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!S5WiWRPS5iiS!5SP mmmmbmyMmmmstpim. X'" ' " 'j 4. 'ght WLithikx Jpailtt, gaole: Jfcmdag teaming, Ustocfe 9, 1890. csb; S&ilglSir&Jtt . r3?T5vm3rJ'A' JTAKPHATT, JI. MHKnOCK. Vdjfnr. The Topeka Capital declares the resub mission orators to bo public nuisances and advises them to go home and stay there. During a hail storm in Texas the other day hailstones fell to the depth of six inches, Nothing on a small scale is permitted in that state. Fifty millionaires were counted at John Jacob Astor's funeral. Did not the occasion have some suggestions of the vanity of earthly riches? After all the talk about the granaries of the world competing us in grains it remains a fact, nevertheless, that Kan san can beat the world in the production of beef and pork and mutton and horses and in poultry. Hypolite is not having an altogether serene time of it in Hayti. His govern ment does not run along so smoothly as to niako its conduct simply a delightful pastime. He bometimes wishes he had let Legitime alone with the troublous concern, lie has no assurance as to just how long he can avoid another upsetting revolution. An exchange says: "Messrs. Hohen zollern and Bismarck are still sitting up of nights getting returns from the recent elections, and trying to figure out how to declare a victory in a party loss of about 75 per cent." They should send over to this country for some Democratic political experts to help them out. Then they would learn how easy aud simple the thing is. George Francis Train is actually on bis way to Tacoma. "Washington, where he proposes to start on his trip around the world, in which he expects to beat Nellie Ely's time. The chief danger of failure for him is the liability of being btopped as a freak. If he could by any fortuitous circumstance be sent to keep company with McGinty this country would be prompted to put on its best suit of clothes. Some of the irate United States sena tors who object to what the press say about them want to abolish the gallery for correspondents. It would be a great deal easier, if the issue wero raided, to abolish the senate. If the newspapers should retaliate by ignoring these would-be-autocrats, there would be nothing left of them. Imagine the grief of Sen ator Blair if he could not get even his temperance speeches printed! An early repeal of some of the pro visions of the interstate commerce law is not improbable. It is thought likely that the present long aud short haul clause will be modified, if not entirely repealed. Under the present arrange ment export business is limited, and large stocks have accumulated in the west on account of the decreased demand for shipment abroad. If the whole thing cannot be wiped out the changes sug gested will probably afford soino relief. The prohibitionists declare that they "will not support the Republican party in Kansas next fall; the alliance don't pro pose to be governed by Republican party nominations, and the resubmission is ts say that until the Republican party gives them a chance to vote again on prohibi tion that they wont vote with the Re publican parti'. It seems high time that the Republican party were satisfying it pelf of the truth or falsity of these re ports, and if found true that its leaders take the necessary steps to satisfy the forces composing the stronger of the or ganizations. "What 1 Know About Trix" is not ex actly tho title, but it is the theme of a Ferial now running in tho Atchison Cham pion, dairy, and deals in short, crisp, pungent paragraphs on current Kansas matters political, both as to persons (by intimation) and practices. As between the editor of the Champion and tho ed itor of tho Emporia Republican, it is nip and tuck which shall succeed to tho leadership of the Kansas Rebellion, erst while credited exclusively to the account of the editor of tho Eagle, but who lias long since been distanced by several of the "press gang." Tho officers of tho Illinois State tGratigo announce that they have seen a' btraw binder at work that was brought out by their ctfer of $10,000 for a deed for such an implement. The machine, they say, worked satisfactorily, and they tendered the inventor the money offered for the patents of the machine, but he declined, as he had a better offer. If the machine is a success it is worth more money than that, and the inventor will probably make nearer a round million from it. In fact,, tho farmers of the country could afford to have him make n million out of it, for it will save them many times that amount in a very few years. The Now York Sun considers Governor Horace Botes of Iowa as "h poor bort of a Democrat " A Democrat being a poor sort of h tinny: aud Boie being a poor sort of a Democrat, the people of Iowa who want to bo governed are necessarily in a poor sort of a situation. But thev will know more eventually. Late municipal flections show that the era of improve-: merit lias already set iu. New ton Kpub lican. As to quality this may be gratifying enough, aud is, if the "improvement" in quantity, indicated by the returns from the said municipal elections, is to have anything like permanent or long contin ued sway. But the promised improve ment is the only thing about the situa tion up there that is the least consoling to Republicans. The name of that distingueshed states man, Senator Blair, will not be perpetu ated by his great educational bill, for the measure is doomed to defeat, but it wiil always be preserved in human memory as that of a man who made the longest and dullest seech in the whole history of oratory, nis recent speech in the senate is undoubtedly entitled to the rake in these two respects. It took him eight days to make it, aud it fills 103 closely printed columns in the Congres sional Record. It was wearisome be yond everything ever before heard even in tho senate chamber. The worst of the matter is that ho isn't through yet that is ho wasn't Friday when the senate adjourned for the week. EMPEROR WILLIAM'S SPEECH. The Emperor William of Germany made a speech at a banquet in Berlin "Wedndnesday night that may have some significance. He intimated that he had about his dominion to learn something traveledof his people, something of their situation, their needs and their feelings. This would indicate that the younger man has some conception of the power of public eentimenr. He may even have a comprehension of the fact that in these days not even an emperor can safely defy or disregard that power. His course toward the Socialists, indeed, may be inspired by what he has learned of his people. Emperors and kings have sometimes gone to ruin through not knowing the temper of their people. The most significant thing in the im perial speech was the remark, "To him who is with me, I am grateful, and I shall know how to cope with him who is against me." What does this mean? Is it an implied threat? Who is it that the young emperor evidently thinks is against him? There is much disapproval of his policy toward the Socialsts. Several German princes have protested i against it, and the czar of Russia is said to be dissatisfied with it. Does the em poror refer to any of these, when he hints at the danger of his being attacked and declares his abiding faith in his gal lant army? There are good many of the elements of disturbance and revolu tion in Europe. A very little tiling may excite them to activity. RHODE ISLAND'S POLITICS. The Democrats have nominated a state ticket in Rhode Island. The elec tion will occur in a few weeks. The last election in that diminutive state was of indecisive result. There was no choice of governor, an absolute majority being required to elect, and a prohibition can didate polling a few hundred votes, but enough to bring down the Republican candidate to a mere plurality. The leg islature was Republican by a small ma jority and so elected the ReDublican nominee to the governorship. This was the first election held after the removal of the property qualification to the right of suffrage. That act very considerably increased the number of voters. And the Democrats claimed that tho vote showed that tho little state was no longer hopelessly Republican. They will probably contest this year's election with the idea that they have a fair chance of winning, and will make a vigorous fight. The result will therefore be awaited with some interest. It will decide how Rhode Island is to be classed politically hereaf ter. It will also indicate the political tendencies. It will ho the first popular expression of sentiment regarding tho course taken by tlfe Republican majority in tho lower house of congress. It will bo an indication of the drift of opinion on tho tariff question. For once the election iu the liliputian state will be of national interest. During the last month or six weeks tho Eagle has admitted to its columns almost unlimited range to the discussion of current economic questions. This has been done upon the idea that in the mul titude of counsel there is wisdom. Not one of the many articles published, per haps, has met tho unqualified approval of the editor as being conclusive in its reasoning and statement of facts, but all have contained many strong points and valuable suggestions, and their publica tion can not fail to be of advantage to the readers and the community, if tho good in them shall but stimulate all to prompt and intelligent action for the fu ture. It is only by comparison that we can discover errors and mistakes and provide against them hereafter. "LET US CALlTa HALT." from lllo 'Vclllnstou3Iail. All this foolish and absurd talk about the opening of tho Cherokee strip in June is very detrimental to Kansas. It creates an impression abroad that is not to the best interest of this state and it should be stopped and stopped at once, too. There are lots of eastern people who aro desiring to locate in the great Fouthwest, and main- of them would bo packing up and immigrating by this time, had it not been for these sensation- al and groundless rumors in reference to j the opening of tho strip in June. Since those rumors have gained currency abroad, these intending immigrants have paused aud aro asking themselves tiie question "why should wo go to Kansas in March and pay from ten to fifteen and maybe twenty-five dollars per acre for land while we can get land admittedly as good in the Cherokee strip in June simply for the taking of it? Can't we afford" to wait three months longer and savo a few thousand dol lars by doing so?" These are very pertinent and common sense questions to put to one's self, and we would ask similar ones under similar cir cumstances if we were in their places. Wo must call a halt, and the sooner we do it the better it will be for us. We must publish the truth about tho Cherokee strip. ' - rjoes anybody who knows the condition the strip is in suppose for one moment that if the government had any idea of open ing the strip m June, that the president would extend the order of Secretary No ble in reference to the ejectment of the cattlemen from June to October? Be sides, the Indians must be negotiated with, aud everybody who has any pre tensions of knowledge relating to Chero kee affairs, must admit that the Chero kee nation is m no humor now. nor will they be for a few years at least, to make any dicker with Uncle Sam by which the strip ma come into possession of the government. It grieves us to see the inconsistencies of some of our contemporaries with ref erence to this matter. On one page of all the little one-horse papers along the border, and papers in the interior, too, you can seo head-lines similar to these every jday: "tome to Kansas and get a home. Splendid land can be had at from $10 to $23 per acre," etc., while on an other page ypu can see "Come to Boom erville, the gateway to the Cherokee strip," which will be opened to settle ment in a few months, and where every body can get a quarter section of the finest land under heaven for the taking of it," etc. What will an eastern farmer who contemplates immigrating to Kan sas Srty when he reads these glaring and glaringly inconsistent head-lines? He will simply get disgusted with us, hug the stove a little closer and commence to re-educate himself in the belief that his barren Now England lull-sides are good enough for him. The result will be that Kansas wall, by tho folly of her fool ed- ltors and still foolier town boomers. lose a good citizen and a good farmer. If Kansas newspapers desire to see a stream of good profitable immigration flow into Kansas this year, they must quit fooling the people by saying the Cherokefc strip will bo opened in June. SENSIBLE VIEW HARD TIMES. ON THE WicmxA, Kan., March 1S90. To the Editor of the Eagle. There has been so far, if I am right, two general theories advanced as to the cause of the present business depression. First, that of Mr. Davis to the effect that the world has a surfeit of, and there fore no market for farm products. The other theory assumes or implies that there isn't enough money in the country to do the business. Then comes a brief statement in a recent issue of the Eagle which seems to adopt the first part of the last named theory but to modify the latter part of it by a proposition which if true would be most deplorable. Irefer to the statement in substance that while there are $31 per capita in existence which should be in circulation, there are, owing to the large holdings in the vaults of corporations on various pre texts, not to exceed G per capita in actual circulation. The plain meaning of this is, as I take it, that with 31 per capita in volume money has been "cornered," in pursuance necessarily of a pre-concerted plan and for the deliber ate purpose of producing the present depression. The truth of this theory I repeat would be most appalling, especially when we remember that in order to accomplish the result $2,740,- 000,000 would required to be horded in those vaults, leaving only one-eighth of that sum in circulation. Can it be true? If it is, farewell, Oh hope, for the future. But I am loth to believe the proposition; not that I doubt that there are large sums being held in vaults; on the con trary, common daily observation teaches rue that money in small, as well as large, sums is being held onto by everybody with a very extraordinary tenacity. I agree with you that this holding onto money is the cause of the depression, but do not agreo that it is being done only by certain classes or for the purpose of producing the depression. If we can agree that this holding onto money is the immediate cause of tho depression and that it is done either willingly or from force of circumstances by all classes and conditions we have then but one moro step to take, in my opinion, to reach the correct solution of hard times, and that is that this same holding onto or husbanding money is not only tho cause, but is also the result of the de pression. If you have reached, but hesitate in taking, this step for want of further evi dence, then just ask your neighbor why ho wears his last year's hat and see if he doesn't answer "hard times." Or ask your more fortunate neighbor with money in bank why ho doesn't invest it. and see if he doesn't answer, that so long as all kinds of prop erty is depreciating, money is the best thing to have. This last step then, if per force taken, brings us. as I believe, to the true answer of the problem, i e: That a period of hard times feeds on its own I offal; that it has, outside of itself, no cause for its existence; that it is a mere panic or stampede from property in tho direction of money, and I think a little study will prove that, like all other stam pedes or panics, they never havo ade quate and many have very insignificant beginnings, but that ouce fairly started they are not only self sustaining but con tain within themselves all the elements of a rapid and malignant growth and development. I think 1 can not do better, in order to be clearly understood, than to trace, ac cording to my idea, tho rise, progress and fall of one of these periods of de pression. First, then, as to tho rise: One of these periods always depends for its inception udou the prevalence, to a greater or less extent, of the idea that hard times have begun or aro just about to begin; that is, that money is about to become close and higher priced. This idea luay be engendered in various ways. For instance, by the sudden decline of an extensive real es tate boom; or by a series of short crops over a considerable extent of territory, or merelj by the unfounded superstition that we are bound to have periodical de pressions from seven to ten years apart. We will say that by one of the above, or some other, means ten of 15 per cent of the people become tnoroughly convinced that hard times are just about to set in. This idea alone, with those who enter tain it, depresses the value of property and enhances that of monej'. Beginning at once to act upon their belief they make a sudden break for money; they tighten their grip on what they haye and begin to drop property of all kinds as fast as possible, buying in tho mean time only such necessities as they are compelled to have. Tho extra amouut of property of all kinds thus thrown on to tho market, the like falling off of buyers, and tho slightly diminished vol- ume of money produced by some being thus withheld from the channels of trade, produce a perceptible depression of property of all kinds and a corres ponding rise in money, a genuine symp tom of hard times, which convinces another 20 or 30 per cent of the people that hard times are upon us sure enough; they join the lush, and the process thus intensified and repeats itseif till the grasp on money, the anxiety to get rid of all kinds of property, and rigid economy of living, cither enforced or voluntary, be come universal. This rigid universal economy in living means, by the way, a vast under-consumption of nearly all ar ticles ot commerce, which combined with the crazo to sell property, soon brings about the aspect of over-production, not only sending property lower and again lower, but by checking pro duction great numbers of people are thrown out of employment one of the most distressing features of hard times. Such is a brief outline of my idea of the rise and progress of hard times. The fall is like the rise, only less rapid; the belief necessary to start it beinsr more difficult to become established, but finally some of the people become thoroughly satisfied that tho bottom has been reached and that times are going to be better. They begin to loosen their grip dn money and reach out cautiously for property: this soon begins to strengthen property and others becoming convinced that the crisis is past, follow the lead of the first and soon confidence is restored and tilings again reach an equilibrium. If my solution of the problem is cor rect then the remedy is the same as for panics in audiences. The best way to prevent them or to modify their results is for the people toknow Avbat they are, and expect and prepare for them. 1 be lieve the reason the present one bears so heavily on the west is because she is in debt ; and. as promissory notes do not shrink with other property she j was totally unprepared for it. Having been a teacher for manv vears, 1 will reduce the remedv to a rule, which vou wiil observe is iust the -evers of the one SZVoTolZo lC Bite During good times do not go in debt, J nor remain in debt if vou have propertv. 1 A VERY but when hard times come and property ' the value of the aphonsm. -h.ty.-rna. vig becomes greatly depressed then buy all ilance is the price of liberty. M. vou can on credit or otherwise. This , ... ,.;- .. , -n-- n r ;i, ,-f miwiir fniio- r.!,l 1 I The California Illustrated World of believe, do awar almost entirely both with waves of fictitious prosperity and J troughs of ruinous depression sut tlie j nd. upon benefits of this rule do not depend, urxm its universal adoption: Each individual j 3 S" " r V tffiTr ! tim situation and to him, if ho has Uie!t0IT achieved by its champion, Jim nerve to act for himself, hard limes will i Corbeit, over Jake. Kflrain, and a very rrove harvest Urnes. " . A. LaldvLL. i THE TROUBLE IS WORLD WIDE. Dodge City, Kan., 3farch 7, 1S90. To the Editor of tho Eazle. Several contributors to your inter esting and enterprising journal have been endeavoring to show the cause why of the depression which all admit to exist in the value of farm products, and consequently in the condition of the farmers. One says the acreage cuirf1 vated is out of proportion to population, and hence liltle can be done except to grow in numbers up to the standard of food products. Buckle, in his great but unfinished work, the "History of Civil ization in Europe." says that the growth of population has always been most rapid where the bread-producing cereal i3 most abundant and cheap. Hence the despondent may take heart again, on the theory that if we have the food wo " shall ere long have the mouths to feed. Ridicule is not intended, as the article in question was dignified, able ami worthy of careful consideration. The failure of its logic is found in the fact that its scope is con liued to the United States alone. The population of the principal countries of the world has increased during the past twenty-five years to the extent of many millions, and out of proportion to the area devoted to wheat culture, with the exceptions of India and Russia. The av erage production per acre of this grain (a fact to bo carefully looked into in making an estimate) has decreased in the past five years in the United States, and very probably in the continent of Europe; certainly in England. It is well known that India is not a re liable, every-year producer of wheat. A famine will make its population pur chasers instead of sellers of this product. Tho system of farming employed in Rus sia is not to be compared with that of the United States, the producing power of one man there being less than one-half that of an American farmer. Therefore, Russia cannot greatly increase its wheat output without a revolution in its farm ing methods, and cannot afford more expensivo methods at present prices of this cereal. If the writer of the article referred to did not consider all these tilings how much reliance can be placed in his con clusions? It his calculations aro all based on tho idea that our wheat (which is used as a convenient example) must find a market at home, or never find a market, ho is pretty near correct; and nothing but timo would be a remedy; much like the statement of the doctor to a patient, quite sick with inflammatory rheumatism, that the best remedy he knew was "six weeks." Not very com forting in either case. Now, a great part of our wheat must find a foreign market or, practically no market at an. Jtiise, wny should tho west desire a deep water harbor and cheaper transporta tion from its fields to that harbor? Why care to cheapen transportation to a foreign market if we do not need that market? Indeed, what need we care on this score, if it be true, as some in the heat of campaigns have said, that the price of our wheat is not fixed in Liver pool? If our wheat is priced in Liver pool, why is it so cheap now? If not priced in Liverpool why, in tho name of equal justice to all classes, has the price ot wheat become so low, while that of iron is rising? If the first be true and over produc tion is responsible, then it is over-production in the wheat countries generally, and the increase of a few millions of bushels in tho United States last year had little to do with it. Consequently a poorer crop in those wheat countries this year would raise the price of that which we may want to export. If the second question be answered in the affirmative, then the farmers of this nation ought to be found, as one man, asking that tho burdens and benefits which the laws can place or remove shall be equalized, for it will not do to "point with pride" to well-paid opera tives in manufacturing districts as an example of the superiority of our system of government and of our laws when, at the same time, the labor of tho farmers of the United States is as poorly paid as that of the factory operatives in free trade England. Now every sensible man knows that for the purposes of a fair investigation of this subject "our field is the world." He knows that the mills of Minneapolis do not make the market for Kansas wheat, but does know that such market is made where ships unload their great cargoes. No ships unload cargoes of wheat at any port of this union, but many ships receive there tho golden grain. Let us bo agreed on this: We must sell our surplus in the "markets of the world"' or keep it in our granaries. The writer regrets that ho can not offer a remedy which can be used like a pain killer, "guaranteed to give instant re lief;" but he expresses great confidence in the fact that this foreign over produc tion is not a steady factor. Its potency is now at its height. Six months from now it may in a largo measure be re moved as an obstacle to higher prices for American grain, and then there will be little need for a remedy maker. It seems clear from the foregoing that "option dealing" is not a sufficient cause of the depression in prices. Havo wo not seen wild speculation in grain, and good prices for the farmers at the same time? "Producer." in his paper, lays the blame on "option" and "future" dealing. P. N. broadens the view somewhat when he says we have "driven our foreign customers to the necessity of looking to and building up other countries from which they can buy without so much expense and annoyance." Of course he is a tariff reformer. He, too, needs timo to effect a cure. The period of convalescence would be long, very long. Should the dream of the tariff re former be realized tomorrow, it would take many years, according to his own logic, to put tho people on a firm and prosperous basis, for tho saving under lower tariff of each head of a family would not be large enough to retire on, short of twenty years. On the basis of justice the argument is stronger for if the present tariff system is wrong in principle and baneful in practice, it ought to be made right at once. Be sides, it might happen that tho "markets of the world" would occasionally be glutted with cereals! He mistakes the silver question en tirely. If the government buys bullion j with silver on hand, or from surplus rev-1 enue, it pays out that much money, which goes into the general circulation, and then it issues silver cer tificates based on the coin. The subject is a broad one. No one can feel safe in saying in the presence of a jrreat economic problem. "Eureka." But !t ' ood for a self governed people to think and discuss, to inquire and to ! meditate. It is aIo good that they provei h7 sharP scrutiny into o tne acts of their, -- .i, o,: ! servants m omce tnac uiey appreciate & Francisco, as a sporting and dra- marie review, is aunique and very clever publication, hlling en tr.e racinc coast t!w rtosition rwnnifHl br the illustrated we;kIies of iu cb35 on the Atlantic coast It is making the met of the vic clever shcwhijj it makes, toy, SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS. eeds, St'p:, Scions, Sprsa;!, Sheet! and Stiver. State printer is about, the best paying oftiee" in Kansas it is said. There are fifteen cities in Kansas ope rating street railway lines. A farmer in Franklin county is taxed 9 cents on real estate and 3.39 on dogs. The personal pronoun, "our" doesn't appear before "Ingalls" in the Atchbon Champion any longer. There's many a thins said in the Al liance columns that the editor does not hold himself responsible for. For the past ten days the old soldiers at the Leavenworth Houw have been dying nearly at the rate of one a day. President Harrison, it is said, played poker when he was a senator. He was a good player and not to be bluffed. If winter does linger in the lap of spring it is only to pay her back for the way she lounged around on him last November. Sharon Robinson, the bank robber shot atMeriden, turns out to have been an ex postmaster at Hoiuewood, This explains bis recklessness Mrs. Schmidt, the mother of the Mc Pherson county "quadruples,7' is the mother of twenty-two children, eight of which are twins. There it talk of a citizens alliance to be organized in Atchison to co-operate with the farmers alliance. This will probably take in Mr. Glick. The talk going en just now in the rural press about raising castor beaus would seem to indicite that the farmers are bent on working off the present gorge of com. The Wiufield newspapers are publishing the pictures of the farmers alliance. - It still lingers in the eyes of a few that the farmers alliance was to keep oat of poli tics. At the penitentiary coal mine there was 1CS,S28 bushels of coal hoisted duriug tho month of February. The total output since the siaking of the shaft is 10,503,041 bushels. William Weaver, of Durlin North Da kota, is in Kansas for the purpose of buy ing buffalo. His idea is to cross them with Polled Angus cattle. He and Bison Jones of Garden City should form a trust. A proposition is to be submitted to the voters of AlcPberson to vote on the sale of the citv water works to a company. Mc- Pherson has found some unsatisfactory things iu running its own water works. Tim McCarthy and Hamilton both state treasurers resigned and took positions on the Santa Fe, but it is not likely that the present treasurer Sims has an eye on any similar post. He has been mentioned as senator. One of the greatest evidences that Ben jamin Harrison is a success as a president is the everlasting bombardement of Rus sel Harrison by the Democratic news papers. It is a poor way, to attack a man through his son. The Abilene Reflector is publishing a batch of stories of early days in Abilene and the memories of the citizens are so diversified that by the time the story ifi fully corrected and annotated it is about as uncertain as preadamitic history. Edgar Allen Poe has been a great aid to matters ot an occult nature. Timothy Harrington denies tho statemeut that Archbishop Walsh was chiefly instru mental iu discovering the key to the cipher telegrams which he read in tho house of commons. It was Edgar Allen Poe's tale, "The Gold Bug." that assisted him in deciphering the telegrams. There is no doubt that his "Mvstery of tho Rue Morgue"' has given miuy valuable hints to the police iu reaching a clue by a course of pure reasoning. An exchange from a Kansas town tells the following: A funny story is told on a young married man in this city. He was married a little more than a year ago and is the proud father of a baby a few months old. He bought a very elaborate baby car riage soon after the arrival of the heir, and last week the happy father and mother walked down Ninth avedue, pushing the carriage with its precious freignt. Tho sharp eyes of the husband were watching to see the effect of the procession on tho general public, and he noticed that people would gaze amusedly as they approached, and, iu most cases, laugh outright as they passed. Hubby got nervous and glanced at his wife and himself to make sure that there was nothing out of gear in their per sonal appearauce. The laughter contin ued, however, and at last the father re quested the mother to walk, on ahead for half a block and return, instructing her to observe closely and see if there was any occasion for hilarity. Sbe complied, aud as she neared the carriage on the return trip her eyes bulged and her face flamed as she saw on the front of the vehicle a pla card which had been overlooked when the carriage was bought, and which bore the ) inscription, "Uur Own .Make. This equal to the mistake of a prominent Wich- ita lady who, in the hurry and flurry of the .moment, got the order ot things mixed j ?Fiu,,"h?E "E ZS r" ?," had run a long gauntlet upon the street of j wide grins and loud guffaws. OKLAHOMA OUTLINES. Two more stone opened at Guthrie. quarries have been Tuesday the Democrats have a territorial convention at Oklahoma City. A vein of coal forty-two inches thick hn3 been discovered north of El Reno. There has been ?1,'-'03.GS paid for city printing in nine mouths by Guthrie. There has been So.IGs'.Sj collected from capitation taxes in Guthrie since hut April. Oklahoma will celebrate the Snd of April. Jt will be the Oklahoma fourth of July. "A city that is set upon a hill can not be hid,' aud Noble says that is just what's the matter with it. Milton Reynolds says Edmond is the Abou Ben Adam of Oklahoma towns and that it keeps music on tap. Oklahoma has caught old winter in the act of setting 3iuack into the lap of spring. And the old scoundrel continues to stay there. The city schools of Stillwater closed a five mouths term last Friday. The city still Las in itsochool treasury, after nayiug all debt, enough to pay the expense of a turee month term. Frank Smith, a young man who has been working on the farm of J. L. Bon bannan, on Litt.e river, in Oklahoma, dis appeared very mysteriously last week. Foul play is supected. An Oklahoma opinion from the Noble Courier: "John Jacob Aswrdieu receutlr in New York He was worth S130.0OJ.000, but he never enjoyed it &jj does the average homesteader with 1C0 acres of nch Okla homa dirt, and no con teat. " " Jn postnl matters Stillwater haa been made the distributing point for the Pan Handle. Four stage line are now run ning, vz.. between Stillwater and Orlan do, fctiliwater and Ingalls, Stillwater and Windom and Stillwaterand Perkin. A man fired a pistol off on Grand avenue in Oklahoma City the other evening and the bullet entereit a barber shop and de niOiished a mirror. Upon this the tonatirtal artist rushed out. grabbed the miscreant, flopped him over on his back and dhaved b;s head with th back ot tw biceps. One of the busiest persons In Oklahoma at the present time is the &sttir wno i Ifibonnir hard to establish hitn.rlf and j family in their pew Lome iu this bantffui I lanu. -o one due taoe wno nave tntu living on and improving a govcrament cUim can realize bow nmcb law- u ne-f ttJZttF'EZl ., j . ., M ,ir.". .1. will pay. aoa par welL to stick to the claim in UKianoma. rsorman Iraascnpt. Signs of spriac time from the Henaeaisy Conner: Going North. T!nr,r;x &L&ie. that set-ller Ar erowtrt r !b: the CaerckM atrip, and iira: tacit oac t Innes : VROT d a f. J I f -zJ&f & Vfess-. 'A'CRW A New line o French Ginghams and Tennis Flannels. New Carpets Just Arrived! ISTew Carpets Just Arrived 1 AT THE White House of Innes 4 Ross. 116 to 120 Main Street, has selected his claim and taken posses sion of it- These mon should havo learned something from the experience of the Ok lahoma "sooner.s," but as they refuse to do so it i oossiblo they will learn in tnat school which tho proverb says fools prefer There is every reason to thiuk that the most stringent provisions will be made concerning the men who go into that ter ritory and take up laud before it is legally opon for settlement. Certainly settlers in good faith under the law .-hould be pro tected, aud it seems probable that they will be. Noble has already a base ball club in tho field ami nn base. Tho name of tho club is the "Noble Plow Boys." aud all the boys save ouo are homesteaders. "All the members are old ball players nud although a trifle stiff their playing bhows that each man is a sure enough ball player."' says the Noble Courier. "We venture the pre diction that as they are the first club, o they will be the leading club in the terri tory. The base ball seaou is near at hand, and there is no doubt but that other towns will fodow the example set by the "Noble Plow Boys" and that the base ball clubs will soou ba as thick as lot jump ers." REFORM IN THE TARIFF NEEDED. Anthoxv, March 6, 1S90. To tlio Editor ot tho Eaule. It today's paper C. "Wood Davis takes uo about two columns attempting to prove, what no one has ever disputed that prices are governed by the law of supoly and domand. Jt is a self evident proposition and needs only to be atated to be admitted. However.beforo Mr. Davis understakes to prove that the present low prices of all kinds of farm products aro caused by the workings of this law of supply and demand, it would be well enough for him first to see whether or not it is still in force. The fact is this law was re pealed in 1801,andthe sectional discrimi nation law was substituted in its place and remains in force to this day. Mod ern politicians do not like the old nauio and so it is now called the protective tar iff law. You .isk how does this later law control the supply, and niako in operative the law of supply and demand? the answer is, it restricts tho ordinary supply of forejrrn manufactured goods, and thus throws the mantle of protection around the American manufacturers., while the American farmer 13 left shivering out in the cold, to take care of himself as best he knows how, unprotected. Beginning now from a 6olid foundation, and argu ing from a law now in force, instead of from one that has been repealed for nearly thirty years, we find ourselves in a position to talk intelligently. Ilence as the lav of supply and de mand is not now in force as has been shown and as all will admit, tho theory of overproduction as causing tho low prices of farm products is uo longer ten able. The question then is what does cause the low prices. Tho answer is, were it not for this pro tective tariff law'tho natural law of sup ply and demand would be operative. This would plnce the price of home man ufactured goods on a par with foreign manufactured goods, and while thw might not make tho farmer's corn worth much more in dollars and cents its pur chasing power would certainly bo great ly increased in the market of exchange, which to him would be equivalent to raising the price. This being true, farm ing would jay better, and consequently there ivould be a greater demand for land, and hence the price would be ma terially advanced. The law of supply and demand, j-ou see, vorks all right, but the trouble is it is not in force, and so everj-thing goes wrong. Having sliown, novr, that the law of supply and demand is not in force, we arf in a condition to show tip tho fallacy of the "ben theory' l )lr. Davis in which he attempts to f how that j O . - CREAM Baking Powder MOST PERFECT MADE. In 83priorcei: prorea in mniioct of bcesw tor msrelkia s. qarUr of a of ctarr. U t ;sei by tfc ( nlld HUA-st Gorrcajrac Zsvitx! by lfcs ktajit oi tfce Gral I niTmltie th dirocjcwt. Yam. ezsdroo-t EsUifiL Dr. frloit Cr&si EaXd&2 Voider doea est coat itn Auuaoalt Lfme or Afasx Boliocly la rn. PHICS 3AZ3HG POWDER CO. 27ew YorJs. CWcsgo. St. Louis. Sita PrsnuJscc & : Ross ENTIRE jSE"Y LINE OF Odjx Fast Black Hose For ladies, children and gen tlemen. Absolutely Fast Black. Will noc stain the leer. Don:t buy any other. Best hosiery in the world A new nine of ladies' Gordon Fast Black ITose, lisle thread toe and heel. These are speci ally recommended for wear and durability. over production is what is hurting the farmers. lie says: "When the hen is disposed to do her level best iu tho way of fruit tho prices drop to a low point, and were nil the gold and silver ever mined dumped into Sedg wick county eggs would be cheap at cer tain seasons, s mply because more are pro duced than are required for current use; but about New Year, when the hard worked hen takes her annual vacation, tho price goea up (and tho money is found everywhere to pay for them simply be cause there are not quite enough eggs to go around." How would an under production help us? Mr. Davis says it would, because it would increaso tho price of eggs. Let mo ask, would it not bo better for the farmer to have an overproduction of of eggs, and havo some to soli at oven 1 cents per dozen than not to have enough and havo to buy at 25 cents per down? The fact is, there can be no harm 111 a single nation being an overproduce among nations, any more than there can he any harm in a single fanner, amen; many, of having too much gram to sell. The trouble is, producing his crnju costs tho farmer too much. Let overy trade bo governed by tho natural law of supply and demand, and the fanner will prosper, but as long as this law is con trolled by tho human law, "tho law of nrotection," somebody must Buffer. R. If. Lockwood. EXCHANGE SHOTS. Kansas Sugar. torn tho Kftnfeas harincr. The Medictno Lodge sugar plant and ground cost $12.3, i, and was com pleted September 20, 1SS9. A part from tho bounty tho prolits ou tho teason's work wero $.",810. This is not big money, but it is at least a.s good a return as an experimental industry should no ex pected to make at the stnrt. Pluck: aud jutionco will win with beets and aorghutu 111 Kansas. Tho Blovintor Bogglmj. From the New ton liepubttcaa. Until Chicago was given tho world's fnir it ridiculed the impucuuiosity of yw York and boasted of how it could run a fair out of its own uapacioua and well filled pocket; but uinco the whtto elephant has been awarded to it tho oloviutmg city has begun to ask for gov ernment aud state aid. It will get neither, and thuro will probably be no fair, in which event nothing will be Iot. The time will bo too short to prepare ex lnbits and places for thulr exhibition, kucIi as a celebration of the kind ought have. GlorifyJnff tho Weak From UMCbl -MHO liirakl. The population, tho wealth, tho splen dor, the political influence aud the cul ture of America are about to center in the Mi(i!:pf)i valley, wich Chicago as the metropehs. Tho predominating in fluence of the east over the destini of this country is about to cease forevtr. In tho near future thu sat tif power, if not the sent of government, i.-t to be 110V far from Chicago. Tlie victory of Chi cago, therefore, is thy victory of" thf wut, and her honors are the honor of tho west. It is tho great MitisUdippi val ley which won the day and which is about to rule the world. Rum and Jtuin. From thu Kl M ftaptiMkam A Lawrence woman who tnkog a great deal of interest in the third party uijr? inent, and mounts the platform on every occasion to toll how rum ierusmng tbi home, has a boy who is going to bull be cause he lis no borne. H ifankllwr and a loafer, and iipond hw erenmgjj around the drug atorin with the mitell of card t men seeds, joint whisky and lunch counter sandwiches on Jm breath. II wears good clotht, wbru everybody m town know hj never eorn-I a cent in his lif Yet ba tnoihwr I tramping np and down tho tate day after day, telling nowwhibky is ruining the home. Whisk? never get a bow at a home till the tvomn begin to negltot it. . 7.S V r;i "fe ! 1 - ;.fraJiftgff?