Evening star., 1896-10-24
DAMAGES WANTED.
Remarkable Grievance ana q Liberal
HeAuetfen feR GRsk,

heaarkable Grievances ana . Liberal
ReAuettsn fer Cash.
The subordinate railway sffeiai haA been
talking % Star reporter abest The hard
ness Of The times. He had 3uss delivered a
few fefaarks on the schemes besrie VIII
resort 10 TO get something fsf hethine,sshes
sRsn with hesty manner same in.
Il SUPPOSE" he sad. Withsnt introducing
himself, That Ns Customary fef tsiivay
10 pay damages when IL hills livestock"
IT rs, IL ses esn make She railway Dc
IT," was the sIneneeuresiBs response.
We'll. 1 have g ease that thins s. sH
right. came directly here with u beessse
Im food-hatured man. and @aat 10
Spare The president ard board of dite-tSrs
ataesea into eetsrt."
srievanoeT'
II don't expsct TO get pad fer all nay srt~v-
aflce. There are bereevements for which
money cannot pay. Brt I want 5aetfee."
stuffed skin Of an anaeaally large black
snake. WipiBs his eyes with a red hand
kefchtsf, ke pointed to the snaks with his
oetstFetched palm and said:
Thefe " All that remains of The >.et ~
the heosehoA nd the pride of the ne4rfa-
borheod. tcCk him 10 the taxtAermist's
as soon as I could. for. this being that wac
one OF the sentlest and eheerfulest Of cree-
see that limp place In the middle ef h4mr
Yes Il looks ~ " the taxideyassst
hasn't MADE a very eood Job"
cure mistaken That shows his syt-
told him 70 pressrve that place with the
utmost care. That's where ons Of y@sr
trains ruthlessly ran over him at the SSss
oL twenty miles an hour and exttnsussse4
What do you want ss TO %; send OF, q
shaker
''Do you imagine for an instant that an
other covld take the placs Of this? Btss, ef
course, you don't know an thing about bis
value. Two thousand Collars Is the only
ba Sis upon which I wOuh thlEk of q esnn-
pTonnsss take The thing into courr IN
sue for ten thousand I'n explain the e8r-
ermstaacsS 70 yeu. This snake was aecss-
TONED 70 run ~ lsrse over nay villa
You have q vfllAy'
a great many guests every swimmer, WHO
e11toy swinging In q kArasneck. II that snake
had received all the hfe-savins rssAak ~
was entitled 10 he'd have soun6ed Liz a
q tree. 4 am aware that the snelanchosy
days have come, but he wiz be needed rs~xt
sumner, just the same. You know there's
nothing more dangerous than falling out of
OF the spine and a number Of other fatal con-
sequencea- The hammock Was tied h~tyeep
two trees, and, Of coprye, 81 vas imposssbIe
70 tell exactly when the friction aszinst tAe
used W 60 up thai tree ard 1LeC
could the snake TALK interrupted tns
railway ofnciaL frreJcvantIy.
lie along hnnb where he could watch
that rope. And the frstant he saw any
signs Of It's parting he would throw btmss3f
around the trunk, knot mis- taf around the
crd OF tne hammock and hold on TN The
peopls got ont II the slight Jar 6t6p't can
their attsation to what had happened he
would let himself slide gently down ths
tree until The hammock feach~d tbs
ground"
That's good story the railway man
commented, appTOvtngfy.
I DON'T exDect you 20 beIseve my un-
supported testimony I can tale you out
and show you ths hammock and the tree
I'm afraid We can't do anything Tor
you"
tn come down from two thousand Aob-
lars TO one"
''One dollarr
"Y-yes: II you insist upon e
The railway man paid HIM cash and re-
marked:
He probably doesn't realize that he has
worked hard for that dollar: bat ne has