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MAKSHAMj M. MOKHOCK. Editor.
Sir John Macdonald, Canada's pre
mier, is 77 years old, the queen is old,
monarchy is old they will die.
Calvin S. Brice is said to play an ex
cellent game of poker, so he may not
make such a bad senator after all.
The aggregate number of members of
the Oklahoma Republican club is 5,800.
The more ve see of Oklahoma the more
we are impressed that it is fashioned
after Kansas.
The situation in Iowa appears to be
getting interesting, if not serious. "With
straight work there is little danger of
Allison's defeat for the senate but there
is some danger of a tangle,
Chief Justice Corliss of North Dakota
refuses to accept railroad passes. North
Dakota is rendering itself very disagree--able
by displaying such righteous poses
before the eyes of a wicked set of poli
ticians. Rev. Sam Jones has announced that
1890 will be an epochal year and Jay
Gould has predicted the greatness of the
year. "With two authorities in such
marked different fields, this ought to
settle it.
Secretary Noble is the only member of
ihe cabinet who does his own market
ing, and perhaps the only one who eats
river. His daily inquiry of the butcher
is: xiave you a can. a uvei una uium-
ttig?" If so, he buys one. If not
depends on the cook making hash.
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The Cold Water Enterprise has an
nounced Marsh Murdock for governor iu
1890. There seems to be something incon
eongruous about this. Topeka Journal.
Except as to the Cold "Water, very in
congruous, and we hope that our good
friend the editor of the Enterprise will
appreciate the wisdom of the Journal's
observation.
Czar Alexander prays that "the de
velopment of the country's internal re
sources may be undisturbed amid peace,
which is universally desired." Meanwhile
his imperial majesty's government is de
rotingthe country's internal resources
and all the external ones it can borrow
to zealous illustration of the maxim,
"In peace prepare for war."
If Kunze, the Cronin suspect who was
granted a new trial at tho time the oth
ero were convicted and sentenced to life
imprisonment, is innocent as he alleges,
or if tho dime museum manager who is
paying him 430 a week as an attraction
believed him innocent, or if tho people
who flock to see him and pay their
money for tho privilege believed him
guiltless, he would bo without the fat
job ho is now holding down. There
would be no curiosity to see him.
There were ninety-eight persons exe
cuted under process of law in the United
States last year. The number executed
without legal process, by mobs, is placed
at 173. There are those who hold to tho
idea that if there had been more of the
former there would have been fewer of
the latter. However this may be, there
Is little doubt that tho effect of these, as
far as restraining tho evil propensities of
the viciously inclined, has been as salu
tary in proportion' as those that took
place in the regular way.
Governor Lowry's message to tho Mis
sissippi legislature shows that iu the
past eight years, during all of which he
has filled the gubernatorial chair of that
state, the free 6chool attendance in tho
state has increased from 214,000 to 383.
000, and the annual achool expenditure
irom 680,000 to $1,200,00.0. This seems
to be doing pretty well without the aid
of any Blair bill federal appropriation.
This may bo taken as an encouraging
augury for tho future of that state in tho
matter of civil equities, though such
beneficent effects are not yet sufficient
ly marked to bo seen by tho naked eve.
Tho counties of Seward, Miami, Dick
inson and Comanche yesterday notified
the secretary or the State Immigration
Bureau of their actions, respectively, in
joining tho movement. Theie is little
doubt that every county in the state will
participate actively in tho movement at
an early day, as soon as necessary local
action can be had. It is most gratifying
and encouraging to see the unanimity
and promptness with which the state
has taken hold of this most important
matter. It means success to tho under
taking, aud this means prosperity to tho
state.
RIGHT IN PRINCIPLE, BUT WRONG IN
EFFECT.
A recent decision of the supreme court
puts a snug sum of money into the
pockets of the silk importers. They
were plaintiffs against the government
to recover $7,000,000 which they had dis
bursed in the payment of duties on im
ported silk ribbons. Tho silk tariff
schedulo was ambiguous regarding this
Hem. and they were charged 50 per cent
duty, -whereas, they claimed, they
tdiould have been charged but 20 per
cent. The supremo court has decided
tho suit in their favor, and the enormous
sum of $7,000,000 is returned to their
pockets.
The excess of duty thus wrongfully
collected does not of right belong to the
government, and should be refunded if
it could be restored to those from whom
it was collected, but smco this
is impossible it should remain where
it was, in the treasury of the
government. Clearly it does not belong
to tho importers and dealers, because
they added tho per cent to tho selling
price of the goods and it was paid by the
consumers, and of courso these cannot
assert their claims thereto for obvious
reasons. The importers and dealers cer
tainly have no claim on tho government,
for the reason stated, that is, that they
have received the amount paid thus in
exce3 back from their customers. To
refund to them the amount mentioned
will be to simply pay them a double
profit at the consumers' expense. In
view of these facts, therefore, the money
involved in the matter should remain in
the treasury. Of course the decision of
the supremo court fixing the rato of du
ty to be charged hereafter as long as the
duty is imposed is all right if it did not
carry with it the other feature of refund
ing the excess already collected, and ac
cording to the strict rules of equity this
perhaps is all right, too; but that s out
of the question, as we have attempted to
show.
SailiJK
AND STILL A LITTLE MOBE OP IT.
The most unjust burthen, the chain
whose links rankles the deepest down
into the industrial life of this country, is
the dividend demanded by the holders of
the watered stock of great corporations;
it is the money exacted from the labor of
the country to pay interest on fictitious
holdings; it is the toll squeezed from a
defenseless public on investments that
never had an existence outside of the
forged evidence offered by worthless cer
tificates. These exactions and robber
ies are applied to everything which it is
possible to put under monopoly rule,
either through patent laws, franchises or
combines. Watered stock is every
where, and absorbing the pro
ducts ot labor, not only m
untold millions and billions of wind
dollars in tho transportation lines, ex
press companies and telegraph com
panies, in wharfage, storage, etc. of the
country, but in almost every line of
manufacture, under the rule of the com
bines and trusts; in leads and in oils, in
iron and glass, in sugars and in spirits
and in many classes of prepared food.
Hundreds of bushels of wind-wheat are
sold for every actual bushel produced,
sold for future delivery, and sold short.
The bulls triumDh not one day in thirty
and tho victory is of such short dura
tion as to never reach the producer, only
the rich holder. The bears rule every
where and rule eternally. They bear
down all things of commercial or mer
chantable character, all that is produced
by the farmer or by the laborer, and in
bearing down these they prostrate the
business of tho merchant and destroy
the value of llio mechanic's labor, and
that inevitably.
There is but one power which can
reach these abuses and troubles, and
that is the power of the general govern
ment as represented by the congress of
the United States. To this body, to its
composition and action, can tho people
only look for relief. Tho only trouble is
tho "dollar," whose potency is well nigh
immeasurable. The dollar is becoming
almighty. Vox Pecunia vox Dei is the
motto of tho voters. Wall street does
not own the people of this country, yet
it directly and indirectly controls a
large minority ot them, which minority
reprerents the legislative and executive,
and, to some extent wo fear, the judicial
powers of the country. At
the ballot box alone does "vox
nopuli vox Dei"' hold good, and unless
the ballot Tjox is, in tho very near future,
protected from the bribe-giver and bribe
taker, money will rule that also, m
which event the individual power of tho
people will have been lost and liberty
and self government be but a name.
Lift but for a year or two these im
posed burdens from the industry of
America, and the farmer, the mechanic
and the hiborer would all be rendered
happy in the enjoyment of abundant re
turns, and in turn the merchant and the
professional man and all the middle
classes would bo kept profitably busy,
and prosperity bless this great land
which is now unreasonably and unjustly
burdened.
Accounts that are now coming from
the west in relation to the weather show
the worst conditions existing in a large
scope of country known for years if over
before. Railroad trains have been
snowed up on nearly all the roads and
telegraphic communication seriously in
terrupted. Great destruction to live
stock is feared, and intense suffering
among tho people and many deaths will
undoubtedly be disclosed as tho present
stress gives way and affairs begin to as
sume their normal conditions. We
think we have had a pretty stiff two
weeks spell down in this latitude but it
has been mild and pleasant in compari
son with what they have had in tho
mountain regions to the west and north
of us.
Tho Kansas liar has been at work
again at his old tricks of defaming tho
state. Under Kansas City, Mo., date ho
sent a telegram east which was pub
lished in the daily papers, among the
rest the Boston llearld, stating that
Kansas had been visited by the worst
blizzard known for years; that snow had
fallen at Wichita to a depth of fifteen
inches and at some points in the western
part of the state the snow had drifted as
high as a one-story house, and that trains
had been -abandoned on all tho railroads,
and so forth and so on. Well, with the
exception that wo didn't have any bliz
zard to speak of; that we didn't have-any
railroads blockaded or trains abandonod,
and that wo had only about three inches
of snow, tho statement was approxi
mately correct.
A NEW YORK REPUBLICAN ON SU
GAR AND POLITICS.
New York City, Jan. 14, 1S90.
To tho Editor of tho Eagle.
It. is with great batisfaction that I learn
that tho leaven is working in Kansas,
and that there is one editor in tho state
with sufficient courage and self respect
to disdain party chains, when tho party
is clearly iu tho hands of monopolists
and corruptiomsts. At tho same timo,
in a community like Kansas where the
Republican vote is so overwhelming,
more good can be accomplished by re
maining in the party and instigating
and agitating incessantly, thau by re
nouncing the party and going into the
Democratic camp. In tho latter case
the party "hacks ' jump on one, and his
power is weakened, nay lost; and the
Democratic party is not to be entirely re
lied on many Democratic congressmen
owe their election to the money and fa
vor of protected interests and'ehartered
monopolists, and many support the ten
ets of the party in a prefunctory way.
The rising tide of discontent will
sweep over them all The little modi
cum of reduction which might have
pacified tho disconted a few years ago,
will not satisfy people when "they are
thoroughly informed of how atrociously
they have been bamboozled and robbed
for twenty years. Sweeping away the
internal taxes on whiskey and tobacco
and increasing tax" on blankets, barbed
wire, etc;, will not suffice.
I feel pretty sure prohibition is doomed
in Kansas. 1 received a
sample of Kansas sugar. I am surprised
at the fine crystal ot this sugar. T should
have pronounced it fine qualify Musco
vado, had I met with it accidentallv.
N. C.
CLIMATE
OF SOUTHWESTERN
LOUISIANA
Communicated to the St. Charles Gazette.
By southwestern Louisiana, I mean
that portion of the state of Louisiana
one hundred-miles from north to south,
ana one hundred nines irom east to wfest 1.
m the southwest corner of the state.
This favored spot is blest with a climate
that is exceptionally fine. While much
may truthfully be said favorably of the
climate of the entire gulf coast, it is
nevertheless true, that this favored spot
surpasses all other portions of the south,
and I verily believe any other part of
America in the delightfuiness of its cli
mate. Having resided here nearly two
years, and having diligently inquired of
the oldest inhabitants, I think I am pre
pared to discuss this subject intelligently.
And first I ask why is this particular
one hundred miles square more foyored
than any other section of equal extent in
the same latitude? I will give you some
of the physical causes that, in my judg
ment, produce this result. 1st. The
Gulf of Mexico reaches its northermost
latitude west of the Mississippi river on
the coast of southwest Louisiana. 2d.
Tho inner gulf stream, a stream with a
current of two to three miles
an hour, flowing parallel with
the coast, makes its nearest ap
proach to the land at the mouth of Cal
casieu pass. This brings the warm wa
ter of the south to our shores, tempering
the atmosphere as it comes in contact
with it. lid. Large bodies of water in
the form of lakes are distributed along
the coast from five to forty miles inland.
These bodies of water, connected with
tho gulf, as they are, tend to modify the
atmosphere, cooling it in summer and
warming it in winter. And as the sun
heats and rarifies the air on land the air
that has become cooled by contact with
the water passes inland to fill the
vacuum, thus producing "a constant suc
cession of deligutful breezes, which
reach inland about one hundred miles.
Then north of this region, which is most
ly prairie, stretches a vast forest of state
ly pine, magnificent oak, beautiful pecan )
and tall hickory, with many shrubs and
smaller trees in the intermediate spaces.
This forest reaches up through this state
and Arkansas to the Missouri line, where
it has in its front as a line of breast
works against the northern blizzards, tho
Ozark mountains.
Whoever has tried the experiment of
getting behind a larn for shelter from
the cutting wind on a cold morning in
the north, and has then stepped out
from behind the barn and felt the keen
wind strike him with its biting breath,
can understand our situation while
sheltered behind the great natur
al barrier composed of the great
forests and mountains: and can under
stand how it is that we enjoy a better
climate than our neighbors who are
from behind the shelter. When the
blizzard from Minnesota or Dakota starts
southward, it meets an obstruction in
the Ozark mountains that divides its
main force, while the portion that suc
ceeds in passing the mountains is still
further obstructed and modified by the
forest-, so that by tho time it reaches
southwest Louisiana it is but a cool
wave, producing rainfall, but rarely any
frost.
The main body of the blizzard being
divided, one wing sweeps down through
Indian territory and Texas, and is called
a "norther," and is much dreaded oven
in southern Texas. The other wing
sweeps down tho Mississippi vallejT, as
through a tunnel, producing a prodigi
ous rainfall. Statistics show that while
New Orleans has a rainfall of seventy
five inches per annum, Lake Charles,
the chief city of soul Invest Lousiana, has
a rainfall of fifty inches.
The temperature of this region is more
even than it is either east or west of us.
During tho blizzard of January, 1887,
tho lowest temperature reached in Lake
Charles was 23 degrees abovo zero. At
the same timo in Houston, Tex., due
west of here, the thermometer reached
18 degrees above zero, while one hundred
miles west of Houston it reached 11 de
grees above. At the same timo directlv
east of us one hundred miles and up
wards, tho thermometer marked 28 de
grees, 19 degrees and IS degrees abovo
zero. Tho Ingest temperature reached
in Lake Charles since 1 came here is 93
degrees above zero, and the lowest 30 de
grees above. The difference in temper
ature from one month to another is
rarely more than 5 degrees to 8 degrees,
and the difference from noon to midnight
not more than 5 degrees to 10 degrees.
This makes it very pleasant and health
ful. The climate is specially "beneficial
to those troubled with lung, nasal and
throat diseases. The summers are not
so hot and sultry as they are in the
northwestern states, but aro much
longer. The delightful gulf breezes
make it pleasant even in tho middle of
the summer, except during tho middle of
tho day from 10 o'clock a. m. to 4
o'clock p. m. and even then it is pleas
ant in tho shade. Tho waters are de
lightful. Although there is a greater
rainfall in winter than in summer, and
it is sometimes chilly, damp and dis
agreeable for from one to three days at
a time, it soon changes when tho wind
changes to the south, and is so warm
and pleasant that for weeks at a time wo
do not light fires in our sitting rooms or
parlors, and men work in the open air in
their shirt sleeves.
Wo, therefore, claim with confidence
that "Southwest Louisiana possesses a
climate superior to any other portion of
the gulf coast, and of California, in these
particulars: .First, a more even temper
ature; second, greater freedom from
wind storms; third, a more even distri
bution of rainfall; fourth, cooler in sum
mer and warmer in winter; fifth, health
ier. Take it all the yertr round, I be
lieye our climate is unsurpassed on this
green earth. W. H. Cline.
BACKED BY THE FARMERS.
Medicine Lodge. Jan.' 20, 1S90.
Friend Murdoch: Go on. Keep it up.
We are your backers. We are only
Farmers, but let me say wo have stood
all wo can. We have tried to support
our families. Wo have looked ahead
with hope for a big crop to have better
times, it has come: that crop of 1S89
was all we could ask, but the prices we
got for our stock and this crop is in the
tide of lost hope. We must drop politics
and work hand in hand, and with a will.
We will have things our way in a little
while. You and A'our paper have the
credit of making Wichita what it is to
day, and if you will stand by us farmers
as you do now. with the help of other
papers, who can't be beat, we will have
better times as soon as we elect one of
our number to help make laws for our
protection, which we are going to do by
our votes at the next election, and don't
you forget it. Our homes call for it, our
families call for it. No politics in the
next vote.
It must be that men will make
laws which will give us justice. Our
country is bountiful, but will not, can
not pay such interest and taxes and ini-
prove our many homes. All we earn
goes to make a few richer. It must stop,
and stop in 1S?0 and '91. We areread
eis of your paper. We wish to hear
from other farmers. We want their
ideas. It spreads like wildfire. We are
waking up to a better state of things.
Matters have been going wrong. They
have gone a little- too far. There are
breakers ahead. Yours truly.
Eli Benedict.
The Voice of Conscience.
Prof. Towasead.
The only plea of conscience to man is
Trv in fin xrlir vnn Jhimr ritlir Ttw
onlv condemnation Is Yoa have not
tried to
do what yoa believe to be right.
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Seeds, Slips, Scions, Sprouts, Shoots nd Slivers.
Bill Hackney is almost as quiet at pres
ent as the pan-American congress.
The Burlineamo knitting factory has
been rebuilt and will resume business.
The seed for the prize corn for the world's
fair will be grown in Kansas this summer.
Two hundred mortgages have been re
leased in Riley county in the past six
weeks.
The annual encampment of the Kansas
G. A H. will be held at Salina, beginning
the 28th inst.
A syndicate of Davenport, Xa., capitalists
purchased Saturday the entire street rail
way of Fort Scott.
A farmer alliance delegate convention,
representing Reno and Rice counties, was
held in Sterling Saturday.
Marion has two resubmission papers.
They would not be in existence if popular
sentiment did not demand it.
When a man conscientiously signs the
temperance Dledce in Kansas, at the same
time he renounces Burns banquets.
Henry Booth, of Lamed, is the next who
thinks he hears the sentle voice of the peo
ple calling him to fill Sam Peters' place.
The first thirty years of a man's life is
spent in getting ready to live; the balance
of it in getting ready to die, savs the
Patriot.
It was generally thought th.it if there
was to be any wincing about that debate
that Mr. Plumb would do the kicking and
not Mr. Call.
The prisoners in the jail at Alma have
made a statement in the publfc prints that
that institution is entirely free from para
sitic insects.
From the 24th of April to the 24th of
December, 1SSS, C. Pi. Goodenough shipped
from the little town of Arlington $40,000
worth of hogs and $3,000 worth of cattle.
If you don't believe that Kansas farmers
are great readers of newspapers, go to
some rural district after a day's hard wind
and look at the windward side of a hedge
fence.
The Emporia Republican is running
music week days, aud a new paper is t6 bts
started in Emporia; but the facts, as we
present tnem, read singly uo not insinuate
anything.
Blood was recently discovered on the
floor and walls of a house in Greensburg
that had been used as a hotel. Quite a
little sensation has been stirred up. It is
believed that somebody murdered a bo
logna. A member of the state board of pardons
is to be appointed shortly by the governor
in place ot R. B. Stevenson, of Iola, re
signed. A regent of tho State university
is also to be appointed, Yice J. F. Billings,
resigned.
A Kansas scientist has found fossils of
an ornithochrius umbrosus, a liodon dis
pelor, aud a partheus molossus. For the
relief of those who are suffering from the
grip and a few of all atmospheric microbes,
we will announce that these came out of
the ground.
"It is a dead shame.' says the Ellsworth
Reporter, "to sell corn at 15 cents a bushel
when the buyer and stockman claims to
make 33 cents a bushel by feeding it to
hoKS, cattle and horses. Let the small
farmer take a tip from this aud get a little
stock of his own."
What with the adventures of Stanley
and Emin Pasha, the combats of Major
WissmanAvith the natives, the dispute of
Eugland and Portugal over the Mozam
bique region, Africa seems to bo getting
the best of Kansas in advertising space in
the American papers.
Henry Durst, of Medicine Lodge, who
made the original venture in the culture
of cotton in Kansas, and has experimented
with it more than any other man in the
state, is very firm in the belief that it is
the coming staple of Kansas, and that the
day is not far distant when its growth and
manufacture in the state will eclipse every
other industry.
The state board of railroad commission
ers has decided that express companies as
well as railway companies, must give duo
notice of an intended advance of rates, or
else the advanco will not be binding on "tho
shipper. In a recent case tho United
States Express company was ordered to re
fund to a shipper who had been compelled
to pay an advance of which no previous
notice had beea given.
Globe-Democrat: Ever since last Mon
day's rather acrimonious debate in the
senate between Messrs. Plumb, of Kansas,
and Call, of Florida, there have been wild
rumors of a possible meetinir under the
code. Tho story was to the effect that tho
Florida senator contemplated issuing a
challenge in order to obtain satisfaction
for certain reflections made upon him in
the heat of debate by the senator from
Kansas. Mr. Call is a gentleman of very
mild and placid manners, and he is usually
as serene as a summer sea, but his friends
declared that to maintain his honor ho
would venture even farther toward a per
sonal conflict than did the Delligerant
Judge Rucker, of Colorado, who, about a
year ago, challenged Senator Blackburn,
of Kentucky, to mortal combat and defied
the rest of mankind to tramp on the tail of
his ulsterette. Seekers after the sensa
tional have been anticipating a treat in the
shape of "pistols and coffee for two," or,
at least, au engagement with brickbats at
forty yards. They haye been disappointed,
however, for Senator Call explained
today that he was a man of peace,
and that the state of his mind had been
seriously misinterpreted. Not even the
language of the breezy senator from Kan
sas had disturbed his tranquility. He
was not going to issue a challenge, nor, in
deed, had he thought of taking serious is
sue further in relation to the subject dis
cussed in Monday's debate. Senator
Plumb further dispelled the delusion by
an exhibition of placidity even as pleasing
as that displayed by the Floridtr sena
tor. He was in a most pacific mood, and
declared that he couldn't think of stand
ing up as a taruet for either bullets or
brickbats in a matter of "honor," as pre
scribed by the code. Pe had been shot at
it was true, years ago, but that was in a
cause involving the honor of his country.
He was not expecting a challenge These
disclaimers of hostility being mutual, it is
evident that peace will prevail, despite the
rumors that have been living.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Cotton seed oil will be a great industiy
in Oklahoma.
Stillwater is tho only town in its section
of the country.
One Stillwater man took 450 fresh eggs
to Guthne to sell.
Right now is thought to bs the best time
to strike Oklahoma.
The firms that sell cotton-gins are talk
ing about Oklahoma.
A paying investment in Norman 'would
be the erection of a good hotel.
The people of Reno City who hare door
bells to their residences belong to the
"40V
Oklahoma City pinnies herself exceed
ingly on that convention, and she has o
richt to.
One hunter in the Chickasaw nation Js
said to have netted over 1,000 qual in one
week's time.
In new soil as that of Oklahoma yon can
raie fifteen hundred pounds of cotton, in
the seed, per acre.
The faro banks and the keno furniture
are being traded off for cattle and proper
ty. This is a good sign
Lincoln, the colored community, is the
banner Republican city in Oklahoma. 1l
club numbers 1.1S0 members.
C. M. Cady, of Kingfisher, was elected
chairman ot the Republican league of Ok
lahoma. W. G. McDonald was made sec
retary. Five car loads of flour arrived for mer
chants of Xorman last week. As a matter
of fact Norman is net only olive but also
growing.
The Cherokee strip business is almost as
quiet as Guthrie's just mayor, Mr. Dyet.
Does he expect nothing of the new terri
torial government?
The Oklahoraaites who are awaiting Ok
lahoma legislation, ares little bit. anxious
over the veracity ot that statement "that (
tvirvi?i?n. mmM tn him who waft"' I
levers - thini: comes to Wai "whs irai
The society columns in the Sunday Cap
ital of Guthrie would make some older
communities in the eastt who don't bank
on anything but society, open their eyes.
A good deal of cotton seed is oeinj: ship
ped into Oklahoma from points south.
Some of it is being used for cattle feed,
but most of it will be reserved for plant
ing in the spring.
The Indians have a-slick way of getting
bones to sell. They wait until some poor
devil has worked hard all day picking up
si load of bones in the Cherokee strip, and
theii notify the scouts, who order the bone
gatherers to unload, and after they haTe
done so and departed, the wily Indians
load the bones up in their own wagons,
take them to town and get SS.50 per ton
for them.
The following are the names of the Re
publican clubs in Oklahoma and the num
ber of membership: Guthrie, 1000: Deep
Fork, S3; Crooked Oak, 77; Seward, 200;
Orlando, 40; Edmond, 1C3- Frisco, 310;
Reno Citv. 120: Kinstisher. 1112; Britton.
71; Barnes, 21; Hennessey, 240; Harrison,
Go; Pathfinder. 21; Central City, 27; DeeD
Fork, No. 2, 10; Rural County, 13; ElReno,
41; Downs; S19, Lincoln, 11S0; Mattison,loo.
Items from the Hennesse3 Courier:
The cook at the Metropolitan claimed
his rights with a. dishrag.
The parties who carried off our cord
wood will greatly oblige us by returning
the same.
Some of the boys aro going to build
three-story bricks next week.
How many lots did you get?
The colored people got their share of lots
Tuesday evening.
E. Fisher can handle a spade with as
much grace as any of the boys.
John Zoll will have company on his lot.
"This is my lot" was the watchword
Tuesday night.
Two campers in the strip, a few miles
north of town, one night last week, were
not prepared to meet the thrilling experi
ence through which they passed, some
time after dark their horses began to snort
and show signs of intense fright. Peer
ing into the darkness one of the men saw
an object that looked like a large nog, or
possibly an Indian on all fours. When ap
proached the object retreated and disap
peared in the darkness. It soon reappeared
and again retreated at the approach of the
men. Finally the campers decided to shoot
at it, Iudian or uo Indian, aud to aid them
in Retting a "bead," placed a lighted
lantern out some distance from their
wagons. Soon the objectagain approach
ed, and to their amazement proved to be a
large black bear. One of the men fired a
charge of turkey shot into bruin as ha rose
to his haunches; but the other man was so
much amazed or badly frightened that he
for the time forgot he had a gun, and be
fore he could realize the situation, the bear
scampered off. This is no "fish story,"
but a "bear sto-y" of truthful origin.
Stillwater Gazette.
A LESSON IN ADVERTISING.
From tho Atlanta Constitution.
For some years past tho state of Ver
mont has been in serious trouble.
A steady stream of emigration has
been pouring out of that commonwealth
and new settlers have not been coming
in. So far from building up the waste
places and making the wilderness blos
som as the rose, the wilderness has ex
tended, and the waste places have multi
plied. But a brighter day is dawning for this
unfortunate state. The story of the
change is well told by the Boston Globe.
It seems that various methods of secur
ing immigrants were tried without suc
cess. It last it struck the leading spirits
that if advertising was a good thing for
a business man it was also a good thing
for a state. So the farms were adver
tised. People in tho four corners of tho
earth found themselves deluged with
newspapers, pamphlets and posters set
ting forth tho cheap lands and tho nat
ural resources of Vermont. Millions of
letters are now coming in to the commis
sioner of agriculture asking for informa
tion. Capitalists are buying up farms
and villages. The rush of immigration
has commenced in earnest and it will fill
the state with people.
It is the old story with its never-failing
result. Georgia, or any southern state,
by adopting the business methods of Ver
mont, would in a short time attract
millions of immigrants. The population
of the south, however, is increasing rap
idly enough, and it is perhaps better to
grow naturally than to torce a hot-house
growth, and bring suddenly into our
midst strange elements and strange prob
lems. Still the story of Vermont's rehabilita
tion carries a lesson with it.
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
No Iore Dandelions, Please.
From the New York Tribune.
People are getting tired reading of
dandelions blooming luxuriantly at this
season. Any gentlema n who has been
sunstruck since Christmas and is willing
to make an affidavit to that effect will
get a hearing. But no more dandelions,
please.
Cities Must Provide for Business.
From tho Philadelphia Record.
Movements are on foot to provide tho
cities of Minneapolis, Norfolk and
Wheeling with belt line railway facili
ties. It is generally recognized through
out the country that cities which expect
to attract trade mdst provide tho beat
means for handling it.
Not Afraid of Their Own.
From the Erfiporla Kevrs.
AVhen it was decided to call a grand
jury to investigate the shameless and
tlagrant bribery practiced in the last
legislature, it was discovered that the
legislature had some years ago protected
it&elf against such contingencies by re
pealing the law punishing bribe taking.
The jay legislator ia by no means a
chump.
Too Delphic by Half,
From the Kew York Sun.
Brother Sam Jones has gone into the
prophetic line and avers that this year
will be "an epochal year" and that
"some things have gone just as far as
they can go." We infer from this that
Brother Jones darkly intimates the pass
ing of the bobtail car from such parts of
the earth as are still cursed with it. Or
does he mean that the Mugwumps are
going to reform? ilr. Jone3 is too Del
phic for anything.
A Lucky Storekeeper.
From the Plusburc Dispatch.
At Henderson, Ky., the other day, a
countryman entered the drug store of
Charles E. Khederer and called for some
article, giving in exchange a piece of
money which the proprietor of the store
at the time supposed to be a tweaty-five
cent piece. On taking his cash out of
the daawer he was struck with the odd
ity of the coin. An application of soap
and water revealed a beautiful Roman
gold coin, bearing the date of 1033.
A Goodly Array.
KiSAaj State Josrsl.
There is a long Irst of candidates for
Congressman Peters' place in the next
congress. The Seventh district is a large
one and a good many prominent Repub
licans reside in it, Among thoi most
spoken of are Senator F. E. Gillette and
Senator H, B. Kellev. Judge T. B. W3li
and Hon. J. R. Hallowell, "Wichita,
Judge J. C. Strang and Captain Henry
Booth. Larned: Colonel GfinrTP-D. Orner.
ard"en City, and General T. T. Taylor,
tiutcumson.
ilonoy In ifodera Poiitica.
Fnro tfce Hasos Herald
Honey being needed, the man who
could furnish money became important.
Money is a selfish element. The cases
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GREAT AND WONDERFUL SALE
. THIS WEEK OF
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Ladies' Muslin Underwear
At Prices tliat Beat Any Cost Sale Ever Known Here.
"We will also make a Tremendous Reduction on
Embroideries t Edgin-,
$4,000 worth of Embroideries at Prices jSTever Reached
in this Country. Quality the Best.
PRICES -. THE -. LOWEST
It Pays to Trade at the White House of
Innbs & Ross,
.116 to 120 Main Street,
ambition to bo senator from Ohio six
years ago, the simplest way for him to
obtain the office was to buy it, AVhen
Calvin S. Brico deiired to be his succes
sor he pursued the same direct methods.
Both were working for themselves. This
being established as the thing to do, and
the men who had money finding that
money was wanted in the party, they
worked for themselves by the use of
monev. It was inevitable that the now
vualification for office should bring the
result.
MAKING HOMh AN EDEN.
Simple Menus by Which It Can Bo Doat
Without a Great Outlay.
No ono pretends to deny that the last de
cade of passing years has produced wonder
ful changes iu house-furnishing, and today no
Oscar Wildo lecturing through the country
would have right on his side in declaring that
tho American homo was devoid of ornament,
because as a race Americans were satisfied to
call four bare wulls home. Whether the
words of tho aforesaid Oscar awakened a
spirit of desire in our hearts to be surrounded
with beautiful colors and beautiful things, or
whether the young disciple chanced to speak
at exactly the right time, to that the seed fell
upon good ground and sprang up and
brought forth good fruit, it matters not; the
fact remains that tho change has established
itself, and m every homo is felt.
Oh I we have needed much more teaching
to bring the world to see, as do poetic and
artistic souls, the actuid things of beauty on
which our eyes rest each moment tho grnco
ful flowing lino in some inexpensive drapery,
the pleasing outlino capable of being pro
duced by tho use of commonplaco material
well designed.
It is as good to bo awakened to the beauty
and culture to be found in tasteful surround
ings as to that perhaps more subtle loveliness
in tho every day phases of nature.
Tho old idea that money lavished broadcast
was tho necessary fertilizer to produce beau
tiful interiors has been exploded, and the
proof is tho answer to a question which may
bo safely put to all tho world: "Do you see
tho most cbarmitig and attractive rooms
among the richest people of your ncqunint
aucer That tho answer will be in tho nega
tive is as certain as it is natural for riclres
bring great, many roomed houses, which in
themselves aro impediments to that atmos
phere of homeness which must at onco appeal
to the senses or tho realization of beauty is
chilled and must ever remain unappreciated.
When a house contains a stately drawing
room, formal in its elegance; an uncomfort
able reception room iu the highest stylo of
tho upholsterer's art; a cold and barren
mnsic room, carpeted for tho music's sake; a
library, formidable and unapproachable,
with its tier on tier of crowded and dusty
book shelves; a long, corridor like picture
gallery hung with too many works of art to
know and love whero is tho home! hl
surely it will bo found in somebody's bed
room, with great sunny windows and flowcr
ing plants; thero will easy chairs nourish and
tho reign of comfort be found. "Why is it
that somehow or other we all get into this
room?" win eomo to bo a joke in that family,
unless tho overwhelming importanceof great
wealth has crowded out all bense of humor
from their lives.
And in smaller but pretentious homes in
greet cities thero is something cf tho ramo
desolation, for rarely does any one really
live on tho first floor. Tho great front room,
long and narrow, with the pleasantest win
dows in the bou&e, the very placo which
should by all means be tho living room, is
furnished far too grandly for daily family
use, and, like tho keening room of our grand
mothers, is kept sacred to the visitor.
For beauty nail comfort and enjoyment
and homo, give ma the houso that somebody
lives in who knows how to live with one
great apartment which is sitting room and
library combined, where there Is space
enough for the piano, even if it be a grand,
and a cozy tete-a-tete corner screened off.
where a bay window is full cf plants, and
books and plctoxes are everywhere, like the
memory of well loved friends, always with us;
room in which the couch U a real one, wide
and soft, with quantities of cushions, uad
the chairs suggest comfort in their
every outlino whusro the big library
table, well furnished, gives eridenc of intcr
commenion with the outer world and work
baniets and magazine repeat the hoasy tule
of life enjoyed; a room from which a snug
gery opens as a wide alcove, suggesting
tmoko aud thought, and beyond which is a
pleajvurtballw&y (aotaroorn) wherein, brides
the tv-oal furzmhlng?, stands a little dfc and
a comfortable cbair or two that trd
people and persons who call on bunnew nel i
not intrude upon the family privacy, but may
leave or write tntr rnse or attead to
tbeh- errand in a piea&ant place. 'The end of
the long hah ibouid divvied from th en
trance bv a more or lens eiaberate ftcrcea at
carvings or sprndle work having an .arched ,
entrance to l baag with scor rice cur-
tains. As an entrance ball should never U
lea tnan ten or tweive fecWida, this carvtd J
screen .should cortalo off quite a I.Ule room, j
toy 12x14, nrb Bbottkl be okpnuy fur-;
u"-al " "v -. .7?.u ,-
tors whose csAxs are formal should La ester- j
tamed.
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as the diumg room on tne first floor, turn
hou ought to be a bom tedeed. war, lux-
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eerfm,chrmr,chryotlmagtnabIe.
in ca mi come every inemoer oi ei
Ur oogbt to hst his own b-iroom and dret-
lsg room. 2csriog fco mocs this aocs to
ladrriffaal comfort and slf rwpct. And
the nearer the drosnng room is to i betb
room the Lspp.r the occupant. Great
wealth ought to give fcdditioaaJ ajo7aUA,
and tiwre wiil be wse vry comfortable mo
ments ia the hve- of noes pcrxoca wbo pos
ses bedroom, baUsroosa and dressing roosa
all thee-ows.
Of tbelntituiagsvew uossdiamr
hwrc rM sc d& to tee coafort zr8 i
Uata b,C cwhioia to popukr wsd. j
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bvjc tiitaa gikj. jm JW pc r, r i &
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where that a pcSsiblo excuse sngjjstslbsirir;
en couches and divans, in chairs and window
seats, as hassock or allow, it matUo not
where there is a pillow, and it comes ia con
venKjutly. Besides their successful aid to the furnish
ing of a room, what a godsend they are to
tho woman who does fancy work, now ths
table scarfs aud fixture draperies no louger
suggest themselves as. dreams of delight.
Tho largest aro a yard square and the de
signs are conventionalizations of &illl life
done in bold lines. Veuethm cotton, Italian
satin and grass linen make inexpensive and
xory excellent coverings, and tho needle work
is done in crewels or flax. Tho newest are
round and have two fitted pieces at top and
bottom t hich aro laced together over a putt
of satm or soft silk, ilonojrrams and crestp,
mottoes and conventionalized floral patterns
form tho embroideries. Japanese stuflji an
much in demand for their fabrication.
Qneen Anne darning makes on admirahlo
background for a design, but used w ithout a
diaper pattern is not effective as a fllhng.
Thero is a fancj for appliqning iqiiares of
linen to plain satin pillowslips, previously or
namented with a dragon, convolvulus of lotus
in Kensington work. Then, too, great ele
gnnco of taato is she i in the dm of artists
silk, in which tho pn ed figure or pattern U
raised by an outlino of bullion. Cushions
like tho melon roJls f.r chair backs aro meet
useful, mado alike on both aides of some pretty
figured silk. S. S. II iL ia Chicago Herald.
"Now remember, Belinda," said Sirs.
Sharply to her daughter, juut married, "vio
lence m anything is most unladylike. Of
course, you will somoaraes disagree with
your husband, but always hit him with the
wf t end of the brrom. "
Clear t "Onlor.
There is a cigarmater in town who has an
entirely now idea. Ills business is so snil at
present that an extremely small store Is quit
large enough for him, bet if his idea meet!
with the sncccizs it diserves he will soon hxvt
to inovo. A big sign in front of hU stort .
states that cigars aro mmic to ordr, and that
satisfaction b guaranUed in every cam. Thia
ac:ertioti is bold enough to attract the atten
tion of every old smoker, and there in a no
dnctiveness about it BnulcaVnUy strong to hv
dnco investifjatioa. A hopeful man who ven
tured into the store on Thursday told tin
black eyed proprietor that ho wantod a cJgaz
made of clear Havana, both as to filler and
wrapper. He wanted it strong and green.
The proprietor asked him to wait a minut
while ho made one fur mm to try, and tooc
tho cigir was ready.
"1 give vou that," said tho proprimtor.
Take It homo and anoke iC""af ter dinner ot
when you want a smoko bad. It will cost fj
a hundred."
The customer bad ben paving $15 a hra
dred for his cigars, and the snrpraowhkfa b
fete at tho time was changed to delight when
ho I oimd that the sample cigar-was Jot wbaj
he had wanted ever m ho bad bogen tc
smoke. Tha getting menaired for a cigar,
so to Bpak. is apt to obtain a foothold hcri,
whero there aro so mny different tastm
Many smokers want a cliaago of dgarc l
much as a change of food. Now York Sun.
Twolvo illUioii. XfAnlL
A Chicago photographer writes to Tfe
Fiiotographic Tinit, culling attention to tl
great amount of money which fat abfohitely
thrown away ry year by tho photograph
ers of America. He say: It li esdmctJ
that there is from t40,CUQ to t&,000 worth A
nitrate of silver sftd gold uswi by the pho
tographers evwry year in Chicago sione, and
as much more In the great Ktitie of Illinois,
and 41,000,000 worth of nttreto of tlttrmr nd
gold is a very low txtizwst tor the photo
graphers of the United Blate to overy
year m making their cotrntlrs raafUori ot
photographs. At Wt (50000 cf this hird
earnr-d inotwj could lurr beea nml thai
wus wasted, thrown awuy, in cr&mtlonm la tLt
washing and fixing th-no BrfSiooa of p4sto
graphs. Could oil of this waste for tbv pu4
tweaty-uv years have beta tsved, theaor
rnota amount would ttupriuv gverj oao oi
yen, as it would reach the raorznera Him ci
$12,500,000 quiu eaoegh to retir trsry
pheiograpbar of America today wtth n in
pmdeet loartana, to y nothiojf alrjvt tin
UHvnal xalrrtfi, of this vwit srem, wkidi cr
UiaJy would bao doabltal Ike who matOKBcX
ibat b&i bwrc "ajed Us tb pJurt twoty-Sv
yoars. h- ?.
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j the best etory I ki-,w on Jjy member cf aj
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