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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
OVER IN BUTLEI R COUNTY.

To the Editor Of the EAGLE.
l had a very pleasant ride over into the
edge of Butler county northeast of Wich-
ita yesterday. 1t wds grand sight
never shall forget to s9e so many large
grain and hay stacks al d such fine fields
of corn 20 mature the large crop of cattle
and hogs, which are sol plenty on every
farm. notice quite a b improvement in
the stock generally; thu BY are better bred
and better fed than heretofore, and the
farmers themselves a. re looking i'm
proved. You would fhrdly think they
had ever had the bluest they are so en-
tirely over it they are abhamed to own it
up themselves. l MOTTO Jed several fields
of alfalfa and they lool4 eally promising.
as well as some fine felds of sorghum.
The stock are going to- have something
better than straw and prairie hay to live
on this winter. A gredter improvement
can be made when al, get to growing
them. Give them a gob d clean seed bed
and the results Will be surprising;
a large acreage of land,iS already plow-
ed for wheat and morn will follow the
first rain. The early p,owing Will prove
the most satisfactory, because you get
under the weeds befd Ire the seed ma
ture. This has been a remarkable season
for weeds as well as BOWED crops-and
also for grasses and ofchards-1 never
heard of a finer CROP of fruit of all
kinds-the apples, pears and peaches I
saw were just splendid Southern Cali
fornia which is good for nothing else,
never grew a better crop of aDples
pears and peaches than l have seen
growing in Kansas this season. The
immense crop of pears that l saw at Mr.
Seasons, just over the, county line. for
size, color and flavor, were magnificent
beautiful and delicious. 1t would have
been hard to have made them more per-
feet even in the garden of Eden they were
even free of worms, nor did l ever see
sn apple orchard that equaled one saw
the other day between the rivers it was
simply superb. The trees were as sym
metrical as though a master hand had
penned them and they never saw knife
or saw III Their life, but had on an i'm
mense crop of fall and winter fruit-even
those varieties that at the east are grown
for their superior quality alone, but are
inferior in size and shape and scabby, |
are not only large and smooth here, so |
that you would hardly know a fall
pippin, snow or swaar, until you came |
to taste them and theR 1 believe would |
say they were better. l am glad to see
see so many farmers wives drying fruit,
| asked little girl what they were |
going to do with so many and she |
said she expected they were going |
to send some TO her mothers folks. |
Kansas people don't need to go to their
wife's relations this year, but viii be |
more apt to invite them here and picnic |
At home. A farmer told me today he /
was getting tired of talking politics-he |
could make more talking crops. He /
,aid that there was mor&money grow
ng 2-cent pork than in getting 2 per
,ent sub-treasury money.
II. f. BIDwEIL.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

An incident occurred in the GEORGIA
legislature one day last week that viii
20 a good way toward dissbusing the pop-
ulsr mind of the belief that the Alliance
in the south is simply an adjunct to the
Democratic party, While in life Mr..
Henry W. Grady called for subscriptions
for the erection of home for poor Con-
federate veterans. In response 500, goo
was collected, with which one hundred
acres were purchased on the outskirts of
Atlanta, upon which a magnificent home
was erected, This. property, now en-
HANGED 10 q value of half a million, was
lately offered to the legislature as free
gift, with which TO maintain the Confed-
crate veterans. In obedience to an or
der from the Farmers Alliance the offer
was refused by vote of 50 TO q. The
debate was bitter, DR.. Baldwin describ-
ing the members Of the veteran associa-
tions as the tail end and butter milk
Confederate troops who enlisted when
the war WIS nearly over"
The action Of the legislature created
great Indignation. and a mass meeting
Of protest was held the next evening.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
RAILWAY BUNDLES.

The Chicago and Alton is the first 20
place monographs in the cars. which are
drawing good patronage
Illinois has larger railroad mileage
than any other state in the Union; or, to
be more exact. it has l0,l6s miles Of main
lines and 2 .92S miles of sidingS
Pullman conductors on the Pennsylvania
lines viii hereafter use a duplex identifi-
cation check, one 70 be pinned to the ticket
lifted, the other TO be retained by the pas
senger.
The first locomotives constructed were
hardly so heavy as those of the present
day. They weighed only from three to five
tons, and were scarcely able to draw on a
level half the weight of the locomotives Of
today.
The Grand Trunk railway, of Canada,
provides free lodging houses supplied with
baths and other conyeuiences for the use OF
their engineers and firemen when it is
necessary for them 70 take rest away from
home.
On many railroads in Ohio there is a rule
made by the general superintendents re-
questing the conductors to submit their
telegraphic orders to their iagmen, and
many time this rule has saved the train
from being wrecked.
In answer to an inquiry whether a rail-
road can transport lumber free for a
church in Palestine, the Texas railway
commission rules against it on the ground
that while churches dispense charity they
are not objects of charity entitled TO the
dispensation of the law.
The terrible wreck at Ravenna, and the
difficulty of identifying the charred re-
mains of the dead. suggests that the rail
roads of the country should adopt the
booking system for passengers, so that in
case of an accident their friends can be
notified and the public would know who
was killed.
Postoffice inspectors have photographic
passes, good on every railroad in the
United States except one, the Denver and
Rio Grande. There are number of sum
mer resorts on that road, and it is claimed
inspectors were in the habit of having a
great deal of business there. So now postal
officers are compelled to procure special
pass for that road.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad had a comfortable accident
recently of the sort to strengthen the con.
fdence of travellers. The engineer of
train at Cos Cob failed to see the danger
signal of the draw bridge. As result his
train was thrown from the track by the
derailing switch, which is just what the
apparatus is designed to do.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
. ARCADE"
FIN, FEATHER AID FUR.

In three years a single pair q hsrripgT
will produce "a. O00.OOg
In New Orleans pet pigeon grisved Il
self % death over the loss Of ia httls rsis-
tress, girl u seven ysasE
Bear ard cougars are reported numerous
about Sumss. Or. - that tie school ehii-
crep 20 in crowds for safety 70 zHd from
school. the larger boys going armed.
A deer which frsqusnts tie oatskir;s Of
Easton, Ne Is 80 tame that he viii allow
people 70 walk Bp 70 him spd pRs him.
The animal was probably sons ones pet ia
his youthful days
A citizen Of Chestnut Ridge. Pa, ems
tame crow that = remarkably ists.lissat.
De split the birds tongue and taaKht him
to talk The crow delights in ealing tks
cows. and viii lzzzh imnodsratsly uhsa
lie succeeds n feolnE tks doz AID cat
Tbs XsTobstss ArassiE,i. sbs grass sss-
Ing tgTtls q ths No.avs dsssrt. l. aAid 70
be the only ors q the turtls speeiss SkieA
Eyss by grazing Ike = koss CT az az
Xsrobatss digs hsis IA tie sand % ssoays
ths tnssnss heat. ard y sbSus Ten iaEkas
u lsnEth rksa fsu ETSEA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
WESTERN KANSAS FOR WHEAT.

The Atchison Globe says the invest
ment companies are putting in great
quantities of wheat in western Kansas.
Dan Lynch, who has just returned from
there, SAYS that activity is assured until
late next spring, whether there is another
crop or not. In Ness county there were
90. 900 acres devoted to wheat this year,
which will average twenty bushels per
acre. In the north part of the county
the German farmers harvested thirty
FIVE bushels to the acre, but in the SOUTH
ern part, where the Americans predomi
nate, the yield was not half so large.
There are two points of special interest
in the foregoing. One is that the invest
ment companies which have come into
possession of considerable areas of land
in the western part of the state will turn
their investments to profitable account,
and by demonstrating the practicability
of growing wheat successfully out there
viii create demand for said lands for
homes by thrifty home seekers. The
other is that in order to raise wheat
profitably, or anything else as for that,
intelligent perseverance and liberal
planning are necessary, The German
succeeds because he goes at whatever he
undertakes with determination to sue
coed and does not become discouraged
and give up with partial failure or by
something else, as too many Americans
do. The same thrifty spirit that brings
success to German farmers produces like
results for Americans or any other ma
Without it the German would
fail just as everybody does who lacks it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

Eternal vigilance IS the price of per-
sonal success as well as liberty. This is
clearly shown IN the career Of Senator
Plumb. When he was only ten years
old he went to learn the printing trade
in an Office in which he had to work all
night twice q week. After graduating
from the case he went into the army and
was often on the march at night and
only enjoyed such rest as he could get
on the soft ground. When the war was
over he drifted into politics and is up
and on the so at all times and seasons.
he says there are lots Of back rations of
sleep coming TO him il he ever gets them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
PETER, SIMPSON g. co. NOT ALONE.

Tothe Editor Of the Eagle
The EAGLE, IN common with all other
respectable newspapers, is doing a good
work IN denouncing PETER, Simpson and
other slanderers of Kansas. and showing
the absurdity of their marvellous stories
of calamity; but PETER, Simpson & Co.,
are not alone in the business Of SANDER
ing, not only Kansas. but the whole
country. A few days since the writer
got possession of a supplemental sheet
of some eastern newspaper, presumably
the New York World. as the subject
matter is taken largely from that sheet.
and after reading It carefully we are free
to confess that the human imagination
did not by any means reach its utmost
limit in the production Of Baron Mum
chausen. Arabian Nights. or even in II.
Rider Haggard's stupendous lies. One
headline runs thus:
War en- the farmer: driven TO the
last ditch bv the miil-Owners: farming
10 longer PAYS IN the United States.
In another column this Is found
The reciprocity bunco; over one mil
lion who do not own the land they till:
and four millions more 10 Join them IN
the next ten years.
The headline continues:
Reciprocity Is a bold bid 10 furnish
the United states with Spanish-Ameri-
can farm products in exchange for cur
products. These are speci-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

We quite agree with the Philadelphia
Record that it is hard to say whether
Governor Page, of Vermont, has done
President Harrison a service or a disser.
vice in making a senator out of one of
his most trusted advisers. 1t is admitted
by everybody that the new appoinsee
will succeed the biggest man in the SON
ate, Judge Edmunds, and it was fitting
that the governor of Vermont should Sc
lect the ablest man in the state for the
position. Secretary Proctor's has been
the ablest administration of the war de-
partment we have had for a quarter of a
century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
The Bag Party.

From the New York sun.
Have you been invited to a bag party
vet: They are quite the latest thing. The
striped paper used by grocers Is pasted
into the form Of huge bag, which en-
velops a Young woman or man. Is tied
tightly about their respective necks, and
has openings for the feet. which latter
mercifuiiy settle the question OF sex, the
masculine extremity being easily dis
tinguishable Another bag covers the
head. IS tied about the neck. and has
openings for the eyes. At a given signal
the bags burst and the butterflies. very
much heated but radiant, emerge to
prove how very mistaken every ore has
been concerning The identity Of every
one else.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
saiva.ors wo1dsrs1i sins.

Salvator's wonderful peTformzucs il. rua-
ming a mile IA I25<. there are few who
have, through coWp ar-son ard analysis.
sought 70 realize what 4 terrific burSs Of
speed Ihis -. II = nearly forty miles an
EUur-A rae averaged b. very few q CIR
fastest railway frz.Us. There are 80 fes.
~ 3 mile. 20 fhat Tor every che q these
nlnefy-five secoDds-f9T every Lea. 81 .
man ; pulse--this wonderful h0rse covered
nfty-ive aad three-tez feet Of SFuua4.
I be sboTtsst space of time noted hY tae
tuFlmsn's watch = > quarter q a sec5nd-
Al Interval 30 brief Ehst lie eye cGE k&rslsx
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
sized up about Right

The Atchison Patriot in commenting
on the list of fellows who have secured
soft snaps through the Alliance, says:
The Democrats are simply hewers Of
wood and drawers Of water for a scurvy
lot of disgruntled Republicans" The
Kansas City Gazette replies: And the
in the Alliance are simply
bewers Of wood and drawers Of water
for lot of Confederates in the south"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
II the Interest of Reform.

Resolved: By the Logan county teach
ers' association, that we heartily endorse
the plan OF Col. D. NJ Murdoch, Of the
Wichita EAGLE. which is to harmonic
the pronunciation Of the English Ian
guage.
Resolved: That we endorse any and
all well directed efforts for the simplif-
cation Of the orthography Of the English
language and the reduction Of the same
10 perfect system.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The primary aud paramount object
the Missouri State Alliance had 10 view.
at Its state convention last week, seems
to have been the decapitation OF Presi-
dent Hall Of that organization. After
accomplishing his defeat they became as
docile and tractable as the most ardent
Democrat could wish. In their rasolu-
tons they discarded the third party idea
and ignored the sub-treasury and land
schemes. and in fact played completely
into the hands Of their southern allies.
the Democrats. The defeat of Hall was
only a little decoy-duck-sort-of- play, that
deceived nobody and disappointed no
one but Hall. But 1t was a mean sacri-
fee of the best man they hsd-the lest
because Of his frankness and candor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The Chicago Globe claims that the
English sparrow is a great benefactor-
1t destroys worms and bugs. That may
be true in Chicago where there is moth
ing for it to destroy; but wherever there
are vegetables and flower gardens it is
not only a nuisance but destructive pest,
and will yet call for some public method
Of determination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

Missouri sends greeting to Kansas: Our
Farmers Alliance is all wool and as wide
as the confises of the state will permit
Springfield Democrat
Well, if it is of the same grade and
texture of eoarseness as ours, you are en-
titled to Kansas profound commiseration
and sympathy, which we extend on a
peradventure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

Senator PETER says that "money
ought to be provided for the people in
the same way that postage stamps are
furnished" but if Senator PETER would
only stop and think he would remember
that every time a stamp is furnished"
the party receiving 1t is required to pay
for it in money.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
POWDER AND BALL.

Toronto viii have regiment uniformed
in Scotch kits
The question Of pay in the United States
navy may yet result IN navy officers being
given the pay Of corresponding grades in
the army
The actual strength Of the British
troops in India il rather over Il 900 men.
the total population Of the dependency
being 2s5, 900 600
The Italians are using Nobel powder
ballistite-in the Sinch rapid FIRE guns q
the cruiser Piedmonte. The British eOu-
tinue 70 employ "Chilworth special"
A velocity as high as 2,ss7 feet per second
has been attained By projectils from
rapid FIRE gun This is at the rate Of 1.ess
miles an hour. Il is the highest velocity
as yet recorded
Since the japanese have had warEhiJs
they have been experimenting with lacquer
as protection 20 the bottoms With mar
velously satisfactory results. The Fuso-
Kan. after having been lacquered for
year. was found % be in perfect condition.
With ths introduction Of smoksIess
powders for rapid fire guns changes viii 70
suit IN decrease in the size 81 the powder
chamber AID a strengthening II the walls
Of the chase. Sraokeless powder charges,
even whsn smaller than charges Of ordt
aary powders, give the same cham Der pres
sure, but higher pressure al along ths
bore.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The Topeka Democrat AYERS its belief
that Cleveland's anti-silver letter of sew
eral months ago will work the discom-
future of the OhioDemocracyin the pend
ing campaign. That is discounting Sena-
tor Sherman's personal influence in the
Buckeye state pretty herviiy, don't you
think. Anti-free-silver seems TO be the
redoubtable senator's special preserves
inst now
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
Calamity Won't Be In It.

From the Leavenworth Times.
The deputy register of deeds of Ora
ham county certifies that during the
last half of the year 1890, $500 Of new
farm mortgages were flied and S3s, rs
were released. Here is a net gain of
ovey $29, 600 in a year of famine, a year
of short crops. What will the harvest
of mortgages be in the western part Of
the state this year Of plenty?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The cheering news, 10 Democrats.
comes from Chicago that the breach in
the party in that city has been healed:
that the lion and the lamb have lain
down together, with Carter Harrison.
the leader Of one faction and the real
cause of the split, in the title role, or
personating the lion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The cargo of the Itata, which the
Charleston failed to capture, seems to
have gone into effect down in Chill, from
the effects of which the Itata will proba-
bly, be permitted to follow the cargo
back into the same hands, now that the
offenders take the place of the offended.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

me --latest tsing IN instantaneous pho
Biography Il the suggestion q sgEuropean
academy Of science that at international
conference Be held % make arrange
meuts for the elaboration q a photo
graphic msp Of the heavens, % b simal-
tansously executed a. ten or twelve OF
servatories. widely scattered over tas
face q tas giobe.-St. Louis Republic
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The business depression which has
prevailed for the past two years, has
made pessimists of many naturally hope
full men, but they can now don their
wonted smile and join the opitmlst
party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

observe, the mind can hardly appreciate It.
Yet IN every one OF these $50 quarters Of
second that magnificent creature leaped
sixteen and three-tenths feet Such are
the amazing results Of careful breeding Us
exhibited in the American race horse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

the farm mortgage debt of Kansas viii
be defauIted hhis year except in the case
of farmers who neglected their crops or
who escaped from the state after Dor
rowing all that their farms were worth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
His Choice OF Hogs.

sam Jones.
prefer four-legged hog to two
legged one. A four-legged hog will run
away with an ear of corn but every few
steps he will stop and shell off some for
his mates. But two-legged hog will
run away with the whole ear.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The Wichita woman who proposes to
put up 800 cans Of peaches is not Mrs.
lease.-AleX. Butts
Well, no; sorry to say that instead of
canning peaches the w. W. aforesaid is
engaged in impeaching Cans'as.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

The Globe-Democrat sizes up the poll
teal situation on the Republican side
most uniquely and concieSiv in the OBJ
servation that Harrison and Blaine are
pulling together like twin brothers in
the matter of improving every opportu-
nifty to promote the Republican party's
chances Of success; and that is as much
as 1t is necessary to know about their
relations
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
REpunL1cAN coNvENTIoN.
II. n. MURDOCH, Editor

7h,e ReuubIicans of Sedgwick county viii
r,sIt in delegate convention at the GarIeld
heH IN the city Of Wichita, on Saturday, sep
fe7lber the 9Th 1891. at 10 O'Clock a. M, Tor the
puipose Of placing in nomination candioa5te
5orithe Office OF Judge Of the Eighteenth duol-
cia, district This convention VIII be conlpos-
ed hi the same number of delegates and select
"a In fhe same manner as that OF the county
contention. as hereinafter provided, ana on
1h3Same day, at the same place. at II ocIoch
e. u the Republicans Will nees n
corlrention for the nomination OF the foHowlng
co1taty officers. towit: Sheriff, County GERS
PpIisfer of Deeds Coroner, County surveyor,
C'od1Ynissioner of the Second ComlnlssloneF
District. aud County Treasurer for the snort
ndlong term. a., 49, oo,
VenSious shall be one delegate for each twenty
5ivd votes and one delegate for each MAJOR
fractional mart thereof cast for James X. nal
lowell at the last general election. ana one DEL
egale-at-large for each township ana Naro IN
TIyo sets Of DELEGATES may be selected, one
forhach convention. Said delegates shall be
seldrfp6 bv a majority of the Republican votes
cast Al the primaries which shall be held ID the
sevlral townships and wards on Thursday, the
I'd day Of September. 1881. said primaries VIII
be Held in the townships at the regular place
of Noting therein. beginning at O'Clock ana
cloipg az ) O'Clock .. m. and in the wards sald
1,ri1aries shall begin at O'Clock and close at
o-4lock D. n. and be held at the following
pla1es in said wards:
First ward-CoOper's livery stable:
Sdcond ward-Stoner's livery stable
Third ward-Huey's livery stable.
Flurtb ward-Corner Oak Street and Law
Ftfth ward--NIartinson block.
Sixth ward-Corner Douglas and Ida ayes.
T1e several townships and wards under this
calishan be entitled TO the following number
of dictates in each convention, tOWit:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
The Boss Blathersklae.

From tie Topeka Journal
One of the Alliance leaders here last
week who was for putting $50, 900, 900
into cooperative stores, and $25, 900, 900
into packing houses, and $4,000. 900 into
elevators and two or three hundred mil
lion into the Lord knows what, didn't
have money enough to pay his board
bill. There is no blatherskite like the
financial blatherskite.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01

A bill posting macEine. which srcks
bills Cd walls. even ~ high a. Efty FEET,
without re uss q ladder OF pas;spos. -
doing sucossfuI work ia PGris. Tnsas-
neal people are delighted with H.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
She Raised the Hair.

She Raised the Hair.
From the Salina Republican.
Twas only tangle of auburn hair,
Caught on the front of his vest,
But his wife saw the hair,
As it dangled there,
And she-well, she did the rest!