The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-01-29
HENRY /. BIOSSAT, Business Manager

ting I'D all night, all to pieces. But it
isn't luxury; and it isn't comfort. 1t
costs like it, and must say it's worth the
price, but it isn't comfort. It's merely
protection against greater dis
comfort. In times of siege and
famine, men have paid twenty dol
lars for rat and have eaten it greedlly.
But that wasn't because rats were even
then considered luxuries; it was because
it was rat or nothing. When the un-
grateful man got back to porterhouse
steak again he let the cats have the
rats. You may talk about LUXURIOUS
palaces of princely comfort"-as the
man with pass is apt to do-put
maintain that sleeping in one not very
large room, with thirty-fve people,
thirty-five shores, thirty-tive breaths
and seventy secondhand boots and
shoes, is not a luxury; and whatever the
man with the pass may say, don't be-
lieye that Kings and Princes who live
in real palaces sleep forty in bedroom,
boots, breath, feet and all. True, have
never been abroad, and can't say how
Kings may live, but believe they have
more room and fewer bed-felloWs than
that.
"Well them" asked the ASS, when l
grumbled thus far-I don't mean half
the savage things l say when l growl--
s'why don't you ride on the trelght
trains?"
I do, whenever the company will let
me. They're not so tiresome. You can
move about in the big caboose. Some
times the conductor invites you up into
the 'dome'-what nice, breezy out
look it is. | wonder the conductor and
rear brakeman don't turn artist and
poet, and 60 out and teach and amuse
the people. And once in awhile the
brakeman will take you by the hand
and take you for promenade over the
tops of the swaying cars. I've tried IT,
It's like walking on the back OF snake.
never walked on the back OF snake,
but that is just like it.
You get moro of variety in such
walk than you would think. This IS
White Line car we're on now, and this
next one an old Wabash box car, eight
inches lower; Jump down" your heart
:, Jumps into your mouth as you Jump, but
- you're alive; all these are foreign cars OF
y different makes and differing heights,
J and they rock and roll and lope along
- with moBgrel gait, like horse
> that trots in front and PAGES be-
. hind; this long car IS a cotton
>, car; this high monster is car FOL
-, ~ shipping carriages in or something OF
70 that sort; right next it is an old squattJ
l box car, with batten roof; it looks tive
= = miles down; you jump, but your hear
W flies clear out of the top of your heat
and you don't get it back again on TIT
~ trip. Then you walk over car OF lum
- yer; that's nice; it has an easy, smooth
- i..g, comforting motion, and the pleasan
" smell of the pine and hemlock and ceda
=. is tranquilizing; then you scramble int
- a car of coal; and then, you climb owe
-, ~ Red Line car; it's an empty" and a
VI you walk over the top your guide hear
the voices of the merry tramps holdln
ID. high wassail within. His face darken
Oh he goes back to the ore car and return
en- ING lies down to hurl tW
OF OF dollars worth of highly-protecte
IL raw material into the hilarit.
no 'I'll fix you laddy-bucks next stop!"
Ter roars and the merriment ceases; change
alas, to remarks not suited for public
gu ton. Then you get down on
empty fiat. This is jolly. A land
at man isn't afraid on this. 1t lool
ca, "a, so low, and long and broad, and hum
To- itself along with such good-natured, ca
IN roughness, that it's perfect nursery.
once said that a canal boat was the ide
ing vehicle of travel. Now begin to THU
ian that lounge and an easy chair on
vas hat-car, with may be low rail-
,rie around the car, so that you couldn't p
lis? siblv fall off, knocks the canal-boat O.
cen If we're president of a railroad I'd
said fat-car up that way and travel on
said But much railway president kno
ana about railway travel. When he traV
Use he takes ship and goes to Europe.
III But here, we've got up to the engl
at' and we can't go any further without
Nor cial permission. And this is the wa
uies tank, and here we stop, and you ant
you will get into safe place, up on tor
lake the high carriage car, and see our bra
!! men, who is the soul OF hospital
'her. make it pleasant for his chronic
9 10 mics, the tramps.-Burdette, in Bro
u u,;ll lyn Eagle.