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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
CONFUSION or NAMES.

From tho New York Press
A striking example of the ignorance
Of tropical things on the part of
jewellers in temperate regions is TO be
found in the confusion into which the
articles variously termed cacao, coca,
COCO, cocoa have been gotten BY ship
pers, tradesnen. dictionary and en-
cyelopedia, and the public following
them. There are four widely-sepa-
rated vegetable growths tLat are vsri-
oasly mixed under these names These
are. with their proper pronunciation
and scientific and common names:
Cacao (kaw-kow), theobroma cacao;
the chocolate berry tree"
Coca (lzo-kah), erYthroxylon coca: the
coca leaf brush
Coco (ko-ko). caladiun esculentun;
the COCO root plant
Cocoa Gxo-kwahl, cocos nuciferz; the
cocosnut palm
The first. caeao. is well placed in the
genus tbeobronaa. name given il by
Linneus- and siynitying food for the
GODS" the speeii, nane comes from
the Portuguese 'caczu." IN turn
derived from the ancient &exicaa
''cacautl" It's name Is almost uni-
versally spelled cocoa in the United
States and England. and confused with
the cocoanut Of the palm tribe. with
which il has far less natural affinity
than has the rose with the pear Al
the dictionaries confuse OF uaiszpply
these names Even the Encyclopedias
BRITAIN; talks Of the cocoa tree"
and. though admitting that i = '-rISors
properly czczo. says under that bead
ing see cocoa" No-eeSter's sehoo.
dictionary actually says ''Cooos- =
beverage made 0. the eocosnrf- " witch
Is quite as accurate a. Il -ouid be 20
define goos~be--y pis a. prUocet q
the asparagus plant
Toe eacz- = a snail evergreen tree
FROM fin cen 10 ihirty-Sve feet high IN.
Ser .<ultivati-c- spd hi-asr n rs native
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
ON THE OFFENSIVE.

The female suffrage crusade was
started with much spirit, this week,
with two days rally at Leavenworth,
followed by like protracted onslaught
at Topeka. Mis- Susan Anthony the
presiding star of the consolation, its
lawgiver and arbiter. announces that
the sole aim is the constitutional right to
vote and that therefore they come
not as Democrats, Republicans or Popu-
lists, but as suffragists. She, however,
supplemented this with the statement
that they do not expect anything from the
Democrats. She might have added that
neither does anybody else at present.
They look to the Pcpulists ard Republic
cans, and she SAYS that their present
aim is to get female suffrage in the plat
form of the last two named parties as
the only way of reaching the common
voter" In other words they want to get
the average party man in corner
through his bosses and platforms,
so that he will be compelled to
vote it or bolt. She says that such
plduh Will SlicuCc luCl CuCLuico anu
embolden their friends. "That is what
l am here for" continued the veteran.
I'VE will hold hundred meetings in
this state and the prospects of emancipa-
ton were never so bright"
This is free country, especially free
state, and everything in the way of inno-
vations and cranks, from Artz, Osborn
and legislative instruction to PETERS,
Simpsons and Prohibition, have been all
the go, as occasion offered, and we sup
pose that this invasion of home-deserting
women comes in due course and must be
but when they come to talking
of enforcing their ideas and rules upon
the common voter"-that's her express
sion-through political planks and party
bosses they are reckoning without their
host
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
TIME HoNoREp DEMOCRACY.

If congress would only engage itself
in playing pins or killing flies there
would be some evidence that it was still
in session. The daily cost of its do moth
ing policy, added to the incalculable cost
already incurred, is growing too irk-
some to be borne in patience. After
bowling itself hoarse for reduction of
tariffs for more than a quarter of cen
fury it was but natural that the manu-
facturers should take the Democratic
party at its word. On its ascension to
power they promptly blew out the fires
and elosed down the mills. There was
nothing In it but q simple business pre-
caution. Though the loss was great
both to labor and to capital, it was better
10 remain idle for a few weeks than TO
stack up goods at the old rate of cost
and stand the reduction so grandilo-
quently promised in the party platforms
for so many successive years. The
sequel is too well known-too realistic to
the thousands of starving industrious
people throughout the country to need
comment at this late day. The fearful
consequences are depicted in the hungry
visage, in the wasting form and the new
made graves in every state in the Union.
What the country has suffered cannot
be recalled, but surely every day of sus-
pense drives new nail IN the coffin OF
our manufacturing industries and adds
so much to the suffering of the poor. The
situation points with ominous warning
to the dickering majority so deliberately
engaged in not doing what they have
boasted their intentions to DO promptly
on their return to power. Like the
clustering bully, spelling for fight,
their zeal suffers relapse when the
opportunity is offered. We even wit
ness the sickening spectacle of n caucus
agreement to raise the duty on some
lines of staple goods. Could Individual
double dealing or party duplicity go
further?
The fruits Of continuous session of
five months may be summed up in three
notable events-the repeal of the pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law, the
Hawaiian fiasco and the nasty scandal
out of which one of its most honored
members comes self convicted. Ii is
little wonder that the people complain,
and that there was general stampede
from the ranks of the party al the spring
elections. A party so lofty in its pre-
lenses, so loud in its clamor for reform:
a party claiming letters patent to all
political virtues, the paragon of moral
purity, the conservator of all the brains,
courage and political independence, yet
imbecile. helpless and contemplate in
the execution of its boosted intentions,
is entitled to no higher distinction-no
better insignia of rank than the smut of
the Breckenridge scandal.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

b. F. Falls has been appointed post
master at Kingfsher.
The First National bank OF Oklahoma
City has s217 900 in deposits.
Next Monday the government issues
beef to LOCO Indians at Fort Reno
Bill Bolton "the fat man from Kansas"
is going to start paper in Woodward
Next Tuesday in Oklahoma City Dennis
Flynn will be nominated By reclamation.
Andrew jackson Seay is for Dennis
Flynn, all reports to the contrary notwith-
standing.
Byrd and Morley have been nominated
rs the rival candidates for governor in the
Chickasaw nation.
Alva doesn't care what the rest of the
country thinks about it. The town Las
just gone Democratic.
The Chickasaw nation is said to be bank
rupt and the schools will have To suspend
on account OF the lack OF funds.
Mayor Martin of Guthrie will 60 to
London next week in the interest of his
railroad from Coffeyville to Watonga
1t is reported that special party of
Chicago capitalists viii visit Ell Reno next
week with view TO making investments.
Harris. a deputy marshal from Norman,
aud One Head, horse thief, had fight
near Lexington "Wednesday, in which both
men were killed.
Hoke Smith left Washington for Georgia
Thursday, but before leaving lie said the
charges against Governor Renfrow would
be investigated thoroughly and at ones.
1t is said that the president has been in
formed officially that Governor Renfrow
is financially interested in a book bindery
and is using his official position 20 secure
it work
The members of the 6. A. r. and tie
Confederate veterans will join their forces
in Oklahoma City and observe Memorial
Day together. That is only possible Id
Oklahoma.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
LOCCSTS IN SYRIA.

From the I.ohdon Telegraph.
We we're sitting on the hills with our
backs turned to the west wind, which
was softly blowing from the Mediter-
ranean- The horses were picketed
close by, grazing the sweet mountain
grass The Arabs of our caravan were
cooking ''pillaw" little distance OF.
Around US were laid out the where
withals of light lunch. among which
was an open marmalade jar
I was thinking of Ahab, and wonder
ing how he could put up so long with
Elijah, especially when, on this very
spot. the prophet said TO the king.
las the Lord Iiveth in this place where
dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall
dogs lick thy blood-even thine
when suddenly right into the MARINA
lade there dropped what 1 took
for large grasshopper. 1t was yei-
low and green with long jump
ing legs and a bag head, and
while ] was taking it out Of tie
Jar two others fell into a plate Of SOUP.
and a half dozen more of the same Kind
1pon dish Of salad At the same mo
ment nav horse stamped violently, and
| saw more OF these grzsShopPe-s peit-
ing his hooks and hsunches- Turning
round 20 find " hence this insect shower
-aIne. l witnessed what was 20 Eae an
extraordinary spectacle. though eon'-
men enough Of course. in the east 4
large cloud. denser in lis lower than IS
upper part, Shed an eighth part OF the
western hemicyele- The rsmoter Por-
zion OF II was as thick. as o7own sesa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12

forests. Though a native OF America,
duced into Africa over two hundred
years ago, where it has since escaped
from cultivation and may now be
found growing wild. It's somewhat
egg-shaped pods are from FIVE To twelve
inches long, with thick, almost
woody rind. Ten elevated outside
ridges indicate a tive-selled fruit; this
bred seeds, embedded in the swedish
pulp. These are the "cacao beans"
from which are prepared seed. The
tree must have plenty of heat and rain,
a deep, rich soil, and but little wind.
The best cacao is that of Venezuela
Caracas cacoa.
The cacoa pods are gathered twice q
year, in June and December. Roasted
and Invested of husks. the pods become
"cacao nibs;" ground into paste, sweet
ened and favored, they yield "ohoco-
late" in crude, unsweetened paste,
''cacao" enormously called coco; with
the oil extracted, dried and powdered,
"broma; and the oil of the seed yields
q non-rancid fat, ''cacoa butter" much
used IN pharmacy.
The second of our quartet. coca.
oiten incorrectly spelled cuca, is
shrub closely resembling blackthorn
and a native of the Andes, attaining
six or eight feet in height, with
straight branches and brilliant green
leaves. The latter, when chewed, pro-
auce sense of warmth in the mouth,
having a pleasant, pungent taste.
Of coco much less can be said than Of
the others So little il known in
northern countries that the diction-
aries and encyclopedias, with one sx-
ception, ignore it 1t yields q root,
which properly cooked, is not unlike
sweet potato. and which have found
palata bic and very nourishing. 10 is
not of sufficient value, however, to
come into general use where either po-
tatoes, bread fruit or plantains abound.
The last of our quartet. the cocoanut
palm, is the most widely distributed Of
tropical growths, and without excep-
ton the most useful of any angle one
of natures products-save earth, air
and water.
The cocoanut palm, which the En-
cyclopedia Britannica enormously
thinks should be called "cocoanut."
grows from forty to one hundred and
ten feet high, and is sometimes two
feet in diameter. The trunk Is exceed
ingly elastic / have seen trees seven.
ty-fve feet high bend in a hurricane
till their tops touched the ground, and
then right themselves uninjured,
moment after. The leaf, sometimes
over twenty feet long, has a mid-rib
bordered by many long leaflets. the
whole resent bling a mammoth feather.
The nuts grow in bunches Of ten 20
twenty. are twelve to eighteen inches
long and five to nine in diameter
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
ANCIENT BUT TRUE.

1t may be that there is nothing new
under the sun. As long ago az the
fourth century B. c., one Plato, a
Greek philosopher who did more or less
thinking on his own account said, 1.-The
punishment which the wise suffer who
refuse to take part in the government, is
to live under the government of worse
men," This reads like a warning in
prophecy to the class who have neither
time nor inclination to take part in the
primary election of our own country.
There was doubtless class of proud
and learned AthenianS who regarded it
a vulgar business to dabble in the COM
mon pool known in that day as the
political arena. This great philosopher
saw the tendency of their conduct and
thus embalmed the axiom quoted. Be-
ing pertinent then it Is none the less true
and applicable now. 1t is the stay-at-
home, non-participaat in the primary
move which leads to the election of cor
rupt officials, that is largely to blame.
Modernizing and localizing. there should
be no kick coming from those who suffer
the consequences of their own neglect.
The rule which stands the test, aud
shines the brighter by the lapse of CEN
turtles, is worth observing, even in this
age of trusts, electricity and psychology
ical research.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
TEE DEBToa's PRISON.

From the New York Weekly.
When the war was ended the provost
reverted to more legitimate uses again,
but under regulations which sent all
the common criminals 70 the Bridewell,
and made the new Jail merely place
of genteel detention for prisoners for
debt; those thriftless Tor, possibly. over
thrifty persons who were for dancing
through the world at the charges of
nybody whom they could induce to
pay their piper, and whose simple con-
cept of economical finance was never to
pay piper, or anybody else, for them
selves. That this class was represent
ed over-liberally in the New York of
hundred years ago might be inferred
from the fact that between January
and December of the year 17sS no less
than one thousand one hundred and
sixty-two debtors were sent to prison;
in other words-the population then
being about twenty-five thousand-one
citizen in every twenty, or Whereabouts,
went to Jail for debt. Fortunately for
the reputation of the New Workers of
the last century, however, these figures
which / find in a petition adj
dressed by the association for
the relief of distressed debtors to
the general assembly--are mis-
leading when taken without their
qualifying context. The purport of the
petition was to exhibit the injury done
to the community by 1.-The confinement
of debtors for small sums" and its
ma jor premise was the fact that of the
one thousand one hundred and sixty
two commitments specified no less than
seven hundred and sixty-three were
flor sums recovera bic before a justice
of the peace, and many of these under
twenty shillings." Very reasonably,
therefore, the memorialists urge that
the confinement of debtors for such
slight cause inures greatly to the in
jury of the community, Gas thereby the
certain profit which would arise to So
ciety from the labor of the debtor is
sacrificed, for an indefinite time. TO the
precarious prospect of recovering
debt which the creditor. in most in
stances, has improvidently suffered to
be contracted, and which very often
does not amount to one-fourth of the
value the public would derive from the
abor of the debtor during the time of
his conference.-the of which, save
the delightful and also astute saddli1g
of the responsibility for the debt upon
the ''improvident' creditor. is very
much what Scion had to say upon the
same su inject rather more than two
thousand wears earlier in the history ~
the world
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12

The advocates of woman suffrage have
organized for campaign that will surprise
their enemies and further denonstrats
their ability TO assume part in public at
fairs.-Capital-
Woman 70 assume part in public
affairs, ELI: An itching for public life
and its notoriety is the incentive which
causes all these women to desert their
homes in other states that they NAV
come here and attemp. enforcing coz
dition which their own states VIII not
listen to. Kansas is eyerybody's meat,
her people and institutions the privileged
of every class and combination of cranks
who may choose TO try their expert.
mentS. Kansas has one woman IN
public life now aud her performances
are rot particularly assuring, nor her
talks and threats promising for the state
or the home.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
ticks OF GENERAL laqERzsT.

The barber surgeons guild IN En-
gland was formed in 1903 The two
professions were practiced together I'M
til 1888
During the Puritan controversies
In England controversial books often
received absurd titles There were
Matches Lighted at the Divine Fire"
THE Shop OF the Spiritual Apothc-
cary" ''Sixpenny Worth Of Divine Spir-
its" and Some Fine Biscuits Baked in
the Oven OF Charity, Carefully Con-
served for the Chickens OF the Church.
the sparrows Of the Spirit and the
Swec. Swallows Of Salvation"
Stockton. Cal. in order 20 place
itself out Of .he reach Of high water.
proposes 20 build great boulevard 20
extend half way around the city on the
east and north, and to have on the Sids
away from the city czYzcions canal.
which, Il IS thought, viii carry away
all thc surplus water which comes
from The mountains in the food season
The boulevard will answer the double
purpose Of levee and Boulevard
The shac season "A the Delaware
river opened 80 early this year tina: -
found many fishermen unp-epz-e6 with
their nets and tackle Thea Il ~zs
discovered that the nsh were running
the ashernca made al haste 70 gss
their s1-irs n orser. aat the eariies.
catches instead of numbering a. usual
only one o. two Sac. ran up 70 . dozen
Of more The first sh.d csEgh. IA arr
part o. II. river Il always n prizs tha.
ieteass high price assers-
The RoE--nm1nt Of the Eritsss
sust-zIlas colony a victoria has is-
sslgarstso an oss-fsi io,n ossos- Small
.ez1ss, up - = a1&xsEsrn Of one tacn-
ssaa Dounss. are 20 be grated 70 f2rzs-
srs 2n5 others 20 euzsls them 80 In
prove tbes. holdings Ths io@as will
tear ints-es. AZ ssA~neB Azj- Tia
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12

brumous as London fog. The nearer
side opened suddenly up into millions
and billions and trillions and sextil-
lions of the same green and yellow in
sects pelting in a close-winged crowd
quite as thickly as flakes of snow upon
all the hillsides far and near. You
could not stand a moment against the
aggressive and offensive rain of these
buzzing creatures The horses even
swung themselves round and stood
with lowered crests, taking the storm
apon their backs and TANKS.
You had TO sturn up the collar OF
your coat to keep them out of your
neck and button the front not to have
your pockets filed with the repulsive
swarm, which in two minutes had SO
peppered the whole scene round about
that its color and character were en-
tirely altered. Every little creature
of the interminable fight on alighting
veered himself round head to wind on
the earth, just as if he had dropped
anchor and swung to the breeze; and
it was curious to notice that the gem
eral tint of the ground of their count
less bodies was brown If you looked to
windward and green if you gazed to
leeward. But very quickly the only
green to be seen round about was the
hue afforded by this sudden invasion.
Even while we prepared to yield up
the spot to them and pack our lunch
baskets for departure they had cleared
off grass and leaves and every verdant
thing around; and when they arose
clump of trees. in a hungry throng,
the place they quilted had already as
sumed a barren and wintry aspect
The Syrian peasants passing along the
roads were beating their breasts and
cursing the ill-fortune of the plague.
Some of them, none the less, gathered
up cloth full of the noxious things,
for the locust is distinctly edible. Half
in wrath and revenge, and half for
novelty in diet. the Arabs to this day
eat few of them, roasting them in
wire nets or in earthen vessels over a
slow fire till the wings and legs drop
off and the locust becomes crisp, in
which state it tastes, as / am able to
say from personal experience, some
thing like an unsslted prawn. But it
seemed as if, had all Syria and the
globe itself taken to living on locusts,
they would have hardly made sensi-
BILE mark upon the extraordinary num-
Der that drifted that day over our
heads
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
MORAL MOTIVES AND The OTTER
KIND.

The good woman who, having no
home of her own, framed the motto,
God bless our boarding house." and
suspended it TO the wall of her hired
apartments, would score point BIZ
working in some kind of fantastic en-
broiderv, Rants definition of morality
for display in the palatial halls of con-
gress. 1t runs thus: ''Act always so
that the immediate motive of thy will
may become universal rule for all in
telligent beings" Members of the Will
lie Breckenridge class might be grouped
on high seats and in position to secure
the best view of its outlines and to study
its well digested precepts. 1t was these
hidden motives which men and even
statesmen carry beneath the pleasing ex-
terror that the great author had in view
in applying so severe test. There have
been types and prototypes of the moral
leper of all ages and in all places, but
the standard here made is on the exact
parallel of justice. Had our Kentucky
DemoSthenes worn his motives on the
oASSNS VI AAS SSds LIS iiicAuS SAAQ duiliAI-
ers would at least have known of the
mental skeleton he carried within. 1t
would have saved him. too, the final de-
nouncement which, sooner or later, was
sure to come. Nothing like beng
somewhere near the line of consistency
even in doubtful behavior. On the
theory, however, that it is never too
late 10 mend. we suggest the motto and
the high benches.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
For the Eagle.
DEAD LOVE.
IL. z. H.

The lips are unresponsive now,
That once with quick caress met mine;
And whispered, oh so tenCerly-
OF passions that thought Divine!
The eyes once warm with tender fire.
Tonight look on me stern and cold;
One glance within their steely depths,
and the tale to me-was told.
We are alone. but he does not smile,
When l call him the sweet cid name;
And shower my love, kiss on kiss,
And weeping, ask, who is to blame?"
Can il be then. that he has forgot
The love. which he said could not die:
All. who is TO blame for its earthly death.
Was it he who killed it, or was it /?
Cold lips, and heart that does not stir,
AT any one passionate whisper of mine;
Though l kiss his forehead in the same ole
way
And round his neck my fond arms twine
by head ON your bosom can lay,
AID weep out my loss and my pain;
/ cannot recall to that cold heart of thine.
One thrill of lost passion again.
Though cast my woman's pride away,
To wake one spark of living fire;
No arts can ever resurrect
A dead love" from il funeral pyre.
Wichita, Kan.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-12
REPUBLICAN CALL.
Fer the State Convention to be Held at
Topeka June 8.

The formal call for the Republican state
convention has been issued, signed by the Of
ficers of the state central committee. as fol-
lows:
A delegate convention of the Republicans of
Kansas will convene in the city of Topeka.
Wednesday. the 9Th Gay of June, 1894, at IL
o'clock u. for the nomination of candidates
Tor associate justice of the supreme court,
governor, lieutenant governor, secretary OF
state auditor of state. treasurer of state at
Iorney general, superintendent of public in
etrucfion Said convention Will also nomin-
ate q candidate for congressman-at-la large.
Delegates 10 this convention shall be elected
by county conventions duly called by the sew
cral county Republican committees under
such rules and regulations as may BE- by them
prescribed. The basis of appointment OF dele
gates TO said state convention VIII be one
deleeate-af-large for each county of the state
and one delegate for every 200 votes, or frac-
t;on of 100 or more votes, cast for w. &. Ed
wards for secretary of state in the election of
1892. no county 10 have less than two dele
gates: