The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-30

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CAPE.
1 did not succeed in drawing out Mr..
| Cleveland regarding his candidacy, but
he said naively, as he turned aside to
spit on his bait, that his health was tip
! top.
"That," said he, as he unfastened his
! hook from the wainscoting of my treus-
ers, els one thing which ] like about me.
While not in any sense candidate, you
may say in general way that my health
! is right good"
"What / admire about Mr.. Cleve-
land" said Mr.. jefferson the following
day, sis, that he is a Just man. Even
his enemies must admit that When
we go out fishing and return at
night, Mr.. Cleveland will not accept
more than his just share of the catch.
| do not say that Mr.. Blaine would ex-
pect to catch clubs and pumpkin
seeds all day and then expect to Offset
them against brook trout, but at the
same time l think that he might con-
slider that his conversational powers
would offset his suckers, while Mr..
Cleveland does not try to so work his
diplomatic gifts as to keep him in grub.
He is man who wants to give substan-
tial justice to everybody, and of course
this does not suit those who never
tried it.
"Mr. Cleveland and his wife make
good neighbors here, and he has nsver
borrowed anything yet that he has not
returned. help him in haying and he
helps me in harvest. We exchange
works. l let him have my 'autobi-
ography' to read and he loans me some
of his most spicy old messages to con-
gress."
Property has greatly appreciated in
this country since the arrival of the
Clevelands, Jeffersons and Gilders.
From $S2 per acre paid by Mr.. Charles
jefferson, the price has gone up to $3.50
and $500 and even to price per front
foot. But fortunately the speculator
will not get chance at it, for the colony
holds enought of it to keep the semibar-
barism of boom out of it. What can
be sadder than the stealthy football of
81 boom in the soothing silence of the
primeval forest? What can be more sac
religious than the fzzle of a soda foun-
tain or fictitious value where nature
has held the age on the false and the
artificial for centuries?
The tendency for the past few years
among those who have leisure and even
moderate means is to foster the growth
of cottage life, and to the detriment of
the great, overgrown summer hotel, with
its waste of piazzas and raw material,
its tiddledewinks greatness, its James
Crow aristocracy, its noise and newness,
salt air and starvation, its fussy invalids
and footpad walters.
Why not have even a fifty dollar log
cabin in the hills or a wall tent by the
walling sea in preference to all this?
have wall tent this summer which
is much larger than any room | ever
had at a seaside hotel, and have pros
pect on the outside that money could not
buy. We have also in the North Caro-
lima mountains style of refrigerator for
meats that would surprise and amuse
the uninitiated. 1t consists of rectan-
gular cage, covered with mosquito wire
and attached to rope. We put pulley
up in a high pine tree and run the rope
over it. Then we attach the refrigerator,
put in our meats and pull the whole
thing up in the tree. 1t keeps sweet and
improves for a week or ten days. The
reader will be tempted to disbelieve this
unless he has lived in mountain coun-
try and tried it.
Looking over the United States, it is
wonderful how health and pleasure re-
sorts have built mp within few years
From the east to the west, from the north
TO the south the coast and the hills are
freckled with cottages and inns for those
who have learned that change of air is
better than the entire pharmacopeia.
Nsntasket beach. the Coney island of
Boston, is a beautiful stretch of shore,
giving upon Boston harbor. | saw
wagon load of young men on the Jeru-
salem road who had been up to Nan
tasket and improved their health so much
that they spoke about it in high terms
to every one they met, even stopping
good many carriages to tell joyfully and
-
fused rhetoric, how the sea air had ben
Gifted them. The following day they
followed up their dietetic course with
twelve hours gentle exercise in macsd-
amizing the roads of CohaSset, return
ing at night with healthy glow and in
charge of an officer.
Boston does not seem so deathly quiet
in midsummer as New York. While
the hot weather reduces the speed of
pedestrians on Washington street some
what, | succeeded in getting 8 shoulder
knocked of before breakfast as | was
hurryinz down to the common for a
brisk walk and also to see the parched and
feverish frog pond, hoping that at that
hour | might find 1t moist, with nayhap
4 frog IN IL.
Boston used to@be called Shawnut b.
the chronological red brother. 1t was
afterward called fremont, pronounced
Tremmont. This pronunciation when
it gets as far as Pittsburg becomes zre..
mont and az Chi ---n- fremont