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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
BICYCLES AND CIGARS

The latest cutlery against the bicycle
comes from the United States Tobacco
Journal. which processes to see in the
universal popularity of the wheel the
cause Of great injury TO the tobacco
trade in general and the sale of cigars
in particular. The measure OF the
damage that has been done by the BIZ
cycle is thus defined:
We do not exaggerate the least. The
bke-craze has infatuated, enslaved at the
least calculation five hundred thousand
males who were formerly addicted TO the
smoking habit. If these five hundred
thousand male slaves 10 the bike-craze
have weaned themselves to smoking only
two cigars less a day-thiS must be con-
sidered a most moderate calculation, as
the bikeist hardly ever worships less than
from four TO six hours at the shrine OF
his wheel-then the consumption or cigars
is decreasing at the RAE Of one million per
dav and seven hundred millions in year.
And me decrease in our cigar production
since the bike-craze has set IN has act
uaIly- been seven hundred millions per
year!
From the standpoint of the tobacco
mist this is surely dismal picture; ana
the increasing virulence Of the bicycle
epidemic promises still further en-
croachments upon the trade of the
cigar dealers, if the view taken by the
Tobacco Journal be correct. But the
records of the commissioner OF Internal
revenue do not sustain this theory.
During the fiscal year just ended, f.
$50, 44O, $40 cigars were manufactured
in this country, against 4,O6G, 917 ,432 in
the previous year. This increase of
63, sd. 93S cigars in one year does not
show that smokers have fOregone their
indulgence in the narcotic weed to any
great extent. The production Of
cigarettes and manufactured Tobacco
shows a still greater increase.
Bicycling is no longer a craze; it is
an established institution. 1t it has
affected the sale Of cigars as it has in
jured the business Of stable keepers
the only recourse Of the injured ones
is to bow to the inevitable and adjust
themselves to changing conditions.
The Tobacco Journal unconsciOusly
points TO this when it states that Il
cigar manufacturer has just announc-
ed that he has bought 1000 bicycles
which he proposes to give away, ont
with each 5000 cigars which he shall
sell. When the editor of the Tobacco
Journal shall have succumbed to the
seductive influences of the bicycle an
improved digestion will probably en-
able him to take less pessimistic view
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
INTEMPERATE INrEmPERANCE.

Archbishop Ryan, the great temper
ance prelate and advocate of total alb
stinence, in his address before the
Catholic Total Abstiners Union voiced
the conservative sentiment and the
wisdom of experience in pointing out
the folly Of attempting to coerce men
into abstinence by penal laws and the
disastrous results of striving to Quench
the appetite for drink by prohibitory
legislation. He said that while such
legislation might sometimes act as a
breakwater, it simply turned the tide
of intemperance into other channels.
1t is always easier to persuade than to
drive, and to deny a legal right, the
exercise of which might be harmful,
not unfrequently impels tbeperson thus
maltreated to go much further than he
would have done in self-indulgence,
after breaking through the restriction.
Everybody who has lived in a prohibi-
ton state knows this to be true. The
very fact that alcoholic stimulants
have to be obtained secretly leads to
their abuse when within reach. and
for similar reasons, there is no doubt
that the harsh enforcement OF the ex-
else law on Sunday fosters intemper-
ance and encourages drunkenness.
The real friends of temperance are
always the least officiouS in interfering
with personal liberty. They recognize
that chord in the human character
which prompts us to resist oppression,
and TO rebel against unjust meddling
with personal rights and social Gus
toms, and they believe in promoting
temperance by persuadins men that it
is best for them TO be temperate. not
by placing policeman'S club in front
of every glass OF beer, with the motto,
Touch not, taste not. handle not,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
THE KANSAS HAY CROP.

Grass makes hay and hay is hay and
it takes comparatively much money to
buy it this year. The price of hay Is
especially high in all western markets
this summer and the grass crop is pro-
portionately short. But Kansas has
grass, hundreds and upon hundreds OF
thousands of acres of it worth millions
of dollars if but cut and cured. There
has not been a better grass crop in
years. and if the season holds out with
occasional, rains it will be enormous by
the first to the middle of September.
This would leave a month for harvest
ing and stacking. The baling could
be done per convenience. Whatever
the railways may do, good baled hay
will command a good price delivered
on the cars, while hay well and thor
oughly stacked will be worth money
to feed or to sell at any time within
the next year. There is little doubt
but that the hay crop of Kansas if all
secured would be worth half as much
money as her immense corn crop. as
fifty counties of the state have got
more grass than anything else.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16

for California wines. While the i'm
ports of champagnes and other spark
ling wines increased from 22S.5SO doz-
ems in 1855 to 374,124 dozens IN 1888,
the quantity of still wines brought
from abroad in bulk has increased
only from 3.419,532 gallons in 1885, to
3.525.625 gallons in 1885. The figures
for the past two years are OF no sig
nificance in this connection, for the de-
crease which they show Is but a part
of the general shrinkage of trade un-
der extraordinary conditions.
The wine industry of California has
grown with amazing rapidity, and In
recent years there has been a marked
Improvement in the quality of the
wines produced on the PACING coast
Last wear a committee Of French wine
experts exhaustively considered the
present condition and the possibilities
of viticulture in California. and sam
ples of American wine were carefully
examined. These experts concluded
that there would not be much to fear
from Californian competitionin the
better qualities of still wines, in
champag ne or brandy; but it was ad-
mitted that the ordinary wines ranked
among the best of the American pro-
ducts and could be compared favorably
with similar French wines, and that
the port. NereS. Malaga and Muscat
of Southern California equaied those
of Spain and Portugal. In the eyes
of the French winners the greatest
obstacle TO the development Of wine
growing in the United States is the
fact that Americans are not a wine
drinking people. The consumption of
wine in this country amounts to only
about one and One-half quarts per cap
ita per year, while in France the guam
THY annually consumed averages near
~ twenty-three gallons per capita
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
DYING VINEYARDS IN FRANCE.

France is threatened with the loss of
her supremacy in wine growing, owing
to the ravages of the phylloxera. The
Revue de Viticulture has made a care
full survey of the vIneyards and has
reached the conclusion that this year
must rank among the worst periods in
which the phylloXera scOurge has
ragged. The largest estimates of the
production of wine in France this year
fix the probable yield at about $50, 0O0.-
GOO gallons. against 1850, 100000 gal
Ions last year. This makes the guam
tity of wine likely to be produced this
season the smallest in the last twenty
years. with the single exception of
1889. when the product fell about co.
600. 900 gallons below the estimate for
this year In 1870 the production Of
wine in France was 2.O60, 16o, 900 gal
Ions. or more than three times the
probable yield for this year.
During the past twenty years the
area devoted To wine growing in
France has been steadily decreasing
due chiefly to the abandonment Of
vineyards where the ravages of the
phylloxera made the production Of
wine improbable. In 1879 the total
area of the French vineyards was g.
919. $50 acres. while last year 1855. SCI
acres were devoted 10 this industry.
While the acreage of the vineyards de-
creased but little more than one-fifth
IN, ha 1y-.~ nf ina.
shrank about one-half in the same
time. Efforts have been made to stay
the ravagcS of the phyIloxera by re-
stocking the vineyards with American
vines. which are considered as not be-
ing subject to the attacks Of the insect
pest. In the department of the Her
auit 100000 acres of vineyard We're
replanted with American stock. but
just As the wineCrowers were reioic-
ing over the eradication OF the phyIlox-
era il was discovered that the Ameri-
can plants had brought with them new
parasitic diseases OF their own. aud
the vineyards which were rescued
from the prevailing native scource
have now been Mcknight DESTROYED hv
the new fungi brought from this coun-
try Between the phyiloxcra and the
mildew the wine growing interests
have 10 deal with what has assumed
the importance OF almost national
calamity
The disaster 70 the French vineyards
has had a marked effect upon the i'm
ports OF wine into the United States:
and the curtailment Of the foreign sup
ply has probably broadened the narke,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
THIS Is A FUNNY WORLD.

This prohibition racket, taking both
sides of it. is a funny business. 1t has
got down to a scramble as to who shall
pocket the Doodle collected from the
saloons-whether it shall go toward pay
ing municipal expenses, or into the pock-
cts of those charged with enforcing the
law" For that liquor will be sold. and
Doodle put up for it, no matter who is
representing the claw" is too plain to
fool anybody. Now, there is the Wichita
Eagle. Last spring, Immediately upon
the appointment Of new police commits
sioners for that city, it came out with a
hfalutin editorial proclaiming that those
who asserted that Governor Morrill, had
no backbone, didn't know backbone when
they saw it. He had backbone, and was
running his own administration. Last
week, as a result of the racket made by
those who wanted to "enforce the law"
because they were not getting the Doodle,
a new board of commissioners was ap-
pointed; and again the Eagle shot of a
heavy editorial, proclaiming that Cover
nor Morrill, had no backbone. and that
Attorney General Dawes was running
him. The Eagle asserts that under the
new dispensation, there is a Democratic
chairman OF the police board. One OF
the funny things in this connection, is the
fact that George L. Douglass and Judge
Campbell, both ADVANTAGEOUS anti-prohi-
bitionists, are engaged in spirited rival
ry as to who shall be recognized as the
great law-enforcer. Judge Campbell.
who has been appointed assistant county
attorney for Sedgwick county, for the
purpose of enforcing the law, is man
who left the Republican party and joined
the Democrats, because the Republican
party enacted the prohibitory laws, and
remained with that party for some years.
He came back. in recent years. because
Of some new quirk that had seized him.
Isn't IL pretty farce to place the EN-
forcement of the law" in such hands?-
Kansas Chief
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
1T WAS A MISTAKE

The Eagle having declared The con-
vietion that IT was the duty Of the Re
publican central committee 10 issue IT'S
call for 4 state convention for the NOM
ination OF j chief justice it is only left
for Us 10 say now in view of the action
OF that committees refusal 10 do 50 that
they have made Il mistake for which
the party viii be held responsible.
There was no question as 10 the de
sire OF the party in the premises The
demand for convention was practic-
ally unanimous As voiced by the Re
publican press. The bosses assumed
to know best and 50 acted on their
own Judgment or rather preference
which preference was inspired by per-
Sonal consideration Their action IS
inexcuSlhle That Judge Martin
would have been nominated on IA sill
metropolitan platform goes without
saying. That such 3 platform would
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
GARDEN SASS DIET.

The advocates of garden truck as a
means of grace, who hold that the fes-
tive cucumber tends 10 eleminate the
grOsser passions and clear up the soul
will have to revise their NebuchadneZ-
Zarine doctrines in view Of the butch
cry of Christian missionaries by Chi
nese vegetarianS. Fried onions and
boiled cabbage and sauer kraut don't
seem to etheraliZe To any alarming ex-
tent. There seems to be mere pure
devil in regular diet of rice than in
beef and hash and the like. The man
who feels like numbering his grand
mother should load up on cucumbers
rather than with meat and drink. Al
cohol and raw rat are not in it with Il
cuisine Of garden sass. Satan may
abide in all flesh. but the cOld-blOOded
fendishnesS of that bloodthirSty and
ferOciOus crowd of vegetarian murder
ers in China are without parallel.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
THE CY LELAND RACKET.

Some Of the papers cannot make story
complete without abusing Cy. Leland.
The Topeka Journal says that he has
been putting in the past ten days travel
ing over the state, getting up proxies Of
the state committeeman. The truth is.
he has been putting in those ten days up
In Wisconsin. Another paper charges
that he wants to prevent the holding Of a
state convention, In order to choke of
expressions by the silver men; ard at the
same time they say that be wants to
force Judge Martin. az outspoken silver
man, upon the ticket. Ire fact Is, Mr..
Leland is a liberal silver advocate-while
not demanding free coinage at the rate
of IS TO !. he favors the coinage Of the
product of the American mines. But he
thinks Republican harmony is better than
useless and premature worry over the sill
Yer question, and that a judges views on
the silver question u not a matter OF vital
observation-disclosures Chief
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
THE WOMAN'S EDITION.
dey say a Women's 'Dltion

So dey say a Women's 'Dition
Oh de Bible has been writ.
Now dey needn't bring it dis way
Fer Use got no faith in 1t;
I'll dess bet de whole curbumkshun
Is de poorest kind of fraud
Wimin takin' all le glory.
Wild a womern fer de Lawd!
Dough de winin is de curecist,
/ suppose de new-writ fake
'Clares dat Adam was de fust 'un
OBJ de pison fruit to take,
An de place dat tells de story
OBJ de bad Miss Jesehbell-
Guess it's wild some low he-vilyun
Dat dey stop dat place up well!
Whah de Book 'scribes Norer drunken
On a reg'lar bust-head tight
Amt no doubt but in de 'Dition
He'll be lowed to snore all right:
An I'm certain Judas Karot
Has been tole to keep his place,
An not fiounce around in bloomers
OF de scandel OBJ de race.
Well, WE'LL is dat disguised
Dat hardly knows dess whah
kin turn fer consolation
An breaf of pleasant aih.
Fer it's boomers an New 'DitionS,
Wild de wimin gwine de gaits.
TIL think de whole caboodle's
Cracked a little bout DER pates!
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
BLASTS FROM RAMS HORN.
Too much help is no help.

Too much help is no help.
Love will always do its best to bless and
help.
A little man is always the loser by being
lifted up.
The devil is the only gamer when
hypocrite joins the church.
A man must be great in soul to stand
the test of being lifted UP.
The man who minds his own business
will not soon run out of work
To the soldier of the cross, every step
toward heaven is a test of courage.
When fool opens his mouth. everyone
with good eyes can see clear through his
head.
Sudden popularity is one Of the severest
tests OF character that can come 10 a
public man.
A homely woman has never been con-
WINGED that there is such a thing as q
perfect looking glass.
There is no harder place than that occu-
pied by the man who is trying to be re-
Igious in his own way.
There is a time for all things. but the
middle Of a revival is not the time to
make long prayers in church.
According TO some standards the most
pious man is the one who can make the
most noise and bleed the least.
1t is just as impossible to take cubit
from the stature Of a real true man, as it
Is TO add it to the one who isnot.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
THE SEA LION TOLD.
O1seS~srsd FfDs YSsksB9 I'm . Lsks So
Wont Bsek Amer HIS YrSssls-

Went Bsek Asser HIS YrSss<s.
Once upon q time Lake MERGED stood
high IN the estimation of city
sngiers, says the San Francisco Bulle-
tin. II was accessible and didn't re-
auire much influence 20 cast line into
It's waters Big fish fingered among
tho weedy depths and browsed along
the sandy shores on the western end
Cornelius Ssagg then KEEP. g road hocse
opposite the old race track and thsre
was a good dinner for the beiated
angler under his roof and = good bed
and bottle fragrant AID refreshing
clsrsa Scott Tidball. the artist. John
Adams and donens o: worthy fsherren
ssnce departed have swung their rods
over the ripples OF Eerced and com
pared no.es around the blazing Gre 81
night and were, perhaps. as boassful
and rnendacioas a. the anglers Of :he
fe-ersfion that saocee6sd them
The trout era psssec Away ard vas
followed BIZ an epoch % carp Tho~e
Hnd-srubberx fstssned On the border
ing RraAses AID led life Of urais-
s1,eea and igno<ninsoos indoleroc-
Nobody wanted them Al kny price and
the ba<nscses grew up On tic elders Of
.he gag from simple and unbroxen
iazineA Iaen aross<r chang toox
Place And the fsh commissioner al
aouneed that they were Soins 20 pea
DSkkAiio1se IN the las.I A nosfA or
% sfserwAsd they did asd j. ~2& sup
posed The rsszn % the carp WIS o-es
sad tsss those Eexocsozzs fresh water
sharks would completely ex;<rzinz,s
then
A sazacicas sea iSon felt recsntiy
thAs thsrs nszss be soneshins worth
eeeins srJood tas s<igAooxkood a. ths
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
A ISLANDER ON TOPEKA.

The Topeka papers complain that a
number Of old soldiers who recently visit
60 THAI city 10 draw the.r pensions. were
made drunk and robbed by thugs. We
can't believe i. How can men get drunk
in a city where the law" Is absolutely
enforced and where no liquor il sold ,
Can thugs exist in city where there Is
10 salOons2 Il Is said the citizens ara al
the mercy Of proving burglars al night
4 band OF robbers were pursued. one
night last week, and one was killed while
attempting to board a MOVING train
From one to seven suicides a week occur
in that city. In 10 other city in Kansas
do such things 50 frequently happen OF
VIVA; avail is i 20 be 50 Internally good
TIA. drunkenness ard robbery are the
rule. AID misery * 50 PreyAlsni thai J'-o-
PIE are driven 10 suicide daily .-ka1s2s
Chief
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
OKLAFCMA OUTLINES

About ten thousand dollars are paid in
pensions quarterly at Enid
The new company OF militiamen at Ok
lahoma City has been mustered in
The Perry Enterprise has got 70 the
point where it ''defies competition"
Peaches of a fine order are selling for a
dollar and a half a bushel at Oklahoma
City.
The Enid Wave wants a devil. Must
weigh at least 100 pounds and have red
hair.
This is the day the editors Of Oklahoma
get together and compare gunshot
wounds.
Majah whittinghill proposes to incor-
porate Sly Oberlander's toes in Enid 5
corn palace.
Judge Curran Of Enid. is charged with
being in love because his socks gather
about his shoe-tops.
In the Guthrie Commercial bank re-
ownership case, Referee Green decided
that Receiver Nix should pay $1,000.
A new wholesale grocery under the
name Of Raney-Alton Grocery company
has been organized at Oklahoma City.
1t Is understood that Tom Irwio In try
ing to slip back into Oklahoma on the
west side has been lost in a corn field.
Great Caesar, That great corporation.
the Santa Fe railroad. is running excur-
sions TO Coxeys speech at Guthrie. Sat-
urday.
The board Of regents of the Normal
school met at Edmond. Wednesday. and
let the contracts for the completion of the
building.
In Noble county the taxes due from the
Santa Fe for 1894 are s.. 40. and the road
declares IL viii pay s2.sJo. but the balance
Is not due.
Eastern papers claim there is a rivalry
between Guthrie and Oklahoma City TO
see which town shall Pile up the biggest
divorce record
BIZ Taylor. who is 20 hang IN Missouri.
was in Arapahoe taking dispositions the
week before the murder OF the Aeeks
was committed
Mr.. Horace Speed and Mrs. McAiiis;er
Monday. Horace Speed has come 20 OK
lahoma 70 stay.
A charter has been granted 20 the ST.
Louis. Oklahoma and Southern railroad
II is 20 run from sapuIpa 20 Wills Point
on the Gulf OF Mexico.
JUICE McA;se 1abbef a collar and an
extra shirt in his yaIiss the other night
and took the train 20 Mackinsc. Mich.
where lie JOINS Governor Renfrow-
Rev. A V. Francis made an address on
silver at Oklahoma City TIE other night
The Oklahoma minister mus. also be
something OF stateSrnza or he vii not
be in -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16

Cleveland once remo.ed a Demo-
crat in Missouri named Benton. il We
remember Alright. for taking part in a
political campaign. That was before
Grover was owned by the bond syndi-
cate. when he was making record
of civil service reform His chief
cabinet officers are now sent out TO
stump their respective states and
Grover himself is not above writing
letters to influence party conventions.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16

pie are in favor Of temperance. but they
are not in favor of prohibition, as they
have demonstrated e number of times
since the law was adopted.
Keep up the agitation; get RID of il.
We have just passed through another
damaging row. Nobody pretends that
this row did any good; no one pretends
that these rows ever will do any good.
Honest men who are Disguised with the
folly of prohibition should keep up the
fight until the state is redeemed. Joint
keepers are requested to keep their hands
OF. If resubmission is brought about,
it must be accomplished by good citizens
who know from bitter experience that
prohibition is not temperance measure
-AtchiSon Globe.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16
NOT TEMPERANCE MEASURE

Those Kansas people who are opposed
10 prohibition should Est aoshirs Interfere
with Their determination TO get I'd o. TIE
Law. L VIII appear every few n01tas 70
damage the state ard annoy the peopis
until = : wiped .-oz. the books
Prohibition has ceased 10 be q JOKE, u
IS rot oaly annoying aid expensive. Sn'
IL IS Damaging TO the state. The great
majority OF Kansas people are opposed 70
IL. and they should get "a ftr- By means
OF g n few preachers and politicians aTe
able 20 throw the entire state Into tEr-
mol every few moaihs. aid IL - cni'd-sa
20 submit 20 IL an1 longer. Kansas Pee
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16

1t is reported that John l.. Sullivan
has started saloon in Boston. This
is certainly disappointing to those who
understood tacitly that Sir. Sullivan
contemplated going into the manufac-
tory Of Bibles.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-16

have increased his vote and strength
ened the party is equally evident.
There are not enough single standard
men in the state of all parties to elect
ANYBODY. David Martin is with the
people. and the Republican party had
everything 10 gain and nothing 10 lose
by indorsing him with q regular nom