People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — HE WAS PLACATED. [ARTICLE]

HE WAS PLACATED.

Why the Big Man Failed to Carry Out His Intentions. The row did not attract general attention in the restaurant until the big man with the red face threw off his coat, slammed his hat on the table and shouted: “If you’re lookin’ fer trouble you bet you can get it right here, an’ I reckon I can hand it out to ye as fast as ye can take it away?” “But I’m not looking for trouble,” protested the small man, rather feebly. “I never—” “Well, then ye don’t want to be makin’ no breaks at me,” persisted the big man walking around the table and shaking his fist at the other, “fer I’ll give ye trouble and lots of it.” “But I don't want any, I —” “The —ye don’t! I’ve got a good notion to give it to ye fer luck.” “My dear sir,” insisted the little man mildly, “I certainly never meant to give any offense. In fact, I am always very careful not to become engaged in any controversy, I —” It was evident that he was becoming somewhat excited himself now. “I make it a study to avoid getting into any sort of difficulty, and so would you if you were in my place—l’ve just served five years in prison for killing a man in Wisconsin and I don’t want any more of it, truly I don’t.” And he looked up beseechingly at his would-be antagonist, who seemed to regard him in a new light and agreed to “accept the apology.”—Detroit Tribune.