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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04
AMERICAN TIN.

Rejolcel
Let the eagle scream
The brave bird OF Freedom,
Reaching across the
Gusty Atlantic,
Has coiared an Industry
Worth 100000
OF dollars year
To feather his nest With
American tin!
Never more shall the
line pockets
OF people whose language
Mostly consists OF
LIS
And the liars,
Rash, inconsistent
Who put 10 the blush old
Where are they,
Pity them
Drop tear;
For Requescant
Non in pace.
The sound OF hammers,
The PUNK OF bricks on mortar, y
Announce the building
OF numerous factories,
Destined % be the
Hives of the Industry:
Nay, even now
Their shining product
Is seen In the land
BY ALL though the liars
See and deny it,
Thousands OF worlmen,
Millions Of capital,
Gain employment.
Raise, then, the chorus
LIT up your, voices.
Discourage the liars
The duty has risen
And tin,
American tin,
Now is and shall be
fact.
ALBANY Evening Journal.
TombsOnes are not always considered trustworthy In
their record Of the virtues Of those buried beneath but
for rst-cass opinion of some Of his surviving family.
the following inscription gravestone In Hampstead
Peak Cemetery, y. H., is decidedly unique:
Thomas Cubert
Died Jany 21st 1858
Act SIS years
The voice OF stepfather beneath tnls
Stone Is to rest one, shamefully roooed
In life BY his wife's son, and Esquire ION
And David Leary's wife.
The above is verbatim copy.
N. Specimen, Russian agiculturist electrified the
seeds Of peas, beans and rye for two minutes ~
passing current through them. Tile result was that
the plants which sprang from the seeds thus treated
were much more vigorous than those from unelecthed
seeds lie also electrified the soil, by burying plates
of zinc and copper it TO make what Is called
an earth battery" The plates connected above
ground by iron wire. The result was astonish-
ing crop. a radish grew over seventeen inches In
length and five aud one-half inches thick carrot
grew ten and one half inches In diameter aud weighed
six and one half pounds.
The Mystery Inravelled-SimpsOn-I wonder what
kind Of a line II is that Budkns uses when he goes
fishing. 1t always breaks Just he is landing the
biggest fish you ever saw"
Snincr-lt's nothmg bnt "yarn. '-tDctroit Fra
Press
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

BACKBoNES AND HEADS WANTED
Frsa The Galveston News.
The people want public officials with bacRbonss
with heads on the upper ends Of them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

"The Brooklyn Times rightly emphasizes the
fact that. in the showing of municipal eXpendi-
lures, although Chicago has passed Brooklyn In
numbers the former spends for salaries only S4sS,-
$780, while Brooklyns salary list amounts 10 81
1854. The difference is enormous and calls for
investigation Why should Brooklyn pay out
nearly five times much on this account as its
sometime rival? The obvious answer is. because
of its Democratic Ring with It's extravagant ways
and the large number OF It's followers who must
be taken care Of There is lesson here for honest
citizens and taxpayers 10 learn and keep in mind
at the next election.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04
NOT BETTER THAN HIS PARTY.

From The 81. Louis Globe Democrat.
The best thing that be said for X. O. Mills from
plItisan point Of view. is that nobody ever accused
him Of being better than his party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04
SUGAR LOW. WHEAT HIGH.

From The Springfield, Ohio, Republic
sugar cheap and wheat plenty. This is Repuols
year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

Der of votes which it will cost the Democratic
party
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

This is not good day for making political
point; but Is it not true that as the result OF
strong, progressive, thoroughly American admin
lstration, the Nations prestige was never higher
in the modern world than it is now? From the
advent of the Harrison Administration the influence
and power of the Nation abroad have steadily IN
creased The Samoan complications were settled
with dignity and honor the Behrng Sea negotia-
lions have been vigorously conducted; the Italian
Governments demonstration Of hostility and bad
temper has been regarded with cynical indiffer-
ence: and the most friendly relations with Brazil
and Spanish America have been Systematically cul-
tivated with such success that equitable conditions
of trade are rapidly being established. Mindful Of
the patriotic memories of the day, let us not de-
scribe it as Republican but as American dl-
plomacy of the right stamp: and it is something
that tends to make the Nation greater and more
powerful than it has been.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

II carnot truthfully be said that the lights
were put out after the final curtain fell on the
Canal investigation farce. There never were any
lights.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-04

It is rather singular that those who are con-
WINGED that this aged planet is on its death-bed
do not hail the mysterious Western foundations
as the beginning of the end. better opportu-
nifty for startling predictions has not been offered
in many a day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
PREPARING SALTED ALMONDS.

Stated almonds are now q fa7orite
dish at receptions, teas, luucheons and
even dinners, and their popularity is in
creasing all the time. They are ex-
pensive when bought at the con-
fectioners'. but here is a simple recipe
for preparing them az home: First,
carefully crack the nuts so that the
kernels can be extracted whole, then
blanch the almonds by placing them
in scalding water, which causes the
brown covering of the nut 70 loosen,
when 1t can readily be removed.
Have ready pan Of ine salt, and when
the nuts are all blsnched place the
warm, wet kernels into the salt Then
set the pan away until next morning in
order TO give them time for the salt to
soak little into the almonds
Next day remove the kernels from
the salt and place them in clean pan.
The salt which still clings 10 them viii
drop off; do not try 70 remove Il.
Place the pan OF nuts in the oven 20
brown. and stand by them, as they re-
euire constant attention Stir often
and bake quickly TO a light brown
When done pour them into a cold pan
and allow them 10 eool.-Detroit Free
PreSA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
A MUSICAL MELANGE.

PATTI is about to make tour of the
British provinces with Nine. Marguerite
lie Pachmann. the pianist.
WELT GULBERT, the favorite of Pa
tristan music halls, says she would rather
earn her $500 d night and be deluged
with bouquets on stage than be a
queen upon any throne.
TsCHAIKOwsKY admits the possibility
Of his bringing Russian choir to this
country. He says the church music of
his land is very beautiful, and he thinks
it would be appreciated in America.
HEIDELBERG will erect shortly a mon
ument to Scheffel, author of THE trum-
peter of Sakkingen' and of the famous
university song, 'Alt Heidelberg, du
feine!" A Scheffel museum will be
founded also in a wing of the big library
building.
EVERY bride in Emma Abbot's opera
troupe received a present of diamond
ring from the famous singer, and every
child born in the company had one hum
dred dollars placed on interest in some
bank for its own especial use 1t is said
that there was never a scandal in her
company.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
NEW AND NOVEL.

A RECENT English invention is ma
chine which bends tubes without the
necessity of filling them with some
yielding material to preserve an &C
curate section.
a JEwELER has invented q device for
use in sleeping cars that promises to
become popular. It is a ladder COM
posed of tubes of leather that provides
easy access to upper berths.
AMONG the novelties is an inflatable
rubber chamber for bathers. 1t passes
around the bust underneath the arms,
making it possible for person to float
in an erect position without fatigue II
can be inflated when desired by means
of a tube attached to the neck.
IL eastern New Mexico nearly six
hundred thousand acres of fruit and
farm lands have been reclaimed by the
construction Of storage reservoirs and
irrigating canals during the past TIVE
years
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
AN INDIAN LEGEND.
The Origin of the Two Islands Which Lie
in Lake Michigan.

The Origin of the Two Islands Which Lie
in Lake Michigan.
The folklore of the Indians of Michi-
gan is almost thing of the past, but
few of their legends being preserved at
the present time. To be sure, there are
a few of the old natives, with locks
whitened by the frosts of many winters,
who preserve few of the traditions of
their tribes. Such a one is Wien-da-
goo-ish, an aged brave whose huge pro-
portions gave him the name mentioned.
Translated into English it meansgiant.
Being in communicative mood few
days ago, he related one of his tribal
traditions concerning the Manitou is
lands and Sleeping Bear point. He
said that many years ago. before the
primeval woods of Michigan and Wis
cOnsin had been invaded by the ruth
less white man, the wild animals of the
forests were possessed of spirits, and
that the medicine men of the tribes
were able to talk with them.
Once upon a time a huge she-bear
was compelled to desert the shores of
Wisconsin and with her two cubs take
to the waters of Michigame, the great
lake, on account of fires that were
raging in the wilderness. The heat was
so intense that the mother bear con-
Guided not to return to the Wisconsin
shore, but struck boldly out for the
banks of Michigan. When nearly
across the lake the two cubs sunk from
exhaustion and were drowned. The
old bear swan about the spot for hours,
but her cubs rose not again.
Finally, WEAKNESS compelled her to
seek the shore, reaching which she
climbed huge bluff and lay down to
sleep. That bluff was Sleeping
Bear point and from that day
to this the spirit OF the old
bear has remained on the bluff, and
from the spot where sunk the two
cubs there gradually arose two beautiful
islands, the North and South Manitou,
or, as it means in the vernacular of the
Ottawas, Spirit islands The spirits Of
the cubs are supposed to abide on the
islands, and that of the mother bear
keeps a constant and loving watch over
the homes of her loved ones, where
they are bound to remain until terres,
tial time shall be no more, when they
will be transported to the Indian
heaven, or happy hunting not
hs victims of the huntsmen but as
guardians of the Indians, who love |
them.
On stormy nights, the Indians say,
the spirit of the mother bear means and
cries from her post on the great sand
bluff, in anxiety for the fate of her !
young, the shores of whose homes are
being assailed by the treacherous waves !
which caused their death.-Detroit Free |
Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

Eleanor Kirk" Is the nom de plume
pf Mrs. Ames, of Brooklyn. Over
twenty years ago she found herself a
widow with five children and no visible
means of support. She had a taste for
literature and therefore determined to
look to her pen for financial aid Her
first story sent to popular magazine
brought her a check for thirty-four
nollars, an encouraging beginning.
Ever since that time she has been a
hard worker, as the deep lines on her
face show. Her eyes are blue, with
that heavy look that shows work far
into the night. Her hair is almost snow
white and her face quite colorless. Her
manner is hearty and CHEEKY, and, for
getful Of her own cares, she is always
willing TO extend a helping hand 10
ut hers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
FEEDING FOR EGGS.
What Kinds of Food VIII Produce the
Most Satisfactory Results.

Most Satisfactory Results.
4 correspondent of the California
Cackler in relation to feeding laying
fowls communicates the following:
There has been very great complaint
III some sections about the hens not
laying as they should. l think every
case can be accounted for. l was re-
Gently called in to see lady's flock of
So hens which were looking, to say the
least, fine; yet she said she was not
getting as many eggs from them as
was from pen of eight that were al
ways confined in a yard Sx20, with
tight house 5X5, and hers had free
range. purchased dozen from her.
and after killing a couple found that
her hens had not sufficient food to pro-
duce eggs. While / believe this is gem
orally the cause of failure of eggs, yet
it is not always: some feed too high,
and not that food which will produce
eggs. l have been for some time eX-
perimenting on what kind of food will
produce best results, and have found
the following by far the best: Bran or
barley in the morning, scalded with
milk; give all they will eat up clean.
In this we have what is generally ac-
knowledged to produce the greatest
per cent. of the white of an egg, and
very little fat. At noon feed wheat or
screenings. In this we have the lime
for shell, and also a good per cent. of
the yolk. Give all they want, and if
you have an ash or manure pile mix a
little grain in for them to scratch after.
At night give liberal feed of corn, and
do not be afraid of making too fat. I
do believe, contrary to the opinions of
some, that corn will produce eggs, and
lots of them, especially in winter. Feed
beef scraps every other day (cooked),
and plenty of bone meal, with a liberal
supply of green food every day. Hens
fed in this manner must lay, if they are
any good at all; if not, get rid of them.
And old saying, and true one, is, that
a hen properly fed must lay or get fat.
OF course this treatment will not apply
through moulting time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
BASEBALL CRANKS.

The avvrdge baSe-DaTI crank Is. al
ways an interesting specimen, but the
Washington species gets the persim-
mons You can watch game at the
South-end or Congress-street grounds
In the stronghold of the national sport,
1.-THE Hub" where you will witness the
roofing" of thousands of bean-eaters,
but you will never see the equal of the
genuine article who. has for wears fol,
lowed the vicissitudes of the Senators.
He didn't miss game last week, and
for weeks past has played hundreds in
Imagination on the street corners, in
which the Senators were always the
winners. AS early as three o'clock ip
the afternoon he was on the bleachers,
and these were a few of his express
SiOnS:
"Oh, say! Catch on to the grounds
Get on TO the woods. l could paste 3
ball out there myself.
after the Bostons have taken the
field.) II wonder if they think they
can play ball They'll not be in it.
Why, those fellows are old enough to
die Is that man going to pitch? What
picnic lie used to be Senator, but
the company was too fast for him"
Then his pet appears, and up goes a
yell from our crank" that can be
heard 10 the furtherest confines of LIE
Droit park. Now the game opens, and
when the heavy hitter from Boston
lines her out for three bags, listen tc
the comment: That's all right he let
him hit it." As the side retires with
a blank he gleefully observes:
y told you SO, now watch
our Hat See him smash it in the
face" and when Hat" gets his base,
Hes sticker; oh, he can wait"
When the runner reaches third the wild
delight of the crank almost amounts to
frenzy.
But presently his face begins to cloud.
His pet appears to be in danger, and as
things go from bad to worse, he greets
every play with increasing rage. With
every breath comes: "Oh. he can't
play ball" That fellow sees double"
Hes got TOO many hands" He wants
q basket" See him try to walk over
That's dirty muff" "Oh.
come, let's go home" He swears that
is his last game. but when twentv-four
hours have rolled by he is in his accus-
toned seat, the home nine are still his
darlings. and all past failures forgiven
II not Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
WITTY AND WISE.

SOME one asks: ''Who is the really
happy man?" Some other MANN. Y.
Recorder.
SMILE at the world and it VIII smile
back at you Let it see you weep and
it will laugh at you.-Somerville Jour
nal.
A GOOD man is a man who is good to
us, and bad man is man who doesn't
do what we want hin to.-Author's
Book.
How MUCH more detestable a fault
appears when we can trace it 10 some
one whose, station in life We envy
Puck.
ONE trouble about unpleasant people
is that it generally seems impossible for
them to get out of the way.-Mllwaukee
Journal.
THE friend who cries with you finds
out a great many things you will re-
greet when your eyes are dried.-Atch-
ison Globe.
EDUCATION is all right, just 50 # does
not make the victim too smart 20 work
and not smart enough TO get along
without-work.-Gal veet1u News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

and various secret or patented pro-
prietary preparations are used for this
purpose, but nothing is better, cheaper
or more effectual than crude carbolic
acid mixed with soap and water.
The method that l have used for a
dozen years with perfect satisfaction is
to make strong solution of soap, using
a pint or SO of soft soap to pail of
warm waterway kind OF soap will do,
l used soft soap because it is cheapest
and most convenient-then stir in
sufficient quantity of the acid to make
it kill a tick in about d minute. While
1 am mixing the dip, I have my assis-
tant catch one or more ticks to test
with. If tick wet with the dip in the
hollow of my hand does not kick the
bucket" in about one minute, / add
more acid till it will. In dipping. one
man seizes the fore legs and head of
the lamb and one the hind legs, and they
immerse the lamb to the ears; then lay
it on a table or rack arranged to drain
back into the dipping trough, and
squeeze the surplus fluid from the wool
with their hands. Care is taken to
keep the lambs ears, eyes and nose out
OF the dip.
A large cauldron kettle makes very
good dipping trough if nothing better
is at hand. ANY druggist will order
a gallon of rs per cent. crude acid. The
object of the soap is to make the acid,
which is of an oily nature, mix with
the water.-J. p Mills, in Americap
Cultivation
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
MEN OF THE PAST.
20 Them We Owe Much of the Splend0r
of the Present.

of the Present.
| We are not a bashful race-we men
of the present. In comparing ourselves
with the men of the past we think we
| have the best of it, and are not ashamed
| 70 say so. Yet considering all things,
Is it quite certain that the men of long
ago were not our superiors in many i'm
portant respects? With but scant sup
ply of tools and very little labor-saving
| machinery, they turned out, in some OF
the arts much better work than we do.
Modern builders can not, or at least do
not, match the olden structures, either
in solidity or beauty. The best we can
do in the way of sculpture is to copy
the proportions, the expression, the
grace, the finish of the ancient models
From the ashes and lava of volcanic
eruption Of many centuries ago we have
taken the models of our drawing-room
ornaments, and some of the most fash
ionable styles of furniture to-day are
the "Pompeiian" and the 'Grecian."
Our churches and other public edifces
are chiefly copies of the antique, and we
positively have no architecture that has
not been bequeathed to US by the Greeks
and Romans.
Of course, we have innumerable me-
chanical and. chemical wonders, of
which the ancients never dreamed; and
have discovered and applied as motors
agencies that have revolutionized the
business of the world. More credit is
claimed by the antiquity -worshipers for
the classic peoples Of the past than they
deserve, perhaps; but yet they were
wonderful men, considering their OPP
portunities. Whatever they did, in a
unitarian or ornamental way. they did
thoroughly and faithfully. Our marvel
Gus facilities for expediting production
in every branch 'of artistic labor have
this drawback-they induce US to slur
our work. We are too much in hurry.
We want to build our Romes in day,
and that can not be done substantially,
even with all modern helps. 1t would
be well if we took a few leaves out of
the book of the painstaking past.
Tools and machinery are not every
thing. They multiply with amazing
rapidity, but they do not always per-
feet. We have seen carving executed
by the South Sea Islanders with flints
and oyster-shells, which, with all their
lathes and edge-tools, our most accom-
plished turner's and carvers rarely equal. |
There is no reason to doubt that we can |
beat all the generations that have pre- |
ceded us at anything to which we turn
our hands, but speed is our idol; we are
qrdantitarians rather than qualitarians;
and the consequence is that time will |
make much shorter work of most of the |
monuments of our skill in the arts than
he has been able to do with those of our
comparatively know-nothing heather
progenitors. The classic adage, Make
haste slowly" is not an unwise one
n. Y. Ledger
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
Crcasing Electric Wires.

Electric railway operations in New
England were materially interfered
with the past winter by the formation
OF thin coating of ice on the over
head conductor. The remedy for this
trouble has just been found TO lie in
greasing the wires, and an ingenious
device has been evolved for this pur.
pose a pan which is carried along be-
meath the wire contains a wheel so
mounted that its lower portion revoI=es
IN the grease contained in the pan, and
Its upper edge is in contact with the
wire. As the apparatus is moved along
the line the little wheel conveys the
grease to the wire and thus smears its
surface with a protection against
moisture and ice
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
a New substitute for chIoroform.

gentleman was observed doing in
chair of the reading-room of a Texas
hotel, holding in his hand copy Of q
paper. Another party who wanted the
paper-for what purpose we can not
imagine-gently drew away the coveted
document. The sleeper awoke and. still
retaining his hold Of the precious docu-
ment said, angrily:
Il beg your pardon, but I've got this
paper
Yes, I know. but you were asleep"
YES, but haven't finished my nap
yet As soon as l wake up you can have
the psper. Texas SiftingS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

avoid lifting the heavy tank cover
fasten a half-inch rope to the open.
ing edge of the cover and let it pass
over a cast pulley, screwed to joist as
indicated. Then TO this end OF the rope
secure a weight sufficient to balance
and hold the cover where wanted. The
stub end of a railway iron is just the
thing and easily procured--Horace j
New berry, in Farm and Home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
TWO DAIRY DEVICES.
How to Keep Cans in a Vertical Position
at All Times.

Everyone who cares for milk, in a
vat or tank, feels the necessity for
some way by which the cans may be
kept in vertical position at all times,
whether full, partially full or empty.
To prevent the cans. from bobbing to
one side take two-inch strips, B B B.
cut to fit inside the tank the long way,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08
The Farm Needs Feeding, Too.

A farmer is feeder. says the Ger
mantown Telegraph; he feeds every
thing on his farm-the horses, cattle,
sheep, hogs, poultry, wife, children,
help, all the rats, cats and dogs, mos
quitoes and all the vermin, and finan-
cially the farm itself. Unfortunately
he too often forgets the farm. He
knows that if he don't feed the live
stock they will die on his hands. He
doesn't seem to know that if he don't
feed the farm it will die on his hands,
too, and that when that dies, all the rest
will die. How curious it is that a man
should forget or neglect to feed his
land or his crops, and as a consequence
be totally unable to feed his stock.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-08

The Other Girl-Why, what has be-
come Of your engagement ring?
The Fiancee-Oh, / gave it back to
him until lis mother goes away
Aunsey's Weekly.