Moreover, he found a field for his journalistic talents in a passionate correspondence in the local papers.

Tyson could speak, Tyson could write, where other men maunder and drivel.

His tongue was tipped with fire and his pen with vitriol.

Looking about him for a worthy antagonist, he singled out Smedley, M.D., a local practitioner given over to two ideals--sanitation and reform.

Needless to say, for sanitation and reform Tyson cared not a hang.