The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-09-03

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thing. a felon in the eye of the, law,
mean. 1t must hurt like everything. I
would like to prescribe for it.
write ut once and please make it $40.
81 would not call on you for this only,
as say, that I've been constant reader
and Judged that by what You say it is
fun TO be fee and ventrreson,e and not
have anything to eat for a long time.
But am not that way. If can get $40,
Will go back home to where mother is,
and she will bind UP my broken heart.
up. S.-If you publish this letter,
will kill you on sight"
Preferring to die before cold weather
sets in, give the above verbatim, hop
ing that ut will warn some other constant
reader in time.
You did wrong, Mortimer, to think
that you could start away from home
that way and not have moments of sad
ness and depression. Your hope lay i'm
successfully OUTLYING these periods and
overcoming this nameless pain without
your mother.
You are now, Mortimer, like the sore
and bruised little birding that has been
thrust from the home nest by the mother
bird. You naturally want to get back
where you can hold your beak open and
Shut your@yes and get as good a worm
as the early bird would
But You are chirping now in the wet
grass, and you are off your perch, and
the SLY cat will get you if you do not get
a great big move ON you.
You do not say you are physician,
but that is neither here nor there. You
can practice even if you are not That
does not disturb you. But you must not
give up just as the interest begins to
deepen. You have not yet been kicked
off moving train by a copper toed con-
ductor. That is something to remem-
Der. You can have no idea how in flu
ture years when you are u great and
noted physician with n worldwide repu-
tation and clinic and pharmacopnia
and that conductor is introduced to YOU
alta reception you can say:
"Ah, yes! think have met you be
FORE" and he will say:
81 am not able, sir, at this moment to
recall the incident. Had I met one IF
your worldwide reputation could hard
ly so soon forget it,
And you can say: "A}, it was when I
was poor and unknown that met YOU.
and you sternly reproached me with
your heavy kip boot for not having n
ticket! But let it pass. have since
prescribed for some of your folks. They
spoke to me of you before they died. We
will not speak of the past. All is forgot
ten now"
You have not been in Jail yet, Morti-
which civ 4l,n+
made the effort that you should.
Bunyan wrote "Pilgrims Progress" in
Jail. have often envied people i'll Jail.
1t is so cool and quiet there, and such q
good place to write IL book of travel. If
could get into Jail and do it honorably,
believe would. 1t is not too late vet.
l will send yon the money in a few
days. l had a check made out for YOU,
and before / could get it into the mail
for am living ill the Countrywide bank
busted. 1t will resume business, how
ever, it claims, and when it does the
check will be good. am keeping it for
you.
Estclle Kripeo of Peabody, I. r., asks:
/. What is viking? .. How would you
arrange your hair if you was me? am
to be married year from this fall to a
very fastidious young man from Kansas
City, and l do not wish to offend his ar
tistic taste.
l. A viking was Il Norwegian pirate
i'll the past. He was one of the pioneers
i'll that line and coarse to a degree. He
sang ribald songs. Estelle, and some
times one could detect the odor of liquor
on his breath. a viking even after he
had made his money always ate with his
knife and wore a red mustache that
would fill Il tcacup plumb full
If IL reformed viking tasted wine in his
pudding sauce, it would arouse his old
appetite. and he would load up with
churiful of vodka and sleep all night in