Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-11-13

Hopeless melancholy took him in, and foi
: a week or more
He was wsdng round in gum boots through
the tears upon the floor.
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 All invalid and never got
call.
Then at last John Martin told him that
more practice could be got
If he only shipped his talents 10 suburban
Wyandotte.
Up in Wyandotte 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 Leal enworth or Lawrence, which are
better, in its stead"
Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeks, yielded
similar results,
And be felt much disappointment, but he
didn't feel much pulse.
Ore sad day be met with Murdoch, who OBJ
served: "Come down below
Try the Nile Of Sunny Kansas" and the
doctor said he'd go.
First be cashed fat ancestral draft, and
piungIng in the dark,
Gave TO 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-tbey had no
need of him.
Shortly alter be had opeAed out in busy
Wichita,
He absorbed, BY merest accident, the rudi-
ments of draw.
His Office stayed unopened for few event.
full days;
He diagnosed that noble game in all its
wondrous ways.
| One eve he found bob tailed flush of most
important size;
He stayed behind if and became psuper in
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 wel.'
Then very lonesome shirt or two into his
trunk he stored,
And he left his watch in mortmain with his
landlord for bis board,
And he Strengthened up, Disguised, and re-
lieyed his burdened mind
With opinions of the country he was now to
leave behind,
There is something to this country that
do not understand;
e,hapatp1 .-ala
lively lawsuits, labor, land
There is not that noble yearning here for
pills aud cultured thought;
All nv 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.
mo 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
unheard of health.
And they keep acquiring lawsuits and ac-
cumulating wealth.
Day by day man keeps working, just as
happy as II clam,
II piiiN Aas tbt Narh W puN ihWsult anu
ham.
SONY yesterday saw a man l thought
would surely die;
He had got compound, comminuated frsc-
ture of the thigh;
Aching but half an hour or so, the leg de- |
clined to swell,
He poured cold water on il and the next |
day it was well.
Then be worked all day that afternoon, and, |
ere the sun went down,
He had got into lswsuit 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 my baggage eastward via
Paint creek and Fl. Scott"
Then be wiped the perspiration from his
high and noble brow,
4 nd be filed some druggist statements that
| don't remember row.
Shortly after this, a mule train, from the
westward coming slow,
Camped beside ne 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 bis ribs but one.
That old mule would make hero for a ro-
nance or a song.
When the drums beat and the bugles sound
ed battle, loud and long;
BE enlisted in the army, and he helped TO
pull u train,
Up the mountains, down the valleys, through
the sunshine and the rain.
And right well be served his country, for be
knew where duty lay;
lie could live for weeks on end-gates, when
they couldn't give him hay,
10 complaining, no desertion, through the
gumbo 10 the hub,
Week by week our long-eared hero snatched
wagon load Of grub.
lightning struck him, cannon shot him, but
he never failed nor flunked.
Danger left him as il found him-undis-
couraged, undefunc,; /,
Ind in all my army service have never
seen mule
With a keener comprehension Of the edu-
Gated fool. q
lie would spot man instanter. if he over
heard him speak ,
Ibout Darwin, Herbert Spencer, Correla-
ton, Force or creek.
lie would work and watch in silence, and {
aud look sleepish day by day, i
,ne eye closed in meditation, till that man /,
got in his way;
hen that persons friends were lucky if I
they did not have TO make i
! collection of their comrade with a basket \
and n rake.