Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1904 — Net So Very Weak. [ARTICLE]

Net So Very Weak.

The train was on a windy pass in the Rockies. There were in the car a few miners, two cowboys, a woman, who looked ill, and a man clothed in very British tweeds. He was evidently used to roughing it and Bat beside the open window indifferent to the cold air that swirled into the car. Behind him sat the woman, shivering. Across the aisle was a large boned westerner. He did not seem to mind the wind himself, but be gave a kind, solicitous glance toward the woman. After an hour of shivering she leaned forward and asked the man in front of her to close the window. He paid no attention to her request, except that he looked straight ahead and said, addressing himself to the world at large, “Americans seem to be a weak lot.” Then the tall man across the aisle rose slowly. His head came just under the bell cord. He reached across the tweed suit, pushed the owner of it rather rudely into the corner of the seat, laid hold of the window catch with his big thumb and linger and sent the window down with a slam. "I guess we ain’t so very weak, pardner,” he said.