Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-11
fst. Louis Globe-Democrat.l

But III tell you what's the matter" said
The I.acle,ie hotel barber, when hear people
here talking a1uut duh times say to myself,
MY III ms. you don't know anything
about g., and they don't. Docs the
razor hurt YOU. Now, if You want to
know what dun times are you'll have to take
trip 10 san Diego, just on the Mexican Dor
der, in California. 1 lived IN that town in
1863 and i beat any place | ever saw. had
been boohkecper at East Saginaw, Mich,
and worked SO steady indoors that my
health brcle down. My brother was an
EpiscopaliaI minister a. Kalamazoo, and
wen. to his home and staid while 1t was
finally decided that l had consumption, and
the doctor tod my brother that unless
could go to some part of the country where
the climate was more mild and regular
would be dead man inside of a year So
my brother sent me to San Diego / was too
weak and sick so take much interest in the
place az first, bat Us soon as | was able to
move around | took in the town. There
were 200 or go consumptives beside myself,
and you couldn't walk as far as from
here 10 Fourth street without meeting
dozen Of thein--does the razor pulls Well,
sir, il beat anything | ever saw
I'd get up in the morning, and take little
walk along the beach, meeting a number of
the constilnptives. and after while we all
became acquainted. We didn't have much
to say to each other, for most of them were
under medical instructions not to talk in the
open air, and not to talk much any where for
fear il might bring ON a fit of coughing and
burst blood vessel or something. Just raise
your chin little, please.
N+.l! sir was I had t.aan
meeting the animated stiffs OH the beach and
on the hctel verandas Tor about week, when
| lie anne intimate enough with few Of
them TO talk, n d used to ask them how they
fell | remember tine first morning / talked
with one OF them. They always spoke of
each other as the one with dry hack tie
one with the soft cough, TINT poor fellow
who los: his left the young man in the last
stage the elderly gentleman who had the
hemorrhage on the front porch, and SO on.
They talked a5out nothing else bu. their
lungs bursting blood vessels hemorrhages,
cod liver oil, whey and flannel bandages.
The hotel proprietor spoke a little English,
and tried to lead him of on some other
subject one day, but he broke Inc all up
with a story all out Bostoniau who died in .
coughing lit tie winter before, while at
sumptives on how TO keep our pulmonary or
gans in their normal condition. The pro-
prietor said that five of the lecturers audi
encc had henoIrhages in the hall, and one Of
them went into srasm which carried him
of tie mex. day. He wouldn't talk about
anything else hut consumption. Have lit
tie powder. There were eleven stores in the
town, nine Of them drug stores, and the
other two a butchers shop ard grocery.
| Nearly the entire population were consump-
tive. SO that they ate scarcely anything The
butcher sold meat for beef-tea, and the gro
Ger kept nothing but oatmeal for cruel, some
mustard for pias:ers, and milk for whey.
The druggists sold cod-liyer oil almost ex-
ciusiyely, but they had a fair trade in brandy
and simple syrup.
"A few Mexican fishermen and Greasers
came IN occasic n.lly; but during the entire
year lived there | never heard anybody
laael, never saw a dogfight, never saw a
runaway. | never heard a STOUT, | never saw
more than two persons on TIE street at enc
tins, never saw even game of dominoes,
and never talked to anybody on any sub
jet but consumption.
Il veut into the--have little pomade on
yoir hairz-grocer's store one day, after
had picked II; a little Spanish, and asked him
how business Was. lie said it was looking up
II is good, sigpor, said he; very good.
hGve sold in a month, Of goods 81 | thin!;
.he times will DO better ! asked the butcher
how things were going with him, aud he told
me that be had taken iii 50 cents during the
week, ard WIS sstisfied with the condition of
taGe i;ull4 Wei. the only thing that
stirred NJ the toan while | was there was the
funerals Of the coasumptives. Nearly forty
Of tha,a died during the year,
aud think every one of them
tod lac before they died that they
didn't have anything which bore the slightest
resemblance to consumption. The funerals
were pre5ty dull, too-one donkey, n two
wheeled cart and a Mexican driver was all
there was to them. After every funeral the
colsunp.ives would grow worse, and when
they ali got 20 coughing together in the
hotel, YOU could near them Il mile away
But you got we'll" said the weaiiel re-
porter as the barber took oil the towc,s
yes. bat not there. You see didn't have
consumption / tad dyspepsia aud as soon
as the doctors found it on; my brother sent
me to Carlsbad Bohemia. That wasn't SC
dull, but il was the queerest place ever
/ st,url, except Sydney. Australia, CT, per
maps. Rio janeiro, Brazil
you must have Travelled said the re
porter
a little said The barber Il spent four
tee. months at the cape of Coed Hope, and
passed one winter in Alexandria. | was M
the Nile Nhen rews of my brlthoI's death
rea he'd me and learned this business partly
in PARIS, rartly in Vienna, and parsiy il
Berlin. had shop in Constantinople vher
the CIR was killed. was educated II be q
minister, tried law awhile, did some report
ing for the New York papers, kept n saloor
in Brooklyn. ran a bgok-Stall ii Boston, sold
popcorn balls in Philadelphia, and operated
n the Chicago board Of trace, Tut I like
this business setter than any or ,hcn-it
brings one into contact with al soI;sot reo
pie. aud like to study human nature some
time when you're in again III tel! you about
Carlsbad