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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
A COLD DECK.

Henry Watterson, who is something
of tariff reformer himself, being the
originator of the iff-for-revenue-only
phrase and platform of 1876 that first
made that declaration, isn't much stuck
on the Wilson bill; in fact he has very
poor opinion of that measure, and illus
trates it and the way it will work by
an incident in his own personal expert
ence that happened in Louisville not very
long ago, but which he lays to another
through characteristic modesty. The
incident was like this:
A well-known local gam bier thought
he had a good thing in a stranger who
appeared upon the scene loaded with
money. He was induced to play a game
Il think they call it draw poker-and
when the opportune moment arrived,
the Louisville man dealt the ranger
four jacks and bimself four queens
The betting began, aud when all their
money was up and it came to show
down, the stranger displayed four kings.
Take the money, stranger" gasped the
astonished native as he fell in fit.
''Take the money! But that wasn't the
hand dealt you!"
So, Mr.. Watterson says, it is with the
Wilson bill. 1t was not the hand the
Chicago convention dealt the Demo-
cratic party and which the people of the
United States backed with their votes.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

The proposition made in the French
parliament to raise the import duty on
wheat raised storm of opposition at
home and severe comment abroad, the
opposition being natural repugnance
to increasing the tax on bread, which
would be the effect of the increased inn
port. The ruling party in Washington
are impervious to any such considera-
tions, either in the protection of indus
tries or for the welfare of consumers.
There is but little doubt that duty will
be reimposed upon sugar by the present
congress, notwithstanding the universal
protest against it and the fact that it is
an article of necessity second in i'm
portance only to bread. A tax of cent
a pound would take from the people of
this country more than so cents per
capita Of the entire population, but it
would be so little protection to the
sugar industry of the country as to be of
little or no value.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
SIMPLY sHlFTLEss.

The report of Chancellor Snow, Of the
State University, shows that in two
cases out of three his scheme of killing
chinch bugs by letting out among them
bugs inoculated with fatal and contag-
ious disease has succeeded. The results
would be unanimous if the farmers were
to have more faith. Inasmuch as the
farmers are the immediate and greatest
beneficiaries of the discovery it seems
strange that they should manifest such
lack of interest, and more especially SO
since the remedy costs them nothing
outside of the very little trouble OF send
ing for the infected bugs and depositing
them where needed on their farms. Oae
farmer in a neighboring county is men
toned who refused to spend two cents
for postage necessary to send a letter re-
questing some of the infected bugs from
Prof. Snow, though his crops were be-
ing ruined by the pest, but sent So to an
eastern advertiser for a remedy for
weevil in wheat. and received in an
swer the simple direction, seat the
wheat"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES,

Minco has become great lumber point.
1t Is fact that electrocution is legal in
Oklahoma.
Colonel Poxk Toats hourishes in Clevs-
land county.
Owing TO slight change in the ozone
the Oklahoma boy is not flying kites this
week.
What do the Indians do during a cold
snspl They always seem to come through
all right.
Chandler is said to be one of the most
substantial towns in the territory and is
constantly improving.
At Pond Creek every storekeepsr is ex-
pected to have ladder that will reach to
the top of his building. This is for pro
lection against fire.
Il cannot be possible that the blizzard
was caused by the air rushing into the hole
which that man, Malone. left when he de-
parted from the territory.
johnson grass has been found growing
at large In Oklahom. Is is terrible weed
and IL it once gets started 1t is next 10 i'm
possible to get rid OF il.
Dennis Flynn was engaged ia skinning
Hoke Smith Ia the house Monday when
the Democrats got So hot that kiisors got
up and had the house adjourn.
As much as the strip people may suffer
from the cold weather it /, sure thins
that you will not see some fellow bo6bing
MP in New YORK or Pennsylvania ashin :
for aid.
After the experience OF Sunday on the
strip the deputy marshal who arrests q
poor settler for picking ua a few faggo.s
on government land ought 10 De attended
TO. and attended - quickly.
Il will be several days before aay blizzard
news can be secured from Beaver - aniy.
u tae chances are inA. the people cls
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
GIVE THE REFoRMERs A CHANCE.

There is a class of writers who feel
called upon to denounce everything new
for no better reason than the fact that it
is new. If the student of men and
events, by dint of hard study. develops
a theory somewhat at variance with ac-
cepted forms, they set up the cry of
"crank," "adventurer," and other like
terms. Luckily even these odious epi-
thets are relative terms, which may
mean something or nothing, as our
views may happen to determine. A
crank has been not inaptly defined as
zone who does his own thinking"
Another celebrated author has charac-
terized him as ''a man with at least one
idea and the courage to stick to it..
The inherent tendency to fall into rut
and do our thinking on the lines laid
down by our fathers is quite as produc-
tive of error as the other extreme.
There is this to be said in favor of the
theorist, he thinks. This is more than
can be said of those who simply turn
the crank to evolve threadbare logic. In
this age of progress it is hardly safe to
deny any tangible or thinkable PROPOSE
tion. The inventive genius which sends
message over land and under the sea
to our antipode in less time than it takes
to write it, Is capable of working other
changes in material things. The ex-
periments in government within the
century have so changed the course and
trend of history, that we may, at least,
give respectful hearing to the thoughts
and suggestions of conscientious, pains
taking writers whose only offense is in
teaching something not acceptab!y an
cient.
On social and political topics we have
all grades of contributors; some prac
tical. some visionary and some socialistic
and vicious in thought and purpose. 1t
is easy to detect the underlying motive
which, if bad, soon brings the whole
fabric down to be heard of no more. If
the motive is good, and the effort we'll
conceived, it is far safer to leave to the
author the glory of practical expert
ment than to take responsibility of flat
denial without SO much as an honest in
quiry into the facts. Uncle Remus has
his prototype in our literature, our sys-
tenn of finance and science of govern
ment. 1.-The sun do move." is their re-
frain when anything outside of the text
books and party platforms finds
its way in pint. In religion this
is pure dogmatism, in social life
it is, or would be, ostracism, in
literature kind of pedantry which is
Synonymous only with bigotry.
Ii there are to be amendments to our
theory or practice of government, by all
means let us have them, provided al
ways, they are born of necessity and
inspired by patriotic motives. In finance
let us not shut the door to inquiry, lest,
if we rely upon precedents only. we date
back to continental money or state bank
issues or anything prior to our present
national system which makes every dol
lar in existence as good as any other
dollar.
1t is the living present, the portentious
future which inspire men to search for
the hidden truths which are to make us
wiser and better. 1t begs the question
too cheaply TO condemn a reasonable
proposition on the ground that it is new.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

The storm of last Sunday appears to
have been the most widespread of any
that has occurred for years. 1t extended
all over this country, from ocean to
ocean and from the northern to the
southern extremities, and on the other
side as far as heard from. One FORUM
ate circumstance attended the storm in
most quarters and that was the fall Of
snow, that preceded the severe cold,
blanketing the surface of the ground
and protecting it from the freeze. 1t is
doubtful that there has ever been a more
general snowfall or a heavier one at
this season of the year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
The medical fraternity held baneu,

The medical fraternity held a banquet
in Kansas City, Kan, one night last
week, at which DIR. Willis P. King re-
sponded to the toast, ''The Ladies, from
which this paragraph, with its unique
and original simile, is excepted:
1--WE hear talk about women purifying
politics. but don't believe il. When you
mix mud aud honey the honey gets the
worst of it. The mud is still mud and the
honey is ruined forever. Who wants TO
see the woman he loves wading around
through the mud and wet at ward prima-
ries and town elections-mixing with
hoodlums and toughs. and the subject OF
the risald jests of blackguards ana ignc-
rant bulliess l dom. and yon don't. No.'
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
The salary of the manager of the

The salary of the manager of the
Union Pacific is $50, 000-that of brake
man on that road has been reduced to
S420-which proves the Irishman's the
ory that lone man is as good as another,
and sometimes great deal better" to
be correct, as the manager is rated in
ability as equal to about 120 hrakemen.
If it is physical superiority, however, the
manager is about $50 feet high, and in
strength would represent about twenty
horse power. Query: Don't the direc-
tors need mathematician TO help fix
salaries,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

The Pop papers made great ado over
the report of Warden Chase of the opera
tions of the state penitentiary for De-
cember, which showed receipts of about
$1,000 above expenses, the first time,
they aver, such a thing has occurred for
years. The January report also makes
an unprecedented showing-receipts
A.3Sl, and expenditures Si0,23i. But
the Pops aren't Growing over this: not
even cackli9g to call attention to it,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
with the Dear CiFls.

Maude-We must confess that Mabel
is very pretty girl
Gladys-Yes, very. But her com
plexion might be better.
Maude-And her nose is just a little
TOO retrousse.
Gladys-Of course it is. Don't you
think her hairs kind of streAky?
Maude-A little. But object more
70 her mouth It's a bit too wide
Gladys-Like her ears.
Mzude-And her eyes are such .
funny color.
Gladys-Green mixed with amber--I
know
Maude-I.'s pity she dresses ike .
fright
Gladys-Yes, it makes her LOOK 80
dowdy.
Msude with q sigh)-Butshe's very
pretty girl
Gsadys-Yes. very pretty girl
Chicago Record
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
HEROES OF THE STRIP.

For once it is to be hoped that the
tendency to exaggerate by news gath
erers has been followed. The sympathy
Of the whole country is with the people
on the Cherokee strip and the hope is
general that the suffering is not as great
or as cruel as the dispatches advise.
There is no doubt that some of the
settlers have been frozen to death and
others have been crippled for life by the
cold.
The experience of the settlers, Sunday
and Monday, brings this fact out strong
ly. The days of pioneers are not gone.
Although the railroads gridiron the
great plains, the hardship today In
sparsely settled countries are no less than
they were in Kansas forty years ago.
A man can freeze to death with rail-
road track within twenty feet of him.
The pioneer of the Cherokee strip is
as much hero (and all pioneers are
heroes) as the inhabitants of Jamestown
were.
While hardships would be avoided, If
they could be, and all else would De
sacrificed to alleviate suffering, still
there is some slight compensation in the
thought that these hardships make
race of men, strong, sturdy, honest and
fearless, bodily and mentally, that chal-
lenge the admiration of the world and
surprises it with its accomplishments.
AS the fearless Swiss take their courage
from the surrounding Alps or the Scots
their rugged character from their high
lands, so the strip settler in his thin
tent or cold shack will hive from adver-
sity the Drawn of body and the strength
of mind that will at last accrue to himself
and his country, splendid bounty.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Secretary Carlisle's views on the
silver, as brought out in the secret hear
ing given him before the house judiciary
committee recently and made public
through the dispatches last Sunday, as
read between the. lines show clearly
enough that he is not in favor of the
white metal either as a circulating
medium or as basis for paper issues of
promises to pay. The secre,ary's eyes
have become jaundiced by his associa-
tions and surroundings.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

After failing to knock down an official
persimmon with his Democratic pole
spliced out with Populist stick, Chair
man Jones Of the state Democratic COM
mittee concludes that the fruit is too
green to be either palatable Or whole
some, AID declares empha:ically agin'
any more such experiments; in word,
that fusion don't go this year. But
William, he's a gay deceiver, and when
Johnny comes marching home from
Washington is liable to 60 hunting for
the same old splice.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

If it will require two years to coin the
silver seigniorage held by the treasury,
which amounts to less than sixty mil
lions dollars, the free coinage of silver,
which would amount to ten times as
much in the same time, appears to be a
useless undertaking, for practical results.
The situation presents splendid opror-
tunity for the vigorous revival of green
backism, and it is noticed that Chairman
Bland shows signs of weaking in that
direction.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Jim Legate verifies afresh the old
saying that when lawyer or politician
fails in his profession he goes into the
newspaper business-where he usually
fails, also. The first issue of Lsgates
paper, the Leavenworth Independent,
has made its appearance. Some people
may laugh when they hear that it is ex-
posing alleged rottenness on the police
board. will give ''inside facts" about
Kansas City, Kan, and, although popu
listic, is opposed to Governor Lewelling.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

1t is altogether probable that the lower
Mississippi river country-south of
Cara at least, will be visited with an
other disastrous overflow shortly. AL
ready the BIZ, river and most of it's tribu-
taries are out of their banks at low
places, and all reported rising. If the
present snowfall should be followed by
rain or rapid thawing, there Is no es-
timating the extent of the floods that
would invertably ensue in the lower
country,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

There are times when people living
outside the state have good word to
say for Kansas. The bears on the wheat
markets were unanimously of the
opinion that the snow storm meant 100,-
600, 900 bushels of wheat for Kansas
this wear.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Cleveland will not secure many comic
valentines today-not that he doesn't de-
serve them, but from the fact that he
has so impoverished the country that
there is no money to spend on such fool
ishness.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Those cranks who never tire of talk
ing of the good old times of the past,
and the glorious fun of walking in snow
drifts are now convinced that time has
dulled their appetite for such things and
that the usual balmy winter weather of
southern Kansas is more to their tassa |
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Ii is quite safe to predict that Hon E.
W. doch will be candidate for state
printer. His Topeka friends regret this;
for any other position he would have a
cordial support, but the winner OF the
state printer race will come from Topeka.
Topeka Mail.
Not to champion air. Hoch's cause,
but the foregoing is the most open ad-
mission we have seen iha. 1.-The slate is
already made up" Paraphrasing q
familiar axiom, would remark that
rings propose, but the people dispose.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

At last the government seems to be
winning in Brazil. Mello and Da Cana
have failed to make their rebellion a
revolution, and speedy ending of the
uninteresting war is expected.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Princess Coionna has fled back to this
country from her dissolute husband,
mortified and cringing in disgrace. This
incident will keep our American girls
from marrying drunken nobleinen, if
they do not have a chance.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Peckham's name is to be reported to
the senate without recommendation.
This is supposed to be defeat for Hill,
who was working for an adverse report.
But Hill does not play all his cards at
once and Peckham's chances are as
small as flea through the big end of
teieScODe
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
a DEATH-DEAlIN0 CRAWL yR.


Us Could Initats the Wsih Of G ra Wish
rs Well ~ That Of . TssantaIs-
Put your eye on me, young feller,
and don't monkey with fatei' said q
big man with a face full Of blaol
whislers and his trousers in his bos..
as he came into the Red Ghost Rulch
cafe, where the dapper little bartender
happened to be alone. I'm Death
dealing orawler, am, Fm . crAwlin'
t'rsntuly from the Syeery foothills ar
thar's hair on my ciawss n foot iongi
I've got two rows . fzngs, nineteen
fangs 70 the row, an every fang loaded
with a pint O p'ison, jisi a-wsitin' "a
be socked into the FIRST feller- bcin', hu,
aginstl I'm n crawler from the foot.
hills an I'm a-crswlin' right FER you.
and thar amt nothin' that can stop
me but rum Set IL out. quiekeT'n
jack rabbit kin 20 two foot. young
feller, or III spill enough p'isen in you
TO lay out hull tribe o Digger Injins,
from the head buck down TO the
papoosel Put your eve on me, and
don't monkey with fate. for I'm n
death -dealiD' crswler. ! am. an I'm
rrawlin' Yht for you. an thar ain't
no.hin' kin stop ne but ruml You hear
me-"
Bet your life hear youi" said the
bartender, coming from behind ths
bar. You're a blessin In disguis<,
you are. I've been pinin' away for
want o t'rsntniy Juice. and Ill inst
tap pint or two o. yours FOR luck.
You're q dsath-deslin' cYawler. are
you? Well. now. crawl right on and
shoot your pisos'''
You bet I'm q dest1-deaiin' crawl.
eri"s said the ieDg-kzifed tsran.uls
from the foothills. backing toward the
door. 'Bs. I amt no hea. I'm .
crswlin' crsw6sh as well as a <rawlia,
t'rantuly, an reckon I've 70. time b.
give the cra-ssh act chance,
And the venonous terror backed sus
of sthe door 40 quick that n. sasg.
starter missed him By fost.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Da CANA is carrying a lot of lead
around in his system, but he will not
fail tc make useless excursions daily and
pile up lot of stuff taat will make the
small Brazilian, fifty years hence. weep
scaldipg tears over his history lesson,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
Omcial Prevarication.

From the Kansas City Gazette
The National Farmers Alliance met in
Topeka on Tuesday and resolved itself
into Populist meeting. Governor Lew
eiling read his address. 'sOut of very
shame" he said, 81 will not speak Of the
10000 people annually made homeless in
Kansas by the foreclosure Of mortgages. y
Well, what if they are? They borrowed
the money. But the governor lies.
Ninety per cent of the foreclosures In
Kansas are for property on which the
loan was swindle. No farmer ut work, !,
and with an honest intention of paving
out. is pushed or crowded in Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

One of the most encouraging indices
for sure Republican success in Kansas
next fall is the religious awakening that
has taken place in the state the past few
weeks and still prevails. 1t is announced
that in thirty.two counties S,574 CONVEX
sions are reported and S,227 additions to
church MEMBERSHIP
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Monday in the house of representatives
Dennis Flynn of Oklahoma skinned
Hoke Smith with delicacy and preci-
sion that will at once raise him to the
highest esteem of the settlers and taxi
dermis.S all over the world.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

A free trade exchange felicitates its
kind upon The passage of the Wilson
bin at a time when all farm products
are so low. With hides, for instance, so
low that 1t doesn't pay to skin the ami
NAL and the importation last year of
S1.6, 900, 900 worth-hides have been on
the free list since lSS3-we fail to catch
tho roint
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
A Novel Use for Crnnks.

THE only way TO dispose of the
crank question" said the man with
the long hair and soiled shirt front,
sis to arrest all suspicious characters
examine them. and every enc who
don't know the difference between
right and wrong confne him perpetu-
sIly in the courthouses-'
What for?" asked the prosecuting
attorney.
What for? Under modern legal re-
quirements where-I repeat-whers
would you find such a petit juryY'-
Cleveland Plaindealer.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Alabama probably got the worst of
the storm. 1t had a cyclone. Billiards
are bad. but when it comes to crowding
twenty cubic feet of gnarled atmosphere
into one cubic inch of space, the cyclone
is without a rival.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

meter are worth preserving in print
for posterity. In this class is found the
very poorest example of literary effort.
The number of productions of truly
good poetry in this country is. how
ever, increasing with considerable ra-
pidity. Inter Ocean.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

1t has been proved this week that a
great improvement can be made in the
construction of stoves. With little
effort the inventors might manage to
hide the hampers still more securely.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

A blazing sun or pouring shower in
Kansas have been known to send the
wheat market up or down, and eight
inches of snow on the level took 2 cents
bushel off that commodity.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Mrs. Lease will appear before the
court in the A. j. Smith libel case in the
dual character of defendants attorney
and principal witness. And she will
make the case mighty interesting to
somebody before it is done with,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Mrs. Leases photographs are now on
sale in Chicago at ten cents per photo.
This high price will save them, today,
from getting on the cheap comic valen-
tine counter
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

All of us will learn with interest that
later advices from Paris say that row
of ham sandwiches in the restaurant
where Breton threw his bomb passed
through the awful explosion un-
porofcbaH
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Arroyo is Spanish-American word
meaning dry river bed, which, never
theless, often in the rainy season be-
comes raging torrent. The Missouri
river is an arroyo, a semi-arid, demi-
navigable, hemi- fraudulent ditch.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14
Now another naked young man by S

Now another naked young man by ST.
Gaudeus has been found on a Boston
building ard must come down. 1t still
remains true of everybody but the
American Indian that the apparel pro-
claims the man. In the case of the In
dian the apparel oft proclaims the man
when it is sQuaw.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Somebody ought to tell phonograph
al about this storm ard have it turned
on hundred years hence as the ex-
perience of an old settler.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Senator Martin is in doubt as to
whether he will support the Peckham
nomination. The culls left on the
bargain counter are not very attractive
to him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Rev. Dixon of New York preached
sermon on prize fighting last Sunday.
He had considerable trouble IN putting
his congre cation to sleep.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

Governor LewelIiug declares that Mrs.
Lease is dead, but all the same she will
continue to be terribly lively skeleton
in his political family closet.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-14

During the last two days ponderous,
crushing transformation has come to
those people who have had desires to
search for the North Pole.