Year: 1873

A Man Visits the Danbury News :,


Find WHO Printed that Piece. p


He came in with an interrogation
in one eye, and with stick in on


hand. One eye was covered with


handkerchief and one arm was in


sling. His bearing was that Of a MAJ
! with a settled purpose in view.


1T was to see" said he, "the mai
that puts things into this paper"


We intimated that several of u.
earned frugal livelihood in thai
way.


"Well, I want to see the mar
which cribs things out of the Other
pspers-the fellow who writes most.
" with shears, you understand"


we explained that there were sea-
sons when the gifted among us,
driven to frenzy by the scarcity OF
ideas and events, and blythe clamor-
GUS demands of an Unsuitable public
in moments of emotional insanity
plunged the glittering shears into
our exchanges. He went On calmly.
but with 6 voice tremulous with
suppressed feeling, and indistinct
Through the recent loss of a half
dozen or so of his front teeth:


"Just so. presume SO. Idon't
know much about this business. but
l want to see a man, the man that
printed that little pice about pour
ling water down g drunken mans
spine and making him instantly So
Der. If you please, I would like to
see that man. / would like to talk
with him.


Then he leaned his stick against
our desk and spit on his seryiceable
hand, and resumed his hold on his
stick, as though he was weighing it.
After studying the stick q minute.
he added In a somewhat louder tone
Iofvoice:


Mister, I came. here to see that
are man, want to see him bad"


We told him that particular man
was not in.


"Jest so. presume. They told
me before I came that the man I
wanted to see wouldn't be anywhere.
III. wait for him. live up north
and I've walked seven miles to con
verse with that man. / guess I'll
He sat down by the door and re-
Effectively pounded the floor with his
stick, but his feelings would not al
low him to be still.


Il suppose none of You didn't
never pour much cold water down a
drunken mans back to make him
instantly sober, perhaps"


None of US had ever tried the ex-
pertinent.


"Just so. I thought just like as
not you had not. Well Mister, 1
have. I tried it yesterday, and I
have come seven miles on foot to
see the man that printed that piece.
1t want much of a piece, l don't
think, bnt l want to see the man
that printed it, just for a moment.
You see John Smith lives next door
to my house, when Pm to home, and
he gets how-come-you-so every little
period. Now, when he's sober he's
all right, if you keep out ofhis wav;
but when he's drunk he goes home
and breaks dishes, and tips over the
stove, and throws the hardware
around, and makes it inconvenient
for his wife, and sometimes he gets
his gun and goes out calling on his
neighbors, and it amt pleasant.


'Not that I want to say anything
about Smith; but me and nv wife
don't think he ought to do so. He
came home drunk yesterday and
broke all the kitchen windows out of
the house, and followed his wife
around talking about her liver, and
after a while he lay down by the
fence and went to sleep. I had been
reading that little piece; it WANT
much OF piece, and thought if /
could only pour a little cold water
down his spine on his back and
make him sober, it wonld be more
comfortable for his wife, and a
square thing all around. So l poured
q bucket OF spring water down John
Smiths spine of his back"


"Well," said we, as our visitor
paused, "did it make him soberPD
Our visitor took a firmer hold of his
stick, and replied with increased
emotion:


"Just so. 1 suppose it did make
him sober in less time than YOU
could say Jack Robinson; but mis-
ter, it made him mad. 1t made him
the maddest man I ever see, and Mr..
John Smith is q bigger man than
me, and stouter. He is q good deal
stOuter. Bla-bless him, l never
knew he was half so stout until yes
terdsy, and he's handy with his fists,
too. IshOuld suppose he's the han
diest man with his fists l ever did
see."


"Then he went for you, did hep
We asked innocently.


"Just so. Exactly. l suppose he
went for me about the best he knew,
but I don't hold no grudge against
John Smith. suppose he amt q
good man to hold a grudge against.


1 want to see the man who printed
that piece. want to see him bad.
1 feel as though it would soothe me
to see that man. I want to show
him how drunken man acts when
you pour water down the spine of
his back. That's what 1 come here
for"


Our visitor who had poured water
down the spide of drunken mans
back, remained until about 6 P. NJ,
and then went up street to find the
man who printed that little piece.


The man he is looking for started
for Alaska last evening for a sum
mer vacation, and will not be back
before September 1878.-Danbmy
Nel0s.


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