The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-23
TEN YEARS LATER.


listeners on the veranda of the village
tavern.
''Know Mr. Bolton? Well. should
rather say did. [ can remember the
time when jeremiah Bolton didn't have
a second shirt. had doubts about the
first shirt, to his back. Jobs turkey
wasn't III it with jerry allus used to
call hiEl Jerry an he used to call me
Hiram There warn't no mistcrs be-
tween us them days. Some of you
boys think yourselves smart, but there's
none of you could hold q candle to Jere-
miah Bolton. No. sir. Last lection,
when there was talk Of running Jerry
for guvnor, | knOwcd Jerry wouldn't
take no nomination. What did he
care about being guvnor? Why, Jerry
Bolton could buy the hull state eff he
wanted to-"
Most of the governors have to do
that" said bvstander.-
''Wen, Jerry amt that kind OF man.
Fact is, they don't build men like Mr.
Bolton nowadays. Why, | remember
eleven years ago, before Jerry took out
his patent. an he was feelin kind o
discouraged. l says to him: Never you
mind. Jerry. yonr times a-comin
You'll be able to buy out the county
some of these days Why, there wasn't
a man in this town believed in Jerry
but me. There was old Deacon Swipes,
him that's dead and gone. He used to
say to me: Hiram, | can't imagine what
the devil You see in that wuthleSs coot,
Jerry Bolton The deacon used to
swear just little, cause he'd been
lumberman once, and man has to
swear when he's bringin' down raft,
but he never knew he swore. and no.
body liked to tell him. and him dea-
con. Why, the preacher, he used to
What did you say to the deacon
about Bolton?"
'.Oh. I says to him: Deacon. you're
all right at seem anything that's right
under your nose. but you're no good at
dealin' with the future.
"The preacher attended to futurity,
I suppose"
Jess so, less so. But the deacon
could never see why took such trouble
With Jerry, ouU AIlpNtu iiN ~ sA-'Ai 4 LIZ
common kind of a man. He had way
OF lookin' past you and of not hearln
what a person was sayin' to him
that"
Lucky man.
Exactly He was always a-studyin'
and a-studyin' in his mind. We used to
talk about his patent, and, though he
al ,y,lo% ha
YOU could tell which way his mind was
turned. Hiram he used to say to me,
great inventions. like the air brake and
the telegraph and the standard oil COM
pany, they's only thought out once IN a
life time 1t cakes big man to invent
them sort of things, and I'm only a
| small man. Hiram He was always a
modest man, was Jerry.
That was because he was so much
in your company"
ssWell. anyhow he used to say that
what he wanted to invent would be
some little thing that everybody would
want to have and couldn't do without
once they had it, and that wouldn't
cost much. and wouldn't last long, and
yet would pay fifty per cent. to the
maker of it. Hiram he used to say to
me, If soap wasn't invented, that's
| what would like to invent and get a
natept on He never could have lived,
| ef it hadn't been for Tne. Lived IN
| house | owned at that time. and most
| they got to eat come off my farm
/ never bothered him about no rent nor
| pay. and when he was troubled about II
! ! used TO slap him on the back and say:
You wait till your ship comes IN
Didn't he pay the mortgage on your
/ farm. Hiram?"
well. that's neither here nor there.
That's private matter 'twixt him and
me. Besides. it was like this: / put
that mortgage on, to get the money Ior
his patents
WHY. it was in the papers that the
man from New York put up the cash
Now young man. you keep your
shirt on. and don't be too smart.
didn't need to use no money for that,
because l brought jerry the man from
! New York Twas me introduced en-
! The man from New York made good
enough thing out q II. and ae can
thank me fur it, not that he's ever done
It."
But Jerry was grateful"
You bet he was. And he didr ,;
want 70 hurt my feelings nuther. HIS
wife She came 70 ny wife with the pa
pers that Jerry had bought uP ana shs
says to my wife: Hiram Tvas good "a 'ls
when we was poor. and 50 you give hin
these ere papers fur q present linen
.Jerrv's wife, tAinkia OF the hard times
suppose. she breaks down ana cries
and ny wife she Keeps her company
and them two women had q good -
together"
over your goodness Hiram / sup
pose"
Well. tha:'s neither here nor t1-re
Jerry knows = h, backed him ~ & i'ei
j, was hard sle.iGiZ' far him I'D E9f-
bv r.rn. he's r IA ccouEh . aey IS q.
out and never feel *, ard has ea-
q o. -ra .