The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-21
Copyright bv Edgar w. Nye.l

Deacon Decker and HIS Thumb; Also
Jay Gould.
Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.l
1--WE KEEP summer boarders the past
season." said Orlando McCusick, of East
Kortright, to me yesterday, as we sat in
the spring house and drank cold milk
from a large yellow bowl with white
stripes around it; 1--WE KEEP boarders from
town all summer in the Catskills, and
that is why don't figger on doing Of it
next year. You fellers that writes the
pieces and makes the pictures Of us folks
that keeps the boarders has got the laugh
on us as a general thing, but would
like to be interviewed a little for the
press, SOS that l can be set right before
the American people"
'"Well, if you will state the case fairly
and honestly / viii try to give you
chance"
"In the first place" said Orlando, TAX
ing of his boot and removing his jack
knife, which had worked its way through
his pocket and down his leg, then squint-
ing along The new "tap" with one eye to
see how it was wearing before he put it
on, II did not know how healthy it was
here till read in railroad pamphlet,
guess it is you call it, where it says
that the relation of temperature to oxy-
gen in a certain quantity of air is Of the
highest importance. In cubic foot,
it says, of air at 5000 feet elevation,
with temperature of 80 dogs, there is
as much oxygen as in a like amount OF
air at sea level with temperature Of 65
dogs. Another important fact that
should not be lost sight Of this able
Teller says, by those affected by pull
1nonary diseases is that three or four
times as much oxygen is consumed in
activity as in repose.' QIence the hor-
nets nests introduced by me this season.)
Then in climates made stimulating by
increased electric tension and cold, ac-
tivity must be followed by an increased
endoslnose Of oxygen.
$50 you decided to select and furnish
endosTnose of oxygen TO sufferers"
Yes. Invent into il with no notions
of making pile of money, but / argued
that these folks would give anything for
health. We folks are apt to argy that
people from town are all well off and
liberal, and that if they can come out
and get all the butter7nilk and straw
rides they want, and "a little flush Of
color and a wood tick on the back of
their neck, they don't reck pesky reck
what it costs That is only occasionally
so. Ask any doctor you know of if the
average man won't give anything to save
his life, and then when it's saved put his
propity into his womern's name. That's
human. You know the good book says
o pure man from New York is the noblest
work of God"
well, when did this desire to endos-
NOSE your fellow man first break out on
your"
About year and half ago it begun
70 rankle in my mind. read mp every
thing could get hold Of regarding the
longevity and such things TO be had
here. In the winter ! sent in "a fair.
honest advertisement regarding my
place and Judas H. Priest! Before |
gould say scat in the spring here come
letters by the dozen, mostly from school
teachers at first, that had a good COM
mand of language, but did not come. |
Rfterward learned that these letters was
frequently wrote by folks that was not
able to go into the country. so wrote
these letters for mentaI improvement,
hoping also that some one in the country
might want them for the refinement
they would engenGer IN the family.
Il took one young womern from town
Dnce, and allowed her % per cent. of for
her refining influence. Her name was
Etiquette McCracken. She knew very
little in the first place, and had added TO
It good deal by storing up in her MIND
q lot of membranous theories and dam
aged facts that ought to ben looked over
and disinfectel. she was the most hope
less case / ever have saw, Mr.. Nye. She
was a metropolitan ass. You know that
a town greenhCrn IS the greenest green
horn in the world. because he can't be
showed anything. He knows it all
Well, Etiquette McCrackeu very nigh
paralyzed what few manners my chill
dren had She pointed at things at Ia
BILE and said she wanted some O. that,
and she had sort OF starved way of
eating and short breath and seemed
all the time apprehensive She probably
et off the top Of flour barrel at home.
She came and stayed all summer at our
house, with wardrobe which was in
shawl strap wrapped up in programme
Of one of them big theatres on Bow