The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-10-06
The-Anecdote.

Oul Oh every one tnOuSand people
born into this world of sin and sorrow,
nine hundred and ninety-nine either do
not know a good story when they hear
it, forget it after they have heard it, do
not know how to repeat it themselves,
or haven't good judgment about when
to introduce it. / lay down this grand
principle. as / am laying down all nv
grand principles this season. without
: fear of successful contradiction.
/ listened to very fair amateur cam
paign speech the other evening-very
fair, with one exception. The anec-
dotes were not made TO illustrate the
speech, but the speech had been distort-
ed to fit the anecdotes. You know an
artist sometimes strikes good idea in
a picture and Sometimes writes up to
the illustration instead of writing a
good thing and then having it illus
trated incidentally. That's the way it
was with that speech.
To discriminate between a coed story
and poor one, 10 remember the good
ones and forget the poor ones, to bring
In the right one at the right moment.
and to Go it as naturally q, the startled
mud-turt,e seeks the bosom OF the roll
ING deep, requires sang froid, naivete,
chic, pro bono publico and horse sens.
These qualities are rarely united i'm one
individual. Chic is useless without pro
bono pubiico, AID both are n. &. with
ont what Herbert Spencer has so
charm.ngly characterized as horse
sense.
The world is peop,ed with denizens
who are constantly telling anecdotes
that claim to be facetious, but do not
seem to get there. How often is the
joyous group thrown into spasms by the
scrap-book story teller. who iovously
sows the seeds of hypochondria every
where.
Some men can never take a hint.
Thay GO through lie telling the same
gIoom-environed funny stories. cheer
fully showing their paintings of the al
legged brain under the noses of law
abiding citizens, inviting scorn and con-
tumely, bravcly laughing at their own
salt-rheam hun1or and never acquiring
the moral courage to take a grand
North American tumble TO themselves.
Most people dislike to give needless
pain. Unless a man is cruel and ma
licious in his disposition he will not
twice in the same manner wound the
feelings of his friend: and vet we are
constantly running across the man who
has again and again grieyed and sad
dened the hearts of his friends with the
same depressing tale, resurrected from
the humorous catacombs of the almanac
to poison the pure air with its pestilen-
tial breath.
One thing is absolutely certain to me.
| feel it as strongly as ever our fore
fathers felt the first throb of freedom. |
and l wonder that neither political par
ty has embodied the principle in its |
platform. This can never lie a peace
full. prosperous and progressive people,
morally and physically free, until the
strong hand of the law Shall reveal itself /
like club-fush, and quarantine the
effete, pest. erOus, miasmatic, fungus
anecdOte of our boosted American in
st;tutions, which like the large rel pic
nic ant has planted itself between the
houlder-bla of liberty and defies the
, I'll, the military and the naval forces
?, he Nation to dislodge it. Heart
-oS. IN sobs. Blu Nye, IN Detroit Frcs
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