The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-03-11
To see a human soul take wing!


of modernity by the purchase Of newly
written books, but it was a failure
Many were called, but few were chosen
to a place on those honored shelves. The
planter regarded the moderns as being
weakened of intellect and decadent in
desires. He said that he could not get
any meat out OF them. Tennyson was
his latest concession. Beyond the au-
thor Of ''Maude," then in the first flush
Of his genius, he would not go. Swim
burne and Guy de Maupassant had no
position with him. Kiphng was not born.
Just after the war, a Mrs. Fisher. o.
North Carolina, wrote some novels, va
lerie Aylmer' among others. The women
Rugged them and raved over them The
planter, busted with the effort to make
a plantation pay with free labor. which
had furnished no more than he was able
to spend ewhen labor was bond, locked
into valerie Aylmer' and shook his
head
There's a fellow in this book named
Maurice" he said, "a faint reminiscent
shadow of the Maurice Dering' given
to Us by the author of Guy livingston
but ne won't do. There is nothing in
him. He IS only a bubble. Girls, If you
want to read something, read Pride and
Prudence or even the Irish Tales Of
the Edgworth ScT1bbler."
So he went back to ''Ivanhoe" for his
romance and to Nicholas Nichole5y'' for
his fun. and, maybe, TO Piers Plough
man" for his poetry. Mrs. Augusta J.
Evans, bursting from obscurity with st.
Elmo, bearing in her arms the manu-
scripts Of 'Vashu'' and ''Macaria.
could not stir him from his calm.
Go, goT' he said. Il have Balzac. Is
there not a new-enough man in England
named Thackeray?'
So. after the war was ended. the, man
Of the house added little TO his library.
He owned the Oldest and for the young
sters his stomach was not food. One
Of these plantations libraries, II il be
found today, VIII mark with wide cleav-
age that which IS mellow from that
which lacks the SAVIOR Of age
As the wide domains have been cut
into smaller farms. the members Of the
family have scattered. Some are dead.
some are eking out hard Hvings N TN
remunerative professions, some are dig
sing gold in Alaska. some reap WHEAT
on the u2la1ds os the Dak0tas. some
have gone into trade" There are
many Of these latter. and, though the
uses 4 barter are not theirs IN heradI-
lament. they are doing well WIKI their
scattering the books have scattered L
has happened that each one who dweit
under the old rooftree has taken such
volumes as he OF she fsncied- = has
happened again that they have heea s7ls
. +, rulroEs sacrifice 70 meet q deot whose
principal was saddled upon the father.
poss5aly in 1866
Mark Twain has declared that walter
Sco-c was responsible or the civil wa.
~. there Is "a well defined 1elies tu tne
South thar Twain cl.5Dgh a sort II
Southe-us- himself. was mistaken Ii
meant thai much reading u ~Iva1loe''
ard the -Ta,ls-azu-' made The yc-as
ne1 mad TAey dreamed y -tdt1E w5t1
VISOR down ard lance n -sst f-r IN
honor z The same and TIE rescas ~
beisagg1e-a5 6ause3s- TIE popularity -
Scort was ar s@ec-. not cGuse HIS
work was popular 1ecazse rhs S1at1-
erue- vas ca.vaZric. He vas Sc before
scset was Born. AID the chances are -haz
Re yin remain 80 wa1e rs blood Is
l1mIxeL ard the social ca<litl7us
about hlm a-e only modified nt rad
sczlly altered This chivalry 67fs IS
U5z- -o-a5se expression IN rAe Sa1s-
e-ne-'s a5u-a5e toward tas Esmaz -
rs race HIS female Is ca P@7es-zi
Sic has struggled 70 gst doE1, bzr he
I'll -. re-r..t L.