Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-17
THE NERVE TO KICK.
M. QUAD TELLS OF THE BENE- FITS OF MAKING COMPLAINT.

Driving Out the Railroad Hog-Gratitude Of Hotel Keeper-Taking Down an Extortionate Hack Driver The Man Who Torsot-Cleaning an Alley, have met the railroad hog a great many
 elmes. l never meet him without making a KICK. lie Is growing scarcer every day. and sometimes fatter myself that I have con- trlbuted 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 0 man occupy Ing two seats He had a bad looking head on hlln, and he cared so little for our rights that he did not look up from his book There were hve 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.n
 But we'll kick and raise a bigger ouen
 les but what's the use of quarreling with hogT'
 Ut is just such men as you who have made hlm hog. You have allowed him to impose on you until he has cene to think he owns the railroad
 No1 one or the four would move I went to tne other end Of the car, where three women were crushed into one seat, picked up a 12 year-old boy near by, and walked up to the hog and asked:
 Have you paid for four seats hereY'
 That's my business!" he promptly re- piled.
 And mine and the publics.n
 l 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 Tor, and We got what our tickets called for Let every passenger kick on the railroad hog and he must go.
 GRATEFUL LANDLORD
 One day last spring there were ten of us at hotel table in Nashville The soup was scorched and no one could eat it. Not 6 potato brought to us was done The milk for the coffee had turned. I invited the others to go to the office with me and kick, They were drummerS, every one but not one would go. When people speak of drummers as klckels 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 lighted, but we are here only for a meal and it won't pay us to kick"
 went out alone. The landlord was in the office and I asked:
 How long since you were in the dining r0omf'
 "A week, I guess.''
 You don't oversee the meals?n
 ''No."
 Well, 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 he was hopping mad. The head-waiter was called out and dressed down, the head cook got nicely peeled, and the landlord shock my hand and said:
 That kick of yours will benefit this housa $5,UO0. l had no idea things we1e 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 S1. That is the figure established by ordi- nance, and is very liberal When a coupe sat me down at the hotel month ago the driver demanded S2. l kicked He talked Ill loud voice in order to gather a crowd and make me feel ashamed, but refused to come down. He dropped to twelve shillings. but it was no go. He threatened personal and had him arrested In fining him s4 his honor gave him lecture he will never forget, and then turned to nae and 5aid
 You deserve 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 5ims"
 THE MAN WHO FORGOT.
 Coming out of Philadelphia by night a passenger came to me and said he would take t as great favor if l would exchange my over berth for his upper, he having his wife dong.
 When did you secure your berth?" asked ''This noon.n
 And to be sure of mine had to secure it wo days ago"
 ''Yes, but you see I forgotn
 "Forgot! A man who knew that he was o go at a certain date, and that he must take
 sleeper, forget? 1 cannot exchange with ou."
 know he thought nle boorish, but had he would have trusted to luck ext time, thinking to meet some good earted fellow and perhaps have got no berth t all. My refusal angered him, but it made i'm realize future responsibility. The city ordinance says no horse shall be 'ft unhitched on the street. am careful to oserve that ordinance, no matter what the he bother. Another is not. His unhitched lg walks into mine and takes a wheel off emand pay, and he is astonished that he 1ould be held liable for what he calls an accident" He calls me all sorts of hard ames, but from this on be will hitch his orse securely
 The ordinance specifies that alleys shall be ept clean. l go to trouble and expense to ve up to that ordinance. My neighbor umps his garbage into the alley and notify le sanitary police, and he is fined. It Is reat shock to him that be can't break the 'dinance at will and offend the nostl ills of whole neighborhood. He calls me a crank Id mean man, never dreaming that all le trouble came from his own selhshness Id disregard of law and right-M Quad Detroit Free Press.