The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-02-12
THE REPORTERS PICNIC.
Things Seen, Heard am Talked About With
ont Much 2usting.

L uuSB COulSSS tudl CabhOS hNoAN
question from a scientific standpoint,
much less spiritual one. And by spirit
ual mean the general acceptance OF the
term as applied to the fight the soul IS
supposed to take when the life OF the
body comes to an end. But what is its l
can describe to you definitely and
correctly the position and action
Of every organ of the human body in life"
and in death" and what makes the action
cease, that is while considering the BODY
of itself. AS the lawyers would say / can
give you the direct cause, but what Is the
remotes don't know anything about il,
after all my study and research am stlA
asking What is lifes" and repeat the
question By asking What is death?' Ii
we really. honestly and truly knew what
causes us to live and what makes Us die,
the occupation OF the minister o. the Cos
pei would be gone. II IS this great uncer-
taiuty that is consuming Us"
Not day passes but that somebody
comes in my store and asks me to give
them paper money for silver" said
North Main street merchant yesterday.
Il do not know why it Is, but still IL APP
pears that if a man gets AS mucn as hVe
silver dollars in his pocket he at once con-
cludes he can not carry them. At the
same time he may have in his pockets
pocketbook with lot OF fractional cur
rency, big bunch OF keys. d corkscrew.
revolver, iackknife that would cut hedge.
a miniature city directory, map OF tue
strip, twenty-five old letters, few nails
he picked up strings, buttons
and general miscellany that
altogether weighs dozen times as much
as the five silver dollars. Still he cannot
carry that silver. Why, gave man
bill for ten silver dollars yesterday and he
broke it in the shoe store next door below
here inside of ten minutes. 1t is cranky
prejudice against silver; that's all.
II saw a sign swung across tue street
the other day bearing, in great big letters,
the words Gospel Meeting and did not
ike it," said prominent church and Sun
day school man the other day Il never
see anything like that but 1t
makes me feel that rellglon
is daily becoming more of business mat
ter. There is an old saying that There Is
a place when friendship stops and busl-
ness begins and l want to tell you that
there should be a place where business
stops and religion begins. Twenty years
ago could talk to a group of young peo-
ple and interest them in few minutes
With stories of the religion of Christ. l
could make them think of that sanctity
that one never realizes more fully than
when passing up the aisle of partially dar-
kened church on Sunday morning, While
the organ sends forth its most soul enrap-
turing sounds; while all nature seems
hushed: while all that is good IN that
community appears to be conferred IN that
immediate congregation; while every
word from the pastor, every sentence OF
the PRAYERS, every line of the hymns and
the features of every face mark devotion
to that one shrine at which we should all
worship. l could interest them because
their minds were still filled with the beau
tiful thoughts they had learned at their
mothers knee Now, how is Ii! can
talk to them until / am weary
| and cannot even enlist their at
tention. They are learning business,
Signs, hand bills, posters, flarring adver-
| tisements all go now to put religion on
! business basis. Every young person
| should know where the churches are by
their love for Divine worship that was
| taught TO them in their childhood and
when they grow up they will not need q
sign on n bill board to tell them where
| their duty calls them"
81 feel like I got up all in bunch this
morning. said young lady on Iopeka
avenue car as she raised up from her seat
| aud asked her companion to pull hel
Jacket down Your dressmaker Is no
good, -" remarked another young lady who
was on the opposite seat, busily engaged
in holding new gown from the car floor
"She is good. too" retorted the frs
speaker Il pity her, too. There is no Sc
of people on earth who are so badly
abused as the poor dressmakers, ana
have made up my mind that my dresses
fit as we'll as other peoples, and L an
going to quit finding fault"
"The autocrat of the earth today is thu
hotel waiter" said travelling man at
leading hotel last night. Il can bluff tn
clerk every time, scare the porter, intimi
date the bell-boy and actually make tn
chambermaid give me all the towels
want, but when l hit the hotel din
ing room, then an gone. Their
IL am at the mercy OF tn
waiter. He will size me up, look to tn
side OF my plate to see If the expecte'
quarter is there and when he sees it not
will start off with the air OF duke ant
bring me a 'boarder's' meal. l can kici
until get tired and still have no remedy
No quarter, no eat"
Here you reporter" called a real estat
man Yesterday. II want to tell You some
thing. l see in your paper this mornin
where some people were off to Cajforni
and it set me a. thinking. | have been ]
Wichita since 1885 and for the first FEY
winters after | came here there was
perfect exodus to California, Florida, Texa
and other southern points for the winter
Now lust think over the past three win
ters and see how many people have gon
l away TO spend the winter. Yes, you Ar
surprised TO find how few the number
aren't you? | tell you even onr own pee
ple do not realize the kind of climate "
have here, but they are beginning TO I'm
it out. OF course we are kicking abou
| this winter because it has been a sever
one, the thermometer dropping 10 zer'
= butthiuk how much worse it has been 5
around US? Forty below in MInneso;'
twenty-five in Illinois, as much in lows
= twenty in Missouri aud people even freez
ing in Charleston, South Carolina, an
then see what we have had. And ca
beauty of the weather in this locality
that when it breaks it breaks. Why 20
i see il il cloudy now, and in fifteen nit
utes we may have the regulation Soutner
Kansas sunshine. Il IS the best climai
l on earth and our people are rapidly anc