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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
a YEAR OF PLENTY.
he Philadelphia Record

From the Philadelphia Record
The enormous crops of the closing
year may well confound the theorists
who have added their brains with calcu-
lations to prove that year of scarcity
and high prices is more advantageous to
the farmer than year of abundance.
1t is a low estimate that the total
wheat crop of the country amounts. TO
5SS, GOO, 600 bushels, which at an average
price of So cents a bushel on the farm
represents value of not quite 500. 000.-
000-an increase of 1856, 900, 900 over the
crop of 1890. The corn crop, estimated
at 2, 075. 900, coo bushels, at an average
farm price of AZ cents bushel is worth
$S71 SOC, 900; while last years crop, in
spite of the hi her price, had value Of
only $754, 443, 531-an increase in the
value this year of S117, 900, 600. A crop
of 758, 900, 900 bushels of oats represents
at the farmers selling price of 30 10
cents bushel $244. orc, 000-an increase
of So, 000, 900 over the value of last
years crop. These three cereals alone
have yielded to the American farmers
this year about $500, 100000 more than
IN 1890, to say nothing of the rye, barley
and buckwheat and the unprecedented
crops of apples and other fruit.
1t may be said that large portion OF
the corn crop, as well as that OF oats,
Is consumed on the farm, and that this
brings no cash directly to the farmer 5
pockets. But when the farmers use
their corn in fattening cattle they doubt
less find this practice of quite as much
pecuniarv advantage as If they had
brought the corn itself to market. There
is reason, however, 10 anticipate that
the scarcity in Europe and the reduc-
ton of duties by Germany and France
will, in the coming months, open wider
markets than ever before for the
country's surplus corn.
The transportation companies, who
next to the farmers draw the greatest
direct advantages from the years har-
vest, are at least not much attracted by
the d 1ctrine of scarcity. Their gains
from the abundant harvest are witnessed
in their enormous increase in receipts,
in larger dividends and in the enhanced
value of railroad shares. As a conse-
uuence, the SPECTATORS who gamble on
a decline in the price of railroad securi-
ties have found themselves. to their
great loss, on the wrong side OF the
market Since large portion of the
crops remains to be moved, it may be
anticipated that in the coming months
the gross receipts and net earnings of
the transportation companies will in
crease, and that the value of their shares
will rise still higher in the markets. In
fine, the American people, without ex-
ception, have been vastly benefited by
the years abundant harvests. The short
crop theory has no basis in either exper-
fence or common sense.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
MASCULINE MENTION.

Gladstone's nephew, Sir John Gladstone,
owns the famous Fettercairn Scotch
whisky distillery at Fasque.
Ex-senator DoolittIe, of Wisconsin, al
though seventy-six years Of age, is still a
busy and active practitioner before the
courts.
Daniel Dougherty, the silver tongued
orator, made his first money holding the
ribbons over his fathers bus team in Phil
adelphia.
Bailey Waggener, a Kansas lawyer, who
is one of Jay Goulds staff Of railwa coun-
sci, used to earn his living in Atchison by
saving wood.
1t is reported that during his recent stay
in Paris Mr.. Yerkes. Of Chicago, expended
fully 100000 in masterpieces OF the mod
ern French school Of painting.
Secretaries Tracy and Foster are the
easiest OF approach Of all the cabinet Off
GERS. Mr. Blaine on the other hand, II
rather exclusive, and the interviewer finds
it hard work TO get an audience with hun
Isaac 5. Dement,, a Chicago stenographer,
recently took down $50 words within one
minute in shorthand. Mr.. Dement, IA
thirty-six years old He uses n system OF
stenography of his own, made up OF Pit
mans and Graham's methods in their most
abbreviated form.
A noted character Of the Sac and Fox ma
ton in Nebraska Is George +. Gormelo,
who for twenty years has been an inter
prefer in the employ Of the government
He speaks fourteen Indian dialects, and,
though seventy years old and blind, has
not outIived his usefulness.
The Earl OF Dudley holds the largest life
insurance ever effected, the amount being
for SC. 10000. Second in the list comes Mr..
Wanamaker, whose policies OF S,&JOYO
exceeds that Of the car Of all the RuBsias
BY $50, 600 Fourth comes the Prince OF
Wales, whose life IS insured for &, G@j,Oo0.
The power behind the throne Of the
car of Russia, by which the car Is largely
controlled, Is embodied in that singular
man, Pobledonostsef. the procurator Of
the holy synod Of the Russian church This
astute functionary has acquired great
ascendauey over the mind Of Alexander III
Governor Jones, the head az the Caoo-
tav nation, il a pacific savage, clad ia
store clotbes. which LOOK s. IL be douned
them with tie aid Of pitchfork. He wears
a STUDY gray mustacEe, porsn5Oss
watch cham and diamond pin nesting
In a ky blue cTavat. lie talks very B.tls
English.
Henri Rocbefort. Ire former Paris Com
n1unlst, who escaged from h.. harlsboeo.
T. tie penal sstt lemert - New Caledonia.
speaks 10 English, although be makes
London hls home. lie j. sixty years old,
and his hair = snow white Iaere T.
nothing % she aaarlAis. u bis dress or
cemeaugr.
Steve BrDdie, tie bridge jumper, - not
80 much crank a. not 20 nave szlted
down a col g. gg5. and though he Is vul
gar fellow who &c ish;s n wearing door
knob DIAMOND "a hss bosom AID - l2uTls5
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
CROWN AND SCEoTER.

The Emperor William is a b,okbirder
by trade.
The queen of Denmark is seventyfour
years old.
The empress Of China, according TO the
custom of the empire. is never permitted To
leave the palace grounds.
Queen Victorias tea is always purchased
at quaint, old fashioned shop in Pail
Mall, and has been during her FIVE prede-
cesso-s' reigus. Ii costs $l.3j pound, and
Is known as Earl Grey's mixture.
The khedivs Of Egypt neither smokes
nor drinks, and though allowed many
wives has only one. He is very learned iu
Arabic lore, and knows the Koran so thor
oughly that he can recite it from memory.
Some criticism has been made Of the
Prince Of Wales for shooting in kid gloves,
and calling him butterfly sportsman.
The English press are indignant at this &c
cusatiou, and say he is by far the best shot
in the royal family and can hold his own
in any country.
The difficulty Of finding q suitable bride
for the crown prince Of Russia seems 10
grow greater as time goes by. The young
man Is not particularly attractive. The
imperial family Of Russia fear that he will
eventually succumb to consumption, which
has already afflicted his younger brothers-
The nizam OF Hyderabad, who rules over
what is probably the last stronghold Of
feudalism in the world, is the most eEtrav-
agant of earthly potentates. He Is said
10 spend $1,000, 900 a year, and has col
sction of jewels worth three times that
amount, including the biggest diamond In
the world.
The most curious character on the Island
OF BOrneo is the white sultan or rajah OF
Sarawah. lie is an EnglishmAn, Sir
Charles Brooke. and the United States Is
the only nation that recognizes his sover-
eighty. He rules over a part Of Borneo a.
large as Ireland, and his subjects pay
tribute 70 Rim in rice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
1T MIGHT BE.

Governor Humphrey might appoint
some man outside of the prominent can
didates only to ill Senator Plumb's
place until the converting of the legisla-
ture year hence. This course would
leave the field open to all the aspirants
without any of them being embarrassed
by the encumbency of the appointee. 1t
would insure another thing, and that Is
a tremendous state canvass for the Re-
publican party next year. All the can
didates for the senate would be anxious
to make all the points for himself posi-
BILE and, therefore, would be compelled
TO activity. In the meantime the man
thus appointed being unencumbered
could more successfully look after the
work left unfinished by Plumb. There
are men, and no doubt good and capable
men, who would accept the appointment
Tor a year without any desire of enter
ing the race a year hence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
PLUMB,S LAST HOURS.


The Washington Star of Monday Dec.
21st prints very full account of the
last days and hours of Plumb's life, from
which we take extracts from few par
agraphs, as follows:
Mr.. Plumb had been ailing moro or
less ever since the close of his herculean
labors in the last campaign IN his state,
which resulted so satisfactorily to HIM
self and party. He was at all times an
indefatigable worker but in this cam
paign he outdid himself. On his return
to Washington lie attempted to throw
into his senatorial duties his accustomed
ardor, but complained that he could not
concentrate his faculties with his accus-
toned readiness. Just after the opening
of the senate, walking with Col. Z. G.
Manning, his frequent companion, he
stopped as Manning was aUout TO leave
him and said; Don't 60, Manning; i
want you to stay by me; l don't know
exactly where am" He
thought that the trouble might
arise from some Impairment
of his vision, and after the adjournment
of the senate on Thursday last went 70
Philadelphia, where his eldest son Is IN
der treatment for defective eyesight, to
take advice in his own case, The emf
nent medical men he consulted told him
frankly that unless he gave himself an
immediate rest and exercised the great
est care softening of the brain might re-
suit.
He came back by the 6 o'clock train
and went to Chamberlin's. On the way
he met Colonel f. W. Ayres. who
warned him that he was giving too much
attention 10 his work and too little TO his
health. Il know it. he replied, and
my doctor has Just told me that | must
stop 1t. l am going over 70 Philadelphia
again tomorrow afternoon, and then for
SIX weeks ] am going to do nothing but
what my physician tells me.
At Chamberlin's he took his seat az
one of the small tables IN the rear Of the
public dining room alone. Senator Plumb
was an abstemious man and he did not
depart from his usual custom on this
occasion. lie partook Of no wine OF
other stimulant Ex-senator Malone,
Mr. Frank Hattou, Senator Squire and
his private secretary were AZ adjoining
tables. They ali entered into converse
ton with Air. Plumb. bUi IN the IEids. az
II the Kansas Senator stopped anu drew
out 3 bottle of medicine. which lie shook
up and took dose Of. remarkiny. with
AZ apology for has doing -. that lie was
feeling quite sick and feared ne V As go
ing 20 be laid no with the grip. lie
would not even yet admit ghe grave BRAN
trouble u which be had lecn warmed
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

Mrs. Harrison having been accused of
designing an inartistic set of China for
the White House. she writes to a friend
letter that has found its way into
The Art Amateur" explaining the
facts. She declares that the decoration
follows that of what is known as the
Lincoln set, with the American eagle
and flags in the center of the plates and
stars at the edges in blue. The borders
have been changed, however. and con-
sist of representations Of corn in gold.
MIS-. Harrison SAYS: Il selected the corn
because it is indigenous to this North
American soil, and purely national for
that reason. l think in the White House
the China, when ordered in quantities.
should be something in design that shows
It national, and some design ought to be
selected and kept, just as the Napoleon
plates were, or as many of the other ma
tions of Europe do. l considered the
Lincoln set the most dignifed and
proper set ofany that have vet seen
which have been there"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

The latest advices from Honolulu state
that SISTER Rose Gertrude, otherwise
known as Miss Fowler, the young En-
cliSh woman who went to the Sandwich
Islands about eighteen months ago 10
minister to the lepers, and whose SER
vices were refused, has married DR.. Lutz,
a physician whom she met at the leper
colony. Miss Fowler visited New York
in February. 1890, enroute for the Sand
wich Islands. She was clothed in the
habit of a Sister of the Third Order Of
ST. Francis, which in the Catholic church
can be worn by persons living in the
world who simply adhere TO certain reg
ulations as toTelgious practices.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

Up to the day of adjournment for the
holidays there had been introduced in
the senate sixty bills contemplating the
erection of public buildings throughout
the country and involving the expendi
ture Of $21, TAI, 642. What an opportu-
nifty this will afford Mr. Holman and his
confreres on the appropriations commit
tee and his party in the house to pose as
reformers. The fact that larger portion
of the amount is asked for by Dem
ocratic senators and committees than by
Republican will not stand in their way.
The Democratic party requires an issue
on which to go before the country IN
1892, and economyC0 is the only thing
left them. The matter of few millions
deficits in the different departments, to
be made good by the next congress IS
matter of no consequence to that party
when it comes to question Of party ex-
pediency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Guthrie lost its ice plant by fire Tuesday
morning.
The Choctaw road is building at the rate
of mile day.
Norman is figuring on a complete sys-
tenn of waterworks.
Judge Harvey got place in the COM
mittee on territories.
A Knights of Pythias lodge is to be Or
ganized at Chandler.
A car load of Alabama negroes reached
Guthrie, Wednesday.
Ardmore has one of the smallest daily
papers in the world.
The Guthrie waterworks bonds will be
sold within two weeks,
Among other holiday sports Oklahoma
City will indulge in a cock fight.
The revenues of Norman will more than
pay the expenses of the city.
The members of the legislature are said
to be hungry for a special session.
Norman has a prominent citizen who
has the queer name of Ranwater.
The Pottawatomie Indians are to receive
a payment of 1885, 600 in the near future.
J. j. Burke and E F. Brown are again
in charge of the Oklahoma City Times
Journal.
An OK weighing 2,2S7 was butchered at
Oklahoma City the other day. He was
whopper.
The Oklahoma school children get two
whole weeks of vacation during the
holidays.
The Oklahoma City Journal declares the
wholesale commission of perjury to be at
an end in Oklahoma.
The Salvation army has rented the hall
of defunct variety dive at Guthrie. That
is a fine boom item.
A Boston paper makes mention of the
statehood convention and says 1t was
body of highly intelligent men.
Eighteen cars of hay, 100 bales of cotton
and five cars of corn were shipped from
Oklahoma city on one day recently.
The only snow that the people OF Pur-
cell get to see is that which comes down
on the top of the Santa Fe trains from the
north.
William Jenkins, of Arkansas City, has
been appointed special agent to make alot-
ments of lands in seyerality to Indians, at
IS day.
The Guthrie papers state that the ice
factory destroyed by fire in that town
Tuesday morning, viii be rebuilt Of brick
and stone.
Last year Oklahoma did not have
scarcely any fires. This year, nearly every
town in the territory has had a de
structiye fire.
There is counties up TO III marked out
in the Cheyenne country, and if the Cher
okee strip is decided there won't be enough
letters a the alphabet TO 90 around.
The application Of the six lodges of
Knights Of Pythias Of Oklahoma for sepa-
rate Jurisdiction, has been granted, and
the Graud Lodge Of Knights Of Pythias Of
Oklahoma VIII soon be instituted.
T. " Lake, tough Of Guthrie who
bears the euphonious name OF Flat Nosed
Kid" is now in custody In that town
charged with sand bagginc and robbjog
:. ". Waters Of the Sac and Fox agency
Waters was seriously hurt and lost S-4
Oklahoma T.mes-Journai: There are
runners that some Of the farmers west q
the city through whose farms the CboctasT
runs viii get out injunctions against the
company when IL attempts 20 lay the
track IL seems strange ghey did not en-
join the construction OF the grade il they
had any grievances The injunctions.
however. even II they are brought, viii
not retard the YORK. The company Will
Il We bond and move right siCn--
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
SNAP SHOTS.

Every amateur society in the country
now has It's slide exhibitions, and they are
always well attended.
Count Luigi Primolo, theson Of Princess
Bonaparte, is adistinguished amateur pho
tograpber. He was recently awarded tho
honor Of q sitting by the pope.
The New York Manhattan Athletic club
has organized a Photographic section which
promises 20 be- Of the utmost service Ia 70
cording races and other events.
Baron Nathan de Rothschild's hobby,
photography, Is becoming a passion lie
commences his pleasure each day az a. m,
aud transdxes many a family scene and
viSvv.
A system Of pho,ographing In colors. FOB
lowing TINT Of 81 LippmaD, proese<is or.
the theory that there are four primary col
ors-c,reen, red, blue and violet -Four pic
ture. are taken simultaneously b. means
Of four lenses, Ia front % which f. q seresa
Of the color originally used. Pieturs@ ara
produced which incl ade the colors Of tbs
original
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
PLUMB SHOULD NOT HAVE DIED.

There is no little talk in eastern papers
and among eastern doctors, as to Plumb's
death. His physicians are by some,
held responsible for the calamity. A
doctor was with Plumb an hour.
Plumb's head was bursting with pain
from an overloaded inactive stomach.
Now the doctors who knew of Plumb'S
appoplectic tendencies, administered
morphine in hypodermic injections, and
other eastern physicians say that for
such a case morphine should not have
been used. All this is very, distressing
in face of the fact that Plumb had been
stricken down before. laying in
sensible some time, and in view Of an
other fact said to be true, that
on hearing of his stroke Mrs. Plumb inn
mediately telegraphed to Washington
warning and demanding that the en-
balming process be withheld. Her tele
gram was too late, for Immediately the
breath was out Of the body the under
takers took charge.
We sometimes think that many people
who die under the doctors treatment
would live under the care of some woman
or by some old-fashioned nursing.
Plumb, for instance, had been sitting at
a late dinner of two or three hours du-
ration, or more, talking, laughing and eat
ing by turns, until his stomach was loaded
beyond action. The blood surged to his
brain. IT, when he had reached his
room, a self-reliant wife or mother had
been there to receive him, and to see to
it that his stomach was Immediately re-
lieved of its load, his feet and lower limbs
put into hot water containing some slim
ulating or exciting ingredient, like mus
tard, and his head cooled, the chances
are he would have spent the next day
writing up his pension correspondence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

The death is announced in Guilford.
Conn.,, of Daniel Hand, in the ninety
first year Of his age. Mr.. Hand, it will
be remembered, gave 81 ,OOO,O 600 to the
American Missionary association for the
education of colored people in the south.
lie made his fortune in Savannah, Ga.
in his viii large sums are left to rela-
tives. The residue of his estate will be
given 10 the Daniel Hand educational
fund. The estate Is valued at over half
a million dollars. His wife and children
have been dead many years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

Democrats half.admit the probability
of the Republicans carrying West Nir-
ginia next year, in their bluffing re-
marks in regard to the appointment of
Mr.. Elkins to be secretary of war and
Nathan Golf TO be one of the new circuit
Judges. But the Democrats misinterpret
the significance of those appointments:
they were made as a recognition of
merit and fitness on the part of the ap-
pointees. If the Democrats of that state
rightly appreciate the compliment to the
state they will permit a fair and honest
election to be held, in which event the
Republicans will win, as everybody
knows
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

a big wad OF bills around. he has sense
enough 10 let his wife run his bank account
and boss his business.
In his childhood Mr. Patrick Egan, now
American minister 10 Chill. was an erTAud
boy in flour mill in au Irish r, ,ral town.
and in a few years he rose 10 be the man
aging director OF the milling company AT
Dublin and commission merchant OF
some Importance This was before he be
came conspicuous in the Land League,
The Astor family have million sterling
invested in English securities. The founder
of the family, John Jacob Aston left an IN
junction in MS Will that the family should
always continue the investments in the
English funds and in English securities
that be had himself commenced. The sous
and grandsons have always respected this.
command
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

The issue between the United States
and Chile, now drawing to culmina-
ton, may, and it is hoped will, assist It.
aly to a rational conclusion of erquarrel
at this country. There is nothing in the
Chilian incident for Italy having any
hope Of achieving any concessions from
this country: there IS not the slightest
similarity in the two cases, except the
attitude Of this country, which simply
asks for justice, but insists that that
shall be done.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

President Meyer, of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad company, was on We'd
nesdav reelected for the third time. Mr..
Never seems to be quite successful as
successor TO the CARROTS. 1t was freely
predicted when the great corporation
PASSED from the hands of the Carrots
that it would soon collapse. On the con-
trarv the Baltimore and Ohio claims
never to have been more prosperous or
on a more solid basis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27
OUR EDITORIAL FRIENDS.

The kind, hearty and energetic edito-
rial, in the last issue of the Kiowa Signal,
urging Governor Humphrey to appoint
the editor of the EAGLE to the senatorial
vacancy, we assure Mr.. Bolton, is feel
ingly appreciated. However justly others
might criticize the exalted value placed
to our credit by the Signal, we would
feel ourself an migrate did we fail of an
acknowledgment. 1t is not because we
are insenslble to the flattering sentiments
and the often expressed good will of the
many editors Of south Kansas with
reference to our filling this or that pOllt-
ical place, that we fail Of an active res
ponse. We entertain too high
an opinion Of their wisdom
to believe that they do not fully under
stand that that is not so: 1t is more a
self distrust or q conviction that even if
either of the number of responsible sta
tons were attained these same friends
would probably be doomed to dissapoint-
ment, if not everlasting dissatisfaction.
AS for our, the friend Signal, we would
say that were we possessed Of many
times our present ability, and were con-
scious Of that fact, we would still hest
tate to accept an appointment involving
so much of the present and future of the
people of Kansas and Of pressing party
obligations, much less to seek it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-27

Kansas, like every other state, has been
somewhat in debt. though her indebted
ness has not been excessive IS compared
to the condition and debts Of other states.
And there Is no state that has as rapidly
and 10 as great extent reduced is IN
debteduess by paying it of rs has Kan
sas during the year 1891. This i trebly
gratifying; first. because it lighteuS tie
burden proper aud reduces the interest
account: second 1t takes out OF the state
a less amount of cash Tor future pay
mentS. and third. Ii gives the people q