Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

nice fuzzy whiskers as the counterpane rose
and fell with each gentle desperation. 1t
was real good. II was not what you could
call sedentary business and yet it was not
difficult 1t was not, however, a calling
which aroused the faculties much and man
without college education could have soon
learned so the crowd would not have known
the difference.
Sometimes people would criticise him and
say he needed this and he needed that in
order to look life-like. Some criticised his
hair, others said one ear was bigger than the
other. Most everybody saw where they
could have improved on him.
His clothes were put away bv an at
tendant each day, and brought back to him
at night. He never knew where they were.
He only knew that be lay like boarder
taking his rest with his folding bed about
him. One hot day last summer little boy
came up to the open window and threw a
big cannon fire caacker in on the lay figure
and then went away from there for a few
weeks.
That was the time when the college grad
uate dressed in long robe, de mutt,
trimmed with red tattering around the yoke
and sleeves, and with special train to it,
abandoned the position which ne had before
occupied. That is the reason he attracted
attention as he passed the City Hall on his
way to the Brooklyn bridge. That is the
reason why he now wears a suit of clothes
which be ordered in a hurry, suit of
clothes which was made for the Law figure
in New Jersey corn-field but which were
doubtless returned as unsatisfactory.
FLUENT TALKER.
Still he was a good talker, and his con.
versation interested me very much. He got
to talking finally of the South and Incl
dentally of the bloody shirt element on the
one hand and the gum tolu reconcilers on
the other. Incidentally he used, as nearly
as 1 can recall it, about the following
language:
"The growth of conciliation between the
North and the South is the slow growth of
years and the work of generations. When
any man, North or South, in public place
takes occasion to talk in a mellow and
mawkish way Of the great love he now has
for his old enemy, watch him. He is getting
ready to ask favor. know that there is a
beautiful, poetic idea in the reunion of two
contending and shattered elements of great
nation. There is something beautifully
pathetic in the picture of the North and
South clasped in each others
arms and shedding a torrent of hot
tears down each others backs as it is done
in play, but do you believe that the aged
mothers on either side have learned to love
the foe that shot her son and burned her
beautiful home? Do you believe that the
crippled veteran, North or South, now pas
sionately loves the adversary who robbed
him of his glorious youth, made him
feeble ruin and moved down his comrades
with swift death? Do you believe that
either warrior is so tickle that he has de-
serted the cause for which he fought?
"No, sir. This maudlin, mawkish STYLE
of parlor theatricals is worthy of the real
estate speculator and the bloodless, windy
wars between men who battle for post
Offices
"Let the gentle finger of time undo the
physical devastation wrought in the South.
Let succeeding generations seek through
natural methods to reunite the business and
the traffic that were interrupted by the war.
Let the South guarantee to Northern inves-
tor security to himself and his investment
and he will not ask for the love which we
read of in speeches, but do not expect and do
not find in the South.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
"Two warning parents on the verge of
divorce have been saved the disgrace of
separation and agreed to maintain their
household Tor the sake of their children.
Their love has been questioned by the world
and their relations strained. Is it not bad
taste for them to pose in public and make
a cheap Romeo and Juliet tableau of them
selves?
''Let time and merciful silence obliterate
the scars of war, and succeeding generations,
fostered by the smiles of national prosperity
soften the bitterness of the past and mellow
the memory of mighty struggle in which
contending hosts called upon Almighty
God to sustain the cause which it honestly
believed to be just.
"Let us leave the hollow mockery. the
gush and rhetorical rot of reunited hearts
to the tickle politician and the ague-stricken
specuIator who sells us an orange plantation
in the everglades of Florida or town lot
covered with mortgages and fringed with
alligators.
Let us write and talk less for declama-
tory purposes and do more for posterity.
When you see two people calling attention
to their affection for each other, that is the
time to speak to the police about it,
do not indorse all he said, but there was
food for thought in it, and when he left the
train, L asked him to dine with me some
evening and be the life Of the party.
BILL NYE.