The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-29

70 the Editor of the Eagle.
Brother Bill was a Fellow SO scared of
mistakes
That he didn't do nothing at all.
He criticized others fo- making small
breaks,
But HE didn't do nothing at all.
lie would stand by the hours on the curb
without hat
land talk about taxes, religion and art,
And we all thought Bill was uncommon
ly smart,
But ne didn't do nothing at all.
see the Eagle says that the Wichita
Stock Yards has handled this year SO
far a quarter of a million of hogs and
yet I know OF two or three they have
missed, done you?
If 1 was the Water Works Company I
would put Up signs on my grounds. mo
tresspassing Ion these premises and
then the first man, woman or boy that l
found perched upon the bank of the Lit
tie River, NOR particularly on Sunday,
fishing, in they would go and l would
fight it TO finish. There would be no
Il.
Superintendent Alley has been DESTROYS
that the Sunday fishing be stopped lie
is not avefse to Wichita men and boys
fishing on the waterworks grounds al the
proper time and under certain conditions,
but as there is but one way to control It
i would use the means and stop it. There
is no way of stopping the hobos from
catching fish and bringing them up town
and trading them for alcohol and tobacco
and going back TO fish save through the
enforcement Of the law.
/ wou.- remove that old shack on Sec
ond and Wichita streets, which belongs
to the Missouri Pacific, once dining hail,
Its horrid.
1 see that the school for rich mems sons
at Lawrence has established a chair for
the manufacture OF Journalists They
better take the fellows who go there for
that purpose and put them into a manu-
al training department and learn them a
good trade. Journalists are born and de-
reloped by actual work on a journal.
under the direction of an editor, where
they are closely allied with the mechani-
cal and business department Of the print
ing shop and in contact with the civil,
political and commercial side OF the world.
The Regulator is in receipt of an anony-
nous letter criticsing the newspapers Of
Wichita The criticism contained about
fifty words. Two were spelled wrong and
one word i'm in one of the sentences.
which Should have been is" changed the
construction of the sentence so that IL
was meaningless
All honor TO the ladies who so faithfully
worked all day on the streets selling
charity badges, but II is hard task. un-
natural position TO place them In. The
citizens ought 60 go down I'm their pockets
and 'pty the money for the maintenance
of the city hospital and not compel our
wives aud daughters 20 submit themselves \
10 sucn an unpleasant tasls
| sec there Is proposition mp con-
tcmplhtlng the codlfying of the insurance
laws of the state. Tho thing 20 do ~ To
wipc al the existing laws from the statute
books ma pass Just one law. viz When
an insurance company, through iis agent
insusps q piece OF property or takes a
risk Of any kind for a Rivon amount IN
case OF fire the company shalt pay tho |
nmount stated on the policy IN full any |
amicuhic settlement the company may
make with the inquired excepted
pee the city marshall IN Topeka has
announced that he viii make the people
who ride bicycles ring their belts at
street crosalnsa, | wonder Why
would place IN every public and district
school or America handsome aillS
United States flag. ana every morning at
the opening acsaion OF schooi I would roe
uuite the children TO rise and salute the
ilag.
III were governor of Kansas would is
cue Thanksgiving proclamation ana
recommend that all people make II "a day
of fasting instead OF feaatlng, and donate
the funds usually expended for an elabor-
ate dinner TO the hospital and charitable
funds
would enjoy having spread out before
mo ON canvas the deeds or charity per-
formed in tlis city by her philanthropie
citzens on Thanksgiving day, II by
chance some one forgot 10 contribute 10
the happiness of some one deserving /
suggest that Christmas win follow soon
and you can make amends by doubling
your gifts on that glad day.
one morning this week little girl came
strolling down Topeka avenue. when all
o. sudden squirrel appeared from one
OF the trees and followed the hittle miss
until she sat down on the curbstone. they
81 jumped onto her shoulders and looking
into her eyes began 10 chatter for some
thing TO eat. Instances of that kind would
be common all over the city and IN our
parks IL these little innocent things were
treated kindly.
l think l would have lined IN the hitch
ing rack where it would not have OBJ
secured the view Of the links from the
club house porch.
Let him that is filthy be filthy still. Re
'vised version: Let him that is a crank be
a crank still. Translated from the He
brew. lie that is crank cannot help it;
81 is hereditary and cannot be changed.
That being the case spread the mantle Of
charity over the crank
If the city will pave three or four Of its
principal streets north and south and a
half dozen east and west. then IL viii
be time enough To talk about spending
s640.0o0 for storm sewerage. The paved
streets with good curbing will take care
OF all the surface water that falls on the
town. The city has no cellars and low
Easements that have TO be protected
l was standing on the street this week
and heard the following conversation: