Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-06
YES. 1T WAS TIE WRONG TRAIN.

But This is the Way They Got Even
With the Conductor.
They We're going away on a triH and
they didn't propose that their train
should leave them.
Those railroad clocks are always
fast, anyhow. said the stout lady. Il
believe they just hope to get their
trains off without half the passengers. 80
Yes. and then Ike as not they
wouldn't want 20 exchange the tickets
Of the ones who were left, replied the
angular lady. Il got ahead of them
this time though. I told the ticke,
seller that I meant to So at 11:3O, when
/ never dreamed on starting before
115."
How sensible of you. I got a scalp
er's ticket several days ago. 1 never
patronize the railroad company when I
can help it-they are 50 mean"
Indeed they are. I'm almost sorry
that | started to-day, after all
"But they expected You, didn't
tbeyo"
"Of course. I telegraphed several
days ago that I was coming on this
train. ! always Ike 10 have things
like that on my mind"
so do /. Josephus says-he is per-
fec-ly Gorrifed about iJ-that do it in
order TO really change my mind.
My husband is like that, roo He is
always talking about the time I bought
my ticket TWO days ahead and then put
1t away so carefully that I never could
find IT, and had 90 get another
But You VIII find it some day, and
then you can just take another trip on
H."
"Of course I can. He SAYS it will not
DE good, but I tell him that I haven c
been exchanging things al the State
street stores all these years for moth
iug-Im not % be cheated by mere
railroad company now"
ct should think not. But thar is just
Ike q man. They have no idea of real
economy. Now. when all the roads
were selling excursion tickets last
summer. I wanted my husband to buy A
lo- for I knew we could use them d T.
Ing the winter he wouldn't even lis
ten TO me-, but flung himself out OF the
house, muttering something about wO-
mems brains and hens teeth. We'd
soon come TO the poorhOuse if l left the
shopping to him.
Like as not Come, let us slip
through the gate and into the train
while that man is not looking. He'll
just want to- look az our tickeJs-talk
about the curiosity Of women
81 think so, All. dear, I'm half sorry
I come to-day. I meant TO so over 10
see old Mrs. Tompkins before 1 went.
haven't been there for year, and, like
as not. she'll die while I'm away"
That's so. Mercy I do believe this
is the sunny side OF the car, after all.
Let us take these seats, so we can each
ge- q window"
"But some men have left their things
i'm them"
ooh. well, we can just move them
across the aisle. Like as not they il
think they left them there, anyhow.
Well. we're of. am sorry now that
didn't put Jennie OF and 90 20 Susan
first: but I suppose It's TOO late now
"I suppose so. There comes the con-
LUctor. Amt he in a hurry? / Won
der. now. where 7 put my ticket?'
'Ah. dear me. I've been carrying
mine in nay hand. 1 wonder if could
have dropped it? We are going 10
louisville. conductor.
Wrong train. ma'am, observed the
conductor. placidly. "JCnasville's ON
the other branch. Why didn't you show
your tickets az the gate?'
And before they finished with him
those two women told him their exact
opinion of the roa1.-Times-Herald.