The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-17

pearances sometimes indicate the grow
! ing independence and strength of
Asiatic powers, but all the while Russia
holds the reinS with a steady, though
often gentle hand, and when the time
comes her control is manifested in ways
which cannot be mistaken. Muscovite
diplomacy is slow, but is is usually very
sure. There is no haste or bluSter, but
the ends sought are never lost sight of,
and little by little their accomplishment
draws nearer. 1t is oriental craft sup
ported by European power.
If you are abused, go out and lick some
body. Look at the Sultan of Turkey.
If Japan should go to war with Russia.
Japan's only hope would be to have Wyatt
carp referee the fight.
Jesse Lincoln has been allowed to join
her husband. Her father couldn't stand
public opinion against him
The government will rescue the whalers
imprisoned in Arctic ice But no one
seems to care for the ballooner who Is UP
there
Dr. Evans, the famous American dent
ist who has just died in Paris. caused the
royalty of Europe more pain than any
man since Napoleon.
The experience of the British at Dargai
Ridge. India, shows that a savage who
has the military sense TO hold his fire.
is no longer a savage.
The feeling in Ohio among Mark Hanna's
friends is that he will be reelected, and
that the men who are going to elect him
better get into that notion pretty quick.
One Of Emperor Williams war ships has
just knocked the stuffing out of South
Sea Island town which could have been
easily destroyed with buggy-whip.
Cleo de Merode, the young woman who
shingled her ears over with her hair. has
gone back to France New York proba-
bly, asked her to do something she wouldn't
hear of.
You can find in Kansas the best wheat,
the best corn, the best cattle, the best oil,
the best gas, the best prospects in the
Union. You can find anything in Kansas
except fault.
Mayor Van Wyck Of New York says that
his campaign cost him only s15S Taking
a Sedgwick county campaign as basis,
Van Wyck's campaign cigars must have
cost about cents per thousand
John Sherman is endearing himself to
the day-laborer at least. An old employee
IN the state department says he has never
seen a secretary who did his work as easily
and quit so promptly as Sherman.
Pullman's two dsinherited sons have
gone to work in minor places IN their |
fathers company. Probably Mrs. Pull |
man, their mother, is more generous than |
her husband and has given them hint
The desperate fight at Dargai Ridge was |
won by the fellows with the bare knees, |
the Scottish Highlanders, who next TO the /
participants in county seat fight in west
ern Kansas are the bravest men on earth |
Mrs Main. in a Connecticut court, charg-
ed with assault with intent to kill, said:
II hate men and dogs. 1 never see either
that 1 don't want to kill them" This is
vicious. What have the dogs ever done
to her?
II the nation has TO choose between
Bryan and Sovereign for president it Will
take Bryan. We would have to have
something worse than a revolution in this
country .tosmake- the people flock behind
Sovereign ft
America has no use for strong man
unless he IS constantly giving exhibitions
Of his strength Thousands of people like
to see Mark Hanna in a tight place FOR
the simple pleasure of seeing him exercise
his political ingenuity in getting out.
The managers of the National League
have made arrangements TO punish any
player who uses foul or Indecent language.
This is right Il is all right to XII the
umpire. but it ought to be done gram
and with decorous language
No one in Kansas wants another boom.
rhe condition which makes everybody feel
hat he is rich beyond compare for year
or two IS a bad one It might be a good
dea 70 prohibit the use Of booms except for
medicinal mechanical and scientific pur-
poses
Things Worth Knowing.
Red hats were first worn by cardinals
n the year 1915.
In Hamburg the authorities tax dog
10 its size.
S.lver-foX skins are now exceedingly rare