White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-06-11
Correspondence.
(FOr the Kansas Chiefly
OREoox. 30, juno e,h. 1.


Mr. EDFroR The town IL quiet to-day. All
are resting and preparing for tae business Of to-
morrow. The SPECTATORS greedy howl for
Is more, is not heard, but bis sordid soul sleepa
within its carcass, and rests from swindling it
neighbors. 1t is well one day in seven il set
apart for the exercise of the moral faculties,
when man can rest at ease, with the conscious
ness that, on this dav, financial vultures dare
not approach him. The great scare-crow, pub
lie opinion, is hung out on this day, to keep them
or It is great pity, too, that it could not be
kept out always. But the public itself is liz.
tie too deeply concerned in sharing and destroy
ing its COMPONENT parts, to allow It. The scare.
crow must be taken in occasionally. It Is o.
posed to the interests Of mankind. The tender
eonscienees Of some men wouldn't permit them
TO make slight deviations from right lines 10 In
crease their wealth, if it we're hung before them
all the time. M
Life is short. It is the destiny n all men,
nowadays. to make fortune, and then die
Fortunes must be accumulated, or men cannot
die. The manner Of obtaining the desired end
is merely secondary. All fortunes cannot be OBJ
tanned honestly-an honest course cannot be fol-
lowed-it is too slow; and he who is so obs.i-
nate as to follow It, must needs drag out mis-
cradle existence, and nature frequently puts an
end to him before his mission is accomplished.
Modern experience proves conclusively that
the " fast man sees fewer Of the perplexsfts-
of life than tn. honest man, simply because he
has more to do, and less time To- observe The
difference betwee,I right and wrong; consequent
", he commits more faults; but he becomes ex-
cusahle, from the very fact that he does not see
what he is doing. All men have blanks before
them to I'll with good or bad acts, of which thsy
must make full return on the final day Of set.
Element. Each individual fills out his blank to
suit himself-generally done according to the
training he has received. The speculator'.
blanks are filed with small operations over the
River; selling second and third rate articles
for first rate, to poor, unsuspecting Indians
Don't be 50 stupid as to understand, Mr.. Editor.
that it is wrong for a white man TO swindle an
Indian, especially if the white man belong. to
church, or some benevolent in1titution; for the
poor Indian will squander his money in some
way; and the whiskeyed water-selIer, the sec.
ond or third-rate provision seller, or any other
swindler, may each get as much as he can, or
some other set of scoundreIs will get 1t. They
are. poor, ignorant set; too green Z" to know
whether you are dealing honestly with them or
not, as long as yeu sell them something, no mat
ter how worthless, even if il would not nav
transportation, as far as you could " sling bull
by the tail up hill, just so that it fills the blank
But do not be so indiscreet as to get beyond the
limits of this form so far as to knock one down
for his money, although it wouldn't be any worse
than the prescribed form; yet il wouldn't be con-
sdered in law as rendering an equivalent for
what has been received.
Whilst We are busy in relieving the poor In
dian, and the unfortunate emigrans- who finds
his way among US, Of any surplus change that
they may have about them, there is other pack
of SINNERS silently fleeing US. One of this
class, exhibited his foolishness here few davx
ago, by playing on broken iewsharp. pulling
feathers out of an old hat, examining the whole
in his ugly phil with old bits of greasy newsua-
Ters, and practicing various other disgusting
tricks. More than half the audience left before
he was through, and then he closed on the bal.
ance, by thanking them for their kind atteu.
ton o." He might well consider Il a kindness
on the part of those who remained. For nv
part, | am thankful that we were not bored apv
worse.
The name under which this worthy eonduct<
bis operations, is Prof REYNOLDS. He spor.s
considerable Of handle for a man Of his cloth
don't hel
The next fleeing that is to come of here.
will be conducted by the Bx4oSIo family. which
will be followed by the fulfTment of another
contract let to SANDS and somebody else-not
the sarsaparilla man, presume, but one equal
y disposed to humbug his fellow-men.
After those fellows get our money and are
sone' wen quietly resolve to be humburged no
the next tine.
Before closing, I cannot help inserting few
ines clipped FROM a newspaper BY a friend. The
'eader can find q place for them:
"a little stealing i. Dangerous sr,,
But stealing lsr-sIy Is a Doble ri.
us mean TO rob ken-roost Of hen,
But stesIng nilioHs nakes rs EentIs-u.a.s
T. FIDDLESTICKS .PILEsER.