The Red Cloud chief., 1895-06-14
Copyright, 1895. by Edgar W. Nyo.l

cause Of its freshness as news, but to
show how cheap assassination and other
industries have becomc-25 turkey shot
No. 2, with u few grains Of powder
waddod with u half column Of The
Cleaner, on which could afterward be
read plainly:
oh, what n life we have led
Using the word In an editorial capacity
While seeking to uphold our circulation,
Yet toiling to take our wad OF mendacity.
And q little further on, speaking Of
the now girl Of Buncombe, with Trilby
hair and a new garden hose, he adds:
''The EDITORS character about Us near
as can no seem in American life. 1t
seems many things occur to his mind
which people have no idea about" This
we find in the March Cleaner, and it
goes to show how cheaply a feud can
now be carried on as times arc now.
The Cleaner costs but % cents por year,
and half u column is good for two men.
The wadding was picked up OH the
ground. 1t is a horrible death to die,
but it is suro when it gets into tho cir.
%culation.
Some years ago there swooped across
tho wide sky an Opaque fluccid invorte-
brato bearing o cows breakfast of sun.
flower and Gala lily, whilaInurmuriny
soft nothings into tho ears of those Pc,
ter Funk Amerioanassa who were grubs
not SO ktng ago that to DO noticed even
by Ehe armless man or the wild mar Of
Fort Dodge, Iowa, was glory enough for
a lifetime. They paid to SEQ him. This
creature was named Oscar Wilde. /
saw him, met him while he was on his
California mission for means, etc,
while teaching the upper classes Of Red
Dog how to combine beet hash to look
like Turner'S slaveship, which al able
Boston reporter described as looking
like a tortoise shell cat having an apo
plectic fit in n bowl of tomato soup.
Oscar passed OH to Yuba Dam, show
ing the plum butter people how to stand
up to o bar like a willow wand, how to
avoid grim visaged var by squirting
fine cut tobacco into q violet colored
jardiniere.
Casually no wrote us up in that jaunty
Rollo Book style such as is used by the
Englishman who while here strives to
mako the whole Waldorf hotel think
that no ia taking his tub oil tho time.
whereas he is Summing where beer is
low and emigrant girls play Trilby for
board and clothes.
But it Is in tho decay Of manners, I"
he said ~ he kissed a yellow cigarette
finger in farewell to the still good ma
tured populace, that the thoughtful
and we'll bred have cause for regret. l
have repeatedly said this. especially in
places where l have been entertained,
but the reply has been always. We are
still a young country. and You must not
be too severe upon US. MI. Wilde.
Yes, but l must say in reply, Your
manners were better 100 years ago than
now. They have been never equal to
tho days since the time Of Washington
and Pocahontas. Look at P~ocahontas
as you 500 her today Oh tho currency,
which l Just borrowed Of q coarse Cali
fornian, a man who used tho telegraph
pole for a kerchief and the boundless
universe for a ouspidCr.
"'I would rather have seen Pocahon.
tas climbing out Of the slippery Chioka'
hominy OF Minnehaha after taking her
tub than to have dined with your yeo.
man president. who leaves you, after
four years, in q tram car, by Jove, to the
station, with q six bob alarm clock on
his knees. for his bleak little bungalow
down SOUTH
~ believe that q most serious prob
lem for the American people to solve /,
cultivation among its people. 1t is thu
most noticeable, the most painful effec'
in American civilization"
"Yes," ! said to him in an interview
for / was . poor but proud reporter ant
he ~ Union Pacific with a merry
II " coast gold as big as
'Nners are a lit
Nd 80 will b,