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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

There are 150.O00 peach trees in Oklaho-
ma county.
"Wild Jack" makes life bowling waste
at Perkins.
S. Fl. Foss had his life insured for s4, ,OCO
and not $50, coo.
There is suspicion that spring has
opened up in Oklahoma.
Governor Renfrow says that double
statehood will not do at all.
An Enid man recently appeared at a
masquerade representing a Kansas cy-
clone.
making fight on the fee-grabbing deputy
marshals.
A covey of hunted quails came into the
main street of Chickasha for protection
the other day.
An Oklahoma man who would talk
about nothing but Glove and hate" has
been sent to the insane asylum in Illinois.
Editor Asher of the Republican is of
the opinion that the postoffice fight in
Tecumseh will leave some of the aspirants
crippled for life.
AT Pawnee recently lot of Indians saw
some Dsgoes give bear dance and take
up collection. Next day those Indians
appeared and gave war dance. They
then took up IA collection. The Indian is
at last catching on.
The Cheyenne Indians living in the ex-
treme western part OF the territory are
dying off in startling manner, sometimes
as many as half dozen funerals having
occurred in the tribe i'll a single dag. For
a long time the measles ragged among them
with singular fatality, and now the grip
has started among them and is causing
death in great majority of cases. Unless
some means is devised for checking the
thought, become extinct in the near
future.
Ell Reno Herald: A government en-
ployee at the agency, who. for obvious
reasons. does not want his name men,
toned, related to Herald reporter that
Wednesday night he had occasion to build
a bonfire on the ice in the Canadian river
just above the agency. He left it burning
and went home yesterday morning and
when he returned be was surprised to see
four coyotes sitting on the ice on their
launches in q circle about the black en-
bers. He approached them, and while
they made frantic efforts to get away,
they seemed fastened to the ice. He pro-
cured club and dispatched all four. His
theory is that they sat down on the melt
ing ice, attracted by the fire, and froze
fast.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
LEGENDS OF MONSTERS.
"A Possible Cause Of the Tales That Sur
v1ve in English Folk Lore.

a TossADie cause or the Tales Thae sur
vive in English Folk Lore.
Every reader of north-country lore
and legend. says an English paper, is
familiar with the stories of monstrous
worms" dragons" fiery flying SER
pents" and the like, which are said to
have located themselves in various dis
tricts. Sexhow, under the shadow Of
the Cleveland Hills. Teesgirt, Stock
burn and Lambton upon the Wear are
instances. Men have laughed at the
stories, calling them "old wives tales -
but forgetting that even these may
nay, must-have had, somewhere and
sometime, some foundation in fact
The old stories of elves and fairies,
which amused and frightened children
in bygone days, may well, as Kingsley
points out, have had their origin in
memories of the feeble folk of the
stone age who Clipped fiints into rude
knives and arrowheads, and who lin
gered in out-of-the-way caves, it may
be, long after the bulk of them had
been slain or driven away into the far
north by stronger and better armed
tribes. So the stories of these terrible
monsters may not be SO foolish as they
appear. Take, for instance, the legend
of the Stockburn worm. The name of
the man who slew it is preserved, and
is that of a well-known north-country
family. His tomb is pointed out in the
ruined church of Stockburn, where
also he lay in efigy with the worm"
at his feet until, the sacred edifice fall
ing into decay, the monument was re-
moved to Stockburn hall adjacent.
There, too. is preserved the falchion or
sword with which the monster was
slain, and which was shown to every
fresh bishop of Durham as he entered
his diocese custom which only
ceased in the days of Van Mildret, the
last of the prince bishops. In field
close by the stone round which the
worm" coiled itself is still to be seen.
This story, so circumstantial in its de-
tails, can hardly be entirely fabulous.
How then did it rise? "The ichthyo-
saurus and plesiosaurus." says S.
Lang, gave Tennyson the dragons of
the prime" May not some descendant
of these creatures have fingered in re-
mote places, one here and another
there, even in historic times?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
ONLY A TRUMPET FLARE.

Mrs. Lease opened her campaign
against the state administration Monday
night, making her first speech in the
First district At Leavenwortb, before an
audience of about 900, the report of the
affair states. Mrs. Leases opening re-
marks were in her usual vein, and then
came what she has promised, her exposi-
ton of the present state house gang"
as she tersely put it. and it was this,
solely and unqualifiedly and simply:
"a gang of boodIerS are occupying the
state house, just as bad as any Republi-
can gang that had ever occupied it. }"
Everyone waited for more; Republicans
felt triumphant; Populists fearful; Dem
ocrats looked wonderingly, for more,
but it came not, and vague, irrides-
cent idea took possession of the house
that they were sold by "that woman"
The published account of the affair
concludes with the simple statement
that Mrs. Lease said nothing and
proved it, and did nothing but disap-
point all who we've attracted to the
meeting expecting to hear full revela-
ton of her long threatened and promised
expose.
The faux pas is a forceful reminder of
the mountain-molehill incident.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
WALL STREET MIASM.

"Nearly three months ago the silver
bill was repealed, and the men who pre-
dicted instant revival Of business as a
result are hanging their heads in shame ;"
The above is from an editorsal COM
ment upon the business situation by the
New York Tribune. Tie fact stated is
quite apparent, but it would come with
| During the discussion of the repeal bill
in congress the Tribune not only favored
its passage. but was unsparing in its
praise of Cleveland for bis unfiinching
purpose to stop the coinage of silver.
| Readers with incon yenient memories will
recall how its editor labored through
column after column to show that the
business interests of the country were so
seriously menaced by the continuous
| operation of the Sherman law that not
only immediate relief, but our continued
prosperity depended upon its repeal,
and when the thing was done
he gave the president generous parting
! hug, with no stint of iulsome praise for
his zeal in pushing this bill to its passage.
The Tribune would hardly admit being a
party to the compact between Cleveland
and his plutocratic friends in Wall
street. yet it requires five distinctions to
separate its advocacy Of measure so
unpopular with the people from actual
participation with It's immediate neigh
bors who are known to have railroaded
this bill through congress. Neither
sophistry, special pleading nor partisan
rancor, like the above, will divert the
minds of the Tribune's host of readers
from its record. 1t is of too recent date
and too outspoken TO admit of doubt,
and it only shows that all
issues, political or social, are
su5servient to the insatiate greed
of the few men who now dictate the
policy of this government. Republican
papers should, at least, be sparing in
criticism of the consequences following
measure SO strenuously advocated by
them, when about to become law
through the corrupt methods of a Demo-
cratic congress.
AS a jewel of Inconsistency this is
bright example. At this distance it
looks as if the Tribune might stand up
and be counted with those who are
meekly changing their heads i'll shame.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Pictured In W ords.

The Bronx Valley. for many miles Of
its course, IS q marvel Of fog and cloud
effects these winter mornings When
neighboring hills have long emerged
into the clear sunlight the depths Of
the valley just along the stream
are still clad in thick clouds, mixed
with fog, and with smoke and steam
from the hundreds Of railway trains
that ceaselessly speed up and down the
valley The deepest parts OF the val
ley. as seen from near hillsides, seem
level full with an almost suow-wAite
fluid mist, and this trails IN long strata
across the face OF wooded hilisices,
with riffs here and there that give
< limpses Of barcheaded tree trunks. 4
few miles southwark, where the valley
broods n the east, Bronx FarE looms
:airy-like. through thinning mist. and
the ss;n aozts. round and pzls, shOrn %
its keener rays while- jast beio~r, the
picturesque grounds and buildings os
- Johns college az Fordh&m take OK
g quain. Asi.SSe az Ia; doE1.es
isg.E ch1r4
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
A Bat That Hibernated SIX Years.

A queer story comes with frst-class
recommendation all the way from
England. Thirty-three years ago, in
1850, member of the Chaplin family
died at Blankney, Lincolnshire. and
was laid in the family tomb. This par
ticular Chaplin was naturalist, and.
among his other pets, had lasge gray
bat. That bat was permitted to enter
the tomb and was sealed up alive along
with the corpse Of his dead master. In
1866 The vaul. was opened and 70 the
surprise of all the bat was aliTe and
fat. On four different occasions since
the Chapiins have looked after the
welfare of their dead relatives pet, and
each time it has been reported that
the batwas still in the land OF the liv-
ing, although occupying quarters with
the dead. lie was last seen IN 1922
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
OUR DEBT TO THE DUTCH.
America Owes More to Nick Van Stan
Than 1t Can Pay.

Than 1t Can Pay.
One never reads in American colo
NAL history of the Dutchman seeking
gold like the Spaniards or English
men, remarks Harper's Magazine. His
head was too level and his eye too
clear. Excelling as farmers, yet even
more as traders, the Dutch laid the
foundations of the commercial su-
premacy of New York by inherited in
stincts reinforced by wise policy and
large ideas. They gave points not
only as to fish, fur and wampum to
their neighbors down east.
Quickest to catch customers, they
sent out their agents among the In
dians, forestalling the fur and other
crops. Incompatible as is the modern
Boston drummer" he is but the
evolution of the Dutch bos-loper, or
wood-ranger, who secured the forests
for trade.
With perfection of dress and man.
ners. irresistible in tongue, brainy and
resourceful always, as is our CONNER
cial tourist in this Colum bian year, he
probably does not proportiOnately ex-
eel the skillful bos-loper, who in the
seven teenth century secured the In
dian villages along the Mohawk and
even to Duluth.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
NOW Is THE i'm h,

The greatest opportunities for profit
able investment are in times of de-
preston. The time to sell is when every
body wants to buy, and the time to buy
is when every body wants to sell. And
the shrewd invester understands this. 1t
is the rabble who without judgment
plunge into any speculation in times of
excitement and trust to luck to come
out ahead The history of this city, and
the history of all cities, teach us that the
greatest chance to make money comes
during a depression when the holders of
property get ratified and are influenced
by their surroundings and believe that
values will never recover. In fact the
surroundings prejudice the judgment
until the majority of the people cease to
reason or be governed by history or ex
perience. The productive lands of Kan
sas are today intrinsically worth more
than ever before and yet they are selling
for one-half the price they once COM
manded. This is undei stood by those who
use reason and make companions be-
tween the lands of Kansas and those
east Of the Mississippi river. and they
are beginning to take advantage of it.
Unimproyed property is selling for less
in Wichita today than when we had
one-third of our present population, and
the southwest was practically undevel
oped. These facts are becoming known
and are attracting the attention of level
headed investors. The successful men
IN this country are those who see a
profitable investment where the masses
are blind to values. Two shrewd Yam
kees came TO Wichita ten years ago, and
by purchasing a few pieces of property,
gave our people an oAject-lesson that
was worth millions to them, and that in
cidsnt in the history of Wichita is liable
to be repeated any day, as the oppor-
tunities are much greater, and the result
will be manv fold larger.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
whv Rats Gnaw Continually

Have you any idea why it is that
rats, mice and squirrels are continually
gnawing at something? They do not
do this for pure devilment," as peo-
pie generally imagine, but because
they are forced to. Animals of that
class, especially the rats, have teeth
which continue to grow as long as
their owner lives. In the human spe-
cies the teeth are developed from pulps
which are absorbed and disappear as
soon as the second set are full grown,
but in the case of the much maligned
rat the pulp supply is perpetual, and
is continually secreting materials by
which the incisors gain in length
This being the case, the poor creature
is obliged to keep up his regular gnaw-
ing operations in order 10 keep his
teeth ground off TO proper length
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
A NOVEL OCEAN RACE.
The Steamers Fire Up Till the Draft Alor
Licks in Tons OF Coal.

The Steamers Fire Up Till the Draft Alone
Licks in Tons of Coal.
In these days of ocean racing the
speeding is nearly always done against
time, but there was a battle royal
ended few weeks ago between the
American steamships Carib Prince and
Muriel, says the Cardiff Mail, that
would have started the goosefesh of
excitement on the most collected of
seamen. The Carib Prince left DEM
erara on November II and logged
leisurely away on her journey north
ward. Three days later the Muriel set
sail for Barbados and journeyed in
the same direction. Both vessels were
about abreast at this time but sepa-
rated by wide patch of ocean. Three
days later, however, they narrowed
the angles of their courses down to
the apex, and when they were in sight
of each other it was pull devil pull
baker for the lead.
Down in their vessels holds their en-
gines banged and ratified in countless
revolutions, twisting their screws as
they were never twisted before, and
out of the mouths of their smokestacks
came inky clouds. Neck and neck they
came up the coast, and every man
jack aboard, in the parlance of the
sea, rooted hard for victory. In the
stol<ehold, according to one of the
firemen, they didn't have to shovel in
coal-they just opened the furnace
doors and the draft licked in tons at
time. For seven days they were in
sight of each other, and the Muriel,
with a magnificent burst of speed.
crawled up on her rival and then quick
" ran out of sight.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

The enactment INTO law of the Demo
cratic dogma of free trade and direct
taxation has long been the dream of
that school of political economists, and
it begins to look as if they may realize.
in considerable part, their ambition.
The income tax scheme is in line with
that policy. and it is altogether probab
that it will become part of the tariff
reform @ measure now pending in con-
Sress. And then there are other amend
ments suggested providing for a straight.
direct tax on land This IS Henry
Geol Geism, but 1t Is none the less Demo-
cratic for that, and stranger things have
happened than that the party which
now dominates and legisla,eS will enact
this theory into law, and so completely
revolu;ionize the revenue system of the
government.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

prominent, beak-like noses. and, al
though nature had been extremely
lavish in her gifts when she conferred
nasal appendages upon these queer
aborigines, they sought to enlarge
those organs by piercing the vertical
septum or gristle between the nostrils
and wearing enormous ornaments
therein. One division of this big-nosed
tribe would wear a ring hammered
from native gold or silver; another an
ornamented shell, while third were
content with sharp stick driven
through the cartilage in such a man
ner as to permit of the ends projecting
several inches to the side of each nos
tril. To the early Spanish invaders
these queer but harmless creatures
were known as ''the Big Noses" In
the Spanish language nose" is nariZ.
My authority says in that language
you can also express diminutive or an
augumentative by termination to the
name word. Thus, narizito would
mean "a little nose" and narizon "a
great big nose The feminine of
narizon would be narizoua. The IN"
having been eliminated by usage and
time. we have the name as it stands
to-day-ArizOna. In much the same
manner the state of Oregon receives
its name from a tribe of Indians
noted for their enormous ears. They
pierced the auricle and enlarged the
lobe much in the same manner that
the Narizons enlarged their noses. In
the Spanish, ''ear" is oreja. Now at
tach On, the augmentative to the word
oreja, leaving off the final from the
word meaning ear, and we have
Orejon. Time, which. like care. will
kill cat, has changed the i" to ''g"
and given US the word Oregon"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
SUICIDE PARTIES.
Entertainments That Would Not Find
Favor with American Girls.

Entertainments That Would Not Find
Favor with American Girls.
Mr. Medhurst, for many years British
consul at Shanghai, tells, in the Lon
don Million, of singular card of in
vitation" which he once received in
China. 1t was from lady, intimating
her intention to commit suicide on a
specified date. She was very young
and attractive, and belonged to a
wealthy family, but the Chinese gen.
tleman to whom she had been affianced
from childhood having died just before
the date fixed for their nuptials, she
gave out that she deemed it her duty
to render her widowhood irrevocable
by dying with her betrothed. So she
sent cards around to the local gentry
giving notice of her purpose. No at
tempt was made by her relatives or
the local authorities to Illustrate her
design, though Mr.. Medhurst appealed
to the mandarins, the general opinion
being that she was about to perform a
meritorious act. Eventually, on the
day named, the woman did deliberate
ly sacrifice her life in the presence of
thousands of spectators. A stage was
erected in the open fields, with tent
ed frame over it, from which was sus-
pended slip of scarlet crepe. One
end of this slip she fastened round her
neck, and then, embracing little boy
presented by one of the bystanders,
she mounted chair and resolutely
jumped off, ''her little clasped hands
saluting the assemblage as her body
twirled round with the tightening
cord" The woman was not bounded
on by fanatic mob, as was the prac-
tice at suttees in Indio. but immolation
appeared to be an entirely voluntary
act Sacrifices of this kind according
to Mr.. Medhurst, are not uncommon in
certain parts of China, and, strange to
say, they are rewarded with monu-
ments, sometimes erected by order of
the emperor.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Not So Stupid as he Looks

Jane-You seem to be unhappy,
Emma.
Emma-Yes, have been deceived in
my husband. When | married him
supposed that it was not my money
but myself that he loved.
"And now you have found out that
it was not you at all, but only your
money he was after"
Alas, That is what know now for
certainty"
Well, there is one consolation for
you, and that is that your husband is
not as stupid as he looks."-Alex +.
Sweet
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Discretion the Better Part.

From the Topeka Democrat
1t may be cowardly to lie in bed and
let burglars ransack the house. but a
live coward can have heap more fun
than dead hero. The householder may
protect his mansion with electric bells
and burglar alarms if lie likes, but hav-
ing done that he should trust to provi-
dence and the police. Let the burglars
burgle. Better lose a last years over
coat and a filed case watch or so than
furnish the central attraction for fash
ionable funeral
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Il was announced in Yesterdays dis

1t was announced in yesterdays dis
patches that Judge Dundy of the
United States court has ordered re-
duction of 10 per cent in the wages of
the Union Pacific railway employees, and
las enjoIned them from striking. The
interests of the government in the road
may demand and justify the order of
the court redcing the pay of the em-
ployes. but it strikes us as most re-
markable stretch, not to say assumption,
of authority for the court to order the
enslavement of American citizens,
which Judge Dundy's injunction
amounts to.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

lmpracticable as it may be at the
present time to remove the national
capital from Washington City, for
financial reasons, it is vet not surprising
that the question should be revived and
seriously discussed just now, in view of
the general condition of governmental
affairs. The seat of government should
be nearer the center of population and
farther from capitalistic influences As
far as the interests of the interior and
western portions of the country are con.
cerned the capital might as well be Lon
don or Liverpool.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Point of Wow.

~ have no use for that neighbor Of
yours" said the traveller who was put
ting up for two weeks in a country
town and making himself popular by
running down some of the neighbors.
Il have no use for him. What do you
think Of a man that eats pie for break
fast, anyway"
Its sinful worldliness" chorused
the people around the hotel-room fire.
Its indulgin' the weaknesses Of tn.
eesh.i-Chicapo Record
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

Speaking of object lessons, how will
the scenes and incidents of the Mans
field, Pa, coal regions last Saturday do
for one? How long will this country
continue to be an asylum for the DIS
contented element of Europe, whose
coming produces discomfort, not only,
among the laboring classes but is the
direct cause of most of the labor troubles
that harrass the country with increas-
ing frequency and virulence? The les
son is getting to be awfully serious
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Travellers along the public highway

Travellers along the public highways
leading into the city of Tacoma, out in
Washington, have observed recently
notices posted at intervals which read.
Keep Away" and were at a loss to un-
1erstand what it meant until it was
learned that the council of that city had
caused bathroom to be erected in
connection with the city prison, and
ordered that all tramps sent there shall
be thoroughly cleansed before entering.
The Lewelling idea, it seems hasn't
reached the coast, vet.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31
Essentially True

From the Fort Scott Monitor.
The hunt for places on the Republican
state ticket viii be great scramble: the
fact is that many place hunters have
concluded that this is year that a
nomination on that ticket is as good as
an election. But the members of the
party who are not IN this scramble fer
places are not blind to the stubborn fact
that many of these patriots would be in
better business ye! awhile if they We're
hunting more voters for their party in
stead OF soft place for themselves.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

Some people have an idea that Mexico
is but little better than a semi-civilized
country. and its government little better
than seif-liceIsed autocracy. But. Just
the same and nevertheless, the govern
ment is as prompt and vigorous in deal.
ing with outlawry as the most peaceful
and advanced in civilization. 1t pursues
the bandit.i, as fast as they are organized
and emerge from the mountains, back
into the fastnesses and. almost invari-
ably, TO determination. Would that we
were as successful In dealing with the
gangs of railway robbers that constantly
harrass travel and express traffic in this
county.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-31

Burglar (rousing the sleeping head
OF the family)-Don't move or I'd
shoot Nhar's your money hid?
Head OF the Family tstruck by
bright thoughti-It's in the pocket o.
nv wife's dress
Burglar-That's all right III jns,
take the dress. Thanks - Boston
Globe