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The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-02-25
YOUR WlFE's CHRISTMAS GIFT
II Is Bought and Paid For with Her own
Money,

1t Is bought and Paid For With Her Own
Money.
About this time your wife is wearing
out her nerves in an endeavor to se-
cure something that will crafty you
at Christmas as her present to you.
Her task is loving one but weari-
some-only wives know how weari-
some. There are few things that are
appropriate, and You =alreadyhavea SO
many of the few. M recover, she must
ways that you are not in this Christ
mas business. She must secure the be-
coming gift at cost within the imper-
fectly known limit of your financial
ability, while you in buying some
thing for her may be as extravagant
as you please, because you can pinch
the extravaganza out of her allowance
for household expenses afterward. .
Besides all this, the gift you get for
her costs you nothing but money; the
gift she makes to you costs her thought,
worry, and that most toiIsome of all
things, shopping. she must spend
hours in stnffy, overcrowded shops;
she must price things here, there and
every where; she must consult and con-
slider, in distressing uncertainty as TO
the fitness of things to satisfy the
whimsical masculine taste.
And all this she does with a loving
tenderness for you which is in itself
gift of priceless worth. Do You
think it well, on the whole, to reward
her toll, her patience and her love by
getting off the cheap, joke afterwafd
about your having to pay for your
present yourself?
There is not any wit in that joke; it
/ is as stale as loaf of bread from a
Pompeiian oven, and its utterance is
ill-mannered, inconsiderate, brutal.
Moreover, it isn't true. If you have
go d wife she earns every dollar she
fyou. The mere fact that she receives
the money from you and not from an
outsider, and that it goes to her at ir-
regular times and in uncertain sums,
makes no manner of difference. The
money is hers, and the money is the
smallest part of what she. invests in
your Christmas present She puts her
precious affection into its procurement,
and if you have any true appreciation
in your soul you will value her gift for
what it signifies, not merely for what
it is.
Especially you will avoid the mis-
take of supposing that you paid for it.
II you are commonplace enough to en-
terrain such thought you are bank
rupt in the kind of treasure that has
gone to purchase your wife's gift to
you, and could not have paid for it to
save your very small soul.-N. "
World
The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-02-25

informed his govetnmcnt If The artists
ifl1prudent conduct and Informed ii that
be could not be Responsible for the
safety Of man who apparently took
NO precautions whatever to leep him
self from harm. Laden seemed to
trust wholly to his good gun and his
extraordinary physical powers.
He finally set out on his long journey.
he reached Fee IN safety. and then
pushed on to the city OF Morocco, and
from that point he finally set out for
the northern slopes of the Atlas
mountains Upon this journey near
the little village Of Amsmiz, at the
river Nfys, his body was found few
days later on the spot where he had
been murdered. From the fact that
none of his possessions had been taken
it was evident that robbery was not
the motive for the crime 1t is prob
able that he offended against some Of
the native customs Very likely he
undertook to paint group. of native
people, It is very well=Hnewnth that the
Mohammedans have strong hatred Of
any artificial representation of nature,
and that the painting of the human
figure is forbidden in the Koran.
Laden was one more victim of the
fanatical religion which bears the name
Of Islam. IN. Y. Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
Returned After Seven Years.

About seven years ago the village Of
Forest City, Pa, was excited over the
mysterious disappearance of William
Doolittle. One morning William left
the house to buy some meat for dinner.
During the forenoon the meat was
brought to the house by the butcher,
but William failed to appear when din
ner time arrived. Months went by, but
no trace of him could be found. Every
one thought that he had been foully
dealt with.
Saturday afternoon Doohttle arrived
in Canondale, after an absence of over
seven years. His mind had become de-
ranged. The past was blank to him,
except at two or three intervals, when
he could for short time remember
something of his house and family. -Four
years ago he found himself in Omaha,
and then for the first time in three years
remembered his name and that he had
left his home in Forest City to J some
meat for dinner. He could not recall
anything that occurred after he bought
the meat. His wife and two children,
who live in Canondale, greeted him as
one from the dead He left Omaha four
years ago, and has been on the road
working his way homeward ever since.
Philadelphia Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
THE MINISTER OF THE FUTURE.

In answer to the query: "The Minis
ter of the Future-What do you think
he will be, and, in view of the increas
ing complexitv of our modern civiliza
ton, what do you think he should be?'
Rev. DR.. Robert ColIyer writes as fol
lows:
The minister of the future will divide
the word of truth from human errors
and misconceptions SO far as he can by
the sincere use of his reason, because
Bishop Butler says ''this is the only fac
ulty we have to judge without concern,
ing anything, even revelation itself, y
and the Holy Spirit of Truth then will
be more than the Bible even, and it will
be his teacher.
He will tell the truth of God whenever
and wherever he finds it, IN faith and
without fear, and if he has good hand
full (heart fulD of it on Sunday he will
not open one fingers worth and let the
rest stand over, because then it will be
like the mamma, we hear of, they gath
cred for Sunday in the wilderness, and
then if they let it stand until Monday it
went bad.
He will welcome the truth science re-
veals to us as the truth of Goo, which is
also liable to make us wise unto saliva
tion," not speaking of her as the hand
maid of religion, but giving her warm
and true welcome as the winsome young
er sister of religion.
He will hold for the first article in his
creed the humanity of God and the divin-
ity of man, and hold also and teach the
truth that the week days are as sacred in
their essence and purpose as the Sun
days, and the workman'5 bench and an
vii as the pulpits and affairs, because
there also if we be true men we are CO.
workers together with God.
He will say to no man, Stand off, for
l am holier than thou" but will blend
his life with the life of the rank and file
in sympathy and good viii as ''the good
person Of the town" not merely of my
sect or another, and win by loving; vet
while he holds with the good apostle that
love is greater than faith or hope, the
< reatest Of all is the truth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The Syracuse convention was big
thing, as to numbers and enthusiasm.
but if the delegates selected to the Chi
cago convention undertake to carry out
their instructions by seeking admission
and recognition there they will be Woe
fully disappointed. The snap conven-
ton Of February was called by the
regular and legally constituted authori-
ties of the party and its proceedings
were regular, with nothing, SO far as the
national convention can have any knowl-
edge, to invalidate its acts. The delegates
appointed by that convention, therefore,
will be admitted and recognized. The
most, and all, that the Syracuse meeting
can hope to accomplish will be to exert
a moral influence and, perchance, bring
the Hill faction to some sort of COM
promise,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

General Ives political aspirations are
catching it on ali sides from the hands
of his own party. Among the resolves
adopted by the Cowley county Peoples
party convention last week was this:
We denounce the action of the state
board of railroad assessors in reducing the
valuation of railroad property TO the
amount of 81 000,00O. thereby shifting the
burden of taxation from the corporations
20 the shoulders of the people.
Ives is a member of the board men
toned, and is the legal adviser of the
board and Of the state, and on that ac-
count is more responsible for the action
of the board in the matter referred to
than any other member, or all of them
as for that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
A Bowery Scheme.

"Here you are now, warm your hands
only penny - warm your hands,
everybody-nice warm fire here for a
penny" The cry was little out Of the
ordinary, even on the Bowery.
A youngster of say twelve years, of
no telling what nationality, had inau-
gurated unique business venture. 1t
consisted of big iron pail filled with
live Goals, arranged to conveniently toast
ones cold fingers by, and the young in
ventor charged "a penny a warm"
isn't this something new, Jimmy"
inquired the reporter, after having paid
the required fee.
"Yaaa, l gep. Dis is my first night at
de racket, and dey amt much in il.
only got in seventeen cents since .
o'clock. Amt many as catches onto il
at first"
sis it your own schemeT
"Yaaa. Ye see Gippy, the chestnut
rooster on the corner here, is allsys been
sore on de chumps wot stop and warm
der dukes at his fire, so got an outfit
and now Gippy sends EN- all over here
to me. But dey amt much In it,
New York World
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
rrtrararnnce in Smoking.

Nestor Gianac!is is a bright young
Greek who some years ago moved 70
Cairo and engaged small army Of dark
skinned men, women and children 70
make cigarettes for Americans 70
smoke.
Mr.. Gianaclis is said to be the best
judge Of tobacco in the world Last
Year $500, 900 of his cigarettes passed
through the Boston custom house and
during one month 10000 have been en-
tered there. These cigarettes pay duty
of four dollars pound and are sold al
FIVE cents apiece or forty cents fox boz
Of ten cigarettes.
By actual experiment Il costs one-hali
a cent minute 70 smoke an Egyptian
cigarette, which makes them probably
the most expensive thing in tie smoking
Ene.-BOston Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
THE TRANS-MISSOURI FREIGHT
TRUST

The inquitous and discriminating COM
| bine and domineering trust, known as
| the Transmissouri Freight association is
preparing to beat the people west of the
Missouri river and to prolong its own
! unwarranted existence under different
guise by transferring its powers to an
other like trust existing at greater dis.
lance from the people whom it has sys-
tematicalIy robbed. If commerce has
been restrained and impeded from the
fact that the shipper heretofore could
get no rates until his application had
been submitted to the transmissouri
freight trust, located at Kansas City, his
commodity often perishing before a
hearing could be had and his appli-
cation passed upon, what will be til e
condition of affairs when the power
to fix rates for Kansas communities over
roads, which were incorporated under
Kansas laws, has been transferred to a
freight association or combine wholly in
the interest of eastern roads with head
quarters at Chicago? That is now what
is proposed, and was seen by the Associ-
ated Press dispatches in the EAGLE of yes
terday morning. And why? Simply
because the petition of United States
District Attorney Ady, filed last spring
in the United States court, praying that
the Transmissouri Freight association be
dissolved as being a menace to trade and
in restraint of commerce, is to be heard
next week, and the said association be-
lieving that its nefarious acts will be
disclosed are simply taking this step to
save the interests which they are paid to
conserve and to defeat the certain order
of the court by becoming non est inven-
tUs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

A writer in the st. Louis Republic
claims that with the next change in the
makeup of the senate, which will occur
on the 4th of March, '93, the Democrats
will gain largely over their present men,
bership and succeed to the control Of
that body. In view of the fact, how
ever, that of the twenty-four senators to
be succeeded sixteen are Republicans
and eight Democrats, and the further
fact that the Republicans now have a
majority of nine in the senate, the claim
is the product of a fruitful Imagination
rather than any substantial basis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The Syracuse convention did one thing
that the Albany snap Hill conclave did
not do and that was to make emphatic
declaration on the silver question. There
was no cry of 1.-THE dollar of the daddies'
in it, but Wall streets interests were
considered and pronounced for. But,
being Cleveland meeting, held especial
~ in his interest and for his benefit,
nothing else was to be expected. The
proceedings could not but have been
satisfactory and gratifying to the ex-
president.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Still another state gathering viii tax e
place in this city this month. y confer
ence of the single tax men and women
OF Kansas VIII be held here on the 18Th.
1fth and 18th, ''for the purpose of ex-
tending acquaintance. effectiug state and
district organizations and such other
work as may be thought best to advance
the movement. This Is the time fixed
for holding the Peoples party convea-
lions, state and congressional, and Will
serve as a sort Of side show 10 'he main
circus.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

other side to the controversy. Mr. George
advocates the tearing down of every
custom house. If he can have bis way
not a penny of revenue will come into
the treasury from imports. The Democ-
racy adopts his theories. This means
the BANKRUPTCY of the government. How
is the enormous deficit TO be supplied?
Mr. George has the remedy. 1t is the
tax on land values. When the Democ-
racy coming up. or going down, to the
George standard of government?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The poet, Cowper, who went out into
the country to commit suicide, was over
taken by storm, changed his purpose and
went back home and wrote, God moves
in mysterious way, his wonders TO per-
form. He plants his footsteps in the sea
and rides upon the storm" was moved
by devine spirit. The cruel instrument
tality of cyclone may make it hard to
grant the connivance of a Supreme
Being, but it softens peoples hearts, in
creases praye. and promotes charity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
a Strange Edition OF Shakespeare.

Kate Fields washington.
Daniel Mcdonald, one of the clerks of
the house pension committee, is the ed
itor of one of the oldest editions of
Shakespeare ever published 1t has a
larger circulation than many famous
editions have had, yet outside of Indiana
it is quite unknown. Mcdonald is the
proprietor of paper in that state, and
for years was troubled with insomnia.
When sleep would not come he used to
get up and read Shakespeare. He read
every one of tbs divine Williams plays
and all of the poems besides, making
marginal notes as he went along. Then
he proceeded TO print Shakespeare with
the notes in his own paper. As his in
somnia continued and he kept on Pub
fishing Shakespeare as long as it lasted,
the subscribers to his paper secured a
copy of all the plays. A copy of this
newspaper Shakespeare would lie curl
Gus addition to any library whose owner
has attempted to collect variety of the
bard of Avon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Venus will attain her greatest bril-
liancy on Thursday, appearing through
the telescope as a fine crescent, with its
convex side toward the west. She will
be found just below Castor and Pollux
in Gemini and will rise at 7:25 a. m. and
set at 1915 P. m. The wit of the Spring
field Democrat notes the pending Incl
dent with: Here il is plain as day TO
anybody who wants TO see Venus. Keep
tab on Castor ana then you viii see her
bv Gemini.'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The south may not be viewing the
Alliance with alarm, but they are not
getting any great amount of honor out
OF it on the other hand. The action OF
the South Carolina convention in in
structing Its delegates to vote at Chicago.
If free silver Is plank in the platform,
and to go to Omaha 10 the Peoples
party convention, if it is not, is unusual
and shows that the spirit Of Democracy
in the south has not its wanted un-
ruffled quietude.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
WHERE Is DEMOCRACY LEADrNe7

From the New York Recorder.
The Democratic party goes into the
next presidential campaign on the issue
of what it calls tariff reform, which ia
only another name for free trade. IL is
tariff reform first. 1t will be free trade
second This is the old doctrine of Mr..
John C.. Calhoun. The Democratic party
does not seem to be able 10 get away
from the economic theories Of Calhoun.
HIS influence dominates It's councils.
The south followed his standard instead
OF the standard of the great hentuckian,
Henry Clay, who was one of the first OF
our public men 70 voice what re now
know as the American doctrine" Of
protection TO home industry. That l.
the Republican policy today. One CT
the ablest of recent works on free trade.
that OF Henry George, has been made by
a congressional subierfuge which Is
cheat and fraud Democratic campaign
document. Democratic members Of
Congress one after the other. read the
the chapters of this book, making them
part Of their speeches, and when Il was
all in type. at the expense OF the people
in the Congressional Record, put them
together and turned our ths volume
that i NOW being circulated by the hun
bred thousand everv week If was
wholesale robbery CT tie working
printers But let that 90 il the printers
are willing 10 do 30. Tie Qu.S.,oa Is toE
them 20 settle. There Is however, an
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
Protsc. the Ignorant.

From TIE Boston Journal
That man that blows out the gas furn-
ishes copy for the paragraphsr and a sub
ject for the caricaturist, bat this aci q
ignorance or csrlessness y after all q
serious matter. u i said thst the deaths
from ssphvx alton from tins cause num-
bered last year s.s.}c. IA spite Of the
printed warnings Of hoieikeepers. The
result Of the invention of Milwaukee
man viii. therefore. be watched " ~ sn-
;erest. A projecting needle when heated
opens valve, and when the gas = blown
out tine needle cools rapidly and BY con
traction shuts The valve
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The st. Louis Republic in an editorial
on tlade and finance, says: "Money is
everywhere plentiful at nominal rates. "
And yet it howls for free silver and
Grover Cleveland, and in its tariff ar
ticles describes the country as being
ruined by the Mckinley law.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
Following the Cherokee Strip, and pos

Following the Cherokee Strip, and pos
sibly preceding it, the next lands to be
opened to settlement will be in south
eastern Utah. These lands belonged to
the southern Utes. After the agreement
with these has been fully ratified, the
land win be sold to settlers at the price
of 81. 80 an acre. Then there will be one
more boomers rush, besides the strip,
probably the last one IN the history of
the country,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

The phenomenal duration and persist
ence of the rainy weather have at once
stimulated and COMPOUNDED the weather
prophets. Some of the cult are claim
ing verification from the fact that they
predicted a stormy May, but as the kind
of storms they predicted is exactly the
sort that did not occur they are not much
better off for their claim.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL CON-
VENTION.

A delegate convention of the Republicans %
the Seventh congressional district OF tne sIat,
oF Kansas is hereby called TO meet in the city
of Kinpman on Wednesday, june ID, 1917, as
10 q. M. for the purpose Of nominating u can
didate for congress in the Seventh cohgresJ
sional district of kansas, anu also u
one presidential elector. .., .,..,,-
The basis of representation in said convene
ton shall be one delegate st large Tor eacn
ooch 900 woes. and the major fraction thereof,
cast for Hon. J. r. Halloweu for congress IN
1890 provided no county to have less than two
delegates, under which rule delegates are al'I
,,ortIoned to the several counties as follows:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

1t is pretty hard to get ahead of the
ingalls, family. Two months ago, John
j. joined the G. A. R., and day before
yesterday, Ralph ingalls,, his son, identi-
fed himself with the Sons of Veterans
at Topeka.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Ingalls, at Jefferson City: 81 stand
here against all the challenges and ac-
cusers to affirm that the G. a. R. is the
most patriotic Of all organizations. The
Fourth of July is day that perpetuates
that which might better be forgotten,
but who dare say that the Fourth of
July shall be known no more? The g.
4. r. commentaries events of more
heroic and indispensable conflict.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Henry Watterson put 1T about right
when he told the Kentucky convention
that if the Democrats nominated either
Cleveland or Hill of New York "they
would walk through the slaughter house
to an open grave" And the Syracuse
incident broadened the way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Jackson, the colored pugilist, will turn
out to be a very decent man. The fact
that everybody feels warranted in using
a club on him in defence, will preclude
any tendency on Jaclson's part to be a
bully
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

Corn f1uctuated to a dollar bushel
Tuesday, and then fluctuated back to
fifty cents the next day. If wheat would
perform similar feat and go to two
dollars, G. Wood Davis voice would be
heard rejoicing in the land.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

signature of a circular itself (which Is
permitted by law but only to dates and
names inserted in the body of the circu-
lar. This ruling is based on the statute
which defines printed matter" as re-
productions on paper of words, letters,
ETC., not having the character of an
actual and personal correspondence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION

delegate convention of the Republicans q
Kansas will be held in the city of Topeka on
Thursday, the thirtieth GOTH day of June,
1892, at the hour of 10 O'Clock a. m, for the
nomination of candidates for:
Associate justice % the supreme court.
Governor.
Lieutenant governor,
Secretary of state.
Auditor of state.
Treasurer of state.
Attorney general.
Superintendent of public instruction.
Delegates TO the convention mentioned above
shall be elected by county conventions duly
called by the several county Republican COM
fnittees, under such rules and regulations as
may be by them prescribed. The basis Of APP
portionment of delegates TO said state conven-
fion will be one delegate large for each
county of the state and one delegate for every
200 votes, or faction of 100 more votes, cast
10. George w. Winans for superintendent of
public instruction III the election of 1880, under
which rule delegates are apporuoned to the
several counties the same as for the conyen-
ton called 10 meet at Hutchinson to choose
delegates 10 the national convention and aS
given III the table OF apportionment
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02

1t is going to be big job for the spec
tator to take in everything at the worlds
fair. On this line of thought, the Sun
day closing plan is good one. If it is
big job, Sunday would mo longer be a
day of rest,