Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-05-07
WAS PHILOSOPHER.
A nEocAH STUDENT or HUMAN MA
TURE WHO HAD A SYSTEM.

Mondicnncy Carried ont Upon Practical
Lnes-why uo Avoided the Rioh-stood
Outside q Restaurant but Never Berred
Prom q Hungry Looking Man.
He was a wretched looking chap. 20
thinly clad that he was really ar object
Of pity. Ho bad sought q secluded cor
nor ct tho entrance Of q cheap restaurant
near Herald square. and for awhile it
soomed ns 10 no had chosen the spot
merely to escape the chilling blasts Of
the cutting wind Many men passed
into the place, but BIO spoke to mono
Finally ono who had just completed his
meal came forth. The man started for
ward, hesitated a moment and then re-
eumed his former position. Soon another
man, apparently in q great hurry, camo
from the restaurant, buttoning his coat
as no walked. In q moment the poor
follow stood in tho way and barely had
he uttered his request for help when he
was rewarded with a dime.
A moment later a group Of young
men in very high spirits passed into the
restaurant. To an ordinary student thoy
would have been just tho right men to
approach for aims, but tho boggar saw
thcm not It was ely &c certain men
returning to tho street Tat ho mado
himself known. &c was but The work Of
a moment 70 pick an acquaintance with
the fellow, and when ho found l was
interested be talked freely of his plan.
81 had to Go q good deal of thinking
abont it WHOM / first started in, no
said. II can't get work now, and when
I have work l can only keep at It for q
little wLilo On account Of rheumatism.
When I saw / had to beg, I thought !
might as well do it right or not at all.
II you know anything about mons faces
and clothes, you don't have TO do any
gueaswork at all / can tell long before
I get near q man what my chances ere
with him, and If ] don't think that it's
ten TO one / will get something / don't
try him, for there's no good in wearing
yourself out and getting common. Some
fellows 60 along the street and try to
touch every well dressed man they meet.
They couldn't do anything worse, for
everybody secs what they're doing aud
knows they arc professionals and steers
clear Of them. The only time to go up
against well dressed men as n straight
thing, without regard TO their faces, is
when they are full and feeling happy
over it.
'"The average we'll dressed man or
woman is the hardest kind Of a person
to hit. They do lots for charity, but it's
in q different way-sooioties, schools
for kids, ki~ndergartens and missions
and they think they are doing enough.
If any one hits them on tho street, they
put them down for a professional You
have got to judge tho VOL dressed peo-
pie by their faces and general manno
and let their clothes oount for nothing
"Whenever / have to 90 any street
work, l always select tho people OF the
lower middle classes, who don't put on
n front-women especially. / mean
peopio who live comfortably, but haven't
got any too much money TO spare. Say,
you may think Tn stringing you, but 1
| would rather have one nickel from ere
Of them than a quarter from a fellow
who could stand it and had It to burn.
Funny, but / feel just as sentimental
about that sometimes as If ! was earn
ing it, and l would earn it if l had the
chance.
CHOW, you take this stand Of mino
here today. There's three men who gave
mo somethirg-two nickols and a dime.
l have boen here half an hour aud I've
only struck five mon. I missed two.
Well, three ont Of FIVE don't look like
bad CROSSWORD, il you want to call it
so, does &c? This is the cheapest res
taurant in the n|eighborhood. There's
the Imperial, Marlborough and all the
other big hotel restaurants l could
have taken, but I'll bet wouldn't have
got a thing from the people who came
from any OF them. Tho men who go in
here don't pay ver 20 or go cents for
what they eat, and I'm willing to take
my chances with them right along.
II always wait till q mai comes ont.
Some people think it ought to be tic
other way, for the reason that q man
who was hungry would DO moro apt e
give out of sympathy for the man who
was hitting him for money for some.
thing to eat. But l didn't figure it oul
that way. You see, these arc pretty
hard times, and there's more people il
hard luck than there ever was before
Now, it's bad enough to be in hare
lnok, but it's worse yet to be hungry
and when a man Is up against boil
games little things will bother him tina
wouldn't affect him at all il he had hi
stomach full. / reason that pretty near
" every man who comes in here is eth
er in hard luck OF else he is a misei
who don't want to spend any more than
is actually necessary. II it wasn't so
you know they would all go to the BIZ
restaurants in the hotels, for you know
as wolf as / do that the right kind Of
man likes good things to eat and mic
clean service il he q afford it.
"Woll I an onto the misors, and
leave them alone. When the decen
man comes out, no feels better for hav
ing had bis dinner. Ho is ready 70
business, and life Is a great deal bright
er to him than IL was half On hour be
fore. l ask him to help me. Ho says t
himself: We'll, / feel pretty good. Thi
fellow IS in worse luck than / am.
} know what Il is to feel hungry. / won
miss tho nickel very much, and then
: get it. When he hands it tome, he feel
better for ID, and he looks IL, too, and
: be has been doing things that are no
quite up to the limit he consoles him
self with the fact that he amt such
, bad fellow after all. And no amt eth
er. So you see there's two Of us happy
and IL tEcro WINS mora Of il the WOrl
would DO happier. Thanks, boss
Then the philosopher went in to din
, per.-NoW York Herald.