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The morning call., 1892-12-25
A CHRISTMAS CAROL.


Three oamsels in the queens chamber
The Gseen's mouth was most fair;
She spahe word OF GODS mother
Mary that is of might,
Bring Us to thy Sons sight.
They held the gold comb out from her.
spans length off her head;
ID she sang ms song Of Gods mother
Mary most full OF grace.
Bring US to thy Sons face.
Christ was born upon this wise,
II fell on such night.
Neither with sounds or psalteries,
Nor with fire for light
Mary that is Gods spouse.
Bring us to thy Sons house..
The star came out upon the east
with great sound and sweet:
Kings gave gold 10 make him feast
And myrrh for him to eat
Mary, OF thy sweet mood.
Bring us to thy Sons gooo.
chad two landmarks at his head,
.One handmade at his feet;
me r 5wa .s,s OF them were fair and red.
Mary that is most wise.
Bring us TO thy Sens eyes. Amen.
Twenty years and more ago Swinburne
was abused beyond measure and In a most
senseless way. His London publisher took
pains to make great noise about refusing
to longer publish his works. and many fool
ish and weak minded reformers tried to ex-
plot their purity by pointing out impurities
In this great poet.
You can find folly in Swipburne IL you
hunt industriously. but not fasenood. You
can find slugs and other ugly worms in the
earth of every 1ower-pot in your conserva-
tory il you are willing to turn The pot upside
down and dig up the roots and pour the dirt
out on the floor. But my way is to let the
dirt alone and enjoy the rose in the pot I
have not time to hunt tor the dirt or the
slugs in the dirt. Nor should any decent
man or woman have time to hunt for ugly
things in this book or any other book.
For myself am thankful there Is such q
man. / have known him long and love
him WELL and, il it is anybody's business, I
think he Is about the purest and gentlest
man in word and deed i ever associated
with. / have heard men say, men who
knew him intimately. that they believe he
never kissed any woman in his life, except
his mother, but l hope this Is not entirely
true.
recall some pleasant doings and diyinely
sweet and wise sayings of this great poet.
But he still lives; and an Englshman's
home is as truly his castle to-day as it was
In the days of the Conqueror. And so how.
ever much you may desire TO enter we draw
rein here and camp by the castle moat.
JOAQUIN MILLER
The morning call., 1892-12-25
DEDICATION.

The sea gives her shells to the single
The earth gives her streams to the sea;
They are many, but my gift is single.
My verses. the first fruits of me
Let the wind take the green and the gray leaf \
Cast forth without fruit upon air:
Take rose-leaf and vine leaf and pay-leaf
Blown loose from the hair
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
THINK OF THIS.

The following from the Atchison
Champion was written with special re-
ference to that city, but it finds its
counterpart in this, and almost every
other city and town in the land. The
truths and admonitions are so timely
and pertinent that We give it place,
further comment being unnecessary:
"There is nuisance in this town sub
ject to severe criticism. We refer to
crowds of boys from to IA years of age
who are found congregated at certain
corners at late hour at night. Do their
parents know where they are? Do they
know of their conduct? Do they know
that a street loafing boy seldom makes a
good citizen? Do they realize that in the
Kansas penitentiary over so per cent of
the inmates were sent there under %
years of age, and that one convict out of
every four was sent there under 81 years
of age? Do they reflect that the boy of
the street is afterwBrd the youth in the
Jail or the man in the prison2
''There is no good reason why boys of
tender years should be street loafers.
There are cogent reasons why they
should not. God pity the boy without
home, and may He have mercy on the
parents who, for any cause, drive their
sons into the streets. Street loafing is
not only nuisance to passerby, but it
is positive injury to the boys them
selves. Street life in town after dark
has bred many hands for idleness and
opened the portals leading to life of
crime. There are parents in Atchison
who ought to think of this"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
Ths ai1hila aiu gaer snnaay aorunu etober 80 1882
TEE PRESIDENTS LETTER.

The ringing sentences of General Har-
rison's letter are still being quoted. It's
logic no less than its grand rhetoric will
not soon be forgotten. There is in it not
only history beauty and pathos, and his
reference to the Union soldier has never
been surpassed. It would be impossible
to conceive how anything could be in
better taste. It deserves to be en-
bIazoned over the door of every soldiers
home. Here are the words again:
1.-THE Union soldiers and sailors are
now veterans of time as well as of war.
The parallels of age have approached
close to the citadels of life, and the end
for each of a brave and honorable strug-
gle is not remote. Increasing infirmity
and years give the minor tones of sad
ness and pathos to the mighty appeal of
service and suffering. The ear that does
not listen with sympathy and the heart
that does not respond with generosity,
are the ear and heart Of an alien, and
not of an American. Now soon again
the surviving veterans are to parade
upon the great avenues of the national
capital, and every tribute of honor and
love should attend the march. A COM
rade in the column of the victors' parade
of 1865, am not less comrade now"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
THE SENATORSHIP,

Ed. OBryan is masquerading over
this county as friend of the people.
and especially of the Germans, AS a
Democrat he was nominated but to Sc
cure the votes of the Peoples party, he
agreed to surrender his Democratic
principles, and vote in the senate with
the Peoples party on all questions.
There is no danger of his election, but
if elected whose man will he be? A
Peoples party man? A Democrat or an
independent? The following is clipped
from the Cheney Herald of this week:
SIN his speech at Garden Plain on last
Friday night O'Bryan. it is said, stated
that the Republicans were buying sauer
kraut by the barrel in order to buy the
German vote. My German friends, how
do you like such talk? OBryan wants
your votes. Will you vote for man
who claims that you can be influenced
by sauer kraut? We think you will not. u
Ed. O'Bryan is pledged to vote for a
Peoples party candidate for United
States senator, he has two votes for
United States senator. Being elected
for four years, at the coming session, he
has vote for a successor to Senator
Perkins. At the following session he
has a vote for the successor to the term
of the late Senator Plumb. Does any
business man of the city desire the rum
ming mate of Senator PETER elected to
the United States senate to represent
Kopsoeo And IN coca IF larry Simp cop' q
defeat, which by the way is now fore
gone conclusion, is there any business
man in Wichita in favor of the election
of Jerry Simpson to the United States
senate? Now is the time to restore the
credit of Kansas, and no Office on the
Republican ticket is of greater import
ance to the business men of Wichita,
and Sedgwick county than the office of
state senator,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
SUPPOSED

From tbs Aschssoa Champion.
All who read Judge Horizons admir-
able dedication address in Tuesday,
Champion were struck with ITS spirit OF
hopefuiness and courage. Suppose Mr.
R,ghtmire. o. Mr.. PETER. or Nr. Sinp-
son had been invited 10 deliver the adj
dress dedicaiisg the Kansas building at
Chicago. Imagine Nightmare telling
that audience IN that splendid building
that Kansas was mortgaged more than
she is worth imagine Ar. PETER say
ing on tnat OCCASION. IN u building con-
slructsd by Kansas rnen, with
Kansas money Contributed ~ Kan
ss.s people. that we are On The
verge Of moral ard material
ruin = Imagine Dir. Simpson trying 10
convince THAI audience that Kansas men
are rufiians, that Kansas women sell
their virtue and that Kansas cAiidsen are
Eeggsrsi
Kansas prosperity and thrift ~i.l he
represented IL tie Columbian exEpsI:.osa.
The Rlgntn7sres. PETERS and >smIscss
viii feel as nnnch olst % place there :.
so.f III The midst Of = pariesr. The poor
wolf could hcwi 10 ~ hearts content 10
he sure bat Ire would nsa lie q good
pafisr VISITOR or cFetsfaasse friend Of
tie family. CALAMITY talk sousd sos
be . esetisssisie friend .. the Kansas
family al Chicago ~ elsewhere.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

THE PERSECUTION OF FACTS.

Simpsons henchmen have been indus
triously striving to create the impression
that Hon Chester I. Long is making his
campaign one of personal abuse and de-
famation of his opponent. The EAGLE
has published synopses of Mr.. Longs
speeches almost every day since he com.
menced the active work of the campaign,
and reference to these will show that Mr..
Long scarcely made reference, by name,
to Mr.. Simpson until within the past
ten Gays. Mr.. Long has been giving
some attention to Jerry the last few
days, but he has confined himself to
Jerry's public record and public declara-
tons, Here is fair sample of Mr..
Longs "denunciations, taken from his
speech at Bucklin last Tuesday night:
At last my neighbor seems to be in favor
of protection, and has supplanted his glee
club with body guard. But am of the
opiIion that my opponent more fears the
ballots of an outraged constituency and a
maligned people than the bullets of assas-
sins of the character of his esteemed
friends, the Daltops. He need not fear for
the safety of free speech in free and en-
| lighiened Kansas, however much he may
have reason 10 fear that his party may suf-
fer the same political ruin in Kansas that
has oyer,aken it in Georgia aud the other
states OF the sunny south.
1t is too late now for Jerry to play the
baby act successfully. The role of the
clown served him well two. years ago,
but fummery and foolishness don't
count this year. 1t is a matter of BUSH
ness that engages the serious attention
of the people now: they are engaged in
righting the wrongs that have been per-
petrated against them. their district and
state by the sianderous misrepresenta-
tons put upon them by this apostle of
calamity and his satellites. If 10 do this
to quote his and their own acts and
words. be denunciation. then Mr. Long
has been guilty as charged. and his
party and all right thinking people APP
plaud him for it.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
HIS EXCUSES ARE LIKE HIMSELF.

Poor unfortunate Jerry! Had Mrs.
Hadley's pension claim reached him in
time he would have attended to it, and
thus scored the first and only act in the
interest of his constituents in his con-
gressional career. But it came too late,
congress was on the eve of adjourning
and nothing could be done. BY the way
just why the Hadley claim was not
turned over to his pension partner is
something of mystery. 1t is notorious
that all pension matters that have been
sent Jerry, have been turned over to a
certain Washington pension shark, who
puts up to Jerry for all business given
him. Thus Jerry is enabled to give
more time to his bicycle and increase his
income at the same time. Such course
is, however, considered by all
high minded congressman un-
fair to local attorneys and agents
and Sinking his plain dnty. Jerry's
course in this matter is in keeping with
all his acts in congress even to taking one
sixth of the Henry George pamphlet and
injecting it into his speech, which saved
Jerry the time and trouble of writing q
speech and allowed him to advocate a
scheme that is in vogue in India, siberia
and Egypt and no other country in the
world. If the people of the Seventh
district desire 10 emulate those countries
made up of serfs and peasants they
should vote for Jerry. The records are
against him; his sentiments are unAmer-
lean, and the man who places bandits
like the Dalton boys on par with the
business men of Kansas is unsafe in any
public position and will bear watching
in private life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
For the Eacls
THE JERRY PLOT.

The man who wrote those letters
Concernin Jerry's KILN,
Had better go shoot man or two
Before he plays the villain.
Are Kansas roughs SO thick and greeni
For pity, don't tell it abroad
1t reflects on us that villains
Are not run i'm by the squad.
Says one Of these murderers to the other:
Dear sir, please kill j. Socks"
After mailing this letter he says IN the next:
BE wary as fox.r
1--WE mustn't discuss this thro' the mail;
Do you know where Jerry is at2'
You'll never find out who am
Stick pin through that!'
Jake and are as slick as grease.
Wa do all our murders proxy,
This order will pass ten hands and towns
And then-O, where is soxy?'
Ugh! I'm villain, I'm Matching my ploti
I'm going to do some thugging,
That is the close mouthed headwork,
But you must do the plugging"
Were the founder of s'populism"
And they laid plot so thick,
Expecting folks to believe it,
think it would make me sick.
Have they NO eternal fitness of thincs?"
They hunted their party thro',
To find ''goody" man to plan 81
A Republican murder or two.
When any their Demo-leaders
Could have done that epistle part,
So natural that even Republicans
Would have given . start.
As it Is it's so soft and fiimsy,
'Tis nought but mud-finging lies,
Which infants catch and carry homo
To make their dolls mud pics.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
5. 81. MOVES & GO.

case is now before the district court Of
Logan county. Payne was deputy mar
shall OF the class known as legal sooners,
and having been defeated in The land de-
partment. he now goes into court aud asks
fer q conveyance in trust Judge Green
informs the Gazette that the
famous Smith-Townsspd case will
in all probability come up for con-
sideration before the United States su-
preme court sometime in january next.
as strong pressure has been brought TO
bear to have the case made special owing
10 the vast interest involved. Every men,
her Of the supreme court OF the territory,
the governor and attorney general Of the
United States have urged the importance
Of immediate consideration OF the case.
This case involves all the phases OF soon-
erism, = decision OF which will finally
settle and determine ali the questions In
VOWED. Judge Green ia assisted Ia this
case by Ex-Attorney General Garland and
the other side will be represented By At
torney General Miller. II is to 10 hoped
that an early decision will be reached, rs
the vexasions litigations which il 1T prss-
ent retardiug and impoverishinG the
country may be to . great extent done
away with.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

The lightning change act of Shipper.
ing Simpson calls to mind the poetic
axiom of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, which
runs like this:
Laugh. and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
Two years ago Simpson made his cam
paign on the line of a comic opera, and
he captured the crowd. He tried it
again at the beginning of this campaign
but he at once discovered that that
scheme could not be worked a second
time. Now he undertakes to create a
feeling of sympathy by posing as a mar
tyr: he weeps copious tears over the
calamitous condition of this people and
his own "cruel misuse by his enemies;"
but it is all without effect and will avail
nothing. Everybody knows that he is
reaping what no has sown and he will
appear as the lone mourner at the grave
of his personal ambition, the victim of
misapplied endeavors and lost oppor-
tunitiqS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
SIMPSONS SIZE.

What did Jerry Simpson ever do for
Kansas save SANDER it and its people?
And what did Leweliing, his tool, ever
do? Why don't somebody tell us?
Simpson is sensational or nothing. He
has not either in his speeches or in con-
gress advanced single solid idea. He
is an cratic ranter who deals only in
vagaries. His sense is without depth or
compass, mere frenzied cuteness. In
prudence, foresight, experience or other
qualifications of the safe statesman he is
wholly wanting. and it is neither ra-
tional nor judicious to make him rep
resentative of wide awake, solid and
enterprising people who will inevitably
be measured by the world as belonging
to the Jerry standard should he be re-
elected,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
A LITTLE TOO DRAMATIC.
From the Kansas City Times Democratic.

From the Kansas City Times democratic.
Jerry Simpsons committee has allowed
the publication of rank absurdity. No
| normal mind can imagine a reason for
fearing an assassination of the sitting
congressman from the Seventh district.
Jerry may have few enemies on the
books of Medicine Lodges former mar
shall. The immunity of all this long time
lessons the probability of their being
dangerous.
The public will not believe that Jerry's
death is longed for enough to lead to the
spending of much money in hiring des-
peradoes.
If the congressman's committee has q
sense of responsibility it would not have
pu. out this story unless the proof had
been clear.
East of us the untraveled provincials
are still gullible when there are stories
of wild western doings afioat. Jerry's
committee NAV do as much harm to
Southwestern Kansas as tine Republican
newspapers and politicians have done to
Missouri.
A congressional candidate with body
guard would be a new and very unpleas
ant spectacle in American politics. Done
as theatrical performance it would be
caricature. Even if there were little
danger, Americans would rather vote
for man who has nerve enough to 60
right ahead and face the music.
II the congressional committee has
proof enough to justify the publication,
it has enough to put somebody under al
rest, or at least under bond for keeping
the peace.
Kansas is able to protecy Jerry Simp-
son or anybody else. A private body
guard would be as appropriate for the
governor or country school super
intendent as for the Honorable Jeremiah
Simpson.
The Peoples party congressional COM
mittee in the Seventh Kansas district
should pause aud reflect, as great bodies
are supposed to do before they go into
strange new policy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
tunities.

The increasing demand for farm lands
throughout Kansas, both for purchase
and for rent, is one of the best substan-
tial auguries in favor Of the success of
the Republican party in this state next
month. 1t is needless to repeat that
there would be no such inquiry if the
prospect for success was in favor of the
calamity combine. Every body knows
that the full restoration of the Republi-
can party to control in the state will re-
store confidence and bring 10 the state
and its people full tide of prosperity.
This being assured, confiden ce is already
returning and the era of prosperity has
set in. Keep the ball arolling by making
the Republican majority as big as pos
sible
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
-----------------------------
OKLAHOMA OUtLfNE S.

A vein Of ore containing silver and lead
is said to have been discovered at Se2er, In
the eastern part Of county II.
The Oklahoma City Gazette says the in.
dications now are that Flynn's majority
There will be no harm in making it huge
A petition is being circulated in Guthrie
for the establishment of mail routs be
tween that city and Gushing, and tho
News says 1t is rapidly receiving the sig
natures of citizens.
Arapahoe Arrow: More people have
come into county G the past week than AZ
any time since the opening. The six
months probation has about expired In
most Cases aud the rush is now on. Many
are also seeking locations, and the class OF
people is exceptionally good.
The Times-Journal excuses itself for
saying tina, S. L. Denpison, living four
miles northwest OF the city, has . pie
melon vine growing on his piacs that Is
by actual measurement 4 IA feet long and
10 still growiIg On il are an even hum
bred melons, nearly all Of them the aver
age size. The vine Is 8 inches in cfrcum-
ference where it comes out Of tho ground.
The Denver, Oklahoma aud Gulf rail-
way was granted a charter BY Secretary
Martin the first Of the week, and the
Guthrie News claims the road will be
built at ouce. This line will cross the
territory. coming from Fort Smith. Ark.
and will probably pass through Ia Reno.
The iDeorporators srs principally eastern
capitalists, The capital stock Is placed at
s.. O0o. 60
The new United States district conrt
room in EiRsao il being newly furnished
and every preparation Is being made for
the converting Of court on Monday. My.
18th, at which time Judge Burford will
begin TO hear the complaints and grisy-
ancss Of an unusually large number OF
litsgants- The Eagle says there are ever
900 csses on the docket and the indications
are that court will remain In session for
several weeks
Okiabou,s City Gazette Judge Amos
Green ~ in receipt of an argument in the
case OF Ransom Payne sgssinst the board
OF town site trustees OF Esst Gnfhyie,
written by United States Senator John w.
Daniels Of Virginia, which ~ very con-.
pleie and conclusive IA the shossns made
OF the claims OF legal soonerisrn. Tsis
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

Napoleon once remarked of a certain
ambassador, "He is a good diplomat.
He lies we'll" The Winfield Courier
thinks this praise cannot be awarded the
inventor of the Simpson assassination
fake. 1t is clumsily constructed fable
and shows little fertility of invention.
In this connection we take occasion to
remark that although the fake was
made public under a Wichita date it
was not the work of "the Wichita liar"
Audacious as he is he never does his
work so bunglingly as that. The origin
of the fake lies between Simpsons own
sluggish imagination and Kansas City,
Mo-, fake amateurs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

The people know good thing when
they see it. They see prosperity under
Republican management and, although
they are busy, they keep up "a powerful
lot o thinkin'" and will let their think
ing tell through their ballots in Novem-
Der. And it is evident that the majority
of the people think the country is decid-
eddy we'll off under Harrison and need
no change-certainly no change which
means the bringing TO the front of a
party unsound in its financial and prey
30 vapid and exploded economic theories.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

Since her last little pop-off at some
small town in Iowa, in which she was
pleased to include President Harrison in
aer description against Cleveland and the
Democracy, Mrs. Lease has been lost to
the public view. To such as may be
curious to know "whe-e she is at will
state that she is announced to bob up in
Omaha tomorrow night.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30

Mayor Honey, Democrat, was de-
fea,ed FOR reelection at Newport. L. J.,
Thursday by i6 out of a total of 3.7S0.
The Republicans secured control of both
branches of the council and will have
full control OF the city government. the
first time in manv wears
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-10-30
They Said NO. . Word.

From tie 81 Dorado Esprbsicxa-
Senator Perkins, during his speech in
this city iass week, asked II there ~ss nm
ex-union soldier . in the house who
would vote for 5. q. Fissds. the Peoples
party nominee for vice president and ths
man who SAYS he 10 glad thai he killed
- masy Yankees and - rouy tissy
didnt kill more Of tbssn ~ they could
esiabisst, slavery ia the north, There
~ere q lew Peoples party ez-union sob
dsers present bu, nos one Of them said a
wosd. The question Is who srs th~y 60
ing to sois for or are they ashamed 70
acsnsw ledge that ttssy are going 70 cup
port their escdsiSts fss wee prsstdsa-