The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-09-29
mAGAzrNEs FOR OCTOBER.

quarter ana returning 20 the rlgnt oank
of the Seine. there are still number OF
houses which are identified with the names
OF wOrld-wide-known names in literature.
Space win only permit OF my mentioning
one or two The house al 124 Avenue
| Victor Hugo. where Victor Hugo died on
May =. 1875, az the age OF eighty-three
years. will not be overlooked by those In
! search OF historic buildings. When the
author OF Les MiSerabies lived there IN
that double. two-storied building which.
Though unpretentous in appearance is
surrounded by very pretty garden, II
was 124 Avenue Eylau: and it was there
that one Of the cleverest and yet one OF
the most egotistieal men OF the century
! held those celebrated receptions TO attend
which was the ambition seventeen years
ago, Of every young man Of letters. Then
there is the house where Charles Dickens
resided al the close Of the year 1916. IN
letter TO Foster his biographer. the au-
thor of David Copperfeld gave descrip-
ton OF this corner house al IS formerly
/ 49 Rue de Courcelles II I remember
rightly, his description was a very odd
one: he said 5 omething about the house
| being 1.-The most ridiculous and unpa-al-
lelled in the world, it was "a cross be-
tween haunted castle and a new kind Of
clock. one room resembling a clock and
another a grove"-such a quaint descrip-
ton as only Dickens could have penned.
For eighteen hundred years the Anglo
Saxon march has continued without iH,er-
rUption, and that march has been west
ward, says Charles NJ. Harvey in the Oc-
No n af rhzz-
cupied was ever lost Wherever their
flag went up it stayed up. Their marchs
momentum. moreover, was constantly
growing. Eleven and a half centuries
passed between their landing in Britain
and the landing at Jamestown. a century
and three-quarters took them from James
town 10 the Allegheneys. And now. Just
as the older branch OF the race with which
for over seven centuries had carried its
flag from Canada to India, encircling the
globe, the younger and more vigorous or
shot of the family. bursting through the
barriers of the Appalachians. had pushed
its vedettes to within sight OF the Miss
issippi. Terror at this menacing move
ment was one Of the reasons which insited
Spain, as a protection to her Mexican ter
than louisiana, to throw France as bar
rier across the path of the American adj
vance.
To the Imagination Ct Bonaparte, the
soldier and fatalist. this march without
retreat or reserve was majestic, tremend-
Gus. On the banner Of this oncoming host.
headed by the men Of the western wills
he read Crecy, Agincourt, and Quebeck.
And still more imminent and portentious
there were the names OF Bunker Hill.
Kings Mountain, and Vlncennes. The
Hengist, Horsa. and Cerdic or the western
legends were there-BOone. Robertson,
and John Sewer. There too. he discerned
the westerners' Arminius, George Rogers
Clark. Jefferson, the civilian, had seen in
the shouts of the Kentuckians and Ten
nesseeans for immediate war against
France upon the news of the transfer Of
Louis ana by Spain to France only ARREST
Iessness and an irritation which the poss-
ession of the F'loridas and New Orleans
by the United States might appease. II
he could get possession Of the east bank
of the Mississippi, Jefferson would oe will
ing to guarantee to France the west bank.
Ronaparte, clear-eyed and large-visioned.
knew that the west bank would be wrest-
ed from France within a few years. even
II the circumstances permitted him 20 oc-
clIpv II then. 1t was not Jefferson whO
gained the territory west Of the Mississippi.
Nor was 1t Santo Domingo's war, or the
war then about to open between France
and England. which was destined 10 last
a dozen years. and TO end at Waterloo.
These merely determined the time and the
conditions OF it's acquisition. II was the
might of the American people, particularly
of their western contingent. the heirs OF
the traditions and fortunes Of world
mastering race. which won Louisiana for
the United States.
Expansions and triumph have In the
lapse Of time profoundly changed Ameri-
can ideas as to the country's ulufate place
and purpose among the nations. No civil
lied nation except Russia has so many
inhabitants as the United States. This
country's wealth equals that OF the united
kingdom and France combined, the IA
tons which stand second and third re-
spectively on this roll. in time required
for transit, the Philippines are as near
New York as Missouri was when Jefferson
bought it. Communication By telegraph
with the remote corners Of the arth IS in
Simultaneous. Fremont hosting the stars
and stripes at San Francisco in the later
forties and looking through the Golden
Gate al the broad Pacific. probably ask
ed. ''Is this the end % the westward march
OF the American racer Dewey's guns In
Manila Bay on that fatefui May day u
1893 were the answer. new pathfinder
has blazed new paths 70 tne spread %
American civilization. influence and pow
or. The settlers IN oregon VIII open 20
Us the North American road to india IL
lies through the south pass and the fouth
Of the Oregon" The spirit voiced Fl these
words ~ Benton when the nation wss
striving for a boundry on the Pacific &
more vital than ever but the goal nas
been advanced. richer prize imam In
dis les before US. Dewey nas opened 10
us. bv way II the Philippines, the gate
way To China The worlds future o. 10
the keeping %, three counfries.-Eis Fla.
England. AMI the United states. in gre
race for universal empire the tV0 Anglo
saxon nations. whose paths her~efo-tH ere
Hkely ~ Iay parallel. have an imm~ae1r-
ABLE superiority over R4ssla- sn3 t7a arg
Or. more progressive. expansive. au1 10
soureefiI branch q Che recs 20 Ar2ef.-
can people.
the hsi- q aH The agas. r. The fore
mos. fles - time
As the 5sy ARRANGED the ratie't WASH
irzfoa 5egsu 20 realize the extreme TFaF-
IS ~ his condition writes william PR
zine. of the Last Te4rf ~ Hosalas. p
Lee. % fa TIRE Octo5er I-ad3es' Hone 1'5E-
nal suffering ard nearly exhausted p
asked his zie 20 5rinz hin BIS SITS tf7it