Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-01-14

Will GnlS lie Went on.
I began to feel uncomfortable. II
had fory miles to ride under that
mans conductorship, and was sure
he meant to insult me. The time
had been when such a man would
not have dared to do that thing but
l was no longer young. Three score
and eight years, with a spent fever
clinging upon that, is not the season
of physical encounter with. a brute.
Forty miles to ride, with fourteen
stops. We should be two hours
and a half. It may have been fool
ish in me; but I could not help it
feared that man,-not that he would
put his hand upon me; but that he
would annoy me, and make me sick,
annoy me, and set my fever flush
ing through my veins again. I tried
to laugh it off to myself '"Of course
a conductor will dare to insult Il
gentleman on his train" I told my
self. And then my fear answered
"This conductor is brute.' -.u..
sHastings' Bridget" shouted the
brakeman at the door. And three
new passengers came into our car
and took seats ahead Of me. I'll.
After we had started on the con-
ductor came in, and having taken
the tickets of the new commers, he
came along with his eye fixed upon
me.
"Ticket!'' he barked out at me
savagely-
My hand trembled but I took
my check from my vest pocket, and
exhibited it.
''O,-you've got a check, eli :?
Didn't ye ever larn t. read p
looked up into his face, and he
was leering upon me with u agloating
wicked expression. "a Fs..l
''Look at your check ?" he growl-
ed. "Dont it say-sKeep this in
sight?' An I'd thank you to do it
mister. If you ride here you'll
obey the rules, by ---n'
And with this he went his way. 1t
was fortunate for me that gentle
man who had been sitting upon the
opposite side, few seats back, thus
facing me. He was middle aged
man, dressed in a Quaker garb, and
his face was an antidote to the pas
sion that stirred my soul,-a mild
calm, serene face, in the pleasant
lines about his mouth and eyes,
"That conductor seemeth to be
ill-mannered to thee, friend,''
"He is trying to insult me" I re.
piled. IS
'Do I not speak with DR. Par
sloe ?'' t|# a.s
told the Quaker that was my
Ename. i*. @'.'#
"Really, I am delighted to sec
thee, and glad to make th inc acquair
. tanee,'' he said. And then he wen
/. on to tell me that he had heard O
me often; and asked me if | remem
bered one Sebastian Powers.
"Certainly,'' I told him. "Sebas
f tian Powers was my patient a Ions
! time"
| ''And thee saved his life, Doctor
: Sebastian is my rother,-younge
, than land I love him very dearly
, l knew thee when thee came in; ant
I must say, it grieveth me to Sc,
this bad man treat thee so abomin-
bly,. What occasion hath he p,
1 l told the Quaker the story of tn
l baggage smashing, and of the man
1 former insolence; and how I hat
: been forced to report his conduct t.
t Mr. Stringhan. ...
r "But," / added, sstllere have. bee
t changes since then. Mr.. Stringhan
: has gone, and new superintendent
y has taken his place and I must sa,
: he is either a very poor discernmen
| or else very ignorant Of the charac
e ter Of the men he has appointed t
h responsible stations"
"Does thee know this new super
intendent doctor?''
/ "Not personally, sir. His nam
4 is Minturn; and | have heard ths
:; he owns over one half Of all tll
e stock in the road 1t was he VIII
a suggested the idea of putting th
k road through to the river. He wer
y around and bought up about all th
i old stock-bought it for mere son
t. and then made himself immensel
d wealthy"
1t "How did he do it 90
r ''Why, by getting the river roa
= through, and thus bringing his stoc
1 up to its old par value.''
e II declare said the Quaker, wit
comical expression, ''what wretc
/. this man Minturn must be-" IL,
Chow so ?" said [, in surprise.
II "Why, thus to make himself ric
in gold and silver while so man
II good men are suffering in povert,
( He ought not to have done it,
- Now this did not please re at al
I was sure the Quaker had spoke
n thus symply for the purpose Of agre
le ing with me; but he had missed h
t. mark. To be sure, sometimes whe
H. ] remembered that I had once owl
/ cd twenty shares in the road, al
: that they had cost me a thousar
G, dollars, and that l had given the
IL away to avoid the 'sdoubling uE
L. process, which I had seen from tn
IS moment Of it's whispered intel
le could not make a paying road ;whe
IT, [ remembered this, and then remer
e. bered how this Samuel Minturn hs
ia come in and touched those shar
III with his wand of enterprise al
az transformed them into wealth, W.
9, tempted to envy him; but when
"a heard another decry him, 1 only r
s membered that the railroad was
e. general and widespread blessing, al
1g that Samuel Minturn was the m: