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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
For the Eagle.
BREAD AND BUTTER vs.. FINANCIAL
THEORISTS.

High above the common brain
In rhythmic lines: poetic strain,
SOME write a noble Sentiment,
Which. though charged with good intent,
FAN fat on the common iaind,
Whose days and nights in labor spent,
Are not TO thecrizing much inclined.
This is a very practical world.
And more so daily. hourly. growing.
And to the fortunate ''darlings-curl'd"
Wen tell something worth knowing!
Inscribed on each banner unfurled
Practical things should be glowing.
We are not, just now, bothering our head,
As to the souls rest, when the body is dead
And out on the hill tenderly laid:
Meath the cottOnwood's trembling shade;
The problem that's now utterly utter"
Is the daily war for bread and butter,''
The perisling body. not the furnishing soul,
Demands our attention all the while;
To starve it, and fill the soul, is on tn whole,
TO practical minds, q sentiment most vile,
Gu rnish US labor to gain food and pay debt,
Is the thing for which wage-earners are
praying,
Do this, and a crown Wen give you, 'yo1 bet; .
Otherwise, you're but an ass, idle br.lying.
We want practical solution
Without needless aIlocution
OF the thing in public mind uppermost,
On else we II soon give up the ghost.''
Mortals or common, 'yaller-dorg clay''
Fated by circumstance to labor or die
Are tired of hearing every day:
Times will be better by and by"
To sentimental singers who feed the mind;
Also statesmen who on corners daily
Set
The common people are much inclined
To present an elm club. both green and wet
You BET"
July 8th 1893
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
HUMOROUS.

well, my boy how do you find
YOURSELF II don't" answered the de-
tective. with an air of offended dignity.
indianapolis Journal.
All Dream MFR. BILL dreamed
was in Heaven last night" Mrs. 4.
And dreams always go by contra
ries, dear. Detroit Free Press
Mrs. Snipp-"Yo man, will
this ticket take me to Chicago?" Tick
ct Agent No. ma'arn. but that train
outside will ''-Ramond's Monthly.
Old Lady lanxiously)-"D this
train stop n Liverpool2'' Guard Well,
if Il don't, ma am. YOU will see the big
gest smash-up you ever heard Of Tit
Bits
A Natural Query -BrigRs-D
you hear that Winger had married ths
president Of cooking SCHOOL," Griggs
NO. Where does he get his meals?'
Truth.
Col Bloodyfolds old war traits
still cling 20 him How so?" IT
dined with him last night. and he gavs
the waiter no quarter. "-PhiiadelphiA
Record.
Or Boggles seems 20 BE very
prominent man IN this community
said the visitor Yes. replied the host,
hes one Of the pliers % socisty. -
Washington star.
A Mistake Somewhere Willis
nighting a cigar)-"As rule. the lsss
half Of cigar il always had. "al-
lace-"Then you must be smoking thai
one backward brooklyn Life.
At the Knie<erboe<er Club -
Cholly-''I heahd spea<ah say layTss
night that ;heah - nothing noblah
than being a man. Chappie How
beastly Yulgaw. Ny mac is ali rigb,
as 2 sch want: but a. for bis being nobis
BAH Puck.
-Supe-intendent-'' want oh
driving one Of our street sprinklers.
en- Ever had any sxperienc.7- Ap-
piicant-"Sc. but Bat whatys
Every body tells ne I'm 50 blind 4
can't see q street crossing ten feet
away and" ''That1l do Come round
in the morning and take out tlie b.g.
gest sprinkler we own - Buffalo
Courier
--Five-vear-old Frances had BEEN
spending "A afternoon with a little
friend when sh~ returned home shs
found another little friend there 1h9
had come 20 visit her Ethel doesn't i0s.
you, sai6 Frances % the Sccond Ii.,i~
girl. referring 70 the one she had been
calling upon WIZ not77 asked the
visitor. s~OFseS hat surprised 60 ''Tzn&s
sue doesn't know yoa." sx2.s.ssl
Irxncei
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
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DUN MING BY POSTAL.

There is very general impression
among merchants and others who are
particularly interested in the subject
that it is a criminal offense, under the
United States laws, to mail dunning
letter written on postal card. A per-
son i'll this neighborbood, says the Ithica
News. wrote TO the first assistant post
master general asking for information,
and received reply giving the decision
OF Judge Thayer, December Il, 1899, on
the wording of a postal card that was
lnailable and one that was not. The
mailable one reads:
please call and settle account, which
Is long past due, and for which our col
lector has called several times, and
oblige." The unavailable one reads:
You owe me one dollar and eighty
cents. We have called several times for
same. If not paid at once we shall
place 1T with a law agency for colec-
uon." The last sentence, it Is stated,
ruled out this communication. Postal
cards are not mailable if they contain
language of a threatening character, y
and 1t Is a very serious threat TO the
average man 10 tell him that you are
going to sue him. There Is no law, how
ever, 10 prevent you from puttln,3 an X
on your card to let your debtor under
stand that YOU are really cross with hi III.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
Bald Heads.

1t is maintained by a physician who
has studied The subject that plenty
OF hair on the head means plenty Of
brains; that the hair is sure index Of
ones staying power. Il always look
on the bald-headed man." he says, ''as
deficient. not only IN hair, but IN
actual brain power. VOC know each
hair Is connected with the brain by a
tiny nerve and the loss OF all these
nerves means the loss OF poxe-z In
deed. though the effects may not De AZ
first so apparent, rzan mar as well
lose his hand or FOO. as his hair II
vou douo. tals, she next time vou hear
q man who has al his life been
clear-headed ard practical suddenly
doing some foolish and irczpIicable
thing or breaking down n a crisis
vyasich demands al his energies. tGss
look az h;s bead. L nine times CIT Of
ten he Is bald Hall fhe 12cu who drop
dead suddenly sse bald. IN almost
e~ery case. however. there Is : hope 81
cure for badness Il tie bead Is revu-
l2-ly s. isu5tle3 to q gentle .se-.-se , ir.s.--'
an4 OCCASIONALLY 70 fhsrrg~a s.es.zsy
of . zzl.4 b.e stimulating soap.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
KANSAS SOIL \ RESERVOIR.

From the Arkansas City Traveller.
1t is wonderful how the Kansas soil
will hold moisture during dry spell.
Many in the city were lamenting last
week over the effect of the dry, hot
weather on the corn. Yesterday the
writer took drive about ten miles east
of the city and took especial pains to
notice the corn and inquire after its con-
dition. We are glad to note that it
looks splendid and does not appear to be
the least damaged. All who were inter-
viewed pronounce the crop all right.
One farmer invited US to walk
through his field and we were sur
prised to find the ground so moist after
such hot weather. We went into
his oat field, where the grain had been
cut off ten days ago, leaving the soil
exposed to the suns hot rays. A few
shovelfulls of dirt We're dug up in differ
ent parts of the field to show it had
dried out and we were surprised TO see
it moist very short distance below the
surface. And this, too. on high land,
where one would suppose it to dry out
sooner We are too apt to judge of the
condition of farm crops by the parched
appearance of the early sweet corn in
our gardens. There is no use mention
ing the hundreds of stacks of grain to be
seen in every direction; that is a COM
mon sight and no more than is to be ex-
pecled of Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

The Hutchinson News souvenir edi-
ton of July 4 was daisy: in fact it was
pleasant surprise. The readers of the
News had been advised that special
edition would be issued commemorative
of the national fete day and its own
twenty-first anniversary, but nobody
looked for the issue TO appear in maya
zine form as it did. In shape and size
and mechanical execution the issue was
equal to the highest grade of illustrated
magazines, while its subject matter was
comprehensive and entertaining re-
sumo of the history, progress and
present condition of Hutchinson and
Reno county. The News of July 4 is
worthy prominent place among the
historical publications of Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

Under the operation of the memorable
law OF nature the pension roll of the
country must from this time forward be
rapidly decimated. Ten years hence
woulo see the number now on the roll
reduced by one. third TO one-haIf. And
yet the antipathy of the present admin
istration to the payment of these claims,
this debt of honor, is so great that it
cannot wait for the sure and unerring
sweep of the great reaper to lift the bur-
denG), but must discount the record.
With the Democracy in control, well
may it be said that republics are I'M
grateful. Washington dispatches an
nounce that 100000 pensioners are to be
cut off at one fell swoop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

Cleveland seems to have a consuming
sympathy for the southern cattle barons.
During his former administration they
had full swing of the strip, every pre-
tended effort that was made to drive
them off of the forbidden lands result
ing IN more cattle appearing thereon.
80 it Is now. Texas cattle are allowed
10 pass north onto the strip with i'm
punity, and if perchance any are order
ed off they are turned into Oklahoma
TO infect that territory with the deadly
splenetic fever But this partiaiity is
not cause for much surprise. Adopting
the language of the Chinaman in ex-
pressing his estimate of the Afro-Ameri-
can, Hoke Smith mo likee Oklahoma
muche nohow."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
PIGEONS ON BOARD SHIP.
Carried Out of Sight of Land, They Soon
Become Tame Pets.

become Tame Pets.
On the return OF the training ship
Portsmouth TO the Brooklyn navy
yard from a voyage to the Mediter-
ranean she had a large number Of
pigeons aboard. The birds were Of the
common variety and lived in coop on
the hurricane deck near the forecastle.
The boys had procured them at some
port while the vessel was still cruising
about. One day at sea, when all traces
of land were lost, the birds were re-
leased from their prison. The crew
gathered on deck TO see what they
would do. Some thought they would
not leave the ship: others expected 20
see them take their bearings and then,
like carrier pigeons, fly landvard All
were mistaken, says the Youths Com
panion, for after joyous sau over the
blue ocean they returned 20 their cage
and settled down 70 everyday life
They became tame a. once and fond Of
tho sea men and boys, who fed them
from their hands They constantly
fitted about the decks. az times even
causing annoyance By walking abort
The gangwav under the busy sailors
feet. At ether times they would perch
IN the rigging seemingly content with
their nautical lives In port they would
fy ashore, bat always returned al
night TO roost n their coop. When at
last the orders were given 70 hois. an
chors FOR home many 81 the pigeons
were out on their daily fy. The sails
were spread and the big ship was
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

In the removal of Colonel a. A. Harris
from Fort Scott to Duluth, which is his
announced intention, Kansas will lose a
valued citizen. The Democratic party
OF Kansas will likewise lose one of its
brainiest, strongest and most highly es-
teemed members, loss it could lily sus-
tain at any time, but more particularly
at the present critical juncture. the most
trying and telling upon its future of any
in its history The best wishes of many
personal friends and admirers regardless
of political lines will 90 with him to his
new nome. Colonel Harris will be
heard from in Duluth, or anywere else
be might locate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

felt very sorry for the disappointment
the birds would meet that evening
when they returned and found tho
ship had sailed. But before night,
when the land like tiny green srcck
faded from sight in the twilight, there
was suddenly flutter in the rigging
and the missing birds dropped down
and entered their cage. The hearts Of
all the homeward bound ships COM
pany rejoiced. Upon their arrival In
Brooklyn the pigeons showed them
selves as much at home in the air
around the great bridge and over New
York city IS in any foreign port
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
Light to the Beaizhted.

nom TIC l-aBtNsu.
On Grover, dear Grover, come of the
nest. Crane your neck slightly and look
To the west; see In the sky OF that beau
tifui land, a speck OF a cloud as
urge as your hand. Watch it now,
Grover. and don't look SO wise; see how
1t grows in momentum and size. /. viii
net be dissolved 10y word from your
mouth, but IS spreading all over the
west and the south. And now. Uncle
q, put your ear 10 tile ground and hcar
and ln,erprste that ominotis sound.
You may ieel very safe aud secure on
your throne, but a cyclone IS coming;
oeware the cyclone,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

From one point of view the govern
ments Interference in the Choctaw
troubles appears unwarrantable, that
nation being independent Of the authority
of the Washington administration in the
control of its domestic affairs, and yet
the government is justified in its usurpa-
ton g. in the interest of peace and
humanity, the nation beng located
wholly within the bounds of the gov
ernment5 dominion and those people
are in a sense the country's wards.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

In the estimation Of the Kansas City
judged from its expressions, the pro-
hibitory law of Kansas is a good thing
and ought to be upheld, but the same
principle of paternalism and sumptuary
Legislation applied to South Carolina is
terrible wrong in the Stars unbiased
Judgment. The EAGLE admires indie
pendence, but it likes consistency better.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

With baled hay worth $50 a ton in
England some enterprising hansans
could make big spec by gathering up
ship load, shipping it south to tide
water and reshipplng it thence across
the way. Kansas hay always COM
mands the highest price wherever 1t Is
offered for sale, and she always has
good supply of IT,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
ghe adaha Daily Eagle adlednesaay aornino gully Il,

its own. ike the empire which 1t repre-
sents. There are towers and battlements
and facing Columbia avenue tie greatest
tripiet of wrought iron gates ever seen IN
this country. They rise more than twenty
feet from the floor, and with their flank
ing fence of the same material enclose q
spacious court yard or palace plaza. Far
in the rear, towering over all, is the huge
bronze Germania which is to adorn I e
new parliament buildings in Berlin On
either side, and in the center, too, payll-
ions Of palatial form and richness.
Enter this court yard early in the morn
ing and you viii not want 70 leave 1t, and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

Jerry Simpson who has been in the
shade for some time, breaks out into the
tight again; but this being the freak OF
a lu-nat-ic, he should be confined IN an
ass-vlum where his rawlings would not
disturb the public.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
The Proper Time 20 Think.

From The hsnsas titf Iazette.
MY God. what will my mother say 2
were tie last words OF young man
who sta rted out 10 paint the town. wind
ing up with a murder and suicide
The time to think of your mother,
young msn. is when You are starting in
to paint the town.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
NIl|Ills E5gle
n NJ MURDOCH Editor
Nj. VI. MURDOCH Editor.

So Noah Allen has sure enough lost
his official head. The proper time to
have removed him was when he was
first appointed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12

pspoes permanently cured IN on. week
re IN ga ca
sv "a rega wera among
i city dA u w pomh aeasas wnaau
10 tA edra the
X a u smSns the daas~ sac
tire ao d nn Hin DSeaW kp.nn gf.,
Taahsi&
The Wichita Medical and Surgical Institute
DRS. PURDI 81 JORDAN PROPRIETORS.
135 North Market Street. Wichita, kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
DISEAS ESsoSssSsxsseiHes IkakS IS
OF MEN---;,EI:ihISYss q sN nES.,sS

arising from iutiscre' lon o. eNctss. prodlIesn-
OF The following effects, NcrNotSl eSS. ID 5t-
:ty Dimiless OF VISION, SELF ,trstSt. pefecstSe
Memory Pl,npeS Sycrsio TO ~o,ictg i've < a cof-
fiicnce Ue~p0asiency- Inlpetliiasass - VI .rsiis.
Melancholy. dyspepsia, Lost Naa3fooi. PA y IN
the Back. Earicoceie, etc cared sIfe asii pevi,e
~. send for QIcstip1 liitgk No I. q Niea.
KIDNEY AID URINARY DISEASES faint Il
difficult milky bsooiy urine: SsieeE. Grevs
ENLARGED PFostltts Glands, DiKh-.es etc. receive
poem. attention. Gaealc n aud L..le-ossnple I'll
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
The Wichita Medical and Surgical Institute,
INCORPORATED
Full Corps of trainee Spec
ialists with private Hospital
advantages. Twenty years in
practice. EIGHT years III ii icillta

Consultation. III nssice or by mail free. ana III
vtel Me,iieinc sent by ma or cN;'sss syerss srsEs
secBreIy !,sicEssi. free from oissers axiom.
tTRABt-r. DISEASES GUARANTEED where
Ge,ihs exists IL i tr.tzsSly st.t5tsi
DISEASES DF WOMEN-rle wonder -ui curative
effexs OF ELECT TRICKY ti,ils demonstrated ~
InstitnIe enabling 10 cure wiscTe ed Eist.is1s
fail Irregularities Displscrlnents. Ulcer aitss. H.
fi.lts,ar on Discharges lafcerstsoss. Barreatl~>.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-12
WHAT IS" REALLY MEANT.

July sth. 1893.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-10-07

From France we get pears and poultry
of the most approved varieties that thrive
in America; from China, pigs and peach
es. The best and most profitable of the
grapes in our vineyards also are the prod
uct of foreign vines grated upon the
wild hardy American roots. From Great
Britain and France we bring the horses
that are breeding up the whole scrawny
though tough American stock. The
magnificent Clydesdales from Scotland;
the thoroughbreds, hackneys and Cleve-
land bays from England. the Percherons
from France, would leave sorry look
ing crowd of show steeds at our fairs if
they and their descendants were taken
away. From the Channel islands and
from Holland come our best dairy cows.
The original stock of our sheep came
from Spain, Germany and England.
From Russia we bring the only apple
hardy enough to Withstand the rigor of
our northwest climate. From the Medi-
terranean region we brought the ances-
trail shoots of the Florida and California
oranges which are now reaping fortunes
for thousands. From the PARKWAY orient
came rice. Japan sends us the daintiest
and most beautiful evergreens upon our
lawns, also the most splendid chrysan-
themums, and last of all the biggest and
juiciest chestnuts that ever grew. There
will be revolution in the chestnut
trade when the Japanese gratis now be-
ing set begin to bear.
Even we the people are descended from
European stock, Well. there is one great
consolation. In every case, whether that
of horses, pigs, oranges or men, we either
have improved already or speedily viii
improve on the old stock.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-10-07
The Berlin Sewage Farms.

The city of Berlin is absolutely cholera
proof, writes Mr.. Poultney Bigelow in
The Cosmopolitan. Besides that she dis
poses of all the sewage within her bor-
ders at profit of per cent. The two
facts belong together. The city of Ber-
lin nearly 20 years ago purchased some
thousands of acres of fiat sand wastes
adjacent to her boundaries. With these
she began the experiment of utilizing
sewage The city was divided into dis
tricts. In each district the sewage flows
into an immense cesspool. Thence it is
removed by powerful pumping machin-
cry to the fields of the sand wastes and
spread upon them.
There are no "barnacle politicians" in
Berlin to hang ON and ruin the workings
of the municipal government, Mr.. Bige-
low says. The administration of the
sewage farms is in the hands of citizens
of the highest responsibility, and under
their management the result has grown to
be an object lesson to all the cities of the
earth. The pumps work night and day
The lands irrigated by the sewage bitches
are cultivated in grain and vegetables
The product is the finest by far that ap
pears in the Berlin markets and is the
most in demand. Land about Berlin il
its natural state before the sewage irri
CATION was applied to it was worth $1S:
the acre. AS soon as it is put under the
operation of the gigantic pumping works
however, it Immediately rises in value
4 to 800.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-10-07

1t is the trans-Asian railway of Siberia,
which the Russian government is build
ing at an estimated cost of 1855, 000, 000
The figures will mount higher than that
before it is completed, however. From
Vladivostock, tire Russian seaport on the
Pacific, east coast of Siberia, westward
to Cheliabinsk, on the east side of the
Ural mountains, the projected line will
measure A, $50 miles in length. The west
ern end of the line from the Ural noun
tains eastward is well Under way now.
Although 1897 has been fixed as the year
of completion for this whole stupendous
work, yet it is certain that the twentieth
century will dawn before it is done.
Central Siberia, which the road will
traverse, is almost as unknown to civil
lization as the middle Of Africa. The
line pushes eastward and slightly north
to the capital of western Siberia, Onsk,
as its first objective point. Omsk is
about 500 miles from the Ural noun
tains. Through barren salt steppes as
desolate as the oldtime "Great American
desert" the road leads to Omsk. Russia
hopes, however, to reclaim this region
just as much of the American desert has
been reclaimed through irrigation. But
Siberia, is tract which can most nearly
be compared to the great wheatfields of
our own Dakotas, though pillow has as
yet scarcely scratched its virgin soil.
Russia proper is fast becoming over
crowded with rural population that is
too ignorant and british to do more
than ruin the best of farm lands. The
soil of Russia proper has thus been al
ready worn out, much of it, and the
hope of the white car now is to trans
port many of his agricultural children
over his great railway to the garden oil
central Siberia, where it will take gen
erations to strip the soil as they have
done in their old homes.
A little farther eastward, south of the
main line, is the mining district of the
Altai mountains, where many enthusiast
believe gold surprising that of Australis
or California will yet be found. Thus
far, about half the length of the igrea
road, there is a reason for its existence
For the eastern half there is no sufficien
commercial reason at present. Russii
needs it to transport soldiers and mill
tary supplies. She has besides a din
dream that she can by it's means bring
part of the trade from southern Asia t.
Vladivostock and bend it around to west
ern Europe across Siberia.