The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-25
QUICK, NOT DEAD
PROFESSOR CHRISTY HAS ARISEN,
TO THE SURPRISE OF ALL
After Most Heart-Rending Memorial
Services and Rivers of Tears, He
Appears and Proves Tha. He
has Visited No Mysterious
Bourne-W no Started 1t?

| When Professor Chrlsty resumes his
educational work in the city again he
might be placed at the head of new de-
ment where he can educate the rising
youth of Kansas in the mysteries of the
| of the other world.
Professor Christy has gone through the
process of resurrection from the dead.
His funeral sermon was preached, tears
shed over his loss, eulogies were pro-
nounced that will crush his modesty when
he reads them, personal "reminiscences illus
trating his life and character were told,
| and now he turns up to read his own fu-
| neral notice The EAGLE with other con-
| tributed an obituary notice that will make
"a gem for the scrap bood of the professor.
On the 7th of February notice of the
death of Professor Christy was received
here. The story went that he died in New
York. whittier he had gone to attend to the
burial of his father. While paying the last
offices. of a dutiful son to deceased
father he took bad cold; it turned into
pneumonia, and. after three or four days
suffering, he yielded his spirit in an un-
equal contest with a relentless foe. The
story was very pathetic. aud not few of
Professor Christy's friends shed copious
tears which came directly from the heart.
The sadness felt at Fairmount college
was especially painful. not only among
the faculty, but among the students as
we'll.
1t was ordered that memorial services
should be held, and last Wednesday was
set for that event. Professor Tun mel, the
president, delivered fine eulogy on the
life and character of the deceased that
abounded with the most touching and
pathetic allusions.
Dr.. Hendrix, in the most modest and
earnest manner, followed, and Professor
Christy ought to be forever grateful to
him for the sheen and finish he gave to
his character AS man and the great and
noble Intellectual traits that be possessed.
The ever sincere, candid and warm
hearted Professor Griffin rose to the high
est flights of oratory in the portrayal of the
manly qualities uuselfish motives and en-
ergetic traits of his dead friend and COM
panion. AS climax to this great blaze
of oratorical and eulogistic glory, Mrs.
Walden, in her usual sweet manner, sung
a song that was truly touching, for in an
occasion like this, music is an infallible
key to well springs of the compassionate
and tender heart. Many student thought
that it was a great thing to die as their
late professor and mentor died, mourned
by the great companions he left behind.
The minutes of this sad but honored
event, were ordered compiled into suit
able memorial article for this issue of the
EAGLE. Que of the best writers was de-
tailed to do the work and the result was
that yesterday an obituary article was
left at the EAGLE office that would brew
tears from Il heart Of adamant. A
young lady wrote it. and that soft
tender feeling peculiar to the feminine
heart pregnated every line of it.
Later in the day the biographer Of the
deceased professor came breathlessly to
the Office, called for the memorial article,
and made the astonishing statement that
the professor was not dead at all.
Yesterday, in the very nick of time, Pres
ident Tunnel received letter from the
professor, in which he stated that he was
not dead, but that he was alive and recov
his health, which had been slightly i'm
paired about the time of the reported
death. He was very indignant over the
report of his death, and be promises to dog
his murderer till he lands him in the peni
tentiary, where he belongs.
The report of Professor Christy's death
purported to have been written by his pri
vate secretary, which makes the matter
more mysterious.
Professor Christy was a riddle to me-"
said man who knew him, to a re-
porter for the EAGLE, last night.
''He WAS very peculiar man,
and the more l got acquainted with him
the more of riddle he became. For the
life of me, / could not locate the combina-
tion of the riddle, aud | studied him day
after day, and week after week. He was
absolutely unselfish, a bright scholar, and
one of the most energetic men l ever knew.
He went to the bottom of everything, and
always worked rapidly. Socially he was
a perfect gentleman and a delightful COM
panion, but, nevertheless, there was a
mystery somewhere about him that
could never locate nor solve
Whatever this was it must have impressed
others. Professor Scott when he first
heard of his death said it was fake, half
a dozen students said it was fake and
two or three others discre6ited it. Why
they should disbeieve the story l am at
loss to say, but they did it. The report
came here as straight as the report of any
other mans death, and was worthy of
credence
1t is thought now that the report was
circulated to disturb the relationship p
Professor Christy bore to the Garfield
university. 1t is we'll known fact that
he was negotiating for the university and
had offered, it is said, $4,000 in cash for
it. lie had set his heart on the university
and his highest and seemingly sole ambi-
tion was TO own it.
There is something queer about the
whole business