Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-06-19
Too Mean for Hanging.

| coin, Nebraska, into Kansas, the other
| day. Mind you, he wasn't a N ebraskan;
| ne was an Interstate immigrant COM
| iny from somewhere east OF the Mis-
| sissiDpi. AZ Wymore there is a mer-
| ket, and he is famous all that land
| over for his popcorn. He came on Che
car with his wares, and this mean
man, who was travelling with his wife,
little child OF perhaps three years, and
his father-in-law, asked the price of
popcorn. Give cents package"
That was too much. He didn't want
any. After the merchant left the car
the mean man said: IL want some O
that ERE popcorn, but kin git it
cheaper'n that Presently he went
out on the platform and said to the
dealer in the fruit that cheers but not
inehic- briates: ''Say, mister, [ want
some OF that popcorn, but [ 'lain't
got on'y three cents. Now. if YOU
kin lemme have a paper of it fur three
cents, all right; but | KANT give no
more fur 1t, because | hahn got on Y
that much money! Well after some
dickering, the merchant finally lot
cents, and the mean man came in the
car, sat down beside his wife aud it,
tie child, and began munchiny his
popcorn. Never :, crurl5 did he offer
to anybody. He was just enjoying it.
He said Il had enough money to buy
his whole baskettu!, but | knoweG
could get some Tor less n live cents.''
AS he muncIpd. his futher-in-iaw and
wife seeme,} 70 understand they were
not in on that treat, but the child be.
gan to reach up it's little d;mpled
hands, and in the sweetest childish ac-
cents beg for some popcorn. Save to
hold the package up out OF reach Of
the pleading lutte hands, the mean man
paid not the slightest attention to the
baby. but kept on eating. Presently
the mother spoke to him, and said The
child wanted some of the corn
'Well,' replied her husband, If the
child is any hnuGrier' an an want,
this popcorn n,ore' l. do, bed ought
to have it, Dnt he kept ON eaj' g it
himself, and never {: grain did 'nr
child get Pretty soon the little trI-
low began to cry for the corn. Tni,
MUS have annoyed the father. because
he soon arose. pat the popcorn up in
the rack out OF the childs reach, and
went into another car. While he was
gone the child continued to cry and
reach after the banquet, and the moth
or took the pupcuru Gown aDd gave
soluo to the little one. While this was
.roing on the me;.n iian came back.
/ urious2 YOU never saw anything like
it. He snatcl,ed the pop.'nrn away
f, ON the child ana poured 4 torrent Of
abuse upon his wife for daring 70 touch
his popcorn. .i'!.vn he put it back into
the rack "n1 Il: Intervals got up ami
ate some Of it un.i? it WAS ali gone.
Now, in ease Of this kind --:tnd the
above is {: truthful narrative, Of al
actual occurrence is not lynch law
iustiiia BILE? Is not that kind OF 4 man
more valuable and useful a.; Il, tcrtiii-
zcr than anything clse:9 Ism t he a curse
to society as long as he lives: And
mi ght he not prove blessing to tAc
medical student and barren land
where he dies? Then why not kill Il, III
and make blessing o: hiIn? The
world has no use for |, mean Inall.. \
drunkurd, a liar, Il sWtArer, Il thieF,
tramp, a swinier, Il ulnr'turor. mag
have some sph,re ii usefulness Ia th,~
world, but :, 'E.:au nam, pure a,n,;
simple-God wasted mud wi1Hl He
made him. - B'trHrX. W D':nJi3vu E:l.,"e.
IL Won(ler.'
If you wish TO write an essay, Or to
begin Il cvnvtr5;.tion and are at 4 Joss,
for something to write or talk ABOUT.
only write or say Il wOntor,' and
something will be sure to follow. But
''siloW me the man WHO never wonders.
and I will show You the man who
never thinks,' said Noltaire.. Asses
never wonder, they take everything
Tor granted and seem to be complete
fatalists. They receive the rudytl ;,>
patiently as If it were preordainrd anh
| essential to the harmony OF the uni.
verse. The intellectual people: those
who are not asses, investigate, thin'<,
| wonder and cease to wonder, but they
have no sooner ceased to wonder at
one thing than they begin to wonder
| at another. | am willing to grun4
that there is nothing new under the
sun; but for I'LL that we live in 4: very
wonderful world, and are constantly
surrounded by a world of wonders.
In fact, everything is wonderful, and
the greatest wonder in the world
would be to lind anything not wonder
full. Wondering is the peculiar tacui-
ty and privilege of human and intel
lectual beings. | have said above
that asses 10 not wonder: they have
not wit enough. I Was going to say
that wondering may be applied as Il
distinctive epithet Of the hnnan spe
cics, and that Plato might nave amend
ed his definition by this addition, but
] fear should be wrong. Plato de-
lined man as featherless bipcd, upon
which Diogones, who was what the
world calls ii wicked wag, stripped the
feathers from a poor unfortunate ban
tam cock, and exultingly exclaimed:
"ihere is Plato's man. Now, il
Plato, in order to render his definition
more definite, had defined him to be a
wondering. teather]ess biped, Diogenes
| would still have teen down upon him,
saying: Look at Plato's mau--:.
featheriess biped, wondering what has
become Of his feathers! "- Eroo.:iaa
E&gje.
The Piute Girls Debut.
When q girl reaches womanhood
and her family desire to indicate tn
the tribe that their daughter has