The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-01
,.pptNe BOOKS ON THE RAIL
a Railroad Newsboy Relates Some OF
uis Hxperiences.

,,;,bt sTruth is, we lost SO many that way
tiiI We Just can't ford IT.
80 AMI know Tor certain who first started
Ioinrs In. some Of the boys say it was
1 1',,i. Wosfae on the Richmond and Dan
Dil nN - Bound for Billie; he's always
starting something he don't know nothing
.ho,,, Old Billie is leader Tor all that
IT, ,,av that scamp can persuade the
80, into buying BOOKS Is "a SIN ana a
a Amt no Use in talking. ne eau Just
u, that's all. l heard some OF tne boys
g. II, ', at'ont row Dillie's tapping Of books
tellhg ,Ss tirst day he fell onto the scheme.
%oI NJ ICED wild when they saw the
Leopi,, ,broUing all sorts of books into
Du.oI - without asking a cent for EN-.
u! then i-aIfl Rillv could do to hold in when
i vas 1.',,,,an would look up and smile and say
t1e ~" ~ But they changed their tune when
'HNH---ad through the car TO collect fares on
i ne Everybody was so Interested reading
.ba hooks that they wouldn't stop, and they
&c ont the little twenty-IveS and tftles
lie shot out Of a shovel. Some OF the
.rnTnan didn't have the change and they
W. r1igntv sorry they'd started to read the
hooks They'd blush and look like they
Tanted to borrow the funds
al aiming worked splendid them times,
h,,+ sba's changed now. People are In the
to6it If getting off with the books. We
To- ANYTHING that wayl No stree. Many
ie the one that's got of with my books. but
made it up on the next man. 'Twont do
70 get left -,
ANYTHING | could make every one OF 'em
in The car believe she rally needed book.
But I never had tho heart to impose on the
innocent things, like some of the boys.
| always bad mighty tender
snot in nv heart for women, more
so than for men BY good eel. l can tell
a well-bred woman just the mlnnlt poke
nv head into the car door. They never
look excited, and they don't look al IL news
boy like he was side show. The other kind
don't have so much of my respect.
1.-THE only rail cowardly thing | ever done
to woman said the newsboy as he slipped
down into the seat and opened a box of
wormy figs, "was coming out from AT
Ianta last fall. Two of these big-talking,
flirting sort of maids was on our
tram, and they guyed the gizzard
out Of me before they got to their getting
off place. As soon as ] poked my head in
the car door they'd would fling their heads
back and laugh Till their eyes was red. and
then cram their hapdkerchiefs in their
mouths to keep from laughing to death.
He's a butte. they'd say. "A poppy "a
lamb Then they'd say: Say, skinny,
have ycu any rail genteel novels wrote by
ShakesI care or Byron or Grover Cleveland,
or any of that sort They'd wink at me,
and then put their handkerchief before
their eyes like it would kill em to see me.
1t got clean away with me, and | quit
going in the car. Just before we got to
Macon | saw them get eff the car.
My heart fairly jostled with delight. A
crowd of natty dressed boys and girls met
'em, and everybody was looking out of the
windows at them. / got out on the plat
form where everybody could see me plain,
aud when the train started to leave / hol-
Tered like | was a-fire, Good-by, gals
Everybody on the train whooped, and the
people at the depot laughed till they cried,
and them maids wilted.
Talking about reading people," said the
butch as he opened another box of spoiled
figs, 1--WE always been mighty successful
at it, can tell a preacher or a law
yer EVERY fire. Q, yes, | always
have bound hooks for their sort. slipped
one time, enough. 1t was this way: The
COMPANY had purchased a lot of cheap
books. How TO Cure Diseases of the Mind
aud Body,' and as they was hard stock we
boys was allowed double 'commish' on em.
had ore left and was mighty anxious TO
dispose Of her. She was clean and neat, but
she just wouldn't go. One day coming out
OF Macon espied little dried up man with
shaggy hair and weak looking ewes. He
had the littlest hands ever seen and legs
and feet according. | set him down for a
countryman. l made bold to tackle him.
Here's the last one l have in stock I said
to him. Better take it if you need any
thing of the kind argued; this is the only
one IN print Country people don't have to
send Tor doctor when they lave this work.
Ia n lffa bod,
and said, mildly, You little rascal! If Won
don't 60 away from me I'll throw you out
that window. turned up my lip at the
nttle old countrynan and walked out.
When we reached Atlanta the depot was
crowded with people and they kept I'D such
Whoopln' and hollerin' when the train
stopped, l poked my head out
to see what was the matter.
Would you believe it, they had this Iittls
countryman by the hands, and looked like
they'd go plum crazy about him. got
sorter uneasy, and eased up to the conduc-
TOR and asked him who the countryman
was, aid he said: Look heah, boy. don't
You know Gov. Alex. Stephensg
!, Ihls business is not what it used to be-
the boy SAID, as he opened the last box of
lhultterent figs. They done quit letting
Us sell fruit on the Pennsylvania railroad
ana hear some of the boys saw thew are
golngto stop letting 'en sell papers on the
trains. They argue that we take up too
tluc n room. You see, we take as many
as !OO or 1000 books, you know.
besides all the dailies and a lots
VI trult and candy flung in.
we take up four seats you know. and thew
argue Its too much. Maybe it is. and
anayoe II amt. Taint for me to saw. Pm
gong 70 git job somewhere. But they'll
lever lever break us up entirely Just as long as
onese ualiy papers are printed somebody's
gong tc buy EN- and newsboys are going
" sen en-" As the dutch" was getting
~ ol MS last fig timid looking redfaoed
youth approached him and asked if he had
Sny iga for sale. Medical 'soshoshun
t tE let lis keep any more.n was
rae he"sboy's ready response. They
Hf suaend red barber-pole CANDY,
bi1,aof some thatP The "butchn delivered
n 1ia,Sell OF his Ne in one breath, without
ant t1,us ms eyes or the customer, and. with
Tbo " ,ial Tor reply, kept UP his chatter
untii 'ihi III youth stood by tho newsboy
re alSli Ne got through gassing. and when the
her re tHi Ielt ne was eating some of the bar
on ~ Poio candy, and the .newshoy was out
nole a"' platform singing ''heah's yer barber
candy, recommended by medical
rosy yei oleeAs req ana