Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-27

To-day we came on the Santa Fe road
from Arkansas City to Winfield. There
was an Arkansas family consisting OF
mother and eleven children, They sat
near me and had the odor of basket Of
pups. l forgot to say that the father
was with them, but he did not seem to
cut any figure aside from making the
eleven children legitimate.
There were two Indians on board who
looked down on these peopls with silent
but merited contempt. They were better
dressed, better hammered and better
filed with brains. The father held
child over eighty miles because he was
too lazy TO put IL down. The mother
had been saivated and wore pink sun
bonnet Nine of the children had bsen
weaned, and the old man could also eat
solid food. sit up and take notice.
was somewhat panied TO receive
letter last week from my agent AZ Chi
cago in reference TO the loss OF some
property in a suburb Of Chicago. A year
ago l got a number Of lots there on the
representation OF q man who seemed TO
be lovely character. / met him In
Cincinnati one night, where he asked
me for mpiiamentary tickets to our
unrivaled show. l asked him with
charming naivete how many lots he
would give me for the tickets, for he
had told me of his Indiana addition to
Chicago. He finally sold me q block,
taking the net receipts for the evening
as payment.
One reason bought was that the i'm
provements he had made seemed to me
worth the price, for each block had new
sidewalks, etc. Last week letter in
formed me that my sidewalks had been
destroyed by prairie fire.
was dumbfounded, for / had thought
the lots to be near the Auditorium. In
fact, the gentle being who sold them to
ne said they were within sight OF that
building.
On, how l hate to he betrayed that
way by q total stranger!
| was intending to build there a mod
est little cot and thus have quiet place
where I could live when visit Chicago
instead of paying Mr.. Bemis So per day
for a suit of rooms At the Richelieu, but
an told now that il lived there my
nearest voting place would be Vaipar-
also, Ind, so | have given IL up.
Oh, how bitterly [ referred to that
man when / began to see his true
naturel | almost hated him. or course
1 did not care to buy farm property In
Indiana. He knew that perfectly well,
and so now ne has lost my friendship.
The ground. too, is wet-real wet.
Another man told me so. He knew II
was wet, too, but be did not tell me
about 1t, although l told him that
wanted TO know all about 1t before l
bought. Recently learned that the
census was taken there during q rooster
fight, when 500 men came out from VAL
paraiso to evade the authorities.
would give the mans name Fight
here in the paper were 1t not for the
pain it might give his family.
On the map he showed me was large
factory In course of construction, vim
egar works employing 500 men, but
when he had sold all the lots he took
down the vinegar works and removed
them to another suburb which ne Is
now engaged in selling.
Such things are simply contemplate,
and in me be has lost valuable and in
fuential friend. / could have aided him
and advanced his interests il he had
been true to me; but, no, he preferred
to cast away my friendship and even
sold FIVE other blocks on the ground
! that was going to move into the neigh
borhood and make times easy there.
People say that no one has ever been
there since the survey except man
who goes there sometimes during the
winter to steal the sidewalks. Curse
him, 1 say, and curse the disagreeabIe
man who sold me the property Fly up
on such low, reprehenslble methods!
Yesterday man wanted TO take me
out in q buggy to look at some lots 10
Arkansas City, Kan. The wind was
blowing wildly and shrieking through
the rigging Of our hotel. The coarse
sand and gravel were blown against the
| window Ike shower of.buckshot Our
manager stood looking out upon the
clouds of dust and sand that filed the
sky as far a. the eye could reach.
"Wouldn't you like TO come along"
said the man, turning to the manager,
'.and pick out . nice lot for specula-
tion?"
mo, said Raymond. With . dreamy