St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-12
THE TRAVELLERS CLUB.

! elerS' club seated themselves about the room
while waiter in white jacket aud apron and
carrying a tray moved about them securing
their orders.
Engaged, or have you just got over having
| 'emg" queried a traveller from Pennsylvania.
Neither" replied the first speaker. "a
| little incident happened on the sleeping car
the other night that set me TO thinking and
made me, hope, n better man. We were
coming out of Chicago and the sleeper was
pretty well crowded. A man and his wife
and little boy had the section directly oppo-
! site to mine. was reading waiting for the
porter TO 1ix up mine, when the little curly
headed fellow from the opposite section, all
dressed in his night gown, his little
bare feet sticking out, was helped out OF the
berth and came toddlinz over to his father,
who sat in my section. i don't know whether
the little fellow was sleepy or whether he was
confused in the car, for he came right over
me instead of his father and fell down on
his knees and ducked his head down on my
APP and began 10 say his prayers. He said:
"Now lay me down TO sleep" and wound up
by asking to be made a good little boy.
never felt so queer in all my life as did with
that little tow head on my knee. hsping his
evening prayer. 1 never felt there was so
much in a prayer, AMI while he prayed my
thoughts went back TO the time when was
| little one.
He got through and then he got up and ap-
peared somewhat surprised to find stranger
| in front of him and his father in the next
seat. He thought it was all right. guess,
for he put up his little lips and kissed him
good. He kissed his father and soon disap-
peared behind the curtains. / let my book fall
and got TO thinking. lived over a good deal
of my boyhood in a very short time. i guess
/ was just in the proper frame of mind TO
make good resolution. / don't know how
long had been sitting there when was
| awakened from my reverie by the little
fellow in the opposite section. 1 heard
him say, Tuck me in, mamma" and then
all was still, the porter came and ] was soon
in my berth. / could not go to sleep, though.
for those words, Tuck me in. mamma"
! kept ringing In my ears. They brought my
own dead mother back TO me. l lived
over again the time when was a child and
how 1 had asked that same request. II seemed
! 10 me then that could not 20 to sleep unless
my mother had tucked the clothes about me.
/ saw again the old trundle bed where / used
! TO sleep. followed it. Years afterwards il
went up TO the old garnet. How often had
played up there and heard the rain patter on
the roof The old trundle bed was play fort
then. The sense of security that "a child feels
in the old garnet, on a rainy day, huddled up
on some old trunk and reading Robinson
Crusoe, can never be equaled i'm after life.
"Well, recalled what a change there was
one day when my mother did not get up. The
doctor came. She never got up, and no one
ever tucked me in. She never forgot IL, for
one day she called me to her bedside aud got
hold of my hand aud told me that she might
not be allie to stay with me much longer.
She asked me 10 be a good boy and a good
man, and promised her never to drink or
gamble, although didn't know what they
were then. She said every night when 1
went to bed and tucked the clothes around
me 10 think of her and remember how she
tucked me in and to keep nv promises. She
is dead and ] have grown up. I'm sorry to
say that I've not thought of her or her prom
! Uses. That little fellow and his Tuck me in,
mamma brought it all back, and before
| got to sleep that night 1 thought of my
mother and my promises TO her. I've not
taken a drink or played a card since, and 1
hope never SHALL
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''That's kind of a temperance revival
racket your givin' u.s." remarked an Ohio
man. 1.-THE next time you tell that story you
better kill the kid. II will just clinch the
nearer and make him give up his pocket
pistol j didn't know when you first started
| in, but what you were going to tell the cry
| ing baby act and read us a lecture on what
we should stand in the car. It's an old story,
but it has moral, % lend me your ears
for brief season and 1 will return them un-
| injured.
mot many years ago train plunged
along in the darkness of the night. The pas
/ III.
in the sleeping-car, for among the occupants
was a little baby, who cried most piteously.
1t walled, did this little traveller and appar-
emily no end of attention would quiet it. The
other passengers were awakened, and as
might naturally be expected. were not in the
best of humors. They tossed about i'm their
| berths, unable to return TO the land of
dreams. Prest ntly the father of the little
| sobbing baby took Il in his arms and began
| to walk up and down the car. The effort was
in vain, as the little one continued TO mani
fest audibly its sorrow or pain.
as the father and child passed near a very
stout and very Pruff man who was growing in
an upper birth the fat man stuck his head out
of the curtains and said:
Look here, that child needs its mother
Why don't she attend TO it and let the rest of
us sleepY'
I'm very sorry" replied the father of the
child, in a voice that betrayed grief and sad
ness, ''to disturb any of you. My little boys
mother-my wife is IN her casket i'm the
baggage car. That's why I'm taking care of
baby. I'm very sorry, but can't help his
crying"
The baby cried all night ard the passengers
got very little sleep. but not a man had the
heart to complain after hearing the circum-
! stances The fat cruG man got down md
tried his hand at taking care of the baby.
The moral of this story is to rear in silence
the midnight sobs of q travelling baby, as no
one knows but that its mother is in her
windowless palace of rest, awaiting the judg-
ment day"
"My experience with the fat passenger was
not so agreeable" chimed in q Wisconsin
traveller. II was going from Davenport to
Chicago. / had a lower berth. When 1 got
in noticed that the car was not full by any
means and the berth Just above me was va
cant. l thought as / went to sleep that If Z
got cold in the night could reach above me
and pull down the blanket from the upper
berth. 1t turned chilly in the car towards
morning and I reached up and pulled down
the blanket and went TO sleep. / was awak-
ened by calls for the porter. The calls came
from the occupant of the upper berth in my
section. The porter came and heard a very
animated conversation The man wanted
everybody in the car searched, as he was
sure that somebody had robbed him.
ale and the porter went through bis pos
sessions and found that everything was all
right. Then he began TO grow angry and
wanted to whip somebody for stealing
his bedclothes. TO think 1 heard
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