The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1880-07-22
HE WASN'T THAT KIND,
A Young Lady's Mistake Oh the 1T
Louis Express Last Night.
II Rnohactar EvCu,cS

hochester Express.
Probably there is no train which
comes into Rochester on any of her sew
eral railroads that brings more news.
paper items than the St. Louis express
from the west just before midnight
Last night, if the story of a Rochester
passenger who came down from Buffalo
may be believed, there was an amusing
and a somewhat exciting incident on
the train. An Ohio farmer, from the
vicinity of Cleveland, had been riding in
the first coach back of the smoker all
the way from the city last named. He
wore homespun blue pants and q coat
which he had evidently purchased
ready-made. On his head was broad
brim black hat, and around his neck
was the unmistakable paper collar per.
meated with perspiration. At Buffalo
a young lady in brown travelling dress,
with an apparent abundance Of new
tangled, spread-eagle crinoline beneath
it, got aboard the same car and com.
menced casting about for seat. With
that characteristic selhshness which
marks the American traveller of to-day,
nearly every man in the car who had
not a lady or another man in the seat
with him, had placed his little satchel
on one side of the seat and himself on
the other, to carry the idea that the
whole seat was "taken." The damsel
wriggled through the, car and then start
ed disconsolately to walk back. She
hadn't reached the middle of the cal
when our Ohio friend hitched his
shoulders with marked individuality,
twisted his shaggy head around on a
lai ge, thick, sun-burned neck, ito see il
anybody else was in the same pre-
dicament, lifted his carpet-bag from the
outside of the seat to the floor, coughed
nervously, and said to her:
II reckon can make room fur YOU
eff you want a seat.
She did want one, and she wasn't toe
bashf1l to say so. They had travelled
side by side till they passed Croft's
station, when a freight train suddenly
came alongside and ratified by them in
the opposite direction. The first crash
ing sound of the freight reminded the
Ohioan of death and disaster, no doubt,
for he turned his head with jerk to
ward the window. Then observing tina,
there was more scare than danger, he
sat down, somewhat embarrassed. But
the sudden movement had been toe
much for the paper collar. 1t was all
broken up. His fair companion had
spotted him as a good-souled old gen
tleman, and she laid aside her retiring
disposition when she observed his em.
! barrasment in the disjointing of the
collar. She arose very politely, and
said:
"Can't / pin it for you, sir?"
"H'm! reckon you kin, eff you're a
mind to," said he, looking her squarely
in the face and becoming reasslred tc
such an. extent that he soon acted per.
fectly at home. Progress was then the
watchword between the two, and before
the train reached Batavia, one would
have mistaken them for an old widowel
and his gushing young bride, SC
thoroughly did they improve the time
chatting-he about "the gals at home, y
and she about everything.
The conductor had been through and
taken up the tickets this side of Bataviag
and the damseps small talk, like toy
watch which is wound every hour had
about run down. Finally she took out
her embroidered handkerchief and
yawned behind it. Then she began to
wink very slowly, as if by effort, and
finally began to nod. Feeling quite as
much acquainted as if it had been his
own neice that sat beside him the old
gentleman put forth his hand to nudge
the sleepy girl and remind her that it
was "only a few miles further" Fatal
movement for him! He touched her in