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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

,ish their independence, not only be-
cause of the decadence of Spain. but
because of her contiguity TO this coun-
try with whose interests and destinies
her people must inevitably be linked
for all future time. And the United
States should extend the hand OF SYM
pathy to tn epeople of Cuba. OF course
we are bound TO Spain by certain trea-
~ obligations and the face and letter
of these should be observed by the
administration. but the administration
should by word or act encourage
Spain in her despotism over the peo-
ME of that island. All of the West In
dia islands are naturally identified
with the interests of the western hem
isphere and if not free and independ-
ent countries they ought TO become
and integral part Of the United States
The United States really decided,
once upon a time, to force payment
of the Mora claim from Spain by
seizure of HAVANA, and collection of
its custom house duties until the claim
was paid.
The Spanish government ten years
ago confiscated the real estate in Cuba
OF Mr.. Mora, an American citizen. but
after long negotiations with the Uni
ted States ii agreed to pay S1,5OO,OOO
instead of the S3.OO0,000 claimed, and
this was accepted by the United States
Notwithstanding it was not until with
in few weeks that Spain went so far
toward payment as TO vote to pay.
Spain voted to pay after the long
delay not because of any threatening
attitude of the United States, but be-
cause automatically it was polite to
pay. in order to prevent any oppOrtuni-
ty for 4 threatening attitude. And
because it knew, whatever the United
States government might say or do
about it, the people of the United States
were on the side Of the Cubans in their
revolution from the first to the last.
If the matter of interest from the
time it was agreed to pay S1,500,00O
until the time it should be paid in hand
has been a subject for later negOtia-
ton, the negotiation cannot possibly
have advanced so far that it has been
necessary to decide how TO compel
payment. Nobody with any intelli-
gence has ever doubted that under
the circumstances Spain would ulti-
mately do more than she ought, to
keep the good will of the United States
which would be her most dagerouS
enemy. should it be made an enemy.
But, otherwise, such mode of COM
polling payment of money due would
not, in all probability, be adopted by
the United States, because it would be
an exact imitation Of the condemned
and Unpopular mode of the British in
compelling payment of indemnity
from Nicaragua by seizure of COrinto
And. otherwise, when once the United
States decided upon compelling pay
ment it could do no less than make the
most of the opportunity, and recognize
if it possibly could within the law, Gu,
ba's belgerant rights; or, if it could
not. to interfere somehow in behalf OF
the Cuban revolutionists for the sake
of humanity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
A GREAT GOOD MAN.

Confusion and unexplainable dis
crepancies have been discovered IN the
accounts of the veteran A. X. SpofTord
the librarian of congress. SpoffOrd
is a moor man as the world goes, but
one of the wonderful men of the coun-
try. He is now old. For thirty years
he has been the faithful unfailing ser
want of the public men of this country.
AS librarian he is the receiver and dis
penser Of certain public monies. He
issues all copyrights and takes the
fees. The charge that he has been
crooked and that he is defaulter
comes as q surprise to the whole cOun"
try. 1t does not seem possible. 1t is
probably untrue as to any design up
on his part No man living can fill
his place Probably few men could
ever lern to discharge the duties of
his position with anything like the
satisfaction with which he has filled
the place. But his chances look dark.
While admitting confusion in his ac-
counts, the veteran librarian. who is
now 30 years old, unqualiiedly denies
any intentional wrong-doing and as
serts that the final auditing of the ac-
counts will show that the government
has received every dollar coming to it
There are very few who will not be
disposed to unquestioningy accept his
statement and certainly there should
be no one unwilling to believe that
Mr.. Spofford is guiltlesS of any crimi-
nal intent pending the result of an in
vestigation. His long and able serv-
ice to the government surrey entities
him to this consideration. Referring
to the case the Washington CORES
pendent of the Philadelphia Ledger
says Mr.. Spofford is a man of simple
| habits and is possessed of very little
| means outside of his salary. although
he has been a constant editor Of publ
| cations and frequent writer of reviews
and magazine articles. His enthusi-
assn for the maintenance and progress
of the library, says this correspondent
| violations of the law for the benefit
| of those entitled to its USE Everybody
| who knows anything of the excellent
services Mr.. Spofford has rendered
Will sincerely hope that he will be able
to satisfactorily explain everything
| upon which the charges agains him are
based
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
The aalhia Billy Eagle oruing Aueust 20

of moral suasion, largely through eff
forts to induce men TO sign the pledge
against drinking intoxicating liquors.
This was the central feature or the
"Washingtonian movement in 1910
and later. Afterwards moral suasion
was largely abandoned for resort 10
law, in order to prevent men from
drinking Neal Dow has been the
champion of this policy of legal pro-
neutrality-suspicious. for all hours of
every day of the week where such law
could be secured: prohibition during
certain hours OF every day. and on all
hours of Sundays and holidays. where
that was the most that could be OBJ
tanned from legislature.
The theory has been that large
proportion of men will get drunk if
they hive chance 10 buy drink-par-
ticularly ON days when they are not at
work.
1t is not moral suasion that is chief
~ responsible for this remarkable de-
cline Of drunkenness among the peo-
ple.f or no such efforts are now made to
persuade people TO sign the pledge
as half century ago. Ii is not pro-
hibition of the opportunity to get
drunk.
A new element has entered into the
case in modern times. Not only does
public opinion frOwn upO intoXicants
in the closing years of the century as
it did not in its beginning, but the
whole development of the inustrial
world has operated TO deter men from
drunkenness more powerfully than any
moral appeal or legal decree. Whether
prohibition prohibits. is often open TO
doubtful nobody questions that steam
electricity, machinery. prevent. men
from getting drunk. The railroad cor
pOrations become temperance organi-
cations of tremendous influence when
they debar from employment the man
who even patroniZes the saloon. and
is thus liable to cause a terrible diSaS-
ter and immense loss of property. The
trolley companies, without bothering
about any moral principle, produce
the same result that the Washington
ans aimed at when they announce that
they cannot afford TO have mOtorman
who "takes drink" The manufacture
ers of bicycles unconsciously promote
abstinence when they turn out every
year hundreds of thousands of ma
chimes that cannot be safely riden by
man with an unsteady head.
Father Mathew was once a type of
the moral agency most relied upon
for diminishing drunkenness. Neal
Dow later represented legal device
which for awhile was regarded as the
most effective means to this end.
There is still plenty of room for NOR
al suasiOn. But the most potent force
now at work is one that operates out
side the realm of either morals or law.
1t is double one of self interest and
, enlightenment.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
"INJUDICIOUS FEMALES.n

For the last year the critics in litera-
~ lines have been stunned speechless
by the success of novel after novel in
which they could see no merit. Afraid
to speak their convictions they have
allowed the works on sex and anti
male literature 10 swoop over the world
without trying TO dam it.
But their coma is broken. Andrew
Lang, the English critic, is after the
females. and is after them with blood
in his eye:
Great art Che says in the Illustrated
London News deals with what is per-
manent in human nature, with the pas
sions of Achilles Oedipus. Hamlet, Mac
beth, not with every new, wry-shaped
little wrinkle which the wind of the
world creates on the waters of time.
The injudiciOus female who wants
to have a large family without being
married or who wants TO be married
and never have any family is one of
these little crooked wrinkles of wind
and water; she is no part of the coSmlc
wave that changes not. Yet she writes
the new fiction. and her sisters adver-
tise her. and she has her little fling
and her little day. There have been
female fools in all ages-nothing new
in that; the momentary notice given
TO their vagaries is due to Ignorance,
curiosity. persoal prediction. There
is nothing dura BILE in such people and
in their work any more than in exaS-
gerating sleeves. Not new
ness nor "oldness" still less "sexma-
MIA" and dull, prurient nastiness, but
the creation OF characters makes the
novelist. Dugald Dalgetty or Capt.
Costigan, mere supernumeraries, Will
probably outlive all the easily forgotten
people of all the American story-tellers
who now look on the sun; will certain
" outlive all the uncomfortable Mes
salinas of The New Fiction "Old
types of character in fact. are never
played out; they are. have been, and
will be as weifind them in Homer. Arts
tophanes, Mollere. Shakespeare, and
Fielding. 4 new type of character Is
thing nearly if not quite impossible.
though we see much frantic affectation
of newness. What is new is only the
unessential. the trick of slang or man.
ner. The rest is all as old as sin. while
nothing grows musiy so soon as the
attempt TO reproduce the uneSsential
in art.
There is strength in this. At the
same time il will not put stop 10 the
efforts of the "injudicious females
AID /; will not for the reason that the
world is a bit weary of the grand pas
sions of heroic characters written by
men. and is intensely interested in the
revelations about women made by wo-
men, for the emotions Of the fair sex
and the basis for their emotional dem
onStrations have been long in books
al least. q great mystery. II they are
to be explained. even if a very little
! grain is found in an immensely Of chat
the male quota Of readers of the new
novel by injudicious females" j go
ing 10 be fully as large as the quota
OF female readers. IL not larger
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
INDEX TO THE SUMNER NOVEL.

In these days of hop-skip-and- jump
reading. when solid page of description
IS a horror. an literature is judged by the
amount of white paper left between the
Ines of dialogue says lid Bits, the prop
osit;on that indexes be attached to works
Of fict;on-more particularly the summer
noveI-and not confined to works of law
and government reports. will appeal fav-
orably 10 many.
To show its advantages. we give be-
low extracts from such an index to a
brilliant novel soon to be issued. which.
Il you wish, we will glance down. II
Maud likes descriptions and abhors love
scenes. she will look for:
Description
Castles at sunset. Pr. s. 1S
Heroine's dresses, DIP. s. "a. IS. 50.
Scenery. ID. I. 4. IS. etc.
And another will turn 10 love"
Love
Definition of. Up. 5, s. 60
Explanation OF attributes, pp. 80. 81.
Lionel falls in. PIP. IL
Lionel falls out, PIP. 1S0.''
Just see how well that works, Nc
time lost! Why. dear. you could read 8
hundred novels a ay with an index and
thus keep abreast of the times When
you have finished with loves" you Nigh;
turn TO kissing"
kissing; see Kiss,
kiss
Discretion in employment of. p. eS.
Lioners first, 81.
The 'Bernhardt,' Iagtry' styles. pp
~, %
What is a, pp. 81, 80.
When to take and how. .. 1e2
Where actually occurring. PIP. Is. rs. IL
IS. %, "a. %. IS. 81. 3, IS, etc.
What a saving of time, No slow hunt
ing through vacant pages. Just tSrr u
what you want.
Anyone can see the advantage of such
a system. In the near future we shall Sc
an example. which. we hope all advance
authors will follow, by issuing our mex
story with complete and comprehensiv,
index
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
THE POUND OF FLESH.

The London Daily News hit the
bulls eye with a center shot when III
speaking of Balfour's position 1t de-
clared that "bimetallism spells ruin
for the great creditor nation OF the
world" Everybody owes England
Streams of gold pour into her from
every country of the world, as interest
on bonds. interest on stocks, interest
on mortgages and interest upon inter-
est. She will accept and take nothing
but gold.
A gold standard means that the Dor
rover shall pay for the privilege OF
remaining in debt. But Balfour has
spoken for the new government ana
the manufacturers and agricultural
lists of England are TO remain the
slaves of the money owners so IL
will soon be in the United States. To
be a debtor is to be Il slave. The
next logical step would be TO sell the
debtor to the creditor as formerly WAS
done in Mexico But there is no ne
ceSSlIE IOI liIiS. bI pANSN--S '~-'>
of the debtor is the same in essence.
The government considers only the
interests of the money power, the
creditor. The debtor and his distress
is unworthy Of attention, simply be-
cause being poor he is powerless. All
the creditor has TO do is to watch
his struggling debtor and see that he
obtains no even chance to pay his
obligation. The creditor not only
wants the debtors pound Of flesh but
the blood that flows from the cutting
of it away. The Balfour episode in
Parliament has served to emphasize
the fact that the British point Of view
on this monetary subject is purely that
of the creditor, and the British reli-
ance for maintaining practical mon
ometal!ism is the threat to withhold
further loans if the debtor nation does
not stop talking about giving full prac-
teal effect to the option involved in
bimetalliSm.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
OKLAHOMA oUTLNES

Dick Bland Of Missouri Is 10 make a
speech at the Alva fair.
Mrs Elliott. "formery OF Chicago has
opened up law Office at Shawnee.
Dick Plunke,t ought to manage some
how TO pull bull fight of at Perry.
Parties at Chandler make II a regular
business to buy peaches IN the Creek coun
try.
Fife GiIstrap says that crocuet stu
holds its own against golf in the terri
tory.
A colored girl at Langston actually
boasts that she eats six watermelons
every day.
The cotton rop is sufficiently large IN
Oklahoma TO shut off the Africa emigra-
ton schemes.
Billy Gill prominent Guthrie real es-
tate man d;ed suddenly on his claim near
Perry last week.
The Chieftain at Ardmore has resolved
| 20 try the daily experience again after
| having slept for year.
A woman at Oklahoma City, Mrs. Nc
| Kinstry. Is suing for divorce on the
grouds OF general relief"
There is a pony at Kildare which &C
| cording 10 the Journal. viii leave cats
| in order 10 eat watermelon.
There are some periods when the Okla
| homa editor is 10 be envietf. That is
when he is testing a new hotel.
Early in the game the Enid Wave as
sured its readers that Zip Wyatt would
| die. II is not trying TO right itself.
John Germark. a queer character has
| disappeared from his home near Chandler
| He was hermit and deaf and dumb.
| It is said that Oklahoma is the only
| place east Of the Rocky mountains whers
/ the muscatelle grape is SUCCESSFULLY raised
| Mr. Stiles of Oklahoma City. sent a
friend in Chicago a 7i-pound watermelon
the other day as a souvenir of Oklahoma
| Harry Gordon OF Oklahoma City has
| been arrested on the charge of eynbez
zling a faro bank. How on earth did h
\ do it?
| In the last fight with the Christians al
| but two OF the deputies were on the othel
side of the big canyon and could not IL
4 a thing.
| If Coxey intends TO go to congress from
Oklahoma he will have 10 drink more thar
two bottles of stout before he gets III,
1 Democratic vote.
The late potato crop in the eastern par
of Oklahoma is not up TO the average
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
NANCY LED TIE WAY.

She has frightened her cinch by another
inch. she has shortened her siirrup
strap,
And she's OF with a vhlrl o, horse and
g.ri, and I'm lucky chap,
with Catch II you car, I'm as good as
q mani" a. bresknecs pace we ride;
I have all but placed my arm around her
waist, as &c gallop SIDE By side.
when "Roop. Ki ys-' and. her elocEs
high. she spurts in the cowboy style;
With jerk and a saw 81 her horses Jaw.
she's ahead for another nlsle.
And Us Nsncy's dust that breathe I must.
and It's Ssncy's trail follow.
TIL leave the rut for q steep sho-- ez-.
and I've caught her down IL ;hs hoI-
low.
Then suto Tire creek WITH a splash srs a
shrek. 20 her saddle xfria sas dzres-
oh. make for the shcsl. or hen stop AID
ROM But rs iI;le that Nancy cares
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
Your Paper Fan
wapAszaa&

The eastern part OF the territory cannot
have everything.
Up TO date no one has suffered in OKLA
homa because of the divorce law. The
first man who proposes 10 repeal IL should
be asked 20 resign.
Two very beautiful young married W.
men posed as Goddesses al an ea;srtais-
ment at Oklahoma City. Thursday might.
and a great crowd was present.
Judge Violet of Oklahoma City has re-
turned from Honduras and is trying 70
make the boys believe tina; 10 Is not as
hot down there as II * UP here
Some man telegraphed IN from Ava 20
Guthrie the other day asking permission
to call out the militia as a bank robbery
was suspected. That was all there was
TO the d spatch.
II is estimated that IL the water was
squeezed out OF the waternelons raised
in Oklahoma this year. n lake tivs miles
long, two miles deep ana ten miles wide
would result. Where did all that water
come from7 (
Alex Igram n H-year old boy who at
tackled a man and his wife with an AK
IN the Usage country about year ago
has been sent 20 the reform school In
Washington How those Oklahoma GRIM
inals do travel around.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

And up the Hill. she's ahead OF me stin and
over the ridge we go.
And my steaming nag has begun 10 lag:
but ii isn't my fault, know.
OH fair astride does Nancy ride, and her
spur she uses free.
And it's little she cares for the gown she
wears. and it's little she cares for me.
But the strawberry roam. with the sharp
backbone. that Nancy rode that day.
He doesn't forget that Saturday yet. when
Nancy led the way.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
DIDN'T GO TO WICHITA.

The Topeka end OF the Kansas City
Journal this morning devotes a half a
column to fakes. and then in the adj
joining column gives another special from,
Topeka, stating that Miss Sarah Craw-
ford of Kansas City. Kansas. is visiting
in Wichita. Miss Crawford is @5 years old
was Blaine's first teacher. and that this
trip to Wichita is the longest she ever
made. we are told. Miss Belle Crawford
died in Kansas City, Kansas. week ago,
was probably never in Wichita, and our
faith assures us she has gore TO some
other country than Wichita-k- L.
Gazaffa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
PuRLOINED PLUMAGE.

Frederic Saunders, librarian of the As
tor library. New York. celebrated his
eighty-eighth birthday the other day. He
is we'll preserved and active and is at
present at work on history of the Astor
library, which will be turned over to the
new consolidated public library of New
York Mr.. Saunders, for a whole genera
tion has been a fighter for international
copyright. He was born in London and
came to America in 1881.
General Annenkoff. Russian geograph-
err, is preparing an atlas on new prin-
ciple The places on the maps will be
put down, not according TO actual dis
lance from a standard point. but accord
ing to the cost of transportation. New
York, for instance, VIII be nearer TO Lon
don than Rochester in Kent. as it costs
less to ship food across the Atlantic than
to send twenty-eight miles by rail to
London.
Twenty-three years ago, while Mrs Z.
j. Zoller, of New Hanover township,
Montgomery county. Pa. was engaged in
making a bed. a needle that had been
sticking in the cover penetrated the thumb
of her right hand. The little piece of
steel remained there until last week. when
1t made itself felt by a sharp pain, and
1T was removed by surgeon.
Over 100 negro students live in the Paris
Quarter Latin They come chiefly from
Hayt! and the French colonies OF Quad
eloupe and Guyane. The Haysians are
well off and dress we'll. as their govern
ment pays them $50 a month while abroad.
They have a newspaper of their own, La
Fraternite.
Rabah, now the head OF the sultanate
! of Bornu, Africa, was at one time a slave.
He is a full-5looded negro OF gigantic
stature and is said to be possessed of i'm
| mense treasures of gold. silver, and ivory.
Joseph r. Stearns the inventor OF the
duplex system of telegraphy. who died
recently in Camden. Me. at the age of %.
| had, il is said. the largest collection OF
carved ivory in the world.
Il IS reported hat the novelist. George
Moore is shortly to marry Mrs. Craigie,
better known by the pen name OF John
Oliver Hobbies. who recently secured a
| divorce.
Colonel Switzler. the nestor Of Missouri
Journalism. still a vigorous and capable
newspaper man, wrote his first editorial
for his own paper in ISL.
Miss Alice Strauss. daughter % the
waltz King" Johann Strauss, has be-
| come engaged to the painter. Marquis
! Fen Beyros-
Thomas Nelson Page. the author. Is
spending part Of the summer az Rock
Ledge. Ne. He is said 10 be al work on
| a new novel
Il costs something 20 have an emperor
! for friend The recen. visit OF Kaiser
William 10 Lord Lorsdaie cost. IL is said
! $1,000.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
RUNNING WICHITA.

II begins TO look as il some of the ad-
ministration gang had conspired to ruin
Wichita. The state of affairs they have
induced in that city is an appalling shame
and no good Will be done. Drinking will
not be abolished: and where men drink
they will buy and sell liquor. 1t is time
TO bring the CHASTITY farce TO an end
X c. Gazette
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28
ENLIGHTENED TEMPERANCE

Education has done more for the
cause OF temperance. a thousand times
over than all the peual measures and
prohibitory laws ever enacted
Two methods have in the past heen
employed chiefly for the prevention
Of drunkenness The tirsf was The use
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

-Four Cinnamon have been beheaded
because of the missionary outrages
1t is understood that the Chinese gov
eminent took care To execute the
wrong men,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

or course we have the Russian this
tie now and must make the best of II.
but some day n KanSan Will smuggle
u nox full of Kansas mosquitoes into
Russia out Of revenge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

The French do not know what Min
lister Eustis said TO Waller when he
called TO see him. But the chances are
that the first thing Waller yelled was
"GreatheaveDs,do you chew tobaccn:-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

When asked about silver Judge Cald-
We'll said: What is the use of pay
Ing attention to foreign countries any,
way" Hold up there. John Waller OBJ
iects 10 that.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

Nomans temper has always been
spectacular. but there are possibilities
never dreamed Of when the new wo-
man discovers that the hired girl has
worn her boomers out.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

ITO Policeman Jones: The board
has unanimously decied that you must
go. Please do it quick as we may
change our minds. Yours, Police Com
mission -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-28

lt appears, from case in Indiana
that a bee-stinS on the pneumo-gas
trio nerve is fatal. To make electro
cutlon certain the lode ought 10 he
stuck on at that noint.