The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-01-13
City Regulator
Some Further
Suggestions are Made.


To the Editor Of the Eagle,
A man told me yesterday that he visit
J ed his old home during the holidays and
I had this experience: Thirty years ago he
| was very sick, 50 i'll that his life was
despaired Of by physician and family
! For a number of days he was delirious.
| but he finally. recovered. There was an
] eight-day clock in the room under the
/ one in which he was I'll, which had a
! loud. peculiar striking sound. Shortly
after ne recovered he left the place
/ Thirty years had interviewed. and as ne
| sat with his friends in an adjoining room
| talking that clock began striking. It
| startled him in such a manner that his
! friends noticed him jump He had no
/ thought Of the sick spell for years until
/ the striking Of the clock. which brought
( back to his memory his hours Of deliri-
UNI. during which time his chief trouble
was the striking Of that clock. What do
psychologists think Of it?
I heard a fellow growing the other
day about the Eagle because It publish
ed the real estate news, with comments
That selfsame man had sold lot Of
Wichita property a few months since
which now is worth . Per cent more than
when he sold. The Eagle has seen WIch-
tia grow from a hamlet Of 1900 people,
counting the cowboys and Indians. to its
present state Of prosperity, and I think
she can Justly feel proud Of what has
been achieved. and am glad to see it
plume its feathers and scream.
That part Of the New York block own
ed by Mr.. Sherman and Mr.. Kemmerla
is being greatly improved. Now that
these gentlemen have set the pace. watch
their fruits. Every property owner in
the city wants to see the balance of the
block treated the same way, by tearing
away old signs, electric light connec-
tons, bird nests. scraggling faded old
signs, the hiding away Of wired-up rusty
old stove-pipes, dilapidated skylights, etc.
You sit at your breakfast table this
morning and open a sixteen page paper
which, at the cost of little more than one
penny, viii furnish you with all the hap
penings worthy of note in every line Of
human activity in the previous twenty
four hours.
Why it should take Just forty-one days
to fill a. quarantine have often won
dered. Why not thirty-nine or thirty
eight? Or why not take the next day af-
ter the proper officer had given the prem
ises a thorough fumigation?
Have you ever thought as you passed
the court house and looked at the face
of the clock that on it there is a spot to
which the fingers viii point when You
viii cease TO breathe? Where is that
spot?
Why can't the weather department ar
range a series of weather signals to be
furnished the rural delivery mail car
riers, who would be glad to carry the
news to the farms along their routes.
I know about two dozen or more girls
in this town who want to marry. ana
they would succeed-a lot Of them-if
they did not talk so much about the
boys in criticising. unkindly way.
There is something very grewsome 10
me bout that mutual burial association.
whereby q person can Cine" by going to
the undertaker's office and signing the
bylaws and constitution.
Now that the two preachers in the golf
club won the prizes. wonder what the
fellows think who tried to steal a march
on the other members by playing on Sun
days.
think the people who keep their horses
in the livery stables ought to enter into
a combination for the protection Of their
horses from the feeders who deliver them
I am decidedly in favor Of the county
commissioners making an appropriation
for the fve-cent classics for the schools
Among the smaller industries needed in
the city is a shoe backing institution
for the ladies' exclusively.
CITY REGULATOR
CUDAHY HAS A FIRE