The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-16


tory is unique among occupants Of the
chair.
4 Speaking of this reminds me Of story
which Mr.. Mills told of Carlisle one day
last winter Mills and Carlisle had always
been fast friends. 1t was Mills who first
suggested the Kentuckian for the speaker
| ship, and followed his suggestion with
such effective work that Mr.. Carlisle was
chosen TO that high Office three times. Car
Isle never forgot what he owed to his
Texas friend, and to this day the two men
are like brothers. But there was one
thing could never do with Carlisle" said
| Mr.. Mills; ~ could never induce him TO
! vary his programme as speaker of the
/ house one iota from what he considered
/ his duty under the rules. One day the Re
| publicans had us in a pretty tight place.
! Unless we strained things just trife they
were likely TO either defeat a measure OF
| great importance to our party or compel
US 20 spend two or three weeks of valuable
| time in working it through. / went to
| Carlisle and asked him to so rule as to
! help rs out. 1T is only matter of opinion,
anyway said, and you can save US a heap
of trouble by doing precisely what the Re
publicans would do under similar circum-
stances 4 don't see how can do it, said
Carlisle. We'll, even if you can't go dead
against them, you can at least trim q lit
tle-knock off a few corners here and there
and give US a short cut to the inevitable
end, simply to save time Phi never forget
Carlsle's reply. Mills said he, I would
do anything in the world for the Demo-
cratic party, anything for you, except to
deviate even as much as hairs breadth
from what l consider my duty under the
oath which have taken as speaker of the
house. Please don't ask that And so
there was nothing more TO say, and it came
to be common expression about the Cap
itol that Carlisle sat up SO straight that
sometimes he leaned over backward"
From what hear of him fancy that
Mr.. Tom Vim, Farmers Alliance mem
Der elect from Georgia, is going to be one
of the interesting men of Washington next
winter. Winn is a sharp, smart granger,
who will be pretty near the front when the
hard fighting on financial or other meas
ures near his heart comes on. He has lived
all his life in the back country, and about
two years ago saw for the first time an
electric light, street car and theater.
All these and many other wonders of city
life were unfolded 70 him during sojourn
in Atlanta. Toms description of his visit
to the theater is unique. There we were,"
he is said to have told his neighbors, sin
house three times as big as my barn, all
lighted up by the brightest candles you
ever saw, the wicks of which a man pulled
by a string and turned down the light just
as you would turn down kerosene lamp,
and then turned it up again when they
wanted more illumination. tried to find
out what those candles were made of, but
there wasn't anybody there that could tell
me. / watched 'em close, and didn't see
that they burned down a bit, though we
were there two or three hours. If we could
only get some of those candles to burn out
here in the country it would be cheaper
than kerosene oil.
1.-THE sides of this big house were all
painted up with pictures, and so was the
ceiling. The pictures didn't have any
frames on them, but appeared to be put
right on the plastering, though it struck
me that if they could afford to have so
many nice pictures they might have gone
in for few dollars more and bought some
frames. Osc side of the house had plat
form, and row of lights along in front of
it, and curtain back of them running
clear up to the ceiling. At both sides of
the platform were little parlors in which
were men who had their hair combed nicely
and pretty good clothes on, but who didn't |
wear any vests. | couldn't make out why |
man would go to such public place as !
that and show himself off without wear |
ing a vest, The ladies didn't have much |
front to their dresses either. Down in |
front of the platform were lot of fiddlers |
playing the Eyeliest dance music l ever |
heard, and they appeared to be much ex-
cited and were going it at great rate, and |
right in the center of them was q man with |
q stick, who appeared to be more excited |
than they were, and who seemed to be try
ing to stop them, for every few seconds he /
would get his eye on one of them fiddIers
and shake his head at him and threaten
him with the stick. Yet the fiddlers kept
right on till they got SO worked up and !
made SO much noise they appeared 10 get
all tired ont, when they just stopped kind
Of easy like, as if for lack of breath to
go on.
"Then the curtain in front of the plat
form rolled up, and a beautiful young
woman came out and cried and took on
till | felt awfully sorry for her. Then a
great big brute of a man followed her
around, and talked mean TO her and abused
her, so that | was tempted TO jump upon
the platform and take her part; but friend
Of mine who was sitting beside me held
On to my coat tail and wouldn't let me 20.
When the brute on the platform took the
woman by the throat and threatened to hit
1er in the face got SO excited / couldn't
stand it, and said to my friend l would go
outside, and not stay there and see WON
IN 50 shamefully treated in public. And 1
vent out and didn't go back again, and
whether the man did strike the woman or
not, with all those people looking on and
declining 20 interfere, don't know. But
don't like such things, and l have never
9een to theater since"
This is Er. Winns story of his first and
,nly visit to the theater as il comes to noe
rom friends Of has at Lawrenceville, Ga,
hough l am inclined to believe that these
larrators strain the facts somewhat, and
make Mr.. VIM appear more credulous
md unsophisticated than be really Is.
Still, when the statesmen assemble here
lext winter to make laws and have fun, |
hail make il my duty to go TO the theater
ONE night with the member from Law
enceville, just TO see how ne behaves him
elf ROBERT GRAVES
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