The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-03-21

ways sits directly before YOU. and al
ways opens the window every time the
engine whistles, and stick his head and
shoulders out 70 see what they are do
ing at b station, and never closes the
window till the station Is out OF sight Pss
"Yes, and he never saw any BODY be
knew at the s~tationp"
"Never, and he never sees any thing
any body Is doing at the station, and
can't tell the name OF the station while
he is in itP"
sand always scrapes the back OF his
head against the sharp edge Of the win
dow sash when he pulls il in, and then
dismally rubs his head while he turns
around and looks s~uspiciously at you, as
though he believes you did it, and did it
on purposeP"
Sand the man who is waiting at tie
station TO see the train come in? The
man with butternut oyeralls tucked into
his boots, tawny beard, arms crammed
into his pockets up TO the elbows, mouth
wlde open-you never miss him; when
you 60 down he is standing there at sun
set; when you come back at sunrise, he
IS waiting for you; never sees any body
he knows get of the train, never sees
any body he knows get on; never ex-
poets TO; would be asionishcd to death
II he should happen to see an acqusin-
lance come or go; isn't paid for il, but
it's his business. Has nothing else in
the world TO do. Is always there. III
the train comes in fifteen minutes ahead
OF time, he has made allowance for II
and has been there twenty minutes; IL
the train is four hours late, he waits for
It. You 9 him At nearly every sta
tion.n
Never speaks to any body"
:" Never, and il any body speaks t.
him, he says Dunno If the baggage
man runs over him with a truck, he SAWS
HUH and shrlnks up = little closer
against the station, but he never gets out
"And do you remember the man who
sits behind you and w~histlesP"
sand when he gets tired Of whistlinp
in your ear, sings bass"
"And nev whistles or sings any thing
that you know?"
"Or that he knowsp"
Sand the 'masher,' whose breath Il
nearly AS bad as bis morals, who wants
70 tell you all about tne daughter Of =
wealthy merchant who was lust dead
gone on him the last time he went over
this roadin
"And the man behind you who bites
on half an apple at one bite and then
his chin on your shoulder and tries
talk to you about the weather and
,rops?"
81 M tha
y the front door, walks clear back and
on the rear platform, looking At each
,ne Of a dozen empty seats, hunting for
} good one, and then turns back to find
every last seat taken by the people who i
,ame in after himp" !.
And have you never seen the girl :
get on at some country station, fixed Z
Up mighty nice for that town, the belle /.
the village, dressed In more colors
han you can crowd into q chrome. :
lalf the town down at the station to see
ler OF; she walks across the platform ,
just . little too rich to look At. j
zones into the car with her head up !.
md plumes flying, expecting to set ey- =
ny woman in that car wild with envy
. she walks down that aisle ; she opens '
he door and sees . car full Of Chicago !
iris, dressed In the rich, quiet elegance
city girls in their travelling costumes, :
nd zee how she drops like q shot into }
ne hrst seat, the one nearest the stove,
looks straight out OF the window and q
ever looks anywhere else, and never
hakes her plumes again while she stays :
D the car" Il
"And the man who wants TO talk.
mar who would probably die II be
talk five minutes to every one v
Q rides with; who glares hungrilv
round the car until his glance rests on
le man whom be thinksi Is too feeble to r
ssist him. and then pounces down on =
and opens the intellectual feast bv
'king him how the weather is down bis "
ay; the man who Is always most de- r.
rmined TO talk when you are the sleep
St, or when you want to read, or TO II
link or just sit and look out Of the car
indow and enjoy your own idle, pleas v
1t, vagrant dsy-dreamsg' 4
"And the man who gets on the train y.
stares at every man in the car be. ~
re he sits down, and stands and holds v,
70 door open while he stares. who
ways carries an old~-fashioned. oil cloth
lrpet-bag with him, as wide and deep r.
q fire.screen, and before he sits down, u
takes that carpet-bag BY the bottom, Z
lis II up into q close roll, and puts il
the rack. 1t Is always dead empty. =,
hen he leaves home, he never puts
g or a thread or a button in IL. when ",
comes back 1t is emptier than it was III
hen he went away. 1t had any
ing In 1t that he knows OF since il was -
vned in his family, but he will never
Avel without It." &
"And the other man, who carries !,
in his carpet-bag but lunch, and
t. all the way from Chicago to Cairof" =,