The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-06-03

their mileage was concerned. It was all right over the Southern and the Illinois Central, but they had switched off on a road on which their mileage wasn't hon. ored on the train which they boarded and there you are''
 "Of course that called for lots of trouble?" I suggested.
 Precisely" retorted the major, that's the real beginning of my story. The gruff old conductor came through and they handed out their mileage book. He looked at the book and scrowled He asked for their tickets. Then came the blue-eyed wonder of the whole thing for the girl with the dimple smiled sweet ly up into his face and said she was aw- fully sorry but she didn't know what she d do. He told her they'd have to get tick cts or pay their fare. They began to scramble in their bags. One of the girls pulled out programme of the last ball game she'd been to, and after a hurried research, she found some Pullman tickets, and asked if that's what he was talking about?'
 How exasperatingw I calculated
 ''The other girl resumed the reading of a story in a magazine, as if the case was closed and the bue-eyed one with the dimple-just smled.'
 But the conductor remonstrated, saying they couldn't ride on those Pullman tick cts, and their mileage was no good. They were on the wrong train.
 Isn't this train going to New Orleans? p asked the blue-eyed girl
 Certainly was the answer, "but you haven't any fare on it''
 Just keep the mileage then," said the other girl. We won't need 1t again. All we want to do is to get home. You are perfectly welcome to the whole book-just do what you please with it.''
 Then the conductor looked down again and met the battery of those blue eyes. But still he didn't give in
 You've got to pay or get off," said he true to his post.
 1T can't get to my money" said the blue-eyed girl, dimpling again. Please use the mileage
 ITO make long story short" contin- ued the major, the conductor took the mileage, and then the two began to tell the gruff old man what nice fellow he was, and how they appreciated his kind ness and all that sort of thing"
 ''I think that Is rather an extraordinary story" I remarked.
 Not of pair of blue eyes at all, but of the conductors unfaithfulness"
 "Thatslnot the point,'' said the major in defensA .'The point is that the girls carried their point by not arguing with instead they used their blue eyes and dlrnDleS to an adyantage
 "The very ideal" exclaimed
 Well saw a similar case not very long ago." retorted the major, when a middle-aged school marm up in North Carolina had the identical experience, and she made a muddle of the whole thing by being ill-natured and fussy with the con- ductor. and in some sort of occult way the entire crowd of people in the Pullman car disliked her and sympathzed with him. She was so all-fired disagreeable In the other case Miss Blue Eyes and her sister may have been stupid and simple but thex were good-natured and sweet tempered. and"
 They were youn gand had blue eyes and dimple, and a bunch of curls," declared.
 Yes and they captured everybody on the strain said the major. '"rhe con- ductor, the porter, the newsboys and even your humble servant catered to their every wish until the train pulled into New Orleans that evening. I heard one of them tell the conductor as she left the train that he was the incest con ductor she had ever seen, and she. hoped whenever she travelled he would be the conductor'
 The psychological effect of a pair of blue eyes, I opined. Was it because they were blue?"
 Yes and more said the major .It was the utter helplessness of the two girls when they smiled up into the finty hearted, old conductors face, and knew in some cairyoyant sort of way that he'd see them safely through. They had con fidence in his kindness and they were helplessp'
 And all this ethical side of the question goes on to prove? I said.
 That the way to tie a mans hands safe behind his back the major an- swered Ito make him wait on you hand and foot, to gag him with his fear to speak, to put death cAp on his honesty, is to place him in position whereA help less woman knows ashe doesn't have to worry-because he's right there to help hey solve all problems for the moment. Why, Uncle Sam himself would step down and out of the comic papers and spread his starred and striped coat down to keep her little feet out of the dust"
 "Especially if she happened to be blue eyed and had dimple," I said trium- phantly.