Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1910 — THE POINT OF VIEW. [ARTICLE]

THE POINT OF VIEW.

Differences in opinion are oftentimes enlightening in that they spring from and betray characteristic ences in education and mode of li ® ing. Two men who met and got into conversation recently in the Texas “Panhandle” illustrate again the fact that persons .may differ violently in expressed opinion, and still may often be discovered acting on Identically the same impulse and sentiment at heart. “It’s an outrage!” declared the cowboy, vehemently. , “What is?” asked the college man, surprised and disconcerted in the midst of his tale. . “Why, the way that bunch of sophomores broke into your bedroom and took you without dressing, and then tied you up in the park. I’d haw plugged the first man that put his foot over my threshold —I would.” “But I was only a freshman. Don’t you see, it was their way?” “No, I don’t see,” said the first, “and what is more, no man ought to stand for anything like that. It was a rough-neck trick. Where was your gun?” “We didn’t carry guns in college. I wouldn’t shoot any one, no matter what happened. Besides, I didn’t mind it much.”

“Well, you are a greeny! And they were breaking in on your privacy and damaging your property, and—” “Oh, but that was the custom. Don’t you see, every first-year man expects It. Why, that wasn’t anything compared to what the Bar L outfit did in sending you on that wild-goose chase into the Santa Rosa mountains—the time the blizzard was coming, and you got lost for three days.'

“Oh, that!” spiffed the Texan, scornfully. “Why, I ought t’ ’ve knowed better —I wus only a tenderfoot, and it made me wise. I came through all right I showed ’em I wasn’t any mollycoddle.” “Well, but how about your frozen toes and those three days with nothing but jack-rabbit to live on?” “Humph!" “I was only chilled a bit when the sophomores untied me next morning, and I didn’t miss a meal at that.” *'Aw, now, that’s different. I’d ought to have knowed better than to go off there after the fool steer. But a cowpuncher has to take his chanceß, and the sooner he learns to savvy the better *tl« fer him." ■ 'That’s just what the sophs said aboiit —” ‘But they was breaking Into your bedroom, and they made a fool out of you afterwards. If I’d been there, I’d

’a’ made a couple of ’em look like sieves in the sunlight first.” "Well, I don’t know,” said the exfreshman, thoughtfully. ‘I think I’d rather play the fool before a dozen on a dark night than fool around haltfrozen for three days by my lonesome. It all depends on how you want to take it, I guess—and then again, ou what you’re expecting.”—Youth’s Companion.