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The evening times., 1895-09-20
THEY DEMANDED 1 DRINK
Mrs. Thompson Brings Charges
Against Policeman Creash.
TELLS A STRANGE STORY

With an Unknown Man, the Officer
Is Accused OF Entering Her House
ut O'Clock In the Morning After
whisky-She Alleges Persecution
Dn His Part.
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When the CATERS and gammers of Balti-
more county entertain one with reminls-
cences of the doughty old Governor Ridge
~ and the palmy days of Hampton, they
do not fail to recall the exploits Of the IA
nous horse Postboy and TO celebrate with
nne local pride his last illustrious achieve
nent, when in a steepiechase he broke his
leg at the bars and won on three legs,
sir" They had to shoot the plucky fellow
where he lay, but not the least among the
cherished heirlooms at Hampton IS the
trophy he bequeathed to the governor-the
handsome cup, with its serpent handles,
and its domed cover, surmounted by a
truncated Pegasus.-'Old Maryland
Nones and Ways" in Century.
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NURSERY STOCK.

WN. NcCRACKEN. SGuuvjaIe. c \
SEAMAN. Sedgwick City. have opened
NURSERY. under the cha-Se Of
Rol.ert McCracken At , = and e4s North
Main. with comp iete stock ct Fruit
aud Shade Tree, Rose B-SheS AID
Shrubbery Of all kinds. which are home
grown and perfect III every particular.
Prizes this year lower than ever. Also
seed Corn fer sale Call ant see the
stock
R0BT. McCRAChEN. Mgr.
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,tc-y Coco. brit na:es wrong.

Daniel WCb5c--s soh EDWARD must
have ben . p-elCcicrS yCEsh. Il we are 10
credic e. iaciGo-, which Dr. Fale related
II the cd South Meeting Lo~se IS con
Iec--d with tie delivery % Webster ad-
dress IT pI-rno1th Dec. -. IS20, Web
.cer h-d Just asked in his solemn and i'm
prcssive mann =. VIII any man dare 10
scys when Edward. unused - hearing his
father OPPOSED. Piped Up, No. pa "
such anecdotes are enjoyable Il they arc
angucstioai8sIy accepted. Il does not
49, Iol-rCr greatly that the youthful
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The aa1ieha uau EAGLE aaledmcsdsu lorne

EDWARD was LHeu Oh Ink lnialJlle age OF
only months and days and the further
fact that TIE Plymouth address contains
no such interrogatory as ''Will any man
dare to say" The point of the anecdote
is just as good, although the dates are out.
Possibly it was due TO one Of those errors
Of memory whose origin. as Professor
Power Cobbe tells US in ''Fallacies Of the
Memory" is but simple result Of per-
manent mental laws Boston Tran
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". d. McCLEES, NJ. d.

Office and residence over 60l-603 Last
Douglas Avenue.
Office hours to / 4. M, 81 10 4:3U
and TO 6 p. III. Phone 2Oj.
ANY one desiring information after my
Office hours Will please inquire OF day
or night clerk at Hotel Carey.
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T j. JONES, II. ID.
East Douglas and Topeka Avenues.
p. O. Box 336. Wichita. Kan.
Hours. Sunday Excepted: TO 70 a. m. and
> TO D.
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DR. HAZELTON.

DISPENSING PHYSICIAN ND SURGEON
Qfce-ll3 West Second It
hesidence-55g Campbell Az West Side
WOMEN AND MEN visiting the city re-
curing special treatment should consult Dr..
Hazelton. Special attention given ObstetrlcaI
practice.
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STORIES, HUMOROUS AND CURIOUS

At dinner which Bernard Barnato. the
South African diamond king. gave in Lon
don recently, lie entertained his guests
with the conjuring tricks which were his
means of livelihood in a circus in his
youth.
A Portuguese artificer who was suspect
ed OF free-thinknS was at the point of
death. 4 Jesuit who came 10 confess
him. holding a crucifiX before his eyes,
said: Behold the God whom you have
so much offended. Do you recollect Him
now?" Alas, yes, father" replied the
dying man; at was who made him"
A youth to fortune and 70 fame unknown
sent Dumas the manuscript OF a new play.
asking the dramatist TO become his COL
laborsteur. Dumas was for a moment
petrifed: then he seized his pen and re-
piled: Howe dare you. sir, propose to
yoke together a horse and an ass% The
author, by return OF post. wrote: How
dare you, sir. call me horseg' Dumas.
by next mail: Send me your play my
friendr'
One business man met another on the
street The socnd man seemed down
cast, and had look Is If he were ashamed
OF himself.
what is the natter asks the first
man.
We'll. 20 put Il briefly" said the other,
"I have been Specializing in stocks
'1ndeed?' Were you bull or bearT'
''Neither-I was an ass
What is the most consuTnuate specimen
Of a dipiomatist's reply 20 an awkward
question? The Berliner Tseeblatt cites
an anwser OF Talleyrand 10 The eminent
Paris banker, with whom he was OF
friendly terms. When a report reached
Paris that King George III, OF England
had died, the man OF money called upon
the statesman 70 get the truth out % him
He put the question plainly. rs the report
true - so far as / know" answered
Talleyrand. there are two reports from
Fngiand The one says that the king Is
!. for ny own part. believe neither the
ere nor the other. But I hope that you
VIII regard this friendly Information As
strictly conddea tal"
According 10 NJ Mark joint director or
MANAGER OF the Oieon with " Desbezux.
manuscripts Of plays each year All these
are carefully read by the co-na12gers-
who then make careful selction AID
hand the works thus chosen over 70 ire
Corl:te de Lecture. of which the members
are VI Jules Lelaitre. NJ Br'znett@re AID
II. Parisot. WHO give their services S-at-
uiteusIy. A. the Coincide Francssse the
manuscripts are handed over by II JGles
CiarstIs 20 Mn Caioi and Paul Pe-~et,
who choose about twenty o. thirty plays
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PuRLOINED PLUMEs

The press Of japan shows its respect for
the mikado by printing his name always
in capital letters.
It is supposed by some that when a tree
is struck by lightning it is torn not by the
electricity but by the explosion of water
suddenly converted in to steam by the heat
of the arrested current.
The fact that sixty-two literary ladies
sat down to dinner together in London
recently is viewed by leader writer for
an English daily as ominous and porten-
tious to the future of man in literature.
DR.. Stuhlmann, who is travelling in
Africa, has come upon a tree whose frui.
gives out a tallow-like fat. The tree IS
one of the largest in the forests of Usam-
bara, and the fruit Is big and heavy, mea-
surfing a foot in length by half a foot in
diameter.
The days of chivalry were not really
days of profound respect for women.
Young women were kept locked up in a
convent until they were married. and
locked up in their husbands castles the
rest of their lives, with severe duennas to
watch every movement,
A pair OF wrought iron tongs. or a piece
VI mop Hedteu anu Deflt until tNe enCS
form circuit like the feet of tongs, will
magnetic knife blade laid upon them
and rubbed with another piece Of steel.
The cause is not Yet satisfactorily ex-
planned.
Long as she has resided in England. the
Princess of Wales has never mastered the
English accent, Channel" for instance,
she pronounces "shannel." and there are
many other little difficulties of speech
which betrays that she is foreigner born
and bred.
The old homestead of Jane Grey Swiss
helm in Swissvale. Pa, is the Mecca Of
many visitors TO Pittsburg. Mrs Swiss
helm was the first woman engaged TO re-
port Washington news for a daily news
paper. She was employed for that pur-
pose by Horace Greeley.
Usage the vioIinist who sailed from New
York for Europe about week ago, is
said to have had too much fun in this
country. a Gotham paper says of him:
He leaves with a pocketful Of Doodle.
blanched face, dank hair. enfeebled kid
neys and a triumphant smile"
When a young lion reaches the age Of .
years he is able to strange or pull down a
horse or an OK, and so he continues to
grow and increase in strength until he
reaches his eighth year when he grows no
more. For twenty years after his fangs
and talons show no signs of decay. but
after that he gradually becomes feeble and
his teeth fail him.
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LAWS OF THE FUTURE.

The time is coming very soon when all af-
fairs of life.
From matters of Importance TO the little
household strife.
Well find are regulated on plan without
flaw.
And ev'ry thought and action is provided
for by law.
BY law We do our working and by law we
have to shave;
The law VIII haunt us living. and will fol-
low TO the grave.
The matter of the BARRIERS must have been
problem vexd,
But now that it is settled why the question
is: What next?
It looks as il in time to come by law wen
have to cook.
And If We want 10 read bit the law will
name the book;
In planning for yaca tions, too, by law we
will be led:
By law we'll do our eating and by law
we'll so to bed.
By law We'll do our talking. as will. too.
the parson preach;
Wen bar all forms of learning, then, but
what he law may teach.
By law We'll do our counting and by law
well even sigh;
By law We'll i've and grow and fight and
love and even die.
The law will lay down rules for us for
every little thing:
Wen have to see lawyer If We even want
to sing:
And yet it may be possible-the thought
must make us pause
The trouble is at present that we have too
many laws
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SQUABBLES IN PARLIAMENT.

One Of the new features of the times
are the perpetual rows in parliament
tary bodies. The same set of decorous
rules that have been in use for CEN
turtles are followed today and they are
inadequate There IS a new unruly.
unconventional spirit in the legislative
bodies all over the world. which no
presiding officer. unless II is Tom Reed.
can quell.
II has been suggested that the decline
Of the practice Of duellinc has caused
men To be less guarded in their Ian
suaCe. no fear of personal suffering
operating 10 check the license OF their
tongues. But it is not observed that
outside OF legislative halls any such
result has takne place There is plenty
of blacksuardism among journalists.
but no one that has looked over the
newspapers OF the last generation will
maintain that the standard Of manners
among writer's OF the press has deter
i0ted The truth is, we do not allow
for the multiplication OF parliaments,
the change in the class from which
their members are chosen. and the
vastly increased demand made upon
the government
Down 10 the time OF the French revo-
luton it was the rule that members OF
parliament should be members OF the
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The aa1iehta ay Eagle: aaednsday orung gnn 2e 1895

proposal. the time nor place, will prob
ably be brought out in her defense in
extenuatiOn. She may have been hyp-
Noticed into saying yes" But back
of it all is her woman's hereditary
right of changing her mind. If Miss
West wants a judicial precedent she
can find one iii a late decision of
Maryland judge wherein a woman be-
ing sued for breach of promise by a
Tilted lover for 5000 the lass came in
with the sole defense that she had
changed her mind. The judge &C
cepted the defense as valid and the
lover was left with only his blighted
affections. The financial salve for his
sore heart was denied, us it should
have been. His heart will probably
or no, the right to every woman to
change her mind must be held invio-
late SO long as she is denied the other
rights which she is painting. Stability
of conviction in a woman who is not
held equally responsible with man in
running things is not expected, or es-
sential, nor would it be desirable. Were
she more stable she would be less the
woman, therefore less the lovabie.
The Kentucky case, however, has its
peculiarities. The maid is bachelor
and rich and her case is to be tried be-
fore jury entirely composed of women
who are liable also TO change their
minds. But what bOthers the judge is
how he is going to find twelve women
good and true" who have not heard
the case, expressed opinions and yet
who have not made up their minds.
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INTERNATIONAL FOOLISHNEss.

International bimetalliSm. if it were
not fake, would be foolish. Internal
tional bimetalliSm is only possible
through political revolution at best, q
revolution in which hereditary rulers
would have to give place to representa-
tiveS of the people. This is possible of
England, but hardly probable. The
change in English rulers occurring
within the week, is no change so far as
the monetary and commercial interests
of that country are concerned. BIZ
metalliSm with England means silver
as the unit or silver basis. 1t is not
their foreign commerce or their trade
with America which renders anything
but gold standard possible with them,
but it is what we owe them. Gladstone,
the ableSt and the most experienced of
English statesmen, when approached
on this subject last summer voiced the
English interest and its reasons for
holding to gold when he said, ITO re-
store bimetallism would almost double
the value of commodities. You re-
ceive commodities, not money, in pay
ment Of the interest on your foreign
investments, so that where you now re-
ceive two bushels of wheat or two
pounds of pork for q given sum. with
silver restored TO the right of coinage
you would receive only one. That
would be an act of generosity to your
debtors from whom you receive these
commodities in payment of interest.
but how can it benefit the people of
Great Britain to do such a foolish
thing:"
That is the English side pure and
simple and without England interna-
tional agreement is impossible. The
American side of it is that our foreign
trade is but the smallest fraction of
our business as Il nation. The inter
nal business of this country for a single
day aggregates more than our foreign
trade for an entire year; our foreign
transactions last year amounting To
only S1,O0.oo00 600 or but little more
than cur bank clearingS for a single
week. Its question of the business
interests and the well being of $40. O00.-
600 people of our own country against
the Interests of the MorganS- Belmonts
on our home side and the RothSchildS
ON foreign shores. a question Of 99-100
of Americans in the interest of an occa-
| Sional importer or business house and
the interest of foreigners whose in
tereStS are not ours. but who live 10
pluck the people Of every dependency
of the British empire not only. but
those of nation who If left 10 their
| own resources would in few decades
become the richest and most powerful
nation on the globe,-even on a silver
| basis
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aristocracy, says the New York Post
But it is of the essence of aristocracy
to respect all conventionalties. 1t de-
Ponds for its existence upon regard
for really singular cOnventionality
the record Of the births Of successive
generations, and the spirit Of self pres
ervation demands that here shall be no
rude break with the past. Hence the
most perfect gentleman is he who is
best acquainted with the usages OF the
aristOcratic world and that observes
them most faithfully. This respect for
traditional distinctions and recognized
fOrmalities, of course tended TO pro-
mote the decorum of all proceedings,
and maintained good order in legisla-
tive bodies. AS aristocracy declined
the number of these bodies increased.
and the character of their members
changed. Perhaps this character Is
no worse than that of the old member
ship. but it is impossible that 1t should
be as stately and decorous. Regard
for propriety is no longer the most
tiupcTdliNe Oh virtues. anu tut CoInluou
people certainly show no dislike to
representatives that are Indifferent to
conventionalities But it would be I'M
reasonable to expect such men to be
very guarded in their language to-
wards opponents, or to exercise always
a self-restraint in public assemblies
which has not been bred in the bone
AS there were formerly comparative
~ few Of these bodies. so their functions
were extremely limited. To a large
extent these functions were ornamental
and the questions that arose were not
often of kind to stir the deepest
feeling. But the enormous increase
of the scope of government has chang
ed all this. There is hardly a legis-
latiye body anywhere in which pro-
jectS are not brought forward con-
stantly the adoption Of which would
bring on revolution. These schemes
have to be fought desperately by the
conservative element. and the strongest
Of human passions are thus constantly
aroused
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for the decision of the reading committee,
which is formed Of the shareholders of the
company In most of the other theaters
the managers themselves read the plays
submitted to them or delegate the work
10 old and experienced actors. or to some
dramatic critic in whose opinion they have
confidence.
There are no iaundries on board ship.
they take up too much room So the
chief steward lays in thousands Of pillow
slips. sheets, and towels. These come
on board tied up in bales of a dozen each.
and are stored in the linen locker. cubby-
hole of a place on the main deck. The
ventilator pipes from the engine room run
through il, and keep il hot
There is no danger OF linen getting mill
dewed there. The linen which has been
used is thrown into another room, pro-
vided with the same atmosphere. and is
so kept thoroughly dry. Where there are
clean napkins every day. frequent changes
of stateroo-n linen. and an everlasting re-
plenishing of towel racks, the demands
upon the linen locker are very extensive.
A liner like the New York puts to sea
with about 5000 serviettes. lo.ee towels.
5000 or 700 sheets. $500 piilowslips, and
about 1000 table-cloths. Most of these
find their way to the soiled linen locker in
the course Of the voyage. When the ves-
sci arrives they are carted off TO a laundry.
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A VICIOUS CONDITION.

After all the plutocrats are not the
only people in the country. They are
not the only writer's, thinkers, property
owners and voters. Your little home
and our little home may not be as grand
as that of the goldbug but it is as dear
to each of us. Those have neither the
warmest hearts or most brains, there
fore are not entitled to set themselves
up as our teachers. True they have
the bulk of the wealth, and there are
many well-meaning people among
them; but for the hearts that beat
truest TO the music of the Union, for
most of the brains. the conscience and
the patriotism in the Republic. we
must look to the plain people, These
are not writing to any newspaper, pro-
testing against a restoration TO the peo-
pies money of the free coinage right
which it possessed from the days of
jefferson TO those of Grant.
The reason that the bank presidents
and all those who have solid millions
behind them are gold monometallists
is because those millions have been
given double power when it comes to
buying your home or our home or any
thing that we may have that they may
want The fear is that in their sell
fish greed they may, after getting con-
troll of all our material possessions.
want our honor The logical end of
plutocratic rule is, money against life,
virtue and all. Monometallism means
one standard for the creditor and an
other for the debtor, and both stan
dards fixed by the creditor 1t is vicious
and dishonest in that it gives shortmea-
sure to the borrower, and long measure
TO the lender, who owning and controll-
ing the thing to be borrowed and loan
ed fixes both measures. 4 money
measure which cannot be cornered or
controlled by combination is in the in
tereSt Of the laborer, in the interest Of
the home-maker and means prosperity
for creditor and debtor alike
This land of ours is filed with the
idle and the discontinued. Those who
affirm otherwise simply misrepresent.
1t is full of people almost ready to de-
spair in their desperation who ten
years ago were prosperous and con-
tented. On the other hand we find
a few thousand families rolling in
wealth beyond their eXtrdya CANT lives
to diSSipate. At the recent Sloan
Burden wedding were thirty-five guests
whose aggregated wealth was estimat-
ed at SS0O,O00,OO0. The system that
placed this inconceivable sum into the
hands of these few, defrauded the
many to whom it belongs. The sys-
TEN that makes the piutocratic mil
lionaireS possible as certainly makes
the multitude paupers. And that which
Expresses the many as certainly men
aces the life of the Republic
But weare answered, all this wealth
was legally asquired. We reply, who
made the laws whereby under which
such a vicious and unequal state of
things could be maintained?
Before law was written upon parchment
or with pen,
Before the law made citizens, the moral
law made men.
Law is but the capitalization of human
rights, and if these rights the law
fails to give,
Then the law had better die and let human
beings live.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

Bill Bolton still insists that there is
gold near Woodward.
FL Reno has a good secondhand Gate
way to the Gold Fields" to rent cheap.
George W. Patrick of Tecumseh. is now
superintendent of the Shawnee schools.
Manchester is moving heaven and earth
and small part of Mars to get postof-
fee.
Bill Bottoms Live Stock paper improves
with every issue. 1t is all home print and
a daisy.
Both Garfield and Kay county raised
good wheat crops. All Oklahoma papers
please copy.
The Indians should come down from
the hills. Maybe that will coax the rain,
and the corn needs it badly.
1t seems that about three tons of obli-
WON has fallen on the once happy repu-
tation of Ralph Beaumont.
The Arapahoe and Cloud Chief papers
do not take the gold discovery back. They
say wait" The public will.
Many lawyers claim that the Kfckapoos
are now citizens of the United States and
have right TO lease their lands.
Last week the talk was gold in Okla
homa. This week ii is corn. and the
chances are tnat corn IL Will De.
Custodian Campbell of the Historical
society has retired. He gets $50 for his
rights and title in the collections made
by him.
ODE Jones. a former deputy marshal
has quit arresting the wood-haulers and
has taken the wood contract of the Santa
Fe himself.
The Ponca City people. according TO the
Guthrie Leader. put a wholesale beer
agent on the water committee OF the
Fourth of July celebration.
Representative Walling of Grant county.
has taken to the lecture platform. No
wonder some people in his county have
been appealing for aid.
The FL Reno firemen will celebrate on
the Fourth AS the Ell Reno boy is some
thing frightful as a cracker virtuoso the
firemen would have been out anyway.
1t is not plain why the Dawes COM
mission should move its headquarters to
McAlester. They could have drawn their
salaries just as well where they were.
The Kingisher BASEBALL club has played
four games this season, winning three of
them. They have defeated Hennessey,
Guthrie and Enid. The club is willing to
play any club in the territory
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CHANGED HER MIND.

The new woman is demanding new
and additional rights. but there is an
old and universally conceded right per-
tanning 10 the sex which she proposes
10 maintain Al all hazards. and that is
the right 10 change her mind Miss
West Of Kentucky, who has been sued
by that old tobacco planter for five
thousand dollar damages FOR breach
OF promise. is but an ordinary case Of
woman changing her mind. What
the pressure or the circumstances were
that caused her 10 yield assent 10 his