The Anaconda standard., 1899-01-23

| Here's your basket he said, handing
| 1t to me. For moment I was too sur
prised to speak. Then. I yelled at him
! In way that made everybody jump
around. did not say anything. l Just
yelled at him on general principles.
Whats the matter, boy?' he said
| when stopped. Some of the passeng
ers laughed; others were indignant.
and some who had not seen his action
| simply looked at me in amazement.
| One man turned around and said: My
stars, where have they gomez I sup
pose he meant the peanuts. Then I
| protested.
| Look here, boy, said the young
man, how much were they worth?
| oh, about a dollar, I guess said I.
He turned to the negro on the next
seat. 'Nfcodemus, he said, give the
boy a dollar
| The negro grinned. and turning to
| the box beside him he opened it. 1t
| was really full of money and valuables.
He took out a dollar and gave it to
| me. 1 took it and walked up the car
| was still surprised. At the door I
| looked back at them, and everybody
laughed at me for some reason-all
except the young men; that is, they
never even smiled during the whole
performance
| WELL I filled up my basket with
| prize packages and came back through
the train. Nobody bought any of
them. When / reached the Southerner.
| however, he said, Excuse me SIR and
grabbing the basket again he sent the
| prize packages after the peanuts. He
handed me my basket and sat back
| without a smile, but everybody else
laughed again. + did not yell this
time. I simply said: Look here, ms
ter, do you know how much those are
| worth?
No. said he; how mucr?
Well, there were three dozen and
1 four at 10 cents for each one, not to
mention the prizes in some of them
Oh! he said; 'Nicodemus, count
| up how much the boy ought to have
and give it to him.
"The negro opened his box and gave
me 81, and again I went away with
the empty basket, while the passengers
| laughed
! Next brought in some morning pa.
pers and nobody bought these either
Somehow the passengers had caught
| the spirit of the thing, and as it cost
| them nothing they apparently did rot
| wish to deprive those Southerners CT
their fun. was watchful when came
| to the young bloods this time, and I
| carried the papers SO they could grab
them easily. Sure enough, the nearest
| after tn eother things. salt on the
| edge Of a seat and laughed myself.
| oh, you settle with Nicodemus,' he
| said, and Nicodemus settled up.
Then l had an idea. went into the
| baggage car and got every paper I
could find. I had lot of that days
| stock and more than 100 returns Of
the day before which I was going to
turn in at the end of the run. The
whole lot was so heavy that could
just manage to carry it on my should
| er. When I staggered into the ladies'
car and called 1Paper!' in the usual
drawing way the passengers fairly
shrieked with laughter. I thought the
Southerner would back down, but he
never fiinched. He just grabbed those
papers and hurled them out of the
| window by the armful. We could see
them flying behind the train like great
white birds-you know we had blank
ct sheets then-and they spread them
[aselves out over the landscape in
lsway that must have startled the ru-
raj population of the district. l got
more than $40 for all my papers.
THAT dandy was game Look here,
boy he said when the. passengers had
seen the last of the papers float around
curve; have you anything else on
board?' ~
- Nothing except the basket and my
box l replied.
">Well, bring in those, too
You remember the big three by
four boxes they used to give us to
keep our goods in? Well, I put the
basket in the box and turned it over
and over down the aisle of the car
to where the fellow sat- He threw the
basket out of the window, but the box
was too big to go that way So he
ordered Nicodemus to throw it off the
rear platform. l charged him $3 for
that box. When it had gone he turn
ed to me and said:
How much money have you made
to-day?'
st counted up more than s25 that
Nicodemus had given me.
Now he said, are you sure you
Ahave nothing more to sell?
Il would have brought in the smok-
ing car stove if it had not been not
But l was compelled to say there was
really nothing more.
Very well!' and then with change
in his tone, he turned to the negro and
said: 'Nicodemus, throw this boy cut
of the window!'
The passengers shrieked with laugh
ter, but I got out of that car pretty
quick, I can tell you. That fellow was
thoroughbred, and believe he would
have done it, even if his niger had
refused, which was not likely
And the face of the inventor wore
half amused, half regretful smile at
this vision of his train boy days.-New
York Corr. of the ST. Louis Globe-Dem-
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