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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
KANSAS OLD AND NEW.

Charles Robinson was an exceptional
man. He was endowed with great
mental vigor, and exercised marked IL
divdualily and independence of thought,
This faculty of indepenpent thinking
and acting did not disqualify him as
leader, for he was a leader of tact, force
and shrewdness.
He showed himself to be leader in
Kansas When he came west in an
early day with his ''Beecher's Bibles" lie
was the accepted captain of the band,
and thirty years after he was still play
ing a prominent part in the history of
the state.
He was the type of the Kansan who
has made Kansas what she is. The New
England Yankee vigor which was trans
ported across the middle state aud into
the wild Indian country, now Kansas,
become stronger and more vigorous than
the original article. New England was
peaceable but puritanically rigorous in
thought and morals. As the founders
of New England had crossed the Atlantic
and guided the star of empire westward
so the more daring of their descendants
pushed on westward to clear a new do
main. To settle in Kansas then was
more dangerous than it had been in the
much earlier day to emigrate to New
England. The men who came from
New England held principle, they were
prepared to make a part of their new
state. They had ferocious opponents to
overcome and the battle was long,
savage and bitter one. Kansas became
Bleeding Kansas"
Among it all the life of Charles Rob-
inson is inlertwiued. His virility and
sturdy manhood is potential all through
the history of the state and its early
struggles.
There is no doubt that the Kansas
character changed radically in the eyes
of Charles Robinson. The Kansas type
which he saw and was part of himself,
in the free state struggle, had, much OF
it. passed away before him. A new
Kansan had sprung up. He was less
sturdy but more scintiIlating than the
New England pioneer; he was less of a
patriot and more of a scholar than the
men that Robinson settled in Kansas.
The youth, of the day when he, too,
was a youth, was filled with an inspira-
ton to carry out principle, and had
the conditions environing which invited
action. The Kansas youth which Charles
Robinson last saw is also filed with an
inspiration TO carry out a principle, but
the conditions which invite speedy and
summary action are not here, and the
Kansas youth vainly spends his inspira-
ton in dressing his idea in neatly turned
phrases and prismatic adjectives.
Charles Robinson must have seen
the New England character making this
change. But he saw it alter in the
youths. He was the same throughout.
When Charles Robinson thought he
was right. he said so bluntIy, and the
more he thought he was right the more
bluntly he declared it. He was not tied
and twisted by little minor questions of
political expediency. But he could act
when the time for action, direct and I'M
hInching. came.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
TIE TIME OF MooSRIsE.

! Fro-u the Neg York sun.
The time OF mOonrise on any day is
on the average about tifty-one minutes
later than on the preceding day. This
retardation is, however, by no means
constant in amount. being at times
very much less than the average and
at times very much greater \ very
marked diminution in the time OF re-
tardation occurs about the time 81 the
full moon which falls in September.
This moon is called the harvest moon.
The same phenomenon n less degree
occurs at the time of the next follow
ing full moon, which il known as the
hunters moon. The time Of retarda-
ton during the harvest moon j.. less
than half an hour in our ATTITUDES, in
instead Of its average value Of nearly
an hour. and for several successive
nights the moon seems 10 rise al nearly
the Same time.
Briefly stated. the cause OF the pho
nomenon is this: At the time % the
rising OF the harvest moon the ap-
parent path Of the moon among the
stars is much less inclined 20 the hori-
zon than it is at other times, and the
ordinary days motion OF the moon
along this path makes an unusually
small change Of the position q the
moon with reference 10 Its distance
from the horizon
A more detailed explanation may
make the matter little more easily
understood Ia addition 70 the ordi-
nary apparent daily motion which the
moon has in common with al other
heavenly bodies. IL has another motion
bv which i completes be circuit q the
heavens relatively % the sun once
month, aud the direction q tais no
ton Is generally not parallel VITA the
direction % the diurnal motion. = be-
ing generally nortA.Ard o. southwark
as well a. eastward Anyone may sec
this motion by an hours watching q
the relative positions q the moon and
star near J. The diurnsl motion 3 a.
WAYS on a linz a. Tight angles - lie
drawn from TIE body 20 the celestial
pole. the point IN thu heavens approx
imately indicated b. the pole star u
Is always perfectly uniform about he
pole a. center. and i = this which we
take as our ordinary MEASURE - tine
Now consider he position q tas
moon and the sUa a. the time q tu4I
moon The moon rises Just - the 81
~cts- On the Dext eveaing a. scnsei
the noon vii still be below tie aorl-
zou- because IL has moved eastward
EGacog the star relatively % ne sun
and i; Will not Use untl tns espraa4
motion q tie heavens b-lngs - a5oFs
The horiEoa IL &c nsooGs u1ctife
we're Uniform aud a}gays zlouZ ias
line % ordinary diuraal motion,
this re-arsiiz.ioa % TIE i-s1c
- r.sEg Toald sIways - To-
ssusr ard vould a. stats4 a.
che outset. - Esty-ons minutes ~
aay. Bat a. the tize = harvest NON
80, 4 -ret ia7 q nata0a Of th- zaq1a
a-uonz tnr .tz-s - coEs a1sgzb. 3 nor.i -
rs-d - vel a eastward ar =. ne
.ls-- - anr-znrs.- l-zS --@s --s&Ss soz-.-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
OUR NATIONAL SIN.

Retrospection IN business is profitable
always, and especially SO now, The
failure of banks and other monied in
situations is a serious matter at best, 1t
involves the tying up OF funds needed in
the channels of trade l. DELAYS the
payment Of debts, and blocks exchanges
necessary 10 the transaction Of all bust.
ness.
Why dc banks fail, and with whom is
the greater responsibility? 1t may be
said in truth that a bank, honestly and
conseryatively managed. cannot fail
while its patrons pay their bills at
maturity. Under such conditions the
banks capital would be in tact. and al
ways available. With fair line OF de-
posts il would DO a profitable business
after keeping all proper reserves for
emergencies. The secret OF failure then
hes in defauIted notes. Bank debts. con-
tracted by the ever sansuine and car
ried indefinitely, tell the story in ninety
nine per cent. OF such failures. This
fruitful cause Of monetary disasters
lies deeper than the mere routine of
business. Ii NAV be traced to tie in
genuity aud the midnight plans Of the
adveaturer, who plies his wits. and en-
ploys every resource in order TO deceive
his banker. The purpose being to main
tain credit, he bends every effort to that
end. That his banker NAV be deceived
is only granting that he is humane. He
realizes too late that he has been i'm
posed upon. His insolvent debtor leave,
the country. ignores his debt, and the
bank and its patrons are made TO suffer
There Is room Tor local application OF
these me lhuds now. Would our banks
be in a receivers hands today If every
borrower had keeps his promise to pay:
w chita and her banks have been no
exception 10 the rule Boom debts have
been contracted, and boom method.
used in every growing town of the west.
but we have suffered none the less.
Above the wreckage and ruin TO al
classes stand the primary cause-the
contracting of debts unwarranted. and
wholly inconsistent with business safety.
Sill back of this is the total lack OF
moral rectitude in business which must
he the very subsratum in which the very
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
GIVE THE FAIR A LIFT.

The following circular addressed to
the members of the State Fair associa-
ton by the secretary outlines the
method by which it is intended to COM
plete the subscription to the remaining
unsold shares of stock. When the stock
is all sold it Will provide fund sufficient
10 place the enterprise on a substantial
footing, and there would be no en-
barrassment on account Of want of
funds to carry out the original designs.
Wichita and the surrounding country,
deriving their support from agriculture,
nothing could be devised that would
contribute more toward increased pro-
duclions and establishing a market than
well organized fair association. The
plan for raising this balance is a good
one and cannot be burdensome to any
one. The following is the secretary }
circular and is addressed to members of
the association individually:
Dear Sir-This fall the kansas State
Fair" will be held at Wichita, and our
fair association is very DESTROYS of secur-
ing its permanent location. In order to
do so we must make some necessary i'm
provemeuts III buildings, aud attend to
other matters that are IN keeping with all
state Iairs. Believing that every stock
holder OF the Kansas State Fair associa-
ton has the success of this public euter-
prise at heart, we have formulated the
following plan to dispose of the remaining
20 shares of uusold capital stock. We
have about 200 stockholders, and we want
each one of them to sell one share of stock
or more; if this is done we will have our
full capital stock, and the money
derived therefrum will be
special benefit to all concerned, by adding
materially to improving our fair grounds,
aud thus securing permanently aud up
building the State Fair association in
Sedgwick county. This should be the
pride of every friend and stakeholder of
this organization.
Hoping you will give this your earnest
assistance and personal attention, and sell
at least one share of stock for Us, and send
name OF party you sell 10 to the secretary
and he Will issue the stock upon payment,
lremain, very respectfully yours.
G. II. IRWIN, Secretary.
Shares, $40 each.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
SENATE GETS LITERARY.
Shares, $40 each.

Several collar buttons have un-
doubtedly been lost in the United States
senate, lately, in the efforts of some of
the American lords to be dramatic.
They have sipgly and severally, pulled,
steamed, sweIled and beloved in
spasms of snorting oratory. There is
another innovation too. Every speaker
feels that he owes it to the senate and to
himself 10 yank some thread-bare stanza
from tie frosty recesses of a wearied
brain and huri it ferociously at the
heads of his fellow members.
In short, the senate appears to be
making a flabby effort to lie literary.
And they have been lauded, too. by
the newspapers and several good literary
people. When David B. Hill arose in
his place and shot out the sarcastic play
upon Caesar. Brutus, Cassuis, Metellius.
etc., the fact that the same thing piay
on the same characters, has been made
at nearly every country school house de-
bate. every crossroads political meeting
in this country within the last forty
years, macs 1t appear nusual that this
speech of Hills should be regarded as
such master piece.
And now we viii be made to stand
and deliver our admiration for Senator
Vests effort, the climax of which was a
quotation exclusively reserved for school
boys at this day: Lord Angus, thou
hast lied "
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
The aa1ea Daily EAGLE Sunday ormiue august 10,

greatly if he will refuse to fight again,
and refuse to talk about il.
OF course the sporting element would
view this course with supreme disgust.
But Corbett has managed TO turn tie
sporting element down on every occas-
ion and he can disappoint them again.
He is not liked because he was a new
factor in pugilism. He could read and
write, and was not drunkard, and his
advent as a fighter, threatened to elevate
prize fighting, when it is more tasteful
to It's devotees when lowered.
But as a fairly decent citizen, he sailed
in and whipped the biggest whisky
soaked bully in the country, John L.
Sullivan. He then proved his ability by
scrubbing the ground with an English
tough named Mitchell.
All this has displeased the sporting
men and they are still hunting around
for man to lick Corbett. But Corbett
should quit fighting. 1t is not decent
vocation, and after invading it long
enough to beat the toughest at their
own game, Corbett should get out ana
become a respectable cit zen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
WE MUST HAVE WATER.

The Rocky Mountain News gives an
account of a great underground lake.
located within a few miles OF the cor
porate limits OF Denver. If what Is
stated concerning this great natural sup
ply of water is true, il would be diff
cult TO calculate the profits in store from
a large area of the Platte valley east of
that city. The News saws: "The uniai-
tiated would scarcely imagine that the
kindly hand OF nature has prepared a
lake whose area is estimated at $50
square miles between Denver and the
town of Sterling. OF the Platte river.
This body Of water lies IL the valley of
the Platte. and saturatss its sand to the
depth o. 30 feet. The hidden lake. ever
moving downward from the mountains.
Is equal to a sheet of water three and
one-half miles wide and 20 feet deem. fol.
/ lowing the sinuous course of the river.
1t Is mighty reservoir which will be
utilized III the years to come in making
thousands of happy homes where now
may be seen nothing but barren stretches
of sand or lonely cabins Of the cattle
herders.
Time will tell that the possibilities for
/ irrigation have not yet been conceived
in the arid and semi-arid districts Of the
west. Every effort toward the davelop-
ment OF a water supply has been
crowned with success. Enough has
been learned OF the inexhaustab.e under
ground flow 10 warrant 4 systematic
aud thorough search wherever the soil
will produce paying crops with the
addition of moisture. This can only be
( done by state or government aid. or
/ both, and the time has come for uui-
form action all along the line. Millions
/ # public money are being expended an
/ uualiy on rivers. lakes and harbors.
other millions are used TO improve tie
sanitary condition. and some save the
! lives of those exposed 10 miasmatic
/ poison, but nothing thus far toward de-
/ Weeping the useless arid acres which are
/ capable of supporting vast population.
( The process Is simple. Experiments in
I irrigation have been fully made. the
soil and It's proiucu~eness IS nos mat
! ter Of dsutt. the water Is known 10
exist only remains 10 bring it u the
surface. This eau and must be done.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
REIaIoUs AY5 EDUCATIONAL.

Ills only noble 20 be good"
Love to God is sure 10 bring peace
OF conscience.
West Point Military Academy was
founded in lSO2.
There are more Endeavors in Aus.
tralia than in England and the re-
markable growth is undated.
People like 20 travel IN cheerful
company. II you are on your way 20
Heaven, show il by your manner.
All the members OF the school
and the superintendent says the schools
Of that town are the best conducted 10
the state.
Young brother in Christ. vour con,
version is your exodus from sin II -
the great era 81 your life. You ara
now a pilgrim travelling TO the prom.
ised land
king Theodore Of Ahyssinia pun.
ished Christian missionaries by com
pelling them 70 stand in the blazing
sun while his geuealogy was read. Il
period Of four hours
The Foreign Mission Board 81 the
Presbyterian church, South, has re-
ceivcd up 20 the end Of June $40 1Q3,
being gain over last year for ths
same period Of 81 SIS
Francis A. Palmer, 81 New York
city, has given $1,000 a. IN endow.
ment for the home for Aged Ministers
Of the Christian denomination, 20 10
located at CASTLE, y. y.
The college girl Is IN evidence IN
Italy, too. Miss Eugenia Visle, who
obtained the degree OF Ph. u az Genoa
last vcar. has added another doctors
degree 10 her acquisitions this year.
There's "A Christian Endeavor union
IN Nales-thc swansea uuion-thst al
ready has enrolled twenty-four hocie-
ties, with 7 100 members. This union
was not in existence four months ago.
The Blue Cross Temperance society
~ the continent has eighteen sections
swiss, with three thousand memberss
tventv-oue sections German. fifteen
sections French and three sections Bel@
gian.
-Teuctaro Megata, who in 1874. Wa
one 81 the first Japanese students evei
g. Harvard. j. now superintendent %
the custom house in Yoi0ahams, Japan
a position as important as that % COP
lect0r 81 the port of New York.
in Malaysia j. a population % so|
co. 600. mostly MOhammmsdan Malay.
The British and Foreign Bible society
has several European colportsars 40
work and twenty-five who are natives
At Singapore alone Bibles are furnish.
ed in fortg-fve different languages.
Among the public requests by tha
will u the late Charlie scott, ~ WASH
iugtor. j.. G., arc $1,000 - The Amer.
can building fund ~ the Protes,aus
Episcopal church - New York e. 90
- the 81 Johns church - Watsrb bury.
Conn; g .O0J % the Trinity Episcopal
church. and $500 20 the Waterbury
hospital
between the year, - Is5f and ia
The Methodist church 10 ireland eT-
PENDED on primary sdueafi0u a4ons
about SIS. Co0. exc usivs 81 iarge hauss
spent on Is eslev college Dublin. and
On the Methodist college and We
Erthrr hall at belfast This outlay
tecured state grants amounting "a
$50 90 a. veil a. assistance in erect
iuy schools ard 'satheTs residences
and providing s1ED5l requisites sns
furniture.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
BURGLARS WENT A BURGLING.

For the boss burglary Kansas City is
entitled 10 the belt. On a bright moon
light night four men backed up two
horse wagon IN front of a palatial resi-
dsnce and were proceeding deliberately
10 load up with the most valuable goods
in the house. \ colored servant. the
only occupant Of the house at the time,
opened fire on the light fingered quartet,
and. for brief time, : scene of courage.
not common IN a well appointed draw
Ing-room, was enacted. The party
broke UP by three OF the burglars carry
ing the fourth to the wagon under cover
OF the trusted servants gun. Pools Of
blood told the story that one shot at
least was not lost.
When the night had worn away, and
the sun peered over the distant hills
lying east OF the Big Muddy, and the
police Of the city had leisurely break
tasted on no; rolls, tenderloin and bug
juice, they were notified Of the affair,
and 1T is said they are trying to SPY out
the bold burglar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

The death of Charles Robinson leaves
seven men surviving who have filled the
office of governor of Kansas-Samuel
J. Crawford, Thomas A. Osborn, George
I. Anthony, John p. st. John, G lorge
". Click, Lyman L. Humphrey. and
the present incumbent, L d. Lewelling.
Those who are dead are Thomas Carney,
y. Green, James NJ. Harvey, John a.
Martin and Charles Robinson. The first
death among the governors of Kansas
was Carney's. The governors who are
still living are all hale aud vigorous men,
with a prospect of long life. With the
exception of Mrs. Osborn, the wives of
all the Kansas governors are still living
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Tie Italian anarchists lately con-
demned to enforced residence will be
sent to the island of Ustica, off Sicily.
Within its restricted limits they will be
free to roam all day. returning at night
TO the general quarters. There are
about so such exiles ON the island, only
seventy of whom cultivate the soil, the
others being tailors, BARRIERS, shoe
makers and innkeepers, or earn u few
pence when the steamers arrive. Some
of these people have been on the island
twenty years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19
DE-. NCv N PusILI,M.

One Of CorbetI's brother pugjii>ts says
that Coroett wants 10 be an actor now.
and lot a fighter. and no one will Sc
cure & fightwith the ''champyun- Of tue
world.
torbett Is right. He viii raise the
feeling Of the country towards HIM
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Late intelligence from the Fiji islands
is to the effect that during recen, revo-
luton of the natives the rebels, after
killing their opponents, proceeded TO eat
them after the manner OF their ancestry.
islanders as to change the spots of the
leonard
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Debs will speak in Topeka on Labor
Day. There appears to be a prevailing
opinion IN this country that Kansas at
mosphere Is excellent for breaking the
record IN expanding the mouth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Probably no man in Kansas who ever
fell from prominence, has had as hard
time finding the bottom of oblivion As
onr. known to the old settlers, as John
WiIlits
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Il has been discovered that semi
co on is misplaced in the new tariff bill.
But the quotations are all right-sugaT
stock quotations.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

The Mikado has hedged about the aver
age japanese editor to such an extent
that he is as much afraid to crilicise
the administration as the average Kan
sas Populist editor.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Cleveland wanted TO help the dun
colored queen of Hawaii, but failed.
The Democratic party started in to help
England, Germany and France, aud it is
going to do il with that tariff.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

The advent Of Miss Pollard on the
stage viii probably scare Lillian Rus
sell into swelling her record again by
marrying az once.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Sanders. the Coxeyite Is weary. 50
are ali tramps. Sanders would D. salts
fed with some easy JOB Ike gathering
the crop of 4 century plans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Job i not ,hs popular parsonage he
once was. He had boiis and all sorts Gi
adversely, but he wasn't hTing un4eV a
Democratic administration
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Congress has been referred to as a
farce. But it is not like that great
comedy LAS You Like 1t.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

So far as Kansas is concerned, the
price of corn lately can not he said to
have gone against the grain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

chamber, Cleveland has tackled veto
on that tariff bill just to see how 1t
would look if he dared TO co it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

just remember that aOout ten years
hence you - III hear orators during the
campaign telling you about THE good
old Democratic times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Several Kansas editors must be panied
at the way Miss Yaw and her wonderful
range are still cropping around in OBJ
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

About the only man in this country
who has enjoyed this session of congress
is Tom Reed of Maine.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

More bouyancy will be noticeable in
the Democratic ranks when the leaders
happen TO glance around and find their
excellent chances 10 carry Texas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

That deiuge of divorces in Oklahoma,
reproves the old superstition that May is
an unlucky month In which 10 get mar
ried. And also the other eleven.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

One thing can be counted upon. II
the western farmer makes up his mind
10 pull up the Russian thistle, he will
stick TO IL
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-19

Il worries Grover Cleveland a great
deal to read that tariff bill, but the spasm
doesn't come until he reaches he income
tax norton