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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
OF GENERAL INTEREST

The next meeting of the American
Medical association will be held at San
Francisco, on the first Tuesday in June.
1894, instead of on the first Tuesday IN
May, in order TO permit of discussion
of the code by the various societies that
meet just before the meeting OF the
National association.
"A New Years dance at Cedar, Tex,
was interrupted by the killing of three
Of the dancers, the fatal wounding OF a
fourth, the serious wounding OF two
others. and the disabling of half a doz-
en- more by pistol and rifle bullets One
girl was shot dead. another received q
bullet in the face, another was wound
ed in the middle OF the forehead, and
another through the right arm 1t was
al over in few minutes but 1t broke
np the dance.
10. Charles 3. Corey. of Boston, is
tramping and punting about the
swanps in the Banana river country,
Florida. with novel addition TO
hunters outfit Venomous snakes,
spiders and other such ''varmints are
quite plentiful in that region and give
hunters much trouble, so Mr. Corey had
made for use on the trip pair OF
aluminium leggings They are light,
convenient TO wear and very comfort
able safeguard. Mr.. Corey got four
bears on one trip last week
United States naval officers are, on
the whole, better paid than their Brit
- 4 L. t,-a& $Hz
have certain perquisites, amounting
sometimes 70 several hundred pounds
per year. and these perquisites are the
envy of our officers II the reorgsniza-
ton Of the pay table were not 50 tick
Esh matter almost every officer OF
the navy would be glad OF the chance
to ask that a perquisite 70 cover the
cost Of entertaining foreign dignitaries
be made par1 of any new table
An Aluminium violin. invented and
patented by . Cincinnati musician. Is
highly spoken Of. both hy players and
critics. /. is made in the same shape
as the ordinary violin. bot looks %
course, like silver. and is exccedingly
light Nanv advantages ever wooden
ssclins are claimed fce Il. One was
used in concert in Indianapolis few
aays ago. and newspaper critic coca-
nents that. while IL seemed 30 lack 10
vibrasorv power. Il had peculiar quail
ties, which added greatly 20 the bril-
gisncy Of ;oac-
When the water was witharars
from the lake near Geyser spring. -
Szrzio-z- the ether dzy. an immenas
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
VOLCANOES IN ALASKA
More Than Two Score Of Them Have
Been Active In tho Present Century.

More Than Two Score Of Them Hava
Been Active In tho Present Century.
Recently read an account of bona
fide advertisement in Scandinavian
paper of stupendous volcanoes for sale
for about four hundred dollars, says a
writer in the Christian Advocate.
They are located in Iceland. Alaska
might glut the market in this aesthetic
article if it were to put all its stock on
sale. The number which have been
active within one hundred years is va.
riously estimated by the authorities ]
have consulted as all the way from
forty-five to sixty-one. More than
twelve have been active within TWEEN.
ty years and five at least within four
years. Among the most remarkable is
Bogorlof, one hundred miles west of
Unalaska. This, about six hundred
feet high, together with the part of the
island from which it rises, has coma
up out of the sea within few .years,
and constantly asends out steam and
smoke. Makushin, on Unalaska,
though snow-covered, pours out inn
mense volumes of steam and milk
white smoke, visible On a clear day
nearly sixty miles at sea. Akutan acts
like a geyser, putting at intervals of a
few seconds. Shishaldin, on Cunimak
island, a perfect kcone s,755 feet above
the ocean at it's base, striped down its
sidds with ashes and condensed smoke,
was still smoking.
It has no foot hills, and its precipi.
tous slopes fall into the great Pacific
ocean on the south and Bering sea OF
the north. Elliott says: 'It is wholly
safe to say that Shishaldin is the most
beautiful peak of vast altitude upon
the North American continent" !"
Pavlof, on the Alaska peninsula. sends
out from the side huge clouds of pitch.
black smoke hot enough to melt tTc
feet OF snowfall In few minutes. II
puffs at intervals like locomotive.
Ilnamna, on the shore OF Cooks inlet,
is 12,o6s feet high, and constantly
sends out ashes and smoke of brim-
stone. In 1883 Mount St Augustine,
$50 miles north of Kadiak island, was
active, and. according to the official re-
port of Gov. Knapp. covered the
decks of ships hundreds of miles at
sea with ashes" In 1874 Capt. Lehman
was sent TO the islands of the Four
Mountains, west of Umnak, TO explore
cave said to contain mumInies fof
which he brought seventeen bodies.
now in different nuseuns). While on
this trip he discovered on kagsmil
island q volcanic mountain Of Low
altitude. from which issued jets OF
Eulphurous steam, smoke and noxious
gases Of such horrible stencil as to
compel him TO stand of from shore.
Mount St Elias sent out smoke and
rapor in 1899, and in 1sA7, when 'tthe
earthquake occurred which shook the
whole Sitka region, fame and ashes
:ame from its summit"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
SINGLE OR DOUBLE STATEHOOD.

The decision of the United States
supreme court in the Cherokee bond
rase. wherein it is held that the govern
ment has no jurisdiction over the five
tribes or their territory further than to
grant right-of-way TO railways, but that
treaties with them establishes their in
dependence of action, may have some
bearing upon the statehood question as
involving the entire territory. The only
way this can be accomplished is by
securing the REIMBURSEMENT of triba
autonomy and rights and their accept
ance of lands in severalty, with in
dividual citizenship. This they seem un-
willing to 10, and unless they can be
persuaded 10 come to these terms there
seems TO be no way TO compass single
statehood just now. This does not
change Oklahoma's interest in securing
statehood, the only question for it to
consider, If the decision referred 10 shall
be.taken as an estoppel to single state
hood, being whether separate statehood
is preferable row to continued terri
torial government until such time as
the inhabitants of the Indian territory
can be brought TO join in the petition
for single statehood.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
THE IRRIGATION CONVENTION,

To the Editor OF the Eagle.
This question is not one of theory
alone. Practical demonstrations have
shown good results. The question is no
longer whether irrigation can be made
to pay in the cultivation of crops-but
how can the water be easiest and cheap
est obtained, for application to the soil.
While it is not yet known how large a
supply of water can be obtained yet il is
known, and settled by scientific men,
that enough water can be obtained to
irrigate at least one-Jenth of nearly every
quarter section in western Kansas.
That is enough to more than double the
product of the western half of the state.
At all the conventions so far held the
sentiment has prevailed that the general
government should conduct GER
tain experiments that individuals cannot
do. 1t is not expected that the
government will buy every farmer
wind mill and pump and build him
reservoir but it is believed that it is
the duty of the government to deter
mine by experiment and indicate by
survey the areas where water can be
lOuuu, III ouluCtcut QUANTITIES W JuStIiy
the farmer in going to this expense him.
self, after he has paid the government
for land represented to be agricultural
land.
The government has been asked to
take hold of this work, bills are now
pending before congress for the necessary
appropriations. The Interstate Irriga-
ton association. which meets in Omaha
on the 81 and 22 of this month, will set
forth the necessities of this work
in such a way that congress
will be induced to accede to the
demands made. Kansas is especially in
terested in the results, and should indi-
cate that interest by large attendance.
There are special reasons why Wichita
should be well represented at that con-
vention.
The convention is SHIELD under the
supervision of the Omaha Commercial
Club" which is a guarantee that all de-
tails will be directed III the most perfect
manner; and that the visit OF the dele
gates will be made pleasant in every
possible way.
Omaha is a progressive city, and a
grand city to visit.
G.. w. CLEMENT.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
COLONEL LEASE sQUIRMs OUT.

From the Topeka Capital.
There is something superb about the
normal elasticity with which Colonel
Lease states one thing in an interview,
denies it in the next, then denies the de-
NAL and generally ends by saying that
she never denies anything, as it never
pays. We quote the following interview
in Thursdays New York Sun as a recent
example:
Concerning statement that she had
once witnessed Masonic initiation at
Lockport, in this state, and was Mason
and member of a Kansas commandery,
Mrs. Lease said:
81 never was in Lockport in my life,
and know nothing about Masonic affairs.
l will neither affirm nor deny the state
ments made. If got into that habit I
would be kept very busy, so kmany
things are said in the papers about me. !"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Parker hardly comes up to Mrs. Lease
now.
Mayor Moore of Enid has withdrawn
his resignation.
Ex-Treasurer Murphy claims that Treas.
urer Turner offered him money to resign.
Jim Hall of Ell Reno and Dudley Evans
of Caldwell will fight at Ell Reno, March 8.
Dennis Flynn used the Congressional
Record as q valentine on the Oklahoma
editors.
It is still possible to see the Rock Is
land trains go through Enid, but you have
to look mighty quick.
1t begins to appear that the aspirants
for the United States senate will have to
turn loose and run for congress.
The wild geese are flying north. This
Is sign that the wild goose will have to
fly back again before spring opens
An auctioneer at Enid in selling gun
the other day, fired it off twice to show
its virtues and the police took HIM in.
1t strikes the reader of Oklahoma papers
that there is an extraordinary number OF
people coming into the territory just now
without any clothes on.
Some people are so jealous of their land
that it is wonder they don't go around
the world and lick some Chinaman for
living on the other side of the claim.
1t is wonder that the courts do not
decide that the five civilized tribes can
charge SO much per cubic foot for the
In6ian summer the country at large uses.
Hennessey Clipper: That was 'slipsus
tongwee" when Judge Martin said at the
territorial league meeting at Guthrie last
week that "Galnsha Grow would get
$780, coo majority for governor.
Judge Strang !of.. Guthrie has declared
war against the newspapers of Oklahoma.
Judge Strang will save his family lots of
trouble by saying whether he would liks
to have his coffin plain or plush-lined.
Judge Burford granted temporary in
junction last Tuesday, restraining the
county treasurer from collecting taxes
against Hennessey under the increased
valuation made by the commissioners.
The case comes before the court next
week.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
For the Eagle.
rHE MOTE IN YOUR BROTHERS EYE.

You wish to cure q friend of a fault;
Don't tell him of 1t each day;
Hecannot mend for seeking to shun
The words that you will say.
Too much advice will spoil the aim
Ofhim who constant presses 1t,
For none can know fault as he
Who wretchedly possesses 1t.
Perchance from the voice of a little child
Who knows in US no sin
Or one sweet note of a wildwood bird
Repentance may begin.
Example is the good advice
Which mankind seldom gives,
Yet many lost soul owes its fall
To the life some pharisee lives.
Make not the crime so heinous
That the patient feels despair,
Remember the sin of GalliIee
And the depth Of healing there.
Hast ever been intent upon
Robbing the nest of bird
And noticed how your wicked act
Was wrecked without a word.
She didn't stand and o'er and DER
Point out your wickedness.
But hoped and fiuttered and twirred and
chirped;
With the subtlest fnesse
She led your mind away from it.
When sin becomes a fetter
The surest way to snap it is
To seek for something better.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
WIT AND WISDOM

1T is the duty of an employe to
know more about his work than he ex-
poets to odo.-Railroader.
When man boasts of his bad ha b.
its, you may be pretty sure that they
are the best he has.-Detroit Journal
Original sin was the cause of the
fall of man, and now when man falls
it is the cause of a good deal of original
sin.-Binghamton Republican.
to kiss you? 'She-Are you very curl
GUS to know? He-Very. She--Well,
you might try-and see!-Boston Trav-
eller.
He Gnslnuatingly)-I can not re-
form without help. l need some guild
ing star. She (curtly)-You wouldn't
if you were not out so much at night
Vogue.
-Jeweler-How do you like your
alarm clock? Customer-First rate.
Jeweler-You didn't seem pleased with
it at first. Customer-No; but it's
broken now.--Tit-Bits
The AngeL-"What day in all your
life, darling, is the sweetest in your
memory? The Brute-O, don't know
the first time l beat the races, /
guess-Detroit Tribune.
-Goodun-Hello, old mani What is
the matter? You look run down Bad
un-But I'm not, just the same. The
sheriff has been after me for over a
week, but he hasn't run me down yet
N. Y. Herald.
Jimmie, why are you pounding on
that piano like that?" Jimmie-Cause
mammals sick. do you expect if to
cure herr" Jimmie-No, but she told
me to answer the bell whenever heard
it ring.-Inter Ocean.
Tain so strange" said Uncle Eben.
.ter think oh mans stan'in' up an
gittin' pounded foh money, when you
comes ter notus how many fellahs dah
is dat'l willin'ly risk snake bite for a
drink OBJ whisky. y."-Washington Star.
-Tent-Fm an awful sufferer from
dyspepsia Bent-rm sorry for you
with all my heart, old man. Mrs
Bent-You are. are you? Well, if you
are so sorry as that for him, what do
you think of me?-SomeryiIle Journal
This man, we may say, became
morally great by being in his own age
what in some other ages many might
have been a genuine man His grand
exeeliency was this, that he was
genuine As his primary faculty, the
foundations of all others. was intellect,
depth and force of vision, so his pri-
mary virtue was justice, was the eour-
age 50 be just--Carlyle on Goethe.
"A small boy in one of Marshall
Fields stores in Chicago approached
mis- employer and asked for an advance
in salary. '.How much are you getting
a week nows- asked the merchant
-Four dollars and a half. sir" And
how old are you?'' Twelve, SIR.
why, my boy, at your age | wasn't
paid that much Well" replied the
shrewd lad. maybe you weren't worth
it to the firm you were working for,
but think am Chicago Herald
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
SURE HE WAS A GENTLEMAN.
A Street Car Conductor Has Test Thos
He IL wiling to Bet On.

A Street Car Conductor Has Test Thes
he Is willing To Bet On
"ThaI man is a real gentleman IL he
ioes loo. a little seedy," said a street
,ar conductor 10 me IS he pointed out
= man In the car on an uptown trip ore
day last week
How do yon decide that?" asked
'aave you found some new test Of
character?
well, ! don't know as it's anything
new, but I've been railroading a good
many wears and haven't watched all
sorts OF passengers for nothing.
learned long ago that about every
woman who gets letter likes to 10.
every body know IL by reading il in a
street car, and that's what led me to
find out one thing that marks man 4
gentleman
You see that woman sitting right
beside the man ] pointed out? Well,
she read letter that lasted ten blocks,
and that man never even looked 1T IL
out of the corners of his eyes. let alone
trying 10 read IL That's how hnow
he's got good breeding.
The next time you see q woman
rcadiug . letter in street car you
watch any man who happens 10 ee sit
ting near her and sec IL he doesu try
to get a look at the letter himself
Nine times out of ten be viii. and
xor,etisres he'll make himself such
nuisance that I'd like 20 interfere IL I
dared II he doesn't yoa may be dead
certain he's frst~cl2As gentleman I'll
bet on that test"
"Bu. how about the wornen7 Does
your test apply 10 them, too7''
Well. n1-o. / hardly think IL does;
for I've never seen the woman on iny
ear yet that wouldn't give sly glance
at letter another was reading II sAs
could ~. Y. Herald.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
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CONDEMNED TO DEATH

A short time ago British sailor VAS
ihot By the Mexican military author
tiles in the City of Mexico under cir
:nmstances of peculiar interest Al
though the facts in the case are known
70 but few. the way the fellow behaved
himself and the manner in which he
met his death viii never Be forgotten
sy the officers in charge Of the prisou-
MOI little sympathy waA felt for bin
alone in that remote csuntry and
Without a ghost q : chnsos 20 save his
life.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
RsL1a1ous AND EDUCATIONAL.

1t is said there are 800 church or
CARNATIONS or local churches in Texas
without houses of worship.
admission by certificate is now the
almost universal rule in the New Eng
land colleges. Boston university is the
latest to adopt the plan
The Salvation Army of San Fran
cisco expended $1,000 in providing din
ners, gifts of food, fruit, etc, for the
suffering families of that city on Christ
mas day.
The Moravian church sends out
into the foreign field one in sixty of
its members, while other Protestant
bodies in general give only one in five
thousand.
I'm Africa there are 727 white mis-
sionaries, 1,096 native preachers, 776,-
800 adult native Christians, and 225, 600
school children, a grand total of 1,004,- :
7s3 Christians
The number of branches of the
Young Mems Christian association in
Denmark is 132, of which there are
seven in Copenhagen. The principal
branch was founded in 1878.
Out of 9, 725 Congregational minis
ters in England and Wales 1000 return
themselves as total abstainers; in Ire
land there are no exceptions, and Scot
land 95 per cent are abstainers
During this century over 160, 600. 900
copies of the Word of God have been
printed in over $50 different languages
and dialects No very important tongue
of the earth is now unrepresepted.
During recent revival in For
mosa more than 500 people banished
idols from their homes, and heather
temple was converted into house of
worship dedicated to the true God.
The Fatherland Missionary society
of Sweden reports 40 branches con-
tribnting 100000 annually. Of this
amount one-third goes to home mis-
sions, the remainder to foreign mis-
sions.
1t is only twenty-five years since
the first building was erected in Toki-
yo. Japan, for distinctive Christian
uses, and now there are nearly one
hundred churches and chapels in that
city alone for such purposes.
1t is said that Prof. Tyndall's
American tour yielded him net $4,000,
which, it is said, he presented to three
American universities for the purpose
of assisting students who devoted
themselves to scientific research.
Bishop K. S. Foster of the Meth
odist church has returned to America
from trip among the conferences of
China and Japan. He started on the
trip last May, and since that time has
travelled 90, 900 miles without the slight
est mishap.
In Malaysia is population of Co.
600, 1000, mostly Mohammedan Malays.
The British and Foreign Bible society
has seven European colporteurs at
work and twenty-five who are natives.
At Singapore alone Bibles are furn-
lshed in forty-five languages.
The students at Cornell will have
the right to indulge in a prolonged
jollifcation during the holiday vaca-
tion. The rule requiring final exam
nations has been abolished and here
after the standing of students will be
determined in that institution by the
class record The reform is an emil
nently sensible and practicable one
Buffalo Enquirer.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

"You may complain Of the times
said Wall street man the other aay
TO friend. but they are prosperous
days 10 fellow know.
prosperous days'~ remarked the
other, avhzst Why. how Ia the
world can any one hs 40 sroeessfal
vsfleu everything In 80 duli7~
That's just the point" replied THE
ysher. ''Ife proxpers when things are
dull Hes aa exception TO the geserzi
rule. bot then. yozs must know. he's .
scissors grinder ~ 7. Herald
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

The morbid longing which some men
have for office is not unlike the desire of
some ladies to appear on the streets on
windy days. The cost is SO great, and
the chances of getting there SO rare tha.
there would appear to be little other
motive than to-show the public the stuff
of which they are made.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
DON'T BURN CORN.
from the Leavenwor,h Times.

fOfi tazc x-eafeA"u1 VI 2sAleS
Mrs. Lease told her New York audi
ence that in Kansas we burn corn, while
in Pennsylvania the miners are starving.
Mary Elizabeth allows her imagination
10 get away with her. She knows that
all the corn We are burning in Kansas
this year wouldn't make one respectable
meal for Pennsylvania miner. We
have burned corn in Kansas, it is true,
but not in the same year that the miners
in pennsylvania Were having hard
time. When We were burning corn
here they were having plenty of work
at good wages, and corn meal was
cheap.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Problem in the rule of three: If one
gear of Cleveland's rule piles up $120,
100000 above the legal reserve in the
New York banks, how long will it take
to gobble the balance of available cash,
and bring the hosts of common people,
body and soul, to the auction block?
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
A HAPPY THOUGHT.
From the Lawrence Journal.

From the Lawrence Journal.
If the Democrats don't want to fuse
with the Pops, how would it do for
them to endorse the prohibition ticket?
The principles of the prohibi,ionists are
just as near to Democratic doctrines as
are the tenets of the Populists, and if
they want the offices. they just stand as
good a show to get them with one party
as with the other.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

A Boston philanthropist has started a
movement to make it criminal offense
,or an actress to appear attired in a
aress rising higher than four inches
above the nnkle. This refers to the
skirt below, of course, and not the de-
collette above.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Gingerbread may bring the long de-
layed European crisis. In July, 1892, a
woman, while in an election crowd, for
mischief rather than spite, threw a piece
of hard gingerbread that struck Glads-
tone in the eye. His vision was I'M
paired, and, directly from that, his re-
tirement necessitated.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

To the crowd of idlers which loaf on
the streets, there is an unaccountable
fascination about dog-fghta and street
discussion of politics, which we never
could understandable there are many
things we don't know.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

A Wichita citizen complains that the
street lights here go out before daylight.
1t is true that electric light batteries are
in shocking condition.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Mr. Subj Erban--You need act min.
Towser. H-s o1rx II worse th4a hss
bite
Mr. Tornley fwho has 3zss been biz
.en5-Gres. scott. kope Is ~oat
aasx.--Pucx-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

The hard times which have foored
everything else, will soon have to meet
the easter bonnet. The hardtimes will
be crushed, too.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
Wanted HIs Experience.

Reporter-Scriobles Is dead. sis.
Editor-Confound the fellow! Why
didn't he let me know. so that could
have had story on how it feels TO diss
Judge.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Mrs. Lease is having great success in
her eastern lecture tour-thaI is judg-
ing from the amount of eggs that are
not thrown at her.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Meredith, the rabid, is not dangerous.
1t is the southern congressman who
clinches his fist under his desk and
says nothing, who will not bear monkey
ing with.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06
Conclusive

viii Askit-How old should You say
Miss Skinner is?
Maude Saysit--Old enough for people
to begin telling her how young she "
looking Puck.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Labouchere has no use for Roseberry,
and Bill Hackney is against him, Eng
land, indeed, is in tight place.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06

Bland may be little excited, but he
appears to be the only man cool enough
20 throw life preserver TO the Demo-
cratic party.