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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
CHURCH ITEMS.

THE archbishop of York has an.
nounced to his archdeacons that he Will
contribute $1,000 year-one-tenth of
his gross stipend-to the fund formed
TO increase the income OF the poorest
benefices of the diocese.
REV. STEPHEN II. TYNG. for 2 long time
pastor of the Church OF the Holy Trinity.
New York, but for the last twelve
years engaged in the insurance bust
ness in Paris. France, announces his in
tention of returning TO the ministry
THE late John W. Caughey, of Ale
gheny. has given $4,000 each to the
boards of foreign and home missions:
the board OF missions TO the freedmen.
81 ,00G. and TO the board OF relief twenty
shares of stock of the New York Steam
company.
REV. DE-. FAUNCE, of the Fifth
Avenue Baptist church in New York,
asked his congregation To contribute
So, 900 last Sunday To convert the
heathen. The contribution box went
around and the collection footed up
$50, 900 in cash.
THE Cincinnati Post has taken a
ballot of the Presbyterian ministers on
the Briggs and Smith cases. Blank
ballots We're sent to every twelfth min
lister on the church roll Out of 325
votes received 2l9 Endorsed the general
assembly's deliverance on the iuerrancy
of the Scriptures.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
A Kansas Pest.

From the Atchison Champion.
The woman who sends her photograph
to Mrs. Augusta Wilson commits a SER
lous error. She is one of the social and
political pests of Kansas who are ever
seeking notoriety al public expense. Her
bill allowed by the last legislature was a
pure and unadulterated fraud When
she cowdozed her bill through the ses-
sion of 1891, she promised that it should
he n receipt in full for all her claims
against the state. but last winter she was
the first woman to squeeze her way INTO
the house, and by some means peculiar
to herself, managed TO bleed The treasury
again. If she Is allowed TO have any
part in the Worlds fair business. she
viii be sure to present another bill at
the next session of the legislature. Ii
the Kansas managers OF the fair do not
desire TO repel decent men and women OF
the state they ought 10 serve prompt
and unmistakable public notice that
Mrs. Augusta Wilson has no part or par
eel, either direct or remote. III the Kan
sas display at Chicago. \ person SO dis
reputable as TO lobby through the legis-
lature claims tainted nv fraud and dis
honor ought 70 have 10 part or .ot in d
matter so important as tie Kansas dis
play at Chicago. The state ought not 70
lie dsgraced at the exposition by constI-
tutional cranks or arrant frauds. Kan
sas paid high price for the self I'M
posed services of Mrs. Augusta Wilson,
at least a thousand times more than they
were worth, and good care should be
taken that she does not set another trap
for fresh appropriation fron the next
legislature.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
HERE AND THERE.

A TOWER that is being erected in Lon
don will be $50 feet higher than the
Eiffel wonder in Paris.
GENUINE volcanic dust has been found
in Kansas and the Indian territory.
There is deposit near Galena, which
is said to be many feet in thickness.
ST. HELENA, Napoleon prison place,
is not prospecting. The revenue of the
island decreased $4,000 in the past
year, and immigration has fallen off
while emigration has increased.
SINCE 1870 Germany has spent on her
army directly So, 0OO, 900, 900, and France
Sc, $50, OO0, 900. These amounts do not in
clude the navies. railways and pen
sions, nor count the productive labor
lost in the military service.
THE caves of Burmah are rich in
wooden carvings. glazed tiles and i'm
ages as well as tablets in terra
Gotta, marble alabaster and other ma
terials. These relics illustrate the an
cient and modern phases of Buddhist
worShiu
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
BOOK NOTES.

MASSACHUSETTS has one library TO
each four thousand of her inhabitants
and a book and half to each man,
woman and child in the state.
AMERICAN libraries are fortunately
not much infested by bookworms. In
Philadelphia there is said to be enc
book which has been perforated by this
insect, and it is highly priced by its
owner, who regards it as one of the
most valuable possessions in his library
HERBERT SPENCER. it is said. is the
most fortunate writer on philosophy
that ever lived. SO far his income is
concerned. His First Principles
brought him S27 900; his Principles of
Psychology" about $50, 900 1t is re
ported that his total receipts from his
works will not fall short of $1,000
DoDD. MEAD & Co. make a speciality
of old and rare books. Among others,
their collection contains a New Eng
land primer of 173S, the only one known
to be extant: an original edition of
Poe's ''Tamerlane," now valued at 81.
$50: a school atlas used by Tennyson;
several illuminated manuscripts, and a
number of books from the presses of
Guttenburg and Wynl1yn de Woode.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
AMERICAN WOMEN.

Mrs. JEFFERSON DAVIS is one If
number of prominent women who have
recently been interviewed for print on
the vomau's rights question. She takes
very conservative ground and calls her
self ''old-fashioned
Mrs. LovEJoY ALDRICH, of Seattle.
Wash. is the widow Of soldier Of the
revolutionary war. and by her second
marriage of soldier OF the war of 1872.
She is the only woman known 70 the
pension Office who stands in this posi-
ton.
A GOOD deal of comment has been
reused by the resignation Of Mrs.
Elaine Goodale Eastman of her mem
bership in the Indian Rights aSsocia-
ton Her husband, DIR. Eastman. who
Is a native Indian, has recently pre-
ferred complaints against the govern
ment agents at Pine Ridge.
Mrs. SARAH HAwy, who died at Oals-
land, H., several days ago at the age Of
one hundred and five years, was the
mother of seventeen children, and at
the time of her death had ono hundred
and fourteen Rreat-grandchiidren and
twenty seven great great grandchil-
drcn Her husband died few years
ago at the age OF nincty-seven-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
LITERARY GOSSIP.

GIN LEW WALLACE's ne-v novel,
'.The Prince 81 India; or Why Constsn-
tinople Fell viii be Published bv the
the Harpers early IN the summer
\ xovEL written br Mrs. Henry Ward
Beecher over q quarter Il a century
ago and kept secret even from Mr.
Beecher. IS 20 te published IA April j.
) entitled Light 0ut q Darkness, "
and j. a story 81 The civiI war.
TIE empress # Austria has made 80
exhaustive a study Il rnoieru Greek
that She has lately achieves q cre9itable
translation into th17 Language q Lear,
Hamlet and the Tempest The work
was done for her own qualification, and
with no aid.
RICHARD >ToEEs Wits, Charles Dad
ley Warner. Tiu1s;hy D1vight. and ot.ze-
Connecticut gentlemen have taken 80 u
hand 70 erect a monument 20 the uzeul-
orr 81 james -. F'eTciraL the poe: and
geoIogist % that state * lsgse rclaz.ls
are b4-l1a x Bs--e! Gsze4- va
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
KNIGHTS OF THE URN.
Sissy Men with Genius for DoyIies, China
and Velvet Rugs.

As contrast to the masculine girl
and her swagCcr it might be pertinent
TO present the sissy man and his affec-
tations. You sec this rare exotic in
full bloom at those essentially feminine
ceremonies known as fve-o'clocll teas,
where nothing sweetened and tied up
with a bow furnishes the repast, where
soft light filters through rose-hucd
shades over fair faces and estheticism
revels in daintiness galore. The sissy
man has his prototype in Paris and in
London. and one of his chief character
istics is his devotion TO the married WON
en-, particularly if she has monster Of
a husband that can't understand Brown
ing and had rather shovel coal than
read Rossetti The sissy makes it a
point to calmly ignore the husband,
who would kick him out for his itnpcr-
tineDce only that he knows what a
harmless little lamb he Is and thinks it
would he needlessly cruel.
He knows, according "a the New
York Sun. more about the code Of can
dy giving and the etiquette IF flowers
than he does about the constitution Of
the United States.
lie has his sweet apar tments, where
the foot sinks noiselessly into velvet
rugs and the walls are draped with
sigh-aEay tints and hung with pre-
Raphaelite etchinGs. He gives his dear
little teas, where the china IL exquisite,
the appointments elaborate and beau
tiful He Is Up on doyiies, and knows
all about linen and silver. He per
suades his married divinity TO preside
at the urn and gives himself up TO the
perfect ecstasy Of adoring and serving
her nice old lady who was invited
TO one Of these teas, and went early be
cause she thought the poor fellow
wopidn have enough Spoons and nap
lcins. or think to dust the glassware,
and would be terribly upset and 1us-
trated. looked on in amazement while
the host made delicious cream things II
silver ch8fng dish and apnlogized for
the stupidity II bis servant, who gave
some one a chocolate spoon with q tea
cup.
Ard when be began telling how Re
had dinner served for four every night
whether he Invited any guests II rot
and that there was he same order u
service AID quite "a elaborate menu
when he dined quite alone IS vvhen rs
most hcnored guests we're ~ the feast.
because that was the proper way n
train servauts and manage a household.
the old lady said il positiTely nade her
feel protsne. Ike going % % Iogrrsoil
lecture and ha7ing TIE Bible rid.cuie5.
Il was 81 opposed - ali Christian czz-
toms and practices.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
SONAIS.

IT is strange, but true, that the grave
of Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock in Nor
ristown, Pa, is yet unmarked.
DR.. PARKWAY BLAKE, of Shebovgan,
has successfully grated "a pigs ear to
the stump of an ear that had been sliced
off the head of favorite hunting dog
g. NJ HELDT has just entered as a
student in the agricultural department
of the University of Georgia. This
venerable freshman is sixty-three years
old.
MISS NAY J.. HAMMOND has just
completed the thirtieth year of her con-
tinuous service as a teacher. and the
whole thirty years service was in one
room of one building in Nashua, \. II.
IT was of the recently deceased ex-
senator from Delaware, Mr.. Salisbury,
that some one once remarked sarcastic
ally, as that gentleman was seen strid-
ing mp and down the senate cham Der.
apparently buried in thought. eli
thinks he is thinking
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
AROUND THE COLLEGES.

4 DoRmToRY building Is 10 be erected
at the University Of Pennsylvania 10
cost s125, 600.
THIS year owing to the popularity Of
debating, $50 Yale sophomores have
elected elocution. Last year II was
elected BY less than 80.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY has sos more
students than last year and Al more
professors. Yale has is more students
and % more professors
A RELIGIOUS census Of Lafayette
college. taken in connection with the
day of prayer for colleges, shows a
total church mem bership Of 200 in an
undergraduate body OF 2s5.
THE library OF Bowdoin college.
Maine. has recently received from
Robert c. Winthrop. 81 Boston. valuab!e
autograph letters and documents Of
the Bowdoin family, relating 70 the
foundation and early history OF the
college.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
Lillian Hale of Kansas City, Ka
ANOTHER OPENING PLAN.

| To the Editor OF tie Eagle:
| The question Of how to open the Cher
okee strip with the least possible danger
and with fairness TO all concerned is be-
ing discussed all over the land. The old
| plan Of trace horses" is dangerous, I'M
fair and unjust: other plans suggested
are equally so. Why not allow the sec
rotary of the interior to print card for
each quarter section of land in the strip,
and upon that card print: You are'en-
titled to the northeast quarter of section
township q range 81 or ''the north
west quarter of section l township p
range s." or "the southeast quarter of
section l township p range So or 1.-THE
southwest quarter Of section l township
q range So and SO on until he disposes
of every quarter of land to be opened,
mix the cards thoroughly, so that no adj
vantage can be taken in locations, let
these cards be sent to postmasters within
sixty miles of the strip and by them
given out to persons applying
for them who are entitled to
homestead land. And if the secretary
finds that there will be more applicants
for land than he had quarter sections o
supply, let him supply the deficiency
by blank cards? Then let the secretary
give notice of the time of opening. and
when the cards can be obtained, and no
matter from what direction the settler
comes he will be compelled to pass some
postoffices where the cards can be found.
Should you draw blank, that settles
your case: should you draw a quartz r
section that was undesirable, time should
be given to examine, and report whether
you would file or not.
If you are fortunate in getting a good
farm you should have ample time to take
your family, stock. implements, etc. ETC.,
and without risking your life in the
scramble you can leisurely go to your
farm without fear of any one shoot ing
you off Of it.
back of card of each appricant, and re-
quire him or her to make oath to the
same, so that he may be arrested for
perjury under the homestead law should
the statement prove false.
| have seen enough of this "opening
up business to know that it is very I'M
satisfactory and dangerous, and but few
men of family can afford to take the
chances, and unless some simple home
remedy is adopted whereby good citi-
zens can quietly get a home in that
country without risking their liJe, all
had better stay at home until the rush
is over, then purchase his land from
those who took chance of life and prop.
erty? s the time for raising crops or
garken is past, the next point to observe
is the opening in time the hay crop from
which you can feed your stock, build
houses, stables, corrals, ETC., in fact it is
the next desirable thing to the good
farm, and in order to secure it, you
sonld get there in July, or before if pos
sible. Respectfully,
TNO KFITY
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

In an Interview in the Topeka Journal
Mrs. Lease says, in regard to an extra
session of the legislature: "In my
travels over the state, have made par
ticular inquiry as to the feeling about an
extra session, and / can say frankly that
our people don't want it, They are in
fact opposed to again calling that legisla-
ture together, and don't believe either
party wants an extra session" This does
not tally with dwellings statement in
the same connection. The governor
wants to confer with Mary Ellen before
he takes any decisive action in the mat
ter of calling the legislature together.
Nobody is in favor of an extra session
except the populists, and Mrs. Lease
says they are not. Still, it is pretty GER
tain that it will be done.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
THINGS ABOUT SLEEPING.

SUNLIGHT is good for everything but
feathers
The best number Of persons 10 each
bed is-One.
AWAY with heavy hangings. either
above or below the bed.
Do SoT fail 10 provide some means tor
ventilation during the night
BEWARE Of dusty, musty carpet;
better sweetness and 2 bare floor.
II folding bed be used, contrive come
way 10 keep il aired aud wholesome.
KEEP the head cool while sleeping,
but not By a draft of cold air falling
upon it.
LEr the pillow be high enough ~
bring the head in a natural position-no
more or less.
THOROUGHLY air the sleeping room
every day; air the beds and bedding as
often as possible.
4 pAEE. out-of-th way, unwhols-
some corner is no more fitted for a
sleeping room than for parlor.
A FEATuFR bed which has done serv-
ice for a generation or tyso n hardly o
desirable thing upon which 10 sleep
i New England Housekceper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
JUSTICE TO THE SETTLER.

TO the Editor Of the Eagle.
In answer to the Boomer OF the 18th
inst. in the Wichita EAGLE the plan for
drawing land for homestead settlement.
There should be at each land office
with one clerk in charge of the drawing
His duty should be to question fully
each applicant as 10 his or her legal
right to take homestead. The answers
being fully satisfactory the applicant
should qualify by a sworn statement
and sign the same, aud then be in
structed to shake the box containing the
cards and draw one card on which there
is full description of one piece of land
SO described that Il deed could be made
from it: then the applicant will draw
one card on which the land is described
The clerk will then take the card and
make careful entry of the land de-
SCribed under the name of the sworn
statement of the drawer, the card bear
ING date of drawing and signed by the
clerk, drawer and witness The card
will then be handed to the drawer so
that he or her can proceed to take pos
session Of their land under the home
stead laws.
This plan will protect all classes, be
they weak or strong. fast or slow. It
will do away with the need of United
States troops to guard the land and
make soonerism impossible, and keep
the spectators from running on the
land and selling their rights, which they
have no right to hold. This plan will
do away with endless litigation and save
the homesteader from rumous contests.
in short save bloodshed and entailing
lasting fued, but will make happy and
prosperous commonwealth.
J. \. FOREMAN
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
KANSAS KORN.

The corn crop Of 1899 and the wheat
crop of 1892 demonstrate that Kansas is
great in the two leading agricultural
products, and equally so, with the ex-
ception of the western one-third of the
state, which, owing to its altitude, is
better for wheat than corn. There are
only seven export corn states-stateS
that produce more corn than is used for
home consumption, and owing to eli
matte conditions the corn area cannot
be increased. If this be SO, and it is a
pretty we'll established fact, then corn
very valuable by reason Of the limited
competitive corn land, and the constant
ly increasing demand for export and for
human food. AS food product corn
has made greater advancement in the
past five years than III the previous
twenty years, and yet there are states in
the Union that scarcely know that corn
car be used as food
Sedgwick county in 1884 and again in
1889 raised more corn than any other
county in the United States for those
years. The facility with which the
Kansas farmer changes his leading crop
is apt to mystily the reader Of the crop
statistics In 1877 Sedgwick county had
96, 900 acres in wheat, in 1887 the wheat
acreage was less than 10000 acres, and
in 1892, 100, 900 acres. The fluctuation i'll
acreage has been between wheat and
corn, and naturally the yields have fiuc-
tuated in the same ratio, and this condi-
ton of things extends over the state. 1t
has become settled fact that as the
crops of Kansas are large or small the
market is weak OF strong, and the addi-
tional fact that the low price Kansas
lands can produce crops cheaper than
the high price lands of the central states.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
MISSING LINKS.

TIE Chinese have ssying that
drunkenness docs not produce fanltsi
1t discloacs them. fortune does not
change nraun~rr. - uncOver- them
DHJYEE in the erupioy Il a Toronto
liveryInan has been fined for he of-
fense of having driven ally along ms
public streets Of that city on sunday
II Is sad That the largest piees II
mica 81 the world was recently taken
on. - = North Carolina quarry. ft
measure. nine and ope-hSii by sixteen
inchcA
CUsrozs oElcers Gnd silk hand<e--
chiefs concealed IN : box 81 uzcarosi
from Italy Silk have often run tAs
customs ~ OF times packed in Cases q
stationery
IT takes light eight minute. "a travel
from the s'1n - tae earth Sound. srav-
cling IN ar. would require about four-
teeu year. 70 accomplish the Eans
journey.
THr Victoria railroad brs<Igs c--er 10
s. Lawrence - Montreal d two niles
long AID enc q lie engineering 'Tor-
de-s Il the world AID yet 1t eost cay
Eve ni1lic- dollsrt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

The body of Jefferson Davis is to be re-
inferred at Richmond, Virginia, OF Nav
81. 1t is to leave New Orleans on May IS
with stops at various southern points.
The journey and seputure are to make
the occasion of elaborate public demon
STATIONS which, according to the Rich
mond Dispatch. will be classed among
the most remarkable events of our times"
A corpse is very svmbolical of that section
of the country.-kansas City Gazette
If your conclusion is correct, then the
present administration has preference
for tho dead past,else it feels called upon
to perform the prophetic act of shaking
up the dry bones and it will not be
denied that they come together and rat
tie around in appointive positions pretty
lively,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
LEWELLING ON THE GREENLEE
BILL

From the Hutchinson News.
Yesterday Governor Lewelling had
| himself interviewed in reference to the
Greenlee railroad bill. which was passed
, by the house of representatives of the
legislature, but was killed by the senate.
+, The governor deliberately misrepresents
the provisions Of that bill when he says
it would benefit any but few jobberS in
some of the interior cities. and it gives
us great pleasure to print in another col
umn an article from Mr.. Greenlee, the
author of the bill. Mr. Greenlee knows
the provisions of the measure he intro
duCed and also knows, as we'll as any
man in Kansas, what would be of bene-
fit to the shippers of the state Mr..
Greenlee quotes from the bill that
passed the house, TO show that it
does make provisions fer maximum
freight rates for all classes of shipments
whether in carloads or less. He demon
strates that Governor Lewelling either
does not know what he is talking about
or willfully perverts the truth.
Ever since the adjournment of the
legislature the Popuiists have been try
ing to throw dust in the eyes of the peo-
pie. They refused TO pass the Greenlee
bill because it provided for the election
OF railway commissioners by the people.
They wanted their governor to appoint
the commissioners in order to make
places for the populists. In order To
draw attention 20 this fact they have
been telling the people the Greenlee bill
only applied To carload lots, That is not
true \ perusal of the bill will demon
strate the false of the assertion. The
Greenlee bill did empower the commits
sioners to make a maximum rate for
small as well as large shippers. It was
in he interests Of the farmers as well IS
OF other classes Ii was III many respects
a duplicate Of the Iowa law. for which
the Populists have been ciamoring. 1t
also provided for the election % the COM
miSsioners by the people, another thing
for which the Populists have teen clam
ofing. The Greenlee IS in hne with the
deman Is made by tie Popuiists last fall.
and there IS good reason TO beIieve that
il would have been passed and become Q
law had not Doodle been used II the Pep
uIist senate 10 defeat il.
Governor Leweliin- has laid down the
challenge on this question OF railroad
legislation. The challenge viii he accept
ed by the Republicans. and If he i not
made 10 cry enough, then there Is
nothing in q righteous case hacked up by
iucoatEoyerglble evidence.