The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-05

/ the Kansas City, Mo, installment plan
dealers tAat they would move on THESE
! irstallment peddleTs that 90 about the
/ city selling their wares. for which they
/ get enormous prices, leave the goods get
/ about or nearly the value Of their goods
/ 10 start with and on failure Of the pur-
! chaser TO pay up as agreed. they take
! the goods without right or license sim
ply buIIdoze the purchaser who has no
money and can't afford 10 stand suit n
| court. The incest way TO handle these
! Missouri outfits is to have good elm
! club handy and when they talk Of TAX
/ ing the goods, begin at once 10 use your
| club.
Which would you rather do? Play golf
without a caddie and watch your own
| balls ana seidom lose one or hire cad
| die? Watch him and a dozen other cad
/ dies vino hover around over the GROUNDS
| Ike buzzards over carcass and lose
one-half Of your balls. would post
signs on the grounds forbiddiDg any cad
die or boys on the grounds save those
who belong there by membership right
The caddie himself is making theirs
and bars ne wones each day. They are
not all in that class. but how long the
honesty will remain so is a question
Did YOU ever note the fact that every
man YOU meet has a physical defect of
some kind He is stopped or one shout
der lower than the other, pigeon-toed'
knock kneed. near-sighted, limps, bald
! understanding that is observable
as va pass him on the street. What
other ailments that you know not Of
are often many.
would tear down the walls Of old
buildings during the night while business
was suspended and the stores closed.
| The annoyance TO the public and the
| damage TO goods demands it.
I would not buy cyclone pictures and
send them 10 my eastern friends They
have as many cyclones as we have. but
they never send you any nor say any
. thing about them.
Idnwood Park is a beautiful place
J quiet. cool. restfuL 1t was given 10 the
! city to improve and make attractive Tor
/ Wichita people with their friends 10 drive
! to and sit down and enjoy. \ pubic
utility for health and pleasure One day
/ this week one of our heavy taxpayers
with visiting friends drove about the city
/ and into Riverside Park, where they
! stopped for awhile. and thes 10 Linwooc'
stopping there as in Riverside. when
! along came a policeman who directed
( him to move on or show a permit Tor
/ stopping in the park. Why Is Linwood
made an exception. Why Is Linwood
not furnished with seats and public con-
veniences as the other parks. If that
/ policeman through ignorance, or any
| other reason, is transcending his author
| itv. call him down. Parks are for the
/ public ana very often a party Of friends,
/ late in the afternoon, will telephone
| around and make an agreement to visit
/ at one of the parks for an all evening
picnic. Park commissioners cannot be
found at that hour, and in the absence
/ of a permit they should not be requested
by a cop to move on Linwood should
be governed by the same rules as the
other parks and the expenditures and
proportionately the same.
Of course. barbarian like, just as soon
as your kids and even some people, their
kidesses get big enough to walk along
before they can talk. buy them pistol
make them up as cowboys as near as pos
/ sible on the shoot and cut.
! Now that the alleys are all cleaned
I'D. woul dit not be a good scheme to
! start lot Of teams and men and gather
/ I'D the loose stones. bricks, tin cans, ly-
/ ing loose in the streets. 1t gives man
/ driving a light rubber-tired buggy nerv-
I Gus prostration in his attempts TO miss
/ these annoying missiles scattered about.
To save the cottonwood seed from
! sprouting in your eyes you need only TO
battle your eyes carefully two or three
times . day.
I would give College hill road a rest
/ from the scraper which has been in &C
! tive use there for the last two years and
/ scrape some of the streets down in the
/ city where travel is.
! When legislatures were founded it was
with a view to formulate and enact good
and wholesome laws OF equity and jus
rice 10 protect the weak from the tyranny
/ Of ftbe strong. to compel men who tried
to evade honesty to be honest how
marked has been the change these latter
wears. LEGISLATORS meet 10 put up JOBS
IN evade honest living and honesty OF
purpose. The last legislature repealed the
law which held a stockholder in cor
noration for double the amount of his
stock. They would rather pass Chinese
/ banking law and have II that when cor
Doration failed they would hang the COM
pany and put a stop TO lot OF WildcsSe
and wildeyed schemes that are oeins con
I stantly worked
have taken advantage of the oppor-
t,,nitv offered to notice who are the
peoule that walk on other peoples grass
cut corners. They are men and oooys
who do not have grass OF their own, who
do not and do not know why they are on
earth
sat in my Office one DAY this week.
the thermometer pointing 1T p the wind
was blowing. the dust was dying and i
was thinking It was terrible and that the
country could no1 stand much OF that
kind Of weather when along came enc
~ my farmer friends. sleeves rolled Up,
shirt Earring at the neck brown as a
berry a smile playing over his face. and
n said. This is great weather for cut
hn- wheat. / commence at daylight and
keen things moving until the moon goes
down.
Il was mistake. the negro did not run
49, -ha policeman with his push cart