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MAKSHAI-Ij 31. ilUKDOCH. Editor.
All creation, animate and inanimate,
seems to rejoice at the return of the Re
publican party to control of the govern
ment. Grace a dieu.
The inventive genius of the American
is illustrated by the fact that 20,506 pat
ents were issued last year. The Yankee
beats the world in new ideas.
According to Carroll Wright's divorce
statistics, Chicago is not the greatest
sinner among American cities in the
matter of dissolving marriage relations.
Indianapolis stands first, while Chicago
is fourth. -
The Nebraska legislature employed a
number of female clerics and pages and
the press of the state find in the circum
stance a fruitful theme for gossip. Well,
people who put themselves up as targets
have no right to complain if they are
shot at.
The old saw about the ruling passion
strong in death was strikingly illustrated
by Senator Riddleberger, who enlivened
the closing hours of the senate with a
drunken brawl. But he is effectually
done-for now, unless lie flops over to the
the Democracy, which is our guess.
Sooner or later Samoa will belong to
the great southern-English speaking con
federated republic of which Australia
and New Zealand are to be the princi
pal members. That is manifest destiny,
and manifest destiny isn't a thing to be
fooled with not even by iron chancel
lors. Two constitutional amendments are to
be submitted to the people of Kansas at
the general election in 1890, one inci eas
ing the number of supreme judges irom
threo to seven, and the other providing
for ninetv day sessions of the legislature.
Both will probably be defeated, certainly
the latter. ;
These are solemn and soul-trying
times for the Democratic congressmen
from Kentucky, Virginia and North
Carolina. Tobacco is a staple pioduct of
thoso states, and the constituent's
pocket-nerve throbbed responsive to the
proposal to take off the internal taxes.
It was not taken off, henco the tension
of the situation of the representatives
mentioned.
Bishop W. Perkins, the congiessman
from the Third district, can draw on
Wichita for an innovation and his draft
will be honored on sight. He has for
years maintained that Wichita would bo
the greatest city west of the Missouri
and he can congratulate himself over the
fact that his action in the Oklahoma
matter will contribute no liltlo to the end
which he predicted.
The west is recognized in the new cab
inet in the selection of General John W.
Noble, of Missouri; the northwest in
General Rusk, of Wisconsin; the middle
states in W.' H. II. Miller, of Indiana;
the eastern states in John Wanamakor,
of Pennsylvania, "William "Windom and
B. F. Tracy, of New York, and New
England in James G. Blaine, of Maine,
and Redfield Proctor, of Vermont.
The clearing house reports for last
week make a splendid showing for the
general business of the country. With
only three exceptions the statement
shows a gratifying increase in business
over the corresponding period of last
year, and the three exceptions show each
a very small decrease. From this show
ing the business outlook for the imme
diate future could hardly be moreauspic-
One of the wittiest things said to date
about the new French cabinet is, that
President Carnot has brought together a
lot of clever men who do not like one
another, under the premiership of a gen
tleman whom nobody likes President
Carnot alone excepted. Acting thus
apparently at haphazard, the French
president may have hit upon a solution
of the vexed and vexatious problem,
that of forming a cabinet. They all ap
pear to stick.
West Virginia presents the remarka
ble attitude of having three governors,
one do facto,Wi!son,tho hold-over, pend
ing a decision of the contest between the
two de jures, Goff and Fleming, before
the state court and yet it piesents the
additional spectacle of being the poorest
governed, as far as the enforcement of
law and the observance of the rules of
decency and common equity. Not a
creditable situation for airy community
to be placed in.
Comment upon President Harrison's
inaugural address, it seems to us, is en
tirely unnecessary. It is so clear and
explicit an outline of the policy of his
administration, and this is so thorough
ly in accord with tho principles and ideas
of the great party which elevated him to
the exalted station, that it certainly
needs no explanation to an intelligent
public. It is by common consent rated
as one of tho best productions ever es
eavedon a like occasion.
"We are all greatly pleased,' says Con
gressman Warner, "with the amend
ments to tho Indian appiopriation bill
which has passed and gone to the presi
dent. It is a first step toward opening
up Oklahoma and our friends understand
that wo were not idle but comparatively
successful in the faco of bitter opposi
tion.'' Senator Vest says: "I think the
friends of Oklahoma ought to be satisfied
with the work done. Our enemies are
outwitted and show signs of severe dis
appointment. Critics wero too hasty in
accusing us of indifference. We watched
every movement and got in our work as
soon as it could be made effective.
Commander-in-Chief Warner has is
sued a circular letter in which he says
that the attention of the headquarters
has been called to the fact that several
Grand Army posts, as posts, by resolu
tion or other official action, have recog
nized persons for appointive offices, po
litical in character. "This." says Com
mander Warner, "is in violation of the
following article in the rules and regula
tions: "No officer or comrade of the
Grand Army of the Republic shall in any
manner use this organization for per
sonal purposes, and no discussion of per
sonal questions shall be permitted at any
of its meetings; nor shall any nomina
tion for political office be made.' Ho
adds: "Recommendations of tins or that
person should me made solely as citizens."
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For the Eagle.
KANSAS.
Hall to the banner state; whoso loyal throne
Walt at her golden Kate, eighty thousand strong;
Oh. broad Uud! Oh. blest land! glad land of tho
free.
The hearts of thy children love liberty.
Sown is tho golden grain, planted the maize.
Weave in her llowery chain, laurel and bays.
Oh fair land! On. free land! proud may j e be,
Ihy adopted children vote loj ally.
Freedom's glad prcans float from tho cracked iron
tlitodt
Of the old boll
That through the century, heralded liberty
Taithfuland well.
Clanged loud its brazen tongue when Treedom was
young,
When homeward from the wars marched Washing
ton, Then sorter pa?ans chant for the immortal Grant
And Illinois true son Abe Lincoln,
Timo's horolcguo has struck the full century's
chime
tJshering thechlld of luck out for all time.
Ring! all ye joy bells, ring! Sing! all ye clal hearts,
sine!
Welcome to Washington, Chief Harrison.
Caldw ell, Kan.
Fkaxk CnAXEV,
THE WEST LEFT OUT.
The dispatches made a mistake (?) yes
terday in locating the residences of the
cabinet. Windora's home is in New
York. That state gets two members of
the cabinet and New England, which in
its entirety did not give the Republican
ticket the majority given by Kansas, gets
two members of the cabinet. The west
will be disappointed by tho distribution
as Noble, the only man from the west,
is not known outside of Missouri. The
center of the United States is four
hundred miles west of the home of the
most western cabinet officer.
THE SCOPE OP THE OKLAHOMA BILL
This morning we published two or
threo of tho sections of tho Indian de
ficiency bill providing for the opening of
Oklahoma. Theie is much that will
confuse tho general reader but if the
proviso constituting the last half of sec
tion fourteen be read a clear idea will be
gained of what was expected would
happen under it by congress. And that
is if tho Cherokees will agree substan
tially to the same terms of the Creole
and Seminole treaties made last month,
then the president can by proclamation
open up the whole of the territory con
templated by the Springer bill.
OUR NEW
COURT AND
JUDGE.
OUR NEW
As was announced through a special
dispatch to this paper yesterday morning.
Governor Humphrey has commissioned
J. M. Balderston, Esq., as the judge of
tho Sedgwick County Court of Common
Pleas. Captain Balderston needs no in
troduction to the people of this city and
county. He is one of tho oldest attor
neys, in time of service, in the city,
having been regularly in the practice
here since March, 1871, except at such
times as ho was filling offices pertaining
to his profession, and for which he was
chosen by tho voice of his party. In
short, the very best portion of his life
has has been spent in our midst, Jwhich
has been an open book, read of every
body and which show no blotted pages.
At no point in all his history has his hon
esty been questioned or liis entegrity as
a lawyer or his virtues as a citizen im
pugned or attacked, If his temper is a
little fiiey on the touch of the moment,
the appeal of reason is sure of a hearty
roponse from his breast. His recoid as
a soldier is unexceptionally brilliant and
his many friends always refer to
that record with pride. Clear
headed, incorruptible, temperate in
all things, a sound lawyer without bril
liancy as an onitor, what better equip
ment could be asked for the grave and
responsible position to the discharge of
whose honerous duties he has been call
ed by the chief executive of the state.
Judge Baldertson arrived home yester
day morning and immediately assumed
tho robes of his judicial position, open
ing the court of common pleas and ad
journing the same until Friday morn
ing. A further adjournment till Monday
may be found necessary on account of
the various books of records and blanks
which must be made after which he will
enter earnestly upon the task of helping
to clear up the voluminous docket of the
district court.
Atchison send up a wail at tho dis
coinfeituio it sustained at the hands of
the legislature and the new governor.
The local papers lament that Judge Otis
was hoisted from the board of regents
of the state university; that Captain
Bowman was left off the state house
commission; that the Orphan's Homo
appropriation was defeated, and that the
beef inspection bill miscarried. Hard
luck, indeed, but our sister now sees
how it is herself.
About John W. Noble, of St. Louis,
who has been appointed to the new cabi
net, General Henry B. Carrington writes
to the Boston Traveller:
I knew him for years in Ohio, and
since. lie has few superiors in admin
istrative capacity for pi of essional or pub
lic business. He graduated at Yale Uni
versity in 1S31, and attained the lank of
brigadier-goneral of volunteers during
the civil war. As a member of the G.
A. R. he exhibited a wisdom in the ad
justment of the difficulties attending tho
St. Louis encampment which well illus
trates a sound conservatism, without
prejudice to his record as a patriot and
soldier. For many years United States
attorney for the district of Missouri, he
is a lawyer of high standing, combining
with legal attainment the qualities of
sound judgment and strong common
sense.
Not Used Then to Negro Lawyers.
Atlanta Constitution.
Tho first time a colored lawyer ever
appeared in Atlanta was when Aaron
Alpeoria Bradley came to the state sen
ate. Bradley was a kinky-headed mu
latto, a sharp fellow, too, "and when lie
rose unexpectedly in the court room one
dav to defend a case, the lawyer on the
other side was so iudignant at his impu
dence that he immediately forgot every
thing he knew. The mulatto lawyer
called for the papers in the case, looked
at them through his eye-glasses, and
made a motion to dismiss upon some
technicality. The court granted the
motion, and Bradley with an aggravat
ing twist of Iris mustache, swaggered off.
leaving tho white lawyer so full of rage
and mortification that ho would not
open his mouth. Such an incident now
would attract no attention, but at the
time it was the talk of tho town, and
every youngster at the bar would rather
have met the devil himself than "that
negro lawyer' At least, so thev told.
Dissent from Judge Tuley's Decision.
Chicago Inter-Ocean
In this city, and m the light of the
Haymarket bomb, the avowed anarchist
is a suspect. No man. no matter what
his standing and antecedents, has a right
to preach anarchism as it has been
preached in Chicago.
KANSAS.
COMMEEOIAL KELATIONS OF WICH
ITA AND 00LDWATEE, EE
SPEOTIVELY. What Wichita is to Eastern Kanasas,
Oklahoma and Texas, so Can Cold
water be to Southwestern Kan
sas, the Indian Territory and
the Panhandle.
riomthe Caldv. ell Hevlew.
A half century ago Morse, the geo
grapher, was telling the American school
boy the story of the "Great American
Desert." Ten years later CoL Benton
supplemented Morse'e story of the "des
ert" in a never-to-be-forgotten speech in
the United States senate, in which he
described the whole country between
the Missouri river and the rocky moun
tains as "a barren waste, incapable of
successful agriculture and practically
uninhabitable to civilized man." The
heroic Captain Pike had already trav
ersed the great region to the snow-capped
mountains, but gave little descrip
tion of the country. In 1835 Col. Dodge
led a troop of soldiers from Leavenworth
up the Republican valley, returning by
the Arkansas valley, establishing old Ft.
Dodge, but strangely enough neglected to
give the world information of the rich
ness of tho country. A little latter Col.
Bent penetrated the country, married a
squaw, grew rich in trade and neglected
to tell the world of Morse's error and tho
senator's mistake.
Later still Carson and Boggs, two
hardy, backwoods Missourians, "found
their" way to the "far west," married
Mexican wives and contented themselves
with rearing families and growing rich
with herds of cattle and horses, lhev,
too, were enamouied with this wild life
and cared not to divulge the secret or
bieak the spell. At last, in 1842, the
son-in-law of the senator who had
characterized the country as "a desert
most unfit for man," heroically pene
trated the wilds and broke tho fabric of
the senator's baseless dream. The
jrallant "Pathfinder," Col. Fremont, gave
tho world the benefit of his
discoveries and explosions. The
geographer's story and tho sen
ator's speech were mere lllu
sions- So universal was the attention
attracted by Fremont's report that tho
vast and rich rjlains besran to draw ad
venturous men from all sections, which
soon brought on a bloody conflict be
tween men of the northern and southern
States. It was about this time, also, that
the crreat senator changed his mind
Many of our older readers will remember
his great speecli advocating the building
of tho Pacific railroad, opening up the
vast resources of the great west, and
pointing a prophetic finger to tho west,
thundered forth, "This is tho way to
climb."
"Kansas had her baptism in blood.
Red handed war devastated the peaceful
homes of her pioneers, but her great re
souices, her rich soils and salubrious cli
mate had become, by this time, so well
known that no earthly power could
check tho tide of haidy immigrants who
poured over her holders. Where is tho
mythical "desert" today? "Where is the
"barren" country that was "uninhabit
able by civilized manV" Where is "the
great desert" inhabited only by warlike
savages, wild beasts and reptiles? To
day the desert of Morse and Benton is
the agricultural garden of the continent.
Where the savage revelled in his deeds
and crime the husbandman peacefully
nursues his calliner. Where vast herds
' .F 1,,fTVil.-. ..rtov,nrl rfvnnt lioHc3 rf nnnac.
tic cattle quietly graze. "Wheie Morse's
desert existed, are now vast fields of cul
tivated farms. School houses, chnrches,
towns and cities occupy the place of the
Indian's tepee. Lowing herds on a
thousand hills and the golden sheaves
of the industrious farmer have forever
dispelled the exploded deseit idea and
year by year the greatness of Kansas as
serts itself as onwaid and upward she
takes iier couise. "Ad Astia Per
Aspera."
Is it any wonder that there should rise
on the border of this wonderful state,
and almost in the heait of this "deseit,"
a great city? Wichita, the "Peerless
Princess," is a true Kansas town, and
Kansas is proud of her. She is one of
the great arties which carries the life
blood through the commercial veins of
the state. All true Kansans are proud of
their Wichita, and Wichita, with her
40,000 population, her gi eat shops, her
lailroads, her magnificent stores, her
splendid newspapers and her huudieds
of industries, is proud of her state. Like
the state, her marh is onward and up
waid, and with such teiritoryas is af
forded by southern Kansas, Oklahoma
and Texas, pouring their treasures into
her coffers she will, in less than another
decade, reach 100,000 inhabitants.
Tho relation of Wichita to her terri
tory can, if the proper effort is exercised,
be said of Coldwater as the distributing
point for southwest Kansas, the Indian
Territory and the Panhandle of Texas.
With the additional railroad facilities
which the Rock Island and 'Frisco rail
roads will give us, with the start Cold
water has over any other town in south
west Kansas, with the help of a sugar
mill, a paper mill, a Hour mill and other
manufactories which our natural advan
tages will bring, the advantages to be
derived from our coal beds and salt in
dustry, by the aid of the rich soil sur
rounding us, by the enterprise and pub
lic spiritedness of our citizens, Cold water
will as surely be the metropolis of south
west Kansas as Wichita is of her section
of the state.
EXCHANGE SHOTa
G. A. B. Preparations
Emporia Republican.
A meeting of the G. A. R. encamp
ment executive committee took place
last evening at headquarters, at which
a program of exercises was partially
adopted and further time given to per
fect it. Among tho things agreed on
was that the welcome addresses should
take place at the opera house on Tuesday
evening, at which Mayor Weaver would
preside, and at which an interesting
musical program would be given. Judge
Buck is to deliver theaddressof welcome
on behalf of the city. On Wednesday
evening an informal reception will be
held at the normal, at whicR Commander-in-Chief
Warner, Governor Hum
phrey, General Carroll and their staffs
will be present, and where possibly an
other musical program will be rendered,
with short addresses by Professor Tay
lor, General Warner, Governor Hum
phrey and others.
An American Chesterfield.
Washington Post.
The other day a western congressman
came into the senate restaurant with
two constituents, good men, but a little
rustic in appearance and manners and
unused to conventionalities and points of
etiquette that are unknown in Wayback.
The restarant was full of ladies and
gentlemen. As the congressman seated
himself he, of course, removed his hat.
A moment or two latex he noticed that
his untutored friends had not removed
then- hats. He hastily put his own hat
back on his hat and wore it during the
meal. Chesterfield could not have done
anything finer than that.
The state suDrcmp court convened
Tuesday with upwards of seTenty-five
cases on the docket.
TO OPEN OKLAHOMA.
Provisions of the Indian Appropriation
Bill Authorizing' the Opening of the
Territory to Settlement.
The senate failed to take action on the
Oklahoma bill proper as it passed the
house but the following provisions of
that measure were incorporated in the
Indian appropriation bill which was
agreed upon in conference, passed by
both houses and signed by President
Cleveland a short time before tho expi
ration of his term, the last one of the
general appropriation bills passed and
approved:
CREEK AND SEMINOLE LANDS.
Section 12 that the sum of $1,912,
852.12 be, and the same hereby is appro
priated, out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated, to pay in
full the Seminole nation of Indians for
all the right, title, interest and claim
which said nation of Indians may have
in aud to certain lands ceded by article 3
of the treaty between the United States
and said nation of Indians which was
concluded June 13, 18G6, and proclaimed
August 10, 1866, and which land was
then estimated to contain 2,139,0S0 acres,
but which is now, after survey, ascer
tained to contain 2.370,414.62 acres,
said sum of money to be paid as fol
lows: $1,500,000 " to remain in the
treasury of the United States to the cred
it of said nation of Indians, and to bear
interest at the rate of 5 per cent per an
num from July 1, 1S89, said interest to be
paid semi-annually to the treasurer of
said nation, and the sum of 312.940.20
to be paid to such person or persons as
shall be duly authorized by the laws of
said nation to receive tho same, and at
such times and in such sums as shall be
directed and required by tho legislative
authority or said nation, to be immedi
ately available. This appropriation to
become operative upon the execution by
the duly appotnted delegates of said na
tion specially empowered so to do, of a
release and conveyance to the United
States of all the right, title, interest and
claim of said nation of Indians in and to
said lands in manner and form satisfac
tory to the president of the United
States; and said release and conveyance
when fully executed and delivered shall
operate to extinguish all claims of every
kind and character of said Seminole na
tion of Indians in and to the tract of
country to which said release and con
veyance shall apply, bnt such
release, conveyance and extin
guishment shall not inuro to the
benefit or cause to vest in any railroad
company any right, title or interest
whatever in or to any said lands; and all
laws and parts of laws so far as they
conflict with the foregoing are hereby
repealed, and all grants or pretended
grants to said lands or any interest or
right therein now existing in or on be
half of any railroad company except
rights ot way and depot grounds are
hereby declared to be forever forfeited
for breach of condition.
PAKT OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.
Sec. 13. That the lands acquired by
the United States under said agreement
shall be a part of tho public domain, to
be disposed of only as herein provided,
and sections 16 and 36 of each township,
whether serveyod or unsurveyed, are
heieby reserved for the use and benefit
of the public, schools within the limits
of said lands under such conditions and
regulations as may be hereafter enacted
by congress; that the lauds acquired by
conveyance from the Seminole Indians
hereunder, except tho 16th and 36th sec
tious, shall be disposed of to actual set
tlers under the homestead laws
only except as herein otherwise
provided (except that section 2301
of tho revised statutes shall
not apply); and provided further that
any person who, having attempted, but
for any cause failed, to secure a title in
fee to a homestead under existing law,
or who made entry under what is known
as the commuted provision of the home
stead law, shall be qualified to make a
homestead entry upon said lands; and
piovided further, that the rights of hon
orably discharged union soldiers and
sailors in the late civil war, as defined
and described in sections 2304 and 2305
of the revised statutes, shall not be ab
bridged: and provided further, that each
entry shall bo in square form as neaily
as practicable and no person bo permit
ted to enter uioie than one quarter sec
tion thereof; but until said lands are
opened for settlement by proclamation
of the president, no person shall be per
mitted to enter upon and occupy the
same and no person violoting this pro
vision shall be permitted to enter any
of said lands or require any right thereto.
The secretary of the interior may. after
proclamation and not before, permit
entry of said lands for town sites,
under sections 23S7 and 2388 of tho
revised statutes, but no such entry shall
embrace more than one-half section of
land; that all foregoing provisions with
reference to lands to bo acquired from
the Seminole Indians, including the pro
visions pertaining to forfeiture, shall ap
ply to and regulate the disposal of the
lands acquired from tho Muscogee or
Creek Indians by articles of cession and
agreement made and concluded at the
city of Washington on tho 9th day of
January in the year of our Lord 1SS9.
TREATING. WITH OTHER TRIBES.
Sec. 14. The president is hereby au
thorized to appoint three commissioners,
not more than two of whom shall be
members of the same political party, to
negotiate with the Cherokee Indians and
with all other Indians owning or claim
ing land lying west of the 96th degree of
longitude in the Indian territory for the
cession to the United States of all their
title, claim or interest of every kind or
character in and to said lands, aud any
and all agreements resulting from such
negotiations shall be reported to the
president and by him to congress at its
next session and to the councilor councils
of the nation or nations, tribe or tribes,
agreeing to the same ratification, and for
this purpose the sum of $25,000, or as
much thereof as may be necessary is
hereby appropriated to be immediately
available; provided that said commission
is further authorized to submit to the
Cherokee nation the proposition that
faid nation shall cede to the United
States in the manner and with the effect
aforesaid all the rights of said nation in
said lands upon the same terms as to
payment as is provided in the agreement
made with the Creek Indians, of date
January IS. 1SS9, and ratified by the
president and congress, and if said
Cherokee nation shall accept and by act
of its legislative authority, duly passed,
ratify the same the same the said lands
shall then become a part of tho public
domain, for the purpose of such disposi
tion as is nerein proviueu; unu m? presi
dent is authorized, as saon thereafter as
he mav deem advisable, by proclama
tion, to open said lanos to settlement ;
in the same manner ana to tne same
effect as in this act provided
concerning the lands acquired from said
Creek Indians, but uutil lands are open
ed for settlement oy proclamation of the
president no person shall be permitted to
enter upon or occupy the samo and no
person violating this provision shall be
permitted to enter any of the said lands
or acquire any neht taereio.
LAND OFFICES ESTABLISHED.
Sec 15. That the president may,
whenever he deems ir necessary, create
not to exceed iwo land districts, embrac
ing the lands which he may open to set
tlement, by proclamation as hereinbe
fore provided, and he is empowered to
locate land offices for the same, appoint
ing thereto, in conformity to existing
law, registers and receivers, and for the
purpose of carrying out this provision
fo,000, or so much thereof as may be
necessary, is hereby appropriated.
SOME INDUSTRIAL HINTS.
To the Editor of the Eacle:
A writer in "The Forum"' of a recent
number enters quite fully into a compar
ison of the school system of our country
with those of France and Germany, and
draws conclusions very much in favor of
those of the latter, because of their in
dustrial training; educating the eye and
hand in connection with the powers of
mind.
In these schools boys and girls are
given an opportunity for becoming ac
quainted with the rudiments of some of
the practical things of life in which
their future may be cast; and thus bet
ter equip them to fight the great battle
for bread.
Children enter with delight into the
work; muscular activity is rest
after hours of mental appli
cation, and it is affirmed where the ex
periment has been tried, learn more from
books in half a day, than they did in a
whole day under the old regime. .
New York, Philadelphia, and Boston
have fallen into line, and established
such school as a part of their common
school system; and other cities by pri
vate liberality in establishing manual
training schools, where only those able
to pay the tuition have tho benefit direct,
are doing a good work for all, by show
ing the possible benefits to be derived
from such schools.
An Ohio paper of recent date, says that
in the schools of Cincinnati, the boys
and girls are learning to make watches
and clocks.
Applied science to tho wants of the
times is demanded in the system of edu
cation. Edison as a telegrapher was al
most a failure, but while at tho instru
ment he improved the opportunity for
studies in electricity, and thereby made
discoveries to electrify the world.
Those of you who "have attended the
industrial expositions at Cincinnati and
elsewhere have, doubtless, admired the
beautiful pottery of Miss McLaughlin.
She caught the spirit of the art when, as
a girl in her father's pottery of common
clay vessels, 6he watched the process,
and studied and modelled and persevered
until she achieved fame and fortune. (A
hint as to the clay deposits of Wichita's
surrounding country.
Not long since I heard a man who is
the proprietor of a planing mill and
market gardens, say: "The boys of today
are no account for the wants of my busi
ness, because they serve no apprentice
ship. If I get a good gardener or a skill
ful machinist at tho mill I must employ
a foreigner who has served his appren
ticeship." Ho did not understand that
they went to apprentice school m franco
and Germany, and that this country did
not furnish such schools to her youth,
but left them to the tender (?) mercies of
chance.
Now the thought I press is this: In
dustrial or trades schools go far to sup
ply the education that the apprenticeship
system gives, and skilled labor is the
world's great and constantly increasing
demand at remunerative prices, and that
it behooves this great and glorious coun
try, this great and growing common
wealth, this great and flourishing city,
to see to it that the money expended for
public instruction is in such manner as
will make the beginnings of practical
business life to her youth easier than
they now are, and not so much to the de
velopment of the "uncommercial
touiist."
In Lyons and other European silk
centers, are silku ecv ng schools, enab
ling such as are students to become
practical workers, manufacturers, or
superintendents in mills, which is a
suggestive thought on another industry,
is demanding at this very hour, atten
tion from Wichita women as being
essential y in the line ol woman's work
for woman: I refer to silk cultuie.
A "woman's silk culture association'
exists in Philadelphia with tho puipose
of promoting silk cultuie as profitable
woik for women.
This was organized with "purely phil
anthropic' puipose by Philadelphia la
dies. It has permanent offices at 1328
Chestnut streetl where reeling silk is
taught; silk worm eggs, mulberry trees
and hand reels sold and books of instruc
tions which it publishes supplied. They
hold silk exhibi:ions,andboastquitoalarge
number of auxiliaries in dnTeient status,
and thousands of correspondents. Its
mosoectus in presenting the claims of
"America's new industry" savs: it can
be piosecuted by tho feebler members of
the family, women and children or aged
persons, to whom the severer country
life is a burden and the compensation is
sure; for if our country is sending
annually to foreign lands :J18,000,000
for raw silk there is no reason why this
amount of money cannot be divided
nmone our own American seri-culturists.
TIio irnn nr nioduct id not nerishablo
like much of the farm product, and the
trees once planted and grown, yield a
perpetual supply for silk worms; care
being only in the annual picking of the
leaves.
Now when we consider that it is uni- j ancj K)0,000 court house, both of which had. Asatonsoral artist, Talmaj;o is ludi
versally proven and admitted that Kan- j are 'to-fc the question of that long' crou3. I watched him in bis room ono day
sas is the place, par excellence, for seri- iked 0f pontoon bridge across the lia- with his razor Ho had allowed himie.f
culture, is it not wise and "worth while" I sonn :H airain connnir to the fore. but Gtc miauls for sharing lea twinkling
for the women of Wichita to encourago
and foster this industry? Can we not
talk about it, write, think and act about
it, so that ere many years pass over,
aiound and about the "Peerless Prin
cess," along the banks of the Arkansas,
shall rise great silk manutactone3, sur-
rounded by hundreds of vine-clad cot-
tages, each a happy home, not tearing
the wolf of want at the door, because
the means of securing a livelihood are
furnished as well as amusement halls,
churches and libraries.
Do not be dismayed at the prospect
and though you may not wear a silken
gown from tho "Wichita looms this year,
remember whi.t Scott makes one of his
characters say: "Piant trees, Jock,
they'll aye be blooming while you are
sleeping." Lora R. Priddy.
KANSAS KOLLARY.
A six-foot vein of cannel coal has been
found near "Washington.
The silk industry was remembered to
the extent of $o,000 a year for the next
two years.
Blind Boone compliments Topeka by
declaring that there are more pretty la
dies in that place than he ever saw any
where else. '
Jiiis Campbell, of Pawnee, Bourbon
county, was found dead in a well. It
supposed she fell in while drawing a
bucket of water.
Atchison consumed 60 per cent less
coal this winter than usual. Thf3 is the
universal experience of the sunny San
flower state all over, however.
D. "W. Yannaten, of Hutchinson, has
sued the Santa Fe railway company for (
$35,000 damages for the lo3ota:oot
while in the employ of tho company.
Neosho Falls Post: There is a qneer
sect lately arisen in Minneapolis, Kan.,
which hofd that a new Christ has been
born in fulfillment of a Bible prophecy.
The legislature of 1SS3, which ha3 just
concluded its labors, passed 230 bills,
I I i
Ladies new Spring Wraps!
Just received Handsome Beaded "Wraps, at $3.26, $4.50
$aoo. $7.50 and up to the finest imported garments. Correspond
ingly low prices on Newmarkets, TJeasant Coats and Jackets; In
Broadcloths, Diagonals and French Cords.
-We offer a fresh
Sallies, French Ginghams, White Goods,
and all "Wash Goods. maMng undoubtedly, the largest and best
assortment ever offered in Kansas.
In Dress Goods we show all the staple and new fabrics; by
far the most complete stock in the city. JL specially attractive
variety of choice pattern dress combinations, of the best grades
of plain and novelties at very low figures. As a flyer, we make
one case fine "Wool Dress Goods at 29c a yard, worth 50a
Blaek Dress Goods.
"We have all the new features from the cheapest to the very
finest manufactured.
To start the season, 168 cents buys an extra fine gold headed
Silk Umbrella. "We have all the better grades at equally as
good values.
White Bed Spreads.
New patterns just received. Extra fine Marseille, the greatest
bargains ever offered at the following prices: $1.78, $2.10, $2,20,
$3.30, $3,90. $4.60 and $4.90. Bach grade guaranteed to be
worth at least one half more.
Our Carpet Department.
Is more than crowded with new Ingrains, Moquettes, Body
Brusse s, Velvets, Tapestry Brussels. Art Squar s. Rugs, Oil
Cli ths, Linoleums, Mattings, and everything pertaining to nouse
furnishings, all at our popular low prices. In this department
we offer as special drives, 50 pairs fancy Scrim Curtains at 190c
a pair. Extra fine Sheepskin Mats at 138c and 2i8c. To secure
them act quickly.
Special attention is called to our new lace and novelties in
silk srriped Curtains.
House and btore window shades of all descriptions made and
put up promptly.
For Bargains in all Departments trade at the
"WHITE .-' HOUSE,
OF
NNES
116 TO 120 MAIN STREET.
fully 75 per cent of which were of a local
nature. The legislature of 1SS7 passed
211 bills.
By the appointment of "William Thom
son of Burlingame, as judge of the new
Thirty-fifth judicial district Osage coun
ty has a resident jadge for the first time
iii its hiatory.
Reports fiom Winfield state that the
budded peach crop in thut section has
been killed. The seedlings, however,
are all right. Other iruit is in a prom
ising condition.
In tho oratorical contest of the stu-
( dents ot the college at Hifton, 3Io., luat
I week, 3Ir. Claude D. W. Keller, of Ar-
Kansjit. Uity. ivan., carneu oi tne urei
prince a gold medal.
iix-Lieutenant uovernor itmuie musM
make a good presiding ofhet-r. lie is,
grand master of the Kansas I. O. O. F.
and has just been elected grand master j
i w
worn man lor uio amiu ui mu iv. kj. u.
, ' Wednesday
nijrht of la&t week. The principal losers,
sa& tne .ews, wero mo uayiius uaiu
waie Co. and Amos Da via," furniture.
Their losses were partially covered by
insurance.
Olin Goodwine, aged 18, was thrown
totuogrounuuy wie Muuiuiwg "",
horse ho was ndmir near
iifiiinmr.
i Lodge, Thursday, and striking upon liu
J head his neck was broken and he died
i almost instantly.
Atchison is getting real ambitious,
Vnc ctififJ with its new union denot
I , w ,, , T- ,. . D jr.w
that a SnSbis .npervfiron of h pi-
pd. from tb. time thS Jeuvt, homo for
sciiOOl until tney recn numoiroiusuuuui,
ana can uo piuusueu iu. uutwuuu i j
I t !.,! f- ,;, ,-vl.i ,.r.
the way.
TUo. nnrontu r,!crt i.n ntr fha
samc pnvileg
Of COUr6C.
A fire occurred at Norwich, Kingman
J county, Wednesday, wmen acroyea i
J the hardware store of Haines Bro. and
I the furniture story of A. W. Davis. Thu i
town nas no lire protection except a 0Vpr, I presume to tcis day fcc can net imas
bucket brigade, and would have buffered Jae what provoked my merriment, liotkiaz
much more severely if the wmd had been I was dene rnoro naturally or la a asm otter
blowing. The total loss w roughly esti- jy matter-of-fact way
mated at 17,000, with insurance of it WOu!d bo filfflcult to find a man taoro
8,000. j restless ta nature than the famous Brooklyn
AdamGrogger, car repairer of the preacher Us can scarcer remalx iqcUrt cr
Union Pacific railway, with headquar., position for coaent. 0g'
The train started and an iron
.struck him ner the
fth nearlr an inch and a half
"bUl Vfc. """:" . I
tVlt sk-n r-Mfftnfr n
f.flTl
across his face, destroying both eyes and
rendering his prospect for future exist
ence extremely doubtful. Abdene Re
flector. -r i
The Regeneration of MlMOtiri.
St. Il OIoi-rcrat
It used to be idle to deny that the Mis
souri standard of intelligence, as ex
pressed in popular elections, was lament
ablT crude and discreditable; bnt the sit
uation has bn changed in that respect,
as a man of Mr Cbace's position and op-nortnmu-s
ouht to know. "Poor old
Missouri" has corns in out of the desert
and consented to oc enrry-comwrd, as n j ccaUtpUUvts exltteeoe, varied
were. The churches, schools and nawt- j osj lfeo t1!1 cf straagw cartel to
pap-3, with a certain measure o assist- - cpoa te todiridaai who had become a
ance from the penitentiary, have sradn- rCTiuZl Issutaiios- Hbfcd is the !m
ally rectified and elevated the tone of ple9t i tzs' pnaittra ttire, hi less
public sentiment and opened the way ror j vrhita lock strsaslag la tfc wicd, Tfc
complete redemption from the influences J j f ti IVooda ' looked Sks a&ot&er
of darkness. It is true that the grim j BobJasoc Cruso. A short kme &er Lis
shadow of Bcrjrbonlsm still lingers in j tralih broke dowo, aod 39 rasoTed ut
spots here and there; bat it Is certain to j r!s where fa hi jest csded hi dys
disappear altogether within the next J teadSd apcttocaelj by a wood-ur wio
f otir years. I bad &fe&rd wfJb hist hfc cs2& ka.
importation of-
&
HABITS OF TALMAGE.
Soma
Charatrrlit!c of tho
Fuinom
JSruokljn 1'rojchur.
"o man enjoyss sleeping moro than docs
Tatoage, writes Edwuni Irving In the Al
bany (X. Y.) Argu I have known hlra to
rcf ufio a most lucrative piece of work, for
tho simple reason, as he explained, " be
cause it would deprive mo of my capping
time." He will unatcb the briefest space of
time between his engagements for a nap, al
though it may bo only ten or flf icon min
utes' duration. On tho cars ho sleeps near
ly all tho time, wrapped "up In a huge
blanket. "There Is nothing that refreshes
mo so much as a short sleep," ho nays,
apologetically, and ofC be la with his head on
hii breast. lie sleeps sonndly and wakes
... Ta1man. i, wrreedlnclr carele In
U3 dress, and It requirss tho constant cyo
0f his careful wuoUmj that hi exterior
appCaranco 13 at all presentable. Ho cares
i nbsolutelv nothlnir lor h outward looses.
and would wear tbo sanin collar for two
weeks if ho could not find a clean nno after
a moment's ncarch. Him crarat are mode j
of economy, and only a short tuna ago I co
countered him on a New York thorough
fare purchasing two black bows from a
street tender. "That hat ha seen wear,"
said a friend to him ooc day while out
walking. " Do you think I need a bow
ono ho aaked. tafchurltoff and ciamin
i ' v ...
inc it. " Well, lot us step In this .store."
and he splod a hatter'. Jn a moment ho
had tried ono on, paid for it, and
was out cf the store leaving bis old oao In
tho hands of tho dealer, who evidently
thought him the easiest customer he ever
ho had his coat o3, aud a towel stuck b-
" '" T 'SahJjS,r
2XliJl
t "- . ,. .' . .. f,. i - ,in
KJUIU I" "" "" ". - - -
r T . . . .t,,i . r
WJJ-H iviuu 'w v. - -
,va3 intended for sw. Ailcr earehlai? for
! a manent for his stroo. and not txnUsi it,
nc reached for hi book in hU library, bound
jasfcyjPt and to my astonisamcat aaarpeood
j raror on tho ooTer of the roluma. Jtfy
laughter surprised him, cad as I passed U
rt MM.
..
Thrxj Tr Uj Tr.
Visitors to Fcatainehleau may hare
chanced npoa an andeut ytto west hy tie
name of "Jfazaretb' &ad was rsroamed
"The Han of tho Wocis." When the em
pire was in Its icsiththjj gtraaje character,
retiring fccnalt-llke. from tbebajytascU
f mca, made for himlf & tabltatioo la the
thickest part of the Ttrsowsod tsnti. Uo
dwelt amos? the braaefces of fortr,
which he bad linked together wUh class?
cf ires, and the orimHrre dweJilsi wtich
I be had thus coastracVsd la cki-alr w enly
to at reacaed oy a i&er rrcrrDa jeaiouiy
for kis so;e tie and &coo. so, tor nearly
tfeJr.esr, didcldM5r.Ttlsrt lead
