The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1874-12-03
For the EAGLE.
Brains and Other Things.

DEAR EDITOR Articles written
for publication you are aware, should
contain certain requisites which are in
dispensible-w writing, spelling, punctu-
alton and ideas The last of these is
deemed most indispensable, although
least made use Of Whether this desid
eratum of ideas arises from a convic
ton that ideas like produce cannot be
used but once: and that use OF them
draws proportionally. The great store
house of the MUD just like every pota-
TO taken from the crop lessons the
quantity to be divided, and that the
world, in time, if too frequent use OF
ideas is made, will be as bereft OF
ideas, as Kansas is now Of produce, we
are unable to say. If such are the mo-
tiyes BY which writers are actuated,
they are public benefactors-in our
opinion, no matter what the motive,
the fact that many articles are as sad
" in need of ideas as Adam and Eve
would have been of clothes had the
last ''coid snap" passed over Eden, is
notorious. The writer of this here
with tenders sample of the first and
second requisition, on the third he
.passes," the last compels him to
"beg." The generality of people have
a reason for writing Most often the
corruptions of the age harrOws up
their too virtueus souls. till their hair
stands on end like hog bristles, or por-
cupines quilts, when the animals last
aforesaid are going to war, and with
brows knit, eyes glaring, lips COM
pressed and souls surcharged with
virtue (for virtue like everything else,
when i; gets too full runs Over) they
| pour forth their pent up emotional i'll
dienation Oh the RIGHTEOUSNESS, profit
gacv and cnssedness of the age that i'll
their opinion, like a gaunt specter is
stalking through our broad land, cor
rupting everything with which it
comes in contact, except themselves.
At other times we have writers
who have at heart the financial pros
perity of our country. and who labor
to make money easier, transportation,
cheaper, stock and fruit better, and
business in It's manifold ramiiications
more brisk. to this last and class ten
der my sincere thanks and applause.
To the first | say no ''Irish need ap-
ply"
Ny reason for writing is this: 81 am
tired now and sleepy to-" but don't
want to be put in my little bed for
an hour or so, aud | concluded to
write to Marsh; he never answers my
letters and wonder that have the
fortitude to write, knowing | wont
get an answer.
Now, that the election is over, and
church reyivals not commenced, we
have breathing spell for both the un-
godly and the elected heirs and
heiress' Of salvation, q shall consider
that | belong to the first named of the
class aforesaid, until receive my GER
titicate of election and assured that my
seat wont be contested), in which 10
look around and see what can be did
for Wichita society, and intellectually.
Socially we are like the marble play
ing boy in Pickwick Papers our "hand
is out" Intellectually we desire, il
in consonancc with the feelings of the
predominantly intellectual class OF
Wichita, to count one for the per cent.
(bank exchangc).
Now our reason for writing bursts
forth on our enraptured vision, like a
comet or meteor, or shooting star, oil
bursted gun-cap, or the electricity
from fighting cats backs on a dark
night. We knew we had 4 reason and
we've found it ont. Some people
might have said in one line, that we
wanted a literary organization of some
kind, but when we were young we
learned to sing geography, and when
asked the capital of any state, we had
to commence, Maine, Maine, Augusts
on the keunebeck river, aud so on
down until we came 10 what we want
ed TO find out The habit has stuck 10
us like shoemakers wax 10 the seat OF
A confirmed loafers breeches. 1t has
followed US like NANCY eur, and con-
sequently when we want to say any
thing we have TO unravii. |, Is true
the foregoing might have been writ
ten and then struck out, but TO write
il first. G: to say in the start that we
wanted literary organization OF
some kind, never, never. the thing W a
as impossible as ii is 10 get an old
maid to praise either the looks or COS.
tune of n bride. Is there literary
organization here of any kind. if not
can't there be one, and wont some one
with influence put this thing Oh
wheels and run it down On Douglas
Avenue. '-IScUBUs."