The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-09-28

The Dangers 81 Railway FIirtations.
The delights II nomadic Irritation
were recently signally illustrated by the
experience Of a youthful student Of one
a the colleges In this State. While in
railway car this young man saw an
unprotected young lady, and marked
her for His prey. Taking seat beside
her. he began u conversation by few
powerful and convincing remarks upon
The leather. The young lady. who was
quite his peer in amiablc Stiffness, at
first answered him In able monosylla-
bles, and finally yielding 70 the wiles 81
her new acquaintance, joined with him
in devouring the seductive peanut and
in trying her fortune with the prize
candy that cheats but does not inebriate
unless we may regard collie as an in
toxication Of the stomach. For nearly
an hour this rare and radiant maiden.
whom her parents named Mary Jane,
and this irnocuous undergraduate
whose name Is charitably suppressed,
nirted 10 their own immense satisfaction,
and INDUCED in that curious though in
nocent amusement known rs ''tcc-hec-
ing" until the other passengers even
wished that they were dead. Finally,
the young man felt that he must retire
in order to chuckle in private and ease
his strained mind by exultingIy calling
himself ga wild young DEVIL and he
thereupon sought the smoking-car and
painfully began the consumption Of a
mild Connecticut ciOar
His dream of bliss wa soon interrupt
ed BY the appearance of the conductor
who abruptly demanded that watch. y
Now, the young man had no watch of
any kind, and said so with clearness
which did him credit. The conductor
then explained that he had stolen a
young lady's watch, and that he must
come and restore il without delay. Red
AS rose was he when he confronted the
young lady, with his collar in the tight
grasp Of the conductors hand, and tim
idly denied her fierce accusation that he
was pickpocket. OF course, the Incl
dent created immense excitement in the
ear, and the young lady's tears was ac-
cepied by every body as conclusive evil
dence Of the truth Of her charge. One
old gentleman who had been unable 10
read his newspaper in consequence Of
the prolonged " tee-heeings, already
mentioned, remarked that man who
would force himself upon an innocent
girl As the undergraduate had done
would unquestionably pick pockets or
perpetrafe any other dctestablc crime.
TWAS the unanimous opinion Of the pas
scngers that he should be made 10 dis
gorge. and should then be either thrown
from the train while in motion or should
be tied hand and foot in the baggage
car and delivered TO the police al the
next stopping-place. One large man,
with short hair and partially leyclcd
nose. took the ground that what ssthe
fellow" really wanted was, in substance,
achangc Of head, and that he felt il his
duty to provide him with new head
without the leastdelay. Meanwhile, the
young man begged for mercy, and i'm
plored the young lady To look in her
pocket and See il she could not find the
missing watch. The conductor, who
was married man, and knew that the
female pockct Is never used for watch
carrying purposes, was so indignant al
what he called the "cheekr Of this sug-
gestion that he called brakeman TO
held the miserable young man, so that
he could "go through him, = as he meta
phoricauy expressed it. The young
man was accordingly searched with
great thoroughness, but with no nota-
BILE result save the discovery Of small
comb, which he providcntly carried in
his pocket IN order to be prepared in
case Of a sudden and profuse growth Of
mustache. When II became evident
that the watch was not concealed upon
his person, il was decided that he had
either swallowed it or secretly dropped
II out Of the window, and the conductor,
partly in order 10 prevent the efiusion
Of blood on the velvet cushions Of the
car, stopped the train and deposited the
young man In nice swampy spot.
Precisely fifteen minutes aftcrward Miss
Mary Jane gave joyful shrek and ex-
Treated the watch from some mysterious
locality Immediately behind the front Of
her dress. into which II had accidentally
slipped. Thus was the innocence Of the
undergraduate established, and he
thereupon sank in public estimation
from skillful pickpockct 70 the more
degrading position Of an unlimited
idlot. Near York Times.
Pfckled C,Yhb11g TAKE solid haalS