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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

GOODBYE TO POETRY.

Every man should pray for longevity,
If it is only to live to see what the COM
ing woman of the future is to be. and
what wonderful revolutions in all things
she is bound to make.
The curiosity over the coming man
which was once great enough 10 make
Bulwer Lytton write book upon the
subject, has, in the last decade, sunk en-
lIrely out of sight. Studious people
have come TO the conclusion that the
coming man will be woman. She is
Today crowding the male sex out of Its
ancient rights and offices. She has taken
possession of the males requirements
and enhanced them 10y additions of her
OWN in commercial pursuits, as well as
IN literature and art.
This condition is coming on much
more quickly than such revolutions usu-
ally do. 1t will change everything.
Among other things the art of poetry is
doomed. Poetry without woman would
never have been thought of. To woman
it alone owes its existence. A woman's
tresses have coaxed the divine afflatus
into action when all the nobility Of man
hood failed
When woman ceases to be the woman
whose face is her fortune and the beauty
Of her eyes, the velvet of her touch,
and the music of her voice, her declared
dividend, poetry will cease with her. 1t
Is believed, from what examples we
lave, that contact with the world of
business and the accompanying Struggle
for money plumbers woman of these
charms.
The fin de steele woman already dis
aains TO use these gifts to conquest
Ella Wheeler Wilcox who sings in
recent lay in this fashion offends every
advanced woman.
-She let down all the wonder of her hair
Its dusky clouds fell round her. and her form
shone Ike GreciAn statue through storm.
9ne cleaning shoulder. beautiful a. bare,
Leaned 10 the lips that used TO sigh How fairlr
As ivory polished and velvet warm.
lwlued round his massive neck.
-oh hearts despair!
In his cold eyes there lay 10 least desire.
And not thrill shot through him. though his
lay pilowed on her breast. In DAYS scarce fed
Hast thou no hellg Msse one o God She 50 i'd
1weEe heaven, TO earth with love and passion
dead.'n
This sounds like shrill wall of des-
peration, Ella. 1t isn't the mems fault.
The women have done it. You needn't
fear about love and passion dying. Both
viii live as long as there is man and
woman on earth. But poetry is doomed.
No poet can sing of bare undressed
passion. He can not strike his lvre in
ecstasy over woman who cuts short
the wooing of her Romeo to attend
rallied meeting of the stockholders of her
establishment. 1t would be impossible.
Goodbye poetry.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
SPURS AND FEATHERS

Mrs. Lease and Mrs. Cougar have ar.
ranged for joint debate to take place at
Mount Carmel, Ills. Mrs. Cougar is to
maintain that rum Is at the bottom of
all our national troubles, while Mrs.
Lease is 10 prove that the demonetiza-
ton of silver and the devil in the Re-
publican party are what's the matter.
Ii is said that lot of wicked RepubIi-
cans and unregenerated Demo Gratis
Matched up this hen fight in which hair
pins might prove the spurs and hair in
stead of feathers fly. While Helen has
a holy horror of cocktails and Mollie
might murder the monetary magnates.
they are both too well coached TO make
any such break as is hoped for by these
wicked hackers. They will both be in
Kansas during the coming campaign,
and while one will be stumping it for
the third party Prohibitionisis and the
other for the fusion party PopulIsts, they
Will both be for female suffrage and both
against the Republican party.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
Its all B0sh

About Axminster-Moque being
anything but Moquet. Its only a
catchy name and every carpet
man knows it.
Having made it difficult to sell
Administer oquette carpets for
real Administers, which is the
next higher grade, (the people
now understanding the difference)
and shown that the largest dry
goods dealers In the world regard
Administer oquette the same
grade as Moquette, we call atten-
ton to the fact that our $500 re-
ward remains untaken and submit
a few remarks on carpets.
Alex Smith Co. are the original
manufacturers of the Moquette
carpet. The Hartford CO. for
many years paid Smith royalty
for his machinery was patented)
and made what they called the
Administer oquette. 1t was
sold for less money than Moquette
bat they claimed it to be, and
probably was, just as good,
although Smith had the prestige
of an established name. Smith
finally reduced his prices to such
point that the Hartford Co..
could not afford to pay him a
royalty and meet his prices and
lhey stopped making the Amin
ster'Moquette.
Recently Smiths patent having
expired, the Hartford Co. resumed
manufacture of the Administer
Moquette brand, and both Smith
and the Hartford Co. have reduced
prices to the same price.
Smith and his agents will say
their goods are the best; Hart
ford Co. and their agents will say
theirs are the best.
The trade say: "Same price.
asme grade"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
WHO Is COXEY2

II notorlety Is akin TO fame then
Coxey is within a step of being a hero.
Mollie Lease, who seems about leaning
the intervening wall between yul .-ar
notoriety and solid fame, declares that
Coxey Is the John Brown of a pending
industrial revolution. But who and
what is lie? Colonel Rlood. of the
Chautauquan, writes of Coxey and his
followers in no fiattering terms. Among
other things, he says that Coxev is 40
years old, owns stonequarry and is
dealer in fancy horses. In religion he is
theosophist, in politics Populist. He
was originally a greenbacker and ex-
tremist generally. \ careful INQUIRY
instituted into the antecedents of the
leaders OF the commonweal in his i'm
mediate command discloses the fact that
they are, says Flood, a mingling of
oiasphemous insanity and political in
cendiarism. Whether an inspired hero or
q mere vulgar adventurer, and his fol-
lowing. whether a holy crusade or a
mob OF irresponsible tramps, the events
of the next few days will determine
But whatever they may prove to be. the
conditions which made such a move
ment possible are recognized by all.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
RACE PREJUDICE INJUSTICE.

The late Jesse Seligman, who died
last week in California, where he had
gone but few days before, and whose
body is going eastward today, was a
principal promoter of the st. Louis and
San Francisco railway, and was still its
leading spirit when it had reached
Wichita. His ambition was to see the
road extended to the Pacific. The ac-
quiring of the Atlantic and Pacific fran
chise by the Santa Fe terminated in a
contract whereby the Frisco was not to
be constructed westward from Wichita.
Seligman was prominent during the
war for his financial aid to the govern
ment and his answering loyalty, but he
received a terrible blow in the house OF
his friends last year, and on account OF
one of the sons who went to the Pacific
the other day on special train to take
his fathers body home for burial. 1t
was his son Theodore who was black
balled in the Union League club
Of New York. The affront cut deep, and
though the club refused to accept the
fathers resignation the latter never set
foot in the clubhouse again. The young
mans rejection appeared to the ou'sid-
er pretty exhibition of antl-Semitic
spirit, and considering that the young
mans father had been fourteen years
one of the clubs vice-presidents, and had
conspicuously served his country as a
financier in war times, such treatment
of his son seemed incompatible with the
patriotic traditions OF this distinguished
club. The young man was supported
for membership by such men as General
Porter, G. n. Bliss, Elihu Root, Joseph
I'll. Choate and ex-PostmaSter General
James. He was opposed by the younger
element, the so-called cafe crowd. Out
of club vote of 1900 but 1913 were cast
on this issue, and Theodore SeIigman
had 1S7 against him.
He was the fourth of eight brothers
born in Bavaria. In 1888 an elder
brother, Joseph, came to America and
became cashier of a bank in Pennsyl- |
vania, who sent for all of the other |
brothers, al Of whom became partners |
in the great banking house of Seligman
Brothers.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
THE QUESTION OF PASSPORTS

From the Youths Companion.
When citizen goes abroad, is 1t nec-
essary or desira BILE that he shall obtain
a passport? If he has one, is it likely
to be respected under all circumstances
by foreign governments? A recent I'M
confirmed report that the representa-
tives of certain foreign government
had torn up the passports of American
citizens has aroused an interest in
questions concerning the rights of citi-
zens abroad which warrants an ex-
PLANTATION of the principles governing
these matters.
When one obtains passport, he has
a document which authenticates his
citizenship, and requests, on the part
of his government. that he be al
lowed to pass freely in foreign coun-
tries An American passport can be
obtained only by an American citizen,
under sworn statement of his citizen
ship and with proper Identification; it
can be issued only by the secretary of
state or an acting head of legation
abroad, though it may be vised or in
dorsed by consul. II is good for two
years, and no more
Formerly passports were matter of
requirement everywhere. Now they
are disused altogether in most civil
Lied countries. In a free country,
or measure bly, free one, there is no
need OF them at all. People travel at
the present day in regular lines of COM
munication, and the telegraph gives
chance to intercept any suspicious per-
son.
Passports are no longer needed as
prudential device in the case of per-
sons who travel in bar barous or despotic
countries. and even then only, as rule
by persons whose citizenship is for
some reason likely to~be doubted
c Such persons are often those who
have been naturaliZed, and who after
ward return to their native country
Although American law makes no
distinction whatever between native
and naturalized citizens, and passports
do not show in any way whether citi-
zens bearing them are native or nata-
rallied, the fact has nevertheless been
recognized by our government that a
naturaiized citizen may be considered
TO have renounced his American citi-
zenship BY settling down in his native
country. apparently intending 10 re-
main there permanently. and thus TO
have lost his right TO passport and 70
protection
In this resp>c. the naturalized citi-
zen's position is different from the ua-
:iVeS The native citizen abroad can |
renounce lis citizenship only by for ,
ma act. the nAturalized citizens re-
nouncemeni may be inferred from hss |
acts
1t Is always matter OF discretion
with The state deDartment or its lea
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

Dennis Flynn is only thirty-two years Of
age.
The Parker Eagle will start a daily edi
ton next month.
The Presbyterian church of Mulhall viii
be dedicated today.
The Guthrie division of Coxey's arm!
has finally disbanded.
Biographies are now being used with
Oklahoma supplements.
A mummy nine feet in heighth is on ex
hibition in Oklahoma City.
A big panther is soaring the negroes who
live south of Oklahoma City.
The funny part of Judge Scott's decisions
is that they have scared no one.
The senate committee has handed in Its
report and it is ''agin" single statehood.
The gay and razzle dazzle Zoo of Enid
has gone under. 1t was u variety theater
| Caleb r. Brooks will succeed Horace
Speed as United States attorney for Okla
homa May l.
On Oklahoma City man has patented a
device for moving sick people from one
| room to another.
In one Oklahoma town the newspapers
are known as the Morning Sneeze aud the
Evening Slobber
A. IL Lee of Blackwell ended his life by
taking poison Wednesday. He was a
prominent citizen.
At any rate, it will be q oticed that since
the little Harmon matinee the Dalton
gang have let railroad trains alone.
Father Cassell OF the Catholic church
knows the Daltons, and says they get
their mail at Sacred Heart postoffice.
Every time an Oklahoma editor writes
anything about judge any more, he first
goes home and bids his family goodbye
FL Reno has always felt bitter towards
Oklahoma City. aud now the Ell Reno am
ateurs are going to put on an opera in that
city.
What good would it do to catch the Dal-
tons? Other desperadoes have been cap
tured in Oklahoma, but, up to date. not
one has stretched hemp.
A shortage of $500 has been found In the
accounts of John Adair, jr., postmaster nj
Tahlequah. He was appointed last No
vember, and been suspended pending an
investigation.
E. f. Mitchell Of FL Reno received 1000
sheep In one lot from Texas the other day.
Mitchell used to be in politics, but he dis
covered that there was more money aud
heap more comfort in sheep.
The Voice OF l. county won its suit in
Judge Bierer's court against the county
commissioners for blanks furnished. The
commissioners refused to pay the Voices
bill, claiming it was too high.
Editor Rosewater of Omaha telegraphed
his coincidence to Burke and Brown of
Oklahoma City. In the telegram be said:
MY stay in Jail lasted only six hours, but
our Jeffries has sentenced himself to
long term in purgatory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
For the Eagle.
!. ONE APRIL DAY.
j. Z HOBBS.

Underneath the dropping branches.
or grand old forest tree;
In the glad and happy spring time,
Lingered-you and me.
High above the sky was clouiless,
Hinged with softest. palest blue;
Carrolled gaily bright hued songsters,
AS fleet winged they heavenward new.
At our feet murmuring brooklet
Silver FURNISHED swept away;
On, wonder do you remember.
That happy. smiling. priI day7
Behind US doomed The grand oil forest
ROBBED in vest of deepest green.
Underneath soft emerald patches
leekly sprang up there unseen.
Fresh the breeze came from tbs southland.
Bending the daisies at our eei;
Waiting to US from far OF meadows.
Perfumes OF clover sweet.
The world seemed made for you and meg
And love-was all in ALL
But why do !. after weary years
Again that April day recalg
For when its golden sun had set,
You went your way-in doubt and pain;
And nevermore, dear love Of mine.
Did we II niger there again.
But the odor and bloom OF that April day
Still lives In my hearts deep care.
As the sweet, true love Of a DAY long fed.
Is thIilled into life once morei
All. It's many an April day since then,
When we fingered meath that for est tree,
Iwonder, do you remember still.
The scene-that april day-and me!
wichita. kas., April 18th.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
DID BIN a GOOD TURN.

From the New York Herald.
They were talking about scattering
seeds OF kindness, doing good turns
and things of that sort.
about the best turn ever did fell
low" remarked one of the circle, was
to get him arrested"
verybody looked incredulous, and
one young man remarked sententious-
1y that he hoped the conversation was
not going to be turned into jest.
Il am not jesting; / mean just what
i say" was the response in somewhat
nettled tone, land if you will let me
spin my yarn without interruption you
can Judge whether it was good turn
or not.
Il have a friend whom I will call
Tom for the good and sufficient reason
that that isn't his name. When Tom
is sober he is a quiet and well-behaved
gentleman who will take any amount
Of pains TO avoid a row; but when he
gets drunk, which l regret to say he
does two or three times a year, he's
worse than a Kansas cyclone on a tear
Well, l met him one evening coming
out of saloon chock full of fight and
whisky.
81 did my best to play the good Sa-
marian role with HIM. l tried to get
him into cab. No, he wouldn't go
into ca b unless he first licked the ca b.
driver. In fact, he wouldn't go home
under any consideration unless he had
first had set-to with somebody, and
he intimated that if didn't find him q
victim he would take it out of me.
st would have been very easv
matter to drop him, but ] didn't want
TO do that because I knew that he had
cashed a check for one hundred and
fifty dollars that day, and that if he
were left to his fate he would surely
fall into the hands of somebody who
would go through him 1t CHANGED
that there were a couple Of policemen
across the street. / summoned one of
them.
"'Officer,' said, this man is drunk
and disorderly. and has threatened to
assault me, and l want you to arrest
him.
with the assistance of the other
uC " as ecu W Tic near
est police station, where my charge
against him was formally entered on
the blotter. Then he was searched
and one hundred and twenty-five dol
lars-what remained of the check he
had cashed-was taken out of his
pockets, and he was turned in a police
cell to cool off and get sober.
HE was 'arraigned next morning in
Jefferson Market police court, where
withdrew the charge against him and
he was, of course, discharged. He
was sober enough then TO recognize
the fact that his arrest bad been the
means of saving his money for him
and he was eternally grateful. Now
he goes around with a card in his
pocket bearing the inscription:
II any good Samaritan finds me drunk he
will confer great favor on me by sumnonins
a policeman and having me arrested
THE safest place for drunken man
with pocketful of money is poles
cell"
And they sall agreed that he had
done the man a good turn.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
LINEN SALE,
LINEN SALE.
BEGINS
TOMORROW.
HsMsnk@4l
V'VNm A@a
1Z3 d l27 Main Street.

If the ability to trace an honor
able history back into the remot-
est times be deemed sufficient
cause for a patent of nobility,
linens must be the blood royal of
the textile world.
From the first syllable of re-
corded time they have ministered
to the comfors of every class of
humanity from prince to peasant.
The oldest specimens of woven
fabrics now in existence are the
fiaxen cerements of Egyptian
king, whose bodies, but for these.
would have been dust and ashes
for a thousand years. From
Babylon to Belfast, linens have
been an important article of COM
merce, and from Asia to America
they are today the greatest pride
of the heart of the housewife.
Our greatest linen sale takes
place this week. Price records
will be broken as they never were
before. Trading this week will
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
AMONG TIE FUN-MAKERs.

-Briggs-'Don't you ever have any
trouble whatever in meeting your
bills?' Sprigs-"Not a bit Of il. I meet
them everywhere l go"-Tit-Bits
-Ethel-''Do you allow Charles 10
kiss you when you are not engaged 20
him?" Maud-'1t isn't an allowance.
He calls it perquisite- "-Raymond's
Monthly.
With String TO It-Wifey-"Do
you have ever metz" Hubby-'T love
you better than any woman I could
ever get"-Detroit Free Press.
-'Thompkins is the most absent
minded man j ever saw I'm what
way?" SCOT married the other day
and forgot 20 take his bride when be
went on his wedding tour Halo
You are sure that you've found .
6rst-class school for your SOM Nr.
Readily think so; there were six
students badly injured By rough treat
meut during the first term Inter
Ocean
in a Nebraska Church
foo. (as collection is being tskenl-
MY purse IS in ny hip pocket" Ma
tive-"Better let me pay for rs both.
reach in that direction Is likely 70 be
misconstrued around this section st
Louis Dispatch
After Mr. Sumner had criticised
Gea- Graz: sa.agely. some one was
talking 70 Grant about atheism IN New
England, and remarked: Even Sum-
rer does 10. bclieTe il the Bible"
Why should her quietly replied
Grant; The didn't write -
Poet hope ron hare received
the little volume Of poems v<ntnred
70 send yOG-- Indeed.
hzve-it Is eharminz-I wonder here
! have pat 4 Little karI-.sCnce-
the leg OF The table. mamma, 20 make
Il steady. T-Flse-ende Blz..ss.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

lions whether or not passport shaI
be issued or protection afforded.


be issued or protection afforded.
A naturalized citizen who has left
military duty unperformed in his own
country must perform it if he returns,
and he is bound to.discharge any other
obligations that he left behind him.
Although person may be entitled to
be deemed an American citizen here,
he may be held to allegiance in some
form in another country.
But if naturalized citizen has not
forfeited or abandoned his citizenship.
and his good faith is established to
the satisfaction of our government.
and he owes no unperformed obliga-
tons, he is on exactly the same foot
ing when in his native country as a
native citizen of the United States.
Neither passport nor full official pro-
lection can be refused him.
The United States has done more
than any other nation to establish the
right of expatriation-that is to say,
the recognition, now general. of the
principle that every human being may
transfer his allegiance from one gov
eminent to another when he pleases.
Our government long contended
alone for this principle, especially
against the government of Great
Britain, which insisted upon the doc
trine of perpetual allegiance: ''Once
subject, always a subject" AS long
ago as 1919 the United States was will
ing to go to war to maintain the rights
of naturalized citizens on level with
those of natives.
But right to be protected does not
carry with it the right to abuse a
privilege. Both international usage,
and the necessity of preventing the
employment of American citizenship
as cloak for unlawful acts abroad,
have led to the extent of discrimina-
tioh which we have Indicated
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
It's Time

To emphasize the fact that this is
GREE COUNTRY" and if
we want to sell and advertise car
pets cheap we propose to do SO,
without submitting to personal
abuse by competitors, or KNOW
THE REASON WHY.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
The reason given by Cleveland E,

The reason given by Cleveland for so
persisteHtly sticking by ''Nigger" Tay-
lor, 1t IS said, is because the president
cannot find, among all the fusion cohorts
OF Kansas, another man SO straight, re-
liable and worthy Democrat as TAYLOR.
We are disinelined to believe that and
the United States senate also seems to he.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
TNLmym s(
~ /V1Hz1@2>
1913 and 127 MAIN ST
record SMASHING.
More Cheap
Carpets This
Week.

1t is now distinctly understood
by both buyers and sellers that
we will beat any prices You can
get on carpets, curtains and mat
ting.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
FOR KANSANS ONLY.

1--WE were sitting in front OF hotel in
Hutchinson, in Kansas, one evening last
week, when lot OF horsemen passed on the
street. They were covered with blood. 1t
had been one of those vicious, windy. sandy
days in Kansas and these men had been rid
ing across the country. The sharp sand,
driven with terrific force by the wind, had
lacerated their faces just as though they had
been slashed thousand times by penknife
The blood streamed from their wounds, and
covered their clothing from head TO foot"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
What IS the Use

Naming prices? We are to have
a Great Linen sale; you know
what that means here.
Fine damasks, fine napkins,
fine towels, fine lunch cloths, fine
scarfs, fancy linens Of all kinds
will be slaughtered here for OSE
WEE ONLY.
This will be the greatest liner
effort We have ever made; II will
bring you the greatest benefits.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

Governor Tillman has thousands of barrels
of whisky on his hands. This is the more per-
picking as it is the custom in South Carolina
TO wear it in the mouth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

We walk as we voted, should be the
Commonwealers' cry. There are great
many people walking nowadays who
used to be able to ride.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29

With so much whisky on his hands and
possessing only one optic, it is going TO be a
difficult thing for Governor Tillman to wink
the other eye.