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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

A good many SYMPTOMS indicate
that-,the municipal till is fast sink
ing into exhaustion and emptiness.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

There is no sort of doubt but that
street car men are worked too many
consecutive hours. That is plain.
But the city has over shot the mark.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

What has been done with all the
money? What has become of all the
dashing financial skill and genius,
that was won't to keep the municipal
pot boiling?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

Alderman Lockwood's ordina nct
a bout limiting the hours of work fol
street car men, Is stale dish of bun
combe.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

Temperance is one thing, and in tenn
perance is the opposite and irrecon
cileable thing.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

There aremen, like Boniface, in the
play, who eat beer drink beer and
sleep on beer, and at last come to
think beer.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

It is good rule to shun censorious
people as they will surely censure
you also.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24

No one has ever come forward t
defend and applaud intemperance
and never will do so.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-24
PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.

PERTINENT PARAGRAPHS.
BY OUR SPECIAL CONTRIBUTOR.
When fools get drunk, they excit e
but small pity and suffer only q smsll
eclipse of their minds; but when clever
and intelligent man get too drunk to
walk, or talk, the spectacle is enough
to cause angels to weep.
No one has ever come forward to
defend and applaud intemperance,
and never will do so. a
The variest drunkard does not
| consider drunkenness shining virtue
and badge of honorable distinction
to be boosted OF in all companies and
EN- blazoned on his to NIB.
Temperance is one thing, and in tenn
| perance is the opposite and irrecon-
cileable thing.
The most violen partiZans OF all
! political parties are most distinguished
ny shallOwness, narrowness and pred.
JUDGE.
There are men, like Boniface, in the
play. who eat beer drink beer and
sleep on beer, and at last come to
think beer.
It is n good rule to shun censOrious
people as they will surely censure
you also.
A good many SYMPTOMS indicate
that,,the municipal till is fast sink
ing into exhaustion and emptiness.
What has been done with all the
money? What has become of all the
dashing financial skill and genius,
that was wont to keep the municipal
pot boiling?
When want enters the door, love
flies out of the window is an old
and true saying. and when the
city government runs out of funds,
the CampfOllowers and trinchermen
the brummers and the hangers on,
will raise howl, and like rats fly
from a sinking ship.
Alderman Lockwood's ordina nee
bout limiting the hours of work for
street car men, Is a stale dish OF bun.
combe.
The city wants the legal power to
make such aregulation after IL has
turned the horse out of the stable. Ii
should have made it an integral part
of the franchise along the streets, not
a mere after clap.
Alderman Lockwood has served up
a dish of cold "Buncomb without
grain of salt i'll the mush mixture,
to moderate its peculiar freshness.
If after granting franchises to the
street railways, and the lines have
begun to operate their roads, the
counc | can legally, fix the hours of
work for operatives on the street rail-
roads, they can, by analogy, prescribe
the number of hours that mec hanics
shall work.
Alderman Lockwood has "bit of
more tobacco than he can chaw;" but
he may pull the wool over the eyes"
of some OF the workingmen who have
more credulity than brains.
If the council possesses this plen-
tiude of power, just exercised, it has
legislative power equal to that vested
in the legislature.
There is no sort of doubt but that
street car men are worked too many
consecutive hours. That is plain.
But the city has over. shot the mark.
Writing paragraphs is something
like thrusting q stalwarth fellow into
the chair of small boy. 1t requires
squeezing.
1t is not every body that can dis
cover the point in the compression.
He may 90 misfit where none ex-
lists.
Or, he may insist, that the vice
should have been screwed up more
+iohtIu On tbat tho annn mr. aaG iOn mi IN [
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
He Paid It.

OF all the new ways for collecting old
debts which have been devised by "collec-
ton agencies" it is doubtful if any was
ever more ingenious or successful than one
reported by Maine correspondent of "Old
Jim Johnson" an eccentric character in q
seashore town.
Ned Stone, neighboring farmer, owed
Jim few dollars on some COW or pig
trade, and after dunning him several
times Jim determined to have "satisfac-
ton"
He notified Ned to pay at once, or "take
the consequences" This having no effect,
Jim proceeded to act.
He lived on the main road between Ned's
house and the city, and thereafter when
ever Ned went to market he was saluted,
as soon as he came in sight of Jim's house,
by blast from a large dinner horn. The
din continued as long as he remained in
sight, and woke the echoes for several
miles around.
The neighbors were soon in the secret,
and many were the comments and grins
that greeted Ned as he travelled along the
road, where the sound that heralded his
coming had preceded him by several min
utes.
More than once he made overtures to set
tie the account, but Jim would accept no
compromise. He had decided to collect
it in satisfaction" and for some weeks
Ned's going and coming continued to be
heralded far and wide by the reverbera-
tons of that dreadful dinner horn.
At last the neighbors persuaded Jim to
accept the amount due him. Ned was
glad enough to pay it, and is said to have
been less dilatory in his habits from that
time forward-Youth's Companion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
The Song of tho Mockine Bird.

The name hooking bird comes from its
power to initiate the cry OF many other
birds. If you were listening TO him for the
first time you would have to look closely
to satisfy yourself that the melody was
ripping from one little feathered throat
and not from a whole concert of songsters.
The clear, mellow whistle of the red bird,
the chatter of the jay, the continuous
MARBLE of the Carolina wren, the abrupt
call of the partridge, Bob White" the
low but lovely song of the piuewood finch,
the shrill new of the cat bird and the harsh
scream of the hawk are all mingled with
strains of his own and those of many other
birds in such manner aud with such
power that the effect is extremely fine
tie has even caught the snatcheS of song
that the bobolink practices when passing
northward, and he puts these into his lay
in the right place and with charming cor
rectness. He not only mimics these birds,
but he eNcels them, and after we have heard
him their efforts seem quite tame and
spiritless.
Yet he has never had his head turned by
the applause of mankind, and he sits care
lessly on the limb of a tree, pausing now
and then in the midst of his carol to ar
range his feathers, or flying from place to
place without interrupting his glorious
song, entirely unaware that be is so great
q musician.-New York Telegram.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
Mr.. Depew's Salary.

Mr.. Depew's connection with the Van
derbilts began in political way He was
then young lawyer, who had been fight
ing his own way alone for a number of
years, when one of the lower Hudson river
counties returned him to the New York
state assembly, where his ability and pecu-
Lar qualifications for leadership made him
a power. Year after year for nearly gen
Grafton Mr.. Depew was returned TO his old
seat, and he became power in the Repub-
hcan party He was the man the Wander
bits needed at Albany, and they made
him one of the attorneys for the New York
Central. He was rapidly promoted TO the
directory aud head OF the legal department.
When W. II. Vanderbilt died Mr. Depew
was elected president of the company, in
which capacity he draws $4,000 a year
salary In addition TO this position Mr..
Depew Is a director in many other Wander
bilt corporations, and his salary for the
year from the Vanderbilt interests amounts
TO between $4,000 and SlO0,OO0-Chicago
Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
summer Trln to Canada.

Why not go to Toronto this summer?
National Educational association holds
its meeting there in July
Santa Fe route offers rate of one fare for
round trip, plus 81 membership fee.
Tickets on sale July S to Is, good until
Sept. 30 returning. Cheap side trips can
be made to st. Lawrence resorts, New
England and Atlantic seaboard.
Stick pin here, please: Going via
Santa Fe Route no transfer is required In
Chicago. We occupy union depot with
Chicago and Grand Trunk and Wabash
railways. direct" routes to Toronto. We
are also thirty miles the shortest line be-
tween Kansas City and Chicago Elegant
vestibule trains and dining car service.
Connection is made with this train at
Newton. from thence no change Of cars.
Leaves Wichita 1890 a. IN. and arrives at
Chicago 9:l5 next morning.
Several large parties now organizing.
Cali on local agent Santa Fe Route for
particulars, or address
g. 7. NICHOLSON, G. P. & I. A,
Topeka, Kan.
W. D. MURDOCH, d. Z. A,
Corner First and Main streets,
d29-I9t Wichita, Kan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
MOles as Grub Destroyers.

A Kansas correspondent tells in the
Farmers Review that every investiga-
ton goes to show that the mole lives on
insects and starves on cereals and vege-
tables. He calls attention to the fact that
when lawns are apparently rendered IN
slightly by moles, if one will cut Sec
ton of the sod he will find the cause in
quantities of white grubs, the presence
of the mole being to feed on this larvae.
It was Mr.. Lands who first came to the
assistance of the mole.
On his ground at Vineland, N. j., he
paid twenty-five cents for all the moles
sent to him. He was ridiculed, but all
knew that his enterprise was a great
success. To attack popular idea is I'M
popular, and 1T takes long time to make
reform; the mole trap will be sold Gull
tivate the moles, and as soon as the
Larvae are eradicated the moles will
leave the lawn for other pastures. De-
pend upon it that whenever evidences of
the mole are found, there you will find
the white grub, concludes the Kansas
correspondent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
published June Gath. 1871
Ordinance No. 1860.

An Ordinance. Vacating a Portion Of Walnut
street and the Alley situated Between the South
Eleven Feet of Lot 10. Lots u Il. IL Is 20 p a.
26 2s 80, % end 81 on Worth street and the south
Eleven Feet OF Lot Lots H. IS, Is l.. ~ q, ., =.
q. % 81 and B on Platt Avenue in Sites Broth
ers Addition to the City OF Wichita.
Be il Ordained hy the Mayor and Councilnen OF the
City OF Wichita.
Section ]. That much Of Walnut street az lies
between Worth Street and Pivtt Avenue in Sites
Brothers Addition 10 the City Of Wichita he and
the same is hereby vacated.
Section ,. That the alley situated between the
south eleven feet Of lot 10 lots Il IT, IS %. . - ~
3 30. 3! and 81 Worth street and the south eleven
feet OF lot y lots H. Is l. Is H. IL % 5 81 = 81 and
s. on Piatt Avenue n Sites Brothers Addition to
the City Of Wichita Re and the same Is hereby va
Gated.
Section 3. This Ordinance shall take effect and be
In force from and after its publication in The Wich-
Ita Daily EAGLE.
Approved June o. 1891 JOHN 3. CAREY.
Attest Mayor.
FRED SCHATTSER
CITY Clerk.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
A Search for Co1umbus' Landing Place.

A Search for Columbus Landing Place.
A novel expedition is the one just set on
foot by the Chicago Herald That paper
has sent Walter Wellman, the widely
known Washington correspondent; Charles
Lederer, an artist of recognized ability,
and a corps of assistants to the West In
dies to discover the spot where Colum-
bus made his first landing on the shores of
the New World, and there to erect monu-
ment in his honor. The mystery as to the
landing spot has never been solved. The
only positive evidence available is that left
by Columbus himself in his journal
Many books and papers have been writ
ten in support of the various theories, but
no one has ever done what The Herald ex-
petition was organized to do-take the
journal of Columbus and all the other evil
dence which has been accumulated by the
researches of historians, photographers
and photographers, and apply it by a care
full exploration of the islands. The Herald
expedition, if successful in locating the
spot where Columbus first erected his
cross and took possession of the land in the
name of Ferdinand and Isabella, will there
place handsome monument, and deposit
in the corner stone many interesting docu-
ments and copies of the leading daily news
papers or the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
Church Incomes and Medical Science.

Church Incomes and Medical Science.
Leaders of the church very generally
secuted the theory that diseases are due to
natural causes, and most of them deprecat
ed resort to surgeons and physicians
rather than to supernatural means.
Other considerations were developed as
the Middle Ages went on which strength
ened this idea. Again we must bear in
mind that while there is no need to attrib-
ute the mass of these stories regarding
miraculous cures to conscious fraud, there
was without doubt at a later period no
small admixture of belief biased by self in
terest, with much pions invention and sup
preston of facts. Enormous revenues
flowed into various monasteries and
churches in all parts of Europe from relics
noted for their healing powers. Every
cathedral, every great abbey and nearly
every parish church claimed possession of
healing relics. While undoubtedly child
like faith was at the bottom Of this belief.
there came out Of it unquestionabiy great
development of the mercantile spirit. The
commercial value of sundry relics was
often very high.
In the year 1856 French ruler pledged
securities to the amount of 10000 solidi,for
the production of the relics of st. Just and
st. Pastor, pending legal decision regard
ing the ownership between him and the
archbishop of Narh9pne The emperor of
Germany on one occasion demanded as
sufficient pledge for the establishment of
a city market the arm of St. George. The
body of st. Sebastian brought enormous
wealth to the Abbey of scissors; Rome,
Canterbury, Treves, Marburg, every great
city drew large revenues from similar
sources, and the Venetian republic vent
ured very considerable sums in the pur-
chase of relics.
Naturally, then, the corporation, whether
lay or ecclesiastical, which drew large rev.
enue from relics, looked with little favor
on a science which tended to discredit their
investments.-Dr Andrew D. White in
Popular Science Monthly.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24

brought an Indictment against General
de La Fayette; already the bright gold
| en- head Of the Princess de Lamballe,
mounted on pole, had been carried
through the boulevards of Paris. Dara-
you, in his quiet mountain home, knew
it; and it took the color from his face
and sent anguish to his heart. And fin
ally, when he heard that the royal family
had been taken to the temple, ne grew
more sad and serious; and one morning
he was missing from his hut, pretty
the picture of the queen.
The poor youth had started for the
temple on foot with his musket at his
side, with all the golden louis sewed IN
his drugget vest and the picture of Marie
Antoinette hung around his neck. In
his love and his ingenuousness he had
thought nothing less than that he could
save his queen. He travelled by night,
keeping to the woods by day-weary,
famished, but ever going on.
Finally he reached the city the 18th of
October, 1898, worn and sick, and mad
with rage and tenderness. In the Place
de la Bastille he accosted patriot, wear
ing Phrygian bonnet and armed with
a club.
''To go to the temple?" he asked.
"What do you want to do at the tenn
ple?"
Rescue the queen"
'The Austrian? Yesterday she was
done for" replied the patriot, with a
ferocious gesture and stupid sheer.
The youth, pale, quickly raised his
musket; but the patriot anticipated him
with a blow that laid him stiff upon the
ground.
IAN aristocrat! Down with the aristo-
cratr'
And crowd collected and rummaged
the body. On his breast they found the
portrait of Marie Antoinette with the
four suspicious letters ''T. +. L. v" Here
was means of identifcation-this man
conspirator from Coblentz, traitor to
the nationl Furious cries arose; and
they carried him to the river and there
they threw him in, the poor sabotier of
Auvergne, the lover of the unfortunate
queen, with his shining golden pieces in
his waistcoat and the sacred image on
his heart.-Translated from the French
of Anne Gironin Figaro for the New
York Evening Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
A Kangaroo In the Prize Rinp

The ranks of the ''siuggers" are con-
stantly recruited by eager aspirants
fstic honors, but it has remained for Aus
tralia to bring forward candidate who is
brute by nature as well as by training. A
kangaroo has been tutored at Melbourne
to contend with professional pugillsts in
regular prize fights. joey" proves a very
apt pupil, having learned to box in most
scientific style, while he seems to enjoy the
contest to the full The kangaroo beat q
professional man at the first trial
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
Juvenile Comment.

A minister's little daughter, who had
been to church for the first time and heard
her father preach, was questioned by him
on reachin9 home as to how she liked his
sermon, There was an embarrassed silence.
Then the little maid, tired out with the
long strain of "being good" and yet anx-
ious not to offend in any wise, made an
swer, with long drawn breath of patient
resignation:
''You preached awful long, papa, but
beared it. h-Exchange.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
fP15lished J1ne 7sth. 1873
Ordinance No. 1862.

An Ordinance Providing for tAe In proTeDenf o. .
Certain street b B13lciEz SIDE Va As TGeEeen A1c
Providing FOR tie Payment Thereof
Pc IL Q dzirea by lie Mayer and CoGreilusa 81 Tie
City o. WICHITA
SEXTON !. Legal ard Sufficient p~tltions having
beer presented 70 the ksyos ana Co1ncn fer lie
bildsng Of she StdswAks heYen@1t ter provided fer.
x "a hereby declared necessary bT TIE Mayer AID
b1.ldiLE ses walks thereon Aeoo-d IL 70 psss AID
tyecI4caoBs tbereot low O. 4le q lie oscs of tie
Orr lxaesS; a16 The Ahsl BE coEstrUc-sd y
cozrGrrlilT Il re p-cvislos q Orc1E<3ce "a =
a au3sod=5 ~ oT3tnszos Va EE5. a E-soef VICE
gat1 stree. from EnxlAh street 10 LIE Street. II
;Ee C.-v ot Wic1fts-
seciso- : TaAt sAd tznp<sTs zsen.s sssIl - 80
for - assezs1ect ali tie IS and scr@ -
zrouE1 sbutEzE sd i-1sgevs-ze1ss. ACCORDING
g the f-c-t fccs the-scs.
sActscC 1bis Q=,stzauce s4si tsk= ecec- ec1 -
g farce frcn a21 kss@r tJs s>oc1ssGc 81 ies W..
ia Daily TscEZ
Approved June = lszL JOHN 3 CART
Attes-s &Agcz.
FzEu SCHATTxEK
Glsy Geek
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
SCROFULOUS SORES.
ease. Suffering Terrible. Cnred
by Cuticura Remedies.

was covered with scrofula sores from my head
to my waist, suffering so that could not sleep
nights and could lie down only with pillows under
my arms. Ny head was SO sore that ! could not
wear hat; and being farmer, could not go bare
headed, so wore very soft handkerchief on my
head. In fact, was disgusting sight to others
and to my SELF After doctoring for six years with
the best physicians I'm the country and getting
ali the time, had given up all hope OF getting well
when saw your CUTIcURA REMEDIES advertised
and procured set although with little faith IN
them The first set. however. did me such vast
amount Of good. that continued their use and
now, after using four SETS am happy TO say that
am entirely cured. ANY Of the prominent bust
ness and farmers here will indorse my story.
GEORGE A, HEINSELMAM Plainfeld Iii
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
The Horrid Boy.

Miss Gushington-Such exquisite mel
ody! And such a lovely basso-Signor
Bologna! So handsome! 1 do wonder
what his age is!
Small Brother - Bologna's age!
know it.
Miss G.-You darlingl What is it?
S. B. (triumphantlye sausage. PITTS
burg Bulletin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
Govern Yourselves Accordingly.

The Rock Island route having been Sc
lected by the Young Peoples Society OF
Christian Endeavor as the official route
over which they propose to travel, from the
Missouri river en- route to Minneapolis, to
attend the tenth annual international con-
vention Young PEOPLES Society of Chris
tian Endeavor. You are respectfully re-
quested to see that your tickets read over
that line from the Missouri river to Min
neapolis and return. The Rock Island
route WILL place on sale round trip excur-
sion ticket at lowest frst-class fare one
way. Tickets on sale July and s, '9l,
good for return passage until August 81,
'91. For further information call at city
ticket Office Rock Island route, 100 East
Douglas ave, corner Main street, Wichita,
Kan. W. II. WIsBARr.
as RI
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
10. for The Mountains Of COLORADO.

RouD4 trip tickets TO Denver. Pueblo.
Colorado Springs and Trinidad. cheap.
Only sZ2 80 for the round trip. good to re
Missouri Pacific railway is the short line
TO all Colorado points Train leaves daily
at $50 p. N. arriving at Pueblo next morn
ing for breakfast and Denver for dinner
For all points Ia Colorado, Utah, Mon
tana and Washington. take the Missouri
Pacific railway. Chair cars and Pull
man sleepers on all train Call at city
ticket Office for further information, maps,
pam pblet. etc, etc. Telephone 2iI
r. T. BLEcKLEY
14tf p. and 7. A, 10 N Main st.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-24
Published June 2ith. 1917
Ordinance No. 1O6I.

An Ordinance Attaching Certain Adjacent Terri
tory t. and Making 1t Part OF the City Of wichita
Be il Ordained by the Mayor and Counctlmen Of
the CITY OF WicbIt,,
Section ]. That the following described Territory
ad accent to the City Of chita be and the is
hereby attached 20 and made a part Of the inceT-
po-ated limits Of the City of Wichita, % Wit
Begin ming ct the southwest corner Of Forrest Az
erue and Eleventh Street II sA1d CITY Of wichita.
thence running vest 10 the cast bank Of tie Lite
ARKANSAS River. thence along aid bank OF said
river In northerly and easterly direction accord
iIg " re y .. "a. 80, :" elshs -
river crosses said Forrest Avenue. thence south
along the west line o. said Forrest Avenue u the
place OF beginning sais TERRITORY being ard IyIDs
IN the COUNTY Of Se6Erick and state % kansas ard
containing twenty acres more or lsss-
section 2 Tbls ordinance shall tszs effect and be
IL force from and after ia publication IN tie
Wichita Daily EAGLE
ATproTed June e. ISL JOHN D. cARTT.
Attest Mayor.
KhED SCEATISER.
City Clerk,