The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-10-08
That BOGUS Three-Eyed Babie.

Out of purely good will to the ladies' aid SO
ciety Of this city, and personal respect and es-
TEEN that we entertain for many of its men,
bers, we, last week, exposed the mercenary
and sinister motives that underlaid propO-
sftion TO help them. The scheme might have
passed unnoticed by us had not q requisition
| been made upon these columns to forward
the selfish plans of an individual. No charge
of particeps siminis, upon the part Of the la
dies, was intimated, although we are aware
that long communication cut from an eastern
paper, was sent to the society which should
have convinced them that a fraud was being
perpetrated upon their society and in the name
| of suffering humanity, proceeding contemp-
table as it was petty. Some Of these quasi adj
yertisments we have seen and were published
no doubt gratutously in the hope Of aiding
the imaginary restitution prevailing in wichi-
Ia. The one we have in our possession now
portrays in heart-rending sentences the deplo-
rable condition Of our people in their humane
efforts to care for those driven into our city by
murderous Indians and ravaging grasshopers,
and praying that money be sent to ''the aid
society Of Wichita" by addressing "Ralph
Lee. secretary who for four dollars thus
sent will forward five photographs Of the
sWichita Wonder, the Three-Eyed Babie."
Through inquiry at the post Office We learn
that lock box 452. was rented and paid for by
the proprietor of the Babe. in the name OF
Ralph Lee, and that said prprietor's little boy
gets the mail from said box. The status of the
crime in obtaining money under false preten-
ses we care nothing, so far as this ease is con-
cerned, but in behalf of the good name, decen-
CIV and honor of our city, and of citizens who
whould scorn such mode of getting money.
we enter most emphatic protest. The adj
ver,ising dodge in yesterdays paper stultifies
its own proposition. live have inadvertant-
ly wronged the society or wounded the feel
ings OF a single lady member We humbly crave
pardon.
Having offered our defence, and made the
ana,nde honorable TO the ladies, whose good
will we prize ard whose respect we ever hope
to be worthy of, we give our attention for one
moment now. to another quarter. and to the
dimensions Of party who assumed role I'M
hidden and whom we in no way identified with
our erpose:
The Beacon, it appears, has an attack of that
same hely-ache, Of genuine Babe collie. With
the poetic measure Of goose-prodder, the
yalor Of 1.-THE knight of the sorrowtul figure
and the ribbald Of a Texan bsot-black. IT arrays
its quixotic gable-end in defense Of that long
legged cackling old rooster who wants hens TO
do his growing, and whose weakly chick died
for the want a spinal cord Through labor,
pains, sweat and tears it begs the privilege
of an accoucheur at the Babies second borning,
standing with its pillless pill-bag ready to
catch the blighted, drooliDg, peurile puppet.
and spincless thing, that was rocked in
the same cradle with itself. Wind, is what's
the matter with the twin, and it would
have the head ache, too, had it any
head TO ache. Periodically since the lying
in that sent adrift that frail wriggling waif
upon the shoals of the sea OF letters, has il,
without interest or sense tried to bedaub us.
A Babie, too, by nature, we commend to the
kindly Offices of the wet nurse corps of its
twin sister, and Recommend catapasm OF
mush and pumpkin for its abdominal-head,
despairing of the hope that change in the
proprictorthip which had carried off the
brains had left at least spice Of professional
courtesy or even decency