The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-09
JUST LIKE WOMEN.


JUST LIKE WOMEN.
szov Two 1nnoccnts Struggle Over Sim
pie Telegraph Message.
One was perhaps twenty-five, the
other a little younger. They were
pretty and stylishly dressed. A car
riaoe stood at the Fourteenth street en-
trance of Wizards Hotel, awaiting
their pleasure. 1t could only be sup
posed that they we're in very distress
full financial straits.
They sat at a table in the reception
room of Wizards, devising, eoncoct
ING and instituting a telegraph mes
SAGE to send to some friend. The elder
one did the writing and scratching ana
rewriting: which used up six or seven
Western Union blanks. The younger
one leaned closely over the scrlvener
tear up blanks.
I'VE will be there tomorrow.
That was what they wanted to say.
That was what they did say IN the very
first writing.
But" said the younger, 'if we say
we are coming home we shall both
have to sign it.
Carrie and I will be there to-mor-
row."
That was the result of much men
tai effort spent in composing and
much physical exertion spent IN eras-
ing. ~
YOUNGER a,,d two seemed to breathe
with that freedom which tells OF great
RESPONSIBILITIES unshouldcred.
Hold on" said the elder. at the
door.
"What?" asked the other.
Carrie and will be there to-mor-
row." One, two, three, four, FIVE, SIX,
seven-only seven words.
s.Weur'
why we have to pay-as much for
seven words as we do for ten"
Here was more difficulty. 1t would
never do pay for ten words and send
only seven. That would be reckless
and wicked waste. They proposed
many ways to lengthen it, but each
time they talked OF . new message on
.heir fin gers they found they had either
too few or two many words.
"Pshaw!:' said the younger one;
"why didn't think OF it before! !
have it."
Have you? Have you'"
"Why. of course!" Leave it Just as
it is and add Yours, very truly"
If the young lady had had an inspir.:.
alton she could not have looked
oreuder of it; and as for the older one,
she simply looked on the sweet face
before her as that of a wonderful be-
ing.
Carrie and I will be there to-mor-
row. Yours, very truly" was the mes
SAGE that went through some operators
bands Yesterday afternoon
Higher than Railroad Orders.
mo, we don't bounce the trampl
who ride on the bumpers of our freight
train," said a freight conductor who
has run to the West. II presume
that we carry an average Of dozez
each trip, but if they remain between
the cars we pretend not to see them.
: "But it is against orders" was urged.
''Oh, yes, but there is a higher power
than general orders, even for railroad
/ men. Five or six years ago used to
be hard on the railroad tramp. I'd
l have the train looked over at every
stop, and if we caught chap he 60,
8 handled pretty lively. Nowadays
throw out hins to the brakemen to
shut both eyes, and, if the tramp don't
, presume too much on my good nature,
, no one will disturb him."
/ What happened to- change your
, mind?"
5 "Oh, little incident of no interes.
to the public, but q great deal to me.
1 I was married in December three years
! ago. On the third night got an order
: to run out with an extra There was o
/ cold rain, which froze as it fell, and
l one of my crew got hurt at our very
first STOP This left US short-haHded.
l and as we could not supply his place l
{ had to act for him. We were back in
the mountains, running strong to make
time, when the engineer whistled brakes
3 FOR grade. I climbed out of the Co.
boose with the brakesmen, and had set
two brakes and was after the third,
! when q lurch of the cars threw mo
1 down, and l fell between two of them.
I had just one glimpse of the red.
checked bride a: home, just one swift
. thought of her in widows weeds and
her heart breaking, when hand
grabbed me. Twas going down head
: FIRST, but the strong clutch turned me
| over. and my feet struck the bumpers.
I'd have gone then, only some one put
: my hands on the ladder, flung his arms
around me from behind to hold me
there, and said:
"You are all right, old man. Your
nerve will come back pretty soon.'"
land it was tramp, eh?"
1T was, and he held me there until
the train reached its stop, and then
helped me down, for the sudden fright
! had taken all my strength and nerve
away. But for him should have been
ground up under the wheels. This is
the reason I keep soft spot in my
Loort t,-oron an6 whv