The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-08
Copyright. 1895, by Edgar ". Eye.l

Thoreau says, 1.-THE boy gathers materi-
ais for a temple and then when he is 80
concludes to build a wood she'd"
but there was one among u.s." says
Taylor's biographer, "who had not made
this failure. He had kept his heart. "
He had no time to make money. It was
said that his stammer was like dam
that holds the water back to give il
power to turn the wheel and set thou
sand shuttles dancing and cleaning in
a glad, swift minuet.
Taylor only showed what he might
have done and then died instead of ac-
oomplishing a great deal and thus irri
tsting lot of small literary hound pups
who years after might attract momen-
tary attention TO themselves by barking
ct the front door of his reputation.
! There's nothing so discouraging to the
valor of backbiter as the cool hauteur
Of the silent tomb.
! MIR. Taylor edited The Morning Lead
er of La Crosse, Wis, and wrote humor-
Gus and poetic prose, not alone ON a sal
airy, bat to the hungry hearts Of his
/ friends. Generosity and wealth combin
cd could do no more.
When he went to La Crosse, promi-
nent contractor was building bridge
over the Mississippi. Every morning
pale, round faced man with blue eyes
used to come and watch the pile driver
/ as the big hammer weighing hundreds
Of pounds slowly rose 10 its full height
and then, as if by mistake, dropped back
with wicked plunk On the top of
ouivering pile so as TO send little shud-
dering waves in q million circles over
the water.
When the mighty iron weight arose,
the pale, sad face would follow it, and
when it fell the jaw and head would
drop with IS till the weary watchers
neck began to get tired, and then the
weary watcher would go away. In the
morning he would come back again and
/ do it all over. This went on that way
for week or ten days. and the contract
| or got so that he looked for the strange
/ youth to come and sort of conduct the
morning exercises. After a week had
pale director who had been punctuating
! the pile drivers work stole up TO the
contractor and said:
Odd, do you own that th-th thing
th-there?''
Yes" said the contractor, "that's
mine"
Newell" said the pale student,
i've b-b-been thinking a g-s-g-good
deal about that and the t-t-t-trouble you
have with it, and I c-c-c-can fix that
thing so that it'll s-s-s-stay up there"
Afterward the contractor said he
learned that the sweet faced youth with
the guileless heart was Lutte Taylor, the
editor of The Leader.
Taylor said that the BLACK Crook"
as produced in New York might be i'm
moral, but thanks 10 the sterling integ-
rity of the west nothing could be more
free from such a charge than the per-
formance in ST. Paul 1t Was as proper
as a girls recess at q district school in
the glad summer time. Ii was spec
tacle which. so far as legs seemed 70 go,
reminded him OF a visit 70 Rus Nun
ger $ piano store on Third street CT the
turning lathe on the south fork of the
kinni kinnick. The BLACK Crook" as
given IN St. Paul was not only absolute
~ free from sin, but with its realistic
representation Of hell, occupied almost
entirely by bad actors, the play became
at once great moral engine and power
for good. Possibly may not recall the
exact language, but this was the spirit
Of il.
Mr.. Taylor said that, considering the
prominence given TO a man by stammer-
ing, ne wondered that otherwise stupid
people did not give more attention 10
this science. BE was Republican him
self and was once accused by Demo
cTat OF being entirely unknown except
On account Of this affection. Taylor said
that on reflection hswas surprised 70 see
how truthful this was, considering the
unreliable source from which it cane
Ee also claimed that IN joint debate
where his political adversaTies had in
sisted OF giving him lot of time with
Lavish generosity, sometimes : couple Of
hours for 10 minutes Of desultory "a
marks, he had n righteous wrath over
come his stuttsring fcT the time and
made such good record that the enemy
fed il disuay
Also another advantage Of st1nmeTiBg
discovered early in life was this: In rec
| itations ct schcoL esDecialx IN the