Smyrna times., 1870-02-23
The Woman who Lingers.

The following from the Sunday Dlpatch,
is a good Illustration of the trials of a street
car conductor:
She stands on the corner with Al squad of
female friends and smiles at the car driver, at
the same time signaling him with her paraSol
As soon as he begins to slacken his pace, she
opens OuC in a conversation with her friends.
The car stops, and the conductor waits She
glances around at him, steps down from the
curb stone, and branches off into fresh lot Of
talk. The conductor looks mad. He requests
hGr to hurry up She rushes at the car, seiz
es the iron hand-rai to make sure that she
has got that car all safe and certain, and then
she determines that she will have her talk out
or perish on the fagStOnes then and there.
She has more last words than the Indian chief
who refused to die until he had said the Ten
Commandments and the Constitution of the
United States, including the Fifteenth Amaud-
ment. She holds on to that rail grimy plants
one foot on the step, and yes out, Give my
love to Maria Tell ArabeHa she owes me
call! Don't forget to bring William Henry and
the children up TO tea on Tuesday night And
tell Aunt Sarah I'd have that bOmbazine dyed
black and trimmed with bugles = Conductor
! looks like man who would commit uniustif-
able homicide upon slight prOvocation. In
wrath he pulls the be the woman mounts the
step. smiles at her friends, waves her parasol
at them, and when she has sailed about hun
dred yards up the street she calls out. &C Be
sure and tell Arabella, and don't let George
suck the yellow paint off of his mouth organ T.
When she is seated, the conductor waits awhile,
and then he asks for her fair She feels in her
pocket. Good gracious she hopes she hs sn' I
lost her purse She dives into her satchel it
isn't there Perhaps the tickets are under her
gloves; she removes it slowly; but they can
be found She tries her pocket again, and
finds the purse there after all. Conductor
looks as Indignantly melancholy as an arSto
cratic undertaken at funeral at which there
are only four carriages and a yellow pine coffin
The woman unfOidS bundle Of notes slowly
but as she doSen't find the one she wants sh
puts them all back, and hunts around in he
satchcl for five minutes for ten cent note
Conductor gives her three cents change ant
goes out on the platform, where he tears hi
) hair, kicks a small newsboy off the step, an
tells his sOrrOwful tale to a passenger who
smoking a cigar. Meanwhile the woman ha
fOnn1 an acquaintance, to whom she is ia kin
as briskly as if this was the first chance she hat
had since last summer. She wants to get out a
Twelfth street. Conductor stops the car; bu
the woman, half rising, continues her able re
e marks to her acquaintance. Conductor says
/ please hurry up madam and she jump,
? to her feet, shakes hands with her friend, say
f ing " Oh | forgot to ask after john" job
r is well, but the woman thinks it necessary t
! declare that she will be abjectly miserable ur
d less Mary Jane brings the twins up to spen
t the day. More objurgations on the part {
Y the degraded outcast on the back platform
: The woman at last starts for the door, and
/ about to step off, when she misses her purse
II She goes back into the car to look for it, NOV,
=! all the passengers, OverturnS all the hay,
" last finds the purse in her pocket, says " GooC
n bye; come up to see me" again to her frent
" and gets out Conductor rattes a volley
d imprecations down the street after her, pul
,r the strap savagely, and transfers twenty-f,
G. cents worth of fares from his business pock
e into his private exchequer as balm to sootl
l. his lascerated feelings.