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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-12

WOMAN ON A WHEEL.
Fielding Considers the Nature Of
the Female Cyclist.
Why II It That She VIII Ron Over q
Pedestrian As If It Was Her Duty?-
Some Facts Collected On the
Boulevard.
-IcoPYR1GHr 1889. |

It was in the edge of the evening
that Mr.. Jonas Thompson stepped on,
upon the boulevard. Mr.. Thompson
has reached the age when men begin
to talk about the wonderful eyesight
tshey had in their youth, in the days
when they could distinguish red apples
from green ones on their neighbors
trees in the blacklist midnight. / had
been walllingwith Mr.. Thompson but,
my attention being arrested by the
great number OF lights flashing about
On the boulevard, 1 had fallen pace
or two behind. He turned to speak to
me, and at that moment a bicycle
struck him on. his extreme northwest
ern frontier, as he stood facing south
east, and he sat down on his stomach
with his rose in the dust. A
lady, alightIng somewhat hurried
IL from the bicycle, stepped on the
back of his head, and slid gracefully
from that baldyand shining surface to
The ground.
Good evening, Mr.. Thompson said
feet How is Mrs. Thompson?"
well the que tion is, how am I?''
rejoined Jonas- busting the knees Of
his pantSloons with one hand, while
with the other he endeavored to re-
store his nose to its proper position in
the middle of his scountenance
| do not contend that my friends re-
soindler was in strict accord with the
forms and usagest of society, but de-
Sire to apologize for him; while it has
become quite common to meet lady
in this way on the boulevard, of an
evening, the appropriate etiquette has
not yet been Formulated by social au-
thorities. The Instincts of gentle
man. however. should be his unfailing
guide. ] stepped forward.
Permit me tolIcpe. madam" said I,
that you have not injured your
wheel
81 think one of the spokes is pretty
badly bent" she said, severely, look
Ing atJonas.
''Spoises.' cried he, and with diff
guilty laid his hand upon his spine.
'Allow me to straighten,it," said I,
politely.
"No use" said Jonas. rubbing his
back; sit can't be done"
But / was already busy with the
wheel.
pardon me-" said the lady, 'but
you don't seem to know much about a
bicycle"
NO, madam said I. humbly; 'my
parents taught me to read and write,
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theoretical masterpieces evolved by
this great mind whose philosophical
gifts equaled his imaginative one-has
happily denominated stories of analysis
novels of idea," signifying there
by that their authors were above
all concerned with the phenom-
ena of inner life-the interior men
tai and spiritual existence of men
as distinguished from their ex-
terror lives. Even here, however.
there is something vague, for this
term novel of idea'' Tor of mental
phenomenal would seem to be equally
applicable to what we call in French the
livre these. However, it is the older
expression, the one with which Sainte-
Beuve was satisfied. seems to me the
most accurate, especially as it places
this sort of books in the series of CORE
spending works in other departments
of literature. This is, for instance. a
drama of analysis, of which Racine in
tragedy and Mariveaux in comedy. to
cite only classics, are masters. There
is also the poetry of analysis, which
has been produced by this very Sainte-
Beuve in his admirable Joseph
Delorme," by Baudelaire and by Sully
Prudhomme. There are even autobiog-
raphies of analysis, among which the
Confessions" of st. Augustine are
the venerated type and the "Sou-
venirs" of NJ. Renan form the sa-
tirical kind. All these works possess
the common characteristic of being
especially devoted to the recording of
the little facts of consciousness in the
psychological sense, the ensemble of
which is manifested exteriorallv in
the shape of passion, determined will
and definite action. The intellects of
these writers, very unequal and very
diverse though they are. seem alike en-
dowed with the faculty of reflective
analysis, permitting them all to see in
minute detail the entire hidden opera
ton of mental processes. Perhaps the
revelation, the unmaskiEg of these OBJ
scure recesses of the mind, interests
them more than the results of what
tranSpires within these recesses The
Ginning of the clock receives less Of
their attention than does the action of
the mechanism which has brought
about the Ginning. 1t is in the dis
secting of the phenomena of moral and
sentimental manifesto tons that they
excel in and delight US without even
wishing it-liAe the great African pre-
late whose sole desire was to humble
himself in expiation of sinful past.
and not to astonish worldly readers
with the subtlety Of his menta, proc
eSses.
From q purely aesthetic point of
view the opponents of the amlvtical
novel of passion seem above all con-
Tinced that the various qualities which
give to fictitious narrative the at
Of reality are irreconcilable
with accurate analysis They reason
about Ike this: You pretend to de
oict passion. Now the primary at
.ribute of the passions is 10 render out
If the Question on the part of those
whom they dominate any psycholoy-
cal analysis of self. 4 Ilan who real |
y loves thinks of the object of his pas
ion aud not Of that passion itself II |
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was often said to psychologists OF the
school of Jorffroy, and it can be said
with even greater truth to psTchol-
ogists of fiction: we do not stand at
the window to see ourselves pass by in
the street. When you set forth so
minutely the conditions of mind and
soul which lead up to the actions of
your characters you substitute your
self for them without perceiving it,
| since you depict in them that which
| they themselves can neither declare
nor discern. Life is made up of a semi
! obscurity, SO to speak, of heart. a dumb
| and unceasing action of blind instinct,
a spasnodic self-assertion and spon-
| tancity of movement incompatible
with that mental anatomy that is your
end and method. For everything that
one dissects is dead"
/ do not suppose have lessened the
force of the objection in formulating
it. 1t is very specious. Its great defect
is its applicability to every form of lit
erary expression as well as to the
analytical process. A writer of the
impersonal school-Flaubert, for in
stance, as the least indisputable Of all
depicts scenery as background for
the actions of his characters, Nine.
Bovary and Frederic Moreau. Does he
not exhibit this scenery as he sees it
with his artists eye? Would it have
been possible for HIM, except in the
widest hypothetical case, to have mar
rated anything but that which had
actually come under the notice of the
young man and the young woman?
Every narrative of an external circu1n-
stance is never anything else than the
transcript of the impression produced
upon ourselves by that circumstance,
and invariably degree of Individual
Interpretation is insinuated into every
picture, real or imaginary. however
it may be- It is indeed the
effectiveness Of this degree Of indvid-
ual Interpretation which is the meas
ure OF the success of every artist who
aims at presenting an undistorted
picture of things as they are. Let us
even admit that all subjects are not
equally worthy Of being treated
and that all characters are not equally
desirable as subjects for treatment in
the novel of analysis. But does the
factsthat an evident limit in this re-
spect exists render advisable the ex-
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THE FIRST PURiTANS.
Few in Numbers, bat Dangerous, Desper-
ate, Determined Men.

\
| ate, Determined Men.
have in my possession detailed &c
| count of the temper of parties in En-
gland, drawn up in the year 1885, three
| years before the Armada came. The
writer was distinguished Jesuit. The
account itself was prepared for the use
| OF the pope and Philip, with special
view to the reception which an invad-
ing force would meet with, and it goes
into great detail. The people of the
towns-London, Bristol, etc.-were, he
says. generally heretics. The peers,
the gentry, their tenants, and peas
antry, who formed the immese MAORI
ty Of the population, We're almost uni
versally Catholics. But the writer dis
tinguishes properly among Catholics
There were the ardent, imprisoned
Catholics, ready to be confessors and
martyrs, ready to rebel at the
first opportunity, who had re-
nounced their allegiance. who de-
sired to overthrow Eliza beth and put
the queen of Scots in her place. The
number of these, he says, was daily in
creasing, owing to the exertions of the
seminary priests; and plots, he boasts,
were being continually formed by
them to murder the queen. There
were Catholics of another sort, who
were papal at heart. but went with the
times to save their property; who
looked forward to a change in the
natural order of things. but would not
stir OF themselves till an invading army
actually appeared But all alike, he
insists, were eager for revolution
Let the prince of Parma come, and
they would all join him: and together
these two classes of Catholics made
three-fourths of the nation
THE only party" he says land this
is really noticeable), 1.-The only party
that would fight to death for the
queen, the only real friends she had
were the Puritans lit is the first men
ton OF the name which l have foundl,
the Puritans of London, the Puritans
OF the sea towns" These, he admits,
were dangerous, desperate, determined
men. The numbers of them, however,
were providentially small
The date of this document is. as
said, 1855, and l believe it generally
accurate. The only mistake is that
among the Anglican Catholics there
were a few to whom their country was
as dear as their creed-a few who we're
to see that under the act of
Catholic doctrine might be
taught and Catholic ritual practiced;
who adhered to the old forms of re-
ligion, but did not believe that obe-
tience to the pope was a necessary
part of them. One of these was Lord
Howard of bingham, whom the
queen placed in his high command to
secure the wavering fidelity of the
peers and country gentlemen. But the
force, the fire, the enthusiasm came
as the Jesuit saw from the Puritans.
rom men of the same convictions as
he Calvinists of Holland and Rochelle: |
men who, driven from the land, took /
o the ocean as their natural home. /
md nUrsed the reformation in an /
ocean cradle.-J. A. Froude, in Long, |
mans Magazine.
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Ant was always backward in the
higher Branches"
''Oh. hereis Mr.. Wheeler" she cried,
md ste pped in front of cyclist SO
suddenly tkasa, 1 could hear his heart
leap up and Ehump the roots of his
tongue. He turned sharply to the
right, in ordertnot to cut the lady in
two, and just then person in bifur-
rated costume. coming rapidly along
on q bicycle, ransover Mr.. Wheeler and
proceeded on his or her course down
the boulevard.
I've been!in a lsmash-up, Mr.. Wheel
Err said the lady, land l want you to
straighten out'myswheel."
Mr.. Wheeler tied handkerchief
diagonally across-oneof his eyes, which
seemed to be rapidly swelling, and APP
preached the lady's bicycle. Mean
while Mr.. Thompson had found some
court plaster in his pocket, and he was
decorating his fnce with it as / turned
TO him. borrowed a piece of the
court plaster, having torn my hand
upon corner ofsthe bicycle. The lady
was unhurt-
is there any respect in which / can
be OF service to y,2u?" asked. stepping
out into the street. The lady shook
her head. and | was about TO go upon
my way when I was aware of two
bicycles approaching side by side So
peculiar are the costumes of the riders
on the boulevard that at the first
glance could not tell whether these
were men or women. But the second
showed me that orc OF them was look
ing at her feet. and the other 1T the
constellation of the Great Bear in the
heavens behind her. Then knew that
they were women. and began to hear
harps.
Hope. however, springs eternal.
The space between them was Just four
inches. | saw that if [ stood stock
still. and neither of them changed her
course. a life of hard study and rigid
abstinence would carry ne through.
1t did, with half an inch to spare. If
j had had Jonas equatorial diameter
the prettiest woman in New York
would pe wearing black to-day.
THAT was a narrow escape" said
s-hS A'chAie. ~ 1AChk NiiS plStClc
which Wheeler was mendinC, for
those two wheels
Yes: was really seriously alarmed"
said !, for them"
That's Rita Carey on this side. too"
said the lady. We'll. it's the first time
she ever had a chance TO talk to a man
and permitted him to escape"
She turned toward Mr.. Wheeler
Jonas and lifted our hats with one
hand each and, taking our lives in the
other. proceeded across the boulevard.
Now, why in thunder is it," asked
Jonas. when we were alone. that
women on bicycles are so much more
bloodthirsty than men?"
SIS it fact?"
NO doubt OF Il. I've watched EN-
on this boulevard. A man will ride
recklessiy, perhaps, but he'll break his
necl, TO avoid a collision when il comes
to the scratch. But woman moves
on like the car of Juggernaut. Not
the hand OF destiny, by jingo, can turn
her aside.
"NaE leoh here be continued. /
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Tit for Tat,

Collector really can't understan nd
why you don't pay me my little bill.
You have never given me single cent.
Hostetter McGinnis-If time was not
money I'd explain It to you.
''Now you are giving me impudence. ="
well, you were complaining just
now that / hadn't given you anything.
You are always grumbling about moth.
ing"
You promised to pay me thres
months ago, and relied on you"
''Thats So"
"And you lied"
Precisely SO. lied on you and you
relied on me, so we are even. Good,
by."-Ta-as Siftings.
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cIusion of forbidden themes under given
circumstances? If life in certain
human beings and IN certain crises
manifests itself now as an instinct and
again as a spontaneous impulse it also
manifests itself in others through pine
nomena entirely different. 1t is life
none the less on that account. When
Phedre is consumed with criminal
desire he dare not acknowledge, when
Adolphe is torn by the contention be-
tween the fierce impulse of his I'M
bridled youth and his pity for Ellenore,
when Amaury at twenty-five hesitates
amid the suddenly revealed world of
action, between faith and love, when
Nine. de Mortsauf soothes the sorrow
of her stifed dreams in the sweetness
of an ever fatal and ever jealous
friendship, these people continue to
be human beings Notwithstanding
their emotional crises all have to do
with human life of which the novel of
analysis can alone depict the phases
and describe the complications. If
criticism were entirely just the first
question it would put with reference to
works OF this character would be:
Has the instrument been put to
proper use? And it would rejoice that
there is a restrained type of art
eficacious in spite of restraint when
treated by competent hand-to re-
produce the thousand silent and secret
tragedies Of the heart, to study the
rise, the climax and the wane of GER
tain irrepressible emotions, to recog-
nize and set forth exceptional situa-
lions. unusual characters-in fine. everv
detail OF an almost dangerous phase of
human nature. This is impossible to
the mere novel of morals and manners
or Roman de moeurs, as the French
have it. That species Of fiction. TO be
true TO itself. must avoid precisely this
domain OF the psychological and de-
velop its type of humanity through in
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. great gen.
erai laws by means OF particular in
stances This latter kind of fiction is
to the other what freseo is 10 por-
tralture- PAUL BoURGEE
The utmost reach of reason is TO
recognize what an infnlty OF things go
beyond it-Pascal
1t IS meet that breach of promise
cases should he heard in court house
Boston Transcript
If sunshine had to be paid for there
are people who would declare that cam
Gle light could beat it--Ram's Horn.
-fabsley-"Well. whats the latest
IN the racing lineo" Mudge-''The
horse ! bet OF usually--Indiana polls
Journal
-Gladys-Oh, dear. NJ. YounEtcl-
low, that bothersoEne shoe-string ot
mine has come united again Mr.. Young
fellow lsympatheticaliyj - has is2
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theory that the machine would stand
up by itself if she screamed at it loud
ly enough. Thus she developed her
voice without really gaining any prac-
teal command of the wheel.
HOWARD FIELDING.
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4 Questionable Conp,,m.r,

Oslcr-Can't you say one good thing
for him now that he is gone?
Patch-Well. he did get the start Of
me once in u horse t.-cdc.-Truth.
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Attorneys Pocket Docket.

The Lawyers wade Necum," can be used in any
State and in any court. The most complete and
convenient pocket docket published, with two
indexes-an alphabetical index ant diary index;
shows at glance just what date a lawyer has case
in court; keeps complete record of of the case
Handsomely bound in flexible back a convenient
size to carry in the pocket Endorsed by attorneys
everywhere. Price of Docket s1.00 By mail post
paid to any address upon receipt Of &107.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
CLUB GOSSIP.
Federal club.

The limit of time fixed by the Federal Club for
the members in arrears with their dues to pay
up was June IS. That night the committee
which is composed of the trustees of the club
met for the purpose of receiving the amounts
the mem bers owed the club. Colonel Sam Dick
jusop. Tom Mills and a number of others who are
more or less prominent in politics. sent checks
for the sums they were behind, and these per-
sons were continued in the club as In COCO
standing. A large majority of the delinquents,
however, failed to pay up. and il is probable that
the committee will recommend the CLUB to crop
shem from the list OF members. Such action
won Id decrease The membership more than one
half.
clubs finances is not the only thing that worries
the active members. The lease on the club
house expires in June. 1894, and 1t cannot be
renewed. The club must provide between now
and then suitable quarters aud 1t is feared that
the bad condition of the finances and the In
ternaI dissentions among members will prevent
That the active members are fully alive to
the critical condition of the club is shown by
the recent actions of August Kline. de has
urged that a complete and thor Ough reorgani-
cation of the Federal Club taks place. Some OF
the members refuse to listen to sucn a plan and
say that they have had already too much Kline
In the club.
Union League.
There will be but little amusement at the
Union League Club from now until fall Ine
only feature of q merry nature That will not be
laid away during the heated spell Is the Monday
night card games. Things may come and things
may go, but this card parties go on forever.
The members of the Union League CLUB
boasrfully claim that they have more lawyers
Of high standing, more doctors and merchants
on lhe membership list than any other CLUB OF
the same membership in the state.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17

OF heat. They found hat improper feeding
in the summer time was the principal cause
of the awful mortality in this climate A
perfect substitute for mothers milk had to
be made, an i~nfant-food that would be nour-
ishing and strengthening, that would fur
,nish material for blood n bone, that
would be easily assimilated and perfectly
digestable. Finally in lactated food was
secured the combination of the necessary
elements of pure. healthy mothers milk.
The efficacy and nutritive quality of lac
tated food is today acknowledged by every
one.
AS a preventive of cholera infantum it is
worth.more h all the medicines in the
world.
AS a strength-giver to growing infants
nothing can compare with it. AS a food
| that is easy to procure and prepare, and is
liked by the little ones themselves, too
much cannot be said for it.
1t has saved the lives of thousands of in
fants within the lasttew years. 1t has been
the food of hundreds of babies who have
never been sick. Above is the picture of
the one year old child of Mrs. Edward New
com of Logansport, Ind, which was received
the other day, accompanied by the follow
ing letter from Mrs. Newcom:
sour baby had to use artificial food on ac-
count of no nurse. We tried several differ
emit kinds of infant foods, but none agreed
with him until we commenced the use OF
laetated food. Now he is perfectly healthy.
We are still using the food and recommend
it to all our friends"
This is the experience of hundreds of
mothers every month, and the demand for
lactated food is today more than twice as
great as a year ago in consequence.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
ANNOYANCEs In THE PARKS.
An Anonymous Writer Asks for Suppress
sion of the Evil.

An Anonymous Writer Asks for Suppress
sion of the Evil.
Judge Lippincett today received an an
communication which he
handed to District Attorney Winfield.
The letter read as follows:-
To the Honorable Judge of Supreme Court:
HoNoRED SIR:-Please allow me to inform
YOU that in the North Hudson County parks,
TO wit; Schuetzen Park, Floral Park and Schaef-
eris Park there is such a disorder existing on
every Sunday since the opening OF the season
that no one of the visitors is safe from being
insulted or assaulted. Ladies and young girls
are IN great peril as soon as darkness sets in,
for the simple reason that there is not a sufh-
Gent number of watchmen or officers present
20 grant adequate security. we think that
there Is some one at the Dotlom
of this, which / would respectfully request Your
Honor to have the cause of the nuisance inves-
t:gated and removed. We are certainly entitled
to enjoy tine pleasure of a little excursion to one
of these parks, but instead of having a quiet
afternoon as 8 relief from hard labor during the
week, we find carousing. shooting and. ABOVE
all. general fighting going on IN any Oh tnese
parks.
have this ANNOYANCE removed, We are
Your obedient servants.
Citizens of the town of West Hoboken, Gutten-
berg, etc.
After reading this letter District At
uorney Winfield remarked that he seldom
paid any attention to Anonymous cotn-
munlcAtions. He added that il the writer
would personally make a proper com
plaint to him, that the alleged disregard
for the law would be stopped.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-17
H0BOKEN HIGH SCHOOL.
List of Graduates and the Percentages
They Reached.

List of Graduates and the Percentages
They Reached.
A special meeting OF the members of
Hoboken Board of School Trustees was
held last night to receive the report OF
the Committee on High School Exami-
nations. The committee consists OF
Messrs. Reid, Hess aud Sanford. There
were IWenLy-four scholars In the class.
Seventeen received oyer so per cent,
i've over % per cent. and two below that.
The manual requires that in order TO
graduate from the High School a scholar
must have an average of at least &c per
cent. After some discussion last night
the Trustees decided to set aside the
manual provisions, and allow the i've
who receive rs per cent. to graduate with
the seventeen who received the requisite
so GER cent. The two who did not re-
cstvs IS per cent received respectively
72 3-S aud 60 Is. Tine graduates and
their percentages are as follows:-Ids Nc
Csgue. 93k; Alvina Butler. SO: Mary
Cassidy, VIZ; Lula Duyergy, 92B: BERTHE
Hatfield, 904; Jeunie Knapp. $50; Celins
Rooster, 9SH; Martha Runton. $50; Laura
Mills, S7Z; Olga K timer. 81 5-8;
Jennie W,sslnger. soa; Charles
Nelchion s5A; Sophie Bergman
62%; Lorietsa CarliuR, ~ 40;
Jessie Reid, 500: Lizzie Boythwick. sohsi
Miuule Galegast, 80; Katie Rysczczypskl,
78&; Eva DavS, 77%; Meta Frank, T7%'
Grace Kelly, 76I; Cora Kipp. 1874.