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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
A CHEMISTS DREAM.

N. Berthelot INDUCES in the rosiest
visions concerning the benefits which
chemistry will heap upon the human
race in the course of another century
or two, saws the New York Post In
an address before the manufacturing
chemists of France delivered recently
in Paris he said that he looked to chem
istry for deliverance from present So
cial evils and for the possibility of re-
alizing the socialists dreams-that is,
if spiritual chemistry could be dis
covered to change human nature as
deeply as chemical science could mod
fly the globe. This change, he de-
clared. viii be greatly due TO chernis-
try utilizing .the heat OF the sun and
the central heat of the globe The
latter can be obtained by shafts of
three thousand or four thousand me
tiers in depth, which modern engineers
are equal to the task of sinking.
The water down 50 deep viii be hot
and able to keep all possible machinery
going. BY natural Oscillation IL viii
furnish fluid free from microbes, and
be an unlimited source of chemical and
electrical energy. This could be ev-
erywhere developed. and thousands OF
years might pass without any notice
able dirninution- With such a source
of heat all chemical transformation
would be easy. Thesproiuctlon Of ali
mentary matter will be one conse-
quence. This production Is resolved IL
principle. and has been for forty years,
by the syntheses Of grease and oils
That of hydrates of carbon Is going on
ard that Of heterogeneous substances Il
not far off
When energy can be obtained thus
cheaply, food can be made from carecn
taken from carbonic acid hydrogen
taken from water. and nitrogen from
the air What work the vegetables
have SO far done science viii soon be
able TO do better. with far greater PRO-
fusion and independently OF seasons or
evil microbes or insects There VIII
then be no passion to own land beasts
need not be bred for slaughter man
Eiu be milder and more moral ana osS-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
MIGHT REMEMBER 1T.

The Topeka papers talk as if all that is
necessary to do on the state printer
question is for Shawnee county to de-
eide which one of its citizens it prefers
for that position. Five candidates on
the state ticket live within fifty miles of
the Missouri line. Besides it should not
be forgotten that the Bic Seventh, COM
prising about one-fourth of the state,
and casting sixty-seven thousand votes,
has but one place on the state ticket, and
that the state Partnership might possibly
therefore finally be conceded to Wich-
ita or to some other city of this district.
However, we are no hogs down here
even if we do now and then presume TO
come forward with a candidate for gov
ernor or for congressman-at-large only
to be knocked on the head.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12

CASH I'm OLD BOTTLES.

from the Chicago Tribune
''The story Of the secondhand bottle
Industry is interesting" said the penn
pous proprietor of one of these estao-
lishments The fact is two Chicago
ans have already made one hundred
thousand dollars apiece in this BUSH
ness, and there is man in New York
reputed to have made half million.
Imagine a man making a fortune n
few years out of discarded old bottles,
yet this is fact
Eyes. IL is a comparatively new busi-
ness Ten years ago il did not exist
only as a minor feature OF the junk
business But some enterprising in
dividuai finally ventured 20 start an
independent secondhand bottle estab-
lishaient Fortune smiled On the VEN
ture, and the result is that such firms
have sprung up Ike mushrooms al
over the country. There are 80 Least
twenty-five such establishments in Chr
cago-
"Well, we employ six ncp." contin-
ued the proprietor in answer 70 the
question as TO how and where his stock
OF bottle valuabies was gathered
These men visit the hotels. saloons.
restaurants and private residents Of
Chicago. and collect into big wagons
bottles OF ali kinds In this way from
three hundred 20 Eve hundred dozen
old bottles are collected daily. Inc
bottles are examined carefully. 20 that
none are bough. that have been used
20 hold poison. kerosene or any injuri-
Gus liquid Bot we bug Old beer bot
ties whisky bottles. cztsup bottles,
ammonia bottles IN fac, bottles Ct al
raost every description We pay froso
one-half 20 three cents apiece for them.
depending on the kind and ssze- In
turn these bottles are sold 20 brewers,
catsup men. druggists and other trfaa.
a, price that makes Is from twenty
FIVE 20 forty per cent profit
What a done with the bottles az
ter they are brought 20 headquart~rsF-
Follow ne and III SHOW you Ard
szitiry the action 20 tse word s.ry
bezrirnuned lamp. with . feeble a2ze.
was snz.eaea up sad toe var v.s led
into he e>iisE
.Tnia. for instance s>sd he. fond
Ing clear. shzp-sy vins bottle. Ia
IA ssaporsed bottle that h-inzs ~ t.sy
p-ozt Ycu ses there Is a duty % ses.
easy-s-s 70 eiyhfy-sse per cenE OF In
ported bottles. sst Haaxsrs Of ess
WIVES n ,E-s rosatrs 80 01>x-.0p IA
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Eairmount.
SkITS OF KANSAS NEWS.

Burt Walker, formerly of the Florence
Bulletin, is now running the Peabody
Graphic.
The state convention of the Prohibition
lists is held in EmporIa today. ST. John
will be in charge.
Colonel Harris, it is said, will be re-
nominated for congressman at-large by
the Populists today.
Jerry Simpson is improving very fast
Seventh district this fall.
1t is said that Tom Moonlight, minister
to Bolivia, is sore on his job. The climate
makes his neuralgia worse.
Topeka is making an attempt to get Nc
Kinley to speak there on June -. He
speaks in Ottawa June 81.
The Populist state convention meets to-
day. Lewelling, it is believed, will be re-
nominated, but there will be some lively
scenes before it is done.
The W. t embankment of the sugar mill
lake in Medicine Lodge broke last week.
1t is supposed to have been caused by the
catfish burrowing through the bank.
Judge Theodosius Botkin is bowling
again. He says that unless something in
the way of rain-making or irrigation is
accomplished at once, all western Kansas
will be depopulated.
Dan Anthony, of Leavenworth, who
fought Major Morrill, so bitterly before
the convention is now supporting him.
Anthony has eaten crow so m UGH that it
has become an acquired taste with him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
HOME RECEPTIONS.

Morrill,, Blue and Edwards were all
welcomed back to their respective homes
with unusual demonstrations. Hiawa-
tina however has fixed day for formal
endorsement of the major. The people
of Pleasanton decorated their town with
blue flags and rang all the church and
school house bells in the town and met
Dick Blue en- masse at the depot with a
band and glee club from whence they
marched him to their opera house where
an hour was spent in speeches and jolly
fication. Sam Peters, the chairman of
the convention, accompanied Billy
Edwards to his home In Larned. They
were met at the depot with the Fourth
Regiment band, and Republicans, Demo-
Gratis and Populists participated in the
ovation.
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DOWN WITH THE TRUSTS.

The opponents of the income tax are
bowling themselves hoarse over the pos.
sible hindrance to the consolidation of
capital as means of furnishing more
employment to labor. This is the round
about way by which they would popu-
larize their opposition. Consolidation
of capitol is but another name for the
forming of trusts, and it requires no
very astute reasoning to see that the
best results of an income tax would be
TO compel such trusts to pay for the
monopoly which they are allowed to
maintain under the law. If this is the
best argument they can offer against the
tax it can be reasonably met by saying
it is the best possible reason for such
law. But even If such consolidation
was desirable, the statement is false and
the premises are assumed without war
rant. Does anybody suppose that less
quantity of oil would be refined or used
If anybody or everybody were at liberty
to engage in its production with profit?
Does the Standard Oil company employ
more men than hundred or five hun
dred smaller firms would employ in pro-
ducing the same quantity of oil? If it
does, there Is certainly nothing in the
stock argument that the article is greatly
cheapened by consolidation of the whole
industry into one plant.
1t detracts materially from any propo-
sitlon to assume false premises. Argu-
ment backed by this kind of deception Is
a house built upon the sand, and sensible
people Will not even show it the courtesy
of decent respect. The fact is that this
so-called consolidation does not furnish
employment for greater number of
wage earnerS, nor do the trusts paw bet
ter wages. On the contrary, they re-
duce the pay roll, and, In most instances,
cut down the wages. Two steam en-
gines require two engineers. If there is
a consolidation of two plants into one,
though the output may be equal to the
two, there remains employment for but
one engineer. This rule applies in every
branch of manufacturing, and the me.
chanic knows its import.
To say that any article is cheapened
by granting a monopoly for its produc-
ton to n single concern is like saving
that corporations are founded on basis
of pure. benevolence. To grant that a
corporate body, with complete nonop-
oily of the entire output of given staple
would voluntarily divide a legitimate
profit with the Consumer, would be an
assumption too broad, even for the
credulous idiot who sticks to the tradi-
ton that the moon is an overgroyn
cheese. The best refutation Of such nom
seuse came to light a few DAYS ago in
the advance in the shares of the SUGAR
trust when it was known that it had a
new lease of life by the leaving of a 20
per cent duty on raw sugar By lust
what process the cheapenrng Of the ar
ticle would add value 10 the shares is not
clear to the untutored mind.
But, recurring 10 our original thought:
If the income tax haters have no better
defense than false assumptions and living
arguments they had better take in sail.
They had better do their reckoning out
side of the orbit of trusts and ''consoli-
datior,S"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Hennessey wants the Congregational
college.
New wheat will be on the Oklahoma
City market within a week.
An Oklahoma farmer marketed a wagon
load of new cabbage in Guthrie last week.
EFour of the Dalton boys are still living.
They reside in Oklahoma and are peace
able.
The famous Beall murder case began in
Ell Reno yesterday with McAtee on the
bench.
Eugene Matthews, who killed Lespear-
ance near Okarche about month ago,
has been acquitted.
Frank Gauit, a prominent Oklahoma
City man. and Mrs. Ollie Cramer were
married last week.
6 If the Democrats of Oklahoma are fooled
Office they should go OUT behind the barn
and kick themselves.
Ex-Postmaster Beidler of Oklahoma
City is now a candidate for register of
deeds of thst county.
The Anti-horse-thief association OF the
Indian Territory, with headquarters in
Hennessey, will apply for charter.
The Malone indictment at Perry was
quashed on the ground that the grand
jurors had not been residents of the county
six months.
Ed Ingle of Norman, has been talking to
some of the Texas Democrats and he
thinks it probable that slavery will be an
issue in Oklahoma next fall.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
TIE STATE FAIR THIS YEAR.

The Kansas state fair is to be held AZ
Wichita this year. This fact. il seems
Is not generally understood in the north
srn and central counties of the state
The last two or three state fairs held at
Topeka proved so discouraging in results
that farther effort was practically aban-
doned. Outside parties interested in such
expoSitions, more especially the proprie-
tors of high grade live stock farms and
horsemen, seeing that Topeka was too
near the industrial and art expositions
annually held at Kansas CITY and ST.
Joseph 10 eve! prove more than a mere
district effort, persuaded a number Of
experienced gentlemen of Wichita to
take out regular state fair charter in
the name of the state. This being done
and there being no like organization in
the state. they have gone Systematically
TO work 10 hold series of state fairs at
Wichita, commencing with 1894.
Wichita is the only city in the state
with hotel and hall accommodations
equal to the state convention held last
week at Topeka. There Was much
grumbling oTer the lack OF hotel room
and universal grumbling among the
delegates over the uncomfortable hall.
Nichlta's auditorium seats five
thousand people with hotel capacity of
nearly three thousand,
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20 pay Us pig price Tor them lis
impossible TO get seamless bottle OF
this beautiful clear color made in this
country. So big firms buy these bot
ties, have new tables printed precisely
like the old ones, and I'LL the bottles
with inferior wine OF course. they
are sold at high price and the people
imagine they are buying the real ar
ticle. But you must not say anything
about that-ihe wine merchants would
object if this secret were given away.
Sometimes in one wagon load of old
bottles theAs are sixty or seventy diff
ferent kinds OF bottles" continued the
proprietor. These are Immediately
classified and stored away either hero
in the cellar or on one Of the floors
above. Then we are quite ready for
customers, as most OF the firms buy tho
bottles unwashed. However, IL they
are ordered cleaned they are thorough-
IL washed in great watts. the corlss and
labels are removed. and the rich man
ufacturer has placed at his disposal
box
Then you have no idea how extern.
sive our trade is These old bottles
are shipped by the car load to Boston,
New York, San Francisco, 70 cities in
Canada, in fact. all over the country.
but mainly in the east. Our goods ara
sold regularly to prominent frmAr
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
AMERICAN SCIENCE.

From the Lonuon Telegraph.
Science is supreme in American pro-
suction, and the Americans have OUT
run US all in its application. They
were the first to utilize electricity, not
merely in the development of telegra-
ply and the kindred arts, but as
powerful ally in manufacture. In the
welding of metals, for instance, 1t now
plays an important part 1t has re-
duced the price of aluminium from two
pounds and two shillings pound, and
the metal has now In consequence
passed into common use; il enters into
the abric of the bicycle: it is made into
shoes for the horses of Russian cavalry;
it is embodied in the enigmatical figure
which crowns the Shaftesbury memo
rial
In iron and steel the use of highly
developed machinery, which is no more
than the application of science, has
revolutionized production The new
drop-hammer has brought down the
price of American plows TO less than
one pound. and in the making of all
sorts of agricultural implements it is
now produce as much as two thousand
one hundred and fo-ty-fve few years
ago. Where single workman could
make three dozen pairs of sleeve links
in day, boy can now make nine
thousand.
The manufacture Of pins still holds
its Gown as an object lesson" but
whereas Adam Smith notes with aston
ishment and admiration ten men turn
ing out forty-eight thousand pins a
DAY. the modern American manufactur-
er finds no difficulty in supplying seven
aud half millions in the same time,
as the result OF the labor OF FIVE pairs
of hands Compare this with the state
OF things at the time of the war OF in
dependence, when imported pins sold
for seven shillings and sixpence a doz-
sn, and when, 10 encourage home in
dustrv, the government offered fifty
pounds for the best twenty-five dozen
of pins made in America equal 10 those
imported from England.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
LIFE ON SMALL FARMS.

From the Boston Transcript.
The owner of ten to twenty acres or
land within convenient distance OF city
or town is very fortunate. The Phila-
delphia Ledger of recent date says:
1.-The demand for small farms has been
greater than ever before. Properties
of from thirty To fifty acres and less
are wanted-the farmers holding them
say they can make more money and
live better upon a few acres than upon
large farm"
This same state Of affairs is noticed
in all the eastern states. and especially
is this the case in our own state. Tho
low prices obtained for the leading
staple articles. such as corn and wheat.
and with probability of these prices
prevailing for some wears yet 10 come,
accounts Cor this change in farm man
agemeut. Poultry raising. early lan:bs,
trucking, bee keeping, small fruit cnl'
ture, and dairying in all its branches
will be followed more closeiy-more
money being made and a greater de-
gree of comfort being obtsinshle. A
larger population VIII be supported,
more systematic and careful cnitiva
ton OF The soil, better roads, well man.
aged public schools. churches lectures,
and all social cnjoyments viii follow
in due course Of time.
A friend who two years ago bought .
small place in the country. says: II
write this under my own Concord vine
and apple tree and from beneath a roof
of my own; am landed proprietor.
taxpayer. the owner of bit Of ground
and horse and stable. We have paid
out hundreds OF dollars In rent, and
have lived in some sort Of fashion, bus
Row we are fixed. Ny interest and
taxes are not much more than one
third the amount I have been "a ying
in rents. have one COW tthis gives as
day,) one dozen hens which supply us
with eggs, half a dozen apple and pear
trees, and a few currsnt and raspberry
bushes. The past year our garden gavs
US all the vegetables We needed, and
some 20 spare for cur city friends; and
such vegetsbles.-just fresh from the
garden. EOt like the stale STUFF you so
on tho marset-stallA-
my wife looks healthier. Is much
more contended. and the children are
the picture Of health. They have a
home-a place that they can lore aEd
r..rnernber a. home throughout al
their sfter-lives- u i positive pleas
urc for me 20 walk up once a year and
pay my taxes ] am happT man and
DON mind the extra work arm called
upon To do when l s-e the happy re-
suits Of country life. My only wish -
that the hundreds Of clerks that are
living IN the city in rented homes coaid
be induced u follow my example and
come out into the country. where pare
air. plenty 81 sunshine. green telds.
cOntentment and nsppInss@ avail
eFerg o--e-ttc..jcSirss % rn1ne-'
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
WAT AND WISDOM.

Looking back is more than we can
sustain without going back--Cech.
The baseball umpire should be a
good judge of diamonds.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The fool is a man who goes up to a
block-head and implores him TO be
Standardization News
He who grasps at any enjoyments
is sure to be troubled by many disap-
Observation-Disclosures Henry.
-Cheerfulness is an excellent wear
ing quality. 1t has been called the
bright weather of the heart.-Samuel
Smiles.
Nature is upheld by antagonism.
Passions, resistance, danger, are edu-
Gators. We acquire the strength we
have overcome.-Emerson.
1t takes a man with good deal of
influence with himself to do something
he doesn't want to and doesn't have to
because ne ought to.-Puck.
No mans religion is better than
his politics: his religion is pure whose
politics are pure. and bis religion is
radically wrong who politics are
wrong.-Gerrit Smith.
Few people" said the wife, as she
proceeded to investigate her husbands
pockets, after he had gone to sleep
few are aware of what a wife has to
go through. IN. Y. Press.
The razor-toed shoe is the proper
thing in footwear just now. Unfortu-
nately, however, the prices are such
that man is liable to get strapped in
buying them.-Buffalo Courier.
-''Er man. said Uncle Eben, ''dat
comes ter Wa-a-sh'nt'n loolin' for
trouble is li'ble ter git is wish er heap
quicker dan de man who comes look
in for Office. Washington Star.
The burden of suffering seems a
tombstone hung about our necks, while
in reality it is only the weight which is
necessary to keep down the diver while
he is hunting for pearls.-Richter.
Social Agonies: The Stop-Gap.-
Hostess Ito Brown, who has been sud-
denly invited as the last moment, to
make fourteenth)-Oh. it's so good Of
YOU to come. We should never have
asked you if we hadn't been obliged
Punch.
-.'See here" said Chollie, isn't this
coat trife long?' 81 don't know"
said the tailor. Isn't it possible that
you are trifie short?' And Chollie
thought of the overdue bill for his last
suit and admitted that the tailor was
right.-Indianapolis Journal.
-Hicks-They tell me that Russell
is making quite a mark as a journalist.
Wicks-He is, indeed. But then he has
such a wonderful memory. Why, let a
man talk to him for two minutes and
Russell will remember enough of what
the man said to fill a column.-Boston
Transcript.
-Gertrude-I heard that Mr.. Brush
paid me very nice compliment to-day.
Carrie-Yes? What was it? Gertrude
Why, he said that among the most
beautiful young ladies at the dance was
Miss Gertrude Crandall. Carrie (cut-
tingly)-Yes; / noticed you among
them.-Brooklyn Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12

The reason why sucbs6frave will bear

The reason why such Suffrage will bear
evil fruits for the country at large can be
told in a few lines in the EAGLE
The more thoughtful, Intelligent and re-
liable wives and mothers will be the dill
dent, modest ones. If any stay away
from the primaries, caucusses, conventions
and polls, from any cause. weather, frou-
The proportion, as a class, of such women
will always be the smallest. But every
Italian, Hungarian. Polish, Bohemian
woman. etc. ETC., as rule, will not allow
embarrassing circumstances. or bad
weather or insolent men, or great crowds
to deter them. They will be first and last,
and, like their husbands, of course, will
show as little regard for American Law
and American society and the flag, at the
polls, as they now do with their clubs and
knives. If the ballots in the hands OF
such an element, as men, are menace to
the American people. would not the
menace be doubled and more than doubled.
If the ballot were put into the hands Of
their wives and mothers, for nine-tenths
OF our good American women would hest
tate and stand back rather than
contend with them. Two or three
millions OF ballots in the clutch
of such people, would make the strikes,
already so blood curdling, still more hor-
rible. And to these add a good round
million or more votes cast by ignorant
negro women.
Eighty per cent of the population OF
New York city, Mr.. Porter tells US, are
foreigners. If each OF the women had
vote, rs the men now have, they would
have a pretty mess of il, and Tammany's
head would be much larger than it now
is; and moreover. the conditions and re-
suits there would obtain proportiona:ely
in all other places.
1t is not because we have less confidence
and regard for the abilities of our own
wives, mothers and daughters, but be-
cause they would be outdone, out voted,
crowded out and driven back by the
brawling, unembarrassable ones. Truly,
w. N. WELLMAN.
E'air
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12
WILT BE GOOD OR EVIL.

To the EDITOR OF the Eagle.
Logical conservative thought Is hard
work Though we admit, for arguments
sake, shat every one Is capable OF so think
lag, We see on all sides inuumerable
evidences Of complete willingness TO allow
some enc else 20 do IL for them, and To ac-
cept results without rnurnur. One Of the
great difficulties with two of every three
OF the American people is that they
Jump at conclusions instead OF arriving
at them ny close reasoning and good judg-
ment Until quite recentlv | have been a
persIsien, advocate OF woman suffrage and
have preached IL with much zeal. But
we nave had some aard lessons lately. In
measuring up the recent industrial trou-
bles. which. by the way, viii not abste one
oi.untl they eclipse the great indus rial
revolution of England in the last crrturr.
have been convinced was IL error aud
am glad 20 admit is.