The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-05-27

front of the car. / can just tell you
there have been times when I've man.
aged to slow UP before running them
down that I've felt so faint with the
scare of it all that I've had to leave
my run and report at the office for sick
leave. To this day i can't see young
one in a pink calico dress that my heart
doesn't give a bump that almost knocks
me out. Oh, yes, you see there was q
little girl one day that we gathered in
on the fender. l thought she'd gone
under the trucks. and couldn't get off
and look for her IL I'd have been dis
charged for staying back on the car.
No, she wasn't hurt a mite. She wore
little pink dress and she had long yell
low curls. / amt ever had the same
nerve since.
"Then there's the fool women" he
| continued, "who think they can drive
horse. ] amt got anything to say
about the ones who really can, but only
them that think they can, and who,
when you're running your car along
steady-like and mindin' your own busi-
ness, suddenly decide they'll cross the
| track and go down the other side. OF
| course, not being a mind-reader, you
| amt prepared for 'em, and you stop in
| the middle of the block and knock all
| the passengers off the seats and have
your own heart in your mouth, besides
| thinkin' about the damages the COM
pany will have to stand and the bounce
| you'll get for reckless runnin and all
| because that woman happens to want
| to get on the other side of the road
ahead of the street car.
Next to children, who try to see how
close they can go in front of car that's
| running along lively, and women who
| want to drive across the track, are
| politicians. Now a lawyer, if he has
| any wits, generally has 'em with him
| and hustles himself over the crossings.
A doctor commonly keeps a sharp look
out for cars, and a preacher thinks too
| much of himself to run any risks, but
! just YOU let two or three fellows get
together talking politics and they'll
| stand on the track, or anywhere else,
and argue, if Gabriel himself was COM
| ing along at the rate of seventy five
| miles an hour with the Day Of Judg-
ment in tow. The other day thought
| we'd have to get down and lift off a
couple of fellows bodily. they were SO
| L
the car stopped in time to save them
from being smashed. one of 'em was
saying You just see if we can't get
| all the delegates for Quay!
| Did l ever run over anybody? I'd
rather you hadn't asked that, ma'am
| There's a woman who lives along one
of the Scranton lines that I'd rather
throw up my job than meet face to
face. She is a little bit of woman
and she always wears a black dress
| these days. Nom, it wasn't my fault
at all. Everybody cleared me from any
blame-but I'd give fifteen years of my
life If that baby hadn't toddled in front
of my car just after we'd passed the
other one on the switch and couldn't
see her."
This is a great town for having a bie
| heart that is touched at the cry o.
want or distress. The other day an,
nouncement was made that the fioul
barrel was empty at the Home for the
Friendless and that soap was in urgent
demand, In the course of a day, fiv,
barrels of flour and a sufficient quan
tity of soap TO insure clean faces fol
some time to come We're deposited a
| lne door. one time a plea was madt
for baby carriage, and before the enc
Of week there We're five of these con,
venient vehicles sent from homes where
baby had gone away forever, or haC
grown beyond the confines of q per
ambulator There are so MANY kim
people in the world who are glad t,
give OF their abundance or their pen
ury, if they know their gifts reach tn,
right place where they really do good
They dislike to give indiscriminately
or to find that imposters have received
their bounty, but an appeal that ha
substantial authority always receive
their support. know of a woman Wht
always gives something away when sh
herself receives a gift, usually an ar
ticle bearing some relation to tina
which she has just received. She /
generous at other times also, but thi
is a rule invariably followed, and III
gifts are often of much value. COnse
Quently she doesn't accumulate a
muck partly worn, but out of date ap
parel, nor as many trinkets as most o
her friends, but she gladdens man,
hearts whose lot is less favored thai
her own. Isn't it a pretty idea--thi
progressive" acknowledgement of
present? Saucy Bess.
THE BIVoUAC OF SILENCE.