The Wichita Eagle from Wichita, Kansas • Page 4

g-yjgajs w' WV. MsMASWm -m-" J.ViI?CKS, I- 4 glx MicTxifo gaiitj gaxjle: gujesflatj fPtfraiug, Iforemlrjer 20, 18 88. ajue 31AUSIIAI.E. M.UJKDOCK. nOU On the largest vote ever polled in Ohio 'thei Republican plurality for governor is 15)1, Harrison's plurality being a few-hundred more.

Not largo for Ohio, but ic will have to do this year. There is no political argument like the argument of majorities. These settle all things, at least for the present, and what a blessed thing is a republic which makes all thi3 possible and natural. The FredoniaChronicle is another suspended paper. The Wilson County Citizen, Hon.

J. S. Wilson's paper takes the subscription list of 4ho Chronicle and the material and presses are for sale. The promoUoroTGeaT Schofield to the command of the army, to succeed Sheridan, places General Howard in the command of the Atlantic department, with headquarters at Kew YorK. The politicians aro figuring the congressional results.

It is so close that tew yet pretend to be quite sure about it, though it seems indisputable that the -Republicans will have a small majority. t.oo rjHTsfeir: When Marsh Mur doch meets Brother Botkin now he looks at him and smiles in a way that is little less than maddening to a man whose profession will not permit him to say what he thinks. The Italian Court Journal predicts early war between xiaiy uuu a-." saying that France must fight or per France, mit herself to bo uouna nana aim iuui the Italian-German alliance now bo nearly perfect. The Kansas City Star observes that "there is no telling what Harrison's majority in Kansas would have been with a free election and a fair count. Even in the face of Democratic intimidation ic has reached 82,000." The "fish trust," a combine of Boston wholesale fish dealers, lias broken up, because the members were cutting urices secretly in violation of their mutual compact.

This is a natural and proper fate of such combinations. Court House corner stone yesterday ratification last night, Oklahoma convention to-day, hanging of two United States convicts tomorrow, and Wichita nnds herself not entirely destitute of excitement or void of interest. It is reported upon what appears to bo very good authority, that Bismaick is desirous of resigning soon, and is hoping that his son, Count Herbert, may be his successor. Emperor William, it is believed, will soon have this change come about. The Eagle made the closest guess on the vote of Kansas made by any newspaper in the state.

The guess at tho time was thought by many to bo wild, but it now seems that wild as it was it will bo somo two thousand short, Harrison's vote now reaching eighty-two thousand plurality. Wichita's future was never more assuring than today; her developments in growth of population, industries and general business never so safe and progies-Bive. She is, indeed, the Peerless Princess of the Plains, tho Queen of tho Great Arkansas Valley, that will grow more lustrous day by day. One big knit goods concern of Now York has bought 220,000 pounds of scoured wool in tho Boston market since tho results of the election wore known an outlay of nearly $125,000 in one transaction. The papers which predicted the ruin of all woolen interests in tho defeat of Cleveland will please bring on their bears.

Kansas wins tho Republican championship. The full returns swell her plurnlity for Harrison and Morton to 82,000. That b-ats everything even Pennsylvania. Chicago Inter-Ocean. And it is because there aro moio old veterans and old veterans' sons in Kan-is than in any state of anything like tho same in population.

Another verification of the prediction mado by General John A. Logan several years ago. A Washington dispatch, which is of courso mere guesswork, says that there is a prospect that Warner Miller will go to the senate as the successor of Mr. Ev-nrts, who will bo given a place on the supremo bench in place of Judge Blatch-ford, to bo retired. Xo one can question Sir.

Evart's fitness for such a position or Mr. Miller's fitness for tho position of senator, or any other in tho gift of tho people or tho incoming administration, as for that. Tho Arkansas Gar.ette rises to remark that it is threatening attitude when the profits of protection, taken unfairly from the people, are used to fasten this system of robbery upon them which romark prompts tho Hartford Courant to observe that "Now that tho election is over and there is no longer any need of keeping up the pretense that the Democratic part is not opposed to protection, the ablo editors are again finding their will be remem-bi red that tho outcomo of tho tariif discussion in tho nutmeg state, as shown by tho result of the lato election, was not in accord with that paper's position on that question. However, that was before; this is after. The Knights of Labor in their national assembly, last Friday, did what the llvau: suggested was the wise thing to do if they desised to maintain their organization, i.

they excluded the ob-stiepcrous Barry from membership in tho order. They may now hope to regain most of the three hundred thousand members tho grand secretary's report shows withdrew from the order during the past two years; not thatBairy's presence per se was 60 obnoxious to those members who withdrew, but that the condition into which his ceaseless warfare upon tho policy of the order as ehaped and maintained bj- Master Workman Powderlyhad forced it caused many to lose faith in its perpetuity. It is not infrequently tho case that tho churchfinds it necessary to use tho'pntning knife, so tospeak, before it can enjoy a successful revival season. We predict that the Knights of Labor will be a stronger organization within the next twelve niontlis than it has ever been. It is stronger now in.

nnit of moral forca. 53 wvnt sslsr JsflfVvV! C3 CAPTAIN HENRY BOOTH. The chairman of the Republican central committee, Captain Henry Booth, spent yesterday in this city. Tho work of tho campaign which was an arduous one is being wound up-and the captain was on his way to the city of Larned, his home for a rest. His district elected him to the legislature during his absence and his friends throughout the state are urging him for the speakership.

If devotion to his party, service in the army and experience as a legislator comprise claims and qualifications ho stands a head and shoulders above any man spoken of. He has been a resident of Kansas thirty-two years beside, and few men have a larger acquaintance with public men and few know the state and its necessities and demands more thoroughly. We have not sounded tho proposition but on general principals we would think that the next house would take a pride in electing" Captain Booth their presiding officer. THE SUPBEMS COURT. The ambition of tho leaders of the Democratic party, next to controling the executive department of the government, has long been to control the judicial department, especially the supieme court of the United States.

That the party under Mr. Cleveland's lead has mado rapid iruthat direction cannot be denied, two vacancies occurring during the past four years by the death of two members, both Republicans, and their places being filled by two Democrats. Had that paity been successful in tho late national election it is more than likely they would have realized their ambition in thenext four years. The bench now contains five Republicans and three Democrats: Two of tho Republicans are entitled to retire on full pay, Justices Bradley and Miller, being above 70 years of age, and Judge Blatch-ford will also be entitled to the same privilege in 1S92. On account of ago these will no doubt retiro during: the next four years and their places be filled by other Republicans.

Justice Field, Demociat, is likewico entitled to retiro, as the other three mentioned, and if ho should tako it into his head to do so his placo wou'd also be filled by a Republican. With the changes likely to take place in make-up of the supremo bench in tho near futuro tho Republicans will not only piobably gain one member, but the court as le-con-structed will give tho party an indefinite lease of control, even if the Democrats should by any possibility succeed in the national election four or eight years bench. The foregoing statement of the condition and prospect touching the supreme bench cannot fail to cause some disappointment to tho Democracy, but is a source of corresponding gratification to Republicans. With tho three co-ordinate branches of the government in perfect accord as they will be after the 4th of March next, the needs of tho nation can and will be conserved without let or hindrance. Thd Anthony fire department is out with a fine card of invitation announcing a grand ball at tho Montezuma hotel on Thanksgiving night; tickets $1.00.

There is talk now among Georgia Dercr ocrats of running the eloquent Henry W. Grady for tho senate to succeed Mr. Colquit, who had supposed he had a sure thing as his own successor. Grady has not been expending his rhetoric upon the rostrums and stumps of the country for naught. He is not as pious as Brother Colquit, but ho is more popular with the boys.

By-the-way wouldn't it bo fun to see Henry or some other young man tackle Old Joe Brown for tho senate? Joseph thinks he holds a life tenure to the seat ho occupies in the senate. In tho next Delaware legislature the Republicans will have a majority of two on joint ballot, having coutiol of the lower house by five votes. Tho Democrats threaten to unseat two Republicans in the senate, thus restoring control of the joint assembly to that party, This they will hardly undertake, inasmuch as the Republicans could play at the same gamo in tho house and thus maintain their supremacy. The Dems. had as well make up their minds to gracefully submit to tho inevitable.

The old fossil, Saulsbury, will retire from the U. S. senate at the expiration of his present term, and no amount of Democratic kicking can prevent it. A Washington dispatch says President Cleveland will stick to the revenue reform text, and in December's message ask both parties in congress to make such concessions as will insure the reduction of the revenue. If tho statement of the president's purpose in this matter is correctly given he may do so to somo purpose, mayhap, as to the house, but the senate bill is practically in accord with lhe sentiment of a majority of the peo ple of the country.

hatever concessions are made, therefore, will have to come from tho minority or Democratic side. The Eagle is of the opinion that this will be done, if for no other reasons than to obviate tho necessity for an extra session of congress, something the Democrats don't want. CITIES OP THE FIRST CLASS. Leavenworth Times. The city council of Topeka has taken stops to hold a conventi of the members of the cities of the first class to consider what legislation is needed to insure a better system for the management of their affairs.

The Topeka Journal says that one chango which t'le committee "of that city will advocate will be a radical modification of the law providing for the levying of special assessments for public improvements, the present system being burdensome to property owners and otherwise objectionable. Other changes are very desirable, amongst which is a uniform system for the control of tho police and the creation of police courts. The system which is good for ono city must be good for all ouhers of the same size. Tho police courts ought to have the same jurisdiction as justices courts. There are many other matters in which a chango is needed.

The Topeka idea of a convention i an excellent one. The butter and cheese business has been investigated by our business men and farmers and stock isnow being subscribed for the creanrv. Argonia Clipper. Some predict a liard winter and some a light one. We will make our predictions later on.

At nresent we are at liberty to say that the peach crop has not vet been (icndi SnrimN TTn- ol OKLAHOMA NOTES. Mr. Anthony Beffel, of Oklahoma Station, Oklahoma, is in the city, having come up to attend the convention. He is well posted as to the situation in that country and very hopeful for the future. There are quite a good many families in the countiy, who are quietly occupying claims they expect to file on and make their permanent homes as soon'as the way is open by act of congress.

Oklahoma Station is on tho north bank of tho North Canadian river, about twenty-fivo miles east from Fort Reno, with which point there is stage connection. There is a postofnee established at that point and Indian Agent Still well has his headquarters there. Mr. Beffel says there is no trouble in procuring plenty of good, soft water at a depth of from ten to twenty-five feet. The rainfall is fully equal to the average of any section of the country.

Plenty of timber, and pro'ductive soil for all kinds of vegetation so far as has been tried. Mr. B. tells of a white man, who has an Indian wife, living within a few miles of the station who raised a corn crop this year that yielded sixty bushels to the acre. The climate is equable, more so than in the more settled portions of the country in tho same latitude east about an inch of snow fell there during the recent heavy fall in this section.

Of course everybody in that part of tho territory is anxious that the Springer bill or a similar measure shall be enacted into law, and great expectations are based upon the proceedings of to-day's meeting in this city. The interest manifested by Wichita in the current movement has given everybody increased confidence in its success, and the action of tho convention to-day will no doubt fortify tno city in the position of leader, a position it will maintain in every respect as far as locality and exertion are con cerned. Hundreds of interested peoplo have wtitten letters of mquir to us and in al most every letter comes the inquiry, "What assurance havo you that the government will permit you to perfect title to the lands you now occupy as squatters?" To these inquiries we make answer that there is a statute law covering our case. Away back in the early settlement of Ohio people settled on government land before it was offered for sale, and when William Henry Harrison was sent as a delegate to congress from Northwest Territory ho worked diligently to secure the passage of a law giving settlers upon the unoffered lands the first right of pm chase, but not till 1833 was such a law enacted. When the present law was enacted the "prior rights'' provision was not extended to the homesteader, but the squatter was given three months atter the land was offpred in which to file pre-emption papers on his claim.

Thi3 provision was afterward, in lb83, extended to the homesteader also. Townsites are proved up under the government townsito law, which provides that owners of improvements shall pay for the lots improved at the government price, which will be about five dollars under tho Oklahoma bill. "A squatter's title," sajTs ex-Commissioner Sparks, "is the best title one can havo." Tho following which we clip from tho Phoenix is the "Oklahoma Act," as recently passed by the Creek Council: "Bo it enacted by the national council of tho Muskogee Nation that it is hereby declared to be the purpose and policy of tho Muskogee nation to negotiate a final disposition" and settlement of so much of tho land known as Oklahoma as the Mus-kogees have an interest in, and the national delegates who shall be elected by the present session of tho council aro hereby clothed with full power to negotiate with the government of the United States for such final disposition and settlement as in their judgment shall bo to the best interests of the Muskogee Nation; provided that such negotiation and settlement shall not be of any force until the same shall havo been approved by the national council of the Muskogee Nation. From reports all through tho eastern states, we will enjoy a lively immigration this fall and winter, the presidential election has kept a great many at homo that otherwise would have been hero before this. The action of the Wichita board of trade has restored faith in numbers who had given up all hopes of any early action in favor of Oklahoma.

A herd of buffalo was reported in tho neighborhood of Coldwater last week, and some of the bo3s got after them and killed a few of them. There are now very few of these kings of the prairie where once they roamed in countless thousands, and lucky is the man who runs across a herd. A rousing post G. A. R.

will soon be an institution in this city. The Strip has been joined to tho department of Kansas, and the proper officers will be here in a few days to organize a post and muster in tho old boys, of whom there aro a good number in this city and vicinity. Coin planting began hero about tho middle of Maich, and up to November btn tho melon vines on the upland were still growing nicely. Nearly eight months of growing weather gives this country the lead over any other portion of tho United States. From the Beaver City Assocla'o.

Great prairie fires have swept oyer a large part of the country between here and Liberal during the past week, destroying thousands of acres of winter range. THE NEWEST EXPLOSIVE. It reads lifie romance that anything more powerful in the way of explosives ban dynamito could have been quietly brought out and fully tested without already having revolutionized the in the different lines of blasting agents. But there comes to us an account of how an American engineer who has been living in London these last few years has perfected a new formula of an explosive that may yet revolutionize the whole business of explosives. An English paper gives the following account of it T.

Chamberlain, the American engineer residing in London, paid a visit to Woolwich in connection with a new explosive which ho is introducing to the war department. He is the inventor of the newest and most powerful explosive known namely, chlorine of nitrogen, whose destinctive effects are terrible in the extreme, a very srfcall quantity doing infinitely more damage than a much larger amount of any other explosive in use. It is very sensitive, a very slight concussion causing it to explode, lie has more than once been injured and in danger of being blown to pieces, but kept at it being determined to conquer or'dio in the attempt. He had completed a method of charging and filling shells and projectiles with chlorine of nitrogen so thac they may bo fired from a gun uting powder with perfect safety. Military men, competent to judge in regard to" the invention declare it to be one of the most remarkable inventions of the age, and are of the opinion that if any country had the monopoly of this inTentioa they could defr the whole world.

The invention, it is thought, will cause a complete change of revolution in. warfare, while for blasting or mining purposes it will probably never be equaled. Mr. Chamberlain has had offers from parties on the continent which he will probably accept in the event of not coming to terms with our own government. THE E.

S. STATE CONVENTION. To tne Editor of the Dally Eacle. As I have just returned from the State Suffrage convention, I thought a short report would not be out of I had expected several delegates from Wichita and felt rather chagrined that I alone should have to represent the "Peerless Princess." And judging from our own city I thought there would be very few delegates present and that the success of the convention would depend upon the liberty loving people of Emporia. However, I was pleasantly surprised on reaching the church to find a full delegation.In fact, MissAnthony said to me: "It is the best representation we ever had;" quite an increase from last year, which is very encouraging for the cause.

Every district was represented and most of the counties. To say that I alone represented Wichita would scarcely be just to my little son, whom I took with me, and I felt quite proud of my boy as he distributed printed fpiograms and suffrage songs among the audience. There is nothing like bringing up a child in the way he should go, besides I avoided any posibility of criticism by taking my family with me, all that was left of it, the head of the household be ing absent. On arriving at mpona we were met by Mrs. Kellogg with her carriage, waiting to receive tho delegates from the south, and we were soon pleasantly located at the home of a lady physician, which was sufficient guarantee of good care and congenial company.

If all the other delegates were as nicely entertained as I was, they will bo glad of another opportunity to visit Emporia. The convention was held in the Congregational church, and the time during the day session was devoted principally to hearing reports from organizers, district presidents and secretaries of auxiliaries, while tho evening sessions were exclusively for lectures in which the public generally could bo interested. The address of welcome was given by Mrs. Jennie M. Kellogg, of Emporia.and response by Dr.

Sarah Hall, of Fort Scott. Lectures were delivered by Miss Susan B. Anthony, of Rochester, N. Rev. Anna Shaw, of Evanston, Mrs.

Colby, editor of Woman's Tribune, and our home talent, of which we may bo paoud namely: Miss Sarah A. Brown and Mrs. Anna Diggs, of Law-rence, Mrs. L. Denton, of Attica, Mrs.

Watkins, of Boicourt, and Mr. and Mrs. Hoffman, of Enterprise. Mr. Hoffman deserves special mention, for while his wite was speaking to an overflow meeting at the court house, he held the attention of a large audience at the church.

Mr. Hoffman is a German, his accent indicating his foreign birth. He is a very fluent speaker and a gentleman of unusual ability. Would like to give a full report of a great many truths uttered; but I cannot ask so much space in jour paper.neither havo I the time, but those who have heard Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw fully understand their ability and earnest effort in tho suffrage work. Miss Shaw had come directly from Philadelphia, where she had assisted in the wedding of Miss Rachael Foster, secretary of the national E.

S. and said a happier bride she had never seen. During the evening lecture she spoko of the length of time required for needed reform through the legislature, and stated that it took twelve years in Massachusetts to get a burial placo for widows. Tho law gave a woman an interest in the estate during her life, and as soon as dead she had no more right to the family burial ground than any other woman, and the only way she could be legally buried by her husband was to be buried while still living, which method most of the women opposed. She also referred to the fact that three women in the United States are sentenced to bo hung, and will pay the death penalty unless pardoned by the governor of each state in which the sentence was pronounced, and said whether guilty or not they had not had a trial by their peers.

Thursday afternoon Kansas Council of Women was organized, with Mrs. Chershing, of Leavenworth, as president. My return trip was mado most enjoyable by the company of Mrs. Noble Prontis, president of the Social Science club, who said she would gladly present names of Wichita ladies for membership, as the Hvpatia can not come in as a club. N.

S. W. T. U. CONVENTION.

To the Editor ot tho EACLE. The fourth quarterly convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was held in the Methodist church West Side, of this city, beginning at 2:30 on the loth and closing at o'clock on the lGth. Being in the midst of the second blizzard of the season tho attendance was not large from over the county, but those who were ablo to get there felt amply repaid for the effort. The ladies of the West Side union opened their homes to the visitors and made them feel entirely welcome. Tho newly elected president, Mrs.

E. J. S. Edmonson, of Valley Center, was on hand promptly on the hour for opening each session, and added much to the success of the convention by her efficiency. On Thursday afternoon an interesting paper on "The Flower Mission" was presented by Miss Etta Mason, of this city, giving the aim of the flower mission department of the W.

C. T. which is under the superintendence of 3Iiss Jennie Cassidav, of Louisville, who has for years been an invalid unable to leave her bed, but has become the center of influence through which boquets, accompanied with texts of Scripture, are distributed on every public holiday through the prisons, soldiers' homes, orphan asylums or wherever the needy shut in ones are found. The evening address by Mrs. Clara Holbrook Smith on the "Romance of the Nineteenth Century" was full of thrilling interest and pathos, and highly appreciated by the audience.

On Fridav a paper vzs presented on "The Anti-Tobacco Work. She found it difficult to prepare a clean paper on so unclean a subject, the tobacco habit being ono she thoroughly abhorred. Mrs. Naomi Anderson represented the interests of the colored sisters in an able paper. She showed that the wisdom of the ages had not by any means been confined to the white race, and that at the present dav many of "sable hue were in every respect the peers of those of the "paler shade." Still, owing to the terrible curse of slavery which so long overshadowed them, the colored women werecrcatlv in need of well-directed assistance tilf thev could be brought to see eye to eye and stand shoulder to shoulder with the white women In this work for temperance and social purity.

'Influeneiiisr tha Press," to lend its far react influence in favor of tho i temperance work was treated in a paper by Sirs. Lee Hoy of this city. The most inspiring hour was that devoted to the children. A little after 4 o'clock the boys and girls came trooping in and filled all the available space in tho church, crowding the ladies of the convention into the corners. Their singing of "Temperance Boys and Girls are We," and other songs under the leadership of Mrs.

Belle Howard and Miss Honn, teachers in the public schools, showed that they had been apt pupils of competent instructors. Mrs. Smith's story talk from her charts held their attention and sustained their enthusiasm. The success of tho convention was largely due to the presence of Mrs. C.

H. who, from her large experience was able to make many valuable suggestions which were highly appreciated by all present. S. A. L.

KANSAS KOLLARY. A Kansas man, Sidney Post, has been elected to congress from an Illinois district. Manhattan Mercury: 'Now that the campaign is over it is expected that the woman who took in washing while her husband looked after his country will have a vacation." But she won't; he is now seeking an office or telling how it happened. Brice Davis says in his Grenola Chief: "By the time we get through paying election bets we won't have anything to wear but a smile and the porous plaster Mr. Roe so generously presented us with the evening before tho the election.

As our toilet will necessarily be scant, parties desirous of interviewing the editor will be compelled to do so through the i Keyhole or transom. However, we propose paying all bets even though it takes the barrel and straw hat, yet we intend to stick to the porous plaster and in all probability it will stick to us." There are rumors that a syndicate of Wichita capitalists are going to build a 200,000 court house over in Riverside and present tho same to the board of commissioners of Butler county. It is said to be one of Griffith's ideas. ElDo-rado Times. DEATH'S OWER.

Deatit, tho Alexander bold, With his sword he cleavon asunder Tangled cord acd mystic fold, Lua'a vexation and its wonder. Ida A. Ahlbora in America. Chopped Off Cigar Ends. In largo cigar stores tho cigar chippers, tha little knives which choppfT the ends of Jla-vanns, make quite an income for ths proprietors of the places in which they doUtty.

A prominent Broadway cigar dealer mist a reportor recently: "You have no idea how rapidly the cigar ends accumulate. What do we do with them? Well, we dispose of thorn in many ways. Some firms pack them up in pound packages and sell them to smokers for pipes; but ic is against tho law to sell them without internal revenue stamps. "Quito recently the cigarette manufacturers have been experimenting with these ends, and now they are quito extensively used in tho goods known as all tobacco cigarettes. There is one manufacturer who sends out men to collect the chopped off ends and-in return allows U3 a discount on the cigarettes we may buy of him." "How much do you suppose you realizo a year from the cigar cndbF' fc "Well, about $300 1 think would cover it, and that is a pretty good sum for pin money.

It's just like finding it. Oh, I tell you nothing is wasted nowadays." New York Evening Sun. 3Xoro Discrimination In Art. Is the long established love for painting and statuary doomed to extinction? If not, why are pictures no longer bringing tho high prices that they did? And why are the houses of the bettor sort so chary of such decorations? It is getting to bo the custom to confine pictures to tho halls and stairways and library. Those who can afford picture galleries aro a small proportion of tho population, and extravagant outlays by the wealthy in that direction are less than fifty years ago.

Old line engravings have had a rage, followed by the greatest popularity of etchings. Tho tasto of the educated public still leans in this direction. Tho change in fashion has followed, doubtless, an increased aesthetic education of tho peoplo, loading to mora discrimination in art. At all events, it is no longer tho fashion to swing all over tho walls of a house pictures of only moderate merit or no merit at all. Globo-Democrat.

Don't Danilae Soro Eyci. Tho custom, prevalent among physicians as well as the laity, of tightly bandaging or tying up the ej-e as soon as it becomes in-flamod or sore is a bad ono. Tho effect upon tho eye is bad. It precludes the freo access and beneficial effects of tho cool air, and at the samo tima prevents or greatly retards tho freo egress of tho hot tears and morbid secretions of the inflamed conjunctiva or cornea, or both. In thoso cases too, where a foreign mibstanco has got into the eye, tho bandago (which is usually clapped on the first thing) presses tho lids more closely against the ball and thus increases tho pain and discomfort by augmenting the laceratuns caused by tho foreign body.

This cannot fail to bo harmful In thoso cases where tho light Is painful adjust over the organ a neatly fitting shade, which, whilo it excludes tho light, allows tho roe access 6f air. New Orleans Times-Democrat. England's Flc-et of Ironclad. Tho most powerful war ship afloat, tho Benbow has just been completed al joined the British Mediterranean fleet. Sho carries two 111-ton guns, besides other smaller guns.

A shot from one of them weighs 1,800 pounds, and when propelled by a fall charge of 6D8 pounds of powder It can tear its way through a whole yard of iroa armor. The gun 43 foot 8 inches long, and tho projectile is over 41 inches long and noarly 1 foot 5 laches in diameter. England's eight best Ironclads cost nearly $25,000,000, tha Benbow ccctfng Two-moro ships nearly finished, tho Nile and Trafalgar, of 12,000 tona each, will cost nearly $5,000,000 piece. At tfcia price each will bo worth its weight in copper. Tha simultaneous dischargo of the guns of the entire fleet would dcToIop force enough to lift the ships, guns and all, two feet out of the water.

"Sew York Sun. ThU la Coxr." A co is an animal with fear oa the under sids. Th tl Is longer tbsa the legs, bat not used to stacd on. Tho nr kills flies wllix Its teiL A co has biz jeara that TrlgglaBon hinges; so do their taiL The co ia blgsar than tba oalf, bat not bo bg as an slrphant Sho is made so eaI1 that sho caagointba barn rh, nobody Is fcoldnff. Sorsa cows are black, and so.e hook.

Adwl was booked onca. She to taa cor that orrted tba cat that killed tba rat. Black cows giro white milk: so do other cowx. Sfflkiryn ten milk to bnj their lit zirls creavB, which they put in water and ratk. Cows chew ends, aad each nnds it own I cbw Toot is all thsm is about cow Tfce SpOTliia "2Xee3 Cantere." A short tisos ago so ie "honejsoon car-rlases'wera placed upon the Spanish ra-waja.

Each conspartssnt only two seats, vtrv dose together, and erery-taincwMdoae to proride toe the esaafort of the soseyisooxers. Bat bo bhhing cocpfca appeared, acd notes of tfcasoce-j-prfacs- has ytt been occnptedL Tfee'd- raaT orcet that people arrar try hard te look Ilka old i33l bawls as osthe dsyupea which the kaot has lean tk--Jll Gatf2c WE Rim Our Stock is too Large. THE WHITE HOUSE Is full of seasonable goods. If prices will do it we -will force our stock don to the minimum. 12 Immense Departments Bursting "Witli Goods.

Attend the Overflow and be Happy. Exquisite Selections, Guaranteed Values, Prices that Take Great Sale next week of French Dress Goods. High grade Parisian novelty pattern, only one pattern of each In the west. "We want to close them out this week. Empire.

Direc-toire and Persian Styles, The very latest and desirable importation. Value Sa50, $9.00, $9.25 and! Value S14.25, $14.90, $15.25 $9.75 Price now and $16.00 Price now $4.85. Value $27.00, $27.50, $28.00 and Price now, $18.80. Items Interesting to Every Housekeeper ART EMBROIDERY DEPARTMENT. Pure Irisn Linen Hemstitch Towels.

Sideboard Scarf, Fancy Towels. Table Spreads. Splashers, Tidies, Damask Towels, Lunch Cloths. Blankets, Comforts, Spreads, COUNTERPANES. Owing to the success of our Blanket Sale it left a few odd p-iirs of certain lots which we sell for 70 cents, 9S cents, and 105 cents.

Finer qualities equally low. We will continue the sale of Ladies Scarlet Pants VTe open agreat sale of Turkoman, Turkish Satin and Chenillo Portiers, we have a superb variety of the goods. Laee Curtains. Laee Curtains. ITotinghams, Brussels, Antique Point, etc Unusual attraction in this line.

New "Wraps, Sacques, Ragtans, Palletoes, and all the latest novelties. It pa to trade at the White House of Innes Ross, 116 TO 120 MAIN STREET. ESTABLISHED 1S77. Wichita Foundry Machine Shops Does a general Foundry and Machine business, a'so heavy machine and bridge forging and casting, aiso keep in 8tocc sash weights, stove repairs, hangers and pulleys. OFFICE AND FOUNDRT 114 TO 120 WICHITA ST.

JAMES FULMER, Proprietor fl. H. RICHARDS Wichita Mercantile Co. WHOLESALE GROCERS, 213, 215, 217, 219 and 221 South Market Stroot, WICHITA, KANSAS SIS MANUFACTURED BY- HOUCK, THOMAS I CO -WORKS AND KILNS AT SARCOXIE, MO. -MAIN WICHITA, KANSAS, ROOM 202 SEDG-WICEI BLOCK j.

o. rxTineos. a xsvurr, rrt Davidson InyestaeatComp'ny PAID-UP CAPITAL, $300,000. MacrcBR-JOHS meter AJam JCxi. asroa.

W.SBOOCl. $5,000,000 Loaned in Southern Kansas. Money Always io Hand fir Improved rarm A- UZSS, 9 PrciJ'' WICHI1TA Wholesale Grocer Company. Corner Rrtt tnd Water St, WICHITA, KAN. THE SURPLDS! $10.40.

Tahle Scarfs, Husk Towels, Table Setts. Ladies Knit Underwear at 35c. and Vest, 51.00 and $1.25. BEfKjU IUR III 111 OFFIC3 w.t. bjukoczjji- fm nee.

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