The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1865-08-15

our entertaining seasons nD01e9xo - - tn ex1or
tence Of tactical liquid ID tie psricaiidial re-
zion Of any orsanically sound nab indvidhd,
We would say thaa our heart l. fdll Of he min
Of human kisdness. Aence, while ~ relate,
or rather let himself relate. the sefio- cunice.
ludicro- tragico experience Of Dobbs in hunt
ing, We would not be understood as poking
fun at Theophilus aforesaid. No, my friend,
vhsnE in nental yiGoa Ne see our ~ ecSel
and cherished Dobbs starting for his own
country through the oozy, murky folds Of .
Central lows bog, We fear there is an over
dose of oil on the BRAIN and make an in
voluntary imaginary rush to rescue Dobbs
and restore him in good state of preservs-
ton to the embraces of Sophronia and his
surceased labor in that oil well. tst
Do our readers know the pleasures Of hunt
ing in Central Iowaf Dobbs does. The
story is told in the Register He went out
Saturday. Awful hot. Shot at birds numer-
ously. Feathers few; likewise the BIRDS
both went off together. About noon q bird
rose Dobbs fred. Bird few across the
prairie and settled. d. thought it his game.
Started for it on the run. Gun was heavy /;
stopped and laid it down. Also his coat.
Nine dollar plug hat blew off. Didn't stop
to pick it up. Kept his eye on spot where
bird fell But here came disaster. He shall
tell it: hrsr Ne4 as9
"Without q note Of warning from the heav-
ems above or from the earth beneath, he, all
at once, followed his boots about three feet
into the soil of . springy bog, and came to .
dead halt Here was q difficulty which he
had not anticipated. With no hat to shelter
his upper machinery; with the sun beating
pcrspiration pouring from his face in small
cataracts; with symptoms of exhaustion ap-
parent in every movement: with no friendly
assistance near him, and with location in
the heart of one of the most formidable
sloughs which can be found on the Divide
between the Skunk and Des Moines rivers in
Jasper county, his situation was full of awful
incident and peril. To be stuck endways,
like gate post, three feet into the ground
to feel yourself sinking more deeply at every
movement which yon made for your deliver
ance to feel yourself doomed to suffer an in
terment before the breath is out of your body;
| to have no one nigh to render assistance OF
witness the manner of your transit through ~
Iowa mud-hole to the solid pavement o,
Kingdom Come; to pass through the Valley
and Shadow of Death at noon day, on a big
prairie, twenty-five miles away funa home
and three miles away from the Comforting
presence of wife and children; to have tht
rank grass and the slippery sod closing around
your receding form, and preparing to concea
1t forever from mortal eye here is group
ing ofafiecting incidents which cannot fad Il
enlist the interest of sympathetic readers.
But Dobbs wouldn't die without a struggle
He cried aloud In fact, he yelled muchly
Also he struggled. He lost one boot. Ais,
the other. Then he foundered out. Their
he returned thanks for his deliverance. ans
again he shall tell his story:
"We regret to remark further that the un
happy subject of this sketch never found tn
bird for whose capture he had perilled hi
valuable existence. He never recovered nj
boots. They remain imbedded in the ear,l
to tins day, and they will remain Their
through sunshine and storm, and through III
ages which shall follow, without the hope O
resurrection except from the hand of som
kerosene hunter, who may raise them from
their grave, and exhibit them as remarkable
surface indications tits sadder still to relat,
that the 9-dollar hat which went on recrea
tive excursion over the prairie, has not We
been found. 1t rolled itself into some grass,
obscurlty, and it is not now perceptible to tn,
naked eye. Still more impressiyev melan
choly is the fact that, up to date, it has beer
impossible to find that gun, and as q necessa
ry result of this circumstance, il has been i'm
possible, also. TO find that coat To add t.
the dismay OF the amateur sportsman, one o
those thunder storms which are extemporizes
this year in Eve minutes or less, came IN apt
deluged the ground. Our friend was heavily
| immersed. Without boots, without hat, with
| out coat, without gun, without game, withou
dinner. our friend walked three miles to ,
stopping place. He had nothing to comfor
him on the route but miserable sense of ex
haustion and failure, and a consciousness tina
several cascades, fresh from the clonds, were
tumbling down his back. He is dow AT home
and in bed. sick with thevheumatiem and de
spoudency. He has serious cough. ana !,
suffering from incipient consumption. HI
has rheumatism IN his right arm, and in hi
left arm. He has rheumatism in the heat
and lower extremities. He has rheumatism
in the back of the neck and in the Joints O
his toes. He has rheumatism in the lumba,
region and in the thoracic duct. and probabl,
IN his old boots which now lie in the appalling
depths of prairie slue.' He will not b.
able to take his place on the newspaper 70,
an indefinite period to come, if ever. Reader
will you not shed a tear of sympathy over his
unfortunate condition pr >