Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-02-09

was pretty stylish for porter at tn,
time. They woke US up several time
IA the night TO tell us what to do il
case we we're sick, and in the morn
ing, before we we're up, waite
brought up our breakfast. lie sale
the landlord sent it up, and be jus
stood around until we had 10 sit up
in bed and eat breakfast. | thought
at the time that il was kind in tn,
landlord to send up our breakfast, but
when | found that the waiter who
brought il up was a travelling man for
a reaper factory at Rockford, and re
membered how darned impudent he
looked at my wife, could have muir.
dered him, but the clerk said he had
gone to Winnipeg. 1t was just a out
as bad coming down here on the
sleeping car, aud | think half the
passengers on the car we're those same
drummers that we're snowed in. Ii
was colder than Alaska, and | would
order extra blankets, and they would
steal them. ! had more than twenty
blankets put on the bed, and in the
morning there was nothing but a
sheet over.us. And every time there
was blanket spread over us there
was a different porter put it On, and
| think they we're all travelling men.
Every little while somebody would
pull open the curtains aud sit down
on my berth and begin to pull of hi
boots, and / would tell him the berth
was occupied. aud that he must have
made mistake, and be would look
around at US ~ innocent as could be,
aud ask our pardon. and then go out
and damn the porter. Once j felt
somebody feeling about my berth, and
| asked what was the matter, and the
fellow said he was looking for my
wiie's shoes 10 black. Then about ev-
cry fifteen minutes the conductor
would open the curtains and hold a
red lantern in and ask for our tickets.
| think they punched my ticket sixty.
five times. Any way it looked like a
porous plaster when got up in the
morning | think it was the travelling
men who were playing conductor, but
| was sleepy, aud | thought the best
way was to let them punch it Well,
about three o'clock in the morning
somebody punched US and said it was
time to get up, rs all the passengers
were up, and we would have breakfast
in fifteen minutes. And then We hus.
tied around and got dressed the best
We could, laying on our backs and
kicking our clothes up in the air and
catching them on ourselves when they
came down. | got my pants on wrong
side before, and lost every thing out
OF my pockets, and my wife lost her
hair, and had TO tie a handkerchief
around her head, and then we had our
berths made up and sat up till day
light, and the porter found my wiie's
hair and pinned il to the curtains of a
berth occupied by preacher from
Oshkosh, aud he kicked, and got mad,
and talked about il. and wondered
how it came there, and he swore about
it, aud think he travels for an Osh-
kosh carriage factory. Oh, | never
had snch a night. or two such nights,
in all my life, and what | want to
know is if | can be quiet here, and
get a little sleep, and not be annoyed.
The hotel man told him if any body
came around to bother him to knock
them clear down stairs, aud he would
be responsible, and the bridegroom
took bis sachel and his wife, aud the
colored man showed them room, and
thav hava NOT showed nm sinca Ii il