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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
a SERIOUS EFFICIENCY.

The troubled and apprehensive spirit
of '61 seemed to brood over the minds of
men who were gathered in knots about
the bulletin boards and upon the street
corners, throughout the gloomy hours
of yesterday, with bated breath discuss
ing the threatening present, and hesitat-
ingly intimating what they timidly
thought might be in the future, not only
for Kansas but for the United States of
America. One could almost hear
again the echoing refrain OF
John Browns Body and "Dixie,
and as military squads hurried
about here and there, from the force OF
association of experiences and ideas, men
were caught unconsciously humming
those almost forgotten airs. With the
same condition of affairs existing in
majority of the capitals of the states OF
this Union now existing at Topeka, two
Or four years hence, and where would
be the power or authority strong enough
10 prevent fratricidal war wherein
would be pitted neighbor against neigh
Dor over the questions of poverty and
property? Governments have ever been
instituted for the protection of life and
of property, but in such conflict
the first government founded
on the guaranty of '.life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" would probably
end in anarchy, swiftly succeeded by
monarchy of military force strong
enough to conserve the interests of the
greatest factor and power known to civ
iIization, that of mOney-capital-prop-
erty. Preservation is preferable to an
initiation. and no force known TO hu
man experience is so selfish as money
and the things which it represents, and
after which all mankind seems to be
struggling; and, money is the potent
power of every struggle, be that strug-
gle one for mere existence or one for
authoritative sway.
In such events and exigencies as now
confronts our people, there is ever the
one hope and that, enlightened patriot
ism, stimulated by love of home and
children, and all conserved by the as
surance-by the absolute knowledge
that, given time for reflection, there is
absolute safety, not only for life and
property, but for liberty, in the ultimate
decision to be found in che ballot box.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
DEPARTMENT. CoMMANDsR G. a. F

Hon Timothy Mccarthy. in the Capital.
As the time fixed by the council Of
administration for the meeting of the
next department encampment is draw
ing near, I desire to call the attention of
| the comrades TO the fact that, in my
| opinion, the coming year will be the
in this state. We should therefore make
| no mistake in the selection of new Off
cers-especially the department COM
mander-for on his character and stand
ing as a citizen and comrade depends in
Il great measure our success in sllenClug
adverse criticism and making futile any
attempt to injure US as an organization.
Hence, the greatest care should be exer-
cised in the selection of this officer. 1t
follows then that he should be a com
rade who Is honored and respected as a
citizen, and who commands to the fullest
extent the confidence and esteem of his
comrades. He should also be comrade
who experienced the hardShips conse-
Quent upon active service in the field,
for the cold boys" are sensitive and
want no one to command them who was
not at the front battling for the SUI
premacy of the old flag, and who seeks
this, the highest honor in our gift, with
no dersonal or selfish motive, but purely
and wholly for the hest interetts Of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
There is one feature in connection
with the candidacy of department COM
mander that merits the severe condem-
nation of every comrade. and that is re
sorting to the methods of the politician
TO secure an election. The know
ledge of the fact that any can
didate has resorted to this method
should be considered good and sufficient
cause to defeat him. Then | say, let
comrades who are ambitious for this
honor announce their candidacy through
their respective posts and the press if
need be, and let the delegates to the en-
campment select from them who in
their judgment is the most deserving and
capable. By this means the standard
of the order will be raised, not lowered.
Any other course will, in my opinion,
tend to destroy interest and pride in the
organization and injure its growth and
usefulness.
The foregoing are my sincere and hon
est convictions, and are submitted with
the hope that they may receive the care
full and, trust, favorable consideration
of the delegates to the encampment.
TIM MCCARTHY,
Past Department Commander.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
LEwEbL1NG,s WEAKNESS.

Nobody questions the fact that ma
iority of the members elected and pre-.
senting themselves with regular certif.
Gates of the state board CT canvassers,
were Republicans, nor that that majority
was strengthened by the honest, sensible
action of the Democratic members who
joined them. Lewelling, himself, has
never claimed that the Populists had a
majority. And had Mr.. Douglass prompt
~ kicked Dunsmore down the steps
when he attempted to take the speakers
chair, the matter would have been settled
then and there and in a very few
minutes, and Lewelling would never
have opened his mouth. Lewelling
did not dream that he had any authority
over the organization of either of the
houses constituting a coordinate branch
Of the state government. And neither
had he, but unfortunately for him, and
for the state, he surrounded himself
with lot Of unknown adventures and
political skunks, who got into his good
graces by bowling "reform," and, af-
forwards by inviting to his councils a
number of socialistic revolutionistS and
open advocates of anarchy who urged
him on and on until disorder has
apprehension, and no
man knows what the end will
be. His backbone" so called,
is but foolhardiness, as was made
plain by his sticking to Artz as his
adjutant general after it had been shown
by the court records of Colorado that he
was fugitive from justice. lie and the
men with whom he has surrounded him
self, in the main, are practically strang-
ers to the state that they have, through
prejudice and ignorance, harmed and
beyond any possible power of
their own to ever make amends.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

President Harrison has lost none of
the promptness to act as occasion may
require that has characterized his admin
istartion from its beginning. This does
not imply that he jumps to conclusions:
on the contrary he inquiries with scrupu-
lous care into the merits of every propo-
sition requiring his action chief execu-
tive. His message to congress recon-
mending the annexation of Hawaii Is
another instance in point Conditions
that have existed between the two coun-
tries for several years, ali looking to the
consummation now soon to be realized.
Facilitated the matter to its present
status, no doubt; but, since it involves a
departure in policy on the part Of this
government, Mr.. Harrison might, if he
chose, and with no strain Of the proprie-
ties, have deferred the acts Of the chief
executive to his successor. There will
be some criticism Of the Presidents
action in the matter, and some opposi-
tion to the proposition to acquire the
islands as proposed, but the concensus of
the country at large will endorse and
uphold the government in It's action.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
CHINESE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
Thirty Thousand of Them Huddled To-
gether in Small Quarter.

Thirty Thousand of Them Huddled To-
gether in Small Quarter.
A mirage of Turanian civilization, a
shadow of the past projected upon the
present, a frontispiece out of the book
of life-this, and more, is the Chinese
quarter in San Francisco.
These thirty thousand souls, huddled
together in spaces wellnigh unbreath-
able, uninhabitable, jostling each other
along dark and crowded thoroughfares,
silently and imperturbably pursuing
their mysterious ways, SO supremely
indifferent to all that hens them in,
men they seem not, but shades ''all too
impalpable" from the deep Tartarus of
Time.
Alphabetically, however, little China
is at most but an in fluence, and it
is dou btful whether a single struc-
ture in the entire colony owes
it's existence entirely to Chinese
capital. Indeed, the necessities of the
case made no such demand upon the
frugal and thrifty Mongol. Like Mo
liere, he took his own wherever he
found it, The huge business block of
San Francisco's early commercial period
and the reconstructed shanty OF
the sand hills alike became his property
by right of conquest, and he found both
orders 10 American architecture equal
II available The shantv soon shone
resplendent in vernaI green and sacri-
fetal red; and the hard uncompromis-
ing lines of warehouse, dry-goods en-
porium, and Office building were soft
ened by many jutting gable and pro-
iecting balcony, hung with lanterns
and refreshed with lilies Henry Bur-
den Mcdowell, in Harper's Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
N. having become hideoas as they are

ism. having become hideods as they are
useless
AT intervals the missionary cries out,
the traveller writes, and the charitable
agitate, but the poor little children
never benefit For them there remains
always the same ruthless bending of
bones, the same agonizing application
of tight ligatures, tn same long
months of bitter pain and unavailing
tears Perhaps. he suggests. ii IS to
this singular contrast between general
refinement and cultivation of the Chi
nese. on the one hand, and this canous
cruelty on the other, that we must at
tribute the periodical appearance of the
appalling custom
Some people say that though the foot
is ultimately deformed. though the
woman is indeed condemned to be lit
tie better than cripple, vet the proc
ess is not so painful after all The
bones are soft, they say, in early youth;
the sinews supple. Twisting, crushing,
and wrenching are operation that may
be performed without much suffering
on baby feet, whereas adults would be
maddened by the torture. To this the
writer replies:
Let no one talk of the yielding
character of young bones or the plia-
bility of baby sinews We have list
ened with our own ears to cries Of
Gttle girl undergoing the torturing
eocess. Such agonizing walls never
before fell on our ears. They were the
shrieks of child absolutely wild with
suffering. When the ligatures were
leosened and the shocking succession
of breathless screams ended in long
drawn walls of exhaustion and misery,
the listener turned almost sick with
horror and sympathy. Yet mother
was the deliberate torturer of the poor
baby, and a father callously listened TO
its heartbroken cries.
Think that this fiendish barbaritv
is practiced daily and hourly through
out the length and breadth of land
containing three hundred million in
habitants. Not alone are the tender
bodies of the poor little girls ruthlesslv
racked and tortured, but the purest
sentiment of humanity-the love of
parents for their children-is perpetu-
ally outraged. Such unnatural cruelty
could be tolerated only in the presence
of the worst kind of decentralization.
How much can survive of the moral
beauty of the paternal relation when
fathers and mothers, in Difference 10 a
mere freak of fashion, consent to infiict
on their daughters, day by day. torture
that well-nigh meddens the baby brain
and wrings shrieks ,of excruciating
agony from the little lips? This is one
of those facts that make us marvel
when we hear great dies tiny predicted
for the Chinese nation."-Chicago Trib-
une.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
They make SIS every time ceremony i.

They make SIS every time ceremony is
performed,
Charles Miller, who was convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary in the dis
trict court of Oklahoma county for as
saultiDg his wife with Ratchet, has just
been pardoned, with the express agree
ment that he is never TO come to Oklaho-
ma. He and his wife were members of he
Salvation army He was sent to the peni-
Tertiary aud his wife afterward figured in
an abduction suit
Look out for the fraud: A fellow is now
travelling through the country trying to
swindle parties with a contract for wire
fences. He offers to give enough wire to
fence good sized field if the party Will
sign contract 20 take the agency for the
wire. The contract is where the swindle
comes in, for If read closely it turns out to
be promissory note for $50. after few
words are erased with oxallc acid.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17


der that name it was sold by his CHI
nese colleague for seven dollars and
sixty-fve cents
Waters of sliced devil-fsh for boils,
powders of dried tarantula legs for
fevers, and anything outlandish or
unique that could be concocted was
produced and sold for fabulous prices.
In fact, half ton of quinine or honest
boneset wouldn't have sold for ten
cents. To the superstitious Monaghan
ordinary that would prove eficacious.
The auctioneer realized handsome
profit, however. and the purchasers
were happy in their simple JOY of hav-
ing secured bargains at auction.
Francisco Chronicle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Anticipating, no doubt, possible action
by congress on the proposition for single
statehood for Oklahoma, which is in
tended TO embrace the entire Indian
Territory, a delegation of Cherokees
headed by Chief Adair are in Washing
ton and will ask an early hearing from
congress on their application to admit
the Cherokee nation as a state without
incorporating it with Oklahoma. This
move probably gave rise to the predic-
ton that within five years the five civil
lied tribes will break up as such indie
pendent bodies and accept the station of
citizens, taking on the white mans civil
ization under his forms of government.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Only three more places in the Cleve-
land cabinet remain to be filed: attor-
ney, marine and farmer. The latter
may come west, but in view of the situa-
ton at Topeka it is doubtful whether
Kansas has any show for it. Grover
evidently intends to be the big man in
his administration and will not tolerate
any such arbitrary Self-assertiveness on
the part of his subalterns as Clicks
crowd are manifesting. Georges name
will soon be Dennis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
DAN ON THE WAR PATH.
rom the Leavenworth Times.

From the Leavenworth Times.
The legal house at Topeka is entering
upon a course now that it should have
begun weeks ago. But it is better late
than never. They are in the right. They
have the right to control in representa-
tive hall and TO prevent the influence of
all otner bodies and the mutilation of all
records of the house. Let them stand
firm and push forward. Let it be decid-
ed now whether Kansas is to be govern
ed by lawfully constituted legislature
or by lawless mob.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

AS matter of fact we do not see where
any Injustice has been done the shipping
interests of Kansas by the selection of the
new board of railroad commissioners.
One lives at Erie, one at Emporia and an
other at Clay Center. 1t will be seen bv
this that not single shipping interest has
been seryed.-Lawrence World
The first statement in the foregoing is
answered by the last. If the railway
commission was not created to serve the
shipping interests Of the state, what is
the excuse for Its existence at all? The
injustice in the selection of the commits
sion lies in the fact that the shipping
interest is not served.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
Fred Close the Governor.

from the Troy Lhef
The Atchison people are not alone in
thinking that Close is governor. Close
thinks SO himself; A few days ago,
coming up from Topeka, gentleman
sat near Close. who was letting off steam
to some one, but evidently talking for
the information of all in the car, as he
spoke in very loud voice. He got off
something like this: Things go pretty
much my own way, and [ am generally
consulted before anything is done. Why,
men come into the office almost every
day and enquire, who is governor here,
any Way?"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
EXCHANGED SLOTS
The Pressure Is Lifted.

From the Newton Republican
There is out a denial that Judge Mar
tin signed his name Hon. John Marlin
on the hotel register It is claimed that
the sig. is simply John Martin. Kansas,
in john Hancock style. That sounds
letter and the people breathe easier.
Now let the correspondent at Washing
ton that first started this story be found
and expelled from the fraternity. We
cannot afford to be thrown into alternate
hope and fear so often.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

It is estimated that the reciprocity
clause has already saved the American
people $50, 000, 900 in the free admission
of sugar, and has extended their trade
IN sugar producing countries more than
S10S, 100000. Win the extra session re-
peal this clause? VIII there DE an extra
session? Mr. Cleveland has said that the
money question must be settled before
the tariff is touched. This is believed
ty many 20 be an artful dodge. Hav-
ing educated the people on the all
importan: tariff question during the past
six years, Cleveland would have the
lesson changed aud proceedsto instruct
them on finances. Great, in his own
cnnceit. is Grover.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

The bill appropriating an additional
$500, 600 for the state board of world
fair managers for New York is on the
senate calender at Albany, for the present
week. What a contrast is here presented
with the attitude of Kansas in this re-
specC Not dollar provided for and
mighty little prospect that there will be.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

President Garfield exclaimed when on
his deathbed at Cape May: "God reigns,
and the government at Washington still
lives" Can the same be said, in full, of
the situation as Topeka?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

The good man may regret, never so
much, the necessity for seemingly harsh
action, but that regret viii not deter him
from performing his duty in the prem
ises, if he IS good man and true.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
Stands Corrected.
From the Troy Chief.

AI'Iy tWIri
The Wichita EAGLE, in giving prece-
dents for the appointment of Judge
Jackson, man belonging to an oppo-
sition party, mentions the appointment
of William L. Marcy as secretary of
state by President Pierce. This prece-
dent doesn't prece. William L. Marcy
was always Democrat Of the most ultra
stripe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

A bill has been introduced into the
New York Legislature to abolish capital
punishment in that state. This plan has
been fallen upon as dernier resort to
get rid of electrocution, the present
method of dispatching convicts under
death sentences. Every means that legal
ncumen could suggest has been employed
to defeat the operation Of the law, but to
No avail
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Judge-Tou arc charged with resist
ing az officer; how do yoa pieaf7
Finuerty-Tm afraid In guilty; be
came to mr. saloon and yan.es- % pull
my leg for drink. b1: ressste1 hlza-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Miss Num- refused you once. Mr..
Spatts. Why do you ask the AGAIN.
Spatts-''It was your own fault, dear.
IF you had not refused me would not
be asking you now, would I2"-Judge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17
CUTICURA BABY

This beautiful aaby boy. the son Of
Geo, 2. and Jauctia Harris, Webster,
Ind, Ia one Of thousands completely
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daily performed By these great remedies
have astenished all familiar with them.
None bat mothers realize how these lit.
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blotehy and pimply skin and scalp dis
eases. To know that single application
If the CUTTCURA REMEDIES viii afford
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Cures made Ia infancy and Childhood
are almost Invariably permanent.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Sold everywhere Price; CUTIcrRA. 60,
CU-ICURA SOAR. sc, CUrICURA REsoLyEsr
81 90.
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CORPORATION, Boston.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

Nobody expected that the issue Joined
i'll Topeka on the day set for the meeting
of the legislature would result in a con-
fic; of force, but 1t is the unexpected
that most frequently happens.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

f-zsT Customer Cooking orsr q iot a
pulowsf--Why wcrsn't these marked
Down
Clerk finnoceatly - BeeaEse, uas'zz1,
they are feathers. -Desxo1t Tres Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-17

These be times that put mems judg-
ment to the test: sentiment is not always
a reliable guide to action.
Smyrna times., 1893-03-15
HI0meH's CabeS.

Homen's Cabes.
More than five hundred dis
tlnct styles-reviving almost
every Cape gracefuIness of the
past, and enriching it with the
best fashion wit of to-day.
Capes on capes. That fea-
ture Predominates. Some
times two, sometimes three
sometimes five little Capelets.
one above the other. like
thatch on roof.
Francis l Capes.
Alhambra Capes.
Lole Capes. Partisan craze.
Dozens of styles with the
popular Duchess of Guise COL
lars-ribbon trimmed, braided.
embroidered, feather edged.
beautied in a hundred WAYS.
Modest priced, too.
Smyrna times., 1893-03-15

Do you know the points OF
excellence in a bicycle? Yes?
Then try the Atlanta by that
measure. See if it isn't at
the very forefront for every
desirable in a wheel-light-
ness, trlmness, speed strength.
~Prlce $3.50" say you? No.
that's the wonder of wonders
One HUNDRED AND TWENTY
DOLLARS!
JOHN WANAMAKER.
Smyrna times., 1893-03-15
M%a1sRsaR@GsRx'x
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, March 70 $50.

-uOiuayi March Is, 1898.
Ce&zo~' Fzanuels.
~, The unshrinking FlanneIs
That alone was enough 0iI t5
Jump them into highest 1avor =
a. but the makers didn't stor
there, Prettier and prettie5,
year by year. ''''
=, EISegancies in Ceylons now
that lift them into the high art
circle of Dress Goods. "
delightful Hg color plays.
New tricks of weave.
Silk gIints now and then.
~. Cr0wdin!g some of the old
tlme iavorites to the wall.
What wonder! Flannel
Softness and beauty with the
5, s:turdiness and stay-there quail
ties OF Cotton Goods.
SIXTY feet of counter for tbe
alone. A Cliff Dwell
ier's | village on shelf room be-
hind it. O0
Smyrna times., 1893-03-15

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