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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
Is IT SENSE OR NONSENSE?

A primary money, either as Il me-
value must contain within itself the
value it represents. This is true of
all values, whether of wheat or meat,
gold or silver. Gold and silver are
and have always been primary values
but not primary money for redemp-
ton purposes. Silver is just as valu-
bic for primary money as it ever was,
or as that wheat is as valuable for
food as it ever was. The price per
pound of silver has been depressed,
by n law, so the price of wheat could
be cut in two by legislation forbidding
it being ground; so that a promise TO
pay, or a note for a buShel of wheat
might be honored but because of the
non grinding law, the holder of the
note, or promise, would only get a
per cent of the value that he origin
ally counted on and which was his
due.
The average gold-bug organ is con-
tinually harping that the free silver
scheme would benefit the silver miners,
Of course, for it would increase the
value of their silver. in effect. twO-fold.
a given quantity would be worth to
them s. where it is worth 81 now. We
should be glad if the enemies of silver
could be induced to stand in one spot
long enough 10 be photographed.
There is no other meaning To be at
tached TO the foregoing except that
free coinage would double the value of
silver bullion and thus restore the
parity between gold and silver at
the present ratio.
Another stock argument rolled like Il
sweet morsel under the tongues of the
monometallic oddities. is that under
free coinage. Il syndicate of capitalists
could buy silver enough to coin 5000
100000 for S100000,000 in gold. there
by making Il clean profit of 100 per
cent. III order to suppose the pur-
chase on the terms named they assume
continued depreciation in silver. and
in order to suppose the profit they
assume an increase in the value of
100 per cent and thereby put silver
on parity with gold. The same peo-
pie who talk about the immense profits
that would accrue 10 the silver miner
are always seeking to impress Us with
the futlity of trying TO increase the
value of 4 metal by legislation Ii
a free coinage law would not increase
the value of silver bullion or its pur-
chasing power when coined, then it
would be of no benefit To the silver
miner. II il would. as alleged. double
the value of his product il would re.
store the parity between silver and
gold and show that the present de
preston in the price Of silver is due
to its demonstration. The point we
make is that the enemies of silver
must choose between these two propo-
Sitions. They cannot hold 10 both.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
DIVERSITY ED KANSAS CROPS

There is 4 great deal Of talk just now
about irrigation and subsoiling in Kan
SsiS. Not only are the newspapers and
the school professors and the scientists.
so-called, devoung extra space and
spare hours in demonstrating the pos
SibilitieS of one or the other of these
proposed experiments, but the average
loafer has become inspired and even
ing 4 fad. While it is possinir ~ sub
soil every acre of agricultural ground
III the state. aud while. unquestionahy.
the extra thorough cultivation that
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
PLACED PLUMAGE.
Cardinal Gibbons has been summoned
to Rome and will sail in May.

Cardinal Gibbons has been summoned
to Rome and will sail in May.
Twenty per cent OF the pupils in British
schools are said to be near-sighted.
Prince Hugo, the duke of Sora, has be-
two years.
c. 3. Cory of Boston. recently killed a
crocodile at Cord Sound, Fla, measuring
Is feet inches.
The prince Of Wales has already had
an impression that he would never be
king Of England.
Senior Mendonca, the Brazilian minis
ter at Washington, has the Napoleon
craze, though it dates back long before
the present fad.
The latest statistics show that in Swift
erland the proportion of divorce to mar
riage is / to 81. in France 1 TO 81 and in
England 1 in 81.
Without the express consent of his
wife, no married Austrian subject can
yond the frontier.
Fired by its cargo Of wet lime, the
Rockiand (Me.) schooner Alfred Keen,
was wrecked on Trinity Ledge, y. s., and
her mate was drowned.
They are trying to invent a monograph
ic desk on which a speaker can record
his own orations. This is to be tested
in the German reichstag.
Hiram s. Maxim, the inventor, says that
the New E,nglanders are the best me
chanics in the world, and that the French
are the best mechanics in Europe.
In recent address in San Francisco,
Rev. II. r. Haweis. the well-llnown Eng
lish clergyman, said that Moses was an
advocate of polygamy and slavery.
NJ. Jules Verne, though in his 18th year,
works for five or six hours q day. He is
now engaged upon a story for 1897, but
he has five manuscripts ready for the
printers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
HANDS OFF.

Bill Hackney's opportunity for fight
has come. A large area of the Venez-
uela lands claimed by Great Britain
were never conceded by the former
government. The concession of lands
made TO citizens of the United States
by Venezuela, at the mouth of the ORR
noco, are in the very heart of the
English claim. So this fact Of itself
and outside of any claim under the
Monroe doctrine, will involve the gov
ernment of the United States of Ameri-
ca in the dispute. The Monroe doc
trine, however, strngthens the position
of this government, and England must
either demonstrate her claim as
sound one or back down and out, or
otherwise the United States must show
the white feather. If the Cleveland
administration does not lack for moral
courage, it should determine whether
the British claim to Venezuela terri
tory is Il just one, and whether under
the guise of a boundary dispute Eng
land is simply seeking to get another
foOthOld on the American continent
England but a few months ago prac-
tically builied the United States out
of her sole and absolute rights in the
Behring Straights. Now if by a pre-
text or with whatever color that gov
ernment attempts another cOntIaven-
ton of the Monroe doctrine the move
ment should be held a justifiable cause
for demand for n general all around
understanding and settlement or the
next. great principle is at stake
and it cannot be violated. AS for any
thing farther the people of the United
States are spending eight millions of
dollars per month running to Europe
This amount saved, taken together
with the fact that the northern bound
airy of the United States should run
straight west from the mouth of the St
Lawrence to Puget Sound, and we
don't see as America need dread a
war with England, a war which would
probably involve all the countries of
Central and South America as allies of
the United States.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
PAYMENT OF AN INDEMNITY.

In yesterdays Eagle the items in the
peace negotiations now in progress be-
tween Japan and China were given
out. Japan. of course, demands an
indemnity. Some time ago the friends
of silver We're treated TO the rather
favorable rumor that the indemnity
would be paid in silver, meaning that
the value, or rather, price of silver
would at once experience a boom.
But it is extremely unlikely that the
indemnity or any great portion of it
will be paid in either of the two
money metals. China has not used
either gold and silver for any con-
siderable time. A demand in China
by Japan for a silver indemnity, would
force China into the European markets
for aid. and that in turn would in
crease European interests in the east.
a contingency which the ambitious
Jap is well aware is hazardous to HIS
future.
So it is altogether probable that the
payment Of the indemnity, while stated
as so much coin, will be made with a
transfer of bills of exchange. This
was the manner in which France paid
her enormous indemnity to Germany,
81 900. 900 600, after the Franco-PruS-
sian war.
The payment of this sum was to
extend oyer four years and was TO be
made in bills of exchange at various
fixed rates. The German troops were
to occupy certain parts of France until
the completion of the payment, and
this fact stimulated President Theirs
to hasten the matter Theirs issued
a . per cent loan of S40O, 600 900 in the
was more than twice subscribed for
in France alone. Out of this he paid
Germany before the end Of the year
nearly $250,000,000, and by the impoSi-
ton of new taxes and other devices
he paid a further instailment of $125,-
100000 in the beginning If 1872 ia
the summer of that year ift issued a
loan for about S100.000,000 About
100000, 900 was paid out of this loan
and the remaining inStallmentS, of
which the last was not due until March
l, 1915 were anticipated by monthly
payments extending from the end of
1872 until the autumn of 1873. Not
withstanding the payment by bills of
exchange the transfer of such immense
credits to Germany resulted in con-
siderable drain of gold from the Bank
of England and other gold reserves
English exchange was much more
plentiful ca the market than that
of any other country, and the French
government bought as much of it as
it could and RENTED it TO Germany.
The bills payable in London thus re-
ceived in Berlain were sent to Ger
many'S agent in London to be collected
on maturity. The gold was bought
in London and shipped to Germany,
the possession of these credits, placing
it within the power of the German en-
pire to acquire gold, even though the
direct payment of the metal by France
was small.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

OKLAHOMA OUTLINE s.

The prairie dogs are destroying crops
near Pond Creek. Why not muzzle
them?
It was particularly appropriate that
none of the deputy marshals caught the
smallpox.
The Oklahoma City Star says that Mrs.
Harry st. John was not a daughter of
Judge FELTON, of Colorado.
The ministers of Guthrie have organ
ICED a union and the Oklahoma City Star
is looking for a walk-out.
A man named Daniels tried to cut
policeman at Oklahoma City day before
yesterday. This cannot be Arthur Percy?
Nearly all the Oklahoma editors dis
covered that the ''Glass mountains
could be punned upon within a few hours
of one another.
The Cherokee fossil mammoth, which
has been on exhibition around the coun-
try, has been visited by a college pro-
fessor and pronounced fake.
After wrestling with the subject sew
eral days the Agricultural college of
Oklahoma announces that a successful
exterminator of the squash bug is yet
TO be found.
Several of the Oklahoma City school
boys are suffering so much with their vac
cinations that they cannot so to school.
but have 10 so down 10 the river and
swim all day.
Every five years the United States in
order TO keep order in the Indian Terri
tory, pays as much as the surplus land
is worth, according to the Oklahoma City
Times-Journal-
Oklahoma City Times-Journal: The
State Herald is right in assuming that
it is the dress parade-the fuss and
feathers-that attracts attention, and a
provisional government in the Indian
Territory would attract the attention
of the country. and if enough hell were
raised, even congress night be awakened.
Seine years so what is now Beaver coun-
ty. Oklahoma, was organized as Gin
AKRON territory. The inhabitants num-
bered nearly $40 sturdy pioneers. who
were much better than the Associated
Press correspondents up in Kansas pic
turei them The internal machinery of
the territory was never got in good work
ing order owing largely 20 the incon-
venience of having but one copy OF a
statute in the territory. and unfcrtu-
nztely that was the statutes OF Kansas
with constitutional prohibition in it A
few murder cases were tried under the
Kansas statutes, not however. Until a
stipulation had been entered into by all
concerned that prohibition should Re
enasculated-aDd the results were very
satisfactory. some friend OF the murdered
man usually finding an opportunity 10
kill the defendant before the legar ts-rni-
nation OF the trial Under the criminal
code OF Cirnarron territory a man was
hung for stealing horse or Il cpw-eJcspt
sVrays from the Panhandle OF Texas
and deported for highway robbery. There
was no fixed code fer dealing with rluT-
der, but etiquette was stringent and IN
yielding IN requiring a range OF immovzble
sand hills TO be kept constantly between
the murderer and the friends OF TIE de-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Presidents Cleyeland's brother, the
Rev. William Cleveland. has been re-
quested by his congregation to resign.
And that reminds us that Growers con-
gregation is also in n somewhat tur-
bulent aud rebellious mood, if election
returns indicate anything.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
Wit Comes With the D....rt.

The greatest opportunities for serving
an effective dinner ara in the dessert Be
sides it is over the ices and between the
cracking Of nuts and the nibbling Of raj
sins that the wittiest things are said
Chauncey Derew says it Is not until the
ices are served that people at dinner rally
begin TO have genial feeling toward thelr
neichhcrs
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
Snorting for Spoils.

From the FL Dorado Republican.
The Shawnee county Republicans are
very angry. They claim that they have
not received a share of the spoils and
declare that they will send an anti-Mor-
rill delegation to the next state conven-
ton. State Senator William E. Sterne
Is at the head of the revolt. A crowd of
anti-administration eRpublicans met at
the Copeland hotel and organized a club
which was named the Curtis club in
honor of Congressman Charles Curtis.
Judge John Guthrie was elected presi-
dent and o. X. Swayze, secretary. Res
olutionS We're adopted complimenting
Curtis for his work. but nothing was
said about Morrill.-Kansas City Times.
Topeka ought to be angry, and has a
right to be red hot over the way her
people are being treated. In fact. Tope-
ka ought 10 cecede from the state and
set up kingdom of her own In addi-
ton to the five or six hundred thous-
and dollars appropriate by the last
legilature, which goes directly to To-
peka, they have the fOllowin:
United States senator. ................
Lon T9'iiie,h :.
United States judge. j
Lieutenant governor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. /
Judge appellate court. INSTRUMENTATION. l
Clerk appellate court. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. l
Railway commissioner.
Board of pardons .....................1
in governors Office
IN secretary of state office. ............ !
Auditors office. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. i
TreaSurer'S office MISREPRESENTATION. i
Clerk of railway board. ]
In pension office NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 3
Capitol roustabouts.. Observation-Disclosures. Z
Landscape gardner. ................... 1
49,
historical society Observation-Disclosures. 4
Board of public works. l
Insurance office. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. /
State printer NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. l
Clerk supreme court. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. i
IOtat ~
OF course this is not near all, but as
the total annual salaries of these thirty
four amounts to but $4,000, ii is abso-
lutely unfair that Topeka should be put
off with such small piece of pie.
Somebody please hold Topeka's hat
while she kicks
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Judge Horton says that Mcdonald.
of the hypnotic case. was acquitted
through 4 judicial miscarriage This
would appear to be a fair warning TO
Mcdonald 10 steer clean of the supreme
court of Kansas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Those internal typesetting machines
appear to be human sometimes. 4
Philadelphia paper was made 10 say
that the crime Of which Oscar Wilde
is accused is. Observation-Disclosures
mxcZaberyijhtyh.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The latter Day SAINTS are sub
jecting themselves to ridicule. When
they want to talk To angels they will
have To perch themselves on some
thing higher than the Sni Hills.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Canoyas. the new prime minister of
Spain. is said 10 be the ugliest man
on earth today. Gresham would best
look 10 his bluffs carefully. Ugly men
and pretty women are dangerous.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Counterfeit postage stamps are flood
ing the country. Partisanship can
go toe far: and the Eagle hereby ex-
onsrates Postmaster General Wilson
from all blame in the matter.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

All that Il Kansas woman has to do
for Il new spring bonnet in the latest
style is to hang her old one out in a
windstorm, and let the ribbons get
tangled up some more
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Engelbert Humperdinck is the latest
German composer who is spoken of
as 'Wagners successor" Fame is Il
tickle jade. and at the same time Il
mighty poor judge of names.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

China must pay Japan 5000, 600
possession of Charlie Sing of Wichita
this means the washing and ironing
of 5000, 00O, 600 shirts.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

An EnGiishnan has presented the
United States with Il telescope. He
may want us To read the answer to the
question as 10 when the gold exporta-
lions are 10 stop. in the stars.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The Agricultural of oklahoma says
1t is practically impossible to exterln,
nate the squash bug. THIS puts the
squash bug in the same subdivision of
the animal kingdom with Bill Doolin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The Populists should put that old
joke about The corruption of the
two old parties" in its stall and let it
fat;en UP while the Chase investigation
is in progress
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

With supreme effort the Demo
cratic party of the country may be able
to get up enough spirit 10 celebrate
the birthday of Thomas Jefferson to-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The Rarnum circus advertiseS "the
only female clown Hardly ''the
only" There was the last enrolling
clerk of the Kansas legislature, fer
instance
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

If an income tax law couldn't get
through. what would the supreme
court do 10 one of PETERS financial
schemes if it should happen to get
through congress?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Some day in attempting to lower
himself from the financial question
Governor Mckinley is going to find
that his parachute will not open.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The much talked of tax on bachelors
would certainly be as much of a single
tax as Henry George ever dreamed Of.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

A man in Philadelphia is advertis-
ing for something to cure Il dog from
bayiDg at the m0on-answerS suggest
ing the removal of the moon barred
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Nothing is us sure as death, not
even taxes. The supreme court can't
declare death unconstitutional.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Governor Mckinley is Informed that
n rSttling speech in favor of silver
would magnify his boom about five
hundred diameters.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

President Cleveland has been ac-
cused Of being drunk, and in this, his
hour of calumny, John L. Sullivan ex-
tends his hand and says shake"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12
A Wonderful African Mimic.

Dr. Mofatt, the distinguished mission
sry and father in-law Of DR.. Livingstone,
once preached "A long sermon 70 tribe in
the interior Of Africa shortly after be
mad finished be saw that the crowds were
gathering around n very common looking
young savage To his surprise however,
the lad mounted store and repeated
every word Of the sermon that had just
been finished. Not only was the reproduc-
ton precise as 70 words, but the gestures
and infections which the white man had
used were pat in a. the right place with
surprising exactDess. st Louis KePub-
lie
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

It is understood that the bed of min
eral soap recently discovered near
Woodward, Oklahoma, can be pur-
chased dirt cheap.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Mrs. Lease says cher official career
speaks for itself" This is the first
time Mrs. Lease ever allowed any
thing else around 10 speak.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Arbor Day at Perry, Oklahoma. will
be observed with a celebration over the
completion of the EGGPLANT.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

lola had concluded 10 take a rest,
but the Oscar Wilde incident furnishes
an irresistible impulse for another
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

II England refuses to recognize a re-
helIion when she gets one why Mani
toba will just have to give UP, that's
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The Gray hypnotic murder case-will
not down. ike Banquo's ghost And
probably Banquo was hypnotized.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

There is a suspicion that everybody
had better time at BiSmark's birthday
celebration than Bismarck himself.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

A legislator called the governor of
Arkansas liar and he "spit it out.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Next to the Kansas politician, the
Kansas wind-Storm stands at the head
in pulling wires.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

All wheat is not dead, but current
quotations disclose that it is very low
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

The new woman is going to be super
for to her husband if she has to marry
a Chinaman to do it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Now the railroads want to be exempt
on the grounds that they are real
estate. a railroad is no more real
estate than an Oklahoma wind-Storm.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

In 1854 was invented the Bower gas
lamp. Supposed TO be veTv superior
means Of utilizing ell TIE eonbustihls
portions CT tie gS.-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-12

Joosdab Aimanoi, the fame Is lingaisr
could oooverSs II - Z iferent languages
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1895-03-09
A Gentle Sufferer.

Gilbert White or Thoreau would not
have described the incident told in the
accompanying sketch in more simple
and natural words. A widowed moth
er and daughter occupy and carry on
a farm of 325 acres in Sullivan u
ty, n. Y. They own a herd of beau
tiful Jersey cows. The daughter writes
a relative prettily and path etically of
one of them.
"On Sunday last one of our four-year-
old cows broke her left fore-leg; so
her milk has been a loss since then;
and it's only a chance that we can
save her. Evans Ia farm hand brought
her on a stoneboat down the hill to
the back meadow of the house, and
there she lies bandaged and splinted.
Evans bathes her leg and cares for
her mar fashion, and I spend a great
deal of my time coddling her, tempting
her appetite with split sweet apples
covered with feed, cornstalks dipped
in water, (for she doesn't seem to
drink and doing things generally to
keep up her strength, so that the bone
car knit and the wound heal. She is
lovely! just like a deer, so gentle and
grateful Thus far all the men say
she is doing well, and they think she
will pull through, but we feel it and
fear it.
Il wish you could hear her moo
as 1 sit here on the piazza writing.
Such a sweet, gentle complaint; with
no note of ugly bawl about it. AT
first she stood up, but now she finds
it more comfortable lying down"