The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-23

i think that the property looks better
in the autumn even than 1t does in
spring. The autumn leaves are falling.
Also the prices on this piece Of property.
1t would be good time to buy it now.
Also a good time to sell. / shall add
nothing because it has been associated
with me. That viii cut no figure, for it
has not been associated with me for so
very long or so very intimately.
The place, with advertising and the
free use of capital, could be made beau
tiful rural resort, or it could be fenced
off Hastily into a cheap, commodious
place in which to store bears for market.
But it has grown. 1t is wider, it seems
to me, and there is less to obstruct the
view. AS soon as communication or dim
ing trains are put on between Minneap-
oils and Sitka good many pupils will
live ON my property and go to school at
Sitka.
Trade is quiet in that quarter at pres
ent, however, and traffic is practically at
standstill. A good many people have
written to me asking about my subdi-
vision and how various branches of in
dustry would thrive there. Having in
| an unguarded moment used the stamps,
| l hasten to say that they would be pre-
mature in going there now, unless in
pursuit Of rabbits, which are extremely
prevalent just now.
Trade is very dull, and first or even
second national bank here in my sub
( division of the United States would find
/ itself practically out of a job. A good
newspaper, if properly conducted, could
! have some fun and get good many adj
I vertisements by swapping kind words
and regular catalogue prices for goods.
| But theatre would not pay. i write
! this for the use of "A man VINO has just
written to know II good opera house
with folding seats would pay fair in
vestment on capital. No, it would not.
/ / will be fair and honest. SInarting as
/ / do yet under the cruel injustice done
me by the meek and gentle grocery
man, who, while he wept upon my cor
rugated bosom with one hand. softly re-
moved my pelt with the other and sprin-
+ killed. Chill sauce all over me, / will not
/ betray NV own friends. Even with my
/ still bleeding carcass quivering under
/ the Halford sauce of Mr.. Parsley, the
( "sllin" and hypocrite, the friend Of the
/ far distant savage and the foe of those
who are MS unfortunate neighbCrs,
/ will not betray even stranger. Though
/ have used his postage stamp. will
/ not be false TO him. An opera house
/ this fall would be premature. Most
everybody's dates are booked. anyhow.
/ We could not get Francis Wilson or
/ Nat c.. Goodwin or ROsina Vokes or Ed
/ win Booth or Mr.. Jefferson, for they
are all too busy turning people away.
and would hate TO open with James
/ Owen O'COnnor or any other mechan-
ical appliance.
! No. Wait another year at least. At
I present an opera house in my subdivision
/ to the solar system would be as useless
as Dull Thud in the state of New York.
One drawback 20 the immediate pros
/ perity of the place is that communication
rates so far are yet in their infancy.
| Eighty-seven and one-half cents per ride
on trains which run only on Tuesdays
and Fridays is not sufficient compensa-
( ton for the long and lonely walk and
the paucity Of some suitable cottages
/ when one gets there.
So l viii sell the dear old place, with
all its associations and the good viii Of
a thriving young frog conservatory. at
the buyers own prices. As l say, there