The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-03-22

Al
| who has been married for twenty years
| TO superior woman. Dear reader, were
YOU ever married to one of those-a
woman who was your superior in every
way and kept the fact at the head of the
column next to pure reading matter?
This reminds me somehow of Mr..
| Wilde. If | could have seen Willie in
time [ would have told him never to
marry a superior woman, even though
she should throw open to him the door
to every avenue of literary success" as
his wife did. / knew man once who
married superior woman and he died
in a madhouse, and the visitor is still
shown the marks on his little iron bed
stead where he bit it while thinking of
his past life.
The falls Of Niagara are grand and
beautiful, besides having worldwide
reputation; so are the Brooklyn bridge
and the national debt, but [ would not
care, even if footloose (Which am not,
to marry either one Of them.
But let US return. We have been for
days in the lumber region, i. e., the
spinal column of it. At every little sta
ton we are joined by lumbermen, most
~ foreigners, wearing the picturesque
costumes of the camp. We saw the
Berry Wall Of the pine region yesterday.
He wore a new buckskin shirt, futed
at the seams, and pair Of WOODEN
panties or over-underwear knitted from
the worsted remnants of big yarn
carnival, l Judged. They were the
most lurid trousers ever saw. Wher-
ever he went you could almost seem to
smell something burning. 1t was a
wooden kaleidoscope which reminded
one of a picture of volcanic eruption
executed by an Incorporate wagon
painter.
Underneath the clothes have named
above he had all the other clothes he
had ever owned since he grew up. This
gave him a choked and suffocating ap-
pearance, and gave rise to the remark,
in the Scandinavian dialect: 81 gort
too - many pantses on. OATS be-
corse l svet So"
The lumberman carries a valise made
gether by top and bottom corner so
that he can sling it over his shoulder.
In this, l think, he has pair of heavy
kip boots, some edible tobacco and a
large bottle of alcohol.
Sometimes the prosperous chopper has
a square, black papier mache valise with
toy lock on it. Yesterday two men
got on the train at the same time One
Of them was Canuck and the other
was a Norwegian. The Canuck had one
of these little black bags with tho tin
lock on it which is so exactly like sew
eral thousand other little black valises
peculiar to thu railroad.
Hole on dar, you Frantsmans~ said
the Norske man. "You gort my sassle
dar!n
mo, sare," said the gentleman from
San Pierre; sit is eemposseble."
By that time both men had hold of
the handle. They talked broken Eng
lish back and forth for some time. Then
the Norwegian said, wort you gort in
yours sassle!"
The Frenchman told of few things,
such as hair oil, hoarhound candy, comb,
brush, snowshoes. etc.
The Norske told what he had. and in
the meantime they pulled hard on the
bag and the train got a good start. AS
we crossed trestle they were both APP
palled and put 70 confusion, for the bag
burst open and down through the trestle
there fell porous plaster and a big fat
bottle of something that thawed great
holes in the ice wherever 1t struck The
bag. it seems, did not belong to either
of them.
spent two weeks in a lumber camp
once by advice of my physicians. They
said needed pure air and q good deal
of 1t. Every evening around big hot
fire the choppers from Denmark and
Christiana would remove nine pairs of
hose apiece to dry them by the nice hot
stove. and so | went back home where
the air was less resinous. do not care
to be too healthy. 1t makes one look
coarse.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis are making
great calculations on entertaining the
delegates to the national convention.
They viii 90 it well too. They have a