The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-12

WENT DOWN MY SLEEVE.
vided up the exercises of the day into
two parts-viz., Part 1, morning exer-
cises at the grove; Part II. evening exer-
cises also at the grove.
In speaking of the grove did so more
for devilment than anything else, for
this end Of the state is all grove, being
a virgin wilderness against which a
tongue of scandal has never breathed the
breath of the deadly upas tree, nor bigot
forged a chain. Oh, would that l were
safely back in that bright land again, as
the fellow says.
The morning exercises consisted Of the
usual selections-"Ame on the or
gazette, accompanied by child voices;
reading of the Declaration of Independ-
ence and few selections from the pro-
ceedings of the Tennessee legislature;
complimentary prayer by the chaplain;
singing of "Red, White and Blue" by a
man from Statesville; piece on the melo-
deon, entitled "Pee-wee Bird Waltz" by
a young woman from distance who is
visiting North Carolina, and who was
left at Busbee Station by the train whilst
gathering golden rod; address by me
touching on The Growth, Progress and
| Final PUNK of Nations"
There is hardly room here for moro
than a resume of the address, for it was
long, covering, as it did, the history of
man and the evolution Of government
from the feudal ages, and even back Of
that extending through barbaric centu-
ries, and so on down to the present time,
when national and state government be-
comes not only duty but pleasure.
The speaker touched with great power
and feeling upon our duty az citizens, ow-
ing itas we do, he went on to say, to our
selves and our pOsterity to suitably pre-
pare our minds and hearts by early edu-
cation and association for the great du.
ties of citizenship, and both by our pre-
cept and our practice SO live that we
may safely leave the mere act of voting
to other heads. The speaker said also
that to the newly arrived citizen voting
is new and thrilling experience. Why
not allow him more of it to do, while we
who have the taxes to pay and who
therefore need rest and change of scene,
may safely take much needed relaxation
on election day, and if we do not like
the result we can write a piece for the
paper signed ''Tax Payer" and marked
on the top communicated
This was followed by applause, which.
on being looked up turned out to come
from the wife of the speaker, who had
been huckleberrying, and hearing
noise in the direction of the speakers
stand had drifted around that way, and
having met the audience before shook
hands with him and sat down TO hear
the address.
The speaker touched lightly on the
subject of the presidency in 1892, and
said that while his health was never so
good as it was at this time, yet he did not
wish his name used for two reasons. One
was that he had been too fearless in his
denunciation of large moneyed interests,
and the other was that he would rather
lecture all winter at his present prices
team to deliver ten free speeches per day
out Of the tailgate of sleeping car and
then get up three times in the night in
a suit of pajamas to inquire the name of
the station and then make ten minutes
cyclopedia speech on its resources.
The audience agreed after the address
to use his influence toward seeing that |
the speakers name was not brought up
before the convention. After the ad |
dress the mayor of Skyland, who owns |
the sugar bush in which the opera house !
stands, opened fresh case of Bent's |
justly celebrated water crackers, together |
with a new Chalybiate spring that tasted |
like the basement of wholesale hard |
ware store after the big fire in Chicago. |
After this came a spirited two-old-cat |
tournament in the afternoon and basket |
picnic, during which the little child of |
the audience, by his first wife. discovered I
the deserted nest of one of the celebrated [
Little Mammoth Black Hornets of Ten
nessee. This insect is called IN the south .
the Typhoid Touch-me-not Of the Tropics.
and wears a platinum singer. with an
alcohol lamp for same. all the time.
The black hornet is now said By a
writer on war topics. whose article was
returned to him by some O: cur leading
magazines, to have been the cause Of the
mastery forced march from Bull Run to
" Washington. The black hornet has broken
up eight district schools n Tennessee,
and if the colored Zion NJ. E. church az
East Conquest is barred out OF paradise
by the committee on credentials the
black hornet that built his nest IN the
hot air register during the summer VIII
be to blame for it.
Let others admire the delicate texture
OF the black hornets deserted home, but
blowing down the barrel OF deserted
shotgun is good enough for me. More
ever, viii look just as well on the ioi-
lowing day and suffer less
We buried the little yOungster in the
cool. yellow mud down at the branch
ali but his head. and 81 We poulticed
with wet plug tobacco and ammonia
till toward evening, when he could bear
70 have his fathers hat on and 90 home.
He did not see nv fireworks. be had
10 worry along with those lie hS-c stirred
Cp N the clinker Quilt household Of the
black hornet
We opened the evening vita song
sang a selection from III TrovatoTe.
AanoEnnanzinz nar=AH tia --iasha-~