The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-29
GENUINE SYMPATHY.


| mouth;
| DEAR SIssY:-It is never quite pleasant
| to condole with friend in trouble, but
sense of duty prompts US to tender our
sympathy now. Though our relations
| have not of late been such as should exist
between members of the same family,
| there is tie stronger than prejudice-a'
remnant of love which lies deeper than the
fountains from which flow our jealousies
and superficial animosities. We have
been moved to pity over your indiscretions
even in the days of your prosperity, but
now that your misfortunes have SO multi
Piled and you are SO overwhelmed with
adverse court decisions and railway COM
missioRers rulings-so intimidated by ma
turing mortgages, by corporate debts and
municipal bankruptcy. by official plumber
and corruption of the ballot. aud last but
not least, by the sudden effervescence OF
the ninety per cent Of wind which made
your values in real ate, we offer you not
only our sympathy, but Will
cheerfully render you any little assistance
within range of our limited means We
trust in your adversely, you will be able to
put away all prejudice, aud accept our
proffered aid in the spirit it is given; and
pesmit us TO remind you in this hour of
your humiliation that it is no fault of ours
that you have grown fungus like upon the
border of our busy wealth, that
we are in no wise to blame that you have
been made the pet of railways and systems
of railways, and that we have tried-oh,
so hard, to prevent the unnatural growth
which has been forced upon you by the
FOL Ic nd mil xrbi ch nf luh he
long to us. We have argued and even
plead with you the injustice of long hauls |
at short rates. we have insisted that your |
basing line was but a tadpole rivulet and |
not a navigabis stream. and we have |
steadily held that the growth acquired by |
these agencies would collapse with the in
evitable verdict of the people whom you |
have robbed from the day your nurse |
put off your swaddling clothes, but |
you needed us not. 1t is in no boastful |
spirit we refer To these things, but it is
due us to reiterate in this seemingly cruel
manner. But even these misfortunes are
when we consider your phys
ical condition. We hal fears from The
start that the rich gruels, the wine, beer
and Missouri river ~ water, the late hours
and bachaualian orgies with lords and po
tentates would tell upon your breath, and
now We almost despair OF even a partial
recovery. The dropsical, bloated, beefy
of your once symmetrical fig
ure, the halting waddle of your gait and
the wheeling effort to breathe the MAS
matte air of the Kaw bottoms are the pre-
symptoms of heart failure
which, you know, is the other name for
1eauh, aud has been since the pulse beat
ceased in the animate form of Adam.
How gladly would we prescribe for you,
but falter in the attempt lest the treat
nent should prove fatal. Abstinence
5otal abstinence might save you, but-weIl.
We leave that to your medical adviser.
As for ourself, the bloom OF health is on
Dur cheek and we are 1.-the and clipper as
he Maud Muller of England's immortal
poet. We have a new spring hat-the very
perfection of prairie flowers and the rich
st plumage of our native songsters. We
ire going to all the picnics-in fact have
Ilready accepted an invitation TO attend
he first of a series, to take place in New
Orleans in June. The gentlemen from the
,ulf cities who attended our Trade congress
airly Intoxicated US with their praises
# our native charms and maidenly beauty.
{ is too badithat you were only represented
~ spy, but then you would have hardly
,njoyad our new milk and hoe cake diet.
We suppose we shall see little of you save
Is we drop in on you occasionally, but
ion't put yourself out to entertain U.s. We
will take formal bow and a crust rather
han spread which we know you can't
ford. Ia. Tia, now, Sissy. We hope to
lear from you, your headache permitting
Iovingly yours, WICHITA {
z. ST your Yankee suitors have all
deserted, you try one of our big butchers
N the Kansas side of your corporate linn 8
is. He will. at least, continue to swell
our bank clearings. w. !