The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-03-09
MORE ABOUT KICKING.
BY NJ. QUAD.

III BY NJ. QUAD.
In kicking against whatyou know
4 pbe fraud and an imposition isn't
4 nankind apt to set you down for a
Rank ?"
So queries a Congressman In refer
ing to former article on the SUBJ
ct of kicking, Mankind is not only
|pt to do that very thing, but dead
\ Nrtain to do so. Hence the hesitancy
4 Nraise a row. Hence the reason
4 Aat fraud and imposition flourish
: nd grow rich. For instance, at a
ililway junction station in New Jer'
I N one hot day last summer there
rs not a drop of water in the cooler
4 the waiting-room. There were
henty-seven of US waiting for the
i bin, and there were seats for only
euteen. Everything was covered
f%th dust. not a time-piece nor
tiAe-table in sight. and after a look
ardnd found the station agent on a
trucN down the platform talking base
ball. of the twenty-seyen passengers
fourteen were men. I called their
attentin to the facts 1 have given.
and suggested kick. It might not
benefit 3. but it would help those
who cam after. The reply of each
and every one was. in substance
"Yes, tbs is an Internal shame and
ought to .,e exposed, but L don't
want fuss They'll call me crank
if I kick"
Not one single person dared raise
his voice against the neglect and i'm
position. andI was all alone when /
walked downto the agent and asked:
"Do you krow that the water cool
er is as dry asbone ?"
II amt hird to fill it," he replied.
"Do you know that the waiting.
room hasn't ben swept and busted
for a week ?"
"It's not my business"
sis it anybody's business to look
out fer the convenience of passengers
here ?'
II dunno"
swell. l will make it my business
to find out"
took the names of half a dozen O1
my fellow travellers, wrote directly
tothe superintendent of the road that
night, and two weeks later / stopped
offfor another change, l hardly knew
the place. There were seats for fifty
there was a clock = a lot of fresh time
1lAAles. water c00ierfull to the brin
1Wih new cup, and a station agent
ws bustling around and cheerfuliS
apwering all inquiries.
What's become of the other man
Isked.
Got the bounce last week."
'What was the trouble ?"
"Oh, he let things run down."
"How long had things been as they
we're two weeks ago ?"
"All of two years."
"Did some one complain ?"
ayes, a crank came along anC
made an awful kick, and the super
iutendent stirred up the the whole
line."
While roaming around Philadel'
phia, l came upon menagerie on ex
hibition in a store. There was sigr
out reading that they had a beacon
strictor twenty-five feet long, an AT
rIcan giant eight feet high. and var
ious other things. l concluded te
see the snake and the giant. making
thirty feet ofliving curiosity. is cheaE
at ten cents. This is three feet for 6
cent. When I got in failed to find
the two curiosities, and I made in
quiries of the man with the deer
bass voice and the big watch chain
"Sorry to say that the giant is sick
and the snake got away last week.
he replied.
"But I paid to see them." I pro
tested.
"Well, how are you going tt
do it?"
y "If they are not here 1 want my
dime back"
"Do you take me fer a fool ?"
mo sir / take you for a sharper
Now then, return my money anG
take down the signs, or I'll 60 to thu
Mayor ~
He told me to go and he be-
you know what. and I went. 1t cos
me about S4 for hack hire and mes
senger boys, but he had to refun(
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