The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-04-21
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she ventuied.
He is a mere record-hunter both for
the here and for the hereafter" be re-
sumed, ssand such from the very nature
of the man; he wishes to acquit himself
decently, but to acquit himself merely,
and so is liable on any nlomentouS ques-
ton to drift upon the shoals of absurdity
unless closely watched. He reminds me
of a fellow out west who had a job
watching sawlogs past dangerous sec
ton of the Mississippi. He wanted TO
attain the presidency via the record
route. and thought as Lincoln was only
a rail-splitter providence had more In
store for him that handled logs whole
sale. The mechanical routine of the job
preoccupied him for good spell and
gave him the brain-fag, but finally he
got the job down pat enough to allow
his vanity TO sprout, and then he con-
cluded he wasn't getting due credit from
the boys down below for all the business
he sent them. Would you like to hear
the story. Rosamond:"
Proceed Arthur she said, with nom
committal guardedness.
''Well, once upon rare and balmy
morn he hied him upward toward the
coming boom of logs, with scheme stu
pendous. Arriving there he stemmed
the wave with valiant heart, and SWAN
out to the leader, which with nimbleness
agile he soon bestrode, and tackled his
banner there, of plain devise: i should
have been stopped had it not been for B.
Harrison. Then leaping toward the other
logs with grotesque grace and get-there-
OF all h dc no atfI XQd
too me too to, each he leapt upon.
Alas, however, he reckoned not the cur
rent swift into his calculation. and soon
the grand leader of them all, silver
poplar great, touching the bank where
Benny should have been. swan round
its bulk immense and stood opposed be-
twixt the sandbar and the solid bank to
all the sequent throng. OF course jam
occurred such as the history of the
stream had never known. and Benny on
the logs behind was hustled mercilessly
betwixt the murky wave and hurting
sawlogs. The farmers took him Oft at
last, full of internal bruises
and external rents that promised
scabs and scars, enormous--beyond the
be-pensioned veterans widest dream.
Two steamboats, moved the Jam by ar
duous work, but Benny's placards stuck,
and to this day there're people down be-
low who think B. Harrison knew every
thing about removing jams. And that's
how history is made, -sometlmes--and
what it costs.
"What a gruesome tale, Arthur You
like Hill better, don't you? He's funny"
well, he punches up dear Grover
rather dryly and never lets on, you
know, but if Grover ever connects with
that immortal cinch he has On the affec-
tions of the names he'll squash all in
ward and outward humor out of u. b. ="
But Grover is misanthrope, don't
you believe-and yet so fat-that's
funny"
Perhaps, sometimes, but it's his con-
dition, not theory that confronts him
and we should be charitable"
''Fll tell you whom you like best of
all, Arthur
"Who?"
jerry
Jerry Simpson, ah. you betT' said
he, exuberantly.
'1f Jerry were only Democrat, Ar
thur"
"Democrat!'
eyes"
OH. (they embrace).
arthur, my corns-do break away,
break away" she poutingly exclaimed. "
"All right-but Jerry" (once AGAIN..
'Would you like to see Romulet and
Julio tomorrow night" ecstatically ex-
claimed the perturbed youth, as they
moved toward the door.
"Oh, yes! anything, anything" she
laughingly assented. Good night"
And Arthur rushed into the night and
walked four blocks erratically-t thrown
from the usual orbit of his course by
that perturbation exquisite, called love.
g. = GILBERT