The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-06

spot, where he touno j 800 dead snakes
and as many more wounded. He measur-
ed some of them and found one that
measured As feet, with waist and bust
measuring 81 inches. This convention of
snakes, it seems, had been called together
Is an indignation meeting to pass reso-
lutions against the Kelley cure.
have made some trifling changes in
this story because thought that il had
been already tempered with, and did
not care to have it 60 forth over my
name with any elements Of improbable
ity about it.
Mr.. Arnold, whose book I have re-
ferred 70 as unique in many respects,
says that Gone very interesting place
near the swamp is farm which once
belonged TO George Washington. It is at
the extreme south and now owned by
Mrs John Trotman, and she has in her
possession the original title deeds of ev-
cry person who has owned the place at
various times from Washington down to
the last purchaser, who was Burrell
Brothers, ESD, Of Gates county, n. c.. :"
This reminds one of the new title used
in Hickory paper recently-viz, Rev.
Major James d. Weston the author
of Marshal Ney's life in North Carolina.
I find the following two items of in
terest in my home paper, published not
long ago:
GA woman moonshiner of Polk coun-
ty was fined 500 and sent to Jail for
three months. 7"
"a hotel sensation at Winston has
ended IN the assignment Of Kittelle, pro-
prietor Of the Phoenix. 1t is charged
that ice from the dead body Of Charles
Johnston was used for tea and water in
the hotel The guests left. 1t is claimed
for the hotel that a rubber sheet was
placed between the ice and the body.
The hotel will be put under new man
agement by the assignee. y
Hotels cannot be too careful about
such things, for, aside from all idea Of
sentiment, as matter of business two
prices for the same ice is unfair. In
fact, the typical mean man who used TO
be located in New England seems 10
have swapped latitudes.
am nowadays in the depths of hay
ing, and, though peace and harmony reign
in the south where once the shrek Of
shot and shrapnel and shell marred the
summer stiffness, now the red nose brier
and the bull thistle and the crab grass
grow where once the army mule and
coup d'etat possessed the land, yet when
r Il roH INT = hn
bosom of a hornets nest the old war
memories come back to me, and re-
member, with a shudder, how nigh l
once came TO obtaining grounds for a
pension.
1 also have a new Ohio hayrake, OF
horse hayrake---not quadruped, but a
rake, an inanimate rake TO rake hay
with, yet one that Maud Muller might
rake hay with and yet not occasion talk.
1t was made in Ohio, and bought it
of Joseph E. Dickerson of Asheville, to
be paid for out Of the hay.
1t is three feet wider than my farm,
however, and l had to get right Of
way over an adjoining farm or have
trouble.
Mine is very slim farm, and the
crops are similar in some respects. We
have a new colt on the place, but he is
not yet accustomed to his new legs. He
can barely stand up when propped
against the lunch counter of which his
mother is the proprietor.
Corn looks pale and i'll even in this !
delightful climate, and when put my |
crop on the market this fall prices will |
be affected only temporarily. l like to |
live Oh farm and buy corn 10 suit my |
taste instead Of trying to subsist on the |
kind we raise.
Farming as 1 do it is the most indie !
pendent and the sweetest life one can |
live. / buy the best of corn and hay for |
my horses, Of which 1 have four only, |
as 1 hire my farm work done, and the !
carriage horses of the loud, coach variety |
would step on my whole crop before !
dinner time if 1 used them for blowing |
corn.
We keep three cows, but buy our but
ter for two reasons. First, these are ko- |
dak cows and are used by the children |
as artists models We get cream and |
from them. The second rea-