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Show CURES MEN'S BAD MANNERS. The speaker was a young man who played once on the Columbia rush line. He played football well, and It is of record that he can scrap even better than he can kick. Further, he looks it. "When I left college," he said. "I made up my mind to put, In part of my time doing good to my fellow-men. When I looked over the field I found that I wasn't cut out for Sunday-school teaching or social settlement work. I was looking for a branch of muscular philanthropy where I could find scope for my talents. "I found It last month. I have a mission mis-sion now. It U the reformation of the subway and elevated hog. "I take a subway or an elevated train about four times a day on an average, usually an express. 1 wait until the gate is opened for the hog who makes a rush and 1ams his way In ahead of women, children and weaklings. "He Is always there; sometimes three or four of them. I pick out the worst one and follow him. Just as he reaches the gate I tap him on the shoulder. shoul-der. " 'Pardon me. sir.' I say. 'You have dropped something, and I point to a pillar In the background. "He always turns back, feeling in his pockets. In three cases out of four he misses the train. I trust that while he waits for the next train the point dawns on him. "If he does catch the train, he either subsides, crushed. In which case I know he's got the point, or rise he comes at me and says: " 'See here, what the Mazes do you mean? What did I dvop?' "I look him over and kind of raise my ' shoulder at him us a warning that I'll be right there if he gets troublesome, and say: 'Your manners, sir.' "I've reformed at least six persistent hogs who get on at my station, and I trust that I have taught manners to a number of others whom I haven't been able to observe rosjulnrly. "Oh, yes, some day I'll probably run ub against a better man and take a beating, but it will all be in the Inter- j est of the cause." New York Sun. I |