The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-03-05
HOW WE SUFFER.
The Man NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
and His Victims.

and His Victims.
Inever read of a railroad or steamboat
disaster without secretly hoping that The
man who wants to know-you know is
numbered in the victims l don't say any,
thing against a person storing his mind
with knowledge, but what | object to is
the way that knowledge is sometimes
! fred off at n man who is lame and can't
make his escape.
For instance, our train going east was
tagged at midnight and held for an hour
because of wreck on the road. Every
body in the sleeping car awoke, and most
| of the people got up and dressed, although
| it would have been common sense to turn
| over and go to sleep again. One of the pas
sengers was a large, portly man, who had
formerly driven hogs to market. BY the
exercise of economy, perseverance, virtue,
tenderness and a dozen or so other attri-
butes he had climbed up until he owned n
slaughter house and bought the hogs
which Others drove. This was not ONLY n
good drive on him, but he was legally en-
titled to feel proud of it. He had lust En-
ished telling crowd Of passengers in a
loud voice that he was figuring to buy that
railroad and change the management
when The-man-whowa wants tp-know-you-
know suddenly interrupted him with:
Excuse me, my friend, but can ask YOU
question:"
Certainly SIR" was the courteous reply.
81 was talking with chap in the depot
at Buffalo, and we couldn't exactly agree
about Mohammed, the Arab. He was, as
you know, originally called Halabi, and
was born about the year $40. What we
differed about was his birthplace; as | have
it, it was Mecca; as he had it, it was Syria.
What is your opinion?"
The man who had climbed up the ladder
of life by virtue of his own integrity turned
pale, looked helpleSsly around, and finally
sunk down a crushed and helpless victim.
and he didn't even look up when an old
farmer remarked to his wife:
Good huff for him. If Teller hain't
studied algebra and geography what's the
use of his putin on so much style"
Again, there was party of us on the
promenade deck of n Hudson river steamer.
The prominent one of the crowd was a pale
faced, weak eyed young man who had been
all over Europe, and who had attended col.
lege long enough to learn everything worth
knowing. He talked very glbly OF the
Stone Age, the Drift Period and all that.
and as he came along to the Palisades be,
observed that:
1.-THE true igneous rocks belong either to
the trappean or volcanic divisions, while
the mass you see before you is composed,
to very large extent, of strlttied meta
morphic rocks"
looked around to see if The-man- who
wants-to know you know was present
He was. He sat with his chair tipped back
and his feet on the rail His suit WAS II
very loud check, and he had, the general
bearing of man who trades in horses and
buys sheepskins of farmers. He listened
with great interest, and when the young
man had finished he squared his chair
around and said:
professor, you are right; you have hit
the bulls eye; you know it ALL"
"Aw' replied the young man.
Ppm glad to have met you, because those
things have bothered me, and because
want to ask you question" .,...-
"Aw-proceed"
you have heard of Scipio, of course"
"Aw"
KILLED, you know, in the year 1877 B. Cs''
"Awp
"Of course you have heard of Basil, sur.
named the Great Greek, you know. and
born in the year 800 in Cappadocia Pretty
good fellow, guess, but wouldn't bet or
it,"
"Awl What is your question, sahf"
81 was getting to it. Suppose you owned
a horse?"
"Awl"
mo matter about the color or sex. YoE
are awoke at night by his stamping in the
stable"
Jaw"
"You go out and find him very i'll. Now,
sir, can you tell me how to inform myself
whether he is suffering with calcareous
carbonate of soluble obliquity or is attack
ed with herbiyerous transition of inter
stratiicd eXhalations2"
The young man rose up, looked around
him to take last farewell of earth, anI
then plunged over the rail into the river.
The steamer was stopped and every effort
made to rescue him, but he did not want
to be rescued. He wanted to sit down on
the bottom OF the Hudson and have good
long think with himself.-M. Quad in De-
troit Free Press
1t Was of No Consequence.
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