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Show Adding Insult to Injury. "I'orhnps," remarked the man with literary leanings, "It may bo all right In general for tho railroad satraps to shut off their pass supply for moral and financial reasons; but It Is not ex-cusablo ex-cusablo If, ns a result, tho lltcraturo of the land Is to suffer by their uncalled uncall-ed for action. It Is dead wrong to Indict In-dict such stuff as this, which I have Just received from nn official of one of tho great railroads of this coun-rv coun-rv which has an outlet from New York: The Cowl Hook M: "Thou shall not pim." And A. J. C. confirms It. So every man. even of our class. Must skin his ml or hoof It. "Now what do you think of that as a melody of mellifluous measure? Will you please get aboard of tho rhythm and the rhyme? Noto tho general construction. If their railroad was built like their poetry, what Bort of business would It do? No, sir, tho railroads can hold hack their passes, but they mustn't ruin our literature by writing that sort of 'stuff.'" |