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The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
TAMMANY SNUBBED.

Tammany appropriated $4,000 for
relief of destitution in New York City,
and has been distributing the money
through divers channels TO the poor.
The district leaders of the powerful po-
litical organization obtained the CO.
operation of church pastors, society
chaplains and charitable organizations
so as to insure a careful and beneficial
distribution. Among the church pastors
whose services were solicited and who
was rendered money with which to re-
lieve the distress in his parish, was Rev.
James w. Putnam Of Trinity Baptist
church. Rev. Putnam evidently be-
lieyed that the object of Tammany was
to purchase a charity cloak TO cover It's
multitude of sins and he did not pro-
pose to act as a purchasing agent He
returned the money TO the political or
ganizafion accompanied by a note of
declination, which note was caust1c, to
say the least. He said he would not
dare touch his fingers to the ill-gotten
gains of Tammany; that to do so would
be little less than a crime, and then
closed by quoting the Scripture where
il SAYS so, thou child of the devil" But
Notwithstanding Rev. Putnam's indig-
nation, much of the money donated by
fine world to charity comes Of question
able sources, TO say nothing of the
money paid in for the support Of the
church by the non-church members. In
deed, who will pretend to say that all
the money given for the cause of Christ
by professed Christians is honest
money? Nobody, for it is not all hon
estly earned money, by a long shot.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
Points From Atchi.on

Somewomen who board claim that they
are overworked.
When a man makes cent, his kin hear
that ne makes dollar.
If you want some people 10 give TO a
charity, call out brass band when the ap-
peal is made.
Give the average man position, and he
viii begin 10 cast his eyes around for an
assistant.
II you shake hands with anyone, and his
hands are ciammy. that settles it; he writes
poetry.
l. IS very easy for unmarried women 20
bluff the men. but the married women can't
blum Their husbands.
A woman's idea OF sign OF good
housekeepor: monopolzing half a guests
tine 20 apologize Tor dirt that doesn't ex-
ist
An Atchison girl who calls herself Aileen,
mas a great deal OF trouble with her grand
father. who insists rpon pron0Uncing Il
"AG.ng"
Wien people admit that their memory IS
rot as good as I use1 20 be. they reserve
the private opinion that It IS still better
tasa mes: memories.
People often say man eats too much.
or eats too fast. or idles his time away.
but they seldom say hegives 10 much. or
works too much.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Gus and highly encouraging fashion tells
its readers about ii. That paper prac-
tically says, of such situation, that the
business men of the average Kansas
town have been selling spool-cotton and
sorghum so long that they have no sin
ews with which TO kick; that when
Kansas wasn't bigger than a minute
and Missouri was old enough to grow
whiskers, that John Brown not only
marched away with Missouri's niggers
but that his Kansas spirit done 'em
up in great shape. However, in our
later baby act Mr. White finds that "the
state pays tribute to Missouri on every
pound of freight going in and out Of
the state. Kansas accepts the Missouri
idea of morals and today the Kansas
belief in prohibition is subjugated and
the whisky idea of Missouri is practi-
cally working in Kansas, in spite Of the
law. Kansas takes no statesman un-
less he uses Missouri river wafer for
belly-wash- Two United States sena-
tors live on the Missouri The governor
has moved to a Kaw county. The state
capital is a jag-train suburb Of Kansas
City, Missouri. The state institutions
are nearly all located in the muddy val
ley. Kansas seems to be a conquered
province of the empire Of Joe Bowers"
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
Along the Kansas Nile.

A Fort Scott man was nne1 Si0 for get
ting on a Christmas egg-nogg jamboree.
Up-to-date the Santa Fe's famous Fast
Snail Mail has been on time just twice in
/ all its trips.
It is reported thai storson Ogglesdorf-
son OF Mcpherson county will be candi-
date for Congress in this district.
All reports are in and show that this year
| IN the whole state of Kansas not more
than three Santa Clauses got burned.
c. H. Glazier of Grant county last weeI;
killed the largest wolf ever seen in western
Kansas 1t was a grey wolf and measured
seven feet.
The state of Kansas must cut loose COM
| mercially from Kansas City If she ever
wants TO be anything more than a cornfield
and a pasture.
Kansas has just ore bad habit left-the
state is saying that We must have good
crops next year. Kansas will be all right.
even with failure.
Dan Anthony points out that Joseph.
whose brothers originally dumped him into
a we'll, was the first man 10 corner the
wheat market. He was Of the same race as
Letter Is, too.
Fl Dorado Republican: Deputy TTeasur-
er c. A Gates informs US that larger per
cent Of taxes was paid up 10 December ath
than ever before since he has been IN office
for the corresponding time.
J. Robert NOrveIl iectured 2 Douglass
the other night. The audience was very
small and the lecturer was so indignant
that he wouldn't wait for train. but walk
ed out OF town, headed for Nulvane.
Il Is surprising how many Kansas men
DO not want Prohibition: do not want Re
submission. but want open saloons run w
der a system OF fines. These men are
afraid OF the saloon man in politics.
The new sheriff of Shawnee county re-
fuses 70 say whether he VIII enforce the
law OF not A year ago a declaration from
an officer In Sedgwick county 70 the sane
effect would have caused the Kansas City
and Topeka papers 70 have duck hts.
The usual list OF failures ano,g eastern
Kansas small business men viii soon Be
evident and SIN those eastern k2nSss
to~ns viii not be able 10 see THAI Kansas
Cry as stealing .heir retail trade with the
hep ot railroads which call themselves
Kansas institutions"
The Greeley Republican n propoun6InE
OF the Decs<t OF ApPea-apces. says that
taa; shabby man stumbling along TIE
street there s not hungry or cod II he
would sell out The cattle OF ais ranch 5e
could easily buy whole clothing store aa1
aalf dozen -e<-zursnIs.
The history OF Kansas Il the last seven
yae-x has been SIMPLY ;Aas; The mar ~no
Jailed ard blamed himself for failing re-
uszias,1 Republican; TIE man vao failed
and banned The g1ve-nrnsns became a Pop
ul.st- II tas next ssvsn years talz El1 -
true: The man who blamed hinsest z-u
see rs own errors and -ecuperzte rs fo--
tune: the man wb 10 Sla-aes t5e goysrnrne-t
vii Wal, foc xe government 20 osl5 hin
and remain poor.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
-z<SsSNAlfIxx
3aiIn Eagle
n NJ. MURDOCH, Editor.
PITCHED INTO HADEs.

There is going to be some lively tits
IN congress, within week or two, not
only between Republicans, but between
Republicans and Democrats, when the
civil service reform debate comes up.
1t is held by some that President NC
Kfnley and his cabinet advisors have
determined not 10 permit the pulling
down of the frocha erected by CleVe-
land to secure Democrats in the posi-
tons which he gave them as reward
for party services. This fact intensifles
the feelings of a large Republican min
orfty VINO hold that the Republican
party can neither succeed in giving the
people a satisfactory administration,
nor vet hope for victory in 1900 with
nearly all the federal positions filled by
nolirical enemies This army Of fat
fed Democratic officials will either care
nothing for the result Of The election or
otherwise will be found bushwhacking
for the defeat of the Republican party,
being the while fully ratiOned and I'M
der good pay. 1t is certain, in any
event. that of the hundred thousand
who are safely ensconced behind the
civil service breastwoT-ks not one will
be found shooting off his gun at his
friends who must constitute the attack
ing forces. Grosvenor of Ohio, an orig
inal supporter Of President Mckinley,
will lead the effort TO tear down the
well nigh impenerrable wall which pro-
tects the opponents of the Republican
party in exceptionally advantageous
positions. If the Republican party could
be assured of an indefinite lease of pow
or it's leaders might wait for death and
other contingencies of ensuing years to
afford the opportunities for replacing
these Democratic pets of Cleveland
with men who not only believe in Re
publican principles but who have al
ways fought for the Republican party.
The idea or principle of civil service,
carried out 10 its mugw7Imp uftimales,
would dqhave retained Mr.. Cleveland him
self in the White House the rest of his
lie, ne ana ali HIS IIct-Ils1hc hl~iSrN
depreSSionists in power indefinitely.
The goose ought not to object TO the
sauce the gander is compelled to sub
sist on. This mugwump doctrine is re-
ferred to as the ''merit system" There
may be great merit after having fought
the battle and gained the victory in
leaving in the hands of the defeated en-
envy everything won from them. but
neither a political leader nor a military
general will readily appreciate such a
principle. The devil and his legions
having failed in their revolt in heaven,
were summarily pitched headlonS into
hell.
When the idea prevails in this coun-
try. if it ever should, that this is not a
government of and by political parties,
then a government OF the people, by the
people and for the people will have
ceased to exist. and in its stead will be
one of capitalized plutocracy, its off
Gals being pets and tools of, and des-
ipnabed or chosen by, the money power.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
THE EMPIRE OF JOE BOWERS.

In years gone by the Eagle strenuous
ly and often urged that the maintenance
of the Missouri river as 'baSing line
for the fixing of freight rates meant
the minimization Of the state of Kan
sas. and Of all its interests; that with
out commercial cities of her own the
state could never be great in wealth or
influence, and that commercial cities
within the bounds of the state would be
impossible so long as traffic managers
and freight associations held to and act
ed upon the theory that Kansas City
being located on a navigable stream,
was therefore entitled 10 waterway
rates, on boat-tOnnage; that freight
rates so fixed, and controlled, must in
evitably force the entire population of
the state of Kansas 10 Kansas City as
a terminal market, which in forcing TO
than point yards, shops, elevators, mills,
packing plants and the like. would rob
the cities Of Kansas not only Of any Op-
pOrCunity TO become important, but
make them tributary 10 a Missouri me-
TTOpolis, which, though built up and ag
grandiZed by Kansas, would be beyond
its power to tax, 10 control or to infu-
ence in the slightest degree. For years
determinations and differentials have
been maintained upon this "basing
line and waterway theory, until the
Missouri town has come 10 dominate
she stale Of Kansas commercially and
financially. If not, indeed. politically.
Kansas coal, Kansas corn and Kansas
cattle and hogs are delivered at a lower
freight rate to Kansas City than they
can or Will be delivered To any Kansas
town, whatever its importance. FreightS
in car load lots are delivered 10 and
from Kansas City. for gulf points and
for mountain points, right through Kan
sas towns. over Kansas railroads. for
less money than such freightS can he
dropped off for. at such Kansas towns.
while en- route. nor laws, nor Inter
State Commerce Commissions. nor COM
petition can hinder. Just what the
Eagle predicted would be the result of
the Missouri river basing line policy 10
the STATE and for the Missouri town.
has come 10 pass. And more. So
strongly intrenched in It's advantages
has ths Missouri town. built up by
Kansas. become that il not only dictates
10 railway managements but in Al
tempting 10 rob nearer Kansas towns
Of their local business and retail trade.
Il is. Through political chicanery, forcing
It's newspaper vehicles of intelligence
upon Kansas communities.
In this fight the Eagle stood alone.
The urging Of the self-evident fact that
half dozen cities in Kansas. of from
fifty TO n hundred thousand people each
would be more 10 and for the state.
financially. commercially. politically
and socially, than 4 city Of half a mill
ion beyond The mouth of the Kaw. avail
ed nothing.
However, after a lapse of an uncer
tain number OF very long years. we are
pleased 10 note that the Emporia Ca
zette catches on 10 some Of the less per-
picking propositions involved in the
simple situation and IL very vigor-
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
An Fxplanation.

4 loug-suffeTiIg listener, after hssriu Z
from youth his account OF how he and rs
TWO companions kept FIVE hundred Iniians
al bay for tweaty-four hours. asked: DO
you know WHY the Lord said 70 Alansas.
Stand forth2''' Upon receiving a negative
reply, he continued: Wei. don't either.
unless II was 50 that you and your two
conpaaions could stand frss- second and
.hlrd.r-Ne,g York Evening Post
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30
H.p,.xrd For r,a C.rts.

Two brothers living near EaTodsourg
look 50 much alike that they can; be tod
apart. SAWS he LeN-ns,on. Ky. Arzo1aat
one OF them joined the Baptist church. and
when about 20 be immersed found that ne
had no clothes suitable. and gave rs
brother ten cents . De baptized II Is place.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

More drama: Lincoln OF New York be-
friended Healey out OF work Christmas
Lincoln got drunk and threatened s-s wife;
Healey pleaded for her. Lincoln killed ham.
On his dyi bed Heslsy refused to identify
Lincoln This IS the finest case OF grail
Iude the world has seen for forty years.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Many farmers in Kansas advocate the
total abolition o. cash rents. insisting that
the landlord accept share Of the crops
and trust, together with the farmer. TO
luck With everything pointing to steady
increase in the price OF wheat. the landlord
ought 10 grab al the alternative.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

1t is understood that young Mr.. Letter is
thinking of giving oats boost For some
strange reason oats are always boosted in
this country.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Sousa in his new opera has new march,
''Unchain the Dogs of War" and If the
brass bands over the country repeat IT as
often as they have his other marches il
NIL be in order 10 unchain the dogs. whe;h-
er they are dogs OF war or Just common
bull terriers.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Herman Finkelstein, toy dealer in New
York, has failed. He lasted longer after
Christmas than his wares did.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

The European situation is 100 much
tangled 10 understand The Russian pre-
m.er tells England that if she viii JON
I;uss.a, Russia and England will sail in
and LEX Japan ana the United States. What
have We done to be coupled with Japan in
This uaV9
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Letter not only contracted for wheat, but
good wheat He was not buying wind,
which has no grades.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

BY looking at China the Sultan can get
an idea of what would have happened TO
Turkey had Greece whipped him.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Actor Ratcliffe has been sentenced to six
months in the penitentiary for striking his
wife. This is something Ike.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

The story that an Oklahoma man bought
whisky ot a woman boot-legger ana then
saw snakes-and garter snakes al that
shows that Oklahoma, like Kansas is in
ciincd 10 give an artistic touch to every
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

comfortable in the Klondike. But the
miners up there don't want the world to
know it That would not make them out
heroes
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Walcott might weep few tears. Teller
did it and Colorado sent him back to the
senate.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Marcus Hanna has a complicated tangie
of wires in his hand, but he will pull the
right ones.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

A big bicycle factory has closed down in
the east. This is not the result of the fam
inc in India. but it is direct consequence
of trying to market steel and work worth
about S15 for So.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Americans are great schemers. Mr.. Sing
eriy of Philadelphia notifies business men
who had money in his burst banks that
they can take that money out in adyertis-
ing in his Record.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

Our Christmas presents TO Europe, rep
first IS days in December, aggregated ST.
5S6, ,S56oS i'll 1i0.9,s orders. Europe returns
the compliment, however, very generously.
The Wichita daily eagle., 1897-12-30

All the big warships of the world are
skimming towards the east coast of China
Germany has the feather turned up on lis
back and is doing the quack, quack act.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19

Ambassadors Appointed.

President Mckinley sent to the Senate
Tuesday the nomination of John Hay to be
ambassador to Great Britain, Horace
Porter of New York to fill a similar post
at France, and Harry White of Rhode
Island to be secretary of the embassy in
London. Col. Hay was born in Salem,
Ind, in 1885, graduated from Brown uni
versity, studied law at Springfield, Ill.,,
where he became acquainted with Abraham
Lincoln, who appointed him one of his sec
retaries upon his election as president. He
served several months in the civil war
under Gems. Hunter and Gilmore with the
rank of major, and was brevetted colonel.
He was secretary of the legations at Paris
and Madrid, and charge d'Affairs in Berlin
in the years Immediately after the war, and
was then for several years editorial writer
on the New York Tribune, having charge
of that paper during the absence of White
law Reid. Col. Hay married a daughter
of Amasa Stone the Cleveland millionaire,
who left a fortune to his son-in-aw Col.
Hay was assistant secretary of state during
of Col. Hays time in recent years has been
devoted to literary work, and in collabor-
alton with John &. Nicolay, he wrote a
notable life of Abraham Lincoln. Nicolay
and Hay had worked together as Lincoln's
secretaries, and We're intimately acquainted
with all the stirring events of the latter's
administration. Col. Hay has fine home
in Cleveland, and another in Washington.
Horace Porter was born in Huntington,
Pa, in 1897, his father being d. II. Porter,
who served two terms as governor of the
Keystone state. After short course at
Harvard young Porter entered the United
States military academy at West Point,
from which he graduated in 1sGO He
served on the STATS of Sherman and Grant
and was promoted successfully from second
lieutenant to brigader general He is con
nected with the Pullman Palace car com
pany, and several railroad and navigation
concerns and for years has been prom-
nent figure in the political and social life
Of New York city. He raised 100000 for
the Grant monument in 80 days.
Mr.. White is credited with a residence
at Newport, K. l., but he was formerly of
Baltimore. He served as secretary of the
legation in London under Ambassadors
Lowell and Lincoln and was appointed by
President Mckinley at the personal request
of Col. Hay.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19
The Weather

Is decidedly rheumatic and you will make nc
mistake in trying smiths RhenmatIc Cure
if you are one of that great army of sufferers.
II is an internal remedy which acts upon the
liver and kidneys, enabling them to throw off
the uric acid in the system, is harmless and
pleasant to take, and it is guaranteed to give
satisfaction in all cases of rheumatism if taken
as directed.
MIR. C. n. Hackley, with Morse & Simpson.
Brooks House Shoe Store. Brattlehoro VI
says:-"For three or four years | suffered very
severely with rheumatism in both arms some
times not being able to raise them above nv
shoulders About one year ago used two bot
ties OF smith s Rheumatic Cure, and have been
entirely free from the disease since"
Mr. a. d. Hulett, Of Pawet, Vt, says:-''I
was taken with rheumatism and laid helpless
thaee weeks, when was carried to the "Nlary
Fletcher hospital at Burlington, Vt a neigh
bor and friend, Mr., Joseph Seymour, going
with me. | went through a course of treat.
ment there, consisting of hot baths aud medi
cnes, but got no relief 4 friend urged me to
try Smith S Rheumatic Cure, which | did and
it may seem an incredible story, but is true
nevertheless that in less than two weeks the
swelling and pain had gone aud l was driving
the stage to Dorset. l gained 10 pounds in
weight during that time and am now able to do
q good days work "
Mr.. Joseph Seymour says:-"NIr. Hulett and
myself were working together when he was
taken sick with rh sumatism last June and [
took care of him three weeks II was the worst
case of rheumatism | ever saw and seemed to
affect every Joint. | went with him to the hos
pital, as he was absolutely helpless and he re-
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him. Two sizes, 80 cents ani 81 GEORGE C..
SMITH, Druggist, South Londonderry, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-03-19
A Lively Time at the New York Custom
House.

Importers are falling over each other in
their rush to withdraw goods from the
bonded warehouses in anticipation of the
passage of the new tariff bill There is
also a large increase in new importations.
The total payment of duties was the heav-
lest on record in any one day at New York
last Monday, aggregating S2,6G7,919 Of
which S2,17s,j15 was on the withdrawal
of goods. The previous largest record was
made Aug. !, 1872, when the total amount
of duties paid amounted to S2,30S 600 of
which 81 10000 came from A. T. Stewart
alone. The largest single payment Mon
day was SlSS, 600. There were more than
of new imports The staff of the New
York custom house is working TO its fullest
capacity. Applications have been made
for the withdrawal of the entire amount of
tobacco in bond, 10000 bales. of which
only 2500 can be weighed in a day. The
sugar trust has taken its stock of sugar out
of bond and there have been big with
drawals of linens. Every change in the
tariff has produced similar rush, but the
one now is of larger proportions than ever
before. The anxiety of the importers is
said to be largely due to a Washington de-
spatch printed last week in one of the New
York papers to the effect that it was the
purpose of the ways and means committee
to provide in the tariff bill that the in
creased duties should become operative
in some mysterious way before the enact
ment of the bill, and that importations of
wool made in anticipation of a restoration
of the duties on that commodity, and of
largely increased duties on woollen manu-
features, would be met with a provision
that would ''crcumyent the importers in
their attempts to defraud the treasury"
This statement brought thousands of in
quiries to officials in Washington and the
rush began at once to get goods into this
country. 1t is singular that such an ab-
surd statement as the Washington despatch
should create such a furore, as it is not
within the power of Congress to make a
law retroactive.