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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
Che aa1ehita Daily gayle ghursaay orning gully 23y1se1.

McMaster, of the Oklahoma City Ga
zette, is a hail fellow we'll met to every
body personally. But he uses vinegar and
'pizen" in his ink stand with vengeance.
Mrs. /. n. Terril, two miles east of CHM
AKRON City. gave birth to son last sun
day hight, July - She is a kind good
woman and has the sympathy OF all her
neighbors in her trouble.
Frank Greer dashed off little four col
umn paragraph on Oklahoma's statehood
in the Capital the other day. Most men
after writing an article of that length and
strength would go out on weeks booze.
The decision of the register and receiver
in the Lexington town site case has been
affirmed by the Commissioners OF the gen
eral land Office. The decision gives eighty
acres of the townsite to Editor Walker, OF
the Purcell Register.
All the old Kansan's in Oklahoma will
have to appeal to Senator Plumb for the
early opening of the new lands. ingalls,
is down and out and his successor, PETER,
is too busy shooting off his mouth 10 use
his influence if he had any.
The commissioner of the general land
office has written letter under date or
the 18th, inst. TO the register and receiver
of the Kingfsher office, in which ne holds
that persons who accept employment as
surveyors, chainmen, teamsters, cooks and
IN other capacities of the Cheyenne and
Arapahoe allotment agents, and who go
upon this reservation for the purpose Of
aiding in the work of allotment, would be
disqualified from entering into competi-
ton with other claimants for homesteads
at the time of the opening in view of the
provisions of section II, act of March .,
1889, and the decision of the secretary OF
the interior in the case of the toWnsite Of
Kingfsher VS.. Wood, ct al
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
A Whale Caught Mapping.

"Oh, yes; / know this is the season for
fish stories, but what 1 am telling you is =
fact, vouched for by all hands" indignant
ly remarked Ship Chandler John Reece, IN
reply to some incredulous smiles upon the
part of his auditors. Mr.. Reece, a. is his
custom of an afternoon when the cares OF
business permit. had been RECALLING tn
habtaes Of his captains rooms with some
of his racy sea stories, and the talk had
turned on whaling.
Talking Of whales" he suddenly ex-
claimed, when my friend, Captain Pearn,
now commanding the steamship Circas-
sian Prince, had charge of the Ocean Spray,
he met with an extraordinary adventure
The vessel in question was on her way 70
Lisbon. and while crossing the Bay Of Bis
cay one night she brought up with a most
tremendous shock. Captain Pearn was
below at the time. but rushed on deck fully
believing that the Ocean Spray was foul Of
another vessel
The lookout came flying aft with hair
standing on end and covered with blood.
AS nothing could be MADE Of the incoberegt
explanations Of the dumfouDded sailor.
movement was made for'ad and the myS-
terry was solved a huge whale was
NIL al TIC ffae - t-A-as lflAs ia
two, the dolphin striker. or to use a mod
ern term, martinzale, sticking into his
back. The cetacean vas fully seventy feet
long, and bad evidently gone into his death
furry. While they were gazing a. the
monster the pl1aging Of the vessel Ia the
waves-is was blowing Zine knot breeze
released the carcass and foatsd u OF -
Ieeward. In the morning, when the watch
was called on 70 wash decks, y was SEEN
thai the iorec2st!e, foot Of fofetopuaast
stayssil and inner jib were sprayed with
blood.
The lookout man said that the blood
spurted Up ike fountain and r. be va
standing inst by the weather cathead be
got the t1u beneft % e. Wben tbe Ocean
Spray was docked 6. was discovered thai
seven or eight sheets Of copper lad been
torn OK the stem TIE whale uzs prUts~ /
big asleep a. The time -PLllzde!2h ia Ii !
ouirsr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Governor Steele will reach home August
5th.
The cattle baron never loses his bearing.
That's where he's smart.
Strange, but the more liars" the Okla
homa housewife has nowadays the happier
she IS.
There is a town in Oklahoma called
Lswerie. Probably some relation TO An
ME Laurie.
Mr. Gillabie is acting editor OF the Guth-
RE News. He knows how TO twist pen
like poet.
come back 10 Kansas for couple OF weeks
TO help put up fruit.
Oklahoma ought to preserve some OF
those big cornstaIks with four ears Of corn
on them for the worlds fair.
The Cheyenne and Arrapshoe alloting
agents are hard AZ work They will prob
ably soon stir up a Whiriwlnd.
Il is these warm days that make people
IN the territory glad that il Is not against
the law 10 sell beer IN Oklahoma
These bot summer evenings every front
porch in Oklahoma holds a family caucus
And everybody is in favor of statehood
Jake Admire's two sons get up the local
page OF the Kiugfisser Free Press. And
The old man" Couldn't do any better hin
self
Wild pluns ara abundant In the terri
tory There is one good thing about wild
fruit. You can't xiii It Of Ike deer aud
turkey.
Professor Esleck, of the Guthrie Capt.
tal, has almost a. long hair on his chin as
Thompson. OF the Guthrie News, has O.
his head
L IS probable that If tee depEtT r.ar-
shzlls should see the Dalton boys they
would not have courage enough 70 Catch
them with . K3Sak-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23

duction. A fuller understanding of
these facts is inspiring general feeling
OF confidence in the safety and desira-
blilty OF Kansas land as an investment,
and Is attracting capital to that state.
Many farmer in Kansas has pro-
duced crops this year which have
brought the producer more than the land
would have sold for a year ago. In
stances of this, kind have been reported
by the score, and they only go to illus
trate the unfailing law of averages which
IS lost sight of in Kansas in disastrous
seasons. 1t is safe to say that land will
never be worth any less in Kansas than
it is today, and that a farm judiciously
secured there cannot fail to prove a re-
munerative venture for the purchaser.
1t is particularly suspicious time for
homeseekers TO visit the state, and the
people of Kansas will show great lack
of foresight if they do not bestir them
selves In the interest of the harvest ex-
cursions which have been proposed, and
which can certainly be made available in
adding large number of desirable set
slers to the population Of the state.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
e ARCADE


An invalid dragged herself 20 a window
one winter day and. signing, fixed her alb
sent regard upon bare vine clinRinR % a
neighboring wall The sky was gray. the
wind clustering. n few snow fakes were
falling. Presently the twitter Of sparrows
enlisted her sympathy. How bravery vess
they strva Cling 70 rebuild their tattered
nests. Again and again they had been de-
stroyed, and yet. despite cold and disap-
pointment. they chirped at their hard fate
aud worked away. And shall not l."
thought she, "who am Of more value than
many .sparrows, be as stout Of heart a.
theyW
None is too poor 20 own some sort Of
window, the larger the opening. Of course.
the greater the benefit. The danger il that
the aesthetic soul will wish 70 see his land
scape through a colored glass-the late la
mented fad 70 the contrary, let 10 not b
blue. a traveller in foreign city was ones
disturbed by the dingy windows Of her OPP
pOsite neighbOr. One day the maid gave
her own windows vigorous washing. IA
she was cOngratulating her On hersuperiOr
neAtness, she noticed the setting sun re-
hected ia the shining panes across the way.
They have been washing their windows,
haven't they" asked the mistress. oh,
no, madam" WAS the reply, lit = ours THAI
were dirty. Chicago Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
MY NEleHsoR's BOY.
His Natural Characteristics Get Him
Into Numerous Difficulties

His Natural Characteristics Get Hin
Into Numerous Difficulties.
ALWAYS make it rule to get along
with my neighbors without engaging in
any belittling quarrels or disputes with
them. will put up with a great deal
before viii descend to the vulgarity of
a quarrel with any one, and / don't in
tend having a row with any one now,
but if my neighbours boy should disap-
pear suddenly and never be heard of any
more, or if he should be found with his
neck broken, 1 viii perhaps have been
at the bottom of it all, and no honest
jury in the land viii do anything with
me for it.
This boy is ten years old. His name
is Horace Walpole Gladstone Smith, but
they cali him Teddy" He has taken
to gettingup at o'clock these fine morn
ings, and his parents encourage him IN
such idiocy by Dragging around show
smart our little Teddy is!'
Ten minutes after Teddy is up he is
racing along in front of my house draw
ing stick over the palings of the fence
under my bedroom window. Then he
walks up and down singing Il want to
be an angel" He knows but one line
of it, and he screeches that out over and
over again until-well, you know what
l wish as I lie in bed crashing my
teeth, with no hope of getting my be-
loved morning snooze.
BY and by, at about half past 5, he
brings out wagon made ont of q wood
en- box aud four creaking, webbing,
solid wooden wheels, and he races up
and down the wooden pavement drag
ging that noisy, loathsome thing after
him. Then he gets under my open bed
room window and begins screening TO
boy who lives half block away:
JIMMY O-o-o-h, jim! S-a-a-y, jim
Jones, Pm up and you a-i-i-i-n't!"
Then he goes through series of yells,
cat calls and dog barks, ending with
frightful singing of Annie Rooney"
This is followed by another wildly
screeched out taunt to Jimmy Jones.
''S-a-a-y, Jim! Beat We upI I've beat
ye up, sleepy headl O-o-o-o-h, JIM"
You thrust your head out of window
and say coldly:
''Stop that noisey"
He looks up at you placidly and says:
Il guess can make all the noise
want to In my fathers own yard, so
can," and he makes more noise than be-
fore, while you bounce back to bed feel
ing pretty sure that the command to
'1ove thy neighbor as myself" did not
include thy neighbor's boy.--Detroit
Free Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
SWEET GLOVER FOR HONEY.

To the Editor of the EAGLE
When l came to Kansas I brought
with me some seed of this plant which I
priced above all other plants for bee pas
turage, and find it grows better here
than any where at the north. 1t is
naturally adopted to our soil and climate
as our sun flowers are, which it outgrew
all the spring until it commenced to
bloom, June first. The flowers are
small but very numerous and are con-
stantly produced on the new shoots
grown out.
The main stalks which are covered
with lateral branches, will now average
between and feet in height. Its
growth resembles hemp more than any
other plant, and like hemp has good
tough fberous stalk suitable for paper
making. Five or six tons Of it are
produced per acre. In the early stage
of its growth it resembles alfalfa but is too
highly favored to berelished by stock al
though they will eat it when feed is scarce
1t is covered with one mass of bloom
Ol6 COulluudl HULL VI U6eS lIOIu
early morn until late at night, and is the
least affected by the extremes of weather
of any honey plant l am acquainted
with, and will produce on an average,
i'll Kansas, from one to two thousand
pounds of honey to the acre in season.
The honey is more wholesome than
white clover honey, which clogs in weak
stomachs without milk is used. 1t is
more transparent in color than white
clover honey and very nearly as much
so as thistle honey, which it more nearly
resembles. The pollen which is gathered
by the bees, and is commonly called bee
bread, is not bitter like that gathered
from the mint family of plants, more
pungent like mustard, but very agreea-
BILE to the taste.
The flavor of the honey is quite dis
tinct, as much so as red raspberry or
alfalfa honey-it has a characteristic
flavor of its own sweet scented clover.
The honey when first gathered has the
thickness or density of sage honey, but
when ripened ready to be sealed that of
linn honey; in fact it is as good as the
best, and when we say it is better than
white clover we have said enough.
A fair price for this quality of honey
would be for extracted honey 10 cents
and for comb honey 90 cents pound.
The actual cost of which would not ex-
coed on large scale over to 2 cents
pound if grown in Kansas. Notwitn-
standing it requires the consumption of
twenty pounds of honey by the bees to
secrete one pound of wax and ten pounds
of honey and bee bread to produce a
pound of bees, which are destroyed in
gathering the twenty pounds of honey
and secrete the pound of wax to hold it,
requiring two and half pounds of
honey in the plant for one of CONT
honey produced for sale, still it would
be something like 800 pounds of comb
honey to the acre, worth about 500.
This is furnished by the plant gratuitous-
ly to those who will plant the seed and
procure the bees. II. E. BIDwELL.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
One way TO Get Rid Of a Cousin.

"We're going to break up housekeeping"
she said, addressing the horse car load OF
people through her lady companion.
What Give up that lovely fat2 Why,
Thought you loved New York! Not going
away"
"N-no, not exactly You see, were tired
of housekeeping and are going to boarding.
We shall store our furniture. Joe thinks
it's the only way out. Well try it again
after awhile, you know"
What's the matter? I'm sure you were
as snug and happy as two people could well
be when was up. You haven't been try
ing to cookf"
''Oh, no, we have the very best kind of a
servant. Dear, dearl Pm afraid shan't
be able To get her when we 90 back TO
housekeeping again. It is so hard TO get
good servants, and she is such treasure.
We were so happyv
well, what on earth, ohild"-
THE fact is, Joe's cousin came on here
some time ago and won't 20 away, plague
on him, He just stays and stays and stays
And hes brought the child for me to take
care Of And hes spent all his money and
thinks he'll stay here and maybe look for
a job. But he'll never work-not If he can
help it. He is such polite and refined
sort Of a man, too, neither Of US can tell
him to 90 We don't believe he would 20
if we'd tell him, see So Joe and have
agreed that the best way is to throw up
the fat When the fellow goes away or
falls in the river. or something, well FIX
up again Now, isn't that real cunningf1-
New York Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
KANSAS LANDS


From the Kansas City Star.
The prediction is made, and apparently
with good prospect of fuIfillment, that
the next boom in the west will be in
farming lands. Indeed, there is already
a very perceptible reaction in this class
of property. Under the influence of the
depression in agriculture which prevailed
for several years previous to 1890, farm
ing lands declined in price to a mark
which was considerably below their in
trinsic value. With the improvement in
prices for farm products last season land
began TO look up little, and the splendid
crops this year have exerted decidedly
stimulating influence upon the market.
The increased inquiry and demand for
farming lands is quite notable in Kansas.
The president of prominent loan and
investment company at Topeka states
that land is worth rs per cent more now
than il was at this time last year, and
that his company had sold more farms
within the last ninety days than during
the preceding three years. Similar re-
ports come from all sections of the
state, showing the upward tendency
of land, and the desire to secure it at
the present reasonable prices. With
so much unemployed capital in the
country, and with so many tempting
opportunities for investment in Kansas,
the dawning activity in country real es-
is bound TO increase and become
still more pronounced. Home seekers
are not likely ever TO find so favorable
an opportunity again for securing de
sirable farms in Kansas rs now, and
even spectators cannot afford to neglect
a field which offers such strong sttrac-
tons as the Sunfiower state presents at
the present time
1t has been demonstrated beyond the
shadow of doubt that intelligent and
thrifty farming pays in Kansas. 1t has
been proved by trustworthy statistics
that for given series of years Kansas
shows as high an average of production
as any state IN the union. Il has occa-
sionai crop failures. IL Is true. but taking
one season with another the crops are as
certain there as anywhere else in the
country, and they are produced with an
ease which Is not possible II any other
locality.
Experience has also taught that BIZ
ecouomv and wise management the in
iuence of fluctuating markets can be
overcome in Kansas, and that, in the
end, there is no danger TO be feared from
over production. Ii has always turned
out that the surplus of bountifal seasons
has an intrinsic value which is far above
the insufficient prices for which farm
products are often sold In Kansas. in the
face OF the knowledge that they possess
value which viii afford the farmer a
reasonable margin over the COS; Of pro-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
STATE SYMBOLS.

From the Springfield Democrat.
The esthetic craze seems to be upon US.
The states are selecting flowers to repre-
sent them, to be their symbols. Kansas,
it is well knewn, has long since adopted
the sunfiower as her emblem. Colorado
comes now with the columbine as her IA
vorlte. The eastern states through the
medium of their schools and newspapers
have been voting on state and national
embiems, and the choice seems to be be-
tween the sunfower and the golden-rod,
although New York recently manifested
decided preference for the rose. They
are all selecting flowers for their SYM
bols, however.
OF course there is no utility in these
things, if we measure utility by the bulk
of work accomplished. Still it may be
that IN exercising a refining influence
over the hearts OF men, thus fitting them
to do nobler and greater work. flower
symbol suggestive of some grand idea
may in the end work out into utility.
Symbols may be foolish, but every ma
ton has had them, and every nation in
existence today has them. The Russian
bear, the British lion, the American
eagle, all stand as types of nations
Even the great seal of Missouri bears on
its face symbol of two rampant bears.
1t would appear that mankind is so pc
culiarly constituted as to desire some
convenient type, and from the lion of
Judah down to the eagle of America
they have ever been in use.
And it must be admitted that many
or majority Of the emblems have been
anything but lovely in their character.
Tho no 70 IF
carniverous, cruel, fighters. The eagle
itself is cruel in its habits, and while
free and majestic in its way. possesses
few of the elements of beauty either in
form or character. If men are supposed
to be emulous of that which they take
to represent them, then it would seem
as if the American ideal was lofty indie
pendence, coupled with utter selfishness
and the utmost cruelty.
The suggesting of flower emblems in
lieu of these bloody and cruel types is
mentoriouS in bringing the idea of es-
theticism into our life. They suggest
not SO much of the battlefield as of the
home, and if there is any one institution
above another that gloriies America and
the civilization of the present day it is
not our machinery, not the rush and
shrewdnefs of our business relations and
transactions, but the home. Women can
have but little partin a country whose
symbol is the lion or the eagle, but when
some flower is chosen as the type repre-
senting a people, the home side of their
life and the ministration of women in
their civilization is at once suggested. 1t
may be. then, that the agitation for
national flower, while on the surface APP
pearing silly, has in it deep and under
lying meaning.
The prophet Daniel conceived nation
not by beasts rising from
the sea, but by man. Manhood, Speak
ing in the sense which includes both
sexes) and not beastliness was with him
the highest type. Until we can come to
recognize the beauty of this idea per-
hays it is we'll for us to climb toward it
on the fragrance and beauty of the
flowers
STARS that in earth's armament do shine"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
The Little Soldier.

A short soldier is not to be held in
efficient because of lack of stature. The
standard IN the French army is, and
was, indeed, in the days of the old pro-
fessional army, lower than OURS is now.
The piou-pious who stormed the Mala-
koff were little grigs of men, averaging
about feet inches. But they were
why, tough, sinewy fellows-genuine
men, although low of stature. The
French nation runs small.
The British people, as a whole, are Of
larger frame, and the understood men
among US are more apt to be weaklings.
How much more likely TO be weakEngs
are the understood ''dregs" use Mr..
Bright's expression-who scramble by a
strain into our ranks under the present
low standard of admission.
The old notion was that big soldier
was needed to furnish weight and thrust
ing power in a bayonet charge. There
are no bayonet charges now. During
the whole Franco-Ger1nan war l saw
bloody bayonets but once, and that in
street fight. Man for man, the moderate
sized, sturdy reeruit-perhaps even the
sturdy little recruit, is likely to make
better all around soldier than the big
fellow. He has more endurance, no
seems TO carry his burden more easily,
having less of himself to carry, and he is
generally healthier.
But your narrow chested. "herring
bodied" undersized gutter weed is pure
trash on campaign; you cannot make de-
cent cannon fodder" of a creature Of
this sort, and it is Of creatures Of this
sort that our ranks today are full
Archibald Forbes in Fortnightly Re-
view.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23

The announcement that the pope nor
the vatican favor the much-talked-of Co
hensley scheme ought to be sufficient to
put an end to the discussion of the sub
ject, which never had any show of being
acted upon in this country. Ordinarily
1t would not be expected that the head
of the church should take cognizance of
question that might be publicly dis
cussed until the matter should be
brought, officially, before him or them;
but, while this was a matter largely per-
sonal to the one who suggested and
pressed it, it nevertheless became at once
a matter of wide discussion and general
interest in this country, and his holiness
and his advisory council would have
done well TO speak out at once in con-
domination of the scheme and not wait
for an expression of sentiment As it is,
it appears as a sort of eleventh-haur re-
here.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-23
Psenl. One nrsst. In New YorL.

"a walk IN Broadway any fine day. - 20
marked an EDglishman who j. staying
here, reminds one that this Is really n
small world after all have within 4
week met on different days several persons
from widely distant parts % the Riobe.
One day I met an intimsts acquaintance
from my own country whom ! supposed
was in London. The very Dext day cams
suddenly fsce % face with the captain n =
ship Ia which had not very long bsf0rs
sailed many hundreds ~ miles over ths
Pacific OCEAN. Another day WIS tapped
on the shoulder by he leading druggist n
= Central American city, on whose cool
AID shady interior veranda pssssd many
. pleasas: hour during the boz part q The
burning tropical day. Last % all. snd
even more Unexpectedly. Hs@t &n Arab
from Ezypt who had acted a. a gsiae FOO
ne On a visit 70 the Pyrannids. ] ara slrlost
moved 70 believe that ever t>siy, sooasr or
later, oomes % As1 Ioyk.-Ssx York
Times.