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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-08-27

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
HORR'S MISTAKE.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
/ would not have replied TO Mr. Horr's
speech on protection if he had made no
allusion to the Mckinley tariff bill; but,
when he said the bill was framed in the
interest of every industry of the whole
United States, beg leave to differ from
him. The fact that $500, 600, 600 in reve-
nue. is derived from the importation of
goods, the greater part of which can be
produced in America, shows that the
Mckinley tariff bill is defective | will
have TO cite but one fact TO disprove his
statement: Why are not hides protected,
when every farmer in Kansas has hides
to sell? Why are s15 5000, 600 worth of
chemicals. oils and paints imported, and
SIS, 600 900 worth of earthenware and
glassware imported: $50, zoo. 900 of wool
and manufactures thereof: S14. 00G. 900 of
tobacco, SIS, 600. 900 of agricultural pro-
ducts and provisions, $1,000, 900 of
wine, SIC. 200, 900 of cotton manu-
features, $40. 000, 900 flax, hemp and
jute manufactures. ST, 600, 900 wool and
manufactures. S35. Geo, 900 silk and man
ufactures. 5000. 600 pulp, paper and
BOOKS, and SJ3,V9O.UOt sundry articles:
If these were all fully protected they
would be excluded in greater part and
we would get the benefit of producing
the raw products and manufacturing
them
In another part OF his speech he SAYS
he hSs never had any one define raw
products. We know in Kansas what
raw products are. They are wool, cot
ton, silk. wheat, corn, oats, cattle, sheep
and hogs; while IN Colorado it would be
ores a. taken from the mines, and this Is
the western general aeceptation OF the
term, and you have no right TO put one
OF them on the free list. You
say 1t Is crime in England
to try 10 raise or manufacture
anything or which there is a duty. Il
Is a great crime 10 America 10 Try 70
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

The colored citizens of Leavenworth
are rivaling the editor of the Times as
kickers. a convention of citizens ire
pective of party was held there Monday
night and non-partisan ticket for
municipal officers named, though it is
composed of Republicans and Democrats
and one negro. The colored citizens
interpreted this to mean a craven de-
sertion of their race, and accordingly
they held a mass meeting two days later
and put out a straight ticket for the full
complement of city offices, from mayor
down, of colored persons. The situation
thus arranged presents a triangle-a
citizens ticket, woman's ticket and a
colored ticket. They are fixed for fun
up there, sure enough.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

The Italians who are bowling over the
New Orleans massacre @ base their al
legged grievance upon the terms of the
treaty between that government and
this, which provides for equal protection
to Italian subjects with citizens of this
country. On this point they are estopped
by the fact that there was no discrimina-
ton in the occurrence mentioned. Seven
of the persons killed were citizens of the
United States and only three were sub
Jects of the government at Rome. With
just as much reason and propriety the
United States could demand indemnity
from the Italian government for the
assassination of Chief Hennessey; which
crime was unquestionably committed by
Italian subjects.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Clerks Under Surveillance.

"Do you see that man ON the other
side of the street," said a friend who Is
employed in a downtown bank, while
we were walking leisurely up Broadway
one evening last week.
| glanced at the man to whom my
friend referred. Hes detective" he
continued, "and he is following us-or
rather me. You seem surprised, but it
is fact that every bank in this city has
one or two and sometimes three private
detectives whose sole duty is TO keep
track Of the doings Of employees. 1t
seems TO be my turn to be followed now,
as this man has been logging me since
yesterday. The watch will continue for
several days longer, and after reporting
to the bank he viii be assigned to follow
some one else.
mot long ago one Of our expert book
keepers sent word to the bank that he
was Ill and could not come 10 the office,
but the same day his resignation was re-
quested. The fact is, he had spent the
night before in dissipation, and the bank,
having been informed of this by its de-
tective, his dismissal followed.
Being logged about like criminal is
not pleasant. But what can we do?
When protestations are made against it
the bank officials assure us that we are
mistaken, that they do not hire men 10
watch us. OF course you can't expect
them to admit it, but every bank clerk
can tell you that such is the case. New
York Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

From the Emporia Republican.
AS the Kansas people become more
deeply interested IN the subject of beet
sugar they naturally desire more infor
nation concerning the extent and work
ings of the industry where it has been
established in this country. The three
principal factories are located, two in
California and one in Nebraska. The
Western Beet Sugar company of Wat
sonville, Cal, and the Oxnard Beet
Sugar company of Grand Island, Neb.,
each have working capacity Of over
800 tons day. The Alameda Beet
Sugar company of Aluarado. Cal, has a
capacity of 250 tons day. Each factory
actually works up $4,000 tons of beets
during the season, which is 100 days
long, for which it pays the producers
S15O,0 900. 1t also gives employment for
over three months each year to 200 men
at good wages, besides the farm labor
expended in growing the beets.
The rapid progress in beet-sugar max
ing in the United States becomes more
evident from year to year; for example,
in 1887, the total beet sugar made was
about 200 tons; in 1888, it rose TO 800
tons; in 1899, TO 5000 tons: and it is be-
lieved that the total for the season of
1S90.91 will reach $4,000 tons, or "a, 000,-
600 pounds. These sugars have been
produced for 81 to cents pound and
before many years the cost of
production will be as low as in
Germany and France, where beet
sugar is made at / J cents per pound.
There is no danger of overstocking the
market. To meet the home demand
700 such factories as those mentioned
would be required, and they would need
q, 900, 900 tons of beets which would re-
quire the cultivation of 2, 100, 600 acres to
produce. To cultivate and harvest the
crop-an operation lasting six months
1000, 900 men would be required.
Wastern farmers are waking up to the
fact that there IS money in beet cultiva-
ton. When we contrast the $3.50 gross
receipts from an acre of corn with the
$40 to $50 from the same area in beets.
there can DO no wonder that interest in
this industry is on the increase.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

Gen. Palmer is in a hurry to announce
that he is not candidate for president
on the Democratic ticket and will not be.
The general is pretty smooth as a politi-
clan, but it will avail him nothing in the
connection mentioned. His party played
the Old Roman racket for all it was
worth in the last campaign-and there
was good deal more in it then than
there will be again in long while for
them. The new Sucker senator will
have TO make the most Of the fortuitv
that tided him into his position, and ac-
cept it as the acme of preferment for
him,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

If the killing of three Italian subjects
by citizens of the United States, acting
in self defence, is ground for such vigor-
GUS protests and demands for reparation
how will that government and people be
able to adequately express their emotions
at the wholesale slaughter of the steamer
Utopia's cargo of humanity from the
sunny peninsular by the recklessness. if
not design, of the officers of the British
man-of war, off Gibraltar? So far we
have seen not even so much as an express
sion of sympathy from Italian sources
for the unfortunates in the last named
massacre, let alone demands for an in
vestigation and for PREPARATION to the sur
vivors of the terrible catastrophe and the
friends and relatives of those who were
lost
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
A Cornish Cu.tom.

OF the more modern and wholly quaint
and innocent customs of Cornwall few
pleasant illustrations may be cited. Tho
fish wives of ancient st. Ives are an in
corrigible lot. Should you visit the town
at the height of pilcha-d fishing, and en-
ter the dark cellars where hundreds Of
women and girls are engaged in bulk
ing" or sailing, the fish. scores of grin
ming Amazons viii rush at you. and the
fieetest ono viii daub your shoes gener-
ously with the odorous fish oil which
has drained from the piles of curing fish.
This is called .wiping the shoe" and IL
you do not respond with tribute of at
least half crown for luck of the fair
maids that feed and clothe the poor
that is, the pilchard fishes-your subss-
quent "hustling" by these savory
wenches will certainly cost you a new
suit of clothing. The same custom, save
that the daubing is done with miners
clay" prevails within the mines, where
the stranger is expected 30 pay some
thing for ms initiation into their rnys-
teries.-Edgar L. Wakeman In New
York SIM
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
"0id Tcm.D

Old Tom Welt had a habit Of doing
queer and unexpected things, and thus
came TO be known throughout the region
in which he lived as "Odd Tom" Some
times his oddity appeared in some pecu-
Earity Of dress, rs when ne wore his coat
wrong side out, because, as he said, he
had got tired of the looks of the right
side" One day Tom went to his next
neighbor, Zebah Green, TO hire his horse
for the day.
What dye want i'm for:7 was Zebah's
inquiry.
''Oh, jest to go down TO the village to
do some marketin'." was the answer.
"P'raps 1 might go on afterward as fur
as Job Stones, n look at his oxen"
'.Wal, l don't want We 10 have i'm
replied Zebah, referring 10 the horse,
"but We may, jest ter 'commodate We. If
We won't go no fu'ther'n jest to the vii
lage-ye know that's most ten mile"
why, of course not" said Tom, mot
onless you're willin'."
oval, then, take i'm, but don't We
drive him no fu'ther'n the village. or III
never let we have him agin'."
SO Tom harnessed the old horse and
started for market. As he passed Ze-
bah's house On his way he heard. family
waited from his neighbor, who stood in
the barn door, BE sure we don't go no
futher'n jest to the village!'
Toward night Tom was seen, laden
with bundles, coming slowly up the
road from the village-on foot. Out
rushed Zebah, open mouthed.
what we done with old Bill?' he cried.
wal" answered Tom, with the at
most GOODNESS, I'VE seemed so ALFRED
scairt for fear I'd drive him further'n
jest to the village that didn't dare drive
him home agin, n so l left him there,
under the store shed. Youths Com
DaniOn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

An old veteran told this as happening
at Savannah during the war:
A young officer, who was pretty much
of bully, stopped in at toasorial sa-
loon. Drawing his sword he ordered
the barber TO shave him, az the same
time warning him that if no cut bis face
or drew a drop OF blood he would Kali
him when he got up The operation was
performed without accident. Before he
went out, however, the bully asked the
artist If be was not very much fright
ened while be was doing the work
The barber smiled.
Not in the slightest" he replied;
''for if had accidentally drawn a drop
of blood would have cat your throat
from ear TO ear before You could have
moved. Atlanta Constitution.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

The deprivation O: light, which affects
al animals 20 much, Is particularly de-
pressing 70 birds: and thls may b rez-
SCH for their rnwilliagnsss 10 move IN
the frost fog. Naturally they are the
trst 20 welcome Us departure As tbs
mist hits from scotch kiilEide the Geek
begins 70 crow. ard Ia tns EnzIish feds
tie rocks cav, the snail birds tx3;;er
and tie cocks crow IN the baruyzrs1s-
These sounds asc - certain 70 proclaim
the lifting Q. tie fos a. ths ss<oodon
crles7 70 begin whsa ths rain r.oy@---
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
THE WORLDS FAIR.
From The Hutchinson News.


The Wichita EAGLE is not feeling so
badly about the failure of the world 8
fair appropriation. There the EAGLE is
right. There is no great rush about
it. If it is TO be Chicago show, as con-
gress evidently intends it to be, Kansas
don't want any fifty thousand dollars
wasted in IT,
Chicago did not buy the fair, but the
location simply: vet, from the way she
acts IN the management it would seem
that she thought she owned il as COM
pletely as her packing houses.
Another thing that helps TO make the
failure CT the appropriation bearable Is
the fact that few scheming senators
will be out of job. II these men had
put in more time trying TO redeem the
pledges of the Republican party, and less
to log rolling for themselves the party
would be in better shape to go into the
next campaign
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

The first railroad built in the United
States was three miles in length, extend
ing from the granite quarries at Quincy,
Mass, 10 the Neponsett river. IL was
commenced in 1926 and finished in 1927.
The gauge was five feet. The rails were
pine, foot thick, covered with hard
oak, which was in turn strapped with
iron. In January. 1921, short coal
road was completed from the mines 20
Mauch Chunk, Pa. The rails on this
road were also Of timber, with fat iron
bars. The first locomotive for use on a
railroad was invented by Richard Preyi-
teck in 1904, and first tired in Wales.
George Stephenson built the first
really successful locomotive in 1914. and
tested it upon the Killingwood road in
the north Of England. The first loco
motive for actual service constructed IN
America was f. l. Miller's BEST
Friend" built for the South Carolina
Railroad company in 1880. Peter Cooper
built little experimental locomotive
early in 1880, before the BEST Friend
was completed Louis Republic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

4 Frenchman, who evidently revels n
handling large sums Of money. has com
piled some entertaining statistics with
regard TO the weight Of a milliard 81 tho
French coin Of the realm. According 10
him milliard in silver weighs IL, 90, 900
pounds; in gold, CTS, 100 pounds; in !. 900
franc checks, $3.50 pounds, and IN 100
franc checks. "a. 900 pounds. Assuming
that n carrier could carry two hundred
weight. l9 men would be required 20
carry Inilliard in ! 900 franc checks.
lis men for the same sun In 100 franc
checks, BPS men ia gold and q, 600 in
silver. a uilliard ia 600 franc chscks
would make 1000 volumes q 800 pages
each. Boston Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20

protect us with tariff bill and not half
do it. The trouble is, while the princi-
pie of protection is all right, it is misap-
Piled. and you give the Democratic party
an excuse to talk tariff reform, when if
protection was properly carried out there
could be no reform.
Two years ago under promise of pro-
lection we led every state in the union,
and last fall from failure to keep that
promise, Kansas went back on it.
am glad Mr.. Horn made aliusion to
the silk industry. He says the product
know of fact that $40, DOC, 900 was made
as profit to the mill owners; that S24,-
600. 900 was paid for the raw material.
and $50, 900, 900 for duty. Our share in
the million was lost. Put tariff on
raw and reeled silk and we will find it.
II. E. BIDwELL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Thanked Instead of Eeprimar


Sir Robert Wright, appointed to the
seat on the bench OF the high court Of
justice left vacant by the death Of Baron
Huddleston, on one occasion. while 81
Oxford. was summoned before the Dean
Of Balliol for the purpose OF being cen
sured. The dean was exceedingly care
fal OF his dignity, as well ~ Of his per
sonal appearance. Wright looked the
dean well up and down while the latter
Was delivering his lecture, and finally in
terrupted him, In the middle Of one q
his most telling periods, BY reraarkng
confdendauy, II Know yeu will excuse
me, sir. but think you cannot b. aware
that your waistcoat Is unort;oued-
Completely nonplrsed, the dean was only
able 70 staramer cut: "oh. thank yon,
Mr.. Wright So very kind CT yo1. / am
SIRE Good morning. good morning.
San Francisco Argonzat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
Vendalia and PennzTlvania -.

characteristics. - The characteristics
which have given the Pennsylvania lines
west Of Pittsburgh the distinction Of
being the standard railway corpora
ton of the country are noteworthy for
their simplicity: 4 read bed free from
dust: track that IS = marvel IN the
snoothnezs Of It's construction; a corps OF
employes as pleasing ID their demeAnOr
as a courtier, and train service Of ac-
knowledged superiority. Including vesti-
bnle dining and sleeping cars. To the
latter. I've new Pullman sleeping cars Of
improved design have been added to run
between 81. Louis and the East They
are the .'Abrouia,7 "AaemoIe, '.Aza-
lea, = Glover" and "Croc1s." one or an
other OF which viii be earned By train %
leaving 81 Louis daily az s.10 a n.
making the run 10 Baltimore. Washing
ton. Philadelphia and New York Ia less
than twenty hours.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
WEATHER LORE.

The weather thus far in the month of
March has been more cratic than is its
want, even at this period of frequent
and sudden changes, and these condi-
tons, coupled with the probabilities of
of the balance of the month as given by
Irl Hick, lend added interest to a state
| ment recently made by G. F. Won Her
mann, meteorologist of some note, in
| which the origin of cold waves is COM
mented on at length.
The writer says that cold waves are
those sudden changes from high to very
low temperature, which constitute the
most noteworthy feature of winter wealth
er in the United States. They are pro-
duced by the flow of masses OF cold, dry
air from the regions east of the Rocky
Mountains in British America, towards
the south or southeast. During the long
winter nights of che Arctic regions dry,
clear air accumulates in deep LAYERS
which is cooled by radiation to tenn
perature many degrees below zero; and
then commences to flow towards any
place where warm air is ascending, as it
does IN the low pressure areas of storms
which constantly pass from west to east
across the United States.
A Glow area is produced by the air
somewhere becoming heated from I'M
known causes, above the surrounding
atmosphere. This excessively heated air
ascendS and air is drawn in below from
all sides to replace it. That drawn in on
the south to east side is warm and moist;
that drawn from the north to west side
Is dry and cold. The cold wave follows
alter the low area as it moves eastward.
The severe and prolonged cold waves
are associated with extensive areas of
high pressure. Their rate of progress
averages 800 miles in twenty-four hours.
1t Is Of great advantage to many bust
ness and agricultural interests to know
in advance when the temperature will
fall quickly and decidedly, besides
affecting the comfort and health of
thousands of people, and for these rea-
sons the signal service of the govern
ment, though not always absolutely
correct IN forecasting the weather, has
become fixed institution and is uni
versally recognized. 1t is improving in
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-20
THE RAILROAD COMMISSIONERS.
From the Newton Republican.

From the Newton Republican.
1t has been an open secret to all that
would not refuse to know it that the
fight which has been made on the rail-
road commissioners of Kansas took rise
in Kansas City, Mo. A few days ago the
Kansas City spirit was manifested In the
refusal of the Journal to publish an
answer from one of the commissioners to
criticisms passed by that paper. That
place is determined that railroads shall
''break bulk" there; that is to say, all
freight shall be dropped down In Kansas
City SO that the various roads may have a
grab at it. Kansas City demands that a
railroad carrying out of Kansas goods
billed to Chicago must drop the consign-
ment in the Missouri town just as abso-
lutely as railways drop in New York
city goods billed for Liverpool. In the
latter case it is necessary; IN the former
case it is entirely wrong.
When railroads ''break bulk" at Kan
sas City the needless work of unloading,
hauling, storing and reloading makes a
fat thing for labor in that town, but
who pays for it? The shipper, of
course; and then back of him, the pro-
ducer. To illustrate: the several roads
between Kansas City and Chicago or St
Louis have uniform freight rate sched-
ules. 1t costs as much to ship by one
road as by the other. When, therefore,
a Kansas road can carry the consign-
ment to its place of destination it is
manifestly wrong that it should be taken
from the cars, hauled about, put in a
warehouse, perhaps, and then transfer
red to some other cars. All this truck
ing is a mighty good thing for Kansas
City-it keeps people busy-but it is a
very expensive thing for the Kansas
shipper and farmer.
The railroad commissioners have
fought this; that is to say, they have
worked for the benefit of the producer in
Kansas. All the loud noise that was
made about the commissioners, in the
legislature and outside of it, was begot-
ten and fostered in Kansas City. And,
as might have been expected, it was not
difficult to find Kansas yahoos to
do the bidding of that town. The
cry was raised that the commissioners
were favoring certain roads, as though
that We're not the proper thing for them
to do. As between Kansas roa and a
Missouri road, levelheaded Kansas
commissioner would take the former
every time, especially when such a
choice conduces very directly and very
plainly to the interests of the people who
pay the freight" The complaint which
has been raised by Kansas City and
which has been repeated by some Kan
sas ''leggers" is the best testimony that
has been presented yet as to the wisdom
and utility of the railroad commissioner
ship. The voice of righteous indigna-
ton" which was heard a short time ago
has turned out to be merely another
bray. Let the good work Of the COM
missioners 60 on.