Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-07-06

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farmers to wait for higher prices. 1t
Is probable that they did not make
for II will take great deal
Of wheat to make up for the shortage |
this season.
Kansas has been advertised quite |
extensively the last winter by the do
Ings Of the rival houses Of representa-
tives. think all fair minded men, Of
whatever party, are ashamed Of that
senseless exhibition ofchildishness on
the part of our law makers. But In
spite of it all the only real harm done
was in the effect upon Kansas credit.
Many speculations were frightened and
have sought other places, not much
loss to the State, that, but many hon.
est investors, withdrew their funds.
and others on the point Of investing
thought better of 1t, thinking 1t not
safe to put their money to any risk.
know one man who was intending
to build $4,000 house who has can
celed his orders, being afraid the Popu-
lists will pass such laws that he can
not remain in business. His business
is banking.
It will take the State long time to
recover its standing among the States
of the Union, and in order to do SO the
people must be very careful what they
say or do through their representatives.
A great many Kansas people are at
tending the Exposition. l saw the
statement the other day that more
Kansas people had visited 1t than
from any other State. Kansas is al
ways ahead; You remember that 1t
was Kansas little girl who was kissed
by the Spanish Princess; than too, 1t
was a Kansas lady, teacher. who
walked on the same carpet laid from
the carriage to the entrance Of the
hotel, as did the Princess; and 1t was
Kansas man, lawyer from Topeka,
who was especially recognized by the
Infanta, when he took the place of a
chair boy, and wheeled his wife to the
front SO she could see the Princess.
1t is said that the centre ofattraction
of the State buildings is that built by
Kansas. In it is to be seen the won
derful collection of mounted animals
from the museum of the Kansas State
University. The world Is challenged
to produce its equal, either in rare
specimens or in excellence of mount
ing. The "Kansas City Starn re-
marked when the collection was being
packed in the cars, for shipment:
1.-THE animals of Prof. Dyche's col
lection are not exactly alive, but it's
thought best to put the herbivora
apart from the carnivora, all the
same.n Chicago papers and those
further east have been full of "write
ups" of the display, and Prof. Dyche
has had many offers for the collection.
But it belongs to the University Of
Kansas and cannot be sold.
A word about Prof. Dyche may not
be amiss. He is q fine example of
what may be accomplished by an
American boy who has the will. Un-
til he was in his seventeenth year, he
could not read or write. He had spent
his time roaming about the prairies,
hunting and studying natural history
from nature.
In ten years he had graduated
with the highest honors at the Uni
versity of Kansas, in both the classical
and natural history departments. He
graduated in 1884, and was valedic-
torian of his class. Pior to his at
tending the university he had also
graduated at the State Normal School
at Emporia. He Immediately, on
graduation at the university was
elected assistant to Prof. Snow of the
natural history department, and has
during the last nine years been steadi-
ly at work enriching the museum Of
the university by specimens of nearly
all known species ofanimals found In
North America. He has spent months
in British Columbia and In the Rocky
mountains, and possesses the reputa-
tion of being the keenest hunter of the
time. He is known to all the scienti-
fic world asa taxidermist, and has re-
ceived most fiattering offers from the
British Museum, and from the German
government, as well, but so far he has
remained true to his native State.
How long Kansas will keep him re-
mains to be seen. The State has
pursued very parsimonious and short
sighted policy in regard to Its best
men. Il let Nebraska take Prof.
James III. Garfield; it has "turned
down. Senator ingalls,. 1t has let
Prof. Kellogg the entomologist go to
California, the ex-State Superintend-
ant, Geo. Winans is going to Okla
homa, and judging by the past, 1t will
let Prof. Dyche go IL any institution
bids a hundred dollars more than they
are paying him here.
! hope that All Ohio people will