The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-03-06


balm the year round, but the masses
who live along the Murphy Branch and
the Duclytown road give me keen,
darting pain in the neck. practiced
there among the copperas clouted yeo-
tnanry till they had swallowed three
chemical thermometers on me, and then
] thought it was time to move. My
practice here is small, but my lady pa
tients do not die here with their sun
bonnets on.
give that Just to show the strong
prejudice which exists between the
dyed in the wool } Yankee and the hoi
polloi of Ducktown and the Murphy
Branch, near where live. Of course
we have our peculiarities, but why
should we be misjudged on that ac-
count?
My neighbor, Mr.. Lolless, who runs
the Arden Park hotel, says that he
bought chickens all summer at Is cents
apiece for broilers, and that they were
almost uniformly stolen for him at
night and sold to him at 0 cents in the
morning. Those people don't mean
anything by that. They do not do it
to make you feel badly, but just be-
cause they do not see any other way Of
obtaining an honest livelihood.
Last week discovered that my rail-
road ticket on the New York, New Ha-
ven and Hartford road read GOOD ell
ther way" This surprised me because
/ had not been used to that, and, in
fact, had to, years ago, walk over So
miles in order to ride back on ticket
which bought of a scalper, and which
ran in the wrong direction, / found
after it was too late.
Inquiring about this matter, l learned
that years ago quiet gentleman of
medium height riding from Bridgeport
to Providence produced his ticket and
was told by the conductor that it would
not work in, that direction. The quiet
gentleman Of medium height said that,
if not, the question should be settled at
the earliest moment. He was not noisy
or belligerent, but they removed him
from the Car by main force, breaking
an arm and injuring him considerably.
Holding his valiss in one hand and his
stomach in the other, he went to an at
torney and councillor at law practicing
in all the courts, conveyancing done
and depositions taken while you wait.
Relating the circumstance to him, the
quiet gentleman gave the case into his
hands, and then hailing shutter that
was going by he started for the hos
pital. He slowly gained strength, but
never fully recovered. The case was
lost over and over again in the lower
courts and hung on for years. The poor
crippled gentleman of medium height
clung to his case, however, and de-
manded his $l00, 600, even though he
had to borrow money to pay his law
yers.
Time passed on, and he grew feeble.
for the chasm in his midst refused to
unite and retain even his broadest prin-
ciples, but at last the supreme court of
the United States, which was not at
that time waiting for two selfish New
Workers to fill a vacancy. took up the
case, and one day when the great au-
tumnal alchemy of God had turned
the forests and the sky to pillows of
gold and bronze the weary. worn and
plucky gentleman got his verdict and
his money, and so today You and /, fel-
low citizens, owing to the grit and hero
Ism of that shattered man. may ride
either way on the same ticket without
being disemboweled among total stran-
gers and while there are ladies present.
We We're talking together the other
day, Mr.. William Hawley Smith and
l, regarding the habits of men who rise
to sudden wealth, and who are not pre-
pared for it either by birth or breeding.
The country is full of them, and though
they get along very well for few hours
without corking themselves they can
not hold out very long without an
nouncing themselves.
He was telling about a ST. Louis
man who had risen to wealth on the
traffic III hides, pelts, tailow and dressed
pork. This man was asked what was
the meaning of the phrase E pluribus
imam. and company being present and
the inauiring child very determined he