The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-23
TIE GOVERNOR.

He was not quite sure of his election
at first, but after while he became con
WINGED that he had been chosen by the
suffrages of the people, and SO he started
for Albany by diligence, with speckled
COW attached to the rear of the convey
ance. When lie got pretty near to Albany
he was told thata mistake had been made
in the returns, by which the other mans
election was only too clear. He probed
the matter and found that the informa-
ton came from an authentic source; SO,
after batting his team, he gave his trusty
COW dose of Moxie and started out for
home again, sad, vet bowling to the will
of the people. For some days he jour
neyed on over rough roads and through
desolate stretches Of country, sometimes
finding such rough going that his frail
drosky seemed ready to overturn and
plunge down bottomless chasm.
At last the domes and minarets of
Canandaigua loomed up in the distance,
and after his long journey the governor
drove into his own door yard and put the
team out. Polishing his red but virtu-
Gus beak on the back of his buckskin
mittens, he slowly took up the thread of
private life again by knocking the choicest
| brains out of a stray cat.
Anon one Of the neighbors came in and
asked the governor what was up. He al
! lowed that he wasn't so much elected as
he had VOTED. ''Why, yes you be" said
the man. The governor pricked up his
ears and began to look for the papers.
/ He now discovered that sure enough he
was elected after all; so, eating a cold
doughnut and drinking some non-elastic
cider, he returned to the barn. Admins
! tering a Dover's powder and little bis
muth to the COW he once more hitched
up his drosky, whilst the COW looked up
| into his eyes with an air OF inquiry and
reproach, as who should say, Gov
ernor, how much of this junketing bust
ness have you got on hand?" He smote
her across the nose pettishly and said,
"There, torment ye, can't ye never SOP
He became governor, but in quiet
way. giving to the state corn starch
administration unmarked by reckless
ness or intestine strife. He was the only
temperance governor, think, that New
York ever had, and that was the only
way he has been the author of foot
print on the sands of time.
The cow who assisted him during his
calm reign of oat meal and chastened
monotony has long since passed to her
reward.
He still recalls with marked pride his
Of
time when he made the trip by diligence
to Albany and back with a pair Of spint
b0ttomed chairs dashed to the back of
the load, cow attached to the rear also
and an Oleander from Clean, who went
along as an amaEuensis.
We should learn from the career Of
Governor Clark to esteem, ever through
life and even beyond the confines of
time, where sorrow and distress and
habits of industry can never enter, those
qualities of mind and heart which,
wherever found and whenever came
acrost, should. by one and all, be most
highly thought of.
Estella B., Long Branch, n. j., asks
for few hints on travelling etiquette, as
slit - SAlOlllS W eSSLSb Al II bAAdhA OOuA W
California.
If you contemplate such tour, Estel-
la, YOU will do we'll TO weigh it well be-
forehand and consider your conduct
carefully before taking the fatal step.
In the first place, do not wear new
clothes while travelling. 1t is foolish, in
the first place, and besides, if you are
bride, as you will be doubtless if you
contemplate trip like this, you will not
wish to attract too much attention.
Wear the street gloves you have been
wearing for some time and tell Bsrtholo-
new TO do the same. If you and ne de-
eide 70 wear new shoes, it would be we'll
to soil the soIes little before you start
out. Even a sleeping car porter Is not
blind to these things, and he tells the
conductor; the conductor tells the brake
man, and the brakeman is liable to tell
the superintendent OF the road.
Do not adopt the customary style Of
railway eating house devastation. II
your young life has been cursed By star
walton, try 10 conceal 1t en- route and tell
Bartholomew also 70 LEI his hunger. Ike
2 tapeworru. prey upon his inner works,
rather than drown the roar of the report
by his loud seertorous eating at twenty
minute death trap.
Do not become absent minded a, table.
Il may attract attention. Ia Canada TINS
winter I saw an anxious man looking out
the door Of the dining room nervoasly
Is ne waited Tor lis breakfast, and when
he got as toast ne turned the slice over
critically 70 see II it had been properly
indorsed before he would take it. He
also. when MS cakes were brought in.
moistened his finger IN his finger bowl
and ran over the little pile o. pancakes
twice 10 Sc thar the amount vas cor
rect sfterwzri learned that TIE NAE 5
name was Silcoit, formerly al = Washing
ton. D. {.
Tel Bartholomew thas lie r8Qs5 also
lo3a I'D tle manual o. good hrsc11:,
and nog follow a l&>iy upstairs or g-csese
. lsdy OK 4 reoul. II he s5c-ld nap
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