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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
DEMoNETIzE 1T.

The great shrinkage in values, COM
planned of everywhere by everybody, is
only a comparative, not an absolute
shrinkage. Compared to an enforced
single standard, which standard is rapid
ly approaching, of course labor, and ali
its products, silver and all realty have
shrunk, ard, with but gold for the
standard, all will continue to shrink I'M
til the level of all things in European
countries is reached It's the simplest
proposition in the world, whose logic
is as sure as that two and two make
four. A ousiiei of wheat will buy as
much of merchandise as formerly; a ton
of silver will buy as many horses or cat
tie or hogs; days labor will buy even
more of almost anything, but none OF
these things will buy as much gold as
formerly Geld, or rather it's growing
scarcity, is the trouble. Demonetize it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

tanned only by the more favored class.
The workingmen. the laborers. can not
work at night. They must work by
daylight, and hence the privation Of
food bears most heavily upon them.
until there can be no doubt that ],
often issues in the breaking down OF
health. If no. the sacrifice of life. How
they can bear il is more than can tell
To aggravate their misery. they some
times work in the fields to the sound OF
brooks coming down from the noun
convent there were sluices crossing
each other 10 irrigate the ground.
through which the water ran swiftly.
II seemed 10 me as If "a man set To work
here, under this burning African sun,
must be driven To madness and throw
himself upon the ground to take ono
long, full draught and die.
Yet laborers there arc who are capa-
bic of this self-denial and self-control.
Mr.. Grellet told me that during tho
feast OF Ramadan so rigidiy was ID
kept by the Kabyles working in his
vineyard that from morning To night.
though they worked as hard ~ ever.
they touched absolutely nothing. they
ate not morsel of food nor suffered q
drop of water TO pass their lips.
Nor do the poor fellows give them
selves much indulgence when the long.
hard day is done, but turn quietly 10
their bread and water. However the
richer Moslems may compensate them
selves for their enforced abstinence.
nothing that can be called riotous liv-
ing can be imputed to the abstemious.
Woodworking Kabyles. We must con
fess that they set US an example Of self
denial that puts all our Christian fast
shar,n Ev.puotfSt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
THE BIGGEST SHOW on EARTH.

Tie usual complaint of late years is
that the circuses have too many rings,
too much show for the money. Hail of
tie performance is lost in watching the
other half. People by the thousands are
going down TO the strip to see the run
uext Saturday. Ii will be the biggest
show ground on earth. The wild west
nor the worlds fair. for magnitude, are
not In it. The area will be sixty miles
wide by 200 long and the actors plumber
an hundred thousand, 10 say nothing of
he aggregation OF animals and vehicles.
Dust. whoop and scatterment. No
body can be a spectator unless he be-
comes part of the main menagerie and
turns an average number OF summer
SEES. But there will be also side shows
innumerable, comedies and tragedies on
every township and section from the
Arkansas river to No Mans Land. from
the state line TO the territory. 1t will be
a race in which the start viii be from
everywhere and the finish nowhere, on
all kinds of staeds from mules and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
BUSINESS PROSPECTS,
From the Fort Scott Monitor.

From the Fort Scott Monitor.
Kansas has raised fair crops this year.
In some localities they were short, but
the average is very satisfactory. There
seems to be no need to predict that any
of our people will suffer for the necessi-
ties Of life. as is being done in regard to
the populations of some of the large
cities. Everything ought to move along
in the even tenor of its way, and the
people ought to be thankful that they
are so well off. There will be no start
ling growth or improvement anywhere
in the state. but we are satisfied there
will be a healthy, legitimate state Of
trade We have the stock and farm
products to make it SO. There has been
long spell of the most rigid economy,
and people will now feel they can afford
to indulge, not in useless extravaganza,
but In what is necessary for their COM
fort and enjoyment. Trade during the
fall and winter will undoubtedly be
better than it has for two or three years,
and there will be little dealing on credit.
The times through which we have
passed wrought "A big change in the
manner OF doing business, and we think
ii will be found we are nearer a cash
basis than ever before. The whole
country has learned a lesson and it will
be long time before we plunge SO
foolishly and wildly into specu!ations
and extravaganza as during the period
which was the foundation of our recent
troubles. Looking the field over we
cannot see but that Kansas is as well off
in business way as any of the states,
and an extension of that courage for
which we are celebrated as people,
and a pull altogether will clear the sky
of the dark clouds which have hung over
US so many months.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
WESTERN KANSAS FARMS.
some Facts Which VIII Be Appre-
ciated Later On.

GATED Later On.
Hon. Jesse Taylor of Garden City,
than whom few men are better III
formed As TO the material and political
conditions of western Kansas, and who
is attending the present session Of the
United States court now being held in
this city, made the EAGLE a call yester-
day. In talking of the present strip
craze, and instiiuting a comparison OF
the Cherokee outlet lands to those of
western Kansas, Mr.. Taylor spoke very
earnestly. He was not only armed in
his argument by the facts Of observa-
ton and experience, but with names
and figures, which latter will be found
no less encouraging than surprising.
de went on to say:
''In some recent interviews given TO
the Kansas City daily papers by some
western kansans who have been honor
ed by the western people with elections
as members OF the legislature, delegates
to the Republican national convention,
and other offices, and who are 'cussing'
the country because there are no more
Offices for them. and booming the Chero-
kae strip, il has been made to appear
that all of western Kansas VIII not pro-
duce any thing this year. II such men
want to go to the strip, Or any other
country where they can boom town lots
and live on the people from thu east who
have never had any experience in new
towns, then let them go, but they should
not lie about the condition of western
Kansas because they could not make
money sitting on the streets in the west
No country ever produced better wheat,
and more wheat 10 the acre with the
same amount of expense and labor, as
did western Kansas in the year
1892. l. is true that the wheat
on the high lands has been a failure this
year, but because of that failure the
people of eastern Kansas and the eastern
states should not be made TO believe that
the people of western Kansas are 'on
the verge of moral, political and finan-
cial ruin when the fact is that the
farmers in the Arkansas river valley in
the vicinity of Garden City were never
in more prosperous condition than
they are today. No farming country in
the United States produces as much
wealth as does the alfalfa lands in the
Arkansas river valley in western Kan
sas, and as living witnesses for this
broad statement take great pleasure in
giving the names Of men who have
sown their lands to alfalfa, and the
amount of money received by each per
acre for the alfalfa seed alone this
year, sviz:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
CORTLAND SUGGESTIONS.
A Curious Legend which Il Fully Believed
by the Creduious IsIandera


by the Creduious Islanders.
The people of Cortland retain many
of their primitive characteristics, ard
old customs are held very sacred. For
example, the cross is still signed before
the fire is lighted or the dough knead-
ed. and the butcher viii pluck hairs
from the forehead Of the beast and
throw them into the fire before ho
slaughters. The island affords fer
tile field TO the lover OF traditions aud
legends. which are accepted by the na-
tivcs with the utmost credulity. Each
ruined church possesses legend 81
some kind. In connection with tho
Romanesque building Of 81 Clemens
we read how young iourneyman shoe
maker wandering through Italy in
search Of work CHANGED one day az y
wayside tavern 10 overhear two monks
relating stories Of hidden treasures In
churches known To them which had
been plundered by the reformers The
church OF ~. Clemens at Wisby was
particularly mentioned
"On' that we could return" cried
one OF the holy fathers land release
the goose with it's twenty-four gos-
lings, all of purest gold. from i,s dark
hiding place in the church WALTZ
But do you not think" suggested
the other, that cursed heretics have
already plucked our goose and lie. hes
brood fly abroad
Not SO. :" replied his eompa MON; "ths
treasure was too well concealed for \
g'irnnier 10 be revealed" and he pro-
ceeded 20 describe the hiding place
with minuteness which left nothing
to be desired. The iourncyuan's
mouth watered ~ he listened atten-
lively TO every word. Why should not
he himself find the treasurer Working
his way 20 Dentzic. ne passed thence
20 Visby 81 Clemens had been laid
waste by fire. but the walls remained.
and. under cover of night. he s'ois
forth with the necessary tools and IN
earthed the treasure trove. Returning
with all speed TO Dantzic. he sold both
goose and goslingz. laying on. the pro-
ceesis in the purchase OF stock In trade,
for he now saw his Way TO becoming
master gobbler. lie then settled In
Gottiand. where he married and pros
pered. eventually rising 10 the position
Of burgonnaxter-ths Wnit.ington Of
Bar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

DR.. A. ". Mckinney, one OF Hutchin-
sons most prominent and honored citi-
zens. died at his home i'll that city Sun
day night. Deceased was an active
member Of several fraternal societies
and at the time of his death filled the
station of grand medical director for
Kansas of The Ancient Order Of United
Worlmen. Dr.. Mckinney was held in
the most affectionate regard by the citi-
Zens of hutchinson on account of his
ceasiess aud untiring efforts Cor the wei
fare and happiness Of ali the community.
He was pbilanthropist by nature and
spent his life largely in administering
10 necessities of his fellow men. He had
an extensive acquaintance throughout
the state and his death will be regretted
by many.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

Interest In the convention to be held
in Salina, September 80, in the behalf of
irrigation for the arid regions of the
west and of western Kansas in par
ticular, is growing and the convention
promises to be great success in point of
attendance and in the divglsement of
some practical plan of operations more
particularly. Some of the leading
students of irrigation of the country are
expected to be present and give the
meeting the benefit of their researches
along that line. The interest involved
IN the ultimate development of a plan
for successful irrigation is of the greatest
moment to this state and it is hoped
that that the Salina convention will be
able to open the way to such desired
contamination.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

1t is rumored in Kansas City. Kan. the
Gazette says. that the organization
known as the American Protective as
ISOLATION, will take legal Steps to comp ell
Secretary OF State Osborn to issue them
. charter. Members of the order claim
that the statutes gives no discretion
whatever liz the matter of issuing char
tiers, and that he has no more right to
withhold charter properly drafted and
signed than a county recorder would
have to refuse to place deed on file
which requested TO dos The American
Protective association is an anti-Catholic
organization and is not confined to any
state, the intention being to make it
national in its scope. 1t is socio-political
in purpose and partakes strongly Of
aonothingism.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

iueSe are Oilly d Lew Oi Tie pEOSDeIOu
alfalfa growers.
In addition to the enormous yield of
seed ali the farmers in the valley have
cut and stacked at least two tons of
alfalfa lay per acre, which is worth Sc
per ton. Many of the people who are
going wild over. and will go busted
in, the strip had better come to western
Kansas, for they can make more money
there In one year by growing alfalfa,
feeding the hay to cattle and selling the
seed, than they can make in the strip in
three. Western Kansas has now settled
down to business. We know what to
plant and what not to plant. The days
OF the town-lot boomers, comfy seat
rustlers, loan agents and county bond
and warrant schemers have past and
gone, while that class of people will soon
commence to reap their harvest in
the strip on much larger scale
than was ever heard of in the west, and
the people who enter The lands will have
to suffer the consequences and pay the
taxes.
Mr.. Taylor further said l am glad
that the Cherokee strip has been opened
for as soon as the people so down there
and see that but little Of that country is
valuable. demonstrate that farming in
salt valleys and on gypsum hills is not
profitable, and that better lands can be
purchased in western Kansas for less
money than the government price in
the strip, western Kansas will have
immigration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
WHAT DOES 1T ALL MEAN.

The EAGLE asserted few days since
| that the 'sbooth" scheme of the interior
department was humbug. That it is
humbug and that back of it is some
kind of job is the only reasonable con-
| clusion that seems possible to reach.
People would not be put to all this
trouble, annoyance, expense and loss OF
time, for the mere sake of red tape.
| Beyond question there is job in the
booths. some unseen advantage in which
some of the certificates issued are to
play part at the land Offices, conclu-
sion Of some character wherein the
choicest and most valuable lands will
not be secured by the men first on the
ground. IL this surmise is not SO. tn en-
wherefore the boo,hs and certificates.
In conformity with the booth humbug
is Mr.. Hcke Smiths train order, of yes
terday morning. That, too. is against the
real settler Much of that order also is
utter foolishusss. or otherwise designed
sIlul6uggery. Horses and teams by the
thousand must necessarily he abandoned
under that order or otherwise their
owners be left in the lurch SO far as
townsites and lands Immediately along
the railways are concerned. Twenty
TO fifty thousand people will want to
take the trains. But how transportation
can be furnished for such number,
who are forbidden by the order TO enter
the coaches or get on the cars up to
within thirty minutes of the hour Of
opening. passes comprehension. Trains
can only leave from four principal
points, not counting the Panhandle
branch.
As was set forth by the EAGLE week
Or two since, the whole plan has the
seeming of a studied scheme for an ex-
citing elimination and tragedy, behind
or under cover of, which is the sug-
gestiveness of trick or fraud. And, as
we said then, the only hope is that the
GOODNESS and forbearance Of the dis
appointed may prove equal to the oc-
casion. Mr.. Hoke Smith must either be
acting under interested advice or other
wise he is both badly mixed and ratified
as TO the true situation and its demands.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
FINANCIAL CONFIDENCE.
How an Old Uomar's Big Pile Was Kef
Sofety for Her.

How an Old yEoman's Big Pile Was Kept
Safely for Her.
A woman whose face was honest and
whose clothing betokened that her life
was one of toll called at an uptown
bank few days ago, says the New
York Press, and asked to deposit sum
| of money for safe keeping for a few
| days there, and when she undid the
! package which contained her money,
instead of the few hundred dollars
which the officers thought she might
have, there was revealed a little over
forty-six thousand dollars. The wom-
an. whose identity was established
and whose story was afterward proven
| to be true. was one of the waiting
women in attendance upon one of the
| women's rooyus in the Grand Central
| station.
She said that one day an old woman
entered this waiting room and sat there
all day watching her so closely that
! she became embarrassed. The woman
looked wan and ill, and the waiting
woman thought that she was possibly
poor creature who had no other place
to stop, and SO she invited this stranger
to share her cup of tea with her at
lunch time. The old woman CRATE
fully accepted. The next day she came
again, and for the third day, watching
all the time this waiting woman with
her sharp and bright black eyes. The
evening of the third day she said to
the waiting woman in broken English:
Il have been watching you these
three days, and know that you are
perfectly honest and / can trust you.
l am going to my home in France,
where have not been for thirty years,
but the vessel does not sail for some
days. l know nobody and can trust
nobody. and l have my savings with
me and am worried all the while be-
cause l am afraid some one will rob
me of them. Now, I know can trust
You, and want you to keep this money
for me until the steamer sails"
The waiting woman promised to do
1t, having sympathy for the lonely old
French woman, but, when this forlorn
creature took from place of conceal
ment under her person a parcel con-
tanning her money and showed it to
the waiting woman the savings were
found to be few dollars more than
forty-six thousand dollars. Much of
this was in large bills, into which the
woman had exchanged her money.
The waiting woman was frightened
because of the responsibility, and then
she bethought her of the bank and
thus the deposit was made in that in
stitution. The day that the steamer
sailed the old Frenchwoman received
every penny, and was overfowed with
gratitude. She did not trust banks,
but she did trust the woman whom she
had never seen, and this woman, rot
knowing of financial disturbances, had
perfect confidence in the banks.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
PECULlARlTIES OF BURROS.
A Remarkably Sure-Footed Little Noun
tain Climber.

a XSc"AFkAply SuEe-E OOteU Ltttie Mouu-
tain Climber.
The burro has many peculiarities,
which he shares with his halfbrother,
the mule. Burdened with heavy
pack. he may travel for hours patient
II and without complaint. He APP
proaches a little stream of sluggish
water not more than an inch or two
deep, or it may be dry ravine which
has water only in the rainy season. He
sets foot on it with the utmost reluc-
lance. and after having been fairly
pulled in he may deliberately lie down
and refuse to go further. He knows
how easy it is for his little feet to sink
into the wet sand, and the recollection
that just such an innocent-lookiug
place once upon a time proved TO be a
quagmire still survives in his mind.
This same instinct of self preserve
ton, says st. Nicholas is what
makes him so sure footed. He will
carefully pick his way over mountain
trails that would be impossible to .
horse and would make man dizzy.
once saw a burro with good-sized
pack on his back try 20 pass along a
trail that led through narrow cleft IN
the rock. The cleft was too narrow,
and. when half way through the pack
stuck fast Being unable 70 go for
ward the burro backed but was equal
Il unsuccessful in getting out He
then tried his last resource-iying
down When he couldn't do this his
groans and lamentations filed the air.
and continued during the hour II took
rs to free him I thought he uus:
DC injured internally. but 10 sooner
was he At liberty than be went few
yards forward on the trail and quietly
began 10 Craze,
But i. Is when kept behind his con-
rades. II only for few moments tina.
his agony * greatest Then such
struggles 20 be free. Such brays' One
wonders how so small an animal can
make 50 great q noise
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
The Deacon Case

From the Topeka Journal.
Major General Daniels of the Kansas
National Guard says he has ID his pos
session iae resignation OF Major W. J.
Deacon, the member of his staff who
made so much unpleasant talk by his
escapade at Wichita a few weeks ago.
Major Daniels does not say that he asked
for his resignation Of his staff officer and
says he has not vet decided what course
to take IN regard to its acceptance. II IS
possible that the resignation may be re-
fused and court martial ordered 10 sit
on the case. Much depends on whether
the expenses of the Hughes court mar
tial are PAID or not without special APP
propriatioa.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

It has been iterated aud reiterated
throughout this country for twenty
years, and until nine-tenths of the peo-
pie who read the current prints believe
it to be true, that an English capitalist
named Seyd was the author OF what is
known as the demonstration of silver
act of 1878, and that he procured its
passage through congress by the liberal
use of English gold. The fact is that
Seyd is one of the most uncompromis-
ing bimetallists extant and is the author
of some of the strongest aud most con-
vincing papers against single gold
standard and in favor of silver as coin
metal along with gold that have been
produced. Americans can always afford
TO be fair, and it is not their nature to
shift responsibility knowingly upon other
shoulders that rightly belongs on their
own.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13
BARON HiKSCH'S COLONY.
Inmigrants Who Arc Not Proving On.
desirable.

That rather large class Of American
citizens who are inclined to look upon
all immigration as an evil and to think
that the foreigners who are likely to
come among us for permanent resi-
dence are proftiess and unworthy lot
whom it would be better 20 keep out
altogether, may be commended to a
little observation of the Hebrew colony
in southern New Jersey. This is one
of the colonies esta blished through the
munifcence of Baron Hirsch. and il is
now on the high road to success, which
is bringing proportionate benefit to the
surrounding country. Under the su-
pervision Of the committee dele
gated to apply the Hirsch fund.
picked eolonists were two years ago
esta blished there on five thousa nd acres
of rough land. In the brief time be-
tween then and now they have cleared
the land. laid out pleasant town site,
erected one hundred and fifty houses,
esta blished several factories, planted
VINEYARDS and orchards and are now
beginning TO reap the rewards of their
well-directed industry in substantial
crops and profita Bile employment for
artisans ard mechanics. while. o.:
course. all the region round about,
with its native population. is expert
encing new activity in all branches of
industry and trade We may say. TO
be sure, that the success of this colony
of Hebrew refugees is due to the care
with which the committee selected tie
colonists. choosing only the fttest and
rejecting all unworthy ones. but il
shows to what good results the stream
of immigration can be directed by 5u-
dicious system of discrimination ard
oversight-resuIts which would be
wholly lost by a policy Of general ex
clus;on. -Proyidence Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-13

Presenting upon the elation of Cleve-
land over his domestic affairs a COM
mittee from the senate proposed a COM
promise upon silver legislation, but
t,rover still adheres to the determination
not to mix family with state affairs.
Had it been boy the silver people
might have Jared better