The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-06
.I.TbeiW10Iu,a1 WHO Lingers.

y SIZE stands Oh the corner with q squad
Of female friends, and smiles VI the can
dfiVer-at Tie same time signaling him
with her parasoL As soon as he begins
toblscken his pace, Sle opens out IN A new
conversation. With her friends The car
stops, and tie conductor waits. She
glances around at him, steps down from
the curbstone, ana branches of into a
fresh lot Of talk. The conductor looks
mad. He requests her 70 hurry up she
rushes ut the car, seizes the iron hand.rail
to'mGke 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 tlagstones then and there, She has
more last words than lie Indian chief who
refused to die and go 70. tic happy hunt.
ing grounds until he had said the ten
commandments and Constitution ~ the
United States including the ftfEeentha
amendment, backwards three times in his
native tongue. She holds on to that rail
grimly, plants one foot on; the li step and
yells out ''.,,,,,h ii IsJ.Tiri, 'pi
"GIve myloye to Maria! TEL Arabol,
ashe owes me 9 call Dent forget to-
bring William Henry and The children up
ID, tea on Tuesday night! And tell Aunt
Sarah I'd have that b6mbazine dyed black
aud Trimmed with bnglcs r,,n,, m ~, ID
Conductor looks Ike q. man who would
commit uniustifable homicide upon slight
proV6cati0n. In wrath lie pulls the bell:
the woman mounts the steps, smiles at her
friends, waves her paraSol Qt them; when
she has sailed about d hundred yards Cp
the street she calls out; ''"" ~ y II
t'Be sure to tell ArabGlla,p and don't lot
George, suck the yellow paint7OR his
mouth.organ r. Il. ..4,,. e,rf, i,jir al
? When she b seated tic conductor
waits awhile and then he asks for her
fare, She feels in her pocket Good gra.
cious! she hopes she has not, lost her
purse. She dives into her satChel; itisn't
there. PERHAPS the tickets are Under her
glove; she removes it'Blowly' but they
can't ibeG found. She tries aheFl pocket
again, and finds the pllrse there alter ALL
Conductor looks as indignantly melan'
choly as an aristoCratic undertaken Of Q
funeral at Whichl there are only four car.
riages and o yellow pine coffin. She unS
folds 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 ten cent note. Con:
ductorp gives her three cents change and
goes out on the platform where he tears
lis hair, kicks a newsb0Y of the step, and
tells his sorruwfIl tale to passenger who
Is smoking q cigar. Meanwhile the wo-
man has found an acquaintance to whom
she Is talking as briskly Us It this was the
first chance she had had since last sum-
mer. She wants to get out at Twentieth
street. Conductor stops the car, but the
woman, half rising, continues her re-
marks 70 her acquaintance. Conductor
says: i"Please hurry up; ma'am; = and che
Jumps to her feet. shakes hands with her
friend, SAYING, "Oh,, l forgot to ask after
John" John Is well; but the woman
thinks It necessary to offer some sanitary.
suggestions in reference toJohn's health 4
and ,todeclares that she, will be abjectly
miserable unless Mary Jane brings the
twins up to spend the day: More objura-
tons on the part Of the degraded outeast
on the platform. The w0manUat last
starts fol, the door, and is about 70 stepiofE
when. she misses, her purse, She goes
back to look for 1t, moves all the passen-
gers, overturns all the hay, at last finds
the purse in her pocket, says H3ood bye,
come up and see me- to her friend and
gets out, Conductor rattles yolley Of
fmprccahons down the street after her,
puilSth the strap savagely, and transfers as
cents,worth Of .iares from his business
pocket into his own private excheQuer as
a balm TO soothc his lacerSted feelings. 1