Ii revolves on transverse axis. From
out OF the top OF the box rises a tin fun
nei. The only thing necessary TO start
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

The good-natured bout between Presi-
dent Harrison and Governor Hogg over
which one should grant the Mexican
soldiers the privilege of crossing the Rio
Grande at FL Paso to join in welcoming
the president has given the Texas papers
exalted opinions of their big governor.
The Wichita Herald says:
Governor Hogg's suggestion to Harrison
that the governor of Texas and not the
president had the right to grant Mexican
soldiers permission 10 enter this state in
uniform and attend the reception at FL
Paso WAS proper and right. The states Of
this government are sovereign in the man
agement of their domestic affairs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
WINFIELD ASSEMBLY.

The fifth session of the Winfield
Chautauquan Assembly will open on
Tuesday, June 90, and will close on the
evening of July 3.
Rev. B. T. Vincent, D. D., will have
supervision as last year.
The music will be directed by Prof.
George F. Briefly, and the school of
elocutien by Prof. T. C. Trueblood, A.
NJ, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
The school will embrace several edu-
Gators of national reputation and the
minister's institute includes in its list
some of the strongest preachers in the
state.
Mrs. A. S. Benjamin, of Michigan,
will conduct w. C. T. U. school Of
methods.
Dates are fixed for Rev. Sam Jones,
DR.. A. A. Willets, DR.. Kerr B. Upper,
Prof. Dinsmon, DIR. Robert Nourse, DIR.
George w. Miller, Hon. E. E. White,
Rev. Robert Mcintyre. Rev. Sam Small
is also expected. Island Park, with its
great trees, its blue grass sward and
electric lights, is one of the most de-
hghtful places in Kansas. And this
year it offers the most irresistible in
ducements to feast in its inviting shades.
Send to the secretary for particulars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
THE SOUTHERN KANSAS FAIR.

The editor of the Whitewater Tribune
talks of the fair this fall in the following
sound and comprehensive way:
Wichita has commenced to talk up
the Southern Kansas fair. There is
nothing like beginning in time, and
Wichita knows it. This fair is one that
all southern Kansas is or should be in
terested in, and every county and town
should encourage and help the enter
prise. Such show as can be made at
Wichita is worth hundreds of thousands
of dollars to our state. Wichita, though
a mighty city and capable of great
things, can not do justice to the scheme
alone. but with the aid of surrounding
cities such as Newton, Ell Dorado, Fair
field and scores of others an exposition
could be made that wonld make older
states, and all states, gaze with admira-
ton, and even Kansas herself would be
surprised at the result. 1t takes an
awful sight to surprise Kansas, though.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
Gardens and Lawns.

From the POst-Dspctch.
With the breath of balmy spring comes
desire to beautify gardens and lawns,
and here is charming idea for a lawn
decoration. The effect can be secured
by making a screen Of a large clothes
horse. Sink the long ends of the up
rights deep into the earth, arranging the
panels according to your fancy. Then
dig a bed, foot wide at the base, and
plant any kind of rapid creepers, cypress
vine, Madeira vine, morning glories.
whatever you will making the panels
different if you choose, and arranging
cords from top to bottom. BY the mid
die of the summer the Goral screen viii
be completely covered. and will make a
most decorative corner for q rustic table
and chair. The effect will be greatly
enhanced by rug of clipped colens cut
in the green turf at little distance from
the chair and table
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16
NO TELL Ct.
ut VALLEY Times.

From the Walnut Valley Times.
The Wichita EAGLE is leaning away
over toward Harrison. Only a short
time since it was feminist Benny" with
all its might, but now it says:
If Blaine is rot n candi ate, what's he matter
with Kansas sending solid delegation for pres
ent soldier president, He was good soldier and
is as good friend to the soldier as Gen. Aiger OR
general any bodyese.
1t is undoubtedly true that the Re-
publican press has undergone change
of heart since the president started on
his western trip. Before that there
were few to speak well of him. But he
has behaved himself well, has received
praises even from his political enemies
and he is being spoken of on all sides as
a probability for 1892. Nevertheless
many changes may occur within a year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

The boycott attempted to be put upon
the representatives of the Latin-Ameri-
can countries by the Europeans in Wash
ington city, may prove trifle embarrass-
ing to the former, and should it be car
ried to the business relations between the
countries they represent the South Amer
leans would perhaps be Inconvenience
somewhat for the time being, but it
would be only temporary at most. The
Americas are about as independent of
Europe as Europe is of us, and it will
require only short time to adjust our
business relations on this side so as to
prevent serious losses or inconvenience.
The European diplomats at Washington
exhibit very little diplomacy in this mat
fer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

= series Of Sunday evening lectures at
present being delivered IN London by
the Rev. NJ Have5s u creating 4 deal
Of comment The general tale Of the
sddre@ses il Some Aizun5erstood Char
acsers In tee Bible" These eornprlss
among others Cam. Judas Iscarlot ard
Pontius Plate Laboochere demands
that while he IL So IL NJ Eaxess shall
make the 700 complese AID give clean
bill Of moral health 70 Satan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-16

If you want 10 make the people crazy,
just get them hot after some imaginary
enemy that they can't catch.-Gelvesto
News.
Correct. But, if the enemy should be-
come real and, perchance, easily comeat-
able they would exhibit the courage of
the bully who had nagged an lnoffensive
sort of fellow into physical resistance
and then Justify called out: Catch him,
stop him; two of you hold him; one can
hold me-" Human nature can beat its
next of kin, the monkey, out of sight
when it comes to performing ludicrous
antics