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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
THE CALAMITY OF LIVING IN
KANSAS

From the Insurance and Investors Magazine.
In riding through Brown county, Kan
sas, recently, on the Missouri Pacific
road, Maj. f. n. Morrill, pointed out to
us two-story white dwelling house, a
big red barn. an orchard, and the visible
indications of a prosperous farmer.
THE man who owns that home, said
Maj. Morrill,, recently took seat by
my side in one of these cars. He showed
me certificate of deposit of $500 IN the
Morrill, & James bank and said: L used
to pay you interest; now you are paying
interest to me. Besides this certificate
have other ready money, So, 900 In all,
and owe no debts. came here twenty
years ago with nothing. Now l have a
farm, cattle, hogs, horses. l 1--we near
the town of Willis; my children go there
to school
The mans name is August Johannes;
he IS German. Major Morrill, spoke also
of Peter BerDey, who came to the county
the same year he did Mr.. Berney then
owned land warrant only; now he is
worth SIS, 200, or about $4,000 year for
every year be has farmed in Kansas.
Major Morrill, then took newspaper
and made some figures on the margin.
He said: Thirteen years ago our bank
was the only bank in the county; our
deposits from the people, were $4,000;
with the county money, there was 1884,
679 on deposit. Now there are eight
banks in the county and their deposits
amonnt to $1,000,0 00 That is
the ready money that the people
now have on hand. Besides
this they have built churches, school
houses, stores, dwellings, barns, fences,
bridges; hundreds of them have pianos
and carriages: all have books. cattle,
hogs, and horses. The assessed valua-
ton of the property of the county last
year was S.. 260, 900; not more than one
third its actual value. The value of the
live stock in the county is 81 500, 600; last
years farm products amounted to s., $685.
$40; in 1889 the farms produced more
than this; in 1891 they will beat all past
records"
I'm short, said Major Morrill,, smiling,
81 am thinking how we are all OBJ
pressed. l came here thirty-four years
ago, poor. We all came poor; not
a rich man has ever come here and made |
MS home. 1t is political oppression, bad |
legislation, that has made the owner of |
every quarter section independent, and |
/ great many of them rich. If any COM
nunity was ever more prosperous it
must have even had greater 'calamities'
han we have been afflicted with.
The actual value of the land in Brown |
county, at S35 an acre, is $4,000, 400; of |
he railroads, 50, 500, 900. town lots, 3d.
81. $40; personal property, $3,610,024;
otal, S21 Al, 044. The mortgage indebt-
dness amounts to 81, ZOO, 900.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
THE KANSAS FARMERS ADV ANrAeE

A greater number of farms have been
bought in south Kansas within the past
ninety days, probably, than during any
three months within the past four or
five years.
The advantages that a farmer in the
latitude OF south Kansas has over the
farmers Of Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota
and the Dakotas are almost immeasur-
able, and are seldom estimated. In eli
mate, alone, in the matter of summers
that are almost twice as long and win
! tiers that are almost twice as short, the
money that the farmers of Kansas save
in clothing, in feed and in fuel over the
farmers of the northwest represents a
margin of profits that in years aggre-
gate a value and wealth that no advan-
tages of lake or river transportation or
even fertility of soil can compensate,
And the advantage in Kansas climate
does not wholly inhere in the fact that
the farmer here has more months to grow
his crops in, more months to do his work in,
that he is at less expense for fuel, less
expense for stabling and cribbing, and
that live stock requires to be fed only
about one-haIf as long, but in the fact
that the Kansas farmer is wholly re-
lieved from the uncertainties of late
spring and early fall frosts that ever
threaten the farmers of the spring wheat
regions. This risk of frost is not an
occasional thing like a grasshopper
fbof IN oF1 or
twenty years, or like dry spell that
may cut some particular crop short, but
it is an ever impending evil which when
it falls blasts all crops. These same
northern states this year had severe
and terribly damaging frost in August,
while in Kansas the first light frosts are
not due for more than a month yet, and |
real winter is away yet nearly four
months hence.
AS TO the figure these differences in
climatic conditions cuts in the farmers
exchequer, in the way of clothing and
fuel, need not be mentioned. Every
body knows that the savings of family
in Kansas in these items over the en-
forced expenditures of the family that is
practically winter bound for SIX months,
sum far greater than the
total taxes of the average farm.
When these matters, constituting as
they do broad margins of difference, are
more generally understood lands and
farms in Kansas viii command a much
larger price than lands and farms of
like character in these northern sections
where there is virtually but one kind of
grain raised which being annually
is very often ruined
by a calamity from which the
Kansas farmer has perfect immunity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The RenuhIicans of Sedgwick county viii
rnesf in delegate convention at the Garfield
hall IN fhe CITY of Wichita. on saturday, sep
feTnher the 5th 1891 at 10 O'Clock a. H., for the
burmese Of placing in nomination a candidate
Tor the office of Judge OF the Eighteenth judi
cial Disfr.ct This convention viii be compos-
ed of the same number of delegates and select
cd in the came manner as that of the county
convention. as hereinafter provided. And on
The same day. at the same place. az II O'Clock
s. m. the Republicans VIII meet IN deleg.le
Convention for the nomination of the following
county officers. towit: Sheriff, County Clerk
REGISTER Of Deeds, Coroner, County surveyor,
commissioner of the Second Comnlssloner
District, and County Treasurer for the snort
and long term.
-renfions shall be one delegate for each twenty
five votes and one delegate for each major
fractional part thereof cast for James X nal
lowell at the last general election, ana one otl-
eQate-at-large for each township and warn IN
the city OF Wichita.
Two ssfS of delegates may be selected, one
for each convention said delegates shan De
selected BY a majority of the hepublican votes
rast al tbs. primaries, which shall be held IN the
several townships and wards on IhurSoay' Inc ne
3D. dav Of September, 1891. SAID primaries VIII
be held IL the townships at the regular place
of voting therein. beginning at : O'Clock ana
closing at O'Clock p. n. ana IN the wares salQ
primaries shall begin Al O'Clock ana close at
O'Clock Z. m, and be held at the 1olloWlns
places in sald wards:
First yFrd-coeper's livery stable.
second vard-Stoners livery stable
Third ward-Huey's livery stable.
Fourth -gard-CorneT Oak Street and Law
renee avenue.
Fifth wsrd- AIartinson block.
Sixth wtlrd-Corner Douglas and Ida ayes.
The several townships and wards under tlls
call shall be entitled 70 the following number
OF delegates in each convention, tow1t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
He Asked No More.

A well known clergyman Of Pittsburg
was riding in Penn avenue car the other
day, when a lady and child got aboard.
The minister CALAMITY offered bis seat,
as the car was crowded, and 1t was gra-
ciously accepted.
As the gentleman hung 70 a strap with
one hand he patted the child's head with
the other, and the following conversation
ensued:
HFine child, madam"
ayes, sir"
every fine, indeed"
eve think 30. IL Is the only one We
have
81 am very fond Of children"
The lady nodded
NOW this boy viii grow up 20 be q great
comfort 70 you. and perhaps a support.
Yon ought 70 be very proud Of him"
"Yez. sir"
"What il his nau1ef"
Annie"
AZ this the whole car reared The min
ister joined in the nsrTtmsnt, bit not Ia
hearty manner.
he asked 10 more questions. however
Pittsburg Chroalels Telegraph
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
AN IMPROBABLE POSSIBILITY.

Under the heading of "The Grain
Boom" the Atchison Champion discusses
briefly the market prospects for the sur
plus products of our grain fields this sea-
son and concludes with the suggestion:
"There is little reason for doubt that the
wheat market is now established on a
higher Level. There are, however, Just
two dangers which confront it-one is
that too much wheat may be rushed to
market, the other, the greater of the two,
that speculation may put prices so high
as to check the expectation of bread
stuffs from which must be gathered the
real profits to this country of the hopeful
outlook of the grain market
There Is possibility that one or the
other Of these conditions may ensue. but
1t is not probable. 1t is very evident
that both cannot exist at the same time.
A flood of grain put upon the market.
would prevent the spectators from put
ting the price up to a figure that would
prevent its expectation, and an effort to
corner the market by a scheme of that
kind would have the effect, with the
great surplus IN this country that actual
ly exists, to draw the grain onto the
market in such volume as to defeat such
an effort TO raise the price to a figure
that would prohibit expectation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Give the south to understand that Kan
sas farmers are not going into any trap
to help ont the Democratic party. Tell
the southern brethren that when they
get ready to come out from Democracy
and fall into line that Kansas will meet
them half way, but that until they show
their readiness Kansas viii Just drop
back into the old party and wait That
policy viii bring about national third
party if anything will; if it fails, the
scheme is hopeless and may as well be
given up. This is the sensible plan TO
pursue, and the time to pursue it is now.
Open the eyes of the southern contingent
by voting the Republican ticket this fall.
and ever after tilt the states now holding
back come 10 time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Men are deceivers ever,
One foot on sea and one on shore,
IO one thing Constant never ~
Row TO Do IT.
Frnm The Emporla Rspubllcan.

From the EmporiA Republican.
The Kansas Alliance now finds itself
practically alone IN the advocacy Of a
third party. The Peoples party has no
substantial existence outside Of this
state. One by one the state Alliances Of
ali the strong Alliance states have re-
jected the scheme for an independent
party, and the position Of the Kansas
Alliance Is growing every day more
embarrassing. There i bat ole thing
for the Kansas flrmers 10 do - yIBdi-
cate their intelligence. and that ) 20 re-
consider the vote hy winch they decided
10 become party. Make the Alliance
what 1t was originally designed to BE-. a
non-partisan orEauizatlon-stlch as Il IS
IN Missouri. Maryland. ' virginia, the Caro-
liDas. Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
Texas, Arkansas and the other states
Exert a controlling influence upon the
old parties and make them WORK out
such reforms as are needed
IL a third party + indispensable, 70
about creating il II an intelligent way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03


The next question of interest TO the
United States, in connection with the
Chiiian upheaval, now thatthe upheavers
are successful Is, what will become of
Dir. Patrick Esan, the accredited repre-
sentative of the United States govern
ment at Santiago, and who took an act.
i've part, in expressions of sympathy at
least, in upholding Balmaceda in his
autocratlc and usurpatory control Of the
government down there. A less callous
person aud one with keener sense of
common proprieties would ask the gov
eminent at Washington to relieve him.
but Patrick is not that sort of a patriot;
he viii stay until his time IS out unless
sooner recalled
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The New York Voice, the national
prohibition organ, appealed to Col.
Anthony, of the Leavenworth Times. TO
help il stuldfy Ingalls, in his Staten
Island declaration that there IS no
trouble in getting all the drinkables any
one could desire IN Kansas and that all
the principle towns collected revenue
from the business. The Voices appeal
TO Anthony was in the shape of a series
of leading questions which Anthony
answers inFa blunt straightforward way
through the columns of the Times. which
he clInches with the declaration that
ingalls, told the simple truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

1t lacked Just week of being seven
months trom the formal declaration of
war by tue Congressional party III Chill
until the. overthrow of the Balmaceda
usurpation. Pretty quick work, consid-
ering the lack of organization and war
munitions On the part of the revolution
lists. 1t only took about two weeks for
them to complete the undertaking after
they received a complement of arms and
other necessary munitions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
THE WICHITA FAIR LEADS.

An examination and comparison Of
the premium list issued respectively by
the Interstate Fair Association, of Kan
sas City, Missouri, and by the Southern
Kansas Fair Association, at Wichita, it
will be seen that the Southern Kansas
Fair is the biggest affair of the two.
The Southern Kansas Fair at Wichita,
leads the Interstate Fair at Kansas City
in the value and number of it's special
premiums, two to one, in the character
of the races, in many instances in the
amounts and characters of prizes for
premiums and in many other respects.
There will be no necessity for any south,
ern Kansas exhibitor going to Missouri
this year. The Kansas City fair, how
ever, in no way conflicts with the South
eTn Kansas Fair, the former not COM,
mencing until the day after the Wichita
fair has closed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

At a religious meeting in America .
number Of females stood upon the benches,
Notwithstanding they were desired not 20
do 20. A venerable pastor then sFose and
said. Il think y these ladies' knew they
had holes In their stockings they would
sit down" Upon which there was a Rrsaa
fdgetiug among the ladies and an innns-
diate sinking into their seals.
A young minister who stood behind tha
yeBerabIs gentleman. biushing up - Tho
temples. said; "Oh. brother, how could
you say that
Say that" replied the cid man "Why,
Il must b tsct. II they had no holes
IA their stockings. should Ike 70 know
how they could get them o. "--Tit-BItz.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
a Calamity lie

From th> Emporis Republican
The calamity orators declare that the
Kansas farmers are hop, iesslv mort
gagged TO the Wall street Saylocks. who
viii eventually turn them out Of house
and home. As matter II fact three
fOuTths of the eastern MONEY loaned in
Kansas 10 working men end working
women who have laid II up from weeks
wages in savings banks Wall street
puts its money into stock gambling, rail-
roads, etc, where the profits or Losses are
large. Six per cent western loans are
too tame for the biz piungetx
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

1t is stated that the vacant position
on the board of interstate railway COM
missioners has been rendered to Judge
Reagan, of Texas, and that he has de-
clined. This is to be regretted. Judge
Reagan has made the question of rail-
road management and traffic rates and
arrangements special study for many
years and is conceded to be one of the
best informed men on those subjects in
the country, and his knowledge and con-
sentative judgement would be of great
value to the country in perfecting the
imperfect and unsatisfactory law and in
securing its better enforcement. Judge
Reagan Is at the head of the Texas state
railway commission, having resigned
his seat in the United State senate to &C.
cept il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The Bourbon county Democrats would
not agree to fuse with The Alhance-be-
cause they couldn't-but the county exc
cutive committee Of the party did the
next bes, thing for the hungry members
by resolving 10 make no nominations
for county Officers; in other words, left
the members to make such disposition of
their influence and support, individ-
ualiy or IN squads, as their interests may
dictate
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
PAY OFF THOSE BONDS.

From the Atchison Champion.
Secretary Foster is creditde'with stating
that he has the money to pay off all the
maturing A per cents that may be pre-
sented, but that he would rather extend
them for the sake of avoiding stringency
in the money market. But all this, in
the Champions opinion, exhibits re-
markable ignorance of the fact that the
payment of the bonds is the most direct
way of easing the money market. For
every 81, 900 bond that is paid off, which
is now held as a basis of bank circula-
ton, exactly 81 900 of additional funds
will be put in the money market, On
the 81, 900 bond that is basis for bank
notes 5000 of bank notes will be retired
and $1,000 paid out, the gain of the
market on the face of the transaction
being just 10 per cent of the payment.
But this is not all of the gain, for the
banks can use the money paid to them
for their bonds as reserve, and extend
their loans to four times its amount.
Every million dollars of bonds paid off
will therefore ease the money market to
the extent of four millions, against which
is the only offset of the retirement of
ninety per cent of circulation on the
face value of good deal less than half
of them, which are held by national
banks.
If the secretary of the treasury has the
money to meet these bonds, as he saws
he has. 1t is the best thing he can do for
the public, the money market and him
self to pay them off. Surprising the
amount paid to be S35, 900, 900, it will
save the nation 500, 900 in annual inter-
est, it will increase the loanable re-
sources of the money market by nearly
$125, 900, and it will put the secretary
in the attitude of an official who has,
slowly, realized the duty of
the fiscal officer of the government to
pay its debts when he has the money to
do it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
The Autumn Coat.

From the New York Recorder
Before we have had time TO enjoy the
glores of the summer, the modistes are
talking about winter fashions. 1t an
pears that the outdoor garment which
will be the highest in favor when the
drear days are once more upon us will
be Of the bisque shape. but longer than
the coats that have been worn. 1t will
be, in fact, like tide coat of twenty-five
years ago, and will dazzle the eye with
gold and metallic trimmings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The Usage County Times, Peoples
party organ, states that at the county
convention of its party last week there
were nearly as many candidates as there
were delegates. dollars to the rear,
humanity to the front" appears to have
been lost sight Of for the moment and
Dollars in sight, candidates to the
'front.'" substituted
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

It is a sure sign of the near approach
of bitter and red hot campaign, quoth
the Chicago News, that Mr. Dana's paper
has taken TO finding fault with the En-
glish syntax used by Benjamin Harri-
son. 1t is a high compliment TO the
president, however, that the chronic
fault-fnder of the Sun coald find nothing
else to criticise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The report that the president has re-
versed bis proclamation granting the
Cherokees the privilege of grazing their
cattle on the strip and would order the
removal of all cattle therefrom, is prob
ably fake The Indians are not only
holding there, all the cattle on the strip.
but are making hay there preparatory to
continuing their cattle manipulations
through the winter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Last Saturdays New York Mail and
Express has a front page illustration of
the American farmer gathering large
armfuls Of the spoils of the harvest while
Mr.. Blaine points to the rising sun of
reciprocity over his shoulder and Sen
ator PETER and Jerry Simpson occupy
a conspicuous place in the foreground
uttering signs of woe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

Mr.. Blsnk Examining his portrait 1nss
painted by Professor FuillsnOrs from
Paris)-ProfessoF I DO Dot know how Il h,
bus neither you boF any artist whom
/ have ever met has ben abs % catch tas
expression o. ny facs
Professor-Ah. Esester BizHk. Est -
varay true. but fshruKsong his sbogl1enI
esf zs expression ses %. zars. bo~ can Toa
catch bin1-BrooklJn KzRie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

One poor, starving slave. of Reno
county, had piece of a hundred and
forty acres Of wheat which. during the
dry spell last spring, he offered to sell at
S1.25 per acre. He has Just threshed the
grain off forty acres OF ii and has sold
1000 bushels of wheat at 81 cents per
bushel. The other hundred acres, he saws,
are IS good as that threshed. His crop
viii therefore be worth about So. 500.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

A county Alliance treasurer in Mis-
souri, has skipped to Canada with the
funds OF. the order and the state execu-
tive coIlmittee are wailing calamity
louder than ever The defaulter did not
get away with as much Doodle, however,
as the fellow up in the northwest nor as
the 100000 beauty Of the Georgia al
lance. Reform is getting expensive.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Makes 'em LaH

From the indianapolis Journal
When lovely woman
Dons pants" (which no man
Denies her right to wear
She'll be no fright,
Nor cen q sight
To make The tho1ghtless stare;
Yet wicked men
VIII smoker when,
With absent-miRded air.
She reaches back
To grab the slack"
OF skirts no longer there.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03

The Review of Reviews, published
simultaneously ia New York and
London, and which endeavors to catch
every man and everything, of current
importance, contains a picture Of our
Mr.. C. Wood Davis. for September.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
The Crime of Rashness.


OverZealous men are nuisance. In
doing any great work the time, the place
and the opportunity must be considered.
Rashness is a sign of weakness and a
signal of danger. Smashing a mosquito
with a club is a waste of strength;
smashing it thus when it is focling
around the head. of baby is a crime.
Go slow, young man, and whack it with
a wet towel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Practical Christianity.

From the Kansas City Star.
The Chicago Catholic priest who
raided, single-handed, a Chinese opium
den and rescued two young girls whom
he had seen enter the place furnishes an
example of practical and muscular chris
tianity which is worthy of the Worlds
Fair city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
Rev. pink PUNK on Faith.

From the New York Herald.
It's all berry well to put firm trust in
providence, deah breddern, but de man
dat does so'an' at de same time neglecks
to put his shoulder to de wheel can't blame
nobody but himself if he sticks in de
mud
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-03
a SANDER on Frederick.
From the Kansas city star


Frederick Douglass has given the
reason tor his resignation. The little
boys in Port au Prince were accustomed
to regale him with a French version Of
the beautiful melody, There's a New
Coon in Town" As Mr. Douglass could
procure no redress from the authorities,
and as the song was borne out by the
facts, he resigned.