davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
IRRIGATION AND IDLENEss.

In the minds Of many farmers the soil
of Kansas and its productive powers
have never had a fair test. Once in
a great while the voice of a successful
farmer will be heard above the chorus
of lamentations: Pillow deep" Then
his admonition will die away in the
distance or be swallowed up with the
cry of successive failures
There is a note of warning on this
very matter now being sounded
throughout the state. Irrigation is
coming. Everyone is talking OF it.
But there is just this about irrigation.
1t VIII not make crops alone. 4 man
cannot sit on fence and watch the
water flow through his irrigation
bitches and get crop. Irrigation does
not eliminate work. The work OF cul-
uvation must accompany irrigation.
In speaking to this point before the
Board of Agriculture {. Ii. Construct
said: Now, on this irrigation oues-
ton. | find that il is practically divided
into three systems: First. by flooding
from open bitches: second, pipe line
underground. distributing water by
hydrant and hose: third. by thing. dis
rlbuting the water below the surface.
forming what would be termed sub-irri-
CATION. The flooding system is the one
generally practiced in western Kansas.
and the only one with which l have
any practical experience. l am sat
isfied, though, for several reasons. the
piping system is much better. L be-
lieve the thing system has advantages
over either of the others. provided il
can be made 10 work at all OF this
am not certain and am waiting for
more information before | adopt
either. But l am fully satisfied that
shall eventually use the piping sys-
tenn if / find the thing system does not
work. This method of irrigation. how
ever applies TO small fruit and yeget-
able growing and intensive farming
only. For growing grain and hay the
flooding system Will always be most
practical. Under the flooding system
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
FACTS ABOUT COUNTIES.
New York Sun.

Z rom the New ORR sun.
Few even of the New England state.
have made use of the natural feature.
for county boundaries. British king:
set the fashion in the new world O.
making political divisions in imaginary
lines. and the fashion has been fol
lowed faithfully il states old and new
Its final development is found in the
western states and territories, where
natures boundaries, mountain ranges
and rivers are neglected for the sake
of the parallels and meridians. Maine
whose counties are as irregular in
shape as any in the world, has not
made use of natural landmarks TO any
considerable extent. Vermont and
New Hampshire have here and there
used mountain ranges and streams for
county boundaries Massachusetts, and
Connecticut nave Gisregarded natural
boundaries in great degree. Even the
great Connecticut river flows across
counties and is the boundary line only
between parts of Middlesex and New
London counties in Connecticut
Rhode Islands chief county boundaries
are imaginary lines.
Massachusetts, has two island coun
ties, Dukes and Nantucket Island
counties occur also in New York and
Washington. but not elsewhere. though
the larger part of Door county, Wis.
i an island in Lake Michigan Wash
ington's island county bears the name
Of the island and is surrounded by the
waters of Puget sound. Names coun-
ties average nearly five hundred square
miles each in area. and there are sew
eral each of which are larger than the
state of Rhode Island.
New York has few natural county
boundaries save in the lake regions
along the Hudson. New Jersey has
artificial boundaries for many coun-
ties. but Pennsylvania has used noun
tains and rivers in many instances.
Delaware has used small streams to
bound her counties and even her town
ships. or hundreds. as they are called.
Maryland. Virginia, and West Viz
ginia. having plenty of streams and
mountain ranges, use such natural feat
ures for county boundaries Nirginia's
counties are usually small in both area
aud population. Natural boundaries
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
THOSE. LEATHER BONES.

As matter Of fact if Guatemala and
Mexico do waddle forth to battle we
are going to have some fun. Yucatan,
which is justly famous on the maps
and chewing-gum packages, does not
belong to Mexico and it does not be-
long to Guatemala. The Indians who
originally held Yucatan still hold it,
They have never been dislodged,
though Mexico has made attempts to
GUST them.
These Indians hate the Guatemalans.
Their love for the MeXicans is no
greater. but it looms up like a five
story building beside strawberry box
in comparison with their affection for
the Guatemalans.
The Indians have their headquarters
at a great city far in the south called
Chan-Santa-Cruz. From this city in
all directions stretch lines of pickets
Of a peculiar kind. On the extreme
frontier an Indian is stationed pro-
yided with a huge bomb of rawhide
filed with gunpOwder. At the dis
lance at which the explosion of this
bomb can be heard is stationed another
picket similarly provided, and so on
down the line as far as the capital. In
case of an attempt to penetrate their
country by force the first picket eX-
plodes his bomb and at once starts
running in the direction of the capital.
AS the sound travels the successive
pickets also explode their bombs, and
thus the news is spread over a vast
territory.
This sounds unique, but it isn't. If
the MeXicanS allow these Indians to
protect their frontier and the Guate-
malans are shrewd the latter will quiet
ly sneak up on the Indians with the
leather bombs and pick them off with
their rifles, passing on from one to the
other without giving them chance
to touch their leather tire-crackers off.
In this way the Guatemalans can get
away up into Mexico while the Next
can forces are waiting to hear 4 sue
cession of explosions announcing the
approach Of the enemy.
With any other country the posi-
bility of such thing would appear
ridiculous. but the Mexicans are just
uncivilized enough to depend on
leather bombs for protection and warn
inc
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

| the water is led to each farm from the
main canal through what we term
lateral bitches, each farmer taking his
portion of the water from this lateral
ditch through box or gate which
empties into a smaller lateral ditch
that is made TO convey the water to
any part of his farm that he wishes
to irrigate. When the water has reach
ed the field or crop to be irrigated it
is then run into what we term a head
or supply ditch, and from this smaller
bitches are made which are called field
or distributing bitches. These dis
tributing bitches are made at various
distances apart, depending on the lay
of the land. whether level or uneven.
AS rule, however, we aim to make
them about eighty feet or five rods
apart 1 have tried various distances
and l find that eighty feet is close
enough and about as far apart as they
will work well in distributing water
evenly
Il find a great many people think.
that if they have plenty of water to
run on their crops they have all that
is necessary. This is a mistake. 1t
is just as important, and think even
more so, that special attention be given
TO the cultivation of the soil or crop,
as to the irrigation part of it. If
were compelled to make choice be-
tween irrigation and cultivation, would
take the latter every time. Am sat
isfied that could. as a rule, get better
results from cultivation alone than
from irrigation alone. In order to get
the best results from either, or both
combined, it is necessary to have the
soil in the best possible condition, that
is, to have it deeply plowed and every
particle finely pulveriZed before put
ting in the crop. If the soil is not
moist enough at time of planting
of crop it is well to apply water and
give it a thorough soaking"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
Pleasing the Eagles Patrons.

Garden City Herald: The Wichita
Eagle sent us linotype a few days
ago cast on one of their new typeset-
ting machines which was lately added
to their Office. 1t contained the words
Herald, Garden City, Kansas" and
was cast in the remarkably short time
of go seconds. BY means of these ma
chimes the Eagle is furnishing more
reading matter than any paper west of
the Missouri river. Colonel Murdoch
knows how to please his patrons.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

are usual in the CaroIlnas, Georgia and
Alabama, but Mississippi has many
imaginary county lines, and her coun-
ties are notched in way to suggest
that they were made with a view to
the production Of one of those wooden
puzzle maps that are held together by
the notches. Louisiana, Arkansas,
Tennessee, and Kentucky have the
characteristic rectangular county
forms with many imaginary boundary
lines, though creeks and rivers are
used to some extent in Kentucky and
Tennessee. Florida has boundary lines
of each sort. and so has Texas, save in
the northwest, where natural bound
aries are almost entirely disregarded-
Buchel county, Texas. is a right-angled
triangle, and perhaps the only one in
the United States.
The states of the middle west have
comparatively few natural county
boundaries. and those Immediately be-
yond the Mississippi almost disregard
landmarks in the choice of county lines,
the counties being piled mathematical.
~ tier on tier. Even the great river
Platte flows across Nebraska much Of
its way through counties
The Rocky mountain states, unable
to disregard the stern necessities of
great rivers and almost impossible
mountain ranges, have accepted these
natural features as county lines, though
the Missouri flows through one of the
North Dakota counties. Oregon and
Washington have accepted mountain
ranges and great rivers for county lines,
and so has California. though in many
cases imaginary boundaries are used.
A single county of Montana is about
as large as all the New England states
together save Maine. Cherry county.
Neb., is nearly as large as New Jersey,
and one county in Arizona is nearly as
large as Vermont and New Hampshire.
One county in Wyoming exceeds by
two hundred square miles the area OF
Vermont, and any one of twenty far
western counties is almost double the
area of Delaware
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The hundreds of men who have been
are coming TO Wichita to start their
families and their fortunes in anew.
They are studying the best cities in
the west and Wichita is among them,
and the best of all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The Kansas senate wants 10 exclude
a newspaper man for writing up some
thing derogatory 10 the senate For
heavens sake let the senate try TO
be superior 10 the United States senate.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The complete failure of Ii HING
chang does not cause much sorrow in
America except that it is an instance
that General Grant was poo1 judge of
human nature
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Nothing is gained except by hard
work. The people of Wichita are hard
at work today and the rest of the coun
Try viii see the result before another
New Years Day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

A Detroit schoolboy says that the
differences between victuals and
viands is that he eats the former on
wash-days and the latter when his
folks have company.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

1t is 10 be hoped that the Oklahoma
legislature will not fail into the Gus
tom OF creating Il lot of salaries in
order 10 Increase the number of of
fcialS in the territory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

In SIX or seven years the average
voter VIII have forgotten how incom-
petent the Democratic administration
was Now is the time for the people
10 fix it in their memory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Every man in Wichita and every man
in the great Southwest realizes that
the times are more prosperous today
than they have been in the last five
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Early last December a marked i'm.
proVement was observed in the bus
mess OF Wichita 1t kept up through
the holidays and is just as strong
and active today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Eastern society has 4 twin pet for
Richard Harding Davis. This is an
artist named Gibson, who has more
talent apparently than Davis. as he
deSpiScS society.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The Oklahoma school Herald calls
the editor of the Wichita Eagle an
''accipritine croaker." And still the
Eagle will retain j number of friends
among the people who do Lot sport a
dictionary -.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The men who have never lost faith
in Wichita will be rewarded and the
fellows who left viii come trooping
back for part of the spoils.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

liz. the opinion of the Lawrence Jour
nal it would be a huge joke on Guate-
mala If Mexico should conclude TO an
mex her without going to war.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The Wichita Cooking club is said to
have made the important discovery re-
Gently that apple-sauce is not Il COM
plete dish without roast goose.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Pope Leo is not in favor Of divorce
and the gathering echo comes back
from Oklahoma like Il bent willow
that Leo was never married.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

BY all means the legislature should
pass a law making the breeding Of
horses under Il 2:30 gait in Kansas pun
ishable by death.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

a French writer says there is not a
woman in America who has not car
ried on a Irritation at some time or
another. He is liar.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Lucien Baker is the kind of man
who can tell when a politician takes
his hat off to him too rapidly that he
Will talk through it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The pie-counter in Washington has
long been talked of, but Kansas was
the first state to think OF putting
Baker in charge of it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

The only real cause of war in all
the world at present is the Armenian
butchery, and that will be settled with
out a war.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

IF men have made a success in one
line in Wichita why cannot another
man make success in another line
in Wichita?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

New sign-boards with new names:
new enterprises with young men be-
hind them; new life with new ambi-
tions menas great deal for Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Texas is not bowling about hard
times; neither is Oklahoma, and neither
is southern Kansas and Wichita.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Wichita has the location and the peo-
pie. 1t has the vim and the vigor TO
make great city and it is moving up
ward today.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Every train that rolls into Wichita
nowadays, rolls away from Wichita
less crowded Wichita is filling up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Early in the campaign the Eagle
made the prediction that China would
whip Japan. The prediction is now
withdrawn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

On second thought Springer declared
himself in favor of Carlisles currency
bill On third he concluded to side
in with Cleveland.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Wichita is the only city in the west
which can reach all the territory sur
rounding it by direct lines of trans
portation
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31
Daily - eagle
M. NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

The Whiskey Trust is at last in the
hands of receiver Let all the trust
go likewise.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Professor Dyorak says that the best
music in America is the negro melody
Occasionally great musician will hit
uOpn the truth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

There are more heavily laden trucks
ana transfer wagons on the streets
of Wichita than in any other city be-
tween Kansas City and Dallas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

New enterprises are coming into
Wichita weekly and they do not have
to be offered bonus either
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

Push and enterprise with the new
yigor which the southwest has taken
on will make Wichita great city.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-01-31

One reason that Cleveland's policy
is not a glittering success is because
all that glitter is not gold.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-20
A SERIOUS CRIME.
Petitions for New Trials Heard
in Appellate Division.
"A Witness Delay In Appearing Punished.
AdJudged In Contempt.

Befo e Chief Justice Mstteson and JUS
tices Siiness and Tilinghast was heard
tbe .defendants' petition in the case OF
Providence Coal Company VS.. Coke
Brothers of New York, Tor new trial.
This case was heard before Judge Doug
lass sitting in Chambers, who awarded
the plaintiffs s1200.
The trouble arose over the failure OF
the defendants TO supply the plaintiffs
with coal the latter had purchased. The
reason given by the defendants for their
failure to fulfill their contract is the neg
lect OF the plaintiffs TO .furnishs barges TO
carry the coal to this city.
A hearing was also had on the petition
OF the defendant in the case of Peleg A.
Sanford against Frank Nj. Bates, city
treasurer OF Pawtucket, for new trial
The plaintiff was awarded s2400 by jury
In the common pleas division for injuries
received by him on account OF his
striking a guy rope stretched across Min
erai Spring avenue In Pawtucget.
Grafton N. Millaken VS.. Island Savings
Bank. Heard on form of decree.
COMMON PLEAS DIVISION.
George Brown was tried before Judge
Wilbur on charge Of rape today.
Brown was defended by Joseph III.
Munroe and Franklin P.Owen. Attorney
General Dubois represented the State.
FINED FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT.
There was an unusual incident in
Judge Wilbur's court yesterday. and one
that will have the effect of making wit
nesses summoned into court very careful
TO obey the summons. The affair occur
red in the trial OF the case OF State VS..
Charles A. Mathewson. One Clarence {.
Duffy was summoned 10 testify. The
latter did not get % the
court until 80 O'Clock. He gave
testimony and then Deputy Sheriff John
son arrested him. He was srraigned be-
foie Juqde Wilbur and after some sharp
remarks his honor fined the prisoner 50
for orcontempt.
Duffy said this was not right as he was
alon in the market ana co1ld not leave IL.
Judge Wilbur told him that he should
have locked the market up and that the
orders OF the court were intended TO be
obeyed.
STILL on TRIAL.
The trial OF the suit OF WILLIAM p.
Moroney against Bernard McCaughey and
Edward Duffy. (which was begun Wednes-
day morning, Is still on.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-20
WHISKY NO CURE FOR POISON.
The Liquor IL Not an Antidote For Snake
Btess

whisky will never cure poisonous
snake bite said Professor Theodore A.
Schurr, the naturalist, of 80 years expert
ence, to n reporter. 1.-THE idea that whisky
Is an antidote for the bite OF rattlesnake
or any other venomous reptile is delu-
sion so popular and general that l always
take special pains TO correct and expose it
In my lectures. Whisky never will or new
er did cure any one bitten by a snake, but
because some person took some whisky
after being bitten by harmless snake and
recovered he attributed his cure to the
whisky, and so tho idea gained circulation.
have never known case to be cured by
the use Of whisky and have known several
cases where it had been used to result fa-
tally. Whisky only adds additional poison
TO the system instead of removing and de-
stroying that Of the snake.
1.-THE only thing that will cure person
bitten by n rattler or other poisonous snake
Is the use OF permanganate OF potash.
This Is an effectual cure In almost every
instance. The venom of a reptile Is inject
ed into tho blood, and the poison destroys
the blood globulcs. i was bitten by rat
tier on my index finger and Immediately
took my pocketknifc and made deep In
cision near tho wound, SO that the poison
through my system. The bitten part was
then cauterizcd, and II caused me no trou-
bic whatever. Whisky Is not very good to
iise at any time, and no good for snake
bites. "--Pittsburg Post.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-12-20

reaching home Ia timo and giving hec11
care to what the thing might mean.
One house was lighted brilliautly&
and through uncurtained windows ~
saw Christmas tree. The presents hal
been stripped away. but tapers burne1'
there, and strings Of woodland tiny da8s>
"Santa Claus brought them there
things ON his way out. said Zepb a.
himself. Hell git to Billy ON his trip
back home" And then he tried to sncer
at the whole affair.
At the first barb Of light Zeph fough1
against his drowsiness and turned -
wait till Billy's eyes should open. ~
seemed slow, long time. But after
awhile the large, blue eyes unveiled
the sense Of present things came back to
him, and then they rested on those
glories at his pillow. He did not move,
but stLdied them moment with . look
% strange that Zeph saw things hio
wisdom had not dreamed. Then Billy
eyes were closed again, and soon the
larger breathing told that he was deep
In dreamland paths. with richer treas
ures on each hand than there had been
before.
He reused at length and saw the toys
again.
II dreamt of them," he said and
wondered why his mother smiled. IL!
was long before he dared to touch them.
and all through the day his boyish play
would be suspended. and he would lock
at them as if afraid that they would
vanish into dreams again--the dreams
where he was sure his happy eyes had
found them.
"But it's all hoky poky," said Zeph
to his wife, as he shouldered his AK and
went down to the mill for tho day
Chicago Tiinos-H Herald.