The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-07-17


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ACCUMULATED CORRESPONDENCE.
The following is a letter which is in
PRODUCED here more TO show the style,
flow of language and word painting
than anything else. 1t is an absolute
and une1purgated copy of letter writ
ten by a tenant in Hoopers Creek town
ship, n. c., to his landlord regarding
farm work, etc 1t is direct, cheerful
and massive in its'style:
Mt. AIRY, May u.
DEAR SRI have yours of the 10Th. / Just
receaved il just at this minnet. Dea Sir YOU
air mistaking about VIII White Washing for
they has ben noe white Washing done HEAR
(here) this spring Now lissen and vii tel you
pre- Sicily how win Dun the APPEL trees he
first TUX a fork meane eating FORK and he
Gouged around thame at the ground then he
TUX a old Bucket q he put ashes and water
in hit & got him q old Rag & he washed
thame with that Now | hope you understand
this You ask what rice did he hope helped)
me lode mOnur (manure) d other things was
headed rice is soc good (Ineaning Rice Brady
to hope us when we mead him Just give him
few days along whend l can Make a hedway
we have comenst (commenced) TO feed the
crimZon clover little Some Dun very well &
some dun noe good tall Yours and so forth
ELIAS BRADY.
A colored man named What Though
the-spicy- breezes Williams, residing
formerly at Haddam, writes:
DEAR MAsTER-What should 1 do for a fell
Ing on the finger which drives ne to distrac-
ton / write this by the hand of my little Dot
ter Sacbut Williams for the good lords sake
oh give me releaf or 1 shall lose my reason.
Little SacbUt have staid out of school TO write
this letter and il you could spare her Z quarter
sir TO pay for her time, it would be no more then
right. | wrote TO man at Cherokey about
my telling and said l lived at Haddam & he
said that my spelling would indicate that I
haddam and he said no moar at present than
that, & nothing TO help the rising ON my finger
which hurts right much
Rev. Myron w. Reed says that he
once knew man who had felon on
his thumb and who went about moan
ing over it day after day and growing
pale and hollow eyed with loss of sleep.
A near neighbor said, Henry, what
the matter of our thumb"
Blame take il" said he, GIVE got
a felon onto it, and | amt slept airy
night for two weeks and goin on three"
Well, why don't you doctor it?''
doctor it," he says. I've Just done
nuthin else all the time. -
We'll, but you didn't do the right
thing. What did you do for it?''
ooh, done everything
lyon didn't do what you ort to Of
done, l bet on that. -
What's that
"Why, you take piece of salt pork
off the flank of hog that s been killed
IN the glow of wet moon and put it
hot on the finger over night,
and twice you want to get up and heat
the pork again, SO that the felon' Il have
no chance TO get its breath. Understand?
And in the mornin she'll be plumb
dead and you can just shuck the core
of the thing out like the kernel of a
goober.
Henry did that, but the felou didn't
shuck He did, though. He jumped
out of bed like a disembOdied spirit.
wearing only knit band around his
abdomen to keep his liver warm. and
with wailing cry and the odor of fried
pork he fled away into the night, and
not knowing which way TO go ran into
the opera house foyer as the play closed
az II O'Clock and the people lad started
for home. Friends brought him back,
and the next day a neighbor dropped
in to see how he was coming in.
lyon probably don't know how TO
handle felon. p" he said You can't
fool with felon. She's got TO be dealt
with prompt and severe on the start"
What should l do:''
well, in the very start yOu should
poultice it with the ashes of a weeping
yiller and pour on enough hot vinegar
to make a strong I've, which will eat out
the felon, and IL the morning you can
Flip it out like you would the pit out
IF n prune.
&c tried that, and the I've ate pretty
heartily all night, GOT up in time to
get an early breakfast and eat some
more later on, but il seemed 70 relish /
he thumb more than II did the felen.
50 he gave 1t Up and concluded TO vel !
come death at an early date
\ painter and glaZier friend dropped .
n by and by ana said he heard that +.
Hank had q felon. 80 he came il 70
sind OF see what MAS being done for it. (
be was afraid they fool along with u I.
Ill they got proud flesh into 1t. and then .
blood plzen would seq in.
What woUld you 90 with it, walled
Henry, sticking out = mass Of red fan
lel that looked like the swab Of q 90
p0un1 gun. II want 70 be able 70 tell .
the people Of the New Jerusalem that
I've triei everything. -
Well, you've got to cut that thumb
open down % the bone. and there you'll
Ind sort II white skin over the bane
about like the lining Of an eEg. sud TN
ierneath that Is little white Speck
about the size q a moskeere-'s Kidney,