The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1909-04-16

| Irritable Joseph u. Waters recently
as he ran bis hand through bis IRON
gray waving locks, SIS that we have
no enduring philosophy by which we
keep new and fresh the continued
blessings showered on our heads. We
forget that we haye bins full, and
barns full, and banks full and should
be thankful, The Young man chases
girl for dye years, and when he has
landed her In the matrimonial net
forrets his possessions; he forgets to
remember that he has shared a piece
Of dainty dimity that is the sweetest
specimen Of tangible heaven that ever
came from the skies.
l once knew an American hobo, born
on the banks of the Wabash, who had
slept on the lee side of a haystack for
ten years; his front yard had been
marshy creek bank; his feet were al
ways damp and you could hear the
water squash out of his shoes as he
stepped; he Rugged she fever and ague;
malaria was his double and the chills
the other DrOmio; ne drank of the
rank branch water; the mists from the
JepId streams graduated his eyelds
and the smoke from his fire of broken
branches kept them glued 10 the
morning and aglow all day; baekdcer
handouts we're his movable feasts; he
had forgotten baths and good clothes:
he was continually on the turn to keep
warm or avoid the smoke. A fellow
tramp told him there was letter in
the postoffice for him, and there was
one-one from the executors Of an un-
known or forgotten Bombay uncle,
inclosing him gratuity Of 1OO,0cO
rupees. He did not wait, he selected
the handsomest resi- 1ence in the city,
bought it all and all that 1t contained
before night. Two days afterwards l
called GA him; in smoking kimona,
deliberately illustrated and embell-
ished, his feet resting on prize dieu,
if you know what thaG means, and he
in the depths Of Chppen or Auborn-
dale diyan; a bright fire on the hearth
that made the merry COLLINS provoked
by its flames dance and scamper and
then fee and hide in the wildwood OF
Pickering shadows until no one could
ever find them again, Phe night was
cold; beat of frozen pellets on the
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chimney came the faint, far-away
surge of the baffied and raging
tenn est without There in great
globe disported tiny goldfish; there on
the mantel stood wise owl that
winked its eye as they shut off and
applied again the current from the
heat, water and light plant; there
against the wall flashed the rudy
interior Of seraglio, woven by some
braceleted ORIENTAL hand that had
been mummied over 1000 years age
1t was valued heirloom tapestry,
so he was told, running it's threads OF
romance. of sadness and joy, through
generations Of the family from whom
he had purchased the mansion. Mel
low, faraway lights, subdued by tinted
glass, and a t!ngle Of falling water, as
the fountain flashed its placid, restful
drops, in strange discord to the wild
rhythm of the nights bleak storm; an
ormolu clock, on is highest niche,
| H., n Haf N nd mi fiji
ed finger, that chimed like distant
clangor of cathedral bells in the high
steeples, giving the world again The
sweet story of Christmas time. How
vain to chronicle the passage OF time
with such surroundings! 1t hastens
DOT, nor speeds its flight, but, leaden
footed and sleepy-eyed, it loirers with
a backward look, each minute tread
ing the heels of the lazy ono that went
before. Melody, luxury, comfort and
elegance in every delail, or touch or
glimpse. A delicate Etruscan gold
watchchaiD, heavily inlaid, chaste and
ornate, reached its anchorage in both
pockets of his vest, which was embrotd-
cred with hummOcky white braid
all around the periphery of its outer
circumference. l asked him in a
; kindly, anxious, hesitating aud in
JeIested way, as 1 always do when
addressing the extremely wealthy for
the purpose of knowing how their hay
fever is progressing flor, to the poor,
the rich always have delicate health
and Isays to him, saysI: How are you
getting along in your splendid home?
How are you enjoying yourself 10
this magnificently appointed domi-
cile?"
With the utmost aplomb and sang
froId, he replied at once: "Do you
know, sir, that the Internal plumbing