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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
PoPULIsT BooDLERs' HABITS.

Ex-Governor Lewelling of this city,
who has been twice accused Of bribery
by witnesses under oath at Topeka,
SAYS there is a conspiracy to force him
off the railroad commission.
However this may be, one thing is
sure; There are some men in the Popu-
list party who are honest before they
are politicians, and it is on their &C
count that the present investigation is
being held Still, the public is liable to
fall into many erroneous ideas. The
first mistake easily made is the pre-
sumption that boodling on the part of
legislator is a light matter, a matter Of
small trouble, an art quickly and grace
fully acquired. As a rugged fact, hood
ling is difficult job. The man who
offers Doodle runs the danger Of strik-
Ing an honest official and Of being ar
rested He must count on shocking, TO
come degree, the sense of honor linger-
Ing in the mind of a corrupt official. He
must so frame his proposals that, being
charged with illegal offers, he can re
treat at once. And finally, he must
manipulate a conversation so that the
man who is to be bought runs up the
first flag Of distress and surrender.
Buyers of legislative votes always wait
until the member to be corrupted sig
nails that he can be corrupted. SO. in
following the Topeka investigation, no
one should be miSled by the thought
that good, true Populists in the legisla-
ture We're corrupted in spite of them
selves. Those who were purchased ran
for the legislature, secured an election
and went TO Topeka with no other
thought than personal gain in mind
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

re vote al TIRE rer7rf eis -t.ors 1zcl1ses
that -ths women o. Ealsas 1sFen much
Use for a oachelsr Wse-etsr married
nan auf a bachelor Uers zesk -1z fse sar1r
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married mar. zs5 - 80 fe~s,s -sT ~.
dolag MS dury q aOcis-y, go Ifsaty a1a %
Their se1. - Ateals9n F54z1elor Dogsz-.
sas elected mayo- 0ssF zssrg.@1 mar. re-
csi.irz - more S-une votes ta11 rs 90
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
Along the Kansas Nile.


In Sumner county cyclone cellars are
called ''fraid holes
Probably some one has told that airship
| manager to get off the earth.
Twenty-Five cars of stock were shipped
out of Belle PLANE in the month Of March
Out in Kingrlan they accuse Fairchiids
| OF going clear up TO Topeka TO get inter-
viewed.
The FL Dorado News succeeds the e.
Dorado Democrat and becomes Republican
in politics.
The station agent at Oxford was held up
the other night and his Office ransacked.
The robbers got $50.
The PopuIst of Kansas will make their
fall campaign on their adjustment OF the
silk station az Peabody.
A man at Belle PLANE is known among
the farmers as l. l.. L. ID. He IS Liquid
Lightning Lice Destroyer.
In Kansas the people used 70 be forever
assuring each other that this year the
grasshopper eggs would not hatch out.
Fred Funston in writing to Lawrence
friend says that a hattie is hell with its
halter loose and its tail over the dash
board.
A man who has known 10 Br.stow fo-
ten years called on him the other day and
instead Of calling him 'Jo'' called him Mr..
Bristow."
A robber who was captured ct Newton
said to the reporter: Don't say I was
caught. That's so common Say I was ap-
pretended
A PopuIsst yesterday said that Is air
ships were really flying The government
would soon make big land grants OF ar u
the corporations.
In the last campaign az Winfield il vas
charged against Mr.. Kennedy who was
running for mayor that he was profance
and smoked cigarettes.
Briedenthal IL bent OF his determination
10 resign the Craftsmanship Of the PopuiisI
central COMMITTEES OF the state. Doian OF
Sallna is an aspiran; to succeed him
An Augusta boy viii be graduates from
The Hfgh School this year who has ATTENDED
school for eleven straight years and has
never been tardy or absent single day
c. D. Faulkner % the s5s5isrs' Home a.
Atchison. Vno managed % stay al through
dwellings aduiH isrration. has been forc-
q on; by Lee5y. de has an ofer e Mia-
neSoia-
The Ness City News calls attention 10 the
authorities that several buildings there are
in a dangerous condition On one build
ing the N roof mas Eoiie1 loDse ssd hss
been Tapping 81 the EIa6 So weeks
on Kansas train a certain r1sz vas r.
custody 81 an officer When ize conductor
came sr51-d The o;ficsr VAS ab=snt. Tae
fenoH I'D not have any fare aaE ne coz
ssactor Pat h.n1 OF am IN train szles
away
Fasrchld o. Efnznsn wants the lnvssfi-
eaiI-,r committee 20 adjourn re says Pc
Fle Rlu Re brought there a. ;heir oEn sz-
pense Ei;h Ire un6eTstszfinS tsat re mex
isglslz.lsre VIZ re-tzsSEESe t5en ..t t-si
they wsR b fsolec.
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sshzrreE y hsrseiL Tse HeTs.S ssgz.
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
Daily Ea9le
nj. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
SUGAR BETS IN KANSAS.

Outside of the Barber county expert
ment we do not know that any system
attic attempt has ever been made to
grow sugar beets in Kansas. If the
moisture is sufficient, we know OF no
other reason why they might not prove
q profitable success. Calf Jrnia Is
much dryer climate than Kansas ana
the sugar beet fiourishes in that state.
The incorporation in the sugar scned-
ule of the Dingley bill of a duty in
tended to encourage the production OF
beet sugar in this country has called
the attention of the farmers TO the pos
sibilities of that industry.
The superintendent Of the agricul-
tural experiment station in Michigan,
which state will hereafter pay bounty
of one cent 4 pound on all beet sugar
produced within its borders, has just
issued bulletin in which he gives
some interesting information regarding
the cultivation of sugar beetS. He says
that these beets viii grow in any place
W
is 40 degrees, and in almost any soil
except swamp land or stiff clay. The
crop should be rotated with wheat and
clover. and if the soil is well fertiliZed
the returns are sure 10 be big. The
yield runs from eight TO fifteen tons per
acre, and the price averages about four
dollars a ton. The average cost of pro
duction is about thirty dollars an acre.
exclusive of the cost Of hauling TO the
factory, and the possible profits are
therefore about twenty or thirty dollars
an acre.
The soil Of Kansas is unquesdonably
adapted to the cultivation of these beets
and if the Dingley bin becomes a law
there will be a great incentive TO test
their adaptability to our soil and cli-
in1Tp
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
A GAME OF BLUFF.

The New England Shoe and Leather
association declared for free hides on
Thursday last, and on the same day the
Hide and Leather club of New York
protested against the proposed duty on
hides. This seems to be game of
bluff, the killing of one bird with two
stones thrown simultaneously from two
directions. They wish 10 fool the farm
er in the west and at the same time set
up a Scarecrow in the east that will
serve to Withdraw the attention of con-
gress and the people from irregularities
in the new tariff bill which will come
back TO plague the party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

clans wer out in his interest, giving
their time and thought to organization,
to personal solicitation, to consolidation,
if he believed this when he stood on
the front porch at Canton last fan. he
is the most innocent man of politics
ever elected to reside in the White
House
But Mckinley knows that the organ
izers voted for him and worked for him
with an idea of reward in many, many
instances. He also knows that close as
he himself holds the honor of being
president. he also has warmer feeling
for the common salary which goes with
the honor. And having this respect for
his own salary, he must come TO know
before long that his permission allowing
Democrats to hold. office and draw sal
aries is not only mistake but direct
affront TO the workers of his own
Marty
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
THE THEssALIAN FRONTIER.

Delay OF actual hOstilities on the TheS-
salian frontier has undoubtedly given
Turkey the advantage over Greece.
Turkey, while Greece has been busy
playing with the diplomats of Europe,
has been rushing her troops into posi-
ton. As rule, the Turkish command
ers have secured better places of natur-
al fertilization than the Greeks.
On the water the outlandiSh Turkish
navy has come out of the B0Sphorus
for the first time in years Some of the
vessels are very old ones, and but very
few modern. On the other hand.
Greece's navy is modern. If not inter-
fered with by the big ships of the pow
FRS, Greece would make sieves of the
old Turkish hulks without delay, while
In all probability the land forces of the
plucky little kingdom would play the
Cuban guerilla game, for which the
Thessalian frontier is adapted.
The feeling on the part of many au-
thoritieS that Turkey is eager TO meet
Greece and teach her a lesson. and that
IN contest Greece would be speedily
put down and out. do not weigh. to its
full. the consideration that in modern
warfare the result is never the work of
a day. The profound respect for the
destructive powers of modern weapons
is a soothing agency in holding men and
commanders n check. In all late wars
open contiiGts are avoided, and, as a
consequence, wars are prolonged.
For that reason active hostilities be-
tween Greece and Turkey do not mean
one decisive battle, but in all PROBABLE
ity prolonged contest in which num-
bers may not in the end win.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
HOW ABOUT
Your Letter Heads
And Envelopes?

When yoE are Cut, remember
that yo1 can get 6 Ia White
Envelope printed al this cfsce,
Il 5000 lots, for 500 Per inoas-
ard.
This Is less ths- you can bay
TIE plain Envelope
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
Case OF Sann!baIism
CFrom Kansas Raznn

The Agra house had the superintendent
Of the Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific
railway for breakfast. also a number OF
other officials OF the road tbs week. Dad
can make il pleasant and agreeable for his
patrons II anybody can
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The hug contest IS between Bryan and
young Bailey OF Texas for the Democratic
nomination in lSo. Bailey. 70 gain popular
sympathy refused to wear dress SUIT
Bryan al once pulled platform down on
hun and shot ahead.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

DR.. Hunter OF Kentucky is still in the
position of the man who died the day be-
fore ne was to fall heir to fortune.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The chances are that Mckinley has been
lodging the captain of the Dolphin, fearing
he was going to ask hin, for promotion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The feeling in Kentucky is that that
legislature should be given in charge Of the
sheriff and tae sheriff overpowered.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The Pop legislators weren't boodling all
the time. Fart OF the session they were
busy charging the Republicans with cor
Iuption.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The air was so full of 500 bills az Topeka
last winter that Populist legislators had to
attach snow-plows to themselves in order
10 get around.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

Lewelling thinks he is being tricked. 1t
does look like the fellows had tied up Lew
olling's clothes while he was diving in the
river after shells.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

A very noticeable feature Of the present
office-seeking comedy here is the relatively
small part which people from the East
play in II. 4 New York representative said
a few DAYS ago when asked If there were
many office-seekers here from his district:
The people up my way are all reformers;
they are not looking for Offices" This re-
mark, though made in jest, contains a COM
paratively large percentage Of truth. A
Republican congressman from New York
New Jersey. or any OF the New England
states is much less beset by place-hunters
than one from Indiana. West Virginia, OF
North Carolina. Besides the difference il
reform sentiment in their respective neigh
borhoods. government salaries. from high
est 10 lowest. look very much smaller in
the northwest. where large share Of the
rural population live in cites. than n the
more rural sections OF the country.
Some OF the representatives from TIE
South and West are now leading horrible
lives. Mr.. eParsol OF North Carolina. for
instance. who has rooms Al the Albany.
counts more than 40 postofices il his dis
trict While the pay in any case Is not
large. snail favors are thankfully received.
and in nearly every community n the dis
tTict there : a hard scramble for the sp-
poiatnent- The friends OF each applicant
deem L necessary 70 come 20 Washington
10 see their representatives, and the result
j. that Parsons hotel quarters are BON
barded. A congressman from ts= North
who lives thers says that ne saw 80 many
men standing sbou; the building when he
svoke one morning that he co1cluds-d -
must have been trazusportsi 20 Crete =
TIE night. and witnessed the biockzde s.
fan force As soon a. ire a-s- North
C2rolinan IN the morning Is officially e.
formed that Mr.. Pesrsca = IN the eIsvz-
tors become 50 crowded that other people
10 wen 10 iske ire tzIrs- NJ Pearson :
genial. bat his callers are 50 psrs,ssen:
that hs has become a yery hard nsz .
Sa5
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

The gold reserve IS now at SIS 6)1. COO
The PeHs who said the first thing McKia-
ley would DO. il elected. would be TO issue
bonds to maintain the reserve. should hide
themselves again
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
MAGAZINE BINDING

The Eskie EinteEy {.
prepared 70 bind Lasa
zines. Of a. ki=4z al
descriptions, cheap AL
II e. -lsss style
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13
Gseeks on the Frontier.

A Triccola correspondent of the London
Telegraph writes:
/ have ridden along the frontier from
Lar;ssa. All is quiet. but the opposing
forces keep a keen watch upon each other
On the Greek side the roads are patrolled.
and every village and strategic point Is
held in strength. Reserves come marching
in hourly to join the COLOR. 1t appears
surely as though the whole male population
of Hellas were under arms. Steadily, also.
the troops move up to the front from the
centers, such as this place and Larissa-
The talk now is that a declarat ton OF
hostilities may be expected within the next
few days, and the Crown Prince Constan-
tine is expected this week with his resi-
ment to join General Macris.
The weather is still unsettled, and again
there is much rain. Today the Salambria
and other streams are swollen. The season,
however. is much better than that of last
year, when at this date nontains, plains
and valleys in this part of Thessaly were
covered with deep snow. Floods followed.
and upon trees and rocks twelve feet above
the present level are still drifts left by the
previous inundation.
For all their occasional lounging. the
Greek troops, regulars. reservists and vol
ence and discipline a. the front. Compared
10 the same classes of men in Athens, al
hugle calls to drill or barracks they re-
spond with exemplary alacrity. 1 have
seen 10000 men at the first recall. sounded
at o'clock in the evening. disappear from
the streets, cafes and wine shops. and ali
be within their own quarters in five min
utes. Certainly within ten minutes the pub
lie places were all deserted, and given over
TO the quiet humdrum life OF ordinary
townfolks.
Still more noticeable TO Briton like my
self was the fact that although wine, cog
mas mastfk and other intoxicants are very
cheap and good, / have not, in a week :
sojourn among over 10000 soldiers, seen
one drunken man. The reveille is not so
early here as at Aldershot. 1t is sounded at
6 a. m.-time enough for the cold light OF
morning.
Later on, under the shadow of the noun
tains ranging along the frontier, enormous
ffocks of goats and splendid sheep were TO
be seen, and droves of cattle, and oxen re-
sembling Eastern buffaloes. These herds
were being driven slowly southwark, away
from the scene of possible hostiEties. In
deed, most of the villages on the frontier,
and the remoter farmhouses, have all been
vacated by their owners or tenants. who
have removed for safety, expecting war,
into towns like Volo. Soldiers now occupy
many of these places; but~Apon the hills
and at the posts nearest TO the Turks, the
Greek troops are living under canvas in
comfortable round military tents, there be-
ing no buildings available. The shepherds
and drovers met with carried rifles or
sporting guns. AS a rule, the men are fine
specimens of humanity-sturdy mountain
GERS. wearing shaggy, hooded capotes of
goats hair. their legs encased in rough
wooden drawers, and their feet in curled,
pointed natice shoes. They carried long
crooks, and were attended by mongrel-bred
serviceable dogs, crosses of collies, pointers
and retrevers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

Fitzsimmons telegraphs ingalls, denying
that he called John J. liar Fitzsimmons
apparently understands that there are some
men he must respect.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

If a man on the Thessalian from tier
should hit the si1e of barn with a plank.
we have an idea that both the Greek and
the Turks would hastily retreat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

Politics may not have anything to 90 with
the acton OF the heart. but it is a curious
fact that those politicians who have held
Office for life. die within a month after be.
ing turned down
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

Rudyard Kipling is going 70 Greece as
war correspondent al a salary of 5000 a
month. He may loan the money 10 Greece
to enable her TO carry on the war.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

washington, ID. e., April l.-NoDody De-
grudges President Mckinley his outing, but
many of his well-wishers here hope that he
will improve his time, while out of reach
of the office-seeding hords. by meditating
on the way to treat the professional bosses.
With Plat and even with Senator Quay
he might hope to get along by resorting TO
ordinary methods OF intercourse. Both of
these bosses have had enough experience
in squabbling with administrations over
patronage not to care to involve themselves
afresh with Mr.. Mckinley. But Boss Wei
nngton of Maryland out-herods Herod in
his domineering way.
A dey or two ago the president sent to
the senate list of nominations. including
that of Percy Henning hansen for immigra-
ton commissioner at Baltimore. Accom-
panying the formal message announcing
the nominations, the president always
sends number Of tissue paper slips for dis
tribution among the senators and represen-
tatives of the press, containing simply the
names and offices mentioned in the mes
sage. On this occasion the executive clerk
who had charge of the document was in
structed to see Mr.. Wellingt in advance,
show him Mr.. Henninghausen's name and
ask him as a mere matter of form If the
nomination was satisfactory to him.
To the amaZement of every one Mr.. Wei
hngton demanded that Mr.. Henninghau-
sens name be stricken out on the spot.
There was no alternative for the clerk but
to take his penknife and carefully cut from
the middle of all the sheets a little rect
angle containing the Baltimore nomination.
When Mr. Wellington was questioned about
the matter afterward. he said that he had
no objection to Mr.. Henninghsusen person
ally, but that ne did object to the can
didate's applying for the place or 10 the
president making the nomination without
consulting him. To another inquirer re ex-
panded this view still further.
'I want it understood he said. that
every appointment in nay state from cabi-
through me-" And with this he pointed
his outstretched forefiner at his own breast
and tapped it significantly.
There was very interesting exhibition OF
this sort of depotism in the United States
senate sixteen years ago which caused one
senator's retirement from public life with
a broken spirit; the Punishment of another
for half a generation; the murder OF a pres
ident, and an internal revolution in the
Republican party which soon drove il out
of power and restored the Democrats 10
control of the government after a quarter
century's obscurity. Ii may not be that
Mr.. Wellington's assumption of boSsism
will bring about repetition of this whole
painful programe; but if President McKin-
ley intends 10 maintain his self-respect as
the responsible executive authority OF the
nation ne viii have to teach the bumptious
Marylander his place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

II reports are true, Dan Voorhees, will
stand forever as a gonfalon 10 young men,
showing them that they can go through life
without ever paying a board-bill.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

There are several people in Indiana
whose memories run back as far as 1870
who could not force a tear OUT when Voor-
hees died.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

Leweiling has wrapped his legs around
that railroad commissionership and is going
TO stay by it. He VIII pull down the Popu-
list edifce before they get him out.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

They were ready 70 start Misty Dawn
with something coQuettisE. something queen
IL about her. turned 10 BLACK Eagle. stand
ing by. mute and expressionless- She raised
her hand TO him with a graceful air OF su-
periority.
Black Eagle" she said. you may kiss
my hand
Black Eagle looked rnuteiy upon her.
What could she mean7 But her hand was
still extended he understood her. and
taking her hand he bent his proud head
AMI kissed the white little hand
The squaws did not understand this,
Neither ia Black Eagle clearly. and as
Misty Dawn irippei away with the three
trlants. across the fields, The three looked
after them in silence. which Is an Indians
surprise
As Misty Dawn and her :raants passed
the Agency. Holding rushed out and grasp
ed Misty Dawn by both hands. sxels 1ztng:
Misty Dawn. You are an ANGER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-13

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