Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1891 — Carlyle's Bluntness. [ARTICLE]

Carlyle's Bluntness.

Thomas Carlyle was once bidding "Good-day" to a very conceited young man who had favored him with a long sermon on things in general; he went politely to the door and then said: “Well. Mr. Bland, I’ve received ye for, the sake of your father. Now, goodby, and I earnestly hope Pll never see ye again!” On another occasion Carlyle looked in a passionless way at the visitor who had been holding forth for ever so long and said: “Man, but ye’re a pnir creeture!" The oldest traveling passenger agent in the land is Capt. May, who has been retired by the Pennsylvania Railroad on half pay for the remainder of hid! days. He is a white-haired man of seventy, six feet tall, straight and, strong. ‘ I Hard drinkers have no antipathy to the whisky trust. It is the whisky “no trust” they want abolished.