Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-07-09
Getting u Free Pass.

lace cont1nucu exposure to tic sun had
Drowned to mahogany color, whose
thin iron gray hair struggled out from
under felt hat little tho worse for
wear, whose "store-clothes" were u
dozen years old in fashion, whose OK
panied bony hands md vast extent of
wrist projected far beyond the coat-cuff, |
and broad square brogans tied with
leather. strings and guiltlcss of blocking
stuck far through tho ends of his panta-
looms.
Ono of tho officials, in answer to the
inquiry, pointed towrls desk, were
SIT an alert looking, clean-cnt, ali alive
sort Of man., and said, "That, sir, is
Mr.. Folsom"
"Hanlsomc?" said the old fellow.
"y,sas, SO, SO; but praise to tho face is
open disgrace, rs Aunt Jcrusha used to
say"
"What can I do for you to-tlay?"
asked tho Superintendent, curiously
| cycling the visitor that stood before him.
in the midst of subducd smoker from
the clerks.
"Day? Y:tas, very fine day. Don't
spose you remember me, do ye?"
"Your name must have forgotten"
"Mustaphn Cotton? Thunder. no!
Cotton was tho fcllcr what did the
gradin', I only furnished tho slecpers."
What grading do you mean?" said
the Superintendent.
"Gradin' done mean? Gosh all
hcmlock! I should think it was. Bot
tom dropped right out ont"
| "What contract are you talking of.
sir, and what do you want of mc?"
said the official, little nettled.
"Who do I want to sec?-why yew,
if yew air the Superintendent. Yew
air, ain't ye?"
"3es, :. said the railroad officer, with
"Wall, ye sec, I'm little dccf, an I
used to furnish sleepers for this road, I
did. Sold nigh 600, and only forty
thro VII aout.
"Yon must be mistaken" said the
railroad man, shouting into the visit
or's ear; tive haven't made any con-
tracts for some years."
"Seven years! Wall, darn't all,
twas longer ago n'that. 1 made a
trade with Raymun Lee-d'yc remcm-
Der Raymun Lec-little Teller, not ser
tall as yew-smart cz er steel trap ?"
eyes, I remember him, he was Su-
pcrintendent of the road twenty years
ago."
"Twcnty years ago? Yaas, yaas.
Wall. moved cast more'n ten year
ago; was farmin' on it then ND back
Of Attleberry; owned piece OF land
up there on sheers with Joe Farbink-
him us broke his leg in harrer in the
widder Burt's lield-darned fool-told
him the steers would start, and he
might llcv known"
Swell, we'll" said the railroad Off
Ger, impatiently-"what is your bus
mess ?"
"Wall, 1 how been runnin' q threshin'
machine last fall daown ter Agusty,
Maine, tentlin' a saw-mill till last week !;
lumber amt movin' 50 quick as it used
to, and"
WHAT'S you business here, Imean ?"
bawled the Superintendent. "What do
you want?"
Want? Why I want to 60 to Attic
berry,"
"Wcll, why don't you go? there's
the station, and the train leaves in ten
minutes. "
"Wall, I hain't got no ticket-cn Of
you could give INC u free pass
"Why should passyou free? lean
see no reason"
"Why, you know, I sold them Sleep
crs to Raymun Lee cllssed sight too
low, an lie said''-
"WAat!" shouted the exaspcratel
officer, "Do you mean to come to me
for free pass over this road because
twenty years ago you sold Mr.. Lee $50
worth Of slcepers? This is too much. "
"Tew much! No, sir, yew couldn' t
buy them air sleepers naow for double
the money, and Raymun Lee he want
50 close IF his passes, fur when I cum
down hero and settled with him, an got
talkin' with him, he told me if I'd only
go up to Attleberry he'd gin me a pass
"Good gracious p said Folsom,
sinking back in his chair, hoarse and
exhausted with shouting, with the great
drops of perspiration OH his forehead,
$50 will I if you'll only 60. Mr.. S.,
buy him ticket for the next train, and
charge it to my account. won't write
him a pass he might come back hero
on it.
,: The True Use OF the Word "Royal.'
The London Spectator is distressed
because the term "royal is applied tx
people who arc not entitled to it.
"Nothing is more common" SAYS
the editor, "than for visit from
subject to be called q royal visit, for til,
marriage of two subjects to be called
, q royal marriage. This means, o.
course, that the persons spoken Of are
sons or daughters or some near kinsfoll
of u King or Queen. But that does no.
make their doings, royal They ar
members of royal family, because
4 they are members of family which OK
! clusivly supplies Kings, but they are
9 not royal themselves. No ont
s would call visit from Dukes son o.
daughter 'dncal visit, ora marriage
8 of Dukes sen or daughter 'ducal
8 marriage. But hemight quite rightly
. speak of 'ducal family that is,
t family which supplies dukes, Il family
4 one member of which at time is alway,
i, a Duke. Why is there this dilferenc.
D of usage? 70 call visit from a per
L son who is not King or Queen oya
+ visit is of course a vulgarism which
q ought to be left to the penny-a-liners
t But the fact that any people at nil tall
$ about royal visit, when they would
l not in the analogous case speak of (
e 'Ducal VISIT has causes which ar,
r worth thinking of. The cause is JUS
t this, that, exalted as Dukes may be
Q they AMI their children do not form
!, class which is absolutely cut off from
l the rest of the world. There are other
!, whose rank comes SO near to theirs tina
t they 10 not stand by themselves as III
9 absolutely distinct class, but at most a
l class within class. They freely in
: t. rnarry with other people; they nect
o not be apoken to with bated breath
: they arc not necessarily attended by
g some one wherever they go; they are no
t said to honor people by dining will
t them; their doings, public and private
3 arc subject to free discussion. In shor
s they are still ordinary human beings
n though they may hold the first place
among ordinary But the royal
pcrsonagcs are rcally,i i'll popular belief
something more than ordinary human
3 beings. They are 'rcyal;' that is, i,
: fact, they are treated rs if they were
: themselves Kings and not subjects"
Legends of tic Myrtle.
Q Modern fashionable society, which
DEGREES that none but bctrothcd brides
t shall wear the myrtle, is not aware, per
3 haps that the custom dates back to tn,
T. days Of the Greeks and Romans.
Tho lover with the myrtle sprays
:, A1prpA hiA crisln1 trcsscN.