The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-23

NATURAL DOOhED
saturated with arnica, while one lobe
of his whiskers had been burned off,
giving him detected and lopsided ap-
pearance.
''Alas, my friend, you are indeed IN
a sad plight" said bloody but ener-
getic Anarchist who had just escaped
from threatened employment, and who
sat by the roadside administering kero-
sene oil to his gun. pray, what has
betid you, gentle friend, that you
should look SO rocky while all nature
is so gay? Who could have given you
such a jolt?'
"Alack'' quoth the Increment, "good
stranger, was on my way to the busy
mart, where I had an appointment to
declare dividend, when 1 was set upon
by party calling himself Organized La
Dor and beaten most shamefully. l have
but Just escaped with my life and
valuable diamond, which / swallowed.
I am indeed most fortunate TO find you
here, for I feel quite faint from loss of
blood, and you look like one who would
not stir abroad without having about
| him what is called q North American
nip"
''In good sooth," said the Anarchist,
removing a burdock bur from his beard
thoughtfully and then putting it back
again, 81 fear that liquor might raise
your temperature at this time and bring
on pypmia or blood poisoning. But let
me ask you, Did you not cry out Justify
for the police when you were attacked"
MARRY, but l did, insomuch that the
wood rang again with the outcry."
"And did you not renew your alarm
and cry out again and again"
"Voila, Mon Dieu, good wight, but L
did shrek encore, Plenty, heap encore!
Then l did so yet again, but the park
seemed deserted even by the nursegirls,
and the police, too, were down town
holding a pantata reunion, so that me
voice came back to me mere waillng
echo
and you got no response whatever"
oueried the Anarchist rs he reached up
inside the sleeve of his coat for the
sleeve of an imaginary shirt.
None whatever, alasl good varlet, !"
said the Increment sadly, land 1t was
thus that they done me up.
"And was there no wayfarer to hear
your outcry?'
None, alasr'
WELL said the Anarchist, arising
with some emotion and taking draft
OF reddish wassail from concealed re-
ceptacle. that being the case, methlnks
: / will disturb You 4 moment for what
clothing you have about your person.
Clean linen is an offense against free
dom, so will trouble you to hand 1t
: over TO me, and 1 will soon take of
that glaring air of whiteness that is SC
trying to the eye"
Whereupon he smote the Unearned
= Increment by means Of a pant leg filed
with geology.
a week later a police captain, while
On his way to look at S3S.000 resi-
deuce which hewas about TO buy for h:
wife. it being the anniversary Of hi:
first year as captain, he noticed tha
some one in the park was seeking 10 at
6 tract his gaze silently by throwing on
little hints upon the summer air TO tn
effect that he was dead and desired st
Y tention.
u He stepped aside TO loek-
4 Lying beneath a small shrub, exposeC
i 10 the merciless sun. bruised. heater
$ and discolored. lay the remains OF tn
> Unearned Increment.
4 Moral-Wealth has in this life
rocky road 70 travel. and We who vainl,
vearn for crowded and OVERLOOKING COT
= fers should remember that the day VII
come when there viii be a grand reck
] nning also with the rich and when
shall surely have the laugh on Dives
Lazarus may have his sad aud hop
less DAYS and disagreeable nights treA
ing his eczema. but what Is z short III
time Of toll and SORROW compared WI
eternal dog days barefooted On the q
pa~eInents Of the bad place.
Two Little Bows In Blue. Fro'
5 tenac. write: We have debating cir
s here. and recently we have taken Z
the question, Resolved. That II Is n
unsuitable TO dock the tails Of horses
IS Whs. is your eHo opini9a;