Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1891 — She Bore Up. [ARTICLE]

She Bore Up.

A London Journal says that a stout and elderly woman was on board a train which wfts approaching the Forth bridge. Her remarks, which she bestowed; night and left upon her fellow-passengers, showed that she was unaccustomed to traveling; yet she must have been something of a philosopher La her own way. As the reader may perceive, she was a believer In what may be called specific levity. The old lady was nervous about the bridge. She had seen pictures of it, and had made np her mind that it could not be quite safe. She kept inquiring when the train would come to it. and at last was told that it was close at hand. “Well,’’’ said she, rather solemnly, “I don’t know whether we shall get over alive or not, but if we don’t it sha’n’t be my fault.” Then she settled Into,the corner ol the seat with a, determined air and a puckered-up mouth, which were only less droll than the general air of responsibility which brooded over her. During the passage of the bridge she did not speak a word, but seemed to be holding her breath. “There,” said a gentleman In a neighboring seat, “we are over it safe.” The old woman beared an explosive sigh. “Well,” she said, “if we had gone te the bottom I should have died with a clear conscience, for it wovjkln’t hare been my weight that did it, l boro ups© that I really made the train lighter than it would, have heeu without rat.* "V ,