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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
VARIED AND INTERESTING.

A New JERSEY man gives - . cure
for hay fever the smoking of pine
needles with tobacco.
THE definition Of "A Friend" that
took the prize in a late contest condnct-
ed by a London journal was: 1.-The first
person who comes in when the " hole
world goes out"
The laughing jaclass, when wasning
his feathered mates that daybgeak is at
hand utters a cry resembling q group of
boys shouting, whooping e.a iaughin !,
in wild chorus
RATS in tens of thousar h infested
the Mercantile club buildils in St.
Louis. All the efforts to r the house
of the rodents proved unsati actcry. so
the building had to be torn down. 4
rat-proof structure will tale its place
The finest grades Of razoss are so del
icate that the famous Damascus sword
blades cannot equal them in texture. 1t
is not generally known that the grain
of a Swedish razor il 50 sensitive that
the general direction is changed after a
short service.
WHEN the days are hot it is good
thing to have cool nights, but in the
change from ninsty-four degrees day
temperature to seventeen rc~-ees at
night, reported from the A.riG :.
Gnatong fort at Sikkim, the garrison
has rather "too much of good thing"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
HERE'S GALL.

The editor Of the Kansas Commoner
and Popocratic candidate for clerk of
the district court for Sedgwick county,
recently delivered himself of this choice
bit of profundity: eff the editor who
wears plug hat, white neck-tie, and a
Stand up for Kansas badge, would take
the cigar out of his mouth and spit twice
there would be nothing left of him. "
Except as to the badge part of the make
up the picture is as like the author of
it as photograph. A handsome speci-
men, indeed, to be criticising the per-
sonal characteristics of other people. A
person who came into the community
on a cash bonus; who had hardly had
time to become acquainted with his
nearest neighbors before he began a
system Of SANDER upon the county and
to belittle its agricultural interest-its
principal industry and wealth producing
feature-and in turn essay the role of
political boss, parceling out to himself
the most desirable and best paying Office
in the county. But his assurance is no
more glaring than is the self-abnegation
of residents who by their sympathy and
sufferages encourage his pretension and
endeavor to bring him success.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
NOTABLE CASES OF PREVENTION.

DR.. Lewis A. Sayre in the October
Forum, says that on the coming OF
cholera to the United States in 1878 its
course was as follows: In December,
1872, and in January, 1878, there arrived
at New Orleans Immigrants from the
cholera infected districts of Europe, and
on February 8 the first death occurred at
New Orleans. 1t was carried thereafter
as follows: The first case at VickSburg,
April s, the first case at Memphis, April
10; the first case at st. Louis, May IL;
the first case at Paducah. KY. May 81;
the first case at Chicago, May "a; the first
death at Cincinnati, June Is: the first
case at Little Rock, June 30 (where it
was prevented from spreading); and dur
ing this time the disease appeared in
about two hundred cities and towns in
the Mississippi valley. During the same
visitation there We're two conspicuous
instances Of the success of isolation. At
Atlanta, Ga, where there was then a
population of $4,000 people, an authenti-
Gated case of cholera "a refugee from
Chattanooga occurred on July 9, and
the patient died; but by the prompt and
energetic action of the physicians who
had the case in charge the disease was
confined to this single individual, and
the health of the other residents of the
house and of the community was sue
cessfuily guarded. About the same time
there was similar experience at Dali
ton, Ga, which had population then OF
) ZOO people. where a we'll authenticated
fatal case of cholera appeared on July j.
In this case. as in the case at Atianta,
the patient had come from Chattanooga.
BY proper isolation and disinfection no
other case appeared in Dalton.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
m MARTIAL ARRAY.

MRs. e. BURp GBUBB has been elected
ensign Of her husbands old regiment,
the Twenty-third New Jersey.
A RECENT report shows that Of 100, ia
regular soldiers in the British army
serving at home but 2,SaS are natives
of Ireland.
THE open fireplace in the new public
library building at Machias. Me-, viii
be constructed of stones which were
used for ballast on board the British
war schooner Margaretta, captured by
the Americans near Machias during the
early part of the revolution.
In the German artillery they have
tried three-legged ladder of steel tub
ing for enabling the captain of p bat
terry to survey the enemy and direct the
fire. The ladder Is erected in a wagon
and the officer climbs to the top with
his field glasses to reconnoiter.
THE Swedish government has adopted
q new smokeless powder which is said
to have the following advantages: 1t is
easy Of manufacture, produces no fame
and does not heat the rife. 1t gives the
ball an initial velocity of 2, 100 feet with
q pressure Of 8, 800 atmospheres.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
SUNFLowER SILHOUETTEs.

Atchison county takes the lead with q
300 pound watermelon and an eighty
pound Hubbard squash.
The corn crop is safe. Jack Frost may
come when he chooses. He cannot damage
anything now. A fresh note to the lam
entation.'
One Wetmore bank has deposits Of over
s775, 600 and the cashier says % per cent OF
it belongs to Nemaha county farmers.
More financial and material ruin staring
the people in the face.
A western Kansas firm is advertising
money to loan On farm and city property
at only per cent per anuum. II the rate
of interest continues to decrease the ware
house scheme of the Alliance will not be
needed.
William Rogers, Greeley county farm
er, who has just pocketed 800 for batch
of corn. says farmers can make more mon
ey in than section raising SO cent wheat
than they can in Illinois by raising 70 cent
wheat.
The Smith Center Journal says the light
ming rod agents have been swindling the
farmers of the eastern part of Smith coun-
W, anu 6udG ptpcf Is III IdtOI Va law OA
ering a reward for the scalps of such
swindlers.
The cornerstone Of the new First Bap.
fist church building was laid in Emporia
Wednesday afternoon. The growth and
prosperity of the Baptists in Kansas is a
sure indication that Kansas drouths are
thing of the past.
Mrs. J. r. Burton, wife of the Republi.
can candidate for congress in the Fifth
district, is Democrat, but she is stump
ing the district for and with her husband.
There is no candidate for her own party
and she naturally prefers the success Of
the Republican party to that of the
walters.
A Manitou, Mich, young woman re-
ceived letter from Kansas man the
other day in which he devotes seven pages
to telling of business, crops and politics.
In postscript he mentioned that he would
like to have her marry him. If the Mani
tou maiden wants man that will do to
tie to- she should make haste to get the
knot tied that shall bind her to that Kan
Sas man.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
SWEEPING THE FARM.

When the farmer returns to the house
| for meals or few minutes rest, he ex-
poets to find the house, every room of il
and every piece of furniture, clean
brushed and swept. He may introduce
visitors unexpectedly, and wishes every
| thing in order at all times.
He would be surprised if he found the
sittingroom, day after day, in disorder
and confusion, and probably his surprise
would lead him to make remarks and to
scold. The thrifty housekeeper is con-
stantly busting, sweeping, cleaning, and
as result the house is the pride of every
member of the family. The farmer de-
lights to ask his friends into the house,
because such neatness, order and cleanli-
ness prevail.
Order in the house and order outside
on the farm sometimes go hand in hand,
but often they do not II the farmer
likes and demands an orderly house, why
should not the farmers wife demand an
orderly kept farm when she goes out to
get the air after her work is done? Now.
the farmer may take his ease and read
his paper in an untidy room, bat not so
comfortably as in one where neatneSS
governs. because the eye is offended and
worries him.
The farmers wife is disturbed when
she walks abroad on the farm for recrea-
ton by the litter that meets and offends
her eye. Many things, from a wheel
jack to a moving machine are seen
where last used; wagons. paris Of wag-
ons, rakes and rubbish block the way at
every turn. This is not fair return of
favor. Neatness in the house should
be supplemented by corresponding neat
ness on the farm. What a connection
there would be in some household If the
sitting-room OF the house was in such
continual confusion as the yard of the
house.
Il pays to use the broom on the farm,
and To use it often. Indeed, positive
damage results from neglecting it. Dirt
in the house breeds vermln, and rubbish
on the farm may produce what is equiv
alent, literally or figuratively. Let the
broom cut its swath from the house and
barn out into every nook and corner of
the farm, for the sake OF appearance, if
for no other reason. A we'll swept farm
builds the farmers fame as well-kept
house adds to the reputation of the
housekeeper. Appleton.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07

A citizen of this city, upon reading the
account of the Coffeyville affair, offered
to contribute liberal sum to purchase a
supply OF Winchester rifles, open school
for teaching the art of handling them
and employing Mr. Spear of that place
as instructor. The suggestion, although
made under an impulse, is not an idle
one. If the citizens generally were more
familiar with the use Of such imple-
ments of defense and were more liberal
ly supplied with them, that simple fact
would no doubt exert very restraining
influence upon highwaymen and the
criminal element at large, and would
prevent many homicides that occur as at
present.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
A UNIQUE CASE.

The Iowa supreme court sitting at
Des Moines. has affirmed the decision OF
the Winnebago district court in the
case of Goddard rs. WincheH. This is
the peculiar meteor case which has
awakened such interest in Iowa and
among the lawyers Of the country. On
the Cad of May, 1890, an aeroiite weigh
ing sixty-six pounds fell on the land of
John Goddard, in Winnebaso county.
Peter Hoagland dug it up and conveyed
it to his house ana sold 1t as his own to
II. V. Wincheit for s105. Goddard
claimed that the meteor was his, as it
fell on his land. Hoagland claimed it.,
as he discovered it first and it fell from
Heaven. The district court decided that
it became part of the soil ON which it
fell, and Hoagland had no right to re-
move it. But the defense claims that
according to Blackstone whatever is
movable and found on the surface of the
earth and is unclaimed by any owner, is
supposed to be abandoned by the last
proprietor. The supreme court ruled
that this stone was in the earth and
practically unmovable. and was placed
there by nature. 1t was a stone includ-
ed generally under property to be claim
ed. The case is unique, with no estab-
lished precedent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Guthrie will have free delivery after
Dec. l.
Chandler has new paper, called the
Optic. We suppose it can see two other
papers in the field.
Guthrie is to have two and half
miles of electric street railway in opera
ton by March l, 1898.
The taxable valuation of Oklahoma
county as assessed is 81. 661, 221, being an
increase of over $500, 600 in one year.
| The Saltwater Gazette has been issued
daily since the famous Terrill trial began
and contains the evidence of each witness
| in full. ta.
Professor D. r. Boyd, president of the
Territorial University at Norman, reports
the university running nicely with seven
ty-four pupils enrolled.
A hard hearted police officer at Guthrie
spoiled an elopement the other evening by
! taking a young lady off the Santa Fee train
The course of true love never did run
smooth"
| Before many years some one of the three
United States forts. Supply, Reno or Sill,
will be abandonded. The water supply ut
Fort Reno is very poor, and it is likely
that that fort will go.
The other night Brakeman Ed Lane Of
the Santa Fe met with two tramps on his
train He ordered them off, but a couple
of revolvers pulled on him convinced Ed
that he did not want to argue the case.
f. C. Boudfnot, reputed to be the best of
al the Cherokee lawyers, informs US, in
answer TO an inquiry, that the Cherokee
constitution does prohibit the monopoly
of land as now existing in this nation,
and says that the next council will remedy
this evil.
Hardesty Herald: We should prevail
on our governor TO reduce the price OF
lease on our school land 20 one-half the
present amount. Instead OF the present
price-Sl6 per quarter-let the amount be
S Many quarters stand without bid at
SIG that would be leased should the price
be reduced IL weuld be better to get IS
for their use than to hold them at SIG and
get nothing.
\ cave was discovered in Goingsnake
mountains, Cherokee nation. last week, in
which a namber of horses. mules and cat
tie were confined The animals had deabt-
less been taken there BY tie Hicks-Welch
gang Of stock there's which has been
operating in that region extensively OF
late The leaders Of the gang are row IN
the Fort Smith Jail The cave referred 70
is OF immense proportions and had evil
IDENTIFY been used as headquarters for the
thieves. 1t contained camping outfit
aud quantity OF hay and grain
Mr. E R. Cutler was in oklshona City
yesterday and reported very sad loss
which happened TO him on Sunday night.
He ard his family bad gene TO church an'i
when they arrived at home fouad only
pile OF charred timber, where their house
had stood Fire had broken out in it dug
ing their absence. and had desiroyes! il
with all It's Contents. Another small house
that stood close by was also consumed and
a considerable amount OF farm machinery
WAS destroyed Mr. Gutter and family
were lef. with 90 wesrinz apparel except
what they had on. Luckily ne has some
stock and god team. and will soon re-
cover from the loss. He places the loss at
S7o0
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
SIDE REMARKS.

"DocroR, what is good cholera mix
ture for this time OF the year?" well,
ice cream, watermelon and lager beer
win do very well. Indianapolis Jour
nal.
A New ScHooL.-N-s. Callie Nell
''IThy don't you get your doctor to pre-
scribe a trip somewhere for your Miss
Akonite-''I can't Hes homeopath. ="
Detroit Free Press
A LITTLE four year-old was running
down kill holding his dress tightly.
Look ont. you'll hurt Yourself" called
his mother 20 nol Use no. afraid.
See. Use holding on 20 myself
Awake.
why, hello, old mani ] thought -o1
intended TO make your European trip
last year?" 81 did, bat rny wife fcund
a new fashion in gowns il Paris and
hurried home 20 be the FRS. 70 wear IL
Indianapolis Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
For the Eagle.
THINGS I DON'T LIKE TO SEE.


don't like to see Kies on calamity's old goat
When he has tried to ride a Republican shoat
For an office Of any degree, where he hap.
pened to be,
But he's always been left out on . jamboree.
You may call me some crazy, or flying toe
high,
But this thing sure hit me right square In my
best eye,
Now should you just like him. look quick and
you will see
He's uneasy as you see; in his hat there's a bee.
I don't like to see that Boon so pretty and nice
With his nose in the air, and seems smelling
for mice,
To be running for office. he never can I'LL,
Indiana they just called him the green young
VIII.
CHoRUs-I don't like to see, etc.
1 don't like to see Eddie O'Brien look meek,
He'd down an old government mule with plain
cheek,
He is trying to rope you good fellows clear in.
But he will vote for Jerry. that lying vile
thing.
CHcRUs-I don't like to see. etc.
don't like to see Irv. STATIONS wild rave
nous look,
The poor widows and ophans' last goose he
would cook.
And then swear they were paupers, calamity
poor,
In rags they would beg at the old bowling
Pops door.
IF. E. D.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
Practical Effects OF Calamity.
L.. ~.

From the Hutchinson News,
Mr.. Vooris in his speech at the court
house made remark that should receive
the careful consideration OF every voter
OF the Seventh district. He said that in
a party which left Illinois last week for
Kansas, and OF which he was member.
there were twenty nine persons, and on.
of that number but five could be induced
to come into the Seventh district. the
others eoin:, into the northw estern part
of the state. Tie reason assigned bv
these people for stunning the Seventh
district was that the congressman from
this district had said that the land was
so poor man could not make a living
upon it, and that under present condi-
tons no sane man would accept farm
as a gift. These people could not under
stand why congressman shorld paint
his own district worse than it is, and
they avoided il as they would plague
spot. The moral of this is so PLAIN that
every intelligent person can apply it for
himself, and common sense dictates the
course that should be pursued By every
voter IN the district when the question
of re-elecsing that Congressman comes 10
the test on the sth day of next Novem-
har
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
A MUSICAL MElAN0E.

A LIST of musical compositions by
women from 1915 TO 1885 includes fifty
FIVE serious operas, ffftythree comic
operas and two oratorios. besides few
cantatas, ballads, etc.
PROF. JOSEPH BARNEY, the musician
whom Queen Victoria has knighted,
was born in Yorkshire, and, like Sir
Arthur Sullivan, began life as choir
boy. He is prolific composer OF church
and song music.
ACCORDING to a very good authority
the middle c is declared to be the note
most frequently used in vocalism, as il
seems to be the note which best avoids
the extremes and is most within the
general compass.
SCHUBERT was rapid worker. He
often composed the music Of three or
four songs in single night. He died
at the early age ef thirty-one, yet in
his brief life be composed over six hun
dred songs, several operas. masses. etc.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
OWNERSHIP AND STATE CONTROL
OF RAILROADS,

The Alliance-fusion crowd have really
but one issue on the railroad question
that of ownership of the railroads. Nir-
tually the people are asked to wait till
the government can take possession OF
Or buy the railroads. At any rate it is
own the people, or the people shall own
tie railroads. However, they seem to
recognize the difficulty and danger that
would come from centralizing in the
government the appointive power of all
| that vast army Of railroad employees, and
to remedy this they propose to have the
country wait till an amendment to the
| constitution can be had DISTINGUISHING
all the government employees.
| 1t is needless to say that this scheme
puts relief into the indefinite or impossi-
bic future.
What can be said of such wholesale
Acknowledgement? II honest, capable,
industrious men are appointed to office,
as they should be, very large per cent
of the best OF American citiZez.s must be-
disfranchised. This can hardly be.
The ownership Of railroads will not
come. Legislation there probably will be,
but not the measure proposed by the
maximum freight bill, 743, of the last
legislature. Even the local Calamity
orators and organs don't advocate that
measure any more. Kansas can just as
well have commercial centers as not.
While we pay tribute to the Missouri
river towns no trade center can be built
up, and our advantage will never be
what it would be with in interior COM
mercial center and basing point The
tonnage, the capital, the enterprise and
thrift of commercial center must count
for something.
People talk rashly about maximum
freight bills. Iowa had an experience
with a maximum freight bill which she
abandoned for commission. Remem-
Der that maximum freight bill that
makes no distinction between the car
load lot, for example, to the little town
and the large city with large tonnage,
Is apt to make the large city pay tribute
to the small town. These matters can
not be worked out in IA day. Time, and
patient common sense are necessary to
bring about fair play and justice.
1t may be noted that there is no lack
of disposition on the part of the people to
make railroads reduce their charges.
There is a strong prejudice against rail-
roads. Besides this almost every mans
pecuniary interest is against the rail
roads. To say that any class of men
outside Of those Immediately connected
with the railroads are against equitable
and fair transportation charges is none
sense.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07

Lawrence journal: The Alliance in
the south is circulating damaging
stories" about Mr.. Cleveland and that
gentleman has again "taken his pen in
hand" to deny them. The 'tstories" are
to the effect that Mrs. Cleveland didn't
like Winnie Davis, daughter of the Con-
federacy, and that Grover himself was
too thick with Fred Douglas. He denies
both charges fatty and without any
seeming mental reservation and with
but little mental effort The originator
of such terrible political SANDERS should
be dealt with severely. To accuse Mr..
Cleveland of associating with a colored
man and to accuse his wife of refusing
to associate with the daughter of jeff
Davis is little less than treason.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
UNCLE SANS CHILDREN.

SENATOR KENNA, of West Virginia, Is
an enthusiastic amateur photographer.
He has an elaborate studio, with sky
light and dark room especially planned.
in his new house in Washington.
MUCH Of the money which Mrs. Gen.
Custer realized by her seventy-two
readings last winter has gone towards
educating young girl whose father
died on the same field with her hus-
band.
Mrs. HANNAH HARMON, Brockton,
Mass. was born the day preceding
Washington's retirement from Office,
and has thus lived under the admins
tration of every president of the United
States.
The director of the United States geo.
logical survey. Maj. j. w. Powell, did
good deal of his book-studying when a
boy driving OK teams fifty or sixty
miles to market Country roads, then
as now, afforded a splendid field for
geological study.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-07
ORIGIN OE EARRINGS.
dohAm medan Legend OF Abraham. sars
and Harm.

MohAmmedan Legend OF Abraham. Sarah
and HaKar.
According 70 the Moslem creed the
reason why every Mohammedan lady
considers it her duty to wear earrings
is attributed TO the following curious
legend:
Sarah. tradition tells Us, was % jeal-
ous Of the preference shown by Abra-
ham for Hsgar. that she took q solemn
VOW that she would give herself no rest
until she had mutilsted the fair face OF
her hated rival and bondmaic.
Abraham, who had knowledge Of his
wife's intention, did his utmost 10
pacify his embittered Spouse. but long
in vain. At length, however. she re-
Tented and decided TO forego her plan Of
revenge. says the Chicago Herald. But
how was she to fulAl the terms OF the
vow she had entered into7
After mature reflection she saw her
way out OF the difficulty. Instead Of
disfiguring the lovely features OF her
boudneid, she eontented hersek with
boring a hole In each OF the lovely
lobes OF her ears. The legend does not
inform as whether Abraham afterwsrd
found IL incumbent upon him TO mits-
gate the smart Of these little wounds
By The zits Of a costly pair 81 earrings,
or whether Haga- pr,cared the srinkets
for herself The fact remains. how
ever. tina. the Turkish women. oil Of
whom ~ear earrings from their seventh
year, derive the use Of these jewels
from Hsgsr. who b held In reneratiop
~ the mother Of Ishnzei. the founder
OF their race. --