The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-03-28
FORCIBLY SEPARATED.
A COAnCAL SCRAP.

Not long since. on the Boston and Pro
violence Railroad, occurred an incident
which afforded an immense amount of
amusement to those who saw and heard,
and which may afford slight amount of
laughing fancy to the reader. At all events,
l will give it, as the conductor gave it to
me:
On certain day-a day dingy and lowery
"a couple left New Bedford for Boston by
railroad. They were man and wife, and
married on that selfsame morning. The
swain had come in from an outlying dis
trict, where the dweIle-s were half farmers
and half fishermen, and he, it would appear,
. had followed both callings. He was typi-
cal Yankee, pure aud uuadulterated-lOng,
lean, lank, and yellow-ha:red, with the YER
dure of green grass and hay-seed clustering
and clinging about him. The wife was YER
dant enough, but few years spent in one
of the better families of New Bedford, as a
domestic, had rubbed off a little of :he awk-
warduess. Yes Jonathan had come in early
on that morning from his home had taken
Seiintha directly to the residence of a clergy
man, and there had the knot matrimonially
tied ; and had then taken the cars for Bos-
ton, where a brief honeymoon was 10 be
spent with his Aunt Abagail who lived, ac-
cording to his firm belief and unblushing as
. sertion, "clos' tr tn meet n-house"
Well, everything was lovely, we may sup
pose, on the way from New Bedford to Mans
field, where we find Mansfield Junction"
so calIed-the point where the New Bedford
Branch r. r. connects with the Boston and
Providence. The acute angle of the junction
rI II rlv hefyy
the two roads stands the station house, the
doors of which, upon either side, open, re-
spectively, upon the platforms of the two
roads. When the train from New Bedford
arrived and stopped, Conductor Lipcoln's s
train, from Boston to Providence, had al
ready arrived, and pulled up on the opposite
side. Jonathan could look from the window
of the car into the station house, and the
display of fruit and cake on the counter
tempted him. He asked Seintha if she
would like ''sunth n kind o'gooiish t'r eat, -
and upon receiving from her fervant and
bewitching Affirmative, he hurried out aad
pushed his way through the throng. That
side of the double counter towards the door
by which he had entered was crowded by
customers, while on the opposite side they
were thinning out; so around TO the op,
posite side he elbowed his way, eager and
determined. He had selected four big pears,
and two mince turnoyers, and was counting
out the pay from his greasy wallet when
/; his ears we're greeted by-"All aboard"
eff you are going on that train, sir, you
had better make haste, " said the young lady
in attendance.
And Jonathan threw the las. big copper
cent on the counter, grabbed up the pro
visions and started-started as be saw Others
starting in equal haste. That he had com,
! in by another door, aud crossed around Il
, an opposite side OF tbs room, did not occu
to him. When he reached the platform tn,
train stood Just as be had left il. Aye
? there was his car-he knew il by its color-
and he made for it, reaching the platform
, Just as the engine puffed, and jumped, an,
started. He grasped the iron railing 70
support, and so stood until another persol
opened the door, when he stepped in. a
he entered his seat should be about midwa
= of the car, and on the left hand. He wen
= thither and looked at the 5onnets but i
did not fiud Selintha's. He must have 20
into ;he wrong car, and he pushed on, stan
e bling aud staggering, to the car forward
that, which he found to be the smoking ca
vi COURSE his HliC CoulU not Ht lucIt 81
heated and sputtering, he turned and mad
the best way he could back into the car
- had left where he was oyertaken by IL
conductor, who had followed him from IL
= smoker. The conductor of that train "a
George Frank Lincoln. and those who bno
u him need not be told Of his carefulness, b
sympathy, nor of his all pervading love
D fun.
We'll my frienG, what is the trouble ?
Y. he asked, kindly, touching the bewilderC
"a man upon the shoulder.
''Eh Ah--be yeou the conductor -
-, Yes, sir. What can do for you?'
"Dew? Jes' tell me whar my wife
- will ye? III be squashed eff didn't lea
= her ia this ere keer -
Lincoln took in the situation al glanC
w He knew be had not had this man oil h
train before arriving at Mansfield,
80 "Look ye, my frieLI-where were y
in and your wife bound 90
b Bound What? Why-ter Bosiing,
I'd course"
be "Wcl, sir, your wife is.by this time, pre-
ably, safely on her way bat you, my de