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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
ROYALTY FRIVOLIIIES.

During 1898 Queen Victoria bestowed
1853 titles and honors upon deserving
subjects. Seven new peerages were
created and twelve new bAronetics,
while knighthood was conferred on
sixtyfour ordinary mortals and eighty
companions" were added to the diff
ferent orders. queen of Afghanis-
tan has had four new dresses made in
London, and proposes to adopt the garb
of civilization. As she is fond of flow
ers, the costumes are founded on floral
motifs. They are all wool, high necked,
with short skirts and lined with silk.
There is a fuchsia dress with gold fringe,
morning glory costume with guipure
lace and velvet bodice, heather dress
and one trimmed with green silk and
ivy leaves.-Tne Thirteen club of Lon
don which held its annual banquet JAM
uary 13 in room thirteen of the Holb or n
tried to secure thirteen cross
eyed waters to serve them at the daring
The genial artist,
Harry Furniss, presided.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Ralph Beaumont, Populist jawer. is
thinking of locating in Oklahoma City.
Perry should get on the ground floor
with an offer for the Coroett-J Jackson
fight.
A colored woman at Enid has bsen ar
rested for attempting to intimidate a con :
testant.
1t has been discovered in Oklahoma that
sorghum sovn broadcast will drive prairie
dogs away.
The Purcell Topic thinks tha. double
statehood means a negro governor for
Oklahoma
The Sisters of Charity OF the Catholic
church are thinking of erecting hospital
at Oklahoma City.
Il is refreshing to see some of the Okla
homs papers jump onto the Mahara
minstrel show with both feet
Since the last blizzard the >peonle who
live in sod houses spend part of their time
laughing at the people who reside in frame
shacks-
Oklahoma should be rejoIced when i,
thinks that there is no danger Of the in
come tax measure being tackled TO It's
statehood bill.
The national constitution will nos sat
isfy all the politicians il Oklahoma NATL
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

The New York banks. at the close of
business last Saturday. had S109. 600. .O0O
above their legal reserve, and there is a
proportionate amount in all the large
cities, which would swell the total TO an
enormous amount. But large as is the
sum of idle money, it only in measure
represents the idle labor. There is
scarcely business concern or manu-
featuring establishment that has not
been compelled to reduce the number of
their employees and reduce the wages of
those they retained. There is mighty
little advantage in cheap supplies when
there is no money 10 buy them with.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
BUT A sPOUTER.

The Hon. Bourke Cochran is being
rather roughly handled by the press just
now. In his late outburst of eloqrence
in support of the Wilson bill he was SO
careless of his logic, and Indifferent to
facts that the mask of his oratory failed
to cover the discrepancies, and the pro-
cess of dissection is anything but COM
plimentary to Tammany's chief. He
may learn from this that the road to
fame is not traversed at single bound,
but that the way is rocky, and the
passage will yet cost him years of toll
and sweat. He may no. be too old yet
to profit by Mr.. Whipple's warning to
young men. This great author says, "It
is next to impossible to reclaim young
man who has once accustomed his mind
TO think vagrantly in order that he may
spout eloquently."
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
Fishing Dogs.

At a certain point ali the men and
dogs came TO a halt Half the dogs
and men then moved further along the
waters edge about two hundred yards.
At concerted signal the dogs were
started from their respective points,
and swan straight ou; seaward in sim
gle file in two columns. AZ a wild,
sharp cry from all the Anus the right
column wheeled left and the left col
umn wheeled right, until the head OF
each column met Then a. another
signal sll of them swan in lfse toward
the shore. advancing more and more IN
crescentic formation. AS they nearcd
the shore, increasing numbers Of fish
appeared in the shallow water. fright
ened forward By the splashing OF the
advancing column Of dogs, which, As
soon as their feet touched bottom.
pounced upon tn. fishes as quick as
fash The dogs promptly brought the
fish which they had seized % their
masters. who cut off the heads and gave
each dog the head which b.iouge 20
him as his share o. III. catch The dog
which caught nothing got nothing !
believe this dog drill of the Ain us Is En-
tIrely uniaus Life with TraDEsiesri-
an Savag-s-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
iTALY'S POVERTY.
Tho People So Coddled That They Lost
Their Sinew.

The People So Coddled That They Lost
Their Sinew.
Italy's poverty is attributable in .
great measure to the lack of private
initiative on the part of the Italian
people. Italy was in the past too
much governed, either for good or i'll,
says the Spectator. In Naples and Sic
lily the tyranny of Bomba and his pred
ecessors utterly destroyed the power
of initiative. Ii to lift your hand to
help yourself, and to be busy, self
reliant and independent. is to be per Sc
suspect, and probably leads 20 your
ruin, you very soon lose the desire or
power to initiate, and, instead, wait to
see what the government will do.
It was the same In the well-governed
Grand Duchies. People in Tuscany
were SO we'll looked after, ''patted
down" and coddled, that they lost the
use Of their mental sinews. There has,
of course, been great reaction from
this timidity and lack of push since
the unification Of Italy, and large
section of the community now seem as
energetic as if they were Frcnchmen
or Germans.
But, though the visible population
may seem energetic and capable of
working out their own salvation, the
invisible population, which is twenty
times more numerous, is still utterly
incapable of making strong or decided
movements of its own account. 1t is
capable of working, and does work
hard at its appointed toll, but it has
not yet felt that touch of hopeful en-
ergy which is the true philosophers
stone, and turns all things to gold
The great mass of the Italian popu-
lation goes on its way, not sad-the
people are naturally joyous-but with
the belief that nothing much be-
yond daily sustenance is to be got
out of work. Their delight is in fire
works and the sunshine and the fiesta,
not in getting on, and making things
hum" in business.
In word Italy is like a man who
has been paralyzed and has partially
recovered. The brain is active, and
the arms have their full vigor, but the
lower limbs move with difficulty and
uncertainty. Ultimately, no doubt, the
legs and the rest of the body will re-
cover as completely as the arms; but
till they DO the man IS weak.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
The aieta aay gaee guesday orumo JANUARY So 1884
AN ADMIRER OF COURAGE.
Anecdofe OF HadshI Achmed Izzet, . Fa
nous Turkish Governor.

Anecdofe OF H2dshl Ach med Izzef, . F8
nous Turkish Governor.
few weeks ago there died in Adri-
anople one of the most famous and
original of the subjects Of the sultan
OF Turkey. He was Hadshi Achmed
lzzet, pasha governor general of the
velayet, or province. bordering on the
Black sea. Hadshi Izzet was an ideal
Turk of the old school, says the San
Francisco Chro nicle-a strange mix
ture of Solomon-like wisdom and child
ish foolishness, energy and apathy,
cruelty and mercy, truth and deceit,
generosity and avarice. In the eyes OF
his ruler and contemporaries he was
hero, and it was with purpose clear
to many that his majesty appointed
him governor general of Adrianople
and kept him for SO many years at the
head of that important province-the
gateway to the Ottoman empire. The
paSha was born more than ninety
years ago, and rapidly climbed to
places commensurate with his name
and the influence of his family. AT the
time Of his death he was the dean Of
the Turkish viZiero. Almost count
less are the anecdotes told of the pasha,
who was known and respected from
the Turkish Dan to the Turkish Beer
sheba. His hatred of the Christian
dogs" as he always called the people
of the west, was boundless- 1t was in
variably his custom. when force
of circumstances obliged him to
give his hand to a dog" to
wash it, upon withdrawal, while in the
presence of his guest. 1t is said that
Hadshi Izzet laid aside his habit once
One day consul of one of the great
est European countries was obliged to
seek an audience with the sultan's
lieutenant in govern mental affairs
He had already been insulted once by
the p asha washing his hands after the
greeting, and determined that he
should not be so treated second time
if he could possibly prevent it. The
consul was a thorough master of the
Turkish tongue, and for this reason
had great advantage over many of
his colleagues. When the servants of
Uadshi Izzet received him at the pal
ice lHTeShOIo ue Spohc dS lOIlO"S III u
voice which he knew would reach the
ears of the governor in his Office
near by:
go and tell thy master that 1 wish
to speak to him. Say to him that l
shall also do him the honor to give him
my hand, but shall crack my hat over
his ears in case he attempts to wash
his hands after shaking mine"
The servant started away to an
nounce the visitor to his master But
the governor had already heard the
message and came smiling toward the
daring consul. While he placed his
right hand in that of the foreign repre-
he said: THAT was right.
You please me, effendi. You, at least,
have courage"
The hands were not washed until tho
consul had left the palace. The Incl
dent gave him notoriety in the con-
sular corps at Adrianople.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
SIMPLY INFAMOUS

While we do not favor woman suf-
frage, we nevertheless believe in woman.
The recent attack made by leading Pop
ulists against the character of Mrs. Lease
is the most infamous episode to be found
in all the ugly ups and downs of Kansas
politics. The Pop party plumes itself on
being the champion of woman's rights,
yet because its managers find one woman
who is too smart to be controlled by
them seek her defeat hy insinuations of
lecherOus grosSness, to destroy her in.
tiuence by questioning the purity of her
womanhood. Was anything more con-
telnptible, mean or outrageous? While
the EAGLE has often asserted, and which
it really believes, that the advent of
woman into public life and politics would
inevitably result in just such outrages;
that woman, not so much because of her
sex, but because only purity is suscepti-
ble to faint, would thus be attacked, we
were not prepared to find the very advo-
Gates of enfranchisement themselves re-
sorting to a defamation, the almost uni
versal result of which has been. in all
the past, to destroy that which is esti-
mated more valuable than life. And the
EAGLE is not now attempting any de-
fense of Mrs. MaIy E. Leases mental
idosyncrasies or of her political prohiga-
cies, but we desire TO denounce the
methods of the dastardly towards who,
having failed to retain pure woman's
respect, are endeavoring to blast her real
life and work her ruin by such means as
would cause devils to hesitate, if not for
the woman herself, at least for her limo.
cent Children
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
1t is understood that Con

1t is understood that Congressman
Sibley, of the Twenty-sixth Pennsylva-
MIA district. resigned his seat in the
house for the purpose of getting a fresh
expression from his constituency on the
pending tariff issue. He opposed the
Wilson bill and announced his determi-
nation TO vote against it, whereupon his
party constituents at home passed reso-
lutions urging and demanding of HIM
that he support the bill as a party meas
ure. Feeling satiIfied that the people OF
this district do not want the Wilson bill
to become law, he proposes to get an
endorsement from them through the
ballot of his position. He will be a can
ddate for reelection, the Wilson bill
being the issue. Ii an election can be
had before the bill is finally acted upon
the result VIII have special significance.
1t Is hoped the lest viii be made.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
it is SO amended that twenty senators can
come from single state.

1t is said that a bill will be introduced
at the next session of the Oklahoma legis-
iature to lave capital punishment carried
out by the means of anRsthetics.
A Pouca City girl indignantly denies that
there are not enough marriageable girls
in that town and says that the men do
not appreciate those who are there now.
The best mathematician in Oklahoma
City has been trying to figure out how a
minister, Sam Small, could consistently
fill his whole paper with prize fight. He
gave it up.
The silence around the offices that have
;1een abusing Horace Speed and defending
Malone has been so thick lately that you
could cut it into strips and use it for blot
ting paper.
The Alva Pioneer says that there is a
man in that county circulating petition
to present TO the next Okiahoms legisla-
ture asking TO have the name prairie dog
changed to prairie squirrel; that he is tired
of eating dog.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
Another, and third. north and 6

Another, and third, north and south
railroad has been sprung upon the pub
lie. This Is to start at Kansas City,
Kansas, and end at Eagle Pass, Texas.
Articles of incorporation have been filed
IN the office of secretary of state at To-
peka. the name of the enterprise being
the Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas Rail.
way company. The estimated length of
the line is $50 miles and the capital
stock is placed at $4,000, 000 The
names of w. S. Nelson, H. A. Yonge,
w. II. Campbell and W. c. Huckett of
Kansas City; Charles French of Chicago;
A. j. Haskinson of Garden City, and
Adelbert Carroll of Wall street, New
York, are given as directors.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
OLD TIMES ON THE RIVER.

DAYS That Will Never Come Back to Trav-
elers on tho Old sAiississip.'
Such times have never been seen since
the war, and probably never will be
again, for haste has supplanted every
other consideration in travel, and most
men and women would regard a week
spent on the river as week wasted.
Quite otherwise was it back in the
forties and fifties. The week of the
voyage to New Orleans was regarded
as the best part of the visit, for one was
almost sure to find acquaintance on
board, and, if not, the officers of the
boat considered themselves in duty
bound to see that their passengers en-
joyed themselves. for this was con-
sidered to be part of their business.
The trip was, in one sense. a round
of festivities. Many of the boats car
ried bands, and on approaching towns
where landing was to be made the
Band would assem- BILE in all the glory
of brass buttons. and, taking its place
on the hurricane deck, would thump
and blow until man, woman and child
had assembled on the landing to see
what the noise was about.
The passengers crowded on the sides
to look at the mob on shore as the boat
drew near the landing: with much GER
emony the gangplank was run out by
the rousters; merchants and factors
came on board to transact their busi-
ness with the captain and clerks: the
boats agents went on shore to attend
TO necessary affairs; all was hurry. for
the boats stay at one landing was gen.
orally brief unless there was much
freight to come on board.
Loading the freight and bringing on
the wood were the occupations which
presented most attractions for the pas
sengers. Perched on the rsilings or
comforsa bly, seated on easy chairs on
the cabin deck they surveyed the op-
erations going en- below with lively
amusement.
The ordinary business OF freight
handling was not always of thrilling
interest, but when livestock was 70 be
brought on board every traveller at
once secured position where he could
command the whole situation. for
m ules and Texas steers were as con-
trary then as they have been ever
since, and clubbing and tail-twisting
were then recognized as perfectly le-
gitimate methods of inducing refac-
tory steer TO walk the plank National
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
lRRIGATh:.

To the Editor of the Eagle.
Irrigate! irrigated! 1t is unnecessary
to go to California, Colorado or Utah to
avail ourselves of irrigation, and pay
four or five prices for land, when we
can buy better land in the Arkansas
valley at one quarter the price that can
be irrigated at less cost than c;.n any
other land elsewhere, and where the
area that can be SO irrigated is SO large,
and the water so abundant. Make be-
ginning, put up a windmill and irrigate
an acre, three acres, five acres, any
number Of acres, great or small, Just so
you make beginning If only an acre
this year, you will be sure to have ten
next year. There is big money in irri-
cation and it will grow faster than
money at 10 per cent interest, COM
pounded monthly. Try it. Figure on
it. For this, the most pro-
fitable method devised by man,
and the oldest, will become
established, end our peerless Arkansas
valley will flow with milk and honey,
a1d overflow with corn and wine. You
need not begin with expensive applian-
ces, wind mill is well understood and
inexpensive, try it. Horse power will
be ample to demonstrate it. Anything
that will furnish the necessary moisture,
when nature fails, at the critical time
will do. The yield will astonish you,
and you will not thereafter need any
urging of ours, it will convince you, it
can not fail. 1t is a patriotic effort, it
w ill be profitable. and who can not or
would not practice the kind of patriot
ism that adds to his bank account.
Who will become the Moses of this new
movement, and make this the modern
and better promised land.
". A. TER.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

Strange as it may seem to the casual
observer, the Populists in congress are
in favor of the Carlisle bond proposition.
but the idea upon which they rest their
support is or ought to be their eternal
disgrace. They take the position that
the best and fairest way would be 10
have the bonds issued and sold. and then
enjoin their payment by the govern
ment. In other words they would have
the government repudiate its debts: but,
after all, that is the plain Interpretation
of all their financial schemes. Their
chief inspiration and aspiration is to
deal death blow TO capital, and 10 ac-
complish that end they would hazard
the very existence of organized govern
men:.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
For the Eagle:
PICTURE ON MEMoRY'S WALL.
j. z. HOBBS.

All, wild means the storin-wind tonight,
Sounding its bu:.les afar;
And in vain the dull, leaden sky.
You might seek for the gleam of star,
All day the snow has come down,
Outside in the leadening chill:
She is flinging her ''wreaths of PEARL"
Or highway, meadow and hill.
Alone i sit in the freight,
On tie hearth the red embers glow:
Strange tunes in my heart are throbbing,
With sweetness, tonight, as they flow
Back to the days of my childhood,
To the scenes of the dead long ago:
When of care, of sorrow and sadness,
Naught did feel or know.
Back to my home on the hillside
am roaming the meadow at will
Or down in the shadowy orchard,
l list 10 the mockin. birds triil.
The lilacs are blooming-the roses
Are shedding their fragrance around,
And many a radiant blossom,
Down in the garden is found.
The balmy south-wind is blowing
Der sweet-scented meadow and lea,
Oh. What care l for the wide world
am roaming. dear brother. with thee.
Ankle-deep we stand in the clover.
And reach for the mellowest pear:
The honey bees buZZing around US
Was ever the sunlight E:ore fair?
Unknown to us sorrow and sadness,
Naught do we feel or we know:
For our life is as calm and unruffled
As the brooks unturbulent flow.
Up in the house on the hillside,
Mother is calling US home:
Hasten, oh! brother. come quickly
In the meadow no longer we roam.
All! yes, the meadow lark's calling,
And sweetly the brooklet sings still:
But the mother no longer awaits US,
In the dear old home on the hill.
She dwells in a fairer mansion,
Far away from all sorrow and care:
But sweetly her soft voice is calling
Calling her dear ones-up there.
For you-my brother, my darling
Vain is the boon that crave:
Alas. four seasons the pine trees,
Have shed their leaves on thy grave.
The voice of the wild wind is sobbing,
Like the waves of an angry sea:
Like child tired out with its roaming,
l would rest, dear brother--with thee.
Wichita. Kan.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

1t is rumored in Washington that the
administration is beginning to manifest
decided opposition to the admission of
the territories to statehood by the pres
ent session of congress on account of the
influence they would extend as states,
through their representatives,, on the
silver question, all of them being unde-
stood to be strongly in favor of silver.
However, this is more likely bluff than
a real purpose. If pressed it is as liable
to have the contrary effect. Il ought to.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
DUCK CALLERS.
The Mistake Commonly Made by Hunters
Ignorant OF Their signifcAnce-

Ignorant OF Their slgnificAnce-
Most hunters make serious mistakes
when they use duck-callers- Very few
are familiar with or understand the
significance of the different notes that
come from the threats of the game
they are endeavoring to deceive with
their mechanical devices The manu-.
facturer of the best known duck
caller, who has made long study Of
the birds in order to tune
his gay deceives by their calls,
says that he never sounds his
caller when Turing ducks except in
low quack, quacls, quack, IN imitation
of the female, with four or FIVE sec
onds' space between each of the three
calls; then he waits for "a minute or
two and repeats the three Quacks
again. These notes denote content
ment and freedom from any
thing calculated to disturb, aud
are sure TO bring in any duck
that is flying about The brakes
sometimes give vent TO their feelings in
loud and ringing quacks when sur
rounded by q numbe Of females in
good ieeolnr quarters, and also early
In the morning. The great mistake
made by most hunters in using the
callers is in sounding the alarm notes
instead Of those above described. The
quick, loud quack OF the drakes usually
means danger This is noted when .
drake IS suddenly flushed. he always
gives loud warning ery as ne rises.
and all other ducks within hearing
heed it and make quick their depsr-
ture. The duck k-calleT Is very useful
and helpful when one understands il, /
bat to keep /, sau,~king all the time,
as some hunters do, without knowing
just what each note means, causes IL TO
become = nuisance and drives al the
ducks in terror TO remote Posnts-Rod
ard Gun.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

The Seneca Tribune says that lady
was heard to remark the other day that
she had to go home and sew on Demo-
cratic badge for her husband. On in
guiry what the badge was she replied:
"A patch on the seat of his pants, caused
by sitting around waiting for work
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

The Marquis OF Queensbury says the
Corbett-Jackson fight will be the last
great pugilistic contest in history. How
ever, it will be just as well not to abuse
another mans dog for some years yet.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

It's in the air, and bound to come.
Already a number of capitalists are looE-
ing over Wichita with a view of opening
wholesale houses. With the freight
rates on just basis we will get off the
nd-bar and float down the tide of pros
perity with velocity that will break
the record.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

Does anybody know" asks the Leav-
enworih World, what has become of
one J. h. Crouch? 1t will be remem-
bered that he started out to cut quite a
swath about year ago. The last heard
of him he was somewhere around
Washington He is probably still
Crouch-ing down beside the counter
waiting for pie.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

Red light may cure the smallpox
But blue glass did not cure rheuma-
tism and red light will probably meet a
similar failure. The only successful
medical use of glass is found in that
ancient piece of rhyme, where farmer
make him eat shavipgs for grass.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30

The indecent insinuations made by the
reform party about their leader On ac
count of her sex, but emphasize the
fact that reforms are greater frauds
than the frauds they attack.