The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-01
HoHRIBLY BUTCHERED.

Yes. that's the word for such a crime,
the word murdered sinks into innocuous
| imbecility. We. and when we write "we''
no occasional popinjay, no ambitious fly
! up-the-creek, nor sub reporter nor regular,
nor assistant great or small is meant, but
| the editor only, the individual alone re-
sponsble himself, sui generis, and no
/ body else. Well. 1--WE" wrote for yester-
| day mornings local page what we consid
cred very fair, not TO say discriminating
and meritorious note OF Rev. Eugene
r. Shippeu's Sunday morning discourse,
! after which we went home TO sleep the
sleep of the just, or rather, went down
to the opera house for study of genius as
radiated by Burbank. Our readers can
imagine-no, they can't, either; for Bill
Nye himself couldn't halfway imagine
the volume nor the density Of the wave of
disgust which ruthlessiy surged through
our tense nerve centers on picking up from
beside our plate of hot buckvheats yester
day mornings EAGLE, and for the first
time became cognzant of the way our
rounded little notice Of Phillips Brooks
and his worthy eulogist had been butch
cred had been perverted, debased,
Knocked and ravaged None but the
brain manipulation can realize the
hurt, the Generalization, the mutilated
stab, the mangied wound, the ham-strung
g-pan-fat-in-the-fire bitterness that
rends the eye of the cosmopolite uniIica-
ton whose business it is TO construct
ideals for the world, to find that his crea-
tions have been raped by ignorance. No
writer yet born has ever attempted a de-
lineation OF this one colossal agony to
which journalists alone are subjected.
The carpenter who should fad that his
workmen had built the house upside
down, standing on the roof with its cellar
in the air; the shoemaker whose assistant
should nail the heel on the toe end of the
boot; the horse breeder who should find
the head grown out of the tail-end Of
his fancy-bred colt; the miller who had
sold his best customer bran for ten X
flour; the grocer who finds sand in his
sugar all may, IN their respective lines,
suffer some, but nothing to compare with
what the I'VE" OF every newspaper must
endure. To particularze or specify: In
the article alluded to they got it Phillip
instead OF Phillips Brooks; they made the
Unitarian church ''orthodoX" instead of
unortbOdOX, as I'VE" wrote it. Where
I'VE" alluded to the "bsnison of loving
son" they got it living and so on aud SO
on, and worse aud more Of it. In the first
place Eve" didn't suppose that there was
TO be found a compositor between
Wichita and Zanzibar or Tangiers
who didn't know that the
distinctive thing about the Unitarian
church was its "doxy''; that thers could
be such a thing as prootreader in Amer
lea who didn't know how TO spell Bishop
Brooks name, or that anybody should
suspicion Shippen OF being anything other
than live man. OF course the offending
jumped the Office and the !
remiss proof-reader skipped the town.
But that does not appease our wrath, and |
we will, all the same for ourself and in the |
interest of the noble kidney of which "we' |
are one pay biz reward for either or both |
the Iecalcitrant wretches, dead or alive.