Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-02-17
Proprietor.
Vol. XIH---k0. |.
Barnum's Railway Court
isi ship. 51

I0e managers OF railways ruT
ming west from Chicago pretty rigid
ly enforce rule, excluding fror
certain reserved cars all gentlemeI
travelling without ladies'. As d
not smoke, / avoided the smokiU,
cars, and, as the ladies' car wa
sometimes more select and alvey
more comfortable than the othel
cars, | tried various experiments iC
smuggle myself in. II Il saw 8 Ia.
dy about to enter car alone, / fol
loved closely, hoping thus TO eludt
( the vigilance of the brakeman, whC
generally acted as door.keeper-
Blu. the car-Cerberus is pretty wei
up to all such lodges, and / did
not always succeed. On one occa.
sion, Sc iOg a young couple, eyi-
dently jos, married, and starting
on a bridal tour, about to enter she
car, ! followed closely. but was
stopped by The door-keeper, who
called out:
slow many gentlemen are with
this lady?'' s.Fl 49,. -.
/ have always noticed that new
ly married people are very fond Of
saying my husband and "my
WIFE," They are new terms, which
sound pleasantly to the ears Of those
who utter them. So, in answer to
the ppremptory inquiry of the
dOor-keeper, the bridegrOomprOmpt
ly responded:
81 am this lady's busband.'
sand / guess you can see by
the resemblance between the lady
and myself" said / to Cerberus,
-"that am her father"
The sstouisbed husband and
blusbiug bride we're too much "takeD
aback" to deny their newly.dis-
covered parent, but the brakeman
said, as he permitted the young
couple to pass into the car:
ave can't pass all creation with
one lady"
81 hope you win not Deprive me
Of the company Of my child dnriOg
the little time We cas remain to-
gether," | said, with a demure coun-
tenance. The brakeman evidently
sympatbized With lhs foud ''pa-
rent" whose feelings were sufi.
ciently lacerated at losing bis daugh-
ter through her finding busbaud,
and was permitted TO pass. ! i'm
mediately apOlogised to the young
bride and her husband, aud told
.
them who ! was, and my reasons
for the assumed paternity, and they
enjoyed the joke SC heartily that
they called me "father" during our
entire journey together. Iodsed,
fbe husband privately and silly
limited to me that tho FIRST boy
should be chfistened .sP. T." Ny
friend, The Rev. DR.. Chaplin, by-the-
bye 40 inyeierafe punstsr, is never
tired Of ringing the changes on The
names in my family: he says that
my wife and ] are the most sympa-
thetic couple be ever saw, since she
is Charity and / am .sPity"1(P.
T) On one occasion, at my house
in New York, he called my atten-
tion to the monogram, p. T. B.,
on the door, and said, 81 did it."
did What?" i asked. "Why that"
replied the doctor, "P. T. B.-Poll
The Bell, Of course;" thus ringing
a new change on my initials.
At another lime, dnring my
western lecturing trip, I VAS fol-
lowing closely 10 the wake of a lady
who vas entering The iavOrits Car,
when the brakeman exclaimed:
"You can't go in there, sirr
"I rather guess / can go in with
a lady," said pointing to the one
who had Just entered.
mot With that lady, old fellow;
for I happen to know her, and that's
more than you do; We are up to all
these travellers tricks ont here ; It's
no CO." Isl
saw indeed that it was enc 60, /"
and that | must try something else
"Look here, my dear fellov," said
!; 81 am travelling every day on the
railroads on a lectuYinr ,o,1Y thycngh.