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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The United States jail at Guthrie con-
taius fifty prisoners
The Arapahoe Bee has swarmed and
now occupies It's own hive.
\ Territorial Horticultural society viii
be organized at Norman Juiy 3.
The Payne County Republican heads its
list Of marriages Till Death or the Dis
trlct Court.
The champion snake story comes from
the Saltwater Gazette. Il Is 1 black snake
story aud a Bald win.
\ man named Dr.. John ". d. l.. +.
billiard IS a resident Of Ingalls,. l. would
shorten his name somewhat to be known
a. Consonant billiard.
Chickssba has more pretty, refined aud
Intelligent young ladies than any other
town la the Indiaa TerriIorg, and vet
says the Express, We have 4 superaount-
auce OF old bachelors
Oklahoma farmers will look with inter
est for the announcement Of the result 81
tame grass experiments conducted by tho
experiment station. The fact that n.ae o.
the varieties tested met with marked sue
cess proves that tame grass culture IN the
territory VIII be practicable.
School sdistrict CLERKS are r=qGastei 10
send thorough. sworn anu correct eea-ns
returns - tAe county superintendent
oll-e before .-e 80 u mex. June oiAers
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
POLITICAL PROHIBITION.

Hon. Albert Griffin, an old-time pro-
hibitlon leader of Kansas, who, after
The Republican party of this state had
been committed to prohibition, went to
New York for the purpose of Identifying
himself with prohibition in larger
field. and with the avowed aim of max
ing the national Republican party the
anti-saloon party, has returned TO Kan
sas. In an interview i'll the Capital, he
says that he thinks the future OF prohi-
bition is not hopeful: that all chances
for the Republican party winning with
prohibition were destroyed by the Pro-
hIbition party, which latter party has
regularly defeated the Republican party.
Griffin now desires to go back to the old
fashioned pledge-signing and ike tenn
perance effort, thus working up a senti-
ment in behalf of prohibition. SO that
the war against the saloon and the dis
tillery may be resumed with great
moral influence behind it. The anti
saloon league went to pieces because he
had no help after the presidential elec-
ton of 1888, and as he could not carry
1t alone he had TO abandon the work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

wise they will be entitled to no apportion-
ment of funds until next January. They
are also requested 10 send in their post
Office addresses and also the postofiice adj
dresses OF the other school district officers.
The Sac and Fox Indians object to pay
ing tax on their personal property in Lin
coin county, and have entered an injunc-
lion suit to that end. They claim that the
| Improvements on their lands are a part of
their real estate. and the government ex
einprs their lands from taxation for TWEEN
ty-five years. This IS an Interesting legal
| point. and the outcome is awaited with
| interest.
THIS was conundrum they asked at a
church social at Noble; why is the wind
| blind?" Oae young lady promptly an
swered: THE wind is breeze, a breeze is
zephyr, a zephyr IS a yarn. yarn is
tai, tai is an attachment. attachment Is
! love, and love is blind. Therefore the
wind is blind" 1t is reported that the
young lady had dozen offers of marriage
before the social adjourned.
Tecumseh Republican,: a new well is
| being dug in the southeast corner of the
square. 1t is the Intention to make this
well OF unlimited capacity and when COM
pleted windmill and large water tank
will be attached The city could not pro-
vide Z better fire protection for the money
invested. la case of fire wagons will
always come 10 excellent use and two or
three of these should always be ready for
immediate usa The cost of this kind of
protection is not noticed, aud besides the
public can use it every hour in the day.
Its a good stroke of economy for the pro-
lection of the county records, and bui d
ings, too.
The native fruits OF Oklahoma are worth
careful attention, says the experimental
station bulletin. 1t is quite possible that
patient and systematic work will make
some of them valuable TO those who live in
the territory. Especially the persimmon
has been proven capable of easy improve
ment. Auy Que who has a persnmon
tree which bears fruit Of extra quality is
in the way to help along this improve
ment. Professor F. A Waugh, horticul-
turist of Oklahoma experiment station at
Saltwater, proposes to do some work i'll
this line, and he would be very glad to
hear from any one in the territory who
knows Ihe location of any persimmon trees
of any merit. With some one to take hold
of the work, the production of u valuable
garden persimmon will be chiefly u ques-
ton of time and of getting the material.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
CLEVELAND'S FLOP.


The Philadelphia Ledger, a warm ad-
mrrer 81 the president, but politically
rather conservative. i out IN the de
clsratIon That Cleveland, personally. Is
believer IN protection and that he does
not, as an individual, endorse the free
trade plank OF The Chicago platform. the
very plank, which everybody knows.
elected HIM. We guess Cleveland Is
Ike his party. Was tor anything 90 win.
but having won still has sense enough
left TO see that absolute >o-calIsd Demo
cratic free trade would runthe country.
or IN other words that so far as the tariff
question Is concerned Tic policy al
the Republican party is the only sound
and safe chs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
WRITE WORSE THAN EVER.
Authors Progressing Backward Steadily
in the Matter of Chirosraphy.

in the Matter Of Chirography.
1t is true that handwriting is grow
ing worse and worse all the world over.
This is the statement of Mr.. Jackson
in his Theory and Practice of Hand
writing" Official reports seem to con-
firm Mr.. Jacksons belief. On the
other hand, as pointed out by the Bos-
ton News, persons of considerable eX-
perience in reading literary manu-
scripts and examination papers OF the
higher orders can hardly agree with
him. As a rule, the manuscripts of
novels and of examination papers are
legible and even rather pleasing. The
exceptions are scarcely per cent. in
examina ton papers; IN novels an au-
thor foolishly sends in a mere rough
draft, with erasions and additions
tackled on by pins or waste ends of
postage-stamp paper. But these exam
pies of handwriting are the work. ex-
cept as regards many novels of rather
highly-educated persons, and they
throw no light on the hands of people
far from lteracy. The letters of serv-
ant girls and of other people without
pa q lloiiS W III < VI ItIliACb
in excellent and characteristic hands,
and, on the whole, we do not think
that the age writes i'll, as general
rule. Naturally people who have to
write great quantities of copy for
the press or for other purposes find
their hands, if Roman and fine at first,
gradually disappearing in scrawl due
to fatigue. A number of popular and
prolific authors are suffering from
writers cramp," and their hands
must have been degenerating in the
progress of the malady.
To do the work -xith the minimum
of fatigue is the auth or's object and
certainly it seems as if the men and
women with the most slOvenly hands
suffer least from writers cramp. Mr..
Jackson, however, thinks that writing
is very bad, that its badness is due to
bad ea,hing, promiscuously selected
models Che prefers examples on the
black board to headlines) and, above
all, the error is in sloping as opposed
to perpendicular or vertical writing.
The natural man, he thinks, sits up
right to his work and would write per-
pendicular, but for the prevalence of
sloping copies. From these comes the
habit of sprawling sideways at the
desk and that habit is bad for the eyes,
bad for the spine, bad for discipline in
the school las it facilitates tattling),
and, finally, bad for the handwriting.
The slope keeps on running down hill
till it loses itself in an indecipherable
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
NOTHING RAN IN THAT TOWN.
Alexandria, Va. Where Everything Has
Been Dead Since the war.

Been Dead Since the war.
OF consider Alexandria, Va, the
deadest town in the United States, re-
marked Washington man to New
York Tribune writer the other day.
No doubt there are worse places to
live in. but considering its opportuni
test is only six miles from Wash
ington-Alcxandria really takes the
palm for nonprogressivcness- Thirty
years ago the population was trite
larger than It Is now, and ten years
ago there was a line OF surface cars in
the principal street. | suppose the
population grew too lazy even to ride
in street car. however. for the cars
are gone now and forgotten. except for
Z bit of track here and there.
Last fall I went over to Alexandria
from Washington one evening to make
q call. II was dark and / couldn't see
the numbers on the houses. After
fruitless search for some ten minutes
along the silent street | noticed mid
dle-aged man calmly smoking pipe on
the front steps Of a house few doors
away.
e ! beg pardon, ] said as politely as
I could. but viii you kindly tell me
which way the numbers run on this
street?''
- be took his pipe out Of his mouth,
slowly knocked out the ashes and said:
Just got ter town.
"Well. yes, replied, little sur
prised.
-E--a~-s,-. Ioz.D'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

Minister Blount announced 10 the
HIawaiians and TO the world that he as
the representative of the United States
government would not interfere in any
conflict that may occur on the islands
between the contending factions. nor
would he interfere with any interven-
iion that may be made by foreign pow
ers into the affairs of the islands. This
announcement provokes the inquiry OF
what Is he there fol: Ii his decision Is
10 be the policy OF the government at
Washington, then ii should withdraw all
representation of whatever form and let
the inhabitants of The islands at once
begin the conflict OF determination that
VIII inevitably enSue as soon as outside
restraint Is removed, rendering the
islands an easy prey 70 the first power
that may appear upon the scene and
desire the acquisition of the valuable
domain
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

Here e romantic story in real life
which reads like a novel The scens
Is in Turkey, where service ia The
army - compulsory. II w.s discovered
a few days ago that young girl had
been terviug for three and one half
years under her brothers name aud had
distinguished hsrsslf by especially
good conduct. An investigation was
Immediately made. and IL WA found
that the girl had taken this heroic sts,
- which means even rSore In Turzry
than ~ would here--.a order % free
ssr brother. who was her mothers
only means 81 support The sultan.
when be heard Of the saeriace. b.
slowed re sehesslest order Of the third
class add life pension of Eve Turkish
pounds q month. TIE girl 7vas sest
hone AID her brother remains free
from aervsz2-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
ONE OF DEPEWS STORIES,
Told Some Years Ago, Chauncey Now Has
Z One Hundred and Nine Variations oft.


One Hundred and Nine Variations oft.
Speaking Of the way some of his pet
stories We're denuded of pith by those
who, after hearing them from his lips
told them TO others, Chauncev Depew
said recently: "A coon story | told in
Boston half dozen years ago is still
going the rounds. j have collected one
hundred and nine versions of it. and ]
would not venture TO guess how many
have escaped me. We're it not that
caught the first ones and followed up
the trail ! would never, within Il month
after telling it, have recognized nv
own story. The great joke is that !
have heard gentlemen repeat one or
other of the ema sculated versions with
the assurance that they were among
the hunters AS the yarn went, some
coon hunters following a hot track
found the dogs barking around a big
sycamore on the edge of shallow
stream. The hunters thought they saw
the coon in the tree-top, and one fellow
climbed 10 shake il off. Fifty feet or
so above the earth the climber encoun-
tered a big bump that eucircled the
tree. With great difficulty he at last
climbed over the obstruction and was
much chsgrined to find that what he
took to be a coon was but q woody
cxcrescence- Then he Skinned down
to the bump. over which he slid feet
first, but wriggle and stretch as best
he could he could not bring his
legs TO the trunk below The bump
prevented il. He crawled up again
and shouted 20 his comrades: "Oh,
lordy, boys. I'm freed 'sted Of the coon,
an I'll stay here till Gabriel blows
less the river rises fifty feet an floats
me of. Some Of the adaptations
picture the coon sitting on the bump
holding tho hunter a. bay. others have
the river rising in the nick Of time, and
a third class bring the other hunters
up the sycamore and over the bump
until the three are freed and praying
for high stage Of water.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
ABOVE Law AND SENTIMENT.

President Cleveland's stcicism is like a
mountain, his prejudices not to be sur
mounted by the demands of any emerg-
ency however grave and pressing. The
fact that his former fishing episode, on
Decoration Day, proved, TO his certain
knowledge, a national regret, he again,
in the face Of the world, and in a manner
that amounts to Ostentation, not only
refuses his presence at Arlington Heights
but employs the day i'll preparing for
another fishing excursion. and for which
lie actually departed the same day.
And that which seems equally inexplica
bic is the evident fact that a large num-
Der Of the people of these United States
accept this mans combined prejudice
and stolidity as greatness; this Drawing
of decent public opinion for superiority.
On this day business is suspended, and
all Of the departments of government at
Washington and elsewhere are closed in
obedience to law; yet, the head OF the
nations excuse for its non observance by
him is that of business, of pressing gov
interests, which the law he is
sworn to execute declares shall be, On
that day, held in allegiance.
The political idolatry of the Demo
cratic party is only surpassed by the
stoicism of leader whose insensibility
passes for some sort of superior wisdom
and for disinterested patriotism.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

Col. J. X. Hallowell goes on record as
saying that the Republicans made an IRE
1rjeyable bluader in not accepting the
Greeniee bill as proposed by the popuiists.
H. e. Taylor, of Lyons, another Republi-
can, also acknowledges the coru.-Sterliag
Champion, Pop.
The Greenlee bill, being Republican
measure originating with Republican,
i,assed'by Republican house and reject
ed by PopuliSt senate, the foregoing
sounds like deliberate perversIon of the
statements quoted. Transpose the words
Republicans and Populists as they APP
pear in the paragraph quoted and you
will have it Just right
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
Quality.
as TO K 5.

The construction of the new Lutheran
college at Winfield has been going on for
four weeks and it is well under way.
And now Fort Scott is talking about
building an auditorium to capture some
OF the mum berless state conventions in.
Baptist church was organized at Ha-
zelton on the Goth of May: a number have
Joined since, the result of series of re-
yival meetings.
The State university has Al graduates in
art, 80 in law, 10 in pharmacy, in engin-
eering and in music this year, making
total of 109 to receive diplomas.
The highest point IN Kansas is Kauo-
RADIO, 8 $50 feet, where the Rock Island
crosses into Colorado. CofTeyville seems
to be the lowest part, being 12S feet.
The editor of the Atchison Patriot. who
for several days had given over his page Of
that paper to the plaUe-matter mauipu-
lator, has Stambaugh-led back to his de-
partment and resumed the tripod.
The Lawrence World has learned that
one of the banks that Attorney General
Little is after is the Kansas Patrons Co.
Operative bank at Olathe, a bank owned,
operated and run exclusively by farmers.
The residence portion of Atchison must
present a sort of kaleidoscope, or moving
panoramic, view. The Champion says
there are property owners who spend hum
dreds of dollars each spring in remodellng
their homes and adding to the beauty of
the grounds surrounding them.
Judge c. !. Foster, accompanied by Mr.
NNfl1n,, aH 70 rplsoaL-a
day. from Indianapolis much improved in
health He stood the journey well and
looked much better than when he left
here several weeks ago for treatment His
many friends hope that be may recover
rapidly now. and the Press thinks the
prospects for it are encouraging.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

How those women who, have made
up the woman's congress and whom for
the most part vet linger in Chicago, can
stay away from home, husbands and
babies, and find delight in listening to
lengthy discussions, of matters in which
nine out of ten Of them have no personal
interest, is hard TO understand. Papers
have been read, by the folio and ream.
for interminable hours, containing vast
erudition and mental worriment suf-
ticient to have broken the backs Of those
who sat and heard with pretended IN.
ceasing delight. The sterotyped eXcla-
NATION of the majority seems to be, "oh,
we are having such a delightful time g
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

Home Decoration department has a
charming drawing Of a bedroom, a
pretty desk, beautifully designed ex-
terror for u house, and suggestions for
wiadow drapery. For the rest there are
exquisite designs for doyleys. plates,
screens. initial letters. etc. The anna
teut, whether he or she works for pleas
IRE or profit, viii iind the Art Inter
change mine OF wealth IL tie way of
practical suggestions and designes. The
June number of the Art Interchange,
with its three beautiful painted sup
piements, costs only 81 cents.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
KANSAS.
from the A,chison Patriot.

From the A,chison Patriot
We have no more billiards. "
"drouths, cyclone" grasshopper5 or
chinch bugs than such grand states as
Illinois or Indiana, and we have a free
dom from mud such as they can never
hope TO equal. | submit that a young
state with the most fertile ot soil. all
tilIable, which produces more wheat
than any other II the republic; which
for the past five years has averaged
lj4, 600. 900 bushels of corn per annum.
worth S2l5, 900. 000; which has $500 600. =
GOO worth o. improved live stock: which
has 10, coo miles Of railway: with banks
never 50 filed with money: which has
10. 600 free public schools, i.j00 churches.
ana, better than all, q million and a
bali OF intelligent. progressive, early
rising, God-fearlns, sober people. dong
business on d -aS-they-so basis. does
not need 10 5e plted. Those philan-
thropiets outside the state TO whom il Is
a sort of religion to feel sorry" for
Kansas, know least about the people
VINO have made it. No state Is more
generously endowed bv nature; no other
SURPRISES it IN the hlgh character. the
morals and the manners Of It's ponula-
zion; none exceeds 1t IN resources as
compared with liabilities. and no other
offers fairer field to both capital and
labor, in which TO work harmoAiouslv
tor the advantage Of each
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
A SURPRISING ExeIBIT.

1t will be a matter of surprise TO the
majority of the people of Kansas when
it is stated, on the authority of Professor
Erasmuth Hayworth OF the State uniyer-
sity, that Kansas leads Missouri IN The
amount of coal mined last year, and that
Kansas smeltS one-third of the metallic
zinc mined in the United States. For
many years, according to the United
States reports, Illinois has been the
leader in this line, but last wear Kansas
eclipsed her. Sixty-six per cent of the
coal of Kansas last year came from two
counties-Cherokee and Crawford-and
the total value of the mineral products
Of these two counties reached So, 900, 900.
The mineral products of Kansas last
year aggregated 9,260, 900 divided as
follows: Lead and zinc ores, 81, 900, 600;
metallic zinc, 50, go, 900; coal $4,000, 900;
building stone, $500, 900; salt, $50, 900;
plaster and cement, $3.50, 900; oil and
natural gas, $4,000; clays, $25O,oO0;
mineral paints, $500, 900.
Professor Hayworth is interested Just
now in getting 100, 600 copies of a pam
phlet printed showing the mineral re-
sources of Kansas to be distributed free
at the worlds fair. 1t was the intention
Of the board of managers to print these
pamphlets, but now they hesitate about
spending the necessary money. 1t would
undoubtedly be a good Investment, as
few people think Of Kansas az Ioing any
thing in other lines than agricultural.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
SALT WATER FOR sPRlaxLINo.
Now Being Used win sgrcsss In several
Of the Fngiisb ftfi~s-

The practice has become quite prev
aient at English seaport 20 use salt
water for street spTink!iDg, and The
method and result. according - the
Boston Transcript. are pronounced
very sstl=factory. - Yarmouth, which
has population Of about fifty thou
sand, the salt water IS pumped ~
gas engine. driving o pump Il twenty
i've thousand gaAoas daily capacity
INTO a tank a. q considerable elevation.
whence i Is delivered through
special system u distributing Jsrses
zine miles long and three - =even
inches diam ter .hess pipes are o. cast
iron eDst~t. inside Win = sp@e a. pre-
seryative compound. TIE t1,z5 cor
Sumption annually "a beer are million
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02
SUSAN AND THE PREA CHER.

Miss Susan b. Anthony has been tax
ing quite prominent part in all the ex-
ercises so far held in Chicago, her pres
ence and advice being sought. She
never fails to say something and her
words are never hasty or light. In her
speech en- the moral leadership of the re-
ligious press she said:
For fifty years | have been in moral
movements. The first was the temper
ance movement, and then it was that |
had my first experience with the re-
lgious press. There was temperance
convention at Syracuse, and ! and other
women went there. Nearly all the dele
gates were ministers. | want to say for
the comfort of everybody that the most
terrible billingsgate, the most fearful de-
uunciation and most approbriCus epi-
thets that | ever had laid on my head
were laid that day by those ministers
They were not ali of one denomination
either. but of all denominations. / sub
NIT that was not leadership III the right
direction"
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gallons Tor street watering. at cost
Of five cents per one thousand gallons.
being IA considerable saving over the
expense OF the same work when fresh
water was used: the statement also il
made that during the summer months
the dust Is kept under by the adhesive
qualities of the salt in the water. and
If the surface coating formed by tho
salt is removed by sweepcrH ~ the APP
pearance Of the first. no disadranta-
geous effects can be traced % the use Of
salt water At Birkenhead IL j. found
that one spread Of salt water on tbs
surface OF street or road proves
equal N about three spreads Of fresh
water. as the latter cvaporstes under
the heat of the sun. whereas the crust
on the surface left by the salt water
keeps down the dust FOR a considerable
length of time. In another locality
the report Of the engineer claims that
one load Of salt water goes as far a.
three 81 fresh in that place; and Ira
various other towns where this system
has once been put 70 The test IL has
been adopted as one possessing special
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-02

Speaking of the Briggs heresy case
and the probable result of the trial and
conviction-the setting up of a new sect
lIpon new theology, there are not a few
persons, devout and otherwise, who
firmly believe that 1t Is not more
churches and more theology that the
world needs 50 much as more vital
christianity and It's daily manifestation.