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because 1t Is fitted up to Your needs The pennies
count for something here A demand is not the sig
nal for us to raise the Price. Cur RI BBoSS on
the ground floor" in more senses than location
convenient to you in every way.
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HE DR. J AreER SAsA1oRY WOODEN

Win be nearly if not entirely protective against
attacks of la grippe, pneumonia and like dis
eases. The DR.. Jaeger system comprises all az
tcles worn by men. women and children.
This is the Washington agency.
(First floor. second annex.)
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
SOMETHING BETTER THAN NOTHING

The detailed census repoft with regard
sas is decidedly interesting and instruct
i've. 1t shows that during the decade
of 1SSO-S9. the amount of money borrow
ed in that way was $4S2, ,699, $40, repre-
sented by 620,04 real estate mortgages,
and that the total debt on jan, l, 1890,
was $685., ,4S5, 10S. That is to say. a
little over one-half of the whole sum has
been paid. OF course this money has
not be squandered. 1t represents very
much Of the foundations of our wealth
in property. Tens of thousands of the
finely cultivated farms of today would
have yet been unbroken, ! improbable
open prairie but for borrowed money.
Debts are burthensom. but was Kansas
debt still the full S42S. .699, $40, or dou-
bic what it is, her creditors would be
safe. 1t is better TO pay interest and
having something than to have nothing.
The Alliance leaders talk as ifthev believe
that it would have been wiser for Kansas
people TO have struggled along two or
three generations in rigid economy in
getting something ahead with which TO
turn their open prairie spaces into home
like farms than to do as the average man
who found himself the owner of a piece
of raw prairie really did. There is no
questioning the fact that the wiser course
was pursued, not any more than that the
debts which We're thus contracted will be
paid. The annual increase of values will
be immeasurably greater than thev could
have been Ia the absence of the primary
expenditure Of the borrowed capital in
building homes and surrounding them
with economical conveniences and COM
forts. Kansas is all right. the howl of
every calamity apostle in the land 10 the /
contrary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
WHY NOT OPEN THE strip

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Reclining at monday in the shade of a
tree on the outlet yesterday, with a clear
spring OF soft water coming out of the
sand at my feet, which was soon lost to
view in the tall grass near by, stood
up and looked about me and as far as /
could see stretched out in every direc-
ton to meet the horizon. / beheld moth
ing but a rolling sea of grass just putting
on its autumnal tints, excepting the
dark green that outlined a stream, with
an occasional bunch of cattle feeding near
by, and while l was wondering in
astonishment at the extent..of the magnif-
icent waste | asked myself why are not
1000 thrifty farmers and 100 thriving
villages located hereon with 100, 900 peo-
pie. The looing of cattle was the only
answer to my query, certainly the peo-
pie have no voice in the matter for the
strip is controlled by few cattle owners.
The right of the rich are protected while
the poor people are neglected. When am
president l will send forth a proclama-
ton to Americanize America by de-
nouncing the oppositions of aristocracy
and elevating the masses, by sending
home foreign capitalists and putting up
the bars against the further importation
of foreign mems money and products and
give to our people our market, our mon
ey, our land.
n F.. RIdWEII.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

Every arrangement, to the minutest
detail, has been successfully made by the
officers of the Southern Kansas Fair asso-
citation for the grandest agricultural,
horticultural, livestock, mechanical and
art show ever attempted or enjoyed in
the state, the races left unmentioned,
the handsome purses of which will be
struggled for by one hundred and thirty
seven horses Of record, all of which have
paid their entrance fees.
The opening day will be tomorrow.
Wichita's distant location from all the
other important fair points of the west,
and being, as it is, also, the greatest
market center and the commercial city
of the richest cluster of agricultural
counties in all the transmissouri country,
her fairs in the past have without effort
proved surprise in their magnitude and
generally successful to their respective
managements.
No such an array of pedigreed hogs,
cattle, sheep and horses, both as to quail
ity and numbers has ever been brought
together in the history of this state.
They have already been entered and will
be seen in the stalls and pens and show
rings of the Southern Kansas Fair asso-
citation for the next six days.
In addition to the interest centering in
the stock pens, fruit displays, art exhib-
its, machinery shows, race track strug
giles, etc, etc., there will be endless
amusements and pastimes, fun and free
dom, for all conditions and stages in life,
from grandparents down to the smallest
child, and plenty to eat for all.
In other columns is given some idea of
the extensive preparations which have
been completed on the grounds, which
also, have been enlarged and received
new buildings. In short, with nearly
thirty thousand dollars in general and
special premiums and purses, taken in
connection with the thousands of entries
made and it would seem that nothing, a
long disagreeable storm excepted, could
possibly prevent the Southern Kansas
fair from being a series of the most de-
lightful and profitable holidays ever en-
joyed by the people of this city and coun-
try, and of the thousands of neighbors of
counties and the many stran-
gers who will be within our gates.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
sUNFLOWER SILHOUETTEs.

The Republicans hold meetings to rally
and the Alliance holds meetings to ally.
Eugene Ware writes most of his poetry
while travelling. Poetry composed on the
rail is properly raillery.
With Senator Plumb the bigger the hall
he speaks in, the bigger the haul of Alli-
ance votes for the Republican party
Peffer's travels in the east were not SO
much for the purpose of running down
Kansas as for running up expenses.
If the calamity howlers should ever get
in power, they would probably formally
abolish Thanksgiving day as legal hol-
iday.
''Things are coming our way" said the
Republican exhorter from force of habit,
as he looked out of the window and saw a
cyclone strike a house about a block
away.
At one of Peffer's eastern meetings a
young lady prefaced the speech with
Home, Sweet Home" and three minutes
after PETER was reviling his own state for
all that was ont.
! Prophets say that the coming winter is
! going to be hard one But with plenty
of grain, fruit and stock, even hard win
ter will be good deal of soft snap for
the Kansas farmers.
Senator PETER took Kansas City Jour
nal out of his pocket at Kansas City, on
! Thursday and ground it under his foot be-
fore the audience. PETER has a temper
where his brain ought to be.
As Mrs. Lease and Mrs Diggs had no
trouble in getting into the original Ali
aEce, it is probably assured that Mr. Lease
and Mr.. Diggs will become prominent fac
tors in the Woman's Alliance.
The Republican managers say they have
discovered that afternoon meetings in a
grove take better this year than night
performance in a hall. 1t lets the Repub-
licans in the Alliance who want to come
back into the party down easy.
I'm done with the Alliance for good,
said an old farmer yesterday, And it
was that fool Jerry Simpson that soured
me on it, too Why, didn't l hear him
with my own ears say that the working
man must have shorter hourss Think of
that Amt we all been taught since we
were little boys that there were sixty min-
utes in hour, no more, no lesss And
now Jerry Simpson thinks he can change
it. Such nonsensei l tell you I'm done
with the Alliance for good.
4 have new joke to tell the psople to-
day" said the young Alliance orator to
another and older man.
You have?" said the other. well.
let me advise you. Experience counts
with us orators as well as with anybody
else Is this joke new one!"
Yes sir. entirely new"
'Well, don't tell it,"
"Whys"
i suppose you have your heart set on
telling IT,"
To tell you the truth, I did set my
heart on it some.
How long is it before you begin to
speak,"
''About forty minutes
Well tell it TO me quick aud see If !
can't fix it"
Tell il to yous what fors'
Because, Young man. when / first
started in his business. I tried 10 tell I
new joke and nobody ever laughed at IL 4
Nothing hurts man so when nobody viii .
laugh at his jokes. Tell NE your joke aad 1
I'll 20 out and show the point 20 ten or /
twelve fellows in the audience and they'll 1
start the applause- Bus new jokes are
dangerous Old JOKES is good rule IN
these Alliance meetings. young man
A Republican and Democrat were hav |
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
ENTIRELY UNCALLED FOR

A printed circular was scattered about
the streets of Sedgwick City this week
warning people not to take their children
10 the Southern Kansas Fair on account
OF the supposed prevalence of diphtheria
among the children OF Wichita. Tho
honesty of the motive is not questioned
but the intelligence of such action upon
the part of any one who in the shortest
time could have run down to the city
and procured the most positive proof TO
the contrary, Is questioned -Four or
tve thousand school children from ZONES
all over this city are comingling every
day and no additional case of dinhtberia
has been reported. OF the last six cases
reported among the infants. and the
only cases that could be found at that
date, not one of them died but all re-
covered. The so called diptheria was
OF such mild type that it is doubted
by many If there was ever ANYTHING
more than sore throat. There is not a
bIt more danger of diphtheria in Wicb-
lta than there Is from yellow fever. One
hundred thousand children could safely
come to the fair without anv possihilitv
OF a single one contracting anv disease
whatever, fer the board of health ra-
ports The city in most excellent health.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
n0n.N NSmA +
SrNdW oANs
EzlEzHR

Our Millinery
Opening will be on
uesday and Wedns-
day, Sept. 29th and
goth. We have been
untirlng in our efforts
to make this Mill
merry display the finest
we have ever made.
We will be glad to see
you all Tuesday and
Wednesday.
We will offer in our
Linen dept. Monday:
40 doz. Irish Towels.
24x46 inches, knotted
fringe and drawn bor-
derS at 22 I-2c each.
Also an extra large
Irish hemstiched huck
towel at 22 I-2c. See
them in our North
window; you hav' mt
seen the like before
for this money,
We have many doz-
en- bargains in our
store this week that
are likely to surprise
you.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
on BOARD THE OLD DEMOCRATIC
SHIP
From the Capital.

From the Capital
AT meeting of the Henry county
| Georgia, Alliance last Saturday, as re-
ported in Mondays Atlanta Constitution
| DIR. John Nelms, vice president of the
| Alliance, made a Democratic speech
which was well received and, like Liv-
| ingston's declaration of loyalty to the
old party, expressed ihe sentiments OF
the Alliancemen. DR.. n elms made a
long harangue from which it is necessary
to quote only a few sentences to show
how the southern Alliance leaders are
tumbIing over one another in their haste
to join the Kansas party. DR.. Nelms
said:
now charge that the farmers of the
north and west are responsible to the
masses for all the political sufferings of
today.
And now that this party in power has
so fiagrantly abused the interests of the
masses until their adherents are casting
about for affiliation with some party of
clean methods and honest practices, it oc-
ours to me that we, IN the south, should
maintain our Democratic unity and join
with all honest men in reclaiming control
of this government, let them have what
ever inscriptions they may choose upon
their banners, we of the south retaining
the same right. Let the Alliance and
Democrats go hand in hand to fight this
great battle for the people. To fight
each other means defeat to both.
Like Livington and the Southern Al
lance Farmer, DR.. Nelms sees the only
hope of Democratic triumph in the sue
cess of the Alliance which will remain in
the Democratic party south but divide
the Republican party north. Ii Kansas
farmers want any more evidence of the
purpose of these southern sche ners we
invite them to read the further remarks
of this Alliance vice-president, DR..
Nelms:
When they have met together in conyen-
tion and selected some honest man, then
let US in the south who are bound together
by tens of thousands of inseparable inter
ests that can not be severed unlOose the
old Democratic ship from its moorings, 90
forth to battle, aud wherever we ind the
enemy give them full. undivided charge
of Alliance and Democratic powder. This
method would insure TO us victory, and
the honest hands of some man, like unto
the hands of Grover Cleveland, upon the
purse strings of the nation, will insure
that the contents of the peoples treasury
will only be disbursed as the law directs
Do this, and victory for the people is as
sured; refuse this, and defeat awaits US.
The hope of the south locally and nation
ally is to stay on board of the old Demo-
cratic ship, from behind whose bulwarks
we have been sheltered from the darts OF
our enemies for eighty years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
GOV. HUMPHREY HOME

Governor Humphrey who had gone to
OHIO to attend a reunion of his old regi-
ment, got back TO Kansas Thursday
evening. He thinks that the Republican
sentiment of the state is for Sherman.
despite the extra enthusiasm of the For
aker crowd. He reports the Mckinley
campaign the most brilliant in the
history of the country, and that McKin-
lev is making a record that will last him
a lifetime, but admits that the Alliance
Is very threatening element. He saws
that al the western states inclucing Ohio
are extremely dry and drouthy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
The daIfhta Daily gaoe SUNDAY 7Iorng September 1881

ing it up and down yesterday morning in
! the crowd on Douglas avenue thst was
/ waiting for the circus parade The Re-
publican had the best of the Democrat,
which fact was conceded by the crowd,
which at every point broke out in mur-
murs of applause.
/ You don't believe that the Republican
party has ever done anything good, don't
you?" yelled the Republican.
mo sir, don't" stoutly maintained the
| Democrat.
You don'tr' cried the Republican in
dignantly. Have you never read of the
war for the preservation of the union,
sir?''
"No sir" said the Democrat with the
same f1rmness.
What! cried the Republican and the
crowd showed its surprise too. Have you
never read of the Republican party's lib
Grafton of four million slaves?"
No sir" replied the Democrat again.
"Well, / neverl" cried the Republican.
''Do you mean TO say, sir. that you never
read how the Republican party elevated
the finances of this country? Do you
mean to say you never did, sir?" The Re-
publican grew gradiloquent and INDUCED
in slight gesture here.
"No SIR" came the stolid answer from
the Democrat.
"And may ask why sir" Grated the Re
publican, why you have not read of these
things?"
A smile spread over the face of the Dem
ocrat. Hes gloated over the Republican
like victorious gladiator over fallen
foe, or an eagle that descends upon its
prey. Then came the crushing answer.
''You think you're smart, don't you? But
l never did read about those things.
can't read. Yah-yah-yah."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

The Topeka Capital and Topeka Demo-
crat are indulging in double loaded
discussion over the county printing. It's
foolish. All public printing is just as
honestly worth the price fixed by law as
is the price of any other character of
labor or material, furnished the state OF
the individual. just as well let the work
of the county and township and city
officers, fire departments and street
laborers, under bid, as to force printers
TO bid against each ether. A printer is
just as worthy of his full hire without
competition as the street laborer, who
wouldn't submit to such rule for a
minute,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
FARM HELP WANTED.

ANTHONY, Kan, Sept. 26, 1891.
To the Editor Of The Eagle.
The lack of farm help and teams all
over the state is assuming quite serious
aspect. Not only that help is command
ing such an exhorbitant price that but
few farmers can really afford to pay the
ruling prices, Why cannot there be a
combined effort among the newspapers
of Kansas to make this fact apparent to
eastern people? Of course some of the
towns upon the Missouri border will
throw cold water upon the scheme, but
we ought to be able to take care of them.
presume this is much more serious
matter than you imagine, this lack of
help. Yours, r. H. LOCKWOOD.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
RAIN PRODUCERS.

Flaming hand hills scattered over the
western part of this county and eastern
KIngman by the chairman of the Re-
publican central committee, announced
that o. II. Bentley and Victor Murdock
would address the citizens of the two
counties at the city of Cheney on Satur-
day night on the political issue of the
day. Up to this hour no word or dis
patch has been received of the progress
of the grand rally, but from the lurid
aspect of the sky in that direction things
had no doubt been sufficiently SHAKEN up
to have produced good rain before day
light this morning.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

1t Is announced that the several Mexi-
can states are about to establish perma-
nent eXpositions in New York, London
and Havre, with a view to more init
mate trade relations with the United
States, England and France. They de-
serve credit for this evidence of COM
mercial spirit; but they seem to be kick
ing against the pricks in trying to build
up an export trade at the moment when
Mexico is putting in force a new tariff
which levies heavier duties upon imports.
This, however, 1t is expected viii be
overcome, as to the United States, by
the inauguration of a system of reci-
proclty under our new tariff laws.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
PLUMB AT BURLINGTON

Senator Plumb addresses an immense
crowd of farmers of Coffey county at
the fair grounds in Burlington on Thurs.
day afternoon. His speech was ap-
plauded by the farmers from beginning
to end. The senator is with the ALI
ance for an increase of the volume of
currency, it having been almost a hobby
with him for the past five years, besides
Plumb has more real hearty sympathy
with, and has always more warmly
espoused the agricultural interests of the
country, than any dozen PETERS and
Simpsons that can be named
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

The Savannah, Georgia, Times, Demo
cratic, urges the Democrats to quit
bothering Livingston and let him do his
work. In the course of an editorial
criticising other Democratic papers it
says: "Denouncing the leaders of the
farmers when they repeatedly confess
their Democracy is not the right way to
get along with them. Livingston says
that he is loyal to the Democratic faith,
and the Times suggests that he be given
a rest" 1t is hardly necessary to make
any comments upon this.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
-~------~-
GOOD TIMES COMING.

Many persons thought that Europe
would pay for its big purchases OF
American wheat by returning its Ameri
can railroad securities. Instead of doing
this, however, 1t is buying more of these
securities. American railway stocks are
improving and foreign capitalists can't
be prevented from buying, while Europe
being short on bread stuffs must buy our
wheat. Consequently all talk of foreign
efforts to stop the flow of gold into the
United States is only talk. Gold by the
million will continue coming from
Europe to America for the next five to
ten months, and longer should another
crop shortage occur in Europe next year.
In the mean time under the silver act of
last congress the volume of the currency
of the country is being very rapidly in
creased, all of which means good times
in the near future.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

Babyhood, the mothers magazine,
very thoughtfully remarks that ''olonga-
ton of the prepuce is not phimosis;" yet
all the same that's what's the matter
with PETER, and it has evidently effected
IL h1.n
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

Those grim pills, PETER, Polk and
Simpson, while on their late political pill
grimage all travelled on railroad passes.
The way that they make the average
passenger agent squat under their threats
of coniscation is no less amusing to the
public than it is profitable to them as in
diVidualS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

A howl is coming up in Oklahoma
over the names, Chandler and Tecum
sch, selected for the new county seats
The administration should have subserv-
ed the poetical temperament Of the coun.
try, by all means.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

One of the new professors at the state
university astonished his class recently
by the following question: "Who
dragged whom about the walls Of what,
when, where, why and under what cir
pr1usfancasp-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27
For the Eagle
A BABYs MISSION

Close with kiss the little lips
Sin never soiled;
Cross on the breast the finger tips
That never toiled;
The grasp of greed the little hands
Have never known;
Death was so sweet; God understands
To Him has flown
The baby soul that is so fair;
Death came so still,
One scarcely knew he had been there,
To do Gods will.
o. heart that aches, the baby brought
A message sweet;
Then went back home, the lesson taught,
Gods work complete.
NAE w HFATV
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

The farmer of Kansas, is making
money this fall. This is better than
waiting for the government to do it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

JR. Burton. is rewarded. He is a
worlds fair commissioner and it is now
safe to say that the exhibition will be
good one.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

Tie Farmers Alliance organ in Ken
lucky has bolted. But of course the Al
lance is gaining ground daily.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

The Alliance squabbling everywhere,
being nearly as badly split up as the fe-
male wing of that order lately organized
in ToDeka.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

be used. However, those who wished to
stand in with public opinion discarded
their horses and took it afoot.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-27

The Emporia Republican congratuiateS
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland on her antlcl-
nations of becoming an aunt.