White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1858-06-24
!" Another Richard in the Field"

WHICH ~ " piO'S hsO NiN' ~
Latterly, we have become thoroughly
convinced of the truth Of the saying, that
call flesh is grass" We have come to
the conclusion that we are grass-in order
to spoil sharp point by some small
critic, we will admit that we are very
green grass-but we must be grass, new
ertheless. We have been brought to this
conclusion, from the fact that so many Of
the long cared gentry are constantly nib
bling at us
Last week the Half Breed organ at
Rulo made its appearance. 1t is edited
by some half a dozen lawyers, and the
first number makes terrible onslaught
upon three distinguished individuals, two
of whom are long since ''nippo," (dcad,
and the other one may now as well con-
slider himself "gone under" Those
individuals are ourself, Noah Webster,
and Lindley Murray!
Several weeks since, party made an
excursion from this place to Rulo. Ha-
wing no ill-feeling toward that place,
knowing that the proprietors were doing
their best, and thar it would never inter-
fere in the slightest degree with White
Cloud, we gave it what we-considered a
first-rate notice. In fact. we knew at the
time that we were piling it on tremen-
dously thick; and some Of our friends
earnestly inquired if we had not caught
the "Rulo fever This is a peculiar
fever, and is simply irnmoderate casing
about Rulo. That place is SUR osed to
possess properties which will infsllibly
cure the deaf and mute. We have known
persons who had not half dozen words
to say in day. go to Rulo, and after
submitting to course of treatment have,
in one weeks time, become the most
inveterate blowers we ever saw-the bur-
den of their song being "Rulo." The
treatment consists in receiving a town lot,
and obligating ones self 10 build house
upon it
Strange as it may seem, it is neverthe-
less true, that, as Aattering and undeserved
as was the notice we gave them, the
people up there became miffed at it1L
Their organ copies our notice, and COM
ments upon it item by item. admitting
the truth of everything except one small
matter. Yet it grumbles, and calls us
Compounded, because of the notice we
gave it. The truth is, they are hufy
because every person cannot view their
town in the same extravagant light that
they do. Our sin consists in not saying
that st. Louis and New York are too near
Rulo to do much business
We had heard, nearly week before
the appearance Of the Half Breed organ,
that we were to be utterly demolished
through its columns. This was the all
absorbing topic in Rulo. and throughout
the entire Half-Bree Reservation there
away. 1t was said that all the talent in
town was engaged upon the job, and that
several conferences had been held upon
the subject. We had expected to see a
terribly scathing article; but what was
our disappointment when person showed
us copy of the paper, TO see the botch-
work that appeared as the grand demol.
Usher, by the combined talent of Rulo.-
We were at first inclined to believe that
John Maize had taken offence because we
said more in favor of Rulo than we did
for his wigwam, and had written the ar
ticle himself; but we have received assu-
RANGES, from reliable source, that it was
the production Of the combined talent of
Rulo
The organ says that the river at Rulo
is about half a mile wide, and that the
low swamp between the town and river
is high. dry prairie, about one-fourth
of mile wide. They must have long
half miles up that way. If a person were
to swim in a straight line towards the
opposite bank of the river, and let down
after swimming a mile and half, he
would drown some distance from the
shore. And if we were buying land, we
would be willing all the time to consider
the distance across that dry prairie "
half mile, and purchase by no other
measurement. We would have large
clear gains on every quarter section. That
bottom may be high and dry in the eyes
of some people; but it is all owing to
what they consider high and dry. For
our part, when We have to play hop and
jump over the mire holes, to get from the
river to the town, and then have wet,
muddy feet when we see the fresh prints
of the wheels of an empty wagon, sunk
a foot into the earth when we see the
water in we'll six inches higher than the
surface of the ground, then we don't ca
the ground very high or dry. 1t may
6eautify the town, as the organ says but