The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17

| preyeu deeply on MS MIND.
1t was this, his brother SAYS, and his
failure to secure a school 20 teach, on ac-
/ count of the rumor, that drove Jacques to
| end his life
/ WILDER A. Jacques was at one time a
! newspaper writer aud many of his poems
/ have been given publication throughout
| Kansas. Accompanying the letter which
/ he wrote Just before his probable suicide.
on Sunday, IN a labor employ ment Office,
was poem which Jacques dedicated To
| foes as well as friends" 1t is brief aud
| tells how man is often misguided, con-
/ Guiding with this stanza:
! Our judgment may be wro,a
| OF each ones good or ILL.,
/ II we can say TO good
| Silence is golden still.
And many IA publican,
! When God has judged awhile,
| VIII be ian lsraelite
| In whom there Is no guile.''
In his letter jacques tells with pathos the
! story OF his persecution and mOralizes on
| the deed he Is about to commit TO forever
| elude bis enemies.
II was about 10 get the White Water
| school" he wrote, "when those vicious re-
| ports were brought by some one from Fur
| ley. That ended it. The conclusion TO me
| WAS that I'd get no school this year. r
| Last week | met man from Kansas City,
| who, after some talk. offered me $50 a
month with promise or more in the
! future. l came here on the Sun
/ day excursion to meet him and
settle matters intended to get
| home and plan it all over with you, but
/ Saturday forenoon / grew sick and re-
/ manned four miles north of Furley until
about 1 O'Clock When | came
here / was so hopeful; we would at last
snap our fingers at our enemies. But they
are ahead again, or rather l am disappoinJ-
! ed. for when l met the man here, | found
I he was "A swiudler. l could not engage in
| a doubtful calling
Again disappointment has come-O,
my Door head!-and l have spent hard
earned mOuey for nothing. What are We
| to do? | only hope my defamers may
| never have such experiences.
Loss of fortune l have endured more
! than once, and have gone to work gather
! ing up what | could, and it seemed not
much 10 do. But. o, my wife! how am
! to brighten furnished name? How long
endure this? Aud you and the children
must suffer, too. 1t is the bitterness of
Il must stop or these bystanders will
see my passion. For the tears will come
aud the choking sensations. What can
do?
II have been to the river-the old Big
Muddy, with its eddies and whirs and
! swift currents, scurrying and dancing be-
| fore my weary eyeS-buJ IL was reStful TO
me. 1t seemed SO like humanity, for some
times il flows on swiftly and straight, then
| Is diverted and turns this way and thar,
struggling to no purpose, till the river
| gathers 1t up agaIn-and / think, how like
| my own life.
! "But the river whispers to me as it has
| to many another, 'Comel Give up what
| you cannot remedy and rest I'm so sick
/ and tired and troubled. l think IL | Were
| gone my family would no longer be the
| target of whispering tongues, but be uni
versally sympathizad with and assisted.
And then those whispering tongues would
never again put a soul IN torment as mine
! has been. Yes, let 10 end. I'll
| Join the innumerable caravan gone on
ahead"
| Then the writer hints of drowning HIM
! self with stones tied to his body. To
night" he writes, You can say to Mrs.
| B, Pm in eternity, carrying one rock
on my body for her, aud 10 R one for
him, and. Well, It is enough 10 saw
| that Pm determined my poor body shall
rest till destroyed, nor ever be exposed to
the eyes OF :. cOId world. "-kausas City
Journal
There ere two sideg to every question.
| Chief Cone has one side of this aud Mr..
Jacques, the other
Chief Cone, when be heard of the above
article last night, smiled. That man
! jacques" said he, ''is slick one. / would
not be afraid 30 wager all | have got that
he hasn't drowned himself, and more than
| that, he never thought of such thing
He then told the following story.
the night of the POpullst primaries, "
| said he, Il was goiug down Douglas ave-
nue.. l noticed a young woman in the,recess
/ OF Biting Brothers doorway and | passed
! on. After about half al hour | returned
I up the avenue and ste MAS still standing
there. She seemed 10 be neryously await
! lug the coming of somebody and thought
/ l would watch developments. / thought
/ she was some country girl watching
/ and waiting for her father who might,
| perhaps. be IN on spree and l
| was about To so no and ass her whether l
| could do anything for her, when l saw
1 Jacques coming around the corner. de
/ nodded 10 her aud they both walked away
! together. followed them and saw them
/ going into house en- South Lawrence. l
enQured about them and found they had
| taken room. Ia fast found out every
| thing. He told the proprietor Of the hos
| telry that the woman was bis vile. l was
| doubtful about iJ and in about two hours
I | sent Officer Sutton TO the place but they
( had lust left there. John Reede patrols
/ the neigh borbood where Jacques lived,
/ and tod him to inquire next day wheth-
eT Mrs. Jacques was down town that night.
| John misunderstood me aud be went TO
/ Mrs Jacques directly for the Information
with the FtSult tibet he told her the whole
+ thing Mrs. Jacques came directly down
+ 10 police headq quarters and asked me
about Il. had TO tell her
/ all know. She doubted it, and thinking
/ ! was mistaken she drew from her pocket
! a Photographic group of the Jacques fam
! ily ami pointed out 70 her the one. Yes,
/ she said, that is my husband. Mrs Jacques
| then told me that ter husband came down
| town the previous day 10 attend the Pop
| convention, and that he didn't return home
| till next morning, and that he sand 10 her
/ that he went down 10 Derby 70 repair an
! old organ, that it was rusty and badly worn
| and he had TO work all night with it so as
| TO be able TO get back in the morning.
! Jacques afterwards came u me aud want
/ ed me 90 tell his wife that / was not quite
| sure that he was the man l saw with the
| woman | told him l would not do IL
Jac0uss then explained 70 me that he was
one of tie county examiners OF teachers,
| that the young woman was country
| school ma'am. and that lie took her &c
/ The room IN the house IN cues ion
! 10 Give her some instructions Gu the ques
| lions that would be asked OF her. That !
/ about all Of that
About year sgo, " the chief continued
4 "a mAa and woman registered At The
! Peizaold hotel from ST Louis. D1rins
the night old man Petzhoid thought
! everything was nos all right and &c IN
| formed the police. / sent joan 0owls.
/ over aud Ia nHlF out II wa.