The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-20


financier went away quite light hearted
and firmly convinced that the danger
was over with. But woman proved
herself more powerful than finance on
that occasion, as she often has before
and since. Baron ROthschild had hard
ly got clear of the palace before the
empress had succeeded in undOing all
his work, and war was shortly de-
clared.
There will be war with Spain.
A paralytic turtle could have a speed
record beside that board of inquiry.
The nearness of war again brings forth
the strange thing that men kneel TO pray
and to kill
The feeling locally seems to be to let
Spain put a foot inside the Sedgwick
county line, if she dare.
It may be that a familiar old phrase,
''before the war" is on its death-bed. In
a year people may ask, ''which?'
The board of inquiry has kept absolutely
secret it's findings. The wives of the mem
bers of the board are not with them.
Uncle Sans war spirit is bow which
no archer but Ulysses can draw. This
country is not a connoisseur of provoca-
tons.
And poor Aubrey Beardsley, like some
of his sinuous Nightmares, has curled up
and died. His child, the poster, will not
survive him long.
Before rushing headlong into war, re-
member that the fire of Calling gun is
so continuous that you can hang clothes
on the line of bullets.
You have heard the resolute hum Of
blood-hungry mosquito. Multiply this by
2S49 and you have the vocal solo per-
formed by a modern shell.
1t would be just like mischievous Time
to have war declared on March 81 next,
and for the people to give the newspapers
announcing it the next morning the horse
laugh.
General Blanco has started out on an
other pacifying march. He may return
CORVALLIS, as the country he will invade
is said to be in the hands of the insurgents
entirely.
A trolley line now runs from Cairo to the
n,
will run to the top of them and the Sphinx
will be piped and turned into a soda water
fountain.
The prevailing style in woman's waists
at present is effected by taking piece of
cloth shaped like gunny sack and then
mangling it with a scythe. 1t then be-
comes a Russian blouse.
In the indianapolis Methodist church
women must either remove their hats or
leave the church. The local pastor be-
lieves that the object of Christianity is
the millennium, not millinery.
II is suspected that some are working
themselves up into a whirlwind of violent
prejudice that they may slaughter the
man who plays the Spanish fandango on
a guitar with perfect impunity.
The men who know the most about war.
say the least. AS Thackeray said OF
love-stortes: mo one should write a love
story after he is fifty. And why? Be-
cause he knows too much about it"
An Austrian paper says that while Spain
and Uncle sam are fighting. Spain will
invite the southern states to secede again
This is a terrible possibility. Spain may
also get the Cheyenne Indians to 20 upon
the war path.
The battIeship O'Higgins. which Chilli
may sell 10 Spain. is named after the man
who made Chnl free. the son OF an Irish
man Very few people know OF O'Hig-
gins, He was just a common hero, and
not q prize fighter.
This part OF Kansas and the world
serves notice on the nations that its hair
has reared up for the last time over
France being ''on the brink OF revolution"
Why, Zola even hasn't gone ID tan yet,
No more brink buncoes so.
Here is a little picture Of 3 hot brush
in me war in Thessaiy last year: Their
pieces grew hot and stin they fred TIL
the skin Of the fore-fnger ached with
the pain Of burning Their right ears had
gone deaf with the noise Of their rifles