The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-02-10

best an equal net return for en- cq0al
amount Of work and skill, and hoping only
for advantage in more delightful climate,
IN more perfect health, and IN the ability
to do more work
That this is true IN the south generally,
as'well Is in places that have como under
my direct observation, is not unnatural
inference from certain action OF the con-
vention which looked more 20 special in
terests than the general advantage.
Such as they are, tho remaining public
lands in the far west belong 10 the American
people, and under proper regulations for
occupancy and Usa they should be made IS
accessible TO the people of every state as the
circumstances permit. But the competi-
ton of this poor remnant Of public lands
troubled the convention, and 1t passed
resolutions looking to concerted action by
all southern legislatures ard by all south
ern representatives and senator's in con-
gress for national legislation which should
withdraw all such lands from sale or occu-
pancy till the unoccupied lands ii the
older states are disposed of.
These lands in the older states are in
private hands, and the resolutions simply
mean that their owners are either unable
in competition with the remainder Of the
public lands of the far west. This, on the
one hand, is a practical admission that
southern lands offer no great inducement
TO the agricultural settler, while on the
other, the cheapness of labor is one Of the
chief reasons alleged for northern invest
ments in southern mineral lands, manu-
factories and town sites.
faI ala 4 I'd
equipped with documents setting forth the
advantages of their respective localities
supplied myself with these and looked
them over with care. The most striking
Of all is an illustrated pamphlet setting
forth the advantages of q distant health
resort, where the death rate among the
residents, as stated, is Gil per LOCO per year
that is, the average expectation of life is
1S4 years, months, 81 days.
/ have had some experience with colored
walters. If those twenty-five or thirty
years old are slow enough both for appe-
tite and digestion, how may good digestion
wait on appetite" if both have to wait for
a middle aged waiter whose years number
134, months 81 days? How could Succi
himself abide an old waiter Of twice the
average years?
This was by no means reassuring, but
the next fact that riveted my attention
was death rate among visitors of I.32 per
1000. That is to say, if reprobate of SO
years, broken down by his vices, visits this
strange resort, the chances are even that he
won't die for 75.7 years months q days.
This being the average, is it better or
worse than the days of ''Mathusalem?" /
am afraid it is worse. Among these play
full middle aged visitors of some 500 years
apiece, or among the residents or both, one
died last year of endocolita, one of hemo-
philia, one of emphysemia, one of cere-
BIRTHS, three of meningitis, one of cystitis,
one of myelitis and one of endarteritis,
four Of gunshotitis, one of plain murder,
and many of other diseases equally fatal
The advantages Of that place forcibly re-
mind me of those claimed for another
with which it may have some underground
connection, where the guests freely adj
mitted and warmly welcomed, receive the
most constant attention, and where they
are warranted to live forever. l shall give
no more of these interesting particulars
until have made a personal inspection of
this health resort, and | certainly shall not
visit it till have received d full descrip-
ton of the accomm odatiOns provided for
me, with a menu accompanied by time
table for each course and a free return pass,
all in duplicate, properly authenticated,
and with an adequate bond to be enforced
by my attorney for the benefit of my heirs,
providing it is found that nulla vestigia
retrorsum. EDWIN A. CUELEY.