The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-20
THE NERVE TO KICK.
N. QUAD TELLS or The BENe-
FITS OF MAKING COMPLAINT.
Driving Out the Tiallrcad Hos--Grstitude
Of Hotel heeper-TAking Down an
Who Forgct-Cleaning an Alley.

Extortionate Hack Driver - The Man
Who Forgot-cieaning an Alley.
have met the railroad hog n great many
times ] never meet him without making a
kick. He i growing scarcer every day. and
| sometimes fatter myself that have con-
tributed TO drive him out. When left To
lcdo 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 he 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: "a
"Gentlemen, there are three seats for which
we have paid. Let US take possession
Hell kick and raise a row.
But we'll kick and raise a bigger one
"Yes, but what's the use o. quarreling with
q hogr
ut 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 i went TO
the other end of the car, where three women
were crushed into one scat, picked up II
year-old boy near by and walked up 70 the
hog and nsked
Have you paid for four seats hcreF'
That's my businessF he promptly re-
piled.
"And mine and the public'sr
cleared the seat OF his baggage, seated the
woman and boy, aud then crowded in beside
the hog. He made an awful row, but it was
useless He was left with what lie had paid
for, and we got what our tickets called for,
Let every passenger kick on the railroad hog
and he must go
A GRATEFUL LANDLORD.
One day las. spring there were ten Of US at
hotel table in Nashville. The soup was
scorched and no one could eat it. Not
potato brought TO US was done. The milk for
the coffee bad turned. ! invited the Others
to 20 to the Office with me and kick They
were drummers, every one, but not one
would so. When people speak of drummers
as kickers they are way OF. They viii put
up with more and do less complaining than
any class Of men on earth. In the present
ease one Of them spoke for all when he said:
eyes, things are bad and ought 20 be
rightcd, but we are here only for a meal and
it won't pay us 20 kick"
went out alone The landlord was in the
Office and asked
-" How long since goa were in the dining
roomr
"a week, guess
"Yoa don't oversee tue mealslH
NO
"Well please go 10 the head table and taste
the milk, examine the potatoes and smell Of
the soup"
He departed at once When he returned
be was hopping mad The head-waiter was
called ont and dressed down, the head cook
got nicely peeled, ana the landlord shook my
hand and said
THAT kick Of yourswil benefit this hou-e
5000 / 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 4
thousand men had no doubt gone away mad
aud injured his house.
The fare from the foot Of Market street,
Philadelphia 20 the Bingham house by coupe
is 81. That is the figure established by ordl
nance, and is very liberal. When a coupe
sat me down at the hotel month ago the
driver demanded s. | kicked lie talked
IN a loud voice ia order to gather crowd
and make ne feel ashamed, but refused 20
come down. lie dropped 70 twelve shiliings.
but it was no 90. Ho threatened personal
violence, aud had him arrested. IN lining
him 81 bis honor gave him lecture he viii
never forget and tEen turned 20 me and
said:
lyon deserve a medal for kicking. In this
fellows case, NJ least, you viii have pre-
vented him from swindiing others. Had
Won allowed him 10 swindle you be would
have Dten on the alert - make other vie
Tins.
THE aAS WHO FORGOT.
Coming cut OF Philadelphia by night, a
passenger came 20 me and said he would take
il a. great favor if / would exchange my
lower be,1h for his upper, he having his wife
along.
when did YOU secure your berthN Iasked
"This noon
And 10 bc slrC of mine ] had e secure /.
tgo days ago"
"Yes, but you see forgot.
Forgot! y man who knew that he was
H. 20 at q certain date, and that he must take
o sleeper forget! / cannot exchange with
you"
know he thought mo bOorish, but bad |
exchanged no would have trusted % luck
mex. tine, thinEing 20 meet some good
hearted fellow aud perhaps have got 40 berth
al all Ny refusal angered him, but 1t made
him realize future responsibility.
The city ordinance says no horse shall bc
lett unhiiched on the street. | am careful 70
observe tina, ordinance, no matter what the
the bother Another j. not. His unhitched
rig walks into mine and takes a wheel off. l
demand pay and be Is astonished that he
should 10 neld liable for what Ice calls an
accident lie calls me all sorts Of hard
names, Tut from this on he viii hitcn bis
horse securely
Tie ctlinance specific that alleys shall be
kept clean. 90 70 trouble and expense to
live up q that ordinance My neighbor
dumps nis carriage into the alley and notify
the sanitary police, and ne IS fined. IL Is 4
great shock % hin that be can't break the
ordinance a; viii and olend the nostrils Of
a whole neignborho-d. He calls me a crank
and a mean man. never dreaming that all
the trouble cane from his own selfishueSs
and disregard 81 law and rignt.-M. QlGd
ia Detroit Free ireSs