The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-10-05
NOmadic Filtration.

Nomadic filtration, or the sweet con
+ verse Of two souls who travel Ia one
railway car, Is the most ecstatic pleasure
known to the mild young man whe
/ loves to put on the appearance of vice.
There are muItitudes OF young men
I wholly devoid of vices who labor TO pro
/ dUce upon the minds Of casual strangers
the Impression that they are among the
most reckless and abandoned OF youth.
The rural Undergraduate, who never
drinks anything stronger than currant
wine, and whose nearest approach ts
I gailantry has been a game Of b|.k-
CANNON with a maiden aunt, no soOner
enters q railway train on his way home
to spend a vacation, than he joins with
Others of his kind in singing roaring
/ bacchanalian choruses, and loudly wishes
that he had thought TO bring pack OF
/ cards with him, 20 that game Of euchre
50 for the drinks might be practicable
/ 1t is 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 Grst silly girl
whose attention ne may attract. Many
/ a youth who would blush at glimpse ot
/ his sisters innocent stockings floating
| from the clcthes-line is exalted to the
summit OF bliss If he can imagine that
| some cens0rious person mistakes him fol
a hardened roue. In point of fact, this
/ mistake is never made, since he bears the
/ brand Of innocence upon his brow, and
proclaims by every action the harmless
! idiocy of his character. Nevertheless, his
selt-conceit is wounded by no suspicion o.
the truth, and he firmly believes that
his innocent ears are hidden by the lion''
share Of vice in which he masquerades
The delights Of nomadic fiiration were
recently signslly illustrated by the ex
! perience of a youthful student of one o.
the colleges in this state. While in {
railway car this young man saw an un
protected young lady, and marked her
for his prey. Taking a seat beside her
he began conversation by few power
full and convincing remarks upon the
weather. The young lady who wa
quite his peer in smiabe Stiffness, at first
answered him in able monosyllables, anc
finally yielding to the wiles of her new
acquaintance, joined with him in devour
ing the seductive peanut and in trying
her fortune with the prize-candy tha
cheats but does not inebriate-unless W
may regard collie as an intoxicstion o
the stomach. For nearly al hour thi
rare and radiant maiden, whom he
parents named Sarah Jane, and thi
| inocuous undergraduate, whose name i
charitably suppressed, Airted to thei
own immense satisfaction, and indulgeC
in that curious though innocent amuse
ment known as tee-heeing" until th'
other passengers even wished that the!
were dead. Finally the young man fel
that he must retire in order 10 chuckle IL
private and ease his strainedi mind b!
exultingly calling himself "a wild younl
devil" and he thereupon sought tn
smoking-car and painfully began tn
consumption OF a mild Connection
cigar.
His dream Of bliss was soon interrupte'
by the appearance of the. conductor, wh
abruptly demanded "that watch" Nov
the young man had5no watch of an,
kind, and he said so with a clearness 'ha
did him credit. The conductor then ex
planned that ne had stolen young lady
watch, and that he must come with hin
and restore it without delay. Red as
rose was he when he confronted tn
young lady, with his CELLAR in the tigh
] grasp of the conductors hand, an