The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1904-04-14

conductor told him that in the coach
ahead was crippled boy bound for
the west, who hoped TO make the con-
nection; and also there was young
girl destined to some far western point,
who also was anxious to make as good
time as possible. These two children
were unaccompanied, and after receiv-
ing the advice that the western train
would not wait, the conductor was in
a quandary to know just what to do
with them through the night in Mont
real. The gentleman Immediately
found himelf, and went forward to
the coach.
"Soon after this, the conductor also
went forward, and was pleased to see
the Pullman passenger talking with
the children. Just before arrival in
Montreal, he came to the conductor
and said to him, You know Mont
real better than l. You take charge
of the girl and will look out for the
crippled boy. This was agreed to,
and when the train came to a stand
still at the station, the conductor was
wreathed, or his face was, all in
smiles as he saw the we'll dressed gen.
tleman slowly walking up the plat
form, not only carrying his own lug
gage, but carrying, also, the crippled
boys two little old grips.
1.-THE conductor then asked the girl
if she had any money to pay her hotel
bill she said she had, but she knew
nothing about hotels. He explained to
her that while she would miss one
train in Montreal. she would arrive in
Chicago in daylight, which would be
better for her, and he would see that
she was we'll taken care of that night.
Placing her in care of trustworthy
man, he arranged for her to have
nice room at a good hotel, also to be
called in the morning in season to
have breakfast and then to be put on
morning he called around and ascer-
tanned that his instructions had been
carried out, thus ending the railroad
incident.
"All of which shows, concluded the
travelling auditor, THAT the trainman
has heart. l know this conductor
well. " And the newspaper man agreed
to his companions conclusion, and &C.
cepted his general estimate of the in
herent nobility and tenderness of the
men whom he was championing, from
the guard at the rear of the train for
ward to the occupants of the cab Of
the plunging locomotive. Their life
is one of arduous responsibility. 1t
may not tend to the cultivation or the
practice of the amenities of polite social
intercourse. A railway train, speed
ing at the rate of mile minute, or
! fioundering, belated amid the tempests
and drifting SHOWS of winter, carry
ing people of wide diversity of con-
dition, character and understanding,
is not place for the development of
carpet knights. The life. however,
does evolve in its followers noble and
rugged traits of haracter-buttoned
up tight, beyond observation, they
may be, in the uniform of the inter-
ests they serve, or masked by coun.
tenance that does not relax its stony
rigidity or melt into smiling lines at
some trivial inquiry or question of Sc
rious import. but they break out on
occasion, in emergencies demanding
action, and appear in deeds, knightly.
heroic and self sacrificing as any that
have lighted up the battlefield or the
warship's decks, or that have il
Tuned the story of the peaceful voca-
tions in life.
So the travelling auditor and the
newspaper man relighteo their cigars
and departed their several ways.