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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Talking about manufactures in Kan
sas and their ability to complete success
fully with those Of other states and
older communities, the best pumps sold
in Kansas City we manufactured in
Wichita and the demand for them Is
equal to faetoTy's ability to supply. The
largest spring wagon factory IN the west
Is also located IN this city and il is
crowded with orders from all over the
southwest. Salina furnishes the ST.
Louis market, in part. with farm
wagons. And sowe might 90 on nam
ing scores of manufacture in Kansas
that 90 largely to make up the country 5
supply.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Germany and France are both talking
about war as if the existence Of each as
nation was in iminent peril. The bal
ance of the world knows no immediate
cause for quarrel between them and it
must be the ebulitions of the old feeling
of enmity that has existed for generations.
Both nations seem to be prepared for
conflict and more than willing for it to
come. War would seem to be inevitable,
yet it may not occur.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The latest political disturbance in Ger,
many arises from Emperor William 5
determination 10 let his whiskers grow.
The kaiser has ordered that no photo
graphs of himself before lie wore n
beard shall be sold and as a consequence
numerous tradesmen lind themselves
with heavy unstable stock on hand
Moreover, as every one viii speedily ape
the kings example, the business Of the
German BARRIERS viii lie seriously dams
aged. Some of the advantages Of s
monarchical form of government are
net appreciated in Germany.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

'fThe Bank Of France Is q remarkable
institution IN Elany WAYS szid Lewis
C. Carroll, a Or. keV q New YORK. but
in no way Is u roors remarkable fas.n IL
the manner in wtlich i guards ne wants
IN which It's CRED stores q gold ard SKI
yer ara kept. TIE Banks q France gen
orally carries Rsore gold aua always
more silver than any csb@r insfitutica n
the world. with yas solitary except3cn a.
the United S;aiIs treasury. Bat eren
TIE latter dos ak Lake szcn precautions
70 uzeYens shieTss from breaking In AID
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The report of the Vienna congress
substantially corroborates Mr.. c. Wood
Davis. It shows that there is a falling
off of 10000. 600 bushels of wheat and
$50 100000 bushels of rye, without in
GLIDING large proportions of Russia
whose crops are known to be disas-
trous failure. The price is bound to re-
spond to this deficiency.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

With an enormous fruit crop, free
sugar is indeed a blessing. 1t makes a
home market for the fruit, because
every housekeeper wants to put up a
houseful of preserves and fill everything
with Jelly. With this bounteous replen-
ishlng of the harder, this extra supply of
jars will diminish rather than in
crease the jarriDg incident to the con-
trary condition.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Ijaor icAinley's presentation of the
tariff question in Ohio, and Senator
Sherman's discussion of national finan-
ces has been too much for Governor
Campbell. These or something else has
closed the bile ducks in the governor and
given him a virulent case of malaria.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
sa.nny lrlumrirate.

Prom the kzEss4s Cay 6sEsite-
A preacher recently said that news
paper that told the truth, and the whole
truth, couldn't be pecuniarE success.
The minister who viii al al times and
under any circumstances tell the whole
truth about ms members, alive or dead
might not occupy the pulpit more that
one SUNDAY, and in some cases IsigAi
find II convenient % leave town. The
press and the pulplt 90 hand IL hand
with the whiiewash bTg=h and pleasant
words. The pulpit, the press ard tie
grayestone are tie great saantInakloe
UI1mvHsSa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Experiments in rain-maklng are begin
ming to assume an epidemic form, thanks
to ex-senator FarweTs pioneer efforts.
Jupiter Pluvlus never had so many NOR
tails beseeching his favors before. and if
they are all successful some one viii
have TO reproduce NOah's ark.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
Rotten, Lazy Tramps.
I nnunn ..-..-Lh ill.,

A correspondent of the Western Kan
san enters into a defense of tramps and
says that they are tramps because Of
the iniquitous laws of the country
That Is all rot, miserable, mischieFous
rot. There isn't one tramp in ten thous-
and that will work ten minutes to paw
for his dinner if he can possibly beg or
steal it without work The laws Of this
country do not make tTamps and the
man vino sass they do is either dema-
gogue or-not. bright enough to he a
demagOgJe
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

According to Census Bulletin No. 103
Kahsas is exceeded by but four states in
the number of horses on hand June 1,
1690-Iliinois, Iowa, Texas and Mis-
souri,. AT that date Kansas had $50, 800;
Missouri GAG, 191, and the other three
leading states little over million each.
In mules Missouri takes the lead, as
might have been expected, showing
245. 1872 of the mongrels.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
Eskime AeuralnE ca..em..

All Eszimos are supeTstitious about
death, and, sltb ough they hold festivals
in memory OF dsparted friends. they will
usually carry 1 dying person 70 some
abandoned hut, There 10 drag out his rs-
naming days :FifhO1t f0oa, medicine,
water OF attendance. After the death Of
q husband or , wife the survivor cuts
the fr0nt hair sE,oFt and lasts for twenty
i've dayS-St. Il01is Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Vermont seems to be a desirable place
TO emigrate from, notwithstanding the
presidents many complimentary speech
es to its people during has recent visit to
the state. This is ev idenced by the fact
that more people born in the state live
outside Of it than in it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
Alliance Doctrine.

From the EmpOria Republican.
In speeeh IN Usage county, accord
ing 10 tie Kansas City Star, Congre S.
man OTIS advocated government con-
troll OF railroads. When some one in
the audience asked where the govern
ment was going to get the money 10 buy
them, Dir. Otis replied: Money You
don't need any money. Tney are yours,
90 and take them" II this story IS
true, Ar. OTIS is even more radical
socialist than Judge Doster. Doster
favors reputation OF honest debts. but
he has never publicly advocated high
WY rnhberF
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

It is thought that the Legislature of
Tennessee, now assembled in special ses-
sion, viii establish the whipping post for
misdemeanors. OF course, if it does so,
a cry will go up from the sentimental
lists, bat the pocket book of the taxpayer
viii assume a more plethoric appearance,
and the honest laborers of the state a
more pleasant demeanor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Fresh. But Not Green.

From the Kansas City star.
Victor Murdoch. of the Wichita EAGLE
is spending short vacation in Chicago.
just before he left home his father re-
turned from fishing excursion in Colo
orado. One of them is home nearly all
of the time. The result of this arrange
ment is that the EAGLE never has that
tired sound and is always fresh aud re-
liza HE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The sue-treasury was deliberately
adopted tenet of the Alliance faith. and
for time it appeared that no man could
be a consistent member of that order and
oppose It. Now, however, il is being
discarded: at least the state organizations
have ceased to make 1t the open sesame
TO the sacred precincts OF their lodges.
Politically the Alliance will not be IN
it another twelvemonth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The epidemic theory OF disasters has
been verified with terrific vividity dur
ing the past ten days by the reign of
railroad catastrophe. the details of which
have filed the columns OF the daily press
during that period. What it will be
neXt-whether ocean disasters. mine
horrors, cenhagrauons or thunderstorm
not be guessed, but 1t will come without
long DELAY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

There are over $50, 600 words in the
English language, but, as an exchange
observes, all of them are never used ex-
cept in drawing up an indictment for
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
AS A COMBINE AND TRUST.

While it is to the undoubted interest
of the farmer and Of the business man
that wheat should go up in price, the la
boring man notes each rise with more or
less concern. A bushel of wheat will to-
day, in spite of all that is said by cheap
calamity yawpers like Simpson and AL
lance squealers like PETER, buy more
sugar and other groceries, more calico
and other dry goods, than at any time
since Columbus discovered America. OF
course if all farm products should ma
terially advance in price everything else
would go up in time, but, while flour
and meat would be first to take the as
cending scale, the wages of the day
laborer would be the last thing in the
category to be benefited last to adj
vance in price. While the Alliance, as
a big combine or trust concern may,
therefore, be backed up by the business
world in its endeavor5 to advance the
price of wheat by Withholding it from
the market, and by other means, its
members, who are laborers on the farm,
will not forget the poor girls in the
factories who must eat bread while they
are turning off cotton cloth for three
cent market, nor forget all the vast host
of laborers who are earning their cheap
wheat-bread by producing nearly every
thing used by the farmer at a ruinously
cheap price even under the protection
laws of protective administration.
Following a national depression, or
hard times, relief always comes first to
the producer, next to the manufacturer,
next to the business man and lastly to
the laborer, common and operative
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Mr. Wanamaker wants all county seat
postmasters to become critics of the clean
illness aud style OF the offices in their vicin-
ity. This may so in a Republican admib-
istratlon. but 40 good Democrat would
ever lend himself to such dirty work -
Kansas City Times.
OF course not. And it would be the
height of imperunence on the part Of the
p. m. 2. to ask him to do as dirty work
as he could find under his party's reign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The ''hOOf and mouth disease" which
did much harm to the herds of KANSAS
several years since. is now prevailing in
sections of Illinois and Indiana.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

[. s. Hail, OF Missouri, wants TO kill
the sub-treasury scheme to save the Ali
auce. With the sub-treasury and third
party nonsense wiped out, the Alliance
might reasonably hope TO become body
of great usefulness. Republican.
In other words. if the Alliance would
leave politics to the political parties and
devote itself to the many matters of
material concern that directly affect the
members as citizens and which it is the
province of the organization to look
after and regulate in some measure. il
would not only be a success but of great
benefit to the community at large. As
an illustration of the possibilities of
organized effort in correcting existing
evils we cite the case of the Wisconsin
Alliance wherein it induced the employ
ment Of a portion of the states convicts
IN the manufacture of binding Irvine,
thereby reducing the cost of that neces.
sary article To such extent that thu
Irvine combine was broken up in tina
state and compelled to retire.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The weather the past day or two has
been a splendid anguiliary to the letter
~ in supplanting ice cream and soda
with the luscius blvalve.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The Porter census, as finally summed
up. shows the population of the United
States to be 60. 622. 260.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

TIE Republicans of Sedgwick county viii
,,,est in delegate convention at the 6afileiC
half the city of Wichita on saturday. sep
feIgs,er the 5th 1891, at 10 O'Clock a. m, Tor the
purbose Of placing in noLnlnaIlon a cahe1 "a.
Tor the office of Judge of the Eighteenth judi
cisl District This convention VIII be comp
ed of the same number of delegates and select
cd IL the same manner as that OF the county
contention. as hereinafter provided. ana on
the came day. at the same place, at IL o CLOCK
q. nj the Republicans viii meet IN deiegstte
Contention for the nomination OF the following
coutty officers towit: Sheriff, County Clerk
RegIsfer of Deeds, Coroner, County surveyor.
Commissioner OF the Second CommlSsioheI
District. and County Treasurer Tor the snort
and long term -, 49,. oor
venftons shall be one delegate Tor each twenty =
five Votes and one delegate Tor eacn MAJOR
fractional part thereof cast for James II. daI-
lowdll at the last general election, ana one oel-
egath-at-large for each township ana "AIu IL
the Gity of Wichita. Ia -
for each convention. Said delegates shall be
seIedte6 nv a majority of the Republican VOTES
cast ht the primaries. which shall be held IN the
sevelal townships and wards on Thursday, the
Sd CAV of September. 1871. Salo prlIu{aries ~ ~
be held in the townships at the regular place
of voting therein. beginning at : O'Clock an9
closing at O'Clock .. M, and IN the WARDS saio
rripngaries shall begin al 4 O'Clock and close at
O'Clock .. m. and be held at the following
places in said wards;
First ward-C oOper's livery stable.
Second ward-Stoner's livery stable.
Third ward-Hueys livery stable.
Fourth Ward-Corner Oak Street and Law
renee avenue.
Fifth ward-Martinson block.
Sixth ward-Corner Douglas and Ida ave 3
The several townships and wards under TINS
call shall be entitled 10 the following number
II DELEGATES in each convention. tOWlJ:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

Young Mems Republican clubs are be-
ing organized all over the state of
Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04

The Index says cane began 10 ron into
the sugar mill as Medicine Lodge quite
bFiskly on Monday morning This is the
earliest start the mil ever had
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-04
THE GREATEST AGRICULTURAL VAL.
LEY IN A AMERICA.

The capabilities of the soil of the Great
Arkansas valley are unsurpassed either
by those of the OVERLOOKING Nile or ,ir
rigated garden spots of the Pacific slope.
With only ordinary cultivation, sup
plimented by the dews. rains and sim
shine of the skies, the yields of grains of
all kinds and fruits of almost all char
acters the past season, by this great val
lev equal those of the most favored
spots of the earth.
The following note received from
Senator Forney, of Sumner county,
yesterday morning explains itself aud
would make text for either an agri-
cultural address or an immigration
speech:
BELLE PLANE, Kan. Sept. >. 1891
To the editor of the EAGLE. Dear Sir:
Joseph VanSelons, Esq, who owns
ship 81, south, range one east, (one-half
mile west of this city, finished thresh-
ing his wheat yesterday. He had in
% acres, which averaged forty-thrse
and fourth bushels per acre. 1t i5a
me qudIliV ana known as SOiQ drop
variety. have not heard of larger
yield, although Mr.. VarSelons thinks
part of the land yielded at least fifty
bushels per acre. Yours truly,
J. W. FoRNEY.
Nobody viii find any trouble in fgur-
ing out that such acres and such farming
beats railroad stocks or any other kind of
legitimate investment. Mr. Van Selons
siXty-three acres yielded him two thous-
and seven hundred and nine (2709) bush.
els of wheat, which at IS cents, the price
of wheat in this market yesterday, was
worth two thousand three hundred and
two dollars and sixty-five cents 80, 302.-
co. In other words his wheat yielded
him $3.50 per acre.
There are thousands and hundreds of
thousands of acres Of land in the lower
Arkansas valley in Kansas, in the coun-
ties of Reno, Harvey, Sedgwick. Sumner
and Cowiey equal to just such yields as
in the above letter aud the
world viii find it out in due time
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-15
MARK TWAIN"

SAMUEL L. CLEMENS, better known to
the literary world as "MARK TWAIN" has
begun series of syndicate newspaper let
ters descriptive of life, scenery and travel
in Europe. They are evidently intended
to be patterned after the series which,
bound in book form, made the popular and
widely-read volume of ''Innocents
Abroad" upon which the fame of the
author so largely rests. But the initial
letter, which in pen picturing is superior
to anything in that work, is greatly be-
hind it in humor aad satire. The fact is
the rich vein of wit that "MARk TWAIN"
developed in his earlier writings Is sadly
impoverished.
Among the journals joined in the publ
cation Of this latest series of letters by Mr.
CLEMENS is the San Francisco Examiner,
which, in announcing them, makes the
common mistake of supposing that the au-
thor IS literary comet made his first ap-
pearance in that vicinity. The pen-name
of "MARK TWAIN should alone have pre-
vented such an idea. Mr.. CLEMENS writ
ings over that signature in the press of the
Mississippi valley had local reputation
quite as extensive as they afterwards &C
quired on the Pacific coast. He could not
have adopted the nom de plume as a sugges-
tion of an ocean voyage, where there are
| no soundings, but it was continued as one
| by which the writer was known when he
was pilot on Mississippi steamboat. The
publication of 1.-The Innocents Abroad
made his reputation national, and even
| international
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-15
UNCIVlL AL LEAST.

Isn't it out of the regular order for the
President of the United States to plead
the side of the government before the
diplomatic representative of country be-
tween which and this nation there is dis
pute! And again, is it not decidedly out of
the regular order for the President to take
advantage Of the first presentation of that
representative bearing his credentials, to
put forth special plea in justification Of
our side of the CONTROVERSY
On Saturday the recently designated
minister from Chilli was presented to the
President, and in few we'll chosen SEN
fences stated that he had been sent here to
cultivate and maintain relations of peace
and friendship between his government
and the United States. Having done this
he felicltously congratulated this country
upon its prosperity and general we'll being
The occasion required nothing more on his
part and asked only the formal recognition
and welcome on the part Of the President.
But HARRISON ran off in q
speech sounding the praises of
the United States for fairness and
nooleness and for consideration of the
rights of weaker nations, and then and
there decided the controversy between the
Washington and Santiago governments
without regard to the claims which Chill
might bring forward or the position she
might assume with reference to the quar-
rel. To say the least Signor MONT must
have felt that his welcome was anything
but cordial in view Of the fact that he was
in this country to maintain view of the
cause of the trouble entirely opposed to
that taken by the President.
The matters forming the subject OF
President HARRIsoN's address are properly
for discussion between the minister and
our secretary Of state, and dragging them
into White House parlor on the occasion
OF the formal presentation of the Gillian
minister was uncivil, and in certain sense
was slap at Mr.. BLAINE as well as q
boorish overstepping of the bounds OF
diplomatic methods and usages.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-15
PIANO FORTITUDE.

At q recent meeting OF the piano manu-
lecturers OF New York it was unanimously
voted to adopt uniform musical pitch, to
''go into effect" after the 1st of July next.
And the meeting agreed on that A which
gives 435 double vibrations in a second of
time"
A good many persons, of uncultivated
tastes perhaps, if required to agree upon
pitch for pianos, would harmoniously re-
solve to pitch them into the street. This
action would include boarding house nipple
ments where young seminary girls and COM
mercial travellers practice upon the piano
fortitude of other boarders and sympathiz-
ing neighbors. 1t would certainly en-
brace the bOxed-up concord of
sweet sounds" on which the young
miss takes her first lessons, with her
monotonous zone, two, three-bang,n
whilst the grinning keys, like horse teeth,
chatter under the cold and unimpassioned
touch. Here it is that the cynical old
bachelor, who regards that particular rose
wood continuance as sort of trap, gets in
his observations. He will tell you the
piano is useful in drawing room, to dis
tract one from the nonsense lie hears
around him, or as promoter of the fash
ionable attainment of saying nice things
without meaning them. He will call piano
playing an ante-nuptial accomplishment of
young ladies who, after marriage, look
upon the piano less as an Instrument than
as weapon, to be showed in a corner as
having done its work
| A Frenchman is said to have described
violin playing as 'ze noise Eat is make
| by scrape re hair of re horse on ze
bowel of re cat" But this chap could
never have heard GILMoRE's or THOMAS
orchestra. And SO 1t is highly brutal, as it
were, to condemn any musical ''utensil''
| simply because everybody cannot play on
it. Perhaps we ought to exclude the hand
organ and music machines generally. And
speaking Of music machines, the New York
papers, whose luminosity to Chicago is well
understood, are saying that feature of
the Worlds fair will be a pyramid of 400
pianos, all connected by electric wires with
one keyboard, which is to be operated bv
one woman. By that time, it is sincerely
to be hoped that the uniform pitch adopted
by the STEINwAYs and CHICKERING'S and
other manufacturers of New York will
have been put into sill the pianos in the
Land.