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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
REAOY-MADE TRIMMINGS.
Purchases to Save Many Fingers Many
Hours' Toll.

Hours Toll.
The insidious advance Of the arch
enemy OF women has been met by the
American inventor with his labor-sav-
ing machine. We can buy our dresses
in these troublous times of elaborate de-
tails. ''vexatious tucks and frills and
gathers" either ready made at Won
Serful cheapness or we can buy them
bv the ward, with great heaps Of garni-
lures upon the eighboring counter all
ready to be sewed upon muslin, satin,
lace or bingham, without worry or
prostration to the dear little econom-
zeal woman planning gorgeous frock
She knows that ribbon. row upon row
OF il. must enter into her itemized ac-
counts, but she hates TO spend the
precious hours plating and measuring
and cascading il. Straight bands are
viewed by her with disfavor, for they
are already wearisomely common She
NAV purchase ribbon, satin, velvet or
pretty gauze already plated, ruched or
gathered in all widths and colors, and
mounted upon Z firm foundation She
NAV find laces. from narrow headings
to finish her neck and sleeves, to
fiounces for her prettiest gowns, all
ready to be sewed upon them in Won
aerful and cunning arrangements She
may discover by her queries that jet,
tinsel, passementerie, gaily colored
beads, Indian embroideries- IN fact all
those things which best eouturieres i'm
mort" are classified for her use in
shapes ready for the bodice Or skirt, or
the tiny jaunty jacket which IS now
nm accessory TO gowns among the
cauaille and the aristocracy of dress
Chic, crn NaIYS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19

The competition among transporta-
the persons of their agents and man
ayers who, while ignorant that they are
fakirs, are nevertheless capable of
work in that line upon occasion
A drowning incident brings out the
talents of these gentlemen aud displays
the m to advantage.
Yes SAYS the agent of the steam
boat company to the reporters the
unfortunate man insisted upon going
in bathing right over there in front OF
the railroad depot-the most danger
Gus place on the bach You see he
must have come down by that railroad,
for thew found a return ticket ID his
clothes, and he probably got his eyes
full of ciuders so that he couldn't see
where he was going. Anyway he
didn't go in at our pier, which IS so
safe that children battle there by
themselves. but drifted down into that
awful whirlpool where so many people
have been lost And its q curious fact
that they've never found one OF our re-
turn tickets in the pocket OF any OF
those drowned people They all seem
to come down BY rail Have a drink
with me. gentlemen
But II you think that the railroad
manager gets left. you should hear him
q: the close of a particularly lively Sat
urday night when the last train has
departed with its load Of bowling,
maudlin roisterers. and something like
quiet has fallen upon the scene Ii IS
then that the railroad man calls up MS
porters and bids them gather up those
drunks and wheel EN- over 10 the Iron
Pier" and when morning dawns the
DRINKS" are found neatly arranged
on the steps of that structure, plunged
in the soporihc abyss of intoxication-
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
lin soreness From Thread Bit;,~-.

Ladies who do u great deal OF sewing
frequently suffer great deal rom
soreness of the mouth and lips. and are
often at a loss TO ascertain the cause OF
the trouble. Half the time 1t i simply
the result of biting eff thread instead
of using a pair OF shears for cutting.
in the case OF silk thread the danger Is
ou;te marked. because il Is usual 70
soal, the thread in acetate OF lead.
partly 10 harden it ana give 1t good
surface. and also perhaps TO increase
sts weight somewhat II this practice
* followed regularly and very much
Xix thread is used the results may be
oui.e serious and even lead To blood
MISUNDERSTANDING Times
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
FASHIONS MIRROR.
Seasonable Hints of Interest 70 the Fair
Sex-A Poin. for Men.
Black roses are novelties

BACK roses are novelties N mlIIln-
cry
A handsome imported cape, simple
but exceedingly stylish. was made OF
tan-colored cloth, lined with change
able satin Duchesse in blue and ecru-
and trimmed with four alternate rows
Of gold braid about fve-eigntas OF an
inch wide. and tan-coloreG braid. not
over ope-tourth OF an inch wide
smoothly fitting cape-collar slightly
pointed front and back. was similarly
trimmed and the s-a1ziinE collar made
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19

That clerk q Yosrs.4 sharply re-
rrorstra.s1 the Customer. soi1 Eae .
pound and = ball % butser ysNs~rzlzY
scr three Poases
Here iFssis careless soz@s;iEses.~
sad The greer. bisrGiv. "but y9z
mustn't uirsd thzE It's oaiy al
weigh --CAse-~o Trozne-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19

barker" can 60 into almost any sort
of enterprise with fair prospects of sue
cess. If he runs variety show he can
keep an audience industrious by buy
ing drinks, during an entire afternoon,
by standing in the doorway and shout
ing Ella Wesner. next" in such per-
suasive tones that not one of his
patrons will think of leaving. If he
has dancing pavilion he can keep the
social pot boiling and his walters busy
with his continued eloquence and
humor Even if he runs nothing more
pretentious than hot corn pot he can
out sell his rivals by mere force of'im-
portunity.
Skull gra bling is another industry
which enjoys high rank as one OF the
learned professions
A skull gra bier" is known in other
chimes as a phrenologist, though l
think the Coney Island term better
one as it more aptly desert bes his call
ing. There have been skull gra bbers'
who practiced their art with SO much
skill as to fall upon a victim and, with
out even asking him to remove his hat
give complete chart of the bumps on
his head. That is considered very ar
tistic work and people who refuse to
pay because they did not know they
were IN the skull grabber's" hands are
regarded as ungrateful, unappreciative
Jays"
Manufacturers of clam chowder are
looked upon as belonging merely to
the commercial classes, unless they
possess remarkable gifts as "barkers
nybody can threw together the ingre-
dients which make up clam chowder.
When it comes to the fried sausage and
roll industry an artist is required who
knows the secret of Coney Island var
nish by means of which the appearance
anC flavor Of perpetual youth are simu-
lated
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
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Vim. e.. LANGDOK,

Manufacturer of Tents, Awnings,
and everything made of Canvass
Goods sold at Kansas City and 81.
Louis prices. Send for catalogue.
III North Main Street.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19
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fering is short, and that, on the con
.rarv, the reward which awaits IA -
eternal
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-19

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makes New York
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rational citizen
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
WRECKS AND WRECKERS.

An Eastern contemporary remarks that
sit is significant that two men who engi-
neered the Reading deal should be placed
IN control Of their own wreck" There is
nothing In this Reading wreck which holds
out hope that The schemes of spectators
on the necessities of the people will be
checked. When the disastrous deal CON-
menced the Reading people held $4,000, 900
OF coal that had been withheld from the
market to cause rise in prices. President
Mcleod and Director Wilbur, two OF the
present receivers, were responsible for this
policy. 1t is not probable that. with the
company's affairs in the hands of men who
conceived and carried out such policy. the
public will gain much from the collapse.
In fact. il is probable that the deal was de-
signed to throw the affairs Of the company
into the hands of receivers. Stock in the
company has simply changed hands. Car
tain men have been ruined and certain
other men will profit by their ruin. Such
mOnopolies as the Reading company would
be impossible under fair administration
of the law. They thrive upon the subordina-
ton of judges and law officers to their
interests One of the Reading company's
judges jumped from the bench TO place in
the receivership. His pickings receiver
will doubtless be larger than his pickings
as judge. The question is if law can be ex
ecuted. Is there integrity enough ON the
beEch and force enough in the legal depart
ment of the Government TO successfully
oppose corpOi ations OF which the Reading
company is an example?
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
ELEVATED RAILROADS.

Chicago Is confronted with a very great
problem. 1t has solved the transportation
question by drawing within its bounds
most Of the trunk lines Of the country, but
it has yet to render its railroads safe to life
and limb. The municipality has under
taken an herculean task by favorng the pas
sage of an ordinance compelling the COM
panies to elevate their tracks on girders,
where they are laid along streets or over
crossings. and on their part the companies
are in 10 mood to comply with such an order
Obviously the railroad companies cannot be
permitted to allow their lines TO remain as
they are, level with the street, without pro-
lection By fencing and without bridges for
pedestrians and vehicles. There are twenty
one trunk railroads entering Chicago, and
the number of highway crossings at grade
is 5000 No fewer than 300 persons were
killed by railroad cars at these crossings in
1892-or one fatality for every ten crossings.
Probably twice or thrice the number were
wounded. There must also have been
much wrecking Of vehicles and killing or
manning Of horses. In respect to these
accidents the amount of compensation
awarded eisscr privately or through the
courts is en0rmol.;. 1t is estimated at mil
lions OF dollars. The opening of new
streets. as well as the increase of traffic,
adds to the risks. About three millions of
passengers. either on foot or in vehicles.
cross the highways affected daily, and the
number of freightcars moved on them an
pualIy is estimated al 6.0O0,O00 and of pas
senger cars 100000. This year the traffic
will far exceed these figures. and the num-
Der of persons using the crossings may be
doubled. What will be the number of &C
cidents?
Tie temptation TO the companies to use
the streets Of Chicago as If they were still
part OF the Illinois prairie is doubt great.
Every railroad company is DESTROYS of keep
ing down expenditure. But the compensa-
tion debit is serious item to face year by
year in advancing ratio. Some of the lines
might in fact pay interest out of the CON-
pensation charges on the capital expended
in eIevating the track; but whether this be
the case or not. 1t is clearly the duty Of the
municipality to protect the lives and prep
erty Of citizens against reckless railroad
meth DDS. It is limited that some of the
companies would carry their termini outside
the city limits rather than submit. That is
an idle threat, for railroads cannot afford to
throw away business. As underground
communication has not been thought of,
the only alternative is elevated tracks. The
system has been partially introduced in
Chicago already. and New York has long
had elevated roads for passenger traffic.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
AMERICAN TIN PLATE.

Special Agent Ayers report to the Treas
ury Department shows that the tin plate
industry is doing quite as well as could be
expected. The product for six months end
Ing with December last was &c. 7O9, ZIG
pounds. against 2,236.743 pounds for the
corresponding six months of the preceding
year. The,report suggests also removal
Of the duty on the raw material used in the
tin-plate manufactures. This course would
be contrary to protective policy but for
the fact that owners of tin mines in this
country have shown no disposition to sup
ply the market with pig tin. Some of these
owners are interested in tin mines in
Wales, and are not believed to be working
American tia mines in a way to produce
the best possible results. The free-iraders
will, of course, think it better to let the tin
industry go If it cannot maintain itself
without Government aid. There was a
time when the same school of politicians
wanted to let the iron industry die rather
than add to the cost of the imported article
TO enable home manufacturers to sell IN the
home market. But the splendid results OF
the protective policy will serve to warn
free-lradeis of the present day to change
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28

didn't deteriorate in coming TO manhood.
He graduated from college at IA and deliy-
cred his commencement Grafton IN Hebrew.
The Duke and Duchess Of Newcastle will
start for Canada and the United States
abont the middle of April. and subsequently
will go to Honolulu.
Mrs. Ada NJ. Bitten bender, after devoting
nearly four years to work in behalf OF tenn
perance measures in Congress. has resumed
her law practice in London, NeDr.
Secretary Elkins has been so successful in
his financial operations during the past
decade that he is already spoken Of as the
coming richest man in the country"
A lady who enjoys the unique distinction
of being the only feminine president of a
national bank in the United States is Mrs.
Annie Mcores of Mount Pleasant. Texas.
DIR. Sarah Il. Sherman Of Salem was
elected president of the Massachusetts Sur
gical and genealogical Society at its recent
annual meeting. All the other officers are
men.
Professor Poole. for forty years connected
with the British Museum, latterly being in
charge of ancient coins, is about TO leave
that institution 10 become lecturer in Uni
versity College, Cambridge.
Alexander Kennedy of Blonnt County,
Tenn, who furnished the cotton with which
General Burnside made the breastworks at
Fort Saunders, is still living, at the age Of
90, in the same house he was born in.
Sir Peter Benson Maxwell. who died
lately in England at the age Of 70 years. Gre
aied a sensation dusing the Crimean war
by pamphlet he published in defense Of
the Aberdeen Ministry with the title of
"Whom Shall We Hang?" 1t procured a
title for him, too, as he was knighted for the
service.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
TARIFF LEGISLATION.'

There are tTn classes of tariff reformers
in the Democratic paTty-One which desires
10 construct tariff on a general principle,
the other that proposes to look after the in
terests of immediate constituents. Presi-
dent-eIect Cleveland and his Secretary OF
the Treasury, Carlisle, represent the first
class of refoTmeTs. The President and Sec
rotary would probably ignore local interests,
while most of the members of the House
will hold out for local interests as long rs
they can hang together. Ii the local interest
class of tariff refOrmers should have their
way there would be no considerable tariff
reform. No tariff bill can be formed that
will not iDjure some industry in which
people are engaged. There are few Califor-
MIA Democrats who think that prunes from
cheap labor countries should be admitted
free 10 share the American market with the
California high labor prunes. What is true
of prunes is true Of sugar. Sugar producers
will demand either a bounty on home sugar
or tax on foreign sugar. Every Congress
siOnal district will want its special industry
protected. The Representatives may not
be in favor OF protection on general prin-
cipies. but in any change that is proposed
they will expect to see local interests cared
for. One of these peculiar free-traders is
reported as saying: The needs of my
people should be known TO me better than
to a stranger, and l think my constituents
will expect me to take care Of their in
terests." This peculiar free-trader knows
that If the expectations of his constituents
are not realized his chance of reelection to
the succeeding Congress will not be great
His vote may have helped to enact tariff
law in entire harmony with the Chicago
platform, but any Representative who sacri-
fees the interests of his immediate constitu-
snts to the platform OF his party wiithave
a more unpleasant time on his return home
than if he had been less true to his theoreti-
cal convictions.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
IN SEARCH OF LIGHT.

A New York paper has sought enlighten-
ment ON the causes of the movement of gold
to Europe through interviews with several
well-known London inanciers. There is,
however. such a conflict of opinion be-
tween men who should know what is to be
known Of causes that the enlightenment
sought is not of a convincing character.
One attributes the cause Of the gold move
ment to the balance of trade, while another
says the balance Of trade has nothing to do
with il. The latter has known facts on his
side, as the balance of trade has been in
favor of the country which has been losing
gold. 1t is more probable that these finan-
-ciers did not choose TO impart light than
that they had no light to lmpart. 1t is their
business TO know what causes are in opera
ton to take gold from one country to an
other. Nobody gets gold for nothing.
Neither does any one get it because they
need ii. They get it by giving as much for
il as any other party who needs ii. If a
nation buys more than 1t sells, this would
cause a movement OF gold from the debtor
country unless there were other causes Mt
work. A creditor nation like England
might import gold with a considerable bal
ance of trade against her for the reason
that the gold that comes in the way Of in
terest would more than offset any probable
adverse balance of trade. The nations
which are reported as the largest importers
Of gold are Russia and Austria. The latter
country wants gold to enable her to estab-
lish the single gold standard. But Austria
does not get gold because she wants it. She
offers something which the holders of gol7
consider the best investment at hand 1t
seems odd that active financiers who know
what bonds are In the marker, their face
value and their market value, the rate OF
interest they bear and the period they
cover should not know what cause is draw
ing gold to these two countries.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
IN THE PACIFIC.

Senator Morgan, replying to an address
made by the chairman of committee of
New York merchants just prior to his
departure for Europe, directed public al
fention 10 the three great questions
which have their geographical location
IN the Pacific Ocean. These are tie
acquisition of the Hawaiian Islands. the
construction of the Nicaragua canal and the
BeTing Sea arbitration. The first two are
pretty much in our own hands. There may
be a little delay about taking charge Of the
Islands, but annexation is certain in time.
The Nicaragua canal will as certainly be
completed. but the Bourbon element in the
Democratic party may throw obstacles in
tie way which time alone can remove. The
Boring SEA arbitration contains more of
menace to the country than either of the
other propositions. The Harrison admins
trat0n has taken advanced american ground
on the questions involved, which will test
the courage Of the incoming administration.
The basis Of adjustment to which the
American arbters viii be confined in their
discussions pretty much ignores British
claims to any special interest in Boring Sea.
Tie fundamental claim is that Russia
exercised all the rights of ownership
that the United States has acquired
whatever rights Russia possessed and
exercised. Admitting these premises it
viii follow that the United States has a
right TO employ whatever force may be
found necessary to the protection of its
property. and that Engl and must compen-
safe the United States for losses incurred
through the acts of British subjects. There
is no flaw in this reasoning il the arbiters
agree that Russia lawfully possessed such
rights as her Government exercised, and con-
tinues to this day to exercise over the west
ern half of the sea. 1t is quite possible,
however, that the British members of the
board will not admit that Russia rightfully
possessed the right of ownership she is adj
mitted to have exercised. The British
Government may temporarily have waived
rights in consideration of Russa's readiness
10 defend her claim in the court of last re-
sort. AS the Board of Arbiters who will
decide upon these conflicting claims have
the power to bind either party TO its de-
cisIoD. the party that comes out second best
will without doubt accept the result with
a show of equanimity.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28
THE FAY FEE BILL.

The enactment Of the anti-corruption law
should remove most OF the objections urged
against the Fay fee bill. The anti-corruptiOn
law makes it unlawful to expend any large
SUN Of money on an election campaign, and
consequently relieves office-holders from
the necessity they have pleaded that they
must have large revenues to correspond
with the cost of getting the Office. The Fay
fee bill is now in good condition to find
action. 1t has reached the third stage in
the Senate and the second in the House. As
the bill has been so amended rs TO come in
to effect only at the expiration of the terms
of officials elected in November. it will be
likely to pass without organized opposition.
There are a few people who always want
large plums In sight.