The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1877-09-27
For the Eagle.
A Cosby Letter From Ssdgwick County
Farmers Wife.


EDITOR OF Our EAGLE A care
worn farmers wife would have you
listen to her just little minute, and
by way of compliment mot of fattery)
we want to cay that of all the county
papers we chance to pick up we really
like the "chirping" of our EAGLE best.
Sometimes we are tempted to say,
when we hem of some of our neigh
bers who do not take county paper,
why, we could not 1.-Two without the
EAGLE in this far-off land. But be it
far off or not tits the place we long to
have our eastern friends visit. We
want those to come who have money.
Eastern people are so apt to stay back
until they fail financially, then, with
mere pittance, they come, as we have,
TO this paradise; then the cry univer-
sally is, as we heard an old Pennsyl-
vania friend say, few days since, "If
| only had come here when | had
plenty of money" But then the poor
broken-down merchant, or farmer, can
with little means and energy do
here, what they need not try in our
old native State.
But, Mr.. Editor, when we began
this letter we were thinking of the
trials of that class Of society on which
all others, even our editors, are de-
pendent; for without wheat what
would you all do. ''Eat corn bread ;"
you say. Well, l do wish that some
of those wheat buyers, who have the
impudence to offer from fifty to sixty
cents a bushel for wheat to our hon
est, hard-working husbands, might
have to eat corn bread from now Oh
for one year. | was in hopes that the
state of things now existing, and the
few letters on cooperation, would
stir up our intelligent class of farmers
TO resolve themselves into rings of in
dependence that no other class of peo-
pie could SO long sustain. In the last
paper we see great deal said about
seeding and the putting in of great
crops OF wheat. Let me ask you what
is the use of sowing if We cannot get a
fair price for what we raise? Will
Farmer Doolittle, or some other farm
er, rise to explain?
The notice of the Sabbath School
Convention greatly pleased an old
worker trust there will be such
delightful plan of cooperation put
forth at that meeting, as will be last
ing benefit to the county. Not in re-
gard to wheat sowing and selling
alone are we interested, but to get at
the best plan for scattering seed for
eternity. We hope that after the fair
is over our city Sabbath school work
ers will talk more to us through the
EAGLE, and get the country people
awake on the subject. We have many
uperintendents who are willing to
work if they only knew how. Let
them have a simple programme to
look over a few weeks ahead. So
many, | find, have never been in a
school convention. Oh, for
an interest in this work Send out
an invitation that will cause them to
feel that they will be welcome.
| would like to add many little
items of interest from our side of
the creek of "euphonious NAME" but
my better judgment tells me my let
ter is now too long. Well, if it finds
its way into the waste basket no one
will be any the wiser, but l would be
glad to add my mite to ward helping
on the cooperative societies, and will
ever remain firm friend of Mr.. EA-
GLE so long as his chirpings are SO
much in harmony with the feelings Of
Amt KErURAH.