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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

The longest editorial appearing in
the Lawrence Daily Journal for many
months was the one in its Mondays
issue, devoted to a criticism Of Wichita
for not enforcing the Prohibitory law.
The Journal doesn't know what it is
talking about. The Journals advice
is sounding brass, the findings of the
governor and his nosing attorney gen
eral but tinkling cymbals.
The Eagle would tell that paper
something it doesn't seem TO know.
Sedgwick county, as shown by the
court records, has spent one hundred
and Seventy-six thousand dollars Q76.-
00O) in prosecutions under the Prohib-
itory law. Does that show a want of
good faith upon the part Of our peo-
pie? When the great combined effort
was made to make Wichita dry town
twenty-seven thousand dollars of the
peoples money was expended in a
single year, and forty-one violatorS Of
the law were landed in the county
Jail at the time.
The Journals advice makes us about
as tired as does MOrrill'S sudden re-
solve that our tax-ridden people shall
add thousands of dollars 10 their
burthen in vain and foolish prosecu-
lions, in face of the fact that every
leyel-headed man knows that so far
as drinking is concerned Ii has never
made nor never will make any per-
ceptible difference whether the Joints
be opened or closed.
The Journals declaration that the
city of Wichita, by its action lis in a
state of anarchy" if it were not pure
bosh would be an insult SO far as
the taxpayers of Sedgwick county
and the business men of Wichita are
concerned, Governor Morrill, and his
Attorney General Noser. assisted by
local irreconcilableS. can hang every
jointist and commit their possessions
10 the flames, but not at the expense of
the taxpayers who care less for the
everlasting whine than they do for the
cost Of vain and foolish prosecutions.
There may be no beer or Wine or
whiskey drank in the city of Lawrence.
From reading OF its papers We pre-
sumo there Is not. When il is known
that Lawrence is located but a few
miles from a Missouri city. filled with
wholesale and retail liquor houses.
which can be reached by telephone and
orders filed at much less price than
is paid in Wichita, the people of Law
renee are to be congratulated that in
Difference 10 law and public sentiment,
that there is no drinking either openly
or on the sly, in their town. But
Wichita Is different. Wichita has a
large German element which you cam
not convince. or which the Eagle could
not. Of the wrongs OF drinking beer.
and large southern element who think
mint juleps bur delightful and not sim
full. and so on. To these elements
must be added our character as a CEN
ter OF population and of business that
the town is located two hundred and
twenty miles from where a drop
is TO be had. together with its border
antecedents and proclivi;ies.
We have but little else 10 offer n,
this time. in reply 10 the Journals I'M
gracious criticisms farther than 10 add
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
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dent of the island. This, says the
News, is the true cause of his persecu-
ton by the French authorities. Equal
dislike is cherished by the usurping
French authorities in Madagascar 10
the resident English who are opposed
to the revival Of the coolie trade. but
as yet none Of them have been molest-
ed, nor are any likely to be so long
as the Madagascar News continues to
advise the French generals Of such ex-
pressions Of British opinion as the
Leeds Daily Mercury thus vents:
If the hair Of a head Of British sub
ject who has a right to be where he is,
is touched, our foreign Office will be in a
position to-and the nation will demand
that 1t shall-take action. If our
hands are tied. and We do not care to
initiate France in ignoring treaty stipula-
tons, We are certainly not called upon
to allow her to 60 one letter beyond the
most strict Interpretation OF our under
taking. 1t Is provided in the declaration
''that the establishment Of this protec-
torate shall not affect any rights or i'm
munities enjoyed by British subjects in
that island" and that in the event OF
French disregard Of this provision We shall
be justified in intervening.
This is Walters side Of the case.
The French side is the charge that he
was spy. This government set on
foot an investigation In France. A
meagre report was made by our min
lister, the intent of which was that
Waller was justly imprisoned. 1t was
not sufficient Waller is citizen of
this country. He was picked up and
tried by court martial and thrown in
prison. If the French government
has a case it should make it and the
public should know what its justifica-
ton is. But the. truth Of the matter
is that no report has been made and
that none will be made so long as the
present lk-and-water foreign policy
of the Democratic party is continued.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
ONE OF sTEvENsoN'S LAST.

80, will he paint me the way / want
AS bonny as a grille,
Or will he paint me an ugly tyke,
And be id TO Nr. Nerh
But still and on which ever Il Is,
He IS canty keriie.
The Lord protect the back and neck
OF honest Mr. Nern.
This. one Of the last verses ever written
by Robert Louis stevenson. is in refer
ence to the portrait OF himself. which is
given 10 the public with his verse for the
first time in the July Cosmopolitan The
lines might have come from the pen OF
Burns. and are iuimi;able IN their way.
The portrait. was declared by Stevenson
himself 10 be the best ever painted OF him.
In this same number OF the Cosmopolitan.
Rudyard Kipling tells an Indian story,
to which Remington adds charming Illus
trations: Mrs. Burton Harrison makes a
serious study of New York society In The
Myth OF the Four Hundred" and Kate
Douglas Wiggin contributes a story Of
one of the most delightful OF Welsh re-
treats The Cosmopolitan was with this
number reduced to 10 cents per copy. and
as a consequence. notwithstanding its
large edition, IL was out OF print OF the
third day OF publication.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
rno sultan ON R.ciax.

did you ever hear the storNof how
the Prince Of Wales asked the sultan to
60 and see the Derby rum" asked Or.
landc Jones at the Aragon last evening
''Well, it was this wise: The race fos
the Derby was about to be run, and as
the sultan was then visiting England
the prince sent one Of his lords in wait
ing to inquire if the eastern potenta,e
would not like 10 go and witness the
classic contest The son Of the moon
and stars was seated propped up BY
cushions smoking placidly when the
royal emissary was ushered into his
presence.
His royal hlghness bids me ask
your majesty if it would please you to
witness the race for the Derby?' said
he. bowling low.
Does his royal hiehness mean THAI
! should go and see Q horse race? in
quired the sultan blandly.
He does, your highness.
Tell the prince that cannot %
%, replied the ruler Of the faithful
why shoGld I want to go? All men
who are not fools know that some horses
are swifter than others Atlantis
Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

that the authorities backed by the pro-
hibition element of this city have tried
ever and over again to enforce the
ProhibitOry law, as it is enforced, as
claimed by the Journal, in Lawrence,
but always with exactly the same re-
suit, viz: expensive prosecutions, fail
ures to convict and an increase Of
drunkenness and disorder. And so
will be the experience Of the present
spasm. The regulated or regularly
fined joints of this city have been
closed now about siXty-fve hours and
dozens Of illicit rackets by irrespOnsi-
BILE parties are being arranged for, or
are already open. Two boys, one but
13 years old, who had been thus sup
piled were found drunk last evening,
the city marshal informs us. The
same order was served on the 'land-
ladies" Of questionables houses, and
night before last several inmates ap-
peared before the police judge and the
city marshal in their ignorance and
despair crying, saying that they had
no place to go and were hungry. These
poor ignorant yet helpless victims of
man could not tramp, they dare not
openly beg. and they were afraid to go
to those who had demanded Of the
police commissioners that they be
driven forth, so they came to the police
station hoping for sympathy if not for
relief.
AS the Journal appears to take de-
light in applying the epithet of "An-
archists'' to the people Of this city We
will conclude with something in that
line for it to chew over. Wichita has
spent more money in attempts to en-
force the rohibitory law, twice over,
than any city in the state of Kansas;
Wichita owes the state Of Kansas moth
ing, save legal allegiance; the state
of Kansas has never done anything
for Wichita or Sedgwick county, and
it would not locate the dog kennel of an
insane asylum here, though we offered
to build. furnish and maintain it our
selves; the states railway political COM
miSSionerS would make no order in
her interest that might not be accept
able TO the railroads; Wichita and
Sedgwick county have paid more money
into the state treasury for the sus-
tanning of the various state institu-
tions, and for years, than any of the
other hundred counties in the state,
save two of the very oldest; therefore,
and finally, Wichita does not expect
that the present administration, nor
another administration dominated by
the old political pocket of the north
east corner Of the state, to do anything
but to hamper Wichita's material in
terests and to criticize her political and
moral status.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
THE SCHOOL IDEA IN BOOKS.

1t would be interesting to know why
the idea Of schools in books seizes so
certainly and securely on the public
mind.
Even its enemies, and they are many
and strong, acknowledge that Coins
Financial School has had a phenomenal
run. 1t has been sold by the hundreds
of thousands and is still selling. 1t
has been answered by scores who did
not believe its doctrines, and disagreed
with it to such an extent that they
felt the necessity of writing whole
books in answer.
Now it happens that Coins School
is not the only book Of its peculiar kind,
and almost name, in fact, to create a
great uprOar. Years ago in Europe,
some one wrote a little tract in which
the nations were described as trouble
some schOolboys, their talk and be-
haviour being set forth according to
the known characteristics Of the var
ious nations. 1t was an odd notion
at the time and one that the author
himself did not expect much from. But
what was his establishment to see the
little book jump into an unprecedented
popularity. Everybody read it. Hun
dreds of thousands Of copies were sold.
The question was universal: Have
you read Dame Europa's SCHOOL,"
Then its was translated into foreign
tongues and spread all over the Eu-
ropean continent. The author was
named and pointed out and admired
generally. Later he tried another
book-something by the author of
Dame Europa's School" 1t did not
take.
1t will be generally acknowledged
that if Mr.. Harvey's book had been
written in any other fashion it would
not have taken. The school idea of
Coins Financial School was undoubt-
eddy what gave it its popularity. The
literary style is not superior. 1t was
placed on the market between cam
paigns and could have received no
impetus from that. The facts it pre-
scented were not especially new.
The secret of its popularity, like that
of its predecessor. Dame Europa's
School," was probably because of its
simplicity and plainnesS.
Every man who reads and writes in
this country is educated in the public
schools of the country. The system Of
explaining TO the mind by blackboard
and the simplest illustra ton must cling
to the mature mind and when IL finds
an abtruse subject explained by those
methods it must hail it as pleasure.
At any rate the school" idea in
books and arguments is not new; nor
is ii yet hackneyed. but it is a wonder
full aid 10 popularity.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

The betting az Oklahoma City II stu on
the Salvation Army.
Mr.. and Mrs. wi6erneyer have goae 20
Colorado on their wedding trip.
The school board az Oklahoma City -
thinking OF taking out s.. 90 cyclone IN
sursnce.
Just as hard 20 win case there as /; is
anywhere else
The school iand board VIII not lease
any more land in the KIckapoo country
until September
MIN Wyatt. q brother OF TIE notorious
Zip. lives in Payne county and Is re-
syectable citizen.
Rube sealer. a painter. has beer arrested
for ASSUMING ex-Poace Judge NcCielaat
OF Oklahoma City
FIR Goode and G A C-cv~sey propose
20 buHd a windmill mandatory some
where 81 Oklahoma
weather Observer Ti1ern.y.r WAS mar
r.eA during re terrific storm a. Oklahoma
fC-y the other high.
Tia. Curautt-Jones decision ~ Eoke
Smith will make TIE soonsrs /. ire KICK
400 county feel easier.
Monsieur Round TsEer % TIRE Seminole
tribe, has been s-nte,c~t 20 f..eea days
IL jail for INTRODUCING"
TIE New York sgn has 20. c,.o re
Oklahoma divorce boom sa3 Is Advertising
:, n i;s editorial co!znas-
!, - sad ;hz, gi!Eker. the ma, vho
has tus- been is; out % re p<este1f3zTy.
viii rot return 10 Oklahoma
De-a.y Marshal VII Ssx has ..k.a
Jo1- Bite 70 TIE P-ccksyr az W peal
tertiary. Biiiis is . cczoterfetssr.
Wfihelrafne Eoalxzts wants Okszho1z
Cs:y 70 PIT % s. SD because os defective
si4swalz. and Oklahoma CITY refuses % 10
IL
Turkey Carver. The mar who Ies Casey
ard the Chr1srsa sTcthe-s escape. las
Eoas 70 I-ADo-s. where hls father "a ysTy
sick
There are o ss acres a. cora n Gaia
bona County. ard 5. 10 al tosnx vel. sss
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
All. MY DEAR LOVE.

| Rev. ]. w. Love writes the editor
| of the Eagle a letter. He scores us
for presuming to question the words
or motives of a gentleman of ''the
cloth" Brother Love was formerly
| the pastor of the Reformed church OF
| Wichita. He left Wichita because
Wichita got hard up in trying TO follow
| the advice of Brother Love and to make
| money at the same time. But Prohi
bition, as preached by Brother Love,
and material prosperity failed to go
hand in hand, so Brother Love moved
| to Kansas City. Letters from Kansas
City have a suspicious smell. Kan
sas City, however, offered to pay
Brother Love more. and prompter.
Kansas City pays its preachers, no
| doubt, big salaries, directly and indi-
rectly out of the profits of the liquors
she supplies to Kansas drug stores and
!, the whiskey she sells to Kansas towns.
So we lost Brother Love and his de-
lightful family. Brother Love writes
that he has a warm place in his heart
for Wichita. No doubt of it. for
Brother Love made it warm for good
many of our fellows who patrOnized
the town for whose people he now
breaches AS went Wichita's money
so went Brother Love. He followed
it to the source Of supplies. So
Brother Love writes back to us that he
does mot doubt that Wichita's inan-
cial stress is sent Of heaven for the
violation Of human law" and cites the
unfortunate from a financial stand
point. Our Hebrew brethren may be
little short on orthodoxy but they are
prOverbally full-handed in that which
pulled Brother Love to the town which
has so profited by prohibition. We
ever found Brother Love Il lovely
preacher, loving his fellow man but his
love of money proved too much for
his love for prohibitOry Wichita. He
says he has always found it the worst
policy to pay running expenses by
funds raked out Of the ooZe Of crime"
And SO we suppose he was for this rea-
son impelled to take his family of
bright daughters,-every one an artist
down to Missouri town where water
works steals, street railway subsidies,
paving Doodle are unheard, the open
saloon unknown and the bank deposits
consist Of Sunday collections taken up
in the churches. Brother Love closes
by taking up the cry Of anarchy"
Its anarchy, rank anarchy" he ex-
claims, ''to ignore any law, good, bad
or Indifferent" So ends Brother
Loves epistle, which we do not publish
in full, not so much from the fact that
it comes from Missouri as that 1t comes
from an outsider. Outsiders have had
too much to say how Wichita shall
conduct herself already. The whole
north, including New England, in ig-
noring the Fugitive Slave Law" We're
Anarchists, according to Brother
Loves rule, but they lived longer than
the law. Wichita will try to worry
along awhile longer in spite of Brother
Loves absence and without his adj
vice.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

late corn being in better shape than the
earAar varieties.
1t is stin time 10 plant broom corn in
Oklahoma The county commissioners
at Oklahoma City are giving the seed
away 10 the farmers
The Perry Enterprise intimates that II
public officials must get drunk they should
select Sunday when their services are not
needed Look out there. There may be
another dead editor.
A. NJ. Thomas. chairman OF the board
Of commissioners of Kay county. says
that the Kay county bonds have not been
sold yet. but that the prospects for sale
We're good. The sale was almost con-
sumated when the Associated Press Ia
kir' at Perry sent in q report OF destitu-
ton in the strip and knocked things in
the head.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
Is THIS POEM BY POE?

From the New York Sun.
To the Editor of the Sun.-Sir: At the
University Of Virginia Is published each
year by the students an annual called
Corks and Curles. From the edition of
this year copy the following:
AN UNPUBLISHED POEM BY EDGAR
ALLEN POE.
The poem on the opposite page was dis
covered by Mr.. II. Dalton billiard on Feb.
%. 1899. in volume l Of Rollins "Histoire
Ancienne" In the university library. A
search Of the records by the librarian. Mr..
Page, showed that the book had been
borrowed by Poe while student here.
and that it had not been taken out since
his time.
In this poem the peculiar genius Of Poe
may be seen at first glance and traces
Of the philosophy that marks 1.-The
Raven" "Dreamland." and other produc-
tons Of his lonesome latter years are
clearly apparent. AS the poem must
have been written when the boy poet was
II years old, it is interesting in that II
proves the statement Of his biographers
that there was nothing cynical IN the ten
dency Of any Of his earlier poems.
The manuscript is not particularly neat;
in the third stanza especially several al
terations and erasures occur. We print
the poem In full, together with a fac
smile Of the last stanZa, showing the
chirograph and signature:
MY SOUL.
Sailing ever seas abysmal
From a world of shame.
Once a vessel, strange and dismal
Phantom vessel-came
Toward fairy isle and oiden
Where Ill angels unbeholden
Tenanted Fate's ghostly. golden
-fn nd
Fame of Fame by seraphs builded
In the days of yore,
There "a temple chased and gildeD
From the earthly shore
Up to Heaven rose II cleaning
All with Hope and Beauty beaming-
Uike a dream OF Aidenn seeming
Had it seemed no more)
But the pilot steering
For that temple bright
Ever found the island veeHng
From his aching sight.
Till, from nightly shores appalling
Came the solemn darkness falling
In its hungry grasp en,nralling.
Land and sea and light.
Then the vessel sinking, lifting
Over hopes sublime
Perished hope) came drifting. drifting
To wild, wierd cline:
There. a visitor undaunted
In that desert land enchanted,
Still is seen the veSsef haunted
Out Of Space and Time.
e. A. PoA
The photogravure illustration OF the
manuscript leaves no douf OF the gen.
uineSs Of the poem.
JAMES LINDSAY GORDON.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11
WOMEN KNOW SAUCE.

A peculiar instance Of the influence
of the home woman has just come TO
light The matter took place in the
supreme court of the United States:
The case before the court was one
arising out Of a customs decision in
New York, and the counsel arguing
against the dcision of the custom house
was New York lawyer, then for the
first time before the supreme court.
The case turned mainly upon the ques-
ton whether an article of importation
should or should not be classed as a
sauce. The custom house had called
it a sauce and taxed it accordingly.
The government maintained this con-
tention, and, Of cour se, the New York
lawyer sought to show that the article
should not be classed as a sauce.
When the supreme court came to
consult upon the case their unanimous
opinion was favorable to the conten-
ton Of the government, and one Of the
justices was instructed to prepare a
decision in favor of the custom house.
The justice, on returning home, told
his wife Of the case, and indicated the
ground of the decision; whereupon the
lady told him in plain words that the
justices of the supreme court did not
know what they were talking about,
and had agreed upon an unjust deci-
sion. The lady was entirely clear that
the article in dispute oculd not prop
erly be called a sauce, and openly ridi-
culed the court.
The perplexed justice, instead of pre-
pairing the decision in accordance with
the instructions Of his brethren, did
nothing in the matter, but at the next
opportunity unfolded to the other JUS
tees his wife's view of he matter and
asked them to seek domestic counsel
on the case and report at the next con-
sultation of the court. When that
consultation came round the justices,
having taken feminine counsel, all re-
ported against the original view that
the article involved In the case should
be clasSed as sauce, and accordingly
the justice originally charged with the
task of preparing a decision in favor
of the government was instructed to
prepare one in favor Of the New York
lawyers client. 1t thus happened that
the lawyer won his first case before the
supreme court because the wives Of the
justices knew more than the court it
self.
The argument in this story does not
have to be enlarged. The argument is
against public life for women. Thou
sands Of votes are yearly Influenced the
same way. When the home or its
interests are in jeopardy there is no
doubt that this intuitive woman will
realize the danger before the prag-
matte man. As she knows more about
sauce she also knows more about
everything in home life. in parlor,
in kitchen and attic. Her advice there
on is good. In nearly every instance
her advice influences the vote OF her
male relatives.
1t would not have contented the fe-
male suffragists TO have changed the
supreme court on the question OF sauce
by suggestion. In Mrs. Cats opin-
ion the thing for the wives of the
justices to have done would have been
to have hired a hall and publicly
them with humiliation un-
less they changed their opinions
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

Build a castle in the air and live in it
occasionally. 1t is a delightful bit of
unreal estate. free from every discom-
fort. from mortgage to gas meter.
Practical people will condemn your
folly, but what Of that? When the eavas
Of your cottage seem TO press on your
brain, or your fiat shrinks TO q 10 by la
Enclosure, move out, take possession Of
your castle and revel i'll il. if only for 90
minutes. The brief respite will help you
wonderfully, and even if your airy dwell
ing does come down with q crash You
will crawl out Of the ruins better pre-
pared to grapple with mundane cares
New Orleans Times Democrat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

According TO Edison, the labor of the
next century will simply be the matter
of pressing The button. This isn't
true. The question Of the next CEN
fury is: WHO will sew the button
~,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

The window glass men have CON-
bined. They have been throwing
stones Of competition at one another
aud wisely concluded that all should
live in the same glass house.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-11

Martin Mohler struggled Up 10 the
surface of oblivion the other day long
enough TO call the author OF Coins
Financial School liar. Then with
gurgle, Martin went down again, prob
ably to rise never more.