The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-08-02

boasts had been mere idle talk to make
sensation, Marcy could have told them bet
ter. She knew how it was Joe had died,
she knew that life had been paid for her
fathers and in a-heart softened by pain
she acknowledged that her prayer had been
answered in Gods own way.-AppletOn's
Journal. @ &sN
She stands upon the curb with little
springy up-and down motion, as if she had
spiral springs in the soles of her CATERS
AS the car approaches, she sticks the point
of her colored parasol in the direction of
the driver with a small jerk. The car stops
She gives one or two. more little springy
motions before she leaves the pavement, and
then dances to the car.
As she ascends the step, the conductor
seems to consider it absolutely necessary to
place one of his hands on the small Of her
back while he rings the bell with the other.
She enters the car with the spiral springs
still bobbing her up and down and, as all
the seats are full, she stands holding her
hands in front of her, and gazing off into
limitless space, as if the one idea which
never entered her mind, and which never
could enter it under any possible circum-
stances is that some young man will rise
and offer her his seat. But young man in
the corner does rise, and Immediately the
fellow next to him moves quickly into the
corner, as if the performance of that manGu-
vre had formed the subject of his anxious
thought during many years of his life.
To get corner seat would seem to be the
chief end of man. ..... Sd. ~
When the young man rises, the young wo-
man suddenly becomes conscious that there
is something nearer to her than the horizon,
and she gives two or three more little
bounces, and says, " Keep your seat 1.-The
young man is embarrassed, and he says he
is going to get out soon, whereupon the fair
being dances toward the seat, sinks into it,
and pretends that the fact of the existence
of any young man who once occupied that
seat, and who is going to get out, has en-
tirely faded out of her consciousness. She
smoothes down her dress and its supplement
tai frippery, founces and pennants, and
again looks far beyond the confines of the
car into emptiness. a. .
She knows she is expected by the other
women in the car to remain unconscious Of
their presence while they study her clothes
They Immediately begin. they stare at her
dress, her sack, her hat, her back hair, her
jewelry, her gloves, her bows and ribbons,
her miscellaneous millinery, until the entire
costume is photographed in their memo
ries, and the price estimated, and critical
opinion formed, and resolution to have a
bonnet Of the same kind, or "body" cut
upon the same pattern.
When the young lady thinks that this ex-
animation is concluded, she becomes con-
scious again, and begins to look around to
see how the other women are dressed. She
examines each one in detail, and in few
minutes she is in possession Of all the neces-
sary information.
Presently young man with whom she is
acquainted gets into the car, and stands
clutching the strap and trying in vain to
keep in a graceful attitude while he con-
verses with her. All the women begin to
wonder whether she cares particularly for
him; and, as she knows their thoughts, she
is so distant that the young man becomes
more embarrassed than ever, and makes re-
newed struggles to maintain graceful posi-
ton. When she wishes to get out, she rises,
smoothes down her frippery again, INDUCES
in two or three springs, and dances along
the platform. The conductor considers it
lmperatively necessary to press the small Of
her back. She dances down the steps,
dances to the pavement, and then dances
along the street, fully aware of the fact that
the women in the car have all turned around
to look at her, and serenely confident in the
assurance that she has on good clothes
which fit her splendidly. As she disappears,
the conductor turns to the man who is smok-
ing cigar on the platform, and remarks
that she is a T" crusher."