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The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
over the world-famed Quaker state. Nj
Martin SAYS:

Martin says:
''Tlere is much to he proud of in the
accomplishments and history of the
great keystone state. and yet there is no
opportunity, although quite young, for
any one to decide or belitte the al
ready great, but half developed. Sun
flower state of Knnsas. One quarter
section OF good Kansas land will raise
more stuff and do it easier, than a dozen
OF the average of little Pennsylvania
truck farms.
Pennsylvania is great state and no
doubt has much good agricultural land,
but if it had undertaken the fight for
position among lis sister states that
Kansas has undertaken, having its pres.
ent resources and Kansas location, it
would have been a great failure from an
agricultural standpoint. Iron. oil, coal
and favorable location have done for
Pennsy ylvania what rich soil and time is
sure 10 do for Kansas. The only differ
ence is that Kansas will not become i'm
poverished with years of tilling. Her
soil won't wash away, but it will be-
come richer. The oil wells. the coal
fields and the iron mines of Pennsyl-
vania cannot last always. Already are
the oil wells drying up and the competi-
lion OF easier mined western coal will
constantly encroach upon her coal mar
ket and keep down the profits from that
industry, while western and southern
iron will do the same in relation to the
iron industry. So, the rising generation
of Pennsylvania will have to seek new
fields for their homes and future opera
lions. The virgin west in all her un-
bounded and practically untouched
wealth lies In position to be taken by
this frugal, economical and desirable
class of citizens"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
GEORGES FELLOW ToWNsMAN.

That colored beat and political tramp,
Colonel C9 c. II. J. Taylor of Kansas
City, Kansas, who has been appointed
minister to Bolivia, will get cold re-
ception at the hands of the aristocratic
old dons who run that tcountry.-Wichila
EAGLE.
We think the least Republicans could
do would he to give Taylor credit Tor
working his Democratic negro racket
successfully. We once asked promi-
nent Republican negro what he thought
of Taylor. He replied that while he
could ouly laugh as Taylor's fad of negro
Democracy, yet he had to confess that
as an individual, as a citizen, and as a
husband, he was worthy of great credit
He said that Taylor was not beat, that
his family was well provided for, nicely
fixed, that he paid lis bills, and that
they always had sumo money ahead.
Taylor takes good care of his own. He
is not shiftless and improvident. The
fact that he has captured the best place
awarded the state. through his own
efforts and on his own line of work
should satisfy all that the WORTHLESS
niggar" idea does not apply, but that he
must be considerable of man among
msn.-kansas City (Kan.) Gazette.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
HIGR-HANDED UsURPATIoN.

Never before in the history of Kansas
has lieutenant governor, in the tem-
porary absence Of the governor, assumed
the powers and perogatives of TIE chief
| executive for the administering the
affairs of the state. Tie Pop president
of the state senate, one Percy Daniels, is
presuming to act as governor IN the
mere temporary absence of Mrs. Lease,
Artz and Lorenzo at the worlds fair,
from which point they could, in case Of
emergency, all be recalled within twelve
hours. This illegal and unconstitutional
cut letters to the members of the late
legislature advising and urging an extra
session. 1t would not be surprising if he
actually undertook 10 reconvene that
body. If he should, nothing in the
world would be more certain than that
it was job hatched up between Lew
cling and himself, whereby Lewell-
ing, who has pledged himself in
opposition to such step, would
be enabled to shift the responsibility.
This usurper in his letters to representa-.
tives and senators sets forth several
trumped up reasons for this proposed
outrage on the tax payers Of the state,
every one of which as an argument is
rotten, or but the thinnest pretense. He
wants the assessment laws" amended.
Every legislature in the history of the
state has wanted the same thing and
nearly every one of them has attempted
changes and amendments, some of them
producing entirely new enactments. No
government since history began has ever
been able to compile law of equal and
just taxation. Another pretence is for
ton. The people Of Kansas emphatically
and over and again have voted mo" on
that proposition, the last time but a year
ago.
1t is the duty Of dwellings executive
clerk and private secretary to kick this
wild-eyed fanatical pop. lieutenant
governor out of the executive Office.
This assuming, high-handed and un-
known accident not only urges one extra
session but two, the first to be short and
the other to meet again in December and
TO run ad ibitum, with mileage
for both, of course, with hundreds of
thousands of extra expense to the peo-
pie and the sure prostr alton of all busi-
ness and an additional discredit to the
state. No governor IN Kansas ever as
sumed the dictatorial powers exercised
by Lewelling, but this lieutenant, in
name only, surpasses time. No greater
could befall Kansas at this
time, at the end of drowtby and 9th
erwise disastrous year, than the recon-
vening of that legislature SO largely
of inexperienced nobodies,
bulgy eyed fanatics, and loud mouthed
yawpers, all under the influence and
guidance Of such fugatiyes from justice
as Artz, such anarchists as Clemens,
together with that host of insane idiots
who only know to hang on and howl.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

to fully discharge the maternal duty OF
nursing during the whole of the natural
period are few.
Until within recent years infants de-
prived of mothers milk have been reared
in a haphazard and unscientific manner,
With the usual result that the enormous
mortality during the first five years of
life has been reproach to medical
men.
But all this is now changed. Practical
scientific men of the highest standing
have devoted themselves exclusively to
these problems of infant-feeding, Many
results have come, but the greatest and
most practical is the preparation of lac
tated food-next to mothers milk, the
most nourishing, strensthening, readily
digested paatabie food that can be
given a baby.
Very many babys that could not be
reared, that pined and wasted on other
food, have grown fat, ruddy and strong
when fed on lactated food.
just now when the death reports show
a fearful prevalence of diarrhea and
cholera infantum, lactated food is doing
its best work.
1t is saving the lives of babies in near
ly every city and town Ill the union.
Every day most touching letters come
from mcthess whose babies have eScap-
ed or safely gone through dangerous
complaints by the help of lactated food.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Graft of Cor
nelius, Oregon, write:
''Our uaby was born in October. After
trying milk and several kinds of infant
foods, we began using lactated food. On
this she thrived and grew we'll and
strong. We regard lacIated food as all
that Is claimed for It,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

The governor is receiving letters daily
asking him to call an extra session OF the
legislature to provide seed wheat for the
destitute OF Kansas-Nswton Republican
Which governor? Lewelling positively
refused to call an extra session, but
since he pulled out for Chicago, ten
days ago, and his lieutenant slipped into
the vacant chair the latter has sent let
ters 10 the members of the legislature
asking thenf TO write, requesting the
governor to call an extra session. The
letters referred to by the Republican are
doubtless in response to Daniels request.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
GREETING. TO THE WILD INDIAN
ROSE

Another bright star is vending its way
From it's home above in the azure sky;
Soon twill rest on the Indian maids breast
And whiletime endure, forever to stay.
Another bright, ambitious gem
Shall soon adorn our diadem:
Win its way TO glory and renown,
A glowing gem in Americas crown.
Mild be the wind that DER it blows,
Tempered the storm that crosses the breast
O. the wild Indian rose
The budding fiow'r o. the newborn west.
Then may heaven DER it radiantly shine,
Green be its fields; fruitful its vine;
Prosperity and health ever its fate,
Is the toast proposed for the new-b born state
A ZEPHYR.
Sept. 16, 1853
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
1t isn't often that Senator PETER makes

1t isn't often that Senator Peffer makes
a suggestion in public way that evrey
body can indorse, but he came pretty
near voicing the sentiments of the
American public when he said in the
senate, Monday, that. state legislatures
of earlier times should have provided
rewards for the scalps of train robbers
as they had for wolves. 1t isn't too late
TO offer such rewards now; but the dis
position Of legislatures seems to be to
leave the matter of dealing with train
and bank robbers with the railway and
express companies and Judge Lynch's
court. These are tolerably successful
in dealing with bandits, but that doesn't
seem to retard them in their devilish
work. Prompt and summary treatment
should not De abandoned, however.
People don't stop using fly paper because
the flies cannot be exterminated.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

Kansas City Gazette: "a very singular
inconsistency prevades in the mind of
He desires to repeal the Mckinley tariff,
but wants to retain a tax on something
to insure revenue enough 10 construct
a public building in his diatrict.' In a
word. the average Democrat regards the
tariff question as General Hancock did,
aspurely local one, Notwithstanding their
public demand for tariff reform @ on
free trade lines.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
WEIGHING GOLD IN AFRICA.
How the Natives OF the Dark Continent
Make Purchases and Sales.

How the Natives OF the Dark Continent
Make Purchases and Sales.
Money used by natives in Occidental
Soudan consists of small univalve
white shells called cauries, derived
from the Maldives and Laquedives
islands, and also from Zanzibar. For
several centuries past ships have
brought to the mouth of the Niger. or
to the Guinea coast. as far as Liberia,
entire cargoes of these shells, the value
of which runs from twelve cents to
forty cents per thousand, according to
the part OF Africa. Cauries are only
used in countries where gold is scarce
In the whole area between Kong.
used; natives settle their purchases
with gold dust or nuggets.
To weigh the gold they use as cur
rency they employ small copper scales.
Weights iare extremely varied In
shapes and sizes. Most of them
are lin rbrass. The weights ex-
hibiting human figures. animals, tools,
ludicrous scenes, etc, as reproduced
here, are modelled with wax and castin
brass through the cire perdue process.
Africans may have learned this process
from Europeans who visited their coun-
try. but their art exhibits native
character thoroughly sui generis. These
black artists have evidently reproduced
what they saw or imagined, and they
have done it in style OF their own;
their works are peculiarly humorous
and fancitul.
Each native, who has pair Of scales,
has also special weights which he alone
understands how to use. He knows.
for instance, that giraffe weighs one
or two mitkals OF gold; that such
weight in the shape of a bird repre-
sents one-half or one-thiru mitkal OF
gold, etc.
There are no uniform setsof weights,
consequently each native IS obliged to
have his own series When the pur-
chaser has weighed the gold he mnst
give for certain merchandise, the ven
dor weighs it in his turn tosee whether
it is correct The unity OF weight IN
the whole Sondan is the barifri, which
corresponds 10 eighteen granmes-
Each barifri is worth fourteen initials
Admitting the value OF gold IN Europe
TO be three francs per grarnsae. we fad
that a barifri is equal 10 hfty-fonr
francs worth Of gold. and uaitkal
thirteen francs, fifty eentirnes- Zach
mitkal is divided into twenfy-seven
banans ithe banan is bouboy seed
each banan IS worth fifty centi;nes- 4
nitkai of gold may also be weighed
with fftyfour grains OF vegetable
coral; these tiny grains, red like coral
with black spot, are the frait Of
Kind of convolvuIus. There are special
weights TO weigh one-kalE mitsxal. one
third or two-tasrd mitkal The small
es. weight is called pousesat,a: Il is
formed OF one and q half grains Of
rice. not decorticzted- Gold powder IS
carried in quilts stopped MP with
wooden cork wrapped IN . piece of
Eusn--Jeweser's Circular
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
OkLAH HON A.
To the Editor OF the Eagle.
"A star for every state.

| 10 the Editor OF the Eagle.
"A star for every state,
| a state for every star"
have the quotation, but I've lost the
name, and postoffice address of the frs
''quoter." He was dandy in his owl
sight, but doubtless his progeny are
"hewers Of wood and drawers of water
| for some ''son of gun," who was sired
! by some servant of the first ''quoter':
grand sire.
This is the genius, the touchstone OF
the American form of government. We
are born to politics, in its broad sense.
Our territories are born to state.
hood. The sun-browned prairies
o the weird, the nude, the immeas
uraOle and boundless west has been the
nursery, the training school of the en-
bryo statesman who have triumphed
over Yale and Harvard graduates in the
national "play house" at Washington.
We are On to the government as a
'yaller pup" is on to hen "aigs." We
grab opportunity by the "forelock" on
the run just as in the boys of our day
hood we ''snipped doughnuts on the fly
going through the kitchen on "baking
day."
Our boys without rank, wealth,
higher education, influential or power
ful friends are educnted to government,
make wilderness, plain, assume
civilized character in fortnight, build
churches and school houses as if by
instinct; establish the supremacy of law
as if rock ribbed by generations of
Judges and statesman.
The newest venture is Oklahoma,
the spray from whose commercial
flows will danpen surrounding fields,
and crowd the elder sisters for place in
the American coronet before long.
1t should be a state. It's population
and wealth already shame some of the
other states.
Let Kansas voice be heard demanding
Oklahoma statehood, not as matter of
expediency, but as a matter of right,
because it is simple and exact justice.
Kansas has fair share in this new
venture in craftsmanship. Many, in
fact thousands, left us feeling that they
were leaving the old homestead; left us
because fate had it Sin for 'em" with a
butcher-knife three feet long. They
love Kansas as we do, and were forced
TO get another home. We wish then.
well, and should further their interests.
GREETING. TO THE WILD INDIAN
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
Allur.ns Prospsc. at the Fair.

By CAi14go Pencil ATE-sf-
DAYS drenched with sunlight and
mellowed by autum Winds; nights with
plump, round. yellow harvest moons;
blue hazes in the air; the wooden island
a riot Ct colors; the bands bsaring every
where: people swarming down the
avenues and scampering through the
Midway; beslizened criminals hobnoo-
oing with dressy Franks; fets BY daE
carnival BY night, and highly whole
some intoxlca,ioa Of the senses ali the
time, mark the worlds fair Af middle
Seu.emhAr.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

|BABY'S THREE NEEDS
Cleanliness. Sound Sleep, ard
Proper Food.
No Pains Should be Spared to
Secure the Infants Health.
Upon the Little Ones Diet Depends It's
Life and Happiness.

An infant hae but three big reeds
food, sleep anu cleanliness.
During the important first few years,
when the child is rapidly developing,
no pains should be spared 20 secure food
of absolute purity and sufficiently nour-
ishing for every need Of healthy growth.
Breast milk is at first baby's ideal
food; but there are circumstances under
which artificial feeding becomes abSo-
lutely necessary. The proportion Of
mothers in our large towns who are able
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

With Click in the pension office, there
is no danger of its removal to Missouri.
Herein lies The real foundation for
Topeka's rejoicing over his appointment:
Il is not the ex-commissioner's personal
popularity-certainly not with the vet
Grams who received their pensions
through his hands heretofore.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

The prossion of law, the Lawrence
World thinks, is good enough in its way,
bat if Tom Norton is going to settle
down to practice after his experience IN
the newspaper business he will have 10
10 into some state where there are
saloons in order to keep up the excite
ment." On the contrary, if that is the
character of litigation Tom expects to
seek he doesn't need to go into
another state.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
A Bold, Brave Prayer.

from the I.awrencs World.
That was daring prayer the chaplain
of the house made when he prayed that
the new Cleveland baby might be like
its mother and not ike its father. He
did not use the exact language given
above bat when he prayed the child
might be Godlike and virtuous every
body new what he meant.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

Whatever inconsistencies may or may
not be charged to President Cleveland
official conduct thus far, it must be SAD
that his pretense to civil service reform
is not borne out by his choice for secre-
tary of the interior. Hoke Smith was
nIlled Green.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

Guthrie is feeling real disappointed be-
cause the Dalton gang didn't raid her on
opening day according 10 rumor. No.
that she had any great amount of surplus
wealth to give up, but from an innate de-
sire for nalarieyy
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
An Irrenarable Injury.

From the Lawrence Journa.
The government said that unless a
man registered he could not take CLAIM
in Oklahoma. The government pro-
vided an insufficient force, and thous-
ands viii not be able 10 register because
of the fault of the government. If one
of the unregistered boomers taxes a
claim can the government take II from
him because of lis own fault. And If II
cannot, then what good has registration
done: What good has i. done anyway:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
~--------------------------->-~--
The FltPPENT MISS.

She Thinks sae IL Clever, pn. OF hsrs Do
sof Agree wish Her.
There u nothing 80 bright OF 20 alto
gether attractive as girl who Is witty
and interesting IN her ccnTersa.ion
without appearing 20 bs 60 saeh 2
one wins readily the praise and plsAs-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
ALL HALL0WS ACADEMY,
WICHITA, KANSAS,
FOR 1S93-lS94.

This Academy established in 1887, possesses every
advantage that parents desire for the general inn
provement of their children,
The site is attractive, and experience has proved
most advantageous for the promotion of good health
The grounds neat and spacous afording for
the enjoyment of nvigorating exercise.
The Sisters of Charity of the B. v NJ, being especial
ly devoted to the instruction Of youth spare pains to
win the heart to virtue and they mpart their pupils
a solid and refined scholarship With vigiant and inn
mediate superntendance they provide for the wants and
comforts of the children intrlisted to their
Studies will be resumed the first Monday III Sept
For further particular apply to the
SISTER SUPERIOR,
All Halows Academy, Wichita, Kanss
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

II think" he was ssying. when shG
Interrupted him severely:
But you don't think. you only think
you think. and he never finished wsss
he was going 20 ssy.-Dstroit Frss
Press
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

"A Roman vietor was accustomed -
give great feast b. way Of celsbrs-
ton ~ the feast given by Juiias
cwsar after the csilic warn the people
were .sAst<d a, twenty-five thousand
tables each accommodating ,eS xuesA~
and each table was twice allied
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
TAKES THE STUMP.

Under the auspices of the Republican
league Hon. George l. Douglass will de-
liver speeches atrhe following places in
the Third Congressional district, for which
work he leaves today:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

The fellow who killed two hundred
dollar horse to secure fifty dollar lot is
booming his town and counting us
profit-in his mind.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

ci.izsn-They ossb: 20 hang Crack.
shot for killing Barker.
Western Editor Hanging IL toe good
for him. Why. Barker ~xs one Of sny
sgb@eri
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
EXCHANGE EPITOMEa
We all Know Hin

He'll ask you for n paper
Just for one wee minute;
He'll keep il for an hour
And say there's nothing in IL
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

-He-'sf / should ask ron /. yoa
were telling the truth when yon sasd
no yoa could 10; msrrT sne. what would
you sag" she-.I should si.a Say
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
How IL Happeued.


From the Topeka Journal
Grover Cleveland happened TO be on
hand when the people were mad at ev-
erybody else; that's how he was elected.
Grover thinks it was Intentional.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

If the two "sanddraws" were Wich-
itas only point Of vantage it would
amount 10 double what her up-the draw
neighbor can boast; but that would rep
resent only small per cent of the actual
situation in this city's favor. But along
that line comparisons really become
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
The Wichita Medical and Surgical Institute,
Tnll Corps of trainee Spec
laiists with private Hospital
advantages. Twenty years in
praetice.ei eight years in Wichita

CorSrlsssioH az effce or by mail free. sas "a
Nlted Aee:,.e sect ay nssii or tx xpr-s vase
aeetslsiy rsfcSssi. free sro,n observation.
Ct k2 EisE DISEASES GsUAEASfEED-W Wsgs~s
eossbt exists Il : fgaaSIy stated
DISEASES tlF SoSiEN--The wonderful curative
Effects of ELECTRICITY daily demonstrated "a
afs tisstte. enabling US 10 cure where old metao.s
3i- Irregularities. DlsplacanesIs- Tgerass;l la
fafsiafsnn. Disci.ar Iaceratse-s>~ RAErena<Ss
Bearing Down fna I Dra--.i.e, SENSATIONS speedily
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

The Wichita EAGLE contained n column
editorial Yesterday 20 prove the future
greatness of that city because it Is located
at the junction of two sanddraws.- s.-Hutchi-
son News.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20

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The Wichita Medical and Surgical Institute
DRS. PURDY & JORDAN PROPRIETORS.
135 North Market Street. Wichita, kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-09-20
DISEASES toa:tS2is: oiisxeSs / pEFsI,lfT; sEKJ'i;
OF AEN--- IASS l.Is[.s,.. q ENkssy S..sss

Arising fsoHg iassisererion exce>s. prodncia.
same OF the fellow vffeetS. Nervousness. D=nit-
~, D,lifeSs of Nisioa, Scif-piStruss. Defective
Memory Pianse~ aversion To society. lack %
hdcnee. Dependency. IrYeiineRts - Marriage.
Melanctsoiist, Dyspepsia. Lost Maais3oi, PsaS
the Back Naric9cle. cured safs;s ati psiy.lS
~. ceaa for Qeesilon isiask. No. !. 10 Men.
KIDNEY Nd Uff.rAisY Di>EASES-PaisriI
dlrscali. iailkN OK 0s5ety Hriae 6Ieet. Gravel
Enlarged Prostate Glands. DiShessS etc. re-csVs
ieciai at.enIiou CAenllesl and .aisrns:o IN *
The morning call., 1893-03-13
ROBERT SHERW00D's DEATH.
He Was Closely Identified With Our
Mining Interests.

The business community of the city is
mourning the loss of Robert Sherwood, vino
died suddenly on Saturday afternoon Of
heart failure.
The deceased was prominent figure in
financial circles, and he was closely ideu-
tilted with the mining interests of the State.
He was born in Londonderry, Ireland,
sixty-six years ago, and in March Of 1850 he
arrived in San Francisco.
He worked for a while In the mines Of
Calayeras County, but soon found that he
was not cut out for miner.
He returned 10 San Francisco and
opened up a jewelry-store on Clay street.
After few month she formed partnership
with man named Barrett.
10 the big fire of the city's early days
their place was burned, but store was
soon erected as 517 Montgomery street.
At this latter place Mr.. Sherwood con-
tinued in business until lie was succeeded
by his nephew.
From the time of the discovery Of the
Comstock lode he took an active interest in
mining, and he became identified with sew
eral financial institutions.
For several years past he has led a quiet
lie, broken only by an occasional trip to
the land of his birth