The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-28

Allow me to dlgreSS for q moment
while | speak of the wagon road of
North Carolina. The system has been a
bad one for some years, especially in the
western part of the state. For that rea-
son the roads have been practically inn
passable good deal of the year. The
Asheville and Hendersonville road, for
instance, is kept now in the same repair
that the road is from Zanzibar to Lake
Victoria Nyanza. 1t was formerly q
toll road, and though the tolls were used
mostly for personal expenses by the
owners of the road, the bill was always
made out for those who desired TO ride
over the route. speak thus plainly Of
these roads hoping that it may result in
great good TO those who live thereon.
At present the road above referred to
is simply an i'll kempt trail, along which
are strewn the wrecks of busted vehicles
and the bones of people whose necks
have been dislocated in trying to ride
over them, and who have been left alone
80 die. Though public road of great
Importance, very few people drive over
il unless under the influence of liquor.
There are places on this road where
mountain springs soak up through the
roadbed, and have done so for centuries,
! while the roadmaster has been waiting
for them to dry out. The result is that
stoneboat is the only vehicle which
will safely make the trip. Hitch a
2-year-old heifer with claybank mule,
and then on the lead put lavender
jackass, and if you are a careful driver
you may take your children to Ashe-
7ille, but if not you viii surely be short
Cwo or three on the way home. Lots OF
North Carolina families have only eleven
or twelve children left out of possible
twenty, owing to the condition of the
roads This reckless outlay of children,
1T seems to me, if nothing else, should
teach us TO improve our roads.
Asheville has made an appropriation
recently of SG25,000, most all of which
Will go for the Improvement Of her
streets. This is better than like
amount laid out in fenceboard advertis-
ing. Now let the issue in the county be
bully roads for Buncombe county" and
let the party who opposes the improve
ment correct the bad grammar and poor
} punctuation in its dying speech, and do
1T soon too.
was saying the other day that after
q pretty general knowledge of North
Carolina for five or six years l was as
tonished to notice that there had been
no burglaries within my observation.
This is remarkable, especially to me, for
! have lived where a burglary was not
uncommon, and where | have suffered
myself, having lost silver plated butter
dish in that way eight years ago, also
what butter we had in the house at the
time, it being concealed in the butter
dish. also shot burglar, eleven years
ago, who was breaking into my resi-
dence, but be had only sixty cents on his
person at the time, and even that the
coroner took away from me on the fol-
lowing day. The burglar has it all his
own way at the north, but here in North
Carolina, where the mosquito never lives
and the politician never dies, burglary is
q capital offense. All burglars over
fourteen years of age are executed. This
tends TO turn the attention of bright
young burglars toward politics
never felt so secure before in my
life. | leave my large, massive, solid
silver watch on the eScr5tolre every night
now, whereas L used to put it underneath
the mattress. 1t is a very comfortable
feeling, l assure you. OF course chick
ems are not so safe, especially during =
Colored revival do not wish to be
misunderstood regarding this matter,
but was told on the start by devout
Christian of the Caucasian race that If
cared anything for my "broilers"
would watch them most carefully dur
ing a coiored revival, for at that time
the more ''earnest" negroes were SO all
tore up in their minds that they could
not work at all during the day, and the
revival took ali the night, or nearly so
Therefore, when the pangs Of hunger
and the rumblings and retchlngs of a
sin-sick soul had been preying on an or
binary colored man for a week or ten
days he was hollow clean into the
ground, and his better judgment didn't
stand any chance whatever.
got some chickens when | first came
here. Some of them had cholera, but l
did not know it at first. Quite num-
Der of the chickens were almost imme-
diately stolen, but three Of them were
not. They seemed 10 be spared as mon