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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
THE sTREET-cAR sPoTTER.
He Keeps Tab on the Conductor by Mean
o( n Silent Pockef ReSiaxer.

He Keeps Tab on the Conductor by Means
of Silent Pocket Register.
For several months conductors have
been watching men who habitually
stand on rear platforms, says the In.
dianapolis News That is the spot.
ter's position. Professional spoilers
never s'give themselves away" by
counting the passengers. The spotter
carrys a small noiseless register in one,
of the pockets of his overcoat- He Is.
most likely to appear on car that IS
TO carry a big load He takes his
place on the rear platform and always
appears to be the most unconcerned
man on the car. The first thing he
does is to glance at the register in the
front of the car. He makes mental
note of the NUN Der of fares that have
been rung up. Every time passenger
gets on he presses the button OF the
little register in his pocket. He never
appears to be watching the persons
who are getting in the car, but he must
be careful not to miss one. he rides
on the platform until the fares of all the
persons who have got on the car since
he took his position have been col
lected. His last act before getting on
is the mCltal registration OF the num-
Der of fares indicated by the register
IN the car. If he has another test to
make before making his report, he will
probably stop under the first electric
light, write down on the blank fur
nished him the number of fares regis
tered when he got on the car
and the number registered when
he got off. He subtracts one
from the other, and has before
him the number of fares the conductor
should have registered. Then he looks
at his Indicator, and if there is dis
crepancy between his count and the
count the conductor registers he re-
ports the fact to the company.
A conductor who is discharged is
never accused of having stolen money
from the company. The charge is Inn
properly collecting fares" 1t is not
often that conductor is discharged
the first time it is reported to the com
pany that he is improperly collecting
fares" The test is applied to him fre-
ouentlv. and if it is found that he is
habitually not ringing up fares for all
the persons who take passage on his
car he is dismissed. Conductors be-
lieve that the means employed by
spoilers are unfair. They say that it
is often impossible for any man to get
all the fares on a car; that it is an
easy matter to get all the fares when a
car is not crowded, but when fifty or
sixty persons board car bound up
town it is next to impossible to collect
without an error. Often persons will
get off the car before the conductor
has reached them, and, hampered as he
is by the crowd, they say, he cannot
prevent this. Then persons are getting
on and off, exchanging seats and doing
other things that nystify the conductor
as he pushes his way through the
crowd in search of the nickels that are
due the company.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
BEING A MAN MONKEY.

A Mechanical Tail Has Been Devised,
Which Greatly Facilitates tho Business.
/ had a chat the other morning with
Mr.. Arnold and the brothers Donald
son, the monkey performers and con-
tortionists. says writer in Pearsons
Weekly.
It has long been the ambition OF
acrobats to invent useful mechanical
tail, without which no man can prop.
erly initiate monkey. At length the
tail has been devised. Arnold and the
Donaldsons are the only people in the
secret, and they now hang and swing
by their tails, to the disgust of rival
man monkeys.
So like the original are their antic.
and their whole get-up that from a
distance it is impossible to tell, as they
swing from bars and ropes inside a
cage, that they are not apes. The
masks they use alone cost fifteen dol
lars apiece, and are SO naturally made
that they have even deluded the real
animal. Let one of my informants
speak for the trio:
Before we could attempt to initiate
a monkey in public we went through 3
course Of the closest study in various
geological gardens. It was months be-
fore we were proficient; but then we
did not consider ourselves SO until,
having donned our monkeys dress, l
approached cage of real apes one OF
whom actually came to the bars and
scratched my head.
"An acrobat and contortionist has to
crowd all his work into short space
of time, for after he has reached thir-
ty-two years of age his work begins to
deteriorate. We experience no diff
Guilty whatever about blood rushing to
the head When we began to train we
could only hang our heads down FOR
half a minute, and even then we were
nearly suffocated. Now we can hang
for ten minutes and feel no i'll effects
THE great thing is to get the cords
of the legs TO stretch, which they do
gradually. and to loosen the hips So
long as the cords of the leg will give,
almost anything can be done with
them. For instance, we End il quite
easy to cross the right leg over the left,
bring the latter over the right shoulder,
and finally crowd the toes under the
arms-a feat that looks exceedingly
difficult.
"A great deal depends upon the
backbone. BY constant practice il can
be made TO bend like whalebone TO the
shape of the letter C. either backward
or forward. One Of our troop can spin
on his head. but that trick came TO
him naturally and it Is impossible 20
teach it. The chief ailments which
befall acrobats are strains and the dis
location OF the hips"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Newkirk makes final proof at. Perry
Jan. 90.
Professional criticism aside. Sam SMALL s
paper is beauty.
This is probably the longest summer
Oklahoma ever had.
C. E. Hunter of the Enid Eagle does not
accept railroad passes.
Public schools at Okarchs have been
closed on account of diptheria.
The probate judge of L county has is
sued ten marriage licenses already.
The Guthrie News is all right Thomp-
son. its editor. is the same way himself
Ex-Governor Steele is in favor OF single
statehood and has so written to friends IN
Oklahoma City.
There is no phrase that Ed Ingle likes
70 use about Norman so much as the
ATHENS of Oklahoma.
One boy near Medford walks five miles
to go to school. Those are the kind That
end up in the White House
Reno Kid" home product did up the
Galveston Spider" foreign importation,
at Ell Reno the other night.
A whole barrel OF wine was stolen at
Perry the other night The place to keep
wine in Perry is bshind your teeth.
A young woman in Oklohoma has sued
the Santa Fe railroad because one of its
conductors made indecent proposals to
her.
George Pickett of Blackwell is Is favor
of trying the man who wants to change
the name of Oklahoma to Nebraska
blizzard by his toes.
A story is floating around the country
to the effect that the Dalton gang has been
trying to make compromise with the
officials of Oklahoma
A man comes out in the Perkins Jour
nal aud pleads with the farmers not Go
kill the ed-headed woodpecker He says
it is the best friend the farmer has.
Enid Wave: An Indiana editor writes
us that he will write up the Cherokee
strip as he ssen it through his own eyes
while out here With bated breath we
await his remarks.
Oklahoma Times-J Journal: Elizabeth
French of this city has just been granted
a pension, as widcw of soldier OF the
Seminole war iu 1892 She is 81 years old.
u. +. McMartin Was her attorney.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

1t is trite old saying that "alPs well
that ends we'll" But how much bette r
it would have been for Mr.. Cleveland,
personally, and for the good name of the
government and the country, had he not
undertaken to interfere in matter that
did not concern him or the government,
SO long as the rights, safety and inter
ests of this country were not invaded
or put to hazard. But the monarchy is
thing of the past in Hawaii. And,
while the United States will not inter-
fere in the settlement of domestic ques-
tions of difference in the islands, it is
quite certain that it will not quietly
stand by and permit any other power
TO do so, to the extent of assuming a
protecrorate or of dictation.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

IN the houce and r. willing 10 put ur
with annoyance TO get il. Anotber
has literary genius and will burn ga
with an open hand and you want Tn
get him in a room with but one jet.
All these pcculiarities the clerk is sup
posed to divine. and in order 70 do IL
by sight he wants 70 get view Of
the CUES. from the time he enters tho
door till he reaches the counter. for
you can tell character by . mar =
swing or appearance q little way OF
that could no. 40 well be detected
when he is within foot Of you Takes
brains TO be behind q desk?' Well. I
just tell you you have IL now. IL eo.-
take brains, and not alone diamond
shirt pin. as some unsophisticated oso-
ole think"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
CLEVELAND THE CORRUPTER.

There has been abundant evidence for
some time to convict Grover Cleveland
of the charge of political corruption, and
Notwithstanding he stands SO convicted
before the American people he continues
his corrupt and corrupting practices with
the nonchalance of the bold highway
man. His latest rascally act was an at
tempt to thwart the wishes of the people
of Virginia in the selection of success
sor TO the late Senator Daniels by con-
tributing $1,000 in cash to aid in the
election of F'itzhugh Lee, the machine
candidate, over Thomas S. Martin. 1t
is not to Lees credit that he sought to
make the expose, after having used
money so freely to buy his way into the
senate, but his allegations of the use Of
money by his opponent in the election
brought about an investigation by a
committee of the legislature and Lee
was put upon the stand himself He
testified that the money to run the late
campaign was contributed by the rail-
road companies, Wall street bankers and
Grover Cleveland. The railroads gave
$4,000 but only 81 900 of this was turn
ed over to the state committee. The
rest was used by their agent to bribe
members of the legislature to vote for
Martin for senator against Lee.
But the richest part of the disclosure
was that relating to Cleveland's contri-
button. General Lee stated that the
president sent him a note at his hotel in
Washington and when he opened the
envelope, 10 and benold! il contained
fifty crisp $50 bills. He was afraid to
send bis check as that would have left
written evidence on record. He sup
posed of course that his donation would
never be known, but under oath General
Lee give the whole thing away.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17


That lynching out at Russell Sunday
long as men continue to perpetrate such
diabolical outrages as the three confessed
to- so long will like summary dealings
with them be practiced. Denouncing
and moralizing and philosophzng upon
such occurrences Will not stop nor deter
men from defending themselves by de-
Tending the community by removing
creatures whose existence is a menace
to the safety of the person and peace of
society-not until the written law is
made more effective in dealing with all
such. The situation thus presented is
made all the more serious 10y being just
as stated, and not stretch of fancy.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
OUR EYE AND EAR
INFIRMARY.
MIKE WAS CAUTIOUS.
And Burned a Valuable Book for Fear Of
It's Failing Into BAD Hands.

The secretary of an eastern rubber
company, at Trenton. n. Y, lost let
ter book containing copies Of month 3
important correspondence few weeks
ago. says the New York World. The
whole Office force was turned out 70
hunt for it, but it had disappeared a.
effectually as though swallowed up in
the earth. After closing hours the
other evening the secretary, the gem
eral manager and couple of clerk,
sat in the Office discussing the loss and
trying to account for it. Mike, the
new watchman, came in 10 sweep and
dust.
Mike, have you ever seen anything
of letter book No. 81" asked the man
ager.
NO, sir" said Mike.
this?" taking another letter book from
the safe.
"Yes, sir; seen one like that one
night. II was in the waste basket"
Where is IL now?'
''Sure, burned it.
II ever a watchman received q lecture
for stupidity Mike got it then The man
ager became hotter and hotter every
minute as he talked. II suppose you
would burn up the cash book II you
ever found IL outside the safe b..
shouted finally.
NO, sir. ! would not" returned
Mike, gently. what would do tha.
for, when there's nothing but figures
in II that don't mean anythiu' bat 70
the man that wrote EN-? / wasn't goin'
10 burn this book a. first. because /
wanted 10 keep the nice PAPER. TO put
tobacco in. But when thought, well,
perhaps some one vii! get hold % j.
and read somethin' that was none If
their d-d business. J Just burned =
TO make sure. You'd 90 the sane. sir.
now, wouldn't you?'
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
SUFFICIENT UNTO HERSELF.
The Young Woman Had No Need Of As
sistance of Any Kind.


siStance of Any Kind.
The kind hearted old gentleman
watched the young woman seated next
to him in the elevated train with in
terest, says the New York World She
held magazine in her hands with the
leaves uncut She looked through the
table of contents and raised the cor
ners of the leaves so as TO geta glimpse
of various illustrations. The old gen
tleman drew out his pocketknife hesi-
tatingly. He opened it still more hesi-
tatingly. The young woman seemed
entirely oblivious of his acts and evi-
dent intentions, but their fellow pas
sengers were able to arouse great
deal OF interest in the proceeding
Finally, just as the old gentleman
reached forward. extending his knife,
the young woman dexterously drew
out a hatpin and began cutting the
leaves Of her magazine The old gen
tIenan leaned back and delivered him
self OF confidential aside TO the man
next TO him:
81 have heard. /" he said, that women
can do anything with their hairpins
and hatpins, but at any rate they d
need knife to sharpen pencils
And al that mom~nt the provoking
Young woman dre.g pencil from her
reticule, bit the wood off the top OF II,
and made a note on the article she was
reading The car g,ggled and the Old
gentleman began 70 read his paper
with an injured ai--
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

The conclusion is jumped 10 by some
that the refusal cf the state auditor to
endorse Mrs. Leases claim against the
treasury for her salary since the date of
the governors removing her from office
settles the question of her official tenure.
for the reason that, woman-like, she
will not care TO hold on TO position,
when there is no pay attached to it. In
answer TO this it is enough to say that
such critics evidently do not know Mrs.
Lease. a woman whose inspiration is the
principle involved in the issue joined.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

All that Topeka has to do to secure
the weolen mill they have been talking
about for several weeks is to raise SEQ,
600 and take that much stock in the en-
terprise which is valued at SIS 200. The
principal reason the owner of the mill
gives for desiring to move his mill from
Maine to Kansas is that the move will
bring him 1.S00 miles nearer the supplies
Of raw observation-disclosures and Texas
wool and cotton-snd as much nearer
his chief market. the west and south
west. The reason is plausible, and one
that will sooner or later cause many
eastern manufacturing enterprises tc
make similar moves.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT.

Old Bill Bolts Had Found tho Heathen
Chinee Not at All Accommodating.
A good, honest fellow in his way was
Bill Bolts, but he had never had an op-
portunity to study moral philosophy
as taught in the colleges and universi-
ties, SAYS the New York Herald. He
came from Biddeford, in Devon, and
very likely some of his ancestors had
helped Drake 'wallop" the Spaniards.
He had followed in their footsteps by
enlisting in the navy to fight for his
queen and country whenever called
upon to do so.
When he returned from voyage to
China he brought with him a present
for a gentleman who had been very
kind to his old mother during his
absence. 1t was curiously fashioned
Chinese garment made of bits of a
species of straw strung together.
"Plase, sur, you must excoos un be-
ing torn" he said, bashfully, when he
presented it. 1.-The Chinaman wouldn't
part with un aisy."
He had run across Chinaman wear
ing it somewhere IN the streets OF
Hong Kong, and the unfortunate
celestial not understanding his sum
mary request to hand that over here
he had simply yanked it off him.
To the suggestion that his conduct
had hardly been consistent with strict
honesty he replied:
''Beggin' your pardon, sur, he wuz
only a haythen, an I never heard that
takins things from haythen counted
as stalin'."
Well" replied his friend, ''if many
illustrious Englishmen had not acted
on that assumption I don't know
where the British empire would now
be; so I'll keep the heathen's gar
ments."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

The Scene Of Conflict talk. =
said the bachelor 'aof wonan's engag-
ing IN the parsuits o. man IS al non-
sense. Il don't know sal his friend.
doubtfulIy There's no doubt about
it suppose war should arise "oH1-
en- couldn't fight. could theT2 Whats
the reason they eoulant?@ Why, be
cause they are not naturally consti-
su.ed Ior warfare" '.Humpa, Just
come over TO the bargain eoan,e- II
our dry goods store sczre dsy and yo1 u
change ycrr salnd w asatpg.c1 StA4.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
Notwithstanding the automatic declar

Notwithstanding the automatic declar.
alton that object lessons are most inn
pressive and lasting. Jerry Simpsons
ragged coat play in the house last Satur-
day. which was but the apeing of a Re-
publican member DUNG the discussion
of tho Mckinley bill when that measure
was before congress, ought to be made
the exception to the rule, and further
displays along that line pending the
present discussion IN the house debarred.
Simpson made the act chestnut
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

If Mr.. Cleveland were asked ''where are
the good times promised after the re-
peal of the Sherman silver law" his an
swer would no doubt be like that of the
settler in the swamps of Arkansaw
Pretty bad in his neighborhood, replied,
between the risors of n buck ague that
was then upon him, ''No. but they say
they are over on the other side of the
bayou" II the country were across the
slough of tariff reform Cleveland
would nrobablv feel better.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
Sure 70 Win.

Subeditor-I think ! have great
idea for the improvement of the paper.
believe II would he good idea 70
start ''woman's page
Boss Edi,or-I see nothing new II.
that
Subeditor-But shall make rhis
page one that the women viii read
I'll fill itup with accounts of what the
men do at the clubs See2-Iucianap-
oils Journal
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
SIZING UP" THE GUESTS.
why Hotel Clerks DSsk Always Com
maods . View Of Tie EstrApee.

Did you ever think Why every hotel
off5ce faces the entrance queriee \
veteran CLERK for the reception O.:
guests. addressing writer !c- tn
Washington News Well, i 4sa't
mere accident, can asssre you4 bz.
the main IDEA of :he arrangement. IA -
give ample opportunity for the elerx
70 study the people who cosas Into thu
house. Every stranger Ia an under
study. and 20 max. tus. one asistsa. -
''sixing" him up might mean serious
trouble. There Is the man who should
rot be trusted .o- q rom If lie is with
cu. a trunk Tnsn tae-c is s1o.hs.
who can stand double rates for ;le
best rooms and Ia SURE - want q hath
while another viii never war. 20
bo.h.Y with sueh isr.sory nessens. a.
can onlT be found .n tub There is
ihs Easa rho vysrn tss eassp>st .eoS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

The EAGLE was the only paper in Kan
sas that ever ripped old Mohler up tie
back or That dared protest against his
thread bare reports made Dy him of ''the
general condition of the crops all ever
the state" after each weekly visit made
10 his home i'll the northwest. Six OF the
papers found on our exchange table yes
teriay were roasting Mohler and COM
mending Coburn. Oh. the manly inde-
pendence of Kansas journalism.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
Will She? Wen Soc.

From the Lawrence Journal.
For two long, weary terms, Iowa has
had Democratic governor. And all be-
cause the ''smooth" politicians up there
insisted upon making of prohibition a
test of republicanism. When that idiocy
was abandoned the state came back to
the Republicans ranks with a big $4,000
and more majority. Will Kansas heed
the lesson it cost Iowa so much to learn?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

The Railway Age sits down, heavily.
on the political railroad organized at
Topeka by Lewelling's state officers and
hansers-on. called the Gulf and Inter.
state" The Age advises farmers not &c
put a cent into the Quixotic enterprise
declaring that capitalists will not In
short. that paper makes very strong
showing against the enterprise, if, in.
deed. in its present hands it could be sc
denominated.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
The People Will be Heard.

From the Atchison Champion.
Men who are just now industriously
pushing themselves for office may as
well understand that this is a year when
the people propose to have their own
way In the nominating conventions and
if the politicians make any states the
people will smash them to flinders in
November
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
A Womsn'G Dar4sR YeoA.

Miss Jessie Ackernsn, an EnRfssh
missionary. recently put On diving
dress and went down sixty feet 20 tho
bed Of the ocean on the greatest pearl
ing grounds Of the world, between
Australia and Singapore. where thir-
teen hundred men ere constantly -
work
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
Fob Earned IL. No Docbt.

Aunt Jane-Rob. dear, 1ont you tn
70 be real good boy to-day?
Rob--I will, aunty. for quarter.
Amt Jane-Why. Rob. you wish pas
for being good?
Rob-Tell aunty dear, you wouldns
have me good for nothing. would your.
Harper's Young People.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

In the new bond issue, the admins.
tration will avoid the use of the word
"honds." Carlisle intends TO call them
certificates of Indebtedness. This is
not the first time a coward has taken
refuge behind words.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
A Delicate Ats~ast,p.

Vivian lof certain years. - Yos
treated me as IL were an old maid ri.
day when Mr.. spooners was calling.
Guinevere Nonsense. my dear.
Why. be and had been talking about
old people and We changed the sub
ject the minute you came in the room
CHICAGO Record
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

Mr.. Clevelands remark about giving
the country an object lesson is turning
10 torment him and his party ''before
the time" 1t is the most expensive one,
if we may except the one of 1S60-5 given
by the same party, this country has ever
had, and one that it Will not want to re-
peat. ever. The Democratic party has
been a ceaseless burden and menace .o
:he country's peace and prosperity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

But then Dan was rather strong in his
utterances. Daniel Webster said to
Caroline Dali, of Illinois, forty years
ago; Remember, you may have what
political opinions you please. but the
woman who expresses them is damned. +"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
You Bet They Do.

From the Kansas City Gazette.
The Wichita Eagle says: "Kansas
City, Kansas, in business way, and
view, is largely of Kansas City, Ms
souri," AND inasmuch as Kansas alone
is making both Kansas Citys, why not
admit that the $4,000 people living in
the Kansas City in Kansas, belong to
Kansas?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

Queen Victoria, it is said, has desire
to live to see the advent of the twenti-
eth century. Everybody hopes that the
wish of the good old lady will be graft
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17
EXCHANGE EPITOMES.

"Man wants but little here below"
The statement now falls flat.
For. with the Wilson bill, we know
We wont get even that.
N. Y. Press.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

Chauncey Depew's baby boasting
about his great interview with the Pope
is being ridiculed in Rome. Some day
this country will realize that Depew is a
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

No sympathy should be given the
lynchers of Russell county. Kansas can
not afford to be pulled down to the
level of Illinois and Indiana.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

Ward McAllister will not get Mrs.
Cleveland to indorse any court nonsense.
He has no right to assume that Mrs.
Cleveland doesn't know any more than
her husband.