St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1888-01-21

And long to cry out 70 them:
70. guard the home love well;
De tender and true to your dear ones
How long yours, none can tellr'
For know there IL ono among them
Whose heart in sadness roams,
Who hears no call In the twilight
Save the call to the Home Of homes.
GOOD Hoxsekespisg.
AQUEER OCCUPATION.
Tho Successful Career OF an Ac
cident-Soeler.
1t was with any thing but satisfac
tion that found myself compelled. .
few weeks ago. to make . night!
Journey from Skanesville to Newton
Centres. The firm for which / Travelled
was bent on opening up new terri
tory" an had sent me out rs q pioneer
6kanesville had not developed any CON
siderable desire for our goods. and. n
its alleged '.best" hotels offered mos
undesirable compound Of food and
worse beds, determined to effect my
escape rs soon as possible. To call
Skanesville ''cross-road town" would
be gross hattery. for il there ID such q
term rs = ''cross-ten-road town." then
Ekanesville is entitled to that designa-
tion. It had been . difficult place to
get to. but . study Of railroad guides
showed it even = moro difficult place
to leave. This was probably The prin-
cipal reason Of the growth Of the town
"A fact on which the Skanesviilites
were given to boasting. Two trains
left this inland paradise daily, at the
convenient hours Of 11:S0 p. m. and
AS .. m. To get to Newton-Centres.
I found I should have to change
three times on the night train.
and four on the early morn
ing train. As I had two heavy
sample-trunks. l chose the iormer. All
Ekancsville seemed to 60 70 bed At
aiAcs 50. shortly -alesr tAas-hour. 1
went down to the depot hoping to find
the ticket agent . little livelier COM
panion. In this was disappointed. as
he combined the Office of station-master,
tickct-seller and porter. In the latter
capacity. he had shortly before wrestled
with my trunks, and, when he unhap-
PLY recognized me IS their proprietor
he crushed severely al my attempts at
familiarity. So sat and smoked. and
walked and smoked, till the train ar
rived. which it naturally did about
forty-iive minutes late. A sleeping-car
was an unknown luxury on that road.
SO Ihad the prospects Of = pleasant
''sit-up." varied by the numerous waits
and changes in store for me. Fortu-
nately. though tho car was pretty well
filled. I found two unoccupied seats.
and having had one turned over. pro-
ceeded to make myself rs comfortable
rs possible. and tried to catch nap.
My comparative ease was short-lived.
for at the next stopping-place several
people got on board. and though l
pretended to be asleep. one unfeeling
individual came and sat himself on
such portion of the front seat q my
feet left uncovered. I watched him
through my almost closed eyelids. and
did not like his aspect Something.
did not know what, gave his counte-
nance . sinister look. As he moved
toward the seat I noticed that he
limpcd slightly In his walk. There was
certainly kind Of what the Scotch
term an ''uneasincss" about him, and
after few minutes I took my feet from
the seat pretended to rouse up and
mumbled . word Of apology about
taking up 30 much room. The stranger
begged me not to mention it, and sug-
gested that my feet did not inconven-
icnce him. The steady glare with which
he seemed to be regarding me soon be-
came 50 unpleasant that proposed he
should have the seat turned over, and
thus avoid tho disagreeableness Of sit
ting with his back to the locomotive.
Il don't mind that bit," said he;
''besides it's moro dangerous"
more dangerous!" l repeated, in
astonishment
'Yes; haven't you noticed that in the
slcepers they always make up the berths
with the feet to the locomotive? That's
because II there's sudden jerk you are
thrown forward. Now. il your heads
against the forward partition. you prob
ably. in case Of IN accident, have your
skull split or break your neck"
Then aren't you afraid Of sitting
that way?" l asked.
mo. like it."
lbegan to fear that I had got into
the company Of . lunatic. l knew
there was an asylum somewhere in the
This mans looks, par
in the one eye on which the
dim light OF the lamp fell. had the pecu-
liar glitter which had read was charac-
teristic Of . madman. And hs never
took that eye OF me!
Iagain nearly closed my eyes and
pretended to b trying to sleep. but all
The time I was keeping . sharp look
out lest he should develop any violent
tendencies.
Soon tho roadbed began 70 get %
rough that . suoosssion Of sharp jerks
nearly threw mo o6 the seat Pretsnse
at slssp was no longer possible. % /
~ up. rubbed my eyes and remarked:
This b pretty rough road"
s'You can bet it's about The worst !