The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-07-06
THE MAN WHO INTER
RUPTS.

| III bOb &c . AQtCS tuikbt IOE tQe
blood o. my felIow-msn. am will.
ing that the law il sll ordinary cases
take it's course, but when we begin to
discuss the man who breaks into 9
COL versaliOn and ru ne it with bis
own irrelevant ideas, regardless of!he
feelings OF humanity. l am not Law
aad order man. The spirit OF the
"Rsd VIgilaDt,r" is reused in nv
breast, and [ hunger tor ,he blood OF
that man.
Interrupsers are of two classes:
First, the common plug who THINKS
aloud, and whose conversation WAN
lders with bis go called mind. He
breaks iEto the ssddest and sweetest
OF sentiment, anu the choicest and
most tearlal OF psthos, with the re-
morseiess ignorance that marks q
stump-tsiled COW in 3 Gahlia bed.
He ID the bul. in my CHINA shop, the
worm wood In my wine, and the keHo
ssne ia my maple syrup. | am ehy
III conVer alton, and my uniettered
fights OF pOesy and sentiment &re
rare, but this man ls alnCsi always
Gear 10 Inar il all with a remark, or
\ marginal Dot3, or story. or a Bit
Ct politics, ready to bust my beautiful
dream and make me wish that his
name might bs carved on marb lie
slab In some quiet cemetery, far
away.
skDesr reader, did you ever meet
tnIs manor Lis wife? BID you ever
strike some beautiful thought and te-
gin to reel it off 10 your friends, only
10 be shut Of in the middle OF sem
tence by this choice and banner idiot
of conversations Ii 80, come and sit
by me, and you may pour your woes
into my ear, ard | in turn will pour
few gallons into your listening eAr.
do not care to talk more than my
share Of the time, but / would be glad
to arrive at conclusion. just to ee
how it would seem. / would be 30
pleased AID so Joyous to follow up an
anecdote till had reached the
"nub," as 1t we're, to chase argument
home to conviction. and TO clinch
assertion with authority and evil
dence.
! The second class Of interrupters is
even worse. It consists of the man
and, l am panied TO state, his wis
also-Who see the general drift of
your remarks ard finish out your
story, your gem OF thought or your
argument. Il is very seldom that
they do this ss you would 10 it your
self, cut they are kind and thought
ful, and their services always are at
hand. No matter how busy they
may be, they will leave their own
work and fly to your aid. With the
| light of sympathy in their eyes, they
rush into the conversation, and, par.
taking of your own zeal. they take
the words from your own mouth, and
cheerfully suck the Juice out OF your
Ijoke, handing back the rind and mop.
ing for reward. That is where they
get left 60 far as I am concerned. l
am always ready to repay rudeness
with rudeness, and cold preserved
gall With such acEld sarcasm as I may
be able to secure at the moment. No
one will ever know how l yearn for
the blood of the intsrrupter. At night
camp on his trail, and all day
thirst for bis warm life's current. In
| my dreams l sm cutting his scslp
loose with 3 case-knife, while my
fingers are twined in his clustering
hair. walk over him and prone
made across his abdomen as slum-
Der. hear his ribs crack, and l see
his tongue hang oVer his shoulder as
he smiles deaths mirthful emile.
I do not interrupt man no more
than would tell MIN he lied. / give
him a chance to win applause or de-
composed eggs from the audience,
according to what he has to say, and
according to the profundi!y OF bis
protund. ALI / want is O eimilar
chance and room according to my
strength. Common decencY ought
to govern conversation without its
being necessary to hire au umpire
armed with a four foot club, to an.
nounce who is st the bat and who il
On deck.
It ia only once in o week or two
that the angel troubles the waters and
stirs up the depths OF my conversa'
tioual powers, and then the chances
are that some leprous old nasty toad
who had been hanging on the briI k
of decent society for two weeks, slides
in with e low kerplunk and my iail
blossom of thought, that has been
trying Tor weeks to bloom, withers
aud goes to seed, while the man with
the chilled steel and copper.riveGed
brow. and a Wad of selt-esseem or
his intellectual balcony as big as an
inkstand, walks slowly away to think
OF some other dazzling gem, and thus
be ready to bust my beautiful phsn-
tom and tear out my high. pricec
bulbs OF isncy the next time l open
my morih,-BW Nye.