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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03

killed; no wounded; no mounting in hot
haste; no nothing; Guthrie fake
Isenberg of Enid, says there are a lot
of politicians who cannot distinguish a
joke from vituperation- You bet. Every
newspaper man has had to learn that
Edgar Jones. the librarian at Guthrie,
was the only Oklahoman who loved Wag-
ner so much that he had 10 so clear UP 10
Kansas City 10 hear the Gotterdauierung
W. NJ Briggs. who murdered Gillen-
water, has returned to Norman and given
himself up. There was a 800 reward for
his capture which is now withdrawn, OF
course
\ report from Guthrie says that
Deputy Marshal Turner shot at a man
named Christian the other day. and the
bullet hit him on the forehead-and
glanced off,
II is said by the Guthrie Leader that
Mrs Dian Johnson. a prominent society
lady of Oklahoma City, has been turned
out OF doors by her husband for no
other reason than that he was tired of
her.
Rand McNally of Chicago, did not know
that in their latest map of Oklahoma
they gave Guthrie 10000 inhabitants and
Oklahoma City $780, but Oklahoma City
is letting them know at the rate OF fifty
letters a day.
Frank Greer gently reminds Andrew
Jackson Seay that he is off his base II
he thinks Oklahoma Will send Mckin-
ley delegation 10 the next convention
He says Mckinley must face about on
the money question
10 Wisely has a plan by which Guthrie
can raise the bonus asked by the pro-
posed railroads. II is 10 turn the water
works system over to private citizens
who shall bond the plant in the sum OF
$4,000 and give the bonds 10 the railroads.
Territorial papers are publishing good
one on a Guthrie reporter who went out
10 report a party the other evening where
the home had been recently blessed Win
new baby Accompanied by his best
girl he met the hostess at the door, and
after the usual salutation he asked about
the baby's health. The lady, who was
quite deaf and suffering with the grip,
thought he was asking about her cold,
and told him that though she usually had
one every winter; this one was the worst
she ever had; il kept her awake and con-
fined her TO her bed. Then noticing that
the scribe was getting pale ana nervous,
she said by his looks he was going 10
have one just like hers, and asked him 10
go in and sit down. The paper was out
as usual the next day but the local editor
has quit talking about babies
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WHAT OF THE FRENCKMAN?

Making due allowance for all slips
necessary and unavoidable in com
posite story, Margaret" written by
the young ladies of Hypatia. and pub
lished in full in the Eagle this week.
was entertaining. OF course hypo-
critical people will pick flaws in Mar
garets rather volatile mind and pris-
matte change of character as the story
frisks from one country TO the other.
but the same people do not hesitate TO
criticize Conan Doyle and Sarah Grand,
and their structures on Margaret
make no difference one way or the
other.
But there is one point that must
be satisfied by the young ladies and
the question suggested should be I'M
derstood to be merely the ebullient
action of curiosity and not peevish
criticism. The question is: What
became of the long-legged Frenchman
with a proper name corrupted from
VaSeline or Castiline or Pearline, who
went around hanging to aMrgaret with
Il cheese-knife plunged up his sleeve?'
This Frenchman declared his ever
lasting, adamant purpose TO possess
Margaret or remove himself at once,
by the aid of the cheeSe-knife, to the
nebulous hereafter. But the succeed
ing chapters of the story Shun him with
the quick active movement Of an I'M
vaccinated man passing n peSt-houSe
Margaret makes an engagement with
him. no record of which is kept. She
comes fitting back to America without
thought or word about him. Did
the French galoot jerk off his mortal
coils. lay them on the bank and swim
to a land that is fairer than day? Does
he still live in Paris bandaging the
wounds of unrequitted love. or is he
practicing up on the chromatic scale
ona harp on the shores of Beulah:
| 1t is not right to leave the reader
unsatiSfied on this point. The rest of
| the story is all right. Phillip WAS a
| scoundrel for pledging his love to Mar
garet and then breaking it and CAD
/ ding about he country, probably with
n tomato can tied TO his waist. Ii
was proper to kill him off in a railroad
| wreck Douglass was young man
whose ardor was too easily cooled and
the reader rejoiced to see him refused
| by Margaret Ballinger. an unknown
gentleman who appears in the last -four
lines of the story and appropriateS
| Margaret. knew his business evidently
and has the warm regard of the pub
lie. But that doesn't satisfy anyone
| on the fate of the Frenchman. i
was all right for Phillip To be fight
ing the Southern rebels in the war o1
1S61-65 one year and 10 return rs {
correspondent from the Chinese VA
of 1S94-95. the next year. but it ism
fair TO drop the FrenchmaB who's,
native language tedited by the poly
glot typeSetrinG machines in the Eagle
office was 50 delightful and divertinG
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process Of the world is towards bet
termeut.
IS GROWERS BID FOR A CROWN.

Grover Cleyeland's cuticle is pretty
thick. but the public verdict will be
that Senator Stewards open letter will
serve TO ''irritate the president as much
as it amuses the people. The out
come OF the Nicaraguan affair is the
cap sheaf to his perfidy, which calls
for more drastic terms than the sena-
tor employs, but the real effect of the
letter will be to direct attention to the
humiliation put upon us by the puerile
diplomatic policy of the adminstra-
ton There is no Disgusting the fact
that the executive branch of the gov
eminent has lost that respect which
all classes prefer to feel for the Of
fetal family, and they have only them
selves to blame when made the sub
ject of ieers and ridicule. Those who
defended the course toward the Ha-
waiian government, and made excuses
for the presidents turning deaf ear
to the unjust claim made by England
upon Venezuela, are beginning TO rea-
lie that mere blind fealty TO a di-
plomatic cipher. though he be of the
purest Democratic blood, is less IN
cumbent than our national and indl-
yidual self respect. They see but too
plainly how treaties have been ig-
nored, and how the Monroe doctrine,
dear to every American heart, has
been spit upon by the English govern
ment. Connecting the incident with
the steps taken last winter toward
completing the Nicaraguan canal
through government aid. and England,
seeing it was her last opportunity to
fOreStall our efforts to control this
grand highway of the oceans, the peo-
ple know but too well that his vacil-
lating policy means nothing less than
TO allow England to gain a foothold
at the very gateway of this channel.
Plainly stated there is no possible eX-
cuse or apology for his allowing British
troops to occupy Corinto. They are
in full possession of that port today,
it may be said. in defiance of the little
government that owns it, and by the
grace of the United States. There is
no other solution of the matter than
that the president and state department
have played into the hands of Eng
land, and with what results to our
commerce, and the peace of this ma
ton remains to be seen.
The occasion calls for more than
Senator Stewards splendid sarcasm
1t is rather. time for plain speaking
without the employment of this We
hicle of satire. If We are thus tc
be betrayed into the hands of our
worst political and commercial enemy
have we not the right to protest: The
people are, after all, the sovereign
power in this nation, and surely the
next opportunity for choosing an ex
ecutive head will not be thrown away
on one who panders TO British inter
ests at the expense of those who &c
the voting.
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GOVERNMENT SEED HUMBUG.

1t was no part of the original intent
of congress that the department of
Agriculture should be an active COM
petitOr with the seedsmen of the coun-
try. or that it would spend the money
of the people in raising and diStrlbut-
ing seeds which could readily be got
ut any time in any section of the coun-
try. In the first reference of the de-
partment made in the revised statutes
occurs the following explicit provi-
sion:
There shall be, at the seat of govern
rnent, a department of agriculture, the
general design and duties of which shall
be TO acquire and diffuse among the people
of the United States useful information
connected with agriculture, and
to purchase, propagate and distribute
among the people new and valuable seeds
and plants.
The qualification respecting the char
acter of the seeds was reported i'll
various forms in subsequent enact
ments, and in the appropriation made
to the department by the Fifty-third
congress it was specified that the sum
devoted to seed purposes should be
used for the purchase, propagation
and distribution of improved and val
liable seeds" According TO the letter
of the law, therefore, Secretary Nor
ton is under no compulsiOn to continue
the government in the commercial seed
trade. His whole duty in the premises
would be discharged by the purchase
of rare and uncommon seeds, the prop
agation of which would properly rest
with the agricultural experiment sta
tinnS
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Arthur and Lao Tong. which WOULD
have so admirably served the vast
military plans of Russia in the east
But so far as the rest of the world
is concerned the interests OF clvlilZa-
ton and commerce in the east VIII De
quite as safe under japanese as under
Russian auspices. While Russia
aims are rather Of n military ana
political character in her efforts to Sc
cure a stronger foothold on the Pac1nc.
the Japanese conquest of Chinese ter
ritory will tend greatly 10 develop
western commerce in that region
Russia wants harbors in China as
sheltering places for her fleets ana
armies in the contingencies of future
conquest. In the possession OF Japan
they will become busy marts of peace
full commerce.
It is difficult to conceive, then, what
interest France and Germany can have
in Joining Russia TO protest against
the treaty OF Japan with China. These
nations have comparatively small IN
terests in the east. and these interests
have not been injuriously affected by
treaty which gives all commercial
countries an equal footing in the con-
quered territory. Possibly, Germany
and France are willing to aid Russia
in securing a more convenient harbor
and a stronger strategetical position II
the east in consideration of the great
value of Russian alliance in the
politics of Europe
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Two clergymen in Nebraska attribute
the recent hard times TO the Sunday open
ing of the worlds fair.
One of the most popular religious books
in Japan is "Pilgrim's Progress" Illus
trated by Japanese artists.
Empires Eugene has nearly completed
her memoirs. which are not to be pub
lished until after her death.
The new Republican mayor of Chicago.
Mr.. Swift, is a Scotchman. He was
put in nomination by a Scotchman, and
he has selected Scotchmen for his first
three appointments.
The car of Russia recently went shop
ping with his wife. and made purchases
al a glove counter of a ST. Petersburg
store Not a clerk in the establishment
recognized the royal customers.
Prince Butcher Won Wahlstatt, the heir
Of old Marshal 'Vorwarts.'' is TO marry
Princess Wanda Radziwill, cousin of
the Count de Castellane. who married
Miss Gould, and distant cousin OF En-
peror William.
The married women tachers of Illinois
are in a state of excitement over the in
PRODUCTION of a bill in the legislature OF
that state TO prohibit their employment
in the public schools. There are about
400 such women in Chicago alone.
There is now being built in Salem. Mass.
a model of the "Arbella' in which Cover
nor Winthrop came over. The governor
landed near where ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Sea is now situated. and the vessel viii
take part in the celebration OF that ms
toric event by the town.
Rev Or. Richard ". Smith professor
OF Greek. Hebrew and Sanscrit at Ran
doIph-Macon college, Ashland. Va, VIII
resign his position IN that institution on
account of a change in his views OF re-
ligion He is inclined TO doubt the in
SEPARATION of certain portions OF the Scrip
lures.
Marie Louise's son by her chamberlain
| Count NeippurC. whom she married after
Napoleon's death has just died near
| Vienna. He was Prince William o.
| Montenuovo, an Italianized form OF Neu-
| berg CNeippers). and was Il years Old
| He survived his brother, the king OF Rome,
/ 6S years.
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LongfeIlou's Great Amiotion.

Suddenly an awful calamity befell him
IN the death Of his wife by accident One
sad day in July. 1851. Mrs. LOngfellOw :
E-ht dress caught fire from a match fallen
on the floor. The poet rushed 70 her aid
but despite all his efforts her injuries were
fatal. She died the next morning. Long
fellow himself was go severely burned that
be was unable 20 be present az her fareT1i.
When his wounds healed. he was stili
broken in spirit To give himself Oocufa-
ton and % help him bear rs sorrow be
Translated int E-g.i-h the Divine Com
etys' OF Dante. lie found the lat.1r restful
and ee.T5lsrC and ia time he completed
his Sronz,atiou, which vas published n
Iss--zszs.zzsszs-oc Bra1de- Matthews IN St
. Nicholas
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-03
apream of the New Woman.

From Punch.
She irearned the doom that fate pronounces
Against the woman ceased 10 be.
She dreamed her brain weighed three mort
ounces
And was of finer quality.
Her iron nerves all fear derided.
She saw Il mouse, but did not run.
With pockets she was well provided,
And she could fire . Maxim gun.
She had abiured each female folly;
Hygiene dress she always wore;
With stern determined melancholy
The universe she pondered DER.
OF man in all respects the equal
At last her hearts desire was hera
Only, like every other sequel,
Her sequel proved L touch perverse.
She sighed: 'My mind with facts is loaded;
No golden vision it retains;
Even Nirvana is exploded.
And save the atom nauSht remains
each ray Of light mental prism
Must needs determine and arrest
Ny life is one long syllogisIn
Without parenthetic Jest
al, who was wont to l1neel revering.
In manly chivalry confide,
Am all alone my vessel steering,
And yet am not satisfied
"The gingerbread has lost its gliding
That from afar appeared sublime.
for eternity am building.
Twas not aI.iss TO build for time.
"The pilgrimage was long and painful;
Cherries and cold the heights win;
About me hangs a shadow baneful
OF the eternal feminine
"Alas, have not learned my lesson
feel a frantic, mad despair.
I'd like to put an evening dress on
And many roses in my hair.
any heart desires the old rcnlances,
The fictions dear all facts above,
The flowers, the ices and the dances,
The days of youth, the days OF love.
"That giddy whirl, that senseless splerdor
Was dear, although 1 said it bored
Agnosticisn I'd surrender
Once, once again TO be adored
az wished my brain had three more ounces
For them bartered happiness.
That brain the new regime denounces.
wish IL bad three ounces less
She woke A subtle sense pervaded
Her mind Of being some one great
But very speedily ii faded,
And she regained her normal state.
She said: 'I'd beat them all at college
II could have those ounces back.
Only should not like my knowledge
To make me cleverer than Jack"
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WHAT ARE LEGAL TENDERS.

Much ignorance, amusing and other-
wise. comes out of the discussion OF
the currency question and from sources
the least suspected. The real status,
or of what the present currency or the
United States consists, is unknown to
n large per cent of people, either of
paper of metal currency. All, prob
ably. know that of the metal monies
there is gold, silver, nickle and copper,
but everybody does not know whether
any of these have limitations as legal
tenders. 4 well known lawyer OF
Kansas the other day called an editor
to time for speaking of silver dollars
as a legal tender. The lawyer, OF
course, found out that the editor was
right. The truth is that the money
writer's Oh the newspapers and Tor the
magazines of this country have more
thorough knowledge of the currency
question and Of the finances OF the
country. as Il rule, than is possessed by
its so-called statemen. The average
public man is politician, therefore
a partisan, therefore a statesman who
studies by his party's side OF every
proposition. The newspaper writer
reads all sides and from the news
paper the statesman gathers most OF
his information or current political
topics.
Gold and silver both contained their
expressed face-values within them
selves I'D to the decentralization Of
silver, since which time the relative
value or purchasing power of the gold
metal within the dollar is greater than
that expressed on its face, while the
metal within the silver dollar Is less.
This may seem nonsense, but as mea-
sured by the average standard Of all
other values. it is true. What the
silver man demands is that silver
shall be again given an equal chance
with gold 10 keep its inside or metal
value up to its outside or stamped
value. and that if gold under such
conditions should still retain 4 greater
or disproportionate value to that
stamped on its face, as measured with
silver and other values, that it should
be cut down by just so much in It's
weight
The silver dollar is n legal tender,
but such only in name. The laws
against it combined with the treatment
it receives at the hands of bankers
and the discredit given it by the United
States treasury, practically renders ii
a non-legal tender. To illustrate one
of the ways whereby silver is dis
eliminated against: If a citizen OF
Kansas, or Of any other place, should
step into the sub-treasury of New
York, with a treasury certificate for
payment, he might, and probably
would be handed out silver certificates.
Now he can't take those bills across
the hall and pay customs duty with
them, but he could have done so with
that same certificate which he had
Just caShed at the other counter. This
is one of the many ways in which the
government discreditS silver by strik-
ing at the value Of the certificate issued
in it stead.
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DIVORCE AND ADULTERY.


With the active move in favor and
in demand of an equal code of morality
for men and women, comes an epidemic
of divorce, based, in the great ma
jority of cases, on adultery, and the
marriage relation is being shaken VIC
lently.
AS long as divorces have been known
as means for the dissolution of the
marriage relation adultery has been
the principal pleading for justification.
1t is today the cause of most of the
divorces which are being brought in
such numbers, and also the cause of
so many tragedies. The code of morals
established for the men has always
been more lax than that for the women.
In France today adultery is sufficient
cause for the husband to secure di-
vOrce. But the wife can secure di-
vOrce only when her husband brings
another woman into the home and
lives with her.
The later woman writers are protest
ing against this sex discrimination,
and in many of the states it is as easy
for the wife to secure a divorce as
for the husband.
Resulting from the change in pOpu-
lar sentiment and the laXity of new
legislation, the SacredneSS of marriage
is being impaired. When the Catholic
church established the canonical mar
rage. which form obtains today, the
Whom God has joined together let
not man put asunder." 4 marriage
was indisSoluble; divorce absolutely
prohibited.
This obligation is taken at religious
weddings ut the present time, but II
no longer acts to prohibit the parties
to the spiritual contract from securing
a divorce if they so desire, unless both
man and wife are guilty of adultery.
The best evidence is that the sacred
ness Of marriage, that IS. its religious
compact. cannot be safely abrogated
| 1t is just as certain that it is fail
ing. and protests against It's dissolution
and abandonment viii not avail. 4
purely civil contract is not so strong
and irrefra gable as Il sacred contract
! This is shown in the case of the Shak
erS of New Hampshire. who secure Us
divorces, although the courts hold tina
the refusal of cohabitation fer period:
of three years, 4 tenet Of their faith
is sufficient ground for divorce.
On marriage rests the whole Socia
fabric 1t ought TO be secured ant
strengthened with something stronge
than a material contract based on ma
terial advantage or material safe
guards 1t should be based on spirit
ual contracts. But il is drifting ava,
from the spiritual 10 the civil. and
probably nearing slowly historical
and sociological repetition of the RI
man condition where marriage coul
be dissolved by mutual consent wit
settlement on the children for thei
protection. And if the world is no
To come into this ancient right of d
vOrce. then we will see radical change
in the marriage relations, if not a con
plete substitution of some entirely III
i known condition in the home.
: The marriage by civil contract
not sufficient. Ii is not as strong q
the spiritual contract, and when bot
e spiritual and civil contracts are Il,
4; sufficient TO hold the fidelity of eth,
!. husband or wife, a change must /
pending, At least, if the establishe
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Adams and jackson.

John Quincy Adams was cold, reserved
and purist of the purists. When he and
Andrew Jackson met at levee In Wash
;ngton after their memorable contest for
the presidency, the crowd, seeing the two
men approach, fell back in mute expect
ancy. IL was possible that there might be
q scene But the defeated Jackson, with
fine urbanity and manner, addressed the
president elect in most cordial terms, and
the victorious Adams, failing TO respond
TO the proffered olive branch, gave expires
sion to his preconceptions with formal lei
ness Noah Brooks in Scribners
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The fact that Japan has placed an
Immense order for gunpowder in this
that in the Judgment of her rulers the
closing terms of peace with China
does not necessarily inaugurate reign
of peace in the east an that at all
events the Land of the Rising sun
means to hold herself in readiness 10
respond TO the growlS of the Russian
bear, if necessary with the sullen roar
of artillery.
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RuSSIA,s RAGE.

Russian greed has been batiled by the
military proweSS as Well aS by the
diplomacy OF Japan. and the great
White Bear has emitted growl that
can be heard from the Baltic 10 the
Ural mountains. With no harbOr in
the east except Viadiycstock- which Is
io,Nbound six months in the year. Rus
sia had long fixed its wiStful eyes upon
the genial regions of Manchuria and
Korea. Ia the southwark. The Rus
sian interest was. therefore. very great
that Japan should not possess Port
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Candy Making and Teeth.

You ought to see the teeth Of those
who work il candy factories, says Chi
cago dentist. In the mouths of some OF
Shem, however, you would SEQ no natural
teeth. They are all false. In the case OF
many Others the teeth are ruined. The
fumes in these establishments are damag-
Ing TO the teeth. 1t is known that candy
eating is more or less injurious to the
teeth, but that does not compare with the
fumes OF candy IN the process Of being
made y large part Of my practice comes
from the candy factories, and the work
brought me in this way is OF the most
difficult kind.