The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-05
THE ~TENDERFooT
THE
COUNTRY DOCTOR
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cession then, that were welcome in ev.
they liked. 1t is another of those les.
sons of mortality and temperance that
we meet ON the roadway, aud pay little
attention to until it is too lpte, and
even forget until we meet "a true old
timer like Corcoran, grizzled and bent
aud i'll, yet full of the old independent
spirit, and il that nomadic instinct
could be stilled, capable of bonanza ser.
vice in any OF the thousand country of.
fees that far out from the busting
throug are making the country better
III filter to live in.
Sometimes, as the human flotsam and
ietsam passes by ] wonder ii We are
really any nearer the Millennium that
OF MS hug close TO our ideal concep.
ION Of the future of our common coun.
try. Sometimes | think that we are pro.
crossing mighty slow, if we are pro.
crossing at all, generally closing the Op.
timiStic gate when some such instance
occurs, wherein great possibilities have
been wrecked upon the shoals of time,
the rocks that are cruel and sharp, that
are left there by a civilization that
dares Ia call itself advanced. II would
have been as much reason for the boast
II it allowed dens of dangerous wild
beasts along the roadside that will
Spring forth and catch its "ictirIs
from the passersby along life's highways
and more reason. for the beasts would
end the misery Of the victim. while our
system merely robs them of health and
hope and human love and sends them
cropping blindly on in the darkness,
straining the eyes for n guiding light
that is never lii. We moralize and re.
solve and %expound. hut we fail to grasp
the full meaning of the fact that we
are our brothers keeper, whether we
will or no. and when we give him poi.
son in place of water that is clear and
pure we are particeps criminis in the
plan of general destruction.
It is seldom that you hear the human
wrecks complain. They go their way
quietly ana bear their burdens uncom.
plainingly as n rule. As the years pass
by. hope goes with II, and life is
nothing but an empty round of labor
and pain. At times they stray from the
path after a mirage that paints fairy
pictures on the landscapes of the brain.
and heckoDs them ON 10 a place of green
fields and Of running waters, where hun
ger and fatigue and cold and hard.
ships are not. and gray hair and rheu.
matte limbs are replaced by raven locks
aad the springing step Of youth. II is
a fool s paradise, and in the cold, gray
dawn of the morning after, the fires
of hell mingle with the blood and
CHASTITY phantoms grin and menace in
the shadows OF reason, while every nerve
and fibre calls out for the water OF
Satan. With a hand that trembles with
the fever Of desire he reaches out and
grasps the glass with the pretty, laugh,
ing stuff that destroys his body and
falling OH the upward ladder burns out
the rounds. 90 il goes, until burnt out
bent, sick, and without place to lay
his head, the old mar falls by the way.
side, and sleeps to wake no more. People
say at is only n dead whiskey soak, >
and such he is, but IL there is any jus
tice in the divine plan, as his tired
body parts from the spirit there is 9
waiting hand 20 lead them 10 the mead
ows Of his dreams, as worthy of for
giveness, being more sinned against thar
SHINING.
And those that sinned against him
are Of comfortable waistcoats and com
piacent conscience, who have laid tn,
pitfalls before him on the plea that il
was always 80, and who in the egotisu
and narrow mindedness really beliey,
that his pitiful weakness is solely /,
blame for his fall.
A Breath OF Old Times.
That speech Of Colonel Henry Wat
%terson before the New York Press c'ul
the other day comes like "a breath o.
other and better days. The scnti
ments Of the great Kentucky mast,
apply just rs strongly now ms the,
did in has apprenticeship, for human
nature IL just the same now as then
II IL well for all workers in the mobiles
calling ON earth to ponder over hi
words, and whoever can take them al
and adapt them as his own code, nee,
have no fear Of his usefulness or ha