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JIARSHAMi Jt. 31UKBOCK. IMltor.
Tliree of the contests for seats in the
house have been -settled, and there are
fourteen yet to be acted on.
Corporal Tanner is said to be now
making from $20,000 to .$25,000 a year
by prosecuting pension claims and keep
ing still. Thought something was the
matter with him.
Some people in these United States are
somewhat solicitous that the male line
of the Lincoln family is to become ex
tinct. It is time to ask, "What is the
matter with Robert T. Lincoln?"'
The reports of Siberian outrages may
fail to come to the ears of the public
once in a while, but the faith cure out
rages, never. The faith cure took off
another victim in New York last week.
The Sacramento Bee had the good
luck.assuch things go, to get itself sued for
$25,009 on an alleged libel, but before
the case came to trial it had the better
luck to get the suit dismissed. There's
nothing like luck (?).
A Georgia man aspires to the govern
orship on the ground that he is the pro
ducer of a choice variety of watermel
ons. He must be in favor of a free
ballot for the negroes, and with that ho
would have a certainty of election.
The youthful Abraham Lincoln was
all patriotism. A short time before he
was taken sick with the rnalady from
which he never recovered he wrote to a
friend in Chicago: "There is no place
like America for me. I long for a game
of base ball with the boys."'
The Wichita Eagle is a little late in pro
fessing to want a native born Kausan slmic
to congress. We lived in that cougreb
Monal district for tliree years, and the
lAGLE never as.iuuch as hinted that we
would make good timber. Saliua .Repub
lican. Of course it didn't. It could say why,
but that's enough, don't you think?
The middle of another month almost
come again and yet no government for
Oklahoma. But the last month has been
less irksome than the preceding ones,
owing to a little divertisement, gotten
up by a coterie of scheming politicians
and utopian-ideaed individuals.
Pennsylvania seems to have a claim on
the Russian miEsion. Charles Emory
Smith is the sixth minister from that
state to the court at St. Petersburg, his
predecessors having been Messrs. Bober,
Curt in, Cameron, Dallas and Wilkins.
Editor Thorndyke Rice, who died just on
his departure for Russia, could also be
added to the list.
Bisl op Bowman, of the Evangelical
church, has been suspended on various
chaiges until the next general conference
meets. Until that time his many friends
and admirers throughout tho country
will believe him wrongly accused and
lely upon him to thoroughly clear him
Bclf. He has been in tho service of the
church over fifty yeais.
If the New Hampshire senator and
BOiue otner members of the American
house of lonls are as anxious to have
their effusions appear in the newspapers
aa they appear to be, let them deyote a
modicum of their towering talents to
preparing something catchy an exege
bis on snakes, for instance; there is al
ways a demand for snake stories.
"Brazil, by its decrees enforcing citizen
shin on all foreigneis rebiding within
its domain, has excited tho wrath of some
of the big European powers. It will be
well for Brazil's reply simply to bo an
udraonitiou to tho European powers "to
mind their own business," and from the
Bummaiy and independent policy evi
denced by the republic since its incep
tion, it probably will to retort.
English capitalists, it seems, arc not to
have all the "phat takes" (printer's
phrase) in this country. Now York cap
ital has gobbled up tho artificial and one
of the natural gas plants of Indianapolis.
Tho sum invested is $2,000,000. All that
can be taid in favor of the investment of
foreign capital in such enterprises is that
it frees a like hum of home capital to be
invested in something else that will
benefit the community.
Redish blondo hair, which is now the
fashion in -Paris, and therefore tho thing
everywhere, can be traced back to a
classic, romantic and pictorial source. It
w.-is equally fascinating in Rome when
Rome was mistress of the world, and in
Venice when Venico was queen of the
tea. But a classic, romantic and picto
lial source of the while horse is still ob
scured in the oblivious past. The source
of this ubiquitous beast is what the led
headed female is the most interested in.
Senator Dolph's special committee to
discover the executive session leaks, hav
ing exhausted the newspaper corres
pondents without discovering anything,
has now commenced on the senators
hemsehes. taking them alphabetically.
h far none have been found who have
ever told anything. But suppose an of
fender is found, what will be done with
lum? Will he ue hung? Or will he be
let off with expulsion from tho august
and outraged body?
An uuheard of event happened latelv.
The old Sioux Indian chief Big Head
was fout.d one day at Standing Rock.
N. D., hanging from a tree with a rope
around lire neck and an empty cracker
lox kicked from under him. He was
cut down only in time to save his life.
Ho tried to commit suicide" because his
grandchildren had died and he was
lonely and unhappy. An Indian was
hardly over known to commit suicide, a
Sioux never before, it is said.
In
speaking of recent economic
changes, David A. Wells says: "The ex
perience of different countries in re
spect to the difference in the retail and
wholsale prices of staple commodities is
not uniform; tho most notablo excep
tion, perhaps, being that American beef,
llour, bread, butter and cheese are, as a
rule, sold more cheaply at retail inLon
don than in New York." Tlnsdjfference
is easy enough explained, though; it is
found in the faOt that the retailers on
tho other side are content with a smaller
pir cent of pre fit thanjhise on this side.
That is a short statement, but it is all
there is to it.
Sftilijls
OUR MILITIA RESERVES.
It is not altogether unpleasant to observe
from the report of the adjutant general
that the United States, in case of war,
could put into the field a force of nearly
7,500,000 men. Of actual enlistments in
the armies of both sides in the late war
there were not far from 2,000,000. In
another war the north and south would
be on one side, and wo could throw into
the field 5,000,000 men against any at
tacking force. The 7,500.000 estimate
counts in only those between 18 and 45.
As a matter of fact, in our war there
are many both under and over the legal
limit.
The army of disciplined national
guards is not large, in spite of the en
couragement given to it bv both state
and national governments of late years.
It numbers only 103,292 men and 8,052
officers, a little body with a big head.
The number of officers is more imposing
than the number of privates. Theieis
an officer to every twelve men. The
criticism German soldiers make on our
army is that there are too many small
officers. But this is a free country where
every soldier aspires to be a brigadier
general.
Xew York has the most trained mili
tiamen, the number oeing 13.47S men
and 743 commissioned officers. Next
comes Pennsylvania, 728 officers and 7.
8G5 privates. Ohio is third, having 375
officers and 4.544 privates.
CHE NEGRO IN DEMAND.
Within the past few months large
numbers of colored people have left the
South Atlantic seaboard, particularly
the Carolinas, the imigrants going west,
but not leaving the south. Different
theories have been advanced in expla
nation of this movement, some sort of
reason seeming to be demanded in view
of the "negro problem"' growing directly
out of tho deportation scheme suggested
and provided for in Senator Butler's bill
before the senate which, by the way,
fell still-born and passed out of view. It
now transpires that the transfer of the
negroes from the seab -ard to the inter
ior, above referred to, was the work of
capitalists who have been inducing them
to emigrate to the unsettled lands in
Mississippi and Louisiana. These par
ties have made a statement of their
reasons for doing so that alters the judg
mant passed upon their schemes. Tho
first belief was that thev wero simply
seeking to maice business for their rail
roads at tho expense of the colored man.
They claim now, however, that they aie
trying to develop a large territory as yet
unsettled, and which can only be done
by the work of the negro.
If these statements are correct, these
capitalists may do a good deal to settle
the race problem. Tiiey say that they
need 100,000 colored men, and will pro
vide that number with homes and work.
Those who have already gone on their
property, they assert, are doing better
than they did in their old homes, and
arc thoroughly satisfied. They are given
their houses rent free, an acre of ground,
and are employed practically the year
around. As their employers admit that
they caunot rely on white labor in that
climate, their statements are probably
true, because it would not be policy for
them to quairel with or deceive men
who are indispensable to them.
Tho explanation of these capitalists is
interesting, because it is a practical ad
mission of the commercial value of the
colored race, and that theie are certain
portions of the south wheio he is abso
lutely indispensable. That means that
in those localities at least the negro will
be cultivated, not repressed. If he is a
necessity in the field, and there are half
a dozen capitalists bidding for his
services, he will not be oppressed at the
polls or anywhere eise.
It will be remembered by the readers
of the Eagle that reference was made
in these columns a short timo ago to a
scheme that had been suggested of re
claiming all the land of the Mississippi
delta that has not been brought under
cultivation, extending from tho mouth
of the Ohio to the gulf, a tract five hun
dred miles long and from twenty to forty
miles wide, for the purpose of providing
the race of American negroes with a
permanent abiding place. Tho under
taking would be one of such magnitude
that it almost staggers conception,
and may bo regarded as without tho
range of probability to say the least, yet
the scheme of the capitalists abovo re
ferred tos in lino with this proposition,
and their" plan working satisfactorily to
all concerned may develop into tho
larger undertaking. There is no
question ' but that a very largo
scope of tho country mentioned
will have to bo made habitable b- the
negro race if ir ever is. for the simple
reason that the white man cannot live
there during the reclamation period and
processes. If, therefore, the colored
people shall be called to and shall accom
plish this great work they would un
questionably be entitled 1o tho fitst op
tion on the land if they should choose to
withdraw from their piesent habita
tions and form there a community of
their own. In this last observation,
however, rests the key to the negro
problem as far as they themselves can
solve it or prevent its solution; for after,
all that has been said and may be said
on the subject it is doubtful if any very
considerable number of them will ever
consent to dissociate themselves from
their white neighbors and become a dis
tinct community based upon the race
idea.
The Boston Globe makes bold to assert
that there is a conspiracy to "fix" the
figures of the pending census enumer
ation touching the industrial interests of
the country in such manner as to inure
to the exclusive advantage of monopo
lies. The Glob refers to an article from
Prof. Daniel DeLeon of Cambridge col
lege in the current number
tioual Magazine in which
of the Na-1
he charges i
that such information was omitted from
tho last census report or was so mini-
ueuanu. manipulated as to render it j
worthless for the purpose it was intend- j
v:u loaene, wiai i, io gjve me puonc an ;
lmeiisgouL
labor
serious
hav
can
ficienc
clui
useless items the work could havo been
completed in time for its effects to bo
discovered and provided against before
the plans for the current report had been
perfected.
men oi iuu uiuustriai ana ine securing oy mat means a eoou mar- come uov, n io me ievei ui ui v3, . ,-aru s n&itta" with the Ijawn& and the '
status of the country. This is a Ket for ,ts homo productsnot now . but ifs a necessity. They want iu to j ,erj 0f ponies repres-cted the friendih p
us matter if as alleged and should accessible it strongly urges the admis- i nibble a bit, and when we get a good existinc between the two trib. We doa't
e attention from the ouarter t W S10n ot -lexican lla ores free of duty. grip out win come tfte alliance. j exactly ancersranc r extern fee :.?
t, .iiu.iii.iui! uoui uiB uuaner mat j , f po that when the I'awcs- get hard oi
and should cure the scandalous de- What it Does Want. Tn,,v-,..T o SfT ?pS,ir . for pomes they will go up and -dance' i
y. If the last census had not in- Oklahoma Citv has no candidate for ward at them-it '-ovirament nost at Fort WJt? the Omahas and ge: a bunch ot poarn .
ded a thousand irrelevant and wholiv governor, bnt she nrobablv has an eve ! Biley. The furniture tor the momrooth i tax. o. ,. Araasaa City
Whether one goes in for woman suf
frage or not, he will regret the departure
from America of that fine old gentlewo
man, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with her
6nowy, statesmanlike head, her logical
mind and ringing voice. Mrs. Stanton
will hereafter live in Europe, mostly
in England, with her daughter, Harriet
Stanton Balch. Her son Theodore lives
in Paris. In a speech before the Wo
man Suffrage association Mrs. Balch
said that American woman were lecom-
ing lamentably conservative and that
England was a quarter of a century
ahead of America in social and labor
mattei'3.
Insurance premiums constitute one of
the heaviest burdens the people of Kan
sas are bearing today. The report of the
state commissioner of insurance shows
tiiat insurance costs the state two mil
lions a year. In view of this immense
sum and the possibility of imposition up
on the people by representatives of irre
sponsible concerns, posing as insurance
companies, without the legal restrictions
imposed by the state, the rigid enforce
ment of the laws governing that eco
nomic feature is at once a matter of the
first concern, and no more efficient offi
cial has discharged that responsible po
sition than the present incumbent, Hon,
D. W. Wilder.
KINDLY ADMONITION.
Spivey, Kan., March 7, 1890.
To the Editor of the Eatfe.
The Eagle is truly an educational in
stitution. In addition to its brilliant edi
torial staff, it allows all to preach, ex
plain and finally to command, not only,
it to stop publication, but all others for
fear this "mania,"' the farmers of lato
of trying to find out the reason they
have to cultivate the acquaintance of
their "wives peopl," and the sheriff so
much will result serious to the rest of
mankind.
Now for this age and day
I confess I like the Eagle's way
Of allowing all to have their say,
At least until the' begun to bray,
Suffering even the spring bird to sing
his l.iy.
And this sorter holds things level.
But a Mr. J. C, of Bluff City,
With fiery eye and looking gritty,
Says, "Laws' O'Masay. what a pity.
Hold me while on my bauds I spii'y:
Hold me or I shall take a fit'y.
Proud Eagle, you must call a halt.
1 know you can if you only woul't
As thou cant. thou certainly shalt.
Or generations hence you'll be called a dolt
Or farmers'l oon be in open revolt,
Breaking us loose from onr coat-tail holt
To scampering off like a playful colt,
Letting all the rest of mankind go to the
devil.
He says in effect if this thing goes
on, the domineering, rich and arrogant
farmers will get to looking out for them
selves, will want the same degiee of
protection they cheerfully accord to
others, and "then, boo hoo,boo hoo,what
would the harvest be to tho rest of man
mankind?" "Sad, sad, indeed, would bo
the fate of some of them; striped clothes
and a harder diet than they now enjoy."'
Would it not be a good thing, Mr. J".
C, to issue a czarical ukasi a ponti
fical bull against the comet as it were,
suppiessing all papers that allow free
and fair discussion in their columns? If
it goes on, a "theory" a Moses may
yet be found, that will lead tho farmers
out of their present "condition," and in
spite of your frantic alarm J. C, any
thing that benefits the farmers, helps
nine-tenths of all the "harvests for the
rest of mankind." .
Hoping the EAGLE-'yet awhile, will
not "call a halt" though tho fiat goes
forth to do so, from all the thousands
millions of note shavers, bankers, store
keepers, pettifoggers, pedagogues, and
other producers, of that shining city, sit
ting on its thousand hills, overlooking
the broad expense of turbulent waters,
going to the sea via the Mighty Bluff
creek. And above all, you will not, for
a few months, stop publications. Yours
truly, Suke Enough Kaxsax.
DOES FARMING PAY.
The Globe-Democrat recently sent out
inquiries to a large number of farmers
in 3iissouri, Kansas aud Illinois as to
whether there was any money in farm
ing last year at current prices. It re
ceived replies from 710 farmers in Mis
souri, G51 in Illinois, and 262 in Kansas.
As was to be expected, the replies, as
a lule. were not of a very encouraging
character, although they frequently
varied widely in tho same localities,
owing largely to different methods pur
sued. These replies made one fact very
clearly apparent, and that is that there
is more money in diversified crops than
m the main staples, corn and wheat.
It seemed to be the general opinion
that corn is an unprofitable crop for
direct marketing and that it can only be
utilized to any advantago or profit by
feeding it. As the average cost of rais
ing it is put at 20 cents a bushel, it can
be readily seen that marketing it at
prices which have prevailed during the
past late fall and winter was simply
ruinous to producers.
It is the general opinion that wheat is
the best paying crop to raise for the
market, but not so much so as corn if
used on the farm for feeding, wheie it
can be made to realize from 25 to 40
cents a bushel. Fruit raising is very
generally reported as paying very hand
somely, and the same is true of dairy
products when near an accessible mar
ket. Hug raising is considered quite
profitable in Missouri, more so than cat
tle raising.
In Kansas, despite the low prices of
grain, the condition of the farmers does
not seem to be as bad as is generally con
sidered to be the case. A rather peculiar
feature of the situation is that the
farmers in the eastern part of the
state are doing more grumbling than
those in the southern and west
ern portions of the state. The reason
for this i8 not apparent. Indeed
there is every reason to believe that the
former are in much better circum
stances. A very general complaint is the lack
of available capital, which forces them
to throw their stuff, at a sacrifice, on the
market, whereas if they had a little cap
ital they would become purchasers at
present prices rather than sellers.
Taken as a whole, however, die reports
cannot be said to be of an especially dis
couraging character, and the lesson they
teach in the advantages to ! nprivwi
from a greater diversification of crops
should make them valuable to the agri
cultural interests of the country.
ProteclcTlnFreb"
rrade.
From the .ichboa thampJoa.
For the reason lliat the Champion fa-
rors protection to home industries aud
unon someunng eise. uicuita voix.
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Jnst so Oklahoma Citv his in resr-
vation aWS lESfo Luon ferine I
vauon a must beaut itai joca"0 tor Uo
state house and capitol lull will in a few 1
j years be ornamented with Oklahoma's
! caDitoi building. Oklahoma City Times, i
PROSPECTS FOR CATTLE-RAISING.
Western Agriculturist.
While it may look like flying in the
face of fact and figures to assert any
thing encouraging in the cattle business
at present status, the signs are in every
way encouraging. There is no class of
stock that responds more liberally for
feed and care than cattle; no class of
stock that have built up more fortunes,
made more prosperous farmers. Indeed,
I can think of no wealthy farmer in my
vicinity, but who, directly or indirectly,
laid the foundation of his prosperity in
cattle, while the fortunes of our bonanza
ranchmen are proverbial. It is said,
with all possibility of truth, that on our
free western range a steer may be fitted
for shipping at an outlay of only $1, in
cluding salt and herder hire. All grass,
both tame and wild, all fodder other
wise going to waste, and the unsightly
straw stacks can be converted into
money through cattle as with no other
animal.
The regular farmer may not be able to
get his cattle to market for a dollar per
head, but the margin of profit is liberal
usually even peiceptable at prevailing
irates. The present mloolc ot cattle l
. . . . . t t
must repeat again,is far more foreboding
. . . -
rn,, . jrV .,.:;- , i,n
luo lcsoitb uisuuua y i .v
owing to the breaking up of the great
herds of the western plains, consequent
upon being driven off of the govern
ment lands. These herds were too large
to be dispersed in a month, in a year, or
even three years. The fruit of govern
ment action is now just ripening. Tho
older feeders gone, it is the "tailings" of
these great droves that have swamped
our cattle market. These, wo have in
good authority, aie practically exhausted
and wo may look for not only fair, bu.t
even good prices in the immediate
future.
IRRIGATION IN THE SOUTHWEST.
From the Garden City Sentinel.
When reference is made to the fact
that a portion of southwest Kansas is
already under a good system of irriga
tion eastern people remark that it is of
no appreciable advantage to the country,
as only a small per cent of the land is
irrigable. While we have made no fig
ures to show how many acres are subject
to irrigation in southwest Kansas, it is a
fact that a larger body of land is covered
by ditches here than in any one locality
iu any state or country where farming
is carried on bv iirigation. The trouble
is that the area of irrigable land is loo
large for the present supply of water. If
the undeillow could be utilized, which no
doubt can be. there is enough irrigable
land in southwest Kansas to produce
every season mote corn, wheat and oats
than the states of Ohio and Indiana com
bined. One acre under irrigation will
produce more than three acres of worn
out land in the eastern states. Theie is
no placo en the American continent
where irrigable land can be bought as
cheap as in southwest Kansas. But it is
slowly advancing in price, and now is
the time for eastern people, who want to
secure homes in the west, to come out
and invest.
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
The Successful "Emergency" Rate.
From the Pcabody Gazatto.
The successful emergency rate is the
rate at which corn is stored up for an
advance in price. A western man who
bought 10,000 or 12,000 bushels at 14
cents has already been offered 19 cents,
but he is holding on for 25 cents.
Encouragement Better than Complaint.
From the JJlutr City Herald.
The editor of the Wichita Eagle has
been sick for two or three weeks, but we
think he must be again at work. In last
Sunday's Eagle, "The Conditions that
Confront us," sound like tho good sensi
ble philosophy of the man that thinks it
more useful to the state and community
to show the part of good than to exag
gerate the bad.
A Mistake on Purpose.
Tho New York Star has a lesson in
western geography to learn. It has an
account of a fracas in the Sioux reserva
tion and heads it "Bloodshed in Okla
homa." Wichita Eagle.
The mistake was more than likely
made intentionally on the part of the
New York newspaper. Back east they
take a delight" in misrepresenting the
west generally aud Oklahoma particu
larly Norman Transcript.
Rough on the Rancheros.
From the -Atchison Champion.
The fences of certain Kansas statesmen
have been badly damaged this winter.
It is rrue that the weather has been com
paratively mild, that there has not been
as much freezing as in former winters,
still the fences are down in a number of
places, and they are toppling over right
along, and the chances are that before
the robins come again it will take more
than one car load of wire to put them in
good shape again. If thero were only
two or three places that need repairing
it would be an easy matter to attend to
it, but there are 60 many, many breaks
in the fence that it is extremely doubtful
whether they can now be repaired in
time to &ave the crop.
Reduce. Pending the Rise.
From the ."ct)ii Republican.
There is printed elsewhere in this issue
some questions by the Wichita Eagle as
to who pays tho expenses of a certain
stinendiarian concern known as the State
Board of Agriculture, which runs ex-1
cessively to speeches by George "W.
Click, ot al., and costly "reports,' by the
Hon. Martin Mohler. While the matter
cf lo-cent corn is under consideration it
would not be amiss for the people to de
cide whether it were wise for them to
abolish this and. every other department
of our great Society for the Ventilation
of Cranial Attics and the Distribution of
Public Moneys. AVe move to reduce ex
penses, pending the rise in the prico of
farm products.
Uonkeying- With the Alliance.
Izaatiu? Donnelly before Minn. Farmers" Alliance
1 will tell you a story of how the mon
keys in Borneo catch crabs. A visitor
saw that the monkeys' tails were all torn
and bloody, and determined to find out
the cause. So he hid himself in the
bushes near a river bank and awaited de
velopments. The river was full of crabs,
and their holes were to be seen by the
score, roon a monkey came out on a J
limb ot a tree overhanging the r;ver and j
dropped his tail into one of tha crab
holes. He sat there waiting for a bite, ,
and directly the bite began to come. But
he was not sure tho crab had got a good j will be looked up, o ssr the attorneys for
grip, and so he sat a little longer with j the defendant, no cUim mat Walker had
his face twisted with pam. cfuddenlv be I no ntshi to remove the stock from the ter
gave a jumD and out came the crab. "We ntory. It Is quite apparent that the stock
have got a good many politicians in the mhortnfj?tIJd '?e Wb brobt
state who aJeplaving the tame game. lfaeni tad no "sht to do
Thev are drooping their tails down into I About a dozen Omha Jmllaas rode
the farmers alliance. TJiey don't exact- , through town ;his morcing driving a t.g
W 1il- th e.o.,-rtn- ther do not Utc tn
. .-it i .HUt r. OT-;fi mp:h j
" " "as ariI , , " , "ru
eignzy - iwo MOles ana i.w swois. lost. i,.... ..., vi .c ..-
,l transported from the kitchen ' kee strip, aboot whl tto, :b U
ia 5inali car! Vhole rciment in uni- ' much erpeetscy. i detent: uj J. 2,
,.s . . ';. ,, -m Tcter. a ririi e-nrineer. wfee rrom "71 to
t ,4 -trikmg s!hr oca to bs witaesied '
at Fort Kfler. ' 1
SUNFLOWER SHADOWINGS.
Sesds, S'ipj, Scions, Sprouts, Snoots and Slivers
The Farmers alliance store will open at
Osage Citv next week with a capital stock
of SloO.OOcC
Puck says a western man explosively
asserts that the census of 1S30 is a libel oh
the great west. In fact, it is.
The Kansas State university has eight
more Rocky mountain goats than any
other institution or museum in the world.
Senator Plumb is writing a great many
letters. It is almost an exception to find
a weekly paper without a word from
Plumb.
The Lawrence Journal is of the opinion
that the Haskell institute and Superin
tendent Messerve do not deserve what the
papers impute.
Among his noted acquaintances George
Martin numbers Buffalo Bill. He des
cribes him as a "genteel, modest fellow in
buckskin breeches,
Now they say that John A. Anderson
wijl be the farmers' candidate for senator.
This would indicate that Samuel Peters
has no designs that way.
A Kansas weekly exchange came to this
office this week with a column of Missouri
i invc it to "c-r n nnov nia tah
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rv.'iimHS n i nnr i u l ;liivi i ii i kk i il.
It is said that all Senator Ingalls did
when uotmed that the Aschison Champion
, h;ttin -nn, .r. nnn,lmM ,.., t
take off his glasses, wipe them and ejacu
late, "Jfsh."
Coucressman Peters is opposed to the
squandering of money in the erection of
public buildings. The interrogation, "what
is it that Peters wants?"' becomes more
obstrusive every day.
And some one individual begins to real
ize something from the Allttuice already'
The Kansas State Farmers' Alliance has
made a coutract with A. Harrold, of Man
hattan, to purchase no feed mills but his.
In length of recent lengthy dissertations
on the tariff between tho states and Mexico
from the Democratic side, republished in
the Kansas City Gazette, it almost admits
of tho propriety to ask who that paper will
support for president m '02.
Kansas has perhaps got more mills than
any other state in the uuion, in proportion
to population. The state's millinc capac
ity is almost 3,500,000 barrels of llour per
annum. It requires 15,000.000 bushels of
wheat to make that much flour.
The Atchison Champion compliments
Senator Plumb, but this doesn't argue
that the Emporia Republican will compli
ment Senator Intjalla in return. Local
courtesy between the homes of the senators
doesn't work through that channel any
longer.
The price of type has gone up 20 per
cent because antimony is also used in the
manufacture of smokeless power. How
ever, delinquent subscribers are notified
that the newspaper can blast just as hard
with type at the present prices as at the
old price.
The Peabody Gazette is informed that itf
costs ouly 00 cents to becermated in Paris.
It is only fair for the Gazette to come out
and tell what it knows. Has tho Gazette
received any word that our French repre
sentative. Emit Firman, has any designs
on his own life?
The students at the State university put
up a job on one of tho professors recently
by fatting him mixed on the roll call.
The name McGinty was surreptitiously
added to the list, and the protessor, after
calling the name once or twice, innocently
inquired if anyone jcuew where McGinty
was. The uproar that followed opened the
e3'es of the professor, and he dismissed the
class with tho remark that lie did not
suppose that auy member of the class was
brurbt enough to thus get the best of him.
It appears from the Washington dis
patches that there are 30,075 K:inans, who
by their signatures affixed to petitions,
have formally protested against the pas
sage of any bill by congress in regard to
the observance of the Sabbath or auy other
religious or ecclesiastical Institution or
rite, or the adoption of any amendment to
the national constitution providiug for
the giving of any preference to any relig
ious sect above that of any other, or that
iu any way sanctions national legislation
upon tho subject of religion.
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.
Guthrie is to havo an Odd Fellows'
journal.
Today at Oklahoma City it is the Demo
crats say.
A lire destroyed a small dwelling in
West Guthrie Sunday morning.
A great many people thiuk that now is
the time to strike Oklahoma.
Guthrie lacks one month and ten days of
being one year old. Aud what a yearling
it is.
With those snatches of balmy spring in
view the young people of Guthrie have or
ganized a tennis club.
The prairie flowers have begun to show
themselves again, but the Oklahoma pa
pers are not so eager to notice them.
It is reported that a train of covered
wagons are enroute through the Strip for
Oklahoma, containing fifty families.
A Kingfisher man wauts to bat $50 that
J. V. Admire will be the fir3t governor of
Oklahoma if an Oklahoma man is ap
pointed. Union City will soon have a $10,000 hotel
building. The town is trying hard to come
up to the second part of its name and
should succeed.
Tho Democrats of Guthrie have selected
three different "batches" of delegates to
represent them in the Oklahoma City con
vention. The Guthrie Capitol says, give us titles
and territorial government and together
with our electric lights we will show you
what we can do.
It is estimated that the Oklahoma set
tlers sowed 3,000 bushels of wheat last fall.
Of course this is not a great amount, but
it is all doiug well.
Thursday, March 0, was the day set
apart by the Guthreites as "Arbor Day,"
but owing to inclement weatner it lins
been postponed until March 22.
Ilsv. Nasmitfa, pustor of the Guthrie
Baptist church, has established a monthly
paper devotea to tho interests of that
church in the territory and named it the
Oklahoma Baptisr.
Letters of recommendation do not count
for much in Oklahoma. Everybody down
there stands on their own visible merit.
It is a new country and old reputations
don't thrive.
From fifteen to twenty Oklahoma out
fits pass throush this cityptirday. It U
wonderful to note how maoy people are
going to tnat country, says the Arkansas
City Traveler.
Norman is at present time without a
dairyman and what is life in a new coun
try without bread and milk? Someone is
losing an opportunity to establish a good
business in this booming little city.
The exodus of negroes from Cowley
county to UKianoma cas not ie;a com- f
mensurate with the reports of certain j
newspapers Sot e. single Cowley county j
negro, so far m any one knows has gone
Oklahoma tith Times- Marshal Walker
captures mroiurh bis agents cin head of
horses and carries tfct-m back to Knntas,
He claimed them under a mortgage ext-
M,t-d ,- TCan.a ..
ibi- ncMtica
oonB oi cam looking ponies xwziavnn
uiu;iLcz;x.
r . i ,t-,- . ,u n. I
l$K was engaged Uswrveyisrgattd plawlas
l tewaatitps asd tcfo'28 t- Cherwktfe I
TW . -r t Hai fllM " - f m
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A Xew line of French Ginghams and Tennis Flannels.
New Carpets Just Arrived!
New Carpets Just Arrived !
-AT
White House of Innes 4 Ross.
116 to 120 Main Street,
strip and notinj: the poneral topocraphy of
the country. While engineers reports are
not wholly satisfactory from an agricul
tural standpoint, this one is given for what
it is worth. He says that tha best laud iu
that section was from the Arkansas river
to the Panhandle of Texas, from the lied
river to the Kansas hue. Thero was no
one body of laud of equal size in the coun
try as ybod as this for agricultural pur
suitsbeginning at the Arkausas river,
extending west to the Osth meridian west
from Greenwich, and south to the north
line of Oklahoma proper inclusive about
fifty-six by seventy-five miles. At that
time the entire tract could not have been
sold for 50 cents an acre.
THE LATEST !N JEWELS.
Five- dollar gold pieces, each centered with
a half carat brilliant, form a pair of cull but
tons recently soon.
Diamonds in white gold circular and tri
angle shaped settings encircling a fine lumin
ous opal make api etty lace pin.
A scarf piu that is finding favor in some
circles is a moonstone mask, which can at
will be lowered to show an onyxprofllo at tho
back.
Diamonds, rubies, sapphires and pearls
strung like beads on a gold wire- necklace
constitute an expensive and elaborate orna
ment. A unique conception for a queen chain
pendant is a miniature hour gla.-s in a gold
frame. Instead of sand the gloss contains
fine goal dnst.
Garter buckles finished in green colored
gold and chased to represent a picture f ramo
uru becoming popular. Tho center of tbo
frame is intended to contain tbo initials of
both donor aud donee.
A laco pin that is attracting much atten
tion represents a Kardeu caterpillar and is
composed of many tinted cat's eyes. Be
tween each puir of stones is an invisiblo
twisted silver wire which contains fawn col
ored horse hair Tho head is of gold, with
two rubies for eyes. Such is the complete
ness of tho ornament that from a disttvnee it
really appears to bo an insect endowed with
life. Jewelers' Weekly.
THEATRICAL NOTES.
Out of nearly T.'jO plays copyrighted In tha
United States in 1SS9 only eighteen were suc
cessful, though sixty-two got as far as a pro
duction. It 13 said that, by way of compliment to
Terdi, tho Italian minuter of fine art- has
forbidden tho organ gnuders of Italty to play
any of the airs in tho master's "Otello "
At tho opera house in I'iacenza, Italy, a
tenor was howled down hy the official elaqu
at tke instigation of tho manager. Inade
quate rceiptb induced the manager to resort
to thi3 measure as the only way of breaking
his coiitract with the singer.
The Mohammedans of Bombay and Pooua
havo promulgated a stroDjc edict against the
drama generally, all jlahommadcns being
strictly forbidden to attend dramntK-performances
For tha flrrt offence a fin; of fivorapots
will becadicted, fortliewcond tn rup-cs, and
on t ne commission of the third th ofiendor
will bo denied the ntes of Mohammedan
bnrial.
The expenditure of Paris actroa?ea for thfir
dresses have reached such an extra vugcat UjC"
uro that at If-ast one well known actrets bos
refused to continue her engagement l?cauis
she could not afford to buy the drecs needed
for a now play that w about to lx pro
duced. Her salary was S6.000 per year, asd
her dr aioao had cost her $5,000 dttrisg
the hut year, although there hod baea but
three pleyj.
Marks en tabls, cauid by hot dishe. may
be removed by kerosene rubbed m well rruh
a soft cloth, finuhing wjth a little colsga
water, rubbed dry with another cloth.
Rub lamp chimnrs .ith nrspper oo
which hfts b"en ponrd a buis ksrefue.
This will mako thm zmiin riearr ?han if
oap i ud; they will aio b lss iiab ic
cracir. Kay Jojc is Good Houfc'-ptnir
CREAM
Baking Powder
MOST PERFECT MADE.
TJNTTSD STATES D3PART2,ENTOF AGRICULTURE
"Washington, I?. C.
T-j an asalrm of Ir. 'n ( rrra Baking Ponder I find
it carofeiJy compounded , ad I r-gard tt as the tt
hikiat; powiiw m tb mariec ta evert roect
PETER COLLIER,
Late Cot3Ji cf the Tali! rutj Depznatmi
xi AzriasJtors.
& : Ross.
ENTIRE KEW TiTLSTE OF
Onyx Fast Black Hose
For ladies, children and gen
tlemen. Absolutely Fast Black.
Will not stain the feet.
Don't buy any other.
Besc hosiery in tho world
A new nine ol ladies' Gordon
Fast Black Hose, lisle thread
toe and heel- These are sxeoi-
""J iCtOUllllCUUCU 1U1 L.U itllU
dm-abiHtv.
THE-
STRAY BITS.
In 1S39 tfaarn were nbous W.000 acres of
fruit trew growing In England; now thera
urn 214,000 acres.
An English railway company has set apart
a special fund from which to reward acts of
bravery on the part of its employes.
According to the department of agricul
ture thero are more than m.tfOO.OOO horses in
tho United States, ami nearly 1(5,C00,000
cows. There was a largo increaso m the num
ber of domestic animals of all kinds m 1SSI
Tlxr is talk in France of utilizing water
courses as a railway motive powr. It h
proposed that tho track3 shall bo laid on nil
embankment in the middle- of tho current,
and that tho locomotives shall havo two pad
del w heels dipping into the water and re
volved by it.
Travelers iu Spain are ofton nstouislml ltv
tha shortness of u Spanish cigaretto. Th-
smoker never seoms to enjoy the luxury un
td the Uro seems about to burn his hj or
singo his mustache. Frequently a Spaniard
is to bo met who will completely exhaust hu
cigarette in two inhalations.
Tho government of St. Doniiugo, whan
claims to have the only original bonus of
Columbus, is dotiroas of forwarding them to
tho United Statei. for so in 1S02, provided
thero bo given m return for thum $0,000,
cash down, and 30 per cent, of the receipt on
public exhibition of tho same.
Capt, William Tyrou. of Now London,
Couu., who followed tho hen for forty years,
tuys thero nro now only eighty-ight Aiurl
can vessoLi, sail and Kteam, in tho whnln tith
ery. Twenty year ago Now London alonn
bud 100 vessels in tho whaling trade, but now
ouly seven will from that port.
When a Coroan marnoss h h careful to
present hid wife with h mid gooe, otou If hi
is obliged to biro tbo bird specially for tho
occasion; for, vnce upon a tiin, a wikl gooj
whoso mate was killed returned yaar after
year to tho srtmo apot to mourn hor Iom, and
the Corean bridgroom wichei his brldt) to
understand the virtuo of constancy.
Tho rccfiiitly published statuaie of tb im
penal German pottotlco department nhon
that in Itta thero were J8,50 postoillcen in
Germany, with 10,01(1 telegraph office, and
W,'2o8 official of all grade; 2,220, 807.&W
piece's of wnd wrr handlxi, 22;ltt5,147 tel
grnms ner sent. The money orders of all
office in tho country u mounted to 17,053,S0V
416 marks.
THE USES OF KEROSENE.
Rub ruty Hat iron with kerot on.
Kero&ene will brighten Mlver and rino.
Oil cloth may bo brightened by rubWing
with kerojno.
Tarnished paint may b cleaned by rub
bing with a oloth wet with keriu.
A tnblcxpoonful of kerosene in u boiler of
clothtfi will greatly facilitate tho rubblnjr.
Keroen will soften boot and nho hard-en-d
by water, aud reader them a pliable m
UKVr.
Black walnut or any wood flnUhod In od
may be kept bright by polishing with kero
teae. To remoT" rost from ttel rub with kero
Rn and koak for a day, poHshiag whit
Mnery dust and kerosene.
four a tc&spooiiful of kerosene Into uh
quart of boded starch for Agios; tUU will
also prrat irons ticlcic to tain soodt.
Kerovm poured on red annl and bonnd
9n tho tbroat will grlly a a r thrwtt.
It will alio bal catt and oufa ohUblalax.
Iron and palUhed str), rhia cot is ct,
may be k7t from rants br wiping Hth a
cloth on wbk-n a little fccrorii oa bn
poured.
All soded rpol found Ju-oar.d door IcaoLt
on light painted dftom may b removed br
kroen en &anal iotfe, Wt'a bo injury u
the pctnt.
When giving the fhxal poJfan to (teres, b
f".r pztu&f; awy for thn unmaunr, rates tb
b,acar Wiib htlu icuraai isvteod of
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