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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
amous E Elephant Hunter,

Frederick Coutenay Selous, the famous
South African hunter. who was delegate
70 the convention OF British scientists al
Toronto, has gone TO the Rocky Mountains
TO enjoy the scenery and try his luck al
bringing down big game. For twenty
three years Mr.. Selous was a South Afri-
can hunter. His first object was 10 make
a living by hunting elephants for their
ivory. the proceeds OF each elephant killed
being ESQ. When this business became
slack for want of elephants within reach
he turned his attention 10 the hunting OF
lions, tigers and other wild animals for
their skins. and all the museums of Europe
and America, including the Field Column
bian Museum of Chicago. contain the fruits
of his achievements in that field. Later
on, when the troubles broke out in South
Africa, he was the guide, philosopher and
friend Of the British government
During his brief stay in Chicago Mr.. Sc
lous was interviewed by a Times-Herald
reporter, who writes of him thus:
Mr.. Selous is forty-five years old, five
feet ten inches tall and weighs 10 pounds
He is as straight as plumb line. His Shout
ders and hips are broad and square, and
his waist visibly narrower He looks and
walks like a trained athlete, and as If his
muscles were wire cables and his nerves
watchspring steel There never was a man
whose figure more obviously expressed
strength, activity. agility, daring and en-
durance.
Selous had his first experience In ele-
plant hunting in Matabeleiand through
the favor of King LobenguIa. The latter
at first ridiculed the idea of boy" hunt
ing elephants, and bluntly informed him
that antelopes were nearer his s.ze. Argu-
Lobengula said:
We'll, if you are not afraid of the ele-
plants hurting you, 1 am certainly not
afraid of your hurting them. So you can
go on and hunt as much as you choose
Selous promptly took the King at his
word, and It was not long before the ele-
plants were SO thinned out that it did not
pay 20 hunt them in Matabeleiand
Wherther young Selous was a good hun
ter or not may be inferred from the rec
ord. Between June and December s.
1874, he shot twentyfour elephants nine
rhinoceros, one hippopotamus, seven ze-
bras, one lion and a number of other ami
mails of less size. During the year 1877
he killed twenty elephants, ten rh:noceros,
four hippopotami, 100 buffaloes, forty-e:ght
zebras. thirteen lions and enough of other
monsters TO make 54S in ALL First and last
ne mas Killed over twenty lions, and On one
occasion he killed three of them with four
shots
As 20 the dangers of the hunt. he often
came near playing with his own life for the
life OF the beast. On one occasion he was
following up a herd of elephants in the
Valley OF Dett, when suddenly a great
bull turned and chased him. He saved his
life by scrambhng into forest OF thorn
bushes. which tore his primitive garments
TO shreds and made a pin cushion of his
body.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
Along the Kansas Nile.

A Kansas man who has just returned
| from Europe announces that wheat will
| go 10 $50 bushel.
The Santa Fe should dispense with the
| fast mail 1t endangers regular traffic and
is pounding the track TO death.
The Lawrence Journal Is showing symp-
toms OF beginning a cry for Nothing but
new men" for the Republican state ticket
next year.
The world stands awe-stricken while the
different party papers arise 10 make the
astounding remark that I'VE have nomi-
mated clean and strong ticket"
Tom Morgan calls Mark Hanna's atten-
ton 10 the fact that wheat in England
is worth ten cents bushel more than In
America, and asks Mark where his patriot
ism is.
Once at Ness City Ed. Little said to
woman. after cycling her through two
Sits in his face, MY dear Mrs. Jones how
You do freckle, don't your" Yes she
replied. Yes. 1 frecke-but I don:
squirt"
The Populists have changed wonderfully
in two years. Three years ago al the
Popul:st papers would have been main
tanning that the Santa Fe wrecked both
those trains knowing that Bryan was
aboard. and for the purpose Of killing
him.
a western Kansas man. IL writing de-
scr:ption OF a steam threshing machine en-
CINE. says: See from the nostrils far
aloft II breathes a binding smoke OF sui
phurous smoke, like the spume of dra-
gon.' Spume is entirely new 20 Kansas,
and Is good
Tom Anderson, supsr-heatei under the
collar the other night a; Topeka. snnounc-
ed that he wanted wet town during TIE
festival He told the newspaper reporters
to put it down. Tom Anderson IS pretty
good man. a great deal better than Nc
kinney thinks he :.
IF Bryan had been elected" sad a far
m-r in CowIey county. wheat would D. |
;Ni'e Mat 1t Is now Taen Up sIso.-r /
e Republican: Then Mckinley s -espon- |
s.o.e for this sc-csnt wheat ROW. "Nu." !
81 : the POpulst- Foreign shortage e re |
s. onS!ble." TIE crowd laughed him OF /
me street
Somewhere n Kansas there is ySurE |
Napoleon. In al the larger Kansas TOWNS /
there =, on al average, q parade % some /
kind O. another once a week The parade /
s 2 remnant q the military AID tse con
s;alt display &C slgezde-ing II some young
mind The desire 70 string EN- al ;ogstAe.
ard fight with EN-.
one Kansas farmer Borrowed .. snOths-
100 bushels CT wheat when y was Fifty /
cents a busA>l TIE otAsr day the FRS;
farmer started 20 par = back NO. sad I
TIRE second farmer. '~T5e wheat gave pa l
as worth oaiy hfty cez.s z buShe3: Z 1
= TON worth s. a buszei Return . n 1
but Aax tie number OF b1s1sls say
you" Il Sas cloudy Gay A boz g.
lightning b., him between me eyes Hs
died he s&x TOO soo1 20. th-s wc.-c,
anyway.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
EVADING TAXATION.

Under the above head the editor OF
American Investments writes a sensi-
bic editorial, exposing some of the meth
DDS Of evading taxes. The crime OF Sc
questerinS personal property from tax
alton Is 50 widespread, and the def
cheney in public revenues so alarming.
that the people al large viii be interest
ed in any legitimate means Of bringing
the tax dedger to justice. There IS no
exemption OF any class Of property
from It's just portion OF taxes, and the
owner OF personal property has no right
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

The message assembled in the deHverer' {
own voice up the stairs and into the half
opened door Of the room where sick Norry
lay in her mothers arms, while the father
| stood measuring out some nauseous medi-
cine
Tell Mrs. O'Ne,Il that the Marquis of
Grandby has called 10 inquire for her lit
tie daughter. If possible. he would be
grateful for the privilege OF seeing his little
friend"
Young O'NeiIl gave the soon and glass
into his wife's hand, and went down stairs.
The Marquis greeted him quite cordially.
All. Nr. O'Neili-so sorry-can't be true
temporary child's complaint, OF course-as-
sure you, quite looked forward TO seeing
my delightful little friend Norry-mon-
strous, pom my word, to think OF her as
SICK
Tears were in the poor fathers eyes. and
ne sobbed out something or other in which
My Lord was just audible. Young par
ents with an only child Ill. perhaps dying.
and that the child at the age of three
already regarded as a public parsonage,
Is II to be expected that they should keep
their heads or talk coherently. when even
all the outside world was plunged in brief
because Of their private woe?'
The Marquis slipped his arm into the
stricken fellows, and soothingly murmur-
ed: Come, come, Mr.. O'Neil, courage,
Let's go up and see her. We must have
the best Of advice; little girls like her cant
be snuffcd oat Ike candles"
AT the door the Marquis was the first TO
cross the threshold unbidden. Young
O'Neill slipped into his own room to work
of tit Of increasing emotion. Norry was
gathered against her mothers breast,
white and querulous. She moaned ever
since she had been forced TO swallow her
nasty medicine.
DO you know this friend who has come to
see you, Norry?" asked the mother, with
tragic upward glance of greeting for the
Marquis.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11
to dump the burden onto the shoulders

to dump the burden onto the shoulder
of the owner of real estate through {
false schedule of his holdings.
The editor of Investments says: The
people that have relish for taxation
are few and far between. But taxes we
must have. and if some plan or system
could be devised whereby each and
every citizen could be taxed fairly and
equitably, no reason would exist for
complaining. Without doubt most of
the laws now in force are designed to
secure this desirable end, but they Ia
secure this desirable end, but they
lamentably fail in accomplishment.
Most deliberately do assessors put on
their lists property at anywhere from
one-half TO one-fifth of its actual value,
when the law plainly declares that 1t
shall 90 down at its actual value. There
is no difficulty in reaching real estate
but personal property Is hard to get at.
and most of the attempts to comply
with the law respective thereto turn out
to be rank and farcical In nearly every
state some attempt is made TO reach
mortgages, but they prove abortive in
the majority of cases. Utah has a
mortgage-tax law that seems to be de-
veloping a wonderful amount Of ingen-
uity amongst mortgage owners. One
plan adopted, is to have a friend outside
the state limits who will act as owner
of the mortgages until after the assess
ment has been made, after which secur-
tiles are returned TO the original owner.
Another plan more elaborate involves
the organization of a small company Of
cOngenial spirits outside of the state,
TO which all the mortgages are made
payable, the local representative acting
in the capacity Of a trustee. This
reaches the desired spot because such
securities owned by non-residents are
plan adopted in the eastern states is
for the mortgage to execute to his wife
or some trusted friend an assignment
Of the mortgages but hold it from rec
ord. When this is done an affidavit can
be made by a man having conscience
with a little India rubbsr in it, that he
has nothing in this line reachable The
wife or friend also executes a similar
assignment so that when she is assessed
she likewise evades the tax.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

The Innes & Ross Sale

has proved a success i'm every particular. A
few broken lines left which you will find
center tables in each room at prices that will
sell them very fast. Tonight closes the sale and
we want the last day to be the best, so as an
extra nduCement we will give 10 per cent. off
on the balance of Remnants in Silks, Woods and
Cotton Goods. If you not down town today
come in this evening. 1T WILL PAY YOU.
I23 and I27 N Main St.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Dr.. ohphant OF New York said :; was
yellow fever at the start. But the siIk-ha,
outfit az Washington said /, was not They
SEMI DR.. GuiteTas down and after rub
b.ng his nose a few seconds and looking
wise on; OF the corners OF his eyes lie
consented" il Vas yellow fever
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

1t has been discovered that 1t is perfect.
" harmless to eat the worms in peaches
But still il is hard on the worms.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

The campaign orator is already doubling
Up his fists in Kansas preparatory to dent
ing the atmosphere.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

People are still rushing to Klondike. Is
there scarcity of money? Why, everybody
seems 10 have money to freeze.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Ocean Grove, Mississippi, is as Isolated
as Andree. After all the doctors are the
real bosses in this country.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

4 citizen OF New Jersey after lodging
mosquitoes all his life has just been butted
TO death by goat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

cities
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and
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taiunng / difficulty
about lie incned
trouble atsr ta; from
time )
before coming The effect precisely what bad op
of fal Of
vocal old trouble IL Aks
Of ecine.b but effective"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

The horseless carriage Is talked about
great deal. but the whip manufacturer is
still in business
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Herr Most became an anarchist because.
when boy, a man called Inn az idle feI-
lev. From that uomen; his soul was
soured and he resolved 70 d-iak just as
much beer as he could the res, Q: h.s
life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

! IL mas been discovered that II is perfect
! " harmless to eat the worms in peaches
But still il is hard on the worms.
| By all means Senator Baker should take
| steps 20 Isolate the violent case OF rebellion
on the part of Father Eskridge OF EN-
| por.a.
Mr.. Luetguert might relieve the sus-
| pense of the women who crowd to his
trial by saying what he really did boil in
| that vat.
Mckinley will soon return TO Washing
ton and see if he cannot induce a few
more foreign nations TO have a wheat
shortage.
II IS refreshing 20 know that when Bryan
acted nobly in the railroad wreck former
ly Of Wichita man was on the ground to
tel him 10 do il.
Owing 10 a slight pain in the brain the
Kansas Populist papers have quit pub
fishing long lists of failures under the
heading: The Wave OF Prosperity"
II appears that the miners are getting
along with their strike just as well as
they did when they mussed up the nice.
smooth dust on the highways and Offended
the bench.
LuetgueEt's life hangs on a bone. The
scientists say that boiling caustic potash
viii not dissolve bones. and II II viii not.
LueJguert did not boil his wife in ma,
VA She wasn't boneless
The woman for whom Luetguert com
miiied his crime, If he did commit one.
has gwen Up the love-letiers Ne wrote her
&c be used against him. I, was an awful
blow at love when ink was invented.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

By all means Senator Baker should take
steps 10 Isolate the violent case OF rebellion
on the part of Father Eskridge of EN-
por.a.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Mr.. Luetguert might relieve the sus-
pense of the women who crowd to his
trial by saying what he really did boil in
that vat.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

II IS refreshing 20 know that when Bryan
acted nobly in the railroad wreck a former
ly of Wichita man was on the ground to
tel him 10 do il.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Mckinley will soon return TO Washing
ton and see if he cannot induce few
more foreign nations 10 have a wheat
shortage.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

Owing 10 a slight pain in the brain the
Kansas Popuiist papers have quit pub
fishing long lists of failures under the
heading: The Wave OF Prosperity"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-11

II appears that the miners are getting
along with their strike just as well as
they did when they unused up the nice.
smooth dust on the highways and Offended
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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

ment of machinery is unrivalled. We have ell
the conditions of good times but they linger.
Possibly they ale coming, but they not
here. Many will not be able to wait much
longer for their arrival. Multtudes have al
ready fallen from affiuence to need, and many
other multtudes have sunk from comfort to
penury and want of daily bread
The man who mortgaged his farm five years
ago for a fourth of its value would like to have
it sell for enough, at least, to pay the debt.
The Farm Journal points the way Restore
prices of farm products. Until you do this, do
Farmers know this. Let all others take notice
and act accordingly.
In the meantime, something ought to be
done looking to the immediate reduction of Of
fetal salaries to correspond with the lower
plane of prices. Most public salaries were
fixed when products of all kinds were one or
two hundred per cent. higher than now. They
have been going higher and higher, while
products Of all kinds have been getting lower
and lower until tie situation has passed the
point of endurance without the most energetic
protest on the part of long suffering public.
Farm journal subscriber calls our atten-
ton to the fact that representatives in congress
get $1,000 per year, besides stationery, mile
age and free postage, which, at the present
price of corn i'll Iowa, requires the value OF
40, 900 bushels of that cereal, or an equal
quantity of oats or potatoes.
Our late Minister to London was paid ST.,
500 per year. consuming the value of 10000
bushels of good American corn.
AT 500 bushels to the car it would require ESQ
cars to transport this amount to market
In Great Britain and her donlnions have
over seventy representatives of different grades,
and all over the globe we have these well-fed
stipendaries at salaries ranging from $500 to-
$I75oo per year, which have not been decreas
ed but Increased in recent years.
The appropriations made by the last congress
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

footed more than all the grain raised in the
United States for the year 1895, as per statis-
tics of the United States Department of Agri-
culture for that year.
Appropriations by congress- 81, SOC, 900, 900.
Grain statistics for 1895: Corn, $545 5,ooo,-
900; wheat, says, 900, 900; oats, s164 ooo, 900;
$rye, 900, 900 barley $29, 900, 900; buckwheat
$1,000, 900; tobacco, $4,000, 900; total 81
O3I 200, 900.
This appropriation is for two years And it
would require nearly all the minerals produced
Ill the United States to run the government one
year. Mineral statistics for 1895: Iron $685.
295,o52; silver, $50, 254,296; copper, $36,o54,-
9SS; gold, $40, ,ooo 2oo lead, $40, 1872, ,768; COAL
S2I5,272,o47; building stone, S39,739,52o;
natural gas, SI2, 900, 900; petroleum., 42,547,-
7oI; salt, S,363oSS; total, S57S, 900, $50.
This is for the federal government alone.
Now take the state, the county, the town and
the municipal expenses and you will see the
enormty of this Office holding class who are
ready and willing to eat up all the rest, and
who never think, too, of suggesting reduction
of salaries
Then consider trust and corporation salaries,
which also have inevitably to be paid out of
the earnings of the people.
The man who formed the rubber trust was
paid more for that work than Mckinley will re-
ceive during his four-year term at the White
House, for he confessed to the Lexow committee
that he was paid $500, 900 and certain other
sum not specified but supposed to be $780,
600.
The man who organized the sugar trust was
paid 800, 900 for it. The lawyer who helped
realized $500, 900.
The tobacco trust lawyer received a fee
S5oo,ooo.
The promoter of the great coal combine made
million dollars from the operation; and the
CONCLUDED ON EDITORIAL PAGE.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09

p0O.l4 S3l.O/
In 1873, the farmer sold to the merchant l. 80
bushels OF corn at rs cents bushel, amount
ing to $97. so. After paying his bill, he had
$47.3 remaining, and the merchant made IS
per cent. on the sale OF the goods amounting
to $I2.53. But last fall, the farmer sold 100
bushels of coru at IS cents per bushel, $32. so,
and after paying for the same amount and class
of goods, he only had SLAB left, while the
merchant barely made per cent. on the sale,
or 81 48.
This tells the story with such crystal clear
ness that comment is scarcely necessary. Give
the farmer margin of S47. 36, or half of it.
the merchant twenty-five per cent, or one half
of it, and they will not complain; and all other
classes may remove their habiliments of MOURN
ing Prosperity will return by leaps and
bounds.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, in recent
interview at Washington, gave this vivid bnt
sorry picture of the times:
Since the election in November have been
in all parts of the country, from San Francisco
to Boston; flom Montreal to Atlanta, and it is
the concurrent testimony that times have never
been harder nor money scarcer than now Ev-
cry branch of industry languishes Rents, in
comes, interests and profits have dwndled
Prices of land, farm products and general COM
modities have sunk lower and lower till in
many localities the most valuable improved
farms Ill rich regions are absolutely unstable
Nature has been benehcent, havests abundant
There has been TIE carly and the latter rain.
The Mississippi valley is burdened with cribbed
corn. Crop prospects were never better.
Skilled and crude labor is plenty. The equip
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1897-07-09
FARMERS PROBLEMS.
INTERESTING READING FROM THE FARM
JOURNAL"
Food for Thoughtful People.

There is but one straight course, and that is
to seek the truth and pursue it steadily.
There are few farmers 50 thoughtless that
they do moi know what is needed to bring pros
perty to the country is return to former prices
of agricultural products Low prices have
prostrated business and brought sorrow and dis
tress upon many of people, and better
prices will surely work for better times. Many
think that tariff on protective lines will start
things up; some do not expect any such re-
tried
So much for the farmer; but the banker, the
office holder, the merchant, the capitalist the
manufacturer the clerk and the laborer are not
fully awake to the situation. They do not
look at things as they really are. They do not
know that prosperity must begin with the
farmer that the foundation stone of good times
is higher prices for the products of the farmer,
that nothing will thrive unless agriculture
does. This is the lesson that we have been
trying to teach, and we shall continue on this
line until all shall comprehend its serious i'm
port.
LIT lis present an illustration taken from
Maryland exchange, showing the difference be-
tween now and 1873:
In 1873, one of our ncighboring farmers
bought fily-dollar bill of goods of village
merchant and last fall he went to the same
store, and had the same bill duplicated, with
the following difference in prices: