The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-06-04
THE KU RLUx KHAN.
ny JOHN QUILL.

49,
where that is.
The fact ISL have begun o short
journey through the South for the ben
eft CT my health. Ibave not been we'll
tor some time. The doctor said l bad
u complicated case of catplasr1 Of the
epiglottls, caused by a ~suffusion of
blood upon tho anterior lobe of the
cerebelium, or words to that effect
But / don't believe he knows.
I've taken q great many remedies.
Every time l saw a certificate IN the
papers of q man who had been cured
of u bad ley of eighteen years standing
lawful long time for O leg to stand),
or it, fellow who was snatched from
an untimoly grave by some old pill or
other, | went around AMI gorged my
self with the stuff that helped him.
l have tried all the patent medicine
between here and Kansas, from pain
killer TO hair-rcstorcr, AID here l am
cantering around the country u nero
wreck,
Ny wife sayp that 1t ia the result Of
my reckless use oil medicine but l don't
consider that she knows.
Tho way 1 happened TO leave home
was this. / saw the following para
graph in a paper. and l thought I'd
try " on
Step cut into the purest air you
can find stand perfectly erect, with
your head up and shoulders back, and
then fixing the lips us though you
were going TO whistle, draw the air,
not through the nostrils, but through
the lips into the lungs. When the
chest is about half full, gradually raise
the arms, keeping them extended with
the palms of the hands down, rs you
suck m the uIr, 30 ns TO bring them
ov CT tho head just MS the lungs are
quite full. Then drop the thumbs IN
ward, and after Forcing the arms back.
ward, and the chest open, reverse tic
process by which you draw yOni
breath, till tho lungs IRE empty. This
process should DC repeated three OF
four times Immediately after bathing
aud also several times during til,
day"
! went into my back. yard 10 prac
tice, and after having folio we'd the d.
rections for n while, Mre. Quill hap.
pencd to come to the window and Set
mo. She her observed
lyon Quill, what IN tho name of com
mon sense are you doing2'
Never mind; | know what I'm do
ing"
"You had beltor como into the hous
and stop making such a fool of your
self"
Go to, woman" Raid /, what d
your know about scienccY'
"Science2' said she ''science2 yol
old idiot, why you don't know an,
more about science than u teapot doc
|, about immortality. Como III here, O
I'll go out and drag you in by wha
little fuzE you've got lott on that block
head
Ny wife possesses h lovely Chris
tau character, but she always mean
what she says 30 | gave up the expeI
4, imcnt and went in, but not until I'll
man next door threw u muLzlo DYE
the fence NJ hno, to Intimate that / wa
mad.
When / got in l found that n crow
/, Of boys had been watching me throug
-, the crack in the fJnce, and one Other
had fetched u policeman 10 take me I
the insane asylum. l an Il small maj
and tlis made tue |scoundrol 81 valiar
4 THAI I was forced to fly out throug
the alley gate to avoid him. ] too
the next train fer the sunny Soutt
= When / got to thu h1tol IN Rlchmon,
Virginia, | went TO bed right Of
about midnight there was II knock {
: the door.
who's there ?" says I.
ut is tho X, V. Grand Inspector
= the X. X. x"
7 "Well, what docs tho nlphabetlci
cuss want tussing around hero ut tn
time Of hight, a ?"
" HE desires to enter the portal"
. DWELL, he X. X. X. can't 30 d.
y up, will your" said |, for | was ma
lumbar the entrance or We wi
d break it down"
"Oh;l dare say. Hadn't you bett,
go get a howltEor2 / guess you thin
you're cutting u swell don't you 2
Well you amt"
IL In Il half minute the door, vi
j. knocked down, and in came a dozt
men masked. They dragged me o.
Of TED and sat me in a char.
eve are the 18th verso of the 10
n chapter OF Ku Klux Khan. We con
's to investigate you. What's yol
10 name7'
my name is Mortal, IN tho Gran
y "None ofthat now" said one fello
c driving a revolver; "no fOolishing, Il
n us what your name is ~