Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-10-03
A RAILROAD EPISODE.
wow a psspendsnt Man Was issft Alone
la rhir Cold and Cruel world.

wow Dsspendrnt Man Was isft Alone
ia This cold and Cruel world.
Michigan Central railroad train was
,, busting along howard Chicago at the !.
ratio OF forty miles an hour, when 4
brassy faced. uiddle-aged man suddcnlv
| bumped to his feet In tho reclining-chair
car and glanced hastily and defiantly
around as though daring any one 10 re-.
strain him. Flinging of hisoyercoat, and
COMPRISING his lips with tho air OF
man whose mind in made up, he rushed
to the door, jarlted it open, and screech
ed out as he turned around and faced the
other passengers:
farewell, vain worldf'
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 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
a look OF bitter disappointment came
into the brassy face Of the would-bs
I suicide. He again thrust his head into
: the car and wildly shriekcd out:
Goodbye, forever'
t $50 long, my friend; let us know when
Z Won get there" replied the man who had
Q yawned, as he quietly closed the car
: door and sat down.
The desperate man on the platform
i. fattened his nose against the car win
t dow. and gazed in mooGaly at the tran
J, quill passengers.
f. Waving them final adieu he flung
off his coat, threw mp his arms, and
Ii sat down on the platform. Then he
l. crawled up to the xeyholo OF the door to
it paze through it on the horror and re-
Of morse stricken faces Of tho men and
r women who had deliberately permitted
" q human being to go to destruction.
ut But there wasn't q single horror
70 stricken passenger to look upon sey-
IN eral Of them were giggling immoderate-
d, ly. and the cold blooded, yawning pas
C. senger was indicating by signs to the
r. others that the farewell Id"
man had not gone hence, but was still in
ng New York State.
lis Finally he came sneaking back into
,e- the car with combined look OF sadness
Dr. and madness on his care-worn face,
he which grew gloomier when nobody
on rushed forward to ask the cause OF his
by desperation. Nobody passed the hat fol
TX his relief; nobody begged HIM to confds
ms in them; no purse was made up; nothing
5a- turned out as he had thought it would
J. Singing himself into the seat he ha'
vacated. the man Kissed out to thu
wretch in front of him, who was swayinl
q to and fro with rude and ill-conceaie'
laughter:
ant "Laugh now, hang ye! Oh, laugh
ew why don't ye! If ye had a single dro
Sc of the milk of human kindness in you
n breast We wouldn't see any thing funn
top in the suicide of fellow-being. You
to bid him pause and
rst "Tickets! 1icketsl' cried the col
ON ductor, appearing suddenly, and mil
up ute later he was saying to the man wi
In had saved himself from the death OF
De- suicide:
wi "Lookee here, my friend, this is Il
third time within month that l ha'
ear caught you trying to dead-head it oy
lar this road. The last time you was TT
nat ing to work the boat-ticket and pockt
DAY book and dyingwife racket on the pr
her senpers and / know from your disa
le pointed look that you've been up
ing something now that amt panned out
sell we'll, SO off We got
and A jerk of the bell, sudden stoppi
her of the train, quick appearance of
SIDE brawny brakeman a slight scuffie ne
re- the door, and the gloomy passenger b
and indeed gone flying from the platfor
way and the train had gone on, leaving h
tail alone in this cold, vain and cruel wor
wlle IN. Y. Tribune.
him "