Wichita eagle., 1889-01-16

winch, as II TeVOIFeS, brings inc RELENTLESS
jaws of tho machine closer and closer to-
gethor. Six bands Of hoop iron are then
wrapped around it, and it is ready for market.
Birmingham is the most remarkable city
in the south II is more like booming min
ing town than anything else, and looks like
Leadville in the flush times When we rode
into the city it was remarkable transition
from the old style Of Alabama towns Red
mouthed furnaces yawned like sleepy giants,
and painted the somber sky gaudy crimson
with their hot breath. Busy people might
have been seen here end there, going some
where instead of waiting patiently for some
body TO walk around them, or looking re-
proachfully at strangers who had been
brought up to business habits
Birmingham is young Kansas City, and
has city lots staked out 50 far west and Kan
sas City has so many extending east, that
there is really only narrow strip of ground
between the two towns, and it is being rap
idly bought up. a new railroad connects the
two young giants, and a few choice lots in
either place viii be a good investment for
those who have become weary OF putting
their money into Canadian tourists.
Birmingham reminds me SO forcibly Of q
booming mining town that remarked to Mr.
Riley as we got off the train, that all we
needed to carry out the similarity was an
earnest lynching party. In less than twenty
four hours a crowd of 5000 people made a
party call to the jail for the purpose of e1-
tending the neck Of a gentleman named
Halves, but after twenty people had been
killed and wounded by the officers they re-
treated. Several strangers who had never
seen man lynched and wanted to be able
TO scare their children with the story when
they got home by telling about it, went to
the entertainment, returning later on by the
way of the undertaker's store.
Mr.. Halves was a man who had an earnest
nature and a large red elm club, with which
he ever and anon attracted the attention Of
lis wife when he wanted TO communicate a
disagreeabie truth to her. But he would most
always feel real sorry about it afterward,
and one time after he had broken two of his
wife's ribs in this way, he told her he could
see that he had perhaps been hasty and given
her needless pain, and be believed that he had
better divide up his attentions between her
end another woman, so that one of them
could recover while he gently rebuked the
other.
So he married another woman, and this
created a personal feeling between the two,
for no true wife can bear TO know that her
souls idol is lavishing his kicks on another.
Night after night the 'rst wife would sit up
all alone counting the tagging hours, all the
time knowing full well that her rival was
getting all the large blue welts over the back
which had In the happy past been hers and
hers alone. They had two little girls, which
Mr.. Halves was In the habit of kissing in
public and kicking across the fireside
occasionally, and 50, when little
May was found lying dead On the
shore Of East lake, Mr.. Halves was
placed in Jail While we were in Birming-
ham the citizens CT the town dragged the lake
and found the first Mrs. Halves at the bot
tom, with large quantity of railroad iron
attached to her. That was partly what Gre
ated a feeling against MIR. Halves, and so a
great many OF his old neighbors went up to
the AL 70 present him with the freedom of
the New Jerusalem, but they were foiled.
Several of them were SO much 50 that they
will never wholly recover from its effects
Mr.. HaweS did wrong In the first instance in
marrying two women. When a man marries
two women he is already on the downward
road. ''One wife seems to call for another
in such a case, and then i'll feeling arises. Mr.
Halves, of course, then tried TO obviate the
wife he had at first married, and now people
dislike him for it
Mr.. HAYES made a mistake, also in marry
ing woman, anyway. He should have
married southern hotel carpet, and then
little beating wouldn't have been out of place,
though of course it might have aroused sus-
picion.
No man should accumulate family with
view toward eradicating them as soon as be
becomes weary of them and desires TO become
the head Of another family, for whom he has
higher regard And so Mr. Halves is in a
very trying position at this time He may
wake up, most any morning now, and find
himself Ii 4 felon's grave. This ought to be
solemn warning to little boys and girls who
may be tempted to wipe out previous family
II. order to become more solid, as may say,
with recent one.
We ere having good time scooting about
over the country, changing cars two or three
times in one night, and in other ways enjoy
ing ourselves TO the utmost. We sleep DAYS. /
lecture evenings, and at night abandon our /
selves 10 changing cars At first we devoted I
the first hall Of the night to orations. ban I
quets and demonstrations, hut now we have 1
quit. Having but one stomach apiece. and /
having about SIX months Of this tour looming /
up ahead, with its prospective mirth. music ,
End quail or toast, we have registered q large. 4
hot VOW on the hotel register hereafter TO /
substitute on such occasions our new agent,
who k2s four stomachS and valiSe, together /
with an ahmentary which would certainly be 4
Re ornament 10 any society.-Bm Nye in /
Once It eek
Rapid Transit in Washington.
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mon vr,r.ssiN-n than 1hnS,a of the snail and |