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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19

win had wen as the wlttiest speaker
upon the hastings Nye maintained after
| Corwin passed over to the majority.
Bill Nye has been and is everything
that Jim Nye was not. excepting that the
two men possessed common surname
and common gift of hunor. The Nyt
of the newspapers stands six feet in hi:
stockings. and could have looked dow
upon the parting of Jim Nye's curly
hair. Bill Nye is of pale complexion
! Jim Nye was ruddy Bill Nye until re-
Gently was of such slender build as made
his height all the more conspicuous
| Jim Nye was rotund, unctuous and IL
his later days almost fiabby in his flesh.
mess. He had splendid crown of curly
hair, and he was said to greatly resem-
BILE the famous actor, Fechter. Bill Nye
has made humorous capital by reason
of his badness. and that popularity and
his spectacles and beardless face have
enabled the caricaturist to suggest a
likeness to the original Nye himself
IN countenarce really does not closely re-
semble these carIcatures. They merely
suggest the man as he is
Since Nye's popularity has become
universal wherever the English Ian
guage Is read, he is no longer compared
with any man, and no one tries to con-
meet his peculiar and delightful ability
with relationship to any distinguished
man.
Very many documents of Nye's life
have been written Most Of them are
fiippant and many of them are feeble
limitations of the humorist's peculiar
literary mannerisms He really de-
serves more serious treatment His
popularity, which seems undinmed; his
great pecuniary successes and his recog-
milton of late by those who have been
called the arbiters of literary fame in
this country entitle him to something
more than history which is mere jest.
In all the accounts of Nye nothing
has been said of one qualification, which
must have brought him success sooner
or later, and that is his business capac-
ity. 1t is remarkable. No other hu-
morist excepting Mark Twain has re,
vealed such gift. John Phoenix was
notably i1nprovident. Had Artemu
Ward possessed Nye's business instincts
and his moral fiber he could have earned
fortune in few years, and other hu-
morists who have won some fame have
done well if they have been able to make
bare living with their pen.
Nye, however, has the business in
stinct as a native gift, and he has cult
waited it well. When he began to write
his sketches for The Boomerang he had
no idea that they would be of more than
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19
What n ChaDcci

A clever teacher who has the power
of calling out originality in her pupil
says that she should certainly have III
time for the use of text books if she at
tempted to answer all the STARTLING
questions asked her in the class. On,
day the attraction of gravitation wa
under discussion, and Charley Beale vol
unteered the opinion that he didn't SCI
any need of it anyway"
at seems to me-" said Charley
"there's no particular use in having tht
earth attract things. Now when tht
apple fell, and made Newton think ou
the reason. why that apple might JUS
as well have staid where it was til
somebody gathered it.
"You play ball, don't you?" asked the
teacher
"Yes'm."
Suppose you hit the ball very high
what happensT
at falls"
''Bnt if there were no attraction to
ward the earth it wouldn't fall. Don't
you think that might prove inconven-
ient?"
Charley did not answer Immediately.
His eyes were bright with the light of a
new idea.
"My!" he broke forth involuntarily.
"What chance for home rum
Youths Companion.
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lis business instincts served him wei.
also when he entered the lecture field.
The work Is hard and dreary and entails
prolonged absences from a most charm.
ing family bat IT pays well His profits
are commonly reported to have been a.
high as from $4,000 to $50. 900 a year,
so that In the past four or five years Mr..
Nye's income has equaled that of the
greater lawyers. has been as large as
the individual profits which many bank
ers and merchants have received from
their business. and has been equaled
among literary men probably only by
the income OF the Rev. Dr.. Talmage
He has ventured into the drama. al.
though he Is not dramatist and must
ever rely upon those who have dramatic
instinct and experience 10 make his
plays tit for stage representation. He
has also conquered the literary set. and
is now furnishing a series Of articles for
one of the leading magazines.
Mr.. Nye's life, however. is in his do
nestle circle, and it is no wonder. His
wife, a charming woman, is just the
helpmeet for such man. and with his
four children he is as much a child as
any of them. He lives in luxury in a
beautiful place on Staten Island, and
has also "a residence at Asheyille n. c.,
where he is now convalescing from the
effects of the recent accident from which
he suffered in jackson, Miss.
Mr.. Nye has barely entered the prim
of life, being in his fortieth year, and il
his present prosperity attends him Re
seems likely to become the wealthiest
of our literary men.
E. J, EDWARDS.
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A FAIR ATTORNEY.


Alasl the world bas gone away
Since Cousin Lillian entered college,
For she has grown 50 learned.
Oft trenble at her wend-ous knowledge.
Whene'er dare too WOO her now
She froWns that should so annoy her,
And then proclaims. with lofty brow,
Her mission is TO be lawyer.
Life glides no more on golden wings
A sunny waif from III Dorado;
I've learned how true the poet sings,
That coming sorrow casts its shadow.
When tutti frutti lost its spell,
felt some hidden grief impended
When she declined n caramel
knew my rosy dream had endt
She paints no more on china plaques.
WIKI tints that would have crazed hurillc.
Strange birds that never piumed their backs
When Father Noah braSed the billow.
Her fancy inns. with brighter brush.
The splendid triunp hs that await her,
When, in the court, a brsathless hush
Gives homage 10 the keen debater.
'Tis sad TO meet such crushing noes
From eyes as blue as Scottish heather;
TITS sad a maid with cheeks Of rose
Should have her heart bound up in leather
,Tis sad to keep ones passion pent,
Though PaIlas arns the fair environ;
But worse TO have Der quoting Kent
When one is fondly breathing Byron
When Lillian's licensed at the law
Her fame. be sure. viii live forever
No barrister will pick eaw
In logic so extremely clever.
The sheriff will forget his nap
To feast upon the lovely vision.
And een the Judge will set his cap
At her and dream OF love Elysian.
Samuel Minturn Peck in Argsnsut.
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THE KICKER.
It Pnys 60 Know What You wan'.-Two
Cases in Point.

Cases in Point.
1 admire the kicker | admire him even
when he theoretically kicks me. | have
long held Shet the N an who undertakes to
walk through this world with meek and
humble spiris will get regularly fiattened
out and broken in two at least once a
month On the contrary. whoever saw a
chronic kicker who didn't live on the fat
Of the land and have a front seat every
where?
Thirty of us, men and women, were
dumped out on a platform AT a railroad
junction in Illinois to wait twenty-five
minutes for the other train. 1t was cold
and rainy There was no fire in the depot
stove. There was only one smoky old lamp
70 see by. The twenty-five minutes slipped
away, but there was no train. A quarter
of an hour later l raped at the ticket
window. The depot agent, who was also
telegraph operator, was in his stall inside,
and after long delay he opened the sash
''Is the train late?" / asked.
IF it isn't on time then it's late, isn't
it," he replied in surly manner.
''How late is the traini"
~ dunno"
"Well, find out''
He slammed the sash down on me, but /
Knocked until he raised it again and de-
uanded in an ugly voice what in Davy
Jones | wanted.
II want to know about that train. It's
your business to ascertain and post u.s. 1t
makes difference whether we have to wait
here one hour or three"
q don't take orders from passengersn
be CURLY replied as he lowered the sash
again. -
Three minutes later the six of Us who
had -revolvers stood in a line and fired
voIIey into his house just above his head
Up went the sash, and he called:
"Wh-whst is it,"
TITS about that trainp'
TITS an hour and half later'
ooh! it is3 What about the fire in tho
RstiDg room"
81 dunno"
''AIl ready. gentlemenl Take aim; f1"-
Good heavens! but what do you mean,"
be shouted
I'VE want you to build fire Either
come out or we continue shootingp'
He came out and started fire. He also
cleaned and lighted two lamps He also
got us pitcher and showed us barrel of
new cider. and his interest in our welfare
was something touching. He kept us
posted on tDe Tram every lnCeen minutes
until it arrived, and it WAS plainly evident
10 all that he had resolved to turn over a
new leaf
One night at hotel in an Indiana town
the mosquitoes came into the window liz
such clouds that had 10 get up and dress
Next morning said TO the landlord:
81 Will pay you for two meals, but not
for lodging. 1t was your duty to have
provided against any nuisance that might
make me uncomfortable, but you did not
do il +"
"But you'll have to pay" he replied 81
shall hold your baggage"
Then III get out a writ OF replevin."
He attached and l replevined Then We
had a lawsuit. It cost me four days time
and forty dollars, but beat him on the
point / had raised. He called me kicker
and mean man, and warned me never to
come to his hotel again, but he also went
and got mesquite bars for every bedroom
window, and all future guests got the
benefit of my kick.-M Quad in New
York World
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the existence of newspaper with such
a seemingly absurd name. However, it
| began to be understood that a new
humorist had arisen and was located on
the windy uplands of the northwest,
and that his newspaper, The Boomerang,
as well as his humor, was genuine.
Thus, ten years earlier. through the
medium of the exchange editor, the
| humor of the Danbury News man,
which appeared in little weekly which
he owned, became of great repute, and
the droll sketches and dry wit of Bur-
dette in similar way were brought to
public view. The Laramie Boomerang
man, Burdette, Bailey, Artemus Ward
and the first of all that glorious race Of
humorlsts, John Phoenix. won the ap-
prevail of that great class which Is the
strength of the country and which has
but little time for other reading than
that which is furnished by the newspa-
pers. These men became popular with
the masses, and some of them won not
only fame but fortune thereby.
OF course it was asked who this genius
OF hunor of the Wyoming uplands was,
and the papers began to circulate a ru-
NOR that his name was Bill Nye. and
that he was relative of a man who had
Won great repute not only as states
man, but as a fun lover and maker, the
late United States senator, Jim Nye.
OF course every one wondered whether
the Bill Nye who was writing, with
that spontaneity which is the basis
of all genuine humor, The Boomerang
sketches was also the Bill Nye whom
Bret Harte had imrRortaiized in his
Heather Chlnee." Harte's celebrity had
before this been supposed TO be a myth,
a creature of his fancy; but there We're
many persons IN the east who felt sure
that the Bill Nye of the poem and the
Bill Nye of The Boomerang could be no
other than one and the same person.
1t was many months before the public
knew that Bill Eye was a nom de plume,
and that this genius of humor was bap-
tized Edgar Wilson Nye; that he was
born near the pine forests of Maine,
reared on the frontier of Wisconsin, was
bred lawyer and had ventured as far
as Laramie while young man that he
might practice law or grow up with the
territory in any way that offered. He
had actually become an officeholder.
having been elected Justice of the
peace. His Office brought him small
honor and much misery, but it also gave
him, though at the time he little sus-
pected it. a rich fund of experience
which Is now serving him in drama and
higher literature and is giving delight to
his almost countless readers.
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Next to II.

Peter, who goes 20 the public school, j.
not by any means had boy, but he is heed
less about his lessons, and seldom obtain.
any prizes or rewards.
One day, returning home, he wore q
pleased sort of expression which filed his
mother with hope.
You haven't sot prize today?" Sd.
asked.
NO" said Peter gleefully. but / cam,
within one OF itr'
What Do you mean yen we're next
Che headsh
"Oh, no; but the boy who sits in the see
with me, he got tie prize, you kees'-
Youths Companion.
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Tenlpus FuGit.

Johnny, now many hours are there
in a day." asked Colonel Yerger of his
son Johnny, who is attending lectures al
the University of Texas
twenty-five hours" was the reply.
''What has become of the other one?"
al don't know, but heard the teacher
say the days We're one hour longer than
they used TO be. Texas Siftings.
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DiscOnra1ino.

Mrs. A.-What did Charles have to
say about the theater last night?
Mr.. A.-Not much of anything, ex.
cept that the house was papered.
Mrs. A.-Mercy! Paper the house
while the performance was going on?
should think it must have been very dis
couraging.
Mr.. At waste the box Office
Boston Transcript.
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Jinl,s-I was simply astounded at a
doctors bin the other day
Filkins-You needn't have been: they
usually run up into the thousands
Jinks-Yes: but this one amounted TO
dollar and fifty cents.-New York Her
aid
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Young Inswim- Well. sir. begin the
new year entirely out of debt,
Young De Trop-You don't say sol
~ es, sir! OF course had to borrow
money TO do it. but I'm bound to square
up once in awhile. Medina Gist.
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NYE, THE HCMORIST.
E.L EDWARDS WRITES or ONE WHO
eNTERTAlNS US.

Bred to the Law. the Most Charming Of
Modern Jokers Decided to Grow Up
with the Country in Laramie, Wy.
His Literary Career-His Home.
Copyright, 1889, by American Press Associa-
ticn.
MIR. Nye telegraphs the editor from Ashe-
vile. y. g.. that he is painfully, though not
dangerously. Ill there. and will not therefore
be able to furnish his usual letter this week.
Occasion is therefore taken 10 offer the readers
OF this paper an appreciative sketch of the
humorist from the pen OF Mr.. z. J. Edwards.l
About twelve years ago there began
to appear in different newspapers ex-
tracts which were said to have been
copied from journal published at Lara
ME, Wy. the name of which was al
legged to be The Boomerang The
sketches were delicious, but for long
time many of those who enjoyed the
humor OF them were very doubtful about
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19
An Old Settler.

Lord Hobby ito Nevada Nick-Y
must ave lived ere good while, eh?
Nevada Nick-See that mounting thar?
That was "A hole in the ground when
came here.-Drake's Magazine.
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rs wien were Sch ~ SIRE distressed.
When pain O. sc-r0s acSs sosl icsses "a
Thaf rr-1;le Ecez7 seezrs Ter hes.
Alterations fsst ca e 4r> rs--ssszt-
We're cEksdiC5. cozSsfe<s ard czrsass5-
Bat. holy Moss How she b1-ses -.
-IzSlz1Azsasls Jc1rzsl
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81 have a unique thing IN the book
line" said the poet.
80 have heard, returned the cynic.
1.-THE complete first edition Of your own
book, is it not?'-Brooklyn Life.
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A Steady Thing.

Sound is said to travel over 700 miles
an hour, YET we have known the sound
Of a cat yawping on the back fence 70
remain night in one spot for FIVE mad
dening hOurs.-BOston Courier.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19
TIE FIRST SLOW.

What are those beautiful thigs so bright,
That fall ad fall as If rose leaves light;
Or d&tse al frolicG ad whirl away,
Like billiods of tidy birds at play?
Far i'd the south, VIC dweft, by dear,
Widter is dever as widter here,
Doe trees are bare and ice wids blow,
Dor falls that beaudiful wud-der, sdowl
How log viii it falR All dighti Oh. seei
1t hides the fedsss, it covers the tree.
Cad earth he dyig, sd this is the pail
Bsbba, it frightuds be-o'eT as alp
Twill fail ad fall. through the digit so stu.
Der field al forest DER vale al hill.
Till all, by child, 10 the borcling light,
Seeb wrapped no forever i'd shroud Of w'itei
list God who does idI' the awed voice said:
''WiA sprig return. orr
At this point the caild took pity on the
shrieking audience and sneezed. - New
York Mercury.
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The green branches Of the eucalyptus
ara in much favor among Australians a. a
dsinfectant for sick rooms A Melbourne
physician declares that in cases Of scarlet
fever. If the branches BE- placed under the
bed, the bedding undercoes thorough dis
infection, the volatile vapor penetrating
and saturatinG the mattress and every
other article in .he room
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19

The casting out of the devil
of disease was once a SION
of authority,
Now we take a little more
time about it and cast out
devils by thousands-we do
it by knowledge.
Is not a man who is taken
possession of by the germ of
consumption possessed of a
devil?
A little book. on CAREFUL
LIVING and SCOTS Emulsion
Of cod-liver oil will tell YOU
how to exercise him if it can
be done.
Free.
,ScoTT BoVNE, Chemists. Is, South IN Avenue.
New York.
Your drugs: keeps Scots Elzul.icu o. eod-liv.r
ea-sii druggists everywhere DO. s..
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Allowed to Vote

Election Inspector tseverelyr-Sir, have
you ever read the constitution OF the
United States:
Naturalized Citizen-No. Have you;
Election Inspector-N-o.-Se~ York
Weekly.
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At the Climb.
evening?

Commodore Where's Bob this
evening?
Throckmorton-He told me that cir
cumstance over which he had no control
would prevent his being with us to-
night.
c. N.-Probably he meant his wife
Smith & Grsy's Monthly.
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Imporfnnt-

George-Whew. What can be tn.
matter: Telegram says, Come home
Immediately"
George crushing into his suburban
home, one hour later)-Ten me quick,
my dear. What Is it,
Young wlfe-The baby said MA ma. =
Life
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-19
ciccn,nstantin, Evidence.

He-You didn't know | was color
blind did you:
She-I suspected it from the neckties
you wear -t'iothier and Furnisher.
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Poiltenoss zad Realism.

''1 am at your service. ms'sIn." SIS th
burglar said when the lady Of the nous
caught him stealing the Silvorvare
Texas &c
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Sound Advice.

Mr. Neer-What ought we TO DO, doc
tor. as a community in order to-er-to
meet the grip:
DR.. Bluut-Don't meet il. my dear
sir; avoid it.-Chicago Tribune.
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Father-Wel, Tommy. how do you
think you VIII Ike this little fellow for
a brother?
Tommy inspecting the new infant
somewhat do1btfullyl-Have we got to
keep him, papa. or Is he only sample:
Chicago Tribune
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The ten-year-old son of Harlem man
was booked to recite a poem at Sunday
school festival. The young man had con-
tracted severe cold in his head. As near
as we can remember it, this was what his
naid.
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All She Asked For.

Insinuating Photographer Cholding
photographs in handl-No, madam, you
have never been successfully posed;
none of these pictures does you justice.
Plain LADY, do not want justice. sir;
Iwaut mercy--Smith 3, Gray's Monthly.
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SsIs1' sT,l,s
Wystl sNk

when Baby was sick, we gave her Csstoris-
When she wss Child she cried for Castoria-
eyh.u she bee ,me Miss. she chung to Castoria-
,.y,e, she had Children. she gave them Castoria-
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-24
GOLD CATHS IN TYPHOID.
The Large Percentage Of Recoveries In
Some TESTS of This Treatment

The Large Percentage Of Recoveries In
Some TESTS of This Treatment
The Lancet tells that the system Of cold
baths in the treatment OF typhoid fever as
employed in Germany has been put to the
test by Dr.. Josias, and he reported TO the
Societe des dopitaux that during the years
1855 and 1889 he treated thirty-slx cases Of
typhoid fever Dy cold baths: that IS 10 say,
with water at IS dogs. G., repeating these
every three hours. OF thirty-six cases the
experimental obJ-ined thirty-three recov-
cries DIS Renoy and Richard who, on
their side. had followed this method, OBJ
tanned lG3 recoverles out OF los cases
A French critic. writing on the cold
water system OF the treatment Of typhoid
fever in Germany, gives the following sta
tistics, drawn up by Dr. Longuet, relative
20 the German army. which may be found
interesting here: In 1919, out of $500 ty-
phoid patients, there were from SO TO 100
deaths From 49, 70 lSS4 the number Of
patients was nearly identical, but thanks to
she application Of the cold baths the deaths
among the soldiers amounted on the one
hand 70 81 aud 10 / - on the other. Since
then the dimjnut;on OF the mortality was
slow, constant and mathematical, accord
ing as the Geld wafer system extended
From p per cent IL 1850 the mortality fell
to Il per cent. in IS7i In 1888 it was Lot
more than per csut
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''One must have natural gift foa
juggling 70 start with, remarked Kara.
the Juggler. II the course Of an iuter-
view. He should have a quick eve,
agility and patience Jugglery is noi
the work for an impatient or nervous
man. IL requires may years 70 become
an expert II any very remarkable fca-
ture Of cur business. The more ordi-
nary acts connected with the art Of Jug.
glery are acquired after a practice Of .
few months. The better JuEglns can
acquire them in as many weeks BE-
gan at the age Of ten yearx, for my own
amusement. Then having beooms more
ordinarily proficient bee1n q regular
course Of study and prsctsce1 almost
constantly for i've years before | consid.
cred myself proficient enough TO make
public appearance, which ! did at tine
age Of sixteen
II can recall very readily how CON-
nenced tossing Little balls. n you have
seen possibly every juggher do. BogiD-
ming with two continued until now
can keep seven balls in tie air At ors
StAAsR7s S~AA SAAaS A
hour after hour fer many. mauy days
before | attained my present proficiency.
'@ODs Iaust also b. ia the Yank q
physical condition To be \ very experi
Juggier you must feel sure when you
assume position that you are there
and VIII remain there stea.dfastly until
the feat voc ara performing shall have
been accomplished This cOmpes tbs
JugSleT 10 take extra good care q hGs
body. he must follow very nearly the
same regimen that u observed by trained
sthletes- II requires long oOntinuess
practice % eaabie even the brightest
fellow To Juggle with plates, bottles.
knives, rinEz. etc. bat u 10 3 stu ns0rs
difficult matter 10 balance different OBJ
Jects and lrggle a. ths saue time
Chicago Times.