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WITS GO WOOL GATHERING.
Absent winded ness of ISuKfneM Men When
They Lunch Down Town.
Do \ on know that many business mec
are half crazy when they enter a restau*
rant at noon for lunch or dinner?” This
was said to u reporter by the owner of a
well known restaurant, who continued;
• Their minds are not upon what they are
their brains are busy as can bo
tiering and planning. Their bodies left
their counting rooms, but their heads re
mained. They, as a rule, eat hurriedly,
and any number of them do so rnochun
j; nliy. I have seen them do the most, ab
surd things possible. Often it happens
that one will throw down one cent at the
cashier’s desk with a seventy-five cent
or ifty cent check, and wait for a minute
or two for the change. And these are
sharp, shrewd, calculating business men,
who, if you entered their places of busi
ness, you would find alert enough, and
who would never make a mistake in giv
ing out or receiving money.
“They show their mental abstraction
in various ways. One will come in, and
with deliberation place his hat beneath
his chair, yet when lie has done eating ho
will rush to the rack, and, seizing some
body else’s hat. go out, probably not dis
covering his error for a day or two. It is
a positive fact that not long ago a man
with a7s head wore out of my place a
Gi hat, which would scarcely stay on the
top of his head. Nor did he discover his
mistake until he reached his office.
“One day a man stepped up to my desk
and complained that he had lost his hat, a
very fine one which hud cost him $7 or SB.
Ilis hat had been stolen, he charged, and
he was excited and angry. Would you
believo it? It was lie who had stolen one.
I discovered a few minutes later that two
days before he had taken the hat of an
other, leaving his own. The one ho took
was of the same material, but had been
worn an entire season, being greasy and
soiled; still, he wore it without discover
ing the fact until the time ho rnado the
complaint, although his own hat was a
fine, brand new one.
“It is truly odd how men will behave
about liats. Frequently one will come
holding one in his hand and tell me he did
not wear that when he came in. I look at
the faces of these, and if they have but
fust been shaved, tell them they made the
exchange at the barber’s and did not dis
cover their error until they came in hero
One man made a great ado because, as ho
said, some one had carried off his hat,
when investigation showed that ho had
worn another man’s hat to the restaurant,
picking it up as ho loft the office, but not
detecting it until he had eaten. Going
out to eat at noon is not an interval of
rest to most business men, because there
is no rest. They must supply the wants
of their inner man, but they do it without
any rest of the brain. 'Jdieir occupation
is before them all the while, as their far
away looks show. They say and do things
in the most mechanical manner, and will
skip from twenty-four to forty-eight hours
in their computations. A level headed
man of business insisted up and down,
while holding his own hat in his hand—a
nice silk one —that it did not belong to
him. lie knew what he had worn down
town—it was a white one, he declared,
lie probably had done so the day before,
but would not bo convinced of his error
until the name on the inside of the inner
band revealed it to him. A man picks up
u heap of human nature in our business,
because all sorts of things occur, particu
larly at the noon rush, when men do some
of the most absurd things in the world,
and are often most unreasonable because
of their self absorption.”—Chicago Herald.
1 Tarring and. Feathering.
Philologists have long observed that
many words popularly known as “Amer
icanisms” are really good old Eng
lish terms brought over by the Pilgrim
Fathers, the early settlers on the James,
etc., and retained here when forgotten in
the country of their birth. Similarly,
not a few Dutch word* —boss, boodle, etc.
—b?ought over by the early settlers of
New Amsterdam, have spread from their
original American habitat, till they have
become part of our speech.’ It is not less
interesting to note that certain customs,
forgotten in their home land, but re
tained here, and, therefore, characterized
as “American,” are really importations
from Europe.
Not one of these customs has been re
garded as more distinctively “YaVikee”
than the venerable one of *’tarring and
feathering,” and yet we learn from the
“Amiales ilerum Anglicarum” of the ven
©"able English historian Iloveden (living
in the Thirteenth century and court chap
lam to Henry III) that the custom is at
least as old as the tune of Richard the
Lion Hearted. Ho tells that Richard, on
setting out on the third crusade, made
sundry enactments for the regulation of
Ins fleet, one of which was that “A robber
who shall be convicted of theft shall have
his head cropped after the fashion of a
champion, and boiling pitch shall be
poured thereon, and the feathers of a
cushion shall be shaken out on him, so
that ho may be known, and at the first
land at which the *hip shall touch he
shall be set on shore.” Whether the
custom was earlier than this wo have no
means of determining. It is at least close
on to TOO years old. —American Notes and
Queries
The Colonists in Liberia.
Capt. Rogers, of the Monrovia, says:
“From wliat I have seen of the colonists
in Liberia I believe their chances for suc
cess are equally as good as they would be
in the south. It is true that the African
fever, in many cases, renders them in
capable to work for awhile, but when
they become thoroughly acclimated they
find no difficulty in making a living. A
large proportion of them are prosperous
and are hoarding up considerable wealth.”
Mrs. M. B. Merriman, a white mission
ary. differs materially from Capt. Rogers
and is bitter in her denunciation of the
cruel manner in which tho negro colonists
are treated. She said: “1 have been
among the negroes of the south, and I
have seen them at their worst. I have
been among tho natives of Africa for
years as a missionary, but never have I
witnessed such abject poverty, squalor
and wretchedness as prevails among tho
negro colonists in Liberia. It is true that
the colonization society furnishes them
with land to work and keeps them in food
for six months from their arrival. But
what does it avail them? They are there
scarcely a month when they are stricken
down with African fever. Some of them
survive it, but in most cases it means
death. When those who get well are
able to go to work they find that their al
lotted time of support by the society
has expired and they are paupers, dins
is not*always tho case. Vvhiio not ono
has ever yet been known to escape the
fever, somo of them, who possess un
usually good consitutions, get well and
become quite prosperous. To the pros
perous the paupers look for their subsist
ence.”—Joe Howard in Boston Globe.
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