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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16
HERE THEY ARE!
ASSORTED NUTS.
ALEXIS G1N!LLAT CIR. BRAND,


Packed in three pound cations. Tho
goods are the very finest selected Nuts Of
each variety, and are guaranteed new, SCUM
anu tirst-clnss in every particular.
The assortment consists Of Grenoble Wal
nuts, lIarragoua, Languedoc and Paper shell
Almonds, Brazil Mute, Sicily Flberts and
Pecans. The package is the most attractive
ever gotten up for this purpose, and the
price, 70 cents per carton, is as low as is
consistent with the fine quality of the goods.
Besides the above, We have every variety
kand can give you any quantity you want.
Besides our regular Stock of
STAPLE GROCERIES, &C.,
we wish to call your Intention 10 the follow.
ing line Of Goods, which we are selling as
cheap as anyone:
Self-raising Buckwheat.
Self-raising Graham Flour,
Shredded Oats, Cracke oil Wheat.
kex Wheat-a fine food for invalids and
children.
Boneess Goldfish, Macserel.
Map'e syrup in fancy quart decantcrs,
New Crop New Orleans Molasscs and
Syrups.
Rais;ns, Prunes Currants, Citron.
Cheese aud Crackers, Pickles and Sauces
in variety.
Fruit Cake in lin boxes,
bakers Chocolate and Cocoon.
We call special attention to our Canned
Goods, which are The very beet:
Apricots, Peaches, Pears,
Strawberries and Pine App'e,
White Cherries, etc.
we are also receiving a fine lot of Christ
mas Goods.
French and Sick Candcs.
Licorice Tablets AMI Cough Drops.
Crystalized Fruits in J and ID boxes.
Apples, Oranges, Bananas, Figs, Prunes,
Lemons, Coconnuts, Cranbcrries, Apple
Butter, etc.
Fire Crackers, Paper Cap Pistols, Toy
Cannons.
Toys and Chinawsre,
we also have n sclcot stock Of Pistols from
20 cents up to genuine Smith s. Wesson.
Gall ADD see us before perchas ny any,
thing for Chri.tmas
II. F. SCAIFE & SON.
feo Il ly
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1891-01-16

bhICk, Tor sale.
J. II. RODGER & co.
Nov1 IA 46 NJ
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
Mohammed's Descendants.

To find families of an antiquity at
once remote and certain we must go be-
yond Europe and seek them nearer the
cradle of the human race. Mohammed
died in 632, leaving nine wives and only
one child, his daughter Fatima, who was
married las several other ladies were) TO
Ali, the prophets first convert and chief
lieutenant. From Fatima have descend
ed the numberless sultans, mobiles, cher
ifs, kings and eInperors who, ever since
the prophets day. have constituted so
important part of the ruling class in
the world which he organized. Today,
after the lapse of thirteen centuries, it is
the blood of the prophet that constitutes
the title to nobility in the several coun-
tries of the east.-Chicago Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
Buttons Made Out of Pototoes.

Great quantities of buttons are now
made from potatoes. 1t is generally
known that if the substance Of the COM
mon Irish potato be treated with certain
acids it becomes almost as hard as stone.
and can be used for many purposes for
which horn. ivory and bone are EN-
ployed. This quality of the potato adapts
it TO button-making, and very good
grade of button is now made from the
well known tuber The potato buttons
cannot be distinguished from others save
by careful examination, and even then
only by an expert, since they are colored
to suit the goods on which they are to be
used, and are every whit as good looking
as a button OF horn or ivory. Their
cheapness is great recommendation,
and viii, no doubt, lead TO a much lager
employment IN the future.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
less. AS the semi-tougn young man Is

ness. AS the semi-tougn young man Il
seldom seen carrying a baby it might,
however, be hard to prove the rule.
But this one was carrying baby, and
the tired looking woman with him was
Juggling bag that looked twice as
heavy as the baby. The woman was
the first to see the only vacant seat in
the car and dropped into it. And then
a dapper young fellow who had been
reading intently looked up, and his gaze
fell first on the baby.
He apparently didn't notice that it was
a man holding the infant, for he jumped
up, lifted his hat, and said, please take
my seat, madam" The fellow with the
child scowled, but all he said was: IF
yer speakin' to de kid, OATS all right,
but if yer speakin' to me I'll smash yer
face. See? And he stood up all the
way over, looking as if he felt much in
sulted.-New York Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
CHICAGO'S NEW MAYOR.

AS it seems pretty evident that the
Republican candidate is elected MAYOR of
Chicago, it is unnecessary even for good
Democrats to consider the cartoons pub
lished by the Chicago Herald as the best
evidence obtainable with regard to the
character, disposition, capacity and per-
sonal traits of the man who will admin
lister the affairs of that great western
| metropolis, which is second only to New
York in population, wealth and power
among the cities of the United States.
The following brief sketch, then, which
appears in the Baltimore Sun, Demo-
cratic paper, may be accepted as fairly
accurate, as it is not the custom of the
vanquished to sing the praises of the
victor with any great degree of extrava-
gance: "Hemstead Washburne, the
Republican candidate who it is claimed,
has just been elected mayor of Chicago,
by small plurality, is member of the
famous Washburne family who have
been prominent in politics. His father
was Elihu B. Washburne, who was min
ister to France during the Franco-Prus-
sian war. Hampstead Washburne COM
pleted his education at the University
of Bonn, Germany, and the University
of Wisconsin. He is said to be a man
of superior culture and capacity and has
served two terms as city attorney of
Chicago with satisfaction to the public
His Democratic opponent, Mayor
Cregier, was unfortunate in having to
face bolt headed by the irrepressiole
Carter Harrison, who, having once been
mayor, made desperate effort to get |
back into an office which he admins |
tered with certain picturesque eccen-
tricities which do not seem to have !
strengthened his hold on the masses of
his party"
How greatly changed from that Hemp
stead who sought the suffrages of the
people is this one who has obtained the
prize.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
OUR TRADE VALUES.

A commercial contemporary is bound
to have this country stand high in the
roll Of commercial nations, and offers
this curious but correct calculation for
the consideration of the foreign press:
"While several of the countries of
Europe show a larger average value of
foreign purchases and sales, dividing the
whole value by the number of inhab-
itants, we must remember that the ex-
tent of this country and the variety of
its resources make the foreign trade of
less relative Importance than it is in
small European lands. To illustrate this
fact: if the United States were divided
into two countries by an east and west
line every pound Of cotton entering New
England would become an export of the
south and an importation of the north.
Thus the whole cotton movement would
be counted twice in the foreign trade,
the number of people remaining the
same; whereas it is not counted once.
The same statement would be true of
every other commodity crossing the line
we have imagined.
What is known as the internal trade of
the country is, of course, great many
times as large and important as the for
elgn commerce.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

1t is stated that at the Sumner county
Alliance last week letter was read from
Hon. j. \. Doubleday. representative
from that county in the last legislature,
containing two railroad passes which he
had received, but refused to use, one of
which was from the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe and the other from the
Missouri Pacific. Why the passes We're
held until this la te day is not stated, but
the circumstance of his sending them to
County Alliance instead of returning
them to the companies that sent them
when they were first received, as did
three or four other members, causes Mr..
Doubleday to appear in the attitude OF a
poser
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
Took Him q Long While to See II.

4 man who returned not long ago
from stay Of several months In Lon
don has some funny stories to tell Of his
experience with British wit THE mind
Of the Briton is solid, but slow" he said
"and when il comes 10 bis appreciation
Of a joke he can be trusted after while
to get to il, but the process Is slow.
This story is a capital illustration Of
what / mean: One day / went into a
book shop on the Strand and asked for
Hare's Walks in London In America
TIE book Is sold IN one thick volume; the
clerk brought i. In two. On said, as
looked a. them. 'you part your Hare IN
the middle, do you?
Il, sirY' his said with a bev1hered
look; "oh. 10. sir"
] saw he didn't see the joke, 80 !
didn't explain. bnt bought the books and
went away. 4 week later entered the
same shop. As soon as the clerk saw
NE he rushed from the back Of the SHOP
laughing vociferously. and seized me By
the hand:
"Good.' ne shouted Capital; part
your Hare IN the middle, thzt's capital,
sir: capital
/ had thought il was rather neat ny
self, and il didn't take rne week 20 find
II out. either.-Sew York Eyellng S11A-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
4 Thrilling Experience.

From the Il Dorado Times
The sympathies of the good people Of
Towanda were stirred TO the very bot
tom the other day. \ little child under
3 years of age, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Davis. and grandson of Dir. Joel
Bradley, wandered away from home in
the afternoon accompanied by a little
dog. Search by his kin was vain and,
frightened, they alarmed the neighbor-
hood which en- masse hunted for little
Joel. All night the hunt was prolonged
i little after sunrise the little fellow was
found by Homer Logan, fast in Robert
McClure's hedge through which he had
attempted to pass. face downward,
asleep. Logan pulled him out and
wrapper his coat about the little man
The suns rays shining on his face
awakened him and he smiled a. his res
cuer, glad TO again see human face.
The dog had staid with him faithfully.
And there was more rejoicing by the
good people of Towands over the finding
Of the one child that was los. than OF
the ninety and niae that went los
asgay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
FARMING AND EDUCATION.
From the Orange Judd Farmer.
TntelIiuant skill close observation a.

From the Orange Judd Farmer.
| Intelligent skill, close observation and
good judgment are quite as important to
farmers, and pay as we'll for them, as in
any ether business. What to plant or
sow this spring, or in what crop to in
vest most freely, requires even higher
skill and judgment than are needed by
the largest merchant or manufacturer
in buying goods, or manufacturing any
particular articles. If the merchant
lays in too largely Of one kind OF goods
and too little Of another, he has only to
push off the surplus at a less profit, or
no profit, or even at loss; and later,
buy more articles in too light supply.
But the farmer has to steer between
reproduction of certain grains, meats,
ETC., in the whole country, and the con-
sequent non-paying prices. He must
study up the present statistical situation
in our own country and in the whole
world as respects certain things of
worldwide production and consump-
ton, as wheat, meats, dairy products.
Then he has to calculate upon the I'M
certainties of the weather and the local
or widespread favorable or disastrous
effect upon crops generally. 1t is partly
IL IildlLeT Oh great uuCei tdiutS, oiHCc IO
one no soothsayer or professed weather
prophet, can give us the least positive
forecast as to what weather we can
have next month or in any following
month. Yet certain general cyles and
rules followed out by nature will indi-
cate the great degree of probability for
this and all other years.
We claim that the farmer, more than
all others, needs and should seek the
highest intelligence of any class of bust
ness men in the world. Certain pro-
fessional men, as physicians and lawyers.
of course need large amount of
study in particular line. The
farmer, to be successful, needs
study and knowledge-of broad kind,
covering somewhat the whole field of
physical knowledge, especially of mete-
orology (wheather), entomology Gas in
sects are now playing an important role
with most cultivated crops; of chemistry,
as it relates to economic feeding, fertiliz-
ing, ETC.: Of political economy, which
embraces, not politics, but production,
influences governing prices, the laws of
supply and demand, etc. We know
and claim that high academic and
even collegiate education, will fit a
man to become the most successful
farmer, that is, if while getting such
knowledge he does not become imbued
with the false notion that there are,
higher callings than tilling the
soil.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
Curry of Chicken.

Fer curry q chicken cat the chicken in
piec-s. leaving oat the body bones, fry IN
battle. AID seaso1 with salt AID pepu@-
EerZoTs the chicken when cone Axad frv =
small onion cst n pieces Ia the butter.
scd tezc12.El o. Lice stock AID tab.a-
spooafal q curry po~dsr faiHos with =
Lite eozr rubbed smooth With q little
water before aiding 70 The stock Put in
TIE pieces q chicken, ard when 10. add
TIE juice Ct half a isoon- Serve tnss on a
oed o Lo.led rec, via or without Aslf a
cocoGuu. gated over q
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
ABOUT PASSES.
From the Fort Scott Monitor.

a
Our excellent friend Mr. Doubleday,
| one of the representatives from Sumner
county, upon returning home turned
over to tho Summer County Alliance two
railroad passes which he had received
but had not used. We mention this fact
for the purpose of calling attention to
the cheap demogugery exhibition. We
do not question Mr. Doubleday's verac-
ity concerning his refusal TO
use his passes, but in view of the fact
that they were given him as purely COM
plimentary, if he had not desired to
use them he should have returned them
like gentleman, with thanks. 1t will
be found also by searching the records
that if Mr.. Doubleday did not use his
passes he did nothing else. AS matter
of fact men like Mr., Doubleday were
rare. Nine alliance members out of ten
had their pockets full of passes, not only
for members but for their friends, and
yet they voted for maximum rate bill,
that would have not only ruined the rail-
roads, but all the shippers as well, Mr..
Doubleday nor any other alliance mem
Der knew or could explain its provisions
or interpret its naming. The
power of railroad passes to
purchase votes does not appear to
be very great. Many of the Republican
members, no doubt, received passes, and
they too presented and voted for a bill
That met every pledge of their party and
every demand of the people, and had
the Alliance accepted the minority bill it
would have passed the senate. The
minority bill, by the way, prohibited the
use of passes by public officials. Among
the numerous humbugs of the age, how
ever, there are none greater than the
politician who tries to make cheap cap
ital after the fashion of Mr.. Doubleday.
There is nc proof that he is any less pur-
chasable than 100 other members Of his
party, all of whom rode on passes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
AN AMERICAN STEAMSHIP LINE.
Something About the Famous Steamers
That Fiourished Before the War.

That Fiourished Before the War.
The most important American rival
| which foreign corporations have en-
| couptered in Transatlantic steam naviga-
tion was the famous Collins line. Mr.. +.
K. Collins had grown up in the freight
and passenger business between New
York and Liverpool, and in lS47 he began
to interest New York merchants in n
plan 10 establish new steamship line.
Two years later company which he had
organized launched four vessels-ths At.
lantic, Pacific, Arctic and Baltic.
They were literally subsidized, the
government paying the company tS5S, 900
yearly for carrying the mails; conditions
| imposed being that the vessels should
make twenty-six voyages every year. and
that the passage from port to port sh,sIld
be better in point of time than that made
by the Cunarders. The Collins line met
the conditions successfully, its vessels
making westward trips that averaged
eleven days, ten hours and twenty-one
minutes, as compared with twelve days,
nineteen hours and twenty-six minutes
by the British steamships.
The vessels of the Collins line cost up
ward Of 500, 900 each. This was a great
deal of money TO put into a steamship ia
those days, and as the largest Of the
fleet was considerably smaller than the
smallest of the steamships that now ply
between New York and European ports.
there was naturally a good percentages
of cost in the appointments for the com
fort Of the passengers. Many features
that have since come TO be regarded a.
indispensable on board ship were intro
duced by the Collins vessels.
Among them none attracted mora
comment when the Atlantic arrived az
Liverpool, at the end OF her dfss voyage,
May 10, 19f9, than the barber shop. En-
glish visitors 10 the vessel, "a she lay al
anchor in the Mersey, Jaw for the firxt
time the comfortable chair. with It's
movable head rest and foot rest. in which
Americans are accustomed 20 reclins
while undergoing shaving. Another
novelty was smoking room in n house
On the aftsrpart Of tho deck-Johu II.
Gould IN ScribnerA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
MARSH MURDOCH ANSWERED.

One of the profound arguments of such
profound opponents of woman suffrage as
Marsh Murdoch, has been that if women
voted men would have to stay at home
and rock the babies Marsh evidently
dOsen't banker after the monotonous work
OF rocking a cradle. 1t dosen't appear to
have struck him that there was any way
out, but woman at Hutchinson, is
smarter than Marsh. Even the women of
Hutchinson get away with the men of
that poky town of Wichita) This woman
did not ask her husband 20 stay at home
and take care of the baby while she went
to vote but she just picked that baby up
and toted it with her. Did her voting
and gave the baby an airing too And
the world still turns around on its axle
tree.-Leavenworth Times.
All of which sounds plausible enough;
but will the esteemed please state how
he knows but that the kid was not a
sort of Topsy, as to a father? You see,
in such cases of fine discrimination it is
important that we have exact informa-
tiOn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

Signor Marmuzzi will not receive the
satisfaction he desires by his motion in
the Italian parliament Tuesday in regard
to the New Orleans incident, except the
small satisfaction he probably expert
ences at having spoken of it in public.
The government at Washington NAV
present statement of the case TO the
Romish dynasty when it gets on a great
big ready, if it then has mind to. but
not until then, and no amount of buster
viii facilitate the matter in the least,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
The adeha 1aily Eagle ghmrsaay goruiug April TO- 1891.

"The duty of the hour" says Secretary
Rusk in his North American Review ar
ticle, lis to realize thoroughly the fact
that agriculture is the true basis
of the prosperity of all, and
that the farmers are entitled to
proper political and economic consid-
Grafton" Everybody admits that. and
nobody denies the farmer the political
and economic consideration he is entitled
to- The trouble with the farmer in
these respects is, that while he has suf-
fered with the balance of the people, he
demands exclusive relief; that is to say,
measures for his relief without regard to
the interests or necessities Of anybody
else
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

MIR. Charles Francis Adams seems TO
think the Kansas City meeting q useless
and vain endeavor; that all these ills the
countries commercial and industrial in
tereSts are suffering are imaginary. and
to undertake TO remedy them by legisla-
tion will have the effect to make real
that which is only an Illusion. Mr..
Adams had better devote himself TO the
christian science of healing and let socio-
political economies alone. He oppears
to have lost his mental equipoise since
losing his place at the head of the great
corporation, the Union Pacific Railroad.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

The only real work OF art in copper
that now exists in India Is the casting Of
Hindoo and other images for religious
purposes. These are, OF course, mostly
70 be found in cid temples. Almost all
the temples which can really claim an
tiquity have images made q copper,
which are the perfection of art. and
which, with ali the assistance Of ma
chinery, could never be excelled or even
initiated by Enropean cities.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

Reports from Berlin indicate that the
Germans are not IN such hurry as they
pretended short time ago 10 remove
the restrictions imposed upon American
hog products, the reason being that thev
are calculating upon getting their meat
supplies from another direction. If this
is really the state Of case we VIII have
to make our arrangements 10 get oar
sugar supplies wholly from other quar-
tiers than Germany. The American hog
does not insist on standing in the trough
with all four feet, but il does want
chance to nose in. Sec:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

dare ignore. This is the knowledge that
France and Russia would in such case
instantly spring into the fight. Germany
could not afford to give such an advant-
age to her old enemy, France, and Aus
tria would be deferred by fear of Russia.
But, in any event, the United States has
nothing to fear from any possible out
come of the present diplomatic diff
Guilty. Right is on our side, and we have
both the spirit and the resources to de-
fend and maintain it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

The largest kitchen IN the world Is in
the Bon Aarcbe in Paris. Il has 4 900
employees. The smallest kettle contains
100 quarts and the largest 100. Each Of
fifty roasting pans Is Big enough for go
outlets Every dish for baking potatoes
holds 70 pounds, When ouaeis1tes are
On the bin Of fare 800 eggs are used at
once. For cooking alone zxty cooks and
100 assistants are always az the rang
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16

The Kentucky constitutional conven-
ton adjourned sine die last Saturday.
having been in session 1913 days, at an
expense TO the state of 100000. 1t is
said TO be doubtful that the new instru-
ment viii be ratified by the people. The
most radical change, perhaps, is in rela-
ton TO the elective system, the viva voce
method of voting, that has been in use in
the state since its organization, being dis
placed by the ballot system. similar to
the Australian plan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-16
The Earliest Lens.

The earliest known lens is one made
of rock crystal, unearthed 10y Lsyard at
Nineveh. This lens, the age Of which is
TO be measured by thousands Of years,
now lies in the British museum. with its
surface as bright as when it left the
makers hands. By the side of it are
very recent specimens Of lenses which
have been ruined by exposure to London
fog and smoke.-New York Telegram