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Show Phase of Human Natura. They were waiting for the train at ft country station, 'xhere was a dreary looking; waiting room, 14 by 14, and there was a platform 70 feet long by 8 broad. The scenery consisted of one water tank, five freight cars, two fields, one pile of lumber, three telegraph poles and a small boy. The rain poured outside. out-side. The two vomeu sat as far from each other as possible and regarded each other with suspicion and distrust. One seemed to be saying to herself: "If she is going to the lunatio asylum she should be looked after. Who ver saw any one come oat in such colors and mix things like that? Such persons are dangerous." And the other one remarked: "Must I wait here long in the company of that thing? What a looking head! What big feet and hands! Looks as if 6he was going to work on a farm." The two men who are strangers to each othor and to the women were fair, mild eyed specimens of the human race. They stood and looked at each other, and might have said to themselves: "Looks as if ; he had overdrawn 'his account at the bank. Seems to have an innocent inno-cent look, but .that is all put on." And the other might have muBed:?"So here's the 'Rubber Kid'- out on another expedition, expe-dition, but 111 spoil his game.- My, but hasn't he got a hardened" look!" But they did. nothing of the kind. While those women eat several feet apart, huddled hud-dled up in an exclusive sort of way and their veils drawn, the men walked arm in arm, joked and smoked and talked stories and said they were glad to meet. They poked each other in tho ribs, called each other "old boy," borrowed some fine cut and every match they had was shared in lighting cigars. One of the women got up enough courage cour-age to ask the other for the time. The latter might be addressing the cook of an Erie canal scow, she thought, but replied re-plied that she had not the time. Then both shrank away under their veils and turned up their noses. When the train came along the men got into the same car and the same seat. The women came out with respective looks of disdain, dis-dain, entered separate coaches, and as the train moved away they were sorry they had noticed or spoken to each other and failed to stand on their individual dignity. dig-nity. Albany Journal |