The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-20
LIFE 0S THE RAIL,
Pen Pictures Of Travellers Heb Ra-detts
EHzAs RaaA

] &'Sh A-kSsIGes % E-.N sAe4s NOD AsAlSeAAs
! A woman with three bird cages and q
| littlS girl has Juzt got on the train. She
| arTaBges the bird cages on q seat, and
! then she and the little girl stand up in
! the aisle and she glares around upon the
| upgallant men Whe remain glued to
| their seats and Look dreamiIy out of the
window. 1 hand my face down 70 the
| tablet. and write furiausly, for feel her
| eyes taste ed upOn me Somehow of
| other, / am always the victim In CASES or
tlis delicate nature. Just SIS I expected
She speaks, fastening her commanding
gaze upon. me:
" Sir, would it be asking too much if
begged you to let myself and my little
girl have that seat A gentleman can
| always find seat so much more easily
| than a lady"
And she smiled Not the charminge-t
| kind of a smile. 1t was too triumphant
| to be very pleasing. Oh cCuIse I sur
| rendered. l said:
g Oh, certainly, oertsinly. 1 could
! find another seat without any trouble "
! She thanked me and / erawled out of
my comfortable seat and gathered up my
| overcOab, my manuscript, my shawl strap
! package, my YaIise, my overahoes, and
she and the little girl went into the va
cant premises es soon as the writ Of eject
ment had been served, and they looked
happy and comfortable.
Then I stepped scross the aisle, took up
those bird cages and set them al7Tg on
top of the coal box, and sat down IN the
seat thus vacated. / alphabetically re-
marked to the woman, who was gazing
at me with q look that boded trouble,
that cit was much warmer for the canal
Ties by the stove" She didn't say any
thing, but she gave me a look that made
1t much warmer for me for about five
minutes, than the stove could make it
for the canaTies. I don't believe she
likes me, and am uncomfortably conf
dent that she disApprOves of my con-
duct
A friendly passenger wants to talk. I
am not feeling particularly Bociable this
morning, and consequently do not pro-
pose to tails to anybody. He asks how
l like this kind of weather, and ] say,
''sPlendidly,"
He laughs feebly, but encouragingly,
and says there has been little too much
| snew. l say: Not tCr health; it was
| just what We needed.
He asks if I heard Of the accident on
| the Central railroad, and ! say YES"
! him " don't know /; didn't read it. "
| he wants to know what l think OF
1 Hayes, and I say " think he made q
very good constable.
CORsable!" he says; al mean
| President Hayes.
cay I thought he meant Dennis
! Hays, Of Peoria.
Then hesasks if 1" am going fart"
" / say no.
"How tart" he asks.
Fourteen hun Ired miles, - say, un-
| blushingly.
! He thinKs that Is what he would call
| ''far," and make no response. Two
| babies are rehearaiDg q little and In rather
/ faulty ,time, but with fine expression.
And the man with one or two " dashes
asks if it dosen't bother me to write with
lot OF braLs squailing around"
looked up at him severely, for it
always makes me mad to hear a man call
a baby brat" and said To him, in a
slow impressive manner, that would
rather listen to a baby cry than hear a
man swear"
This eminently proper and highly NOR
al rebuke has lis effect The man Tor
sakes me, and he Is now wreskiDg g
cheap miserable revenge on the smiling
passengers by whisIling My Grand
iather's Clock" accompanying himself
by drumming on the window with his
fingers.
4 woman gets on a train, and says a
very warm hearted goodbye to great
| cub of q sixteen-year cid boy who sets
down her bundles and turns to leave the
car with a gruff grunt that may mean
goodbye or anything else. There is q
| liLtla ouiVaF on her liOs "a abe calls after
| him:
Be a good boy, write to me often, and
do as / tell you"
| He never looks around as he leaves the
car He looks Just like the kind of q boy
who will do just as she tells him, but she
must be careful 20 tell him to do Just as
! he wants 20. I have one bright spark OF
consolation as the train moves on, and
see that boy performing a clumsy satire
on a cIog-danCe, on the platform. Some
of these days he will treat some man as
| gIu&y and Fudely as he treats his
mother. Then the man will climb onto
him and lick him-pOund the very saw.
dust ont of him Then the world will
feel better and happier for the licking be
gets. 1t may be long deferred, but il
| will some at last. ] almost wish l had
pounded him myself, while he is young,
and felt able to do it. He may grow
upa very diEcouTagiDgly rugged man
extremely difficult to lick, and the wOrIC
may have to wait a very long time fol
this act of justice. 1t frequently hap
pens that thee bad boys grow up int
distFes2ingly bad men.
The Adventure Of a Poor Immigrant
in the Far " est.