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The times., 1897-05-02
CAPITOL NEWS AND GOSSIP.

The Democratic steering committee held
It's third session Hesterday and about COM
pleted the task q assigning the Senators
OF that party tofthe committee vacancies
and filing the vacancies In the minor
chairmansl,ips always accorded to the
minority party These craftsmanship va
cancies are: Revolutionary Claims, held
by Pugh O Alabama; Woman Suffrage, Call
of Florida; Transportation and Sale Of
Meat Products, Blackburn OF Kentucky.
The new Democratic Senators who are
now without committee assignments ara
McEnery of Louisiana, Rawlins Of Utah,
Clay OF Georgia, and Earle of North Caro-
lima. 1t is expected that by Monday the
committee win have its list ready to sub
NIT to the Republicans.
On Monday the Republican committee
on committees will again meet and VIII
propose It's list for q CAUCUS, that VIII be
called to meet early in the week This
committee has had @ task OF no mean
proportions to perform, owing to the num-
Der OF Senators that have come into the
body, and the aspirations of Messrs. Platt.
Sewell, and SpooneT, all of whom have
previously served in the Senate. and con-
tend, that by reason of this service, they
are entitled to especial consideration.
Just what to do with Mr.. Platt, of New
York, is question the committee has not
been able to answer to its own satisfac-
tlon He wanted to go back to Finance,
where he was when in the Senate as the
colleague Of Roscoe Conkling. 1t was not
an easy matter to turn down great
State like New York Oh such an important
committee, but this action was taken, and
Mt. Burrows, of Michigan, given the
prize, and that, too, in the face of the
most urgent pressure. 1t is said that Mr.
Piatt Will finally land in Foreign Rela-
tions, where, as the representative OF New
York, he will be of good service Go his
people.
The times., 1897-05-02

There's mystery about it, gentlemen.
It's no surprise to us to hear you say these
things about our clothing.
The truth will out Superiority will tell.
Every Suit in our stock is made for stock
for trade = by = for you We've been
studying you and your likes for thirty years.
For thirty years we have been perfecting the
art of ready-to-w clothes-making. The
head of Our house does nothing else but plan
-improve-superintend You get the
benefit of the best taste-the best talent-the
best materials-in our Suits. Goodness with
out taste is like a rose without fragrance.
'Tisn't advertising talk for us to claim the
unbelievable. 'Tisn't exaggeration for US to
claim to sell the best cheaper than others. Our
suits prove it. The unsolicited testimony of
patrons proves it. Take the $3.50 and SIS
grades for example. SIS is the others price
for our S12 so. $40 is the price for our SIS.
And even then it's value without the exclusive
styie-without the huish-without the effect
and not one-tenth of Our variety. Paint, brush
and pallet won't make a painting-it takes
talent.
The times., 1897-05-02

Senator TnlInan Is considering the ad-
Instability of offering an amendment TO the
tariff bill, which will provide for an
export bounty on cotton and wheat He
Is of the opinion that this would be Of
great benefit TO the turner's OF the
South and West. and would be bene-
fiial stimulus to the trade that Inn
mediately affects the communities in
which these two crops are raised. As
a rule, the Southern statesmen are op-
posed ID bounties. In any shape, but the
South Carolina statesman thinks that pos
sibly this would not be a bad experiment
The times., 1897-05-02

Ultimafum of Chandler.
CFrom the Chicago Times-Herald9
To the Bethlehem steel works: I pro-
pose TO move upon your works immediately.
Senator Chandler.
The times., 1897-05-02

Good for the Home Stretch.
tFrom the Detroit Jogrnal.)
II the Cuban fnsurrection is on its ias1
legs they are good legs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
RAG, BONE AND HANK.

Some of our local readers are pes
tering us about Rudyard Kiplings
vampire" We published the poem
lust as we found it floating around in
the current corners of our exchanges.
Whether the sum and substance are
embodied in the first verse and the rest
is trash, or whether it was intended for
personal application TO the London &C
tress who threatens to sue, or merely
as an Interpretation Of the Burnes-
Jones famous painting, we know not.
The world is full of selfish femininity,
Of women who do not know and who
will know and who therefore do not
care. They are but rag and bone
and hank of hair" each, heedlessly,
sucking the life out of some man who
cannot help himself. or who otherwise
struggles on to the end in despair. In
stead of being a helpmate they are a
load, instead of a stay and succor, a
sucker As for Kiplipg's woman who
did not knOw-and now we know that
she never could know-and did not I'M
derstand," we are unconvinced. 'The
rag and a bone and a hank of hair
does know and understand, but her
selfishness precludes confession. Un-
der different environment. with a diff
ferent man, she would have been flesh
and blood, possibly possessing soul.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
HE WILL SWING.
ure.

Sunday mornings dispatches con-
tanned the satisfactory information that
the blood-stained hypocrlte, Durrant,
had made his final play and lost, and
that on Friday, June 18th, he will CUR
gle his last and cease to pOllute the air
of heaven with his breath. No more
cold-blooded fiend ever committed more
diabOlical murder. Two innocent girls
who trusted him as their religious
teacher, were outraged by him and
then murdered in the Emanuel Baptist
church. Within the brief space of few
days after he had taken Miss Will
Jams to the library room of this edi-
flee. where they had so often worship
ped together, and outraged and MUIR
dered her with a knife and by stuffing
cloth into her throat, and while her
body was still lying within the building
undiscovered. he took Blanche Lamont
to the same church and after having
satisfied his demon thirst for blood car
ried her naked body to the corner of a
small room in the belfry where 1t was
found after the accidental discovery of
the body of his first victim, Miss Will
Jams had been given up. but the search
for Miss Lamont in which Durrant had
actively participated was still being
prosecuted when Miss Williams body
was found. Durrant in the mean time
had gone off on a sky-larking trip into
the mountains. The trial lasted for
three months, Durrant going on to the
witness stand in his own behalf. The
jury was out only twenty minutes,
That was nearly two years ago, since
which time Durrant's lawyers have
tried every possible dodge tosave the cul-
prit's neck When he was first arrest
ed and brought back from the mount
aims he was met by a mob at the ferry
but for some reason they refrained
from executing him then and there. |
Durrant was never tried for the muir |
der of Miss Williams, but the proofs !
that he did So are as strong as those |
which convicted him. He will eypiate |
his crime next Friday week by having |
his miserable neck judicially stretched |
out of joint, or If the fall fails 10 break !
ii. he will experience that which he |
forced upon his victims, the sensation |
of being choked TO death
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
FOLLY OF SCHOOL EXAMINATIONS:

William ]. Shearer in the Atlantic
Monthly voices the conviction of about
nine parents in ten when he declares
that school examinations for promotion
are folly. The examination is against
the nervous and bright scholar and IA
vorable to the more thick-skinned and
self-contained Among other things
Shearer says: 1.-THE promotion examin-
alton is a test of memory rather than
of power. 1t may show some things
that the pupil does not know, but it
cannot show what the pupil does know;
it destroys and prevents broad and In
telligent teaching, makes of the teach
er grind, aud turns out pupils by ma
chinery. IT forces pupils to go over far
derstand, and it causes many to leave
school 1t brings senseless worry to
the nervous, who often fail to pass,
while the less worthy succeed. 1t is,
moreover, great temptation TO deceit.
1t demands one-third more time than
is necessary to impart the same knOwl-
edge and to give better training. 1t
puts premium not upon the work done
day by day during the year, but upon
the amount of 'stufing" that can be
done at the end Of the term. These
are a few of the many reasons why it
has been condemned as a moral injus-
tice to pupils and teachers, and as one
of the greatest of educational blum
Iarc
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
LIGHTNING BUGS RAYS.

Some novel and interesting expert
ments have been made by Professor
Muraoko. Of Kyoto, Japan, recorded in
the Journal Of the Imperial Universe
ty Of Togyo) on the Photographic En-
brgy OF the Light of Fire Flies" No
ucing the close resemblance in color be-
tween the light of these insects and that
Of various fiuorescent substances, Pro
lessor Muraoko collected more than a
thousand brilliant fire flies in a suitable
wire cage and caused the light TO i'm
pinge upon the various metal and other
objects which were placed upon the fat
wooden boxes containing sensitized pho
togr3phic plates or negatives. following
precisely the method ordinarily used in
photographing in the Roentgen ray ex
periments. These plates, with the OBJ
'ect resting upon them, were wrapped
IN several thicknesses of black paper
and left in the box with the flies for
two nights 1t was found that the fire
fy light contained rays which penetrat-
3D. the paper wrappings, the wood. the
cardboard and the thin metal sheets
In fact, these radiations behave very
much like the Roentgen rays. They
differ, however, from the Roentgen RAYS
in one particular-namely. they can he
reflected and it is thought Though not
yet proved that they can also be re-
fracted and polarized.
The resemblances and differences be-
tween the y rays OF the FREELY and
the Roentgen rays are interesting. but
not surprising; for we now know thar
very slight differences in the condition
of the CrookeS' tube which is invaria-
bly, employed 10 produce so-called Y
rays exert an extraordinary effect in
entirely altering the charaGar OF the
vibrations. There appears 10 be a GER
tain tension in the tube. dependent up
On the degree of the vacuum which is
necessary to develop the true Roentgen
rays. II the vacuum be too good the
tension is to high. and the peculiar rays
are wanting; II the vacuum be too low
the tube is filed with purpliSh hazy
luminosity and the light is of ordinary
character.
Very many tests have been made to
discover the conditions requisite TO sue
cess in the production of good tubes.
but it remained for the genius of
philadelphia exner;n,ap+ar NJ II r
man Sayen. 10 solve this difficult and
delicate problem, which he has done
in an ingenious manner A twin
{ be- is made, in which IS placed in
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
THE WORLDS NAVIES

Every congress has It's advocates of
a greater and stronger navy for the
United States. These advocates of dis
interested and far-seeing statesmen will
always he found representing seaboard
constituencies with their navy yards
and ship building plants. When it
comes 20 a proper conception of the in
diSpensable value of a big navy the
west lacks patriotism in the estimation
of these eastern statesmen. This coun-
try is. in fact. but a third-class naval
power.
NJ. Lockroy. formerly minister Of ma
rine. whose criticisms of the French
navy produced somewhat of a conster-
nation in France, viii have the salts
faction Of Witnessing the adoption of
his proposal 10 eNpend annually for
series OF five years the sum of $4,000
go over and above the regular naval
budget in extensive improvements in
existing vessels and in new construc-
tons. The naval committee OF the cham
Der Of deputies has approved of the
plan. which had already obtained the
Endorsement Of Admiral Besnard. the
present French minister of marine.
In this connection a statement of the
comparative strength of the navies of
the world as given in the Marine Rund-
schau, the official organ OF the German
naval service, may be Of interest. Ac-
cording TO this statement there is only
one naval power OF the first rank
Great Britain. The French navy is
barely half strong. and France must
consequently be classified as A sen
power Of the second rank As none OF
the other naval powers are equal TO
France, they are placed in the third
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

receptacle opening into the main tube
a small quantity of Microscopic salt
| that is, substance which absorbs
moisture), the wires being so connected
that if the vacuum he too high in the
main tube the current or electric spark
is automatically switched to the second
airy tube, in which the rays of light de-
veloped impinge upon the salt; the
warming of the salt causes it to part
| with a little of its moisture. and this
invisible trace of yap0r permeates the
main tube and Immediately lowers the
vacuum. SO that it becomes energiZed
and develops the Roentgen rays. By a
simn,e adjustment the exact degree OF
vacuum may be automatically main
tanned for any length of time. Former
ly when a good tube was successfully
produced it rapidly deterioated in use
and soon became worthless. With the
new twin tube these difficulties vanish,
and investigations may be prosecuted
for hours at a time without injury to
the apparatus.
The skin-burning effect Of the Roent-
gen rays is as yet but little understood.
Some persons are more sensitive to 1t
than others. Several serious burns and
sores have resulted from too long ex-
posure to the rays But this is not due
in any way to the degree of luminosity;
for the most powerful tubes do not give
out as much visible light as Professor
Muraoko obtained from his collection of
fire flies. Some tubes have been acct
dentally made which are SO rich IN
Roentgen rays that they penetrate the
bones of the body as readily as they
pass through the flesh, and negatives
have been developed after the light had
passed through the body of a fully
dressed person; yet there was nothing
visible on developing the plate except
a slight haze or ghost. The individual
was absolutely transparent in this light.
Now that the popular sensation re-
garding the Roentgen rays has sub
sided the new developments do not at
tract the same degree of public atten-
ton as before. But progress goes on
more steadily; many valuable facts have
been recorded in the technical journals,
and the latest report states that legal
case was decided the other day on evil
dence afforded by Roemgen ray pict
IRE.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
- -----7-1----
Reflections of a Bach elor.

A woman always ends an argument by
repeating Just what she said that began 1t.
When girl goes upstairs while anybody
is looking she always steps on her skirts
A woman can never help looking ind.s.
nant when you mention chicken incuba-
tor
No woman can ever think very hardly OF
a man who wears a Grape mourning band
on his hat.
A woman always has a few ole letters
saved up somewhere which she can find and
cry over on a rainy day.
When woman gets to heaven II will be
a great disappointment to her 70 find that It
is against the rules TO act surprised 20 see
some other woman there that she knew on
earth.-New York Press.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
NATIONAL APPEAL.

It is estimated that the government
is losing three million dollars week
in revenue by the delay in the passage
of the tariff bill. The people are losing
ten times as much in work on account
of the delay. We urge each of our
readers to write to at least one member
of the United States senate at Washing
ton. urging and demanding the immedi-
ate passage of a protective tariff law
and such law as will give adequate
protection to American labor and Amer
Jean industries.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
Along the Kansas Nile.

/
An Ohio firm is beginning TO work Kan
| sas counties by selling sheriffs blood
| hounds.
| w. A Pierce has sold the controlling In
| terest IN the Salina telephone system to W.
| A. Stillwell.
| new establishment known as the Sc.
| curity Bank. capital stock $4,000, has open
| ed up in Wellington
Mrs c. A Boyle OF Empor.a has written
waltz for which a Chicago publishing
\ house offers 10 pay royalty or by out
| right.
Baker and Leland win have to fgh,
simply TO satisfy the thousands and thous-
| ands in Kansas who have predicted tina,
they will fight.
The Fort Scott Monitor. which gets up
very bright local page. accuses the Kan
sas City papers of grape-vining their For,
Scott specials.
The Seneca Democrat calls Warden Ian
dis OF the penitentiary "a swell-bellied ca
daver." Kansas men in attacking others
invariably malisn the belly.
Lewelhng recently said: "A j,is, Nemesis
never misses her mark" Give ancient his
tory over to the Populists and they would
have Pegasus dam 10 a colt.
The average Populist doesn't know
whether 10 support Leedy or Briedenthsi or
LeweEins. The PopElist situation is as
badly tangled up as stree; map OF Boston.
Senator Forney OF Sumner county has sue.
ceeced in getting everybody in the state
down on him. He can not Sc; foot in To-
peka without starting q storm OF abuse
against himself.
1t was CROCHET with George T Anthony
never 20 have h.s picture taken. Last
week the Topeka Mail publishes an inagi-
native sketch OF him which vas punish
ment enough for the whim forever.
After tbs tariff IS settled Mckinley vii
take up currency reform. Then you viii
hear from Kansas agsia- Kansas wiH 10
more Monkey with the tariff than h-sh-
grade billiard player vii monkey ulta c-o-
Quett-
The Atchison Globe in speaking OF graz
yates with TIRE proberb Labor corcasrs
All a. class motto tells them not 10
think that the arst thing they have %
oVeEcoms = great mountain. but sors
such things az washing dishes.
Lots os people who worked hard for Nc
kinley and haven't received anything yet
believe that after Span = licked and tie
Cuban republic = established FRED Fun
sion All succeed IN getting 70 - Soos-
keeper n the Cuban senate or something
Ike that;
Paoia Spirit: TIL Sudden spzsn Of god |
ness that las apparently SIZED ToyeEz u /
rot ne~; y = not Intermittent 81; ehro-.- 4
But the records % TIE ofzos OF co,ssctor 81 /
ilterzai revenue FOR Kansas sEex that /, 1
. primarily caused BY drinking beer. win.
anf ssszxy. More United States licenses
have been i.sce1 20 sell scirsfooas zns NAT
lisUors n Topeka since pr5hibtfi5z rszs
Ito elect 1, lsef TRAN any other et.y n
TIE STATE. except fvo. -Jo.rts' have rzn
oP-n there every year .cr Kxseez yezrs-
Charley Gs<ed knows ta-2 40 does in
T-c1:r.zo znt Lz-iz<-- Nearly every 57tei
: szsosa sr.a has been 80 s1nce ne fzys
q Pc7pe1f.ck To to k1cxsAs c-sk NC
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avenue L = e4-r-oa-izs. szzrzes zz.gsy. [
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
TIE UNIVERSAL SONG,

TIE sun in blushius glory comes
Along the eastern way,
" here rosy hilltoPs kiss the sky
To advertise the day.
The twinkl!ag starr peep from The blue
And trenbie in the light
OF dying day. and tvinkrrk there
They advertise the night
The buds tia; deez the bush and tree
And drink re April showers.
LIT Up their young. snsistcnt heads
To advertise The flowers.
The clouds which III the io~'r.ns sky
When al the air n warm.
Combine with nash ard tAup6er rear
To advertise the s;erS-
TIE birds which ny Ger hi.i ard vale.
And = the brown trees sing
" hen al tire earth - bare. have cone
To advertise Tie spring.
AL things created. from The SAT-
Down 70 TIE hCmbiest ctc1.
coaso.a IN Natures hAadi~ork
To advertise Cod
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
elf AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED
TRY
SAPOlIO

The tow l. to<sT s1asT-sozhe-f zgsA
places where one-isnta q re p,s.sssx.szrs
invest tn 5oHsy -asy &c; '-oz. tas sfsts l.
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az sGE~als1z . IN F5p1.ls,G Lefty sags
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

class, which includes the Russian, the
United States, the japanese, the Ital-
ian, and the German fleets. Expressing
the fighting value of the various fleets
in terms Of units, the author of the ar
ticle estimates the English feet at 1901,
the French at 4G6, the Russian at $50,
the American, German and Italian at
1876 each, and the Japanese at 1I9.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
1, VIII Transact Business.

(F'rom Omaha Bee.l
A city council without q lawyer among
its members is the latest novelty in ona-
has experience.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
Rather Queer BrIc-aBrac.

C'ronl Memphis Commercial Appeal)
They are beginning to throw bootjacks.
Jumps of coal and other bric-a-brac al the
Hon. Tom Cat Plat in New York
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
Bu. They ar. ~ Rank a. Ever.

(Fron kenne5ec JoErnaD
Coxey is out Of journalism" The ''yel.
low kid and hobo newspaper enterprises
are not four.shing quite 50 raukly as they
were.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
A Relay Race.
From Washington Sta

From Washington starr
TIE sultan IS evidently ambitious 70 make
up for Turkeys failure 10 do anything
conspicuous in the revival OF the olymp.an
games.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

Senator Morgan violated q parliamentary
rule when ne criticized the house the other
day. L would not hart particularly 4
somebody kicked the isyrga.s cut OF the
house just now Its .nsct.on ard ssrvs.i,y
to the speaker Is contemplate
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01
RIPANS ,TABULES

~ eoaldn recommend iris reet heartily doh ddn
a medicine tsker. i ofposet
medicine, principle Thee ought 70 be nd Of recnss,
there o-Zht 70 be poverss: .Ase ~ pope lived uzh.
vou6 be Scnshi1.. oooPenty
medicines the nssra Ia; tied
artificial ard nestf artificial r-gslz-
tske taea Dyscii knoz
effective ;A>y of
znTfHnz stz Yer h>adschex inezoa
Tie hznd.es, po-s.- carry Il lie pocxsLT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

Whitelaw Reid will be the next minister
to SPAIN He is one editor Mckinley does
not feel willing to reward with the local
postoffice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

1t is at present the fashion to abuse
Prince Constantine. Constantine's crime
consisted In failing to lick an army twice
the size of his.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

From present appearances this year we
will have 10 get behind the base-burner on
the Fourth of July in order TO have things
appear natural.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-01

There is only one thing greater than the
law in this country and that is parliament
tary law. Reed just now is bigger than
the president.