The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-28


about the immense power of suction they
possess, sort of electric, imagine. for
in this account it stated that cyclone
passed through a large dairy farm in
South Dakota and sucked the cows en-
tirely dry! Marvellous, isn't it?'
Eyes" ! said. 1T must have been. !"
''And yet," he added thoughtfully as
he poured out for himself another bowl
full of Scotch whisky, which tasted like
an old pair of smoke tanned buckskin
moccasins, sit is even more marvellous
to read about the escapes which some
people have from death in these phe-
nomena. l saw not long ago in an
American paper a description of how a
young negro was picked up bodily by one
of these cyclones and hurled head first
through brick college without injury.
He found, too, when he returned to con-
sciousness, after passing through the
college, that there was diploma In his
pocket. The account goes on to state
that he still imagines that in passing
through the college somebody tried to
haze him. 1t is marvellous how these at
mospheric phenomena work, is it not?"
had to admit that it was. But i had
to catch train and could not remain to
tell him how hyperbole in America fur
nished more phenomena than electricity.
The author of this work on America
comments sadly, too, on the mobs which
are composed of ladies and gentlemen,
and ON page 40 describes a mob that
opened with prayer. This was in Bos
ton. ''They were the gentlemen of St.
Louis, says the author, 'who burned
the black man and banished the students
of Marion college They were the gen
tlemen Of Cincinnati who denounced the
abolitionists and raised the persecution
against them. They were the magis-
trates and gentry of Vicksburg who
hanged wayfarers, gamblers and slaves
in long row. They were the gentlemen
of Charleston who broke open the post
office and violated the sacred functions
to the insult and injury of the whole
country"
But this author should remember that
those were the days when our forefa-
theirs We're right fresh from England
and had still in them the spirit of the
mother country. which led the gentry
of England to burn down cathedrals and
all such frolic as that. We know better
now.
While we are on historical subjects
I take the liberty of offering here, in
verse. an item Of North Carolina history
regarding the time when the old blue
laws were more active than at present
The poem has been carefully corrected
as to spelling and grammar by j. NJ.
Fuller, LII d. and Phi D., editor of The
Cleaner, Ashsville; price, 10 cents per
annum. Il mean that the paper Is 10
cents. Not Mr.. Fuller.) 1t is entitled:
MERE THOUGHTS.
All, how Time has moved his millions
Since the days of which speak OF,
Carelesslile and sort Of reckless
Moved the good and spared the wicked,
Left the burdock and the thistle
Whilst he slashed the meek eyed violet,
From his pocket took MS milestone,
Put an edge upon his falchiOn,
And his blade sang in the moving
Whilst the wynd blew through his WHISPERS.
II was many. many autUTrlns
Ere the days Of hope Eiias
When we had the nasty blue laws,
And 70 kiss ones wife on Sunday
Vas against the dark blue statutes
Statutes IN scch case provided
Life was hardly worth the living,
And there was a wrong impression
As 20 whether the Good Being
Had atom OF affection
For the wrstched. wretched human
He had made for his amusement
Made in IN unguA-ded moment
Then it was Napoleon PangSorn
Fractured one Of these blue statutes
IN a manner quite annoying.
Broke tie law and hurt lis feelings,
S-oured his milk OF h@-nan Kindness
Ere ne hsd chance % skim il.
Left his nIkhouse lone AID empty,
Lone and empty left the uilkhocse
OF his milk Of human kindness,
OF the milk ot human kindness
That ~as once Napoleon Pansoo-ns
In amongst the dark blue statutes
Lurked the one that tried Napoleon
II was made 70 punish swearing
And = made II quite expensive
For nan who swore like ne cnoe
When things seemed q go ag1n Mn
Then NJ Z Go some otttand swearing
Something that BETRAYED rs genius,
Something that would bold ore sFeIloousc
This q was O: which sI,e-k Of
Mr. PanSbc-n owed -lelEHoor,
Owed hIra pretty near zine cc-lArS
And e ssSore h d never psF =
~ he gave his wife t. horns-f~zd-
Chuekiing in h. sleeve the f2ean~E-ie,
Swearinx IssT that he I - r'@s y
Tn Il. ss=z-s e nen were from
And aalsrla driven tro1 .
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49, into rep1d..tioa.
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