The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-17
A pRUMMER's BLACK EYE,

From the Detroit Free Press.
Lemme tell you something, said the
drummer as he slowly caressed the
bandage which held the piece of raw
beef tightly over his right eye and got
his right knee up where he could CLASP
both hands around it. You may have
a whisky nose. boil on your neck, a
hat ont of style, pair of bowlegs, or
the mark of Cain on your brow. but
nothing gives you away like a blacl:
eye. In the first place, it is something
YOU can't conceal In the next, every
man forms an opinion as to how You
got il, and all your talk only makes
him smile the more. Are you Ion" TO
that fact?
The interviewer pulled out his pock-
et-glass and looked to see If his eyes
were all right and answered that he
tunbled.
You see, continued the afflicted.
have to take certain amount of exer-
else with the clubs every night before
retiring. Doctor recommended it for
my lungs, you know, and carry clu bs
in my trunk. Expands the lungs,
braces up the spinal column, and
strengthens the arms and shoulders.
! Gou follow me, presume?
He was assured that he was fol-
lowed, and after wiping sympathetic
/ tear from his right eye and heaving
| heartfelt sigh he said:
Last night, while 1 was practicing as
usual with the clubs, 1 accidentally
hit the bedpost with one of them and
it flew up and hit me in the eve The
clerk of this hotel knew that | was in
my room, and that it was nv habit to
practice, and yet when l came down to
ask him for a bit of raw beef he smiled
aud shook his head and asked
how long l lay unconscious, and
whether 1 had the fellow ar
hunt mp a butcher shop, and as the
butcher cut me off piece of round he
inquired whether it was an uppercut
or straight blow and where / landed
when | cOuntered. / met five or six Of
the boys when | came back to the
hotel, and despite all / could say each
and everyone would have it that had
been slugged. Can you realize the
painful position man with black
eye is placed in?
The interviewer said he could, and
after the bandage had been frightened
little the drummer remarked:
Ny time is limited and | can't stop
work for a black eye. / generally put
in three days in Detroit, but tomorrow
leave for Grand Rapids / have got
as much nerve as the average man, but
! can't stand the pressure. Here is nv
notebook, and here are a few of the in
teresting inquiries and observations
called out during the day:
Hit you with his right, did he?"
''How did you feel when it landed?"
splitting wood, and a stick flew up,
of course,"
What made you call him liar be-
fore yOu got your hands up
You'll get over it in couple of
weeks. and next time you'll know
enough to turn the back of your head" |
Run agin a lamppost in the dark. |
/ see. Have done the same thing N.Y.
self"
1T was always wonder to me why |
a man who can't fight should go around |
sassing folks"
Right in the eve, eh? Lor', but if /
that fist had landed on your nose you |
could never have even scented a skunk /
agin.'
Train ran off the rails and Won were /
caught between two cars. of course. |
Wen, Won have got a good case and |
ought to get at least three thousand |
dollars out of it."
'0-e-s-been there myself No ex-
cuSes or explanations needed Prob
ably had You cornered up, with no
show to dodge or run; but why didn't
you offer him dollar not to do it?"
Those, sighed the drummer. as ne
reached for his notebook, are the
selected e. random from
tremendous fall and winter stock. l /
had to give up about four o'clock and |
come in and lay down. Didn't dare
show up in the dining-room. and the
waiter who brought up my meal want
ed TO know whether | was Bob Fitz-
simmons or Jack Dempsey. Yes. I'll be
going in the morning. know a lot of
fellows at Grand Rapids, but they are
not the
At that moment along came an &c
luaintance on his way to the billiard
room of tbc hotel. and at sight of The
oandaged eye he halted, threw up his
hands and exclaimed:
Holy smoke, but if you can't fight or
bluff or run why don you put on roller
skates and fall down before you are