The Red Cloud chief., 1879-03-20

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CIR In which 700 ride, The 3ooe tAss q
wsys Gts directly boon goa, md -
vsys opens the window every time II
engine Whistles, add. stick his bod Aa6
dhould@1 Auh0 - Nd
Ing 1t the station, and never closes III
window til To ssasion u CT OF sigh1r
Yes ssd y ns.sr - aWaAtA1h>
knew At the stafionSr
"Never, and he never sees any thing
sny body is doing Q; The station. end
can't tel the nsme Of the station While
he il in ii?r
"And aiwsys scrspes the back % bis
head agains; the sharpedSe Of he Win-
dow sash when he prtis Il n, and then
dismally rubs his head while be turns
around and loskS suspisiO1sly q 900 -
though he heliUes y00 id it, a86 Id Z
on purposes
"And the nan who Il waiting - tks
station % zee che train come mp II
man with butternut oyerAlls tucked into
his boots, tswny beard, arms crammed
into his pockets up 10 the elbows, mouth
wide opea--y0u never Riss Nm; sUho0
you 60 down he is standing there - sun
set; when you come back a. sunrise, he
is waiting for you; never sees any body
any body be knows get on; s ex-
poets TO; would be astonished TO death
II he should happen 70 see an scquain-
lance come or 90; isn't paid for II, but
it's his business. Has nothing else in
the world TO do. Is Always there. II
the train comes in fifteen minutes ahead
of time, be has made allowance for il
and has been there twsS,y minutes; if
the train is four hours late, he waits for
It. You see him al nearly every Sta
ton rrNF FH-E
"Never speaks TO any body"
"Never, and if any body speaks 70
him, he says Dunno Ii the baggage
man runs over him with . truck, be says
HUH and sarihks up . little closer
against the station, but he never gets out
Of the way
"And do you remember the man who
sits behind you and whistles3"
Sand when he gets tired Of whiSting
in your ear, sings bass?"
"And never whistles or sings any thing
that you know"
"Or that he knows?"
Sand the smasher,' whose breath Is
nearly as bad rs his morals, who wants
to tell you all about the daughter of q
wealthy merchant who was 'Just dead
gone on him the last time he went over
this road!"
Sand the man behind you who bites
OF half al apple at one bite and then
puts bis ckin on your shoulder and tries
to talk to you about the weather and
crops?"
sand the man who comes into the car
at the front door, walks clear back and
out on the rear platform, looking At each
u of a dozen empty seats, hunting for
a good one, and then turns back TO find
every last seat taken by the people who
came in after him."
Sand have you never seen the girl
get on at some country station, fixed
up mighty nice for that town, the belle
OF the village, dressed in more colors
than you can crowd into q chrome,
half the town down at the station TO see
her Off; she walks across the platform
feeling just a little too rich to look at,
comes into the q with her head up
and plumes flying, expecting to set ev-
cry woman in that Ger wild with envy
as she walks down that aisle; she opens
the door and sees q a full Of Chicago
girls, dressed in the rich, quiet elegance
Of city girls in their travelling costumes,
and see how she drops like . shot into
the first seat, the one nearest the stove,
and looks straight out of the window and
never looks anywhere else, and never
shakes her plumes again while she stays
in the car"
"And the mar who wants to talk,
the man who would probably die If be
couldn't talk five minutes TO every one
he rides with; who glares hungrily
around the car until his glance rests on
the imam whom he thinks Is too feeble to
resist him, and then pounces down on
him and opens the intellectual feast by
asking him how the weather is down his
way; the man Who is always most de-
termined TO talk when you are the sleep
lest, or when you want to read, or to
think or just sit aud look out Of the ar
window and enjoy your own idle, pleas
Ant, vagrant day-dreams?"
"And the man who gets on the train
and stares at every man In the car be-
fore he sits down, and stands and holds
the door open while he stares. Who
always carries an old.fashioned ,oil-clOth
carpet-bag with him, ~ wide and deep
Is a fire-screen, and before he sits down,
he takes that carpet-bas By the bottom,
rolls it up into a close roll, and puts it
in the rack. 1t is always dead empty.
When he leaves home, he never puts q
rag OF q thread or . button in il. When
he comes back it is emptier than il VA
when he went away. 1t new had any
hing in it that he knows of since 1t was
owned in his family, but he viii never
travel without it."
Sand the other man, who carries
nothing in his csrpet-bag but lunch,an
eats all the way from ChicAgotO CAiroi'
I "And the man who rides on q pass,
and stan1s on familiar terms with the
Company, and calls the bratsnan
SoAnuSs
"And the man who is riding on .
pass for the first time and stands up and
holds his hat in his hand when he sees
the CONDUCTOR approaching, aAd says
Sir to him when he answers the Of
ficial's questions, and is generally more
respectful to him than he is ever going
to be again?"
"And the maa vho Alvays eeGsleft9"
Sand the man who loses bis uckst:"
And thus, with pleasant comments on
q fellow-passengers did We beenik
the weary hours.-Ro5 BarIacxs HACK
eye Letter.
Travel In tie HinalAyas. 81.
Europeans sitter but q short residence