The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-05-01
An Adventure in the Cars.

rE -= AN Adventure IN bUe cars.
There were five of us-yes five as happy
fellows as were let loose from college. 1t
was vacation" and we calculated to take
a trip to the Falls. We got on the cars at
N. and were soon travelling rapidly toward
our destination.
We had just seated ourselves and pre-
pared for comfortable smoke, when in
came the conductor, and who should it be
but our friend Fred. B. After the COM
mon salvation Glow are you old fellows?"
bad passed, Fred said he had some bust
ness for US 20 attend to.
'Out with it., old chum!'' said we !;
anything at all will be acceptable, so let
us have it. -
well, boys" said Fred, in a very con-
fdential tone, ''in the next car there is as
loving a pair as it was ever my lot to see.
They are going down to II. to get married,
and now, if you can have any fun over it,
just pitch in. They must be cared for, and
| don't know who can do it any better than
you
''In a moment Fred was gone and we set
our heads together to form plan of taking
care of the lovers.
Il have it, boys" said Bill Steevers :;
1--WE must make the girl think her love S
married."
THAT it, that's it !" said we, not Civ
ing him time to finish his sentence.
That he is a married man and the
father OF children" said Bill.
That the game boys, let's play it. -
1t devolved upon me to CO mmenee oper-
atoms Accordingly I catered the car iu
which we were informed the lovers were.
The girl thinking, | suppose, tina. she must
give her lover all the seat, sat on his knee );
aud he, for the purpose of protection, of
course, had thrown both arms around her
waist; and so they sat, in real soft love
style.
All this ] gathered at glance. Step
ping up to them [ said
"Why, Jones, what in the world are you
doing with that girl2'
The girl arose hastily and seated herself
on the seat.
''See here, stranger, you re a bit miss
taken, my name isn't JONES'" said the fell
low.
"Why, JONES'" said I, "you certainly
haven't left your wife and children, and
tried to palm yourself off for single man,
have your"
II tell you my name isn't Jones; it s
Harper. 1t never was Jones it ain ago
ing to be nuther!''
I merely shook my head and passed to
another seat to see the fun.
The girl looked wild after I sat down
but Jones alias Harper soon convinced her
that [ was mistaken.
About the time they got to feeling right
good again. in came Elliot Gregg Walk
ing up to Harper. be accosted him thusly
why, Jones, you here? How did you
leave your wife and babies p
See here, stranger, you amt the first
man that's called me Jones, to day, and |
reckon | must look awfully like him, but !
amt Jones. | hain't got any wife, nor ba>
bies either but this gal and me is goin' to
splice, and then you can talk about my
wife-and the babies. too, but you musn t
call me Jones!''
The retort brought vocferous laughter
from the spectators, and it also brought
| bushes to the face of the girl
"Ah, Jones'" said Gregg, ''you will re-
greet this in the future; pity your poor
wife and this poor girl y
so Harper, your name is really Jones,
is it?-an you we been fooling me, have
you? Well, we amt spliced yet, and
don think We will be very soon" and her
eyes fairly flashed fire.
At this moment Jeff. Jackson, Bill Stew
ers and Jim Byers entered, and, of course,
their attention was called to Harper by his
loud talking. They stepped up to him and
said:
why, Jones, what is all this fuss
about p
This was more than Harper could stand.
He leaped up and said:
NO." said he, my name is not Jones,
and | can lick the teller that says it is y
By this time he had got TO H., and our
friend Fred came into the car and Harper
kept quiet. The girl that would not be
spliced, requested Fred. to help her on to
the train that vas going back to-while
he and the notorious Jones, alias Harper,
| followed her. We learned afterwards that
he proved himself to be Bill Harper in
ste"d of Bill Jones, and he and his ga
Jane got "spliced."
| PERSONAL A. G.. Chamberin, sur.
vivor of the Sea Bird disaster, arrived a,
his home in Sheboygan Falls, on Monday
last.
Mr. Z. Henneberry, the person saved
from the gang plank of the Sea Bird, in a
nearly frozen condition, also arrived at his
home in this city on Wednesday last. His
| injuries from the cold while en- the plank
will not be permanent