The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-30

| investigate your story, and trace your
! descent back to Miles Standish, before
! he invites you to dinner, and while
! he is doing it you will have leisure
! to starve to death several times.
Il welded, even at that early age, a
ready and trenchant pen, and had a
command of humor which had been
the despair of the other Young men in
the select Boston boarding house to
which | was admitted on my college
diploma and a certificate of good
moral character from the president.
The knowledge that [ possessed these
advantages led me TO seek broader,
though more rugged field. | brought
with me large number of jokes which
lrfelt sure had been forgotten by the
editors of the comic papers here-and,
indeed. more than ten dollars worth
of them appeared in print within a
week after my arrival. | also disposed
of four-columa article TO one of the
leading newspapers. 1t dealt with
various phases of life in Boston.
Thus you will see that l was SEEM
ingfy fortified against the assaults of
fate for a considerable period. But
that was not all. / had a friend in the
city That is not an ordinary posses
sion. l admit. for business is business
over here. Nevertheless, / ask You to
believe me when | say that | had
friend in New York. He is not here
now and ON how / miss him. He was
the easiest man to borrow money from
that ever | saw.
"A friend of that sort" continued,
SIS better than money in the bank. be-
cause he inspires you with the bcauti-
full sentiment of gratitude while the
bank does not | would ra Their borrow
twenty-five dollars than draw a check
for a hundred. / did not strike nv
friend at once: / was saving him up.
Meanwhile l spent my store Of money
somewhat freely l had engaged
cavernous apartment whose faded mag
nificence agreeably suggested a family
history and other things which l had
learned to require. The landladv was
a doctors widow. I do not see how
such a thing is posi- BILE. but she said SO.
II is as much as l can do to get along
with one visit a week from doctor,
and l cannot understand how any
woman can survive a doctor right in
her own family. / began as ledger,
eating most extravagautly in the neigh
boring restaurants. 1t was necessary
Tor me TO buy expensive things to tempt
my palate, for my appetite had failed.
/, is, perhaps, not generally known that
a Boston east wind sharpens the appe-
lite. 1t will sharpen an Ak, if the i'm
plesnent is suspended at the proper
angie. | missed my east wind. and had
not then learned that The Manhattan
cocktail had been invented to repair
the deficiencies of the climate
AS ! walked to the Office of the
comic paper which had purchased my !
jokes. | was thinking how bad my ap-
petite had become. 1t had been almost |
iICpossi ole for me TO eat any breakfast. .
anu l had been obliged 10 spend all nv
remaining money-not large sum. T.
however-in the purchase Of delica- 4
eies"
At this point my companion looked .
10 from his task and sighed.
The exhaustion Of my financial re- /
sources gave HE no OlcaSlDcSS. C0u- 1
tinned. because that was TIE payday l
Of the comic paper. That was how | 4
happened to be going 10 the office / !
had already sent in my bill, and i had .
gone over, under the rule-as they saw i
II congress-until that day. l gave |
my name 20 the cashier He consulted 4
4 book. and said that he couldn't find .
that he owed me anything. I men
toned my bill He went into exscn-
tive session while I waited Finally re
said that the bill had been found, hut
that il had eluded the necessary form
elites Of the Office, in some irexphesble ?
manner. He had no doubt that Il
would he the same 70 me II X was paid
the following week. I told the gentle
man tha; he was evidently out 4 plsee
in the courting-roon; he ought TO be
writing jokes FOR the paper, whereuPoa
he politely gave ne the key 70 the
street. and went out
i was gra-ifed - observe that nv
sDDetits had greatly improved When