The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1890-09-13

pended ON heroic measures, humane In
their seeming brutality. Officers who at
other times were all gentleness now fell
upon the hapiess straggiers with kicks
and blows. As the train drew up at the
platform of a station in mid-prairie, a
horseman enveloped in fur ard frost and
steam from his painting steed refined up
beside the leading engine and shouted to
the occupants OF the cab:
"Foc Gods sake hold on few min
utes. We've got dozen frozen men
with as we must send on to Fort War
rener." And the train was held.
Meantime. those far to the rear in tho
sleeper knew nothing of what was going
On ahead. The car Was warm anal COM
Portable, and most of its occupants were
apparently appreciative of its shelter and
coziness in contrast with the cherries
scene without. a motherly looking
woman had produced her knitting, and
was blithely clicking away at her needles.
while her enterprising son, a youth of
four summers and undaunted confidence
in human nature, tackled zap and down
on the various sections by turns, receiv-
ing such modified welcome as could be
accorded features strealled with mingled
candy and cinders, and fingers whose
propensity to cling to whatsoever they
touched was due no more to instincts of
a predatory nature than to the adhesive
properties of the glucose which formed
SO large constituent of the CONNECTIONS
he had been industriously consuming
| since early morning. Four men playing
whist in the rearmost session, two or
three commercial travellers, whose init
macy with the porter and airs of easy
proprietorship told of an apparent con-
trolling interest in the road. q young
man Of reserved manners, reading in IL
section all by himself. baby sleeping
F., quietly upon the seat opposite the two
passengers FIRST mentioned, and q Maltese
kitten curled up in the lap of one of
them. completed the list of occupants
The proximity of the baby and the
! kitten furnishes strong presumptive
evidence of the sex and general eondi-
ton OF the two passengers referred to.
and renders detail superhuous. A baby
rarely travels without a woman. or a
kitten with woman already encun-
bered with baby. The baby belonged
to the cider passenger, the kitten to the
younger. The one was n buxom matron
, the other slender maid In their ages
there must have been difference of fif-
teen years: in feature there was still
wider disparity. The elder was fine
looking woman. and one who prided
herself upon the Junoesque proportions
which she occasionally exhibited in q
stroll for exercise up and down the aisle
Yet no one would call her a beauty.
Her eyes were of somewhat fishy and
uncertain blue: the lids were tinged
with an monumental pink that told Of
irritation of the adjacent interior sur
face and of possible irritability of tenn
per. Her complexion was of that mot
tied type, which is so sore a trial to its
possessor and yet so inesti,nable a COM
fort to social rivals: but her features
were handsome, her teeth fine, her dress,
bearing and ,demeanor those of woman
of birth and breeding, and yet one who
might have resented the intimation that
she was not strikingly handsome.
She looked like woman with viii.
of her own; her head was high, her step
was firm, it was of just such walk as
hers that Virgil wrote his vera incessu
patuit dea, md she made the young
man in the section by himself think Of
2, that very passage as he glanced at her
from under his heavy. bushy eyebrows
Ch.s
with capacity for influencing people
contrary to their will and judgment. and
with decided fondness for the exercise
of that unpopular function. There was
the air of grande dame about her. despite
the simplicity of her dress. which. though
OF rich material, was severely plain
She wore no jewelry. Her hands were
snugly gloved and undistigured by the
distortions of any ring except the mar
riage circlet. Her manner attested her
person of consequence in her social
circle and one who realized the fact.
She had repealed, though without rude.
ness or discourtesy, the garrulous efforts
of the motherly knitter to be sociabIe
She had promptly inspired the small.
candy crusted explorer with such awe
that he had refrained from further visits
after his first contiding attempt to poke
asticky finger through the baby's velvety
cheek. She had spared little scorn in her
rejection of the bourgeois advances OF
the commercial traveller with the Ian
gushing eyes Of Israel: he contided tc
his comrades, in relating the incident
that she was smart enough to see that /,
wasn't her he was hankering to know
but the pretty sister by her side; and
when challenged to prove that they were
sisters-a statement which aroused the
skepticism of his shrewd associates-he