Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1884-09-14
THE pEsrIrsaovs AMEcoorE.
Decentralization Between Good Stories
and Peer Omes-Haorse Sense.

Dssr rimln alton lseswe Good soriea
and Peer Ones-HOrse Sense.
tBill Nye in Detroit Free Press.l
Out Of every 1000 people born into
this world of sin and sorrow, 500 either
do not know good story when they
hear il, forget il after they lave heard
il. do not know how to repeat il them
selves, or haven't good judgment about
when to introduce il. lay down this
grand principle, as am laying down all
my grand principles this season, with
out fear of successful contradiction.
listened TO a very fair amateur cam
paign speech the other e,ening-very
fair, with one exception. The anecdotes
were not made to illustrate the speech,
but the speech had been distorted TO fit
the anecdotes. You know an artist
sometimes strikes good idea in picf-
ure and somebody writes up TO the illus
tration instead OF writing good thing
and then having it illustrated incident
ally. That's the way ii WAS with that
speech.
To discriminate between good story
and a poor one, to remember the good
ones and forget the roor ONES. TO bring
in the right one in at the right moment
and TODD il as naturally as tine startled
mud turtle seeks the Losom Of the roll
ing deep, requires sang frold, naiyeie.
chic, pro bono publico and horse sense.
These qualities arr rarely united in one
individual. Chic is uS less without pro
homo publico and both are n. q. without
what Herbert Spencer has 50 chariningly
characterized as horse sense.
The world Is peopled with dcniaens
who are const antly .lling anecdotes
that claim 10 be facetiOus, but do not
seem to get there. How often is the
Joyous group thrown irt0 spaslns by the
scrap book rtory-teller, who Is always a
century behind the patent insides, and
who ioyously sows tn, seeds Of hypo-
chondria everywhere.
Some men can never take hint They
70 through life telling the same gloom
onvironed funny stories, cheerfully
showing their bantlin q of the alleged
brain under the noses Of love abiding
citizens, inviting scorn and tontumely,
hfavely laughing at Their own salt rheum
humor and never acquiring the moral
courage to take O grand North American
tumble to themselves.
Most people dislike to give needless
pain. Unless man il cruel and devil
nh IN his disposition, e will not twice
10 the same manner W Iund the feelings
Of this friend; and yet Se are constantly
running across the msn who has again
and again grieved and sadlened the
hearts of his friends with the same de-
pressing tale, resurrec.ed from the hn-
norous catacOmbs OF the almanac tn
poison the pure air with its pestileniial
breath.
One thinNis absolutely certain TO me.
feel il as strongly as ever our fore
fathers felt the first tn ob of freedom,
and wonder that neitl er political party
has embodied the prime. pie IN lis plat.
form. This can never be "a peaceful,
prosperous and progressive people, NOR
ally and physically free. Until tHc strong
hand Of the law shall rcyel itself like a
club flush, and quarantine the cifcte.
pestiferous, miasmatic. fungus anecdote
Of our boosted American institutions,
which, like the large red picnic ant, has
planted itself between the shoulder
blades Of liSry. and detcs ia. civil,
the military and The naval forces OF the
nation 10 dislodgc It. Heart broken
sobs