Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1905-07-13
TROUBLE OF NERVOUS MAN
Woman Who Forgets to Close Car
Door Gets Him Into an TN
pleasant Situation.

The ordinary wear and tear that Is
liable to come to q nervous man in the
daily walks of Chicago life is Illus
trated In the experience of q we'll
known suburbanite. This man, who is
10 years old, says a local exchange,
went into a suburban train on the
Northwestern and took his seat facing
the door at the front end of the car one
evening last winter. He deposited his
bundles on the floor about his feet and
fell to reading his paper. A little later
a soldier from Fort Sheridan. trine
unsteady, lurched into q sea back Oh
him and across the aisle.
Presently a woman walked through
the car looking for q seat, passed out
the front door and left It open. A cold,
icy winter wind blew in on the man of
40. He put down his paper and slammed
the door shut in nervous, fidgety way.
A few minutes later a second woman
went through the door and left 1t open
and again the man closed it with
trife sterner slam. Just before the
train started up a third woman went
. through and also left the door open.
The man was getting angry by this
time and slammed the door viciously
and with an aggrieved air fell back to
reading.
The train had scarcely gotten under
way when into the mind Of the drunk.
en- soldier there no doubt crept the idea
that he too wanted to get up into the
next car. At any rate he arose, opened
the door so sharply that 1t caught in
the little catch which holds 1t open at
the bottom. The soldier instead Of
passing on through stood there sway
ing aimlessly to and fro, apparently
holding the door open. The man with
the paper and other passengers looked
up with a scowl as the cold wiud
struck them. The man with the paper
called out, half angrily:
"Shut that door,"
The soldier, trained to obey, stroYe
to do 80. The door was caught at the
bottom and the feeble pressure he put
on It failed to dislodge It, whereupon he
began to look at the top for the cause OF
the trouble, still swaying foolishly back
and forth. The now thoroughly-in'
censed man with the paper leaned out
from his seat, reached out hand, jerked
the door from the soldiers grasp and
slammed it shut again. Then he TANNED
himself down in his seat and went to
reading again. The soldier backed out
In the aisle little toward the man in
an effort to still find out what had held
the door open. A lurch Of the train
threw him squarely into the nervous
mans lap, crushing the latter's paper as
he fell. The conductor extricated the
soldier and showed him back into his
own seat.
Now, the nervous mia was q good Eel.
low at heart and, after riding a few
miles, got over his anger and began to
feel sorry that he had spoken so sharp
ly to the soldier and just before he got to
his station he arose, put on his overcoat
and leaned over to apologize to the
other.
The train stopped at the station the
man expressed his sorrow for his actions
toward the soldier and then ran hurried.
ly and jumped off the train. twas some
minutes later when the remaining pas:
sengers discovered that in his hurry to
apologize the nervous man. In getting of
tho train had loft hahiAd him IN the
seat all his bundles.