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The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-14
w. E., WILLIAMS.

II9 East Douglas Ave, Wichita Kans.
Wholesale and Retail GDn Dealer.
California Sporting Powder $50 per
keg.
Oriental Wing shot Powder. s5.2s
per kcg. y. -. H., Wichita. n ans.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-14

WOMAN OF FASHION.

New and Pretty Fancies in Stylish
Lingerie.
White Once Moro Popular, Although
Black Holds It's Own-New Ways
OF Trimming Mourning
Robes and Jackets.
rcoPYRIeBT, 1892
Cnderwear-such an ugly word to
represent such pretty things. isn't it?
So ugly that don't wonder the diction-
aries emit it altogether-for I've just
looked in three and failed to find it.
That which we wear under, yes; bat
not that which is concealed, for the
slightest elevation of the outer garment
will reveal glimpses. if no more, of the
The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-14
JERUSALEM ALL AGOG.
The IRON Horse Pranctng Around
the Holy City.
The Railroad Finished from Ja6s-To Be
Dedicated This Monsh-Stean Whis-
ties Alarming Palestme-Cars
from Phtladeiphia.
IcoPYRIeRr, lS2.I

USTLE tn e m
9th er donkeys
around h e r e
Lively, n o W I!
s t ri n G e m
along b chino d
the camels. +"
The familiar
accents S ur-
p T j S ed a n d
amused us. We
stood on t h e
wharf in Jafa,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

THE Columbus special to the New
York World of June 10, contains the
following:
"The only surprise of the day was in
the Stark county district, where Al.
Carlisle, Clevelaud's Ohio manager, was
defeated by one vote by the Hill faction.
This was accomplished by Congress.
man John G. Warwick, who feels in.
debted TO Hill for coming into his dis
trict and helping him in his Congress
sional race against Mckinley. He
therefore elected his son, w. X. War.
wick and also Col. John 9. Welty, of
Stark county. There will be about
twelve strong Cleveland men in the
Ohio delegation, twelve radical anti
Cleveland men and twenty-five dele
gates who will go to the Chicago Con
vention untrammeled, unpledged and
determined to do the very best they can
for the interest of the Democratic party,
irrespective Of candidates now in the
field"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
MONEY AND POLITICS.

The Republican platform is ambigu-
Gus on several subjects, but it is not at
all ambiguous on the subject of its
partnership with money powers, nor on
its fundamental doctrine that the men
who pay Repu blican campaign expenses
must keep their hands in the public
treasury
Therefore it pronounces decidedly in
favor Of maintaining the existing high
tariff taxes for the benefit of the pro-
tected Interests, and of the kind of
reciprocity ChaJ INTAKES foreigners in
order to * end the markets of our
protected CiuZ-us without cheapening
their products III this country.
1t also advocates further copartner-
ship with steamship lines, and while it
has word OF protest against trusts it
Insists on 50 .ratulng the system which
makes trusts puSSible.
There are millions of dollars invested
in business interests in this country
that profit directly or indirectly by
Republican legislation and Republi-
can Administration. These interests
have all been assured in the platform
that the corrupt partnership will not be
terminated by the party, and that the
people will continue to be taxed for the
benefit of the capitalits in return for
campaign funds, if Mr.. Harrison is re-
elected.
The business and capitalistic end of
the Republican party is very rich and
very much concerned in keeping its
political partners in power.-New York
World,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

THERE never was more bitter op-
ponent of organized labor in this coun-
TRY than this same Reid. 1t was he
who opposed the establishment of the
Boycotter, weekly journal whose es-
pecial, object was to wage war against
throughout the country called him
OUTLAW" Reid. The Tribune has been
"rat" office for several years, and it
will hardly heal the sores which have
been made, to unionize the Office now
that the editor and proprietor of the
Tribune wants to be vice president of
the United States.-l Detroit News.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
THE RETIREMENT OF JAS. C. BLAINE


Ben. Douglass, the poet, scholar and
old time radical Republican, pays trib-
ute to Jas. e. Blaine In the wooster
Jacksonian as follows:
"Blaine is beaten. The magnetic
statesman has been forever retired by
his Republican friends, TO the "oound-
less contiguity of shades" of American
politics. From his reluctant hand
"Ihe thunderDolt is wrung."
AS Phillips, the Irish orator, said of
Napoleon Bonaparte, through this
pantomime of his policy, fortune play
ed the clown to his caprlces," yeth was
the most brilliant and deserving man
before the Minneapolis convention.
But che is fallen" He has left his
high command, but no member of the
Republican party since its organiza.
tion, whether in the chambers of legis-
lation or in the cabinet, will leave
"a brighter name to lure mankind"
Amid the signing pines of his adopt.
ed state, along the Atlantic's sea girt
shore, listening to the murmur of the
shells OF watching Neptune "bowling
the billows in his hand, "'"wrapt in the
solitude of his own originality" his re-
naming years may be spent wisely in
enriching the world with his advanced
Thought in the domain OF modern poll
tics and the science of popular govern
ment.
Sad, indescribably sad, indeed, must
1t be to his tens of thousands of friends
that so eminent statesman, incom-
parably the most brilliant member of
the Harrison administration, the intel.
leCtual master of his official MASTER
aud, but lately the idol of his party,
should be permitted to depart from the
national Capitol almost unnoticed.
In him was embodied the best and
soundest elements of his party. lie
was its Pharos, "its cloud by day and
pillar of fire by night" and it was a
savage mockery that he should have
been made simply possible candidate,
like Cullom, or the upstart, Mckinley,
whom he, by mistake, took to Maine
twenty years ago and gave his first
lessons in politics, who ever since has
travelled in his shadow, and who finally
betrayed him as Judas did the Christ.
1t is the usage of the Republican
party, however, to cut the throats of its
best men. Third, fourth and fifth class
men like the McKinleys, Fosters,
Hayeses. sit on decorated platforms in
the blaze of chandeliers, masters in
eloquence, diplomacy and statecraft,
are driven ungratefully and cruelty
into exilage."
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

where we were going, so he could not have
any concealed apparatus We were Obliged,
therefore, 20 admit to ourselves that he
really did believe, and somehow his belief
did not seem very absurd just at that mo,
ment. "Go ahead, " said /. 'If the spirit
has anything to say TO us, we want to
know what it is"
The reply TO this was perfect fusilladC
Of knocks or raps from all parts of the
room at once 1t was impossible TO believe
that the professor made these noises, and
Quevedo and ] confessed TO each other
afterward that we felt very shaky Just
then. However, we feared each Others
ridicule more than we did ghosts, and we
waited.
'Knock three times for yes and once for
no." said the professor. do you under,
standW
Three knocks sounded from the desk.
"Do you wish to make any communica,
tion to any one hereW Three raps.
"Is it TO meW One rap.
"Is 1t to Mr.. Quevedo2p One rap.
"Is It TO Mr., CurtisY" Three raps.
"Shall he question you" One rap.
"How will you communicated In writ
ing~ Three raps.
BY this time I was deeply impressed
The professor, however, in the most mat
ter of fact way, took from his pocket the
slate and pencil mentioned The slate was
one of those folding affairs generally used
by writing mediums" He put the pencil
inside, folded the slate and laid It on the
floor at our feet, Quevedo holding the Ian
tern so that we saw perfectly what was
done. We then waited a moment, and
presently heard a noise as of a pencil
fTli int la 81 g..
this ceased and put the slate in my pocket
Nothing more happened, though we
waited fully an hour longer The profes
sor asked several questions, but could get
neither yes nor no in reply.
At length | moved an adjournment, say
ing that we would go elsewhere and read
the message ! cannot say why we did not
read it there, as would seem natural, but
no one proposed it, and felt strange re-
luctance to opening the slate.
We locked up the house and left Hall
mile away was a hotel We entered and
sat at a table Then opened and read the
following lines, which were legibly written
on the slate.
II am your fathers brother, Henry Cur
tbs, the lawyer, This was my Office desk
1t stood for years in my office, at A. John
street, New York. In a secret drawer IN
the left hand corner are certain papers
Of great value TO you"
"Sweet ghostw exclaimed Quevedo. LET
us go back, Some uncle Of mine may be
there"
''This is certainly strange" said. "The
more so as | never had an uncle Henry
nor so far as know any relative who was
a lawyer"
Subsequent inquiries satisfied us that nc
lawyer Of the name of Curtis, or Of any
other name, had ever had an Office at Il
John street, Moreover, two skillful cabi
net makers, after separately examining the
desk with the most scrupulous care, both
declared positively that there was no Sc,
cret drawer in the left hand corner, or any.
where else in the desk.
"But what does the message mean, and
who wrote it2" demanded Quevedo. "Iu
swear the professor didn't"
Just as told you" said Connolly. "Ii
was one Of those lying elemcutals."
DAVID A. CCRTIs
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
The Man who Lost Himself.


The tricks Of the absentminded furnish
an unfailing storehouse Of humor and the
oldest feature of it Is that there are so
many stock stories" on the subject. Have
absentminded people done the same things
over and over again through all the ages,
or have the jokers simply copied or mo,
dernized the old stories2
We have all heard Of the man who forgot
his own name and had to walk the street
till he met a friend who addressed him by
1t, Of the man who ran against a COW and
said, II beg your pardon, madame" >" and of
the man who put the filed tea kettle IN
his favOrite easy chair and set himself on
the hot stove, 'and did not find out his
mistake till he began to sing" but the
Germans have the best hero in that line,
and his name IS, or was, Dinkclspicl
Dinkelspiel was so absentminded that
he was forced to write on a slip Of paper
the position of his clothing on retiring, so
that he could find 1t again in the morning
One night he made out his slip as usual in
this style; "Shocs on floor, trousers on
chair" etc, and finally "Dinkelspiel in
bed" On arising he found everything
just where he had placed it, until he came
to the bed. Horrors It was empty. A
strange fear overpowered the poor man.
Had he been kidnapped during the mighty
1t was evident, since he was no longer in
the bed, Hastily attiring himself he ran
to the police headquarters to give the
alarm. Dinkelspiel was missing and he
must be found, Terror at his awful fate
completely unnerved him. He tottered
home and went to bed, prey to high
fever. When the police arrived at the
house to look up clew they found Dinkel-
spiel in bed. The poor mans JOY at being
recovered can more easily be imagined
than described.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

THE vote on Robert Blee of Cleveland
and Frank Hurd of Toledo was a test
vote on the relative strength of Cleve-
land and anti-Cleveland in the Demo-
cratic State convention. Hurd an
nouuced that he was for Cleveland
against the field, while Blee was nomi-
mated as an anti-Cleveland delegate
This election took place after the other
three delegates at.large had been
elected. The vote stood, Blee 1893,
Hurd $40, total vote 742. The total
vote in the convention was 764. This
vote demonstrates the truth of the
statement made by the representative
of the News DEMOCRAT at Columbus,
the evening before the convention met,
and telegraphed to this paper. We then
predicted that the delegates. at-large
would be Campbell, Neal, Brice and
Blee,
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

A STRANGE feature of the Blaine
demonstration at Minneapolis was the
enthusiasm of the women. The prin-
cipal outburst was led by a young mat
ron who leaped upon chair and swing
ing parasol, yelled until the entire
feminine element present caught the
madness and joined the unmusical cho-
rus. A political Boadicea she seemed,
but she failed to lead her followers to
victory. The longest of Mr.. Blaine's
more recent letters was an attack on a
young woman who had secured a di-
vorce from his son, on the grounds of
desertion and failure to provide. With
out undertaking to say which one of
the unfortunate couple was to blame, it
was generally conceded at the time that
young Blaine needed no assistance in
his battle with SIX woman. The Sec
retary OF state cut very sorry, unchiv-
alric and undigni led figure when he
entered such co test. The inference
to be derived from he feminine demon
stration at Mini ,apolis is, that the
Blaine lunacy affects women as it does
men. 1t is an alteration which yields
neither to reason nor to shame.-Chi-
cagO Herald.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
HE G 0. P.

It is Not so Much for Temperance as IL
was-Soenes Seen at Minneapolis--Bar
Accommodations Quadrupled-A Tale
That Talks.
Minneapolis Special to N. Y. Voice.
The extra car loads of beer and
liquors that have poured into the city
during the past week is astonishing.
Most of the saloons have put an extra
bar into their places of business and
doubled their forces of bartenders-in
some cases quadrupled. Every saloon
is decorated with flags, bunting and
lithograph pictures of the leading Re-
publican candidates for president.
Wandering bands of musicians are in
great demand. AT the West Hotel, the
headquarters of the National Commit
tee, the great billiard room adjoining
the bar.room has been cleared, and the
two rooms thrown together into one
stupendous saloon. Four enormous
bars, aggregating more than 200 feet in
length, behind which are 400 colored
bottles and decanters, and more than
1000 pieces of glassware. Thirty bar
tenders are required to supply the
thirsty mouths of the grand old party,
and the cash is received by eight large
cash registers, which are kept busily
checking like so many typewriters.
At the Nicollett, the headquarters of
half dozen delegations, the billiard
room was also thrown into the bar
room and three extra bars erected, but
they are not as large as at the head
quarters of the National Committee.
Twelve bartenders and four cash reg
listers manage the business. Nearly
every saloon that is centrally located
has doubled its force and doubled its
capacity. In addition to this, the
madams of bawdy houses have inn
ported girls from neighboring cities by
the dozen to assist the saloon keepers
in catering to the desires of the dele
gates.
All day Sunday ribald song and
drunken shouts .rivalled the church bell
tones. Even four delegates from
Maine joined in the "whisky straights"
at the West.
Today the carouse continued, the
sweat rolled off the foreheads of the
baTtenders in their efforts to keep up
with the clamorous demand of the
delegates. The president of one of
the New York Republican clubs led
in the debauch at the Nicollett, singing
maudlin songs to the crowd, and shout
ing, 81 don't do this every day, boys"
The Cincinnati Glee club, composed of
young men twenty strong went singing
from saloon to saloon between drinks
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

Gov. MCKINLEY's mistake in the
convention was that he allowed himself
to be run as a candidate against both
Harrison and Blaine. He injured
Blaine by making his vote only about
half what it might have been with Nc
Kinley out of the field, aud thus
brought to Blaine gratuitous mOrtii-
cation. He injured Harrison by offer
ing to the opponents of Harrison an
alternative candidate in case Blaine
was not sufficient to defeat him. 1t
was anything but pleasant act toward
either party, and was very much like a
treacherous one toward Harrison. 1t
is another instance of the unfortunate
errors amiable gentlemen are brought
to commit when the Presidential bee
gets into their bonnets.-Boston Her
old
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
A ooLoREp delegate to the Minnie

A CoLoRED delegate to the Minne-
apolis convention, coming from Hous-
ton, Texas, was pulled out of the river
about 4 o'clock yesterday morning. He
says that he fell into the stream while
running to escape political enemies
who have followed him all the way
from his native State. The explaua-
tion may be true, but it is wonder
that wild and incoherent men have not
been strewn all along the railroads
leading out of Minneapolis. Such an
effect would have been perfectly
natural after the fearful and continuous
orgy which the leaders of the Republi-
can party held in that city. Perhaps
the victims were so stupified that they
have not yet turned up, and Mr.. White,
colored, of Houston, is the first one to
regain consciousness,-Chicago Herald
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
ONE tbjnp seems to be certain. T

ONE thing seems to be certain. The
Republican party, although strongly
cemented and kept together by the
cohesive power of public plunder," -"
cannot stand many more such strains
as have just been put upon it at Min
neapolis. Indeed, if the American peo-
pie are disposed to resent the impudent
parade Of fraud, malice, lunacy, cor
ruption, imbecility and treachery as
undisguised factors in politics, it can
with safety be asserted that Benjamin
Harrison will not succeed himself, and
that after the 4th of next March no
Republican will ever again be Presi-
dent of the United States,-Chicago
Herald
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
A MODEST AND MODEL SPEECH OF Ac.
cEPTANCE.


Col. w. A. Taylor the Democratic
nominee for Secretary of State made a
happy impromptu speech upon his
nomination as Secretary of State. 1t
is good reading even if the Convention
is two or three days old. There is a
vein of quaint humor running
through all the colone's public utter
ance, and we suspect when he gets his
war harness on, after the heat of the
dull dog days is over, he will make
plenty of brilliant campaign music
The Colonel is orator, journalist and
seer. Here is the speech:
GENTLEMEN OF The CONVENTION: /
can assure you that this nomination came
To- me unsolicited [groans and laughter
among the newspaper menl and largely
unexpected. / will admit that had
some Information to the effect that the
office was hunting for the man, and il
put a man in rather a serious situation
when great and important office is out
with a search warrant looking for him,
and acting upon my own better judgment,
and believeing that man was always
quite rs safe in the advance as retreat, |
will admit, also, that l placed myself in
position to give that Office respectable
reception. lLaughter.l And now, gentle
men, permit me to tell you that fully ap.
preciate the compliment of being made
the standard.bearer and the representa-.
tive of the 100000 Democratic voters of
into this campaign for the fun of
the thing either. We are GO
ing into this campaign to win, and
would say to the Democracy of the state
OF Ohio that propose to lead in this cam.
paign, and we will capture the state.
am not going to send the Democracy on
in advance of this fight, but propose TO
lead the van, and IL we win will have my
share of the honor, and IL we fail will be
the first TO be buried, Listening to the
eulogies on my distinguished friends here
this morning / felt somewhat depressed
with the idea of being placed at the head
of the state ticket, but for personal rea-
sons only. But permit me to tell you, gem
tlemen, that while ! would like to see
Governor James E. Campbell or Senator
Cal Brice the President of the United
States, l desire to inform you now that,
whether one or both of them or some
other man is nominated at Chicago, l am
going to make them my lieutenants.
Laughter and applause.) am going to
place one of them in command of the
right wing, the other in command of the
left,and propose to command the center
myself. do this not as a motive OF rash
and thoughtless courage, gentlemen, but
because want to be present in person
when the spoils and offices are dstribut-
ed.
thank you again for this unsolicited,
and, as l said, largely unexpected honor,
and permit rue to say that / will be with
the Democrats all over the state through
out the campaign, and with all due defer
ence to my unfortunate namesake over in
Champaign county, for he is q good fellow
but not the right kind. He is on the wrong
side of the fence, and assure you, gem
tlemen, that will give him very inter.
esting race from this until the Sth day of
next November
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23
WH1rELAw REID is the nominee

WHITELAw REID is the nominee on
the Harrison ticket for Vice President
of the United States. 1t will be re-
membered that he is the man who re-
fused to employ any union printers in
the office of the New York Tribune of
which he is owner and editor. He ia
constitutionally opposed to organized
labor aud is probably the staunchest
friend in this country of the money
barons and mi bosses of the east. He
is exceedingly rich and is son-in-lay OF
d. o. Mills, one of the wealthiest men
In the United States.-[K Keokuk Consti'
tutional Democrat.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

QUEVEDo FLASHED THE LANTERN ON IT,
Quevedo nor really believed in anything
If the sort, but the professor did, or pro-
fessed to, and he reeled off some of the
most remarkable statements ever listened
to with an air of gravity that under some
circumstances would have made me laugh.
Just then, however, his stories seemed at
least possible.
1t came to be near 10 o'clock when the
professor suggested that we keep perfect
silence for awhile II feel the influence" )"
be said
Accordingly we smoked awhile without
talking, when suddenly weird cackle,
that was evidently meant for laugh,
sounded in the room.
"Ahal The professor is ventriloquist, !"
] said to myself Quevedo evidently had
the same thought, and we sat still, waiting
for developments.
In few moments heavy rap sounded
from the direction of the big desk. and in
sJauJly RueVedo nashed the lantern on IT,
We could see nothing there excepting the
desk, and he whirled the light rapidly, 50
that we saw that all three of us were still
sitting, as we had been, near the center OF
the room.
"There's no trickery about that" said
Quevedo, and ! was inclined to believe
him, especially as felt sharp twitch al
my mustache just at the moment the light
swung around and knew that nothing hu
man was near my face,
"No, it is not trick, 1t is a spirit,
said the professor II will talk with It,
Perhaps we can get communicatioD,
He was cool enough to suggest that either
It was a trick, or else he really believed II
what he professed TO- We could not be
lieve the former for we had brought him
from down town without telling hiw
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-06-23

l was a Blaine man. I thought
success with him as our candidate
would be assured. The Blaine people
by unanimous vote asked me to place
him in nomination, and expected to
do so until Friday morning, when
learning that the friends of Governor
Mckinley intended, with his sanction
and approval, to place him in nomina-
tion before the convention by voting
for him, concluded it was my duty to
make Ohio solid in his support [Jo-
sEPH b. FORAKER.