The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-04-19

| Auoio SICILY duu I06Dl0 SOfTOWS IN thai
way, but he said they always swelled ur
and came to the surface on the follow.
ing day bigger and more disagreeable
than ever.
said that was good sinaile.
He said he didn't know what it was,
but it was so.
found that he was talkative, and 50
l conversed with him. He said that he
had got all his work done up ahead and
! got all over the rush before came, SO
that he could have real good visit with
me when got here. judged that ii
had been several years since he had been
busy. however.
He said that Texas was advancing rap
! idly he thought, in the matter of civil
cation. said ''Yes?' with rising in
Election. He said that she was now
safely past the crisis, he thought, be-
tween the customs of the cliff jewellers
and finger bowls. ''Some of us, of c'ose,
is raw yit, but we are advancing. ]
would like to have you the guest of our
club here this evenin', sab, if you will
come down-the Upper Congo club it is
called, sab. We run it on economical
principles, sab, but 1t is quiet, home
like place, whah you kin go for hour
or two. check you old razor and injoin
yousef."
1t was quiet and rather unpreten-
tious place, the Upper Congo club, occu-
pied during the day as a laundry and
Tuesdays and Fridays as a club room.
The franchise of the club consisted of
the inalienable right to meet, mediate
and adjourn. The club properly consist
ed of a guests register, made in imitation
of butchers order book, with a pine
lead pencil tied to 1t by string, gallon
beer pail and a set Of dominos.
The Upper Congo club allows no mill
ionaires' sons to join. Of course if a
member should become millionaire's
son after he had united with the club he
cannot be expelled without two-thirds
vote; but 1 was told that "brains." and
brains only, was the qualifcation-sef
made brains. Wealth could not come in
and corrupt the pure thought ganglia of
the Upper Congo club.
Sam Jones preached in Texas and lect-
ured and licked the mayor of Palestine
last fall. Everywhere one goes he hears
of Sam Jones and the good work done
by him. Also by DR.. Talmage, who with
Mr.. Jones, another well known reYivalist,
and myself, furnished star course of
lectures the past season for Texas with
great success, people coming in some in
stances for hundreds Of miles, bringing
their dinners and paying dollar apiece,
looking upon us with awestruck features
for a. few moments and then retiring
cheerfully to their distant homes.
Texas people say that Sam Jones re-
minds them of John the Forerunner in
some ways, only that John, SO far as they
know, did not eat with his knife. Sam,
however, is a plain, offhand man, and
since he and and DR.. Talmage have
worked together in Texas I do not feel
like hearing either one criticised, and /
know that tieitheriof them will sit calm
ly by and. allow me to be run down.
Dallas is beautifully surrounded by
the state of Texas and Oak Cliff, hand
some suburb, with thriving hotel and
a vigorous girls college. Also a pavil-
ion for speakers and concerts during
the summer, and a Inenagerie. There
is a train running between Oak Cliff and
Dallas which is called an accommoda-
ton. 1t is owned by the hotel, and goes
along with the reading room, parlor and
Mushroom. You board at the hotel and
the proprietor throws in the railroad.
l say this SO that the interstate COM
MERGE outfit may look into the matter
and throttle this giant evil.
Dallas did business in 1889 of over
$31 200, 900. Since then trade has greatly
increased. While there l met COM
pany of Boston capitalists, headed by ex-
Governor Bracket. They had just
bought building for S25O,O00 that day.
-Four million dollars are (or is) invested
in factories, and the yearly product is
over $4,000 900. l was also in Dallas
two days, and put quite a little sum of
money in circulation while there. can
not help it. The western spirit of free
dom and reckless expenditure comes
over me, and 1 buy the morning paper |
sometimes and do not read half of it.
l went to see the "Clemenceau Case"
while in Dallas. I had avoided it in
New York, but the pictures and printing
were so beautiful that l accepted the in
of real nice man and went to
see the "Clemenceau Case" will never