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The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
LEAVE EUROPE TO ITSELF.

It is wonderful that Americans can
not realize their relative strength among
the nations of the earth. In many ways
we copy after Europe, whose customs,
which we adopt. are not only of no use
to us but are obsolete there. It 10 prob
ably true that our institutions would be
a gain if introduced into Europe, but it
is folly for US to- adhere to European
cast of customs and methods. We are
vigorous enough to outgrow many mis-
takes and still prosper. 1t is doubtful
whether prosperity in Europe can con-
tinue under the most favorable circum-
stances.
In the matters of tariff and bimetal-
ism our concern az to what this or that
European country was doing, has done
or will do, has done America great harm
and it is time we cease to be concerned
in that direction.
Let US consider what is best for us
from cur own standpoint and experience.
If guided by those lights the path Is
shown to lead to low tariff and free
coinage, low tariff and free coinage let
it be; but, if it seems high tariff with
monometalism, either one or both, then
SO let it be. Europe cannot be depended
upon to legislate to fit our conditions,
nor even to point out the way, except
negatively, in showing how not to do it.
We are tho great silver producers and as
we must regard it to that extent an
American product, We should not
hesitate to stand by our silver. The
time is ripe. America commands the
situation, if we but act with the
courage of our convictions and for our
own best interests without reference to
the interests Of Europe.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
TROUBLE IN Wa.

The liberal element of the Republican
party Of Iowa are organizing and petit
tloning the legislature for local option
instead of prohibition. The chairman of
the liberal wing of the party IN hls Cir
cular letter declares that the element
asking this are neither politicians OF
Office seekers, being business men who
have never done anything underhanded-
Iy, politically or otherwise, all of them
having been Republicans from the first,
many of them ex.union soldiers. They
now propose to serve notice upon
the party as to just what they will do in
the future.
What the petitioners seek is law un-
der which the traffic in the larger cities
may be controlled. The petition lays
the blame of all the party troubles
among the Republicans of Iowa, to po-
litical demagognes on the one hand and
extremists on the other. The document
is fully three columns long and is
crowded with political facts and drink
statistics, under the prohibitory law,
and the Republican legislature will have
to take some action or the party will
meet defeat again.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
PIZARRO A BAD MAN,

1eru's Conqnsrof Was Criminal II Phre.
nolosy Counts for Anything.
+! A new argument In favor Of inciners.
ton appears In the recent discovery
that the Uranium Of Pizarro, the con.
Queror Of Peru, has such peculiaritiea
as to warrant scientists In forming the
lowest opinions OF his moral charsc.
ter. Some three hundred and fifty
years ago, says Harper's Weekly,
Pizarro was assassinated In Lima and
buried in the cathedral there. Reports
made to the bureau of ethnology at
Washington say that his remains,
when lately disinterred, were found TO
be mummifed. and were identified ~
his by unmistakable marks. Sad to
say, his skull reveals to modern SCH
ence ell the genealogical signs and
tokens OF bad man. One bump pro.
claims him murderer; another, thief,
ridge vcrises all the stories Of Las
Casas OF his cruelties to Indians;
hollow shows where his bump Of phi
lanthropy feu in. His skull has even
the notorious ''fossa Of Lonbroso,"
which" says Dir. Rene Bache, 'mcd.
ern criminologists have never dis
covered except In confirmed and habit
ual enemies Of society" History has
dweit more upon Pizarro's energy than
his benevolence, and has never picsared
him - . bland gentlem who went
about doing good But not even Las
Casaa makes him out such malsfac-
Tor a. his surviving skull does.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Judge Burford soon moves to Enid from
Ell Reno.
Dan Peery claims that double statehood
is imminent.
The mother of L P. Ross died at Norman
Saturday night.
Judge McAtee has made R. I. Collins
clerk of his court.
Sidney Clarke is reported to be seriously
Ill at Washington.
Government patent for the townsite of
Alva has been received.
Cash corn brings more in Oklahoma City
than it does in Chicago.
George 7. Parry has been appointed
county attorney for NJ county.
The Republican candidates at Guthrie
refuse to fuse with the citizens ticket.
A Rock Island conductor has been held
by jury for throwing q tramp of train.
A horse with the name of Oklahoma
won race at San Francisco last Satur-
day.
a woman lost herself in the labyrinth
of the street of Manchester, Ok, last
week.
Lady pbilanthropists Of New York have
given 81. 900 towards Baptist church at
Perry.
Poncs City has organized q baseball
club and is ready to try any team in the
territory.
The experiment station recommends
Bermuda grass as the best tame grass for
Oklahoma.
Frank Brink was found guilty Of murder
| at Guthrie, Sunday morning, three hours
after midnight.
Money sold at 4o]l per cent at the
Guthrie Building and Loan association
Saturday night
Owing to the supply Of writing paper
giving out at Perry yesterday, no railroads
were built at that place for the twenty.
four hours.
A strip farmer travelled twenty miles to
Hennessey the other day to sell his first
eggs and arrived just in time to strike a
slump in the market
Where are the deputy marshals. Re
ports Of robbsries in Oklahoma come
every day, but never the news that some
one has been caught
The grand jury is Investigating the
Guthrie school board scandal The jurors
were instructed by Judge Dale to go to
the bottom Of the matter
Oratory in Oklahoma is divided between
the politicians and the arcsioneers. In
writing this we realize that we take the
chance Of making the auc.ioneers mad.
Fl Reno Globe: The Cheyenne and
Araphoe Indians in this county arc rapid.
ly yielding to the influences of civilization.
They have been instructed In farming and
have been given shs opportunity TO learn
trades. Some OF them wear the dress com
mon to whites. though there are jet those
who prefer .the half harbaric blanket, rib
bons aad iswsiEZ S2ms Q; the braxs
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
fHe EARTH'S INTERIOR.
4 French Scientists New Theory ON
Much Discussed Subject.

4 French Scientists New Theory ON q
Much-Discussed Subject.
The question which Is at present
more seriously exercising physicists
and causing the most marked divisions
of opinion among them is that of the
constitution Of the earth's interior,
says an exchange. BY some we are
told that within the crust is raging .
liquid FIRE of gases, by others that tho
fire is not gaseous, but merely incan-
descent solid matter, while a third Sec
ton contends that the center of the
earth is not in q molten state at all,
that what little heat still exists Is
being rapidly radiated, and that ere
throughout.
The most recent contribution on the
subject is that made by M. Lateau to
the French academy of sciences. In
his Judgment the phenomena of the
earth's crust are explained by regard
ing It's interior as molten, but he as
sumes that layer Of gaseous matter
separates it from portion Of the crust
forming the continents, whereas the
sea beds sink. This theory, II. Latcau
thinks, explains why volcanoes have
successively receded inland where tho
sea has encroached, though IL scarcely
supplies an explanation for the exist
ing marine volcanoea The gradual
escape of gases imprisoned under high
pressure viii. we arc told. excel In
time the production Of new supplies.
and VIXEN the pressure diminishes the
continents VIII fall In and . more or
less crsterifor1u confguntion of the
earth's surface win be the result This
Is tho condition Of the moons surface
at the present time, and NJ Lateau be-
hsves its appearance 10 duo to action
similar to that which he supposes TO be
In progress Ia the interior Of this planet
The physical essentials Of this theory
assume the crust Of the globe 20 ts
eighteen and one-haH miles thick. the
pressure Of gases six hundred and flfty
stmospheres, their tempersturs nine
hundred degrees centigrsde and their
density nearly equal TO that of water.
Whatever may be thought Of this visw,
rs q reasonable explanation IL has the
merit Of combining, In a measure, the
two most prominent theories on tha
subject
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
The aueIa ai1Y Eagle Tuesday oruing Marth l6 1884

have made competence by farming and
raising stock. The medicine dance has
not been ontgrown and is indulged in each
year. 1t is apparent to all who have wit
messed the dances Of late years and com
pared them to twenty years ago that they
are losing their wild character. The tom
tom is no longer inspiring. Likely enough
modern orchestra will yet furnish the
music for the Indian hops and the war
riors will discard their blankets and paint
for full dress suits. The medicine dance
is nothing moro than festival of thanks
for bounteous crop prospects and the
whites might now aud then take . hand
In such custom with profit.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
NOT sLown OFF eY THE WIND.
Chicken Feathers Dlsappeared ~ the Re-
eult Of ElactriaffY IN tha Storm.

Chicken Feathers Disappeared ~ the Re-
suit Of Electricity In the Storm.
About year ago the telegraphic dis
patches contained an account Of .
windstorm in Missouri which not only
blew down houses and fences and
caused great loss Of life but actual
" stripped the feathers from a rooster.
The correspondent stated that not
even the pinfeathers were left, and
his description of how the cock next
morning strutted forth, tapped his
naked wings and crowed with . some
what disfgured- bnt still in-the ring
style caused considerable merriment.
1t was reasoned that q wind Of such
force would have blown the fowl to
Jericho, and the writer was set down
rs Munchausen. Scientific research,
however, sustains the story. but
ascribes the ROSTERS condition to an
other cause. A writer in Der Stein der
Weisen says: Among the most aston.
fshing effects of whirlwinds must be
reckoned the well-supported facts that
on their cessation birds exposed to
them have been found stripped of their
feathers. and people with every shred
of clothing torn from them. These
effects cannot possibly be ascribed to
the wind. The force necessary would
have sufhced to transport the objects
away bodily. Numerous similar oc.
'currences were observed in France in
the tornadoes which prevailed there
three years ago, and these were grad.
ually brought under investigation.
Over the whole region affected trees
were found rent in q manner which
could not possibly have resulted from
the wind. These were, first, oaks split
down the center for a length of twenty
to twenty-five feet; second, poplers and
beeches for lengths of six to twelve
feet were shivered into sticks Of uni.
form thickness (for example, a beech
tree sixteen inches in diameter was split
into more than five:hundred sticks . cen,
timeter thick, two centimeters broad
and three and a half oentimeters long);
third, frs and other resinous trees had
their stems cut clean through, leaving
almost even surfaces. These phenom.
ena and others Of kindred nature can
be ascribed only to electricity"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
Celia, Of Honor for x.sl. nos..

In France there exists An order Of
merit. founded by the society foE the
Prevention OF Cruelty TO Animals, o!
which the members are dogs who hare
distinguished themselves By deeds Of
bravery. A tastefully designed ''col
Lar OF honor Is awarded 10 the nora-
inees OF the order. Among the AMI
mails already decorated in this way
ono OF the most celebrated = Bacchus.
. large bulldog. whose speciality it - 70
stop runaway horses By jumping up
and seizinR them By the bride. II il
calculated that the Intelligent beast
has already saved the t-es Of eigh,
persons, II not more. in this way. Pa
taud, another bulldog. received col
lar IA 1857 for saving his mistress from
the attack Of foospad. and TURK, .
splendid Newfoundland, has had .
similar honor for saving three young
children from drowning On Different
occasioDA
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
or tho Eagle.
TWO SCULPTORS.

With patient zeal and uncomplainine hands
Like one who strives resolved to conque
death
And grow eternal laurels from his life,
He wrought the stone uncouth, and heedet
not
The ribaldry Of rude, unfeeling men,
Who saw his toll but could not understand
The glorious vision that was in his soul,
And never knew the purpose Of his heart.
In silent patience meath the tender touch
The cruder forms Of imperfection changed
To shapes oflight perfected till at last
The angel hidden from the strangers eyes
Sprang from the marble into loyeiiness.
A world then saw what he beheld SO long,
And in her temples placed 1t to delight,
Astonish and make better all mankind
A miracle of beauty.
So inspired,
With zeal to reach his best attachments here
Thus strives the godly man upon himself
He sees the angel In his soul concealed
Beneath the rude environments of earth,
And tolls with patient care to bring 1t forth.
He conquers fault and habit till the touch
OF the good master rounds the form complete
An angel chiseled from the marble crude,
A seraph moulded from the crumbling clay,
To beautify the galleries Of God.
An inspiration to the longing world,
A beauty and blessing into Heaven.
FREEMAN E. MILLER.
saltwater, Oklahoma.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
BRITISH COURTESY.
Tho Misepplication of the Golden Ru
Across the Water.

| The DlisepplIcation of the Golden Rula
Across the Water.
l have had Americans tell me, and
most interesting Americans they were.
of dinners in London where they had
sat. after the women left the room, in
absolute isolation, when the men near
them turned their backs on them, and
talked OF things interesting only to
themselves, and left the stranger to
the mercies of the butler. Imagine
anything like shat with us Imagine
our neglecting guest to that extent
and an Englishman too! We might
not like, and would find him probably
trif1e obtuse, but we would not lei
him see it, and we would at least throw
him "a word now and again, and ask
him if he meant to shoot big game, or
merely to write a book about us. II
might not be that we intended
to read his book, or cared
whether he shot moose or him.
self, but as long as he was our guest
we would try to make him feel that
we did not consider our responsibility
was at an end when we gave him his
bread-and-butter. But the average
Englishman and Englishwoman doe:
not feel this responsibility. / remem.
Der dinner given in New York to
prominent Englishman who was visit,
ing this country, and there happened
to be numb Der of very clever men at
the table who were good after-dinneI
takers, and not after-dinner story.
tellers, which is vastly different
thing. The Englishman's contribution
to the evenings entertainment was
succession of stories which he had
heard on this side, and which he told
very badly. The Americans Were
quite able to judge of this,
as they had told the stories
themselves many different times.
But they all listened with the most Sc.
rious or amused interest, and greeted
each story with the proper amount OF
laughter. and bv saying, "How very
good!" and "Quite delightfulr' Then
they all reached under the table and
kicked the shins of the unhappy host
who had subjected them to this trial
In England it would not have been the
host nor his English friends who would
have been the one to suffer. went
with a man who had never been in
London before to garden party last
summer, and warned him on the way
that he would not be introduced to
anyone, and that after he had met his
hostess he would probably be left
rooted to block of stone on
the terrace, and would be as little
considered as a marble statue. He
smiled scornfully at this, but hall
an hour after our arrival passed him
for the third time as he stood gazing
dreamingly out across the park just
where had left him. And as I passed
he dropped the. point of his stick to the
ground, and drew it carefully around
the lines of the slab of marble upon
which he was standing, and then con.
tinued to smile significantly out across
the lawn. do not think they treatus
in this way because we are Americans,
but because we are strangers, and Lon.
don is very busy place, and a very
big place, and those who go about
there have their time more than taken
up already, and have but little to spare
for the chance visitor. 1t is the sans
with their own people.-Richard Hard
ing Davis, in Harper's Magazine.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

FOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.
From the Kearney Advocate.
George L. Douglas will now receive
the support of Prince Hal and his friends
for congressman-at-large, Sedgwick
county having decided that George L. is
the sure-footed runner. That is good
decision, for George L. has justly won a
place in every Kansas heart by his con-
duct last winter. Such nominees are
winners and mean success for the Re-
publicans next fall.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
HIS FIRST VOLUME.

How q Young Poet Made His First Lih
erary Capital
Mr.. James Payn tells q story which
he thinks is new Of the manner in which
young poet made money out Of his
first volume of poetry. The anecdote,
1t must be said, is much like one that
is told of the late James Russell
Lowell; but here it is in Mr.. PSyn'a
version:
The youthful adventurer had his
doubts whether the book would pay TO,
itself, and when good-natured friends
whose good nature. we may be sure,
stopped on the wrong side Of buying
said: "You'u be half ruined" he was
rather inclined to agree with them.
! At last, in fear and trembling. he
wrote to the publisher to know the
worst-which he himself had cAlcu1at-
ed at about eighty pounds.
"Let me know how many have gone
off," he wrote in all modesty, land
what is the balance owe you"
The publisher wrote back:
"DEAR SIB: Your whole edition. has
gone of. leaving balance Of twenty
pounds in your favor; check inclosed'
The poet was in the seventh heaven,
md yet not satisfied he rushed to tho
publishers to inquire who had bought
the book-friends, enemies, Mudie, Oh
who?
MY dear SIR" said the publisher, 81
think you had better not ask"
''Not ask? Why not? You wrote to
say that the edition was all sold; II
must have been sold to somebody"
pardon me. wrote that it had
gone off, so it had, the whole OF it.
There was fire in the warehouse, and
the contents were insured"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
MOTTO TO COAT-OF-ARMS.
severe Rules Regarding the Compositio
and PhraseOlogy.

severe Rules Regarding the Compositios
and Phraseology.
The art of composing the motto wa.
subjected to severe rules. The "body"
md ''soul" were required to be in such
relation to each other that the ''souP'
should invariably explain the ''body."
The legend must be concise, neatly
turned, and ingeniously suggestive
like the 'Desdichado" of the disin,
herited knight in 'Ivanhoe."
1t had always to be applicable to the
person as well as to the material object
forming the "body." and it must not
be drawn from things unknown, nor
must it be too enigmatic or too tacile,
too humble, or. above all, too arrogant
Again, it was essential that the figure
should be agreeable to the eye, and its
idea to the mind. Finally, the device
was perfect only when the ''body" was
unique, and the s'soul," or motto, in a
language which was not the mother
tongue of him who bore it.
The motto ought not to contain more
.han eight syllables- That of our Or.
der of the Garter, "Honi soft qui NAL y
oense." contains only seven; that OF
bur kings, 'Dieu ct mon droit," only
four. The device of Leo Y was yoke
with "Suave" for the motto-'efhe yoke
Of the Lord is sweet" That of Henry
Ill. king OF France and Poland, two
crowns on the earth and one up above,
with the motto, "Manet ultima coelo;"
that of Charles v, the pillars of Her.
:ules. and the legend, "Ne plus ultra"
Devices went out of vogue IN the sew.
snteenth century, and now survive only
n the coats-of-arms of the older fami-
les, where the reader. if he be so dis
posed, may study them at leisure, and
examine how nearly they approach the
deal embodied in the foregoing rulea
-All the Year Round.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
CAMPRELL'S FITNESS,

From the Wilson County Citizen.
Judge w. P. Campbell. the new de-
partment commander of the G. A. r. ,
having ended his political divagations.
is being gracefully received by his old
associates. As Kentucky Union soldier
he has never felt truly at home among
the Democrats and Populists. When
he defied the Pops, in the Lewelling
war, to attempt to put their hands on
arms in the custody of the G. A. r. Post
at Wichita, Judge Campbell showed his
old time patriotism, loyalty and courage
and it was easy enough to see that he
had got his fill of that political element.
We are glad he was chosen department
commander by his old comrades.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

Chuniey-How the mischief did yos
come to marry that old widow? WI,
didn't you marry tie dauahser7
Benedet-I thought over the matte
carefully II had married the dzuga
Ter. I'd have had the mother On IN.
hands anyhow. Then I'd have hss
both On nay hands. bat - IL Is, nos
that her mother Is provided for. rcr
likely somebody else viii marry tbs
daughter. and then III only have ens
OF them 70 Azgyde faszzssas sas
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
willing 70 Wait

Husband-Did you see me kiss my
hand to you this morning after 1 had
eft the house?
wife-Why, John, 1 wasn't near the
window then
Husband--I wonder who il was?
Wife, don't know. but the servant
.irl told me this morning she guessed
he would try it another week--Life.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

Col. w. A. Harris who beat George
T. Anthony for Congressman at large
and.has never been heard of from that day
to this, is now heard declining the pop
nomination for governor. Harris may
be Pop-Democrat and an ex-confeder-
ate brigadier, but he seems to have some
political gumption left.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
WICHITA'S WAY.

From the Arkansas City Journal.
Wichita started an auditorium fund
with three five-hundred-dollar subscrip-
tions. When the Peerless Princess sets
her head on anything she gets it before
she gets on her feet again.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

II tis recommended that the county central
committees of the several counties select tne
time for holding the county conventions 70
name delegates and alternates for the con-
cressional Convention, and that the names oi
ali delegates ard alternates be certined 10 the
secretary of this committee Immediately
thereafter.
committee. -
L. NJ. AXLINE, Secretary.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

If Pops cant win with Lewelling they
can't win with anybody. If they turn
him down and take up a new man they
ara beaten before the campaign opens
Wichita EAGLE.
Beaten! 1t don't make any difference
whether there is new deal or not,
beaten bad Is the only word that ex-
presses it.-Lyons Republican.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

The Wichita EAGLE says that birth
took place in every town in Oklahoma ex-
cept the old maid settlement In the strip
last week. How was it with the old bach
elor observation-disclosures Democrat.
The old bachelor contingent will be in
no immediate danger if the old maid ag-
gregation will but Eeep their distance.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13

Alva Republican: JudgeW. P. Camp
bell of Wichita, was elected department
commander of the G. A. r. of Kansas
in session at Newton this week. This is
a most excsllene selection and sub
stantial recognition of valuable man.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
lenlber

This paper is prepared for almost any
kind of poetry, but We did not expect to
meet with this great thought: SIN the
glittering, glstning marshes, where the
bull frog and the cow-toad in amorous
duet sing"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-13
PHELPS COUGH, COLD AND
GROUP CURE.

james Headley. Monroe st suf-
fered intensely. His lungs were
very sore from coughing and he
could not sleep. This continued
for ten days He then called .
physician at nigdt) bat obtained
no relief. Then he tried Phelps
Cough and Cold Cure the result.
by the second night the soreness
ali gone. cough entirely cured