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The evening times., 1895-12-03
GRANDPA SLllI'S SUIT
Another Side Of the Thres-C Coz
nered Case in Court. ).
WANTS ALL STOPPED

He Insists That Pending the Settle
Suits Brought ON the Other Two
Sides Should he Suspendcd-Argu-
ments of the Counsel. -.
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ghe aqa Daily Eagle aaledesdau qlorino gay 20 1895

if it were not so nearly pathetic
tragedy. 1t is the bigotry of such q
town. its intolerance that warranted
Rev. Enbree in getting up in his pulpit
and denouncing the governor Of the
state as 'characterleSS." The people
of no other Kansas town would fill up
a whole train on Sunday morning and
ride fifty miles to get "bilin" drunk and
then go back home and denounce the
people who had "set 'em up 1t may
be that the people of Leavenworth
violate both the new fish law and also
the old prohibition law, and on Sun
days, but if we were forced to go out
side Of Wichita to find true Christian
charity or tear-suffused tolerance we
would rather take our chances with the
beer-bibblerS of Leavenworth than
with the thin theism of Topeka.
: OF course it was legally right 10
arrest the poor gardner, who was per-
suaded 10 part with five bottles Of his
beer for a consideration, right to put
him in Jail and fine him five hundred
dollars and disgrace him, according to
the law of man, but what Of the law of
Christi
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JUST LIKE TOPEKA.

Out in a little corn field near the
suburbs of Topeka is an unpretentious
humble little home which shelters a
delicate mother and her loving little
innocent ones. Her husband, who is
hardly more than an invalid. manages
to keep the wolf from the door of his
cheap cottage by raising whatever he
can. A doctor had advised beer for
the mother. 1t seems that a fishing
party which had gone out that way
violaters of the law themselves in fish
inG-fOund out that in this little home
father and husband to let them have
some of it. These fellows returning to
the holy city peached to the author
tiles. The sheriff armed to the teeth.
with posse at his back and Il wagon
to haul off the coniiscated beer precipi-
tated night raid on that home They
found two dozen bottles of beer save
one. The warrant was read TO the
husband and he was notified that he
must so 10 Jail The poor wife pleaded
and explained and the frightened chill
dren screamed and cried. Then the
mother broke down and cried also.
She begged that they would only wait
until she could get her babies To sleep
and then she would go down To the city
and see if she could not persuade some
philanthropist, some father or mother.
10 so on five hundred dollar bond
and save herself and husband from dis
grace. That kind of tender-hearted
people don't live il Topeka. II she had
wanted hypocrites She would have
found the streets and alleys fun OF
them even at that time of night. doubt
less. That is the hour in which the
Topeka drug-joint is the livelieSt in
filling hypocrite prescriptions for those
who stand UP in the day time and
thank God thai Topeka i not Is Wich-
ita. The poor man. however. in spite
of the tears ami promises Of his faith
fCl wife. ana in spite of al he could
do or say. was dragged or with his
twenty-three bottles OF beer 10 The city
prison. where ne was locked Un with
criminals and 4 Topeka daily goes off
in = scare head column Of ju0ilauonand
congratulaJion over that which would
be contemplate hypocritIcal farce
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PLATT KEEPS OPEN HOUSE.

1t must be something more than a
coincidence that the leading presiden-
tial candidates should all be in New
York at the same time. Reed, McKin-
ley, Harrison and Allison are all visi-
tors this week, while Governor Morton
drops down from Albany almost daily,
so say the reports. Stephen b. ElkinS
is known to be stopping at one Of the
leading hotels, though not registered.
Mr.. Elkins, no doubt, has good reasons
for this precaution. as have the other
gentlemen for their visit. 1t is safe
to assume that each one has an object,
and certainly there is no one to question
their right to pursue it If individual
interests clash that is simply a mis-
fortune for the parties in interest One
thing is certain: there is but one eX-
ecutive Office to fill, and If candidates
are numerous, individual chances are
diminished by so much. If there is to
be wire-pulling let us hope they will
all pull fairly.
With whatever there may be of ad-
upon which they all seem to agree:
that is, to see Thomas C. Platt of New
York. The reports have it that each
of these gentlemen are known TO have
sought and obtained an interview with
Mr.. Platt; and, what will be news TO
most people, is that he holds the key
to this little executive Pandora box. If
this be true, who can blame them for
seeing Mr.. Plat? Indeed the arrange
ment might be utilized at a great saw
ing of time and cost. If Mr.. Plat of
New York, holds the presidency in his
fist, why not abandon, for once, the
fOrmality of voting, and let him say
now who is to be the lucky man? Bus
because of the uncertainty Of the next
tariff and financial policy. 1t would
be q beneticient act. not TO say good
business stroke for the whole country
TO settle the matter now. and let every
body go to work to retrieve recent
losses. There never was a time when
prosperity would serve better pur-
pose. If Mr.. Plat would only fall in
with the suggestion we might wei af-
ford To accept his verdict. and no ques-
tons asked. Otherwise the query Will
go round: whence his authority: and
how long is a New York political boss
10 rule this country: That such a
functionary now holds the reins, seems
n lao conceded trr- will yro rar-r1a-rra 70
him? That's the question. Let US
hope. however, that he is an improve
ment on Croker
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LESSON IN A DEATH SCENE.

Back of the choking. Sulphurous
clouds Of political contention and away
from the bitterness and injustice of
partisan rancor, with his wife reading
to him favorite passages from the Holy
Bible, Gresham, Cleveland'S secretary
of state passed away
It was fitting end for a man whose
life was unblameable if his ideas of
public polity and political conduct did
not agree and coincide with ours He
had felt all the sharp stings of parti-
san criticism and had met them with
a betting insolence. That was a part
of our intensely partisan life and feel
ings. When he died he had forgiven
al his political enemies; and now that
he is dead his political enemies will
have nothing but good to say and think
Of him as man.
But there is a lesson in that death
scene to one political party in this
count1y-a party that is new and weak
and pusilanimous. We mean the Pop
ulist party. That party not only teaches
its followers to disagree with the polit-
zeal ideas of other party leaders and
to combat them vigorously, which it
has a right to do, but it goes to that
indecent length Of charging the private
character and life of heir opponents
with the lowest yiciousnesS and ungOd-
illness. Since its incipiency this has
been the principal string that the Pop
ulists have harped upon. Every pub
lie man in this country of any promi-
nence has been assailed as to his char
acter. Charges of personal corruption
have been hurled broadcast at every
public party leader and government Of
fetal. Even Gresham himself, who
sympathized with the Populists, could
not escape the mud OF these hyenas.
The Populist should study the death
scene of Gresham. A man who passes
quietly out of this life, his mind full of
divine mercy and softened and height
ened by the glory if divine wisdom, is
not a monster, is not a thief, is not a
liar and rogue.
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Hurled Standing.

Clement Spelman of Narburg, record
er of Nottingham, who died in 1879. is
buried upright, inclosed in a pillar in
Narburg church, so that the inscrip-
ton is directly against mis- face. This
must surely be the one solitary in
stance of burial in a pillar. although
there are many other instances of bur-
ial in an upright position.
Thomas Cook, who was governor of
the Bank Of England from 1871 to 1899,
and who had formerly been a merchant
residing in Constantinople, died at Stoke
Newington, August II. 1852, and by his
directions his body was carried to Nor
din college, Blackheath, Of which he
was a trstee; it was taken out of the
coffin, and buried in a winding sheet up
right in the ground, according TO the
eastern custom
Ben Johnson was buried at Westmin-
lister in an upright position. Possibly
this may have been on account of the
large fee demanded for a full sized
grave. 1t was for a long time supposed
that the story was invented to account
for the smallness of the gravestone;
but on the grave being opened some
years since, the dramatiSt's remains
Were discovered in the attitude indicat-
ed by tradition.
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PURLOINED PLUMES.

AS Prince F. J. Battenberg has only
$4,000 year he has chance TO become
a decent and respectable citizen by
gratefully accepting the impossible
ties of living like a prince.
The Emir Of Bokhara, who has recent
" gone to q mineral water cure in the
Caucasus for an affection of the feet
was obliged to obtain the permission Of
the car of Russia before leaving his
own dominions
There was some treasure-trove for
the purchasers OF oscar Wilde's per
sonal effects. One buyer who gave 81
for a bundle Of twenty books discover
ed among them a rare edition OF Ten
nyson's early poems. with an auto
graph line from Carlyle to Wilde on the
fiyleaf.
Elkins IS Prof. Harrison's man. SO
is Garter. Those who think that Car
ter, Elkins or any OF the prof $ friendly
men are trying to force his hand do not
konw how trumps are lead by the In
diana school of statesmen. But the
professor knows that and several other
things.
Lady Norveys has come out in the
Lady Cyclist, in Eengland, TO say that
she considers the rational dress" per
fectly horrible" She adds that Lady
Dudley. Lady wolverton and Lady Lgr
gan all cycle. but not one OF them would
appear or her machine without skirt
over her knicksrbockers- That ought
10 settle IL
There Is general commentator Of the
poor projects OF the Bohemian ci1o- o.
Pi;tsbgrg. 70 erect a memorial 20 s;eEsh-
en- g. Foster. the scng-write- The nan
who wrote "Oh. Susannahs TIE ODD
folks 2; Home" anisbest of all "old
kentucky Home" deserves moHu-
rueat Foster wrote altogether about
Is songs, ali OF them neEstoriouS-
ZsngwlI the novelist, has l7EE-
lank figure aaa strongly marked sAl-
low tsce lie = Londonsr - birth.
and Il was while be was a tsac1e- l.
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an East End school that he learned so
much of the Jewish poor and their ways
of life AS an instance of his capacity
for work, it was while he was a teacher
that he took a London university de-
gree with honors.
In becoming the Princess Branacco-
Massimo the fair daughter of a former
New York belle allies herself TO family
as ancient as any in Italy. The Mas
SINH claim descent from the great Fab
ius Maximus of early Roman days, the
originator of the Fabian" policy of
delay. There is an anecdote 70 the eff
feet that Napolean once asked a Mas
simo in a rough and sceptical way if
the story of his family origin We're true.
L cannot prove IT," answered the Ro-
man noble, " but 1t is a tradition that
has run in our family for more than two
thousand years.
The Italian papers have another anec-
dote of Sig. Crispi, the italian premier.
Crispi and Cardinal Hohenlohe have
been close friends for many years.
During one of Sig. Crispis visits 10
him the German Cardinal had placed
Sig. Crispi took It up and began to ex-
anime it with curiosity, when the car
dinal, taking it from him, placed II upon
the premier's head, saying: What a
fine cardinal you would make! 1 feel
sure you would have become one had
you been priest" To this remark Sig.
Crispi dryly replied: Perhaps 1 would
have become pope.
An expert estimate of the cost of
corn production in Texas. Mississippi,
Arkansas. North Carolina, places the
average figures at 80 cents. and at the
present good market prices the profit
Will be large. Besides this, some of the
planters have entered into the raising
of cattle on scale never before even
contemplated. The failure of the past
ureage in the west through the hot
weather and the consequent decrease
in the herds OF live stock in those sec
tons is likely to inpart a great stimu-
1us TO the stock raising industry in the
south for next year, and it would not
be astonishing is southern beef, other
than that from Texas, might be in the
western markets in 1895.
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iCHABOO.

Where baby oaks play in the breeze,
Among wood sorrel ana fringed fern.
Through the green garments Of the trees
The quiver;ng shafts of sunlight burn.
And all along the wet green ride,
The dripping hazel boEghs between.
The spotted crchis, stiff with pride,
Stands guard before tie eglantine.
swee: chcstnuts droop their long. sharp
leaves,
By knOtted tree roots. messed and brown,
Round which the EOneyslcl1le weaves
Its scented golden wildwood crown.
Q wood. last year Won saw us meet.
For her your leaves and buds were gay.
Yc-r moss spread velvet for her feet.
Your flowers upon her bosom lat-.
This year you wear your rairnent bright,
As fair "a ever vet vcu wore,
And none the less the worlds delight
Walks IN your woods 10 NOR, no more
Pail Mall Gazette.
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TURN-CCAT JOHNNIE.

If Secretary Carlisle Is left 10 his
choice he viii advocate the use OF sole
leather and wampum as standard
money Al he wants is time 10 come
around to IT. one thing seems hardly
fair: He utilizes The position given
him by one set of his friends 10 pro-
mote the interests Of another He
talks his way into the senate by adj
v0catins free silver. This was the
stepping stone 10 AIS place IN the cab
inet. where he finds il Necessary 10
plead the cause OF gold. but il must IL
said u Mr.. Carlisle that he is rich II
expedieut lie keeps his eye OF the
ma j0rity when an elective office IS 10
be given out Ii it is appointire be
i equally careful 10 nurse the sovereign
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In view Of the fact that Egypt was
once the center Of civilization and learn
ing. whence science radiated TO every
corner of the globe. vesuges Of Egypt
Ian lore being found even in this hernis-
pheTe. ii is somewhat painful 10 think
that the onl item which the land of the
Pharsohs now contribute TO the world
IS onions. which are being shipped in
huge quantities to the United States
And to make matters worse. we are in
formed that the popular 'baeli." rs the
Egyptian onion is called. owes its fine
flavor as we'll as its size TO the fact
that the fields in which il is grown are
fortified with the powdered nummies
of the sages who flourished on the land
Of the Nile 5000 and 1000 years ago.
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OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

WI Wagner & Scas get the school
leases IN the kIckaF-oo country
The bakers OF Guthrie have agreed 20
sell six ioaves of bread for a quarter.
= church At Chelsea was closed last
week OF al attachment Tor debt % -.
Not single one OF the new towns f.
the Kickspoo county was named Tr1lhy-
Very few Texas daily papers are sssn
IN Oklahoma Texas dsIhez coss 81 q
year
Last Saturday nigh; e. vas he las:
uuzsbe- caleb AZ ths Oklahoma CITY Iaa1-
ot-lce-
TIE K,rkaPoo opening vas The 1rs.
where the-e Eers 70 soI1;srs o. tie
ground
Esoks Srns-h hss -er; Instructions % fs@
Oklahoma City l2a1-ot1ce % look cu1 tcr
Eocosrs
A. Uaee-tzksr n ;h- ChoctA- nztioa
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-29

The following are few theses. authen.
tically titled, that will serve to give some
idea of the curious thoughts Of former
Partisan medical students:
is water more healthy than wine:
QS22.)
Robert Debonnair-'Arei infants born
with caul the happierf'' G637)
Andre GudgCt-' 4 " heroes not born at
the tenth month"; Gs43}
Is music efficncious in diseased" (Is2&.
should g young girl in love be bleds'
Q63e)
as getting drunk once month health
fuls' Ie43)
L woman an imperfect work q ma
TURF 1lGs6-l
should ll-e-arv raca marry" U745-) }
-Cinciunati --.-.--t -'--ic.
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who bestows it. Guided by this ruling
passion, the last thing he would do
would be to maintin his homespun
Kentucky principles TO his own undo
ing. Not he.
But when the time comes round that
our beefy executive will have no a,
pointments to bestow he WI. md it
necessary TO shift sail again. Let no
admiring friend have any fear that
he will hot be equal to it. His craft
is ever set with bagging sails TO the
wind. no matter from whence it blows.
If promotion for Carlisle is to be had
through the suffrage OF the silyerites.
he viii be on hand for the promotion.
If wampum is TO be the measure of
value, Mr.. Carlisle will bound into the
ring with the warwhoop "Wampum
sOes.' No. Mr.. Carlisle is neither
modest nor welded to an idea. His
principles are of that adjustable kind
which fit the least of crossroads poll
uclans. or the greatest statesmen. The
facility with which he turns them over
upside down and inside out, is some
thing for all aspiring, and less success
full politicians to admire. Here, in
fact, is where his strength lies. 1t
would hardly be safe for others to at
tempt to play the bold parts which
seem so easy 10 Mr.. Carlisle. With
him it is born quality-not acquired
by study or practice. Poet like, he
brings it into the world with his being.
His individuality is co-existed with this
peculiar genius We dub him the
turncoat laureate Of his age and his
country.
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advertises to take country produce In ex-
change for collins
McLoud is the name OF the Kickapco
town that rs securing the most mention
IN the newspapers.
At one point in the Kickapoo line the
start was made by someone bursting
grocer's paper-bag.
Perhaps the Guthrie Leader knows
thing or two about that Oklahoma City
free silver convention.
The Oklahoma City Tfmes-Journal says
that the sooners' corn in the Kickspoo
eoutry Is already waist-hgh.
He Is one of the few men In this world
VINO can make boys go 10 school with the
idea tnat they are having a picnic.
The Oklahoma City Times-Journal Is
FURNISHING list of the boomers whose
hIings are rejected at the land ONCE
In another week the Okiahoma City
merchants Will begin to call IN Their
branch houses in the Kickapoo country.
The Oklahoma City Star Is authority
for the statement that not a single life
was sacrihced IN the Kickapoo opening.
II is not true that Governor Renfrow
and Marshal Nix viii make free silver
speeches at the Oklahoma City conven-
ton.
The Indians are all going visiting. The
Pawnees are visiting the Comanches and
the Potts are the guests OF the Sacs and
Foxes.
Otto Beckmyer still makes those weekly
trips to Oklahoma City. II Otto hasn't
the cash he ought 10 borrow the money
or stand the preacher off.
The story in the Guthrie Capital en-
titled Mans Inhumanity 10 Woman" was
too much for the Eagle Its readers
Will have to do without it,
About one hundred people were baptized
in a river near Perkins last Sunday. At
the same time the Methodists in the crowd
were sprinkled on the bank.
Tine Oklahoma papers sre coming to the
conclusion that 1t is sure betting tina,
every item about the deputy marshaIs hay-
ing fight with the bandits is fake
At the opening an old farmer --cooned''
log out in the middle of the North Can
adam and a Il o'clock showed IL onto the
kickapoo country and filed. No sooner
got ahead of him.
The public schools at Oklahoma City
VIII close this week They are splendid
schools and one OF the best educators in
America. no state or locality excepted
Professor Haleck-.s at the head of them.
The Republicans Of Oklahoma are for
the free coinage of silver. SO is the Re
publican party OF Oklahoma and the Re
publicans are not going to chase around
after any free silver leagues bossed by
Democrats.
The owner of the principal hotel at
Minco advertises that guests can enter the
dining room and eat in their shirt sleeves.
During the first session OF the legislature
Harry Coulsou of Guthrie a legislator out
of his dining room for trying 10 eat In
his shirt sleeves.
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Gladstone Never Wheedied.

1 remember once asking a friend Of
Mr.. Gladstone what kind of arts he
used TO employ in bringing over hest
tating colleagues OF wavering parti-
sans. mo arts" was the reply. He
never Wheedled, he simply overwhelm-
ed" The amount of energy and even
the rhetorical skill which Mr.. Glad
stone would throw into these informal
colloquies was often prodigious. Good
heavensi good heavensr' said we'll
known politician once as he wiped the
perspiration from his forehead and sank
exhausted into his chair. Good heav-
ems. there is nothing left of mel"
Why" asked his friend. what have
you been doing?" Talking with Mr.
Gladstone for an hour" was the re-
ply
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A Carnival of Extravagance.

1t is said that Ismail was probably
the worst and most extravaganza ruler
that even Egypt ever knew. He
would import comic opera troups and
ballets wholesale, and one occasion
gave a ball at quite fabulous cost, d
bridge alone over the Nile, built for
the passage of his guests, costing IS 600
and the scribe who wrote the chronicle
of the entertainment getting $1,000. Al
the time of deposition 1t is asid he took
away fSC0000 worth OF plate alone, be-
sides innumerable Jewels, and in the
final compromise" with the sultan he
secured something like "a 200, 900 sterling
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The sheep war in the Rock noun
tains is on. And for general up-and-at-
'em hloodthirStinesS a county-Seat con-
test is baby show compared to a
sheep war
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There IS a safety bicycle in Oklahoma
that weighs eight tons. This item is
contributed by wheelman who car
ried his bike home from the kickapoo
onening.
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II is 10 be hoped that the free silver
advocates will not be carried away by
the deIuSion that the death Of all the
bankers in the country Will end the
hard times.
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1t is with great triumph that the
Guthrie Leader informs Trilby that
Eve is 6,00O years ahead of her in the
Trilby business.
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A Wichita minister thoushtlessly said
in speaking Of Bob Ingersoll that he
would some day go 10 that burn from
which no traveller returns"
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The Democrats of Oklahoma are for
free silver and they don't care who
knows it-so long as he will promise
not to tell Grover.
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Mrs. Paran Stevens, it is said. never
fiirted. Those who have seen por-
traits Of Mrs. Stevens will give no
credit to the New York men for this.
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We can count on one thing. No
matter how long the French keep Wal
Ter in prison. he will not look pale from
long confinement when he gets ont.
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Every man is the architect of his own
fortune but what is troubling Harrison
is whether to put free coinage cupola
or gold minaret on his.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-29

Answer to correspondent: NO If
YOU contemplate entering journalism
It Is not absolutely necessary for you
To make 4 study of baking powders"
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There is said to be a scarcity Of
cracked wheat on the market. 1t has
been some weeks since wheat dropped.