The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-29

There is good deal of interest mani
tested these days on the part OF the
American people relative to the matter
of separate sleeping cars for the two
sexes. 1t is move in the right direc-
ton, and we hope it will win. As it is
now, no gentleman travelling alone Is
safe.
Several months ago, entirely alone,
we travelled from Laramie to Chicago
and back, making the round trip with no
escort whatever Our wife was detained
Mt home, and that entire journey was
made with no one to whom we could look
for protection.
When we returned orr hair had turned
perfectly white with the horror of those
dreadful nights. tot.s.,r
There was one woman from Philadel-
phia, whose name we will not mention,
and who rode all the way between Oma-
Ia and Chicago in one car. Almost the
first thing when we started out of Oma-
ha she began to make advances toward
us by asking us if we would not hold
her lunch basket while she went after q
drink.
She also asked us for our knife to peel
m orange. rm
These things look small and insignifi-
cant, but i'll the light of later develop
ments they are of vital importance.
That evening we saw with horror that
the woman's section was adjoining our
own
We asked the conductor if this could
not be changed: but he laughed coldly
and told us to soak our head, or some
such unfeeling remark. %
That is one bad feature Of the present
system. A man travelling alone gets no
sympathy or assistance from the conduc-
tor
1t would he impossible to describe the
horror and appreciation of that awful
night. All through its vigils we suf-
fered on till near morning, when tired
nature yielded and we fell into -troub-
led sleep. ee be
There we lay, fair and beautiful. in
the soft gray of approaching day, thou
sands of miles from our home, and less
than ten feet away, n great horrid WON
an from PENNSYLVANIA, to whom we had
not even been introduced
How we coulc have slept so soundly
under the circumstances we are yet un-
able to tell, but after perhaps twenty
minutes of slumber we saw, above the
footboard of our berth and peering over
Mt us, the face of that woman. With u
wild bound we were on our feet in the
aisle of the car The other berths had
all disappeared but ours.
The other passengers were sitting
quietly i'll their seats, and it was half
past o'clock. The woman from Penn
sylvania was in the day coach.
1t was only a horrid dream.
But supposing it had been a reality
And any man that travels alone is liable
to he insulted at any time. We do not
care for luxury in travelling. All we
want is the assurance that we are safe.
The experience which we have mar
rated above is only one of a thousand
Did you note the careworn look of the
man who is travelling alone? The wild,
haunted expression on the countenance
and the horrible apprehension that is de.
picted there?
You may talk about the various causes
that are leading men downward to early
graves, but the nervous strain induced
by the fear that while they are taking
out their false teeth or buttoning their
suspenders. pying eyes are looking over
the foot board of their berths, is con.
structing more new-made graves than
consumption or the Ute war. -Nye's
boomerang.