The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-22


what it should be when dry, and a
/ CREASED rope is even weaker. We learned
that out west years ago and lots of times
had to wait day or two for dry weather
rather than have the rope break, causing
a sickening sight.
You also did wrong to use railroad
bridge over the river. In case of acct
dent you and your friends are left to
probe % miles Of river with a pike pole
all day in the hot sun while the accused
is very likely making wet trail across
the Indian Territory line Good MANILA
rope kept dry for that purpose and six
feet fall from a cottonwood limb gener-
ally yield no opportunity for adverse
criticism, while in a plumb prairie
country a railroad tie across from one
freight car e. another gives a good sup
port for the rope. Sometimes you Will
find serious drawbacks, of course, IN
these little impromptu affairs, ''but love
will find way"
George W. Toplady, Magnolia, La. -
Your idea of getting up ahead of the
lark each morning is all right if you
cannot sleep later than o'clock, but if
you desire to arise just in time TO get
the entire accumulation of miasma for
"a hours Gas our scientists tell us those
do who go out early for heavens sake
don't write TO the papers about 1t and
make a mouse colored ass of yourself in
public
When you are down with malarial
fever in year or two from now, of
what avail will be all the worms Of
which you have robbed poor robin red
breast?
You ask if | am at home for the sum-
mer and what the fare is from MagnO-
liza to Asheville. In reply let me say that,
if you have notion of coming here to
make US few weeks visit and brighten
up our home life and intend to get up
at o'clock and go singing about the
house with heart bubbling over with
joy and gladness, i have watermelon
protector loaded TO the muZzle with
things that | have been collecting for
years, and the first time you come down
at 4 o'clock you viii leave bloody
trail the whole length of the stairs from
the garnet down.
Bracebridge c. Hall of Blasphemia,
Ia, writes: Il. Where can l get the
most exhaustive treatment, or treatise
rather, on the subject of creation, and
who is the author:
''2. What Is your idea about the eff
feet of work on refined people? Does it
not degrade and coarsen them:'
l. The work you refer 70 is no doubt
a recent one by Rev. Joseph Cook, en-
titled "A Birdseye View Of God.
2. Yes, hard work coarsens the hands,
no doubt, and the complexion also, but
il is better to do work. after all, on a sal
ary than in the state penitentiary. 1t is
better to have a hard. coarse palm and
honest bread in the house than lily
white hands and trousers that are trans
parent rs to the seat.
{ Much of this twaddle about stunning
work because II Is degrading and coarse
! comes from the old country and Is
/ brought here very often by pinfeather
/ Englishmen of the younger son type
who come over here 10 wear ont their
/ elder brothers clothes and let their
whiskers grow.
Such young men often have a strong
| hatred of work and have generally been
/ advised by their physicians snd tailors
+ 70 go 10 America and get married.
. Sometimes they succeed
/ The glorifed and infamed west was
/ just deepening into a rosy twilight, and
/ the eastern hills We're in the act Of peel
I ing of their rudy sunset robes FOR the
night when loosely fitting Enghshman
might have been seen vending his way
+ in a northwestly direction regardless OF
I the gathering night He wore billy
/ cock hat, with a Pail Mall Gazette IN
/ side the sweatband 10 make IL fit his
( low and measlJ brow. for il was his
/ elder brothers hat He also ratified
round N suit % his brothers tweed,
for the box p.sit down the back Of his
/ Norfolk jacket was almost a. broad
shouldersd IS &c was
He was not tall. but 1.-the and pimply
IL the extreme. with a large wistful
and devv eye The other was made by
an optician on Old Bond street HI
/ name WAS Claude Halborn kerSykes, Il,
! ninth son Of a domesJicated brewer wh'
fell in q III and died with hIs tongu'
( ont when Claude was > h-Fle rel child,
I with very timber neck and large, p3l'
blue English eyeS. All the brewer
was left to the elder son. and the othei
eight boys We're sent TO America to &c
married
Clande WIS a self made nan. hI