The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-12

HIS Mind Then Wanders Back 70 -Four
Hundred Years Ago, and He Contrasts
That Period With Today-How He Cele-
brated Last Fourth.
copyright, 1894, by Edgar W. Nye.l
Below give a death notice appearing
in a Denver paper. The party referred
to leaves quite squad of children, and
besides being well known and beloved
member of a secret organization had
killed two men in an unguarded moment
during the early days:
Cronin-This morning. at 3l5, r. c. Cronin,
Ut 22l5 Curtis street, aged IS years. Funeral at
residence, to be announced later, under auspices
Of Lodge SO, III. of @.
There is one more that is missing,
There is one more that is gone,
And from the earth was taken
Thursday just at dawn.
There is a vacant chair at the table
Alongside his own sweet wife.
Though gone, he's not forgotten
By the friends that knew him through life,
And yet he leaves behind him
Two girls and a baby boy.
How the wife and husband worshiped them,
For they were their pride and joy!
But now he's gone. God bless him!
Pray his soul rest overhead.
Though mourners he leaves behind him,
Dinky Cronin now is dead.
BY Brother II. Of @.
Obituary poetry certainly offers wide
field for the amateur poet. While we
are on this subject I would like very
much, if there be no objection. to insert
verse which recently furnished in re-
turn for a weeks board where / was
E-h M hn md olxvi in,
need Of means:
Babcock-At $50 a. m. of the sd inst, Vine
gar Bitters. eldest son of Hiram and PearliIe
Babcock of Buck Forest, near Caesars Head.
Funeral tomorrow at the picnic grove at the
Falls All are cordially invited.
Oh, Vinney, you have went away,
for malignant typhoid fever had came to stay,
And our sad souls has the impression
That your family will make procession
Reaching over u of a mile.
What could be pleasenter, sweet child,
Than a percession over Il of a mild?
Or who could s. fairer funeral APPOINT
Than one that would be over Is hour passing
given point?
The writer wishes you bon voyage to a future
state
And viii bon voyage others at the same rate.
You are doubtless aware that 400 years
ago this entire checkered country was
covered with red men, and now they are
driven back to the king row. A few
more moves only remain. | tried to
jump red man once. He was on my
nine. found myself skunked.
Four hundred years ago the streets
were unpaved. You had no city debt or
waterworks.
-Four hundred years ago In this coun-
try there was not single pair of sus-
penders. Now everybody wears them
male and female.
Then America had no refinement, 10
knowledge of geography. They hardly
knew where they were at. Now the
country is filed with beautiful, refined
homes, where one can stay during the
lecture season and be safe.
Four hundred years ago solitary
horseman might have been seen.
The Indian was ever ignorant and I'M
tidy. He was not refined. He did not
know the joy of hunting the aniseed bag.
l have large stone adj at home, made
by one of the Indians of York state-a
Tammany Indian. 1t is a Mohawk
swatter, very crude. No evidences of
brains about it except on the back. There
there are few, but | do not know whose
they aye.
As you all know, Columbus had much
trouble in discovering America, not only
in the matter of money, but he was also
discouraged by the press. The papers
Said it would not succeed and threw cold