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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
For the EAGLE.
OF the EAGLE.
THE PRAIRIE WIND.



Far from the jar of the worlds harsh jingle,
Out and away in the dreaming night,
Under the glow of the stars that tlngle.
Palpitant pensive light.
Sweet is the night that hides and bushes
Day and its anguish are all forgot,
Up from the south the winds breath rushes,
Sweet is the sea-sound it loseth not.
Far is the sea, but still in thy Ginning,
Wild wave music of murmurous note,
Matching the meter of white foam timing,
Sung in the seas deep throat,
Over the weeds and the grass is sweeping,
Out of the strength of the sea ye sprung,
Reused from her breast where ye lay half
sleeping,
Lulled in her love this song ye sung:
Wide are thy wings, and thy sweet caresses,
Swell into signing the seas deep dream,
Breathing thy breath in her waving tresses,
Noicing thy song supreme.
When the long threads of the silver tightening
'Broider the sable of dolorous night,
Then with the thunder, and wave crest whiten-
ing,
Surges thy splendid might.
Overland blown are the tunes that waken,
Tremulous grasses to STRINGS fine,
Sensitive roses heart-deep shaken.
Tell of this love of thine;
Whisper OF tnee ana 1ny hearts WlId pdSolon,
Tell Of the kisses of wind and wave,
These are the songs which thy love did fashion,
She with her pillows the impulse gave.
Heart and soul commune with thy spirit,
The song in my heart is full as thine,
Winged from thy mouth, l feel, and hear it,
Sweet as roses and warm as wine
Who shall thy laughter or drge discover,
Only the stars in the night perceive;-
Ye chant the thoughts which my lips shall
never
Out of the web Of my brain unweave.
So when We reach the prairie's wild roses,
winds, with thy message from afar,
Know ye, my soul all your song encloses,
Though We sweep from earth to star.
NAN w, HEALY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Governor Steele has got around as far as
St. Paul.
Hennessey is getting up a 81, 500 bonus
for a Touring mill.
Only one contest has been filed at the
Beaver land office.
A Fred Harvey eating house has been
established at Guthrie.
The Guthrie land Office has almost fin
ished its contest docket.
August u is common guess for the
opening of the Sac and Fox country.
Jake Admire says his paper is as indie
pendent as a hog on ice. That's pretty
cool.
August 10 is the date set by good guess
ers for the opening of the PottaWatomie
lands.
Norman is feeling pretty gay itself The
postoffice there has been made q presiden-
tial one.
What a jolly good time it would be for
Oklahoma if Plumb should get to be
president.
What Oklahoma wants is about $4,000
intruders from the eastern states with
their pockets full of cash.
There is a gang OF fellows in Guthrie
who make it business to surreptitiously
milk other peoples COWS.
If it were really meant to keep the In
dams from spending their money, it ought
to be given them in copper cents.
The Oklahoma farmer don't want to
forget that potatoes planted as late as Au-
gust 10 last year made good yield.
The stage line that runs into Beaver has
horn that records its coming and going
just as they did hundred years ago.
Saltwater runs deep, but at this mo-
ment the enthusiasm over the location of
the agricultural college there runs high.
A man, just to look at Frank Greer and
Professor Halleck, would think that the
professor wrote the editorials and Frank
the locals. But they don't.
VIII Crawford, deputy county clerk of
Cleveland county, was married Thursday
to Miss Lou B. Jones, of Payne county.
of the territory.
The Chickasaw Chieftain says if Okla
homa wants statehood with the Indian
territory it will have to wait until the ter
ritory is ready. 1t is near that already.
At least its inhabitants are red.
Guthrie Capital: William NJ Nix,
brother of Guthrie's wholesale grocer, has
run onto a big fortune 1t will come
through his own origin and with small
effort II is a parlor match with lighting
qualities at both ends. The silver j. three
inches Tonga half inch longer than the
ordinary one-end match. The silver is
dipped into solution which prevents the
burned end from charming and blacking
your hands or clothes. You light your
lamp or cigar with one end, preserve the
match and use the other end also. Simply
two matches at the same price you now
pay for one. Mr. Nix has the United
States patent and has just got patent
from Great Britain which covers France,
Germany, Belgium, Austria, Hungary,
Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Sweden,
Norway, Denmark and Switzerland. He
has received a letter. written the last
week, from Chicago parties offering him
$50, 600 for his United States patent He
says he will open factory in Chicago and
make and handle his own product through
the wholesalers of the country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
FORTY BUSHELS TO THE ACRE.
From the Arkansas City Traveller.

From the Arkansas City Traveller.
Perhaps the most remarkable yield Of
wheat yet reported as having been pro-
duced in the state of Kansas this year is
that raised by A. A. Newman on his
farm little south of this city. There
were just ninety acres in the field, and
feed being scarce and expensive he win
tered 240 head of cattle and forty head
of horses on the wheat. In fact they
were not removed from the field until
the 18th day of April. From this field
of wheat he harvested 2,700 bushels, or
twenty acres of the field, was on ac-
count of its excellence kept separate
from the other and when threshed, the
yield was forty bushels to the acre, an
average of thirty bushels to the acre.
If any one in this or any other state can
beat this absolutely true report we
would like to hear from them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
THE ANNUAL SCHOOL JOBS.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Tie time for holding the annual school
district meeting is near July 13). Let
every taxpayer turn out and thereby
prevent the possibility of INSCRIPTIONS
and selfish men perfecting their usually
dirty schemes. Who has not had reason
for regretting to attend these meetings?
More than once have we known the
district school to be almost total fail
ure by reason of the carelessnesS of the
patrons in not attending, and thereby
having afterwards to submit to the I'M
wise and often selfish acts of a school
board that is not in any sense represent
ative citizens, and many times but the
catspaw of some schemers in collision
with some teacher out of a job and
wanting $50 per month for twenty days
per month and six hours per day.
Let the taxpayers who have to foot the
bill for such exorbitant charges turn out
on the Both of July, and see that none
but good men are elected to serve the
patrons, then you will not want to kick
yourself for forgetting to attend the
school meeting" ~
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Globe Denocrat:-"S Silver coinage was
free, as the silverites say, along to 1873,
but the fact that only about s., 0O0,0 900 in
dollar pieces was coined from the be-
ginning of the Government to that time
shows that the people didn't value this
privilege much, even in the latter years,
when the production of the white metal
began to be heavy. In fact, there was
no kick" against the "discrediting" of
silver until several years after it was de-
monetized.' All of which is literally
true; but the CD. ought, in common
fairness, to have stated that the reason
why there was no kick at the demoneti-
cation of silver until several years after
it was done was because it was not
known; not even, to a large majority of
the members Of the congress that passed
the demonetization act.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15


The Wichita EAGLE doesn't know that
a grasshopper can swim like duck. They
do not take to water naturally but if
driven into it they can take care of them
selves in the swiftest stream.-Salina
News.
Is that so? If so, the appearance of
the immense swarms O. of the hoppers
out west-reported to be moving east
is accounted for. 1t was stated that
myriads of hoppers that visited the west
in 1874 and went southeast. disappeared
away out over the Gulf of Mexico
still going southeast. 1t is now very
plain that when they tired of flying
they just dropped down upon the
bosom of the ocean, went to swim
ming and kept it up until they finally
made the circuit of the globe
landing on the Pacific coast from whence
they started upon fresh round of the
circuit 1t will not be many years until
scientific research will dissipate all man
ner Of ignorance and usher III the mil
lennial tide of universal intelligence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The latest testimony in regard to Mr..
Blaine'S health comes from the dis
tinguished patient himself. He says: 4
am not dying at all. am not as strong
as John L. Sullivan, but I am good for
many years vet Mr.. Blaine admits
that he has been i'll, but declares that he
is recovering his health quite rapidly. If
this report is accurate it shows a feeling
of hopefulness on the part of the secre-
tarv of state which viii do more than
medicine 10 aid his recovery. 1t is
scarcely possible TO estimate the influence
of the mind on the body. and if Mr..
Blaine has really decided that he means
to get well it introduces an element of
hope in his case that is decidedly en-
coursging. The information is most
gratifying to the American community
without regard 10 party politics. Mr..
Blaine has become 10 be regarded as the
representative statesman and patriot of
the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
lincoln and John Hay.

From a. Interview with ". G shazks-
Il think Col. Mcclure will find he Is
in error as to Nicolay's closeness 10
Lincoln. Editor Noah Brooks, Of the New
York Advertiser, or John Hay, Of Wash
ington, would re among thu best
authorities on that point Col. Hay
was undoubtedly close TO the presI-
pent. l once accused him Of having
written LiDcoln's Gettysburg Grafton. but
he passionatelv. almost indignantly, de
niei il, But. begging his pardon. still
have suspicion that he did. That snort
poem Is 50 Ike HAYS snd 50 unlike Ian
coins other writings that nv doubts still
exist. But that IS neither here nor there.
All / wanted 70 say was that Lincoln
certainly knew of Johnson very rad
habits. and / cannot bring ulysslf "a be-
lieve that he ever wanted 70 elevate hlm
after that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
People who Have No Washing,

A practical but untraveled woman driv-
ing along Viewpoints famous Ocean avenue
one Monday in summer wondered aloud
to her companion If there were no wash
ing day among the Four Hundred. " as she
saw 10 clothes "a-drying" She could
have repeated her drive every day the week
through and still behcld no signs Of lauu-
dry work. And not only at Newport, but
in all suburban homes Of any pretensi0u
Like the queen Of Spain, whose pompous
major domo was met, on the occasion Of
her passing through Isle. BY deputation
OF the citizens with an Offering OF beautI-
ful hosiery, the product Of tne place. and
who declined the gift with The stern re
buke, Know that the queen Of Spain has
no legsP 50 fashionable summer house
holds presumably have no soiled linen.
In point Of fact. the washing is seldom
done Cd the premises a. all. Ia large estates.
where the extensive grounds afford some
sheltered spot 20 he surrounded by a hedge
or fence. the clothes are dried 10 such spot
in as many more the gardeners wife il the
laundress Of the family, and Der detached
premises offer suitable drying ground
An exception TO all these modes is fouut
Ia Saratoga beautiful residence avenue
North Broadway Here the passerby viii
see in some q TIE most costly and beauf!.
fully kept places an obloug incIOsure 90
the back or side back lawn, through Whose
high, close lattice work palings be mag
catch the auttsr Of drying ciothes Aad
when he does 50 be wonders, part tcularIy
IL me- Is woman. WHY tEss family doe
not Increase It's expenses By a fegg dollars
a month and send its washing OF % BE- rid
OF the unsight!y though neat ard -eii
b1ilt structure.-HeE Point u View Ia
Nesz IrrE Ttrnes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Aside from partisan considerations
and the banefui effects of Democratic
rule upon the material well being of the
community, everybody would be
glad TO see Governor Camp
bell renominated and reelected gov
ernor of Ohio in order that he might be
in position to finally aud completely
break up and crush out the ring of party
bosses that have dominated Cincinnati
and Hamilton county to their serious
injury and disgrace. John Kelly and
the Tammany braves of New York
in their darkest and most infamous in
triguing and pluudering We're paragons
of light and honesty TO the Mclean
gang that has outraged decency and
honor for years in the fair metropolis of
Ohio.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The Alliance and Democratic parties
are not Hopping together, all over, with
the degree of regularity and unison that
was their wont at the beginning of the
first as an independently movement In
Kansas they have formally parted COM
pany, probably because of the feeling of
superiority of the Alliance, but in most
of the southern states where the Dem
ocracy predominates, it holds the other
as cats paw. Here is the way matters
stand in Missouri, according to the ST.
Louis Republic: In the attitude it has
thus far maintained. the Missouri Ali
Rnce has been helpful to the cause Of re-
form and good government. As long as
it continues IN this attitude it deserves
Democratic help and encouragement, its
objects being Identical with those the
Democratic party has striven TO accom-
plish."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
TRYING TO DODGE SILVER.
From the GIobe-Democ-aL


Senator Faulkner, of West Virginia. is
reported 10 have said ttat there Is
project on foot among the Democrats in
congress TO solve the silver problem be
fore the national conventions meet next
year, and thus have tfs question out Of
the way by the time the presidential
campaign opens. just how this arrange
ment Is TO be carried cur Is not clear 70
the average person. Do the Democrats
think they can pass free silver oil over
the presidents veto: They could do II in
the house undoubtedly, bur they would
as unquestionabIy fail in the senate. IL
deed. the chances are that a measure OF
that sort could not obtain majority Ii
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The name of Hannibal Hamlin recalls
those medals issued during the campaign
of 1860. They contained ambrotype por-
traits of the candidates. On most of
them Mr.. Hamlin was given such a
swarthy complexion that perhaps these
very medals confirmed the belief in the
lie industriously circulated in the South
that one of his parents was mulatto
and that he was named in honor of the
great Carthagenian to blazon his African
descent before the world. At all events
thousands of people in the South actual
ly believed that Lincoln and niger"
were the Republican candidates.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Now that the problem of the sudden
formation of the lake in Death valley
has been solved, the engineers of the
Southern Pacific railroad are preparing
to control the water. The plan is per-
manently close the crevasse in the bank
of the Colorado river, from which the
water finds its way into New river basin
and thence into the desert late. The
track, fifty miles long, is in no danger
from the present depth of water, which
rarely exceeds two or three feet. and it
is evident that if the flow from the Col
orado is shut off, the disappearance of
the lake by evaporation is only ques-
ton of few weeks. 1t was the general
impression that the formation of the
great lake would bring about wonderful
effects upon large scope of country by
changing in a large measure the climatic
conditions, and also that the lake would
probably permanent In view of the
probable beneficial effects referred to
and the fact that it does not interfere
with herailroad, that corporation should
be restrained from cutting off the supply
of water further than to prevent its in
creasing a to dangerous and damaging
volume.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Little Johuny West. q Detroit, Il row
IL good condition % pay Button. but
tCn. vnos got the bu,to1Y rs mother
gave nln 1alt dozen hora b1ttons 10
hold wEiie are threaded Dse1ls and got
ready . sew tEsEz On Els closhs. Mastsr
Jo18ry sw2lloSsd tzs busfous. ozs aad
al. ard coesu', know why &c I'D Il a.
. walking but:on cox ns seerns % b q
con- lets s1ccess -Dstrol: FIRES Pyssz
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
PREACHING AGAINST POLITICS.

Rev. DR.. Corey, pastor of the Metro
politan Methodist church in Washington
City, whose pulpit was made famous by
the preaching of DIR. Newman during
President Grants administration, created
something of furore in capital social
and official circles by a sermon he
preached last Sunday in which he in
Weighed strongly against the prevailing
immortality in politics. His sermon con-
tanned some remarkable illusions to men
in national life, although no names were
mentioned. "Other nations rulers" he
said, "rule by the grace Of God; ours by
the purchased votes Of the people. :"
Further on he plaigarized Senator In
gals famous declaration that ''the pu-
rifieation of politics is an iridescent
dream" by saying: eve are told that
morality in politics is an iridescent
dream" and that ''these things have
placed upon the lips of preachers silence
at the risk of their salaries and their
souls"
The latter part of the last quoted state
ment is no doubt substantially correct in
many instances, and more's the pity that
it is so. But the brethren of the ministry
no doubt bear in mind the fate of the first
Christian minister Of whom we have any
account; how he lost his head for not do
ing that very thing. 1t should be borne
in mind that ministers are none the less
human nv bAiur minister's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

sition of the Alliance. This last is not
provided for by law, but has been
adopted as means of ascertaining the
sentiment of the people of the state on
that subject. This may be called practi-
cal politics and is withal commendable.
The righteousness of a proposition is
not enough, always, to defeat it when
abstractly presented for action before a
legislative body, and congress will want
to know the will of the people on this
question before acting upon it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The Topeka Democrat in its demand
that the Governor shall convene the
legislature in grasshopper session and
order out two thousand militia with
an extra blanket each and three barrels
of kerosene Gil to whip, strangle, beat,
bruse and burn up the red legs, seems to
be getting around to the PETER platform.
Whoop it up Tomlinson. If you can't
kill Kansas with Galloway mortgage
lies and Alliance groans you may be able
TO do her up with grasshopper5.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
A Rrn,aI contnctar.

II can't let this girl travel over this
road On that half ticket, sad The new
conductor.
Why not' What is the matter With
nv little girl. asked TIRE mother.
''She Is 10 child sic Is mare than
half grown
Wei. Il that dat heat everything
then III give u up Here poor httle
Mamie has been tTayeliag over tbis road
ou a chilis ticket Tor tbs last ,e1 years
aud Eow al az once sne - 70 Guild
That's a uew way % woyry tcs tEaYslilg
p1hllc
TIE notaer paid IRE fare and then ne
giEl P1lled h=rse.t o2t Ike telescope
Teas S..t.rgA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
Emancipation Marriage.

From the san ANTONIO Express.
THAT was an emancipation marri-
age" observed an official yesterday as a
newly married colored couple left his
Office. do you know" continued the
dignitary, that the approach of enamel
patton day is marked by number of
colored marriage? Well it is the case. L
have found it so every year that ! have
been in Office. Emancipation day itself,
in my experience, has never gone by
without a couple of marriages. Two
years ago two colored couples were mar
ried on the 10Th of June, while last year
on that day made happy in this man
ner six colored people"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The state campaign now on in Missis-
Sippi is invested with two features of
special interest, not only to the people of
that state. but TO the country at large to
a considerable degree. One Is the cleo
ton of two United States senators BY
direct vote of the people at the ballot
box. under the provision 10 that effect in
the new constitution recently adopted
The other is the vote 10 be taken at the
same time on the sub-treasury propo-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Somebody has declared disparagingly
that Bob Moore of Butler, has but one
arm. OF course this is not true, but
what if it was? The appendages of the
modern get-thereness is the full capacity
of both feet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

The Louisiana people, that is the better
portion of them, are after the lottery
swindle in dead earnest and with sharp
pointed resolves. If-they stand up to
the guage they set the infamy will surely
be wiped out. Be it so.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Having in his stock large bounty of
sharp-tongued bitterness, ex-senator In
gals would not seem to meet with I'M
qualified success in lecturing. The fem
mime part in marital wrangles has quite
surfeited the market with quality that
no man, even with Ingalls, brilliancy,
can surpass.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
Poison of the Teeth.

From tie Boston Herald.
Biting the nails is an exceedingly dan
gerous practice, as the bitter never knows
when to stop, and at any moment is liza
ble to bite into 1.-The quick" and cause
blood poisoning. Even when the utmost
care is taken of the teeth poisonous
secretion is apt to collect on them, and
the entrance of minute portion of this
into the circulation may prove as GER
tainly fatal as the pus on the surgeons
scalpel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Sylvester Lowler, the Pottawotamie
poet, has written poem on the death of
Sam Wood and desires to sell copies at
ten cents each. If the great hereafter
has any vision or knowledge of the
world behind, this will cause Sam Wood
more agony at his own death than
man of his belief would usually permit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Senator PETER advises the sub-Alli-
ances to subscribe for the Congressional
Record. He will probably offer those he
as senator gets free at half price. How
ever sincere PETER may be about free
silver, he loses no chance to rake in to
himself any of the present restricted cur
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

If PETER is really sincere in saying that
he would rather see ingalls, in his place
than himself, Governor Humphrey will
probably agree to appoint ingalls, to the
vacancy if PETER will resign.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15
Corrects a common Error.

From the Lawrence Journal
We desire to correct the prevailing i'm
preston that there is no good street IN
the city. There Is one notable excep-
ton to the general rule. In front Of the
street comm issionar's house there Is
bit OF street that Is as good as can be
found in any city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-15

Frank MacLennan's house was struck
with lightning the other day. 1t Is 100
bad, but the lightning never strikes any
where near the young crowd in meta
Thorical sense.