The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1889-07-18
THE RAMBLER.


do. Now when / wrote "After the
Fourth" last week I thought I bad
struck the keynote 10 success, and
that my journalistic venture would
be approved by o host Of readers.
But, lust think Of IL, my work Was
hardly done and the JOURNAL In
the hands of its readers, when that
lemonade" man pouneed down on
me with fire In his eye aud fingers
that looked red under the nails, SO
eager was he To tear my Of
Tending flesh. I had my hands full
and my brain was taxed for expla-
nation. I succeeded In making him
believe that no one else had caught
on and hence his fair name was
saved from what he said was .
terrible effort at disyraee on my
part.
After several days had passed, had
concluded all was lovely when | was
met by one OF the mine" belongi Dg
to the new hat brigade. Said he,
Rambler, you have ruined every
thing, what do you mean by writing
such seurrilous article about Sail
M gentlemen?" I locked vacant
and requested an explanation.
"Why, !" said he, "that hat business
was q id disgrace. IL you havn't
sense enough TO do better than that
you'd better quit" Now the truth
Of the business II, didn't really
know that this young man belonged
to the gang. i gathered courage,
however, aud In q few hours had
matters explained so that all was
calm once more.
As between DIR. billings patent
medicine shows, the church services,
and one 10 three church sOciAls each
night the last few days, have
found rambling q pretty tough job.
I went TO the park Friday night aud
intended to record my vote on the
national flower nc the South Santa
Re social, but I became so tangled
with lee cream, cake aud lemonade
mot the Fourth OF July kind that
failed to get my ballot In. Now,
these park sOcials are daisies. IL
does seem to me II | were n
young man again, that I would just
live In q park social all the time.
Those girls went there for q new
lease Of life, and besides plenty tai
eat, cToquet was Just lots Of fun. +"
They had q regular base ball game.
IL you ever hear anybody say 8 girl
can't throw q ball, you can put IL
down, that fellow never saw Saliua
girls at play by moonlight in Oak
Dale park. There were q good many
fouls" and several "fiies" but no
"hy" would dare light upon one Of
those girls, and II the cbiggers got In
their work, you couldn't tell it. It's
astonishing how much ice cream
can be eaten At one Of these sOeials,
and Il isn't the youngest people who
always do the eating either. A GER
tain young cadet has been badl Y
worried about his name getting In
the papers over some fun at one Of
these sOcials. or course knew
nothing about his trouble, but all
the same, I made him believe that
he was going to catch IL heavy, aud
he will be on nettles until all the
papers are out for this week. The
question which bothers me most IL.
what are the young ladies To do, IL
the "Splendid Ice cream weather"
continues another month? The
churches will all be rich. The
ladies' auxiliaries aud aid societies
will have 10 give q series OF young
mems benefits. Its all right, and
I'm goirg to stand by the ladies all
summer, nj least so long a. the Ice
cream aud cake shall last.
put my foot In IL, the other day
thought to pass 3 compliment on
the Salina amateur band aud ap
preached a member making inquiry
about some OF their music. He In
dignautly replied that his band
didn't play that evening. | told
him I thought the music the best ]
had heard In q long time but
couldn't recognize the Fourth Regi-
ment bands pieces. At this lie he
gan talking excitedly about dds
lance lending enchantment etc."
and said IL was the Dispdtch hand
Just out for an airing. The Die
patch band has been dispaichIng
music In q hurry, and Charlie wag-
staff as n composer OF music and a
leader Of q squad OF young ambitious
amateurs, Is making n name "a
band leader aud trombOnist.
At least q hundred trainers Of men
have offered to show me how Sui
livan knocked Kilrain out, hut am
content to take the newspaper ac-
count Of the affair. There l. young
journalist here, however, who
likes to have things "resubmitted."
Accordingly he was backed 10y
crowd and an unsuspecting real
estate dealer WAS encouraged To put
on the gloves and stand In front of
the resubniissiOnist. Now a man
who has rustled real estate in times
like most Kansas towns have seen
the last two years aud made money,
might have been expected tn attend
strictly to business. The way he
went for that editor was n caution,
and something far more painful than
a Kansas City nose blossom maze its
appearance on the nose Of the John
l.. imitatOr. ] once knocked fell
low down myself, and he had
enough too, but that was years ago,
before I had been out with the boys,
and before I could he eOaXed into
another mill, I would require at
least q years good training. !
naturally must be a pretty good
hitter, for I remember my father
was able to strike n terrible open
handler long after he was past Sulli-
vans age. Talking about reaches
I think that old man my pa had
about the longest and the most EN-
during reach / ever saw. No,
really must decline and that twenty
dollar pot raised by City AttOr- |
neg Frazier may be won by other |
hands.
I met q date fiend the other day.
He IL the advance agent of the |
Franz Robbins circus. He said he |
was partial to dates" aud finally |
that he was born In |
"AlI Dates" ireland, hence he
run to dates, which rs
fixed for Saliua IL the 28lh. These /
bill posters can beat all creation col
lecting lthe crowds, mean) and |
from time immemorial their work /
has not been In vain. While think
ing on the animals, to be showed /
(along with the circus) | couldn't |
help but think OF the advantages
and blessings Of children, and the
more children o good church men,
Der has the more enjoyable it II.
You see the afternoon performance
gives the children . chance to see
the animals, Of course they must
have o fathers protection and as
the mother does not wish to be left /
alone she goes also. Baby" cant |
be left alone and one or more OF the /
larger children stay at home TO keep !,
it company. At the evening meal the /
little fellows begin q description Of /
mot the animals) but the ring per-
Torrance. The end IL the father
gets another chance at the ''ani-