The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-23
ghe adlieha Daily gayle tuesday ornino ay 23, 1893.

Josiah or his editorials. and he's decided
to start him in on his own hook Poor
old chap, for one am glad he has got
ten into the country which he loves so
much, and where he will be boss, and
| not bossed."
! And the others assented.
When the Eagle appeared at the Office
the following week. at the top of the
! editorial column. below the subscrip-
| ton and advertising notices, stood '-Jo-
siah Sanford, Editor. Josiah Sanford,
Jr., Manager" in small, bold-faced
! type.
! so the son is in it, too" said the so
ciety editor, reading over my shoulder.
/ Il expect he viii make something of
himself, too. for he has plenty of push.
SO the operator says Heard about the
sons love affair. didn't you? No. Why,
he fell IN love with an heiress, and he's
too proud to ask her to marry him Jack
| Martin was telling me-he knows him
right well"
Big fool" commented the horse
editor. ''oughtn't to fall in love" where
at Brothers and l laughed compassion
ately, being married men. You cannot
convince bachelor Of thirty years
standing, however.
by the way. my dear" said the fol-
lowing day at dinner. who is Ed;th's
lawyer"
Let me see, answered my wife, puck
ering up her forehead as she ALWAYS
does when she thinks. Mr-Mr.-Mr
Rathbone. or something like that
''Ah; and she IS away now, isn't she?"
Yes, at Mortonville. She has bought
beautiful old house back in the hills
from the town and is spending the sum
mer there"
could not help smiling at my inner
thoughts when she said this. but /
turned It off when she asked me at what
l was laughing, and went on thinking.
Soon after this we packed UP our few
household goods, and taking what
seemed to me more stuff than we had
ever owned before, along with our
babies, we sailed out into the country,
too, where all day long we older folks
sat in the shade of the great old trees
and read or dozed, and the little fell
lows played in the sand or helped our
good-natured landlord run the farm.
Those were pleasant days indeed to the
weary newspaper man, with no thought
of copy to be ground out, or of those
ever-present, ever-wearing-out shoes to
disturb the eQuanimity of his mind
Only few papers reached me here, for
l had gone for rest, but one day bun
die came, directed in the horse editors
hurried chirography, and the first one 1
picked up was Josiah's paper, the Eagle
l unfolded it, and there, rung about
with tremendous blue-pencl mark L
read this notice:
"MARRIRD.-Sanford-Cla On July "A |
by Rev Henry l. Snithers, Josiah Sanford, /
Jr., 10 Edith Laynan Clarke, at the Church OF
our Father
Silently I passed the paper to Mary, |
and waited for the storm TO come.
''W-e-l-l!' was all she said, bat it was
sufficient for all ordinary purposes.
Her trip to Europe postponed, and
all those lovely clothes she gasped
''Rathbone consulting with the Old |
Man" put in.
Her queer, preoccupied way
''Old Josiah being called to take |
charge of the Eagle"
Did you ever!''
Then, after moments silence: /
Il really didn't think Edith would do
such thing-it is SO unlike her"
"a girl in love, my dear-wouldn't
you have done the same for me ten
years ago?'
Indeed, not! You know I didn't
want you" (She did, however, for she
took me in preference to one of the
richest men in town.) And her father
dead only little over year,
We'll" said, settling myself in my
chair for nap, 1--WE can't help it
mo, / suppose not, but l own I'm
in Edith. She might have
let me. her own cousin, know about it.
/ wonder what dress she wore, or per-
haps she did have time to have"
Seeing this promising sign of ap-
preaching forgiveness for Edith APP
pearing l closed my eyes and dozed off
to sleep.
And Mary sat and sewed, and thought
Of the girl who had bought newspaper
for her future father-in-law.-E. j.
in Yankee Blade