Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-11-11

IL is of Kansas doctor and the way we
treated him;
And the object of these verses is an eloquent
appeal
To those higher, nobler feelings that of
course, YOU know you feel.
ANY man who hears this story is obliged 10
shed a tear;
| read it to the editor that runs the Topic"
here
Hopeless melancholy took him in, and for
q week or more
He was wading round in gum boots through
the tears upon the floor.
Out to Kansas came doctor, wide awake
and full of pluck;
Up in Atchison he settled, and he leaned up
close to luck,
There he hung out his diploma and he
stayed from spring till fall,
But he never saw an invalid and never got
call.
Then at last John Martin told him that
more practice could be got
If he only shipped his talents to suburban
Wyandotte.
Up in Wyando.tc he fingered just about a
year in all,
And he talked about his college, but he
never reached call.
Buchan said: .'Raid Topeka" but Tayler
calmly said:
TRY Leavenworth or Lawrence, which are
better, in its stead"
Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, yielded
similar results,
And he felt much disappointment, but he
didn't feel much pulse!
One sad day he met with Murdoch, who OBJ
4 l.
Try the Nile of Sunny Kansas" and the
doctor said he'd go.
First he cashed fat ancestral draft, and
plunging in the dark,
Gave 10 fortune and to Murdoch the direc-
ton of his bark.
Down at Wichita they anchored, but his
chance was Just as slim;
His bark was all Peruvian-they had no
need of him.
Shortly after he had opened out in busy
Wichita,
He absorbed, by merest accident, the rudi-
ments of draw.
His Office stayed unopened for few event.
ful days;
He diagnosed that noble game in all its
wondrous ways.
One eve he found bob-tailed flush of mos.
important size;
disguise.
Then said he This Bleeding Kansas is no
place for me to dwell.
One lone call in three years and half, and
the man that called was WELL"
Then a very lonesome shirt or two into his
trunk he stored,
And he left his watch in mortmain with his
landlord for his board,
And he Strengthened up, disguised, and re-
lieved his burdened mind
With opinions of the country he was now TO
leave behind.
There is something to this country that / |
DO not understand;
Working, scheming, trade and business,
lively lawsuits, labor, land.
There is not that noble yearning here for
pills aud cultured thought;
All INV classic erudition is both useless and
unsought;
And the people, as / find them, are as igno-
rant as geese
OF the woes of Asia Minor and the Had of
Greece.
NO one stops to read my sheapskIn that has |
hung from week to week;
No one ever mentions Ajax, no one ever
mentions Greek. |
People suffer in abundance from the most |
And they keep acquiring lawsuits and ac-
cunlulating wealth.
Day by day man keeps working, ust as
happy as a clam,
Ii he only has the cash to buy lawsuit and |
ham.
'Only yesterday l saw q man l thought |
would surely die;
He had got compound, communicated frac-
ture of the thigh:
Aching but half an hour or SO, the leg de-
clined to swell,
He poured cold water on it and the next
day it was well.
Then he worked all day that afternoon, and,
ere the sun went down,
He had got into lawsuit with the latest
man in town.
Just packed up my little trunk BY yum
wouldn't stay
In climates where man gets old, dries up,
and blows away.
Wouldn't live in a community where for
tunes every week
Can be made by men without the slightest
rudiments of Greek.
Let me, let me find some sickly, classic, SEN
timental spot.
Here. sir. check nv baggage eastward via
Paint creek and Fl. Scott"
Then he wiped the perspiration from his
high and noble brow,
And he filed some druggist statements that
/ don't remember how.
Shortly after this, a mule train, from the
westward coming slow,
Camped beside the raging Paint creek. with
the doctor on the go.
An old army mule that evening, after sup
per, Just for fun,
Kicked and broke the doctors arms and
legs, and all his ribs but one.
That old mule would make hero for q ro-
nance or a song.
When the drums beat aud the bugles sound
ed battle, loud and long;
He enlisted in the army, and he helped to
pull d train,
Up the mountains, down the valleys, through /,
the sunshine and the rain.
And right well he served his country, for he
knew where duty lay;
He could live for weeks on end-gates, when '
they couldn't give him hay, !
No complaining, no desertion, through the ;
gumbo 20 the hub,
Week by week our long-eared hero snatched
wagon load of grub. i
Lightning struck him, cannon shot him, but :
ne never failed nor iunked.
Danger left him as il found him-undis- I
couraged, undefunct II
And in all my army service have never
seen mule
With a keener comprehension Of the edu-
Gated fool. q
He would spot man instanter, if he over Z
heard him speak
About Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Correls-
ton, Force or Greek.
He would work and watch in silence, and
and look sleepish day by day,
One eve closed in meditation, till that man
got in his way;
they did not have TO make
A collection of their comrsde with q basket