Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-03-20
[)lsl,lKED THE. TOPIC,
so HE PROMPTLY TRIED TO TURN
THE CONVERSATION.

The stocky individual In the waiting
room at the railway station folded up thu
paper he had been reading and yawned in
large open faced sort of way. ,.s y y
II wish the papers would let up ON this
twentieth century business" he said. adj
dressing preoccupied, lonesome look
ing, man who happened to he sitting near
him. "I'm getting tired Of it,
1.-The papers take the wrong view Of
It, perhapsy' suggested the other. ,:s rs
"All Of them, but one or ,t~o. The way
I look at It, there's only one side to the
question:" 49,. 49,. :..
Yes" .,:!$ ia, ':.rs
:"Xes, sir. It's a. plain % the nose on
your face. When We got to the year
1900, We got into the twentieth century.
You can see that easy enough when you
look at It in the case Of q man that's TAX
ing 4 century run on bis bicycle
"fou. are right about its being Z. tire.
some business" interposed the other man,
stretching his long legs out before him
and leaning back YEARLY In his seat.
"You don't see It a. ! do. maybe r.
mo" -,
"You think we're still in the nineteenth
century?' -
"Certainly."
Now. just one moment. Can't you
see''-
MY friend. what's the use of our argu.
ing on perfectly self evident PROPOSE
ton? It's 4 waste of time on your part
to try to prove an absurdity, and it wo'1l'l
he Il waste OF time for ME to argue with
you Or any other man who has kicked
himself into the next century a yea;
u.!rnd Of time"
u think | can convince you in a5ou1
one minute"-
Begging your pardon. I've heard a
dozen times oyer all you can possibly say
about it. The case is as plain as that
i!ilif alton diamond on your shirt 'front.'
LISTING personal. are you?"
Not any more so than you were when
you said it was as plain as the nose On
my face. What had the painness Of my
nose to do with it,"
=! didn't mean
II wasn't sticking it into the discus
siou. was II"
~, sir. and wasn't sticking my dia-
mou3 into it either, was I?'
Logging your pardon again. sir, you
were. When a man combs his necl,lie
to one side to show the diamond in his
SAIlt lIolt. liz NlINhS tudt uIlIlOuu lutO
any discussion he puts his facial mug
into. lie cha ilenses the public Judgment
on the genuineness of that diamond.
am merely taking up that challenge as a
part Of the public when | tell you it isn't
genuine. 1t won't wash. 1t hasn't the
first water. Nobody may have told you
about it, II so''-
mo. sir. and it isn't anybody's busi-
ness. It's my diamond. I think"
"Rut that. as | have been trying to
break to you gently. is where you mis-.
take. 1t isn't anybody's diamond. It's
a g!aring fraud.
T." you'll excuse me for saying think
you've got a whole lot Of cheek 1t
doesn't concern you, sir. but I paid
Doesn't matter how much you paid
for It. You were swindled, l tell you. IL
you bought that for real diamond"
POSSIBLY. sir. ! may know as much
about diamonds rs you do!'
"And. again. you may not. Do you
know. sir, that a diamond is simply
crystallized carbon. absolutely pure-pur-
er than any baking powder
Il think ! know a diamond when see
It. anyhow"
If you don't know its chemical COM
position. how can you be said to know
anything at all about it? Do you know
that glass can be- cut to look like dia-
mond? Do you know glass is nothing
but melted sand or. to put it more scien-
tiically. that it Is merely silica, mixed
with an alkali and fuxed by means off,
Say. what has all that got to do with
the question of the twentieth
Wasn't it Phillips Brooks who said
there are two great regions in which ev-
cry true man lives-the region of thought
and that of action-and that it is impos-
sible to separate the two? He must Of
necessity live in both. If he does not, he
shows he is not true man. He is a
cheap skate''-
who's a cheap skater"
Don't undertake to tell me, either,
that stream can never rise higher than
its source. know better. Look at a
steam fire engine, standing on the ground
and shooting four inch stream from the
datum line into sixth story window
"Once again, sir, what has all that to
do with the twen"-
"Neither is the man who makes two
blades Of grass grow where only one
grew before a benefactor worth men
tioning. don't care who says he Is. Any
fellow with cents worth Of lawn grass
seed and a place to plant It In can make
a thousand grow where nothing but boys
grew before. But he's got to have a
shotgun besides. The true benefactor,
sir. is the man who can cause a wart to
disappear from the spot where 1t orig
inally grew
Eyes, but
"Apain. knew 4 man once who never
had clean hands, but he had 4 lovely
soul. He was Swiss baker"-
May I ask you what you are talking
about?'
Eyes. SIR" said the long legged man.
rising and moving toward the gate where
q mon In uniform was guarding the train
shed from everybody but confidence men,
NOW that can get into the car don't
mind telling you that have been trying
to side track ninety-nine year twentieth
century crank. Your diamond u all right,
cir. Good afternoon"
Five minutes afterward the long legged
man, leaning comfortably back In hia
seat and absentmindedly watching the
flying landscape through the car win.
dow, was speeding on HE way to Lake
Forest.-Chicago Tribune.
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they relksl.
Yorkrode-Mrs. Walbrook entertained
quite crowd Of ladies yesterday. 1t val
either her sewing circle or her whist
club. .sg