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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
n. G. TOLER.

his owner forty dollars per aunum- The
Enclosures in which they are kept are
usually built Of stone. bat where stone Is
not abundant wire fences have been en-
ployed with equal Success.
The birds are commonly plucked once
every eight months, yieldin' one pound
weight Of feathers each. but many farmers
only pluck sixty feathers at time. 80 ~
not TO cause too suUch irritation and result
ing Inflammation, which 10 very injurious
10 the health of the birds and lessons the
next crop Of feathers. The birds in these
large fields find plenty u food. rarely haY-
ing 10 be fed with mealies. beans, lucerns
or other cultivated food products.
The number q eggs laid varies from eight
cen 20 twenty four, the male bird usually
excayating the nest in some sandy spot, but
both birds assisting ia the incubation. TAX
ing turn about. Bat 70 IS during this period
Of incu baton that tie piuucs are az theii
best. and many o. Stem are utterly spoiled
for commercial purposes. OF late years
artificial inca batting has been resortsd %.
and with perfect success, for IL has been
found that fewer eggs are spoiled by this
method, ard The young thus Matched are
no les- vigorous than those brought up ~
the birds themselves. The value % feathers
exported from Cape Colony during the past
thirty years il estimated az over 81. 90 bD1
ths total weight being about 20 tons
American ARricuiturist
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
FRYING PAN AND FIRE
From the Atchison Champion.

From the Atchison Champion.
While the question of electing senators
by the direct vote of the people is being
discussed-more vigorously than ever
since measures are pending in congress
to that end-it is well to carefully con-
slider the matter in all its bearings. Three
propositions are now before congress for
that purpose The idea also seems to
meet with general popular approval the
more it is discussed, and its acceptance
is based on the belief that any change
cannot be for the worse and nay be for
the better.
Yet when the argument is carefully
examined there seems to be little reason
for the latter hope. The complaint is
that too many state legislatures in the
selection of senators are controlled by
corporate and plutocratic influence, and
that is true, as we know here in Kansas.
But, after all, what foundation for the
expectation of marked improvement is
there when we reflect that the real effect
OF the change will be to transfer the
selection of senators from the legislative
caucuses to the state nominating cOnven-
tiOns?
The Champion believes in the change,
if nothing more than as an experiment,
and its queries are simply prompted by a
desire to get the best light on all sides of
this important question. There is I'M
doubleday decided need for improving
the influences that select United States
senators; but pending the adoption of the
proposed change, the most effective and
thorough way of improvement along
this line will be to arouse the people to
the necessity of insisting on correspond
ing improvement in the breed of state
legislators.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

mosphere. At the equator the air is
heated more than at the pole, and, being
expanded, il rises higher in level in the
upper LAYERS. There is q continual flow
of the upper air from the equator toward
the poles, DETECTED to the right by the
rotation of the earth.
In the northern hemisphere outside of
the zone of trade winds there is a gen
eral motion of the air from west to east
around the earth, resulting in more or
less permanent area of low pressure
over the North Atlantic ocean. In this
region there are three centers where the
low pressures are variously developed at
different times; one near Davis Straits.
longitude 60 degrees west; one south OF
Iceland % degrees west, and the other
near the White Sea, north of Russia, 10
degrees east The greater or less devel-
opment Of low pressure area near these
places in winter has an important bear
ing on the oceu rreDce of cold weather in
Europe. Low temperatures occur diff
ferently in Europe and the United States.
In Europe the change mostly advances
from east toward the west and Is slow
and gradual In the United States the
change is almost always from the north
and west towards the south and east.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
one Days LIZ perieuee.

1t was 90 an electric car. bound from
Harvard square to Boston He was n sus
ceptible Harvard student, she as pretty p
girl as YOU could wish 70 see. He wore IN
immaculate white scarf and WAS arrayed
like lily OF the field. She had brown
eyes that extended back to her soul. and
sac knew how to use them She left the
car at the central gate OF the Common,
and he sighed and watched her through
the car window until she was ont Of sight
An hour later he was stroiiug through
West street viewing the shoppers with a
critical eye Suddenly, from the mys
ferrous interior Of dry goods store, a bun
die in her hand, her cheeks flushed with
the ardor Of the chase. she came forth
fairer than before, and underneath the i'm
maculate scarf he felt a joyous connection
At O'Clock he was At the Adams House,
and, rs in duty bound, made cursoTy ez
animation Of the ladies' dining room lie
had inspected scarcely half the tables
when his heart stopped and bis eye was
riyeted just underneath a mirror she sat,
Invested of her wraps and nothing short OF
ravisbing.
''It is fate, said he. and stared st her
until there was danger Of the head waiter
Gaining tAe ptllit
At O'Clock be was h9rrying up Ire
mont street IN the overture Of a threaten
ing rains,orm. bound for Park square. In
front Of the fremont thester be thought
Of his immaculate scarf and fine raiment
and sought shelter in a doorway.
Another moment and the world around
him grew misty. She stool beside him,
her skirts in hand aud despair IN her face,
without macintosh or umbrella 70 shield
her from the raiu.
He glanced 81 her = moment. rolled mp
his twelve dollar tr0gIseTr and departed %
a run a fcg doors down the street was
furnishing store. lie dashed ioto L.
Give TIE 80 umbrella. q8isZ. be said
~HeTe - one SAID ths clerk, 40,
genuine usa2sass.i ssSad aid -
"UzHa the ~oyl, sad he.
tic Owed lu5o as pocket. 4 two dollar
bill. two ones aud forty Eve cents IN change
cali st $40 rs al I've g0t. b"
"Ail right" sad the clerk
He threw dowu the money and rr1asssi
back 70 tAe doorway
She was gone
Then be raised ms umbrella snd Ktsrfss.
to walk % Cambridge Boston Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
DEFINITIONS OF A COLD WAVE.

From the Engineering Magazine
The weather bureau definition of a
cold wave Is a fall IN temperature of 20
degrees or more IN twentv-tour hours.
free of diurnal range, and extending
over an area of at least 5000 square
miles of country. the temperature some
where in the area going at least as low
as 80 degrees. Marking on q map where
cold wave has occurred by lines
through the places of equal fall or tenn
peTature the areas are seen to be enclosed
and something very great in extent. In
one OF the greatest cold waves IN recent
years. that of Feb Il, 1855. the temPera-
rure st =. a. III was % degrees lower than
az the same hour on the day preceding.
throughout an area of OF l ,fs65. 900 square
miles, extending from Lake Superior and
Georgian Bay on the north 10 the RIO
Grande on the souti. and from Kansas
City 70 Cincinnati. Inside 81 the arsa Of
twenty-degTee fail there was an area
OF thirty -degree fall of $40, coo square
miles; INSIDE 81 the area OF
thirtY-degTee fall there VAS an erea Of
fogtv-deCree fail OF ~ ,09 square miles:
inside the forty-dezree fall there was 81.
coo square miles o. fifty-desree fall. and
inside II the iitty-degree fail fail Of -
degrees a. keokuk. Ia-. the center ot the
cold wave. the temperature whIcla was
- degrees On the morning Of FEB. s ~
ing zero THE next day
y the3rets-a. treatment II tlGe motions
az tsae sls involved ~ cold wave prEsiuc
taon j. entirely e..e OF tIss question: ~ tsle
present state ot science ~ plisates- TIE
aTeas II hlsl aud 3oS pressure that ira
ver~e tine earth are protsahly connect
Ell in seine Nay. as yeS cnknowu. @itst
tie general circulation 81 the whoie a..
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

Among ali people TIE sucking q the
wound has ever been considered tie most
effective remedy 81 immediate application
for snake bites 10 Africa = euppiug in
struucnt IL ernploYed "a emergencies Of
the Kind - draw 0ut the poisoned blood.
The aue3cuts followed the same rasehorss
and ahen Cato made hls famous sxpedi
ton through tie zsrp<as infested Afriosa
de-erts, be eEspi0yed many savage snake
eharmers. eaiie1 L'Eyih. - follow The army.
They Performed many Bysssr80ua risKs
ever men @ho were bitten bat the efEcsry
q Their treatment appears 20 have COO
sisted Ia sucking the wuauds -waahgtz.
to1l Post
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
RAILROAD COMPETITION.

Competition is constantly asserting it.
self in the railroad business as III all
other departments of business enterprise.
The tendency of freight rates on all the
railroads is steadily toward smaller fig
ures. Against this downward tendency
railroad managers have fought in vain.
To counterfeit the loss, expenditures OF
immense sums have been made to facili-
tate traffic and thereby to reduce to a
minimum the expense per ton for haul
ing freight.
SO far as freight rates are concerned,
the comparative figures of any series of
years indicates the steady cheapening of
transportation charges. The following
table, prepared by the Daily Stakeholder
of New York, cites the changes from
1880 to 1890 on twenty-three principal
roads-trunk line roads, coal roads, trans
continental roads and granger roads:
Rate Der ton Nor mile
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
TROUBLE IN THE CAMP.

From the Kansas Chief.
There is trouble among the New York
Democracy. Hill, by his control of the
state committee, has had the committee
to choose delegates to the national con-
yention called for the 22nd, i'll order to
take snap Judgment on Cleveland. The
latters friends last week held immense
meetings in New York and Brooklyn,
and entered a protest against this I'M
usual proceeding. But Hill has the
power and proposes to use it. The con-
vention will not be postponed. Tam
many is also kicking against Hill carry
ing his power beyond a certain point,
but he will perhaps not even heed Tam
many. The result will be, either that
the national convention will be com
PEELED to set Hill aside as candidate, or
he will be slaughtered at the election in
New York. 1t looks as If history were
about to repeat. Van Buren, was once a
favorite in New York. but the bosses
succeeded in knitting him. The result
was, he split the party in the state wide
open, and gave the Wings the president.
Cleveland may perform the same good
service for the country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
THE GREAT SALT PLAINS.

To the Editor Of the Eagle,
The Kansas City Star of JAN 81. tells
US that except the salt lake of Utah, the
artificial salt lake at Larned, Kan. Is
the only piece of blue brine between the
two oceans. We want to contradict
this statatement. which Is untrue. The
waters OF the Cimarron river are as biz
ter as the oceans brine; it is so salty
that not even fish can live in its
depths. Besides, we have the miniature
lakes Of the great salt plains. These
plains are in the much talked of c hero
kee outlet thirty-five or forty miles from
the west line Of the outlet and twenty
miles south of the south line of Kansas.
The largest plain IS about a mile in
width by three miles in length. During
the dry season crust of pure rock
salt sometimes six or eight
inches IN thickness Is formed
on the surface Of the plain, dotted with
miniature lakes. ranging from few feet
10 several rods II length, aud from To
1 feet in deDth. Some of these tiny lakes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
kate per ton per mli'
1000 500
Name of Road.


The Kansas City Gazette, in comment
ing upon the foregoing exhibit, notes the
fact that the heaviest reductions have
been made by roads running through
the states where anti-railroad agitation
has been most noticeable. Indeed, the
very heaviest is that of the AtchiSon, To-
peka and Santa Fe road-a Kansas con-
Germ. The Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, the Missouri, Kansas and Texas,
the Missouri Pacific and the Union Pa
cihc-all Kansas roads, have also made
heavy reductions.
The Gazette fails to state, however,
that the 'anti-railroad agitation" as far
as it relates TO Kansas, has not been con-
fined to the effort to have rates reduced
so much as to having them made uni
form, and to the removal of discrimina-
tions. Kansas built the roads that afford
or should afford, the people of the state
transportation facilities not surpassed by
any state in the Union. with possible
single exception, and the people have the
right to expect and demand fair treat
ment. This is all they ask
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
F1NANCIaRING FOR FARMERS.

Senator PETER NAV be a trifie stag
gered by the knock-down blows he has
just received from the finance committee
on a couple of his peculiar measures, yet
be has others to rely on that were not
less fearfully and wonderfully made.
For example, there is his bill for pub
fishing every two years list of the
names and addresses Of all surviving per-
sons who were ever IN the military ser
vice of the United States, with a record
of their services "and the number of
their pension certificates" This publ
cation is to be paid for by the secretary
of the treasury, and if that officer finds
70 funds available for the purpose he
is to make them. He is to issue an
amount, unspecified, of bills, in twenty
two, three, and five mills, one, two,
three, and five cents, one, two, three,
and five dimes, and so on with dollars,
eagle, condors, and talents. To the I'M
initiated in finance it may be necessary
to explain that condors are hundred do!
lar bills, and talents are thousand-dollar
bills. Whether the farmers will be sat
isfied to have them called condors and
talents when they might just as well be
COWS and turkeys, we may never know,
since the GOODNESS with which Mr.. Nor
rill's committee has now looked upon
the Alliance senator's great Indiana loan
bill forebodes indisposition to have the
national currency improved by the finan-
cier from Kansas,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

deal with Ia = Lorrzal school II the Eua-
pre- Stzte. teacher % Dr5uayY methods.
proEieiT claimed By Der principzl 70 - ths
bzslt n TIE state. gave taimbiss. scis1oTs.
chairs. etc. "a s1itahls Subjects Tor OBJ
lecs iessoas. ard carefully led her pupils
throzsgil tee steps rsgziTed 20 dsTslop u
cbliaFea's uaEds i9ezs II she parts and ths
uses = tasn~ objects Il fhsrs oos ehls4
n Us, ~ SIX years q sxs. igrOrAns %
these paris Au3 usssf-AF& n a Atez Ia
P1aglaF Ec.eHes &e1*hlT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
A Bum Rooster.

From the Arkansas City Dispatch.
Never heard of a rooster on tramp:
Well, just go and ask Ed Gleason and if
be hasn't forgotten about it he will tell
you of one. Nate Robinson's train pulled
out of here the other evening and reached
Norman, |. T., a distance of about 1873
miles, about daylight. While standing
on the track there the men in the caboose
heard q rooster crow. They looked
around but could not find the bird. After
the train reached Purcell the men heard
the gentle voice again and on looking I'M
der the caboose they saw Dir. Rooster
sitting up on a brakerod. As Gleason is
pretty well acquainted with the chicken
family in town he recognized this fowl
as belonging here and had it brought
back 10 town safe and sound. This is a
true tail of rooster.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

When Mr.. Ingalls, was in Nashville the
other day he told a correspondent of the
Memphis Commercial that he was very
anxious to see the free silver question
made an issue IN the national campaign,
and added, parenthetIcally that the par
ty which repudiated it or made it sub
ordinate issue would be defeated. 1t is
enough to say that the astute ex-senator
was cognizant of the fact that he was
talking to free silver advocates when he
Souchsafed the prediction.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

To those who know little of the natural
traits of the Indian, his aptness TO learn
tricks supposed to be known only to the
pale faces is astonishing. \ case in
point: Recently an Oklahoma Indian.
who was n member Of the national
council of the Kaw tribe. having got
drunk, was about to be expelled from
his place in the council in conformity
with rule of his tribe which provides
that in such cases his associates shall
expel him and elect a successor. For
some time he was in great fear that the
law would be enforced, but finally hit
upon the plan of getting the entire coun-
Gil drunk and thus escaping the penalty.
lie proceeded accordingly and the
scheme proved as successful as could
possibly have been expected, but right
here is where the melancholy part Of the
story comes in. A deputy United States
marshal took him in charge for intro
ducing whisky into the reservation and
now he lies in Jail awaiting the expira-
ton of a sentence imposed by the court
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
KANSAS,
From the Kansas City Gazette.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
Well, Kansas. Kansas, the grand and
adorable name! Who has lived on Kan
sas' sunny plains, in her hospitable, in
MIGRATING atmosphere, without imblbing
a deep, pure and lasting love for the
name? How can it be possible to wean
from her the devoted homage of her
children, who Were born, reared and cul-
tivated in her free and generous, though
sometimes hard and pitiless history? To
the native kansan every suufiOwer is a
gem. every coyote fairy. every quarter
section of Drowned prairies an Eden,
every man, woman and child the equal of
any on earth, and every school house an
army and navy TO guard the flag that
floats from the rustic roof. Kansas was
not born with silver spoon in her
mouth. In its stead she held between
her rosy lips :he stern and silvery-voiced
bugle of war. She was not rocked
to sleep in the aristOCratIc cradle
of opulence to the lullaby of the piano,
but her resting place was on top of the
war chariots of freedom, and the lullaby
by which she was in youth charmed TO
sleep was the shrek of shell, the hoarse,
thunderous tones of cannon and the sol
dier's song while fighting his countrys
battles. We are sometimes asked why
it Is we love Kansas so. We love her
more because others love her less. The
more others malign and blackmail our
state, the higher does our barrier of love
rise to protect her. Intelligent, temper
ate, patriotic, progressive, bralny people
of Kansas: Your name has been linked
with the most magnificent achievements
OF this great country of great deeds.
\ our future possibilities in the history of
this country, like the future possibilities
of your almost untouched plains. are on
a scale the magnitude of which it is i'm
possible for the human mind to grasp.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

Postmaster General Wanamaker is get
ting great amount of free advertising
out of his recent deal by which he made
81, 800, 600 in the advance Of Reading
railroad stock. In one respect Mr. Wan
Rmaker resembles p. T. Barnum--he is a
great believer in advertising, and turns
every little circumstance to account.
But it has never been alleged against
him that he has ever permitted the little
side issues to interfere with the faithful
performance of his official duties.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

From the gusto with which the Demo-
Gratis of the country cheered Boyd upon
his success in recovering the guberna-
torial chair of Nebraska a short time ago.
one would have thought he would be
accorded a clear track for the president
ial nomination. But, so far his name
has not been mentioned in that connec-
tion-not even as a possible tail to the
Cleveland kite, which just now seems
10 be in the ascendant again.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20
JERRY's WILD SCHEME.

From the Capital.
The Alliance press in Kansas is badly
split up on the sub-treasury issue and
the National Union monopoly scheme,
but there seems TO be a remarkable
unanimity in their failure to comment on
Jerry Simpsons bill which adds the pro-
ducts of mines and manufacturers to the
sub-treasury scheme. Are the Alliance
papers in favor of conceding to miners
and manufacturers what they demand
for farmers, or is Jerry in advance of his
Dartv
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

Several years ago the Tenth district Of
kentucky sent representative to con-
eress by the name of John ID. White.
lie had not been in the house two
months before he was known as Johnny
Jump-up. He jumped up once too
often, however, and fell outside. His
mantle has been taken up latteriy by the
member credited to the Seventh district
of Kansas, and it is now Jerry the
homer
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

The $4,000 alleged TO have been en-
bezzIed by Col. j. B. Simpson of Dallas,
Texas. upon closer figuring shrunk to
SOS, 900 upon the colonePs voluntary re-
appearance upon the streets of Dallas.
But the shrinkage was not quite enough
10 keep the laws's clutches off of him
snd he was arrested and placed under
bond pending the Strengthening Of has
financial tangle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

Pillsburg, the big miller of Mime
Apolis, endorses the pending anti-option
bill before congress and urges its enact
ment into law. The opponents of the
bill declare that the reason the millers
gre Tor the bill is because they will be
able to buy wheat at their own price if
the spectators in futures are knocked
out; but this does not sound plausible
since the millers must have wheat, not
wind. Mr.. Pillsburg says he favors the bill
because the price OF wheat is too low to
the producer to afford him any profit.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

Superintendent Winans has completed
the work of figuring out the proper APP
portionment of the permanent school
fund TO the various counties in the state
The total amount to be distributed this
year is $685., 491 SO, and the school pop
ulation Of the state is 497 ,022, thus allow
ing a per capita of 30 cents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-20

close Ely eyes and 20 far back in ye1u
70 the time -The1 a tiny baby ! lay in a
womans lap. look up iHto dark brown
eyes and upon face FIJI Of female beauty
can4ot speak Ny infant tongue can
form no words, but COO ont IA gentle
rnurTnurs, Ny beautiful mother" A few
years roll by lie Or rug al a wornar's
feet on warm summers day. 4 dove
gently GOES on a tree ciose by: a cricket
chIrps Oh the summers heath. and the old
clock IL tie corner EJes tick-tuck-tick-
tuck-..ck tuck. The WOMAN geutly huns
a sweet song - sEe fans my cheek close
nv eyes and dream. dream O. nv besu-
tiful mother. Long gears 20 b.. lam past
a half century cd an pressed 20 WON
ans hear she = past threescore years
aud eighteen AZ OceaG VIII soon divide
mother and child Der eyes are get sost
and brown. 3 fush q leFe = apoa her face
AID she uiesses her soa. ! never saw Der
again. Bat ia my heart lives her image
the image 81 = he4ugif3. woman.
Tie scene shifts. alu sta1ssing a. Coda
altar look 10 y SIDE ard see = beAuif
ful girl IS placaa sspsg0 her fneers
circlet q sula or eyes NEST, a aasA o.
love raaliles her obesk, tgr she knows
] an Whispering Ay beautiful Slfe
No1Ler and u5fr - CsF atsBTe n y n5is
Totes1 Eur5sy. ssl.- taslak God bosA werf
z14 aosa EEe tss1llEsfE &c E.czSZo I.na9s