Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-22
THE NERVE TO KICK.
NJ. QUAD TELLS OF THE BENE-
FITS OF MAKING COMPLAINT.

NJ. QUAD TELLS OF THE BENE-
FITS OF MAKING COMPLAINT.
of Hotel Keeper-Taking Down an
Extortionate Hack Driver Tho Man
Who Forgot--Cleaning an Alley.
have met the railroad hog great many
times never meet HIM without making
kick He is growing scarcer every day, and
/ sometimes fiatter myself that have con-
tributed to drive him out When left To-
ledo for Cincinnati, the other day, the train
was crowded and people were standing up in
every coach. In my car was man occupy
ing two seats. He had bad looking head
on him, and be cared so little for our rights
that he did not look up from his book. There
were five of US standing up, and said to the
group:
''Gentlemen, there are three seats for which
we have paid Let US take possession"
He'll kick and raise row."
But we'll kick and raise bigger one.n
YES, but what's the use OF quaireling with
h0g@
SIT is just such men as you who have made
him hog. You have allowed him to impose
on you until he has come to think he owns
the railroad"
Not one of the four would move l went to
the other end of the car, where three women
were crushed into one seat, picked up u
year-old boy near by, and walked up to the
hog and asked:
Have You paid for four seats hereF'
That's my businessT he promptly re-
piled
And mine and the public's"
cleared the seat of his baggage, seated the
woman and boy, and then crowded in beside
the hog. He made an awful row, but it was
useless He was left with what he had paid
for, and We got what cur tickets called for
Let every passenger kick on the railroad hog
and he must so.
A GRATEFUL LANDLORD.
One day last spring there were ten of US at
a hotel table in Nashville. The soup was
scorched and no one could eat it. Not a
potato brought to us was done The milk for
the coffee had turned. / invited the others
to 60 to the office with me and kick They
We're drummers, every one, but not one
would go. When people speak of drummers
as kickers they are way Off. They will put
up with more and do less complaining than
any class of men on earth In the present
case one of them spoke for all when he said;
YES, things are bad and ought to be
righted, but we are here only for meal and
it won't pay US to kick"
~ l. A.
office and | asked:
g How long since you were in the dining
roomin
"a week, guess
You don't oversee the meRls?'
mo-
We'll, please go TO the head table and taste
the milk, examine the potatoes and smell of
the soup"
He departed at once. When he returned
hewas hopping mad. The head-waiter was
called out and dressed down, the head cook
got nicely peeled, and the landlord shook my
hand and said
That kick of yours will benefit this house
$500. l had no idea things were running
thus"
The natural inference with him was that as
long as no one kicked everything must be
going all right and everybody satisfied. A
thousand men had no doubt gone away mad
and injured his house.
The fare from the foot of Market street,
Philadelphia, to the Bingham house by coupe
is 81. That is the figure established by ordi-
nance, and is very liberal When a coupe
sat me down at the hotel a month ago the
driver demanded 81 | kicked. He talked
in loud voice in order to gather crowd
and make me feel ashamed, but refused to
come down. He dropped 10 twelve shillings,
bat it was No go. He threatened personal
violence, and had him arrested. In filming
him "A his honor gave him lecture he will
never forget, and then turned to me and
said:
You deserve q medal for kicking. In this
fellows case, at least, you will have pre-
vented him from swindling others. Had
you allowed him TO swindle you he would
have been on the alert to make other vic
tins
TIE MAN WHO FORGOT.
Coming cut of Philadelphia bv night, a
passenger came 10 me and SAID ne would take
it as great favor if | would exchange my
lower berth for his upper, be having his wife
along.
~ ben did you secure your berthr asked
This noon"
And TO be sure of mine had to secure il
two days ago"
Yes, but you SEES forgot"
| "Eorgot! A man VINO knew that he was
| to 90 al a certain date, and that he must take
sleeper, forgetf | cannot exchange with
you"
/ know he thought me boorish, but had
exchanged ne would have trusted to luci
next time, thinking to meet some cooc
hearted fellow and perhaps have got no bertt
at all. My refusal angered him, but it mad.
him realize future responsibility.
| The city ordinance says no horse shall b
| left unhitched on the street. | am careful t,
| observe that ordinance, no matter what ths
| the bother. Another is not. His unhitchse
rig walks into mine and takes wheel off.
demand pay, and he is astonished that b
should be held liable for what be calls az
accident He calls me all sorts of hart
names, but from this on he will hitch hi
| horse securely.
The ordinance specifies that alleys shall b,
| kept elean. go to trouble and expense Il
| live up to that ordinance. NY neighbol
dumps his carriage into the alley and motif,
the sanitary police, and he is fined. 1t is
| great shock to him that he can't break tn
| ordinance az Will and offend the nostriis o
a whClo neighborho d. lie calls me crani
and mean man, never dreaming that al
the trouble came from his own selhshues
and disregard OF law and right.-M Qaat
IL Detroit Free Press.