The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-04
A MARTYR.
Of the Modern Type, but None the Lees .
Real Hero.

81 am extremely tiahed of all this wot
about the hewoism of the old mawtahs,
donoher know" said Percy Paddleford,
the pWopper young man, to Daniel Ma
ginnis, the horse doctor.
Don't take any stock in the old fell
lows, hey? You're not betting on the old
martyrs, them" said the horse doctor, as
he took another chew of tobacco.
Nav, I cahnt gwant 'em the sanction
of my approval. There are mawtahs to-
day, doncher know, who arc NOAH hewoic
than the professional mawtahs that you
wead about in the how'd history booksl'
There be, be they?' replied the horse
doctor. 'Name few of 'em. -
Young Hawold Montmowenci, who
was a very deah fweiend of mine-the
deah boy!-Hawold Montmowenci was one
of the gweatest mawtahs this world has
ever pwoduced; 'pon my honah, he was!"
"What did he do?' asked the horse
doctor, as he put his feet on the table.
HE worked for eight dollahs a week,
doncher know. But in spite of the ex-
tweme pwices chawged for clothes, he
chwished the pwaiseworthy ambition of
keeping himself dwessed in the vewy la
test fashion,
well, how'd he come onf' asked the
horse doctor.
"Well, doncher know, he skwimped
himself to live on two glawsses of milk,
thwee cwusts of bwead, foah cwackers
and cigaWette a day"
"Lose fiesh?'' asked the horse doctor.
He kept up this thing hewoically, !"
continued the pwopper young man, ''un-
til he had an entiah suit of clothes in the
vewy newest fashion, doncher know
Good boy said the horse doctor.
''And then terwible thing happened.
The fashion, doncher know, changed from
bwoad bwimmed hats to narwow bwim-
med hats.
''Too bad, said the horse doctor.
"Yaas. But Hawold was bwave and
hewoic soul, and he gave up his two
glawsses of milk day and bought him a
narwow bvimmed hat"
Felt better then, didn't he?' asked the
horse doctor.
''Yaas But then another most disas-
trous thing happened. The fashion, don
cher know, changed from shawl tailed
coats to long tailed coats, and he was in a
terwibIe perdicament once moah.'
''Sorter put him in a hole againf" ask
ed the horse doctor.
"Yaas But he was a mawtah of the
twue hewoic bweed, and he gave up his
thwee cwusts of bread day and bought
hinA long tailed coat in place of his
shawl tailed one doncher know.
Noble soul!'' said the horse doctor as
he took another chew of tobacco.
''Hewoic cweature!'' said the pwoppel
young man. but his twials and twibu
lations were not yet ovah. just then the
fashion changed fwom tight twousers tc
! loose twousers.
Put him in hole AGAIN." asked the
horse doctor.
'Yaas. But he was made of the twue
! stuff He had gweat and hewoic soul
and he gave up his foah cwackers a day
and bought him pair of loose twousers. >
This fixed him all right, ehf'' asked
the horse doctor.
NAV; just then the fashion changed
doncher know, from high buttoned vests
to low buttoned vests. But he was he
woic. and so in this dweadful and terwi
BILE extremity he gwasped at tbs vewy
last possible wesort-the only possible we
course he had-and gave up his pweciou
cigawette and bought him a low buttoneC
| vest
Had bang up suit, in the latest up t.
date style, then, didn't be?' asked thu
horse doctor.
"Yaas; but, doncher know, the nobl
cweature perwished in the owah of hi
twiumph. He WEAKLY perwished of starva
ton, but lie was the best dwessed we
mains that my eyes evan vested upon
Don't twy to tell me about the old NAV
tabs! Hawold Montmorwenci was tn
gweatest mawtah in the whole history O
wecorded time. New York World.
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