The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-17

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his young mules and carry them Of.
He had reed that the cost Of raising .
mule in Kentucky was comparatively
nothing, but when grown $25e to $500
| per pair was very common price. He
wondered why no one had seen that be-
fore and taken advantage Of it.
So he went to Spain and bought .
beautiful jack called Ferdinand II, and
the two came over together, the Earl Of
Tinktum and Ferdinand II.
Both OF them were seasick most of the
way over. The earl suffered most, for
he did not have the mental resources
that Ferdinand did to occupy himself
with.
They landed in Kentucky year ago
and began to sit up and take notice.
The earl bought 20 jennies and moved
out to the ranch. There they have all
been for over year, growing up with
the country.
No change has taken place On the
ranch, SO the colonel told me, except
that Ferdinand II last October one day,
when the gum tree was ablaze with col
or and the blue grass soft emerald I'M
der the beautiful shade of the reddening
oak, curled up in q fence corner and
died.
Some said it was homesickness, but
generally it was agreed that Ferdinand
died because he had been disappointed
and deceived by the Earl Of Tinktum.
The colonel got to speaking of the cal
umny against Kentucky regarding the
matter of whisky.
1--WE dent consume any more whisky
than Maine does" he said, .'but we want
it good. Now, my neighbor, Judge Ell
der, wanted some of the same kind of
whisky as mine-it IS 9 years old, which
is plenty old enough, think, and about
as old a. we allow it to get hers-so he
went up to Louisville and bought bar
rel Of 1t for medicinal purposes. He asked
me 10 come down to his place after he
got home and sample it. l told him it
was the same thing as mine, only that I
thought could detect a favor of iron
just trace-in il.
"He was sorry to hear that, and
week afterward he got Colonel Dilling-
ham to come down and pass his opinion
on it. Dillingham; took some, shut his
eyes and seemed to be in brown study
for a few minutes. Then he said-sort
of slow and conservative, you under
it was the same brand of
liquor and same age, within three or
four days very likely, but he reckoled
there was just the least little taste Of
leather in it.
Judge Elder couldn't sleep nights
after that. He worried over it even on
the bench, and you could see the lines Of
care forming about his mouth.
Finally he couldn't stand it any long
er, 30 he told his big niger Joe to turn
out the whisky slowly and examine it
carefully and put it into another barrel.
'.He did SO, and, by George Harry! at
the bottom of the barrel he found kyar-
pet tack with leather head on it! We |
don't drink much liquor, Mr.. Nye, but |
we're mighty particular about what it
s."
notice in Denver paper that suit
for divorce has been instituted by Mrs.
Alice Oyster against Mahlon Oyster, her
husband, on the ground of infidelity.
Probably she didn't know that he was
ID infidel when she married him.
She little thought when she married
Iahloo in North Platte, Neb., in 1881,
hat it would result in an oyster stew so
DON. At North Platte Mr. Oyster was
sgarded a. a New York count, but he
urned out to be a cove, and sly one at
hat.
So she grew cold, and learning of his
she being good member of
he church. she forbade Mahlon her bed
oyster bed-and board.
Nothing can be sadder than to be dis
appointed in one we love. Alice no
loubt loved Mahlon devoutly, but he
vas not what she had thought him to be
II what he represented himself. Instead
# being blue blood, there was not even
blue point about him. He was Just a :
common cove oyster, and an infdel at
hat.
He fell in love with q member of the
odfsh sristocracy, and Mrs. Oyster at
nee smelt mice Lancashire humor).
10 WAS lu6 klIU tIldt OIlo Call S0t al ~ b.
ents a can.
One little oyster II years old was the
esult of this union. His name was Pat.
Ills schoolmates call him Oysters Patty.
that's because he's not popular in the
chool, for the reason that he puts on
90 many escalIops.
Mrs. Oyster has always been con-
istent Christian hardshell Baptist.
Ience his infidelity has caused her to
onsider him bad oyster.
She has put the matter in the courts,
nd through the columns of the paper
he has given him a mock roast.
She says she may have been a goose,
ut not of Oysters dressing. She claims
, have maintained herself and Oysters
atty for over five years, and she has
ecided not to be clam. She desires
bsolute divorce from Mahlon and asks