The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-03-19
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Yesterday was miserable day. The
early dawn started off with sleet that
covered the pavements with treacherous
ice, and many hapless laborer early on
MS way to work, was upset with crash
| his feet up in the air and his head denting
the pavement, while the contents of his
| tin-pail scattered at will Later on it tried
| to snow, but didn't succeed; then it thaw-
ed little, and drZzled some: then it tried
showing again; and so on, all day, the ele-
| ments dilly-dallied along, threatening a
great deal but doing nothing except to
| make street travel very disagreeable, and
decimating the number of tramps and
loafers, who discovered many new hole
| in their shoes and many fresh rift in
their coats, and hied them away to the
south side of some suburban haystack
The respectable loungers gathered in their
accustomed stores and grouped about the
stove, told any new stories they might
have heard and wrangled good naturally
over the political questions. national, state
and municipal
1t is on such days as yesterday, when
the cold. humid wind searches out all
the vulnerable points in a mans frame.
and sits in under his clothing, and chills
him to the bone, that the restaurants and
lunch counters do good business. The
business men and the clerks do not go
home to dinner, but patronize the lunch
counters, where they either go in lightly
with an order of SANDWICH and cup of
coffee,'' or heavily with the summons of a
full fiedged dinner with soup and fowl, ac-
cording to their means and appetites.
There is little doing in trade, the custom
ers are few and far between, the clerks
spend most of their time sitting and chat
ting on the counters, and the bookkeepers
have few entries to make So there is no
hurry at the MONDAY meal, and occasion
ally when group of congen al spirits hap
pen together they regale themselves with
different stories of their experiences and
observations. Such a group were linger-
ing over the redolent remains of viands
half consumed around a table ON North
Main street, at noon yesterday. The talk
turned on haunted houses, wraiths and
spooks. One gentleman, a prominent
merchant. said that a peculiar and inter
esting case had recently come under his
obs -rvation. Some time ago there
was tragedy enacted in one
of the homes of this city. One member of
the family realized soon after the affair
that the room IN which the deed was com
mitted was being Stunned and avoided 10y
the whole family, and recognized that I'M
less something was done stories would be
created and bruited abroad that this room
was haunted. There were several children
in the family and she knew it would make
their lives miserable large portion of the
time and ruin the sale of the property,
should any of the fctions become the
property of common gossip. So she fixed
this room up, made it cheerful and ar
ranged so that it is now the romping room
for the children. There is bed in it and
somebody always passes the night in the
room. The family often sit there of even
ings and it has come to be the room in the
whole house that is most used. If there is
any sewing to be done or any transport
able work, it is carried to this room The
consequence of this effort to always keep
life and cheerfulness present in the four
walls that witnessed dreadful tragedy
which Mortified the whole community At
the time, the consequences is that all asso-
citation of the room and the crime has dis
appeared from the minds of the family
and no repugnance at all to the place is
noticeable. 1t was a timely move on the
part of this particular member and an
exemplary one, rs many house is marked
with blood and pointed out by the super
stitious as haunt OF the supernatural,
for no other reason than it is wanting
human habitation.