The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-05-23
TROLLEY WEAR ON TEMpERs.
A Conductor, Once Happy, Now So Ugly
His Wifi Can't Live With Him.

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A Conductor, Once Happy, Now So Us!J
His Wife Can't Live With Him.
There wasn't a vacant seat in the
q when the woman boarded it, and
she, wo1nanlike and unthinking,
took a place just inside the door,
leaning against tho casing. She was
IN the way Of everybody who want.
ed to get in or out Of the car, and il
seemed quite proper for the conduct.
or to direct her attention to that
fact and to tell her to move up out
of the way. However, he might have
done it in a more respectful manner.
As it was, he shouted angrily:
Got up, there. Go on up front.
Don't take up the whole doorway
The woman got very red in the
face and maintained her post
Move up there, I say. Move up!''
shouted the conductor again.
She was about to protest when a
man on the platform said sharply:
"You have no business to speak
sharply like that to a woman"
Move up. 10 you think you own
the carr" was the response from the
conductor.
MADAM" said the man who had
spoken, "you stnv right where you
are"
who's running this car, you or
me?" demanded the conductor, turn
ing to the man.
"Well, you are paid to run it"
said the man, "but by thunderation
you shan't talk tn any woman like
that while I'm on the car, and if you
dare to speak to that woman again
like that I'll punch your nose. Do
you hear?" The man bristled up. He
was fighting mad. The conductor
cooled down in an instant.
II can't help it," he said. 1.-Two
years ago, when I went into this bust
ness, I was as good natured a man as
ever lived, but I'm not now, and you
wouldn't BE- either. I've been knock
ed around and abused and jumped
on until there amt anything left in
me but ugliness, and I'm not going
to treat anybody better than I'm
treated myself, I don't care whether
she's q lady or not. The Women use
me worse than the men,"
you've got no business to treat
q woman the way you do" retorted
the passenger.
II HAVEN'T" said the conductor.
"Well, I have. Why, I've got 80 ugly
on the tail end of a car that my wife
has left me, and if you do not like
the way I treat people report me.
Report me, do you hear, report me. "
There the matter ended. Tho wo-
man moved up to the center Of the
car and chung to a strap. The con-
ductor began two or three times tc
swear at passengers, but the stee1y
eye of the man who had rebuked
him was fixed on him and he paused.
The rest of the trip WAS made with
out incident.
This vas on a trolley a in Jersey
City.-New York Sun.
France and Fine Speeches.
When I read his (Gambetta's) fiery
patriotic phrases, ard when you tel
us that he was avant tout un patri.
ote, I think of DR.. Johnson's brusque
saying, patriotism is the last ref
uge of a scoundrel." 1t is hard to
practice the plain virtues, but not
hard to Sc griser de mots about Ia
patrie. What France wants is mer
with a passion for the plain virtues
and capable of inspiring this passion
in others. His intellectual qualities,
his perception of the law of evolu.
ton in politics and his suppleness
and adroitness in shaping his course
accordingly are far more remarka,
BILE. They seem to me Italian
rather that French, but whenceso
ever they proceed they are not, al
though valuable. what France most
needs and cannot supply the place
of this. Matthew Arnold.