The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-11-28
JUDGE REED IN TOWN
And While Here He Discusses the Myster-
fOus Things of Life.

Hon. Christopher Reed, ex-Judge of
the Ninteenth judicial district, now Of
Kansas City, is in the city. He came
down to close up some judicial matters
that remained unfinished since he went
cut of Office.
The judge looks splendid and is the
same genial intelligent, optimistic, elo-
cuent, companionable day dreamer that
he always was, when off the bench.
He was in the office of the clerk of the
district court yesterday trying the i'm
possible experiment of satisfying two
opposing lawyers, when reporter for
the Eagle called.
Mr.. Fred Bentley wanted an interline-
alton in a journal entry, and he put it
in there.
Mr.. James Conley objected to the in
Ierlineation on grounds which he de-
scribed with about fourteen of the big
gest words in the legal dictionary.
'I expect | had better overrule the
objection said the judge.
"Why, certainly" said Bentley with
an air of triumph.
IF you want to- said Comfy with an
air of superior legal shrewdness, and
he winked over the heads of both Bent
ley and Judge Reed.
We'll then, its overruled." said the
judge
We'll then said Comfy, "write
statement of that fact on the document"
Write what?" said the judge.
"Just write a statement that an inter-
lineation was inserted in the case made"
''Interlineation is a big word, spell it.,
said the judge. 4 am now long enough
in Missouri to be a poor speller There,
nav, that's my last official act in Kan
saS."
How do you like Missouri" asked a
reporter for the Eagle.
81 am not in Missouri. Kansas City is
not in Missouri only for geographical
purposes. 1t is really a Kansas town.
The people are Kansan in their habits
and in their ideas. When a MisSourian
comes there to locate we scratch the
moss off mis- back and in a few weeks
we have him SO that he can dring Mani
tou water without any fatal results.
Ibid you ever think about the divine
plan?" he continued. Did you ever
study that unexpressible. irrepressble,
irresistible indefinable something which
we call magnetism? I touch the table
with my hands and say are you julius
Caeser's grandmother, if you are give
five raps.' And the five raps come.
Where from? VINO knows? Can that
be the spirit of the grandam of the
mighty Caeser. and if so where does she
come from? What is that tremendous
power that anihilates time and space
that power that opens up the grave and
calls back soul from the realms of
eternity. merely to answer the question
of inferior persons like you and I?''
"Ycu must have been studying spirit
uaism lately"
Say. rather. investigating it. It is
wonderful thing. In the family at whose
house / board there are some girls VINO
are spiritualists. They do not seek TO
convince anybody to their belief. out
when | asked one of them to call up the
spirit Of Napoleon, she simply placed her
hands on the table and said: Is Emperor
Napoleon Boneparte near. if so. will he
please rap five times. / heard the five
raps as distinctly as l now hear my oxn
voice. / then conversed. through the
medium with the greatest military
genius in history, and in two minutes
that table was jumping around the room
as If moved by the force of a cyclone.
What was that mighty force that sig
nailed back from the great beyond the
reputed answers of the imperial Corsi-
can? [ don't know.
What grand thing it would be IL we
could understand the divine plan. We
come here and We will go away. Where
did we come from and whittier are we
going? The program of existence is in
the divine plan and We can't understand
i. because tie divine plan is ten thous-
and million times more perfect than our
plans-ten thousand million times wiser
than the plans of the wisest man that
lives upon this earth.
Have you noticed any change in
Wichita. judge?''
NO change. whatever. On. il is a
perfect city-an ideal community. AS I
came in this morning I was impressed
with its beauty Here it is lying in the
bosom OF fertile valley. surrounded by
all the beauties Of nature. No smoke 10
obscure the splendor OF the rising sun,
no steam whistles 10 mar the music Of
the soft southern breezes TO crashing
cars to disturb the repo,se of its people.
Here every man has an individuality-an
identity. 1t is Charlie Luling Fred
Bentley. Jim Comfy and so on With US.
in the larger city. il is different-no in
hividuaiity. no Identity II is simply
fly No. :. tumble bug No. ?. fly No. ;.
tumble bug No. and /. goes from morn
ing til night. from January 10 Decen-
Der. from the cradle 10 the tomb
Douglas Donnelly who was standing
all this time in mute silence, awed by
the towering eloquence and dramatic
elegance of the judge. nudged the re-
porter in the ribs ana observed that
Wichita lost its most brilliant son when
il lost Judge Reed
The iudge does not always live in poe
Try, but at times ne likes 20 talk about
the more exalted features OF human ex-
stencils mysteries and It's humsnities
and yesterday was one OF those times.
The lawyer and the judge cannot hide