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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18


Many now 90 to and fro
Upon the earth. and some below,
Wherever net they surely show,
If formerly of Kansas.
When we Oh train or vessel ride,
On this. or any other side.
We TO our record point with pride,
Formerly of kpnSaS."
We have more constitutions had,
And officers both sane and mad,
And never one, or good or bad,
Cnsuited TO our Kansas.
Our sunfio3ers and orr corn are tall.
In our commonwealth il nothing small,
We greatest have or none al all.
As IS our way III Kansas.
Our grasshoppers the fercest are,
And leave a ne'er forgotten scar
On the fair face Of Kansas
With all her faults we love her still,
So .rc have, and ever will,
Ia every earthly good, or i'll,
We love our frisky Kansas.
So in the blizzard ana the drouth.
East and west TO north and south,
From tiny spring 10 rivers mou Ii.
We love every inch Of Kansas.
The most unique of women-ren,
rs far as comes within our ken.
Who wieldelt either sword or pen.
Now live, or did, in Kansas.
Among the mighty. ancient ghosts,
Who hail from many different coasts
No doubt great Coronado boasts,
As formerly OF Kansas.
And finally at Heavens gate.
We for our turn serenely wait,
We nave our passports clean and straight
Formerly OF kansosi''
Lillian Hale of Kansas City. KaEsas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

Sunday mornings dispatches con-
tanned tie statement that series of
bonds are being prepared by the treasury
department and to be issued soon in or
der to replenish the gold holdings of the
treasury. The renewed demand O. for
gold, which it seems the government is
bound to supply, is to supply Austria
and fit that country up against a CONT
mental war that may come, sometime.
Here is a point of vital concern to this
country. Must the United States fur
nish all the gold the balance of the
world may require: And are the people
of this country bound to quietly submit
10 such exactions and bear the burdens
incident thereto? 1t looks like it. If so
where is our compensation to come
from?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
The. Old Humbug.
1rn -he Eiavorla Republican


Secretary MolIler has been mp 70 bls
home in Northwestern Kansas again,
and the report comes from Topeka thai
he has returned from q tour q the
northwest vcrv much discouraged about
the wheat crop. All OF the discoUraginG
reports from Topeka lately have been
based on information obtained IN this
wav. Il IS difficult to see how man
cat. accurately estimate q wheat crop or
anv ether kind az a crop hy riding on =
train from Topeka "a hss home IN tire
northwest corner CT the state. The
northwest * not tAe whole o. Kansas.
nor i All the wheat cIown ~ t'sai sec
ton. In this section wheat = reported
10 be In fair condition and Use oGilock =
as yet bV NJ uleans dlzcoag a-Iu=.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
CONGR ATULATIONS

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
The brag and boast of the Popuiist
from Jerry down TO the dry goods box
whittier, over the late elections in Kan.
sas, reminds me OF the confederate boast
IN 1864. In the campaign OF Atlanta,
Ga, IN every fight during that struggle
although, somehow. Joe johnson always
lad TO retreat and give up his position 70
the Union forces. vet was heralded all
over the South that johnson had gained
another victory over Sherman: IL Is like
their victory in Georgia last fall. /
came, l saw and got LETT. Give us more
victories like this. Well done. Wichita.
\. J. O'NEIL.
Eip--,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

The Topeka Democrat, which paper
gave up its fight on the fusion Demo
Gratis when it snapped the name Sen
tinel for the discarded Democrat, foi
which latter Chapman substituted Press,
gives it out cold that in the next cam
paign the straight Democracy VIII lie IN
it. without any entangling alliances
That sounds like business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

The Atchison Patriot has discovered,
Or thinks it has, a striking resemblance
between Hon. Tim Mccarthy of Kansas
and the picture that adorns certain
widely-advertised patent medicine, and
thinks the circumstance is deadenei
on Hon. Tins political aspirations. Oh
course there is nothing to the Patriot S
conclusion-except a dread of Macs
proves, if he should grasp the political
lance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

The Santa te shop men who quit work
ten days ago seem TO re!y for success in
,neIc demands upon the notion that the
company could not secure others to do
the work they were doing-that there
were no others. competent, who were to
be had. The skilled workmen who went
out at the Carnegie works in Pennsvl-
vania last year made the same beast. but
after the owners of the plants got control
of them they were not long in securing
enough men to start the works and they
have been going ever since. So il will be
with the Santa Fe: already the places of
two-thirds of the strikers have been filed.
either by the Old men returning to work
or by new men. The writer knew an
employer once, who employed q large
number OF experts in the various depart
;nents of his business and who made IL a
rule that when an employe gave evidence
that he regarded himself indispensable to
the success of the business, or that his
place could not be filled, to discharge
him at once. no difference how valuable
he might be. The employer very often
took such discharged persons back after
their minds were disaDused of the false
notion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

The Venus equinox, which is now On
and will last for about twenty days,
probably accounts for the scarcity OF
rain so far this spring. Hicks says be-
ginning with yesterday there will be an
immense down-pour for the next three
.veeks. for which Old Probs has been
saving up his precipitation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

Well. Cleveland is president, and We
venture to predict that four months from
the day of his inauguration more than one
fourth of the manufacturing establish
,nents of the Union will be closed
knights of Labor Journal.
One-third OF the time named by the
Journal is passed and there is as yet
little indication of its prediction being
verified: still we are of the opinion that
it will lie, even to greater extent than
the Journal suggests.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
EXCHANGE EPITOMES,

4 Mathematical Puzzle for Democrats.
From the Lawrence World.
Suppose Headsman Maxwell should
fill one fourth-class Kansas postofice a
dav with faithful one, and suppose
Cleveland should continue to fiji one
presidential office every two weeks. how
soon will the offices be filled with Demo
Gratis? That is the present rate the offices
are being filed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

Young Alexander of Bulgaria seems
to be nervy enough to make good
king. and he is evidently smarter than
the old regents he deposed. If he don
take the big head and get TO playing the
gmart-Aleck the chances are that lie Will
hold his Job and gain for his little king
dom prominent position in the family
of nations in Europe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
Price Of Reform.

From the Fort scot. Monitor.
If LewelliEg calls an extra session Of
the legislature it VIII cost the state not
less han $50 COO This added to the
$50. 900 the regular session cost more
than usual ana the people of Kansas
will have paid 800, 600 for their Popu-
listic experience, besides suffering a loss
of credit that was a good working
capital
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
Half Justification OF the Mob.
~, 10 .-cEfsor fharrn9c7

The facination of wrong doing IS Sa-
tan's most formidable weapon. Now
why i this: Why was humanity 50
constructed that in many cases It -
more natuIal and easv TO do the wrong
thing rather thaa the right one: After
all IS it possible that many things
termed sins are merely natural crea-
tons. and made sinful by order Of
priestly creeds and puritanic statutes:
But. the right way IS the safe one.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

Having weathered through the "vio-
lent disturbances. foretold by Hicks foI
the 14-17 period, let everybody get ready
for the freezing" set down for today.
IF we can pull through this without wilt
ing we will be in good form TO brace ur
for the hot spell accompanied by light
ming and hail we are to have next Fri
day and Saturday. It is always well to
look out for these changes and be fixed
for them
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
Will Eagle
NJ NJ MURDOCH Editor.
NJ. NJ. MURDOCH Editor.

"Life is STAGE and there are far TOO
MANY inferior parts in most of the plays
Exchange.
The stage is all right, and The play is
all right; the trouble is with the players
there are too many incompetent for
the parts they assume.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
kiowa, Kan.
The Lowest Point in Kansas

From The Lawrl.cs Record.
The Kansas City Gazette is mistaken
III the statement that the town of that
name on this side the line Is the lowest
point geographically in the stale. Fort
Scott Is much nearer the sea level than
Kansas City.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

In some countries the propagation OF
the human species is encouraged by
offering rewards to the parents of the
largest families. If such prizes were
offered in this country, one would GER
iainly be awarded to n couple i'll New
York city, who have been married
twenty-four years and have had twenty
two children, of which the youngest is
ten days old and the oldest twenty-five
years. Another story of the same char
acter comes from Maine, where within a
radius of ten miles live eight American
women who have heen the mothers OF
102 children, of which eighty are still
living, The New York case. while I'M
usual, Is by no means unprecedented,
though the Maine statement is taken
with much incredulity. The census bull.
letins on population do not show anv
such increase of population in that state
and section--it is not according to the
New England idea of the proprieties.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

II nate one-ae; plays.- sald old Soak
7 herr Isn't &ey begzosE 80 ats In
which rnsa nay exsr1-se Tie heaven
born privilege % going os.--JEry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18

DR.. Graves, who was convicted at
Denver last year of the murder of Mrs.
Barnaby of Providence, r. l., his bene-
factreSs, but who was granted a new
trial on appeal, the county commission
ers at Denver having refused to appro-
pirate the necessary funds for further
prosecution he will be discharged. The
EAGLE predicted when Graves was con-
victed that the courts sentence would
never be executed.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-04-18
FORMERLY OF KANSAS"

From the Kansas City Kan. Gazette.
The love of the people for their state is not
so much vague sentiment as an Unsuitable
passion.-John J. ingalls,.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Outgoing and Incoming.

1t is to be observed that at the present
change of presidential administration
there is an unusual amount of good feel
ing betweel, the ollt9olng ana incoming
officials. Whatever OF bitterness there
was in November, it has in great meas
ure subsidized, and each party seems dis
posed to take the other good naturally.
Republicans cheered as heartily as Demo
Gratis when Hilary Herbert entered the
house Of representatives the first time
after his appointment as secretary of the
navy Perhaps here is one good result
of having our elections so long before
the entrance on an office.
Apparently our national officials con-
slider that it never belittles the greatness
of anybody to recognize the merit there
is in his opponent. There are measures
that are for the good of this whole peo-
pie, Democratic, Republican and Popu-
ist-yes. and Prohibitionists and Wom-
ans Fighters, too, saying nothing of Ma
tionalists. Victorious parties can well
afford to look at these measures and ac-
cept the best, no matter who suggests it.
So Gladstone obtained and has kept his
supremacy and always got what he
wanted at last Even in the parliament
airy fights at the close of the late con
gress it was noteworthy that it was par
ticular measures rather than political
differences that brought out the resources
of parliamentary strategy.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Arizona and New Mexico.

The governors of both these splendid
territories present in The North Ameri-
can Review their respective claims to be
admitted as states into the Union. The
presentation is so clear and forcible in
each case that, after reading them, one
Is constrained to ask, "Why are not New
Mexico and Arizona admitted to state
hoody" The closing thrust of Governor
John N, Irwin of Arizona is driven home
rs follows. "More ignorance is natural
lied, more crime is sworn into citizen
ship and more unftness made into vot-
ers in New York and Chicago every year
than there is in the entire Mexican vote
of Arizona"
The qualifications for statehood are
these, according to Governor Irwin: A
people intelligent enough, a population
numerous enough and financial strength
and resources enough to sustain q state
government. These requisites are pos
sessed by both territories. BY the census
of 1890 New Mexico had a population Of
l53,076, not counting Indians. This Is
$1,000 more than Delaware has at pres
ent, and three times as many as Nevada.
New Mexico has at present not less
than 1870, 200 inhabitants. The assessed
value of property in 1891 was $45, 1928, 1858.
Further, Governor L. Bradford Prince
of New Mexico tells us that this territory
has greater natural resources, and a
greater variety Of them, than any state
now in the Union. She has all the
vegetable and mineral productiveness Of
California, and almost limitless beds Of
anthracite and bituminous coal besides.
Both the territories have good public
school systems supported entirely by
voluntary taxation, since until they art
admitted as states no public school land
grants can be made to them by congress
Three times enabling acts have been be
fore congress to make state of New
Mexico, and once the act passed boil
houses and only failed for want of tim,
for the senate to concur in Sigh
amendment. New Mexico has been
territory 40 years this 1898.
Arizona undoubtedly now contain
more than 10000 people, the census Civ
ing her 50, 62O in 1890. Women vote a
school elections. Her mines produces
$9,1OO,000 in ore last year, and she ha
$4,000, 900 worth of live stock and owe
1000 miles of railway. The soil pre-
duces all that grows in the norther
states and the semitropical fruits be
sides,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Potato Experiments.

Results gained from experiments with
Irish potatoes at the Louisiana station
and reported on by j. G. Lee give some
interesting conclusions In an expert
ment to test size of seed seven varieties
of large and medium sized potatoes were
used for seed, being planted whole and
cut to two or more eyes and to one eye.
The results for each variety from one
kind of seed are tabulated. "The pro-
ductiye results obtained concur with
those of previous years; the larger the
seed planted the greater the yield. The
economical results are, however, differ
ent, and calculating for this point sug-
gest that, planting on large scale, it is
better to cut not to more than four eyes
nor less than two"
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
An Inexcusable Folly.

One very important lesson is to be
learned from the destruction of the
Calumet clubhouse, and that is the utter
folly of intrusting valuable relics to the
care of club organizations. Many of the
rare old treasures which had been gath
cred together in the Calumet club had
no right to be there, and their loss is one
which the public can with propriety de-
nounce as an outrage, for there are GER
tain relics in which, no matter whose
money has purchased them, the public
has proprietary right.
Mighty cold comfort is it now to hear
that the Calumet clubhouse was "a YER
table firetrap," and that it is ''surpris-
ing that it did not burn up long ago. y
Can it be possible that, cognizant of this
danger Of fire which is now SO naively
confessed, the Calumet club solicited the
loan of curios which can never be re.
placed?
- ----~i ---~.~ ...s.o.lidvOIrs vl~bl,ot.oc
can be erected, but no money can restore
the art and historical treasures wantonly
sacrificed. We hope to see an utter
abandonment Of the silly practice Of do
mating and lending valuables of this
character to the qualification of the pass
ing vanity of social clubs = Chicago
News-Record.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Cash-Cash,s Reformation.

Old Cash Cash, the well known UNA
tilla Indian, is becoming greatly inter
ested in what will become of his soul
when he dies. OF late Cash-Cash has
been a regular attendant at divine wor-
ship, and being possessed of more intelli-
gence than the general run of Indians
has listened very intently to the teach
ings that are expounded by the minis
tiers. He is now endeavoring to lead a
better life by paying his debts and by
refusing to gamble or drink firewater.
Several weeks ago T. d. Page placed a
bill against Cash-Cash in bank at Pen
dleton for collection.
Cash-Cash was notified, and he prompt
ly responded and settled. After paying
the money he demanded piece of paper
or receipt to show that the claim had
been fully satisfied. He was informed
that receipt was not necessary, rs the
books in the bank would show that it
had been settled. Cash-Cash persisted,
when the receipt was made out. When
the paper was handed him, Cash Cash
was satisfied, and when he started to
leave the bank he said in broken Eng
lish:
"Me heap good Injun. Me want go
heaven. When me die and old Pete
meet me at gate and ask me been good
Injun, me say yes. He will ask me if
pay Tom Page and me have no paper
from you, he send me hell. "-Walla
Walla Union Journal.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10


Three of those of the largest type have
already been ordered, the Massachu-
sets, the Oregon and the magnificent
vessel lately launched, the Indiana. The
Cramps are building the Massachusetts
at Philadelphia, while the Oregon is
under construction at San Francisco.
These three monster ships are the favorite
contribution Of Secretary Tracy to the
new American navy. Of what the three
will be when completed Mr.. Tracy wrote
three years ago, ''Their equal as fighting
ships does not exist at the present day"
The Indiana is type of these three
coast line battleships. Mr.. Tracy says
of them further, "There are others of
greater size, none of greater efficiency"
The 1ndiana is 34S rect long ana cost
$3,026,000 She is not meant for speed,
merely for destroying the ships of hos
lille fleet that might attack our coast
cities. The main batteries of the Indiana
could throw at single discharge over
three tons of shot and shell. Her belt
armor is IS inches thick and n feet wide.
extending Al feet below the water line
and feet above. She has a ram bow.
The engines are of the twin screw kind.
and in case of need this great floating
arsenal can travel 16 miles an hour.
though speed is not her strong point.
That is fighting. In addition to her main
batteries she has 90 secondary guns; like
wise set of torpedo guns that can keep
up steady discharge all around the YES
sci. All the same, the day of great naval
battles is probably over.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Forgot Their Tact.

Women are called the tactful sex
Two women came to the Court Street
theater ON Saturday afternoon in search
of third woman whose father had died
suddenly. The matinee was in progress
and the curtain was up.
The doorkeeper babe them wait till the
act was over, and then cautioned them
against breaking the sad news to their
friend while she was in the theater
'.Just tell her she is wanted at home, y
he said, "and get her out as quickly as
possible"
In few minutes there was mighty
noise from within, and the two women
emerged supporting their friend, who
was shrieking and throwing herself
about. She was taken from the building
in fainting condition.
Doubtless the scene was renewed at
frequent intervals ON the road home.
The awkwardness of the messengers had
added difficulties to their own task as
well as spoiled the pleasure of a large
number of people.
"Therew said the doorkeeper in dis
gust, that's just like woman. You
can tell man something, and he'll see
the point of it, but women go all to
pieces in emergencies. Buffalo Courier.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-10
Truly shookingr

The science and art of buying the
votes of legislatures, municipal councils
and boards Of education are infinitely
laid down in The Forum by one who has
either tried it himself or is close kin to
somebody who has He speaks by the
book, II city governments had no con-
tracts to award, boards of education
no textbooks to buy, legislatures no fat
jobs to let out, then there would be no
corruption, the writer says, His name
is not given. From the nature of his ex-
ceedingly interesting information one
can readily see that his modest reserve
is reasonable, but the information is so
plain that the mere tyro can follow its
suggestions and go out at once and buy
up whole board.
Every legislative or municipal body is
composed of members who can be CLASH
fed as follows with reference to their
purchasability, says The Forum; One
third of them can be bought outright
with no trouble at all and are ready to
sell out to the highest bidder The only
danger is that they will not stay bought,
but will sell their votes to any rival
firm of contractors who offer them a
higher price. A second third do not like
exactly to sell their votes and generally
occupy respectable position in society,
but they are weak and often deeply in
debt, and of course fall victims to the
vote buyer later if they do not sooner.
The remaining third will vote as they
think best always and cannot be pur-
chased. 1t will be seen that unfortu-
nately the members who are purchasable
are in the majority, according to this
classification. The surest remedy against
municipal corruption is to elect no man
to office who is in debt, the Forum
writer says.
The persons who desire to buy votes
are mostly the agents of manufacturing
firms-those making waterworks ma
chinery, bridges, pavements, etc, and
in case of school boards the runners
for textbooksspate desks and school
room furniture. The agents all agree
ON the degree of purchasability of va
rious classes of men. The leaders of
worllinsmen's and farmers political
movements can be placed on the list of
men who can be bought without trouble.
1t is to be inferred that the writer has
some spite at such leaders and takes this
method of paying it off. A politician
who makes profession of religion is not
thereby prevented from selling his vote,
though he is slier about the manner of
it, the writer continues.
This shocking and dreadful man goes
on to say that farmers in politics fall an
easy prey to social attentions, while
preachers in politics must be bought by
indirect methods.