Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-01-07
ION THE RoAD.n
Experiences of Men Who Are Forced to
 Travel Every Day.

Experiences of Men Who Are Forced to
 Travel Every Day.
 Then there is another large group who are son the road- nearly every day. These are the men whose business, trades or calling arc in town and whose dwelling houses or family places of abode for the time being are out of town, at the shore or in the country. On this class observations may be made. Some or them make a dreary and tireSome job of their daily journey to and fro, especially If the ride takes an hour or two. They bury themselves in silence, or they make futile ef- forts to read profitless and trashy light liter ature.s or they resort to the smoking car, or they play cards all the way; or they at once set to work to try to go to sleep, and all ''to kill time,n and SO make a weaTisome labor or feyerish fret of the trip And, in fact, 1t is monotonous, dull and very tedious busi- ness with them as they work it-a prohtleSs expenditure of time, most Of them getting very tired of it before the summer Is over
 There is a remnant" however, who go "on the road" to better purpose, who don't get tired and who don't try to ~kill time in any of the ways already mentioned One of thls group we have in mind at this moment Dur ing several months of the year 1t happens that he is obliged to be on the road twice every day, his workshop and bis dwelling place being in those months two hours travel apart He makes the trip to the city early ID the morning and back in the evening, and while be is by no means 6 youth be never suf- fers ennui on the train, never seems 10 De tired and, in fact, never is tired on the road
 When asked how that comes about bis an- swer is: -Tiredi No. The most absolute rest get, except when am m bed asleep, IS during the two hours of the railroad ride home m the afternoon and evening When settle down in the car chair throw of everything that has any strain of thought In it Hook at the fields and trees, the corn and the clover, the peach orchards and the potato patches, the berry fields and the vineyards, the gardens, the barnyards and the cattle pastures, tie snug farm homes and the cozy cottage homes along the village roads, the wild flowers and the wild birds, the pretty railway stations, their parterres, and the varied and curious groups of people of all descriptions cougregated at the stations havo Q pass ing acquaintance with everything on that road. animate and insnimste, and every day I see them under some fresh aspect Some new interest is always coming to notice. The restfulness of it all is so perfect and absolute that you must try 1t before you can under stand it's
 When asked about the -time- taken up in the two daily trips he said: @Yss, of course, there's a great expense of time. could not afford to spend four hours out of the working day that way, SO divide them, dsvoting the two hours to the shore after the days work IS over to perfect rest, and putting the two hours coming up in the morning to work, and can do three hours work easily in those two when fresh in the morning. It IS won ierful to find how letters and papers and memoranda about business affairs that were puzzles and difficulties 10 know what to do with during the busy hours of the day before clear themselves up and almost dispose of themselves when the mind is fresh and free and active in the early morning on the road Chicago Times