The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-07-23
THE FOLLY OF BuTTlNG IN.

Blessed, of course, is the peacemaker,
yet dangers attend the discharge Of the
function of butter-in, aud oftentimes
the kind and sympathetic person who
feels called upon to remedy condition
or strengthen out disagreement by
personally interfering and rendering his
good offices TO the dOwntrOdden or the
needlessly enraged falls upon evil days,
One of the plain tales from the wires
the other day was Of kind hearted
gentleman who strove TO step between
two furiously fighting New Workers,
with intent to convince the combatants
that arbitration is more satisfactory
than assault and battery and that the
joys Of peace are more greatly to be de-
sired than the victories Of war, even if
less renowned. The combatants fell
upon him unitedly, leaving him for
dead, and after finishing him up joined
one another in drink at the nearest
bar and very nearly got INTO second
fight because each insisted upon having
the pleasure Of paying for the others re-
freshment In western mining town
"tenderfoot' rushed herocally TO the
rescue of lady in distress and spoke
firmly to her husband, who WAS belab-
oring her with the loose end of rope.
And when the husband walloped the in
| truder the woman went into Il court Of
| law and testified that the tenderfOOt had
interfered in II family affair unwarrant-
ably and that her husband had acted in
self defense.
The latest illustration of the folly of
butting in is related by correspondent
at Orange n. j. A gentleman of char
acter and standing in the community,
but given TO an occasional indulgence in
the cup that doth cheer and inebriate,
CHANGED to pass a lawn upon which a
goat Of the masculine gender was teth-
cred He saw that the grass was close
cropped within the radius described by
the tether rope and determined to move
the peg and give the goat new pasturage
| But the goat, provoked to anger by the
sight of the old gentleman kneeling
with his back TO the subject Of his ready
sympathy, let drive at the tempting tar
get with such force that the would be
deliverer landed upon his face in gra-
vel WALL and sBated upon his nose, re.
ceiving temporarily distiguring cuts and
bruises. The gentleman, making allow
ance for the failure Of the goat to und-
erstand his motives returned 10 the peg
and tugged at il a second time, this time
facing the goat and speaking kindly to
it, But Billy butted him squarely in
the abdomen and his cries of pain so an
noyea the community that II warrant
| for disorderly conduct was sworn out in
the Magistrates court and before Judge
| Bray-whose name fits in with his de-
cisiOu-he was fined s. for having plac-
ed himself in u position TO be painfully
| hurt in the abdominal region by the
goat which, like the lady in Mr.. Kip.
ling's vampire, never did understand.
Casting about for moral to append
| 10 such narratives is form of activity,
but little less fruitless than many i'll.
starred efforts to promote peace, The
way Of the transgressor IL hard. bat his
punishment is sometimes hardly heavier
than that of the well,meanng person
whose sympathies are won by spec.
tacle of oppression or seemingly unnec-
essary strife and who rashly PUSHES in
where angels would fear to tread
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