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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
sUNFLoWER sILHoUETTEs.

Always Gin 1.-THE letters 81" and st. ,
For encouragement the Kansas farmer
should C. Wood Davis.
AS to sales and mortgages, as soon as the
farmer cancels, he can sell.
The Kansas farmer cannot do too much
work on the share-the plowshare.
When Jerry Simpson gets back home he
will have to borrow scythe to get to his
front door.
The only thing left remaining entirely
dry in Kansas il the humor of some of the
Alliance orators.
Tha Kansas editor has commenced the
annual mural decoration of his sanctum
in tall wheat and fat corn.
The dazzling evidence in the Benson
Rawtzahn trial is running the circulation of
the Botkin trial pamphlet.
1t must bother Mr.. Ingalls,, when he re-
members that he will not be able to deny
the statements in his obituaries.
Mrs. Lease will speak in Missouri on the
fourth of July. This will give the fire
crackers in Kansas chance to be heard.
An ivy, imported from Rome, was plant
ed the other day with due observance by
the seniors of Baker university at Bald
win.
Not more than once a week the Leaven-
worth Times rudely wakes up to the fact
that it is supposed to be an Alliance
paper.
An eastern paper says that PETER fires
his audience. 1t is to be hoped that the
people will believe in reciprocity enough
to fire him.
If the Kansas crowd had wrangled and
delayed much longer about that Judge
ship" IA Indiana man would probably
have got it.
The provisions of the English language
have failed again. There are two ways of
spelling ''drouth," but only one way of
spelling "rain."
If free coinage of silver means cheap
money and wheat brings 50 busheI, the
Kansas farmer may change his tune on the
money question.
Old Hutch substantiates G. Wood Davis
statement in regard to the great rise of
wheat. The Alliance might just as we'll
haul in its howl.
George Peck disappointed the people of
Emporia in not making speech, and it
may take the town three months to regain
its Normal condition.
If you are going to cast any bread on the
water, you had better do it now and save
money. If wheat gets to be 50 90 busheI,
bread will be 10 cents loaf.
The Topeka druggists have formed a
beer trust and now charge So cents bot
tie But, then, most Topeka people have
their kegs shipped up from Kansas City.
Some of the Alliance men are in a pre-
dicament. Wheat shows signs of going
up to $50, and it is not worth cent for
fuel. They burnt corn when they knew it
was bound to go up.
A young lady was fired from her position
as teacher in the Concordia public schools
because she sent to another town for
new hat. She could answer all questions
satisfactorily except Where did you get
that hat?"
A Michigan man has discovered that
Bacon cut Shakespeare's head off, The
vagaries of historians are mysterious. Our
descendants four hundred years hence
may have it that Thomas Brewer Peacock
beheaded Eugene Ware
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
FAIR KANSAS,

The following poetical tribute to TIT
Sunflower state was written by a lady
teacher in this city and read to her school
and friend suggests that it is deserving
of a wider reading:
Fair Kansas, we love thee. we honor thee now,
We believe thy future shall bring
More honors more jewels to add to thy crown
And now of thy future sing
OF thy beauty sing. thy clear. sunny skies,
Thy prairies so broad and so fair;
And that never thy future thy past may repeat,
Is always most earnest prayer.
Thou hast known many cares. many changes and
fears,
And many times tainted alone
BY the roadside so thorny and rough for thy feet,
And for bread thou vast given stone.
Thou battled for right thy part bravely borne
And never didst falter nor fee.
No matter how thickly the clouds did up roll
And we swear our allegiance to thee.
OF flowers thourt the fairest the sweetest the best
That ere blooned in the wilderness drear;
Fate kindly has led US we thank her for this,
And cast our lines in with thee here.
Fair homes we have left in the far distant east,
And friends who were loving and kind.
But to thee have given hearts at their best
Change in US thou never shalt find.
In the years that are coming thy children Shall see
Thy fair, perfect beauty shine forth
As the star OF the evening nov CLEANS in the ssy,
And the land shall acknowledge thy worth.
Thy sons shall be brave. thy daughters be fair,
Thy people be governed by truth.
And tn on as q matron receive thy reward
For the sorrow and the pain of thy youth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
HIS ROYAL NIBS.

With John Bull stolidity and a
Guelph conceit, Wales faced the world
on the witness stand with confessions
that among a self-respecting people
would have subjected the average man
to the fines and penalties melted out for
the tin-horn gamblers. The obsequious
and truculent high lord chief justice, in
trailing his robes in the dirt, did not
change the verdict of the world. That
kept mistress can still faunt her skirts
in the face of the British public, but
William Gordon Cumming is no lower
than either the court or the prince, even
though guilty of ali that was charged.
Detestable flunkeyism mark the entire
proceedings. The hereditary sovereign,
banker in a baccarat game, went off to a
horse race, leaving the court to hold the
jury to his interests without any refer
ence to law or right. The universal
prevalence of social democracy in this
country may strain all hands to keep to
the front in the Goldfish swim, but better
such ambition than being the subject of
a nibs whose highest accomplishment is
to deal out chips and rake down the
stakes. He dominated so-called bar Of
justice, but before the bar of public
opinion the hacker of the baccarat table
stands abased.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
POWDER AND BALL.

A son Of Marshal Bazaine is an adjutant
in the Mexican army.
The erosion OF big guns il thought 20 be
largely due 20 igniting slow burning pow
der at the base OF the charge, whereby the
bore receives attrition from the hard, an
burned portions of the powder.
Aboard her majesty's ship Devastation
the telephone apparatus includes a Berth
on microphone and two Adler receivers.
with which conversation was not inter
rupted between the coming tower and the
central battery during the firing Of the
heavy guns
Experiments recently conducted By the
Russian military officers are said 70 prove
that snow can he used with great advantage
as defensive walls Field artillery, at a
distancs Of 600 yards, penetrated only eight
cen feet, and infantry FIRE, az distance Of
100 steps, entered 70 depth Of but nius
feet in the banks constructed for tie pur-
pose.
Il series Of Russian rnaneuvers Is pro
jected for the near future IA the Gulf Of
FINLAND The most interesting featurs
OF the proposed evolution will De the trial
Of some newly invented torpedoes which
propel themselves automatically under the
water. and which can be exploded a: grsz-
distances from the point Of projection b.
means Of special apparatus
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
FOOTLI6HT FLASHES.

Donnelly and Girard's Natural Cas-
company is said to have cleared about g..
600 this season
The latest Langtry rumor is that tho
Jersey Lily will marry a rich English turf
man named Baird.
Henry irving win visit America this
summer as the guest Of AuguEtin DAILY.
He will not appear professionally.
Modjeska has Just finished successful
season in Prague. The Bohemian parlia-
ment presented her with a laurel wreath
inscribed, ITO the Queen OF Dramatic Art !"
Robert Ray Hamflton's alleged wife,
Eva, says she viii appear next season ia e
play called The Hammertons." the mate
rial for which has been drawn from her
Own life.
When Agnes Huntington ended her
American tour the ether day she called The
whole company 70 the stage and refunded
every fine that had been imposed during
the season
In Amy Robsart," Marie Wainwright's
next play, tbsrs Is scene Ia which Ehs
struggles desperately with man La order
70 make this realistic she Is taking Lessons
IN wrestling.
Mary Anderson-E agarro said recentlyi
al have not the slightest intention Of ever
acting again. have retired from the s;Ags
forever" she has bought . house At Tun-
bridge Wells, England
One q the preetiezt villas on tbs Allan
tic cost II owned ~ Nellie McHenry, tie
well known eonedisnne. who is known ia
private life - Mrs. John Wsstsz. Il stands
well up On toe Eaysslnk Highlands Of Es1
jersey.
Richard Mansfield, when hs brought OH
''Don Juan" q which be s. The author. ia
New York, evidently intended Il a. gruog
that bis claims % tbs se;horzhip q Beau
BrumTnel" were ~ lesst possibly true.
Bat MAnzGelds Don Jgzn" - By 10
means 40 good . pay - Clyde Fiteh's
'ESAa BrzmnseL"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
WAYSIDE GLEANlNGS.

An Atchison Ran.) street car has been
painted black for funeral purposes
In twenty years there has been no coun-
terfeiting of Uncle Sans postage stamps.
Statistics show, says a good authority,
that more trained nurses marry than any
other class of women workers
A new boot cleaning machine cleans
boots at the rate of pair a minute, and is
worked in the same manner as a sewing
machine
A bottle thrown into the Atlantic, Nov
"a, 1887, from the Cephalonia, about 400
miles out from Boston, recently washed
ashore on a little islet in the Caribbean sea
$500 miles away.
In'France the government still levies a
tax on doors and windows. To the peas
ant in his small hut this tax amounts to a
little more than three francs q year, but in
the towns it rises to seventeen francs an
nually for each family.
Pearls get sick, and, like men and women,
require change of climate when their
health is bad, or else they will crumble
and die When i'll they lose their luster
and become chalklike, but rapidly i'm
prove if given a change of air.
The redwood of which the residential
portion of Pacific coast cities are chiefly
built is almost uninflammable It will
burn, but will not blaze. a house may be
completely Quilted by fire, yet the wooden
walls will stand. The wood smolders and
turns into charcoal.
The humps of camels are mere Jumps Of
fat, and pot provided for in the framework
of the skeleton. When the animal is in
good condition the humps are full and
plump. On long journey, where food is
scarce, the humps are entirely absorbed,
the skin covering them hanging over the
flank like an empty box.
The Turks esteem the beard as the most
noble ornament of the male sex, and CON
slider it more infamous for any one 20
have his beard cut off than to be publicly
whipped, pilloried or branded with red
hot iron. Almost any orthodox Turk
would prefer being put to death rather
than have his beard removed from his face.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
RETRoGREssIoN IN FRANCE.

Among the suggested causes of the
stationary condition of the population
of France is the great mortality from
smallpox and typhoid fever. DIR. Brou-
ardel has pointed out that, while Ger
many loses only 10 persons year from
smallpox, France loses 900, and that
the deaths by typhoid fever amount to
10000. This emphasizes the necessity of
making vaccination and revaccination
obligatory, and of providing a supply of
pure water for the towns. Such RENE
dies, Dr. Brouardel affirns, would save
to the country from $4,000 to 10000
lives annually, and these mostly of
young persons of manageable age.
The doctors theories and statements
may be correct as to the health condi-
tons and rate of mortality, but it is well
understood that the prime cause of the
relative decrease in population is due to
the aversion among the French women
to child-bearing, which has become al
most universal in that country, a condi-
ton which, it is declared by economists,
will in twenty-five years reduce the once
leading and most powerful of European
nations Of modern times to third rate
power to be classed with Italy and
Spain. In the same connection it is
stated that with the present rate of in
crease Germany will within the same
time grow to the first place in popula-
ton and power.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11
MASCULINE MENTION.

Charles A Dana is taking billiard les
Sons from Maurice DAILY
Alderman McNierney. OF Pittsburx, has
a one eyed constable, one eyed horse and
q one eyed dog.
Senator wolcott thinks the next presi-
dent of the United States viii be diligent
student Of the western situation
Charles Hutchinson. the son OF "Old
Hutch, " is wealthy banker in his own
right and independents of his eccentric
| sire.
Baron de Rothschild has collection OF
postage stamps that is valued &C $4,000.
He is also prominent and enthusiastic
member of . Paris philateliss society.
The village of Proctor. VT, was named
after the present secretary of war. and Was
built up Of men employed in his marble
quarries and mills and their families.
William Rockefeller Is a man Of athletic
| frame, in the forties, with full face, blonde
complexion and short mustachet He has
a palatial summer home at Greenwich,
Conn
Theodore Tilton lives in comparative
quiet and ebscurity in Paris, and gains n
moderate income by literary work He is
said to have given up all desire for return
ing to this country to live
The Right Rev. Edward McColgan, vicar
general of the archdiocese OF Baltimore,
who celebrated his eightieth birthday re-
Gently, arises at o'clock each morning
and says mass in a church he built forty
eight years ago
Colonel Hewitt Bernard. of Canada, is
a great sufferer from rheumatic govt He
is companion of the Order of st. Michael
and st. George, and has received many
honors from England. Spain and other
countries. His sister is the wife Of sir
John Macdonald.
Lord Revelstoke gets the bulk Of what il
left of the Barring fortune in order 10 keep
up the dignity of his title. And yet il is
pretty generally understood that but for
Lord Revelstoke's reckIesSDess the mis-
fortunes that overlook this famous house
would never have come TO pass.
Secretary Blaine is n great lover Of
music. The first question he always asks
when he goes to New York, or it used To
be so, IS, ''What operas are there tonighti"
Like Thackeray. he would go a thousand
miles, if he had the time, TO hear a really
fine performance of Era Diavolo."
Senator George has the true look Of q
Mississippi roustabout in his Fourth OF
July clothes There is nothing of the dude
about the big, hearty and careless man.
whose garments fit him as il he had bceu
measured with two foot rule, and tho
tailor had shaped them with cTosscus
saw.
When Bishop Brooks was asked TO Pre-
pare history of his life he gave il in these
words: Il have had no wife, no children,
no particular honors, no serious misfort-
une and no adventures worth speaking
of. 1t is shameful at such times As these
not to have history, bat l have not got
one"
Hiram Hiatt, of Charlottesville, Ind. has
contributed TO the state house grounds at
indianapolis a weeping willow. the growth
OF a slip cut from the Martha Washington
willow at Arlington. which IL the product
Of a slip cut from a tree grown by the IA
nous Alexander Pope, who cut the orig.
inal slip from a willow on the banks Of the
Euphrates.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11

ordered the reissue of 26, 000, 900 of legal
tender notes that had been called In and
| by so doing the country was relieved.
| fIrst-Now, there was issued during
the war about $50, 000, 900 of United
States notes which were made legal
| tender, and of these notes only 346, 900,
| 600 are now in circulation, while l04,
| 600, 900 of these have been returned. Let
| the secretary of the treasury reissue at
once 104, DOC, 600 of legal tender notes
| and pay off the bonds coming due in
September instead of issuing new bonds,
and selling them to increase or prolong
| the public debt as a burden upon the
people.
Second-During the war in order to
get money to pay the demands upon the
government, an act was passed whereby
the banks that would purchase bonds of
the government could return those bonds
to the treasury and get back 80 per cent
of the money they paid for those bonds,
which money was a legal tender for
debts due to the government In the line
of taxes and incomes, and which notes
were redeemable in legal tender notes.
Now under this national bank act about
$3.50, 000.0 600 of bank notes were issued,
over two-thirds Of which have been re-
deemed and cancelled. Now let the
government reissue in the form of
United States legal tender notes
that are redeemable in coin or
in two per cent government bond,
and use such notes to pay off the bonds
held by the banks to secure their circu-
lation, or any other bonds, as fast as
they come due. By these two measures
over 300 millions of solid, substantial
money, as good as gold coin and redeem
able in coin, can be issued and put in
circulation.
Third-f more money is needed, let
congress authorize the secretary of the
treasury to convert the entire bonded
debt into money by issuing legal tender
notes to equal the outstanding bonds and
have those notes, at the option of the
treasury, redeemable in coin or in 2
per cent government bond.
Fourth-The above, with continued
compulsory unlimited coinage Of both
gold and silver, will give the people all
the money they need, every dollar of
which will be at par with gold coin or
bullion. DR.. E. P. MILLER.
Carthage, No.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11

In discussing the condition of the Jews
in Russia Harper's Weekly says: 1.-The
expulsion of the Jews from Russia has
aroused especial attention because other
countries are not DESTROYS of receiving
them. The universal unwillingness to
receive the vast immigration which the
Russian policy will compel, and the
character of the exiles, make the prob
lem of their disposition exceedingly OBJ
scure. No nation is willing to accept
the population which Russia expels. Ba-
ron Hirsch, in recent interview, de-
scribeS che horrors of the Russian expul-
sion, and treating it as the work of sub
ordinates unknown to the car, he says
that if the car will enforce the expul-
sion gradually-perhaps for perod of
twenty years, but with certain exodus
every year the funds necessary to set
tie the exiles elsewhere will be supplied.
He thinks that it is not so much the ex-
pulsion as its manner which is the dis
grace to civilization, and he is confident
that an appeal to the car would not be
in ValD,"
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HOW TO GET MoRE MONEY.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
In your issue of June Z, I find the fol-
lowing editorial paragraph: eff you
know any plan by which we may all
have more money, sing it out with q
shout, hallelujah.r'
The best plan to secure more money
and the best kind of money Is the follow
ing. In the case brought by Ben Butler
and Congressman Crittenden before the
supreme court of the United States to
test the right of the government to re-
issue in time Of peace the United States
notes issued in times of war, and made
q legal tender for debts. and afterwards
in times of peace were redeemed and
paid in coin, the court decided that the
government, under the constitution,
had such a right. Many Of your
readers viii doubtless remember
that after the panic of 1873. owing to the
great strengency Of the money market
and the danger of widespread bank
ruptcy Of business. that President Grant
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Too Awful for ANY Use

from the Galveston News
Poor Berkiey Lovett. when told by Ar
thur Wilson that Sir William had been
working his army racket 81 the Tranby
Croft card party. flung his right hand 70
tear his golden hair while his left hand
rested in military stateliness on his well
developed hip. Then he gazed up in the
dire 5tion Of heaven and exclaimed in a
well-rounded stomach tone Of much
depth and eloquence: "Mv God, 70 think
of Lieutenant Colonel Sir William being
caught cheating at cardsl7 oh, it was
too awful for any use. Oh. that Sir
William had been more thoughtful and
had permitted the prince Of Wales and
the hi-ladies to WIN a little Of the stuff.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11

Late Paris dispatches state that the
French senate, by a vote of 20s to AZ has
passed the bill reducing the French
duties from 3 to 3 francs on wheat. The
reduction is to so into effect at once.
This amendment viii unquestionably be
adopted at once By the chamber. This
action is taken because of the prospect
i've shortage of the wheat crop in that
country. but its effect upon our wheat
market will be just the same as though
it were done in the spirit of reciprocity.
to which it will probably open the way
a little later.
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The heir apparent to the English
throne may by his presence at a court
trial influence a jury to find verdict
that will exculpate him from crime
against decency and good morals, but
his position nor royal connection can
change the popular verdict or hush the
mouth Of the church. The different
sects are all taking turn at condemning
the conduct of the prince for his gam
bling proclivities and general looseness
of habits. And this is right. 1t is not
only the province but the duty of the
church TO condemn wickedness in high
places.
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JUSTICE sLUss.

The dispatch from Washington in this
mornings EAGLE, announcing the APP
pointment of Henry c. Sluss as associate
Justice of the new court of private land
claims, will be read with pleasure by the
people of Wichita The new Justices
legal attainments and rank at the Kan
sas bar warrant the claim that the ap-
pointment is one that will be hailed with
satisfaction throughout the entire state.
The EAGLE heartily congratulates our
fellow-townsman upon his new prefer
mant
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-11

a special meeting of the New York
presbytery was held Monday, with closed
doors, for the purpose of receiving the
report of the committee recently ap-
pointed by the moderator, Rev. Or.
George L. Shearer, TO arrange the meth
Cd of procedure for the judicial investi-
cation of the orthodoxy of DIR. Charles
A Briggs. As DR.. Briggs Is in Europe
and the directors of the Union Theolog-
zeal seminary have refused to recognize
the action of the Presbyterian assembly.
1t would appear that the meeting was
simply an endeavor without a purpose
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A negro bank has just been opened in
Richmond, Va, the first in this or any
other country owned or differed exclu-
siveiy by colored men. This shows that
the black man has an eye to business,
and to the best paying business, where
properly conducted, going. As to their
money getting qualities. however. they
have given practical demonstration in
that line long since in their tax lists, in
one state, Georgia. their property values
aggregating nearly $4,000. 600.
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\ man in Salina the other dav mus
tered up courage sufficient to marry q
female suffragist. She is young
woman, but writes Prof" before her
name, and is regular member of the
L. ). A. There is no law against such
proceeding, but the wave of svmpathv
that will roll up from the state in the
direction of Salina in behalf of that man.
would sweep away the historical Bridge
OF Signs. As visions for extra orders
Tor oreeches dance over our Imagination
we must not forget TO commiserate Salina
on her dimmed and discouraging pros
poets IN the loss Of another chance for an
increase of population. The Topeka
capital devotes whole column to the
sadevent
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Sensible and Poetic.

What is wanted TO improve town is
grit, push, snap, vim, energy, churches,
academies, enterprise. harmony, cordial
ity, advertising, healthy location, talk
about it, help to improve it, patronize
its merchants; faith exhibited By good
works, honest competition in business,
help all public spirited citizens, and be
one of them yourself. Always cheer on
the man who goes in for Improvement.