The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-12-20
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| was a doctor that hurled denunciatio1
| at the originator and now. it seems, it
| is doctor that hurts criticism ar TIE
denunciator of the originator If one or
two more doctors enter the case it Is not
| improbable that the ordinance will die a
| painful death and the curfew will toll its
own funeral knell. Doctors differ ana
| patients die" is an old saying and it
may come true in this case.
| The Eagle reporters would never think
| of entering the controversy at all had
| it not been that their historical krowl-
edge was assailed. An Eagle reporter
| is a maker Of history and no event has
ever happened since the day that man
f, born not of woman went to sleep in the
garden Of Eden-and had a rib filched
| from his side-down to the last divorce
case in the docket-in which rio had a
| husband filched from her side-that d
reporter for this paper dare not know
and hold his job.
| The trouble with Dr. Everett IS that
| he does not know, or seems to have for
gotten, that the world has produced
more than one Virgil. There were many
of that tribe doctor. To be sure they
were not as numerous as the Smiths and
Browns, but nevertheless there were
quite few Of them. There were Pub
| lines Virgil, for instance, and Palydore
Virgil-one great poet and another a
great historian. They lived centuries
apart. Polydore Virgil is the one DR..
Shuts meant and if DR.. Everett viii
open up the sixth volume of the Ameri-
canEncyclopcdia at page 152 he viii
find out all about him When DR.. Shuts
quoted him as authority in the curfew
ordinance of William the Conqueror'S
time he quoted correct history and the
Eagle reporter knew it.
Even if the doctor meant Publins Vir-
gill which he did not, he would not nee
essarily be subject to criticism To be
sure Plubus died, as Dr. Everett alleges,
nineteen years before the Christian era
and could not very well inform us OIL
things that happened 100 years after
wards, but he was not any more dead
100 years after he was buried than he
was 1900 years after he was buried, and
yet he not only gadded around with Old
man Dante of Inferno" fame, but he
talked with him quite freely. This is a
statement which the Eagle reporter fully
believes, for he has in his elaborate IL
brary picture by Gustav Dore which
shows Dante and Virgil standing arm
in arm on the summit of a high hill.
And by the same token. Virgil wears
wreath upon his head, after the manner
of his time, and Dante wears cow up
on his head Now, then, who knows but
what Dr. Shuts and Virgil also have
rambled and talked together. To go still
farther, who knows but what DR.. Shuts
is Dante reincarnated. Did you ever
study the features of DR.. ShuIts-his
nose, his mouth and his chin? Shave
off the doctors whiskers and put cowi
upon his head and you have a more per-
feet likeness of the great Dante than was
ever made by the brush of Gustave
Dore. II you think this proposition ao-
surd what do you think of the statement
Of our illustrious townSwoman, Mary
Ellen Lease, when she says that ST.
Patrick was the reincarnation OF the
prophet jeremiah. And as for the brave
Maceo, doctor. he will talk long after his
death. Centuries hence he will talk
about liberty TO generations yet unborn.
4 thousand years from now he will tell
men whose souls are bursting for free
dom of the cruel barbarities OF the
bloody minions OF Spain. Like John
Brown his soul will go marching on.
The only thing to be regretted about
this whole business is that such schol-
arly gentleman as DR.. Everett should
have forgotten Polydore Virgil, the great
bishop of Bath and Wells and English
historian whose biography can be found
in every encyclopedia.