The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-09-19
A WASHERS BAD LUCK.

4 x0o county vloiet VINO captured NE
| Susceptible Heart.
81 never see time-card Of the Michi-
gan Central railroad without wanting
to kick myself all around a ten-acre
lot" said the man with the pocl-
marked face as we waited in the depot
at Buffalo.
Ibid the stock go down on you?"
| "Stock had nothing to do with it.
Fifteen years ago 1 made Detroit my
headquarters while selling wagons and
buggies for house down in Ohio. l
used to run out to Ann Arbor, Ypsilan-
ii, Plymouth and other towns very FREE
quently. L was single man then,
wore good clothes and thought myself
. successful masher. On one of my
trips / saw a stunninglooking girl at
a flag station few miles west of Ann
Arbor. / smiled at her from the win
dow and 1 thought she returned
it. Three days later I saw her
again, and that time was sure mad e
mash. Her father was a cripple, 1
believe, and she helped run the station.
1 think it was a milk station, as saw
lots of cans about"
"Well?"
81 decided to go out from Detroit and
complete the mash In fact, / scrt o
fell in love with that country violet.
Bright and early one morning I sailed
down to the depot, ensconced myself in
coach and away l went in search of
my charmer. 1t had never occurred to
me to see whether the train stopped
there or not 1t was an express, and
found out from the conductor, when
only two miles away, that it didn't
stop"
And SO you had to go on?"
~And go didn't You can Judge for
yourself what an ass was when I tell
yeut that decided to jump from that
train. I figured that it would slack
up a bit at the station and that 1 was
smart enough to land right-end up.
/ went to the rear car, got down on the
lower step and just after we passed
the station 1 made my jump. don't
think the speed slackened bit, in fact
l have always believed the engineer
put about ten miles an hour extra. 1
knew the ground was level, but for
got about the thistles and hazel bushes.
1 thought possibly 1 might fall down,
but the IDEA of calamity never en-
tered my blooming head"
''Tl1en there was calamity?"
81 should gurgle! In fact, do CUR
gle. have been gurgling for fifteen
long years and shall cease to gurgle
only when the spark of life has been
teetotally extinguished. When struck
the ground / started to run. All of
sudden I went head over heels over
the ditch into the bushes and thistles.
dirnly realized that 1 was turn
ing handsprings and cartwheels
and somersaults by the dozen, but
1 was helpless in the matter. All at
once the lights went out, the curtain
came down and it was ten hours before
l knew anything again. A farmer had
picked me up and carried me home
The bushes had licked all my clothes
off, and the thistles and bushes had cut
my face as you see"
"Why, haven't you had small pox?"
'Never. Got these marks then and
there. I've forgotten how many mil
lion thistlestings the doctors extracted,
but they never got 'em all My whole
body suffered the same way. Aside
from this ! got broken leg and was
laid up for nearly four months
And the g;rl-the country viclet?"
THAT'S the cap-sheaf, stranger.
While / was cart-wheeling through
those bushes she was being married to
a strapping young farmer at her IA
theirs house. Lordy! But what fool
a man can make of himself in this old
state of Michigan when he puts on
teara!"-Detroit Free Press.
Her Amorous Glass.
My Jenny cannot see her face aias
Although she stands before her looking glass,
Like me- the glass does love her SO. alacki
Holding her image, twill not give il back.