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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

right OF way to front seats, and acts
upon it. The sedate judge regards it an
outrage upon constituted authority and
| bystanders are treated. to rudeness on
the part of young men and profanity on
the part of the judge. The lady in silk
makes q dive for the entrance gate. to
| find herself wedged between a frowsy
peddler and a pickpocket. The parson
seat reserved for the clergy TO find it
taken by sport with red necktie. He
mildly protests and then grows red in
the face as the backward stroke of some
ones arm sends his new silk tile to the
ground, to be trampled under the feet of
the irreverent crowd Of people. The
woman with a baby is always there
Who ever saw a crowd without her?
If there Is jam or stampede. she is
in the thickest of it. The baby is good
at home, but cries necessarily in a
crowd. The more the baby cries the
more people are exasperated. and the
more people are exasperated the more
the baby cries. Under this dual aggra-
walton the poor mother cries and re-
solves henceforth to leave baby at home
"a resolution which she never keeps.
But there are other centers Of attrac-
ton. There is a runaway, break
down. and a smash-up, all in the frac-
ton of a minute. The police run to the
scene. men and women run, everybody
runs to see who is hurt and how il hap
pened. Everybody shoots an interrOga-
ton at everybody else, but nobody has
an answer. The story starts from some
where that somebody's back is broken.
but the rumor grows out OF horses
having backed into a sprinkling cart.
1t is such incidents and happenings
in a crowd that call out the monkey
which remains in man. He may build
steamship or write treatise on eyo-
luton. but monkeyshines are not wholly
eradicated out Of him. Everybody apes
everybody in the man-monkey act,
though every one is disguised with
what others are doing. Neither con-
ventionalism nor dignity nor even COM
mon everyday civilities have any place
in a crowd. The experiences one gets
may have their Uses, but it must be in
the contrasts to everything in the cate
CORY Of good conduct. Were it possible
for one TO observe without participating
in the antics Of a promiscuous crowd.
he would find it veritable kaleidoscope
of selfish, funny, insane and altogether
ridiculous maneuyers. He would COM
miserate the follies Of his race and pom
der the query: When shall we see the
perfect man?
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

While IN the cicy NJ. Bryan vas ~.
SPECIAL companion OF Jerry Simpson Mex;
year il Nh Bryan WI keep ais eye cock
G. in this direction he VIII see Nj Snip
sor put through a cOFa-sAeLeE tAa, WI
not leave as much OF z1n as vss lsf. Q. re
e - nartki Nra I-.a:E,A-t
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

There is much more genuine sorrow over
Neal Dow, Prohibitionist, dying. than there
is over Prohibition also dying
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

the Klondike is around trying to trade his
neighbor out of few 1S-karat potatoes.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

The local Populis;s who are fast losing
their minds ever the tremendous crowds
which came OF; 20 see Bryan should re-
fleet that n a measure al elerhan; does
the same thing. Ard IN Bryan there Is
every Indication that PopuEsm has an els-
plant on is hands
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

While everybody is talking OF dollar
wheat, it should not be forgotten that this
is October and buck-wheat is also coming
up 10 the scratch.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

If Spain is really looking for fine emer-
aid shade of three-ply and heavily now-
cred trouble she can find it by ringing our
front door-bell at once.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

John L. Sullivan's change from pugilIem
to politics is not so great. He used to be
spelling for fights. He is now fighting
for spols.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

There are several rev trades n Pans
YOU End dog docto-s. dog dentists. dog
barber. ard 5o< d7essrnzks-s advertised
n TIE nesspspe-s- s-6 they sse-u = b
vel patrorszs5 heard .ciay. writes .
correspondent. O, az American woman VIC
spent - s0r garments 20 dress 8 Dog
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

In order TO entirely obliterate that ru-
NOR that ne was starving to DEATH Mark
Twain has been taken down With the
govt
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

John L. Sullivan says: THE days comm
when hell will pop In this country. There'li
be a revolution" In that case the nation
will call on Mr.. Fitzsimmons to protect
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

TT. Troy Che. vtl publish esc, week
so-,e ot The bes: Writings CO tee la. So
af.,i<- "a founder AZ s6:ee.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

Bryan ie wonderful orator, but the
little old crooked Arabic figures in the
clearing house tables are making a conf
Dental talk which is really changing the
votes
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

The prosecution in the Luetguert case
al Chicago seems 10 have failed to get
all the bones OF Mrs LuetEuert together.
but they collected enough to make mon
key OF Dr.. Airport.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

weyler, apparently, has not resigned, and
the world is to be again subjected 10
long campaign in Cuba in which both
sides agilely break their necks in trying to
avoid each other
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

Oh. marvellous humanity Think OF man
standing agape with tingling sympathetic
ears 20 Bryans cry that there Is not
enough money in circulation. while a PICK
poke, Is relieving him al tae very H.
stan; Of sl36 in cash. This happened II
Xk-s.hF-o
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

More people attended Star Pointers race
at Sprin gfleld. Illinois, than came TO hear
Bryan al Wichita. But then Bryan didn't
have a leg to stand on, and Star Pointer
mad four.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

The news from Topeka indicates that
some OF the citizens there are willing TO
concede that in a few OF its festures Queen
Victoria's jubilee procession Slightly sur
passed Santa lie day al Topeka
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

Jerry Simpson says that mex; year wheat
VII go back 10 forty cents a bushel. Whea,
will DO nothing OF the kind. But. by a
direc; vote OF the people. Jerry Simpson
VII 60 back about forty fee, and head
over heels
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

Mrs. Rorer, the culinary authority says
that only adult chickens" are fl for food.
This is all right. but the boarding house
contingent; rises in indignatio still agains:
the antique specimen.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

Naturally the robbers who held train
up by daylight have long been snsered
a. having brass watches pawnei Of on
them by passengers for goiG watches. and
were resolved 10 take nc chances tbs
time.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-10-03

that tney EXPECT crushing defeat. Reports
from ne b.g COUNTIES iu ias state are that
tie EepubI ans have made ~ eli ;1ete
ffererces ard are working % harmony
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about T. SO Vlg elect a Republican tf-se.
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lev sent a telegram to my husband, In
forming him that had lost the train,
but that I was with friends, whose
name, however, he did not give. A
room was secured for me, and l wac
hidden lie down and rest till dinner
time, for Kate had promised that she
would take me in the evening to see
the Transcontinental company In ltS
professional capacity.
What tumult my mind was IN as
lay in the strange chamber and sought
to compose myself! 1t seemed that
had lived a lifetime since morning.
Sheraton was thousand miles away;
already it's Inhabitants seemed Hire
membered phantasms of the dead. MY
adaptability must have been very con-
siderable, for while my initiation into
these new scenes was accompanied by
unWonted exhilaration and excitement,
L was in no degree confused nor con-
founded. 1t may have been that my
vivaciouS nature had suddenly come
into it's own; that it's rightful inherit
lance had been Unexpectedly bestowed
upon it that all the straining ambitions
and aspirations within me which cir
cumstances had discouraged from their
birth, had found the tension that mao
so long restrained them at last relaxed
and themselves congenially environed.
A duck, even if during the major por-
ton of it's life it has been confined in
a COOP does not require experience TO
accustom it to water. Suddenly m
mersed. the creature finds the element
so adapted to it's instincts that for the
first time it feels that it's birthright
has become realized. And so it was
with me.
1t was Byron, think, who went to
bed one night obscure, and awoke to
find himself famous. Something OF
the sort befel me. I went to the thea
ter that night absolutely unknown TO
the world; the next day all New York
rang with my praises. I left the hotel
at half-past seven, a green, countrified
little Nine. la Cure; I returned to 1t
four hours later, the favorite danseuse
of the tickle public. Was ever trans
ition more rapid or more complete?
I need not relate minutely the details
Of the transformation. The main points
are as fOllOWS:
The house was brilliant one. The
Trans-continental Burlesque and Vari-
ETY. company always called forth a
fashionable audience. Its methods ap-
pealed to that class which constantly
Graves novelty and excitement. We
sat through the first act in box The
sight of the gay and Ito my unsophlstl-
Gated eyes, gorgeous assemblage, the
charm and interest of the acting, the
exquisite melody from the Iull orcHeS-
ira, the entire atmosphere Of my sur
roundings, got into my head and
mounted to my brain. By degrees the
dull habit of my rural training fell
away from me- I glowed, thrilled,
throbbed with excitement. Involun-
tarily my feet kept time with the mu-
sic, my eyes burnt in their sockets, and
my heart actually ached with wild
longing to be one of those tawdry beings
no If TO the
idle hours of jaded public. Oh, fool
ish moth! that could not see that the
flame consumed what entered within
it's lustre!
At the conclusion of the act and after
several recalls had been complied with,
in the midst of fresh burst Of APP
plause, Greeley pushed aside the cur
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most dreadful predicament. You saw
that Mr. Greeley and were discussing
something Just now, and doubtless you
noticed now nervous and upset he was.
Well, TINS Is the trouble Just after
making his announcement to the audi
ence, Geoff ssreceived a message from
Cleo's master, saying the girl Is already
overcome with STAGE fright and absc-
lutely refuses to appear. Geoff Is
awfully upset; he says it will ruin our
engagement here If he has to go out
and make another apology"
looked at the billowy mass Of tissue,
and my lip curled contemptuously.
AS If one so clad, and possessed of the
true spirit OF dancing, need fear mere
humanity, however largely congre-
gated.
What a poor coward!' exclaimed
''You would not be afraid?" There
was certain suppressed eagerness anu
emphasis in her tone which gave the
question significance
"I" l started, looked searchingly at
her, read her wishes, forgot who and
what l was, turned my back on pro-
priety, decorum and self-reStraint, and
delivered my soul over 70 the keeping
OF my vanity I began to tear asunder
the fastenings of my gown. Rapidly,
Kate aiding me with the dizziness Of a
lady's maid, I stripped off the cocoon
in which my real nature had so long
lain dormant, and, with the falling
away of my homely garments, there
disappeared also the shackles which
had imprisoned my spirit. A few quick
touches let down the quantities of rud-
dy hair, which were allowed to fall as
they would in rich profusion about me,
and then the airy, VolumlnouS robes OF
tissue were thrown over my head. The
costume was not that of ballet girl;
it swathed my body from neck to ank-
les, and fell about me like white drift
Of summer clouds shot through with
sunbeams. Only my full throat was
exposed, but my arms were also al
lowed to reveal themselves to the
shoulders, as the drapery fell back from
them when I danced.
had no glimpse Of myself until L
was all apparelled, and so well had the
rch-conspirators timed the develop
ment of their plot that, simultaneously
with my appearance before the cheVal-
glass, the anxious, worried face OF
Godfrey Greeley looked in again at the
doorway. The act and entr acte were
over. The audience were already an
ticipating Cleo's appearance with their
applause. But moment was aVallaDle
for the inspection. of that wonderful
image the mirror gave forth to three
pairs of amazed and rapturous eyes.
But that moment embraced more salts
faction than chad felt for nineteen
years; while it amply sufficed for the
quieting Of the managerial scruples
which had beenlrife in the breasts OF
my companions ~
This was the picture the mirror
framed I Femember it well. 1t I'M
pressed me deeply, and in a measure
impersonally for it was as one regards
a -dreamt- of but hitherto unen-
countered affinity that I contemplated
the vision before me: A shape of early
womanhood, { its gracious curves and
outlines artistically suggested by. the
fashion of it's draperies, seemed start
ing forth into the room from conceal
ment behind the glass. Above the f1lmy
mist of gossamer that shrouded it's ex-
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09

Special Correspondence Of the Globe.
NEW YORK, May 6.-Political lead.
ership is not the bed Of roses the aver
age citizen believes it to be. Neither
does it-nor politics generally for that
matter-yield the financial returns peO-
pie think The same amount of energy,
ingenuity and perseverance applied to
any other field of effort, commerce. law,
art or medicine, as is employed In po-
litical leadership, or even subleader-
ship, would make almost any man, I'M
less he were a "Puddin' head Wilson"
happy, healthy prosperous, free OF al
care and on good terms with himself
and the rest of mankind. That beatific
condition Is not the lot of your politi-
clan, I don't care how high up or how
fortunate he may appear to be- Al
most Invariably thwarted ambition
for every man who goes into politics Is
amibtious-eats into his soul, and every
friend whom he cannot place In ONCE,
no matter how hard he may try, be-
comes either an open or a secret enemy.
1t is only necessary to delve into the
past to the extent Of pointing out how
Webster and Greeley, disappointed In
their ambition to reach the presidency.
went broken in heart and in purse to
the grave; and how COnkling and Cam
eron Were shorn of, power. in the great
states of New York and Pennsylvania
by men they kept from the sweets of
Office and then get down to the trials
and tribulations of present day politics.
II sometimes wish I were dead"
Thomas C. Platt once told that to the
late John ]. O'Brien, Chester A.
Arthur's pet lieutenant in New York
city Senator Platt and O'Brien had
been discussing the question of patron
age and the former was at his wits
ends how to please the boys and yet
satisfy, or at least pacify, the tur-
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Politics as a Business.
Views of New York's Famous Senator, Timothy DRY
Dollar Sullivan.

so faithfully for Cleveland's success
that his health gave way under the
strain, but almost Immediately after
election he was confidentially informed
by one close to the administration
that Tammany could not hope for any,
thing from Cleveland. That broke his
heart, and he died Kelly was as hon.
est as the day was long, and never
turned a penny out of politics. In
trenched as he was in power for so
long time, he could have made $10.-
000,0 900 in secret ways were he so dis
posed, but he died leaving an estate
Of about $500, 900, every dollar Of which
was made out of business ventures.
Richard Croker, leader of Tammany
hall after John Kelly. almost broke
down in health Immediately after the
labors Of the campaign Of 1892. He
suffered from indigestion and insom-
MIA. He wisely, however, gave up all
work and took a trip abroad. where
he would be safe from political i'm.
portunities. Later on, by the doctors
advise to the deep grief Of the organ
ization. he resigned the leadership. He
was compelled to choose between
health and power, and he took the
former. Mr.. Croker is credited with
having a lot of money, but will gam
BILE on it he never made it out Of
politics. ltsy7g-l
There are a few men,, very few men, who
know when to quit politics gracefully and in
time. Rather they. are men who take up
politics as a means to an end, and do not
plunge into It's follies-the struggle for mas
terry, the placing Of patronage and the like.
Bourke Cochran ev-Gov. George T. Hoadly,
of Ohio and ex-Attorney General Russell are
examples of this class, but they are lawyers.
and all politicians are not lawyers.
Let me show you the reverse of the medal.
few years ago l saw two splendid looking
old gentlemen in a cigar box of law Office
in Broadway munching at cakes and coffee.
They were in genteel but absolute poverty.
At the same time they were exceedingly Proud,
like the Pemberly twins, and kept their pow
erty to themselves. They were Levi P.
Chatfeld and Amos X. Hadley, respectively
attorney general and speaker of the assem-
bly, away back in the fifties- Both had been
They are now dead.
Another case in point: John F. Smyth,
twenty years ago an opulent brewer at AL
bany, chairman of the Republican state COM
mittee and the Republican boss of Albany.
postmaster of that town and the bosom
sure of a happy future. But no. Five years
later he was shorn of power and of wealth,
and in another five years died in the most
abject poverty in the cottage of henchman
within a stones throw of his former mansion,
where banquet was being held that night.
and from which the strains of music reached
his ears as he lay dying
. L could go on thus indefinitely but these
examples, think will suffice. Do you think
that men in any other walk of life-bankers,
merchants, lawyers or doctors-ever expert
ence vicissitudes like these? I guess not.
Therefore, I say that a man is happier in any
other vocation than that Of politics. But,
then, politics is a passion, like gambling,
which it is hard to drop. wish could.
IT D. Sullivan,
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$II|III| ;.

inspiration which had suddenly awak-
ened new hope in his breast, when, at
ter few kind words of reinsurance
as to my predicament, Mr.. Greeley De-
came all attention to me and all alert
ness regarding my favorable impress
sion with my surroundings. When ne
called his wife aside and held short
eager colloquy with her; when he Or
dered the gas men to turn on the hghts
and summoned what musicians yet re-
NAMED back to their places; when he
insisted that Kate and 1 should lay
aside our wraps, lest we should eaten
cold on going out, ingenious little
country girl, never suspected that the
trouble he professed to be taking Sole
ly for my pleasure was, in reality, I'M
dertaken purely in furtherance or MS
new and wholly selfish design.
The leader of the orchestra had gone'
there was but a handful of musicians
left; but Greeley insisted that l should
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
Carpets. Rugs and Upholstery Goods
FINE STORAGE.
while the auditorium was yet ringing

while the auditorium was yet ringing
with plaudits and bravas for the de-
butante whose dancing had excited the
wild enthusiasm of the multitude, l,
overstrained, spent, and completely eX-
hausted, dropped like dead thing In
the midst of the congratulating COM
pany, and was carried, cold and inert,
to the green room, where kindly hands
sought to relieve and restore me.
Once I came to, 1 was hurried home
by Kate, who, tactful soul, left me to
silence and my own reflections. These
were not wholly the delightful rumi-
nations Of gratified vanity, however.
for an incident occurred just as we were
getting into the carriage that gave me
cause in my exultation and wrought
frigidly upon my enthusiasm. The
carriage stood well beneath a street
lamp. I was about to enter it when
1 heard voice pronounce my name.
Turning quickly, I discovered standing
close beside me Deacon Rogers and his
son. who had left Sheraton to find en-
ployment in New York.
'Well, Pauline" said the younger
man, who had been my school COM
panion, Fin the name of all that 5
mighty, how come you ever to do this:
Father don't believe it's you, even
now"
I made no reply. I had nothing ready
to say. For one usually fertile i'll
falsehood Twas wondering at naught.
Ny glance fell on the old man. His
face, unlike my husbands, was a ge-
NAL and gentle one: Its look of hon.
est grief and distress moved me more
than the fact of my Identification had
done. He was evidently seriously en-
harrassed and shocked.
= When did you come up, Mrs. Ma
vis?" he asked; "and who be these
folks? 2"
Mr.. Greeley forestalled my answer.
He had seen how startled I was by
the meeting, and, having succeeded in
coaxing the fly into his parlor, had
no mind to allow her to escape through
his own negligence in guarding its eX-
it's. He stepped boldly forward now, and
accosted Joe Rogers.
''You have made some singular mis-
take" he said. 1.-THE lady has no &C.
quaintance with you. She is under en-
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money, say 100000. he has. He never
made a dollar out Of politics. The
game is his recreation. He meant to
when he and Roscoe Conkling were
forced out Of the senate and out OF
power by James G. Blaine in June.
1881. he resolved to stay in, play his
hand through and get even with State
Senator William H. Robertson, Speak
er James w. Hustled and others who
downed him. He did too.
The late John Kelly, the great leader
Of Tammany hall before Richard
Croker broke down after the election
Of Cleveland in 1884. He had labored