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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Whenever a man or wo man commits a
heinous crime nowadays he is booked in
sane. CraZyi So are mad dogs. Yet you
newer hear of mad dog being sent 10
prison or an insane asylum.-SG Joseph
Gazette.
Because, forsooth, q persons reason is
dethroned does that make such an one
less human in his physical being than
when sane? A mad dog is not only
dangers TO everything animate it may
come in contact with but is incurable.
Not so with a human being. Many
violently insane persons have their rea-
son restored and resume positions in
the community. The idea implied in
the paragraph quoted is simply barba-
ovs, though it must be admitted there
are many who entertain it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
WHERE is YOUR DEMOCRACY

The average sel-respecting indepen-
dent Democrat has as little use for the
doctrines of the calamity crowd, as the
average Republican. II the Democratic
party is distinguished for one thing more
than for another it is for its opposition
to paternalism, Capitalization and
sumptuary legislation. The Peoples
party is for paternalism, pure and sim
pie, even to the verge of socialism. The
Democrat, therefore, who votes
for calamity votes against all
all the traditions and teachings of his
party from time immemorial. So en-
phatic has that doctrine of the party
been in the past that it fought against
nationalism and for independent rights
for the states. Government ownership
of railways, telegraphs and warehouses,
and the making of cheap money to loan
to the individual citizen, would cause
Jefferson and Jackson to turn in their
graves and groan. Still. the Democracy
of Kansas are proposing to vote in way
that will most directly sustain kind of
craftsmanship which advocates a CEN
tralization not equalled by that of
Russia, for money is money even in
Russia, above the whims or dictates Of
its autocrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
LONGING FOR 4 VACATION.

The president and his cabinet are max
ing their plans to get little rest and re-
lief from official duties as soon as con-
gress adiourns. The president will leave
Washington Immediately after adjourn
ment for Loon lake, where he will drop
all official matters for a few weeks.
About September 1st he will go to Cape
Nav Point and remain there until the
meeting of the Grand Army of the Re-
public in Washington, September 20.
Secretary Foster will be busy IL con-
nection with the Boring sea arbitra-
ton for the next six weeks in addition
to the other work of the state depart
ment, and expects to remain continu-
ously at his desk for some time to come.
Secretary Charles Foster will go TO
OHIO in a few weeks. He is billed for a
speech at Sandusky to the farmers of
northern Ohio at the meeting of the
Erie Agricultural association. Then he
will return to his ZONE at Fostoria for a
short visit.
Secretary E!kins VIII gravitate be-
tween New York and his beautiful home
in Elkins, w. Va.
Secretary Tracy will take a trip along
the New England coast as far north as
Bar Harbor. He may also make brief
visits to Saratoga and Lake George.
Postmaster General Wanamaker will
probably remain away during august,
if the exegencies Of the department Dusi-
ness will permit. He is favorably con-
sidering visit to Saratoga.
|. Secretary Noble will probably spend
the summer at one of the Atlantic sea-
side resorts.
Attorney General Miller will visit New
England, and may spend some time in
the White Mountains.
Secretary Rusk has already gone to
his home in Wisconsin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
suNFLowER s1LHouETrEs.

h C. Brooks of the United States ex-
perimental farm near Garden City has a
Norman colt 13 months old that weighs
just $50 pounds.
A Missouri paper heads an article "a
Kansas Idyl" Didn't read it. Its idle TO
talk of idolatry in as busy and orthodox a
community as Kansas.
Atchisoh has a dry creek which the Pa
triot says contains about two hundred
dead cats and dogs. That paper don't
the citizens to blame God when the chol-
era comes.
A Finney county gardner pays % cents
per hundred for toads and turns them
loose in his truck patch. The boys and
the toads will make rich man of that
scientific gardner
Garden City Herald: z. T. Nelson is
having his wheat threshed this week, the
wheat averaging forty bushels to the acre.
This is remarkable considering the fact
that the wheat was sown in January on
sod land.
1t is mistake to suppose that wheat
crop is safe as soon as it is harvested and
put into the shock or stack. Several far
mers in Stanton county lost their wheat
crops by prairie fire one day last week.
Fire guards should be plowed around all
grain stacks.
Probably the last buffalo that will ever
be shot in Kansas was killed last week on
Kiowa creek, twelve miles west of Cold
water And after the magnificent beast
was slain it was discovered to be the pri-
vate property of a citizen of Comanche
county who had raised it. with two others,
from calves The one killed had escaped
from the pasture in which they were kept
The Sillouhettist was about to remark
the absence of anything in the columns OF
the Burden Spirit of the West Indicative
of its political bias, when his eyes fell
upon this item, which elucidates the puz-
zle: 81 come up to holler shirts at you,
rang out loud and clear on the morning
air Wednesday. and as we turned our Joan
of Arc dignity on the Commercial shirt
maker, the red headed Chicago drummer
asked to be kicked down stairs by the ele-
vator boy. He didn't know the spirit was
edited by bachelor girl. ="
An ''art reception" was given in honor
of young lady of II at Emporia one even
lug ISCtElly duu tHO
consisted in each guest drawing in blank
book, provided for the purpose. sketch
of an object suggested by his or her escort.
First and consolation prizes were awarded
for the best and poorest efforts. The con-
ISOLATION prize. in this instance, was box
of backing, neatly tied with bit of blue
ribbon and inscribed, III you can't shine
at the head, shine at the heel"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

An exchange concludes an article on
good roads with this observation: The
old idea that a road must be
sixty TO eighty feet wide is giving way
to macadam of twenty feet This
width las been found TO be ample for
every purpose, and saves a great deal of
expense. The good already accomplish
ed is apparent now all over the country"
The wide road idea is mistaken one
everywhere. 1t not only involves con-
siderable unnecessary expense in main
tanning the highway, but in the occu-
pancy of large area of ground that
could be put under cultivation TO good
profit Macaiamizing is the correct
theory in clayey soil and where there is
suitable material convenient, but in this
sectien the conditions do not require it
Our roads, in the main, are good almost
the year round and need comparatively
little care aside from keeping the occas-
Sional culverts in repair aud the weeds
mown few feet from the track way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
DAVID AND MARY MARTIN.

David aud Mary Martin, father and
mother of Hon. George w. Martin. died
at the old farm-home, near Lecompton,
that historic but now almost deserted
and forgotten capital of Kansas Terei-
tory. Here for thirty-seven years. and
ever since the squatter sovereign days,
these two had lived, labored and loved.
From this home George first went forth
to learn an art and to embark in a bust
ness which has kept him before the eyes
of the public of Kansas for quarter OF
a century and more, and always to the
honor of these dear patient and loving
parents who, united through life, joined
hands in death and went out mated for
eternity. David and Maryland where
thus linked how suggestive Of earnest
and truthful lives, these quiet names
were. seventy eight and seventy-two
years old respectively, the latter dying on
Friday and the husband and father fol-
lowing the next day. The influential
men and women of our state the proud
sons and daughters of any state,-whose
opinions mold affairs and shape des-
TIMES, how much Of all they are is due
the sterling worth of the pure, true but
unobstrusive lives of the mother Mary5
and the father Davids, the quiet light and
the steady warmth of whose existences
are so often but the low fires of consta Mt
sacrifice. Like thousands of other Kan
sans we never met the venerable David
nor his faithful Mary, yet how many
will be touched by the brief announce
ment of their death, because of knowl-
edge of their genuine lives as found re-
Elected in the manhood and worth of
those to whom they had devoted all their
youthful and hopeful years.
There was little else to the telegrapbic
announcement except that they two were
together buried on Sabbath morning.
Such is life and death, and may such OF
each of US in turn be written. Earthly
existence hovers briefly between two
unknown horizons, the one inexpllca-
Die, the other bright with hope through
faith that is begotten of a conviction that
that Perfection which we name God did
not make mistake when He implanted
that within our souls which SO con-
stantly murmurs its assurance of a per-
fected existence, murmurs it as cease
lesslv as the shell of the inland drift ever
re-echos the whlsperings of blue I'M
fathomables deeps and the music of the
waves of the far off limitess ocean.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
Tolstoi,s Node Of Worship.

Count Tolstoi, according to the latest
report, does not think collective worship
at ali necessary. His idea of worship is
self meditation. To be truly religions
one must wear nothing except which has
not been made by hand. Avoid living
by usury, or in other words. live By
your labor and not by that OF Others.
One must also be a vegetarian. He 10
not. however, a Socialist IN the Bel
lamy sense, nor does he in the least
syInpathize with strikes or labor unions.
To be religious one must act out Christ 5
teachings literally, or IN other words, one
must obiiterate self. Seifhood IS death
to all religion,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Viewers paper makes emphatic de-
NAL of the statement, sent out in the AS
sociated Press dispatches a few days
ago. that the union printers had been
ordered out of his Office, and rs proof
that he has been in sympathy with labor
unions cites the circumstances that be-
ing. a memDer OF congress when Cieve-
land appointed S. P. Rounds to the posi-
ton of public printer he (Weaver) op-
posed Rounds confirmation because he
was a non-union man and employer
We have no data to prove or disprove
tine claim, only the circumstance that
presidential appointments are not re-
ferred to the house for confirmation.
But the general is pretty clever at ex-
plantations, and perhaps he viii be able
70 explain this slight discrepancy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
a BLIND FARMER GIRL.
Notwithstanding Her Aciiction She 70
Very Useful.

Notw1fhsTaocInZ Her hnlction she -
Very Usefnl.
Texas is an extraordinary state. She
has land enough IN which TO hide sew
eral countries like Great Britain, and
produces some extraordinary people.
The greatest curiosity Of late years, &c
cording TO the statement of Texas
paper, lives at Oak Hill, q post village.
She is blind girl who has, from few
acres of land cultivated by herself.
cleared about two hundred dollars each
season by the sale of vegetables
She began, we are told, without CAPT
tai on an unfenced piece Of uncultivated
land. There is no.. a neat fence around
her domain. well and pump IN the
center, and. in addition TO purchasing
these. she has paid for piano and a
hack in which 70 take her vegetables 20
market. twenty miles away. Every
evening during the dry season she wa
ters a certain number OF plants, until
she has gone over the entire piece, when
she begins again and goes over II IN tie
same way
She detects insect life. we fire told.
by her acute sense q hearing. and
grass and weeds are easily distiny utshed
by the sensitive fingers O: the blind
gardener
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
CITY GOVERNMENT A CORPORATE
NOT a POLITICAL PROBLEM.

Professor James Bryce declared, in his
American Commonwealth, that the
weakest place in the political system of
the United States was municipal govern
ment; that the federal government and
the state governments had carried out
the purpose for which they We're eslab-
lished fairly well, but that the graveSt
problems that had been encountered in
the republic thus far were the problems
that grew out OF the government OF
municipalities. The Forum has begun
the publication of series of articles on
American municipal government which
shall set forth the results of original in
vestiga;ion and of interesting expert
ments in all the principal cities of the
Union. In the August number Mr. Frank
Morrison of Boston makes an interesting
diagnosis of the fundamental difficulty.
\ city, he maintains, is not only techni
cally, but Is logically. = corporation. and
not political community. Politically
every resident OF a city Is a resident Of
the county and of the state and Of the
nation in turn, but SO far as the city is
concerned he IS simply a member of a
corporation, and the business Of the city
government is corporate business aud not
political business. The problem is to
pave streets, TO supply water, to protect
public life. and such tasks as these, as
well as police duty. Now, the manage
ment of a corporation is always put into
the hands of men who have an interest
If stake. In The same way, Mr.
Morrison argue. the maintenance
Of a city ought TO be put into the
hands O. men who have something at
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
SMITH AND LONG ON DECK.

A harvest home picnic was held at
Window, Mcpherson comfy, on Satur-
day, and by design, it seems, and I'M
known to Farmer Smith, at least he and
Lewelling were both invited and both
were present. The meeting had been
advertised as non-partisan and Smith
was warned against saying anything of
a partisan nature. But Lewelling
opened the meeting with his regular
campaign speech. Chester l. Long be-
ing also present he and Smith proceeded
to wipe up the earth with his calamity
crowd. 1t was an unexpected oppor-
tunity for complete victory for both
Smith and Long.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

An autograph petticoat, the latest fad,
is the invention of Mrs. Abner Taylor,
the wife of a Chicago millionaire con-
gresham. Having first circulated a
petticoat among the members and so
secured their autographs. Mrs. Taylor
will embroider the names upon the gar
ment and henceforth wear it in memory
Of the statesmen. The estimable lady IS
engaged in a very hazardous scheme.
This thing of. handling petticoats has
cost many a man-and statesman among
tbem-his head.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Come to think of it, there is nothing
very strange or surprising in the fusion
of the Democrats with the Pops in Kan
sas. 1t will be remembered that one of
the very first calamity documents ever
promulgated in Kansas-and one, by
the way, that has never been surpassed
in its injurious effects upon the states
material welfre and prosperity-was
the notorious Galloway circular.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

To the Editor of the Eagle.
What is the political or otherwise sig
nificance to the cabalistic Q. O. p and d.
o. ps. SUBSCRIBER.
G.. o. z. are not cabalistic but bright
initials, and they refer to the party of
Lincoln and Harrison and mean Grand
Old Party" ID. o. P. refer to the party
of the Stuffed Prophet, ct id. genus
omne, and means-well, we can't say it
,-old party"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

loaded down with homeseekers, anxious
for quarter section of Oklahoma's beau
tiful and fertile soil on which to carve out
permanent home; men of capital, ready
to invest in Taloga and county DIS future
prospects; pleasure hunters. without
which no crowd would be complete. long
ing for few days chase after wild turkey,
deer and bear, and in fact people OF all
trades and professions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
A Dog-on Shame.

According to an Arkansas City paper a
married man at that place, who occa-
sonally goes out on lark during the
absence Of the lunar lights, had better
keep his dog at home or kill him, for 1t
is a dead give away to see his deg scratch
on the front dosr of anothers residence.
A dog will sometimes follow fellow
farther than suspicion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
So Much for Alliance Legislation.
From the Anthony Republican.

County Surveyor Simmons Of Sumner
county, at the April term of the district
court, obtained judgement for S72j
against the county for salary under the
bill passed by the last legislature allow
ing him 81 per day for keeping his
Office open The Alliance county at
torney was authorized 10 appeal the case
to the supreme court. but failing to do
so. the commissioners paid the claim
last week.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

The Globe-Democras expresses the
opinion that the growth of the Peoples
party will help the Republicans in DEM
ocratic states and the Democrats in Re
publican states. Republican Alliance
men in Kansas who are hesitating what
course TO pursue will make a note of
this. A vote for Weaver is a vote for
CLEVELAND
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

The bean eating Boston fiunkey no
doubt fancied that he was hitting the
west an awful blow when he remarked:
81 would not buy western horse; for
as drivers they are no good" Western
horses hold the championship for
superior drivers, and have for some time
and are likely to retain it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Ex-Governor Hardin, whose death was
announced Saturday, was nominated IN
the most remarkable contest known in
Missouri's remarkable political history.
The Springfield Democrat says he was
put on the ticket at the time of his NOM
ination by majority of one-sixth of the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
a nnrrn-rrrr. FsroasarFr.

Mrs Van Jealryus--i see Mrs Hoe
tong is going 20 hase King Lear a.
her next private theatrieais-
Mrs Sevrich mad with enTyt~-is
she, the affected thing7 Do you know.
dor!-t believe he's real king az all
Chicago SewA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Estimating the future by the past, four
years more of Cleveland and reform"
of his sort, would result in the foreclos-
ure of quarter of million mortgages
on farms and homes in the agricultural
states of the west, placed there, many
of them, the result of the effects of the
other four years experience of the coun-
ary with that regime.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

What a country is this, to be sure!
While Old Sol was killing people by the
score in the cities iu the eastern states,
last week, Jack Frost was killing vege-
tation in the north-northwest.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
EXCHANGE SHOTS.

What Stopped the Machine2
From the Garden City Herald.
The trouble at Homestead seems to be
on account of too much Frick-tion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
Sensible Advice.

From the Baltimore American
Possess your soul in peace, avoid alco-
hoI, put cabbage leaf in your hat and
keep on the shady side of the street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
PETER V as Not There.

From the Minneapolis Journal:
The fifty-eighth anniversary OF the
discovery of the Cave of the Winds was
celebrated in the town of Niagara Falls
on Sunday last, and Mr.. PETER was not
invited
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

Less than one-third of the inhabitants
of Homestead and its suburb, MunhaiI,
are native born Americans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

The grandson of David Crockett is run
ming for office in Arkansas on the Demo-
cratic ticket. Another descendant OF
great man gone wrong.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
LITERARY NOTES.

Cutting for August opens with the first
installment OF Wheelman Frank G..
Lenzs description of a cycling tour
around the world. The daring rider is
a. present somewhere on the bread west
ern plains, enroute for the Pacific coast.
and during his two year Jaunt he will
traverse Japan, China, India. Persia,
Turkey, Austria, Germany, Holland,
France, England, Scotland and Ireland.
Dir. LEM will communicate his expert
ences to Outing from convenient points
of his journey, illustrating his articles
by photos taken by himself. The open
ing chapter describes the trip across the
Alleghanies from Pittsburg via Wash
ington 20 New York, aud is profusely IL
Illustrated.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

THE American elm is named by Amer
lean Gardening as the ideal street tree
for the reason that its top as a rule is
V-shaped and does not require so much
trimming IS do round-headed naples
l.-Ar-r
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02
COUNTY REPUBLICAN TICKET.


State Senator 9th District,
O. Il. BENTLEY.
Representative 9th District,
Representative 6Sth District,
GEORGE L, DOUGLASS.
Representative 69th District,
/. Il. SHIVELY.
County Attorney,
JOHN d. DAVIS.
Clerk District Court,
S. \. BRIrGEMAN.
Probate Judge,
i. 5. NAFTZGER.
Superintendent Public Instruction,
J. S. CARSON.
County Commissioner,
d, 4. NICKERSON
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

The wheat crop Of Kansas is worth IL cen IS
a bushei more this year than IL was last
That IS. il VIII grade No. > instead OF No *
AID viii weigh heavter.-ParSoIls sun.
On the other hand the price Is 10
cents lower. Ii VIII bring about the
same price, bushel for bushel, az last
years crop and there are Is million
bushels more of il.-CaDital.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-02

The August Century has handsome
new white and green cover marked
Midsummer Holiday Number lie Is
notable not only for its midsummer
characteristics, but as celebrating the
centenary of the poet Shelley by
frontispiece portrait aud striking essay
by the poet George E. Woodberry, who
is one of the chief Shelley scholars of
America. Mr.. Woodbury. gives very
high estimate of Shelley's work in the
line of modern civilization, and says
that ''those to whom social justice is a
watchword, and the development of the
individual everywhere in liberty, III
teliigence, and virtue is a cherished hope,
must be thankful that Shelley lived. }"
In "Open Letters Mr.. John Malone
gives the interesting result of patient
search for Shelley's American Ances-
tor"
The number is gay with pictures and
with stories, both serial and short. The
first article is a fresh account of the
ascent of Japan's sacred mountain. The
ascent was made to ascer, ain the avail
ability of the peak as an astronomical
station, but the interesting description
of the journey, with its beautiful Illus
trations, makes the article delightful
summer reading.