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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

The sheriffs OF Oklahoma met in FL
Reno yesterday.
The cry is pow for the opening OF the
Comauche country.
There is a girl in Guthrie whose stock
ing will hold peck of canGy-
The councilmen OF Enid passed the
salary ordinances over the mayors veto.
Have Cleveland and Eoke Smith instruct
ed the Oklahoma Democrats 20 fight state
hood.
By typographical error an Oklahoma
paper is made TO say: Wv nat IS aofae
without a MOTH
II Is TO be hoped that the fellow who Was
kicking about the Gns weather three
weeks ago IS satisfied.
Saltwater tried selecting 3 postmaster
by vote last week and The GszsEse @! taAt
Place called it farce
sam Smallis name is Playing hids-and-
go-seek with the public- /: row appears
again at the top OF The oklahonsn.
TIE Eaid Eagle announces THAI tie sd-
mission 20 see the city council Is free wisn
TO extra charge for reserved seats
That old chestnut sign abcGt ane fer
driving over bridge faster ihaa Walk
has began 20 appear 10 Oklahoma
The prlzs fighters a. Perry advertise ia
the papers The singular thlog about this
is that The advertisements are psiG for
The Pend Crsrk Echo . sigbirz because
O esrisin cit zen does 10. do anything re-
rna-kable- TLIs citizen .oeks Ike The
g. saoe Dorxlas. ard tie Echo wo1ad Ike
TO ps.as BIS plcsars.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
NOT EGGS ACTLY.

When the farmers bring in their eggs
and find that they are worth only 10 cents
a dozen instead of 20 cents as a year ago,
they realize that it makes a difference
whether the millions of laboring people
are employed at good wages or are de-
pendent on charity for living. People
don't live on 20 cent eggs when they are
out of employment.-Con Empire.
No, indeed. And they don't live on
20 cent eggs in Kansas when there is an
open winter, plenty of feed and industri-
Gus hens. Say, old Rooster, ever think
of that? Give them an open winter,
decent feed and good shelter and the
Kansas hen illustrates the law of supply
and demand.-Atchison Champion.
Don't cackle SO loud you are liable to
frighten the whole flock. Say, prime
cockrel, what's the matter with this
winter as to openness? And vet, here
abouts, the female portion of the barn
yard brood have been utterly Indifferent
to the demands Of the larder, although
they have laid by the most decent feed
in abundance. and sheltered by adequate
protection. The demand for the pro-
duct is good, which is natural; the
price is low, which is readily account
able: but the supply is below normal,
which is unaccountable.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
ALI EGED VS.. REAL OBJECTIONS.

The opponents of statehood for the
Indian Territory, whether single O,
double, set up.two reasons why it should
not be done One is that Oklahoma can
not support state government alone
and the Indian portion nor the strip
would add anything in the way of taxes
for the present nor for some time. The
other is that the people do not want
statehood now. As to the first reason it
is enough to say that tax of one-fourth
of one per cent on the property of Okla
homa and the strip, which is estimated
worth SAC, 1000, would yield S100,000
which amount would be ample for the
needs of the new state to begin with,
and there is no sort of doubt that the
increase in wealth, under statehood,
| would more than compensate the in.
crease in expenses of the governments as
the growth and development of the state
progressed. The second reason is a
mere assumption. An enabling act
passed by congress authorizing the peo-
pie of the territory to frame a constitu-
tion does not make a state. The con-
stitution so framed must first be
ratified by the people of the proposed
adopted then submitted to congress for
its ratification. If the people object to
statehood all they would need to do
would be to reject the constitution at
the polls, and that would end the matter
for two years at least. Thus the alleged
objections to statehood for Oklahoma
and the territory dissolve into thin air.
There is objection, though, and of a
substantial character. There are white
men largely interested in cattle who get
big profits every season from grazug
their herds on the Indian lands, and still
Others who realize large incomes from
other lands through cultivating them by
cheap labor and by manipulating the
land privileges from year to year. State
hood would let both of these classes out
of situations that pay big profits at other
peoples expense. This is the real ground
of opposition. But to accept and act
upon it, or rather refuse to act in defer
ence to such demands, would be to fur
ther grant special privileges to few to
the sacrifice of the rights of many. If
the privilege of expressing their wishes
and desires IN this matter shall be denied
the people of the territory, great wrong
amounting to an outrage will be psrpe-
trated upon an intelligent and spirited,
vet helOiesS community
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
CENTS a RE ODD,
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald
From time to time one sees references
in the daily papers, referring to the
difficulty experienced by the ferry COM
panies, car lines, etc, in disposing OF
enormous accumulations of ordinary
copper cents The reader is very apt
to remem Der this, particularly if in ex.
change for dollar bill he is returned
ninety-fve one-cent pieces by con-
ductor.
As matter of fact, there is no excuse
for the item. much less for car con-
ductor or change taker in unloading
his weight of copper upon the always
more or less abused passenger. The
United States sub-treasury, at Wall
and Nassau streets, makes, and has
made it practice for years, of ex-
changing minor coin for United States
money of large denomination, and it
has many regular customers who are SO
served.
There are a mum Der of curious thing.
about cents as they come to the sub
treasury In the first place, they are
quite extensively counterfeited. This
may seem strange, as the profit IN
counterfeit cent is necessarily small.
1t is true. however. nevertheless and
is supposed to be the work OF Italians.
who, more largely than any other ma
tionality. seem to favor the imitation
OF our minor and subsidiary coin.
The Brooklyn and New Jersey ferry
companies. the elevated railroads Of
both New York and Brooklyn and the
various slot machine companies are
regular customers for the exchange OF
cents for other money at the sub-treas
urv. At times they turn in enormous
quantities. the slot companies alone
ranging between one hundred and
twenty-five dollars and seven hundred
dollars day.
As might be expected all sorts oi
oddities in the way of coin come II
with the quantity taken IN the ma
chimes In addition 10 the counterfeits
are scores of mot one cents of war
times. metal discs and foreign copper
Austrian money predominaiing- Asthe
copper cent IS simply token no mat
ter what its condition is II IS redeemed
a; par II IL can in any way be adenfl'
Ted as United States Inoney.
The popularity OF the slot machines
a uAa< ar "a arm hrnurht about .
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
KANSAS POPULATION.

Secretary Coburn of the state board of
agriculture has just completed COM
putation of statistics from the reports of
county assessors for 1893, showing the
population of cities and towns above
500. There are 176 such municipalities
in the state. A comparison of the fig
ures with those OF the previous year
shows that of the ninety-seven towns
and cities then having population of
1000 or more, siNty-two have made a
gain in the number of inhabitants.
Wichita and Kansas City both show an
increase, while Topeka shows slight
falling off during the year.
This showing sets at rest the oft re-
peated assertion during the past year or
more that the state was losing heavily in
population. Some have gone, but more
have come TO take their places. The
point of encouragement in this exhibit
is, ii our population has increased dur
ing such a season of depression and loss
of people by the opening of the strip as
we experienced last year, what may We
not hope for In the way of accessions
when the pressure is removed and fairly
good times return, as Is the promise for
the near future:
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
NAKEDNEss AND POCKETS.

Men sometimes take action and form
| Judgment from indistinct influences
rather than logical reasons.
1t is possible that the United States
senators rejected st. Gawden's medal
with naked young man upon it, on
some such grounds. 1t is not right to
charge the rejection to prudery. 1t is
equally unfair to lay it upon lack of
artistic completeness in the drawing.
| The young gentleman is all there.
However, it is possible that the medals
downfall came indirectly from a strong
sentiment which demands pockets.
The pocket is part of the modern man.
1t is as important as his finger or his
leg. Men can live and grow fat with
finger and leg gone, but imagine the
fin di steele male trying to. struggle
through life without pocket!
In fact clothes may, after all, be only
an auxiliary to pockets. 1t has never been
proved satisfactorily, that primeval pur-
| ity knew shame or had to know it. 1t has
| always seemed more probable that it is
| a conventional whim- wham, and clothes
were invented to buoy it up. Still, it
has always seemed impossible that a
conventional crochet should last so many
centuries.
There is much likelihood, again, that
clothes were adopted as means of bear
ing small burdens. 1t was not until
later day that the invention became
! means of exploiting vanity, and the SUI
perfuous cloth, which is not actually
needed in joining the pockets together,
made its appearance. The argument that
apparel was originally brought into use
to protect the body against the elements,
is not taken into consideration here. 1t
is weak, at best. The face is always
bare, and suffers very little, or, as the
naked Hindoo said in London: "Why
don't freeze? All, because am all
face"
The pocket bears out the belief that
clothes were invented for it. 1t has be-
come a necessity. Every one has its
use, from the secretive hip-pocket to the
watch-pocket. The greater part Of the
small retail business of the country is
conducted through the pocket, and,
without it, ever, thing would be done on
the dangerous system of credit
1t must have been this subtle fidelity
to the pocket that Influenced the senator's
in squelching young man who had
none, and was bold enough to be set up
as representation of America, nation
where the pocket is i'm its most advanced
state. N'must have been.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
IMPORTANT TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES

The state supreme court, in the case Of
Aaron S. Drake VS.. the Southern Kansas
railway, appealed from Franklin county,
decides that san employe possessed of
full knowledge of the service TO be
performed by him and of the dangers
which they involve, who voluntarily ac-
cepts the employment and continues in
the service of the employer, will gen.
erallv be held TO have assumed the risk
of the hazards of such service and to
hare absolved his employer from liabili-
ty for damages in case Of injury Drake
was employed as a laborer about the
shops in Franklin county, and was in
jured while unloaning rails from ''push
car" He sued the company and got a
verdict for $3.50. but the judgement of
the trial court is reversed.
This seems to have been case where
the employe contributed, to the extent
of carelessness at least, to his own in
Jury, in which event it was not just
that the company should be required to
compensate for damages that it had No
possible way of averting.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
TAKING o0r PATENTS.
From the New York Trib Une.

From the New York Tribune
Persons who are likely to apply for
patent would do well to cut out and
preserve the following instructions:
~ Write to the commissioner OF
patents, Washington. D. c., requesting
copy of the Rules of Practice, "
which he will send free. Then care
fully read from page to page Il.
about the articles which may be patent
ed, and the form of application and
drawings. In another part of the PAM
phlet there are specimen applications
and drawings.
(2) Prepare an application in accord
ance with the rules. make or procure
drawings such as the patent Office re-
quires. make oath to your papers and
send to the commissioner of patents
with fifteen dollars. This is the first
government fee. Later, if you receive
notice that patent will be issued.
then second government fee of twen'
ty dollars must be paid.
(3) Some people are able to prepare
their own papers and drawings prop
erly: but those who are not consult a
lawyer and employ a draughtsman.
Patent lawyers charges vary according
to the Importance of the case; but they
seldom ask less than twenty or thirty
dollars, and sometimes more, besides
the cost of the drawings.
(4) If an inventor is afraid that some
put it in shape he can protect himself
in two ways. First. he can make ont
a paper called ''Caveat," and send to
the commissioner of patents. Thi.
document briefly describes his inven.
ton, and declares that he has not yet
perfected it. twill be good for year,
if no one else has gotten ahead of him;
and it may be renewed for another
year. The caveat is described on pages
So and So of Rules of Practice" and a
specimen caveat is given further along
in that publication. A fee of ten dol.
lars must be paid to Uncle Sam for
each year caveat is in force. An.
other way to guard ones rights
is to tell a trusty friend about
the exact Enature of the pro.
posed invention, and have that friend
make record of the date, so that, if
necessary, he can swear to it, and
thus prove priority of invention, il
some one else wrongfully claims the
credit. This plan is as good as any
other.
% Some inventors take the precau.
tion to have an expert in Washington
search the patent Office files. to discov.
er whether anybody has already pat
ented his idea. Such experts can be
hired for between two dollars and five
dollars.
(6) If person can not easily raise the
money to pay the government and his
attorney. he can sometimes sell quar-
ter or half of his right to manufac-
turer or other person for enough tc
cover the necessary outlay. In order
to perfect the invention, some expense
for material and experiment is often
incurred; and this, perhaps, can be
met in the same way. If no lawyer or
manufacturer is willing to advance a
cent for this purpose, the inventor may
well doubt the value of his idea. Money
is often wasted by pateuting worth.
less article
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

In referring 10 the act of congress re-
pealing the federal election laws. which
had been in existence for nearly twenty
live years. the Kansas City Gazette saws
that in the north those laws have been
effective in preventing frauds, while in
The south they have been nullified As
a rule the statement is correcs. yet there
have been some notorious exceptions.
The most conspicuous one, perhaps. is
In Now York city. Tammany has set
the law at defiance and uniformly re,
sponded with as large majorities as were
required to overcome the Republican
vote of the state outside of the metro
polls and adjacent municipalities. Chi
cago and some other lesser cities hare
been held as Democratic strongholds by
the same process. 1t is but fair to give
Ahe devil his due.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
Vfrtuous Under Consrraint.

From the EmpoSia Republican
One of the favo.ite populistic attacks
on the truth is the assertion that the
present secretary CT state is turning over
the fees of his office. while his Republi-
can predecessor retained them. Under
the old law the secretary Of state was
paid $4,000 and fees. The legislature of
1890. by bill introduced BY Bent Muir
dock. the Republican senator from But
Ter, changed the law so as to increase
the salary to 2.5o0 per year and give
the fees 10 the state. Therefore the
change should be credited TO the Rep1b-
lican senate of 1890, and not to the Pop
secretary of state, who can; help him-
self.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

glass OF liquor and squared himself be-
.ore his host
"shoot," he said, in tone of com,
nand "l'd rather be shot than drink
that stuff, and the cowboy embraced
the tenderfoot and began TO shoot tho
bottles of the shelf
Widow Hen's Eggs Don't Hatch.
From the Newton Republican.
A good story is told of lawyer in
this town. A widow had one lone hen
u hich layed fifteen eggs and set upon
them for five weeks. One day the law
yer happened up TO the old womsns
house and she asked HIM why the eggs
had not haiched. He looked around
over the place and faising 10 find ans
companion chickens he returned 70 th.
house and gave bis concinsions ss fol-
lows: Madam, said he. Il have
made thorough examination and have
come to the conclusion that your hen is
a widow
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
= :
PULLING A 1OOTH.

from the Washington Post.
One of the guests at the Riggs house
recently was complaining of an aching
tooth, and inquired at the Office where
he could find good dentist. He Sc.
cured the information and went out to
find relief, when Proprietor DeWitte
smiled at funny reminiscence.
81 shall never forget tooth-pulling
incident that occurred when / was a
youngster," he remarked "My uncle,
who was physician, had great, big,
stalwart colored man for servant
His name was Buck, and one day he
went into his masters office and COM
planned that one of his teeth was near.
" killing him. My uncle advised him
to go and have it taken out. Buck OBJ
iected. Nav, 'indeedy, boss he eN.
claimed, hit wud dess fairly kill me
ter hab dis toof tucked ort.'
My uncle then told him he
would fix it for him by using
a little magic. Buck was equipped
with all the superstition of his race,
and he readily acquiesced in the sug-
gestion, for he thought the doctor
could do anything. The old gentle
man took the small string from hi.
violin. and, making loop, dropped il
over Bucks aching tooth and drew it
taut. Then he led { Buck out to the
hitching-post and made him stand on
his tip toes, which brought his eyes
on a level with the top of the post. and
tied the catgut around it Upon the
fat surface of the top he poured some
gunpowder. and then solemnlNwarD-
ing Buck not to move. he returned to
the house. Suddenly he came rushing
out of the kitchen door with glow
ing coal of fire held in a pair of tongs.
Buck saw him coming and backed for
all he was worth But he left that
tooth in front of him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
For the Eagle:
I'VE CANNOT LIVE THE LIFE WE
WOULD

We cannot live the life we would;
he dismal dirges Of distress
SGbdue the songs of happiness.
And evil shadows all the good!
The tender dreams Of dear desire,
Which murmur in the secret soul,
Refu e the fingers Of control.
And fall in self-consuming fire..
The grea: ambitions that arise.
To fell the fends Of fatal chance
And conquer hostile circumstance.
Dissolve beiore their enemies.
The highest hopes that haunt the breast,
Meet countless combats IN their course,
TIL conquered by superior force
They totter TO ignoble rest.
We cannot live the life we would;
The lonsings OF the yearning years.
OF wretched mopths Of tolls and tears,
BY m;n are little understood.
The way is long where laurels grow.
And giant hearts alone may tread
Where burning suns beam overhead
And swampy cesspools lie below.
II men were better friends TO men.
To souls that strive in tears and pain.
The wrong to conquer. truth to gain,
The angels would return again.
II selfish thoughts were downward hurled.
II envy from her war would cease.
The thousand years Of perfc peace
With JOY would crown a happy world.
But yet with living faith trust
That worth shall gather with delight
The recompcnse Of doing right.
The laurel crowns of being just.
That soul unfailing must succeed
Who does the very best lie Can,
And justice 70 the toling man
Shall purchase plenty for his need,
For noble aim. for purpose high
The proud rewards will come at last
When all the tolls and tears are past
And sorrows brig our fellows nigh.
Then. III e and longings understood.
Great natures shall rot die in dust,
The world expand with hope ard trust,
And we shall live the lifc we would
FREEMAN Z MILES
Stiliwstpr Oklahoma
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
FIddIes of AfssDin q rn.

An aluminium violin, invented ana
patented By Cincinnati musician. 8.
highly spoken Of. both by players and
critics. II is made in the same shape
as the ordinary violin. but looks q,
course, like silver, and Is sIceedingls
light Many advantages over wooden
yiolins are claimed for t. One -as
used in t. concert in indianapolis ssg
days ago. and a newspaper critic cou1.
rnents that. while 81 seemed 20 lack ia
vibratory power. itshsd peculiar quail
tiles. which added greatly 20 the br!l.s
lanev OF tone.--E. Y Sun-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

A sad person who is always inclined
70 look upon the gloomy aide Of thing
says that BE old-est1biished form oi
phrase u threatened by cremation.
Formerly II could ~ said o, bold b@9
people that they were enough -
make their hcnest ancestors ''tnTs
oTer in their graves but under the
rule Of cremation soFnethsng Ersust -
devised Ia future years % express ,hs
notion fsst The bad Behavior 81 ihslr
postsritY will make the dsPsrtsd's
ashes auster in th5is urna-Bostoo
Poet
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
He Fad g. Preference.

lDn1 ttt DetfolI re ff.a.s
The tender.oot from the east hso
been invited 70 drink at the Red Gulch
bar by large-sized cowboy, and under
The inspiring influence Of an ugly-ioost-
ing revolver. be bad accepted and
ranged himself alongside She counter.
tie picked up the glass nervously. the
coyyboy watching him fercely and toy
lng with his gun. and tasted il Then
~ put il down again
Drink. groxied the cowboy.
81 guess not. replied the tencersooi
Well. guess yes, said the covvboy,
irawing bis revolver
The terderfoot took one. look a. the
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

A New York barber gives two hours
every afternoon 10 shaving unemployed
men free. He says a man cleanly sha-
ven has much better chance 10 secure
position than when he is not. This is
probably true of everything everywhere
hut before an Alliance legislature during
tie election of United States senator.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

curious condition of affairs Id the
country. This was nothing short of a
cent famine. The headquarters OF
the company is in New York, and all
the agents sent their cents here for
redemption, which drained the coun.
try of its supply and overstocked the
minor coin vaults of the sub-treasury
here with cents.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

What with the discharge of the duties
of the president of the state board of
charities, and looking after the interests
Of her clients at law, Attorney Mary f.
Lease will be kept too busy for time TO
do much campaign work. But the
c'use of the campaign, at least is not
liable 10 suffer much on that account.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

The Topeka Journal still manifests a
lack of Abrahamic faith in successful ir-
igation for western Kansas by asking
where is the water to come from? That
is discounting both the underflow and
the genius of the rainmaker, between
which sources the susceptible expect
silver Innings. clouds or no clouds.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

The story from Lincoln. His, relating
the conspiracy of two girls TO blow up a
jail and free their lover, is all right prob
ably excepting that part where it fails to
tell how the girls expected to blow up an
able bodied Jail without knocking the
smithereens out of all the prisoners.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13

Carlisle, by making loan, has brought
the reserve up to the 500, 100000 mark.
Now if the administration could bring
commerce, which is 33 per cent below
normal, up 10 par they might keep the
Democratic party from going into the
bands of receiver.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-13
on Speaking Terms.

From the Washington star.
There goes Judge Sohkem," said
Meandering Mike.
IAN old acquaintance of yours, /
s'pose, said Flooding Pete, sarcastic
ally.
20, we're just on speakin' terms I
know him well enough 20 say not
guilty 10 i'm once in a while.