The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-04-17
A Sleeping Car Experience.

1t was i'll Philadelphia sleeping car
Oh Western road After that first
plunge into unconcieusness which the
weary Traveller takes on getting into his
berth, | awakened To the dreadful reve-
lation that / had been asleep only two
hours. The greater part of Il toag
winter night was before me 10 face with
airing eyes.
Finding it impossible to sleep, iay
there wondering number Of things .
why, for instance, the Pullman sleep
ing car blankets were unlike other
blankets; why they were like squares
cut ons Of cold buckwheat cakes. aud
why they clung 10 you when You turned
over. and laid heavy on You without
warmth: why the curtains before You
could not have been made OPAQUE.
without being SO thick and suffpcating;
why il would not be as well 30 sit up
all nigh, half asleep on the ordinary
passenger car as Ia lie awake all night
IN Pull'nan. But the snoring of my
fellow passengers answered thi, ques-
ton in the negative
raised the window blind aud look ID
out We were passing a farm hOnse.
\ light, evidently the lantern 0t farm
hand was swung beside a barn. Yes,
the iaintest tinge IT rose In the iaI hori-
ron. Mornins. surely, at last
We had stepped At a station Two
nien had got .nio the ears aud hal taken
seats IN the oie vacant section, yawn-
ing occasionally. and conversing in IA
langu,. !, ,ertuhctory sort of way. They
sat s.5t.csiie each other. occasionally
looking out of the window. bat always
giving the stray Impression that they
were tired Of each Others company As
the One Man said with a fcrbly cen
cealed yawn:
Yes. we'll, reckon he was a. one
time as popular All nondertaker ez l ever
knew"
The Other Man (invcnting qnes-
tion rather than Giving an answer, out
of some langaid social impulse - But
was he--,.!is yer oudertaker "A Chris
tian-h bad he jined the church?
The Ono Man tret'ectivcly Well. |
don't know ez you might call him u
patfcssin Christian; but lie hed-yes.
he he'd conviction IT least that wa.
the way l got i, from him.
A long. dreary pause. The Other
Man feeling it was Incumbent on him
TO LAY something But why was lie
popular e. an on;iertakef:
The One Man (iazlIy Well, be Was
kinder popler with widders and Wild
derers--sort.r soothen en- IN kinder
ke.rle,s way; slung 'em suthin here aud
there. sometimes outer the book. some
times outer himself, eza man nf cX-
pcrlence AZ he'd he'd sorrur He'd, they
say (rp-y eaufioaslg). lost three wives
bisself. an five children by this yer
new disense-dip,hery in Wiscon
sin. don't know the facts, but that's
what got round.
The other Mau-Bu how did hc lose
his popularity
The one Well that ; the ques
ton. You see be introduced some
things into undertaking that waz new.
He he'd. fer instance. way, as lie called
it. of manipulating the features Of
the deceased.
The Other Man quietly How man
niperlstlhs
The O1e Man struck with a bright
and aggressive thought Look yer. did
ye ever noii>s how, generally speakin g.
a corpse Is :
The Other Man had noticed this
fact.
The Onc Man returning 20 bis f4ct)
Why. there was Mar, PEBBLES. cz wsz
daughter of my wlte's bosom .Flend-a
mighty pooty girl and peftessing
Cl,ristisn died Of scarlet fever Wei.
that gall was one Il the mourncrs
being my wife friend well. that gal.
though he,in't. perhaps. .ongh',r say
living III that casset. fetched all the way
from s1me \ establishment III thica-
go, ;illei with flowers ami ;nrbe!ows
-dllut really >een 10 be II much ac-
count We'll. although my w'fc's h'-
som friend. aud iae a mourner-we...
now. was disappointed and discour-
aged.
The O,her Man ,tn psip.biy affected
sympsthy }-~ She nes
Yes. .lr. weil, you ~e. THIS yer
lliis Wilkins had = Nay ot
correcting all tibet, And la't by aaan
niperlat,on He worked over the face
# the deceased ouiil he psriuce's What
ia. smrvivin' relatives called io'S of
re>is know. sort at ssa'ii'.
like. When lie wanted - pat III Any
.xtr,s. he prodaeed what BE called
hevin' regular charges for 'his A'n: o'
work-a Christians poie
The other Man--l want IN know
Yes. Well. admit NJ times Il
ws<a hitie startar Ard lsr alters
>a.i h,tle coufi l,l.tsAiIyl 'htt bad
nv doubts af t> tei"- >cslptsN'Fst "r
"a, rcd, lssiag - Yea hnoss. ~or'n~ Of
the vearta aud relieved ms m'nd -
auf yas,,r. hv, b. ds.!u't i'ci |Se 'n-
,estrrjn, ~ leg - i 49, conor'~i :"
church membership Bat 'ie IL h'F
lAv. heu " naphaa dle,i yoa IA
rss.ss nAi.er u paahsm
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