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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14
WISE AND OTHERW

Idleness Is the stupidity OF the body. and
stupidity is the idleness OF the mind
Seume.
There IS no merit without elevation.
and no elevation without some merit
Rochefoucauld.
And now. how viii you have your hair
cut?" said the voluble barber. "Of"
answered the crusty customer. And the
barber cut on.-BUHalo Commercial Bulle-
tin.
Requiescat in Pace-Over the grave OF
the Cannibal King they inscribed with
trenchant pen this epitaph: Write me
down as one who loved his feilow-Tnen." -
Life.
First Little Girl-"And ism. your cat
afraid of mfrey Second Little Girl
Oh. no: not a single bit" First Little
Girl-"Thars queer And she's a lady
cat. too, isn't she ?"-Bcston Home Jour
nal
George fnervously)-'T'd like the hes: in
the world, Kitty, 70 marry you. but
don't know how 20 propose.' Kitty
promptly and pracucally)-''That's all
right. George. You've finished with ne:
now go 20 papa-"-Detroit Free Press.
The morality OF an action depends upon
the motive from which We act.-Johnson.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14
who never goes 10 Europe-of the
American who is for America.

American who is for America.
The question which is now confront
ing the man who never goes 10 Eu-
rope is: who is TO rule America! the
thousand. or the one; the toiler who
stays at home or the absorber who
goes abroad to criticize his own land:
1t is confronting him through the me-
dunn that has ruled all lands ID all
times, and which has become SO potent
of late in this country of the ballot-bOx
and school house.-the medium of
money. Is il 10 be a currency Of the
people or Of medium so limited that
the absorber can corner 1T at will ::
Is it to be of both gold and silver and
promises to pay in either or both: or
of metal which is owned and held by
the absorber, together with such add
tional currency as the absorber may
see tit to have issued by those who
own our bonds and control and fix the
amount Of our debt-burden: Is it 10
be universal national prosperity with
an even-handed chance for every man,
or peonage TO syndicated gold.
In the great middle agricultural sec
ton covering a dozen states. in all the
region whose fields are white with
f1eecy cotton, in the vast sweep of
mountain and plain that stretches from
lakes 10 gulf and from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific ocean, there is not
nr1n ID nd hn l. N
"absorber," not one in ten thousand
who distrusts the Republic, not one in
ten thousand but that loves his cOun-
try and its institutions.
Why should the ten thousand submit
to the selfish greed and rule of the one I:
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The Kansas rainmakerS worked hard
bur the braSSy sky remained .
They Quit in disgust They
started homeward A great
deluSe came upon them and the
streams We're impossible :
They drowned.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Ben Harrison has bent the pregnant
hinges of the knee before the bloom
cred cyclist But it wasn't Harrison's
fault His presidential ambition forced
him to do it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The air of superiority now carried
around by PETER can be explained by
the fact that he is the only man who
knows what comes after septillion in
arithmetic. and is consequently the
only man in Kansas competent TO give
a conservative estimate OF the corn
crop.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

1t is now said the Kiel canal is utterly
worthless. BUTT has not been in vain.
1t has proved how much pressure En-
peror Williams head can stand with
out exploding
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

1t has been discovered that Pixies
Peak is LOO feet higher than official
measurements have shown. 1t prob
ably attempted to pull away from Col
orado during Waite's administration.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The report that has gained currency
In the Kansas Kindergarten that Pro-
fessor Dyche will capture Santa Claus
and stuff him should be set at rest at
nppp
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Foster says that the word Of the
Chinaman can be trusted as implicitly
as written contract. However. de-
fore he began the peace stipulations.
Foster got the written contract.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Those teachers at Denver resoluteG
in favor of reindeer culture in Alaska
By a laundering oversight they neg
lected to give their opinion Of dehorn
ing the lOng-horn insect of Texas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Several American girls wept bitterly
in London when the Cornell boat club
was beaten. Next year they will be
making eyes at the ragtail specimens
Of British nobility.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Mr.. Pullman has done the decent
thing by raising the wages of his en-
ployes, and the public should follow
suit and raise the tip of the Pullman
DorterS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

A rich Ohio bachelor. who died last
week, left $4,000 10 the \. Z. \. II
the Catholics run things as the A. L.
A. claim, thar bachelor Will have 4
rough old time in nurgatnrv.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The sensational declaration for gold
by the New York bankers brings The
fear that Grover Cleveland may him
self turn against the free coinage of
rilrar
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

In Growers opinion love is a go
thing. Mr.. Cleveland is Il Demo2luk
and number of Republicans are thus
coerced into taking opposite grounds.
contrary 10 their convictions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

There is look of nervous aprehen-
sion athwart the Grecian features of
Labor Commissioner Bird and it is not
the bicycle face either.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

There is a tide, which, taken at the
food, leads on TO fortune, but don't
forget to pillow between the rows.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Anna Castellane's home in Paris
will be so big that it will take twenty
years TO build it. Several years be-
fore that the count will have received
It as alimony.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The rich New York woman, Mrs.
Yzsnasa is suing for divorce in Da-
kota- After she gets il she should
shake the alphabet up in a dice-box
and try again for name.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The Eagle was the only paper that
interviewed Miss Helen Gould on her
recent trip. She had a pleasant trip,
and, wonder of wonders, she said she
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

1t seems more and more certain that
the charge against Waller is that he is
guilty Of being an American in the
first degree.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The clearing house table shows that
Wichita has an increase over the same
week last year of three inches of rain,
and 10 per cent banking business.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Fourth of July has always been q
red-letter day, but the Boston A. Z. A
has attempted TO make it red school
house" day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Joe Blackburn stands squarely on
that gold platform, but The does not in
tend TO stand still if it attempts to bite
him and tread on him.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

In the Paris salon a picture of an
old revolver is attracting attention.
1t was not drawn by Bill Cook.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Depew has gone to Europe for rest.
And in the meanwhile this country will
get a rest from Depew's everlasting
yawping.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

The Dallas auditorium will be so ar
ranged that if the fight is prohibited
the 10000 people who will attend can
slip through a back door.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Cleveland should not kick at Fate.
It's dangerous. The next time 1t may
be twins-and both girls.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Before Corbett gets through with
Fitzsimmons he will also prove to the
world that there is also 4 ''pugilstic
face"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

While Dyche has gone to the North
Pole to stuff a walrus, he may come
back all stuffed up with a cold him
self
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Corbetts fighting and his morality,
too, appear TO be on the Marquis Oh
Queensbury style.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

lust because Mrs. Lease is not hold
ing office several papers think her
name is Boomers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

When Prohibition does finally die II
will die with its boot-leggers on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

Will Grover celebrate the fourth
next year?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-14

One corn stalk is growing so fast near
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-13
I AM SELLING
JAMES MEANS
SHOES.

THESE shoes have the yc'ai
price STAN ed on the sole, and
ther cannot be 50 d q higher
figures.
Once purchased YOU always
call for them.
There are three grades, 3, 4
5 dollars, equal to other shoes
selling from 6 to 9 dollars.
Frisco dealers hardly handle
them as the profit is so small.
Carson people dealing in VT-
gina City will do well to call
~
Robert CieaIeTe
- son5ji { street,
Ftr@lui.' <ily. EeTaesa.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-13

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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-13
THE SGT HE.IN
sfs.AsSs-
(! - 4.s ss4s:: = 4 81 siihssaasA-e3szSs
PACIFIC COMPANY.

CogsRlnencing Saturday Nov 24.Es9i.
ami until further noticc.,rairls will
leave Keno as follows: S:2j a..
Daily Atlantic Express. train. for
NiEueniucca. Battle Mountain, PaIis-
a..c Oglen.and East. Carries only first
class passengers through and local.
Dining car to Ogden.
4 $50 p. S,aiiy- Pacific Express
train for Truckee. sacramento. Ben
eek. and san Francisco arriving at
fi:I5 a. IN OnncrJiuG Mt Sacramento
AZ no. s5 Il III. with the Eew Orleans
Express for Fresno. santa barbara.
les Angeles. san KsieEO. also at s:sO
>, "a, for Woodland aud X nights land.
iiig
9:O5 D. M Daiiy-Atlantic Express
for Hinnemucca- Battle Mountain
Pa7:saLe. Ogden and East. Carries
first and second class passengers
local and through.
8 % p. IA. Daily Pacific Express
train Cor h0seviSic, Junction. Sacra-
menfo, and IAN sras.cEe"o via Rem
ecia arriving at D. IS Il HI. Connects
at sacramento with train leaving
at :EJ a. M. for stockton. LathrOp.
San Jose. San Francisco, Fresno. Los
Angeles san Diego: and East. via New
Orleans: AZ 1850 IL. III. for Williams.
willows and Redding: Mt 1905 p. m .
for Eed Bluff and at 1850 p. ln. for
Marysville, Chico. Keddin%. Portland
and Puget sound points.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1895-04-13
QUICK TIME, CHEAP RATES

Daily Express and Passenger train
make prompt connections with TIA
several railroad lines in the East.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars and
tourists sleeping Cars attached to all
trains. Dining Cars attached to fast
mail trains between rIuakee and Og
den.
Tickets sold. sleepin. rar bcrtlrs Sc
c. red. and other information given
on application TO
RI. L. FEEL D, ACT.
RENO DEPOl.
T.H. COCCNkh.
GEN: Pass. ACT
RICHARD CRAY, GEN. 1HEf. MANC.
san FRANCISCO. Cal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
"BLOWED IN" $3.50.
County Commissioners Pay Other
People Cold Cash
FOR DOING THEIR WORK FOR THEM

an the sale or the Court House Bonds.
They Give Mr.. a. q. QuInton $3.50
which They Have No Excuse for
Doing.
1t is doubtful if the people of Shawnee
county will approve of the action of the
county commissioners in allowing MIR. A.
B. Quinton as 'go- between" to make
$3.50 in the sale of the last $4,000 worth
of court house bonds to the state.
The people may not approve of this
but the county commissioners did it just
the same. The blame lies entirely with
them. 1t was merely business matter
with Mr.. Quinton.
The bonds which draw per cent were
purchased by the state school fund COM
missioners at par, the state receiving as
an inducement to take the bonds back
interest in the amount of 1866
While the state only received 1865 in
back interest the county commissioners
paid the accrued interest on the bonds
from the date of their issue which
amounted to 1856
The difference in the amount of inter
est paid by the county and received by
the state, an even $500, went to Mr.. a. 3.
Quinton, who made the sale.
The county commissioners also offered
and paid Mr. Quinton special commits
sion of $3.50 for making the sale which
with the difference in the amount of in
terest received by him and paid over to
the state, left him clear profit of $3.50
on the transaction.
No one will blame Mr.. Quinton for
accepting all the county commissioners
were willing to pay him for making this
deal, but it seems strange that if the
bonds were to be sold to the state,
and the representatives of the state
have their headquarters only five blocks
from the Office of the county commits
sioDers that the county commissioners
themselves should not have made this
sale and have saved the county at least
$3.50.
The county commissioners are paid
salaries for transacting the business Of
the county, and yet they pay over coun-
ty funds to other persons for doing the
service they were elected to perform.
It will be hard for the business men Of
Topeka and Shawnee county to under
stand why that sale of court house bonds
to the state, could not have been made
by the chairman of the board of county
commissioners as we'll as by Mr.. Quinton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
DREAD POLAVIEJO.
He Has Been in Cuba Before and His
Cruelties are Remembered.

He Has Been in Cuba Before and His
Cruelties are Remembered.
NEW YORK, Aug. 27.--J. A. Henriqaes,
formerly United States consul at Car
denas, Cuba, has just received a letter
from Santiago which reports that the
people there are greatly stirred up by
report that the $4,000 Spanish troops to
be sent to Cuba in October would be
commanded by Gen. Polaviejo.
When the ten year war began Polavie-
10 entered the army with the rank of SER
geant He was steadily promoted for
bravery until he became general and be-
fore the close of the war he was made
governor of Santiago province.
1t was while governor that he gained
a reputation for excessive cruelty. After
the revolution General Polaviejo was
made captain general of Havana, which
Office he occupied until three years ago,
when he returned to Spain
The only time he was in the Unite
States was seven years ago, when he
came here to marry Nicolasita Esconias,
a Havana girl. She refused him, saying
she could never consent to be the wife of
a man who had been so cruel to her
cOuntrymen.
1t is believed that on his arrival in
Havana he will succeed Gen. Martinez
Campos as captain general of Cuba, and
will be second in command of the army.
Campos, it is expected, will then be
free to take more active part in the
field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
BILL HIGGINS SAYS so.
The Man Who Knows All About Politics
Says Kansas Isn't Mckinley's.

The Man Who Knows All About Politics
Says Kansas Isn't Mckinley's.
Ex-Secretary of State VIM. Higgins is
in Topeka on business today.
He could not keep from talking poll
tics, and to a STATE JOURNAL reporter
he said: "This story that was started last
week and that the JOURNAL published
about Morrill, being candidate for vice
president. is real funny. The boys are
up to the same old tricks They know
that NJ drill is a dead duck at home, and
they think they can perhaps help
keep his head above water here by
booming him for vice presiden.
in the east That's the way we used to
do with Ingalls, and Plumb. If anything
happened that made it look little
doubtful about the election of either one
of our senators we just started boom
for that one for vice president, and it
always worked and he WAS reelected"
Speaking of the several presidential
candidates, Mr.. Higgins said: "McKin-
ley can't have Kansas. There
is no sense in giving our dele
cation to man who won't be
in it when the time comes. If the Kan
sas people really feel as though they
must honor some Kansas man by giving
him her vote. why then l am for Justice
David Brewer, He is Kansas man and
is all right"
"What about his recent income tax
decision?" asked the reporter,
That's so,' replied the ex-secretary
"That would cut some figure. There is
one thing settled. however; Mckinley
can't have Kansas"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
HERE'S MAN OF GRIT.
Local Sentiment in Favor of Crime
is Disease,
SAYS DENNIS MADDEN OF CHASE co.

Who Makes n Record for Enforcing
the ProhIbitOry Law That Governor
Morrill, May Well Envy-Ir Takes
Energy, That's All.
Dennis Madden, county attorney of
Chase county, is in the city today on SUI
preme court business. Mr.. Madden is
the only officer who has ever succeeded
in absolutely closing the whisky joints
of Strong City and Cottonwood Falls.
Mr.. Madden is a PopuIist and holds
rather liberal views on the prohibition
question but believes in fully enforcing
the law.
There is not a joint in Chase county
in operation" said Mr.. Madden to d
STATE JOURNAL reporter.
81 have proceeded against the joints by
getting out njunctions against the keep
er and made the landlord of the building
a party to the suit. When a sale was
made [ cited the seller for contempt and
had him fined. The effect is that no
owner of a building will allow it to shell
ter a joint keeper. The property owner
helps enforce the law.
''If the jointist turns 'boot-legger' |
catch him with warrant and he ends in
jail. The lesson has great weight on
all concerned. The jointist looks for
work and the frequenuers change quart
ers.
lis there any local sentiment against
the enforcement of the law?" asked the
reporter.
There was considerable during the
first stages" said the attorney, ''but it has
disappeared with the joints. The en-
forcement of the law begets a healthy
local sentiment in its favor. Local senti-
ment in favor of crime is disease and the
AT<2 L.
comes its manifestation. The people of
Kansas are law abiding and the saloons
should 60
"strong City and Cottonwood Falls
were towns where whisky and beer have
been sold since their incorporation and
local sentiment prevailed in that direc-
ton, but it has fallen before the law in a
fair battle.
"The prohibitory law is one of the east
est on the statute books to enforce. It is
self acting and the process of injunction
knock blow
81 notice other crimes are less fire.
quent in our county since our prohibition
law is being enforced. 1t is unfortunate
that politics should obstruct the prosecu-
ton of the law. Men should be chosen
without regard to party so long as they
enforce the law. Law is the life of the
state.
II notice that other cities are not dom G
so we'll as with u.s.
81 am sure that an efficient use of the
metropolitan police act, with the aid OF
the attorney generals Office would soon
| clear out all of the saloons and joints in
Atchison, Leavenworth and Wichita.
| The police can arrest without warrant on
reasonable suspicion and the liquor
siezed, made the evidence for conviction.
| Neither is its enforcement COSTLY It re
quires more energy than anything else.
IF all the officers who stand charged
with an oath to enforce the law would
do their duty it would not be long before
law would be complied with.
"When I hear an officer say he can't
enforce ii, I think he doesn't want to en-
| force it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
THE COUNTY INSANE.
They Ara Becoming So humorous That
Some Provision Must BE Made.

They Ara Becoming So Numerous That
Some Provision Must Be Made
The county commissioners would like
to remove the county insane from Bed
wells asylum to the poor farm, but Pro
bate Judge Wood does not agree with
them and protested against the proposed
change at the meeting of the board
today.
The commissioners say that it costs
more than the state allows-50 cents a
day-to care for each insane person at
Bedwelfs. The expense in excess of
this is borne by the county. They say that
by removing them to the poor farm and
fitting up quarters for them, the expense
could be kept within the amount allowed
by law.
There are those however, that insist
this is simply money making scheme
on the part of the commissioners 1t is
hardly probable that there will be any
change, as Judge Wood has the decidin e
in the affair. The commissioners say
they recognize this, but think it would
be better to have the insane people taken
to the poor farm. Topeka is almost
large enough city to begin talking of a
county insane asylum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
POSTAL CLERKS MEETING.
Annual Convention viii Be Held in Chi
cago September 3.

CHICAGO, Aug. 27.-The Railway Pos
tai Clerks Mutual Benefit association of
the United States will hold its next an
nuaI convention in this city, beginning
September 3.
1t is composed entirely of men who are
emploved in the distribution of the mails
on trains throughout the country, and its
object is TO secure to the families of lis
members a moderate mortuary benefit on
the assessment plan. and at first cost, the
occupation being an extra hazardous one.
The annual convention usually brings
together some $50 delegates, and the
clerks on the lines centering at Chicago
have selected a committee to arrange a
programme for the entertainment of
their visiting comrades.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
Winffeld C1nh wanna Dishand

The Winfield ball club will not dis
band, as was reported last week, and is
anxious for another series of games with
Emporia In the game with the Ma
rooms Friday, the latter club won by a
scratch, with a score of 9 to 10 In the
eighth inning Pitcher Bevis. of the Win
fields, was hit in the head by a pitched
ball, and Winfield claims it was put up
job by the Maroons to win the game.
This sounds ridiculous, for a pitcher
who could hit the head of batter when
ever he wanted to. could shut out Win
field without crippling any one.