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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

But Venus has sc least one great merit
she's alive. Likewise she is kicking.
Cupid has come up and is trying 10 re-
move the thorn and altogether the pietus
is as pretty as can be imagined. Tho
French section is of course the most
piquant in the building, but it is not near
~ so pieuarlt as IL was. One famous pic:-
ure was excluded from the United States
section and put in the French where IL
was slightly yelled with a very thin gsuze.
But even when yelled il scared the women
away and so it had 10 be removed.
While the larger pictures are as n ruls
beautiful, some are as aforesaid truly awful
and among the statues IL is still worse, in
the German section especially. Keeping
within bounds | should say there are a.
least ,0o0 "Christs," painted or carved. In
every conceivable attitude of agony and
bodily distortion. Ordinary Laocoons and
Iincolns and Prometheuses and orpheos-
in-Hells and all those other groups In
which the victims ara wrestling with Gre,
snakes and furies, l can stand, but this ]
do assert-that any nervousiy sensitive
man who will thoroughly inspect ,hese
French pictures and German statues Of
so-called religious character" who viii
really take in the whole significance and
feel 1t, will have the trcmeus after it II h
never tasted whisky n his life.
J. II. BEADLA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

BOTH RIGHT AND WRONG.

BaIfour, the English Conservatist
leader, takes well defined position in
favor of bimetallism. In recent speech
he disclaimed political motives and
alluded to the anxiety felt throughout
the world which, anxiety was connected
with the currency changes In India and
the action that might be taken by the
United States government. A gold
standard, he declared, would never sat
sly commercial wants, while double
standard alone would prevent dangerous
oscillations in trade. He condemned
ISOLATED action on the part of individua
states, and recommended an interna-
tional agreement fixing the ratio of value
between gold and silver.
In this last position, however, he
ignores the facts of recent history.
Within the last quarter Of a century
nearly every European nation has taken
seperate action on its own account on
the coinage or metal money question.
The only concert Of action on the silver
question was bad by what is known as
the Latin Union, and that agreement
was of comparatively short duration.
As General Hancock said of the tariff,
the money question is purely local TO
each nation and must he settled by each
for itself,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

THE LANDLoRD-JUSE 1sT AND AUGUST 1sT
brought up to 10000. There are 10000
people who belong on the grounds and the
free passes had few days ago reached the
amazing aggregate OF 1900. Yet all
these and the 100, 000payers scarcely make
show in the grounds, and in c0nversing
with scores Of visitors I have heard com
plant of crowding in but one place.
That was in the Fisheries building and
due entirely TO the narrow passages
through which observers must pass.
4 few financial facts are now admitted
by all. Chicago's s., 000,o0o subscription
is gone. Nobody expects a cent out of it
aud nobody complains. The floating debt
viii be paid Of course The bonded in
debtedpess Of about s, 0Go, coo stands next
in preference ard viii therefore be paid.
As to the S., SOC, 900 10 stocl1-well, If the
attendance is really coed from this on, the
stockholders viii recover q per cent. OK
their money. and that Is what they now
consider their claims worth. The Phila-
deiphia Centennial nsttsd 8 large loss, and
SO did the two British fairs and the
Vienna exposition Of 1873. But Chicago's
estimate Of j.0So009 paid admissions was
nearly four times the number at the Cen
about q, coo 90 parers IN the last three
months, OF more than four times the daily
average Of May OF course nobody ex-
poets that.
Out OF this chaos CT oioorn comes enc
bright ray o. huneT. ard It comes from
the Sunday opening question which mas
turned into a national com edy. After the
question bad put al tae Hatien IN IN up
rear and set the religious and sec1lar
press b. tie cars, it was oecidesI BIZ an IL
Junction from court io-b,d6iEg tie Elaa-
ayers % Close the park On sEIy day. so
Tho gates were opened the next Sunday
and, behold, there were ao% enough tickets
so!G 70 pay kEs hired hands Chicago peo-
pie re&lly did not want 70 20 on Sandsy.
they Only wanted tkzSr TIgl.t N 20
admitted If.ss coze. tkey went theF
usual Says 70 Lincoln PARK aEse eisSSs sas-s
-. beautiful ssl1strss4oa q The "dsnEl-
ton cozt-Ariaessv there is IN d nza-
Wen, the receipts ran 50 lcss that th-
r,auagers shut TIE gales a. an economic
proceeding. and then TIE tnfsussica Wa
drawn On tAs-n and they wsre compelled
20 oTeE them again. willy nljiy. And On
tie first Sunday us11er this aozsE.e-st
tie paid admissions were Il, 81 only, cash
value fch{ldren hing hall prfee1 Little
Under p 100. c. sboat - exits for zach EN-
pioye absolutely necessary. TIA. 81 zzsasF
was beyon6 odds the slzszse day the Y Kite
City ever sax aad K Is q plain c4sc tAzt
the Sunday ciaserz hare 81 the iaE-fts Ga
tie ctAs- .e.-cxA Ines1satas.T r-sT s1a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
A SAMPLE OF IT.

The EAGLE has suggested in mild
sort of manner, occasionally, for twenty
years past that it did not have much use
for woman in public life, one essential
suggestion always being that women are
women. As a fair exponent or illustra.
ton of our conceptions Of what it would
be with women in public life TIE compo-
sition. history and results of the lady
board of managers Of the worlds fair are
cited. If the fair should be prolonged
another year there won't be grease
speck Of all that fair and furious combina-
ton left to mark the spot. Three or four
of their number have died from strain
they were all untitled for and the sur
vivors are simply raising merry hades
with each others dispositions and repu-
tatiOnS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
W ATCH 'EM SQUIRM,

It is great fun to watch the contortions
made by Grover and his party IN their
efforts to worm from under their Chica-
60 platform. The men who elected Mr.
Cleveland will doubtless swallow al his
rot, but the intelligence of America, the
great body of men who voted for Harri-
son, and which body represents the cap
ital and brains Of the country, wont be
fooled to the duration of single Minute.
Free trade" and "free coinage" consti-
tute glittering spoon hook for gudgeons,
but sixty days will demonstrate that the
men who succeeded to Office on such
platform are owned by power that has
no use for anything that promises to
help the producer or to lift to higher
station the ignorant masses to whose
prejudices the Democratic party never
aDDeals in vain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

Is painting labeled, foreclosure Of the
Mortgage" and before it one nearly al
ways finds q crowd of ruralists gazing in
silence and with q sympathy that can be
felt.
1t is indeed O fine painting. All the
cultured" people say so, and even COM
mon man can notice II. But that Is not
the chief attraction, for there are still
finer paintings at which these people sim
ply glance and pass on. The scene is that
of an humble home where the father sits
in chair evidently just recovering from
long illness. Before him stands the law
yer Or ,bailiff reading the formal notice to
quit. The wife and mother has buried
her face in her hands and bowed down on
the table and in the corner the aged
grandmother has shrunk in her chair as il
crushed. It seems that one can see the
dresses of the women culver with the sup
pressed sobS which shake their frames.
The oldest girl looks from the window,
through which one can see the play
ground, with face upon which the cares
of age seem to have come suddenly, while
the other children, too young to realize
the appalling calamity, are SO awed by
that atmosphere Ct sorrow that their little
faces have a look to make ones heart
ache.
That's mighty tough, h'aint it Bill'"
asked one visitor of his conrade.
You bet it is, aud you wont have to 90
out o. our township 10 see the likes OF ii
before the snow flies"
/ saw several women turn away with a
suspie Us moisture in their eyes and
few ST Is were audible. There must be
sonnet ing more than mere artistic merit
In a picture which can excite such emo
tons. The painter (the catalogue names
e. 4. Reid, of Toronto) has selected sui
ject Of unusual popular interest Just now.
There ought to be some way, think, Of
shutting many alleged religious pict-
ures" out of the public galleries. They
are. to my unculturad eye at least, indie
scribably horrible, and I cannot help
thinking that they degrade the religions
instinct They are gbastly, they are
morbid, they certainly do indicate dis
eased and sicEiy sentirnentality. In one
room of the French department. for in
stance. there IL picture with title OF
which the purport Is that these people
died a fortunate dessh- 10 represents
tie discovered heads of some beautiful
women, martyrs / presume, floating On
the water into which they have apparent
IL Just been thrown, ter they are either
resting lightly on the water oE held up by
the vegetation enough % show that they
are lust cut Of. Sow. what healthy mind
and what imperver1ed taste could find
pleasure in 10. Of bloody vomen's heads
On a bed OF water iiI!esi
In tbs same department. Is a Mater
DoIoross Ia which the artlzt. Tot satisfied
with painting Christ a. dead has gone
sbor1t nine 6ays farther, 20 borrow tx
ure Of speech FROM Huckiebery Finn
Right beside IL Is a perfectly gorgeous
Venus, represented a. having Just stepped
on thorn and comforting herself accord
inciy, end "a the tints are almost too life
Ike gzsA the eostuue OF the prevailing
French s.yis IL Art, the painting has besa
Objected 10 b various American siA.tozA
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
Where a book raises your spirit

Where book raises your spirit,
and inspires you with noble and
courageous feelings, seek for no other
rule to Judge the event by; IL is good,
and made by good workman. DE Ia
Bruyere.
"A Patient Lover.-Tom-How is
Dick progressing in his love with Miss
Code? Harry-He expects to win her
by waiting. Tom--Wsit for what?
Harrv-For her fathers death. Yam.
kee Blade.
That makes the third woman that
has tainted at that counter this morn
ing" Have they discovered what tbs
trouble is?" ''Ies; new cash boy
that rsings the change straight back"
-Intce ocean.
--He-Are you going TO give ne .
dance? She-Yes; take that quadrille.
He-I shall have TO go before they
reach that She--Oh, that doesn't
matter I'm going early myself
Boston Transcript.
MIR Macmonnies ian old fricnd)-
"Well, look here. old man, I'll tell you
what really brought me here to-day.
The fact is, my wife wants her mother
painted very badly. and ! NATURAL.
thought of you. Punch.
As the inheritance of an illustrious
name and pedigree quickens the sense
of duty in every noble nature. belief
in pre-existenee may enhance the glory
of the present life, and intensity the rev.
erence with which the deathless primer
pie is regarded. William knight
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

II the horses will finish the speed.
ing season as successfully as the steam
engine has ened i. this year Of grace
1923 will mark good many ira port& M
srDashings Of the records On land ws
have New York Central engine doing
a mile IN thirty-t~o seconds. while "a
the Atlantic the Bss Cunsrdey has sur
passed all performances on the ease
ward passage The public sppresss-
ton Of high speed grows kesner year
by year. Americans Ike sport. s.ps-
cially Il the character Of il Il soovs ~
preach; and ia the tests Of engines.
land and marine. tbey hare no reasos
u worry over the chance ~ crooxed
work Every time a record "a broksa
the public Is delighted Ard thsrs
seems 20 be every proraise tina. This
rear will bring great deal Of enjoy
men, Of the Kidd 20 the rex.d-nts Of
tesss United States. Railway rsnaa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

that over !, 600 saloons and cheap restau-
rants have been closed or ordered closed
by their proprietors and the brewers an
nounee that another 1900 viii be closed
this month as fast as their licenses run
out. And here is fact noticed by every
body, and with surprise bymany; the Wis
itors to this fair are not drinking crowd.
Whether the temperance reform or hard
times be the cause, judge ye.
One could walk about the grounds for a
week and he VIII be entertained for week
without entering building, and in many
of the buildings there is much entertain
ment in hearing the comments. This is
my chief amusement in the Fine Arts
building and some other places where the
exhibit is above my grade of culture" i
observe that nine-tenths of the visitors
are held by picture not in proportion 10
its artistic merits but by the appeal the
subject makes 10 their intetests and sym
pathies. Thus, in the Canada room there
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

Tn recent statement by Prof
Holden correction is made of some very
prevalent errors concerning the dis
lance of stars and planets, and their
size and visibility under the application
of the telescope. Thus. he says. II the
brightness of star seen with the eye
alone is one. with Pinch telescope IL
is 100 times as bright, with a $-inch
telescope il is 400 times as bright. an .
inch telescope renders IL 600 times -
bright. l6-inch $500 times as bright.
s2-inch q, 600 times as bright. and .
3G-ineh 80, 4o0-that is, with the latter
stars can be seen which are 20. 900 times
fainter than the faintest stars wish ole
TO the naked eye. Thus, while the
magnifying power which can be suc-
cessfuliy used on a 5-inch telescope will
permit n magn6ying power not above
800, the s5-inch telescope VIII permit q
n1agnifying power Of more than 2. COG
dianeters on suitable subjects, stars.
for example.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
a WALL STREET FARMER.

"Mr. Norton is about the last of the
gentlemen farmers of Wall street," said
one of his warm friends, in speaking of
the fire last week which destroyed the
ex-vice presidents 100000 barn and
roasted his Guernseys to death. II
think he has put more money into fancy
herds than any Of Us. Some of Mr..
TiIdens cattle We're quite as costly as
those of Mr.. Morton. but he did not have
so many of them. Senator Evarts has d
small herd of dozen or more whose
milk, he says, Is as exhilarating as
champagne and costs quite as much.
EX-Mayor Grace has herd of from
twenty to twenty-five choice Jerseys,
and l suspect he comes out about even
on them. Dir. Mortin, like Mr.. Tllden,
derived exquisite pleasure from leaning
over fence and watching Il herd of
fancy cattle as they grazed upoa the
meadows, and he became quite as learn
ed when discussing their fine points as
August Belmont used to be when he
spoke of the racing qualities of the best
horses in bis stable. A Guernsey COW or
bull whose points were all perfect gave
Mr.. Morton as great delight to look upon
as the contemplation of Maud S, in re-
pose and on the track gives Robert Bon
ner, and Mr. Mortin's friends will be
surprised if he does not pocket bis loss,
draw his insurance, and restock his
faruI,"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
STOP IT.

Every man or woman, says the AL
bany Evening Journal, who withdraws
dollar from circulation, for the purpose
of boarding it, is not only contributing
TO the disturbance of business. but is
morally guilty of a crime against the
general public. This applies equally to
all classes of hoarders, whether they be
capitalists with lock boxes in safety de-
posit vaults, or wage-worllers who utilize
the mattress and stove pipe as recep-
tacles for their savings, except in SO far
as the ignorance of the latter mitigates
the asinity and sheer wickedness of the
operation. The Journal continues:
Business IS transacted on a five per
cent basis of money and 80 per cent
superstructure of confidence and credit;
if the very underpinning of the business
fabric is removed, collapse of course is
inevitable. While the fools biz and
little are wildly scrambling for money in
any form that they may consign it to
idleness, cool beaded and far-sighted
bankers are devising clearing house
certificates and other forms of money
WIN NliiCH W llut over
sanity and reason return to the public.
Leave the money in the banks"
The easiest way to stop boarding is to
impress upon the public the utter idiocy
of the operation, to begin with, and the
danger TO the hoarder as well as the
damage TO business interests which is
thereby inflicted. Leave the money in
the banks. Put it into business. Let
people have the use of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

The Times again states that the silver
miners can rot he accepted as advisers in
this crisis. They are fighting for one in-
terest alone, their only party is silver, and
their utterances show that they will make
any sacrifice of the interests of the rest Of
the country that will result in affording
market for that product.-hansas City
Times.
Grant that that is true, and how much
worse, pray, is il than the action of tire
gold standard advocates in demanding
that silver be discarded as a money
metal? They are inspired by the same
motive you charge against the silver peo-
pie, j. e. selfishness. And after all. isn't
that the handspring to all human action:
In questions that effect the public well
fare there ought to be an interchange of
opinions and line of policy that will
bring the greatest good to the greatest
number. Any other policy can not fail
to operate to the special benefit Of the
few at the expense of the many, which
is repusnant to the principles of true
Republicanism.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

Copies of the Worlds Fair report of
the Kansas State Board of Agriculture
have been received. The report was
prepared by the secretary of the board
on authority of the Kansas Board of
Worlds Fair commissioners, and is de-
signed toshow the agricultural and other
resources OF the state and the progress
made in their developments; also TO place
before the public in general way, the
advantages the state has to offer To those
in the east and in foreign countries who
are looking TO the west for new homes
and profitable investment. The issue of
this special report is designed mainly for
distribution at the Worlds Fair and
seems to meet the requirements of such
g publication.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

"A Glossary.-He "a good joke
needs no glossary" She-"That's why
1 insist on your furnishing glossary"
Detroit Free Press,
--Alice-"Oh, dear it is so awfully
hot. I know look just like boiled
lobster, don't II" Mabel-"Yes." Alice
You horrid, mean, old thing!"-Min-
neapolis Journal.
-''Husband-'I think I shall go out
and catch few fish for our dinner to-
morrow" Wife-'No, Edwin. we must
economic. Buy them of the regular
dealer. Detroit Tribune.
-Scribble-'I say, Van. you'll be
there the night they produce my playa"
Van Trump-'Can't promise, old man.
But if I'm not, my grandchildren will
be. kate Fields Washington.
Dreadful "A man in Weehawken
has pair of twins that have to have
everything told them when they are
together because they are so much
alike that they can't be told apart
Judge.
-Hayseed-"Come out to the barn,
Miss Halsted Street, and see the new
Jersey calf" Miss Fl. Sob, isn't he
lovely. l suppose that's the kind that
gives condensed milk" - Arkansaw
Traveller.
Mr.. oldbeau-"And have you been
having good time to-day?" Miss
Autograph (of Omaha)-"Lovely. I
went around the buildings and signed
my name in twenty-three registers
Worlds Fair Puck.
The Changes of Time.
"When Frank first met me and / lived
in a brown-stone house he was very
devoted. But now, how different"
Friend-'It seems to have been case
of love at first site. Truth.
-Farmer-"Wen. my son, did you
mark the words of the minister to-day
when he said Leave no stoIe I'M
turned" Son-"Yes, pop, / don't think
he had any reference to the grind
stone. philadelphia Record
True Economy-Friend- do
you wear those fearfully old-fashioned
collars?' Winkers IA man of afairs)
because, when the washer-woman
sends them to anybody else, they send
them back "-Demorest's Monthly.
Not Fancy.-New Barber referring
to shaving cupl-'Isn't yours fancy
mug, Mr.. ORiely?f Riely-''Say.
Mister Barber. ollie break your face IL
We get personal Do va see onything
fancy about my mug?"-BrooAIyn
Life
Where is the island Of Java situ-
ated?' asked school-teacher OF a
small, rather forlorn-looking boy. 81
dunno, sir. Don't you know where
coffee comes FROM" Yes, sir: we Dor
rows it from the next-door neighbor. :"
Tit Bits
Young America ct il Again
Teachcr--'Now that I have finished
my discourse on Teeth" If there is
anyone who wishes to ask question
/ will answer it Smallest Boy in the
Class-''Hoyv many teeth are there N
the Jaws OF death9~-Truta-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09

While the contending forces in con-
gress are preparing for the contest about
10 be preclpitated we would like for
some one to tell US where the admins
tration as a whole us at on the money
question? Cleveland is understood TO
stand with the gold people, while MIR.
Carlisle has been classed at the head of
the silver column-both IN the position
of advocating the intrinsic value idea as
to our circulating medium: meanwhile
the treasury department is exchangin-
government bonds of small denomina-
lion for similar prcmises-to-p OF
larger denomination, so that they may
enter into active circulation as cur
-ency, and in so doing the department is
giving practical demonstration of the
government fiat theory advocated by
that school OF economists. Whatever
may be lie outcome of all this, IT is evil
~sent that neither side of the triangle
will lack argument to support their
positions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-08-09
The 1aiY Eagle agednesdaY ornue, Anous g. 1888

make the silver question burning issue
are doing SO to get away from the terri
bic indictments that are brought against
them every day for the calamity they
brought upon the country by their
threats of destruction in tariff legisia-
ton. OF course the silver question Is a
big issue now, but if there had been no
threats made against our admirable
tariff system it would have been easier
OF solution.
Tie s'tin roosters" have come home to
roost. But some people don't learn q
thing until it is too late to profit by their
experience. For instance take the adj
vocates of free coinage of silver in
convention at Chicago. Nine out Of
every ten are free traders. They viii
denounce the English ''goldUugs" in
blood-curdling terms.
While they are doing this the English
"goldbug" viii laugh in his sleeve as he
thinks how well it pays TO be denounced
as "goIdbug, shylock, scoundrel," and
even thief so long Us these poor fools
fly into his hands through free trade by
which he enriches himself at the expense
of all our people and especially our
laborers.
Read cousin Ben" Folsom's speech to
the Sheffield manufacturers at a swell
dinner he gave them on the Attn of last
month. and see how he congratulated
these same English 'goldbugs'' on the
prosperity that would come to Sheffield
through free trade in the United States.
These same English ''goldbugf' hailed
with shouts of applause the assurance
from Cousin Ben that the Democratic
platform would be carried out to the
letter.
OF course it is wrong in any one to
try to create alarm. but if that platform
is carried out we have seen only the be-
ginning of the good old Democratic
times" The storm has just commenced.
IS"