The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-21
THEY'R BARRED OUT
SILLY SENTIMENTALISTS CAN'T
CAPE AT PRISONERS TODAY.
No One Will be Admitted to the
Jail Except the Lords People
Doing the Lords work.
Giddy Girls Will be
Disappointed.

This will not be Vanity Fair tay at the
county Jail, and many giddy girls and
sentimental old maids will be disappoint-
ed when they reach that institution and
find that it will be harder for them to get
in than it was for Clyde Mattox to get out
last week.
That Jailor Horner and Sheriff Royse
will be appealed to by hundreds for ad-
mission today there is no doubt, If the de-.
mand for flowers at the florists yesterday
was correct indication Of the intentions
Of some of the fair sex.
The great attraction is Clyde Mattox and
the opportunity for gratifying the morbid
curiosity of the ladies to see young muir
deEer is. strange to say, the sabbath day.
The danes and damsels of the Peerless
Princess should have better sense than to
spend Sunday galavanting around the
corridors of a criminals den. 1t is not just
10 the prisoner to be gazed at in his mis-
fortune like wilG cat or a tiger through
the iron bars. Life is too short for the
average man to endure the foolish things
a giddy womun has to say to him, and
this is especially true in the case of Clyde
Mattox
now beyond prison bars, and it is
hoped. in the elysean fields, WAS
confined in the Jail of this county under
sentence of death, the average Sunday at
tendance at the Jail was 600, and Of this
number fully two thirds We're women and
girls. Dishes remained unwashed at home,
the doors were left open. chickens roasted
On the piano and the husbands and the
baby went supperless. Eddie Belden must
be seen no matter what became of the
household. Women shuffied and sighed
around the rotary all day long. and
thought they were doing a humane act,
not knowing that the moment they turned
their backs on the prisoners they would be
laughed at in derision and haye the pet
names of Jail life applied to them. 1t is
all very well for sensible, good hearted
woman to spend an hour in conversation
with prisoner; she will do him good if
she has good, practical common sense and
talks to him from her heart. but the SEN
tlmentalist never soothes The mind of an
unfortunate and her nonsensical tears and
sighs do him more harm than good They
may fill his cell with flowers and his ears
with poetic nonsense, but they don't
resign him to his fate or unlatch the gate
of his soul to the convictions of religion
allegations to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
All the talk on this subject is idle, how
ever. 1t Is idle because the doors of the
Jail will not be open to visitors today or
any other Sunday, and quite a number of
people, including the prisoners. think it is
a mighty good thing If Clyde Mattox
expresses desire to see the representatives
Of any religious body, for religious pur.
poses, they will be admitted to converse
with him, but on no other conditions. A
party of five North Emporia girls was
formed yesterday to go up to see him to-
day, and they spent all their pin money in
buying cigars, flowers, cake and other
things to present to him. They will not
get in, and will either have to give up the
cigars to their big brothers and best
fellows or keep them over till Tuesday
which is the regular day for Jail visitors
If any girl can't wait till Tuesday to see
Mr.. Mattox she can buy a Wednesday
mornings EAGLE, which contained his
portrait, and satisfy her curiosity with it.
In all candor and honesty, Clyde Mattox
should be given rest. His situation is
grave one, and it should be SO considered
by the public.