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The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
A NOR AL APOSTLE.

Men who make living by preaching
morals and temperance ought to be
truthful and honest. A man who will
lie will hardly succeed in converting the
world. One E. Leonardson is now
traversing the state in the interest of
the Prohibition party as an organizer
DE was at Kingman last week and writes
as follows to his organ, the Ottawa
Leader:
''In Kingman they have minister
that preached a so-called temperance
sermon that so pleased the liquor ele-
ment they presented him with carriage,
harness and horse that cost $500. Rev.
G. II. st. Johns held some temperance
meetings in his church. The last
night of the meeting he took a col
lection for the benefit of the w.
G. 7. O., and asked how many were
willing to pay 81 to have the joints
closed in Kingman. The minister arose
and said, '1f there are no joints run
ming in Kingman they must have closed
since we started for church." But he
still insisted there were no joints in
Kingman.
l think, Mr.. Editor, there was a good
chance for temperance people who were
sitting under the preaching Of such a
man to carry out the editor of the
Voice and stop giving encouragement to
preachers that please the whisky power,
lest they be partners of their evil deeds.
The minister alluded to is, uudoubted-
ly, Rev. w. j. Tull, the pastor of the NJ.
E. church of Kingman, man whose
life and character are above reproach.
The horse and buggy presented to him
cost nearer four hundred than two
hundred dollars, and it was presented to
him by the good people of Kingman,
and we have little doubt that the rest
of the paragraph is a falsehood or the
facts are so garbled as to be lie.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
HOW IT HAPPENED.

The appearance of the baby in the
Cleveland family has caused an unusual
commotion among the gossips of the
land. and since these have taken SO
much interest IN the event they will be
still further entertained by brief recital
of how it happened. Itwas like this:
DR.. Bryant gave dinner party at
his home in Thirty-sixth street. The
dinner had been planned number of
days before. There were number of
famous professional men and other peo-
pie of note there. The guests had fin
ished their dinner and were smoking
their cigars. 1t was after 8 o'clock. A
messenger came to the door and rang
the bell imperatively. He demanded to
see the doctor at once. When the doc
tor returned to his guests he excused
himself, saying it was a professional
call and that ne must go at once. Not
to single guest privately did he explain
what the call was. Straight to the
Cleveland mansion DR.. Bryant went.
They were awaiting him anxiously. Mr..
Cleveland was banished to the library.
At last he was called out.
sits girl" they said, "Mrs. Cleye-
land is all right"
He took it very quietly, simply saying:
"Thank you"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
NATIONAL FETE DAYS.

1t is a significant item which comes
from Milwaukee, the bulwark of the
German race in this nation, bearing the
tidings that German day is dying out.
As it is only two years old as an estab-
lished fete day, its early collapse holds
the kernel of a matter important to the
American people. A subject which has
not yet received public attention, but
which has been busy in the brains of
many an intelligent citizen is that which
pertains to the unifcation of our people.
The idea of restricted immigration to at
tain that end has been often enter
tanned, but a very small per cent. of
public opinion has been openly expressed.
The fact that the greatest and time
honored boast of this nation is its free
dom and wide open gates to the OPP
pressed of every nation invests every
man of public spirit with q righteous
hesitation in openly expressing a con-
clusion on the subject. There are any
number of public men who have come
TO believe that not only should our in
NAoNAA oN HAONCNNSAr DAl ANSst " eAl
be built up around our nation for race
amelioration and social elevation. But
that that has not been the course of
the nation, or did not exist even
among the doubts at the birth of
this government, no one viii deny. The
question Is can we assimilate the foreign
elements that are pouring in on US with
out some precautionary measures. at the
sacrifice of one of the exalted purposes
of the republic2 There is a constant
clamor from the working classes against
foreign immigration, in some cases,
when the scent of European pauperage
has not vet left the clothes of the pro-
tester. The New Orleans Italian incident
and the yearly incidents in machine poll
tics in voting ignorant men are fire.
quently cited as timely warnings. Still
there has been no public expression and
public thought in the matter is uncer.
tain.
But it rs surely gratifying incident
that any holiday that is not
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
A PROTEST FROM ToPoLoBAMPo.

On THE Rio DEL FUERTE, Sept. 16.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
A few days ago Ireceived a letter from
a gentleman at Oklahoma City, inclosing
clipping from the EAGLE and request
ing me to write him the facts in regard
to it. By the same mail arrived the Mil
tonville News, containing letter from
Mr.. Comfort himself. / herein inclose
the clipping from the EAGLE and Mr..
Comforts letter for perusal and compari-
son. l have been contributor to the
Wichita EAGLE ever since it had an ex-
isterce. If | have ever written a single
line to it that l did not fully believe, do
not know of it. was pioneer Uf your
county. worked hard for its develop
ment, and wrote often of its fertility and
its resources, and if its farmers had
only received portion of the wealth
that they produced, they would all
be living in free homes and in comforta-
BILE circumstances today. l believe that
it cannot be truthfully said that ever
tried to wrong any one, or ever was
party to any scheme to take advantage
of my fellow toilers. But, on the con-
trary, have continually tried to warn
them against approaching wrongs and
injustice. | am again engaged In the
same pioneer work in which l was en-
gagged in the Arkansas valley twenty-one
years ago, but under far more favorable
and advantageous circumstances, under
system where equity is in the corner
stone, and climate and soil that SO far
surpasses that of the Arkansas valley
that there is no comparison.
Taking the above facts into considera-
ton, such articles as the clipping | send
you, and others of like nature that ap-
pear from time to time in the press, do
myself and those with whom l am
associated in carrying out the work we
have undertaken, a gross injustice. l
do not think you would knowingly al
low anything to appear in your paper
that would do an injury to, or cast un-
Just reflections upon an honest, indus
trious and energetic people who are
bending every effort to establish COM
mercial, industrial and monetary system
more equitible than anything that has
ever heretofore existed, when it could
do no good to you or anyone else. The
colonists who are already here cannot
be injured by anything that the
papers may say concerning the colony.
In short time those of us
that are here can complete the work of
irrigation, and we can live and thrive,
and prosper, and increase in numbers if
never another colonist from abroad sets
foot on our territory. 1t is those, if any,
who may be deferred from coming here
that will be the losers and not us. As |
have written a number of letters to the
EAGLE, and have said nothing of the
"Woeful tale of suffering and want, of
famine and fever" that has devastated
this "God-forsaken country" l certainly
must be set down as one of the scoun-
drels who have been aiding and abetting
in this "wild cat scheme" Therefore |
wish to convince yourself personally and
individually that l am not, and tnat
everything of a sensational nature that
has been published detrimental to this
movement has been nothing but the
most disgusting falsehoods. Yours very
respectfully, VIM. Ross.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

Austin, Texas capital city, has for sew
eral weeks been engaged in the herculean
undertaking of raising a subscription of
$4,000 in aid of railroad extension in
which the city thought it was vitally in
terested. Finally, through the assistance
of the female portion of the community,
the amount was raised and the railroad
secured, or will be when built. From
the Statesman it is learned that the event
was celebrated by the ringing of anvils
and pyrotechnic display, as though a
railroad was a rare thing, while in point
of fact Texas is the third state in the
Union in extent of railroad mileage.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
GENEROUS TO A FAULT.

Mr.. Fassett, the Republican nominee
for governor of New York, made a
speech at Watertown, that state, few
days ago that is remarkable for its dis
play of magnanimous sentiment rather
than for political aoumen, as partisan
ship is now constructed and holds sway
with the multitudes. Here is the pas
sage that has provoked most criticism,
favorable and adverse;
81 am wearing flower in my button
hole tonight. 1t is a beautiful flower
and wear it to emphasize the fact that
it symbolizes the excellances of the in
dividual character of Roswell P. Flower,
your distinguished citizen. I know not
| care not, what party managers may
say. 1t is my right, and l reserve the
privilege to myself to say pleasant things
about Mr. Flower, about Mr.. Sheenan,
and about every one on either ticket
whom l know. 1t is my right, if please,
to say that Governor David B. Hill is a
delightful conversationalist and pleas
ant gentleman to meet. 1t is my right
to call the attention of the people to the
excellent things in the men and in the
measures of the opposing party"
The trouble with Mr. Fassett was not
so much wrong impulse as the choice
of wrong terms to express his ideas.
Nobody will deny that it was his privi-
lege to express the thoughts and senti-
ments credited to him; but that he had
the right to prevaricate at the risk of
misleading many of his hearers is en-
phatically denied by strict moralists;
they deny the truthfulness of his assev-
erations, hence his right to make them,
especially in the last two lines quoted.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

The increase in the number of sharks
in the Mediterranean sea since the open
ing of the Suez canal has been phenom-
email. Captain Pearne, of the British
steamship Circassian Prince, now in
Philadelphia, who traded to the Black
Sea prior TO the opening of the canal,
says that shark was a rarity in those
days. They must have passed through
the canal from the Indian ocean, for
now the eastern portion of the Mediter-
ranean is alive with the man-eaters. The
Adriatic sea is full of them and bathing
has become dangerous everywhere on
the coast. A shark is seldom seen
about Gibraltar. Captain Pearne, in
passing the equator in sailing vessel,
dragged aboard shark sixteen feet long,
which was found, upon post mortem
examination, to have six young ones
alive in her stomach.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
ghe adha Daily gagIe aalednesday aoraine oeuber 1891

dash and number of specific deeds of
low and very popular with his COM
mand.
''The next l saw of Boulanger was in
the Franco-Prussian war In 1870. He
was then colonel. He had, however,
but little chance to distinguish himself
in that war. Like most of the rest of US
he was captured and held temporarily
by the German army.
''The dangerous traits in Boulanger's
character first began TO display them
selves in the communist troubles in
Paris in 1871. The man was a traitor at
heart and he showed it there as much as
he did later. With him it was Bou-
LANCER first, party second and France
last. During the commune riots he pro-
fessed allegiance Z to the republic under
President Theirs and General Mcmahon.
He materially aided in suppressing the
riots. But his method of doing this
shows the treachery of the man. Lead
ing his regiment down to
those parts of the city where
the communists had congregated
he would proceed toward the starving
mobs waving red flag and shrieking at
the top of his voice, 'Vive la Commune!
Vive la CommuneP But the moment
the poor communists would come up TO
join forces with him, he would order his
soldiers to fire on them. Piffl Piffl and
his poor betrayed countrymen would bite
the dust.
'Yet all the time he was doing this
kind of work for the republic he was a
ROnanarfiSt of heart
1.-The Boulangist party had but little
chance to control France, because its lea
der was a gigantic humbug. France is
now too much welded to republicanism
to be led astray by such charlatan as
the man who has just committed suicide
over the grave of his mistress. She will
always hereafter listen to the counsel Of
such safe, conservative men as President
Carnot."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
KANSAS CROPS.

K. Hurst, chairman of the Live Stock
Sanitary commission of the state, in an
interview published in the Arkansas City
Traveller, has this to say of the crop con-
ditions of the state:
s'The papers have been full of articles
for some time to the effect that farmers
have been forcing their wheat on the
market and that they were compelled to
do so on account of their Indebtedness,
but my travels over different parts of the
state leads me to think differently. A
close observation in travelling over the
central and western portion of the state
find that there is not TO exceed quarter
of the wheat crop that has been
threshed at this time and that
not more than half of the wheat
threshed has been marketed. and
that l am satisfied the wheat yield of
the state is still going to exceed all re-
ports made and that the corn crop of the
state taking it is a whole is above the
average crop. the corn in the north, CEN
trail and northwestern portions of the
state being exceedingly heavy, Jewell
county alone claiming to have 5000. 600
bushels of corn, and several other coun-
ties in that section it is said that the
corn will average fifty bushels to the
acre.
''Stock throughout that portion Of the
state is in fine condition. There will be
a less number of cattle fed for the mar
ket than usual on account of the high
price of corn.
"Wheat sowing is being engaged in
very extensively and the ground Is in
excellent condition except in the south
eastern portion of the state. Prepara-
tions are being made throughout the
great wheat belt of the state for an in
creased Acreage over last year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

Pennington declares that he is not in
the least discouraged by the accidental
destruction of his air ship. He believes
that he has solved the problem of aerial
navigation, and he will begin at once the
building of another and larger "high-
flyer" Keely, Of "motor" fame wants
to ''look leedle oudt" or his occupation
as we'll as-which is the same as-his
reputation will be gone, l. e. his ability to
hold the confidence of patrons and obtain
funds with the utmost facility not to say
felicity,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

1t is, indeed. an ill wind that blows
nobody good. The touch of winter we
have had the past few days has had the
effect to infuse fresh blood and vigor to
trade in many lines of business. What
the ice men lose is made good to the coal
dealers, and the clothier5, shoe dealers
and other lines of fall and winter goods
are all realizing a very perceptible in
crease in the volume of sales and a gen.
orally improved tone to commercial
transactions, And not only so, but every
one feels better with the change, physic-
ally. The summer was not oppressively
hot nor long, but the past six weeks has
been exceedingly enervating.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
BoULANGER a BETRAYER

From The Kansas City Star.
No one in Kansas City has read the
accounts of General Boulanger's suicide
with more interest than August Parat,
who lives at 2001 Mercier street. Psrat
is tin can manufacturer and has been
a citizen of this country for eighteen
years. But previous 70 that he served
the emperor and the republic as zouave
in the armies of France for seven long
years. During that service he saw much
of Boulanger ana gained seme decided
opinions concerning him.
The first / saw of Boulanger," said
NJ Parat to a reporter for the Star. was
in the campaigns il Algiers N 1854
was then q captain IN the Iirailleurs
Algerie, body Of infantry composed
partly Of Frenchmen and partly Ct Arabs
and negroes. I was then b1E Is years
old. but was in charge Of battalion OF
5000 men. was in the zouavss and
was lot under BoulanEer. but nofwith-
standing that saw much of him. KS
parents were poor. and the lad had won
his position in the army by his native
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

Almost everybody believes PETER to
be harmless old granny incapable of
anything but groans and sighs. How
ever true such an estimate may be of his
past life, no anarchist or bomb thrower
of Haymarket could ask for more in
cendiary and revolutionary words than
the following employed in his recent
Wichita speech: "We want money and
we mean to turn our tongues into
bludgeons, our plows into muskets, and
our ballots into bullets
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

General Lew Wallace and Governor
Hovey and Senator Voorhees, of Indiana
are going to visit Tom Ryan at Mexico
City this week. Their principal idea is
that Mr.. Ryan can show them the ins
and outs of bull fight. Mr. Ryan's ap-
pointment was happy one for him, for
close study of bovine war tactics will
enable him to enter into the changed
condition Of politics at home on his re-
turn,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
NOT ALL REPUBLICANS.

GUTHRIE, o. T., Oct. 4.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.
You are in error in your statement in
today's issue that "It is an item worthy
of note that all the inventors OF farming
machinery and every contrivance to
ameIiorate the farmers condition today
have been and are Republicans"
John H. Thomas, of Springfield, O.,
now manufacturer Of haying tools and
inventor of the Buckeye" grain drill, is
a pronounced Democrat, Mike Harter,
now member of congress from Mans
field. O., and president of the Aultman
& Taylor Thresher company, manufac-
tured at that city, is also Democrat.
Yours, truly,
A. d. MERCER.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

A st. Joe embezzler, in order to cover
Up his methods of abstraction and docu-
mentary evidence of the extent of his
pilfering, threw the concerns books into
the river. He was caught before he
could get away aud acknowledged the
whole matter. His confession is the only
proof they have against him, being una
bic to recover the books. Another proof
of the proverb that guilty conscience
needs no accuser.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

strictly American is not attended
with permanent success. 1t unmistaka-
bly, betrays the dispatch of our assimilat-
ing processes. and removes danger that
so many people think is SO near and so
imminent, 70 some little distance.
Meanwhile, the fete day for the German
will be the same day as that of the
Swede, the Italian, the Frenchman, the
Englishman and every other nation as
sembled beneath the stars and stripes
our Fourth of july.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

The enfranchisement and civilization
of the American Indian is very beauti-
full dressed up in Webster's best selection
of English words. but as for the practi-
cability Of the thing, it is not sin it. "
The Indian cannot endure slavery-it is
doubtful if he can stand the exactions
of civilized life. In all probability an
allotment in the happy hunting grounds
and an extinction on earth as a race will
be the final scene.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

PETER and Simpson are finding it up
hill work destroying the credit of Kan
sas. in the success of which questionable
work lies their only hope of leadership.
No calamity party, no 5000 salary for
them. Both were failures all their lives
until they discovered their ability TO
howl calamity, since which time they
have had more money and better time
than any BODY.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

In the past ten years the corn crop has
averaged 1926. 900, 900 bushels annually.
This year the yield is likely to be about
1900, 900, 900 bushels, figure which has
been exceeded only once, and that was
in 1889. Moreover the demand for ex-
portation will probably be great enough
to exhaust the entire crop and insure fair
prices. There has never been any for
eign demand for corn for human food
heretofore to amount to anything, but
the probability is that the necessities of
Europe in this respect will SO educate
the people in the use of corn and its pro-
ducts for food as will establish perma-
nent demand for it hereafter.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

From the exciting comments and con-
gratulations indulged in by the Demo
cratic papers of the country over
Growers feat their editors must have for
gotten that Frances was wed some five
years ago. Besides, so far as Grover is
concerned, his example is not encourag-
ing having waited till he was between
fifty and sixty years old before he found
himself capable of adding to the worlds
population one poor little girl baby.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
As Regards Fitness.

From the Kansas CITY Star.
After all there is some sense in Murat
Halstead's suggestion that Boulanger
should have driven to the field of Water
loo as the proper place for theatrical
suicide. 1t would have rounded out his
cheap and fiashy career. Death at the
grave of ones mistress is conspicuously
Frenchy, but a little tame and sickly
sentimental for Boulanger.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

George Peck got across the Atlantic
Just in time to miss terrific storm. The
numerous candidates for the United
States senate in all the parties will each
regard this as something of a personal
calamity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

The National Republican committee
will please set day for fasting and
prayer, and set it soon. George William
Curtis has editorially announced in Hsr-
per's Weekly that he viii support Fas-
sett as against Hover. Two TO one he
will be back in the Mugwump party
next year, voting for Cleveland as
against any man that the Republican
party might nominate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

Every day or two the dispatches detail
the horrors of a fire in some four or i've
story tenament in some one of the great
cities, wherein from one to scores of lives
are sacrificed. And yet the mania for
tall buildings continues, each new one
reaching higher than the last. If this
craze is to continue some steps should be
taken to render accidents of fire and col
lapse of such buildings impossible.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

There is just about as much probabil-
ity of a war between the United States
and Chill as of the annexation of Ger
many and France. Disturbing friendly
relations, even if that should occur.
does not mean resort to arms. Chill
can't afford it, ana the United States
doesn't want to, and that is sufficient
guaranty that there viii be no fight
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07
A Well Heeled Girl.

From the St. Pau Globe.
There is girl up on the bill who al
wavs gets a seat in the car if it Is just
iammed. She isn't pretty nor anything
like that, but she Is brainy and her feet
are large. She wears common sense
shoes with heavy heels. She goes into a
car and hangs to a strap in front of some
man. Then every time the car jerks
she lunges around with those heels.
Afer a few lunges the man gives her his
seat and limps out and stands on the
platform and sweaTs.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-10-07

The Briggs case has been pulled out Of
the pigeon-hole and is being discussed
again with avidity by the pros and cons
of the heresy notion in the Presbyterian
church. The chances are that the out
come Of the matter viii be the organiza-
tion of another branch to the great Cal
vanistic body, no difference how it may
a,1