The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-10
A TRUTHFUL MAN.
He Would Not Romance Even An Tsiiis0
His Lies sorrows.

His Lifs's Sorrows
He wasn't a tramp. exactly. but he
was nearly one. lie had struck the
merchant for one dollar and the mer-
chant was rather interested In him.
II don't sae." he said why you 60
about asking for money or help You
are an intelligent man and ] should
think you could get something better
to do
al don't know about that" was the
dependent rejoinder. The Lord
knows tried hard enough TO get
along before lost my heart entirely
"Whst do you De-"
well, little Of everything. had
some money and thought I'd go to rails
ing rice in South Carolina and show
those people down there how TO do IL
right. knew IL all, Of course and
one day q man came along selling .
new brand Of rico. He was nice
looking man from New York asd I
liked his style. He liked my style. too.
he said. and would sell mo the eYelu-
sive right to hsndle HIS stud In South
Carolina. II wss something uew-a
seed that could not be expered TO the
light. but that would yield three times
as much ~ the old varieties That wss
what was ieesisg fer and very quietly
i took IL in. paying two hundred dol
lars fer the right and four scaled cans
of seed. did all the work At night.
and when IL wss finished / sat down to-
wait and 70 chuckle over my enterprise.
But waited and waited and nothing
came, and one day ! looked into the old
cans snd found had been stuck with
some mean little wheat grains, and You
might ~ we'll try To ynise icicle. Tn the
bad place rs 20 raise wheat in a South
Carolina rice swamp
That was bad luck, and the sympa-
thizing merchant
so thought and I left the STATE
and went 10 raising cattle in western
Kansas. Hadn't more than got nv
herd set out before a cyclone came
along and blew every horn of IL eleas
over int the Rext county and when
went after my stock pious eew 40.
who had gathered them vi ia his own
Informed Inc that they had been sen.
10 him by Providence and he'd like e
see any son Of gun try 20 take them
away. A. he had Winchester and
lot OF friends with him didn't see my
way clear TO interfering with the way
Of Providence and l-ft tie country
"Its pretty hard when Providence
goes against a man. ventured the fnsr.
chant, kindly.
Yes. bat tina, isn't all" said .hs
di.cousclste one w i'm what little 7
had left went 70 Penas. vsnis and
bought a gater-power grist aasii IN the
mining regions 7 hssd il up with s>~
machinery and for awhile IL looked as
If my luck had changed and I was ro-
ing 20 come out GA top q, last Bnf
eas night a big mine lying susrr the
stream that gave NE nv mill -pSvser
eavsd IN OF sunk docn just ssovgb %
chang. the lay Of the land ssa. BY
gum. the water brgaa 10 run The Ok
er svsy. snd sh-n | got 20 fhs tssJ IN
the morning the water CATS were
open and rny mil machinery had been
running backwards untii every blamed
heel vas sustsd AID the whole she
bang va. wreck
The man wiped tssr from his eye.
Then IL was. hs sest On. that my
heart broke and 7 Isy right dsws ard
quit SoT. DO zoe blame ne Tor uhas
/ aa doing"
the nerchan. care him tTo dollars
snd The MAJ vas in police court tbs
pext morning Detroit Free PresA