The Grenada gazette., 1889-02-28
A CHAPTER ON KICKING.
IN. Quad" Proves Himself to Be q
Useful Crank.

W DO q IL ouu uilu Oil lhlpooASioh hoh
mankind apt to set you down for
crank?n
So queries Congressman in refer
ring to former article on the subject
of kicking. Mankind is not only apt to
do that very thing, but dead certain to
do so. Hence the hesitancy to raise a
row. Hence the reason that fraud and
imposition flourish and grow rich. For
instance, at a railway junction station
in New Jersey one hot day last sum
mer there was not drop OF waite r in
the cooler in the waiting-room There
were twenty-seven of us waiting for
the train, and there were seats for only
seventeen. Every thing was covered
with dust, not time-piece nor a time
table in sight, and after a look around
l found the station agent on truck
down the platform talking baseball.
OF the twenty-seven passengers four
teen were men. l called their atten-
ton to the facts have given, and sug
gested kick. 1t might not benefit us,
but it would help those who came after.
The reply of each and every one was,
in substances:
"Yes, this is an Internal shame, and
ought to be exposed, but | don't want
fuss. They'll call me crank If l
kick"
Not one single person dared raise his
voice against the neglect and imposi-
ton, and was all alone when walked
down to the agent and asked:
DO you know that the water-cooler
is as dry as bone?'
81 amt hired to fill it." he replied.
''Do you know that the waiting-roOm
hasn't been swept and busted for
week?"
"It's not my business.
as it any body's business to look
out for the convenience Of passengers
here?"
Il dunno"
well, l will make it my business to
find out"
took the names of half dozen of
my fellow-travelers, wrote directly to
the superintendent of the road that
night, and two weeks later, as stopped
off for another change, hardly knew
the place. There were seats for fifty,
there was a clock, lot of fresh time
tables, water cooler full to the brim,
with new cup, and station agent
was bustling around and cheerfully
answering all inquiries.
whats become Of the other manp"
! asked.
"Got the bounce last week"
What was the trouble?"
"Oh, he let things run down."
"How long had things been as they
were two weeks agop"
''All of two years"
"Did some one complaint"
'tYes. A crank came along and
made an awful kick, and the superin-
tendent stirred up the whole line.
While roaming around Philadelphia,
l came. upon menagerie on exhibition
in store. There were signs out read
ing that they had boa-constrictor
twenty-five feet long, an African giant
eight feet high. and various other
things. concluded to see the snake
and the giant Twenty-Five feet OF
serpent and eight feet Of giant, making
thirty feet Of living curiosity, is cheap
at ten cents. This is three feet for q
cent. When l got in failed to find
the two curiosities. and made In
quiries of the man with the deep, bass
voice and the watch-chain. ..
''Sorry to say that the giant is sick
and the snake got away last week." he
replied. 1888 ...s....,..-
! "But l paid to see them" pro-
tested
"Well, how are you going to do it?"
III they are not here l want my
dime back"
'.Do you take me for a foolp'
''No, sir! l take you for q sharper!
Now, then, return my money and take
down the two signs or I'll 60 to the
mayor!" IS
He told me to 60 and be--- be-
you know what, and went. It cost
me about four dollars for hack hire
and messenger boys, but he had TO re-
fund my money and remove the signs
under penalty Of having his license re-
voked.
The owner Of the show said he would
mop the earth with me II II cost him