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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
POINTER FOR THE HOLIDAYS.

The assumption that every man wants
to be happy in holiday times is probably
safe one. He ought to be at least. He
ought, also. to make his family as hap
py as it is in his power to do so.
Without any preconcerted scheme to
increase the newsdealers' sales by ad
vertising, let it be said that the man
who does not at Christmastide Introduce
into his home the beautiful periodicals
of the day loses very great lever in
loosening the lugubriOus cares which
weigh upon him the whole year but
which ought to be displaced for the one
short week Of jelliication.
The New York humorous papers al
ways publish their elaborate Christmas
numbers; so do the dramatic papers and
the magazines. The humorous papers
are all handsomely and brilliantly col
ored. With these about a house Christ
mas Day brilliancv is lent to the scene
and many a good hard laugh is induced
that might never otherwise have been
brought forth. 1t encourages the chill
dren to see the pretty things and the
fun Of life. even if the joke is obscure,
and their laugh is infecti0us-caught
from their elders.
The magazines all have Christmas
stories teaching some noble lesson or
portraying some noble deed. When
these are read about the home at
Christmastide they may endow the little
presents with great value, stimulate the
emotions to more fervent recognition
Of the day and tighten the cares of the
old and multiply those Of the young.
There are Christmas presents galore
to be bought in the next thirty days
dolls, Jewels and little red wagons, and
candies Of all degrees Of stomach-de-
stroying power, but in the purchase Of
these the wise man will not forget the
beautiful things in print and pictures,
which can be had so cheaply and can
triug so much happiness.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
ALWAYS IN THE ROAD

The difficulty England finds in effect
ing European concert Of action with
respect to Armenia grows out Of the
Berlin treaty and the circumstances at
tending its negotiation. 1t will be re-
membered that Russia had made q
treaty with Turkey known as the San
Stefano treaty. England objected, and
the result was the Berlin conference.
The treaty of San Stefano was set aside
and the Berlin treaty took its place. The
latter treaty has proved a failure. 1t
gave Cyprus to England. This was a
grave and serious mistake; for the ac-
QUESTION of that island has been Of no
advantage in any sense to England.
while 1t gave to England's Intervention
with respect to the treaty Of San Stef-
ano an appearance Of selfshness. The
security Of the Christian population Of
Turkey was diminished; but the terri
torial possessions of England were in
creased.
The treaty of Berlin has been charac-
terized by English writers as a crime,
and the acquisition of Cyprus as a three
card trick The treaty was negotiated
by Lord Beaconsfield and Lord Sails
bury. When, on their return TO London,
they announced that they had secured
peace with honor they We're received
with loud acclaim; but they left behind
them a feeling Of bitter distrust and
hostility. Russia's treaty. now conced-
ed to be fair adjustment as between
Russia and Turkey and a bulwark TO
Christians in the Turkish dominions
was torn up. England had obtained a
paper promise from Turkey that Chris
tians should be protected, and she had
obtained the cession OF an ancient
island for herself. The Christians have
not been protected, and the island has
proved worthless: but England has
reaped harvest Of hatred, and stands
isolated among the states OF Europe.
How TO readjust her relations with
tIO>t Stdtccs uOW W tlC <AG
menians. are questions that are being
earnestly discussed by her writers and
thinkers. One suggestion is that a Eu-
ropean congress be called TO consider
the whole eastern question. and TO de-
termine the future OF the Ottoman en-
pire. But a congress. however judicious
and however important in many re-
spects. encounters the serious objection
that it would involye the considera ton
of England's occupancy Of Egypt This
occupancy In the eyes Of Europe is a
graver ofense than her acquisition OF
Cyprus. On taking possession of Egypt
England proclaimed that her stay there
would be only temporary She now
practically ayows that she means 10 re
main permanently. She could not, there
fore risk congress. with Egypt as one
of the subjects TO he dealt with BIZ its
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

What is it in Populism that blightsi
Pops like Willis who started the move
ment have been ostracised and a
scheme is now on foot 10 force Lewell-
Ing and his crowd out of the party.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
OKLAHOMA oUTLISss.

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aerssco6 ~ ne Essossers. = % - s7ver-o-
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My, BIZ ;he papers q sAe Usztss States
srs xsys,g tAe Five ClTHsze- Tribes scs
tsssr de-a2n6s.
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The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

DR.. Lyman Abbott Of Brooklyn an
nounces that he must repudiste the Dec
laration Of Independence wherein ii
says that governments derive '-their just
powers from the consent OF the govern
ed" We hate TO see this. Won't Rev.
Abbott arbitrale.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

If Judge Dennison succeeds PETER,
that leather seat in the senate which be-
longs TO Kansas and which the forms of
ingalls, and PETER have so long punctur-
I'd will really get to feel the weight of a
man who hasn't dyspepsia.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Yesterday was one of those days when
the good Kansas dame received the
romplimets OF her liese lord on her
minoe pie, and remembering thar he
was Prohibitionist looked him frankly
In the eye and didn't tell him there was
brandy in it.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

1t is approaching the anspicous mo
ment when Nj Leedy can lay claim 10
great horsesense by taking a club and
betting the Metropolitan police habit
right ON the neck-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

December the Cleveland admins
tration will make final effort before
the supreme court to enforce the anti
trust law. Strangely enough. the mat
ter before the supreme court is one of
Kansas freight rate cases against rail-
road pools
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Four years hence it win be well to re-
member when the cry is again raised
that Michigan is close. that the same
cry month ago brought a plurality Of
5GIo7c for Mckinley.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

A Chicago scientist declares the earth
to be hollow and that we are living on
the under side of the surface Great
heavens, Then our gas hole was going
oTII, not in
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

CfippicS du liidt " uOuO1dUic III thC VIII
er of them. 1t is the practice Of eontin
Cal deception and weakens the charac
ter and dwarfs the mind and renders il
incapable Of sustained effort
Had Mr.. Howe of Atchison been 9
faker, all the world would have had Of
'The Story OF Country Town" would
have been its most tragical chapter as 8
sdispatch" in some eastern daily.
Kansas should take some steps tf
turn her versatile fakers into novelists
and essayists. All that New England Is
in regard Of the nation today she owes
to her book writer's. But had Haw
tliorne lived in Kansas he would have
twisted the red A on Hester's breast
into some sort of local incident and sent
it out as a dispatch"
II the takers will persist and there is
no way to stop them in their nefarious
work, Kansas should give TO the world
some able writer who will tell truthful
ly to the world in books what Kansas is
and what the real romances Of her peo-
pie are. Mr.. Howe began this, but has
stopped.
Kansas needs Jokai. Last week the
Austrian government blew out a better
channel in the great Iron Gates OF the
Danube. A wonderful romance by
Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian, has been
written with this great natural gateway
as background.
We Kansans are certainly restless
We are given to exaggerating ouI
wrongs and are not sufficiently proud OF
our great advantages. The individual
Kansan is liable to mourn his own eco
nomical condition at the sacrifice Of at
tention to the pretty touches Of life that
creep into every existence, no matter
where it may be on the globe.
Jokaiis romance is called 'Tfmars
Two Worlds" and its scene is in the vi
cinity Of these Iron Gates. the narrow
gorge which the Danube cuts through
the Transylvania Alps on its way to the
Black Sea. The lower Danubian coun-
try is something we, away out on these
broad prairies, rarely hear about. In
Jokai's romance it comes out plainly
that the people Of that portion Of Hun
gary have something of our tempera-
ment. Their great deals in wheat and
-four and their traffic is not unlike ours.
Some Kansan should be able to win
now a successful romance from our
prairie life. Jokai does it from the Hun
garian valleys. He tells of the strug-
giles and fortunes of the people of Hun
gary, who have always been as restless
politically and mentally as the people of
the Sunfiower state.
Some one may say that the Danube is
a great navigable stream, and we have
rone such in Kansas. But our rivers
are certainly wonderful affairs. The
great Arkansas, which plows through
the most wonderful gorge in the world
at its source and comes down in its
sandy bed over Kansas, appearing ana
disappearing, reappearing and winding
in and out into Oklahoma and the wood
ed and semi-mountainous regions Of Ar
kansas, ought to have more romances
hung upon it. 1t has none.
Kansas is a great field for romance.
But that branch Of literature has been
sadly neglected by those who have the
talent-these self-same takers.
The state should rustic around and
find q writer who loves the state, who
can spin a yarn around its natural beau
ties and advantages and make the world
nay a dollar q volume for boom litera-
ture.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Fred Grant says Mckinley himself
does ont know who will be in his cab
met Mckinley is tied down with 10
promises or obligations, and he is in the
enjoyable position where he can permit
bis right Of choice 10 frolic.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Maceo is a patriot Gomez is q mer-
cenary, getting $4,000 for his first
years fighting. He demanded $4,000
for his second year; was refused and
quit 1t is sweet TO die for ones coun-
try at S1OO, 900 per annum.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

After reading the same old puns in
the American newspapers on turkey.
the country and the bird, the Sultan
win probably stroll out angrily and put
a few more thousand Armenians to the
Sword
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

After all, Bryan's ambition has been
satisfied Since he was years Of age,
he lived his biography. 1t was written
and published in the last campaign and
that was all Bryan asked.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The National Grange demands of Nc
Kinley that he appoint practical farm
er secretary of agricHltnr. and suggests
S W. AHerton. the wealthy Chicago
hacker,
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Major Mckinley: send you by ex-
press today rattlesnake. By the way,
I'm a candidate for governor. Yours,
truly, Tom Bones. Twotown. Okla
h.ary,a -
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

During the cars visit it develops
that Emperor William was in Paris dis
guised as a common citizen. This Is
conclusive proof that by a tremendous
exercise of his will, William can cast OF
his strut.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

LeweIlng must win now over the
Breidenthal gang or hereafter he viii
not be permitted the natural right Of
plain, unornamental breathing.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The Kansas legislature this winter
shonld pass a law makiSg the penalty
for newspaper men palming off their
own fancies as act1,al events death By
boiling in thick oil
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

In his final report Secretary Morton
arose to his full height and aiming at
congress teeth declared that the free
distribution Of seeds Is a fraud.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Chairman Jones now asczibes Bryan's
defeat 10 the tmidity Of the business
men. What has become of the fierce
commercial ogre who coerced his en-
nIoveSS
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The authorities who refused to arrest
the Oklahoma hotel keeper who killed
a guest who complained that the rabbit
stew had hare in it did perfectly right
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Keep still, Kansas There is famine
and drouth in all the southern states
and part of our reputation is about to
slip from of our shoulders.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Bryan says his canvass seems to him
more like dream than anything else.
But the people were awake to their in
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Altgeld is going on a tour of Europe.
1t might be good thing TO have an in
ternational agreement to keep him there
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Tom Watson observed one thing-h
wasn't necessary to send a committee
around to Arthur Sewan to inform him
that he was q dead duck.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The United States is certainly respon-
bible for the Cuban war. We are Q
standing advertisement of freedom.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

One year ago many men called on Ma
for Mckinley on political business. But
now, strange to say, none but "a social
nall' is ever made.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The Kansas woman who sent Mckin-
rev a Thanksgiving turkey had proba-
bly, read that Mckinley was very poor
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Kansas is furnishing Jose Maceo with
mules. In more classical language, "Oh,
Joel Here's your muller
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27
9aily = Ea9le
NJ NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.

What's the matter with Kansas? Well
from the display of funereal woe, she's
all rite.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

The Macon Telegraph OemocraO does
not believe that 'the Georgia legislature
can do anything so certain TO strengthen
the Democratic party as to so change the
and the participation in them Of only those
persons able to read their ballots, and for
this reason able to vote intellisently and
Independently"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

''The instant duty" the Portland Oregon
ian (Republican) says. 'is to remove the
excess of government credit currency by
redemption of the legal tenders rejected
from the channels of trade and piled up In
the banks and the treasury. If We do not
at once and entirely get rid of the legal
tender notes, it is necessary to provide that
they shall gradually and naturally be re-
duced to the volume that will be kept con-
stantly in circulation. and the government
be relieved from the necessity of constant
ly replenishins a reserve against them"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-27

Senator Butler has broken with Senator
Pr:tchard. He tells his colleague in an open
letter that he win not aid in the election 10
the United States senate of any one who
favors the gold standard. Two years ago.
Butler says, Pr;tchard was a silverite. but
he has since admitted that he has radically
charged his views.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23
LOGGING RAILROAD RAVkGES.
How the Forests OF the Lumber States
Are Being Rapidly Denuded.

Are Being Rapidly Denuded.
The rapidity with which the forests
of the remaining lumber states are be-
ing denuded of their trees is something
which calls for not only earnest protest
but prompt state or national interfer-
ence. The introduction of the logging
railway has done much to accelerate the
slaughtering.
Under the old method of numbering
the destruction of the forests was sure
enough, but it was slow in comparison
with the work as now carried on in the
regions where the logging roads are in
operation. One of the roads now tap
ping the great lumber region at the
headWaters of the Mississippi river will
illustrate the case. The pine trees are
cut down in the same manner as under
the old method of work. They are
loaded upon low sleds called "gO-devils"
and drawn to the side of the railroad
track. where they are piled up awaiting
the loading.
Formerly the logs were hauled to a
certain point and there loaded upon
great slcds which carried the logs to the
bank of some adjacent stream. The
logs were unloaded upon the streams
icy surface and allowed 10 remain there
until the ice broke up il the spring,
when the logs would be tioated down 10
the mills. The logging railroad does
away with all this. 1t runs directly in
TO the timber country, and then
stretches out spurs in every direction,
four, five or even ten miles in length,
each spur tapping separate region.
Thus it makes no difference whether the
timber is located alongside n stream or
not. The logs are loaded upon the cars
on one of these spurs and drawn by
stout engines down to the main track
from which the spurs diverge. Here
long logging trains are sent out to some
point down the Mississippi, perhaps IS
miles from the spurs.
The trains are unloaded directly upon
the Mississippi, and the shipment down
stream from this point in the spring
is rendered very easy. The cars are
wide, short affairs built expressly for
Y
with air brakes, for sometimes the
grades are heavy. and if one of these
trains Of 80 or sometimes 35 loaded cars
got away from the engineer. serious re-
suits would be bound to follow. The
engines are small but powerful. some of
the mountain-climbers. as they arc
called, in Use in mining work in the
mountains being used.
The estimate made that in ten years
there will not be left piece of available
timber in the state of Minnesota if the
! Indian reservations. containing vast
| quantities of timber. are opened up 10
! the aX, seems to be rendered all the
more probable in view of the enormous
energies of the logging railroads.-Ilar
per's Weekly.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23
DOGS AND TRAMPS.
One OF the Latter Skaters q Favorits
Belief.

Bellef.
"Am afraid of dogs?" repeated the
tramp, as he leaned against the wall to
rub his itching shoulder. well, that's
a queer question to ask feller who's
been on the tramp fur Is years. What's
dogs got to do with it?"
1T is said that dogs have an in
stinctive aversion to tramps," replied
the interviewer.
"Mebbe they hev, but the tramp hain't
worryin' about that as 1 knows of. If
dogs was all we had to look out fur we'd
be happy lot Who's bin stuffin' you
about dOgs2"
weren't you ever bitten by dog?"
''Of course, but that was when was
green at the biz After the first six
months no dog ever hankered arter my
legs. When you read about a farmers
dog humpin' a tramp over the fence,
don't you take no stock in it. Its all
CUFF"
well, how do you protect yourself?"
In the first place, dogs are afraid of
tramps. Nine out of ten of 'em will
growl few times and then sneak away.
They seem to jest fgger that a tramp
wouldn't be sloshin' around like he is if
he wasn't loaded fur dogs. The books
all tell ye to look dog in the eye, but
no tramp is fool 'nuf fur that. If We do
he'll figger that We are defying him and
bite We fur sure. jest look at his paws
instead. Thatll bother and annoy him
and make him turn tail. If dog rushes
out on me of sudden l stand still.
When he sees l don't run he argues that
I'm dangerous. I've had so farmers
sic big dog on me, but simply back
slowly away and never get bite. I've
run onto dogs in yards, barns and sheds
and skcert 'em half TO death by making
'buz-z-z-z-z-z' with my teeth shut"
'But you do fad a dangerous dog
once in awhile?" persisted the ques-
toner.
''Oh, of course" replied the tramp, as
he scratched his shoulder. "Yes, we
find dog now and then who lacks good
sense and we bev to help him out"
''IIow do you do it?"
with handful of dry sand or fine
ut tobacco. As he jumps we throw the
stuff into his eyes, and ii the owner of
the dog hain't clus behind him a feller
kin hey ten minutes of solid fun watch
in the circus. That dog may live fur
ten years arter thatdate, but he'll never
meddle with another tramp. Dogs
humph. Say, gimme q quarter and
bring on yer bulldog ard tell him to
climb fur me."-Detroit Free Press.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23

Take two cakes of good dry yeast and
dissolve them in tcacUp of tepid water.
Scald three tablespoonfuls of flour, add
one-half cup of sugar, two-thirds cup
OF salt. Eoil l. large potatoes in two
quarts of water, adding enough to have
that amount. When done mash them
fine, and add to them two more quarts
of warm water, the scalded flour, sugar
und salt. When the mixture Is barely
v arm add the dissolved yeast. Stand it
jn a warm place for u hours, then bot
tie. This should make quantity SUI
ticient 20 ill five quart fruit Jars, anil
should be at once placed in a cool, dark
place. To make your bread, take one
;aI of yeast in the morning, work il
moderately stiff with some -four, ard
Set to rise in a warm sheltered place,
1t will usually be ready to bake by noon
and will make three good loaves.-N.Y Y
Tribune
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23
A Wonderful Lunatic.

DIR. l.. c. Bruce gives an account OF
n lunatic in the Derby Borough asylum
who exhibits the phenomenon of pass
ing from one mental state to another.
I'v birth he is Welsh, and when in his
Welsh state" his condition is that of
dementia. He can then understand
Welsh. but not English. In his Eng
lish state" his condition is that of
chronic mania, and he speaks and un-
derstands both English and Welsh. But
he cannot remember anything that oc-
ours to him when in the Welsh state,
although his memory leaps over the in
terval and recalls events belonging to
preceding English states. Conversely
when in the Welsh state he is totally ig
norant of things that he knows and un-
dcrstands perfectly in the English
state. Sometimes he passes from one
state to the other suddenly; at other
times he goes through an intermediate
state, during which there appears to be
a mixture OF two conditions in his
brain.-Brain.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat., 1896-05-23
HUMOROUS.

None Too Cordial.-The Hostess
II suppose there is no use of asking you
TO stay to dinner?" The Caller-"Not
in that way."-Cieveland Plain Dealer;
And you actually aver that you
learned TO ride a wheel without once
swearing? You?" "Yes. ! felt too
near an awful death to dare to be pro-
fane."-Indianapoli Journal.
why, Tommy, you are not at the
jam again and only whipped for it an
hour ago?" "Yes, mamma; I heard
you tell auntie you thought you'd
whipped me too hard, and thought I'd
make 1t even."-Pearson's Weekly.
Mrs. Gadd-"How is your girl, Mrs.
Gabb?" Mrs. Gabb-"Well, she's abom-
inably dirty. She spoils everything she
cooks, and she's lazy and impudent,
but she has one good quality rarely
met with" Indeed, what is that?"
"She stays."-Harlem Life.
II wonder how he can hug such a
fright" exclaimed the Infant Prodigy.
looking significantly in the direction
of the Armless Wonder and the Cir
cassian Princess. That, I apprehend,"
rejoined the Candy Butcher, ''is a
professional secret"-Detroit Tribune.
-"Whur is this address," asked the
man with the sunburned hair, showing
a newspaper clipping to the depot Off
Ger. THAT is a vacant lot" said the
officer. 81 allowed it wuz. You see,
saw a advertisement that said ! could
get a pocket fire escape for 80 cents by
writin' to this feller at this number,
and as I thought it might be handy
when I come to town, sent for ypne,
an what do you s'pose got?" 'Give
it up" Got Testament" t."-Cincinnati
ENQUIRER.