Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-04-12
ODE Ticket Sellers Worries
NOT TO FORGET THE PULLMAN CONDUCTOR

business will be a pretty tame one
when the passengers stop talking to the
ticket sellers about themselves.
As the Pullman Man Sees It.
DO | see much of the romance of real
life in my trips back and forth re
peated II gray-haired Pullman con-
ductor on a transcontinental run.
We'll. it's this way: I'm 50 busy hold
ing down my job most of the time that
l don't take much notice. generally to
tell the truth. Yet. on the whole. I
guess the Ultima conductor sees
about as much real life as anybody
going.
only yesterday We had a little en-
ample of what you might call the pa
thetic side. i guess. When We pulled up
at a station somewhere In kansas,
there We're four farmers with a stretch
er. Standing beside the stretcher was
the most woe-begone looking woman.
all in black, l ever set eyes on. ON ti%
stretcher lay "a tall young fellow. with
a face the color of baked clay and Wide.
staring, rolling eyes that seemed TO
take in everything in sight. The eX-
preston in the poor chaps face old
of an awful story of horror, of amaze
ment. of despair. The poor woman all
most broke down when she learned
that we had never received the message
she supposed had been sent to us 10
have the berth made UP for the sick
man.
Il had the porter hustle around right
lively. | tell you. and we got the unfor-
tunate man In as quickly as We could
and made him as comfortable as pos
sible. After the train was started the
story came out. The man was the
woman's brother. She had been down
in New Mexico with her husband. VINO
had struck Il mine or something else
that hnth felt sure WAS at last going 10
bring them the wealth they had worked
for together for twenty or thirty years.
He had unexpectedly sickened and died.
though not TIL the strike had ma
terialized to the tune of some thou
sands of dollars. with a prospect or
considerable more.
Story of a PIucky Woman.
She had brought the body back to
Kansas. the funeral had been held and
she had gone to make her unmarried
brother a visit on his ranch In the
western part of the state. TWO or
three days after her ARRIVALS If she
hadn't had enough to bear-he had
been stricken with paralysis and she
was taking him to Topeka to see Is
he couldn't get some help in the hos
pital there. it being impossible OF
course, to get proper treatment out on
the ranch. The country doctor. who
had been called. had old her that there
NuSLl I i0C III ~ ~ '.o
the paralysis was complete. except as
TO the eyes. He couldn't speak. he
couldn't so much as move a finger. he
/, couldn't even swallow: but IL was
probable from the look OF his wide
staring eyes that he was conscious, al
! least partially. .
I II must say that his sister took II
+ like a thoroughbred. 1t was plain
. enough that the double blow was about
all she could bear, but she didn't com
: plain and she sat by her brothers SIDE
:. all the way to Topeka. changing we
clothes on his head every few moments
Il Before she had been on he train very
e long a motherly woman. somewhat old
: err than she. sat down by her SIDE
aske il she couldn't help. and talked
n with her as soothingly as If talking u
$ a little baby.
y whose husband was dead and who's
% brother was stricken began to lose 1t
set look and pretty soon i saw tina
she was crying. not sobbing and boo
hooing. you know, but just quietly.
thought 1T was all up then, and l won
Y dered why some women couldn't lie
we'll enough alone. but I CUES it was al
Il right after all. for l heard two womel
il passengers talking about the case an
- one said to the other: 49,.
She crying now. poor thing; 1T
1t do her good =.
We'll. you know. I think 1T did. A
IL the women in the car gathered roun
st her presently and. when we reache
Topeka, she looked a good deal bet
y ter, in spite OF her crying spell-mor
d hopeful ! should say. She was not a
~ all the furiorn creature she was whe
l. she got on the train. and she almos
'c smiled when she bade her friends 9
id a couple of hours goodby. as her broth
to err was put into the ambulance tha
was waiting for him."