The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-03-12
BILL NYE ON THE ROAD.
4 Few Remarks ON the Pecunaritios u


Few Remarks ON the Pecuiiaritics of
rortors
] carry with me- this year. a small. sorrel
bag, weighing "a little over twenty ounces
II contains "a slight bottle Of horse medicine
and powder fas Sometimes II also con-
taius costly robe dc mutt, when / do not
forget and leave said robe in the sleeping car
or hotel am not oyordrawing this matter
however when say honestly that the shril
cry of fire at night in most any hotel in the
United States now would bring TO the fire
escape from one 20 SIX EMPLOYS Of said hotel,
wearing these costly vestments with my brief
but imperi,hable name engraved on the
bosom
This little travelling bag which is not big
ger than a mans haud is rudely pulled out
of my grasp a, | enter the inn, and it has cost
nae $50 81 get 1t back again from the porter
Besides ! have paid IS 50 for new handles 10
replace those that had been torn Off in
frantic sculile between the porter and myself
% $50 which would get away with it.
Yesterday was talking with a reformed
lecturer about this popularity OF the porters
lie said he used 10 lecture "a great deal at
moderate prices throughout the country, and
after ten years Of earnest toll he was enabled
% retire with a rich experience and - in
money. Tie leciured on phrenoogy and took
bis meals with tins chairman of the lecture
committee IN OLray. Colo. the baggageman
allowed Dis trunk % fan from a great height
and the hd was knocked of and the bust
which the professor used in bis lecture was
busted he therefore had 10 borrow bald
headed man % act rs bust for him IN the
evening After the close of the lecture the
professor found that the bust had stolen the
gross receipts from his coat tail pocket while
bic VAS lccturiag. The only improbable feat.
ure about th, story d the Implication that
bald headed man would commit crime.
But still Doe did not become soured He
pressed ON and iccturci to tie gentle ilnitors
of tho land in piercing tones lewas always
kind o. every one, even when people criticised
bis lecture ami went away before he got
through IT, iorgaye them and paid his bill |
just the sams as he did when people liked /
him. :
once a newspaper man who had done him
great wrong and said that the lecture /
was decayei and that the professor would |
enlear himself to every one il he would |
some night at his hotel, instead Of blowing /
Nut TIC -t' anu tAi Iii- 'ii us III lil1 us ne /
usually did, just turn oif the gas and blow
out his brains But the professor did not 70
% his Office and blow holes Ia his viscera Ho
spoke kindlyto him always and once when
the two met in barber shop, and il was
which was next, rs they came N
from opposite ends OF the room, tho professor
gently yielded the chair 10 tho man who had
done him the great wrong, and while the
barber was shaving him eleven tons Of cell
ing peeled of aud fen on the editor who had
ocen - cruel and 50 rude and when they
gathered up the debris a day or two after.
wards il was almost impossible 10 tell which
was ceiling and which was remains.
50 It Is always best 10 dead gently with
The errlng especially Il yon think it viii be
fatal 10 them. Bill Nyo in New York
World