St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-03

of these perpetual smilers will come
noiselessly up to the seat and Startle
you by poking novel under your eyes
and then dropping it Suggestively at
your side!
In a short while he returns and sur
prises you by taking part OF your seat
and starting up lively conversation on
some topic that he knows will interest
you. This pleaseS you and the purchase
of the book is the invariable result, and
another subject is taken up to be
worked the same way.
The man III the smoking car is wOr-
ried i'll the same manner, but the cigar
is the bait. lie is fortunate, indeed, if he
resistS, for the average car cigar is made
at some place where cabbageS grow in
plenty.
But with all his faults the newsboy is
not such bad fellow, and we would
miss his CHEEKY face from the train. The
boys on the train are employed by large
companies, which have supply stations
and local agents in each city where some
large railroad terminates. To obtain a
position the boy must first have the
regulation blue suit with shining brass
buttons and deposit. which he
leaves for the stock he gets from
the agent. After being duly installed,
and after travelling over route with an
old hand at the business, he is given
small iron-bonnd trunk packed with
novels, books and countless novelties,
to catch the pennies OF the itinerant
Americans. He receives each day,
also, fresh supply of fruit, the
daily papers that have circula--
ton in the states through which his
route runs, and the new books and
comic papers as they are issued. Thus
armed, he takes up his headquarters
either in the baggage car OF the smoker
and sallieS through the train, and at
the same time goes through the passen-
gers. lie generally comes out winner.
He first makes tour through the
coaches with his morning papers, keep
ing a careful account of all he sells. This
trip is followed by another with load
of novels, in which books of the trash
lest trash figure most conspicuouSly. A
book is dropped in each seat
for inspection, and the passen-
gers may not know it, but the
boy picks out the books to suit the pas
senger. The young lady with the big
hat and lots of blonde hair, who smiles at
every man on the train, always gets
Zola's Mana" while the young married
couple with delightful aroma of
new-mown hay, and who are only
gets a copy of HE Fell in Love
With His Wife" The young man with
cigarette and a small-siZed eyebrow
on his upper lip, and is as innocent as
newborn lamb, gets The Clemenceau
Case" and he buysit for its paper cover;
and the little Schoolboy sits at the win
dow and revelsin 1.-The Electric
Horse" or 1.-The Insulated Detective"
or High Life and Blood at Tombstone
Ranch"
After making the distribution the
train boy returns, collects his half dol
lars and the books not sold. On his
trip through the train he has noticed two
or three babies, and with his practiced
eye he knows that money is there.
His game is an old one, but he
works it all the same, and as
some worried mother is trying to
read he will appear behind her and hold
fruit and misunderstanding candies up
before the baby. That is all he does.
The baby does the rest, and the I'M
earthly howl that inevitably follows is
signal that the bait has proved sue
cessful, and the poor, worried mother
buys the bananas and that precious lit
tie one is made happy
Once in a while the boy strikes
snag, as he generally does when he
offers TO sell gum drops to the old man
without teeth, and pop corn to the
counting couple. On these occasions he
makes hair-breadth escapes amidst
Yolley Of uncomfortable words and
phrases.
1t was the boy on Texas express
who had just received from the East
supply of glass pistols filled with candy
and pointed one at cowboy with his
usual smile and query. The terror of