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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

The game of quoits is still popular
among certain classes. Few of those
who play it are aware that it has a
deadly use in India. According to an
English officer in that strange. rich
section of the British empire quoits
are used as implements OF war oy the
Sikhs. an independent and very mar
tial tribe in India. 1.-The Sikhs." says
he, ..have a great variety of weapons
l observed the musket, matchbox,
sword, spears of sundry forms. dagger,
and battle-ax; but the arm that
is exclusively peculiar to this
sect is the quot 1t is
made of beautiful thin steel, sometimes
inlaid with gold. In asing it the war
rior twirls it swiftly round the fore
finger, and launches it with such dead
ly aim, as, according to their own ac-
count, to be sure of his man at eighty
PAGES" 1t appears they wear these
war-uuoits in their arm like armlets,
and on the top-knot (which is peculiar
to the SIKH OF the turban- The edges
of the quoits are very sharp, and sure
death to all who may be hit by them.
-Harper's Young People.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
The Big Hat.

New York Recorder: The way to
deal with the big hat is to take it off.
Nashville American: If this reform
is pushed it will gain adherents in every
state.
Kansas City Journal: The legislators
who are prohibiting the big theater hat
should add an amendment including
the lofty and befeathered coiffuer.
Springfield Republican: These able
statesmen not only seem TO have clear
perception of the gravity Of the evil
but the grim determination to provide
a remedy.
Terre Haute Gazette: They are try
ing to legislate the big theater hat out
OF the theater in New York. but the wo-
men who wear them are gritting their
teeth and swapping their eyes in way
that indicates a bitter resistance.
Clevelaned Plaindealer: If the sever
al state legislatures want TO settle the
ladies' theater hat problem the way Is
easy. Let the statutes limit the hats
to fit an average legislative head and
the public will be satisfied.
Toronto Mail: Since the theater hat
has risen TO the dignity Of political is
sue in the United State the wisdom OF
denying women the suffrage is becom-
ing more apparent No self-respecting
woman would vote in favor OF interfer-
ence.
Springfield News: The legislature
should be careful and not make a
monkey of itself in the matter OF Mr..
Jones bill to regulate ladies' head COW
erings in the theater A much greater
need in the way of theater regulation
is a bill TO prevent men like Mr.. Jones
from applauding with their heels
Madison Journal: In New York and
Illinois the statesmen in the legislature
are striving 10 enact measures TO do
away with the big theater hats. They
can't come il. The dear women can
never be prevented from indEiS1ng in
all the felt feathers and fuss their
charming fancies can conture mp.
Cincinnati Tribune: The wearing OF
high hats is an injustice and a nuisance
but the practice Of chewing gum in
public, at lectures, theaters and public
meetings, is an exhibition Of downright
vulgarity We should like TO see that
high hat and chewing gum nuisance
abandoned in Cincinnati without the
| intervention Of legislative action
Savannah News:It remains 10 be seen
what the women will do under the cir
cumstanees. The chances are that
| they viii continue 10 obey the mandates
OF the law OF fashion and snap their
| finger at the statute laws on this hat
| question. But they shouldn't Com
mon courtesy requires them 10 abandon
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Guthrie is making war on auctioneers.
Bill Cooks captors received 500 and ex-
penseS each.
One Isenberg of Enid. is after a certain
Mr.. Collins with stuffed club.
Now Collins denies his Enid interview.
This matter is getting interesting.
The ministers at Guthrie are getting the
reputation of being neutrality-suspicious..
Lee and Blanchard of Oklahoma City,
have been released on $1,000 bail each.
The mayor of Perry is expected to be
plutocrat on the salary of 500 year.
Leslie Niblack is afraid that several
insane moves have been made in the
asylum matter.
On the Choctaw road town named
Florence has been located few miles
east of Shawnee.
Ell Reno will make a fight at Perry to
have the next editorial association meet
ing held at Ell Reno.
Eighteen hacks run between Lexington
and Purcell. Liquor is sold in Lexing-
ton and not in Purcell.
1t is intimated by the Guthrie Leader
that the cigarette bill now before the leg
islature will end in smoke.
According to the Enid Wave, cotton
blossoms have been substituted for orange
The Norman Transcript believes that
the reason the legislative mills grind slow
ly is that the hopper is too full.
Woodward county requests that it not
be included in the strip counties which
are asking for government seeds.
Near Chandler the other day a man
named Byers was mistaken for q panther
by a colored boy and shot to death.
Home talent at Perry has just finished
Lady Audley's Secret" and Ell Reno Is
just plunginS into "Pygmalion and Ga
latea.''
The Duncan Banner says: Just so
long as influential men go on the bonds
of cattle-thieves, cattle stealing will con-
tinue."
Some of the Populists over in Payne
county are kicking because the present
legislature hasn't raised the price Of
wheat.
Senator Doom wants no new measures
introduced in the council after February
%, unless by the unanimous consent of the
whole body.
The Oklahoma City Star ought to let
up on it's haunted house stories. Pretty
soon its readers will get SO they won't
believe any Of them.
Judge McAtee is a pretty good man and
several newspapers have no hesitancy
in saying so. If any papers are support
ing Collins, he ought to request them to
speak out.
Pitzer arose in the council the other day
and relieved himself of this philosOphic
reflection: ANY man that will kill a
cow that he has had ten years ought to
be punished
There has been another change in the
names of Pond Creek and Round Pond
but no has yet had the audacity to ex-
plain what the change is. And nobody
could understand the explanation if it
were given.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
Personal.

Queen LiPs pictures give the impress
sion that she might get job as iron
jawed woman in some dime museum.
]. H. Mustard is principal of the high
T, school at Minneapolis. A r. WagS
| holds a similar position at Auburn, he.
Devoe, the weather prophet, predicted
| mild weather for yesterday. or course
he hit 1t. 1t was mild weather for
Greenland.
Dean Hole is the authority for the
| opinion given in his latest book that for
one silly young woman there are fifty
silly young men.
Senator Jones of Nevada is seldom
seen in the senate. He is probably
| there, but since turning Populist he
feels too small to be visible.
Count Castellane, the Frenchman
who, it is rumored, is engaged to Miss
Anna Gould, is a handsome young fel-
low and is not poor. strange to say. He
has money enough to satisfy any
French girl.
DR.. Felix Adler says he is no Socialist,
yet in his Sunday discourse on labor
| troubles in brooklyn he advocated the
municipal purchase of land as releif
| for the popular burden OF rent IN great
cities.
Colonel Steward Cary, the Buffalo
millionaire and amateur whip who
bought the coach Vivid, exhibited at
the worlds fair, has arranged to run
| it between Buffalo and Niagara Falls
next summer as public coach.
Mrs. Castle, who was recently elected
| justice of the peace in Webster county,
Iowa, has abdicated the tribunal and
returned to the pursuits of private life.
A justiceship is a little too severe an
initiation into mans domain.
Nine Carrie, a business-like French
;e- x1riy- CaOrafarv
! Colonel Waring, New York's street
| cleaning commissioner. Nine. Carre
| speaks and writes fiuently English,
French, and German and has some
| knowledge of Italian.
| Miss Annie Hayes Of Forest City, Me-,
| was examined by a board of pension
surgeons recently for pension as the
| dependent child Of Union soldier. She
| weighs 438 pounds, and as q result OF
the surplus avoirdupois is unable to do
any work, hence the pension.
Theodore D. Weld, one Of the original
anti-slavery agitators, died Sunday in
Boston, aged 81 years. He had a ma
| tional career. having been contem-
| porary with John Brown, Wendell Phil
| lips. Charles Sumner and William Lloyd
Garrison. and had survived them all.
He was prominently identified with the
| Unitarian Society, being one OF Its
| founders, as well as that Of the Public
| Library and Historical Society.
! Chief Justice Groesbeck of Wyoming
writes to the Ohio superintendent of
Education that woman suffrage In his
state has tended to secure good nominal
tions for public offices. 1t has been
| found that women, as a class, will not
vote for incompetent or immoral can
didates. Furthermore, he claims. that
| full suffrage "has tended to make our
ln6QDPnGanr
| and to turn their attention to the study
| of the science of government, an educa-
ton that is needed by the mothers of
| the race"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
The Jewesses of runis.

1t is easier for French bourgeoise
to get married without dot of some
kind than for Jewess of Tunis to find
a bridegroom. unless she is so fat as to
make exercise and even breathing
Alright a matter of difficulty. The prep
aration an Israelite damsel has to I'M
dsrgo as soon as she is betrothed, or
has come to manageable age, can be
compared only to that of the doomed
goose before it perishes to have an ex-
pensive resurrection in pate de fois
gras. The Jewess, like the goose. is
kept in dark room; is Unfortunately
gorged with fattening substances; and
Is allowed no exercise, no distractions;
in a word, no opportunities for any
thing but the speedy accumulation of
fat. Where the Oriental of the poet
speaks of his love as a gazelle, the Jew
of Tunis dwells upon her obesity. Love
has many grotesqueries; surely none
SO unallurIng as this valuation by
weight and bulk-London News.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
THE EAGLE STANDS ITS SCREAM

THE EAGLE STANDS ITS SCREAM
The Topeka, Kansas, Breeze, as an
excuse for lighting on TO the Eagle,
comes to the defense of Samuel L.
Howe, who was appointed on the board
Of state railway commissioners. The
Eagles scream was not one OF anger
and soreness, but one OF disgust Mr..
Howe was not criticized as to his in
dividual fitness, although we have yet
to learn that he knows anything about
the transportation question in general
or in detail. He probably has Occa-
sion to make a trip once in a while,
but that he even knows the rate per
mile for passenger would be to say
that he had figured out the cost of his
pass to a nicely as also its value to the
railroads. The Eagle has nothing to
say against Mr.. Howe. We just pro-
tested against the hog policy which is
being carried out at the expense of the
Republican party and its vote in the
next general election. The election
of that railway commission is indie
feasible, from any standpoint con-
ceivable, political or otherwise. In
view of the possibility Of that same
executive council naming the Breeze
as the state official organ, it may prove
a pleasure for the editor to apologize
for and defend the makeup of the
board of railway commissioners, but
that fact will not tighten the uphill
work that such a selection will inevita
bly, impose upon the Republican papers
OF the state in the next campaign. 1t
is now claimed that Mr.. HOwe'S APP
pointment was compromise. a COM
promise as to whom or what? Did
Topeka threaten to raise hades if she
was not conceded this additional place
to all that she has and all that she is
asking? As for the other point made
by the Breeze, the people do care, and
particularly care, where these commits
sionerS come from, without reference
to the individual characters of the men
selected. Nobody is denying that Howe
was good carpenter, good sheriff
and 4 good treasurer, nor that he, by
the grace of the Republican party, has
held Office for the major portion of the
time he has resided in the state, all
the same the Eagle knew what it was
talking about when it criticized the
makeup of that board and the way
in which it evidently was made up.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

missionerS of any county in Kansas
is hereby empowered and authorized
to levy a tax of, not to exceed one mill,
in any one year on all the assessed
taxable property of the county, for the
purpose of, and to be used solely and
only in employing such persons or COM
pany, as the said board of county COM
missioners shall deem suitable and
competent, to cause and produce rain
fall in the several counties of the state.
Provided, that no board Of county COM
missioners shall make any such tax
levy except upon a petition first duly
presented to the said board, praying
that such levy be made. and signed by
not less than one hundred resident tax
payers Of said county.
Sec 2. Any board of county commits
sioners, having first made tax levy
as provided in the first section of this
act, and in pursuance thereof, is here
by empowered to make contracts with
any person. company or corporation, to
cause. or produce, by artificial means.
rainfall during a given period OF time,
and is hereby empowered to pay out
upon such contracts, and in accord
ance with the terms thereof, any sum
or portion of the money raised by
means of. the tax levy as herein pro-
vided.
Sec. 3. No member Of any board
of county commissioners shall be al
lowed to make any contracts directly
or indirectly with himself, nor with
any company or corporation in which
he has any interest, for the purpose
of causing or producing rainfall by
artificial means as herein provided
and any such contract so made shall
be absolutely null and void.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its publica-
ton in the official state paper.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
THE PRESUMPTION OF THE THING.

The newspapers of Kansas City are
at least amusing if neither instructive
or reliable. The cliff dweller, as 4
conglomerate, as a cross between con-
seryatism and progreSsiveneSS, is not
without interest. His right TO q fair
chance in the race after the star which
has a westward inclination is granted.
but the press which assumes to be his
representative, passes all understand
ing. A weeks perusal of their columns
would set the unprejudiced reader to
wondering if there was no Kansas
would there be any Kansas City, Mis-
souri,, newspaper, or any Kansas to
edit it. 1t is not SO much the Kansas
news which they print, but the re-
sponsibility assumed, the general pre-
rogatiye asserted as to all that pertains
to or concerns this state or its people.
Censorship is probably the better word.
For the very things which these papers
are eternally criticising in Kansas is
their own city the most conspicuous
be it general immortality, election
frauds, loose legislation, corruption in
high places, or what not. This winter
these sheets have been more than ordi-
narily Industrious directing the Kan
saS legislature, advising the admins
tration, and finding fault with the Kan
sas way of doing things. What Kan
sas needs is the caption of at least
one editorial that will never be looked
for in vain in any issue of either of
the publications alluded to. OF course
there is no way of shutting off this
presumption or otherwise avoiding it,
but as specimen Of the persistent
bore language fails OF any adequate
eynrpSSion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
The former teacher of the ptesen

The former teacher OF the present
czarina says that she was brought up
almost entirely as an English girl, de-
spite her German birth The family
spoke English exclusively. their plays
were English and the governess OF the
princess was English. Her German is
consequently spoken with foreign &C
cent. The teacher thinks the princess
will make an excellent wife for the
car, and one who will never bother
herself about politics She has no in
terest, he says, in politics, and was not
educated to have any interest in 1t
She was brought mp. in fact, as the
daughter of family OF the middle
class
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
ABOUT RAIN-MAKING.
thu Editor OF the Ea gle

To the Editor OF the Ea gle.
The extract published by you touch
ing the introduction of the rain-making
bill by Senator O'Bryan is liable to mis-
lead, as you will see by the bill which
is herewith enclosed. and which was.
as he says, introduced by request"
This bill, together with the accompany
ing contract, the terms of which you
published 4 few weeks since, covers
the case the most concisely that could
think. / only desired to get the matter
before the people that it might be given
a fair trial and the results be noted
Any continued fight will result in put
ting it into the hands of a trust or pool
which would cost the people far more
than my proposition or the provisions
of the proposed law. The work that
was done last year in two months and
twenty days on the NIT ranch in the
Panhandle of Texas ought TO be con-
vincing. SO much rain fell that the
owners requested the operator to cease
as II was rotting the grass. The work
will be resumed this year at that piont.
Ii was done by one of Mr.. JEWELS men.
Our work at Wichita of twenty-seven
days, L claim, caused thirteen inches
more rain in this vicinity than fell
outside of this vicinity, from June list
/ to September lst-Jhe area referred 10
being on eighteen miles west TO fifty
miles in the other directions. The fol-
lowing is the bin introduced by Senator
0'Bryan: GEO. G. MATHEWS.
An act authorizing county commits
sioners TO levy tax for the purpose
of rain-making experiments: and TO
contract therefor.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
state of Kansas.
Section l. The board Of county Gem
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
Lincoln's Wonderful ssmory.

One of my cousins, John Holmes
Goodenow, of Alfred, Me-, was appoint
ed minister to Turkey early in the Lin
coin administration. and was taken TO
the White House before his departure
for his post to be presented to the pres
ident. When Lincoln learned that his
visitor was a grandson of John Holmes.
one of the first senators from Maine,
and q man of note in his day and gen.
Grafton, he immediately began the
recitation of a poetical quotation which
must have been more than a hundred
lines in length. Mr.. Holmes, never
having met the president was nstu-
rally astonisbed at this outburst;
and as the president went on with
this long recitation the suspicion
crossed his mind that Lincoln had
suddenly taken leave of his wits. But
when the lines had been finished the
president said: There. that poem was
quoted by your grandfather Holmes in
a speech which he made in the United
States senate in -" and he named the
date and specified the occasion As
John Holiness term in the senate
ended in 1888. and Lincoln proba bly,
was impressed by reading copy OF the
speech rather than by hearing it, this
feat of memery appears most renarka-
bic. II he had been by any casualty
deprived Of his sight, his own memory
could have supplied him with an am
Die library.-Noah Brooks. IN Century.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
No One Knows Why 1t Is So.

Curiously enough the right hand,
which is more sensitive to touch than
the left, is less sensitive to tempera-
ture. If the two hands be dipped in
basins of water at the same tempera-
ture. the left hand will feel the greater
sensation of warmth; nay, it will do
this even when thermometers show
that the water n the left basin is
really somewhat colder than in the
right basin. With left-handed persons
the reverse would be founu.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

For the Eagle.
MIR. CLEVELAND'S LAST MESSAGE.
From the pine-clad shores of Oregon to
the beetling cliffs, Of Maine.
From Caiifornia's golden sands to Viz
ginia's golden grain,
From the battered walls of Alamo to far
Dakota's plain,
From sunlit hill and shadowy vale awakes
the hoarse refrain:
20, Grover, Grover, take a rest. You're
giving US pain
w. II. c.
Wichita, Feb. II, 1885.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

Patti says: 'There is no royal road
to becoming great singer" She goes
on to declare that people who declare
that she sings so easily do not know
the weary hours and days and years
spent in study and practice. She
is right, of course. Hard work made
her. as it makes everyone else of prom
inence and excellence.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
Not q Work OF Necessity.

"You mustn't black your shoes this
morning. Johnny" said Mr.. Billus
why not?'
Because it's Sunday. You should
have attended to that matter last night.
Resides" added Mr.. Sillus, hurriedly
feeling in his upper left-hand vest
pocket, Il want you to run over TO the
rug store and get me some cigars -
Chicago Tribune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

Grimes of Wichita county, is the only
member in the legislature who has not
made Il speech this session and the con-
gratulations have already begun to
pour in ON him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
ghe aaehta aily eagle gnesday ore February II, 1895

anced Eurasian character, full OF con-
fictinp elements, lacks the sterling
and enduring qualities which command
respect and insure success, and this
feeble type of humanity has hitherto
appeared incapable OF elevation to
vigor of thought and action.-All the
Year Round.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

Lucien Baker must be under the par
ticular supervision of destiny. His
family, home, characteristics and pri-
vate matters are being let alone by the
newspapers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

Mr. Collins, the calumniator of Judge
McAtee, says that the editor of the
Enid Wave was drunk when the afore-
said editor interviewed Collins on the
subject. If this doesn't mean blood.
a great epochal change has come over
the spirit of oklahoma.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
Tough Timber.

There is a tree in western Australia
called the jarrah tree, the wood Of
which is said to be almost everlasting.
The natives make nearly everything of
this timber--pianos, work boxes,
wharves, buildings and ships. 1t has
never been known to decay, and is poi
sonous to all insects. 1t does not burn
freely, but only chars, which makes it
specially valuable for building pur-
poses.-N. Y. Sun.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

the high hat II the tall hat evil can
be cured the big sleeves will be endured
New York Press: Now that the big
hats worn in doors to the injury OF 9TH
ers have begun to be looked upon by
the majority of women contemporary
as bad form. they are likely to disap-
pear as by magic. There IS no need TO
have small theater hats uniform, or.
in fact, to have them at all. 1t is only
necessary to have a decent respect for
the opinions of mankind-in which
term, Of course, are included women
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12
Mr.. Collins. the former clerk of Judg

Mr.. Collins. the former clerk of Judge
McAtee, asseverates the charges lie
made against Judge McAtee. Until
the charges are Investigated and either
substantiated or refuted the Repub-
licans viii stand back and watch the
sweet contentment among the Demo
cratic otfice-holders of the territory
boil and gurgle.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-02-12

The theater is not immoral. The
woman on the stage may be nearly
naked, but the man in the seat sees
nothing but the big hat of the woman
in the seat in front OF him.