Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1890-09-09
A RAILROAD EPISODE.
How n Dcspondent Man Was Left aion
In This Gold aud Cruel World.

uow n Despondent Man Was LETT alone
In This Cold and Cruel world
A Michigan Central railroad train was
hustling along toward Chicago at tho
rate II forty miles an hour, when
brassy.faced, middle-aged man suddenly
jumped to his feet in the rcclining-chair
car and glanced hastily and doiiantiy
around MS though daring any one to rc-
strain him. Flinging oil his overcoat' ana
comprcssing his lips with the AIR OF .
tman whose mind-is made up. he rushed
TO the door, jerked 1t open, and screech'
cd ont as he turned around and faced the
other passengers:
Farewell, vain world"
Some OF tho passengers glanced over
tho tops of thoir newspapers toward
him, others looked ut him with languid
interest, while the man nearest the door
threw up his arms and yawned fright
fully.
The man stepped out to the car plat
form. thrust his head back into the car,
and again yelled out:
Farewell, vain world, go hence
Nobody seemed to care whether he
went hence or to some other place, and
0 look OF bitter disappointment came
into the bressy face Of tho would'be
suicide. IIe again thrust his head into
the car and wildly shrieked OUT
"Good,bya, foreyerw
$50 long, my iriendl let usknow when
you got thsre,n replied the man who had
5swHsd, ~ ho quietly elossa the ees
leey and sal aeNa ,,,
Thp aesEprsM man on .he platform
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| iBw Slid gsses III lnsstiis NJ VIZ trhhi
buli bassehItesi
Wa.liig them q hhai adlsd hs huha
oil his coat, threw up his arms and
sat down on the platform. Then h'
6rawled up to tho keyhole Of the door :,
tuse through 1t on the horror and re
m6fse stricken faces. Of this hen ant
WOMEN who had deliberately permittet
i human being to so to DESTRUCTION
But there wasn't single horror
stricken passenger to look upon. Sew
erai of them were giggling immoderate
y, and the cold-blooded, yawhifig pas
,enger was indicating by signs to tn
} others that the ''fare-well-vain-world
man had not gone hence, but was still Il
New York State.
Finally he came sneasing back int
the car with a combined look Of sadnes
and madness on his care-worn face
! which grew gloomier when nobod
rushed forward to ask the cause oil hi
! desperation. Nobody passed the hat 10
his relief; nobody begged him to conhd
: In them; no purse was made up; nothln
4 turned out as he had thought 1t would
= Singing himself into the seat he ha
vacated, the man Kissed out to tn
5 wretch in front of him, who was swayin
| to and fro with rude and ill-concoale
Z laughter:
Q Laugh, now, hang yel Oh, laugh
!, why don't ye, II ye had single dro
! Of the milk OF human kindness in yol
$ breast We wouldn't sec any thing tunn
X in the suicide OF fellow-being. fou
bid him pause and
N Tickets. Tickets!" cried the co
$. ductor, appearing suddenly, and mi
al ute later he was saying to the man wi
lie had saved himself from the death OF
n. suicide:
g .'Lookce here, my friend. this is u
II third time within month that hay
D, caught you trying to dead-head 1t ov'
q this road. The last time you was tr
u ing to work the boat-ticket and poke
book and dying.wife racket on the pa
~ ,engers. and know from your disa
l-;.4.l Ionl, that you'ya hppn nm