Wichita eagle., 1889-12-29

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vendors, each with load Of merchandise
heavy enough for pack horse. No refusal
will discourage their coming, and no answer
short of an emphatic slamming of the door IL
their faces will stop the seller from depositing
his pack and exhibiting Turkish rugs from
Philadelphia, Swiss clocks from Connecticut
and plush albums from Randolph street AL
of these goods are readily guaranteed TO be
all the lady Of the house may demand, tE<
dealer pledging his commercial honor that
they will wear longer than any similar
articles bought on State street or Wabash
avenue. while his price, he is practically GER
tain. is far below anything ever before known.
And as long as the days are fair these stray
ing merchantmen are haunting houses and
effecting sales on the easy installment plan,
securing promissory notes and chattel mort
cages from women who did not want to buy
and who hate themselves as soon as the ped
dler is gone. But when cloudy days come
and copious rains pour into bottomless depths
of mud, the easy payment man must keep his
wares indoors, and housewives have welcome
assurance of rest.
OLD CLOTHES DAY.
The man who sells pianos and organs by
the house to house canvass is laid under a
black with storm clouds and the unpaved
streets in the outlying districts offer impassa-
bic barriers to horse and wagon, the man
who travels for a music merchandise house
must travel alone and unattended by his Gus
| tomary instrument For rain quickly pene-
| trates the case that incloses his marvel Of
music and renders the organ an abomination
| of discords and the piano distracting clamor
| of harsh sounds.
| In days when darkness and rain bring
| gloom to the man of imitless solvency, he
can never imagine the mental condition of
the wight who walks the streets in grateful
security during all business hours, assured
that no man he owes can recognize him TWEEN
ty feet away, and relying with absolute GER
tainty on the Opaque gloom to secure him inn
munity from the ever impending dun. He
can visit places of resort that knew him in
happier hours, and sit in safety by the day,
for none Of the men to whom he owes dol
Lar can come through that gloom and in
clement weather on any mission less impera-
tive than death. He can walk the streets
dressed in clothing too awfully shabby for
sunny weather wear, and knows that no
apology is needed; the bad weather is excuse
enough.
I1c Call uiliC dlOL5 uudDdSueQ III q udG
that might we'll have provoked the inquiry
current in theatre songs and newsboy badiD-
age, and need tell no one where he got that
covering for the head. He can wear a pair
of trousers with an unchecked tendency to
bag at the knees, and frayed and muddy
appearance altogether; he can cover a shabby
suit of clothes with shabbier overcoat and
march side by side with the best of them,
for fba ,pfr Of
is constant and sufficient apology. He can
brave his way wherever he WILL and hold
his head up with TIE unspoken assurance
that he has batter clothes if he chose to wear
them, but that no man with high forehead
will go well dressed IL such abominable
weather.
THE GIANT IN THE DYNAMO.
The companies that generate electric light,
the sellers Of gas and even the modest trades
men who dabble in kerosene, all welcome a
dark day as the iceman does warm weather.
When the sun rises and shines and sets with
out once seeing the word-which must take
him on trlst-the artificial lighting is con-
slant, and bills pile up as regularly as the
SCOT comes down. When brighter shining
dissipates the gloom and gentle winds carry
the clouds away to dissolve their borders in
the pure lake air, lights go out in town; the
business OF electricians and gas men and
vendors Of oil suffers point or two from the
bear influence of Old Sol on the market.
The darker the day the happier the man
who has lights substitute for sale As the
clouds lower, the giant imprisoned in dy-
namo rouses little, stretches a fraction of
his huge strength, darts virile thrill along
a hundred wires and feels the spirit in him
toss il Weakened anger, for, dark as he seems,
he is the offspring of the sun, producing light
and heat by swift and tireless motion, and he
looks on clouds as traitors to the king of day.
He arms him with strength from two great
masses of iron, catches a quicker breath as
the srmature whirls in revolution passing
thought with its speed, grasps his wire lances
with gloved hands and plunges into the at
tack ON shadow 1t is a very revel with
him.
Lashed to certain station, be cannot go
beyond limit circumscribed, but he leaps
without warning into nest of gloom and
drives the darkness to the limit of his boun- |
diaries with single sweep Of his claymore of |
light He cannot follow the shadows, but he |
dances and Kisses and dares them to an adj
vance they never attempt while he watches. |
he lowers his weapons and sinks for an in
slant as if the fight were wearisome, and as
the legion of shades press little nearer he
flashes into power again and losses them over |
like pillows of hlackness, and guards to the |
uttermost the space assigned him.
How gladly would he pursue the shadows,
how keenly he senses the power of day over
night; how loyal is he to his parent, the sun;
how he beats his bars and pleads to be loosed
for the chase wherever darkness hovers-up
in the air, down In the earth, behind thick
walls and In ghostly corners 1t is carni-
val for the giant Of electric light, and deep
est shadows, gloomiest days and thickest at
nospheres are to him welcome as the hreezes
Of Araby to the dropping pilgrim Of the east.
There is many welcome even for dark
days.-Chicago Herald.
Patient
In certain people patience has accomplished
its perfect work. why, she was such a
patient woman said son. eulogizing his
mother, that she'd let me eat eighteen hot
as she fried 'em, and then go and
nix another batchf' Whether such long
suffering Is altogether to be desired would
probably Be disputed by the-dyspeptic.