The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-29

from week to week to ''str1ke~ into
subsection to their demands These
journals deal largely in personali-
ties, and their gratitude for past
favors and still ivelier sense Of
favors to come inspires every para
graph of praise; while condemnation
and innuendo are the lot melted ont to
those who fail to comply with their de-
mauds A friend was asked to sub
scribe to certain publication of this
kind for ten years and pay in advance;
on his refusal TO do so unpleasant para
graphs began to appear in its columns
about him But the favorite game of
these human harpies is to demand an
advertisement of a reputable business
man or commercial establishment, and,
on failing to secure it, to begin series
of insidious sneers and low flung hints,
managing, as far as legal cunning viii
compass it, to keep within the limit of
the law Of libel.
FAMOUS RACING Authority.
Nv old friend Henry G.. Crickmore,
whose nom de plume of kirk numbers
its respectful admirers and friends by
the hundred wherever honest sport and
the unauthorized love of racing on the
merits of the horse are known, has,
see, been arrested by the Law and Order
society of Monmouth county, n. j., for
daring to appear at the newly opened
Monmouth Park associations track In
discharge sf his duties as secretary
of that association. With the mer-
its of the controversy between
the authorities of New Jersey and
the Racing association, OF which
the late D. D. Withers was the guiding
spirit, have nothing to do; but 1t must
be an event in the life of so interesting
a senni-public character as ''Krik' to
find himself hauled up by the bob
bies' along with horde of common
bookmakers and track followers.
There is no more delightful, lovable
and entertaining gentleman in the
country than Kirk" whose iron gray
beard, thoughtful eyes and massive
figure, in the dark pepper-and-sait
suits he has affected for years, are as
familiar among their associates and
friends as those of the W1therses, tho
Lorillards, the SCOTS, the Belmonts
and the Cassatts.
''Kril1' is one of the linen of mystery
to whom have occasionally referred as
losing no opportunity to suppress all
publicity in regard to their lives, per
sonalities and predictions. The con-
spicuous position into which duties OF
necessity call these men offer a reason
able ground for public curiosity about
them. Yet a large part of their time 1T
sometimes seems must be occupied in
thwarting that curiosity. Few bio
graphical collections contain any ma
Serial of value, much less accurate
sketches Of the lives of these men of
mystery. 'Krik" isone of them. Henry
B. Hyde of the Equitable Life Assurance
society is another believe his por-
trait has never been printed in news
paper Mr.. Crickmore came to New
York some fifteen years ago from New
Orleans The late Capt Billy Conner
used to claim with pride that he first
induced the sterling fellow to take up
turf writing. He attached himself to
the World in the days when but little at
tention was paid by the press to racing,
and by his fidelity, accuracy and earn
estness he made his turf department IA
nous among horsemen and turf patrons
TO PREVENT sEAsICKNEss.
The statement is made by steam
ship official that when the end of this
year shall have come at least one hun
dred thousand Americans shall have
sailed across the Atlantic. No man
who has ever endured the pangs of sea-
sickness for one hour, much less for
twelve days, as l have, can fail OF the
conclusion that each one of the one
hundred thousand would gladly con-
tribute one dollar if not ten times as
much, to the exchequer of any invent
or who can offer the simplest prevent
i've of NAL de mer. I hear that a scien-
tific man of this city has reached the
conclusion that seasickness is largely
the result of an affection OF
the optic nerves, and that in
this opinion he has the support
of very distinguished member of the
Vienna faculty. The idea of this emf
nent savant is that if the voyager can
succeed in keeping his eyes fixed upon
some distant object so far from the
oscillating deck upon which he is that
the angles of the ships axis as it rolls
in the water will be imperceptible to
the gaze, NAL de mer will not follow.
Or, better still, the same result can be
obtained by remaining blindfolded be-
low decks for several days after embark
ing. But this remedy seems to me almost
as bad as the disease, as far as it con-
templates the confinement of the
traveller in his seething and lily ven
tilated stateroom. An eminent mem
Der of the homeopathic faculty has adj
vanced the opinion that incubation
with the germ of nicotine poisoning
prevents NAL de mer because, as he has
discovered, he thinks, the two affec-
tions-viz: seasickness and nicotine
poisoning, are so much alike as TO offer
similar symptoms for diagnosis To
this I am again constrained TO object
that the remedy is worse than the dis
ease, as all will agree who remember
how they felt when they smoked their
first cigar. JOHN A. CocKERILL
A wELL-KEPr secret vas that Of
George w. NJ. Harper and Miss May E.