The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-02
Copyright. 1895, by Edgar ". Nye. ]

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MEETING OSCAR.
cause of its freshness as news, but Il
show how cheap assassination and Other
industries have become-25 turkey shot
No. 2, with a few grains of powde,
wadded with half column of The
Cleaner. On which could afterward be
read plainly:
Oh, what life we have led
using the word in an editorial capacity
While seeking to uphold our circulation,
Yet toiling to take our wad Of mendacity.
And a little further on, speaking Of
the new girl of Buncombe, with Trilby
hair and new garden hose, he adds:
''The editors character about as near
as can be seen in American life. 1t
seems many things occur to his mind
which people have no idea about" This
we find in the March Cleaner and it
goes to show how cheaply feud can
now be carried on as times are now.
The Cleaner costs but % cents per year,
and half a column is good for two men.
The wadding was picked up on the
ground 1t is horrible death to die,
| but it is sure when it gets into the Cir
culation.
Some years ago there swooped across
the wide sky an Opaque huccid inverte-
brate bearing cows breakfast of sun
flower and Gala lily, while murmuring
| soft nothings into the ears of those Pc
| ter Funk Amerioanassa who were grnbs
| not so long ago that to be noticed even
| by the armless man or the wild man of
| Fort Dodge, Iowa, was glory enough for
lifetime. They paid to see him. This
creature was named Oscar Wilde. /
saw him, met him while he was on his
California mission for means, ETC.,
while teaching the upper classes of Red
Dog how to combine beet hash to look
like Turner's slaveship. which an able
Boston reporter described as looking
like tortoise she'll Cat having an apo
plectic fit in a bowl of tomato soup.
Oscar passed on to Yuba Dam, show
ing the plum butter people how to stand
up to bar like willow wand, how to
avoid grim visaged war by squirting
fine cut tobacco into a violet colored
jardiniere.
Casually no wrote US up in that jaunty
Rollo Book style such as is used by The
Englishman who while here strives TO
make the whole Waldorf hotel think
that he is taking his tub all the time,
whereas he Is stunning where beer is
low and emigrant girls play Trilby for
board and clothes
R-t hn Of
he said as he kissed a yellow cigarette
finger in farewell TO the still good na-
tured populace. THAT the thoughtful
and we'll bred have cause for regret. /
have repeatedly said this, especially in
places where | have been entertained,
but the reply has been always, We are
still q young country, and you must not
be too severe upon Us, Mr.. Wilde.
Yes, bat l must say in reply, Your
manners were better 100 years ago than
now. They have been never equal TO
the days since the time Of Washington
and Pocahontas. Look at Pocahontas
as you see her today on the currency,
which just borrowed of a coarse Cali
fornian, a man who used the telegraph
universe for cuspidor.
81 would rather have seen Pocahon-
tas climbing out of the slippery Chicka
honliny or Minnehaha after taking her
tub than 70 have dined with your yeo-
man president, who leaves you, after
four years, IN tram car, by Jove, TO the
station. with a six bob alarm clock on
L. IL l. 81
down south
Il believe that most serious prob
lem for the American people TO solve is
cultivation among its people. 1t IS the
most noticeable, the most painful effect
in American civilization.
YES, - said 70 him in an interview,
for was poor but proud reporter and
he on the Cnion Pacific with a merry
little wallet OF coast gold as big as
pug dog at hand, Our manners are lit
tie decayed, said I, land so will be
TIE eggs with which we greet you on
your return. No doubt the nude Indian
princess was 10 yen more aesthetic than
the cultivation Of which yo1 know not. -
Oscar wilde passed ms by ccidiy IN
after years He became more and more
erotic and gross under the guise OF as /
theticism, and now the grizzly nobility /
swear that should he escape a life OF i'm /,
prisonment they viii shoot out OF him I
the Immoral growth that like mighty
stalagInites and stalactites have filed /
the darkened intellect Of this moral fox 1
ide Of wickednesS. this self indulgiug
erotio sulnor and child OF sin
About ten years ago / greeted; DC
with these lines. and though my neigh