The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-05-17

VINO VIII nave TO get another pair OF
trousers, it is thought
Newark has one wonderful feature.
1t consists of an ancient fertilization and
numerous Indian mounds of uncertain
age. The fertilization must be many
| centuries old, as there are trees growing
| IN the embankment and in the moat
which are several hundred years old, no
doubt. inside the fortress there is now
a race track. and the whole is used as an
Enclosure for fair ground or agricul-
tural exhibit each year.
Some think that this fort is the work
of the Aztecs. OF course ne one can tell
| accurately, though a great many scien-
! tific men come here, look wise and go
away to write the whole thing up and
settle it for all time presume | have
just as good right to my theory as any
one else. am the author Of the Aztec
theory. | have made study of the
Aztec people, and the MonteZuma family
Is as familiar to me as my own.
My theory is that the Aztecs once
owned and operated the entire country
now known as the United States, but
yielding to the false and wicked Bland
lshments of free silver they at last We're
driven to poverty and shame, and gave
up one after another the different states
called doubtful till at last they were
driven to Mexico and were succeeded by
POcahontas and Columbus.
The Aztecs obtained a good many
good ideas from the Toltecs, some say,
before they went to Mexico, and others
after. At any rate, they were well ad-
vanced III some Of the arts and sciences,
though they were idolatrous and often
sacrificed human beings to their gods.
Here they also used very poor Judgment.
Ii instead OF Offering up their most at
tractlve young people, girls especially,
they had used the politicians as far as
they would go, the Aztecs would have
been on deck today no doubt and the
Montezumas would have been giving
pink teas on Pennsylvania avenue.
1t is estimated that the Aztecs sacri-
feed over twenty thousand people annu-
ally to their gods, notwithstanding the
fact that these gods had repeatedly
shown their total inability to attend to
things. History tells nowhere of a more
inadequate set of gods than those en-
ployed and paid by the Aztecs. The
Aztec god was also complete artistic
failure, being excessively plain. He was
also very unsuccessful socially. All that
he could do successfully was to accept
the bleeding sacrifice of innocent school
children, look pleasant and scare the
farm horses.
The fortress near Newark is only one
of several peculiar earthworks regard
ing which we have no authentic history
They may have been erected by the
Aztecs, the Toltecs or the Woodtecs.
No man can tell. Only few have tried
to do so, and they did not know.
Newark has the most desirable jail in
the state Of Ohio, and possibly in the
United States. 1t is built of cut stone,
In a modern and artistic manner, with a
beautiful porch, handsome lawns around
it, and in every way resembles the dwell
ing Of wealthy merchant instead of the
calaboose Of a city.
Criminals come here for hundreds of
miles to be incarcerated. Men contem-
plating crime try to arrange it SO that
the otfense may be committed in Newark
and themselves also. 1t is certainly one
of the most neat and attractive jails that |
have ever seen, and | have made jail
life close study for years. While in
France l visited a facsimile of the old
Bastile, which had been reconstructed |
exactly by a French architect.
The Bastile was built in 1870 by |
Charles V. 1t was the state prison. The
stones of the old Bastile are now used in
paving the streets at the forks Of the
road in Paris, called the Place de la |
Bastile, or where the Place runs into one
the Rues. Paris is the greatest town for
Rues that have ever seen.