The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-07-03

Ashby, when. having prOfeSSed to surren-
der. he treacherously attempted to assas-
sinate a Union officer and was Drained by
Colonel Hallowell-but it was the colonel's
son who showed them 10 me and told me
the story. And It was from a book of war
adventure gathered the story of his dar-
ing scouts in the east; he would only re-
fer TO them, not narrate them.
WICHITA GIRL AT OMAHA
To the readers of the Eagle: Just one
month of the Transmississippi ex-
position has passed so 1 send you these
snap shots of that time
The Omaha fair has about settled down
into a well regulated jog-trot of a big
show-not such gormand's feast as that
at Chicago, but just a fine. large slice that
one may reasonably hope to partake of
and digest before his brief career is
closed. The architecture is simply one
crescendo Of beauty from the cupids that
sit lovingly perched on the viaduct to
the majestic Neptune, trident in hand.
viewing with regal dignity his realm of
sun-lit waters below him. rejecting the
domes and statuary of the buildings sur
rounding the lagoon.
One feature in which this fair excels the
Chicago is in the Grecian colonnades con-
Meeting the buildings. These colonnades.
with their simple Doric columns, afford
protection from the sun and rain and by
projections of the base furnish seats while
lunching listening to the music or drink
ing in the beauties of the scene.
The first hitch in our gallop of self
esteem comes when we present ourselves
at the door of the art gallery, for here
stands an extra cool and courteous guard
who informs us that we must check our
umbrellas and pay dime for that simple
transaction-and this away out west here,
where "freehearted hospitality" is our
registered brand! One expects to be
fieeced in the Midway and takes a good
grip on herself before venturing there,
but here. where the MUSES. sit enthroned
in everlasting serenity it startles one to
find the same demand for filthy lucre. In
the Art building is a fine collection of
original drawings loaned by Scribner and
another by the Century. Then there are
several pieces by Kenyon Cox. strik-
ing picture by Moore Smith, called The
Wages of Sin" is a table on which lies
skull with a worn straw hat tipped rak-
ishly on the side, a partly smoked cigar
cite is in the mouth which is minus
tooth or two. Close to the skull is
glass half-full OF sparkling wine at which
the sockets seem to leer in quite a know
ing" way. A fine desert piece suggests
burning stretches of yellow sand and
wide. desolate, mysterious quietness.
The music has been fine, especially
Thomas orchestra which played every
night and Sundays. Though only thirty
five of his orchestra were here, one would
as soon find fault with the golden apples
of Hesperides" because he couldn't have
all on the tree. They played with such
sympathy that one is impressed as by
the performance of one fine artist. They
did not play the so-called sacred music
on Sunday for all their music was so
well-done and of such high order as to
make it sacred. If classical music makes
one tired he had only to go over TO the
Plaza where the Washington Marine
band and the Sioux City band held forth
every evening and where a jolly crowd
met in the truly western unconventional
HLg lt anu AOi q NDdPAS VI AAp0AS AoA = ~
the troubles Pandora bequeathed them in
listening 10 "A Hot Time in the Old
Town" columbia" "Au Coons Look
Alike to Me-" Selections from Lohen-
grin" Mr.. Johnson Turn Me Loose"
"Chopln's Funeral March" all jumbled in
a medley that calls out the smiles, macs
the feet keep time or draws down the
mouth in a serious curve; but the crowd
is one apparently in the pleasure on all
the faces-reminds one that ''emotIonally.
we are many thousand years old while
nationally. we are embryos" Oh. yes,
l must not forget TO mention that the
Minneapolis chorus gave the oratorio of
Isaiah" and the Chicago Apollo club the
Messiah" and the Elijah" with Thomas
orchestra accompanying.
The Midway is just such screaming
place as one wants and expects a a fair
the more the vanity is heaped up the
better we like it--so what's the odds If we
do know it's a sham when we have our
future told. or find out for a quarter that
the camel is not SO easy and picturesque
an animal as Lew Wallace and other Or
iental writer's want us to believe.
Editors convention met in June and
among those present were quite a number
from Kansas. Octave Thauet was here.
too writing up the fair for the magazines.
The state buildings are snowy and COM
Portable excepting the Kansas, which is
quite insignificant outside. and inside the
chief ornaments are views OF the insane
ASYLUM which gives one the blues
Now. friends. my very best advice 10
YOU Is shut your houses up for week
or more and let the aesthetic old spiders
weave graceful and dainty lacework in
the corners Of the ceiling. and a soft gray
dust cover gently the furniture once this
wear. while you whisk of up here and
take ride on the giant see-saw. shoot the
chute. lose yourself IN the mystic maze.
watch the goudolas in the lagoon. listen
N good. bad and some vile music; or Il
Won wish 10 be fashionably pessimistic-
i-,snect the trichluae in the pork. the bugs
in the sugar or the microbes in water
chen vou'u return TO the seclusion OF your
own roof-tree where you may experience
that .pufed-up' feeling that tells US
westsrners I'VE are up with the process
sion and not far behind the bandwsgon-"
FLORENCE HORTON. Omaha
WHILE THE JOB IS NEW.