The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1884-11-05
The .AneC0Ote.

Out of every one thousand people,
born into this world of sin and sorrow,
nine hundred and ninety-nine either
do not know \ good story when they
hear it. forget it after they have heard
it, do not know how to repeat it them
selves, or haven't good judgmen about
when to introduce it lay down this
grand principle, rs l am laying down
all my grand principles this season,
without fear of successful contradic-
ton.
l listened to very fair amateur
campaign speech the other evening
very fair. with one exception. The
anecdotes were not made 10 illus
trate the speech, but the speech had
been distorted 10 fit tic anecdotes.
You know an artist sometimes strikes
a good idea in picture and somebody
writes up to the illustration instead OF
writing Il good thing anil then having
it illustrated incidentally. That's the
way it WAS will, that speech.
10 discriminate between q good story
and 4 poor one, to remember the good
ones and forget the poor ones. TO bring
in the right one ut the right moment
and to do it rs naturally rs the START
led mud turtle seeks the bosom of the
rolling deep, requires sang froid, mai
vete, chic. pro bono publico and horse
sense. These qualities are rarely
united in one individuals Chic is USE
less without pro bono publico and both
are N. G. without what Herbert Spen-
Ger has so charmingly characterized as
horse sense.
The world is peopled with denizens
who are constantly telling anecdotes
that claim to be facetipus, but do not
seem to get there. How often is the
joyous group thrown into spasms by
the scrap book story-teller, vino is al
ways century behind the patent in
sides, and who joyously sows the seeds
of hypochondria everywhere.
Some men can never take hint.
They go through life telling the same
aforementioned funny stories, cheer.
fully showing their bantlings of the al
legged brain under the noses of law
abiding citizens. inviting scorn and
contumely, bravely laughing at their
own salt-rheum humor, and never ac-
quiring the moral courage to take q
grand North American tumble to them
selves.
Most people dislike to give needless
pain. Unless II man is cruel and devil
ish in his disposition, he will not twice
in the same manner wound the feelings
Of his friend; and yet we are CONSTANT
iy running across the man who has
again aud again grieved and saddened
the hearts Of his friends with some de-
pressing tale, resurrected from the hu-
morous catacombs of the almanac to
poison the pure air with its pestilential
breath.
One thing is absolutely certain to
me- feel it as strongly as ever our
forefathers felt the first throb Of free
dom, and wonder that neither pohti-
cal party has embodied the principle
in its platform. This can never be a
peaceful, prosperous and progressive
people, morally and physically free,
until the strong hand Of the. laE shall
reveal itself like q club flush and quar-
antine the effete, pestiferous, miasmat-
ic, fungus anecdote of our boasted
American institutions, which, like the
large red picnic ant has planted itself
between the shoulder-blades Of liberty
and deties the civil, the military and
the naval forces of the nation to dis
lodge it. Heart-broken sobs. Blu
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