The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-29
9aiIy ss Eagle
NJ. NJ. MUBDOCK. Editor.
Feathers.

Feathers.
From squawdng start to fertiizing finish
feathers From deep first long dress to the
torches on our bier-feathers.
Whatever Of earnest endeavor we make whatever
travail we suffer- whatever endure all cancelled
mOmentarily forgotten single ecstatic moment
when a feather cap and plunge into the
tom-fool belief that the world calls US dandy.
Now comes King Edward VII He is an old man. prob
ably not fifteen years from being He is sixty
N joints morning. hairy Of habby Of
fighting the grease Of poor circulation All
Of royalty, all Of imperial might power the world
comedies him. his Nothing be added which will
make him the eyes world king. is
reaching his feather Already large greasy potbeed
Englishmen are wrapping themselves in velvet and
stpgng gold cord and either as herald
pursuivant footing reading procIamations
and otherwise cutting antics face Of high heaven
Later King Edward VII viii be crowned The old man
viii Be about ermine Joed down into siken
hose. coated with medals, armed with knobbed
stick and capped with piece of pointed hardware It win
make him feel better.
The other day old Paul Kruger slipped away from
Africa and Europe His excuse was that he could
possibly secure intervention from some power he was
On the contrary the fight seemed over the fortune Of PAU
Kruger the zenith Before sunset the old
wanted to see and feel and enjoy some Of the honor
in which he knew Europe held him He feather
jabBing his principal anectation te-worn plug hat
down his brow FORTH in time Travelled from
to court greatly honored and although coneeang
it, immensely pleased The fight is not over in the Trans
wall Down the open veldt slouched over his
eyes his grped about his rife cornered and
braced FOR foe every side old Christian Dewet
who thinking feathers but who is struggling Tor
days life engrossed the desperate endeavor that lasts
from dawn sunset keeping alive by single effort the
wel-ngh doused spark Of liberty.
About two weeks ago Matt Quay Of Pennsylvania by
the methods machine politics succeeded in
getting senate He won out against an ele
which believed high official position ought to
be removed from the His victory was
complete. He with man elected to vote
against him His victory was unquesoned his triumph
conceded he have his feather When he entered
the senate his part Of smothered with roses tender
fresh-blown roses, to crown and honor man who had
proved himself the tobaccO-smothered barter
noisy legislative cock-hght
About the time A. Vanderbilt married Miss
world conceded that Mr. vanderbilt and his
bride were gorgeousy RICH that they have anything
they fancied that they could make display Of wealth
if necessary, perfectly dazzling acknowledged gen
orally that they loved each other intensely Marriage to
them must have been, it is to all lovers glorious con
summation But they had to have feathers They had to
plunge into the excess of show
Probably st win always be feathers with the world
But it is great piece of deception humanity is pur
blind with selashness admires others feathers it IS
only to them with its decide in favor Of
itself.