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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

The position of Democratic senator's.
just at this time, must be anything but
pleasant. Unless they surrender their
individuality, stifle their sense of per
sonal honor and integrity and become so
many automatons, to move as Cleveland
pulls the strings, they are ignored and
coldly snubbed in the matter of appoint
ments for their states. On the other
hand, if they fail to serve their infuen-
tial constituents they appear, in the
eyes of the latter, as having no influence
and worthless as their servants and rep
resentatives, with the chance of losing
their seats at the next election. Having
no official aspirations for the future
Cleveland is independent, and is as
stolid as stump. the situation is as
amusing to everybody else as it is exas-
peraIing to the Democratic leaders.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
JERRY SIMPSON AND THE EEL
A Game Catch That Whipped = Dog and
Got Back Into the Water.

n Game catch That whipped bog anu
Got Back Into the Water.
"Do any of you gentlemen like 20
fsh?" asked Jerry Simpson from be-
hind his gold-bowed glasses. II am
passionately fond of angling as pas
time / can't say fish as Amos Cum
mings and some of the other iZaak
.Waltons of the house. ] heard Cum
.mings talking the other dav TO fish
ing friend, and they mentioned as
among part of their tackle such things
as black bass neckties and weak-fish
pants and tarpon suits. When people
go in that far they get beyond ny
depth.
still, in lowly. common way,
like to fish. The last time essayed
this gentle sport was out on the Wal
nut river, in Kansas. A colored per
son showed me the place. II
WAS sublime place. cut
pole right there among the
plum bushes. II was a splen-
did pole, big as my arm az the
butt, and strong enough so you could
have landed cow with it IL one had
bit. ! baited, under the guidance Of
the colored person, with a piece of
liver The line was accoutred with a
red bob, or float The mission OF this
float, as / will explain 10 mex
perienced people. is 70 apprise one
when there Is a bite That Is It's mis-
sion. II lies in the water and you
watch Il. When IL moves about I'm
easily that isn't bite. That's a nib
bic Yon don't do anything when yoa
clear under water that's bite. and
you sock II to MIN.
Some people like 70 fool with ssh
and let him tow around on their lines
and run and filibuster add make no
quorum points and think he's getting
away. / don't do that way I'm a
plain man ! am perfectly frank with
FISH and don't believe ia raising false
hopes, even IL the bosom Of bass 30
/ simply yaniz EN- forth unhesitAsing-
lr and give err the worst a. ones-
After awhile. this time on the Wal
nut. ] had bite. The feat disAp
peared like the surplus during shs
Harrison administration let him
have IL II vas al eel. ] fetched hin
through the atmosphere looking ike a
letter :. and SLAMMED him against Tire
great state Of Kansas Il was = tolt
which ought 20 hare looscnsa every
tooth n his head
i want 70 pause riyh. here 20 SAP
that, talking soour game ash- al eel y
the gannest fsh that ever lived Talk
about black bzss7 DO you <-oTT what
bass would have done II ID smashed
him against M district that TAy7
Well. he wouldn't have coas any
thing. He'd jnat sprawl tssTe-
Maybe he'd carl his tail tribe.
bat that's the limit. Ba. this
eel Of mine He surely was The
E.laest &c. sssr net. lie sprs1S a
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
A DELUsiON AND SNARE.

For a mere pretensc of river the
composite slough called the Missouri
has caused and is still causing more
trouble and has entailed upon the coun-
try greater losses than almost any other
object or thing. AS base fraud of a
basing line from which the railroads
that touch it find convenient pretext for
extorting unjust tribute from the people
on this side it has cost the country mil
lions of dollars. But the alleged stream
is as cratic as those who have used as
above indicated, for like your ideal
Democrat it fills up and goes out on
rampage periodically, running up a bill
of damages into the thousands and hun
dreds of thousands. And whether there
is any significance in the circumstance
or not it is nevertheless fact that the
railroads are usually the greatest suffer-
ers from its freaks.
Last spring, it will be remembered,
the shifting of the current carried aw..y
large sections of land and making it
necessary for the railroads to remove
their tracks number of times at great
expense and loss of traffic on
account Of the Interruptions.
The old fraud is again at the same
tricks. Having lushed up from the
recent rains along its upper course it is
tearing up the earth and spreading con-
sternation among the habitues along its
course between st. Joe and Atchison.
The Champion declares that unless
something is done at once to stop the
erosions four railroads will lose their
tracks ard the several-mlllions- dollars
bridge will be cut off from the eastern
shore and rendered utterly valueless.
The federal government has expended
large sums of money, which has been
duplicated and probably exceeded by
the railroads, in attempts to control the
stream, or at least to prevent its depre-
dations, but it seems to have been so
much money and labor lost. The work
done at threatened points is usually de.
stroyed before completed, or else a
change in the current leaves it high and
dry and of no value.
And SO 1T goes Cd, from season to sea-
son and from year to year, an unre-
munerative burden upon the country
and a constant vexation to all and
everything with which ID comes in
contact.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
THE RESOURCES OF KANSAS.

This state, as the United States Stats
tics for each succeeding decade plainly
show, is without a superior in the Union
as a producer of the staples, wheat and
corn: that is, for the acreage cultivated.
The product in bushels, as well as in
quality, is not surpassed, and but rarely
equalled. As result, our people now
resident confine their operations almost
wholly to the production of these prime
necessities, including hogs and cattle,
which, of course, are the offshoots of
corn.
In the conduct of any kind of bust
ness it often happens that the best pay
ing field is in the direction of handling
or producing some article of prime
necessity that is neglected by
every body else. In such fields of
enterprise are fortunes usually acquired,
and to mention one of many reasons why
this is so will be sufficient to prove the
statement. Patents and other forms of
monopolistic advantages are clearly rec
ognized as of great value when the arti-
cies SO produced and protected are staple
necessaries, and as the man entering
into the production of the products of
the soil that fairly come under this head
will for a long time be without competi-
ton, he will enjoy all Of the advantages
of monopoly.
In Kansas large quantities of pota toes,
cabbages, dried beans, canned fruit,
&C., &C., are shipped from California,
where they are raised by labor higher
priced than here, on land generally in
ferior to our bottom lands, but which
costs 100 per cent more. The dis
advantages of California in these respects
alone are great enough to insure
a reasonable profit to the producer here,
but when We in the valley of the Arkan-
sas have the immense additional advan-
tage of the freight or express charges of
1000 TO 100 miles it would be hard to
understand why we do lot proceed at
once to produce al these articles right
here not only for local consumption but
supply our neighborS by means of our
A"NA'- '8Aioou Aoi huuuIcuo VI
miles. To make this business perma-
nent, and to NEE, the great demand
with an ample supply, will no doubt re-
Quire rrIgation, but as not more than
two irrigations per annum are ever
needed, and often but one, and some
times not that, it is matter easily COM
passed, and the underhow of water in
the valley Is not only ample, but
within ten or twelve feet of the
surface, \ steam pEmp would
If powerful enough to irrigate the land
while In operation thus dispensing with
the cost of reservoirs, probably be the
cheapest in outlay and most economics
in use, as few days rain per year
would irrigate twice an area Of land of
twenty acres, which twenty acres would
never fail of q crop and under the most
unfavorable circumstances never fail 10
produce what would ret in dollars and
cents as much or more than would the
balance of the 160 acre farm. in the
staples Of wheat and corn. There are
| many other advantages TO be derived
from the developement of our resources
but for The present we will only speak
OF this the most obvious and the one
that Is certain to pay our people who are
enterprising enough 10 take it up and
push 1t to success.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Representative Hall of Missouri. the
ex-labor agitator and author of the pro-
posed income tax scheme that is to be
made a part of the Wilson tariff bill.
makes haste TO explain that the tax will
not apply 10 salaries of $4,000 ard less:
that on a S.. COO salary, for instance, the
tax would only be on S1,000, or $50
This is like the lawyers plea in avoid
ance. The main point at issue is rot the
sums of money to be realized but the
principle involved. 1t is a discrimina-
ton tax laid upon one class of citizens
for the benefit of another without cor
responding returns, and is unjusrfiable
exeert a. q dernier resort.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
he moment he hit the grass and .x.ad.

the moment he hit the grass and viads
for the water on the run--pole, line
and all And game. When | headed
him of that eel stood right up on his
tail and fought me. The colorcd per.
son had dog named Body-juard.
Dog had record. too. He got on the
warpath once and closed every store IN
town
I'VE sicsed Body-Guard on the eel
NY eel whipped him in two and hall
minutes He was the gsmiest eel ever
known No. didn't get him, either.
He went back in the Walnut, where ia
lived. zoe might as well have tried "a
stop the - mate. Kansas City Times.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
Dispatches from Washington yeste

Dispatches from Washington yester.
day say that if New York man is
chosen for supreme justice lit is prob
allie the New York senators will be con
suited, which makes it improbable that.
another New York man will be named.
In fact, the situation encourages the ap-
rrehension that few New York men will
get in their graft for anything outside OF
the state. The president would be fur
Their justified in making no further
changes in that state by the circum.
stance that the federal offices where
changes have not already been made are
filed by competent and trustworthy Re-
publicans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
For the Eagle:
UNDER a CLOUD.

Der our erstwhile happy people
A dreaded gloom is cast,
Thrown by shrouded image
That enslayes and holds them fast.
The outlines of the monster
Cannot be clearly made,
And TO conjecture given
Is each and every sage,
Tie great and honored Grover
Said to the immortal Dan:
cit is the sherman silver bill
Repeal it, if you can"
And, with superhuman effort,
The silver lamb was slain:
But still. like a Nemesis,
The shadow sweeps the plain.
Then the dusky Lin sought to prove
That the ghostly apparition
Was the avenging spirit
OF her unstable throne.
But the Cleveland Gresham edict
To restore the fallen queen,
Proves the greatest tiascO
That ever yet was seen.
But out OF the great confusion
The sages come serene,
Evolving the conclusion
That the crisis was foreseen;
That the unwonted panic,
To all bitter pill,
Was brought on by lack of confidence,
And the iniquitous Mckinley bill
SO the Apostle Wilson
Says unto the expectant throng.
That stands, with gaping wonder,
Ready to right the wrong:
1T is the robber tariff, gentlemen.
That is causing all this clog.
And, with he aid of Speaker Crisp,
Wen now proceed the Reps to fog
With the golden standard now restored.
And soon to be recouped,
With Queen Lii enthroned,
And the Oemo-POps enroute,
With free-trade men astride the saddle:
The country-Oh! where are we at?''
Unless the leaders the issue straddle,
We must return to Grandpa's Hat.
-EMERA ESGLEwILDE WILSo.
Enid, o. T., Jan. 90 1924.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
Thoroughly Iua;fnsA

Nine Boron questions . yeuns
~rvsnt girl who Is applying for . po-
sition: Have you been Ia service q
long timer"
Hardly twelve month";"
And hare ron any good ehsrSeters
to show1F
Good charsct>rs'" sa,d shA rtyl
taking bandie of papers ont Of her
pocket 1--WE already 20. thirty
-Aiuaanseh du chsrivxri
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Mrs. Unsophisticns - Ny husband
may be gambler, but he il very kind
70 dumb animals
Mrs RightuptodAte-wha makes you
think go?
Mrs. Unsophistieus-r overheard him
tell the doctor tina; be sat eight hours
ia tho club fattening up the kitty
< g..
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Ridiculous and absurd as they ap-
peared at the time, PETERS articles on
The Way Out" published before he
cot into the senate. were the true cause
of his popularity with the Pop politicians,
then and now. The secret is found in
tie sequel: the way out had reference to
the fellows that were in, and it wolk ed
to the senator's satisfaction at least, and
his family's.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
Mas Vanity

"Do you mean 20 say, SAD one
woman 10 another, that Jour hus-
band will get up in the middle OF ,ae
niTht 20 chase burglars
Yes"
How did ron manage III"
- made him believe / think ne u
brsre, and he thinks that by Sosns
downstairs with the poker be = ses p
ing up rery large reputation ~ . com
psratiyeIy snail risk - washing son
Ssax
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
"Siva" has taken up Grover Clevelan,

silva has taken up Grover Cleveland
again in the InterOcean. He accounts
for the mans promotions as follows:
The folly of the Republicans of Buff
falo IN nominating candidates who could
not command the votes of the party
madeyou successfully sheriff and mayor
The Interference % Republican presi-
dent with the action Of Republican
state convention made you president"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Rev. Leigh Vernon, the evangelist who
has just completed a six months Jail
sentence for running away with another
mans wife, announces that he will re-
'urn to the work he quit when entering
all. If he does, in this state, he will
return to the quarters he has just
quilted, p. q.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

There is good deal of stage play in
Grand Master Severeign's protest, in the
name of the knights of Labor, against
The issue of bonds by the government.
Everybody feels the same way and the
protest is wellnigh universal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

President Harrison's administration
called In from Wall street two hundred
and fifty million dollars of bonds, which
made Cleveland so mad that he has not
only started to return the bonds but to
give away a whole group of islands
which Ben had scouped in for naval
station
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

When the Missouri Democrats come
10 realize that their senior senator's in
Huence extends no further than to pre-
vent the confirmation of appointments,
they will feel like taking off their Vest
and ripping it up the back.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
A Chicago Rsaan~e.

You gay you lore me. James; but
what guarantee have ] that ve shali
he happy IL we arc marTiedT"
'I'Il give you my written consent "a
a divorce on demand"
And 50 they were nsaTied.-Judg.-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

a Texan who drank TWO glasses of
whisky, six of beer and seven of egg
nogg died in fifteen minutes. The
coroner's jury laid it to the sugar and
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

And now the administration at Wash
ington Is hurting anathemas at the head
Of Fred Grant, because he once re-
marked that "a surplus is easier TO
handle than deficit" and for that they
accuse him Of being ia the conspiracy
against the government.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

If Hon. Galusha Crows majority for
congressman-at-large in Pennsylvania
reaches the figures claimed by the Re-
publican press of that state-200, 600
the old sobriquet of thirty years ago of
Great Majority" Grow, will reattach
to him again. He may out-Grow even
that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Cleveland is just as much mistaken in
thinking that by taking constitutionals
he can protect the constitution, as he
was when he repealed the silver law to
bring prosperity to this country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

The announcement in the dispatches
that Carlisle's bond scheme is heartily
approved by Wall street was SO much
surplusage. Being back of the scheme
everybody knew the street approved it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Tie worlds fair medals to be given
out will be rejected because there is
naked Young man on one side.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

President Dole's opinion of President
Dole is quite as robust as President
Cleveland's opinion of President Cieve-
land.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
THE CROP WAS SHORT.

The figures issued by the agriculture
department indicate that last years
cereal crops were all short, both in point
of aggregate yield and the yield per
acre, compared with the banner year of
1892. The loss in yield, last year, COM
pared with 1892, on the three staple
crops is as follows:
Wheat. ................1 19, ST., 275
Corn .. ......... $685., 500
Oats. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. % 150. $50
Total. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 50 935, 2y4
The loss in the yield was two bushels
to every acre sown to wheat; three
fifths of bushel on corn; one bushel On
nafC
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Do not take the trouble to hunt up the
Democratic Chicago platform to find a
plank on the issuance Of new bonds. 1t
i not there.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

1t is going to be rather hard for the
Republicans of Kansas next fall to keep
The Democratic and Populistic funerals
from getting mixed up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

How John G. Carlisle must feel when
he remembers the times when he not
only entertained opinions but expressed
than
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

While the government Is having
hard time to meet expenses, 1t Is no
worse off than the people.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

-Dinks-"Was that genuine clear
Ing oct sale Buybig 4 Bilksli held
last wcsk?" DAnks-''I Guess Il must
have been Notbing has been seen Of
either Of them aa10SH-Rp&Alsceurier
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

There is possibility of course. when
Mrs. Lease says she is going to California,
that she is using her bonnet for tele-
nhnne.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

The people cry for bread and the ad-
ministration gives Wall street more
bonds.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

All there remains for Liliuokalani to
do is to put bottom in her crown, use
it as a basket and retire to private
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

If this stringency keeps on the bull
frogs will be the only ones In Kansas
having green backs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Our correspondent still maintains
that tie word oklahoma" sIgnlhes
high license or anti-prohibItion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

The Brazilian war is about ended. The
war correspondents are getting weary OF
writing.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Money talks, and in this section 1t Is
hadlv in need of throat treatment
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Governor Mitchell seems to still be
able to 90 to his corner unarrested.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23
CO M B IN E y

The Kansas State Medical and
Surgical Institute ana Sanilarium.
DR.. Terrill President, and the Wich
ita Medical and Surgical Institute
and Eye and Ear lntirmary. DR..
Purdy Proprietor and Surgeon in
chief, have combined The two lnsii-
tuiicns which will he known here
after as the lerrilI-Purdy Medical
and Surgical Institute, and Eye and
Ear lntirmary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Governor Mitchell may win IN one
Sound-of blank cartridges.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

Sincere, diligent search through the
eastern papers will reveal some news
that is not about the prize fight.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

The man who lives only for himself
is engaged IN very small s'.~1ne So
Ram Horn
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-01-23

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The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-06-23
STRIKING A BARGAIN.
Young Chicagoan Who Knew What Rs
Was Talking About,

Young Chicagoan Who Knew What BE
Was Talking About,
"What have you got therep" asked Mr..
Billus, encountering boy at his front
door as no stepped out for the purpose of
starting down town.
Handbills, replied tho boy. .'Goin
to be auction over horo In tho next street
Household furnicher, carpets, kitchen
utensils an bcdclothes an various other
kinds O. truck Attention of the women
p'tic'larly invited"
Mr.. Billus' hair rose also his gore.
You needn't leave any here" he said
sharply, selling tho one that had been
wrapped about tho doorknob, crushing 1t
In his hand and thrusting 1t into his ooat
pocket
Got to lcnvo ono ut ovcry house." sold
the boy. "Them's my ordors''
II tell you don't want any OF them
left here Do you understand that"
Yes, SIR
We'll. get down from hero and go
along"
IN get down." grumblcd tho boy, pro
cccding reluctantly down tho steps, but
won't go along. I'll wait round hero till
you're out O. sight, and I'll como back
and scatter these bills all over your yard. {"
I'm just stay here and sec if you do,
you impudcnt littlc"-
That's oil right I'll be hangin round
not fur off. I'm paid by tho week, and
my times chcapern yourn. amt in no
hurry. Besides" cxpostulntcd the lad,
cit wouldn't bo honest fur mo to slight
my work. I'm hired to leave these bills at
every house, an I'm goin to do 1t, by
5ocksi"
Mr.. Billus reflected Ho had got the
worst of tho argument thus fur.
=. Rub ~ hp soid ttlatts
havo special reasons for not wanting any
OF these hnndbills left at my house, and If
this will bo an inducement for you not to
leave anywhere no drew silver dollar
from his pockct-'I'll give it to you ms n
reward and in recognition of your sterling
honesty"
Now ye're talkin business" replied the
incorruptible youth, pockcting tho coin.
I'm skip tho whole block
And he wiped his nose on his coat sleeve
and ran down tho street. Trib-
una