Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-21
Correspondence St. Paul Globe. ]

Correspondence st. Paul Globe.
EMPoRIA, Kan, Aug. 9.-Here is locat-
ed the Hotel Coolidge, the boss tavern in
the State, and after full months wres-
tie with some of the very poorest ''refresh-
ments for man and beast" on the face foot
stool, it was a great satisfaction to throw
my gripsacks upon its counters and sing
out, "Ho, here, give me a nice south
room, where may sniff the spicy breez-
es from Texas, the gulf and the Indian
territory"
However pre-empted by red ants and
couch bugs the sugar bowl and the bed
chamber, however the sitting the amonia
fumes from adjacent livery stables, how
ever redolent the perfume of spring
chicken extract from the too neigh
borly kitchens, however thickly.
matted the carpet of your quarters with
empty gin and beer bottles and Kansas
free soil, or diScolored your sheets with
the sweat, dust and blood of fellow trav-
elers, it is as unwise to squeal in this Sec
ton of the republic as it is for an Illinois
politician to touch on the subject of
abridging the metropolitan or township
rights of swine to freely roam.
| made loquac1ous kick against filth
and slovenliness at Usage City, and pre-
dicted for its hotel denizens several cords
of cholera and tons of Yellow Jack, and
at the same instant, and
with one common impulse seven two
bladed tobacco knives cleaned in the air
and ten black ears of corn were
leveled at that portion of my
body according to the anatomy of DR..
Bliss supposed to conceal the heart.
1t was trying moment, and like the
great Socrates, felt most grieyed that |
spoken, and much more disturbed that l
had said anything My immediate propo
sitlon thatit was long time between
drinks of ''cold ten,'' at the expense of
81 charged to profit and loss account,
under the head of experience, barely res
cued me from deeply incensed and ag-
grieved audience.
WICHITA.
Wichita, bordering on the Arkansas
river, is the prominent city in southwest
ern Kansas, and the intrepot for the In
dian Territory trade, as we'll as much of
that of New Mexico Besides being very
busy and wide awake, it is an open rebel
to the temperance edlcts as promulgated
by Gov. St. John, one of whose sons re-
sides here, doing business in
a land office, and under the
circumstances much to his dlscredit, is
often forgetfully familiar with that
(which biteth like serpent and stingeth
like an adder"
Rising from the fitful slumbers of
night at the Occidental hotel, l found
strong south wind whirling the dust in
the streets in fierce eddies, thrashing
blinds and signs and indulging in the
maddest of frolics, while the sun shone
out with dazzling and tropical bright
ness. It bore not the slightest resem-
blance. except in its motive power, to the
cool, delicious, salt-laden breeZes which
come flowing over the waves of the At
lantic to give joy and inv1goration to the
denizens of Long Branch, Coney Island,
Rockaway, Newport, Chelsea, Old Or
chard. Cape Ann and the
sea-board coast neither to the
ever welcome cold-air waves of
the summer solstice from Superior and
Manitoba, bearing comfort and refresh
ing to st. Paul and the Northwest, and
thence ripping eastward; but rather the
worst hot wind ever known in this
region, without single "oldest inhab
liant to open mouth to dispute on the
subject. There was no help for human
ity on this more than interesting occa-
sion. and all one could do was to sigh for
shelter within the cavern-rind of some
giant watermelon, and for broad
brimmed hat like to that of Poke Wells
and Buffalo Bull Imagine, if you can,
the searching sunbeams burning your
face and through your garments, as
though the god of day was trying to
cremate your vital body with the focus of
his concentrated fires; and the piercing
wind, as hot as though pulled from the
mouth of furnace, shriveling your
very flesh, and penetrating to
the Utmost marrow of your bones. TO
have cast off the flesh and famed your
own skeleton with palm-leaf, would
have been the acme Of comfort on this
the DEVILS own baking day.
can but mark this occasion down in
my memory as one of the choice jewels in
the brilliant crown of "uncertanties" in
this muchly over-rated State, as regards
prolific crops and Eden comforts to the
emigrant 1t is fact that for the past ten
years, when the drouths and torrid heats
of June and July have not robbed the
toiling farmers of half their crops, scorch-
ing gales, the grasshoppers and chinch-
bug have been sure to be on hand in time
to prevent their making wild invest
ment in bags and bins to hold
their expected extra bushels of
corn and wheat. Don't you forget
that there are many discouraged souls
whose homes are on the prairies of Kan
sas, whose soil is as erich as mud" but
whose agricultural weather is ''simply
abominable'' --r---aee
FISHING EXCURSION.
Captain Baker, who runs the Avenue