The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-09-19
welcome which Capt. Noel win receive
will be all that his fondest dreams could
possibly have cherished"
T4E HOG FAMILY.
lTo DE CONTINUED.

Numerous la This Broad Land.
The Hog family is not American, nor
is 1t 10y any means peculiar to this
country The Lady Mavourneen who
said with enthusiasm that che could
travel without insult from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, and that every American
of the other sex seemed to make him-
self her protector said only what is
generally true of the American. He is
naturally courteous and invincibly good
natured. Indeed, it is his good nature
which has permitted the family Hog to
develop to such proportions. A man
enters a hotel las if it belonged to
him." VIII he not be forced to pay
for his accommodation roundlyl
Shall he not take his ease in. his innl
Is he not willing to settle for all the
food, drink, comfort, trouble that he
may require or occasiona Shall he put
himself out for others9 Ii number
'one does not look out for itself who
will look out for itl
And to all this Jonathan good nat
uredly assents. If number one takes
more than his share of the sofa Jona-
than moves up. If number one puts
his feet on chair, Jonathan does not
stare. If number one still more gross
ly demonstrates his porcine lineage,
Jonathan dislikes to make trouble
those whom he insults, and plainly ex-
poets every circle to bow to the sover-
eighty of seltishness. This is fatal
form of good nature, but it has II not
unkindly origin. 1t springs from a
social condition in which everybody is
expected to help everybody else, be-
cause everybody needs help us in a
frontier community. Indeed, in many
a rural neghborhood still this spirit of
lending a hand is supreme. Everybody
expects to submit to Inconvenience, be-
cause he knows that he will require
others to submit.
But these refinements of mutual de-
pendence must not be allowed to justify
the outrages of selfishness. The pas
senger in the boat or the train who oc'
cupies more than his seat, who sits in
one chair, covers another with his
feet and third with his bundles
and smokes, and widely squirts tobacco
Juice around him until his vicinity il
not "a little heaven" but another kline
of 81" below, is public pest and gen
eral nuisance, for whose punishment
there should be common law of pro
cedure. But this can be found only
where there is common contempt ant
resolution which will deprive him O
his i'll gotten seats in the first place, ant
make him feel, in the second, the gen
eral scorn of his neighbors.
But as we are told constantly ant
correctly that we are u reading people
it is through reading that the member
of the family which is hosts human
generis will learn that they are tn
most detestable and detested OF TIN
great families of the race. You, sir
whose eyes are Swimming this page, ant
who never give your seat to u woman
in the elevated car ION principle"-th
principle being either that II womal
L
ought not to get into q crowded cal
knowing that she will put gentlemel
to inconvenience; or that the compan
ought to forbid the entry Of more pas
sengers than there are seats; or tina
first come should be first served; Q
that number one, having paid for
seat, has right to occupy it; or what
ever other form the principle" may az
sume-you are one of the host agains
| whom the crusade is pushed. Tho
art the-well, for the sake of euphon
we will say man, but it is not man tina
is in the mind of your censors.
Or you, madam, who enter the raj
road car with an air of right, and
look of reproval at every man who doe
not spring to his feet, and who settl
. yourself into the seat offered you will
out the least recognition of the courtes
that offers it--for you it would be we
3 il the urbane mentor Of another ola
8 were still here, who, having given II
, seat to dashing young woman VIII
: seemed unconscious of his presenc
looked at her until she impatiently d
3 manded If he wanted anything, and /
Q responding said blandly, Eyes, MADAM
I, / want to hear you say thank you.
! Both this sir and madam may leai
I from the daily papers Us from this pas
= that even in n car where they recogni
, no acquaintance a cloud OF witness
q around hold them in full survey, ar
!. whatever the fashion or richness
O their garments, and however supe
cilious their air, perceive at on
e whether they belong to the family
o ladies and gentlemen, or to that
/ Charles Lambs "Mr. H." Thackeray
L hero could not have been more agha
to see his divine Ottilia consume Wi
Z, gusto the oysters which were no long
9 fresh than Romeo to learn by L
q Juliet's question to that urbane ment
q of other years that his mistress must
~ of kin to the uncomfortable family
n George William Curtis in Harpe
70 Magazine.
) Bad Spelling No disgrace.