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, 1893-03-15
AN ICE DAM ON THE DANUBE.

Vienna. Feb. 13.-To-day the Danube pre-
ser,s al extraordinary spectacle. Underneath
tho Prince Rudolf Bridge. sp 'nning the stream
opposite the city. all .c"1%all composed of
blocks three feet thick, piled one above the
other, completely dams up the ~ater. Tils
ice stretching from bank to bank, and along
the rivers course towards PreSsbuig, resem.
bIes an immense snow field extending as far as
the eye can reach.
Looking up stream towards Kalenberg, the
Danub. presents the appearance OF a still
lake all the more curious bY cont asst 10 the
usual fierce turbid current Of the river. The
houses in the immediate vicinity of the river
bank in the Leopoldstadt, between the Danube
and the stream known as the Wiener assrr,
are now completely surrounded by water, and
boatS ply between the large commungl build
ing aud tho gardens opposite.
Fortunately nO rain storms have occurred.
a. one days heavy rain would swamp me
I.ropoldsr adj and cause great destruction OF
property. 49,,
The outlook is very serious, and, if the ice
dam does not give way, extensive inundations
can hardly be prevented. The ice field CON
tinues for2O0 miles beyond BudapeHt.-1b'd.
, 1893-03-15

Government for the imposition Of a tax ON
vrlocipedes, and this definition had been given
by Dr.. Michou. who had kept the H..nse much
amused by the ardent manner in which he had
championed the bicycle and the tricycle., re-
lating that at his home in the country he had
through their means, been able to visit a
number + patients gratuitoi>ly, as he WAS
not put to the expense IT acarriage. Finding
that his al. uments did not produce muoh i'm
preston on the House the Deputy for the
Aube proposed a comp omiss. lie suggested
that the velocipede should not be molested,
and that a tax should be imposed in taad OH
umbrellas and tall hats. There was a loud
laugh. the more 80 as the honorable memb'r,
who often goes to the Ihamber on his tricycle.
would, as n colleague remarked. have escaped
both the taxes which he proposed, as he IS
never know 20 use an umbrella, and he con.
tents himself with lighter ~headgear. Eventn.
ally the tax on vslo"ipedes wa voted, a
diminution being settled for those used for
business purposes.-I6'd.
, 1893-03-15
THE HOME RULE BILL OF
1893.
Daily Telegraph, IAN FEB.

In the Bill Of 1886 Mr.. Gladstone took
power t. create two Chambers, the Upper
consisting of Irish Peers and elected MEM
bere, and to confer upon fh'm the control OK
executive and legislative business relating to
Ireland.
These powers ara tlsvolved by the bill
which the right hon. gentleman sxpounded
last night upon a popular Assembly con"ist.
iug of the 100 members now representing
Ireland in tho Imperial Parliament, and
a Legislative Council, consisting of forty
eight members. who should be elseted by
a constituency estimated at 10000 per-
sons, holding property Of a rAtsAble value
$50 and upwards. The qualification for
the lO3 members is TO remain unchan-
cd. The irish Parliament is to meet IN Sep
embcr.
In order TO give ireland ia voice, "a full
voice, on all imperial matters" Mr.. Gladstone
proposes that she should elect eighty-oue
members to represent her at Westminster, and
he indicates subjects upon which they are not
to vote:
In the preamble of the bill the foiloying
words occur Whereas il is expedient, with
out imuairing or restricting the supreme au-
thori V of Parliament" The new Irish Legis.
lature is excluded from interior ne in matters
reserved to the Imperial Parliament, and this
cate, OF y includes all questions relating to this
Crown, to peace and war, treaties with foreign
nat .ons, treason, the law of a~lienage, external
trade, coinage religious liberty, aud personal
freedom.
Upon the Irish Viceroy. who Is to be
appointed for six years and to bs Tree from
all relig GUS DISH. lities, the Qleen 10 90
dsvolve all execu' i've power, ahe Executive
Committee of the Priv, Council will become
the Cabinet of the viceroy.
With the ViOcroy acting upon the advice oS
his Council will reside the power OF veto
Az IN the former bill theirs will be an
appeal tn the judicial Committee OF the Pr.ivy
Council N c,ses raising tho question OF the
invalidity of any Act passed BY the irlsa
Lsgislaturs. se .at. 81 =
The Judges. are to be. irremossbls, and
clauses are ~introdnosd protecting the snioiu.
msnts Of the present occupants Of the Beach,
and also those Of existing civil servants. The
Irish ConStaimlary will be for e period under
Tie oontrolc of the Ticeroy, and Mr.: Glsdstons
hopes that MANY Of its members will transfer
their services to Il local to,cs owing its exN
ssucs 70 Irish suabsrity.
, 1893-03-15

expressed his thanks to Councillor Won Werder
and to DR.. Fielitz. the district physician, to
whose u~ntiring and se!f-sacrihcing efforts it
was du TINT the epidemic had not extended.
although the ws'er of the river Saale afforded
special facilities for the spread of the disease
Gibrilter, Feb. 1.-THE Gibraltar Board Of
Health having declared Mar~eiiles to be-
infected, the harbour authorities have imposed
ten days quarantine on all arrivals from that
poit-Lb:d.
, 1893-03-15
THE CHOLERA.

Halle, Feb IT. The recent epidemic Of
cholera in this district has now died out. Pro.
{. ssor Publ left this afternoon for Berlin. but
his assistant. DIR. ZenthoeHer. remains here for
another eight days
=" Yesterday evening . banquet WA given ae
the Hotel Stad' Hamburg here. = in honor OF
Dr.. Koch. Some eight guests sat down. and
Proaaasox Psnh; IN Ns couras u As<pesnA,
, 1893-03-15

The vslocipsde 10 the poor mans horse, It
does not eatt' "All the more reason that il
should pay" cried . member. The ChambHr
wss Discussing . bill brought forward by tAs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
THE SUNDAY OPENING.

Ii the report sent out from Chicago in
yesterdays dispatches i'll regard to the
churches boycotting the worlds fair if it
shall be determined to open the gates
Sundays be true it will be taken by
many conservative people as proof posi-
tive that the church Is bent upon con-
trolling the affairs of the country, the
civil government TO the contrary. 1t is
the opinion of many that the church has
before this seriously compromised its
mission and its influence and power for
good by its unwarranted Entertainments
upon the states prerogatives, and conse-
Quent abandonment OF its own, and if it
shall take the step now threatened it will
have come pretty near precipitating an
open issue between itself and the world
chat cannot but result with more or less
disaster TO the cause of Chi istianity, for
time at least. Fanaticism has been
the bane of religion in all ages, and in
this one particular the human race does
not seem to have protited by the eXpe-
riences of the past.
America more consistently than any
other country observes the Sabbath, not
only as sacred day but as day of rest,
Now if the fair management should in
the face of this well known Sabbath day
sentiment of the country, find it in their
Judgment the best, everything consider
ed, 10 open the grounds to the public on
Sunday, the only wise course for those
who do not believe it right, wise or ex-
pedient to do would be TO make their
formal protest, and then for themselves,
individually and collectively, refrain
from going to the grounds on that day.
Any boycott viii prove detrimental to
the church and harmful 10 the spirit and
work of Christianity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
A VENAL AND CHEAP GANG.

| The Alliance was organized in the in
terest of the farmer, from which law
yers and professional politicians were
especially excluded. The Peoples party,
| which politically succeeded the Alliance,
was for the farmer as against the world.
| The men who converted the Alliance into
the Peoples party howled and walled for
the down-trodden ana oppressed farmer.
Their platforms set out only the woes
and wrongs of the down-trodden farmer
demanding that the offices should be
filled by him and that all legislation
should be with reference to the para
mount interest of the debt-ridden pro-
ducer. The farmer open mouthed swal-
lowed the entire dose. No class of men
in this country were ever so completely
captured with sweetened wind. What
have they for result: There is not
farmer III any office that amounts to
anything. All the big places and all of
the paying places are held by the fellows
who GId the bowling in the name of the
mortgage-Oppressed farmer. PETER, the
long whiskered pessimist of Topeka, took
the first plum, and, after getting snug
places foT his grown-up children, he and
his family are now drawing about fifty
dollars per day from the government.
And for what: The busted Wichita
money-loaner and commission mer-
chant, Lewelling-a stranger from
another state-is governor. Then
comes Breidenthal, the socialist of Topo
lobampo fame, and Artz, the fugitive
from Colorado, and Noah Allen, the
cheap pettifoger, and Doster, and Glenn
ems. and Vincent. and Close, and Lease,
and Todd, and Taylor, and Chase, and
Hall, and whole raft of other big and
little office holders, not one of whom is
"A farmer, but every one of whom are
professional politicians or adventures.
In the legislature and in the county
offices 1t is the same thing. There were
more farmers on the Republican side of
the last house than on the Poguist side,
and all the best county offices in the
state, where the Populists carried the
day, are filed, not by farmers, but by
fellows who fooled the farmers; are fill
ed by itinerant, wide-mouthed calamity
howlers who are living on sweets and
fats in the name of the farmer whom
they have deluded by hypocritical walls
over imaginary wrongs, and whose sole
aim and work since has been to keep
alive fool prejudice TO the end that
they may continue TO profit thereby.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

Colonel John p. Irish of California,
who went almost direct from Mr.. Cleve-
lands presence TO the Transmississippi
congress, declared in positive terms,
says the Denver News, that Congress
will have to pass free silver bill over
President Cleveland's veto if they pass
one at all. This Semi-official ultimatum
or threat will probably have no influence
upon congreso-not half so much as the
influence of federal PATRONAGE fact
that the administration will no doubt
become familiar with before the meeting
of congress.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
PERSIAN POETRY.
The knowledge of That Language Pos
sessed by British Officials.

Sir Edward Strachey, in recent
paper on Persian Poetry" in the At
lantic, speaks of the knowledge of that
language and literature required by an
earlier generation of English officials
in India:
with the other institutions OF the
moquls we took over the use of Persian
in all official business, and the munshi.
or Persian secretary and interpreter,
became part of the staff of the Eng
lish official in charge of political, rev.
enue and judicial business. The Ian
guage of business was soon discovered
to be the language of new and fine
literature: and volumes illustrate the
enthusiasm which the magistrates,
Judges and collectors in our older
provinces, and our administrators in
those newly annexed, our political
agents and residents in the native
courts. and our military officers threw
into these studies from the time when
Warren Hastings set the example.
But then generation Of speculative
reformers arose, who asked why we
should not act in the spirit Of the no.
gus. ana. lDste2u OF carrying on tAflr
method with literal servility, make
English the official language. and 50
bring the several nations Of India into
a new and more intimate connection
with our own literature and civiliza-
ton. A retired Bengal Judge expressed
the general opinion OF practical men
when he said that You might as well
make Sanscrit the official language
in the courts II Westminster as Eng
lish IN the administration Of justice in
India.
''He, indeed. though man % ability
and eminence in the cornpaDy's service,
could see no inconvenience IN the en-
ploymcnt OF Persian in the sdTninistra-
ton Of justice: and such IL The force of
habit that when be had occasion %
take notes OF an important trial az the
Somersetshire assizes be actually wrote
them in Persian rather than IA the Eng
I.sh words In which the evidence was
given, Just a. hss done many years be-
fore when trying aakoits a. Jessore.
Bat though the general opinion 81
The native as well as the English Off
Gals was against sny change. Lord
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
THE CAUSE OF II.

1t is worthy of remark that the I'M
usual weather which has characterized
this spring has not been confined to Kan
sas but has extended all over this coun-
try and the old world as well. In this
section the season is at least four weeks
latter than usual, in this land Of sun
shine, where the vernal season nearly al
ways sets IN early. Hicks and Foster
and the army of weather sharps who
foretell the storm with a considerable
degree of accuracy, or else make very
close guesses, are not responsible, but
the astronomers explain it all. This,
they say, is the sun spot period, and a
period of conjunction OF the planets.
We quote from an exchange that this
time tine sun is having an unusually bad
spell of it, Il Is badly "broken out. =
The astronomers who took in the eclipse
from the summit of the Andes say that
the sun has not had such spottedness for
wears. Its actions show il to be greatly
disturbed. Ii has painted the atmos-
phere scarlet for hundreds CT miles
within lis vicinity. and has sent out
streamers TO the distance OF 49,. 900 miles
into space.
The astronomers and statisticians
figure ont that tie periods when the sun
mas had severe attacks Of spots have uni-
formly been periods when this globe has
had yirulent attacks Of rain-water and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
PAID FOR DOING NOTHING.
Great Ingenuity Displayed by Clerks IN
the Departments at Washington.


the Departments at Washington.
A great many young men secure
| places in the departments merely for
| the purpose of supporting themselves
while they are studying in the great
schools of law and medicine here, says
the Washington Star. Matters are SO
arranged at these institutions that a
clerk who stops work at four p. IN. can
get dinner and be on hand for the even
ing lectures, which begin at six. The
house has voted to reduce the annual
vacation of the clerks from thirty to if
teen days, in addition to which they
are allowed thirty days sick leave in
each year. Whenever there is a legal
holiday there is usually a half-holiday
on theday previous. The clerk takes the
working part of that half day off. This
gives him two days clear. But, on the
day before the half-holiday, he goes to
the chief of his bureau and asks permits
sion TO leave at two thirty p. m, so as
to catch train. Thus the single days
holiday is expanded into two days and
half The ingenuity with which such
affairs are managed is said to be won
derful. However, it should be explained
that twothirds of the employees rarely
take day of the sick leave allowed
them. II clerk is absent on account
of illness over sixty days in any year he
or she must pay substitute. The civil
service commission provides all the sub
stitutes that are wanted. 1t is provided
that the clerks shall give to the substi-
tute certain proportion of the pay,
usually amounting TO about five per
cent. By thus hiring su bstitute clerk
might retain his place in the service of
the government for years, though him
self blind. paralyzed and confined 70
his bed. In all cases of sickness physi-
clans certificate is required. Not long
ago the treasury department made a
rule to the effect that such certificate
must always state the nature of the
complaint But the local medical society
resolved in formal council that such a
thing was out of the question. and SO
the regulation fell 70 the ground.
One gets vivid notion OF the rnagni-
tude Of the departments from the vast
quantities of ice which are required To
quench the thirst of the twenty-three
thousand clerks. The treasury con-
surDes a ton and a half Of ice daily, tax
ing an average the year around. An
equal quantity is used in the war. state
and navy buildings. But the depart
Hent OF the interior is the great de-
vOurer 81 ice. Including the pension
Office it gobbles up from fiv- IN SIX tons
every twenty four hours. The auauti-
ties utilized are variable Each DEPART
nent makes its own contract for ice.
bids being Advertised for annually. 40
definite amount 20 be provided i agreed
on The contractor gets 20 much for
supplying al the frozen " atfr required.
whatever II Tnay b. All the depart
nents. together with their brsnches.
consume twenty four thousand pound.
every dar. Anv secretary can ty a SIN
pie order Increase the working hours q.
the clerks in uis department 70 any ex-
tent which he thinks deSira bic.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
The aaaiehia 1a,lu Eagle sumlau loruima aay 1898.

kindred phenomena. From the way the
earth has been visited with rain and
snow during the past six weeks, we may
judge of the way the sun has had spots
this last time, supplemented by the
planetary conjunction, and more recent
~ by the Mars equinox.
But the sun spot period it not one for
terrestrial grief, according to the esti-
mates of statisticians; for they find that
such periods of moisture have as rule
been the big crop periods and conse-
quently the periods of prosperous trade
and good times. Let us therefore keep
on our flannel underwear and stiff
upper Up, and watch out for the good
times coming.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

Mr.. c. Wood Davis is still on the op;i-
mistic side of the agricultural situation
and. as ever, has a decided opinion of
the future. He declares that a partial
failure of wheat this year will be bless
ing in the end to the people of Kansas.
He says that the failure of wheat and
oats. taken in conjunction with the de-
creasing proportion of food products to
the number of consumers, will forever
put an end to low prices. He says the
man does not live who will ever again
see the cent hogs or 90 cent corn in
Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

The brethren seem to dwell together in
enity. The leading popUlist organ OF
southern Kansas, the Chetopa Statesman,
says: 'There is growing suspicion
that the CRY for an extra session comes
from disgruntled place hunters who tag
after pap as a hungry calf follows a
heifer." Brother A. Il. Smith, of the
Topeka Popuhst, IN the last issue of his
paper says: at will be simply suicide
for us 10 so into the next campaign
loaded down with the blackened record
of the officers we have elected"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
For the Eagle.
MAY,

May comes. with her glad young life,
To brighten the grim old ,sorld:
She filings down her carpet of green:
See her beautiful banners unfrrled.
The flowers dance gay minnet,
And bow to the swift passing breeze:
The birds form their choruses grand.
Mid the wide spreading boushs Of the
trees
Old Nature rejoiees. and joins
Myriad voices in jubilant praise;
So we, in the happy Spring time,
Should follow in wise Natures ways.
The seasons bring moods. grove, and gay,
And giveth each mortal his choice;
But the only sane mood in the Spring.
Is the one fair May labels, Rejoice"
-ALNEDA T.. Wight.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

First Consul Cleveland who sent =
personal ambassador to Honolulu to haul
down the flag of his country, and who
later rose above congress and its laws by
suspending the further payment OF any
bounty on sugar, nIay have also quietly
ordered his secretary of the treasury to
stop buying silver under the Sherman
law. At any rate it is known that Car
Isle has ceased to publish the purchases,
If indeed any are made. SO far as tie
American public are concerned they
know nothing about it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
Fusion Philosophy.

From the Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka Press has made the terri
bic discovery that the railroads of the
country are owned largely by those in
terested in The banks of the country.
Well, what of it: The people didn't
suppose they were owned by the inmates
of the aims houses of the country. In
these days there is great deal of stupid
ity put off with awful solemnity and
people are expected to receive 1t as wis
dom from on high.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

Unless there is a reduction in railway
rates the worlds fair will dwiEdle into a
Chicago affair.-EX.
Railway rates will not cut so much OF
figure in the attendance at the fair, as
shat will constitute but small part OF
the expense account. If the expenses
of living while there were reduced by
half. the attendance would be more
than doubled.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

The statement that eNtortion is cener-
ally practiced and that people are robbed
IN Chicago Is pronounced by the ST. Joe
Herald a malicious falsehood. The
Herald declare that visitors to the fair
can find good accommodations every
Where and at reasonable prices. This
does not tally with the experience OF
Assistant General Manager De
Young, nor hundreds of others
who have tried it and agree
with MIR. De Young, However, It
is hoped there viii be an improvement
in the matter Of quality anu cost of en-
undertaking is to be made Il success in
point OF numbers OF visitors.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

OF course the Louisiana sugar planter
kicks on the abolition of the bounty. But
then large part of the country has been
kicking on the weight OF the burden
Springfield Democrat.
The weight of the burden of the
sugar bounty is as nothing to that of the
tariff on sugar which was removed by
the ''biilion dollar congress" Just let
the old tariff take the place of the
bounty as is threatened, and then you
viii see the country kick.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

and crying that "there was a man in he
room" and then as suddenly hushed aud
ran back up stairs They followed her
and there, wrapped up tight in a bed quilt,
she explained that she had forgotten that
she Was married
pond in kiowa county contains ALI
gators. Speaking of the capture of one
of them the Wichita EAGLE man says:
The covenants aim was perfect, and at
the. firsDswing Of the rope large female
was caught and pulled to the shore, where
he was bucked and gagged" Who? Why.
the cowboy. of course-Lawrence Record.
Wrong again. If t had been the cowboy
that as gagged how'd the world o. know'd
O the occurrence
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07

Bishop Kahn of Wheeling, W. Va,
whom Rome has named as coadjutor to
Bishop kenrick of st. Louis, will be
formally installed on June l. He is a
native of Berkeley county, Va, 80 years
of age, and man of remarkable phys
zeal and mental powers. Bishop Kahn
will take active charge of the archdio-
cese Immediately after his installation
and will succeed Archbishop Kenrick
upon his death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
Good Law and Good Politics,

The supreme court has decided that
the executive council has right to re-
move the railroad commissioners at will.
This lets Mr.. Anthony and Mr.. Mitchell
down with a d. 5. t. And probably
everybody but Mr.. Anthony and Mr..
Mitchell will say amen" The decis-
ion of the court is not only good law,
but it is good politics.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-07
Harrison's Mat chless Oratory.

Reproving the stupid st. Louis Re-
public for making sighting remarks
concerning the speech Of Mr.. Harrison,
the Chicago Herald, Democratic. says:
Lets be fair, at least in off years, and
when there is nothing at stake. Mr.
Harisons Liberty Bell speech is one of
the neatest bits of orstory that has been
heard i'll this land for many a day."