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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
The POET LAUREATE.
Something of the History OF This Uni9us
-Gfsce.

Something of the History of This Unique
oaice.
The recent death of Tennyson calls
| attention to the honorary appointment
which he held under the British crown.
The usage of having court poet is a
very old one. 1t can be traced back TO
Greece. From Greece the custom was
adopted by Rome. Statuary shows us
the poets of both these people, with
| their features shaded by crown of
laurel. The title poet laureate, so far
as we can learn, was devised by Fred
ericlSI OF Germany. who bestowed it
with wreath of bay leaves upon the
monk Gunther.
Gunther is said to have celebrated
his monarchs deeds in an upic poem.
This was in the twelfth century. and a
copy of the poem would now be difficult
to find.
From the time of Petrarch, Who was
crowned al Rome, the title became for
some centuries an honorary degree
which the universities of the continent
and of England were authorized 10
confer. We may suppose that the
favor was sometimes unworthily
granted. else why should Sancho Panza
have consoled his ass, when both ass
and rider had fallen into a ditch. by
exclaiming: Il promise to give thee
double feed. and TO place crown of
laurel on thy head that thou mayest
look like poet iaureate?"
1t is only through tradition that we
are able to assign an origin TO this OF
fee in England. In the deed which
conferred upon Chaueer and his sue
cessors in the Office an annuity and the
yearly allowance of q tierce-forty
gallons-of sweet Malvoisie wine. the
king named the father of English liter
allure as My valet Godfrey CHANGER. +"
The monarch made no aliusion to his
wallets poetic genius
In the time of Queen Eliza beth there
was need of poet laureate because
of the frequency with which Mosques
We're performed by her command.
These Mosques required the compost
ton of what we call ibretti. species
of verse which is set to music, of which
we have a sample in Millions ''Comus."
Spenser served her majesty well in
supplying these.
a royal patent for a poet laureate
under. the seal of the lord cham berlain
was not formally made out until 1850,
when Charles /. bestowed the title upon
Ben Jonson. No doubt this poet val
ued the gift of Canary wine that came
every year with his annuity, and shared
it generously with his companions.
Southey was perhaps the only one of
all the poets laureate who ever com
muted his allowance of wine for money
Southey and Wordsworth We're the
immediate predecessors of Tennyson.
1t is not easy to make out the line OF
court poets even from the time of Ben
Jonson to Southey. Under the com
monwealth there was no court and no
occasion for poet laureate. After the
restoration Dryden held the office. and
he was followed by Shadwell, Tate.
Rowe. Eusden, Cihber, Whitehead War
ton and Pye. The reader will see from
this list how obscure many of the lau-
reates have become.-Y ouths Compan-
ion.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
SNOW-CAPPED HEIGHTS.
Some Observations Taken on the Summit
of Mount Blanc.


Some exceedingly interesting OBJ
servations on the peculiar condition of
snow on the tops of lofty mountains
have been made in connection with the
attempt to found a meteorological and
astronomical observatory on the sum
nit of Mount Blanc. 1t looked at one
time as though the undertaking would
have to be abandoned, because it was
assumed that rock foundation for the
proposed building was Indispensable,
and the snow proved to be so deep that
the rock could not he reached But NJ.
JANSEN the French astronomer who
conceived the project of Mount Blanc
observatory, was not discouraged.
He gave the world a taste of his quail
ity, indeed, as long ago as 1870, when
he escaped from Paris in a balloon,
sailing over the heads of the besieging
Germans, in order to go and witness "a
total eclipse of the sun. So intrepid a
spirit was not to be easily baffied by a
little snow on a mountain.
NJ. Jansen accordingly began to
make some experiments. He piled up
little snow mountain, and by means
of pressure brought the snow to the
degree of density possessed by that on
the peak of Mount Blanc.
Then he erected structure consist
ing of leaden disks upon the snow, and
watched the extent to which its weight
caused it to sink. The sinking was so
very slight that NJ. Jansen concluded
that an observatory building about
thirty-three feet long and sixteen feet
wide-the desired size-and weighing
as much as two thousand tons. might
be erected upon the snow on Mont
Blanc without sinking more than few
centimeters.
The foundation timbers viii be pur-
posely sunk some distance below the
ordinary surface of the snow, and it is
calculated that there they will remain
substantially without change of posi-
ton. In case any sinking does occur
a system of jaekserews viii enable the
inmates of the observatory to readjust
its level.
The fact that the browning snow cap
of Mont Blame is SO stable is very inter
esting Although it is exposed TO the
winds from every side, the observations
of several years have detected very
slight alterations in it.
1t has frequently been said that con-
siderable uncertainty must exist as to
the precise height of snow-tipped noun
tains, owing to changes in the level Of
the snow But so far as these ohserva-
tions on Mont Blanc go. II would APP
pear that snow may form almost as I'M
alters BILE summit for mountain as
the solid rock itself fouth's Conpan-
ion
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The farmers of Rocks county to a
large extent, says the Stockton Record,
cleared up all their cha;tel mortgages,
and very few owe the local banks. A
great many have also lifted their real
estate mortgages, while others nave par
italy paid them. And yet there are
persons IN that part of the state-west-
ern Kausas-who have howled them
selves hoarse for an extra session of the
Legislature to provide relief for the peo-
pie out there on account of crop failures.
The country would be infinite gamer 10y
the prompt immigration of all such
calamityites.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

n California paper, commenting upon
the new precedent set by conductors on
the Santa Fe railway in western Kansas
ana tie strip in dealing with train rob-
bers, has this TO say:
"A Kansas conductor has very crude
ideas about how TO treat tram robbers and
yet'he has business way about him that
J. worthy of emulation. Thursday an
Oklahoma bandit at the point of rifle
compelled the conductor to stop his train.
get OF and then ordered him 10 90 ahead
with bim To the engine When the TWO
reached the ground the conductor with =
mighty swing OF his good right arm felIsd
the bandit To the GROUND, took his gun
away from him aud almost beat him into
Jelly with IT, Then lie took the badly
whipped gentleman 10 Wichita and lodged
him in jail. Little by little the glory of
the train robbers Is being snatcAed from
.Aem."
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
A PRINCES BAPTISM OF FIRE.
Young Louis Napoleon's Initiation in the
Horrible Art of War.

Young Louis Napoleon's Initiation in the
Horrible Art of War.
II knew the prince well. On the
first two occasions / saw him it was
through binocular from consider
able distance. August 2, 1870, the day
on which the boy of fourteen. in the
words of his father, received his bap-
tism of fire." / was watching from the
drill ground above Saarbruck, in COM
pany with the last remaining Prussian
soldiers, the oncoming swarm attack
of Bataille's tirailleurs, firing as they
hurried across the plain. The tirailleurs
had passed little knoll which rose in
the plain about midway between the
Spicheren hill and where l stood, and
presently it was crowned by two horse
men. followed by great staff. The
glass told me that without doubt
the senior of the foremost horsemen
was the Emperor Napoleon, and that
of the younger, shorter and slighter
= mere boy he looked - was the
prince imperial, whom we knew to
be with his father in the field. A fort
night later, in the early morning of the
"
the German army was still only east
and south of Metz, | accompanied a
German horse battery which, galloping
up to within five hundred PAGES of the
chateau of Longueville. around which
was a French camp of some size,
opened fire on chateau and camp.
After few shells had been fired great
confusion was observed about the cha
teau and the camp, and l distinctly
discerned the emperor and his son
emerge from the building, mount and
gallop away, followed by suite and es-
cort. Years later, in Zululand, when
the days work was done for both of us,
and the twilight was falling on the
rolling veldt, the prince was wont
occasionally to gossip with me about
those early days of the great war
which we had witnessed from OPP
posite sides, and he told me his expe-
rience on the morning spoken of.
A crash awolIe him with a start,
and he was sitting up in bed bewil-
dered, when his father entered with
the exclamation: up, Louis, up, and
dress, the German shells are crashing
through the roofs" As the prince
looked ont of the window while he hur-
riedly dressed he saw shell fall and
burst in a group of officers seated in
the garden at breakfast, and when the
smoke lifted three of them lay dead.
That the story of his nerves having
been shattered by the bullet fire at
aarbruck was untrue seems proved by
an episode he related to me of that
morning an hour later. On the steep
ascent of the chaussee up to Chatel
the imperial party was wedged in the
heart of complete block of troops,
wagons and guns; a long delay seemed
inevitab BILE. But the lad had noticed
wayside gate whence a track led up
through the vineyard. He followed it
to the crest and marked its trend; then
riding back he called aloud: This way,
papa.'' The princes side track turned
a block, and presently the party were
in the new quarters in the auverge of
velotte.-Archibald Forbes, in Cen
fury.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Not many Populst officials do or say
things worthy of commentator, and
this fact entities them all the more TO
credit when they do, even though the
rare exceptions are accidental, or incl
dental, rather than deliberate intent.
On tins line the EAGLE is constrained to
commend the fairness and good sense
expressed by Attorney General Little in
his letter to Mr.. Richards of Fort Scott
in regaiu TO The prohibtory law and its
enforcement. We are not prompted to
say this much in defense of the attorney
general because his own party leaders
aud papers have condemned him there
for, but because we believe he is right.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The Cheyenne sun says that a large
immigration from the eastern and mid
die states may be looked for this year.
y financial panic has always caused an
unusual exodus to the west of emicrants
from the east That Kansas would have
received Il large influx of population
during the coming fail and winter. but
for the calamltous whine set up bv a
few irresponsibles for personal revenue
only, there is no doubt. In 1873 Kansas
and Nebraska received enormous addi-
tions to their populations, and men of
all professions, trades and occupations
moved westward, and the conditions for
similar movement 10 this state are far
more inviting now than they were then.
What effect the recent plant will have
is hard 10 tell at present. though IL is
hoped no harm will result, since the
fakes Were promptly followed up by
facts as 10 the real situation.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Germany has passed law requiring
that all drugs intended for internal
use shall be put up in round bottles,
while those for external application are
to be in hexagonaI bottles only. That
would seem to indicate surprising
amount and degree of Illiteracy among
the German people. The chief value the
government there seems to put upon its
citizens is for their ability to pay taxes
and swell the ranks Of the army.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The Inter-Ocean seems to be stuck
tpardon the slang) on the Kansas build
ing and exhibit at the worlds iair as
witness this reference thereto: kansas
has layished its strength and resource in
its state building. The fullness of the
state product is to be seen in every nook
and corner, but the famous feature Is in
the center of the bGilding at the north
end. This is an amphitheater, and is
constructed as a panorama. The
entire display should certainly be seen,
for next TO the Smithsonian exhibit, Ii is
worthy Of attention, and in some re-
spects is not inferior to that in the
United States building"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Washington GcseistF las, winter srncs-
q very self-sastc.sut bachelor svao sTzs
Z congressman In cerfaia llIes ne
vas szn4r. enough, but generally sT,easf'
ing Ire neessed about tElse as sEasseh
sense as be usually DISPLAYED G,sse
evening be was talk3ng "a sharp giTl
i tel yos shat Is =, BE s2.2. i
shall introduce oiL for the e7ins.se
0! hzif-ceuts-
WHY arr you goIgg % &c sia' she
asked. inaoceui..v- f.s4fs wissi ia
have a!rea4g. ~--ab1tzo.: FrSe Pres
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
Reformer, Vi'h a Big r.

Noah Allen, u Wichita reformer with
q big K, who got appointed assistant al
torney general anu at once concluded
that he was bigger man than his bass,
has gone iuto eclipse. 4 little three
hundred dollar transaction did the bust
ness. Great is reform with = BIZ z
Allen, by the way, IS the fellow she
made a speech al Antelope. ia t!lis
county. last fall. aud pitched into tina,
awful Republican, whom he never "a Va
and didn't know-Hoch. Ia, I'd, Noah.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The defunct Democratic party of the
state is showing symptoms OF general
resuscItation OF late. The stalwart
Democrats of Lawrence, it IS SAID, pro-
pose to reorganizs the Jeffersonlan club
in that CITY as a straight out Democratic
organization to hereafter tight fusion
with the DoDulists.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Sol Miller of the Troy Chief is known
IS the job OF moder, times, so even-tem-
peled and patient like is he. But there is
one little sore that pursv near tormenls
him into an open rebellion. Hear him
tell of it:
Ii was we'll understood that Harrison
wanted TO give bis law partner aud attor-
ney general, Miller, position Gu the
supreme bench; aud IL was pretty we'll uu-
derstood by him that the Republican party
would not submit Ia ii. Therefore. a
vscaucy occurring JAS when he was suf-
tsring The soreness of defeat, he took out
his spite upon the party by appointing s
Democrat 10 the place. Aud vet mis-
friends have commenced booming aim for
The nomination in 1895. Ii is Il waste OF
effort
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

We'll. old man, four thousand doh
lars for ten minutes work Is not 80
bad"
Ten minutes work" calculated the
successful prize fighter. Il s'pose yea
feTgit that ! have had 10 make no leSs'a
four hundred and eighty-seven speeches
in the last tree months. besides ali thu
noospaper feilers I'gc had 70 talk Ia.
guess you think Va pugilists has got
puddin. indianapolis Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

II never knew q man 50 set against
anything "a he IL against ciaarettes.'
who is?''
Melton. De can't see man sfnoi,.
ing one without making some INSULT
ing remark lie says they are dlsgust.
ing"
Melton Melton? o. yes. think
recall him now. lie il big. Fat fei.
low, ism, he2"
Yea"
'Chegs tobacco. smells of oalons,
and eats with his kniteT'
That's the uaan. Life.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Snooper Wasn't Mrs Weeds badly
cut mp when her husband died?
Weeds himself
"Hosg's THAR
''rhe doctors held a posi-u1ortem O.
him Truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Some of the papers have been giving
the pension drawn by General john G.
Black as $50 per month. The American
soldier, published at Washington, d. C.,
givesNs pension as 500 per month, and
it say it is for the loss of both arms.
All The same and nevertheless the good
general has succeeded in holding on to
some good paying Office most of the
time, at big salary.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

As to Speaker Crisp, he is said to re-
tain his wanted equipoise and uniform
good hunor, only his smile is not as
Bland as it use to be. Some are I'M
charitable enough to hint that the
smooth Georgian is showing signs of
Grover-ling. This is pretty low down,
but some lngh-up people are doing it.
nevertheleSs.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Mr.. ingalls, seems determined to tan
talize Bill Hackney into replying to him.
When the ex-senator and statesman
of-a-job heard that Hackney was going
to help Billhiggins organize business
mans party be remarked What queer
fusion that will be ~ If the Atchison
sage gets both the Bills after him at
once they will make it Bilious for him,
sure enough,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
a BOLD RENIG.

There are at least two Democratic
papers in the south that do not take any
stock in the plank of the Chicago plat
form that demands the repeal of the tax
on state banks eve have seen the
proposition" says the Constitution, "set
forth in some of the shady places Of
the northeast but we have not thought
about it for the simple reason that it is
not thinkable proposition. 1t does not
so on all tours with the Democratic
platform; it does not fit itself with COM
mon sense and reason; and it does not
of sound and stable currency. redeem
able III gold and silver-the money of
the constitution. In short, the PROPOSE
ton has nothing whatever to go upon.
1t is the crazy suggestion of those who
are interested in destroying the greater
part of our money of final payment"
The Memphis Appeal Avalanche is
also opposed TO the repeal of the tax on
state banks. II says, ''the prime object
in calling congress together in extra ses-
sion is to strengthen the credit, not
weaken it; hence, to open up the way
to state banks would be jumping out of
the frying pan into the fire.
TITS Is a plain, blunt way of stating
the facts of the case, but it sounds odd
coming from the leading party organs in
the section where the scheme has been
understood to be in greatest public favor.
1t goes to prove that the declarations set
forth in Democratic platforms are simply
meant as political playthings and do not
bind any body to anything.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Everybody make hay while the sun
shines. Fodder Is going 10 be fodder
another winter and the man who has a
good supply of Kansas grass on mana
will be better fixed than il he had lib
oral banE, account alone Make hay.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

f.;stie Johnny-You ought 10 have
seen GUS De smith and sister make
lemonade.
Mrs. Broyvn-How did they do III
Little Johnny-sister Birdie he4d the
lemon while Gus squeezed Birdie
Texas siftings.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

az can't take this joke, said the ed
itor Its been done. and we never do
anything in this office that has been
done before
Then you've got To take II. said
Wagg If you reject il you Wi. be
doing what has been done before -
Truth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Tt is stated that saloon in Chicago
has added two hundred and fifty thou-
sand dollars worth of paintings to It's
other attractions" and likewise con-
tributed literally to the fund raised to
secure the closing of the worlds fair Oh
SUNDAY,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
rnuIdntt Eel hH the Taste.

''Is this lobster or ehickep, Brid9et7~
asked Mrs. Bones IA she wss about 20
make the salad
Dunno. mum. replied the servant:
"the label Has torn OF before J opened.
the can. brakes Magazine
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
EXCH ANGg EPIToMEs.


From the Troy Chtef.
Kaiser WiIhemn is having bard
time of il with his army bill in TIE
Reichstag. aud old man Gladstone is
having Just as hard a time with his
home rule bill in parliament When
Uecle Grover Cleveland seE his silver
bill tackled BY congress, will he have
any more OF picnic than his brethren
over the water?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
AHlss u <ren 60 q
WGIl l|=sssnsp
~ N. MURDOCH Editor.
u. ii. MURDOCH Editor.

Since the change of the postoffice at
Topeka, the Journal says the OLD song
And The Letter That He Longer For
Never Came has revived in popularity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15
No Paragraphs. Pleas~.

This goods speaks for ITSELF, mad
am" said the clerk - , customer
Yes was the replE, bat / Con !
want anything quite 80 load Town
TonicS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

Talk about calamity in Kansas" says
Mr.. Ii. ID. Rush, the great miller at
Leavenworth, in the Times, "why we
will have more than plenty to seed and
feed the state until another crop can be
raised. 1t is all buncombe about calling
a special session of the legislature for
the purpose of giving seed wheat 10
farmer. Kansas raised twenty-five mil
lions of bushels of wheat this year and
that, with what there is in elevators and
the farmers have stored of old wheat we
can have wheat to spare. 1t takes now
eight bushels Of wheat per capita to seed
and bread the people of Kansas. Take
what we have raised this year and add
to it the old wheat in store and we can
furnish seed aud bread for every person
in Kansas and have thirty weight millions
of bushels left for sale. The state is
full of good corn this year, there being
over seven millions of acres planted.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-07-15

The business community of the United
States; that is that portion of it whose
business is in financial manipuIations,
reminds one Of humored and snoilt
child, that leases and whines to its
parent for something it takes notion II
wants, and as soon as it receives the OBJ
ject of its desire. throws it down and
goes about its play, or begins to cogitate
what next to cry for. The demand
fer an extra session of congress grew
almost into a craZe-it was the only
thing that could save the country from
certain and speedy ruin: but the call for
the extra session had not been promul-
gated forty-eight hours until the tension
begun TO relax. and the indications now
are the best that the trouble @ viii have
vanished before congress meets. In
deed, We are a funny. folk.