Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-03-31
Echoes From Ellis County.

interested to know who the Dodge lily
TINES correspondent is in Hays. In .
letter to the Hays City Sentinel from
your city. which appeared in that paper
last week, that individual asks the abovs
question. and as the editor of the Sentinel
did not answer, will accommodate him.
and for his especial benefit would say that
it is the AsTFUL DoDGER, = specimen of
genus homo whose weight is something
less than 900 avoirdupois pounds. and
whose shonlder-hitting capacity is not far
from 30 cwt; feet plumb in height, and
built In the latest style for caliberosity;
las complete antemural casemate. whose
sides are impervious, whose battery is con-
stantly d'enfilade and ready to sweep
whole line of W. N. N. g from the face of
the earth. He asks Is he fool or knave r
Both, or he would not aspire to the foolish
project of answering an ass.
But tempus fregit. and Unjust hasten on.
W. n. M.-wnich initials probably mean
Whisky Now Mania a potu-had the
unparalleled egotism and presumption to
expatiate upon the manner In which peo-
tent with expressing a modest opinion,
W. n. NJ. had the audacity to attack your
own people aud your own institutions,
and, after giving a stupendOus TRADE
against You. points his arrow at the de-
fenseless head of Others. by accusing them
of making dirty little fiings at churches
etc.
Now, who. Mr.. Editor. is the slandereri
Is ii he alone who raises and first circu-
lates sianderous report' No! but every
one who tells it again. How few think,
whes they are rehearsing to others or
report concerning another, how much
sorrow and anguish they may cause. 1t
is almost an universal practice among all
classes and grades of society-and espec-
tally The occasional scribblers for newspa-
pers-to relate again and again any story
that may be related to him concerning the
character of another, without knowing or
caring to know anything about the origin
or its first author. So with w. n. N. He
reItera:es the sensational story. perpe-
trated only as a joke upon the colOred
barber, but he wv. N. NJ. must distinctly
understand that he is the slanderer, as
only he had the impudence to use the
name of our venerable old Uncle White, ,
as Mr.. White was not the individual
referred to in the sensational story
Nor were any filings cast at our worthy
minister or the church. as it is well known
| = hat fr,Il f.,lN &c
SANDER, but on the other hand, when q
correspondent comes out and exposes his
views and sentiments relative to young
and rapidly rising city. and shows con-
tempt for the enterprising institutions.
From his classification of its people, in
the communication in question, it is very
evident that he Is either one of the scum,
plcader at the bar at Kelley's, or he is .
| fugitive from Hays City. ano now seeks
to reconcile the good people here in order
that he may be again permitted to show
his ugly phiz within its corporate limits.
W. n. N. seems to be Of that class of
people who are constantly croaking:
What dull-dull this is. and he has not
brains sufficient to recognize the fact that
it is owing TO the presence of too many
just such indolent scamps as he appears to
be. Such people do not keep pace with
the spirit and improvements of the age.
but are content to jog along at q speed
which propelled things one hundred years
ago. In other terms. he, with his kline,
may be vulgarly termed old fogies. and
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