The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-09-07

FALLS, MlNNESO.
you had been through the same thing,
and thought it would be exciting to be
busted and trust in providence, like you
did, but when / practiced medicine got
arrested for not having state license,
for did not know that I was required
to have them, and the justice of the
peace called me to one side and said he
was my friend and would fix it for me so
AZ that would not be sent to the peni-
tcntiary. He would advise me to waive
examination, and then he would let me 60
on my own reccomisance. which meant
that could fit.
$50 fitted
please tell me what to do and send $8.
"If I had of usef my own good sense.
would still be 1T home with my par
ents getting three (3) meals per day and
good rest at night. Now am felon
in the eye of the law. This is painful
thing. A felon in the eye of the law,
mean. It must hurt like everything. I
would like to prescribe for it.
s'Write at once and please make it $40.
II would not call, on you for this only,
az I say, that I've been constant reader
and judged that by what you say it is
fun to be free and venturesome and not
have anything to eat for q long time.
But !. am not that way. # can get so,
I will go back home to where mother is,
and she.win. bind up my broken heart.
''P. S.-H you publish this letter. I
will kiln you on sight"
PreferTing to die before cold weather
sets in, give the above verbatim. hop
ing that it 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 momentsof sad
ness and depression. Your hope lay in
successfully outliving 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 eyes and get as good 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
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 a moving train by a copper toed con-
ductor. That is something to rernem-
Der. You can have no idea how in fu-
ture years when you are great and
noted ply sician with worldwide repu-
tation and clinic and pharmacopeia
and that conductor is introduced to you
at a reception you can say:
"Ah, yes! think have met you be-
FORE" and he will say:
Il am not able, sir, at this moment to
recall the incident. Had / met one If
your worldwide reputation could hard
ly so soon forget it."
And you can say: "Ah, it was when
was poor and unknown that I met you,
and you sternly reproached me with
your heavy kip boot for not having a
ticket! But let it pass. I 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-
mer, which shows that you have not
made the effort that you should.
Bunyan wrote Pilgrims Progress in
Jail. have often envied people i'll Jail.
It is so cool and quiet there, and such a
good place to write book of travel. If
could get into Jail and do it honorably,
believe would. It is not too late yet.
I will send you the money in few
days. had check made out for you,
and before could get it into the mail
for I am living in the country-the bank
busted. It will resume business, how
ever, it claims, and when it does the
check will be good. am keeping it for
you.
Estelle Kripeo of Peabody, I. T., asks:
1. What is viking? 2. How would you
arrange your hair if you was me? I am
to be married year from this fall to a
very fastidicus young man from Kansas
City, and do not wish to offend his al :
tistic taste.
1. A viking was a Norwegian pirate
in the past. He was one of the pioneers
in that line and coarse to 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 red mustache that
would fill teacup plumb full.
J If reformed viking tasted wine in his
pudding sauce, it would arouse his old
appetite, and he would load up with a
churnful of vodka and sleep all night in
the haymow instead of at the palace.
Vikings loved to capture rich merchant
men and then take charge of the store
| themselves.
They also loved to capture beautiful
ladies and offer them their hands in mar
riage. If the lady said no, she was al
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