Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-07-14
EAGLE-EYRIE-EDIBLEs.
Festhery Facts. Pendant Piumes and Queer Quilts.
DowS-ED BIZ DooLIrrIE.

| EAGLE-EYRIE-ED IBLES.
Fe,thery Facts, Pendant Piumes and Queer Quilts.
DowS-ED BIZ DooIIruk,
George Langenberg, of St. Louis, told
me last night that man in Pratt county
engaged extensively in raising wheat in
| formed him that his wheat this year cost
him nineteen cents a bushel. He buried
all the work done. The wheat was sowed
last fall in stalk ground.
! A good many people are now claiming
| that Sullivan is Whisky drinker and the
| champion OF the world in the prize ring.
| If he would come To Kansas and drink
whisky for months either Bernard
| Kelley Dick Walker or Col.
| Bill Hackney, all distinguished
prohibitionist could knock him out in one
round.
John wilkins, of St. Marks, came to
| Kansas few years ago with no great
amount of wealth He now has a fine
! farm, and he told me last week, while a
broad smile played over his honest German
face, that he had this year ten thousand
bushels of oats and wheat. Kansas has
been land of promise to a great many
people and the promise is fulfilled.
There is great deal said about the in
| fuence of the vicious element in the gov
eminent of cities. Experience has taught
| me that the people calling themselves the
better element are not only the most
| ignorant in regard to city affairs but they
are the least prtriotic. They seldom vote
at city election unless somebody goes to
| the expense of sending them carriage in
order that they may ride to the polls
That is the reason that make it rule to
not ride to the polls in one of those paid
carriages. l am afraid l might be classed
with "the better element"
Sedgwick county now has one of the
best jails in this state and the city of
Wichita will soon have a city hall and city
prison that l presume will be credit to
her people. If the next census could be
made to show the immense cost of the
prisons Ill the United states and the COM
paratively few people who necessitate
their maintenance good many unchari-
table people would claim that justice to
labor demands that the criminals have
their heads chopped off without any cere-
mony about it. If three hundred criminals
were taken out of Sedgwick county and
Wichita we would not need any prisons or
criminal law.
In 1872 J. H Minnick, then Of Derby,
raised crop of wheat. He hired teams
and hauled the wheat TO a mill at Salina
TO be ground into -four. and brought the
-four back to Derby and sold it to the new
settlers What he paid the mill for grind
ing the wheat and the teamsters far haul
ing was more than he got for the flour.
This year the farmers o. Sedgwick county
will sell their wheat at a good round price
at the railroad stations near their own
doors, and yet some of them will be hon
estly of the opinion that we made a great
mistake in voting bonds to aid in the
building of railroads in the great Arkan-
sas valley;
l heard farmer one day last week tell
ing crowd of men on East Douglas ave-
nue. that the herd law hac ruined Kansas.
He gave great amount Of statistics to
show that farming did not pay in Kansas.
He talked eloquently until l asked myself
with some degree of interest, is that so?
The next morning about Z O'Clock as
hurried to my work, | met a policeman
with one of his strong hands gripped on
the arm Of Il colored man and his other
had hold of a white man. He pushed
them along toward the cooler" Ipaused
and looked, and horror of horrors! there
was the farmer whom had the day before
heard talking SO eloquently to prove that
farming did not pay in Kansas.
A great many people have censured
Col. Lewis for turning the Little river wa
ter into Chisholm creek with his mill race.
When the dam on the Little river washed
out with the high waters injunctions were
sued out restraining him from replacing
the dam. And now the people along
Chisholm creek are talking of suing him
for damages because he has not rebuilt
the dam and kept the water running into
that stream. hope they will continue to
give it TO Col. Lewis on all sides. The
Hydraulic mill employs quite Il large
force of men, and in other ways is bene-
fit to Wichita But let them give it to
Col Lewis all the same.
One day last week crowd of little chill
dren passed up Douglas avenue, from ap-
pearances going to picnic. Their faces
were wreathed IN sunshine and their joy
Gus laughter attracted the busy throng on
the street. A man with a careworn face
asked me why children were all happy. He
said all the happiness OF lifetime seemed
TO be crowded into the first twelve years
OF our existence. l told him that it was
not matter of age but matter of faith.
That the parents had promised the chill
dren a grand good time at the picnic and
the children believed them. hence the Jour-
ney to the picnic ground was happy one.
The journey through life, whether sad or
joyous, depends largely upon our faith of
what the future has in store
for Us. The man who believes
that Ignorance is bliss" and that chill
dren are happy because they are ignorant,
lacks the wisdom of child. His educa-
ton is false.
VIM. Wichman: Eyes, Mr.. S. D. PALLET
is the member of the school board from
the new Sixth ward. but the fact remains
that l was elected by the people. Mr.. Pal
lett is very fortunate in that respect. This
is the second time that he has been ap-
pointed to fill that position when some one
else was elected to FL the place. One OF
the daily papers in this city published an
interview, in which the city clerk is made
to say that Mr.. Pallett is the undoubted
choice of the Sixth ward. would like to
understand how he knows that. In the
election last spring Mr.. PALLET was a can
didate for member Of the school board in