Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1889-01-09
/, :. ,,,ores,los Letter.

An iu,oros,los letter
 vsot. commissioner of pensions [|''..,,:,,.,oa. D c. reosived the f0i-
 te1sr rom man named Chats I.h ,,, aSes ia >easssd, Ill., ano
 he is one-legged saidier: s
 k,, gl.ss. eommissiooer-Dear Sii
 L., eo, anosbs. one q them pos'ais l5s ,si1ns me to go before the doctors
 he examined. l'se been a-ee't'ns
 % cards about eystY new moon ever {-e snolied for ar increase oi my
 ..marethsn tso Yearsago and I've
 - sx,-oined ume and agin. I've been .s.I5 ,beribs dumped on the chest
 soro kind oi daped instruments v,,ious parts Q; the body; nay l ss have bsen tested have been made [5 orer .he back ot.a chair, and to
 .k;n and iomp around the room
 .ars,,5s ali sorts of monkey shines I1 teel ike I ough; io have asalary ,art,,m,ne and go have an agent 10 La and stick up shos bills forme. ,ve laid on the table and allowed the
 ,o,s 10 turn me over and over
 ninoh and posh and pull ms Iu, un,il l was sick and sore. Firsl
 se,t me to a couple of doctors
 ,o PerryviIle. and I was fully
 .o hour before they found ou'
 ,bs blood did mol circulate ID
 wooden leg. Then you sent me
 T liule dried up old doctor at Oak kee. who put my truss on with rong
 hefore and said the pad was intended 1 fbrace up ny spinal koim, eonfouno
 Afterwards you sent me before ks and ends of cranky doctors sno ke o. hem could tell he difference keen the measels and hooPln ceuen, lbis examinatiou business of the doc
 nav be fun for them but I'll be l oned ifit 6oaS make ne tired, and ,., h,-s orosreo me back to (.yyiIle and believing tha. l will have ko clear around he whole circuit asin k,op and assert my right to kick and l |s;ck ike a steer and don't you forget l Last summer I sot my wooden les ksd by an accident, and 1 applied to 1 surreon general Tor 2 new one. but l told thai as I only had it three years |onld have 10 wsit two years more, as |ooden leg vas expected to last man ] wears Hs sad though that if Il been ny real leg that got kod he thought he could have Ter bed me another wooden leg at once, ] |ch I thought was q iit,le consolation. ] been .ho55hn around now for ten ks,hs on one foot Eyin my best to se by example that one of Uncle
 $ old veterans with one foot in the se and the olhe; nigh !. is better than (orpse by several per cent. Mean l. the leg ] vas lucky enough to Fs hack win me from the battle of Wilderness has took he rheumatiz l hurts me 50 bad that som etime l al l, wish I had lost | lao About the use 1t is, ,o ne new is to sct as g ier when I slide down stairs
 av Mr Csmmissloner. you may do as you please about increasing my kion. l. you and the doctors before |m ! have been cutting up monkey es for the last i've yeaEs, think that hg ny leg iu the halsie f the Wilder ] m 1864 oio,ted oa t6e record of my |ng bullet through lny carcass at |s.aru in 3S6a and that the pension l IiTswIr.s .s full psY for an old veteran has 10 go sliding around the world Ering with Iheunatiz in his leg spIin,ers in his body; and who a set Of insides that haint been in ] running order for E years and tr vii be again until l reach the New Isalen, ", all right If the govern (t thinks l am getting value re ! ed tor what lest and what l |r on her account, and intends to
 me as silent partner, ". I guess. gosh. I can stand t, but I'm go- to tel teI you test between us, when that dfatted bullet wen, (ugh ne a, Aauetam it played the tens with some important function of Ennards and played | for Keeps" I |plY know il tsre something all to lder and that your pet doctors don't |w anY more ahon. ,. nan l do. and | be net ss much. Th.plain fac; is.
 that is shat I'm oriving at I'm Ideally broke up and saattered from single heel to my chin whiskers and 'yas al done al Antietam before I
 my leg at the Wilderness and the pTd says so. and now ysu have made io as much marching from pillar to and sIom one fool doctor to an- -r as would have 8aken me from the derness to Cananis lair and happy -e and IT be gob darned if I'll do
 more Of 1t nc sir. Mir. Black, I've l. 3 Jaekass of myself for the benefit
 le, of ope-borse doctors for the last !. so you wil not have to pay them
 more fees for tinkering with me. have actually been paying the ~ |oTs more money for staying of clam than you would have to pay me had you increased pension on first tight of my ap- Enon and as they nave been mak- money out of ne tor themselves fer |ng time, l am now going to turn on F and stop 'hls show business. The ! ..,,,- -.s,,, ,---, s-sf Ss,a hax- .l