The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1890-08-30
RAILWAY EPISODE,
Oaaappo1ntment of q Nan Who
Threatened Suicide.

Disappointment of q Nan wh,
Threatened Suicide.
AMichigan Central Railroad trai,
was hustling along toward Chicae,
at the rate of forty miles an hour
when brassy-faced, middle-agee
man suddenly jumped to his feet il
the reclining-chair car and glanced
hastily and defantly around as i
defying any one to restrain him
says the New York Tribune. Fling
ing off his overcoat and compress.
ing his lips with the air of man
whose mind is made up, he rushed
to the door, jerked it open, aid
schreeched out as he turned aroui d
and faced the other passengers:
Farewell, vain world !"
Some of the passengers glanced
over the tops of their newspapers
toward him, others looked at him
with languid interest, while the man
nearest the door threw up his arms
and yawned frightfully.
The man stepped out to the car
platform, thrust his head back into
the car and again yelled out:
Farewell, vain world, l go hence"
Nobody seemed to care whether
he went hence or to some other
place, and look of bitter disap-
pointment came into the brassy face
of the would-be suicide. He again
thrust his head into the car and
wildly shrieked out:
Good by, forever'
$50 long, my friend let US know
when you get there" replied the
man who had yawned, as he quietly
closed the car door and sat down.
The desperate man on the plat
form fattened his nose against the
window and gazed in moodily at
the tranquil passengers.
Waving them final adieu he
flung off his coat, threw up his arms
and sat down on the platform. Then
he crawled up to the keyhole of the
door to gaze through it on the hor-
ror and remorse stricken faces of
the men and women who had de-
liberately permitted human being
to go to destruction.
But there wasn't single horror
stricken passenger to look upon.
Several Of them were giggling inn
moderately, and the cold-blooded,
yawning passenger was indicating
by signs to the others that the "fare-
well-vain-world" man had not gone
hence, but was still in New York
State.
Finally he came sneaking back
into the car with combined look
of sadness and madness on his care
worn face, which grew gloomier
when nobody rushed forward to ask
the cause of his desperation. No.
body passed the hat for his relief;
nobody begged him to confide in
them; no purse was made up; moth
ing turned out as he had thought
it would.
Singing himself into the seat he
had vacated, the man Missed out to
the wretch in front of him, who was
swaying to and fro with rude and
laughter:
Laugh, now,-yel Oh, laugh.
why don't We? If ye had single
drop of the milk of human kind
ness in your breast you wouldn't
see anything funny in the suicide
OF a fellow being. You'd bid him
pause and"
Tickets Tickets ~ cried the con-
iuctor, appearing suddenly, and a
later he was saying to the
man who had saved himself from
he death of suicide:
"Lookee here, my friend, this is
me third time within month that
have caught you trying to dead :
lead 1t over this road. The last
lime you were trying to work the T.
2oat-ticket and pocket-book and
1ying-wlfe racket on the passengers, =
md l know from your disappointed DR. r
ook that you've been up to some m
hing that amt PANIED out well, SO e ,a
IF we go!" r Ri
A Jerk of the bell, a sudden STOP tn
'lng OF the train, a quick appear re- re-
nee OF brawny brakeman, slight in
cutie near the door, and the gloomy N
passenger had indeed gone flying if
rom the platform, and the train OF OF
lad gone on, leaving him alone in re-
bis cold and vain cruel world, su