The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-02-14
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 There is a travelling man who repre-. sents a Milwaukee house ana lives in the country, who has been pisied good dea3 lately. lt has been rumored among his friends that he has consumptou, and that doctors had advised him to get out of this climate as quick as possible, and his friends have all been very sorry, as he is . popular. big -heaEted, big-bodied, jolly fellow, except that for the last month he has looked quite solemn and discouraged. He was making his last .Fip previous to going to Florida for the winter. At La Crosse some of the travel ing men saw the big fellow go to the telegraph office and send . message to his wife, and then 90 out of the depot and get in the smoker and throw down his gripsack pretty hard, He vas evi- deasauy mad, though occasionally he would smile, and then laugh nght out lead. The boys looked ss him d shouRh they thought hs was losing his mind, but they went in aRd spoke pleasantly to him, and asked him when he was going south, and if he thought he was, coming back h box, or in | regular coach
 Florida be hanged v said he with . laugh, "lm not going. l am cured. Cured in 2. minute. stay on the road, Iust telegraphed nay wife not to pack 'up. .
 "You dont say r shouted tho boys, as they reached fos his great big hands, and shook them heartily. "Hew did you cure yourself2" sl.4.. - 5
 "Well, boys" said the victim of con- sumption, Ks big joke on two of the best doctors in this state. Noa sec. early in the winter caught severs cold, sad af CT got out around noticed there was . peculiar sound about my cheat ~hen 1 took in . long breath. It was grinding, Squeaking sound that alarmed mo. l am peHecs baby when am sick, and want to be pe4sed, and my wite tried to brace me up. She would listen to my lungs an hour 1t time after we retired, but couldn't hear sound, bat during the day, when was up around, ono could hear the sound three feet away. 1 wept to . doctor and he listened at my chest and said it was mighty scsiouA He said it was evidentally valve of the heart that was out of plumb, and It might carry I medicine. and for two weeks took it and expected every day to de. though there vas no pain at all Finally changed doctors, and had very eminent man sound my chest and he looked wise and solems, and said the ieft lang was affected, and was liable Co cicss up any time, and he gave me some medicine to take temporarily, but advised me to ar- range my sifafrs and get out of this climate too quick. Wsli, boys, log the last month have bean pretty solemn, tell you. For fellow who has always been healthy, to be told that his heart is all wrong and his lungs busted, and .o hear that sound ali day long, and know that he is liable to pass h his chips any moment, is not encouraging. hays not been myself, and 1 feel that have treated the boys shabbily sometimes, going of alone fn corner of . car and thinking Of death, whsn osghs to have been playing ssvsa up. We'll se-day vas talking to Frank Powell. You know him, White Beaver" they can him. Frank and ] have always been friends, and we were chafiing up Co the eiub room, when he asked me what ailed me lassiy. He said he had noticed scsed sort Of glum for . good while, aod wanted to know if was out of luck. He said # 1 was short of money, on account Of the hard times,I could reach right In to his ovcscoat pocket and take out q roll any time. The old euss, he has got . hcaTt ia him bigger than q bale of hay. Well, told him about my lungs, and the raffiing, snd he came over and ripped open my ysst and put his great biz good looking head down to my chest and listened. Then he looked st me with . twinkle in his eye, and began to look around my cioshes, s1d tben he listesed again, and then he laughed 70 thsy heasd him vay over to the police station. Then he said, "Why. you b asssd fool, that sound isnt in your langx 1t comes fross them cussed pulley suspendess 700 hsvs got ou." Wcli, I thoveht shouId faiss away. He usbutsossd the ssspspders, and drsw long bsesths for 6iises min utes and these vas not . sound, asd thea lss hifched the suspendefs sp sgsis, ed thsss was tAs soasd again. was @ tickisd 1 hugged that bjg fsllov hli l guess ! broke rib, and ! an the hap- piest man ever vas. am txyiag to q. eide whether to fill those two dcefoss ty slow poison, os wieh ciub, ssA vin d cidss by shs dms gst te fMiawznkee. But Let's hsye . gaaae Df seven-up = And the boys, rot . board across t6<lr lsps asd played all the wsy 10 Portage. ye1a ---NoS------ a A ss 1 The small boy thinks thss the rulis1 vice is the teAchers conmand to him tc hold out his hand. BoxkoN Fssk. -
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