The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-01-05

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| the warmest piece OF hct air that ha.
blown against the town since the Glucos,
! factory was proposed Let US go after
a road that rurs through the great Nc
| Allister coal fields and timber lands Of
! Arkansas and touching the Mississippi
river Independent of Kansas Citys basins
line falkland is already within sixty
miles Of US.
Scene on . Topeka avenue car:
Passenger No. I, to conductor-What
street is this, please?
Passenger No. 2-He don't know.
Conductor-Donht I?
Passenger No. 2-Why don't you tell
the name OF the street, then?
COnductor-Nobody has asked me to.
A distinction and a difference: Yester-
day the kids were out in full force with
their sleds; the streets were full of the
prettiest. sweetest little girls and manly,
red-cheeked boys, such as cannot be
found in any other country on earth.
They were all hooking on to any vehicle
that CHANGED to come along. A great
many drivers would stop and let them
hook on until sometimes they would reach
half way across a block, and then trot
off with them. listening to their ripping
voices as they scooted along in the
snow. The difference was to be seen in
an occasional old bear coming along who
would yell at the children and his team
alternately, displaying an ugly temper,
while the other fellow with the sweet
spirit of the child gets a lot of pleasure
out of the world that the other fellow
knows nothing about.
have taken my kid out time and again
a drive through the park, and I never
failed to point out trees and admire their
foliage. their strength and beauty, nam
ing the variety, so that he knows the
name OF every native tree in the park.
You may say, 'WeH, that is not hard to
do" Perhaps not for you, but the kid
ought to know. and in this connection [
win venture that it is possible that You
can not. as you read this item, name the
trees indigenous to this climate that are
growing in the park that are native. In
driving around the circle you can count
fourteen varieties, native growth. Teach
your children the names of the trees. and
the names of the birds that fit among
their branches-as many of them as you
can. have been told there were two
hundred varieties Of birds in this valley.
Wichita must be up and doing. She
can't Tait for more railroads to knock
at her door. She must go after them.
She must have a railroad southeast into
the coal fields. She must have the Chloe
taw. She can, with a very little effort.
get q road from Omaha. independent en-
tirely of any Kansas City connection
With a road from Omaha. and the Choc-
atw road. Wichita viii be able 10 snap
her finger at the other roads on that old
basing line gag.
Wanted-A company to organize an
electric street railway company, to build
a road to Geuda Springs, Derby. Null
vane, Belle Plain. Oxford, and all the
farmers for three miles on each side of
the road take enough stock 70 grade it
and furnish right of way.
I attended church a few SUNDAYS since.
The minister gave a quotation from
Shakespeare in dramatic way. which
was responded to by one OF ghe enthu-
siastic sisters with. Bless the Lord.
Ii was 50 inappropriate that "a general
litter prevailed the church
told YOU so-that the Rock Island
would noJ stop until it bad reached the
McAlester coal fields. I see ia the Eagle
that the company is taking The initiative
BY The wev, wiz the county commits
sionerS telf the taxpayers wlal they l,row
about SECURITIES and collateral? Dill they
take counsel anC advice from parties who
were interested In some ~ the banks that
have The county funds1 THAT Is N say.
Gcnteuen. would YOU stake your an an
Tie same kinds Of coaateral<; hat You ac-
cert Tor the county fundse The men who
ere appointed 10 IL examine the county
treasurer accounts owe il To tine ,ounty.
to theirself 70 examine an the coulterals
and cali in -len who know.
strlcl ne wstyle OF invitations 10 a
function. on the corner of which was
II you went ~ feel resl comfortable
and easy end susst out TIC new year
riSh,. uf yen hats n5t already done SOB. /
80 tomorrow morning 10 your grocer ana
butcher. 7leichant ana cietheT ana pay
them aii shat a-au owe. stars oat new
il everybody IL tle eity v.0uid do this.
il would I'D more - make the tasya ros- /
Per7ns 1han q talf dozen nev eater1.. 'sss (
This Is The sahbath day-set ara-t fer
res1. hoth Ti's si-al oad meatal- Yos nael +
rubbed against year fellow men au the
week, ia yaur attempts r. lnercase yar-
bank accounts. sorsettlng tle, Some
morn.Hs yov N.h no5 bs ebie to - ati
VIII taEe Up yo1r spell and pesk AZ esea /
A little latee yon viii be toted OF 70 tbs /