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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
THE LAW ON GAMBLING.

Sir James Stephens makes a suggestion
in regard to the law on gambling, which
might not only do much to restrain it as
as pastime in England, but also to con-
tribute to the keeping of it within
practically quite definite limits. The
English law is that "all contracts or
agreements, whether by parole or in
writing, or by way of gaming or wager
ing, should be null and void" Certain
rulings that have crept into authority
since 1916 have allowed that when a
man gambled through his agent he was
legally bound to make good any losses
which his agent might have suffered in
obeying his orders. Sir James proposes
that parliament shall pass an act, by
which gambling, which is opposed to
public interests, shall be declared illegal,
and that all bets, whether made by agents
or between principals, and all contracts
auxiliary to gambling, shall be void, and
if made by an agent the principal may
revoke his authority to pay the debt at
any time whatever.
The st. Joe Gazette thinks this is not
a difficult matter, but that it would prac-
tically discourage gambling and betting
| by condemning it in general terms, and
! by leaving the payment of wagers to the
honor of those who make them. This
suggestion is a great deal wiser than the
attempt TO secure the wholesale con-
domination of gambling. which remedy,
if it were efficient, would, as Sir James
suggests. be worst than the disease.
That is the way it appears at this dis
lance, at least Gambling is outlawed
in this country and collection of gamb-
ling debts is barred by law; still the per-
nicious practice is not broken up nor
very seriously interfered with, the only
inconvenience-if it be an inconven-
ience-experienced being to make such
debts matters of honor, which as a rule
Is as effective as law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
KANSAS WHOLESALERS.

w. Scott Corbett of this city who went
before the Southern Railway Traffic as
ISOLATION at New Orleans as represen-
tative of the wholesale grocery trade OF
interior Kansas, and also who had inter
views with the sugar manufacturers and
importers, has pretty live report of the
way the Western Traffic association are
bulling rates in the interest of Chicago
and of the Missouri river as a baslng line.
The Southern Traffic association agrees
with the Kansas state railway commits
sioners, in the conclusion that the U. 5.
interstate commissioners have by their
manipulated decisions knocked all the
sense and reason out of section four OF
the National law and that there remains
no meaning to their long and short haul
rulings. The traffic associations which
were begotten of that abortion OF So
called congressional railway legislation
are getting the western roads into a
fight which will not only go into the
courts but into the newspapers and leg
islature and which will land some OF the
big lines in the hands of receivers. The
way that Wichita is Disseminated
against in favor of Kansas City, Chicago
and Minneapolis from New Orleans, Gal
weston and other gulf points is simply
robbery.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
q ARCADE
Experiments in Growing sponres

1t was rumored in the sponge trade on
Saturday that company had been
formed with 800, 900 capital TO under
take experiments at sponge growing on
the ocean shore of Long Island, opposite
the Shinnecock hills. The story caused
considerable amusement among practical
men in the business.
ut will be a waste Of time and money
one of them said, Ito try 70 grow sponge
in northern waters. Sponges will not
grow in a cold climate. We have grade
of sponges known in the trade as Long
Island grass sponges. They are of q
cheap quality, and do not come from our
Long Island across the river. They are
from the south"
Several attempts have been made 10
grow sponges in this section during the
past ten years. "a firm in Cedar street
were interested in sponge raising
scheme down at Patchogue five years
ago." a dealer said. "Thoy started in,
If my memory serves me right, by max
ing an artificial bottom of coral, prac-
tically the same substance on which the
sponge grows in the Mediterranean.
Theu vessel load of sponges was sunk
on the coral bed. After a time several
sponge fishers Of wide experience were
sent out to the bed to gather the first
crop. They found the seed sponges
rotted and there was not the slightest
evidence Of new crop. Another effort
to grow sponees was subsequently made
down the New Jersey shore. and, like
the Long Island experiments, nothing
came of it"-New York sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

A few months ago the foreign residents
of Foochow, in the Chinese province OF
Fo-Kien, were treated TO the curious
spectacle of a wheelbarrow apotheosis.
Hundreds of almond eyed admirers
gathered about the novel monocycle,
turned it over and over, trundled it along
amid shouts of exultation and surrounded
its proprietor with the liveliest demon
STATIONS of approval. That enthusiastic
appreciation of mechanical achievements
seems not easy to reconcile with the fact
that four or five new China railways
were demolished by an excited mob, bat
the truth seems to be that the mechan-
ism Of locomotive passes the compre-
hension of the average Mongol, and that
the motion of a steam engine is apt to
be ascribed TO Observation-Disclosures
Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Wonderful CampeIIo Dog.

l want to speak Of a rather interesting
example Of animal sagacity saw out in
Campello this week. AS the perform
ance was of such a rare nature, and
simply demonstrated the affection dogs
Will sometimes have toward horses,
will speak Of the case. \ groceryman
owns a horse and remarkably intelli-
gent canine, and every time the horse IS
hitched to the delivery wagon and 1t
starts the dog is sure 10 follow IN the
rear. In the case l refer 70 | noticed the
wagon stop in front Of residence, and
as soon as the driver had left the vehicle
the dog commenced TO crop grass. He
got under the horses head, reared On
his hind legs and transferred the grass
to the horses mouth. Wonderful dog,
thas.-Brockton Dispatch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
whirled Around Inside of a Big Pulley.

whirled Around Inside OF Big Pulley.
Blacksmith Ed Keough lately had a
miraculous escape from instant death at
the Holyoke Paper company's mill The
machinery was out of gear, and in order
to fix it Keough got inside big wheel.
The machinery was stopped, and ne had
given orders that it should not be
started until he signaled.
He was at work inside the wheel when
the machinery started. The steam had
been turned on by man who thought
that was the thing to do. Mr.. Keough
was tossed about pretty lively in the
wheel where he was at work for reyo-
luton or two, and then the momentum
threw him out. He landed on wide
belt that travels along near the floor for
distance of sixty feet before passing
around a big pulley. Keough was car
ried along toward certain destruction.
Had the belt been travelling IN the OF
posite direction he would have been
crushed between it and wheel before
he had been on it an instant. He almost
reached the wheel toward which he was
rapidly going. when his struggles tipped
the belt a little and he fell of. At this
point he did not fall on the floor, but
went down a considerable distance, land.
ing on pile of debris, receiving numer.
GUS bruises in consequence.
His Mortified fellow workmen stopped
the machinery as quickly as possible
and then picked I'D Keough, expecting
to find him far more seriously hurt than
he really was. -Holyoke GLASS; Demo
GRAFT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Anent the serious illness of Rev. Charles
Spurgeon that has threatened his life for
some days, but from which he is now re-
ported convalescing, anecdotes and in
cidents in his life are beginning to crop
out. Here is one tending to show the
decisiveness of character that has been
one of the most marked features of his
mental and moral makeup, as related
by the Argonaut:
1t is reported of Mr.. Sturgeon that
once, while preaching in a large hall,
the air became oppressive, and, stopping
in the midst Of his sermon, he said: ''If
those persons sitting near the windows,
will take their canes and umbrellas and
knock out sufficient glass to let in some
fresh air, will pay all the damages as
soon as l am done preaching"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
DESERVING THE SINKING HULK.

The resolve of the Democratic leaders
of the state not to fuse with the Alliance
came too late. 1t reminds us of the re-
mark of the Irishman who was swallow
ing a dozen raw eggs, on wager, In a
given time. In the midst of the feat he
heard the chirp of chick as he broke
the shell of an egg, but nothing daunted
he gulped down the contents with the
remark, Dom you, you yipped little
tool late" The dissolution of the old
party that has long existed as upon the
ragged edge is unquestionably going on
rapidly. The latest prominent erstwhile
member to declare himself is Judge
Nicholson, of the Eighth judicial district,
comprising the counties of George, Dick
inson and Morris. The judge has al
WAYS been a Democrat until a few weeks
ago, when he joined the Citizens Al
lance at Council Grove. In a speech
before his nomination by the Alliance he
told the convention that he had burned
the bridges behind him and was in the
Alliance to stay.
Goodbye, old party, goodbye.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
A Dooryard Discovery.

Funny, isn't it, what queer things old
winter will leave in your dooryard when
he yanks off his white sheet. OF course
every one had opportunity to hunt up
and throw over the fence into neigh
boris lot the usual assortment of old tin
cans, pals, bus dress improvers, ashes
and dismantled household utensils. But
8 man up Dexter way found find in his
dooryard last spring that caused lively
futter in his peaceful family for while.
He was puttering about III his yard,
making various discoveries along the
edge of vanishing snowdrifts, when he
suddenly found something that surprised
him. 1t was 20-fOot well. He went
to the bottom in ten feet of water and
had an opportunity of thoroughly ex-
ploring his new possession before the
neighbors came up with a ladder. The
same neighbors got the water out of him
after a course Of rolling and punching.
Some early settlers had dug that well
and had boarded and sodded it over.
When the covering rotted away our
friend found himself lone well in
Lewiston Journal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

lyon call So-ani-so 'tore.' What is
bore AXIS Bashop sseiwyn- 1T IA q
nan who VIII persist IN taking Aboui
himself when yea want % talk about
yoUrself or. ws may add, in tsilins
stories when goa want 10 10 ts11nR
them. Coisridse says be pssd 20 b.
mach arnsssd With Tobsn and Goiwtn.
'.ToLan woald poster ne with stones a
GOWNS duilnszs, and rpoa I'm de<zx.
tGEe God~4n would drop IN jrzzt TO az
that Tobsn was ulore dali taaa sssx.1-s
Lxchznze-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The Trans-Missouri Passenger associa-
ton having taken a new vote on the
proposition to inaugurate series of har-
vest excursions, which vote resulting
unanimously in favor of the proposition,
and the rate of one and one-third fare
for the round trip being adopted, there
ought to be and no doubt will be large
numbers of people in the east induced to
visit the west. and especially Kansas, to
see for themselves the wondrous country
and its wonderful crops. The dates fixed
are Aug. %, Sept. Is and 90.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

THE condition of the people in a num-
Der of the provinces of Russia is already
becoming alarming on account of crop
failures. The dispatches state that &C
tual starvation is staring large numbers
of people in the face and that the distress
among the poorer classes is becoming
more intense every day. Sad as this is
to contemplate, it affords occasion for
gladsomeness to the thrifty farmers of
America, in that they have been so
abundantly favored by Providence this
year with abundant harvests, thus
enabling them to supply, in part at least,
the sore needs of their less fortunate
fellow-beings in other countries.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Frank McGrath, president of the Kansas
Alliance, says: 1--WE do not desire fusion
with the Democrats for the reason that
there is nothing to fuse with. We have
destroyed that party in Kansas, leaving
nothing of it save few superannuated
fossils, whom we do not want. Even they
will soon come piteously begging to be
taken in, and l suppose we will, IN char
ity, give them resting place"
Now who of you are still in favor of fu-
sion? Stand up and be counted.-Topeka
Democrat.
If you want to know real bad the
EAGLE will vouchsafe the information;
or in other words answer who are still
in favor of fusion: Every mothers son
of the remnant of the party who wants
an office, and that is about all of them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
The Reason of His Happiness.

From the New York Morning Advertiser,
Mr. Franklin, having noticed that a
certain mechanic who worked near his
office was always happy and smiling,
ventured to ask him for the secret of his
constant cheerfulness,
mo secret, DOCTOR" he replied; 81
have got one of the best wives, and
when l go to work she always has a
kind word of encouragement for me.
and when 90 home she meets me with
a smile and kiss, and the tea is sure TO
be ready, and she has done SO many lit
tie things through the day to please me
that cannot find it in my heart to speak
an unkind word to anybody"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
e \ waman . cateh : wnrnan.

The chief OF Parls detectives SAYS:
Men. as a rule, are not as close Observer
and do not give what call detective de-
sc-iptions OK people. ] REMEMBER tryiug
70 catch a woman couatsrfeiteT once wsc
had been described 70 me By several
men. ! found E%lt dozen women whc
would answer 20 her description Finally
a woman who had seen her gzvs us >
description Ct her WITH oLe strong de-
tecuve posnt-tas war she did Up ke-
hair-4nd On thai description ] very sooD
arrested the right ~oz2@a-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The July number of the Home-Maker
is a beautifully illustrated and attractive
specimen of this favorite magazine.
There is nothing namby-pamby about
this periodical Ii is fresh, vigorous.
helpful. and every member of a family
will find something interesting in its
bright pages. We do not see how We
men can afford to be without it. or how
the publishers can afford to give so much
for so little.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Fiat Legal Tender,

From Tie Wilson COUNTY CITIZEN
The Junction City Tribune explains
that the reason money IS SO worthless in
the Argentine Republic is because 1t IS
not a legal tender, else the country could
not be so heavily in debt; it would take
its paper currency and pay itself out.
The Tribune is guessing at it. Tee Ar
gentine money is 8 legal tender for all
debts not specifically provided to be paid
in coin. The national debt, which Is
owing chiefly to European capitalists,
was contracted 10 be paid in gold. The
paper money is about such stuff az the
Tribune aud other wild fiuanciers want
the United States government 10 issue.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
No Time to Monkey.
,1yft1r, pnyfnzu

1t remains to be seen whether these
schemert who are circulating all manner
of reports purporting to come from the
farmers can succeed longer at their
creed. A great many men have started
in to prey upon the farmers boom, hav-
ing failed in all other political parties.
The farmer is a conservative thinker, his
Judgment is generally right, and, If he
will stand from under the lead of bad
men, his cause will succeed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Wheat Growing From a Boys 1yead.


A grain of wheat has sprouted in the
forehead of five-year-old boy.
On May 10 little Thomas Stretch, the
son of miller Reeve A. Stretch, of Lower
Alloway Creek township, was quite seri-
ously injured by being caught in a belt
at the mill, and would have been killed
but for the promptness of his father in
stopping the machinery. He has now
almost recovered from the effects of the
accident, but a few days ago dark spot
was noticed over his eye. 1t was care
fully opened with lance and was found
to be a grain of wheat which was
sprouted.
The grain was probably forced under
the skin when his head struck bin
while he was being whirled around the
shaft.-Cor. Philadelphia Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The latest census bulletin announces
that we have 1865 paupers in total
population of 62.622, $50, or one pauper
10 every 943 inhabitants. Consul Gener-
81 New reported, under date of December
30 last, that the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland had 900. I55
paupers, or one in every IS persons in
the population of 1870, 2S3. With such
conditions the wonder is that more of
the queens subjects do not seek asylum
in happy and prosperous America,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

A McCloud riyer woodsman, while
making shakes at Black Cox mountain
cut down a big hYe-foot sugar pine
which proved TO be hollow for forty-fvt
feet and full Of alternating bearz- There
were five black, seven cinnamon and
three grizzly bears in the hollow tree,
and the Inaa nailed slabs over the open
end Of the log and started il doJzu
the mountain toward town, where il ar
rived safe and sound and Is now on ex-
hibtion.-McCloud Pioneer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Frank McGrath, president of the
farmers alliance, estimates the Kansas
wheat crop at 1900, coo bushels. Vice
President Rinehart OF the Atchison. To-
peka and Santa Fe company estimates
che crop at S0,000.000 bushels. Mr.
Rinehart has as good opportunities of
knowing or estimating what the aggre-
gate yield will be, tho the chances are
that he is rs far above the actual figures
IS NcGrath is below them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The Arkansas City Democrat says that
most everybody in that vicinity will be
in their graves if the influence of Ben
Clover is waited upon to open the strip.
A Democratic paper talks more like
itself when it is pitching into the AL
lance than at any other time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The announcement is officially made
that the pestiferous chigger has eight
legs. Such a large number of legs
would seem entirely unnecessary to an
animal that owes its notoriety to the
strength of its suction pumps.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

It is gossip in Europe that Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Stanley viii separate;
which, if true, goes to show that there
are good many more heroic struggles
going on in almost every house you
pass on the street than in crossing Africa.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Mr.. Sudebaker said when in Kansas
City recently, that he had shipped his
first wagon TO that city twenty years
ago. lie then received for each wagon
Sl24 The farmers paid Sl65. The rail-
roads charged SIS for freight and got
Sl0G for them. Now the farmers pay S65
for our wagon with all of its improve
ments on the cd vehicle. The railroads
get So for freight and the retailers get
from s. 70 $40.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Chief Ross, of the Cherokee nation is
dead. A new epoch is opening on the
five hundred years of Indian history and
the old men of the generation preceding
are dying off. Their SUCCESSORS will be
younger men with the incubation of
new lines towards the destiny of the
red man.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Rates to Chicago and return are now
down to $40 from Kansas City, and there
is every reason to believe they viii go
still lower The western people have
come to look upon these little affairs OF
honor between the railroads as great
sport.-l.awrence JourneL
That's so, and there is one other fact
in addition, and that is, these same west.
ern people pay for the amusement in the
en1
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Wise Little Hoppers.

A grasshopper sat on a railroad rail,
A million or more of his friends within hail,
And he said as he kicked a neighbor's off heel,
The word is tomorrow, To Kansas. Right
WheelI"
The other replied, most sulky and slow,
For my part stay in Colorado
Forgive my bad accent, but will not go
"Where falls on all insects, the pitiless Snow,
1.-THE blanket militia, the spry Popeno-
mo Kansas tomorrow, for this hopper, No!'
Lawrence Record.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Tradespeople as Soldiers.

From the indianapolis News.
The Emperor Williams remark about
volunteers, ''tradesmen masquerading as
soldiers" might be considerably modi-
fed by careful reading of American
history. In every crisis our nation has
been saved by the volunteer soldiers
drawn from the ranks of civil life.
There is no record of greater heroism,
more faithful service or persistent cour-
age than were displayed by these volun-
teeTS.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The Fort Worth Gazette is laboring
hard to create the impression that all the
thieves and thugs in the state are opposed
to Governor Hogg and all the law
abiding, decent people for him. If the
Austin Statesman (which paper has a
serious grievance against the governor
and has the temerity to speak its mind
does not demand satisfaction for the af-
front that II cannot but construe as per
sonal 10 1t, it viii be pretty conclusive
evidence that the days of erstwhile
southern chivalrv are past.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The Emporia Republican truthfully
says that Senator PETERS post-mortem
praise of Mr.. Ingalls,, which is exciting
so much comment, is very easy to ex-
plain. The bigger the ex-senator is
made to appear the greater the glory Of
the man who downed him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
The Boom Is On

From the Topeka Democrat-
T. B. Sweet, president of the Kansas
Loan and Trust company of this city,
says: Farm lands are worth % per
cent more this year than they were last
year, and we have sold more land in the
last ninety days than we had sold before
in the last three wears.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22
Agreeable Surprises.

From the Coldwater Enterprise.
As wheat is being threshed, reports OF
unexpected large yields come i'll. w. d.
Weller recently threshed 10 acres OF
soft wheat which would have surprised
him had it only averaged fifteen bushels
to the acre, but imagine his surprise
when the 10 acres yielded 1900 bushels,
or twenty bushels to the acre.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

The case of Judge Mckay seems to be
an instance of a man losing the tide at
its flood when Jerry Simpson and PETER
took it, and afterwards damming up a
mud-nnddle as a remedy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Nepotism has always been soft
fault in Kansas, but the elimination of
EXAMINATIONS in that line came when
last week each member Of the Concordia
school board appointed his own daughter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-22

Billy Bolton, the rotund editor of the
Greensburg Signal, has a comfortably
furnished home, 400 acres of fine farm
ing land, printing office that is worth
$4,000, and a good deal of other ''plun
der" When he went to Kiowa, five OF
siq years ago, he had IS.