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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
EMBE ZZLED EGGS.

The international medical congress has
closed its session in Rome. The next con-
gress will meet in Russia.
Under the first private pension bill pass
ed by congress S., 500 a Year WAS gran ted
to Baron st .uben for his service in the
revolutionary war.
When more than eighty years old Mr..
Gladstone renewed the study OF the French
language, and when eighty-two made his
first speech in French.
A. G. Fisk, president of the Pan-Ameri-
can Bi-Metal!ic league, proposes TO call u
silver convention to meet iu Washington
May l. the day Coxey's army is scheduled
to arrive there.
London Truth says that Sir Julian
Pauncefote, British ambassador to the
United States, will probably succeed Sir
Edward Malet as ambassador to Germany
at the end of the year
Russia's two greatest authors, Turgeneff
and Tolstol, were students at the URlver-
sity of St. Petersburg which celebrated
It's jubilee on Feb. s. But Toistoi was
sent away on the ground of ''incapacity."
An autograph letter OF Washington's
was sold ar auction in New York on Mon
day for S25. IL is addressed TO George
Taylor, OF New York, May 49, 17S6, thank
ing the Latter for a gift of apples and oys-
ters.
Mr.. Boatner's resolution calling upon
the attorney general for n statement of
what the government is doing for the pro-
lection of its interests in the Union Pa
cific railway has been adopted by the
house.
The sultan has granted to the Palestine
exploration fund the privilege of excavat-
ing ia Jerusalem for two years. Professor
i. h. Wright of No. ~ Quincy street.
Camb bridge, Mass, is secretary for the
United States, and will give further infor-
nation if desired.
Zola lives in fine house in the Rue de
Bruxelles. Paris, furnished with the
luxury which his literary profits permit
him. japanese paintings greet the eye on
entering, and the staircase which leads to
the first floor is carved of expensive wood
and adorned on the first division with
medieval figures of men and horses in life
size.
Lord Rosebery is a baronet of Scotia. So
is Lord Aberdeen. The baronetcies of
Nova Scotia were established by Charles
L as rewards for services to the crown.
The titles carried land grants with them.
but the land grants have disappeared and
the titles only remain. The genuine baro-
net OF Nova Scotia today is Sir Charles
Tupper.
The hard times have been severely felt
in religious circles In England. The Ad-
ditioDal Curates' ssociety which furnished
funds 10 provide curates for poor parishes
where adequate clerical services are not
available, has had greatly to curtail its
grants. withdrawing 40 grants in a total
OF ], 1872 This will deprive as many curatrs
of large part If not the whole of their
income. The society hopes for better times
this year.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
TaEY ARE SIMPLY LYING.

Weekly, for months, the circulars and
reports from Wall street have been tell
ing us that while the amount OF busi-
ness is not increasing anywhere, that
yet more hopeful spirit prevails in
business circles and the future brightens.
All this talk is rot. There is nothing
hopeful or bright for the immediate
future. The country is in the coils of
the party of obstruction Nothing but
an April election for congressman would
as soon relieve the country as an imme-
diate adjournment of congress, coupled
with the declaration that the tariff laws
would not lie further disturbed during
the present administration.
But added to the obstruction spirit
and measures of the party in power, Is
the sdominancy of its head by the
plungers in speculative values, the
gamblers in wind and the hoarders of
illgotten gains, the purchasing power of
whose hoardings increases every hour.
The dollar becomes OF greater value
every day as compared to property and
product.
Cleveland killed imitation by the repeal
of the Sherman act. But did he? Cleve-
land killed silver by the veto of the
Bland bill. But did he? No; he failed
of his purpose in both. The people who
own the property of this country and the
men who own the labor of this country
are entitled to as much consideration as
those who control the standard or token
of the values of both property and labor
The demand that goes from the laborer
and the property owner is for more
money. The fight for silver by the west
and south is really fight for such larger
volume of circulation as shall render
monopoly of the country's currency less
possible. Even an enlarged national
bank currency of such adequacy as
would break the corner would not meet
with much opposition; still, there is the
conviction among the common people
that SO far as the markets and standards
of values of the world are concerned,
silver is held and considered along side
of gold as money, therefore the silver
sentiment.
The whole trouble with the country
today is question of money, at the bot
tom of which trouble is the Democratic
party with its free trade ideas and gold
standard interests.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
fo6EroN FARMS AND FARMERS.

PROP. NocARD states that tubercu-
losis exists in chronic form among cat
tie in Brittany, Champagne, and, above
all, in the Beauce. His observations
do not sustain the theory that the dis
ease is hereditary,
TIE duke of York has become ten
ant farmer on the estate Of his father.
The president of the Cheshire Agricul-
tural society humorously states that
1.-The first thing the duke did was to ask
for reduction of rent"
THE royal lady farmer at Windsor"
to wit, her majesty, the queen, was
very successful exhibitor at the Bir-
mineham fat stock show, winning no
less than six prizes and champion
prize with animals bred on the royal
farm.
A STRANGE mortality is reported as
prevalent in New Zealand. II the skin
of sheep is cut in shearing, in certain
woolsheds. the sheep Invariably dies,
and the same mortality attends the
docking of lambs in the same sheds.
Some toxic germs are supposed TO be
contained in the refuse of the shesring
sheds
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Lafe Merritt of Ell Reno was married
last week.
The Honkatonk of Perry has again been
prayed for.
The organization of base ball club Is on
the tapis In Enid.
The straw nat has appeared in the south
ern part of Oklahoma
Some early corn was up in time to be
1ipped by the last frost.
At Saltwater they call him "Jeffries"
Scott. That is going little too Ear.
A driving Park Association has leased
the school section next to Woodward.
Lately the Cheyenne Indians have been
doing good deal of trading in Woodward
Ouce again. Gold bearing quartz has
been discovered few miles east of Nor
man.
Judge Burford will lose nothing by
granting habeas corpus to Frank Nc
Master
The town-site board OF Woodward is
still issuing deeds but is not receiving any
more filings
There is to be glove contest between
at Enid tonight.
Sidney Clarke called on the president
Saturday and urged the opening of the
Comanche country.
Alya is doing great deal of boasting
over the claim that it has the best cem-
etery in the territory.
Somebody ough, to go and tell Hoke
Smith that every town in the strip went
Republican. He ought to know it.
Mrs. Eta Mikologik of Oklahoma City
wants divorce from her husband. While
she is at it she might as we'll have her
name changed too.
In ElReno Saturday the hearing OF the
McMaster case was postponed for two
weeks. Until that time he will remain in
the custody of the sheriff.
Pawnee Rice, the Indian of Payne coun-
ty who was supposed to have been mur-
dered. it has been discovered, shot himself
while repairing revolver.
A man turned up at Saltwater last
week who said there was not enough
wind in Oklahoma to run a windmill. He
said this and then death came TO his re-
lief
The editor Of the Coalgate NonpareiI has
begun a crusade against the small boys
who Steal rides On the back ends of
wagons. That editor will meet with iguo-
BILE defeat
There will be special sitting of the su-
preme court of the territory in Guthrie
beginning the first Monday in May. The
appeal of Milligan will be among the
things heard.
Sam SmalPs paper says that there is
some chance that President Cleveland will
remove Judge Scott for bis action towards
McMaster. Not much Cleveland is not
that kind of man. If anything he will
approve of Judge Scott's move.
During the last week the farmers in the
vicinity of Hennessey have been buying n
great many firearms. Some OF the bandits
who have been having their way for the
last two months are liable to come up
missing one of these days.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
SOUTH KANSAS WHEAT.

Thet the prospects for the wheat crop
are not as encouraging as they were a
month ago must be admitted. The dry,
windy weather of the past two weeks
has been more or less hurtful. But it is
a fact that there has seldom been an
April in Kansas that some of the wheat
fields have not looked bad and a great
many acres plowed up. 1t has been the
experience of majority of the wheat
growers that they have plowed up
wheat that if let alone would have pro-
duced a fair crop. The greatest injury
this spring has been done to blow land.
where the wheat has been blown out or
covered up by loose soil and sand. There
can be no doubt of the damage in such
cases, but backward growth or yellow
ish tinge is not a sure indication that
the wheat is ruined or that it will not
make a fair crop with favorable weather
from this time on. If Kansas should
have a general rain covering the entire
state it would save many millions of
wheat.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
JOINTS IN TOPEKA.

The Capital is out in an acknowledge
ment that there are drinking places in
Topeka. The Capital is the leading pro-
hibition organ of the state. It's zeal is
such as to have led it, but short time
since. into publishing defense Of Rev.
Woods, the president of the Wichita
Law and Order league, notwithstanding
the fact that such defense was more
reflection on Wichita and an onslaught
on the EAGLE, by inference, than any
justification of man for whom the pro-
hibitionists even of Wichita have very
little use. The Capital of Sunday morn
ing SAYS, editorially: ''There are more
joints in Topeka today than there have
been at any time in ten years" That
paper thereupon scores the Popuiist po-
lice commissioners. But we do not take
it that the charge of joints is presence
upon the part of the Capital for an op-
portunity to score the poor Pops. because
some of the joints are named and located
by the writer so definitely that visiting
stranger could readily find them.
AtlcHllOu 10 uot 0ilcCtro " SuC OoPA
tails admission in any spirit of criticism,
or for drawing of unpleasant comparl-
SONS farther than to remind tina: paper
that Topeka IS the most pronounced pro-
hi5ition city in the state, a large ma
jority sentiment there being in favor of
the enforcement OF the Murray law,
which being undenied and the violation
of the statute admitted, that that people,
and its papers, should show little more
consideration for the failure Of the tenn
perance people to enforce the Murray
law in cities where the majority senti-
ment is the other way-in cities where
majority have from an expensive ex-
perience of repeated and continual fail
ures been forced into the conviction that
the Murray law is more an instrument
Tor defeating the Republican party than
a temperance measure.
But for this law-whether right or
wrong, wise or foolish-Kansas would
have a solid Republican delegation to-
dav in congress-in both houses, and
Iowa would have never been anything
but Republican, for all the trouble of
the country,-its depression and prostra-
tion-is due the fact of a lack of Re-
publican supremacy at Washington.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
GEMS OF INDUSTRIAL ART.

A CoorEBs' union Was formed st Wei
hcnsIephan IN 1i4s.
THE art Of turning wood wNs tn
vented By the Greeks
THE lccksrniths FIRST organized them
selves at Suremburg in 1880.
A DYEas' union was organized IN Ven
ice In 1889 with 200 mernbers-
A BLACKsnTII's guild was established
In Strasburg In the ninth century.
cHIsfsyTs were frat put on houses Of
more than one story in italy IN fss7.
TIE frst glass painting was dors In
. monastery at Tigernsee. In Bavaria
TEE first regular coal mining as q
business was done IA England Ia 1880.
GLASS blowing is represented On "a
Egyptian monumest dating 2oco II. C.
TIE candle makers trade frat be-
gan 20 flourish in the fifteenth cen
tury-
THERE were many booksellers In
Rosns as early as the days of Julius
Csssar.
ovzn t.entv new trades were intro
cuced into western Europe by the Cru
sadeA-
II the tenth century The bes. dyer-
tn Europe were foznd among the
Danes
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
SKITS OF KANSAS NEWS.

A Columbus paper speaks of an "unex-
pectei surprise"
-Theodoseus Botkin is in Topeka taking
the Keeley cure.
Governor Lewelling has named Friday,
April 13, as Arbor Day.
A Topeka man advertises that he takes
photographs without pain.
General j. c. Caldwell of Topeka is in
the race for congressman-at-large.
The referendum system of Switzerland
is the fad with the Kansas Populists now.
Spring Hill, Kansas, elected all women,
mayor, coupcilmen end police judge, at its
municipal election.
Fiuney county raised over $50 600 wor th
of alfalfa seed this year, aud fodder
enough to feed half the cattle in western
Kansas.
Major E. N. Morrill, has been superin-
tendent Of the Congregational Sunday
school at Hiawatha fer the past twenty
years without skip.
Crancey, hardware merchant of Leav-
enwor,h knocked United Slater Marshal
Neeley into the gutter Friday. The
trouble was over bill.
Lyman Humphrey, In accordance with a
time honored custom, has been presented
with the chair which he occupied as gov
ernor of Kansas.
Abilene Reflector: The Populists are
condemning George L. Douglass for his
bill reducing sheriff's fees and at the same
time howl for reduction of expenses of
government. That's just like the Pops.
Sheriff Allen of Bourbon county has re-
fused TO comply with the law reducing his
salary on the ground that it is unconstitu-
tional. A test case will be made of it by
the county commissioners.
ID. n. Heizer says: IF the other fellows
keep on lighting they will elect me COVER
nor. very much deplore for the good of
the party the personal fight that is being
waged by some of the advocates Of guber-
material candidates There is no sense in
saying lot of untruthful things that will
have 10 be taken back J"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
LOST W ARSHIPS.
From the Soston Transcript.

From the 8oston Transcript.
The loss of single warship attracts
more attention than the wrecking of
score of merchantmen. Warships seem
to be part of the nation; they are pub
lie vessels in a double sense, and many
of them by the exploits they have
participated in have endeared their
names to the people. When they are
lost it is as if an eminent man had
died. So great is the interest created
by the loss of a warship that AN err
roneous impression is occasioned as to
the comparative frequency of disasters
in the navy and the merchant service.
The proportion of warships lost in
time of peace to the whole num-
ber in commission at any one
time. take the world over, is
very 'small. Years elapse with
out any disaster involving the
loss of an American or British warship
being reported. and those navies are
always actively employed and are ex-
posed to ali the perils of the sea Ger
tain wrecks fix themselves forever in
the public mind by force of peculiar
circumstances attending them, and are
long made the subject of speculation.
To these tragedies of the sea the United
States navy has contributed its share,
but not more than its share.
The navy since the organization of
the federal government has always had
enough to do, in peace or war, and very
often with not enough vessels to do it.
In the older days, when ships depended
entirely on sail power, they were ex-
posed 10 perils against which steam
now aids vessels, and total disappear
anees were correspondingly more COM
mon. One of the first vessels OF the
navy which went down with all on
board was the frigate lnsurgent,
last heard from in July, 1900
The brig Pickering disappeared
about the same time. Which per-
ished first, and the manner OF their
fates, no man knows; they simply went
down and left no sign The famous
sloop-of-war Wasp was last heard from
in September, 1914 Her fate, too. is
forever q mystery. As the United
States was at war with England then,
il is barely possible that the tradition
that British frigate had night con-
fiict with a smaller vessel, which, max
ing her escape in the gloom, appeared
TO be swallowed ND by the sea. had
some foundation and referred TO the
luckless cruiser. The Epervier, bring
ing home the Americans Commodore
Decatur had rescued from slaverv In
Tunis and AIgiers. never reached port
Tradition says the ship struck on Nan
tueket shoals in the night and went %
pieces. but no man knows Fifteen
years after the Wasp was given up a.
lost, her sister ship, the Hornet. disap-
peared She Is believed 70 have foam
dered in = sudden squsll-in the gulf OF
Mexico These two ships. the Wasp
and Hornet
IhstNc p-o1s sisters .; the Sea,
II glory and IL c0Sic-
were long watched for and hoped for,
but no tidiugs Of the fate cteither ever
came TO waiting ears Old people still
recall that in the days of their yoGth.
when the sound OF salute Eas heard
"a . sea port. the question woaiG De
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
ABOUT BEABDs.
rom AL the Year Rouns.

From All the Year Round.
In the beginning there can be no
doubt that it was the fashion to wear
the beard just as long as IL would
grow. Methuselah must have had a re-
markable beard, though, as he lived in
comparatively advanced epoch OF
human life, we can not say whether or
not he wore il in its natural plenitude.
1t were curious to trace the vicissitudes
OF the thing among the different ma
tions and people of the world, but
much time and learned investigation
would be required Some people,
among others the Turks. cut the hair
off their heads and let their beards
grow. The Europeans, on the con-
trary, shave their boards and wear
their hair. The American savages
pluck the hairs off their boards. bat
are proud Of those on the head, etc
SO far Butfon- Since Buttons
time, however, We have al
most killed of all our American
savsges- and those that survive. a.
least in North America are not 20
particular about their toilet a. they
used 10 'te- Snaven TURKS. moreover,
are not rsrities nowadays Nor do we
Europeans as body Hght against the
beard, though We certainly DO oar best
t. keep our natural hair upon cur
heads
What vast difference there is be
tween Jne beard and another There
Is the long. untranmeled beard broad
and thick which the owner czrcsses a.
i i were an infant Men with ssch
boards nav. / think. q. rule. -
trusted rather more than other men
Can you imagine = Venetian dog- or
EseEnb OF The council of ten without
= beard2 ! can not II yOa have sees
. Kan of marx fondie rs loag beard
turing the processes Of reflection. yos
~ai D. apt 70 wonder whether ~ not
his mind would Iose Us equilibrium !;
Ee were n he night 20 DC clean shaysa
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10

raised: rs It the Hornet, come In at
last?"
The list of vessels lost with all on
board, totally disappeared" also in
cludes the Porpoise. last heard from in
September, 1854, in the China seas; the
sloop-of-war Albany, which sailed from
Aspinwan for New York about the
same time, never reaching home; and
the Levant, which, seen some time in
1860 sailing into . fog bank in the Pa
cifc, has never reappeared, though
until 1862. The mist Of death and
silence was wrapped around her and
never has been dissipated. 1t was
on board the Levant that DIR. Hale
made The Man Without a Country"
die, q clever way of adding more
vraisemblance to that wonderful mar
rative, since there were people who
Immediately said there always was
something odd about the movements
of the Levant, and as no one survived
the ship. the particularly of the story
could not for a time be gainsaid. The
fate of all of our naval vessels lost
since the war is a matter of record.
The sloop-of-war Sacramento was
wrecked in the bay of Bengal soon af-
ter the close of the rebellion; no lives
were lost. The storship Fredonia was
cast upon the Peruvian coast by tidal
wave in 1865 and many perished. The
gunboat Suwanee was wrecked on an
uncharted ledge off the ceast of British
Columbia. July Q. 1865. The sinking
of the Oneida, with many of her of
icers and crew, by the mail steamer
Bombay, January IS. 1870, was
disaster and almost a crime,
since the sinking ship was left to her
fate by the vessel that had collided
with her. In 1870 the Saginaw was
lost on Ocean island, in the Pacific.
June II, 1875. the Saranac was gored
by sunken rock in the north Pacific.
November "a, 1877, the Huron was lost
on the coast of North Carolina, ninety
eight officers and men perishing. The
next notable disaster occurred at Sa-
moa March Is, 1889. when the flagship
Trenton and the corvette Vandalia
were wrecked in a terrible hurricane,
and forty-five officers and men lost
their lives. Latest on the list comes
the noble old Kearsarge. closing a
chapter that includes most, if not all,
the disasters that have befallen our
warships that We're noteworthy either
by the fame of the vessels or the at
tendant circumstances
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
cnARrTY.s COMMANDMENTS.

EExEsBER the spirit Of charity 70
keep 1t holy.
Thou shalt not rob the poor 70 feed
the pauper.
THOU shalt not take the name Of
charity IN vain
THou shalt not kill the soul Of man
by feeding his stomach
THOU shalt not let thy giving bear
false witness 70 its motive
TKou shalt have 10 other motive In
giving before the good Of the poor.
TEou shalt not eovet the name Of
philan.hropist for thine OWE glory.
TEoU shalt not let mothers bury
their shame in an orphan asylam nor
fathers hide their greed
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
REPUBLICAN, CALL.
For the State Convention to be Held at
Topeka June g.

The formal call ior the Republican state
convention has been issued. signed by the Of
ficers of the state central comrcittee, as fol-
lows:
A delegate convention of the Republicans OF
Kansas will convene in the city OF Topeka,
Wednesday. the 9th day Of June, 1884, at liz
O'Clock. m for the nomination of candidates
for associate justice of the supreme court,
governor, lieutenant governor. secretary OF
state auditor of state. treasurer OF state al
toYney general superintendent of public in
sfrucfion. Said convention viii also nomin-
pfe . candidate for cOngressman-at-large.
Delesates to this convention shall be elected
bv county conventions duly called by the sew
.raI county Republican committees under
such rules and regulations as may be by them
prescribed. The basis of appointment OF dele
cafes to said state convention Will be one
elegate-at-iarge for each county of the state
and one delegate for every 200 votes. or frac-
lion of 100 or more votes, cast for w z. Ed
wards for secretary of state in the election of
1se2. no county TO have less than two dele
gates:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-04-10
THE WICHITA GRAIN CONVENTION.

The call for trade congress to be held
in Wichita on the 18th has been met by
the cities of the south Gulf ports with
an enthusiasm that indicates that thew
are awake 10 their interests and many of
the interior towns are responding to the
invitations. \ recent lowering of the
rate on grain and -four 10 Galveston
and common points in Texas of 12 cents
per 100 pounds may not be traced di-
rectly TO this agitation but it is the log
ical result of present conditions and in
dicates that the lines running south pro-
pose to carry what rightly belongs to
them, even if they get no more per ton
per mile than the roads running east.
With the cooperation of the railroads
the trade relations of the west and south
can be increased many fold. Il Is To be
expected that this move viii meet with
considerable opposition from eastern
markets, as Chicago, ST. Louis and other
cities are writing for information and