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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
OKLAHOMA OUTLINES.

p. s.-Refect on the word murdered
in the above sentence.
Rev. C II. Rogers Of Oklahoma has been
transferred to Freeport. Ills.
II seems that some one at Alva really
did send Bill Nye a divorce circular.
Gail Douglass has been arrested in the
Sewers rape case al Perry for perjury.
The Horticultural association OF Okla
homa county met al Oklahoma City yes
terday.
Both Secretary Lowe and his wife have
been az since the Gre 49, their home In
Guthrie.
A correspondent in The Perry Enterprise
in rs neiEhborhooG.
TIE Guthrie Leader denies that the Dem
ocrzts are trying 20 make a party ques-
ton ogi OF the statehood mater.
Professor Freeman Miller has a poem
n the Christmas number OF the "Sex
Bohemian" az eastern pub4cstioa-
Tie directors OF The Choc-z~ Normal
ard Industrial school yesterday bought
four hundred dollars worth q lumber a.
OKLAHOMA CITY.
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!rE o. Governor Rsafro~ for Ep~eizl
session % - leE+slztsre 10 strzigssea o.,
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
ToLER.s TALE OF oRsEss1oN.

This morning on the sixth page the
Eagle publishes Mr.. Foster Toler's
story appearing in the Christmas num-
Der of the Horse Review. OF course
the facts upon which the story are
built viii be familiar to the reader.
The mystery of E. T. Brown, which
set Wichita, and Browns old home in
Kentucky, by the ears, has never been
solved. Mr.. Brown is himself a res
ident of Chicago at this time and in
prosperous condition. He has never
been able. or able, has he been willing
to divulge the truth of his strange ex-
perience. At the time of his disap-
pearance many mercenary motives, in
the way of insurance and conspiracy
with his wife to counterfeit his death,
were suggested, but at no time did
Mrs. Brown In her actions or testimony
warrant the charge of insincerity in
her declaratio that she did not know
where her husband was, or did not
hope for his return.
Brown was a prominent citizen Of
this city. He disappeared one night,
his bloody hat being found a few feet
north of where he left the North Tope-
ka avenue street car. All the local
authorities, including local detective
agencies, reinforced by a Pinkerton
man from Chicago. tried in vain 10
And him. When the town had ceased
wondering. and given up both search
and curiosity, Brown returned home
one day as tramp. His recovery to
a normal mental and physical condi- |
ton was rapid. and, of course, awak-
ened suspicion. but nothing ever came !
of this suspicion. so that today the stn- |
ry Of his strange experience is as much |
mystery as ever.
1t is upon these facts that Mr.. To |
ler'S story of obsession. (the possess |
ion of man by an evil spirit is (
based
1t would be foolish to speculate on
the probability of fanciful sketch,
as this Is. Among the extreme Ma
hatma cult and ultra-hypnotie advo-
Gates, the story. as told by Mr.. Toler
will be given the honor of being plau-
Sble.
Among the sensible. worcestershire
people, it will be taken as a pretty tale.
written in a graceful literary style. Of
fering n fanciful solution for great
mystery. And for that reason ii is
published. For. while the great world
Is always true to its own conservative.
mstter-Of-facts beliefs. it
" and illogical speculation, psrticu-
Iarly when a great mystery. such as
The Brown case was, combats every
plausible explanation or human posi-
bility ina ginable.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

amiabiy suffers wrong rather than dc
wrong Were 1t not in time of war in
civilized country the Dukobortzy, :
conscientious objections to bearing
arms would hardly bring him in con-
fiict with the authorities. and when
it did he could still bear the penalties
of allegiance TO his principles. But
militarism pervades everything in Rus
STA.
The Russian government does not
come As the hsrbinger and benificent
embodiment OF order. facilitating inter
course and industry. comforting secu-
rity and securing large liberty. Its
whole aspect is that of an all-pervad-
ing extortion of the fruits of, toll TO
create more terrible engine for kill
ing. As an absolute monarchy also
the Imperial government is the ally.
and. indeed. the representative and
champion, Of the church. just as was
the case with Charles V in the Refor-
nation. or with Louis NV when Nine.
Aaintenon and her confessor were su-
preme in his BOudoir Cabinet. In
such an alliance dissent is of the ma
ture of treason. The government can
not tolerate the Dukhobortzy. ''The
only means of inducing them to obey
says Count Tolstoy. ARE blows, exc
cutions, deprivation of shelter, cold
and hunger in their families. Just
these means are used" Yes. and they
are now used with a barbarity which
well might render the Car cautious
how he denounces the ferocitieS OF the
Turk in Armenia. Some alienation
of the situation might be found if the
imperial alliance of church and state
could be ended. and constitutional and
local government moderate the autoc-
racy OF the Car. But these are just
the things for which poor, semi barba-
rious, pathetic Russia is not lit. In
all ages the personal tyrant is the
schoolmsster 10 lead on free institu-
tons. 1t is just these glimpses now
and then into interior Russia which
disclose how tragic are the conditions
that still lie between her and the insu-
tutions of civilized liberty.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
NO Vac POSSIBLE

'Only by surrender on the part Of
England says Walter Wellman IN
his correspondence TO the Chicago
Times Herald, scan war between the
United States and Great Britain be
averted. II the American congress
viii support the president. and in this
there can be no doubt. Great Britain
viii soon be given the choice OF sur
rendering or lighting"
Colonel Bob IngeuSon In his speech
the o5her nigh. at Kansas City. when
be touched upon the Venezuela ques-
ton. rs reported by the World. said
thai England was living IN a glass
house and could not afford 70 throw
stones As seen as war were declared
between England aud any country Of
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
QUEER RUSSIAN SECT.

Count Leo TolstOy has adopted the
Dukhobortzy sect as the opponents Of
his religious and civic theories. and ap-
pears in The Contemporary Review as
its advocate. These people are Chris
tians of a very primitive and mystical
sort. They are largely found IN the
Caucasus; are excellent colonizers, and
in general correspond quite closely to
the Stundists, who dwell in the Black
Sea districts. and whom the paternal
Gar has striven to extirpate in
fashion as ruthless az were the drag
onades that Louis NV organized 10
suppress the heretics of the Ceyennes
two hundred years ago. In this coun-
try they would be regarded as a very
harmless and gentle sort OF sectary.
very much as are the MennOnites aud
Dunkards. They hold the church to he
that mystical body Of people in whom
Is the Spirit Of God. They require no
government: recognize no authority Of
priest or magistrate. To pay taxes Is
IA contribute TO the kingdom OF Dark
neSs-whose official representative is
the Gar. because he is the head Of a
secular state. They believe in non
resistance, and viii neither support nor
serve IN any military organization.
They regard the Christian tradition Of
their sect as Of equal authority with
the Holy Scriptures. and are as free
in their interpretations Of the Bible
as 5 TolsJoy himself: aud for all these
rea sons he likes them
But their tenets bring them into col /
lision with the Russian government Z
for they are Incompatible with IT, ex-
isteace- In one OF the Turkish wars !
i regiment Of coascripts from taei- /.
sect. while marching On Pe7ekop. n the .
Crimea, threw down their arms AZ the
roadside and refused % resume them. Z
~ course. the taIgasher-r can levy Oh 1
their property. II they have any. and T.
coilect money hy inposts on The things 4
they consume: and they are then IN the
position OF conscientious Quaker Eho i
pays his war tax on eomguisio7, AID
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

| intended as a lesson. although IL has
been made one. She was pure and
poor, and her poverty overcame her
purity, not with her willingness, but
| with the bitter circumstances that
poverty always overcomes purity.
Tess taught great lesson, the les
| son that the code of honor for men is
too lenient, the code of honor for wo-
men unjust; that the poor have great
passions and great honor.
Tess" is one Of the most beautiful
characters in all romance.
But Herminia, the woman who die"
was not. She was a crank Her vi
olence against the marriage ceremony,
her obstinate refusal to accept any con-
ventiouality for fear she was violating
the sacred enactment Of truth" was
idiotic. Her reiterated declaration
that the ''truth win make you free"
was her own demagogic way of de-
ceiving herself. While she was in
Weighing against conventionality all
the time she suffered herself to set up
a remedy that was a conventionality
itself. and which it was her purpose
to force upon the world by marrying
herself.
Tess" was life given. The world
was left to draw a conclusion from
that life and to find a remedy, which
some day it will. "Herminia," the
woman Who Did, was a life given,
but debating what the world should
put in lieu of the marriage ceremony.
The world learns by persuasion not
dictation. This is the mistake of all
reformers. and among them Herminia.
The world will listen to the depletion
of conditions; it will suggest the rem
edy itself.
If Thomas Hardy makes his latest
heroine ''reformer" it is to be regret
ted In this connection it will inter
est many to learn thats Miss Ian
chaster of London has been trying TO
carry out Terminals views of mat
in real life. The London pa
pers are discussing her attempt and |
the St James Gazette sets down the |
following crushing argument against
her:
without marriage, az perhaps poor |
Miss Manchester may discover eventu- |
ally-as at any rate tens of thousands |
of women have discovered before
the advantages of a union between the
sexes is all on the side of the man. |
The woman is at the mercy of his ca
price. his selfShness and his sensuality
This is so well understood that to abol-
ish marriage would be to unmake civ
liZation."
Miss Lancaster will fail. Her fail
ure will be on the hands of Grant AL
en who wrote the "Woman Who Did,
and suggested this folly to her. The
effect of his book was vicious, no mat
Ter how pure its intent. While it
1oes not lead sensible people astray,
t affords willful innocence with an
excuse, and Injuries and weakens con-
7entional discipline.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
STICK TO KANSAS.

There are evidences that the exodus
from Kansas is on the wane as ii
should be. 1t may be partly owing
to this years good crops, but proba-
| bly, the greater reason is the fact that
business is dull everywhere else The
widespread destruction of values and
general stagnation in all lines of bus
| mess have been SO thoroughly adver-
| tised that any observing person may
see that hard times prevail in all parts
of the country. Kansas people see this,
and are less inclined to leave compar-
tive safety in the frying pan for sure
destruction in the fire. For four years
past there has been a steady stream
of emigration from the state, including
many good citizens whom we can i'll
afford to lose, but almost without eI-
ception, they have regretted the change
and some have actually returned.
contributed their share, but it speaks
well for the city that she has sustain
ed about the same population that she
had after the drift element had de-
parted when the boom was over. Rem
tai agents report that houses are as
well occupied as at any time within
five years Our schools are crowded
TO their full capacity, and the voting
strength remains about the same from
year to year. This shows that there
is a sustaining force behind our bust
ness interests and that Wichita is any
thing but the bubble which eastern
people have tried SO hard to christen
her. A few have gone out, be it said
in sorrow, to join the traducers and viii
ifiers of Wichita, but luckily they are
few in number. Another class who
should be regarded more with pity
than censure are those who burden
the mails and bore their friends with
fabulous stories of wealth acquired
within a few months after leaving
Kansas. A number of cases could be
cited where such attempts have been
made to deceive old friends, and where
reliable information has disclosed that
they were stranded and begging for
credit. 1t is humiliating TO any cam
did man TO know that his old neighbor
or kinsman will so compromise his
honor as TO lie in order that he may
appear to be prosperous when he is not |
Such population, however, is little loss
to any community and Wichita or any |
other city is well rid Of them.
There never was a better time for /
frugal, Industrious people to stick to |
Kansas than now. No other locality |
produces more of the things which sus-
tain life No state of the union shows
as low mortality record. nor Is she
by any state In the general
health of her people. The greatest
security against want in hard times
like the present is to be at the base of
supplies, where food is cheap. The
safest retreat from pestilence is where
the death rate is lowest. The sure
place to gain n competence, and ac-
luire wealth is where there Is, every
year, surplus of such products as
will command the cash every day in
he year. If you would prosper and
enjoy life stick to Kansas.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13
MORE OK FREE 1--we.

Readers Of books VIII regret 10 learn
that Thomas Hardy has fallen into the
Woman Who DID" net OF literatu rr.
Ills latest work dude. the ObScure'1
Is said 20 have leaning toward this
free love theory.
II this IS true. it IS too bad. Hardy
d.d a great service 10 the world IN
LES The condition he portrayed
n Tess" is social condition that i
a biot on our civilization. But Tess
was not free love refcrmer, or a re-
former Of any kind. Her life was NOT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Marion Crawford, In the course OF
a paper on the Sacred City, entitled
"A Kaleidoscope of Rome" in the jan
uary Century, pays his respects to the
analyzing realists "It is wonderful 20
note" he says, chow many people are
ready and anxious TO butcher their
own souls. quarter them,and dispose Of
them piecemeal TO the public, even as
cats meat
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

CO Leland has been made a member
of the National Republican executive
committee. That secretaryship Of the
interior under Mckinley is getting 70
appear too substantial for a myth.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

As Christmas approaches we should
remember and be resigned to the fact
that the average child VIII listen to 4
Mother Goose rhyme $50 times aud
then say Read It again"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

An Omaha doctor claims the loca
blossom viii enable man to gain con
troi over a woman. This is scarcely
possible. American beauty roses. AZ two
dollars and fifty cents a bud have
been known TO do the work.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

As shown by the sultan's bluff about
the Dardanelies. diplomacy is the art
OF making such a row over the mole
hill that everybody forgets about the
mountain.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Governor Matthews has been Indoors
ed by the Indiana Democrats for nras-
ldent This is notification 10 Mr..
Cleveland that Indiana is a fervent adj
yocate OF the first term idea"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Lord Dnrayen is coming back 10 this
country TO clear up the yacht trouble.
Ihere IS nothing small about Dunrav-
en- IL has always been our opinion
that he was Disseminated against in
the last cup contest
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Perhaps the recording angel dropped
tear on Harry Hayward's show of
nerve As a great general he might
have Killed off thousands of men and
been honored.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Miss Aub now confeSSeS that she lied
when she confessed that she lied The
question now is whether she lied when
she confessed that She lied when she
confessed that she lied.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

II Ben Harrison is in love, the news
papers should let him alone When a
great frigid nature is in the act of melt
ing it should have the privilege of pri-
NHrT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Mob violence on any pretext viii not
be tolerated in Kansas Unless thar
depraved town Of Topeka behaves her
self Kansas Will RAE her from the
earth
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

If, as Yvette Gullbert declares. her
songs are not nasty, she should at
once frame an apology for coming to
America, clear from Paris.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Before Major Morrill, ordered ont
the militia at Topeka, he should have
reflected that great men can make mis-
takes, out they cannot successfully be
ridiculouS
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Actor Tom Keene would oblige
great many Wichita people by appris-
ing them of his authority for believ-
ing that Hamlet was an auctioneer.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Maher has put up his money for the
big fight, and as it is money that is
supposed to make his kind go, the fight
will probably take place.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

If the EndeaYorers should succeed.
Bob lngersoll, just TO be contrary,
would refuse to climb the golden stairs
when ne died. and kick for an elevator
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

1t was a mistake to allow Bill Nye
to advertise Oklahoma's ninety-day
facilities. The thing is no joke with
Oklahoma.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Morrill, ordered out the militia on q
body-snatching sensation. Great hea-
vens! Is Major Morrill, really in pos
session of his faculties?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

While the impeachment resolution
may have been buncombe, ii viii prob
ably serve to make Ambassador Bay
ard buckle up his Obstreperous fea-
lures.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

One reason congress would not ac-
cept Kansas man for chaplain was
that congress refused to endure a Wal
Ter supplication every day.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Chief Left Hand Squaw's burial can
not be said to be completely in accord
with civilized forms until some medi-
cal college has dug up the body.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

1t must be the wonder of the sultan
and John Waller how Breckenridge
manages TO stave off that SIS, 900 pay
ment without the aid of diplomacy.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

An attempt TO reSuscitate the rumor
that Morrill, doesn't want second term
will only result in ruffiing up the peace
full repose Of the corpse.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Let Us concede Ingalls, this one com,
pliment He never tried TO mollift
his defeat with a hackneyed talk
about extensive law practice"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

BY confessing that she lied when she
confessed that she lied, Miss Aub shows
plainly that she ought to be ashamed
of herself
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Topeka dispatch 1.-The mob, on the
advice of the officials dispers-
ed" Nice mob that Were there
three, or four, men in IT,.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

With great certainty and precision
the Mckinley advocates have set out
to believe that Tom Reed is going to
make some terrible blunders.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

1vette Guilbert is quite human. 81
do not Ike pretty women" she SAYS.
Nvette Is homely herself Besides be-
ing human this proves that YYette is
a woman
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Old Alexandra Dumas left francs
Alexander, the son, left 100000 francs
The old man had genius; the son, good
sense
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

England can go too far even with
Cleveland. Let them once try to grab
a good duck-hunting territory.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Just as soon as ingalls, turns his TO
tary oratory towards EnglaDds tail
his boom in Kansas will begin.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-13

Schlatter probably quit because the
business of free cure is not sinecure.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1895-02-21
SHORT TALK,

The chances are that a ore tine
advertisement, or very small adj
vertisement, will not pay. tits only
continuous, persistent effort, and ef-
fort that is strong enough to make
an impression, that will be found
adequately profitable.
Once liz a while one time ad-
vertisement on q speeial- occasion
will bring good results, but not one
time in a hundred, unless the adver-
tiser has been fairly we'll advertised
in the community before.
If the pier of a, bridge is to be
built in the middle CT a river, the
builders begin by sinking stones for
foundation. If they dropped the
first stone and quit because they
could not see it, the pier would
never be built.
If they dropped dozen stones,
one on top of the other, and quit
before the pile was big enough to
stick out of the water, they would
lose their TINA and their stones.
But if they go on, put in a good
solid foundation and build up from
that, they will in time raise a pier
that will be strong and permanent,
and that will hold up a useful and
necessary bridge.
1t is just SO with advertising. The
first ads. you drop in only serve az
foundation-they do not serve as
anything if you do not drop in
enough of them-but if you keep
on piling one Oh top of the other, in
the end you will have pier which
will sustain the bridge Of business
all the rest of your life.
The water Of competition will
waste away some of the stones and
they will have to be replaced, but
once the pier is built, the re-
pairs will not be very expensive.