The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-10-04
THE WORLD ON WHEELS.

HABITS or TIE ENGINE
\ locomotive has two habits. 1t drinks
and it smokes. Ii seems to take comfort
in drinking at liberal river. rather than
where the draught is trickled ont to il
through stingy pipe on the dry prairie
| There are localities on the Union Pacific
Road where, rs hunters say, there ought to
be "sign" of Presbytcrians, there being no
water within a Sabbath-day's journey.
| Climbing heavy grades involves hard drink
ing. On the Mount Washington Railway,
where you travel mile and rise nineteen
| hundred feet in an hour and half the
| thirsty engine disposcs of eighteen hundred
gallons OF water--a dissipated in treath
During the late war they often watcrcd en-
gines from pals, MS they woulI ponies
| Perhaps you have sat upon bank. not of
thyme but of time, at midnight, in Tenn
esscc, with suspicious cedars all about with
| in hailing distancc-trees that of en- shed
queer fruit in vigorous way-waiting for
the train-men to bring locomotive refresh
ments of ;ht wood aud pals of water.
| Never since then has the smoke of an en-
CINE been welcome but o ten, in those
times when the nights were "unruly,"
would the burning red cedar load the air
with a suspicion of sweet incense that wa.
really grateful Possibly it vas a.soc tied
with the perfume of the cedar bows of boy
hood, when the flight of ones own arrow.
| sped from the springng WOOL was grander
than any flight OF eloquenc the archer has
| heard since To-day, Whit of cedar
will carry you faster and farther than n
| swift engine. 1t wi take almost any half
ccntury-old boy back to the era Of blue
striped trousers and roundabouts, and girl.
| ,pitI ~ Lita nptoInttps ruthuraI tl,o la,
tom: to the time when how and arrow.
windmill and kite, jack knife, fish-hooks
and tops, ''two old cat" Saturday after
moons and training-days were so many let
tiers in the alphabet Of a .pncss, and he
will not he hit worse for the trip, but
younger gen,ler and more human.
w ting of boys; till the writer was six
| teen years old he never saw deacon. that
| he couldn't tell him as quick as he could a
| squirrel. Sometimes they were tall and
thin. hut often stout, and as the papers have
it, appointment members of society"-meas-
ured from the second vest button to the
small of the hack But they were always
| gray, and sometimes venerable. | used TO
wonder if they were born old, and the idea
of young deacon was impossible. The
| locomotive, ! think has hurried up these
useful servants of the church, so that :hey
are sometimes picked before they are quite
ripe, and sent forward by an early train.
Take q sleek, dark-h ircd. flarc-vested,
ciyet-scented, im-wai ted man in n cut
away, and switching his patent-leathers with
| n rattan. and you have n deacon that would
was puIhiv" i, - 80 Amass;y n vnr
h story. But he may be capital deacon
for all that, only in disguise
BAGGAGE AND BAGGAGE-MAsTERs.
The more YOU travel the less you carry
The novice begins will, two trunks, valiso
a hat-box and an umbrella He jngles witt
checks. He haunts the baggage car like 4
"perturbed spirit" lie ends with small
knnpsack, an overcoat and linen buster
Bosom, collar, wri,tbands, he does himsel
up in paper like a curl. lie is as cleal
round the edges as the margins of a new
book. We throw away great deal of bag
gage on the life journey that we cannot wei
spare; young heart, bright recollection
of childhood, friends of the years that ar,
gone. And so we Fly light, but we do no
fly we'll. Let us approach the baggage-ma
with tenderness. Let us tender him
quarter, if he in turn will give gu rter t
our trunk He is square-built and broad
shoudcred His vigorous exercise in throw
ing things has developed his muscles till h.
projects like catapult. 1t is pleasant t
watch his playful ways, prov ided you carr
your baggage in your hat. lie waltzes on
n great trunk on its corners till they ar
dog.eared as a school-rcadcr. He keep
carpet-bags III the air like Il juggler Viii
one is going up another is coming dowr
Hinges of trunks give way. There is
smell of camphor and paregoric, and a jim
gle of glass, and display of woman's al
parel. They are all bundled up like a
armfu of fodder, and thrust back into til
offending trunk trunk, and big word tnn
bled in after them-to keep things down
Meanwhile, the tremendous voice Of II
. check-mastcr tolls like bell, "46S9 Clcv'
land. 27l Rochester," and the baggag,
car is as lively with all sorts of baggage
corn in n corn-popper. Things come dow
bottom side up, like captured mud-turtl,
, that are marked ''ths side up with care
They go end over end like acrobats.
rope is stretched around tie place of d.
structon, to keep the crowd that is watcl
ing the entertainment ON being kille
This has always seemed to me very toucl
ing instance of the loving kindness of raj
Il way officials, and yet it is possib spa'
end al that same rope might he used in
pleasant way to diversity the perfo nance
about that baggage-car. they have =
hope he is vet alive n NOODLE baggage ms
on the Chicago, Burlington and Q int
, Railroad. lie is very feeble. Once he vi
r. the champion ground tumbler of the Yves
hut now he was the galloping consumpio
lie is melancholy spectacle, but he is
model of hiS kind. The baggage NOV
quietly about him, and yet the trarsfvr
made rapidly and on time There is only ol
thing that prevents his promotion-his b
ing made Inspector Of baggag men t'roug
out the country, with commission to tray
and visit them all. 1t is this: quick ca
sumption is not contagious. Not nne of |
9 subordinates could possibly catch II.
THE NOTE OF INTERROGATION.
The? that wears clothes, and gees aw
from home by the ears, and afflicts the q
!, ductor and the Brak eman a. hi traveli
companions--he is of recent origin. The
is no account of him in job The Patriar
had a great many uncomf rtalle thing
out he didn't have him. Had he been
loose upon Pharaoh, that stiff.necked Egy
tian would have "et the people go" befo
breakfast. His natural diet is conduct
and brakemen. hut he will not refuse an
body. He has told the man before him a
the woman behind him where he wants
60, and shows his ticlet and his tru
CHI, ok, and asks il this is the right trai
q. and If the oh ok Is good, and when he W
get there, and how far II Is, and wheth
he knows anybody there. His victim pr
nnunces the check g. nuine, gets out
"Guide," hunts up the place, ascerlains {
- distance, tells him the time, and does
know ANYBODY there. Tho conductor G
tors, collecting tickets, and fare, has
no Wy train, and it Is only five miles to
first station, ~ makes for HIN on sig