Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1883-12-06

Two dudes were on a railroad parlor
car, u few days ago, riding between
two cities, ami rs they sat in the smOk-
Ing room languidly pulling Mt little
cigarettes, they cOnvcrsedin the native
tongue of the dude, not noticing Il bald
headed man who was buried in news
paper. The conversation turned upon
what business was The most desirable
for person who did not want 10 do
anything except to eat and drink and
be clothei |, and one remarked that he
had rather own a farm and spend the
income from it than anything he knew
of. The other dude, who was face
tious individual, with about as much
brain as n canary bird, said, "WelI,
don't you know, | think had rather
draw pension from the government.
That is The easiest business, by Joye,
therc is going, don't you know" The
bald headed man was mad enough to
have Drained the dude with n toy bal
loon, but he htld his temper until the
two dudes began to laugh at the witt
cism, and thcu he could contain him.
self no longer, and turning to the two
nine spots who were sitting together in
corner of TIE smoking apartment,
and standing up before them 50 they
could not get ont, within face flushed,
and each hair on the side ot his head
feeling like II porcupine quill, he said:
"And so you think drawing pen
sion is the easiest business there is 90
ing, do you? DO you reaIiz, what you
are talking aboul9 DO you know that
the men who draw pensions have been
through mole suffering, privation and
sorrow than YOU ever dreamed of? Do
you consider it easy tomarch thousands
of miles on foot over muddy roads,
sleeping on the frozen ground and liv-
ing on hard tack aud fighting between
mealsp Do YOU want TO draw pen
sion at the expense OF healthP DO you
know that the men who draw pensions,
of whom you spoke 50 ilippantly, have
been burHed with southern fovers until
every bone has achrd night and day
for twenty years? DO you know that
some of the men who draw pensions
have had limbs shot oil by cannon, and
had limbs cut of by doctors saws, and
that some Of them carry bu,lytsin their
bodies To- day, and that every move
they make is full of pain. Haven't
YOU heard that some OF the pensioners
were starved in rebel prisons until they
would have mortgagcd their immortal
,ouls-which You may not possession
a piece Of bread 50 dry and dirty that
a hog would not eat it unless il was
soaked in wafer? Did You never read
of some of the pensioners being hayon-
eted, and carrying sores for fifteen
years, that would not heal. You YOU
poor imitation OF Il human being, look
upon drawing q pension as an easy
business, when it has cost the pension
Cr the best part OF his life and all his
health. Would you sleep out on Il rail
fence, your body dripping wet, con-
tracing rheumatism ut every breath
You draw, ana then call drawing pen
sion Il nice, safe, easy business? You
laugh at 4 remark Il. the expense OF Il
pensioned soldier, when you are not fit
for a soldier to wipe his feet on, Why,
condemn you, have mind to throw
both of you through that plate glass
window, when think OF the barrels Df
tears that have been shed By wives and
mothers and sisters for every dollar
that was o'-or nHit fnr pensions. " "nd
the old man began to tal,c OF his coat,
when the cDuGurtDr came in and W1ut-