The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-01-30
TIE DEAD JOE RIsoN.

Joe Rison is dead This Is not start
ling statement TO the world at large. but
the world at large is not sympathetic
To many Wichita citizens and others
from the river 10 the coast. 81 becomes
OF something more than passing interest
by the great law of interdepcndence We
are all mutually dependent each on the
other. Some one has said that happiness
is the punctuation marks ia life Of
sadness. At least even the optimist must
admit that life. after all. Is something %
a prolonged tragedy. or else made up
Of a series OF little tragedies The tiny
sparrow that IN a luckless hour fell from
the nest in the boughs TO the earth below.
enacted It's little part IN the universal
drama which suggested 20 the Master
Mind the thought that Not a sparrow
faueth TO the ground bat the Father
knoWeth L."
Joe Rison Is a type Of a civilization un-
known anywhere else on earth than
America or anywhere but in ihe bound
less west. He was born IN a little toWn
in Kentucky near the Ohio line. 81 poor
parents. his father being struggling
Baptist preacher. A. twelve years % age
he left home without a penny and start
ed out IN the world. At the toli bridge
he had no money With which % cross
and some man gave him the necessary
means. Arriving in Cincinnati. he stood
before one OF the large opera houses won
derIng What the world had in store Tor
him While he was medltating. team
Of dashlnE horses. with fine carriage
containing q lady and two little Eris.
: dashed 81 IN the mad rush % death. The
boy BISON did not stop 20 count The sost
( but threw himself upon the dragging
reins ard his weight ana the tangled
lines soon brought the frightened stseds
I % a standstilI The lady had eEooned
and the girls were screaming with fear.
( The father WHO had been tod - the
trouble had buried %. and learning who
+ the rescuer vas. promptly gave h.m a
ron q bills AL he Bad about klu. amount
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