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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
Oh, RATS,

Wichita has a new Prohibition board of
police commissioners, and now we shall
see whether or not local sentiment has
anything to do with the enforcement Of
the law.-Emporia Republican.
Rats. Laws being human enact
ments can only be enforced by human
officers; officers can only be commits
stoned by human maiorities: if the law
is not a majority sentiment where is
the officer who is going to disregard
the will of the majority that makes and
unmakes both laws and officers? The
Atchison Globe Of Thursday prints a
list of thirty-nine laws habitually ig-
nored and disregarded by the people
of this state. OF course murder or
arson or chicken stealing are not
among them. The voice of the people
is the voice of God and that law.
which for any reason. longer fails to
embody the will and conviction of the
people is only q law in name. and must
depend for its enforcement upon exig-
encieS and contingencies. The people
of Kansas are NOT necessarily bad or
corrupt or anarchists because they
permit some of their fellow citizens
TO go Picnicing or fishing on Sunday:
everybody is not bound for periition
who buys bread or meat on Sunday
or who patronizes a Sunday morning
paper: the governor of the state and
the judges OF the state are not fined
and imprisoned for travelling on rail
way passes But all OF these things
are unlawful. and in the estimation
of some people wicked and wrong.
But the majority do not think so and
that settles il. The people OF Wichita
would rs surely, as swiftly and as
condignly punish a murderer. a rapist
or chicken thief as the people of EN-
poria. Outside of Wichita. but with
in the boundaries of Seigwick county.
are two diverse and distinct commun-
tiles, the people OF neither of which
agree with Wichita One of these
communities believe in that The sew
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
The adhta 1ay Eagle: saturday gHorug august TO-

that his original statement was mild.
and that mot only are the Old places
where liquor is sold open, but new ones
are being started, and not only are the
low dens violating the law. bat very
many drug stores are open to the same
charge The mayor tells the editor
that he is doing the best he can to en-
force the law, and that the county Of
ficers are to blame. whereupon the
editor advises him 10 appear 10 the
chief executive of the state, and ex-
presses the hope that the governor of
the commonwealth will see to it that
the metropolis of the state OF Maine
yields obedience to the laws which are
considered by the people OF Maine of
sufficient worth to be embodied in the
constitution of the state"
This is identically the howl that Is
always going up in Kansas. Maine
has had prohibition forty years.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
THE TRfLBY FOOT FAD.

A pretty woman is the prettiest thing
on earth. The most beautiful thing
in the world is beautiful woman.
The most interesting thing that exists
is woman. For her all things were
made that was made and without her
not anything that was made would be
of value or account. The interest in
and features. But in these will be
found much of her winning prettiness
and attractive beauty. But her pearly
teeth and sparkling eyes, the regal
head and ivory neck, hereafter, must
reckon with her feet The ban has
been removed by Trilby from the feet
of all women. They are no longer to
be deemed immodest. Pretty pink
toes, natural and uncrampled are to go
for as much as pearly teeth. The round
Of the heel, the arch of the instep and
ALL unmarried by abnormal lasts, I'M
confined and undeformed by leather,
are TO count in the attractions which
enslaves the world. Trilby parties are
a fact and not fancy. At the great
fashionable pleasure resorts on the sea
shore. where are gathered the dainty
and high steppers from the exclusive
sets of the great cities, Trilby parties
are becoming common, and woman's
foot is to be emancipated. 1t is ac-
cepted as classic game by the most
beautiful damselS of the most noted
centers. At Cape May the other day
eight young women, all of social prom
inence in Boston, New York, Balti-
more, Philadelphia and Chicago, have
recently taken pat in this classic
game. These damsels, be it noted,
come from the very centers of civiliza-
ton. They are the pink of social ex-
clusiveneSs. The lines of their feet
may be believed to show what there
is Of refinement and culture in Amer
lean institutions. There was the long,
intellectual foot Of New England, the
dimpled, rosy foot of Maryland, the
arched and springy instep of Manhat-
tan, the languorous Philadelphia foot,
and the Chicago foot. The Chicago
foot took the prize.) Judge Garrison,
McAleer and other
men Of note and discretion were the
judges.
Thus is removed the ban from the
feet Of all women. They are no longer
to be deemed immodest. Those who
have pretty toes can stand on the same
footing with those who have pretty
teeth. The latter can smile, and the
former can attend Trilby parties. In
cidentally, a long-felt want will be
satisfied. The Chinese method of
the feet to endure all posi-
BILE narrowing of their prison walls is
no longer to be suffered. Cramped and
overlapping toes will be worse than
valueless in these competitions. The
Trilby party will emancipate hundreds
Of feet, and will cause the wholesale
leather dealer to rejoice. But the
corn doctor will weep bitter tears.
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enth day Of the week is the true Sab
bath. so on Sunday they work in their
fields and thus violate a state law.
They do it for conscience sake. The
other community conscientiously be-
lieves it no wrong, but right and
healthful. to meet every Sunday after
noon with their families and hold a
picnic, the beverage being lager beer.
These communities are violators of law
as emphatically as Wichita, but no
body thinks of disturbing them.
There is too much stress laid upon
"when I holler its law" There are
laws and laws. Its the moral law
which has been enacted into q penal
one. with criminal attachments, that in
being ignored cannot be enforced, and
nobody, we care not how upright or
conscientious they may be need worry
one moment over the failures to en-
force such laws Settle the matter as
between your own conscience and your
God and let the Pharisees and hypO-
critics howl
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
HE STANDS UP FOR WICHITA

II is too bad that two or three have
stopped their paper. but we Will venture
to say that for everyone VINO has stopped
the paper. so new subscribers have been
added to the list. We have noticed the
Star for the past few months giving Ettle
dirty. iow-down filings at the Eagle but
locked upon IL as little more than hum
ming bird buying aroFnd the head OF a
great big American Easse. and passed
them by without notice. as the mere bray
ing OF an ass. But when !. urges that
the Eagle be removed 20 another state
and its editor go along wiki Il, we are
constrained TO keep quiet 70 longer. for
we recognize that the Star IS TO friend Of
Wichita OF Kansas, but, Ike MOTH. has
more interest n the welfare % the money
leeches OF New York t:<s ras prosperity
OF the people OF Kansas. Should Ire
Eagle b taken from wichita IL would re-
move from the city ore Of the oizzsst bus
mess and labor employing Institutions IN
II: ard IL would be a long day before such
another daily payer would Be established
in the city. ard anyone who has the best
interest OF Wichita and Kansas al heart.
does not wan: TO see such an Institution
leave the state.
We have no doubt but tina. some t-arsi-
tory people ard anglou1aniacs Of the city
would like 10 see Colonel A1rdock leave
the state: SO would the money sharks %
Wall street. New YORK. and Lombard
street. London, bat no loyal citizen Of
wichita
Coie1el Nurtock hss done more 20 build
up the city OF Wichita and make Ter Snat
she Is today. than any other man II IL
and this fac. - acknowledged By every
well informed ci.izea OF the state What
ever mesnress he may be guilty Of n
politics, he has always stood by Wichita,
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
TITS AFTER FORTY YEARS

There is fresh trouble over the non
enforcement Of the prchibitory law in
rbe city OF Neal BOWS residence. The
Rev. DR.. J. q. Merrill. editor of the
Portland Christian Mirror. who is
vouched for by the Boston Consreya-
tionalist as IA cautious and fair-mind-
ed man. who has had abundant CD
portuHities 10 observe the working of
the liquor traffic in several cities of
the west recently published this para
graph in his paper:
The Argus reports tha, 4 NuaS-insl
Enforcement League has been organise;
in Portland that BODIES an end 20 the NM
sellers presen. prosperity The COVER
nor will be asked 10 appoin, special houor
coastabies, as the sherifrs and police ar.
doing nothing aud the city : haeksi.stnr
from temperance point Of view. I.af<<ez
f2ire : 4 failure every time. Our fas-
city IS n wretched cordsfion'"
These allegations having been chaI-
lenged- Dr. Merrill deliberately repeats
and emphasizes his charges, declaring
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
AN OLD SOLDIERS PROTEST.

An old soldier, whom the editor of
the Eagle knows as q leading Prohibi-
ZIONIST and a man of prominence in
one Of the couaty-Seat towns of South
ern Kansas, writes us letter yester-
day in which is enclosed several clip
pings from the Topeka daily papers,
to two Of which he is a regular sub
scriber. The clippings are all Of late
dates, detailing DRINKS and robberies.
Eight are from the columns of the
Capital and seven from the Journal.
We shall not publish "Old Soldiers
communication. But what arouses his
ire beyond endurance is the fact that
among the arrests were three "old
soldiers" for DRINKS. each one of whom
in addition to being sold whiskey in
sion money. All this in Topeka. The
name of one of the old soldiers is
Ward, who was made drunk and rob-
bed Of So. Another was Ellis. An
other was Smith. The last named old
patriot had drawn $50. He got drunk
on Topeka joint or drug store wills
key and was arrested and fined Later
on the same day he fell into the hands
of a thug named McClurg and a girl
by the name of lii" Tack, and at
night he hadn't single cent of that
$50 pension money to take home Our
correspondent desires the Eagle to call
the attention of Governor Morrill, to
very nose. who in failing to have the
law enforced the writer viii favor Of
the capital to some more decent To-
calify
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
THE GREAT FRAUD.

The Troy Chief thinks the metropolitan
police law viii not work. and cannot be
made towork. II can, hswever, be made
to accomplish the end IL vas intended 10
reach. The spirit of II is to allow the
cities that want saloons TO have them.
and to allow Prohibition to be enforced In
those that do not want whiskey. II IS
true that it has been asserted that IT'S
object was 10 compel the enforcement OF
that one law. whether the people wanted
1t enforced or not. But up to the present
time, II has done just what the wh,sSey
towns wanted ii TO do. Those towns
were well satisfied with II and run their
saloons openly without restraint Gov
ernor Morrill, has undertaken to enforce
the other theory of the law. He may sue
coed. but il is doubtful. He certainly
cannot II he does no. have the most
earnest support and cooperation OF public
sentiment. In the meantime the metro
poiitan police law will co1t:aue 10 be the
great fraud it always has been--Lawrenee
Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10

Eor TIE k28&-
| Two farmers rode into The Wild. wsls YES.
On a pleasant tay-afrer strange renzwn
Each thought OF the outlaw that re love.
bes.
Ard a dad sure way 20 hr.ng him
down.
For erops were short
Ard times were Iov.
Bat The price q outlaws
High tro<-
Where wild, west winds are singing.
They found two outlaws. fast ssle~p.
On the pleasant tzy-~hen ne sGa vas
down
An1 they shouted: Hold up your hsnss
ard keep
TolsEshie kAxt 'tsl xs &c: 70 ;eur-
Fer crops are short
Al tines are low
While The prize q o1;isvs
u h-xh. We know
Ard 4 couple 20 market we're bringing"
I'D ~en' tho<s kzn6s WITH a. uvxar;
fling
Two @tnchesss-s esrs-S With a double
ping
Two farmers dropped 30 n. a4a ''szs
teez.'
Win crops Sill short
Ard tines ye. lev
While the sr1e4 % outlaws
In hlKhsr-g .rog
Where wslc. wez- wsres ere singing
HENRY WALKER
Oklahoma Aar. = tsE
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
WICHITA EAGLE PRESS
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES

! Saliie Roberts ID after her husband In
the Oklahoma City divorce courts
They do say that Judge Burford can
make a speech that makes the windows
| rattle
The general opinion Is that MIRA Hatch
will succeed in getting Clyde MAttox
/ pardoned.
The story that Wyatt made hts last
| melon Is refuted.
Isenberg and Nibiack have made UP.
so no difficulty can be looked forward to
at the Enid Editorial convention.
Sam Klingsn. tho hack driver a, Okla
homa City. buncoed a girl out Of = and
has been found guilty OF embezzling-
The first freeze has been made in the
Perry ice plant and the company expects
/ 10 make cool ten thousand out OF It.
Professor Morrow has finally accepted
the presidency OF the Agricultural col
lege. He will take s.. 40 year out OF IL.
No one has had the audacity yet 10 AJAX
Zip Wyatt II he ever wore that steel shirt.
Zip might rise up ard kill the man on the
spot.
The Santa Fe and the choctaw are now
fighting for the freight from Tecumseh
ana tIdbIAtE. 1olhpSILoA an &feSA
thing.
Recently the Guthrie board OF trade An
nounced a meeting. with the explanation
that citizens could leave their poeks,sooks
at home.
A large reward has been offered TO the
Oklahoma editor who can prove that he
has not referred TO Oklahoma peaches
large and IueioUz." this year.
Judre Kileors said he wanted the Cor
bett-F'iszximmons prfxehght pulled OF ut
Ardmore. kilgore would Ike 20 see th@.
nght and he doesn't care who knows ~.
Rev. KnykendaIi staggered into the Oh
lahona City Timss-JeuTnsl once tks
other day and laid a watermelon on the
editors desk The desk went down with
q crash
As soon as Ends corn palace IN erected
its beauties win be greatly enhanced ~
the spectator before drinking IN the scene
VIII also take little OF tie 1uscs made
from the building
John Tvsrnlsy os Guthrie. has called
a public meeting for the rth 20 sympas
thlzs with the Cuban patriots II r. TN
derstood that the Leader r. scherning 20
become the Official organ OF tho iosur-
gents
Judge NgEslier Of Perry. holds that Inst
section OF law passed By the isst legs
lzture compelling q man 20 worx or tAs
streets or Pay the cash. In cites az ths
SrEt-clssz. Is unconstitutional The mar
may hire q subs.ltufs II be wants 20.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10

Stole IA. from Pete White last m
day: painted IL green and traded 10 bses
to him for . new ball Pete's as easy -
. feather bed
Wore mothers new ssockipp when
we played the Redknees last Saturday.
Traded che to the captain fog bat ssck
Tho other che sos left On senond
Tommy DoI2n coaldn's pitch tune
IL be had the machinery. The ssccnd
nine made mashed potatoes cot a has
zins BY nothing pitching
Fred Jones broke . window Last Fri
d.y In bis fathers bouse I sag . cat
do is-for 10 oenfs-
Fooled a fellow with . croqass ball
last night. II drove . nail IN bis shurrh
and skinned his chin He Is laying for
Zoo to.szy.-Mlnaezpo.s Tribuna
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
ROMANCE OF A KANSAS MIsER.

One OF the northern Kansas papers
which comes to the Topeka burau or the
Kansas City Journal as an exchange, re-
counts the fact that a first cousin or the
eccentric multimiliionaire. Russell Sage.
has for many years been a resident OF
Marshall county, Kansas. His name is
Colonel John Sage. and the place OF his
residence is Barrett, a small village on the
line of the Central Branch railroad.
Colonel Sage came to Barrett in the
early COS, and from the day he first drove
stakes in the town has never been out
side Of Marshall county. He was soon
marked by his neighbors for the queer
ways he had and Tor the extraordiny
parsimony with which he conducted his
business affairs. One Of his economies.
or idiosyncracies, was never to wear
socks. 1t was said of Colonel Sage that
the raoson he did not marry was because
it required too great an outlay OF his
precious gold TO pay Ior 4 license. He
came 70 Barrett a poor man. Within
five years he owned a well improved farm.
and gradually added to his possessions
until he became the largest property own
er in Marshall county. He possessed all
of the money-making qualities of his Wall
street cousin and II he fell short of accum
ulating the great fortt ne Of the natter IT,
was because Of circumscriped opportun-
occupied a queer little stone house in
Barrett, living entirely alone and doing
his own cooking and washing. He is now
20 years of age, bent, tremulous and de-
crepit, but his bright eye still glistens with
the fire of the miser's love. a number of
years ago Colonel Sage adopted a young
girl. When she had reached II years of
age he called in a lawyer and made his
will, of which she was the sole beneficiary.
At is years Of age. however. the girl
married young man to whom Colonel
Sage bore an unconquerable dislike. and
in his rage he tore up the will and dis
inherited the girl. Later a little daughter
was born to the welded couple and for the
baby the old man developed a wonderful
love. All the pent UP tenderness OF his
stony nature seemed to concentrate and
pour over the life of the prattling Little
one. He made a new will, in which the
infant was named as sole heir, and pro-
viding that his vast property should go
into the hands Of trustees for her benefit
when death should have claimed him.
The paper from which this story Is gath
cred says that Colonel Sage Is easily
worth 500, coo. To friend Cor rather an
acquaintance. for he had no close friends)
he recently stated that he had sold thirty
three farms in Marshall county, each of
which contained 160 acres, and invested
the proceeds in safe securities. He felt
that he was growing too old, he said. TO
manage his vast farming interests in per-
son and he would trust no one else TO do
It. His feeble steps and bowed form as
he hobbies about his lonely home indicate
that the little Marshall county heiress
Will not have many years 10 wait before
she becomes the richest girl in Kansas
Topeka dispatch II Kansas City Journal
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10
THE EARLIEST CUCKOO SONG.

1t is told that the very earliest cuckoo
song dates back TO the reign of Henry
III. Q207-72) and il worthy of note that the
music to which il was sung has also been
preserved along with il. The words ana
thought are far more pleasing and poeuc
than those of the crude but much lauded
lode to the Cuckoo" Of Logan or Bruce
whichever of them wrote 1t, even in their
modernized form. as they are given IN
Harting's "Ornithology OF Shakespeare
Summer is come in,
Loud sing, cuckoo.
The seed groweth, and the mead pio"e1n'
And the wood shoots now.
Sing, cuckoo.
The eve bleats after the lamb,
The COW lows after the calf,
The bullock starts, the buck verts-
Merrily sing, cuckoo.
Well Singest thou, cuckoo,
Mayest thou never cease.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10

has sheltered more famous people than
any other residence in Philadelphia
The most prolific writer In Russia Is said
TO be Nine Irma Fedossova, a peasant of
the Province OF Petrossawodsk. who has
given to the world more than 1900 poems.
How good they are is not related.
Bob Fitzsimmons. who is fond OF making
pets Of animals. has bought two hon cubs
from a menagerie at Coney Island and is
now frequently accompanied by enc OF
them on his daily walks.
80
A Pennsylvania court has ruled that
1.-The calf Is not a farm product" The
bicycle craze fully substantiates this view:
many OF the prettiest calves are city
grown.
The Mexican President, Por1ro Dfaz
goes duck-hunting once year. but apart
from this brief annual outing. he has
not left the City of Mexico for seven
years.
Miss Douglas. the champion amateur
niarkswoman Of England recently scor-
ed fifty-seven buIfs eyes in succession
with a revolver at twenty-yard range.
Andrew Carnegie mas aroused British
wrath by saying that It would pay Eng
land to burn up her railroad equipment
and replace it with American models
Miss Coleman of Mason, o., protests
against the published repor: that she
made a sensation by wearing red bloomers
in church. They were blue.
Princess de Polignsc. formerly Wilma
retta Singer, daughter OF the noted sew-
ing machine man, Is said TO be the best
amateur musician In Paris
Mrs. Corbett denies that she hopes FTtz-
simmons Will thrash her husband. True
little wife that she IS, she wants all the
alimony she can get
W r. D. Stokes OF New York has just
received two fine Russian stations as a
present from the cars uncle, the grand
duke Dimitri.
Mrs Potter Palmer who complains tina.
the men no longer run after the young
women, should not forget that they no
longer have to.
Sarah Rernhartt Is 30 peEin her FIRST
tour Of Germany next fall at the expira-
ton OF her American engagement
They say in Maine that Tom Reed h q
beautiful sprtnter. but only runs when be
has train 70 catch
Florence Lackmors OF Franklin, Mass. |
i5-yearz-ol1. climbed 20 the ceater OF
Foreign papers say that George Mere J
dith. the English writer. has become al I
most deaf.
II r. probable THAT the Few wouan- Ike 1
al other women, VIII never grow Old
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ner interests and her people. ana defended
them at all times from the hostile thrusts
OF enemies or designing schemers from
without.
With Marsh Murdock's name left out.
me history OF Wichita cannot be written
his name in generations to come will be
heralded as the chief promoter and builder
Of a great city. while the names Of such
narrow-minded little goldbug angloma-
MACS. as the editor OF the Star, will have
long since been swallowed up in the
yawning vortex of oblivion--Kansas Com
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The same newspapers in New York
which claim in their editorial columns
daily that the price Of gold is fixed by
the law of supply and demand printed
yesterday statement in their financial
columns that the Bank Of England had
reduced the price Of American gold
coin To 76s, 311ad. per ounce. so it
seems that they admit that the Bank
of England is the law of supply and
demand, as has repeatedly been shown.