Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-04-06

A young and rapidly growing Terri
ritory Is OF course largely populated b
men. but they are not as rule million
aires with bad cough. Most of Their
are healthy and still retain their menta
faculties. That is tine reason they d
not care to import horde of weak
minded gushers and turn them loos
upon thriving municipality.
One soft-eyed byena. who has n,
doubt been ignored for thirty wears
writes us poetic epistle which ought I,
melt a more obdurate heart than ours
1t is written on six pages of foolscap il
violet ink and blank verse. Every wor,
has an ornamental tail on it. and the &
are crossed with delicate little hal
line that looks like Saratoga wave OF
a ball of butter. Her soul goes out n
us in thankfulness in way that ha,
created a GOODNESS in our family which
it will take years to efface.
The idea of cooking large red dough
nuts in hot lard. or wringing out heav,
Undertaking in soap suds and hanging
them out in the back yard on cold day
does not seem to occur to her
There are very few households here a.
yet that are able TO keep their own pri
waite poet. We try to keep up with the
onward march of improvement so far as
possible. but we are most of us still toe
gross to give up our meals and gorex
ourselves on stanza of cold poem on
the half shell.
The day may come when we will be
glad to sacrifice beefsteak for divine af.
fiutus. but it will be some little time be-
fore that period is reached.
The crisp. dry air here is such that
hunger is the chief style of yearn in
wyoming, and a good cook can get 1925
per month, where bilious poet would
be bothered like sin TO get a job at five
dollars per week.
That is the reason we are writing
these terse and perhaps ungallant words.
We want to discourage the immigration
OF large majority of those who have
written us on this subject They are
too fresh and too yearnful in their ma
ture. One of them opens four-coIumn
letter to us with these words:
- boomerang. thou hast spake. Thy
words hast bursted upon mine ear"
Now if we have been the cause of any
such funny business as that. we are sor-
ry and ashamed of il. We feel that we
have done something that we would give
two dollars TO undo.
We wanted to do the Territory some
good and to encourage class of
women to come to this region who
would know enough to construct a
button-hole on an overcoat so that il
wouldn't look like the optic of a cross
eyed hog. We wanted to throw out
an invitation to womankind to come
here and locate, but we did not know
that such people as responded classed
as women. We do not
woman a drudge or a slave
across the nape of whose neck the over
shoe Of the tyrant, man. is planted.
One thousand times nay,
We look upon woman, however. as
useful in the great struggle of life.
Generally she is on one side of the
struggle and the tyrant. man, on the
)ther.
One thing. however. is settled. There
5 not such a mad rush at present for
blank verse makers as there is for
of sound sense who can make a
Die that will not taste like a stove-lid
with cod-liver oil.
In using these cruel words, we do it
n order TO silence this ubiquitous howl
m the part of these modest violets who
xpect to get off the train here and meet
confirmed invalid at the depot &ith
arriage and marriage license.
The old man with the hectic flush and
life insurance policy for one hundred
nd fifty thousand dollars is not at pres
mt ransacking the four corners of the
lobe for little rosebud thirty-nine