The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-20

| was a Murray, one OF lHDSc os
mentioned in Sir Walter Scott's Lady
of the Lake, Her brother was knight
ed and made Sir James Murray on the
field of Gibraltar Martial music stirs
my blood and Mrs. Lease rolled in
roars under Gher earnest tongue.
| Another brother was in the federal
army. They all have been fighters and
I could go TO the stake If necessary
| calmly for a principle. War-iike mu-
sic thrills NE through and through, and
yet I'm scared to death of bug or a
spider or a mouse"
And Mrs. Lease turns pale at the
mention.
"Open-air meetings fill me with ter
ror. When L speak out of doors l al-
ways have outposts, half dozen, sta
TONED around me to keep the bugs
| away from me. / couldn't Kill one,
| either"
There's a banshee, too in Mrs. Leases
| family, and she tells truly thrilling
ghost yarns calculated to cool off her
listeners even in death-dealing heat.
Mrs Lease was brought up on But
ler's Lives of the Saints and Chalo-
ner's ''Meditations for Every Day in
| the Year" Mrs. Leases mother was
of the most strict sort, and young gen.
| tlemen who called on the four daugh-
tiers were promptly informed at
O'Clock that it was time to leave, as
the family then retired.
Mrs. Lease has never been to the
alter Yet she is arriving at the idea
that She missed her avocation and ought
TO have gone on rle stage. She is only
years old to the public.
She had never been into a political
meeting and simply slipped into one,
chaperoned by the protecting presence
of two newspaper women, just to get
out of a rainstoIm. She made speech
the first of her life, that day. and from
that time on she has been talking.
II went up like a rocket. Perhaps
I'll come down like one" she added.
I'm not in politics. I'm in morals.
never plan. work for principle"
1 asked her if she thought she was
doing right in making incendiary and
inflammatory speeches.
The tigress, the fighting Scotch Muir
ray and Irish Clyen blood leaped into
the big vein on her left brow.
Sire turned on me an angry woman.
How dare you say I make incen-
diary speech? Point to one sentence
If you can that is incendiary. And that
is woman. 1t seems so cruel to me
for one woman to charge another with
such crime Sadness, then a fresh
burst of anger. "How dare you? Can
you tell me of one incendiary thing 1
have ever said? No, you won't, for I
have never in my life said So"
l could have told her of dozens if the
papers quote her correctly, but abso-
lutely, Mrs. Lease, am satisfied, does
not believe they are dangerous.
81 make people think. I tell them
t. settle things by the ballot"
And Mrs. Lease sincerely believes
that.
81 do my best, and intend TO work.
SO that can say have done my share.
Now go do yours" said she.
Results-Results don't make any DIFF
ference to Mrs. Lease. She lives above
results in a rarefied atmosphere. She
said so. Results-they are not even
considered. 1t is morals she is after,
not politics or results.
Thousands of people wonder what
Mrs. Lease is working for; what one
or two specific objects she wants to
accomplish.
The only end / could find she has in
mind is mere work. She works for
the love of il rather than results. But
when Mrs. Lease arrives at her goal
she will build a home for children
little children-where she can work
out her ideas and theories of how chill
dren can be made into responsible citi-
Zens and voters.
1 have had her confession on that
point.
cit will cost lots of money, but I'll
nave il some time. There isn't door
that can stay closed 70 me- and Mrs.
Lease raised her tail figure to it's full
est stature and closed her jaws like
a tigress on its prey. Not a door that
desire 10 pass through can stay shut.
L expect, L know, sometimes can see
that the money is coming to me for it,
l, o, can feel many things and hear
many voices-yes, / am, they tell me,
clairvoyant.
Isn't Mrs. Lease a study?
And in five minutes she was entranc-
ed in the effect of stunning black
wrap just arrived for her and showing
an old family jewel, small emerald
She wears at her throat, that has just
been valued by New York jeweler
at $500.