The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-09-12

Kentucky capital; or, as he was known
in his mountain home, just the senator,
who had toiled and schemed and grown
rich aud poor; whe had suffered long
and was kind.
Only that Christmas he had Quilted
every store IN town. Give mo every
thing you have, brother" he said, across
each counter. and next day every man
woman and child in the mountain town
had q present from the senator's hand
He looked like brigand that day. as
he looked now, but he called every man
bis brother. and his eye, while black
and lusterless at night, was as broodins
and just as kind.
When the boom went down, With It
and with everybody else. went the sen.
ator. Slowly he Otdusty, ragged, long
of hair. He looked tortured and ever
restless. You never saw him still. Al.
ways he swept by you Tapping his legs
on his lean horse or his arms in his
rickety buggy here, there, eyerywhers
turning. twisting, fighting his way
beck TO freedom-ana not a murmur.
Etin was every man his brother, and il
some forgot his once OMEN hand, hs
forgot it no moro completely than did
the senator. He went vary far to pay
his debts. He felt hon0rbou nd. indeed,
70 esk bis sister to give hack the farm
that he had givep her, which very prop
erly, people said, she declined to do.
Nothing could kin hope IN the senator's
breast; he would hand back the farm
IN another year, he said; but the sister
was firm, and without a word still the
senator went other wsys and schemed
through the nights, and worked and
rode and walled and traded through
ths days, until now, when the light
WAS beginning to giimmer, his end was
come.
This was the senator's last trade, and
IN sight, down in Kentucky valley,
WIS home. Strangely CROUCH. the sen.
ator did not care at al. and he had just
enough sanity left to wonderfully, and
TO be worried II was the walking
typhoid" that had caught up with him,
and he was listless. and he made strange
gesture and did foolish things as he
stumbled down the mountain. He wa,
going over a little knoll now. ard he
could zee the creek that ran around
the house, but he was not touched. he
would Just as soon have lain down right
where hs was, or have turned around
and gone back. except that IL was hot
and he wanted 20 get 70 the water
De- q 49,. -
nras: he saw the snow about him and
the calses Of Zee In the creek he knew
that be oo9at not TO be hot. and yet
he waco bot that ke refused 70 reason
with himsalf even O ujruts, and hur.
lid on. II wes odd thst IL should be 60,
but inst about that time. over IN Vir-
cfnia, a cattle dealer. nearing home,
stopped TO tel . neighbor how he had
tr4cked sorse black-rhisksreA fool W 4
In the noun tainA II may have been I
tust when be wss laughing aloud over 1
there, tina. the senator. over here. tore 4
his twoolen sh.yt from his great hairy /
cbes. add rushed into the icy stream. 4
clsppins his arms 20 his burning sides
and shouting in lie frenzy.
II be he'd lived httte longer" said
. constituent. be wouls have Lost ID.
next election He hadn't tie rnorry.
you know"
IF be had lived . little longer eld
tbe nountain preacher high up on Vel
low creek ~rt have got tina. trad.
bad ca bend with him through Not
hat I wanted him 20 die. bot II he had
IF be bad lived q little longer rad
lie senator's lawyer. "hs nigh; have
leaned OF tis soor. aTsi-sst him
III be bad lived little longer raid
De senator's sister. rot rseanirg 20 bs
ankfnc. BE would hare 70: al hsTe--
That was wha. LIE bid for tie sez-
'fo<. Death rss more kizd.-JoEr Fox,
r. in Earp~-'s Weekly.