The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-29
From the Chicago Chronicle.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 M T was on a suburban railway, and
 the girl who entered the car was so s pretty and charming that the men simply had to look at her. Her cheeks were like roses, her eyes bright, yet tender. and she wore an innocent, dreamy smile. She dropped into a seat easily and began to absentiy fondle the gloved third finger of her left hand. Men and women alike gazed at her presently for another reason, of which she remain ed profoundly unconscious for a time
 Most of the seats in the car were placed crosswise, but at each end few ran in the opposite direction. A sort of wire railing separated these two kinds of seats usually. On this particular car, however, the railings had been removed The pret- ty girl, abstracted and unconscious of her surroundings, leaned her fiuffy head back ward with the soft. low coils of hair rest ing on what she supposed to be the wire railing-until the man made ready to leave the car.
 Then the curly head dropped suddenly, was turned in a hurry and its owner flushed scarlet She had been leaning her head on the shoulder of the man who occupied the side seat nearest to her, and the man, ungallant wretch! had enjoyed the experience too thoroughly to call her attention to the mistake
 The girl was so pretty that even the plainer one directly opposite only smiled faintly. but naturally embarrassment grew upon and overwhelmed her, and she, too. left the train at the next sta ton, whole mile further south than she had intended to do
 The heroine of this episode is a subur- ban girl also, and she believes in extend ing helping hand whenever this may be. So when, the other night, she saw a man whom she knows slightly fall asleep a seat or two ahead of her she decided to keep an eye on him for fear he might be carried past his station.
 As the station drew near she became nervous. She hated to speak to the con ductor, and yet, sure enough the brake mans cry of "Rumley Par-r-r-kp' made no difference to the unconscious mans slumbers. He snored on calmly. Then the girl. on her way out of the car, for this was her own station also. mentioned to the conductor that the man was being carried by.
 The conductor good-naturedy shook and shouted him into partial wakefulness, led him to the car door and saw him well off the train. The knd-hearted girl suffused with the pleasant glow of having performed an act of simple un- heralded kindness, walked brislxly away. She was startled at this instant by loud and angry exclamation immediately be- hind her. She turned to see the man whom she had thought she knew, but whom she now realized she didn't, in- dulging in wild sort of war dance and shaking a furious fist at the retreating train.
 What's the matterg' he cried to the station agent, who hurried up to learn the cause of the disturbance Matter enough. Pm thinkingl Here I'm to be married at Dawton Junction, nine miles farther on. and that uncomfortable con- ductor has put me off, here. Not another train for two hours, and the wedding due in seventeen minutes. Matter" J
 But the kind-hearted girl tarried no longer. She sped home in a hurry won- dering if kindly actions do pay always, and wondering also how she could have been so sadly mistaken in the man. And now she travels on that railway in fear and trembling, for what on earth would happen should the conductor whom she induced to put the man off the train ever tell this man that she did so? And what if he, being late for the