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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

Guthrie is reYeling in extacies of ripe
watermelons.
The Chickasha Express will enlarge to
an eight-page paper this week.
Two young men of Blaine county captur
ed ten fawns in the strip last week.
After an absence of four weeks the
Minstrel HES itself to its first love-Minco.
Judge Dale has appointed ". w Wit
ten of Oklahoma City clerk Of the second
judicial district.
The Transcript says that new potatoes
are so plentiful that they can be bought
for almost any price.
The West and South. the Peoples party
organ at Guthrie, approves Superintendent
Parker's refusal to resign.
When a particularly vicious and low
grade theatar opens up in an Oklahoma
town. they call it a "honkytonk." The
name didn't come from" anything, it just
gtowed.
1t is reported that :he Hon. Sidney
Clarke of Oklahoma City. has been APP
pointed chairman of the Indian commits
sion that IS 10 deal with the five civilized
tribes. Should this be true Mr.. Clarke's
many friends in Oklahoma will congratu-
late him.
The people OF Moore are feeling much
elated over the recent discussion in their
townsite case which gives 100 acres TO
the town and eighty acres TO the contest
ants. Leverich and Turner. Moore will
dou StIess take on a little boom Is soon as
titles can tie secured.
Citizen: II Tal0Ca can get railroad
and one OF The United States land Offices.
then Will come individual enterprises
about as rapidly as they viii be Eeeded,
Let us all POW take pull on the railroad
and land Office strings. Aboa; everything
IN each case : in our favor.
Purcell Topic: We have always con-
tended that newspaper qaarretiug is not
rroiitsb!e. for the reason that you geueC.
ally have te devote sic worth OF SPACE 20 a
20 cent man The editors OF tue three
Guthrie dsilics are respectfully requested
to perlsse the above thoEghtfuliy.
Chandler News: Lincoln county is %
have another newspaper. Il viii he pub
lished al Carney. will be Democratic "a
politics. and lis promoters intend 20 cars
zen il TIE Carney Fox W. r. Young of
saltwater Will be editor. ana s Guthrie
OF the HSwk, Is backing l.ie business. TIE
material Is now or the EvouGd and the
FIRST number VIII proaAIy appear next
week
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
GRAIN lNsPECTIoN TROUBLES.

The grain men and the state authori-
ties over the line in Missouri, at Kansas
City. are in trouble again concerning
their inspection. The Missouri state
grain inspector proposes to put at work
st. Joseph and st. Louis inspectors at
that point, the suspicion being that this
is TO. or will, discriminate against the
market on the Kansas side Of the line.
The Gazette, in speaking of the affair,
says:
"a result Of the row quite likely will
be that the elevators over there Will re-
fuse TO qualify under the law as public
warehouses, and that therefore the only
public warehouse at this point will be
west of the STATE line. The grain men
will do such business as they can on the
grades and inspection from the Kansas
department.. 1t Is another evidence Of
the westward tendency of the grain bus
mess. 1t is of the utmost importance
Just at this stage that the Kansas officials
work in harmony with the established
order of things. The statement is made
by the Missouri papers that the cost of
inspection Is 30 cents car. This Is not
correct. The fee is % cents, and 10 cents
for sample when called for. Business
must come west of the state line, and all
interests should pull to this end. Kansas
state officials, and Kansas interests
throughout the state, might help greatly
IN developing things to their advantage
in Kansas City, Kan,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
MUSIC TO DANISH INSOMNIA.
A London Physicians Ingenious Plan tol
BanishinE Midnight Torture.

A London Physicians Ingenious Plan Tor
Banishing Midnight Torture.
Music as a curative agent has been
known and valued since the earliest
ages, and the recently established
guild of St Cecilia, in London, whose
professed object is to apply the sooth-
ing influence OF melody to patients in
| hospitals and elsewhere. is only carry
ing out the prescriptions of physicians
| who flOlrished two thousand wears
ago. The Athenian doctors "banished
fever by a song" Thales found music
most efficacious in the plague, and Au-
lus Gellius even went so far as to main
tain that it produced beneficial effect
in cases of bites and stings. In their
work on Psychological Medicine" Drs
Bucknill and luke remark that music
is the first recorded remedy employed
for the relief of madness. A novel,
and possibly useful, suggestion in
the same direction IS mentioned by
DR.. j. q. BlacllInan in the latest num-
Der of the London Medical Magazine.
1t is that music box. worked by an
electric motor, might be advantageous
~ employed in cases of insomnia
Some care, no doubt, would have to be
exercised to see that the mechanism
worked properly before it was started,
as nothing would be more likely to
drive sleep permanently away than
musical box out of tune or liable to un-
accountable and abnormal spurts of
energy. 1t would also be trying TO
nervous patient in the Silly night if
the electric current were turned off al
together and the box became suddenly
silent. It is possible that burglar in
ones bedroom might be soothed and
induced to surrender his booty by the
unexpected strains of Home, Sweet
Home, but it is also possible that he
might not One or two interesting in
stances are recorded in the article OF
the benefit which has resulted in hos
pitfalls from the musical treatment. and
the sleepless soul might do worse than
try the prescription contained ia it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
Father of the Navy.

Admiral Paris, ''The Father Of the
French Navy" died recently at tre age
of cighty-seven. His first important
service was performed sixty-seven
years ago, when he accompanied DU-
mont d'UrrilIe in 4 voyage which added
considera bly, to our knowledge Of the
Pacific islands. Unlike most sailors of
the old school, nc early appreciated
the advantages Of steam 1t was IN
der his command that the Cape OF Good
Hope was first doubled By g French
steamship, and he lost ST arm al Pondi-
cherry through an accident caused By
a steam engine ashore. During the
Crimean war he was captain Of tvo
decker, and won tae rank Of VICE sd-
u.iraL BE was appointed curator OF
the naval museum At the Louvre after
his retirement IN 1871. BE devoted his
official salary 70 tAe improvement Of
the collection under 1.s charge
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
GOTHAM LANDLORDS TRICKS.
Lowering Tenants Rent as Special
Favor TO Him.

Talking of moving day reminds me
of trick that the spectators In fat
buildings and dwellings resort to in
New York" said resident OF that city
to a St. Louis Globe-Democrat reporter
the other day.
''You know there are lots of men
there who make a business of putting
up houses only to sell. They build a
fat house, fill it with tenants as fast as
they can. and then while it is full sell
it at good profit.
''They resort 10 all sorts of tricks 70
get tenants. They give ,one and two
months rent free in some cases, and
make reductions that are astonishing.
You pay twenty-five dollars month
and get receipt for thirty or thirty
two dollars. The landlord makes i
appear that he is favoring tenant n
doing this, but when that tenant he
comes acquainted with her neighbors
she finds out that they are all favored
in the same way, receipts being made
out to each largely in excess OF the
rent paid.
The landlord has an object IN this.
A fat house was sold recently in New
York, and the old landlord. in giving
notice to his tenants, handed each a
sum of money that was the difference
between the rent they actually paid
and the amount they got receipts for,
telling them to add this to their regu
. lar rent when the new landlord came
around and to say nothing about the
matter, but quietly pay the higher
rent. tenant paying twenty-five
dollars month received seven dollars
to be added, so that the new landlord
would think he was paying thirty-two
dollars. Do you see?
THE game was a fiiInsy one, and its
weakness lay in the fact that to IN in
telligent person it was not only swim
die upon the purchaser of the house,
who would thus be made to believe
that ti.o revenue from the propsrty
was larger than it was in reality, but
it was virtually placing the tenant on
a new rent footing: it was raising the
rent that much under the new land
lord. The game is the same as that
practiced by the man who has 'sa-
loon with a good paying business to
sell, and, when the purchaser is
around, has lot of tramps and
friends TO patronize the place freely,
so that it will look as if the shop had
a lively, rushing trade"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
Commissioner OF Education
THAT INTEREST ATE DOG CASE.

Referring to dispatch sent out from
Topeka some time ago, which appeared
in our news columns under the above
heading, Mr.. j. S. BIount writes from
Coldwater the following note explana-
tory Of the affair, and which we publish
in justice to him:
EDITOR EAGLE-When read the item
in the EAGLE the air down in these parts
assumed a deep blue cast, for this re-
porter of Topeka mistated the facts and
the case in gen -ral. The facts are that
| shipped the dog as a present to my
Joseph, Mo, and | paid the express
charges, $3.50, and afterwards bill for
additional charges of 90 80 was presented
which l paid under protest, believing
that 81. 80 was too much or too high u
rate OF express to pay on dog, Grated,
total weight of seventy pounds.
] wrote Mr.. Close asking what course
to pursue to get the matter before the
board of railroad commissioner and Dir.
Close handed my letter to the board.
did not ask the governor to get after
railroad companies: | did not make
great roar as charged by this s.. 80
er-week-rust!e-for-hi board reporter
would have the public believe. l DO not
think it is the EAGLES province inten-
tionaily TO do me a wrong and write
you calling your attention to this fact
that great injustice has been done me in
the matter. Yours very truly,
j. s. BLOUNT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE.

Last week Professor Hallocis of Guth-
RE, o. T., wrote TO Commissioner
Harris, asking for definition of the
international date line, and few days
ago he received the following reply:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF EDUCATION.
WASHINGTON, ID. C., June II, 1898.
T.. !. Hallock. secretary Territorial Board OF
Education Chandler. U. I.
DEAR SIR-The international date line,
Che line internationally agreed upon on
which a ships calender is corrected is
the $50 degree west Or east of Greenwich
(Eng.). That meridian has been
chosen because it passes rerv lit
tie land, in fact, the least of
ali rneridians But it has a
remarkable deviation from its straight
course. (See accompanying map.) This
deviation was caused by the Spaniards
who sailed west around South America,
took possession of the Philippine islands
and established the calander they brought
with them. Thus it may come. that it
is July 9th. 100 o'clock a. M. in Auck-
land, New Zealand, while it is still July
3rd, HOO O'Clock p. M, in Manila,
Philippine isis, difference of twenty
six hours, enough and to spare to let the
fourth disappear.
All the civilized nations have agreed,
since the international geographical con-
gress in 1856 Tor 'S7:) held i'll Washington,
d. c., to correct the meridians from
Greenwich: Germany giving up lis first
meridian through Ferro, France that
through Paris, Italy that through Rome,
and the United States that through
Washington, Respectfully,
d. j. HARRIS,
Commissioner Of Education,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
1T RAINEO ELEPHANTS.
The Drummer's Story Topped by the
Usual Quiet Man In the Corner.

sguiet MAN IN the corner.
Everybody in the smoking compart-
nlent of the sleeper had told story
except one quiet, inoffensive sort of a
man in the corner, and the drummer
eyed him with suspicion as he finished
what he considered to be the corker
of the entire combination, says the De-
troit Free Press. As the drummer
concluded the quiet man poked his
head cautiously out OF his shell and
coughed slightly as men do who have
lain dormant awhile and rouse them
selves to utterance.
Il remember" he said, without fur
Their preliminary, "a queer circum-
stance which happened to me during
a summer visit / made some years ago
in Kansas. ! am reminded of it by the
story our friend here'-nodding 20
ward the drummer-''tells of shower
of fish falling from the sky. can
readily believe his story"-the drum
mer looked grateful-''and | hope he
will believe mine. One afternoon we
were sitting out in front of my friend S
house, some three or four of us, no.
ticing the peculiar shape, color and
movements of the clouds, when, all at
once, as true as Gospel, gentlemen, an
elephant, alive and kicking, dropped
right down in front of US out OF the
sky, and more astonished looking
brute | never saw"
The drummer sat spellbound. and
everybody else cholied up. speechless.
The quiet man looked around on his
auditors.
1T is as true as preaching. gentle
men" he went on: and though, as a
rule. in Kansas il doesn't rain elc-
plants, it did on that occasion. and is
accounted for by the fact that cy-
clone had struck a circus twenty miles
to the west Of Us, and. furthermore, it
was raining lions, and tigers, and
horses, and hyenas, and monkeys, and
tent pins for a week afterward. the
biggest things, of course, coming down
soonest"
''My dear sir" gasped the drummer,
as the quiet man was about 10 CON
tinue, don't say another word. |
travel for a liquor house, and if you
want a barred Of cocktails give me
your address and III send II TO YOU by
the first cyclone that passes our place
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
Rented Flowers.

4 florist who has one of the largest
greenhouses in the city derives no in
considerable profit from the renting Of
flowers and plants for private con-
certs, public dinners, receptions, balls.
weddings, church services, and even
funerals, the things most in de-
nand being palms and rubber trees.
The charges for the use of these plants
for single evening seem pretty steep
to the uninitiated. He explains why:
''You think fifty dollars too much for
dressing Mrs.-s parlor last Tuesday?
Come into the greenhouse. There, YOU
see that palm? That was worth thir-
ty dollars on Monday. l will sell
it to anybody to-day for ten dollars.
The leaves are split. and two of the
stalks are broken. And that is only
one instance. We are suffering dam
age like that, and we have to charge
a price that viii insure us against too
great a loss. Fifty dollars wouldn't
cover the damage that is done to our
property at some Of the swell recep-
tons"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
A JAPANESE OOO!TY,
Queer Little Bells That Are Much Sought
by Collectors.

by Collectors.
Within a few years great numbers OF
japanese temple bells have come TO
bought by collectors. They are not
the bronze and copper bells of the
shops, chased with gold and silver and
hung on silken cords, but are rather
rough objects that resemble old pots.
It is not usual to hang them. They
rest on circular cushion that keeps
them from rocking, and are struck
with stick made fer the purpose and
covered 1t the end with leather. The
tone IS grave, but rich and mellow.
and the thin shells of metal vib-ate
for several minutes after being struck;
while. without sounding very loud. the
carrying power OF their tone Is reEnarL-
able There IS one bell in Japan that
can be heard az distance CT over
twenty miles, IL IS said. Some collect
ors get two or three bells OF different
notes that form a chord, and when
Henry Irving was last N New York ne
bought what might De called chime
Of them. representing every note n the
scale. The metal is dull bronze that
Is sometimes made from the coin, gold,
silver and copper, received as don&-
tions in the temples The little knobs,
struck IN repousse al over the surface,
have curious significance; it Is said
that the original OF these bells repre-
sented the head OF B',ddah. covered
with the snails that obligingly craSled
over his scalp and cooled it when he
had headache. The httle protrn-
sions are conventionaIized indications
Of the Sna.ls
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a LAKE WITH a ROOF.
4 Body of Water IN siberia That Is Crust
ed Over with salt.

4 correspondent of the Geographical
Magazine describes a peculiar lake Of
Siberia. At first view il was a vast
plain, surrounded by fields of ripening
wheat. The season was midsummer.
The great salt lake at Obdorsl1 is nine
miles wide aad seventeen miles long,
yet except in few places IL is solidly
rooted over with deposit Of salt
which is getting thicker and thicker
every year
Our guide, who is an old man, said
that he could remember when the salt
crystals first began To gather upon the
surface Of the water. Year by year,
owing 10 the evaporation Of the water,
the crystals became more numerous.
and then caked together til this great
roof formed.
In 1875 the water beneath this salt
crystal roof found an underground
outlet into the River Obi This low
cred the lakes surface about three feet.
leaving that distance between the
water and the roof
Looking down through one Of the
openings made for the purpose ia the
roof. We saw a lov-sided small boat.
Our guide put us one At q time into the
beat. We lag fat on our backs and
looked up at the cDri0usly beautiful
salt ceiling overhead We propelled
The boat by pushing With orr hands
against the irregularities Of the roof
The guide held long rope attached
- the boat 20 prevent our going too
tax and getting !0st-a thing he said i
was easy % do.
II was like palace ~ snchantDent,
with the sun shining down through the
salt crystals, the eoloFs were 50 rich
and wonderful
Many springs snrTocnd this lake.
Their water flows over The roof ard
cvaporatss there, and thus continually
adds 70 IS thiczness After manF
Years the springs vii probably become
chosed with their own deposits. AID
then the whole vviu gradually become
covered WITH earth. and 80 q great salt
1nine Hill Re formed treasure FOR
the S.ber.zns auGdTsds Of years 70
cone
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27

There IS quite a story connected with
the appointment Of W. II. Combs of
Leavenworth as the successor to Cantam
Dan Grosvenor of Athens. O. chief of
the warrants and records division OF the
first comptroller's Office in the treasury.
The Kansas City Gazette relates a curl
Gus circumstance about the three last
chef OF that division. {. Il. 1Gaugum,
Grosvenor predecessor, was confed-
crate soldier with General Forrest AMI
helped 10 capture Captain Grosvenor
near Rome, Ga, IN May, 1868. Combs.
Grosvenor's successor was also Z confed.
crate and was with General Morgan. and
Grosvenor helped to capture him in July,
1868, in Ohio. 70 carry out The line Of
precedents thus set up, who is 10 succeed
Combs:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27

The brief report of the proceedings of
the supreme lodge of United Workmen,
in session at Toronto last week, made no
mention of any action looking to the
erection of an Independent jurisdiction
Of and for Oklahoma. a contamination
devoutly wished by the members of the
fraternity in that territory. For the good
of the order it is hoped such action was
taken, but the absence Of SO important a
matter from the telegraph report indi-
Gates that it was NOT done
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27
TIE SHERMAN Law BE CTER TIA
THE BLAND LAW.

From tie Lea wentworth Times.
Vice President i. {. Shinn of the
American Timetable league has issued
an address to the Populists of Kansas,
urging them to resist the repeal of the
Sherman silver law. Doubtless better
law than the Sherman law might be
passed, but the effort of the administra-
t!on viii be to repeal the Sherman law
and then to prevent the enactment Of
any other law TO take its place, thus
demonetizing silver altogether Senator
Martin, who was elected by the Popu-
lists. has announced bis intention
OF voting Tor the repeal OF
the Sherman law provided a
better law can be secured IN It's place.
He thinks the old Band law better.
though ihat law provided oaly for the
coinage mot he Iss1nei Of 3, 0n0. 600
per month. The Sherman law provides
for the purchase OF 4.5o0. coo ounces of
silver per month. When this silver i
purchased the money IS paid for il ami
sent out To circulate among The people
Ii the old Bland law Is restored the GOV
eminent can go on for years coming the
bullion already in the treasury and not
a dollar need be paid out TO the people
The Sherman law is Far better than tine
Bland law because It puts tie money ia
the hands Of t6e people while the Band
law would only replace the silver bricks
~ tie treasury with silver coin.
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Che aahita Daily Eagle tuesday 91oraino, gune 27 1888

behind the breakwater, absolutely
useless for purposes of war. With all
their power of opposing the enemy
gone, the Peruvians turned their at
tention toward destroying some Of the
hoStse ships that lay q few miles of,
a constant menace to the city of Callao.
Frequent futile attempts were made
to blow up the Gillian cruisers with
torpedoes, but the Chilians were too
alert, and succeeded in avoiding or de-
stroying the deadly missiles. One fore
noon. says Harper's Young People, the
picket vessel OF the Gillian feet,
small steam gunboat. was cruising in
shore to take a near look at theltown
and Notifications. While steaIning
slowly along boat was discovered
drifting down with the current. A
near inspection proved it TO be a fine
new whaleboat, vita cars and sails
and complete outfit. TIE commander
OF the Gillian steamed close up % the
boat and ordered tackles r;gged io1
hosting the prize on board. Tie
tackles were hooked, and the men
walked away to the pipe OF the boat
svain's whistle. Suddenly. as the
boat left the water, terrific explosion
took place. tearing the boat 10 atoms
and crushing in the gl1nbCst's side at
the water line. so that she filed and
sank, leaving her startled crew strug-
Cling in the water. Most of them
were rescued by boa,s from the
foreign men-of-war lying nas-, but
some were never seen again. The boat
was a cunringly-devised weapon, hav-
ing double bottom filed with a pow
erful explosive, with fuse and deton-
ator connected to the bolts TO which
the tackles hooked. When the strain
came on the bolts. as the boat rose
from the water. the fuse was ignited
and the explosion followed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27

The extreme liberal policy of the Law
renee Record the past few months is ex-
planned i'll the announcement that the
paper has been purchased q by the Ca
zeJte Of that place and will, after July 3,
become Democratic organ under the
changed name Of Daily Gazette. The
transition from. Republican to Demo-
cratic has been made by easy stages, as
the boys SAY, in the early spring when
going in swimming in the cold water,
they wade in very slowly ito get usen
TO it,"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-27

Secretary Carlisle's instructions 20 the
customs officers CT the government TO
exercise special viligance in aScertaining
the character of persons they recommend
for appointment in that service, in view
of the numerous frauds. discovered of
late, practiced 10y underlings in that de
partmeAt, is quite like the man who
locked the stable door after his horse
had been stolen. The time 70 exercise
care in this.connection was when compe-
tent Republicans were dismissed TO make
room for the hungry horde of place
hunters. But, it is perhaps better late
than never in this case.