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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-11
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-11

Legitimate competitors or tricky riv-
airy cannot alter the peoples faith in
the perfect qualities Of Prices Baking
Powder,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-11
OVER HALF KILLED
WHEAT CROP SAID TO BE IN VERY
BAD SHAPE.

Reports From Everywhere Show Damages
big Acreage Being Plowed up i'm Okla
homa--Seven Townships in CONVEY
County Give Very Poor Returns--king-
man, Sumner, Harper, ;Aroer, iratt
and Other Counties Report Short Crops
Harvey County Loses Fifty per Cent
Oats also Reported In Bad Condition.
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THE FRENCH WHEAT CROP.

For the first time in many years France
in 1894 grew as much wheat as she con-
sumed. The official report of the harvest
footed up 123, $40, 600 hectolitres or $50, S52,-
600 bushels, while the consumption does
not reach 125 900, 600 hectolitres, or 354, $780,
600 bushels. Hence, for once, France is in
dependent of foreign supplies, and the new
tariff, which imposes duty of about 66
cents per Genital, is mere annoyance to
trade, which compels the consumer to pay
81 more per GENITAL than he pays in Hol-
land, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
It must not be inferred that no American
wheat will be shipped to France this year
When wheat is spoken of the ordinary
article of commerce, which is purchased in
large quantities by bakers for wholesale
consumption, is meant; the choice grades
which are used In the manufacture of the
fine breads in the cities are not included.
No matter how bountiful the French har-
vests may be Paris cannot dispense with
the fine fours made in this State and Min
nesota; Parisians will have the bread to
which they are accustomed, whatever the
price, and this cannot be made without the
choice product Of our mills. Nor does the
new tariff help the French grower or the
French miller in any way, for the'simple
reason that he cannot produce the article
that is wanted, and could not do so if the
duty were twice as high as it is.
The French are a bread-eating people.
The Anglo-Saxon and the Teuton consume
larger quantities of animal food than the
Frenchman; the latter can live on bread
alone, if a little wine be added. The diet
supplies the digestive organs with more
carbon than is wanted; but he seems to
stand it. Taking the French people as a
whole, and including children of all ages,
they consume an average of one and half
pounds of wheat daily throughout the
year, besides vegetables, fish and flesh. No
other nation reaches as high an average.
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STATISTICS OF SUICIDE.

Some Figures Presented by Partisan
Correspondent.
During the last four years &c, 900 persons
have in France put an end to their own
lives; in Italy, with population almost
equal to that of France, the number OF
suicides during the same period has not
exceeded 5000. In seeking the reasons for
this great difference, the Well-known Par
lslan journalist, M. Henri Foquier, explains
that in Italy the Roman Catholic religion
is still strongly rooted in the population.
and that it acts as deterrent against self
destruction.
Formerly, in Italy the body of a suicide
was dragged through the streets and then
exhibited on gibbet. Moreover, if Italy
is not so rich country as France, poverty
there is less severely felt and more easy to
bear than in France, thanks to the Italian
sunshine and blue sky. It is estimated
that perhaps quarter of the population
OF Naples, for instance, lives in a state of
poverty which could not be borne by a
workman in Paris, or in the towns of the
north Of France. In addition to this,
mendlclty is not, In Italy, regarded as
either shameful or humiliating. There
fore, Notwithstanding the extreme poverty
prevailing in Italy. M. Fouquier is not
astonlshed that it should lead but few per-
sons to commit suicide.
NJ. Fouqmer points out that IN Italy self
destruction is in most cases the denoue-
ment of love drama, whereas in France,
out of an average of $500 suicides a year,
there are not more than about 800 that can
be classed as suicides of passion. In France
money, or rather the lack of it, is the cause
of self-deStruction. NJ. Fouquier considers
that some 1000 suicides year may be due
to insanity: but he points out that it is
now demonstrated by the statistics that in
France 1000 persons year, that is to say,
about ten persons a day, hang, drown or
stifle themselves with the fumes of char
coal, or blow out their brains because they
are ruined, because they are prosecuted by
enough to procure food and are dying of
starvation.-Paris Letter to the London
STANDARD
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STOP OROAKING.

There is a substratum OF truth in the
charge of the Los Angeles Express that San
Franciscans vex the ear of the State with
their complaints over their misfortunes.
1t is a fact that certain portion of our
people seem to have nothing to do but to 90
round railing at our shortcomings and our
wrongdoings. We have seen newspapers
here which took as their model the dog
Snarleyow, which snapped at everybody
heels on general principles. According to
these modern Jeremiahs everything that
exists is wrong, every institution ought to
be torn down, everybody is a thief and a
rascal, we are all either knaves or fools,
and the whole city is going to the dem
milton bow-wows.
THE CALL will respectfully submit that
this is taking a more gloomy view of the
present and the future than the facts war
rant. There are wrongs here, as there are
in every collection of human beings, wrongs
which call for remedy, and which rouse in
dignation and provoke wrath. But there
is also much which justifes admiration,
and of which the citizens may be proud.
We have among US narrow-minded and
ignorant men who try, sometimes success
fully, to drag the community backward !;
but we have likewise broad-minded, intel
igent, liberal citizens who in spite of OBJ
stacles force the city onward in the march
of progress. Our municipal institutions are
otperfect; but a body of clear-headed Free
holdersare now engaged in perfecting them
with good prospects of success. Our CITY
politics have exhibited disgraceful features;
but one corruptionist has Just been
sent to the penitentiary for fourteen
and another for eight years for the very
common crime of perjury. There is suffer-
ing among the unemployed, but no city in
the United States is better equipped with
institutions OF benevolence than San
Francisco.
Would it not be good idea to send the
croakers to the rear for brief season and
to bring to the front the men of hope and
energy and conference.-the sanguine men.
who believe in going ahead and not sitting
down on stoops and whining about the de-
moralization of the age? Suppose instead
OF cultivating the art of how not to do it
we set our young men to work at learning
how to do it and to do it well, SO it will
stay done. Suppose we clap a gag in the
mouths of the ranting demagogues who
see a knave in every one who is sus-
pected of energy and enterprise and open
our ears just for little while to that other
class of citizens who hope with the poet
that each tomorrow shall find US further
than to-day.
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Electricity in Switzerland.

The snug little republic of Central Europe
is busy producer and consumer of cleo
trical apparatus. Her splendid water
powers are now frequently used for lighting
and for power transmission, but her cleo
trical progress is by no means due merely
to that cause. The latest statistics show
that there are in Switzerland no fewer than
677 lighting plants, n power transmissions,
161 storage battery plants, 1907 dynamos
and motors, 2126 arc lamps and las ,949 in
candescent lamps. The general rate of
increase last year over 1892 was more than
Sc per cent, and it may be doubted
whether we could equal that rate
in this country. In some respects we are
decidedly behind, for of the 116 new light
ing plants no fewer than forty were
equipped with storage batteries. That
entire dependence is not placed on water
privileges is shown by the fact that of the
private installations So per cent use steam
engines to drive the dynamos, per cent
gas engines, ~ per cent coal engines. Al
most all the rest are driven ALPHABETICALLY.
1t is a notable fact that in many parts of
America, owing to the reckless forest
denudation, the water privileges are giving
out and have to be supplanted by engines,
but the Swiss are said to be wiser in their
day and generation and to conserve their
streams and forests jealously-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
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IN SOCIETY.

a smart paper just started in Chicago
under the name of Vanity Fair, contains
an amusing discourse on Society" which
recalls Ward McAllister's well-known def.
milton of the best society of New York.
The Chicago writer says that by society is
meant ''that portion of city's great COM
munity which sets the pace and is sur
veyed as something a trifie apart by the adj
miring, supercilious, envious or Indifferent
masses of superior or inferior beings" He
goes on to observe that neither wealth nor
descent are passports to society; that
some young girls with fortunes are never
asked inside, that some young men gilded
ali over dare not cross the Rubicon."
The social anomalies or paradoxes on
which Vanity Far descants are observed
in other cities besides Chicago. They are
peculiarly American. In Europe the
metes and bounds of society are as plain
to view as granite wall In England a
person who has been presented at court is
indisputably in society; those who have
not undergone that ennoblihg process
may be rich or titled, but are only adj
mitted to society on sufferance. In Paris,
Berlin, st. Petersburg Rome and Madrid
persons are in society whom the embassa-
dress of Austria deigns to receive at her
house. In both these cases there is no
room for dispute. The line is clear and
sharply drawn; any one who undertakes
to dispute it would be prima facie candi-
date for lunatic asylum. But here.
where we have no queen, and where the
embassadress of Austria has no more social
influence than any other well-bred LADY,.
who shall decide what is society, and who
is in it and who is not?
AS matter of fact American society is
like Topsy-it was not created; it growed.
When city grows populous and rich and
cultured certain number of ladies and
gentlemen get into the habit of exchange
ing social visits and social functions. As
the largest public hall or private drawing
room is limited in its capacity, time ar
rives when the circle or coterie must stop
growing for want of room. 1t then be-
comes exclusive, from the force of circum-
stances, and people who are not in it enyi-
ously call it society" But its exclusive
ness necessarily generates offshoots, which
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
LOCAL sELF-G0VERNMENT.

The Board of Freeholders has begun its
work well, and there is a feeling of conf
dence that the result will merit and re-
ceive the approval of the people The
time for the work is short, but ample for
the purpose, if the Freeholders act to-
gether and do not waste their force and
time in the discussion on unessential cues
tons.
Charter-making for large cities in the
United States is no longer matter of I'M
carefully in the light of many failures and
not few successes, by experienced and
capable men, and has now been brought
about as near to science as anything in
the shape of government making can be.
The Freeholders will have only to follow
the general lines of the reform charters of
the great cities of the East, and avoid the
danger of attempting to make code of
ordinances instead of simple form of city
government; to achieve result that will
be credit to themselves and a benefit to
the community.
There are two points essential to a good
charter. The first is that we must have a
self-governing city. The second is that the
administrative and legislative powers must
be as distinct and separate in the city
charter as they are in the constitution of
the United States, and each must be re-
sponsible for its work directly to the
people. The present plan of having some
of the most important OF our municipal
affairs controlled by commissioners ap-
pointed by the Governor is not only
cause of divided responsibility and in
efficiency, but is a direct violation of that
great principle of local self-government,
which is an essential part of our republic
can system.
Every American city is capable of self
government and has a right to self-gov-
eminent. The people of San Francisco
are not imbeciles or rascals that cannot
keep the peace among themselves and
must be ruled by outsiders We have
among ourselves the leaders who can best
advance our interests and make the great
ness of our city. We wish therefore a
charter that viii bring these leaders
forward by giving them the power to
govern by the consent of the people The
time has come for a new order of things in
San Francisco, and the new charter should
be in accord with the growing spirit of
civic patriotism and development.
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gather round new center; and if one of
these offshoots is lucky enough to gather
more wit and beauty and good breeding
and good taste than the original coterie it
becomes society, and its predecessor is
relegated to the bourne of things old
fashioned. There is nothing to prevent
any American lady, if she have money
enough, fine house, good manners and a
genial disposition, and if she can gather
round her the brightest men and the pref
test women of the day, from declaring
that her circle is society and that people
whom she does not invite are not in it.
For the most part, at the present day, it is
the social editor of the newspapers who
creates society. And perhaps that is con-
sonant with true democratic doctrine of
the Jeffersonian stamp.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

ana who gained much free advertising
because OF his commencing the trip in
naked condition, has written q let
ter from Australia to the Boston Press
Club stating that he expected to arrive
IN this city about February l. This moved the
organization mentioned to notify the Press
Ciub OF this city that, as the said Paul Jones
was representing himself as being chaperoned
by tnat club, the members thereof desired it
KNOWN py tne newspaper men OF this city that
Jones IS believed to be fraud of the first
water.
E. M. Holt OF Boston, who is connected with
the Massachusetts, Cremation Society, was one
OF the arrivals on the delayed westbound train
yesterday. he believes that cremation as
method OF burial is destined to become more
ana more popular as people become better &C
qua1nted with it. The crematory at Boston, he
says, which has been in operation only little
over year, incinerated eighty-seven bodies
during the twelve months expiring on De-
cemoer 81 last, and this is a greater number,
ne says IMAM was ever cremated the first year
by any other similar institution in the United
states except the one in this city.
Elihu B. Washburne Jr. of Chicago is at the
Palace, ana was among the passengers from the
East on the train wrecked Wednesday night.
HIS father was at one time Minister to France
ana subsequently Secretary OF State under
Grant. HIS uncle was Mayor of Chicago Just
after the death of Carter Harrison.
julian Ralph, the newspaper man and maya
Z1ne-WrIter, is at the Palace on his way to
Japan. Mr.. Ralph has recently contributed
number OF descriptive articles to Harpers
Magazine on the New South and it is in the in
terest OF the same publication that he goes
abroad
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
TO MAKE YOU SMILE.

81 love you dearly, jack" she said. "Yot
are the light of my life.''
"I'm sorry" said her father, as he appeared
in the doorway, "but will have to put your
light out"
Clerk (of Western hotel)--I thought it best tC
caution that old fellow who just came IN about
blowing out the gas.
Proprietor-Where's he from?
Clerk-From the Greater New York
First Little Girl-We didn't have no turkey
Christmas day; my papa is a vegetarian.
Second Little Girl-We didn have no Christ
mas; my papa's Democrat.
First Mean Man-Have you cigar?
Second Mean Man-Yes, but only one, and ]
want to smoke myself
'Well, have one, too.''
And they smiled and smoked and each re-
spected the other.
"Old Soak actually shed tears when he found
he couldn't get drop of whisky"
"Why didn't he drink his tears?"
Beware the microbes ia kiss"
Cold-hearted Science cries.
Alas where ign ORANGE is bliss,
What folly to be wise!
All from Life.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Jullus Cpser Burrows, the Senator-elect
from Michigan, when boy at Erie, Pa, heard
WEBSTER speak and modelled his youthful
oratory after him. When he taught school in
ONO the children of Ben Wade and Joshua
Giddings were his pupils
Professor S. w. Burnham, the astronomer
was led to study the heavens by attending q
book auction at New Orleans, where he pur-
CHASED, out OF curiosity, a copy of that once
famous work, Elihu Burritts Geography OF
the Heavens
Edward Dudley Duncan, the Tennessee legis-
tor, is thoroughly independent and prefers
walking from his district to the capital rather
than accept the passes offered to him by the
railroad companies.
Professor John Stuart Blackie. one of Scot
lands greatest literary leaders, is SO years old,
but hale and vigorous enough to be one of the
sights OF Edinburgh and the pride of the land
O. cakes.
superintendent Jenkins of the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children has completed twenty years of SER
vice with this society as its executive officer.
Colonel Charles Lafayette Macarthur, the
senior proprietor OF the Troy Northern
Budget, has just celebrated the seventy-first
anniversary OF his birth.
Helsingfors, Finland, has a newspaper
which is edited and managed entirely by
women. Miss Minnie Kent the novelist, is
editor-in-chief.
Miss Frances E. Wizards mother said to her
when she first began her social reform work.
"Be quiet, my dear; we are not born TO reign,
but to wrestle."
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES.

/ DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE - MEXICAN
- Gold and Silver Mining Company. Location of
principal place of business. San Francisco Cali
fornia. Location Of Works, Virginia City Storey
County, Nevada.
Notice-There are delinquent upon the follow
ing described stock account OF assessment no
5l)levied on the eleventh day OF Dece Der, 1894,
1894, the several amounts set opposite the names
of the respective shareholders; as follows:
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

Tammany tigers tail, but to make few per-
manent hard knots in it.-Washington Star
Rudyard Kipling says America is country
where words count for nothing. Yet his stories
sell pretty well here.-Syracuse Standard.
The downfall of Tammany diffuses a soft
radiance through the gloom which hangs over
the neurology of 1S94.-Kansas City Star.
When the Fifty third Congress expires the
customary resolutions of respect will be omit
ted.-Arizona Republican.
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PUBLICATION OFFICE:

SOS Montgomery street, near Clay, open until IL
o'clock P. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES 40 Market
street near Kearny open until II oclock midnight !;
$50 Hayes street, open until 80 o'clock III Larkn
street. open until $50 o'clock SW corner Sixteenth
and Mission streets, open until o'clock 2516
Mission street, open until o'clock and 116 Ninth
street. open until $50 o'clock
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20
She Raises Tobacco

"A prominent Louisville tobacco mer-
chant registered at the st. James said to a
Tribune reporter yesterday evening:
Gone OF the most picturesque figures
seen on the tobacco breaks at the Falls
City last week was Mrs. l.. J. Cutsinger,
who sold crop OF excellent quality at the
New Enterprise warehouse. Mrs. Cut
singer is widow from Spencer County,
and comes to the city each fall or winter
to make her own sales. She talks on the
subject OF tobacco as intelligently as the
average man.
~ am informed, y continued the Louis
vile gentleman, ''that this woman plants,
cultivates and harvests her own crop with
the assistance of son, about IA years of
age. She knows as much about the proper
care of the crop from the time the seed is
sown to the cutting of the stalk as the
men who come on the breaks from day to
day. With all.this, though, she is in every
sense woman not even the least mascu-
line in her tastes. Her case is one which
forcibly illustrates what we can do if we
are only compelled to. Ordinarily a
woman would give up in despair if told
she must cultivate crop of tobacco. Gin
cinnati Tribune.
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SUBS cRIpTIoN RATES:

DAILY CALL Gncluding Sundays, So per year by
mail postpaid; Is cents per week, or IS cents per
calendar month, through carriers. SUNDAY CALL,
$50 per year postpaid. SUNDAY CALL and
WEEKLY CALL. $3.50 per year, postpaid WEEKLY
CALL 81, so per year, postpaid.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

The charter makers should provide for
local self-government in everything.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

San Francisco needs no kickers: the
motto should be: Work or walk
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

If we do not praise our own city how can
we expect other people to praise it2
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

Time brings change to everything except
the pocket OF a man who won't work.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

a crank is of no use that does not set in
motion the wheels of progress.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

By way OF change, love feast would
be good thing.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

The only way to end quarrels is to make
friends.
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Louis seldner,s VIII.

The will of Louis Seldner, devising his
entire estate, valued at $4,000, to his wife
Flora Seldner, was filled for probate yes
terday.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

DR.. SIEGERT's Angostura Bitters. the world
renowned South American appetizer and invigor
ator, cures dyspepsia. darrhea, fever and ague.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

CUR-IT-UP heals wounds. burns and sores as
II by magic. Itcures chilblains and poison cak
In one application. 1t relieves all pain
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

Two things In regard TO catarrh: First. il Is
constitutional disease; Sc ond. it requires COZ
stitutionai remedy like Hoods SarsaparilIs. whic
has had wonderful success In curing cararrh.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-01-20

AND In accordance with law and an order fran
the board of directors, made on the 18th d.n =,
december, 1894, so many shares OF each
parcei OF said stock as may be necessary will be
sold at public auction at the once of tba 20
pany room 70. Nevada block, 319 MontOoma-.
ST., san Francisco. CAL, on TUESDAY, the Dor,
day OF january, 1895, at the hour OF O'CLOCK =,
OF SAID day. to pay said delinquent ASSESSMENT
tnereon' together with costs OF ADVERTISING and
expenses or sale So"
CHAS. E. ELLIOTT. secretarv
Onice-Room 70, Nevada block. 3Oe MontaS,.
cry St, San Francisco. Cal ivIn -
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APPROPRIATE wedding presents, clocks, piano
and banquet lamps, onyx tables and framed
pictures; lowest prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co. =