The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-29

4 nearly equal value OF sugar was aASo SA-
ported (7,0O0.eooD. these two commodities
making nearly "a per cent of the value Of
the total exports. II three other items be
taken from the export tables-copra co.
ss7.g7O. tobacco in leaf Cs1.s22lsS). and Gig
ars CsS05. oOo-about 81 per cent Of the entire
export value Is accounted for. and every
leading article entering into the export
Observation-Disclosures.
I stood at Seven Dials and heard the po-
liceman's account of what Il used to be-:
Seven Dials Is no more like the slum OF old
than is Five Points today +. The
policeman's story ramb,ed among the days
when things were different. Then it was
dangerous for an officer to so alone there
at night.
Around the corner there came from one
of the side streets a procession with ban
ners, parading in honor and aid OF some
church charity. In II marched young men
and boys with swords and battIe-axes. and
upon its outskirts skipped host of young
roughs-so one would have called them,
but for the evidence of their honest EN-
ployment-who ratified collection boxes,
reaping harvest of pennies from far and
L
collection-b boxes and thought of forty years
ago. Where were the Seven Dials Of that
day. and the men who gave 1t its bad
name? l asked the policeman.
''They were druv into decency, sort" he
said, and answered from his own expert
ence the question ever asked by faint
hearted philanthropists. my father. he
done duty here afore me in rs. The worst
dive was where that church stands. 1t
was always full of thieves. whose sons,
I added mentally, have become collectors
for the church. The one fact vas a whole
chapter on the slum.
London's way with the tenants We adop-
ted at last in New York with the slum
landlord. He was ''druv into decencv"
We had to. Moral suasion had beer
stretched to the limit. The point had been
reached where one knock q )wn blow out
weighed a bushel Of arguments. ,.
The rear teaements we're chosen for this
purpose.
They were tho worst, as they were the
first, of New York's tenements. The double
deckers had, with all their evils. at least
this TO their credit. that their death-rate
was not nearly as high as that of the old
houses. That was not because of any vir-
tue inherent in the double-deckers, but be-
cause the earlier tenemen:s were old. and
built in a daythat knew nothing Of sani-
tary restrictions and cared less. The nCr-
atty Of the rear tenement had long been a
scandal. They are built in the back yard
generally back tn-back with the rear Z nj d.
ings on the adjoining lots. II there is an
open space between them. IT is never more
than a slit a foot or so wide. that gets to
be the receptacle of garbage and filth of
every kind so that the windows in these
walls become source of greater danger
than If there were SnHne. Atlantic.
II was my good fortune to pass month
or more during the early summer of 1863 in
London, at hotel opposite st. Georges
Church. Hanover Square. It was a small.
old-fashiOned hotel kept by two ladies. ard
our perlor wore the air, as Dickens used
to say when he came into It, "of a stage
Grawing-room. The vases and artificial
flowers and small mirrors and unnecessary
tables were all there, and were often in
strange contrast TO the simple tastes of ifs
temporary occupants and their guests; al
though it could not be denied that the
lfEhtness and cheer and fancifulness had
real charm for us in the somewhat dark
world of London. It was here that Mr..
Lewes found us one afternoon 10y good
fortune we had ust returned from ramb-
ling about. sight-seeing), and while he ex-
planned that Mrs. Lewes was never able to
make visits. stayed himself. and talked
freely about George Eliot and literary af-
fairs. He was not a very prepOssessing
person in appearance, but his mercurial
temperament and his large intelligence
made him gay and interesting In converse
ton. He fingered. full Of agreeable SUBJ
jects of talk. until we knew something Of
each other. and he obtained promise that
we would so on the following Sunday, In
the afternoon. to see his wife.
We found them at the time appointed IN
a pleasant house somewhat retired from
the road with trees and shrubbery out
side and plenty of books inside. A small
company Of ladies and gentlemen were al
ready assembled. and there was much con-
versation. Presently. however, George
Eliot disengaged herself from the general
talk. and, allowing the company to break
up into groups came and seated herself by
my side for a more intimate acquaintance
recall the RI which oversp-ead her face
when she discovered that we had COM
mon friend In Harriet Baecher Stowe
The affectionate generosity with which she
poured out her unbounded admiration for
Mrs Stowe. and her love for her work. ls
never TO be forgotten. She seemed to IN
derstand the rapt intensity Of Mrs. Stoves
nature as few Of her contemporaries have
done and 10 rejoice in the inspiration
which prompted her great book. Nor did
she stop there. She had read and appreci-
ated her later books as we'll. and she loved
and reverenced the woman.
After this first visit TO The Priory," the
doors were kindly open to US on Sundays
during our stay in London. Tnhappily,
have no notes Of those visits. nor If George
Eliot's conversation. but I must always
remember how the beauty of her voice i'm
pressed me. I also remarked the same
quality I have mentioned in speaking Of
her letters-a sense Of perfectness in her
presentation If any scene or subject. re-
call this impression especially in cOnnec-
ton with description she gave one after
noon Of a late visit 10 Germany. portray
ing the charm 81 living in one Of tn places
was il Ilmenau0 made classic To Us BY
association with Goethe The whole was -
clearly vet simply and vigorously said,
that any listener. ignorant Of heg fame.
must have felt her unusual qualities both
Of mind and heart--Mrs. J. T. Fields In
Century.
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