The union Democrat., 1870-06-04
NUMBER 81.
The wsmaA who Lfhsers.

She stands on the corner with eQuad. Of
female friends, and smiles at the car driver
at the same time signaling him wish her para
sol. As soon as he begirs to slscken his
pace, she opens out in a conversation with her
friends. The car stops, snd the conductor
waits. She glances around at him, steps
down from the curhstone, and branches of
into fresh lot Of talk. The conductor looks
mad. lie requests her to hurry up. Sic
rusbes at the car, seizes the iron hand-rail 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
tiagssones then and there. She has more
last words than the Indian chief who refosed
to die and so to the happy hunting grounds
until he had said the ten commandments aud
Constitution of the United States. including
the Fifteenth Amendment, backwards three
times in his native tongue. She holds on to
that rail grimly. plants one foot on the step
and yells out is.es4I
"Give nv love to Maria Tell Arahells
she owes me a call Don't forget to bring
William Henry and the children IN to tea on
Tuesday night And tell Aunt Sarah I'D
have that bombazine dyed black and trimmed
with hughes /" s
Conductor looks like man W no would commit
ln wrath he pulls the bell; the woman
mounts the steps. smiles at her friends, waves
her parasol at them: when che has sailed
about hundred yards up the street she calls
out: s.fnt,
BE sure to tell Arabella, and don't let
George suck the yellow paint off his MONTH
organ !"
When she is seated the conductor waits
awhile and then he asks for her fare, Sha
feels in her pocket. Good gracious she
homes she has not lost her purse. She drives
into her satchel it isn't there. Perhaps the
tickets are under her glove: she removes 10
slowly, but they can't be found. She tries
her pocket again, and finds the purse there
after all. Conductor looks as Indignantly
melancholy as an aristocratic undertaken at
which there are only four carriages and
yellow pine coffin. She unfolds bundle Of
notes slowly, but as she doesn't find the one
she wants she puts them back and hunts
around her satchel for FIVE minutes for a ten
cent. note. Conductor gives her three cents
change, and goes out on the platform, where
he tears his hair, kicks o newsboy off the
step, and tells his sorrowful tale to passen-
ger who is smoking cigar. Meanwhile the
woman has found sn acquaintance, to whom
she is talking as briskly as if this was tbe
first chance she lad had since last summer.
She wants to get ort at Twentieth street,
| Conductor stops the car. but the woman. half
rising, continues her remarks to her acquaint-
ance. Conductor says: "Please hurry up.
ma am" and she jumps to her feet, shakes
hands with ber friend, saying, "Oh, forgot
to ask after john" John is we'll; but the
woman thinks it necessary to offer some sani-
tary suggestions in reference to John health,
and to declare that she will DO abiectlv mis-
erable unless Mary Jane brings the twins up
to spend the day. More objurations on the
part of the degraded outcast on the platform.
The woman at last starts for the 6oor, and is
about to step off when she misses her purse.
She goes back to look for it, moves all the
hay, at last finds the purse in her pocket,
says "Good bye, come up and see me" to her
friend, and gets out. Conductor rattles VOL
lev of imprecations down the street after her,
pulls the strap savagely, and transfers Is
cents worth of fares from his business pocket
into his own private exchequer as balm to
soothe his lacerated feelings.