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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
AMERICAS BARREN WASTES.
Arid LANDS Tha, May Be Made Fertile by
Means of Irritation

Between the Rocky mountains and
the Sierra Nevada range, and extending
ever portions OF Idaho, Utah. Nevada.
California, Arizona and New Mexico,
Is vast extent OF arid land. upon which
little vegetation ever grows. Most Of
this land will be redeemed IN tine
through artificial irrigation. but a.
present progress in that direction is
very slow. Government aid has been
urged IN furtheriug irrigation works.
but il has not been forthcoming. There
Is an abundance o. water IN natural
streams 70 wafer the entire region o.
tween the TWO Rre2- mountain ranges,
IL i could be systematically handled.
Irrigation has made good Roadway il
tIzh under private ownership Of
bitches. reservoirs, etc. but IL Arizona.
New Mexico and Nevada TIE area os
waste land - 50 graf that private en-
Isgl5rise has made .ittie fnroAd upon X
one OF tie unpleasant features Of
trip TO California. b either oSe o. -.
southern rail routes u tL-e sra<<t,. -
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
PECULIAR FISH.
Ths Inh2bitant OF the Deep Is Called .
Winged General.


Winged General.
One of the most extraordinary speci-
mems of the fish family is the nam hal
gnan," or the great general of the South
sea, an animal of the whale species,
which has it's home in the Indian ocean.
A full-grown nam Is upward of 35 feet
in length, pure black in color and has
eyes as large as a saucer. Besides the
above Characteristic features, which
may be said to be whalelike, with the
exception of the eyes, the nam has two
immense tusks, which resemble those
of the elephant, both in size and color,
and two queer winglike membranes ex-
tending along its sides from the side
fins almost to the tail The old mans
have curious habit of marshaling their
kind to do battle with the whales and
the sharks, and old mariners say that
they maneuver with so much intelli-
gence and sagacity that they are known
to all the islanders by names which sig
nifty winged generals. winged warriors
or winged chiefs of the seas. The Ma
tional museum at Berlin has a fine
mounted specimen OF this queer warlike
fish
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
WHAT NOT TO FEED A LION.
Even Ordinary Menagerie Adornments OBJ
iect to Poker Chips. Nails. Shells, Etc.

Even Ordinary Menagerie Adornments OBJ
ject to Poker Chips Nails, shells, Etc.
A young man carrying a ladder
stopped in front of the bronze group,
1.-The Lion Fighter" on the Chestnut
street pavement of the postoft;ce, and
proceeded to climb up to the lions
mouth, says the Philadelphia Record.
A crowd gathered and stood watching
the adventurous youth. Boldly plung
ing his hand into the wide-open nav
of the big beast the youth drew out a
miscellaneous collection of odds and
ends, which some MISUNDERSTANDING
youngsters had fed to the animal from
time to time. These articles, which did
not seem to have undergone the first
process of digestion, included a bottle,
half full of beer, pocketbook contain
ing ''straddle" policy ticket, two rec
poker chips, a silver quarter, placed
there by mistake very probably, some
nails, peanut shells. cigar stumps and
an old copy of the Record. AS the lion
does not take kindly to food of this
sort, Secretary Howell, OF the Fair
mount Park Art association, begs to in
form donors that their contributions
will be returned 10 them, if they will
go to police headquarters and prove
their property
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

the cactus belt" of New Mexico and
Arizona. There are stretches of terri
tory miles in extent where no vegeta-
ton greets the eye of the traveller, then
there will be miles of country covered
with a growth of sage brush, mes
quite and CROSSWORD, interpreted with
innumerable species of prickly cactus
plants. Cactus grows in every con-
ceivable shape and in as many different
sizes upon the meSas of Arizona. One,
known as the giant cactus, grows in
a solid trunk usually, though sometimes
sending out one or two branches, and
reaches height of from 20 TO 80 feet
No better use has ever been found for
the plant than the manufacture OF
paper, and even for that purpose it is
not perfectly adapted. What Is now
known as the great American desert
will become the most productive sec
ton of the country when proper sys
tenn of irrigation has been devised aud
put into practical operation.-Fresno
(Cal) Interior.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
LETTERS A DOLLAR APIECE.
California Miners Lined Up for the Mai
and Places Worth $500,

California Miners Lined Up for the Mail.
and Places Worth $500.
A well-known patent attorney in this
tity, who was in California in the early
mining days, apropos the publication
in the Post of the cost of carrying
| mails on the Yukon, makes some inter
| esting statements about similar serv-
ice on the Pacific coast in 1S49-50.
''We had to pay one dollar for every
letter sent or received" he states, "be-
sides the government postage. We were
| In the mines, and had to send a mes
senger, with an order for the postmas-
ter to deliver to him our mail at Sac
ramento, a distance of from Is to 100
miles, according to the location of the
camps. Parties made business of car
rying the mail and had regular routes
around through the mining camps.
AT that time mail went by way of
the isthmus, there being but one steam
er every three weeks. AS a result, at
San Francisco and at Sacramento, the
two main Offices and supply points for
the state, there would be a large crowd
waiting every time mail arrived. They
finally adopted a rule among them
selves requiring all to form in line
end take their turn, and hundreds
stood or lay in line day and night to
keep their places, sometimes several
days, before they could be served, the
line being formed days before the
steamer arrived. Resident spectators
would take position in the line, and
when they had advanced near the door
would sell their place to others from
the mines who were waiting, frequent
~ getting from 500 to $500.
"Such a thing can hardly be be-
1ieved by those who have never had
any such experience, but in the fall of
1s49 an OK team driver got ten dollars
per day and board. Sundays being
counted the same AS other days, whilc
carpenters got from an ounce (s16) to
an ounce and half per day, everything
else costing in proportion; and hence
the mail carriers for the mines could
better afford to pay for the position in
line than to wait on expense and lose
the time, they sometimes being kept
waiting for a week before they could
get all the mail for the several camps.
"One of the curious sights was the !
sale of the New York papers. AS soon
as the steamer arrived a man or boy |
with lot of papers would rush ashore,
mount box. and just as fast as he
could hand out the papers and make
change dispose of them at dollar
each. Of course, in time all this is |
changed, but communication with the
states was then so slow and the time |
so great that to us, isolated
as we were from home and friends and
the whole outside world, It seemed al
most an eternity."-Washington Post
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
Worms Matched bv Forest r,-u.


There are some bad bugs and wornA
in the southern forests, but there arr
certainly none that are equal in endur-
iance and toughness to the worm that
developed himself from the great forest
fires OF the northwest Scarcely had the
fires cooled sufficiently for the owners
TO make inspection of losses when they
found that this new worm had got there
first, and was already completing the de-
struction of what the flames had spared.
Both standing and cut timber was at
tackled, and the most vigorous measures
have been resorted to and with only par
tial success. This worm seems TO have
evolved from the heat, and, so far, the
cold and SHOWS of the winter do not ap-
pear to have affected his health or
lessened his voracity. He certainly is
4 new and unpleasant feature in the
timber question and nut that scien-
lists have not vet cracked.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
A Good Pointer.

''That pointer Of mine is great dog. -
declared Howard Vernon. as he petted
his 500 dog Glenbeigh- II can always
depend on him. When be makes q
point know that he has scented bird,
and ] know that he will not move a
muscle while l have a chance at that
bird. I was hunting quail up at Poin;
Reyes last month, when / lost Glen
beigh. knew he must be pointing in
the brush somewhere, but / looked
everywhere for him and could not fad
him. The next day I resumed the search
with no better success. but on the third
day ] found him in 4 dense thiclet.
standing perfectly rigid with his tail
sticking straight out behind and one
foot up. a quail had run into a hollow
tree, and the dog stood al the opening
pointing. The quail dared not come
out, and the dog. true 10 his training
wouldn't move. He had been standing
In that position. without 30 much "a
moving foot. for e5 hours and when
1 tried TO lead him away. he could no:
walk. San francisco Post.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
A Landmark Gone.

The granite monument marking the
Mexican boundary line at Tia Juana, il
San Diego county, was upset last Jan
uary by flood, shortly after il wa.
erected by the international BOUNDARY
commission. This elaborate shaft fell
into ouicksand. Strenuous efforts wer,
made 10 recover il. The sand wa,
probed for 4 depth OF 25 feet. but II
trace of the lost monument could h
found. Il has been necessary to buy 4:
new site for another monument. 100
100 feet, and erect second shaft Their
on.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
THREE HOLD THE SECRET.
Manufacture of India Paper Not Likely
to Become Universal


The marvellous Oxford India paper
was first introduced in 1878. Since then
it has revolutionized the Bible and
Prayer-book trade, and it is now used
for all the more popular devotional
books throughout the world. In the
year 1871 an Oxford graduate is said
to have brought home from the far east
a small fold of extremely thin paper,
which was manifestly more Opaque and
tough for its substance than any paper
then manufactured in Europe. He pre-
sented it to the Clarendon press. The
late Thomas Combe, who had only re-
Gently been appointed printer to the
university, found it to be just sufficient
for "a copies of the smallest Bible then
in existenoe-diamond 24-mo-and
printed an edition of that number
which bore the date 1912. These books
were barely a third of the usual thick
ness, and, although as much as 500
apiece was offered for them, no copies
were sold, and they were presented to
the queen. and other distinguished per-
sons.
An effort to trace the paper to its
source were futile, and as years rolled
on the circumstance was forgotten.
But early in 1874 copy fell into the
hands of Arthur Z. Miles, who showed
it to Mr.. Provide, and experiments were
at once set on foot at the Oxford uni
versity paper mills with the object of
producing a similar paper. The first
attempts were failures, but success was
achieved, and August "a, 1875, an edi-
ton of the diamond 24-mo. Bible, SIM
liar in all respects to the "a copies
printed in 1912. were placed on sale. |
This was the first Oxford Bible pub |
lished by Mr.. Provide. The feat of COM |
preston was looked upon as astound |
ing. the demand was enormous. and |
before very long $500 copies had been |
sold. The paper when subjected to Sc
we're rubbing instead of breaking into |
holes assumed texture resembling |
chamois leather, and q strip only three |
inches wide was found able to support |
Is pounds without yielding. The Sc
cret of its manufacture, it may be said,
is known to only three living beings
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

Not few who read what Mr.. Robert
Rowls, Of Hollands, Va, has to say be-
low, will remember their own expert
ence under like circumstances: Last
winter l had la grippe which left me in
a low state Of health. I ttied numer-
Gus remedies, none of which did me any
good, until was induced to try a bot
tie Of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy.
The first bottle of it so far relieved me
that I was enabled to attend to my
work, and the second bottle effected a
cure" For sale at % and so cents per
bottle by druggists
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

May -a~rchz1es a. vel .-sr~ 80
their cuEto-1~-s are shs4T h@st frse1ta
s7f take pleasure - supplying tas-n
Tf-k 20. rest gods orr ataaase As -
instance ~ rnentig1 FeTr,' & Cs-ner1l
ryr-1@ul-s-s trEzxg-sts q FisEehirE - So
!Ean- T-aey say We have 70 hest-
satton lu reeorurae1 tlz~ Caarsbrrsas-.-s
CoGEa EeSTs~iF - or cusro-uers. a. il
- re E,esf eouzh nsesllrs-e ~ Eave sa-~
sd aat slWsyH gives sasssfset5a,s =
For sale a. = aa1 - osas yer bottle
u 9raggs@A
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
r,rp~ orr6om.

Tenderfoot 80 Texas raachman after
engaging his services and viewing .he
landscape o'er")-I accept your terms;
but, really. where am 20 sleep2
Eanehman-Siecp. uRn2 Anywhere.
anywhere, I've $4,000 aer.s lying
round here loose. don't care snap
where you Sleep.@udge.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

Thursday Is the day for drilling With
beach apparatus a pole planted in III,
sand represents RE mast Of the xrec led
ihip. The beach apparatus, beaeh-csr.,
haTsers- guns lines, blocks and buoy
are al run out IN short time and Gil tie
u1aneuvers gone through with. as 4
N actually rescuing a crew: from -,
time the word action" - spoken II
The keeper TIL the supposed rescued
man u brought 20 The supposed bach.
'rly six minutes have passed, l. SEEMS
almost incredible, bat their trimming
1as made al the men models Of prompt
.ess and obedience. Afser this DIN
he crew returns th- beach spparatus
70 the station. Iesvirr everything. IS
-suzl. Ia orsier.-Teres@ 4. BTosFa.. "a -
Sicholza.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
Nncrifice Nhna N.le

We have too many shoes in every
line in stock-must have room for
spring goods soon % arrive. Wearers
Of shoes, Of whatever kind VIII save big
money by taking this splendid stock Of
footwear away. Don't count on pay
ing us a cent Of profit. B~aitsch. the
foot-fittter, lis East Douglas.
51-W d-Thr-Sat-Sun
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
Quaker Tongue is Passing

at is remarkable" said the old lady
who had recently come from the east
TO Chicago to make her home, that l
see no one here who wears the garb OF
Friend. Indeed, l have not discovered
a place in Chicago where a Friends
Injecting is held, and in the midst of all
l cannot but feel that we Quakers are
fast becoming things of the past, The
plain language is seldom heard now,
and the plain clothes are seldom seen.
Occasionally some one tries TO write
story for q periodical in WHICH some
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

For pain in the chest a piece OF
flannel dampened with Chamberlain
Pain Balm and bound on over the seat
OF the pain, and another on the back
between the shoulders. viii afford
prompt relief. This is especially valu-
able in eases where the pain is caused
by cold and there is a tendency TO-
ward pneumonia For sale by drug
gists.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

HE-"A fellow called me a donkey tho
other day" Shc-"Didn't You feel liza
ticking himF'-Detoit Free Press.
A QUESTION in geography-Are the Scot
fish lochs fitted with qUaysi 80 Boston
TRANSCRIPT
II / might control the literature OF the
household, would guarantee the well-being
of the church and state Bacon.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
Advice Tn NInfhers

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used for children
teething- It soothes. the child. sof1ens
the gums, aHays all pain, cunes wind
collie. and is the best remedy for
diarrhoea- Twenty-Five cents a hot
tie. Used by millions of mothers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
The Macbeth NTincraI Wats-,

1t aids and promotes the appetite,
stimulates the secretions; is anti-acid.
an eliminant. diuretic, and a laxative
For sale by Charles Lawrence, 102 i.
Douglas. 54-1s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

Live we'll at small cost. by procur-
Ing your meats. fish, oysters and the
like. at Joe's market, 2l4 North Main.
The best is the cheapest; that's the
kind Joe keeps. 54-ot
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

"hec Bc's'y was sick, we gave her CaStoria.
When -;he was Child, she cried for Cas.oria-
When She became Miss, she chung to Castoris-
When she had Clildze1, she gave them Cas;ori,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
Mncheth MineraIMntnr

Removes malaria. cures billiousness
acid dyspepsia, constipation and diar-
rhoea. For sale by Charles Lawrence
l02 Z. Douglas. h4-1s
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

Pure hogs lard-something Won don,t
often get-we render it from select hos,
fat; our meats are the best 10 be had
too-beef, pork. veal. mutton. Whit
locks market, 21.S East Douglas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18

The price of picture frames at Mar
tins Art store is in close touch with
the times-ha3d pan and cash down.
-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-18
House Cleaning Day

is what we intend to make
of Saturdays. The 1, 2 and
3 pairs Of a kind of odd
pants, remnants from a
weeks selling from larger
lots, will be placed in our
east window and sold today
at prices to move them
quick.
Trousers worth up to $3.50 will be $1.35
Trousers worth up to $3.50 will be S1.S5
Trousers worth up to $500 Will be s.
We can't fit everybody in
these odd pants, but we can
in shirts, and this is our
shirt night" when we sell
Monarch" Numbered shirts
the best in the world, for
S100.
Open till 10 p. m.
SAME PRICE TO ALL.
HERMAN & HESS
4oe E. DOUGLAS AVE.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
Editorial.
FREE SILVER FOR FARMERS.

FREE SILVER FOR FARMERS.
The advocates of free silver claim
that the farmers will be most bene-
fitted by its adoption, and to them
they address their most specious arg
uments, and from their ranks
expect to draw large support Sup
pose laws were enacted restricting
the amount each farmer should
raise, limiting him to planting a GER
tain number of acres proportioned to
his whole farm. This would if en-
forced, curtail the supply of produce
or grain. The demand remaining
the same as now prices would rise,
and if the articles which the farmers
buy were produced in unlimited
amount, he would be the gamer.
He would follow the business rule
to buy in the cheapest and sell in the
dearest market. But the above is
predicated on the law of supply and
0Chbilus n hOISC OO-udJ Will w do
much work, travel as many miles in
as quick time, as a horse equally
good would twenty years ago, yet the
horse to-day will not sell for more
than half the price it would then,
why2 Trolley cars and bicycles
have largely supplanted their use.
The conditions are changed, and
talk as he will the farmer cannot al
ter the facts. Now would it increase
the price of horses or oats to make
money cheaper, or in other words to
have free silver Would the value
of the horse be increased? The farm
er might get more money for him
but would the money buy more in
the market. And if not where is the
benefit.
Figures may be arrayed arguments
summoned and theories advanced to
prove opinions, but we ask all farm
ers to test them by the one simple
question. If the supply remains
greater than the demand, what rea-
son is there for an advance in real
price. 1t may be hard to realize
that under the existing conditions a
farmer must continue to plod and
toll for the meagre prices he receives
but he should not on this account be
deceived or deceive himself with the
idea, that, by simply having the
government place its stamp on a met
al which can be produced in almost
unlimited quantities, he will thereby
have the value of his products en-
HANGED. No law is more fixed and
unalterable in its results than that
prices are determined by supply and
demand, and the man who votes for
or expects this TO be changed by gov
ernment or legislative fiat will be
most woefully deceived. Eve was
not satisfied and so she listened to
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14

The platform adopted by the silverite
wing which controlled the Democratic
national convention contains abundant
material for stirring campaign notices.
Free Silver Initiation, Debt Repudi-
ation," Property Confscation" and
Commercial Stagnation" are brief and
truthful statements of the aims Of the
cheap money Democrats and the certain
results which would follow their success
in November. Shouting these cheerful
strains, the silverites can march to the
certain defeat which awaits all move
ments based on seotionalism, greed, ap-
peals to prejudice and hatred of property
rights.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
what Ie 70 4 Means

1t means that 16 ounces of silver for
debt paying purposes shall be made. by
law, worth as much as 1 ounce of gold.
One ounce Of gold will now coin
&16. go. Sixteen ounces of silver shall
be made to coin 1880.
You can buy in any market today 16
ounces Of silver for 80. %. The profit is
81 per cent, or $S.66.
In other words, If a man borrows Of
you today $3.50 he can pay you, il
free silver at 16 to 1" becomes a law,
with 1924.
Look out that it doesn'tl
Silver is merely a commodity, like
tin, iron or wood.
If the government should say 90. o.
worth of wood shall cost $l8. 90, would
you buy itY Certainly not
The silver dollar today is worth 50
cents. Its present ratio to gold is about
81 to 1. All the governments in the
world cannot change the commercial
value Of silver any more than that Of
coal, iron, tin or oopperl
The more silver produced the cheaper
il will getl
Would England, France or Germany
take in payment Of debt from us for
&1S. so, 90. %, simply because our gov
eminent said that 90. "a worth of silver
Is worth &ls. 80 Of gold?
Certainly notl No more than you
would accept such settlement of per-
sonal debt
A standard of exchange must be Co
extensive with the commercial world
and acceptable TO all concerned.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-08-14
asINE DIEn or BusTEp.

The Democratic club in Dingman
township was obliged to disband.
1t was growing too rapidly. It's
promoters foresaw that at the next
meeting it would embrace all of
Dark Swamp, probably most of Rat
tlesnake, some of Jersey, and the
candidates from Congressman down.
These heterogeneous elements could
not be harmoniously combined, or,
as "Dory'' more euphoniously ex-
pressed a fact, ''the blamed kanga-
roos got to comm so thick he was
afeard they would tear down his
pig pen, or drive away his boarders,
besides demanding to have their