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JIAKSHAIJi 1. 31UKDOCK. Editor.
Powderly, the labor champion, is
spoken of as the next governor of Penn
sylvania. -
We have much to be thankful for. The
end of the Century's "Life of Lincoln5
has come.
Tn "Massachusetts last year only one
new sayings bank was started, while
forty-seven co-operative banks began
business.
During 18S9 the pieces of coin ex
ecuted at the mints of the United States
numbered 109,140,917, having a value of
?53,294,022.
"What is the matter with another
"Field of the cloth of gold' and a meet
ing between his royal highness of Spam
and Baby McKee?
A membership in the Chicago board of
trade, which in 1884 was worth 4,000,
now goes begging at $800. The gambler
who is the enemy of the farmer seems to
fare none the better
During the past year ten railway mail
service clerks were killed, ninety-five
seriously injured and forty slightly in
jured. This is the worst record made
for the past fifteen years.
In Indiana they are discussing the
question, "does farming pay?" In In
diana, with a DToosier in the "White
Route the emolument of political life,
the answer is a negative one.
A postal card sent around the world
makes the circuit in about seventy days.
Hero is a pointer for some smart crirl to
beat Bly. All she need do is to have her
self stamped and get posted.
Pious John Wanamaker's presence
lias already begun to wield its influence
in AVashington. Hon. Samuel J. Ran
dall has united with the Metropolitan
Presbyterian church of that city,
Ex-SenatorB7K. Bruce, who succeeds
Mr. Trotter as recorder of deeds for the
District of Columbia, will be a salaried
officer. In the two years that Mr. Trot
ter held down the post ho made in fees a
little matter of $40,000.
John Wesley Elkins. the 12-year-old
lad who has just been sent to the Aua
mosa (Iowa) penitentiary for life for
murdering his father and mother, is said
to have expressed the opinion that the
authorities are rather severe on a poor
orplian.
A Boston man has discovered a pro
cess for making whisky from beans. It
is not probable, though, that this will
affect any change in the habits of the
Hubites; their appetites have been edu
cated to prepare their beans by the
"roasting'' process and it will be hard to
"diffuse" any other method into them.
The governor of Texas was informed by
telegraph from an interior town Sunday of
the advent of four girls into the world ata
Mtiglu birth. It is uotkuowu why the gov
ernor was notified, unless it was intended
to call out the malitia. Abilene Reflector.
It couldn't have been that, for a squad
of infant-ry were already on hand. It
was probably meant to provide a guard
of honor.
Robert Niven, a London barrister, is in
Boston, where he is delivering a course
of lectures. He says: "It would not
surprise me if before I die there is not a
crowned head in Europe. Ideas are in
the air and events move rapidly. Two
years ago the theory of imperial feder
ation was not regarded as practicable;
now it is recognized as within the sphere
of party politics. This is a great gain."
Mr. Chang Yen Hoon, the Chinese
minister at Washington, had better not
tell tales out of school, lest he may follow
the late lamented Ghooly Khan, of
Persia. Aside froln the verity of the
assertion, it hardly becomes a guest to
remark as Chang Yen Hoon did recently
in view of a decision of the United States
supremo court, that "It forces upon me
the conviction that in the three years
which I have resided in this country I
have not been able fully and correctly to
comprehend the principles and systems
of your great government."
MAJORITY RULE.
The action of Speaker Reed in his rul
ings on tho question of a quorum, as
given, with the details of the proceed
ings of tho house, in the dispatches may
bo extraordinary and without precedent,
but the Democrats are responsible for it.
By their obstinacy in refusing to partici
pate in the business before the house, al
though actually present, they mado it
necessary for some deciaed action to be
taken by the presiding officer. To say
that tho Democrats were simply doing
what the Republicans have done under
similar circumstances doesn't mako it
light. Under that system the very
genius of a republican form of govern
ment, the principles of truo democracy,
that of "majority rule,' is subverted and
the minority made masters of tho situa
tion. Much as it may be deplored that the
necessity should have arisen for the
assumption of such power by the speaker,
the country cannot but feel a sense of
l elief that this vexed question has been
settled in favor of majority rule. Tho
controlling parry in congress will now
be responsible, in fact as well as theo
retically, to tho country for its action.
If it shall do that that is believed to be
harmful or in any way objectionable to
the people, or shall fail to comply with
their demands in matters of legislation,
the people have their redress at the polls,
and no law enacted, if it be objection
able to the majority of the people, can
be made operative long enough to work
very great injury before it may bo re
pealed by a succeeding body chosen by
the people.
As to tho point raised by the Demo
crats that the action of Speaker Reed in
the premises is tho setting up of a one
man power, it is not well taken, for the
reason that he is sustained by the ma
jority party, and ho simply does, in his
capacity as presiding officer, what that
party wishes and sustains him in doing.
But suppose the point raised is admitted,
tho minority party have no cause of
complaint, for the speaker has simply
done what they attempted to do. and if a
minority bo entitled to rule who is to
draw the line as to numbers, whether it
ehall bo ono, or one less than 3 majority?
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A SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA.
While the discussion of the race ques
tion is going on in the senate, a move
ment is likewise going on among the
negroes in some of the southern states
that may lead to a practical solution of
the question and in a shorter time than
is dreamed of. There are said to be
thousands of colored people leaving por
tions of the Carolinas and Georgia and
emigrating to the Mississippi delta, in
the states of Mississippi, Arkansas and
Louisiana. There is a scope of country
five hundred miles long and sixty to
seventy-fiye miles wide, reaching from
near Memphis, Tenn., to the gulf coast,
that is sparsely settled in the main and
which, if protected from overflow and
the portions covered by marsh lands re
claimed and made habitable, would af
ford room to accommodate a very large
per cent, if not all the colored people in
the balance of the south and these in
the north, too, if they desiied to go there.
This extensive scope of country, much
of it, will have to be rendered habitable
by the government, if at all; or rather
when it is done, for it will be done some
time. When thus reclaimed it will con
stitute a domain especially adapted, by
reason of climate, soil, etc., for an abode
for the negroes of this country, espe
cially those of the south. And in view
of the fact that the expense of render
ing this section available and desirable
for permanent residence to anybody
must devolve upon the government; that
much of it already belongs to the public
domain, and that the holdings of whites
upon it are comparatively few and may
be compensated for, either by purchase
or exchange for lands in other sections,
the scheme of securing it in a body and
parceling it out to the negroes for per
manent homes upon such terms as may
be devised by congress, seems to afford a
plausible solution of the long vexed and
still vexatious problem of what to do
with that element of our population.
As before stated, the negroes of sev
eral of the southern states and districts
are manifesting a disposition to move
from the localities where they have Jong
resided, and their bent appears to be in
the direction of the country named,
This indicates a willingness on the part
of the negroes to make such a move, but
tho fact that no movement has been
made by any of them from any quarter
northward is an indication equally as
clear that they do not propose to leavo
the south.
This proposition may be regarded as
visionary just now, but there are reasons
that could be advanced to show that it
is practicable and that it might be made
to accommodato the present stress that
the subject lays upon the country. If
not, why not?
WEALTH IN CANDEDATEa
A gentleman in Ohio has lately rushed
into print and withdrawn his candidacy
for office bscauso he believes that "a
vigorous and growing public opin
ion oxists against men of wealth"
holding office. The office ho speaks
of is that of senator of the
United States; but if he is right in his
supposition that public sentiment is
against rich men being senators, we may
infer that the sentiment is against them
holding any office.
But is it true? We do not believe
that tho people regard wealth in itself
as a disqualification for any office.
Tho people do object that wealth
alone should be considered as a recom
mendation for office. Tn this country
one man is as good as another, and the
lich man as good as the poor man in all
that constitutes a citizen. The rich man
in America has generally been the archi
tect of his own fortunes; he is a sober,
honest, clear-headed man of business,
tho very man to do good service to the
state where such qualities as these
epithets imply are required. To
reject a man because ho is rich
is just as absurd as to prefer a
man because ho is poor. Poverty and
wealth have nothing to do with qualifi
cation for office. Tho question for tho
people is: Is he a fitly qualified man for
tho position? Is he an honest man, a.
sensible man, a man who will do his
duty? These are the things to look to,
not to his bank account. Taking the
very lowest view, the rich man is ex
empt from many temptations to which
the poorer citizen may be exposed; he
certainly has more leisure, and is accus
tomed to deal with larger interests.
Let us take the fittest man for the
place, bo he rich or poor. Whenever the
people shall lay aside prejudice in this
matter, turn a deaf ear to the dema
gogues and apply the rules of reason and
common senso thereto as they do to
common every day business affairs tho
country will bo shortly rid of many of
the causes of complaint that nowharrass
and annoy, and not until then.
A NEW SILVER BILL.
Senator Cockrell of Missouri has at
last done something to bring himself
into notice. Ho has introduced a siiver
bill. The principal features of the
measuro are that it provides for the
coinage of not less than five million dol
lars worth of silver per month, and
directs the issuance of coin certificates
in place of tho present silver and gold
articles. This last provision is a clear
recognition of tho equality of gold and
silver and is designed to compel tho
recognition of such equality from the
government. Under tho provisions of
tho bill tho secretary of tho treasury
might have power to buy more than the
five million dollars' worth of silver per
mouth for coinage. But until there comes
a change in the disposition of the secre
taries of tho treasury toward silver no
such power will he exercised. There is
this objection ro Mr. Cockrell's plan, it
in terms retains the unnatural provision
of compulsory coinage embodied in the
Bland bill.
Dinna Yo Hear the Slog-an?
From the Salina Kepublkan.
There is trouble in store for the Repub
lican party. During the present en
campment we have taken pams to inter
view the leading men from different
parts and almost without exception they
have some complaint to make, some
grievance against the party in power.
This state of affairs, so universal, is ap
palling to the friends of tue party. There
is no use to try to cover this tip. The
men themselves do not make any secret
of their feelings and the feeling In their
locality. There is going to be a revolu
tion and it is coming sooner than ex
pected. Tho grumbling has not died
out. It is even louder than last summer.
It is not a cry for free whisky, but a
lecitimate demand for a chancv."
POINTS A MORAL.
' Sl'IVEV. Kan., Jan. 30, ISM.
To the Editor of the Eacle.
The sun Is a shining today;
The larks sro slnslng so gay:
The hens are cacklinjjand
Altogether li looks as taousa
Spring waa not far aw.iy.
biill we all know
"The north winds will blow
And we shall have snow"
Before the beautiful Kansas
hjprius is really here.
, Butwe also know,
Even thouzh
The winds did blow.
That It would all go.
And the beautiful tun
Would come out again
And get away with the drear.
I charge nothing for this lovely spring
poetry, as I suppose it is the first you
have got this season. It was suggested
in this way: I see nearly all the oldring
organs are jumping onto the Eagle be
cause in tho "piping times" of 10 cent
corn and 2 cent cattle, with 25 per cent
money, she dares to say a word in fayor
of the people upon whom rest all things
and who pay all things. I well remem
ber a grange picture that was something
like this: "The lawyer pleads for all;
the editor writes for all; the merchant
sells to all; the railway totes for all; the
preacher prays for all: the farmer pays
tor all."
There was more of it, but that was the
idea that was intended to be conveyed.
Now, it is self evident that when the
farmer can't pay, everything must stop;
it is only a question of time. After the
gooso that lays the golden egg no more
golden egg. But even as we know that
spring follows winter and winter comes
again; so wo know that better times are
coming.
And one of the brightest signs is the
Eagle joining in the fight for the pros
perity of Kansas the state, not a few
rings and clicks. You are making lots
of friends here amongst all but those
goody-goody souls who say "tho Lord
loves his saints we aro his saints;" and
a few of those narrow hypocritical chaps
who think "all rebels against tiie party
should be hung; "our views on pro
hibition and all economic questions
(even though the state goes to the devil)
constitute the principles of the party;"
"all resubmissionists and all in favor of
lessening the burthens of the people are
rebels."
But I candidly think things are going
your way I know they are in this neck
of the woods. And then the old saying
comes in, "Revolutions never go back
wards." Hoping the mighty wing of
tho Eagle will not tire until Kansas is
on the topmost wave of prosperity, with
thousands of happy unmortgaged homes,
I am yours truly.
Sure Exough Kansas.
IMMIGRATION.
Cowley County Counted In.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
Yesterday Mr. Frank Williams, Rob
ert Piatt and Hale Cowley dropped into
Winfield for a friendly call and just ten
minutes from the time they landed at
Robinson Brothers' bank they were met
at the elegant chamber of commerce
rooms (fitted up like tho headquarters of
a railroad prince) by a largo assemblage
of the represeutative men of Winfield
fertile with immigration, prominent
among whom were Sam Strong, Will
Robinson, Captain Huffman, J. C.
Fuller, Hon. John Eaton, Mayor Al
bright, J. W. Kearns, Judge Buck, E.
G. Vanvlete, and many others.
After a brief recapitulation of tho work
done sinco the convention and the pro
posed plans for the future and an in
formal discussion of new features of the
movement, and after a very happy ex
change of hints and toasts pro and con
on the local matters and people, Judge
Buck, of Winfield, president of the ex
ecutive board of the Kansas Immigration
bureau, and chairman of tho meeting,
offered a motion for adjournment to
meet at the city hall at 3 p. ni., at which
time a citizens' meeting was held, which
was characterized by great interest and
earnestness. A county organization was
outlined and the best means of adver
tising and distributing the same. The
meeting then adjourned to meet in mass
convention on Friday night, at which
time execution will bo done in Cowley
county unless all signs fail.
The secretary notes the organization
of Johnson, Bourbon and Rush counties,
and more have formally come into the
organization. A great meeting will be
held at Omaha. The advantage of this
meeting will be three-fold; to get rates,
get information and consolidate the
wholestatoas a unit in the grandest
movement to harmonize and concen
trate power and renew friendship and
reciprocal interest throughout the state,
and double the population of Kansas to
the benefit of all counties alike.
Hale Cowley.
LET US GO TO WORK.
Trora the Iola Keglster.
It stands written in the Scriptures:
"Theieisatime for all things." That
means there is a time to talk and a time
to quit talking and work. We have had
our turn at the talk, hero in Kansas.
Wo have expressed our opinion with
considerable freedom of the beef com
bine which puts down and kepps down
the price of cattle and hoga. We have
stated our views about tho policy of tho
railroad4 companies in taking the lion's
share of the profits on the corn and
wheat they earn to market. We have
intimated our disapproval of the cur
rency contraction which has had its
share in depressing prices all round.
And have given congress very plainly to
understand what we expect it to do in
tho premises. And now, men aud
brethren, let us quit talking awhile aud
go to work.
The immigration convention which
was in session at AVichita recently
is a step in the right direction. There
are a million and a half of people
in Kansas. Nobody would bo crowd
ed if there were three millions.
Here in Allen countv we have a little
over 14,000. There is room for 30,000.
Suppose the additional 16,000 could be
induced to come here this year: Wouldn't
it make things lively? What would we
care for beef combines or greedy rail
roads or a contracted currency if three
thousand new families should come in
here with money to pay for feed and
provisions till they could raise a crop,
money to pay for lumber to erect houses
and barns and fences and labor to build
them? And why shouldn't they come here?
Quality and easy access to market con
sidered, land is cheaper in Allen county
than any other county m Kansas. We
have railroads and schools and churches
and good society. Let us make these
things known to the home seekers. Kan '
sasused to be in the immigration business
from one years end to another. Let us re
sume business at the old stand. There
are still plenty of people in the older
states who want to "go west,' and Kan
sas has more attractions to offer them
now than she ever had. Let the latch
string be hung on the outside.
While this immigration work promises
thp quickest returns there are a good
many other things we might turn our
attention to. both in our collective and
in our individual capacitv. Collectivelv, ;
it is time we were beginning to realize j
that communities as well as individuals I
may buy too many whistles and pay too
much for them. A great many of our
public investments have doubtless paid
well, and were wisely made. But too
many Kansas communities have been in
the habit of voting bonds to tie a tin can
to the tail of every stray dog that came
around. It tarnishes a little diversion
and excitement at the time, doubtless,
but when the day of reckoning comes
there is nothing to'laugh about.
Individually, it is time we were get
ting our business down to business prin
ciples. Not in. farming alone, lut in
every other business, we have acted long
enough on the theory that all Kansas
needed to laugh with a harvest was to be
tickled with a hoe. It was a pleasing
fancy, but it hasn't panned out as a cold
fact. Business success in Kansas means
what business success elsewhere means,
and that is prudence, economy, good
management and hard work. We should
be satisfied with the happy assurance
that the converse of this proposition is
also true, that prudence, economy, good
management and hard work always
mean business success in Kansas,
Congress can help us very materially
if it does its duty, and we hope and be
lieve it will. But after all mere legisla
tion cannot do everything. No "be-it-enacted"
can help us half so much as
we can help ourselves. Let us go to
work.
SUNFLOWER SH A DO WINGS.
Seeds, Sl.ps, Scions, Sprouts, Snoots and Slivers.
Alfalfa seed is now worth 5 per bushel.
Seward Jones, of the Tri-County News,
has fallen heir to 30,000.
Mr. Tomlinson, of tiie Topeka Democrat,
writes back that he has found something
shameless up in Iowa.
A Kansas woman publishes another
book. Kansas authors have ona consola
tion Queen Victoria does, too.
The mad-dog scare is come again, and
lots of good dogs that deserve something
better are being shot on suspicion.
From the observance of a customary
move of a state official is born the suspi
cion that Andy Felt wants to be governor.
A Hiawatha man who lost some money
found a mouse nest in one of the bureau
drawers lined with lineb chewed green-
tmefcs.
Dickinson county will be at the front
with the number of mortgae3 releases
for the first month of 1690. Over 200 will
be recorded.
It is estimated that there are over 200
car loads of corn awaiting transportation
on the North Solnion branch, and over 125
cars on the south branch.
"Whea a woman," sagely observes the
Gray County Jacksonian, "can spit at a
mark and hit it, she deserves political
rights as much as a mau."
G. W. Glick is said to be desirous of
a second term as Governor of Kansas. Mr.
Glick took the tide at the flood some time
ago and is now out in midoceau.
There were reformers in 1854, and thoy
bothered about Kansas. Edward Everett
Hale tried to reform people in their way of
spelling Kansas. He wanted it Kauzas,
but failed.
Marysville will celebrate the completion
of her water works by a jubilee February
4th. Hundreds of printed invitations have
been sent out, The festivities end with a
grand ball in the evening.
The turnkey at the city calaboose at At
chison is learning to play on the guitar.
Mr. Ingalls probably heard of this ac
quisition iu his town before ho uttered
that "a thief wrongs himself most."
A Leavenworth county farmer, after
having disposed of his load of coru yester
day, was asked by another if he had sold
his coru. "Yes," was the response, "and
1 got just two driDks anu a lunch tor it."
No matter how ingenius the advertiser,
he does not always realize all that his ex
pectations promised. The New York World
publishes a map with Nellie Bly's route
marked down on the Union Pacific. But
then the Santa Fe takes the money.
According to the Garden City Herald al
falfa will turn out ten bushels of seed to
the acre, which commands in the market
$4 a bushel. If there is a crop.in Kansas
that will pay ?40 an acre it is time that
more of the farmers were finding it out.
Washington Letter: Senator Plumb,
who has beeu almost everything in his
time fanner, lawyer, court reporter,
soldier, stockman, miner, millionaire
also added to his accomplishments the
setting of type and writing of editorials.
Farmers are warned against a set of
swindlers going over the state selling barb
wire fencing. They offer to furnish a good
eight-wire fence with iron posts for S cents
per foot aud secure a contract which after
wards turns out to mean 8 cents per foot
for each wire, or a total of 04 cents.
Ingalls still writes letters. "Senator
Ingalls," say3 the Wellington Mail, "in a
private letter to a partv friend in this city,
does not hesitate to say that he uud Presi
dent Harrison are not on the friendliest
terms. In fact, he plainly states that ho
has no influence whatever with the ad
ministration." Martin Allen, of Hays City, the Kansas
commissioner of forestry, states that ap
plications for free trees should be made at
onco and can not be filled later than March
1. He says if the applications do not ex
ceed 2,500 he can give each about 900 little
trees or proportionately more or less as
varied by the number of persons asking
for them.
When we read of the Ingalls family at
Washington, of all of their wonderful
faculties and rich dramatic talents; when
we read "that once when a particularly
brilliant flight of oratory was made by the
senator, followed bv a quickly suppressed
burst of applause, Miss Ingalls made the
motion of swinging a censor before her
father," it is hard to believe that they ever
came from, ever lived in a state so far re
moved from hihtrionics as Kansas.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Tue Atchison Globe says that the grip
was almost as fatal as Oklahoma.
Reports to contrary, hop tea is said to be
free and unmolested in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoma papers have begun again
on the serenity of Oklahoma atmosphere.
The people of Oklahoma have decided to
let President Harrison appoint the gov
ernor. There is ono class of dealers who never
will regret they went to Oklahoma the
lumber dealers.
The Guthrie Capital E?.ys the vigilante
stories were a hoax. It were better for
Oklahoma it ail such stories are so.
Tho townsite bill that was budding so
beautifully laat week doesn't beoome full
blown as quickly as some would wish it.
The colored brethren of Guthrie at
tempted to organize n Republican club
but "for some reason things didn't "hitch."
The Oklahoma City Journal thinks the
next thirty or sixty days will cover a crit
ical period in the history of Oklahoma
City.
Oklahoma City is to have a brass band.
Special care will be taken to see that the
bass drum ana tuba will be bigger than
Guthrie's.
Stillwater has had four months of free
public school?, with ninety-eight pupils
enrolled, and now has $1GS in the school
treasury and all bills paid to date.
The Union City Clipper has registered
nmong the papers o! Oklahoma, and the
Clioper is a sprichtly sheet, publLshed in a
sprightly town, Union City, ia the south
west porner of Oklahoma.
Oklahoma Journal: In appointing J. W.
Merrifiehl, editor of the Stillwater Stand
ard, a member of the Republican commit
tee of Oklahoma, the Republican conven
tion probably thought a man who gats out
ns good a paper as the Standard must sure
ly ba a Republican.
There is a rumor :bit company 'K"' will
be transferred from Oklahoma City to
Montana m a few weeks. The change
will doubtless be welcomed by that com
pany, for in that case they go into old
quarters, where there is much more com
lorc than in the temporary quarters here.
Oklahoma City Times: Oklahoma City
badly needs usles to lots.
Lights on her sireets-
A live and active fire department.
Fewer lot jumpers and less mob violence.
More genuine effort and less wind in be
half of tne city's interest.
The Choctaw railroad and near route
to coal and lumber, and cheaper rates from
the east and north.
The Cherokees will offer the vfollowitg
proposition: They will first ask the abro
gation of the fifteenth article of the treaty
of 1SG6; second, that the Cherokee nation
be discharged from all obligation relative
to the $300,000 claim of the United States
government for the unpaid, balance on the
sale of lands west of the 96th degree of
longitude nnder the act of 1SS8, and rela
tive to the claim of (75,000 for the money
appropriated by congress in 18SS to pay the
Cherokee freedmen: and third, that they
be paid 52 per acre for the 6,022,240 acres in
the strip.
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
True; Alas, Too True.
From the Kewion Republican.
Some men are born cranks, some be
come cranks and some have cranks
thrust upon them. The last is the fate
of us all frequently, aud of the newspa
per man as often as anybody.
The People's Friend.
From the Guthrie Democrat.
Mr. P. B.Dilday, traveling correspond
ent of the Wichita Eagle is in the city
today. Mr. Dilday always has a good
word to say for Guthrie, and this paper
can say for the Eagle that it is one of
the best friends Guthrie has.
Do or Die.
As up life's rugged hill you climb
Toward the pinnacle of fame,
Though you may slip from time to time,
Don't falter climb on just the same.
Though adverse clouds ot darkest hue
May hover o'er you, never flinch.
But onward press, resolved that you
Will reach the goal or "bust a cinch."
Tho Truth: Heed, it, Parents.
From tho Newton Republican.
Parents should keep their eyes on their
boys and see that they are at home
nights. There is no better way in the
world to educate a tough, than to allow
a boy to run over town at his own sweet
will. If he has a natural inclination to
be tough and to bo with tough bo3s, the
liberty of the streets will develop his
toughness with alarming rapidity. Keep
the boys at home nights, even if you
have to tie them there.
DAUGHTERS OF EVE.
Mary Anderson is SO years of age, and has
been on tho stage fourteen years.
Ouida, it is said, has made more money by
her labors than any woman of the century
except Patti.
Jennie Juno, the noted newspaper writer
and correspondent, is CO years old, although
she looks much younger.
The widow of Schuyler Colfax lives very
quietly at South Bend, Ind., with a son,
Schuyler, Jr., who absolutely idolizes her.
Mrs. Custer, widow of tho great cavalry
leader, spends most of her time in New York,
earning her living by writing for the news
papers. Anna Katharine Greene, or Mrs. Rohlfs,
has an income of $S,000 a year from her wntr
ings, but she is more interested in her babies
than she is in her books.
The oldest woman in Vienna is Frau Mag
dalena Ponza, who celebrated her 114th
birthday last Christmas. She is cared for by
her 80-year-old daughter.
Mme. Boyd, a Belgium woman, has ar
ranged for a talking contest, open to women
only, in which prizes are to be awarded to the
competitor who says most in a given time.
Sarah Bernhardt finally decided to piny
"Joan of Arc" when she received a tetter
from tho mother of two daughters who had
longed to see her act, but had never been ablo
on account of the nature of her roles.
The Duchess of Fife and her husband aro
seen about London continually unattended,
and they generally sit iu the stalls when at
the theatre. They recently declined Bar
num's offer of the royal box at tho circus,
preferring the shilling seats, which they took.
Mine. Carnot, wife of the French presi
dent, mido 400 poor children happy on
Christmas day. There was a Punch and
Judy show, Christmas trees loaded with toys
and sweetmeats and a savings bank book
with a deposit of $10 for each child.
Tho wife of Calvin S. Brice was before her
marriage Miss Olivia Meilly, a teacher in the
public schools of Terre Haute, Ind. She
began her career as a teacher at tho close of
tho war, and held her position in school
No. 8 of Terro Haute for five years.
Mrs. Sallie Joy White, of The Boston Her
ald, claims the distinction of being tho first
woman journalist to have a position upon a
Boston newspaper. Mrs. White began her
journalistic career in 1SG9, and has been
steadily at work ever since, stopping only
long enough to get married.
Dr. Alice Bennett, resident physician at
tho Pennsylvania State Hospital for the In
sane, at Norristown, Pachas been elected
president of tho Montgomery County (Pa.)
Medical society. It is not known that a
woman physician has ever before held this
office in a irxlieal society composed almost
exclusively of men.
Mrs. P. Van Rensselaer, of New York, de
clares it "impossible to do any reading or
learn anything in society." And so she buys
the books that please her fancy, collects
manuscripts and magazines, has them packed
away, and when the strain becomes unbear
able goes abroad, takes a villa and reads day
anti night to mako up for lost time.
SOME FRUIT ORIGINS.
The quince came from Crete.
Tho orange is traced from China.
Tho apricot camo originally from Armenia.
The plum was anciently cultivated in Da
mascus, though certain species seem to hove
been derived from Africa.
The cherry originally came from Cerasns,
in Asia, and camo to U3 through England,
and to England through Italy.
The fig is claimed by the Athenians as indi
genous to the soil of Attica, but it was prob
ably brought from a region further east.
The pomogranite is the fruit of a species of
tree belonging to tho order of myrtacac The
outside rind is thin but tough, and its juice
stains everything it touches with an uzide
fhied bnt indelible bine. It comesfrom In-iia.
American Analyist.
STRANGE TALES.
Chicago produces an average of about tea
suicides per week, or 500, ia round numbers,
per year.
Three eggs of different sizes, one inside the
other, were deposited by a hen ia a Lehigh
county (Pa.) barn.
A novel flower has been found at the Isth
mus of Tehuantepec This floral charaeJeoa
has a f acidly of changing its colors during
the day. In tho morning it is white, when
the sun iEtiitA zenith it is reJ, and at night
it ij bine. The red, white and bluo flower
prows on a tree about the size of the gu&va
tree, aad only at noon does is give oat any
per mac.
A peculiar result of the drinking of ice cold
water from a spring in Stosiagtcs, Ccaa., Is
reported. The water flows from a crack ia
a high rock, and too veins of a man who
drinks from it begin to trscelL and be looks
aad feels as though ho wen about to bcnl
for the next ten minutes. The swelling grad
ually subsides, and no Syrians effect is felt,
except a slight buzzing in the ears. It Is tb
talk of tae neighborhood, aad everybody u
eager to try the effect of the water.
Small brass scsues lor weighing" letters r
indi5pensb! to ladi v uo carry en as exten-
are correspondence, uad are zaade jo out
wardly attractive taat :bey are warmly wel- ,
tmrd among ths Isj nous appolatmeata cf ,
desis aad horary taW Jewirs Circular.
Don't tacd on tee bcrv fernrbcat or
the ptetferm of rtreefc can calew year throat
u 5retceti. rcCaceicai .aorta Acsncas.
GREAT AND WONDERFUL SALE
THIS WEEK OP
Ladies' Muslin Underwear
At Prices that Beat Any Cost Sale Ever Known Here.
We will also make a Tremendous Reduction on '
Embroideries t Edgings
$4,000 worth of Embroideries at Prices jSevenReached
in this Country. Quality the Best
PRICES -. THE '-. LOWEST
It Pays to Trade at the White House of
Innes & Ross,
116 to 120 Main Street,
C. O. PAGE & CO.,
Offer those who favor Cleanliness, Heaithfulness and
Economy a full line of the
BEST QUALITY G-RANITE IRONWARE
' To select from at lowest prices.
518 East Douglas Avenue,
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Resident Harrison often plays billiards.
The late Count Aloys Karolyi, of Hungary,
left a fortune of $2,500,000.
George W. Childs recently bought 32Q
clocks. He paid $1,100 for one.
Tamagno, the opera singer, receives ;2,000
a night, and tips hotel waiters with one cent
pieces.
Senator Stanford is ono of the many pub
lic men who subscribe to newspaper clippings
agencies.
The late John H. Applegate, of Asbury
Park, invented a machino for lasting shoes
that brought him $40,000.
It is related that when Calvin S. Brice
went to college he often found it hard work
to pay bib necessary expenses.
Secretary Proctor has a fortune ot nearly
$300,000 aud somo valuable marble contracts
that bring him in $10,000 a year besides his
official salary.
The late Capt. Alexander Cuthbert, of On
tario, Canada, built the yachts Countess of
Dufferin and Atalanta, nhich saded for tho
America cup respectively in 1S7G and 1SSL.
The late Henry W. Grady, of Atlanta, Ga.,
left a comfortably largo estate. A partner
values his newspaper interest at ?100,000 aud
his home property at i-'O.OOO. He had $10,
000 or 117,000 life insurance.
The late Judge FJelley told a friend of his
some time ago that the trouble with his jaw
grow out of a habit he had of going to lyd
with a quid of tobacco in bis cheek a prac
tice which ho had kept up from his boy
hood. Dr. Frederick Bramann, who performed
tracheotomy on Emperor Frederick in 18S8,
recently became extraordinary professor of
surgery in the University of Berlin. He waa
graduated in medicino and surgery barely
ten years ago.
Tho Vanderbilt famdy, who aro members
of St. Bartholomew' parish, New York, gave
their rector, the Rev. Dr. Greer, a satisfac
tory sort of Christmas present in the shape
of a paid up life insurance policy on tho en
dowment plan for $."0,000,
The lato Dr. Reichenbach, keeper of tho
botanical gardens at Hamburg, left his
library and collections of plants to tho Vienna
Court museum., Tho library contains about
10,000 works in 15,000 volumes, and. the her
barium about 700,000 sheets.
Junius S. Morgan, the London banker,
has made a gift to the library of Yale uni
versity and to the Connecticut Historical so
ciety each of a copy of tho work of the f ac-sim-iles
of manuscripts relative to America,
from 1703 to 1783, in the archives of Eng
land, France, Holland and Spain.
Chauncey TiL Depjw wtys ho mado tho
great mistake of his life when he delivered
his first humorous sp-ech. He didn't seo it
then, but now ho realizes it keenly. Instead
of being regarded aa a convincing logician,
or a good lawyer, or oven as a serious think
er, he is always taken for a funny man.
Maj. Serpa Pinto, whose name Is so promi
nent in connection with African affairs, was
born in the provinco of Douro, Portugal, in
April, 1846, and was wlucatf-d at the Military
college, Lisbon. Ho joined the Portuguese
army in lfctVJ, rose pretty rapidly, and be
came an aid-de-camp to the king in 15S0.
Ho was in the Zambesi war in 1C9, asd com
manded the African nmtive troop.
Christian, tho late veteran comedian of the
Paris Vanetes, was the most prolific and in
veterate puuiter on the French stage. Hu
"gags" were so successful that they were
nearly always adopted by the jihtywngbU in
tho printed editions of their works. Hu dra
matic career, thouga obscure in it bgh- i
ning, eventually brought him to the front I
rank. His gTeatat creation wm probably
the role of Jupiter, in Offenbach's "Orphee
aux Enfers."
ETIQUETTE POINTS FOR BOYS.
Keep step with any one yon walk with.
Never play with knife, fork or spoon.
Use your handkerchief unobtrusively al
ways.
Hat lifted in saying "good-bj," or "how da
you dof
Do not take year napkin in a bnnch In
your band.
Rue wbea hvdis leave the room and utaad
tQl they are out.
In th dining room take your st after
ladies and elders.
Lt ladies pars through a doer Srst, rtsd
mg aside for them.
Let a lady pass lirst alwayi, crJ'ss th. bjsJcj
yea to precedo trx.
If all go cut logger, gcsUcBsa Cal by
the door till Udie jaiti.
Eaiaa fast or a tier s olinn, uvl fiafah
the coarse when thy do.
Hat Itf tfi 'Leo erfTsriag a seat la a car or
m acksowkdgtsg a favor
Look people itralght in Ike face wbra
fpeaiaa or beriag poca U.
Rfe if a. lady coca in after yoa are Mfttcrf.
and rtaad catd shu ui a :.
In tb parlor KUad xmiQ erery idy ia tie
room is Mated, tho older people.
CoTcr the ssooth with kind cr napkia
wbea obliged to resssrre anytiaa iron It.
Do net look fcrward & Ltdroos door wfaa
panacg. Always knock at any private rccox
d&cr-
Eit ti5o?jcst j3 j;era jtrtfl
uoor, ana when you btep luto a private UaU
or oalce.
Always precede a lady up stairs, ana ask
her if you may precede her la passmjr
through a crowd or public place. Yonkcra
Gazette.
OCCUPATIONS OF INDIAN WOMEN.
Thero aro 124,409 mercantile women in In
dia. The section devoted to lawyers inclndcs ten
women only.
Women as "officers of the national govern
ment''' number 6,3o2.
No fewer than 17,764 women figuro as "of
ficers of municipal load and village govern
ment," Eight hundred and sixty-tlvo women aro
officers of independent state and govern
ments. Three thousand four hundred and fcixty
four women appear as authors and literary
porbons.
The rcspectablo total of 04,251 women ap
pear as clergy, minister, privU, church and
teinplo officert.
Twenty-seven thousand wven hundred and
forty -ono womeu are employed in the coa
btruction of houses and other buildings.
As physicians, snrgeous and drnggiitij,
without any poibility of a qualification of h
menial kind, there aro 75,239 women wt
down.
Thero are 35S employed in the building of
ships, 13,799 workers in precious ntetuLi and
stonob, 3it,72L in frtono and clay and 5,244,04
simply classed as "laborers."
Fivo hundred and eighty-four aro tabu
lated as artists, 19,631 as mtsdehms, 4,345 aa
teachers, 127 as scientific "persons' and,
strangest of all to tho uninitiated, 40,351 as
actrcM.es.
The wive of Fpciiled occupation number
471,774 (exclusive of 18,SCB,720 acriculturij,
and "other wives" number ouly 3,321JXM.
Where tho balance of 80,000,000 or 40,000,000
appear is not to far diieoverable.
Altogether about 30,009,000 womea npp-tyr
as engaged hi Mjtno description of cLavrtfled
work roughly, a little Wt than one-third of
tho entire female population, which includes,
of course, nn enormous proportion of infivuU
and young girls. St. James Gazette.
POINTS ON SHAVING.
Never um warm water, which makes the
face (of shavers) tender.
Tho moment j-ou leave yonr bsl or bath
is tho txst time to shave.
A piece of soft plate leather should always
bo kept with razors to wip-j them with.
In cold wenthr place your raxor (cloned, of
course) in your pocket or uuoVr your arm to
warm it.
Al way wipe your razor clean and strop it
before putting it away, and always put your
hhaviug brush away with the hither on It.
Never fail to wash your bead with sonp
and cold water and to rub ltdry immediately
before you apply the lather, of which tbo
more you u and the thicker it hi the caster
I you will hbave.
If you only once put away your rasor wfto
out stropping it, or oth-rmw jx?rftictly clean
ing tho edg, you in nit to longer ex pctto
bhave wc41 and osy, tJ roap and damp o
boon rust the fine tooth aad edge.
The roz&r, being only & fine ww, xLoaid bo
moved fa a eloping or sawing direction, aod
held nearly flat to yorarfac, earn bing Uiwi
to draw the skin an tight m jicmlMi with the
left hand, to aj to prernt an even tartar
and draw out the beard.
Tho practice of prsioz on tii fdn of tb
razor In "Orcpping soon rounds It. the press
ure fhould bo dirrctrd ti thu tacif, which
ehould never b! riud from th trop If
you nhavo f rota bea to porat of ror, strop
it from point to hvi; bat if you Ulu with
the potnt In shavinp , Vnfn f trap it. from ki
to poixt. Ifedical Oaitnct.
LONG DISTANCE SOUNDS.
The rrport of a cannon tra-e2 vry fur,
beokUMi U coaxnjBBics a vibration to the
Kdl
Tk noke produced by the grrt f-ruptitrz.
of Colopazi, ia 1741, was brd or- ?
milc
Fraakliaaswrta that he heard th Ktrflrfag
togfttber of two ttoc la tb water t.Jf ,
mile a war.
Ia 17C2 the rpcrt of th c&naoa ftrtri ia
Mayecc cocld bo heard t TJabtck, Hi
saiJe away.
In tb pbxr rr&om Fir John Fraeidia
coareried with earo at a dhrtAcc cf xeara
th&a a tail.
TVLea la 103 the caw-on bootsd ia Hdl
rjhus4, th oosd wsj L-rd at HasoTer, a
oiita&ai of 157 m&s.
Tfc curr.gaarffog t Fiore&CA w hrd
Ichors. flfty-x miW Ay, fid thai at
Crmo over o&s fasaared zaile.
Tk greft thxtasc at which rt3eu.
cusd fcre ksowB to ha.y t-feta herd ww-oc
r. 4, 153, wfcen tb caaac t Aatwerp
were hard la ike 'ZnMrpt, 270 -tifc Aa
taat. CoHsdos, by exptnaxstJ t&de At Lala
Crt&ffTJL, tiixtud Uat a beX of ccssiaoa
sis, cm tfct eM b heard a dieUroce ot
tfcrw to 3t zafiw ca hvc-d, cecM, If 5
tsrrzttt ia l&n , Ia fegAfd ever ilxty ;
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