Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-07
uNApPREcrArED sENErAcroRs.
Rudely RebuGed for Their Disinterests<
Efforts to Help Humanity Alsng.

Efforts to Help Humanity A10ng.
From the Detroit Free Press
AZ midnight one night ~ train, rolled along
toward Buffalo with at leas. eighteen out of
twenty people in my sleeping sound asleep,
the man who wanted to do us q favor suddenly
began 70 play on harmonicon from an upper
berth. At about the second screech everybody
was awake and such expressions a. these were
flung about that car with great recklessness:
where's that idiot?'
Somebody kill him.
''What on earth does this mean?''
Say, porter, brain that lunatier'
The music was stopped and the mans feel
ings were deeply wounded When the row
9uieted down SO that bis voice could be heard
he said:
you that only had the good of others at heart.
l couldn't get to sleep. and thinking the rest Of
you might be rolling about. and wondering
when we were going to run off into the woods
or drop through bridge, Thought d soothe
you to slunber. This il the thanks get for
it, Not another blamed soothe if you lie awake
all nightr'
could realize his position and clearly dis
cover his motive. and it made me real sorry
when Chicago gravel rcofcr in the berth OPP
posite shook his fist across the aisle and said he
could, would and should lick any man on earth
who broke in on him when he was dreaming Of
signing contract TO gravel roof all the
worlds fair buildings.
lot of us were seated on the stone parapet
at the brink of Niagara Falls. at the extreme
end of Prospect Park. There had been such
expressions as ''maa rush Of waters. racing
to death, swift rush to destruction and 1.-THE
mighty power of nature. and everybody had re-
Iapsed into silence and was problbiy wondering
how miles an hour he could paddle sand
barge against such a current, when the man
who had our interests at heart arrived. He was
little out Of breath, having started two min
utes late. but he at once proceeded 10 say;
Ladies and gentlemen, some Of you may
think that this is canvas painted to represent
water, the same as on the stage. but honestly
assure you it isn't. Others of you may think 1t
is water squirted down here from the Buffalo
water works, but that's another mistake. Ii
comes right ont of the river up there and
them rocks there is real and true
rocks. Don't go away carrying with you a
false idea Of this great and stuPendous work
Of nature. Its all wool and straight as a
spotted cow"
His speech seemed to hurt most Of the peo-
pie. Instead of waiting to inquire into his mo-
burg beckoned him aside, shook his fist under
his nose, and gasped:
Say, you Internal lunkhcad, can knock
your eyebrows of in about four seconds
You can? Is it possible? But what have
l done? l amt the Teller what called you q
liar
'Durn your buttons, but what did you come
here and break in on my meditations forf'
For your own good. l didn't want you to
go away thinking this was some illusion got up
to beat people out of their money. That water
there is just as real the water in your well to
home. know it, I've scooped some of it up
in cup. Come right down here and III prove
it,
heard that fat man growing and blowing
and telling what he would do, and know that
gOod-hearted man went away from US vowing
that he would never put himself out for his
fellow beings again. followed after him to
| thank him and to let him know that appre-
| ciated his sacrifice, but l could not overtake
him.
You get q splendid view of the sea from the
board walk at Manhattan Beach, Coney Island.
six OF us sat on one OF the benches there one
day and we were very quiet. You can do q
great deal of thinking down by the sea, if you
are SO inclined. You can begin at the hotel on
the beach, with its charges Of 20 per day (no
dogs allowed). and gradually work out past the
CLAIMS in the sand, the surf, the white-maned
waves, the ships sailing up and down-going 10
Europe-sailing over the bones of dead men,
DC. We were busy with these thoughts when
along came a Long Island farmer who had been
delivering vegetables at the hotel kitchen. He
wanted us to go home and tell straight story,
and so he saluted us in a pleasant way and re-
marked:
''Some folks git the different oceans all tan
gled up together, and can't tell which from
tother. This is the Atlantic ocean. Better
write it down on q slip Of paper, SO you wont
| forgit it,"
The six Of US bowed
Its bin here ever since can remember and
| allus looks the same
Six more bows.
''The water is salt. Lots Of fellers won't be.
lieye it when fust told, but they find out BY
tasting"
| Six more bows.
Its more'n a thousand miles to tothey
| shore and there are hills at the bottom of the
ocean over fifty feet high. It's beautiful sight
to see them waves rolling in. Any one of em
would upset washtub quicker'n wink.
| used to think the foam on top was cotton bat
| ting or wool, but it amt. 1t comes from sort
! OF saieratus on the bed of the ocean. A good
| many ships have gone down beneath the dark
blue waves, and aiius use ocean water to scald
my hogs in if have time to cart it. 1t starts
the bristles quicker"
Six cold, stony stares, but no bows.
"Needn { be afraid that the ocean will ever
dry up" said the man in hating way, evil
IDENTIFY nonplussed by our silence.
No one answered.
There's a tide twice in twenty-four hours.
The object Of it is to carry dead cats of the
shore. Better write that down afore you forgit
it,
No answer.
wall, all right. Some folks don't seem to
W ACaih II tnty UOn Z. tney
needn't. I've done my duty, and If folks dom
appreciate it, they can 60 to Halifax
met just another such man at Luray, Va.
He was from Rhode Island. had Just come
out Of the caves, when he beckoned me aside
| and whispered:
Don't carry away any erroneous impress
| sions OF this great natural wonder"
"How do you mean?'
Why, you probably imagine that it was dug
| out by syndicate. 1t wasn't. 1t was formed
by nature"
lis that possible! ~
'.les. And them bats in there il real bats
and not made up out OF CLOTH
Dear mer'
And this mountain is the real solid thing,
and not painted on cloth and hung up to de-
| ceiye the people"
How you TALK.
II thought you might 60 away feeling that
You had been imposed on and perhaps feel bad
| about it, and SO thought I'd tell you. Every
thing here is genuine, even to the darkness In
the cave"
Seeing Ones Own Brain.
From the Chicago News.
On the authority Of DR.. Fraser Halle, il IL
quite possible for a man to see his own brain.
Fifty wears have elapsed since Purkinpe oh