The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-02
A RAILROAD EpIsoOs.
The Hard Luck of Traveller Who was
Trying TO Commit Suicide.

Trying TO Commit suicide.
A Michigan Central railroad train was
hustling along toward Chicago at the ratio
Of forty miles an hour. when brsSsy faced.
middle aged man suddenly jumped 90 his
feet in the reclining chair and glanced
hastily and dcG2ntly around rs though
daring any one 20 restrain him. Fhngins
! Off his oyercoat and COMPRISING his lips
with the air Of "a man whose mind is made
up he rushed 70 tie door, jerked it open,
and screechcd ont IS he turned around and
faced the other passengers:
Farewell, vain woTldn
Some of the passengers glanced over the
tops oftheir 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 70 the car platform,
thrust mis- head back into the car and again
yelled out:
Farewell, vain world; go hence"
Nobody seemed to care whether he went
/ hence or 10 some other place, and "a look Of
bitter disappointment came into the brassy
face of the would be suicide. lie again
thrust his head into the car and wildly
| shrieked out
"Good-by, forever!''
$50 long, my friend; let as Snow when
you get there" replied the man who had
| yawned, as be quietly closed the car door
and sat down.
The desperate man on the platform fat
tened his noee against the car window ard
gHzed in mooduy at the tranquil passengers.
Waving them q final alden he flung oil
his coat, threw mp h.S arms. and-sat down
on the platform Then he crawled up 70
II. D. 4 IL ~ a
on the horror ald rewor-e stricken faces
of the men and women who had deltber-
ately permitted a human bsing to 60 TO de-
stTuCtion.
But there wasn't single horror stricken
passenger 20 look upon Several Of them
were egg.iuy inmoderately, aud the cold
blooded, yawuing passenger was indicating
by signs to the other that the farewell
vHin-worid' man had gone not hence. but
was still in New York STATE.
Finally he came sncakia2 back into the
car with a combined look Of sadness and
madness on his cnreworn face, which grew
gloomier when nobody rushed forward to
ask the cause Of his desperation. Nobody
passed the hat for MS relief: nobody begged
him 70 conIdc "a Thorn; no purse was made
up; nothing turned out az be had thought
il would.
Singing himself into the seat be had
vacated the man h.sscd out 20 the wretch
In front 81 him. who was swayinR 70 aud
fro with rude a8Fill concealed laughter:
Laugh, now Oh laugh, why don't ye'
II ye had a single drop Of tbe milk Of human
kindness in your sreast ye wonidn't So
anything funny ia the suicide Of q fellow
being You'd bid him pause and
Tickets Ticketsi" crled the Conductor
appearing suddenly. and = minute later no
was saying 20 the man who had saved him
self from the death of n suicide:
locke hero. my friend. this Is the third
time within a mouth thai / have caught
you irving 70 deadheed IL over this rood
The last time you was trying 20 work the
boat ticket and poeka,Doo md siYanz wife
racket on the passengers, and know from
your disappointed look that you've been 40
70 something now tHat amt psnned out
well, 80 OF ye GO
4 Jerk Of the hell. a sudden stopping of
the train. quick appearance - u brawny
brakeman. o hight seattle rsar the door
aud the gloomy pssscagcr had indeed gone
flying from the platform. and the train
had gone on. leaving hIra alone Ia this
cold and vain cruel world New York
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