Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-12-29
An Erroneous Impression.

They had lively little matinee over
gentleman from the country .took the
town. by taking the town we do not
mean to be understood as saving that he
put the town in a wagon and took il
to site that had more natural ad.
vantages, as is frequently done with
small railroad towns. Brenbam is too
large place to be taken that way. It
is SO big that it would require more
than one photographer to take 1t.
But TO the point The young man
took the town with pistol. He rode
through the streets Shooting at old
citizens to whom he had never been
introduced, and who had lived there all
their lives, contrary to the peace and
dignity OF the state. He fired right in
to saloons, and that he did not cripple
policeman or an alderman, or some
prominent candidate for governor. ia
something We cannot understand
This promising young man, who had
not got through celebrating the 4tb of
July, blazed away at a leading citizen.
proDapiy q reporter, but unfortunately
missed him. The ammunition was
not wholly lost, however, as it broke
the hind leg Of dog, which reminds
us that we have at last got to the point
we wish to make.
The owner Of the animal was very
much disturbed. The dog also showed
signs of uneasiness. Moved by a GEN
erous impulse, the owner of the animal
had the shattered leg cut off, and now
the dog is as good as new, except that
when he chases a cat he makes one
hole less in the mud than he did before
the accident happened to him.
All the soil about Brenham, SO far as
we could judge from looking at it from
a car window, is sand, although no
body appeared to have any too much
OF it In his craw, when the man shot
the dogs leg of. AT any rate, the
country is of sandy formation. and if
that dog is allowed to cavort about
making three holes instead of four in
the mud, the result will be all manner
of scientific complications in the future.
when the dog, aud all the oldest in
habitants pass away into oblivion. or
into whatever other place they may be
turned. The impression made by the
dog will be an erroneous impression.
as it were. Sand, particularly wet
sand, is certain to harden and become
sandstone, and if three-legged dog, or
any other ''forlorn aud shipwrecked
brother, makes foot prints on the sands
of time, or of Brenham, in this case.
the handwriting is perpetuated to the
end of time. Some of these days, a
few hundred years hence, the scien-
tific world will be petrifed by the dis
covery in the Brenham sandstone of
foot prints of an animal with three
legs, the long sought missing link be-
tween the biped and the quadrupeds.
The Ingersoll of that day, will have
fac simile of the tracks made, properly
attested before a notary, and he will
have Moses on the hip, so to speak.
There will be endless discussions, and
the newspapers will be full of it. The
doctrine of evolution, according to
Huxley, will be fully established, and
the religious faith of the world may be
turned rapidly down, if that three
legged flee at Brennan is not nipped in
the bud. If the owner of the dog has
objections to drowning the animal, and
the man who shot his leg off does not
come to Brennan and finish the job,
the best thing the proprietor of that
little dog can do, is to take him to a
carpenter shop, and have the carpenter
saw off the other three legs, until they
are all of one length, like those of
billiard table.