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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12

repealed or not. The passage OF bill TO
| make the coinage of silver free would
send gold to premium at once, and It
goes out or the country so rapidly that
lt VIII compel the government TO sop
payments in gold, or resort TO the sale OF
bonds TO get gold to pay the maturing
securities. Undoubtedly the government
VIII have TO limit the coinage of silver,
If 1t Is kept at par with gold, far more
than 1t Is by the present coinage act.
The Republicans had better leave all
legislation on the subject to the Demo
Gratis, as they are coming into power
soon, and they claim that their policy is
better for the country than the Repub-
lican policy. Our finances were never in
better condition than they were at
the time of the election last fall,
and certainly business of all kinds
was never IN more prosper
Gus condition. New manufacturing
industries were being started, old ones
were being enlarged, labor was largely
employed, more remunerative wages
were being paid, and manufactured
products were cheaper than ever before.
Prosperity was prevailing in every state
in the Union.
The Democrats have elected their can
didateS on a platform Numerically OPP
posed to that of the Republicans. Now
let them take charge of the government
and make laws that viii enforce the
doctrines of their platforms. This will
give the people chance TO see whether
their policy will increase the general
prosperity or not. If free coinage aud
free trade viii give greater prosperity
than limited compulsory coinage and
protection to our industries, then let Us.
have them and see how We come QUIT
Republicans believe that the ma iority
the people who voted the Democratic
and Populist tickets will soon find out
their mistakes. If SO, we may have to
go through three or four years OF hard
times and business disaster, with strikes
and riots prevailing everywhere, and I'M
told suffering and misery among the
working classes, but we hope the voters
viii have learned wisdom by their ex-
perience, and in 1896 will re-elect BEN
jamin HARRISON, or some equally good
man, by an overwhelming majority.
DIR. Z. P MULLER.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12
INDEPENDENT KANSAS,

The harmful effects of the political
situation in Kansas upon the states
material interests insofar as they are
affected by outside financial assistance.
have been clearly demonstrated in several
instances IN the recent past, whers large
sums of money sent into the state for in
vestment have been withdrawn and
others promised withheld, even after
terms were agreed upon and the papers
made out and signed, This would pre-
sent a serious problem if there were no
other way of relief, but it is somewhat
assuring to know that we are not wholly
dependent upon outsiders for financial
aid. Almost every day statements are
published showing large deposits of
money in the banks OF the state
by farmers and stockmen. The large
crops of farm products the past year or
two and the uniformly good prices OBJ
tanned for nearly everything offered by
the farmer has brought more money into
the state than has been here tor several
years, The rapidity with which mort
cages have been paid Off and the large
deposits of cash in the repositories prove
this, if there were any reason to doubt
the statement.
Another proof of the improved finan-
cial condition of the people, the farmers
particularly, is the frequent sales of
farm lands held by non-resi-
dents 10 resident owners of
adjoining properties Transactions
of this kind represent a large amount Of
business in the aggregate that is being
done right along throughout the state.
and has been done for some time. Il
will not be denied, however, that there
is an active demand for ready money in
all the industrial and commercial de-
partments of the state. This is ALWAYS
the case in an enterpriSing, progressive
and growing community. In fact. the
demand for ready money is one of the
strongest proofs of the growth and en-
terprise of a community. In converse
ton with the head of a prominent real
estate and loan agency in Nemeha coun-
ty the other day the editor of the
Atchison Champion was Informed that
farm lands were increasing in
value and that the mortgage indebted
ness OF the county Is being continually
diminished, nos only, but that there is
very little eastern money to be had, for
the reason that there is plenty of money
IN the county among the residents TO
supply the demand; thar he had no
trouble IN supplying his customers with
all the money they wanted on farm
mortgages at per cent. from residents
OF that county. There are many farm
ers in that county who have money
leaned 70 their less forehanded neigh
bors. His prediction was that the wear
IS not far away when about all the farm
mortgages on Nemaha county farms
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WESTERN GALL.
Is Takes All Kinds of People to Make %
This Great World.

IL Takes All Kinds of People to Make %
This Great World.
sit takes many different kinds Of
people TO make up the world" said the
editor, and men in my business sec
our share OF them. 1t is bad enough fof
the man who has been takin' the paper
for 'steen years to get mad because We
do not print several columns that he has
written. but think had the greatest
specimen of gall yesterday when l rot
letter from man who sent in a long
communication on such - impcrtzn n
subject as state aud county taxes, and
wanted it printed The article would
have made almost two columns. Tbs
writer said ne was not subscriber.
but if We would print the article he
would buy two papers. Just for amuse-
ment l figured what it would profit the
paper in a financial way, with the fol-
lowing result: The actual cost Of type
setting would amount to eight dollars.
while the space occupied would be
worth. at regular rates for advertising.
sixty dollars For the expenditure Of
this sixty-eight dollars there would
have been paid in the enormous sum of
ten cents.
Il had an experience that was not 50
costly, but was as unique" said the
clerk. "A man came into our plac.,
where you know we sell hair goods.
and asked to look at false boards. OF
course he was accommodated, and he
spent over an hour going over the lot.
trying them on and examining himself
in glass. He took up my time, and
after he had examined everything in
that line in the store he thanked me
and said he was considering whether
to raise beard or not and wished 20
see how he would look IN the different
styles"
well, you will find exhibitions OF
gall in all business" said the doctor
Il was in a wholesale liquor store a
few days ago and found the proprietor
frothing over the way he had been
taken in by beat A man who looked
like farmer came in and said he was
just in from Olathe and was going to
buy bill of goods. He wanted to sam
pie some good whisky il there was any
in the place. OF course he was shown
the samples and tried every one of
them. He took in nearly half pint OF
good liquor and then was escorted back
TO the Office, where he said he would
take some of certain brand The
smiling merchant got his book ready
for good order when the man pro-
duced a half-pint flask and said he
would have that filed. The English
language did not have proper words to
do justice to the dealers feelings, so he
let him 60 without saying anything. -
Kansas City Journal
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MUST KANSAS LIE DOWN AND GIVE
EPp

Not single jobbing or manufacturing
city, no live stock market or packing
point, no grain shipping station of i'm.
portance, no town whose railway tonnage
counts for anything for the state at
large was given moments considera-
ton in the appointment Of railway COM
n1issioners by Lewelling and his bumps
of ignorant and prejudiced fanatics. The
commercial interests of the state were
not only ignored, but the market and
| freight interests of the producer lost
sight of by this little incompetent clique
| in their rule Of ruin anxiety to aid some
hungry hog of their own breed in get
ting his snout in the public trough. The
struggling interior wholesaling points,
with those of the more favored
Missouri river basing-line towns,
were alike ignored and in
the fight and scramble for the big sal
aries, the present and future of the state
in whose name only they were acting.
was left to the tender mercies of foreign
managed corporations or otherwise to go
to the dogs. Such seemed the concep-
lions, such the incentives Of the states
men who hold the reins of a common
wealth just emerging from long strain
of adverse conditions, in which but one
more power or element was left, to
wisely regulate. Instead of a board
consisting of sound constitutional
lawyer, and an experienced traffic man
of expert knowledge, and sound bust
ness man who is either an extensive
manufacturer, a heavy shipper or a
large producer, what have we? Simply
two played-out old party relegates and
boy who presumably could not define
the difference between way bill for
Car load of fifth class freight and the
toilet schedule of a Pullman palace water
closet, the secretary named for this ag-
being an ex-railway tool,
maybe discharged, and presumably for
but all confessed failures
as managers of their own private affairs,
which are small to insignificance. AS
the most of this electing board, includ-
ing Governor LewelIing and his adj
jutant general, are late importations,
why they did not go to Colorado, Mis-
souri, or Iowa for board of railway
for Kansas has not trans
PRED, but probably because the one
chosen suits the railway attorneys better
than would strangers whom they could
not know so well and so thoroughly.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The Minstrel asks Mr.. Peel to add the
Wichita reservation to his bill.
The entire population of the Tonkawas
is 81, of which only 10 are male adults
The Cimarron river will be bridged at
the Gould crossing, ten miles northeast oil
kingfsher,
The residence of ex- Governor Steele, at
Marion, Ind, was burned to the ground a
few days ago.
Clipper: Yukon and Oklahoma City are
scrapping over which shall get the peni-
tertiary. It's Yukon and you haunt
Hon. A. n Daniels speaker of the house
| during the first territorial legislature, is
engaged in writing book of his political
| life.
E. W. Murray, the owner of the Clifton
hotel building at Purcell, is already con-
templating the erection of forty-room
brick hotel building that will be credit
to the town.
The Tonkawa reservation consists of IA
| sections of some of the best land in the
strip, and only eighteen of them have been
taken as allotments, leaving 126 to be
opened to settlement.
L
eastern portion of the strip contains 263, 600
acres, of which 12S,000 have been allotted
to the Indians, leaving balance of 155, coo
to be thrown open to settlement.
Minco Minstrel: Guthrie and southern
Kansas were not satisfied with the whole
world they wanted it fenced; and to ac-
commodate them Mr.. Perkins added the
Pawnee and Tonkawa reservations to the
strip bill as it passed through the senate.
Mipco Minstrel: Here is a dollar to a
doughnut that the Guthrie scheme of add
ing two extra reservations to the strip bill
passes without opposition. While a brick
is hurled at us every time the Wichita
reservation is mentioned. Like the boys
and the frogs, it is fun for Guthrie but it
is HI on us.
Ell Reno Eagle: On the 1st instant, Del
egate Harvey introduced a bill i'll congress
providing that in all cases where school
land in Oklahoma has been used as
public cemetery it shall be lawful for any
incorporated city or town in the immediate
vicinity of such laud to purchase the same
by paying for it not less than $40 per acre
Right on that bill the lawmakers have a
chance to display their humanity. Nearly
every town in Oklahoma has buried its
dead on school land, as iC was impossible
to get any other place for them, and it
would be an outrage to compel the re-
moval of the bodies.
Some years ago citizen OF Arkansas
went to the Indian Territory and settled
in the Chickasaw nation, where he shortly
afterward married an Indian girl. the
owner of considerable property. Several
years after their marriage the couple was
divorced, the husband taking the three
children, which had been born to them,
and returned TO Arkansas. He died few
months later, and requested a relative to
care for his children. Last week an attor-
ney from the Chickasaw nation went to
Little Rock with requisition from Gov
ernor Jones Wolfe, of that nation, on Gov
eruor Fishback, of Arkansas. ordering the
latter to return the children TO the moth
er. The case was referred TO the attorney
general to ascertain whether Governor
Wolfe has the authority to issue requisi-
tion of this kind.
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Brainv Men.

The brain of the late Benjamin +.
Butler was found TO weigh sixty-twO
ounces, four ounces more than the brain
Of Daniel Webster. Up to this time
Web5ter's brain was the second largest
on record, the largest being that of Gu
vier, which weighed sixty-fve ounces.
The average weight of the brain in man
Is about forty-nine ounces. The physi-
clans say the brain of Daniel Webster
was originally much larger than at the
time of his death, but that il had be-
come shrunken By disease and the use
of alcohol; 1t is estimated that at least
six ounces were lost in this way. Think
of II! The brain shrinks. ths tissue
wastes, the thinking power becomes less.
all by reason of over-exertion, disease,
or destination.
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a Tale With \ Moral. .

From the Atchison Globe.
There was a time when the Globe in
vented sensational stories to cause the
people to ''talb," but after discovering
that such stories cause at least half the
people in town TO be talked about" as
the guilty parties, it quit the habit. The
Globe printed a story one time, entirely
fictitious, which was fastened on GER
tain citizen, and it hangs on him yet. In
twenty years it is probable that the story
will be remembered against him,
although the original story was an in
vention, and not true of any one. When
man gets little old, he quits things of
this kind; he does not desire TO be I'M
just. When he is younger, he does not
realize the injustice he does, sometimes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12

CREATING NEW OFFICES

One of the strong points of the late
campaign, made by the Populist, against
the Republican party, was the charge of
new and unnecessary Offices. The point.
in some sense, was well taken. and if
was effective. But what are the Popu-
list doing at Topeka. They have bills in
now saddlIng nearly two hundred addi-
tional officials on the tax payers of the
state and If they keep on before the ses-
sion Is ended they will have created
places for fully one-half of all the Popu-
list office hunters in their hungry party.
One bill provides for nine supreme court
commissioners, another introduced in
the senate provides for supervisor OF
agriculture in every county of the state,
another creates the Office OF police
matron in ali cities of the iirst-class. and
many others have been introduced 10
make salaried places for the Populists.
The session is now more than half over
and bills have been introduced bv the
reformers to abolish Just two offices,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12

"Who is Half" the new Democratic
railway commissioner, is question that
Is being asked on every side, and about
as many answers are vouchsafed. George
Click says he is lawyer and an abso-
lutely capable and fair man. Somebody
else says he is a farmer and knows moth
ing about railroads and transportation
questions. Still another, that he is a
saw mill man OF at least two years ex-
perience in knocking the bark off and
plumbing line. Here is size-up that
seems 10 be authentic, being a matter OF
personal knowledge with the editor of
the Fort Scott Monitor:
Judge Hall, one Of the men elected on
the new board of railroad commissioners.
was formerly resident Of this city. where
he conducted gambling "snebang."
Reform Is il the saddle and is locking cut
tor its friends
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12
UNNECESSARY HousEwoRK.
Discrimination WEI save the Housewife,
Strength.

Determination WEI Save the Housewives
Strength.
1t takes some good Judgment on the
part of the housekeeper to know where
and how to slight her work We see
housekeepers who go through their
daily and yearly round of work, doing
all things WELL and doing the unim-
portant things as well as the most i'm
portant ones. Such q housekeeper, if
she does her own work, is of course a
drudge, as any person must be who lays
out the same amount of effort on all
things, regardless of the results, and
who neglects nothing that may be made
a subject of work Some housewives
have a faculty for making work where
there is no need for it; they are natur-
ally industrious and love cleanliness,
and their life is a constant warfare
against a speck of dust or a misplaced
chair or something else that offends the
Imagination more than any require
ments Of their existence With these
people the game is too often not worth
the powder that they expend to bring
it down. They are not discriminating
In the application of their labor, and
are just as likely to direct it where it
shows no result as where it does
These women never say die, and If their
back is broken their spirit IS not Their
treadmill is largely of their own crea-
ton. There is homework that is real
" created by the worker. The science
of housekeeping calls for the suppress
sion of work as we'll rs for its correct
performance and these housekeepers
who are necessarily planning work,
might better lay their plans TO make
some Of their work unnecessary farm
and Fireside.
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will be owned by Nemaha county peo-
pie.
Nemaha county is not an exception in
this respect: very many other counties
are in equally as good condition. Bor-
rowed foreign capital has been an inval
liable auxiliary in the development and
improvement of this state, but the inter
est payments thereon have been heavy
burden and constant drain upon its re-
sources. But the state is happily past
the worst OF these conditions, and with
continued fair crops and prices for them,
and fair treatment in the matter of trans
portation charges. in and out, Kansas
will soon be independent of outside
money loaners, and will easily take the
lead of the west in the matter of public
and private enterprise and general i'm
provement and thrift, as she is already in
agricultural productions.
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SHE DIGS THEM.

Little, pestiferous Anna Diggs is prov
ing regular chigger to the populist
body polite and she is working her way
under their thick hides in an encourag-
ing manner. Her boring capacity would
be counted phenomenal, but that she is a
female determined on getting there.
She demands an immediate divorce, not
from her pitiable leech of husband,
but enforcement of the Populist and
Democratic parties, the result Of whose
combined offspring she considers but
little better than mule. She was de-
livered last night, at Topeka, of a
squeak, which her admirers considered
a big speech, in which she declared the
production Of John Martin to be but lit
tie better than an abortion that must
PROSTATE the Populist party if they didn't
wash their hands of such bastard bust
ness, or word to that effect. After the
delivery she announced that she was
going back to Washington to look after
the eastern end of the problem.
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We hope Kansas people will send up
mighty protest against the opening of the
Cherokee strip. The opening of All terri
tory on our borders is detrimental To the
material interests of our own state.-Ex.
The foregoing is the worst bit of old
fogyism we have seen for a long time
II calls to mind the prayer of the old
Hardshell deacon, that runs like this:
Oh, Lord, bless me and my wife, my
son, John, and his wife; us four and no
more. That sort Of a spirit never en-
cages in new enterprises for fear the
money invested and effort put forth will
not produce any returns and will be
finally lost. We can think of nothing
that would benefit the state of Kansas,
ultimately and in the not far distance,
equal to the speedy opening of the strip
10 settlement
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Some DfrsreBes.

Dealer furnace Ike this one. suit
able Tor warming thoroughly ten
room house such - you describe. ard
guaranteed . give satisfaction, VIII
cost you two hundred dollars. and =
good, honest Job can't be doCs tor less-
Custoner-I don't Wat &; for IA Own
dwelling. T-Ew-want T. FOR q hozss
Occupied by tenant
Deslsr-Yes- air. Here is most en-
oellent one ! can SCI yru for ntnety-
ssTe1 dollars AID fifty cszs&
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Definition Of Cheek.

Hans-Vat means dot ven dose Ameri-
Gamers say dot man has some check,
or some gals, Ell?
FRITZ dells how dot vas. Some
time ago lends my friend Schmidt von
hundret dollars. He pays me not cent
pack; sol prings suit dot court Ia, und
/ wins ny suit. Den Schmidt he comes
to me mine Office in
'Ee prings you dot money pack7'
Not meoch; but he wanted me 70
lend him fifty dollars more TO pay his
lawyer and dose costs Dot ISL vot
dose Americans call scze checks and
gaiIs-7-Texas Siftings-
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1t is thought at Washington that the
Cherokee strip bill will reach confer
ence committee of the two houses early
in the coming week, and that an agree
ment will be speedily reached which
viii leave the measure in such shape as
that it will not need to be submitted to
the Chelokees for ratification. At last
the members of both houses begin to
realize the importance of settling this
long vexed question without further de-
lay. If it isn't done, as far as the neces-
sary action of congress in concerned, by
March 4, prox., it will be postponed for
another year, probably two.
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Is it Just Retribution7

7 IoIiI NE NtWtoI hHlsan.
Sack cloth and ashes, contempt and
disgust, prayers and oaths, criminations
and recriminations. are the lot of Wich-
Ita, whose citizens sacrificed political
principals, partisan prejudices, their
city's interests, and all that men hold
dear. TO get governor. They got him,
but couldn't hold him, and all they have
to show for their folly is city marshal,
which their late resident threw TO them
as one throws a bone 10 a dog. Poor
old Wichita! Thy days are full OF
trouble, aud not even the dealer in stale
eggs respects you. Is it a just retribu-
ton to her people for the defeat of Hal
lowell and the first election of Simpson ?
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The biggest bull made by Lewelling
yet is the appointmentye yesterday of Todd
of FL Dorado as labor commissioner.
Todd who runs a populiSt sheet and has
the county printing in Butler into which
he jumped when the craze wave struck
that county, wanted to be state exam
iner. He knows no more of the princi-
pie of banking than a monkey does of
astronomy and but little if anything
more of the labor question. All Ell
Dorado is grinning over the appoint
ment.
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the proceedings Of the Oklahoma legisla-
ture than it does TO that Of Kansas, not
witbsJanding the fact that we have two
full fledged houses at Topeka, -kiugman
Leader.
That is correct, and there are several
reasons for it. In the first place there is
more done in the way of legislation at
Guthrie in a day than at Topeka in a
week, for obvious reasons. and which
are no fault of the EAGLES. And, then,
there are a good many thousand people
in the territory who rely upon the
EAGLE for that information, and it must
give IL.