Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-01-24
TAIL FEATHERS AND FLOATING DOWN.
With Which an Old espondent Piumss tht
Readers OF the Eagle.

Billy Carey has come back TO Wichita.
Chicago does not suit him as well as the
Happy Valley. w d. Hutchinson says
Caldwell is liveiy-lots of hogs, lots of corn,
lots OF wheat coming in, and a common man
has to take of his hat to farmer now go.
| The Wichita Guards are trying to make
their company one Of the best in the State,
our citizens. If the time ever comes when
our country needs soldiers, these boys who
! have learned the military tactics in these
companies may be the prominent military
ehiefiains OF our country. Who can tell
| but some Of the Wichita boys may be the
future Grant or Sherman VIM. Hays,
the energetic miller eff the Minnesota, has
been sick. but was able TO be in town few
days ago John Stewart, of Wellington,
was in the city last week shaking hands with
his Old friends. He has plenty Of them
here. A gentlemen Of Chicago says he
used TO be acquainted with Bob Ingersoll
in Peoria in his younger days aud he says
Bob was dreadfully dissipate6, and used to
get up on the street corners in Peoria and
make speeches just for fun He remembers
once Of hearing Bob say that the more he
became acquainted with men the better he
liked dogs Fred. Ladd is mil-wrigbting
up at HalsIead IA great many people sup
pose that gamblers become experts at the
games usually played by them, and that
there is science in it which, il one learns,
be can win large amounts Of money. ! have
observed the games played in this city, and
| find that the men who make business of
gambling, in nine cases out of ten are SUI
perstitious and believe in luck and signs.
The gambler has hard time of it and is
more 10 be pitied than censured. Some Of
the gamblers in this city are men OF good
heart and would make fine business men !;
men gho. in a different calling, would do
good In .be world; wonld, indeed, become
noted and great. But this mania for gam
bling has ruined their prospects. Boys,
don't gamble -. Last Thursday hItle girl
seven years old arrived at the fremont
House in this city to join the Uncle Toms
Cabin troupe that performed here last week
She had Travelled all the way from Cleye-
land, alone. This does not show anything
remarkable on the part of the child but il
shows the remarkable efficiency of the rail-
road service of this country. Billy Sutton
OF Rockford, was in the city few days ago
and says his township is booming A gen.
tleman posted liz railroad matters says he
knows the Fort Scott railroad belongs to the
Missouri Pacific and that is Gould road
aud that all reports that the Fort Scott road
has been purchased by the Santa Fe is with
out foundation and are put in circulation
by parties who are interested in putting a
stop TO further railroad building around
Wichita -. Tue farmers of this county are
making preparations for putting in a very
large acreage Of corn in the spring Char
ley Schnitzler is trying to keep an aristo-
Lloyd two fine young heifers for which he
paid Sl22, and 80 head Of Poland China pigs
of Mrs. Doty for which he paid fancy price
standing on the railroad the other day
and looking down at the track saw simply
few blocks of wood and two iron rails fas.
tened thereon and said, the men who con.
troll these roads by taking one-hal Of all the
grain shipped out OF this county, by rob-
bing labor Of one-haif Its dues, have become
rich and great. They are called kings, rail-
road kings. Here is the foundation Of your
thrones-these logs OF wood, ties half buried
in the ground. Then said these railroad
kings are robbers. Rather than occupy
your thrones. I'd be a laborer and carry the
brick and mortar, and see the walls harden
and rise to form house in which may dwell
honest men and women, and which shall
protect from storms innocent childhood.
And then i could take the price Of many
tlays teii sa4 hpy a loaf q bread and eli
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