St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1891-04-04

pretty well, for I was conductor ON the
- avenue line for nearly a year."
"You 4 conductor said in surprise
II never knew that before"
Il cane to New York about four
years ago with the promise of situa-
ton in the Office of the Avenue
Horse Railroad Company, hut as there
was no vacancy at that time, and as
nothing better offered. I accepted Q
place rs conductor while waiting.
You'd be surprised at all the Ingenious
devices to beat . conductor out of fare,
from the well-dressed gentlemen who
have left their pocket books in the other
trousers pockets, to the half drunken
hummer who never has another pair of
trousers to leave a nickel in, but who
rides rs far rs he can, and when put of
for non-payme1t Of fafe halls the next
car andeo keeps on until he reaches his
destination. But the toughest of all is
when aswoman claims to have lost her
purse, or something of tho kind, and
her helplcssness appeals to . fellows
gallantry. used to ring in . fare out
of my own pocket at such times until I
caught some of the schemers laughing
ut my softness, then decided wasn't
SO green rs to get sold that way again.
The company was very strict, It was all
a fellows place was worth to let any
one ride without paying fare, no matter
what the circumstances; our orders
were to compel women, as well Is men,
to leave the car unless they paid. II
we felt in the least lenient in enforcing
this order we could never tell which pas
senger might be . 'spottcr,' or how
soon we might get called into the ONCE
and discharged. I'll never forget one
case of the kind. II was . cold day in
December and the president of the road
was on the car; what he was there for
never knew, but he occasionally rode
up and down, for inspection, l suppose.
At Grand street two nicely-dressed la
dies got on, who paid their fare out of
wcll-fillcd pursea --
81 shouldn't have noticed these 50 par
ticularly only for what followed. At
the next crossing . woman was wait
ing. I saw that she was young, Was
dressed III black and had very sad ex-
preston. She had large bundle and .
feeble-looaring baby in ber arms. while
holding to her dress was b three-year-
old toddlG,with round, rosy checks and
bright blue eyes- 1 StepPea OF to help
the woman on and took the little girl in
my arms. 1 always had q soft spotin my
heart for children of the genuine sort,
not little old men and women. My
friends used to chaff me on liking
pretty little girls better than did the
big ones, and think they were about
right ~ ts E''.
"I yikes to wider the little puss said.
looking up into my face all smiles and
dimples, and showing her pretty white
teeth between her rosy iDs. II makes
my tootsies told to walk holding sR q
plump little foot pDdflypeQtected ftom
the cold pavemeat by q well-wOrn
shoe.
".Well, YOU shall get them all nics
and warm said. making room for her
beside the stove. The mother dropped
into . seat with sigh of WEAKNESS. and
placing her bunale on the floor shifted
the baby to her lap to relieve her tired
arms. 1 was called away 70 attend to
other passengers, and returning held
out my hand for the mothers, fare. The
little girl wwas holding out her poor lit
tie worn shoes toward the fire. -
"sIt's dood and warm here she said,
with face all smiles and dimples as I
stopped beside her.
That's right, get an zFarmed
through Il said. patting her on the
head, then turnedSO the mother again.
she had shilteds fne baby to her left