A Little Family Difference

Up ou the Delaw!, and Ilndson railroad the other day two nervous old ladies climbed ou board the soutli bound train at Orown Point. Thoy were of the same height, looked much ilike and both of them vi'ore gossarner rubber cloaks - possibly undertho vague impression that einders melt. They fluttered into a seat near the door, evidently prepared for a long journey. When the bird cage, two satchels and three shoe boxes of luncheon had been properly stowed away, the two ladies sat down in unisón, much as if pulled on one string. Beyond a vigorons attack on the luncheon an hour later, they quietly devoted their attention to the scenery until Albany was reached in the late afternoon. That beiug the terminus of the road, the passengers started for the car door as t!io train stopped, but there seemed to be a blockade of some sort on the platfonu. It wasn't just exactly a blockade: it was the two old ladies f rom Crown Point. Equipped with satchels. the bird cage and the luncheon (now reduced to one uhoe box), they had led the procession to the door, but had succeeded in getting no farther, as the train had ruil into the station on a middle track, and they could not agree on which side of the caito get off. "1 teil you, Jauet," said the old lady with the bird cage, with much dignity, "that this is the proper side. It is nearer the depot, and no doubt our train is close by. Come, don't be obstinate, sister," she added persuasively. "1 will not leave the car on that side," deelared the other, holding up the shoe box and both satchels as if for a barricade, which the irnpatient crowd within the car thought quite superfluous. "If you tliinlc 1 am going to career across three tracks." shecontinued emphatically, "in front of moving locomotives, and risk ourselves and that precióos birrl. then 1 say, Hannah, you have lost your oenses; t!i:t' alL" ■You seeiu tö forget that I am older tiian you, Janet," rejoined the other with offtmded dignity. "That may all be, hut little good it's done. You would have scandalized the whole family at Cousin Maria Soper's funeral up at the Corners if 1 had not insisted" "Heyl" "What's the matter?" "Shake ifc up!" "Get off!" carne in a chorus from the impatient throng inside. "Sakes alivel" ejaculated the beligerent Janet, for the first time observing the crowd in waiting. "Come this way. Do come," pleaded the other. "1 won't.'1 "Youmnst: I iiisist," cried the eider sister, stopping hastily down to decide tfip matter. There was no further chanco for argument. Alruady the other passengere were pushing out. So, with pr'ession of annoyance and fright, the second old lady tourist joined the other and the two rubber gossamers began their deviqus flight across the tracks and before waiting locomotives toward the station. They reached there at length, but it was apparent that somefching lmd happened. "1 told you so! I told you so!" almost screamcd the younger sister as soon as she could catch her breath. "You say you dropped it?" asked the other in troubled tones. "Yes; that horrid engine let off steam and 1 jiunped. I suppose I dropped it then. Why can't engines hold their steam till they get out in the country, I'd like to know?" "Well, never mind, Janet. we can get along," 6aid the other soothingly. "But X do mind. 1 suppose, Hannah, 1 öught to be thankful that you and the bird are safe: but just to think," she added, with almost a sob, "the whole of Aunt Lucinda's sponge cake gone, and we've only got to Albany." And sure enough. some distance up the second track, reposing peacefully on the oft' rail, lay the familiar green