The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-24
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.
Some Of the Things 'lhe Eagle Youn Man,
Hears in His Handles About the
Pee rless Princess

| sI'll tell you," said a baseball enthusiast
| to the EAGLE young man Friday night
when diningroon girl wants to put Oh
| agony she can spread it on thick. Irode
| over in the car with two of them this aft
| ernoon and observed them as closely as
| twas consistent with good breeding. One
! OF them was a little chunky one with de-
moralizing black eyes, whose feet rested
| on air while sitting on a moderately high
| seat; and the other one was tall and slen-
! der, with light gray eyes, faultlessly
dressed in light walking suit, and gen.
teel all the way through except occasion
ally when she would stare modest man
out of countenance. The little one had a
very nice waist and finely turned ankle
and the way she attracted attention to
both showed that she was practiced in the
art Of displaying her form divine. The
second one had new bonnet but this was
not what she desired to be seen the most.
No, indeed; silver watch as
big as saucer was the
speciality she had on parade that
day and know that it belonged to one of
the boarders at the hotel. She wanted
everybody TO see that watch aud from the
time we left the ball grounds till we
reached the corner of Main and Douglas
she consulted that watch just eighteen
times or an average of once every minute,
and every time she took good care that
everyone in the car saw it. Every time
one spoke about the time, she jerked out
her watch and consulted it, and that was
very frequently, for the boys caught on TO
her weakness and they took good care to
ask the time often enough to suit her. 1t
beats Old Harry why young women go SO
crazy about their watches and how alb
surdly they use it when they have one.
II saw in your paper the other day an
article about the 5000 Indian Catholic
congress in Dakota" said a we'll known
ex frontiersman to the EAGLE young man
Monday, ''and it interested me. Bishop
Martyrs name was connected with it, and
it is about him l want to talk. Don't you
know, he is the most apostolic man in this
country today? Well, he is. They may
talk about Cardinal Gibbons and Bishop
Ireland and Father Mollinger and the
works they have accomplished, but they
are nothing compared TO the works of
Bishop Marty. Anybody that knows any
thing about Indians knows that they are
particularly hard to convert to anything
civilized and uplifting. and yet in the
short space of fourteen years Bishop Marty
has made at least 10, 900 Christians among
them. And how did he do il? BY great
personal sacrifices. As an instance Of this,
will call attention to my first acquaint-
ance with him. 1t was in 1879 when l was
driving bull team between Fort Pierre
and the Black Hills. When l came
into camp one night near Fort
Meade, on the bleak prairie, l
approached my covered wagon and putting
my hand into the bed of it to find my pipe
| found that a man had been sleeping in
there. | thought he was tramp and l
awakened him by vigorous shaking, and
to my establishment ! found that he was
Bishop Marty passing the night in our
camp. having obtained permission of the
boss TO accompany our outfit to Fort
Pierre. Invited him TO share my blankets
and tent with me and he accepted. The
bowling of the coyotes awakened me be-
fore sunrise next morning. and missing
my reverend companion l got up and
looked about for him, and found him
kneeling near the wagon on frozen ground
and head uncovered. praying. Before
leaving camp every morning and after
camp at night. he spent fully an
hour on his knees on the ground offering
his alterations to diety. 1t required eight
days to make the trip, and the influence
the presence of so sanity man had on
half hundred bull whackers was such
that not rough or indecent word had
been uttered during the trip. When we
got within nine miles of Fort Pierre he
left us, and taking the satchel that con-
tanned his yestments he walked thirteen
miles across the prairie TO "A camp of the
widest Sioux Indians that ever lived in
that country. Nobody ever dared to
venture among these Indians without a
of soldiers at his back, ard yet
not hair on Bishop Martyrs head was
touched. On the contrary the man in
black" was welcomed by them. 1 met
him the second Sunday thereafter in a
camp of more peaceable Indians, near Fort
Bennett, teaching them the " ord of God
on the open prairie, and if l live to be a
years old | never expect to see a
more solemn and impressive scene. Two
days later / met him walking towards
Fort Sully, travelling eighteen miles on
foot, to give the consolation of her religion
to the wife o. an Irish sergeant who was
on the last stages Of consumption. While |
among tie Indians lie put up with their
fare, slept ia their filthy tents and worked
day and night hammering the mysteries |
Of religion into their unwilling heads. His |
voice was as gentle as the voice of 10 !
~ III ri
ways on his face more captivating and |
Iovable than l had ever before or have !
ever since seen on the face of mortal |
man."
While engaged in friendly discussion |
with an old war horse Democrat Wednes- |
lay afternoon on the political situation |
the EAGLE young man heard good illus |
tration of the relation the Democrats |
bear to the PopuIists. ''Of course am for |
fusion said be; why shouldn't be? If we |
IAN get the Alliance to whip our old |
enemies, the Republicans, wouldn't we be |
,humps not to accept. | want TO tell you |
\ story. Down in Missouri during the |
war the Union soldiers caught baud OF |
yuriilas Que day and set about hanging !
hem. Just then the rebels came in sight |
10 large numbers and some bright genius |
proposed that the gurilias should turn in !
and help their captors to whip their old |
the RebS. The gurillas agreed |
% accept the proposition if their |
ives would be spared ard the |
Union folks said that is a matter they |
would attend 70 afterwards. The battle |
was fought. and the victory was won for |
he Union side, the guerillas fighting like !