Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-09-15
THREE EXPERIENCES.
The Pathway OF The Man With The Cal.
culatine Eye Stormy One.

She isn't very large woman but
she had .''fire in her eye," as the poet
phrases 1t. when she stopped the Man
with the Calculating Eye on the street
this morning.
Say" said she, why can't women
vote on the water bonds proposition? :?
know some women who pay more
taxes than the men and they can't no
more vote than Chinaman. | don't
think that is right, at all. Do your"
And she stamped her tiny foot and
looked very indignant. What was the
Man, etc., etc., to do?
81 am very sorry" he said apollo
getically.
IF the women tax payers were to
vote on this question, the bonds
would carry by bigger majority than
the men will or can give it" she said
emphatically.
And then the Man with a Calcula-
ting Eye was more sorry than ever.
Another kicker was the man who
buys water and gets it (sometimes)
and yet cannot vote.
II think by rights" he said, that
| the man who patronizes the water
company ought to have voice in this
matter. Here l pay SIC year be-
sides my house rent. My landlord
doesn't pay cent of it, yet he votes
where cannot. Now, is that right?
| Again the Man, etc., was up against
| it, sure and hard, and the only re-
course left him was to move further
on UP the street.
He did this and although the morn
ing was reasonably cool he stopped
to wipe the perspiration from off his
brow.
This thing of running the water
a little onerous," he said to himself
Then he frightened up as he thought
that he was fulfilling his duty as a
good citizen. But the experiences
just enumerated were nothing as COM
pared with the one that was to follow
Just as he had placed his handker-
chief back in his hip pocket, proper
ty owner came bustling around the
corner and ran plump into him.
Hello, here you are" said the new
conner excitedly. Say, wanted to
see you awfully bad. Now, look here"
and he drew the Man, etc., to one side,
looking up and down the street as
though he were afraid some one
would see him.
II don't intend voting for your old
water bond proposition" he contin-
ued excitedly No, by jinks l don't,
and don't you forget it."
And then he whaeked his hands to-
gether most senergetically.
why, what's the matter now?"
said the Man with the Calculating
Eye as he polished his spectacles with
the front edge of his coat.
II don't intend to vote for it-no,
siree," replied the other, because
your dad Blamed old concern don't
intend running its pipes in front of
my door"
"Why, my good man. said the Man.
etc., as he replaced his. spectacles
carefully and looked at the other criti-
cally, "but the pipe does run in front
of your door, assure you"
Thereupon he drew from his pocket
map of the proposed system as ap-
proved by the city council. Sure
enough, there was his lot on the cor
ner and the pipe line running right
| in front Of 1t. Then the irritated look
faded from his countenance, and was
replaced by a benign, fatherly express
sion.
Say" said he,as he slipped his
arm persuasively into the arm of the
Man With the Calculating Eye;
l"what will you have thIr morning for
your mornings morning?"
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