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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
HE WANTED 1T HOT.

During the Million club effort gen.
tleman from Kansas. one Charles Da-
mon, entered the effete restaurant of
that wild and woody city. called the
Peacock Coffee of the Boston Oyster
House and having a fit of indigestion
on, gave up his customary diet OF
Dreaded rattlesnake and whisky TO
pamper his squeamish interior with
ham and eggs. beefsteak, coffee. per
haps doughnuts. and other extras. be
sides hot bread. When the attendant
brought these delicacieS. Mr.. Damon
found that the bread was as cold as
Cleveland's attitude toward Cuba, and
fearing rebellion on the part of his
stomach, to which he had promised hot
bread. he refused either TO eat or pay
for it. Moreover, since the other
things were but compartments to the
hot bread, neither would he eat or pay
acrid discussion which ended with the
deportation Of Mr. Damon via patrol
wagon. At the dispensary of public
justice he was searched like any COM
mon transgressor and then cast into a
dungeon cell where cold bread was a
Hobson's choice. Now he has sued
the Boston Oyster House Of Chica go
for damages to the amount of $4,000.
We advise the establishment to settle
on the basis of costs and dinner with
hot bread and We hope that this will
be a salutary lesson to other restaurant
keepers While the American is some
times trifle lax in asserting his politi
cal rights, and often allows public of
ficers to give him stones instead of
bread, when it comes to his stomach
that's different.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
A LIVELY CORPSE.

Silver is dead! The whole question
has been settled and set at rest, Sill
YER as money at any ratio, will never
be thought Of again. 1t is not worth
ten cents per pound for any monetary
purposes. The last election forever
cooked the goose Of that craze, And SO
the goldbug papers keep harping away
every day. Ii silver is done for be-
yond any hope of recall why prolong
the Soldbus funeral obSequies: Why
not give the real mourners a chance?
If silver is really done for" the mourn
ers viii prove numerous and they
should have their inning. There are
millions of men in this country who
have lost half the value of their pos
sessions through the decentralization OF
silver and millions more who have host
their all Only the men who were en-
urely out of debt saved themselves.
Those, the few whose possessions were
in notes and bonds and in other Sc
curities, and in money, not only found
that they had held their own but held
the other fellows belongings.
But if silver is really dead. If the
question was releGated by the results
of the November elections why does
not congress accept the inevitable and
Son on with something else: What
sense is there in Introducing silver bills
and Of making speeches TO show thar
the RECOMMENDATION OF silver would
neither drive gold out of the country
or particularly disturb international
commerce: Why should the senate
and house be SO exercised aS 10 the
complexion and makeup of their re-
Specuye finance committees, or the an
nouAcement be made that the senate
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
VIA PLUM-PUDDlNa ROUTE.

Along with recent statement from
| Professor Dyche Of Kansas, that he
can reach the North Pole if he wants
| to- comes the assurance from close
and conservative friend Of his that
Dyche is not given to boasting and
| that if he really sets out to find the
North Pole, he will find il.
Professor Dyches statement IS this:
He declares that the only trouble in
searching for the North Pole is the
question of food: that if he has plenty
of food he will find the North Pole:
that he is not afraid of the cold: that it
has been hunger and not frigidity that
has defeated all previous expeditions.
Having been assured that Dyche is
not given TO boastfulnesS we are to as
sumo at once that he knows what he
is talking about: that Kane, and Gree
" and Peary and hansen and all the
rest have made mistakes IN Quitting
for the expeditions.
Dyche's> idea is to plant a station
chock-full for supplies every few feet
up in Greenland. along the coast, and
go a little further every day, accom-
panied by only few Esquimaux and
dogs
Or in other words, Professor Dyche
is to fill himself up on pumpkin pie
and roast goose and walk a mile: es-
tablish another station, dine on plum
pudding and broiled lobster and walk
another mile; establish another station
and wad himself full Of fried ham and
eggs and fruit-cake and push on an
other mile. And finally the day would
come when Professor Dyche. wan
from the agonies Of dyspepsia and
pinched with the shooting fortunes of
govt, heavy from gourmandizing and
listless from over-eating, could lay his
hand on that pole and say: "She is
discovered"
Would It be worth the while? Would
It be worth the candle or the pole or
the fame of discovering it. to repudiate
mans digestion, and maltreat his APP
petite in that way?
And If some method other than the
digestive mode Of geographical re-
search should be adopted would it
really pay a man, Dyche or anybody
else, to discover the North Pole?
Would the fetes and receptions and
ovations he would receive when he re-
turned, compensate him for a frozen
ear. or render him any happier than
he now is as a taxidermist. entrapping
the fleet pole-cat and stuffing his hide
with arsenical soap, alum and dry,
juiceless hay?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

custom, long existent in Spain, crossed
over 10 England by the way of Paris.
Ii was not until London society had
adopted it, however, that America be-
gan TO take il up.
One Broadway shop alone sells S125
worth Of them a week. and is constant
ly increasing its business. They are
not at all cheap. In fact, considering
their size and the actual amount OF
tobacco in each. they cost far more
than do the best Turkish brands men
buy. A really good, prettily cased
woman cigarette" made from the best
Turkish tobacco, cannot be had for
less than from IS 10 $3.50 a hundred
Some cost even 50 or So, while, OF
course, there are cheaper brands to be
The cheaper brands sell badly in COM
pariSOn with those OF novel sizes, pack
ed in really artistic, satiny eases OF red
and gold or white and gold. These
cases. indeed, are the most attractive
things about the ''woman's cigarettes"
Though smaller, they are in every way
as dainty as bonbon box from the
most fashionable bonbonniere.
Next in attraction comes the mark"
a tiny, brightly colored design upon
the cigarette itself, much more taste
full TO the eye than those that usually
dignity the white cylinders that come
over here direct fra IN I1lrkrg THE
most of the "womans cigarettes" in
the market, if not all, are made right in
New York, though from genuine Tur-
kish tobacco, unmixed.
Set alongside of the mems, a "wo-
mans cigarette" is never more than
half its size. Sometimes it is hardly
third, often even less. One OF the
most popular of the new forms is a
ting Gig" of barely two inches in
length, and about a sixteenth OF an
inch in diameter. 1t has hardly an
eighth of the tobacco TO be found in
the conventional, full-sized cigarette.
Four or five puffs will come close TO
finishing it.
If cigarette smoking among women
Is really to be the vogue in New York,
it will extend west. 1t is TO be regret
ted if il does. If our fashionable beau
ties must smoke, they should avoid the
deadly cigarette and take pipe, in
which emergency they would not
smoke at all.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
KANSAS NEW SENATOR

Responsibility tends to make men
conservative. The radical politician,
once elected to Office naturally be
come smore cautious This is newt
able. The editor Is more passive and
quiescent with his pen than in his In
dividual expressions. Hon. Lucien
Baker, the new senator from Kansas,
was quite a radical free silver man as
a Leavenworth lawyer and, indeed, as
a state senator But since his election
to the more responsible place he has
been prudent in his expressions TO the
verge of the non-committal, touching
silver. However it now seems that
he is gaining somewhat OF his old"
time confidence, if Washington cores
pondents are to be believed. Finding
that the men who hold as he believed
TO be very numerous in both house
and senate he is bracig up. Convinced
that there Is no danger Of his sacrific-
ing his influence he becomes more pro-
nounced in his utterances, and when
the OCCASION arises for him 10 go on
record we have no doubt he viii be
with the great majority Of the laboring
men and farmers of the state which
he represents. A man who in his
youth rOughed it in the west, who bull
whacked a team from the Missouri
river to Pixies Peak, can never get
away, in his sympathy, from those
who bear the burden and the heat of
toll and industry. And so he is not
only sound on the silver question but
his first bill is one in the interest Of
the labOrer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
SOME MORE oLoGIES
all

The creation Of United States sec
rotary of agriculture has been criti-
ciZed very generally among farmers in
whose interests the head Of which
bureau WAS raised TO cabinet posi-
ton. II as a bureau its mission was
of doubtful utility, its value 10 the agri-
cultural interests of the country. cost
considered. is still more doubtful. As
a department it Is growing and spread
ing in It's number OF officers and So
called experts. The number OF it's new
ologieS are becoming bewildering.
Everything pertaining 10 the farm Is
being classified and given some high
sounding ologiS,ic name. The report
OF the secretary OF agriculture fairly
bristles with them. We ind among
tie list vegetable pathology. pomology.
entomology. ORTHODOXY, mammalcgy
and agro>Jolocy. Such hard names
one would think are well calculated to
stun an oId-fashiOned Tuckahoe- farm
or OF the eastern shore. One OF the
names at least, agrosToiogy. would be
puzzler even for the Yassar girl II the
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
DEEP GuLF WATER.

There has been much talk, many con,
ventions and a vast sum Of money
spent in solving the deep water ques-
ton. supposedly in the interest Of the
Transmissouri region. Every now
and then we are assured that the
thing has been practically accomplish
ed and that great oceanic steamships
will soon be casting their anchors on
the bay side of the city of Galveston.
But that they will thus cast anchor
soon, or ever. is not sure. In the
mentime the New Orleans jetties, with
the mighty flow of the Mississippi river
securing away, stand, and great ocean
steamers go in and out through the
channel of which they form the unseen
or submerged bank. AS cases in point
the Times-Democrat mentions the
clearance last week Of the British
steamship Samoa, for Havre, with H.
pa bales of cotton, 6,499 sacks Of cot
tonseed meal and $3.50 pieces of
slaves. Monday last two exception
ally large cargoes were cleared. The
British steamer Ikbal, for Bremen, car
ried the handsome cargo Of 1872 bales
of cotton; but she was light freighter
compared with the British steamer
American, the latest addition to the
fleet of the West India and Pacific Mail
line, and the largest vessel coming 10
the port of New Orleans. The Amer
lean carried 1880 bales of cotton, (this
in itself making a handsome cargo,)
131, 46S bushels of corn in bulk, Zone
of the largest shipments ever made,)
1890 feet of oak lumber, $500
pounds of cottonseed in bulk, 7,794
sacks of cottonseed meal and 500
packages of slaves, besides a miscel-
laneous cargo of lard, canned meat, etc.
The total cargo will amount to over
$4,000 bales Of cotton, or about ten
times as much as an average vessel
carried from that port in ante-jetty
days
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
RELIGION WITHOUT HOPE.

Bob Ingersoll delivered one of his
characteristic philippics against Chris
tianity the other night at Kansas City,
whereupon George Martin pompadours
his spine and goes for the slick bald
headed old heather in a refreshing
way. After the strictest convenantor
sect is George a Presbyterian. Bob
was so brought up himself, his father
being CalviniSt without guile. 1t
seems that Bob took for his text the
whole Bible and then sailed in for all
the money there was to be made in
such a talk, which no doubt, in a town
of the character Of Kansas City, prov
ed no inconsiderable sum. Bob is at
home in any town where whisky and
the devil rival each other for the upper
hand. Now George Martin doesn't go
much on Prohibition and other hypoc-
risieS growing out of prejudiceS and
ignorance, but he is orthdox, PreSby
terrain orthodox TO the core. Nature
holy spirit breathes upon all, hollows
all from the star that burns above TO
the dew that sparkles at our feet. So
he has little use for the man whose
bloated ambition. pride and avarice
leads him to denounce prayer and to
make a jest of all that is sacred. Bob
Ingersoll may say there is no Cod
but he is not the first fool TO say a
thing which is made foolishneSS by
every blade of grass. Bob declared
that salvation is not mentioned In the
gospels though the very first chapter
Of the New Testament declares that
Jesus shall save" his people from
their sins. to which the Gazette's edi-
tor does not fail to call his attention.
Ingersoll in failing 10 understand the
Divine character Of Christ sets up that
many Of His teachings are Of impoSsi-
bic following. Love your enemies
and do good 10 those who disrespect-
fully use you is all Greek to Bob and |
Martin proves why it so. In short for
4 column and half our orthodox
brother riddles the man who In offering |
humanity nothing would rob il Of its |
all
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
ARE WE KANSANS REFINED ?

Christmas cheer may endure. Christ
mas humor has grown mighty weak
if it exists longer at all. This Is sug
gested by a perusal of those publica,
tons which make a special effort in
issuing Christmas numbers.
The two best known publications of
this kind in this country are Puck and
Judge, two papers Of humorous intent,
on social as well as political subjects.
| The color work and the drawings as
well as the typographical excellence
of the Christmas numbers of Judge
and Puck are unquestioned. But the
| literary efforts which these valuable
adjuncts adOrn are rot of the most
worm-eaten degree. The jokes, if they
can be called that. are vapid and taste
| less, and where one occasionally APP
pears that creates the mere ghost of a
smile, investigation will soon prove
that it is an old standard witticiSm re-
vamped and disguised, which discovery
been found in the witticism fades
away.
In the Christmas Judge the reader is
first confronted with a page colored
illustration Of Mrs Santa Claus on a
bicycle with a pack of toys, notifying
Santa himself standing near with his
arms full of children, that she will
hereafter take charge of the toy-diS-
tribution herself If the artist or the
publishers of Judge or the creator of
this idea expects to induce smile for
this from Anybody it is from the peo-
pie who do not read newspapers and
who have not had this idea of Mrs.
Santa Claus hammered into them
along with new woman" illusions for
the last six months. The same criti-
cism may apply to Puck. There is
from one end of the book to the other
a lack of invention which is pitiable.
The London Graphic is another pub
LEGATION which issues Christmas edi-
ton. geographically and artistically
the Graphic is beautiful Its efforts
at wit are even more imbecile than
those in Puck and Judge. The Paris
Figaro also publishes a Christmas
number more ornate than either the
American or English publications. The
typographical work and the drawing
and colOring this year is perfection.
1t attempts no witticiSm, as do the
English and American publications,
but X has a number of sketches and
stories of a Christmas nature. These
are all idiOtic. AlphonSe Daudet has
n Christmas story, which principally
narrates a Christmas he once spent in
n lighthouse. 1t has no incident to
surprise or interest the reader, who,
on reading it through, would like TO
kick several people including himself
The rest Of the sketches are no better.
The question arises: "Are we bar
barians out in Kansas? Do these
things which appear as so much liter
airy drivel TO us. interest the people !
who are immediate constituency of |
these publications.? Is there a refine |
ment in wit and literary excellence.
which we, being unrefned, cannot de- !
teCt? Or are the people in Paris and |
London and New York just as firmly !
convinced as we are that these produc- |
tionS are painfully thin and tasteless: |
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committee will stand a majority for

committee will stand a majority for
the free coinage of silver 10 to i?
Maybe there has been some gratuit-
Gus dust throwing. and that silver is
not dead. Maybe these many millions
Of people have not made up their
minds to be sacrificed In the interest of
the few, and that In spite Of goldbugs
and frightened leaders the silver ques-
ton is going to force itself to the front
in both of the national conventions
next year.
That is just what Is going to occur
and presidential candidates might bet
ter assume such attitude as will rem
der it possible for them TO stand by
the demands Of the majority.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11
WALL STREET SAID IT.

| In the opening paragraph OF his mes
sage President Cleveland very prop
| erly asserted that:
! The present assemblage OF the legisla-
| tive branch of our government occurs al
! a time when the interests of our people
! and the needs of the country give especial
! prominence to the condition of our forea gn
! relations and the exigencies of our ma
tional finances.
For the improvement Of the interests
of our people and the needs Of the
! country" Mr.. Cleveland had only 10
suggest a change in our currency sys-
tenn and an increase of our bonded
debt" He admits, however, that a
great falling off Of exports under the
operation of the tariff law until re-
Gently in force" was one of the contrib
uting causes to the constant and uni
form shrinkage" in the gold reserve
fund Of the government
1t is fair, therefore, to assume that
since our exports have fallen TO an
average of 500, 74O, 900 a month under
the operation Of the tariff law" that
is now in force, one of the main con-
Iributing causes TO the financial diff
ficulties of the country still exists that
has ''impeded our entrance TO the mar
kets of the world and 10 the retention
of our gold.
When We add to this impeachment the
further fact that gold is demanded by
foreign countries in payment for the
foreign goods that We are now pur-
chasing at the rate of SI0,0O0,0U0
month, it is self evident that 1.-The oper-
alton of the tariff law" which is now
in force, has presented two distinct
contributOry causes for the financial
difficulties Of the treasury department
under Mr. Cleveland's administration.
How the desired relief ito the inter
eSts Of our people and the needs Of the
country" can be afforded by the in
crease Of our bonded debt" as suggest
ed by Mr.. Cleveland, So cheerfully, in
a vision of renewed activity and en-
terprise in all business circles" We
leave the public To determine in 1896.
The idea, however, of securing sta
bility, even for 4 government that Is
acknowledged TO be in financial diff
fculies, by increasing its debt will be
regarded as a noyel one in all bust
ness circles" which cannot but regard
this latest production OF the presidents
as an emanation from Wall street-Or
possibly from William street the ac
tive headquarters of those placid old /
fogies' who constitute the American I
branch OF the Golden Club Free-Trad- /
ers Of England, and who, as tariff re-
formers, are delugiug the country with 4
literature for the express pur- /
pose Of impeding intelligent tariff leg 1
isiation that would bring relief TO the 4
treasury, that would renew activity 1
and enterprise ia ali business circles,
aud that would restore confidence at /
home. The friends OF protection in
the Fifty fourth congress VIII unite IN
an endeavor 10 accomplish this.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

report did not inform US that the divi-
sion Is devoted TO the investigation Of
grasses and forage plants and expert
ments In the culture of our native spe-
cies.' There is nothing like book
learning for farmers. We ought TO ex-
pect a great deal from function OF
government with such an imposing
name as ''agrostology"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

To be really up-to-date. You should
have jardienieres OF delft setting
around the house. After you have dis
covered what they are you viii be in
1erested in knowing that they are fash
iOnabla
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Holm j. Ingalls, has declared himself
for Benjamin Harrison for president
Great heavens. Has the man given
up senatorial hopes and began schem-
Ing for the Atchison nostoffice?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Lawrence Journal: TIE Wichita Eagle
e6ltOrtAIly wonders why there Is not more
talk cf Tom Reed f0- president s.zcs
almost everybody IS 1oE h-m- II TIE
Eagle Eia substitute ths Eans OF lie
kinney for thzt OF Reed. IL ~.L And tA&S
II makes 10 mistake IN saying that nezrsy
everybody i. for hlrs. ard :: wil also End
tha; there - a ~hoss lot of AK Abogi
h.En ard his presidential boon
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

A postage stzrn2 las been Issued Il
Rome as = p-O-sst sszizs. re Tiz13zz
cele5rztloa- OF goi1 background - sEs
head % Leo MI. a5-0ys 4; ia yorEs
Ky S=terobre, 80. .n1 bss5S = -Ev-
viva Leoae XIII. Evvfva FItaEa~ Ths
stamp = SIMPLY = earnestly, a. me PoSs
has 10 postofaos-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

John Wannamaker gets most OF the
money TO put up by the city securing
the national Republican convention.
Nannamaker put up the money in
Harrison's campaign 1t was losing
investment and John should have been
allowed to lose il
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

While the attack Of the Free and In
dependent Order of the Sons of Israel
may have no effect on Dr. Ahlwardt.
the anu-Semite. the indifference of the
United and Ancient Lodge Of Ameri-
can HorSe-Sense will.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

The dramatic writer on the Chicago
Times Herald says: Tom Keene is 4
rich man, but he is not an actor. 1t
sl'ould he said that eastern dramatic
critics are fired if they are caught
saying pleasant things
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Miss Aub OF New York, wants to
plead guilty to convicting a rich man
for assault by perjury, but is not al
lowed to do ii. How much doodle is
there in Miss Aub's case?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

1t is given out from Washington that
In a few months President Cleveland
VIII authorize another issue Of bonds.
lie VIII do this partly from necessity
and partly as IN object lesson for the
retirement OF greenbacks.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Surgeon Stitt enumerates phthisis.
black ants and mosquitoes as the prin-
cipal barriers to Americans who will
work on the Nicaragua canal He SAYS
nothing of British cannon-halls.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Senator Allen wants all Americans
who accept foreign titles fined and i'm
prlsoned. To make such law bind
ing England should pass another dning
and imprisoning any Englishman who
accepts an American dowry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

Yvette Guilbert, the latest Partisan
craze, is in New York. She is very
homely but she earns $4,000 a week.
This is a pretty good figure, earned
by pretty good figure.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-11

In his message President Cleveland
speaks about the sensitive imacina-
lion Of the people. The sensitive
Imagination of the people was onto the
foreign syndicate bond racket all
right