The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-07-09

! mtDs before the Slgat, Fever and Dull
Pain IN the Head. Deficiency Of Perspira-
ton. Hellowness Of the Skin and Eyes
Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs and Sud
Den Flushes Of Heat Burning in the
A few doses of RAILWAYS PILLS will
free the system Of all the above named
| gists.
about the base. grading and trenching.
One day Searles will drive out from his
castle, accompanied by a stout coachman,
and direct that the workmen place so
| many shovelfuls of dirt on such and such
a place. and the next day he will visit
them and order the dirt removed
| Meanwhile the statue stands in si1rouded
grandeur upon it's unfinished ground and
Thomas Ball sits in his cottage at Mont
clair, n. J., chatting with all the querulous-
ness Of eighty years, because his work Is
not unveiled to the world. The sculptor
hopes 10 live long enough to witness the
unveiling-but LORD Searles Is very &c
centric.
Thousands of words would be Ineufi-
| Client to describe the multitudinous
schemes Searies has undertaken and left
unfinished. Three years ago he promised
! to build a sigh school building for the
/ town of Methuen. The plans were drafted
/ and the specifications represented a cost
I of 5000 The inhabitants of the town
: were pleased. They asked the donor
/ where he intended 1t should be located |;
/ he replied that it made no difference to
, them where it would be. It is not built
yet, and probably it never will be, IL its
construction is left in Lord" Searles'
control
He asked the townSsuthorities to give
him the right TO beautify the old cemetery
| in which the Searles tomb Is built. The
! request was granted, and the eccentric
millionaire remodeled and renovated the
field OF the dead. Then ne had a huge
stone arch built at the entrance, heavy
gates hung and doubly padocked. Even
the descendants of the dead are barred
from entering the enclosure to strew fow-
ers on the graves of their relatives The
people permit the act Of laWlessness be-
cause they fear the power of his wealth.
OF course they are indignant. and say
all sorts of things against lord" Searles,
who, in turn, bitterly reviIed the senti-
ment Of what he terms IAN ungrateful
populace."
He frequently drives about the town, al
ways accompanied by his coachnasa or
private SECRETARY. A. c. Bell. formerly q
New York attorney, who transacts all the
details OF the business growing out OF
his peculiar employers mind. Mr.. Bell.
It is said. never contradicts Lord"
l.
trovert his ideas. but simply humors yim
in all his eccentricities. This is deemed
the best pla nso long as the money lasts.
because Searles Is a man of violent tenn
per that has not decreased with the in
crease Of mental infirmity.
While the army of servants and detee-
tives surrounding Searles cOncede all the
subserviency necessary for a person of
searles' temperament, the people OF Meth
uen refused to recognize the title OF
lord" The absence Of recognition preys
on Searles' mind and he hates them ac-
cordingly. He doesn't recognize any OF
his old schoolmates and neighbors-
merely passes them by without betraying
by a sign that he ever saw them before.
His face has assumed a habltual express
sion of supercihousness.
He sits for hours al a time in the
Tower of Chimes" which rises above one
corner of his unfinished manor. The
tower is 40 feet high. and on the hour
and half-hour. day and night, Ginning
bells ring out.
He, it is said. told a person in one OF
his fits Of cordialfty, that the chimes re-
fected the condition of his temperament.
When, he said, his mind is gloomy. the
bells strike a minor chord; when his
mind is stirred by tempestuous thoughts
the bells ring out defiantly. and when in
repose they reflect his peace by Ginning
the music OF rest.
Searles is an enthusiastic lover OF music
and Is a talented organist. He purchased
for $4,000 the big organ which was too
large for the Music Hail tn Boston, and
began to build a house for It az Me-
thuen. The house is etill unfinished. and
the organ. in pieces, filing thirteen cars.
stands on a side track in the railroad
yard. Searles also started an organ fac
tory for the purpose OF constructing or
gans after his own design. There are
plenty OF designs, but no organs have
been completed in the three years of the
factory's life.
No person Is permitted to enter his
estate gates nor any land winch is his
He employs a large corps OF detectives,
who are scattered all over his properties,
and a trespasser IS instantly surrounded
and speedily escorted off the grounds.
II is estimated that Searles is spending
over S9.Ooo.OcO annually in perpetuating his
fads. the result Of Constructive mania"
Besides the original Searles property he
has bought all the farms surrounding
Worlds End Pond" a greater part Of
which lies in Salem, n. II. The total
acreage IS about 600. and n is said THAI
Sear.es intends making a park of 1t on
the plan Of Millionaire Ccrbin's in north
western New Hampshire. There are hun