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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
STIMULATING GROWTH.
A Practical and Scientific Use of Flee
tricity In Frarre.

A Practical and Scientific Use of Flee
tricity In Frarre.
A practical, scientific use of cleo
tricity IS made in France To stimulate
the growth and increase the product
of field crops. An apparatus which
has been successfullyuscd is called the
geonagnetifer. says the Philadelphia
Record, and consists of a,high pole set
up in the field where the potatoes or
other crops are growing. II supports
an insulated head of galvanized iron,
which terminates in the air sia 4 sort
of plcxus of points and branches made
of copper, This collector of electrici-
" communicates by wire with 4 net
work of other wires, which rarni:y
through the earth arosind the foot Of
the pole and among the growing roots,
beets, cabbages, potatoes or other crop
buried deep enough to be out OF the
way in cultivating the crop.
1t is found by experience tn at this
apparatus collects the electricity which
always exists in the atmosphere, and
which is made especially manifest by
storms, rain, wind, etc, and transmits
il to tho earth and the stratum of air
nearest the earth. The resulting
stimulus TO the crop is very marked.
In one test within a superficial area OF
thirty-two meters the potato yield. in
proportion to the yield II adjoining
areas not electrically stimulated. was
as ninety-one to sixty. Another report
showed sixty-three kilograms of pota-
toes, as against thirty-eight kilograms
grown under ordinary conditions.
other root crops and grapes give equal
~ good results.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

I full hair. She had thrown off her
hat, and the heat of the after
noon had displaced the pretty locks
that had before lain neatly back
from her brow. They fell over at their
own sweet will, at each side of her
face. giving quaint effect that har-
monized with her oldfashioned, high
bodiced gown. Her thick locks were
simply gathered in broad coil that
law on the crown of herihead, and that
had one big puff rising just out of the
center.
Many more were there; but forgot
all about them in watching the pretty
head. EVA 4. SCHUBERT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

suade lie Turks taat he belief Of the
Franks Is Z great improvement on Nos
leEnizIn- As she doesn't carry along
any dudes. wife m1-5erers AID prize
fighters n her retS-ule as samples Of
CIR boas:esj civilizasiou shs may sue
eced- The other gi-l : rleA. and went
along Just fer t'n- Both are PAyS.c.ana
reeeEtl7 gradual ted
II ;Aesr rew HeIa of labor they
found ciso5sfa ~oinv IerTiiy ahead
S3lsslE -ss..ezs - tank IL unusa@l In
fac i wasn't
~ eourzc thosc tTxo lsszocents fresh
is1--2 f.@c cssst sz.se- rcssz. rad - PE-~fs
-----s - s~sssss.eN @@~z.- ES@x e-.>a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
More 10 the Purpose.

eff this helps YOU" said the doctor
signing his name to the prescription
and folding il. Il should be glad II roG
would let me know"
IF it doesn't help ne, doc " replied
the caller. IN clear. distinct tone 81
voice. a. he handed over the required
g. I'm let you know it-you can be,
q trunkful of skeletons on taat. Good
afternoon. Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
never seen. and one al the most dam

never seen, and one OF the most dam
Cerous known to man at that.
The two young women have charge
of quite an esta blishment, a house with
thirty rooms, and FIVE servants under
them. and ali sorts of queer Oriental
goings on. but / fancy their biggest
job is 20 try to bea. some idea OF clean
illness into the thick head of the I'M
speakable Turk.
Queer idea of foreign travel for fun,
isn't it?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

How &C yoa feel today, old na19'
asked man Of a defeated candidate
IN front o. the city hall recently. The
Eentiemanaddressed had been turned
down" by what he deemed the troach-
err q his protested friends and his
feelings en- tho occasion were 4 sort OF
reyengcfcl passion.
How &c icol?' he repeated after
his interrogation. Wei, l feel like
Lazarus felt"
How i taat2''
We'll lazarus vas licked 10y dogs"
Chicago Sunday ost.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
THE WOMANOF FASHION.
Summer Materials More Numer-i
GUS Than Ever Before.
What the Daintier Fabrics VIII Cost 70
Linens Are Most satisfactory
How to Make Them Up-SoIne
Garden Party Costumes.
ICoPYRIGHT, 1888.

The warm waves the country has
been sweItering under have suddenly
awakened us to the fact that summer
is upon us. We have been quietly wait
ing for genuine spring to arrive before
doing anything definite in the way of
summer before the spring. Therefore
pvt on your thinl1ing-cap, summer
maiden. and make up your mind what
you WI wear out Of all the bewilder-
ing fabrics for sunshiny'days.
There are more materials to chO ose
from. this summer, it seems TO me. than
ever there WEI before. First, let US
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

pictures of dudes
sucking t h ir
cane heads have
given a rather
perverted notion
of the New York
clubman.
The vast pre-
ponderance O (
New York clubs
and club mem
bcrs have serious
objects in life.
Only three or
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

sea-or IS il the
Caspian. or * hat
IS It? Ny geog-
Rphv Is 2 t-fe
hazy. AzEAoE.
thcr are not far
froa Sinope
one ofthe Eirls
8 a missionary
and we-tt5Asja
Minor to per-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
4 Victim Of Habit.

Ellen-Habits are hard things 10
break.
Maud-Yes, indeed. there's Minnie
Se-eieaf. who formed the habit OF be-
ing twenty-two some years ago and
has never broken il yet--Chicago Rec
ord
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
: SUGGESTION.

How do you pay these rammers?"
asked n way1a-er Of paving coutrac.
tor.
BY the day" said the contractor.
Won ought - pay them by the
pound, said The wayfSrer. Then
theE-a pouaA nfrarar -'-.lrr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
The Bunco Game.

The bunco steerer has as many tricks
isn't worth knowing. His victims
aren't always green countrymen,
either.
The bunco steerer doesn't confne
himself to one line of operations. AL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

is fish that comes
to his net. He
is willin TO
show gentlemen
who have lost
their way W here
there is a good
hotel, and Incl
dentally TO put
them on TO a
square ga n c q.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

Mr.. Smith-There comes Jones with
his wife. don't want 10 meet them.
Mrs. Smith-How can you help it?
lir. SmitA-Come into this millinery
store. He Will not follow US up here
for lear she viii want another new hat
Tens Nit.ir-s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

tory 1t is terribly difficult for man
to get started, but success brings a
competence at once. Dozens of New
York lawyers have incomes of over one
hundred thousand dollars year. They
are not the men You hear OF most,
either. There are Howe & Hunmel As
they deal almost exclusively in Grim
inal and theatric work, their names
get into the papers very often Yes,
they make money, a good deal of it,
but it comes in driblets and not in nice
fat Jumps. as rule You'll find good
many quiet old duffers-estate lawyers,
who sit all day in their offices and are
never seen in cOurt-who make q good
deal more. Coudert Brothers make a
big income. Ingersolls is trifiing COM
pared with some. yet not bad. Corpor-
alton business is very attractive. l
know of firm whose gross income in
year is two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars. Allowing a fair sum for
Office rent, clerks and typeyvriters, and
liberal slice for the junior partners,
that leaves well over a hundred thou
sand dollars d year for the head of the
firm. And your readers wouldn' recog-
nize this name if you told it to them.
No, the men who get into court in the
causes celebres and have their names
in the paper aren't the men who earn
the money. For instance, some of the
best incomes are made by Brooklyn
firms who have the management of fat
estates, and get the reputation Of con-
servatism. Burke Cochran is an exccp-
ton to all rules. His income is enor-
nous.
The place for a lawyer is where the
money is
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

actlny as a nurse
in the woman's
ward. She has
the black hair
and phi 10 G.
nolnical pecul-
iarities of her
race, is pretty
with the bloom
of youth, t all
and 1.-the OF fig
ure and of most
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
i EeE Dr.rhaeks.

Aun-y-And how does Ky little pc.
like going 70 school2
Little FSt-T like Il ever 50 much
'eept the rcadin'. writin' and 'rithne-
tie an spellin'.-Good News
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
What Puzzled Him.

Its the little things that puzzle
one, Mr.. Soak.
That's so. Now. last night, for in
stance, had no trouble in finding the
house l lived in. but blame me if
could find the kevhole Jury.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
Cholera for Vur.

Two young ladies went from New
York to Asia Minor. have just heard
from them
They are in little town with al IN
pronounceable name upon the Black
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

Boreby Settling himself for story
i suppose you have heard the old
story about
Chorus-Yes, we've heard it.-Town
Topics
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
tSSsSSt4 FL -<~. exc. 4 g. y
Wlslllls "a GLE
AT SWORDS POINTS.
Eady Managers Blanc Mrs. Logan
for Sundry Sights.

Only Committee Women Stay IN Chicago,
the Others Arc Indignant at Their Dis
Inisssl and Charge That 1Irs. Logan
Has Carried Tales About Them.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

take the sheer and delicate,ones. Fine
organdie, printed in pale, soft shades
and fiowery punches, head the list. 1t
is just the thing for the fashionable
skirt, for you may make a skirt of it as
full as you please, add all the ruffles
and hip trimmings you desire and still
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

Prima-Of one thing an sure. No
man viii ever MARY me for my for
tune
Seeuuia-No. IN your case your
face i your fortune. -5rdZo
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

I'm looking for husband. faid
Miss Gidder. candidiy.
Well. You needn't think ron can
Cet mine, replied Mrs BIoobEnyer-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

n en- in y e w
York, per h a p 5
because the tide
of emigra ii on
sets so strongly
to the west. The
south e IN e le-
ment here is par
ticularly strong
in two lines
law and litera-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
His Qualifications.

Hutton-What qualifications has he
70 write n novel Of society?
Young-He was divorce court re-
porter for long time N Y Herald
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
No Mention OF Her

Old King Cole
Was a merry old soul.
And merry old soulswas "a
Why was ne merry
IAs evident, very.
Twas because there was no Mrs. C.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

sTyc-Ic1 hare - sliz1s sail l3-1lr JACK.
Whatever sEa U9r1s -zlag say.
: an sg7~ ibeT have zsorse1 A-sszr ezcsz.
"As1 tl'eg e14=-s s&sz evcEE 2-z
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

IIidL Is " lot III d z &C III 10y Il-t
81 VIII tell you just what the run
pus was about said the lady manager
OF one of the New England states, but
] do not want you to give my name be-
cause it would put me in the position
of being jealous Of Mrs. Logan. And
the Lord knows am not jealous of
that woman. But you may give the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
THE GOSSIP OF GOTHAM.
The Metropolis a Splendid Place
for Lawyers to Get Rich.

Some Make 100000 a Year-ChoIera for
Fun-The New Rule OF Bunco-Minne-
haha and the Pills-Southern
Hen in New York.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

In proportion to population, there
are more southern men than western
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
fcoPrRIeHr. 1881

OW this is what
the lawyer said
when the ash ON
his cigar grew
long and fiaky
and the lig h t
was dim:
~ e 5, y e W
York is the par
adise oflswyers,
and their purga-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
Minnehaha and tho Pills.

There is in one of the great hospitals
Of New York full-blooded Indian girl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04

Much reiteration of that disgusting
word, ''chappie," and much printing Of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-04
COPYRIGHT, 1893. !
Tbat is what ali agree in saving.

"Mrs. John A. Logan was the cause
of all the trouble in the board OF lady
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-29
An Anecdote of Sir Andrew Clark

A great PHYSICIANS reputation some,
times brings him more kicks than half
pence, OF at any rate more trouble than
fees. Sir Andrew Clark used to tell
the following story: One day he re-
ceived an urgent summons to go down
to small place on the south coast, and.
as he never spared himself in the interest
of the suffering, he took train for the
place mentioned after finishing a hard
days work. On arriving at the station
he found no one to meet him and no
carriage or conveyance to be had. 1t
was wretched night, dark and wet;
out he inquired his way and walked.
or two at least, and when he reached
the place. he was surprised to find hum
BILE little house belonging to very small
farmer or cottager.
:. However, it was all right; they had sent
for Sir Andrew to see the daughter of
the house whom he found suffering
from severe attack of-hysterics. This
is not exactly disease which the presi-
dent OF the college of physicians usually
travels 100 miles to treat But Sir An
drew said nothing, and did what he
When he prepared to go the mother ap-
preached him, beaming, and said, with
perfect simplicity and good faith, well,
Sir Andrew, you've been very kind ;
/ think we must make it double. With
which enigmatic words she placed in his
hands guinea, or it may have been
two. Needless to say Sir Andrew thanked
them gravely, shook hands and departed
with their blessings. ST James's Ga
Zptta
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-29

A correspondent some days ago took
us somewhat sharply to task for CRITICS.
ing the game of foot ball. insinuating
very plainly that we did not know any
thing about it, and that if we did, In
stead Of pronouncing it brutal and
dangerous game as commonly played we
should approve it as great developer of
brain and muscle. Since then we have
been making somewhat of study of
football-not to be sure of its wonderful
tactics, for what little we had seen OF the
inextricable tangling of legs and arms
on the football field had convinced us
that study of tactics was useless-but
a study of its results. In presenting
some of the facts which the study has
brought to light we do not mean to be
understood as denying that the tactics
of the game are wonderful. We think
they are wonderful, very. We want to
call attention merely to the fact that the
execution of those tactics is attended
with an array of concussed brains,
broken noses, twisted intestines, frac-
tured spines, broken legs and ruptured
kidneys which it would be hard to
parallel on any modern battle field. The
London Lancet, the great English medi-
cal journal, is one source of our informa-
ton. During the year 1899 that journal
kept record of football casualties. with
the result of finding 100 cases in which
the injuries were sufficiently serious to
necessitate hospital treatment. The
two accidents to which the football
player of that year was particularly liable
were fractures of the collar bone and
of the leg. Twenty suffered from the
first and Twenty-Five from the second.
Fatal abdominal injuries were quite
common, six having succumbed to these.
Three suffered conclusion Of the brain,
one fractured his spine, one sustained an
injury which was followed by lockiaw
and death. Five got off with nothing
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-29

and in consequence restrained himself
somewhat. Yet in all probability he will
succeed in striking some serious blows to
the country's manufactures and compel
labor insmany industries to choose be-
tween shutting down or "a reduction of
wages. Though he has not succeeded in
indicating the constitution to the ex-
tent the Democratic platform calls for
he has doubtless succeeded in doing a
lot of mischief But the people voted for
changesand they are likely to get what
they voted for. After that they will be
likely to want another change.
The Portland daily press., 1893-11-29
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THE WILSON rARIFF Bull.

The tariff bill which Prof. Wilson and
his Democratic assistants have con-
structed has not been built along the
lines laid down in the Chicago platform.
What was called for there was ta4iff for
revenue only. The first principle of
that kind of tariff is the imposition of
duties on non-competing products. Had
thatFprinciple been lived up to duty
would have been imposed upon tea, coffee
and sugar. But none of them are on
the dubtiable list. Neither is the measure
which the Professor has constructed a
protective measure, though there is some
protection in it just as there is some
tariff for revenue only in it. A protec-
tive measure requ Tres the protection by
duty of all products upon which labor is
employed against the competition of
similar foreign products when that pro-
lection is not afforded by circumstances.
Wool, coal and iron are all competing
products but they are all left unprotect-
ed.
The professors bill is scheme of rob-
berry, far more open and glaring than
any tariff measure the Democrats have
ever denounced. Favoritism and
special advantages to particular inter
ests stick out all over it. One kind of
labor is protected by it, while another
kind just as worthy is left without any
protection whatever. Where is the JUS
tice in protecting the wooden manufac-
turer by duty of 40 per cent. and expos
ing the wool grower to unrestricted COM
petition? According to what principle
is iron put upon the free list, while the
manufactures of iron are left upon the
dutiable list? Are not the farmers who
raise. wool just as. worthy to be shielded
from competition as the men who fashion
that.wool into fabrics? Is the man who
delves in the earth for iron ore any better
able to stand competition than the man
who fashions that iron into beams and
girders and the hundreds of articles of
iron which are left on the dutiable list?
Is it not robbery of most glaring kind
to compel the farmer and the miner to
pay tribute to the manufacturer while
he receives nothing in return? "Republi-
Cdu pfOGbCblOu, Salu Gue OomOCraUlC
platform, is fraud" If that be so
what shall the protection of this Demo-
cratic bill, with its glazing favoritism and
concessions to special interests be called?
Nevertheless, though the bill fails to
eliminate the alleged robbery of the Nc
Kinley law. and falls far short of the re-
quirements of the Democratic platform
it administers about as strong dose of
tariff reform as the Democratic House
and Senate will be likely to take.
Doubtless Prof. Wilson would have ad-
ministered more if he had dared to, but
he has lived long enough and had politi.
cal experience enough to know that the
vociferations of a party platform before
election are not to be taken too literally.
Even the tariff ceformer, i'll the halls of
legislation, is a much milder person than
in convention of tariff reformers where
his occupation is chiefly shouting.
Prof. Wilson had all these things in
mind doubtless, as he burned the mid
night oil in the subterranean cham Der,