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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

No truer, grander, more patriotic dec
lsration was ever uttered than that of
Hon. Whitelaw Reid in his mastery
address in Boston Tuesday night when
he SAID: "There is one party that has
nothing to conceal and that says what it
means. 1t has nominees who are not
afraid of its principles. 1t stands every
where for protective tariff, and wants
no mistake about that. 1t stands for
honest money and wants no mistake
about that. 1t stands for equal rights
under the law, for reciprocity, for re-
vived shipping, for American wages and
for America for all time, and finally, it
challenges the verdict of the American
people on the character and ability and
the safe and brilliantly successful adj
ministration of Benjamin Harrison"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
SHOOTING AT lCERERGS.

An Expensive Amusement Proposed for
the New American Navy.
1t has been suggested that the men
OF war OF the great navies should be
employed in the destruction Of the ice
bergs Of the north Atlantic According
to this plan the bergs are to be bonn
barded with great shells, which. pene-
trating deep into the great ice and ex-
ploding there, will shatter them to
pieces There is no doubt that this
would be far more profitable ex-
penditure of ammunition than the uses
for which it is designed. says Scrib-
ner's Magazine, for any target is better
than the dear bought frame of man or
the products of his skill of hand and
mind, but it is more than doubtful if
the end could be obtained in this way
In the first place, to accomplish the
desired result it would be necessary
for the men Of war to watch the exit of
Bafan's bay in the springtime, and
break up the bergs into relatively
small bits, 30 that they would no
longer float with their bases In the
deep southwark setting current, but,
would drift with the foe ice. To do
this with several hundred great masses,
averaging probably at least one thou
sand feet in cube, would require an
enormous expenditure of money. In
Guiding the wear and tear of guns, the
shells from the great modern ordnance
cannot be fred at less cost than five
hundred dollars for each shell, and it
would probably require many hundred
rounds of ammunition to break up a
single berg. 1t would not at all serve
the purpose to rend the ice to pieces in
the midatlantic district, for there the
fragments would float about and
multiply the dangers of navigation.
Such work, if done, would make that
region nearly impossible for a portion
of the year. though from the reader
melting of the!ice the trouble would not
endure SO long. On the whole this in
teresting project does not seem prac-
ticable.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
HIS LIFE WAS SAVED.
A Young Man Became Angry Because he
Worked Too Hard for 1t.

a Young Man Became Angry Because He
Worked Too Hard for It.
'Inever hear Of anyone being drowned
that don't think of an amusing acct
dent which happened to me once" said
Clerk Donal. Of the coroner's Office,
while in one of his reminiscent moods
the other day to Philadelphia North
American man. "It happened while l
was working in the navy yard"
Lets have it."
81 was working On the stern of q
vessel, and l was walking along with a
Ratchet in one hand and saw in the
other, when I lost my balance and
plunged into the river. / didn't want
to lose my tools, so struck out for the
shore, and never worked so hard in my
life as did then. for was working for
my life. l plunged and spluttered and
pushed until l was near the shore,
when my breast struck something. and
rs dropped my legs they struck some
thing which soon found TO be mud"
Didn't anybody go TO your assist
ance?"
mo. They stood on the shore laugh
ing at me, and when / found had run
ashore they wanted to know if they
should send for a tug to pull me off.
When I made an investigation 1 found
the water was not over four feet deep
in the deepest part, and that / could
have waded ashore with the greatest
ease. was mad, Of course, but after
rot on dry land could see the ludicrous
side Of the affair, and ! have e hearty
chuckle to myself every time think OF
it now, although it happened q good
many years ago"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
GOOD FOR NEW YORK.

From the published program of the
events with which New York means to
celebrate the Columbian anniversary
next week we infer that highly impress
sive festival is to be held.
The celebration, beginning Saturday.
Oct. S, with religious service in the svna-
gogues. will extend over almost the en-
tire week, and include naval and mill
tary parades, banquets, concerts, speeches
Examinations, fireworks and pageants.
Monday 90. 900 children from the schools
will parade and Tuesday several fleets of
men-of-war will form in line and move
up the Narrows, pounding out salutes as
they pass.
This last will be feature which could
not be in a Chicago celebration. More
than any of the other events scheduled,
it viii give the occasion its best effect as
a spectacle. This is saying good deal,
for unless the program is entirely mis-
leading New York is going to do her
celebrating goreeously and with dignity.
We are glad to compliment her in ad-
vance and to declare our belief that the
celebration will be of a character in
keeping with the great event which it
commentaries.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

Some silk worTns lay from 1000 10
1000 eggs, the wasp 5000, the ant from
Zoo 10 5,eee. The number of eggs laid
by the queen bee has long been in dis
pute. Buruneister says fron 5000 TO
COCO, bat Spence and Kirby both go him
several better. each declaring That the
queen OF average fertility VIII lay ID
less than a., o0c. and probably as high
as 81. geo II one season Terrnes fstalis,
the white ant, is possessed CT the most
extraordinary egg@aying propensities
of any known creature. She often pro-
duces Sc, eco eggs in G single day From
the time when the white ant begins 70
lay until the egg-laying season IS over
usually reekoned by entonologists es Ga
exact lunar month-she produces $780,
eco eggs In point OF fecnndity the
white ant exceeds all other creatures
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

make men free, and charging them with
a conspiracy" to enslave the American
people.
1t means that while Republicans are
tolerant of criticism they are free and
| jealous to rebuke Islander.
1t means that the frothings of set Of
soreheads and selfish time servers i.
having its reaction upon thousands Of
Republicans.
1t means that Republicans still have
faith in Republicanism as the highest
known guaranty of the rights and
equality of the people.
| 1t means that the abolition of slavery,
the enactment of short hour labor laws,
exemption laws, homestead laws, anti
trust laws, labor arbitration laws and
laws regulating the railroad passenger
and freight charges. all give the lie to
the vicious insinuation that the Repub-
lican party is the party of the pluto
Gratis.
1t means that the doleful picture of
the Omaha convention of the ''moral and
material RUM of our county and the
conspiracy of Republicans and Demo-
Gratis to obscure the issue and plumber
the people in the interest of the shylock
is falsehood.
1t means that the people believe in the
doctrine of the American system of pro-
lection, ia maintaining the higher wages
paid to American working men and in
securing the highest benefits to
the artisan, the mechanic the
trader. and the consumer that
come from the encouragement of Amer
lean industries, the development OF
American resources and the greatest
diversification OF American employment
and production.
1t means that our people are largely
Republican; that they accept the chal-
lenge to review the past; that they stand
on the record and achievements of the
Republican party; that they are proud
of the nation and its progress; that they
will trust rather Republican sympathy,
wisdom and hopefulness to work
out the reforms to come, than
the doleful, spiridess, impracticable
insincere, hopelessness presented by the
caltmity crowd who,
TELL us in mournful numbers
Life is but an empty dream"
1t means that Republicans are tired of
mountebanks and charlatans whose lives
have been failures and who want to hold
the government responsible for their
and faults.
1t means that those who rely on the
gospel of misery" to work themselves
into places to enable them to live off the
fat of the land, are coming to political
ruin"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
Protection by armed Men

Express. Terre Haute Ind
The peoples party candidate for con-
gree in the Fourth district of Mississippi
is being protected on the stump by
armed men While making speech
the other day he accused the Democrats
with stuffing the ballot boxes. where
upon a prominent Democrat knocked
him off the platform. Members of his
party raised fund to buy firearm and
employ two guards who, with Winches-
tiers, accompany the candidate IN the
canvass of bis district. The Peoples
party in this district, and IN ali Of
Mississippi for that matter, embraces
more white than eel red voters. yet II Is
the fear OF Negro domination that
posses Adlia Stevenson. A force ball
would, perhaps, permit the white people
of the Fourth Mississippi district TO
elect man TO congress who Is not
candidate on the regular bourbon ticket.
The only ''force bill" ever proposed re-
ferred 10 congressional elections only.
In this district such 3 measure would
force the bourbon democracy 20 LEI
the W llite people dominate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
REPUBLICAN ENTHUSIASM and
WHAT 1T MEANS.

Those other than Republicans, who
witnessed the demonstration Of Monday
night are wondering what it means.
The demonstration was virtually an inn
promptu atfgir, and the reason that more
torches were not carried was a lack of
torches, and not of willing men to carry
them. Why this awakening: What
does it mean?
The Republican party was a party
born out of a cause. Men broke away
from old party associations to join the
party OF human rights and liberty
Strong men, independent. thinking men,
became Republicans. They expected
much aud were free to crlticise their
party and Its course of action. That
course of independence has given rise to
criticisms frequently within the party.
Often Republicans deliberately re-
buke what they disapprove in
their own party at the polls.
Often the independence and criticism
among Republicans has put club in the
hands of the enemy. But Republicans
are coming to their sober senses. Re-
publlcans come to know that parties are
not perfect because people are not per-
feet, and that Srouad for criticism is not
OF necessity ground for party condemna-
ton. A retrospect of the thirty years
past find approval by the great mass OF
American citizens for all the important
legislation and governmental actions OF
that period. II there nave been mistakes
no party can claim the honor of offering
anything TO avert them. This brings us
to the meaning of the present Republi-
can enthusiasm in this city.
It means that the Republican party
makes distinction between criticism
and a wholesale. malicious condemna-
ton Of Repubiicanism, Republican
heroes and Of the nation itself.
1t means that Republicans will no
longer fear the reproach heaped upon
them, and that the memory. the honor
and the graves of those whom Repub-
licans have reyered, shall not be calum-
mated
Ii means that the doctrine of calamity
overleaps Itself when it seeks TO cast
dark cloud over the name of Grant. that
great silent captain, and thu names that
have made Repu6licanism illustrious, By
rohbing them Of their repeated efforts T.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

ed the editors upon their arrival in Chica
! go next month. The letter concluding,
reads: And everything that can be den.
| will be done for the comfort and enter
tainment Of your party while they are il
Chicago"
Society item in the State Capital: It may
be sorrowful news to the future candi
| dates for matrimony to learn that 1t is NJ
| longer fashionable to give wedding pres
ents, but SO it is. 1t is all the fad in th.
east. No persons that pretend TO be any
| thing accept them. This seems the re
finement of social that a real test whether
one is plebian or partician.
Grayson Bros. had $50 head of beef cat
tie in the railroad stock yard at Eufala
Tuesday night awaiting shipment They
stampeded at the escaping steam from the
locomotive, and broke out of the stock
yard. This was about time for the 1886
passenger from the north, as the cattle
went in a needless stampede up the track
they collided with the passenger engine on
the grade just beyond the switch yard.
Eleven of the cattle were killed before the
train could be stopped.
LA 1lCuO 1Ac SltlASnS OldtC Ddh n
began the transaction OF a general banking
business in this city today, in Central
block on the corner of Rock Island avenue
and Woodson street. The following well
known gentlemen are the officers of the
institution: H. j. Whitley. president; NJ.
r. Clark, cashier; and the following COM
pose the directory: H. ], Whitley, I. A
Dunsmoor. George d. Orput, M. I. Clark
H. c. Acuff, George L. Brown and j. l..
Parsons. The bank is incorporated under
the laws Of the Territory and, with capi-
tai of $4,000. and being one of the finest
equipped institutions OF the kind in the
the two Territories. it is bound to do its
share of the commercial business Of west
ern Oklahoma.
The Cherokees have somewhat a pecu-
liar way of giving the height OF persons
and animals. and of plants as well. The
custom may be common among all the
Indian tribes, and it must have been sug-
gested by the horizontal habit of the thing
described. In describing the height of a
person, especially that of a child, boy or
girl, the arm is held out in a horizontal
position, and the fingers are turned to
perpendicular at the wrist, the end of the
middle indicating the height of the child
or the plant. Taller objects, such as small
trees and grown persons, are measured IN
height by merely raising the forearm to
an upright, keeping the hands and fingers
III the same position, and giving the sup
posed height in numerals or compari-
son with some other objects. The
height of dogs. hogs and other
similar sized animals is described by eX-
tending the arm horizontally at the sup
posed height of animal, keeping the hand
and fingers on line with the arm. Larger
animals are described by raising the arm
to perpendicular. if necessary. and in
clining the hand and fingers to horizon
tai on line with the back of the animal
described
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINE S.

Several parties have been bitten by mad
dogs this fall.
The Times Journal has enlarged to six
pages this week.
The Bank of Tecumseh has been char
tered with capital of SIS, 900.
One of the readers of the Accident sug-
gests the name of Tatoga for county c 10
be voted on this fall.
Hon. c. 6. Joues of Oklahoma City and
Miss Lena Stafford of Greenup, Ills, were
married at Arkansas CITY last Sunday.
a blind man named LoomilleF OF Great
Bend Kan, claimed to have heen robbed
Of s., 400 AT a hotel in Oklahoma City Mon
day evening.
Captain A. E. Woodson OF Fort Reno de-
parted Monday for Louisville, Ky. where
lie will be employed in the recruiting ser
vice for the next two years.
The Chickasaw council have repealed
the act creating the Office of an attorney
to defend Chickasav citizens before the
United States court at Ardmore.
d. A. Harvey is expected home this
week. He has been continuously in wash
ington since the adjournment of congress,
working for the interests OF the territory.
Sheriff Shelby OF Cana liam county re-
turned Thursday from Nebraska but fail
ed to bring '.Skinuey" with him, as the
governor would not grant him a requisi-
ton.
The secretary of the interior has over
ruled the motion for review of testimony
in the West Guthrie case Mr. Bockhnger
h. leb
of justice.
F. n. Cannon has returned from New
Msxico, where be interviewed Governor
Prince and others regarding the exhibit OF
the three territories at the worlds fair
He showed the News man a cut of the
prospective building, which Will without
doubt. be fine QUE
Mayor Washburn OF Chicago. has writ
ten the Oklahoma Press association that
aarm aud cordial reception Will be tender
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

If 1t be true, as Chauncey T. Black
said in his address before the Democrats
clubs in New York, Tuesday night. that
"In Cleveland and Stevenson we follow
leaders who typify the spirit of American
life and the genius of American institu-
tions-men who, in personal character
and public service, are not surpassed by
the noblest statesmen of the age" then
God save the country. If it be true that
the spirit that endorses that declaration
predominates among the people, then
Coo save the country. That spirit is
directly antagonistic TO the true genius
of American institutions; is obstructive.
not only, but destructive of all that
makes American citizenship a boon
worth contending for. The claim is a
misnomer, an infatuation, delusion and
q snare.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
Calamity, Come Of.

From the Winfield Courier.
You have raised howl of mortgages,
taves and short crops not justifiaSle.
Every howl yov have made has cost you
one cent on the bushel for your grain,
and God only knows how many on each
acre of land you own. Reputation is
no worse than its advocacy. IL you had
a good horse for sale you would show it
up clean, sound and of the best pedigree.
You have land. horses, cattle and other
property, yet you take pleasure in adver-
Using TO the people in the east, who
would otherwise buy, that they are
worthless. Why don't you mix business
sense with your politics?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
Terrible Calamity,

Gov. TAYLOR. of Tennessee, recently
told of colored clergyman who preach
ed serman on the text ''And the
multitudes came to Him and He healed
them of divers diseases. Said he:
my dying congregation, this is a terri
BILE text. Disease is in the world. The
smallpox Stays its hundreds, the cholera
its thousands, the yellow fever Its tens
of thousands. but in the language Of the
text, if you take the divers you are gone.
These earthly doctors cnn cure the small
pox, cholera, and the yellow fever II
they get there in time, but nobody but
the good Lord can cure the divers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

The Ottawa Journal, State Printer
Shows populist organ. is authority for
the statement that Congressman OTIS
was esged in Princeton, Franklin
county. few nights ago, just after
making a public speech There's moth
ing surprising in that. Fact is we have
been locking for just such announce
ment. 1t Is necessary TO counterfeit, in
this state, the effect of the Weaver &C.
currences in the south, and in order to
DO it resort TO the southern methods is
had. OF course the Princeton affair is
laid to the credit of Republicans, but no
Republican had anything to do with it:
it was simply combination trick.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
paper.

This Is a campaign of organization,
and while the Republican party is thor
oughly organized and under the most
perfect discipline, it is yet necessary 20
carry the spirit of organization to the
individual member of the party. To do
this successfully and effectively it be-
hooves every Republican to consider
himself specially detailed committee
of one to see that his own vote is cast
and also the votes of as many of his
neighbors as he can see and aid in form
ing a national, intelligent conclusion as
regards his duty as citizen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

Kansas is recognized as the greatest
wealth producing state in the Union. from
On agricultural standpoint
Patriot.
And if its citizens are deprived of the
full benefits of that condition and dis
tinction it will be because of the damag-
ing effect of the plan of campaign pur-
sued by the calamity party and its
campaign ally, the Democracy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

tjonal convention Mr. Cleveland wrote
the following letter to a gentleman in
Chicago:
GRAY GABLES
BUZZARD BAY, Mass, j July a.
Ralph E. Hoyt:
My DEAR SIR-Your letterof July is at
hand. am exceedingly gratified to learn
OF your intention to support the principles
and Candidates of Chicago. l think no
sincere advocate of an honest tariff can be
dissatisfied with the position the Demo-
cratic party has assumed on that subject
and am sure no one need fear that the
contest will not be made on the lines laid
down, which have already proved to be SO
acceptable to great majority of the peo-
pie. Very truly yours,
GROVER CLEVELAND.
Eleven weeks later Mr. Cleveland is
sued his letter of acceptance and aban-
doned the tariff declaration of his party
at Chicago. That declaration was that
protection is fraud and robbery;
and that the federal government
has no constitutional power to i'm
pose and collect tariff duties except
for the purposes of revenue only. Mr..
levy a protective tariff and asserts the
policy of maintaining it. He declares
free trade to be an impossibility. He is
in favor of protection with the burdens
read iusted and redistributed.
1t is no uncommon thing for politicians
to profess opinions they do not hold,
deny those they really entertain, and
shift their positions on important public
questions; but it is a popularity of Mr..
Cleveland to make the volte-face oftener
and quicker than anybody we know of.
On this tariff question alone his light
ming changes have been wonderful. He
was Indifferent and silent in 1884; pro-
tectionist in 1885 and 1856; an ardent
tariff reformer in 1887: free trader in
1888 and subsequently, until some indefi-
mite period after July ID; and now he is
once more a protectionist.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
Noble People In LowIy Czllsnss.

It is not In America only tina: rcD-
bers Of noble European families a<io?;
lowly callings TO eszn their daily bread.
According TO the Paris Figaro. Prin-
cess Galitzen, a member OF one of the
oldest aristocratic families Of Russia,
and relative of Father Galitzen. who
came TO Pennsylvania sbOut q century
ago TO do missionary work, n now q
stahlemzid In a French cirSax 4 Prince
Krapotkin. whose family once excrcf>d
great influence and power. is mo-" cab
driver in Moscow where his relatives
have often been the honsrez guests of
the czar. Prince SoitikoT, the bearer
Of mama which often figures Tn Rrs-
sian history. daily cleans up one of Tie
market halls VI ST. Petersburg.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06

Evidently the Topeka Democrat is pos
ing for notoriety. Following its grandi-
Ioquent -ecantation of fusion on the
state ticket. it comes out in strong and
unqualified support of the fusion city
ticket put up last Saturday, and keeps
standing at the head of its colnmns the
fusion electoral ticket, and Harris, the
Confederate Demo-Alliance candidate
for congressman-at large. The Dem
ocrat isn't fooling nybody half as bad
as it is compromising itself as news
paper,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-06
General Weaver In Geor1;a

Men of the south. harm not HAIR on
General Viewers head. as Won value a
stainless reputation. But do not honor the
tyrannical oppressor and slanderer Of our
people. or his notorious companion.
Mrs Lease by your presence al their
meetings. This is the course OF wisdom,
ard should be followed by everyone.
SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT.
The above circular was circulated IN
Waycross, Ga. the morning General
Weaver and Mrs Lease Were TO speak. -
National View. POM