The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-12-28
NY FRIEND, THE DOCTOR.
How He Was Caught Making
Moonshine Whisky.

I OF VnaC region indicated. Even the
hogs were generally thin and puny anc
the cattle were apparently Inca
descendants of the stock whose blue
meat furnished food for soldiers in the
days of the southern confederacy. So
at q crossroads, in wild waste OF
! pines, the doctor had erected double
! log house, where he lived with his wife
and one daughter. Here he had built
up, as he expressed it. "a lucrative
practice" Though numerous his pa.
tients were all poor, and it seemed
strange that he should thrive so well;
! yet he averred that he ''never took
| truck for bill-only cash-snd I'm
! pretty well fixed, as you can see" lie
was well fixed. His house VAC neatly
| furnished as are many such houses in
| these backwoods, rough without, and
! attractive within-and he had farm
| OF two hundred acres, planted in corn,
which he said never failed of q cron' -
His daughter was a pretty girl, well
/ grown, with natural grace and I'M
affected hospitality that was charming;
her mother in feature and manner, so
like her-she seemed not day older
| that no one would suspect the real re-
| iationship.
There was no reason why he should
not be happy, he said, though settled
down in the woods, away from So
called civilization. At any rate he
wGs satisfied, while his wife and daugh-
ter we're dehghted with their hermit
ike existence. The doctor was a ven
cradle man His beard and forehead
were Teanysonian, and the intelligent
stranger, coming upon him here, was
half inclined to doubt. the evidence of
his own ewes. He was well educated,
too, and talked like book as the
natives declared among themselves
when recounting his phshments.
The doctors home was situated be-
tween two railway lines, the distance
between them being eighty miles. l
Was riding through the wilderness one
afternoon IN autumn; my horse-a Hea-
bitten, spawned, iron-gray relic, which
l had puroh ased solely for the purpose
Of the journey-was ambltng down a
rocky steep TO reach a brook that
flowed at the foot. lie STUN bled, fell,
rolled over. I remained On the ground,
unable to move; he rolled on and only
stopped when he reached the water.
where he lay still. l attempted to rise.
you can't do It," said a person
whose voice bespoke that he was near
me- 81 saw youfan and know you got
it in tho hip. A fracture" he pro-
nounced. after an examination. Let
me assist you into my buggy and take
you to my house"
l thanked him. MY horsel" l sug-
gested, pointing TO the animal, prone
on the ground.
His neclS's broken. 1t was the most
beautiful fall I ever saw. If your in
jury is as interesting, l will have
readable story for my next letter to
the medical journal"
You are a physician, then?"
Yes. It's not much loss" he re-
marked, as l gave sympathetic look,
despite my own almost mortal pain, at
the old gray's body. files served man
many years and is now gone to serve
the buzzards. III send one of my hands
down to skin him, though he . hardly
worth it."
was put to bed The case proved
an interesting one, and the doctor
cared for me with slzillful hand, the
wife doing me mothers part and the
Jul presence and entertaining conversa-
ton.
Days waned; frost glistened IN the
moonlight, thea glittcred in the morn
ing sun and melted into the purple
haze which wrapped the pines in its
en- brace and scattered its flmy threads
among the red and golden glory of oak
and hickory leaves. Days, succeeding
themselves, became weeks; the weeks
grew into month.
One evening. when ] was able to sit
up and hobble about, occupied chair
beside an open window. a fire was
burning. Opposite me sat the daugh-
ter reading. ] felt that it would be no
great punishment were / doomed to
sit there forever looking at her. Her
face was oval, brown, but of marble !
photograph is conventional but true.
I was not in love with her and can
hence add that she was beautiful
Are you not afraid you win catch
cold with that window up" she spoke.
closing her book and laying it on her
lap.
No I answered THE air is
pleasant; besides l love the landscape, .
and imagine cannot see It to good /
advantage with the sash down" She I
knew that l had been gazing at her .
face instead of the landscape, but said .
Are you named for Shakespeare's
Rosalind?" ] asked, that being her
name.
Yes. Father knows this book" tap .
ping the volume with her finger, 10y
heart, and in dreamy moment named .
me for that splendid woman. But she
had too much spirit for me"
~ don't know about that" l re-
sponded, IN . tone to indicate my doubt
Of her estimate OF herself
"Oo You really think so?'' catching
nv meaning and folding her hands be-
hind ner head
At this moment the father came in.
and the girl. placing the book on
shelf, went out He was accompanied
Dy q tall, large man, with smooth face
and short, curly hair. I was intro
lucsl and ~ $50 SAL down.
Yes. 5oc1or,' ss,s she man; NV.
oeatsd the plant Il. been the hard
st lob ever undertook.
It's an abominsble traffic" spoke
lie doctor. half musiag strokinz his