The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-04
HE WAS COOKED AND PRIAED
DIR. Rose was Left With a Fourth of Jul
Grafton Pent Up In His Bosom.

! DIR. Rose was Left With q Fourth OF jul,
/ Grafton Pent Up In His Bosom.
DR.. Rose, the coroner of Sedgwick
county, is 2 man who is To be pitied to-
day. Yesterday reporter for the Ea-
gle called at the doctors office in the
basement of the court house and found
the old soldier looking sad and forlorn
while a sickening smile played around
his mouth and far away look was in
bis eye similar 20 that of a hen that is
looking for place 10 lay an egg.
II didn't take a philosopher TO dis
Germ that something was on the old
mans mind and the reporter asked for
the cause OF his pale looks. Looking
around 10 see whether or not any one
was in hearing besides Commissioner
Wilson, he reached his emaciated hands
into the drawers OF his desk and drew
forth thirty-five pages of closely print
ed manuscript and laid them or the
table before turning 10 the reporter he
said:
There is the production of ten year
hard study. There is facts. figures and
conclusions that should stir the people
of the United States TO action. There
is the hottest plaster ever poured upon
the backs OF the gold bugs: there is the
picture of true Americanism as be-
queathed 10 the American people I20
years ago, when I was a small boy; il
calls the people 10 action; il goes over
the whole ground and covers a date
from the return of Moses from the noun
tains when he found the Jews worship
ping the gold calf down to the ST.. Louis
convention when the American people
followed the example OF the Jews in the
wilderness and did the same thing. If
could only deliver it I believe the peo-
pie would be aroused; they would stop
and think. My God, if the American
people would only thinkr'
By this time the fire OF patriotism
was streaming from the old mans eyes
but he had accidentally knocked a copy
of the Kansas statutes of on his foot.
and ne stopped when the reporter ven
tured to ask the nature of the docu-
ment he was threshing through the air
and which had caused his pulse TO beat
at a 40 rate.
why, that is not hard to understand.
Don't you know what day of the month
this iS?"
The reporter suggested that It was
July 3.
u j.
Fourth of July Grafton. I didn't know
but what would get a chance TO shoot
It off tomorrow, but the time has drawn
so close that L don't see any chance of
delivering 1t. You don't know OF
place where they are short OF a speak
er for tomorrow, do your
The reporter told him that he did not
and the sad look came back again in
the kind hearted old doctors eye
1T is terrible. 1 have taken lots Of
pains with this speech. 1 paid man
to copy it off on typewriter so as TO
have it ready. but L am afraid 1 will
never get a chance to deliver 1t
You don't intend TO read it, do you,
Doctor?" asked the reporter.
81 was thinking / would, but do You
think / had better learn it by heart. so
as to speak off-hand?'
The reporter suggested that that
would be the better plan and that his
words would have much more weight
than to attempt TO read it, as il was
necessary for his audience 10 see his eye
so that they might get the true inspira-
ton of his speech.
II will act upon your suggestions"
said the coroner. "If you hear of a
vacancy, let me know"
The reporter promised, and when he
called in the next room where the en-
ployes of the court house were trying
TO get on the outside of five bushels OF
peaches raised on the poor farm, he
looked through the glass door and be-
held the old man beating the air with
his arms as he was laying down the
truths he had gathered for the past ten
years before his imaginary audience.
The fire of youth was again burning
In the old mans eye. and the reporter
left fully convinced that the American
people little appreciate the eufferings
Of man who has Fourth Of July ora
ton playing around on his diaphragm
and is not given an opportunity OF de-
ivering the same. Il will certainly
raise up against them in the next world. |