Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-11-01
Selfish People Travelling.

There is no relation of life in which
the natural selfishness of man comes out
SO strongly rs in travelling. People who,
when mt home or among their friends,
are not only polite, considerate of the
comforts of others, but even self-sacrific-
ing in triiles, often become grasping, re-
pellant, morose, when they get on the
railroad train to go travelling. Too often
they seek their own comfort to the dis
regard of the rights of others. A man
will enter a train and take whole seat
and so arrange his baggage as to cover
the whole of it, so us to keep any one
else from occupying part OF it. He
only pays for one seat, and he knows
perfectly well that he has no right to
occupy two, and yet he does so frequent
ly, until he is forced to yield, and then
he does SO with as bad grace as possible.
1t matters not that other man may be
standing up in the cars; he rarely has
the grace to invite one of them to sit by
him. He sits and looks as forbidding rs
possible, or turns his back and gazes out
of the window so rs to prevent, if possible,
any one from requesting him for seat
beside him. The ladies are in this
respect no better than the men, ,and they
are more perfectly masters of the situa-
ton. She is protected by her sex in her
selfishness and her disregard of the COM
fort of her sisters. A gentleman does
not like to ask her for seat, though he
has perfect right to do so. Even an
other lady is at disadvantage in asking
her for seat.
A cold, naughty, insolent manner and
an intrenched air of possession usually
enables her to hold her double seat
against all comers. The politeness of
men to woman rarely fails in America,
and it is no unusual thing for two gentle
men to rise to give n lady a whole double
seat because another lady fails to offer
her seat. Now in this case each lady
secures her double seat ut the price of
the discomfort of the fellow travellers.
When it is man who behaves thus the
remedy is comparatively simple. There
is even sort of pleasure in applying it.
The passenger who on entering the car
finds all the double seats occupied by
men who refuse to make room for him is
often tempted to pick out the most eX-
elusive looking of them and go up and
coolly and business like tell him to make
room, and then down by him in as roomy
and spacious style as possible and then
hum or whistle some slow, plaintive air
kind o. sad like. This intlicts agonies
upon the exclusive traveller and gives to
the newcomer that calm inward repose
which comes from the intliction of
righteous punishment. Yet how much
| better it would be for the ladies to
make place for their fellow female
travellers and to exchange the little
courtesies that brighten the journey; 4;
how much better it would be for the
man to promptly make room for the
newcomers and get into friendly chat by
the way. The selfish eNclusiveness in
travelling does not pay. One does not
get the most out of the voyage in that
way.-BaltimOr gazette.
IT is astounding to contemplate the
statistical statement that the total con-
sumption of peanuts in the United States
last year was $3.50 900 bushels. Nearly
the whole of this was supplied by North
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, the
last named State being by far the heavi-
est producer-S70,0 900 bushels in 1867,
4O5, 200 bushels in 1878 and $4,000
bushels in 1889. The growing crop is
estimated at 1,1l0,000 bushels, and it is
thought the demand will not be sup
piled,