New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-23
ONE WOM1NS CRUELTY.
FROM ENGLAND TO THE FLORIDA swAMps
THE TALE or MAN WHOSE LovE-sICKNEss
WAS HARD TO CURE.


WAS HARD TO CURE.
AS a means Of adding to the aggregate yearly out
put Of meanness, there is perhaps. nothing more ehca-
cieus than the tumbrg of men. head and heels. into
love with women who don't care fig for them IN
return. The treatment these men receive often out
rivals Bulgarian atrocities for cruelty and Ingenious
torment
Il remember meeting and camping with tie man
ayers Of an English canal cutting company In Florida
a short time ago said the man who had eXprcssei
himself in this ungalant manner TO reporter OF ITO
Tribune the other day. They were running the pess
watercourse in that state for small boat sailing, by
cutting steamboat channel through II, and plins the
mud up along The sides of their cut, 50 that yacht
could 60 no place unless tie wind fair and then
eny in this forty foot channel. while miles Of water
extended either side, from which yachts were barred
by tho piled mud THIS imposition was being IN
nlctcd on the native crackers, tho softcst KIND OF
people. By a steamboat company. and the excavators
we're being paid by the state with the sotieSt KIND oil
land 10 be found in that water and mri paradise
Land is worth good money in Florida If 1t Is IN
,dutcrated; but living OF much Of II means living
ND , tree through the vet season, and being shaken
,ut Of it in tie dry by chs and fever. IhlS hina
Of land is known the real estate man as savannah
hammock and its sale IS only pushed In seasons 81
severe drouth. Then he says it VIII produce sugar
cane and bananas though lie knows It Invariably re-
sat.d liver complaint. melancholy. and If he siays
long enough mental alteration. II this kind OF
land that the English company getting, ara one
OF the engineers who had invested his small forfnhe
In tho venture beginning to feel that II halt Oh
the land grant going TO be of any USE the oner
half would have 70 be shovelled over OF 'op Vi ~
with their dred-cs.
lie was a plucly, good..ooling fellow. and fc"
excursions tina, We made together with our sot-ns Tor
duck caused US to be fast friends Pot hunting soe'
IN Florida rs not only orthodox. but u id'''
ionable knew. however. how AL EngliSl gentleman
loathe, a pothuner, Ne would put out uecoss anu
spend the day lying fl the grass popping stray uuoN
/ an tle wing and cll,tterlng meanwhile III u'eS'
chats we found all that was worth knowing aO'n'
a, other and learned that he was In love ana ,he
,.,n,e She Lir' 'srr'hir mortimer W
youd endurance and held him up 10 raicuic oei"'
| II his set willie he was in England, ana IN Hesper"'
ton he had determined to get away i'o'" "0' '
| and try to forget about her
! ~iIc va. doing reasonably well in this direction,
| yr,.n ON, day with all womsn'> gall she wrote
20 him. and his passion boiled up again. No"' II t"e''
* ANYTHING that Will make a girl write long tenpae'
l,.tor, and crss the lines, K l. love bu' us
r.,,,,~s letters were prim. SIN little things WIFE
no~o and there some stolen love talk strung Wss'nS
on =, string Of something that wasn't love At al,
s.t lh. tho l.,tcrs and soon began 20 get jealous
81, ,n. crI FOR my john Bull became moody ana "o''u
,peud most II his time riding 10 ana Ho" Wv
po.toi,ce about sixteen miles distant anu A' .Au'
and shooting his hand WAS out therefore 'o,7u Wv
canal company bore, pol"d my boat OUT o' Wv"
,,f,,,l cnt and set sail down tic river Tor oe''''
company. ,, 7 Va,
won hadn't been away a month. BEFORE l s"'
/ ,,,,, tim, Iouu lMll was down with Vphold le''a'
aud II there is anything have haH pra'u'e WIZ
,,uhsid ~ went back and played at Tug o'Ma' VIZ
e.,,, for the boy during long. not uop'cal "n"''
When he began 10 rally little "onH re'u ~ -, 49,,
=, ,.,o from, m, mother AND %tels. ana thouS" ''e'
i, Inn, GOOD | could see he was longing i'r e''7'
tram the glrl. one dai when he HaI l'''0" ~ ~
AFTER dclriou, spell, and |, IN hopes hal l. "o"a 10
,n, turning point IN the battle, had tdHcn aS'oeP
too m my bunk ard was dreaming pa '''''
was awakened BY hi, calling me. lie was slt'n's ny
:, he'd with a look Of cxuant pleasure on MS 'aee
,ht Wa, IN strange contrast Ia tie cold gray morn
INK light and the dsordcrcc cabin
..pi,h.' hc said YOU must ~ 10 th' postoiu'e Al
/ onco and cot me q letter know there Is one /
I snv IT, You dout believe IN dreams o"' doh DC
,,,t,,l or sensible. nOw old man. just :" al one
/ i,,,h now | swear won't take any more "e"'l""
I'm won .et back 80 yon won't have the >ati-iacu'n
~, ,uiing me- he sad. seeing ne hesitate
81 en,c him hs medicine. tucked him in bed ard
,,, for the post ,fc, on the pony. and sure enough
tl-r. WA, 4 paper bundle addressed 10 Joha Ban N
t t,udvrlting 70 rcvurd me tor trouble. When
.o, hack and showed IT 10 him hi face beamed'
propprd him MP IN bed with pillows ana pr.
a., marcel into his poor White tmn hands. "lnIe
-, ON tie hunl, beside HIN and offered knife to ~,
fe string OF the wrapper. VIZ One H,tr p''s. s
,i,,gh, urrlap- worked hN her own hands. seI'
AWAY aero, the ocean from some happy Iohle "
linden ntr little lodge IN the wilderness. Ihe sun
49,. brightly into the cabin over tn" poor ho' :
i,,der AZ, e,.s We're bright and hl> chec,, flushed
,"d could have Kissed the girls 'hoelat'het. hf
~, clad 10 src HIM brighten up
Carciuly he olencd II and unroll"d q arEr slirr
,,,,th,r ',Ien came a cardboard box. Led up.
emf the string and found something wrapped "
,,hic tissue paprr. kcnO\ NIX this paper we Iouh'
r,tlrr roll ui brown paper and inside II some NOR
Irown paper. NEd So ou 70 tie end
ddu't understand II and l'oici the 5tNH Owe
,o,tu Not a word. a line nothing but paper.
John Iull lid down IN the bed ard turned w
, f,,c 10 the wall How he felt cod only knows
ict too disguised TO throw away good profanity ana
kept quiet , A., , ,oos.,
said the reporter ~. Al,
30. he didn't" said tic woman hatcr. He d'
lie got well and married cracker s"''