The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-23
N4MAHHE FILTRATION,
New York Times.

known to the mild young man who love
to put on the appearance of vice. Their
are multitudes OF young men wholly de
void OF vices who labor to produce upoI
the minds OF casual strangers the i'm
preston that they are among the mos
reckless and abandoned OF youth. The
rural undergraduate, who never drink
anything stronger than currant wine
and whose nearest approach to gallantr,
has been q game OF backgammon witt
his maiden aunt, no sooner enters rail
way train on his way home to spend
vacation, than he joins with others 81
his kind in singing roaring bacchanaliar
choruses and loudly whistles tina
he had thought to bring pack Of cards
with him 80 that a game OF euchre "fol
the drinks" might be practicable. It Ii
this longing TO be credited with vices
which In his inmost heart he spurns
that leads him to seize with avidity any
opportunity to enter into conversation
with the first silly girl whose attention
ne may. attract. Many youth who
would blush at a glimpse of his sisters
innocent stockings floating from the
clothes-line, Is exalted to the summit oil
bliss IL he can imagine that some cen.
serious person mistakes him for har-
dened roue. In point Of fact this mis-
take Is seldom made. since he bears the
brand OF innocence upon his brow. and
proclaims by every action the harmless
idiocy of his character. Nevertheless,
his self.coneeit is wounded by no sus-
picion of the truth, and he firmly be-
lieves that his innocent ears are hidden
by the lions skin of vice in which he
masquerades.
The delights Of nomadic filtration were
recently signally illustrated by the ex-
perience OF q youthful student of one of
the colleges in this State. While in q
railway car this young man saw an un-
protected young lady, and marked her
for his prey. Taking seat beside her.
he began conversation by q few pow
erful and convincing remarks upon the
weather. The young lady, who was
quite his peer in amiable Stiffness, at
labless and finally yielding to the wifeg
OF her new acquaintance, Joined with
MIN in devouring> the seductive pea
nut and in trying her fortune with
the prize candy that cheats but does
not fnebriate--linless we may regard
collie as an intoxication of the stomach.
For nearly an hour this rare and radi-
ant maiden, whom her parents named
Sarah Jane, and this innocuous under
graduate whose name is charitably sup
pressed, airted to their own immense
satisfaction, and INDUCED in that curl
GUS though innocent amusement known
as "tee-heeing' until the other passen-
gers even wished that they were dead.
Finally, the young man felt that he
must retire in order to chuckle in pri-
vate and ease his strained mind by ex-
ultingly calling himself 50 wild young
devil" and he thereupon sought the
car and painfully began the
consumption Of q mild Connecticut
cigar.
His dream OF bliss was soon interrupt
ed by the appearance of the conductor.
who abruptly demanded that watch,'
Now, the young man had no watch of any
kind, and said so with a clearness which
did him credit. The conductor then ex.
planned that he had stolen young
lady's watch. and that he must come
with him and restore it without delay.
Red as a rose was he when he confront
ed the young lady, with his collar in the
tight grasp of the conductors hand,
and timidly denied her fierce accusation
that he was a pickpocket. or course,
the incidents created immense excite
ment In the car, and the young lady's
tears were accepted by everybody as
conclusive evidence of the truth of her
charge. One old gentleman, who had
been unable to read his newspaper
in consequences Of the prolonged "tee-
heeing" already mentioned, remarked
that man who would force himself on
an innocent girl as the undergraduate
had done would unquestionably pick
pockets or perpetrate any other detesta-
BILE crime. 1t was the unanimous opin-
ion OF the passengers that he should be
made to disgorge, 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 at the next stopping place. One
large man, with short hair and partially
levelled nose, took the ground that what
"the fellow" really wanted was, In sub
stance, a change Of head, and that he
felt 1t his duty to provide him with a
new head without the least delay. Mean
while the young man begged for mercy,
and implored, the young lady to look
could not find the missing watch. The The
who was a married man.
and knew that the female pocket is
never used for withdrawing purposes,
was SO indignant at what he called the
sscheek" Of this suggestion that he
called brakeman to hold the miserable
young man, so that he could "go
through him." as he metaphorically ex-
pressed it. The young man was accord
lngly searched with great thoroughness,
but with no notable result, save the dis
covery of small comb, which he pro-
carried in his pocket in order
to be prepared in case Of sudden and
profuse growth of mustache. When it
became evident that the watch was not
upon his person, it was decid-
ID that he had either swallowed it or
secretly dropped it out Of the
and the conductor, part
" in order to prevent the effu-
ZION Of blood on the velvet cushions
If the car, stopped the train and depos-
ted the young man in nice swampy
pot. Precisely fifteen minutes after
yard Miss. Sarah Jane gave joyful
hriek and extricated the watch from
ome mysterious locality Immediately |
behind the front Of her dress, into which |
had accidentally slipped. Thus was
he Innocence of the undergraduate es- |
and he thereupon sank in |
,ublic estimation from a skillsul pick |
,ocket to the more degrading position
# an unlimited idiot.
That particuiar younp man has had q |