The independent., 1907-03-14

MARCH II, 1917.
poem runs mama was tired and no
place to go.' Denver lid her best, but
there wasn't accommodations for the
whole army and the chief of police in
structed the patrolmen to be lenient with
those who had no place to sleep but
worst ever. We rode in narrow seat
at the end of the car with very fat
Dutchman from Marion, Ohio. All night
long without a wink OF sleep we journed
toward the rising sun and every half
hour the Dtuchman recfted a tale of woe
about having paid two dollars for two
weak ham sandwiches and as many
boiled eggs just before he left Denver.
and how he gave a coon 81 to go get
him pint of whisky, and the coon and
q suddenness that Jared him all over.
He didn't mind the loss of the money,
but he needed the whisky to soothe his
troubled conscience during the long,
wakeful vigils of the night Relief
came for this man at North Platte where
he was able to get two bottles of beer
and a link of liverwurst for fifty cents,
and his experience only shows the folly
of these spasmodc concessions on the
part of common carriers that induce peo-
pie in large numbers to sacrifice every
other precious consideration for the
paltry privilege Of q cheap ride. Better
steady, living rates to all and more COM
Portable conditions of travel continually.
Rev. A. M. P. Abbott Of O'Neill GER
tainIy deserves sympathy for the loss
he sustained in the fire that consumed
the Northwestern depot at Norfolk. The
property destroyed, according to sched-
ule filed by the plaintiff preacher against
the defendant railroad company in the
district court, consisted Of one bicycle
and trunk. the latter containing goods
and chatt1ls to the value Of $4,000 to-
wit.
Fiahin9 reel and equipments ..$ 500
Small chip diamond ............... 500
5000 printed chronological charts 1000
Old family Bible with records. 100. 90
chronological demonstrating outfit,
with one human skull and his
tory connected herewith ~ 1000 90
Plaster of paris bust. ... 1900
Firty hand painted signs. ......... $500
Fifty written lectures .... 500 90
Hand painted chronological bust 1000
Scientific data partly arranged for
publication of text book On Phi
iosophy ........................... 5000 90
Twenty-Five charts for illustrat-
ing lectures Observation-Disclosures. 2.00
Hand driving of human brain
made by plaintiff 10000
One hundred written sermons...... 1,000. 90
Collection of one hundred thou
sand stamps ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 5000 90
While in the complaint the bicycle is
mentioned as one of the items Of value
consumed through the wanton negligence
of the defendant company, it seems to
have been lost sight of in compiling the
schedule of damages. There is the reel
and the rod, and the chip diamond, and
the chronological charts, and the plaster
of paris bust, and the skull and the
painted signs and the scientific data,
and the hand-painted signs, and the
drawing of the human brain, and the
witten lectures, and the unpreached SER
mons, but nary bicycle. And the 10000
cancelled postage stamps. If there is
anything on earth for which the aSpir-
ing heart hungers, there you have it.
Even at this distance 1t would be little
the action of an intelligent jury before
the same has been impaneiled, but if you
or / had been 50 unfortunate as to have
had handpainted chronological bust
busted by the baggage smasher and then
burned to hide the crime, would we put
the damage at so small figure as ten
dollars?
l hope defendant road will feel
To pay what all things burned are
worth;
His value on the rod and reel
Proves that he doesn't want the earth
or those five thousand printed charts
He makes very small account;
Why, bless our palpitating hearts
They must be worth twice that amount
But those long sermons-that's what
cramps
My stomach at the damage claimed:
And those one hundred thousand stamps
Five times as much-weIl I'll be
blamed
The data for book-nuff said
He wants five thousand, I'm advised:
have to hold my head,
I feel a bit delusionized
Free to You snd Every Sister susserias