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MEMS OEERSHIRTS.

Mems Heavy Cotton Overshirts, in dark
colored stripes and checks, excellent for
working wear. Price, 75c and 81
Heavy Cashmere Overshirts, made Of
good-weight cashmere, soft but firm texture,
Washing excellently, and in great variety Of
small checks, plaids, and stripes. Price,
81 SO.
FINE Quality Cashmere Overshirts, made
with yokes and shaped shoulders, 50 as to fit
well, cut full length and carefully finished in
every detail. Come in quiet dark patterns.
Prices, So and So SO.
Mems Best Quality Cashmere Overshirts,
heaVy, soft texture, in plain colors only-rich
browns and tans in subdued effects, made
with pointed yol1es, perfect fitting and first
class in every respect. Price, SO.
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HAMMERS music store, No. $50 ] street.
Sole agency for Chickering & Sons pianos,
Clough Warren organs; also cheaper ma Ees (
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Germany publishes more periodicals
than all the rest of Europe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
Amrfnc the Great Seal.

The secretary OF state has no right Ia
affix the great seal of the United States 10
any paper without warrant, from the
president authorizing him 20 do so. This
warrant is always fled with the document
SO sealed, and reads as follows:
authorize and direct the secretary Of state
10 cause the great seal Of the United States 10
be affixed to Whatever the document may bel
dated this day. and signed by me, and for %
doing this shall be his warrant.
President Of the United States.
The great seal is affixed TO nothing but
treaties, proelamations, commissions, par
dons and passports, The cid seal. which
had been in use since the foundation OF the
government, was worn out and replaced by
q new one in the early part Of 1856 II is a
curious fact that the old one which wss
used so long was imperfect and never did
answer to the description set down in the
statutes.
Although using the seal Is supposed 70 be
a solemn affair, aud the penalty for its i'm
proper use is 50 tremendous. IL ~ left IN
charge Of a clerk, just like any other piece
OF furniture, and it is doubtful! II the secte-
tary sees 10 twice a year. During the early
days Of the covers ment 10 was guarded
with much vigilance, a. its appear aucs
upon any document was known 70 give
that document rhs force Of law but now
the people look 70 the newspapers aud not
10 piece Of parchment for their inforU4-
tion.-St Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
ARCTIC EXPEDITIONS.

Several members of the party which
started with Lieutenant Peary on his
west Greenland expedition, some time
ago, have returned to Philadelphia and
give very discouraging reports about
those they left behind in Greenland.
Scantily supplied, few in numbers, and
with only whaleboat, these eight men
are pushing forward hoping to get near
er to the pole than any one who has
gone ahead of them. The returning party
take quite different view of the mat
ter, and express the opinion that unless
a relief expedition starts after Lieuten-
ant Peary, and starts soon, the explorers
will all perish.
This is the history of arctic explora-
tons. One party is sent out to explore.
and another follows soon after to relieve
it, and possibly a third to pick up and
care for the relief expedition, and thus
more lives are sacraficed in the vain
hope of rescuing some one. We quite
agree with the New Orleans Times
Democrat that it is not to be wondered,
with the story of arctic explorations be-
fore us, SO identical in nearly all re-
spects, that the civilized world should
have come to the conclusion that there
was no advantage to science in having
the explorers starved or frozen to death,
and should have practically abandoned
arctic explorations for a time at least.
As we noticed some weeks ago there has
been revival of the spirit of arctic ad-
venture this year and some half dozen
expeditions have been proposed and are
now preparing to move north. 1t is not
an suspicious circumstance that the
first of these to reach the arctic circle.
the Peary party, should be in so bad a
way that it is proposed at this early day
to send a relief party to Greenland to
hunt up and rescue 1t.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
THE CAUsAT1oN OF INSANITY.

At the session of the American Social
Science association at Saratoga, on Fri
day last, Dr. Charles E. Atwood of the
Utica insane asylum, as was announced
by telegraph, read an interesting paper
on Teachings of Recent Investigations
Into the Causation of Insanity" Among
other things he said:
1t may be stated as a general law that
a person of average healthy constitution
to begin with will not become insane. A
majority of cases of insanity are due to
hereditery predisposition on the one
hand and one or more exciting causes
on the other. Statistics in reference to
the importance of hereditv vary with
different Institutes where the insane are
cared for. The transmission of the
tendency to insanity is more frequent on
the mothers side, although the differ
enCe is not great. 1t was found at the
Utica State hospital last year, for exam
pie, that OF the 1S1 cases admitted dur
ing the year in whom insane heredity
could be traced, so cases derived this
predlsposing cause from the paternal
branch, o. from the maternal branch, Is
from both the maternal and paternal
branches, and Al had insane relatives not
Immediately connected. The potency OF
transmission is in proportion to the
nearness of the relationship. Among
the predisposing causes of insanity NAV
be mentioned previous attacks of certain
constitutional diseases which lower the
general nervous tone or effect a decided
alteration in nutrition, the influence of
race, of faulty education, of certain oc-
equations and of certain periods of life.
Statistics gathered from various sources,
show that sex and the conditions of mar
riage or eelibacy do not exert a marked
influence on predisposition. Mental dis
eases are most frequent between the ages
of thirty and fifty. In New York state
there is one insane or idiotic person to
every $50 inhabitants Insanity is con-
stantly increasing. Some of the exciting
causes act directly on the cerebral cen
tiers. and may be called direct causes.
Accident or disease in any form may
lead 10 insanity. 1t all depends upon
the physical condition of the person. At
present the most potent factor which is
being constantly urged as practical
measure in prevention IS the early treat
ment by appropriate means, not only Of
insanity, but OF tire allied nervous affec-
tions. and also the prevention of mar
riages Of those hersditarily predispOsed. |
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
He IS INDIGNANT.

That great man, the Hon. Jerry Simp-
son of Kansas, in his speech at Sharp
shooters park, Chicago, on Monday, is
reported to have made these cutting re-
marks: 1.-The two parties now in power
have appointed board of lady man
ayers for the worlds fair. The women
of the country are not represented. The
ladies are those who wear silk stockings.
silk dresses and diamonds. Our party
would make a board of women"
Nowonder Mr.. Simpsons ire is aroused.
Stockings, forsooth. And silk ones at
that!
The Chicago News in referring to the
incident and the remarks of our jerry
observes that when the representative in
congress of the good people of the Sew
enth Kansas district has set mankind
and womankind an edifying example of
the dignity and honor to be acquired bv
eschewing such frivolous forms of haber-
dashery, sheer insolence alone sustains
those who persist in wearing hosiery,
A great and blameless man is this Mr..
Simpson, who stands for the uprisen
masses, and who, as Shakespeare has it,
is sans guile, sans fear, sans socks. sans
everything" But, seriously, how will
the women Of the country regard Mr..
Simpsons allusion to them, characterize
ing them as less than ladies and peers Of
the silk encased aud diamond bedecked
women whs have been placed in charge
OF that department of the exposition:
Are our women any the less ladies be-
cause they do not all of them wear silk
and diamonds? And are the lady man.
ayers" of that department any less
women because they wear these more
expensive articles of apparel: And,
again, are they less competent because
they are thus circumstance, or our
women more capable of looking after
such interests because they are not so
circumstanced? Bah.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11

The resolve of the worlds fair COM
missioners to ask congress for the loan
of s. 900, 900 in addition to what the
government has already provided for
the undertaking, is not a matter of sur
prise, but it is a matter of general con-
Germ and viii provoke almost universal
protest. The general feeling on the sub
ject is like this: if a lien on the gate re-
ceipts, as proposed, is sufficient security
for the government, it is enough for
capitalists, and the managers can GER
tainly make the rate for the use of the
money sufficient to induce the loan of
the necessary amount There is no suf-
ficient warrant for congress to make the
loan and it will not be done if popular
sentiment is considered.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
Two True Fish Stories.

"Just after the first Worlds fair ban
quet," said Abram Williams, a prominent
fire insurance manager, "a party of gentle
men were talking in one of the parlors of
the Palmer House, where the feast was
spread, and as viii happen sometimes, you
know, the conversation drifted TO fish sto-
ries. And fish stories reminded Delegate
White, of the south. of an experience he
had in New Mexico.
The fish were so PLENTIFUL said Mr.
White, that all our party needed to do
when we wanted a dinner Of fish was to
take two boards or shingles, and forming
them in the shape of scoop just dish out
as many as we needed for rneal'
when Mr.. White had finished there
was a moments silence, then Edwin
Walker, attorney for the st. Paul road.
quietly said:
That's not much of fish story, Mr.
White. Why, when ! was travelling up
one of the small rivers in southern Alaska
/ saw fish in such great numbers that the
water could not be seen. 1t was a most
remarkable thing, and / have never heard
of the like before or since. They were act
ually so thick that they were wedged in
the water, heads down, and all that could
be seen was thousands of their wriggling
tails sticking up out OF the water, each
one, of course. having an individual mo-
ton of it's own A shout of laughter
greeted Mr.. Walker from every one except
Mr.. White, whose face flushed up holly,
then paled until it was whittier than a
sheet, as be said:
But, Mr.. Walker, my story was true
And so was my story true responded Mr..
Walker.
And the best of it was that Mr.. Walk
er's story was literally true, as Mrs. Walker
later in the evening testified. 1t was in
the spawning season, and just above the
spot where the remarkable sight was wit
messed was a narrow rapids The salmon
went up the stream in such quantities that
many were crowded out Of the water, and
gave TO the scene literally the aspect told
by Mr.. Walker. "-Chicago Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
THE JEWS III PALESTINE.

The plan of settling the Russian Jewish
refugees in the homes of their ancestors.
Palestine, which was strongly urged as
the best solution of the difficulty, is en-
eonntering a serious obstacle. The coun-
try Is well suited TO them, isthinly inhab-
tied, but capable of sustaining a large
population. Unfortunately. the I'M
speakable Turk, who just at present is
afflicted with pro-Russian craze. has
thought 10 please the car by refusing 10
allow the Jews 10 settle or even land in
Palestine without special permit Fifty
families who recently arrived there have
been sent back by steamer. and the Jew.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
Cbaracteristic Portraval.

General Charles Lee, who was adju-
tant general on Lees staff, tells an IN
teresting little story of General Wise
and the surrender at Appomattox, says
the New York World. Wise came rid
ing down the road furiously to where
General Lee and his staff were grouped.
He was splashed with mud from head
to heels. There were great splotcbes of
mud dried and caked upon his face. Ad-
dressing General Lee, lac asked, in q
theatrical voice: is it true, General
Lee, that you have surrendered "Yes,
General Wise, it is true" Il wish, then.
TO ask you one question: What is going
to become Of my brigarde, General Lee,
and what is going to become OF me?'
General Lee looked at the spIasbed war
rior for full minute, and then said
calmly IN a low tone: General Wise,
90 and wash your face
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
KANSAS, POPULATION.

Hon. E. F. Ware of Fort Scott, detect
ed some inaccuracies in the communica-
ton of Mr.. Henry Cleveland of Connect
icut, in regard to the makeup of Kansas
population, and corrects them in the fol-
lowing brief article addressed to and
taken from the Topeka Capital:
Il see going around the newspapers
the remarks of Mr.. Cleveland, repre-
senting Connecticut capitalists, who is
saying great many good things and
pleasant things for Kansas and her peo-
pie. l clip the following:
My employers desired only plain cold
facts; these have given them. Kansas is
divided into 106 counties, containing pop
ulation of about one and one-half millions,
at least two-thirds of which are Americans,
one-half of the other third are Germans
and the remainder is comprised of all other
nationalities.
The difficulty with Mr.. Cleveland's
statement in the above is, that as regards
the population of Kansas he is all off.
Kansas is an exceedingly pure blooded
state. 1t is a state with pedigree. In
stead of it being composed of 81 per
cent. native Americans, it is composed
of S7t per cent. native born, white
Americans; that is to say, the American
born Caucasian is S44-100ths per cent. of
the total population, and in the balance
a little over 10 per cent. are found the
colored, Chinese, Indians. and foreign
born persons. This is according to the
census of 1880 and was taken before the
enforcement of the prohibitory law and
at time when a large number of Gov
ernor St Johns southern refugees had
crowded into the state. Since the en-
forcement of prohibition proportion of
our foreign population has left us and
the coIored ''exoduster" has largely per-
colated out of the state, so that it is safe
to presume that the Kansas population
of today, concerning which Mr.. Cleve-
land is speaking, is 80 per cent Ameri-
can born white men instead of 81.
The. large proportion of American
born white men in Kansas is one of the
facts that accounts for its activity in all
departments. If you will pardon me /
will give you its relative proportion as
compared with other states of the union:
liable showing percentage of Ameri-
can born white people IN the following
states:
Kansas -.s-.s, 81. Of
Connecticut. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1I.22 !
Massachusetts. ....................... "a. 90 |
New i ork'...'.'.' ''...'......'.,..'. l4oI |
California Observation-Disclosures. 63. SO |
every Respectfully,
"E. F. WARE"
FORT SCoTT, Sept. s, 1891.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
THE FARMERS GOOD FORTUNE

From the Atchison Champion.
The wheat crop of the present year, it
is now certain, is the largest this country
has ever known. Not yet can it be as
certained exactly what the total yield
will be, but trustworthy statisticians
estimate in the neighborhood of 600, 000,-
600 bushels. 1t Is absolutely sure to be
over $4,000, 900. One authority, by
careful calculation, probably strikes a
fair figure at $50, 000, 900, which is TO-
600, 900 more than the largest previous
yield, that of 1884. OF this it is probable
that the country will need for home con-
sumption 800, 5000 at the most, and
there will be, therefore, something like
250, 200, 900 left for export.
The world has played into the hands of
the American farmer this year. The
crops of the old world are as poor and
sCanty as our own have been good and
bounteous. Ordinarily the immense
wheat harvest would involve a consider
able slump in prices-as in 1884, for in
stance, when wheat sold at 50 and As
cents a bushel. But the Old World
comes to the American farmers rescue
and takes his surplus grain at prices
which will be fairly remunerative. The
only danger is that by speculative corners
and combines the price Of wheat may be
elevated to a point where exporting
would be impossible. This peril is real,
and it is the only serious cloud OF its
kind that darkens the farmers horizon.
If he escapes this he will enjoy this fall
not only good crops but good prices and
a ready sale for them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11

ish emigration to Judea must, of course,
cease, unless some arrangement can be
made with the porte.
This, indeed, should have been done
before the emigration began, and Baron
Hirsch and the others who were at the
head of the movement should have seen
to it. 1t is absurd to send any
people to Turkey unless a very dis
tinct understanding or indeed con-
tract, is made with the latter country.
1t was proposed when this emigration
movement first began that the various
sisting upon some agreement on the
part of the Porte that would assure the
Jewish refugees in Palestine protection
in their religion and property. Some
such arrangement is absolutely necessary,
for it will not do to subject the refugees
to the mercy of Turkey, which is as
cruel and tyrannical as Russia.
There seems to be no doubt that Pales-
tine will accommodate large number of
the refugees, and that it is not barren
land, as is popularity supposed, but can
be restored to its former fertility; but the
first thing to be done is to assure the
Jews who propose to settle there protec-
ton against such treatment as they have
met with in Russia.
But>even with this accomplished, it is
still doubtful if any considerable number
of Jews would go to their ancestral
abiding place. Never since the disper-
sion of the race have they shown any
general desire to congregate to them
selves exclusively in any quarter of the
and many persons hold to the
idea that they never will.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
THE GARDEN PARTY.
A Landmark of the Social Season and
How 1t Is Observed

How It Is Observed
The garden party season is now well on
its way, both in town and country. It is a
paradox perhaps to say that the town gar
den parties are the most brilliant as re-
CARDS fashion. number of guests. music
and amusements. Society requires to be
amused at its town garden parties; in the
country it is more than satisfied TO play
tennis or croquet or both. AT town gar
den parties music is feature
The regulation garden party hours
yary-S:30 to ESQ and to country
hours; 40 to and 5 to $50 town hours;
but both in town and country the ar
rival Is made as near to the hour men,
toned on the card as possible. II is no
proof of being ultra fashionable to arrive
late on the scene. only that something pre-
vented an earlier appearance. The charm
of a garden party is sunshine blended with
shade; but as the day grows older the shad-
ows of evening and the gloom of the trees
give shade without sunshine and chilly
atmosphere not bargained for. The de-
parture from a garden party is an almost
simultaneous one among the guests. They
do not leave by twos and threes and so dis
appear by degrees, as at an as home, bns
every one wishes to leave at the same mo-
ment. The guests walk to their carriages
rather than wait to have them called up in
turn, so eager are they to get away; bus
this more especially in the country on &C
count of the long drive in prospect
The length of invitations is from weeks
to three days, as the case may be, con-
venience having great deal to do with it.
also space and refusals. If any special
amusement is intended, it should be con-
spicuously mentioned on the invitation
card.
An answer should be sent TO garden
party invitation, if only, to take il on no
higher ground. as an indication as TO the
quantity of refreshments required, and
also enabling others TO be asked in the
stead of those who are prevented accepting.
Refreshment tables may be supplied plen-
tifully with good things-jslhes, creams
babas with jam and cherries, grapes,
peaches and an abundance of cream, ices,
sandwiches of various kinds, cakes OF
every shape, make aud color; tea, coffee.
feed coffee, and claret cup. Sometimes ices
are served on separate table. Men and
maidens plenty" are required when the
company Is numerous
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
rake Gaze OF the Apples.

From the Eureka Republican.
Never before in the history of the state
has there been such an abundadt crop of
apples as this year in Kansas. The own
ers of orchards should not wait until the
crop is ready TO harvest to find market.
You should begin now to hunt place
to market your apples. Don't sacrifice
them for low price, or allow them to
rot under the trees. If you can do no
better, procure eyaporatOrs and dry
them, you will find a ready market next
winter for dried fruit OF all kinds, if you
will only let the world know you have
them TO sell. The apple crop east and
north is practically a failure this year.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11
ALLIANCE DOCTRINE IN CITIES.

From the Chicago News
The Hon. Jerry Simpson has been ex-
pounding Farmers Alliance ideas TO a
gathering of Chicago labor unionIsts. He
talked of tariff robbery, the sub-tTeasury
scheme, free coinage, etc, and tried TO
make il appear that his auditors were
equally interested with the farmers in
joining hands to control the government
of the country on Alliance principles.
The fundamental error of Mr.. Simpson
and his Alliance colleagues ia their work
in the cities. is in presuming that organ
lied labor has not enough reforms OF its
own to keep its members fully employed
The central ideas in all organized labor
in cities are the attainment of eight
hours and better pay. the regulation of
child labor, tenement and factory in
spection and cognate reforms. What
ever organized labor has accomplished
has been won by concentration Of energy
on one line.
These new political prophets would
have organized labor IN cities dissipate
its collective energies by running after
utopian reforms in matters OF finance
thar appeal more directly TO sg-icultur-
lists who want 10 borrow money from
the government at a nominal interest.
There is little in common between the
dominant principles OF the Farmers Al
lance and those Of organized labor IN
cities. An attempted union OF the two
IS forced al the best
The Farmers Alliance may covet the
equipped labor organizations /
Of the cities as al aid TO their own forces !
but the labor people viii be justified in /
twice before committing them 1
selves to Alliance control
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-11

If any denial of the insinuation that
Colonel FassetU, the Republican nominee
for governor of New York is an admins
tration candidate were necessary, the
little incident wherein he refused the use
of the governments revenue cutter at
the port Of New York to land the female
members of the presidents family on
their arrival there a few days ago, is
quite enough. 1t is safe to say that the
national administration has taken no
part and feels no interest in the New
York campaign beyond a general desire
for the success of the Republican party.
The attempt to repeat the incidents.
policy and results of the state campaign
of 1884 in the Empire state won't work
this year. The Republican party is not
making any mistakes this season.